The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) was closed on July 31, 2011. This website is an archive of the official website upon its closure and is strictly for research archival purposes.
| 28 Apr 2011 | The Fourth Annual Professor William Prusoff Honorary Lecture featuring Dr. Charles Small “Globalization and Contemporary Antisemitisms: From Islamism as a Social Movement to the Acquiescence in the West” (Video Link) |
| 14 Apr 2011 | Professor Dovid Katz “The Unique and ‘Successful’ Antisemitism in the East of hte European Union” (Video Link) |
| 7 Apr 2011 | Professor Dorian F. Bell “A ‘Paradise of Parasites’: Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism, and the Legacies of Empire” (Video Link) |
| 3 Mar 2011 | Professor Moishe Postone “The Structuring Opposition of Capitalist Modernity; Notes on History, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust” (Video Link) |
| 24 Feb 2011 | Professor Stephen Norwood “Legitimating Nazism: American Universities and the Third Reich” (Video Link) |
| 10 Feb 2011 | Professor Daniel Tsadik “Some Notes on Antisemitism in Iran” (Video Link) |
| 3 Feb 2011 | Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias “Beyond the Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Committee and Its Response to Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 2 Dec 2010 | Professor Paul Lawrence Rose “Thinking About Antisemitism and Antisemitisms: Cultures, Emotions, Contexts” (Video Link) |
| 18 Nov 2010 | Professor Phyllis Chesler “How Scapegoating Israel Diminishes the Rights of Women in the Middle East” (Video Link) |
| 4 Nov 2010 | Dr. Nora Gold “I Don’t Know Why They Hate Us – I Don’t Think We Did Anything Bad To Hurt Them’: Jewish Girls in Toronto (aged 10-12) Reflect On Their Experiences of Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 28 Oct 2010 | Dr. Holger Knothe “Blurring the Boundaries: What is the ‘New’ in ‘New Antisemitism?’” (Video Link) |
| 21 Oct 2010 | Yaakov Kirschen “Memetics and the Viral Spread of Antisemitism Through ‘Coded Images’ in Political Cartoons” (Video Link) |
| 14 Oct 2010 | David Matas “Anti-Zionism at the UN Human Rights Council” (Video Link) |
| 7 Oct 2010 | Professor Gregory H. Stanton “Iran’s Anti-Jewish Incitement to Genocide Against Israel: Is the West Asleep Again?” (Video Link) |
| 26 Apr 2010 | Michael Whine “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back – Diplomatic Progress in Combating Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 22 Apr 2010 | The Third Annual Professor William Prusoff Honorary Lecture featuring Professor Asher Susser “Israel, Jordan and Palestine: One State, Two States or Three?” (Video Link #1) (Video Link #2) |
| 19 Apr 2010 | Professor Elhanan Yakira “Anti-Zionism as an Intellectual Phenomenon” (Video Link) |
| 13 Apr 2010 | Kenneth Stern “The New Interdisciplinary Field of Hate Studies and Its Relevance to Understanding and Combating Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 4 Mar 2010 | Berthe Kayitesi “Our World of Contradictions: Antisemitism, Antitutsism and Never Again” (Video Link) |
| 3 Mar 2010 | Dr. Gregg Rickman “The Jews of Yemen: The Last Exodus” (Video Link) |
| 9 Feb 2010 | Dr. Mordechai Kedar “The Graphics of Antismeitism in the Arab Media” (Video Link #1)(Video Link #2) |
| 4 Feb 2010 | Dr. Diana Gregor “Austria’s Marriage with Iran – Support for Nuclear Program Versus Historic Responsibility?” (Video Link) |
| 27 Jan 2010 | Anetta Kahane, Heike Radvan and Andres Nader “Neo-Nazis and Antisemitism in East and West Germany 20 Years after Reunification” (Video Link) |
