Antisemitism
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After being included in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Global Anti-Semitism 2021 “Top Ten” list, the university distributes a statement condemning anti-Semitism to the media.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday called the attack “abhorrent and unacceptable,” adding that “anti-Semitism and all hate has no home in New York.”
John Earnest, 22, of Rancho Peñasquitos, previously pleaded guilty to a 113-count federal indictment according to a U.S. Justice Department news release.
“When a globally recognized organization allows anti-Semitism to creep into its reporting, it makes it all the more insidious and dangerous,” says Wiesenthal Center head Rabbi Marvin Hier.
Both fliers said, “Report Anti-Vaxxers, because you care and they don’t,” and included a telephone number that, according to a local media outlet, went to a restaurant in Hollywood.
The attorneys who testified in front of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into possible judicial and police misconduct during the investigation of French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi’s murder share the series of omissions that led to the perpetrator, Kobili Traore, evading trial.
The MEPs said that on Nov. 9, which was also the anniversary of Kristallnacht, they tested Facebook’s “reactivity” to flagged anti-Semitic content by reporting posts that contained blood libels, conspiracy theories tying Jews to the COVID-19 pandemic and Holocaust denial.
“The ECAJ 2021 Antisemitism Report” recorded 272 attacks—physical assaults, verbal harassment, vandalism and graffiti—and 175 threats in the year ending in September, up from 331 in the previous 12 months.
U.S. Jewish groups blast the former president for invoking “radioactive anti-Semitic tropes” in a recent interview with an Israeli journalist.
Mark and Michelle Fortin evicted Yohannis Selassie, who is black and Jewish, from an apartment they own in Winthrop after the latter refused their demands to remove a mezuzah from his doorpost.
House approves Omar-backed bill to create Islamophobia monitor, despite concerns of targeting Israel
If enacted, the bill would create an office to monitor and combat Islamophobia in the State Department—similar to the one that exists for anti-Semitism. But Republicans and some Democrats noted the bill’s vagueness and the fact that it could be used to attack Israel.
The lawyers reminded the administration that it signed a Resolution Agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, “in which it agreed to take certain measures to address allegations of anti-Semitism.”
