Antisemitism Blamed for Arson Attack on Melbourne Synagogue
Arsonists extensively damaged a Melbourne synagogue on Friday in what Australia’s prime minister condemned as an antisemitic attack on Australian values.
Arsonists extensively damaged a Melbourne synagogue on Friday in what Australia’s prime minister condemned as an antisemitic attack on Australian values.
Several BBC journalists resigned from the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) after being asked to wear colors of the Palestinian flag or a keffiyeh, a scarf synonymous with pro-Palestinian and Hamas support, in a move deemed “hypocritical and antisemitic.”
Riots broke out in Amsterdam on Monday evening as hordes of young men dressed in black set fires, threw rocks, and shot off makeshift missile fireworks, just days after a “Jew hunt” in the city following an Israeli soccer match.
The Islamist “Jew hunt” following a soccer match in Amsterdam last week was premeditated and organised on messaging apps before the game, a report has found.
Dutch authorities confirmed Saturday that none of the 62 people arrested Thursday was involved in the actual attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam during what has been described as an Islamist “Jew hunt”.
Antisemitic incidents in the Czech Republic sharply increased last year, the country’s Jewish community said Monday.
A French lawmaker declared that Israeli athletes are “not welcome” at the Paris Olympics and called for protests against Israeli participation.
The parents of the young girl who was gang raped in France by a group of youths said that the attack “mimicked” the Hamas terror attacks in Israel.
Three young teenagers have been arrested in France after the anti-semitic-inspired gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl after dragging her into an abandoned building in Courbevoie.
Leftist political commentator Briahna Joy Gray, the former national press secretary to Bernie Sanders, was fired from the Hill days after repeatedly demeaning an Israeli hostage’s sister and dismissing her pleas, while pushing common pro-Hamas talking points, including Israel’s culpability for the stall in hostage talks, denial of October 7 atrocities, and even the suggestion that support for Israel led to the 9/11 terror attacks in a “disturbing” interview.
Following antisemitic comments made by an Islamic prayer leader who called Jews “brothers of apes and pigs,” while calling for their annihilation at a Miami mosque associated with a private Muslim school, Florida education officials are demanding the institution disclose its staff list or face losing taxpayer-funded state vouchers.
Iranian “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is lauding the pro-Palestinian protests across U.S. college campuses, particularly praising the chants “against Israel and America,” while depicting the radical demonstrations sweeping the country as a form of victory for the Islamic regime over the “ruined” Western democracies.
Current antisemitic protests on U.S. campuses are “horrifying” and “the worst that we’ve seen since the 30s,” according to Israel’s Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli, who described the “orchestrated, organized, [and] funded” demonstrations as the “nightmare” of America and Western civilization, arguing that supporters of Hamas are enemies of both.
Cotton accused Biden of “placating the growing antisemitic faction” in his party instead of “helping an ally like Israel win this war.”
President Joe Biden has been “clearly influenced” by ex-President Barack Obama’s “hatred of Israel,” according to Zionist Organization of America (ZOA).
French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
An Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed in Zurich by a knifeman who reportedly shouted out “death to all Jews” and “Allahu Akbar” during the attack.
Palestinian peace advocate Bassem Eid asserts that Israelis have historically offered peace while Palestinians have rejected these offers.
A new restaurant in Jordan named “October 7” apparently after Hamas’ brutal massacre of Israelis last year is igniting considerable outrage, with many comparing the “disgusting” move to opening a diner called “September 11,” while others insisted peace will only be achievable when “the Arabs stop worshipping the murder of Jews.”
In a post widely deemed “antisemitic” in which he rages against the “undeniable” racism perpetrated against “both Palestinians and Black people,” prominent progressive activist and independent presidential candidate Cornel West blamed “racism” for the recent resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay.
BERLIN (AP) – A 16-year-old teenager has been arrested for allegedly planning to attack a synagogue in Vienna, Austria’s top security official said Monday. The teenager, who was arrested Thursday, had announced in online chats that he intended to procure
Two “African type” teens were arrested after a pregnant woman was assaulted and robbed in Paris for being “Jewish and therefore rich”.
Cornel West faces backlash after denouncing “cowards in Washington, DC,” for their unwillingness to agree to Hamas’s demand for a ceasefire.
The French far-left has been criticised for boycotting a bipartisan protest against antisemitism as over 100,000 demonstrated in Paris.
An estimated 300,000 people flooded London to protest Israel despite backlash over it being held on the day Britain honours its war heroes.
The leading far-left party in France has refused to join a bi-partisan march against antisemitism in Paris on Sunday.
There has been an unprecedented surge in antisemitic incidents on British universities, according to leading Jewish groups.
Barack Obama is a “monstrous and dangerous Jew-hater and Israel-hater who must be condemned, deligitimized, and removed from polite society.” That was the verdict delivered Tuesday by Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein, who accused the former president of “falsely and outrageously legitimizing the unspeakable Hamas horrors” with his “grotesque, antisemitic, and dangerous” remarks against Israel all while being “the primary person making decisions for the Biden administration.”
A recent surge in support from young Americans for the Hamas terrorist group can be attributed predominantly to the social app TikTok, according to Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, who described it as “the largest scale malign influence operation ever conducted,” as he accused the Chinese “digital fentanyl” of “brainwashing our youth against the country and our allies.”
A Jewish woman was stabbed in her home in Lyon, France and had a Swastika engraved on her front door in a potential antisemitic attack.
The Jewish area of Vienna’s Central Cemetery was set on fire and defaced with swastikas and Hitler graffiti.
London’s Metropolitan Police have recorded a staggering 1,350 per cent increase in antisemitic crimes since the start of the month.
In the wake of events unfolding in the Gaza Strip, Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis firmly stated his opposition to allowing “antisemitic” Palestinians from Gaza to seek refuge in the United States as he blasted pro-Hamas demonstrations and declared, “If you hate America, you shouldn’t come to this country.”
A Berlin building home to Jewish residents was marked with the Star of David amid increasing tension following Hamas terror attacks on Israel.
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed the “anti-Israel” Democrat Party, which he accused of becoming the “party of war” and of having “lost” its way.
Antisemitic remarks among Democratic officials are “absolutely unacceptable” and have “got to stop,” according to Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy who slammed a leading Democrat’s recent claim that Israel is a “racist” country.
Republican senators, led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, are threatening to delay President Joe Biden’s State Department nominees over policies prohibiting U.S. scientific research aid to certain Israeli-held territories in what the lawmakers refer to as an “antisemitic boycott of Israel.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden for “snubbing” the Israeli premier by continuously refusing to offer him an invitation to the White House, and he accused the current administration of being the “most relentlessly anti-Israel” one in U.S. history.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Biden administration for imposing an anti-Israel “boycott” following its “outrageous” and “antisemitic” reversal of President Donald Trump’s policy of allowing cooperation between U.S. universities and Israeli institutions in Judea and Samaria.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday canceled Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s antisemitic event at the U.S. Capitol scheduled for Wednesday and will host a “bipartisan discussion to honor the 75th anniversary of the US-Israel relationship” in its place.