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Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Updated: 3 Killed in Brussels Jewish Museum Shooting

By Jewish Press News Desk

Four people were killed in a shooting at the Brussel's Jewish Museum on Saturday morning.

Antisemitism

Greece: The Most Anti-Semitic Country In Europe

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Critics have suggested that the survey is flawed because the statements are not fair indicators of real anti-Jewish bias.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Why is Greece the Most Anti-Semitic Country in Europe?

By JTA

Greece may be the cradle of democracy, but anti-Jewish feeling runs deep in the country

US / Eye on "Palestine" / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Jerusalem

ZOA Protests Mount of Olives Violence

By Meir Halevi Siegel

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.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Rapper Apologizes for Appearing to Mock Jews

By Jewish Press News Desk

U.S. rapper Macklemore apologized after a firestorm over appearing in costume as what looked like an eastern European Jew.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Elie Wiesel's Childhood Romanian Home is Now New Holocaust Center

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Holocaust Cellar will serve as a learning center dedicated to the 13,000 local Jewish Holocaust victims.

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Pro-Israel Groups Blast SJP for Racism and UCLA for Fecklessness

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The SJP is emboldened while the grown-ups cower in the corner, avoiding the wrath of the troublemakers.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

Jewish Mother and Baby Assaulted in Paris

By JTA

A woman assaulted a Jewish mother and her baby in Paris while shouting anti-Semitic slurs.

Antisemitism

ADL Survey: 26 Percent Of Adults Worldwide Harbor Deeply Anti-Semitic Views

By Uriel Heilman

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.

Antisemitism / News Briefs

ADL Survey: ¼ of World Population is Anti-Semitic

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.”

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

U. of New Mexico Grad Students Rescind Divestment Resolution

By JTA

It took a second hearing and a tight vote, but in the end the good guys won this round.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

‘Jews vs Nazis’ Latest Teen Rage in Florida

By Jewish Press News Desk

Trivialization of the Holocaust has reached new lows.

NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Jewish Carpenter Sues NYC Over Alleged Anti-Semitism

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

A Jewish carpenter is suing New York City’s Housing Authority after allegedly being threatened and insulted with anti-Semitic epithets.

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs

UK Shechitah Advocate Wants Precise Labeling for Meat Industry

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.”

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Latvian School Features ‘Jew-Free’ Sign

By JTA

The entrance to a nursery school in Latvia featured a German-language sign advertising the establishment as being “Jew-free.”

IDF & Security / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

IDF Arrests Bedouin Soldier Who Wants to Kill Jews

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Bedouin IDF soldier was arrested after posting comments on Facebook calling for "Death to Jews" and praising Hitler.

Haredim & Hassidim / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Florida

Bkln Construction Worker Indicted for Murder of Menachem Stark

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 […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

National Symbols Degraded and Defaced in Jerusalem

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.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Police Respond to Graffiti Attack, Ask 'Where are the reporters?'

By Avi Tuchmayer

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Brussels mayor bans ‘summit meeting' for anti-Semites

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 […]

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Lecturer: Universities Don't Protect Jewish Students

By Avi Tuchmayer

A university lecturer has called on administrators to protect Jewish students on campus

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Holidays & Observances / Israeli Arabs / Local

Desecration of Israeli Flags in Jaffa (Yafo)

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

The Parchment of Rebuke That Came Home

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.

Israel / Iran / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Netanyahu Connects Hitler with Nuclear Iran

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

It is one thing “never to forget,” and it is another to remember not to let it happen again.

Antisemitism / News Briefs

Pre Yom Hashoah Report: Sharp Increase in Anti-Semitism in 2013

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Findings point at an intensified feeling that personal safety and communal wellbeing are jeopardized.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Arabs Attack Jew in Berlin

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Historic Jewish Cemetery in Croatia Vandalized

By JTA

Vandals seriously damaged several graves in a more than 400-year-old Jewish cemetery in Split, Croatia.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Religion

NYU Latest Site of Anti-Israel Mock Eviction Notices

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

NYU SJP students crept into a primarily Jewish dorm and shoved propaganda under the doors of the sleeping students.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Suffolk University Defends Honoring Foxman as Commencement Speaker

By JTA

Closed-minded liberal sophomoics think that anyone against Ground One Mosque and for profiling possible terrorists is a racist.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Ukraine / Russia

Eyewitness Report from Ukraine: 'You Can Feel the Tension in the Air'

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,

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

More Jewish Sites Vandalized in Ukraine

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.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Missouri's Jew-Hating Mayor Quits (Video)

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

It is no wonder that Marionville is ”the home of the white squirrels.” Black ones wouldn’t stand a chance, forget about Jewish ones.

