Posts Tagged: antisemitism
Memo to All Jews: It’s Time to Kiss and Make Up
JNS.org - Left, right and sideways, Jews in America are facing a major dilemma: Whose side should we take? Do we take the conservative point of...
UK Prime Minister Johnson Issues Hanukkah Message to Jews: ‘Britain Would Not Be Britain Without Its Jewish Community’
Newly-elected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a Hanukkah message from 10 Downing Street on Sunday afternoon, noting the recent rise in antisemitism and telling...
Netanyahu Accuses ICC of Antisemitism in Pursuit of War Crimes Probe
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the International Criminal Court of antisemitism on Sunday over its chief prosecutor's plan to pursue a war crimes probe...
The Hanukkah Challenge for Young Jews
JNS.org - Hanukkah’s popularity with American Jews was largely the result of a futile if determined effort to compete with Christmas. While enjoying freedom, prosperity,...
In Mass Email, University of Illinois Student Gov’t Leader Rejects Conflation of ‘Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism’
The student body president at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) invoked a controversial antisemitism resolution that has been rejected by the campus Jewish...
Progress on ‘the Jewish Question’
JNS.org - If you happen to be an antisemite, you’ve had a disappointing week. In Britain, the Labour Party suffered its worst defeat in decades....
Rashida Tlaib Blames ‘White Supremacy’ for New Jersey Kosher Supermarket Killings
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) suggested on Thursday morning that "white supremacy" was behind a fatal shooting attack targeting the Jersey City Kosher Supermarket earlier this...
US Jewish Groups Applaud Trump Executive Order on Combating Campus Antisemitism
Major Jewish groups applauded the Trump administration on Wednesday for an executive order affirming civil rights protections for Jewish students, amid concerns over rising antisemitism...
‘The Lions’ Den’: A Crucial Examination of Zionism and the Left That Falls Short
The first thing to say about Susie Linfield’s The Lions' Den is that it's an excellent book on a burning topic. Anyone with even a...
Will Impeachment Ramifications Point Fingers at American Jews?
JNS.org - Regardless of how Jewish Americans feel about US President Donald Trump — whether they view him as a menace to democracy (I do),...
Jewish Group Urges New Canadian FM to Combat Antisemitism, Delegitimization of Israel
A Canadian Jewish advocacy group is urging the country's new foreign affairs minister to counter global antisemitism and efforts to delegitimize Israel. In a proposed mandate...
UK Jewish Students Protesting Corbyn Targeted With Antisemitic Vitriol by Labour Backers
British Jewish students who protested a visit by Jeremy Corbyn to the city of Bristol on Monday ahead of the general elections later this week...
While Acknowledging Past Antisemitism, Church of England Fails to Right Historical Wrongs
Widely reported in the British media last week was a Church of England “teaching document” on Christian-Jewish relations. The document, titled “God’s Unfailing Word,” was...
What Michael Bloomberg Can Teach Us About American Politics
JNS.org - This week America got another Jewish candidate, in addition to another billionaire, into the 2020 presidential race. The entry of former New York City...
