Tag: anti-Semitism
WhatsApp founder, YouTube CEO to host Holocaust remembrance events
Silicon Valley executives will host Holocaust remembrance events throughout next week in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorated annually on Jan. 27.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and Houzz founder Adi...
University of Montana president condemns hateful email sent to staff, faculty
The University of Montana’s president condemned a “hateful email” that was sent to some staff and faculty on Saturday ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day that promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jews.
“The email...
Rivlin addresses more than 40 world leaders ahead of World Holocaust Forum
Ahead of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum and the 75th commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addressed more than 40 world leaders at an official dinner at...
Anti-Semitism and Holocaust education in Morocco
While most Arab countries refrain from addressing the issue of anti-Semitism and do not include the topic of the Holocaust in their school curricula, Morocco appears to be taking a different approach. Speaking at...
Pope decries ‘resurgent, barbaric’ anti-Semitism on eve of Auschwitz memorial
During a private audience on Monday of 54 international leadership delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center on the 78th anniversary of the infamous Wannsee Conference in 1942 that sealed the fate of European Jewry,...
Did New York bail-reform changes take on too much too quickly?
Slated to be the cornerstone of New York State’s social-justice reform in 2020, a new law that eliminates bail for misdemeanors and some felony crimes has come under increasing scrutiny, in part because of...
ADL urges Congress to help social media giants address anti-Semitism
In his congressional testimony on Jan. 15, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called on the government to “encourage” social media platforms to take stronger action against online anti-Semitism.
Such encouragement, said Greenblatt, could take...
Florida Democratic leader: Criticism of Israel’s ‘apartheid policies’ not anti-Semitic
The treasurer of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party in Florida on Tuesday said criticism of Israel’s “apartheid policies” is not anti-Semitic.
“What I will NEVER do is pretend that honest criticism of Israeli apartheid policies is...
Blaming anti-Semitism on capitalism
It is progress of sorts. This week, one of the leading magazines of the American left published an article that took the phenomenon of anti-Semitism seriously.
I call it progress because for a good 20...
Anti-Semitic vandalism strikes Jewish sites in France, Greece and Ukraine
Anti-Jewish vandalism has struck France, Greece and Ukraine within the past week.
About a dozen graves were vandalized in the Jewish cemetery of Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques area, in southwest France.
The damage was sighted by...