Antisemitism
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David Bocarsly, of Jewish California, stated that the vote was a “powerful statement that California stands with every person of faith and their constitutional right to worship.”
“No one’s pain is greater or more important than others,” Gov. Josh Shapiro told Politico. “But from a data perspective, there has been a dramatic spike in antisemitism that is unmatched elsewhere, and that’s a problem.”
The state’s education department, rather than its coordinator under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is also responsible for reporting annually on incidents of antisemitism.
Jewish watchdog CIDI recorded 281 cases last year and said anti-Zionism is increasingly used to mask antisemitism.
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Deborah Project, told JNS that the settlement “requires policies of transparency, unbiased decision-making and concrete protections from antisemitic indoctrination and bullying.”
“The Mamdani administration is lifting up fringe voices as if they’re representative of the community,” Jonathan Schulman, executive director of the Jewish Majority, which organized the letter, told JNS.
The new facility, set to open within three years, aims to combat rising antisemitism and Shoah distortion across Germany and Europe.
Prosecutors sought years in prison for Amin Abou Rashed, but a bureaucratic error weakened the case against him.
Canada a ‘lost cause’ on antisemitism, adds Ambassador Joshua Zarka.
“These movements don’t stop with a boycott. We know where this is going, and that’s why we are going to get out ahead of it,” an attorney at the center told JNS.
On May 9, vandals spray-painted antisemitic symbols and Bible references on the Waukesha County memorial, which includes a steel beam from the World Trade Center.
The protest was “a powerful show of solidarity,” Jayne Zirkle of the Lawfare Project told JNS. “To condemn people for attending such an event is to condemn the very principles of freedom our nation was founded on.”
