Title: "Discourses of Antisemitism in Relation to the Middle East"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Shimon Samuels Affiliation: Director for International Relations, Simon Wiesenthal Center Topic: "Judicial Jihad in the Service of Hamas, Antisemitism and Intimidation: Proposals for Countermeasures"

Speaker: Michael Whine Affiliation: Government and International Affairs Director, Community Security Trust Topic: "London: Progress in Combating Antisemitism at the International Level"

Speaker: Dr. Michael Kotzin Affiliation: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Topic: "The Language of the New Antisemitism"

Speaker: Barak Seener Affiliation: Middle East Director, The Henry Jackson Society Topic: "The Disconnect Between the Academic Community and Policy Establishment on Antisemitism"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 24, 2010

Description: This session is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss topics including, the language of the new antisemitism and proposals to combat modern manifestations of antisemitism within the international arena.