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Amichai Chikli

Amichai Chikli is an Israeli lawmaker as part of the Likud Party and current Diaspora affairs and combatting antisemitism minister and, until early January 2024, as social equality minister.

Chikli made waves in Israeli politics in 2021 while part of the Yamina Party after having a public split with the party leader and then-prime minister Naftali Bennett. 

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 Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar speaking at the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025.

Diplomacy or war: The dilemma of politicizing the fight against antisemitism

By Gabriel Colodro/The Media Line
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz seen in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025

Netanyahu: Antisemitism threatens free societies, who must join fight against it

 Sylvan Adams at a ceremony for torch lighters of the Independence Day state ceremony, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2023.

Sylvan Adams: Antisemitism conference critics focused on politics rather than dialogue

 Shabbos Kestenbaum testifies in court against Harvard University.

Shabbos Kestenbaum: Jewish students are today's leaders in fight against antisemitism

 Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli

Israel's antisemitism strategy: Picking political allies over Diaspora Jews

 Jordan Bardella, President of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party, speaks during a political rally in Etrepagny, France, December 15, 2024.

Islamism, radical Left root of antisemitism surge, French far Right leader tells 'Post'

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 18: Protesters attend a national rally for Palestine on January 18, 2025 in London, England. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are going ahead with a planned march after police placed a ban on it, citing the risk of causing "serious disruption" to a synagogue

The war on Jews has returned, and the West is complicit

By AMICHAI CHIKLI
 United Torah Judaism (UTJ) chairman rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf is seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 28, 2022

Chikli loses faith in Goldknopf over discriminatory land allocations to haredim

 Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli seen during a protest in Tel Aviv, November 27, 2024

'Stabbing Jews in the back': Diaspora heads warn against Chikli's antisemitism conference

MICHAL COTLER-WUNSH

Israel’s antisemitism envoy says she wasn’t consulted on the controversial conference

By BEN SALES/JTA
Jordan Bardella (R), President of the French far Right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party and head of the RN list for the European elections, and Marine Le Pen, President of RN (L).

Marine Le Pen's shift on antisemitism: A new ally for French Jews

By ARNO KLARSFELD
 Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli attends a lobby to strengthen the Galilee at the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, June 26, 2023.

Dealing with antisemitism: Amichai Chikli will succeed where the ADL has failed

By AVI ABELOW
 Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2024.

The illusion of alliances: Amichai Chikli is wrong to put faith in Europe's far Right

By Dr. Stéphanie Share
 Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2024.

European Jewish Congress blasts Chikli for inviting far-right figures to antisemitism summit

Britain's chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

UK Chief Rabbi Mirvis pulls out from Israel's conference on combating antisemitism

 Amichai Chikli speaks at Conference of Presidents, February 16, 2025.

Amichai Chikli invites politicians from European far-right parties to Israel, in a first

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
 Former White House Political Director Matt Schlapp and Former White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp attend the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, February 22, 2024.

CPAC launches 'Center to Combat Antisemitism' ahead of visit to Israel

 Rima Hassan, the then candidate for the European elections on the list of La France Insoumise (LFI), attends a pro-Palestinian protest in central Paris, France, May 29, 2024.

Israel seeks to bar French MEP Rima Hassan over anti-Israel boycott campaigns, Hamas support