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  • The Battle Against BDS Proponent Roger Waters, Amy Spiro, The Jerusalem Post, June 12, 2017
    • Behind almost every act canceling a scheduled show in Israel stands one man: Roger Waters…But now one group is fighting back, trying to stage a boycott of Waters himself. Charles Asher Small, the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, is behind the new site and campaign. “Roger Waters is the leader of the BDS movement at the cultural level,” Small told The Jerusalem Post on Monday, referring to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement by its initials. “He uses some of the most horrific old forms of antisemitic tropes about Jewish power and about Israel being an apartheid state.”
  • New Wave of Antisemitism Discussed at Aventura Synagogue, Sergio Carmona, Sun Sentinel, June 2, 2017
    • “It’s good that the community is beginning to engage in the issue and take it seriously. I think more and more people are aware there’s a problem. Once you realize there’s a problem and begin to understand, we can fight it and defeat it.”
  • Watchdog Organization Calls on Gorka to Renounce Hungarian Group’s Ideology, JNS, May 1, 2017
    • In January, when attending President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Gorka wore a medal awarded to his father by the Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian organization associated with extreme nationalism, fascism and antisemitism, noted Dr. Charles Asher Small, director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).He added, “With the resurgence of anti-Semitism, as well as xenophobia, extreme nationalism throughout much of Europe, and the war against reactionary social movements, Mr. Gorka must speak with clarity on this matter, and distance himself from this repugnant ideology that is once again resurfacing in his native Hungary.”
  • The Johnny Appleseed of Judeophoba Studies, Sam Sokol, The Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2016
    • “We’re trying to create a space to study contemporary antisemitism, where faculty and students can come to a classroom, get informed reading lists and references, and have informed discussions and debates and even arguments in a rational high-caliber academic way.”
  • German Paper Uses Nazi Language to Blame Israel for Palestinian Terrorism, Benjamin Weinthal, The Jerusalem Post, January 30, 2016
    • Dr. Charles Small, a New York-based academic who oversees the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy, said in an interview, “It is disheartening to see SZ increasingly promote anti-Semitic tropes. The latest trend is to minimize and justify Palestinian terrorism against Jews, as an expected result of the conflict.”
  • Jews ‘Stuck In Middle’ In A Changing Europe,  Stewart Ain, The Jewish Week, January 6, 2016
    • Today’s antisemitism focuses on attacking Jewish notions of peoplehood. For the last two generations, Israel has been delegitimized and denigrated by European and Western intellectuals and journalists. This delegitimization argues that Israel is a racist or an apartheid Nazi state. If this is true, then Jewish communities in the diaspora and young students in liberal university environments who express any connection to Israel and the Jewish people or who have strong religious and cultural ties to the land are vulnerable to the same dehumanization and antisemitism. This is an affront not just to Jewish communities and students but also to the very fabric of democratic societies and values.
  • At Holocaust Remembrance Day, Iran Cartoon Contest Has Policy Implications, JNS, January 27, 2016
    • While millions of people around the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, an Iranian government-sponsored Holocaust cartoon contest was in the works. This year’s competition is not the first of its kind, but carries added significance in the aftermath of last summer’s nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 nations.
  • A New War Against the ‘Oldest Hatred’, Phyllis Chesler, The New York Post, March 19, 2015
    • The Yale program was superb; experts there examined contemporary Islamic Jew- and infidel-hatred and terrorism in new academic ways — that is, openly and honestly. That doomed it. The program was squashed and [Dr. Small] was forced out by leftist pressure and a campaign by Arab and pro-Palestinian students, faculty and advocates. Now, he’s back, and his new effort is also seeing success. The institute is proving a powerful force, one the Western academic world (not surprisingly) abhors. He’s offering a rigorous scholarly program dedicated to the study of contemporary global antisemitism. Antisemitism may be the “oldest hatred,” but no such program focusing on its current-day manifestation has ever before existed.
  • PLO Ambassador Endorses Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The Jerusalem Post, July 7, 2015
    • The Jewish people does not exist, PLO Ambassador to Chile Imad Nabil Jada’a told an audience during a talk he gave in Santiago this May, according to a video released by the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy. “We know from history that antisemitism begins with Jews but never ends with Jews,” said Dr. Charles Small, the director of ISGAP.
  • ‘Institutional Anti-Semitism’ Exists in the US, Expert Says, Sam Sokol, The Jerusalem Post, February 19, 2015
    • “I think that the American Jewish organizational establishment is more willing to speak clearly on European antisemitism [than] what is going on in the United States,” [Dr. Small] said. “It is easier to look at the antisemitism far away than it is to look at the antisemitism within American society.”
  • Conversation with Dr. Charles Asher Small, Cindy Mindell, The Jewish Ledger, November 12, 2014
    • Americans should be very concerned about what’s happening at universities. The attack on Jewish notions of peoplehood has become an open sport in the curricula of the finest universities in this country.
