A 77-year-old rabbi protesting in London on Monday was arrested and dragged away from the protest by police. Rabbi Jeffrey Newman was among dozens of Jewish protesters demonstrating in the streets outside the house of the Lord Mayor of London, the Jewish News reported. The group, affiliated with the Extinction Rebellion movement, was protesting what…
(JTA) — An identifiably Jewish couple was harassed about Israel’s treatment of Gaza during a train ride in Manchester, England. The anti-Semitic rant against the couple, dressed in Hasidic garb, was filmed by another passenger in the Metrolink on Thursday night, the Manchester Evening News reported. The man called across the train car to the…
A British man pleaded guilty to harassing a Jewish activist at a pro-Israel demonstration, but his only punishment was to was a fine of £21, or about $25, Jewish News reported. Last month, Bahar Arar cursed at Simon Cobbs, one of the Jewish demonstrators, in the southern city of Brighton. He could be heard calling…
YouTube paid a Neo-Nazi thousands of dollars for content promoting anti-Semitism and racism while taking a cut of the cash, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Mark Collett is a British far-right political activist and neo-Nazi who formerly worked for the British National Party. He is notorious for lauding Adolf Hitler, calling refugees “cockroaches” and for his…
(JTA) — A Jewish family from the United Kingdom complained to police about a young man who was filmed hurling an object in their direction and calling them “dirty Jews” on a London street after shoving their baby stroller. The incident Sunday, which police are treating as a hate crime, escalated after the man pushed…
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn said his Labour Party must recognize that anti-Jewish bigotry has become part of the movement and drive out anti-Semitism. “The evidence is clear enough. The worst cases of anti-Semitism in our party have included Holocaust denial, crude Jewish-banker stereotypes, conspiracy theories blaming Israel for 9/11 or every war on the Rothschild…
(JTA) — A Jewish British tennis champ who won the women’s doubles at Wimbledon 63 years ago says an exclusive sport club refused to accept her because she is Jewish. Angela Buxton, who won at Wimbledon in 1956 with her American partner Althea Gibson, who was African-American, applied shortly after her win to join the…
An Orthodox Jewish man in London was forced to flee from a knife-wielding attacker who threatened to “behead” him on Monday, The Evening Standard reported. The Jewish man was walking to work in the Whitechapel district of east London when he was accosted by a stranger who allegedly called him a “f***** Jew” before pulling…
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