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, I...
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 m...
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 persisten...
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 atrocitie...
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 ...
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...
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 antisemit...
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 ...
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, Northwest...
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 De...
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 antisemitis...
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, Found...
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, In...
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 Gree...
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 ...
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 Pol...
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...
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 Leb...
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 Hu...
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...
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 Universit...
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...
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: Octobe...
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...
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 'o...
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 withi...
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...
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 analog...
