Tag: Antisemitism
Jew accused of threatening NYC synagogue is grandson of a Holocaust survivor
One of the two men accused of planning to attack an unspecified synagogue in New York City is Jewish and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, his counsel said in court on Saturday.
Matthew Mahrer,...
Over 2,700 reported anti-Semitic incidents in Germany in 2021
The Department for Research and Information on Anti-Semitism (RIAS) in Germany said on Tuesday that it documented 2,738 anti-Semitic incidents last year, including 63 attacks and six cases of extreme violence.
The German government’s commissioner...
Las Vegas Police seeking man who threatened synagogue congregants
Las Vegas Police are searching for a man who entered a synagogue on June 4, on Shabbat and during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, and threatened congregants.
According to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police bulletin, “On...
Against Backdrop of 207% Increase in Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes in NYC, SWC Denounces Palestinian...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on New York City authorities to take immediate action against a potentially violent Palestinian protest tomorrow in front of the Israeli Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan that...
Holocaust a ‘minor matter,’ right-wing Romanian party claims
A recent statement by the right-wing, populist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party that Romania’s school system should cut back on Holocaust education and focus on “Romanian national values” has caused an...
Ohio Jewish teen gets beer bottle thrown at her, is target of anti-Semitic rhetoric
Someone in a vehicle reportedly threw a beer bottle at a 13-year-old Fuchs Mizrachi School student in an Orthodox neighborhood in University Heights, Ohio, and screamed, “F******g Jews, you’re f*****g idiots, Jews,” and then...
Palestinianism is opening up a posthumous Nazi front against Jews
The Palestinian war against Israel is no longer something that the West can regard as a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom they know nothing.
At a recent congressional hearing in America,...
The Farhud pogrom: From Iraq to Israel
Rioters stormed the streets, lit synagogues on fire, looted and destroyed Jewish homes and stabbed a Jew in the back. No, it wasn’t 1938 in Germany or 1929 in Hebron. These riots were instigated...
March 17, 1992: Attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires
The attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was a suicide bombing attack on the building of the Israeli embassy of Argentina, located in Buenos Aires, which was carried out on 17 March...
March 11, 1762: Rhode Island Court Denies Citizenship to non-Protestants
On March 11, 1762, the Superior Court of Rhode Island rejected the appeal of two men, Aaron Lopez and Isaac Elizer, to be granted citizenship in the colony, on the grounds that they were...