Online Workshop: Recognising and Acting: Antisemitism, Unconscious Bias and Persistent Myths Understanding and Challenging Antisemitism in Educational Contexts

What exactly is antisemitism, and how do you recognise it when it shows up? This workshop gives educators insight and practical tools to identify and address antisemitism in its many forms, including the ones that are easiest to miss.

Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2026 | 13:00–15:30 CET
Place: Zoom

Antisemitism has grown significantly in recent years, and is at the same time one of the most contested terms in public debate. The word is used as a warning, an accusation, a political argument and increasingly as a battleground. As a phenomenon, it is becoming harder to recognise: it hides behind a meme, a joke, irony, or a political stereotype. With so much noise surrounding the subject, it is becoming difficult to say what antisemitism actually is.

How do we recognise it in all its disguises? Where does legitimate criticism end and prejudice begin? And once we are clear on what antisemitism is, what can we actually do to challenge it effectively in 2026?

These are not new questions, but they are more urgent than ever- including, and perhaps especially, in educational settings. Educators encounter them more and more in day-to-day practice: in conversations between participants, in current events and online content, or in prejudices that go unnoticed. This workshop offers concrete tools to recognise antisemitism in its less visible, more persistent forms and to think through what educators can do to counter it.

Speaker: Hans Wallage

Hans Wallage has been affiliated with the Anne Frank House since 2025, where he conducts research on antisemitism, discrimination, democracy, and the rule of law. He is also a historian at the University of Amsterdam, where he previously completed his doctoral thesis on antisemitism and the provision of aid in early modern Amsterdam.

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