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February 9, 2020
"Incitement to Antisemitism: The Acquiescence of Universities to Relativism, Political Islam, and Unreported Financing"
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony's College, Oxford
The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Bar-Ilan University
February 11, 2020
“Understanding Contemporary Global Antisemitism: the University as the Purveyor of Delegitimization”
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Chairs Professor Alessandro Saggioro, “King Hamad” Chair for Inter-religious Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence, La Sapienza University Professor Andrea Carteny, Director of Research Center for Cooperation with Eurasia Mediterranean Sub-Saharan Africa
Program Organizers Ramy Aziz, ISGAP Research Fellow Dr. Robert Hassan, Director, ISGAP Italy
An ISGAP International Seminar Series lecture at La Sapienza University to an audience of40 PhD Students and Professors.
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Title: "Academia And Antisemitism Today"
Date: December 9, 2010
Location: Global Forum on Antisemitism, Jerusalem
Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small asserts that there is a blind spot in academia to deal with contemporary antisemitism.
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Title: "Oxford Union Debate on Holocaust Denial Criminalisation"
Location: Oxford University
Date: January 28, 2016
Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small explains the various phases of antisemitism throughout history and maintains that contemporary antisemitism attacks notion of Jewish peoplehood. Dr. Small argues that today, Islamist reactionary social movements use European antisemitism and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to openly call for the extermination of the Jewish people and the destruction of the State of Israel. Dr Small argues that while antisemitism begins with the Jews, it never ends with the Jews, but threatens democratic principles and human rights worldwide.
Speaker: Dr. Catherine Chatterley
Affiliation: Department of History, University of Manitoba; Founding Director, Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA)
Title: "Western Culture, the Holocaust, and the Persistence of Antisemitism"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 5, 2009
Description: Dr. Catherine Chatterley examines the persistence of antisemitism in post-Holocaust Western culture and whether Holocaust education has failed to educate the public about the specific nature and history of antisemitism. She goes on to question whether it is possible that the strategy of Holocaust universalization -- a strategy perceived as making the Holocaust accessible to non-Jews -- has worked against achieving an adequate understanding of antisemitism and subsequently against the eradication of antisemitic discourse and thinking from Western culture.
Speaker: Dr. Robert S. Wistrich (z"l)
Affiliation: Director, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Title: "Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Contemporary World"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: February 19, 2009
Description: Dr. Robert S. Wistrich (z"l) maintains that as the number of those who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust are diminishing by the years, the challenges of communicating the atrocities of the Holocaust to the next generation are becoming exceedingly difficult. Many today, including teenagers, have been exposed to the literature of Holocaust denial and are becoming highly skeptical that such horrific brutalities had been committed against the Jews. Dr. Wistrich maintains that despite intense efforts of commemoration and education, the current generation is severely lacking in both the knowledge and understanding to effectively combat modern manifestations of antisemtisim.
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Spyer
Affiliation: Director, Rubin Center (formerly the GLORIA Center), Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya; Fellow, Middle East Forum
Title: "Antisemitism in the Contemporary Middle East: Survey And Analysis"
Convener: Lloyd Fischler, Member, ISGAP Board of Directors and Board of Trustees
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: October 30, 2012
Description: Dr. Jonathan Spyer argues that the Middle East today is the most antisemitic region in the world. It is a region in which negative stereotypes of Jews, including ideas of Jewish conspiracy, exist in the mainstream. Spyer elucidates the pervasive presence of antisemtisim in contemporary Middle Eastern societies and notes two approaches that seek to explain the roots of this phenomenon. He goes on to explain the history of antisemitism and anti-Jewish sentiment in the contemporary Middle East.
Speaker: Dr. Milton Shain
Affiliation: Director, Isaac & Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Title: "Anti-Alienism, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism In 20th Century South Africa"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: November 9, 2006
Description: Milton Shain notes that for many years, scholars have commented on the continuities, discontinuities, and contingencies of antisemitism through the ages, including: pagan and early Christian antisemitism, medieval and modern antisemitism, modern antisemitism and Nazism, and, more recently, antisemitism and anti-Zionism. He notes that while these debates are general in their focus, it is apparent that continuities, discontinuities, and contingencies are also discernible within national policies. The South African case in the twentieth century demonstrates continuities between anti-alienism at the turn of the century, the "Jewish Question" in the 1930s and early 1940s, and anti-Zionism during the latter part of the century.
Speaker: Dr. David Seymour
Affiliation: Professor of Law, City University, London
Title: "Critical Theory, the Holocaust, and Human Rights"
Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Date: March 13, 2013
Description: Professor David Seymour deconstructs the modern comparison between Nazi Germany and the State of Israel. Seymour examines how the Holocaust is being exploited to demonize Israel and contribute to modern manifestations of antisemitism, namely the notion of Jewish peoplehood. Seymour notes that the Holocaust was “a universal crime committed on the body of the Jews,” and therefore in order for one to acquire a complete understanding of the Holocaust one must recognize its universal aspects and its particular Jewish dimensions.
Title: "Islamism and the Construction of Jewish Identity"
Topics, Speakers and Affiliations:
Topic: "Iran and Antisemitism: Some Historical Notes" Speaker: Dr. Daniel Tsadik Affiliation: Associate Professor of Sephardic and Iranian Studies, Yeshiva University
Topic: "The Roots of Modern Muslim Antisemitism: Jews and the Traditional Concept of Tolerance in Islam" Speaker: Dr. Jacob Lassner Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization in the departments of History and Religion, Northwestern University
Topic: "Antisemitism in Iran: Continuities and Changes" Speaker: Dr. Meir Litvak Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History; Director, Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel-Aviv University
Convener: Dr. Risa Sodi, Director, Language Program, Italian Language and Literature, Yale University
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 23, 2010
Description: In this session, part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010), speakers discuss topics such as antisemitism in Iran and the roots of modern Muslim antisemitism.
Title: "The Internet and the Proliferation of Antisemitism"
Topics, Speakers and Affiliations:
Speaker: Dr. Abraham Wagner Affiliation: Professor of Law, Columbia University; Visiting Professor, New York University; Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism Topic: "Antisemitism in the Internet Era"
Speaker: Rabbi Abraham Cooper Affiliation: Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center Topic: "Digital Antisemitism"
Speaker: Mark Dubowitz Affiliation: Executive Director, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Topic: "Terrorist Media as an Operational Weapon Used by Hezbollah, Hamas, and Other Terrorist Groups to Spread to Antisemitism?"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 23, 2010
Description: In this session, part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010), speakers discuss topics such as how the Internet and the age of technology is contributing to the spread of global antisemitism.
Speaker: Dr. Gregory H. Stanton
Affiliation: Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention, George Mason University, Virginia
Title: "Iran's Anti-Jewish Incitement To Genocide"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 7, 2010
Description: Dr. Gregory H. Stanton speaks about genocide prevention and notes that establishing genocide tribunals after genocides have already occurred is futile and that we, as a society, need to take preventive measures to prevent future genocides from occurring. He focuses on the genocidal rhetoric of the Iranian regime and makes a direct comparison between Nazi Germany and the Iranian regime. He goes on to break down, what he calls, the eight stages of genocide and states that from an analytic perspective it is necessary to understand each stage in order to better comprehend this phenomenon.
Title: "Models of Combating Antisemitism" panel as part of the YIISA/IASA Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference from August 23-25, 2010
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn Affiliation: Professor of Political Science, Kean University Topic: "The Community Security Trust: Why is it Protecting British Jewry?"
Speaker: Dr. Barry Kosmin Affiliation: Research Professor in the Public Policy & Law Program, Trinity College; Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture Topic: "Fighting Antisemitism in the UK: Moving from Reaction to Pro-action"
Speaker: Dr. Winston Pickett Affiliation: Former Director, European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism Topic: "Countering Antisemitism in Britain: Do Calibrated Responses Work?"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 25, 2010
Description: This panel discussion is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss topics including: "The Community Security Trust: Why is it Protecting British Jewry?"; "Fighting Antisemitism in the UK: Moving from Reaction to Pro-action" and "Countering Antisemitism in Britain: Do Calibrated Responses Work?"
Title: "Welcome and Introductions"
Speakers and Affiliations:
Speaker: Rabbi James Ponet Affiliation: Director, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Speaker: Deputy Provost Frances Rosenbluth Affiliation: Social Sciences and Faculty Development, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Speaker: Aviva Raz Schechter Affiliation: Director for Combating Antisemitism, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 23, 2010
Description: Speakers make opening remarks for the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).
Speaker: Dr. Paul Lawrence Rose
Affiliation: Professor of European History and Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Title: "Thinking about Antisemitism and Antisemitisms: Cultures, Emotions, Contexts"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: December 2, 2010
Description: As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) "Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective" seminar series, Dr. Paul Lawrence Rose speaks about antisemitism as well as antisemitisms. He notes that it is necessary to look at each form of antisemitism from within its context, country and culture and examine whether there is one eternal antisemitism or whether there are many forms and variations of antisemitism.
Title: "Global Antisemitism"
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Dr. Milton Shain Affiliation: Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa Topic: "Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the 'New South Africa'"
Speaker: Dr. Shalem Coulibaly Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Ouagadougou in the West African country of Burkina Faso; Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP. Topic: "Africa and Antisemitism: Myth or Reality? From Indifference to Antisemitic Temptation?"
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Eppel Affiliation: Director, Human Rights Commission, B’nei Brith Venezuela Topic: "Chavez's Conversion, From Active Military to Militant Antisemite"
Speaker: Dr. Alberto Nisman Affiliation: Federal Prosecutor and Chief Investigator of the 1994 car bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires Topic: "International Terrorism and Antisemitism: The Islamic Fundamentalism's Attacks in Argentina"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 24, 2010
Description: This plenary 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).
Title: "Understanding the Impact of German Antisemitism and Nazism"
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Voigt Affiliation: Research Associate, Simon-Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig, Germany (Institut fur Judische Geschichte und Kultur) Topic: "Leftist Antisemitic Anti-Zionism: The German Leftist Party as an Example of a European Trend within the Leftist Movement?"
Speaker: Ulrike Becker Affiliation: University of Stuttgart Topic: “German Foreign Policy Towards Egypt After WWII”
Speaker: Bjoern Milbradt Affiliation: University of Marburg Topic: “Conceptualizing Contemporary Antisemitism in Germany: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Results on a Flexible Prejudice”
Speaker: Karin Stoegner Affiliation: Central European University Topic: “Antisemitism and Nationalism in ‘Postnational’ Europe?”
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 25, 2010
Description: This panel discussion is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discussed topics including, Leftist antisemitic anti-Zionism and conceptualizing contemporary antisemitism in Germany.
Title: "An Uncertain Sisterhood: Women and Antisemitism"
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Dr. Phyllis Chesler Affiliation: Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, College of Staten Island (CUNY). Topic: "The History and Psychological Roots of Antisemitism Among Feminists, Their Gradual Stalinization and Palestinianization"
Speaker: Thyme Siegel Affiliation: Writer and Instructor of Women’s Studies; Topic: "Sisterhood was Powerful and Global: Where Did It Go?"
Speaker: Gloria Greenfield Affiliation: President and Founder, Doc Emet Productions Topic: "The Empress's New Clothes"
Speaker: Dr. Nora Gold Affiliation: Writer-in-Residence and an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Topic: "Fighting Antisemitism in the Feminist Community"
Convener: Jennifer Roskies, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Doctoral candidate, Bar-Ilan University; Research Consultant, ISGAP
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 25, 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 history of antisemitism within the feminist community and how to combat this phenomenon.
Title: "Antisemitic Propaganda in Europe"
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Dr. Magnus Brechtken Affiliation: Associate Professor in German History and Politics, University of Nottingham Topic: "Full Zionism on Madagascar? The 'Antisemitic International' and the Idea of 'Compulsory Segregation' in the 1920s and 1930s"
Speaker: Dr. Javier Dominguez Arribas Affiliation: University of Paris XIII Topic: “The Judeo-Masonic Enemy in Francoist Propaganda (Spain, 1936-1945)”
Speaker: David Lebovitch Dahl Affiliation: University of Copenhagen Topic: "How Antisemitic Were the Antisemites? A Case of Debate Over Antisemitic Propaganda Among Intransigent Italian Catholic Clerics Around 1882"
Speaker: Leslie Lebl Affiliation: Fellow, American Center for Democracy; Principal, Lebl Associates Topic: "The EU, the Mideast and Antisemitism"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 25, 2011
Description: As 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 various aspects of antisemitic propaganda in Europe.
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.
Title: "Self Hatred and Contemporary Antisemitism"
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Dr. Doron Ben-Atar Affiliation: Professor of History, Fordham University, New York Title: "Without Ahavath Yisrael: Thoughts on Radical Anti-Zionism at Brandeis"
Speaker: Dr. Richard Landes Affiliation: Department of History, Boston University Title: "Scourges and Their Audiences: What Drives Jews to Loathe Israel Publicly and What To Do About It?"
