(JTA) Last month, Bernie Sanders wrote about his support for Israel, calling the nation an “enormous achievement” and “a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.” A few weeks later Linda Sarsour, a prominent Arab-American activist and an official Sanders campaign surrogate, said […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A convert to Islam who said he was “gearing up for martyrdom” weeks after he approached police with a knife and threatened to behead them has told a court he recently requested the Jewish holy book in prison and […]
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(Ynet) The Swedish city of Malmo, plagued by anti-Semitism in recent years, has finally decided to allocate funds to fight the phenomenon after an outcry from the local Jewish community. The city’s municipality announced that it will invest some 20 million Swedish […]
(AP) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has agreed to expand its anti-bias training and expressly forbid anti-Semitism in campus policies as part of an agreement with the U.S. Education Department following complaints about a March conference featuring a rapper […]
(Detroit News) A human rights group and some Arab American groups in Michigan are expressing disappointment with the timing of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s trade mission to Israel. On Sunday, Whitmer’s administration announced she would visit Israel this week to strengthen Michigan’s “business […]
(Houston Chronicle) Special prosecutors on Wednesday lodged a new charge against a family member awaiting trial in the 2012 “honor killings” of an estranged sister’s husband and best friend. Nadia Irsan, 35, conferred with her attorneys while holding a handbag, visibly upset […]
(BBC) Plaid Cymru has suspended a party member included in its party election broadcast over allegations of anti-Semitism. The party said it will conduct an investigation into historical social media comments made by Sahar Al-Faifi. Ms Al-Faifi appeared in Plaid Cymru’s party […]
(Jewish Exponent) The Philadelphia Jewish community was roiled in May when a video surfaced of children at a local mosque and community center singing an anti-Semitic song in Arabic at an Umma Day celebration. Now, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations has […]
(IPT) Nihad Awad has a vision for America’s future. Awad, a co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), calls it “the formula.” “A strong CAIR equals a strong community,” he said Saturday during CAIR’s national fundraising banquet. “A […]
(NY Post) New anti-Semitism accusations are swirling around Rep. Ilhan Omar. A Saturday tweet by the controversial Minnesota congresswoman — referencing possible presidential contender Michael Bloomberg and philanthropist Leon G. Cooperman — has left critics crying “dog-whistle.” The questionable tweet came in […]
(JTA) An imam from the Swedish city of Malmo for the first time confirmed his attendance at the city’s Kristallnacht Holocaust commemoration event. The planned attendance Saturday night of Salahuddin Barakat, founder of Malmo’s Academy of Islam, at Malmo’s synagogue is an […]
(Brussels Times) Nacer Bendrer, already sentenced to 15 years in jail for supplying weapons to the perpetrator of the attack on the Jewish Museum, Mehdi Nemmouche, on Monday received an additional three years for a separate case of illegal arms possession. The […]
(JTA) Rep. Ilhan Omar appeared at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in her home state of Minnesota, offering a strong endorsement that noted his Jewishness. An estimated 10,000 supporters attended the Sunday night event for the Vermont senator at […]
(NY Post) The American Jewish Congress is demanding that Bernie Sanders fire one [of] his top staffers, Linda Sarsour, for “a long history of flagrant anti-Semitism.” Jack Rosen, president of the 101-year-old organization, blasted the Democratic presidential candidate in a scalding letter […]
(Religion News) Imam Omar Suleiman led a binational prayer Sunday (Oct. 27) at Friendship Park, a historic meeting place on the U.S.-Mexico border that overlooks the Pacific Ocean between San Diego and Tijuana. Participants believe it was the first time a formal […]
(JNS) The watchdog group Stopantisemitism.org is calling on the U.S. Department of Education and [Georgia] State University to keep the “terror-affiliated” Council on American-Islamic Relations off U.S. college campuses. “The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an American front group for the terrorist […]
(JTA) Electoral gains by Germany’s strongest far-right party has Jews and Muslims here worried. Winning 23.4 percent of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary election, the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany, or AfD party — propelled by male voters and those under the age […]
(National Post) A voting guide for Canadian Muslims rated federal political leaders on their views on a boycott campaign against Israel and was partly funded by a federal grant, a Jewish advocacy group said Friday. B’nai Brith Canada urged an end to […]
(Age) A Victorian schoolboy has been charged with stalking, harassing and threatening to kill a bullied Jewish schoolboy and the boy’s mother. The 16-year-old is accused of threatening a 12-year-old Jewish boy who was photographed kissing another boy’s shoe in a widely […]
(AP) Muslim groups helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue recover after a gunman killed 11 people there, one year ago this week. The Jewish congregation mounted its own fundraiser for New Zealand’s Muslims after […]
(JTA) Bernie Sanders was one of only two Democratic presidential candidates to address the Islamic Society of North America convention in August, the largest annual gathering of Muslim Americans in the country. Organizers invited the 10 highest-polling contenders at the time to […]
(JTA) Belgian police arrested a Muslim man who asked passersby on a Brussels street if they were Jewish while holding a knife and shouting about Allah. No one was hurt in the incident last week in Koekelberg, a northwestern neighborhood of the […]
(NZ Herald) The Crusaders have made the first change in its re-brand after calls for the franchise to change its name following the Christchurch shootings. The Crusaders announced earlier this year that they would be considering a change to their name and […]
