New initiative launched to train activists in combating online anti-Semitism – The ProZ course “is designed to empower young people who want to defend Israel where it counts today, on social media,” says Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. | JNS.org

(January 26, 2022 / JNS) A new initiative was launched this week to train online “influencers” in combating anti-Semitism.
The launch of the initiative, called ProZ, was timed to coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which falls on Jan. 27.
The course comprises six training sessions, scheduled to begin in February, designed to mentor activists in countering anti-Semitic content online.
“We have to confront anti-Semitism on all fronts simultaneously—those who hate and demonize Jewish people and  those who hate and demonize Israel as the State of Jewish people,” said former Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky.