New Publication! The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective
https://isgap.org/post/2016/01/new-publication-the-yale-papers-antisemitism-in-comparative-perspective/
The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Between 2006 and 2011, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) established and sponsored the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), the first academic research center dedicated to the study of antisemitism based at a North American university. During its mandate, […]
Israel and the Belgian Media: A Mirror of the Israel-Gaza Conflict (July-August 2014)
https://isgap.org/post/2016/01/israel-and-the-belgian-media-a-mirror-of-the-israel-gaza-conflict-july-august-2014/
By: Dr. Joel Kotek, ISGAP Research Fellow Focusing on the Belgian francophone media’s coverage of the 2014 Gaza conflict, this paper traces the specific ways in which news reporting on the Middle East manifests an inherently anti-Israel bias that draws upon a Western tradition of antisemitic figures and motifs. The Belgian media’s systematically negative predisposition […]
Journalistic Ethics and Mideast Reporting
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/journalistic-ethics-and-mideast-reporting/
In a world at once increasingly chaotic and interconnected, the news media have come to play unprecedented roles both in covering and influencing fast-moving events. The current violence in Israel is all the more disturbing because of the morally ambiguous coverage it receives in the worldwide press. Although this phenomenon is not new – the […]
Ending a Century of Palestinian Rejectionism
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/ending-a-century-of-palestinian-rejectionism/
Palestinians are on the wrong track and will not get off it until the outside world demands better of them. News comes every year or two of a campaign of violence spurred by Palestinian political and religious leaders spreading wild-eyed conspiracy theories (the favorite: Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem is under threat). A spasm of unprovoked […]
Dr. Benny Morris, “The War of 1948: New Perspectives”
https://isgap.org/media/2015/12/dr-benny-morris-the-war-of-1948-new-perspectives/
“The War of 1948: New Perspectives” Dr. Benny Morris Professor of History, Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University Morris begins by arguing that the 1948 War was an unusual one for two reasons. He firstly approaches it as a war of two distinct halves. The first, before 1948, was a civil war; during and after 1948 […]
Escalation of Palestinian violence
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/escalation-of-palestinian-violence/
The recent escalation in Palestinian violence was brought about by events in early September 2015, when tensions regarding the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque) rose between Israelis and Palestinians. Violence broke out during the Jewish High Holidays, that saw an increase in Jewish worshippers to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, as well as an […]
Palestinian Violence and Failure of Leadership
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/palestinian-violence-and-failure-of-leadership/
I am disheartened and worried about the violence being perpetrated in Israel by my fellow Palestinians. This recent wave of violence started at the Al-Aqsa mosque, in East Jerusalem, and extended to the rest of East Jerusalem, to the West Bank, and then to all of Israel does not seem to have any positive consequences […]
“Denial of Jewish Existence” PLO Ambassador to Chile, Mr. Imad Nabil Jada’a
https://isgap.org/post/2015/07/denial-of-jewish-existence-plo-ambassador-to-chile-mr-imad-nabil-jadaa/
The following, in English translation, is the text of the accompanying video of the speech by Ambassador Nabil Jada’a to the Conference for Peace in Palestine and Israel on May 15, 2015 in Santiago, Chile. “About the hatred we have against the Jewish people. As Palestinians, first, we don’t have hatred. Second we don’t recognize […]
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” PLO Ambassador to Chile, Mr. Imad Nabil Jada’a
https://isgap.org/post/2015/07/the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-plo-ambassador-to-chile-mr-imad-nabil-jadaa/
The following, in English translation, is the text of the accompanying video of the speech by Ambassador Nabil Jada’a to the Conference for Peace in Palestine and Israel on May 15, 2015 in Santiago, Chile.
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” PLO Ambassador to Chile, Mr. Imad Nabil Jada’a
https://isgap.org/media/2015/07/the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-plo-ambassador-to-chile-mr-imad-nabil-jadaa-june-2015/
The following, in English translation, is the text of the accompanying video of the speech by Ambassador Nabil Jada’a to the Conference for Peace in Palestine and Israel on May 15, 2015 in Santiago, Chile. “Until 1896 when a group of academic intellectuals, financial advisers, majority being non-Jewish Europeans, decided to create the Zionist movement […]