antisemitism

Cars travel under a bridge criticizing Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi in Jerusalem on October 26, 2021. (Courtesy of organizers via JTA)

Visiting Israel, Congolese leader faces billboards accusing him of antisemitism

Placards over Jerusalem road used by Felix Tshisekedi’s motorcade calls out president over bill his party is promoting aimed at preventing Jewish opponent from running against him

Illustrative: A young woman holds a sign toward oncoming traffic, October 15, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Antisemitism fears made 40% of US Jews change their behavior last year – survey

By PHILISSA CRAMER

French President Emmanuel Macron (R), flanked by president of the Maison Zola-Musee Dreyfus association Louis Gautier (C) and journalist Emile Zola's great-granddaughter's Martine Le Blond-Zola (L), visits the Dreyfus Museum, on the property of the Emile Zola house in Medan, near Paris, on October 26, 2021. (Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)

France opens world’s first museum dedicated to Dreyfus affair

By Cnaan Liphshiz

October 28, 2021, 6:52 am

Visiting Israel, Congolese leader faces billboards accusing him of antisemitism

Placards over Jerusalem road used by Felix Tshisekedi’s motorcade calls out president over bill his party is promoting aimed at preventing Jewish opponent from running against him

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US President Joe Biden speaks about the evacuation of American citizens, their families, SIV applicants and vulnerable Afghans in the East Room of the White House on Aug. 20, 2021, in Washington. US Vice President Kamala Harris listens at left. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

October 28, 2021, 3:13 am

Biden vows to combat antisemitism in honor of synagogue shooting victims

US president, VP issue statements marking anniversary of deadliest antisemitic attack in US history, saying it serves as reminder ‘to embrace the better angels of our nature’

By Jacob Magid

October 27, 2021, 5:23 am

France opens world’s first museum dedicated to Dreyfus affair

Exhibition part of center dedicated to Emile Zola, who famously defended the wrongfully accused Jewish captain over a century ago, in a trial that was profoundly impactful for Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A student bikes across campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images/JTA)

October 26, 2021, 5:36 pm

US study: 1/3 of Jewish college students experienced antisemitism last year

15% of respondents say they ‘felt the need to hide’ their Jewish identity; 6% say they felt unwelcome in a campus organization because they were Jewish

By PHILISSA CRAMER

October 26, 2021, 2:41 pm

Antisemitism fears made 40% of US Jews change their behavior last year – survey

New AJC study helps understand how Americans perceive Jew-hatred, which has caused many to mask their Judaism on- and offline as well as avoid places and events

By PHILISSA CRAMER

In this September 4, 2021, file photo, a protester holds a placard reading "No to the health pass" during a demonstration against the COVID-19 health pass in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

October 21, 2021, 2:40 pm

French teacher convicted of antisemitism over COVID protest sign

Educator, 34, was seen at an anti-vaccine and anti-health pass demonstration holding a sign with names of Jewish officials, alongside an antisemitic slogan

By AFP

Former President George W. Bush, appearing via video, was a keynote speaker at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit, held Oct. 18-20, 2021 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (David Rullo/Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA)

October 21, 2021, 5:36 am

Tree of Life massacre looms large at Pittsburgh anti-hate summit

Conference sparked by synagogue shooting looks beyond 2018 attack to hash out ‘deliverables’ aimed at combatting wide array of threats facing various communities

By David Rullo and Adam Reinherz

A mother hugs her son in front of a memorial at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2019. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

October 19, 2021, 4:15 pm

3 years after Tree of Life shooting, Pittsburgh hosts summit on eradicating hate

Running from Oct. 18-20, the in-person global confab has speakers including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, and former president Bush

By David Rullo

The main synagogue in Malmö, Sweden. (CC BY-SA jorchr/Wikimedia Commons)

October 16, 2021, 2:38 am

‘Holocaust was a scam’ projected on Swedish synagogue during antisemitism summit

Words were seen on several buildings in country; neo-Nazi group claims responsibility for the incident

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: An iPhone loaded with TikTok and other social media application icons. (Wachiwit/iStock)

October 15, 2021, 8:44 am

Antisemitism is reaching ‘younger audiences’ via social media, new study shows

On TikTok, three hashtags linked to antisemitism were viewed more than 25 million times in six months, and on Instagram, there are ‘millions’ of antisemitic hashtags, survey finds

By AFP

Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven delivers the opening speech at the Malmo International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism - REACT. The one-day conference will focus on the receding memory of the Holocaust as Sweden marks the 20th anniversary of a conference on remembering the genocide. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT via AP)

October 15, 2021, 1:01 am

At Sweden summit, social media giants urged to act against ‘rife’ antisemitism

Online hate speech escaping sites such as Parler and 4chan and being repackaged and disseminated to wider public, particularly young people, though apps like Instagram and TikTok

By Camille BAS-WOHLERT

Death row inmate Randy Halprin, then 26, sits in a visitation cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, December 3, 2003. (Brett Coomer/AP)

October 14, 2021, 11:47 am

Texas Jewish death row inmate granted new trial due to judge’s antisemitism

Randy Halprin, a member of the ‘Texas 7,’ alleged that Judge Vickers Cunningham referred to him using antisemitic slurs

By Shira Hanau

Washington, DC, Councilman Trayon White Sr. (Screen capture: YouTube)

October 14, 2021, 8:14 am

DC councilmember who said Rothschilds control the weather to run for mayor

Trayon White, who has also donated to Nation of Islam, confirms he intends to campaign after quietly making announcement in an Instagram post

By Andrew Lapin

President Isaac Herzog addresses the Remember ReAct Forum in Malmo, Swden, October 13, 2021 ( Shahar Azran)

October 13, 2021, 6:34 pm

At Swedish Holocaust event, Herzog says social media giants must tackle hate

Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai also focuses on dangers of internet in spreading antisemitism at major Shoah remembrance conference in Malmo

By Lazar Berman

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