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Jewish man stabbed in New York in unprovoked attack

Post author By David Lurie
Post date 11/02/2016

An observant 25-year-old Jew was stabbed without warning yesterday as he walked down a street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. According to police, the victim, Yehuda Brikman, was in front of 646 Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights when he was “stabbed on the left side of his back by an unknown person. When the victim turned around, he saw a male running on the street away from him.” The victim was rushed to Kings County Hospital with what police said was a collapsed lung. The attacker was described as an African American man in his twenties or thirties who was seen on CCTV fleeing the scene.

The attack follows the stabbing on 3rd November of a Jewish emergency medical services volunteer under similar circumstances. The NYPD is investigating both incidents, and suspects they were motivated by religious bigotry.

There has been a spate of antisemitic incidents in New York recently.

Sources: Gothamist and Crown Heights Info

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CCTV shows University of Illinois menorah being vandalised for the third time

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 10/02/2016

A campus menorah has been vandalised yet again at the University of Illinois. CCTV showed a man and a woman vandalising the menorah early on Sunday morning, breaking off one of its arms and breaking lightbulbs. This is the third time the menorah has been vandalised in recent months and it was only reconsecrated on 7th December. A new menorah will now be installed which is more resistant to vandalism. Police are investigating.

Source: CFCA/News Gazette

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Swastikas drawn on US students’ bedroom doors

Post author By Kip Meroni
Post date 09/02/2016

Royer hall of residence, where Elizabethtown students' rooms were defaced with swastikas.

Students at an American college have had their bedroom doors vandalised with antisemitic graffiti.

Swastikas and phallic images were drawn on whiteboards affixed to students’ doors in Elizabethtown College’s Royer hall of residence overnight on 27th-28th January, while some residents also found graffiti inside their rooms, the college’s newspaper reported.

The college’s campus security department has interviewed witnesses and photographed the graffiti as part of its investigation to identify the culprits, who are suspected to be fellow students. Extra foot patrols are planned to prevent further vandalism.

The department also issued a statement reminding students that: “Verbal or physical, written or electronic expressions, which create an intimidating, hostile or offensive work, learning or living environment will not be tolerated.”

Source: The Etownian

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New York resident returns home to find note warning: “American Holocaust, you are a dead Jew”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 07/02/2016

Police in New York are investigating a series of antisemitic notes left in an East Harlem apartment building over the past month. One resident returned home to discover a note on her door warning: “American Holocaust, you are a dead Jew.”

Between 22nd January and 1st February, 21 similar notes — possibly left in bundles — were left in the hallway on the floor where the victim lives, NY Daily News reported. Some were threatening and some contained swastikas.

Source: CFCA/NY Daily News

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Video shown to New York schoolchildren says Jews are “extremists” who “got what they deserved”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 06/02/2016

A video produced by Study.com that was shown to three classes of schoolchildren in Rockland, New York, claimed that historic persecution of Jews was a result of their bad behaviour. The video at one point showed a table comparing Jews with Christians, decrying Jews as “violent religious extremists” who “got what they deserved”.

Clarkstown South High School stopped showing the video after complaints. The school district called the video “demeaning and historically inaccurate” and promised to review guidelines.

Study.com issued a statement saying, “We apologise that the video seemed offensive. That was certainly not what we intended.”

Source: CFCA/CBS2

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55 headstones smashed at Indiana Jewish cemetery

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 05/02/2016

A Jewish cemetery has been vandalised in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 55 headstones were smashed at the cemetery, which is tended by volunteers. Local police are investigating.

Source: CFCA/News 15

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Swastikas found outside Jewish family’s business in Seattle, Washington for the second time

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 05/02/2016

A Jewish family has called police after swastikas were drawn outside their family business in Seattle for the second time in six months. No other businesses in the area have been targetted and the family are now buying a CCTV system.

Source: CFCA/Q13 Fox

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Police evacuate Jewish school in Florida after bomb threat

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 28/01/2016

A bomb threat forced the evacuation of the Jewish Community Center in Maitland, Florida, on Tuesday. According to police, the school received a bomb threat at 10:00, following which the community centre’s preschool, elementary school and and gym were evacuated. The pupils were evacuated to another school which police locked down as a precaution. No explosives were found.

Source: CFCA/WPTV5/WESH

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Chart-topping US rapper releases new song promoting Holocaust denial and antisemitic conspiracy myth

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 27/01/2016

Famous US rapper, Bobby Ray Simmons Jr, known as B.o.B, has released a new song in which he seeks to convince fans to believe conspiracy theories that the Earth is flat, the Holocaust was exaggerated and Jews control US politics.

Despite extensive media coverage of the outlandish claim that the Earth is flat, very few articles made a mention of the antisemitic lyrics.

At one point in the song, the rapper instructs fans to “do your research on David Irving”, referring to the notorious Holocaust-denying antisemite who has been deported from countries around the world and was jailed in Austria in 2006.

Another lyric states: “Stalin was way worse than Hitler, that’s why the POTUS [President of the United States] gotta wear a kippah [Jewish skullcap].”

https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691439089543880704

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Source: JP Updates

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Jewish school pupil in Texas finds swastika note under windscreen wiper

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 25/01/2016

The Northeast Independent School District has opened an investigation after a picture of a swastika was found attached to the windshield of a Jewish pupil’s car at Reagan High School in San Antonio, Texas. The swastika picture was found after school on Wednesday and reported to the school’s principal. There are no security cameras in the school’s car park, so unless a witness comes forward, it is unlikely that the perpetrator will be caught.

Source: CFCA/Kens5

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Don McLean’s Jewish wife of thirty years calls police after alleged antisemitic abuse

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 23/01/2016

The Jewish wife of famed American singer Don McLean has claimed that he is antisemitic and violently abused her. Court documents show that the 70-year-old’s wife of 30 years, Patrisha McLean, has been granted a restraining order after claiming that her husband had attacked her and may have killed her had she not called the police.

Patrisha McLean’s handwritten declaration filed in Rockland District Court said: “For the first 10 years or so his rage was unfathomably deep and very scary — calling me horrible things like ‘hebe’ (I’m Jewish).” According to the statement, Don McLean controlled his rage until the incident on Monday when he allegedly lost control and threw the landline telephone to the floor when his wife tried to call the police. Patrisha McLean said she locked herself in the bathroom and called the police with her mobile, alleging: “He tried to break open the door and I feel he would have succeeded and killed me but for me telling him I was calling 911, which did deflate him,” she wrote.

Don McLean’s defence lawyer, Walter McKee, said: “Don denies making any ethnic slurs to his wife. As with many of the statements made in the request for a protection order, this statement is patently untrue.” Don McLean also commented, saying: “This last year and especially now have been hard emotional times for my wife, my children and me. What is occurring is the very painful breakdown of an almost 30-year relationship. Our hearts are broken and we must carry on. There are no winners or losers but I am not a villain. I may never recover from this but I will try and hope to continue to entertain you all as I always have. I ask God to give us the strength to find new happiness and I hope people will realise that this will all be resolved but I hope I will not be judged in this frantic media environment.”

Source: Page Six

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Starbucks employee writes “Bulls***” instead of name on Jewish man’s cup in Montreal

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 23/01/2016

An Orthodox Jewish woman has posted on Facebook of her disgust after her husband gave a Starbucks employee his name as “Moshe” but found that the employee had instead written “Bulls***” on his order.

The Facebook post says that the incident took place at the Starbucks in Rockland Shopping Centre in Montreal, Canada.

Gitty Halpert Perl wrote that she felt tormented and unsure how to respond after her daughter begged her to ignore her instincts and leave quietly.

Starbucks posted on Facebook that it is looking into the incident.

Source: Facebook

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Jewish Texan businessman’s photograph defaced with swastikas on billboards

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 21/01/2016

A Jewish businessman in Athens, Texas, has said he feels uplifted by the response of his community after billboards bearing his photograph were defaced with swastikas. Jeff Weinstein’s real estate business had placed signs around a plot of land, advertising a development opportunity, but vandals painted a swastika over the image of his face on the signs.

Weinstein, who is one of the few Jews in Athens, said: “It backfired, it didn’t work because…my community is defending me saying we love you, so in the big scheme of things…this really is a great place.” Weinstein posted a photograph of the vandalism on Facebook, receiving an overwhelmingly supportive response. Weinstein commented: “In the real world, bad things happen. People say things that you wish they didn’t. In the end, what you find out is that people really do care about each other and they don’t want this to go on anymore and that makes you feel good.”

Source: CFCA/Tyler Morning Telegraph

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Clinton e-mail release prompts journalist’s antisemitic rant on television

Post author By Kip Meroni
Post date 18/01/2016

Broadcast journalist David Christie, inset in this image, who claimed on Press TV that Jews corrupt American politics.

The release of a new batch of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails prompted an antisemitic diatribe by a journalist in New York on state-run Iranian television.

The e-mails from Clinton’s private server showed that the former US Secretary of State considered a secret plan hatched by the US ambassador to Israel, Thomas Pickering, to foment Palestinian unrest and goad Israeli leaders into making concessions to the Palestinians.

Pickering’s e-mail, from 18th December 2011, said the plan was a potential “game changer in the region” and that the United States should undertake the campaign to spark protests, led by female Palestinians, against Israel.

In response to the email’s release last week, David Christie claimed on Press TV that Israel lobbyists “already own every politician in the Congress” and “control the entire media apparatus in the Western world,” allowing them to influence American politicians into acting in Israel’s interests.

Christie said: “It’s not a surprise that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was desperately searching for some way, some strategy, to deal with the racist-supremacist, warmongering psychopaths running Israel.

“But the miscalculation here is that the Zionist regime, headed up by master political-criminal and sociopath lunatics like Netanyahu, loves an opportunity to create another bloodbath.

“This is because when Jews control the media, they control the perceptions of everything among couch-potatoes in the United States,” enticing American voters to “vote for the candidate that is most loyal, not to the United States, but to Israel.”

Source: Press TV

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Facebook conceals antisemitic pages from Israelis but shows them everywhere else

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/01/2016

Using VPN technology which allows internet users to access the internet as though they were in another country of their choice, the Israelly Cool blog has revealed that Facebook is blocking Israelis from seeing antisemitic content on the social network, but allowing users from elsewhere in the world to access it.

