Jews have long fought antisemitism in court. Is the law built for the fight?

Jews have long fought antisemitism in court. Is the law built for the fight?

When historian James Loeffler set out to write a history of antisemitism and free speech in America, he kept running into the same complaint from opposite ends of the political spectrum: that antisemitism is somehow different — either too readily dismissed, or too easily weaponized. “I wanted to capture and play with a sentiment that is widely held all across American society, that there’s something distinctive about antisemitism, that it doesn’…