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Would Hawking Meet Paraplegic Arab Saved by Israel?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

He could meet a three-year-old Arab toddler with no arms and no legs, named Mohammed al-Farra.

Antisemitism / News Briefs

Swastika Painted on New Zealand Jewish Center

By JTA

A swastika was painted on the Wellington Jewish center, which houses the city’s only Orthodox congregation and is the focus of Jewish life in New Zealand’s harbor city capital,”  according to its website. Jewish officials said the swastika was painted on the back wall, and they reported the incident to police. “It was fairly minor […]

Terrorism / Israel / Middle East / Levant / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Europe / On Campus / Education

Hawking's Boycott Falls into a Black Hole

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Israeli Presidential Conference that Stephen Hawking is boycotting because of the “occupation” of supposed Palestinian land has drawn in the past none other than several senior Palestinian Authority officials, including one who two weeks ago said he would like to drop a nuclear bomb in Israel. Thanks to a bit of Internet homework by […]

Terrorism / Israel / US / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / On Campus / Education

Mounting Evidence that Boston Bombers Involved in Triple Homicide

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The truth won’t let the politically correct head stay buried in the sand. The Jewish Press report two weeks ago of an ugly link between the Boston bombers and an unsolved triple murder bears fruit.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust

Wagner Opera Staged with Nazi Atrocities Booed off the Stage

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The audience that attended a new production of a Wagner opera, complete with acts of Nazi atrocities, should have been Holocaust deniers. But it’s too late now. The production was yanked off stage.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Religion

British Legal Aide Pays $3,900 for ‘I Can’t Stand Jews’ Remark

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Jewish prohibition of “loshon hara,” speaking negatively about people, was learned quickly by a non-Jewish British legal assistant, who paid $3,900 for saying, “I can’t stand Jews.”

US / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Graffiti at Yale Threatens Arson Attack on School’s Jewish Center

By JTA

Graffiti scrawled in a bathroom in a Yale University science building threatened an arson attack on the Slifka Center for Jewish Life on the campus. The graffiti was discovered late last month but was first reported in the local media on Tuesday. A Slifka Center board member said the news of the graffiti was not […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs

Teen Convicted of Attacking Jewish Student

By JTA

A teenager in Winnipeg who attacked a Jewish student in a racially motivated assault will be sentenced next month, following his conviction on charges of assault with a weapon. The 17-year-old high school student used a lighter and attempted to burn the hair of a 15-year-old female Jewish student at his high school in November […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Religion

Anti-Semitism on the Internet: Jewish State as Uber Nazi (VIDEO)

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Internet freedom is a perfect petrie dish for growing new strains of anti-Semitism, including anti-Zionism. A new film, "The New Anti-Semitism," exposes this dark side of freedom.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Germany Arrests One of 10 Most Wanted Nazis

By JTA

German police arrested on Monday one of the 10 most wanted Nazis, 93-year-old Hans Lipschis,  who is facing charges of complicity in murder as a former guard at the Auschwitz extermination camp. State prosecutors in Stuttgart are preparing an indictment against Lipschis, a native of Lithuania who was a guard at Auschwitz from the autumn […]

NY / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

Unacceptable: Brooklyn College Effort to End BDS Event Disaster

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The school has thus far failed to address this fundamental issue: Brooklyn College not only allowed, but participated in, the violation of their students' constitutional rights at an event at their school, and at which nearly a dozen school officials and employees were present.

Terrorism / Israel / Middle East / Levant / US / Hamas / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Islamists

Two TV Stations in US Broadcast Hamas and Hezbollah Incitement

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The US outlaws the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups. That has not stopped two TV stations, one on each coast, to air their programs urging suicide bombings. The Muslim Mideast comes to the USA.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Religion / Settlements

Church of Scotland Questions Right of Israel to Exist

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Anti-Zionists have gone beyond the campaign to boycott Israel because of Jews in Judea and Samaria. Now, the Church of Scotland questions whether Jews even have a claim to Israel.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion

Bomb Threats Close Classes at Two Houston Synagogues

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Bomb threats on two Houston synagogues Wednesday closed classes, one day after a similar threat on a court forced a quick evacuation. The synagogue bomb threats were called in to called in to Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform temple, and the Conservative Congregation Or Ami on Wednesday afternoon. Both synagogues canceled Hebrew school classes for […]

Antisemitism / Europe / Arts and Entertainment / Jerusalem / Religion / Archaeology

BBC Yanked Israeli Film on Jewish Exodus from Jerusalem (video)

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The BBC strikes again. Known for its bias against Israel, it said that a documentary claiming that man “Palestinians” of today actually are descendants of Jews did “not fit editorially.” How true.

