The civil rights scholar Kenneth Marcus has just appeared before a Congressional committee hearing on “America’s Battle Against Antisemitic Terror.” His testimony on the seemingly inexorable rise of violent antisemitism across the land is blood-curdling. More about Marcus, and his plea for congressional action, together with chilling examples of antisemitism, can be found here: “Jewish Civil Rights Scholar Urges US Congress to Respond to Antisemitism Crisis,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, June 27, 2025:
Civil rights scholar Kenneth Marcus on Tuesday implored US lawmakers to recognize rising antisemitic violence as the civil rights issue of this era and enact a robust policy response to it before the country is irreparably harmed.
Marcus, who is chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and served as assistant secretary for civil rights in the George W. Bush administration’s Education Department, made the remarks during a US House hearing titled “Rising Threat: America’s Battle Against Antisemitic Terror.” Joined by other prominent Jewish civil rights activists, including Debra Cooper of the End Jew Hatred nonprofit, he stressed the urgency of what has become an unprecedented crisis.
“In 2025, Jewish Americans are under attack in our schools, places of work, health care settings, and on the streets of our major cities,” Marcus wrote in testimony shared with The Algemeiner. “In April, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s residence was set ablaze on the first night of Passover, targeted for being both Jewish and a vocal supporter of Israel. Here in DC, two Israeli Embassy staffers were brutally gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum by a man shouting, ‘Free Palestine.’”
He continued, “This violence is not occurring a vacuum. It is the product of a dangerous convergence of anti-Zionist extremism, support for designated foreign terrorist groups such as Hamas, and institutional complacency across key sectors of American life.”…
In Boston last week, anti-Israel activists targeted Israeli consulate staff by distributing a threatening flyer which included their pictures and names. One of the targeted officials, Consul General Benjamin Sharoni, issued a statement, saying that the flyer “is bullying, it is an intimidation, and a call to hostile action.” Meanwhile, the New England office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said “it is deeply troubling in the current climate, where anti-Israel incitement has directly led to the brutal murder of two Israeli embassy staff members.”
As previously reported by The Algemeiner, the American Jewish community has been battered by antisemitic hate incidents throughout the country, forcing law enforcement to stay hot on the trails of those who perpetrate them amid a wave of recent outrages.
Last Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced that it charged Florida native Jackson Traylor, 26, with sending baleful antisemitic messages which alluded to Nazism and the Holocaust. If convicted of the crimes, he could spend up to two years in federal prison.
“Go burn in an oven like your ancestors,” Traylor allegedly texted his victim. “Burn in a god damn oven … Stupid Jew … Hey, Jew, been a while since we spoke. Let me burn you alive like your ancestors Hail Hitler.”…
Only two years? For invoking Hitler and threatening a new Holocaust? The law punishing this level of antisemitic hate speech obviously needs to be strengthened.
Marcus said on Tuesday that Congress must act to make a difference.
“Congress should consider additional measures to address this crisis,” he said. “Congress should, for example, require that courts and agencies consider whether an institution has stated its compliance with applicable federal laws and executive orders, including especially President [Donald] Trump’s Executive Order 13899 when determining whether their responses to anti-Semitism constitute ‘deliberate indifference’ to discrimination and harassment under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.”
Kenneth Marcus’ suggestions are sensible. It is not the full-throated embrace of antisemitism of some, but rather, the “deliberate indifference” of the many to that peculiar pathology that allows it to “grow in the dark” and to be ignored until it threatens to undo the social fabric. We are not there yet, says Marcus, but only if Congress now acts. Let facts be submitted to a candid world, about every aspect of antisemitism in our country, including especially the role of Muslim migrants in its spread, and of foreign governments, with Qatar at their head as the owner of the antisemitic channel Al Jazeera, that has been allowed to spread its venom from sea to shining sea unopposed.
Wellington says
But let’s not forget that the real problems in America are Islamophobia and white nationalism.
somehistory says
It isn’t likely that Congress will do anything to stop the threats of death made by those who hate the Jews.
The “senior Jew in the Senate”chuckie, has endorsed the slug running for mayor of NYC.
another Jew, sanders, also endorsed the slug.
The Jew whose house was burned was willing to run with harris, whose step-daughter, a Jew, voted for the slug in NYC.
And the House already has some slugs who rant and spew hate against Israel.
It’s not likely that Congress will step up and do anything to protect Jews in America.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“The “senior Jew in the Senate”chuckie, has endorsed the slug running for mayor of NYC.
another Jew, sanders, also endorsed the slug.”
