Anti-Semitic attacks hit an all time high last year, more than doubling from the previous year’s total to hit 1,168 incidents in 2014. And as the Paris attacks of last month continue to reverberate, there are fears within the British
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Kelly File,” conservative radio host Laura Ingraham reacted to the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activities that have been perpetrated on the campus of UC Davis in recent days. According to Ingraham, this is a product of
While detectives investigate spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-campus Jewish fraternity house as a hate crime, a Muslim civil liberties group has come out in solidarity with the Jewish community.
Jewish students at the University of California at Davis awoke Saturday morning to swastikas spray-painted on their fraternity house.
This week, Palestine’s Islamist Hamas movement congratulated the head of Greece’s newly-elected, far-left Syriza coalition on his party’s victory and hailed him for his staunch opposition to “Israeli crimes, aggression, and siege on Gaza.”
On Wednesday, the Huffington Post posted an article by self-described journalist Sophia Eribo that was nothing less than an anti-Semitic screed.
The actress Maureen Lipman has admitted that she may leave the UK thanks to a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. She described the recent rise in anti-Semitism in the UK as “very depressing”. Figures show that the number of anti-Semitic attacks
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that Europe had lost its shame regarding its anti-Semitism in a discussion on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Tuesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “70 years marks the end of
Tuesday marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. The Nazis who ran the execution site were responsible for the slaughter of over one million people within a five-year timespan, with the vast majority of them being Jews. In Auschwitz alone, from 1940-1945, the Nazis killed roughly six-hundred people per day, twenty-five per hour, one every 144 seconds.
A Swedish reporter decided to undergo a social experiment–seeing what would happen if he wore a Jewish yarmulke and Star of David necklace and strolled around the streets of Malmo, Sweden.
Police intervened in a clash between an Islamist group and a group commemorating the victims of Charlie Hebdo and journalist Hirant Dink in Istanbul, Turkey. It turned violent, which forced the police to use gas to break up the crowd.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and current Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and Yeshiva University, compared rising anti-Semitism in Europe to “signs of global crisis such as existed in Germany before the
A politics professor associated with leftwing activism and anti-Semitic views at Brandeis University will no longer teach at the school following a one-year terminal sabbatical.
The French government has arrested at least 54 individuals in the past week for what it is defining as “hate speech” and “defending terrorism,” including a well-known comic with an extensive record of anti-Semitic remarks.
The majority of Britain’s Jews believe that Jewish people have no long term future in Europe, and a quarter have considered moving away from Britain recently thanks to rising anti-Semitism, a new report has found. The study, by the Campaign
On Tuesday, The Huffington Post attempted to spin Islamic radicalism in Europe as a secondary threat to both Europeans and Jews. The primary threat? As their headline put it, “Far-Right Parties On The Rise Across Europe.”
Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has suggested that America is responsible for the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in Paris, France as revenge for President Hollande publicly considering dropping sanctions on Russia.
There are calls for BBC reporter Tim Willcox to resign after he told the daughter of holocaust survivors live on air “Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well”. A petition has been launched calling for his dismissal, whilst on
As the hashtag #JeSuisJuif (I am Jewish) trended yesterday on Twitter in memory of the four hostages killed at a kosher supermarket in Paris last week, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament David Ward took to Twitter to declare “Je Suis
Charlie Hebdo was attacked for the crime of printing cartoons of Mohammed. The kosher supermarket was attacked for the crime of containing Jews. The Nazis and their European collaborators dreamt of a Jew-free Europe. With the help of radical Muslims, that’s now becoming a reality.
Lorenzo Delpani, the Italian-born CEO of United States-based cosmetics company Revlon, allegedly believes Americans are “dirty” and “small-minded,” that “Jews stick together,” and that he has the ability to “smell a black person” upon entering a room, according to a lawsuit.
A senior Labour politician and London mayoral hopeful has given voice to fears that anti-Semitism could surge in the run up to the general elections this coming May. David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, has also expressed concern that London could
Three months after the Communist mayor of a Paris suburb, Valenton, named a street, Barghouti Alley, after a convicted Palestinian terrorist, another municipality of a second Paris suburb has honored the same man.
Swastikas were daubed on cars and buildings across a Jewish Community in North London on Sunday night, leaving residents “shocked and fearful”. Twenty-seven cars were targeted, and the mark was even found on the walls of a primary school. The
The BBC’s Director of Television has said that he has “never felt so uncomfortable as a Jew in the UK” due a rising level of anti-Semitism. The Jewish Chronicle reports that Danny Cohen told a conference in Jerusalem about rising
