Tag: anti-Semitism
Following Pittsburgh and Poway, security has become a top priority at Jewish summer camps
In just a few weeks, tens of thousands of kids will be on the move, leaving home for Jewish overnight camps. This year though they’ll be doing so under the specter of heightened security...
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar to join Black-Jewish Caucus
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has made anti-Semitic remarks since being sworn in, plans to join the newly formedcongressional caucus on black-Jewish relations, whose co-founders include Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who has feuded with the congresswoman over her perceived...
DC Dyke March bans Jewish, pro-Israel symbols
The DC Dyke March, returning to Washington, D.C. on Friday after a 12-year absence, will prohibit Jewish and pro-Israel pride symbols, including flags.
“Jewish stars and other identifications and celebrations of Jewishness (yarmulkes, talit, other...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: Anti-Semitism is a ‘right-wing movement’
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday dismissed the notion that anti-Semitism exists on the left side of the political spectrum, saying that Jew-hatred is a “right-wing movement.”
At a press conference in...
Former British premier: Corbyn anti-Semitic, though ‘he doesn’t think he is at all’
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared Labour Party head Jeremy Corbyn anti-Semitic, and that “some of the remarks are not explicable in any other way,” adding even though “he doesn’t think he is...
Activists call for the end of Israel at Times Square Quds Day rally
A Quds Day rally was held in Times Square, New York last week. Activist Nate Chase of the World Workers Party said that Israel never has and never will exist, and described the “Zionist...
European rabbis take to the streets in Ulm, Germany
BERLIN—Forty rabbis from all over Europe walked the streets of the German city of Ulm on Tuesday, a couple of days after Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, advised Jews against wearing kipot, or skullcaps, in...
The problem in Germany is about more than a ‘kipah’
Who could really be surprised by the story that grabbed the attention of the Jewish world this past weekend? When Felix Klein, Germany’s first Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against...
Is it Ilhan Omar’s Democratic Party now?
Austin is a Texas college town better known these days for its trend-setting music scene than for being the capital of the Lone Star State. But last week, it also provided a test case...
Tlaib strives to alter narrative of hate fomented by Arabs
What has caused the deeply alarming upsurge in anti-Semitism across the West? As many have observed, there are three principal sources: the political left, Islamic culture and neo-fascist or white-supremacist cults.
One further factor, though,...