Summary
2023 saw the highest number of incidents of antisemitism ever recorded in the UK. This highlights a need for citizenship teachers to educate students on anti-Jewish racism as part of modern life.
To enact this change, teachers may wish to draw upon a pedagogy developed through the National Holocaust Museum’s Racism Response Unit. This method of anti-racism education draws links between the anti-Jewish tropes and conspiracy theories of the pre-Nazi, Nazi and contemporary eras. Teachers should also interrogate the codes used by anti-Jewish racists of the far-left and far-right, and be open to a sensitive discussion of the ways in which illegitimate criticism of Israel fuels much contemporary online anti-Jewish racism.
The best practice cited here should be of interest to anyone working in a British primary or secondary school today.
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