Anya Topolski is a Canadian-European political philosopher and an Associate Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Topolski is renowned for her concept of the “Race-Religion Constellation.” She critiques the “Judeo-Christian tradition” as a modern myth designed to exclude Muslims and others. Her scholarly work, including Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality, employs Jewish philosophical traditions to reimagine political responsibility and solidarity.
A board member of EAJS (Een Andere Joodse Stem), Topolski is a leading voice in European solidarity movements. In 2025, she analyzed how liberal legal frameworks enable “denialism” in the face of atrocities. She argues:
“In liberal Europe, post-Shoah liberalism promised equality, justice, and the guarantee of “never again.” It is this post-Shoah liberalism that also influenced the international legal order (the UN Charter, the UN Genocide Convention, the UN Refugee Convention, etc.) as well as modern liberal and constitutional democracies, centering individual rights and strengthening due process vis-à-vis the state. Despite this post-Shoah realignment of the Western political sphere, these same liberal democracies are now complicit in the Gaza genocide.”