Speaker: Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld Affiliation: Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Indiana University; Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University Title: "Beyond Criticism and Dissent: On Jewish Contributions to the Delegitimation of Israel"
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"Roundtable: Discussions in the Study of Antisemitism"
Speakers and Affiliations
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Speaker: Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld Affiliation: Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Indiana University; Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University
Speaker: Dr. David Feldman Affiliation: Professor of History at Birkbeck University of London; Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Speaker: Dr. Dina Porat Affiliation: Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 25, 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) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss various topics, including Jewish self-hatred and the Jewish contribution to the delegitimization of Israel and modern manifestations of anitsemitism.
Title: "Beyond the Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Committee and Its Response to Antisemitism"
Speaker: Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias
Affiliation: Graduate Fellow, YIISA
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: February 3, 2011
Description: Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias discusses the legal dimension of the human rights agenda within the United Nations. She examines whether there is an effective counter balance within the UN to its various highly politicized bodies, such as the Human Rights Council. While the UN emerged out of World War II and out of the ashes of the Holocaust, it continues to deny its own history and unjustly target Israel, turning the Jewish state into an international pariah. Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias questions whether the UN still has the ability to act as a legitimate mechanism in combating antisemtism.
Title: "Variations of European Antisemitism"
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Miriam Oelsner Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo Topic: "Antisemitism According to Victor Klemperer" Read by Samuel Feldberg
Speaker: Ilana Novinsky Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo Topic: "Contributions of Phenomology and Psycholanalysis for the Understanding of Antisemitism"
Speaker: Dr. Adam Katz Affiliation: Quinnipiac University Topic: "Antisemitism and the Victimary Era"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 25, 2010
Description: As 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 variations of European antisemitism.
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Title: "Globalization and Contemporary Antisemitisms: From Islamism as a Social Movement to the Acquiescence in the West"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 21, 2011
Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small argues that there are many different forms of antisemtisms and explains how globalization contributes to the marginalization of various groups in society, which, in turn, impacts contemporary antisemitism. Multiculturalism, which is essential in understanding contemporary societies in the age of globalization, is based on the recognition of the “other.” If a social movement is diametrically opposed to recognizing “the other,” there cannot be peace or regional stability. He further contends that neo-liberal driven processes and policies associated with globalization are the most important driving forces impacting the economy, as well as political, social and cultural marginalization throughout the world. These forces create conditions that are largely responsible for the reemergence of contemporary antisemitism.
Title: "Is A Legal Remedy to Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Incitement to Genocide Still Possible? A Colloquium"
Speakers and Affiliations:
Speaker: Dr. Alan Dershowitz Affiliation: Professor of Law, Harvard University
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sibony Affiliation: French philosopher and psychoanalyst
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Date: October 17, 2012
Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Dr. Alan Dershowitz and Dr. Daniel Sibony speak about whether there is still a legal remedy to Iran’s nuclear weapons program and incitement to genocide.
Title: "Discourses of Contemporary Antisemitism"
Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:
Speaker: Dr. David Hirsh Affiliation: Goldsmiths College, University of London Title: "Struggles Over the Boundaries of Legitimate Discourse: Antisemitism and Bad Faith Allegations"
Speaker: Dr. Lars Rensmann Affiliation: Department of Political Science, University of Michigan Title: "Antisemitism Reloaded: The Resurgence of Judeophobia in European Extreme Right Parties and the Crisis of Global Modernity"
Speaker: Dr. Robert Fine Affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Warwick Title: "Between Opposition and Denial: The Radical Response to Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 24, 2010
Description: As 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 resurgence of Judeophobia in European extreme Right political parties.
Speaker: Dr. Dorian F. Bell
Affiliation: Literature Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: "A 'Paradise of Parasites': Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism, and the Legacies of Empire"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 7, 2011
Description: Professor Dorian F. Bell maintains that scholars of antisemitism have sometimes been loath to analogize between modern antisemitism and colonial racism, usually out of concern for maintaining the specificity of the Holocaust. Other critics, most famously Hannah Arendt, have identified a crucial step along the path to the Final Solution in nineteenth-century imperialism. Whatever the relative merits of these approaches, Dr. Dorian Bell maintains that even the latter has overlooked (or at least misapprehended) the extent to which antisemitism and empire were evolving in tandem even in the nineteenth century.
Speaker: Dr. Moishe Postone
Affiliation: Department of History, University of Chicago
Title: "The Structuring Opposition of Capitalist Modernity; Notes on History, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 3, 2011
Description: Professor Moishe Postone relates historical changes and public responses to the Holocaust, especially on Left, to the historically changing configurations of capitalist modernity since 1945. He argues that the public responses to the Holocaust have tended to be structured by an opposition between abstract modes of universalism and concrete particularism. He argues that such responses have shifted with the changing configuration of capitalist modernity from a status configuration of the 1950s and 60s to a subsequent neo-liberal phase. He further maintains that the character of those responses and their relation to the changing configuration of capitalist modernity can be mediated by a theory of capital, on the one hand, and antisemitism on the other.
Speaker: Tatenda Mujeni
Affiliation: Bennett College for Women, Greensboro, North Carolina
Title: "Concerns of Our Mothers: How Divisions in the 'Baby Boomer' Generation Affect the Contemporary Feminist Movement: The Role of Racism and Antisemitism"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 8, 2011
Description: Tatenda Mujeni explores the divisions within the feminist movement that emerged as a result of race, religion and other issues related to identity politics.
Speaker: Dr. Dovid Katz
Affiliation: Editor, DefendingHistory.com; Chief Analyst, Litvak Studies Institute (Vilnius)
Title: "The Unique and 'Successful' Antisemitism in the East of the European Union"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 14, 2011
Description: Dr. Dovid Katz poses the question: "What is 'successful' antisemitism?" He contrasts the 'old' antisemitism with the 'new' antisemitism and notes that while there is a small group of scholars dealing with modern manifestations of antisemitism, the phenomenon is often regarded and taboo and not easily accepted.
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Norwood
Affiliation: History Department, University of Oklahoma
Title: "Legitimating Nazism: American Universities and the Third Reich"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: February 24, 2011
Description: Dr. Stephen Norwood maintains that during the 1930s, American university campuses forged friendly ties with early Nazi party universities and in doing so helped enhance the Hitler regime’s prestige in the West. Many universities welcomed Nazi officials to campus and eagerly participated in Nazi propaganda. The Nazis believed universities to be critical in their efforts to disseminate propaganda, underlying the Nazi ideology which began by expelling Jews from faculty positions, burning books and ultimately ended in their desire to annihilate the Jewish people. Yet, as the Nazis continued to take steps to isolate and ostracize European Jewry, many leaders of American universities failed to take steps against the Nazi assault on academic freedom.
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Tsadik
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Sepharadic and Iranian Studies, Yeshiva University, New York
Title: "Some Notes on Antisemitism in Iran"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: February 10, 2011
Description: Dr. Daniel Tsadik speaks about the antisemitic tendencies of the Iranian regime and offers historical perspectives in order to better understand these modern, genocidal antisemitic beliefs.
Speaker: Dr. Bassam Tibi
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Goettingen
Title: "The Islamist Islamization of Antisemitism"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 24, 2010
Description: Dr. Bassam Tibi maintains that while there are many varieties of antisemitisms, Islamism is one of the most dangerous form of antisemitism in the world. He goes on to emphasize the importance of distinguishing between Islam and Islamism. Islamism, which grows out of Islam, wants to establish an Islamist shariah state and reestablish the dominant world order.
Title: "Confronting and Combating Contemporary Antisemitism in the Academy"
Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:
Speaker: Dr. Edward Beck Affiliation: Walden University Title: "Engaging, Educating and Empowering Faculty to Address Issues of Antisemitism in the Academy"
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Edelman Affiliation: California State University, Chico Title: "Short Term and Long Term Strategies for Faculty Partnering with the Community and Students to Enhance Faculty Effectiveness in Reducing Antisemitism as Anti-Israelism on Campus"
Speaker: Dr. Linda Blanshay Affiliation: Simon Wiesenthal Center Title: "Antisemitism on California University Campuses and the Simon Wiesenthal Center Response"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 24, 2010
Description: As 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 confronting and combating contemporary antisemitism in the academy.
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sibony
Affiliation: French philosopher and psychoanalyst
Title: "The Essence of Antisemitism: Is it too Simple to be Understood?"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: October 16, 2012
Description: Dr. Daniel Sibony explains the complexities as well as the fundamental simplicity of the phenomenon of age-old antisemitism. He notes that hatred for the Jews as a whole emanates, in part, due to the fact that the Jewish people exist despite all odds, complexities, and catastrophes.
Title: "US Foreign Policy and the Rise of Islamism: The Abandonment of Human Rights and Democratic Principles? A Colloquium"
Speakers and Affiliations:
Speaker: Russell Berman Affiliation: Department of Humanities, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Speaker: Boaz Ganor Affiliation: Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya; Founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
Speaker: Abraham D. Sofaer Affiliation: Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Hoover Institution
Speaker: Lieutenant Colonel Brian Linvill Affiliation: National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institution
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Date: October 29, 2012
Description: Speakers discuss US foreign policy, the rise of Islamism, as well as the abandonment of human rights and democratic principles.
Speaker: Susan Benesch
Affiliation: Senior Fellow and Project Director, World Policy Institute
Title: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the Contours of International Human Rights Law
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Date: November 28, 2012
Description: Susan Benesch speaks about how to understand, classify and respond to various forms of hate speech that have become increasingly evident around the world. Benesch examines three primary questions: 1) How can we understand or classify these forms of inflammatory speech in the doctrinal contours of International Human Rights Law? 2) What can this law do to litigate the danger of these forms of speech? 3) Are there other remedies that should be considered?
Speaker: Stephanie Courouble Share
Affiliation: Research Fellow, Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar Ilan University; L’Institut d’histoire du temps present, Paris; The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, New York
Title: "International Holocaust Denial: A Comparative Analysis of a Public Issue"
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: November 13, 2012
Description: Stephanie Courouble Share speaks about international Holocaust denial and questions whether to engage and combat Holocaust deniers or to simply ignore them. She goes on to explain the roots of Holocaust denial, while simultaneously engaging in a chronological and geographical analysis of this lethal phenomenon.
Title: "Free Speech and Antisemitism: Comparative Approaches to Antisemitic Speech in the United States and Europe"
Date: October 18, 2012
Speaker: Alexander Tsesis
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Law, Loyola University
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Fordham University, New York
Description: Alexander Tsesis speaks about the different approaches in regulating free speech in the United States and Europe. He notes that these different approaches are, in part, due to the countries' unique histories, with more virulent and sustained antisemitism in Europe. Despite these differences, he demonstrates that there is just as much of a principled reason to regulate hate speech in the United States, particularly as it effects Jews, as it is to regulate hate speech in Europe and elsewhere around the world.
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Herf
Affiliation: Department of History, University of Maryland
Title: "At War with Israel: Some Recent Findings on East Germany and the West German Radical Left from the 1960s to 1989"
Location: Fordham University, New York
Date: November 15, 2012
Description: Dr. Jeffery Herf examines the attitudes of the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations to the State of Israel and its adversaries. He provides new insights into the West German radicals who collaborated with Palestinian terrorist groups, and claims that East Germany, along with others in the Soviet Bloc, had a much greater impact on the Middle East conflict than generally presumed. He goes on to focus on the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and draws the conclusion that the East German government was approaching a state of war with the State of Israel.
Speaker: Dr. Harry Goulbourne
Affiliation: Honorary Professor of Sociology, London South Bank University; Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds
Title: "Religion: Enemy of 'The Open Society' in Post Imperial Britain"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Fordham University, New York
Date: October 4, 2012
Description: Professor Harry Goulbourne speaks about race relations and multiculturalism in Britain. He discuses the many challenges, such as religion, faced by post-imperial British society and how to grapple with these issues in the context of the post-imperial condition.
Speaker: Joël Kotek
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Lecturer, SciencesPo (Paris)
Title: "Pragmatic Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism as Civic Religion: The Troubled Case of Belgium"
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: November 27, 2012
Description: Professor Joël Kotek states that since 2001 Belgium witnessed a stark rise in antisemitism – the most significant since 1945. He notes that many groups within Belgian society exploit the Arab-Israeli conflict in order to liberate antisemitic discourse and make it acceptable within mainstream society.
Speaker: Haras Rafiq
Affiliation: Director of CENTRI (Counter Extremism Consultancy, Training, Research and Interventions)
Title: "Pathways to Islamist Radicalization"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Fordham University, New York
Date: November 8, 2012
Description: Haras Rafiq speaks about Islam and why various individuals and groups are radicalizing the religion. He compares traditional Islam to Islamism and the extremism that has taken root in various sectors of the religion, fueled by a virulent antisemitism. He goes on to discuss Islamic theology, as well as policy mistakes made by the United States within recent years to combat this growing extremism.
