Global Antisemitism This Week

INTERNATIONAL

UN

• At UN, European states reject Israeli sovereignty over Golan
• U.S. isolated at U.N. Security Council over Golan decision

NORTH AMERICA

US

• A JTA reporter encounters anti-Semitism on the streets of New York
• NJ imam claims IDF chief rabbi condoned rape of Palestinian women
• An Outbreak Spreads Fear Of Measles, of Ultra-Orthodox Jews, of Anti-Semitism
• The isolation of being pro-Israel on the modern campus
• Pompeo at AIPAC says 'Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism'
• St. Louis Jewish cemetery vandal gets 3 years' probation
• Construction site for Arizona Jewish center trashed, daubed with swastikas

EUROPE

• All EU countries say no to recognition of Israeli Golan Heights

GERMANY

• German band Rammstein blasted for concentration camp video

UK

• Study by British academic finds Labour today is 'institutionally anti-Semitic'
• One year after UK Jews said 'Enough is Enough,' has anything changed
• MP who quit UK Labour over anti-Semitism warns AIPAC 'things can change quickly'

 

Global Antisemitism This Week

UN

• At UNESCO, Austria and Poland slam Belgian carnival with anti-Semitic puppets

NORTH AMERICA

 

US

• Bernie Sanders aide apologizes for suggesting Jews have dual loyalty
• New York store fires employee who made anti-Semitic comment to Jewish co-worker
• Jewish gravestones vandalized with swastikas in Massachusetts
• Joe Lieberman says Democratic Party is not anti-Jewish but some members are

EUROPE

• Due to Brexit, Jews seek passports from countries that oppressed their ancestors

AUSTRIA

• Austria's Muslims twice as likely as non-Muslims to hold anti-Semitic views

ESTONIA

• Man shouts ‘Heil Hitler’ at Estonian chief rabbi

GERMANY

• German team to wear anti-racism shirts after Israeli player's anti-Semitic abuse

GREECE

• Greek basketball commentator slammed for saying Blatt lies because he's Jewish

NETHERLANDS

• Dutch senator-elect says her Twitter Holocaust jokes were just tasteless sarcasm
• Jewish journalist’s Purim prank about fleeing anti-Semitism shocks Holland

RUSSIA

• Putin jokes about Jews and money during visit to Crimea

UK

• British Holocaust denier David Irving to lead Nazi death camp tour

 

Global Antisemitism This Week

NORTH AMERICA

• Lipstadt: Jews need factual ‘ammunition’ to combat anti-Semitism

US

• Bader Ginsburg poster vandalized in Brooklyn with ‘Die, Jew b,’ swastika
• Rep. Omar's comments are worse than you think
• Did pro-Israel lobby funding influence Democrats' responses to Ilhan Omar
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says AIPAC is coming after her. It’s not
• Trump claims Jews are leaving the Democrats, but that might be fake news
• At NJ fair, rise in anti-Semitism in the mix when deciding to move to Israel
• Neo-Nazi website head 'fears returning to US for anti-Semitic troll storm case'
• Nazi posters hung at school whose students played swastika beer game

EUROPE

FRANCE

• UK Labour lawmaker apologizes for posting anti-Semitic caricature

ITALY

• Italian boy, 15, celebrates birthday with Hitler cake featuring Holocaust jokes

NETHERLANDS

• Record number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Netherlands

POLAND

• Polish right-wing newspaper’s front page teaches ‘how to recognize a Jew’
• Polish parliament drops nationalist weekly over anti-Semitic headline

UK

• Fewer than half of UK adults understand meaning of anti-Semitism
• BBC news host suggests anti-Semitism isn’t as bad as other forms of racism
• British university union rejects motion to adopt anti-Semitism definition

SOUTH AMERICA

ARGENTINA

• Guns seized from father, son who threatened Jewish institution in Argentina

Global Antisemitism This Week

NORTH AMERICA

US

• Jewish Democrat calls Omar's dual loyalty remark a 'vile anti-Semitic slur'
• Democrats back off anti-Semitism resolution amid dissent over Omar remarks
• Student expelled from NJ school after anti-Semitic, racist graffiti found
• Meghan McCain raps anti-Semitism, gets 'anti-Semitic' treatment by Jewish artist
• Philadelphia imam calls Jews 'vilest people'
• Ilhan Omar's Dual-Loyalty Charge Was Anti-Semitic
• 2 swastikas drawn in blood found at Los Angeles park
• Ilhan Omar and the Ugly History of Dual Loyalty
• California high school students make swastika out of beer cups

EUROPE

• How antisemitism became unleashed in the west 
• Holocaust revisionism on the rise in parts of Europe

BELGIUM

• Belgian Carnival Float Shows the Virus of Anti-Semitism
• Confronted with anti-Semitism complaints, Belgium float-makers have no regrets

GERMANY

• German police probe anti-Semitic tweet against Israeli soccer player

UK

• Why the Labour party cannot deal with its antisemitism
• Equalities watchdog Labour 'may have breached discrimination laws'

MID-EAST

PALESTINIANS

• Fatah posts story claiming Jews were willing to bury Russians alive in WWII

Global Antisemitism This Week

NORTH AMERICA

US

• 12-year-old arrested for drawing dozens of swastikas on Queens school playground
• Crown Heights communities seek cohesion after spate of anti-Semitic attacks
• LA baby-killing mural ‘shameful act of anti-Semitism,’ Jewish mayor says

EUROPE

• Drones launched to help preserve Europe's Jewish cemeteries
• Polish, Hungarian Jews say communal leaders use anti-Semitism to avoid scrutiny

FRANCE

• French city’s rabbi says half of his congregants have left over anti-Semitism
• French translation site lashed for 'shocking' anti-Semitic, racist explanations
• Israeli Holocaust survivors fear for French Jews
• Jewish school in France gets Hitler hate mail
• Vandals attack memorial for Strasbourg synagogue destroyed by Nazis in WWII

NETHERLANDS

• Jewish channel preparing discrimination lawsuit against Dutch TV fund

UK

• Elderly Jewish Londoner punched in face in suspected hate crime
• UK Labour MP says party is 'too apologetic' about anti-Semitism
• UK's Tottenham soccer club defends fans' use of 'Yid Army'

AUSTRALIA

• Australian Jewish leader gets 'chilling barrage' of online anti-Semitic abuse

SOUTH AMERICA

ARGENTINA

• 9 gravestones vandalized in Jewish cemetery in Argentina
• Argentina chief rabbi severely beaten in 'anti-Semitic' home invasion