The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

is a resource for information, provides a forum for academic discussion and fosters continuing research on issues linked to antisemitic and racist theories and manifestations. The social and political exploitation of these phenomena in the period since the end of World War II, and the influence of their historical background, constitute the principal focus of the Institute.

 

Antisemitism 2010 (Updated)

 
   
   
 
Poland
Most antisemitism in Poland in 2009 was expressed in desecration and vandalism of Jewish sites and facilities with swastikas and Nazi-type slogans ...more
Ukraine
Election campaigns in Ukraine tend to trigger a rise in antisemitic propaganda. The campaign for the January 2010 presidential elections that began during the second half of 2009 was no exception. ...more
Russian Federation
Extreme rightists - Pravoslav fundamentalists, neo-pagans, neo-Nazis, skinheads, and radical Russian nationalists - as well as radical Islamists, are the main antisemitic activists in Russia ...more
Moldova
Parliamentary elections were held twice in Moldova in 2009 ...more
Baltic States
The "National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews" is marked officially on September, 23, the date the Vilnius ghetto was liquidated in 1943 ...more
 
   
 
Topical Brief:
Michal Navoth, Antisemitism in Greece: The Trial of Konstantinos Plevris
On December 13, 2007, the Greek neo-Nazi writer and lawyer Konstantinos Plevris was handed down a suspended sentence of 14 months by a Court of First Instance... under Greek Anti-Racism Law 927/1979 ...more
Topical Brief:
Stefan Kunath, Die Linke: Between Anti-Zionism and Solidarity with Israel
The position of the German left vis-à-vis Israel and the Middle East conflict has been in a state of flux in recent years ...more
Topical Brief:
Mikael Tossavainen, The Reepalu Affair as a Paradigm of Swedish Leftwing Antisemitism
Since the mid-1980s, it has become increasingly evident that the Swedish left - the mainstream Social-Democratic Party, other more radical socialist parties, various trade unions and leftwing publications - has an ambivalent attitude toward antisemitism ...more
Topical Brief:
Irena Cantorovich, Antisemitism in the 2010 Ukrainian Presidential Election Campaign
The presidential elections in Ukraine in January 2010 came at at time of political, social and economic instability ...more
 
 

Institute Events (Updated)

 
 
Marianne and Ernst Pieper Annual Research Seminar Series on Racism and Genocide, 2010/11
(in Hebrew) ...more
 
   
 
A review of the Institute's activities for the year 2009/10 ... more
 


 
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