Leadership Briefing Speakers' Bios
About ISGAP
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) is committed to fighting antisemitism on the battlefield of ideas. ISGAP is dedicated to scholarly research into the origins, processes, and manifestations of global antisemitism and of other forms of prejudice, including various forms of racism, as they relate to policy in an age of globalization. On the basis of this examination of antisemitism and policy, ISGAP disseminates analytical and scholarly materials to help combat hatred and promote understanding.
Mr. Natan Sharansky became Chairman of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy in July 2019. In 2003 Natan Sharansky famously developed a vital definition for the new antisemitism — the 3d test, to help us distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from antisemitism. The first “D” is the test of demonization, the second — of double standards, the third — of delegitimization. This 3d principle was widely accepted by different organizations that fight antisemitism and was included in the international definition of antisemitism. Natan Sharansky has dedicated his life to the Jewish people. As a dissident in the Soviet Union, Natan fought for the freedom of Jews to leave the Soviet Union and spent 9 years in Soviet prisons for it. On his release from the Soviet Union, due, in part to the hard work of the Worldwide Jewish Community, Natan made Aliyah to Israel eventually spending another nine years in Israeli politics, with the goal of helping his fellow Soviet Jews make a new life in Israel. After leaving politics, Natan became the head of the Jewish Agency a position he held for another 9 years. Natan is the author of four books and has received many awards and accolades over the years including the Congressional Medal of Freedom, and the 2020 Genesis Prize.
Charles Asher Small is the Founding Director and President of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and the Director of the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Program in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Discrimination and Human Rights at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK. He is also a Goldman Fellow at the Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. Dr. Small was an Academic Visitor, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Previously, he was the Koret Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
