Jerusalem Timeline
5/27/2020 A new report
by ADL (Anti-Defamation League) is providing a disturbing picture of the
state of affairs on U.S. college campuses where the anti-Israeli
activities inevitably morphing into blatant anti-Semitism.
Targeted propaganda in social media and many student publications
equates Zionism to racism and white supremacism. Often times pro-Israel
students are targeted for harassment.
(Link to complete report)
6/21/2020
Oldest hatred rears its head: New York Times
justifies black anti-Semitism.
(Link to complete report)
6/15/2020
Opinion: The Day I Was Told to Check My ‘Jew
Privilege’.
(Link to complete report)
5/27/2020 A new report
by ADL (Anti-Defamation League) is providing a disturbing picture of the
state of affairs on U.S. college campuses where the anti-Israeli
activities inevitably morphing into blatant anti-Semitism.
Targeted propaganda in social media and many student publications
equates Zionism to racism and white supremacism. Often times pro-Israel
students are targeted for harassment or excluded from the campus life.
(Link to complete report)
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Amid Fury Over Sarah Halimi Murder Trial Decision,
French Jewish Leader Questions Judicial Willingness to Confront Islamist
Antisemitism. (The Algemeiner)
Pro-Israel students from 30 university campuses
across the United States and Canada gathered last week in New York City
for a three-day conference to learn about defending Israel effectively,
confidently and unapologetically at their schools. (JNS.org)
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. (LEVITICUS 19:18)
Anti-Semitism Tracker
1/16/2021 - “Zoom bombers” in Italy crashed the online launch of a book about the Holocaust and shouted antisemitic abuse, including “Jews, we’ll burn you in ovens.” The Jan. 10 incident on the videoconferencing platform came during the presentation of a book titled “The Generation of the Desert” by Lia Tagliacozzo, a Jewish author who was born to Holocaust survivors, La Republica reported. (Link to full story).
1/15/2021 - Jewish community leaders in Belgium have expressed outrage at the publication of an official brochure that “glorifies” two collaborators with the Nazi occupation during World War II. The two collaborators, Auguste Borms and Staf De Clercq, were described by the Belgian newspaper De Standaard as “notorious Nazi sympathizers,” who were now being honored by Flemish parliamentarians for their role in “shaping the emancipation of language and people”. (Link to full story).
1/15/2021 - A Montreal synagogue that was attended by legendary poet and singer Leonard Cohen during his life was targeted by anti-Semitic vandals on Wednesday. A series of large swastikas were daubed in black paint on the doors of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, a 160-year-old Modern Orthodox synagogue that performed Cohen’s funeral when the performer passed away in 2016. (Link to full story).
1/13/2021 - A new study of educational materials used by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which serves Palestinian refugees, has found that the materials contain anti-Israel and antisemitic racism, encouragement of terrorism and jihad, and rejection of peace with the Jewish state. (Link to full story).
1/12/2021 - The grassroots Jewish civil rights movement "End Jew Hatred" blasted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s California home on Monday with audio recordings of Holocaust-denying Tweets which currently live on the tech billionaire’s platform. End Jew Hatred blames Twitter's CEO for his inaction when users on his platform spread harmful lies about the systematic murder of 6 million Jews. (Link to full story).
1/12/2021 - Several Israeli-affiliated restaurants were vandalized with "free Palestine" graffiti over the weekend in Portland, Oregon, local media reported. The Portland Police Bureau is reportedly investigating three separate incidents of such restaurants being vandalized at around the same time. These include a vegan hummus restaurant from Israeli chef Tal Caspi called Aviv and two branches of Shalom Y'all. (Link to full story).
1/11/2021 - The wall of a Jewish cemetery near the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland was defaced with swastikas and other Nazi symbols over the weekend, prompting local officials to condemn the vandalism and promise to crack down on those responsible. Janusz Chwierut, the mayor of Oświęcim, as the town is known in Polish, on Sunday condemned the “fascist symbols” and called on local law enforcement to find and prosecute the perpetrators. (Link to full story).
1/10/2021 - From a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt to swastika flags, hate symbols were on full display during the riot at the U.S. capitol last Wednesday. This wasn’t the first time anti-Semites joined election protests, with a hatemonger donning a T-shirt that said “6MWE” at a December 12 event protesting the U.S. election’s results. 6MWE stands for “six million wasn’t enough,” (Link to full story).
1/10/2021 - Following the collection of abuse hurled at Scotland's Celtic Israeli midfielder Nir Bitton during his tenure with the soccer club, Scottish Justice Minister Humza Yousaf issued a statement condemning the racism. (Linkt to full story).
1/9/2021 - A graduate researcher and teaching assistant (TA) at Johns Hopkins University's chemistry department has suggested penalizing Zionist students for being pro-Israel, according to a series of letters sent from StandWithUs to the university. Rasha Anayah, a graduate student in the chemistry department at the Baltimore school, defended what she called her fair treatment of students in response to the poll she posted on Twitter on Nov. 15, the Forward reported Thursday. (Link to full story).
1/9/2021 - A Confederate flag was discovered outside a Jewish museum in Lower Manhattan early Friday, prompting officials to condemn the hurtful stunt and call on the authorities to investigate. The flag, which has been adopted by far-right extremists, was tied overnight to the front door of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park, the museum said. (Link to full story).
1/8/2021 - The “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt worn by a neo-Nazi rioter storming the US Capitol is sold by a company with ties to the Big Apple, it was revealed Friday. The sweatshirt with the phrase “work brings freedom” is for sale on the TeeHands website, which includes a Manhattan address on East 85th Street under the site’s “store information” section. (Link to full story).
1/8/2021 - An anti-Semitic flag was found in the Glendale area of Los Angeles on January 7. The Stop Antisemitism.org watchdog tweeted out a picture of the flag and described it as “an Israeli flag with blood and bones replacing the Star of David along with #COVID19.” According to Stop Antisemitism, the Glendale Police Department removed the flag. (Link to full story).
1/8/2021 - After Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine condemned the honoring of Nazi collaborators in the former Soviet republic, dozens of people rallied outside the Israeli Embassy in Kyiv demanding that Jews apologize for Soviet oppression. The far-right activists called on Israel and the Jews to assume responsibility specifically for Holodomor, a famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s and is widely believed to have been caused by the government of Joseph Stalin, then the leader of the Soviet Union. (Link to full story).
1/8/2021 - The storming of Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon by militant supporters of President Donald Trump featured several instances of anti-Semitic agitation, from a virulent Holocaust denier who helped ransack House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office to various individuals who displayed far-right and neo-Nazi slogans and symbols. (Link to full story).
1/7/2021 - “We are more united than ever, nobody is going to break us, and nobody who has nothing to do with our province because they are like the Jews, out there they have no homeland and do not know where they are.”. This was the reprehensible anti-Semitic comment issued by the national deputy Pablo Ansaloni during a virtual chat in which he spoke about the representation of the rural workers union (UATRE). (Link to full story).
1/7/2021 - A pro-Trump protester confronted and harassed a reporter for the Israeli Channel 13 news during the riots at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday. The protester, referred to as Marc, can be seen in a broadcast by the news channel asking the reporter why Israel "continues to take American aid," to which the reporter responded, "very good question," and stressed that he does not represent the country. (Link to full story).
1/6/2021 - A Nazi flag was spotted on Monday in the window of an apartment in the Coney Island of Brooklyn, New York, an area that is home to many Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans. The housing management company maintains it doesn’t have the power to order the tenant to take the “most vile symbol of hate down. (Link to ful story).
1/5/2021 - After down-to-the-wire negotiations, United Nations members have adopted a budget for 2021 that was higher than Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed and was strongly opposed by the Trump administration for including money to commemorate the outcome of a 2001 conference in South Africa that it called anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. (Link to full story).
1/5/2021 - A French imam is to be prosecuted for racial hatred over a sermon he delivered in 2017 calling for Muslims to “fight the Jews.” Algerian-born Mohamed Tatai was indicted at the end of 2018 for “public verbal provocation to hatred or violence” following an investigation into the sermon, which he gave at the En Nourr mosque in the Empalot district of the city of Toulouse in December 2017. (Link to full story).
1/4/2021 - Celtic Football Club’s Israeli midfield player Nir Bitton has been subjected to vicious antisemitic abuse after fans rounded on him following the club’s defeat to rivals Rangers. The 29-year-old was branded a “dirty Jew bastard” and a “Zionist rat” in social media posts after Sunday’s Old Firm derby clash. (Link to full story).
1/4/2021 - Major media outlets are playing a role in promoting the lie that Israel is somehow barring Palestinians from getting vaccinated against coronavirus. In March, the Anti-Defamation League published an article on its website called “Coronavirus crisis elevates antisemitic, racist tropes.” (Link to full story).
1/4/2021 - Hundreds of people marched bearing torches in the capital city of Ukraine Friday in an annual tribute to a leader who collaborated with Nazi Germany. Israel’s ambassador condemned the torchlight march Friday in Kyiv in memory of Stepan Bandera, issuing the strongest rebuke yet by an Israeli official of the event, which has grown in scope amid rising nationalism in Ukraine. (Link to full story).
1/3/2021 - A white supremacist group distributed anti-Semitic fliers alleging “Antifa is a Jewish communist militia” on Staten Island over the weekend. The background of the flier depicts the Star of David and includes false claims that “The original Antifa was a Jewish anti-Nazi militia… There is a war against all non-Jewish European-American nationalists.” (Link to full story)
12/31/2020 - A French court this week convicted a 33-year-old man for an attempted assault last September on a Jewish TV presenter at the Paris studio where she works. The court in Nanterre, near Paris, gave a two month suspended sentence to the assailant, named in French news outlets as Samir E. He was convicted for leveling insults and death threats at the presenter, Valerie Benaim, including telling her that he had come “to do battle with the Jews.” (Link to full story).
12/31/2020 - New York City police released footage on Wednesday of a man suspected of vandalizing four Brooklyn synagogues last weekend. In a video published by PIX11 News, the man is seen vandalizing the Young Israel of Midwood, one of a string of similar incidents that took place on Saturday night. The other three synagogues targeted were Kahal Darkei Noam, Khal Toras Chaim D’Flatbush and Knesses Bais Avigdor. (Link to full story).
12/31/2020 - A study has found that anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias is systematically infecting the popular online Wikipedia encyclopedia and fake and misleading information is not only being quoted from Wikipedia, it’s finding its way into the education system. British blogger and independent researcher David Collier did an in depth study of the material relating to Jews and Israel and had the blunt conclusion about the 13th most visited website in the world: “Wikipedia is an anti-Semitic website.” (Link to full story).
12/28/2020 - The BBC is at it again, pushing Palestinian propaganda that Jesus was one of them, rather than a Jewish resident of the territory that was known historically as Judea. The BBC World Service radio program “Heart and Soul,” aired initially on December 18th and available for listening online, was hosted by British theology professor Robert Beckford. Beckford interviewed several people, including one who correctly says that Jesus was a Jewish Judean, but concluded the show by switching back to the Palestinian narrative. (Link to full story).
12/28/2020 - Online seller VOVA removed a Hitler hoodie after complaints. The product, which featured an image of Adolph Hitler, was labeled “Casual Adolf Hitler Funny Graphic Hoodies New Fashion for Men.” (Link to full story).
12/27/2020 - Israeli model Yael Shelbia was named 2020’s most beautiful woman in the world, gaining plaudits for her looks, but also some nasty anti-Israel comments on her Instagram account and the YouTube. The YouTube video announcing the list has already received 1.3 million views and over 27 thousand comments, including some derogatory insults owing to Shelbia being Jewish and Israeli. (Link to full story).
12/27/2020 - A Tunisian musician who collaborated with an Israeli singer on a song promoting religious tolerance between Muslims and Jews has faced serious backlash, including reportedly being fired from his job at a state broadcaster and death threats on social media. The song “Peace Between Neighbors,” released last week, was performed by Israeli Ziv Yehezkel, a religious Mizrahi Jew who sings primarily in Arabic, and Tunisian music producer and composer Noamane Chaari. (Link to full story).
12/27/2020 - A knife wielding man chasing a Jewish girl in Crown Heights Sunday morning was stopped thanks to the intervention of a Crown Heights hero. The incident unfolded at approximately 10:00am on Schenectady Ave when two Jewish men saw a man, described as an African American male wearing a red jacket, chasing a Jewish girl. One of the Jewish men began yelling at knife wielding male, diverting his attention and allowing the girl to escape. (Link to full story).
12/25/2020 - Graffiti reading “good Jew dead Jew’ and “murdering Jews we will hang you” were written on the gate of a Jewish cemetery near Madrid, Spain. The graffiti, featuring spelling mistakes in Spanish and some German-language words, were spray-painted in Hoyo de Manzanares, a northern suburb of the capital, on Wednesday night. (Link to full story).
12/25/2020 - The vandalism had occurred the previous Friday when Takoma Park, MD Police were called to a vehicle which had a swastika spray painted on the back of it, as mentioned. The investigation is looking into the incident as a hate crime, according to a report by Source of the Spring, a local news agency. (Link to full story).
12/25/2020 - Vandals struck a synagogue gate in Bulgaria. The words “Free Palestine Israel=Nazis Antifa Bulgaria” were spray-painted Wednesday on the gate to the synagogue of Plovdiv, a city situated about 100 miles southeast of Sofia the capital, the Jewish organization Shalom wrote on Facebook. (Link to full story).
12/25/2020 - In Halle, Germany a Plexiglas panel on the monument of the shooting was smashed. The vandals also tried to set fire to a flag of Israel under the Plexiglas, the Jewish Community of Halle wrote Tuesday on Facebook. (Link to full story).
12/24/2020 - The University of California Merced’s School of Engineering was on Wednesday sticking by one of its top professors despite a viciously antisemitic and anti-Zionist Twitter account that he maintained for nearly two years having come to light. A spokesperson for the school said that its faculty member, Abbas Ghassemi, a professor emeritus in its engineering department, had operated the account as a private individual. (Link to full story).
12/24/2020 - A British neo-Nazi has been sentenced to a jail term of four years and two months for encouraging terrorism against Jews, the LGBT+ community and non-white minorities. Luke Hunter, 23, was convicted at the Crown Court in the northern English city of Leeds on Tuesday after admitting seven charges of promoting terrorism and circulating material from terrorist publications. (Link to full story).
12/22/2020 - Ukraine Airlines will compensate a couple of passengers with NIS 5,000 after its representatives allegedly voiced antisemitic remarks and prevented them from boarding a flight from Vienna to Tel Aviv last year, Globes reported. According to the lawsuit that was submitted to the Small Claims Court in Rishon LeZion, Ukraine Airlines employees humiliated the passengers publically and delayed their luggage, resulting in them missing the flight. (Link to full story).
12/21/2020 - When Miss France contestant April Benayoum was asked a question about her background during Sunday’s competition, she had no idea her answer would lead to a barrage of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel abuse. Benayoum, who was crowned Miss Provence earlier this year, told the judges, “My mother is Serbo-Croat, my father Israeli. This gave me a passion for geography and learning about other cultures.” (Link to full story).
12/21/2020 - Two men spray painted a swastika onto a Brooklyn yeshiva last weekend in an apparent hate crime, authorities said Saturday as they released surveillance video of the incident. The antisemitic image, along with the men’s tags, or graffiti signatures, were found on the side of Mesilas Bias Yaakov in the South Slope neighborhood last Sunday. (Link to full story).
12/21/2020 - On December 9, in Belgium, four men who took control of a train’s public address system to threaten a bombing of the vehicle between the cities of Antwerp and Mechelen, unless the "cancer Jews to get off the train". “Attention, attention,” the men said in Flemish, “the cancer Jews need to leave the train now or we’ll blow you all up,” witnesses said. (Link to full story).
12/21/2020 - Tufts University issued a denunciation on Monday of a student government resolution passed last weekend that blamed Israel for US police violence against minorities. The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the Massachusetts institution was responsible for getting the initiative, which called for the “demilitarization” of the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), on a Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate special election ballot. (Link to full story).
12/21/2020 - The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), an organization representing over 1,500 traditional rabbis, released a letter Friday sent to the Warnock for Senate campaign and the Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) last week, denouncing anti-Semitic rhetoric from Georgia Democratic Senate runoff candidate Raphael Warnock and challenging the JDCA’s “partisan” and “irresponsible” defense of his statements. (Link to full story).
12/18/2020 - French police arrested four individuals on Friday in connection with an “incredibly violent” assault on a Jewish family who were traveling in their car in a Paris suburb the previous evening. In another example of the brazen and potentially-lethal antisemitic attacks endured by French Jews over the last decade, Thursday night’s incident began with the unsuspecting Jewish family sitting in their car, where they sang and listened to songs and messages celebrating the festival of Hanukkah. (Link to full story).
12/18/2020 - A public menorah at Dartmouth College was shot with a pellet gun, in the latest antisemitic incident during the holiday of Hanukkah. Rabbi Moshe Gray, who runs the campus Chabad center with his wife Chani, said he discovered the vandalism on Wednesday evening, as he prepared to turn on the menorah’s electric lights for the holiday’s seventh night. Holes from a pellet gun had broken seven of the menorah’s nine lights. (Link to full story)
12/17/2020 - A court in Paris has convicted one man of being accessory to murder in the 2015 jihadist terror attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and the Hyper Cacher kosher store. In addition to Ali Riza Polat, a 35-year-old French citizen of Turkish descent, three others on trial since September for the attacks were convicted Wednesday of the lesser offense of being a part of a terrorist enterprise. Polat was sentenced to 30 years behind bars. (Link to full story).
12/16/2020 - Anti-Semitic graffiti was scrawled across a fence in Forest Hills last night– alarming elected officials and residents. The hateful graffiti was plastered across a garden fence outside a house on the Grand Central Parkway Service road between 68th Road and 68th Drive, according to Assembly Member Dan Rosenthal. The scrawl reads: “F***ing Jewish b***hes in the ***hole is the best.” Five panels of the white fence were sprayed with black paint, according to Rosenthal who condemned the incident. (Link to full story).
12/16/2020 - Parents and students at a Jewish school in Long Island, New York, were left deeply shaken on Monday after hackers using the name “K-ke Slayer” defaced the institution’s website with Nazi imagery and anti-Semitic invective. Shortly after 4 p.m. on Monday afternoon, visitors to the website of the Great Neck North Shore Hebrew Academy High School were bombarded with “Nazi songs, imagery and messages,” according to the online watchdog StopAntisemitism.org, which monitored and recorded the hack in real time. (Link to full story).
12/15/2020 - Police in Miami, Florida, have arrested a 39-year-old man who is suspected of showering a Jewish man and his son with anti-Semitic abuse while they were walking in the city on Sunday. Lamont Collins from Kentucky was arrested on Monday on charges that included assault. He was being held in Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $3,500 bond. (Link to full story).
12/15/2020 - Pressure is mounting for newly elected New Hampshire state representative Dawn Johnson to resign after the Republican politician shared a racist and anti-Semitic meme on her social media about “riggers and Jews” that appeared to reference conspiracy theories about the November presidential election. Last week, she posted on her Facebook and Twitter accounts content from the notorious neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer, including an altered racist and anti-Semitic image. (Link to full story).
12/15/2020 -While Jewish communities worldwide are celebrating Hanukkah, the small community in China must do so in secret as Beijing works to crack down on foreign influences and unapproved religions in the country, The Telegraph reported. The community in China is very miniscule, consisting of around 1,000 people of which experts say only 100 are actually practicing, and have lacked a rabbi for well over a century. However, it goes back over a thousand years, having settled in Kaifeng. (Link to full story)
12/14/2020 - Anti-Semitic images, slurs and songs were posted on the website of a Jewish school in Long Island on Monday in an apparent hack, video shows. The North Shore Hebrew Academy High School’s homepage was splattered with a Swastika and clip of marching Nazi SS guards, according to the footage posted on Twitter. (Link to ful story).
12/14/2020 - The Dutch government has announced the creation of a new post for a national coordinator to combat antisemitism in the Netherlands. Ferd Grapperhaus, the Dutch justice minister said on Sunday that the new post was part of an overall strengthening of the government’s official approach toward dealing with threats, discrimination and intimidation. (Link to full story).
12/14/2020 - A driver directed antisemitic language at people lighting the menorah outside Chabad of the Bluegrass, police told the local TV station. When someone from the community tried to urge the driver away, the driver accelerated, dragging the community member and running over his leg, according to a detailed account on Chabad of the Bluegrass’ Facebook page. (Link to full story).
12/14/2020 - A Ukrainian ultranationalist filmed himself toppling a Hanukkah menorah in downtown Kyiv while shouting about death to Jews. The man, identified by the Ukrainian media as Andrey Rachkov, a provocateur with a criminal record, is the subject of a police investigation after video of the vandalism emerged on Thursday, the Ukrainian news site Zik reported Saturday. (Link to full story).
12/13/2020 - The southern Austrian city of Graz has unveiled a plan to combat anti-Semitism in the wake of two alarming incidents targeting Jews last summer. On Aug. 19, the synagogue in Graz was daubed with the slogan “Free Palestine,” following which Jewish community President Elie Rosen warned of a rise in “left-wing and anti-Israel anti-Semitism.” (Link to full story).
12/11/2020 - Four passengers on a Belgian passenger train hijacked the intercom system and used it to announce anti-Semitic messages, Belgium’s VRT news agency reported Thursday. The incident occurred late Wednesday afternoon when four people were able to use the intercom of a train that was running between Antwerp and Mechelen, the report said. (Link to full story).
12/10/2020 - The sole Anne Frank memorial in the United States was vandalized with swastikas and threatening flyers on Tuesday, according to media reports. Located in Boise, Idaho, the memorial contains a life-size bronze statue of Frank holding her diary. Swastika stickers and flyers with the hate symbol and the words “we are everywhere” were placed on Frank’s diary and various places throughout the memorial. (Link to full story).
12/8/2020 - A group of faculty members at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough Community College (KCC) are suspected of purposely excluding an Orthodox Jewish colleague from a meeting by scheduling it on Shabbat, according to a New York Post report. (Link to full story).
11/30/2020 - A French court in Monday sentenced a man accused of assaulting a Jewish graffiti artist in the northeastern city of Strasbourg to six months in prison. The 38-year-old man was also ordered to pay damages of 500 euros to his victim and another 1,000 euros to the anti-racism organizations SOS Racisme and Licra. (Link to full story).
