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Harvard’s recent symposium on antisemitism highlighted a reality Jewish students across campuses have been warning about for years: antisemitism is not a relic of the past, it is a present-day crisis shaping Jewish life at universities today. Speakers discussed both Harvard’s historic struggles with antisemitism and the growing challenges Jewish students face navigating hostility, exclusion, and intimidation on campus.
Universities cannot claim to value diversity and inclusion while failing to protect Jewish students from harassment and discrimination. Real leadership means confronting antisemitism directly, not minimizing it when it becomes politically inconvenient.
Shalev Ben Yakar says he was violently assaulted in London’s Golders Green neighborhood late at night by a group of men as he was speaking to friends on the phone in Hebrew.
Shalev was hospitalized with injuries to his face, neck, and back in what police are investigating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime.
This is the same neighborhood where two Orthodox Jewish men were stabbed at a bus stop last month.
No one should fear being attacked for speaking Hebrew, wearing a kippah, or simply existing openly as a Jew. As antisemitic violence continues rising around the world, silence and excuses only make these attacks more common. Jewish communities deserve safety, protection, and the same basic freedoms every other community expects.
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Every person deserves the right to pray, gather, and practice their faith without fear of intimidation, harassment, or violence. Protecting synagogues, churches, mosques, temples, and other sacred spaces is essential in free society. When they are left vulnerable, religious freedom and civil rights are at risk everywhere.
The shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego is horrific.
No one should fear being attacked while praying, gathering with their community, or bringing their children to a house of worship. Authorities are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime after three people, including a security guard, were killed by the gunmen — who later took their own lives.
At a moment when religious communities across the country increasingly feel vulnerable, violence targeting people because of their faith must be condemned clearly and without hesitation.
Jewish communities understand this fear all too well. Solidarity against religious hatred and political violence cannot be selective.
We mourn for the victims, stand with San Diego’s Muslim community, and pray for the injured and their families.
In the southern Lebanese town of Al-Khiyam, roughly 4.5 kilometers from Israel’s northern border, the IDF says it uncovered a Hezbollah weapons cache, command center, and tunnel network beneath a children’s clothing store.
Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization backed by Iran, has long been known to embed military infrastructure within civilian areas across southern Lebanon. Operating from within civilian populations allows Hezbollah to both shield its activities and increase the likelihood of civilian harm when conflict erupts.
When weapons caches and tunnel systems are placed beneath civilian sites, it is civilians who ultimately pay the price. At the same time, Hezbollah can exploit civilian suffering in an effort to demonize Israel.
Terror groups should never be allowed to hide behind the people they endanger.
A new UCLA antisemitism report is urging the university to strengthen anti-discrimination policies, adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and discourage faculty participation in academic boycotts targeting Israel.
The report comes amid ongoing scrutiny of UCLA’s handling of antisemitism allegations following the post-October 7 campus unrest. Last year, the federal government froze approximately $584 million in UCLA research funding while investigating claims that Jewish students and faculty were not adequately protected on campus.
The recommendations reflect a growing recognition that universities cannot effectively confront antisemitism without clearly defining it and consistently enforcing protections when Jewish students are targeted.
“Pro-Palestine” protestors swarmed a restaurant owned by Iranian refugee Navid Badiei in downtown Toronto.
The mob taunted staff through the window of the restaurant, who proudly held up the Lion and Sun flag.
We stand with Iranians against the Islamic Republic regime, which funds terror globally and continues to execute and repress civilians in Iran. 🦁 ☀️
Voices like Nuseir Yassin’s challenge popular anti-Israel narratives and remind people that history in the Middle East is far more complex than slogans shared online. As an Arab who grew up in Israel his perspective reflects life experiences that are often ignored in academic and activist spaces.
Real coexistence can begin when the realities about history, identity, and the future can be discussed without being shouted down. No one should be silenced for refusing to follow a narrative that demonizes Israel just for existing.
Those who refuse to coexist often express their intolerance outright. We won’t let them win.
