antisemitism

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in the arrivals hall of Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, November 8, 2024. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Weaponizing Jewish fear, from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam

Rhetoric about ‘pogroms’ and ‘Jew hunts’ aims to obscure reality by generating mass hysteria — which can then be used to advance a far-right agenda.

By Em Hilton November 15, 2024

A Star of David is seen carved into a wall as Israeli soldiers operate inside Al-Shati refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, November 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

How Israel twists antisemitism claims to project its own crimes onto Palestinians

What Israel and its supporters accuse Palestinians of inciting, Israeli officials are openly declaring, and the Israeli army is prosecuting.

By Amos Goldberg and Alon Confino May 21, 2024

Jews march within a large rally for a ceasefire in Gaza in central London, November 11, 2023. (Alisdare Hickson/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED)

A ‘no-go zone’ for Jews? The making of a moral panic in London

While antisemitism in the U.K. has certainly risen, politicians and the media are deliberately inflaming sensationalist narratives for a repressive agenda.

By Ben Reiff March 13, 2024

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Far-right Polish demonstrators take part in the annual National Independence Day march, November 11, 2022. (Matthias Berg/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

It’s not just Europe’s far right enabling Israeli apartheid

An antisemitic Romanian party is hardly Israel’s first fascist ally. But mainstream European parties have been just as complicit in Israel’s abuses.

By Eitay Mack September 4, 2023

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception, May 16, 2023, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

Who won the battle over the White House antisemitism strategy?

The Biden administration’s antisemitism plan sidestepped the IHRA definition favored by the American-Jewish establishment. They claimed victory anyway.

By Emily Tamkin August 8, 2023

Campaign by Amnesty International and Mentalgassi on 'Making the invisible visible,' with the German poster reading 'Your letter can save lives,' Berlin, Germany, December 9, 2011. (Steffi Reichert/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Amnesty is fighting to end Israeli apartheid. Why isn’t its German branch?

From social media to public activities, Amnesty Deutschland has largely avoided promoting its parent organization's campaign for Palestinian rights.

By Hebh Jamal July 31, 2023

People attend a rally in Jerusalem held in solidarity with Jews in the United States and across the world following a wave of antisemite attacks on Jews and in parallel to the rally held in New York, January 5, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Is the ‘antisemitism crisis’ on US college campuses real?

Journalist Arno Rosenfeld explains how the narrative pushed by establishment groups is disconnected from most Jewish students' experiences on campus, especially around Israel.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland June 28, 2023

A rally against rising antisemitism under the banner of "No Hate, No Fear," Jan, 5, 2020. (Gili Getz)

‘Anti-antisemitism’ was meant to unite American Jews. Why is it backfiring?

For years U.S. Jewish leaders tried to center diaspora identity around Israel. But the battle to redefine antisemitism shows it is no longer working.

By Nathan J. Brown and Daniel Nerenberg June 13, 2023

Protest against the German Bundestag’s resolution against the Palestinian-led BDS Movement, Berlin, 2019. (Palästina Spricht archives)

IHRA definition is silencing Palestine advocacy across Europe, says report

A European legal center details how the IHRA antisemitism definition has been given 'authoritative power' to target Israel critics in several countries.

By Hebh Jamal June 7, 2023

President Joe Biden takes part in a ceremony at Yad Vashem, Israel's largest Holocaust memorial, Jerusalem, July 13, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Biden’s antisemitism strategy gets a lot right — but has one problem

By failing to push back on problematic definitions of antisemitism, the White House is missing a golden opportunity in the fight against hate.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 27, 2023

Ribhi Kamal. (HaOlam HaZeh)

The Palestinian intellectual who loved Hebrew and fought Zionism

Ribhi Kamal was one of a handful of Palestinian elites who mastered Hebrew before 1948. After his exile to Syria, he deployed it as a weapon against Israel.

By Caroline Kahlenberg April 21, 2023

Far-right Israeli activists from the Im Tirzu movement at Tel Aviv University hold book showing Palestinian leader Amin al-Husseini with a swastika, during a protest against the annual Nakba ceremony, May 11, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The Israeli right’s most dangerous anti-Palestinian smear

The Jewish far right has been calling Palestinians 'Nazis' for almost 80 years, casting them as an irredeemable enemy in an eternal war.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland April 20, 2023

Hundreds of Palestinians and supporters protest in front of the U.S. embassy against President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Berlin, Germany, December 8, 2017. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

Germany’s anti-Palestinian censorship turns on Jews

Anti-Zionist Jews in Germany are increasingly being targeted with accusations of antisemitism, a charge usually directed at Palestinians.

By Hebh Jamal April 4, 2023