Panel: Anti-Semitism on rise around world, online
— A chilling rise in anti-Semitism is erupting around the world, exacerbated by deniers who claim the Holocaust never happened and fueled by the ease of spreading hate speech on the Internet.
The gloomy assessment came Monday as close to 400 people — including about a dozen Holocaust survivors and another dozen family members of survivors — gathered to consider how to combat anti-Semitism as survivors age and die.
It's a problem around the world, said Hannah Rosenthal, the U.S. State Department's special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
"We are seeing old-fashioned anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, blood libel, age-old stereotypes continuing, like the Holocaust never happened," she said. "We're seeing Holocaust glorification, where people are calling for a new Holocaust to finish the job."
It's especially prevalent on the Internet, said Howard Berger, senior adviser for external affairs at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. "You go on the Internet today and put in the word 'Holocaust' and come up with not just a few, but with thousands and thousands of websites that push hate against Jews," he said.
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