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Arab-American Rights Group’s New Legal Director Says Jews Fake Hate Crimes, Control America – Then Deletes Posts
The new legal director of one of the largest and most influential Arab-American rights advocacy groups in the US recently promoted classic antisemitic tropes on social media, claiming that American society is under “Zionist control” and that Jews routinely “fake” hate crimes against them. Jenin Younes, who in September was hired by the American‑Arab Anti‑Discrimination Committee (ADC) to be its …
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American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) legal director Jenin Younes. Photo: Screenshot

Refining Trump’s Higher-Education Reform
Refining Trump’s Higher-Education Reform
s with many things Trump, the administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” provoked accusations of authoritarian takeover of vital American institutions. And, as with many things Trump, the administration’s compact overreached in pursuit of a worthy goal, giving critics ammunition to oppose urgently needed reform. On Oct. 1, the Trump administration sent the compact to nine universities – …
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ISGAP Weekly Newsletter: Fighting Antisemitism on the Battlefield of Ideas
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„Anti-Semitism and the Demonization of Israel
on European Campuses”
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium

On November 11th, Dr. Charles Asher Small, ISGAP Founding Director and President, delivered a keynote address and moderated a panel discussion at an event which brought together policymakers, academic experts, students, and civil society representatives to address the growing challenges that Jewish students and those friendly to Israel face across European universities. It was organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Belgian Friends of Israel, hosted by Members of the European Parliament Lukas Mandl (EPP), Moritz Körner (Renew Europe/FDP), and Hannes Heide (S&D).

Click here to watch the openings and keynote speeches.

„Fifty Years Since UN Resolution 3379:
Examining the Negation of Jewish Identity and Peoplehood in Public and Institutional Discourse”
Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK
On November 12th, Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founding Director and President of ISGAP, was joined by Dr. Daniel Allington, Reader in Social Analytics at King’s College, to discuss the manifestations of contemporary antisemitism(s) fifty years following UN Resolution 3379, „Zionism is racism.” Dr. Small explored the normalization of antisemitism(s) in the denial and erasure of Jewish identity, peoplehood, and belonging. Dr. Allington critiqued the Eurocentric view of antisemitism and described adaptations of European antisemitic views in Islamist thought.

Dr. Charles Asher Small, DPhil (Oxon): Founding Director and President of ISGAP, and Director of the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Discrimination, and Human Rights at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK, and Research Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University.

Dr. Daniel Allington: Reader in Social Analytics, King’s College, London; Senior Associate Fellow, Counter Extremism Group; Deputy Editor, Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism.

Dr. Linda Blanshay (moderator), ISGAP Chief of Staff
„1975–2025: Confronting Antisemitism & Racism at the UN”
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

On November 13th, David Harris, ISGAP Executive Vice Chair and special guest to the United Nations, spoke about the urgent and continued efforts needed to confront antisemitism and racism in light of the 1975 UN resolution, „Zionism is racism.” The event was organized by the U.S. Mission to the UN in Geneva and the Forum for Cultural Diplomacy.