Eran Lerman, ” Three Totalitarian Temptations Nazism Communism and Islamism as Anchors in the Israel Palestine Conflict”
https://isgap.org/media/2016/05/eran-lerman-three-totalitarian-temptations-nazism-communism-and-islamism-as-anchors-in-the-israel-palestine-conflict/
Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman Researcher at Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and former Deputy for Foreign Policy and International Affairs at the National Security Council in the Israeli Prime Minster’s Office Location: Leacock Building, Room 738 Time: 6:00 P.M. Convener: Michelle Whiteman, Director, ISGAP Canada
Israeli Apartheid Week in Britain: Why Students’ Unions Are Acting Unlawfully
https://isgap.org/flashpoint/israeli-apartheid-week-in-britain-why-students-unions-are-acting-unlawfully/
Israeli Apartheid Week sits within a global social movement, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions or BDS movement, which aims to exclude Israel from the economic, cultural and educational life of the rest of the world. It has been a feature of city and campus life since 2004 when it burst onto the scene with the […]
Bassem Eid “The Internal Palestinian Conflicts”
https://isgap.org/media/2016/02/bassem-eid-the-internal-palestinian-conflicts/
Feb.22 “The Internal Palestinian Conflicts” Mr. Bassem Eid Founder, Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) Location: Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, WCC B010 Time: 7:00 P.M. Convener: Vivaldi Jean-Marie
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 […]
Dr. Stanley Urman, “Palestinian Refugees and Jewish Refugees from Arab lands, Same or Different?”
https://isgap.org/media/2015/06/dr-stanley-urman-palestinian-refugees-and-jewish-refugees-from-arab-lands-same-or-different/
This talk was sponsored by ISGAP, The Institute for the Study of Global antisemitism at McGill University, Apr 20, 2015, “Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries: A Case Study in Discrimination” Dr. Stanley Urman dissects the comparisons and differences between Palestinian refugees and Jewish Refugees from Arab lands from 1948 to the present, based on analysis […]
Dr. Irwin Mansdorf, “The Promotion of Nonviolence as Antisemitism: Psychological Warfare Against The Jewish State”
https://isgap.org/media/2015/03/irwin-mansdorf-the-promotion-of-nonviolence-as-antisemitism-psychological-warfare-against-the-jewish-state/
Seminar Series: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective “The Promotion of Nonviolence as Antisemitism: Psychological Warfare Against The Jewish State” Dr. Irwin Mansdorf Fellow and Director, Israel-Arab Studies Program Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Thursday, February 26, 2015, 5:30PM ISGAP Center, 3rd Floor