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Antisemitism

Banners hanging from the fence outside Northwestern University during a pro-Palestinian protest, Evanston, Illinois, April 27, 2024. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Northwestern antisemitism debate class sparks new questions on campus

By Hannah Feuer, The ForwardPublished November 17, 2025

At Northwestern University, a class about what is — and isn’t — antisemitism in the Northwestern antisemitism debate class doesn’t shy away from taboo questions. “Is it antisemitic to call a Jewish person a pig?” the course description...

Nick Fuentes sits down for an interview with Tucker Carlson, Oct. 28, 2025. (Screenshot)

Trump defends Tucker Carlson, whose interview with antisemite Nick Fuentes split Republicans

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished November 17, 2025

  (JTA) — President Donald Trump defended Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with avowed antisemite Nick Fuentes, weighing in on a debate over antisemitism that has roiled the Republican party. “I’ve found him to be good. He’s...

Hateful antisemitic graffiti reading “F*ck Jews” is seen scrawled across a Brooklyn sidewalk along Atlantic Avenue near Smith Street on Nov. 14, 2025 before city sanitation crews removed it overnight, prompting condemnation from New York political leaders. Source: @LincolnRestler/X.

Graffiti threats targeting Jews hit Brooklyn and Montreal

JNS StaffPublished November 16, 2025

Cities in the United States and Canada spent the weekend responding to new incidents of hate crimes against Jews graffiti, with slurs discovered on a Brooklyn sidewalk and inside a bathroom at Concordia University in Montreal. The two cases, which appeared...

Swiss Guards stand in San Damaso courtyard before the arrival of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas for a meeting with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican on Nov. 6, 2025. (Andreas Solaro / AFP via Getty Images)

Vatican investigates Swiss Guard for alleged spitting gesture at Jewish women

Shira Li Bartov, JTAPublished November 12, 2025

  (JTA) — The Vatican is investigating a member of its Swiss Guards, who protect the pope, for allegedly making a spitting gesture at two Jewish women. The women were part of an international Jewish delegation attending a conference with...

Kanye West and Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, a rabbi and kabbalist who served time in Israel for bribery.

Kanye West blames mental illness for antisemitism in meeting with felon rabbi

JNS StaffPublished November 10, 2025

The antisemitic rapper Kanye West, who goes by Ye, appeared to apologize for his Jew-hatred to Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, a rabbi and kabbalist who served time in Israel for bribery. The rapper made a “groveling” apology and said he would take “accountability”...

Scarlett Johansson (with Sam Rockwell, left, and Roman Griffin Davis) stars as a loving German mom in "Jojo Rabbit."  

Scarlett Johansson speaks out on rising antisemitism and fear

JNS StaffPublished November 9, 2025

  Jewish-American actress Scarlett Johansson called out the alarming rise in antisemitism in a recent interview with Israel's Channel 12 News, discussing concerns that it could lead to physical violence. "People are making antisemitic...

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani holds a press conference at the Unisphere in the Queens borough of New York City, U.S., November 5, 2025. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

Mamdani’s antisemitism response sparks backlash after NYC swastika attack

By Mira Fox, The ForwardPublished November 9, 2025

The morning after Zohran Mamdani won New York’s mayoral election, someone spraypainted swastikas on a Syrian Jewish yeshiva’s windows and walls. “This is a disgusting and heartbreaking act of antisemitism, and it has no place in our beautiful...

Mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani stands alongside members of his transition team at the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, Nov. 5, 2025. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

ADL launches “Mamdani Monitor” after New York mayoral upset

Shira Li Bartov, JTAPublished November 6, 2025

(JTA) — As New York City woke up to a new mayor-elect on Wednesday, Jewish groups that spurned Zohran Mamdani faced a decision — how to react to a leader whose staunch criticism of Israel flew in the face of their core beliefs. Their first...

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts addresses antisemitism in a video published Oct. 30, 2025. (Screenshot)

Heritage president refuses to resign as Tucker Carlson fallout deepens

Andrew Bernard, Jewish News SyndicatePublished November 5, 2025

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, told the conservative think tank’s staff on Wednesday morning that he would not resign amid fallout from a video he released in which he defended Tucker Carlson’s interview with Holocaust denier...

President of the Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts speaks at the National Conservative Convention in Washington D.C., Sept. 2, 2025. (Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images via AFP)

More Jews and orgs walk away from Heritage antisemitism task force after Carlson defense

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished November 4, 2025

(JTA) — The Heritage Foundation’s marquee effort to combat antisemitism, a coalition known as Project Esther, is rapidly losing members following the conservative think tank’s public defense of Tucker Carlson after he gave a friendly interview...

Jewish journalist booted from event raising questions about press access

Jewish journalist booted from event raising questions about press access

Jessica Russak-Hoffman, Jewish News SyndicatePublished November 3, 2025

Rockne Roll, editor of the Jewish Review, a Jewish Federation of Greater Portland publication in Oregon, used his name and affiliation to register for an Oct. 17 press conference, during which four progressive members of the Portland City Council pledged...

A screen caption of the Adolf Hilter page on Grokipedia, that was updated to mention the Holocaust and Jews in the opening paragraph.

Musk created Grokipedia to counter bias, but it’s full of antisemitic and racist dog-whistles

By Mira Fox, The ForwardPublished November 3, 2025

Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s new online encyclopedia built by artificial intelligence, looks a lot like Wikipedia. It has similar formatting. Many of its entries are divided into the same subsections, and much of the information is the same. But...

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