Scholarship, not politics: Reply to Eidelson (2025).

Abstract

Eidelson's (2025) commentary misses the point of our article (Walker et al., 2025), which reviews the history of antisemitism within the psychology profession and calls for the American Psychological Association to acknowledge its past and to proactively address the recent rise in antisemitism. Our scholarship is consistent with that of others in the field (e.g., Winston, 2020). We refute some of the commentary's (Eidelson, 2025) specific misinterpretations of statistics we cite and mention recent studies related to the negative psychological impact of antisemitic campus activism on a significant subset of Jewish students. Eidelson's focus on our choice of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, his focus on what he thinks of as our failure to condemn Israel, and his mistaken discrediting of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Report statistics reported in our article obscure the central goal of the article, thus politicizing the issue rather than furthering scholarship in the area. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).