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Mass.gov

The FY25 Massachusetts state budget will include a commission to tackle antisemitism.

ADL

The ADL finds that over 8,800 antisemitic events occurred across the US in 2023, a 140 percent increase from 2022 and a record high since the organization began tracking such incidents in 1979.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode of the Antisemitism, USA podcast, "Lower than Animals," looks at how antisemitism influenced widespread American resistance to the immigration of Jews menaced by Hitler -- and how many Americans remained unwilling to admit Jews fleeing genocide and concentration camps.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode of the Antisemitism, USA podcast, "Conspiracies," looks at widespread conspiracy theories against Jews that were widely believed in early 20th-century America.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode of the Antisemitism, USA podcast, "Between Hate and Hope," looks at the Unite the Right rallies of Aug. 2017 that targeted Jews, Blacks and other minorities. The episode finds that while this was a continuation of hatred in America, some also found reasons for future hope.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode of the Antisemitism, USA podcast, "The Houses We Live In," looks at the exclusion Bess Myerson faced upon becoming the first Jewish Miss America; and at unprecedented tensions between Jewish Americans and African Americans in New York City in the mid-20th century.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode of the Antisemitism, USA podcast, "The Synagogue of Satan," looks at secret White House conversations between President Richard Nixon and the Rev. Billy Graham in which the influential duo trafficked in stereotypes and conspiracy theories about Jews.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode of the Antisemitism, USA podcast, "David and Goliath," looks at the rise of anti-Zionism in American academia after the Six-Day War, and at antisemitism and progressive criticisms of Israel in academia following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode of the Antisemitism, USA podcast, "Exclusion," looks at negative perceptions about Jews following large-scale immigration to the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode of the Antisemitism, USA podcast, "Merchants and Money," looks at hostility toward American Jews in the West and South during the 19th century.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode of the Antisemitism, USA podcast, "Moral Citizens," looks at efforts by Americans to convert Jews to Christianity in the early 19th century.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

This episode, "No Sanction to Bigotry," examines the status of Jews in colonial America and the early republic.