(Bloomberg) The U.S. Supreme Court rejected what could have been a contentious high court showdown on the role of religion in public life. The justices turned down the appeal from a Christian former high school student that challenged, on First Amendment grounds, […]
(Times of Israel) A Canadian imam called candidates in the country’s upcoming elections “evil and filthy” supporters of Zionism who approve of homosexuality, warning Muslims they would be judged for their votes. “This voting is a testimony and will be recorded,” Sheikh […]
(CBC) The Roman Catholic bishop of Trois-Rivières has announced that his diocese will postpone selling Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf Church to its neighbour, the Islamic Cultural Centre of the Mauricie, after an outcry from some parishioners over the pending sale to the Muslim community. More than 100 parishioners […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has tapped as his latest 2020 campaign surrogate an American-Palestinian comedian who has defended notorious anti-Semites, accused President Donald Trump of leading “a KKK rally,” and routinely claimed that Israel stole land from the Palestinian […]
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(Pew) The United States plans to admit a maximum of 18,000 refugees in fiscal year 2020, down from a cap of 30,000 in the one that ended Sept. 30, 2019, under a new refugee admissions ceiling set by the Trump administration. This […]
(Times of Israel) A man armed with a knife attempted to run into a synagogue in central Berlin Friday evening, German media reported Saturday. The man, apparently a Syrian refugee, was tackled by security personnel at the entrance to the Neue Synagogue. […]
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(Australian Jewish News) Victoria’s Education Minister James Merlino has ordered an “immediate review” into how two Melbourne schools responded to alleged incidents of antisemitic bullying, following yesterday’s exclusive report in the AJN. In a story that has since made international headlines, we […]
(Australian Jewish News) A five-year-old student began wetting himself in class after he was subjected to antisemitic bullying over the course of four months, while a 12-year-old student was forced to kiss the feet of a Muslim child and was physically assaulted. […]
(Local) The leader of Sweden’s Centre Party has said she “regrets” a party vote to work for a ban on non-medical circumcision, after Jewish and Muslim groups criticized the decision. What happened? Sweden’s Centre Party voted in favour of banning circumcision (omskärelse) […]
(Jerusalem Post) A German court in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday sentenced a radical Islamist Palestinian asylum seeker to a 10-year prison term for attempting to murder judges and prosecutors. Haidar A., the extremist Palestinian, had previously been sentenced in […]
(ANSA) The diocese of Bologna, which has ordered Muslim-friendly pork-free tortellini for Friday’s feast of patron saint Petronius, on Tuesday said the row over the case was “unacceptable.” The diocese has replaced pork, which Muslims do not eat for religious reasons, with […]
(VOA) The U.S. reached its self-imposed cap of 30,000 refugee arrivals Monday, the last day of the 2019 fiscal year, as the Trump administration eyes another major reduction in refugee admittances from across the globe for 2020. More than half of refugees […]
(Deutsche Welle) A Palestinian rally set to take place Wednesday in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate has caused a diplomatic storm as both the Israeli and US ambassadors to Germany called for a performance by Palestinian rappers Shadi Al-Bourini and Shadi Al-Najjar to be […]
(NY Post) Pressure is mounting on Sen. Bernie Sanders to cut ties with longtime campaign surrogate Linda Sarsour, with critics such as Manhattan billionaire Ronald Lauder citing her long history of anti-Semitic comments. “Linda Sarsour is a virulent anti-Semite who has publicly […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Friday came to the defense of an anti-Israel activist voted off the Women’s March board earlier in the week, telling her, “we have the truth on our side.” Tlaib took to Twitter to defend […]
(AP) A Virginia jail has ended a program which inmates dubbed the “God Pod” after a lawsuit alleged the program provided favorable treatment to Christians and discriminated against Muslims. Court documents show the Riverside Regional Jail south of Richmond ended the program […]
(AP) The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program run by the University of North Carolina and Duke University, arguing that it’s misusing a federal grant to advance “ideological priorities” and unfairly promote “the positive aspects […]
(Free Beacon) Zahra Billoo, who has been outspoken about her hatred of Israel and Memorial Day, was voted off the board of the Women’s March Wednesday night after serving only two days. Billoo, the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area […]
(CBC) Sameer Zuberi, a Montreal activist who has been outspoken against Islamophobia in the province, has been nominated as the Liberal [candidate] for Pierrefonds-Dollard. Until July, Zuberi was the diversity and engagement officer for McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, according to LinkedIn. […]
(Washington Post) The Women’s March is replacing three inaugural board members who have been dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism, infighting and financial mismanagement — controversies some say have slowed the organization’s progress and diminished its impact. Co-Chairs Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory and […]
(Deutsche Welle) Although the site is remote, it has plenty of symbolism: Beginning this Sunday, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders from some 15 countries will meet in the southern Italian city of Matera, one of Europe’s 2019 cultural capitals, to take part […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) said on Sunday that a United States-led institution of the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment movement against Israel is the “kind of pressure” that will lead to a “peaceful process” in the region. CBS’s Face the […]
(JTA) A Dutch man charged with the attempted manslaughter of a Jewish father and son said he forgot why he stabbed them. During the first hearing in the case, the victims asked the judge to consider a religious or racist motive, which […]
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