Abstract: Η διδασκαλία του Ολοκαυτώματος σε μικρές ηλικίες αποτελεί πρόκληση αλλά και σημαντική ευκαιρία για την ανάπτυξη αξιών, όπως η ενσυναίσθηση, η αλληλεγγύη και η διαπολιτισμική «κατανόηση». Ειδικά στο ελληνικό Δημοτικό σχολείο, η προσέγγιση τέτοιων θεμάτων απαιτεί προσαρμογή, μια και δεν υπάρχει αντίστοιχο κεφάλαιο ή οδηγίες στο ισχύον αναλυτικό πρόγραμμα ως προς τη διδασκαλία του ζητήματος αυτού, καθώς και προσεκτική προσέγγιση λόγω της ηλικιακής ομάδας των μαθητών. Στο πλαίσιο της Εκπαίδευσης για την Αειφορία και της Εκπαίδευσης για την Ιδιότητα του Παγκόσμιου Ενεργού Πολίτη, η διδασκαλία του Ολοκαυτώματος και των Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων αποβλέπουν στην καλλιέργεια κοινωνικών δεξιοτήτων στους μαθητές μέσα από τη δημιουργία ενός μαθησιακού περιβάλλοντος που προάγει τη δημοκρατία, την ισότητα, την κοινωνική συνοχή, την επίλυση προβλήματος, τον σεβασμό στη διαφορετικότητα, την αποδοχή και την ένταξη με απώτερο στόχο την καλλιέργεια της κριτικής σκέψης. Η παρούσα εργασία εστιάζει στην παρουσίαση των παιδαγωγικών κατευθύνσεων και των διδακτικών πρακτικών που ακολουθήθηκαν για την υλοποίηση ενός καινοτόμου προγράμματος στην Ε΄ Τάξη Πειραματικού Δημοτικού Σχολείου, με στόχο μέσα από τη διερεύνηση των ιστορικών γεγονότων οι μαθητές να καλλιεργήσουν δεξιότητες μελλοντικών ενεργών πολιτών για την οικοδόμηση ενός πιο δίκαιου βιώσιμου κόσμου.
Abstract: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Spanish Right on Jews and Israel (1978–2014) offers a groundbreaking analysis of how Spain’s main right-wing parties – from the post-Franco era to the mid-2010s – have transformed their political discourse on Jews and Israel.
Drawing on critical discourse analysis and extensive primary sources, it traces the evolution from suspicion and ambivalence to overt philosemitism and symbolic alliance. By unpacking historical narratives, ideologies, and political discourses, the book illuminates how the Spanish right strategically recast Israel’s image to serve changing political identities and foreign policy goals. Readers will benefit from a nuanced understanding of how narrative, politics, and ideology interact to shape modern alliances. The book’s critical perspective reveals not only the Spanish case, but also broader mechanisms by which political actors across Europe redefine their national and international relationships through discourse.
Aimed at scholars and students of political science, history, discourse studies, and Jewish studies, as well as policymakers and readers interested in European politics, this volume offers unique insights into the intersection of memory, identity, and foreign policy.
Abstract: Der Beitrag untersucht, inwiefern die Betrachtung von institutionellem Antisemitismus und von Antisemitismus in Institutionen hilfreich ist, um aktuelle antisemitische Dynamiken angemessen zu beschreiben. Er liefert konkrete
empirische Befunde dazu, wie Betroffene Antisemitismus in (ausgewählten) Institutionen erleben: Ausgehend von Interviews und zivilgesellschaftlich dokumentierten Vorfällen wird gezeigt, wie wirkmächtig entsprechende
antisemitische Erfahrungen für die Betroffenen sind. Auf der Grundlage des Forschungsstands und einer Begriffsbestimmung, die zwischen institutionellem Antisemitismus und Antisemitismus in Institutionen unterscheidet, wird die Bedeutung von Institutionen für antisemitische Dynamiken herausgestellt; dafür wird das Konzept der Gelegenheitsstrukturen erläutert und genutzt. Schilderungen aus qualitativen Interviews mit Jüdinnen_Juden verdeutlichen und konkretisieren, wie Betroffene Antisemitismus in Institutionen erleben und welche Rolle institutionelle Routinen, Regeln und Normen spielen. Der Beitrag argumentiert, dass der Blick darauf einen wichtigen Beitrag leistet, um gegenwärtigen Antisemitismus zu verstehen.
