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ISGAP episodes

  • Pragmatic Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism as Civic Religion: The Troubled Case Of Belgium
    Speaker: Joël Kotek
    Affiliation: Professor of Political Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Lecturer, SciencesPo (Paris)
    Title: "Pragmatic Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism as Civic Religion: The Troubled Case of Belgium"
    Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    Date: November 27, 2012
    Description: Professor Joël Kotek states that since 2001 Belgium witnessed a stark rise in antisemitism – the most significant since 1945. He notes that many groups within Belgian society exploit the Arab-Israeli conflict in order to liberate antisemitic discourse and make it acceptable within mainstream society.
    1 hr 6 min
  • Comparative Approaches to Antisemitic Speech in The United States and Europe
    Title: "Free Speech and Antisemitism: Comparative Approaches to Antisemitic Speech in the United States and Europe"
    Date: October 18, 2012
    Speaker: Alexander Tsesis
    Affiliation: Associate Professor of Law, Loyola University
    Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Location: Fordham University, New York
    Description: Alexander Tsesis speaks about the different approaches in regulating free speech in the United States and Europe. He notes that these different approaches are, in part, due to the countries' unique histories, with more virulent and sustained antisemitism in Europe. Despite these differences, he demonstrates that there is just as much of a principled reason to regulate hate speech in the United States, particularly as it effects Jews, as it is to regulate hate speech in Europe and elsewhere around the world.
    1 hr 26 min
  • Pathways to Islamist Radicalization
    Speaker: Haras Rafiq
    Affiliation: Director of CENTRI (Counter Extremism Consultancy, Training, Research and Interventions)
    Title: "Pathways to Islamist Radicalization"
    Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Location: Fordham University, New York
    Date: November 8, 2012
    Description: Haras Rafiq speaks about Islam and why various individuals and groups are radicalizing the religion. He compares traditional Islam to Islamism and the extremism that has taken root in various sectors of the religion, fueled by a virulent antisemitism. He goes on to discuss Islamic theology, as well as policy mistakes made by the United States within recent years to combat this growing extremism.
    1 hr 26 min
  • International Law, Lawfare, and the Challenge of Iran
    Speaker: Dr. Orde Kittrie
    Affiliation: Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
    Title: International Law, Lawfare, and the Challenge of Iran
    Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
    Date: November 14, 2012
    Description: Dr. Orde Kittrie speaks about international law, lawfare and the global challenges posed by the Iranian regime. He provides an overview of Iran's genocidal antisemitism, as well as the regime's many violations of international law and what we can expect from a nuclear-armed Iran. He then goes on to discuss lawfare, a strategy using law as a substitute for traditional military means to help achieve operational objectives.
    41 min
  • Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech after United States v. Alvarez
    Speaker: Thomas Hochmann
    Affiliation: Associate Professor of Public Law, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne; Associate Member, Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy (Brussels)
    Title: "Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech after United States v. Alvarez"
    Convener: Ruth Wisse, Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
    Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
    Date: October 31, 2012
    Description: Thomas Hochmann examines Holocaust denial and freedom of speech following the Supreme Court case of United States v. Alvarez.
    1 hr 4 min
  • Farhud: Roots of Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust and its Effects
    Speakers: Edwin Black, Award-winning, New York Times bestselling international investigative author; Dr. Haim Shaked, Professor of International Studies at the University of Miami
    Title: "Roots of an Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust and its Lasting Effects"
    Location: Fordham University, New York
    Date: January 31, 2013
    Description: Edwin Black speaks about how the Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Adolph Hitler, resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the expulsion of the Iraqi Jewish community and approximately a million Jews across the Arab world. He asserts that the Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance during the Holocaust.
    1 hr 40 min
  • Radical Islam and the Arab Spring
    Speaker: Dr. Meir Litvak
    Affiliation: Department of Middle Eastern History and Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
    Title: “Radical Islam and the Arab Spring”
    Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Location: Hoover Institution, Stanford University
    Date: February 8, 2012
    Description: Dr. Meir Litvak argues that there are various misperceptions regarding the "Arab Spring" and notes that, as opposed to the popular belief, the "Arab Spring" was started by Islamists, not westernized, democratic young people.
    1 hr 14 min
  • Antisemitism and Middle East Peace
    Speaker: David Matas
    Affiliation: Senior Legal Counsel of B'nai Brith Canada; Canadian human rights and immigration lawyer
    Title: "Antisemitism and Middle East Peace"
    Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    Date: February 12, 2013
    Description: David Matas maintains that there is a link between antisemitism (and combating antisemitism) and peace in the Middle East. He states that while the majority of commentators focus on the list of issues dividing the Israelis and Palestinians, he asserts that if we combat antisemitism, the other issues will be resolved. Modern antisemitism has taken the form of the assault on the Jewish state and notions of Jewish peoplehood. In order to achieve peace in the Middle East, he says, it is essential to combat the antisemitism of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and Israel's other adversaries.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Holocaust Obfuscation: The 21st Century Version Of Denial
    Speaker: Dr. Dovid Katz
    Affiliation: Editor, DefendingHistory.com
    Title: “Holocaust Obfuscation: The 21st Century Version of Denial”
    Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Location: Fordham University, New York
    Date: December 13, 2012
    Description: Dr. Dovid Katz speaks about antisemitism and the problematic situation of Lithuanian and European Holocaust history revisionism.
    1 hr 25 min
  • Iran, Israel, and the Middle East after the War in Gaza
    Speaker: Dr. David Menashri
    Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University; Senior Research Fellow, Alliance Center for Iranian Studies and the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
    Title: "Iran, Israel and the Middle East after the War in Gaza"
    Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
    Location: Fordham University, New York
    Date: November 29, 2012
    Description: Dr. David Menashri speaks about Iran, Israel, and the Middle East following the 2012 Gaza War. Menashri highlights the need to understand the intricacies and various aspects of Iranian society in order to begin to understand the Middle East conflict and relations between the countries.
    1 hr 32 min

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