Four people were killed in a shooting at the Brussel's Jewish Museum on Saturday morning.
Critics have suggested that the survey is flawed because the statements are not fair indicators of real anti-Jewish bias.
By JTA
Greece may be the cradle of democracy, but anti-Jewish feeling runs deep in the country
Generations of Jews who could not live in the Holy Land dreamt only of being buried on the Mount of Olives. Today, Jews who visit take their lives in their hands.
U.S. rapper Macklemore apologized after a firestorm over appearing in costume as what looked like an eastern European Jew.
The Holocaust Cellar will serve as a learning center dedicated to the 13,000 local Jewish Holocaust victims.
The SJP is emboldened while the grown-ups cower in the corner, avoiding the wrath of the troublemakers.
By JTA
A woman assaulted a Jewish mother and her baby in Paris while shouting anti-Semitic slurs.
Over the years, the ADL has been criticized for overstating what qualifies as anti-Semitism, with critics suggesting that some of the statements used to measure bias actually are more indicative of admiration for Jews than anti-Jewish hostility.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“The level of anti-Semitism in some countries and regions, even those where there are no Jews, is in many instances shocking.”
By JTA
It took a second hearing and a tight vote, but in the end the good guys won this round.
Trivialization of the Holocaust has reached new lows.
A Jewish carpenter is suing New York City’s Housing Authority after allegedly being threatened and insulted with anti-Semitic epithets.
By JTA
Shechitah advocates wrote that UK consumers of meat not produced through ritual slaughter “should also be told the method of slaughter: captive bolt shooting, gassing, electrocution, drowning, trapping, clubbing or any of the other approved methods.”
By JTA
The entrance to a nursery school in Latvia featured a German-language sign advertising the establishment as being “Jew-free.”
A Bedouin IDF soldier was arrested after posting comments on Facebook calling for "Death to Jews" and praising Hitler.
By JTA
A Brooklyn construction worker has been indicted for the kidnapping and murder of Haredi real estate developer Menachem Stark. A grand jury in Brooklyn on Monday indicted Kendel Felix, who was employed by a contractor hired by Stark, the New York Post reported. Felix was arrested on April 30 and admitted that he and two accomplices accidentally suffocated […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"We thought that an incident like this would bring here a march of MK’s, ministers and maybe even the president, but evidently an incident like this doesn't particularly bother the leaders of the state; it only bothers the citizens," said a resident.
Students at the Or Menachem yeshiva in Tzfat told reporters that police only responded to a graffiti attack on the grave of the Talmudic Rabbi Halafta when they believed the media would be covering the response. The students who discovered the vandalism told the Hebrew-language Col.org website that police showed no interested in the swastika […]
By JTA
A mayor from Brussels banned an event that European Jews have called a “summit meeting for anti-Semites.” Eric Tomas, the mayor of Anderlecht— one of 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels autonomous region of the federal Belgian state — on Sunday said he would ban the “European Congress of Resistance,” saying it was a […]
A university lecturer has called on administrators to protect Jewish students on campus
Unknown vandals splattered red paint on a line of Israeli flags set up in the city of Jaffa (Yafo) in the wee hours of Wednesday.
"This is the worst nightmare for any Jewish college student."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman examined the piece of Torah parchment, cut from a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue, and used by a Luftwaffe officer to wrap his ID card during World War II.
It is one thing “never to forget,” and it is another to remember not to let it happen again.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Findings point at an intensified feeling that personal safety and communal wellbeing are jeopardized.
A group of six Arabs attacked an Israeli man in Berlin, according to a report by Benjamin Weinthal in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The six Arabs first confirmed the man was an Israel, and then identified themselves as "Palestinians". He was taken to the hospital by ambulance to be treated for facial injuries.
By JTA
Vandals seriously damaged several graves in a more than 400-year-old Jewish cemetery in Split, Croatia.
NYU SJP students crept into a primarily Jewish dorm and shoved propaganda under the doors of the sleeping students.
By JTA
Closed-minded liberal sophomoics think that anyone against Ground One Mosque and for profiling possible terrorists is a racist.
By Roman Mokrinsky / Tazpit News Agency
Tensions continue to mount in eastern Ukraine, with reports of casualties continuing to stream out of the provinces in dispute,
By JTA
A Holocaust memorial and the grave of the brother of the late Lubavitcher rebbe were vandalized in Ukraine, amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the country.
It is no wonder that Marionville is ”the home of the white squirrels.” Black ones wouldn’t stand a chance, forget about Jewish ones.
Chabad.org interviews Nikolayev 's chief rabbi on the firebomb attack in the Ukraine. Here is an excerpt...
