If Jewish safety is the goal, engagement should be part of the strategy. And when the Mamdani administration takes meaningful steps to protect Jews and combat antisemitism, including measures ADL itself has advocated, those steps
After New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a video last week calling for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, several Jewish leaders responded by accusing him of fueling antisemitism and making Jewish New
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
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 penned an open letter to ADL’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, urging him to address right-wing extremism and emphasize unity against the Trump administration’s attempt to divide Jewish Americans.
The report by UCLA’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias underlines the urgency of developing effective strategies for countering antisemitism on college campuses in the wake of the horrific Hamas attack against Israel
Writing an opinion for the Boston Globe, Jonathan Jacoby discusses how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will come to America armed with familiar tactics: casting himself as a victim of unjust persecution, portraying his critics as
The framers of the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism understood that the IHRA definition is too limiting to carry the weight of fighting antisemitism on its own, so they endorsed additional definitional resources — including
Jewish Americans face the threats of escalating antisemitism and growing white nationalism at the same time that the Israeli government’s anti-democratic policies are eliciting increasingly harsh condemnation worldwide. An article written by Jonathan Jacoby which
The growth of White Nationalism in our country is exponential: from social media to traditional media, from school boards to law enforcement to the United States Congress. Today’s White Nationalists descend from last century’s Nazis,
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was a featured speaker at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Annual Leadership Meeting last weekend at the Venetian. After being elected as Republican Leader on Nov. 15, McCarthy now needs to strengthen
The occupation has tempered my confidence in Israel’s survival as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people. Weaponizing antisemitism also hurts Israel. Toxic environments leave no space for debate. Without an open debate about Israeli
Anger at Israel has been rapidly morphing into anti-Semitism since its surge during the conflict last spring between Israel and Hamas. There is no justification for it.
It’s not hard to see why anti-Zionism is equated with antisemitism. Zionism is an existential movement. It embodies the principle of self-determination for the Jewish people. Without Zionism and the State of Israel, Jews would
What should we remember when we think back to those 11 hours in Congregation Beth Israel – besides the antisemitism of a mad man, a lone actor who terrorized four members of a synagogue and
As we commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, this year, my mother, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, reminds me that anti-Semitism is still with us. It was only three months ago that
The insurrection on Capitol Hill demonstrates the interrelationships between racism and antisemitism. . Antisemitism is part of a scaffold of hatreds and oppressions that were enabled by Trump and are being perpetrated by white supremacists.
Was there a double standard in the controversy at the University of Southern California that led to the resignation of a Jewish student leader, Rose Ritch, after a spate of online harassment targeting her as
In these dire circumstances, if anti-Semitic ideas are allowed to be propagated without any strong pushback, then they can find a receptive audience and gradually become normalized and increasingly acceptable
