Opinion | Is Our Fear of Antisemitism Poisoning Our Discussion of Israel?
Over the past 2,500 years, antisemitism has been one of the world’s most resilient scourges, erupting spasmodically but never going away, and spanning much of the globe. This virus has mutated into a...
View ArticleBulgarian Nazis: Now and Then
This February the Bulgarian government banned the annual neo-Nazi Lukov March, which was set for February 25 in the capital city Sofia. The cancellation was due to pressure from foreign embassies,...
View ArticleHow to Impress Others with Your TikTok Knowledge
Recently, someone on the social network Reddit shared this in response to the Moment article demonstrating how TikTok’s algorithm can lead a user to extreme and hateful content (“From Zero to Hate in...
View ArticleNo, Jews Aren’t Being Erased—We’re Just Sharing the Pie
Well, that certainly struck a nerve. Every half hour, it seems, someone sends us Jacob Savage’s “The Vanishing,” a long, stat-stuffed essay from Tablet that cobbles together a list of events of vastly...
View ArticleThe State of Antisemitism in America with Ted Deutch and Robert Siegel
About The American Jewish Committee (AJC)’s latest annual antisemitism survey found that 40 percent of American Jews feel less secure than they did a year ago. AJC CEO Ted Deutch discusses this and...
View ArticleIs the Anti-Establishment “Woo-to-Q Pipeline” Antisemitic?
David DePape did not seem like your typical right-wing militant. A Canadian who moved to the Bay Area about 20 years ago, he became a pro-nudity activist, frequently showing skin to protest city...
View ArticleAlarming Rise of Antisemitic Behavior in Schools
By now it is widely recognized in the Jewish world that antisemitism is on the rise in America. According to the Audit of Antisemitic Incidents for 2022 released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor Country Profile: Romania
Not far from the bright floral displays commemorating International Women’s Day and bustling souvenir stalls littering the main streets of Iasi, Romania, is the former Iași police headquarters. The old...
View ArticleIs Holocaust Education Feeding Antisemitism?
The dramatic uptick of antisemitism in America is the result of a near-perfect storm of factors. We know some of the major ones: Trump-era hangover, TikTok, and “normalization” thanks to celebrities...
View ArticleReAwaken America Tour Fuses Trumpism and Christian Nationalism
If you’ve heard of the ReAwaken America Tour, it is probably in the context of two of its most explicitly antisemitic participants, Scott McKay and Charlie Ward, being slated to share the stage with...
View ArticleSturm und Drag
The “Rock-n-Roll Humanist Drag Queen Story Hour,” held March 11 at a public park in Wadsworth, Ohio, almost didn’t happen. Organizer Aaron Reed (the self-proclaimed rock-n-roll humanist) had first...
View ArticleMontana Rep (And Rabbi) Confronts Christian Lawmakers after Invocation...
Democratic state Rep. Ed Stafman arrived at the capitol building in Helena, Montana, on May 1, ready to give the invocation that customarily opens each day’s session. Stafman, who is also a rabbi, had...
View ArticleDeep Dive | Whose Speech Is Free on Musk’s Twitter?
There’s something about Elon Musk’s wealth, grandiosity and eccentricity that evokes comic books. A youthful 51, Musk has a staggering net worth of 236.2 billion dollars and a variety of attractively...
View Article‘Not Very Pleasant’
Every year hundreds of university students from all around the United Kingdom converge at the National Union of Students (NUS) conference. For three days, delegates representing seven million...
View ArticleFrom the Newsletter | Is Elon Musk Really Going to Sue the ADL?
By now it shouldn’t surprise anyone when Elon Musk makes an attention-grabbing announcement on social media. His posts on X (formerly Twitter) are a cascade of casual plans, jests—such as one from...
View ArticleWhy the Visa Waiver Is Such a Big Deal
Jewish Politics & Power is published every other week. Sign up for our newsletter for updates. 1. Biden’s Gift to Israelis Early last Wednesday, a short, formal notification from the U.S....
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of November 14, 2022
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of November 21, 2022
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of December 19, 2022
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleOpinion | The Campus Conundrum
As a Jew in the social justice tradition, I am finding some value in the current Palestine/Israel debate now raging against the backdrop of the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s retaliation. Even in...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of January 16, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of February 13, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of February 27, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of March 13, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of March 27, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of April 10, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of May 22, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of June 5, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of June 19, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of August 14, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of August 28, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of September 11, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of September 25, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of October 16, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of November 6, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of November 20, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleAntisemitism Monitor | Week of December 4, 2023
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism in Context Reporting that leads to a...
View ArticleYe’s New Album ‘Vultures’ Criticized for Antisemitic Lyrics and Art
The erratic hip-hop artist Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who in the past few years has repeatedly come under fire for antisemitic tweets, comments and actions, is due to release a new album today....
View ArticleJewish Politics—A Year in Review
Jewish Politics & Power is published every other week. Sign up for our newsletter for updates. 1. How October 7 Reshuffled the Political Deck It should have been a usual pre-election year, filled...
View ArticleInterview | Dr. Zeina Barakat on Palestinian Views of the Holocaust and...
Dr. Barakat. Dr. Zeina M. Barakat is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian scholar. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow and the executive director of the European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and...
View ArticleOpinion | Serious Leadership Means Standing Together
This piece was adapted from Eric K. Ward’s remarks during his acceptance of the Inspirational and Leadership Award at Moment’s 2023 gala. My mom, who passed a little over a decade ago, used to tell me...
View ArticleThe Courage of Eric K. Ward
In the late 1970s, a Black police detective in Colorado named Ron Stallworth infiltrated a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan by impersonating a white racist on the telephone, including in several...
View ArticleMuslim and Arab Voices Against Bigotry
Since October 7, many Jews have felt isolated and have reported feeling as if they have no allies in the Muslim and Arab worlds. This is understandable. As Jews we are haunted by traumas of the past,...
View ArticleNew French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal Is No Stranger to Prejudice
On January 9, Gabriel Attal, a star who has risen rapidly in the French government over the past six years, was sworn into office as prime minister. Attal is the first openly gay French prime minister,...
View ArticleWisdom Project | Lusia Milch, 92: “Doing Nothing Is Not Acceptable”
The Wisdom Project at Moment: Inspirational conversations with wise people who have been fortunate to live long lives This week’s conversation is with Lusia Milch, 92, of New York City. Her son, David,...
View ArticleInterview | Franklin Foer on the Golden Age of American Jews
Franklin Foer is a staff writer at The Atlantic, former editor of The New Republic, and the author of five books. His latest is The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for...
View ArticleAudience & Antisemitism: February Round-Up
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Audience & Antisemitism • What did Ye Say? In a...
View ArticleWhat Do Students Want? Plus: UK Antisemitism and America’s Golden Age
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. London Burning? Antisemitism in the UK A recent...
View ArticleAntisemitism and Iranian Influence in the Americas
This is an issue of the Antisemitism Project newsletter. To receive this vital resource in your inbox, please visit the Antisemitism Project website. Antisemitism and Iranian Influence in the Americas...
View ArticleWould You Send Your Jewish Child to a U.S. College?
Since October 7, concern has been raised about rising anti-Zionism and antisemitism on college campuses. We asked Reddit users: If you had Jewish kids right now, would you be comfortable sending them...
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