(JTA) — Elon Musk called his recent endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory “foolish” and said he was “sorry for that post” on X, the social media platform he owns and renamed from Twitter.
But speaking at the New York Times Dealbook...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a 45-minute speech on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Jewish Americans are “alone” and took many of his political allies to task for rising antisemitism on the left following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
“Jewish...
(JTA) — Harvard University, Columbia University and the University of Tampa have joined an expanding list of schools under federal investigation for alleged failure to respond to antisemitism on campus.
Meanwhile, Harvard’s president has been summoned...
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law has filed suit against the regents of the University of California system, University of California, Berkeley, as well as the school’s president, chancellor and provost.
The claim states...
(JTA) — Palestinian-American supermodel Gigi Hadid has apologized for writing on Instagram that Israel is the only country that keeps children as prisoners of war and that Israel had abducted, raped and tortured Palestinians for years “before Oct....
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published November 27, 2023
(JTA) — Over the course of a week, three synagogues across the United States were tagged with anti-Israel and antisemitic graffiti.
The vandalism follows weeks of similar defacement at a variety of American Jewish sites, including cemeteries, Chabad...
(New York Jewish Week) – Two women have been charged with hate crimes after allegedly attacking a passerby who confronted them while they were tearing down posters of Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
The two suspects, Mehwish Omer and Stephanie Gonzalez,...
(JTA) — A lawsuit filed by a Jewish labor activist in 1925 took down Henry Ford’s antisemitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, in a real-life drama that riveted Americans.
A century later, the saga is set to become an on-screen drama, too,...
(JTA) – Advertisers have been dropping off the social network X this week after its owner, Elon Musk, called an antisemitic post “the actual truth.”
It was the exact pressure tactic that the Anti-Defamation League had recommended almost exactly...
By PJ Grisar, THE FORWARD
• Published November 20, 2023
Kanye West’s opinions about Jews are a matter of extremely public record.
He voiced them on X, back when it was still Twitter, threatening to go “Death Con 3.”. He went on Alex Jones and praised Hitler. In what seemed like a sort of detente,...
Rachel Leigh Hale, JTA
• Published November 20, 2023
MADISON, Wisc. (JTA) — A neo-Nazi group of around 20 people marched through Madison on Saturday morning brandishing black-and-white swastika flags, chanting “There will be blood” and saluting Adolf Hitler.
The group wore shirts labeled “Blood...
(JTA) – The U.S. Department of Education announced that it has opened five new investigations into the handling of antisemitism and two into the handling of Islamophobia on college and K-12 campuses.
The announcement on Thursday was a show of force...
