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The Tablet
April 25, 2018
“I was repeatedly confronted with anti-semitism not only in song texts but backstage.” Many rappers were genuine antisemites and were glad of the opportunity to express their anti-semitic prejudices in their song texts, he said. Several well-known singers and musicians, including the conductor DanielÃâà...
The Sun
April 25, 2018
Last year's Labour conference were marred by widespread allegations of antisemitic comments and behaviours, as Corbyn backed a tougher line on ... Corbyn has stated: "I'm not an anti-Semite in any form" and that he challenges "anti-Semitism whenever it arises and no anti-Semitic remarks are done inÃâà...
Haaretz
April 25, 2018
For Sartre then, the Jew is a creation of the anti-Semite. Without the theological hatred of the Church, Jews, according to Sartre, would have slowly dissolved within Christianity. Anti-Semites thus involuntarily protected Jewish identity by bestowing on it an essence. Hatred and exclusion are thus theÃâà...
TheTower.org
April 25, 2018
Last week, the British Parliament debated anti-Semitism. The debate was prompted by the associations of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn with anti-Semites, and his failure to address anti-Semitism within the party. MP John Mann told his fellow parliamentarians that the term “Zionist” had become “aÃâà...
Haaretz
April 24, 2018
Over the past weekend, however, a Twitterstorm erupted over Trump's most recent “Sleepy Eyes” slam. Trump was accused of dog-whistling, with tweets pointing out instances of white supremacists and anti-Semites describing Jews as having “sleepy eyes.” The evidence to back this up is relatively thin,Ãâà...
Haaretz
April 24, 2018
Over the past weekend, however, a Twitterstorm erupted over Trump's most recent “Sleepy Eyes” slam. Trump was accused of dog-whistling, with tweets pointing out instances of white supremacists and anti-Semites describing Jews as having “sleepy eyes.” The evidence to back this up is relatively thin,Ãâà...
The Sun
April 24, 2018
JEREMY Corbyn will be told to boot out all anti-Semitic MPs and party members in showdown talks with Jewish community leaders today. The Board of Deputies of British Jews will demand action after the unprecedented Parliament Square protest about anti-Semitism in Labour a month ago. The Board ofÃâà...
TheTower.org
April 24, 2018
She then tweeted that “The 'Arabs are semitic too' hot takes have arrived,” a reference to the argument that Arabs cannot be anti-Semitic per definition because they are Semites too. (The term anti-Semitism was coined by the 19th century German journalist Wilhelm Marr, who opposed Jewish emancipationÃâà...
Haaretz
April 23, 2018
“Natalie Portman has played into the hands of the worst of our haters and of the worst of the anti-Semites in the Middle East,” Steinitz said in an interview on Sunday with the Kan public broadcasting corporation. Portman had made a serious mistake and owes Israel an apology, the energy minister said.
CBS News
April 21, 2018
A German rap duo whose infamous lyrics include references regarded as anti-Semitic have been awarded one of the country's most prestigious music prizes. ... But the Bertelsmann-owned firm said it would donate 100,000 euros to a campaign dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism in German schools.
Vox
March 29, 2018
On Monday evening, more than a dozen British legislators from the left-wing Labour Party attended a protest in London against anti-Semitism — more ... The protest was a reaction to recent revelations that Corbyn, in a Facebook comment, had defended a blatantly anti-Semitic mural in London back in 2012Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 26, 2018
Using grotesquely antisemitic imagery, it depicted Jewish financiers playing a Monopoly-style board game on the backs of naked people. On the artist's Facebook page, Corbyn posted the following response to this decision: “Why? You are in good company. Rockerfeller [sic] destroyed Diego Viera'sÃâà...
HuffPost UK
March 26, 2018
“The idea of Jewish bankers and capitalists exploiting the workers of the world is an old antisemitic conspiracy theory. This was long ago, and rightly, described as “the socialism of fools.” I am sorry for not having studied the content of the mural more closely before wrongly questioning its removal in 2012.”.
Daily Journal
March 26, 2018
LONDON — Britain's main opposition leader vowed Monday that his Labour Party would have “zero tolerance” for anti-Semitism, after Jewish groups ... The latest furor erupted over a six-year-old Facebook post by Corbyn supporting the artist behind a street mural that included anti-Semitic stereotypes.
