Featuring Elite Experts Combating Antisemitism

March 31 “Europe’s Economic War on Israel: The Role of Antisemitism in BDS and Product Labels” Benjamin Weinthal, European Affairs Correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

Title: “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 the State of Israel? 3) What are the ramifications for the international community of Iran going nuclear? 4) What are the ramifications for Israel? 5) What, if anything, can we do about it? Freilich then goes on to weigh the positive aspects and negative aspects of the Iranian nuclear deal.

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Title: “Crisis Rising: Antisemitism” Date: October 7, 2014 Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Speaker: Ambassador Ira Forman Affiliation: Special U.S. Envoy, Office to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Speaker: Hava Holzhauer Affiliation: Florida Regional Director, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Location: JCC, Florida

Title: "After Genocide, What Is The Role Of Researchers?" Date: Apr 5, 2014 Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small (Dr. Small appears at frame 21:09) Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Kigali International Forum on Genocide Description: Commemorating the Rwandan genocide, Dr. Charles Asher Small begins by quoting Primo Levi, who wrote: “We cannot understand fascism, but we can and we must understand where it came from and we must be on our guard because what happened here [the Holocaust] can happen again anywhere. For this reason it is everyone’s duty to reflect on what happened.” Dr. Small continues by reflecting on contemporary antisemtisim and the demonization of Israel. He notes that while the UN Charter unequivocally states that incitement to genocide is punishable by death, today the Iranian revolutionary regime openly calls for the elimination of the State of Israel. He asserts, however, that the Iranian regime is not

Title: The War of 1948: New Perspectives Date: March 14, 2016 Speaker: Dr. Benny Morris Affiliation: Professor of History, Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University Location: ISGAP Center, New York Description: Dr. Benny Morris explains the aims of the 1948 war from both the Jewish and Arab perspectives. He argues that documentation indicates that the Arab aims – traditionally seen as “throwing the Jews into the sea” – were, in fact, more complex. Conversely, he states, that the Jewish people simply wanted to survive and live as a free people in their national homeland.

Title: "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 being silenced by the radicals in power who seek to change the global order.

A collection of speeches and seminar on important topics in Antisemitism, in podcast form.

Title: “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. Gurevich discusses the case study of Archimandrite Philoumenos Hasapis, who was murdered in 1979 in Nablus and was later glorified as a Christian Saint in 2009. While certain factions claim that a Jew, “vile man,” or Zionists perpetrated the murder, Gurevich reveals that sources from the time are conflicting and inco

Title: "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 exploit noble concepts, such as “justice” and “diversity,” to achieve immoral ends.

Title: “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 France being Muslim. He also notes the negative perception of Jews among the majority of the Muslim population and maintains that if we want to combat this phenomenon, we have to know what the tropes are. He says that there are four categories of anti-Jewish “justification”: 1) “Classic antisemtism (conspiracy theories) 2) Related to

Title: “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.

Title: "Memory, the Jewish Intellectual, and Cartesian Cogito in Jean Amery's at the Mind's Limits" Date: November 9, 2015 Speaker: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie Affiliation: Associate Professor of Philosophy, CUNY; Adjunct Associate of Philosophy and African-American Studies, Columbia University Location: Harvard University Description: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie argues that for Jean Amery, Auschwitz rids the intellect of its Western ideals, and reduces it to a playful logical framework, and is therefore representative of the Cartesian Cogito. Jean-Marie goes on to discuss the role of memory in Amery’s account in "At the Mind’s Limits."

Title: "Antisemitism in Modern Islamic and Arab Discourse" Date: January 26, 2015 Speaker: Dr. Mordechai Kedar Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Center for the Study of the Middle East, Bar-Ilan University Location: McGill University Description: Dr. Mordechai Kedar discusses when, why, and where the hatred for Jews began in the Islamic era.

Title: "The Hegemonic Presence of the Left in Latin America: The Political , Social and Cultural Implications of Anti-Israel Bias" Date: February 10, 2015 Speaker: Dr. Luis Fleischman Affiliation: Senior Advisor, Menges Hemispheric Project; Florida Atlantic University Honors College Location: Harvard University Description: Dr. Luis Fleischman discusses the attitudes toward Israel in Latin America within various aspects of society. He notes that Latin America, has been dominated by the Left since the early 2000s and since that time government policies have shifted, taking a more critical and severe stance toward Israel.

Speaker: 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.

Title: "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. He notes that while the Jewish question appears differently in these reactionary social movements, it nonetheless often takes a central role. He goes on to focus on the writings and influence of Sayyid Qutb, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Title: "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.

Title: "Multiculturalism, Jewish Marginalization and Gender" Date: April 8, 2015 Speaker: Jennifer Roskies Affiliation: Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada Description: Jennifer Roskies examines why the focus of the majority of Jewish scholarship is largely to look inward - within Jewish society - while largely omitting the effect of the Jews on American society. This omission also pertains to Jewish women and Jewish feminist studies. Roskies notes that this omission of Jews – both women and men – from American multicultural studies research leaves a gap in our understanding of American modernity as well as a full understanding of American and North American Jewry.

Title: "Dealing with Online Antisemitism" Date: Mach 1, 2016 Speaker: Ido Daniel Affiliation: Director of Israeli Students Combating Antisemitism (ISCA) Convener: Vivaldi Jean-Marie, Associate Professor of Philosophy, CUNY; Adjunct Associate of Philosophy and African-American Studies, Columbia University Location: ISGAP Center, New York Description: Ido Daniel speaks about how to monitor, identify and combat online antisemitism. He goes on to note the importance of monitoring online and social media platforms for instances of antisemitism and the need to educate the public in order to enhance these efforts.