Tag: Antisemitism

How Mamdani’s Political Duplicity Endangers Jews and Queer New Yorkers

October 23, 2025

Progressive in Name, Dangerous in Practice: History shows that when leaders preach tolerance but wink at hate, the violence of the margins finds cover in the silence of power. By Melanie Nathan, Oct 23, 2025 New York City, the world’s beating heart of pluralism, tolerance, and artful dissent, now faces a moral test disguised as … More How Mamdani’s Political Duplicity Endangers Jews and Queer New Yorkers

The Socialist Mirage: Cuomo’s Clarity vs. Mamdani’s Dangerous Evasions

September 7, 2025

By Melanie Nathan, September 07, 2025. In a City on Edge, Only One Candidate Confronts Hate with Unflinching Clarity … See the Jews Guide to Voting for NYC Mayor at the end. In a city as kaleidoscopic and politically combustible as New York, the mayoral showdown between Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani transcends electoral rivalry. … More The Socialist Mirage: Cuomo’s Clarity vs. Mamdani’s Dangerous Evasions

Antisemitism on Melrose: When Hate Prevails in West Hollywood

August 21, 2025

Jewish Man asked to leave MAURO CAFE on Melrose Ave in West Hollywood  By Melanie Nathan, August 21, 2025. This past month, I have watched with alarm as antisemitic incidents increase and flood social media. Many are captured on video, but one cannot help but ask: how many go unrecorded, unseen, and unacknowledged? One recent … More Antisemitism on Melrose: When Hate Prevails in West Hollywood

Holding the San Diego Pride Board and Staff Accountable for Excluding Jews: But they are Hiding…

July 26, 2025

By Melanie Nathan, July 26, 2025 I visited the San Diego Pride website, intending to email the Board about my disappointment that Jews had in effect been excluded by San Diego Pride this year. A space where we had always felt welcome and well treated. I noticed that the website gave an excuse why it … More Holding the San Diego Pride Board and Staff Accountable for Excluding Jews: But they are Hiding…

Fresh and Fit Podcast Influencers Spew Antisemitic Hate in Call for Violence Against Jews

July 25, 2025

Suzette, Myron Gaines, Walter Weekes, Kadriyanna James, and others to be named…. By Melanie Nathan, July 25, 2025, Recently one of the most hateful antisemitic videos appeared on social media. It has gone viral to almost 2 million subscribers.  We have recorded it below so you do not need to add to their tally of … More Fresh and Fit Podcast Influencers Spew Antisemitic Hate in Call for Violence Against Jews

San Diego Pride Founder Calls for Cancellation of Kehlani Jew-Hate at Pride

June 2, 2025

BY Melanie Nathan, June 02, 2025. Since contracting Kehlani as a headline act for San Diego Pride, a coveted honor, there has been a spate of attacks against Jews in the United States that is very clearly rooted in the call  to “Globalize the Intifada”, a movement which Kehlani not only supports, but fervently promotes … More San Diego Pride Founder Calls for Cancellation of Kehlani Jew-Hate at Pride

Horrific Murder of Jews in D.C. Calls for San Diego Pride to Stop Fostering Intifada

May 22, 2025

The report by African Human Rights Coalition says it all: Calling for INTIFADA incites violence and hence is not FREE SPEECH. It is time to stop and for all to take responsibility for the harm their words can cause. AHRC Condemns the Horrific Murder of Jews in D.C. while Calling for Cancellation of Kehlani at … More Horrific Murder of Jews in D.C. Calls for San Diego Pride to Stop Fostering Intifada

From NEVER AGAIN to Kristi Noem, Trump’s Secretary for DHS, Posing Nazi Style

March 28, 2025

With Dear Leader DRUMPF, an Emissary  By Melanie Nathan, March 28, 2025. Shirtless, stacked high, one on top of the other, humans! Reminiscent perhaps of that to which we said “never again?” Krtisti Noem, in El Salvador, U.S. Secretary for DHS, who carried out the command of the Chief orchestrator of this scene,  Donald trump … More From NEVER AGAIN to Kristi Noem, Trump’s Secretary for DHS, Posing Nazi Style

Thanksgiving for a Christian Nation Revisiting Thanks

November 28, 2024

Please read this before reading the attached article to understand: This morning I woke at 6.30 am to an email that got me right up out of my bed, albeit an intended late morning, and to my desk. I admittedly subscribe to the AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION emails. For my work I have kept an eye … More Thanksgiving for a Christian Nation Revisiting Thanks

ILGA Goes Full Antisemitic Complicit in Cancelling LGBTQI Jews

October 29, 2024

By Melanie Nathan, October 29, 2024 ILGA WORLD issued the below statement refusing the Israeli member organization, The Aguda the right to  submit Tel Aviv as a host city for a vote for the World Conference 2026-2027. In doing this, ILGA also decided to suspend the member organization. African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) is the … More ILGA Goes Full Antisemitic Complicit in Cancelling LGBTQI Jews

Jews for Trump Fail NEVER AGAIN as do those who Refuse the Hitler-Comparison

October 28, 2024

Jews voting for Trump hate the comparison to Hitler.  See the screenshot from Stop Antisemitism @StopAntisemitism, below and the post that introduced it by a member of a Private Facebook Group whose name shall remain anonymous*.  The spread of this ridiculous notion on social media is repugnant to all I have been taught about NEVER … More Jews for Trump Fail NEVER AGAIN as do those who Refuse the Hitler-Comparison

To my Fellow Jews who have yet to get it: Trump Unlocked this Surge in Antisemitism and what it means for Israel

