In this INSS podcast, dedicated to Holocaust Remembrance Day, INSS researcher Adi Kantor sits down with Prof. Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, to discuss the issue of antisemitism and the role of education. Prof. Marcus is also the author of the article “Addressing Antisemitism Within and Through the Educational Systems in the United States,” a special publication in the framework of the INSS collection of articles on contemporary antisemitism in the United States.

More than seven decades have passed since the last shell was fired in World War II, as the liberating allied soldiers stood still to the horrific sights of the systematic murder of six million European Jews by the Germans and their accomplices under the Nazi regime.

But antisemitism has never really disappeared since then. Especially in the last decade, it seems that this phenomenon has increased and has become alarming.

How should educators of our time approach this issue? Why do we see an increase in antisemitism in the education system in the US today? What is the relation between anti-Israel and anti-Zionism and antisemitism, and how is it reflected in contemporary American society ? And how should the Biden administration address this issue?

https://www.inss.org.il/publication/antisemitism-education/