anti-semitism

Amr Awadallah, a former Google vice president, recently appeared on the Our Voices Matter Podcast to discuss his firing. Awadallah was fired in the summer after writing a long LinkedIn post discussing his past antisemitic beliefs, which came from his upbringing and he renounced after meeting Jewish people in real life. “His views changed as he got to know people...

School administrators are responding after several people reported anti-Semitic and racist comments directed towards Westport players and students during the Staples/Cheshire High School football game. Westport school officials said they were made aware of a number of social media posts last night. “I want to assure the community that any allegations such as these are taken with the utmost...

While the panel cannot fire Eichhammer, it said it found the photo highly offensive and the demands to fire the officer are valid.

Investigators have found the gunman who killed two people Saturday in Winthrop, Massachusetts, had made “some troubling white supremacist rhetoric” that targeted Black and Jewish people, and both his victims were Black, officials said Sunday. The shooting is now being investigated as a hate crime, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. The gunman “walked by several other people…

An organizer of a neo-Nazi campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in Washington, Arizona and Florida has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and interference with a federally protected activity in federal court in Seattle

The University of Connecticut is investigating after someone painted a swastika on the side of the chemistry building on the Storrs campus. The university confirmed that UConn police are investigating. “The University condemns this act of anti-Semitism in the strongest of terms, and shares the anger and disgust expressed by members of our community,” a university spokesperson said. The school…

The writing of a 10-year-old girl in pre-World War II Poland is at the heart of the first interactive exhibit of an online museum dedicated to telling the stories of the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and Russia

The deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol was “the most predictable terror attack in the history of the U.S.,” according to the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. Jonathan Greenblatt told LX News his organization, which analyzes and details antisemitic incidents around the nation, had warned government agencies of a likely attack before Jan. 6 and he’s “at a loss to...

As a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol last week clamoring to overturn the result of November’s election, photographs captured a man in the crowd wearing a shirt emblazoned with “Camp Auschwitz,” a reference to the Nazi concentration camp

The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation to identify the authors of online anti-Semitic comments directed at the runner-up for Miss France 2021

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms.

Former NFL offensive lineman Geoff Schwartz, who is Jewish, speaks out on anti-Semitic comments made by NFL star DeSean Jackson and says much of the problem lies with the lack of Jewish players in the NFL.

Nick Cannon has apologized for “hurtful and divisive” anti-Semitic comments that led ViacomCBS to cut ties with the TV host and producer

Pictures of swastikas and other anti-Semitic imagery flooded a Newington temple’s online service Friday. Right now, police are looking to find who created the disturbing, so-called “Zoom bomb” disruption during the Temple Sinai’s Shabbat.   “They put up a caricature of the Jew with a big nose. It was just so upsetting,” said Temple Sinai Rabbi Jeffrey Bennett, describing...

Members of one temple are reeling after an anti-Semitic incident during a Friday night service.

The online retailer Shein has apologized for selling a swastika necklace on its website. Adam Shear, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh, explains the history and changing meaning of the swastika and how ignorance of history and religion may have contributed to what the company called a “gigantic mistake.”

Word to the wise. It’s never a good idea to think you’re quoting Adolf Hitler. It’s a lesson NFL star DeSean Jackson is just learning and it may cost him his job.

American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi’s New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.”