anti-semitism

A scene from Shakespeare’s play ‘Othello.’ Universal History Archive/ Getty Images by David Sterling Brown, Trinity College William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Othello” is often the first...

Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshippers at a Black church in South Carolina in 2015, was convicted of 33 charges, including hate crimes. Grace...

by Dov Waxman, University of California, Los Angeles Antisemitism has been in the news a lot lately. Hip-hop megastar Ye – formerly known as Kanye...

Leaders of the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP have voted to turn over full control of the organization to the national office following a...

In the wake of the Pittsburgh massacre of 11 Jews by a White nationalist-fascist, there has been a very strange response emerging in certain...

JERUSALEM (AP) _ Israel's ceremonial president said Monday that an outbreak of violent protests by Ethiopian Jews has ``exposed an open, bleeding wound in...

NEW YORK (AP) — The lecture hall had filled quickly. Several students arrived wearing keffiyehs, the traditional Palestinian headscarves, while in the front row,...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The White supremacist charged in shootings that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas...

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks to Detroit City Council on May 17, in Detroit. Farrakhan said it's time for his movement to join others to invest in the struggling city where it was founded more than 80 years ago. He called on residents and religious leaders to "pool their resources" to buy distressed properties and create economic opportunities. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) DETROIT (AP) — A leading national Jewish civil rights group criticized Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Wednesday for making anti-Semitic statements at a Detroit church appearance and called on a Michigan congressman and other leaders in attendance to condemn the remarks.

SYMBOLIC STAND--Supporters of public schools turn their backs on the East Ramapo school board during a meeting on March 19, in Spring Valley, N.Y. Allegations of racism and anti-Semitism are afflicting the district, where the board is dominated by ultra-Orthodox Jews and the public school children are mostly Black and Hispanic. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald) by Jim Fitzgerald Associated Press Writer SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) — School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in a symbolic stand of disrespect.