Anti-semitic attacks have escalated with the firebombing of a synagogue in the Ukraine. Watch the video of the attack...
In 1941, the Jews of Kiev received a similar leaflet. When they showed up the next day, more than 34,000 were murdered.
The attacker apparently targeted various Jewish centers.
There is nothing like a good round of anti-Semitism to sober up Jews to move to Israel.
By JTA
Members of the Jewish community were among the demonstrators protesting the construction of a controversial monument to the Hungarian victims of the German occupation, implying that the Hungarian government bore no responsibility for the death of Jews. Work on the statue began Tuesday in downtown Budapest, according to Klubradio, a news station known to be […]
Brandeis buckled to those who embrace diversity and tolerance only of their own views.
By JTA
A French mayor from the far-right National Front party evicted from city-owned offices an anti-racism group inspired by the Dreyfus trial. Steeve Briois, who was elected last month to run the town of Henin-Beaumont, ordered the Human Rights League, or LDH, to clear out of its workspace last week, LDH President Pierre Tartakowsky told JTA. […]
Celebrate Israel Parade should be successful, without anti-Israel BDSers parading down 5th Avenue!
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
There is nothing like a war of anti-Semites against anti-Semites to encourage Aliyah. Ukrainian Jewish immigration to Israel has risen 70 percent in 2014 amid the recent political upheaval in that country. According to the Jewish Agency for Israel, 375 new immigrants from Ukraine arrived in the first three months of 2014, compared with 221 […]
One or more anti-Semites sent a package of suspicious white powder and a photograph of Nazis to the home of Ireland’s Justice Minister Alan Shatter on Wednesday. Security officials raised an emergency alert, and a bomb squad arrived to investigate. Officials concluded the powder was harmless baking powder. The photograph showed Nazi soldiers at a […]
By JTA
What do expect from a man who also wants a law that prohibits “promoting” homosexuality and grants citizenship embryos?
By JTA
“There is still a subset of Americans who are deeply infected with anti-Semitism.
On April 1, 1933, the Nazis carried out their first nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses. Today we would call that BDS.
By JTA
Police in Malmo arrested two people who tried to break into a Jewish community building during a demonstration that featured anti-Semitic slogans. Five people gathered outside the Jewish community center in Malmo’s center on and tried to force their way inside past security, the Sydsvenskan regional daily newspaper reported. The intruders stopped at the gate, […]
By JTA
Being a Jew in the Diaspora usually means having to defend the host country in the vain hope it will guarantee their safety.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Before Roosevelt’s ambassador to Nazi Germany had enough of Hitler, he muzzled American Jews anti-Nazi protests.
By JTA
A German-born Internet tycoon who is fighting extradition from New Zealand to the United States for racketeering is under fire for admitting he owns a rare signed copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Kim Dotcom, whose actual name is Kim Schmitz, is the founder of MegaUpload, a file-transfer website that U.S. authorities shut down in 2012. […]
By JTA
It is not wonder why aliyah from France is increasing, but it is surprising more don't come.
By JTA
A 65-year-old Haredi Orthodox man from London visiting New York for his grandson’s wedding was attacked early Tuesday morning in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park as he left the wedding reception. The attackers smashed their victim’s face into the sidewalk, and he was treated at a local hospital for a split lip and chipped […]
Either Obama or Kerry must tell the Saudis, bluntly, that they cannot have it both ways, Hier said.
The Swedish-based H & M clothing chain has recalled thousands of vest tops adorned with a skull inside a Star of David after angry complaints from customers. “The order has been stopped and the others have been pulled,” said a H & M spokeswoman. “This was because of the feedback we received.” H M rejected […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Putin is right. There is not anti-Semitism in Russia. They simply hate Jews.
Saudi Arabia denied visa to a Jerusalem Post reporter who isn't Israeli and never lived in Israel.
When will Jews come to the conclusion that they can live as non-Jews in the Diaspora or as Jews in Israel?
By JTA
A new survey of anti-Semitic attitudes in Hungary showed up to 40 percent of respondents accepted some anti-Semitic attitudes. Conducted in December and commissioned by the Action and Protection Foundation, a watchdog on anti-Semitism of the Jewish community, the survey revealed that among those who accepted some anti-Semitic stereotypes, the proportion of people who displayed […]
By Adam Kredo
A Jewish teacher from Paris told police that three men had assaulted and cursed him in Arabic before drawing a swastika on his chest.
What would have been the reaction if the actor dressed up as KKK members, just for the sake if history?
