The Anti-Defamation League launched an interactive map that details extremist and anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, the organization announced Thursday. The ADL H.E.A.T. Map was developed by ADL experts in its Center on Extremism. The map allows users to see the tactics extremists use, read details on specific incidents, compare activity by type or…
A long-range rocket fired from Gaza struck an uninhabited area outside the largest city in southern Israel on Thursday, Israeli Army Radio reported, hours after a Palestinian official said an end to a surge in cross-border fighting could be near. Army Radio said the rocket was a long-range Grad capable of reaching Israel’s heartland and…
(JTA) — Following Swedish pro-Palestinian activists’ failed attempt to reach Gaza by sea, a Christian supporter of Israel from Sweden announced he would take dozens of pro-Zionists to Israel on his yacht. Stefan Abrahamsson on Thursday announced on Facebook that his yacht, Elida, will set sail from Sweden on Aug. 25 to Israel to show…
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic crimes in Germany during the first half of 2018 increased 10 percent over the same period last year. There were 401 anti-Semitic crimes in Germany from January through June, according to government data reported Wednesday by Politico. The vast majority, 87 percent, came from the far-right. One-fifth were committed…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Association of University Professors said it is as opposed to the movement to boycott Israel as it is to requirements that academics renounce the movement to boycott Israel. The statement issued Wednesday called “on public universities to stop requiring speakers and others to pledge that they do not now, nor…
At least 9 Israelis were wounded when Gaza militants fired scores of rockets into Israel and the Israeli military responded with air strikes on Wednesday despite talk from both sides of progress towards a possible truce to avert a fourth war in a decade. A senior member of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that controls…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, has an unlikely new work colleague: President Trump. The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump said the pair have a “great relationship.” “It’s fantastic,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal when a spokesman was asked about the two’s rapport. “We have a great…
Illinois congressional nominee Bill Fawell has lost support from the Republican Party after promoting a variety of conspiracy theories, including that Israel was one of the “masterminds” of 9/11, Media Matters reports. Fawell, who ran unopposed in the Republican primary in Illinois’ 17th district, has peddled conspiracy theories on his “Elect Fawell” Facebook page. Posts…
A former Republican congressional staffer is launching an independent write-in campaign in the Chicago-area district where a neo-Nazi will be on the ballot in November, Politico reported. Lawyer and former congressional aide Justin Hanson said he felt compelled to join the race for the 3rd Congressional District after learning Holocaust denier Arthur Jones was the…
Before he moves to northern Idaho in mid-August with plans of establishing a “regional capital,” neo-Nazi former Senate candidate Patrick Little has embarked on a cross-country tour he calls “Name The Jew,” where he spews anti-Semitic propaganda at passers-by, according to the Anti-Defamation League. An avowed anti-Semite, Little claims Jews conspired to stop him from…
Kim Schrier led a crowded Democratic field after the Aug. 7 primary vote in a Seattle-area swing district where liberal voter enthusiasm appeared to be high, in another sign of a so-called “blue wave” in the November midterm elections. Schrier, who is Jewish, was running in second in the “jungle primary” to Republican Dino Rossi,…
