Indiana University to Hold Major Anti-Semitism Conference

Starting this weekend, The Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism at Indiana University (ISCA) will host its third international scholars conference, from Saturday evening, April 3 through Wednesday, April 7, on “Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Dynamics of Delegitimization.” LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus will chair a panel on Tuesday, April 5, with Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaking on The New Supersessionism: ID Theft of the Jewish Narrative, and Richard Landes, a professor and historian at Boston University, speaking on The Global Progressive Left, Anti-Zionism, and Secular Supersessionism.

The conference will bring together about 70 scholars from 15 countries, and aims to explore the thinking that informs contemporary anti-Zionism and to clarify the ties such thinking may have with anti-Semitism and broader ideological, political, and cultural currents of thought.

Dr. Alvin Rosenfield , a member of the Brandeis Center’s legal advisory board and director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism is leading the conference.,

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In addition to Dr. Rosenfield, LDB is pleased to have connections to many of the other speakers and participants. Irwin Cotler, the LDB Legal Advisory Board Honorary Chair, will give a keynote address at a dinner event on April 3, on Global Anti-Semitism, Demonization, and the Laundering of Delegitimization Under Universal Public Values. Additionally, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a member of LDB’s academic advisory board ,will speak about campus anti-Semitism on the morning of April 4th. LDB academic advisory board members Dina Porat and Catherine Chatterley will speak on Vatican-Jewish Relations Following the Holocaust and The Effects of Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, and Anti-Israel Politics on Contemporary Holocaust Education and Memorialization later on that same day.

More information can be found here: http://www.indiana.edu/~iscaweb/docs/isc_agenda_2016-03-07.pdf