Original Article – Michael Kunzelman American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi’s New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday. The Jewish civil […]
Will this attack wake up American Jewry to the dangers they face so that all communities, even smaller and lower-profile ones, will finally get serious about security? Original Article – Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post The multiple-victim stabbing attack overnight Saturday in Monsey, New York, was just the latest in a line of escalating antisemitic […]
New report exposes how BDS movement uses veil of social justice to spread Jew-hatred Original Article – Sean Savage, Jewish News Syndicate With anti-Semitism on the rise in the United States and across the world, a new report has just been released that seeks to highlight how the delegitimization campaign against Israel is fueling such […]
Why Don’t Universities Treat Anti-Semitism Like They Treat Racism And Sexism? Original Article – Evan Gerstmann, Forbes As many people know, Donald Trump’s executive order applying the anti-discrimination law known as Title VI to anti-Semitic acts on college campuses has generated enormous push back from the political left. I discuss that situation in a previous […]
Point of View: Rep. Omar tweets inferring ‘influence-peddling’ a form of anti-Semitism Original Opinion Piece By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, Senior Rabbi Of the Boca Raton Synagogue How did this shift from overwhelming support of AIPAC to identifying with J Street happen? Not too long ago, Democrats and Republicans alike positioned for speaking slots at the […]
As an organization, Defeat Anti-Semitism came together for one purpose: we were startled by the uptick in anti-Semitism within the Democratic Party.
Original Article – Jewish News Syndicate Israeli, Jewish and pro-Israel groups all applauded the publication of an ‘unprecedented’ United Nations report on anti-Semitism, that, among other issues, links anti-Semitism to criticism of Israel and the BDS movement. “This report marks one of the first times the U.N. has addressed the issue of anti-Semitism in any […]
Recently, The California Department of Education released a proposed curriculum for its public schools for the next academic year. Along with myriad Jewish and Israel advocacy groups, we were beyond shocked to see what was buried inside the proposed curriculum. Deep seated bias against Jews and the State of Israel were laced throughout. The proposed […]
In our efforts to battle against anti-Semitism we came to a stark realization: anti-Semitism isn’t going anywhere if our leaders don’t call it out and condemn it when it occurs. Ilhan Omar and other members of our caucus continue to peddle anti-Semitism unchecked by Democratic Party leadership. We are worried about the current state of […]
This past week, the House of Representatives voted on, and passed House Resolution 246 – Opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel. With over 350 Co-Sponsors on the bill, it is safe to say it was popular among our elected representatives. The resolution passed […]