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Antisemitism

In this photo illustration, the image of Elon Musk is displayed on a computer screen and the logo of twitter on a mobile phone in Ankara, Turkiye on Oct. 6, 2022. (Muhammed Selim Korkutata / Anadolu Agency)

Elon Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity’ and likens him to a comic book villain Holocaust survivor

Ron KampeasPublished May 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Elon Musk tweeted that George Soros “hates humanity,” and wrote that the billionaire and progressive megadonor “reminds me of Magneto,” a comic book villain who features in Marvel’s X-Men series. The attacks on Soros...

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Highcroft Ridge Elementary combating antisemitism after International Night incident

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished May 16, 2023

Earlier this year, an incident at Highcroft Ridge Elementary School in Chesterfield was marred by what some students and their parents viewed as a message of hate and antisemitism. At the school’s “International Night” a table representing Palestine...

Magda Teter’s new book explores how “white European Christians branded both Jews and people of color with ‘badges of servitude’ and inferiority.” (Chuck Fishman)

Author finds common root for antisemitism and racism is ‘Christian supremacy’ 

Andrew Silow-CarrollPublished May 15, 2023

(JTA) — Magda Teter’s new book, “Christian Supremacy,” begins in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11, 2017. Hundreds of white nationalist neo-Nazis who ostensibly gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E....

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Florida rejects Holocaust education textbooks in clampdown on ‘woke’ instruction

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished May 12, 2023

(JTA) — Florida’s state education department rejected two new Holocaust-focused textbooks for classroom use, while forcing at least one other textbook to alter a passage about the Hebrew Bible in order to meet state approval. The books were rejected...

The End Jew Hatred Movement is spreading across the country — and sparking controversy

The End Jew Hatred Movement is spreading across the country — and sparking controversy

Jacob Henry, JTAPublished May 12, 2023

(New York Jewish Week) — Last month, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Jewish Democrat, proclaimed April 29 “End Jew Hatred Day,” citing “an urgent need to act against antisemitism in Colorado and across the country.” Similar proclamations came...

The Adidas logo is pictured on a building in Manchester, July 14, 2022. (Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Adidas says it will sell off Yeezy shoes and donate proceeds to those ‘hurt by Kanye’s statements’

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished May 12, 2023

(JTA) – The sportswear giant Adidas has decided to sell off its remaining inventory of sneakers from Kanye West’s Yeezy brand and donate the proceeds to charity. The decision comes roughly seven months after Adidas cut ties with West in the face...

Matthew Dallek of George Washington University

The historian who uncovered the ADL’s secret plot against the far-right John Birch Society

Asaf Elia-ShalevPublished May 11, 2023

(JTA) — A historian leafing through files in an archive discovered how a Jewish organization helped bring down an influential far-right extremist movement in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s by going undercover and acting as self-appointed...

Volusia County Sheriff Michael Chitwood thanks residents who turned up to counter-protest a canceled demonstration by a neo-Nazi group in Ormond Beach, Florida, April 22, 2023.

A Florida sheriff is on the warpath against neo-Nazi ‘scumbags’ who want him dead

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished April 27, 2023

(JTA) – After hate groups projected antisemitic messages onto the Daytona International Speedway, one Florida sheriff delivered a press conference with one simple message: He’d had enough. “We put up their photos, talked about their arrest records,...

A view of Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in London. (Wikimedia Commons)

Stan Kroenke owned soccer club launches Jewish fan group to combat antisemitism

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished April 26, 2023

(JTA) — The English Premier League club Arsenal has launched a new fan affiliate group called the “Jewish Gooners,” as part of its plan to address recent incidents of antisemitism. The club also announced that it had banned 31 fans for three...

Tucker Carlson, Fox News host, speaks during the FAMiLY Leadership Summit at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center Friday, July 15, 2022 in Des Moines.

ADL cheers Tucker Carlson’s ouster at Fox News, where he had long embraced white nationalist rhetoric

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished April 24, 2023

(JTA) — In a move that shocked many, Fox News announced on Monday that it had “parted ways” with Tucker Carlson, the network’s most-watched host, whose on-air embrace of white nationalist conspiracy theories had defined its editorial voice since...

Tucker Carlson, Fox News host, speaks during the FAMiLY Leadership Summit at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center Friday, July 15, 2022 in Des Moines.

Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox — will veiled antisemitism and the Great Replacement Theory go with him?

By Mira Fox, The ForwardPublished April 24, 2023

Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News, effective immediately. Monday morning, Fox announced in a brief statement that the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight would be parting ways with the broadcasting corporation. “We thank him for his service to the...

Stephanie Lyons at her home in Stoneham, Mass. Dec. 26, 2022. Her youngest child found swastikas on their front lawn. (Tony Luong for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Her youngest child found swastikas on their front lawn. Suspect under arrest

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished April 24, 2023

(JTA) – A Boston-area woman has been arrested and charged with leaving a series of paper swastikas outside the house of a Jewish lawyer who is representing her child’s father in an ongoing custody battle. The case had been a source of fear and...

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