Image: Memorial to victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting on October 27, 2018.
Books
Jewish Voice for Peace: On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice.
Overviews of Antisemitism
SPLC: Antisemitism.
Wikipedia: History of antisemitism.
Antisemitism in 2023
January 12. Michelle Boorstein & Scott Clement: Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S.
January 17. SPLC: Idaho Republican Club Hosts Speech by Antisemite, Jan. 6 Attendee.
February 1. Vice News Reports podcast: Behind The Anti-Semite Advising Kanye’s Campaign.
February 16. Rosh Lowe: Antisemitic slurs fuel violence during game between Miami-Dade religious private schools, parents say.
February 22. Nicole Asbury: Montgomery County schools toughen penalties after more antisemitic incidents.
March 1. Natalie Neysa Alund: Ex-Ohio National Guardsman sentenced to 6 years after creating ghost guns, antisemitic threats.
March 1. Mack Lamoureux: A Neo-Nazi Troll Network Is Making Money Abusing Jews: The Goyim Defense League, or GDL, has been banned from almost every social media site. But videos of their stunts find a way online anyway.
March 8. ADL: Fuentes Delivers Antisemitic, “Christian Nationalist” Rant to Fellow White Supremacists.
March 21. Daniel Wu: City will pay $750K after police allegedly drew swastika in man’s car.
March 23. ADL: Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2022.
April 4. Jewish Currents: The ADL’s Antisemitism Findings, Explained: The organization’s annual audit found a worrisome surge in incidents—but experts say some of its numbers lack context.
April 7. Kyle Melnick: WWE apologizes for using footage of Auschwitz in a WrestleMania promo.
April 22. Minyvonne Burke: Jewish student with autism had swastika carved onto his back, mother says.
April 24. Adam Reinherz: Day one of the synagogue shooting trial: Judge Colville begins questioning of potential jurors.
May 16. The Washington Post: Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity,’ compares him to Jewish supervillain.
May 24. Andrew Lapin: The Florida mom who sought to ban Amanda Gorman’s poem says she’s sorry for promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
May 25. White House Briefing Room: Biden-Harris Administration Releases First-Ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
May 30. David Nakamura: Prosecutor says gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue killings hunted victims: Testimony begins in the trial of Robert G. Bowers, who faces 63 hate-crime and gun-related charges in the 2018 attack that killed 11 people.
June 29. Department of Justice: Member Of White Supremacist Group [The Base]Charged for Allegedly Defacing Synagogue With Neo-Nazi Symbols.
September 19. AP News: White supremacist admits threatening jury and witnesses in Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s trial.
September 23. Antonio Olivo & Emily Wax-Thibodeaux: Amid rising antisemitism, the vivid language of Yiddish makes a comeback.
September 25. Justin Baragona: Jewish Leaders and Rabbis Call Out Elon Musk for Spreading ‘Overt Antisemitism’.
October 3. Ellen Francis: Hitler’s birth house will become a police station to keep neo-Nazis away.
October 5. Shane Burley: Book Review: Jewish Space Lasers. The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories.
October 18. Simmone Shah: The Israel-Hamas War Is Leading to an Uptick in Hate Crimes.
October 24. Eric Hananoki: Kari Lake has embraced numerous antisemitic media figures in recent years.
October 24. ADL: ADL Center on Extremism notes nearly 400-percent increase in preliminary antisemitic incidents reported year over-year.
October 25. NPR: When Israeli-Palestinian conflicts erupt, threats against U.S. Jews and Muslims surge.
October 25. Kanishka Singh: US antisemitic incidents up about 400% since Israel-Hamas war began.
October 28. The New York Times: As China Looks to Broker Gaza Peace, Antisemitism Surges Online: China’s state-run media has blamed the United States for deepening the crisis, while perpetuating tropes of Jewish control of American politics.
October 30. Marlene Lenthang: Cornell University police investigate online threats targeting Jewish students: “Horrendous, antisemitic messages threatening violence” were posted Sunday on a website unaffiliated with Cornell, sparking a police presence at its Center for Jewish Living.
October 31. Hannah Rabinowitz: FBI director: Antisemitism reaching ‘historic level’ in US.
October 31. Stephen Collinson: A new wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world.
October 31. CNN: Cornell University student threatened to stab and rape Jewish students and ‘shoot up’ school, prosecutors say.
November 1. LA Times: Antisemitic graffiti at Canter’s Deli investigated as possible hate crime.
November 1. Tess Owen: Neo-Nazis and the Far-Right Are Trying to Hijack Pro-Palestine Protests: Neo-Nazis are showing up at protests in an attempt to push antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.
November 1. Shane Burley: How the far right is trying to manipulate the crisis in Gaza: White nationalists are attempting to hijack Israel’s escalating war to draw new recruits and push their antisemitic and Islamophobic narratives.
November 3. Adam Serwer: Don’t Equate Anti-Zionism With Anti-Semitism: It is not anti-Semitic to want equal rights for all in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, in Gaza, in Ramallah.
