antisemitism

On Monday night, 10 men were arrested following a dispute with New York City Police Department officers at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a synagogue catering to adherents of the insular Orthodox Jewish movement. The reason: structural engineers were attempting to fill in a system of mysterious secret tunnels, which had been illegally excavated underneath the building, and a group of young men turned out to protest. Though the story primarily focused on a small community of…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Thursday he felt members of the Muslim and Arab communities in the tech industry were uncomfortable speaking about their recent experiences, in an apparent reference to the impact of the ongoing war in Gaza."Muslim and arab (especially palestinian) colleagues in the tech community i've spoken with feel uncomfortable speaking about their recent experiences, often out of fear of retaliation and damaged career prospects," Altman wrote on social media network X, formerly known as Twitter.Elevate…

Harvard president Claudine Gay has resigned after becoming embroiled in a pair of controversies over on-campus antisemitism and plagiarism. Gay spent just over six months as president of Harvard, having assumed the role on July 1, 2023. She was the university’s first Black president, and has now served the shortest tenure of any president in the school’s history. Alan M. Garber, the current Provost and Chief Academic Officer, will step in as interim president. (The student paper, The Harvard Crimson, was the first…

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has issued a statement in Hebrew on his Instagram expressing regret over his antisemitic comments over the past year. That includes recent statements allegedly made in Las Vegas earlier this month, and caught by live streamers in attendance, invoking Hitler and Jesus Christ alongside himself, and addressing his loss of brand sponsorships and partnerships during a Vultures album event, as reported by Rolling Stone. Set to release on Jan. 12, the…

For Kanye West, the past month might as well have been a decade. Even before his dangerous and roundly condemned “death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE” tweet got him suspended from Twitter, he debuted a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt alongside conservative pundit Candace Owens during his Paris Fashion Week presentation, instantly tarnishing his reputation within the industry. This week, after a noxious cycle of public appearances where Ye doubled down on his comments, repeating antisemitic talking points as well as the debunked…

Elon Musk's social media platform X has fueled far-right disinformation in Ireland and played a key role in riots last month in the country's capital Dublin, experts tell CBS News. The violent clashes erupted on Nov. 23 between about 200 civilians and riot police in central Dublin as demonstrators vented rage after a stabbing incident that left multiple people wounded earlier in the day, including a 5-year-old girl who was hospitalized with serious injuries. False reports circulating on social media had suggested the…

Turning Point USA — the far-right, Christian nationalist group run by Charlie Kirk — is kicking off its annual AmericaFest in Phoenix on Saturday. TPUSA bills AmericaFest as a bash for “like-minded” conservatives to celebrate “the greatest country in the world, America.” But in addition to patriotism, many of the gala’s headliners appear to be of like mind about something much darker: a distrust, distaste, or outright hatred of Jewish people. The celebration comes on the heels of Kirk himself having been called…

Adam Driver is a very serious actor, except when he’s being seriously silly on “Saturday Night Live.” For his fourth time hosting the show, Driver brought his usual go-for-broke energy, firmly committing 100% to even the most ridiculous comedic premise.It’s almost as if the more famous and respected Driver becomes, and the more acting awards he’s nominated for (he’s currently promoting “Ferrari”), the more the “SNL” writers want him to do things like spend five minutes playing with a penis-shaped chocolate Santa in a…

This week’s Saturday Night Live cold open gave us a C-SPAN report on the GOP-led Congress’ bizarre hearing this week consisting of testimony from a trio of university presidents on the subject of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses. There was: MIT president Sally Kornbluth (Chloe Fineman), University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill (Heidi Gardner), and Harvard president Dr. Claudine Gay (Ego Nwodim). MAGA minion Rep. Elise Stefanik (played by Chloe Troast) kicked off the proceedings, saying, “Now, I’m…

Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania has resigned amidst backlash to her handling of antisemitism at the university. Scott L. Bok, the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the university, announced on Saturday that Magill would be stepping down. In Bok’s letter addressed to the Penn community, Bok said Magill “voluntarily tendered her resignation” as president. Magill will remain a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law and will stay on as interim president while the university looks to appoint…