Norway’s health minister said Wednesday the countryman no intention of banning religious circumcisions but should restrict the religious practice to be carried out only in hospitals. "If the children are circumcised in hospitals by competent personnel, we will prevent complications," Health Minister Bent Høie told the Aftenposten newspaper. "This is the most realistic way to […]
By JTA
The Hungarian Jewish community held a memorial event in front of the downtown Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the occupation of Hungary by the Nazi-led German Army. The event, sponsored by the Jewish community but open to the public, comes after representatives of Mazsihisz, the Association of Hungarian […]
By JTA
Jewish Toulouse leader tells young Jews to leave France.
By JTA
The Chabad Jewish Center in Boca Raton, Fla., was vandalized a day after an article in a local newspaper announced the center’s expansion plans. A cement marker with a sign indicating the rabbi’s parking space was torn from its place and thrown through a glass door of the Jewish center sometime Monday night, the Sun-Sentinel […]
Vandals scrawled a swastika and a Jewish Star of David on one of 16 fiberglass "sunfish” that were placed throughout the British city of Plymouth this week to celebrate the city’s young artists, the Plymouth Herald reported. The sculptures were unveiled at the start of National Apprentices Week and were placed to create a tourist […]
By JTA
Gisela Kohn Dollinger tricked death twice.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The scene of Russian troops sealing the region of Crimea conjures up scary reminders of the Nazi invasions of Europe.
By JTA
A Belgian watchdog on anti-Semitism warned it was preparing to take legal action against online propagators of a new anti-Semitic joke about the Holocaust. The Belgian League against Anti-Semitism, or LBCA, issued the threat regarding a photograph of an oven with paper money inside, bearing the caption, “The Jew trap is set.” The photo surfaced […]
By JTA
The British Football Association will request that Nicolas Anelka serve his entire suspension for performing the quenelle salute regardless of the soccer team he joins. Anelka was fired by British West Bromwich Albion on Friday for “gross misconduct” for making the salute, seen by many as being anti-Semitic, on the field during a December match […]
By JTA
Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch rightist, pro-Israel Party for Freedom, called for The Hague to be home to fewer Moroccans, which led an opposing candidate to compare him to Hitler. Wilders, an anti-Islam and anti-immigration politician and a supporter of Israel, made the comments last week during a campaign event. Local elections in Holland […]
By Shalom Bear
Rabbi Cohen's attackers were screaming "Zhid" and then stabbed him, while U.S. envoy denies rise in antisemitism.
By JTA
Ira Forman, the Obama administration’s special envoy on anti-Semitism, disputed claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukrainian revolutionaries were spreading hatred of Jews. In an interview published Thursday in the Jewish Daily Forward, Forman said Putin’s assertions were not credible. “We have no indication that what President Putin has been saying about anti-Semitism has […]
By JTA
Tokyo Metropolitan Police reportedly have arrested a man in connection with the vandalism of hundreds of copies of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in city libraries. The Tokyo resident, identified as an “unemployed man in his 30s,” made a statement admitting to some involvement in the vandalism of the books in February, according to a […]
The youth wing of Sweden’s Liberal party organized a “love bombing” Monday night and pasted heart-shaped papers on the same school that was attacked by neo-Nazi vandals the night before. Stockholm’s “Vasa Real” school was sprayed with swastikas and slogans, such as “disgusting Jews” and the number 1488 that is a symbol for white power […]
By JTA
Norwegian Cruise Lines dropped Tunisia from its itineraries after the country refused to allow Israeli citizens to disembark in the Port of Tunis. About 20 Israelis were quietly told before disembarking from the Norwegian Jade over the weekend that they were not welcome per the Tunisian government. The cruise line’s decision to drop Tunisia was […]
By JTA
An airline owned by the United Arab Emirates said it “emphatically refutes” claims that it excludes Israel from its official travel-route map and refuses to transport Israelis. In a statement, Etihad Airways wrote that it carried more than 1,000 passengers traveling with Israeli passports last year, refuting assertions made in the New York Post newspaper. […]
By JTA
Anti-Semitism is not the best reason to make aliyah, but it is better than being dead.
Tunisia has barred Jews on a Norwegian cruise ship from leaving their cruise voyage and stepping foot in the country after theirboat docked in Tunis, according to B’nai Brith Canada. “The cruise line has a responsibility to its passengers to advise them of this discriminatory policy in advance. Better still the cruise line should avoid […]
When a region experiences strife and instability, the first to come under threat are the Jews.
By Tibbi Singer
Blackwell, who has been accused of "inflaming prejudice," says animals must be stunned before the cut.
