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Adam Louis-Klein is a writer, anthropologist, and musician, currently completing a PhD in Anthropology at McGill University. His work explores Jewish peoplehood, Jewish sovereignty, and contemporary forms of anti-Jewish hate.Adam started the Movement Against Antizionism (MAAZ) in late 2025. MAAZ is a non-partisan, emergency-response initiative confronting a rapidly escalating antizionist hate movement that is actively endangering Jewish communities worldwide.
MAAZ has been a breath of fresh air, providing the research, language, energy, and educational resources that so many of us need. If you’re serious about Jewish advocacy, you cannot afford to sleep on this. MAAZ is the single most important development in Jewish advocacy and education in my lifetime.
Stumbling across Adam’s work last year felt like a release valve had opened in the back of my head. If you’d like to understand a little more about why that is, consider backtracking to this brief explainer.
Why MAAZ matters
The long and short of it is pretty simple: antisemitism does not have a monopoly on harming Jews. Antizionism is no less libellous, conspiratorial, bigoted, and violent. The Bondi Massacre was incubated by antizionist rhetoric. The killers announced that their goal was to kill ‘zionists’, before opening fire on Jews celebrating Hannukah.
Calls to ‘globalise the intifada’ have been met with violence against Jews worldwide. In the last two years alone, Synagogues have been torched on five continents. Jews have been set on fire in Colorado, shot dead in Washington, stabbed to death in Manchester, and mowed down in Sydney.
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