Dr. Kalman Kaplan has been named a semi-finalist for the 2022 Bernard Lewis Award given by ASMEA (Association of Scholars of the Middle East and Africa)

Dr. Kalman Kaplan has been named a semi-finalist for the 2022 Bernard Lewis Award given by ASMEA (Association of Scholars of the Middle East and Africa).

In his paper, Israel: the Occupier or the Occupied, Professor Kaplan examines the role of Replacement Theology in unfairly labeling  Israel as an "occupier". In fact the opposite is true, It was Israel that was "occupied" bu super-sessionist doctrine in some theology claimed that the Church was the New Israel, replacing the Old Israel. This paper links the relationship of religious and political attitudes towards the modern state of Israel.

The 2022 Bernard Lewis Prize will be awarded to scholars or practitioners engaged in the study of issues on antisemitism that were of great importance to our founding chairman, Prof. Bernard Lewis. While Christian antisemitism is well-studied, a stigma remains around addressing antisemitism in the Muslim world. Beyond this, relatively few scholars focus on the Middle Eastern dimensions of Christian antisemitism in religious and cultural terms, much less the political impacts in the West.