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Combating Antisemitism
Antisemitism:
What Should We Do Now?
At a top-level meeting with leaders of
the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on 5 July at Yad Vashem,
participants stressed the importance of cooperation in promoting
educational tools to combat antisemitism. Topics highlighted
during the panel discussion between ADL National Director Abraham
H. Foxman (left), Yad Vashem Academic Advisor Yehuda Bauer (right)
and Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev (center),
included: the recent rise of antisemitism and methods to confront
it; the increase in Holocaust denial and trivialization; and the
role of Holocaust education in reversing these worrying trends.
Participants—researchers and educators from Yad Vashem as well as
top lay leaders from the ADL, including National Chair Barbara
Balser—also gave a status report on antisemitism in Europe and the
Islamic countries and addressed new ways in which to deal with the
phenomenon.
Panelists focused on practical ways
that Yad Vashem and the ADL can cooperate in the fight against
antisemitism. Based on Yad Vashem’s experience and expertise in
the history of the Shoah and in Holocaust education
worldwide, and the ADL’s resources and role in the fight against
antisemitism, the two organizations agreed to promote cooperation
in developing pedagogical tools and curricula on the Holocaust and
antisemitism.
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