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Anti-Semitism

Brown University | chensiyuan / Wikimedia Commons

Campus Free Speech

Safe Spaces Are Coming Back to Brown University—All Thanks to Trump

The campus' settlement with the federal government is bound to create free speech headaches.

Robby Soave | 7.31.2025 1:13 PM

Anti-Semitism

"The Alleged Misdeeds of Jewish Individuals, Elected Officials, Judges and Others in Myriad Circumstances,"

"including Plaintiff's divorce proceedings and criminal case."

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.10.2025 5:52 PM

Free Speech

Jewish Professor's and Students' Lawsuit Against USC Dismissed

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.25.2025 5:17 PM

Free Speech

Court Rejects Challenge to Trump's Executive Orders on Anti-Semitism

One of the Orders calls on federal agencies to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition, which would label certain criticisms of Israel as anti-Semitic.

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.11.2025 5:41 PM

Free Speech

Claim Over Penn's Alleged Knowing Toleration of Anti-Semitic Behavior Dismissed,

though the court found the plaintiffs had standing to bring the claim, and gave them one last chance to amend their complaint to plausibly allege enough to allow the case to go forward.

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.2.2025 1:42 PM

Free Speech

Chief Judge Steven Colloton Opines That Boycotts of Columbia Might Pose Ethical Problems

But he declines to conclude that another judge, against whom a complaint was lodged over participation in such a boycott, violated the rules.

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.30.2025 8:28 AM

A hand holds a cell phone with the logo for X (formerly Twitter) on the screen, while in the background, a computer displays the X homepage. | Boarding1now | Dreamstime.com

Social Media

Brickbat: Reading Problem

Charles Oliver | 5.13.2025 4:00 AM

Religion and the Law

Lawsuit Over UC Berkeley's Alleged Toleration of Anti-Semitism …

can go forward in part, a federal trial judge concludes.

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.1.2025 6:57 PM

signs supporting the release of Mahmoud Khalil at a demonstration in New York City | Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Press/Newscom

Free Speech

Trump Is Explicitly Targeting Legal Residents Based on the Opinions They Express

The rationale for deporting Mahmoud Khalil is chillingly vague and broad.

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2025 12:01 AM

Medical staff in surgical scrubs put on face masks. | Niccolo Pontigia | Dreamstime.com

Hospitals

Brickbat: First, Do No Harm

Charles Oliver | 2.19.2025 4:00 AM

Anti-Semitism

Sally Satel on "Recent Efforts to Silence 'Zionist'" Therapists

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 2.13.2025 2:48 PM

Free Speech

"These Events Took Place in 2023—Not 1943": Title VI Anti-Semitic Harassment Claim Against Cooper Union May Proceed

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 2.5.2025 4:26 PM

Free Speech

Court Rejects Title VI Lawsuit Over Alleged Anti-Semitism at Haverford College

"As a result of Plaintiffs' scattered pleading, any serious allegations of actionable discrimination are buried as needles within a haystack of distraction."

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 1.6.2025 12:07 PM

Free Speech

Plaintiff "Spraypainted a Picture of an Ejaculating Penis and the Slur 'Fag' on the Sidewalk Leading up to the Jewish Resource Center"

Is it libelous to (1) accuse him of "antisemitism" and (2) accuse him (incorrectly) of having painted a swastika?

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 12.6.2024 8:01 AM

UCLA | Bella Brannon; ID 56584766 © Rightdx | Dreamstime.com

Anti-Semitism

UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission Cut Jews From the Hiring Process, Complaint Argues

According to a student complaint, the Commission's head directed other students to reject "Zionist" applicants. 

Emma Camp | 12.4.2024 11:05 AM

kirchick3 | Lex Villena, Reason

Free Speech

James Kirchick: 'Abolish Speech Codes Entirely'

How identity politics and institutional cowardice have undermined the free speech on which our society relies.

Nick Gillespie | 1.17.2024 4:22 PM

Antisemitism | NA

Anti-Semitism

Don't Put too Much Stock in Survey Finding that 67% of 18-24-Year-Olds Say Jews are "Oppressors"

The much-cited Harvard-Harris poll question has flawed wording,and is at odds with other, better surveys.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 12.17.2023 7:13 PM

Holocaust | Yad Vashem.

Political Ignorance

New Survey Showing Public Ignorance About the Holocaust Among Young Americans

The Economist/YouGov survey indicates 1 in 5 young Americans believe the Holocaust is a "myth." The result is troubling, but less bad than it looks. It is also just one part of a broader problem of widespread ignorance about history and political issues.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 12.9.2023 3:35 PM

KolymaBones | NA

Socialism

Far-Left Support for Hamas is not an Aberration

It's rooted in a long history of defending horrific mass murder and other atrocities.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.30.2023 1:28 PM

Donald Trump had dinner with Nick Fuentes and Ye/Kanye West. | Illustration: Lex Villena; Gage Skidmore

Republican Party

Republicans Shouldn't Be Shocked at Trump's Creepy Dinner With Ye and Nick Fuentes

The GOP will get what it deserves if, as predicted, Trump burns down the party if he doesn’t get the 2024 nomination.

