Antisemitism
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Amer Zahr has expressed support for Zahra Billoo, who resigned from the Women’s March board for her history of making anti-Semitic remarks, including applauding Hamas’s terrorist attacks against Israel.
Accuses Chancellor Robert Jones of having “improperly characterized” SJP presentation as having anti-Semitic content • Jewish campus community not consulted • Strong display of Jewish unity.
The survey, which was conducted from Sept. 11 to Oct. 6 among 1,283 respondents, also found that these views are consistent across age cohorts, Jewish denominations and political affiliations.
Only 35 percent of respondents thought Jew-hatred wasn’t increasing in Germany.
“I believe that Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to serve as our prime minister,” said Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman.
“As the elected leader of the city with the largest Jewish population in the U.S., Mayor [Bill] de Blasio has a special obligation to take the lead on combating anti-Semitic violence,” said World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder.
The primary-school teacher reportedly apologized afterwards, asking the students not to tell anyone.
The COO was moved to take action while learning that on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, a synagogue in Halle, Germany, was attacked, leaving two dead and two others wounded.
In a campus email, Chancellor Robert Jones wrote: “This exercise was part of a university program created to help students learn to share diverse ideas and perspectives that lead to new understanding. Instead of fostering dialogue, it incited division, distrust and anger.”
“The interconnections of modern anti-Semitism among Islamists, the far-left and the far-right are patently obvious, and [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel offers no program of action to blunt the rise of this highly dangerous form of Jew-hatred,” said Benjamin Weinthal, fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an analyst of German politics.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed the State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to aid in investigating the incident.
German pop-music enthusiast Jana Lange, 40, and outdoor painter Kevin S., 20, were shot and killed 27-year-old by Stephan Balliet, who first attempted to break into the synagogue in Halle.
