The U.S. House could vote to codify an official and widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism as early as Wednesday, but some Democratic lawmakers are objecting. They prefer a far narrower definition crafted by progressive critics of Israel.
Good Wednesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Marc Rowan’s views on post-Oct. 7 philanthropy and campus antisemitism and a new initiative by the Jewish Braille Institute to get accessible Passover Haggadot to anyone who needs one, as well a newly.
Good Thursday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on the final sale of American Jewish University’s Familian Campus in Los Angeles to the Milken Community School and a new push by Jewish groups to get Congress to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism. We.
The brutal shedding of Jewish blood on Oct. 7, followed by Israel’s relentless military assault on Gaza, has brought a fraught question to the fore in a moment of surging bigotry and domestic political gamesmanship: Is anti-Zionism by definition antisemitism? The question has deeply divided congressional Democrats when Republican leaders, seeking to drive a wedge between American Jews and the political party that three-quarters of them call their own, put it to a vote in the House.
The latest attack has centered around the appointment of Harvard professor Derek Penslar as co-chair in a task force at the university investigating allegations of antisemitism on campus.