Steven Greenhut | 12.9.2022 8:00 AM

Is Elon Musk inviting hate speech on Twitter? | Taidgh Barron/Zuma Press/Newscom

Twitter

Elon Musk Enforces Twitter's Ban on 'Hateful Conduct' As Critics Predict a Flood of Bigotry

The "free speech absolutist" is maintaining some content restrictions while loosening others.

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2022 4:40 PM

immigrants on ellis island look at statue of liberty | Lex Villena; PBS / US Library of Congress

Nazis

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick: How Closed Borders Helped Facilitate the Holocaust

A new PBS series underscores the long, deadly shadow cast by xenophobia, antisemitism, and restrictive immigration laws.

Nick Gillespie | 9.21.2022 4:45 PM

holocaust | Lex Villena

Immigration

How Closed Borders Helped Facilitate the Holocaust

A new PBS series by Ken Burns argues xenophobia, the Great Depression, incredulity toward the media, and State Department antisemitism combined to keep Jewish refugees out of America.

Nick Gillespie | 9.15.2022 12:32 PM

Kathy-Hochul-5-15-22-Newscom | Lori Cappellazzo/Polaris/Newscom

Censorship

New York's Governor Wants to 'Silence' Constitutionally Protected Speech

In response to the Buffalo massacre, Gov. Kathy Hochul invoked a hoary analogy to justify censorship.

Jacob Sullum | 5.18.2022 12:01 AM

thumbnail (8) | Come SITTLER/POOL/SIPA/Newscom; Alain ROBERT/SIPA/Newscom

France

France's Authoritarian Establishment Faces Off Against the Even Uglier Authoritarianism of the Far Right

French President Emmanuel Macron is authoritarian-light. Candidate Marine Le Pen is worse.

Veronique de Rugy | 4.21.2022 2:56 PM

Free Speech

Anti-Israel Advocacy at University Doesn't Create Illegal "Hostile Environment" for Israeli Citizens or Jews

The same logic, of course, would apply to criticism of other countries and governments, such as China, Russia, the Palestinian government, and more.

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.11.2022 7:33 PM

Gregory-and-Travis-McMichael-mug-shots-GBI | GBI

Hate crimes

The Verdict Against Ahmaud Arbery's Killers Highlights the Problems With Federal Hate Crime Statutes

Such laws, which allow redundant prosecutions based on defendants' bigoted beliefs, supposedly are authorized by the amendment that banned slavery.

Jacob Sullum | 2.22.2022 3:10 PM

Ahmaud-Arbery-mural-Newscom | Richard Ellis/Zuma Press/Newscom

Hate crimes

The Men Who Killed Ahmaud Arbery Were Convicted of Murder. Now They Are on Trial for Racism.

According to a former federal prosecutor, the seemingly redundant case sends "the message that the Justice Department won't tolerate this type of racist hatred."

Jacob Sullum | 2.17.2022 4:15 PM

Vickers-Cunningham-campaign-photo-cropped | campaign photo

Due Process

Texas Court Recommends a New Trial for a Man on Death Row, Saying the Trial Judge's Anti-Jewish Bias Violated Due Process

A district court judge found "overwhelming evidence" of Vickers Cunningham's bigotry.

Jacob Sullum | 10.14.2021 3:45 PM

Anti-Semitism

Redefining "Anti-Semitism" in the Gina Carano Controversy? Or Just Inaccurate Reporting?

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 2.11.2021 12:34 PM

Screen Shot 2021-02-10 at 4.48.30 PM | Screenshot via YouTube

Media Criticism

The Guardian Fired Columnist Nathan Robinson After a Joke Tweet About Military Aid to Israel

The tweet was neither anti-Semitic nor "fake news."

Robby Soave | 2.10.2021 5:45 PM

Carol Guzy/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom | Carol Guzy/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Conspiracy Theories

'School Shootings Are Absolutely Real,' and '9/11 Absolutely Happened,' Says Marjorie Taylor Greene

Under fire for endorsing wacky conspiracy theories, the Georgia representative blames the internet.

Jacob Sullum | 2.4.2021 5:50 PM

Holocaust | Yad Vashem.

Volokh Conspiracy

New Survey on Public Ignorance About the Holocaust

The poll shows extensive ignorance among millenials and Generation Z, and is consistent with many previous studies showing widespread ignorance about politics and history. But one of its findings may be less bad than it looks.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.16.2020 4:38 PM

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