Nexus In The News
Significant news articles that mention Nexus, including Op-Ed articles written by Nexus Board Members and Advisors.
Project Esther has shaped Trump’s antisemitism strategy. The Shofar Report is a liberal Jewish response
Project 2025’s Other Project
Most American Jews say Trump is using antisemitism as an 'excuse' to silence free speech at universities
Mamdani’s antisemitism strategy: Reluctant to confront extremist threats while pledging to protect Jews
After NYC’s Mayor Mamdani revoked some executive orders issued by his predecessor, including one that had adopted the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism, Nexus Project National Director Jonathan Jacoby told Jewish Insider that Mamdani “and all public officials should be judged by the actions they take to protect Jewish communities — not by their adherence to any one controversial definition of antisemitism.
Here we go again: Why are we still fighting about antisemitism definitions?
Kevin Rachlin, Nexus Vice President of Government Relations and Washington Director, wrote a blog for the Times of Israel discussing the Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to revoke the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
‘Unacceptable’: Jewish Groups Slam Reported U.S. Coast Guard Plan to Stop Classifying Swastikas as Hate Symbols
After the Coast Guard reportedly considered downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive”, the Nexus Project called the proposed policy shift “appalling” and noted that “this is what happens when democratic norms erode and bigotry becomes mainstream.
Democracy and Antisemitism: The Nexus Project’s Distinct Approach
In an interview with The Berman Archive, Nexus Project National Director Jonathan Jacoby discussed the Shofar Report and Nexus’s work to protect civil liberties and counter antisemitism and act as a watchdog organization.
Antisemitism Watchdog Slams ADL’s ‘Hyperbolic And Aggressive’ Response To Mamdani Win
The Guardian interviewed Nexus Project National Director Jonathan Jacoby about his calls for Jewish establishment organizations to stop engaging in an over-heated and divisive response following the election of NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Nexus Launches a Plan to Fight Antisemitism
eJewish Philanthropy spotlighted the Shofar Report and the Nexus Project’s ongoing work to protect American Jews and civil liberties. The message to other Jewish organizations is to make protecting democracy a number one priority for the sake of Jewish safety…
Jewish groups rally behind bipartisan Senate antisemitism bill with $1B security allocation
We are pleased to support JASA, which includes serious tools that can tangibly help protect the American Jewish community. Many of the same tools are also included in the Antisemitism Response and Prevention Act, which Nexus also supports,” Kevin Rachlin, Nexus Project’s vice president of government relations, said in a statement to JTA. “Importantly, neither of these two bills seek to push forward an unhelpful, contested definition
Alex Soros commits $30 million to organizations fighting antisemitism — and its weaponization
The Nexus Project, for example, was significantly expanded in 2024 after creating an alternative to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, which classifies much criticism of Israel as antisemitic and continues to be promoted by the country’s largest Jewish groups.
Antisemitic assaults reach record levels, audit says. What data shows
“The audit is crucial, [NCAR Director Aryeh Tuchman] added, but incidents need to be studied to understand people’s motivations and factors leading to physical assaults against Jews. “Simply looking at a list of incidents is not going to tell you that answer,” he said. “You need to study it much more deeply.”
ADL reports a sharp drop in US antisemitic incidents in 2025, driven by a steep fall on campuses
“There are a lot of people who would disagree with that. … It’s important that there be room for multiple approaches.” Tuchman formerly led the ADL’s Center on Extremism, the group behind the annual audit, and now is director of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism at the Nexus Project, a watchdog group that promotes a more nuanced definition of antisemitism than the ADL uses.
Is Meta Hallucinating Its Holocaust Denial Ban?
Meta’s director of content policy recently gave his company a pat on the back for prohibiting Holocaust denial on its applications during a talk at this year’s “Hack the Hate” conference. It took us just 90 seconds to find several examples of it on their platforms. Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research Director Aryeh Tuchman explains why this is happening and how it needs to change.
My Father Was In The Hungarian Resistance. Orbán’s Defeat Reminds Us Why It Mattered
My father resisted the Nazis in Hungary. I thought of him — and how he would have rejoiced — when the Hungarian people voted out Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Sunday, after 16 years of authoritarian rule. Only a week before Hungarian voters made their choice, the outcome of the elections seemed far from certain.
War with Iran is sparking an antisemitic chain reaction
In the wake of U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran, some U.S. officials have suggested that Israel drew the United States into the conflict, while Israeli leaders have celebrated the joint campaign. Nexus President Jonathan Jacoby in his op-ed for The Hill analyzes how this creates the conditions for a familiar and dangerous antisemitic chain reaction.
U.S. Sues Harvard Over Treatment of Jewish and Israeli Students, Seeks Billions of Dollars
The Trump administration sued Harvard University over the Ivy League school’s alleged failure to protect Jewish and Israeli students, and is seeking to recover billions of dollars of taxpayer money. The Nexus Project responded, criticizing the spurious lawsuit and accusing the Trump administration of exploiting “legitimate Jewish concerns over antisemitism as a thinly veiled excuse to attack and bully major academic institutions.”
