Day and Time (Israel time)

Stream 1: Student Building 001

Stream 2 : Student Building 101

Tuesday July 7

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

P01: GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM

• How the Palestinian Movement’s Historic Refusal of a Jewish State Fuels Contemporary Antisemitism – A Perspective from Chilean Parliamentary Experience – Daniel Farcas (Bar Ilan University)

• Shared Struggles? Native American Solidarity with Palestine and the Politics of Comparison – Salome Richter (Trier University)

• Contemporary Antisemitism: Global Discourses, Political Dynamics, and Emerging Challenges: Exploring Identity, Technology, Education, and Society in the 21st Century – Manish Kumar Yadav (Adikeih, College of Business and Social Sciences, NHERI-Asmara University, Eritrea)

• Muslim Clerics on Zionism and Jews – Elad Ben David (INSS-ISGAP)

Chair: Anja Schmidt-Kleinert (Philips University of Marburg)

P02: MUSLIM ANTISEMITISM I

• Antisemitism and Islam: On the Religious Dimension of October 7 – Matthias Küntzel (Independent Researcher and Book Author)

• Delegitimizing the Jewish State: How Al-Azhar Sunni Islam’s Highest Authority Weaponsed Religious Discourse Post-October 7 – Michael Barak (Reichman University)

• The Three-Headed Hydra: Antisemitism in Modern Arab Thought – Tom Khaled Würdemann (Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies)

• Jewish Threat Perceptions and the “Blame Game” over Islamist Antisemitism in Germany – Niklas Herrberg (Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany)

Chair: Stephen Pogany (University of Warwick) 

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

P09: NATURALIZING ANTISEMITISM

• Antisemitism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in the International Climate Movement – Kathrin Renz (University of Passau)

• Climate Change and Antisemitism – Charlie Kaufhold (International Psychoanalytic University)

• Against the “Natural Order”: Antisemitism, Anti-Vaxx Ideology, and Historical Revisionism – Isolde Vogel (Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance)

Chair: Robert Litman (Gratz College)

P10: DEFINITIONS

• The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism – Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University)

• Settler Colonial Studies: Ideology and Violence – Derek Spitz (One Essex Court)

• Israel, Antisemitism, and the Ideological Clash: Toward a New Theoretical Framework – Nikolay Tabah (Haifa University)

Chair: Stacey Aviva Clark (Gratz College)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

S02: BUILDING A NETWORK: RESEARCH ADDRESSING ANTISEMITISM

·         David Hirsh (London Centre/Goldsmiths, University of London)

·         Ayal Feinberg (Gratz College)

·         David Barak-Gorodetsky (Comper Center, University of Haifa)

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

S03: ANTISEMITISM AND SPORTS

Discussion:

·         David Hirsh ((London Centre/Goldsmiths, University of London)

·         Adam Dickson (Durham University)

Moderator: Oren Dvoskin ( Comper Center, Unversity of Haifa)

P15: USA/POLITICS

• Continuities and Discontinuities in Anti-Jewish Politics: A Constructivist Approach – Shaul Kelner (Vanderbilt University)

• Chicago 1967 to Chicago 2024: Israel, Radicalism, and War from the National Conference for New Politics to the Democratic National Convention – Sara Hirschhorn (Comper Center, University of Haifa)

• The Relationship between Populism and Antisemitism: New Data from the United States – Chad Alan Goldberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Antisemitic Surges in the United States Track Military Campaigns Against Israel – Michael Barlev (Arizona State University)

Chair – David Barak-Gorodetsky (Comper Center, University of Haifa)

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

S04: BE A REFUSNIK: A JEWISH STUDENTS’ SURVIVAL GUIDE – BOOK LAUNCH

Discussion:

·         Natan Sharansky

·         David Hazony

·         Izabella Tabarovsky

P21: ANTISEMITISM AND EDUCATION: FROM GOAL TO OUTCOME – TAGLIT-BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL PANEL

This panel, led by expert Taglit-Birthright Israel educator Dr. Zohar Raviv and award-winning journalist Zvika Klein, explores the critical intersection of educational strategy and the fight against global antisemitism.

