Using Data to Identify and Understand Antisemitism
Deepening understanding, building trust, and ensuring that conversations about antisemitism are guided by rigor, transparency, and intellectual openness.
What We Do
Examine major studies, surveys, and datasets on antisemitism to clarify what the evidence shows and where important gaps remain.
Highlight strong scholarship from across disciplines that deepens understanding of antisemitism today.
Design new research projects in collaboration with scholars and practitioners where fresh data or analysis are needed.
Produce in-depth reports and analytical briefs on key questions facing Jewish communities, campuses, and public institutions.
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Meta’s director of content policy recently gave his company a pat on the back for prohibiting Holocaust denial on its applications during a talk at this year’s “Hack the Hate” conference. It took us just 90 seconds to find several examples of it on their platforms.
Tucker Carlson has emerged as one of the most vociferous voices against the Iran war on the right. Since President Trump ordered military strikes in February 2026, Carlson has led a small but highly visible faction of conservative media figures in characterizing the conflict as “disgusting and evil” and framing it.
A call to defend both democracy and Jewish safety, it is the Nexus Project’s answer to Project Esther, which is the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for using weaponized claims of antisemitism to undermine democratic institutions. We offer recommendations to strengthen protections for civil rights and democratic institutions, invest in education, and build cross-community alliances, with tangible steps that policymakers and community leaders can and should take to achieve these goals.
Antisemitism consists of anti-Jewish beliefs, attitudes, actions or systemic conditions. It includes negative beliefs and feelings about Jews, hostile behavior directed against Jews (because they are Jews), and conditions that discriminate against Jews and significantly impede their ability to participate as equals in political, religious, cultural, economic, or social life.
