Compiled by the NAAFA Communications Committee

Each month, we will feature educational resources on the NAAFA Community Voices Blog to support our community in taking action to combat racism. Some resources will be historic information about systemic racism. Others will be resources on doing the internal work of understanding ourselves and how we play a part in that system. 

Recent events in Israel and Gaza have generated a spike in dangerous, dehumanizing speech targeting Muslim and Jewish people online, and horrific attacks in real life. As part of our ongoing effort to educate ourselves and our communities about forms of racism and ways to dismantle them, we are sharing information about the roots, impact, and efforts to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

• Designed for educators, we found the resources at Facing History & Ourselves useful for our own learning and to help us talk with the young people in our lives. We especially recommend their Anti-Semitism and its Impacts explainer.

• The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR offers this primer on Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim sentiment.

• This comprehensive guide from the Institute on Social Policy and Understanding includes a definition of Islamophobia, as well as guidance and case studies on how to counter Islamophobic behavior and legislation in your community.

• American Muslims: Fact vs. Fiction Film (11 minute video)

• Anti-Semitism by Berkeley Hillel (11 minute video) Discussion questions by Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies 

• Right To Be (formerly known as Hollerback) hosts FREE virtual training on a variety of skills for bystander intervention when witnessing harassment, including training on anti-Semitic harassment (11/28) and Islamophobia/Xenophobia (11/30). (Note: Team NAAFA has participated in other trainings with Right to Be and partnered with them in the past, but we have not yet attended these sessions)

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