Promoting Peace: The Pakistan-Israel Dosti Initiative

This chapter is the first to present an analysis of the antisemitic rhetoric in Urdu on the social media platform YouTube. With the help of a case study of the famous Muslim cleric Israr Ahmed, this chapter first gives insights to how YouTube is utilized to disseminate antisemitic conspiracy myths in Urdu. It focuses not only on the nature of the antisemitic content, but also investigates its origins and dissemination, and its impact at both the local and the global level. Videos by Islamic clerics attract large numbers of viewers, are frequently shared on social media, and may play an important role in shaping South Asian Muslims’ perception of Jews, Israel, and Zionism. At the same time, this chapter presents an inquiry into the incentives for spreading hate against Jews, Israel, and Zionism, attempts to understand why this phenomenon in South Asia fails to attract the attention it needs, and suggests some remedial measures to counter the threat. Dr. Aafreedi is an assistant professor of history at Presidency University in Kolkata, India where he teaches courses on Jewish history, genocide studies, interfaith relations and minority studies.

Diplomatically Incorrect brings you sharp and frank analysis of politics and policy from one of Israel’s most consequential and controversial diplomats. In this podcast, Ron Dermer, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States and Distinguished Fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) joins with Dr. Michael Makovsky, President and CEO of JINSA, to offer straight talk on foreign policy, current events, America, Israel and all things Jewish. This podcast will be released twice per month.

As the Ambassador to Israel under President Donald Trump, David Friedman accomplished many things including the historical passing of the Abraham Accords. Ambassador Friedman joins to discuss his time under President Trump and how the accords came to fruition.

The numerous heated and hotly debated conflicts surrounding Israel are almost always threatening to boil over and cast the Middle East into unceremonious chaos. Ambassador Ron Dermer sits down with Dr Jordan B Peterson to discuss the issues, the misnomers, and the underlying truths surrounding one of the most resilient peoples and countries in history. Ron Dermer is an American-born political consultant who served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States from 2013 to 2021. As Prime Minister Netanyahu’s top advisor, Dermer was a driving force behind many of the era’s most important diplomatic developments, such as the monumental Abraham Accords, which normalized Israel’s relations with several Arab nations.