Why do antisemitic narratives still influence debates about Holocaust memory, Zionism, and historical responsibility? This course gives you a clear and focused introduction to contemporary antisemitism, with special attention to denial, relativisation, and the ways prejudice hides inside arguments about remembrance. You’ll learn how antisemitic stereotypes generalise negative claims about Jewish people, how coded communication works, and why certain narratives keep reappearing in public debate, political language, and discussions about history.

The course takes you into one of the most damaging areas of Holocaust distortion: myths about Nazi-Jewish collaboration. You’ll examine how these claims twist the history of Jewish councils, ghetto police, and Sonderkommando, ignoring Nazi coercion and using victim-blaming to shift attention away from the real perpetrators. You’ll also explore how Soviet, anti-Zionist, and ideological narratives helped spread these ideas, and how they connect to older antisemitic stereotypes about Jewish immorality, power, and betrayal.

You’ll also study the stereotype of “admonishers”, the idea that Holocaust remembrance prevents a positive national or family self-image. This part of the course shows how resentment toward memory can become a form of post-Holocaust antisemitism, especially when people frame remembrance as accusation rather than responsibility. By the end, you’ll understand how denial, relativisation, Zionism-related narratives, and Holocaust distortion work in contemporary discourse. Enrol now to recognise antisemitism with sharper insight and engage with history, memory, and prejudice more responsibly.