Featuring Elite Experts Combating Antisemitism

Speaker: Melanie Phillips Affiliation: Journalist and Author Title: "The Demoralisation of Britain: Moral Relativism, the Church of England and the Jews" 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: November 13, 2008 Description: Melanie Phillips maintains that while there has always been anti-Jewish sentiments in Britain, after the Holocaust, such sentiments became taboo. She notes that now, antisemitic rhetoric is, once again, becoming mainstream and that this revival of crude anti-Jewish libels is being fueled and legitimized by the obsessive vilification and demonization of Israel.