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Chief Rabbi of Nikolayev, Ukraine on Firebomb Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

Chabad.org interviews Nikolayev 's chief rabbi on the firebomb attack in the Ukraine. Here is an excerpt...

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Ukrainian Synagogue Firebombed (Video)

By Jewish Press News Desk

Anti-semitic attacks have escalated with the firebombing of a synagogue in the Ukraine. Watch the video of the attack...

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

'Jews Must Register' Flyer in Ukraine an Echo of Babi Yar

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

In 1941, the Jews of Kiev received a similar leaflet. When they showed up the next day, more than 34,000 were murdered.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / France / Aliyah / Geulah / Canada

Aliyah Up by 14 Percent in First Three Months of 2014

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

There is nothing like a good round of anti-Semitism to sober up Jews to move to Israel.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Building of WWII Statue Begins in Budapest as Jews Protest

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 […]

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / On Campus / Education

Brandeis Caves to Pressure, Withdraws Honor to Ayaan Hirsi Ali

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Brandeis buckled to those who embrace diversity and tolerance only of their own views.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

National Front Mayor Evicts Dreyfus-Inspired Anti-Racism Group

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. […]

NY / News Briefs / Boycott / BDS / Anti-Israel NGOs

Tuesday Rally: No Israel Boycotters in Celebrate Israel Parade

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Celebrate Israel Parade should be successful, without anti-Israel BDSers parading down 5th Avenue!

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Aliyah / Geulah / Russia

Ukrainian Jewish Immigration to Israel Rises 70 Percent

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Irish Jewish Cabinet Minister Victim of Nazi Hoax

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Religion / Russia

Putin Ally Accused Of Pushing Jews-Killed-Jesus Theme

By JTA

What do expect from a man who also wants a law that prohibits “promoting” homosexuality and grants citizenship embryos?

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

ADL Audit: Rise in Anti-Semitic Assaults but Less Overall Cases

By JTA

“There is still a subset of Americans who are deeply infected with anti-Semitism.

News Briefs / Boycott / BDS / Anti-Israel NGOs

A Day in History: The First Nazi BDS of Jewish Business

By Jewish Press Staff

On April 1, 1933, the Nazis carried out their first nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses. Today we would call that BDS.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Swedes Arrest 2 for Trying to Break into Jewish Community Center

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, […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Russia

Russian and Ukrainian Jews at Each Other’s Throats

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.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

New Evidence Of U.S. Ambassador To Nazi Germany’s Anti-Semitism

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Before Roosevelt’s ambassador to Nazi Germany had enough of Hitler, he muzzled American Jews anti-Nazi protests.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Internet Tycoon under Fire for Rare Hitler-Signed Mein Kampf

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. […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

French Jewish Candidate Reveals Threats

By JTA

It is not wonder why aliyah from France is increasing, but it is surprising more don't come.

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Haredi Grandfather from London Assaulted In NY

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 […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media / Saudi Arabia / Judaism

EXCLUSIVE: Jewish Leader: US Must Tell Saudis Action Not Acceptable

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Either Obama or Kerry must tell the Saudis, bluntly, that they cannot have it both ways, Hier said.

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Business and Economy

H & M Recalls 'Offensive’ Vest with Skull in Star of David

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Russia / Holocaust

Jews Brought Holocaust on Themselves, Says Russian TV Host

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Putin is right. There is not anti-Semitism in Russia. They simply hate Jews.

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Refuses Visa to American Jewish Journalist

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Saudi Arabia denied visa to a Jerusalem Post reporter who isn't Israeli and never lived in Israel.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

French Anti-Semites Beat Paris Teacher Wearing a Kippa

By Jewish Press News Desk

When will Jews come to the conclusion that they can live as non-Jews in the Diaspora or as Jews in Israel?

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Survey: Up to 49 Percent of Hungarians Harbor Anti-Semitic Views

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

Assailants Break Jewish Teacher’s Nose in Paris

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.

