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Nathan Freihofer (Screen capture: YouTube)

January 13, 2021, 3:11 pm

US Army seeks to oust junior officer for joking about Holocaust on TikTok

Spokesman says 2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer’s joke was ‘inconsistent with the values’ of the military, as commander launches removal process

By TOI staff

2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer in a TikTok video published on August 28, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

September 1, 2020, 5:29 am

US Army suspends officer with 3 million TikTok followers for Holocaust joke clip

Social media influencer 2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer’s account goes offline following backlash against video, in which he jokes that a Jew’s favorite Pokemon is ‘Ash’

By Jacob Magid

Illustrative: Students outside Anderson High School in Austin, Texas (YouTube screenshot)

February 27, 2020, 6:08 am

Texas Jewish student punished for self-deprecating joke about Jews, money

High school pupil kicked off robotics team after finding coins on floor, saying he’d pick them up ‘since I’m the Jew’

By JTA

Blue and White party leaders, from left to right: Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid, Moshe Ya'alon, Gabi Ashkenazi. Tel Aviv, March 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

August 5, 2019, 11:49 pm

Lapid’s jab at ultra-Orthodox exposes rift within Blue and White alliance

Benny Gantz issues implied criticism of party’s No. 2 over campaign clip portraying Haredi politicians as money-hungry; Moshe Ya’alon and others openly criticize video

By Michael Bachner and TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then finance minister Yair Lapid attend a signing ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 23, 2014. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

August 5, 2019, 6:00 pm

Netanyahu accuses Lapid of ‘anti-Semitism’ in campaign spot on ultra-Orthodox

Blue and White leaders at loggerheads over ad portraying Haredi politicians as money-hungry; party leader Gantz urges a ‘different style to that of Netanyahu’

By TOI staff

Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid addressing party activists in the coastal town of Shefayim, July 14, 2019. (Jane Peimer)

August 5, 2019, 12:58 pm

Ultra-Orthodox leaders decry Lapid video as ‘anti-Semitic’; he rejects the claim

Yesh Atid leader tweets parody clip portraying Haredi politicians demanding ‘all the money in Israel’; some party colleagues distance themselves from it

By TOI staff

A video by Norwegian broadcaster NRK criticized as anti-Semitic (YouTube screenshot)

July 19, 2019, 6:51 pm

Norway’s state broadcaster airs ‘Jewish swine’ cartoon

TV official defends the clip, in which a man playing Scrabble with a Haredi Jew is frustrated that he cannot use the derogatory term to score points

By JTA and TOI staff

Illustrative: Facebook notifications on a smartphone. (JaysonPhotography/Istock by Getty Images)

June 27, 2019, 1:10 am

Manager of Pittsburgh restaurant fired for anti-Semitic Facebook post

Owner of Yokoso Japanese Steakhouse apologizes after employee shares meme showing the interior of an oven and the caption ‘Jewish bunk beds for sale’

By JTA

Screen capture from video of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad during a Cambridge Union event in which he made remarks deemed anti-Semitic. (YouTube)

June 18, 2019, 10:19 am

Malaysian PM draws laughter with anti-Semitic jibe at UK’s Cambridge University

Debating union hosts Mahathir Mohamad, who says he has Jewish friends but they ‘are not like other Jews’; Jewish group calls audience response ‘chilling’

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Producer Travon Free attends the Los Angeles premiere of the HBO series 'Camping' at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Oct. 10, 2018. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images via JTA)

November 10, 2018, 3:15 pm

Comedy writer apologizes for past anti-Semitic jokes

Travon Free tweeted a number of Hitler-related posts in 2010 and 2011, one wishing the Nazi leader a happy birthday

By JTA

Mark Meechan (second from left), who taught a dog to give a Nazi salute, speaks at a UKIP conference in the European Parliament. (Screen capture: YouTube)

September 14, 2018, 3:59 pm

British nationalist party hosts at EU parliament man who taught dog Nazi salute

Mark Meechan tells UKIP members he has not heard of any anti-Semitic attacks inspired by his video, says policing online free speech ‘can lead to fascism’

By JTA and TOI staff

Some find the 'Lucky Jew' phenomenon anti-Semitic, others find it harmless and rooted in nostalgia. (Jason Francisco/via JTA)

August 18, 2018, 8:40 am

Why ‘Lucky Jew’ imagery is so popular in Poland

Offensive to some and just bizarre to others, the sale of stereotypical figures of Jews as good luck charms started in the 1960s

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Belgium's then-prime minister Elio Di Rupo attends the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands, March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Freek van den Bergh, Pool)

April 30, 2018, 6:20 am

Belgium’s ex-PM accused of anti-Semitism for ‘Antwerp diamond dealers’ crack

Elio di Rupo uses phrase many see as a disparaging reference to the city’s sizable Jewish population

By JTA

Buddha, a Scottish dog whose owner taught it to raise its right paw to the sound of the phrase 'Sieg heil' (YouTube screenshot)

April 23, 2018, 7:39 pm

Scotsman who taught pug to do Nazi salute fined £800

Markus Meechan says he has ‘no regrets’ and is prepared to go to jail to defend his right to free speech

By TOI staff

Students at Syracuse University in a racist, anti-Semitic video (screen capture: YouTube)

April 22, 2018, 1:26 am

Syracuse fraternity permanently expelled over anti-Semitic, racist video

In clip, students laugh uproariously at performances punctuated by racist language against blacks, Jews and Hispanics

By AP