Addressing Antisemitism Online
Duration
Two 50-min class periodsLanguage
English — UKPublished
Overview
About This Lesson
This is the third lesson in a unit designed to help teachers have conversations with their students about contemporary antisemitism in a safe, sensitive and constructive way. Use these lessons to help your students reflect on antisemitism – how it manifests in contemporary society and its impact – and consider what needs to be done to challenge it.
This two-part lesson is a means of helping students to develop as responsible and critical Internet users, who understand how content shared online, such as memes, can be used to spread hateful messages and manipulate those who encounter it. This is particularly important in the age of social media, when memes, images and ideas are shared with incredible speed, as it can prevent students from unsuspectingly sharing antisemitic content, and encourage them to think critically about the information that they are consuming. In the first part of the lesson, students reflect on how they consume and share information, and on the power of the Internet meme. Then, in the second part of the lesson, students look at specific examples of antisemitic memes, reflecting on the messages they send and the feelings they seek to provoke in the viewer/reader.
Some of the content in this two-part lesson, particularly the second part, can be challenging for students. We recommend that you review your classroom contract and teach the first two lessons of this unit (Introducing Antisemitism and Antisemitic Tropes and Exploring Antisemitic Tropes in Further Depth) if you have not already done so.
Preparing to Teach
A Note to Teachers
Lesson Plans
Activities
Part I
Part II
Extension Activity
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