The Missouri Alliance Network (Mo Alliance) will officially launch March 25 with a focused mission: to combat antisemitism in Missouri, especially among elected officials.
“We’ve already begun meeting with officials, from local mayors and school...
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protester arrested at Columbia University nine days ago, wrote that he was a “political prisoner” in a letter sent from a Louisiana detention center.
Khalil was arrested March 9 by ICE and has been threatened with...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has reportedly put a tour promoting his forthcoming book Antisemitism in America: A Warning on hold, “as the New York Democrat faces blowback over his recent vote to avert a government shutdown,” Jewish...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 16, 2025
A proposed Missouri law guarding against discrimination and antisemitism in public schools has moved to the next step in the legislative process. HB 937 passed the Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee by a vote of 10-2 on March 13. One...
President Donald Trump has revived the hyphenated spelling of anti-Semitism, reversing a years-long shift toward the unhyphenated antisemitism used by Jewish organizations and scholars. The decision, reflected in his executive order on combating anti-Semitism...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 13, 2025
The St. Louis County Police Department announced Thursday that a suspect has been arrested in connection with the racist grafitti incidents at two Affton School District schools. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has charged 18-year-old...
Rachel Leonard was accepted into the Glass Leadership Institute (GLI) leadership development program at the Anti-Defamation League.
GLI aims to empower young professionals to fight antisemitism and hate in their own communities. Leonard is Congregation...
Akiva Van Koningsveld, JNS
• Published March 13, 2025
President Donald Trump stirred controversy by calling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer a Palestinian, saying, “He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore.” Trump made the remarks while speaking to reporters alongside Irish Prime Minister...
Anthony Cumia, a controversial right-wing shock jock with a documented history of antisemitism, has launched a nationally syndicated radio show. The former Opie & Anthony co-host, who was fired from SiriusXM for racist remarks, debuted his new program...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 12, 2025
For the second time in less than a week, a school in the Affton School District has been vandalized with racist graffiti, and police believe the two incidents may be connected. The latest act of vandalism occurred overnight on March 12 at Rogers Middle...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 12, 2025
Ethan Katz, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, is set to give a lecture, "Zionism and Anti-Zionism: Beyond the Polemics," on March 25 at Washington University in St. Louis. Hosted by the Adam Cherrick Lecture...
The Trump administration is dramatically scaling back the federal education department, including its civil rights office— which has gone into high gear addressing antisemitism allegations at colleges and public schools.
Staffing at the Office of...
