Jewish Diaspora

Congressional candidate, Georgetown grad student under fire for anti-Semitic posts

Heerak Kim, who is running in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, recently tweeted that the 'FBI should investigate US politicians in both parties with‘questionable’ ties with Israel,'

February 23, 2020

Police body-cam footage of New Jersey kosher market shootout

WATCH: Body-cam footage of New Jersey kosher market shootout released

Police body-camera footage emerged this week of the Dec. 10 shootout in Jersey City, New Jersey that ensued when anti-Semitic attackers David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, opened fire at a kosher super...

February 22, 2020

Rick Wiles of the anti-Semitic channel TruNews

Lurid anti-Semitic propaganda channel ‘TruNews’ booted by YouTube

A far-right, viciously anti-Semitic website that made headlines last November when it was revealed to have received media accreditation from the White House has been kicked off the YouTube platform.

February 22, 2020

Anti-Semitism in US army: Witch hunt for Jewish spy accused of treason

'If it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody,' victim David Tenenbaum said. 'Either we fight it or we stick our heads in the sand.'

February 19, 2020

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt a talk on anti-Semitism by Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, at the University of California, Berkeley, Feb. 13, 2020.

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt talk by renowned Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt at UC Berkeley

'I want to thank the protesters for making my point more clearly than my words could,' Lipstadt stated.

February 18, 2020

San Diego Padres baseball cap dropped due to swastika resemblance

'For the love of God, please don’t wear those swastika spring training hats,' tweeted AbmnbleShowMan.

February 16, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at the "Bernie's Back Rally" at Queensbridge Park, Long Island City on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in New York

AIPAC denies link to group that ran anti-Sanders ads

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee distances itself from a political action committee that has run ads against Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. By Associated Press The American ...

February 15, 2020

Opinion: A new phrase sheds light on an ancient hatred

Confirmation bias, a new expression, sheds light on the persistence of anti-Semitism.

February 14, 2020

Pro-Israel groups join forces to fight EU’s anti-Israel labeling law

Two pro-Israel groups have partnered to fight an anti-Israel labeling law.

February 13, 2020

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

After 6-hour debate, University of Illinois student government passes BDS resolution

The resolution was co-authored by Dunia Ghanimah, president of the university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

February 13, 2020

ADL: White supremacist propaganda circulation leaps 120%

The printed propaganda includes material that directly spreads messages of discrimination against Jews.

February 12, 2020

Was AIPAC’s apology for ad slamming anti-Israel ‘radicals in the Democratic party’ warranted?

AIPAC retracted the ad, which is no longer active, and published an apology.

February 10, 2020

Israel Prize winner heads campaign inviting French Jews to Israel

Miriam Peretz asks French Jews to help their compatriots reconnect to their roots in an online drive spearheaded by a subsidiary of the Jewish Agency.

February 9, 2020

Jews blamed for creating deadly coronavirus

'Extremists hope the virus kills Jews, but they are also using its emergence to advance anti-Semitic theories that Jews are responsible for creating [it],' said the ADL.

February 8, 2020

New ADL study shows stereotypes against Jews

A large percentage of Americans agree with negative stereotypes surrounding Jews, the survey found.

February 8, 2020

Duchess of Cambridge reveals personal pictures taken of Holocaust survivors and their grandchildren

'The harrowing atrocities of the Holocaust, which were caused by the most unthinkable evil, will forever lay heavy in our hearts," the Duchess said.

February 6, 2020

Facebook takes down anti-Semitic page seeking to stop Orthodox moving to Lakewood, New Jersey

Facebook determined the page violated community standards for hate speech, company spokesman Daniel Roberts said in an email. The page was removed Wednesday.

February 6, 2020

WATCH: ‘All of you are killing Jews,’ shouts protester from anti-Israel group at Trump event

An activist from the anti-Israel IfNotNow group shouted at Trump's son, 'All of you in here are killing Jews, all of you.'

February 4, 2020

German court: Church’s ‘Jew pig’ sculpture can stay

A German appeals court on Tuesday rejected a Jewish man's bid to force the removal of a 700-year-old anti-Semitic statue from a church where Martin Luther once preached.

February 4, 2020

WATCH: New York takes a stand and fights anti-Semitism

Public authorities and Jewish groups are taking the wave of global anti-Semitism, including vicious attacks in New York, very seriously, i24 News reports.

February 4, 2020

Herut to introduce resolution at next Zionist congress promoting self-defense, security training in Diaspora

World Herut wants a security program designed around an existing Israeli emissary model that has been proven effective.