Haaretz
March 26, 2018
LONDON — A protest against anti-Semitism in the U.K.'s Labour party got heated before it even began on Monday evening as protesters shouted "shame .... The latest furor erupted last week over a six-year-old Facebook post by Corbyn supporting the artist behind a street mural that included anti-SemiticÃâà...
Forward
March 23, 2018
As an American Jew living in Poland, I lived the reality of the PiS party and the anti-Semitic culture it has enabled in Poland. ... Daniels has aligned himself with the most virulent anti-Semites of the Polish Catholic establishment and himself contributed to anti-Semitism in the press, for example, by warningÃâà...
Boston 25 News
March 23, 2018
... college has launched a criminal investigation into what the school's administration calls "an act of blatant and deplorable anti-Semitism." ... Lash also asked anyone with information about the incident to contact campus police, as well as to report previous incidents, including anti-Semitic graffiti, thatÃâà...
The Sun
March 23, 2018
JEREMY Corbyn has today refused to apologise for supporting an artist who painted anti-Semitic graffiti, saying he was defending freedom of speech. But as he reignited the party's longstanding battle with anti-Semitism allegations, Mr Corbyn's spokesperson said it was right the painting was removed.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
March 21, 2018
But this long-held wealth has also led to a special brand of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Anti-Semites have long accused Jews of nefariously controlling the world's money and governments through a secret cabal, and that the Rothschilds have branches in several countries fits these feverish fantasies.
Haaretz
March 21, 2018
Charlottesville Mayor: Trump Made 'Devil's Bargain' With anti-Semites ... that U.S. President Donald Trump's support for Israel did not compensate for the fact that he had struck a “devil's bargain” with anti-Semites who converged on his town last summer to protest the removal of a Confederate statue.
Forward
March 20, 2018
Weisman: The alt-right is this bizarre combination of ancient anti-Semitism — this notion of the all powerful Jew pulling the strings on left wing movements .... Do you worry about castigating Jews for tribalistic tendencies — do you think there's a risk of playing into anti-Semitic stereotypes that Jews haveÃâà...
Metro
March 16, 2018
Another week, another revelation about Jeremy Corbyn's links with anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers… and yet more silence from Labour leaders, party ... Jews feel that they can't vote for a major political party because they believe there's overwhelming evidence that the party's leader is an anti-Semite?
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2018
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom hit a record high in 2017, according to a recent study by the Community Security Trust, a Jewish nonprofit in Britain that monitors anti-Semitism. British entrepreneur Gideon Falter, founding chair of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, a volunteer-led nonprofitÃâà...
SBS
March 12, 2018
The Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism likened the offensive blog post to Nazis preparing lists on Jews during World War II. "This list is one of an old classical tradition, that Nazis and anti-Semites prepare lists so that when the political climate changes they know who to pick, who to send away, whoÃâà...
i24NEWS
March 11, 2018
The UK Labour party has suspended several party members who reportedly posted antisemitic material in a closed Facebook group said to be bristling with ... Whilst Corbyn was a member of the group, there appears to be no evidence that he made anti-Semitic comments or engaged in hate speech.
Forward
March 11, 2018
No, Putin Is Not An Anti-Semite ... Anti-Semitism in Russia is a real problem, but the panicked responses to Putin's offhand comments miss the mark. ... Under czarist rule, the Russian state was de jure anti-Semitic, with the Orthodox Church used to justify the confinement of Jews to the Pale of SettlementÃâà...
Haaretz
March 4, 2018
Fellow Women's March leader Linda Sarsour managed to wait to intercede until the most anti-Semitic possible moment, rising to promote a minister who ... Farrakhan is an anti-Semite, but suggesting that his influence is negligible compared to right-wing anti-Semites and thus not worth paying attention to.
The Hill
March 1, 2018
Louis Farrakhan on Wednesday after the Nation of Islam leader made a series of anti-Semitic remarks in a speech. In that speech, delivered on ... the religious leader. Unlike anti-Semites of the so-called alt-right, Tapper said, Farrakhan has a larger following and the ability to meet openly with lawmakers.
Jewish Journal
March 1, 2018
High schools and colleges, in particular, experienced a sharp increase in reported acts of anti-Semitism from 2016 to 2017, according to the audit. A total of 204 anti-Semitic incidents were reported on college campuses in 2017, compared with 108 in 2016, the ADL said. Susskind linked the increase ofÃâà...
