Women react at the site where revelers were killed and kidnapped on the Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival, a day after the country marked the second anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Antisemitism in Canada, 3 years after Oct. 7: What the alarming numbers show, and what Ottawa hasn’t done

To combat the rise in antisemitism, we need to accurately name what it is and continually confront it as a country.
Holocaust survivors from around the globe participated in a digital campaign, launched by the Claims Conference in May 2024, called #CancelHate. It featured videos of survivors reading Holocaust denial posts from different social media platforms to combat Holocaust denial and distortion. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Holocaust education has a growing Gen AI problem

AI poses serious risks to Holocaust memory through denial, distortion and clickbait. AI-literate younger generations may be our best tool for combating the misinformation it enables.
Charlie Hunnam attends the world premiere of Netflix’s “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” at The Plaza Hotel on Sept. 30, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

The dangers of blurring fact and fiction in Holocaust TV narratives

When TV series sensationalize Holocaust atrocities for dramatic effect, it risks encouraging misinformation, denial and trivializing Nazi crimes.
Auschwitz survivor Branko Lustig signs a poster of the film ‘Schindler’s List,’ based on the 1982 book ‘Schindler’s Ark,’ before a ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, in 2015. (Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP)

How I’m teaching Holocaust literature in light of Canadian recommendations around combating antisemitism

Holocaust denial is connected to antisemitism, and exploring life prior to the Holocaust illustrates a trajectory of antisemitc expression.
People gather at the Paneriai memorial in memory of the Jewish people of Vilnius killed by Nazis during World War II, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Gen Z knowledge about the Holocaust matters for ongoing reconciliation with a troubled history

The past is a reality that humanity as whole must contend with, but a lack of understanding is fertile ground for denial, revisionism and antisemitism.

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