| 22 Jan 2010 | Professor Robert Wistrich “A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad” (Video Link) |
| 3 Dec 2009 | Drs. Florette Cohen and Lee Jussim “The New Antisemitism Israel Model: An Empirical Approach to Modern Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 3 Dec 2009 | Cynthia Kamakazi “Genocide and the Assault on Memory: The Case of Rwanda” (Video Link) |
| 16 Nov 2009 | Professor David Menashri “Iran, the Middle East and the USA Following the Presidential Elections: A View From Jerusalem” (Video Link) |
| 12 Nov 2009 | Professor Ernest Sternberg “Purifying the World: What the Radical Anti-Empire Ideology Stands For” (Video Link) |
| 5 Nov 2009 | Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto “The ‘Jewish Conspiracy’: A Strategic Weapon to Demonize Jews and Delegitimize Israel” (Video Link) |
| 30 Oct 2009 | Professor Guang Pan “Jews in China: Legends, History and New Perspectives” (Video Link #1) (Video LInk #2) |
| 29 Oct 2009 | Shoaib Choudhury “Hate Speech and Political Islam: Root Cause of Religious Extremism, Terrorsm and Jihad” (Video Link) |
| 22 Oct 2009 | Ben-Dror Yemini “The Industry of Lies: Myths and Facts Regarding the Middle East Conflict” (Video Link #1) (Video #2) |
| 22 Oct 2009 | Jennifer Roskies “Missing from the Map: Feminist Theory and the Omission of Jewish Women” (Video Link) |
| 15 Oct 2009 | Professor Barry Rubin “How the PLO ‘Adapted’ Antisemitism as ‘Anti-Zionism’” (Video Link) |
| 14 Oct 2009 | Yaakov Kirschen “Antisemitism and the Power of Cartoons” (Video Link) |
| 8 October 2009 | Brandon Friedman “Iran: Ideology and Foreign Policy from Khomeini to Khamene’i” (Video Link) |
| 1 October 2009 | Orly Rahimiyan “Representations of Jews in Revolutionary Iran” (Video Link) |
| 23 April 2009 | Esther Webman “Continuity and Change in the Arab Holocaust Discourse” (Video Link) |
| 2 April 2009 | Yossi Klein Halevi “Jewish Theological Implications of the New Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 2 April 2009 | Benjamin Weinthal “German-Iranian Economic Relations to the Failure of Germany to Combat Iranian Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 1 April 2009 | Dr. Bassam Tibi “The Islamist Challenge to America: Anti-Americanism and Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 31 Mar 2009 | Corinna Guttstadt “Shifting Faces of Antisemitism in Turkey ” (Video Link) |
| 5 Mar 2009 | Catherine Chatterley “Western Culture, The Holocaust, and the Persistence of Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 19 Feb 2009 | Robert Wistrich “Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Contemporary World” (Video Link) |
| 12 Feb 2009 | Shimon Samuels“From Durban to Durban: Itendty Theft and Generic Hatred” (Video Link) |
| 5 Feb 2009 | Jeffrey Herf“Nazi Propaganda in and towards the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust” (Video Link) |
| 3 Feb 2009 | Benny Morris “1948 as Jihad” (Video Link) |
| 22 Jan 2009 | Kenneth L. Marcus“Antisemitism and Racism: Confronting Jew-Hatred in American Universities” (Video Link) |
| 22 Jan 2009 | Dr. Boaz Shapira, Senior Political Correspondent, Israeli Television Channel 1; Lecturer, (Video Link) |
| 4 DEC 2008 | Professor Brigitte Sion, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Program in Religious Studies and Department of Journalism, NYU “The Jew as a Bloodthirsty Butcher: Laws Banning Ritual Slaughter (Shechita)” (Video Link) |
| 20 NOV 2008 | Professor Paul Iganski, Professor, University of Essex; Lecturer, Lancaster University “Playing the ‘Nazi-card’: Antisemitic Discourse Against Israel” (Video Link) |
