Category: Highlights

ISGAP condemns the Middle East Studies Association’s (MESA) Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Resolution

https://isgap.org/post/2022/04/isgap-condemns-the-middle-east-studies-associations-mesa-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-bds-resolution/

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) joins other academic organizations and learned societies representing tens of thousands of scholars across the globe to voice its strong condemnation of the Middle East Studies Association’s (MESA) recent decision to endorse and implement a Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) resolution against  Israel and its universities. […]

Statement by ISGAP Chair Natan Sharansky on Russian forces bombing Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Site

https://isgap.org/post/2022/04/statement-by-isgap-chair-natan-sharansky-on-russian-forces-bombing-babyn-yar-holocaust-memorial-site/

STATEMENT BY ISGAP CHAIR NATAN SHARANSKY ON RUSSIAN FORCES BOMBING OF BABYN YAR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL SITE   BYHMC Advisory Board Chair Natan Sharansky: “Putin’s decision to distort and manipulate the Holocaust to justify an illegal invasion of a sovereign democratic country is utterly abhorrent. It is symbolic that he starts attacking Kyiv by bombing the […]

Dr. Charles Asher Small, “The Establishment of Contemporary Critical Antisemitism Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach”

https://isgap.org/post/2022/04/dr-charles-asher-small-the-establishment-of-contemporary-critical-antisemitism-studies-an-interdisciplinary-approach/

“The Establishment of Contemporary Critical Antisemitism Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach” Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge Date: Monday, January 24, 2022  Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Time

ISGAP Conference: Contemporary Jewry in Sub-Saharan Africa Symposium, The Voices of Jewish-African Leaders

https://isgap.org/post/2022/03/isgap-symposium-contemporary-jewry-in-sub-saharan-africa-symposium-the-voices-of-jewish-african-leaders/

Read the article by Daphne Klajman, Research and Programming Coordinator, ISGAP, which highlights the story of three of the speakers in the Jerusalem Post by clicking here. Throughout much of Africa, during the past fifty years, there has been a re-emergence of ancient Jewish communities, and a surge of new Jewish communities, both with increasing […]

Haras Rafiq, ISGAP’s Interim Manager – “In Texas: The target was Jewish, the motive antisemitism”

https://isgap.org/post/2022/03/in-texas-the-target-was-jewish-the-motive-antisemitism/

Millions of people around the world, including myself, spent much of our Saturday with our thoughts and prayers focused on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. As the events were unfolding, my thoughts went towards the anti-Semitic mass shooting that took place on Oct. 27, 2018, at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh. […]

RSVP: ISGAP-Woolf Institute Contemporary Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective International Seminar Series

https://isgap.org/post/2022/03/isgap-woolf-institute-contemporary-antisemitism-in-comparative-perspective-international-seminar-series/

As part of ISGAP’s landmark Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Discrimination and Human Rights at the Woolf Institute, we are pleased to announce the launch of the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Contemporary Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective International Seminar Series. The series will allow ISGAP Visiting Scholars to deliver their latest research to the broader Cambridge community. The programme will […]

ISGAP Quarterly Newsletter – Winter 2021

https://isgap.org/post/2022/03/isgap-quarterly-newsletter-winter-2021/

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ISGAP’s New Webinar Series: Join Here

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ISGAP-Woolf Institute Contemporary Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective International Seminar Series Convened by Chloe Pinto and Dr. Lev Topor Antisemitism in East and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective Convened by Dr. Mary J. Ainslie and Dr. Navras Aafreedi Antisemitism in Latin America in Comparative Perspective Convened by Dr. Judit Bokser Liwerant. Antisemitism in the Middle East […]

Sharansky urges Oberlin College to fire alleged Iran ‘war criminal’

https://isgap.org/post/2021/11/sharansky-urges-oberlin-college-to-fire-alleged-iran-war-criminal/

Sharansky urges Oberlin College to fire alleged Iran ‘war criminal’ By Benjamin Weinthal, Research Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies “The internationally famous freedom and democracy campaigner Natan Sharansky on Wednesday urged Oberlin College in Ohio to fire its scandal-plagued religion professor Mohammad Mahallati because of his alleged role in aiding the Islamic Republic of Iran […]

The Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK, to Host ISGAP Fellowship Training Programme

https://isgap.org/post/2021/10/the-woolf-institute-university-of-cambridge-uk-to-host-isgap-fellowship-training-programme/

The Woolf Institute, Cambridge (UK) – ISGAP has signed an agreement to create a Fellowship Training Programme at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK. ISGAP Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Charles Asher Small, is being appointed Director of the ISGAP Fellowship Training Programme in Contemporary Antisemitism Studies at the Woolf Institute. As part of the agreement, […]