(JTA) Joining the stream of people converging on Trocadero Square, I soon realized that this event would be significantly different from the dozens of Jewish community gatherings I had attended in France. The atmosphere, rhetoric, symbolism and attendance at the “Justice for […]
(Algemeiner) The annual “Al Quds Day” march and rally calling for the violent elimination of the state of Israel will not take place in Berlin next month for the second year running, police in the German capital confirmed on Thursday. Sponsored by […]
(AFP) Thousands of protesters gathered in several French cities and Israel on Sunday to denounce a court’s refusal of a trial for a man who killed a 65-year-old Jewish woman, after experts determined he acted in a “delirious fit” due to heavy […]
(Free Beacon) President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top Small Business Administration job sits on the board of a group that lobbies in favor of the anti-Israel boycott movement and describes Israel as an “apartheid” state. Dilawar Syed, Biden’s pick for deputy […]
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(Times of Israel) Israel blasted on Tuesday the ruling by France’s highest court that the murderer of Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime. “Sarah Halimi was murdered for clearly anti-Semitic motivations, for the sole […]
(Cornwall Live) A Muslim convert threatened to carry out an atrocity against Jewish people before being tasered by armed police at his home in Cornwall. Adam Mark Burgoyne, 31, contacted another Muslim man in [an] attempt to get him to help him […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron urged a change in French law after a man who murdered a Jewish woman in 2017 avoided a trial on the grounds he acted in delirium due to drug-taking, in an interview published Monday. Jewish groups have reacted […]
(JTA) French immigration authorities deported a 19-year-old immigrant from Algeria who was jailed for refusing to deliver food to Jews after it was discovered he was living [in] France illegally. Dhia Edine D. was sentenced in January to four months in jail […]
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(JTA) Relatives of a Paris woman who was killed by her neighbor while he spewed anti-Semitic slurs and was high on marijuana have lost their final appeal to have the killer tried. In its decision Wednesday, the Court of Cassation’s Supreme Court […]
(IPT) Anti-Semitism has become “a pandemic raging for many years” among many Muslims, said interfaith activist Soraya Deen. “Unfortunately though, we have no vaccine that can cure it.” Deen joined a group of reformist Muslims Wednesday — the eve of Yom HaShoah […]
(Algemeiner) French Jews commemorated on Friday victims of the horrific 2012 shooting attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, which took place during a days-long killing spree that claimed the lives of seven people. On March 19, 2012, Islamist terrorist Mohamed […]
(Daily Caller) A Miami imam attacked the Catholic Church and called Jews “the offspring of apes and pigs,” a research institute reported Thursday. Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi, imam of the North Miami Islamic Center, also attacked the Kurds in a now-deleted sermon […]
(Deutsche Welle) “Fascists in our lecture halls! Dismiss Professor Kinzler! Islamophobia kills,” read the large banners hanging at the University of Grenoble. Activists from the French student union Unef also posted the slogans online. Five months after the brutal murder of history […]
(Algemeiner) France on Thursday began commemorations for the ninth anniversary of a devastating Islamist terror spree that claimed the lives of seven people, including three children at a Jewish school and two soldiers in the French army. The tributes to the victims […]
(Hill) Extremists used to be classified easily into discrete categories, but that is getting harder to do. Increasingly, extremists’ motivations seem cobbled together from different, even contradictory hatreds — including adherents of both white supremacism and radical Islam. Why this is happening […]
(JTA) Swiss voters passed a referendum on banning face-covering veils, prompting the country’s Muslim and Jewish groups to protest that infringement on religious freedoms. The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities and the Platform for Liberal Jews in Switzerland said the ban, which […]
(JTA) Guards protecting a Jewish school in the French city of Marseille overpowered a man wielding a knife whom they suspected intended to stab patrons at a nearby kosher store and bakery. The incident Friday morning happened in the city’s 13th district, […]
(Algemeiner) The head of an influential Turkish Muslim association in Germany resigned from his position on Thursday after his antisemitic social media postings were exposed by a left-wing group, vowing at the same time to clear his name. Mustafa Keskin — the […]
(Politico) Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang promised Wednesday to meet with Palestinian American leaders and said he may have “confused” the intentions of certain groups in his recent essay likening the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to “fascist boycotts of Jewish businesses.” In […]
(Breitbart) A report on antisemitism in schools in the Swedish multicultural city of Malmo has made the claim that much of the hatred toward Jewish students comes from students of Arab and Middle Eastern backgrounds. The February report, “Schoolyard racism, conspiracy theories […]
(Fox) House GOP lawmakers are seeking this week to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from her committee assignments as Democrats push for similar action against embattled Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Fox News has learned. The House is […]
(JTA) Putting a small-town Jewish baker on the ticket was supposed to change the public image of the Netherlands’ Party of Unity — but not like this. Run by Islamic fundamentalists, the tiny party has had little impact at the ballot box since […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Vienna University of Technology has withdrawn an invitation to a radical pro-Iranian regime imam with respect to an event about mosques after a human rights group protest, it confirmed on Tuesday to the Jerusalem Post. Herbert Kreuzeder, the university […]
(JTA) Amid protest by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the national ceremony commemorating victims of the genocide. In a statement published Thursday […]
(Third Sector) The Charity Commission has declared itself satisfied with the response of Islamic Relief Worldwide to antisemitic comments made by former senior leaders. It comes as the charity said it had requested a meeting with President Biden’s new administration after the outgoing Trump […]
