Dr. Ben Bornstein was a researcher at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at Haifa University in 2023-2024. Now (2025) he is a Knapp Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University and serves as the Academic Director of the Challenge of Shared Life cluster at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. As a political and cultural sociologist, his research focuses on 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 and has been a Fellow at several institutes and programs, including the Summer Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at York University, the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, and the Israel Democracy Institute’s Judaism and Human Rights program.