Antisemitism
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“Jew-hatred is Jew-hatred, and it’s evil, and it doesn’t matter if it comes from the ethnic supremacist right, from the vicious anti-Zionist left or from radical Islam. Jew-hatred in all its forms needs to be combated, and it’s my job to combat it.”
More than half disapprove of British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of Brexit. And 48 percent polled as him as either fairly or poorly dealing with complaints of anti-Semitism.
“The departure from the state anti-Semitism of Soviet times and a reduction of the level of violence motivated by anti-Semitic views do not mean that anti-Semitism as a cultural phenomenon has vanished in these countries,” said professor Ze’ev Khanin.
Isaac Herzog, chairman of the Jewish Agency, said that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has crossed the line from criticism of Israel into anti-Semitism.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission served up a lawsuit in Orlando against the owner of several McDonald’s franchises in Florida, alleging a refusal to hire a Chassidic man due to his beard.
“The stakes for what we do now as a nation are enormous,” said American Jewish Committee chief policy officer Jason Isaacson.
The terror group tries to walk back extreme anti-Semitic comments, insisting its conflict is with Israel and not “with Jews or their religion.”
The “Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism” was prompted by a rise in anti-Semitic incidents throughout the United States, coupled with two deadly synagogue shootings six months apart.
“Each panel member will be making specific calls to action and providing the attendees with ways to getting involved immediately to join the fight against anti-Semitism in America,” said Bryan Leib, program manager of the Israeli-American Council of New York.
The vice president and his wife, Karen, walked into the synagogue to be greeted by Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who lost a finger in the shooting and whose hands are still recovering from bullet wounds.
The BBC profiled the anti-Semitism problem in the Labour Party in its TV program “Panorama.”
Sessions during the July 15 summit include “combating anti-Semitism while respecting the First Amendment,” “anti-Semitism on campus” and “prosecuting hate crimes.”
