New York’s hate crime wave, which started after President Donald Trump’s November election, has continued in the new year, with the city police department releasing figures that show a virtual doubling of anti-Semitic incident reports over this time last year. “Hate crimes are up in this city. They’re driven primarily by anti-Semitic hate crimes,” Chief…
(JTA) — Jews from Belgium’s Flemish Region said they “lost all confidence” in the country’s anti-racism authority over its lawyer’s defense of a Palestinian man whom the same lawyer helped convict for hate speech over calls to slaughter Jews. The unusual rebuke Thursday by the Forum of Jewish Organization of Flanders came after the Jewish…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced new measures to combat anti-Semitic hate crimes and other bias incidents, days after the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Missouri. “There is no place for hate or discrimination or bigotry in New York,” the Democrat said, promising that his administration would set up a toll-free hotline to report…
There are more than 900 hate groups operating across the country, according to a newly-released report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a slight uptick from last year. In 2015, the SPLC tracked 892 groups. In 2017 that number had risen to 917. The SPLC center dubbed 2016, a “year of hate,” during with far-right…
The number of radical groups in the United States rose for the second year in a row, fueled by the rise of President Trump, according to an annual report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Notably, white nationalism is on the rise. “2016 was an unprecedented year for hate,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow at…
A woman was attacked Monday night while riding the New York City subway in Manhattan, as a man shoved her, called her a “dirty Jew” and screamed “Heil the Hitler Youth.” The incident was said to have occurred when the woman was on the C Train on West 23rd Street, with the assailant reading aloud…
(JTA) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will be assisting local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 JCCs received bomb threats on the same day. On Wednesday, officials from the FBI and Homeland Security will conduct a conference call with U.S. Jewish communal leaders to discuss Monday’s incidents, what they stem…
Several swastikas have reportedly been found scrawled on the campus of Stanford University and the surrounding neighborhood of Palo Alto, California. “We do not know exactly when it occurred since the university has been on winter break closure since December 21st until today (Wednesday),” Bill Larson, a spokesman for the campus police, told the San…
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