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You can find below the curriculum for the course:Globalization and Antisemitism(s): Understanding the Contemporary Attack on Jewish Notions of Peoplehood and Democratic Principles . It consists of 10 modules and 10 quizes with a Bonus. It is strongly recommended that you read the pre-course readings.
- Introduction
- Module 1: Developing Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Dr. Charles Asher Small, ISGAP Executive Director; Academic Visitor St. Antony’s College, Oxford
- Quiz 1: Developing Critical Antisemitism Studies
- Congratulations-Proceed To Next Module
- Module 2: Measuring Antisemitism, Professor Emeritus Barry Kosmin, Trinity College, Hartford
- Quiz 2: Measuring Antisemitism
- Congratulations-Proceed To Next Module
- Module 3: Radical Antizionism, Dr. Joël Kotek, Free University of Brussels (ULB), Brussels, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
- Quiz 3: Radical Antisemitism
- Congratulations-Proceed To Next Module
- Module 4: Old and New Antisemitism in Islam: Agents of Change in Action, Dr. Dina Lisnyansky, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan
- Quiz 4: Old and New Antisemitism in Islam: Agents of Change in Action
- Congratulations-Proceed To Next Module
- Module 5: The Changing Nature of Middle East Geopolitics and Relations with the West, Professor Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv University
- Quiz 5: The Changing Nature of Middle East Geopolitics and relations with the West
- Congratulations-Proceed To Next Module
- Module 6: Fighting Antisemitism with the Tools of Law, Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
- Quiz 6: Fighting Antisemitism with the Tools of Law
- Congratulations-Proceed To Next Module
- Module 7: Contemporary Left Antisemitism, Dr. David Hirsh, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Quiz 7: Contemporary Left Antisemitism
- Congratulations-Proceed To Next Module
- Module 8: The Israelization of Antisemitism, Professor Yossi Shain, Tel Aviv University
- Quiz 8: The Israelization of Antisemitism
- Congratulations-Proceed To Next Module
- Module 9: Disguised Antisemitism: Antisemitic Israel–Bashing as a Critique of Zionism, Dr. Charles Asher Small, ISGAP Executive Director; Academic Visitor, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
- Quiz 9: Disguised Antisemitism: Antisemitic Israel–Bashing as a Critique of Zionism
- Congratulations-Proceed To Next Module
- Module 10: The Reach of the Muslim Brotherhood, Professor David Patterson, University of Dallas at Texas
- Quiz 10: The Reach of the Muslim Brotherhood
- Module 11: Antisemitism: Here and Now, Professor Emeritus Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University, Atlanta
- Quiz 11: Antisemitism: Here and Now
- Congratulations – Proceed for Bonus Videos!
- Bonus: A New Look at the 1948 War, Professor Benny Morris, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva
- Bonus: 3Ds and the IHRA Definition, Tools to Combatting Antisemitism; Natan Sharansky, ISGAP Chair, Jerusalem
- Bonus: Keynote Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Hoover Institution, Stanford
Module 1: Developing Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Dr. Charles Asher Small, ISGAP Executive Director; Academic Visitor St. Antony’s College, Oxford
In your first module for this course, Globalization and Antisemitism(s): Understanding the Contemporary Attack on Jewish Notions of Peoplehood and Democratic Principles, Dr. Charles Asher Small explores the importance of Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies and how developing them is vital in the battle against this ‘longest hatred’. Antisemitism is a complex and, at times, perplexing form of hatred. It has spanned centuries of history, infecting different societies, religious, philosophical and political movements, and even civilizations. Manifestations of antisemitism occur in numerous ideologically-based narratives and in constructed identities of belonging and Otherness such as race and ethnicity, as well as nationalist and anti-nationalist movements. In the contemporary context of globalized relations, it appears that antisemitism has taken on new complex and changing forms that need to be de-coded, mapped, and exposed.
Dr. Small gives an introduction to contemporary critical antisemitism studies by tracing a direct line from the most prominent post-modern scholars to political Islam, to antisemitism’s standing in the world today. He will discuss the paradoxical yet powerful red-green alliance in order to demonstrate the incipient antisemitic world they are cultivating, particularly in academia and social movements.
Readings for this lecture
- Charles Asher Small, Global Antisemitism: Crisis of Modernity (New York, 2014)
- Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996)
- Manuel Castells, The Power of Identity (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997)
- Theodore Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality (New York, Harper, 1950).