The Nexus Project
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Combating antisemitism and protecting democracy
This is an undemocratic attack on an elected official just weeks before the midterm elections. We find reports that the justification is immigration paperwork from her childhood to be deeply upsetting, too.
Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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There can be absolutely no excuse for glorifying terror and the murder of innocents. Chants of "intifada" and "long live Hamas" at a rally to honor the victims of October 7 and support Palestinian freedom are inciting and unacceptable.
Protesters overrun Oct. 7 Israeli peace vigil attended by Mamdani - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Demonstrators mocked and yelled at participants in the event organized by the left-wing group Israelis for Peace.
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Three years ago today, on October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel and carried out a deadly, horrific attack, murdering around 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages. Families were torn apart in a single morning. We remember every one of them.
"If Jewish safety is the goal, engagement should be part of the strategy." In a new open letter on @timesofisrael.com, Nexus Project President Jonathan Jacoby asks ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to reconsider the ADL’s response to the Mamdani administration’s new strategy to combat antisemitism.
The Blogs: An open letter to Jonathan Greenblatt: This time, choose engagement
The ADL praised Trump while criticizing parts of his antisemitism policy. Why not take the same approach to Mamdani's new plan for safeguarding Jewish New Yorkers?
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NCAR Director Aryeh Tuchman examined what ADL’s faculty reports show about campus antisemitism, and what they don’t. Read the full piece here: ncar.us/papers/ncar-...
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We wrote one of the definitions of antisemitism listed in @mayor.nyc.gov's Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. We're glad our definition (or any definition, for that matter) is not being codified into law. This piece by @emilyctamkin.bsky.social sums up why.
Mayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy doesn’t define antisemitism. That’s a good thing.
Contrary to some critics' beliefs, we don't need a definition to fight hatred
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In our new guide produced in collaboration with @nexusproject.bsky.social, @n8w0lf.bsky.social .social 0lf.bsky.social breaks down six common tropes, how they’re used, and how we can name and challenge them. Read: jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/six-antise... 2/2
Six Antisemitic Tropes Conspiracy Theorists Use to Demonize Jews
This explainer is a collaboration between J Street and the Nexus Project.
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This report should be required reading for every university president and board member in the country.
The Nexus Project@nexusproject.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: Bipartisan federal commission has released a new report criticizing the Trump administration's campus antisemitism strategy.
ICYMI: This week, the US Commission on Civil Rights rebuked the Trump administration’s approach to campus antisemitism, confirming what we've been saying all along. For more, check out this throwback to Nexus Project VP of Government Relations Kevin Rachlin’s testimony to the commission.
The Nexus Project@nexusproject.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: Bipartisan federal commission has released a new report criticizing the Trump administration's campus antisemitism strategy.
This appears to be another example of an individual, this time an Israeli Jew, being targeted for anti-Israel advocacy. Withholding or removing someone's legal status over a constitutionally protected right to protest doesn't make Jews more safe. It erodes the protections we have long relied on.
A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported. (Gift Article)
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
nytimes.com
BREAKING: Bipartisan federal commission has released a new report criticizing the Trump administration's campus antisemitism strategy.
Nexus Welcomes U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ Call for a Balanced Response to Campus Antisemitism - Nexus Project
The Nexus Project welcomes the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ unanimous conclusion that combating campus antisemitism requires both protecting Jewish students from discrimination and safeguarding ci...
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This plan shows that Mayor Mamdani has listened to the concerns of Jewish New Yorkers — and put forward meaningful commitments and real funding to help keep them safe. Our full statement on NYC's first-ever municipal strategy to combat antisemitism:
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoThe Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
Our President, Jonathan Jacoby, was asked whether Jewish groups should work with the DSA. Here's his response.
"97.6% of Americans are not Jewish. If we want to be safer, we need as many of those 97.6% as possible to want us to be safer too." Rabbi Rachel Timoner nailed it 💯
The forthcoming report from the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights affirms what we have long said about the Trump Administration using antisemitism as a pretense for its crackdown on higher education.
Bipartisan federal commission plans to rebuke White House antisemitism strategy
Unanimous report says the administration's crackdown rested on a tenuous legal theory and details cuts to the Education Department office that handled most post-October 7 antisemitism complaints
haaretz.com
Nearly half of ADL's 2025 Audit was tied to Israel. A new report from NCAR breaks down what's in that number, from Jews harassed or attacked over Israel's actions to public expressions of hostility toward Israel that ADL considers antisemitic, like 'From the River to the Sea.'
Well said by Professor of Israel Studies at UCLA and Scholar in Residence at the Nexus Project, @dovwaxman.bsky.social
"If your love prevents criticism, I’m asking you to re-examine your love. And if your criticism lacks love, I’m asking you to re-examine your criticism." -Rabbi Morris Panitz, @weareikar.bsky.social Associate Rabbi, Yom Kippur 5787
As we prepare to attend our own Yom Kippur services, we are horrified by the news of a shooting outside Sons of Jacob Congregation in Belleville, Ontario Sunday evening.
Police Officer Injured in Shooting Near Ontario Synagogue on Yom Kippur
There was an exchange of gunfire near the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville as congregants gathered inside to mark Yom Kippur, the authorities said.
nytimes.com
Today marks the sixth yahrzeit of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As Justice Ginsburg reminded us, Jewish tradition and tzedek, the Hebrew word for justice, go hand in hand.
Macklemore's most recent advocacy for Palestine may be uncomfortable, but it isn't necessarily antisemitism or hate speech, explains The Nexus Project's President, Jonathan Jacoby. Watch Jonathan's interview with DW News for our analysis.
"Gutting anti-discrimination policies for most minority groups while supercharging them for Jews is hypocritical. The hypocrisy is the point. It turns civil rights law into a political protection racket, a tool [...] to attack higher education and other perceived enemies." - @jloeffler.bsky.social
Opinion | For Trump, Jews Are Proving to Be a Very Useful Tool
Debates about Jews are never just about Jews.
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CT House candidate William Gifford asks if it's antisemitic to "not like someone because they are Jewish" given "what the Jewish religion says against white Christian men." This is hiding a dangerous canard behind "just asking questions." CT GOP and Rep. Tim Ackert, who endorsed him, must condemn.
CT House candidate William Gifford asks if it's antisemitic to "not like someone because they are Jewish" given "what the Jewish religion says against white Christian men." This is hiding a dangerous canard behind "just asking questions." CT GOP and Rep. Tim Ackert, who endorsed him, must condemn.
This is an excellent excerpt from Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social . It's well worth two minutes of your time. I'll be reading her full text later today.
The Nexus Project@nexusproject.bsky.social · 4w agoIn a powerful Rosh Hashanah sermon, @weareikar.bsky.social's Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social explains why she's become disillusioned with how we track antisemitism today.
In a powerful Rosh Hashanah sermon, @weareikar.bsky.social's Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social explains why she's become disillusioned with how we track antisemitism today.
As we mark this painful anniversary, we are seeing extreme voices exploit 9/11 to renormalize Islamophobia. We know precisely where this leads – and that it makes all of our communities less safe. We all have an obligation to reject this hate.
Comparing constitutionally protected boycotts to Nazism is absurd and exploits and trivializes the memories of those killed in the Holocaust for a cheap political jab. And to add the Islamophobic claim that "these people will force the Sharia laws on you..." is deeply harmful.
THREAD 🧵 This week, Elon Musk's America PAC launched hundreds of anti-trans ads, part of a $100 million midterm spend. In 2024, a Musk-funded PAC ran antisemitic ads reminding Muslim voters that Doug Emhoff is Jewish. That's not a coincidence.
