Featuring Elite Experts Combating Antisemitism

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)/ Interna

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 fo

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 politica

Title: "Is A Legal Remedy to Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Incitement to Genocide Still Possible? A Colloquium" Speakers and Affiliations: Speaker: Dr. Alan Dershowitz Affiliation: Professor of Law, Harvard University Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sibony Affiliation: French philosopher and psychoanalyst Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA Date: October 17, 2012 Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Dr. Alan Dershowitz and Dr. Daniel Sibony speak about whether there is still a legal remedy to Iran’s nuclear weapons program and incitement to genocide.

Title: "Discourses of Contemporary Antisemitism" Speakers, Affiliations and Titles: Speaker: Dr. David Hirsh Affiliation: Goldsmiths College, University of London Title: "Struggles Over the Boundaries of Legitimate Discourse: Antisemitism and Bad Faith Allegations" Speaker: Dr. Lars Rensmann Affiliation: Department of Political Science, University of Michigan Title: "Antisemitism Reloaded: The Resurgence of Judeophobia in European Extreme Right Parties and the Crisis of Global Modernity" Speaker: Dr. Robert Fine Affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Warwick Title: "Between Opposition and Denial: The Radical Response to Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe" Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: August 24, 2010 Description: As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010), speakers discuss topics

Title: "Variations of European Antisemitism" Speakers, Affiliations and Topics: Speaker: Miriam Oelsner Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo Topic: "Antisemitism According to Victor Klemperer" Read by Samuel Feldberg Speaker: Ilana Novinsky Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo Topic: "Contributions of Phenomology and Psycholanalysis for the Understanding of Antisemitism" Speaker: Dr. Adam Katz Affiliation: Quinnipiac University Topic: "Antisemitism and the Victimary Era" Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: August 25, 2010 Description: As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010), speakers discuss variations of European antisemitism.

Speaker: Dr. Dorian F. Bell Affiliation: Literature Department, University of California, Santa Cruz Title: "A 'Paradise of Parasites': Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism, and the Legacies of Empire" Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: April 7, 2011 Description: Professor Dorian F. Bell maintains that scholars of antisemitism have sometimes been loath to analogize between modern antisemitism and colonial racism, usually out of concern for maintaining the specificity of the Holocaust. Other critics, most famously Hannah Arendt, have identified a crucial step along the path to the Final Solution in nineteenth-century imperialism. Whatever the relative merits of these approaches, Dr. Dorian Bell maintains that even the latter has overlooked (or at least misapprehended) the extent to which antisemitism and empire were evolving in tandem even in the nineteenth century.

Speaker: Dr. Moishe Postone Affiliation: Department of History, University of Chicago Title: "The Structuring Opposition of Capitalist Modernity; Notes on History, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust" Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: March 3, 2011 Description: Professor Moishe Postone relates historical changes and public responses to the Holocaust, especially on Left, to the historically changing configurations of capitalist modernity since 1945. He argues that the public responses to the Holocaust have tended to be structured by an opposition between abstract modes of universalism and concrete particularism. He argues that such responses have shifted with the changing configuration of capitalist modernity from a status configuration of the 1950s and 60s to a subsequent neo-liberal phase. He further maintains that the character of those responses and their relation to the changing configuration of capitalist modernity can be mediated by a theory of capital, on the one hand, and antisemitism

Speaker: Tatenda Mujeni Affiliation: Bennett College for Women, Greensboro, North Carolina Title: "Concerns of Our Mothers: How Divisions in the 'Baby Boomer' Generation Affect the Contemporary Feminist Movement: The Role of Racism and Antisemitism" Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: April 8, 2011 Description: Tatenda Mujeni explores the divisions within the feminist movement that emerged as a result of race, religion and other issues related to identity politics.

Speaker: Dr. Dovid Katz Affiliation: Editor, DefendingHistory.com; Chief Analyst, Litvak Studies Institute (Vilnius) Title: "The Unique and 'Successful' Antisemitism in the East of the European Union" Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: April 14, 2011 Description: Dr. Dovid Katz poses the question: "What is 'successful' antisemitism?" He contrasts the 'old' antisemitism with the 'new' antisemitism and notes that while there is a small group of scholars dealing with modern manifestations of antisemitism, the phenomenon is often regarded and taboo and not easily accepted.

Speaker: Dr. Bassam Tibi Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Goettingen Title: "The Islamist Islamization of Antisemitism" Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: August 24, 2010 Description: Dr. Bassam Tibi maintains that while there are many varieties of antisemitisms, Islamism is one of the most dangerous form of antisemitism in the world. He goes on to emphasize the importance of distinguishing between Islam and Islamism. Islamism, which grows out of Islam, wants to establish an Islamist shariah state and reestablish the dominant world order.

Title: "Confronting and Combating Contemporary Antisemitism in the Academy" Speakers, Affiliations and Titles: Speaker: Dr. Edward Beck Affiliation: Walden University Title: "Engaging, Educating and Empowering Faculty to Address Issues of Antisemitism in the Academy" Speaker: Dr. Samuel Edelman Affiliation: California State University, Chico Title: "Short Term and Long Term Strategies for Faculty Partnering with the Community and Students to Enhance Faculty Effectiveness in Reducing Antisemitism as Anti-Israelism on Campus" Speaker: Dr. Linda Blanshay Affiliation: Simon Wiesenthal Center Title: "Antisemitism on California University Campuses and the Simon Wiesenthal Center Response" Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: August 24, 2010 Description: As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010), speakers

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Tsadik Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Sepharadic and Iranian Studies, Yeshiva University, New York Title: "Some Notes on Antisemitism in Iran" Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: February 10, 2011 Description: Dr. Daniel Tsadik speaks about the antisemitic tendencies of the Iranian regime and offers historical perspectives in order to better understand these modern, genocidal antisemitic beliefs.

Speaker: Dr. 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,

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sibony Affiliation: French philosopher and psychoanalyst Title: "The Essence of Antisemitism: Is it too Simple to be Understood?" Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada Date: October 16, 2012 Description: Dr. Daniel Sibony explains the complexities as well as the fundamental simplicity of the phenomenon of age-old antisemitism. He notes that hatred for the Jews as a whole emanates, in part, due to the fact that the Jewish people exist despite all odds, complexities, and catastrophes.

Title: "US Foreign Policy and the Rise of Islamism: The Abandonment of Human Rights and Democratic Principles? A Colloquium" Speakers and Affiliations: Speaker: Russell Berman Affiliation: Department of Humanities, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Speaker: Boaz Ganor Affiliation: Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya; Founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) Speaker: Abraham D. Sofaer Affiliation: Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Hoover Institution Speaker: Lieutenant Colonel Brian Linvill Affiliation: National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institution Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: The Hoover Institution, Stanford University Date: October 29, 2012 Description: Speakers discuss US foreign policy, the rise of Islamism, as well as the abandonment

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.

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?

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: 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.