Ben Bornstein is a Knapp Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Academic Director of the Challenge of Living Together cluster at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. A political and cultural sociologist, his research areas include political violence and the construction of victimhood, deep cultural diversity, social movements, and the sociology of knowledge. Bornstein completed his Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. He is an alumnus of the Summer Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at York University. In the past, he has been a Fellow at the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at Haifa University, and in the Israel Democracy Institute's "Judaism and Human Rights" program.