Abstract: This rapid review has sought to examine how the regulatory system for healthcare professionals, from employment through to national oversight and professional regulatory bodies, supports recognition and reporting of antisemitism and other forms of racism, and tackles racism at every stage and level. In particular, the review has sought to answer 2 principal questions:
How do we make sure in the NHS in England that perpetrators of antisemitism and other forms of racism are held to account with effective action taken to tackle their behaviour?
How do we make sure that patients and staff are protected from racism within the NHS in England and across the UK health and care professional regulation system?
This review proposes that the NHS establishes a clear organisation-wide priority to increase trust and confidence in NHS services among Jewish, and other minority ethnic patients and staff through actively promoting an anti-racist workplace culture and putting in place systems to tackle incidents of all forms of racism thoroughly, fairly and transparently. The NHS must work to embed anti-racism principles at its very core, eliminate racist prejudice and disadvantage, and demonstrate fairness in all aspects of NHS employment and care. That must include efforts to tackle anti-Jewish racism.
The scope of this review considers actions that can be taken to address racism from all quarters, including:
NHS staff
patients and their relatives
members of the public
Building on the existing large body of evidence on the impact of racism in healthcare, and on the extensive experience of Lord Mann, the review undertook:
a period of targeted engagement with relevant stakeholders, including the UK health and care system and professional regulatory bodies
thorough examination of existing mechanisms, guidance, and processes for addressing incidents of racism in the NHS
Abstract: In this policy paper:
Renowned demographer and President of JPR’s European Jewish Demography Unit Professor Sergio DellaPergola explores possible futures for the Jewish People over the next century, not by making precise predictions, but by identifying the core structural forces that have shaped Jewish history and will continue to do so. It highlights the enduring complexity of Jewish identity and existence, examining not only whether the Jewish People will endure but also in what form.
Some of the key findings and arguments in this policy paper:
Three enduring questions will shape the Jewish future: What defines Jewish identity? How is it transmitted? How do Jews relate to non-Jews as a minority? How does the Jewish collective organise and defend its shared interests?
Jewish existence will continue to rest on three interconnected pillars: Israel – a sovereign Jewish state, demographically strong but politically challenged; Diaspora – diverse minority communities, often influential but structurally vulnerable; the Israel–Diaspora relationship – a critical but fragile axis.
Three key dynamics affect Jewish demographics: Ageing and low fertility in most Diaspora communities; higher fertility in Israel, especially among more religious groups; and potential long-term transformation of the Jewish population’s internal composition.
Future migration patterns will depend heavily on political stability, economic conditions and levels of security and antisemitism.
Assimilation and identity erosion remain major challenges, while new forms of ‘joining’ Judaism may emerge.
Jews will continue to represent a tiny global minority, and Jewish life will continue to be shaped by external perceptions and pressures. At the same time, antisemitism is expected to persist in evolving forms.
Israel is likely to become home to the majority of the world’s Jews within decades. This shift will redefine the meaning of Jewish peoplehood, its cultural and political priorities and the power dynamics within global Jewry.
Rapid growth of more religious populations (particularly Haredim) may reshape economic structures, political systems and social cohesion.
Leadership capacity must include three key requirements: the ability to unite diverse segments of the Jewish People, a realistic assessment of challenges and opportunities, and the development of new or improved shared decision-making frameworks.
Abstract: Das vorliegende zivilgesellschaftliche Lagebild der Recherche- und Informationsstelle Antisemitismus Berlin (RIAS Berlin) dokumentiert antisemitische Vorfälle im Jahr 2025 und analysiert deren Erscheinungsformen und Entwicklungen. Ziel des Berichts ist es, auf Grundlage systematisch erhobener und verifizierter Meldungen ein möglichst umfassendes Bild antisemitischer Dynamiken in Berlin zu zeichnen und ihre Auswirkungen auf Betroffene sichtbar zu machen.