February 4, 2020

Caricature by Vasco Gargalo of PM Netanyahu wearing a kippah and sporting a Nazi-style Star of David armband as he pushed a coffin draped with a Palestinian flag into a gas chamber.

Jewish groups call for action against Portuguese cartoonist over anti-Semitic images

Jewish groups have highlighted Gargalo’s reliance on historically anti-Semitic tropes in his attacks on Israel.

February 4, 2020

Zuckerberg trumpets return to religion at Utah conference

'You have to believe in things that are bigger than yourself,' Zuckerberg, Jewish, told the audience at a Utah conference.

February 2, 2020

Suspect in attacks on three Jewish women in Brooklyn faces federal hate crimes charges

Tiffany Harris allegedly targeted the Jewish women on Dec. 27 in Crown Heights while shouting, 'F— you, Jews!'

January 30, 2020

WATCH: Auschwitz survivor recalls torture, burning flesh on 75th anniversary of liberation

Jona Laks could hear the cries of the people being tortured. Now, at the age of 90, she returned to the site of the Nazi death camp on the 75th anniversary of its liberation.

January 28, 2020

Survivors carry a wreath at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020.

Survivors return to Auschwitz 75 years after liberation

'I have no graves to go to and I know my parents were murdered here and burned. So this is how I pay homage to them,' said Yvonne Engelman.

January 27, 2020

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas looks at pictures of Jews killed during the Holocaust, in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, March 25, 2018.

German FM proposes action plan to fight anti-Semitism, prevent Jews from fleeing country

'It does not surprise me that almost every second Jew in Germany has already thought about leaving the country,' the foreign minister admitted.

January 27, 2020

American Jews indirectly funding anti-Semitism on US campuses, report says

More than a third of Jews ages 18-29 had either experienced anti-Semitism on campus in the past five years or knew someone who had.

January 26, 2020

Belgian paper accuses ‘Zionists’ of ‘playing Holocaust card’

In a new anti-Semitism scandal in Belgium, a daily paper published an article accusing ‘Zionists’ of ‘playing the Holocaust card.’

January 25, 2020

Yad Vashem, Facebook International partner to commemorate Holocaust victims

For the first time, the IRemember Wall will be available in six languages.

January 24, 2020

Comedian Jeff Garlin of The Goldbergs dreams of performing in Israel

Comedian Jeff Garlin, stars in the hit ABC series The Goldbergs, wants to perform in Israel.

January 23, 2020

Jews could ‘disappear completely’ from Europe, says chairman of World Holocaust Forum

'It is a possibility that in 30 years there will be no Jews in Europe,' Moshe Kantor told Israel's Army Radio.

January 22, 2020

Police officers escort Grafton Thomas to a police vehicle, Dec. 29, 2019, in Ramapo, N.Y.

NYPD cops who captured accused Monsey Chanukah party stabber awarded honors

The officers captured the assailant during a traffic stop in Harlem, shortly after police say he fled the scene of the attack.

January 22, 2020

Survivor stories spotlight Auschwitz liberation anniversary

Only years later did Gluck discover that his birth mother had actually perished along with more than a million other Jews in Auschwitz.

January 22, 2020

Opinion: Why the bombing Auschwitz argument still matters

The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.

January 21, 2020

Wolfgang Sobotka, President of the Austrian National Council

WATCH: Austria will stand up against anti-Semitism, BDS, vows official

Austrian official says his country is committed to standing up against BDS and other movements that single out the Jewish state,calling it 'nothing more and nothing less than outright anti-Semitism.'

January 21, 2020

Yale taps BDS activist as Martin Luther King Jr. Day speaker

Pro-BDS political activist Angela Davis also has faced accusations of anti-Semitism for her support of the Soviet Union's suppression of Jewish dissidents.

January 21, 2020

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres places a wreath during a ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance in the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial

Opinion: The West mourns the Jewish dead, but what about the living?

It’s clear that all this Holocaust memorializing and education hasn’t put anti-Semitism back in its putrid box.

January 21, 2020

Brooklyn Jews trained by champion boxer to fend off attacks

A world boxing champion rabbi is teaching self-defense to vulnerable communities after a wave of anti-Semitic attacks.

January 20, 2020

Israel prepares for hosting 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation with 50 world leaders arriving

Over 50 world leaders and foreign dignitaries are coming Tuesday to mark the day and vow to fight against anti-Semitism.

