Featuring elite experts combating antisemitism

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. 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.

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. 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: "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. 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: "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).

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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "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" AND "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: "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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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. 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: 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. 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.

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. 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.

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: "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: 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.

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: 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: 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.

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: 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: 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: 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. 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.