US / Antisemitism

Minnesota Nazi Uniform Party Was Just an ‘Historical Exercise’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

What would have been the reaction if the actor dressed up as KKK members, just for the sake if history?

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Religion / Judaism

Norway Wants to Limit Circumcisions to Hospital Rooms

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Hungary’s Jewish Community Marks 70th Anniversary of Nazi Invasion

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Toulouse Jewish President: Jews, Leave!

By JTA

Jewish Toulouse leader tells young Jews to leave France.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Florida

Florida Chabad Vandalized after Expansion Plan Announcement

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 […]

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Swastika Mars British Sculpture Exhibit

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Religion / Russia

Rabbi in Crimea Makes it Out on the Last Train

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.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

Belgian Group Mulls Legal Action over Anti-Semitic Twitter Joke

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 […]

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Sports

British Soccer Group Says Ban on Anelka Should Be Universal

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Dutch Candidate Compares Geert Wilders with Hitler

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Ukraine Hatzalah Chief Stabbed in Antisemitic Attack

By Shalom Bear

Rabbi Cohen's attackers were screaming "Zhid" and then stabbed him, while U.S. envoy denies rise in antisemitism.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Russia

US Envoy: Russian Claims on Anti-Semitism In Ukraine Baseless

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 […]

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Tokyo Police Arrest Man in Connection With Anne Frank Vandalism

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Stockholm School ‘Love-Bombed’ after Nazi Graffiti Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Boycott / BDS

Norwegian Cruise Lines Drops Tunisia over Anti-Israeli Bias

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Boycott / BDS

Arab Airline Denies Claims of Discrimination against Israelis

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. […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

Jewish Man Assaulted with Taser Gun Outside Paris Synagogue

By JTA

Anti-Semitism is not the best reason to make aliyah, but it is better than being dead.

Middle East / Levant / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Tunisia Bars Jews on Cruise Ship

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Russia

Jewish Voice from Crimea: 'Living in Readiness'

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

When a region experiences strife and instability, the first to come under threat are the Jews.

Politics / UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion / European Union

British Vets Want Ban on Ritual Slaughter

By Tibbi Singer

Blackwell, who has been accused of "inflaming prejudice," says animals must be stunned before the cut.

Terrorism / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Rome Jewish Community President also Sent Pig's Head

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 […]

Politics / Global / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / News Briefs

No Trial for Austrian Ex-Mayor who Said Jews Deserve Hanging

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Sports

Belgian Athlete who 'quenelled' Banned for 10 Games

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Polish Cops Nab Vandal in Jewish Cemetery

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Russia

Ukraine Chief Rabbi Accuses Russians of Antisemitic ‘Provocations’

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, […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

Arab Men Beat French Jew on Paris Train

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, […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Greek Doctor Arrested for ‘Jews Not Welcome’ Sign

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Wiesenthal Center: Lithuanian Government Emboldens Neo-Nazis

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

‘Death to Jews’ Graffiti Sprayed on Crimean Synagogue

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 […]

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Pro-Israel Rallies Outnumber Opposition at 'Israel Apartheid Week'

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / France / Sports

British Soccer Watchdog Punishes Player for Quenelle Salute

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 […]

Israel / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

European Jewish Group Wants Israeli Security Forces in Ukraine

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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 […]

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Media / Holocaust

'Mein Kampf' Signed by Adolf Hitler in LA Auction

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

News Briefs / Europe / Boycott / BDS / Anti-Israel NGOs

Norwegian Store Chain Cancels SodaStream Boycott #BDSFail

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Attempts by anti-Israel movements to pressure Norway businesses to boycott Israeli products have failed.

Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Global / News Briefs / Anti-Israel NGOs

Canadian Pro-Palestinian Group Protesting Ehud Barak Visit

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 […]

NY / News Briefs / Anti-Israel NGOs / On Campus / Education

NYU American Studies Confab Has Pro-Boycott Focus

By JTA

The flyer notes the American Studies Association’s decision in December to boycott Israeli educational institutions.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Germany

German Paper’s Caricature of Hook-Nosed Zuckerberg ‘Anti-Semitic’

By JTA

Which is more disgusting – an anti-Semitic caricature of Zuckerberg or his throwing away Judaism for atheism?

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Livni Loses It on National TV

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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