Jewish Diaspora & Antisemitism

UK garage refuses to sell parts to Israeli, says Israel is ‘same thing’ as ISIS

A car garage in Oldham, northern England overcharged a Jewish customer for a part and then sent him an email telling him they do not provide service to the State of Israel and seemed to compare the Jewish state to ISIS.

November 2, 2016

UN serves kosher food for first time in history

Following a month of deliberations between the Israeli Mission and the UN Secretariat, the UN’s facilities in New York began serving kosher food for the first time in history this week.

October 31, 2016

German guesthouse refuses to accept Israeli tourists

Four Israeli families who reserved lodgings at the Mattenhof guesthouse in the Black Forest town of Zell am Harmersbach, were rejected by the establishment due to their nationality.

October 31, 2016

Israeli arrested in Thailand for drug possession

Policemen and soldiers raided a guesthouse run by an Israeli who was arrested along with eight guests and charged with the use of an illegal substance.

October 30, 2016

violent anti-israel protest at london campus

WATCH: Police rescue trapped pro-Israel students from mob in London

Anti-Israel activists disrupted a program organized by local pro-Israel advocacy groups in London and trapped the attendees inside.

October 28, 2016

Desecrated US flag with anti-Semitic messages found near Florida synagogue

Police have launched an investigation into the incident.

October 19, 2016

Connecticut school apologizes for ‘Hitler’ football play

The headmaster of Greenwich High School has apologized after its football team named one of its game-plays 'Hitler.'

October 18, 2016

Florida synagogue vandalized on eve of Rosh Hashana

Local media reported that a vandal spray-painted expletives on the building of the Chabad of Parkland on Saturday.

October 5, 2016

WATCH: Philippines president apologizes to Jewish community

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte made a personal appearance at a synagogue in Metro Manila to apologize to Jews for remarks.

October 4, 2016

Far-right German politician investigated for selling Nazi-era memorabilia

Rudolf Mueller, a leading member of the Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party, is under investigation for suspicions that he sold Nazi memorabilia.

September 25, 2016

Max Mannheimer, Holocaust survivor and activist, dies at age 96

Holocaust survivor Max Mannheimer, who dedicated his life to fighting anti-Semitism in Germany, has died at the age of 96.

September 25, 2016

Nazi-era time capsule found in Poland

Inside the copper cylinder were newspapers from April of 1934, coins, parchment, photographs of Adolf Hitler and two copies of his infamous treatise, 'Mein Kampf.'

September 21, 2016

UN display of drawings by IDF soldier highlight demand for his return

In 2014, IDF Lieutenant Hadar Goldin was killed in Operation Protective Edge, during Israel's war against Hamas. Today, his drawings are displayed in the UN as an urgent reminder to retrieve his body from the terror organization that holds it hostage.

September 15, 2016

Vandals deface Greek synagogue with swastikas

Vandals defaced a synagogue in the city of Ioannina in northern Greece with Nazi symbols, drawing strong condemnation from the main political parties in the country.

September 14, 2016

Corbyn refuses invite to Holocaust memorial

UK's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has refused an invitation by Israeli Labor party leader Isaac Herzog to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, citing schedule constraints, while finding time to share a stage with a supporter of a terror organization.

September 11, 2016

British Jewish MP receives death threats, gets police protection

Ruth Smeeth, 37, a member of the Labour Party, was repeatedly called a 'Yid' and other offensive names as well as being accused of being a 'CIA agent,' who should 'swing from the gallows' for committing treason, in a July online Facebook post.

September 8, 2016

UN holds international forum on combating anti-Semitism

The forum brought together leading experts from academia, NGOs, and social media companies to discuss the growing phenomenon of online anti-Semitism.

September 8, 2016

German Jewish leaders express fear over rise of extreme right

The Alternative for Germany (AfD), a nationalist and anti-immigration party which blatantly incites hatred against minorities, has Jewish leaders in Germany worried.

September 7, 2016

Nuremberg trials prosecutor donates $1M to Holocaust Museum

Ben Ferencz, now 96, was the chief US prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen case, which tried 22 commanders of the Nazi SS killing units that murdered more than two million people, including 1.3 million Jews.

September 1, 2016

Abraham Peck, famed Holocaust survivor, dies at 91

Abraham Peck, a Holocaust survivor who made it his life’s mission to share the horrific account of his endurance through slave labor, starvation and torture in nine Nazi concentration camps, has died.

September 1, 2016

Remains of Holocaust victims’ organs discovered in German research institute

The remains of human organs, mostly brain parts, taken from victims during WWII and which were used in experiments were recently found in a German research institute.

August 31, 2016

German students wearing Nazi costumes attack Jews in Argentina

Students attending a German school in Buenos Aires are being punished for attacking Jews.

August 29, 2016

Official at Islamic University in Italy calls for ‘final solution’ for Zionists

The Israeli embassy in Italy discovered a violently anti-Semitic post by a senior official at the Islamic University in Lucca.

August 21, 2016

Muslim stabs Jew in France

A Muslim stabbed visibly Jewish man in Strasbourg, France on Friday.

August 19, 2016

Toronto couple faces ‘devastating’ bureaucratic obstacle to Aliyah

An upstanding couple from Toronto is appealing to Israeli politicians for help in resolving a seemingly ridiculous obstacle to their move to Israel,

August 9, 2016

Philip Bialowitz, last survivor of Sobibor, dies at 90

Philip Bialowitz, who was the last remaining survivor of the infamous Nazi death camp Sobibór, where an estimated 250,000 Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943, died over the weekend at the age of 90.

