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ISGAP episodes

  • The Promotion of Nonviolence as Antisemitism
    Title: "The Promotion of Nonviolence as Antisemitism: Psychological Warfare Against The Jewish State"
    Date: February 26, 2015
    Speaker: Dr. Irwin Mansdorf
    Affiliation: Fellow and Director, Israel-Arab Studies Program, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
    Location: ISGAP Center
    Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Description:
    Dr. Irwin Mansdorf speaks about psychological warfare against the Jewish state and the ability of Palestinian activists to use “soft power” and other non-military mechanisms to demonize and isolate Israel. He further highlights the significant role of NGOs in promoting “lawfare” against the Jewish state and how they exploit noble concepts, such as “justice” and “diversity,” to achieve immoral ends.
    53 min
  • The Current State Of Antisemitism In Chile
    Title: “The Current State of Antisemitism in Chile”
    Date: March 31, 2015
    Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small
    Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Location: ISGAP Center
    Description: Upon returning from Santiago Chile, where ISGAP opened a program in conjunction with the University of Chile, Dr. Charles Asher Small speaks about the state of antisemitism in the South American country. Dr. Small recounts how the 2014 Gaza War influenced the Chilean Jewish community, causing grave concern in the rise of antisemitism.
    44 min
  • The Hegemonic Presence Of The Left In Latin America: Anti-Israel Bias
    Title: "The Hegemonic Presence of the Left in Latin America: The Political , Social and Cultural Implications of Anti-Israel Bias"
    Date: February 10, 2015
    Speaker: Dr. Luis Fleischman
    Affiliation: Senior Advisor, Menges Hemispheric Project; Florida Atlantic University Honors College
    Location: Harvard University
    Description: Dr. Luis Fleischman discusses the attitudes toward Israel in Latin America within various aspects of society. He notes that Latin America, has been dominated by the Left since the early 2000s and since that time government policies have shifted, taking a more critical and severe stance toward Israel.
    1 hr 13 min
  • Memory, The Jewish Intellectual, and Cartesian Cogito in Amery’s “At the Mind’s Limits”
    Title: "Memory, the Jewish Intellectual, and Cartesian Cogito in Jean Amery's at the Mind's Limits"
    Date: November 9, 2015
    Speaker: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie
    Affiliation: Associate Professor of Philosophy, CUNY; Adjunct Associate of Philosophy and African-American Studies, Columbia University
    Location: Harvard University
    Description: Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie argues that for Jean Amery, Auschwitz rids the intellect of its Western ideals, and reduces it to a playful logical framework, and is therefore representative of the Cartesian Cogito. Jean-Marie goes on to discuss the role of memory in Amery’s account in "At the Mind’s Limits."
    56 min
  • Antisemitism in Modern Islamic and Arab Discourse
    Title: "Antisemitism in Modern Islamic and Arab Discourse"
    Date: January 26, 2015
    Speaker: Dr. Mordechai Kedar
    Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Center for the Study of the Middle East, Bar-Ilan University
    Location: McGill University
    Description: Dr. Mordechai Kedar discusses when, why, and where the hatred for Jews began in the Islamic era.
    17 min
  • Shifts in Attitude towards the Jewish People among a Western European Minority Community
    Speaker: Dr. Grahame Davies
    Affiliation: University of Wales, Cardiff, and Goodenough College, London
    Title: "From Philo-Semitic to Anti-Semitic: Shifts in Attitude towards the Jewish People among a Western European Minority Community"
    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: October 22, 2007
    Description: Dr. Grahame Davies examines shifts in attitude towards the Jewish people among a western European minority community.
    1 hr 19 min
  • A Third Exodus: The Historic Plight of Jews in France
    Title: "A Third Exodus: The Historic Plight of Jews in France"
    Date: February 9, 2015
    Speaker: Dr. Glen Feder
    Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP Paris
    Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    Description: Dr. Glen Feder focuses on the idea of exile and what is happening today to the Jewish community in France, due to the alarming rise of antisemitism.
    1 hr 30 min
  • The Battle against Liberal Democracy and the Jewish Question: From Marx to Qutb
    Title: "The Battle against Liberal Democracy and the Jewish Question: From Marx to Qutb"
    Date: February 11, 2015
    Speaker: Dr. Glen Feder
    Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP Paris
    Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Location: Columbia University Law School, New York
    Description: Dr. Glen Feder speaks about the battle against liberal democracy and the Jewish question. He highlights that the three movements that have been integral to the war against liberal democracy -- communism, Nazism and radical Islamism -- all deal with the Jewish question in a disproportionate manner. He notes that while the Jewish question appears differently in these reactionary social movements, it nonetheless often takes a central role. He goes on to focus on the writings and influence of Sayyid Qutb, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
    1 hr 15 min
  • Multiculturalism, Jewish Marginalization and Gender
    Title: "Multiculturalism, Jewish Marginalization and Gender"
    Date: April 8, 2015
    Speaker: Jennifer Roskies
    Affiliation: Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs
    Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    Description: Jennifer Roskies examines why the focus of the majority of Jewish scholarship is largely to look inward - within Jewish society - while largely omitting the effect of the Jews on American society. This omission also pertains to Jewish women and Jewish feminist studies. Roskies notes that this omission of Jews – both women and men – from American multicultural studies research leaves a gap in our understanding of American modernity as well as a full understanding of American and North American Jewry.
    44 min
  • Dealing with Online Antisemitism
    Title: "Dealing with Online Antisemitism"
    Date: Mach 1, 2016
    Speaker: Ido Daniel
    Affiliation: Director of Israeli Students Combating Antisemitism (ISCA)
    Convener: Vivaldi Jean-Marie, Associate Professor of Philosophy, CUNY; Adjunct Associate of Philosophy and African-American Studies, Columbia University
    Location: ISGAP Center, New York
    Description: Ido Daniel speaks about how to monitor, identify and combat online antisemitism. He goes on to note the importance of monitoring online and social media platforms for instances of antisemitism and the need to educate the public in order to enhance these efforts.
    1 hr 20 min

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