The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) is an American non-profit organization that produces academic research, seminars, and conferences to study antisemitism.
Harvard professors Alan Dershowitz and Ruth Wisse were co-chairs of ISGAP's international board. The executive committee of its International Academic Board of Advisors included former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler and historian Irving Abella. [1] ISGAP's chairman is Natan Sharansky. [2]
ISGAP was founded in 2004 by Charles Asher Small from Tel Aviv University [3] as a non-profit organization to produce and support academic research, seminars, and conferences to study antisemitism. [1]
In 2006, Small and ISGAP founded the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), the first university-based institute dedicated to the study of antisemitism in North America, at Yale University. [4]
In August 2020, ISGAP suspended its operations for 48 hours in solidarity with African Americans during the George Floyd protests. [2]
ISGAP's flagship program is a two-week conference of more than 80 scholars of antisemitism, approximately 80% of whom are not Jewish. In 2019, the conference was held at Oxford University. [1]
In November 2023, ISGAP and the Network Contagion Research Institute published a study entitled "The Corruption of the American Mind." The study alleged $13 billion in undisclosed foreign funding from Qatar and other authoritarian countries to over 100 American universities to a 300% increase in antisemitism on campuses. [5] [6] [7]
In 2019, the ISGAP received a grant of US$1.3 million, to be distributed over three years, from the Israeli government. [1] In 2020, The Forward reported that almost 80% of the ISGAP's funding in 2018, totaling $445,000, had come from the government of Israel, income which the think tank did not divulge. [8]