Speaker: Dr. Orde Kittrie
Affiliation: Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Title: International Law, Lawfare, and the Challenge of Iran
Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Date: November 14, 2012
Description: Dr. Orde Kittrie speaks about international law, lawfare and the global challenges posed by the Iranian regime. He provides an overview of Iran's genocidal antisemitism, as well as the regime's many violations of international law and what we can expect from a nuclear-armed Iran. He then goes on to discuss lawfare, a strategy using law as a substitute for traditional military means to help achieve operational objectives.
Speaker: Thomas Hochmann
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Public Law, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne; Associate Member, Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy (Brussels)
Title: "Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech after United States v. Alvarez"
Convener: Ruth Wisse, Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Date: October 31, 2012
Description: Thomas Hochmann examines Holocaust denial and freedom of speech following the Supreme Court case of United States v. Alvarez.
Speakers: Edwin Black, Award-winning, New York Times bestselling international investigative author; Dr. Haim Shaked, Professor of International Studies at the University of Miami
Title: "Roots of an Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust and its Lasting Effects"
Location: Fordham University, New York
Date: January 31, 2013
Description: Edwin Black speaks about how the Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Adolph Hitler, resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the expulsion of the Iraqi Jewish community and approximately a million Jews across the Arab world. He asserts that the Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance during the Holocaust.
Speaker: David Matas
Affiliation: Senior Legal Counsel of B'nai Brith Canada; Canadian human rights and immigration lawyer
Title: "Antisemitism and Middle East Peace"
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: February 12, 2013
Description: David Matas maintains that there is a link between antisemitism (and combating antisemitism) and peace in the Middle East. He states that while the majority of commentators focus on the list of issues dividing the Israelis and Palestinians, he asserts that if we combat antisemitism, the other issues will be resolved. Modern antisemitism has taken the form of the assault on the Jewish state and notions of Jewish peoplehood. In order to achieve peace in the Middle East, he says, it is essential to combat the antisemitism of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and Israel's other adversaries.
Speaker: Dr. Dovid Katz
Affiliation: Editor, DefendingHistory.com
Title: “Holocaust Obfuscation: The 21st Century Version of Denial”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Fordham University, New York
Date: December 13, 2012
Description: Dr. Dovid Katz speaks about antisemitism and the problematic situation of Lithuanian and European Holocaust history revisionism.
Speaker: Dr. Meir Litvak
Affiliation: Department of Middle Eastern History and Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Title: “Radical Islam and the Arab Spring”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Date: February 8, 2012
Description: Dr. Meir Litvak argues that there are various misperceptions regarding the "Arab Spring" and notes that, as opposed to the popular belief, the "Arab Spring" was started by Islamists, not westernized, democratic young people.
Speaker: Dr. David Menashri
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University; Senior Research Fellow, Alliance Center for Iranian Studies and the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Title: "Iran, Israel and the Middle East after the War in Gaza"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Fordham University, New York
Date: November 29, 2012
Description: Dr. David Menashri speaks about Iran, Israel, and the Middle East following the 2012 Gaza War. Menashri highlights the need to understand the intricacies and various aspects of Iranian society in order to begin to understand the Middle East conflict and relations between the countries.
Speaker: Dr. Neil Kressel
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, William Paterson University
Title: "Muslim Antisemitism: A Litmus Test for the West (Part 1)"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Fordham University, New York
Date: February 14, 2013
Description: Neil Kressel documents the dangerous and growing epidemic of anti-Jewish bigotry in many parts of the Muslim world. Kressel argues that scholars, human rights organizations, religious leaders, and politicians have largely ignored, misunderstood, or downplayed this hatred. He traces such reactions to a complex mix of apathy, ignorance, confusion, bigotry, ideology, purported pragmatism, and misguided multiculturalism.
Speaker: Dr. Bassam Tibi
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Goettingen
Title: "The Islamist Challenge to America, anti-Americanism, and Antisemitism"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 1, 2009
Description: Dr. Bassam Tibi speaks about the difference between Islam and Islamism, as well as the challenge of Islam to America and Islamism's lethal and rising antisemitic tendencies.
Speaker: Corinna Guttstadt
Affiliation: Research Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
Title: "Shifting Faces of Antisemitism in Turkey"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 31, 2009
Description: Corinna Guttstadt speaks about the shifting faces of antisemitism in Turkey.
Speaker: Yigal Carmon
Affiliation: Founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
Title: "The Impact of the Arab Spring on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Arab and Muslim World"
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: March 12, 2013
Description: Yigal Carmon discusses Arab antisemitism and notes that Arab leaders frequently demonize the Jewish people, deny and distort the facts of the Holocaust, and urge their people “to complete the job”.
Speaker: Yossi Klein Halevi
Affiliation: Israeli author and journalist
Title: “Jewish Theological Implications of the New Antisemitism”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 2, 2009
Description: Yossi Klein Halevi explains that there are two forms of antisemitism. The first, he says, is unremarkable and is the fear or dislike of the "other." The second form of antisemitism is the antisemitism of symbols, which is unique and potentially lethal. The antisemitism of symbols singles out the Jew as the representative of whatever a given society defines as its most detested quality or trait or moral offense. Halevi continues to focus on the "new antisemitism" and the assault on the State of Israel. This "new antisemitism" sets the Jewish state as the world's worst offender and violator of our society's highest value: human rights. This, he notes, is the reincarnation of the age-old antisemitism of symbols.
Speaker: Esther Webman
Affiliation: Acting Director, The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism & Racism, Tel Aviv University
Title: "Continuity and Change in the Arab Holocaust Discourse"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 23, 2009
Description: Esther Webman speaks about continuity and change in the Arab Holocaust discourse.
Speaker: Dr. Phyllis Chesler
Affiliation: Writer, psychotherapist, and Professor Emerita of Psychology at City University of New York
Title: "The New Anti-Semitism: Reflections After A Decade on the Front Lines"
Location: Fordham University, New York
Date: February 28, 2013
Description: Dr. Phyllis Chesler discusses her personal struggle to promote awareness of global antisemitism within Western academia.
Speaker: Dr. Neil Kressel
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, William Paterson University
Title: "Muslim Antisemitism: A Litmus Test for the West (Part 2)"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Fordham University, New York
Date: February 14, 2013
Description: Neil Kressel documents the dangerous and growing epidemic of anti-Jewish bigotry in many parts of the Muslim world. Kressel argues that scholars, human rights organizations, religious leaders, and politicians have largely ignored, misunderstood, or downplayed this hatred. He traces such reactions to a complex mix of apathy, ignorance, confusion, bigotry, ideology, purported pragmatism, and misguided multiculturalism.
Speaker: Dr. Steven Smith
Affiliation: Department of Political Science, Yale University
Title: "Leo Strauss as a Jewish Thinker"
Convener: Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: February 28, 2008
Description: Dr. Steven Smith speaks about Leo Strauss as a Jewish thinker and examines Strauss’s views on religion as well as his thought on philosophical and political issues.
Speaker: Malcolm Hoenlein
Affiliation: Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Title: "Is it 1939? Assessing the State of World Jewry"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 28, 2008
Description: Malcolm Hoenlein maintains that Judaism teaches the importance of history and learning the lessons of the past. In doing so, he assess the state of world Jewry and analyzes how to learn from the past in order to meet the challenges of the future.
Speaker: Dr. Richard Landes
Affiliation: Department of History, Boston University
Title: "The Naked Emperor and the First Blood Libel of the 21st Century: The Al Durah Affair and the Dysfunctions of the Mainstream Media"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: September 25, 2008
Description: Professor Richard Landes speaks about the Al Durah Affair as being the first blood libel of the 21st century. He further examines the dysfunctions of the mainstream media and its contribution to the delegitimization campaign against Israel in the international arena.
Speaker: Dr. Paul Iganski
Affiliation: Professor, University of Essex; Lecturer, Lancaster University
Title: "Playing the ‘Nazi-card’: Antisemitic Discourse Against Israel"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: November 20, 2008
Description: Dr. Paul Iganski asserts that the inclusion of particular modes of criticism of Israel in definitions of antisemitism has provoked controversy, resulting in a war of words which has stagnated into an intellectual and discursive cul-de-sac of claim and counter-claim about what does and does not qualify as antisemitism. He attempts to shift the focus of analysis of contemporary antisemitism away from labelling and defining the problem, to an understanding of the consequences of particular discourse.
Speaker: Melanie Phillips
Affiliation: Journalist and Author
Title: "The Demoralisation of Britain: Moral Relativism, the Church of England and the Jews"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: November 13, 2008
Description: Melanie Phillips maintains that while there has always been anti-Jewish sentiments in Britain, after the Holocaust, such sentiments became taboo. She notes that now, antisemitic rhetoric is, once again, becoming mainstream and that this revival of crude anti-Jewish libels is being fueled and legitimized by the obsessive vilification and demonization of Israel.
Speaker: Dr. Roni Stauber
Affiliation: Academic Director of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University
Title: "The Academic and Public Debate over the Meaning of the 'New Antisemitism'"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 24, 2008
Description: Dr. Roni Stauber speaks about the academic and public debate over the meaning of the new antisemitism. He maintains that from the end of 2000, there has been a stark increase in the number of violent incidents and verbal threats against Jews, as well as an increase in the publication of antisemitic articles.
Speaker: Dr. Gert Weisskirchen
Affiliation: German politician; Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Antisemitism
Title: "Growing Fears, Mixed Experiences, Weak Hopes, the Fight Against Antisemitism is still Necessary"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 17, 2008
Description: Dr. Gert Weisskirchen states that Germany, as one of the worst perpetrators of genocide against the Jewish people, has a moral obligation to fight against modern manifestations of antisemitism. In his role, Dr. Gert Weisskirchen attempts to look into the various member states of the OSCE and how they are combating antisemitism and implementing commitments and policies into their political policies in order to prevent future instances of antisemitism.
Speaker: Hamid Tehrani
Affiliation: Iranian journalist, blogger and researcher
Title: "Iranian Anti-Semitism on the Internet"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 23, 2008
Description: Hamid Tehrani speaks about Iranian antisemitism. He maintains that Iranian anti-Semitic blogs reveal important information that can help us gain a better understanding about the roots and dynamism of anti-Jewish sentiment in Iran.
Speaker: Dr. Brigitte Sion
Affiliation: Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Program in Religious Studies and Department of Journalism, New York University
Title: "The Jew as a Bloodthirsty Butcher: Laws Banning Ritual Slaughter (Shechita)"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: December 4, 2008
Description: Dr. Brigitte Sion does not focus on whether Jewish ritual slaughter (shechita) is more or less moral than other forms of animal slaughter, but on the fact that very small countries with even smaller Jewish populations have adopted a ban on shechita, which makes meat kosher for observant Jews. She maintains that this ban is merely a cover for new forms of antisemitism.
Speaker: Dr. András Gero
Affiliation: Department of History, Central European University
Title: "Antisemitic Discourse in Hungary Following the Collapse of Communism"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 6, 2008
Description: Dr. András Gero speaks about antisemitic discourse in Hungary hollowing the collapse of communism.
Speaker: Dr. Mark Gelber
Affiliation: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben Gurion University
Title: "Literary Antisemitism; Revisited: Paul de Man and Mel Gibson"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: January 24, 2008
Description: Dr. Mark Gelber speaks about literary antisemitism and the discipline's contribution to assessing antisemitism throughout cultures, countries and ages.
Speaker: Dr. David Menashri
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University
Title: "The Place of the Iranian Jewish Community in the Contemporary Islamic World"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: November 15, 2007
Description: Dr. David Menashri discusses the place of the Iranian Jewish community in the contemporary Islamic world.
Speaker: Dr. Patrick Weil
Affiliation: Centre d’histoire sociale du siècle, Universite de Paris 2
Title: "Dreyfus, Vichy, de Gaulle, Chirac: Reflections on the French-Jewish Malaise"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 3, 2008
Description: Dr. Patrick Weil reflects on the French-Jewish malaise. He goes on to compare the degree of acceptance and tolerance among different European countries toward Jews and other minority groups.
Speaker: Dr. Alan Dershowitz
Affiliation: Professor of Law, Harvard University
Title: "Antisemitic Hate Speech: Incitement to Violence in the Absence of a Marketplace of Ideas"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 11, 2007
Description: Dr. Alan Dershowitz speaks about the importance of conducting serious, academic, high caliber research into the study of antisemitism.
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Levin
Affiliation: Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Title: Varieties of “Jewish Antisemitism”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: November 8, 2007
Description: Dr. Kenneth Levin speaks about varieties of “Jewish Antisemitism” and why individuals from a particular religious, national, or ethnic group would act out against their own communities. He notes that this is hardly a phenomenon that occurs solely among Jews. He notes that denigration of one's community, while embracing another, can have an allure driven by psychological dynamics and is particularly common among communities under siege or constant attack.
