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Israel B. Bitton (@IsraelBitton) is executive director of Americans Against Antisemitism, a nonprofit that counters social hatred through data, media, and education. He holds an undergraduate degree from SUNY in the history of philosophy and is completing his Masters of Liberal Arts at Johns Hopkins University. Bitton’s inaugural book was a work of nonfiction: Who Will Remember You? A Philosophical Study and Theory of Memory and Will (Rowman & Littlefield 2021). It was followed by A Brief and Visual History of Antisemitism (Gefen 2022), a multi-media educational textbook. Bitton is also the author of a forthcoming study on anti-Jewish hate crimes, Chosen for Hate (and Love): A Qualitative, Explanatory Analysis of NYPD Hate Crime Data (ISGAP: November 2022).