| 13 NOV 2008 | Melanie Phillips, Journalist and Author “The Demoralisation of Britain: Moral Relativism, the Church of England and the Jews ” (Video Link) |
| 23 OCT 2008 | Hamid Tehrani, Harvard Global Voices, Iran editor “Iranian Anti-Semitism on the Internet” (Video Link) |
| 25 SEP 2008 | Professor Richard Landes, Department of History, Boston University “The Naked Emperor and the First blood Libel of the 21st Century: The Al Durah Affair and the Dysfunctions of the Mainstream Media” (Video Link) |
| 24 APR 2008 | Professor Roni Stauber, Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University, “The Academic and Public Debate over the Meaning of the ‘New Antisemitism’” (Video Link) |
| 17 APR 2008 | Professor Gert Weisskirchen, Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Antisemitism, Spokesman on Foreign Affairs for the SPD Group OSCE (Video Link) |
| 3 APR 2008 | Professor Patrick Weil, Centre d’histoire sociale du siècle, Universite de Paris 2, “Dreyfus, Vichy, De gaulle, Chirac: Reflections on the French-Jewish Malaise” (Video Link) |
| 6 MAR 2008 | Professor András Gero, Central European University, Dept. of History: “Antisemitic discourse in Hungary following the collapse of Communism.” (Video Link) |
| 28 FEB 2008 | Professor Steven Smith, Yale University, “Leo Strauss as a Jewish Thinker.” (Video Link) |
| 7 FEB 2008 | Professor Seyla Benhabib, Yale University, “From the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’ to the ‘Origins of Totalitarianism’ and the Genocide Convention.: Adorno and Horkheimer in the Company of Arendt and Lemkin” . (Video Link) |
| 24 JAN 2008 | Professor Mark Gelber, Ben Gurion University, “Literary Antisemitism; Revisited: Paul de Man and Mel Gibson” Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Room A-002, 77 Prospect St. (Video Link) |
| 29 NOV 2007 | Professor Shalom Lappin, Kings College, University of London, “This Green and Pleasant Land: Britain and the Jews” (Video Link) |
| 15 NOV 2007 | Professor David Menashri, Tel Aviv University, “The Place of the Iranian Jewish Community in the Contemporary Islamic World (Video Link) |
| 8 NOV 2007 | Professor Kenneth Levin, Harvard University, “Varieties of ‘Jewish Antisemitism.” (Video Link) |
| 1 NOV 2007 | Hillel Neuer, Director, UN Watch, Geneva, ”The United Nations Anti-Israel Bias and its Relation to Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 18 OCT 2007 | Professor Walter Reich, George Washington University, “Never Again? When Holocaust Memory becomes Empty Rhetoric, Diplomatic Tool, and a Weapon against Israel” (Video Link) |
| 11 OCT 2007 | Professor Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University, “Antisemitic Hate Speech: Incitement to Violence in the Absence of a Marketplace of Ideas.”l (Video Link) |
| 20 SEP 2007 | David Hirsh, Goldsmiths College, University of London, “The Academic Boycott and the New Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 26 APR 2007 | Gerald Steinberg “NGOs & the Durban Strategy: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Distortion of Human Rights “(Video Link) |
| 24 APR 2007 | Michael Whine “The New Antisemitism and Security Threats to Jewish Communities” (Video Link) |
| 19 APR 2007 | Wolfgang Benz “Antisemitism as Phenomenon of Every Day Life in Contemporary Germany” (Video Link) |
| 12 APR 2007 | Ruth R. Wisse “Why Antisemitism Succeeds” (Video Link) |
| 29 MAR 2007 | James Woolsey “Contemporary Antisemitism: Two Enablers” (Video Link) |
