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

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Dear Commissioner and Members of the Law Enforcement Bureau: The National Jewish Advocacy Center respectfully requests that the Commission exercise its authority under N.Y .C. Admin. Code §§ 8-105 and 8-109 to commence a Commission-initiated complaint and investigation into Poetica Coffee. Poetica has publicly announced a policy of excluding Jewish patrons from a place of public accommodation, and it has reduced that policy to writing for tens of thousands of readers. The vi

Towns across America are passing local BDS ordinances. In Massachusetts, NJAC filed the first-ever lawsuit challenging a town’s BDS resolution. This fight has begun, and will continue throughout the country. On June 18, NJAC Associate Director and Senior Counsel Ben Schlager and NJAC Litigation Counsel Rachel Sebbag hosted an educational webinar entitled, "Fighting Illegal Municipal BDS Ordinances." Contact us to learn more about NJAC"s groundbreaking strategy in challenging

Photo credit: Gordon Family SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), on behalf of a family in the San Dieguito Union High School District and in coordination with Partners for Equality and Educational Responsibility in K-12 (PeerK12), has filed a writ petition in Sacramento Superior Court to compel enforcement of a California Department of Education order arising from an antisemitic incident at a district school. The legal action follows a 2025 inciden

The Los Angeles soccer fan who had his Israeli flag forcibly confiscated by event staff during a recent World Cup match at Los Angeles's SoFi stadium says he is prepared to sue the FIFA soccer organization for violating his civil rights and endangering his family's safety before a crowd of rabid pro-Palestinian fans, according to a document preservation letter sent late Wednesday and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon. Rony Abishoor and his family were thrust

A Jewish civil rights group is urging the Justice Department to investigate Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his administration for alleged “discriminatory failure to protect Jewish residents from antisemitic hate” crimes. The bombshell accusations from the National Jewish Advocacy Center come two days after the Poetica Coffee shop in Brooklyn told pro-Israel Jewish Rep. Dan Goldman never to enter the eatery again, claiming it doesn’t serve “genocdial enablers.” “The National Jewish

June 23, 2026 Patrick McCarthy Acting Chief, Special Litigation Section Civil Rights Division United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20530 Re: Request for a Pattern-or-Practice Investigation under 34 U.S.C. § 12601 into the City of New York’s Discriminatory Failure to Protect Jewish Residents from Antisemitic Hate Crime Dear Mr. McCarthy: The National Jewish Advocacy Center writes to request that the Civil Rights Division open an investi

"Hospitality for everyone — except supporters of Israel. A crunchy coffee shop flamed pro-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman for buying a cup of java at its Brooklyn location and issued him a refund, declaring it doesn’t serve “genocide enablers.” Poetica Coffee revealed the unasked-for $9.82 refund in a bitter Facebook post Sunday, with a pic of a hapless Goldman – who faces a tough Democratic primary challenge from former city Comptroller Brad Lander – in the Park Slope shop..." “They

“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

"On NYPD’s own confirmed numbers, anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 70.8% year over year in May," Goldfeder, who also directs the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS. "On the broader reported numbers, if compared to the way NYPD presented the data last year, anti-Jewish hate-crime reports rose from 24 to 60, which is a 150% increase. Either way, the signal is unmistakable. Jews remain the leading target of hate crimes in New York City by a staggering margin, and the trend is

The movement that once preached "give peace a chance" now finds itself excusing terrorism, boycotting Israel, and turning against the world's only Jewish state. "The National Jewish Advocacy Center filed a complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights. New York law prevents blacklisting products based on protected classes, such as national origin. Another action is planned pursuant to the New York law that governs corporations, of which co-ops are included. Intim

“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 federal judge is weighing whether a lawsuit, in which a Jewish Emory University professor alleges that he was falsely accused of abetting genocide for serving in the Israeli military, can proceed. Dr. Joshua Winer, a surgical oncologist at Emory University School of Medicine, accuses defendants, including the medical student Umaymah Mohammad, Doctors Against Genocide Society and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of defaming him and conspiring against him after he t