CALL FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS: Exploring Antisemitism From an Interdisciplinary Perspective
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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS: EXPLORING ANTISEMITISM FROM AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) is pleased to announce a series of opportunities for scholars, researchers, thought leaders, commentators, and practitioners to contribute to our efforts to examine, analyze, and understand antisemitism through various lenses. We are currently seeking […]
Where is the Psychology of Antisemitism?
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/where-is-the-psychology-of-antisemitism/
As a newly appointed ISGAP Senior Research Fellow and a psychologist, I was excited to begin exploring and adding to psychological insights in the study of antisemitism that earlier colleagues had discovered, with a particular emphasis on the last three decades. I did a search that I thought would uncover advances in the field beyond: […]
The Jew and the Other in Brussels’ French-speaking Schools
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/the-jew-and-the-other-in-brussels-french-speaking-schools/
Summary of a 70-page study on the representations of young people in Brussels, and the Other, including the Jew.[1] In France, it is only fairly recently that the media, and the political and academic world, have come to accept the idea that the anti-Semitism of French people of Arab-Muslim immigrant origin is a real issue, […]
Antisemitism: The Revival of an Ancient Hatred
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/antisemitism-the-revival-of-an-ancient-hatred/
Numerous watchdog groups, both in the U.S. and abroad, have followed the dramatic rise in antisemitism. Among them are the Louis Brandeis Center, the Anti-Defamation League, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the Amcha Initiative, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), Great Britain’s Community […]
The Tirana Conference on Antisemitism: Bringing Governments Together to Review their Commitments
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/the-tirana-conference-on-antisemitism-bringing-governments-together-to-review-their-commitments/
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) undertook to combat antisemitism following a Ministerial level conference hosted by the German Government in 2004. Since then almost every succeeding chairmanship has held a conference on the subject to revise and update commitments, on an annual basis. These have included agreements to monitor antisemitism, train […]
Political Leadership in The Age of Scoundrels – Reflections in advance of the UK’s December Election
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/political-leadership-in-the-age-of-scoundrels-reflections-in-advance-of-the-uks-december-election/
If the second quarter of the twentieth century was “The age of the dictators” then the current period is bidding to be “The age of the scoundrels”. Certainly, few would claim that many of today’s national leaders display high levels of personal integrity. Perhaps it was ‘ever so’ but surely, not, in democracies, displayed in […]
The Small Matter of Malice: Meditations on “the Pattern” of Antisemitism
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/the-small-matter-of-malice-the-pattern-of-antisemitism-now-and-then-meditations-on-the-pattern-of-antisemitism/
I have just spent the week at Oxford (St. John’s College) at the annual ISGAP conference on antisemitism, which brings together a wide range of people, from scholars to graduate students, to learn about antisemitism and build curricula for teaching it. We were 86 scholars-in-residence: a really impressive group of people at all levels, the scholars, […]
The University of Cape Town should uphold itself as a Beacon of Freedom and Vote against a Boycott of Israel
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/the-university-of-cape-town-should-uphold-itself-as-a-beacon-of-freedom-and-vote-against-a-boycott-of-israel/
On April 2, 2019, I had the privilege of giving a lecture at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The topic was “The Prospects for African Solidarity and Pan-Africanism,” where I discussed the unique challenges that Africans in the diaspora and Africans in the continent face in our struggle for collective progress and full self-realization. […]
A Straightforward and Practical Resource for Understanding Labour’s Antisemitism Problem
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/a-straightforward-and-practical-resource-for-understanding-labours-antisemitism-problem/
This web page, and the many links contained within it, is a resource for political people who will increasingly find that they need to understand contemporary antisemitism. Please bookmark it and come back to it when you need it. And I’m sorry to tell you that you will need it. Antisemitism always positions its own […]
We Find Ourselves in a New Kind of Egypt – How do we Leave it?
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/we-find-ourselves-in-a-new-kind-of-egypt-how-do-we-leave-it/
The Jews and Israel are surrounded by verbal, written and violently genocidal enemies. Who is our Moses, our Aaron, our Miriam? Who has God appointed to lead us to safety? We find ourselves in a new kind of Egypt—one in which the Jews and Israel are surrounded and inundated 24/7 by thousands of accusations, […]