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Modern Antisemitism: Understanding Its Forms and Fighting Back
Antisemitism did not end with the Holocaust. From online hate to campus incidents to deadly synagogue attacks, modern antisemitism takes new forms while recycling ancient tropes. Understanding its manifestations — and knowing how to fight them — is more urgent than ever.
Online Antisemitism: Understanding It, Recognizing It, Fighting It
Antisemitism has found a powerful new home on the internet — in social media algorithms, conspiracy theories, memes, and comment sections. Here's how to recognize it, report it, and fight it with education, digital literacy, and courage.
Being Jewish on Campus: Hillel, Chabad, Identity, and Antisemitism
For many young Jews, college is where Jewish identity is tested, deepened, or discovered — through Hillel, Chabad, Israel debates, kosher dining, and the challenge of antisemitism.
Understanding Antisemitism: History, Forms, and the Fight Against Hatred
Antisemitism — hatred of Jews — is one of the oldest and most persistent forms of prejudice. From ancient expulsions to modern online hate, understanding its roots is the first step toward fighting it.
A History of Antisemitism: From Ancient World to Modern Times
A comprehensive look at the history of antisemitism — from ancient Egyptian and Greek hostility through medieval blood libels, expulsions, the Dreyfus Affair, pogroms, the Holocaust, and modern manifestations.
Jews of Libya: From Ancient Cyrene to Final Exile
The story of Libyan Jewry — ancient Greek-era origins, Italian colonial rule, WWII under the Axis, pogroms of 1945 and 1948, expulsion after 1967, and a diaspora that remembers.
The Damascus Affair of 1840
The Damascus Affair of 1840 saw a blood libel charge ignite an international crisis that united world Jewry in unprecedented political action.
The Evian Conference: When the World Turned Away
In 1938, thirty-two nations met at Evian to discuss the Jewish refugee crisis — and virtually every one refused to help, foreshadowing the catastrophe to come.
French Jews: Contemporary Challenges and Aliyah
French Jewry faces rising antisemitism, cultural change, and the pull of aliyah to Israel — reshaping the largest Jewish community in Europe.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
Named for the legendary Nazi hunter, the Simon Wiesenthal Center fights antisemitism, promotes tolerance, and preserves Holocaust memory through its Museum of Tolerance and global advocacy.
Anti-Zionism vs Antisemitism: Where Is the Line?
The question of where legitimate criticism of Israel ends and antisemitism begins is one of the most contentious debates in contemporary Jewish life and international politics.
Jews and Social Media
Social media has transformed Jewish life — amplifying Jewish voices, connecting communities, and enabling education, while also creating new vectors for antisemitism and communal tension.
Blood Libels: The Deadliest Lie in History
The accusation that Jews murder Christian children and use their blood for rituals is a fabrication that has persisted for nearly nine centuries, fueling massacres, pogroms, and hatred that echoes to this day.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: History's Most Dangerous Forgery
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion — a fabricated document alleging a Jewish plot for world domination — has been debunked for over a century, yet it remains the most influential antisemitic text ever published.
Jews in the American Civil War: Loyalty, Prejudice, and Service
Approximately 7,000 Jews fought on both sides of the American Civil War — as soldiers, spies, surgeons, and statesmen. Their story includes the highest-ranking Jewish official in the Confederacy, the most notorious antisemitic order in American history, and the quiet heroism of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary conflict.
Jewish Ghettos: From Venice to Warsaw — Origins and History
From Venice's Ghetto Nuovo in 1516 to the Nazi ghettos of World War II, the forced separation of Jews shaped Jewish culture, community, and survival in profound and painful ways.
The Crusades and the Jews: Rhineland Massacres and Their Legacy
The Crusades devastated Jewish communities across Europe — especially the Rhineland massacres of 1096, when Crusaders slaughtered thousands. The trauma reshaped Ashkenazi Judaism, introducing martyrdom traditions that endured for centuries.
Jews of Romania: Survival Against the Odds
Romanian Jewry endured some of Europe's worst antisemitism — from medieval persecution through the horrific massacres under Ion Antonescu that killed 420,000 Jews. Yet a community survived, rebuilt, and ultimately made its way to Israel and the diaspora.
Antisemitism: A Complete Guide Through the Ages
A comprehensive pillar page linking all related content on this topic across the site.
The Dreyfus Affair: Antisemitism, Injustice, and the Birth of Modern Zionism
The Dreyfus Affair — the wrongful conviction of a French Jewish officer — exposed deep antisemitism in Europe and directly inspired Theodor Herzl's Zionist vision.
The ADL: A Century of Fighting Antisemitism and Hate
The Anti-Defamation League has fought antisemitism and all forms of bigotry since 1913 — from the Leo Frank case to combating online hate, the ADL remains one of the most influential civil rights organizations in America.
Hank Greenberg: Baseball, Identity, and Yom Kippur
Hank Greenberg, the first Jewish superstar in American baseball, faced vicious antisemitism with dignity, chose faith over a pennant race on Yom Kippur, and became a symbol of Jewish pride in 1930s America.
The Rothschilds: The Jewish Banking Dynasty That Shaped Europe
The Rothschild family, originating in Frankfurt's Jewish ghetto, built the largest banking network in nineteenth-century Europe, financed wars and railroads, supported Jewish emancipation, and became both admired and targeted by antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Russian Pogroms: Waves of Anti-Jewish Violence
A history of the pogroms against Jews in the Russian Empire from 1881 to 1921, covering their causes, major waves of violence, consequences for Jewish life, and the mass emigration they triggered.
The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903: The Attack That Changed History
The history and impact of the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, which shocked the world, galvanized the Zionist movement, inspired Jewish self-defense, and influenced American immigration policy.