Author: Sara Wood

It was supposed to be settled: Strike the hyphen from “anti-Semitism” and use “antisemitism” instead. Public debate heated up in 2020 and by 2024, nearly everyone had made the switch: Jews and gentiles; academics and journalists; government officials and private citizens; right-wingers and left-wingers. Then Trump took office and made “anti-Semitism” hyphenated again. It’s the […]

Near the beginning of his first radio show in more than a decade, Anthony Cumia complained about how he can no longer say offensive things on air. “It’s the angry mob of people with phones, with the ability to email your boss and the board of directors and everyone else that you said something that […]

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist arrested at Columbia University, will remain in the United States and in ICE custody following a brief, highly anticipated court hearing on Wednesday. The arrest of Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident who led anti-Israel protests at Columbia, has drawn national attention. Critics of the arrest have expressed alarm over the […]

Acting on decades of Republican ambitions, the Trump administration is dramatically scaling back the federal education department, including its civil rights office— which has gone into high gear addressing antisemitism allegations at colleges and public schools. Staffing at the Office of Civil Rights, which handles complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, […]

Isaac Henrion makes and sells bagels for a living. But when he spent Sunday afternoon at the local Jewish food festival in Durham, North Carolina, he didn’t bring any of his own fare. It’s not that he hadn’t signed up as a vendor. It’s that he had abruptly pulled out his store, Isaac’s Bagels, after […]

The American Jewish Committee called for Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protester arrested by ICE at Columbia University, to be afforded due process before facing deportation. The statement said the group was “appalled” by Khalil’s views and actions but that “there is a difference between protected speech, even when deplorable, and statements and actions that justify […]

A Wider Bridge, the pro-Israel LGBTQ organization, has named a new interim executive director four months after its previous director was charged with sexual misconduct. The announcement of Rabbi Denise Eger as interim director, as well as Daniel Hernandez as board chair earlier this year, comes as the group contends with pressures from multiple angles: […]