Terrorism / Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

Abbas’ Fatah Party Praises ‘Hero’ Who Stabbed Jew to Death

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Fatah party, headed by Mahmoud “Peace Partner” Abbas, quickly responded to Tuesday’s murder of a Jew. It did not condemn it, No, it praised the terrorist. John Kerry, are you reading this?

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

British Mandate Boss Said Jews Were ‘Like Nazis’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The British High Commissioner of Palestine viewed Jewish fighters there in the 1940s as analogous to Nazis, newly published records show. On April 30, 1948, Alan Cunningham wrote to his superiors that as the Jews celebrated military successes, their “broadcasts, both in content and in manner of delivery, are remarkably like those of Nazi Germany." […]

Terrorism / Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media / United Nations (UN)

Ban Ki-Moon Caves In, ‘Rejects’ Falk’s Boston Terror-Israel Link

By Jewish Press News Desk

It took five days, but United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon finally said he “rejects” United Nations Human Rights Council official Richard Falk’s comments that cited “the American global domination project: and US-Israeli relations as provocations for the bombings. Falk, a Jewish American who has long history of accusing Israel of “war crimes” and “apartheid, […]

Terrorism / NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / Religion

New York Synagogue Bomber Accomplice Sentenced to Jail

By Jewish Press News Desk

An Moroccan immigrant to the United States who plotted to blow up synagogues in New York City was sentenced on Friday to five years in jail and faces deportation after his release. Mohammed Mamdouh pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to commit terrorism and criminal weapon possession. He was an accomplice to Algerian immigrant Ahmed […]

Eye on "Palestine" / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Jewish Liberators of Italy Blocked from Speaking at Celebration

By Jewish Press Staff

The organizers of a Thursday parade in Rome marking the World War II liberation of Italy prevented a representative from the Jewish Brigade group from speaking at the commemorative ceremony. A group of Jews and others marched under the Israeli flag and a banner of the Jewish Brigade that fought the Nazis in Italy. The […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Anti-Semitic Incidents Doubled in Last Decade in Canada

By JTA

Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose last year by nearly four percent, continuing a 10-year-old trend that has sewn anti-Semitics acts double, according to B'nai Brith Canada's annual review. The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the country increased from 1,297 incidents in 2011, to 1,345 cases in 2012. Holocaust denial has soared. The average increase for […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Anti-Semitic Slogans Found near Nazi Work Camp in Lithuania

By JTA

Lithuanian police said they discovered Nazi slogans drawn on a former concentration camp after Adolf Hitler’s birth date. The slogans "Heil Hitler," “Jews out” in German and a swastika were scrawled on the pavement near the HKP 562 labor camp in Vilnius, Evelina Pagounis of the Vilnius police told the French news agency AFP. The […]

Terrorism / Israel / US / Iran / Antisemitism / News Briefs / United Nations (UN) / Holocaust

UN Rights Council’s Falk Blames Boston Terror on US and Tel Aviv

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The US is darned lucky. It deserves worse terror than the Boston bombing. And the root cause is the US backing Israel. Is that Iran talking? No. Just Richard Falk, the UN’s great god of human rights.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

IKEA Pulls Ad from Swedish Anti-Semitic blog

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

IKEA is investigating how its online advertisement banner came to be placed on a Swedish anti-Semitic blog, a spokesperson for the furniture giant said. IKEA has two stores in Israel. Aftonbladet found ads for several companies, including IKEA and Western Union, on a Swedish blog called the “Gothic team,” which features anti-Semitic and other racist […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

European Report Says Greece Can Ban Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party

By JTA

A report released by the Council of Europe says that Greece could legally ban the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party, but Greece has rejected the idea. The Council of Europe is based in Strasbourg, France and runs the European Court of Human Rights. The 32-page was issued Tuesday by the council’s human rights commissioner Nils Mutinies, […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

ADL to Israel Broadcasting Authority: Let them wear Galliano!

