We are looking forward to our international MENA-EURO FUTURE FORUM taking place tonight! Colleagues from Israel, North Africa and Europe will discuss: – current developments related to the normalization agreements between Morocco and Israel– MENA and MENA-EURO Cooperation – Approaches to combating hate speech and antisemitism
‘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
Kim Robin Stoller, Chair of IIBSA – Research & Education on Antisemitism: „The results are shocking. An in-depth analysis revealed the extent of the pro-Iranian terrorist propaganda network with a reach of millions of people“ The Jewish Chronicle about the uncovered Iranian twitter propaganda network. Antisemitic tweets are being used to grow support for the […]
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 […]
Friday, February 5th, 2021, 4:30 – 8:00 p.m. The Research Network RN31 “Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism” of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and the International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism (IIBSA) will hold a half-day workshop on “Intersectional Perspectives on Conspiracy Theories, Nationalism, Antisemitism and Racism in Europe” and “Contemporary Debates on […]
The Handbook for the practical use of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, co-authored by IIBSA chair Kim Robin Stoller. The handbook was commissioned by the European Commission and published jointly with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, with the support of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Download here The purpose […]
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 […]
Immediately after the claims that the right-wing terrorist “Atomwaffen Division” (AWD) in the US is disbanding, the “Atomwaffendivision Deutschland” (AWDD) published a statement and is still active. Since then, the AWDD is disseminating antisemitic and racist material online, in which it calls for the murder of Jews and Muslims. In the past, almost identical images […]
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 […]
Turkish authorities have reacted with harsh criticism to the current developments in the context of the Israeli government’s annexation plans. While the specificities of the plan have yet to be resolved, the AKP-led government in Turkey supported an extraordinary ministerial meeting by the Executive Committee of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), already on June […]
July 7, 2020, 6 PM CET Contemporary Antisemitism in the UK Philip Spencer, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University. July 14, 2020, 6 PM CET The Central Role of Esotericism in Antisemitism – A Case Study of Czech Republic and SlovakiaZbyněk Tarant, vice-chairman of the Department of Near-Eastern Studies, University of […]
Abstract Online antisemitism is hard to quantify. How can it be measured in rapidly growing and diversifying platforms? Are the numbers of antisemitic messages rising proportionally to other content or is it the case that the share of antisemitic content is increasing? How does such content travel and what are reactions to it? How widespread […]
Great day with young Moroccan blogger and Social Media influencer in Tangier (Morocco). We learned a lot about Jewish history, culture and antisemitism in Morocco. The next generation against antisemitism and hate speechThe event was jointly organized by Association Mimouna and IIBSA.
Yesterday we hosted the conference “A Transatlantic Wave of Antisemitism? Jew Hatred in Europe and the United States” with the Indiana University and the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum. 75 participants from the United States, several European countries and a number of local NGOs discussed contemporary forms of antisemitism across the USA and the European continent, its […]
The ESA RN31 Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism invites submissions of papers for the 14th ESA Conference in Manchester 2019.
With the Moroccan Association Mimouna, IIBSA conducted a three-day seminar with social media influencers in Morocco. The seminar focused on the role of “Social Media in promoting pluralism without discrimination in Morocco”, different types of Hate Speech, antisemitism, the Holocaust and the history of Jewish life in Morocco.The participants heard lectures from Andre Azoulay (Senior […]