Countering Antisemitism Lab

The Contemporary Antisemitism Collection adds new depths to the survivor and witness stories of the Visual History Archive by gathering stories of Jewish life and survival from 1945 to today. These testimonies aee the history of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Yemenite Jewish communities, Jews under communism, and Jews across the African continent, as well as survivors of terrorism and other violence, and the everyday experiences of antisemitism in the United States.

Antisemitism thrives online. But it doesn’t have to be this way. CAL’s online monitoring and analysis project tracks antisemitic discourse from the fringes to the mainstream, worldwide. As antisemitic narratives evolve, our prebunking campaigns provide a proven-effective method for preventing their spread, while the Shoah Foundation’s archive of survivor testimony grounds the digital present in the lessons of history.

CAL’s training pillar aims to continue the work of the USC Shoah Foundation’s K-12 education programs with objective, actionable lessons to recognize and reduce antisemitism. CAL will expand on the Shoah Foundation’s Student Leadership Program (SLP), bringing together USC honors students and deepening their understanding of the Holocaust and antisemitism’s ongoing impacts. Trainings outside the university will serve government, media, the legal profession, and private industry with objective, non-partisan insights into the changing face of antisemitism, its corrosive effects on our institutions, and concrete steps to address it.

Countering antisemitism calls for new and innovative approaches to prevention. Our research division develops new methods of intervention to test and implement. This includes piloting new methods and elevating the work of scholars. We will continue to take groundbreaking research out of the academy and into the world, where it can make a difference.