Unpacking and Dismantling Antisemitism on Campus
A Workshop for University and College Leadership | 90 Minutes
Workshop with Live Facilitation
Available In-Person or Virtually at Your Campus
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center is proud to offer a 90 minute, live-facilitated workshop designed for university and college leadership confronting the urgent challenge of antisemitism on campus. Drawing on decades of expertise in human rights and antisemitism education, the session equips leaders with the knowledge, awareness, and strategies needed to foster safer and more inclusive environments for Jewish students, faculty, and staff.
What You’ll Learn
The program provides a deeper understanding of Jewish identity and lived experience, exploring the richness and diversity of Jewish life and dismantling harmful stereotypes. It highlights the multi-faceted nature of Jewish identity -as an ethnicity, a race, a nation, and a religion - and considers how Jewish students navigate these intersecting identities in today’s campus climate.
Leaders are guided through practical approaches to recognizing and responding to antisemitism, with attention to the barriers Jewish students face when reporting hate and the challenge of balancing academic freedom with the responsibility to disrupt discrimination. Case studies and recent campus incidents help participants examine the impact of antisemitism on Jewish students’ well-being, belonging, and academic success, while reviewing effective institutional responses.
By participating in this workshop, campus leaders take a vital step toward strengthening their institution’s capacity to respond to antisemitism and ensuring Jewish voices are respected, supported, and protected within the academic community.
ALLYSHIP
Participants gain the knowledge and tools to be an ally to their Jewish colleagues and friends, as part of an overall commitment to oppose hatred of minority communities.
UNDERSTANDING ANTISEMITISM
To be an effective ally, it’s essential to first understand both historical and contemporary forms of antisemitism. By gaining insight into the origins and evolution of anti-Jewish hate, participants become better equipped to recognize and address its modern manifestations.
INCLUSIVE
WORKPLACES
Participants establish a shared language and framework for understanding and addressing antisemitism in the workplace. In acquiring a better grasp of the experiences of Jewish Canadians, the workshop fosters a greater sense of belonging and inclusivity.
IMPACT ON
CANADIANS
Participants establish a shared language and framework for understanding and addressing antisemitism in the workplace. In acquiring a better grasp of the experiences of Jewish Canadians, the workshop fosters a greater sense of belonging and inclusivity.
Our program, Antisemitism: Then and Now, provides participants a keen insight into the Canadian Jewish reality, present and past, helping employers and employees to ensure that Jewish voices are heard, respected and valued.
Here are some of the many organizations we have worked with to support their efforts to combat antisemitism.
We are available to answer questions and provide additional details. We look forward to your inquiry.
Founded in 1989, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) is one of Canada’s leading human rights organizations combatting antisemitism and other forms of hate. Through our extensive advocacy work and education programs teaching the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides, FSWC promotes the principles of tolerance, social justice and democracy. Based in Toronto, FSWC is affiliated with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international human rights organization headquartered in Los Angeles, which has an official NGO presence at the United Nations, UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament.
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