Title: Africa and Contemporary Antisemitism
Date: February 21, 2008
Titles, Speakers and Affiliations:
Title: “Negation of Memory: Jewish and African Responses to the New Antisemitism and Racism” Speaker: Dr. Shalem Coulibaly Affiliation: Philosophy Department, University de Ouagadougou
Title: “Antisemitism in Africa: Post 9-11” Speaker: Dr. Hubert Ngatcha Njila Affiliation: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Centre d’Etudes Nord- Américaines (CENA), Paris
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Description: Dr. Shalem Coulibaly and Dr. Hubert Ngatcha Njila speak about Africa and contemporary antisemitism, Jewish and African responses to the new antisemitism, and antisemitism in Africa following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Speaker: David Harris
Affiliation: Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
Title: "Global Challenges for Jewish Diplomacy"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 26, 2008
Description: David Harris speaks about the global challenges facing the international Jewish community.
Speaker: Dr. Grahame Davies
Affiliation: University of Wales, Cardiff, and Goodenough College, London
Title: "From Philo-Semitic to Anti-Semitic: Shifts in Attitude towards the Jewish People among a Western European Minority Community"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 22, 2007
Description: Dr. Grahame Davies examines shifts in attitude towards the Jewish people among a western European minority community.
Speaker: Dr. David Cesarani
Affiliation: History Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
Title: "Muslims are not the new Jews: Comparing Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Britain and Europe"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 27, 2008
Description: Dr. David Cesarani compares and contrasts Islamophobia and antisemitism in Britain and Europe.
Speaker: Mark Weitzman
Affiliation: New York Director, Task Force Against Hate, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Title: "Contemporary Antisemitism: New Discourses, New Responses"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: September 23, 2008
Description: Mark Weitzman speaks about contemporary antisemitism and the need to alter the discourse surrounding antisemitism in order to more effectively combat the "new" forms of antisemitism.
Speaker: Matthias Kuntzel
Affiliation: Technical College, Hamburg; Research Fellow, Vidal Sassoon Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Title: Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East (YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series)
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Location: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: November 30, 2006
Description: Matthias Kuntzel examines Islamic antisemitism from a historical perspective and compares the hate speech and antisemitic propaganda of Nazi Germany to that of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. He questions the reason for this hatred and asks whether it stems from Zionism and Israeli policies or whether Judeophobia is an integral part of Islam and epitomize modern manifestations of antisemitism.
Title: "Radical Islam and Genocidal Antisemitism (Part 2)"
Date: August 23, 2010
Titles, Speakers, Affiliations:
Title: “Arab and Islamic Antisemitism Today” Speaker: Dr. Menahem Milson* Affiliation: Hebrew University
Title: “Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism and Jews in Turkey Today” Speaker: Rifat Bali Affiliation: Research Associate, Alberto Benveniste Center for Sephardic Studies and Culture, Paris
Title: “The Jihad Flotilla to Gaza: Provocative – Antisemitic – Not Humanitarian” Speaker: Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Fighel** Affiliation: The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Herzliya
Title: “Nazi Propaganda to the Arab World and Its After-Effects in Postwar Militant Islam” Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Herf, Affiliation: University of Maryland
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Description: This is the second part of a two-part panel discussing issues of radical Islam and genocidal antisemitism.
You may view Professor Menahem Milson’s and Rifat Bali’s lectures in Part 1. *The first half of Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Fighel’s lecture appears in Part 1.
Speaker: Itamar Marcus
Affiliation: Director, Palestinian Media Watch
Title: "The Central Role of Palestinian Antisemitism in Creating the Palestinian Identity"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 23. 2010
Description: Itamar Marcus speaks about the central role of Palestinian antisemitism in creating the Palestinian identity. He goes on to expand on Palestinian incitement against Jews within Palestinian society and culture.
Speaker: Gabriel Schoenfeld
Affiliation: Former Senior Editor, Commentary Magazine
Title: "The Return of Antisemitism"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: February 22, 2007
Description: Gabriel Schoenfeld analyzes the "new antisemitism" and explores how the Islamic world is at the center of this virulent brand of Jew hatred.
Speaker: Dr. Irwin Cotler
Affiliation: Former Member of Canadian Parliament, Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Professor of Law (on leave), McGill University
Title: "Human Rights and the New Anti-Jewishness"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 12, 2006
Description: Dr. Irwin Cotler speaks about human rights and the new anti-Jewishness.
Speaker: Dr. Michael Keith
Affiliation: Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Title: "Geopolitics on the Street: Transnationalism, the Political Imaginary and a Personal Account of Contemporary London’s Elections"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: February 15, 2007
Description: Dr. Michael Keith speaks about the roots and forms of intolerance, including antisemitism and other forms of hatred, as well as transnationalism and political imaginary in London.
Speakers: Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Affiliations: Authors of Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War
Title: "The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: May 31, 2007
Description: Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez speak about their 2008 book, "Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War," which illustrates that the 1967 Six-Day War was the result of a joint Soviet-Arab gambit to provoke Israel into a preemptive attack.
Speaker: Dr. Walter Reich
Affiliation: George Washington University
Title: "When Holocaust Memory Becomes Diplomatic Tool and a Weapon Against Israel"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 18, 2007
Description: Dr. Walter Reich speaks about how commemoration and memory of the Holocaust has become empty rhetoric, as well as a diplomatic tool and weapon against Israel.
Speaker: James Carroll
Affiliation: Historian, journalist, and author of "Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews – A History"
Title: The Church and the Jews: The Lessons of History
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: September 28, 2006
Description: James Carroll speaks about Christian antisemitism and the lessons of history.
Speaker: Ron Rosenbaum
Affiliation: Essayist, and Author of "Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil"
Title: "Thinking about the Unthinkable: The Rhetorical Strategies of Holocaust Deniers and the Prospect of a Second Holocaust"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 8, 2007
Description: Ron Rosenbaum speaks about the rhetorical strategies of Holocaust deniers and the prospect of a second Holocaust.
Speaker: Wolfgang Benz
Affiliation: Director, Center for Research on Antisemitism, University Technical Berlin
Title: "Antisemitism as Phenomenon of Every Day Life in Contemporary Germany"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: April 19, 2007
Description: Wolfgang Benz speaks about antisemitism as a phenomenon of every day life in contemporary Germany.
Title: "Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah: Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial” Berlin Conference – Part 2
Date: March 26, 2009
Speakers and Affiliations:
Speaker: Dr. Meir Litvak Affiliation: Associate Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History, Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, and Senior Research Fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University
Speaker: Alexander Ritzmann Affiliation: Political Analyst and Senior Fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD) in Brussels, Belgium
Speaker: Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh Affiliation: Senior Fellow, European Foundation for Democracy
Title: “Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah: Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial” Berlin Conference – Part 3
Date: March 26, 2009
Speakers and Affiliations:
Speaker: Dr. Meir Litvak Affiliation: Associate Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History, Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, and Senior Research Fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University
Speaker: Dr. David Menashri Affiliation: President, Academic Center of Law and Business, Ramat Gan; Founder and Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University; Dean of Special Programs, Tel Aviv University
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Title: "Social Theory and Contemporary Antisemitism"
Date: August 24, 2010
Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:
Speaker: Dr. Catherine Chatterley Affiliation: University of Manitoba Title: “The Antisemitic Imagination”
Speaker: Dr. Alan Rosenbaum Affiliation: Cleveland State University Title: “Philosophical Reflections on Antisemitism Today”
Speaker: Dr. David Seymour Affiliation: Lancaster University Title: “Antisemitism as a State of Exception”
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Title: “Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah: Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial” Berlin Conference – Part 1
Date: March 26, 2009
Speakers and Affiliations: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and Dr. Matthias Kuntzel, Research Associate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small and Dr. Matthias Kuntzel speak about the threats posed by Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as contemporary antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
Speaker: Dr. Michel Wieviorka
Affiliation: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS), President of the International Sociological Association
Title: Why it is so difficult to Research Antisemitism- Part 2
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 3, 2008
Description: Dr. Michel Wieviorka examines why it is so difficult to research antisemitism.
Speaker: Yigal Carmon
Affiliation: President, Founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
Title: "The Iranian Regime and Genocidal Antisemitism"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: February 8, 2007
Description: Yigal Carmon speaks about the threats posed by the Iranian regime and genocidal antisemitism.
Speaker: Dr. Ruth Wisse
Affiliation: Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Title: "Why Antisemitism Succeeds"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 12, 2007
Description: Dr. Ruth Wisse examines the phenomenon of antisemitism and why it succeeds.
Title: "Radical Islam and Genocidal Antisemitism" (Part 1)
Date: August 23, 2010
Titles, Speakers, and Affiliations:
Title: "Arab and Islamic Antisemitism Today" Speaker: Professor Menahem Milson Affiliation: Hebrew University
Title: “Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism and Jews in Turkey Today” Speaker: Rifat Bali Affiliation: Research Associate, Alberto Benveniste Center for Sephardic Studies and Culture, Paris
Title: “The Jihad Flotilla to Gaza: Provocative – Antisemitic – Not Humanitarian” Speaker: Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Fighel* Affiliation: The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Herzliya
Title: “Nazi Propaganda to the Arab World and Its After-Effects in Postwar Militant Islam” Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Herf** Affiliation: University of Maryland
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Description: This panel discussion is the first in a two-part conference discussing radical Islam and genocidal antisemitism.
Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Fighel’s lecture will continue in Part 2. *You may view Professor Jeffrey Herf’s lecture in Part 2.
Speaker: Dr. Michel Wieviorka
Affiliation: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS), President of the International Sociological Association
Title: Why it is so difficult to Research Antisemitism- Part 1
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 3, 2008
Description: Dr. Michel Wieviorka examines why it is so difficult to research antisemitism.
Title: "Christianity and Antisemitism" as 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" Conference
Date: August 23, 2010
Speakers, Affiliations, and Titles:
Speaker: Dr. Hilda Nissimi Affiliation: Bar-Ilan University Title: "Religion, Liberalism, and Empire in Britain: Antisemitism as Lynchpin"
Speaker: Dr. Lara Trubowitz Affiliation: University of Iowa Title: "Wyndham Lewis, Christian Theology and the Artfulness of Antisemitism, or Redefining Tolerance in an Era of Refugees"
Speaker: Mark Weitzman Affiliation: Simon Wiesenthal Center Title: "The Actor, the Bishop and the Future of Jewish-Catholic Relations"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Speaker: David Matas
Affiliation: Legal Scholar, University of Manitoba, Co-Chair, Canadian Helsinki Watch Group; Amnesty International: Legal Coordinator Canadian Section; League for Human Rights, B’nai Brith Canada
Title: Anti-Zionism at the UN Human Rights Council
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 14, 2010
Description: David Matas discusses the prevalence and persistence of anti-Zionism within the UN Human Rights Council.
Speaker: Dr. Holger Knothe
Affiliation: Post-Doctorate Fellow, ISGAP
Title: Blurring the Boundaries: What is the ‘New’ in ‘New Antisemitism’?
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 28, 2010
Description: Dr. Holger Knothe examines the various forms of antisemitism throughout history, focusing on antisemitism in the contemporary context.
Speaker: Dr. Phyllis Chesler
Affiliation: Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University of New York (CUNY)
Title: "How Scapegoating Israel Diminishes the Rights of Women in the Middle East"
Convener: Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: November 18, 2010
Description: Dr. Phyllis Chesler speaks about how scapegoating Israel diminishes the rights of women in the Middle East.
Title: “The Media and the Dissemination of Hatred” as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)conference on “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity”
Date: August 24, 2010
Speakers, Affiliations, Titles
Speaker: Defne Jones Affiliation: Indiana University Title: “Antisemitism Through Political Cartoons in Turkey”
Speaker: Dr. Marianna Scherini Affiliation: University of Siena Title: “The Image of Israel and of the Israeli in British, French and Italian Daily Press During the Lebanon War 1982”
Speaker: Antonia Schmid Affiliation: University of Wuppertal Title: “Antisemitic Discourse in Contemporary German Film”
Speaker: Phyllis Lassner Affiliation: Northwestern University Title: “Humanization or Antisemitism: Representations of Perpetrators and Jews in Recent Holocaust Films”
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Speaker: Dr. Nora Gold
Affiliation: Center for Women’s Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Title: "I Don’t Know Why They Hate Us – I Don’t Think We Did Anything Bad to Hurt Them"
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: November 4, 2010
Description: Nora Gold speaks about the experiences of Jewish girls in Toronto (aged 10-12) with antisemitism in schools.
Title: "400 Years of Antisemitism: From the Holy Office to the Nuremberg Laws" as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) conference on “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity”
Date: August 25, 2010
Speakers, Affiliations and Topic:
Speaker: Dr. Lina Gorenstein Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo Topic: “The Iberian Racial Antisemitism and its Modernity (16th-18th Centuries)”
Speaker: Daniela Levy Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo Topic: “Antisemitism Propaganda in Dutch Brazil (1630-1654)”
Speaker: Anita Novinsky Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo Topic: “Antisemitism: From the Holy Office to the Laws of Nuremberg: Reflections on Parallels”
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Speaker: Dr. Ruth Wisse
Affiliation: Harvard University
Title: "How Do We Put an End to Antisemitism: No, Really. How Do We?"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 23, 2010
Description: As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010), Dr. Ruth Wisse discusses the phenomenon of antisemitism and whether it is possible to put this genocidal hatred to an end.
