The Official ISCA Podcast

Sunday, January 25, 2026. In this episode, Robert Katz discusses, "From Religion to Race to Ethnicity: The Evolving Legal Protection of Jews in American Anti-Discrimination Law.” Professor Robert Katz is Professor of Law and John S. Grimes Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is also an Affiliate Faculty Member at Indiana University’s Institute for the...

Sunday, January 18, 2026. In this episode, Judea Pearl discusses his recently published book, "Coexistence and Other Fighting Words." Dr. Judea Pearl   is the Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory. He is known internationally for his contributions to artificial intellig...

December 03, 2025. "How Memory of the Holocaust is Used against Jews Today" - Marlene Gallner Marlene Gallner is a Visiting Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. She is one of the editors of sans phrase. Zeitschrift für Ideologiekritik, the Vienna-based biannual German-language journal dedicated to social and cultural analyses in the tradition of...

November 12, 2025. “The Gentileman’s Agreement: Patterns Between Misogyny and Antisemitism” - Talia Rockman This talk explores the structural parallels between misogyny and antisemitism, and the related valuation of women and Jews for their symbolic and material service, rather than as human beings. Through secondary data analysis of interviews with Jewish faculty members on Canadian campuses, fro...

October 29, 2025. Yael Silverstein (Columbia University) - "Ambient Antisemitism and the Struggle for Belonging: Insights into University Environments"This talk presents findings from a multi-university study examining how different forms of antisemitism affect Jewish students, faculty, and staff. It shows that belonging is most strongly undermined by ambient antisemitism— institutionali...

October 16, 2025. Lev Topor (Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo / ISGAP) - "Artificially Amplified: Challenges and Complexities of Dealing with Online and AI-Enhanced Antisemitism" This lecture examines the emerging threat posed by AI-generated content in fueling antisemitism across digital platforms. Focusing on synthetic media such as deepfakes, forged images, and auto-generated texts,...

Sunday, October 12, 2025. In this episode, Pamela Nadell discusses her recently published book, "Antisemitism, an American Tradition." Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History and is Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University in Washington, DC. She is the author of  America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Tod...

September 10, 2025. Matheus Alexandré (Federal University of Ceará)  - “Contemporary Left-Wing Antisemitism in Brazil: Discourses and Representations in the Portal Brasil 247” This talk analyzes rhetorical strategies and ideological tropes in Brazilian leftist media following October 7. Focusing on Brasil 247, it explores how Critical Discourse Analysis can uncover patterns linking antisemitism an...

September 3, 2025. Batsheva Neuer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - "Framing Israel: Antisemitism and the Postcolonial Imaginary at the Durban Conference" This talk examines how postcolonial discourse was repurposed at the 2001 Durban Conference to frame Israel as a racialized colonial oppressor. Through analysis of official records and NGO statements, Neuer explores how anti-colonial l...

August 31, 2025. In this episode, Nathalie Japkowicz, Yfat Barak-Cheney, and Julie Ancis discuss, "Antisemitism in the Age of AI: Trends, Challenges, and Research Frontiers," for the 2025 Datathon and Machine Learning Competition on Antisemitism Detection. Nathalie Japkowicz is a professor in the Computer Science Department at American University, which she chaired from July 2018 to June...

Sunday, April 27, 2025. In this episode, Cary Nelson discusses, "Still on the Cliff's Edge: The Continuing Campus Aftereffects of 10/7." Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is an affiliated faculty member at the University of Haifa and the recipient of an honorary doctorate fro...

Monday, March 31, 2025. In this episode, Ilan Troen discusses, "The October 7th Massacre and Its Aftermath: A Personal Account." Beginning with the personal losses of family who lived on a kibbutz in the Gaza "envelope," Professor Troen will share issues involved in remembrance and recovery in the midst of an ongoing war whose character and terms for conclusion divide Israelis...

Sunday, March 30, 2025. In this episode, Ilan Troen discusses, "The Religious Dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." "In 1922, the League of Nations endorsed Britain’s Balfour Declaration (1917) that proposed the establishment of “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. This proposal challenged a reality that had been in force since the Muslim conquest in the...