November 4. Max Lewis: Indy police arrest ‘terrorist’ for purposely driving her car into what she thought was a Jewish school.
November 5. Shera Avi-Yonah: Long before Elon Musk, Henry Ford went to war with Jewish groups.
November 7. Danny Postel: The Conservative Fault Lines Revealed by Debates Over Israel: Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro’s argument on the war in Gaza is a microcosm of the fractures on the American right that lie behind the Republican Party line.
November 8. NBC News: Synagogue and Jewish community center in Montreal hit by attempted firebomb attack.
Antisemitism in 2022
January 20. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Texas synagogue hostage-taker’s antisemitism not taken seriously by the FBI. The FBI’s statement that the hostage attack wasn’t antisemitic failed to capture the very nature of antisemitism.
January 25. Spencer Sunshine: Amazon’s Still Selling Lots of Nazi Books.
January 30. Christopher Mathias: The ‘Perfect Anti-Semitism’ Of Tucker Carlson’s Latest Trip To Hungary: The Fox Nation host goes all-in on the white supremacist conspiracy theory that George Soros is waging “demographic war — on the West.”
May 3. ADL: U.S. White Supremacist Propaganda Remained at Historic Levels in 2021, With 27 Percent Rise in Antisemitic Messaging.
August 25. Center on Extremism: Antisemitism and Anti-Transgender-Hate in Attacks on Gender-Affirming Healthcare.
October 17. Rachel Lerman & Jennifer Hassan: Kanye West plans to buy right-leaning social app Parler, company says: Ye was recently locked out of his Instagram and Twitter accounts for antisemitic posts.
October 17. Tess Owen: Kanye West Is Buying Parler as the Far-Right Scrambles to Co-Opt Him: The rapper, who has fully gone public with his antisemitism, is buying the far-right platform. The extreme right could not be more thrilled.
October 18. Jonathan Chait: There’s No Comparison Between How the Parties Handle Antisemitism: Marjorie Taylor Greene shows it pays in the GOP.
November 4. CNN: FBI identifies source of New Jersey synagogues threat.
November 19. Vimal Patel and McKenna Oxenden: 2 Men Arrested in Threats to New York Jewish Community.
November 23. Eric Hananoki: Marjorie Taylor Greene paid antisemitic and white nationalist haven Gab for “fundraising” in August.
November 27. Leah McElrath: The Kanye West and Nick Fuentes collaboration strikes me as potentially dangerous for Jewish Americans. It’s multiracial unification around antisemitism. I am concerned about how that might take hold within white, Latino, and Black Christian evangelical and Catholic communities. (Twitter thread.)
December 1. Tess Owen: Kanye Says He ‘Likes Hitler’ In Disturbing Rant to Alex Jones.
December 5. Mack Lamoureux: Kanye West Is Dragging Far-Right Figures Into the Mainstream:Numerous far-right figures are clambering to gain access to the disgraced rapper, whose antisemitism and celebrity could raise their profile.
December 14. Mack Lamoureux: Kanye Keeps Circling the Bottom, Hit With More Cancellations: After months of antisemitic rants, Ye is now finding out how few people want to talk to him.
December 17. Julie Zauzmer Weil: Antisemitic graffiti discovered at Montgomery County high school.
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Alex Amend and Jonathon Morgan: Breitbart Under Bannon: Breitbart’s Comment Section Reflects Alt-Right, Anti-Semitic Language.
Shana Bernstein: How the spike in hate crimes is forging unlikely alliances: And why vulnerable groups should be careful about attempts to divide them.
Elizabeth Dias, Maggie Haberman, and Almer Durston: Trump’s Order to Combat Anti-Semitism Divides Its Audience: American Jews.
Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis: Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking a synagogue: There are deep ties between nativism and anti-Semitism.
Nicole Hemmer: Tweedy racists and “ironic” anti-Semites: the alt-right fits a historical pattern.
Rebecca Kobrin: Why the lessons of Kristallnacht must guide our debate over migrants in America today: We’re risking repeating a grave mistake from the past.
Deborah Lipstadt: Jews Are Going Underground.
Shannon Foley Martinez: Speaking With Children About Antisemitism.
Christopher Mathias: Jewish Groups Demand Stephen Miller Resign From White House.
Daniel Reynolds: Remembering the Holocaust in an era of rising anti-Semitism: How to move past ritual remembrance toward something more meaningful.
Joshua Shanes: Donald Trump, Pittsburgh and the lessons of Kristallnacht: You don’t have to hate Jews to stoke anti-Semitism.
Alexandra Minna Stern: The Repackaging of Hate and Anti-Semitism in Our Post-Truth Era.
Paul B. Sturtevant: Science fiction’s anti-Semitism problem: Stories about the future tend to replicate the prejudices of the past.
Victoria Saker Woeste: Why Ford needs to grapple with its founder’s anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism is on the rise. Now a mayor wants to suppress the history of America’s most famous anti-Semite.
Victoria Saker Woeste: The anti-Semitic origins of the war on ‘fake news’.