London conference discusses ‘Contemporary Antisemitism’ – The Militant

“De-Judification” of Holocaust

In a keynote talk, historian and documentary filmmaker Simon Scharma addressed the “de-Judification” of today’s education about the Holocaust. There is a “relentless fascination with the perpetrators as opposed to remembering” the Jews. This undermines the response to Jew-hatred today, which “has become toxic after Oct. 7.” He has produced a new documentary, “Simon Scharma: The Road to Auschwitz,” and says that education should start from the more than 1,000 years of antisemitism....

London conference discusses ‘Contemporary Antisemitism’ – The Militant