By JTA

ADL's Abe Foxman said he's "outraged" at last week’s decision by the Israel Broadcasting Authority to bar Israel's contestant in the international Eurovision music contest from wearing a dress by designer John Galliano. Galliano lost his job as the top designer at Christian Dior two years ago after being arrested for making anti-Semitic statements at […]

Terrorism / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / Jerusalem

Pearl’s Father: Execution Caused ‘Revolution’ against Barbarism

By Jewish Press News Desk

Prof. Judea Pearl said at Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers in Jerusalem Sunday night that the terrorists’’ brutal execution of his son Daniel “caused a revolution in our society’s struggle against barbarism.” He added, “The notion of absolute good and bad was almost erased, but was reborn with the murder of Daniel in Pakistan.” […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Arts and Entertainment

Galliano Dress Forbidden for Israeli Eurovision Contestant

By JTA

Israel's contestant in the international Eurovision music contest was barred from wearing a dress by designer John Galliano, who lost his job as the top designer at Christian Dior two years ago after being arrested for making anti-Semitic statements at a Paris bar. The Israel Broadcasting Authority, which sponsors the Israeli contestant and broadcasts the […]

NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Brooklyn Anti-Semites Mark Holocaust Day by Burning Mezuzahs

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Anti-Semitic vandals torched more than 10 mezuzahs on the doorposts in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn apartments Monday, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is not known if the attack was carried by an individual or a group. The attacks took place on at least 10 different floors. New York police are considering the arson as an […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Hamas / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Holocaust

Hamas Attacks Sderot with Missile to Mark Holocaust Day

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

An early warning siren wailed in the Sderot area Sunday night, hours before a nationwide siren reminds the country of the Holocaust. “The journey for justice and freedom is not yet over,” said Peres.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / The Knesset / Holocaust

Peres: Holocaust ‘Cries from the Prayer Shawls’

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Holocaust “cries from the prayer shawls the hair, the shoes that we see with our own eyes, resonates as we step on the stones of the ghettos, [and] it floats like a ghost in the barracks of the camp, President Shimon Peres said at the beginning of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day Sunday night. […]

IDF & Security / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Chief of Staff, Son of Holocaust Survivor, Visits Auschwitz

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

A woman who survived the Holocaust had no idea at the time that her son would command Israel’s army. On Monday, Benny Gantz will become the first IDF Chief of Staff to lead the March of the Living.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Nazi’s Mass Grave Posted on Facebook under Headline ‘Lazy Jews’

By JTA

Facebook has removed a page featuring anti-Jewish content, including a photo of murdered Jews in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen with the headline "Lazy Jews." In response to a formal complaint by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Mia Garlicky, Face book’s Sydney-based manager of communications and policy, confirmed Saturday that the hate page was […]

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Anti-Semitic Vandals Paint Swastikas on LA School Baseball Field

By Jewish Press News Desk

Vandals painted swastikas and the word “skinhead” on an elementary school baseball field in metropolitan Los Angeles, according to school officials. Orange County’s Kaiser Elementary School Principal Deborah Granger told the Los Angeles Times that school staff saw the hate messages when they returned to school on Monday. Swastikas were also were painted on trash […]

Middle East / Levant / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / Religion

Pakistani Jewish Vote?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Pakistani Election Commission lists approximately 800 voters as Jewish although there are virtually no Jews in the country, according to the country’s The News website contributor Dr. Abdul Majeed Abid. He facetiously asked, “We can only wait to see which way the ‘Jewish vote’ goes, if it goes anywhere.” He noted that no Jews […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Turkey / Europe / Holocaust

Feiglin Wants Turkey Apology for Deaths of 766 Holocaust Refugees

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

If Erdogan wants Israel to apologize for killing terrorists, it should search its own soul for the deaths of 766 Holocaust refugees by towing their stricken ship to the high seas, where it was sunk.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Amsterdam Fined Holocaust Survivors for Unpaid Taxes while Hiding

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The City of Amsterdam fined hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors as late as 1947 for failing to pay taxes while they were in hiding or in concentration camps. The affair was exposed in an article in Het Parool, a local daily. Many of the houses in question were confiscated and used by members of the […]

Israel / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Hacker in Huge Web Attack Makes Anti-Jewish Statements

