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Surveillance footage showed a woman exiting her vehicle and walking behind a trailer on the business property, which was later vandalized.
The category of real-life cases, which involved threats, insults and assaults on the street or in the workplace, saw the largest increase—from 27 cases in 2018 to 61 last year.
Drawing on his experience in intelligence and counter-terrorism, Mitchell D. Silber aims to better safeguard Jewish institutions, hardening targets and raising awareness of threats to the community in the Greater New York region.
In 2019, 45 members were expelled from the party for Jew-hatred, an increase from the 10 expulsions in 2018.
Former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind was being escorted out of the room, some of the other attendees chanted “Rashida!”
In a statement posted on Facebook, the “Harvard Jewish Coalition for Peace” called itself “a new organization founded in the idea that Jewish liberation is inextricably bound up with the liberation of all people.”
“By cloaking his anti-Semitic beliefs in anti-Israel invective, Waters apparently believes he has carte blanche to spew anti-Jewish tropes,” said B’nai B’rith International.
The America First Political Action Conference will also feature anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Nicholas Fuentes; Scott Greer, who wrote for white-supremacist Richard Spencer’s alt-right “Radix Journal”; and Patrick Casey, executive director of the white-nationalist group Identity Evropa.
“Extremists hope the virus kills Jews, but they are also using its emergence to advance anti-Semitic theories that Jews are responsible for creating the virus, spreading it to increase their control over a decimated population, or they are profiting off it,” said the ADL.
Community Security Trust identified 224 incidents as “Labour Party-related” and 126 as far-right.
Jamaal Bowman, a progressive Democrat running to unseat incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) in New York’s 16th Congressional District, said he was “grateful to be endorsed by” and “incredibly proud to work with the Jewish Vote to take on anti-Semitism.”
“ ‘Rise Up Ocean County’ has been operating under the pretense of opposing overdevelopment; in reality, the group was dedicated to disparaging Orthodox Jews, using ugly tropes that have plagued society for too long,” said Avi Schnall, executive director of Agudath Israel’s New Jersey office.
