Measuring Antisemitism
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Table of Contents Foreword………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 Evaluating Contemporary Antisemitism Seriously A Framework for Collaborative Conceptualization, Measurement and Action Abbreviations ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Executive Summary.............................................................................................................................................. 8 An Agenda for Analyzing and Resisting Antisemitism ....................................................................................... 8 Roadmap for Action ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 Framing and conceptualization ............................................................................................................................. 10 Measurement design.................................................................................................................................................. 10 Data collation and database design ..................................................................................................................... 11 New data acquisition, characterization and analysis ................................................................................... 11 Building a community of practice ........................................................................................................................ 11 Next Steps: A Work Plan ................................................................................................................................................ 11 0. A Note to Readers ....................................................................................................................................... 13 I. An Agenda for Analyzing and Monitoring Antisemitism ............................................................. 15 Vision statement ............................................................................................................................................................... 16 II. Framing Measurement to Reflect Policy Concerns ........................................................................ 18 Comprehensive Framework for Antisemitism Measurement ....................................................................... 19 Four Main Fields for Measurement ..................................................................................................................... 19 III. Metrics and Measures ............................................................................................................................... 24 Metrics, Measures and Indicators ............................................................................................................................. 24 Data Types...................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Identifying Audiences ................................................................................................................................................ 26 Taxonomy and Definitions ...................................................................................................................................... 28 IV. Data Collection, Access and Quality Control ..................................................................................... 30 V. Roadmap for Action ................................................................................................................................... 34 Five Projects: Systematic Measurement and Assessment of Antisemitism ............................................. 34 Framing and conceptualization ..................................................................................................................... 34 Measurement design .......................................................................................................................................... 37 Data collation and database design ............................................................................................................. 38 New data acquisition, characterization and analysis ........................................................................... 39 Building a community of practice................................................................................................................. 39 Next Steps: A Work Plan ................................................................................................................................................ 40 Task 1: Consultation defining first set of measures ...................................................................................... 40 Task 2: Test application of measures against available data .................................................................... 40 Task 3: Select indicators and recommend applications .............................................................................. 41 2 NOT CLEARED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE. DO NOT CITE. Appendices Scott Althaus…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….46 Andrew Baker…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..56 Jonathan Boyd…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..58 Sergio DellaPergola: Researching and Assessing Antisemitism: A Quantitative Perspective..62 Mark Gardner…………………………………………………………………………………………………………...73 Edward Kaplan…………………………………………………………………………………………………………76 Yogev Karasenty……………………………………………………………………………………………………….78 Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin…………………………………………………………………………………………….79 Alexander Kogan………………………………………………………………………………………………………79 Marc Knobel……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..81 Judith Bokser Liwerant: Anti-Semitism and Related Expressions of Prejudice in a Global World. A View from Latin America……………………………………………………………………82 Daniel Mariaschin…………………………………………………………………………………………………...115 David Matas: Measuring Antisemitism on the Internet……………………………………………….116 Henri Nickels: Measuring Antisemitism – some relevant evidence from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights………………………………………………………………………….133 Joanna Perry…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..138 Shimon Samuels……………………………………………………………………………………………………...141 Charles Asher Small: Measuring and Defining Contemporary Antisemitism…………………142 Richard Steinberg…………………………………………………………………………………………………...148 Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: Excerpt from, “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet can Tell Us About Who We Really Are” …………………………………………………...149 Mala Tabory……………………………………………………………………………………………………………153 Mark Weitzman: Can Holocaust Denial be Measured? ……………………………………………….154 Michael Whine………………………………………………………………………………………………………..160 Measuring Panel at the Sixth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism PowerPoint Presentation………………………………………………………………………...………………163 Yogev Karasenty……………………………………………………………………………………………………..192 Individual Expert Biographies………………………………………………………………………………….195 Select Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………………………..219 Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………………………………………….226 3 NOT CLEARED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE. DO NOT CITE. FOREWORD How can antisemitism be measured comparatively across countries and in the social media? In Paris on September 20, 2016, leading scholars, experts and practitioners from Europe, North America and Israel held a closed consultation to confront this question. Since then, the scholars involved have produced this draft Report. The objective of this project is to create an effective multi-layered "tool” to measure antisemitism effectively. The lack of such a tool has been felt for some time. The European Union Fundamental Rights Agency noted in a Working Paper on Antisemitism in 2012 that "Continued and sustained efforts at the national and international levels, as well as at the level of civil society, need to be exerted if data collection on the matter is to be improved. The ready and regular availability of robust and comparable data on the situation of antisemitism in the EU would enable policy makers and relevant stakeholders to develop targeted interventions to combat antisemitism." This innovative project to create an internationally applicable measurement tool was initiated by ISGAP (The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy), and is supported by the Israel Ministry for Diaspora Affairs. The Paris meeting was graciously facilitated by CRIF. Professor Steven W. Popper of the JPPI (The Jewish People Policy Institute) has served as lead scholar and author. We anticipate that based on this draft Report, the measurement tool will be further refined and implemented to provide an integrated method greatly needed by international agencies to address a pressing problem felt by Jewish communities. 4 NOT CLEARED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE. DO NOT CITE. Revision: 22 January 2017 Evaluating Contemporary Antisemitism: A Framework for Collaborative Conceptualization, Measurement and Assessment Steven W. Poppera,