Discussion: 

• Zohar Raviv
• Zvika Klein
• Lily Minkoff

7:00 PM – 9:30PM

OPENING PLENARY

Greetings: David Barak-Gorodetsky, Gur Alroey, Eyal Ostrinsky

Opening Remarks: Irwin Cotler

Lifetime Achievement Award: Dina Porat

Keynote Address: Deborah Lipstadt

Launch of the Contemporary Antisemitism Studies Association (CASA): David Hirsh, Ayal Feinberg, David Barak-Gorodetsky

Wednesday July 8

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

P28: GENOCIDE ACCUSATIONS

• The PLO and the Roots of the Genocide Accusation against Israel – Norman Goda (University of Florida)

• The Elusive Genocide: Gaza through International Law and History – Joel Kotek (Jonathas Institute)

• Antisemitism in Settler Colonial Studies and “The Written Resistance” – André Swanström (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

Chair: Gerald Steinberg

P29: ANTIZIONISM

• Protocols of the Elders of Anti-Zion: The Global Conspiracy Against the Jews – Andrew Pessin (Connecticut College)

• On Jew Hatred – Rona Kaufman (Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University)

• American Anitzionism – Shaul Kelner (Vanderbilt University) 

Respondent: David Hirsh

Chair: Derek Spitz

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

P36: PUBLIC POLICY

• Jewish Response to Antisemitism – Avi Benlolo (The Abraham Global Peace Initiative)

• Has a Rubicon Been Crossed? Scenarios for Jewish Life in the West Post-October 7 – Jacob Dallal (Comper Center, University of Haifa)

• Beyond Hatred: Mapping Pro-Jewish and Pro-Israel Allies in the Global Struggle Against Antisemitism – Aharon Ariel Lavi (The Ohr Torah Interfaith Center)

• Two Camps, One Front: Aligning Jewish Conservatism and Liberalism Against Antisemitism – Inbal Ratz Gilmore (Yachad Israel-Breaking Barriers Initiative)

Chair: Jacob Dallal

P37: ERASIVE ANTISEMITISM

• Erasing Jewish History: The Denial of Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage and the Colonial Framing of Israel – Marc Neugröschel (St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge)

• The Battle Over Jewish Identity: Erasive Jew-Hate in the British Left – Ben Freeman (Comper Center, University of Haifa)

• Hate and Morality – Tanja Ehmann (Catholic University of Applied Sciences Berlin, KHSB)

Chair: Katie Posey

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

S07: ACADEMIC KEYNOTE: CRITICAL THEORY, 7 OCTOBER AND THE CRITIQUE OF ANTISEMITISM AND SEXISM

Critical Theory, 7 October and the Critique of Antisemitism and Sexism – Karin Stögner (University of Passau)

Respondent: Balazs Berkovits (Comper Center, University of Haifa)

2:15 PM – 3:45 PM

P44: MAKING A CHANGE: POLICY ON CAMPUS AND BEYOND

• Confronting Antisemitism on US College Campuses: What Do We Know and What We Do? – Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University)

• On the Front Lines of Jewish Advocacy: Making Sense of Antisemitism Data at AJC – Laura Shaw Frank (American Jewish Committee)

• When Protection Fails to Transfer: Institutional Betrayal and the Title IX/Title VI Double Standard – Sagit Sade Attia (Israeli American Council)

Chair: Amira Halperin

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

S08: INTERFAITH AND ANTISEMITISM: RESPONSES THAT UNITE US
This moderated conversation explores collaborative, interfaith frameworks for countering contemporary antisemitism and religious prejudice across the West and the Middle East.

Georgette Bennet Iman Atta (Director | Tell MAMA)

Jules Freeman (LCSCA and TAU)

Moderator: David Barak-Gorodetsky (Comper Center, University of Haifa)