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  We are Jewish students from universities Trump is targeting. He’s not protecting us

  Democracy, not deportations, protect Jewish students from antisemitism

  By Nikki Appel, and Yarin Hagay-Nevel, and Gabriel Freedman-Naditch, and Celia Little, and Elianna Perlman, and Tova Kaplan, and Alexander Fooy, and Joseph Hillyard, and Talia Winiarsky, and Jennifer Nehrer

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  Letters

  Contrary to recent op-ed’s conclusions, ADL report on antisemitism on Wikipedia is accurate

  A historian disputes his former co-author's characterization of ADL report

  By Jan Grabowski May 21, 2025 | 2 min read
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  Opinion

  A century ago, Hitler declared war on the ‘lying press’ and targeted a feisty little newspaper — sound familiar?

  In the 1920s and ’30s, Germans failed to heed the warnings of the Münchener Post

  By Terrence Petty May 20, 2025 | 4 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson Being Jewish in America today feels like walking multiple tightropes at once

  

• Rob Eshman My brother-in-law’s kibbutz weathered Oct. 7. Then came the Iranian missile strikes

  

• Nora Berman Zohran Mamdani is right about what ‘intifada’ means — well, kind of

  

• Dan Perry Might Iran become Trump’s Iraq? Americans are wary — but shouldn’t be

  

• Emily Tamkin Trump’s latest move makes Mahmoud Khalil a Joseph for our times

  

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  Opinion

  Two writers offer strikingly different views of the ‘state of the Jews’

  Dan Senor and Eric Alterman lay out visions of the Jewish present and future that are diametrically opposed and in some ways complementary

  By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 18, 2025 | 6 min read
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  Opinion

  Anti-Israel rhetoric is fueling an alarmingly powerful new wave of antisemitism on the right

  And Trump's changed attitude to Israel is only the first consequence

  By Elad Nehorai May 16, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Opinion

  Is Wikipedia a cesspool of antisemitism? Don’t trust the ADL’s answer.

  The ADL misinterpreted my research to denounce the crowdsourced online encyclopedia

  By Shira Klein May 16, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Opinion

  Edan Alexander’s release was the last good news we’ll get from wartime Israel

  I celebrated my fellow Tenafly native's freedom. But there are too many reasons to believe the future for other hostages is bleak.

  By Nadav Ziv May 15, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Opinion

  Critics of Trump’s US Holocaust Memorial Council firings run the risk of trivializing the cataclysm

  A former council member says the firings shouldn’t be lamented as though they reflect Nazi-like oppression

  By Menachem Z. Rosensaft May 15, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Opinion

  Netanyahu got his own son’s name wrong — was this a trivial mistake or a revealing Freudian slip?

  When the Israeli prime minister called his son 'Avraham,' he called up images of one of the Torah's most terrifying moments

  By Aviya Kushner May 15, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Opinion

  The staggering hypocrisy behind Trump’s deal to free the last living American hostage

  Intermediary Bishara Bahbah has accused Israel of genocide — which has earned other critics detention

  By Rob Eshman May 13, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Opinion

  Though sworn enemies, Hamas and Donald Trump seem to share a common language

  Both the US president and the leaders of Hamas have urged sacrifice in the cause of greater glory

  By Aviya Kushner May 13, 2025 | 3 min read