August 9, 2016

Jewish community in UK sees sharp increase in anti-Semitism

The UK's Jewish community experienced a surge in anti-Semitic attacks in the past six months, while expressions of Jew hatred on social media are becoming widespread.

August 4, 2016

Belgian tennis player tells Jewish opponent: ‘All Jews should have been gassed’

A dispute over a tennis match has led a Belgian player to voice his wish that all Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust.

August 2, 2016

Romania: Vandals deface monument commemorating Israeli crewmen

Vandals scrawled vile anti-Semitic drawings on a monument dedicated to six IAF crewmen killed in a 2010 training accident in Romania.

August 1, 2016

First-ever memorial at UN held for victims of 1972 Munich games massacre

Forty-four years after 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the Olympic games in Munich, the UN finally hosted an event commemorating the tragedy.

July 31, 2016

French religious leaders worried over more Islamic attacks

As France reels from a series of horrific Islamic terror attacks, religious leaders of varying faiths convened and called on the French government to provide better security at places of worship.

July 28, 2016

Anti-Semitic Assaults in US Surged Dramatically in 2015

The Anti-Defamation League published a report in which it highlights an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in general and a near 100 percent increase on college campuses last year.

July 27, 2016

US Army officer who rescued Jews in Holocaust dies at 99

Lt. Frank Winchester Towers helped save 2,500 Jewish prisoners bound for the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.

July 25, 2016

Canadian newspaper justifies Hitler’s plan for the Jews

A Canadian newspaper in London, Ontario, that is widely circulated among Canadian immigrants published an article blaming Jews for the Holocaust and minimizing the number of victims.

July 22, 2016

WATCH: 200 French Jews Make ‘Aliyah’

Some 200 Jews from France arrived in Israel as new immigrants on Wednesday.

July 21, 2016

David Duke blames Melania Trump’s ‘plagiarized’ address on Jews

David Duke, an infamous anti-Semite who headed the Ku Klux Klan, questioned whether Jews tried to humiliate Donald Trump by sabotaging his wife's speech at the Republican National Convention.

July 21, 2016

Argentina judge requests arrest of Iran adviser for AMIA bombing

Former Iranian officials have been on an Interpol capture list for years, but Argentine prosecutors have never been able to question them. Iran has long denied any role in the bombing that killed 85 people.

July 21, 2016

RNC closes live chat over wave of anti-Semitic comments

The GOP convention was forced to shut down the live chat feature on its YouTube page after anti-Semitic users trolled Linda Lingle, the Jewish former governor of Hawaii, as she spoke.

July 20, 2016

Record number of visitors at Auschwitz

The Auschwitz Museum at the notorious former Nazi concentration camp announced it has seen an unprecedented numbers of visitors already this year.

July 20, 2016

Argentine Jews urge president to help solve terror attack

Argentina's Jewish leaders asked President Mauricio Macri to help solve the Iran-backed 1994 terror attack on the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association building, which killed 84 and injured dozens.

July 19, 2016

Many works in German art trove stolen by Nazis

The German Lost Art Foundation has discovered that a large portion of artwork hoarded by Cornelius Gurlitt had been stolen by the Nazis.

July 19, 2016

Forum to combat anti-Semitism held for first time in Latin America

Some critical components for combating anti-Semitism, a global forum against anti-Semitism was told in Buenos Aires, include an increase in education, closer monitoring of the internet and media, new legislation, and interfaith dialogue.

July 19, 2016

Jewish woman hurt in Nice attack dies of wounds

Raymonde Mamane, A 77-year-old Jewish woman who was critically wounded in the Islamic terror attack in Nice, France, last Thursday, has died of her wounds.

July 18, 2016

Polish minister denies country’s liability for pogroms against Jews

Poland's education minister has sparked criticism for appearing to deny Polish responsibility for two massacres of Jews in the 1940s.

July 17, 2016

US Holocaust Museum: Stop catching Pokemon here

Like many other landmarks, the museum and the military cemetery are featured in the popular new "Pokemon Go" game. Players can stumble upon Pokemon while wandering their grounds.

July 14, 2016

EU: Goal is to ensure Jews live free of fear in Europe

European Union coordinator for combating anti-Semitism, Katharina von Schnurbein, briefed Israel's parliament and expressed her goal of guaranteeing that all Jews in Europe will be able to live without fear.

July 14, 2016

Study: In Europe, Greeks have most negative view of Jews

Among Europeans, Greeks have some of the most negative attitudes towards Jews, a new Pew Research Center study revealed on Monday.

July 13, 2016

Austria to seize house where Hitler was born

The Austrian government is moving ahead with plans to take ownership of the house in which Hitler was born so as to prevent the landmark from becoming a shrine for neo-Nazis.

July 13, 2016

Jewish-American gymnast to compete in Rio games

Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman will be part of the US gymnastics team competing in next month’s 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after qualifying at the US Olympic Team Trials.

July 12, 2016

US group thanks Polish saviors of Jews during Holocaust

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous again brought together a group of Polish Christians who risked their own lives to help Jews during the Holocaust, in an annual event to show gratitude and personally thank them.

July 11, 2016

Shocking development in case of Argentinian Jewish investigator’s mysterious death

Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the 1994 car bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires before he was found dead in his home last year, may have been forced to kill himself, another prosecutor who was formerly in charge of his case said Thursday.

May 23, 2016

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