antisemitism in the US

US Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on February 26, 2021. (AP/John Raoux, File)

September 26, 2021, 11:42 am

Gaetz: ‘Racist’ ADL called for Fox’s Carlson to be fired for supremacist theory

Watchdog issued call after TV host promoted ‘Great Replacement,’ a white supremacist theory falsely claiming Jews orchestrating replacement of white people with nonwhite immigrants

By Ben Sales

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

September 22, 2021, 9:46 am

2 charged with hate crime for May attack on Jewish diners in Los Angeles

Suspects indicted on felony counts of assault for anti-Semitic attack that was part of a wave of incidents during conflict between Israel, Gaza terror groups

By Agencies

In this Jan. 27, 2020 file photo, House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fiarfax, watches the vote tally board for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in the House chambers at the Capitol, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

September 20, 2021, 10:06 pm

VA Republican sorry for quip on Jewish speaker’s nose, but says no antisemitism

Hahns Copeland, running for a seat in the Virginia House, says his remark about Eileen Filler-Corn was’ immature and impulsive,’ but denies it was based on anti-Jewish stereotypes

By Ron Kampeas

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during a Senate Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

September 18, 2021, 12:59 am

In Yom Kippur address, Jon Ossoff condemns antisemitism at Georgia high schools

Local officials call ‘Heil Hitler’ and swastika graffiti hate speech, but not antisemitic

By Ben Sales

Security fencing and video surveillance equipment has been installed around the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, ahead of a planned Sept. 18 rally by far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump who are demanding the release of rioters arrested in connection with the 6 January insurrection. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

September 18, 2021, 12:37 am

DC rally to support those who stormed Capitol has Jewish officials on high alert

Saturday protest, organized by a former Trump campaign staffer, to demand an end to what it calls ‘tyrannical and inhumane treatment of the January 6 political prisoners’

By Ben Sales

Police set up a camera rig at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on September 10, 2021. (Lonny Goldsmith/TC Jewfolk via JTA)

September 14, 2021, 5:27 am

Synagogue threat, cemetery vandalism shake Minnesota Jewish community

Beth El in St. Louis Park moves Shabbat services online after being notified of violent threat it received via ADL online incidence-report system; 32 headstones knocked down nearby

By Lonny Goldsmith and Lev Gringauz

Author and comedian David Baddiel and his new book, 'Jews Don't Count.' (Courtesy)

September 9, 2021, 3:51 am

Jewish UK comedian’s message that ‘Jews Don’t Count’ rings true across the pond

David Baddiel originally wrote his book on how the left dismisses antisemitism for a British audience, but his US coreligionists identified so strongly he’s releasing a new version

By Amy Spiro

A young woman holds a sign toward oncoming traffic on Third Avenue outside the offices of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

September 2, 2021, 12:26 am

FBI reports drop in 2020 antisemitic crimes, amid rise in total hate crimes

Anti-Jewish incidents fell from 953 in 2019 to 676 last year, largely attributed to reduction in Jewish street life and in-person gatherings at synagogues during pandemic

By Ben Sales

Poway synagogue shooting suspect John Earnest during a preliminary hearing in Superior Court in San Diego, on September 19, 2019. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)

August 31, 2021, 7:49 pm

US won’t seek death penalty for California synagogue shooter

22-year-old John T. Earnest expected to get life imprisonment after opening fire during 2019 Passover services at Chabad of Poway, killing one

By AP

Vanessa Wruble is one of the organizers behind an August 2021 march for voting rights. (Mark Hartman/JTA)

August 28, 2021, 6:31 am

Meet the longtime Jewish activist behind this weekend’s US voting rights marches

Vanessa Wruble, who withdrew from Women’s March due to antisemitism among leadership, is channeling activism in March On in favor of expanded US voting rights

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Qanon 1972 jacket (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

August 23, 2021, 3:28 am

Prominent QAnon antisemite outed as Florida evangelical

Robert Smart, who goes by GhostEzra and has more than 300,000 followers on Telegram, has posted ‘explicit Nazi propaganda, including outright Holocaust denial’

By Ben Sales

August 20, 2021, 7:47 am

Police arrest 4 suspects in US yeshiva student’s slaying, rule out antisemitism

Officials say Shmuel Silverberg’s death in Denver was likely the tragic end of a random string of crimes committed by the group

By JTA and TOI staff

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a farewell ceremony for the French armed forces chief of staff, Gen. Francois Lecointre, at the Invalides monument in Paris, on July 21, 2021. (Daniel Cole/AP)

August 13, 2021, 4:16 pm

France to boycott UN anti-racism conference, citing previous antisemitism

Paris joins Israel, UK, US and others in shunning latest ‘Durban’ summit set to take place in September

By AFP and TOI staff

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett delivers televised remarks at Ben Gurion Airport, on June 22, 2021. (Flash90)

August 3, 2021, 2:59 pm

Daily Briefing Aug 3 – How Israel is preparing for Bennett’s visit to Washington

We hear from Jacob Magid about what is being done to bolster the relationship with the US ahead of the PM’s visit and Emanuel Fabian fills us in on West Bank security incidents

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