The Institute researches and advises on contemporary antisemitism, Islamism, and right-wing extremism from an international perspective. It promotes academic and practice-oriented exchange and develops concepts, programs, and approaches to overcome current problems.
The institute was founded in 2006 and is based in Berlin. It consists of a Board of Directors and the work areas Research, Communication, Academic Outreach, International Cooperation and Administration.
The Institute has conducted events, conferences, and research projects in Germany, Morocco, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Israel, and the United Kingdom.
Academic Cooperation Partners (Past and Present)
The Institute has collaborated with a variety of academic partners, including:
- Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University (Israel)
- Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL) of CNRS and École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
- Indiana University Europe Gateway in Berlin (Germany)
- Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) at Indiana University (USA)
- Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) (USA)
- Chair of Sociology at the University of Passau (Germany)
- London Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) (United Kingdom)
- Moses Mendelssohn Center (MMZ), Potsdam (Germany)
- Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) (Netherlands)
- Research Network RN31 “Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism” of the European Sociological Association (ESA)
- Spanish Research Council (CSIC) (Spain)
- The Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History in London (United Kingdom)
- Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) at Yale University (USA)
Other Cooperation Partners (Past and Present)
The Institute also collaborates with civil society, Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, reporting centers, think tanks, as well as Jewish national umbrella organizations and security organizations:
- Amadeu Antonio Foundation (Germany)
- American Jewish Committee, Berlin (AJC)
- Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
- Association Mimouna (Morocco)
- B’nai B’rith International Europe
- Federal Association of Research and Information Centers on Antisemitism (RIAS)
- Community Security Trust (CST) (United Kingdom)
- Dialogus (Morocco)
- European Parliament Working Group on Antisemitism (WGAS-EP)
- Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE) (Spain)
- Free Association of Student Bodies (FZS) (Germany)
- Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)
- Google Germany (Germany)
- Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Antisemitism (JFDA) (Germany)
- Jewish Community of Berlin (Germany)
- Jewish Student Union of Germany (JSUD) (Germany)
- Mémorial de la Shoah (France)
- Mémoire Collective (Morocco)
- Movement Against Intolerance (MCI) (Spain)
- Research and Information Center on Antisemitism Berlin (RIAS Berlin)
- RIF Siglo XXI (Morocco)
- Security and Crisis Center by European Jewish Congress (SACC-EJC)
- They Can’t (Israel)
- Yad Vashem (Israel)
- World Jewish Congress (WJC)
- Central Council of Jews in Germany (Germany)
Current and Past Sponsors of the Institute and its Projects
- Amadeu Antonio Foundation (Germany)
- Federal Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Antisemitism (Germany)
- Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France)
- European Sociological Association (ESA)
- Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah (FMS) (France)
- Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)
- Google Germany (Germany)
- Federal Agency for Civic Education, Berlin (Germany)
- Legacy Heritage Fund (USA)
- Mémorial de la Shoah (France)
- Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) (Germany)
- Central Council of Jews in Germany (Germany)
- Private foundations
Board of Directors
- Dr. Kim Robin Stoller is co-founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism (IIBSA), based in Berlin. Kim coordinates the Research Network “Ethnic relations, Racism and Antisemitism” of the European Sociological Association. Over the last 10 years Kim participated at expert meetings on antisemitism of the OSCE/ODIHR, the Inter-Parliamentary Group for Combatting Antisemitism, the Fundamental Rights Agency and the European Union and spoke at different state ministries and in the European Parliament. Kim has been coordinating networks and/or projects to confront antisemitism in several European countries, as well as in Morocco and Israel. Kims’ research expertise is on nationalism and antisemitism, antisemitism in the guise of hatred against Israel, strategies for confronting antisemitism, and antisemitism among Islamists and Arab nationalist movements. In 2025 her research on Combating Antisemitism and collective Identities in Morocco was published in the 21st Volume of the Interdisciplinary Studies on Antisemitism, edited by Stephan Grigat and Karin Stögner.
- Dr. Günther Jikeli is co-founder and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of IIBSA. Günther holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism/Borns Jewish Studies Program and is an associate professor at Germanic Studies at Indiana University. He received his doctorate from the Center for Research on Antisemitism at Technical University Berlin in 2011. He is a historian and sociologist of modern Europe, with particular interests in the history of antisemitism and in critical antisemitism studies. His research on “Anti-Israel Campus Groups: Online Networks & Narratives” with Daniel Miehling was released in 2025. His latest books “Von Damaskus nach Berlin. Antisemitismus unter syrischen Geflüchteten in Deutschland” [From Damaskus to Berlin. Antisemitism among Syrian refugees in Germany] and “Antisemitismus in Deutschland nach dem 7. Oktober 2023” [Antisemitism in Germany after October 7 2023] with Dr. Olaf Glöckner were published in 2025 with Georg Olmos Verlag. “Das neue Unbehagen. Antisemitismus in Deutschland heute” [The New Unease. Antisemitism in Germany Today] was published in summer 2019. In 2015, he published “European Muslim Antisemitism.” with IU Press. In 2013, he was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies. Günther’s academic work was recognized in 2019 by The Algemeiner as one of “The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life.” His research focuses on online and offline forms of contemporary antisemitism.
- Dr. Sylvia Degen has been a member of the Board of Directors of IIBSA since 2025. She is a translator and translation scholar and is also active in the field of Holocaust Education. Her scholarship underscores translation’s critical role in Holocaust comprehension, making translators’ work visible in historical knowledge systems. In 2008, she published ‘Das Problem der Perspektive’ (The Problem of the Perspective), a pioneering work on the problems of translating Holocaust survivor testimonies into German, the language of the perpetrators. In 2018, she published ‘Die Stimmen der Überlebenden, aber wessen Worte?’ (The Voices of Survivors, but Whose Words?), in which she critically reflects on power relationships influencing the translations of audiovisual survivor interviews used for educational purposes in renowned institutions and archives. Her work combines academic analysis, practical translation work and political commitment to an emancipatory culture of remembrance.