By JTA

The hacker who has slowed down the WorldWebWeb also has some anti-Semitic messages to spread and calls a Jewish anti-spammer one of the “Zionists who think they are better than others.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

French Arabs Beat Up Israel Director Critical of ‘Occupation’

By JTA

Arab men assaulted an Israeli film director in southern France following the screening of his film criticizing Israeli occupation. Yariv Horowitz was rendered unconscious as a result of the beating Monday by several men after a screening of "Rock the Casbah" at a film festival in Aubin, Army Radio reported Thursday. He was treated at […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Russian Bill on Holocaust Denial Prompts Anti-Jew Feedbacks

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hatred of Jews is alive and well in Russia. Legislators have proposed that a new law impose harsh punishment for Holocaust denial, but Feedbacks are overwhelming negative: “Jews are cockroaches.”

IDF & Security / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt / Religion / Settlements / Aliyah / Geulah

A 21st Century Exodus: Dina’s Journey from Egypt to Jerusalem

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

Passover interview: Rolin Abdallah grew up in an Arab country with no knowledge of her Jewish heritage. Today, she is IDF soldier Dina Ovadia. Here is a Cinderella and Haggadah story rolled into one.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Religion

Half Belgian Muslim Teens Have Anti-Semitic Views, Says Study

By JTA

A major survey among Belgian teenagers indicated anti-Semitism was seven times more prevalent among Muslim youths than in non-Muslim teenagers. Conducted in recent months by three universities for the Flemish government, the survey was published last month based on questionnaires filled out by 3,867 high school students in Antwerp and Ghent, including 1,068 Muslims. Among […]

Terrorism / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Geneva Assailant of Jew ‘Too Mentally Ill’ to Stand Trial

By JTA

A man who stabbed an Orthodox Jew in Geneva was found unfit to stand trial in Switzerland because of his clinical paranoia and “irrational fear of an international conspiracy.” A court in Geneva earlier this month found that the 22-year-old man, who was not named, was too “mentally ill” to stand trial for stabbing and […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

French Jews Sue Twitter for $50 Million over Anti-Semitic Tweets

By JTA

Twitter is being sued for about $50 million in France for failing to honor a court ruling which ordered it to identify users who posted anti-Semitic hate speech. The Union of Jewish French Students, or UEJF by its French acronym, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday with a Paris correctional tribunal, according to the French news […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Top German Jewish leader blasts Gov’t’s Weak Stand on Neo-Nazis

By JTA

Germany's top Jewish leader has slammed the government's decision not to join efforts to ban the country's most powerful neo-Nazi party. "The decision of the Federal Government is disappointing and politically completely wrong," Dieter Graumann, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in a statement Wednesday. "They chose hesitation and procrastination over […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Scottish Council Vows to Boycott Israel

By JTA

A county council in Scotland has expressed its support for boycotting Israel. Clackmananshire County Council, the smallest local authority in Scotland, passed a motion in which it resolved to “resist, insofar as legislative considerations permit, any action that gives political or economic support to the State of Israel.” The motion, passed last week without opposition […]

Terrorism / Israel / Middle East / Levant / US / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Islamists

PA Daily’s ‘Welcome Obama’ Op-Ed: Hitler Greater than Roosevelt

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Palestinian Authority reaches new depths of anti-American vulgarity on the eve of Obama’s visit with its official daily praising Hitler and condemning “lies” that Muslims were behind 9/11.

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Exclusive Interviews: Anti-Israel 'Peacenik' and Assaulted Israeli

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The anti-Israel movement in a snapshot: A young woman who was writing a message of peace for Israel was physically and verbally assaulted, and thrown out of a public park, by people who claim to be, and are referred to by the mass media, as "peaceful," "non-violent," "free speech" activists.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Sports

Greek Soccer Player Gets Life Ban for Nazi Salute

By JTA

A Greek soccer player has been banned for life from playing for the national team after giving the Nazi salute during a game. Giorgos Katidis, 20, who plays for the AEK Athens team, gave the salute after scoring the winning goal in a match on March 15, the same day Greek Jews marked the 70th […]

Terrorism / NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / Local

Would-Be N.Y. Synagogue Bomber Sentenced to 10 Years

By JTA

An Algerian immigrant who admitted to planning to blow up synagogues in New York City was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ahmed Ferhani, 28, was the first person convicted under a state terror statute that went into effect following the 9/11 attacks. He was sentenced last Friday. Ferhani could have been sentenced to up […]

US / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media / Egypt

CNN Asking Laura Bush to Endorse Honors for Arab Murderer (Video)

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Really, Burnett was suggesting, it is chauvinistic of Americans to hold terrorism-glorification against an Arab.

