https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Antisemitism en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/03/11/do-we-have-christianity-thank-our-impulse-help-strangers-need Suffering is common to all; life is a wheel; prosperity is unstable. When you have wealth, stretch out your hand to the poor. Of that which God has given you, give of it to the needy. Let all of life… Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:17:53 EDT Joel Swanson ce6205f7-aaa0-432f-8340-762219658612 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/02/18/blaming-paganism-trumps-violence-fails-reckon-christian-history In a recent New York Times op-ed called “Donald Trump, Pagan King,” journalist and filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse highlights the apparent contradiction between the Trump administration’s violent “might makes right” mentality and Christian ethics that prioritize protecting the weak and oppressed… Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:55:21 EST Chance Bonar efb5659a-7f40-4077-84f7-94b2ed0a014f https://religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/ferocity-responses-tim-walzs-anne-frankice-comments-are-revealing When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education, said that , “We have got children in Minnesota hiding… Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:10:21 EST Joel Swanson a3526b03-a67f-4c3e-8fdc-72c49df06f01 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/04/mike-huckabee-tries-get-apocalypse-started Last week, US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke at a Christian Zionist church in Jerusalem, whose unambiguous purpose is to convert Israeli Jews to belief in Jesus in order to bring about the End Times. Pastor Rick Ridings opened… Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Ben Lorber 71a9dd69-7464-4a9c-8cd0-1869f216e034 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/21/antisemitism-nationalists-second-nature On November 20, Israeli nationalist Yoram Hazony sat down for an interview with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to offer an explanation for the rise of antisemitism on the MAGA Right. After Tucker Carlson’s controversial interview with neo-Nazi… Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Ben Lorber f909552e-e9a6-4d44-9fb1-2e4d9f2cfe6a https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/20/media-and-mainstream-jewish-orgs-ignore-antisemitism It’s not often that you see a federal judge issue a frothing antisemitic diatribe and call it an “opinion.” You’d think that when that happened, there’d be an outcry—after all Trump has taken unprecedented steps, like canceling research funding for… Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Noah Berlatsky fb0eb994-adb9-41c7-901c-c459791d972f https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/12/new-era-israel Two events happened in the past two weeks which seem, on the surface, to have little to do with one another. Yet they may come to be seen as a similar turning point in American Jewish life. First, Zohran Mamdani… Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Joel Swanson 665d9b6b-f9ea-4906-8790-8b56434faa35 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/07/rights-attack-adl The relationship between white Christian nationalists and right-wing Jewish groups is often so stormy it can at times look like they’re eating their own. But it’s nothing to celebrate. The storminess itself is a right-wing tactic, and it’s helping to… Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Emmaia Gelman d82f98f2-e9b5-4612-ad11-36ee6df964c5 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/09/30/jd-vance-refers-ice-criticism-blood-libel Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Vance told Ingraham : I think in a lot… Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:00:00 EDT Joel Swanson 6dfc9abc-3c25-448b-bb68-70ef824b9758 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/building-horizontal-alliances-and-fighting-antisemitism-progressives-shanice-mcbean-and In the final episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism, Ben Lorber and Shoshana Brown talk to experts on how the fight against antisemitism is tied to the larger struggle for justice. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:01:33 EDT Political Research Associates 12af52d5-1e9a-4502-a9e1-328ce1727313 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/anti-antisemitism-and-antiracism-leo-ferguson-and-steven-gardiner This episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism breaks down how antisemitism is tied to anti-immigrant movements and anti-Blackness, and how they work together to reinforce systems of oppression. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:00:43 EDT Political Research Associates bb9a041d-139e-43fb-9d72-4fcff910d35f https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/antisemitism-far-right-ecosystem-elad-nehorai-and-stefanie-schuler-springorum Experts Stafnie Schüler-Springorum and Elad Nehorai discuss the interconnected right-wing political ecosystem in the U.S and Europe, and how they use antisemitism to gain power. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:59:03 EDT Political Research Associates 5d71fc4a-ec05-4c96-98ea-9fa58990c5ee https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/weaponizing-antisemitism-advance-authoritarianism-lara-friedman-and-yousef-munayyer This episode discusses ongoing efforts to suppress criticism of the Israeli government’s oppression of Palestinians under the guise of fighting antisemitism—efforts which are fueling authoritarianism and pushing shared safety further from grasp. