By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish organizations call to “barrage” the extreme right candidate and vote for incumbent Emmanuel Macron
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tishby has been charged with raising awareness of delegitimization efforts against Israel and advocating against hate towards Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We hope that it can serve as an easily adaptable reference point to address the needs of all vulnerable communities on the receiving end of online harm,” said the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sen. Rick Scott said the bill is intended to send a message that America will not support the “radical left’s dangerous anti-Israel agenda.”
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) had some questions about re-entering the Iran nuclear deal—namely, about the IRGC. For those inquiries, he said he received an unwarranted backlash.
Unilever also declined to refute the facts that termination would cause “irreparable harm” to AQP and Zinger.
Albanese has repeatedly equated the "Nakba" with the Nazi Holocaust, accusing Israel of apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes.
According to media reports, Thomas Develin posted a photo of himself holding a gun with the message, “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem.”
According to media reports, Thomas Develin posted a photo of himself holding a gun with the message, “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem.”
The Holocaust historian and Emory University professor's nomination was brought to the floor of the Senate by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), who asked for unanimous consent.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Mendy Greenberg told Florida’s “Fox 4” that he hopes the teens will develop an appreciation for Judaism, and “hopefully, in the future, they’ll be advocates for the Jewish community.”
Such a curriculum would “marginalize Jewish students and fuel hatred and discrimination against the Jewish community.”
The man posted the video of his hate crime on TikTok.
865 entities around the world have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism since 2016.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Community Security Trust is asking witnesses and victims to report the crimes to the police.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel's UN Mission pointed out that UN's Michael Lynk is “well known for his blatant and disturbing anti-Israel views. "
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Titled “Faculty Academic Boycotters: Ground Zero for Campus Antisemitism,” it explored anti-Semitic activity at universities starting from the onset of the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza last May through the end of the 2020-21 academic year.
The study provides evidence that MESA’s likely adoption of academic BDS would be disastrous.
Combat Antisemitism Movement and Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center Report shows 865 entities have adopted or endorsed the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism amid growing global acceptance.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Sierra Club, historically a pioneer in promoting an environmentally clean world, has suddenly become an anti-Semitic polluter by caving to extremist anti-peace groups who seek to demonize, delegitimize and eliminate the democratic Jewish state,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper.
Im Tirtzu has resumed filming EAPPI's activities and put up large banners in Hebron informing IDF soldiers about the illegal presence of the accompaniers.
“That is something that nobody has talked about or tracked before—that media could actually make a difference in making the world a safer place,” said Daniel Pomerantz, CEO of HonestReporting.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish groups including the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Louisville and the National Council of Jewish Women’s Louisville Section condemned Bentley's remarks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Latrell Williams was detained by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday on two preliminary charges of battery with a deadly weapon for his alleged involvement in the shooting on Saturday.
It was exposed that European funding was sent to leftwing organizations to demonize Israeli citizens.
At Valley Park Middle School, a student in an 8th-grade class shouted “Heil Hitler” from his desk as two other students stood on a filing cabinet and performed a Nazi salute.
By Eve Glover
Residents of Colleyville are still shaken up from the terror attack in January,
American Jewish concerns such as rising anti-Semitism are in fact shared concerns for the Jewish communities on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They have been found in San Francisco; Beverly Hills, Calif.; Miami Beach and Surfside, Fla.; as well as in states like Maryland, Colorado and Wisconsin.
“My friend’s daughter had to leave USC because she couldn't deal with the harassment and threats because she was Jewish and supported Israel.”
Every Saturday morning for 18 years, protesters have gathered outside Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Mich., as congregants arrived for services carrying signs such as “Israel: No right to exist,” “Jewish power corrupts” and “Israel attacked America 9/11/2001.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On the positive side, nine “adoptions and endorsements” of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of anti-Semitism were recorded.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Assistance will go to synagogues in the heavily Jewish neighborhoods of Midwood, Kensington, Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Borough Park and Flatbush with a capacity of fewer than 200 people and little staff.
The initiative was launched after a tumultuous summer of violence last year.