Terrorism / Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion / Holocaust

Chief Rabbis Praise Vatican for ‘Banning Terror in God’s Name’

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel on Thursday reacted to the election of Pope Francis I by highlighting his predecessors' “rich and fruitful dialogue …with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel on primary issues such as banning terrorism in God's Name, the sanctity of life and the sanctity of the family unit." The office of the Chief […]

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion

Jewish Leaders Praise New Pope

By Jewish Press Staff

The new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina attended Rosh HaShanah services five years ago and was outspoken in the attack against the Jewish Community Center by agents of Iran in 1994.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Last Survivor of Plot to Kill Hitler Dies at 90

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, who was a Nazi Germany army lieutenant volunteered to blew himself up along with Hitler, died at his Munich home as the age of 90. The suicide bomb plot never was carried out, but von Kleist later was part of a group that unsuccessfully tried to kill Hitler in July 1944. He […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Islamists

Paris Thugs Threaten Jewish Teen with Merah-Style Murder

By JTA

Three men who accosted a French Jewish teenager in a suburban Paris subway said they would do to him “what Mohammed Merah did.” According to a report on the incident by the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, a non-governmental organization known locally by the French acronym BNVCA, the 17-year-old Kippa-clad male was threatened in […]

Terrorism / Israel / Iran / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Europe / Holocaust

Peres Tells EU Parliament, ‘Europe Has Divorced Its Past’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

President Shimon Peres told the European Union Parliament Tuesday, “In the past thousand years, more Jews lived in Europe than in any other continent.  Alas, more Jews were murdered in Europe in the last hundred years than in the preceding two thousand years.” The first Israeli president to address the current arrangement of the EU […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Sour Sound of Music: Vienna Philharmonic's Nazi Past

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Vienna Philharmonic had low level Nazi Party members, but also officials with the SS, one of whom turned over more than a dozen orchestra members, at least five of whom perished in Nazi concentration camps. After the war, that Nazi official become the orchestra's executive director.

Terrorism / Israel / Middle East / Levant / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

BREAKING NEWS: First Lady, Kerry WON'T Honor Hater of U.S., Jews and Jewish State

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Samira Ibrahim did not care about eliminating violence towards Israelis or Americans, she rejoiced when that happened - she's no 'Woman of Courage.'

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Turkish Youth in Holland: Hitler Should Have Killed All the Jews (video)

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Edmond says that discussions of killing Jews is practically as common in Turkey as are discussions of killing rodents or invasive plants in other parts of the world.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media

You Know Who Destroyed the Israeli Buses for Arab Towns

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Whoever actually burned the buses, the fire was lit by the anti-Israel - or just lazy - media and their fans. So now no Israeli public buses will serve the Arab towns.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Liberal Oberlin College: Outbreak of Racist, Anti-Gay, Anti-Semitic Incidents

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, was the first college in the United States to admit women into coeducational classes, and one of the first to admit non-white students. It's reputation is first and foremost as a liberal school with "progressive values." But over the past few weeks a string of incidents that attack the sensibilities […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Research Shows Nazi Camps Twice as Vast as Thought

By Jewish Press News Desk

Previously it was presumed that these institutions numbered around 20,000.

Middle East / Levant / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Jews are Number One Target of Hate Speech in Turkey

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Jews were the most frequent targets of hate speech in Turkey, followed closely by Armenians.