Speaker: Rabbi David Nesenoff
Affiliation: RabbiLIVE.com
Title: “After I Interviewed Helen Thomas: Journeying from Conflict to Resolution”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 25, 2010
Description: As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010), Rabbi David Nesenoff discusses his experiences speaking to Helen Thomas, former member of the White House press corps and opinion columnist.
Title: "Embracing the Nation: Antisemitism and Modernity" - Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)Panel Discussion
Date: August 25, 2010
Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:
Speaker: Suzette Blom Affiliation: University of Guelph Title: "Jews, Divorce and French Revolution"
Speaker: Ilka Schroeder Affiliation: Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; Former Member of European Parliament Title: "Modern Antisemitism and National Identity"
Speakers and Affiliations: Catherine Power, McGill University and Sharon Power, York University Title: "Embracing the Nation: Assimilationist and Anti-Zionist Jewish Responses to Modernity"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Title: "Lawfare, Human Rights Organizations and the Demonization of Israel," as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Anne Herzberg Affiliation: NGO Monitor Topic: "NGOs and the New Antisemitism"
Speaker: Dr. Ed Morgan Affiliation: University of Toronto Topic: "The Metastasizing of Anti-Israel Lawfare"
Speaker: Elisabeth Kuebler Affiliation: University of Vienna Topic: "Durban II: Antisemitism in Cosmopolitan Global Democracy"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Title: "The Islamization of Antisemitism," as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).
Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:
Speaker: Dr. Paul Lawrence Rose Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University Title: "Muhammad and the Jews of Medina and Khaybar in Modern Islamic Antisemitic Mentalities"
Speaker: Dr. Neil Kressel Affiliation: William Paterson University Title: "The Demonization of Jews as 'Pigs and Apes': Theological Roots, History, Extent and Contemporary Implications"
Speaker: Dr. David Sokol Affiliation: Author Title: "The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem: Father of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 23, 2010
Title: "The Iranian Threat," as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).
Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:
Speaker: Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh Affiliation: European Foundation for Democracy Title: "The Terrorist Group Fedayine Islam and Its Relevance for the Islamists and Antisemitism in Iran"
Speaker: Dr. David Patterson Affiliation: University of Texas, Dallas Title: "Hitler, Hamas and Jihadist Jew Hatred"
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Feldberg Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo Title: "Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial and Iran's Nuclear Path: An Assessment of Risk"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Title: "Antisemitism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust," as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)conference on “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity”
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics
Speaker: Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias Affiliation: Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences Topic: "Penalizing Holocaust Denial -- A View from Europe"
Speaker: Dr. Marek Kucia Affiliation: Jagiellonian University, Krakow Topic: "Antisemitism in Contemporary Poland: Global and Local"
Speaker: Barbara Wind Affiliation: Holocaust Council of MetroWest Topic: "The Effect of the Resurgence of Antisemitism on Holocaust Survivors"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 24, 2010
YIISA / IASA Conference Gala Dinner
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: David Messer Affiliation: Chairman, the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)
Speaker: Dr. Charles Small Affiliation: Executive Director, YIISA Topic: “Global Antisemitism and the Crisis of Modernity”
Speaker: Irwin Cotler Affiliation: Former Canadian minister Topic: “Genocidal Antisemitism: Ahmadinejad’s Regime as a Case Study”
Speaker: Rabbi James Ponet Affiliation: Director, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010
Title: "Hannah Arendt and Antisemitism: A Critical Appraisal," part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Judaken Affiliation: University of Memphis Topic: "Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism and Her Story of Modernity"
Speaker: Dr. Professor Peter Staudenmaier Affiliation: University of Montana Topic: "Hannah Arendt's Analysis of Antisemitism: A Critical Approach"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2010
Speaker: Yaakov Kirschen
Affiliation: Visiting Fellow (Artist in Residence), ISGAP; Cartoonist, “Dry Bones”
Title: Memetics and the Viral Spread of Antisemitism Through ‘Coded Images’ in Political Cartoons
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010
Description: Yaakov Kirschen discusses a new criteria to identify antisemitism in political cartoons by examining the presence of antisemitic image-codes. As a viral belief system, antisemitism has historically used image-based memophores to spread its constituent memes and to replicate itself in the minds of potential hosts. The portrayal of the Jew as a powerful demonic enemy of society serves as an important unifying force needed by mass movements in their quests for power. As evident from contemporary cartoons around the globe, use of these memetic image-codes in political cartoons has expanded beyond the groups known for transmitting antisemitic images.
Title: "Contemporary Antisemitism and the Deligitimization of Israel," as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Goldhagen Affiliation: Harvard University
Speaker: Dr. Deborah Lipstadt Affiliation: Emory University Topic: "The Iranian President, the Canadian Professor, the Literary Journal and the Holocaust Denial Conference that Never Was"
Speaker: Dr. Walter Reich Affiliation: George Washington University Topic: "The Rabbi and the President: Don't Give Us the Holocaust at the Expense of Israel"
Speaker: Dr. Dina Porat Affiliation: Tel Aviv University Topic: "Are Events in the Middle East Indeed the Source of Global New Antisemitism?"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 24, 2010
Speaker: Cosmina Paul
Affiliation: YIISA Graduate Fellow
Topic: "Avenues of Campus Antisemitism"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 21, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Asher Susser
Affiliation: Senior Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University; Senior Visiting Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
Title: The Third Annual Professor William Prusoff Honorary Lecture: "Israel, Jordan and Palestine: One State, Two States or Three?" - Part 1 (YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series)
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 22, 2010
Description: Dr. Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and two-state options and explores why a two-state solution has failed to materialize. He provides an in-depth analysis of Jordan’s positions and presents an updated discussion of the two-state imperative through the initiatives of Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Susser argues that Israelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians have cohesive collective identities that violently collide with each other. As a result of these entrenched differences, a single-state solution cannot be achieved.
Speaker: Dr. Asher Susser
Affiliation: Senior Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University; Senior Visiting Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
Title: The Third Annual Professor William Prusoff Honorary Lecture: "Israel, Jordan and Palestine: One State, Two States or Three?" - Part 2 (YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series)
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 22, 2010
Description: Dr. Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and two-state options and explores why a two-state solution has failed to materialize. He provides an in-depth analysis of Jordan’s positions and presents an updated discussion of the two-state imperative through the initiatives of Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Susser argues that Israelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians have cohesive collective identities that violently collide with each other. As a result of these entrenched differences, a single-state solution cannot be achieved.
Speaker: Dr. Elhanan Yakira
Affiliation: Schulman Professor of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: "Anti-Zionism as an Intellectual Phenomenon"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 19, 2010
Description: Dr. Elhanan Yakira speaks about anti-Zionism as an intellectual phenomenon.
Title: YIISA Researchers' Seminar - Part #2
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Michelle Sieff Affiliation: YIISA Post-Doctorate Associate Topic: "The Ultimate Betrayal: Human Rights Groups, Genocide and Totalitarianism in the Postwar Era"
Speaker: Ulrike Becker Affiliation: YIISA Graduate Fellow Topic: "Post-war Antisemitism: Germany's Foreign Policy Toward Egypt and the Palestinians"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 21, 2010
Title: YIISA Researchers' Seminar - Part #1
Speakers, Affiliations, and Topics:
Speakers: Idit Shalev Affiliation: YIISA Post-Doctorate Associate Topic: "How Forms of Power Affect Attitudes Toward Minorities"
Speaker: Michelle Sieff Affiliation: YIISA Post-Doctorate Associate Topic: "The Ultimate Betrayal: Human Rights Groups, Genocide and Totalitarianism in the Postwar Era"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: April 21, 2010
Speaker: Berthe Kayitesi
Affiliation: PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa
Title: “Our World of Contradictions: Antisemitism, Antitutsism and Never Again”
Date: March 4, 2010
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Title: Yom Hashoah Commemoration (Part 2)
Speakers and Affiliations:
Speaker: Stella Bengel Affiliation: Shoah Survivor
Speaker: Ambassador Hannah Rosenthal Affiliation: Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, State Department, Washington, DC
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: April 12, 2010
(Sponsored in part by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven and the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.)
Speaker: Michael Whine
Affiliation: Director of Government and International Affairs, Community Security Trust; Consultant, European Jewish Congress
Title: “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back – Diplomatic Progress in Combating Antisemitism”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: April 26, 2010
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Description: Michael Whine discusses the challenges in combating modern manifestations of antisemitism and the diplomatic progress that has, or has not, been achieved.
Title: "Conceptual Approaches to Antisemitism," as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Nicolas Bechter Affiliation: University of Vienna Topic: "Anticapitalism and Antisemitism in the Current Economic Crisis"
Speaker: Heiko Beyer Affiliation: University of Goettingen Topics: "But There Are No Longer Any Antisemites: An Experimental Study on the Communication Latency of Antisemitic Attitudes"
Speaker: Robin Stoller Affiliation: International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism (IIBSA) Topic: "Modern Capitalist Societies, Impersonal Power and Exploitation Structures, Nation States and Antisemitism"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 25, 2010
Speaker: Kenneth Stern
Affiliation: Director, Antisemitism and Extremism, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Title: “The New Interdisciplinary Field of Hate Studies and Its Relevance to Understanding and Combating Antisemitism”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: April 13, 2010
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Title: Yom Hashoah Commemoration
Speakers and Affiliations:
Speaker: Stella Bengel Affiliation: Shoah Survivor
Speaker: Ambassador Hannah Rosenthal Affiliation: Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, State Department
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: Monday, April 12, 2010
(Sponsored in part by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven and the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.)
Title: "Law, Modernity and Antisemitism," as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).
Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Tsesis Affiliation: Loyolya University, School of Law Topic: "Internet, New Media, Traditional Stereotypes, Overt Bigotry and the International Regulation of Hate Speech"
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Feldman Affiliation: University of Wyoming Topic: "Great Expectations: Antisemitism and the Politics of Free-Speech Jurisprudence"
Speaker: Kenneth Lasson Affiliation: University of Baltimore Topic: "Theoretical Basis, Historical Antecedents, Contemporary Manifestations and Legal Dimensions of Modern Campus Antisemiitism"
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Marcus Affiliation: Baruch College, CUNY Topic: "U.S. Civil Rights: Antisemitism and Post Radicalism"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: August 23, 2010
Speakers: Gerald Barad, Producer/Writer; Eric Forman, Supervising Producer
Title: "The Battle of Durban II" (2009) Post-Screening Discussion
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: January 27, 2010
Speaker: Professor Robert Wistrich (z"l)
Affiliation: Director, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA)
Title: “A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad”
Date: January 22, 2010
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein
Affiliation: Minister of Public Affairs and the Diaspora
Title: “Demonization and Delegitimization of Israel: A Form of Contemporary Antisemitism”
Date: January 28, 2010
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Gregg Rickman
Affiliation: Former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, State Department
Title: “The Jews of Yemen: The Last Exodus”
Special Lecture followed by film screening of “The Forgotten Refugees” YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Date: March 3, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Diana Gregor
Affiliation: Journalist; Political Analyst/Researcher
Title: “Austria’s Marriage with Iran – Support for Nuclear Program Versus Historic Responsibility?”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: February 4, 2010
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Ben-Dror Yemini
Affiliation: Editor, Maariv Daily Newspaper, Israel
Title: “The Industry of Lies: Myths and Facts Regarding the Middle East Conflict”
Date: October 22, 2009
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Guang Pan
Affiliation: Dean, Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS)
Title: “Jews in China: Legends, History and New Perspectives”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: October 30, 2009
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Ben-Dror Yemini
Affiliation: Editor, Maariv Daily Newspaper, Israel
Title: “The Industry of Lies: Myths and Facts Regarding the Middle East Conflict”
Date: October 22, 2009
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Guang Pan
Affiliation: Dean, Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS)
Title: “Jews in China: Legends, History and New Perspectives”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: October 30, 2009
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Affiliation: Journalist; Editor and Publisher, Weekly Blitz Newspaper, Bangladesh
Title: “Hate Speech and Political Islam: Root Cause of Religious Extremism, Terrorism and Jihad”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Cynthia Kamakazi
Affiliation: Multilateral Officer, The Permanent Mission of Rwanda to the United Nations of Geneva
Title: "Genocide and the Assault on Memory: The Case of Rwanda"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: December 3, 2009
Speaker: Professor David Menashri
Affiliation: Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Title: "Iran, the Middle East and the USA Following the Presidential Elections: A View From Jerusalem"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: November 16, 2009
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speakers: Dr. Florette Cohen, The College of Staten Island, CUNY; Dr. Lee Jussim, Rutgers University
Title: “The New Antisemitism Israel Model: An Empirical Approach to Modern Antisemitism”
Date: December 3, 2009
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Ernest Sternberg
Affiliation: University of Buffalo, SUNY
Title: “Purifying the World: What the Radical Anti-Empire Ideology Stands For”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: November 12, 2009
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Alan Dershowitz
Affiliation: Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Title: "The Case for Israel"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 7, 2009
Speaker: Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto
Affiliation: Honorary President, The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
Title: "The 'Jewish Conspiracy': A Strategic Weapon to Demonize Jews and Delegitimize Israel"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: November 5, 2009
Description: Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto speaks about the strategic weapons used to demonize Jews and delegitimize the State of Israel.
