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Antisemitism

Sharon Osbourne attends the Los Angeles premiere of Focus Features 'The Bikeriders' at TCL Chinese Theatre on June 17, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Emma McIntyre/WireImage)

Sharon Osbourne calls for Kneecap to lose US visas after anti-Israel Coachella performance

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished April 23, 2025

Jewish stars are condemning Kneecap after the Irish band delivered an anti-Israel performance during its set at Coachella. At least one is calling for the Trump administration to revoke the band’s work visas in advance of its upcoming — and...

Protesters at a Jewish solidarity march in New York City on Jan. 5, 2020.

Jew-hatred keeps rising in US, per ADL annual audit

Jonathan D. Salant (JNS)Published April 22, 2025

The rise in Jew-hatred after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, showed no sign of abating, as the Anti-Defamation League reported another new high in antisemitic incidents for 2024. The 9,354 incidents of assault, harassment and...

Screenshot of Merav Ceren's public LinkedIn page.

‘A patriotic American,’ White House says of adviser accused of dual loyalty to Israel

Mike Wagenheim, (JNS)Published April 22, 2025

The White House’s National Security Council confirmed on Monday that it hired Merav Ceren, a national and economic security expert, as its Israel and Iran director, after critics, including antisemitic ones, said that Ceren has a conflict of interest...

Antisemitism in Missouri hits high levels again as debate grows over new state bill

Antisemitism in Missouri hits high levels again as debate grows over new state bill

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 22, 2025

In the span of one week this spring, two St. Louis area schools were defaced with swastikas and white supremacist slogans. The antisemetic and racist graffiti—spray-painted on Affton High School and Rogers Middle School—shocked families and led to...

The profile picture of Phoenix Ikner, the suspected shooter in the attack at FSU. (ADL)

FSU shooting suspect used neo-Nazi imagery on social media, ADL finds

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished April 21, 2025

(JTA) — The suspect in last week’s shooting at Florida State University used Nazi imagery and language in his online profiles, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Phoenix Ikner, 20, is accused of killing two and wounding six in the shooting...

DePaul University in Chicago (Kmf164/Wikimedia Commons)

Chicago man charged with hate crime for attack of two Jewish students

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished April 17, 2025

(JTA) — One of the men who allegedly beat two Jewish DePaul University students after one showed support for Israel last November has been charged with a hate crime. Adam Erkan, 20, has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery and hate...

‘Ecce Homo’ (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem.
Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons

A Roman governor ordered Jesus’ crucifixion – so why did many Christians blame Jews for centuries?

Nathanael Andrade, Binghamton UniversityPublished April 16, 2025

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social subversives – crucifixion. The New Testament...

A Passover songbook burned during an attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's official residence on April 13, 2025. (Commonwealth Media Services)

Alleged Josh Shapiro arsonist believed he was fighting for Palestinians, police say

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished April 16, 2025

The man suspected of setting fire to the home of Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, Josh Shapiro, said he targeted Shapiro because of “what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” according to a search warrant signed by state police and quoted by...

University Hall at Northwestern University. (Wikimedia Commons)

‘Death to Israel’ scrawled on Northwestern University building during Passover

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished April 15, 2025

(JTA) — Jewish students at Northwestern University awoke on the second day of Passover to a scourge of red paint across several university buildings with messages including “death to Israel” and “intifada now.” In a message to the Hillel...

Sarah Resnick (right), a Jewish woman from New York, moved to Winnipeg in summer 2024 over concerns about the American political climate. (Courtesy)

Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these American Jews are moving to Canada

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished April 15, 2025

A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was not a citizen, in a climate whose extremes she was not used to. “Do...

Donald Trump and Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun light a candle during an Oct. 7 remembrance event at the Trump National Doral Golf Club, in Doral, Florida, Oct. 7, 2024. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump picks Yehuda Kaploun, a friend and Miami businessman, as antisemitism envoy

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished April 10, 2025

President Donald Trump has selected a new special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, elevating a Miami businessman and fundraiser named Yehuda Kaploun to the role. “Yehuda is a successful businessman, and staunch advocate for the Jewish Faith...

The Missouri State Capitol building on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024.

Can you fight antisemitism without silencing speech? Missouri bill puts that to the test

By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 10, 2025

House Bill 937 passed in the Missouri House of Representatives on April 10, by a vote of 108 to 10. The bill creates protections against antisemitism and discrimination in public schools and colleges. Another 25 legislators voted “present,” an...

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