antisemitic attacks

Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

October 12, 2021, 3:18 pm

European countries with most antisemitic attitudes have fewest attacks – poll

Respondents from Poland, Hungary and Greece most hostile to Jews, but violent assaults rare in those locations; places where Jews are accepted have most incidents

By Cnaan Liphshiz

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

October 7, 2021, 5:12 am

‘I will protect you’: At Jewish museum, NY Gov. Hochul unveils $25M for security

Grants will boost defense at nonprofits threatened by hate crimes: ‘This stops now. People who dare raise a hand to any New Yorker are picking a fight with 20 million others’

By JTA

A view of the Secure Community Network's new command center in Chicago. (Courtesy of SCN via JTA)

September 28, 2021, 12:41 am

US Jewish security organization opens command center to monitor antisemitism

Secure Community Network’s Chicago-based main monitoring room can be operational 24 hours a day, as it was during the Jewish holidays

By Ben Sales

The leaning Tower of Pisa, in Tuscany, central Italy, on August 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

September 10, 2021, 12:40 am

Israeli assaulted by souvenir seller in Pisa who yelled ‘Jews are murderers’

Elad Forgash, who will require surgery for injuries to face, says Bangladeshi stall owner in Italian city inquired about his nationality and then attacked him

By TOI staff

A man in traditional Muslim garb is seen punching an ultra-Orthodox man in the street, in the heavily-Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill. (Screenshot/Twitter)

September 3, 2021, 9:08 am

Man arrested for 5 attacks on Jews in London’s Stamford Hill

Metropolitan Police say 28-year-old held in custody on suspicion of carrying out multiple ‘unprovoked assaults on Jewish people’ over last month

By TOI staff

A Jewish man and child were punched in the face by a man in separate attacks in London, on August 18, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

August 21, 2021, 11:52 pm

Jewish man hit, knocked unconscious in apparent antisemitic attack in London

In a separate assault, apparently by same attacker, a Jewish child was punched while riding a bicycle in Stamford Hill

By TOI staff

Russian scientist Vladimir Tselin. (IF-MSTUCA.RU via JTA)

August 11, 2021, 10:04 am

Russian scientist, 82, beaten on Moscow bus in antisemitic attack

Assailant shouts ‘Hitler should have finished the job, so I’ll do it for him’ as he hits and chases prominent space program researcher Vladimir Tselin

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Justice for Sarah Halimi placards, April 2021 (Crédit : Consistoire israélite du Haut-Rhin)

August 11, 2021, 9:16 am

Sister of murdered French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi asks Israel to try case

Lawyers file antisemitism complaint with Israel Police after French court decided killer won’t stand trial because he had used drugs; however, France doesn’t extradite its citizens

By TOI staff

Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota left, joined at right by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, listens to US President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

August 1, 2021, 2:35 pm

Antisemitism increasingly politicized in 2020 US media coverage – study

Tel Aviv think tank finds that press investigated hatred of Jews expressed around COVID, Black Lives Matter protests, elections

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: A platform at Oxford Circus tube station in London, on March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

July 24, 2021, 6:23 pm

‘I f***ing hate Jews’: Teen charged for antisemitic incident at UK train station

17-year-old arrested for religiously aggravated public order offence; victim was abused in two separate incidents in one evening on London transport network earlier this month

By TOI staff

A man is seen carrying a peice of furniture, shortly before attacking a Jewish man in Brooklyn, on July 5, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

July 10, 2021, 5:12 pm

Jewish man assaulted in Brooklyn in apparent antisemitic attack

Police search for suspect who punched, threw furniture and made hateful statements toward victim; Governor Cuomo: ‘This is antisemitism, plain and simple’

By TOI staff

A man hurls antisemitic abuse at a Jewish man in London on July 3, 2021. (screen capture via Twitter)

July 4, 2021, 9:21 pm

Twice in an hour: Jewish man faces antisemitic abuse on London bus, train

In two incidents within an hour, passerby threatens to ‘slit your throat for Palestine,’ while another shouts ‘I f***ing hate the Jews’

By TOI staff

A cohort of young Jews is trying to combat antisemitism and anti-Zionism on social media. Clockwise from top left: Julia Jassey, Blake Flayton, Isaac de Castro, Eve Barlow and Ben Freeman. (Photo illustration by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)

June 12, 2021, 3:00 am

Young US Zionists say they’re fighting antisemitism online, but is it effective?

A group of pro-Israel Jews in their 20s and 30s assertively defend Zionism and Jews on social media, but critics across the political spectrum question the campaign’s efficacy

By Ben Sales

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators assault Jews at a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles on May 19, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

May 26, 2021, 4:30 am

Antisemitic acts in US soared 80% in a month, Jewish security group reports

Secure Community Network blames widespread disinformation and clear calls for violence against Jews, deliberately spread online, including from Iran

By Ron Kampeas

Chabad of South Broward. (Google Street View)

May 25, 2021, 4:28 pm

Suspect arrested in south Florida synagogue harassment

Jeffrey Carl Fleming, 39, shouted verbal abuse and left feces outside Chabad of South Broward on Friday, police say

By AP