Featuring Elite Experts Combating Antisemitism

Title: “Worse than Their Enemies: Anti-Semitism among Jews” Date: February 6, 2014 Speaker: Emanuele Ottolenghi Affiliation: Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, Washington DC Location: Fordham University, New York Conveners: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Doron Ben-Atar, Department of History, Fordham University Description: Emanuele Ottolenghi speaks about how occasionally Jews, themselves, are their own worst enemies. He deconstructs the antisemitic notion that Jews control the media and other aspects of society, noting that some of the most infamous critics of Israel in the media are Jewish, while some of the most compelling pro-Israel writers are not Jewish.