South Carolina Passes Landmark Bill to Confront Campus Antisemitism
The South Carolina State House. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
JNS.org – South Carolina has become the first state to pass legislation to protect students from antisemitic acts.
The State Senate overwhelmingly approved the legislation, H3643,...
Barnard Students Endorse Anti-Israel Divestment in Contentious Referendum
Barnard Hall at Barnard College, New York. Photo: BrillLyle.
Students at Barnard College in New York voted to ask the administration to divest from eight companies that “profit from or engage...
German Company Pulls Music Awards Sponsorship Amid Outcry Over Antisemitic Rap Duo
Antisemitic rappers Kollegah & Farid Bang perform during the 2018 Echo Music Award ceremony in Berlin. Photo: Reuters/Axel Schmidt.
Germany’s largest fruit juice company on Thursday joined a growing assembly...
Former ADL Chief Slams Polish President’s Speech at Ghetto Uprising Commemoration
Polish President Andrez Duda at the 75th anniversary commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, April 19, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Kacper Pempel.
One of America’s most storied campaigners against antisemitism and...
The Challenge Of Legacy
By Edwin Black
Today, I come not just to mourn nor to scorn but rather to warn our world, that is, the world of today whose memories are still whistling...
Labour MPs Give Raw Accounts of Facing Threats, Abuse
Labour MP John Mann speaks at the British Parliament’s general debate on antisemitism. Photo: Screenshot.
A non-Jewish member of the British Parliament from the opposition Labour Party spoke on Tuesday...
German Authorities Raid Homes of Suspected Neo-Nazis
German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Photo: Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch.
German authorities raided the homes of four alleged neo-Nazis whom they suspect of attempting to obtain weapons, ammunition and explosives with...
Columbia Students Accuse Anti-Zionist Groups of ‘Silencing’ Opposing Voices
The Columbia University campus. Photo: Columbia.
Pro-Israel students at Columbia University in New York have called for disciplinary action against anti-Zionist groups on campus, which they accuse of systematically violating...
Career Diplomat Appointed to Combat Antisemitism in Germany
Demonstrators in Berlin brandish Turkish and Palestinian flags as they burn an Israeli flag. Photo: Jüdisches Forum für Demokratie und gegen Antisemitismus.
The German federal government has appointed career diplomat Felix...
Jewish Man Found Killed in Paris Apartment
(JTA) — A Jewish man was killed in his apartment in Paris, where the victim’s twin brother found his lifeless body bound and with a plastic bag covering his...