What do the Korean Demilitarized Zone, the House of Slaves memorial in Senegal, a small track and field stadium in Chile and the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp all have in common? Amazon has sold Christmas tree ornaments featuring images of each of those places, although it has removed the Auschwitz ones, saying in a statement that they…
A Russian figure skater who recently competed wearing an outfit that is half Nazi-concentration camp guard and half-Jewish prisoner has been nominated for the International Skating Union’s award for best costume. Anton Shulepov was listed Sunday among the 52 individuals or teams nominated for the ISU’s first annual best costume award. Shulepov’s entry on the…
(JTA) — A university in Chicago has removed a faculty member from a course after a marketing assignment included a question on whether the Holocaust happened. National Louis University is investigating the incident, NBC Chicago reported. The assignment was designed to spot bad survey questions and to fix them, according to Inside Higher Education. The…
MONTREAL (JTA)—A Jewish student leader at McGill University in Montreal is fighting efforts to oust her from the student union for accepting a trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Jocelyn Wright, a member of the Student Society of McGill University’s legislative council and board of directors, said she is “outraged and disgusted” by an…
A Jewish mother in Germany is taking her son out of a public high school because of frequent anti-Semitic comments in the classroom. Though her son was not personally targeted by the comments, the atmosphere at the school in the city of Offenbach, near Frankfurt, led Alina R. to make the move. She told the…
A gang of five men attacked two identifiably Jewish teens on the street in Brooklyn. The boys were not injured in the Nov. 11 attack in the Crown Heights neighborhood. Police reported the incident on Wednesday, according to the New York Post. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime. Crown Heights and other…
A Lebanese-Swiss businessman purchased ten items belonging to Adolf Hitler that were sold at an auction last week so that they didn’t “fall into the wrong hands.” Abdallah Chatila, a Geneva businessman who made his fortune in diamonds and real estate, purchased items including Hitler’s top hat, cigar box and typewriter, and a silver-plated copy…
A Jewish candidate for Britain’s Labour Party said she is being bombarded with death threats and that nearly half of them are anti-Semitic. Ruth Smeeth told the local news website StokeonTrentLive that she is afraid to leave her home due to the constant threats. When she does leave, she carries a panic button in case…
The Israeli government expelled the Israel and Palestine director of Human Rights Watch on Monday, officials from the organization said, the first such deportation under a 2017 law targeting supporters of a boycott movement. The director, Omar Shakir, departed after the Israeli Supreme Court ruled in favor of a deportation order from last year that…
A Jewish family riding on the London Underground was accosted by a man yelling anti-Semitic language – but was defended by a Muslim woman also riding on the train, video posted to social media Friday showed. The footage, posted by British author and filmmaker Chris Atkins, showed a Jewish man wearing a kippah comforting two…
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi attracted attention during the impeachment hearing on Thursday when he asked former National Security Council official Fiona Hill to confirm that conspiracy theories about Jewish billionaire George Soros, as well as those targeting Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, were anti-Semitic. Krishnamoorthi is in his second term representing Illinois’s 8th congressional district in the…
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