Antisemitism
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“Anti-Semitism has no place in #Tucson or anywhere for that matter,” tweeted Mayor Regina Romero. “We have a moral imperative to speak out unequivocally against it in all of its forms.”
“We are using all available avenues from high in the sky billboards to Instagram and everything in between,” said Elizabeth Abrams, assistant vice president of communications for JUF.
Democratic strategist Steve Rabinowitz told JNS that while he personally would not have chosen Rep. Ilhan Omar for the committee, Democrats are likely not calling for her removal because “the world is not just Israel and the Palestinians.”
The letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona cited hate-crime statistics from a 2019 FBI report indicating that Jew-hatred makes up for 63 percent of all religious-biased hate crimes in the United States.
The group allegedly knocked Joseph Borgen to the ground and then punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and beat him with crutches while making anti-Semitic remarks.
The Canadian Jewish group Federation CJA and its advocacy agency, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, applauded the decision.
A dozen stated that “ignoring the differences between democracies governed by the rule of law and contemptible organizations that engage in terrorism at best discredits one’s intended argument and at worst reflects deep-seated prejudice.”
Journalist Mark Stone later attempted to apologize for his remarks in a series of tweets.
The European Union continues to invest millions in funding the Palestinian Authority’s educational system without demanding that it stop “indoctrinating its children to hate and kill,” stated a spokesperson for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
American Jewish Committee: There is something “profoundly wrong” with a state being prepared to execute a prisoner using “a method of execution that inevitably, inextricably and forever linked to the worst outrages of human history.”
It is the second-largest teachers union in the nation.
“Targeting Jewish businesses is straight-up anti-Semitic,” California State Sen. Scott Wiener wrote in a series of Twitter posts that included photos of the graffiti and past anti-Semitic vandalism of the store.
