A Jewish man in his 60s was attacked with a brick in a city park in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Yeshiva World News reported. The man was reportedly doing an exercise walk in Rochester Park in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights when he was attacked by a man holding a giant brick. He was…
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…
MONTREAL (JTA)—For the third straight year, Canadian Jews in 2018 remained the most targeted minority group for police-reported hate-crimes throughout the country. The data was released on Monday by Statistics Canada. But the good news is that incidents dropped by four percent from 360 in 2017 to 345 in 2018, while other minorities saw more…
An Ohio man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday in connection with an assault that was categorized as a hate crime, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Izmir Koch, 34, stepped outside a Cincinnati restaurant in 2017 and started yelling in Russian if anyone around was Jewish. A man with whom he had mutual…
A Republican Congressional candidate invoked Oskar Schindler with reference to his own anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative work, according to a report in the Huffington Post. As a North Carolina State Senator, Dan Bishop attempted to establish a loophole in anti-discrimination legislation by declaring that North Carolina residents could be exempt from state laws if they felt that…
For months now, Twitter has been telling users about plans to make the social media platform a “healthier” service, decreasing the amount of hate and abuse. But the vague policies bruited about by its founder Jack Dorsey haven’t been successful, Huffpost reported, as there is still a palpable white nationalist issue. In an “extremely conservative”…
(JTA) – The number of hate crimes reported to the New York Police Department this year is nearly double the number reported in 2018 during the same period – and most incidents are anti-Semitic. The NYPD has received 176 hate crime complaints from Jan. 1 to May 19, constituting an 83 percent rise over the…
“If you find yourself using the tragedy in New Zealand to take backhanded swipes at conservatives in America,” tweeted Congressman, and rising GOP star, Dan Crenshaw on Friday, “then you really have no shame and you are part of the problem.” If you find yourself using the tragedy in New Zealand to take backhanded swipes…
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