Dr Sheree Trotter
NEW ZEALAND
Dr Sheree Trotter is Māori (Te Arawa). She earned her PhD in history from the University of Auckland (Thesis: Zionism in New Zealand to 1948). In 2012 she co-founded the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation for whom she has interviewed seventy Holocaust survivors. Sheree completed an ISGAP scholars-in-residence course at University of Oxford in 2023. Recently she co-convened the inaugural IEJ Academic Symposium at Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem. Sheree was listed by Algemeiner in their J100, “Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2024”.
SESSION INFO
SUNDAY 10.10-11.10am
Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem: Indigenous of the Nations in Solidarity with Israel and the Jewish People
Dr Sheree Trotter will share the backstory to the opening of the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem early in 2024, and explain its significance in the current climate of rising antisemitism. Besides building and equipping a community of indigenous supporters of Israel, IEJ has begun the critical work of confronting false narratives emanating from academia with high level academic symposia, research and media.