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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.
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.
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.”
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 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.”
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)
A total of 15 hate crimes targeting Jewish people were reported—a 275 percent increase compared to the four incidents the year before.
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.
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 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.
Speaker Levy becomes the first Israeli head of parliament to address the Bundestag.
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 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)
U.S. Jewish organizations outraged at Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II’s “unacceptable,” “dangerous” remarks.
To date, Stanford has refused to recognize the problem or take appropriate corrective action to address it.
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)
“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.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
According to the U.S. State Department's Population, Refugees, and Migrations Bureau, the funds will "provide education, health care, and emergency relief to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children and families during a time of need."
“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.
“Glad you woke up, guys, and welcome to the club.”
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.”
Within hours after a campaign was started to help clean up the center, more than $91,000 was raised, almost double the funds needed.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Patrols in the city are to be increased during the holiday of Hanukkah.
The letter was written when Einstein was living in Princeton, New Jersey, several years after the Nazi rise to power and his decision never to return to Germany.
“Give me an example of one Muslim state with possibly the exception of Morocco, where Jews and other religions live and prosper as minorities."
Wynton Marsalis said: “We are many, let us also be one, unified in our embrace of humanism, cultural excellence and democracy. Let us not be tribal.”
22 percent said they had changed their habits when it comes to going out.
A member of the anti-Semitic "Goyim Defense League" stood atop a highway overpass not too far from the Dell JCC, gave the Nazi salute and unfurled a banner that read “Vax the Jews.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sunrise GW said that it does not support a “litmus test on Jewish students” to be part of its movement and is instead focused on “ending the era of fossil fuels, winning a Green New Deal and creating millions of good jobs in the process.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While it remains unclear how it came about, the company called it “inappropriate” and removed the words after being alerted by JNS.
“This bill could and should have been stopped at the legislative level and must not be forced on the Jewish community to fight in each of California’s 1,300 school districts.
"We believe it is impossible to contain the anti-Semitism emerging from CSJ without rejecting the imposition of CSJ."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Politico was the first to report in February that Fritz Berggren, a U.S. foreign service officer, has been publishing on his website Bloodandfaith.com material that attacks Jews and the LGBTQ community, and calls for the creation of Christian nation-states.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Long Island community joined area municipalities that have also decided to actively confront the issue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
South Korea is the first country in Asia to endorse the official definition, reported Akiva Tor, Israel’s Ambassador to the Republic of Korea.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The five major social-media companies failed to act upon 84 percent of anti-Semitic posts on their platforms.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“UNRWA once again proves that it is not a humanitarian organization but an organization that encourages terrorism under the auspices of UN hypocrisy,” Ambassador Erdan stated.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The report examined the online statements of UNRWA employees and teachers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will direct the state’s Hate Crimes Task Force to help investigate the incident.
This video explores the connection between Jews as a people, Judaism as a religion, and Israel as a state. It also shows how this connection is intrinsic to the link between antisemitism and anti-Zionism; something too often overlooked or misunderstood.
Every Jewish Caucus member supported the bill in the Assembly vote.
Michael Park, 32, was first arrested on Saturday after police responded to a report of an assault of a 33-year-old Jewish man.
Rossman-Benjamin was the first to expose how the discipline of Critical Ethnic Studies is deeply antisemitic and anti-Zionist.
Brandeis Center and StandWithUs demand action.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We condemn the disgraceful comments made by [Omar] in a CNN interview in which she accused her Jewish Congressional colleagues, along with the Jewish people as a whole, of not being committed to the pursuit of justice,” Conference of Presidents chair Dianne Lob, CEO William Daroff and vice chair Malcolm Hoenlein said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A second Montreal kosher bakery target of attempted arson attack
“No matter what your views on Israel, using Nazi imagery to describe it is not only inaccurate and offensive, but deeply anti-Semitic,” said Scott Richman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League NY/NJ.
Education in Israel about Diaspora Jewry is far less common than learning about Israel in America.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The group allegedly knocked Joseph Borgen to the ground and then punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and beat him with crutches while making anti-Semitic remarks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Yossie Shemtov, executive director of Chabad Lubavitch of Tucson, stated: “We are determined not to be affected by this distressing incident and will continue serving the wider community.”
