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Jun 1, 2026, 2:29 PM

Israel Day parade, in New York City, May 31, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

The mayor stayed away from the Israel Day Parade. I went because Jewish pride, peoplehood and Israel ties are not up for negotiation

Nov 7, 2025, 4:34 PM

The Amsterdam ‘Jew Hunt’: Europe fails again

ILLUSTRATIVE: In an image taken from video, people march with Palestinian flags near the Ajax stadium in Amsterdam, November 7, 2024. (AP Photo InterVision)

A year after the shocking pogrom: Dutch leaders' silence and law enforcement's inaction wasn't just a travesty of justice; it was no justice at all

Apr 18, 2025, 3:57 PM

Harvard’s efforts to boost its ADL campus grade and US government overreach

Harvard University's Widener Library, draped with flags with the university's motto, 'Veritas,' meaning, 'in truth.' (X, formerly Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Resolving the very real crisis facing Jews on campus should not jeopardize the entire enterprise of the American system of higher education

Jan 26, 2025, 4:20 PM

Double standards undermine our fight against rampant antisemitism

(L): A man cheers after fellow demonstrators breeched barricades that had been erected around a pro-Palestinian encampment at MIT, Monday, May 6, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass.(AP Photo/Josh Reynolds); (R) President Donald Trump supporter Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes convicted on charges relating to the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol, talks to reporters outside the DC Central Detention Facility, after being released from a jail in Maryland, in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (Montage by The Times of Israel)

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, with hatred rising from many directions, the Jewish community needs all the allies we can get

Oct 7, 2024, 7:58 PM

We must re-commit to fight the contagion of antisemitism

Police stand outside Tempel Beth-El synagogue in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Thursday, November 3, 2022 after the FBI said it had received credible information about a "broad" threat to synagogues in New Jersey. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Jew-hatred reached record heights even before October 7. It has exploded since then, and spilled over into rage against America itself

Sep 9, 2024, 1:52 PM

Trump and Harris must weigh in on the dangers of Iranian influence

A pro-Palestinian student protester parades a Palestinian flag outside the entrance to Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University, on April 30, 2024, in New York City (Mary Altaffer / POOL / AFP)

The Islamic Republic is actively waging war against the United States, not just in the Mideast and around the world -- but on US soil

Aug 14, 2024, 4:12 PM

Exploiting tragedy: From grief to antisemitic conspiracy

Protesters, including one wearing a mask of Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, hold placards during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists near a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on August 4, 2024. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

The UK knife attacks had nothing to do with Israel or Jews, but when violent extremists demonize Zionists and the Jewish state, they soon dehumanize Jews too

Jul 30, 2024, 6:30 PM

Fallen soldier Yonatan Greenblatt and I have more in common than our name

Sgt. Yonatan Aharon Greenblatt (Israel Defense Forces)

I did not know Yonatan personally, but I mourn his death as I would mourn the passing of a member of my family

Jun 11, 2024, 1:03 AM

The hard bigotry of no expectations

Palestinians raise the flag of the Hamas terror group during a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron, on December 1, 2023. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Why don't the Israel critics ask how ordinary Gazans could look the other way as innocent men and women are held hostage in their midst?

Dec 26, 2023, 8:19 PM

Experiencing Israel’s new reality and drawing strength for the New Year

As we prepare to close one of the most difficult years for Jews in recent memory, we find ourselves confronting an odd feeling. We look ahead toward a future that now seems worrying and uncertain. And yet it reminds...

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Jonathan A. Greenblatt is CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.