National Plan Reflects the Debate Over Antisemitism
“The Biden plan suggests that Holocaust education can “teach students about hate, An attitude toward social identities that can be mobilized to justify discrimination, state/vigilante violence, and exploitation. Learn more , An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality. Learn more , and Individual beliefs that favor one group over others, or disfavor a particular group, and/or laws, policies and traditions that inscribe such beliefs in institutions. Learn more more broadly,” but in much of the country, this may not be easily achievable due to anti-CRT attacks. Indeed, these efforts have sometimes caught Holocaust education in their crosshairs: In 2021, a Texas law designed to prevent the teaching of “CRT” in schools turned out to require that teachers present an “opposing view” of the Holocaust. The administration does not mention plans to counter this backlash or name its right-wing political origins, which some advocates see as an incomplete approach to a formidable issue. “[Anti-CRT attacks] undercut the possibility of a critical approach to A form of oppression targeting Jews and those perceived to be Jewish, including bigoted speech, violent acts, and discriminatory policy. Learn more education, one which situates it within and alongside broader historic and ongoing structures of The use of violence, intimidation, surveillance, and discrimination, particularly by the state and/or its civilian allies, to control populations or particular sections of a population. Learn more ,” said Ben Lorber, a senior research analyst for Political Research Associates who tracks A social movement based on a belief in biologically determined racial hierarchies, often with the ultimate goal of establishing an all-White nation state. Learn more and antisemitism. Lorber sees what he calls the plan’s “depoliticized approach” as insufficient to address the “dire threats to multiracial democracy” that many states are facing.”