11/27/2020 - An unidentified woman stole the kippah of a rabbi whom she threatened with a knife on a street in the Austrian capital of Vienna, police said. The woman fled the scene of Thursday’s incident in Vienna’s 3rd district, the OE24 website reported. The assault happened after several minutes in which the woman shouted anti-Semitic slogans at the rabbi as multiple passersby looked away, he said. (Link to full story).
11/27/2020 - A Jewish man in the Australian city of Melbourne was reported to be in shock on Friday night after he was showered with antisemitic abuse by a couple he encountered in the street. The incident occurred in the Murrumbeena neighborhood. According to the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), an Australian Jewish advocacy group that monitors antisemitic incidents, the man was wearing headphones when he noticed the couple trying to get his attention. When he removed his headphones, the couple began yelling “Heil Hitler” and made Nazi salutes. (Link to full story).
11/27/2020 - Johannes Hübner, who was the foreign affairs spokesman for the Austrian Freedom Party (AFP) until 2017, has just been appointed to the Bundesrat, the equivalent to the Austrian Senate, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) reported on Wednesday. In 2017, Hübner had initiated a run for the Austrian parliament. He stopped when he was recorded at a far-right event making antisemitic comments. (Link to full story)
11/27/2020 - Amazon’s popular virtual assistant, Alexa, has been spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and lies about the Holocaust, according to a review by British politicians who called for a police investigation. (Link to full story)
11/25/2020 - A memorial to a former chief rabbi of France was the latest target on Monday of a campaign of antisemitic vandalism that has plagued the eastern French city of Mulhouse in recent weeks. An antisemitic slogan was discovered on the memorial to the late Rabbi Jacob Kaplan, who served as chief rabbi of France from 1955 until 1980. (Link to full story).
11/25/2020 - Echoing concerns among many that the coronavirus pandemic and resulting social upheaval were leading to an upsurge of Jew-hatred, the German government’s point man on the issue said on Tuesday that opponents of social-distancing measures were beginning to engage in antisemitic activities and Holocaust minimization. (Link to full story).
11/24/2020 - A German government official warned Tuesday that anti-Semitism is emerging as a common position among people protesting pandemic lockdown measures who otherwise come from widely differing political backgrounds. Felix Klein, who was appointed in 2018 to head the government’s efforts to combat anti-Semitism, said that hatred against Jews in Germany has increased during the coronavirus pandemic. (Link to full story).
11/24/2020 - Federal, county, and city authorities are investigating a potential hate crime in Columbus involving a couple living in the Olde Towne East Neighborhood. The couple tells ABC 6/FOX 28 News that on Nov. 7, the night Joe Biden was projected to win the presidency, a neighbor verbally attacked them with anti-semitic threats and insults. "He's tired of us liberals," said Kinney. "Horrible things about Hitler, it's no wonder Hitler burned our people, he knows we are Jewish." (Link to full story).
11/24/2020 - Dutch politician Thierry Baudet, the head of the Dutch Forum for Democracy Party, said on Monday that he would step down before the upcoming parliamentary election in March, after allegations of antisemitism among young party members were made public, Reuters reported. The offending comments were allegedly posted in a chat group of the party’s youth movement, according to the report. (Link to full story).
11/23/2020 - Democratic Congresswoman and BDS supporter Rashida Tlaib (MI) came under fire Monday for a tweet about president-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, that some have criticized as “anti-Semitic.” Tlaib replied to a tweet by Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, calling the pick a “solid choice.” She wrote, “So long as he doesn’t suppress my First Amendment right to speak out against Netanyahu’s racist and inhumane policies. The Palestinian people deserve equality and justice.” (Link to full story).
11/23/2020 - A notorious anti-Israel group is pushing a student referendum at Tufts University that promotes the discredited libel that the Jewish state trains US police forces to harm minorities. The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the Massachusetts institution got the initiative, which calls for the “demilitarization” of the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate special election ballot that will be sent out this week. (Link to full story).
11/22/2020 - A large concrete block shattered the windows of a synagogue in Essen, Germany, in what is being investigated as an antisemitic attack, the Hebrew website N12 reported. A suspect was caught over the weekend on security footage throwing the block at the synagogue after being seen by Jewish community members wandering the area. (Link to full story).
11/21/2020 - After an announcement that US Congresswoman Rep. Rashida Tlaib will participate in a panel on antisemitism along with others previously accused of antisemitic or anti-Israel statements, event host Jewish Voice for Peace is drawing criticism for their selection of speakers. In addition to concerns over previous statements made by the participants, critics are concerned by the identity of the speakers, only one of whom is Jewish. (Link to full story).
11/21/2020 - A Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed the anti-Semitic nature of the murder of Mireille Knoll, a 85-year-old Holocaust survivor. She was found stabbed eleven times, the body partially charred, in her apartment in eastern Paris in 2018. Yacine Mihoub, 31, the son of a neighbor who had known the octogenarian since childhood, and Alex Carrimbacus, 24, an outcast with a psychiatric history, were quickly suspected for the murder. (Link to full story).
11/20/2020 - A man accused of spreading antisemitic coronavirus hoax material to “stir up racial hatred” has appeared at the Old Bailey wearing a Nazi armband. Matthew Henegan, 35, faces seven charges of publishing, distributing and possessing of material in March and April. He wore dark glasses, a hairband and a red swastika armband associated with Nazi Germany as he walked into the dock. (Link to full story).
11/20/2020 - Poland’s embassy in London was bitterly criticized by the country’s leading anti-racist NGO this week for promoting the legacy of an antisemitic politician who died in exile in the UK after World War II. During Poland’s period as an independent state between 1919 and 1939, Rafal Studnicki espoused antisemitic views similar to those of the Nazis in Germany. Deeming that Jews were “parasites on the healthy branch of the Polish tree,” Studnicki proposed the forced removal of 100,000 Polish Jews every year in a bid to bring about the “de-Judaization” of Poland. (Link to full story).
11/20/2020 - A California Redwood High School in Marin County that has been plagued by antisemitic activity was in the spotlight again on Friday after its principal revealed that students had been subjected to another wave of offensive social media posts, including Holocaust denial, homophobic epithets and threats of rape. (Link to full story).
11/19/2020 - According to Al-Qaeda’s Al-Khalusa magazine, as far as America’s relationship with the Muslim world is concerned, a Biden administration will differ from the Trump administration in tone only, not in substance. An article in the magazine’s Nov. 15 issue claims that the conflict between the United States and Islam is being directed by the “Zionist-Crusader alliance through their agents among Arab leaders and the Shi’ites, who are the donkeys of the Christians.” (Link to full story).
11/19/2020 - On Thursday, November 19, 2020, the Los Angeles District Attorneys Office announced that a Pennsylvania man pleaded no contest for vandalizing the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills. Anton Nathaniel Redding, 25, entered the plea to one felony count of vandalism of religious property. Redding was sentenced to 220 days in county jail and 5 years of probation. He must also pay $166,604 in restitution and complete a 12-month residential treatment program. (Link to full story).
11/19/2020 - The student government at San Francisco State University passed a resolution on Wednesday calling on the school to divest from more than 100 companies that do business with Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The resolution passed with 17 votes in favor, one against and two abstentions, according to journalist Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler. (Link to full story).
11/18/2020 - Two large graffiti signs reading “Jewish lies matter” were found in the city of Brighton and Hove on England’s south coast on Tuesday. The signs appeared on the same day that former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was readmitted to his party following a recent suspension for downplaying the results of an investigation which found that Labour had mishandled complaints of antisemitism within the party under his leadership. (Link to full story).
11/18/2020 - The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel has updated its boycott criteria, now calling for boycotts against anyone involved in normalized ties with Israel. As published on the official BDS website by the BDS National Committee (BNC), its members and supporters are now called on to refrain from "displaying or promoting the works or products of those who their involvement in normalization practices are proven, until such involvement is ended in a convincing manner and in public, including a declaration of commitment to anti-normalization and cultural boycott.” (Link to full story).
11/18/2020 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), in coordination with the Jewish community, announced on Monday its commitment to address an alarming increase in anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist harassment and discrimination on its campus. (Link to full story).
11/17/2020 - A new senior Pentagon adviser repeatedly said that U.S. support for Israel was due to money from the “Israeli lobby” and accused prominent political figures, including U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , of getting “very, very rich” from their support for the Jewish state—echoing the anti-Semitic tropes of Israeli control of the U.S. government and Jewish money controlling politics and policy. (Link to full story).
11/17/2020
- Labour has readmitted former leader Jeremy Corbyn as a member
following his suspension last month. He was punished after saying
the scale of anti-Semitism in the party had been "overstated", in
response to a damning report by the Equalities and Human Rights
Commission. Mr Corbyn issued a statement earlier saying he regretted
any "pain" caused. But current leader Sir Keir Starmer maintained Mr
Corbyn's initial reaction to the report had been "wrong".
(Link to
full story).
11/16/2020
- Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency recently published an
article that claimed that Jews were responsible for a historic
“Holocaust.” According to The Jerusalem Post, the article managed to
simultaneously deny the veracity of the twentieth century Holocaust
while claiming that the Jews carried out the “original” one against
Christians more than 1,000 years ago on the border of modern-day
Yemen. The timing of the article is not entirely surprising, coming
on the heels of the republishing of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed
in France.
(Link to full story).
11/16/2020
- Parents of Jewish children subjected to antisemitic bullying at a
school in the southeastern Australian city of Melbourne have
expressed disappointment with the results of an official inquiry
into their ordeals. The inquiry was launched in the summer following
a investigative report by The Australian Jewish News into Brighton
Secondary College (BSC) in Melbourne.
(Link to full story).
11/16/2020
- Jews were the most targeted demographic for hate crimes among
religious groups in 2019, according to an FBI report released on
Monday. Out of the 1,650 religious-motivated hate crimes reported to
the FBI, 60.3 percent, or almost 995, were anti-Jewish—a 2.5
percentage point increase from 2018.
(Link to full story).
11/15/2020
- Tayed Abdoun, veteran employee at Islamic Relief Worldwide, posted
a photo on Facebook calling for the murder of Jews after a 2015 gun
and knife attack in Jerusalem. For the third time in the past six
months, a high-positioned figure at Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW)
has left for expressing antisemitic views on social media. Tayeb
Abdoun, veteran employee at the international humanitarian relief
agency, resigned on October 14 for posting a picture on Facebook of
a knife with a thumbs up, writing, "Lay the bodies of the Jews on
the top of the mountains, so that no dog in Palestine must suffer
hunger."
(Link to full story).
11/13/2020
- A ntisemitic attacks targeting Jews in Austria come to an average
of 43 each month, according to new statistics released this week by
the country’s Jewish community. Perpetrators of violence and other
abuse include far-right and far-left groups, as well as Islamists,
the report from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG), the
group representing Jews in Austria noted.
(Link to full story).
11/13/2020
- CNN anchorwoman Christiane Amanpour raised eyebrows on Thursday
when she marked the 82nd anniversary of “Kristallnacht”, the
November 1938 pogroms targeting Jews in Germany and Austria, by
appearing to liken the values of the Nazis to those of US President
Donald Trump. “This week, 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened,”
Amanpour said. “It was the Nazis’ warning shot across the bow of our
human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity.”
(Link to full story).
11/13/2020
- A controversy around allegations of widespread antisemitism at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has prompted faculty
to weigh in on the debate in two conflicting open letters
distributed last week. The letters were issued in response to a
complaint filed with the US Department of Education’s Office for
Civil Rights in March, in which two Jewish students accused the
University of Illinois’ leadership of not doing enough to address a
“poisonous atmosphere” of antisemitism on campus.
(Link to full story).
11/13/2020
- The German Olympic Sports Confederation has condemned an act of
vandalism against an outdoor exhibition highlighting Jewish sports
stars in Bochum. “This cowardly act is a blow for the whole of
German sports,” confederation president Alfons Hörmann said in a
statement Thursday. The traveling exhibition focused on Jewish stars
in German sport until 1933 — when the Nazis began persecuting Jews,
and beyond, as the Nazis also exploited some of the athletes to
avoid a threatened boycott of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
(Link to full story).
11/12/2020
- Auto racing giant NASCAR that it had indefinitely suspended one of
its drivers over a post on social media that was deemed
anti-Semitic. Driver Josh Reaume — who also co-owns the Reaume
Brothers Racing team — was understood to have posted an image of a
Nazi swastika over the weekend in a since-deleted tweet.
(Link to full story).
11/12/2020
- Police in Lexington, Ky., are investigating the vandalism of a
menorah and sign at Chabad at the University of Kentucky Jewish
Student Center. This is the fourth time that the sign has been
vandalized over the years and comes just months after the
Chabad-Lubavitch emissary received threats over the phone. No one
has been arrested yet for the vandalism. (Link
to full story).
11/12/2020
- Kyle Chapman, the founder of
a “tactical defense arm” of the Proud Boys known for engaging in
street violence, claimed in a message on the encrypted chat app
Telegram that he has staged a “coup” against the current leader of
the Proud Boys, a Black man named Enrique Tarrio. “We will confront
the Zionist criminals who wish to destroy our civilization.”
(Link to full story).
11/12/2020
- Food Network celebrity chef Alton Brown has apologized after being
roasted for making “flippant” remarks about the Holocaust on
Twitter. In his since-deleted tone-deaf post Tuesday night, Grubstreet.com
reported, the “Good Eats: Reloaded” host said: “Do you think the
camp uniforms will be striped, like the ones at Auschwitz or will
plaid be in vogue?” After a user said it “depends on what you’re
worth when you go in,” Brown replied: “I have no gold fillings.”
When another person warned him, “Yikes dude. Take it easy,” Brown
fired back with, “Fuck you.”
(Link to full story).
11/11/2020
- The Iranian Chess Federation (ICF) could be facing an imminent
international ban for its continued refusal to allow Iranian chess
players to compete against their Israeli equivalents, the International
Chess Federation (FIDE) said. The warning also included the
mention of Iran boycotting events that lists Israeli players as
participating.
(Link to full story).
11/11/2020
- Residents of San Antonio, Texas, were subjected to lurid white
supremacist propaganda in the form of leaflets and flyers
distributed last weekend by a local neo-Nazi. Individual flyers and
Ziploc bags filled with multiple racist and antisemitic leaflets
were left outside homes in several neighborhoods in the city’s
Northside district, NBC‘s local affiliate reported.
(Link to full story).
11/10/2020
- The keynote speaker at the recent Palestine Book Fair was Rima
Khalaf, the former United Nations (UN) official with a history of
making up lies about Israel. She was forced to resign when she
issued a report calling Israel an apartheid state, something even
the UN couldn’t countenance. At the book fair, Khalaf said that
“Zionists” made up history and that European Jews have nothing to do
with Israel, essentially endorsing the antisemitic and absurd theory
that Jews are Khazars.
(Link to full story).
11/9/2020
- Multiple headstones were destroyed at the Jewish cemetery of Malyn
in Ukraine. The damage at the graveyard, which is about 60 miles
northwest of the capital Kyiv, was discovered last week, according
to a Facebook post by Evgeny Gorodetsky, a Ukrainian Jew who has
helped raise donations for renovating the cemetery. Police have no
leads in their attempt to identify the culprits.
(Link to full story).
11/6/2020
- An Islamist satellite TV channel has been fined $27,000 by a court
in the United Kingdom for broadcasting antisemitic propaganda about
Jews. The London-based Islam Channel station was investigated by
Ofcom, the UK’s official agency dealing with broadcasters, following
complaints about a program it ran in 2018.
(Link to full story).
11/6/2020
- A Greek court convicted a newspaper publisher of hate speech and
defamation for running an op-ed that called a Jewish community
leader a thief. The Athens Court of Justice of First Instance last
month levied a $2,200 penalty on Stefanos Chios, publisher of
the Makeleio newspaper, according to the central Board of Jewish
Communities in Greece in a statement on
Tuesday.
(Link to full story).
11/5/2020
- Florida Gulf Coast University police believe they have identified
the person who put anti-Semitic signs around campus last weekend.
The person does not appear to be affiliated with the Fort Myers
school, but will be given a trespass warning, according to FGCU
president Mike Martin. Martin made the announcement Thursday in an
email update to students and employees after three posters promoting
neo-Nazi propaganda were found on campus.
(Link to full story).
11/5/2020
- At least two Klamath Falls, Ore., billboards were vandalized with
swastikas and numbers linked to white supremacists and neo-Nazi
beliefs. The green spray-painted graffiti was discovered the morning
after Election Day on Main Street billboards for the Klamath County
Democrats and Grocery Pub. Multiple swastikas were painted on the
billboards, as well as the numbers “1488.
(Link to full story).
11/5/2020
- The Lawfare Project announced Thursday that it has filed a
complaint with the NYC Commission on Human Rights on be half of an
Israeli woman who was viciously assaulted and injured in an attack
last year on the New York City subway. Israeli student Lihi Aharon
had boarded the subway in Manhattan and suddenly found herself on
the receiving end of a vicious
physical assault by a woman who overheard her speaking Hebrew.
(Link to full story).
11/5/2020
- A prominent Jordanian cleric on Tuesday recommended that his
followers read Machiavelli’s The Prince, The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion and Hitler’s Mein Kampf if they wished to understand modern
political history. In a Telegram post, Salafi-jihadi ideologue Abu
Qatada al-Filastini, who is of Palestinian descent, said the texts
had been misrepresented due to a “propaganda campaign against them
run by the Jews, as well as by their negative reputation among the
public.”
(Link to full story).
11/4/2020
- Police are hunting for a bigot who defaced state Assemblywoman
Rebecca Seawright’s campaign posters on the Upper East Side with
misogynistic and anti-Semitic slurs. The damaged posters were
spotted election night at York Avenue and 78th Street, according to
the police complaint. The bigot scrawled “Baptise [sic] the B—h and
Her Rabbi” on one poster.
(Link to full story).
11/4/2020
- An Icelandic company
has plunged the country’s publishing industry into a debate about
censorship with its plan to publish a 1976 book that argues the
Holocaust is a hoax. The book, an Icelandic-language translation of
“The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed
Extermination of European Jewry” by Arthur Butz, is being advertised
online ahead of its launch in the coming weeks.
(Link to full story).
11/3/2020
- In the Hungerian town of Kecel, south of Budapest, three
tombstones were smashed and human feces were found on a nearby
headstone on Sunday, the Mazsihisz umbrella group of Hungarian
Jewish communities reported on its website. Police are investigating
the incident.
(Link to full story).
11/3/2020 - The University of Connecticut has been investigating
multiple reports of anti-Semitic incidents on its main campus in
Storrs, including swastika vandalism and other kinds of property
damage. “These recent reports were all acts of physical damage to
property, including swastika graffiti. These are undeniable symbols
of anti-Semitism that elicit painful reminders of the Holocaust
among our Jewish students, faculty, and staff,” said school
administrators in an email to students.
(Link to full story).
11/3/2020 - Headstones were smashed and graves defaced at Jewish
cemeteries in Hungary and Moldova. At least five headstones were
destroyed at a cemetery in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau on
Saturday, the Jewish Community of Moldova said in a statement.
Swastikas, a pentagram and the number 666 were spray-painted on
other headstones.
(Link to full story).
11/3/2020 - Weeks after voting to rehire a principal who told a
parent he “can’t say the Holocaust is
a factual, historical event,” a Florida school board has reversed
course. The Palm Beach County School Board voted a year ago to fire
William Latson, who had been removed from his post after the 2018
comments came to light.
(Link to full story).
11/3/2020 - A Jewish cemetery in Michigan was graffitied with the
words “TRUMP” and “MAGA.” The graffiti comes days before
the presidential election, in which Michigan is a key swing state,
and soon before President Donald Trump’s final campaign rally, which
will be held in the Grand Rapids area on Monday.
(Link to full story).
11/2/2020 - The NYPD is investigating a hate crime in the Hasidic
community of Williamsburg. Sources tell YWN that residents at 580
Whyte Avenue found numerous doors scrawled with hateful messages
such as “[expletive removed] the Jews”. Multiple Mezuzas were
defaced as well.
(Link to full story).
11/2/2020 - Outspoken psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee raised eyebrows
on Monday when she criticized President Trump by complimenting Adolf
Hitler in a series of Twitter posts.
Lee, a psychiatrist at the Yale School of Medicine’s Law and
Psychiatry Division, has previously diagnosed Trump with various
psychological ailments from afar but outdid herself with a bizarre
attempt at a history lesson in an effort to compare the incumbent
Republican to the ruthless Nazi dictator. (Link
to full story).
11/2/2020 - The Manual RedEye news website from the duPont Manual
High School in Louisville, Kentucky, revealed Friday that the
Kentucky State Police has been using a training manual that includes
quotes from Nazy tyrant Adolph Hitler encouraging the use of
violence. “A training slideshow used by the Kentucky State Police
(KSP), the second largest police force in the state, urges cadets to
be ‘ruthless killer[s]’ and quotes Adolf Hitler advocating
violence,” the Manual RedEye reported.
(Link to full story).
11/1/2020 - A northern New Jersey town woke up on Halloween morning
to find anti-Semitic and racist graffiti scribbled on the streets of
their neighborhood. The mayor of Woodcliff Lake shared the photographs of
the graffiti scrawled in white chalk on Woodmont Drive which
included a swastika, the drawing of a penis, and the words ‘Jews’
and’ n——.‘
(Link to full story).
11/1/2020 - In his speech, Nasrallah denied the Holocaust and
supported Holocaust denial, claiming that denying it was less
offensive than cartoons mocking religion. His tirade against the
Holocaust began by referring to a controversy with France, in which
Turkey and other countries led by leaders who identify with
political Islam have claimed France is insulting Muslims.
(Link to full story).
11/1/2020 - A far-left organization that counts three members of the
US Congress among its supporters has issued a statement of
solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn — the former British Labour leader who
was dramatically suspended from the party on Thursday, following the
publication of an official
report into anti-Semitism within its ranks.
(Link to full story).
10/31/2020 - Two months after the Chabad House at Delaware
University was destroyed
by arson, a second Chabad House in Delaware has been damaged by
an intentionally set fire. The latest incident occurred on Friday
night at approximately 12:30 A.M. at the Chabad Lubavitch of
Delaware in the city of Wilmington. The Chabad House is run by
Rabbi Chuni and Oryah Vogel, parents of Rabbi Avremel Vogel, the
shliach at Delaware University who Chabad House was destroyed in an
intentionally set fire two months ago.
(Link to full story).
