Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is launching a brand-new programming initiative, Understanding & Confronting Anti-Jewish Hate. Beginning in December 2023, this initiative will be anchored in a series of programs focused on helping the Chicagoland community identify and address antisemitism head-on.
Featuring plenary discussions with Holocaust Survivors, historians, and community, civic, and religious leaders, the series will provide audiences with a meaningful examination of contemporary issues and challenges of antisemitism, and present concrete action items in response to how we can combat acts of hatred in our neighborhoods, on college campuses, and on a global scale. Details about programs in this series will be published below as they become available.
Online Program: Automated Hate – Social Media and the Proliferation of Antisemitism
June 4, Noon (CDT)
Focused on the rise and acceleration of antisemitism on the Internet, with specific emphasis on social media, this discussion will highlight the ways online platforms have been exploited to not only spread antisemitic vitriol, but to create destabilizing echo chambers and feedback loops – both of which are driving an unprecedented surge in Jew-hatred online.
Join Dr. Casey Babb, a Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Fellow with the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and Instructor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, as he leads this timely presentation. There will be a portion dedicated exclusively to questions and answers from attendees.
Free to the public. Reservations required.
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Community Partners: ADL Midwest; Evelyn R. Green AJC Chicago Regional Office; Sheerit Hapleitah; Loyola University Chicago Jewish Faculty, Staff and Allies (JFSA) Affinity Group
Supported by Carole Feiger, David P. Brody Charitable Trust, and the Wiznitzer Family.
Photo credits: Scott Edwards