Antisemitism
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B’nai Brith Canada urged police to take action to end demonstrations at the intersection of Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West.
Trenton Touch allegedly wrote in social media messages that he was going to kill the U.S. president and dress as a Nazi on Halloween to commit a mass shooting.
“The knowledge that there are youth who are willing to perpetrate these attacks only adds to the fear of Jewish Canadians who have been grappling with a national crisis of antisemitism for the last several years,” Richard Robertson of B’nai Brith Canada told JNS.
“There is no ongoing threat,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington stated of the incident at Washington Hebrew Congregation.
Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, told JNS at the event that only leaders who have put forward plans to fight modern Jew-hatred should say “never again,” or else it’s a “shallow cliché.”
The New York City Police Department told JNS that the 26-year-old was charged with assault and harassment.
Hate crimes against Jews, who make up about 10% of New Yorkers, are up more than 4% so far this year, according to official data from the New York City Police Department.
“This was more than solidarity. It was a refusal to let history repeat itself,” Jayne Zirkle of End Jew-Hatred told JNS.
Organizers say more than 200,000 joined the march, demanding tougher sanctions and an end to arms sales to the Jewish state.
“There is no difference between what is being done to us today and what was done to our grandparents in the ghettos of Europe 800 years ago,” said Israel’s ambassador to the United States.
“I’ve been on the phone with a lot of unhappy Jewish people from across the country this morning,” B’nai B’rith International CEO Evan Bernstein told JNS. “I think people are scared. They’re nervous.”
