Author: Sara Wood

The social media platform X is filled with antisemitism, according to watchdogs and even a casual exploration. But it was still shocking for users late Sunday when the account associated with the “Sesame Street” character Elmo began spewing hate. “Kill all Jews,” the Elmo account tweeted as part of a spree focused on “the Epstein […]

While the majority of Americans oppose antisemitism, a quarter believe that the recent string of attacks on Jews in the United States were “understandable,” according to a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League on Friday. The report comes in the wake of three recent attacks on Jewish targets by people claiming to act on […]

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers from Big Tech after its AI chatbots did something unforgivable in his eyes: They ranked Donald Trump poorly on antisemitism. In letters sent this week to Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, Bailey accused the companies of spreading “fake news” through their AI tools by placing Trump at […]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin called the United Nations “transparently antisemitic” in an internal forum for employees Saturday, according to screenshots obtained by the Washington Post. The comments, which came in response to a recent U.N. report accusing Google of profiting from “the genocide carried out by Israel,” are notable because Brin, one of the richest […]

Shai Davidai, the Israeli business school professor who emerged as one of the sharpest antagonists against Columbia University over its response to antisemitism on campus, has resigned from his employment there. A university spokesperson confirmed that Davidai’s resignation became effective on Tuesday. “The University thanks him for his service and wishes him the best in […]

The National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers union, has passed a non-binding measure barring the union from using, endorsing or publicizing any materials from the Anti-Defamation League. The proposal, supported by a slim majority of NEA delegates present at the union’s 2025 Representative Assembly in Portland, Oregon, over the weekend, will automatically be […]

A sweeping new school choice subsidy and the first of its kind at the federal level is now law, after President Donald Trump signed his tax and spending package known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” last week. The $1,700 federal tax credit to support private school tuition delivers a long-sought victory to Orthodox Jewish […]

Last week, following a request to defend the controversial senior federal watchdog appointee Paul Ingrassia, the Trump administration told CNN that he had the “support of many Jewish groups.” But after CNN reached out to the Jewish groups mentioned in the administration’s response, many said that they had never heard of him — though some […]

Some Jewish Democrats in Congress, including the prominent House member Debbie Wasserman Schultz, are coming out to condemn Zohran Mamdani for his record of anti-Israel stances just weeks after prominent Jewish Democrats in New York endorsed the upstart mayoral candidate. Mamdani, a state assemblyman who shocked the political system by winning New York’s Democratic primary […]

Rabbis and other clergy members in the United States may endorse candidates from the pulpit without jeopardizing their house of worship’s tax-exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service has decreed. The policy change reverses a ban on endorsing or opposing candidates by religious organizations known as the Johnson Amendment, enacted in the 1950s. The IRS made […]