A Queens man who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for stabbing a Muslim is a self-styled Jewish extremist who said he left the Jewish Defense League at age 13 because “it was not militant enough.” Bernhard Laufer, 59, stabbed a man at a mosque in Flushing in 2012 and was convicted of second-degree…
CNN political reporter Jake Tapper is commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre by tweeting out the names and photos of the 26 victims who perished in the shooting at the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school. The victims included 20 first graders and six educators, including Sandy Hook’s principal Dawn Hochsprung. The youngest victim…
George Soros, the Holocaust survivor and wealthy philanthropist, has vowed to donate millions of dollars to fight a spike in reported hate crimes nationwide in the weeks following the fraught presidential election. Soros’s organization, the Open Society Foundation, has promised to donate $10 million towards tracking and fighting hate crimes nationwide, Public Radio International reported….
WASHINGTON — Maryland’s lieutenant governor is raising hackles for saying he was glad haters are coming out into the open, referring to a question he fielded about a rise in anti-Jewish attacks. Boyd Rutherford, a Republican, speaking last week at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, had been asked by a local rabbi…
After a spike in bias incidents since the election of Donald Trump, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sunday that he would be ordering the state police to create a special unit to investigate hate crimes, according to a report in DNAInfo. “Today I’m directing [state agencies] to put together a special team of…
In the wake of the election, hate crimes against Muslims have skyrocketed. Now more than ever, it’s our duty as Jews to stand in solidarity with and in defense of Muslim Americans. This is true because Islamophobic hatred is inherently an unacceptable injustice. It’s also true because we know what it is to feel targeted,…
Twitter just introduced a number of new features to combat online abuse. One tool lets you mute certain words, phrases, usernames, emojis or hashtags. For years, Twitter has been criticized for not doing enough to fight the rampant hate speech on their platform. Especially, during this presidential election, we have seen thousands of attacks by…
After Donald Trump’s election, and a spike in hate crimes against Jews, Muslims, blacks and other minorities, it’s a busy time for those in the world of anti-bias activism. Such is the case, too, at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a not-for-profit that tracks far-right hate groups. Richard Cohen, the SPLC’s leader, told a group…
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