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Antisemitism

Steve Bannon made a gesture at CPAC that was accused of being a Nazi salute in February 2025. (Screenshot)

ADL condemns Steve Bannon’s gesture resembling Nazi salute

By Louis Keene, The ForwardPublished 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 made a gesture at CPAC that was accused of being a Nazi salute in February 2025. (Screenshot)

After rebuke from far-right French leader, Steve Bannon denies that his straight-armed gesture at CPAC was a Nazi salute

Ben Sales, JTAPublished February 21, 2025

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...

Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, March 23, 2023. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)

Since Oct. 7, WashU has quietly opened its doors to Jewish students leaving uncomfortable campus environments

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished February 19, 2025

(JTA) — During Lauren Eckstein’s freshman year at Pomona College, her grandparents pledged $1.2 million to the private school toward a scholarship to support refugee students. They gave the money, a press release said at the time, in honor of their...

Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, May 13, 2023. (MEGA/GC Images)

Kanye West, back on X again, says he is ‘not under Jewish control anymore’

Ben Sales, JTAPublished February 18, 2025

Shortly after Kanye aired a Super Bowl commercial for a website selling a swastika T-shirt, and two days after posting an antisemitic rant on X, the rapper Ye announced that he was quitting the platform. One week later he was back — and tweeting...

Deportation of Jews in Bielefeld, Germany, on Dec. 13, 1941.

Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive

Wolf Gruner, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and SciencesPublished February 17, 2025

The Holocaust was the first mass atrocity to be heavily photographed. The mass production and distribution of cameras in the 1930s and 1940s enabled Nazi officials and ordinary people to widely document Germany’s persecution of Jews and other...

Trump Ed Dept nominee calls for new panel to tackle campus Jew-hatred

Jonathan D. Salant, JNSPublished February 14, 2025

Linda McMahon, a businesswoman whom President Donald Trump nominated to be U.S. education secretary, told a Senate committee on Thursday that she would support a commission to investigate how well colleges and universities are fighting the surge in Jew-hatred...

Kanye’s swastika shirt inspiring entrepreneurs to mock him, fight hate

Kanye’s swastika shirt inspiring entrepreneurs to mock him, fight hate

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 13, 2025

(JTA) — Kanye West’s swastika shirt is no longer for sale, after the e-commerce platform Shopify said earlier this week, amid an outcry, that he had violated its terms of service. But a wide array of shirts responding to the musician’s antisemitic...

American Jews and Israel. Credit: Kaboompics.com/Pexels.

Majority of American Jews say fear of antisemitism has changed behaviors, AJC report finds

Vita FelligPublished February 13, 2025

A majority of American Jews report changing their behavior out of fear of antisemitism, according to an annual American Jewish Committee report documenting antisemitism in America published Wednesday. Some 56% of American Jews say they have avoided certain...

Joaquin Phoenix (left) and Ilana Glazer. (Getty Images)

Joaquin Phoenix, Ilana Glazer and hundreds of Jewish celebrities and rabbis ‘say no to ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza in full-page NYT ad

Ben Sales, JTAPublished February 13, 2025

Dozens of Jewish celebrities and artists, as well as hundreds of rabbis, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times Thursday to object to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The ad is a response to President Donald Trump’s calls to permanently relocate...

In AI video, Jewish celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Adam Sandler give Kanye the middle finger

In AI video, Jewish celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Adam Sandler give Kanye the middle finger

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 11, 2025

A video released on social media on Tuesday shows a wide array of Jewish celebrities, including Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, wearing a T-shirt with a raised middle finger and the word “Kanye” — a rejection of the rapper Kanye West’s antisemitism. The...

A new T-shirt campaign pushes back against hate

A new T-shirt campaign pushes back against hate

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished February 11, 2025

During the Super Bowl, Kanye West, now known as Ye, ran an ad directing viewers to his website, where the only item for sale was a white T-shirt featuring a black swastika​​. The backlash was immediate, with widespread condemnation from public figures...

Actions and images from Betar US and its allies since its formation in 2024 include (from top-left, clockwise): a button associated with the original Beitar group; messages on a truck driven outside Washington, D.C., during a visit by Benjamin Netanyahu; a masked Betar member planning to disrupt a pro-Palestinian protest; a brass-knuckle menorah shared on Betar social media; Betar former executive director Ross Glick knocking on Rep. Rashida Tlaib's office in Capitol Hill; Betar member Jakob Schanzer spraying over a pro-Palestinian mural in New Orleans; and singer Matisyahu endorsing Betar.

A century-old Zionist group is being rebooted — and wants Jews to ‘fight back’ on the street

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished February 11, 2025

(JTA) — The video appeared on Instagram in October. A man, in the dark of night, is spray-painting over a mural in New Orleans depicting a large pair of eyes with the Palestinian flag incorporated into their pupils, paired with text reading “All Eyes...

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