2197 antisemitische Vorfälle hat RIAS Berlin 2025 in Berlin dokumentiert. Die von RIAS Berlin dokumentierten Daten zeigen, dass antisemitische Vorfälle in Berlin seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 stark angestiegen sind; das hohe Vorfallaufkommen hielt auch im Jahr 2025 an. Obwohl bei einzelnen Vofalltypen, etwa bei Angriffen und gezielten Sachbeschädigungen, gegenüber 2024 weniger Vorfälle bekannt geworden sind, liegen die Gesamtzahlen weiterhin deutlich über dem Niveau der Jahre vor 2023.
Die Erfahrungen der Betroffenen bilden die Grundlage für diesen Bericht. Sie verweisen nicht nur auf einzelne Vorfälle, sondern auf ein gesellschaftliches Klima, in dem antisemitische Äußerungen und Handlungen möglich sind – und zu oft unwidersprochen bleiben. Antisemitische Vorfälle sind keine isolierten Ereignisse. Die Auseinandersetzung mit antisemitischen Erfahrungen, (er-)fordert Ressourcen: zeitliche, soziale, politische, emotionale, psychische, wirtschaftliche.
Auch im Falle einer juristischen Auseinandersetzung sind nicht nur finanzielle Mittel erforderlich. Ein solcher Prozess bedeutet mitunter, sich immer wieder mit dem antisemitischen Erlebnis auseinanderzusetzen, die Erfahrung nicht abschließen zu können. Ähnliches gilt für die oft langwierigen und zehrenden Auseinandersetzungen an Hochschulen oder am Arbeitsplatz um sichere Räume für Jüdinnen_Juden oder auch darum, dass Antisemitismus überhaupt erkannt oder anerkannt wird.
Auffällig ist die feindliche Deutung des Begriffs „Zionismus“. Im antisemitischen Diskurs wird er zu einer politischen Markierung, die Zionismus u.a. mit Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus gleichsetzt und zur Feindzuschreibung macht. Seit 2023 weist RIAS Berlin auf Vorfälle hin, in denen diese Zuschreibung auf bekannte antisemitische Stereotype zurückgreift. Das Feindbild „Zionismus“ geht über die Delegitimierung Israels hinaus, es wird auch in Stellung gebracht, um Jüdinnen_Juden und nicht-jüdische Personen als politische Gegner_innen zu markieren und aus Räumen oder von Dienstleistungen auszuschließen.
Außerdem geraten zivilgesellschaftliche Initiativen zur Dokumentation antisemitischer Vorfälle zunehmend unter Druck und werden mit Vorwürfen konfrontiert, die ihre Arbeit delegitimieren sollen. In einer solchen Situation wird eine sachliche und differenzierte Auseinandersetzung erheblich erschwert – auch wenn sie gegenwärtig dringender denn je erforderlich ist.
Abstract: Evaluative research in Jewish education often adopts a “silver bullet” approach, attributing identity outcomes to single programs or interventions. This article advances an ecosystem framework that situates Jewish schooling, family upbringing, and peer networks within their wider communal and societal contexts. Drawing on hierarchical regression analyses of large-scale survey data (n = 21,260) from four Jewish diaspora communities, we find that the impact of Jewish education depends on its interaction with family background, social capital, and national setting. Jewish identity thus emerges as a cumulative and relational process rather than the product of discrete experiences. These findings underscore the limitations of single-country studies, which often generalize about Jewish identity formation without considering the structural and contextual differences that shape communal life in different national settings. The findings also extend sociological theories of social capital, cultural capital, and the life course, offering new insight into how educational, familial, and communal forces together sustain Jewish identity in diaspora.
