When Donald Trump abruptly fired Doug Emhoff and other Biden appointees from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, it wasn’t just a petty political maneuver — it was a warning flare about how empire behaves when it fears truth-tellers. This is…
550 US rabbis sign letter condemning Trump’s antisemitism policy
More than 550 rabbis and cantors have signed a letter objecting to President Trump’s crackdown on universities for what the administration calls tolerance of antisemitism, calling Trump’s executive orders and detentions of students who criticized Israel “cynical attacks on higher…
Trump’s antisemitism campaign worries American Jews
President Donald Trump’s efforts to combat antisemitism on college campuses worry American Jews, who say Trump could hurt more than he helps. But Trump’s moves have been applauded by politically conservative Christians and others opposed to liberalism in higher education….
Anti-Defamation League says anger at Israel is now the driving force behind antisemitism in the US
The Anti-Defamation League says the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high last year and notes that 58% of the 9,354 incidents related to Israel, notably chants, speeches and signs at rallies protesting Israeli policies.
Trump officials cite Harvard Divinity as one of university’s ‘schools of concern’
Easily lost in the flurry of news about Harvard University refusing to bend the knee to the Trump administration is that Harvard Divinity School is one of the “programs, schools and centers of concern” cited by the administration as having…
After welcoming far-right politicians, Israel’s antisemitism conference is hemorrhaging speakers
A growing number of participants in the Israeli government’s upcoming conference on combating antisemitism have dropped out, citing the proliferation of far-right politicians on the docket.
Breaking with recent consensus, Trump makes ‘anti-Semitism’ hyphenated again
It was supposed to be settled: Strike the hyphen from “anti-Semitism” and use “antisemitism” instead.
Trump’s plan to fight antisemitism is more authoritarianism
It is a documented fact that antisemitism is on the rise not only in the United States but globally. Donald Trump has a plan to fight this: Deport university students. Amid the flurry of executive orders flying out of the…
ADL documents rising tide of antisemitism
Antisemitism has reached “deeply alarming” levels around the world by doubling in the past decade, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League. Close to half of all adults worldwide — or about 2.2 billion people — harbor “elevated…
Europe must combat antisemitism as thousands of Jews abandon the continent, top Jewish leader says
Governments across Europe need to immediately take action against a precipitous rise in antisemitism that’s driving thousands of Jews to abandon the continent, the leader of a prominent European Jewish organization said Monday.
Of meth sermons and puke dust
I call it “puke dust.” Remember what happened in elementary school when a kid puked in the hall? So it could be absorbed and swept up, a custodian would come and pour that green sawdust-looking stuff upon the putrid puddle….
The power of friendship: How a letter helped create an American bestseller about antisemitism
Eighty years ago, the Jewish American novelist Laura Z. Hobson was contemplating her next writerly move and was seeking a little help from her friends.