The Official ISCA Podcast

Sunday, October 16, 2022.  In this episode, Thane Rosenbaum speaks on the topic of "'Occupation,' 'Apartheid,' and 'Ethnic Cleansing': The Trifecta Libel Against Israel." Rosenbaum is a law professor, legal and Middle East analyst, novelist, essayist, and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society.   He is the Legal Analyst for CBS News Radio and is a frequent guest on various cable news shows on such topics as the Conflict in the Middle East, global antisemitism, terrorism, human rights, moral justice, and Holocaust memory. He hosts The Talk Show at the 92nd Street Y. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, October 2, 2022.  In this episode, Martin Kramer delivers a lecture about "Semites, Anti-Semites, and Bernard Lewis: The Life and Afterlife of a Seminal Book." Kramer is a historian of the Middle East and Israel at Tel Aviv University, and the Walter P. Stern Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He was the founding president of Shalem College, a liberal arts school in Jerusalem, and a visiting professor or fellow at Brandeis, Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the Wilson Center. Among his many publications on Islam, Israel, and the Middle East, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (2001) has been widely discussed and influential. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, September 18, 2022.  In this episode, Jan Grabowski offers his lecture, "'Night Without End': New Scholarship on the Holocaust in Poland." Jan Grabowski is a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Last year he was appointed the 2021-2022 Cleveringa Chair at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His interests focus on the Holocaust in Poland and, more specifically, on the relations between Jews and Poles during the war. Professor Grabowski’s book: Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for 2014.  In 2018 he co-edited and co-authored  “Dalej jest noc” [Night Without End] (a two-volume study of the fate of the Jews in selected counties of occupied Poland). Night Without End was published in 2022 in English by Indiana University Press.    Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, September 4, 2022.  In this episode, Jeffrey Herf presents his lecture entitled, "Myths and Realities about Israel's Establishment: Their Relevance for Discussions of Contemporary Antisemitism." Herf is Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches Modern European History. His commentaries on contemporary history and on contemporary antisemitism have been published in American Interest, American Purpose, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Internationale Politik, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, his blog at The Times of Israel, and The Washington Post. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sunday, August 28, 2022.  In this episode, Sam Sokol speaks on "Russia’s 'Denazification' of Ukraine: The Weaponization of Antisemitism in Contemporary Hybrid Conflict." Sokol is a reporter for Haaretz, Israel’s newspaper of record, and the author of the book Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda, and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry. He was previously a correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/