Photo: vinnews.com "Mark Goldfeder, a rabbi and CEO, and director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that the apparent lack of Jews on the panel “is all part of a pattern and practice of under-protecting Jewish residents in this city.” “It is the normalization of antisemitic hate,” Goldfeder said, “normalizing it up and down the pipeline.” “If you were to pull 18 at random, you would expect there to be several Jewish members,” he told JNS. “When they call it ‘tr

A free public panel — hosted by the Atlanta Israel Coalition and the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel, with a wide coalition of partner organizations — confronting a pattern that has shadowed American victims of Palestinian terror for a generation: terrorists who murder U.S. citizens abroad are convicted, imprisoned, and then released in hostage and prisoner exchanges, after which they evade extradition and live freely, often unpunished. The panel brought together four peopl

The lawsuit that Democracy for the Arab World Now filed this week in the Southern District of New York is a confession with a case number. DAWN, joined by a ten-member outfit calling itself the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide, asks a federal court to strike down Executive Order 14203. Signed by President Trump in February 2025, the order declared a national emergency to authorize sanctions targeting people and entities helping the International Criminal Court investigate

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s new rule limiting how long foreign students can stay on visas could make it more difficult for some anti-Israel activists to remain in the country indefinitely, experts told JNS. ... Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that under the “duration of status” system, “a foreign student was vetted exactly once, and then never again, sometimes for a decade.” “We have spent the last few years watching w

The lawsuit that Democracy for the Arab World Now filed this week in the Southern District of New York is a confession with a case number. DAWN, joined by a ten-member outfit calling itself the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide, asks a federal court to strike down Executive Order 14203. Signed by President Trump in February 2025, the order declared a national emergency to authorize sanctions targeting people and entities helping the International Criminal Court investigate U

GAD SAAD SPEAKING TO A PANEL AT THE WORLD SYMPOSIUM AGAINST ANTIZIONISM (PHOTO: SHIRI PASTERNAK) Mark Goldfededer, CEO and Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Inc. (NJAC), argued that immutable identity was a solid legal defense in cases alleging discrimination against Jews, since “Zionism is an integral part of our identity, changing it would be very dramatic, and it would be abhorrent for the government to try and do so.” Immutable identity is a protected categ

“Several U.S. charities received letters last month from the Government Accountability Office seeking to “interview” each organization’s leader about its “compliance with IRS requirements.” The charities promote different kinds of causes, but they have one thing in common: They all support Israeli communities in the West Bank. Among them are One Israel Fund and at least five other groups that asked not to be named. The GAO is an agency without any authority to investigate or

Photo credit: Erik Pendzich, via Alamy Zohran Mamdani has a universal principle, and it applies to exactly one country on earth. Asked on ABC’s This Week on Sunday whether he supports Israel as a Jewish state, the mayor of New York said he could not support “any state that privileges one religion over another, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else.” Equality, he said, “should be enshrined in every country in the world.” Every country. Let us hold him to it. St

On June 28, 2026, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl sat down for an interview with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The topics centered around the recent democratic primaries in New York City and his support for certain candidates and the positions they hold. When Karl asked the self-described anti-Zionist about Israel, he failed to challenge Mamdani’s flawed definition of Jewishness or his hypocrisy regarding democratic rights. After Mamdani first lambasted Israeli actions in Gaza

Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that “a man who admits he attacked a vulnerable victim with a weapon does not get probation in any ordinary courtroom in California.” “Run the substitution test. A 69-year-old black man holding a civil rights banner is struck in the face and killed by a counterprotester who admits he swung a weapon at a vulnerable victim,” he said. “Does that defendant walk in a year? Everyone knows the answer.” Read t

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. Photo by Mark Thomas/Pixabay. Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, agreed with Filitti. The ruling “does not make America a magnet for terrorists,” he told JNS. “Weak enforcement does.” “The answer to making America safer is to enforce the laws we already have: material-support statutes, visa revocation, deportation where lawful, prosecution for threats and violence and real consequences for people who turn ‘p

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T Photo Credit: Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters hree International Criminal Court (ICC) judges are asking a federal court in Manhattan to give them constitutional rights the Constitution does not extend to foreign nationals abroad, to read into a sanctions statute limits that Congress never wrote, and to subordinate an Act of Congress to a court the U.S. never joined. But the complaint’s main problem is not even what it says; its fatal flaw is what the lawyers knew they had to

Photo credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images The United Nations has accused the Jewish state of deliberately hunting Palestinian children, and after 94 pages of this “U.N. report,” it cannot prove a single case. Technically, the accusation comes not from the United Nations as a whole but from the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, a body created by the Council rather than by the Security Council or General Assembly. In

“You can tell a legal argument from a political one by what happens when you test it. The campaigns to prosecute Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC), and brand it genocidal before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) fail every test: jurisdiction, substance, procedure, institutional integrity. What’s left isn’t law, it’s just politics and antisemitism. If you set aside the headlines and look at what the courts have actually done, what the law actually says, a

“Settler violence” has been the subject of a growing international campaign that seeks to equate acts of vandalism, or, really, any action by Jews in the West Bank and Jerusalem—or even their presence there—with murderous terrorism by Palestinians, in an effort to create a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. Democratic Congress members, led by Rep. Jerry Nadler, recently proposed legislation that would codify the Biden administration’s unprecedented sanctions on Israe

“Can legal accountability succeed where public diplomacy has failed? In this episode of Basic Law, attorney Mark Goldfeder explains how a series of innovative legal challenges are taking aim at what he describes as a growing ecosystem of anti-Israel discrimination, defamation and institutional bias. Viewers will learn how shareholder activism is being used to scrutinize the New York Times over controversial reporting, why a Brooklyn food co-op's boycott of Israeli products ma

In April 2024, two men went to work at Columbia University. They were surrounded by masked rioters, punched, barricaded inside the school’s Hamilton Hall, called “Jew-lovers,” and physically prevented from leaving. They eventually escaped, but they did not recover. They lost their janitorial jobs, and they remain on workers’ compensation. And yet a federal court just told them that none of this adds up to a civil rights violation. Judge Colleen McMahon’s decision dismissing t

A California judge has turned a routine vandalism case into a dangerous question: Can a Jewish prosecutor who speaks about antisemitism be trusted to prosecute antisemitic activists? On June 5, 2024, protesters occupied the office of Stanford University’s president. Prosecutors say they broke windows and furniture, disabled security cameras, spray-painted the building and caused more than $360,000 in damage. Nearly a year later, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rose