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  • Antisemitism, Higher Education, and the Law (Part 1)
    Title: “Antisemitism, Higher Education, and the Law” (Part 1)
    Date: December 3, 2013
    Speaker: Kenneth Marcus
    Affiliation: President and General Counsel, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
    Location: Harvard University
    Conveners:
    Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Charles Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
    Description: Kenneth Marcus examines the decisions by the United States Office of Education for Civil Rights (OCR), which simultaneously issued four rulings dismissing major cases regarding antisemitism pending before it. The decisions left many wondering whether the body is serious about dealing with allegations of antisemitism. He notes that the OCR is one of the most important federal institutions set with ensuring non-discrimination in educational institutions and therefore asks how all of the cases dealing with antisemitism were closed. Marcus goes on to explain that while the agency deals with all other types of discrimination, it does not deal with religion. Religious discrimination is therefore not prohibited. Marcus makes the case that while some antisemitism is religious, other forms are racial and ethnic. He therefore makes the case that while a group may have religious characteristics, it does not divest the OCR of its jurisdiction that it would otherwise have.
    27 min
  • Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity (Part 2)
    Title: “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” (Part 2)
    Date: November 12, 2013
    Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
    Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    Description: This is the second installment of "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity," a lecture given by Dr. Charles Asher Small at Harvard University. Dr. Small maintains that the Academy has failed to condemn the rise of Islamism, especially in relation to its lack of acceptance of the "Other," as seen, for example, in its vitriolic prejudice against the Jewish people, as well as its lack of basic notions of human rights and democratic principles. Dr. Small asserts that intellectuals, such as Edward Sayid, who attempt to undermine the legitimacy of Jewish self-determination, the State of Israel and Jewish historical narratives in the diaspora, need to be critically examined with regard to the role of the reemergence of antisemitism among intellectuals in the Academy. He goes on to assert that despite the Academy's preoccupation with colonialism, racism, sexism, and socio-economic inequalities, antisemitism - especially in the contemporary context - does not exist as an area of study in the mainstream academic curriculum and continues to be disregarded as a legitimate and necessary field of study.
    10 min
  • Antisemitism, Higher Education, and the Law (Part 2)
    Title: “Antisemitism, Higher Education, and the Law” (Part 2)
    Date: December 3, 2013
    Speaker: Kenneth Marcus
    Affiliation: President and General Counsel, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
    Location: Harvard University
    Conveners:
    Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Charles Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
    Description: Kenneth Marcus examines the decisions by the United States Office of Education for Civil Rights (OCR), which simultaneously issued four rulings dismissing major cases regarding antisemitism pending before it. The decisions left many wondering whether the body is serious about dealing with allegations of antisemitism. He notes that the OCR is one of the most important federal institutions set with ensuring non-discrimination in educational institutions and therefore asks how all of the cases dealing with antisemitism were closed. Marcus goes on to explain that while the agency deals with all other types of discrimination, it does not deal with religion. Religious discrimination is therefore not prohibited. Marcus makes the case that while some antisemitism is religious, other forms are racial and ethnic. He therefore makes the case that while a group may have religious characteristics, it does not divest the OCR of its jurisdiction that it would otherwise have.
    13 min
  • How the Free World Has Confused its Friends and its Enemies
    Title: “The West’s Auto-Immune Disease: How the Free World Has Confused Its Friends and Its Enemies”
    Date: February 19, 2014
    Speaker: Melanie Phillips
    Affiliation: British journalist, author and public commentator
    Location: ISGAP Center
    Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Description: Melanie Phillips speaks about the boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel as part of the broader campaign to delegitimize Israel. Phillips notes that the BDS movement seeks not a two state solution, but the elimination of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. She notes, however, that the true peril inherent in the BDS movement is not the financial loses to Israel, but its efforts to isolate, stigmatize and demonize the Jewish state in the international arena.
    1 hr 25 min
  • Arab Antisemitism: Indigenous Phenomenon or Foreign Import
    Title: "Arab Antisemitism: Indigenous Phenomenon or Foreign Import"
    Date: January 26, 2006
    Speaker: Michael Oren
    Affiliation: Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States
    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
    Description: Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren explores Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim antisemitism.
    1 hr 20 min
  • Charles Small - United Nations Q&A
    Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
    Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Title: United Nations Q&A - "The Silence of the Human Rights Community"
    Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York
    Date: April 28, 2014
    Description: Dr. Small’s address ("The Silence of the Human Rights Community Amid the Threat of Contemporary Global Antisemitism, Demonisation and Incitement Against the Jewish People") was part of the conference, “The Human Rights Dimension: Addressing the “new” Antisemitism and Related Intolerance”, sponsored by the Engr Eze Foundation, Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN), and the World Council of Independent Christaian Churches (WCICC).
    1 hr 4 min
  • Professor Emanuele Ottolenghi - "Worse than Their Enemies: Anti-Semitism among Jews"
    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.
    1 hr 28 min

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