Anti-Semitism

'Too Jewish?' Why Jewish stories still make some audiences uncomfortable

Why Jewish stories still provoke discomfort – and why that discomfort matters

The Rosenbergs, a middle-class Jewish family from Edgware, played by Nicholas Woodeson as the father, David Rosenberg, and Tracy-Ann Oberman as mother, Lesley Rosenberg, in Ryan Craig’s play, staged recently in a London theater.
Jewish writers are finding it increasingly difficult to navigate a publishing world shadowed by antisemitism.

The literary world's 'Jewish question': How publishing is failing Jewish authors

 David Zaikin, founder and CEO of the Key Elements Group

The changing landscape in today’s media: David Zaikin to attend the New York Conference

 US-Präsident Donald Trump unterzeichnet den Laken Riley Act im Weißen Haus in Washington, USA, 29. Januar 2025. (Bildnachweis: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

Breaking with recent consensus, Trump makes ‘anti-Semitism’ hyphenated again


Not antisemitism but ‘Jew-haterism’ & facelessness

Bigotry, like many thought-germs, grows in the shadows. It festers as haters perfume their evil, saying they’re “just” anti-Israel or anti-capitalist or actually pro-Israel.

A MAN with a sign accuses others of being anti-Jewish at a rally in New York City.

My father warned decades ago of an assault on Israel as an ‘apartheid’ state

He was sagely prescient in warning about the snowballing confluence of anti-Zionism and antisemitism, going back to the mid-1970s.

ANTI-ISRAEL Protesters emerge after Friday Islamic prayers in Durban, South Africa in 2014

2020: From oy vey to action!

Adopting the full IHRA definition (including its illustrative examples) is only one part of the battle against antisemitism

White House senior advisors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and others stand behind U.S. President Donald Trump as he holds up an executive order on anti-semitism that he signed during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S

Group of men attack two Jewish teens in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

The boys were not injured in the attack, according to police.

An illustrative photo of Hasidim walking in Brooklyn, New York.

Malmo municipality sets up $2m. fund to fight antisemitism

The government is planning to hold an international conference on fighting antisemitism in Malmo and plans to open a Holocaust museum in the Swedish city.

An anti-Israel march in Sweden's Malmo

Antisemitism in German public school causes Jewish teen to transfer

According to German news reports, Alina R. had encouraged her son to speak with a teacher about the problem. The teacher did not take any action, she said.

A CLASSROOM

Australia sees 30 percent increase in antisemitic incidents

In one incident, a 12-year-old student in Melbourne was forced by other schoolchildren to kiss the feet of a Muslim fellow student.

Aiia Maasarwe's father Saeed Maasarwe is seen at the vigil for his daughter on the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne, Australia, January 18, 2019

Multiple Jewish residents of Borough Park assaulted on same night

Series of assaults come amid continued rise in antisemitic attacks in U.S.

Rabbi Shaul Alter, head of a breakaway faction in the Gerrer hassidic community, at a celebration last week

Antisemitic hate crimes in NYC have risen significantly in 2019

NYPD said 52 percent of the reported hate crimes, or 163, have targeted Jews. Over the same period last year, the NYPD reported 108 anti-Semitic hate crimes.

THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING is seen from the 71st floor of One World Trade Center in New York

‘Mummy, I’m a Jewish rodent:' 5-year-old Aussie after antisemitic attacks

Also in Australia, a 12-year-old was forced to kiss a Muslim classmate's feet in a public park.

A child wearing a Kippah