From 14:30 to 16:00, Prof. Dr Lars Rensmann will focus on the different forms, modes and violence of anti-Semitism today, as we encounter it in society as a whole, but also at universities. The articulation and mobilisation of conspiracy myths, hostility towards Israel and Holocaust relativisation as tickets to hostility towards Jews reveal on the one hand the persistence of anti-Semitism as a dangerous "undercurrent of society" (Max Horkheimer). On the other hand, in addition to new forms and dynamics, new factors of successful hostility towards Jews are also recognisable. In particular, the digital structural change in the public sphere has contributed to the spread of anti-Semitic disinformation and conspiracy myths in an age of new political and cultural polarisation and post-factuality. This poses particular challenges for universities as places of free speech and knowledge production that are committed to protecting (factual) truth(s).