Tag: Terrorism

Israel and Europe After Brussels: What Insights Can We Share?

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel, which unfortunately has had a great deal of experience with terrorist violence, has much to offer Europe in its own confrontation with Islamist terror. Once Europe has internalized the reality that it is fighting a war, Israel can advise it regarding strategies like effective intelligence collection, disruption of enemy money supply, and […]

Mimesis, Antisemitism, Terror

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How can we explain the virulence and brutality—the gratuitous barbarity—of Islamist mass-murder terrorism? More than ideology, more than neurosis, we should consider mimesis, rivalry and mimetic contagion. Some ten days before the attacks in Paris last November, the immortel René Girard died, bringing to an end a long and uniquely productive intellectual career. For decades, […]

Escalation of Palestinian violence

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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

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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 […]

Shalem Coulibaly, “Acephalic Terrorism, Antisemitism and Afro-Europeans”

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Feb. 4 “Acephalic Terrorism, Antisemitism and Afro-Europeans” Dr. Shalem Coulibaly, Senior Research Fellow ISGAP, New York Discussant: Nicole Lapierre, Research Director Emerita, CNRS, Edgar Morin Center Location: EPHE, Room 115 Time: 6:00-8:00 PM

Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations at the Simon Wiesenthal Center at ISGAP

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Dr. Shimon Samuel’s talk, “Antisemitic-Terrorism and ID Theft: A Two Pronged Zero-Sum Assault”, part of the ISGAP Seminar Series: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective will air tonight, Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 8PM EST on JBS & JBSTV.org.  The event took place at the ISGAP Center on Monday, October 27, 2014.   Click here to view the video.

Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center at ISGAP

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Seminar Series: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective “Antisemitic-Terrorism and ID Theft: A Two-Pronged Zero-Sum Assault” Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Monday, October 27, 2014

ISGAP Reacts to the Discovery of Murdered Israeli Teens

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New York, NY, June 30, 2014 – The Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, and the Koret Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Dr. Charles Asher Small is horrified by the murder of three Israeli teenage boys. The bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, 16, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, […]

ISGAP Special Event with Gregory Gordon

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Introductory Remarks by Charles Asher Small Title: “The Enemy Within: A Neo-Nazi Takeover in the American Heartland?” Speaker: Gregory Gordon, Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota and Director of the UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies. Date: February 6th, 2014 Location: ISGAP Offices

Gregory Gordon & Dan Michman — “The Enemy Within: A Neo-Nazi Takeover in the American Heartland?” | “Misunderstandings of the Phenomenon ‘Antisemitism’ in Some Recent Influential Studies of the Holocaust”

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Titles: “The Enemy Within: A Neo-Nazi Takeover in the American Heartland?” “Misunderstandings of the Phenomenon ‘Antisemitism’ in Some Recent Influential Studies of the Holocaust” Speakers: Gregory Gordon, Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota and Director of the UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies. Dan Michman, Bar-Ilan University; International Institute […]