This perpetrates the double crime of knowing that antisemitic content exists and allowing it to remain, whilst also trying to prevent the targets of antisemitism from reporting or stopping antisemites.

For example, a Facebook page entitled “Jewish ritual murder” which exists to spread the libel that Jews murder non-Jewish children and use their blood in rituals is not accessible from Israel, but works just fine elsewhere in the world.

Source: Israelly Cool

Swastikas daubed on Jewish family home in New York

Post author By Kip Meroni
Post date 12/01/2016

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, where a Jewish family have had antisemitic graffiti sprayed on their house.

A family in New York state have had swastikas and the word ‘Jews’ spray-painted on the outside of their house.

Police also found that the perpetrators, suspected to be local youths, had thrown eggs at the Jewish family’s home during the incident on December 29th.

Police Chief Anthony Visalli said: “We don’t believe this was random,” adding that no local shops reported having sold green paint and eggs to anyone around the time of the vandalism.

Peter Swiderski, Mayor of the village of Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County, said the incident “had the feel of kids” involved and was unusual for the area.

“We have a reputation for tolerance and inclusiveness,” he said. “This is sad and disturbing, but there is no indication of something blossoming in our community.”

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said it is shocked that such an incident in a town where “Jewish residents seldom experience antisemitism.”

“This ghastly swastika display represents an assault not just on this one home, but on the entire Westchester community,” said ADL New York Regional Director Evan R. Bernstein. “We are confident that law enforcement is diligently examining all the facts, and determining if the evidence supports a hate-crime charge.”

Source: JP Updates

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Jewish student moves out of Texas university halls after yellow Stars of David glued to his door

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 10/01/2016

A Jewish student at Texas Christian University has moved out of university accommodation after he found a trail of yellow Stars of David leading to his bedroom door. The stars were like those used during the Holocaust to identify Jews, and had been fixed to the walls and door using a hot glue gun. Dalton Barlow was the only Jewish student in the hall of residence and told CBSDFW: “There was one right outside my room. My doorway was decorated for the holiday for Hanukkah.” University police are investigating.

Source: CBSDFW

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Serial antisemite Mel Gibson to be rehabilitated with Golden Globes presenter role

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 09/01/2016

It has been announced that serial antisemite Mel Gibson will be presenting an award at the Golden Globes tomorrow night. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has condemned the move to “rehabilitate a bigot”.

Gibson’s antisemitism became notorious in 2006 when he was stopped by police for drinking and driving. The actor launched an antisemitic tirade against an officer, shouting: “F***ing Jews…The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” At the time, Gibson apologised and blamed the incident on his alcoholism.

Gibson’s history of antisemitism goes deeper though. In the 1990s, actress Winona Ryder accused him of referring to Holocaust survivors as “oven-dodgers” at a party. As recently as 2012 the claims have been repeated, with Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas saying that the Holocaust was merely a “numbers game” and “mostly a lot of horses***”. Eszterhas also claimed that Gibson continuously referred to Jews as “Hebes” and “oven-dodgers”.

Gibson additionally came under fire for his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, which was widely condemned for implying that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.

Source: Algemeiner

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US Presidential candidate heckled by man shouting “Marco Rubio is owned by Jews”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 09/01/2016

US Presidential candidate Marco Rubio has been interrupted by a heckler during a campaign appearance in Dallas, Texas.

A man stood up and shouted: “Marco Rubio is owned by Jews! Jews and Freemasons!”

The person seated behind him force him to sit down and audience members chanted “Marco! Marco!” until a police officer led the heckler out of the hall.

Source: Star Telegram

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Letters faxed to New York Jewish communities warn of “satanic” Jews

Post author By Kip Meroni
Post date 06/01/2016

Antisemitic fax received in Ramapo Image source: Steve Lieberman, The Journal News

An antisemitic letter sent to three New York State communities with large Jewish populations has prompted a police investigation.

The letter was faxed to government offices in the town of Ramapo and villages of Wesley Hills and Pomona, and suggests Jews “siphon away the ‘life’” out of Christians and other religions and should be placed on “reservations” and forced to work.

Detective Lt. Mark Emma said on Monday: “This is obviously an antisemitic letter, certainly written by somebody who’s not quite rational.”

If they trace the sender, he or she could face a harassment charge and police would consider whether the incidents constitute a hate crime.

Wesley Hills Mayor Marshall Katz said the letter was “Nazi-ish” and that its contents “personally hurt” him. He added that the letter was well written and contained no misspellings, commenting: “It reads like an intelligent person wrote it and that’s even more upsetting.”

Pomona Mayor Brett Yagel, who called the letter-writer a “warped individual”, said the village received a similar handwritten letter last year, whereas the more recent faxed version was typed.

The full letter said:

When the OrthodoxJews and the Hasidic Jews recite the Talmud, they siphon away the “life” from the “goyim” (Christians) and transfer it to themselves and to their immediate family.That is why, in the yeshiva schools, the yeshiva boys recite the Talmud from 9:00am to 3:00pm daily. This causes tragedies and accidents to Christian families and to other righteous gentiles in America and worldwide.

The religious Jews are at war with the “goyim”, and the Talmud is their weapon. The Talmud gives the Jews satanic and demonic powers to snatch the souls out of the heads of boys and girls of all faiths (Christian, Moslem, Hindu, and Buddhist). These soul-less children then become drug addicts or commit suicide, while the religious Jews sing and dance in their yeshivas and synagogues, and multiply like rodents.

The jewish group known as “Chabad” or “Chabad-Lubavitch” used to kidnap Christian peasant boys and slice off their penis. They did this to instill [sic] terror into the hearts of the “goyim”.

These chasidic and orthodox jews are a severe danger to civilised society. They need to be placed on reservations under the supervision of the United Nations. They should be given physical work to keep them occupied. They should not be allowed to recite the Talmud ever again. This will result in a better, more peaceful, happy life for all “goyim” and for all people of good will in America and worldwide.

Thank you and God bless you all.

Source: Lohud

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Antisemitic stranger carrying a knife caught by chance outside Toronto synagogue

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 05/01/2016

On Saturday at the synagogue at the Bernard Betel Centre in Toronto, a man wearing a swastika was found to be acting suspiciously and carrying a knife.

A woman on her way out of the centre saw a man carrying two large bags. She approached him and asked what his business was at the centre, at which point he hurled a book at her. The woman sounded the alarm and the man was surrounded by congregants.

One congregant noticed that the man, described as being in his sixties and of European origin, was wearing a swastika pin on his shirt. When challenged, he claimed that he was wearing it not to support Nazism but in support of socialism. He added that he came to the community centre to get money, and that the “rich Jews” want others to be poor.

Police arrived after thirty minutes at which point the man was searched and found to be in possession of a knife and a toy gun. The action taken by the police remains unclear, but it has been reported that the man will probably be taken for psychiatric evaluation.

Source: CFCA/CIJ News

New York Jewish families’ front door defaced with “Hitler was hero” graffiti and swastikas

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 04/01/2016

Three Jewish families discovered antisemitic graffiti on the front door of their building in an area of Brooklyn on Saturday morning. The graffiti included multiple swastikas, the words “Hitler was hero” and a crude drawing of a penis.

The three Jewish families have only recently moved to the building have reportedly been terrorised at random by people banging on the door and ringing the doorbells. “All the neighbours are nice to us; it seems like just one person has issues with the Jewish families living here”, one of the families told JP Updates.

Source: CFCA/New York Post and JP Updates

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Repeated case of antisemitic vandalism at student hall of residence in New Jersey

Post author By Chloe Zeegen
Post date 02/01/2016

Oak Hall, another of Rowan University's halls of residence. Image source: Wikipedia

Yet again, antisemitic carvings have been discovered at the Chestnut Hall students’ residence at Rowan University in New Jersey. Swastikas have been found etched into the side of a stairwell. This follows a similar incident earlier this month, when several swastikas and other antisemitic symbols were discovered carved into doors at the student halls.

Chestnut Hall is a freshmen residence hall housing more than 350 students.

Investigations are ongoing.

Source: Jewish Exponent

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Jewish wind farm developer in Vermont warned “You think no one knows you’re a Jew”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 01/01/2016

Police in Vermont are investigating an antisemitic voicemail left for a Jewish employee of a wind power firm. The anonymous message, left on the employee’s voicemail at the office of Iberdrola Renewables, says:

“You [name removed] are a Jew and you cannot wait to drive 28 stakes through a town full of free, white Christian men with guns, and unfortunately the way to attract free, white Christian men with guns to you is to try and take their homes. So, why don’t you go to Palestine [name removed] where you can shoot the feet of Palestinian soccer players, you can burn babies alive, you can rape Russian sex slaves and really overtly enjoy yourself rather than this covert activity in Vermont where you think no one knows you’re a Jew because you’re going to find out that they do. Bye-bye.”

The one-minute voicemail was left by a female caller on 27th October 2015, shortly after a public consultation meeting about Iberdrola’s proposed 28-turbine wind project, which if built, would be the largest in the state.

The Iberdrola employee discovered the message and reported it to the police, but they refused to act because the woman did not threaten her victim with violence leading the company’s lawyer to file a formal complaint.

Source: VT Digger

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Car parked outside New Jersey synagogue vandalised in the fifth such incident

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 31/12/2015

For the fifth time, a car parked outside the Vialapol synagogue in Lakewood, New Jersey, has been vandalised. The vehicle’s owner returned to his car to discover that his rear window had been smashed, apparently done by the same vandal or vandals that stuck multiple other cars at the same synagogue. in the past. Local police have taken reports of the incidents, but nobody has been identified yet.

Source: CFCA/The Lakewood Scoop

17-year-old Jewish boy punched to the ground in unprovoked attack in New York

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 31/12/2015

A 17-year-old orthodox Jewish boy was assaulted on Tuesday night in Brooklyn as he returned home. The boy was standing at an intersection when a black man walked towards him and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground.

New York police are treating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime because the victim had never seen his assailant before, nothing was taken from him, and he was wearing traditional Charedi Jewish clothing and holding phylacteries in his hand.

