(JTA) — The daughter of a rabbi in Las Vegas found anti-Semitic and threatening notes left on her middle school desk. One note discovered earlier this week contained a large swastika and the words “You don’t belong here.” The second was a drawing of Adolf Hitler with his hand in the air, a Nazi salute…
(JTA) — The BBC is being accused of covering up Palestinian anti-Semitism after it mistranslated in subtitles the word for “Jew” to “Israeli” several times in one documentary. The film “One Day in Gaza,” about last year’s Gaza border protests against the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, aired Monday night on the BBC…
(JTA) — New York University has hired a law firm to investigate whether Michael Steinhardt, a major donor, had inappropriate interactions with its students, faculty and staff. Joan McPhee, who helped lead an investigation of Larry Nassar, the team doctor for the U.S. gymnastics team who last year was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in…
The massive white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 would not have been possible without President Trump, event leader Richard Spencer told The Atlantic. The magazine published what it called “An Oral History Of Trump’s Bigotry,” documenting decades of statements and actions evincing bias. A chapter about the Charlottesville rally featured Spencer, the creator…
The Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Hofstra University in New York has been suspended after a video was released on social media appearing to show members forcing a puppy to drink from a beer keg, Newsday reported Monday. The video shows a man holding the dog upside-down above an open keg as beer squirts into…
A Canadian man was so horrified to see a Nazi flag hanging from a nearby home that he tore it down and burned it, local news outlet CTV Regina reported. Caleb Pelletier of Saskatchewan posted a video on Facebook of himself burning the flag, which was red with a black swastika. He told CTV Regina…
White House senior advisor Stephen Miller advocated for a secret plan to conduct a “blitz” arrest of thousands of migrant families, The Washington Post reported Monday. The plan, which would have required coordinated arrests in people’s homes in 10 of the largest cities in the country, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, was nixed…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — There has been a marked increase in spending on West Bank settlements since President Donald Trump took office. New Israeli figures obtained in a freedom of information request by The Associated Press show a 39 percent increase in 2017 spending on roads, schools and public buildings across the West Bank, according to…
A 14-year-old girl is the newest face of hate speech and conspiracy theories on YouTube. A Bay Area high school freshman who goes by “Soph” on the platform has amassed more than 800,000 followers with videos making racist, Islamophobic and homophobic comments, BuzzFeed News reported. She also spreads conspiracy theories about George Soros, the Jewish…
Outgoing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sounded off about anti-Semitism and his leadership style on a May 13 episode of “Chicago Tonight.” When asked by interviewer Paris Schutz if he believed anti-Semitism played a role for those who opposed his mayorship, Emanuel took a broad historical view. “A trope of anti-Semitism – the threat of anti-Semitism…
BERLIN (Reuters) – The heiress of a German biscuits empire has stirred outrage after she appeared to play down the hardship suffered by dozens of people forced to work at the family business under Nazi rule. Verena Bahlsen, whose father owns the Bahlsen company that makes some of Germany’s most famous biscuits, told the mass-selling…
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