Launch of the Contemporary Antisemitism Studies Association (CASA)

Last week, at the Contemporary Antisemitism Conference in Haifa, the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA), Gratz College in Philadelphia, and the Comper Center at Haifa University launched the Contemporary Antisemitism Studies Association. They have joined forces to shape the emerging field of Contemporary Antisemitism Studies across Europe, North America and the Middle East. LCSCA has focused on scholarly community and infrastructure; Gratz is responding to current challenges with great nimbleness, building its creative and energetic postgraduate programme on antisemitism; and the Comper Center brings together research fellows and is expanding postgraduate teaching in Israel on antisemitism.

• Pictured: David Barak-Gorodetsky (Comper Center) Ayal Feinberg (Gratz College) and David Hirsh (LCSCA)

Through their annual conferences – London 2025, Haifa 2026 and Philadelphia 2027 – they are setting the agenda for rigorous and innovative work on contemporary antisemitism and providing a constructive alternative to the politicised and inappropriate academic frameworks now gaining ground.

Find out more and Join CASA here: https://contemporaryantisemitism.com/