#antisemitism

#antisemitism

Members of the Jewish community say they have been living in fear of a major attack for almost two years. Synagogues, schools and other Jewish sites across the country have ramped up security as they faced a surge in antisemitic incidents in the wake of the war in Gaza. On Thursday, almost two years after Hamas launched its 7 October 2023 attacks, their fears became a reality when a knifeman wearing suspected suicide vest targeted worshippers outside a Manchester synagogue.

"I, unlike any of the candidates, have said Jews must protect themselves," Sliwa, the Republican candidate in New York City's mayor's race, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a recent interview. "If you depend strictly on Gentiles, history is replete with instances where you're going to be horribly disappointed."

That was crazy. Dude, when Tucker Carlson got up at Charlie Kirk's funeral, when they were lowering his coffin into the ground, and he got up on the microphone and said, I'm really sick of these f*cking hukus-eating, hook-nose, money-changing, penny-pitching, Christ-killing Jews that poison the wells in the Middle Ages.' You know, I thought that was overkill, Fuentes began, embellishing Carlon's actual words at the event.

Crown Heights United PAC, a political group "anchored in the Crown Heights Jewish community" which is the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, endorsed Cuomo Monday morning. "We proudly endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of New York City," Crown Heights United PAC wrote in a statement, which was signed by 13 rabbis and community leaders. "With extremism and antisemitism on the rise, and the city facing an unprecedented crisis, it is more important than ever to make our voices heard and vote."

For most of my life, I attended reluctantly, dreading the long hours of prayer. I was proud to be Jewish, taking satisfaction in my people's survival and success despite the attempts to annihilate us. But I was also embarrassed by what I perceived as Judaism's weirdness and obsolescence: all those nitpicky laws, and that implausible, reward-and-punishment God I thought was portrayed in the liturgy.

The arrests came days after French prosecutors said foreign interference was probably to blame for a spate of provocative acts that had targeted Jewish and Muslim sites in France in recent years, as tensions run high over the war in Gaza. French officials have previously said they were investigating Russia's role in destabilising operations that have stoked social tensions and sown division in France. On Monday, Serbia's interior ministry said the 11 people arrested were Serbian nationals.

In June, in an escalation of the Trump administration's pressure on Harvard University to bow to its demands, a federal Office for Civil Rights announced that the institution was violating federal law. The office released a nearly 60-page report accusing Harvard of "deliberate indifference" to ongoing discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students, which is illegal under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

A hotly contested bill aimed at reducing antisemitism in California schools now awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature. AB 715, introduced by Democratic Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur of Los Angeles and Dawn Addis of San Luis Obispo, seeks to reign in antisemitism in schools by establishing a new Office of Civil Rights to work directly with schools on addressing incidents of discrimination and hate.

AB 715, introduced by Democratic Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur of Los Angeles and Dawn Addis of San Luis Obispo, seeks to reign in antisemitism in schools by establishing a new Office of Civil Rights to work directly with schools on addressing incidents of discrimination and hate. The new department would be administered by the state's Government Operations Agency, and its director would be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate.

Now, let's just use logic for two minutes, and I'll put to rest the lies that Candace Owens is putting out about Jews. And she's gonna wind up getting Jews killed if she keeps the sh*t up. Let me be very clear: she's not nuts, she's not nuts at all. She just has latched on to a methodology to get morons to listen to her and tries to put pieces together that don't match, argued Savage, adding:

Hochul, in endorsing 33-year-old assemblyman from Queens and Democratic mayoral nominee, said the two don't see eye to eye on everything, and I don't expect us to in a statement that at times focused on differences. She said she had frank conversations with Mamdani and they have had disagreements, but called him a leader who is focused on making New York City affordable.

A man has been arrested following a series of antisemitic incidents in Barnet. A 37-year-old man was arrested in the Hendon area on Friday on suspicion of religiously motivated criminal damage in connection with seven offences on Jewish premises. Four synagogues and a private residence in Golders Green had a substance smeared on them, while liquid was thrown towards a school and a car on two other occasions, police said previously.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan united with members of the Jewish community on Sept. 7 during Sunday Mass at Midtown's Saint Patrick's Cathedral to denounce antisemitism. Dubbed Stand Up Sunday, the event was part of a nationwide action aimed at raising awareness of Antisemitism, which has only become more prevalent since the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack in Israel.

Driving the news: The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS) tells Axios that the unity dinners will begin mid-September in New Orleans, bringing students together from Tulane, Xavier, Dillard and Loyola universities. Dinners will then continue in Baltimore, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Philadelphia and Houston as part of a 14-city tour. The effort will invite students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as well as from schools like Rice, Temple and the University of Houston.

This fall's back-to-school season comes amid seismic shifts on college campuses. Just weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that UCLA violated federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from a hostile environment-one of several universities now facing federal scrutiny. Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League released a sobering new report showing that only nine U.S. states have strong policies to combat antisemitism, underscoring how many students endure unsafe campus climates largely out of public view.

Some TikTok users have reported seeing a troubling product in the last few days: T-shirts for sale on TikTok Shop that are an antisemitic parody of the Jaws movie poster. In the image printed on the shirts, the shark has been transformed into a human nose, the swimmer at the surface of the water is instead a $100 bill, and "Jaws" has been edited to read "Jews," propagating antisemitic stereotypes of Jewish people as money hungry.