Speaker: Brandon Friedman
Affiliation: Research Fellow, Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Title: "Iran: Ideology and Foreign Policy from Khomeini to Khamenei"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 8, 2009
Title: Representations of Jews in Revolutionary Iran
Date: October 1, 2009
Speaker: Orly Rahimiyan
Affiliation: PhD Candidate, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University; Phyllis Greenberg Heideman and Richard D. Heideman Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocuast Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Description: Orly Rahimiyan explores the representations of Jews in revolutionary Iran.
Speaker: Jennifer Roskies
Affiliation: Consultant, YIISA; PhD Candidate, Gender Studies, Bar Ilan University
Title: "Missing from the Map: Feminist Theory and the Omission of Jewish Women"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 22, 2009
Speaker: Yaakov Kirschen
Affiliation: Cartoonist, Dry Bones; Visiting Fellow (Artist in Residence), YIISA
Title: "Antisemitism and the Power of Cartoons"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 14, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Barry Rubin
Affiliation: Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center; Editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)
Title: "How the PLO 'Adapted' Antisemitism as 'Anti-Zionism'"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 15, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Barry Kosmin
Affiliation: Trinity College
Title: "Judeophobia and the New European Extremism"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: November 17, 2005
Speaker: Dr. Benny Morris
Affiliation: Ben Gurion University
Title: "The 1948 War as a Jihad"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Center, as part of the ISGAP seminar series "Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective"
Date: March 20, 2014
Speaker: Dahn Hiuni
Affiliation: Artist, Playwright, Independent Scholar
Title: “The New RDS Movement (Retractions and Disavowals in Scholarship): One Academic’s Symbolic Pushback Against the BDS Movement”
Date: March 24, 2014
Description: Dahn Hiuni Shares his personal experiences of subtle and not so subtle discrimination regarding his status as an Israeli academic and artist on several North American university campuses.
Speaker: Benjamin Weinthal
Affiliation: Jerusalem Post Correspondent for European affairs; Berlin-based Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Title: “How Bad is Modern European Antisemitism? Making Sense of Contemporary European Antisemitism in post-Holocaust Europe”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Date: March 26, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Topic: "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity"
Date: December 12, 2013
Speaker: Salim Mansur
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Title: “Arab and Muslim Antisemitism: Reconsideration, Reflection and some Propositions”
Convener: Raphaël Fischler, Associate Professor and Director, School of Urban Planning, McGill University
Location: McGill University
Date: December 2, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Clemens Heni
Affiliation: Director, The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA)
Title: “Critical Theory and Zionism”
Convener: Leslie Lebl, Principal, Lebl Associates; Fellow, American Center for Democracy
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Speaker: Gregory Gordon
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota and Director of the UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies
Title: “The Forgotten Nuremberg Hate Speech Case: Otto Dietrich and the Future of Persecution Law”
Location: Harvard Law School, as part of the “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective” Seminar Series
Date: April 10, 2013
Speaker: Gregory Gordon
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota and Director of the UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies
Title: “The Forgotten Nuremberg Hate Speech Case: Otto Dietrich and the Future of Persecution Law”
Location: Harvard Law School, as part of the “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective” Seminar Series
Date: April 10, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Levitt
Affiliation: Fromer-Wexler Fellow; Director, Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Title: “Antisemitism in the Public and Private Discourse of Hezbollah,” as part of the ISGAP seminar series “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: March 10, 2014
Description: Dr. Matthew Levitt discusses the prevalence of antisemitism in the public and private discourse of Hezbollah.
Speaker: Dr. Alexsandra Gliszcynska-Grabias
Affiliation: Researcher, Poznan Human Rights Centre, Institute of Legal Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences; Vice President, “Open Republic” Association against Antisemitism and Xenophobia
Title: “Swastika as a Symbol of Happiness: Polish Judges and Prosecutors on Antisemitic and Racist Hate Cases”
Location: Fordham University, Lincoln Center, as part of the ISGAP seminar series “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective”
Date: March 6, 2014
Speaker: Elyakim Rubinstein
Affiliation: Supreme Court Justice of Israel and the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004
Title: "Reflections on Antisemitism and Israel"
Location: Harvard Law School
Date: April 3, 2013
Elyakim Rubinstein was the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004 and is now serving as a Judge on the Supreme Court of Israel. Rubinstein, a lifelong Israeli diplomat and civil servant, has had an influential role in that country’s internal and external politics, most notably in helping to shape its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Early life Born in Tel Aviv, he earned his bachelor’s (1969) and master’s (1974) degrees from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Speaker: Gregory Gordon
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Law, University of North Dakota; Director, UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies.
Title: “The Enemy Within: A Neo-Nazi Takeover in the American Heartland?”
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Office, New York
Date: February 6, 2014
Description: Gregory Gordon speaks about the consequences of neo-Nazi groups attempting to takeover of the midland of the United States. He notes that while contemporary antisemtism, such as the demonization of Israel, have become “acceptable” forms of antisemitism, there are still groups of neo-Nazis attempting to take over small towns in the United States.
Speaker: Ambassador Ephraim Halevy
Affiliation: Head of the Center for Strategic Policy Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School of Public Policy (2003-2011); Former Director of Mossad, Israel
Title: “Sovereignties and Players Local and International – Old and New – Struggling to Reshape a Crumbling Middle East Landscape. Quo Vadis?”
Location: Columbia University, New York
Date: April 2, 2014
Title: “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” (Part 3)
Date: November 12, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Description: This is the third installment in "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity," a lecture given by Dr. Charles Asher Small at Harvard University. Dr. Small answers questions from the audience. He concludes by asserting that many in the Academy and in the West have forgotten how to defend democratic principles.
November 6, 2013
Haras Rafiq, Founding Director of CENTRI (Counter Extremism Consultancy, Training, Research and Interventions)
Introductory Remarks by Convener Dr. Richard Stone, Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School
Title: “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” (Part 1)
Date: November 12, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small speaks about the mission of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and the need for rigorous, academic, high caliber research on the lethal phenomenon of antisemitism. Dr. Small highlights that the process of globalization has led to an increased in adversarial identity politics. It is in this environment that Israel - the central manifestation of contemporary Jewish identity - has become the focus of scapegoating and hateful rhetoric. He maintains that the old ideologies and tendencies of antisemitism have reemerged and fused with anti-Zionism, or Israel bashing. Dr. Small goes on to assert that new structural realities within the realm of international relations, as well as the emergence of anti-Israel propensities, seem to pose a threat to the Jewish people not seen since World War II.
Speaker: Hon. Irwin Cotler
Affiliation: Professor of Human Rights, McGill University (on leave); Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Canada
Title: “The Iranian Regime: Some Inconvenient Truths about Antisemitism and Human Rights”
Location: University of Miami, Florida
Date: February 13, 2014
Title: “Antisemitism, Higher Education, and the Law” (Part 1)
Date: December 3, 2013
Speaker: Kenneth Marcus
Affiliation: President and General Counsel, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
Location: Harvard University
Conveners: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Charles Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Description: Kenneth Marcus examines the decisions by the United States Office of Education for Civil Rights (OCR), which simultaneously issued four rulings dismissing major cases regarding antisemitism pending before it. The decisions left many wondering whether the body is serious about dealing with allegations of antisemitism. He notes that the OCR is one of the most important federal institutions set with ensuring non-discrimination in educational institutions and therefore asks how all of the cases dealing with antisemitism were closed. Marcus goes on to explain that while the agency deals with all other types of discrimination, it does not deal with religion. Religious discrimination is therefore not prohibited. Marcus makes the case that while some antisemitism is religious, other forms are racial and ethnic. He therefore makes the case that while a group may have religious characteristics, it does not divest the OCR of its jurisdiction that it would otherwise have.
Title: “Multiculturalism and Marginalization: A Double-Edged Sword,” as part of the ISGAP Seminar Series “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective”
Date: April 24, 2014
Speaker: Jennifer Roskies
Affiliation: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Doctoral Candidate, Bar-Ilan University; Research Consultant, ISGAP
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Description: Jennifer Roskies discusses multiculturalism and marginalization in the contemporary context.
Title: “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” (Part 2)
Date: November 12, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Description: This is the second installment of "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity," a lecture given by Dr. Charles Asher Small at Harvard University. Dr. Small maintains that the Academy has failed to condemn the rise of Islamism, especially in relation to its lack of acceptance of the "Other," as seen, for example, in its vitriolic prejudice against the Jewish people, as well as its lack of basic notions of human rights and democratic principles. Dr. Small asserts that intellectuals, such as Edward Sayid, who attempt to undermine the legitimacy of Jewish self-determination, the State of Israel and Jewish historical narratives in the diaspora, need to be critically examined with regard to the role of the reemergence of antisemitism among intellectuals in the Academy. He goes on to assert that despite the Academy's preoccupation with colonialism, racism, sexism, and socio-economic inequalities, antisemitism - especially in the contemporary context - does not exist as an area of study in the mainstream academic curriculum and continues to be disregarded as a legitimate and necessary field of study.
Title: “Antisemitism, Higher Education, and the Law” (Part 2)
Date: December 3, 2013
Speaker: Kenneth Marcus
Affiliation: President and General Counsel, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
Location: Harvard University
Conveners: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Charles Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Description: Kenneth Marcus examines the decisions by the United States Office of Education for Civil Rights (OCR), which simultaneously issued four rulings dismissing major cases regarding antisemitism pending before it. The decisions left many wondering whether the body is serious about dealing with allegations of antisemitism. He notes that the OCR is one of the most important federal institutions set with ensuring non-discrimination in educational institutions and therefore asks how all of the cases dealing with antisemitism were closed. Marcus goes on to explain that while the agency deals with all other types of discrimination, it does not deal with religion. Religious discrimination is therefore not prohibited. Marcus makes the case that while some antisemitism is religious, other forms are racial and ethnic. He therefore makes the case that while a group may have religious characteristics, it does not divest the OCR of its jurisdiction that it would otherwise have.
Dr. Matthew Levitt, Fromer-Wexler Fellow; Director, Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Monday, March 10, 2014
Dr. Matthias Küntzel, Hamburg Technical College; Research Associate, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
March 11, 2014
Title: “The West’s Auto-Immune Disease: How the Free World Has Confused Its Friends and Its Enemies”
Date: February 19, 2014
Speaker: Melanie Phillips
Affiliation: British journalist, author and public commentator
Location: ISGAP Center
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Description: Melanie Phillips speaks about the boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel as part of the broader campaign to delegitimize Israel. Phillips notes that the BDS movement seeks not a two state solution, but the elimination of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. She notes, however, that the true peril inherent in the BDS movement is not the financial loses to Israel, but its efforts to isolate, stigmatize and demonize the Jewish state in the international arena.
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Title: United Nations Q&A - "The Silence of the Human Rights Community"
Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York
Date: April 28, 2014
Description: Dr. Small’s address ("The Silence of the Human Rights Community Amid the Threat of Contemporary Global Antisemitism, Demonisation and Incitement Against the Jewish People") was part of the conference, “The Human Rights Dimension: Addressing the “new” Antisemitism and Related Intolerance”, sponsored by the Engr Eze Foundation, Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN), and the World Council of Independent Christaian Churches (WCICC).
Title: "Arab Antisemitism: Indigenous Phenomenon or Foreign Import"
Date: January 26, 2006
Speaker: Michael Oren
Affiliation: Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Description: Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren explores Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim antisemitism.
Title: “Worse than Their Enemies: Anti-Semitism among Jews”
Date: February 6, 2014
Speaker: Emanuele Ottolenghi
Affiliation: Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, Washington DC
Location: Fordham University, New York
Conveners: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Doron Ben-Atar, Department of History, Fordham University
Description: Emanuele Ottolenghi speaks about how occasionally Jews, themselves, are their own worst enemies. He deconstructs the antisemitic notion that Jews control the media and other aspects of society, noting that some of the most infamous critics of Israel in the media are Jewish, while some of the most compelling pro-Israel writers are not Jewish.
Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz Minister of Transportation and Road Safety Former Minister of Defense and and Chief of Staff of the IDF
April 30, 2008
Title: “Sub-Saharan Africa, Globalization and Antisemitism” (French)
Date: Feb 26, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Shalem Coulibaly
Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy, Université de Ouagadougou in the West African country of Burkina Faso; Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP.
