Stanford University public safety officials have issued an arrest warrant for a man they believe vandalized two campus buildings with anti-Semitic graffiti. Stanford’s Department of Public Safety announced Monday that it was charging an individual with spray-painting swastikas on a fraternity and an Italian language-themed dorm in April, Palo Alto Online reported. Campus police said…
An Israeli newspaper said President Barack Obama has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks in Washington next month after a deadline for reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran. But the White House denied the report. A spokesman for Netanyahu’s office had no immediate official comment on the report. Officials speaking on condition of…
Germans who grew up during the 1930s are far more likely than their younger countrymen to have negative attitudes about Jews, according to a new study of anti-Semitism in Germany. The study, released Monday by American and Swiss researchers, found that anti-Semitic views were particularly strong among Germans raised in regions of the country that…
The Jewish National Fund of Canada has canceled a scheduled speech by U.S. presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. Huckabee, who is vying for the Republican bid in 2016, had his Oct. 15 speaking engagement in Ottawa canceled on June 10 following objections from the Canadian LGBTQ community, the Canadian Jewish News reported. An online petition at…
The famed Louvre Museum is one of two major cultural sites in Paris being accused of discrimination after rejecting requests to visit by Israeli art history students. The governor of the Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris and its suburbs, has asked the Paris prosecutor’s office to investigate the rejections, the French daily Liberation reported Monday….
The Madrid alderman for culture under fire for posting a joke about the Holocaust on Twitter four years ago has resigned. Guillermo Zapata resigned Monday after opposition parties and the umbrella group for Jewish communities in Spain demanded he step down, the Spanish daily El Pais reported. Madrid Mayor Manuela Carmena, who took office on…
The Dutch government postponed indefinitely the release of a survey suggesting that anti-Semitism is more prevalent among Muslim youths than Christian ones. The Verwey Jonker Institute submitted the synopsis for its government-commissioned report on anti-Semitism among youths last month for publication to the Dutch Social Affairs ministry, which has kept is under wraps past the…
An Israeli actor has walked back his description of right-wing voters as “cud-chewing cattle” during a meeting of leaders of the arts community to protest what it views as censorship by Culture Minister Miri Regev. “Imagine your world silent, Ms. Regev, without books, music, poems,” Oded Kotler said Sunday evening. “A world where there is…
Controversial British politician George Galloway announced a bid to become the next mayor of London. Galloway made the announcement Sunday night, saying he would run in the election in May of next year to “build a city that benefits everyone, not just those dripping in gold.” He also said, the London-based The Guardian reported following…
(JTA) – Stepping into the lobby of the West Hollywood medical marijuana dispensary where Dina Browner serves up buds to movie stars, it’s hard to miss the name Snoop Lion splashed across a hydroponic grow box painted red, green and gold. The Rastafarian rapper formerly known as Snoop Dogg didn’t have anyone to operate the…
An Israeli girl who was seriously injured in a West Bank firebomb attack celebrated her bat mitzvah. Ayala Shapira, 12, celebrated with her family and classmates on Thursday in the West Bank settlement of Maale Shomron, where her family lives in its El Matan outpost. Ayala remains hospitalized as she undergoes additional surgeries and rehabilitation…