January 19, 2020

President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying commemoration ceremony for the 77th anniversary since the Leningrad siege was lifted during the World War Two, at the Boundary Stone monument, about 50 kilometers east of St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020.

War of words over World War II continues between Poland and Russia

'Stalin’s regime brought (Poland) terror, atrocities, and economic exploitation,' said one of the Polish tweets.

January 19, 2020

Man charged in NY stabbing attack in rabbi’s home pleads not guilty

Grafton Thomas's lawyer, Michael Sussman, said his client suffers from mental illness and is not responsible for his actions.

January 17, 2020

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

ADL: Stop ‘politicizing’ anti-Semitism

'This moment is about women wearing wigs harassed as they ride the subway or men wearing black hats assaulted as they cross the street,' ADL's CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told Congress.

January 16, 2020

Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho) posing with staff in his congressional office.

Congressman Russ Fulcher says Idaho used to culture that ‘appreciates’ Israel

'The people in the state of Idaho are generally very pro-Israel, and that’s just part of our culture, part of our conservative nature,' Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher told JNS.

January 16, 2020

In this photograph taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, protesters hold flowers as tear gas fired by police rises at a demonstration in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, to remember victims of a Ukrainian airplane shot down by an Iranian missile.

Top US Jewish group urges global solidarity with anti-regime protesters in Iran

'The brutal treatment of innocent Iranians in recent days is unacceptable,' said the leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

January 16, 2020

‘You f***in Jews,’ New York cop allegedly shouts at hasidic father and son

The majority of anti-Semitic incidents during 2019 had particularly taken place in areas that are home to many Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, according to the NYPD.

January 15, 2020

South Dakota governor signs executive order banning boycotts of Israel

'We reaffirm that South Dakota stands with Israel and will contract with businesses who agree to fairly compete. Our state will not stand for any discrimination based on race or religion,' said Kristi Noem.

January 15, 2020

In this Dec. 11, 2019 photo, emergency responders work at a kosher supermarket, the site of a shooting in Jersey City, N.J.

Jersey kosher market shooters had devastating bomb, explosive range of 5 football fields

Authorities also disclosed that enough material to make a second bomb was found in the couples’ van.

January 14, 2020

Nazi-looted masterpieces to hit auction block after return to Jewish owners

During World War II, it is estimated that the Nazis looted about 100,000 pieces of art during their occupation of France.

January 14, 2020

Orthodox Jews pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, in Uman, Ukraine.

Alleged ‘pogrom’ against Jews in Ukraine results in beefed-up security near rabbi’s grave

'The Hasidim will continue to install CCTV cameras. Communication between the parties will be maintained to prevent such incidents,' the head of Ukraine's Jewish Committee wrote.

January 13, 2020

Opinion: New York’s Jewish elite bails out as violent anti-Semitism on the rise

Mainstream American Jewish organizations led the lobbying effort to pass bail reform in New York and hired an ex-convict and accomplice to murder to lead its initiative.

January 12, 2020

Egypt restores historic synagogue, decades after driving out Jews

Due to widespread persecution and discrimination, only a handful of Jews remain in Egypt, which was once home to a thriving Jewish community. By World Israel News and AP Egypt reopened a historic synagogu...

January 12, 2020

After machete attack, pistol permit applications rise in NY Jewish community

The number of residents seeking to own handguns has risen sharply in a New York community shaken last month by an anti-Semitic machete attack during which an assailant injured five men.

January 12, 2020

Jeremy Corbyn, who has been widely accused of allowing anti-Semitism to fester under his leadership.

Scotland Yard: Five UK Labour members face criminal charges for anti-Semitism

'There are posts suggesting Jews should be exterminated. There's talk about gas chambers,' said a former Director of Public Prosecutions.

January 9, 2020

Family stunned to discover swastika painted on uncle’s head at elderly care center

An elderly man in a nursing home and suffering from Alzheimer's had a swastika drawn on top of his head.

January 9, 2020

Woman discovers dozen Jewish tombstones smashed at 17th-century French cemetery

A commemorative plaque for a girl who was deported during the Holocaust was also smashed.

January 7, 2020

Jews seen as among those paying respects following the killing of Qassem Suleimani.

Tehran’s chief rabbi reported among those paying respects to Soleimani’s family

'Many Jews attended the funeral. We went to console the general's family,' said a member of the Iranian Jewish community to Behadrei Haredim, a religious news source in Israel.

January 6, 2020