Jewish Diaspora & Antisemitism

Pro-Hamas Yale group loses recognition after Israeli minister targeted by protesters

Yale drops recognition of anti-Israel campus group and vows disciplinary action after students hold unauthorized protest against Israel during visit by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

April 24, 2025

Trump: Never again means now

President Donald Trump highlights surge in antisemitism on American college campuses after October 7th invasion in his Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation, vowing to combat anti-Jewish discrimination in American universities.

April 24, 2025

Neo-Nazis desecrate Holocaust memorial, give Nazi salutes

A photo shows two men and a woman treading on a plaque commemorating the 17,000 Jews who were murdered on the site, and giving Nazi salutes.

April 23, 2025

Alex Soros mocks fellow billionaires: ‘Bunch of nice Jewish boys who kind of gamed the system’

Soros says his goal is "to prevent more winning" from US President Donald Trump and Republicans.

April 23, 2025

Call for Kneecap band to lose US visas after anti-Israel Coachella performance

At Coachella, the band projected a series of messages that accused Israel of genocide, condemned U.S. support for the Israeli military, and concluded, 'F–k Israel. Free Palestine.'

April 23, 2025

California school board members accused of antisemitism during meeting

ADL Central Pacific Regional Director Marc Levine condemned the comments and called on the board to apologize.

April 23, 2025

BDS victory: UK metal supplier cuts ties with Israeli defense firm

After months of sabotage and pressure from anti-Israel activists, a UK weapons parts manufacturer has reportedly ended its relationship with Israeli defense giant Elbit Systems.

April 23, 2025

Coalition of orthodox rabbis blast liberal Jewish leaders for ‘choosing progressivism over Judaism’

The CJV condemned a statement by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), which criticized the funding cuts and claimed the policy sought to punish 'free academic inquiry.'

April 22, 2025

Record number of antisemitic assaults, vandalism, and harassment in US in 2024

For the fourth year in a row, ADL says number of antisemitic incidents across the US hit record high in 2024, with most cases revolving around Israel or Zionism.

April 22, 2025

Rutgers University’s anti-Israel bunch – opinion

The Rutgers CSRR has so thoroughly cornered the market in Israel-hating professors that if they were all together on a boat that sank, the anti-Israel academic 'resistance' would all but disappear.

April 22, 2025

Florida State University shooting suspect expressed interest in Hitler, Nazis, new research shows

A student who engaged in ideological exchanges with Ikner revealed that members of a political discussion group found the alleged shooter’s views so extreme that they asked him to leave.

April 22, 2025

Nazi flags hung over Swedish highway

Police assume the April 20 date was chosen for the act in order to honor Adolf Hitler on his birthday.

April 22, 2025

Harvard academics paint Israeli Jews as the real terrorists

FXB Center visiting scientist Sawsan Abdulrahim posted an image of a Hamas paraglider to her since-deleted X account on Oct. 8, 2023, a nod to the terrorists who flew into the Nova music festival.

April 21, 2025

Ukrainian synagogue hit by Molotov cocktail

The attack was the second time a Jewish target was attacked over Passover in Kryvyi Rih.

April 21, 2025

A top architectural journal planned to focus on Israeli ‘settler-colonial apartheid and genocide.’ When its publisher said no, the board resigned

The ordeal reflects the proliferation of anti-Semitic activism seen in higher education in the wake of Oct. 7, even in fields unrelated to international conflict like architecture.

April 20, 2025

Chicago man charged with hate crime for attack of two Jewish DePaul students

The arrest also comes two weeks after the students, who were attacked in November, filed a lawsuit against DePaul, saying that the university failed to protect Jewish students on campus.

April 18, 2025

Mural honoring Holocaust survivors in Milan gets vandalized again with swastikas, ‘Nazi’ messages

The vandalism took place shortly after a national pro-Palestinian demonstration in Milan.

April 18, 2025

Ilhan Omar’s daughter fundraises for Columbia activist in custody who endorsed Oct. 7 attack

Hirsi similarly promoted a fundraiser last month for Mahmoud Khalil, a fellow protest leader and encampment negotiator facing deportation.

April 17, 2025

Berklee College of Music professor attacked Jews as ‘vile predators’ and blamed them for slavery

Many of Payton's most incendiary comments came during the fervor of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.

April 16, 2025

Georgetown University postpones Passover BDS vote following outcry

Georgetown is one of 60 colleges and universities being investigated by the federal government due to being deemed by the Trump administration as soft on antisemitism and excessively 'woke.'

April 16, 2025

‘Death to Israel’ scrawled on Northwestern University building during Passover

The university’s Jewish president, Michael Schill, wrote that the vandalism took place hours after his own Passover seder, and that it was being fully investigated by the university.

April 16, 2025

‘Dirty Jew’: Jewish man brutally attacked in France

French authorities are treating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime, with the investigation focusing on death threats motivated by religion, theft, and intentional violence.

April 16, 2025

Trump administration freezes more than $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard

The private Ivy League school said that it would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to combat antisemitism.

April 15, 2025

Pennsylvania man charged with setting fire to Governor Shapiro’s home

Shapiro said he was awoken early Sunday morning as police banged on his door, warning that his residence was set on fire.

April 15, 2025

Northwestern shows universities how to fight Jew-hatred

Northwestern, in the year since President Michael Schill testified before Congress, has managed to reduce antisemitic incidents by 88%.

