Jaclyn S. Clark, at The Blogs

Jun 8, 2026, 10:14 AM

Dave Matthews answered me from the stage. Now comes the hard part

Musician Dave Matthews reads a speech on stage at a concert in Raleigh, NC, on June 5, 2026. (Social media used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The rocker read a message about antisemitism to 20,000 people. It wasn’t perfect, but those calling it a fraud are missing the point of why any of us write anything at all.

Jun 1, 2026, 12:27 AM

Dave Matthews Was Our Soundtrack. Now His Crowd Chants Slurs.

Dave Matthews didn’t just lose me over Israel. He turned the one place that felt like home into a place where kids feel free to scream slurs. Here’s what we do about it — and why we don’t have...

May 14, 2026, 10:04 PM

The Zionist Loophole That Isn’t

You have seen it in the comments. Maybe in the last week. A Jewish-owned bakery is vandalized with “Free Gaza” graffiti. A Jewish professional gets blacklisted on a referral list. A Jewish family gets pushed out of a community space...

May 13, 2026, 4:10 AM

United By Music (Except When It’s Israel)

This week, a 28-year-old from Ra’anana named Noam Bettan walks onto a stage in Vienna to sing a three-minute French-language pop ballad about a breakup. The international cultural establishment has organized — at scale, with footnotes — to make...

May 5, 2026, 4:19 AM

We Are Not Your Cosplay: A Jewish Nerd’s May the Fourth Rant

Scrolling Instagram today, I came across the above picture. It is a storefront window in Long Beach, California. A poster. The word DEFEAT across the top. The word EMPIRE across the bottom. In the middle, a Death Star —...

May 2, 2026, 12:34 AM

The Eras Tour Theory of Antisemitism

Every generation of antisemites insists they are not the last one. They have a new sound. A new look. A new vocabulary. Don’t be fooled — the songwriter has not changed. I have been to the Eras Tour twice. The first...

Apr 30, 2026, 10:55 PM

Don’t Worry, Right-Wing Antisemites — I Didn’t Forget About You

This post is dedicated to the impressive volume of emailers, commenters, and mahjong-group dispatchers who have written, with varying degrees of grace, to inform me that I have a left-wing blind spot. I see you. I hear you. And —...

Apr 29, 2026, 5:29 AM

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Cole Allen tried to kill the US president. The internet tried to blame the Jews

Once you accept that violence in service of a cause is reasonable, the logical endgame is murder - and antisemitism is the default premise

Apr 20, 2026, 7:32 AM

A Crash Course in the World’s Oldest Conspiracy Theory

I did not grow up thinking about antisemitism. I did not study it in school. It was not part of my professional life. For nearly a decade after law school, I was a management-side employment lawyer — I defended...

Apr 16, 2026, 10:28 PM

The Question Every Jewish Professional Got Asked After October 7

You know the moment I’m talking about. Maybe it was in a meeting. Maybe it was in a hallway, or on a Zoom call, or over lunch. Maybe it came from a boss, a colleague, a client. Maybe it was...

About Me

Jaclyn S. Clark is Senior Litigation Counsel at StandWithUs, where she handles civil rights cases to combat antisemitism and defend the legal and human rights of the Jewish people. Previously, she spent nearly a decade as an employment law litigator in private practice. She is a graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and a member of the Florida Bar.

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