Long before the violence on May 21, 2025, Jews were feeling vulnerable and scared. Antisemitism and extremist hate have skyrocketed, and this attack represented the dangerous escalation of increasingly normalized bigotry that threatens Jewish safety and undermines the fabric of our democracy.

We at Nexus mourn the passing of Barney Frank, a champion of democracy, civil rights, and the LGBTQ+ community. Our thoughts are with his family and friends, and everyone who benefitted from his trailblazing work.

The manifestos that appear to have been written by the shooters at the Islamic Center of San Diego are a horrifying reminder that extremist ideologies are deeply interconnected. Combating Islamophobia, antisemitism and all forms of hate requires understanding this broader ecosystem of extremism. 🧵

🧵 The candidate who finished first in the March 3rd Democratic primary for Texas' 35th Congressional District has a major antisemitism problem. There are ways to oppose Israel and Zionism without being antisemitic. Maureen Galindo shoots past that line into straight-up anti-Jewish territory.

Our hearts break with each new emerging detail from the deadly, hate-fueled shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

This is horrifying. Our hearts are with the Clairemont community and everyone waiting to find out if their loved ones are okay.

The Trump administration seems hell bent on breaking the wall between church and state. As Jews and advocates for a strong, pluralistic democracy, we MUST call out this exclusionary, dangerous rhetoric.

This should be a wake up call. No one deserves to be on the receiving end of such bigotry. The normalization of antisemitic conspiracies and hatred in our politics has reached a fever pitch. Everyone needs to do their part in identifying and calling out anti-Jewish hatred, no matter the source.

This is incredibly disturbing, and the second time this week that blatant antisemitism has been directed at Paul Singer over his political giving. 1/2

THREAD 🧵 Last week, AOC said she doesn’t trust Marjorie Taylor Greene – a documented bigot and antisemite and Islamophobe – on what’s good for Jews or Palestinians. In a bizarre twist, a wave of left-wing figures came at AOC, but not Greene. They're telling on themselves.

This is very good to see and should be the national model. Investing in community safety and preventing hate allows all of us, together, to thrive. (h/t @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social)

To weaponize the term "blood libel" to dismiss Kristof's thorough reporting is dangerous. It's insulting to the term's violent history and hinders our community's ability to call out actual blood libels when they occur.

Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social, Senior Rabbi & Founder of @weareikar.bsky.social, issued a wakeup call on the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. “Our future is bound up in one another, and a democracy that disenfranchises one ultimately disenfranchises us all.”

We mourn the loss of Abe Foxman, a champion of civil rights, democracy, and the fight against antisemitism. He was a true mensch. May his memory be a blessing.

Dan Bilzerian is the perfect encapsulation of the hatred and bigotry that runs rampant through the "manosphere." He's a rabid antisemite and should be nowhere near public office. For more on the manosphere's antisemitism problem, see our explainer here: nexusproject.us/nexus-resour...

"Antisemitism slips through the cracks of any other hatred, because true and deep hate never stops with one people. There’s no such thing as a single-issue bigot. To truly fight antisemitism, we must fight it both wherever it exists and wherever it can take root," writes Nexus's Ella Messler.

All Americans should be concerned about the surge in antisemitism. And we need an approach that distinguishes legitimate political expression from actual antisemitism, so efforts to combat hatred remain credible & effective. The way this audit defines antisemitism fails to make that distinction. 🧵

Thank you Kat and Abby! Happy #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth!

Sickening and unacceptable. The repeated targeting of Jewish community spaces with hateful vandalism must end.

J Street is horrified by the antisemitic vandalism in Queens, including swastikas scrawled on synagogues and homes. Our neighborhoods should be welcoming places – not places where people are targeted with hate. We stand with the Jewish community and demand swift accountability.

Labeling anyone who calls the war in Gaza a genocide "AntiJewish" damages the fight against antisemitism. It feeds the cynicism people feel when a word like that gets thrown around, and it dilutes the weight of terms we need to protect our community from actual offenses. 1/2

Inviting a Holocaust denier (who served time in Germany for his antisemitic beliefs) to submit his ghoulish conspiracies into the public record while pushing for him to be on the state education board is so many levels of wrong and dangerous.

The Australian Jewish security group was right to warn authorities about an increased threat to the Jewish community. Repeated violent attacks around the world, paired with fomenting antisemitic attitudes, meant this was all but inevitable. It's devastating how quickly they were proven right.

The Voting Rights Act is deeply tied to American Jewish political advocacy. It was drafted in the Union for Reform Judaism Religious Action Center's board room (by a civil rights coalition that included the ADL). 1/4

This is utterly horrifying and we are grateful to the authorities for investigating this violent threat and ensuring Marcoulier could not carry out a deadly attack.

