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
Trump Fires Doug Emhoff, Other Biden Appointees From U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council
Following President Trump’s targeted firings of Democratic nominees to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Board of Directors, Nexus said, “the Holocaust Museum, of all places, should not be used by the president as a vehicle for retribution.”
Harvard antisemitism and Islamophobia task forces find widespread fear, bigotry
Nexus National Director Jonathan Jacoby told Reuters, “By taking a strong stand against antisemitism and Islamophobia without criminalizing dissent and the right to peaceful protest, the report demonstrates what we know: combating antisemitism and protecting democratic freedoms go hand-in-hand.”
The Antisemitism Awareness Act Is Back
Jonathan Jacoby, National Director of the Nexus Project, a nonprofit dedicated to combating antisemitism, discussed the dangers of codifying the IHRA definition, or any other definition” of antisemitism. Jacoby told Moment Magazine that the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA) “goes hand in hand with the Trump administration’s strategy of using accusations of antisemitism as a pretext for undermining educational and democratic institutions.”
Jewish people fear scapegoating as Trump invokes antisemitism to justify crackdowns
Axios reported on measures to monitor immigrants’ social media for alleged antisemitic content, which could be used to justify deportations. Jonathan Jacoby told Axios, “Using vague language like ‘terrorist sympathizer’ to target and punish immigrants will not combat antisemitism or make Jews any safer…The Trump administration continues to exploit our community’s concerns to unfairly target others – all while elevating and engaging in antisemitism themselves.”
U.S. Gov’t Says Immigrants May Face Visa Denial Over ‘Antisemitic’ Social Media Posts
Nexus National Director Jonathan Jacoby told Haaretz, “The Trump administration continues to exploit our community’s concerns to unfairly target others – all while elevating and engaging in antisemitism themselves,” following U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announcing it would begin to monitor immigrants’ social media for alleged antisemitic comments, including critiques of the ongoing war in Gaza.
Trump administration to screen social media activity of immigrants
Jonathan Jacoby told the Boston Globe the new USCIS policy weaponizes antisemitism as a pretext for deporting immigrants. He “criticized McLaughlin’s use of the term ‘terrorist sympathizer’ as ‘vague’ and said using it ‘to target and punish immigrants will not combat antisemitism or make Jews any safer…The administration continues to exploit our community’s concerns to unfairly target others – all while elevating and engaging in antisemitism themselves.’”
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.”
