Shalom: “Digital Peacebuilders”: Using Social Media to Fight Antisemitism
CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann stated, "To counter extremism, we must focus not only on individual acts of antisemitism, but on the strategy and financing of extremists. We are talking about a real network of organized antisemitism." To do this, Ritzmann stated, "It is necessary to distinguish those who practice professional antisemitism from people who hold antisemitic ideas." Ritzmann also highlighted the distinction between those who organize and those who commit acts of antisemitism. But there are also different ways of being antisemitic: "There are those who use antisemitic narratives to justify violence, out of solidarity with the enemy of my enemy, and those who write online comments that glorify terrorism. Antisemitism is changing."
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.