FUTURE OF JEWISH
The business of fighting antisemitism is booming — and broken
Nachum Kaplan
November 7, 2026

…Education deserves especially close scrutiny. Holocaust education has expanded across the West as antisemitism has returned in new ideological forms. Britain has an extensive Holocaust-education infrastructure, yet its Jewish population continues to face extraordinary hostility. This suggests that teaching people about Auschwitz and inoculating them against contemporary Jew-hatred are different tasks. Students can know Nazis were evil while believing Jews possess sinister political power. They can condemn racial antisemitism while adopting political forms of demonization they regard as virtuous. They can absorb the lesson that genocide is evil without learning how conspiratorial thinking, scapegoating, and collective blame work. Holocaust education is often most comfortable when antisemitism is presented as a historical pathology committed by recognizably monstrous people in black-and-white photographs. The harder antisemitism is the version that believes itself righteous. How much education addresses that problem? More importantly, how much of it is tested? READ MORE