April 14, 2025

Yale and Brown launch new programs amid campus antisemitism crackdown

Yale became a hub of anti-Israel activism last academic year, with protesters demanding that the school boycott the Jewish state.

April 14, 2025

Jewish governor saved from arson attack on Passover

'Last night at about 2 a.m., my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg,' Shapiro wrote on his official X account.

April 14, 2025

CAIR seeks to block Columbia University from submitting SJP-related protest records to Congress

CAIR argued that the records would 'be weaponized against students who dare to speak out against Palestine.'

April 11, 2025

Felony charges filed against pro-Hamas protesters over Stanford University break-in

The incident was part of a larger pro-Hamas demonstration in which SJP demanded that the university adopt the BDS movement.

April 11, 2025

NYC mayoral hopeful accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza during sit-down interview with Hamas apologist

Mamdani then accused his mayoral opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, of smearing activism for Palestinian human rights as 'antisemitism.'

April 10, 2025

California DOE finds school’s Ethnic Studies curriculum discriminated against Jewish students

According to the state DOE ruling, the teacher showed students two videos about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but didn’t offer a pro-Israel perspective.

April 10, 2025

Cornell and Northwestern to see nearly $2 b. frozen in Trump’s antisemitism crackdown

Cornell is poised to lose $1 billion in federal funding, while Northwestern faces $790 million in cuts.

April 9, 2025

US lawmaker demands terror ties probe of Palestinian group which hosted Tlaib

The lawmaker also accused PACC of receiving financial assistance from American Muslims for Palestine, an organization currently embroiled in a federal investigation.

April 9, 2025

US to screen immigration applicants for Jew-hatred posts on social media

'Anyone who thinks they can come to America and hide behind the First Amendment to advocate for antisemitic violence and terrorism—think again. You are not welcome here.'

April 9, 2025

Antisemitic incidents surged 90% among French-speaking Swiss in 2024 – report

The report also found that more than two-thirds (72.1 percent) of all reported antisemitic incidents in 2024 originated from social media platforms, particularly Instagram, Telegram, and X.

April 9, 2025

‘Holy’ work: Stars of David replace crosses on stones of two WWI soldiers at national cemetery

Doug Collins, U.S. secretary of veterans affairs, and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.) attended the ceremonies.

April 8, 2025

ADL issues revised ‘campus antisemitism report card’ grades

The Ivy League received the poorest marks in the 2025 Campus Antisemitism Report Card.

April 8, 2025

Crisis for Canadian Jewry

Historically, Canada has been behind Europe on antisemitism by a generation, but the pace at which it is gaining momentum is now catching up.

April 8, 2025

Advocacy group blasts George Washington University over fundraising drive amid antisemitism crisis

The group also accused GW of obstructing investigations of antisemitism, issuing 'evasive' statements which falsely implied it was committed to addressing antisemitism.

April 8, 2025

Iran paid Swedish minors for anti-Israel, antisemitic terror attacks

In May 2024, a 15-year-old boy, armed with a gun, was arrested en route to the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm.

April 8, 2025

Columbia’s former president ‘has no memory’ of anti-Israel activity on campus

While Columbia announced a series of reforms, Armstrong told a group of faculty members a day later there would be 'no changes' to the school’s policy on masked protests and no changes to the disciplinary process.

April 7, 2025

Jewish governor gives $5M grant to mosque that called Jews ‘vilest people’

According to Gov. Shapiro, who is Jewish, however the massive $5 million grant was necessary because 'as we’re facing tumult overseas, and we’re facing a lot of rising hate here at home.'

April 7, 2025

BBC journalist calls Israelis inhuman and Jews ‘devils’

BBC Arabic broadcaster Ahmed Alagha defended Hamas’ October 7 massacre, saying the victims deserved no sympathy.

April 6, 2025

NYPD increases synagogue security ahead of Passover amid surge in antisemitic hate crimes

Deputy Inspector Gary Marcus of the Hate Crimes Task Force underscored the seriousness of the issue, calling antisemitism 'the single largest category of hate' in NYC.

April 6, 2025

‘Genocide John’ signs deface Senator Fetterman’s family charity over Israel support

Fetterman: 'Since 10/7/23, I’m used to the vandalism at our home or my office ... But Gisele and volunteers distribute food, clothing and formula at no cost to our community—and they shouldn’t have to put up with this.'

April 6, 2025

Trump Administration planning $510 million cut to Brown University budget, report says

Brown University’s failure to mount a satisfactory response to the campus antisemitism crisis, as well as its embrace of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement, prompted the alleged pending action by the federal government.

April 5, 2025

NYC ‘Dyke March’ bans Zionists from participating in annual demonstration

Last year, the NYC Dyke March previously came under scrutiny after organizers settled on 'genocide' as the theme of its 2024 event.

April 5, 2025

Texas Republican sparks outrage after quoting Goebbels during Congressional hearing

During the hearing, Self defended his comments by claiming his words were taken out of context.

April 4, 2025

Pro-Israel student accused of assault at anti-Israel protest found not guilty

Following his arrest, Piegaro was barred from the campus for two weeks, a period during which he stayed with the director of Princeton’s Chabad House for a few days.

April 3, 2025

Northwestern University touts progress on addressing campus antisemitism amid federal scrutiny

Other initiatives rolled out by the university include an Advisory Council to the President on Jewish Life, dinners for Jewish students hosted by administrative officials, and educational events that raise awareness of rising antisemitism in the US and across the world.

April 3, 2025

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