Commentary

By Richard Cravatts (JNS) — Vanderbilt’s Chabad hosted a speaking event on Feb. 23 by Rudy Rochman, who describes himself as a “Jewish and Israel rights activist” who has “the intention,” as Chabad put it, “of creating a productive conversation around the issue of the […]

Iron Dome in action By Larry Brook, editor For the Squad, what the world needs is more dead Jews. And Palestinians, for that matter. Harsh, perhaps. But in their quest to remain passionately anti-Israel, they have let logic fly out the door and taken a […]

By Charles Jacobs (JNS) — It’s hard to ignore the simple fact that Jewish leaders have failed to stop or even slow the accelerating epidemic of Jew-hatred in America. Like failed generals fighting the last war, they have focused on Nazis and the political right […]

A visitor looks at photographs of camp inmates at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial in Oswiecim, Poland. Credit: Desi H. Sitorus/Shutterstock. By Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — There is no more obvious sign that American education is in trouble than the fact that most state legislatures […]

Credit: Pixabay. By Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — For the last 40 years, many activists have worked hard to monitor press coverage of the Middle East and to call out anti-Israel bias masquerading as objective news. For many years, those who performed this task were routinely […]

By Larry Brook It was so easy when we knew what antisemitism was. You just looked for the robe or the swastika, the sign that said “no Jews” or the restrictive covenant, and that was it. But with the increasing demonization of Jews from the […]

An illustrative view of a school board meeting of the Oakland Unified School District. In May 2020, the school board passed a resolution stating that it supports “the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Draft as written,” despite concerns over anti-Semitism. Source: JNS Screenshot. By Robert […]