Certificate Program in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies

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.

ISGAP is launching a new certificate program designed for scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and professionals in public affairs, professional development, and the Jewish community.

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.


Course Structure

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.


About ISGAP

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.

Application Information

Applications are now being accepted.

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Tuition & Fees

Certificate Program:
$900 USD

Individual Courses:
$175 USD per course

Program Curriculum
Required Courses

Globalization and Antisemitism(s): Social Movements and the Crisis of Modernity

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.

Dr. Charles Asher Small
Fall 2024, Spring 2025

The History and Essence of Antisemitism

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?

Professor David Patterson
Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Elective Courses

Antisemitism Online: From Social Media to the Dark Web and Beyond

This digital course is aimed to present the topic of antisemitism online and the way it is propagated nowadays with modern technologies.

Dr. Lev Topor
Fall 2024

The Triple Dimension of Post-Shoah Antisemitism

Reflections on the three interrelated factors standing at the core of anti-Israeli passion: Judeophobia, guilt and the anti-Zionist stance.

Professor Joel Kotek
Spring 2025

Holocaust Inversion and the Christian Academy

This course will delve into the complex interplay between Holocaust inversion and Christian antisemitism, examining their historical roots, contemporary manifestations, and impact on society.

Dr. Dyanne Martin
Spring 2025

Faculty Antisemitism Before and After October 7

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.

Professor Cary Nelson
Fall 2024

Islamism in the West: The Tripartite Challenge of Social Polarization, Radicalization and Antisemitism

The course will analyze the complex presence of Islamist networks in Europe and North America, with a particular focus on the Muslim Brotherhood.

Dr. Lorenzo Vidino
Spring 2025

The Holocaust: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

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.

Dr. Shay Pilnik
Spring 2025

Setting Precedence by NOT Following Protocol

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.

Dr. Christine Maxwell
Spring 2025

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Jew? Antisemitism and Lethal Ideologies

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.

Dr. Naya Lekht
Spring 2025

Examining Common Libels Against the Jewish State Under International Law

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.

Professor Ansel Brown
Fall 2024

Political Paradoxes, Sexist Opportunists and Provocative Jews: Antisemitism Denial as Contemporary Antisemitism

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.

Professor R. Amy Elman
Spring 2025

Demonization Blueprints: Antizionist Propaganda—from the USSR to American Campuses Today

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.

Izabella Tabarovsky
Spring 2025
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