Category: anti-Semitism

Rutgers University Apologizes to Palestinian Community After Condemning Anti-Semitic Attacks

A day after condemning the recent surge in anti-Semitic attacks, the administrators at New Jersey’s Rutgers University issued an apology, saying that their previous message has failed to show support to members of the Palestinian community. In a campus-wide statement sent out on May 26, Rutgers–New Brunswick Chancellor Christopher Molloy and Chancellor-Provost Francine Conway said…


Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Combat Anti-Semitic Violence

U.S. lawmakers are introducing bills in an effort to combat a surge of anti-Semitic violence targeting the Jewish community across the country. The surge of violence was observed amid the recent conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, which have now reached a ceasefire following 11-days of fighting. Multiple incidents of anti-Semitic attacks have…


New York Man Arrested for Setting Fire to Jewish School, Synagogue: DOJ

A New York man was been arrested and charged for setting fire to a Jewish school and synagogue in Brooklyn, the Justice Department said. The man, Ali Alaheri, 29, from Brooklyn is accused of piling garbage bags against the side of a yeshiva, or a Jewish school, and synagogue on 36th Street in Brooklyn, and setting the bags…


Why Does the Left Seemingly Hate Israel?

Commentary With more than 3,000 rockets having been fired into Israel by Hamas recently, the Democratic Party seems paralyzed over how to respond to the latest Middle East war. It is not just that they fear that “The Squad,” Black Lives Matter, the shock troops of Antifa, and woke institutions such as academia and the…


UK Won’t Allow Anti-Semitism to ‘Grow and Fester’: Johnson

The British government will not let anti-Semitism take root, grow, and fester in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. UK politicians across the political spectrum have condemned recent incidents of anti-Semitic abuse and violence. At the Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called…


Men Give Birth. America Was Founded in 1619. And Israel Is the Aggressor.

Commentary When you meditate for a moment on what the Left expects honest and decent people to believe, you confront the world of absurdities and lies in which we live. The Left demands we believe and announce that men menstruate and give birth, and that it is in no way unfair to girls and women…


Signs of the Times

Commentary Signs have been a part of Middle East lore dating back to biblical times. People in the region take them seriously, which is why the signs emanating from the Biden administration are having serious ramifications. Recent rioting on the Temple Mount and rocket attacks on Jerusalem and other civilian areas from Hamas bases in…


Whites Aren’t Hated for Slavery but for Making America and the West

Commentary In “Why the Jews?” my book on anti-Semitism, there is a chapter on anti-Americanism. My co-author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, and I long ago understood that many of the reasons for Jew-hatred and America-hatred were the same. Among them are envy of success—material, of course, but even more importantly, success in terms of influence. Another…


1,500 Rabbis Defend Tucker Carlson From Anti-Semitic Accusation

A coalition of 1,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis on Tuesday called out the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), saying the organization has “grossly misplaced charges of anti-Semitism” on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The ADL, which focuses on fighting anti-Semitism, had called on Fox News to fire Carlson for suggesting that illegal immigrants are being admitted into the…


Anti-Semitism—The Bigotry Whose Form Changes, but Whose Essence Doesn’t

Commentary Our divided political environment has generated many charges of bigotry. One of the most important tasks is to define anti-Semitism. To accomplish this, I concentrate on both the group definition and the causes. Who Is Jewish? Jews are generally regarded as an ethnoreligious group or a spiritual version of an extended family in which…