The Internet and the Proliferation of 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.