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Charles Jacobs

Charles Jacobs is co-founder of the Jewish Leadership Project.

A group of pro-Israel and Jewish supporters gathered outside a New York City Council hearing on growing anti-Semitism at CUNY schools, particularly the law school, on June 30, 2022. Credit: #EndJewHatred.

Look who’s in charge of protecting the Jews at CUNY

Adjunct faculty member Ilya Bratman formed a group called CUNY Alliance for Inclusion, meant to counter the university union’s antisemitic and anti-Zionist positions. It has not.

August 2, 2023

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in Jerusalem on June 5, 2017. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

ADL must listen to its critics

We need to see the Jewish people’s “defense agency” develop a genuine strategy to combat modern anti-Semitism in all its forms, not just create some catchy buzzwords.

August 2, 2022

Desmond Tutu. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Desmond Tutu’s moral failures

He hated Jews and Israel, and abandoned black slaves throughout Africa.

Charles Jacobs and Ben Poser

January 6, 2022

Protesters against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, Oct. 13, 2020. Credit: Kaizenify via Wikimedia Commons.

Help free today’s black slaves in Africa

So far in 2021, 1,500 Nigerians have been murdered and more than 2,000 people have been abducted or kidnapped.

July 22, 2021

Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, who was targeted by a terrorist in Boston for being a Jew, speaks at the “No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity With the Jewish People” on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 2021. Credit: Chris Kleponis.

The Boston stabbing of a rabbi was inevitable

Full of good intentions, Jewish leaders decided to embrace the radical Islamic Society of Boston and its Roxbury mega-mosque. They ignored the facts and adopted the comfortable path of “interfaith dialogue.”

Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser

July 16, 2021

Jewish Voice for Peace. Photo courtesy of NGO Monitor.

Jewish activists push failed leaders to publicly defend the community

Learning a lesson from those in Raleigh, N.C., who stood up against an anti-Semitic measure in their city following failed efforts in Durham years ago.

July 9, 2021

The Zionist Organization of America's national president Mort Klein. Source: ZOA via Facebook.

Cancel culture hits Boston’s Jews

Not long ago, far-left groups gained admittance to traditional Jewish institutions by arguing for a more inclusive “Big Tent.” Having won a seat at the table, J Street is now flipping the argument, throwing the “inclusivity” principle under the bus.

February 15, 2021

Louis Farrakhan attends a press conference in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 13, 2016. Credit: al-vefagh.com via Wikimedia Commons.

Farrakhan betrays today’s black slaves

Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan continues to maintain his silence regarding black slavery in Muslim North Africa while blaming the troubles of black people worldwide on the Jews.

July 6, 2020

Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman of Rambam Mesivta, an Orthodox boys’ school in Lawrence, N.Y., speaking at Newton South High School in Massachusetts. Credit: Americans for Peace and Tolerance.

The high school battle in Newton, Mass.: Orthodox rabbis enter the front lines

Teachers tell students that the Arab-Israeli conflict is only about land, and not at all about religious hatred.

June 11, 2019