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Canada’s Ukrainian Nazi embarrassment was no accident

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It was all a big mistake. And no one important was to blame. So, the only thing to do is to just move along, pretend it never happened and, of course, denounce anyone who...
The U.N. General Assembly. Credit: U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe.

US Jewish groups packed their schedules during UN General Assembly

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The U.N. General Assembly is best known for its annual, high-level General Debate, during which world leaders do not debate but instead take the podium individually to broadcast largely promotional messages to the globe. Much...
Anthony Rota resigns as speaker of Canada’s House of Commons on Sept. 26, 2023. Source: YouTube/CP24.

Canadian official resigns, Poland seeks extradition of Nazi veteran honored by Ottawa

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Anthony Rota, the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons who apologized on Sunday for honoring a Ukrainian man who fought in a Nazi unit, has resigned, the Associated Press reported. "Just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered...
JNS publishes a weekly listing of antisemitic incidents recorded and found by Jewish, pro-Jewish and pro-Israel organizations; national and international news; and social media. By the Anti-Defamation League’s count, an average of seven instances of varying measure occur daily in the United States. (Dates refer to when the news was reported, not when the events took place.) Sept. 9 A synagogue in Los Altos, Calif., evacuated on Shabbat due to a bomb threat, and a cyclist spewed neo-Nazi insults and Holocaust denial at a Jewish couple in Los Angeles. X (formerly Twitter) sued California over a bill requiring social-media companies to file twice-annual reports on their efforts to fight hate speech, racism and other threats. “If Musk truly wants to maintain X as a free-speech platform and demonstrate he is against antisemitism, he needs to stop engaging with antisemites,” wrote Arsen Ostrovsky, CEO of the International Legal Forum. Just a few minutes of browsing X posts with the word “Jew” makes it “disheartening to witness so much antisemitic content,” wrote Sacha Roytman, CEO of Combat Antisemitism Movement. Sept. 10 “Six million Jews, as well as people of other ethnicities and religions, died horrific deaths under Hitler for no reason other than that they were Jewish,” the Old Stone House & Museum Observation Tower in Vermont stated after vandals painted swastikas and antisemitic statements on it. “We must be ever vigilant that history does not repeat itself.” In Israel, Waze fired an Israeli-Arab driver who ripped a mezuzah off a customer’s door and trashed it. North Carolina police arrested two people who dropped off antisemitic fliers in Wake Forest and Rolesville. In San Diego, several neighborhoods saw antisemitic fliers distributed. Sept. 11 The neo-Nazi Blood Tribe group claims to have started a chapter in Ohio. In Arapahoe County, Colo., residents found fliers promoting a white supremacist antisemitic “documentary.” In New Brunswick, N.J., a teenager was arrested after making antisemitic threats against a principal. In Portland, Maine, and San Diego, people distributed Goyim Defense League fliers blaming Jews for 9/11. The group also placed antisemitic materials on car windshields in Iowa outside a Minor League baseball game. Sept. 12 Masked protesters held up hateful banners, including one that stated “Jews Did 9/11,” in Novato, Calif., on Sept 10. The ADL launched an entertainment institute. Following public outcry, a Philadelphia-area cemetery will cover up a memorial to Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. Sept. 13 In Miami, the Scheck Hillel Community School evacuated following a bomb threat. Police arrested a Florida man for hanging a swastika flag over an Orlando overpass. (See Sept. 3.) Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of France’s National Assembly (part of the Parliament), filed a complaint after receiving an antisemitic letter. Some 86% of posts reported for “extreme hate speech,” including Holocaust denial and Nazi imagery, remained on X a week later, per a report. Police shut down an Argentinian bookstore selling neo-Nazi and antisemitic titles; displaying Nazi symbols is illegal in the country. Someone carved a swastika into a playground slide in Freeport, Maine; and police in Sandusky, Ohio, arrested a man in connection for distributing antisemitic fliers. In Washington, D.C., someone carved at least four swastikas on a Georgetown University police cruiser. Chassidic Jews reportedly experienced antisemitism from passengers and staff on an ITA Airways flight from Rome to New York. Sept. 14 A court awarded $430,000 to five Jewish students it found to have endured antisemitic bullying for years at a school in Australia. “Open to everyone except this murderer,” read signs that Israel’s Foreign Ministry placed on cardboard cut-outs of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, which it placed at iconic New York City sites. (The depictions of the “Butcher of Tehran” reference sanctions restricting Raisi on his expected upcoming visit to the United Nations.) A 71-year-old woman in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is pursuing other options after a district attorney opted not to pursue what she is calling an antisemitic attack. Sept. 15 Two attackers told a young Jewish man in Marseille, in the south of France: “We are going to slaughter you. Get down on your knees, you dirty Jew of a dirty race. We are going to kill you.” The director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation says a mayoral candidate associated with a far-right party in Germany who stated that Holocaust commemorations are a “guilt cult” will be barred from the memorials. “If you have a problem with me or my people, I’m very easy to find,” wrote Natan Levy, an Israeli UFC fighter who lives in the United States, in response to a Swedish fighter who called for Jews to be expelled from Israel and wrote, “Give me the strongest man from Israel, I will break him.” On this day, in 1935, Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, stripping Jewish citizenship.

Antisemitic incident report: Sept. 9-15

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JNS publishes a weekly listing of antisemitic incidents recorded and found by Jewish, pro-Jewish and pro-Israel organizations; national and international news; and social media. By the Anti-Defamation League’s count, an average of seven instances...
Map with the flag of Israel. Credit: Vrezh Gyozalyan/Shutterstock.

On eve of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish population rises to 15.7 million worldwide

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On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the number of Jews worldwide stands at approximately 15.7 million compared to 15.6 million in the previous year, according to newly released statistics from the Jewish...
St. Peters Basilica in Vatican City, Rome, on Aug. 17, 2016. Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Vatican beatifies Polish family killed for protecting Jews during the Holocaust

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On Sept. 13, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Józef and Wiktoria Ulma—a Polish couple who hid eight Jews during the Holocaust—as among the Righteous Among the Nations. Now, the Vatican has beatified the Ulmas, as well...
Jews arrive in the Ukrainian city of Uman ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 14, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

22,000 pilgrims arrive in Uman ahead of Rosh Hashanah

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More than 20,000 Jews have arrived in the central Ukrainian city of Uman to celebrate Rosh Hashanah amid tightened security due to the war with Russia, local authorities said on Thursday. Tens of thousands of...
The Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome, founded in 1909. Credit: Grentidez via Wikimedia Commons.

List names 3,000-plus Jews protected by Catholics in Rome during World War II

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From September 1943 through June 1944 during the Second World War, more than 150 women’s and men’s religious orders, as well as other Catholic groups, protected 4,300 people. Information has now revealed the names of those...
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich arrives at the Western Wall for his son Aaron's Bar Mitzvah, Dec. 20, 2022. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

Internal EU paper contains antisemitic tropes, Jewish group claims

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A recent internal European Union paper denigrates Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, referring to his Jewish background and employing derogatory antisemitic themes, according to the European Jewish Association. The European External Action Service (EEAS), the E.U.'s...
Abu Dis, Feb. 2, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

US, EU condemn Israeli plans for Jewish neighborhood in Abu Dis

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The United States and European Union on Monday slammed Israeli plans to build a Jewish neighborhood in the Arab village of Abu Dis on the eastern outskirts of Israel’s capital. Washington and Brussels issued the condemnations as the...