By his own standards, President Biden undermined his expansive project to confront antisemitism in America that he introduced Wednesday last week, and 15 days before that he ignored an opportunity to directly take on an act that threatens the Jewish community.
Read More »Israel Announces Landmark Step Toward Memorializing Jews Murdered in Antisemitic Attacks Abroad
The government of Israel announced its launch of a process that will result in the historic landmark step of honoring the memory of Diaspora Jews who have been murdered in antisemitic attacks abroad.
Read More »Column: Those Pesky Antisemitic Thugs: How Low Can They Go?
Two antisemitic thugs in London and Boca Raton, Fla., picked on Jewish targets their own size to badger, as disgusting as these attacks are. However, two of their confederates chose Jewish schoolchildren outside a religious school in north London to blare a Hezbollah battle song from their car.
Read More »ADL: Swastikas Drawn On Arms, Legs Of Denver Middle School Students
On April 28, a student at Campus Middle School in Cherry Creek School District allegedly drew swastikas on other students’ arms and legs. If that is not troubling enough, they did so after participating in a lesson about the Holocaust, the systematic murder of over six million Jews and five million others. Of the Jews that were killed, one and a half million were children.
Read More »Column: Who Would Vote to Block Measure to End Antisemitism?
Once upon a time in America, Israel’s existence was held in as much high esteem as motherhood and apple pie. Even today, what reasonable person here would not want to stamp out antisemitism?
Read More »Letter: We Must All Confront Anti-Semitism
As we write this, we are deeply disturbed by the rise of anti-Semitism in our society. It is a cancer that eats away at the very fabric of our communities and threatens the well-being of everyone. This insidious hatred must be opposed by all people of good will.
Read More »Letter: Harvard Travels Back to Its Nazi Future
or President Lawrence Bacow and Harvard University today, it is a truly shameful deja vu all over again as Harvard has embarked on an attempt to awash itself again -- as it did with numerous Nazi universities -- with those who celebrate antisemitism -- specifically Al-Quds University near Jerusalem.
Read More »Column: Jewish PTSD…From a Pittsburgh Shul to a Vegas School
The shock value of the spectacle that General Dwight D. Eisenhower witnessed at the Ohrdruf concentration camp on April 12, 1945, is now being revived on a smaller scale with the Tree of Life trial and a grisly attack in Las Vegas.
Read More »Letter: No Anti-Semitism Here?
Bruce Ticker says that few people are fooled by Palestinians claiming that their attacks on Israelis are driven by Israeli policy. ("Column: No Anti-Semitism Here", BJN 4/21/2023.) Unfortunately, that is not true.
Read More »Column: No Antisemitism Here…
It happened in Berlin, of all places. On behalf of those poor Palestinians, they chanted “Death to the Jews,” “Death to Israel” and “Tel Aviv, the answer will come.”
Read More »Letter: If a Tree Falls in the Woods…
Recently two events at major American university newspapers make clear that American academia intends to willfully deny the reality that the Department of Education Office For Civil Rights has declared anti-Zionist discrimination actionable under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Read More »2022 U.S. Antisemitic Incidents Hit Highest Level Ever Recorded, ADL Audit Finds
Antisemitic incidents reported in the three-state region of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming in 2022 reached the second highest level in more than 10 years. Nationwide, antisemitic incidents surged to historic levels in 2022.
Read More »Column: ‘Anger Issues’ Drive an Anti-Israel Bully
Saadah Masoud pledges to address his “anger issues.” Does this mean he will no longer strike Jewish New Yorkers because they are Jewish?
Read More »Letter: “An American” is Just an Antisemitic Excuse
The deafening silence when it comes to "outrage" in the murder of American citizen Elan Ganeles demonstrates that both cases are solely about antisemitism not American citizenship.
Read More »Column: L.A. Synagogue Shootings: The Personal and the Perilous
Decades ago, I most likely walked past the site of a Los Angeles synagogue near where Guy Taieb, 73, was wounded in a drive-by shooting last Thursday, an incident likely motivated by antisemitism.
Read More »Letter: Celebrating Two Shoahs
Since 1993 Palestinian terror attacks have been responsible for the murder of over 1500 Israelis at Passover Seders, discos, pizza parlors, restaurants, shopping malls, buses, bus stations, synagogues and other civilian locations....including seven worshipers murdered by a Palestinian Arab terrorist at a synagogue in the eastern part of Jerusalem on January 27, 2023.
Read More »Online Holocaust Denial Suppressed in English, Rife in Arabic
As International Holocaust Remembrance Day forces Jews to ask themselves how safe they feel, new data from CyberWell has revealed social media companies’ underinvestment in monitoring antisemitism in Arabic.
Read More »Column: ‘Dream Job’ In Rural Michigan Becomes Nightmare for Jewish Educator
After nine days as dean of students at a middle school, Michael Woodberg resigned. The offense? Being Jewish.
Read More »Mar-A-Lago Is Not on The Way to Auschwitz
A new record may have just been set—for the most Hitler analogies in a 24-hour period.
Read More »ADL Releases Worrying New Study on Antisemitic Attitudes in US
ADL’s Antisemitic Attitudes in America survey found that 20 percent of Americans believe six or more anti-Jewish tropes, nearly doubling the antisemitic prejudice found in 2019 and the highest level in three decades.
Read More »A Harvard President’s Pogrom Warning
If American Jews “decide to remain apart,” antisemitism will rise to the point that “blood will be spilled,” one of America’s most prominent educators reportedly warned, one hundred years ago.
Read More »Navigating Israel and Antisemitism in Our Community
Over the past several years, the debate over Israel and Palestine has been intense. With the announcement that the new government in Israel is going to include members with very extreme views, navigating issues of antisemitism is going to be even more challenging. Community members are invited to participate in a workshop on Thursday, January 19 at the Boulder JCC.
Read More »Letter: Sorry, Whoopi: The Holocaust Was All About Race
On two recent occasions, Whoopi Goldberg, a celebrity with a very high profile platform called "The View," has promulgated the ahistorical fantasy that the Holocaust of six million Jews had absolutely nothing to do with race.
Read More »Column: Memo to GOP: Shine Glaring Spotlight on Omar, Tlaib and Company
Nearly four years ago, Liz Cheney and 22 other Republicans voted against a motherhood, apple pie-style resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives denouncing antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, racism, homophobia and all other forms of bias.
Read More »Letter: The Antisemitic Fallacy of “Israel Apartheid”
At "progressive" cocktail parties, at "mideast studies programs" across America and among mainstream media "mideast experts," the phrase "Israel apartheid" is always applauded.
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