Antisemitism

Amid a global rise of nationalism and virulent political rhetoric, dangerous antisemitism is on the rise, writes Deborah E. Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She structures her report as a series of letters based on her responses to queries from a non-Jewish colleague and from a Jewish student. 

Lipstadt reports a deterioration of tolerance in Europe and asserts that she felt compelled to respond to outlandish conspiracy theories, such as that Jews faked the Holocaust. She contends that failing to forcefully counter such toxic lies allows poisonous untruths to take root.