STARTING IN AN HOUR: Post-Soviet Antisemitism: Roots, Content and Contemporary Implications

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“Post-Soviet Antisemitism: Roots, Content
and Contemporary Implications”

Taught by Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin, ISGAP Research Fellow, Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University; Andrey Kazantsev-Vaisman, PSCR Program, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University.
STARTING 28 NOVEMBER 2023 AT 12 PM EST • 5 PM GMT • 7 PM IST
“Can antisemitism, including one of its most widespread stereotypes—the accusation of double loyalty (i.e., disloyalty to the country of residence)—no longer be considered a factor in post-Soviet Jewish life? Or, as recent developments, including the first Jewish pogrom in Russia after the USSR’s fall in October 2023, have shown, does it prove that the personal and communal security of Jewish life in Russia and some other USSR successor states is again in danger? The course will attempt to address these, as well as other related issues.”

Session 1: Antisemitism, Tolerance and Historical Memory in the Post-Soviet Space: An Overview, Ze’ev Khanin
The long economic crisis and social and political instability can poorly affect the tolerant (after the Soviet state antisemitism has faded into the past) attitude of the authorities and societies of the post-Soviet countries towards the Jewish minority.

Will be held on Tuesday, 28 November 2023 at 12:00 PM EST | 5:00 PM GMT | 7:00 PM IST

Session 2: Antisemitism as a Tool of Post-Soviet War, Ze’ev Khanin
The new round of the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict and the war in Ukraine both exhibit noticeable anti-Jewish aspects.

Will be held on Tuesday, 5 December 2023 at 12:00 PM EST | 5:00 PM GMT | 7:00 PM IST

Session 3: Antisemitism in Post-Soviet countries: Focus on Islamic Regions and South Caucasus, Andrey Kazantsev-Vaisman
In Turkic countries, remnants of Soviet-era Antisemitism coexist with anti-Semitic stereotypes characteristic of Islamic world. Within the representatives of local elites, vestiges of Soviet-style global conspiracy theories can still be observed

Will be held on Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 12:00 PM EST | 5:00 PM GMT | 7:00 PM IST

Session 4: Is Russia Shifting Towards State-Sanctioned Antisemitism?, Andrey Kazantsev-Vaisman
Currently, a matter of significant practical importance is whether post-Soviet Russia, under Putin’s leadership and following a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, is moving towards the establishment of a new state-sponsored Antisemitism.

Will be held on Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 12:00 PM EST | 5:00 PM GMT | 7:00 PM IST

Classes will be held virtually on Zoom. Recordings will be made available to registered participants who are not able to attend live sessions. Tuition fees of $100 USD apply. Limited student scholarships are available. To apply, please contact info@isgap.org.

STARTING NEXT WEEK: Post-Soviet Antisemitism: Roots, Content and Contemporary Implications

View this email in your browser
“Post-Soviet Antisemitism: Roots, Content
and Contemporary Implications”

Taught by Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin, ISGAP Research Fellow, Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University; Andrey Kazantsev-Vaisman, PSCR Program, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University.
STARTING 28 NOVEMBER 2023 AT 12 PM EST • 5 PM GMT • 7 PM IST
“Can antisemitism, including one of its most widespread stereotypes—the accusation of double loyalty (i.e., disloyalty to the country of residence)—no longer be considered a factor in post-Soviet Jewish life? Or, as recent developments, including the first Jewish pogrom in Russia after the USSR’s fall in October 2023, have shown, does it prove that the personal and communal security of Jewish life in Russia and some other USSR successor states is again in danger? The course will attempt to address these, as well as other related issues.”

Session 1: Antisemitism, Tolerance and Historical Memory in the Post-Soviet Space: An Overview, Ze’ev Khanin
The long economic crisis and social and political instability can poorly affect the tolerant (after the Soviet state antisemitism has faded into the past) attitude of the authorities and societies of the post-Soviet countries towards the Jewish minority.

Will be held on Tuesday, 28 November 2023 at 12:00 PM EST | 5:00 PM GMT | 7:00 PM IST

Session 2: Antisemitism as a Tool of Post-Soviet War, Ze’ev Khanin
The new round of the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict and the war in Ukraine both exhibit noticeable anti-Jewish aspects.

Will be held on Tuesday, 5 December 2023 at 12:00 PM EST | 5:00 PM GMT | 7:00 PM IST

Session 3: Antisemitism in Post-Soviet countries: Focus on Islamic Regions and South Caucasus, Andrey Kazantsev-Vaisman
In Turkic countries, remnants of Soviet-era Antisemitism coexist with anti-Semitic stereotypes characteristic of Islamic world. Within the representatives of local elites, vestiges of Soviet-style global conspiracy theories can still be observed

Will be held on Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 12:00 PM EST | 5:00 PM GMT | 7:00 PM IST

Session 4: Is Russia Shifting Towards State-Sanctioned Antisemitism?, Andrey Kazantsev-Vaisman
Currently, a matter of significant practical importance is whether post-Soviet Russia, under Putin’s leadership and following a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, is moving towards the establishment of a new state-sponsored Antisemitism.

