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Jewish Americans of all stripes reconsider safety protocols – but disagree on roots of recent violence • June 6, 2025, 3:35 AM ET (The Guardian)
Trump Talks a Lot About Antisemitism, With a Notable Caveat • June 2, 2025, 1:01 PM ET (New York Times)
Kansas community holds private memorial for Israeli Embassy staffer killed in DC ambush • May 27, 2025, 3:55 PM ET (AP)

Did You Know?

  • More than 1,300 pogroms are estimated to have been perpetrated in the Ukraine alone following the Russian Revolution.
  • Contrary to popular anti-Semitic theories, the American newspaper, television, and movie industries are all dominated by non-Jewish owners, producers, and editors. Jewish members of the media are also not a monolith, and they often disagree with each other politically and personally.
  • Despite overwhelming physical evidence and testimony that Jews were targeted and that six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust, about a fifth of Americans believe that the Holocaust may not have happened.

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Expulsion of Jews from France in 1182
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Neo-Nazis protesting aid to Israel in 2002
Honoring the victims
Antisemitic graffito
Blocking the entrance of Jews
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