Anyone with information should call New York police on 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

Source: JP Updates

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Men shout antisemitic slurs whilst beating Jewish Chicago mayor’s non-Jewish aide

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 30/12/2015

Vance Henry, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Deputy Chief of Staff, was attacked at a vigil by assailants who reportedly shouted antisemitic abuse. Henry was punched, shoved to the ground and kicked on Sunday evening at a memorial for Bettie Jones, 55, and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, who were shot and killed over the weekend by Chicago police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call.

According to the Chicago Tribune, a man approached Henry saying: “What are you doing here, you should be downtown doing something about this. The police are killing us.” He also shouted antisemitic abuse, but the exact words used have not been reported. The man then hit Henry when Henry said: “Get out of my face.”

It is believed the antisemitic remarks were directed at Emanuel, who is Jewish but was not at the vigil. Henry is not Jewish. Emanuel is reportedly returning early from a family holiday in Cuba to take charge of the response to the shooting.

Source: Chicago Tribune

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San Diego professor encourages students to wear yellow star labelled “Muslim”

Post author By Chloe Zeegen
Post date 28/12/2015

University of San Diego professor encourages students to wear yellow stars labelled “Muslim” Image source: Times of San Diego

Bahar Davary, a University of San Diego professor, has encouraged her students to wear yellow Stars of David inscribed with the word “Muslim”, in a crude imitation of the Judensterne markers Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis.

Davary and her students mimicked the badge Jews were forced to wear, under penalty of death, “to raise awareness against Islamophobia.”

The protest is being condemned as a vile act of false equivalence tantamount to Holocaust denial.

The Nazis’ action of forcing Jews to wear markers has a long legacy throughout Europe and the Middle East. The earliest recorded example of special markings is said to have been introduced by Umayyad Caliph Umar II in the early 8th century. A genizah document from 1121 gives the following description of decrees issued in Baghdad:

Two yellow badges [are to be displayed], one on the headgear and one on the neck. Furthermore, each Jew must hang round his neck a piece of lead with the word Dhimmi on it […] The women have to wear one red and one black shoe and have a small bell on their necks or shoes.

The bells Jewish women were forced to wear are understood to have been intended to serve as a warning to others of a nearby Jew.

At least 100 students and faculty members at the University of San Diego have been seen sporting yellow stars, according to local reports on the protest.

In the United States of America, where the the University of San Diego is based, antisemitic hate crime makes up, by far, the biggest percentage of religiously biased crime, with 59% of attacks targeted at Jews. The second largest group of victims of such hate crimes are Muslims, at 14%, followed by ‘other’ at 12% and Catholics at 6%.

Sources: Free Beacon, Forward, Wikipedia

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Man charged with fire-bombing Islamic centre reported to hold antisemitic views and idolise far-right terrorist

Post author By Chloe Zeegen
Post date 27/12/2015

US army fire truck. Image source: Wikipedia

It has been reported that Carl James Dial, 23, of Palm Desert in California, has been charged with a hate crime offence, arson, maliciously setting a fire and second-degree burglary, after the Islamic Society of Coachella Valley was fire-bombed with a Molotov-cocktail earlier this month.

Dial’s Facebook account is reported to show him making an antisemitic remark about a kosher market and suggests he has a fascination with Norwegian, far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. Behring Breivik killed eight people by setting off a van bomb in Oslo’s government quarter and then murdered 69 participants of a Workers’ Youth League (AUF) summer camp on the island of Utøya in 2011.

In an interview with NBC, Dial’s father, John Dial, appears to blame social media for his son, remarking, “Social media has produced people like my son, without person-to-person contact. I believe he was lacking in social skills.”

Coachella Mayor, Steven Hernandez, describes the fire-bombing as a “cowardly act of vandalism that we [will] not tolerate in our community.”

Source: Southern Poverty Law Center, Wikipedia

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Viral media website using antisemitic conspiracy theory to generate clicks

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 26/12/2015

FML Gone Viral, a website which circulates viral social media links, is using a vile antisemitic conspiracy theory to generate clicks. The website, which makes its money by displaying advertisements alongside its content, has been spreading a fictional dialogue between Adolf Hitler and a soldier which alleges that Hitler was trying to save “negroes” who are the “true Hebrews”. According to the story, “white jews knows that the negros are the real children of Israel. And to keep Americas secret, the jews will blackmail America. The jews will extort America Their plan for world domination wont work if the negros knew who they were.”

The fictional story has been viewed by almost 100,000 people and comments appearing at the bottom of the page show that while some readers were incredulous, the story has garnered fierce support from internet users who believe that Jews are in fact masquerading as Jews to disenfranchise black people, and that Hitler was trying to save black people from the hegemony of the ‘false’ white Jews.

Those who did not believe the story were invariably told by believers to do some “research”. For example Felix Dickinson commented: “…lol come on now. Is that why he was adamant black people couldn’t be in his Olympics? Is that why the US was not even going to enter the war until pearl harbor? Honestly this is the dumbest thing I’ve read in a while”, but was answered by Christopher Shepherd who replied: “He didn’t want my people to take part in it because he knew it was wrong we were a holy people do you know what holy means it means separate meaning that if we were still separate then we wouldn’t of wanted no part of useless Olympics but since the synagogue of satan stole us and brought us to our brothers and sisters massive stolen land that is called America today then we learned the white mans ways and being a part of the Olympics is one of them”.

The FML Gone Viral website is registered to Sandi Chang of Ontario, Canada, whose telephone number is listed as +1 647 261 6448 and whose e-mail address is listed as [email protected].

The full antisemitic story is as follows:

Hitler said even in his death he will start World War 3. One of his soliders asked how? Hitler replied….

Hitler said even in his death he will start World War 3.

One of his soldiers asked how?

Hitler replied, “The day mankind finds out what I was trying to defend this nation, Germany, from then thats the day World War 3 will start. For on that day, mankind will learn that I was trying to save my Nation from The Free Masons, the Illuminati, the jews. For if the Americans wins the war, then they will conquer the world and forever be a slave to the jews and they will try to conquer God. Do you know who America has in its possession?

“NO,” the solider replied.

The Americans has the jewels of God. The Americans have stolen God’s precious jewels.
“What do you mean his precious jewels?” THE SOLIDER asked.

Hitler said, “America has stolen the jews. The Jews of God. His jewelry. The negros. They are the true hebrews. What a foolish move and a direct challenge to God. And they plan on moving these false white jews into a state of Israel.

America is desperate in its attempt to win this war using atom bombs on Japan. America will destroy the whole world in its attempt to conquer it.

When America and its jewish slave masters conquer the world and the world realize I was right, then all nations will begin a third world war to dethrone America of its rule. Every nation will soon possess atom bombs of their own. It will be the end of most of the world as we know it.

“Why will the jews control America?” the solider asked

Hitler said, “because the white jews knows that the negros are the real children of Israel. And to keep Americas secret, the jews will blackmail America. The jews will extort America Their plan for world domination wont work if the negros knew who they were. The white citizens of America will be terrified to know that all this time they’ve been mistreating and discriminating and lynching the childen of Israel. They will fear God will destroy them as he destroyed Egypt for doing the same thing. So the elite, the Illuminati keeps this a secret at all cost.

After I die, I will one day cause World War 3 just by this message which will be like planting a seed in people minds until it sprouts once they nurture that seed and seek more truth and learn Hitler was right. I did the world a favor by killing the false jews before they designated a false state of Israel.

But I fear I have failed. The world will fall into the hands of Satan.

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Below is a graphic shared by one of the people commenting in support of the theory:

Source: Reported to Everyday Antisemitism

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Banner at Polish march: “We demand the immediate liquidation of masonic Jewish life in Poland. It threatens Poles.”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 25/12/2015

Polish banner at Law and Justice Party march: “We demand the immediate liquidation of masonic Jewish life in Poland. It threatens Poles.” Image source: TVN24

A banner at a march of the Polish Law and Justice Party, which enjoys a majority in both houses of the Polish parliament, read: “We demand the immediate liquidation of masonic Jewish life in Poland. It threatens Poles.”

Polish website Polityka noted that the banner was not commented on by the Polish media reporting on the march, but caused an uproar when posted on Facebook.

In a letter to the editor of the Polish Gazette, Michal Sobelman of the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw wrote: “Surely you will agree with me that they [the marchers] are a greater threat to the good name of Poland in the world than the handful of Jews who still remain here.”

Source: CFCA/Polityka

New York Jewish student attacked by black man saying “I don’t like Jewish people or white people”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 25/12/2015

A Jewish student wearing a kippah (Jewish skullcap) was attacked by a young black man at Medgar Evers College on Wednesday evening in Crown Heights, New York. The victim was talking with other students in college’s science building a black man approached and punched him in the stomach and face, yelling antisemitic remarks. The attack was halted when a female Muslim student came to the Jewish student’s defence.

When the victim asked his assailant why he had hit him, the attacker replied: “I don’t like Jewish people or white people.”

The victim did not require hospital treatment and the incident was immediately attended by local police and the college’s security team who are reviewing CCTV footage of the incident.

The college’s president has reportedly said that if it turns out the attacker is a student of the school, he will be “immediately expelled”.

Source: CFCA/COLLive

Security guards and visitors look on as Jewish man attacked at L’Oreal in New York

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 25/12/2015

An orthodox Jewish man was attacked on Monday in the lobby of the L’Oreal building in Manhattan, but security guards and passersby simply looked on without intervening.

Speaking to The Algemeiner, the victim said: “He punched me in the neck and there was security [there] and nobody interfered. They were just watching. I got bruised…and security didn’t even call 911, nothing. They’re just standing there and watching.”

A witness, Yoni Davidov confirmed to The Algemeiner that nobody helped the victim, even after the attack. According to Davidov, the victim was sitting at a table and eating a sandwich in the lobby of the L’Oreal corporate offices, when an “Arab-looking” man demanded that he move because did not want to share a table with a Jewish man. Davidov said the victim told the man that he had arrived at the table first, and that he would finish eating quickly and give up his seatat which point Davidov said: “This Arab-looking man punched him in the face multiple times, before fleeing the scene with his girlfriend. I was shocked at the anger this animal had when he was assaulting this poor Hassidic guy.”

Shomrim, a volunteer Jewish neighborhood watch organisation, told The Algemeiner that police later arrived at the scene and spoke to a witness. They also examined CCTV footage of the attack.

