A Campus Guide for Ignoring Anti-Semitism

Whatever Israel does, it will no doubt be greeted with more libels, demonstrations, and the harassment of Jews. Into this situation comes the Nexus Project, a group led primarily by Jewish academics and rabbis, whose stated goal is to advocate “for full implementation of President Biden’s National Strategy to Counter Anti-Semitism and against the use of false accusations of anti-Semitism as political weapons.” In 2012, Nexus issued a set of guidelines for identifying when anti-Israel speech and activity should be considered anti-Semitic, which Ben Cohen described in Mosaic as “a wholly dissatisfying compromise” between two rival definitions of anti-Semitism.