Wednesday, March 12, 2025. In this episode, PhD student Daniel Freitag discusses, "Christian Antisemitism on Social Media: Russian-Orthodox, Lutheran, and Catholic Narratives on Jews and Israel." Through a detailed content analysis of Facebook posts and comments (2012-2021) on prominent Roman Catholic, Lutheran World Federation, and Russian Orthodox Church pages, Daniel Freitag examines how these...

Sunday, March 09, 2025. In this episode, Yaron Gamburg discusses, "Back to the Origins of Antisemitism: Attitudes Towards Jews and Israel in Contemporary Russia." Yaron Gamburg is a Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies of Tel Aviv University and a PhD student at the Institute of Geopolitics at Paris 8 University. His academic research focuses on antisemitism...

Sunday, February 16, 2025. In this episode, Norman JW Goda discusses "The Genocide Libel: How the World Has Charged Israel With the Crime of Crimes, 1982-2024." Norman J.W. Goda  specializes in the history of the Holocaust, war crimes trials, and twentieth century diplomacy. He teaches courses on the Holocaust and Nazi Germany from historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. His singl...

December 8, 2024. In this episode, Yfat Barak-Cheney, Dr. Matthias Becker, and Tal-Or Cohen, discuss "Trends, Research Gaps, and Future Directions in the Study of Online Antisemitism." Yfat Barak Cheney  is the Director of International Affairs and the Executive Director of WJC's Technology and Human Rights Institute. Yfat earned an LL.M in International Legal Studies from New York University wher...

Sunday, November 24, 2024. In this episode, Matthias Küntzel discusses "October 7th and the Shoah." Matthias Küntzel  is a political scientist and historian based in Hamburg, Germany. Between 2004 and 2015, he was an external research associate at the Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Küntzel is the author of several...

Sunday, November 17, 2024. In this episode, Dr. Aaron Hagler discusses "Who is 'The Jew' in Early and Later Islamic Texts?" Dr. Aaron (Ari) Hagler  has a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania (2011) and an MA in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2005). He is the author of two books: Owning Disaster (Routledge,...

Wednesday, October 30, 2024. In this episode, Adam Kirsch discusses "The Ideology of Settler Colonialism and the Response to Oct. 7." Adam Kirsch  is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism, including The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature. His latest, just recently published, is On Settler Colonialsm: Ideology, Violence, and Justice. The recipient of a 2016 Guggen...

Sunday, October 27, 2024. In this episode, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove discusses "For Such a Time as This: Being Jewish After October 7." Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, PhD,  a leading voice of American Jewry, has been the rabbi of New York’s Park Avenue Synagogue since 2008. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1999 and earned his PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School. The author of...

Monday, October 21, 2024. In this episode, Pavel Brunssen and Andrei Markovits discuss "From Chants to Change: German Soccer's Unique Response to Antisemitism Post-October 7." Pavel Brunssen  is a Research Associate and Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Research Center on Antigypsyism at Heidelberg University. Brunssen’s research interests include antisemitism, antigypsyism, memory cultures, Europe...

Sunday, October 13, 2024. In this episode, Günther Jikeli and Katharina Soemer discuss "Manual Annotation: Why and How?" What is machine learning? How is machine learning helpful when observing and combatting antisemitism online? What challenges exist when using machine learning for this purpose? Why is manual annotation a necessary step for automated content detection? How do you manually annotat...

Sunday, October 6, 2024. In this episode, Günther Jikeli and Katharina Soemer discuss "Online Antisemitism Before and After October 7” as part of our 2024 Datathon & Machine Learning Competition. Günther Jikeli  holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism in the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He has published widely...

Sunday, September 22, 2024. In this episode, Mara Lee Grayson discusses "The Contemporary Racialization of the Jew and Its Impact on Campus Antisemitism.” Mara Lee Grayson is the author or editor of five books, including  Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric  (Peter Lang, 2023) and  Challenging Antisemitism: Lessons from...