Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman was flanked by Israeli, Jewish and fellow Long Island leaders on Tuesday to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day and make a call to action for New York, both state and city, to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. "New York State has not adopted the definition, and on top of that, Mayor Adams, who adopted the definition, was overturned by the new mayor, Zohran Mamdani," Blakeman said. "We believe that this is a

Last week, over 30 Jewish scholars of antisemitism, Holocaust Studies, and Jewish history set out to challenge Trump’s attacks on universities and protestors standing in solidarity with Palestine. The action took place as part of the Coalition for Action in Higher Education’s Day of Action,” co-sponsored by the AAUP and JVP. Trump and his allies use the discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism, which inaccurately conflates criticism of the State of Israel with antisemitism to silence criticis