Tag: Human Rights

International Human Rights Law Needs a Review

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In 1998, a diverse group of South African professionals/public servants (myself included) spent a year studying International Human Rights Law at the Raoul Wallenberg institute at the University of Lund, in Sweden.  This was a partnership between the Centre for Human Rights and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. The last part of the course was hosted […]

Findings and Recommendations: Reflections from Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism

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28 Mar., “Findings and Recommendations: Reflections from Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism” Hon. Professor Irwin Cotler, Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Ottawa, Canada Date: Tuesday, 28 March 2023, at 10 AM EST | 3 PM GMT | 5 PM IST To register for this lecture on Zoom click here

A Human Rights Approach to Combating Antisemitism

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21 Mar., “A Human Rights Approach to Combating Antisemitism” Professor Ahmed Shaheed, OSCE Expert on Freedom of Religion or Belief; Professor, International Human Rights Law, Essex Law School, Essex, U.K. Date: Tuesday, 21 March 2023, at 10 AM EST | 3 PM GMT | 5 PM IST To register for this lecture on Zoom click here

ISGAP Fellows Reject Antisemitic Tropes in Amnesty Report

https://isgap.org/post/2022/04/isgap-rejects-amnestys-report-on-israel/

“ISGAP strongly rejects the biased antisemitic tropes found within Amnesty International’s recent report, “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity.” The bending of history and facts in this report is a prime example of how contemporary antisemitism manifests itself, with the sole goal of dismantling the only Jewish State.”  ISGAP […]

Never Alone – Prison, Politics and My People

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Now available on Amazon – Click here!   Watch a special event with Natan Sharansky and Professor Gil Troy, which took place on 24 September 2020! Never Alone: Prison, Politics and my People In 1977, after serving as a spokesperson for democracy and the movement for free emigration in the Soviet Union, Natan Sharansky was […]

The Festering Wound: Racism in the United States, where do we go from here?

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June 4, “The Festering Wound: Racism in the United States, where do we go from here?” Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony’s College, Oxford Dr. Sunni Ali, Northeastern Illinois University Dr. Harold V. Bennett, Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Morehouse College Professor Ansel Brown, Visiting Assistant Professor, North Carolina […]

Social Justice, Human Rights, Cosmopolitanism and their Enemies – Jewishness and the Jewish State

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May 27, “Social Justice, Human Rights, Cosmopolitanism and their Enemies – Jewishness and the Jewish State” Dr. Eli Vinokur, Gordon College of Education and the School of Tourism at the University of Haifa Chair Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony’s College, Oxford Zoom Webinar Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2020

ISGAP Digital Seminar Series: Best of the Archives

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Given ISGAP’s commitment to digitizing our research and seminars, starting in March 2020, ISGAP will release one of its leading seminar series videos from our vast archive every Friday. In this period of uncertainty, this weekly feature will serve as an important reminder of the origins of the contemporary challenges we all face in battling […]

Watch the Natan Sharansky Webinar on the 3Ds and the IHRA Definition: Tools to Combating Antisemitism

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Click here to watch the Natan Sharansky Webinar: The 3Ds and the IHRA Definition: Tools to Combating Antisemitism Natan Sharansky, Chair of ISGAP and 2020 Genesis Prize Laureate Seminar Chair Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony’s College, Oxford Zoom Webinar, Monday, June 1, 2020 The 3Ds and the IHRA Definition: […]

ISGAP Welcomes Natan Sharansky as Chair

https://isgap.org/post/2019/04/isgap-welcomes-natan-sharansky-as-chair/

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy is honored to announce Natan Sharansky as the new Chair of ISGAP, effective immediately.   Abraham H. Foxman, on behalf of the ISGAP Board of Directors, “I welcome Natan Sharansky as Chair of ISGAP. He brings leadership in human rights at the political and intellectual level […]