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anti-Semitism on the Left

Hasan Piker attends the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Mark Guiducci at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on March 15, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Vanity Fair/AFP)
March 27, 2026, 5:31 am
Who is Hasan Piker, the US left-wing streamer critics say the Democrats should reject?
Politicians are sitting down with the popular Twitch host, who has drawn allegations of antisemitism, as some warn that this centers bigotry, anti-Western ideology and misogyny
By Grace Gilson
Nora Bussigny in Paris, August 28, 2023.(Samuel Kirszenbaum/ Courtesy Éditions Albin Michel)
January 17, 2026, 7:25 pm
An undercover reporter joined France’s anti-Israel movement. Here’s what she found
In her explosive book ‘Les Nouveaux Antisemites,’ journalist Nora Bussigny reveals pervasive hatred of Jews and Israel on the radical left and worries for country’s future
By Robert Sarner
Adam Ma'anit speaks during an event at the October 7 memorial in Brighton, United Kingdom, in this undated photo. (Sussex News/ R. James)
October 7, 2025, 10:29 am
In the UK’s ‘most progressive’ town, a memorial to Oct. 7 victims is repeatedly destroyed
Erected by relatives of Israelis murdered in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Brighton’s commemorative site has polarized the liberal enclave, bringing displays of support – and over 50 attacks
By Robert Philpot
The Instagram account of 'Slam Frank' has stoked people's confusion. (Poster at center, courtesy; screenshots via Instagram via JTA)
August 22, 2025, 1:01 am
Musical with Anne Frank as pansexual Latinx has audiences wondering, ‘Is this for real?’
Social media users can’t tell if Off-Broadway show ‘Slam Frank’ is just an elaborate prank designed to pillory the left and rage-bait the right – and its creators are stoking the confusion
By Joseph Strauss
Prof. David Hirsh, chief executive of the London Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, in an undated photo. (Courtesy)
March 5, 2025, 9:27 am
Oct. 7 is not a ‘watershed’ event for UK antisemitism, but did bring it to a boil, says expert
David Hirsh, head of the London Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, warns of the dangers of ‘normalized’ antisemitism and a rising populist threat
By Robert Philpot
A Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrator holds a UAW sign at the University of California Los Angeles campus on May 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
September 19, 2024, 1:07 am
As US unions take on Israel, some Jewish members can feel attacked instead of protected
With a tight presidential race, left-leaning labor unions are doubling down on a Gaza ceasefire, while some supported an Israeli general strike after Hamas murder of six hostages
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: A woman stands with a symbolic zipper around her mouth and a sign identifying some of the hostages abducted by Palestinian terrorists during the October 7 attack at a vigil demanding government action for their return, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 7, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
November 23, 2023, 7:18 pm
Global women’s rights groups silent as Israeli women testify about rapes by Hamas
Despite widespread evidence of terrorists’ systematic acts of sexual brutality on Oct. 7, most worldwide organizations either have no comment or bash IDF’s military campaign in Gaza
By Amelie Botbol
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists burn an Israeli flag in New York City, May 15, 2021. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel/File)
December 28, 2022, 1:47 am
Did US Jews wake up on the wrong side of ‘woke’ progressive politics?
In new book, Jewish community leader David Bernstein argues far-left outlook fuels antisemitism, links Israel to racism and stifles debate, even as many Jewish organizations buy in
By Luke Tress
Ofek Preis and Cassie Blotner of SUNY New Paltz said they have faced antisemitism at the school. (Courtesy: Ofek Preis)
October 24, 2022, 4:36 am
US students report jump in mental scarring from campus antisemitism, but see no end
From a Jewish sexual assault survivor targeted by her support group, to a pupil afraid to wear a Star of David, young Jews say they walk on campuses in fear of hate crimes
By Cathryn J. Prince
A collage of documents relating to women's rights in Algeria, 2020, one of the displays being showcased at the Documenta 2022. (Photo by Hichem Merouche/ Courtesy of the Archive of the struggles of the women in Algeria/ Documenta press office)
June 16, 2022, 9:56 pm
Are organizers of a major German art festival gaslighting critics about BDS support?
Opening June 18, the 15th Documenta is curated by an Indonesian collective whose members have accused Israel of apartheid, touching a nerve in a country haunted by the Holocaust
By Miriam Dagan
A map of purported connections between Jewish groups and other organizations in Massachusetts created by The Mapping Project. (Screenshot/JTA)
June 11, 2022, 3:59 am
Pro-Palestinian group posts map of Massachusetts naming local ‘Zionist leaders’
Jewish arts group, schools, synagogues among network alleged to be responsible for wide-ranging societal harms by the anonymous page, which also names the organizations’ staffers
By Andrew Lapin
Rutgers University-Camden in Camden (AP Photo/Matt Rourke); Rutgers Hillel director Andrew Getraer. (Sabrina Szteinbaum Photography/ via JTA)
July 14, 2021, 3:13 am
Departing Rutgers’ Hillel director worried about school’s Jewish student life
Andrew Getraer says that during his 20 years on the job, Judaism has blossomed on US campuses like never before — but the same goes for antisemitism masking itself as anti-Zionism
By Ben Sales
A cohort of young Jews is trying to combat antisemitism and anti-Zionism on social media. Clockwise from top left: Julia Jassey, Blake Flayton, Isaac de Castro, Eve Barlow and Ben Freeman. (Photo illustration by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)
June 12, 2021, 3:00 am
Young US Zionists say they’re fighting antisemitism online, but is it effective?
A group of pro-Israel Jews in their 20s and 30s assertively defend Zionism and Jews on social media, but critics across the political spectrum question the campaign’s efficacy
By Ben Sales
Pro-Israel LGBTQ activists with the Jewish group Zioness protest a ban of Star of David flags at the Dyke March in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)
May 31, 2021, 3:24 pm
As antisemitic violence sweeps US, progressive Zionists jostle for space on left
Jewish social justice activists show up for other causes unconditionally – but many find themselves alienated after Israel-Hamas conflict
By Danielle Ziri
Laura Moser and her children on a train in Berlin, November 25, 2019. The family was exploring a move it would eventually make. (Courtesy of Moser/ via JTA)
May 4, 2021, 7:45 pm
Laura Moser’s run for Congress made her feel more Jewish. So she moved to Berlin
Alienated by ostensible allies on the political left, the would-be US politician says she prefers knowing to look over her shoulder as an outsider, rather than be taken by surprise
By Ron Kampeas
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