This week, two major releases made clear that fighting antisemitism and protecting democracy go hand in hand. In New York City, Mayor Mamdani provided a new model for how you can stem the rise in
Yom Kippur asks for an honest accounting. This year, many Jews made theirs inside synagogues guarded by police, and that fact belongs in the accounting too. Through weeks like this, Nexus holds one position steadily.
Rabbi Sharon Brous told her congregation on Rosh Hashanah that she no longer trusts the tools most Jewish organizations use to track antisemitism. She is not alone. When the count includes a watermelon but excludes
We enter 5787 the same week America marks twenty-five years since September 11. And sadly, it is shaping up to be a day of deep bigotry. A quarter century on, the most durable falsehood to
Sixty-three years ago, Rabbi Joachim Prinz stood at the Lincoln Memorial minutes before Dr. King and warned America against becoming a nation of onlookers. He had watched Berlin do exactly that. The people telling Jews
Some of what we cover this week is antisemitism. Some of it is the word being used for something else. The distinction is the whole point of Nexus, and this edition is a good illustration
An AI-generated image of a Jewish candidate with devil horns is still the same image antisemites have drawn for centuries. A conspiracy theory about Israel engineering a migrant crisis is just another form of the
This week, New York’s mayor called for the arrest of a foreign head of state over the war in Gaza. Meanwhile, a leader of one of the country’s most prominent young Republican clubs was photographed
Election season is turning Israel and AIPAC into central campaign issues, and the rhetoric around them is testing everyone’s ability to hold two ideas at once. Criticism of AIPAC’s spending is legitimate politics. Claiming Jews
The conspiracy theories that recruit people into antisemitism rarely announce themselves as hate. They show up as history you were never taught, a war you have every right to question, a death that feels too
Comment-section codes, a decades-old conspiracy theory on the House floor, a Senate primary shadowed by antisemitism allegations. What connects this week’s items is language: who’s using it, what it’s actually saying, and whether the people
The news Nexus tracks is usually grim, and this issue has its share. But it isn’t all dark. Alongside a horrific attack and a candidate running on open antisemitism, this past week also brought a
The word “antisemitism” is being stretched so thin it’s starting to tear. Actual Jew-hatred is finding its way into congressional primaries and left-wing coalition politics. At the same time, the accusation keeps getting deployed against
Antisemitism is not a feeling, and fighting it is not a vibe. It is concrete work. It looks like enforcing a content policy you wrote. It looks like reading a candidate statement before printing it
The same week Hungarians voted out a sixteen-year authoritarian, the world’s richest man revived the Soros conspiracy to explain it away. That sequence captures where we are: democratic resistance still works, and the people who
On Passover, we tell the story of our people emerging from “Mitzrayim” – “the narrow place.” A place of fear. A place of shackles and of oppression closing in around us. The word evokes a
This week, Nexus produced a wave of original analysis. From Jonathan Jacoby’s op-ed in The Hill on the antisemitic chain reaction sparked by the Iran war, to NCAR’s first published piece on Tucker Carlson’s influence
The U.S. is at war alongside Israel in Iran. Antisemites are blaming Jews. Critics of the war are being falsely labeled antisemitic. Members of Congress are posting open hatred of Muslims. And a DOGE staffer
The DOJ sued UCLA after the university refused to pay a $1 billion antisemitism fine. Rep. Randy Fine compared Muslims to dogs. And the administration continues to gut the very civil rights office responsible for
This week, antisemitism appeared in two familiar forms. In Minneapolis, it showed up as a conspiracy theory, with protests against federal violence linked to George Soros by American political leaders. In Miami, it showed up
Antisemitism continues to surge, no longer at the margins but in the open and at scale. Antisemitism moves fastest when it can hitch itself to something bigger: war, elections, institutional distrust, or a fight over
The entire Jewish community is in mourning. Gunmen opened fire on Jewish families at a public menorah lighting at Bondi Beach. It was the deadliest antisemitic attack in Australian history. Sadly, within hours, the responses
The Nexus Project Newsletter This week’s newsletter examines how antisemitic movements build political power by forging alliances between establishment figures and extremist voices from the margins. It also looks at how antisemitism shows up when
The Nexus Project Newsletter Two stories this week show how antisemitism is no longer confined to the political fringe. President Trump’s nominee for a senior federal post was exposed for racist and antisemitic texts, while
The Nexus Project Newsletter The Justice Department is investigating the Open Society Foundation, George and Alex Soros’s foundation for alleged ties to “terrorism.” Vice President Vance used the term “blood libel” to attack political opponents.
The Nexus Project Newsletter After Charlie Kirk was assassinated, conspiracy theories surged. A Jewish philanthropist was blamed by name. Israel was accused of orchestrating the killing. And the Vice President amplified it all. Meanwhile, a
The Nexus Project Newsletter From George Soros conspiracy theories about corporate AI systems quietly redrawing the boundaries of debate, the fight against antisemitism is being reshaped on multiple fronts. Add to that coordinated campaigns targeting
The Nexus Project Newsletter We are entering a new phase in the fight against antisemitism. In two weeks: A university’s independence was shaped by federal pressure A journalist was deported based on political beliefs An
The Nexus Project Newsletter Welcome to another edition of the Nexus Project newsletter. In the past two weeks, antisemitism and its weaponization have shown up in starkly different ways. When it comes to true antisemitism,
The Nexus Project Newsletter The relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism remains hotly debated. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s handling of antisemitism accusations has raised concerns, and artificial intelligence is creating new complications in the fight against