By JTA
The president of the Rome Jewish community revealed that he too had been sent the severed head of a pig about 10 days after pig heads were sent to Rome’s main synagogue, the Israeli embassy and a museum with an exhibit on Jewish culture in January. Riccardo Pacifici made the revelation during testimony Wednesday at […]
By JTA
An Austrian ex-mayor who said journalists and Jews should be hanged will not stand trial for hate speech, prosecutors said. A spokesperson for the public prosecutor’s office of Krems an der Donau, a municipality located 35 miles east of Vienna, said that Karl Simlinger, a former mayor of the village of Gfohl, will not be […]
By JTA
The European governing body of soccer, UEFA, announced the punishment on Tuesday against Omar Rahou, who made the gesture several times at a European Championship match of futsal, a variant of soccer, in January while celebrating scoring a goal for his team, Chatelineau, against Romania in Antwerp, the website of the Dutch Algemeen Dagblad daily […]
By JTA
Police officers in Poland arrested a man whom they said they had caught desecrating Jewish tombstones. The suspect, who was not named, was arrested last week at the Jewish cemetery of Andrychow, 30 miles southwest of Krakow, the news site Wadowice24.pl reported Tuesday. At the 18th-century burial site, he had knocked down 13 tombstones before […]
By JTA
Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, one of the two chief rabbis of the Ukraine (the other one is Rabbi Azriel Chaikin), accused Russia of staging antisemitic “provocations” in Crimea in order to justify its invasion of the former Soviet republic. At a press conference in the Manhattan office of the United Jewish Communities of Eastern Europe, […]
By JTA
Four unidentified Arab men savagely beat a French Jew in a Paris Metro train, a watchdog organization reported. The attack happened Sunday as the train was traveling from Nogent Sur Marne to Gare de Lyon, according to the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. Two of the attackers held down the 28-year-old victim, […]
By JTA
A Greek doctor who posted a “Jews Not Welcome” sign outside his office was arrested for inciting racial hatred. The doctor, a 57-year-old neurologist from Thessaloniki, also was charged with weapons possession and pro-Nazi beliefs, according to the Greek Reporter. The sign was written in German. The doctor, who has not been named, is a […]
By JTA
The Simon Wiesenthal Center accused the Lithuanian government of facilitating the glorification of Holocaust-era war criminals. The accusation followed a march earlier this month by nationalists in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, also known as Kovno. The marchers carried portraits of the pro-Nazi former ruler Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis. His government helped German troops send 30,000 Jews to […]
By JTA
Unknown individuals painted swastikas and the phrase “Death to the Jews” on a synagogue in the Crimea region of southern Ukraine. The graffiti was found Friday on the door and facade of the Reform Ner Tamid synagogue in Simferopol in the Crimean peninsula, the Russian-Israeli news site izrus.co.il reported. Anatoly Gendin, head of the Association […]
Despite the attempts to delegitimize Israel on American campuses during the so-called "Israel Apartheid Week," the Sochnut -- the Jewish Agency for Israel, under the direction of Natan Sharansky, has helped change the tone on North American campuses. Sharansky told Makor Rishon that he made sure the Sochnut sent five representatives ("Shlichim") to every campus […]
By JTA
Nicolas Anelka, a French soccer player for a British club, was fined $130,000 and suspended five games for performing the quenelle gesture in a game. The British Football Association handed down its penalties on Thursday following an investigation by an independent regulatory commission, which ruled that Anelka was guilty of performing an act that was […]
The European Jewish Association has appealed to Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to urgently send Israeli-trained security forces to protect the Jewish community across Ukraine in response to the recent upsurge in attacks against Jews. EJA director Rabbi Menachem Margolin also appealed to European Union foreign ministers and ambassadors to lobby […]
Two rare early editions of “Mein Kampf” signed by Adolf Hitler may for more than $20,000 at an online auction on Thursday, AP reports. Nate Sanders, owner of Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles, expects criticism for auctioning the 1925 and 1926 books up for bid. But he says that it’s a piece of […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Attempts by anti-Israel movements to pressure Norway businesses to boycott Israeli products have failed.
By JTA
A pro-Palestinian group in Canada, calling Ehud Barak an “Israel war criminal,” is protesting a visit by the former Israeli prime minister. The Canada-Palestine Association is among pro-Palestinian groups in British Columbia protesting an economic conference to be held in suburban Vancouver at the end of the month that Barak is scheduled to attend. It […]
By JTA
The flyer notes the American Studies Association’s decision in December to boycott Israeli educational institutions.
By JTA
Which is more disgusting – an anti-Semitic caricature of Zuckerberg or his throwing away Judaism for atheism?