August 31, 2024

By Melanie Nathan, August 31, 2024 I will not ask you to pardon this scurrilous analogy, noting while unsavory, it is metaphorically sound.   A SIMPLE TRUTH that no Jew can escape acknowledging: We saw it with our own eyes: In 2016 Trump launched this current SURGE in antisemitism. While this does NOT deny the severity … More To my Fellow Jews who have yet to get it: Trump Unlocked this Surge in Antisemitism and what it means for Israel

Jewish Women For Kamala Harris Facebook Group Journey to the Call headlined by Barbra Streisand

August 13, 2024

By Melanie Nathan, August 13, 2024. Please note the opinions expressed in this article do not represent any organization at all.  An extraordinary coalition of Jewish woman power has come together for a call bringing together Jewish Women for Kamala Harris, this coming Thursday August 15, at 8.00 PM Eastern and 5.00 PM West Coast … More Jewish Women For Kamala Harris Facebook Group Journey to the Call headlined by Barbra Streisand

I ask Sinead MacLochlainn – What should I do if my Nurse is Antisemitic

May 27, 2024

By Melanie Nathan, May 27, 2024. I posted a picture comment and some verbiage about the seven young Israeli women who were  kidnapped by Palestinian Hamas terrorists from their military post on October 07, 2023. It was so hard to wrap my head around such barbarism, the 8 months of ongoing torture and pain, and … More I ask Sinead MacLochlainn – What should I do if my Nurse is Antisemitic

Symposium Monitoring and Combatting Antisemitism

May 24, 2024

Posted by Melanie Nathan, May 24, 2024 Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Hosts Symposium on Effective Action to Confront Online Antisemitism Reports as follows: On May 23, U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt hosted a Symposium to Combat Online Antisemitism. The Symposium convened technology executives, … More Symposium Monitoring and Combatting Antisemitism

Jewish Voices for Peace JVP does NOT Define, Represent or Speak for Jewish Students

May 8, 2024

By Melanie Nathan, May 08, 2024, “Do not be fooled by the misappropriation of  Jewish values, religion, culture or the pretense at asserting Jewish values. You cannot expound or purport to be following Jewish values when your work props up those who support and commit genocide against Jews!”   Jewish Voices for Peace do not represent … More Jewish Voices for Peace JVP does NOT Define, Represent or Speak for Jewish Students

An Open Letter to Student Protesters

April 28, 2024

By Melanie Nathan, April 28, 2024 My introduction to Rabbi Daniel Levin’s letter (below): As graduation and the end of this school year barrels toward us, American Jewish parents may find themselves in quandary. Their student children have been “got to” by the agenda-wielding anti-Zionists, anti-Israel BDS promotors, all of whom, knowingly or ignorantly, intent … More An Open Letter to Student Protesters

Bryn Mawr Film Institute Cancellation of Jews reflects a path to Kristallnacht

April 9, 2024

By Melanie Nathan, April 09, 2024. Bryn Mawr Film Institute (BMFI), operating in a largely Jewish township, has reset its illustrious path in one foul antisemitic swoop! That is how many in the Lower Merion networks see the BMFI decision to cancel Israel! For me, I see the pulling of an Israeli documentary, “A Child … More Bryn Mawr Film Institute Cancellation of Jews reflects a path to Kristallnacht

San Francisco Pride Gaza Statement where Fluff Fails Truth

February 8, 2024

by Melanie Nathan, February 08, 2024. “Now my disappointment and sense of exclusion, based on the imbalance reflecting sentiment, and despite the statement’s insistence that through 2024’s theme, Pride as a Beacon of Love, forces me to resign from my many years of San Francisco Pride support, love and membership.” I have a long and … More San Francisco Pride Gaza Statement where Fluff Fails Truth

Why is Darfur Starvation and Genocide Ignored by those who March for Palestinians

February 1, 2024

by Melanie Nathan, February 01, 2024. We see the world quite capable of outrage, even when outrage is based on untruths and deeply seated unchallenged myth. Why are American students not marching for DARFUR? “Why is Darfur Ignored by Human Rights World” – perhaps racism – perhaps the idea that Africans are less important than … More Why is Darfur Starvation and Genocide Ignored by those who March for Palestinians

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Announces Special Envoy on Holocaust and Antisemitism

November 25, 2020

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, as follows: The Holocaust was one of the darkest chapters in human history. Seventy-five years after the liberation of Nazi concentration and extermination camps revealed the full horrors of the Holocaust, Jewish communities in Canada and around the world face rising … More Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Announces Special Envoy on Holocaust and Antisemitism

Donald Trump and his Administration Leading White Terrorists in War on Americans

August 12, 2017

Is it up to Congress to Step in? This all too clear:-  In most democratic countries,  a President or Prime Minister – a true leader- would not be playing golf at a property in a manner that serves to enhance his family’s corporate branding on the very day that the Klu Klux Klan and White … More Donald Trump and his Administration Leading White Terrorists in War on Americans

U.S. Pastor Uses Tel Aviv Pride In Antisemitic Tirade

June 6, 2016

A prominent Pastor from Alabama seems to be having a hissy-fit that smacks of homophobia and antisemitism. Ricky White, Pastor at House of Refuge, from Haleyville, Alabama is expressing his dismay about the fact that Israel, the Holy Land, has accepted gays, lesbians, transgender and bisexual folk, to such a degree, that it was able to … More U.S. Pastor Uses Tel Aviv Pride In Antisemitic Tirade

UN Watch Calls for Removal of HRW Board member citing Anti-Semitic Remarks

December 30, 2012

By Melanie Nathan, December 30, 2012. Amongst its many human rights related missions, Human Rights Watch works for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people’s rights, with activists representing a multiplicity of identities and issues. According to their LGBT mission statement  they “document and expose abuses based on sexual orientation and gender identity worldwide – including … More UN Watch Calls for Removal of HRW Board member citing Anti-Semitic Remarks