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The history of the Middle East conflict and current debates on Israel-related antisemitism
Seminar with Thomas Stoppacher
Speaker: Thomas Stoppacher
Date: November 17, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Duration: 4 hours (online)
Key areas:
- The long history of the Middle East conflict
- Different perspectives and narratives on Israel and Palestine
- Israel-related antisemitism and arguments against it
- Dealing with this emotionally charged topic in the classroom and in educational work
Objectives: To develop sensitivity to the specific Israel-related antisemitism that frequently arises in the discourse on the Middle East conflict, to contextualize it, and to discuss it with the participants.
Thomas Stoppacher leads workshops on antisemitism and extremism prevention as well as excursions to memorial sites for "Granatapfel Kulturvermittlung" (Pomegranate Cultural Education). Previously, he was a project assistant at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz and a scholarship recipient of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah). As a historian, he has published extensively on Jewish regional history and the radicalization of antisemitism in Austria between 1914 and 1923.
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