Daily Archives: February 9, 2024

Elected officials, nonprofit leaders, hate-crime prosecutors and law-enforcement officials gathered at the University of California, Irvine, on Feb. 8 to examine and discuss pushing back against prejudice through the lens of sociology and criminology. “At...

Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, is so dull that a “major news organization” scrapped a profile of him after its journalists struggled mightily to find relevant “spicy anecdotes.” For senior Politico foreign-affairs correspondent Nahal...

Another U.S. city has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. The Las Vegas City Council voted on Feb. 6 in favor of  R-5-2024, which adopted the definition. It will be used to...

In an interview by conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich had engaged in espionage, but a deal could potentially be reached for his release. The Jewish reporter has been detained...

Given the prevalence of misinformation on social media and the one-sided reports in news outlets, it’s not unreasonable for some people to think that Zionism—the belief that Jews have a right to self-determination in...

n March 23, 1961, the Israeli press published a report that looked like it had been taken from an overly imaginative Hollywood movie. “She followed Mengele in Argentina—and was murdered,” the headlines screamed. “The mysterious...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday appeared to describe Israel’s military response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre as “over the top,” adding that he was seeking a “sustained pause” in the war. “I’m of the view, as...

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Thursday that his government will ban face coverings and institute other legal changes in response to months of anti-Israel protests that have featured violent Jew-hatred. “Since the Oct....

The board of regents of Texas A&M University, a nearly 150-year-old public school with an undergraduate enrollment of more than 60,000, voted on Thursday to undergo a “multi-year process” to close its campus in Qatar. “The board...

On a visit to Yad Vashem 10 years ago, Mitch Albom, the sports journalist turned inspirational book author, was struck by a story that emerged from one of the video displays. “A woman was saying...