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:58:04 EDT Political Research Associates 1eab22de-4475-4389-8af1-1e9aeba8282e https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/conspiracy-theories-antisemitism-and-politics-holocaust-memory-valentina-pisanty-and This episode asks, how do conspiracy theories come about? Why do they so often regurgitate false narratives about Jewish people, power & control? How are they used to discredit movements for justice? And what role do the politics of Holocaust memory play? Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:56:01 EDT Political Research Associates 2a6d3697-369a-4a9f-970d-1f305b512327 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/what-antisemitism-and-its-weaponization-conversation-movement-organizers-shoshana-brown This episode dives into discussing antisemitism—its history, how it looks today, how to understand it, & why the fight over defining it has become a means of targeting Palestinians and their allies while driving authoritarian policies & culture wars. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:38:23 EDT Political Research Associates bdb71681-1948-42aa-a081-56fdba45144b https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/18/fight-against-right-wing-appalachian-school-choice-politics-fight-democracy-and-future This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In October 2024, a flyer appeared in the mailboxes of Kentucky residents… Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:53:46 EDT Mary Reynolds, Carol Mason fd441d96-b26c-4e9b-a955-2f3fec583090 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/11/womens-liberation-front-attempts-liberate-womens-sports-gender-equality This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In June 2024, a group of anti-trans feminists crisscrossed the U.S. with… Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:28:21 EDT Hannah Silver 0d6b2ad4-67ad-43f5-8df2-0936ba4d463e https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/10/we-called-better-responses-campus-antisemitism-and-adl-threatened-withdraw-sponsorship On March 23, I delivered a talk at the 4th annual Law and Antisemitism conference held at the UCLA School of Law. At a time when the Trump administration is kidnapping student critics of Israel in the name of Jewish… Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:30:35 EDT Ben Lorber 42b84976-58fe-468b-9d8e-00c557d1a6cc https://religiondispatches.org/2025/03/24/what-mahmoud-khalils-detention-says-about-white-christian-nationalism-and-politics Mahmoud Khalil’s harrowing and unlawful detention on March 8th captured widespread attention after plain-clothes ICE agents handcuffed and forced the permanent resident and recent graduate of Columbia University into an unmarked vehicle. The events of that night have resonated deeply… Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:01:23 EDT Allie Wong 05071193-6d19-4818-a238-2e67211aad29 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/03/12/trumps-pick-fda-commissioner-hedges-abortion-pill-which-safer-tylenol-viagra-or-giving During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans will maintain access to medication abortions if he’s confirmed as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Makary, a public policy researcher and… Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:51:19 EDT Megan Goodwin fdfb7500-0b7e-4111-ab94-cd47e8d539a3 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/28/exalted-insurrectionists-kremlin-friendly-bombast-and-smattering-nazi-salutes-notes-cpac Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism was going to die,” Matt boomed, “and then it happened!” Then he turned to the audience and announced: “ message the globalists, at the World… Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:48:45 EST Annika Brockschmidt eaa06e81-4322-479b-9948-529b334c0c66 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/26/even-rfks-more-benign-sounding-rhetoric-rooted-dangerous-ideology-set-guide-us-health Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Measles-dismisser, nepo-baby, bear cub-dumper , and vaccine skeptic, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was one of the president’s more questionable nominations. This is a significant achievement in itself when compared with other dangerously… Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:05:25 EST Susannah Crockford 179e83dc-e2e8-4b46-aec3-0d029093213e https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/21/clever-girl-explains-why-dinosaurs-are-queer-and-feminist-and-jurassic-park-toolkit Everything happens so much these days, and so very much of it is very bad indeed. In the last few weeks alone, we’ve had another school shooting , the passing of a social justice icon , the VP’s ‘cleansing’ visit… Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:41:12 EST Megan Goodwin 10263eb6-b1bb-418d-81a0-05254466d288 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/19/peter-beinarts-being-jewish-after-destruction-gaza-expertly-dismantles-pro-israel The ambitious intentions of Peter Beinart’s new book are evident from the title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Responding to the current moment, Beinart has written nothing short of a spiritual manifesto for the future of… Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:58:58 EST Brant Rosen ba39ac29-a392-4a8d-b6f4-d4481c1f9b24 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/13/jd-vance-merely-latest-conservative-christian-use-nazi-camps-cleanse-his-antisemitism On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Nazi camp. The visit, timed… Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:51:51 EST Joel Swanson 5525e5ae-4ee8-476c-a9c8-ff5d85bb1097