Charles A. Small

For other uses, see Charles Small (disambiguation).

Charles Asher Small is the founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. ISGAP runs academic seminar series at McGill University, Montreal; Harvard Law School; Fordham University and Stanford. Small also was the founding Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism the first research center with a focus on antisemitism based at a North American university. Dr. Small was a lecturer on the Ethics, Politics and Economics Program; the Political Science Department and with the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he has a D.Phil from Oxford University, and has taught at the University of London, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University, and Hebrew University. He was the Director/Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. Small has been a Visiting Professor at University College London; McGill University, Montreal; the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, and Cape Town University, South Africa. He also spoke as an expert on anti-Semitism at the Australian, British, Canadian, Chilean and Italian Parliaments, the German Bundestag, and at the United Nations, Geneva and in New York.

Small earned his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University.

On September 19, 2006, Yale founded The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism , the first North American university-based center for study of the subject, housed at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, with Small as director and founder. He cited the increase in anti-Semitism worldwide in recent years as generating a "need to understand the current manifestation of this disease".[1]

In August 2010 in New Haven, Charles Small was elected as the President of the newly formed International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA).

Charles Asher Small was one of a number of academics who submitted evidence to the British All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism. He was also an expert for the Canadian All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism.

Contributions

In a path-breaking article entitled "Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Anti-Semitism in Europe," in The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Small and Yale's Prof. Edward Kaplan demonstrated that Europeans who hold deeply anti-Israeli views are more likely to also have classic anti-Semitic opinions by a significant margin. Looking at populations in 10 European countries, Small and Kaplan surveyed 5,000 respondents, asking them about Israeli actions and classical anti-Semitic stereotypes. "There were questions about whether the IDF purposely targets children, whether Israel poisons the Palestinians' water supply - these sorts of extreme mythologies," Small says. They demonstrated that Europeans whose opinions are extremely anti-Israel, are highly likely to also be anti-Semitic. "The people who believed the anti-Israel mythologies also tended to believe that Jews are not honest in business, have dual loyalties, control government and the economy, and the like," Small says. The study demonstrated that an Israel-hating European is 56% more likely to be anti-Semitic than the average European. "This is extraordinary. It's off the charts," says Small. "If a food or a drug was 56% more likely to cause cancer, it would be taken off the shelf."[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Yale creates center to study anti-Semitism Associated Press, September 19, 2006
  2. ↑ Yale expert: Not enough known about anti-Semitism, Aug. 8, 2007, Haviv Rettig Gur , The Jerusalem Post