Moment
Sharon S. Nazarian reports on antisemitism news as she travels the country and the world advocating for Jewish communities and combating prejudice and hate.
Jacob Forman
“I think in the general Australian community now, there is a very clear sentiment emerging against the importation of the hatreds and the violent emotions of the any conflict overseas into Australia.”
Many years ago, as a young reporter, I had the arresting experience of watching in real time as a random group of people spontaneously enforced the American taboo against antisemitism.
Jacob Forman
“Drop Hillel” states its goals as exposing Hillel as being explicitly Zionists, building alternative, non-Zionist campus organizations and delegitimizing Hillel as an authority on antisemitism.
Tom Gjelten
Some Jewish students, including reporters and editors, viewed post-October 7 coverage by campus newspapers as biased. Their concerns largely went unheard.
Moment
The specter of Musk as a government “efficiency czar” should give us all pause.
I do wonder how these Jews think that voting for the person who emboldened the antisemites is going to bring down the level of antisemitism.
Moment
“I haven’t been treated right, and you haven’t been treated right,” the presidential nominee told a gathering of Jewish donors.
The “essentialist” antisemitism argument is oddly comforting—It’s not us, it’s them!—but also dangerous.
Moment
Plus, a rabbi encounters antisemitism in NYC and Omer Bartov on the IHRA definition.
Political scientist Ayal Feinberg’s research shows a correlation between Israeli military activity and U.S. antisemitism.
Avram Mlotek
A NYC rabbi argues for a brazen type of ahavas Yisroel, love of one’s fellow Jew, during these times of terror.
