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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Graffiti Left in Predominantly Jewish Brooklyn Building
The lobby of an apartment building in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. A resident of a six-story building in Borough Park reported the graffiti, which said “F— Jews,” to the New York Police Department’s 66th Precinct on Sunday, JPUpdates reported. The precinct is investigating with the department’s Hate Crime…
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Opinion How Long Can Distinction Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism Survive?
In adopting a statement distinguishing anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism, the Regents of the University of California have threaded a tiny needle with minute care. After intense public debate and lobbying from all sides, the Regents declared on March 24 that anti-Semitism had “no place” on its many campuses, but declined to issue a broad condemnation of…
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Fast Forward Kiryas Joel Delivery Man Charged For Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — A man who allegedly sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti inside a residential building in the upstate New York Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. New York State Police on Thursday arrested James Blazeski, 24. He was arraigned in the Village of Monroe Court and remanded to Orange County jail, where he…
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Fast Forward British-Muslim Principal Teaches That Jews Want To Rule The World
(JTA)— The founder of a private Muslim school in northern England published anti-Semitic leaflets featuring the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a British television channel reported. The Sky News report Thursday about Mufti Zubair Dudha, founder and head of the Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury, said the institution of 140 pupils is rare among…
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News CUNY Under the Anti-Semitism Microscope
The poster on the door of the Hillel at John Jay College of Criminal Justice reads “Safe Zone.” Above it hangs an Israeli flag, an American flag and another sign: “Israel wants peace.” Take two steps down the narrow hallway on the ground floor of this Manhattan campus, and there is another, very different message….
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Fast Forward Shut It Down: 35 New York Politicians Target Pro-Palestinian Campus Group
Two Jewish New York state assemblymen are calling for the “immediate suspension” of a pro-Palestinian student group from the City University of New York’s campuses — charging that members “stoke the flame of hatred and encourage violence against Jews.” In a Tuesday letter to CUNY, Democrats Dov Hikind and David Weprin, demanded that Students for…
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Fast Forward I Did It! Hate Hacker Claims Printing of Swastika Flyers at Colleges
A well-known computer hacker said he was behind anti-Semitic, racist flyers that appeared on printers at more than a dozen colleges last week. Andrew Auernheimer, who goes by the name “Weev,” exploited network printers at the colleges to produce the swastika-covered flyers, he claimed as early as Friday. Auernheimer, 30, was part of a group…
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Fast Forward Watch: Belgians Protect Israeli Flag at Memorial for Brussels Terror Victims
(JTA) — In the wake of last week’s terror attack in Brussels, Belgians transformed a central square in the capital into an impromptu memorial for the victims. Thirty-five people died last Tuesday in a series of suicide bombings at the city’s main airport and a subway station. Starting the next day, people gathered in Place…
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