We are appalled by the stabbing attack on two Jews in London's Golders Green neighborhood. This is the same neighborhood where a terrorist group set fire to four ambulances belonging to the Jewish ambulance corps Hatzola just last month. 1/2

This really lays bare how antisemitism creeps into opposition to the Israeli government's actions. Refusing to sing with Jews at a benefit to support a Jewish community that was targeted in a horrific, deadly attack is antisemitic.

Jonathan Greenblatt just went on Shai Davidai's podcast to rant about the "pathology of victimhood," liberalism, and intersectionality. As Jews committed to stopping antisemitism and protecting democracy & civil liberties, Greenblatt’s attitude completely undermines the fight against Jew hatred. 🧵

"Fighting antisemitism," clumsily (and offensively) defined in these measures, must not be used as a smokescreen to attack immigrants and our freedom to dissent. And you know who else would be disqualified for green cards based on these guidelines? Many, many American Jews!

It's always the ones you least expect 🙄 The Nexus Project and other Jewish groups warned from the beginning that Paul Ingrassia (and his self-proclaimed "Nazi streak") has no place in the government. Despite our warnings, Trump made him deputy general counsel at the General Services Administration.

This is unacceptable. Allowing these disgusting, dangerous conspiracies to be sent to millions of voters in an official government document serves to normalize them. www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-group...

This absurd and dangerous statement is a sign of MAGA's goals for watchdog organizations. As with the SPLC, they want to undermine and destroy the orgs with histories of patrolling and calling out bigotry so the bigots can act with impunity.

This is deeply disturbing. We’re grateful the synagogue is taking proactive steps to protect its congregants and that authorities are treating these threats with the seriousness they deserve. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Nexus Communications Director's take on the Julian Casablancas Subway Take 👇

Meta claims that Holocaust denial is banned on its platforms. So why is it still so easy to find on Instagram and Facebook? @aryeh-tuchman.bsky.social with the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR) takes a closer look at the gap between what Meta says it's doing vs. what's being enforced.

"[Trump's] literally gutting the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, which is the entity that helps protect Jewish students on campus, all the while saying he's doing it to protect Jewish students." - @sarajacobs.house.gov Interview with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on @zeteo.com

SPLC says it's being investigated by the DOJ, months after cutting FBI ties with them & the ADL. This is an outrage. Dragging the groups who track white supremacists into court is a green light for the white supremacists. Jews get less safe. Democracy gets weaker. And they're doing it in our name.

This might be Tucker Carlson’s most antisemitic tirade yet. And hopefully it’s a reminder to everyone exactly who he is and why you don’t, under any circumstances, have to hand it to him.

Starting now, we're watching the 21st annual Joint Memorial Ceremony, hosted by the Parents' Circle Families Forum and Combatants for Peace. It's inspiring to see calls for unity in the face of great loss and a refusal to allow grief to be an excuse for division. form.jotform.com/260744081794...

Thoughtful & important piece from @jaymichaelson.bsky.social about the explosion of antisemitic rhetoric in response to the Epstein files & the war in Iran. We're glad our explainers/messaging guides were helpful in his efforts to disentangle such loaded issues. Quick thread with more resources 🧵👇

The ADL issuing a statement of deep concern over Mayor Mamdani’s first 100 days in office reflects the core problem with the “Mamdani Monitor” and raises more questions about how ADL is approaching the new administration.

Hatred knows no bounds. This is why we need to work in coalition with all targeted minorities to eradicate all forms of bigotry. Our security and futures are intertwined. forward.com/news/818719/...

Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. "Never Again" is not a slogan. It is a call to action. A demand that we prevent not just the violence of the Holocaust, but the steps that created an environment where that violence was possible.

Our President Jonathan Jacoby's father was in the Hungarian resistance to the Nazis. He wrote about what Orbán's defeat means for the fight against antisemitism today. Read it in @forward.com.

This post feeds the dangerous antisemitic conspiracy theory that Soros is pulling the strings behind anti-fascist movements. The reality is this: Viktor Orbán, an authoritarian antisemite, was voted out by a large majority of Hungarians. Musk knows exactly who he's activating when he invokes Soros.

“The challenge before us is not choosing sides between two populations living through tragedy... It is resisting the temptation to explain that tragedy through narratives and actions that blame entire peoples.” - @bulldogshadow.bsky.social

This week, Trump referred to the American Jewish community as "Israel." This is just the latest episode in Trump's long history of invoking the antisemitic dual loyalty trope, and indeed fully conflating American Jews with Israel, while complaining about how Jewish people vote.

This is terrifying, genocidal language from the President of the U.S. We cannot allow strongman, authoritarian leaders to normalize devastating threats as acceptable political speech. Rhetoric like this puts everyone at risk. Muslims, Jews, Christians, Iranians, Americans, Israelis. Everyone.

It’s appalling that the Vice President of the United States is flying off to campaign for Viktor Orban – an unapologetic ethno-nationalist who has consistently trafficked in antisemitic tropes and authoritarian repression.

good thread about how antisemitic language is rapidly evolving during trump's second term, even if the underlying tropes themselves remain the same