Ira Forman

The author is the former special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism at the US State Department.

HUNGARIAN PRIME Minister Viktor Orban sits before taking the oath of office in parliament in Budapest, in May, following his latest re-election.

Viktor Orban's antisemitism and those who enable it - opinion

If the slick talking points and the chorus of enablers allows Orbán to use antisemitism for political gain, what’s to stop those other leaders from doing the same?

JULY 20, 2022

Emmanuel Macron looks at a grave defaced with a swastika during a visit to the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim on February 19.

Combatting antisemitism: Why the world needs to adopt the IHRA definition

The virus that is antisemitism has mutated into a particular form where antisemitism is employed in discourse around Israel.

OCTOBER 10, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda walk to a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 24, 2020.

Poland has antisemitism problem. Trump administration could fight it.

There is no better illustration of the relationship between rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than the recent presidential campaign in Poland.

JULY 22, 2020

Fifty years on: Anti-Israel or antisemitic?

JUNE 8, 2017

Israelis visit the Western Wall in 1967 after its opening to the public following the Six Day War

Using and misusing antisemitism

Antisemitism is not only a Jewish problem; Jew-hatred – like other forms of religious and ethnic prejudice – is a threat to the very foundations of liberal democracies.

JANUARY 15, 2017

FRENCH SOLDIERS patrol the street in a Jewish neighborhood following a string of terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015.