According to the reportm Navi Pillay, a retired South African judge and former UN human rights chief, violated UN rules by failing to disclose numerous of her prior statements that directly prejudge the matters before the inquiry.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Unilever is seeking a “new arrangement” for sales in (parts of) Israel before the end of the year.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Salem Health Department and Board of Health officials, especially those with Jewish-sounding names, have been receiving targeted threats online and via voicemail.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move comes after anti-Semitic fliers were distributed last month to hundreds of homes in there and in Miami Beach.
The Anti-Defamation League New York/New Jersey region tweeted that the image “draws from the worst of millennia-old anti-Semitic tropes about Jews. At a time of rising anti-Semitism, this is not only irresponsible but dangerous. This image should never have been published.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Unbought Power LLC is led by Rasha Mubarak, who describes herself as a “Palestinian Muslim American community activist.”
Some 32 percent of parents say their children have been the target of anti-Semitic insults, with 18 percent say their children have been physically attacked in 2021.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The United States and Israel left UNESCO in December 2018 after the organization passed several anti-Israel resolutions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Pro-Israel America is calling on J Street PAC to drop its endorsement of Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.)
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A total of 15 hate crimes targeting Jewish people were reported—a 275 percent increase compared to the four incidents the year before.
"Amnesty's report is merely another anti-Israel hit job made possible by foreign governments who employ radical anti-Zionist Israeli NGOs."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The decision still needs Knesset approval.
Professors maligned Jews as white, privileged oppressors, and advanced age-old tropes concerning Jewish power.
By Sean Savage
“Fighting bigotry should not be a competition between minority groups; it’s not a zero-sum game,” said Denise Katz-Prober, director of legal initiatives at the Brandeis Center.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“You represent the United States of America. Tone down the Judaism in your work,” a State Department official told David Friedman.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dani Dayan welcomed the talk-show host’s “important” apology for stating that the Holocaust “wasn’t about race,” but said her remarks were evidence of a “fundamental misunderstanding” regarding the nature of anti-Semitism.
By David Isaac
“[Dr. J. Herbert] Nelson’s remarks were so offensive and inflammatory that people who would normally just sit on the sidelines and throw up their hands, even they have been moved to say, ‘We can’t allow this,’ ” said Rev. Todd Stavrakos, a co-convener of Presbyterians for Middle East Peace.
Member of Parliament Diane Abbott tweeted: “Shocking abuse and harassment of Orthodox Jews in Stamford Hill Hackney. Important that the perpetrators are swiftly brought to justice.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
In his letter, Zinger stated that Unilever, which operates without interruption in Israel and receives unprecedented regulatory benefits, and the IDF continues to purchase products worth millions of shekels a year from the company.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Multiple swastikas were found drawn Friday on the columns of Union Station in Washington, D.C., one day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Malaki Thorpe, 18, is facing two counts of racially aggravated actual bodily harm and one count of possession of an offensive weapon.
The brothers Samuel and Joseph Schutz were among the first Jews to arrive in the area in 1856.
By COLlive.com
The attacker threatened the woman, saying, “you little Jewish girl better get off this train before I hurt you."
Speaker Levy becomes the first Israeli head of parliament to address the Bundestag.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Joining in the announcement were various faith leaders, including those from the Orthodox Union, one of the groups calling for the increase.
Gabriel Network is an Israeli startup that develops smart technology for security and safety incidents.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Civil servant Michael Blume defends allegations of impropriety by going on the offensive against his Jewish accusers.
Lifting of Covid lockdowns in Europe and Operation Guardian of the Walls led to a dramatic increase in antisemitism.
“This survey reveals the urgency of studying the multidimensionality of Israeli-European relation."
By COLlive.com
The two students were walking past 1505 Carroll Street near Troy Avenue, heading to their Yeshiva dorm, at approximately 1:30 am, when the incident occurred.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
“I would hope that she understands the severity of what she did,” Aryeh Fried told CBS New York. “To do it to anybody is obviously problematic, but for an adult to do it to a child is just beyond crazy.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Nadav Caine of Beth Israel Congregation has criticized the “hateful propaganda” being promoted by the anti-Israel demonstrators.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Jewish organizations outraged at Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II’s “unacceptable,” “dangerous” remarks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In the the call he made from Beth Israel temple to his brother in the UK, Malik Faisal Akram said he came to America on a jihadi mission.
