The Nexus Project

NEW: Today, we’re excited to announce the creation of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR), which will work to improve the quality of research, data, and analysis available to advance the broader mission of confronting hate and promoting Jewish safety. Antisemitism in the U.S. is at historic levels. At the same time, the term antisemitism has been increasingly weaponized in ways that exploit Jewish suffering and fear to advance anti-democratic agendas. To address this danger, we must have a national conversation rooted in reliable and rigorous data alongside trusted analysis. NCAR will provide those tools. jta.org/2026/01/29/uni…

Our community should be building trust and partnerships across society, including in the mayor’s office, not insisting on adversarial relationships with those who have shown they want to work together.

What's truly concerning is that the ADL overlooks the ways Mamdani has made Jewish safety and communal outreach a core part of his administration's platform. This is the mayor who reappointed Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, whom the ADL rates positively, and who named Phylisa Wisdom, a progressive Jewish activist and liberal Zionist, to head the Mayor's Office to Combat Antisemitism — only to have the ADL absurdly rate her as "concerning."

We were dismayed but not surprised to read that ADL's Mamdani Monitor heavily focuses on the mayor's Muslim appointees, and that it often uses tenuous connections (and sometimes even basic civil rights work) to label them as "concerning." jewishcurrents.org/the-adls-mamda…

On Passover, we tell the story of our people emerging from “Mitzrayim” – “the narrow place.” A place of fear. A place of shackles and of oppression closing in around us. The word evokes a feeling that there is no way out and no way forward. In recent years, that story may feel less distant. For our community, it can feel like we are in another narrow place. Rising hatred. The normalization of antisemitism in our politics. Increased violent attacks on our community. We’re faced with questions of our own safety, of our own belonging. The burden of our history is crushing, and our current situation only adds more weight. But that’s why we tell the Passover story every year. Yes, to understand the pain our people have experienced. But also to remember that we can survive and move beyond it. The Jewish story — our story — is a story of survival. But we don’t escape the narrow place alone. We do it together. Even in the face of great threats, solidarity and collective resistance bring us out the other side. It can feel easy to retreat inward. To isolate ourselves. But the story of Passover calls for the opposite. It calls for us to resist hatred. It calls for us to see ourselves in the oppression our forebears experienced and commit ourselves to ensuring no one experiences the same pains. As we retell the story this year, we must see ourselves in the experiences of the past as well as seeing the impact of our work in the experiences of the future. May we move through the narrow place together toward a future that’s wide open with possibility. Chag Pesach Sameach, Nate Wolfson Communications Director, The Nexus Project

Let's be serious. Forcing an institution to hand over a list of Jews to the government is not the way to fight antisemitism.

This is not antisemitic. People can debate the merits of whether Israel's actions and policies can appropriately be labeled apartheid, but this art piece is not an attack on Jews. This accusation isn't protecting Jews. It's weaponizing claims of antisemitism to chill speech and political debate.

This is not activism. This is antisemitism. ktla.com/news/local-new…

Don't believe what you hear. Tucker Carlson is still one of the most dangerous antisemites in America, warns Aryeh Tuchman, Director of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research. nexusproject.us/nexus-resource…

Rabbi Dr. @jaymichaelson recently sat down with journalist and Nexus Project fellow Emily Tamkin to discuss the dangerous impact of antisemitism and its weaponization — and two major things we’re missing when we educate people about hatred.

“There’s been a trend from this administration… to try to remake higher education and reduce the independence of it,” said The Nexus Project VP of Government Relations @sikevin99. "This is just more of the same..." thehill.com/homenews/educa…

When we talk about how rising tensions in the Middle East can lead to violence against Jews in America, this is what we're talking about. We are grateful that these threats were taken seriously and that he has been arrested and charged. jta.org/2026/03/24/uni…

@JayMichaelson sat down with journalist and Nexus Project fellow Emily Tamkin to discuss his recent pieces exploring the institutional failures of some legacy antisemitism watchdog organizations, and the different ways people approach antisemitism on the left and right. Watch their full conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=bWWL9f…

Incorrectly labeling legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitic only feeds antisemitism, warns Rabbi Dr. @JayMichaelson.

Free speech & the right to protest are cornerstones of American democracy - a democracy that's worked to keep American Jews safe for decades. Deporting student protestors solely because of political disagreement does not make American Jews, or anyone else, safer. Thank you @SenPeterWelch @SenatorDurbin @RepRaskin and @RepMGS. welch.senate.gov/welch-durbin-r…

As Jonathan Freedland writes in The Guardian, these attacks are not a rebuke of Netanyahu. They are attacks on Jews and Jewish life. And for our community, they are booming echoes of our deadly history. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

We condemn this terrifying attack, which is just the latest in the global trend of targeted violence against Jewish communities. Ashab al-Yamin, a newly-formed terror group, has claimed responsibility for this attack as well as explosions at synagogues in Liege and Rotterdam and a Jewish school in Amsterdam. jpost.com/diaspora/antis…

Read more in our explainer here: nexusproject.us/nexus-resource… And in this thread: x.com/i/status/20293…

NEW from Nexus Project President Jonathan Jacoby: "Opposing antisemitism does not require defending every action of the Israeli government. And opposing war does not require resurrecting ancient hatred or embracing conspiracist figures like Kent." thehill.com/opinion/civil-…