Antisemitism
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The UN Watch report details how UNRWA teachers “cheered and celebrated” the Oct. 7 massacre.
“Events in the Middle East have undoubtedly stirred up significant strength of feeling amongst many,” lawmaker Mike Freer tells JNS.
This is “deeply disturbing” and reflects “the increasing torrent of antisemitism across our country,” said Joshua Levy, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
The party made the antisemitic equation in response to an International Holocaust Remembrance Day post by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.
Andre Morrow Lackner also engaged in “a 14-month campaign in which he threatened a victim and threatened to shoot synagogues.”
Amid calls for Derek Penslar to step down from the group after calling Israel an “apartheid” state, he said it wouldn’t be appropriate for him to deliver public comments.
No one should be the target of hate because of their race, ethnicity, religion or any other status,” said Mark Totten, the U.S. attorney for Michigan’s western district.
The 21-year-old Swedish activist recently said at a protest in Leipzig, Germany, that “to stand with Palestine is to be human.”
“This incident clearly did not take place in a vacuum,” said Campaign Against Antisemitism. “We have repeatedly warned of the dangers of hatred going almost unchecked on the streets of London.”
The governor is also trying to expand the kinds of offenses that can be considered under that banner.
The statements made by Shekeba Morrad “are abhorrent and insensitive,” a group of lawmakers wrote.
The Red Clay Consolidated District must “ensure that all of its students, including Jewish students, can learn safely and without discriminatory harassment in its schools,” said the assistant secretary for civil rights.
