Antisemitism
Follow the latest Antisemitism news, videos, and analysis from Jewish News Syndicate (JNS).
Shlomo Mansour, 86, lived through the Farhud pogrom as a toddler in Baghdad.
The university’s scheduled student speaker has posted antisemitic content on social media, the End Jew Hatred Movement says.
Teachers’ speech has been “controversial” of late in the “polarized” school district, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Shahana Hanif, who co-chairs the New York City Council’s Taskforce to Combat Hate, wrote a few days after Oct. 7 that “the root cause of this war is the illegal, immoral and unjust occupation of the Palestinian people.”
“It’s a great feeling. You can get back at the trolls in a way that helps Israel,” Esther Panitch, a Georgia state representative, told JNS.
“Antisemitism is nothing short of a national emergency, a five-alarm fire that is still raging across the country and in our local communities and campuses.”
The meme featured a swastika within a Star of David.
“The legislation would provide federal officials with an objective, contemporary definition of antisemitism,” said Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.).
“When antisemitism is allowed to continue unchecked, it is not merely the Jewish people but society as a whole that suffers,” Roz Rothstein, the activist group’s co-founder and CEO, told JNS.
The legislation would “take other much-needed steps across the federal government to fight anti-Jewish hatred, bigotry, and violence,” said Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.).
Primary and secondary schools “are always the first line of defense for any and every issue,” said Josh Kraft, head of the New England Patriots Foundation.
A University of Michigan student wrote on Instagram, “Until my last breath, I will utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist state. Death and more. Death and worse.”
