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.
Featured
March 26, 2026
Aryeh Tuchman
Director, Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR)
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…
February 6, 2026
Aryeh Tuchman
Director, Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR)
News coverage and New York leaders have misread the NYPD’s newly released January 2026 anti‑Jewish hate‑crime data. That month is not especially alarming — but the longer‑term trends tell a more troubling story.
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.