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ISGAP episodes

  • Naked Emperor and the First Blood Libel Of The 21st Century: The Al Durah Affair
    Speaker: Dr. Richard Landes
    Affiliation: Department of History, Boston University
    Title: "The Naked Emperor and the First Blood Libel of the 21st Century: The Al Durah Affair and the Dysfunctions of the Mainstream Media"
    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: September 25, 2008
    Description: Professor Richard Landes speaks about the Al Durah Affair as being the first blood libel of the 21st century. He further examines the dysfunctions of the mainstream media and its contribution to the delegitimization campaign against Israel in the international arena.
    1 hr 37 min
  • Playing the ‘Nazi-card’: Antisemitic Discourse Against Israel
    Speaker: Dr. Paul Iganski
    Affiliation: Professor, University of Essex; Lecturer, Lancaster University
    Title: "Playing the ‘Nazi-card’: Antisemitic Discourse Against Israel"
    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: November 20, 2008
    Description: Dr. Paul Iganski asserts that the inclusion of particular modes of criticism of Israel in definitions of antisemitism has provoked controversy, resulting in a war of words which has stagnated into an intellectual and discursive cul-de-sac of claim and counter-claim about what does and does not qualify as antisemitism. He attempts to shift the focus of analysis of contemporary antisemitism away from labelling and defining the problem, to an understanding of the consequences of particular discourse.
    1 hr 30 min
  • Growing Fears, Mixed Experiences, and Weak Hopes: The Fight Against Antisemitism is Still Necessary
    Speaker: Dr. Gert Weisskirchen
    Affiliation: German politician; Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Antisemitism
    Title: "Growing Fears, Mixed Experiences, Weak Hopes, the Fight Against Antisemitism is still Necessary"
    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: April 17, 2008
    Description: Dr. Gert Weisskirchen states that Germany, as one of the worst perpetrators of genocide against the Jewish people, has a moral obligation to fight against modern manifestations of antisemitism. In his role, Dr. Gert Weisskirchen attempts to look into the various member states of the OSCE and how they are combating antisemitism and implementing commitments and policies into their political policies in order to prevent future instances of antisemitism.
    58 min
  • The Academic and Public Debate over the Meaning of the ‘New Antisemitism
    Speaker: Dr. Roni Stauber
    Affiliation: Academic Director of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University
    Title: "The Academic and Public Debate over the Meaning of the 'New Antisemitism'"
    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: April 24, 2008
    Description: Dr. Roni Stauber speaks about the academic and public debate over the meaning of the new antisemitism. He maintains that from the end of 2000, there has been a stark increase in the number of violent incidents and verbal threats against Jews, as well as an increase in the publication of antisemitic articles.
    1 hr 30 min
  • The Demoralisation of Britain: Moral Relativism, the Church of England and the Jews
    Speaker: Melanie Phillips
    Affiliation: Journalist and Author
    Title: "The Demoralisation of Britain: Moral Relativism, the Church of England and the Jews"
    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: November 13, 2008
    Description: Melanie Phillips maintains that while there has always been anti-Jewish sentiments in Britain, after the Holocaust, such sentiments became taboo. She notes that now, antisemitic rhetoric is, once again, becoming mainstream and that this revival of crude anti-Jewish libels is being fueled and legitimized by the obsessive vilification and demonization of Israel.
    1 hr 37 min
  • The Jew as a Bloodthirsty Butcher: Laws Banning Ritual Slaughter (Shechita)
    Speaker: Dr. Brigitte Sion
    Affiliation: Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Program in Religious Studies and Department of Journalism, New York University
    Title: "The Jew as a Bloodthirsty Butcher: Laws Banning Ritual Slaughter (Shechita)"
    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: December 4, 2008
    Description: Dr. Brigitte Sion does not focus on whether Jewish ritual slaughter (shechita) is more or less moral than other forms of animal slaughter, but on the fact that very small countries with even smaller Jewish populations have adopted a ban on shechita, which makes meat kosher for observant Jews. She maintains that this ban is merely a cover for new forms of antisemitism.
    56 min
  • Iranian Anti-Semitism on the Internet
    Speaker: Hamid Tehrani
    Affiliation: Iranian journalist, blogger and researcher
    Title: "Iranian Anti-Semitism on the Internet"
    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 23, 2008
    Description: Hamid Tehrani speaks about Iranian antisemitism. He maintains that Iranian anti-Semitic blogs reveal important information that can help us gain a better understanding about the roots and dynamism of anti-Jewish sentiment in Iran.
    52 min
  • Literary Antisemitism; Revisited: Paul de Man and Mel Gibson
    Speaker: Dr. Mark Gelber
    Affiliation: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben Gurion University
    Title: "Literary Antisemitism; Revisited: Paul de Man and Mel Gibson"
    Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
    Date: January 24, 2008
    Description: Dr. Mark Gelber speaks about literary antisemitism and the discipline's contribution to assessing antisemitism throughout cultures, countries and ages.
    1 hr 51 min
  • The Place of the Iranian Jewish Community in the Contemporary Islamic World
    Speaker: Dr. David Menashri
    Affiliation: Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University
    Title: "The Place of the Iranian Jewish Community in the Contemporary Islamic World"
    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: November 15, 2007
    Description: Dr. David Menashri discusses the place of the Iranian Jewish community in the contemporary Islamic world.
    1 hr 27 min
  • Antisemitic Discourse in Hungary Following the Collapse of Communism
    Speaker: Dr. András Gero
    Affiliation: Department of History, Central European University
    Title: "Antisemitic Discourse in Hungary Following the Collapse of Communism"
    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: March 6, 2008
    Description: Dr. András Gero speaks about antisemitic discourse in Hungary hollowing the collapse of communism.
    1 hr 28 min

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