At the Antisemitism 2026 Conference in Haifa, the The Comper Centre, Gratz College and the LCSCA launched the Contemporary Antisemitism Studies Association (CASA). Watch the recording of the launch with Ayal Feinberg (Gratz College), David Barak-Gorodetsky (Comper Centre) and David Hirsh here

The conference was a huge success, with nearly 600 people in attendance and 347 speakers from across the world. The first keynote speech was delivered by Historian and former US Special Envoy for Monitoring Antisemitism, the brilliant Deborah Lipstadt. She expressed the importance of broad, international coalitions in the fight against antisemitism. 

Conference participants were able to access a vast spectrum of subjects and issues, including Feminist Antisemitism with Karin Stogner and Kara Jesella and Digital Antisemitism with Andre Oboler, Hannytta Medici, Maya Amrami and Liram Koblentz-Stenzler. The conference culminated with an insightful and moving keynote speech by Bernard-Henry Levy, in which he described antisemitic antizionism as “distortion of the mind”. 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at the Comper Center and The University of Haifa for the warm welcome and for hosting a brilliant, thorough and crucial conference, the largest ever of its kind.