Source: The Algemeiner

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Man calls for gas chambers to “clean” Jewish members from New York school board

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 24/12/2015

In a dispute between town officials and the large local Jewish community in East Ramapo, one Facebook user has resorted to calling for the use of gas chambers.

The dispute centres on the local Jewish community’s actions on the education board, which have met with fierce opposition by activists who have even resorted to threats and intimidation. School board member Yonah Rothman condemned the behaviour of activists who “want only more chaos and endless conflict with the Jewish community” in an open letter printed by the Rockland County Times.

In the comments section beneath the letter, Facebook user Edward Branca wrote: “The East Ramapo School Board needs a massive cleaning up. The Board’s members should be escorted to a shower room and given a good group shower. That would solve the East Ramapo problem once and for all.” When asked by another user whether the comment was “a veiled attempt to ask for gas chambers,” Branca simply replied: “Yes”.

Source: CFCA/Rockland County Times

Police investigating swastikas outside New York Jewish school

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 24/12/2015

New York Police Image source: Dirk Olbertz

Three swastikas and the word “Hitler” were discovered this morning by students outside Edna Cohen School in Brooklyn. They alerted the school’s staff who then called the police. It appears that the graffiti was written using a crayon. Local police are treating the incident as a hate crime.

Anyone with information should call 800-577-TIPS.

Source: JP Updates

Everyday Antisemitism Vandalism Washington Ξ E-mail

Statue outside Washington synagogue defaced with a swastika

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 24/12/2015

A statue outside Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Washington was defaced with a swastika on Monday night.

The vandalism was reported to the Olympia Police Department and is being investigated as a hate crime.

Source: CFCA/The Olympian

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UCLA student calls Jews “Crazy ass f***ing troglodyte albino monsters of cultural destruction”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 24/12/2015

UCLA has condemned a post by one of its students who posted an antisemitic rant on the Facebook page of Jewish actress Mayim Bialik, herself a UCLA alumna, after she wrote about her pride in being Jewish and Zionist. The student’s comment said:

If you’re of Euro ancestry and you were born in the Americas, you are still a white immigrant, the way you call us brown people immigrants and aliens in our own damn space. YOU people invades our space and used your bogus gods to justify taking land that was never yours. I don’t know how that’s different from what’s happening in Palestine — you come into their land, crying persecution and diminished numbers, and instead of returning to your own homes in Poland, Germany and Russia, your people chose to invade another culture’s homeland, invoking your bulls*** sacred pacts with your gods and massacring an entire culture unless they bend to your will. GTFOH with all your Zionist bullshit. Crazy ass f***ing troglodyte albino monsters of cultural destruction

UCLA has condemned the comment but will not punish the student.

Source: Inside Higher Ed

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“F* your Hanukkah and f* your family” — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg receives slew of antisemitic abuse following Jewish holiday post

Post author By Chloe Zeegen
Post date 23/12/2015

Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, received a slew of antisemitic hatred online when he posted a picture of his dog, Beast, dressed in a kippah and tallit, Jewish garments, for the Jewish festival of Chanukah.

Many of the insults, directed at Zuckerberg and the State of Israel, are stereotypical blood libels, or centre around money. They include statements such as “F*** Isreal” [sic], “Go to hell, you and baby killers. A message to all Israeli [sic] (F*** you)”, “Mark for the sake of money you got crazy. For your advirtisement [sic] your fame you [sic] gone mad mark this is not fair you just throw urine on faces of of [sic] poor Palestinians you just need your lie fame [sic]”, “F*** your hanukah [sic] and fu k yoyr [sic] family”.

Many Jews feel the treatment Zuckerberg received reflects the antisemitic abuse they regularly encounter online.

Three days after receiving the tirade of antisemitism, Mark Zuckerberg updated his status with a post directed at Facebook’s Muslim users. He wrote that, “As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities. I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world,” adding that Muslim users should expect Facebook to “fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment for you.”

Zuckerberg has declined to extend this sentiment to Facebook’s Jewish users. In the United States of America, where Facebook is headquartered, antisemitic hate crime makes up, by far, the biggest percentage of religiously biased crime, with 59% of attacks targeted at Jews. The second largest group of victims of such hate crimes are Muslims, at 14%, followed by ‘other’ at 12% and Catholics at 6%.

Sources: CFCA, The Verge, Forward

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Jewish dentist stopped from working for US Navy due to “divided loyalties”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 23/12/2015

A Jewish dentist in New York who decided to close his successful practice after 35 years and instead provide his dental services to the US Navy has been refused security clearance because he may have “divided loyalties”.

Dr Gershon Pincus had begun making the 400-mile commute to a naval clinic because “I can think of no better way to experience the sunset of my career than by using my professional skills as a dentist to assist those who have chosen to serve in the United States military.”

As part of a security clearance review, Dr Pincus was interviewed and during the course of his interview, his family connections to Israel were discussed, including that his elderly mother and two siblings live there and that his son tragically died of a drug overdose whilst serving in the Israeli Defence Forces. Dr Pincus has only visited Israel three times in the past ten years, including one visit for his father’s funeral and has no holdings in the country or an Israeli passport. The security investigation concluded: “There is nothing in subject’s background or character that would make him vulnerable to blackmail, extortion, coercion or duress.”

However, in March, Dr. Pincus was subjected to a second interview in which all but one of the questions related to his connections to Israel. In September, Dr Pincus’s security clearance was denied, putting a stop to his dental work. The Statement of Reasons explained: “You have weekly telephone contact with your mother and brother in Israel. You added your mother, sister and brother may have contact with neighbours in Israel. Foreign contacts and interests may be a security concern due to divided loyalties or foreign financial interests, may be manipulated or induced to help a foreign person, group, organisation or government in a way that is not in U.S. interests, or is vulnerable to pressure or coercion by foreign interests.”

Avi Schick, a partner with the Dentons law firm, has taken the case pro bono because he said that when he first heard that someone could be stopped from serving the Navy just for having relatives in Israel, he was so sceptical that he promised to take the case pro bono if the facts turned out to be true.

Schick has now petitioned Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to review Dr Pincus’s case.

Source: Wall Street Journal

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New York police investigating “Die Jews” bomb threat note at Mount Sinai Hospital

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 19/12/2015

New York police are investigating after a note threatening Jews was left in one of the women’s bathrooms at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

The note was discovered Tuesday morning on the counter above one of the sinks in the woman’s bathroom and was handed over to the hospital’s security office which then alerted the police.

The note said, “Bomb in cabinet, Die Jews.”

The note was sent away for forensic examination.

Anyone with information is asked to call New York Crimestoppers on 800-577-TIPS.

Source: CFCA/JP Updates

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Schoolchildren shout antisemitic chants before American football game

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 17/12/2015

Pupils at Framingham High School, Massachusetts apparently shouted antisemitic chants in the changing room before the Thanksgiving American football game between Natick and Framingham. At least one Jewish football player was in the changing room at the time.

The incident occurred before the Framingham players were bussed to Natick, after their team breakfast at the Framingham Elks Lodge.

Approximately twenty players were present at the time of the incident, but no players have yet been disciplined.

Source: Framingham Patch

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Man punched in antisemitic attack in New York

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 17/12/2015

Shlomy Schwartz, a 67-year-old Jewish man from Brooklyn was attacked on Monday afternoon in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. The victim was leaving the subway at 6th Avenue and West 17th Street when he was approached by a man who punched him in the back of his head knocking off his hat and kippah (Jewish skullcap). The attacker then said : “You want to be first? Let’s go [fight].” The victim ignored him and kept walking, then called the police.

The victim’s son, Chaim Shloem Schwartz, told JP Updates: “My father walked out from the train station and was assaulted by a man from behind. There were a lot of people passing the street at the time of the assault and no one stopped him.”

The suspect is described as a black male, 175 centimetres tall, with dreadlocked hair. Anyone with information should call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline on 800-577-TIPS.

Source: JP Updates

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New Jersey thug abuses Jewish disabled man and smashes his car headlight

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 17/12/2015

Police in Brick, New Jersey are investigating an antisemitic incident in which a Jewish disabled man was verbally abused by a thug who then kicked out his car headlight. The victim was entering a shop when a white male approached him and shouted: “That’s the problem with your people. You guys think we owe you everything. We don’t owe your people s***.”

Source: The Lakewood Scoop

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Man subjected to antisemitic abuse by blender demonstrator at Costco in San Francisco

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 16/12/2015

A man shopping at Costco in the San Francisco Bay Area has uploaded a video of an employee ranting about Jews.

The man said: “I struck up a conversation with a Jewish guy in Costco in front of the Vitamox Blender Demonstration, when an employee interrupted to tell us that Jews need to go back where they came from. I asked her how that would be possible after what happened in WWII. She responded that Hitler never did anything wrong to the Jews and that they brought it on themselves.”

The employee said “Jews do not belong in Israel. It’s a Palestinian Country. They should go back to where they started.” When asked “where the Jews started”, the women replied “Europe”.

Source: CFCA/LiveLeak

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Florida residents receive antisemitic notes berating them for putting up Chanukah decorations

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/12/2015

Residents of a gated community in Cooper City, Florida, have received antisemitic notes since Saturday, berating them for putting up Chanukah decorations. Police are investigating the notes and are trying to find the person responsible for leaving them in at least three mailboxes. One of the notes read “X-Mas is not for the Jews.” Another resident, whose car is decorated with a menorah on the roof received a note saying “WTF is on your roof? #x-masisbetter”. A third note was more explicit. The victims said that they will not be taking down any of their decorations

Source: Local 10

Outdoor menorah vandalised and “Happy Hanukkah” sign stolen in New York

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/12/2015

Early on Thursday morning, the menorah in Leif Ericson Park and Square in Brooklyn was knocked to the floor and smashed apart. A “Happy Hanukkah” sign that was above the menorah was stolen. New York Police Department are investigating.

Source: JP Updates

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Outdoor menorah smashed at hospital in Evanston, Illinois

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/12/2015

A large menorah has been smashed in Evanston, Illinois. The menorah was vandalised right outside the Evanston Metro Station and opposite Evanston Hospital. The menorah belongs to the Chicago Mitzvah Campaign which provides services to patients, visitors and staff at the hospital. Security cameras at the Chicago Mitzvah Campaign were not able to identify the vandals, but police are currently investigating to see if CCTV from nearby facilities may help them.

