Antisemitism in the United States

==Holocaust denial==
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[[Austin App]], a [[German Americans|German-American]] [[La Salle University]] professor of [[Middle English literature|medieval English literature]], is considered the first major American Holocaust denier.<ref>Atkins, Stephen E. (2009). Austin J. App and Holocaust Denial. Holocaust denial as an international movement. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. pp. 153–55. {{ISBN|0-313-34539-2}}.</ref> App wrote extensively in newspapers and periodicals, and he also wrote a couple of books which detailed his defense of [[Nazi Germany]] and [[Holocaust denial]]. App's work inspired the [[Institute for Historical Review]], a California center which was founded in 1978 with the sole purpose of denying the Holocaust.<ref>Carlos C. Huerta and Dafna Shiffman-Huerta "Holocaust Denial Literature: Its Place in Teaching the Holocaust", in Rochelle L. Millen. New Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for Teachers and Scholars, NYU Press, 1996, {{ISBN|0-8147-5540-2}}, p. 189.</ref> One of the newer forms of antisemitism is the denial of the Holocaust by [[historical negationism|negationist]] historians and [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazis]].<ref>Antisemitism In The Contemporary World. Edited by Michael Curtis. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1986, 333 pp., $42.50. {{ISBN|0-8133-0157-2}}.</ref>

The results of a survey which was conducted in 2020 revealed that close to two-thirds of [[Millennials]] and [[Generation Z|Gen Z adults]] were not aware that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Miller|first=Ryan W.|title=Almost two-thirds of millennials, Gen Z don't know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, survey finds|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/16/holocaust-history-millennials-gen-z-cant-name-concentration-camps/5792448002/|access-date=2021-02-10|website=USA TODAY}}</ref> 24% of them believed that the Holocaust might be a myth or that accounts of it are exaggerated.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Conference|first=Claims|title=First-Ever 50-State Survey on Holocaust Knowledge of American Millennials and Gen Z Reveals Shocking Results|url=http://www.claimscon.org/millennial-study/|access-date=2021-02-10|website=Claims Conference|date=13 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-16|title=Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/16/holocaust-us-adults-study|access-date=2021-02-10|website=The Guardian}}</ref>