Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Speech delivered next to the “Hate Ends Now” cattle car exhibit at the University of North Texas library mall, April 20, 2026.
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Timothy L. Jackson, Ph.D.
Timothy L. Jackson, Ph.D., is Professor of Music Theory and Distinguished University Research Professor at the University of North Texas’ College of Music. His primary interests center on the music of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, Schenkerian theory, and politics and music. He has published on a wide range of topics, especially on theories of form and large-scale tonal structure, in a broad array of academic journals and books. He teaches courses on music theory and the politics of classical music, and has actively directed the “Lost Composers” Project, which seeks to revive the music and theoretical work of composers eclipsed or lost as a result of the Holocaust or Nazi-era cultural policies. From 2004 until 2020, he published The Journal of Schenkerian Studies until he was subjected to a massive cancellation attack for his defense of Austrian-Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker against charges of “white privilege” and “racism.” In spite of his cancellation, he continues teaching, publishing, and pursuing justice in the courts for violation of his academic freedom. In 2025, he won a defamation suit against UNT, receiving $725,000 in the settlement.
Subliminal Blood Libels: The Hamas Campaign to Destroy Christian Zionism
Then, as now, all these arguments combine “supersessionism,” the replacement of Judaism by Christianity as the true religion, with that of the ancient Jews by non-Jews, now, ironically “Palestinians.” The true purpose of these particular Pallywood screeds and images is to demonize Jews in the eyes of Christians, and irrevocably break the Judeo-Christian alliance at the heart of American support for Israel.
Read Article »When You Cannot Create New Music: A Warning from History
The corollary, shared with all dictatorial societies of both Communist and Fascist persuasions, is to subordinate the artist’s individuality to the collectivity. In today’s increasingly anti-democratic, anti-individualistic environment, artistic autonomy and freedom are being undermined by tendentious ideology.
Read Article »A Cancelled Professor Reflects on Academic Nazism
In 2020, the author explicitly warned that anti-Semitic rhetoric and blood libels promoted in academia could lay the ideological groundwork for a second Holocaust against Israeli Jews. Three years later, his dire prediction has come true, as eliminationist anti-Semitism has now triumphed at many top universities in America.
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