(JTA) The national commemoration committee of the Netherlands named as its keynote speaker a Muslim author who has called Gaza a “ghetto” and is accused of making anti-Semitic statements about Dutch Jews. The National 4 and 5 May Committee made the announcement […]
(Algemeiner) US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called Israel a “racist state” in an interview Tuesday with the left-wing news program Democracy Now!, and falsely claimed that it was denying coronavirus vaccines to Palestinians. “I think it’s really important to understand Israel is […]
(Free Beacon) The State Department has cut ties with Islamic Relief Worldwide, an international charity that the United States accuses of spreading anti-Semitism. The public accusations represent a wholesale shift in how the United States approaches a global charity that was, until […]
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(JTA) French police have arrested an Algerian man they say declined to serve Jewish-owned businesses because of anti-Semitic discrimination while working as a food courier in Strasbourg. The man, Dhia Edine D., is an illegal immigrant, the French lawmaker Meyer Habib wrote […]
(Algemeiner) A video showing two Palestinian skaters racing through an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of the Belgian city of Antwerp as they unfurled a huge Palestinian flag has been removed from YouTube after going viral. Uploaded on Sunday, the video featured Gaza-born twin […]
(JTA) Two kosher restaurants in the city of Strasbourg, France, said they had been … declined service by at least one delivery man, who allegedly said he does not want to serve Jews. Both incidents happened Thursday amid a partial lockdown due […]
(Algemeiner) Six years after the tragic events, commemorations began Thursday to the victims of the 2015 Islamist attacks in Paris against the Charlie Hebdo magazine, on Jan. 7, and the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket two days later. “This morning, 6 years later, […]
(JNS) Anti-Semitism watchdog groups are raising alarm over a graduate student and teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University who threatened to fail pro-Israel students, while also making disparaging remarks about Israelis and white people. “We find it alarming that a teaching assistant […]
(Algemeiner) A French imam is to be prosecuted for racial hatred over a sermon he delivered in 2017 calling for Muslims to “fight the Jews.” Algerian-born Mohamed Tatai was indicted at the end of 2018 for “public verbal provocation to hatred or […]
(Breitbart) A French law professor has been placed under police protection after referring to religions, including Islam, as “sexually transmitted” during a lecture to around 600 students in October. The 50-year-old associate professor, who works at Aix-Marseille University (AMU), is alleged to have said […]
(JTA) French police have arrested two adults and two minors suspected of an anti-Semitic hate crime in which they allegedly verbally assaulted a Jewish family near Paris in their car. The incident happened Thursday in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers, French […]
(Brussels Times) The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg has upheld a ban by the Flemish government on animal slaughter without prior stunning. The court was responding to a request from Belgium’s Constitutional Court for a ruling on a point of […]
(JTA) At a panel on anti-Semitism, four speakers known for their outspoken criticism of Israel — including Rep. Rashida Tlaib — said that they themselves do not hate Jews. “Tell everybody, I don’t hate you. I absolutely love you,” said Tlaib, a […]
(Washington Times) Democrat Raphael Warnock was already struggling to beat back allegations of anti-Semitism, and then Linda Sarsour and Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib jumped into the Georgia Senate election picture. The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] […]
(Algemeiner) Prosecutors at the trial in France of 14 defendants charged with providing support to the Islamist terrorists behind the January 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris began their closing arguments in court on Monday, amid concern that the antisemitic character of the […]
(Breitbart) In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Friday, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) blasted Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for recent anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric, urging his colleagues “across the aisle” to join him in calling for Tlaib’s immediate removal from all […]
(AFP) A suspect in a 1982 attack on a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris that killed six people was on Saturday charged and remanded in custody by French authorities after his extradition from Norway, judicial sources said. Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed was charged […]
(AFP) A suspect in a deadly 1982 attack at a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris arrived in France late Friday after being extradited from Norway, airport officials said. Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, 62, landed at around 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) at Paris’ Charles […]
(Free Beacon) Democratic representatives Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), and Betty McCollum (Minn.) headlined a conference this weekend run by one of the nation’s most prolific anti-Israel advocacy groups, lending their support to an organization that champions boycotts of Israel and […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) scrubbed a tweet on Monday that included an anti-Semitic phrase often used by terrorist groups that seek the destruction of Israel. Screenshots from the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” show that Tlaib retweeted a Saturday post that […]
(Daily Wire) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) promoted a tweet on her Twitter account on Sunday that contained a phrase that is associated with calling for the elimination of Israel. StopAntisemitism.org highlighted the tweet that Tlaib retweeted, which stated: “From the river to […]
(World Israel News) B’nai Brith Canada contacted police to investigate an Islamic religious leader in British Columbia for his latest incitement against Jews, the organization said [in] a statement Tuesday. Local imam Younus Kathrada in the provincial capital of Victoria posted a […]
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