ISGAP-Woolf Institute, in association with the University of Cambridge, UK 

January 23, 2025: “Higher Education Policy, Foreign Funding and Soft Power: Implications for Democratic Principles and Antisemitism”

Location: Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK

Time: 2-6 PM GMT

This symposium marks the launch of a ground-breaking ISGAP report, “Education Policy in the United Kingdom Foreign Funding, Soft Power and Antisemitism.” Panellists will critically examine the influence of foreign funding and ideological forces on academic culture in the United Kingdom, exploring whether these factors contribute to the persistence of antisemitic attitudes in higher education.

Speakers:

  1. Chair: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Director, ISGAP and ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK; Research Associate, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
  2. Charlotte Littlewood, ISGAP Researcher, PhD candidate, University of Exeter 
  3. Rojin Sena Cantay, UK campus advisor for CAMERA, University of Exeter

If you are interested in attending, please register for the event here.

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March 5, 2025: “Antisemitism, Intersectionality and the Response of the Feminist Movement to the Sexual violence committed by Hamas on 7 October”

Location: Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK

Time: 2-6 PM GMT

To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, 2025, this event brings together a survivor of the October 7th pogrom, and leading scholars and policy experts to assess the intersection of sexual violence and contemporary antisemitism.

Speakers:

  1. Chair: Manel Msalmi, President, European Association for the Defense of Minorities, Paris and Brussels, Researcher in International Relations, American University in Paris
  2. Kamil Alboshoka, LLM in International Law and Human Rights, Birkbeck College, University of London, Director, International Law Department of Dialogue Institute for Research and Studies and an Ahwazi dissident
  3. Natalie Sanandaji, Combat Antisemitism Movement Public Affairs Officer, Survivor of October 7th Pogrom
  4. Giulietta Boukhobza, Independent scholar and researcher 

If you are interested in attending, please register for the event here. 

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May 7, 2025: “Intellectual Discourse and Contemporary Antisemitism in Higher Education”

Location: Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK

Time: 2-6 PM GMT

This symposium explores the explosion of antisemitism in higher education

Speakers:

  1. Chair: Charles Asher Small, Director, ISGAP and ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK; Research Associate, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.
  2. Joel Kotek, ISGAP Senior Faculty, Institut Jonathas Bruxelles 
  3. David Hirsh, Academic Director, London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism 
  4. Professor David Patterson, ISGAP Senior Faculty, Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas

If you are interested in attending, please register for the event here.

House of Commons, London, UK

January 22, 2025: “Higher Education Policy, Foreign Funding and Soft Power: Implications for Democratic Principles and Antisemitism”

Location: House of Commons, London, UK

Time: 5-6 PM GMT

This parliamentary event will explore the subject matter outlined above in addition to providing an advanced overview of the ISGAP report, “Education Policy in the United Kingdom Foreign Funding, Soft Power and Antisemitism,” the first in a series of comprehensive interdisciplinary studies of antisemitism and higher education in the United Kingdom, with a focus on foreign funding and Muslim Brotherhood influence.

Speakers:

  1. Chair: Joani Reid MP, Labour Party, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism 
  2. Dr. Charles Asher Small, Dr Charles Asher Small, Director, ISGAP and ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK; Research Associate, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
  3. Charlotte Littlewood, ISGAP Researcher, PhD candidate, University of Exeter 
  4. Dr. Dave Rich, Head of Policy, Community Security Trust, Associate Research Fellow, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism

If you are interested in attending, please register for the event here. Please note that space is limited.

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March 6, 2025: “Antisemitism, Intersectionality and the Response of the Feminist Movement to the Sexual violence committed by Hamas on 7 October”

Location: House of Commons, London, UK

Time: 5-6 PM GMT

To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, 2025, this parliamentary event brings together a survivor of the October 7th pogrom, and leading scholars and policy experts to assess the intersection of sexual violence and contemporary antisemitism.

Speakers:

  1. Chair: Baroness Verma, Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas, a role who chairs the UN Women’s national committee
  2. Kamil Alboshoka, LLM in International Law and Human Rights, Birkbeck College, University of London, Director, International Law Department of Dialogue Institute for Research and Studies and an Ahwazi dissident  
  3. Natalie Sanandaji, Combat Antisemitism Movement Public Affairs Officer, Survivor of October 7th Pogrom
  4. Giulietta Boukhobza, Independent scholar and researcher 
  5. Manel Msalmi, President, European Association for the Defense of Minorities, Paris and Brussels, Researcher in International Relations, American University in Paris

If you are interested in attending, please register for the event here. Please note that space is limited.