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David Gemunder

David Gemunder has served on the boards of several national organizations that combat antisemitism, including Hillel International, the Secure Community Network and the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation.

Police tape cordons off the Capital Jewish Museum after the shooting of Israeli Embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, following an evening event hosted by the American Jewish Committee in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2025. Credit: Sdkb via Wikimedia Commons.

In death, equity

The murders outside a Jewish museum by a far-left actor make clear that the violent threats against Jews are not just from the far right.

David Gemunder

May 27, 2025

Pillars on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Credit: Michael Warwick/Shutterstock.

Elite universities fail to make the grade

Now it’s time for parents to step up to the plate.

David Gemunder

April 16, 2024

An anti-Israel protest in London in June 2021. Credit: Loredana Sangiuliano/Shutterstock.

The antisemitism double standard

The radical left will not view us as victims, so we will make them accept us as equals.

David Gemunder

Sept. 24, 2023

The defining power

Although it has been accepted internationally, the movement to fully adopt the IHRA definition and use it as the foundation to combat anti-Semitism in the United States has not gained traction. Until now.

David Gemunder

Feb. 1, 2021

A swastika that was spray-painted on the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) Jewish fraternity house at University of California, Davis. Source: YouTube.

Pass the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (and protect the First Amendment)

This should not be a controversial piece of legislation. It doesn’t seek to ban hateful speech, just to define it.

David Gemunder

June 5, 2018

In teaching bias, Starbucks winds up displaying it

If the NAACP had been dropped from its bias training, there would have been a national outcry, followed by massive boycott campaigns. In this case, it’s been mostly crickets.

David Gemunder

May 7, 2018