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February 9, 2020

"Incitement to Antisemitism: The Acquiescence of Universities to Relativism, Political Islam, and Unreported Financing"

Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony's College, Oxford

The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
Bar-Ilan University

February 11, 2020

“Understanding Contemporary Global Antisemitism: the University as the Purveyor of Delegitimization”

Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Chairs
Professor Alessandro Saggioro, “King Hamad” Chair for Inter-religious Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence, La Sapienza University
Professor Andrea Carteny, Director of Research Center for Cooperation with Eurasia Mediterranean Sub-Saharan Africa

Program Organizers
Ramy Aziz, ISGAP Research Fellow
Dr. Robert Hassan, Director, ISGAP Italy

An ISGAP International Seminar Series lecture at La Sapienza University to an audience of40 PhD Students and Professors.

Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small

Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Title: "Academia And Antisemitism Today"

Date: December 9, 2010

Location: Global Forum on Antisemitism, Jerusalem

Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small asserts that there is a blind spot in academia to deal with contemporary antisemitism.

Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small

Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Title: "Oxford Union Debate on Holocaust Denial Criminalisation"

Location: Oxford University

Date: January 28, 2016

Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small explains the various phases of antisemitism throughout history and maintains that contemporary antisemitism attacks notion of Jewish peoplehood. Dr. Small argues that today, Islamist reactionary social movements use European antisemitism and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to openly call for the extermination of the Jewish people and the destruction of the State of Israel. Dr Small argues that while antisemitism begins with the Jews, it never ends with the Jews, but threatens democratic principles and human rights worldwide.

Speaker: Dr. Catherine Chatterley

Affiliation: Department of History, University of Manitoba; Founding Director, Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA)

Title: "Western Culture, the Holocaust, and the Persistence of 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: March 5, 2009

Description:
Dr. Catherine Chatterley examines the persistence of antisemitism in post-Holocaust Western culture and whether Holocaust education has failed to educate the public about the specific nature and history of antisemitism. She goes on to question whether it is possible that the strategy of Holocaust universalization -- a strategy perceived as making the Holocaust accessible to non-Jews -- has worked against achieving an adequate understanding of antisemitism and subsequently against the eradication of antisemitic discourse and thinking from Western culture.

Speaker: Dr. Robert S. Wistrich (z"l)

Affiliation: Director, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Title: "Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Contemporary World"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: February 19, 2009

Description:
Dr. Robert S. Wistrich (z"l) maintains that as the number of those who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust are diminishing by the years, the challenges of communicating the atrocities of the Holocaust to the next generation are becoming exceedingly difficult. Many today, including teenagers, have been exposed to the literature of Holocaust denial and are becoming highly skeptical that such horrific brutalities had been committed against the Jews. Dr. Wistrich maintains that despite intense efforts of commemoration and education, the current generation is severely lacking in both the knowledge and understanding to effectively combat modern manifestations of antisemtisim.