10/29/2020
- The leader of a national white supremacist group who ran a "hate
camp" in Michigan and one of his cohorts were charged Thursday with
multiple crimes as extremist groups continue to land on the FBI's
radar nationwide. The latest suspects were arrested at their homes
at 6 a.m. Thursday for their alleged roles in a December 2019
incident in Dexter, where police said a husband, wife and their
infant child were terrorized by two white supremacists.
(Link to full story).
10/29/2020
- The vandalism on the sign supporting former US Vice President Joe
Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, was discovered in
Ankeny, Iowa. According to a police report obtained by the Des
Moines Register, the candidates’ names on the yard sign were covered
in white paint, and a red swastika was painted over them.
(Link to full story).
10/29/2020
- Jewish men who said they were trying to show “solidarity” with
Black Lives Matter protesters were violently chased away by the mob
and ridiculed as being part of the “synagogue of Satan,” according
to disturbing video posted online. The minute-long clip circulating
on social media shows three men standing in the street during
the protests sparked by the deadly police shooting of troubled local
black man Walter Wallace.
(Link to full story).
10/29/2020
- Britain’s opposition Labour Party suspended its former leader
Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday for seeking to deflect blame away from
himself after a report found that under his leadership the party was
responsible for unlawful harassment and discrimination. Corbyn‘s
successor, Keir Starmer, apologized and said Labour
was facing a “day of shame” after the Equality and Human Rights
Commission (EHRC) found serious failings in how the party had dealt
with allegations of antisemitism within its ranks.
(Link to full story).
10/29/2020
- A man scrawled an anti-Semitic statement on the window of a
Brooklyn juice bar this week, cops said. The man graffitied the
words, “Syrian Jew W—es F–k You” on the Very Juice Bar at Avenue P
near East 2nd Street in Mapleton around 2:10 a.m. Tuesday before
taking off, cops said. The suspect, captured on surveillance video,
is described as balding with a thin build and a full beard.
(Link to full story).
10/28/2020
- The Swedish city of Malmö has decided to suspend its partnership
with the Arab Book Fair after it was revealed that the fair was
featuring and promoting antisemitic texts. The city is now looking
to close down the book fair definitively.
(Link to full story).
10/28/2020
- Neo-Nazis are using the platform Telegram to celebrate the second
anniversary of the 2018 attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—in which 11 worshippers were killed and
seven wounded, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
reported on Tuesday.
(Link to full story).
10/28/2020
- Israel came to the defense of France on Tuesday and lambasted
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his calls to boycott
French goods and comparison of the situation of Muslims in France
today to the situation of the Jews prior to World War II. "Israel
rejects the disgusting comparison made between the struggle against
Islamist extremism in France, and Nazi policy and racism against
Jews in Europe before World War II," Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior
Hayat said on Twitter.
(Link to full story).
10/27/2020
- Business owners in the downtown area of Ithaca, New York, have
been shocked by a spate of graphic antisemitic and racist vandalism
that has struck three separate outlets. Two of the businesses, the
Moosewood restaurant and Sunny Days, a gift shop, were vandalized on
Saturday night. A third business, Court Street Chiropractic, was
also vandalized for the second time in as many weeks, The Ithaca
Voice reported.
(Link to full story).
10/26/2020
- Arlington Heights police on Monday night were investigating after
a swastika was found scrawled on a building in the northwest suburb.
Earlier Monday, police received a report that a 6-inch-by-6-inch
swastika was being scrawled on an outside pillar of a condominium
building in the 0-99 block of Palatine Road.
(Link to full story).
10/26/2020
- For the first time an individual in South Africa has been
convicted in a criminal prosecution of antisemitic abuse.
Randburg Magistrates Court found Matome Letsoalo guilty of “crimen
injuria” for threatening and abusive messages targeting the Jewish
community in a verdict handed down last Friday. Letsoalo was
convicted for hateful messages he issued over Twitter towards
the South Africa Board of Deputies (SAJBD). On June 21, 2018,
Letsoalo tweeted “@SAJBD The #Holocaust Will be like a Picnic When
we are done with all you Zionist Bastards. Fuck All of You.”
(Link to full story).
10/26/2020
- Anti-Semitic graffiti was found on a campaign sign for a Jewish
candidate in Arizona. Seth Blattman, a Democrat running for the
Arizona State Senate, told a
group of local TV stations that “it was extremely sad” to see a
swastika drawn on his forehead and the word “killer” written in all
capitalized letters across his neck on the sign.
(Link to full story).
10/25/2020
- Eric Fingerhut, the president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of
North America, has said that US university administration have
ignored “a growing atmosphere” of antisemitism and anti-Zionism on
their campuses. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Fingerhut also
praised the complaint filed on behalf of Jewish students against the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for what was
described as a “hostile
environment” for Jewish students there, and said the university
should have more to prevent this situation from developing.
(Link to full story).
10/25/2020
- The prime minister of Pakistan claimed in an interview over the
weekend that “Israel’s lobby” in the United States controls Middle
East policy and is collaborating with India to boost his most
prominent rival. Prime Minister Imran Khan told ARY News that “The
Israeli and Indian lobbies work together in America. Israel’s lobby
is the most powerful and that’s why America’s whole Middle East
policy is controlled by Israel.”
(Link to full story).
10/23/2020
- Jewish students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC) have faced an “unrelenting campaign
of antisemitic harassment,” according to a complaint filed by an
education advocacy organization with the Department of Education’s
Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Multiple swastikas have been scrawled
across the campus; menorahs and mezuzahs have been vandalized; and
windows of Jewish fraternities have been “smashed with bricks,”
according to the statement.
(Link to full story).
10/22/2020
- A man who engaged in an antisemitic
assault against a young Jewish graffiti artist in the French
city of Strasbourg was released by a court following a hearing on
Wednesday. The unnamed 38-year-old assailant, who did not attend the
proceedings at the Strasbourg criminal court, was cleared of the
crime of committing extortion aggravated by religious hatred.
However, the public prosecutor’s office intends to bring fresh
charges against the assailant for the crime of “public insult.”
(Link to full story).
10/22/2020
- The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has filed vandalism
and hate crime charges against a man who was arrested on suspicion
of spray painting a swastika and phrases about “evil Jews” on Temple
Sinai in Oakland. Freddie Smith, 57, was charged with three counts
of vandalism along with enhancements alleging a hate crime.
(Link to full story).
10/22/2020
- A campaign volunteer for Brooklyn state Senate wannabe Vito Bruno
has quoted Hitler and Mussolini and posted numerous anti-Semitic
messages on his Twitter account. “Hitler was right then, and it
applies today. As he said in his book he didn’t hate the Jewish
religion, he hated communism,” Raymond Ranaletta wrote Tuesday,
including a picture of the infamously anti-Semitic dictator and a
swastika in the tweet.
(Link to full story).
10/21/2020
- A 14-year-old boy was arrested by San Diego police officers Friday
in connection with the violent assault of a rabbi in the city last
weekend, the Algemeiner reported. According to Halevy, a teenager
riding a bicycle hit him on the head and yelled a racial
slur at him outside the synagogue in University City, a large
residential and commercial district next to the University of
California’s San Diego campus.
(Link to full story).
10/20/2020
- swastika was discovered painted on the historic wooden sanctuary
doors of Oakland’s Temple Sinai early Monday morning, Rabbi
Jacqueline Mates-Muchin told J. The graffiti was reported as a hate
crime and is being investigated as such by the Oakland Police
Department. It’s the latest incident of vandalism at the synagogue
over the past few weeks in a series that went from paint splotches
and strange drawings to the overtly antisemitic symbol.
(Link to full story).
10/19/2020
- A former editor and writer for the New York Times editorial page,
Bari Weiss, is faulting the Times for publishing an op-ed piece
glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March and failing to
provide context about Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism. “Today the New York
Times ran an oped about the Million Man March and Louis Farrakhan.
If you read the oped and knew nothing about Farrakhan, you would
think he was a gentleman,” Weiss tweeted. “When The Times ran the
infamous anti-Semitic cartoon, the issue was not that editors were
hardened anti-Semites. It’s that they didn’t even *notice* it. This
shouldn’t surprise. It’s part of a worldview in which Jew hate does
not count.(Link
to full story).
10/19/2020
- A group protesting coronavirus restrictions in the Netherlands
shouted “Heil Hitler” in the streets of the city of Den Bosch on
Saturday. Public broadcaster Omroep Brabant reported that video
posted to Twitter showed the demonstrators shouting the antisemitic
slogan, and police are examining the footage for possible criminal
acts.
(Link to full story).
10/15/2020 -
A man described by U.S. prosecutors as a neo-Nazi and white
supremacist pleaded guilty on Thursday to a hate crime for plotting
to bomb a historic
Colorado synagogue last year. Richard Holzer, 28, pleaded guilty to
attempting to stop people from exercising their religion with an
explosive or fire and attempting to destroy a building used in
interstate commerce in a plea deal with prosecutors.
(Link to full story).
10/15/2020
- At least a dozen campaign signs supporting a Jewish congressional
candidate were defaced with antisemitic graffiti. At least one sign
supporting Josh Eisen’s campaign was tagged with the words “Nazi
lover,” according to News12, a local station in Westchester County.
(Link to full sory).
10/15/2020
- French Jews continued to react furiously on Thursday to the
announcement from the Paris public prosecutor’s office that
antisemitic provocation was
not among the charges facing a man who allegedly sprayed series
of large red swastikas along the French capital’s landmark Rue de
Rivoli last weekend. In a post on Twitter, CRIF, the representative
body of French Jews, declared its “total incomprehension” at the
prosecutors’ decision.
(Link to full story).
10/15/2020
- A German politician has urged the country’s Federal Office for the
Protection of the Constitution, which guards against neo-Nazi and
extremist threats, to investigate a group of elite German university
fraternities following a brutal
anti-Semitic attack in August upon a Jewish student who was
attending a fraternity party at Heidelberg University.
(Link to full story).
10/15/2020
- Nimesh Thaker, who worked at BBC World News, used an anonymous
Twitter account to attack a speech made by the Jewish presenter Emma
Barnett on her Radio 5 Live show in which she detailed the impact of
the Holocaust on her family. Following the JC report in September,
the BBC confirmed it had launched an investigation into the
conduct of the experienced journalist and producer who repeatedly
dismissed antisemitism claims under the pseudonymous handle ‘Not
That Bothered’. On Thursday, The Times reported that Mr Thaker had
resigned from his job as a broadcast journalist during the
disciplinary process – meaning he would escape further scrutiny.
(Link to full story).
10/15/2020
- he vandalism
of a Jewish cemetery in Denmark last year was allegedly ordered
by a Swedish neo-Nazi leader, according to text messages revealed at
the trial of the alleged perpetrators. The trial of Soren Lau
Kjeldal and Jacob Vullum Andersen, which opened Friday in the city
of Randers 120 miles northwest of Copenhagen, implicates a Swedish
man, Simon Lindberg, whom prosecutors say was a leader in the Nordic
Resistance Movement. According to information presented in court.
(Link to full story).
10/14/2020
- Police in Bellingham, Washington are looking for the perpetrator
who plastered swastikas on businesses over the weekend,
Seattle’s KOMO News reported Tuesday. Bellingham Police said several
businesses in the downtown area and nearby Fairhaven were vandalized
with signs carrying a large swastika and the words “We are
everywhere.”
(Link to full story).
10/13/2020
- The top cleric in the Palestinian Authority says it is every
Muslim’s duty to wage jihad (holy war) against the “thieving Jews,”
the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) watchdog group reported.
(Link to full story).
10/12/2020
- A University City rabbi in San Diego says a teenager on a bicycle
hit him over the head and yelled a racial
slur Saturday, steps from his synagogue. Rabbi Yonatan Halevy,
of the Shiviti Congregation, says this was the latest in a series of
incidents by a group of teenagers targeting his congregation that
has increasingly escalated.
(Link to full story).
10/12/2020
- Israel’ s embassy in Berlin on Friday accused a
Berlin arts college of stoking antisemitism against the Jewish state
by supporting a program titled “School for Unlearning Zionism” that
denies the existence of the State of Israel. The embassy wrote in a
series of three tweets that the Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin’s
“hosting a workshop whose title already negates Israel’s existence
is an embrace of antisemitism.”
(Link to full story).
10/11/2020
- A 31-year-old man was arrested at the scene and is suspected of
spray-painting the 20 red swastikas on walls and columns in Place de
la Concorde and Rue de Rivoli. Swastikas were spray-painted on walls
and columns near the Louvre Museum in Paris’s first district on
Saturday night.
(Link to full story).
10/10/2020
- An Orthodox Jewish man was assaulted on the Coney Island boardwalk
in Brooklyn, New York, as his wife and child looked on, a Jewish
news site reported. The victim, who was not named, was briefly
knocked unconscious and required medical attention.
(Link to full story).
10/10/2020
- New York University has settled a complaint brought by a student
after the school presented an award to Students for Justice in
Palestine, an organization which has been repeatedly accused of
anti-Semitism.
(Link to full story).
10/9/2020
- Artwork commemorating victims of the anti-Semitic shootings in
Halle have been vandalised, Germany police have announced. A series
of graffiti bearing the first names of the two victims were painted
across the city by activists, along with the words “Never forget”.
But some had been covered with red swastikas on Thursday evening,
the eve of the first anniversary of the attack, police said. A probe
has been launched into the vandalism.
(Link to full story).
10/9/2020
- The student government at Butler University in Indiana this week
hosted a two-part
BDS event and failed to pass a resolution condemning
anti-Semitism. The Oct. 6-8 event was
titled “Boycott & Safe Protesting 101.” It was hosted by the
university’s Student Government Association’s Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion Board, in partnership with the school’s branch of Students
for Justice in Palestine.
(Link to full story).
10/8/2020
- On October 6, a swastika was found on the campus of Columbia
University following the passage of a Israel divestment resolution.
According to Columbia’s Office of University Life, the swastika was
found on the steps of the Low Library, the university’s main
library.
(Link to full story).
10/8/2020
- Police in western Germany arrested a 14-year-old high school
student they believe was planning an attack on a mosque or
synagogue. The boy is being charged with attempted incitement to
murder and an act of violence posing a national threat, the
spokesperson said.
(Link to full story).
10/8/2020
- Stephanie Yeboah, a “plus-sized style blogger” who joined the
magazine last month to “fight for diversity, inclusion and women’s
rights” was found to have written a series of questionable Tweets in
recent years, Private Eye reported yesterday. Among them was a joke
from Yeboah that, “Every Jew has an attic, but not every attic has
Jews,” while in another she wrote: “AUSCHWITZ Gas Chamber Music LMAO
SMH [laughing my arse off, shaking my head]”.
(Link to full story)
10/8/2020
- The mezuzah at the entrance of the Tiferet Israel synagogue
in Berlin was found damaged last week with a swastika drawn on the
parchment. The antisemitic incident was first reported by Sigmount
A. Königsberg, a commissioner covering antisemitism for the Jewish
Community of Berlin organization. (Link
to full story).
10/7/2020
- An antisemitic graffity was discovered in the town of Kriftel (in
the Taunus), located between Frankfurt and Main and the state
capital Wiesbaden. The pictures were taken in the bunker near
the skate area in the Kriftel amusement park . The skate field is
described as a " starting point for young people from Kriftel ". (Link
to full story).
10/7/2020
- A New York man was arrested and charged with hate crimes for
allegedly vandalizing an Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn. Osman Butt,
25, was charged with burglary and criminal mischief in the early
Monday morning vandalism against the Shore Parkway Jewish Center,
Hamodia reported. Butt allegedly used a flagpole to break several
windows, according to police sources cited by Hamodia. He then
entered the building and continued to damage property.
(Link to full story).
10/7/2020
- The head of security for Pittsburgh’s Jewish federation urged
members of the community to “be vigilant” on Wednesday following the
release from prison of Hardy Lloyd, a violent white supremacist with
a history of antisemitic agitation.
10/5/2020
- A Jewish cemetery was desecrated on Monday near Athens just days
before the keenly-awaited verdict in a murder trial involving
neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, prompting strong condemnation from
Greece’s government. “Juden Raus,” a phrase once used by the Nazis
that means “Jews Out” in German, was painted in black on the outside
fence of the cemetery in the town of Nikaia, along with a symbol
similar to the swastika used by Golden Dawn, the Israelite Council
of Greece said.
(Link to full story).
10/5/2020
- Sweden is considering banning racist groups and making active
membership of one a criminal offense, after neo-Nazis launched a
hate campaign against Jews across Scandinavia on Yom Kippur, Swedish
Justice Minister Morgan Johansson told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
(Link to full story).
10/5/2020
- German police on Sunday arrested a man who attacked and seriously
injured a Jewish citizen near a synagogue in the northern town of
Hamburg as the Jewish community celebrated Sukkot. The victim was
hospitalized due to their injuries.
(Link to full story).
10/4/2020
- Police are calling on the community to help find the people
responsible for a recent series of antisemitic vandalism
incidents in Kalispell, Montana, local CBS affiliate KTVQ reported
Thursday. Antisemitic vandalism was spotted on a billboard off
Highway 93, as well as on silos by downtown Kalispell, as well as on
signs, doors and private buildings.
(Link to full story).
10/4/2020
- The international open-access science journal Molecules canceled
the publication of a study by Dr. Mindy Levine from Ariel
University after she refused to erase the word "Israel" in the
address of the university, according to Israeli activists. The study
was originally meant to be featured in the journal's January 2021
edition. Levine marked the address in the study as "The Department
of Chemical Sciences, Ariel University, Ramat HaGolan 65, Ariel,
Israel."
(Link to full story).
10/3/2020
- New York University has agreed to incorporate the definition of
anti-Semitism adopted by the Trump administration’s in its
anti-discrimination policy to head off a federal investigation of
the school. The NYU agreement, revealed this week by Jewish
Insider, came after a former student described a hostile
environment for Jews on the downtown Manhattan campus, including an
incident that occurred at a pro-Israel event.
(Link to full story).
10/2/2020
- A civic organization in Oregon said on Friday that it was offering
a reward of up to $2,500 for information regarding two separate
fires at a Jewish center in Portland in the space of a week. Crime
Stoppers of Oregon said it was asking for the public’s assistance as
police continue to search for those responsible for the blazes at
the Chabad Center for Jewish Life. The first incident took place
just before 11 p.m. on Aug. 14, while the second was reported on
Aug. 19 shortly before 3 a.m.
(Link to full story).
10/2/2020
- A kosher restaurant in Paris was destroyed overnight on Thursday
by vandals who sprayed Nazi swastikas and antisemitic slogans
including “Hitler was right” and “Free Palestine” on its floors and
walls. Shocked witnesses counted at least ten swastikas and up to 50
antisemitic slogans on the wall, among them “dirty Jew” and
“Thieves!” The symbol of the Nazi SS and the letters “FDP”,
belonging to the “Front des Patriotes,” a neo-Nazi group, were also
scrawled on walls and tables.
(Link to full story).
10/1/2020
- A woman was caught on video tearing down a poster outside an Upper
East Side synagogue, and police are investigating the act as a hate
crime. A surveillance clip released by cops late Wednesday shows the
woman walking up to the Chabad Israel Center at East 92nd Street and
Second Avenue around 4:30 a.m. Saturday and raising both arms into
the air. Then, she tore down the poster, which displayed the prayer
service schedule at the synagogue, cops said.
(Link to full story).
10/1/2020
- Following a legal complaint filed last year over campus
antisemitism, New York University has reached an agreement with the
Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the US Department of Education to
revise its Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy. It also
pledged to “issue a statement to all University students, faculty,
and staff stating that the University does not tolerate acts of
discrimination or harassment on the basis of shared ancestry and
ethnic characteristics, including anti-Semitism.”
(Link to full story).
9/30/2020
- President Reuven Rivlin joined the British community in reacting
with shock to the picture of a car spray-painted with a huge
swastika in Bristol, England, on the holiest day in the Jewish
calendar. The anonymous vandal also covered the BMW’s windshield
with the neon-yellow paint besides drawing the Nazi symbol on the
car hood. According to Channel 20, the car belonged to a Jewish man
who parked next to his home. A Jewish neighbor, Nick Helfenbein,
found it on Yom Kippur and was floored by the sight.
(Link to full story).
9/30/2020
- Nearly 6,000 people have signed a petition urging school
authorities in Marin County, California, to take swift action
against a group of high school racists who assembled a sinister
online list of local Jews alongside images of bullets and the Nazi
swastika. An Instagram account associated with Redwood High School
students that named specific Jewish students in Marin was unearthed
earlier this month. The account’s followers were encouraged to
contribute additional Jewish names to a Google document.
(Link to full story).
9/30/2020
- Columbia University's student body passed a referendum last week
recommending that the school "divest its stocks, funds and endowment
from companies that profit from or engage in the State of Israel's
acts towards Palestinians. In a statement on Tuesday, Columbia
president Lee Bollinger reiterated his opposition to the boycott,
divestment and sanctions referendum, which in November the Columbia
College Student Council voted in favor of holding.
(Link to full story).
9/28/2020
- An apparent anti-Semitic message left on a billboard in the
Flathead Valley is being investigated by Kalispell police. The
vandalism, along with the lettering and the Star of David, was
discovered Sunday morning on a billboard at Silverbrook Estates
along Highway 93 just north of Kalispell.
(Link to full story).
9/26/2020
- An academic from London University’s School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS) has called Israel a "Western Virus", The
Jewish Chronicle reported. The statement was made during a debate
held by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), a body that in
the past has faced criticism from Jewish groups regarding displayed
hostility towards the State of Israel, as well as antisemitic
incidents.
(Link to full story).
9/26/2020
- The sight of anti-Semitic messages graffitied onto a parked moving
fan in the East Village, New York, on Friday morning had one local
lawmaker infuriated. State Senator Brad Hoylman took to Twitter on
Sept. 25 and displayed a photograph of Nazi messages scrawled onto
the side of a Katz Moving van along First Avenue between East Second
and Third Streets. Multiple swastikas had been painted onto the van
along with the numbers 1488, a common code for white supremacist and
Nazi messages.
(Link to full story).
9/25/2020
- A Dutch city named as its resident poet a rapper who in a 2012
song called the Holocaust a “cover up for dumb sheep” and a “joke”
compared to slavery. The office of Jos Wienen, the mayor of Haarlem,
a city of about 160,000 residents that is the capital of the Dutch
province of North Holland, announced Darryl Danchelo Osenga’s title
of city poet on Wednesday, sparking passionate protests from Dutch
Jews and non-Jews.
(Link to full story).