The Nation.
March 1, 2018
“The president's retweeting of white supremacists and anti-Semitic memes during the campaign and, more recently, sharing tweets from a UK racist group—those are alarming. Those tweets and rhetoric have emboldened and given encouragement to the worst anti-Semites and bigots,” said JonathanÃâà...
CNN
February 28, 2018
During the speech in Chicago, Farrakhan made several anti-Semitic comments, including, "the powerful Jews are my enemy. ... In December 2016, a spokesperson for Ellison told CNN that Ellison "rejects all forms of anti-Semitism" and said "the right wing has been pushing these stories for years to drive aÃâà...
CNN
February 28, 2018
Anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses nearly doubled too. "Kids don't censor themselves," Tuchman said. "The fact that incidents have increased so much particularly in the youngest segment of society tells me that they are hearing things and repeating them. This tells me there is anti-Semitism in theÃâà...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
February 28, 2018
(JTA) — I don't know if Wayne LaPierre is anti-Semitic. In many ways, I don't care if Wayne LaPierre is anti-Semitic. But the executive vice president of the NRA gave a speech this week that was heard as anti-Semitic by two kinds of people: left-leaning Jews and hard-right anti-Semites. Let's agree that'sÃâà...
HuffPost
February 27, 2018
During the campaign, he was slow to disavow the support of David Duke, a former KKK grand wizard and avowed anti-Semite. The president also tweeted an image of Hillary Clinton standing next to an apparent Star of David and a pile of cash. (This anti-Semitic meme originated on an alt-right messageÃâà...
ChicagoNow (blog)
February 21, 2018
Billy Graham died at age 99 last night. That is a long life. He walked with Presidents and was called America's Pastor. His fundamentalist thunder filled stadiums and ballparks around America. It was the old-time tent revival gone downtown and it played to massive crowds. I have an Uncle who is a SouthernÃâà...
Haaretz
February 21, 2018
Comments range from anti-Semites despising Jews for supposedly taking over the world to claiming American Jewish high schoolers deserve to be shot due to Israel's crimes to completely denying that anti-Semitism is a problem that needs to be addressed and asserting that Jews are always "playing theÃâà...
Haaretz
February 10, 2018
So, what exactly is Netanyahu doing when he allies himself politically and strategically with anti-Semites and those who trade in anti-Semitism? Has his nationalism gotten so out of control that he is blind to the rising threats of anti-Semitism and is willing to find friends anywhere he can if he believes theyÃâà...
Forward
February 7, 2018
But while the media jumps at the chance to catch a harmless internet anti-Semite in the act, equally problematic figures even higher up the totem pole haven't received the same scrutiny — and that's a ... Representative Gaetz is the anti-Semitic candidate 1.0: his anti-Semitism is predictable and traditional.
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
There's an unsettling debate underway in Britain about whether the right or the left is more anti-Semitic, and videos of Jewish members of Parliament reading out some of the anti-Semitic ... Antisemites thinks this is a clever argument, so tell us, do: were atheist Jews exempted from wearing the yellow star?".
BBC News
December 31, 1999
German police are investigating an assault on two young men in Berlin, in which the attacker was filmed shouting anti-Semitic abuse. ... The video of the attack was shared on Facebook by the Jewish Forum for Democracy and against Anti-Semitism (JFDA), which said the attack was unbearable to see.
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Many Western listeners understood this to be an anti-Semitic statement – Putin trying to blame the Jews for hacking the U.S. elections. ... “But even if in this case there's no proof that Putin was using anti-Semitism,” warned one of his defenders, “that doesn't mean he doesn't do so routinely in other cases.
Worcester Telegram
December 31, 1999
Nevertheless, anti-Semitism did not go away. Among the more prominent anti-Semites then were George Lincoln Rockwell and the neo-Nazis marching at Skokie, Joseph Sobran at the National Review and Patrick Buchanan. Richard Nixon, an old-fashioned anti-Semite, imagined disloyal, untrustworthyÃâà...
Forward
December 31, 1999
It's the holiday in which we commemorate a crazy, long-ago time when wealthy Jews were targeted by anti-Semites, and a vain, know-nothing ruler did ... The disproportionate number of Jewish victims reflected both the demographics of the area and the virulent anti-Semitism of the shooter, who postedÃâà...
