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Columbia University is adopting a controversial definition of antisemitism and collaborating with a number of Jewish nonprofits on training programs as it reportedly nears a deal with the Trump administration over the school’s alleged failure to combat antisemitism on campus. The university is also committing not to meet with its most prominent pro-Palestinian group, Columbia […]

New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate told business leaders that he would seek to discourage the use of the phrase “globalize the intifada” but continued not to outright denounce it, the New York Times reported late Tuesday. Zohran Mamdani made the comments during a closed-door meeting with the Partnership for New York City, an influential […]

A little-known creek in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had been officially named “Nazi Creek” for 80 years — until this week. Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in the language of the local Indigenous people, in a move supported by an Anchorage synagogue. The one-mile creek, […]

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 […]