Hilla Dayan
Hilla Dayan is a sociologist and Lecturer at a liberal arts college, Amsterdam University College in The Netherlands. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the New School for Social Research where she completed her Ph.D. Her current research includes the discourse on antisemitism in Europe, Europe-Israel relations, heritage and memory politics as well as critical studies of the Israeli regime. Dayan is a public speaker and commentator on Israel/Palestine and co-founder of gate48 a platform for critical Israelis in The Netherlands. She maintains close connections with Israeli academia, human rights activists and and movements for social justice in Israel. In 2015 she co-founded the members organization (700 members) academia for equality – for the democratization of Israeli academia and society. She has been active in the Mizrahi movement since the 1990s and her time as a student at Tel Aviv University. Dayan is the first of her family to attend higher education and develop a career in academia (first-generation in higher education). She lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with her partner and three children.
