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Antisemitism

A protester holds a placard which reads as "Twelve-year-old and already a victim of antisemitic hate" as she gathers to condemn the alleged antisemitic gang rape of a 12-year-old girl, at the Paris City Hall square, June 19, 2024. Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images)

Protests, political action in France after alleged antisemitic rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished June 20, 2024

A shocking incident in which two teenage boys have been charged with the rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suburb of Paris has sparked a reckoning across France, with Jewish groups taking to the streets to protest rising antisemitism and President...

An academic paper found that a dedicated group has for some 15 years manipulated Wikipedia in ways that lay blame for the Holocaust on Jews and absolve Poland of almost any responsibility for its record of antisemitism.

ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished June 18, 2024

(JTA) — Wikipedia’s editors have voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding it to a list of banned and partially banned sources. An overwhelming majority of editors involved...

The campus of Washington University in St. Louis.

Amid rising antisemitism, WashU still standing strong in revised ADL report

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 18, 2024

Since the Anti-Defamation League released its first-ever Campus Antisemitism Report Card in April, universities across the U.S. have experienced a significant increase in antisemitic incidents and hostile campus climates. This surge led the ADL to reassess...

Rabbi Asher Lopatin. Credit: JCRC/AJC Detroit.

Michigan, CUNY failed to protect Jewish students, Education Department investigation finds

Andrew Bernard, (JNS)Published June 17, 2024

The U.S. Department of Education released a pair of agreements on Monday with the University of Michigan and the City University of New York to address their failure to protect the civil rights of Jewish students. The resolution agreements are the...

Jerry Seinfeld said that network sitcoms lost their sizzle. Photo by Jeffery Neira/ NETFLIX

Seinfeld roasts anti-Israel heckler

Published June 17, 2024

(JNS) -- An Australian audience on Sunday cheered comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s response to a heckler who interrupted his stand-up show with shouts of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” “We have a genius, ladies and gentlemen....

‘Crackhead Barney’ harasses Quentin Tarantino in New York

JNSPublished June 17, 2024

(JNS) -- Not long after her confrontation with veteran actor Alec Baldwin, the provocative anti-Israel activist who goes by the name “Crackhead Barney” has found a new target: the acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino, who lives in Tel Aviv and...

Protesters outside Columbia University, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Prosecutors move to dismiss hate crimes charges against woman who hit Israeli Columbia student with a stick

Luke Tress, JTAPublished June 10, 2024

Prosecutors are moving to dismiss hate crimes charges against a woman charged with attacking an Israeli student on Columbia University’s campus in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel. The suspect, Maxwell Friedman, who also goes by...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a news conference at the 'Get Out the Vote' rally on In San Antonio, Feb. 12, 2022.

AOC decries discrimination against Jews, ‘weaponization’ of antisemitism in talk with Jewish leaders

Published June 10, 2024

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned antisemitism but accused her critics of “weaponizing” the term in a rare public discussion with two Jewish activists who have shined a spotlight on bigotry against Jews in the pro-Palestinian movement.  “Antisemitism,...

(Clockwise from top left) High school yearbooks in East Brunswick, New Jersey; Bellaire, Texas; St. Louis Park, Minnesota; and Glenview, Illinois went to press during the 2023-24 school year with material that Jews said was antisemitic or insensitive, ranging from the swapping out of a Jewish student group photo with a Muslim group, to descriptions of the Israel-Hamas war that avoided the Oct. 7 attacks. (Collage by JTA)

Yearbook antisemitism chaos erupting around nation sparking several school controversies

Andrew LapinPublished June 7, 2024

(JTA) -- A New Jersey district recalled its yearbooks after a photo of a Jewish student group was mysteriously swapped out for a Muslim student group. A suburban Chicago high school launched an investigation after its yearbook went to print with...

Hitler and the Nazis makes use of colorized archival footage — some from Leni Riefenstahl — as well as reenactments.

Is this a Hitler documentary worth watching?

By PJ Grisar, The ForwardPublished June 5, 2024

There is no documentary subject more urgent and more overexposed than Hitler and the Nazis. So great is the glut of TV shows devoted to the Third Reich that you can take your pick of subgenres — a pop psychological profile of Hitler, National Geographic’s...

60 Jewish groups, from left to right, back bill creating national coordinator to fight antisemitism

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished May 22, 2024

WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than 60 Jewish organizations across the political spectrum are lining up behind a bill that would establish a coordinator of government efforts to fight antisemitism.  The joint effort is an expression of American Jewish...

Hitler as a baby (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Middle school teacher who showed photo of ‘cute’ baby Hitler under investigation

Published May 15, 2024

(JTA) — A middle school teacher in Connecticut was reportedly suspended following a lesson on the Holocaust in which they asked students to draw a swastika in their notebooks, list positive things Adolf Hitler did for Germany and comment on a baby photo...

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