Source: CFCA/WGNTV

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New antisemitic stickers and flyers found at University of Central Florida

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 13/12/2015

Image source: Central Florida Future/Nicole Rosen

Following the discovery last month of antisemitic stickers at the University of Central Florida, new antisemitic stickers and flyers have now been found, including a swastika sticker and another with the words “Muh Holocaust”. A flyer invited support for a local neo-Nazi group. Local police have released CCTV footage of two suspects.

Arsonist burns down Jewish homes under construction in New York

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 13/12/2015

New York Police, Image source: Dave Hosford

Police in New York are hunting an arsonist who has burned down seven Jewish homes under construction in the Queens area of New York, which has a large Jewish population. The fires are believed to have been started by one suspect who is believed to be armed. A $62,500 reward has been posted for information leading to the man’s arrest.

Source: Arutz Sheva

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Swastikas carved into doors at student hall of residence in New Jersey

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 10/12/2015

Several swastikas and other antisemitic symbols have been discovered carved into the doors of the Chestnut Hall students’ residence at Rowan University. None of the students living in the hall of residence were Jewish.

Rabbi Hersh Loschak, co-director of the Rohr Family Jewish Student Center (Chabad of Rowan University) issued a statement saying: “The people who committed these acts did so in order to spread hate on campus…We refuse to be intimidated or frightened, in fact we will use this incident as a motivation to increase the light and expand our programming for Jewish students on campus.”

Police are investigating the incident, and officials are asking anyone with information about the vandalism to contact the university’s public safety office on 856-256-4922.

Source: NJ.com

New York outdoor menorah found smashed on the ground in act of antisemitic vandalism

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 08/12/2015

Police in New York have found an outdoor menorah lying on its side and badly damaged yesterday morning in Carl Shurz Park on 86th Street and East End Avenue. It has been reported that it was toppled over on both Saturday and Sunday nights.

Responding to the incident, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said: “Incidents like this have no place here or anywhere.”

Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and Chabad of the Upper East Side had lit the menorah for the first night of Chanukah in a well-attended ceremony. Rabbi Elie Weistock of Kehilath Jeshurun said: “Last night we gathered to kindle the menorah, bringing light to the world, and this morning we found that we were met by an act of darkness. But light always overcomes darkness, and tonight we plan to light the menorah again.”

New York police are investigating the matter as a hate crime.

Source: Times of Israel

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Outdoor menorah stolen, vandalised and dumped on the night before Chanukah in Utah

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 07/12/2015

A large outdoor menorah was stolen from outside a synagogue in Salt Lake City and vandalised on the night before the Jewish festival of Chanukah. A local couple taking a walk found the menorah leaning against a nearby building and reported the incident to the police and told the synagogue where to find the menorah, which had been ripped from its metal base. The menorah was previously vandalised in 2013.

Source: CFCA/Fox13

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Philadelphia man reportedly tells 5-year-old Jewish child he will “kill all of you”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 07/12/2015

A man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania reportedly approached a Jewish family at a kosher restaurant and said to their 5-year-old child: “You filthy Jews, I’m going to kill all of you. I should come back here with a gun and shoot you.” He is then reported to have told police officers that he was threatened by the Jewish diners and that “It must be a Jewish conspiracy, you know how they are.”

Source: Facebook

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Swastika painted on Jewish man’s truck in Denver

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 06/12/2015

A young Jewish man in Denver has discovered that the tailgate of his pickup truck has been vandalised with a swastika. The swastika was spray-painted in silver paint and no other cars in the car park appeared to have been touched. The vandalism was discovered on the evening of 29th November in the car park of the Hunter’s Run block of flats near Quebec and Yale and has been reported to local police and the FBI.

Source: Intermountain Jewish News

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Man arrested for shouting antisemitic slurs and trying to enter New York synagogue

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 05/12/2015

Members of Ahi Ezer Congregation heard loud banging on the locked doors of the large Brooklyn synagogue at about 7:30 on Thursday morning. For several minutes, a man, aged approximately 20 and of Middle Eastern descent, screamed antisemitic slurs, and tried to enter the building. New York Police Department and members of Shomrim, the Jewish neighbourhood watch patrol, deployed quickly and the man was arrested.

Source: Yeshiva World News

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“F***ing Jews” and other slurs sprayed on walls near Texas Jewish community centre

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 05/12/2015

Police in Austin, Texas are investigating antisemitic graffiti at two bus stops near a Jewish community centre catering to the large Jewish community in the area. The graffiti says “F***ing Jews” along with other antisemitic slurs.

Source: CFCA/KXAN

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21-year-old Jewish man punched in New York for being “F***ing Jew”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 03/12/2015

A 21-year-old Jewish man was attacked on Tuesday at 15:35 as he left the D line train station at New Utrecht Avenue and 43rd Street. A man walked towards him and shouted “F***ing Jew, where you running? Slow down you f***ing Jew.” The victim responded “Why would you call me like that?” The man responded “Do you want to fight?” He then punched the victim in the head several times.

Shomrim, the Jewish neighbourhood watch patrol, and New York police were dispatched to the scene and the victim was treated by Hatzolah, a Jewish volunteer ambulance service, before being taken to Maimonides Medical Centre in a stable condition.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline on 800-577-TIPS.

Source: JP Updates

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New Yorker shouts “F*** you Jews, I’m going to kill you” and punches man

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 02/12/2015

A 52-year-old Jewish bookshop employee in New York has been attacked by a man shouting “F*** you Jews, I’m going to kill you. I’m a Muslim.” The assailant was pacing outside the bookshop and the bookshop employee stepped out of the shop to make sure that he was alright. The man then punched him in the face and started shouting. New York police are hunting the attacked who is described as a black man in his 20s, about 178cm tall. The victim escaped serious injury.

Source: CFCA/ABC7NY

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Clinton appoints former Congressman who blamed “Jewish interests and media” to her leadership team

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 01/12/2015

Hillary Clinton. Image source: Marc Nozell

Hillary Clinton’s campaign team has appointed former Congressman Earl Hilliard Sr to her leadership team. When he lost his seat, Hilliard blamed his electoral defeat on “Jewish interests” and the “Jewish media.”

Speaking on the reasons for his opponent Artur Davis, Hilliard told the Black Commentator: “The only thing I know for sure, that I saw in black and white, is $1,098,000 that [Davis] reported. You can’t take money from corporations, so that came from Jews and Republicans. There’s no question where that money came from.” Hilliard also claimed that David received free media coverage: “Remember, the Jewish media. They started putting word out, they wanted everybody to know, because…obviously they felt that the money they had, that they put in, that they were going to beat me.”

In the same interview, Hilliard said that billions of dollars were being taken from poor communities and sent to Israel. He said Davis “made a pact with the Israelis” and “was used.” According to Hilliard: “[Davis] doesn’t know that his victory sent a message to other Blacks of my era that they better be careful what they say or how they deal with the Israeli or Jewish question…There is a group out there that wants to dominate us. They want us to do what they want us to do…and to Hell with our agenda if there is a conflict.”

In a different interview, this time with the Associated Press, Hilliard warned of “retribution” against Jews for his defeat: “I see a future with a great deal of conflict between African-Americans and Jews in this country. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. I don’t think African-Americans are going to sit back and let this continue. There will be retribution.”

Hilliard’s campaign was also accused of distributing an antisemitic leaflet against Davis in the 2002 race. The flyer said: “Mr. Davis must simply understand that Jews the world over have never come to the aid of black or dark skin people because it was the right thing to do.” Hilliard denied any connection to the flyer.

The Clinton campaign did not respond to Washington Free Beacon’s request for comment. Hilliard told the Washington Free Beacon that he did not recall the 2002 interview with the Black Commentator, however, he confirmed that he believes Jewish interests were responsible for his electoral defeat. He did not respond when sent a copy of the Black Commentator interview.

Source: Washington Free Beacon

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New York men stop car to shout “F*** you, Jews” at 44-year-old and his sons aged 16 and 14

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 01/12/2015

On Friday night at around 23:30 at the intersection of 12th Avenue and 44th Street, JP Updates reports that a 44-year-old man and his two sons aged 16 and 14 were walking home when a car slowed down in front of them, rolled down its windows and two men yelled out: “F*** you, Jews.” The men then started laughing before fleeing the scene. The victim told JP Updates: “Me and my two sons were like frozen and all shocked, we walked into the nearby fire house and asked them to call police.”

New York police are looking for two main suspects and two other men who may have been in the back of the car. The men were white and the car was a Toyota Camry. Police are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers on 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

Source: JP Updates

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New York man points knife at Jewish man and shouts “Jew”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 01/12/2015

On Sunday at 22:30, a Jewish man was threatened with a knife whilst walking in New York. According to JP Updates, 31-year-old Anshel Niderman was walking at the intersection of 13th Avenue and 38th Street when a man bumped into him and continued walking another few feet till a telephone pole, poked the telephone wire, then pulled out a knife from his pocket and pointed it to the telephone and yelled “Jew.” Niderman tried to follow the man but lost him after a short distance, police said.

Police are searching for a male Hispanic between the ages of 30 and 35 and are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers on 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

Source: JP Updates

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TIME writer claims it is easier to explain the murder of Jews than of non-Jews in Paris

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 30/11/2015

Hyper Cacher hostages being saved by police

Journalist Vivienne Walt, writing in TIME, has suggested it is easier to explain the murder of Jewish Parisians than the murder of non-Jewish Parisians:

In January it had been relatively simple to explain to my child, who was then eight, why the cartoonists had been the target, and why a Jewish supermarket was attacked—grim as the details were… Answering questions over dinner on Sunday was more difficult, however. The targets this time were young people having fun on a warm Friday night; people, in fact, who were his age not all that long ago. To children in Paris, Charlie Hebdo had seemed a one-off attack, involving targets that were not part of our ordinary lives.

Walt also suggested that Jewish people in a supermarket were not “the most normal of people,” writing that:

…Friday’s attacks impacted so many regular Parisians because they had been aimed directly at the most normal of people — the drinkers, the concert-goers, the soccer fans.

