The Official ISCA Podcast

Sunday, September 15, 2024. In this episode, Cary Nelson discusses "The Future of Campus Antisemitism after October 7." Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. He is the author or editor of 36 books, including six about antisemitism. Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic...

Sunday, September 8, 2024. In this episode, Dave Rich discusses "Antisemitism in the UK since the October 7 Attack." Dave Rich, one of Great Britain’s leading experts on antisemitism, is the author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel, and Antisemitism (2018) and Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism Is Built into our World and How You Can Change It (Updated Edition, 2024). He h...

Sunday, May 12, 2024. In this episode, Cary Nelson discusses "The Perilous Campus Scene: Encampment versus Enlightenment." Cary Nelson  is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. He is the author or editor of 36 books, including six about antisemitism.  Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisem...

Sunday, April 7, 2024. In this episode, Ilan Troen discusses "Religious Dimensions of the Israeli/Palestinian Dispute." Ilan Troen  is a professor emeritus at Brandeis University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a founding editor of the leading journal " Israel Studies"  (Indiana University Press). He has contributed to numerous publications about Jews and Israel, inc...

Sunday, April 14, 2024. In this episode, Michal Cotler-Wunsh discusses "The Hamas Massacre of October 7 and Responses to It: A Chronology of Hate." Michal Cotler-Wunsh  is a prominent public speaker, researcher, and independent policy and strategy advisor on intersecting issues of antisemitism, law, human rights, and Zionism. Informed by political, professional, and academic experience,...

Sunday, March 17, 2024. In this episode, Elhanan Yakira discusses "Spinoza, Arendt, and Contemporary Israel Bashing." Elhanan Yakira is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Hebrew University. His main fields of interest are early modern rationalism and anti-Israelism, with a special emphasis on Jewish and Israeli anti-Israelism. He has published a number of articles on these subject...

Sunday, February 18, 2024. In this episode, Françoise Ouzan discusses "Being a GI Jew in World War II: Coping with Hostile Attitudes in the American Military." Dr. Françoise S. Ouzan is a Senior Research Associate at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University. She is the author or editor of 11 books, including, most recently,  How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuil...

Sunday, January 21, 2024. In this episode, Jacob Kovalio discusses "The Global Phenomenon of Conspiratorial Antisemitism." Jacob Kovalio is a researcher in Japanese, Chinese, Asian, and global history, nationalism, antisemitism, and Jihadism. Through the Transnistria compulsory work camp, Romania. and Israel, he reached Canada in 1986. He holds BA degrees in History and Development Econo...

Sunday, January 14, 2024. In this episode, Richard Landes discusses "Jewish Anti-Zionism and Masochistic Messianism." Richard Landes was trained as a medievalist at Princeton University (MA 1979, PhD 1984). His work focused on apocalyptic beliefs and millennial movements ( Heaven on Earth , 2011), initially around the year 1000 ( Peace of God , 1986;  Relics, Apocalypse and the Deceits o...

Sunday, December 10, 2023. In this episode, Corinne Blackmer discusses "Queer Anti-Zionism: Antisemitism in LGBTQ Communities Then and Now." Corinne Blackmer is professor of Judaic Studies and English and director of Judaic Studies at Southern Connecticut State University.  She has published a large array of articles on diverse subjects, from pinkwashing, contemporary Israeli literature,...

Sunday, December 3, 2023. In this episode, Dave Rich discusses "Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism is Built into our World, and How We Can Change it." Dr. Dave Rich is one of the United Kingdom’s leading experts on antisemitism. He has worked for almost thirty years for the Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity that protects the UK Jewish community and writes about antisemitism and ext...

Sunday, November 12, 2023. In this episode, Izabella Tabarovsky discusses "Soviet Antizionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism." Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Advisor at the Kennan Institute (Wilson Center), a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP), a founding fellow of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (L...

