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ISGAPDr. Charles Asher Small - The Acquiescence of Universities to Relativism, Political Islam...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
2020-02-261h 13ISGAPDr. Charles Asher Small - Understanding Contemporary Global Antisemitism: the 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.
2020-02-191h 48ISGAPAcademia And Antisemitism TodaySpeaker: 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.
2016-10-1102 minISGAPOxford Union Debate on Holocaust Denial CriminalisationSpeaker: 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...
2016-10-1110 minISGAPWestern Culture, the Holocaust, and the Persistence of AntisemitismSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 39ISGAPAntisemitism in the Contemporary Middle East: Survey And AnalysisSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 31ISGAPWelcome and IntroductionsTitle: "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...
2016-06-1359 minISGAPAn Uncertain Sisterhood: Women and AntisemitismTitle: "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 Stud...
2016-06-131h 12ISGAPGlobal AntisemitismTitle: "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
Aff...
2016-06-131h 45ISGAPSelf Hatred and Contemporary AntisemitismTitle: "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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2016-06-131h 00ISGAPIs a Legal Remedy to Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Incitement to Genocide Still Possible?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.
2016-06-131h 42ISGAPGlobalization and Contemporary AntisemitismsSpeaker: 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 so...
2016-06-131h 38ISGAPThe Unique and 'Successful' Antisemitism in the East of the European UnionSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 37ISGAPHow Divisions in the 'Baby Boomer' Generation Affect the Contemporary Feminist MovementSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-1348 minISGAPA 'Paradise of Parasites': Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism, and the Legacies of EmpireSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 02ISGAPLegitimating Nazism: American Universities and the Third ReichSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 02ISGAPThe Islamist Islamization of AntisemitismSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-1340 minISGAPSome Notes on Antisemitism in IranSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 02ISGAPAntisemitism, Islamophobia and the Contours of International Human Rights LawSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 31ISGAPUS Foreign Policy and the Rise of Islamism, Abandonment of Human Rights, and Democratic PrinciplesTitle: "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...
2016-06-131h 53ISGAPThe Essence of Antisemitism: Is it too Simple to be Understood?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.
2016-06-131h 22ISGAPReligion: Enemy of “The Open Society” in Post Imperial BritainSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 57ISGAPComparative Approaches to Antisemitic Speech in The United States and EuropeTitle: "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...
2016-06-131h 25ISGAPPathways to Islamist RadicalizationSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 25ISGAPRadical Islam and the Arab SpringSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 13ISGAPHolocaust Obfuscation: The 21st Century Version Of DenialSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 24ISGAPIran, Israel, and the Middle East after the War in GazaSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 31ISGAPMuslim Antisemitism: A Litmus Test for the West (Part 1)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...
2016-06-1344 minISGAPJewish Theological Implications of the New AntisemitismSpeaker: 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 gi...
2016-06-131h 45ISGAPShifting Faces of Antisemitism in TurkeySpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 27ISGAPThe Islamist Challenge to America, anti-Americanism, and AntisemitismSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 29ISGAPContinuity and Change in the Arab Holocaust DiscourseSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 32ISGAPMuslim Antisemitism: A Litmus Test for the West (Part 2)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...
2016-06-1350 minISGAPLeo Strauss as a Jewish ThinkerSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-132h 00ISGAPIs it 1939? Assessing the State of World JewrySpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 32ISGAPNaked Emperor and the First Blood Libel Of The 21st Century: The Al Durah AffairSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 36ISGAPThe Academic and Public Debate over the Meaning of the ‘New AntisemitismSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 29ISGAPThe Demoralisation of Britain: Moral Relativism, the Church of England and the JewsSpeaker: 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...
2016-06-131h 36ISGAPGrowing Fears, Mixed Experiences, and Weak Hopes: The Fight Against Antisemitism is Still NecessarySpeaker: 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...
2016-06-1357 minISGAPPlaying the ‘Nazi-card’: Antisemitic Discourse Against IsraelSpeaker: 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 shif...
2016-06-131h 29ISGAPThe Jew as a Bloodthirsty Butcher: Laws Banning Ritual Slaughter (Shechita)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...
2016-06-1355 minISGAPIranian Anti-Semitism on the InternetSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-1351 minISGAPThe Place of the Iranian Jewish Community in the Contemporary Islamic WorldSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 26ISGAPAntisemitic Discourse in Hungary Following the Collapse of CommunismSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 27ISGAPDreyfus, Vichy, de Gaulle, Chirac: Reflections on the French-Jewish MalaiseSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 29ISGAPVarieties of “Jewish 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 psych...
2016-06-131h 19ISGAPAntisemitic Hate Speech: Incitement to Violence in the Absence of a Marketplace of IdeasSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-1305 minISGAPGlobal Challenges for Jewish DiplomacySpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 41ISGAPAfrica and Contemporary AntisemitismTitle: 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 contemp...
2016-06-131h 25ISGAPMuslims are not the new Jews: Comparing Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Britain and EuropeSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 34ISGAPShifts in Attitude towards the Jewish People Among a Western European Minority CommunitySpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 18ISGAPHitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle EastSpeaker: 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 qu...