The Algemeiner news site adds that despite Walt’s suggestion that the youth of the victims was also more shocking in the November attacks than the January attacks, “Yoav Hattab, murdered in the HyperCacher kosher supermarket attack in January, was 21, and Yohan Cohen was 22. They were pretty young. In fact, they were younger than nearly every victim of the more recent Paris attacks. But apparently that didn’t make it more difficult to explain their murders to Vivienne’s 8-year-old son. Shopping for food is probably as familiar an experience to her son as sitting in a café or going to a concert, but clearly that didn’t make the job of explaining those murders any more difficult.”

Source: Time Magazine/Algemeiner

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University of Maryland students’ door vandalised with swastika

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 30/11/2015

Students at the University of Maryland have angrily responded to the person who drew a swastika on their dormitory door. Adding their own note to the door, the students responded: “To whoever drew the swastika on our door, would you draw that if you knew one of our grandfathers was tied to a wall and shot at by Nazis in World War II just for being Jewish? 2/3 of us who live in here are Jewish. Think about it.”

Source: CFCA/DBK

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Florida Planning Committee member targeted for voting in favour of synagogue construction

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 30/11/2015

A Boca Raton Planning and Zoning Committee member says he was targeted through social media and e-mail due to his vote in favour of a Synagogue and Jewish museum in East Boca Raton, Florida. The planned synagogue and Israel centre have reportedly been heavily opposed by local residents.

Source: CFCA/WPTV

Antisemitic graffiti found at Canadian university

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 30/11/2015

Antisemitic and anti-black graffiti has been found in two public toilets at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. The graffiti was quickly removed and university officials are investigating where it came from.

Source: CFCA/CTV News Kitchener

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North Carolina Jewish school closes as FBI search for sender of antisemitic threats

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 29/11/2015

B’nai Shalom Day School in Greensboro, North Carolina, has closed while FBI and local police search for the sender of a letter which “expressed a clear threat to the school and its occupants.” The FBI said the letter contained “racially charged language”.

Source: CFCA/Fox8

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Florida thug assaults Jew, shouting “Jews should go back to Auschwitz; Hitler was right”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 29/11/2015

A 19-year-old Jewish man in Boca Raton, Florida, has been attacked by a man who shouted “Jews should go back to Auschwitz; Hitler was right.” The Jewish man remonstrated with him, at which point the antisemitic thug shoved him to the ground and hit his head, following which the two exchanged punches. Local police are looking for a white man, about 20 years old, 180cm tall, weighing around 70kg with blonde or light brown hair in a crew cut style.

Source: CFCA/WPTV

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FBI investigates letters sent to Las Vegas residents demanding that they stop letting to Jews and others

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 29/11/2015

The FBI are investigating letters sent to residents in Spring Valley, Las Vegas, demanding that residents stop renting their homes to Jews, and members of other minorities because “we want to keep this neighbourhood white”. The letter is signed with what appears to be an attempt at drawing a swastika. It appears that whoever sent the letters went to considerable effort, with each one written by hand.

Source: CFCA/KSNV News3LV

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French ambassador to the USA suggests Jews are not ordinary citizens

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 27/11/2015

A Freudian slip by Gérard Araud, French Ambassador to the United States of America, has prompted outrage after he distinguished between French Jews targeted by terrorists and “ordinary citizens”. In a letter to French citizens living in the US following the terrorist attacks in Paris, Araud wrote: “These are the foundations of our model of society that the terrorists seek to destroy: Yesterday journalists and Jews; now ordinary citizens whose only crime was to enjoy life on a Friday night in Paris.”

The letter prompted disgust on social media. Ron Agam, a French-born artist living in New York, posted his outrage on Facebook: “Tonight French people in the US received a letter from the French Ambassador about the events in Paris. To my surprise I learned that I — the Jew that I am — was not a regular French citizen, I was a Jew.”

Source: Algemeiner

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New York police officer quits after sustained antisemitic abuse from fellow officers

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 25/11/2015

An officer in New York Police Department (NYPD), David Attali has revealed secret recordings he made of fellow officers subjecting him to disgusting, sustained antisemitic abuse. One officer reportedly referred to him constantly as “Jew” or “dirty Jew”, and never called him by his name.

In one exchange, officers can be heard suggesting Attali should go to a concentration camp because “you will lose so much weight”. In another exchange three officers taunt Attali: one says, “I want to push you into an oven and f***ing burn,” another joins in, “I want to tattoo a number on you,” and a third adds, “DKS7741, step up, breathe in this tube. And, oh wait, he died, surprise, surprise.”

His locker was allegedly repeatedly vandalised including with advertisements for pork products, a newspaper headline saying “Heil Hitler” and a handwritten sign which read: “This sign is covered with bacon grease. If anyone touches it he will go straight to hell.”

Attali requested a transfer which was refused, so he began secretly recording the abuse and complained to NYPD’s Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) unit which found his claims to be “unsubstantiated”. He has now launched a lawsuit against the City of New York and five officers.

Attali has ceased to be a police officer, saying: “This is the only thing I wanted to do. This is the job that I love, this was it. It [the abuse] was too much for me. That’s it, I’m done. I’m out…I really had no option.”

Steve Worth, the lawyer who represented the accused officers during the EEO investigation said Attari made it clear he wanted to leave the NYPD, saying: “The way he did it was to bring false claims against these officers and to bring a lawsuit to get money on the way out the door.”

NYPD began investigating after Attali supplied his recordings and has now brought disciplinary charges against three officers.

Sources: Forward, NY Daily News and ABC 7 NY

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New York subway cars plastered in Nazi symbols as part of advertising campaign

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 24/11/2015

Seats on New York City subway shuttle cars are plastered in symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to promote a new entertainment series on Amazon’s TV service.

The Gothamist website quotes a passenger, Ann Toback, as saying: “Half the seats in my car had Nazi insignias inside an American flag, while the other half had the Japanese flag in a style like the World War II design, so I had a choice, and I chose to sit on the Nazi insignia because I really didn’t want to stare at it…I shouldn’t have to sit staring at a Nazi insignia on my way to work.”

Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesperson Adam Lisberg said: “The updated standards prohibit political advertisements. Unless you’re saying that you believe Amazon is advocating for a Nazi takeover of the United States, then it meets the standards. They’re advertising a show.”

The standards also require that the Authority “Maintain a safe and welcoming environment for all MTA employees and customers.”

Photo: Ann Toback/Gothamist

Source: Gothamist

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Man shouts at Jews on Los Angeles street: “Go back to Auschwitz, you filthy Jews!”

Post author By Anonymous
Post date 22/11/2015

A Jewish woman living in Los Angeles sent in the following report:

On Friday night, after attending a Shabbat dinner, I was walking home westward on Pico Boulevard. The Pico-Robertson neighbourhood in Los Angeles has a large Jewish presence, with many synagogues and kosher restaurants. I ran into some friends after crossing Livonia, and we stopped to chat. As we stood there talking, a man who appeared to be white drove by in a Jeep. He leaned out the window and yelled, “Go back to Auschwitz, you filthy Jews!” We were all too surprised to respond – it happened so fast and then he was gone. I have lived here for two years and this was the first time I experienced an antisemitic incident in this particular neighbourhood.

Source: Reported to Everyday Antisemitism

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New York police hunt men who threw eggs at Jewish pedestrians and sped off in silver BMW

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 16/11/2015

New York Police Department is seeking a group of 4-6 males suspected of throwing eggs at Jewish pedestrians whilst shouting antisemitic slurs including “F***ing Jews” and “We will shoot and kill you Jews”.

Three male victims, aged 14, 17 and 23, have come forward, two of whom say that the attackers sped away in a sliver BMW.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident should call NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.

Source: CFCA/JP Updates

New York taxi driver attacks passenger upon learning he’s Jewish

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 16/11/2015

A Muslim taxi driver in New York City has been questioned by police after allegedly attacking a Jewish passenger.

Moshe Indig, told Arutz Sheva: “I took a cab from Manhattan to Brooklyn yesterday at 20:00. I asked the driver to make a phone call. He refused but then relented and put the call on the speaker. When he saw that I was speaking Hebrew, he said: ‘I hate the people and the language you are speaking. If I had known that you were a Jew, I would not have given you the call.’”

“When he dropped me off in Brooklyn I started walking and suddenly he got out of the vehicle and ran toward me and started punching me in the head. I was immediately concerned that he might have a knife or some other weapon, so I hit him forcefully. He grabbed my kippah and my cellphone and ran away.”

India leaned into the cab to try to retrieve his belongings but the driver started driving and Indig fell into the road and was injured.

India reflected: “I was lucky. If he had had a knife, there is no doubt that he would have killed me. His eyes were full of hatred. He turned from a cab driver to a terrorist.”

Source: Arutz Sheva

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Canadian Islamic website suggests Israel is behind Paris atrocity and ISIS

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 16/11/2015

An article on Crescent International, a Canadian website run by the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought has suggested that Israel was behind the terrorist attacks in Paris. An article titled “Paris attacks: Who done it?” speculates that likely author of the attack is Israel, which the article also claims is behind ISIS: “Who could be behind it? Of all the intelligence agencies, the one that stands out is the Zionist agency, Mossad. It has deep roots in France and has many facilitators in the country. What could be their motive? Simple. The US-Zionist-Saudi-backed takfiri terrorists are being degraded through Russian bombings. It may be a desperate move by the Zionists to force Western regimes to send their troops against the government of President Asad [sic]. His army has recently made gains against the terrorists and has recaptured a number of areas from their control.”

Crescent International usually echoes a pro-Iranian line, according to CIJ News.

Source: CFCA/CIJ News

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Antisemitic stickers at University of Central Florida suggest Jewish bankers are the wealthiest one percent

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 16/11/2015

Antisemitic stickers found at the University of Central Florida have been removed. One sticker showed a Nazi flag, whilst the other suggested that Jewish bankers are the wealthiest one percent of the population.

We have confirmed that the anti-Semitic pictures outside of #UCF Tower 4 have been removed. pic.twitter.com/TIFxk38noX

— UCF Knight News (@UCFKnightNews) November 15, 2015

Source: Tampa Bay Saratoga News

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University of Illinois pays out $875,000 to avoid hiring antisemitic professor

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 15/11/2015

In a shocking case, the University of Illinois has had to pay $875,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Dr Steven Salaita, who was offered a tenured position by the university only to have it withdrawn after he posted antisemitic statements on social media. One post praised antisemitism: “Zionists: transforming antisemitism from something horrible into something honourable since 1948.” Salaita, who currently has a one-year post at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, initiated legal proceedings against the university which the university has already spent $1.3 million defending.

