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 that our safety requires someone else’s exclusion are louder and better placed than they have been in a long time. So are the people telling Jews we have no place in movements for other people’s rights.
Nexus rejects both. Jewish safety comes from a country where no one can be told to leave.
At the Jewish American Summit in Los Angeles, Mosab Hassan Yousef told the audience: “I don’t want Muslims in America. Get the f*ck out of the United States. Go back to the sh*tholes where you came from.” A large portion of the crowd applauded.
Anticipating the objection that most Muslims are not violent, he answered: “To me, they are all the same.”
“Go back where you came from” has been said to Jews for as long as we have lived here. Hatred of Muslims does not make Jews safer, and it should never be met with applause at a Jewish event.
Antisemitism in the News
The FBI’s 2025 crime statistics show anti-Jewish hate crimes down about 21 percent, from 1,938 incidents to 1,528.
Good news, with a catch. Jews are 2 percent of the country and still account for two-thirds of religion-based hate crimes. Congress should pass the Antisemitism Response and Prevention Act and fund the response infrastructure this data keeps calling for.
Court filings revealed that Homeland Security sent undercover agents into churches, libraries, and union halls to surveil anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota. The operation was called Puppet Master, and its stated goal was tracing who funds protest movements, following a Trump memorandum built around fears that George Soros bankrolls domestic terrorism.
Wealthy Jews pulling strings behind popular movements is one of the oldest antisemitic narratives there is. Federal law enforcement named an operation after it.
In Haaretz, Libby Lenkinski cites Nexus’s distinction between criticism of Israeli policy and antisemitism to argue that the accusations against Ruffalo are being used to shield power from scrutiny.
A Brandeis study found a quarter of students who view Israel favorably also believe it is committing genocide. The Forward quoted Nexus on why that is no contradiction: “Collapsing both views into a single all-encompassing camp of ‘anti-Israel sentiment’ erases the gray area where most students actually live.”
In an op-ed on the DOJ whistleblower report, Mark Lurinsky cites Nexus on DHS’s name for its surveillance of anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota, an allusion to the oldest antisemitic narrative there is: wealthy Jews pulling strings behind popular movements.
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We’ll continue offering clear responses, frameworks, and resources as these stories develop.