9/25/2020
- Politicians in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar have
united in condemnation of a series of antisemitic barbs directed
toward an opposition member of parliament who is Jewish. Marlene
Hassan Nahon, the leader of the Together Gibraltar Party, said she
had been the target of an “orchestrated campaign” in recent days,
following her strong criticism of the government’s handling of the
impact upon Gibraltar of Britain’s withdrawal from the European
Union. “Of particular concern in the latest barrage of abuse is the
age-old antisemitic trope of dual loyalty with Israel that has been
lobbed at me for being Jewish,” Nahon said.
(Link to full story).
9/24/2020
- Police in France have arrested a man for an attempted assault on a
Jewish TV presenter at the Paris studio where she works. The unnamed
man was taken into custody on Tuesday after he entered the studio
and confronted Valerie Benaim over her trenchant criticism of Freeze
Corleone, a French rapper whose hit debut album is steeped in
“antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and apologies for Hitler, the
Third Reich and Mullah Omar.
(Link to full story).
9/24/2020
- A drunken anti-Semitic attacker was detained by police after
vandalizing property in eastern Moscow, Russia, prompting outrage
from local Jewish community leaders. The SOVA Center's Antisemitism
monitoring service reported that eyewitnesses heard the attacker
shout Judeo-phobic slogans as he attempted to break into the
community courtyard. After failing to do so, the suspect broke the
local Jewish organization SHAMIR's name-plate on the mailbox and
then toppled a large decorative menorah. He also caused minor damage
to the rabbi's car before being arrested.
(Link to full story).
9/23/2020
- A virulently anti-Semitic Polish priest has been banned by the
Catholic Church in western Canada from speaking in any of its
parishes. The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton issued the ban on
Tadeusz Rydzyk who heads a radio station called Radio Maryja in
Poland with a long history of airing anti-Semitic views.
(Link to full story).
9/23/2020
- Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan walked out of Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech to the UN General Assembly
on Tuesday, accusing him of antisemitism. “Erdogan continues his
lies and antisemitic statements against Israel, and it is important
that the world know the double standards by which he has been living
for many years,” Erdan stated.
(Link to full story).
9/23/2020
- Two Labour councillors in Cumbria are being investigated for
allegedly making anti-Semitic comments on social media. Copeland
councillors Tom Higgins, of the Egremont ward, and Graham Calvin, of
Moor Row and Bigrigg wards, are being investigated by the Labour
Party, the BBC has confirmed. Ex-Copeland councillor Bill Kirkbride
was expelled from Labour in June over "offensive" social media
posts.
(Link to full story).
9/23/2020
- A Jewish advocacy organization in Canada has highlighted three
“deeply disturbing” instances of antisemitic hostility toward Jews
as they celebrated the Rosh Hashanah holiday last weekend.
(Link to full story).
9/23/2020
- A Jewish advocacy organization in Canada has highlighted three
“deeply disturbing” instances of antisemitic hostility toward Jews
as they celebrated the Rosh Hashanah holiday last weekend. On
Friday, just before the holiday began, a man accosted a Jewish
father and son outside a synagogue in Thornhill. The man yelled,
“You’re a piece of sh-t, you’re Jewish, you run
the f-ckin world,” before approaching the victim’s car and
attempting to stick his hand inside.
(Link to full story).
9/22/2020
- Two teenagers suspected of arson and daubing swastikas in
Borehamwood have been arrested by police. Councillor Jeremy Newmark
reported the offensive symbols found in multiple locations on Monday
evening, including on The Campions, Retford Close and Sawtry Way.
(Link to full story).
9/22/2020
- Small square brass plates set in the pavement remember Jewish
residents of Berlin’s Lichtenberg district who were torn from their
homes and killed by the Nazis decades ago. Nearby, the charred
remains of a Jewish-run bar destroyed by arson last month attest to
a hatred that still burns among far-right extremists. In a report
released Tuesday, the Department for Research and Information on
Anti-Semitism Berlin, or RIAS, documented 410 incidents, more than
two a day, during the first half of 2020.
(Link
to full story).
9/21/2020
- The editors of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper
at the New York Ivy League school, apologized on Sunday for running
what they called a “deeply inappropriate” pro-Israel advertisement.
The ad, created by the Columbia chapter of the Students Supporting
Israel (SSI) group, urged students to “vote no” in an upcoming
BDS referendum at the university’s undergraduate college.
(Link to full story).
9/21/2020
- Outside the Missouri Institute of Natural Science, the sidewalk
and the rocks were vandalized with graffiti this past weekend. The
Greene County Highway Department has mostly cleaned up the sidewalk,
but the spray painting was described as racist, hateful and
disturbing. The director of the Missouri Institute of natural
science, Matt Forir, said they were Nazi-related symbols, swastikas,
the words “white lives matter,” curse words and personal names.
(Link to full story).
9/21/2020
- The Palestinian Authority's newly released educational curriculum
shows no substantive changes for the better, despite assurances
earlier this year that egregious examples of antisemitism and hate
education would be eliminated. An analysis by the new curriculum by
IMPACT-se, a research and policy institute that analyzes schoolbooks
and curricula through UNESCO-derived standards on peace and
tolerance, has found that educational textbooks for use in
Palestinian schools throughout the West Bank remain openly
antisemitic, encourage violence, and promote jihad and martyrdom.
9/21/2020
- A French court jailed an unrepentant antisemitic activist on
Friday for two postings on the internet that defamed Jews and a
third that denied the Holocaust. Hervé Lalin, who also goes by the
name Hervé Ryssen, has now begun a 17-month jail term at the
Fleury-Mérogis prison near Paris for the three offenses, committed
between 2017 and 2020.
(Link to full story).
9/20/2020
- Residents of a high-rise apartment building in Miami, Florida
reported seeing a Nazi flag
laid out close to their building before the Rosh Hashanah weekend
began, according to Fox News. The flag was seen sprawled out across
bushes by the condominium on two instances, one of which was
documented by a resident of the building next door.
(Link to full story).
9/19/2020
- At the former concentration camp Bogdanovka, in southern Ukraine,
a note with three swastikas was addressed to three prominent Jews.
In three separate incidents this week, swastikas were painted on two
monuments for Holocaust victims in Ukraine, and another one in
Russia. At the former concentration camp Bogdanovka, in southern
Ukraine, a note with three swastikas was addressed to three
prominent Jews: Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky, former
politician Yevhen Chervonenko and Eduard Dolinsky, director of the
Ukrainian Jewish Committee.
(Link to full story).
9/18/2020
- French prosecutors on Thursday opened an investigation into the
song lyrics of Freeze Corleone, a rapper who has been accused by
several officials and organisations of promoting anti-Semitism.
Advertising Freeze Corleone's debut studio album LMF was released
last week and a music video for one of his songs posted on YouTube
on Friday has already reached more than a million views. Paris
Prosecutor Remy Heitz said Corleone was being investigated for
"inciting racial hatred" based on the content of his songs and
videos posted online.
(Link to full story)
9/18/2020
- NYPD is investigating an incident caught on surveillance camera in
New York, where a heavy set man with a face mask vandalized the wall
of NYU building with anti-Semitic and racist messages. He also
painted a swastika with a black marker.
9/17/2020
- A survey was presented on Thursday to the Subcommittee on
Israel-Diaspora Relations that showed 71% of Jews in Europe have
experienced an anti-Semitic attack, according to a poll conducted by
the European Union among young Jews in the continent.
(Link to full story).
9/17/2020
- Anti-Semitic incidents are regular occurrences on North American
college campuses in recent years, targeting student activists,
organizations, and faculty that support the State of Israel. Noah
Shufutinsky, a black Jewish student at George Washington University
in Washington, D.C, addressed the Israeli parliament about his
experiences with Jew-hatred, saying his, “heritage was targeted,
attacked, and demonized” on campus.
(Link to full story).
9/17/2020
- A Democratic Super PAC aligned with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has
sent out three mailers to voters in a New Jersey congressional
district that depict the Republican candidate, who is Jewish,
clutching money. One mailer shows the candidate, David Richter,
holding a fistful of fanned-out $100 bills, with more raining down
behind him, while the reverse shows his suit jacket lined with
bills. Another, showing him holding $100 bills in the shape of a
rose, says he “puts personal profits over New Jersey families and it
is truly obscene.”
(Link to full story).
9/17/2020
- The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also
known as the Claims Conference, revealed a shocking study on
Wednesday that highlights the lack of knowledge American millennials
and Gen Zers have about the Holocaust. The Claims Conference’s
newest study states “that nearly 20 percent of millennials and Gen Z
in New York feel the Jews caused the Holocaust.”
(Link to full story).
9/17/2020 - Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), co-chairs of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, sent a letter to Polish President Andrzej Duda expressing concern over the rise of antisemitic discourse in Poland and urging Poland to enact a comprehensive Holocaust restitution law. (Link to full story).
9/16/2020 - Members of a synagogue in Montgomery, Alabama, who came together for a pre-Rosh Hashanah video call on Zoom last weekend were subjected to foul antisemitic and racist abuse by a group of outsiders who hacked or “Zoom-bombed” the event. shortly after the meeting began, as many as seven hackers intruded on the proceedings, bombarding participants with anti-Semitic invective and imagery, along with racist and homophobic barbs. “Screens came up of very shocking imagery of Hitler, swastikas and I thought some pornographic images,” Rabbi Kramer said of the 10-minute onslaught. (Link to full story).
9/16/2020
- A New Jersey man named Jonathan Xie pleaded guilty Tuesday to
federal charges related to his activities trying to aid the Palestinian
terror group Hamas. The 21-year-old Basking Ridge resident was
also responsible for a string of disturbing, violent rants on social
media. Xie also flashed a handgun and a Hamas flag in that clip and
bragged about wanting to show up at a pro-Israel event “to shoot
everybody.”
(Link to full story).
9/16/2020
- Twenty-nine police officers have been suspended in Germany for
sharing pictures of Adolf Hitler and doctored depictions of refugees
in gas chambers on their mobile phones, officials in the state of
North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) said on Wednesday. They are also
accused of using far-right chatrooms where extremist content, such
as Swastikas and other Nazi symbols, that breaches the German
constitution was shared.
(Link to full story).
9/15/2020
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9/15/2020
- About 20 tombstones were damaged at a Jewish cemetery in Zabrze in
southern Poland, the third case of vandalism at a Polish Jewish
cemetery this month. Police are searching for the perpetrators, he
added. Last week, a 19th century tombstone at the Jewish cemetery in
Tarnowskie Gory, near Krakow, was defaced with red spray paint.
(Link to full story).
9/15/2020
- In Great Brittain, the Liberal Democrats suspended Geeta
Sidhu-Robb, who was vying to become their candidate in London’s 2021
mayoral elections. Over the weekend, a video emerged on Twitter
showing her during her 1997 general election campaign for the
constituency of Blackburn in northern England. In that campaign,
Sidhu-Robb was running as a member of the Conservative Party against
Jack Straw, a former Labour lawmaker. “Don’t vote for a Jew. Jack
Straw is a Jew. If you vote for him you’re voting for a Jew,”
Sidhu-Robb is seen saying in Urdu into a loudspeaker in Blackburn.
(Link to full story).
9/14/2020
- The eldest son of the Holocaust survivor who was brutally murdered
during an antisemitic assault in her Paris apartment castigated
France’s judiciary for its alleged indifference to violence against
Jews in an emotional speech in the French capital this past weekend.
Allan Knoll, whose 85-year-old mother, Holocaust survivor Mireille
Knoll, was stabbed and then burned to death in March 2018 by two
intruders who believed that because she was Jewish, she would be
hiding large amounts of cash, addressed a small rally on Sunday in
the Place de la Republique in Paris.
(Link to full story).
9/14/2020
- Canadian Defenders for Human Rights (CD4HR), a virulently
anti-Israel group, was recently busted promoting the anti-Semitic
conspiracy that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York
and Pennsylvania were “likely” perpetrated by the U.S. itself and
its “Zionist allies.”(Link
to full story).
9/13/2020
- The historic Walnut Street Bridge and parts of the Bluff View Art
District in Chattanooga were vandalized with swastikas on Sunday
morning, according to Mayor Andy Berke. Berke, who is Jewish, said
the Chattanooga Police Department is investigating the incident, and
he is confident that those responsible will be held accountable.
(Link to full story).
9/13/2020
- Daniels Park, a Denver Mountain Park, was vandalized
with antisemitic and racist graffiti, according to the local CBS
News affiliate CBS4. Reporter Rick Sallinger described the graffiti
as "not just spray paint, but vicious racial derogatory epithets
and antisemitic slurs." Denver Parks and Recreation told CBS4 that
they are aware of the graffiti and that it will be taken care of.
(Link to full story).
9/10/2020
- Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco in the California State
Senate, and not just because he’s running for reelection. because
he’s Jewish and gay, Wiener has borne the brunt of unrelenting anti-Semitic and
homophobic comments and posts. One that has made the rounds in
recent days before being removed from Instagram featured a crudely
doctored image showing Wiener with an elongated nose and wearing the
garb and hairstyle of an Orthodox Jew.
(Link to full story).
9/10/2020
- Over 100 people of diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds
rallied Monday at the University of South California (USC),
demanding an end to discrimination against Jews on campus under the
banner “EndJewHatred.” According to its website, #EndJewHatred is “a
grassroots movement centering on Jewish liberation from all forms of
oppression and discrimination. We are working to eliminate Jew
hatred from Western culture through peaceful direct action and
education.”
(Link to full story).
9/9/2020
- Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been urged by 100
prominent Orthodox Jewish rabbis across the U.S. to cut ties between
the company's AmazonSmile charitable initiative and the Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in a letter obtained exclusively by Fox
News.
(Link to full story).
9/8/2020
- Police in the southern German city of Heidelberg are investigating
alleged anti-Semitic crimes that took place at a university student
party. State prosecutors from Mannheim on Tuesday said the charges
stem from events at a party hosted by the Burschenschaft Normannia
Heidelberg fraternity on August 29. Prosecutors said that seven
men and one woman face charges of libel and inflicting bodily harm.
In all, 27 people attended the party. Authorities in the states of
Saarland and North Rhine-Westphalia are also looking into the
incident as individuals from each were also in attendance.
(Link to full story).
9/7/2020
- A court in France passed sentence on Monday on one of the men
involved in a violent antisemitic assault last week on a young
Algerian Muslim who was in the process of converting to Judaism. The
assailant, a 21-year-old homeless man, will serve a one-year prison
sentence for his part in the attack on the victim, a 26-year-old
named Younes who gave an extensive interview about his ordeal to the
news outlet Le Parisien.
(Link to full story).
9/5/2020
- German car giant Volkswagen apologized on Monday after a customer
at one of its showrooms in Mexico tweeted a photograph of Nazi
imagery on the walls that quickly went viral. Fernanda Martinez, a
writer based in Mexico City, photographed the offending image during
a visit to the Volkswagen showroom in Coyoacán on Saturday. A
stylized photograph of a Nazi rally being addressed by Adolf Hitler
was hanging from the wall.
(Link to full story)
9/5/2020
- Two members of the Boogaloo Bois, a far-right anti-government
movement, were arrested and charged with conspiring and attempting
to give material support to Hamas. Michael Robert Solomon, 30, and
Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, were arrested Thursday, according to a
Justice Department statement.
(Link to full story).
9/5/2020 - The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called upon Youtube to
delete a Holocaust denial video posted to the video sharing platform
in Korean. The video from Spika Studio denies that 6 million Jews
were murdered during the Holocaust, labels Anne Frank as a fraud,
legitimizes Hitler's unfair disposition towards European Jewry and
alleges that Jews have secretly controlled America for over 50
years.
(Link to full story).
9/5/2020
- "Death to Israel" graffiti was pray-painted with black paint over
the white wall in the parking lot close to Albert-Cam
us college in Perpignan, Southern France. Local municipal services
removed the paint few hours after being notified.
9/3/2020
- According to vile comments in the most recent clip posted by
fearless guerilla journalist Ami Horovitz, residents of Ilhan Omar’s
district in Minneapolis, Minnesota think Jews created the
coronavirus to harm others. “The Jews do all kinds of terrible
stuff,” says one man. Another claims coronavirus is a Jewish
depopulation scheme targeting Muslims.
(Link to full story).
9/3/2020
- The phrases “Get Zionism out of Argentina” and “Israel Terrorism”
were spray-painted alongside roads in Lujan de Cuyo, a small city in
the Mendoza province nearly 650 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. The
city’s mayor, Sebastian Bragagnolo, condemned the vandalism, saying
Wednesday that “it goes completely against the values in which we
Lujaninos believe.” Some 3,000 Jews live
in Mendoza province, which has a population of 1.9 million.
(Link to full story).
9/2/2020
- The California legislature passed AB-331 on Monday, coming one
step closer to becoming the first U.S. state to require all high
school students to complete an ethnic studies course in order to
graduate. The course would follow an ethnic studies model curriculum
which accuses Jews of possessing “racial privilege.”
(Link to full story).
9/2/2020
- A top BBC journalist used a false name on social media to attack a
prominent colleague after she gave a speech on anti-Semitism and her
family’s experience with the Holocaust. According to The Jewish
Chronicle, Nimesh Thaker of BBC World News operated an anonymous
Twitter account under the name “Not That Bothered” to amplify posts
by notorious anti-Semites Kerry-Anne Mendoza and Jackie Walker and
engage in his own abusive behavior.
(Link to full story).
9/2/2020
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attacked the Israel-UAE agreement
on Wednesday and called Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s
senior adviser – as well as pro-Israel Americans – “filthy Zionist
agents.” Khamenei referred to Kushner as “the Jewish member of
Trump’s family” ֿ– Kushner is Trump’s son-in-law – in a series of
tweets that were condemned as reactionary and antisemitic.
(Link to full story).
9/1/2020
- An anti-Semitic vandal scrawled a swastika and the words “white
power” in front of a Bronx criminal defense and civil rights
lawyer’s office Tuesday afternoon. “We came in this morning, there
was nothing,” said lawyer Mike Braverman, adding that by afternoon
“my associate noticed there was a tag on one side, and that (the
anti-Semitic graffiti) on the other side.”
(Link to full story)
9/1/2020
- A Hassidic Jew who arrived in the Ukrainian town of Uman was
apparently the subject of an anti-Semitic attack, the local Jewish
community reported. Ukrainian Jewish Committee Director General
Eduard Dolinksy said the man suffered minor injuries. Other Hassids
in the group, who like the victim were on the annual pilgrim to the
grave site of the Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, were unhurt.
(Link to full story).
9/1/2020
- Popular video-sharing social media platform TikTok has
declared a "zero tolerance" policy on accounts that have been linked
to instances of antisemitism,
as well as other forms of bigotry. The announcement, which came in
an August 20 TikTok blog post titled "Countering Hate on TikTok,"
comes as the app has faced controversy over hate speech content on
the service, including the Holocaust challenge, which saw users
attempt to portray themselves as Holocaust victims. (Link to full
story)
8/31/2020
- A top Jewish group slammed a Canadian Quaker publication on Sunday
for spreading what it called a “big lie” by claiming that Israel was
responsible for US police violence against minorities. In response,
the Simon Wiesenthal Center tweeted, “Latest #Quaker
intersectionality outrage doing the Lord’s work by spreading another
big lie, defaming #Israel for US police officers who violate their
oath to protect all citizens. Carrying water for Palestinian
demonizing Jewish state.”
(Link to full story).
8/31/2020
- Posters reading "Hitler was right," "unity of our blood," and
other anti-Semitic comments were found on the Arizona State
University Tempe campus for the second time in less than a year.
Student leaders of the Jewish community discovered the posters at
approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. As soon as the university was
notified, campus police removed the posters, an ASU spokesperson
said. (Link to full story).
8/31/2020
- An Army officer was suspended from his duties Monday pending an
investigation into a “vile” TikTok video in which he joked about
Jewish people being incinerated in gas chambers during the
Holocaust, officials said. Second Lt. Nathan Freihofer, a field
artillery officer stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, shared the
obscene clip with his 3.1 million followers. “What’s a Jewish
person’s favorite Pokémon?” Freihofer asked, before snickering and
saying, “Ash.”
(Link to full story).
8/31/2020
- Police are investigating a hit and run incident that took place in
Brooklyn early Sunday morning and has drawn some attention as a
potential hate crime due to the visibly‐Jewish identities of the
victims. “Preliminary investigation reveals a dark colored sedan was
traveling southbound on Taylor Street in reckless manner, mounted a
curb at Taylor Street and Lee Avenue and collided with a 23-year-old
male and a 47-year-old male pedestrians,” the NYPD noted.
(Link to full story).
8/31/2020
- During the violent riots in Malmö that broke out on Friday,
slogans against Jews were shouted by the crowd. Now the police will
investigate the incident that may be classified as “incitement
against ethnic groups”, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported.
Following the riots, clips were posted on social media with
protesters clenching their fists and shouting “Jews, remember
Khaybar, Mohammed's army returns.” According to the Central Jewish
Council, Khaybar was a place where Jews were murdered by Prophet
Mohammad, a central figure in Islam, and his followers in 628, and
the slogans are interpreted as “a call for the murder and purge of
Jews”.
8/30/2020
- A mural which gained prominence as the subject of a row over
antisemitism within the British Labour Party two years ago has
seemingly been taken up by black equality activists in America. Two
protesters at the March on Washington 2020 were photographed on
Friday wearing t-shirts depicting the image first painted as a mural
in London by the artist Mear One. The image depicts Jewish bankers
playing a game similar to monopoly on the backs of people of color,
underneath the masonic Eye of Providence.
(Link to full story).
8/30/2020
- A 20-year-old man, a 23-year-old woman and a 16-year-old from
Beachwood, Ohio are facing charges for the painting of swastikas,
and antisemitic images and words on several Jewish-owned businesses
in University Heights near Cleveland in July, according to local
news outlet cleveland.com. (Link to full story)
8/30/2020
- Rapper Snoop Dogg likened modern-day America to Nazi Germany
through an Instagram post on Wednesday. The rapper shared an image
of a black and white American flag with a blue strip pulled off
revealing a Nazi flag behind it - more specifically the official
ensign of the Nazi regime.
(Link to full story).
8/28/2020
- Asheville, North Carolina, Police Department said they charged a
man for sending threats containing anti-Semitic language over
voicemail. Police say detectives from the Major Crimes Unit began an
investigation when a victim reported 56-year-old, Jeffrey Alan
Gregory, Thursday morning. Following an investigation, Gregory was
taken into custody the same day and charged with Ethnic
intimidation, Communicating Threats, and Cyberstalking, police say.
