Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza.

The United Nations has announced new actions to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination.

Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza.

Many colleges at the center of the highest-profile cases, such as Columbia and Cornell, face investigations that remain unresolved.

Liberal respondents have little to no confidence across the board that Trump will “do the right thing” in any area of questioning.

Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s special envoy for antisemitism, struck a remarkably optimistic tone Tuesday on the question of how President-elect Donald Trump’s team will approach the portfolio she has managed since 2022.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Dov Hikind, close to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., hope to be on the shortlist to replace Ambassador Deborah E. Lipstadt.

Jewish People Policy Institute finds 32% of Harris voters say the U.S. is not providing enough support for Israel in Gaza war.

Lipstadt first drew international attention for her defeat of a libel suit filed by British author David Irving, whom she accused of Holocaust denial in her 1996 book, “Denying the Holocaust.” The case was the basis for a 2016 film in which actor Rachel Weisz portrayed Lipstadt (and received accent coaching from her).

In a new book, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner urges the U.S. and Europe to join together in a “Freedom Trade Alliance” against China, Russia and other autocracies.

The Women’s March launched in 2017 as a grassroots group of women outraged over Trump’s 2016 presidential win. The rally brought over 500,000 marchers to Washington with millions more demonstrating in cities throughout the country, marking one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history.