The Elizabeth and Tony Comper Interdisciplinary Center

The Elizabeth and Tony Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the University of Haifa is a university-based research center focusing on contemporary antisemitism, with international scholars and programs. Our mission is to foster open and robust academic discourse on contemporary antisemitism. 

News

Press Coverage

The conference took place in Haifa on July 7-9, 2026

Antisemitism Two Years After October 7

This collection of essays by Comper Center scholars explores the effects of October 7 and the war in...

“Genocide” Arguments and Counterarguments

Comper Center fellow Balazs Berkovits analyzes how accusations of genocide against Israel emerged in...

People

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Dr. David Barak-Gorodetsky, Director

Dr. David Barak-Gorodetsky is the head of the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Interdisciplinary Center for...

Jacob Laviel Dallal, Managing Director

Jacob Laviel Dallal is managing director of the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Interdisciplinary Center for...

Oren T. Dvoskin-Avidov

Oren T. Dvoskin-Avidov is the Project Manager for Artificial Intelligence and Antisemitism at the Elizabeth...

Glenn Levine, J.D

Glenn Levine, J.D Glenn Levine’s career spans law, business, agriculture, and government. He worked in...

Chagit Hirsch (Shvarzman)

Chagit Hirsch (Shvarzman) has extensive experience in various educational settings. She has been active...

Joe Yin

Joe Yin is a certified pastor at Cedar Park Christian Church (Assembly of God) in Kenmore, Washington,...

Gustavo Guzmán

Gustavo Guzmán is a historian specializing in antisemitism and Jewish history in Latin America and the...

Emma Pretzmann Feil

Emma Pretzmann Feil is a PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen were she researches the Jewish...

Ben M Freeman

Ben M. Freeman, founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, is a leader, public intellectual, and educator....

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour is an Egyptian-American intellectual specializing in modern intellectual history....

Dr. Dikla Yogev

Dr. Dikla Yogev is a sociologist currently holding a postdoctoral position at the University of Toronto....

Dr. Shlomi Balaban

Dr. Shlomi Balaban received his LL.B. and LL.M. (specializing in public law and international law) from...

Izabella Tabarovsky

Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary leftwing antisemitism. She is...

Dr. Stephanie Courouble-Share

Dr. Stephanie Courouble-Share is a historian specializing in contemporary history and a fellow at the...

Dr. Neil Bar

Neil Bar is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Haifa’s School of Political Science and...

Dr. Khinvraj Jangid

Dr Khinvraj Jangid is Associate Professor and Director of the Canter for Israel Studies, at Jindal School...

Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn

Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn is Senior Fellow at the Comper Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism...

Dr. Balázs Berkovits

Balázs Berkovits was trained as a philosopher and a sociologist in Hungary and France, and obtained a...

Christine Awad

Christine Awad is the Administrative Coordinator at the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Interdisciplinary Center...

Academic Publications & Longform Essays

Neil Bar

“Golden Dawn’s Antisemitic Meta-Conspiracy of Hate and the Defiance of European Norms”

Cambridge University Press, February 2026

Sara Yael Hirschhorn

“Israel in the Black-American Imagination from 1967 to October 7”
(Fall, 2025) Bienner Family Series, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

“The Enchantment of the Arab Mind,”
Mosaic Magazine, July 2025

Stephanie Courouble-Share

« Révisionnisme, négationnisme et distorsion de la Shoah>>
[“Holocaust revisionism, Holocaust denial, and Holocaust distortion: the search for a terminology through the evolution of Holocaust denial”], Revue d’histoire de la Shoah, n° 221, March 2025.