Asheville PD say that Gregory was released on a $6000 unsecured
bond.
(Link to full story).
8/27/2020
- Goyim TV, an antisemitic video-sharing website that was promoted
with a “banner drop” from a Los Angeles freeway overpass on
Saturday, has been taken down by its domain host under a flood of
complaints. Jon Minadeo Jr., a 37-year-old Petaluma man, was behind
both the website and the banner drop, J. reported earlier this week,
as were a handful of Minadeo cronies known as the “Goyim Defense
League.”
(Link to full story).
8/27/2020
- The University of Delaware’s Chabad house suffered thousands of
dollars worth of damage on Tuesday night after a fire burned through
the building. Fire officials in the area deemed it arson. A hate
crime is not being ruled out, but the investigation is ongoing. (Link to full story).
8/27/2020
- A young graffiti artist who was wearing a T-shirt with the word
"Israel" was approached and pushed by a group of individuals on
Wednesday afternoon in Strasbourg, France. One of the attackers
stole his spray paint and wrote on the ground "forbidden to Jews and
bitches."
(Link to full story).
8/27/2020
- Police in France arrested two men that they said are behind the
allegedly anti-Semitic assault earlier this month on a Jewish man
who was knocked unconscious in an elevator. In the Aug, 6 incident,
the victim, identified in the French media only as David S., 29,
said he was beaten by two men in the elevator of a Paris building
where his parents live and called a “dirty Jew.”
(Link to full story).
8/26/2020
- Shocking footage captured the moment last week when an
Uber passenger demanded to be let out of the car because his driver
was Jewish, the UK-based Daily Mail reported. “I don’t like Jews.
I’m not going to ride with a Jewish dog,” the passenger demanded.
(Link to full story).
8/26/2020
-The man responsible for planting a fake bomb outside a kosher
restaurant in Amsterdam was sentenced to jail by a Dutch court on
Wednesday. The accused, referred to as “Hassan N” in the Dutch
media, was handed a one-year sentence with four months suspended. He
has two previous convictions for antisemitism and last year was
found guilty of sending a threatening letter to a neighbor.
(Link to full story).
8/24/2020
- Austria’s interior minister confirmed on Monday that police in the
southern city of Graz had arrested a man suspected of assaulting the
president of the local Jewish community over the weekend. Speaking
at a news conference in the capital, Vienna, Karl Nehammer said the
suspect — who was arrested on Sunday night, had “confessed in full.”
In an earlier series of tweets on Sunday night, Neehammer identified
the alleged perpetrator as a “31-year-old Syrian citizen who has
been living in Austria since 2013.” (Link to full story).
8/24/2020 - Anti-Semitic posters blaming Jews for the COVID-19 pandemic appeared over the weekend in the southern Argentine city of Neuquen, nearly 700 miles south of Buenos Aires. The posters contained phrases such as “The Jews are the virus” and “Argentines Awake to the World Jewish Dictatorship.” (Link to full story).
8/24/2020
- Jewish organizations in southern California expressed outrage over
the weekend after banners with sinister antisemitic slogans were
seen hanging from a freeway overpass. The three home-made banners
were draped an overpass on Interstate 405 in Los Angeles on
Saturday, close to the Florence Avenue exit in Inglewood.
(Link to full story).
8/23/2020
- The State Medical Board of Ohio permanently revoked the medical
training certificate of a former Cleveland Clinic resident, Lara
Kollab, who posted virulently anti-Semitic comments and threats on
social media, cleveland.com reported
on Saturday.
(Link to full story).
8/24/2020
- The entire leadership of Britain's biggest Muslim charity has
resigned after it emerged that it had replaced a trustee who had
stepped down over antisemitic posts with a man who glorified terror
attacks against Israel, and described the Jewish state as the
"Zionist enemy."
(Link to full story).
8/21/2020
- Antisemitic protests that have been staged outside a synagogue in
Michigan, for nearly two decades will be allowed to continue, a
local judge ruled this week. The demonstrations, featuring signs
that say “Jewish Power Corrupts” and “Resist Jewish Power,” have
been taking place during Shabbat services at Beth Israel Synagogue
in Ann Arbor.
(Link to full story)
8/21/2020
- French-Israeli member of the French National Assembly Meyer
Habib condemned a recent campaign launched by the BDS
organization Palestine Will Win, which ridiculed and named the
French riders of Israel Start-Up Nation (ISN) - the Israeli
professional cycling team - claiming that by participating in the
2020 Tour de France they are in turn supporting "Israeli apartheid
through sport." Some comments called for the harm of the riders,
alluding to "a sniper on the Tour," referring to it "'bird shooting'
as they do in Palestine."
(Link to full story)
8/20/2020
- The FBI Records Vault issued a formal apology after their Twitter
account shared
links to the bureau’s files on “The Protocols of The Elders of
Zion,” a decades-old text that espouses the dangerous conspiracy
theory that Jewish people are seeking world domination. The tweet,
which was issued with no context or explanation, sparked confusion
and anger from social media users. The FBI Records Vault tweeted “We
regret that this release may have inadvertently caused distress
among the communities we serve.”
(Link to full story).
8/20/2020
- A British architect
who called Jews “inventers of European racism” has been banned by
the UK licensing board. The action against Kellow, which is
unusually harsh, was based on the committee’s decision that Kellow
was guilty of “unacceptable professional conduct” when he posted in
April 2019 on Facebook.
(Link to full story).
8/29/2020 - Police arrested a Long Island man after he allegedly called them to complain about social distancing at a Yeshiva summer camp and would “go out there with a freakin’ machine gun and shoot all these people” if nothing was done, a local New York CBS affiliate reported Tuesday. Nassau County police said they received a call from 58-year-old Nicola Pelle of Inwood who lives next door to Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island, complaining that kids at the Yeshiva’s summer day camp were not following health guidelines. (Link to full story).
8/19/2020
- "Heil Hitler" and "Juden" sprayed on a Jewish house in Lyon France
while the family was away on vacations. The League against Racism
and Antisemitism (LICRA), a French NGO, announced over social media
that they will take the matter to court, explaining that “Neo-Nazis
are enemies of the Republic and its values,” and “they must be
fought as such with all means of law.”
(Link to full story).
8/19/2020
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Monday to
require an ethnic-studies course requirement for matriculation from
California State University (CSU), starting with the 2021-22 school
year. The groups noted that vetoing AB-1460 was necessary because
anti-Zionist advocacy and the promotion of BDS are an intrinsic part
of critical ethnic studies; critical ethnic-studies faculty have
repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to promote BDS and
anti-Zionist advocacy in their academic programming and classrooms;
and faculty support and promotion of BDS are linked to the
harassment of Jewish students.
(Link to full story).
8/19/2020
- Three people are facing charges in connection with anti-Semitic
graffiti painted on businesses in University Heights, OH. On Monday,
Bo Briele Truitt, 23, and Gabriel Truitt, 20, were charged with
ethnic intimation, inducing panic, contributing to the delinquency
of a minor and criminal damaging. A 16-year-old Beachwood girl was
also charged. Bo Truitt is already in custody and a warrant is out
for Gabriel Truitt’s arrest.
(Link to full story).
8/18/2020
- Antisemitic slogans scratched outside the Philadelphia house of
prayer widely known as the “Synagogue of the American Revolution”
are being investigated by local police. The messages “Jews are Scum”
and “Long Live Hitler” alongside a Nazi swastika were scratched onto
a sign outside the synagogue. After the scrawls were discovered by
an employee of the synagogue, police opened an investigation.
(Link to full story).
8/16/2020
- The Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City chapter is
asking New York City Council candidates to pledge not to visit
Israel in return for the group’s support, NY1 reported on Friday.
“Do you pledge not to travel to Israel if elected to City Council in
solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation?” the survey
asks. Backlash to the controversial questionnaire was
immediate.State Senator Anna Kaplan told the news site. “And the
exclusion of every other country with this questionnaire, just
targeting Israel, is a very anti-Semitic position.”
(Link
to full story).
8/14/2020
- The video-sharing app TikTok has become a magnet for extremists
who spread antisemitic and racist content to recruit new followers,
the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) warned in a new report this week.
(Link to full story).
8/13/2020
- An Air Force memorial in Athens, Greece, was vandalized with
anti-Semitic graffiti translated as "Satanic Jews Out".
8/13/2020
- Austrian Airlines announced on Thursday that it had fired one of
its flight attendants (Christina Kohl) after video footage emerged
of her chanting antisemitic slogans at a far-right demonstration in
Vienna. (Link to full story).
8/13/2020
- The New York Police Department (NYPD) has opened a hate crimes
investigation following two separate incidents of antisemitic
vandalism this week on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. On Tuesday, the
office of NY Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright was daubed with white
paint alongside a note littered with antisemitic and sexist phrases
that was apparently written by the culprit. Later on the same day,
Eileen Toback, executive director of the New York Professional
Nurses Union reported antisemitic graffiti by her office, which is
located close to Seawright’s office. Written in green marker on a
construction porta-potty, the message contained sexist and
antisemitic tropes similar to those contained in the note left for
Seawright.
(Link to full story).
8/12/2020
- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly condemns the remark
recently made by Miko Grimes, wife of former Miami Dolphins and
current Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ cornerback Brent Grimes, on Twitter in
which she stated “Gotta respect Ross for keeping his Jew buddies
employed…” referring to Dolphins owner Stephen Ross’ hiring of Mike
Tannenbaum as Executive Vice President of Football Operations.
(Link to full story).
8/11/2020
- In a statement on Tuesday, the National Bureau for Vigilance and
Countering Antisemitism (BNVCA), a group that advocates for victims
of antisemitic violence, said that it “denounces and condemns” the
assault, which occurred in an apartment building in the 19th
arrondissement district of the French capital where a sizable Jewish
community lives. During the ride, one of the men told the victim,
“Dirty Jew, dirty Jewish son of a whore, you’re a dead man, dirty
Jew.” The pair then attacked David with heavy blows that left him
unconscious for several minutes. He was reported to be recovering
from his ordeal.
(Link to full story).
8/10/2020
- A Jewish former professional baseball player has charged that
antisemitism is “rampant” in the sport, in the wake an incident last
week in which an Oakland Athletics assistant coach gave an apparent
Nazi salute following a victory over the Texas Rangers. Among the
incidents Decker recounted included a minor league game against the
Frisco Rough Riders in Texas, during which several members of the
opposing team called him and fellow Jewish teammate Nate Freiman
“kikes.”
(Link to full story).
8/10/2020
- Vandals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, painted swastikas on the
outside wall and the door of the Kesher Israel synagogue. The
members of the congregation were shaken when learned of the
incident. The swastikas were washed off and the incident is under
investigation by the local police.
8/8/2020
- The national leadership of NAACP rebuked the president of its
Philadelphia branch, Rodney Muhammad, but stopped short of firing
him, for sharing an anti-Semitic meme a couple weeks ago in defense
of black celebrities who have come under fire lately for
anti-Semitism. NAACP spokesperson Austyn Ross said that “Hate speech
has no place at the NAACP, and such language and imagery are
reprehensible.” Meanwhile, the Jewish Federation of Greater
Philadelphia said on Aug. 2 that it will no longer work with the
Philadelphia NAACP as long as Muhammad is there.
(Link to full story).
8/7/2020
- A man at a bar in Leeds, England, told a Jewish college student on
Thursday that she should be “gassed” with other Jews in a
confrontation that was filmed on the victim’s phone, the Daily
Mail reported. The video, taken at a bar owned by the Wetherspoon
company, at first showed a man telling Danielle Greyman, 21, that
she looked like a Jew, before he identified himself as German. The
woman he was with then denied that they were racist.
(Link to full story).
8/7/2020
- Glos Polski, a Toronto based weekly Polish-language newspaper,
published an article blaming Jewish people for Covid-19 virus.
According to Canadian B’nai Brith, the article also blamed Jews for
the creation of ISIS, and accused Israel for being the source of the
world’s problems and “an emanation of the Devil himself.” B’nai
Brith has filed a complaint with a local police.
8/7/2020
- A Jewish student leader at the University of Southern California
(USC) has resigned over abuse she said she had faced due to her
backing of Israel. Rose Ritch, the now-former vice president of the
Undergraduate Student Government at the Los Angeles school wrote in
an open letter published on Wednesday.
(Link to full story).
8/6/2020
- Antisemitism rem ains a widespread phenomenon among Muslims in the
UK, especially among those who live in communities where
comparatively few non-Muslims reside, a new report has revealed.
Published by the global affairs think tank The Henry Jackson Society
(HJS), the study showed that one particular antisemitic trope, the
“dual loyalty” charge that UK Jews are more loyal to Israel than to
Great Britain was pronounced among Muslims. (Link to full story).
8/4/2020
- Patrick Gaspard, a former Obama administration official and
president of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, blasted former
president Bill Clinton on Friday for condemning Stokely Carmichael,
a racial separatist who called Hitler the only white man he could
respect. (Link to full story).
8/3/2020
- A former NFL player, Larry Johnson, who has an ugly history of
posting anti-Semitic tropes and Holocaust denial, was at it again,
tweeting that there is a secret “Jewish cabal” that carries out
perverse crimes like “Ritualistic Child Torture” and “Human
Sacrifice/Murder.” While there were many responses condemning the
anti-Semitic tweet, there was also frustration that Twitter
continues to turn a blind eye when it comes to hatred directed at
Jews.
(Link to full story).
8/3/2020
- Four men ranging in age from 27 to 38 years old were arrested for
trespassing on a railroad bridge in Queen Creek, AZ. According to
reports, three are residents of Arizona and one is from Oklahoma. On
Saturday morning the suspects were seen hanging the banner from the
bridge which stated “Hitler was right” and contained their website
address. Sheriff’s deputies caught the men posing with the banner
and taking photos. The men initially told deputies they were
exercising their first amendment rights. They were charged with a
class 3 misdemeanor trespassing violation.
8/3/2020
- A little over a month after he was booted from YouTube for
consistently posting antisemitic content, the French comedian and
agitator Dieudonné has been permanently banned from the Facebook and
Instagram social media platforms for the same offense. A Facebook
spokesperson on Monday confirmed that Dieudonné had used
“dehumanizing terms against Jews” in several of his posts.
(Link to full story).
8/2/2020
- A top Australian Jewish group on Sunday denounced a “broader and
alarming pattern” of anti-Semitism after a Jewish man and his son
were verbally assaulted in Melbourne. The pair, who were wearing
yarmulkes and thus visibly Jewish, were on a street in the heavily
Jewish suburb of Caulfield when a man in his late 30s or early 40s
began screaming anti-Semitic epithets. "If you keep looking at me,
I’m gonna smash your fucking faces in, you Jew dogs.”
(Link to full story)
7/31/2020 - An Albuquerque, New Mexico based Holocaust Museum and
Gellert Center for Education was vandalized as it's large
centerpiece window with a photo of an early 1960s civil rights march
in the background was shattered. Nobody was injured as at the time
of incident the museum was closed. It's currently scheduled to
reopen on September 1.
7/31/2020 - Diana Richardson, a Democrat who represents the 43rd
district in Brooklyn, which includes the heavily Jewish neighborhood
of Crown Heights, called on her Instagram followers to boycott media
companies under ViacomCBS, which fired Cannon earlier this month for
propagating anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
(Link to full story).
7/31/2020 - British Jewry experienced “the third-highest number of
anti-Semitic incidents” in the first six months of the year,
according to statistics compiled by the Community Security Trust
(CST) and published on Thursday. The CST’s half-year report found
789 anti-Semitic incidents that were recorded between January and
June of this year. The report said that most, 673, were “verbal
abuse, anti-Semitic graffiti, anti-Semitic abuse via social media
and one-off cases of hate mail.” Online incidents broke a record for
CST’s half-yearly reports with 344 incidents.
(Link to full story).
7/31/2020 - Police in Cleveland, Ohio is seeking a public help to ID
a person responsible for spray-painting anti-Semitic messages on
number of Jewish owned businesses. They released a photo of what
appears to be a white male in his 20's with a surgical mask and dark
glasses covering his face. Among the targeted entities were Mika’s
Wig Boutique and the Waxman Torah Center.
7/31/2020 - City of Charleston officials say police are
investigating a vandalism at the Holocaust museum as a hate crime.
The investigation into the incident began on the night of July 24
when a police officer responded to Marion Square for a vandalism,
and was told that a plaque at the Holocaust Memorial site had been
vandalized. According to a police report the following words were
written on the plaque using a green marker: “Wake UP Israel
(Negroes) !!!” “Ashkenazi Jews” “FAKE JEWS” which the police report
indicated was written twice on the plaque “The so called ‘Negroes’
are the REAL JEWS of the Bible!!!”
(Link to full story).
7/30/2020 - Israeli officials expressed shock and outrage Thursday
after a Twitter company official told a Knesset committee that
repeated tweets by Iranian leaders calling for Israel’s destruction
do not violate Twitter company policy. “You thought incitement is
incitement is incitement? Not by Twitter’s double-standard morals,”
tweeted Minister of Strategic Affairs Orit Farkash-Hacohen.
(Link to full story).
7/29/2020 - Canadian Jewish actor, Seth Rogan, questioned the
purpouse for Israel's existance during the hour long podcast. His
comments included the following: "To me it just seems an antiquated
thought process. If it is for religious reasons, I don’t agree with
it, because I think religion is silly.", "I also think that as a
Jewish person I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire
life!."
(Link to full story).
7/29/2020 - A 20 year-old special needs student, who happens to be
an orthodox Jew, was assaulted by a stranger as he was leaving
Hebrew Academy for Special Children at Webster Avenue area in
Brooklyn. The assailant punched the young man in the face
several times and also hit him over the head with a rock. The
injured student was rushed to the hospital in stable condition. NYPD
is investigating the incident.
7/28/2020 - NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is looking for two black
teenagers suspected in four incidents of anti-Semitic harassment
perpetrated in Brooklyn's Bedford avenue section. A short video
captured them riding a bike, while one suspect is holding a black
hat stolen from Hasidic man. The suspects are facing the grand
larceny charges.
7/28/2020 - A crazed man armed with an ax tried to disrupt a morning
service at the synagogue in Mariupol, Ukraine. He was met by the
security guard who fought him for the control of the ax and
eventually chased the intruder off. The entire episode was caught on
tape by synagogue’s security cameras.
7/28/2020 - Rapper Jay Electronica called Rabbi Abraham Cooper,
associate dean and director of global social action of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, a "coward" and a "devil". Jay Electronica, whose
real name is Timothy Thedford, also tweeted in support Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has an extensive history of
anti-Jewish rhetoric. "Sit down w The Hon. Louis Farrakhan or The
Exec Council of The NOI and defend your claims and prove us wrong.
WE are INDEED THE TRUE Children of Israel. And you are an imposter
and birthright stealer as described in the scriptures."
(Link to full story).
7/27/2020 - Ishmael Muhammad, national assistant minister to Nation
of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, said earlier this month that it was
a Jew who had first invested in the Ku Klux Klan, and that Jewish
merchants sold sheets, guns and ropes to Klan members. Muhammad said
in his July 12 speech that the Jews have always been spying on
blacks and that the COVID-19 vaccine is part of a plot to reduce the
global population, which he attributed to former US Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger. (Link to full story).
7/27/2020 - A Florida man is being charged in connection with the
vandalism of two Reform synagogues in Sarasota. Victor Martinez, 21,
was named by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office as the previously
unidentified man who spray-painted swastikas and hate messages on
Temple Sinai and Temple Emanu-El this month. He also has been
implicated in a vandalism attack on Temple Emanu-El in April, the
Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
(Link to full story).
7/26/2020 - A host of Jewish organizations, leaders, and their
non-Jewish allies are preparing to boycott Twitter and Instagram
after the social media giants failed to react promptly to a
ferocious antisemitic rant by the British rapper Wiley. Using the
hashtag #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate, the boycott will begin Monday
morning and continue for 48 hours.
(Link to full story).
7/26/2020 - Jewish leaders called for the removal of the head of the
Philadelphia branch of the NAACP over the weekend after he posted an
antisemitic picture on Facebook. Rodney Muhammad posted an image of
celebrities Ice Cube, DeSean Jackson, and Nick Cannon — all of whom
recently made antisemitic statements — over a grotesque caricature
of a stereotypical “Jew.”
(Link to full story).
7/25/2020 - Rapper Wiley has been dropped by his management
following anti-Semitic posts on his social media accounts. Wiley's
Twitter account has been temporarily locked while Instagram said it
had deleted some of his content, after a long series of posts on
both platforms on Friday and Saturday. The social media giants are
facing growing pressure to close his accounts. Police said they were
looking at "relevant material" as critics accused Wiley of
incitement to racial hatred.
(Link to full story).
7/24/2020 - The leader of Britain's largest Muslim charity has quit
after putting anti-Semitic posts on social media. Heshmat Khalifa ,
a former trustee and director of Islamic Relief Worldwide, said the
Jews are 'grandchildren of monkeys and pigs.' Mr Khalifa also
described Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as a 'Zionist pimp'
on his Facebook page, as reported by The Times. (Link
to full story).
7/22/2020 - A spray painted swastika was discovered near the Jewish
Community Center in New Haven, Connecticut. The local authorities
are investigating the incident.
7/20/2020 - Anti-Semitic sign "Hitler is great" was scribbled with
white chalk on the Crown Heights, Brooklyn sidewalk. The local
resident has discovered the sign and called the police.
Unfortunately nobody showed up. He later reported the incident to
the ADL who in turn contacted the authorities.
7/19/2020 - Madonna posted a trailer for a speech by notorious
anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan to her Instagram account on
July 4, which has since racked up over 710,000 views, the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported. Several of Madonna’s followers
expressed surprise at her post, JTA reports, not only because of
Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism, but also because of his statements
against the LGBTQ community, which Madonna supports.
(Link to full story).
7/19/2020 - Former NBA superstar Charles Barkley voiced his
disappointment on Thursday in black celebrities including Nick
Cannon, DeSean Jackson, Stephen Jackson and Ice Cube for their
recent antisemitic remarks. “These black men out here who have been
antisemitic, it’s gotta stop, man,” he said. “What the hell are
y’all doin? Y’all want racial equality. We all do. I don’t
understand how insulting another group helps our cause. I don’t
understand in any shape or form.”
(Link to full story).
