This program aims to provide deeper insights into the socio-economic, political, and cultural processes related to this rapidly evolving subject matter. The ISGAP Certificate Program in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies offers a wide range of courses that enable you to explore topics aligned with your interests and to gain professional knowledge. Courses are taught by leading international scholars and will provide a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of contemporary antisemitism and approaches to combat this growing challenge to democratic principles.
Each course consists of four-part online sessions scheduled weekly throughout the Fall and Spring semesters. To earn the Certificate, candidates must successfully complete two required courses and four elective courses, totaling six courses within a two-year timeframe.
Students may enroll in individual courses without committing to the full certificate program. In order to receive an official ISGAP certificate, students must, however, complete the required coursework.
Although live participation is encouraged, all courses will be recorded and available for later viewing.
ISGAP is a high-caliber international research center, committed to mapping, decoding, and combating contemporary antisemitism. Headquartered in New York, ISGAP also operates in Canada, the UK, Italy and Israel. ISGAP holds programs at top universities, engages in research projects, and publishes books and reports in the area of contemporary antisemitism studies and policy.
Applications are now being accepted.
Certificate Program:
$900 USD
Individual Courses:
$175 USD per course
Led by Dr. Charles Asher Small, this four-part course will offer a critical analysis of issues central to the study and emergence of contemporary antisemitism, as it relates to processes of globalization, the crisis of modernity, and the rise of reactionary anti-systemic movements, including political Islam, and the extreme left and extreme right wing nationalism. This area of inquiry is central to challenges confronting scholars and students when assessing the complexities of contemporary antisemitism(s) in a comprehensive analytical manner.
This course examines a variety of questions that cut across several disciplines to examine the millennial phenomenon of antisemitism. Exploring the history, causes, and essence of Jew hatred, the course delves into its philosophical, theological, ideological, political, and social aspects. The ultimate aim of the course is to arrive at a deeper understanding of the essence of Jew hatred as it appears among very diverse peoples and cultures ranging from ancient Greeks to modern intellectuals, from Saint Augustine to Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, from Karl Marx to Adolf Hitler. Among the areas of focus are Nazi antisemitism, Jihadist antisemitism, and contemporary antisemitism. The fundamental question to be examined in this course is: What is the antisemite anti?
This digital course is aimed to present the topic of antisemitism online and the way it is propagated nowadays with modern technologies.
Reflections on the three interrelated factors standing at the core of anti-Israeli passion: Judeophobia, guilt and the anti-Zionist stance.
This course will delve into the complex interplay between Holocaust inversion and Christian antisemitism, examining their historical roots, contemporary manifestations, and impact on society.
This course is designed to look at the strategies of Antizionist faculty members, who have a unique role in the radical anti-Israel movement, and to ask what can be done to restore rational, evidence-based discussion to campus.
The course will analyze the complex presence of Islamist networks in Europe and North America, with a particular focus on the Muslim Brotherhood.
The exploration offered in this course, covering a whole range of disciplines – literature, film and visual arts, theology, and psychology – will help students grasp the magnitude of the Holocaust, recognize the evolution of its memory, the challenges in its representation (also, the need to defend this memory from both distorters and deniers) and better understand our own reality as a post-Holocaust one.
Based on Following PROTOCOL... or NOT?! A straight-forward and concise primer on contemporary antisemitism today, this four-part course elaborates on 20 straight-forward and concise points about the who, what, when, why, and how of contemporary antisemitism.
Join Dr. Naya Lekht as she examines three distinct eras that birthed anti-Judaism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Zionism by looking at the dominant ideologies that fueled this ancient hatred.
This course will dissect often-unchallenged accusations against the Jewish state, such as war crimes, genocide, occupation, illegal settlements, colonialism, and apartheid, and examine them through sound legal analysis under international law.
This course will focus on the sexist dimensions of contemporary antisemitism and the ways in which, under the auspicious of fighting against it, we are frequently confronted by its even more insidious manifestations.
This course will survey the history of Soviet antizionist propaganda and its role in the broad Soviet information warfare against the West. We’ll cover the evolution of Soviet antizionism from the early days of Bolshevism to Brezhnev and discuss the channels Moscow used to inculcate it among the global left. We’ll examine why the language of far-left anti-Israel demonization tracks so closely with far-right antisemitic conspiracy tropes, effectively landing the far-left on the same page as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
