Antisemitism
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This year saw five first-place awards and three second-place ones for editors, staff writers and freelancers in the journalism competition.
Dr. Fidaa Wishah is no longer affiliated with the center after posting that Israel was a state based on inhumanity and cannibalism.
The Canadian Labour Congress used “backdoor methods to ram through” a resolution in support of a boycott of Israel that have left many union representatives “shocked and angry,” said The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The attacker apparently knew the children at the bus stop were Jewish because they had kipahs on their heads and their camp T-shirts had Hebrew lettering.
Gay McDougall participated in the U.N. Durban Conference in 2001, also known as the World Conference Against Racism, at which time she reprimanded the late Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), a Holocaust survivor.
Five of those charged with killing 56-year-old Yigal Yehoshua are Arab Israelis; the other two are Palestinians.
New York Attorney General Letitia James: “The discriminatory and illegal actions perpetrated by Orange County and the Town of Chester are blatantly anti-Semitic, and go against the diversity, inclusivity and tolerance that New York prides itself on.”
Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh will work to strengthen connections to Israel and facilitate Jewish social activism.
Amid a spike in anti-Semitism across the country, the president has yet to fill the positions of special envoy on anti-Semitism and the White House Jewish liaison.
The international conference has been dubbed “the festival of Jew-hate” for its history of promoting anti-Semitism.
Jeffrey Lax says a recent resolution seeks to put an end to American financial support to Israel, which is tantamount to divestment.
Deputy parliamentary spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU Party calls the move “a clear signal to our Jewish citizens.”