7/16/2020 - Two Jewish synagogues (Temple Sinai and Temple Emanu-el)
were vandalized on Wednesday in Sarasota, Florida. The vandal was
caught on surveillance camera at 2 a.m., painting hateful
messages and swastikas on the walls of those synagogues. Temple
Emanu-el was vandalized just 4 months ago. Two temples issued a
statement saying that: "we will not allow hate to distract us from
the holy work that defines our temple missions.”
7/16/2020 - July 4th 3-hour hate speech by Louis Farrakhan was
played on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ “Revolt” YouTube channel, heading
toward a million views. United with Israel, the Campaign Against
Anti-Semitism, Honest Reporting and others mounted an effort to get
YouTube to remove the video for violating its terms of use, which
prohibit hate speech. The campaign succeeded in forcing Diddy to
remove the speech from “Revolt TV.” In his hate tirade Mr. Farrakhan
was heard saying: “Those of you that say that you’re Jews, I will
not even give you the honor of calling you a Jew. You are not a Jew…
you are Satan and it is my job now to pull the cover off of Satan so
that every Muslim, when he sees Satan, pick up a stone, as we do in
Mecca.” (Link to full story).
7/16/2020 - In a social media climate riddled with antisemitic
messages from personalities such as DeSean Jackson and Ice Cube,
it’s easy to overlook hate speech from sources that aren’t as
high-profile. As is often the case, however, the prejudice that
flies under the radar is just as vile as the rest and perhaps even
more dangerous. Consider the UK-based organization Muslim Public
Affairs Committee (MPACUK), which recently tweeted a message touting
notoriously bigoted academic Norman Finkelstein and his book The
Holocaust Industry, a virulently antisemitic work whose claims
include allegations that Jews use the Holocaust as a cynical scheme
aimed at stifling purportedly legitimate criticism of Israel.
(Link to full story).
7/16/2020 - Ice Cube, an American rapper, actor and long time
supporter of Louis Farrakhan, mastered a response to criticism by
the NBA Hall of Famer and writer, Kareem-Abdul Jabbar, with the
following tweet: 'Shame on the Hollywood Reporter who obviously gave
my brother Kareem 30 pieces of silver to cut us down without even a
phone call." It's an obvious reference by Ice Cube to the biblical
story of Judas selling out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. It today's
world being called Judas is the price for speaking out against
vicious anti-Semites.
7/15/2020 - A Labour councillor has been suspended over Facebook posts promoting alleged anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. Anne Pissaridou is the second Labour representative from Brighton and Hove to face investigation in relation to alleged antisemitic content, putting Labour’s minority control of the council at risk. (Link to full story)
7/15/2020 - NBA Hall of Famer, Kareem-Abdul Jabbar, currently a
columnist with The Hollywood Reporter noted in his article:
“Anti-Semitic tweets and posts from sports and entertainment
celebrities are a very troubling omen for the future of the Black
Lives Matter movement, but so too is the shocking lack of massive
indignation”. The six-time NBA champion said he was shocked at the
lack of response from people in Hollywood and the sports world who
should have been highly aware of the hate comments and reacted as
vociferously as they would other forms of racism. “We expected more
passionate public outrage. What we got was a shrug of meh-rage,” he
wrote.
(Link to full story).
7/14/2020 - A Florida State University student government resolution
that sought to combat antisemitism and ensure the empowerment of
Jewish students on campus was successfully filibustered last week by
the Student Senate, whose president has himself been accused of
antisemitism. Ahmad Daraldik, who is Palestinian-American. It was
later discovered that Daraldik had made numerous offensive comments
online, such as “stupid Jew” and “fuck Israel.” In addition, a web
page belonging to Daraldik openly minimizes the Holocaust, calling
it simply an “atrocity” and comparing Israel unfavorably to Nazi
Germany.
(Link to full story).
7/13/2020 - NYPD is looking for three suspects who assaulted an
Orthodox Jewish man in front of 2525 Kings Highway, near East 27th
Street , Brooklyn over the weekend. The assailants pulled up next to
the 51-year-old and started yelling anti-Semitic profanities. They
then proceeded to attack him physically leaving the man with bruised
up face and a broken finger. The suspects are described as young man
approximately 18 to 20 years old. NYPD is investigating the
incident.
7/13/2020 - French judges have ordered two men to stand trial for
the brutal 2018 killing of an elderly Jewish woman that prompted an
outcry over a rise in antisemitic acts. Mireille Knoll, 85 and
suffering from Parkinson’s disease, was stabbed in her Paris
apartment by attackers who later set her body on fire, apparently to
hide evidence of their crime. She had escaped the mass deportation
of Jews from France during the second world war by fleeing abroad.
(Link to full story).
7/13/2020 - Entertainer and television host Nick Cannon recently
published on YouTube a 2019 episode of his online talk show
“Cannon’s Class,” pushing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and
praising Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. On the video,
Cannon, who hosted “America’s Got Talent” from 2009 to 2016 and
currently hosts “The Masked Singer,” interviewed Richard Griffin.
Griffin, better known as Professor Griff, was a member of the
hip-hop group Public Enemy until he was forced out in 1989 after
making anti-Semitic statements in an interview with the The
Washington Times. Cannon praised Griffin’s words, calling his
message “fearless” and saying that he stuck to his guns.
(Link to full story).
7/12/2020 - Police officer in Gruissan, Southern France, discovered
20 desecrated tombstones at the local cemetery. Written in black ink
were swastikas and hateful messages: “Death to Jews,” “Death to
France”. Channel 3 Occitania reported that the cemetery was shut
down so that local authorities can investigate the incident.
7/11/2020 - A 51-year-old Jewish man was crossing Kings Highway in Midwood section of Brooklyn, when passengers in gray SUV started hurling "you fucking Jew" expletives at him. When he responded three man in their 20s got out of the SUV, chased the man and physically assaulted him. Police are investigating the incident.
Police in Brooklyn are investigating a possible bias crime. Video shows a man being chased down by a group of people. It happened on July 11 at around 3 p.m. on Kings Highway in Midwood. Police say the 51-year-old Jewish man was crossing the street when he got into an argument with three people in a gray SUV yelling expletives. The people allegedly yelled "You *expletive* Jew" out of their car window at the man. It then escalated, until the group pulled over, got out of the SUV, and began punching the man. The individuals wanted for questioning in this incident are described as three men, 20-30 years in age.
7/10/2020 - NFL Hall of Famer and Fox Sports commentator Shannon
Sharpe defended a well-known anti-Semite on Wednesday. Sharpe and
his “Undisputed” co-host, Skip Bayless, discussed the rhetoric of
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan after Philadelphia Eagles
wide receiver DeSean Jackson posted a series of anti-Semitic
messages earlier this week. The Anti-Defamation League describes
Farrakhan as “quite possibly America’s most popular anti-Semite.” In
an article outlining
the minister’s bigotry, the ADL lists a series of inflammatory
quotes that Farrakhan has said regarding the Jewish people.
(Link to full story).
7/9/2020 - B’nai Brith Canada filed a hate crime complaint with Peel
Regional Police in the town of Mississauga. Several dozen of
protesters demonstrating against the annexation plan of the parts of
West Bank chanted anti-Semitic slogans in Arabic: "Palestine is our
country, and the Jews are our dogs!”, “martyrs by the millions” to
“march to Jerusalem.” B'nai Brith representative noted that
"Opposition to Israeli policy can never be used as an excuse to
demean Jews as ‘dogs’ or to threaten violence against them.”
7/9/2020 - Popular right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro said the lack
of left-wing reaction to DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic tweets showed
that anti-Semitism is the last hatred still allowed in American.
“You can literally quote Hitler,” said Shapiro, Fox News reported
Thursday.
(Link to full story).
7/7/2020 - An unnamed student at 21st Century Business University in
Cordoba, Argentina recorded an online class featuring Professor
Esteban Lizondo giving a lecture about international politics.
During the lecture, the venerable professor dived into blatantly
anti-Semitic waters saying that creation of Israel was a "surrender
to Zionist lobby in exchange for money and that money demonstrates
the power that the Jews have." He later provided couple of remarks
that would make any neo-Nazi smile: "And not for nothing, go fight a
Jew for money. Why do you guys think the Nazis killed so many Jews?
Because of the envy they had. Imagine Germans bleeding to death in a
terminal economic crisis, with hyperinflation, and the Jews just
kept getting rich.” The university stated that it doesn’t tolerate
discrimination, and that the incident will be investigated.
7/7/2020 - TikTok has deleted a collection of videos found by the
BBC to be using a "sickening" anti-Semitic song that gained more
than 6.5 million views. The song surfaced on the app on Sunday and
includes the lyrics: "We're going on a trip to a place called
Auschwitz, it's shower time." The first video to use the song showed
a giant robot scorpion with a swastika attacking and killing people.
(Link to full
story).
7/7/2020 - “The current study of anti-Semitic activity in 2019
has shown that Israel-related harassment continues to be the
dominant and steadily increasing form of behavior targeting Jewish
students for harm and is easily adaptable to the online platforms
that are likely to play a major role in the 2020-2021 academic year,
and perhaps longer,” the AMCHA report said.
(Link to full story).
7/7/2020 - A former NBA player, Stephen Jackson, no relation to
DeSean Jackson, came to the defense of the former in his own video
post. His message to the world was that DeSean Jackson was speaking
the truth when referencing Hitler and Louis Farrakhan. "He was
trying to educate people, educate himself, and he’s speaking the
truth. Right? He’s speaking the truth. He don’t hate nobody but he’s
speaking the truth of what he knows and trying to educate others.
But y’all don’t want him to educate ourselves,” Stephen Jackson
said."
7/6/2020 - A leading Canadian Jewish group called for action to be
taken against a York University professor who defamed Zionism and
downplayed Holocaust denial. On June 10, Faisal Bhabha, an associate
professor at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, said during an online
debate, “Zionism isn’t about self-determination, it’s about Jewish
supremacy.” “Accusing Israel of exaggerating the Holocaust could be,
for some, a plausible argument.”
(Link to full story)
7/6/2020 - The Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean
Jackson posted messages on the Instagram part of which he
incorrectly attributed to Hitler: "Because the white Jews knows that
the Negroes are the real Children of Israel and to keep Americas
secret the Jews will blackmail America. They will extort America,
their plan for world domination won't work if the Negroes know who
they were. The white citizens of America will be terrified to know
that all this time they've been mistreating and discriminating and
lynching the Children of Israel." He also expressed an admiration
for Nation of Islam's leader Louis Farrakhan, a vicious anti-Semite.
The postings since have been deleted from the Instagram.
Philadelphia Eagles and NFL condemned the message and are evaluating
the situation.
7/6/2020 - Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs tweeted
support on Friday for notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan by
promoting the Nation of Islam leader’s Fourth of July address that
aired Saturday on Revolt TV, a cable channel founded by Combs.
(Link to full story).
7/6/2020 - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan delivered a three-hour speech that was streamed live on the Nation of Islam's YouTube channel and shown on the Revolt TV. As usual he spent ample amount of time vilifying the Jews. Mr. Farrakhan claimed that the Jews poisoned him with a radiated seed to test if he is a man of God. He also sais that "I represent the uncovering of their wickedness, fulfilling the judgment that God has come to bring down on America and the world." Farrakhan accused Israel of disseminating guns, drugs and counterfeit money in minority communities in U.S. cities. There was no bad deed left that he did not accuse Jews and Israel being culpable of.
7/3/2020 - A Toronto eatery named Foodbenders, located in Bloordale
part of the city, posted a "zionistsnotwelcome" hashtag on the
Instagram. The owner claimed that she was "not referring to Jewish
people, It's about state government". So how would she distinguish
the two, ask every Jewish visitor for his or her political views
before letting them in? That in it's essence is anti-Semitism.
7/2/2020 - Muir Park in Modesto, California was vandalized with
neo-Nazi graffiti. Spray painted on the wall and a structure were
swastikas and Nazi slogans: “Heil Hitler,” “Honor blood soil” and
“SS.” Local police is investigating the incident as a potential hate
crime.
7/2/2020 - Anti-Semitic behavior toward Jews is alarmingly common in
Switzerland, a new academic study of victim experiences published on
Thursday revealed. The report, conducted by the Zurich University of
Applied Sciences (ZHAW), surveyed 500 Swiss Jews about their
experiences of anti-Semitism, discovering that 50 percent of the
respondents had been personally targeted for anti-Semitic abuse
during the last five years. There are estimated 18,000 Jews
currently live in Switzerland.
(Link to full story).
6/30/2020 - Anti-Israeli demonstrations dubbed as Day of Rage took
place on Wednesday in several U.S. cities. Some participants in
Brooklyn demonstrations were heart shouting the slogans that were
calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. "“We don’t wanna go
just back to our homes in Gaza and the West Bank", "We want all of
it", We don’t want your two states", "From the river to the sea".
6/30/2020 - The domestic intelligence agency for the city-state of
Berlin disclosed in a new report on antisemitism that Iran’s
clerical regime is a leading sponsor of Jew-hatred. The Berlin
report noted that the German right-wing extremist politician Udo
Voigt, who is considered a neo-Nazi, demonstrated support for Iran’s
regime.
(Link to full story).
6/30/2020 - YouTube terminated channel of Jew-hating French
"comedian" Dieudonné due to “repeated violations of our YouTube
community policies.” Dieudonné is well known for his anti-Semitic
propaganda which up until now he could spread to his 400,000 YouTube
followers. He still is active on Twitter and Facebook.
6/29/2020 - Series of anti-Semitic insults and threats were directed
at the Joel Runinfield, Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism (LBCA)
president. The following hateful messages were posted on the
Facebook: “I love the ovens and the Nazis, but not you” and “Vive
Monsieur Faurisson”, a reference to the late French Holocaust
denier, Robert Faurisson. The Brussels public prosecutor's office is
investigating the matter.
6/29/2020 - Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, a candidate for Ann Arbor Michigan, City Council organized a series of protests outside Congregation Beth Israel with signs like “Jewish Power Corrupts”, “Zionism is Racism” and “Resist Jewish Power”. Ms. Savabieasfahani also called for boycotts of the State of Israel. A federal lawsuit has been filed against the protesters and the city of Ann Arbor
6/21/2020 - An 84-year-old Jewish woman in Gagny suburb of Paris is
recuperating from a severe shock after a piece of concrete was
hurled into her ground-floor window. Fortunately she was not
physically hurt but was visibly shaken up according to The National
Office for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BVNCA) . Gagny has a sad
history of attacks against the elderly Jewish residents. Local
police in investigating the incident.
6/21/2020 - A new study by researchers at University of Haifa
revealed that extreme anti-Semitic propaganda is being spread around
through Chinese Tik Tok social media platform which attracts a large
number of young adults and children.
6/21/2020 - An unprovoked attack on the Jewish man occurred in
Carson City, NE over the weekend. The assailant, described as a
Hispanic male in the blue shirt, first demanded the money and then
proceeded with the stabbing. He made a Nazi salute and yelled "Hail
Hitler you piece of sh''t’. Local authorities are investigating the
incident.
6/20/2020 - Arab Israeli Balad political party openly commemorated
the 90th anniversary of execution of three Arab terrorists who
massacred over one hundred Jews in Hebron and Tzfat during the
British Mandate period in 1929. The Facebook post referred to the
murderers as “the martyrs of the Al-Buraq revolution.”
6/20/2020 - “Open to all, minus cops and Zionists” was the poster
desseminated for “Day of Action” event which was hosted by a group
called Muslims for Abolition.
(Link to full story).
6/16/2020 - Given the latest trend of growing anti-Semitism in
Canada, it was not a big surprise that the latest police data showed
Jews to be the most targeted ethnic group for hate crimes last year
in Toronto and its suburbs. In fact, 32% of all incidents classified
as hate crimes were perpetrated against the Jews.
6/16/2020 - The leader of France’s main far-left political party has
continued to face criticism for dismissing chants of “Dirty Jews!”
that were heard at last Saturday’s huge anti-racism demonstration in
Paris as “gossip.” Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the left-wing LFI
Party (La France Insoumise) tweeted an indignant response to an
announcement from the Paris Prefecture of Police that the
antisemitic chants had been reported to judicial authorities for
further investigation.
(Link to full story).
6/14/2020 - The watchdog group Canary Mission reported that white
supremacists are responsible for a large proportion of the online
anti-Semitism that blames Jews for the coronavirus pandemic.
The 38-page report details what lies are being spread and who
and how they are spreading them.
(Link to full story).
6/13/2020 - A Holocaust memorial at Nashville's Jewish Community
Center was vandalized with white supremacist symbols and
anti-Semitic language. A sheet was taped to the memorial exhibit
with writings saying “Kikes Lie, Whites Die”. It also referenced
number 14 which stands for 14 words in a white supremacist motto and
number 88 which refers to the eighth letter of the alphabet,
representing “Heil Hitler.” Center administration reassured the
public that they have a solid security system.
6/13/2020 - While many of his peers have been sending messages
decrying injustice and intolerance, American rapper and actor Ice
Cube spent the week posting antisemitic content on Twitter to his
5.3 million followers, including several anti-Semitic memes
suggesting that Jews are fomenting the oppression of black people.
(Link to full story).
- ADL (Anti-Defamation League) was slammed for 'weak' response to Ice Cube's anti-Semitic tweets. They devoted just meek two sentences on their Twitter account in response to pretty hateful rant by Louis Farrakhan's admirer. (Link to full story)
6/10/2020 - Three Penn State female students posted an online photos
where they are shown laughing while flushing swastikas painted on
their back shoulders. Penn State officials said that they will get
in contact with women on the pictures but Jewish groups want them to
be expelled from the university.
6/10/2020 - Swastikas, Star of David and curse word were spray
painted on the concrete wall near Beavercreek shopping center in the
suburb of Dayton, OH. Good Samaritan alerted the authorities and the
offensive images were painted over.
6/10/2020 - An anti-Semitic fliers are appearing on the Internet. It
reads the following: "If Jewish Americans make up 2% of the
population why do they get a special privilege when it comes to top
universities?". According to ADL, "the claim that Jews are able to
manipulate institutions, including universities, to benefit
themselves at the expense of non-Jews, is a classic antisemitic
trope."
(Link to full story).
6/7/2020 - During the live street interview with Fox News a Brooklyn
man, who identified himself as 34-year-old Ace Burns, made a threat
to burn down the Diamond district unless Governor and the Mayor meet
with protesters. He also noted that "gasoline, thanks to
Trump, is afully cheap". Mr. Burns was promptly detained by NYPD and
charged with one count each of making terroristic threats,
aggravated harassment and false reporting. As of Sunday he was still
in central booking.
6/5/2020 - The Village Shul synagogue out of Toronto, Canada, was
holding a virtual Shabbat evening Kiddush ceremony via Zoom
video-conferencing app when several uninvited individuals connected
to the religious ceremony with one of them yelling "“Hitler should
have killed you all.” Toronto's Hate Crime Unit is investigating the
incident as promotion of genocide is a crime in Canada.
6/5/2020 - A prominent Polish journalist, Rafal Ziemkiewicz, was
called out for a hate speech by Open Republic Association. In his
latest book Mr. Ziemkiewicz refers to Jews as "ruthless" and calls
Holocaust “a myth. He writes that "Zionism because of the Holocaust,
or rather the myth of the Holocaust, which it built itself, gained
particular cruelty." Open Republic Association referred the author
to the Warsaw prosecutor’s office.
6/1/2020 - Video footage of a vandal was caught by Brooklyn's Boro
Park Shmira around 11:00 PM on Monday. It shows a masked man
stops in front of Congregation Zichron Chaim Shia Sorvosh, pulls
some object from his bag, throws in into the building and runs off
leaving behind pieces of broken glass. NYPD has apprehended the
suspect shortly after the incident not too far from the synagogue.
5/31/2020 - Anti-police graffiti along with a swastika and Star of
David were spray painted on Sundial Bridge in Redding, CA. Couple of
volunteers cleaned it up next day. There is a camera overlooking the
bridge but it's not clear if the act of vandalism was recorded.
5/30/2020 - The violent riots sweeping major cities across United
States somehow found Congregation Beth Israel, one of the oldest
synagogues in Los Angeles. Spray painted on it's wall the graffiti
read "Fuck Israel" and "Free Palestine". It's doubtful that this
incident will be investigated since local authorities have their
hand full with ongoing demonstrations. Jewish advocacy groups
condemned the anti-Semitic graffiti.
5/28/2020 - Number of vehicles and houses in Hillcrest neighborhood
of San Diego were vandalized with spray-painted swastikas and other
anti-Semitic images. Authorities are investigating to determine if
the incident needs to be treated as a hate crime.
5/27/2020 - A Quebec based Sepharade Kol Yehouda synagogue was
vandalized by unknown assailants while it was closed due to corona
virus pandemic. Many religious items were destroyed and dumped into
toilet while the sacred Torah scrolls were ripped up and strewn all
over the floor. Incident is under investigation by the local
authorities.
5/27/2020 - Jewish Community of Vienna has issued a report on
Thursday which outlined the statistics regarding the state of
anti-Semitism in Austria for the year of 2019. The report showed
almost a 10% increase in anti-Semitic incidents compared to the
previous year. The total number of reported incidents was 550. The
breakdown was as follows: six physical assaults, 239 incidents of
abusive behavior, 18 threats, 78 incidents that resulted in damage
and desecration of Jewish property and 209 instances of
mass-produced anti-Semitic literature.
5/26/2020 - A large banner reading "Welcome to the Zionist
Police State" was displayed from the one of the apartments at Tower
Hamlets housing that happens to face a Sephardic Jewish Novo Beth
Chaim cemetery located in the Mile End neighborhood in East London.
Metropolitan Police and the Tower Hamlets council made arrangements
to have the banner removed. The incident is under investigation.
5/25/2020 - The result of just released study by researchers at the
University of Oxford revealed that 20% of English people questioned
in the poll believe that Jews created COVID-19 to collapse the
economy for financial gain.
(Link to full story).
5/24/2020 - A virulently anti-American and antisemitic cartoon tweeted
by the Chinese Embassy in Paris on Monday previously appeared on several
websites linked to white supremacists and Holocaust deniers. Accompanied
by the text “Qui est le prochain?” (“Who’s next?”), the cartoon showed
the figure of death draped in a US flag while holding a scythe embossed
with the Star of David. The death figure stood alongside a row of
doorways marked with the names of countries such as Syria, Venezuela and
Hong Kong — all supposedly the targets of American and “Zionist”
destabilization plots.
(Link to full story).
