The hotly contested midterm elections highlighted how, when Americans are divided by politics, religion, and identity, we risk losing something essential: the willingness to stand alongside people whose backgrounds and beliefs differ from our own.
Everything You Need to Know About Antisemitism
Antisemitism is a tangible threat to Jews and the very fabric of democratic societies. American Jewish Committee (AJC), with a global presence, works every day to combat Jew-hatred through global diplomacy, political advocacy, coalition building, and strategic communications.
The resources below include key insights on antisemitism including the connection between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, antisemitism from the far-right, the far-left, and in the name of Islam. It also includes explanations of philosemitism, the Working Definition of Antisemitism, white supremacists, Holocaust distortion, conspiracy theories, and more.
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We Need More Than Dialogue to Fight Antisemitism
Cracking the Code on Antisemitism
Too often, when confronted with difference, we try to minimize it in search of unity. But unity built by smoothing over our differences is shallow. It may create short-term, interest-based alliances, but it does not build the trust necessary for a real and lasting coalition.
Opinion: Building Brave and Safe Classrooms
Working together — administrators, teachers, parents and community partners — we can ensure that schools are places where students encounter complicated history, debate ideas and engage in productive struggle. Finding common ground can require compromise but should never compromise a student’s identity or their right to belong.
Fighting the Oldest Hate in the Newest Way
Jewish organizations must become masters of content creation and better understand how algorithms work. Used properly, AI can amplify powerful positive stories, offering a counter to content that inaccurately—and often maliciously—depicts Jews.
In Ireland and elsewhere in Europe, Jews deserve more than just protection
Ireland stands at a crossroads when it comes to its Jewish community. One path leads to growing isolation, discrimination and fear. The other leads to a future in which Jews can live openly and proudly, confident in their identity and their place in Irish society. Which path Ireland takes will depend not only on how it responds to antisemitic incidents, but on whether it confronts the conditions that allow them to happen.
What 48 Hours in Denver Taught Us About Allyship to Fight Antisemitism
The driver for our work is no longer whether antisemitism is a problem for all of society. It is how we harness the power of confronting it with friends beside us.
Leading Jewish organizations' statement on Reggio Emilia
American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Jewish Federations of North America, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and Prizmah are appalled that a planned professional development trip of early childhood educators affiliated with Jewish institutions to the Reggio Children, Loris Malaguzzi International Center in Reggio Emilia, Italy was met with political litmus tests and antisemitic rhetoric.
A Jewish New Yorker, Three Years After 10/7
Today, Israeli families carry unimaginable loss, communities shattered on Oct. 7 undertake the stubborn work of returning to life and Jews around the world refuse to make ourselves smaller in the face of hatred. Trees are growing again. We are dancing again.
Three Years After 10/7, Many Jews Feel Alone in the World
Oct. 7 and the hatred that followed reminded us of something our ancestors understood all too well: freedom and security can never be taken for granted.
UT Students Should Answer Hasan Piker’s Hate Speech with More Speech
With more than 3 million followers on Twitch, Hasan Piker has used his sizable megaphone to amplify antisemitic tropes, deny or justify Hamas’ atrocities, and victim-blame American Jews targeted by antisemitism. Piker is not operating and spewing his hate in a vacuum.
Jewish Students' Bill of Rights to Help Parents, Schools Combat K-12 Antisemitism
American Jewish Committee, Jewish Federations of North America, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (COP), and StandWithUs (SWU) have released a Jewish Students' Bill of Rights, calling on schools and districts to take six concrete steps to ensure that every Jewish student can attend school without fear of harassment, bias, or shame. The document arrives as new data identifies K-12 schools as one of the few settings where antisemitic incidents have not declined, and as the High Holidays fall within the first weeks of the school year in most districts.
Taking Stock of Rosh Hashanah for the Next Generation
I want my grandson to feel that same joy and connection that helped define me. But we also live in a time when metal detectors, armed guards and bulletproof glass have become an unfortunate but necessary feature of many synagogues in the Jewish Diaspora, including more recently in the United States.
Watch: How the Jewish American Security Act Can Help Combat Antisemitism on Campus
Gayle Horwitz, Director of Education Policy at American Jewish Committee (AJC), explains how the bipartisan Jewish American Security Act (JASA) would strengthen protections against antisemitism and help ensure that Jewish students—and all students—can learn free from intimidation and hate.
Watch: How the Jewish American Security Act Would Protect Communities
Jessica Bernton, Director of Congressional Affairs at American Jewish Committee (AJC), explains how the bipartisan Jewish American Security Act (JASA) would strengthen security for houses of worship, community centers, and schools across the country by expanding vital Nonprofit Security Grant Program funding.
Watch: How the Jewish American Security Act Would Address Online Threats
Modern safety requires modern defense. Holly Huffnagle, Director of Antisemitism Policy at American Jewish Committee (AJC), explains how the bipartisan Jewish American Security Act (JASA) would address cybersecurity vulnerabilities and help protect communities from digital threats.
Watch: How the Jewish American Security Act Would Strengthen Security for All Americans
Julie Rayman, Senior Vice President of Policy and Political Affairs at American Jewish Committee (AJC), explains how the bipartisan Jewish American Security Act (JASA) would strengthen protections for Jewish Americans while reinforcing safety, security, and democratic values for communities across the country.
This Rosh Hashanah, Choose Courage Over Fear
We continue to pray for the safety and security of Israel, where families still bear the scars of the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and the hope for lasting peace remains painfully elusive. At the same time, we confront an alarming level of antisemitism here at home.
“Friendly Faces” of Antisemitism? Political Antisemitism in the Alternative for Germany Party
This paper examines the role of antisemitism within Germany's AfD, arguing that antisemitic ideas, conspiracy narratives, and historical revisionism are woven into the party's broader ethnonationalist and anti-democratic worldview. It finds that, despite occasional pro-Israel rhetoric, the AfD has repeatedly mobilized both coded and explicit forms of antisemitism through its leaders, campaigns, affiliated media ecosystem, and voter base.
Questions Jewish New Yorkers Should Never Have to Ask
In the first seven months of 2026, there have been 205 confirmed anti-Jewish hate crimes in New York City, roughly an incident a day. In July alone, nearly 70% of all confirmed hate crimes citywide targeted Jews, even though Jews make up just 10% of the city’s population.
Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes Decline, But Remain the Most Reported Religion-Based Crimes
Following the release of the latest FBI Reported Crimes in the Nation report, American Jewish Committee (AJC) remains alarmed that incidents against the Jewish community represent a disproportionate number of hate crime incidents in the United States.
