antisemitism

Republicans in North Carolina have selected Mark Robinson as their nominee in the swing state’s 2024 gubernatorial race. Robinson — the state’s first Black lieutenant governor, who will now face Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein in the general election — has a richer history of bigoted commentary than any major-party political candidate in recent memory. He has leveled truly vile attacks against Muslims, Jews, women, and the LGBTQ community, while pushing a torrent of conspiracy theories about everything from…

The Welsh singer Charlotte Church has denied being antisemitic after taking part in a concert that featured the controversial pro-Palestinian chant From the River to the Sea.Church was singing at the concert, which took place at the Bedwas Workmen’s Hall near Caerphilly, to raise money for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, an aid organisation that supports children in Gaza.The singer led a choir of about 100 people in a rendition of From the River to the Sea, a song that references the land between the Jordan River,…

The head of the United Nations on Friday called for technology firms to stop profiting from the proliferation of toxic content after accusing social media platforms of complicity in fuelling antisemitism, racism and anti-Muslim bigotry."Tech companies should assume their responsibilities and stop profiting from the amplification of toxic content of all kinds," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the Munich Security Conference.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

Cover Image. Credit: Tel Aviv University On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University presents its third "For a Righteous Cause" Annual Report. The sixty-five-page report reviews and analyzes initiatives and programs for combating antisemitism and racism in…

Despite regularly promoting and engaging with antisemitic conspiracy theories on his platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Elon Musk would like you to know that he doesn’t hate Jews, thank you very much. On Monday, he kicked off his I <3 Jewish People tour with a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, where he managed to evince a look of sober introspection for the photographers present (though the fact that he had his child perched on his shoulders as if they were watching the majorettes at…

On Feb. 20, 1939, more than 20,000 yelling, cheering people packed New York City’s Madison Square Garden. They weren’t there for a basketball game or a concert. They were supporters of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization that was ready for an alternative to democracy. They waved Swastika flags and raised quite a ruckus. And they were hardly alone in their mission, as the new PBS American Experience documentary Nazi Town, USA makes abundantly clear. While most Americans identified fascism and the…

Social media company X’s platform has less antisemitic content compared with other applications, according to audits it has commissioned, X owner Elon Musk said on Monday at a conference on combating antisemitism.Musk visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau site of a former Nazi German concentration camp earlier in the day, before appearing at the conference in the southern Polish city of Krakow, which addressed the rise in antisemitism since the Israel-Hamas conflict started in October.The X platform has come under fire in recent…

Months after losing a slew of advertisers after he publicly endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory, X owner Elon Musk continued his “I am not an antisemite” tour on Monday with a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp memorial.  During his private tour of the memorial, Musk laid a wreath and participated in a remembrance ceremony. “It hits you much more in the heart when you see it in person … it will take a few days to sink in, frankly,” Musk told right-wing Jewish podcaster Ben Shapiro during an…

I am a 70-year-old Jewish man, but never in my life have I seen or felt the antisemitism of the last few weeks. I have heard antisemitic things from time to time through my life. I remember as a child being called a “dirty Jew,” and my friends and I being called “Christ killers” as we walked to Hebrew school. I recall a college girlfriend’s parents telling her that she should not go out with me because “Jews are different.” I had an incident in a class I was teaching about the ethics of negotiations, where a student…

In a historic moment, over 260 notable Jewish figures have signed a scathing letter blasting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for “antisemitism.” The signatories of the letter from the JITC Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation include famous A-listers like David Schwimmer, Mayim Bialik, Tiffany Haddish, Julianna Margulies, Michael Rapaport, Debra Messing, Ginnifer Goodwin and Marta Kauffman. David Schwimmer signs JITC letter blasting Motion Picture Academy for 'antisemitism' JITC, founded…