The mass shooting Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego that left three men dead has renewed scrutiny surrounding the mosque — which previously drew national attention over connections to two September 11 hijackers and, more recently, criticism surrounding its imam’s repeated comments portraying Hamas’s October 7 massacre and violence against Israel as justified acts of “resistance.”
The Latin American branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced far-left Chilean President Gabriel Boric in a public letter on Monday.
Half of young Americans are either unsure of the Nazi Holocaust’s authenticity or outright believe it to be a “myth,” according to a recent survey that reveals a worrying trend in the U.S. across the younger generation.
Speaker of the Canadian Parliament pleaded ignorance to knowing man he lauded as “Ukrainian hero, Canadian hero” was actually a Nazi volunteer.
After the recent revelation of the sale of original Nazi propaganda films on Amazon, prominent voices slammed the e-commerce giant, accusing it of engaging in “hate-for-profit schemes” and “dangerous” monetization of antisemitism.
A top British rabbi resigned from the BBC after 30 years last week, citing the broadcaster’s incurable antisemitism.
The BBC was ranked third on a “Global Antisemitism Top Ten” list by a major Jewish group, beaten only by Iran and the Hamas terror group.
The Palestinian Islamic terror group Hamas presented an award on Wednesday to Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based network known for its anti-Israel news.
Halie Soifer’s organization, the Jewish Democratic Council of America, was criticized by the ADL in September for abusing the Holocaust.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) retweeted a post over the weekend in honor of “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” that read, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” before deleting the text which implied that “Palestine” rests between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, leaving no room for the current State of Israel.
Facebook on Monday announced that it was finally banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.
ROME — Pope Francis said Monday that selfishness leads to populism, which in turn gives rise to antisemitism.
Leaks suggest Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is not dealing with complaints of endemic antisemitism as it claims, as the Simon Wiesenthal Centre puts the party at the top of its antisemitism list.
TEL AVIV — Former UK prime minister Tony Blair on a visit to Israel said current Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite who isn’t aware he is one.
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has privately conceded evidence of anti-Semitism within his left wing party was “mislaid or ignored”, leaked recordings suggest.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday lashed the hard-left UK Labour Party’s efforts to tackle antisemitism in its ranks as a “national disgrace” in an unusually harsh appraisal of the internal politics of an ally.
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn released a video on Thursday in which he claimed he was “utterly determined to root out anti-Semitism from our party and our society.”
TEL AVIV – A Republican lawmaker is trying to stop fellow congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from leading a taxpayer-funded congressional trip to the West Bank.
Anti-Semitism allegations against UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn left him “so upset” he was powerless to act and defuse the issue, his colleague Emily Thornberry has reportedly said.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organisation that researches the Holocaust and contemporary anti-Semitism, has named Jeremy Corbyn for his handling of anti-Semitism in the UK Labour Party in their annual list of top-ten worst incidents.
TEL AVIV – Late president George H.W. Bush was hailed as “a great friend” of Israel and Jews around the world by major American Jewish groups from both sides of the political aisle. The powerful American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
A 95-year-old man has been charged with more than 36,000 counts of being an accessory to murder on allegations that he served as a guard at the Nazis’ Mauthausen concentration camp, Berlin prosecutors said Friday.
MUENSTER, Germany — A 94-year-old former enlisted SS man went on trial Tuesday in Germany, charged with being an accessory to murder for crimes committed during the years he served as a guard at the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp.
TEL AVIV – An Argentinian newspaper has become the first victim of Poland’s contentious Holocaust legislation, which took effect on Thursday despite pressure from Israel.
TEL AVIV – A declassified 1946 State Department report documents there was evidence of Poles having “persecuted the Jews as vigorously as did the Germans during the occupation” from 1939 to 1945, and further testifies to widespread antisemitism in the
Finland will investigate evidence suggesting that soldiers of its army were involved in killing Jews during the Holocaust, the office of Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel reiterated his description of Israeli policies in the territories as embodying the former apartheid regime in South Africa, prompting fierce criticism on Friday from Jewish human-rights organizations and a leading German Jewish activist.
An interfaith group from Bahrain which is paying an unprecedented public visit to Israel this week has received a warm welcome in the Jewish state, but is generating uproar across the Arab world.
AMSTERDAM — The Simon Wiesenthal Center said the Dutch government has an “obsession” with Israel following the publication of a foreign policy platform singling out the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
PARIS – Two Arab candidates and France’s former culture minister vied to become the new head of the UN’s embattled culture and education agency on Friday, a day after the US quit the body, accusing it of anti-Israel bias.
NEW YORK – Anti-Israel and anti-Semitic themes in textbooks used by schools run by the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA have only worsened in recent years, the Algemeiner reported.
Two suspected members of Adolf Hitler’s mobile “Einsatzgruppen” death squads identified by the Simon Wiesenthal Center have been tracked down by German reporters but deny participating in wartime massacres.
TEL AVIV – The normalization of diplomatic relations between Bahrain and Israel may be announced in the near future, Bahraini and Western officials were quoted as saying over the weekend.
TEL AVIV – In a first, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa slammed the Arab boycott of Israel and said he encourages his subjects to visit the Jewish state.
Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, who also serves as the finance minister, apologized on Thursday for what he described as an “inappropriate” quote about Adolf Hitler the previous day.
Actress and singer Barbra Streisand will appear alongside former President Barack Obama in Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres, a forthcoming documentary about the late president and prime minister of Israel.
TEL AVIV – Germany’s Ambassador to UNESCO drew fire from a Jewish human rights organization after observing a minute’s silence for “Palestinian victims” at the cultural agency’s annual meeting in Krakow, Poland last week.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a meeting of officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” the organization said.
TEL AVIV – Ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, a leading Jewish human rights organization revealed that one of the kingdom’s top universities offers a “hate-mongering” course on Jews.
TEL AVIV – On the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, a U.S. Jewish human rights NGO has praised the Trump administration for taking the Iranian threat against the Jews and the Jewish state seriously as opposed to the Obama administration, which based its policy on “wishful thinking.”
