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What Is… Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Anti-Israel Bias?

Tools and Strategies
Definitions of antisemitism, anti-Zionism and anti-Israel bias.
October 12, 2022
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Tips for Engaging and Disengaging on Social Media

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Social media is a hotbed of antisemitism, anti-Israel hate, Holocaust denial and distortion and other conspiracy theories. Check out our tips on how to engage and disengage in the fight against antisemitism, anti-Israel bias, and hate on social media.
October 12, 2022
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Resources to Address and Challenge Antisemitism

Tools and Strategies
Teacher Talking to Upset Student in a Classroom
The topic of antisemitism is complex, deeply historical and has a myriad of elements to it. Antisemitism is not only about defaming and attacking the Jewish community; it is a symptom of a larger issue. While antisemitism has sometimes escalated to violence as we saw at the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting, it more often appears in subtler ways, such as insensitive remarks or “jokes” that are brushed off, or negative stereotypes that go unchallenged. Today, Jewish young people…
October 29, 2018
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Studying the Holocaust

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Jews Forcibly Pulled Out of Dugouts, 1943
Echoes & Reflections GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening This unit introduces students to the Holocaust by providing a vocabulary for studying the Holocaust and establishing a rationale for the importance of learning about instances of mass atrocity and genocide. Students explore the value of examining different types of source material when studying the Holocaust, with a special emphasis on visual…
September 02, 2020
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The Children and Legacies Beyond the Holocaust

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Children Playing in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940
Echoes & Reflections GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening The purpose of this unit is for students to understand the effects of the Holocaust on its most innocent victims—children—since targeting babies and children was an important step in the attempt by the Nazis to erase the Jews and their future. Students will also research post-Holocaust genocides and analyze children’s rights…
February 06, 2020
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The "Final Solution"

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Echoes & Reflections: Teaching the HolocaustThe purpose of this unit is for students to learn about one of humanity’s darkest chapters—the systematic mass murder of the Jews that came to be known as the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” This includes learning about the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads), the Nazi extermination camps, and the perpetrators and collaborators who took part in the murder. Students also learn how Jews attempted to maintain…
November 21, 2019
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Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Bystanders during the Holocaust

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Echoes & Reflections: Teaching the HolocaustThis unit provides an opportunity for students to examine the complex issues of responsibility and guilt within the context of the Nazi occupation of Europe. Students will also learn about the war crimes trials following World War II and consider the responsibility of the free world to provide a safe haven for refugees attempting to escape Europe. This unit also provides students with an introduction to Holocaust denial as a contemporary form of…
September 05, 2019
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Holocaust Survivors and Liberators

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Echoes & Reflections: Teaching the HolocaustThe purpose of this unit is to provide students with an understanding of the political, legal, social, and emotional status of the Jewish survivors. This unit also examines the role of the liberators following the defeat of the Nazis at the end of World War II. Learning Objectives: Describe the complex emotional ramifications of liberation for Jews at the end of World War II. Describe the complex emotional ramifications of liberation…
May 08, 2019
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Nazi Germany

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Echoes & Reflections: Teaching the HolocaustThe purpose of this unit is for students to learn about the Weimar Republic’s fragile democracy between 1918 and 1933 and to examine historical events that allowed for the complete breakdown of democracy in Germany between 1933 and 1939, which led to the unfolding of anti-Jewish policies. Students will investigate primary source materials in order to understand how legislation, terror, and propaganda isolated German Jewry from German…
March 20, 2019
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Rescuers and Non-Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust

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Boat with Jews Sailing from Falster Denmark to Ystad in Sweden, 1943
Echoes & Reflections GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening This unit provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive. The unit also outlines the obstacles and dangers that hidden children faced during the Holocaust. Throughout the unit, students have…
August 17, 2018
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The Ghettos in Nazi Europe

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Echoes & Reflections: Teaching the HolocaustIn this unit, students learn about the ghettos established throughout Nazi Europe and understand that the ghettos were one phase in the continuum of Nazi racial policies that sought to solve the so-called “Jewish problem.” Students investigate the conditions in ghettos and how those conditions severely limited Jewish life and led to immense suffering. Using primary source material, students discover that despite severe overcrowding,…
December 21, 2017
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Letter to Al Jazeera: Hamid Dabashi's Sleights of Hand

Media Watch
The following letter was submitted to Al Jazeera in response to "Why Muslims Must be at the Forefront of Fighting Anti-Semitism” (March 17) Letters to the Editor Al Jazeera To the Editor: Professor Hamid Dabashi employs all the sleights of hands by those on the political left who engage in anti-Semitic tropes against Jews (“Why Muslims Must be at the Forefront of Fighting Anti-Semitism,” March 17). He tries to separate out Zionism from Judaism, when…
April 03, 2019
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Letter to The Jerusalem Post Regarding Isi Leibler's Editorial

Media Watch
The following letter was submitted to The Jerusalem Post in response to "American Jewish Leaders: Where Are You?" (Jan. 31) Good and bad on both sides: Isi Leibler’s latest assault against mainstream US Jewish organizational leaders is misinformed (“American Jewish Leaders: Where Are You?” January 31). Leibler wrongly argues that no Jewish leaders in America are standing up against threats to Israel and the Jewish people from the far Left. As he gets around…
February 04, 2019
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On the Rise: Antisemitism in Europe

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Swastika In School
GRADE LEVEL: High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Reports Show an Alarming Rise of Antisemitism in Europe Several reports over the past few years have pointed to an increase in antisemitism in Europe, both in terms of hate incidents and anti-Jewish attitudes. Human Rights First (based in the U.S.), the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (based in Vienna) and ADL all report higher levels of antisemitism compared to previous years;…
March 19, 2020
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Pyramid of Hate (en Español)

Tools and Strategies
October 29, 2018
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Antisemitism Around the World: Global 100

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g100
GRADE LEVEL: High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Speaking and Listening Antisemitism: Surging in the 21st Century  The ADL Global 100: An Index of Antisemitism™ is the most extensive poll on antisemitic attitudes and opinions toward Jewish people ever conducted. It consists of surveys of the general public in over 100 countries and territories gauging levels of antisemitic attitudes and adherence to traditional antisemitic stereotypes. First conducted in 2014, ADL…
December 10, 2019
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From Broken Glass Study Guide

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For Educators | High School A study guide for high school teachers who are using From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler’s Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation in the classroom. Help students better understand the experiences author Steve Ross talks about in his book. About From Broken Glass Steve Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive…
June 08, 2018
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ADL Reacts to Anti-Semitic Article in Puerto Rico Newspaper

Media Watch
On January 18, El Nuevo Dia of Puerto Rico published an editorial apologizing for its anti-Semitic article and removing it from its website. Titled “Lessons Learned,” the editorial acknowledged the anti-Semitic nature of the column and concludes: “The problem of Puerto Rico has nothing to do with the Jews.” ADL appreciates the newspaper’s powerful acknowledgment and looks forward to working with it to counter all forms of hate. Letters to the Editor El Nuevo Dia…
January 09, 2018
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Additional Holocaust Resources

Tools and Strategies
For Educators Teaching about the Holocaust goes beyond understanding the historical fact that six million Jews and other innocent victims of the Germans and their collaborators were brutally murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe. It can help students think about the use and abuse of power and the roles and responsibilites of individuals, organizations, and nations when confronted with human rights violations. As students gain insight into the many facets that resulted in the Holocaust, they…
December 05, 2012
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