Abstract: The British Jewish community has faced an unprecedented number of attacks in recent weeks, including multiple arson incidents and a terrorist attack. As the UK government grapples with how to respond, this ISD policy brief offers a strategic framework for confronting a range of antisemitic threats. These threats encompass mainstream and extreme actors, state- and non-state-linked activity, online and offline environments, and both violence and latent cultural antisemitism. It urges a cross-government strategy, led by the UK Prime Minister’s Office, centred on the online environment and designed to address the diverse actors, tactics and harms targeting the Jewish community. This brief builds on ISD’s research and policy development on the diverse harms landscape, covering threats such as terrorism, extremism, hostile state activity and targeted hate including antisemitism.
Abstract: Following last week’s horrific antisemitic attack in Golders Green in north London, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on the public to “open their eyes to Jewish pain”. Yet our research suggests that the PM and his government might do better to open their own eyes to what underpins the pain many British Jews experience today: the state’s failure to honour its social contract with this minority.
Since the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel and the subsequent Israel-Gaza war, Jews in Britain have experienced a growing tide of antisemitism. Over the course of 2025, 3,700 instances of antisemitic hate were reported, up 4 per cent from the previous year and 14 per cent lower than the highest ever annual total of 4,298 antisemitic incidents reported in 2023. Incidents include last week’s Golders Green attack, in which two men were stabbed; an arson attack at former synagogue in east London; an attack on the Jewish ambulance service Hatzola; an attempted firebombing at a synagogue in Kenton, London; and a terrorist attack on Manchester’s Heaton Park synagogue in October 2025, which killed two Jewish people and seriously injured three others.
In the wake of this alarming rise in antisemitism, focus groups we conducted between December 2025 and March 2026 with 43 British Jews across the UK revealed severely declining trust in Britain’s major institutions. The oldest non-Christian minority in the country, the Jewish community is less than 0.5 per cent of the UK population and includes both practising and non-practising members from a range of denominational affiliations and political views.
But despite their differences, people repeatedly expressed a similar stark sense of betrayal. Focus group participants stressed that while they were fulfilling their side of the bargain—complying with the law, paying taxes, contributing to civic life—the state increasingly was failing to provide them with protection and treat them fairly. “The pillars in the society we live in”, bemoaned a man in his 70s from Birmingham, “are letting us down”.
Abstract: This research investigates how recommender algorithms on TikTok and Rumble expose UK minors to antisemitic content.
Analysts created 10 TikTok profiles representing 15-year-old users with varied political and cultural interests, including neutral interest in the Israel-Palestine conflict, left and right-wing political interest, male lifestyle influencer content, far-right content and two neutral accounts. The profiles were prompted towards relevant topics for each interest through an hour and a half of manual content viewing, followed by content engagement via bespoke bot over 14 days, resulting in over 5,500 recommended videos. Thematic analysis clustered content into 10 core themes, revealing pathways from neutral lifestyle content to highly politicised and conspiratorial clusters. Relevant themes were manually reviewed, revealing that harmful content persisted through videos, comments, and TikTok’s sticker and sound features, illustrating systemic gaps in safeguarding minors.
On Rumble, analysts collected 4,412 videos from the platform’s “Editor’s Picks” over six months. Analysts filtered for antisemitism-related keywords and reviewed 259 videos potentially relevant to antisemitism. Findings show Rumble hosts more overt antisemitic content than TikTok, including slurs, Holocaust distortion and conspiracies about Jewish control. These findings underscore urgent gaps in platform accountability and the need for robust enforcement of the Online Safety Act to protect children from the normalisation and mainstreaming of antisemitic content.
Abstract: In this report:
According to new data from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, 742 people emigrated to Israel (‘made aliyah’) from the UK in 2025 – the highest annual count for over 40 years. This report examines the recent migration data in its historical context to assess whether this latest figure represents a genuine shift and if so, whether it is being fuelled by concerns about antisemitism in Britain.
Some of the key findings in the report:
742 people emigrated to Israel (‘made aliyah’) from the UK in 2025 – the highest annual count for over 40 years.
Over the past 20 years, annual counts have remained within a fairly narrow range, from about 400 to about 740.