| 8 MAR 2007 | Ron Rosenbaum “Thinking about the Unthinkable: The Rhetorical Strategies of Holocaust Deniers and the Prospect of a Second Holocaust” (Video Link) |
| 1 MAR 2007 | Bassam Tibi “Bringing Antisemitism Back to Europe: The Virus of Antisemitism in the European Diaspora of Islam” (Video Link) |
| 22 FEB 2007 | Gabriel Schoenfeld “The Return of Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 15 FEB 2007 | Michael Keith “Geopolitics on the Street: Transnationalism, the Political Imaginary and a Personal Account of Contemporary London’s Elections” (Video Link) |
| 8 FEB 2007 | Yigal Carmon “The Iranian Regime and Genocidal Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 25 JAN 2007 | Antony Polonsky “Poles, Jews, and the Problems of Divided Memory” Jan Gross – “Polish Anti-semitism after Auschwitz” (Video Link) |
| 7 DEC 2006 | Guy Raz “Covering Antisemitism: From Nazi Germany to the Modern Middle East, A Reporter’s Notebook” (Video Link) |
| 30 NOV 2006 | Matthias Kuntzel “Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East” (Video Link) |
| 9 NOV 2006 | Milton Shain “Continuities, Discontinuities and Contingencies: Anti-Alienism, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in 20th Century South Africa ” (Video Link) |
| 2 NOV 2006 | Roya Hakakian “The Case of Iranian Jews Today: Limits of the Term Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 19 OCT 2006 | Jonathan Brent “The Uses of Antisemitism in Russia’s New/Old Cold War” (Video Link) |
| 12 OCT 2006 | Irwin Cotler “Human Rights and the New Anti-Jewishness” (Video Link) |
| 28 SEP 2006 | James Carroll “The Church and the Jews: The Lessons of History” (Video Link) |
| 4 MAY 2006 | Dina Porat “New Antisemitism: The Tension Between Its Classical and Political Aspects” (Video Link) |
| 27 APR 2006 | Deborah Lipstadt “Holocaust Denial from David Irving to Iranian Conferences: Flat Earth Theory or a Clear and Present Danger?” (Video Link) |
| 20 APR 2006 | Martha Nussbaum “The Hindu Right in India and its Debt to German Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 6 APR 2006 | Alvin H. Rosenfeld “Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Antisemitism” (Video Link) |
| 30 MAR 2006 | Emanuele Ottolenghi “Neither Auschwitz nor The Brotherhood of Mankind: Reflections on the Current State of European anti-Semitism” (Video Link) |
| 23 MAR 2006 | Robert Satloff “In Search of Righteous Arabs: Heroes & Villains of the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands” (Video Link) |
| 2 MAR 2006 | Morton Weinfeld “Anti-Semitism in Quebec and Quebec Anti-Semitism: A Hybrid of Tradition and Globalization” (Video Link) |
| 16 FEB 2006 | Reverend Dr. Frederick J. Streets “A Critical Look at ‘isms’” (Video Link) |
| 2 FEB 2006 | Irshad Manji “Muslim Anti-Semitism: Why It’s Not about Israel” (Video Link) |
| 26 JAN 2006 | Michael Oren “Arab Antisemitism: Indigenous Phenomenon or Foreign Import?” (Video Link) |
| 19 JAN 2006 | Benny Morris “The Failure of Middle East Peacemaking, 2000 CE in Historical Perspective” (Video Link) |
| 1 DEC 2005 | Edward Kaplan “Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Antisemitism in Europe: A Statistical Study” (Video Link) |
| 17 NOV 2005 | Barry Kosmin “Judeophobia and the New European Extremism” (Video Link) |
| 10 NOV 2005 | David Hirsh “Antisemitism and the Left” (Video Link) |
| 20 OCT 2005 | Irving Abella “Old Wine in New Bottles: Old and New Antisemitism in Canada” (Video Link) |
| 6 OCT 2005 | Anne Bayefsky “Antisemitism, Israel and the United Nations” |
| 29 SEP 2005 | Mark R. Cohen “Antisemitism under Crescent and Cross in the Middle Ages” |