Columbia University is refusing to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security identify students from a list of individuals, who have “engaged in pro-Hamas activity” on campus, the White House said Tuesday.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press...
By Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward
• Published March 11, 2025
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Among the dozens of masked protesters at Barnard College’s library last week, Mahmoud Khalil stood out because...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published March 11, 2025
(JTA) — The campus pro-Palestinian protests that erupted after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks united many Jewish students, parents and “defense” groups in a national fight against antisemitism, intimidation and the disruption of university life.
But...
At first glance, when police discovered a camper vehicle packed with explosives and containing a list of Jewish targets near Sydney, Australia on Jan. 19, it appeared that they had foiled an unprecedented antisemitic terror plot.
Indeed, police led...
By Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 7, 2025
It was the kind of message no school community wants to wake up to. Early Friday morning, Affton High School staff arrived to find swastikas and racist graffiti, including the phrase “wite [sic] power,” spray-painted on the front of the school.
District...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 6, 2025
David Schwimmer is no stranger to using his voice. Whether as Ross Geller in “Friends,” the bumbling paleontologist navigating love, or as a vocal advocate for the Jewish community, Schwimmer knows when to speak up. And at the Anti-Defamation League’s...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 6, 2025
B’nai B’rith is inviting current college students to share their personal experiences of antisemitism at their school by entering its 2025 None Shall Be Afraid Essay Contest. Winners will earn scholarships as well as the opportunity...
Kingsley Wilson, the deputy press secretary at the Pentagon, last year tweeted a neo-Nazi talking point about Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank.
| RELATED: X briefly allows anti-Leo Frank ‘community note’ as antisemitism flares on the platform
The...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 27, 2025
Amid rising antisemitism on campus, some university leaders have remained silent. Washington University Chancellor Andrew D. Martin has taken a different approach.
Since Oct. 7, WashU has quietly positioned itself as a safe haven for...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published February 27, 2025
A Missouri House of Representatives committee heard testimony on Wednesday, Feb 26, on proposed legislation guarding against discrimination and antisemitism in public schools. The Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee held the hearing on...
By Louis Keene, The Forward
• Published February 21, 2025
The Anti-Defamation League on Friday condemned the Nazi salute-like gesture that Steve Bannon made during his speech at the Conservative Policy Action Conference the day before, a stark contrast to the group’s declaration that a similar salute by...
Steve Bannon, the former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, denied that his straight-armed, palm-down gesture at a prominent conservative gathering was a Nazi salute.
Bannon’s gesture at CPAC, which closely resembled one made by current Trump...