5/24/2020 - A large swastika was spray painted on the wall of the
Jewish owned business belonging to Eti Lazarian in DeKalb County,
Georgia. This incident is the latest in the string of hateful
incidents being investigated by local authorities.
5/20/2020 - Multiple windows were smashed at the building belonging
to Reform Congregation Anshai Emeth in Peoria Illinois. The
assailants unsuccessfully tried to break into synagogue and may have
smashed the windows out of the spite.
5/20/2020 - A Irish member of the European Parliament was criticized
on Wednesday after she slammed a European Jewish students
organization for rebuking her over her participation in a webinar
associated with the BDS movement that will include one participant
from an organization linked to Palestinian terrorism and another who
compared Israel to the Nazi regime.
(Link to full story).
5/19/2020 - Mia Bahr, a Stanford University Undergraduate Senate
member and a canditdate for
reelection, expressed intense dislike for Israel and the people who
support the Jewish state. Her tweets and retweets uncluded the
following: "If fyou support Israel, you can choke, honestly"; "Fuck
Israel, free Palestine"; anyone who "won't support BDS is full of
sheet".
(Link to full story).
5/19/2020 - A young man in the mask and with hoodie over his head
was caught drawing anti-Semitic graffiti on the inside wall of the J
train at the Bowery street station, New York. The sign said “Fuck
the Jews” and “Go to hell Donald Trump.” NYPD is investigating the
incident.
5/18/2020 - Bradley Brooker, a UK resident, used TikTok media
platform to showcase a video that jokes about the tattoos engraved
on Jewish prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. The video was
viewed over 600,000 times with 63,000 likes.
5/15/2020 - National Director of Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Jonathan Greenblatt announced Friday on Twitter that the tomb of
Esther and Mordechai in Iran was torched. "Disturbing reports from
Iran that the tomb of Esther & Mordechai, a holy Jewish site, was
set afire overnight. We hope that the the authorities bring the
perpetrators of this antisemitic act to justice & commit to
protecting the holy sites of all religious minorities in Iran,”
Greenblatt tweeted. (Link to full story).
5/13/2020 - Joseph Miner, 29-year old Joseph Miner and 40-year-old
Daniel Jou were arrested in Bayside Queens after purchasing a cache
of weapons with erased serial numbers from the undercover agents in
the hotel room near LaGuardia airport. Miner frequently posted
photos of himself doing Nazi salutes, commented “Heil Hitler” about
a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in New York and even celebrated the
brutal December attack in the Orthodox Jewish community in Monsey,
Rockland County.
5/13/2020 - The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Tuesday that
anti-Semitic incidents in New Jersey shot up by 73 percent last
year, the most ever recorded in the state and the second-highest
number recorded in any state across the country.
(Link to full story).
5/10/2020 - The demand from the Department of Strategic
Investigations of the Ukrainian national police, which combats
organized crime was received by Yakov Zalischiker, the head of the
Jewish community in the city of Kolomyia. Signed by Mykhailo Bank, a
senior police official in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine, the
letter demanded a copy of the community’s charter, together with “a
list of community members with addresses and mobile phones” and “a
list of Jewish students in universities of Kolomyia and
Ivano-Frankivsk.”
(Link to full story).
5/10/2020 - A Queens couple, Paulo and Clelia Pinho, were arrested
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn after confronting a group of Hasidic Jews
on the corner of Bedford Avenue and Ross Street. The couple yelled
out anti-Semitic slurs and then tried to rip face masks from some
the of the Jews standing there. Ironically Mr. and Mrs. Pinho
accused them of not wearing the masks while removing them from the
men who wore the masks. “You’re the reason why we’re getting sick”.
Couple was arrested on the charge of aggravated assault and
harassment a s a hate crime.
(Link to full story).
5/10/2020 - A 31-year -old Syrian asylum seeker smashed the windows
of the HaCarmel kosher restaurant in Amsterdam while holding a metal
pipe in one hand and a lighter in another. It's the second time this
individual has done so in recent times. The assailant was subdued
with pepper spray by the local police officers. The owner of the
restaurant said that he may have to close the establishment since it
has been repeatedly spat on and smeared with garbage. Police beef up
security after each incident but leave shortly after, he said, while
the assailants are charged just with vandalism which does not
include an aggravated element of a hate crime.
5/5/2020 - A 57-year-old resident of Las Vegas was charged in
anti-Semitic stalking and property destruction. Georgina McGarvie is
facing felony charges as a result of her damaging a neighboring
Jewish family’s apartment and defacing it with anti-Semitic graffiti
back on December the 3rd.
5/5/2020 - A top US State Department official said on Monday he was
“deeply concerned” by a sharp rise in online antisemitism during the
ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “What we’ve seen in the past two
months is really a wave — a tsunami, I might say — of antisemitism
on the internet focused on the coronavirus,” US Special Envoy to
Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Elan Carr said in a telephone
briefing marking Jewish American Heritage Month. “And this is really
nothing more than the recycled blood libel of the Middle Ages.
(Link to full story).
5/4/2020 - Hundreds of chairs with fake money on them were placed
atop what used to be a Jewish cemetery in Lithuania to protest
delays in plans to build a conference center on the grounds.
Defending History, an organization at the forefront of efforts to
block the construction plan, condemned the display. “This grotesque,
unashamed show of money on top of the graves says it all,” the group
wrote in a statement.
4/29/2020 - Another anti-Semitic incident within the Ohio University
premises. Eleven spray-painted swastikas, a depiction of Adolf
Hitler and a racial slur was found painted on the ground of the
student center on the Athens campus.
(Link to full story).
4/25/2020 - Sign saying Juden Rous (Jews Out) along with two large
swasticas was spray painted on the walls of the cemetery in Southern
Italian town of Soveria Manelli.
4/25/2020 - The number of antisemitic incidents in Canada hit a
record high for a fourth consecutive year in 2019, according to
a new study published on Monday. The 2019 Annual Audit of
Antisemitic Incidents commissioned by the League for Human Rights of
B’nai Brith Canada, showed 2,207 incidents of antisemitism took
place last year, an increase of more than 8 percent from 2018. (Link to full story).
4/25/2020 - The Palestinian Authority and the PLO's largest party,
Fatah, on Thursday marked the anniversary of the "deaths as martyrs"
of three terrorists who participated in the planning, kidnapping and
murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
(Link to full story).
4/23/2020 - Two Jewish teenagers were assaulted in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn by couple of young men who walked up to teens yelling
anti-Semitic slurs and then threw some debris at them. The Jewish
youngsters, 14 and 15 years old, run away and notified the police
who were able to get the pictures of the assailants from the
security cameras. The incident is currently being investigated.
4/22/2020 - Stephan Balliet, German neo-Nazi who attempted to
massacre worshippers at a Yom Kippur service in the city of Halle
last October has been formally charged with double murder and
attempted murder. Balliet was also charged with the attempted murder
of 68 people, dangerous bodily harm and attempted robbery. A date
for his trial is pending.
4/21/2020 - A radical group of pro-Palestinian BDS activists in
Germany disrupted an online Holocaust memorial by posting Nazi
related pictures and pornographic content during a conversation with
the survivors of the genocide.
4/20/2020 - Afrim Haxhaj, 30, resident of Jackson Heights, Queens
confronted a Jewish customer at Dunkin Donuts shop at Fort Lee, New
Jersey blaming the Jews for corona virus pandemic. He also tried to
intimidate the Jewish customer telling him not to come back to the
store. Police was called and state Attorney General charged Haxhaj
with bias intimidation and harassment.
4/20/2020 - A Canton Ohio man identified as Matt Slatzer, driving
with a friend at Columbus stay-at-home protest, produced a sign with
a picture of a rodent with the Star of David on its side and the
words “The Real Plague.” Mr. Slatzer has an extensive criminal
record.
(Link to full story).
4/20/2020 - Ahmed Shaheed, a A prominent United Nations official
dealing with human rights has sounded the alarm on the rise of
antisemitic rhetoric around the world since the onset of the
coronavirus pandemic. The statement noted that “‘conspiracy’ theory
prevails in claiming that Jews or Israel are responsible for
developing and spreading COVID-19 virus to reduce the non-Jewish
population and to control the world.”
(Link to full story).
4/20/2020 - Denmark’s 24NYT news site reported that the latest
Danish translation of the New Testament has removed almost all
references to the land of Israel otherwise mentioned in the New
Testament's original version 60 times. The new translation omitted
59 of those references.
4/19/2020 - Carolyn Assaf, a Palestinian pre-med student, who was
elected this month as vice president of the student government at
the Newark campus of Rutgers University has a history of posting
anti-Israel and antisemitic content on social media.
(Link to full story).
4/15/2020 - According to US Attorney’s Office for the District of
Massachusetts, police arrested a 36-year-old John Michael Rathbun,
on the charges of attempted arson with a home made incendiary
device. A five gallon canister stuffed with a Christian pamphlet was
found outside Ruth’s House, a Jewish-sponsored assisted living
facility for people of all faiths in Longmeadow, MA.
4/13/2020 - Two anti-Semitic incidents took place in Huntsville, AL
during the Jewish holiday of Passover. The surveillance cameras
recorded an individual in a ski mask scrawling anti-Semitic images
at Etz Chayim and Chabad of Huntsville synagogues. Police is
treating the incidents as a hate crime.
4/10/2020 - Montgomery County Police arrested 28-year-old Andrew
Lemond Costas, 28, based on evidence acquired through surveillance
camera and tips from general public related to an incident during
which Mr. Costas allegedly spray-painted a swastika on the Tikvat
Israel synagogue in Maryland.
4/9/2020 - Swastikas and and signs "Gas them all" and "Holohoax"
were found on the grounds of Etz Chayim synagogue, in Huntsville
Alabama. Local police responded to the scene and is investigating
the incident.
4/9/2020 - Jordanian author Kafa Al-Zou'bi blamed the corona virus
pandemic on capitalism, which according to her is barbaric, greedy,
and also "Jewish". She continued that Judaism bears the greatest
responsibility for the evil and brutal aspects of capitalism. This
religion, she says, is "a cancer that has harmed humanity from the
dawn of its civilized history," because it regards non-Jews as
inferior creatures who are detested by God and can be killed with
impunity.
(Link to full story).
4/9/2020 - The sticker in the shape of a yellow star of David shaped
sticker with a biohazard symbol on it was found stuck to the window
on a subway car in Hamburg using an infamous Nazi-era symbol, the
Research and Information Center for Anti-Semitism (RIAS) in Berlin
said in a statement
4/9/2020 - A hateful graffiti was painted on the wall of Orthodox
synagogue Ahavat Shalom on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. It
said “Fuck kikes” and then the words “Daniel M”.
4/7/2020 - Tomas Mendez, host of the popular Argentine ADN TV, said
that “bats are not responsible for the coronavirus, humans are.” He
added that “the richest of the world, some born in the United
States, others in Israel and another in Europe, are the owners of
your life, who created this virus.” Mr. Mendez publicly apologized
for these remarks the next day.
Those humans, he said, are “the richest of the world, some born in the United States, others in Israel and another in Europe,” who “are the owners of your life, who created this virus.” He singled out the Rothschild family, who often appear in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and Bill Gates.
4/1/2020 - During his recent appearance on Hezbollah TV, Seif Da’na,
a Palestinian-American Professor of Sociology at the University of
Wisconsin-Parkside, made a remark that "Hitler did not do anything
out of the ordinary. He did not do anything that had not been done
by the Europeans before.”
3/31/2020 - A New Haven, CT rabbi, Yehoshua Rosenstein was jumped by
gang of teens outside the Chabbad House at Yale. “Give us everything
you have, you fucking Jew!" the assailants demanded. Despite
complying, the rabbi was knocked to the ground, punched and kicked.
The gang highjucked the rabbi's car but were soon apprehended by
local police. They were charged with first-degree robbery weapons
procession, larceny and conspiracy. The leaders of the gang are also
expected to be charged with a hate crime.
3/27/2020 - During the sermon delivered by Yemeni religious scholar,
Ibrahim Al-Ubeidi, the above mentioned claimed that Jews and
Americans created the deadly corona virus with intention of shutting
down Mecca and Medina. He also accused the Saudi family to be the
descendants of Iraqi Jew called Mordechai.
3/26/2020 - New York University (NYU) took an unusual step this
week, condemning a former student for a mocking tweet about the
first Israeli coronavirus fatality. Upon learning of the death of
Aryeh Even, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who lived in
Jerusalem, last Friday, Leen Dweik — ex-president of NYU’s Students
for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter — tweeted,
“Anyway should I paint my nails red or green today?”
(Link to full story).
3/26/2020 - Giovanni Gasparro, a 36-year-old Italian artist whose
work has been honored by Catholic Church for his Christian themes
paintings in baroque style, has unveiled his latest "masterpiece".
The 7ft X 5ft painting revives the anti-Semitic blood libel of
medieval times by depicting the caricature like images of hook-nosed
Jews making a ritual scarifies of the Christian child.
(Link to full story).
3/25/2020 - Rick Wiles is an American far-right conspiracy theorist
and non-denominational senior pastor at Flowing Streams Church
in Vero Beach, Florida. During his podcast on Trunews, Mr. Wiles
said that said on that the coronavirus outbreak is spreading to
synagogues, and is a punishment from God because Jews don’t follow
Jesus. “Stay out of those things, there’s a plague in them. God’s
dealing with false religions. “It’s spreading in Israel through the
synagogues,” he continued, before blaming the Jewish state’s prime
minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Anti-Defamation League.
3/23/2020 - Sarah Leah Whitson, the managing director for research
and policy of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
appeared to celebrate the draconian measures employed by the Israeli
government to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Then she argued
that whatever discomforts they impose on Israeli citizens, they are
not enough to compensate for the suffering Israel has inflicted on
its Palestinian neighbors. “Such a tiny taste. Missing a tablespoon
of blood,” Sarah Leah Whitson wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
(Link to full story).
3/23/2020 - Per alert issued by ABC News, FBI’s New York office
reported that neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups are
urging their followers to contract the coronavirus in order to
infect Jews and police officers. "Spread the deadly illness to Jews
by going any place they may be congregated, to include markets,
political offices, businesses and places of worship” report
indicates the groups are encouraging.
3/18/2020 - The coronavirus is a Zionist plot spread by Jews to
decrease the world population, some members of Turkey's press and
public have said, according to the Middle East Media Research
Institute. MEMRI, which specializes in translating Middle Eastern
media into English, has uncovered a number of incidences of Turks
blaming the coronavirus epidemic on Jews and Zionism.
(Link to full story).
3/11/2020 - A 23-year-old California woman accused of posting Nazi
propaganda at Orange county campuses was sentenced to a year of
informal probation and 40 hours of community service. Local district
attorney’s office also reported that Grace Elisabeth Ziesmer of
Fullerton was ordered to pay $517 in restitution after she agreed to
plead guilty to a count of misdemeanor vandalism and two misdemeanor
counts of graffiti.
3/9/2020 - A swastika was found on a bathroom stall at Queens
College. School administration was notified and in turn alerted the
local police department. The incident was promptly denounced by
school president, William Tramontano and by NYPD.
3/8/2020 - A group of 11 students from a Brazilian at Saint
Mary's School in Brazil’s northeastern city of Recife. displayed the
Hitler salute in support of their classmate who was running for
class representative. The photo of the event was posted on the
Instagream and was accompanied by references to "Fuhrer, Arian and
Third Reich." Brazilian media reported the incident next day. The
principal of the school issued an apology "to all those who were
offended.”The participating students were suspended from school for
one week.
3/7/2020 - Imam Al-Hassan Qazwini, who spoke at a Dearborn, Michigan
rally on March 7 for Bernie Sanders, had said in 2016 that the
Democratic candidate is “an honorable man, even though he is a Jew.”
3/6/2020 - Italian anti-Semitism monitor, “Osservatorio
Anti-Semitism”, produced a new report which showed a sharp increase
of offences targeting the Jewish minority. There are around 30,000
Jews currently living in Italy. Total of 251 incidents of
anti-Semitism were reported in 2019 vs. 197 such incidents in 2018.
3/6/2020 - Nazi flag was waved during the Senator Bernie Sanders
rally in Phoenix, Arizona. People around the incident ripped the
flag out of man's hands and he was escorted out of the arena by the
authorities.
3/5/2020 - A 38-year-old Jersey City resident, Taylor Stackhouse,
was arrested for terroristic threats against the Jewish manager of
the same property where JC Kosher Supermarket was assaulted
resulting in the death of four innocent people. Mr. Stackhouse was
charged with two counts of second-degree Bias Intimidation, one
count of fourth-degree Bias Intimidation, two counts of Terroristic
Threats and a Petty Disorderly Persons Harassment charge.
3/4/2020 - Manhattan Grand Jury indicted Zarinah Ali on a hate crime
she allegedly committed while traveling in New Your City Subway.
Back in December of 2019 Ms. Ali physically attacked a female Jewish
student for filming an anti-Semitic verbal abuse directed at Jewish
man wearing traditional kippah. The accused pleaded not guilty.
(Link to full story).
3/4/2020 - A large anti-Semitic message was spray-painted on a
railroad bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio on the border of Madisonville
and Oakley. The graffiti read: “The Jews killed Christ. They are the
enemies of the whole human race. – Paul.” The incident was reported
to Cincinnati police and federal law enforcement and is currently
under investigation.
3/3/2020 - A 57-year-old Jewish man was attacked by three
individuals who punched and kicked him breaking his teeth and
tearing up his kippah with a pocketknife. The incident took place in
Brazilian city of Jaquariuna. The attacked man was told that “Hitler
should have killed more Jews". Local police is investigating the
assault as a hate crime.
3/1/2020 - During his interview with Polsat TV, the far-right Polish
politician and writer, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, expressed an opinion
that pogroms perpetrated against European Jews over centuries has
benefited the victims through natural selection process, which made
them stronger. He did not elaborate how that selection process
helped the Polish Jews during the Holocaust.
3/1/2020 - Anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic verbal attacks were in full
display outside AIPAC annual conference in Washington D.C. Several
protesters were heard yelling: "Hitler will come back, Burn all of
you; The Holocaust will come back to you; From the river to the
swan, Palestine will be free."
2/29/2020 - During the sermon aired on Lebanon's Al-Waqiyah
television, Palestinian cleric, Yousuf Makharzah said that animosity
towards Jews is an Islamic religious duty, and that any Muslim that
did not show enmity to the Jews was a heretic.
2/29/2020 - A University of Maryland student, Muqarrab Ahmed
Abdullah, was arrested for repeatedly sending anti-Semitic messages
to the female Jewish student he never met. The incident was made
public by an e-mail announcement to the campus community. Mr.
Abdullah was charged with electronic communication harassment and a
hate crime.
2/28/2020 - Canadian newspaper al-Meshwar published an article by
Dr. Mustafa Yusuf al-Lidawi titled “The Abuse of the Martyrs and the
Manipulation of Their Bodies Are Jewish Commandments and Israeli
Directives.” Mr. Al-Lidawi is a member of the Hamas's Department of
Arab and Islamic Relations. B’nai Brith Canada of Canada issued a
statement: “These relentless and baseless attacks on our community
undermine inter-communal relations and increase the risk to our
safety.” They also filed a complaint with a local police.
(Link to full story).
2/27/2020 - A Miami judge, Hon. David Young, discovered a swastika
spray-painted in front of the Miami-Dade County Bar Association
building. He was later alerted to another swastika painted on the
Lawson E. Thomas Courthouse Center. The paintings were covered and
the local authorities were alerted.
2/27/2020 - A young Jewish man working out at the Crunch Gym in
Crown Heights was a victim of an unprovoked attack by an African
American man who slapped him and used anti-Semitic slurs. Young man
reported the incident to the police who arrested the attacker for an
assault. The Crunch Gym promptly terminated the attacker's
membership.
2/27/2020 - Rafaella Gunz, a journalist focusing on LGBT and
feminist issues, told the Algemeiner this week about anti-Semitic
and anti-Zionist harassment she faced due to her pro-Israel activism
at City University of New York. The toxic invorement forced her to
ultimately leave the school. “no one helped me, no one
came to my defense" she reported.
2/25/2020 - Lincoln Nebraska Police Department reported an arrest of
21-year-old Noah Miller. He was charged with Felony Vandalism for
allegedly spray painting a swastika and racial epithets on the door
and steps of the South Street Temple in Lincoln on Jan. 13, 2020.
The entire incident was caught on synagogue's video
surveillance camera.
2/23/2020 - Heerak Kim, who is running in Virginia’s 8th
Congressional District, tweeted that the “FBI should investigate
U.S. politicians in both Republican and the Democratic party with
‘questionable’ ties with Israel.” He also twitted the following:
“American citizens should work toward curtailing the power of Jewish
lobby groups and other Jewish groups that seek to practice ‘Witch
Hunt’ against Americans who they see as a ‘threat’ to Jews, like
they did with Jesus Christ. Americans are NOT SLAVES!”
2/23/2020 - Caricatures of Jews, including ones depicting them as
ants, were prominently displayed at this city’s annual parade. The
displays came a year after the Jewish Telegraphic Agency exposed
anti-Semitic themes in last year’s parade in Aalst, located about 10
miles west of Brussels.
(Link to full story)
2/23/2020 - A series of
anonymous bomb threats was made against more than a dozen Jewish
community centers across New York on Sunday, according to state law
enforcement officials. The threats, first reported at 11 a.m. local
time Sunday morning, were emailed to members belonging to 18 JCC's
across the state. Gov. Andrew Cuomowent to the Albany center after
police evacuated about 100 people, searched the building with dogs
and declared it safe.
2/20/2020 - “Antisemitism and hatred of Jews is growing” in Germany,
the mayor of Frankfurt warned on Wednesday. “We have a problem with
the antisemitism of adults, not only children,” he added.
“Antisemitism is from the far left to the far right, influenced by
anti-Zionism which becomes antisemitism. From the guilt of the past,
we have the responsibility of the future.”
2/19/2020 - A newly-elected Irish parliamentarian, Reada
Cronin a Sinn Fain representative, made the unsubstantiated claims
on her Twitter account that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency had
played a "“sinister” role in the UK general election that resulted
in UK's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s defeat in the UK general
election. On Wednesday she offered an apology for her comments. In
the past Ms. Cronin retweeted anti-Semitic message saying that
“Hitler was just a pawn” in the hands of “Rothschild banks.” She
also also has expressed a feeling that “Israel have taken Nazism to
a new level by showing they can get away with it.”