Location: Mcgill University
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
The Dr. James Sacks Conference: The Psychological Impact of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism: From Denial and Paralysis to Understanding the Challenge – Part 1
Date: April 28, 2009
Introduction by Charles Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Speakers and Affiliations:
Speaker: Stevan Hobfoll Affiliation: The Judd & Marjorie Weinberg Presidential Professor & Chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center Title: “The Impact of Terrorism and War on Tearing the Self and the Fabric of Society
Speaker: Neil Kressel Affiliation: Visiting Associate Professor, YIISA; Professor, Psychology, William Paterson University Title: “Why Well-Intention Westerns Fail to Grasp the Dangers Associated with Antisemitism in the Muslim World”
Location: Yale University
The Dr. James Sacks Conference: The Psychological Impact of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism: From Denial and Paralysis to Understanding the Challenge – Part 2
Title: “Coaching for Killing: What Motivational Mechanisms Underlie Islamists Terrorists’ Ideology”
Date: April 28, 2009
Speaker: Idit Shalev Affiliation: Post-Doctorate Associate, YIISA
Panel Discussion (Min. 26:30)– Stevan Hobfoll, Neil Kressel and Idit Shalev
Title: “Victims of Success: How Envious Antisemitism Foments Genocidal Intent and Undermines Bystanders’ Moral Outrage” (Min. 48:10)
Speaker: Peter Glick Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Lawrence University
Location: Yale University
“The Enemy Within: A Neo-Nazi Takeover in the American Heartland?”
Gregory Gordon, Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota and Director of the UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies.
“Misunderstandings of the Phenomenon ‘Antisemitism’ in Some Recent Influential Studies of the Holocaust”
Dan Michman, Bar-Ilan University; International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
Convener: Dr. Richard Stone, Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School
Title: “America’s Intelligentsia: How Prejudice Often Trumps Intelligence”
Date: November 14, 2013
Speaker: Michael Widlanski
Affiliation: Schusterman Visiting Professor, University California Irvine; Lecturer, Bar Ilan University
Location: Fordham University
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Doron Ben-Atar, Professor, Department of History, Fordham University
Description: Michael Widlanski maintains that intelligence and terror are inter-connected and that terrorists seek to capture the minds of the public. Widlanski questions how the West, Western intellectuals and intelligence agencies are so often wrong about the Middle East. He says this phenomenon is the result of a number of prejudices, including Arabism, or Islamophilia, and antisemtism. He goes on to note the influence of Edward Said and Noam Chomsky on the academy and how they were the two living sources most cited on American college courses and syllabi. He notes the absurdity that Chomsky, a linguistics professor, and Said, a comparative literature professor, were given credibility regarding the Israel and Middle East and telling the world what to think regarding the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The Psychological Impact of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism: From Denial and Paralysis to Understanding the Challenge – Part 3
Date: April 28, 2009
Title: “Victims of Success: How Envious Antisemitism Foments Genocidal Intent and Undermines Bystanders’ Moral Outrage”
Speaker: Peter Glick Affiliation: Psychology Department, Lawrence University
Title: “To Act or Not to Act, That is the Question: The Psychological Impact of Hatred in a Geopolitical Context”
Speaker: Ron Aviram Affiliation: Instructor, Clinical Psychology, Columbia University
Location: Yale University
The Dr. James Sacks Conference: The Psychological Impact of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism: From Denial and Paralysis to Understanding the Challenge – Part 4
Date: April 28, 2009
Title: “Trauma in Disguise: Antisemitism” Speaker: Hadar Lubin Affiliation: Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Yale University
Title: “Mixed Emotional Needs of Israeli-Jews as a Potential Source of Ambivalence in their Response to the Iranian Challenge” Speaker: Nurit Shnabel Affiliation: Research Associate, Psychology, Yale University
Panel Discussion (Min. 52:45): Speaker: Hadar Lubin Affiliation: Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Yale University
Speaker: Nurit Shnabel Affiliation: Research Associate, Psychology, Yale University
Round Table Discussion (Min. 1:16:05): Speaker: Stevan Hobfoll Affiliation: The Judd & Marjorie Weinberg Presidential Professor & Chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center
Speaker: Neil Kressel Affiliation: Visiting Associate Professor, YIISA; Professor, Psychology, William Paterson University
Speaker: Idit Shalev Affiliation: Education Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Speaker: Peter Glick Affiliation: Psychology Department, Lawrence University
Speaker: Ron Aviram Affiliation: Instructor, Clinical Psychology, Columbia University
Speaker: Hadar Lubin Affiliation: Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Yale University
Speaker: Nurit Shnabel Affiliation: Research Associate, Psychology, Yale University
Location: Yale University
Understanding the Challenge of Iran Conference – Panel 1
Date April 30, 2008
Title: “Iran’s Power Structure and Implications for Democratic Change” Speaker: Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi Affiliation: Professor of Urban Planning & Policy Development and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Rutgers University
Title: “Human Rights Situation in Iran” Speaker: Mehrangiz Kar Affiliation: Iranian Journalist and Leading Human Rights Activist
Title: “The State of Civil Society in Iran” Speaker: Andrew Apostolou Affiliation: Senior Program Manager for Iran at Freedom House
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Understanding the Challenge of Iran Conference – Panel 3
Date: April 30, 2008
Title: “Discrimination and Intolerance in Iranian Curriculum” Speaker: Dr. Saeed Paivandi Affiliation: Professor of Sociology, Paris-8 University
Title: “Promoting a Culture of Human Rights in Iran” Speaker: Tom Parker Affiliation: Executive Director, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
Title: “The Excluded Muslims: Institutionalized Discrimination Against Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Iran” Speaker: Roya Boroumand Affiliation: Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Understanding the Challenge of Iran Conference – Panel 2
Date: April 30, 2008
Title: “Why Does Iran Want A Nuclear Weapon?” Speaker: Patrick Clawson Affiliation: Deputy Director for Research, The Washington Institute for Near Policy, Washington, DC.
Title: “Countering Iran’s Geopolitical Designs” Speaker: Michael Rubin Affiliation: Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Senior Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School; Editor, Middle East Quarterly
Title: “Holocaust Denial in Iran and the Arab World” Speaker: Meir Litvak Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Title: “Iranian Use of Internet for Propaganda and Holocaust Denial” Speaker: Liora Hendelman-Baavur Affiliation: Research fellow of the Center for Iranian Studies (CIS), Tel Aviv University
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Understanding the Challenge of Iran Conference – Panel 4
Date: April 30, 2008
Title: “From Incitement to Indictment? Prosecuting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Advocating Israel’s Destruction” Speaker: Dr. Gregory Gordon Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Law, University of North Dakota
Speaker: Dr. David Menashri Affiliation: Director of The Center for Iranian Studies and Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
The Dr. James Sacks Conference:The Psychological Impact of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism: From Denial and Paralysis to Understanding the Challenge – Part 5
Date: April 28, 2009
Round Table Discussion Speaker: Stevan Hobfoll Affiliation: The Judd & Marjorie Weinberg Presidential Professor & Chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center
Speaker: Neil Kressel Affiliation: Visiting Associate Professor, YIISA; Professor, Psychology, William Paterson University
Speaker: Idit Shalev Affiliation: Post-Doctorate Associate, YIISA
Speaker: Peter Glick Affiliation: Psychology Department, Lawrence University
Speaker: Ron Aviram Affiliation: Instructor, Clinical Psychology, Columbia University
Speaker: Hadar Lubin Affiliation: Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Yale University
Speaker: Nurit Shnabel Affiliation: Research Associate, Psychology, Yale University
Location: Yale University
Lecture: Antisemitic Hate Speech: Incitement to Violence in the Absence of a Marketplace of Ideas
Speaker: Professor Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University
Date: October 11, 2007
January 25, 2007
Professor Antony Polonsky Albert Abramson Chair of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – “Poles, Jews, and the Problems of Divided Memory”
Professor Jan T. Gross Professor of War and Society, Princeton University – “Polish Anti-semitism after Auschwitz”
Title: "The Contemporary Context Of Antisemitism"
Date: March 22, 2015
Speakers and Affiliations: Dr. Alan Dershowitz, Department of Law, Harvard University; Dr. Charles Small, Founder and Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Description: Professor Alan Dershowitz and Dr. Charles Small speak about the need for rigorous, academic, and replicable research on antisemitism. Professor Dershowitz expands on the fascistic and Islamic antisemitism throughout Europe and the demonization of Israel on campus and throughout the international arena. He asserts that the hard left has adopted Israel as its villain of today's day and age. The demonization of Israel and the assault on notions of Jewish peoplehood, he notes, has arguably become the most dangerous form of antisemitism in existence today.
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014
Speaker: Professor Doron Ben-Atar, Professor of History, Fordham University
Location: Fordham University
Title: "The Internal Palestinian Conflicts"
Date: February 22, 2016
Speaker: Mr. Bassem Eid
Affiliation: Founder, Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) Location: Harvard Law School
Description: Dr. Bassem Eid discusses the challenges within the Palestinian community. He brings a unique perspective from his residence in the territories. In a fascinating seminar he highlights the internal weaknesses that are damaging his people's prospects for making peace with Israel, and establishing a stronger economic future.
Title: “American Antisemitism: Grounds for Optimism or Pessimism?”
Date: April 21, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Arnie Dashefsky
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Connecticut; Director, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut
Location: Harvard University
Convener: Professor Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School
Description: Dr. Arnie Dashefsky traces Jewish history and the emergence of antisemitism and notes that the first instances of antisemitism were, in fact, instances of anti-Judaism. This anti-Judaism and the notion that Judaism is less then Christianity evolved into antisemitism and the denigration and demonization of the Jews.
Title: Dr. Charles Asher Small speaks at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT)
Date: September 9, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) 15th International Conference: World Summit on Counter-Terrorism, Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya
Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small speaks about processes of antisemitism in the age of globalization and argues that it is essential to understand power dynamics and economic social and cultural processes which are occurring at a rapid rate through processes of globalization. Dr. Small highlights the difference between looking at global antisemitism as a descriptive exercise and looking at antisemitism and globalization or the globalization of antisemitism. He goes on to highlight the inherent genocidal aspect of antisemitism and elucidates the various phases of antisemitism throughout history, which were based on the predominant perspective of perceiving reality.
March 31 “Europe’s Economic War on Israel: The Role of Antisemitism in BDS and Product Labels”
Benjamin Weinthal, European Affairs Correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 5:30PM
“Is Europe Safe for Jews? The Role of ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah/Iran in Imposing Lethal Antisemitism on Jews in Europe”
Benjamin Weinthal European Affairs Correspondent for The Jerusalem Post Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
McGill University Jewish Studies Department: Flegg Lecture 2015
Professor Christine Hayes - "What is Divine about Divine Law"
Title: “Never Again: Israel, the US and the Iranian Nuclear Program”
Date: April 23, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Chuck Freilich
Affiliation: Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Center
Description: Professor Chuck Freilich speaks about the existential threat posed by the Iranian regime, not only to the State of Israel, but to the United States and to the global community. He asks a number of questions, such as: 1) Why has Iran been pursuing a nuclear weapon? 2)Why is there a deep enmity between Iran and the State of Israel? 3) What are the ramifications for the international community of Iran going nuclear? 4) What are the ramifications for Israel? 5) What, if anything, can we do about it? Freilich then goes on to weigh the positive aspects and negative aspects of the Iranian nuclear deal.
Title: “Crisis Rising: Antisemitism”
Date: October 7, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Speaker: Ambassador Ira Forman Affiliation: Special U.S. Envoy, Office to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism
Speaker: Hava Holzhauer Affiliation: Florida Regional Director, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Location: JCC, Florida
Title: "After Genocide, What Is The Role Of Researchers?"
Date: Apr 5, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small (Dr. Small appears at frame 21:09)
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Kigali International Forum on Genocide
Description: Commemorating the Rwandan genocide, Dr. Charles Asher Small begins by quoting Primo Levi, who wrote: “We cannot understand fascism, but we can and we must understand where it came from and we must be on our guard because what happened here [the Holocaust] can happen again anywhere. For this reason it is everyone’s duty to reflect on what happened.” Dr. Small continues by reflecting on contemporary antisemtisim and the demonization of Israel. He notes that while the UN Charter unequivocally states that incitement to genocide is punishable by death, today the Iranian revolutionary regime openly calls for the elimination of the State of Israel. He asserts, however, that the Iranian regime is not only a threat to the State of Israel, but to the world at large. Reflecting on the role of researchers, Dr. Small says that the role of the scholar is to do high caliber, cutting-edge, impeccable research and penetrate the academy even when such views are unpopular because we live in a world in which the international order is based on interests and rarely morality or ethics.