Taking the past three years together, an average of 566 British Jews made aliyah per annum – close to the annual average over the past two decades.
About 2 Jews per 1,000 in the UK Jewish population currently make aliyah each year, somewhat higher than the equivalent figure for Canada (0.7), but considerably lower than in France (6.4), and orders of magnitude lower than the levels associated with major cases of Jewish flight during 20th Century crises or periods of acute uncertainty.
Since October 7, 2023, British Jews have shown a small but marked increase in their likelihood of making aliyah.
Younger people, orthodox Jews and those most affected by antisemitism are most likely to say they are considering making aliyah in the coming five years.
Aliyah, like all forms of migration, is also informed by socioeconomic conditions; there is clear evidence that factors such as unemployment rates are key determinants in people’s decisions.
Migration is not a one-way street: the number of people living in the UK who were born in Israel rose from 12,229 in 2001 to 23,152 in 2021, a net increase of 10,923 over those 20 years.
Abstract: This study develops a novel analytical framework to advance studies of monuments. It does so by systematically integrating four elements of a monument’s assemblage – design, surroundings, rituals, and narratives – to examine their combined potential affective impact on visitors’ bodily and emotional engagement with monuments and the past these represent. These four elements will be applied in the comparison of two Dutch Second World War monuments, the National Monument on Dam Square and the National Holocaust Monument of Names. The article reflects on who or what shapes these monuments’ four elements and what kind of potential affective experiences they engender. The results show that the Holocaust Names Monument creates a sacred space for personal and active Holocaust remembrance. In contrast, the National Monument allows more profane, non-commemorative behaviour, except on 4 May, when the Annual Remembrance Day turns it into a sacred site, evoking collective sentiment and remembering of diverse victims. Despite these differences, both monuments seek to foster empathy for individual victims and a sense of responsibility through reflection. These similarities and differences have emerged over time, reflecting the influence of both individual and institutional actors involved in the monument’s design and management, as well as broader socio-political shifts in commemoration.
Abstract: La création de l’État d’Israël, en 1948, reconfigure profondément les migrations juives internationales, et la France devient, surtout après 1967, l’un des foyers réguliers de l’alya, terme désignant l’immigration juive vers Israël. Depuis les années 2000, les départs s’intensifient et se diversifient, désormais motivés moins par l’idéologie sioniste que par un sentiment d’insécurité croissante en France. Malgré le paradoxe d’une installation dans un pays en guerre, les migrants placent en Israël une confiance forte, parfois idéalisée, dans sa capacité à assurer leur protection. Cette migration en provenance de France apparaît alors comme un mouvement ambivalent, pris entre urgence ressentie et avenir incertain, et marqué par une structuration communautaire exposée aux enjeux sécuritaires en France comme aux influences du sionisme religieux en Israël.
Abstract: This article examines how rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust are represented in the Polish elementary school core curriculum and history textbooks, offering a critical assessment of the current approach to Holocaust education in Poland.
The inclusion of the Holocaust as a distinct educational topic in schools in Poland is a relatively recent development, marking a shift from earlier decades when it was marginalized or instrumentalized for political purposes. The article traces the evolution of Holocaust education in Poland and highlights the changes introduced after the 2015 parliamentary elections, when the Law and Justice (PiS) government, within its historical policy, began emphasizing Poland’s ‘heroic past’ and the rescue of Jews. This narrative, the authors argue, risks overshadowing the complexities of Polish–Jewish relations during World War II. Trojański and Szuchta demonstrate that current curricula and textbooks often present a simplified, hero-centered narrative that neglects the broader historical context, including collaboration, blackmail, and violence against Jews. Such omissions contradict recent scholarship and hinder the ability of students to understand the multifaceted nature of the Holocaust. Because elementary school materials shape foundational historical knowledge, this imbalance has lasting implications. Finally, the article briefly notes the early steps taken by the new government to broaden the historical framework, but emphasizes that meaningful change will require time, resources, and careful revision of teaching materials.
