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‘Hostility from All Directions’: The Algemeiner article discusses the new RIAS report on antisemitism in Germany: https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/28/hostility-from-all-directions-national-report-confirms-rise-in-german-antisemitism-fueled-by-pandemic “Danger to Jews comes from many sides: conspiracist milieu during the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Israel activists during escalations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, plus the constant threat from right-wing extremism,” said Benjamin Steinitz, executive director of RIAS. “Antisemitism is still […]

The Handbook for the practical use of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, co-authored by Kim Robin Stoller (IIBSA – Research & Education on Antisemitism), Daniel Poensgen and Benjamin Steinitz (Bundesverband der Recherche- und Informationsstelle Antisemitismus RIAS e.V.) and Michael Whine (World Jewish Congress WJC), is now available in German: Download here The handbook was […]

Günther Jikeli, Vice-Chair of IIBSA, in The Algemeiner: https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/15/an-appeal-to-politicians-journalists-and-scholars-stop-excusing-jew-haters An Appeal to Politicians, Journalists, and Scholars: Stop Excusing Jew Haters

The Israel-based Online Antisemitism Task Force has identified more than 1.000 accounts that share or amplify pro-Iranian propaganda on Twitter. Most of these accounts are still online Support for Islamist terrorist organizations and antisemitism are an integral part of the tweets Expert Kim Robin Stoller of the Berlin-based International Institute for Education and Research on […]

Speaker: Günther Jikeli, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of IIBSA, Erna B. Rosenfeld Professor at Indiana University’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at the Borns Jewish Studies Program and associate professor in Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University. Chair: Kim Robin Stoller, Chair of the Board of Directors, IIBSA. How […]

Speaker: Ildikó Barna, Associate Professor of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences in Budapest where she also serves as a Head of the Department of Social Research Methodology. Co-author: Árpád Knap Chair: Grischa Stanjek, Director of Communications, IIBSA. It is well-known that Jews have been accused many times throughout the history […]

Speaker: Zbyněk Tarant, vice-chairman of the Department of Near-Eastern Studies, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic. Chair: Kim Robin Stoller, Chair of the Board of Directors, IIBSA. When debating the issue of conspiracy theories and “fake-news”, we often tend to overlook the genuine quasi-religious nature of the conspiracist myths. In fact, most conspiracy […]

Speaker: Philip Spencer, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University and co-author with Robert Fine of Anti-Semitism and the Left: On the return of the Jewish Question, Manchester University Press, 2017. Chair: Kim Robin Stoller, Chair of the Board of Directors, IIBSA. It is well-known that antisemitism can take different forms at […]