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Catherine Chatterley

Nov 23, 2023, 4:48 PM

The time is now for intellectual and moral clarity

Massacre of civilians at the outdoor music festival in Israel. Screenshot news coverage.

Originally written on October 9, 2023 EDITOR'S NOTE: This article contains graphic images and descriptions of sexual violence. Far more involved and serious than a “terrorist attack,” this unprecedented savage assault on the citizens of Israel by Hamas was a well-planned,...

Sep 26, 2023, 1:32 AM

Fire Canada’s House Speaker

How is it possible that the Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, Anthony Rota, could invite a member of the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division (known as the Galicia Division), a Nazi unit comprised of Ukrainian volunteers, to attend Volodymyr...

Mar 3, 2022, 11:34 PM

Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine and the West’s Abject Failure to Protect

The current crisis descending on Ukraine and its people is clearly the responsibility of one man. Yes, a select few individuals can impact world history, and, like almost 90 years ago, beginning in 1933, we are witnessing the devastating effects...

Nov 23, 2021, 6:12 AM

Online Antisemitism: How Can We Regulate Content?

© Jason Howie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Catherine Chatterley is an advisor to the Canadian Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism alongside Irwin Cotler (Canada's Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights and Former Minister...

Jun 15, 2021, 1:01 AM

Diaspora Jewry: A hostage to the conflict

Aerial View of the Temple Mount, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Dome of the Rock.
© CC BY-SA 4.0 Image courtesy of Andrew Shiva

I do not take pleasure in writing this article and I am certainly not going to tell people “I told you so,” but readers can revisit CISA’s 2020 Shindleman Family Lecture and watch my concluding remarks on how important...

Feb 4, 2020, 8:07 PM

George Steiner: Remembrancer

George Steiner died on Monday, February 3, 2020 at the age of 90. In past years, he was recognized internationally as a leading critic of Western culture, who engaged in a continuous commentary on the nature and meaning of the...

May 5, 2019, 5:08 PM

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Faked hate crimes, anti-Semitism and Linda Sarsour

Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks [Public domain]

Some words of optimism for those horrified by a hoax and freaked out by the visit of a controversial political activist

Feb 1, 2018, 10:20 PM

There Were No Polish Death Camps

Several of my students have recently asked me if there were Polish death camps. And I have explained to them: no, there were no Polish death camps. There were six death camps built by Nazi Germany and they were all located...

Oct 25, 2016, 8:51 PM

New Journal on Antisemitism to Be Launched

This past summer, The Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) established the first scholarly journal dedicated to the millennial phenomenon of antisemitism. Antisemitism Studies will be published twice a year (in April and October) by Indiana University Press. Its...

About Me

Dr. Chatterley is a Canadian historian of Modern Europe trained at the University of Chicago. She is Editor-in-Chief of Antisemitism Studies and Founding Director of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA). An award-winning writer, she specializes in the study of European history, with particular emphasis on the history of antisemitism and the dynamic relationship between Jews and non-Jews in Western history.