Survey Finds 1 in 4 Europeans Hold Anti-Semitic Beliefs
About one in four Europeans hold anti-Semitic beliefs, with such attitudes on the rise in eastern countries and mostly steady in the west, according to a survey released Thursday.
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Britain’s Labour Party Roiled by Internal Strife
A resignation and a defection are forcing Jeremy Corbyn to confront two scourges hounding his Labour Party as it tries to unseat UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson: anti-Semitism and Brexit.
Read moreIsrael’s Expulsion of Human Rights Official Upheld
Israel’s supreme court on Tuesday upheld the government’s expulsion of a senior Human Rights Watch official over his alleged support of a boycott of the country.
Read moreColorado Man Accused of Plotting to Blow Up Synagogue
“Let’s get that place off that map,” federal prosecutors say suspected domestic terrorist Richard Holzer told undercover FBI agents he was planning to do to a local synagogue.
Read moreDefamation
Jacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, claims The Daily Mail, The Morning Call and G/O Media dba Jezebel defamed her by claiming she “pled guilty to and/or was convicted of an anti-Semitic physical assault on a Jewish lawyer in New York City,” in New York County Supreme Court.
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Anti-Semitic Attacks on the Rise in United States
At least 12 white supremacists have been arrested on allegations of plotting, threatening or carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in the United States since the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue nearly one year ago, a Jewish civil rights group reported Sunday.
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Three people and an LLC claim in federal court that Shorewood Hills Homeowners Association, in Chikaming, Mich., refuses to let Jews live there — only “Christian neighbors,” according to its articles of incorporation.
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Trump’s Abandonment of Kurds Gives Israel Second Thoughts
President Donald Trump’s abandonment of the United States’ Kurdish allies to a Turkish military onslaught is giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu second thoughts about the reliability of his friend in the White House.
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Anti-Semitic Attack Puts German Right Wing on Notice
German Jewish leaders and politicians on Friday accused the far-right AfD party of whipping up hatred that made the deadly anti-Semitic attack in Halle possible, a charge rejected by the party.
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Two Dead in Germany in Anti-Semitic Yom Kippur Attack
At least two people were shot dead in the German city of Halle on Wednesday in an anti-Semitic attack as Jews marked the holy day of Yom Kippur, with the gunman filming the assault and posting a video online.
Read moreTexas Stays Execution Based on Judge’s Use of Anti-Semitic Slurs
Texas’ highest criminal court stayed the execution of a Jewish man Friday, remanding his case for vetting of his claims the trial judge called him anti-Semitic slurs.
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Synagogue Shooting Suspect Will Stand Trial on Murder Charge
The 20-year-old gunman accused of shooting and killing a congregant at a synagogue in San Diego County during the sacred Jewish Holiday of Passover this past April will stand trial on a raft of charges including murder, a judge ruled Friday.
Read moreRed Flag Laws Offer Tool for Preventing Some Gun Violence
After a white supremacist discussed plans on Facebook for a mass shooting at a synagogue, police in Washington used a new law to quickly seize his 12 firearms, long before he was convicted of any crime.
Read moreJudges Balk at Anti-Semitic Post Promoted by Justice Department
A union for U.S. immigration judges is blasting an office of the Justice Department for sending its members a news briefing that linked to a blog post containing anti-Semitic language.
Read moreSynagogue Shooting
A federal judge in San Diego entered a not guilty plea Tuesday on behalf of John T. Earnest, 19, who is accused of shooting and killing a woman and wounding several others at a synagogue in April and now faces federal hate crime, arson and other charges.
Read moreIsraeli President Shocked by German Skullcap Warning
Israel’s president said Sunday he is shocked by a German official’s comment that he wouldn’t advise Jews to wear skullcaps in parts of the country, which is drawing mixed reactions at home.
Read moreSynagogue Shooting Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Hate Crimes
The man suspected of killing a woman in a shooting at a Southern California synagogue pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday.
Read moreCommission Condemns Memphis Judge’s Racist Posts
A county commission in Tennessee Monday unanimously resolved to support calls to censure a Memphis judge whose public Facebook posts disparaged immigrants, Muslims and linked to at least one article denying the Holocaust.
Read moreFeds File Hate Crime Charges in San Diego Synagogue Shooting
The Justice Department filed 109 federal hate crime charges Thursday against a 19-year-old man accused of killing a 60-year-old woman and wounding a rabbi, a girl and others during a shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San Diego.
Read moreSan Diegans Decry Guns, Hate After Poway Synagogue Shooting
More than 100 people gathered Friday afternoon at a park in North San Diego to rally against recent hate crimes, including the deadly shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue last Saturday and an arson at an Escondido mosque in March, both crimes that were allegedly perpetrated by a 19-year-old nursing student.
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