Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of antisemitism, bigotry against Jews.
Antisemitism
The Latest
-
Fast Forward ‘I Want Jexit!’ Written On American Federations Of Teachers Building
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Federation of Teachers said vandals defaced its headquarters in Washington D.C. with anti-Semitic graffiti. A number of areas around the building, including a wall, were yellow spray-painted on Tuesday and Wednesday with “I want Jexit!” an apparent anti-Semitic play on “Brexit,” Britain’s planned pullout from the European Union. Randi Weingarten,…
-
Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Video Mocking Nazi Salute Prom Photo Found In Same Wisconsin City
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic video was posted on social media and anti-Semitic fliers posted both, related to the Wisconsin high school students who made what appears to be a Nazi salute in a junior prom photo have appeared around the Baraboo community. A seven-minute video was posted on Sunday to the paid social networking website minds.com by…
-
Opinion It’s Not Just Jews. Let’s Remember The Other People Europeans Love To Hate
Some years ago, I was discussing the history of Jews in Poland with a Polish academic. He pointed out to me that while anti-Semitism has certain unique characteristics, in pre-war Poland it was part of a web of inter-ethnic conflicts that also included Ukrainians, Lithuanians, and Germans, to name a few. Timothy Snyder makes a…
-
Fast Forward Media Mogul Complained Of ‘Jewish Cabal’ – Leading To $2.5 Million Settlement
Tribune Publishing made the first in a series of secret payments totaling more than $2.5 million to avoid a lawsuit by the former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, ultimately covering up an anti-Semitic slur made by the largest shareholder of the company, NPR reported. After taking control of Tribune Publishing Co. as chairman in…
-
Fast Forward NYU Jewish Student Center Closed After Threatening Anti-Semitic Posts
New York University’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life announced that it would temporarily close Wednesday after staff found “several public online postings by an NYU student which were antisemitic in nature and potentially threatening,” the organization’s director said in a statement. “Due to heightened tensions at NYU, we are taking all threats seriously and…
-
Opinion American Jews And Israelis No Longer Agree On What Anti-Semitism Is
Last week, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu shocked Jews worldwide when his office revealed it would be working with Hungary on a museum dedicated to Holocaust revisionism. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the museum will be curated by a woman whose magazine targeted the Hungarian Jewish community’s president, András Heisler, in an anti-Semitic…
-
Fast Forward Jewish Teacher At Catholic HS Sues Over Daily Anti-Semitic Abuse From Students
(JTA) — A Jewish teacher at a Catholic high school in New Jersey is suing the school for religious discrimination, claiming he faced anti-Semitism daily and was fired when he complained about it. Jacob Rabinowitz filed a lawsuit last week in Newark federal court against St. Joseph Regional High School in Montvale alleging religious discrimination,…
-
Fast Forward Women’s March Leaders Accused Of Blaming Jews For Slave Trade
During the very first meeting of the organization that would become the Women’s March, two of its leaders, Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory, claimed that Jews were leaders in the exploitation of black and brown people, Tablet reported Monday. Someone who Tablet described as a “close secondhand source” said the duo claimed, falsely, that Jews…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech
- 2
News ‘He was a mensch’: Slain Messianic Jew remembered as bridge-builder
- 3
Culture Ye’s antisemitism is old news, but it’s time to pay attention again
- 4
Opinion How anti-Israel rhetoric led to the killing of 2 in Washington, DC
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward After museum shooting, more than 40 Jewish groups call for $1 billion in federal funding to secure religious institutions
-
Fast Forward White House revokes Harvard’s right to enroll international students, including Jews from abroad
-
Fast Forward Capital Jewish Museum attacker shot victims in the back, authorities say as he is charged with murder
-
Fast Forward Israelis in New York, no strangers to violence, say they are undeterred by DC Jewish Museum shooting
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