2/19/2020 - A swastika and "White Power" were spray-painted on the
fence surrounding the Jewish owned business in Lakewood township of
New Jersey. Woman leaving the scene in the dark sedan was recorded
on surveillance video.
2/17/2020 - A swastika was painted inside the 15th Street-Prospect
Park subway station in Brooklyn, New York. Witness alerted police
about the incident and city employees later removed the graffiti.
2/12/2020 - Palestinian Fatah movement removed a Nazi-themed cartoon
hours after being harshly critisized by Israeli Public Security
Minister Gilad Erdan on Tuesday. Erdan slammed Palestinian Authority
President Mahmmoud Abbas for claiming in the UN he extends his hand in peace to Israel. (Link
to cartoon).
12/11/2020 - Jewish student leaders at the University of California,
Berkeley, are calling for action after allegedly being “harassed and
threatened” twice in less than a year during student government
meetings. The letter, published Monday and addressed to UC Berkeley
Chancellor Carol Christ, accused the administration and the
Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), an
independent student association, of “continually” failing to protect
Jewish students.
(Link to full story).
12/10/2020 - Conor Climo, a 23-year-old former security guard, has
pleaded guilty for possession of bomb-making material in an attempt
to kill Jews at a Las Vegas synagogue and of drawing up plans to
attack a bar catering to LGBTQ customers. According to Nevada U.S.
Attorney's office, Mr. Climo is facing up to 10 years in prison and
$250,000 fine.
2/9/2020 - An investigation is underway by school administration
after a Nazi flag was displayed in the window of Governor Thomas
Johnson High School in a Maryland suburb. Superintendent Theresa R.
Alban says the school district will "take appropriate action" Monday
in light of the incident.
2/7/2020 - A Tampa Bay City Council membe, Orlando Gudes, used
"we’re getting Jewed” phrase to describe high construction costs for
an East Tampa community center to a Tampa Bay Times reporter late
last month. He then apologized after meeting with a local Jewish
leaders to learn why it was offensive.
2/6/2020 - Swastikas and other anti-Semitic symbols and slogans were
discovered painted on several headstones at a Jewish cemetery in
Dordrecht, Netherlands, situated about 40 miles south of Amsterdam.
2/6/2020 - Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced online dictionary for
slang words and phrases, was condemned by the Auschwitz-Birkenau
Memorial and Museum for publishing “hurtful and disrespectful”
definitions of the word “Auschwitz.” Among the website’s 20
different definitions of the Nazi concentration camp are “a summer
camp for Jews,” “a disneyland for its time” and “the happy resort
for Jews during WW2.”
2/6/2020 - Facebook has taken down a public page by a New Jersey
group named Rise Up Ocean County. Group posted a video in which they
predicted that Orthodox rabbis would lead to the “colonization” of
Lakewood, in Ocean County. Another comment on the site referenced
the Holocaust and called for getting “rid of them like like Hitler
did,” according to the attorney general.
2/4/2020 - On Tuesday a group of youths threw eggs and fireworks at
Jewish worshippers attending a synagogue service in Chapham Common
section of South London. The following day they climbed onto the
roof of the synagogue and shouted anti-Semitic obscenities.
2/4/2020 - A 25-year-old Jewish man wearing kippah, was approached
by four men on the Jean Jaurès train station in northeastern Paris.
They asked him for a cigarette, but when a Jewish guy told them that
he didn't smoke one of the attachers pinned him against the wall
while saying that “You Jews have enough money, you can buy me some.”
At this point, other passengers intervened, blocking the four
assailants and allowing the young Jewish man to safely depart the
scene.
1/29/2020 - Just days after the 75th anniversary of the liberation
of Auschwitz, Ottawa (Canada) police department is investigating an
incident in which National Holocaust Monument was pelted with eggs.
It happened around 4 p.m. on Wednesday at the corner of Booth and
Wellington streets. Incident is treated as a hate crime by local
authorities.
1/28/2020 - Attorney General William Barr charged Tiffany Harris of
New York, a repeat offender, with with federal hate crimes. Mz
Harris made name for herself by engaging in anti-Semitic attack on
Orthodox Jewish women in December of 2019 only to be released
without bail. AG noted that in the past this type of case may have
been treated locally but Fed wanted "to plant its flag and show zero
tolerance."
1/27/2020 - Swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were found drawn on
the multiple floors inside the apartment building located across the
street from the synagogue on Grand Street in lower Manhattan.
Majority of the residents in the building are Jewish. NYPD's 7th
Precinct is investigating the incident.
1/25/2020 - The home of now deceased anti-fascist resistance fighter
and writer, Lidia Rolfi in Mondovi, Italy was subjected to
antisemitic graffiti. The words "Juden hier", German for "Jews
here", and a Star of David were painted on the door of the property
where her son still resides. Lidia Rolfi, who was not Jewish, was
deported to a Nazi concentration camp for political reasons during
the WW II.
1/24/2020 - A Jewish man man wearing yarmulke was attacked on East
41st Street near Third Avenue around 11 a.m. on Monday. He was
checking his cell phone when an assailant shouted anti-Semitic
remarks and cursed him out. When the man looked at the attacker, he
was punched in the face and as he lay on the ground he was
repeatedly kicked. Shortly after the attack, police arrested 48
year-old Steven Jorge of Miami. He was charged with assault as a
hate crime.
1/22/2020 - The Jewish cemetery in Shoumen, Bulgaria which is dating
back to the 19th century, was vandalized. Gravestones were pushed
over and broken, and a fence around the cemetery was damaged, the
Sofia Globe reported. The city of Shoumen was home to a large Jewish
community during the Ottoman rule.
1/22/2020 - Neo-Nazi graffiti was discovered outside a synagogue in
Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. Yellow swastikas were
spray-painted on and near Temple Sinai, also known as the Wellington
Jewish Progressive Congregation. The word “Heil” was also painted.
1/19/2020 - A monument to the victims of the Holocaust was found
defaced in the western Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, Israel’s
ambassador to the country Joel Lion said. Mr. Leon also noted that
vandalized monument located not far from President Zelensky's
parental home.
1/18/2020 - The Palestinian Authority’s daily newspaper Al-Hayat
al-Jadida printed an op-ed on Saturday calling on readers to carry
out murders of Jews in Jerusalem in order to disrupt the upcoming
diplomatic event marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation
of Auschwitz. "One shot will disrupt the ceremony and one dead body
will cancel the ceremony" the article said.
1/17/2020 - Police in the northeast Italian city
of Trieste analyzed security videos to identify and arrest a man
suspected of vandalizing the city’s synagogue twice in the past few
months. Police did not provide the vandal's ID but stated that he
was an Italian man around 30 years old who was already “known to the
police.
(Link to video).
1/17/2020 - Federal prosecutors charged Yousef Omar Barasneh with
vandalizing Beth Israeli Sinai Congregation in Racine, Wisconcin.
The suspect is accused of spray painting swastikas and other
antisemitic messages on the outside of the building. Mr Barasneh is
a member of the Base, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi group which,
according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court, "aims to
unify militant white supremacists around the globe and provide them
with paramilitary training in preparation for a "race war."
(Link to video).
1/17/2020 - A 55 year-old resident of Brooklyn, Vernon Stevens,
yelled "Fucking Jews" at Ultra-Orthodox couple walking by at 10:15
p.m. near West 45th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. A
teenager, not related to couple, yelled back at the man who
approached him and shoved his fingers in the teen’s face, calling
him a "Fucking Jew" in the process. The teen reported the incident
to police and Stevens was arrested about an hour later a block away.
He was charged with aggravated harassment in the second-degree,
which includes harassment as a hate crime, and harassment in the
first-degree, police reported.
1/16/2020 - A leftist news outlet called NowThis posted an online
video where a George Washington University senior, Becca Lewis,
commented that "We’re seeing people die at the border for lack of
medical care. That’s how Anne Frank died. She didn’t die in a
concentration camp, she died from typhus." After a backlash,
including accusations of the Holocaust denial, the video segment
with offensive material was removed. The senior who made those
comments claims to be Jewish.
1/15/2020 - An Jewish owner of New York Route 6 bagel shop
discovered a sign taped to the nearby light post that read "A Jew
Park".
1/15/2020 - A man sprayed a swastika and racial epithets on the
stairs and front door of a synagogue in Lincoln, Nebraska, then took
a picture of his vandalism. The Lincoln Police Department is
investigating the incident as a hate crime.
1/14/2020 - A Nazi flag was removed from the private home of Bill
Cheryl Lawdron in Beulah, Australia, a farming town four hours away
from Melbourne. Coordinated efforts of a Jewish MP, David Southwick,
municipal council, local police and neighbors contributed to the
successful action.
1/14/2020 - German police raided the homes of the Chechen Islamists
in Berlin and the states of Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and
Thuringia. In a statement, the prosecutors indicated that several
suspects, aged between 23 to 28, are accused of “having scouted out
locations for a possible later attack motivated by Islamism.” They
also added that "there was no concrete threat of an attack yet.”
1/11/2020 - New York City police officer is accused of yelling “you
fucking Jews” at a Hasidic father and son as they were returning
home from a Sabbath celebration
on Friday night. Dov Hikind, a former Democratic New York State
assemblyman and founder of Americans Against Anti-Semitism, was
contacted by the family for assistance. Police is investigating the
incident.
1/9/2020 - A swastika and other antisemitic graffiti was found
sprayed on the stairwell of the Brooklyn Tech High School. No
arrests have been made.
1/9/2020 - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez appointed as his
deputy Pablo Iglesias Turrióna, a far left politician who has called
Israel an “illegal country” and hosted a talk show with an
anti-Semitic content that aired on an Iranian-funded TV station.
During the interview in 2018 he proclaimed that: “The pro-Israel
lobby has the power to determine American policies from within,
raising questions whether it directs that policy.”
1/9/2020 - A family of the elderly Canadian man confined to the
Glendale Care Center facility in Toronto found a swastika drawn on
his head. The The 65-year-old is suffering from Alzheimer's and
diabetes. Although the Center representative told the family that
the perpetrator had been arrested, Toronto police found no report
filed for that incident.
1/8/2020 - An anti-Semitic incident took place in an underground
train near Kurfürstendamm, Berlin. A 30-year old man and two
family members just entered the train around 9:30 p.m. when an
unidentified assailant punched him in the face while making
anti-Semitic insults. Local police is investigating the incident.
1/7/2020 - Scotland Yard Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick revealed
that six members of the Labour party have been arrested or
interviewed following the inquiry into suspects social media
messages denying the Holocaust and inciting hatred against the
Jewish people. Police began to investigate the matter after LBC
radio station discovered an internal Labour Party dossier which
originally contained offensive messages implicating as many as 21
members. That list was later reduced to six.
1/7/2020 - A 68-years-old Jewish man on his way to the Putlitzbrücke
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany was attached by a gang of five
youths who kept calling him a Jew and grabbing his genitals. Local
authorities are investigating the incident.
1/5/2020 - Journalist Ami Horowitz went to Brooklyn to talk to
African Americans about what they think is the reason for the
attacks on Jews. Most essentially excused the attacks on the grounds
that Jews “own everything and they’re not sharing nothing.”
(Link to video).
1/5/2020 - A Jewish man wearing yarmulke was returning from "No
Hate, No Fear" rally in New York City when he was verbally assaulted
by an African American woman in her late 20s. This incident took
place inside the subway car. Young woman was began cursing at him
saying things like "Fuck all you Jews". When the Jewish man pulled
out his phone and started recording the assault enraged woman
charged at him and physically threatened him. Subway station
attendant called the police.
(Link to the video).
1/5/2020 - A 13-year-old Jewish boy was riding the bus in the
Stamford Hill section of London around 11:45 GMT. According to the
reports, an unidentified young man punched the kid in the stomach
and shouted "You stupid Jews think you own the world; You fucken
Jews". The Metropolitan police was alerted and is investigating the
incident.
1/5/2020 - Dozen of graves were vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in
Bayonne, France. According to the reports, significant damage was
inflicted to the gravestones, as several were smashed and broken. A
commemorative plaque for a girl who was deported during World War II
also was damaged.
About a dozen graves were vandalized in a Jewish cemetery in southwest France. The vandalism took place over the weekend in the Jewish cemetery of Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques area. The damage was discovered on Sunday by Déborah Loupien-Suares, the president of the Jewish community of Bayonne and Biarritz, who was visiting the graves of her grandparents. She tweeted that she was “angry and indignant” after seeing the desecration of the cemetery and called for those responsible to be punished. She told local media that “significant damage” was inflicted on the gravestones and that several were smashed and broken. A commemorative plaque for a girl who was deported during World War II also was smashed, according to the French daily LeParisien.
1/4/2020 - A passing bicyclist in his 30s, riding through the
Flatbush section of Brooklyn around 10:40 p.m., verbally assaulted a
61-year-old Jewish man. According to the reports he screamed “Kill
Jews! Fuck Jews! Murder Jews.” Police are investigating the incident
as a hate crime.
1/2/2020 - A 41-year-old Jewish woman was waiting for a train around
6:30 a.m. at Utica Avenue, Crown Heights station when a complete
stranger, a woman in her mid 30s, started screaming at her using
anti-Semitic language. “You fucking Jew with the wig, I’m going to
throw you on the track", the hater yelled. The suspect continued her
barrage of insults for a few more stops. She was caught on the video
and is currently being sought by the authorities.
1/1/2020 - The 22 year-old Hassidic man was approached by two women
at the intersection of Broadway and Lorimer Street, in the
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn around 12:30 pm. They started
harassing the man yelling “F*** you Jew” and “I will kill you Jews”.
When the young men began to film the incident, he was punched in the
throat and his phone was ripped out of his hands and smashed. The
victim was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The
assailants, 34-year old and 24-year old African American women, were
arrested shortly after the attack. According to media reports one of
the women was charged with harassment/hate crime, assault and
robbery. The charges for the second woman were pending.
12/31/2019 - A 36-year old Jewish Orthodox woman was walking on
Eastern Parkway near Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights at around 4
p.m. when a man and a female teenager tried to pull off her wig,
police said. The laughing assailants took off without their prize.
Jew hatred is evolving into some sort of sick game.
12/31/2020 - A group of eight neo-nazi youths, with scarves covering
their faces, attacked a former Italian politician, Arturo Scotto,
and his wive who were taking a stroll in St. Mark's Square in
Venice. The attackers were yelling "Duce! Duce!", in reference to
WWII fascist leader Benito Mussolini. They were making antisemitic
remarks and threw punches at Mr. Scotto. They also beat up the good
Samaritan who tried to intervene. Italian authorities are
investigating the incident.
12/30/2019 - A white male in his 40s walked into Royal Meats kosher
butcher shop around 4 p.m. in the London neighborhood of Stamford
Hill. He proceeded to demand food to be given to him free of charge.
He is alleged to have shouted: “You f***ing Jews, I am German, you
f***ing Jews are bad people”, before pointing his fingers at people
in the shop in a gun gesture. Police are investigating the incident.
12/29/2019 - A witness in the German town of Geilenkirchen, North
Rhine-Westphalia Germany, alerted police after seeing two men in the
hoods knock over dozens of tombstones at the Jewish cemetery. They
also spray painted few other monuments with a blue paint. Police
arrested the suspects and incident is currently under investigation.
12/28/2019 - A man armed with machete broke into the home of the
rabbi in Monsey, NY late Saturday evening, where dozens of people
were attending a Hanukkah celebration. An intruder made his way from
room to room randomly stabbing people along the way. Five people,
including the rabbi's son, were taken to the hospital with two
people in serious condition. The attacker fled the scene in Nissan
Sentra, but fortunatly one of the witnesses was able to read the
license plate of the vehicle. Within a couple of hours NYPD
apprehended the suspect, an African American male in his late 30s,
at 144th Street and 7th Avenue in Harlem, New York. Charges are
currently pending.
- The attacker was identified as Grafton Thomas, 38, of Greenwood
Lake, NY
- The attacker's license plate was captured as he was driving
through GW Bridge
- According to Ramapo, NY Police chief the attacker is facing five
counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary.
12/28/2019 - London Police is investigating anti-Semitic graffiti
painted across store fronts, restaurants and a synagogue. The Star
of David and 9/11 signs was painted in red at nine different
locations in the Belsize Park, including the South Hampstead
Synagogue. The numbers are referring to a conspiracy theory that
Jews were responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks. Metropolitan
police is treating the incident as a hate crime.
12/27/2019
- According to media reports, an African American man entered the
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, early on Friday
morning and threatened to shoot and kill the Jews. Police have the
description of the man and are investiugating the incident.
12/27/2019
- A group of Jewish women walking down the Kingston avenue in Crown
Heights, Brooklyn were harassed and assaulted by a woman later
identified as 30-year old Tiffany Harris. The attacker was arrested
and charged with with harassment as a hate crime, according to
police reports. Unfortunately she was quickly released because of
the new "bail reform" legislation which is about to be implemented
in the state of New York. Ms Harris still has an open harassment and
assault case on the Brooklyn docket from November 2018 for which she
failed to make a court appearance.
12/26/2019
- A 34 year-old Jewish woman and her 3-year old son were assaulted
in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn as they were coming out of the
Dunkin Donuts store. According to the witnesses the attacker (an
African American woman), approached the victims, yelled anti-Semitic
slurs and hit the mother on the head with her beg. Good Samaritan
intervened and followed the attacker until police showed up and
arrested her. She was later released without bail and was ordered to
attend twice-monthly mental health appointments.
12/25/2019 - A 40 year old Hassidic Jewish man was walking home at 1
a.m. in Borough Park, Brooklyn when a young man, for no apparent
reason, blocked his path and punched him in the face. The assailant
run off leaving the victim with a bloody lip. The incident was
caught on tape and is currently under investigation by local
authorities.
12/25/2020 - A Jewish person walking home in Crown Heights,
Brooklyn at 1:40 a.m. was verbally assaulted by a stranger from
across the street on Kingston Avenue. As he began to record the
incident, suspect approached him and threw a Slurpee at him. NYPD's
Hate Crimes unit is investigating the attack.
12/24/2019 - Police are investigating a ani-Semitic incident that
took place near Talmud Torah Siach Yitzchok yeshiva on Central
Avenue in Far Rockaway, Queens around 9:40 a.m. The suspect dressed
in a light jacket with a hoodie tried to enter the school but was
turned away by security. He then walked over to the car where 44
year old mother of the yeshiva student was sitting, yelled few
anti-Semitic slurs and spat at her through the open passenger
window. The incident was caught on the surveillance camera and is
currently under investigation.
12/24/2019
- A Hassidic man walking down the Union Street in Crown Heights,
Brooklyn around 6 p.m. was assaulted by a group of black teenagers.
The victim was punched and knocked to the ground. One of the
teenagers was filming the assault, an indication that it was a
"beating of the Jew for fan", a problem that keeps repeating itself
on the streets of Brooklyn. According to the reports NYPD Hate
Crimes unit is investigating the incident while ADL is offering a
$10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the
perpetrators.
12/24/2019 - A group of African American teenagers began harassing a
Hassidic man who was passing them at the intersection of Albany
Avenue and Lincoln Place in Brooklyn. The surveillance video shows
the Jewish man walking away when a couple of youths chased after
him, punched him and hit him with the chair. Incident is under
investigation.
12/23/2019 - A 65 year old Jewish men was punched in the face and
kicked while on the ground in the Upper Eadst Side neighborhood of
New York City. Police arrested a 28 year old Miami, Florida resident
Steven Jorge, who was also heard hurling anti-Semitic insults. The
assailant was arrested and charged with a hate crime.
12/19/2019 - A Paris appeals court ruled that the murderer of 66
year old Jewish kindergarten teacher Sarah Halimi was not
responcible for his actions due to being under the influance of
massive amount of cannabies. On April 4, 2017 Kobili Traore broke
into victim's apartment, severely beat her and then threw her body
from the balkony. He was also overheard yelling Alahu Akbar and
calling Sarah Halimi a demon. Court also ordered the assailant to be
hospitalized or made to attend a drug rehabilitation program.
- One can only wonder if the judges making this decision were borrowed
from ISIS (Islamic State) or Taliban. This case paints a very grim
picture for the future of the Jews in France.
12/17/2019
- A Jewish woman riding a New York City subway began taking a video
of the female passenger berating a Hassidic man for no apparent
reason. She was spewing a barrage of antisemitic insults at him with
chants of Allahu Akbar and wishing that more Jews were killed in the
Jersey City grossery store massacre. She then proceeded to attach a
young woman who was recording the incident and scratching her face.
Police was called and the attacker was arrested.
12/13/2019 - Polish authorities arrested Jacek Miedlar, a former
priest and leader of the far-right movement on the charges of public
incitement against the Jewish people. According to reports, Mr.
Miedlar is also responsible for publishing a manifesto that accuses
Jews of betraying Poland when the country regained its independence
in 1918.
12/10/2019
- Male and female members of the Black Hebrew Israelites shot their
way into a kosher grocery store in Jersey City's Greenville section.
Earlier they killed a 39 year old detective Joseph Seals, father of
five. At the end of several hours shootout with police two
assailants were killed. Unfortunately three people inside the
supermarket were also killed. They were identified as Mindel
Ferencz, 33, an owner who ran the market with her husband, Moshe
Deutsch, 24, a rabbinical student from Brooklyn and Miguel Douglas
Rodriguez, 49, a store employee.
-
Jersey City Mayor, Steven Fullop, commented that “There is no
question that this is a hate crime, and anti-Semitism should be
called out aggressively and firmly immediately for what it is.”
-
It must be noted that after the incident a video circulated on
social media of local residents praising the shooters and demanding
that Jews move out of area.
12/4/2019 - Antisemitic vandals defaced over 100 gravestones in
Westhoffen, France cemetery. They spray painted swastikas as well as
number 14 which represents the white supremacist symbol. French
authorities are investigating the incident.
(Link to image).
12/2/2019 - Two men attacked a visiting Israeli rabbi as he left a
Bobov Synagogue in Stamford Hill section of London at around 9:45
p.m. The assailants approached the rabbi shouting "dirty Jew; kill
the Jews" as they threw him to the ground and carried on to
viciously beat him. They kept at it until the passerby intervened.
London police released the footage of the incident, which showed two
young individuals with their faces obscured by hoods. Investigation
of the incident is ongoing.
11/27/2019 - A group of five young men assaulted two Jewish teens in
Crown Heights, Brooklyn. One of the teens had his yarmulke snatched
and hit on the head, then turned to the second teen, grabing his hat
and throwing it on the ground. Police treating the incident as a
hate crime.
