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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: "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 only a threat to the State of Israel, but to the world at large. Reflecting on the role of researchers, Dr. Small says that the role of the scholar is to do high caliber, cutting-edge, impeccable research and penetrate the academy even when such views are unpopular because we live in a world in which the international order is based on interests and rarely morality or ethics.

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: “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.

McGill University Jewish Studies Department: Flegg Lecture 2015

Professor Christine Hayes - "What is Divine about Divine Law"

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 inconclusive. The bloody descriptions of his murder, however, continue to be widely distributed and exploited within the context of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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.

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: “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 Israel saying that Jews and Israelis kill children, demonization of Israel and the existence of the Jewish state 3) Negative views of Jews with reference to Islam and religious and ethnic identities 4) Negative views of Jews without rationalization.