antisemitism

Labour Friends of Israel will not be holding a stall at this week’s Labour Party conference for fear that their staff will be subjected to antisemitic abuse.

The Trump administration is calling on the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Duke University to revise their joint Middle Eastern studies program or lose taxpayer funding. According to the Department of Education, the program offers very few, “if any,” programs focused on the historic discrimination against religious minorities in the Middle East, and lacks balance, focusing on the “positive aspects of Islam” while having an “absolute absence” of a similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity and Judaism.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) exposed Al Sharpton’s history of racist and antisemitic rhetoric on Thursday — doing so, in part, by relying on past complaints by Sharpton’s MSNBC colleague, Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough.

Iran has been suspended from international judo competitions because it boycotts bouts with Israeli athletes.

The Women’s March has replaced three board members who have been accused of antisemitism — though it has retained Carmen Perez (above right), who has faced similar accusations.

Bari Weiss cannot overcome her hatred of President Donald Trump, and her list of recommendations for fighting antisemitism is so weak as to be useless.

A former Labour member who quit his own party over the anti-Semitism scandals surrounding leader Jeremy Corbyn unexpectedly turned Monday’s Brexit debate around, roasting the Labour leader for failing to uphold the same standards he accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson over.

The German police said that a group of BDS activists violently assaulted visitors at the Israeli Seret International film festival on Sunday in Berlin, causing injuries and disrupting a podium discussion. An estimated 10-12 BDS activists participated in the disruption and attacks.

A violent attack on a group of Israeli students in a Warsaw nightclub has been condemned by Poland’s foreign ministry.

Linda Sarsour, an anti-Israel leader of the Women’s March whom critics have accused of antisemitism, has endorsed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president in 2020.

Brexiteer MP John Mann has quit the House of Commons over antisemitism, saying he would “never forgive” Jeremy Corbyn for allowing the party to be “hijacked” by antisemites.

A 39-year-old Imam in the Swedish city of Helsingborg has been sentenced to fines and a conditional prison sentence after labelling Jews “the progeny of monkey’s and pigs.” The Imam made the remarks during a demonstration organised by the Swedish-Palestinian

Breitbart News has recently exposed Tom Wright-Piersanti’s history of publishing antisemitic and racist tweets years ago. Days after the exposé, the New York Times admitted the comments were in fact racist and antisemitic, but Wright-Piersanti remains at the newspaper.

The author of a bill that would require California high school students to be taught an ethnic studies curriculum has decided to delay the measure amid intense debate over which political identity groups should be included in the program.

Alabama’s GOP is urging lawmakers to consider removing Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from Congress due to her controversial statements, including anti-Israel remarks.

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. used what many conservatives and Jewish leaders are saying is an antisemitic attack against those working to expose the media, calling in a just-published column those involved in the effort, such as GOP strategist Arthur Schwartz, “termites.”

Politico’s senior media writer said journalists’ old tweets are “fair game” in response to the ongoing media frenzy spurred by Breitbart News exposing threads of antisemitism embedded in the New York Times newsroom.

The New York Times, including its publisher A.G. Sulzberger, is playing “the victim card” in response to exposure of its “pattern of antisemitism,” said Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow in a Sunday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Matt Boyle.

New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger alleged that his newspaper was the target of a vast right-wing conspiracy on Sunday — after the Times boosted efforts to shut down conservative media by encouraging boycotts since early 2017.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) charged Sunday that the New York Times’ double standard on racism and antisemitism is “crushing their credibility.”

New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger issued a lengthy statement on Sunday afternoon to newsroom staff, a statement published in a release by the Times and quoted in a longer article by the newspaper on efforts by allies of President Donald Trump to combat the media through exposing racism and antisemitism inside the establishment media, including the Times.

The New York Times has, several days after Breitbart News first exposed politics editor Tom Wright-Piersanti’s racist and antisemitic comments on Twitter, admitted the comments were in fact racist and antisemitic.

New York Times editor Tom Wright-Piersanti, under fire for racist and antisemitic tweets, also had some choice words for the product his current employer publishes, as a series of more controversial tweets before he went to work at the Times reveals.

Jewish Democrats have shown Trump little gratitude for all he has done for Israel and Jews. Criticize him where necessary, but say “thank you.” He’s earned it.

Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio program, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh discussed Breitbart News’s report exposing racist and antisemitic tweets by New York Times politics editor Tom Wright-Piersanti.

Miftah, a radical Palestinian organization that co-sponsored and organized the rejected trip to Israel by Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, published an antisemitic screed on its website outlandishly accusing Israel of stealing organs from Ukrainian children and earthquake victims in Haiti.

Pro-Israel Jewish leaders slammed the New York Times on Thursday in the wake of a Breitbart News report that detailed how a senior political editor, Tom Wright-Piersanti, had a history of racist and antisemitic tweets.

Accusations of antisemitism embedded in the New York Times newsroom have roots dating back years. The paper removed a bizarre list of Jewish lawmakers who opposed former President Obama’s Iran Deal after backlash in 2015.

A New York Times spokesperson has responded hours later to a Breitbart News investigation into racist and antisemitic comments one of its political editors made on Twitter, saying the comments violate the newspaper’s standards and it is considering what to

Appearing Thursday on the Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said New York Times politics editor Tom Wright-Piersanti should be fired for his past racist and antisemitic tweets.