Antisemitism
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“What began as one man’s opinion,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, “would become state policy of Nazi Germany 22 years later, which led to the systematic murder of one-third of world Jewry.”
“It’s time that expressions of anti-Semitism, under the guise of criticism of the State Israel, be defined as such,” says Knesset speaker.
B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission chairman hails legislation banning the public display of the symbol as a “thunderous blow” to neo-Nazis.
The bipartisan effort against anti-Semitism was led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.), joined by 35 colleagues.
“Elements being portrayed in certain exhibits are reminiscent of propaganda used by [chief propagandist of the Nazi Party Joseph] Goebbels and his goons during darker times in German history,” said Shira Ben Tzion, spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in Berlin. “All red lines have not only been crossed; they have been shattered.”
The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed in 2021 by a group of students against the educational institution for discrimination.
In 2016, Rev. Professor Dr. Jerry Pillay compared Israel and the alleged “exclusionary and violent character of the Israeli Zionist project” to South Africa’s racial apartheid.
Canary Mission: “We urge swift action by Mayor Justin Bibb, Interim Chief of Police Dornat Drummond and the Cleveland Community Police Commission to remove such a dangerous anti-Semite from his duty.”
“Labour is still infested with people who have antipathetic views of Jews, and the party’s vetting process is an offensive joke,” says Joe Glasman, head of political and government investigations at the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
German Jews want Stuttgart to appeal the decision.
“Parents discovered defendants’ scheme to transform the school under a racially divisive, anti-Semitic ideology that seeks to indoctrinate children to reject Western values,” according to an official complaint against the Brentwood School.
Compared with the last time the American Jewish Committee met in 2019, much has changed for Jewish communities it advocated for across the globe, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
