Outrage as police suggest no hate crime motive after arresting suspect who drove moped into a group of Jewish pedestrians in Stamford Hill during Jewish festival
The Jewish community has expressed outrage after police in Hackney suggested that there appeared to be no hate crime motive after arresting a man who drove a moped into a group of Jewish pedestrians in Stamford Hill. It is understood that on 10th October over the weekend – the Jewish festival of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah […]
MEPs urge EU to stop funding Palestinian Authority textbooks that promote antisemitism
A cross-party group of more than twenty MEPs from fifteen countries have requested that the European Union withholds future funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until antisemitic incitement is removed from its school textbooks. Austrian MEP Lukas Mandl sent the letter on Wednesday to the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and Neighbourhood Commissioner OlivĂ©r […]
Blood Libel repeated by a regular contributor on Sydney-based Arabic platform
A commentator who regularly appears on a Sydney-based Arabic language channel was seen on film in September repeating the classic antisemitic blood libel that claims that the Jews use the blood of Christian children to bake unleavened bread for Passover (matzot), according to the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Committee (AIJAC). According to AIJAC, Dr Moustafa El-Lidawi, who is a […]
“With rising antisemitism, we’re expanding our policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust”: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announces that hate speech policy will now include Holocaust denial
The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has just announced that the company’s hate speech policy will now include Holocaust denial. In his statement, Mr Zuckerberg said: “Today we’re updating our hate speech policy to ban Holocaust denial. “We’ve long taken down posts that praise hate crimes or mass murder, including the Holocaust. But with rising […]
Swastikas discovered near Synagogue in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Antisemitic graffiti has been reported in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The report was made by a member Jewish community on 7th October. The graffiti appeared across the street from Temple Israel, the first and only currently active established synagogue and institution of the Jewish community in Portsmouth since 1910. The imagery included New Hampshire Governor John […]
Brooklyn synagogue windows smashed and premises vandalised on Sukkot
A Brooklyn synagogue was reportedly broken into and vandalised last week. A 25-year-old man suspected of causing damage to the Shore Parkway Jewish Centre in Gravesend last Sunday, during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, was arrested by police in New York last Wednesday. The assailant allegedly grabbed an Israeli flag from outside the synagogue and […]
“She should not be forgotten, since she was just found again”: 78 years after she was murdered by the Nazis, a Jewish artist’s paintings were discovered in a construction site
Plans are currently in progress to find a new home for a collection of paintings by a victim of the Holocaust that were only discovered in 2018 by a construction worker during the demolition of a dilapidated house near Prague. The paintings by Czech artist Gertrud Kauders (1883-1942), who perished in a Nazi concentration camp, […]
Plaid Cymru shows it has no intention of tackling antisemitism after the Welsh nationalist party takes no action against repeat offender
Plaid Cymru has shown that it has no intention of tackling antisemitism after the Welsh nationalist party decided not to take action against a repeat offender. Prospective Welsh Assembly candidate Sahar Al-Faifi tweeted in June in connection with the racist killing of George Floyd: “If you wonder where did these American cops trained, look no further than […]