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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, 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, 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 5: The Changing Nature of Middle East Geopolitics and Relations with the West, Professor Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv University
This lecture will touch upon the critical geopolitical events in Israel’s history and its main enemies and supporters. Once these are established, Professor Uzi Rabi explores different possibilities for solutions to the conflict as well as their downfalls, and what the future might look like for the Jewish Nation and its neighbors.
Readings for this lecture
- Uzi Rabi, “The Post-Arab Spring Middle East: Root Causes, Regional Order, and Israel’s Evolving Foreign Policy”
- David Patterson, A Genealogy of Evil: From Nazism to Islamic Jihad. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2010
- Uzi Rabi, Brandon Friedman, “Weaponizing Sectarianism in Iraq and Syria,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2017
- Maajid Nawaz, Radical: My Journey Out of Islamic Extremism (Guilford, Ct.: Globe Pequot Press, 2013)
- Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Extremism (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005)
- Abdullah Saeed and Hassan Saeed, Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004)
- Abdolkarim Soroush, Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam (Oxford University Press, 2000)