2016-06-131h 25ISGAPThe Central Role of Palestinian Antisemitism in Creating the Palestinian IdentitySpeaker: 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.
2016-06-1333 minISGAPHuman Rights and the New Anti-JewishnessSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 41ISGAPTransnationalism, the Political Imaginary and Contemporary London’s ElectionsSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 26ISGAPThe Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six Day WarSpeakers: 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.
2016-06-131h 21ISGAPThe Return of AntisemitismSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 11ISGAPWhen Holocaust Memory Becomes Diplomatic Tool and a Weapon Against IsraelSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 16ISGAPThe Church and the Jews: The Lessons of HistorySpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 33ISGAP"Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah: Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial” Berlin Conference – Part 3Title: “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 Glo...
2016-06-132h 02ISGAPAntisemitism as Phenomenon of Every Day Life in Contemporary GermanySpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 29ISGAPThe Iranian Regime and Genocidal AntisemitismSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 10ISGAPWhy it is so Difficult to Research Antisemitism - Part 2Speaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 22ISGAP“Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah: Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial” Berlin Conference – Part 1Title: “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.
2016-06-131h 20ISGAPWhy Antisemitism SucceedsSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 23ISGAPWhy it is so Difficult to Research Antisemitism - Part 1Speaker: 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.
2016-06-1317 minISGAPBlurring the Boundaries: What is the ‘New’ in ‘New Antisemitism’?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.
2016-06-131h 02ISGAPAnti-Zionism at the UN Human Rights CouncilSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 02ISGAP"I Don't Know Why They Hate Us - I Don't Think We Did Anything Bad To Hurt Them"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.
2016-06-131h 36ISGAPIsrael, Jordan and Palestine: One State, Two States or Three? (Part 2)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...
2016-06-1329 minISGAPIsrael, Jordan and Palestine: One State, Two States or Three? (Part 1)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...
2016-06-1357 minISGAPDiplomatic Progress in Combating AntisemitismSpeaker: 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.
2016-06-131h 02ISGAPThe New Interdisciplinary Field of Hate StudiesSpeaker: 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
2016-06-131h 02ISGAPAustria’s Marriage with IranSpeaker: 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
2016-06-1354 minISGAPJews in China (Part 1)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
2016-06-131h 01ISGAPJews in China (Part 2)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
2016-06-1318 minISGAPHate Speech and Political IslamSpeaker: 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
2016-06-131h 02ISGAPIran, the Middle East, and the USA following the Presidential ElectionsSpeaker: 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
2016-06-131h 02ISGAPPurifying the World: What the Radical Anti-Empire Ideology Stands ForSpeaker: 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
2016-06-131h 18ISGAPHow Bad is Modern European Antisemitism?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
2016-05-211h 28ISGAPThe 1948 War as a JihadSpeaker: 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
2016-05-211h 11ISGAPAntisemitism in the Public and Private Discourse of HezbollahSpeaker: 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.
2016-05-211h 31ISGAPThe Enemy Within: A Neo-Nazi Takeover in the American Heartland?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-N...
2016-05-211h 34ISGAPGlobal Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity (Part 1)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 cont...
2016-05-2130 minISGAPMulticulturalism and Marginalization: A Double-Edged SwordTitle: “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.
2016-05-211h 14ISGAPHow the Free World Has Confused its Friends and its EnemiesTitle: “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...
2016-05-211h 24ISGAPDr. Shalem Coulibaly - "Subsaharan Africa Globalization And Antisemitism"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)
2016-05-2148 minISGAPNever Again: Israel, the US, and the Iranian Nuclear ProgramTitle: “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...
2016-05-181h 22ISGAPPhiloumenos of Jacob’s Well: The Birth of a Contemporary Ritual Murder MythTitle: “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...
2016-05-181h 14ISGAPIran, the United States, and the Nuclear Challenge: A View from IsraelTitle: "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...
2016-05-1847 minISGAPThe Current State Of Antisemitism In ChileTitle: “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.
2016-05-1843 minISGAPMuslim Antisemitism In France And Western EuropeTitle: “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 Fran...
2016-05-1831 minISGAPThe Promotion of Nonviolence as AntisemitismTitle: "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...
2016-05-1852 minISGAPA Third Exodus: The Historic Plight of Jews in FranceTitle: "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.
2016-05-181h 29ISGAPThe Battle against Liberal Democracy and the Jewish Question: From Marx to QutbTitle: "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...
2016-05-181h 14ISGAPIslamophobia and Antisemitism: A Dangerous ComparisonTitle: 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...
2016-05-181h 54ISGAPRadical Islam and its Effect on AntisemitismTitle: "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.
2016-05-181h 18ISGAPIslamic Anti-Jewish Sentiment: Roots and CausesTitle: "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.
2016-05-181h 00ISGAPThe Cost of Exposing Anti-Semitism and the Even Higher Cost of Failing to Do SoTitle: "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.
2016-05-181h 31ISGAPAntisemitism’s Fatal Attraction: The Global Progressive Left, the Jihadi Right And IsraelTitle: "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.
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