As Congress faces the summer recess and the upcoming election, there are concerns within the Jewish community about the stalled progress of two major antisemitism bills, the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA) and the Countering Antisemitism Act (CAA), in Congress.

A bipartisan bill is gaining support in Congress to establish a national coordinator to combat antisemitism in the United States, aligning with President Biden's strategy announced last year to address antisemitism.

The University of Turin in Italy decided to suspend a collaboration agreement with Israeli universities for joint research projects due to student protests over the Israel-Hamas war.

A group called the Nexus Task Force is working to separate criticism of Israel from accusations of antisemitism, and has been successful in influencing politicians like Rep. Jerry Nadler to reject resolutions condemning antisemitism that conflate it with anti-Zionism.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the Senate and House Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism has written a letter to the U.S. Department of Education, urging the implementation of additional measures to protect Jewish students on college campuses.

The recent mayoral summit on combating antisemitism, co-hosted by the mayor of Athens, received little public notice and was not widely publicized.

On this episode of People of the Pod, Simone Rodan-Benzaquen discusses the French National Assembly's adoption of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.