Professor Thomas Just: “Combating Antisemitism in Germany and Poland: Strategies Since 1990”

Professor Thomas Just serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor within the Future Security Initiative at Arizona State University. Professor Just served as Assistant to the Director of African and Middle Eastern Affairs within Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is the author of “Combating Antisemitism in Germany and Poland: Strategies Since 1990.”   Antisemitism is often defined as  hostile acts against Jews based on religious, political,  economic, and racial grounds.  Two major programs to reduce antisemitism in Poland and Germany are through legal measures and public diplomacy. It is illegal in both countries to deny that the Holocaust existed. Conspiracy theories related to the Covid-19 pandemic have contributed to antisemitism in the USA.  Unfortunately, social media outlets were critical to disseminating misinformation about Jews.  Jewish people cannot be blamed for Netanyahu’s disastrous policies in Gaza, and a person is able to be pro- Palestinian, pro-Israeli and anti-Netanyahu’s’ prosecution of the war.