Global Antisemitism This Week

INTERNATIONAL

• In synagogue, listening for gunfire instead of God

NORTH AMERICA

 

US

• Jewish man slapped and called ‘dirty Jew’ in Brooklyn
• Michigan synagogue’s doors plastered with anti-Semitic posters
• Israeli flag defaced with swastika found at Cape Cod synagogue
• U of Illinois head under fire for calling 'Israeli terror' address anti-Semitic
• How IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust
• Anti-Semitic fliers left on cars in New Jersey town
• Sacha Baron Cohen makes Nazi analogy to slam Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook policy

CANADA

• Canadian imam 'Filthy' candidates in elections support Zionism, homosexuality

EUROPE

BELGIUM

• Knife-wielding Muslim in Brussels asks passersby if they are Jewish

GERMANY

• German antisemitism commissioner likes FB post comparing Zionists to Nazis
• For the German far-right, the 'real problem' is the Jews
  German-Palestinian who knocked kippa off Jewish man's head jailed

UKRAINE

• Israel envoy demands probe after effigy of Jewish tycoon left at Ukraine synagogue
• Hitler graffiti found on wall near Jewish pilgrimage site in Ukraine

UK

• Hate crimes against Jews in England and Wales doubled in past year
• Shuls urged to ‘keep doors closed and locked’ amid security threats
• Teacher sacked after allegedly 'joking' about sending children to 'gas chambers'
• After 55 years, UK Jewish MP quits Labour, condemns Corbyn, over anti-Semitism

AFRICA

TUNISIA

• Tunisia's new president regards any ties with Israel as 'high treason'