A letter to the UN Secretary General demanded “an independent, complete, unbiased investigation into the reports and documented evidence of Hamas’ rape, mutilation, gender-based violence and murder of Israeli women and girls, and pursue vigorous prosecution to hold Hamas terrorists accountable.” [Press Release]
Holocaust survivors responded Thursday to vandalism seen over the weekend against the Kindertransport memorial in Berlin during pro-Palestinian protests, describing the incident as a symptom of rising antisemitism seen globally since the October 7 attacks in Israel. [Press Release]
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Antisemitism, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Press Release
Published by GB News (US) The BBC has deleted a post online after receiving backlash for downplaying antisemitism in its headline. The broadcaster called the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay, who stepped down following criticisms of her response to antisemitism at the Ivy League university and allegations of plagiarism, a “casualty of campus culture
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Antisemitism
The Jewish Federation of San Diego and the local chapter of the American Jewish Committee will host “Standing Together: A Community Response to Antisemitism” at 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 4, at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel. [Press Release]
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Antisemitism, Press Release, San Diego County, USA
Six Reform Jewish congregations throughout San Diego County were targeted on Tuesday, Jan. 2, with false bomb threats, according to Bill Ganley, the Secure Community Network’s security director at the Jewish Federation of San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Antisemitism, California, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Published by Euronews (English) Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing. She faces accusations of being unable to “definitively affirm” that advocating for the genocide of Jews on campus would breach the school’s conduct policy. Harvard’s first black president announced her departure just months
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Antisemitism, Nordot, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Many in the world, and especially in the United States, are ignorant of the fact that Israel is one of the most ethnically diverse nations in the world, with only a 30% White/European population. Israel has a population that is 21% Arab. If you have been to Israel then you know that there are Ethiopian Jews, Sephardic, Mizrahi and more groups throughout Israel. [Barrett Holman Leak]
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Antisemitism, Barrett Holman Leak, Israel, Jewish History, San Diego County, Times of San Diego, USA
By Brooke Goldstein NEW YORK — As we welcome 2024, I am honored to share with you a recap of the impactful journey we’ve undertaken at The Lawfare Project over the past year. Amidst unprecedented challenges, our team has remained steadfast in our commitment to upholding justice and defending the legal rights of the Jewish
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Antisemitism, International, Israel, Jewish History, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
The massacre of October 7, 2023 led to a dramatic rise in antisemitism worldwide and an awareness among Israelis of their identity as Jewish people.[Alex Gordon]
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Alex Gordon, Antisemitism, International, Israel, Jewish History, Middle East, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
I am asking the lobbyists for their help in securing a Congressional investigation into the federal grant programs intended for insuring equity and inclusion of university students, but have, instead, been usurped by propagandists, who have used these funds to bring in guest lecturers and core faculty members who espouse a full-fledged frontal assault on Israel as “colonists” and “apartheidists.” [Amy Neustein, PhD]
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Amy Neustein, Antisemitism, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
Published by Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — A Rogers Park woman faces felony hate crime charges for allegedly defacing multiple buildings, including a North Side Jewish elementary school, with antisemitic graffiti and Nazi symbols. Mariana Lynch, 30, was arrested just before 1 p.m. Thursday in the 1200 block of West Touhy Avenue after area residents called
The mayhem they brought to Jordan wasn’t bloodless. The PM was assassinated and a near civil war ensued, almost toppling the state until the 100,000 Palestinian fighters and their families were thrown out, to Lebanon.
Then came the wider Lebanese horror. [David Anderson]
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Antisemitism, Israel, Middle East, The Moderate Voice
Published by The Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Education is investigating if nearly 90 elementary, secondary and higher education campuses across the nation — including at UC Davis and other University of California campuses — violated a federal civil rights law after an “alarming” rise in reports of antisemitism, anti-Muslim and
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Antisemitism, Nordot, Science, Medicine, & Education“Systemic Jew-hatred in schools, the workplace, and society has only been exacerbated in the aftermath of the October 27, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks, with Jew-haters increasingly emboldened to violate the legal rights of the minority Jewish people,” Goldstein said.
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Antisemitism, International, Israel, Press Release, USA