Tag: Antisemitism
US officials warn of booming Jew-hatred in Latin America
The Brazilian Israelite Confederation used to see one complaint of bigotry a day in October 2022 against the more than 100,000 Jews in South America’s largest nation. One year later, it reports receiving an average of...
Stop ‘ideological indoctrination’ of DEI, says Jewish Institute for Liberal Values head
The anti-Israel climate on U.S. campuses today derives from a combination of 1960s moral relativism and antisemitic Soviet propaganda, David Bernstein, founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, said in an extensive interview...
‘Couldn’t do my job’ if not an optimist,’ Lipstadt tells ‘Washington Post’
Jennifer Rubin, an ostensibly-conservative opinion writer at The Washington Post, devoted her Dec. 26 column to an interview with Deborah Lipstadt, special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism at the U.S. State Department.
The envoy and professor told...
Ahead of album release, Kanye West apologizes in Hebrew to Jews
After a long history of Jew-hatred, Kanye West—the musician who goes by Ye—wrote in March that he liked Jewish people again after watching a film by Jonah Hill, who is Jewish. But earlier this month, he...
Antisemitism ‘context’ at Harvard costs the school another billionaire donor
Len Blavatnik has joined a “donor revolt” following Harvard University president Claudine Gay's testimony before Congress that it depends on context whether calling for genocide against Jews violates school policy, Bloomberg reported.
Blavatnik, who is Jewish and...
Is Israel the most dangerous place to be a Jew?
Israel has long presented itself as the guarantor of Jewish security—but can we really say that this is true in the wake of Oct. 7?
Moreover, are we even sure that it was true before?
And...
Biden ‘aware’ of but no comment on threats to hundreds of synagogues
During a press briefing on Tuesday, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, was asked whether U.S. President Joe Biden has been briefed on hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish facilities over the weekend.
“The...
When American Jews first marched for Israel
The organizers of the Nov. 14 March for Israel in Washington, D.C. called it “the largest pro-Israel gathering in history.” Attendance estimates ranged from 160,000 to 290,000. No doubt, the number was huge, but...
Morocco’s Jews ponder future: ‘This is not the country we knew’
“This is not the Morocco we knew,” said Kobi Ifrah, co-founder of Kulna, a nonprofit organization that aims to preserve and promote Jewish Moroccan heritage.
Ifrah moved from Dimona, Israel to Marrakesh 10 years ago,...
Campus Jewish life requires education reform
Does a mob calling for the genocide of the Jews constitute harassment? Maybe, maybe not. It’s complicated. At least, that’s what the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania told a stunned...