In a statement issued in January 2015, when Salaita initiated legal proceedings, the University of Illinois said: “These statements and many more like them demonstrate that Dr Salaita lacks the judgment, temperament and thoughtfulness to serve as a member of our faculty in any capacity, but particularly to teach courses related to the Middle East…On September 11, 2014, after carefully considering all of the issues related to Dr. Salaita’s proposed appointment, the Board of Trustees voted 8-1 not to approve Dr. Salaita for a position on the faculty. Two weeks ago, the Board emphatically reiterated that its decision is final and will not be reconsidered…As a private citizen, Dr Salaita has the constitutional right to make any public statement he chooses. Dr Salaita, however, does not have a constitutional right to a faculty position at the University of Illinois.”

Source: Jewish Journal

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Antisemitic website results in first online hate crime conviction in almost 10 years in Canadian province

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/11/2015

The 68-year-old grandfather who authored RadicalPress.com has become the first person to be convicted of online hate crime for almost a decade in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Arthur Topham, whose website demonised Jews and promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories will be sentenced early next year. One article on the website described “synagogues of Satan” whilst another “satirically” called for “the extermination of Israel and all Jews” according to the prosecution. Topham’s legal defence was funded by white supremacists. A bizarre detail of the story is that Topham’s wife is apparently Jewish.

Photo: CBC News

Source: Documenting Antisemitism/CBC News

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Detroit radio show taken off air for claiming Jews killed Jesus and Holocaust was exaggerated

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 12/11/2015

A radio show called “White Lies and Roses” has been taken off the air by Detroit-based Salem Radio Network following an antisemitic broadcast. Speaking on the show, Christian Wright is reported to have said: “So let’s get this straight: the Jews are not Christian. They killed Jesus Christ. They are his killers…I have to say this about the Jews: The Jews are masters at propaganda. Did the Holocaust happen? Certainly. But it was not nearly the numbers that they portray. Propaganda.”

Source: Algemeiner

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House in Florida defaced with huge swastika and the word “Surprise”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 12/11/2015

A house in Winter Park, Florida, has been daubed with a huge swastika and the word “Surprise”. The home’s owner is considering leaving the graffiti in place to highlight the hateful act. Local police are investigating.

Photo: Wesh

Source: CFCA/Wesh

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“Hitler is Jesus”, swastikas and slurs daubed on California elementary school

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 12/11/2015

An elementary school in Folsom, California has been defaced with antisemitic graffiti overnight. In the morning, swastikas, antisemitic slurs and the words “Hitler is Jesus” were found spray-painted on the school’s walls. The graffiti was swiftly removed and local police are investigating. The Anti-Defamation League has posted a $2,500 reward for information.

Source: Folsom Telegraph

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Oregon student charged for antisemitic intimidation outside Jewish fraternity house

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 12/11/2015

According police in Eugene, Oregon, a member of a Jewish fraternity noticed Damien Leon Ramirez, 23, in his pickup truck outside the fraternity house. When the Jewish student asked the Ramirez to get out of the truck, he reportedly kicked the truck, shouted antisemitic slurs and made a comment about getting a gun.

Source: JNS

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FBI arrests white supremacists planning to bomb synagogues and black churches

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 11/11/2015

Two men have been arrested by the FBI after trying to buy “an automatic weapon, explosives, and a pistol with a silencer” from an undercover agent. The men planned to bomb black churches and a synagogue. A third suspect was due to help the men rob and kill a jeweller and armoured car to raise funds for “the coming race war”.

Source: MSNN

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Swastika drawn in faeces found at University of Missouri

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 09/11/2015

A swastika has been found smeared on the wall of a student dormitory at the University of Missouri. Local police are investigating.

Source: KOMU

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Watch: Man admits shouting “I’m tired of Jews” and punching New York orthodox Jew in the face

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 05/11/2015

Christian Rojas, 36, of Brooklyn has been charged with assault as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime and assault. The charges come after a 49-year-old Jewish man was attacked early this morning on his way to synagogue. His attacker allegedly threw the victim’s mobile phone to the ground before punching him in the face and shouting “I am tired of Jews.” The victim refused medical treatment for a bloody nose.

An eyewitness to the incident told NBC New York that Rojas screamed: “Watch this face, I’ll be back…I hate all Jews.” A video captured at the scene appears shows a handcuffed man apparently confessing to the attack.

There has recently been a spate of antisemitic attacks in New York. Just yesterday a Jewish man was stabbed in the back on the street.

Source: Crown Heights Info/Arutz Sheva

Orthodox Jewish man stabbed in back in New York’s Crown Heights

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 04/11/2015

A 34-year-old Orthodox Jewish man has been stabbed in the back whilst walking in New York’s Crown Heights neighbourhood. An unseen assailant approached from behind and plunged a knife into his back.

The victim is a volunteer with the Hatzalah organisation, a Jewish volunteer-run ambulance service whose members all carry radios so that they can be quickly dispatched to emergencies that happen nearby, which can give Hatzalah a faster response time than other ambulance services. In this instance, the victim used his radio to call Hatzalah dispatch for assistance. He was able to drag himself to an intersection leaving a trail of blood, collapsing as his Hatzalah colleagues arrived.

Police and members of Shomrim, the Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol, arrived on the scene quickly but the attacker had already escaped and is still at large.

There has been a spate of attacks on Orthodox Jews in New York in recent months.

Photo: Crown Heights Info

Source: CFCA/Crown Heights Info

“Jews” spray painted on sign at entrance to Jewish neighbourhood in Toronto

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 03/11/2015

A sign near the entrance to a Toronto neighbourhood with a large Jewish population has been spray-painted with the word “Jews”. Police are investigating.

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New Jersey school finds swastika and “Jews” written on pitch with shaving foam and eggs

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 03/11/2015

The girls’ football team at Dwight-Englewood School arrived at the school’s Solomon Field to find a swastika and the word “Jews” marked out using shaving foam and eggs. Local police are reviewing CCTV footage.

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Oklahoma pet shop daubed with huge swastika

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 03/11/2015

A pet shop in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, has been daubed with a huge swastika and other graffiti. Local police are investigating and the pet shop owner has offered a $500 reward for information resulting in an arrest.

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Village suggestion chalkboard calls for “less Jews”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 30/10/2015

A suggestions chalkboard erected by the village of Winnetka has been used by a pair of 12-year-old boys who believe that the village would benefit from “less Jews” and also “KKK”, the initials of white supremacist group Ku Klax Klan.

Photo: Gary Frank

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Vandals attempt to tear arm from menorah outside San Diego Jewish centre

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 28/10/2015

Two unknown men have vandalised a four-metre-high menorah outside a Chabad House Jewish centre at San Diego State University. A Jewish student witnessed two men pulling one arm of the menorah which broke. The student gave chase but was unable to apprehend the men. Local police are investigating.

Photo: The Daily Aztec

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Only Jewish El Paso councillor’s art gallery vandalised again with “YouTube Jews did 9/11, killed JFK”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 28/10/2015

The only Jewish councillor in El Paso has had his art gallery vandalised with antisemitic graffiti reading “YouTube Jews did 9/11, killed JFK”. This is the second time he has been targeted in less than a month.

Photo: El Paso Proud

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French consulate in New York dismisses intern who believes Jews are “dispersed rats”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 28/10/2015

An intern at the French consulate in New York has been dismissed after her online tirade against Jewish people came to light. Writing on Facebook, Amira Jumaa had said of the brutal stabbing of Jews in Israel: “Yes you Jews deserve these lessons,” continuing: “You don’t belong anywhere in this world — that‘s why you guys are scums and rats and discriminated against wherever you are.” When another Facebook user remonstrated with her, she retorted: “First of all you dispersed rat, I am not an immigrant from France. I am from Kuwait so my country can buy you and your parents and put you in ovens,” presumably referring to the crematoria used by the Nazis to dispose of the corpses of Jews murdered in the concentration camps. Jumaa’s university, Sciences Po in Paris, has yet to comment.

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Walmart withdraws hooked prosthetic “Sheik/Fagin Nose” from sale after outcry

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 28/10/2015

Following an outcry, Walmart has withdrawn a Hallowe’en accessory from its website. The hooked prosthetic nose was supplied by Morris Costumes, which appears to have been responsible for the nose’s description. Fagin is the name of a character in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and is based on an antisemitic stereotype.

Photo: Jewish News

Bizarre antisemitic caricature found painted on wall in New York

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 26/10/2015

The graffiti was found on New York’s 187th Street, between Overlook and Fort Washington.

Graffiti at Canadian university attacks “anyone who supports the c***sucking Jews”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 23/10/2015

Antisemitic graffiti at Ryerson University is under investigation. The graffiti read: “F*** Israel and anyone who supports the c***sucking Jews. Israel burn in Hell. Stealing Palestinian land. Motherf***ers! Spit in Israelis face.” The scrawl is signed with a crossed out Star of David.

Photo: CIJ News

New York Jewish man attacked in broad daylight in latest in a spate of attacks

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 21/10/2015

35-year-old Moshe Yehuda Feldman was struck on the back of the head in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He was walking outside a Jewish school at 11:20 on 16th October when a Hispanic male approached him from behind, struck him and then fled. The man was left with head injuries and police are investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at +1 800-577-TIPS (8477), or Williamsburg Shomrim at +1 718-237-0202. Orthodox Jews in New York have recently been the victims of a spate of attacks.

Photo: JP Updates

New York’s landmark Stanton Street Synagogue vandalised

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 21/10/2015

New York’s landmark Stanton Street Synagogue, one of the last surviving tenement-style synagogues in the city has been vandalised. Two vandals broke in overnight, ascending the bima (platform from which the Rabbi and cantor conduct services), overturning the lectern, ripping down lamps and throwing prayer shawls and other ritual items to the floor. New York Police Department have gathered fingerprints and CCTV footage and are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

New York State schoolboy charged with criminal mischief for swastika graffiti

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 21/10/2015

A sixteen-year-old schoolboy has been charged with criminal mischief after he painted a swastika on the wall of Pine Bush High School’s cafeteria. The area’s school board recently settled a legal dispute with Jewish parents who said their children were suffering abuse.