Hate crime statistics show that crimes targeting Jews comprised 54.9% of all crimes against a religious minority.
By Alan Zeitlin
“I don’t understand why the bail was so low,” Blake Zavadsky said. “$1,000 is nothing."
To date, Stanford has refused to recognize the problem or take appropriate corrective action to address it.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Shmueli’s sister wrote on Facebook after the Wikipedia deletion that “I thought it could not be more painful.”
The bus will allow easy access to students, educators, police, faith groups, and professionals to critical training on anti-Semitism, racism, bullying, stereotyping, hate, and intolerance.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dustin Wilkerson, 37, was charged with aggravated criminal damage for throwing rocks last month at Kol Ami Synagogue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Hussain Altamimi has made false, hateful, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel accusations on Instagram,” ZOA national president Morton Klein said in a letter sent to the New York legislator.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Students with Holocaust education are more likely to stand up to negative stereotyping and challenge incorrect, biased information,” said director of teen programming Aaron Kischel.
“We’ve never had any formal arrangement or ties with groups like CSS. This is the first time we are entering into this type of arrangement,” said Rabbi David Warshaw, president of NCYI, a network of 100 Orthodox synagogues across the United States.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UAWC is one of six PFLP-linked civilian organizations that Israel proscribed in October after they were shown to act as conduits for funneling funds to the terrorist organization.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Rabbi YY Rubinstein’s courageous and principled decision to resign as a broadcaster at the BBC is just the latest sign of the collapse in the Jewish community’s confidence in the corporation," Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said in a statement.
“People in the human rights community were looking for a cause to replace the South African anti-apartheid movement, and they found it in Tutu. It’s a tragic part of his story and a real problem for his historical legacy,” said Dexter Van Zile, a Christian media analyst for CAMERA.
By UN Watch
In an April 2021 secret ballot, the UN’s Economic and Social Council elected Iran's gender apartheid regime to a 4-year term on its Commission on the Status of Women.
The global conglomerate continues to come under fire after ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s boycott decision.
“The UN’s assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions is surreal,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On Dec. 2, the LSGA passed a resolution that calls on CUNY to cut all ties with companies that “aid in or profit from Israeli colonization, occupation and war crimes.”
By COLlive.com
The shul has been using the land to build a sukkah since 1963. Mohammed Farag, their neighbor, bought his house adjacent to the land in 2016.
“This is not the first time Duke has faced incidents of anti-Semitism on its campus.”
“Glad you woke up, guys, and welcome to the club.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The NGO-Monitor report was published ahead of a special Knesset conference on the de-legitimization of Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The treasurers of Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, Nebraska, West Virginia, Louisiana and Mississippi sent a letter to Unilever CEO Alan Jope and the company’s board of directors on Thursday demanding that it override its subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s decision on the issue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Seventeen colleges brought BDS measures up for a vote by the student government in 2020-21, and 11 have passed them.
Michael Levitt, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, said members understood “that censure would set a chilling precedent and impact trustees’ abilities to stand up to hate and discrimination.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Combat Antisemitism Movement noted that in the past week, there were “67 new media reports of anti-Semitic incidents—a 36.9 percent increase over last week.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Limited will no longer audit the Union of Agricultural Work Committees or Defense for Children International Palestine.
Within hours after a campaign was started to help clean up the center, more than $91,000 was raised, almost double the funds needed.
Noah Shack, vice president at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, urged the Toronto District School Board to take “immediate, meaningful and reparative action to fix the rot of anti-Semitism, particularly with its Human Rights Office.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The student union at a branch of the University of Toronto said it will modify a ban on kosher food that is part of a resolution endorsing the BDS movement against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.N. General Assembly passed three resolutions this week that targeted Israel, which brings the total to 14 resolutions being adopted in the next month that single out the Jewish state.
The Dec. 2 program included a talk by a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group in both Canada and the United States.
“I think it is an embarrassment to society,” said Rabbi Nechemia Deitsch, director of Chabad of Midtown in Toronto, which services the student population. “The fact that there is this hatred in the air is due completely to a lack of education.”
By Eve Glover
“A requirement that providers of food as a religious accommodation be required to apply for an exemption, or even be asked about their views about issues elsewhere in the world is unacceptable,” said Gertler’s statement.