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 or excluded from the campus life.
(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
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 - 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).
7/10/2020 - 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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