Yes.
Any person who supports Mamdani tells you everything that you need to know about that person.
somehistory says
From The AP
“DENVER (AP) — An 82-year-old Colorado woman who was injured in a Molotov cocktail attack on demonstrators in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza has died, prosecutors said Monday.
Karen Diamond died as a result of severe injuries she suffered in the June 1 attack in downtown Boulder, Colorado, the local district attorney’s office said in a statement. Prosecutors have listed 29 victims, including 13 who were physically injured.”
Now the ghoul can be charged with murder.
Patrick Kelley says
May God be with Karen Diamond…Islamic terrorism is a constant, until Islam is ruler of the world, even then, Muslim groups would fight for control of a given area. You can’t make a lasting peace with Islam, it’s just not possible, because they live by the sword, will gladly die by the sword to conquer non-Muslims.
somehistory says
The poor lady, Ms. Diamond’, must have thought that she would have never seen that kind of hatred again, and now her family is left to mourn as she must have done.
Her murderer’s life should be cut short.
Tony says
Islam and its Muslims are a primary threat to Jews and Christians and all Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran. Allah teaches and promotes terrorism, hatred, and violence by Muslims against Jews and Christians because infidelity, unbelief, and blasphemy are a CRIME AGAINST ALLAH(Quran 9:29; 60:4; 98:6-7; and more). Allah in Quran 5:51 says, “O you who have believed[Muslims], do not take the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) as friends. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” See also Quran 2:63-65; 3:115; 4:144; 5:59-60, 82; 7:166. Further, Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Patrick Kelley says
All anti-Semitism on campus’s across America are due to infiltration of Muslim Student organizations, who’ve been on campus’s for the last 30-40 years. These Muslim Student organizations are funded by the Muslim Brotherhood. All follow the Allah, Muhammad mind set, all would turn on America, if given the command from Mullahs in the mosques. Via Islamic lies, deception, and subversion, Muslims sway the opinions of young minds/students with ease.
Soros funds many of his Muslim buddies, funds those supporting pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah rallies.
Lady of the lake says
Heres the problem…. no one said the i word OR the m word once…. not once. Antisemitism isnt the problem…. islam is the problem. Until you eliminate the problem (islam) you are just spinning your wheels… delaying the inevitable for your kids to enjoy. This civil rights stuff is completely useless in the face of whats coming if you dont eliminate the real problem.
carpediadem says
You are right but much of the brutal attacks on Jews comes from the leftist proHamas movement too.
In New Yor5k, it’s often black guys attacking Jews,and of course the neo nazi right types are very excited by all of this.
Walter Sieruk says
With the awful and disturbing Information provided in this jihad watch article, it’s best to remember the wisdom of the words of the former US President, William Howard Taft, who had in a speech, rightly, declared in a speech “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cur out. It has no place in America.”
tgusa says
Import antisemites and get antisemitism. Who’d a thunk it? Not those rocket surgeons we have in DC. Communists and islamists uniting in America. They better hope white nationalists (America loving whites) dont get up to their old tricks and start organizing.
Rick Gordon says
What was the committee? Who is on it?
What was the committee’s response?
Was the committee meeting covered by any media?
David M says
Court finds against the Muslim preacher in Australia who was repeating Quran verses aimed at Jews
.https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/fundamentally-racist-sydney-preacher-learns-fate-over-controversial-lectures-20250630-p5mbbh.html
gravenimage says
+1
tgusa says
In DC there is terror in the streets. Dark clouds of accountability are gathering over the city. All the years and decades of fraud waste and abuse has them running scared.
https://instapundit.com/729477/
I wont say boohoo but I will say boohaha.
skeptiker says
Das muslimische Kopftuch war schon immer ein Statement für den politischen Islam.
Das Kopftuch ist das Hakenkreuz .des Islamo-Faschismus und erfreut sich in Links/Woken Milieus großer Beliebtheit.
OLD GUY says
Islam is becoming a major problem in America. Islam incites violence against Jews, Christians and anyone non-islamic from within their mosque training centers.
Why any women would vote for an islamic man or women running for public office is nuts. Why any Jewish person or Christian would vote for a muslim/islamic person is absolutely crazy.
The Quran which is taught in the Mosque spells out how muslims are expected to treat infidels. And it’s not with free anything except violence against you.
VOTE NO on ISLAM.
Naja says
Time for the Jews to reform the Maccabee’s
gravenimage says
Congress and the Antisemitism Crisis
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And more and more of ths violent antisemitism is Islamic.