Will be held on Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 12:00 PM EST | 5:00 PM GMT | 7:00 PM IST

Classes will be held virtually on Zoom. Recordings will be made available to registered participants who are not able to attend live sessions. Tuition fees of $100 USD apply. Limited student scholarships are available. To apply, please contact info@isgap.org.

The Good, The Bad, and Taking Action | CAEF Bulletin, November 24, 2023


Hostage Negotiations Underway in Israel

Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Chief Executive Officer Ambassador Mark D. Wallace and CEP President Frances F. Townsend released the following statement after the announcement of an agreement to release 50 hostages.

Counter Extremism Project

“The hostage return playing out over the following days will continue to highlight the brutal horrors inflicted by Hamas. October 7 was the worst act of violence against Jews since the Holocaust, and the decision to split up families will invoke yet more painful parallels.

We stand united with the victims and with the surviving families of hostages as they rejoice in the return of their loved ones. Yet this is not a day of celebration, and we demand the return of the approximately 190 other hostages kidnapped by Hamas.

Hamas must be held fully to account for the heinous barbarity of October 7. Hamas’ sponsors, the Al-Thani family, Qatar, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, should likewise be fully held to account. Without the Al-Thani’s money and harboring, and without Iran’s financing and military support, Hamas would not have been able to perpetrate the monstrous events of October 7.

Undoubtedly, the smiling Emir of Qatar will make the rounds of news outlets claiming credit for the hostages’ release, aided by his cadre of lobbyists, lawyers, and PR agents. No amount of Qatar’s hydrocarbon-funded propaganda should wash away the blood that stains the hands of the Al-Thanis and their signature investments and assets around the world: the Washington Wizards, Paris Saint Germain, Canary Wharf, CityCenterDC, The Connaught Hotel, Harrods, among hundreds of others.

For years, despite repeated calls to end their support for extremism, the Al-Thanis have hosted Hamas, funded Hamas, and provided the base for Islamic extremists. The Al-Thanis and Qatar must immediately detain and remand Ismael Haniyeh, Khaled Meshal and the Hamas Politburo into U.S. or Israeli custody, ensure the immediate return of all hostages, and end their support for Hamas and other extremist groups.

While we rejoice in the hoped-for return of Americans, including children whose parents were murdered in front of their eyes, the United States must not rely on hostage exchanges, payments, and facilitating negotiations with terrorists. Unless the United States reestablishes and sends a clear message of deterrence through targeted military action, the United States and its allies will continue to be the focus of such attacks by Hamas and the panoply of other Iran-sponsored terrorist partners and proxies. Hostage negotiations and ransom payments in the absence of deterring future attacks is a failed policy that guarantees that we will be mourning with other families after future terrorist attacks.”


What is the Hebrew word “hamas”?

The Hebrew word ḥāmās is a noun meaning an act of aggression, but especially involving physical contact. Hamas was founded in 1987; however, the biblical word “ḥāmās” or “violence” reaches back to the earliest chapters of Genesis and is one of the significant reasons for the flood.

Is it a coincidence or by design that the Arabic terrorist group acronym moniker of Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement), is also a chilling homophone in the Bible: violence.

Read Washington Times, Oct 18, 2023 linking the Bible and name of the terrorist group:

A conference marking 80 years since the deportation of Danish Jews to Theresienstad

Dear friends,

Beit Theresienstadt invites you to an online conference to mark the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Danish Jews to Ghetto Theresienstadt

Sunday, December 10th, 2023
At 17:30pm (Israel time)

With the participation of
HE Thomas Winkler, Ambassador of Denmark to Israel
HE Erik Ullenhag, Ambassador of Sweden to Israel
Dr. Orna Keren-Carmel
Dr. Dov Levitan

Register here:

BRIEFING TOMORROW

Dear Valdas,

Please join me again tomorrow at 10 AM Eastern Time for another briefing on the war in Israel.

Click on this link to register for tomorrow’s webinar.

A recording will be available for all those who register.  To see the recording of today’s webinar you can click here.  Due to the very high volume of questions that were submitted, and the short amount of time available, I was not able to answer all the questions.  I hope to address more of the questions tomorrow.

Best,

Brigadier General (res.) Amir Avivi
Founder and Chairman of IDSF Habithonistim

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