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Israel and Antisemitism

The Free Press staff weigh in on the rise of antisemitism across America and Europe, with regular dispatches from Matti Friedman in Jerusalem.

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I Was Called an ‘Inbred Swine’ at Princeton Last Night
Anti-Israel protesters shut down a campus event by pulling a fire alarm and hurling vile slurs. Will our college president finally act?
Danielle Shapiro
Douglas Murray: If War Came, Would You Fight?
In the first year of Israel’s battle against a death cult, I traveled the country—and saw what it means to choose life.
Douglas Murray
Qatargate Roils a War-Weary Israel
Qatari money is like fingerprints that appear when an ultraviolet light turns on. Few expected it to turn up in Israel itself.
Matti Friedman
EXCLUSIVE: The Family of a Murdered Gaza Protester Speaks Out
After they tortured him and mutilated his body, they dropped him off a rooftop with a note pinned to his clothes: ‘This is the price for all who…
Tanya Lukyanova
Michael Oren: How Does Bibi Survive?
If I have learned one thing in my time in political life it is this: Never bet against Israel’s longest-serving prime minister.
Michael Oren
Columbia President Says One Thing to Trump Admin—and Another in Private
In a call with faculty, Katrina Armstrong says the school plans not to stick to some of its agreements with the Trump administration.
Maya Sulkin
Lawsuit Targets Anti-Israel Campus Leaders for ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Hamas
Complaint alleges student organizations are providing ‘material support’ to terror groups.
Maya Sulkin
Alan Dershowitz: Mahmoud Khalil Deserves Speech Rights, Not Sympathy
The anti-Israel green card holder’s behavior may be constitutionally defensible, but it’s still morally condemnable.
Alan Dershowitz
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Tells Columbia How to Get Its $400M Back
Ivy League college told to ban masks, expel or suspend students who promote Jew-hate, and put a department under ‘academic receivership’ for five years.
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
Peter Beinart, Pundit (Declined)
What makes the author’s campaign of self-promotion conspicuous—week after week, year after year—is his utter lack of inhibition.
Andrew Ferguson
Cardinal Dolan: The Evils of Antisemitism
Jew-hatred and Christianity are incompatible, writes the Archbishop of New York.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan
Both Left and Right Are Wrong About Mahmoud Khalil
Anyone who says the law is obvious here is not telling the truth.
Jed Rubenfeld
Christopher Rufo: The Antisemitic Influencer Problem
The right should reject these poisonous ideas and their merchants.
Christopher F. Rufo
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
Maya Sulkin and Gabe Kaminsky
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Opens Antisemitism Investigation Into the University of California System
The Department of Justice says one of the largest public university systems in the country may be discriminating ‘against employees who are or are…
Gabe Kaminsky
Trump to Columbia: Fix Campus Antisemitism or Lose $5 Billion in Federal Funds
Fed probe ‘is as serious as can be,’ says task force member. ‘I have the Department of Education guys texting me every day asking when they can start…
Maya Sulkin
Michael Rapaport: A Message to My Haters up North
A Canadian politician is trying to bar me from the country where I’m scheduled to perform a few gigs. I’m offering her front-row seats.
Michael Rapaport
Michael Oren: What Zelensky Can Learn from Netanyahu
When Bibi collided with Obama in 2011, Rahm Emanuel pounded my chest and barked: ‘Your [expletive] prime minister cannot come into the [expletive] White…
Michael Oren
Deborah Lipstadt: Why I Won’t Teach at Columbia
I was Biden’s antisemitism envoy. I had been considering an academic appointment at the Ivy League institution. Not anymore.
Deborah Lipstadt
‘The Brutalist’ Asks: Do Jews Belong in America?
A hugely consequential film dares to ask a question that was unfathomable before October 7, 2023.
Peter Savodnik
American Psychological Association Slammed for ‘Virulent’ Jew Hate
Thousands of mental health professionals have signed a complaint accusing the world’s largest psychological organization of growing antisemitism.
Sally Satel
The Life and Death of the Oldest Hostage in Gaza
Shlomo Mantzur fled Iraq as a child. He tried to never look back. Then came October 7, 2023.
Matti Friedman
A BBC Documentary—Brought to You by Hamas
How the British broadcaster made the terror group its silent partner in Gaza.
Adam LeBor
New York’s Vigil for That Terrorist—What’s His Name?
Dozens of New Yorkers turned out to pay homage to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Very few knew who he was.
Josh Code and Maya Sulkin
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