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Associating with Jewish Community Keeps Grave Vandal Out of Jail

By JTA

A New Zealand man who admitted to desecrating Jewish graves with anti-Semitic graffiti at a historic cemetery in Auckland avoided prison because he has established bonds with the Jewish community. Robert Moulden, 19, was sentenced by Judge Russell Collins in Auckland District Court Wednesday to 320 hours of community service work. He was also ordered […]

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

Oxford Students Resoundingly Reject BDS Movement

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Oxford students voted 69 - 10 to defeat a motion that would have required them to support and promote the economic and political anti-Israel warfare method known as the BDS movement.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Detroit Jewish Leader on Pro-Nazi and Convicted Killer’s Hit List

By JTA

The FBI warned the head of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit that his name was on the hit list of a convicted killer and neo-Nazi sympathizer. Scott Kaufman, CEO of the Detroit federation, was told last week that his name was on a list in a notebook kept by a Toledo man who was […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Greek Entertainer under Fire for Swastika-Star of David Logo

By JTA

Greece’s Jewish community has complained to authorities in Athens after a controversial entertainer used a symbol of an intertwined swastika and a Star of David to promote his night club shows. “The design depicted on the poster fiercely insults our very religion as well as the memory of the six million Jews, victims of the […]

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Islamists

House Subcommittee to Meet on ‘Worsening Anti-Semitism’

By JTA

The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on human rights will convene a hearing on anti-Semitism Wednesday, saying it is worsening, especially in Europe. "It is getting demonstrably worse all over the world, but especially Europe," said Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who is chairman of the subcommittee and also co-chairs the U.S. Helsinki […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

British MP Storming Out: 'I Don't Debate with Israelis' (Video)

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Israeli-British student said Galloway should be barred from the House of Commons. "He clearly had a problem not because I am Israeli - I'm sure he would have talked to an Israeli Arab, he didn't want to talk to me because I am an Israeli Jew," Aslan-Levy said.

Antisemitism / News Briefs

Attack on British Soccer Fans in France Appears to be Anti-Semitic

By JTA

Fans of the British soccer team the Tottenham Spurs were targeted by an apparent anti-Semitic attack at a pub in Lyon, France. The Spurs traditionally have had a large Jewish support base in London, which is sometimes referred to as the "Yid Army." Some 50 attackers entered the Smoking Dog on Wednesday night making a […]

US / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Schumer Cites Hagel's Tears, but Smears Jewish Conservatives

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Schumer provided inaccurate information about other matters Wednesday morning. He said that "there is not a major Jewish organization against Hagel." That's not true.

NY / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

Civil Rights Violations, Lies & Audiotape: B'klyn College Still in Spotlight

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

We are now in a situation where there seems to be no two ways about it - someone is lying, maybe several people. And school officials, both administration representatives as well as faculty members were on the scene - so if the students were unfairly ejected, an apology will hardly suffice.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Frum Law Prof's Charming Legal Case for Israel

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Kontorovich says, "international opinion is squarely against Israel, and if international law were a popularity contest, Israel would be voted off the island. But the whole point of international law is to buffer international politics, rather than serve them."

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Jewish MP Asks Liberal Democrats to Condemn anti-Semitic Members

By JTA

Two Liberal Democrat lawmakers last month suggested Israel shouldn't be judged according to special standards because of the Holocaust.

Antisemitism / News Briefs

Hitler’s Food Taster Says He Was a Vulgar Vegetarian

By Jewish Press News Desk

He never ate meat and she does not remember him eating fish.

NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Brooklyn College BDS Event: Just One Example of 'Hostile Environment'?

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The letter lays out a litany of concerns regarding the intimidating atmosphere for students within Brooklyn College's political science department

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Islamists

100 Imams to Commemorate Holocaust near Paris

By JTA

Some 100 imams will commemorate the Holocaust at a memorial monument near Paris. Monday's event is planned for Drancy, a suburb of the French capital where tens of thousands of Jews were confined in 1942 before being transported to extermination camps during the German Nazi occupation, according to a report in the French daily Le Figaro. The paper called […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt

Conspiracy Theory Claims Muslim Brotherhood Allied with Jews

By Jewish Press Staff

Dubai Police Chief has recently attempted to discredit the Brotherhood by alleging a nefarious allegiance to Israel and Jews.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Sunday Times Apologizes for Netanyahu Cartoon

By JTA

The Sunday Times of London apologized for publishing an editorial cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as cement.

Israel / Antisemitism

NYT: Fans Mirror Israel's Racism—Ignores Europe's Hate Stadiums

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Like Europeans, Israelis are mad for their soccer.  For some, soccer is the true religion of the Middle East,  one shared by Muslims and Jews alike. But just as in Europe, not all soccer fans follow the normal rules of civility, and the behavior of some fans of one Israeli soccer team in particular, Jerusalem […]

NY / Antisemitism

Brooklyn College Students Explain Academic Freedom to BC Profs, Admin.