Monday, November 6, 2023. In this episode, Ellie Cohanim discusses "Is Antisemitism an Integral Part of the Islamic Republic of Iran's DNA?" Ellie Cohanim is a Senior Fellow with Independent Women's Forum (IWF), is host of "Global Perspectives with Ellie Cohanim" for Jewish News Syndicate (JNS),and is a National Security Contributor to Christian Broadcasting Network (CB...

Sunday, October 29, 2023. In this episode, Yehudit Barsky discusses "Islamist Antisemitism in the United States: Recent Developments." Yehudit Barsky is a Middle East specialist who researches the nexus between Islamist movements and antisemitism. Her research interests encompass radicalization methodologies in antisemitic extremist movements, and the intersection between recruitment sys...

Sunday, October 22, 2023. In this episode, Christopher Leighton discusses "Contending with Christian Supersessionism: When Best Intentions Falter." Christopher Leighton is the Founding Director of the Institute for Islamic, Christian, Jewish Studies (ICJS) in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to his thirty-three years of inter-religious leadership at the ICJS, he has served as an Adjunct...

Sunday, October 15, 2023. In this episode, John Pawlikowski discusses "Removing the Shadow on the Cross: Rooting Out Antisemitism from Christian Teaching." John is a member of the Order of Friar Servants of Mary (Servites) and was ordained at the University of St. Mary of the Lake. One of the founding faculty members of the Catholic Theological Union (CTU), he served on the faculty from...

Sunday, September 10, 2023. In this episode, David Bernstein discusses "Does Radical Social Justice Ideology Fuel Antisemitism?"  The author of  Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews , David Bernstein is the founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (JILV), which opposes illiberal ideologies and supports liberal values in and out of the Jewish community. He is...

Sunday, September 3, 2023. In this episode, Dan Michman discusses "'Antisemitism': The Origins, Structure, and Contested Reception of the Term."  Dan Michman is Professor (Emeritus) of Modern Jewish History and the former Chair of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan; he is also Head of the International Institute for Holo...

Sunday, May 7, 2023. In this episode, Magda Teter discusses "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism." Magda Teter, Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies, is a scholar of early modern history, specializing in Jewish history, Jewish-Christian relations, cultural, legal, and social history, as well as the history of transmission of h...

Sunday, April 30, 2023. In this episode, Ruth Cohen-Dar explores the topic "What is Israel's Role in the Fight Against Antisemitism?" Ruth Cohen-Dar was born in the Negev to a mother who was a third generation Jerusalemite and a father of Greek descent. They were a family of pioneers, who established a village near Ashkelon. She served in the Israeli Army for three years as an office...

Sunday, April 23, 2023. In this episode, Meron Medzini discusses "Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism — Their Role in the Birth of Israel." Professor (Emeritus) Meron Medzini was born in Jerusalem in 1932. After high school, he served as an infantry officer in the Israeli army and then traveled to the United States to obtain university degrees. He holds a BA from City College of New York (1...

Sunday, April 16, 2023. In this episode, Jarrod Tanny discusses "Antisemitism in the Academy and the Fate of Jewish Studies: An Insider's View." Jarrod Tanny is Associate Professor of History and the Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Between 2008 and 2010 he was the Schusterman post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewi...

Tuesday, April 4, 2023. In this episode, Walter Russell Mead discusses the subject "The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People." Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The  Wall Street Journal,  and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Fore...

Sunday, March 26, 2023. In this episode, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin discusses "Antisemitism and the Politics of Ethnic Studies of California's K-12 and Higher Education Classrooms." Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is co-founder and director of AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization that investigates, documents, and combats antisemitism at institutions of higher education in America. She has...

Sunday, March 5, 2023. In this episode, Linda Maizels discusses "The American Political Left's Response to Antisemitism." Linda Maizels is an independent scholar who earned her PhD from the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her article on campus antisemitism appeared in the book  Contending with Antisemitism in a Rapidly Cha...