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Hazardous materials teams deployed to antisemitic incident in Rhode Island

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 15/10/2015

Hazardous materials teams and police were deployed in Providence, Rhode Island, following the discovery of packages containing antisemitic messages and what is thought to be rice. Hazardous materials teams were called in over fears that it could be a deadly substance such as anthrax, which is a possible motive for the perpetrator putting rice in the packages. The packages were placed outside homes but local police do not believe that the packages were targeted at individuals. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

Photo: Providence Journal

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Sign at Yale University: “Yale is a Jew hole, let’s round them up”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/10/2015

A sign saying “Yale is a Jew hole, let’s round them up” has been found near New Haven Hospital. Yale University police are investigating.

Photo: NBC Connecticut

Menorah vandalised in outside Montreal synagogue

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/10/2015

A menorah has been smashed to the ground by vandals outside a synagogue in Notre Dame de Grace, Montreal.

Photo: Global News

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Towson University students find antisemitic graffiti saying “Hitler was right”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/10/2015

A chalkboard used for students to write each other notices at the centre of a Maryland university’s campus has been marked with phrases including “Hitler was right,” “With Jews you lose” and “Fascism just do it.”

Photo: Rebecca Altschul

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Swastikas painted on Cape Cod cycle path

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/10/2015

A cycle path between Brewster and Harwich in Cape Cod has been vandalised with painted swastikas. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation told CBS Boston that it has now cleaned the site.

Nice quiet ride on the Cape Cod rail trail interrupted by these not-so-painted over swastikas. Absolutely awful. pic.twitter.com/Kim7MsgMla

— Alex Goldstein (@alexjgoldstein) October 11, 2015

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Swastikas and antisemitic graffiti found at UC Davis hall of residence

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/10/2015

Swastikas and antisemitic slurs have been carved into cars, and tires have been slashed at a hall of residence at UC Davis. Eleven cars had swastikas and slurs such as “F*** Jews” carved into them. Tyres were also slashed. One student said her roommate’s tyre was slashed and told CBS Sacramento: “It jeopardised her life. She was on the freeway.” Police are investigating.

Photo: CBS Sacramento

Jewish mother with baby in a pram pelted with objects in New York

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/10/2015

New York Police Department are reportedly investigating an attack on a 22-year-old Orthodox Jewish mother in Brooklyn. The woman had unknown objects thrown at her as she pushed her baby in a pram past the Bangladesh Muslim Centre in Kensington, New York City on 10th October. The woman was not injured, and no arrests have been made.

Two Israeli rabbinical students attacked with Molotov cocktail in New York

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 14/10/2015

Two 19-year-old Israeli rabbinical students have reportedly been attacked with a Molotov cocktail in midtown New York. Yosef Rachimi and Yisrael Gadas, say they were walking near the corner of West 37th Street and 9th Avenue at 13:30 on Friday 9th October when they were attacked.

Speaking to the New York Post through a translator, Rachimi said: “I’m in complete shock. In 2015, an explosive bottle was thrown at a Jew in the streets of New York.”

Barry Sugar, a local Jewish leader observed: “It is conceivable that the attacker sees these boys every Friday and prepared this bomb to ambush them. A firebomb is not the kind of thing you have sitting in your car or in your bag unless you have someone to throw it at.”

Shopkeeper Shalom Hegazy, who witnessed the assault, said the attacker “lit something in the bottle—I think alcohol. The bottle broke on the floor, and the fire came up.”

The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the attack but no arrests have been made yet.

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California student body officer casts doubt on Holocaust

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 07/10/2015

A student body officer at American River College in California cast doubt on the veracity of the Holocaust, including that six million Jews were killed. In the interview, Cameron Weaver told the American River Current that he was “skeptical” and refuted the facts of the Holocaust as lacking in proof.

Photo: American River Current

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Alabama KKK member claims that Nazi concentration camps were “summer camps” for Jews

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 30/09/2015

A Ku Klax Klan member identified as James in a BBC Three documentary emphatically claims that Nazi concentration camps were in fact “summer camps” for Jews. He said: “Adolf Hitler was one of the smartest men there ever was. At these death camps they gave the so-called people that were being killed cigarettes, there was coffee, there was a movie theater, there was a library, and even a swimming pool in Auschwitz. If you’re going to sit there and kill all these people then how come all these things would be in there, it’s more like a summer camp.”

Photo: BBC

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Jewish cemetery vandalised in Delaware

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 30/09/2015

Police in Minquadale, Delaware are hunting vandals who damaged almost 20 headstones in Machzikey Hadas Cemetery. The damaged caused exceeds $1,500 in value, making the crime a felony. Police are seeking surveillance footage.

Two men shot with ball bearing guns in latest attack against New York Jews

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 22/09/2015

Police in New York are investigating two shootings in which orthodox Jewish men were targeted with non-lethal ball bearing guns. In one incident a 28-year-old man was shot in the back on the way home from synagogue in Queens and required medical attention. In another incident in the same area, a 25-year-old man walking to synagogue was shot in the leg suffering similar wounds as the first victim.

Photo: JP Updates

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Video shows antisemitic protesters shouting “Fagin” and “money” at Jews

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 21/09/2015

Antisemitic “animal rights” protesters approached Congregation Ohel Moshe in Los Angeles shouting antisemitic abuse. A woman shouts “Fagin” (a reference to the fictional money-obsessed Jewish thief Fagin in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist) and “Money, money, money, money, money” at the Jewish people on the pavement, whilst another jibes “Killing chickens for money, very good.”

Video: Jew Tube

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Antisemitic outpouring under #IStandWithAnn hashtag in response to Ann Coulter’s “f—ing Jews” tweet

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 18/09/2015

In response to the outcry over Ann Coulter’s tweet that Republican presidential candidates were pandering to “f—ing Jews”, the #IStandWithAnn hashtag has emerged on Twitter, unleashing a torrent of antisemitism. See our short video for more.

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Posters claiming Jews are Ku Klax Klan posted around Cleveland, Ohio

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 17/09/2015

Cleveland Jewsish News has reported that several antisemitic posters were put up throughout Cleveland’s Ohio City neighbourhood. One poster read “Jews Are Klu Klux Klan” and the reverse of the poster contained a handwritten message claiming that “Jews killed 800,000 blacks in Rwanda” and “Jews caused 9/11.” Other residents reported finding similar posters on their streets, cars and property.

Photo: Martha Widdowson

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American commentator accuses Republican candidates of pandering to “f—ing Jews”

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 17/09/2015

Ann Coulter, author of “Adios America”, who describes herself as “an eleven-time New York Times bestselling author, gun-clinger and right-wing polemicist” has been accused of antisemitism following a string of tweets during yesterday’s Republican presidential candidate debate.

Accusing the candidates of pandering to “f—ing Jews” Coulter tweeted:

Cruz, Huckabee Rubio all mentioned ISRAEL in their response to: "What will AMERICA look like after you are president."

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015

How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015

Maybe it's to suck up to the Evangelicals.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015

The tweets elicited an outcry:

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/644351202654834688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/lilenchiladas/status/644379096378687488

https://twitter.com/RightForLife/status/644386547995815936

@AnnCoulter What kind of jackassery, anti-Semitic Tweet is this? Totally gratuitous. Despicable.

— Quin Hillyer (@QuinHillyer) September 17, 2015

Coulter responded to critics on Twitter:

It's not about Jewish people; it's about Republican panderers. https://t.co/OmOL2B9K0E

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015

It has to be read w/ prior tweet. Only 140 characters so sometimes they continue. Not @ Jews; about GOP pandering. https://t.co/WdnG1Y2QMp

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 17, 2015

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Antisemitic blogger fired from US city administration

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 16/09/2015

John Friend, who writes The Realist Report and other antisemitic blogs, has been forced out of his job at the City Manager’s Office in Escondido, California. The blogs claim that a Jewish conspiracy controls the media and is responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Friend told a San Diego Union-Tribune journalist: “I have also researched and studied a number of important, yet completely marginalised and in many cases demonised, white Christian patriots including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, George Lincoln Rockwell [the founder of the American Nazi Party] and many others.”

He has launched a fundraising campaign on Indigogo to support his “free speech”.

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Antisemitic graffiti sprayed on apartment complex in Boca Raton

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 16/09/2015

Police in Boca Raton, Florida, are investigating the spraying of graffiti on an apartment complex in Boca Raton, Florida. The graffiti consisted of a Star of David, heart and swastika, all joined by plus signs. A local resident told the Palm Beach Post that she saw four teenagers — three boys and a girl — who ran away laughing.

Photo: Lulu Ramadan, Palm Beach Post

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Outcry after New York Times publishes list of Jewish politicians and their voting intentions

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 11/09/2015

Ahead of the Congressional vote on the Iran nuclear deal, the New York Times published a list of Jewish politicians, the Jewish population in their constituencies and their voting intentions. After an outcry (see some selected tweets below), the paper quietly removed the “Jewish” column.

My favorite part of the NYT Jew tracker is the part where specifically track how loyal to the political party the Jews are

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) September 10, 2015

@nytimes Can you give us list of Jews who control Hollywood next? Just saying.

— Mike Report🇮🇱 (@MikeReport1) September 10, 2015

https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/642032222862766080

https://twitter.com/LDoren/status/642040218736963584

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/642049125689749504

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/642037980442587136

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Three men arrested for vandalising Jewish summer camp in Michigan

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 03/09/2015

Three men have been charged with spraying swastikas on a sign outside Camp Agudah Midwest, an Orthodox overnight camp.
They are also charged with damaging a building at the camp and spraying swastikas on a nearby picnic table and car. The incident, has caused the camp to invest in a nighttime security guard and other security measures. The attack took place during the fast day of Tisha b’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the ancient temples in Jerusalem. The three defendants face up to a year in jail and more than $2,000 in fines if convicted.

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FBI investigate antisemitic vandalism of Memphis Jewish school

Post author By Everyday Antisemitism
Post date 03/09/2015

A playground at the Margolin Hebrew Academy in Memphis, Tennessee was vandalised with antisemitic graffiti including swastikas and slogans praising Hitler.