Title: "Iran, the United States, and the Nuclear Challenge: A View from Israel"
Date: February 24, 2015
Speaker: Dr. David Menashri
Affiliation: President, College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan
Location: ISGAP Center
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Description: Dr. David Menashri speaks about the dire threat posed by the Iranian regime and Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Menashri highlights that the Iran does not only pose a danger to the State of Israel but to all of Western civilization. He notes that the moderates within Iranian society are being silenced by the radicals in power who seek to change the global order.
Title: The War of 1948: New Perspectives
Date: March 14, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Benny Morris
Affiliation: Professor of History, Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Description: Dr. Benny Morris explains the aims of the 1948 war from both the Jewish and Arab perspectives. He argues that documentation indicates that the Arab aims – traditionally seen as “throwing the Jews into the sea” – were, in fact, more complex. Conversely, he states, that the Jewish people simply wanted to survive and live as a free people in their national homeland.
A collection of speeches and seminar on important topics in Antisemitism, in podcast form.
Title: “Philoumenos of Jacob’s Well: The Birth of a Contemporary Ritual Murder Myth”
Date: April 22, 2015
Speaker: Dr. David Gurevich
Affiliation: Founder of Ambassadors Online, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism, University of Haifa. The presentation is based on a paper prepared in conjunction with Mrs. Yisca Harani, Independent Scholar, Tel-Aviv
Location: ISGAP Center
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Description: Dr. David Gurevich speaks about how age-old blood libels subsist in this day and age and contribute to contemporary libels against the Jewish people. Gurevich discusses the case study of Archimandrite Philoumenos Hasapis, who was murdered in 1979 in Nablus and was later glorified as a Christian Saint in 2009. While certain factions claim that a Jew, “vile man,” or Zionists perpetrated the murder, Gurevich reveals that sources from the time are conflicting and inconclusive. The bloody descriptions of his murder, however, continue to be widely distributed and exploited within the context of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Title: “Muslim Antisemitism in France and Western Europe”
Date: March 31, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Gunther Jikeli
Affiliation: MMZ, GSRL, Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP, Paris
Location: ISGAP Center
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Description: Dr. Gunther Jikeli asserts that with recent attacks against Jewish targets, predominantly in Europe, antisemtism continues to be a growing threat and concern among European Jewry. Within recent years there has been a stark rise in antisemitic acts, as well as violent acts, with the majority of the perpetrators of violent and terrorist acts in France being Muslim. He also notes the negative perception of Jews among the majority of the Muslim population and maintains that if we want to combat this phenomenon, we have to know what the tropes are. He says that there are four categories of anti-Jewish “justification”: 1) “Classic antisemtism (conspiracy theories) 2) Related to Israel saying that Jews and Israelis kill children, demonization of Israel and the existence of the Jewish state 3) Negative views of Jews with reference to Islam and religious and ethnic identities 4) Negative views of Jews without rationalization.
Title: “The Current State of Antisemitism in Chile”
Date: March 31, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Center
Description: Upon returning from Santiago Chile, where ISGAP opened a program in conjunction with the University of Chile, Dr. Charles Asher Small speaks about the state of antisemitism in the South American country. Dr. Small recounts how the 2014 Gaza War influenced the Chilean Jewish community, causing grave concern in the rise of antisemitism.
Title: "The Promotion of Nonviolence as Antisemitism: Psychological Warfare Against The Jewish State"
Date: February 26, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Irwin Mansdorf
Affiliation: Fellow and Director, Israel-Arab Studies Program, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Location: ISGAP Center
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Description: Dr. Irwin Mansdorf speaks about psychological warfare against the Jewish state and the ability of Palestinian activists to use “soft power” and other non-military mechanisms to demonize and isolate Israel. He further highlights the significant role of NGOs in promoting “lawfare” against the Jewish state and how they exploit noble concepts, such as “justice” and “diversity,” to achieve immoral ends.
Title: "The Hegemonic Presence of the Left in Latin America: The Political , Social and Cultural Implications of Anti-Israel Bias"
Date: February 10, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Luis Fleischman
Affiliation: Senior Advisor, Menges Hemispheric Project; Florida Atlantic University Honors College
Location: Harvard University
Description: Dr. Luis Fleischman discusses the attitudes toward Israel in Latin America within various aspects of society. He notes that Latin America, has been dominated by the Left since the early 2000s and since that time government policies have shifted, taking a more critical and severe stance toward Israel.
Title: "Memory, the Jewish Intellectual, and Cartesian Cogito in Jean Amery's at the Mind's Limits"
Date: November 9, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Philosophy, CUNY; Adjunct Associate of Philosophy and African-American Studies, Columbia University
Location: Harvard University
Description: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie argues that for Jean Amery, Auschwitz rids the intellect of its Western ideals, and reduces it to a playful logical framework, and is therefore representative of the Cartesian Cogito. Jean-Marie goes on to discuss the role of memory in Amery’s account in "At the Mind’s Limits."
Title: "Antisemitism in Modern Islamic and Arab Discourse"
Date: January 26, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Mordechai Kedar
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Center for the Study of the Middle East, Bar-Ilan University
Location: McGill University
Description: Dr. Mordechai Kedar discusses when, why, and where the hatred for Jews began in the Islamic era.
Speaker: Dr. Grahame Davies
Affiliation: University of Wales, Cardiff, and Goodenough College, London
Title: "From Philo-Semitic to Anti-Semitic: Shifts in Attitude towards the Jewish People among a Western European Minority Community"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: October 22, 2007
Description: Dr. Grahame Davies examines shifts in attitude towards the Jewish people among a western European minority community.
Title: "The Battle against Liberal Democracy and the Jewish Question: From Marx to Qutb"
Date: February 11, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Glen Feder
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP Paris
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Columbia University Law School, New York
Description: Dr. Glen Feder speaks about the battle against liberal democracy and the Jewish question. He highlights that the three movements that have been integral to the war against liberal democracy -- communism, Nazism and radical Islamism -- all deal with the Jewish question in a disproportionate manner. He notes that while the Jewish question appears differently in these reactionary social movements, it nonetheless often takes a central role. He goes on to focus on the writings and influence of Sayyid Qutb, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Title: "A Third Exodus: The Historic Plight of Jews in France"
Date: February 9, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Glen Feder Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP Paris
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Description: Dr. Glen Feder focuses on the idea of exile and what is happening today to the Jewish community in France, due to the alarming rise of antisemitism.
Title: "Dealing with Online Antisemitism"
Date: Mach 1, 2016
Speaker: Ido Daniel
Affiliation: Director of Israeli Students Combating Antisemitism (ISCA)
Convener: Vivaldi Jean-Marie, Associate Professor of Philosophy, CUNY; Adjunct Associate of Philosophy and African-American Studies, Columbia University
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Description: Ido Daniel speaks about how to monitor, identify and combat online antisemitism. He goes on to note the importance of monitoring online and social media platforms for instances of antisemitism and the need to educate the public in order to enhance these efforts.
Title: "Multiculturalism, Jewish Marginalization and Gender"
Date: April 8, 2015
Speaker: Jennifer Roskies
Affiliation: Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs
Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Description: Jennifer Roskies examines why the focus of the majority of Jewish scholarship is largely to look inward - within Jewish society - while largely omitting the effect of the Jews on American society. This omission also pertains to Jewish women and Jewish feminist studies. Roskies notes that this omission of Jews – both women and men – from American multicultural studies research leaves a gap in our understanding of American modernity as well as a full understanding of American and North American Jewry.
Title: “Why The Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism”
Date: April 24, 2014
Speaker: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Affiliation: Rabbi, Author
Location: Columbia University, as part of the ISGAP seminar series “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective”
Description: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin maintains that there has been no hatred that has been as universal, as deep, or as long as antisemitism and attempts to offer a theory for the reason behind the phenomenon of antisemitism. Rabbi Telushkin argues that ultimately antisemitism is a response to Jews, Judaism, and Jewish values.
Speaker: Matthias Kuntzel, Technical College, Hamburg, and Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
November 30, 2006
Title: "Gaza = Auschwitz : Antisemitism By Analogy?"
Date: November 18, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Martin Kramer
Affiliation: President, Shalem College, Jerusalem
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: Harvard Faculty Club, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Title: Islamophobia and Antisemitism - A Dangerous Comparison
Date: April 4, 2016
Speaker: Melanie Phillips
Affiliation: Journalist, author and public commentator
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Location: ISGAP Center
Description: Melanie Phillips speaks about how antisemitism in Britain had been the "prejudice that dare not speak its name." She notes that while other forms of prejudice were widely acknowledged, until recently antisemitism was an outright taboo. It was only recently that antisemitism became more widely discussed, due, in part, to the election of Jeremy Corbyn and others who have made bigoted remarks against Jews, as well as the resignation of a number of individuals from the Oxford University Labor Club over the Club's anti-Jewish tendencies.
Title: “Contemporary Liberal Discourse and Jihadism: Why the Disconnect?”
Date: March 19, 2015
Speaker: Melanie Phillips
Affiliation: Columnist for The Times of London, Author and Broadcaster
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Description: Melanie Phillips examines contemporary liberal discourse and Jihadism.
Lecture: Geopolitics on the Street: Transnationalism, the Political Imaginary and a Personal Account of Contemporary London’s Elections
Professor Michael Keith, Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Date: February 15, 2007
YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series
Title: "Radical Islam and its Effect on Antisemitism"
Date: February 1, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Mordechai Kedar
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Arabic, Center for the Study of the Middle East, Bar-Ilan University
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Description: Dr. Mordechai Kedar explores radical Islam and its effect on contemporary global antisemitism.
December 7, 2015
“The Great Failure of the Anti-Racist Community: How and Why Contemporary Global Antisemitism Has Been Downplayed and Ignored”
Professor Neil Kressel Professor, Department of Psychology, William Paterson University
Convener: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Nina Wolff Feld, Author, Artist, Speaker
“The Continued Importance of Holocaust Education Toward The Prevention of Genocide"
April 12, 2016
Title: "Islamic Anti-Jewish Sentiment: Roots and Causes"
Date: February 25, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Mordechai Kedar
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Center for the Study of the Middle East at Bar-Ilan University
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Description: Dr. Mordechai Kedar speaks about the roots and causes of Islamic Anti-Jewish Sentiment.
February 8, 2016
"The Politics of Israeli Public Diplomacy from the Second Intifada to the Present"
Professor Neil Rogachevsky Tikvah Postdoctoral Fellow, Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Yeshiva University
Convener: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Title: "The Cost of Exposing Anti-Semitism and the Even Higher Cost of Failing to Do So"
Date: Aug 3, 2015
Speaker: Phyllis Chelser
Affiliation: Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University of New York
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Description: Phyllis Chelser speaks about the cost of exposing and the even higher cost of failing to do so.
Title: "The Quakers and Palestinian Refugee Relief"
Date: March 7, 2014
Speakers: Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)and Dr. Alexander Joffe, Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum
Location: ISGAP Center, New York
Description: Dr. Asaf Romirowsky and Dr. Alexander Joffe speak about the role of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in propagating the Palestinian narrative as well as the BDS (boycotts, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israel. They continue to focus on the issue of religion and antisemitism in the development of American foreign policy and international affairs.
Title: "Antisemitism’s Fatal Attraction: The Global Progressive Left, the Jihadi Right And Israel"
Date: March 30, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Richard Landes
Affiliation: Department of History, Boston University
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Location: ISGAP Center
Description: Dr. Richard Landes discusses the Jihadi narrative, which seeks to impose Sharia law and change the global order.
Speaker: Ron Rosenbaum
Affiliation: Essayist, and Author of "Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil"
Title: "Thinking about the Unthinkable: The Rhetorical Strategies of Holocaust Deniers and the Prospect of a Second Holocaust"
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Date: March 8, 2007
Description: Ron Rosenbaum speaks about the rhetorical strategies of Holocaust deniers and the prospect of a second Holocaust.
Speaker: Dr. Vladimir Khanin
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Political and Middle Eastern Studies, Ariel University of Samaria
Title: "Jews in Post-Communist Russia: A State with Philosemitic Pretensions, a Society with Antisemitic Sentiments"
Convener: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Date: March 7, 2016
Speaker: Tuvia Tenenbom
Affiliation: Author, Columnist & Artistic Director
Title: "Catch The Jew! The New Dream Of Peace Activists"
February 19, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Uzi Rabi
Affiliation: Director, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University
Title: "Iran and Israel and the Arab World: New Discourses in a Changing Environment"
Date: May 1, 2014
Speaker: Wolfgang Benz
Affiliation: Director, Center for Research on Antisemitism, University Technical Berlin
Title: "Antisemitism as Phenomenon of Every Day Life in Contemporary Germany"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: April 19, 2007
Description: Wolfgang Benz speaks about antisemitism as a phenomenon of every day life in contemporary Germany.
Speaker: Yigal Carmon
Affiliation: President, Founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
Title: "The Iranian Regime and Genocidal Antisemitism"
Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
Date: February 8, 2007
Description: Yigal Carmon speaks about the threats posed by the Iranian regime and genocidal antisemitism.