anti-Semitism

Holocaust Memorial Event 'Zoom Bombed' with Hitler Images

During an online event held by the Israeli Embassy in Germany, "Zoom bombers" interrupted a Holocaust survivor's speech.

Sanders, Bloomberg, and the threat of anti-Semitism

by Jonathan Zimmerman

If history is any judge, the Bloomberg and Sanders candidacies will be catnip to anti-Semites of every creed and color.

Seventy-Five Years After Auschwitz, Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise

by Walter Reich

You can manage a chronic disease, treat it, or prevent its complications—but you can rarely cure it.

Annual Jewish Film Festival, Following New Wave of Anti-Semitism, Offers Hope and Inspiration

by Bruce Chadwick

Given the attacks on Jews all over the country, the Jewish Film Festival, one of the oldest in the United States, could not have come at a better time

The key to defeating the far right’s online hate

by Michelle Kelley

“History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.”

The Poway shooter used an age old terrorist tactic. The media fell for it.

by Ibrahim Al-Marashi

The history behind terrorists’ favorite tactic and how we can fight it.

In an era of rising anti-Semitism, should Jewish Americans tack left or right?

by Andrew Paul

What a 70-year-old riot says about solidarity.

We Need to Acknowledge the Power of the Israel Lobby

by Walter L. Hixson

Israel and its American supporters have assembled the most powerful lobby pursuing the interests of a foreign country in all American history.

Leonard Dinnerstein, 84, Dies; Scholar of Anti-Semitism in U.S.

He had spent most of his academic career at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Dearborn Mayor Fires Author Of Magazine Story About Henry Ford's Anti-Semitism

Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly, already under fire for killing the current issue of the city-funded Dearborn Historian because it carried a report on Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism, has now fired the magazine’s editor.

Texas Republicans criticized for their Holocaust Remembrance Day message: ‘Leftism kills’

The Anti-Defamation League criticized the Facebook post on Sunday and countered more vehemently on Monday the local GOP’s attempts to tie the Holocaust to leftism.

Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing

As awareness of the Holocaust declines, we have witnessed, perhaps not coincidentally, a surge in anti-Semitic attacks

How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses

by David Gunderman

Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centers for mathematical research.

AHA Condemns Polish Law Criminalizing Public Discussion of Polish Complicity in Nazi War Crimes

The AHA has published a statement condemning Polish law criminalizing references to Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes.

Trump’s “Shithole” Comment Is Right Out of the Anti-Semite’s Playbook

by Richard E. Frankel

The way Trump’s talking about Haitians and Africans is how people used to talk about Jews 100 years ago.

The Austrian Scientist Time Forgot Because He Was a Jew

by Paolieri Matteo

His name was Ferdinand Münz. His misfortune was to excel as a scientist when the Nazis came to power.

Candle lighting marks 75 years since Baghdad massacre

27 candles were lighted to symbolize the 27 centuries of Jewish life in the Iraqi capital.

A 3rd Year Harvard Law Student Says He Didn’t Know About This Jewish Stereotype?

by E. M. Rose

Maybe, but it’s hard to believe as it’s a thousand years old.

Oops: Chicago TV Station Wishes Jews A Happy Yom Kippur With Nazi Emblem

A Chicago television news station made a truly unfortunate art choice to accompany a segment on the Jewish High Holidays on Wednesday: the yellow Star of David that Jews were legally required to wear during the Holocaust.

Keith Weiser says it's important to teach the history of anti-Semitism

by Huff Post Columnist Sara Akrami

But there's a problem: "There is little in the way of a required curriculum beyond distributional requirements at most universities in the U.S. and Canada."