By Israel Hayom
Kamau Bobb wrote that Jews have “insatiable appetite for war, killing” • Antisemitism is a “vile prejudice” and has “no place in society,” says tech giant.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Bahrain voted in favor of the resolution along with other countries with poor human-rights records, including China, Russia, Cuba, Libya, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Pakistan and Venezuela.
Over the past few weeks, we have reported several major anti-Semitic attacks in New York City.
"We urge you to take the lead once again in opposing this dangerous bill."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
HRW’s report is part of a concerted campaign over the past 18 months to interject the term ‘apartheid’ into discourse about Israel.
The event also featured musical performances and a poetry recital, centered on the theme of interfaith relations.
The Unidas Podemos and Más Madrid parties, as well as presidential candidate Pablo Iglesias, have a history of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel action and rhetoric.
Avoiding this designation was Norway, which has a comprehensive national plan to combat the scourge, as well as sufficient funds for security measures to protect the Jewish community.
The Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum in stark contrast to what legislators intended when they approved the bill.
By Israel Hayom
“It is understandable that the level of anxiety is rising and concerns about communal safety are on everyone's minds,” says Anti-Defamation League national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish victims comprise some 50 percent of crimes in this category with Muslims at 10 percent, and Catholics and other religions at 3 percent each.
Most profoundly concerning for the Jewish community is the portrayal of Jews, filtered through the lens of Critical Ethnic Studies, as ‘white’ and ‘privileged’.
A new policy paper by the Reut Institute, commissioned by the Julis Foundation for Multi-Disciplinary Thinking, suggests that a new strain of anti-Semitism is arising within the contemporary progressive discourse. A phenomenon Reut calls "erasive anti-Semitism," refers to the largely unintended consequence of contemporary progressive discourse, which de-facto negates the rights of Jews individually or […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The controversial story was moved to the archives on NBC (but not deleted), as per an editor’s note.
Free expression of their Jewish identity, a fair education, a safe learning environment, a comprehensive definition of antisemitism, and a fair protections.
The third draft curriculum is now being reviewed by the State Board of Education and is likely to be approved in March with few changes.
The Academy of Science will issue its own statement on the adoption of the IHRA working definition on January 26.
By Avi Ciment
This week, I spoke to a liberal friend of mine and reminded myself to avoid politics. When he said Trump was the single worst president for Israel and Jews, I had to bite my tongue a little harder than usual.
Tlaib is worried that the incoming Jewish Secretary of State may (somehow) suppress her right to support BDS and criticize Israel.
The complaint makes clear that UIUC can protect the victims of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on its campus without violating the First Amendment.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Out of 1,650 religious-motivated hate crimes, 60.3 percent, or almost 995, were anti-Jewish.
Rabbi Shlomo Litvin said “people have knocked on our door to say they are sorry this happened. I’ve also gotten texts, emails and calls of support from all over the country; it’s been very meaningful.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Someone that I’ve never met, never seen, hates me for a reason I can’t control, because of who I was born to be,” said Seth Blattman.
By Eliana Rudee
Human-rights investigative journalist Edwin Black calls it one of the most “insidious Jewish organizations” out there, attacking Jewish communal structures from within.
Facebook and TikTok, however, each sent a senior representative in the same week that Facebook also banned Holocaust denial on its platform.
Neighbors reported on Monday the large bright yellow swastika on the hood of a car. The windshield was covered in paint as well. The police were notified.
Adherents to the conspiracy theory claim that the “liberal elite,” including Democratic politicians and Jewish billionaire George Soros, are part of a secret faction to overthrow the president.
This year’s presidential campaign has carried unprecedented implications for Jewish identity.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UN blacklist only includes Jewish, and not Arab-owned, Israeli companies- clear discrimination and a violation of the UN charter.
Pickles has long been one of the strongest, most prominent public voices against anti-Semitism in the UK.
Anti-Defamation League’s Dr. Sharon S. Nazarian also addressed “complexities” of Jewish community’s approach to Black Lives Matter.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Anti-Defamation League has labeled Duke as “perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite.”
“I’m not an anti-Semite. My manager of 25 years is a white Jew,” Klein recalled Ice Cube telling him. “I’ve been to Jewish, pro-Israel events.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The victim was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The only names on Omar's list are Jewish ones: billionaire Jonathan Gray, retired real estate executive Stanley Weinstein and billionaire hedge-fund owner Seth Klarman.
Now Twitter has claimed that the policy was directed only at "yellow stars." But in reality regular Star of David images were banned.
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