When Hamas unleashed its carnage on October 7, 2023, the world witnessed the barbaric outcome of organized hatred. In the two years since, StopAntisemitism has not functioned as a spectator, but as an active counterforce. We have exposed more than 1,000 blatant anti-Semites, causing more than 400 of them to lose their jobs, while more than 300 remain under investigation. This is a record of moral clarity in dangerous times.
The work of StopAntisemitism is not an academic exercise, but a necessary response. Jew-hatred was already on the rise before October 7, with a strengthening alliance between the radical left and radical Islam. College campuses were already a hotbed of false narratives, bigotry and intimidation against Jews and Israelis. And we were fighting it.
But since that earth-shattering day, the scale of Jew-hatred exploded, and almost overnight the messages pouring into our organization increased by approximately 1,500%. Our team had to double in size just to investigate, verify, and respond to these alerts.
And in the time since, the cancer of anti-Semitism spreads, in an unfortunate new twist, to some previously reasonable voices on the political right. These voices, once well-known TV hosts and personalities, seem to have bought into the hate for no apparent reason other than to profit from social media clicks to maintain their popularity.
From day one, we have adopted a model that exposes and holds accountable, spotlighting those who embrace Jew-hatred, whether they are public figures, workplace actors, academics, or healthcare professionals. In both cases, our goal is not revenge, but rather consequence. When those who engage in anti-Semitic insults and conspiracy theories realize that they cannot hide behind anonymity, when their institutions feel pressure, those costs matter. That is real responsibility.
Some will take issue with that and ask, “Isn’t this cancel culture? Isn’t it enough to argue and debate?” Not in this case. Anti-Semitism is a spreading cancer. When society allows hatred of Jews to fester unchecked, it does not stop at attacking Jews. It erodes trust, erodes institutions, contaminates public debate and undermines the foundations of pluralism and democracy.
We’ve seen what happens when anti-Semitism creeps in. University after university failed Jewish students, even as threats increased. Our 2024 report on anti-Semitism on campus documented a 3,000% increase in anti-Jewish incidents. Students told us that 43% would not recommend their school to a Jewish peer.
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Too often, administrations responded with silence or worse. In a particularly egregious example of campus complicity in this scourge, the U.S. Department of Education reported that the Harvard Law Review “awarded a $65,000 grant—designed to ‘serve the public interest’—to a protester criminally charged for assaulting a Jewish student on campus.”
If Jews are unsafe in universities, society lacks a moral backbone. When professors, doctors, journalists and media personalities trade anti-Semitic canards with impunity, anti-Semitism is no longer a marginal pathology, but part of the public discourse.
This is why StopAnti-Semitism is fighting this fight as aggressively as we are. A cancer that leaves uncontrolled spread. The longer hatred of Jews remains unchecked, the more it seeps into power structures, legal systems, educational institutions and cultural institutions.
By focusing on names, faces, documented statements and consequences, with tips from Americans of all ages, religions and ethnicities, we are creating a barrier. We are alerting the public and encouraging law enforcement to take action. Together we work with employers, universities and professional associations to enforce codes of conduct. We refuse to treat anti-Semitism as a tolerated eccentricity.
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Anti-Semitic graffiti defaces the headquarters of the Israeli-American Council. (The National Headquarters of the Israeli American Council (IAC) in Los Angeles)
Over the past two years we have shown that lighting works. Careers are ended. Investigations have been opened. Institutions have changed. The rule is no longer ‘say something and nothing happens’. The rule should be: “If you radiate hatred of Jews, the world sees you, the institutions react and responsibility follows.”
But we can’t win alone. This is a civic responsibility. Every media outlet, every university administration, every employer, every citizen who cares about justice must reject whitewashed excuses for Jew-hatred because, once normalized, it will devour the foundations of our country.
History shows that anti-Semitism flourishes in weakening cultures that are heading for collapse from within. The once mighty Roman Empire no longer exists. The Spanish Empire, the Nazi regime and the Soviet Union thrive only on the pages of old books.
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For centuries, Jewish life was the canary in the coal mine. When the canary is sick, the air is poisonous. We are working to extinguish this poison before it suffocates America, the greatest country in the history of the world.