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

"Like the right to free speech, academic freedom rights are not unbounded; the department has basically yelled “fire” on campus, and locked the doors to their department after doing so."

Terrorism / Israel / Antisemitism / Media

Arab Media Run Out of Incitement, Rehash ‘Israel-9/11’ Libel

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Two Arabic language websites in Britain and Egypt, banking on the theory that people will believe a lie if you tell it often enough, have dug out the “Blame Israel for 9/11” libel again.

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

Brooklyn College Poli-Sci Supporting Academic Boycotts of Israel

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Ironically, given its promotion of an event that would silence academics, BC's Poli-Sci department is defending its involvement in the event by invoking "academic freedom."

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

MP May Face Disciplinary Action over Israel Remarks

By Jewish Press Staff

Ward appeared on television to defend his comments and reinforce his point, but on Sunday he changed his tune.

Antisemitism / News Briefs

UPDATE: Holocaust Day Commemorated with Hate

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

There are some who insist that Israel is a modern day version of the grand masters of genocide.

Antisemitism / News Briefs

London Sunday Times Anti-Israel Cartoon Called ‘Blood Libel’

By JTA

The cartoon published on Sunday, which was International Holocaust Memorial Day.

Antisemitism / News Briefs

Brazilian Neo-Nazi Gets 3 Years in Jail

By JTA

A Brazilian judge sentenced a man to 35 months in jail for giving Jewish students a Nazi salute and exposing his swastika tattoo.

Arts / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Dutch Stolen Art Committee Dismisses Katz Family’s 188 Claims

By JTA

A panel of experts advised the Dutch government to return only one painting out of 189 claimed by relatives of a Holocaust-era art collector.

Terrorism / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists

Hotel Owner who Kicked Jews Out Hosting Anti-Jihadists

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Geller promises she and Spencer will partake in a proudly Zionist event in the Shangri-La Hotel, "we will talk forthrightly about the roots of Islamic antisemitism in the Quran and other Islamic texts."

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Sec. Camera Shows Man Throwing Brick at LA Temple (Video)

By Jewish Press Staff

Temple Israel was vandalized back in November, when someone wrote anti-Semitic graffiti on the building.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

EU Parliament Pres: ‘Jews live in fear in Europe’

By JTA

Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but the European Union will make sure they are not harmed, the president of the European Parliament said.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Hungarian Lawmaker to Speak on ‘Zionist Threat’

By JTA

A lawmaker from Hungary’s Jobbik Party who recently called for listing Jews as a “security risk” reportedly is planning a lecture tour about the “Zionist threat.”

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Arab Snow Attackers Apprehended

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Police arrest everyone involved in the anti-Semitic attack in Jerusalem.

NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Settlements

NY Times' Kristof: AIPAC and NRA Are Like Pigs

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

"The settlements erode hope ... of a peace agreement in the future."

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Italian Soccer Players Honor Jewish Coach Killed in Holocaust

By JTA

Italian soccer players expressed their opposition to racism by honoring a Jewish coach who was killed in the Holocaust.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

EU Places Holocaust Memorial on Official Calendar

By JTA

The European Union has incorporated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, into its official calendar.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media

'Google Play' Apps: ‘Inspiring’ Hitler Quotes

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

In the user review section, the free English-language app is described as a “great moral booster,” by one of the 1,060 reviewers who downloaded the app.

Middle East / Levant / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists

Hitler Honored in Upscale Instanbul Mall

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Turkey is now not only openly hostile to the Jewish State, but also to the Jewish people.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Sports

Anti-Semitic Messages Target Israeli Soccer Player in U.K.

By JTA

British soccer fans reportedly wrote anti-Semitic messages on the Facebook page of a local British club shortly after it hired an Israeli player.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Rav Ovadiah Yosef Hospitalized After Stroke.

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Saturday morning, Rav Ovadiah Yosef, the spiritual leader of the Shas party, was taken to Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem after not feeling well. Rav Ovadiah reportedly suffered a minor stroke. It was decided that Rav Ovadiah will stay in the hospital a few more days for observation. The rabbi did not lose […]

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