Spectrum News: Action Tank program aimed at combating local extremism, antisemitism
UC expert gives commentary on community project to improve societal interactions across cultures and
Matthew Kraus, head of the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, provided commentary in a Spectrum News article regarding an upcoming Action Tank event to combat political extremism.
Action Tank is a Cincinnati-based nonprofit that works with residents and community groups to promote public policy solutions at the local level. The event is part of the organization’s Preventing Political Extremism Project.
Kraus isn’t affiliated with the Action Tank program but emphasized that providing a platform such as this requires an “honest understanding of our world and encounters with others and their views” can play in addressing that kind of hate.
Antisemitism is said to be at the highest point than it’s been in more than 40 years.
Kraus said he believes that extremism and antisemitism depend upon “naïve, unexamined, one-dimensional, and zero-sum worldviews."
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