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‘So important to teach American Jews what it is to be Israeli,’ Elan Carr...

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Just as Israelis unified against a common foe after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack, the hundreds of thousands of Israeli Americans stateside have also mobilized in the past 10 months to fight rising Jew-hatred,...
Elan Carr was named new CEO of the Israeli-American Council, Sept. 18, 2023. Credit: IAC.

Former US special envoy Elan Carr to lead Israeli-American Council

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The Israeli-American Council has named Elan Carr as its new CEO, set to assume duties on Oct. 1. He succeeds Shoham Nicolet, IAC’s co-founder and CEO for the past eight years. His history with IAC...
Donald Trump and Kanye "Ye" West. Source: Twitter.

Former Trump allies condemn meeting with Ye and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes

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President Donald Trump is under fire by several former allies and GOP officials following his dinner with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at Mar-a-Lago...
Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr at a panel discussion on anti-Semitism in New York City on Sept. 10, 2019. Photo by Rhonda Hodas Hack.

Elan Carr: Jewish American Heritage Month passes without enough fanfare

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May is over. Did you know it was Jewish American Heritage Month? If your answer is “no,” you’re far from alone. It was easy to miss. However, the State Department’s former anti-Semitism envoy is on...
Elan Carr, former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Source: Screenshot.

Jews need to unite and ‘go on the offensive’ against anti-Semitism, assert leaders

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Jewish leaders at a virtual panel hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, held on Wednesday to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, were told by experts that the...
Rebbetzin Nechama Shemtov, director of education and women’s issues at American Friends of Lubavitch, moderated a panel with former U.S. Special Envoys for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Ira Forman, who served in the Obama administration, and Elan Carr, who served the same role in the Trump administration. Photo by Dmitriy Shapiro.

Former anti-Semitism envoys, leaders coach students on reversing Jew-hatred on campus

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As anti-Semitism continues to rise in the United States, especially on college campuses, speakers at George Washington University who attended an event last week showed students that they have allies against anti-Semitism in both...
Elan Carr, U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, addresses the European Jewish Association’s (EJA) annual policy conference in Paris, Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Yoni Rykner.

Elan Carr to join Heritage Foundation as visiting fellow to combat anti-Semitism

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The Heritage Foundation announced on Monday that Elan Carr, former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, will become a visiting fellow to help advise policymakers and research experts on threats posed by anti-Semitism internationally, and counsel analysts on...
A rally held by supporters of Samidoun, a Palestinian BDS group that advocates for prisoners. Source: Samidoun via Facebook.

Legal group urges Trump administration to publish list of BDS organizations

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The Zachor Legal Institute, a legal think tank and advocacy group, is urging the outgoing Trump administration to publish a list of anti-Israel BDS groups. In a letter sent to Special Envoy to Monitor and...
Supporters of the BDS movement against Israel. Photo by Alex Christy/Flickr.

Trump administration plans to release list of BDS groups

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The Trump administration plans to release a list of organizations that support the anti-Israel BDS movement, a senior Trump administration official told JNS. The groups are still in the works and being decided this month,...
U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr and Dr. Shaikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, chairman of the board of trustees of the King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful Coexistence in Bahrain, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on combating anti-Semitism at the Willard InterContinental in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 23, 2020. Photo by Jackson Richman/JNS.

US, Bahrain sign MOU to combat anti-Semitism and pledge to fight religious intolerance

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The United States and Bahrain signed on Thursday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on combating anti-Semitism. In a small ceremony at the Willard InterContinental in Washington, D.C., the three-year MOU, which will be eligible for...