Antisemitism
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There were 1,879 anti-Semitic incidents in 2018—the third-highest figure of such incidents since 1979, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.
Passed by a vote of 26-0, the bill moves to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign it into law.
John Earnest, 19, a nursing student who had no prior criminal record and wrote in a manifesto that he “would die a thousand times over to prevent the doomed fate that the Jews have planned for my race,” is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
Chabad both laments and condemns the Passover shooting in Poway, Calif., pleading with local and federal authorities, as well as the school system, to take steps to root out “gangrene” of anti-Semitism.
“There’s no doubt that Tlaib and Omar have close-knit ties with Hamas affiliated CAIR, and we, as concerned citizens, call on [the] Attorney General and U.S. Special Envoy for Anti-Semitism to investigate these ties,” states the petition, which to date has 33,337 signatures.
Raising eyebrows within the Jewish and international community, the conference was supported and promoted by the terror-affiliated Palestinian National and Islamic Forces, and attended by leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian Liberation Front.
Bishop Rafal Markowski of the Polish Catholic Church said the church “will never tolerate signs of contempt for members of any nation, including the Jewish people.”
Muhanna’s channel has more than 13,000 subscribers; the 47-minute-long video at issue has already been viewed nearly 25,000 times.
Pelosi blasted President Donald Trump for tweeting a video, criticizing Omar for labeling at the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s Greater Los Angeles branch last month the 9/11 attacks as “some people did something.”
Reportedly, $5,000 of taxpayer funds from the Education Department was used for the March 22-24 event, titled “Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics and Possibilities.”
Alain Soral, 60, was sentenced to a year in prison for comments posted to his website.
The total number of arrests in the case are now up to five.
