By Patrick Kingsley Swastikas daubed on a Jewish cemetery in France. An antisemitic political campaign by Hungary’s far-right government. Labour lawmakers in Britain quitting their party and citing ingrained antisemitism. A Belgian carnival float caricaturing Orthodox Jews sitting ...
European Union cannot fight antisemitism effectively By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld The main operational reasons are the absence of an accepted definition of antisemitism and the lack of comparable statistics on incidents among E.U. member states. ...
By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld People frequently ask me why European antisemitism keeps rising. In newspapers they read about increase in incidents in various major countries. Before mentioning these figures, it should be noted that the ...
More than 70 years after the end of the Holocaust, antisemitism remains entrenched in German society, Berlin’s top legal expert on the matter says, admitting victims sometimes struggle to obtain justice. “Antisemitism has always been ...
By freelance journalist Lars Jørgensen In recent years, rich Muslim countries have won many politically attractive hosting rights for international sporting events. But, Israeli athletes pay a high price for this development. Antisemitism is something that ...
By Lucie Lespinasse A swastika formed by plastic goblets, surrounded by students doing the Nazi salute and underlined by the legend “German Rage Cage » (“German pong beer” is the game of throwing a ping-pong ...
Despite their vast ideological differences, several factors unite the worldviews of the extreme right with the extreme left-Islamist alliance, in which Jews and Israel play a disproportionate role. By Daniel Krygier, World Israel News Freshman ...
By Michael Laitman How many times do freshman lawmakers from the Democratic Party need to apologize for antisemitic remarks until we understand what truly lies in their hearts and minds toward Israel and the Jews? Minnesota Rep. Ilhan ...
By Fareed Zakaria In recent weeks, attention has focused on two freshman Democratic members of Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both of whom are Muslim and have made critical statements about Israel and its ...
by Emanuel Miller and Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll In recent years, Jews have increasingly found themselves at the center of political debates in America and Britain, often in relation to Israel and Jews’ connections to Israel. While criticism of ...
Deborah Lipstadt: Antisemitism is still with us but not taken seriously in politics Tomorrow, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are invited to reflect on the fact that, within living memory in some of the ...
Jonathan Weisman is a veteran journalist. He also happens to be Jewish. In 2016, that fact led to a deluge of harassment, and a new perspective on what it means to be Jewish during the ...
By Aya Ben Naftali, Director General of Massuah International Institute for Holocaust Studies “The hatred that begins with Jews never ends with Jews,” stated Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ...
By Josefin Dolsten With the Women’s March only days away, local chapters and major progressive groups are continuing to distance themselves from the national leadership, which is scrambling to hold on to its big tent. Though the ...
by Bassam Tawil Palestinians are continuing to use the Temple Mount, in Arabic known as the Haram al-Sharif, in Jerusalem, as a platform for incitement against Israel in general and Jews in particular. This incitement, which ...