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NJ man, who allegedly encouraged anti-Jewish violence, arrested for targeting energy facility

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Law enforcement authorities arrested an 18-year-old man from East Brunswick, N.J., on Wednesday for “allegedly soliciting another individual to destroy energy facilities,” the U.S. Justice Department said. “Andrew Takhistov was allegedly on his way to Ukraine...

Ontario passes bill requiring colleges to set guidelines against racism

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Bill 166, the Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, was approved in Ontario’s legislative assembly on May 14. It states that colleges and universities in the Canadian province “shall have policies and rules that describe...
Pro-Palestinian protesters in New York City, following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as part of the Black Lives Matter marches at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States, May 13, 2020. Credit: Luis Yanez/Shutterstock.

How intersectional myths killed the black-Jewish alliance

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For the 1,000 black pastors who have joined a movement to pressure President Joe Biden to force a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the issue is solidarity with the “oppressed.” This...

There’s no middle ground in the fight against DEI antisemitism

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Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University but as she conceded defeat in her battle to hold onto her post, she further poisoned public discourse about the controversy that undid her. In a New York Times op-ed,...
UTJ Knesset members Ya'akov Tessler and Uri Maklev attend a party meeting at the Knesset, Dec. 5, 2022. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Knesset pushes bill to criminalize incitement against ultra-Orthodox

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Israel's parliament on Wednesday voted (54 to 34) to advance a bill seeking to amend Israel's Penal Law to make it a criminal offense to incite against haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jews. Sponsoring the bill were Knesset...
Batya Ungar-Sargon. Credit: Courtesy.

How the ‘awokening’ of the media erased the working class and the Jews

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How much of what is wrong with the country can be placed on the media? Much of the deep division between left and right—with increasingly little room left in the center—is driven by the...
Cancel culture and free speech. Credit: Lightspring/Shutterstock.

Cancel culture isn’t just for academics anymore

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For a lot of people, the phrase “cancel culture” is still a theoretical concept. They know it refers to people being punished in various ways for saying things others don’t want to hear, but...
The Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue in the Cold Spring section of Buffalo, N.Y., the site of a mass shooting on May 14, 2022. Credit: Andre Carrotflower via Wiki8media Commons.

Jewish groups react to mass shooting in Buffalo, lamenting dismal shared experience of late

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While no Jewish people were victims of Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., in which 10 people were killed and three injured, Jewish communal organizations reacted strongly to the incident, which was...
European Union flags in front of the European Commission in Brussels. Credit: Symbiot/Shutterstock.

European Council adopts measures to tackle racism, anti-Semitism

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The European Council recently announced measures it will adopt to combat racism and anti-Semitism, which include urging social-media companies to remove racist and anti-Semitic hate speech and adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. These...
Curry College in Milton, Mass. Credit: Daderot via Wikimedia Commons.

Massachusetts private college goes remote following anti-Semitic symbols, racist threat

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Curry College in Milton, Mass., opted to make all classes virtual in response to a racist note and anti-Semitic vandalism discovered at the private school in recent weeks, reported NBC Boston. Students were given the option to...