Tag: anti-Semitism
‘HoloCoin’ cryptocurrency offers users to buy/sell ashes of Jews burnt in Holocaust
A anti-Semitic website that is now shut down offered users the opportunity to trade a cryptocurrency called the “HoloCoin,” a reference to the Holocaust, in which Jews and the ashes of Jews burnt can...
Report: Hostility to Corbyn stymied British Labour Party effort to face anti-Semitism
A leaked internal British Labour Party report into the party’s handling of anti-Semitism claims that inner-party hostility to then-party leader Jeremy Corbyn impeded the party’s efforts to confront the issue.
The 860-page report, which does...
Estonian teen ‘commander’ of global neo-Nazi group behind threats to US synagogue
A 13-year-old boy in Estonia was a key figure in an international neo-Nazi group that has been linked to plots to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and detonate a car bomb at a major...
Jeremy Corbyn in historical perspective
The era of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the opposition Labour Party in the United Kingdom mercifully came to an end last week, with the election of the more centrist-minded Sir Keir Starmer as his...
Wiesenthal Center demands social-media platforms delete viral anti-Semitic posts
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging social-media platforms to remove posts that use the coronavirus pandemic to promote anti-Semitism and violence against Jews.
“This is exactly the breeding ground for extremists,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and...
UK’s Labour elects new leader after Corbyn with goal to quash anti-Semitism in party
The U.K. Labour Party elected Keir Starmer over the weekend as its new leader, replacing Jeremy Corbyn, who has long been accused of letting anti-Semitism plague the party, in addition to himself holding hateful...
Daniel Pearl’s murderer gets ready for freedom
Even now, 18 years after his murder at the hands of terrorists in Pakistan, there is no better symbol of the ideological intersection between Islamism, anti-Semitism and hatred of the United States than Daniel...
White supremacist disrupts webinar for Jewish teens featuring deputy anti-Semitism envoy
A webinar on the video conferencing platform Zoom about anti-Semitism last week, featuring U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Ellie Cohanim, was disrupted by a white supremacist and hacker—an example of...
Anti-Jewish coronavirus conspiracy theories in historical context
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the rapid proliferation of a host of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. This is unfortunately not surprising, as the tendency to blame the Jews for widespread misfortune dates back centuries.
One...
Sanders’s Florida campaign office spray-painted with swastikas
A campaign office for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was spay-painted with swastikas, announced a member of his team on Saturday.
The “Florida for Bernie” Twitter account tweeted, “Didn’t know if we should share, but...