Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

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. ISGAP's chairman is Natan Sharansky.

History
ISGAP was founded in 2004 by Charles Asher Small from Tel Aviv University as a non-profit organization to produce and support academic research, seminars, and conferences to study antisemitism.

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.

In August 2020, ISGAP suspended its operations for 48 hours in solidarity with African Americans during the George Floyd protests.

Activities
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.

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.

Funding
In 2019, the ISGAP received a grant of US$1.3 million, to be distributed over three years, from the Israeli government. 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.