Featuring Elite Experts Combating Antisemitism

Title: Islamophobia and Antisemitism - A Dangerous Comparison Date: April 4, 2016 Speaker: Melanie Phillips Affiliation: Journalist, author and public commentator Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie Location: ISGAP Center Description: Melanie Phillips speaks about how antisemitism in Britain had been the "prejudice that dare not speak its name." She notes that while other forms of prejudice were widely acknowledged, until recently antisemitism was an outright taboo. It was only recently that antisemitism became more widely discussed, due, in part, to the election of Jeremy Corbyn and others who have made bigoted remarks against Jews, as well as the resignation of a number of individuals from the Oxford University Labor Club over the Club's anti-Jewish tendencies.

Speaker: Matthias Kuntzel, Technical College, Hamburg, and Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem November 30, 2006

Title: "Gaza = Auschwitz : Antisemitism By Analogy?" Date: November 18, 2014 Speaker: Dr. Martin Kramer Affiliation: President, Shalem College, Jerusalem Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Harvard Faculty Club, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Title: “Why The Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism” Date: April 24, 2014 Speaker: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin Affiliation: Rabbi, Author Location: Columbia University, as part of the ISGAP seminar series “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective” Description: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin maintains that there has been no hatred that has been as universal, as deep, or as long as antisemitism and attempts to offer a theory for the reason behind the phenomenon of antisemitism. Rabbi Telushkin argues that ultimately antisemitism is a response to Jews, Judaism, and Jewish values.

Title: "Radical Islam and its Effect on Antisemitism" Date: February 1, 2016 Speaker: Dr. Mordechai Kedar Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Arabic, Center for the Study of the Middle East, Bar-Ilan University Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: ISGAP Center, New York Description: Dr. Mordechai Kedar explores radical Islam and its effect on contemporary global antisemitism.

Lecture: Geopolitics on the Street: Transnationalism, the Political Imaginary and a Personal Account of Contemporary London’s Elections Professor Michael Keith, Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London Date: February 15, 2007 YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series

Title: “Contemporary Liberal Discourse and Jihadism: Why the Disconnect?” Date: March 19, 2015 Speaker: Melanie Phillips Affiliation: Columnist for The Times of London, Author and Broadcaster Location: ISGAP Center, New York Description: Melanie Phillips examines contemporary liberal discourse and Jihadism.

Nina Wolff Feld, Author, Artist, Speaker “The Continued Importance of Holocaust Education Toward The Prevention of Genocide" April 12, 2016

February 8, 2016 "The Politics of Israeli Public Diplomacy from the Second Intifada to the Present" Professor Neil Rogachevsky Tikvah Postdoctoral Fellow, Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Yeshiva University Convener: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie

December 7, 2015 “The Great Failure of the Anti-Racist Community: How and Why Contemporary Global Antisemitism Has Been Downplayed and Ignored” Professor Neil Kressel Professor, Department of Psychology, William Paterson University Convener: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie

Title: "Islamic Anti-Jewish Sentiment: Roots and Causes" Date: February 25, 2015 Speaker: Dr. Mordechai Kedar Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Center for the Study of the Middle East at Bar-Ilan University Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: ISGAP Center, New York Description: Dr. Mordechai Kedar speaks about the roots and causes of Islamic Anti-Jewish Sentiment.

Title: "The Quakers and Palestinian Refugee Relief" Date: March 7, 2014 Speakers: Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)and Dr. Alexander Joffe, Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum Location: ISGAP Center, New York Description: Dr. Asaf Romirowsky and Dr. Alexander Joffe speak about the role of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in propagating the Palestinian narrative as well as the BDS (boycotts, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israel. They continue to focus on the issue of religion and antisemitism in the development of American foreign policy and international affairs.

Title: "Antisemitism’s Fatal Attraction: The Global Progressive Left, the Jihadi Right And Israel" Date: March 30, 2015 Speaker: Dr. Richard Landes Affiliation: Department of History, Boston University Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: ISGAP Center Description: Dr. Richard Landes discusses the Jihadi narrative, which seeks to impose Sharia law and change the global order.

Title: "The Cost of Exposing Anti-Semitism and the Even Higher Cost of Failing to Do So" Date: Aug 3, 2015 Speaker: Phyllis Chelser Affiliation: Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University of New York Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: ISGAP Center, New York Description: Phyllis Chelser speaks about the cost of exposing and the even higher cost of failing to do so.

Speaker: Ron Rosenbaum Affiliation: Essayist, and Author of "Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil" Title: "Thinking about the Unthinkable: The Rhetorical Strategies of Holocaust Deniers and the Prospect of a Second Holocaust" Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: March 8, 2007 Description: Ron Rosenbaum speaks about the rhetorical strategies of Holocaust deniers and the prospect of a second Holocaust.

Speaker: Dr. Vladimir Khanin Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Political and Middle Eastern Studies, Ariel University of Samaria Title: "Jews in Post-Communist Russia: A State with Philosemitic Pretensions, a Society with Antisemitic Sentiments" Convener: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie Date: March 7, 2016

Speaker: Dr. Uzi Rabi Affiliation: Director, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University Title: "Iran and Israel and the Arab World: New Discourses in a Changing Environment" Date: May 1, 2014

Speaker: Tuvia Tenenbom Affiliation: Author, Columnist & Artistic Director Title: "Catch The Jew! The New Dream Of Peace Activists" February 19, 2015

Speaker: Yigal Carmon Affiliation: President, Founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Title: "The Iranian Regime and Genocidal Antisemitism" Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Date: February 8, 2007 Description: Yigal Carmon speaks about the threats posed by the Iranian regime and genocidal antisemitism.

Speaker: Wolfgang Benz Affiliation: Director, Center for Research on Antisemitism, University Technical Berlin Title: "Antisemitism as Phenomenon of Every Day Life in Contemporary Germany" Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Date: April 19, 2007 Description: Wolfgang Benz speaks about antisemitism as a phenomenon of every day life in contemporary Germany.