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Fast Forward Upper East Side Synagogue Vandalized With Swastika
Three men spray-painted a large pink swastika on the door of an Upper East Side synagogue early Wednesday morning. The vandals were recorded on security cameras as they spray-painted Sutton Place Synagogue, a congregation at 225 East 51 Street, DNAinfo reported. The video shows one of the men also painting a swastika on the door…
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Fast Forward Rutgers Prof. Blames Jews For Armenian Genocide In Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts
A Rutgers University professor has published multiple anti-Semitic social media posts in recent months — including blaming the Armenian genocide on Jews and describing Judaism as “the most racist religion in the world.” Michael Chikindas, a microbiology professor at Rutgers’ department of food science, posted a flurry of anti-Jewish conspiracies on Facebook in the spring….
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Fast Forward ‘No To Jewish Lies’ Flyers Posted At Cornell University
Posters with swastikas and anti-Semitic messages were posted overnight at several locations at Cornell University, one of the most prestigious universities in the country. The posters proclaimed “Just say no to Jewish lies!” and showed a snake encircling the world. They also told people to “Join the White Gang!” and promoted a group called the…
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Fast Forward Staten Island ‘Kyke’ Vandal Admits Targeting Jewish Neighbors
(JTA) — The man who painted a swastika and an anti-Semitic slur on a Staten Island garage door told police that he knew the family who lived there was Jewish “because of the way they spoke.” James Rizzo, 37, was arrested on Thursday and arraigned on Friday, four days after he vandalized his neighbor’s house…
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Opinion Calling Steve Bannon an anti-Semite isn’t just false. It’s dangerous.
People don’t talk about it much, but it’s time we admitted it: Hitler gave anti-Semitism a bad name. It used to be that there were shades and gradations of Jew-hatred. At one extreme were the pogroms, mob attacks on Jewish neighborhoods, mostly in Eastern Europe, that could leave dozens or hundreds, and occasionally thousands, dead…
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Life I Never Experienced Anti-Semitism. Then I Traveled Around Middle America.
We were sitting on his porch, his dog yapping as people walked beneath the street lights. Over 1,000 miles from home, in Dubuque, Iowa, I was interviewing him about what it meant to be an American, about the things that everyone in our country shared. When asked about the three things all Americans need to…
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News George Soros Denounced By Hungary As ‘Satan’ Seeking To Destroy ‘Christian Europe’
George Soros is “Satan.” And his agenda is one that “from its heart hates Christian Europe’s traditions and civilization.” The word “Jew” was never uttered by two high-profile Hungarian officials in their recent remarks attacking the Hungarian-American hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist. But their message, redolent of classical anti-Semitism, rang out from the country’s parliament…
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Community Can Jews Be Anti-Semitic?
It might seem counterintuitive, but 8 in 10 polled respondents agree: yes, Jews can be anti-Semitic. Can a Jew be anti-Semitic? — Laura E. Adkins (@Laura_E_Adkins) October 10, 2017 What do you think? To add your voice to the conversation, email [email protected].
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News Is the crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism the new Red Scare?
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Opinion Trump’s cuts are a war on Jewish literature, thought and history itself
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News Can a visit to Auschwitz really change an antisemite?
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