Tag: anti-Semitism
Teen who allegedly beat Jewish man in Brooklyn charged for nine other crimes
A teenager involved in an attack on a Jewish man in Brooklyn, N.Y., was charged in connection to nine other crimes and faces a total of 119 counts, reported Hamodia.
Alix Dure, 18, of East Flatbush...
New report slams social-media giants for ‘failing to act on anti-Semitism’
A new report by the Center to Counter Digital Hate (CCDH) revealed that five major social-media companies failed to act upon 84 percent of anti-Semitic posts on their websites, despite promising to double down on anti-Semitism.
Researchers...
Erdan, Cotler decry upcoming UN Durban commemoration
Ahead of the United Nations commemoration next month of the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration, the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM) held a webinar on Tuesday to decry the participation of members states at the event,...
Erdan urges world leaders to take action on UNRWA staff inciting anti-Semitism online
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, is urging the United Nations and world leaders to take action against the U.N. Relief Works Agency (UNWRA) after a watchdog report...
Biden nominates Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt as next anti-Semitism envoy
After months of pressure from Jewish communal organizations to appoint someone to the position, the Biden administration on Friday nominated Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
Lipstadt,...
‘Hate can’t stop us’: Boston’s Shaloh House fights back after anti-Semitic attack
No one ever expected a pile of Gan Israel camp T-shirts to be used to stop the bleeding of one of the campers’ teachers—certainly not Rabbi Shlomo Noginski himself.
But on July 1, that was...
Germany becomes 10th country to boycott Durban IV Conference
Germany is the latest country to announce that it will not attend an upcoming U.N. event that marks the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Racism in Durban, called Durban IV.
The country’s withdrawal...
US State Department probes incident of swastika etched into one of its elevators
The U.S. State Department began investigating who was behind the etching of a swastika on a wood panel in one of the department’s elevators on Monday.
According to Axios, which first reported the incident, U.S. Secretary...
Hungary and anti-Semitism: A reply to columnist Ben Cohen
I read Ben Cohen’s July 23 column on anti-Semitism in Hungary with great interest.
Basically, I don’t consider Cohen’s article to be a bad one: as a Holocaust researcher and deputy editor-in-chief of Hungary’s largest Jewish news...
In America, Corbyn won
On July 11, the American Jewish establishment tried to prove that it could fight anti-Semitism and be progressive at the same time. It failed.
Outside of Congress that day, dozens of American Jewish groups co-sponsored...