Anti-semitism

This February marks 50 years since Congress recognized Black History Month. Recently, more than 300 Broward County high schoolers spent the day going deeper into learning how Black and Jewish activists came together to advocate for one another during the Civil Rights movement.

The findings, conducted in partnership with Teachers College, Columbia University researchers, indicate that a majority of American Jews now consider antisemitism a normalized part of their experience.

The Republican senator's bill was announced the same day the Trump administration axed $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University. The Ivy League school in New York City was at the forefront of U.S. campus protests over the war last spring.

Gannett, the largest newspaper company in the United States and the owner of The Palm Beach Post, fired Editorial Page Editor Tony Doris last month after he decided to publish a cartoon about the war in the Gaza Strip.

State university officials began the effort in response to social media outrage over test questions about terrorism. The effort has infuriated professors.

The governor’s comments come the same day that the Holocaust Museum in D.C. put out a statement warning about rising antisemitism on campuses.

Singer, dancer and actress Montana Tucker, from Boca Raton, is back in South Florida to help a Jewish social services nonprofit raise funds for trauma counseling on March 21. The descendant of Auschwitz survivors talked to WLRN about using her social media influence to fight hate.

The Florida House on Wednesday is scheduled to take up 17 bills during a floor session, including measures dealing with anti-Semitism and trying to ensure safety in certain child-custody situations.

U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Miami, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston and U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Parkland, are among a large number co-sponsors of H.R. 6578, "the Commission to Study Acts of Antisemitism in the United States Act."

Florida had a 42% increase in antisemitic incidents last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League. These incidents include flyers thrown in yards, roadside harassment, graffiti and messages projected onto buildings.

Those who damage religious cemeteries, project images of religious “animus” onto a property without permission or harass others due to religious-based garments could face third-degree felonies.

City Councilman Rory Diamond is proposing a law that would ban anyone from projecting images onto someone else's building — a response to several antisemitic displays in Jacksonville.