research

The first pillar of Compers' agenda is academic research, which is the core mission of a university research center. The Center’s research is dedicated to contemporary global antisemitism covering the post-Holocaust to present day,  focusing on the more subtle and complicated form of new antisemitism. Specifically, it analyzes antisemitism in relation to the State of Israel; Soviet antisemitism and contemporary parallels; the current discourse on privilege, power and identity politics, and the schools of thought that generated them – and how these relate specifically to Jews, from both a historical and current perspective. Special attention is given to contemporary concepts and language of antisemitism (and its definition) which forms the groundwork for, and can make for easier identification of, the manifestation of antisemitism from internet content to academic articles.