  • Canada supports the seminar ‘Discrimination: Obstacle to Chile’s Development’, Embassy of Canada in Chile, October 28, 2013
    • Canadian expert Charles Asher Small, Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) in New York and of the Koret Distinguished Scholar at Hoover Institution, Stanford University, made the inaugural speech on Canadian multiculturalism and on Canada’s commitment to human rights… He demonstrated the crucial importance of multiculturalism for the formation of democratic, peaceful and stable societies. He also discussed the laws against discrimination and for freedom of expression in Canada and the United States.
  • Q&A with Charles Asher Small…Former YIISA Director Creates an Academic Network to Expand the Scholarly Exploration of Modern-Day Antisemitism, Cindy Mindell, The Jewish Ledger, September 10, 2012
    • Contemporary antisemitism, like previous forms of antisemitism, is genocidal in nature, and it is not just a problem for Jews or Israeli Jews but also for those who care about human rights and democracy and human decency. Antisemitism begins with Jews but never ends with Jews.
  • Yale’s New Jewish Quota, Ron Rosenbaum, Slate Magazine, July 1, 2011
    • To many observers, both inside and outside Yale, killing the program seemed a shockingly ill-considered act… And considering Yale’s well-known anti-Semitic past—the university long had a “Jewish quota,” allowing in only a limited number of Jewish students per year, that it abandoned only in the 1960s—the decision is a shameful one.
  • Yale Prof Sounds Alarm Over New Antisemites, Johanna Ginsberg, New Jersey Jewish News, November 11, 2009
    • Dr. Charles Asher Small, a Yale University scholar with a background in social theory and human rights work, sounded alarm bells on rising antisemitism in the guise of anti-Zionism.
  • Charles Small, Yale, Responds to British Academic Union’s Boycott of Israel, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), June 1, 2007
    • “Scholarship is intended to be based on an honest search for truth that examines all sides of a given issue and context,” Small says. “The fact that the UCU voted to reject this basic premise and boycott Israeli scholars and academic institutions goes against the very nature of real scholarship.”
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Op-Eds

  • On Cockroaches, Apes and Genocide, Charles Asher Small, The Times of Israel, April 19, 2014
    • [T]oday, the tactics of incitement and dehumanization are once again on the world stage without meaningful protest by the international community. Overt calls by the Iranian Regime, and other radical Islamists to annihilate the Jewish state; references to Israel as a cancer and the Jewish people as “dogs”, “bacteria”, “pigs”, “apes” have been met with collective indifference. Where is the leadership against this outrage? Once again, the world, and much of our human rights gatekeepers in academia, are silent. How many times do we hear that unreflective dismissive cliche espoused by pseudo intellectuals that criticism of Israel can not be antisemitism? Yet few take the time to understand the antisemtism central to the ideology of the Iranian Revolutionary Regime and other radical Islamists, which consists of the amalgamation of a reactionary theology fused with the most pernicious forms of European antisemitism — including the incorporation of the themes of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
  • Violence Erupts When You Tolerate Antisemitism, Charles Asher Small, The Daily Beast, April, 14, 2014
    • Let us be vigilant and uproot this ideology that creates an atmosphere of intolerance and empowers haters everywhere.
  • Sleeping Through The Revolution: Hagel Nom Shows Obama’s Soft Stance on Antisemitism, Charles Asher Small, Breitbart News, January 7, 2013
    • Incitement to genocide against the Jewish people is a basic tenet of radical political Islamism. President Obama and his Administration must confront it head on. Surely he knows the core lesson of the civil rights movement: that blaming the victim only emboldens those who hate. To be blunt, the President can take a principled stand in support of human rights and against antisemitism. Or he can allow the forces of intolerance to aggregate even more power.
  • Antisemitism and Unholy Alliance, Charles Small, Ynet, January 21, 2007
    • In the spirit of Martin Luther King it is time we all take responsibility for our actions as well as our non-actions, and confront this contemporary manifestation of the “longest hatred”: anti-Semitism.
  • YIISA:The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism: Statement from Charles Asher Small, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), June 20, 2011
    • “We believe that the role of a true scholar and intellectual is to shed light where there is darkness. It is a responsibility of scholars to understand the implications of antisemitism on society, nationally as well as internationally.”
  • Charles Small of Yale Responds To Kuentzel Cancellation At Leeds, Charles Small, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), March 21, 2007
    • “Academic freedom and freedom of speech are basic pillars of democratic societies. They are fragile and must be protected in a conscious and deliberate manner. It is incumbent upon your Offices to ensure that Dr. Kuentzel has the right to give his lecture, and the Leeds academic community are able to listen to and engage Dr. Kuentzel’s ideas.”