Antisemitism
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“It’s the result of a toxic environment where agitators spent years weaponizing debates about municipal policy with an outsized focus on Orthodox Jews, and the commentary loaded with one-sided reporting and flat-out lies,” said the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council.
A total of 111 cases were recorded at British universities—a 59 percent rise from the 70 cases recorded during the 2019-20 school year.
Previous winners include SUNY law student Nerdeen Kiswani in 2020 and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in 2019.
The country’s Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has been trying to convince Lalela Mswane to withdraw.
Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, which provided a victim-impact statement in the case, said “they caused grave alarm with their hateful sentiments.”
Protesters shout “Death to Jews” at a nationalist Polish Independence Day rally in Kalisz • Polish interior minister: Rally organizers will face “legal consequences.”
Survivor Dan Leger is strangely calm when he recalls getting shot, figuring he would be dead in a few minutes. “I had no sense of being afraid about the end of my life coming. I thought about my life, and I thought, ‘Gee, I’ve had a wonderful life … .’ ”
The former Israeli Consul General in New York and current chairman of Yad Vashem acknowledged that when he first came to the United States in 2016, he didn’t see anti-Semitism as the pressing issue it is today, believing that it might have been an “overblown phenomenon” in the United States.
Franklin Barrett Sechreist of San Marcos, Texas, was seen on video carrying a gas canister outside of Congregation Beth Israel.
Roughly 650 books have been donated and delivered with collections efforts continuing.
Israel accused Juana Ruiz Rishwami of duping European donors by using fake financial records.
It is the latest in a series of calls by American Jewish organizations to confirm Holocaust historian, author and professor Deborah Lipstadt.