Abstract: This article examines how local complicity in the Holocaust is negotiated, silenced, and revealed through the spatial memoryscape of Rajgród, a small town in northeastern Poland where Poles participated in the murder of their Jewish neighbors in the summer of 1941. Using a microhistorical lens, it analyzes how knowledge, denial, and memory are inscribed in physical spaces and communal practices, rendering space a cultural text. Drawing on personal and municipal records and ethnographic fieldwork, the article shows how Catholicism, nationalism, and ritual symbolism shape collective remembrance and moral hierarchies of suffering in post-socialist Eastern Europe.
Abstract: Marking the 75th anniversary of The Authoritarian Personalityin 2025, this article revisits its insights into the persistence of authoritarianism in contemporary society, drawing centrally on the work of Theodor Adorno and Else Frenkel-Brunswik. Based on the results of their studies, it can be demonstrated how antisemitism, sexism, anti-feminism, and queerphobia are interconnected rather than separate phenomena—a concept expanded here as the "intersectionality of ideologies." Examining rigid gender norms in authoritarian systems, the article explores their role in reinforcing antisemitic narratives, with examples from Hamas and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Additionally, it analyzes the culture industry as a site of ideological entanglement, using the 2022 documenta 15 exhibition as a case study. By reassessing authoritarianism's links to antisemitism and gender oppression, the article highlights its enduring relevance.
Abstract: Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 reached more people than ever before, with millions engaging across the UK through national moments of remembrance, education and community activity. From Light the Darkness to events in schools, workplaces and public spaces, this year showed the growing impact of coming together to remember, learn and stand against all prejudice today.
Central to this was the Light the Darkness campaign, which saw 230 buildings and landmarks illuminated in purple at 8pm as part of a nationwide act of remembrance – an increase from 200 in 2025. Delivered in partnership with Ocean Outdoor and supported by JCDecaux, Global and Bauer Media, the campaign appeared on 3,000 billboards across the UK, generating over 10 million impacts\*. HMDT’s radio advert aired more than 900 times across Global’s network, reaching a further 14 million impacts.
Engagement also grew at community level, with 3,800 organisations marking HMD – up from 3,500 the previous year. This was mirrored by a surge in digital participation on the day, with social media interactions across HMDT’s Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn rising by 140%, from 10,000 in 2025 to 24,000 in 2026.
Crucially, the 2026 impact data highlights the reversal of a decline over the past two years in secondary school participation, which had previously attracted national concern. More than 1,000 secondary schools marked Holocaust Memorial Day this year – 17% of the total number of secondary schools nationwide, which increased from just 9% last year. This was further bolstered by the reach of the charity’s educational film, *It began with words*, which was viewed by over 130,000 pupils, helping ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust remain central to younger generations.
To take a deeper look at the key moments behind this year’s commemoration, read our Impact Report for Holocaust Memorial Day 2026. From a special event hosted by Their Majesties The King and Queen to acts of remembrance in communities across the UK, the report captures the scale and significance of HMD 2026.
Abstract: Expressions of antisemitic hate abound on social media today, reinvigorating ancient stereotypes around Jewish people and their history. The current user-centered study examined the shapes and the extent of antisemitic stereotypes from the point of view of emerging adults and their daily social media consumption. Emerging adults (N = 47) between 18 and 30 years of age were asked to keep guided media diaries of their social media activity over a period of 21 days (February to May 2022), zooming in on Jewish people, Jewish life, the Middle East conflict, and other topics associated with Jewry. A sample of N = 1,024 threads from a variety of social media channels was collected, encompassing textual and visual material. Qualitative content analysis was used to determine the presence of antisemitism, how explicit/implicit it was, and the types of argumentation used to support antisemitic claims. Frequency analysis and Chi-Square tests yielded beyond-chance patterns in the data. Findings reveal a high prevalence of explicit Israel-related antisemitic discourse encountered by emerging adults on social media, as well as highly ambiguous and implicit content that eludes easy detection by emerging adult users. Findings also point to the highly interactive nature in which antisemitism is co-constructed online.
