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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

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Lilaq Logan, an IDF commander with Jewish and Hebrew Israelite heritage, has been posting videos about the war on Instagram, where she has more than 25,000 followers. (Courtesy via JTA)
December 22, 2023, 10:57 am
Israelis of color push back against race-based, anti-Israel narratives spread abroad
With backgrounds as varied as their online personas, a growing number of Israeli social media influencers work to dispel lies disseminated by pro-Palestinian activists since Oct. 7
By Andrew Esensten
The scene after a woman backed her car into a building used by the 'Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge,' having mistaken it for a Jewish school, November 4, 2023 (screen grab via CBS 4 used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 6, 2023, 2:20 pm
US woman drives car into antisemitic group’s building, mistaking it for Jewish school
Suspect says she rammed Indianapolis house on purpose after watching news about Israel-Hamas war; separately, official says Jordanian arrested in Texas was plotting attack on Jews
By ToI Staff
Members of the Israel United in Christ hate group gather outside the Barclays Center arena on November 20, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)
November 22, 2022, 4:37 am
As Kyrie Irving returns to action, Black Hebrews rally in solidarity outside stadium
NBA star again denounces antisemitism prior to game, but group galvanized by his promotion of conspiracy theory-ladened film gathers and hands out anti-Jewish fliers to fans
By Jacob Henry
Members of the Black Hebrew Israelites demonstrate outside the US Capitol in Washington, November 13, 2018. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)
October 12, 2022, 10:36 pm
‘Black people are actually Jew[s]’: The origins of Kanye West’s inflammatory remarks
Rapper’s comment draws on Black Hebrew Israelite teaching that African-Americans are the true children of Israel, a claim that some say is antisemitic and others ahistorical
By Andrew Esensten
Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of Dimona dance during festivities marking the Shavuot festival in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, May 26, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
September 12, 2021, 9:18 pm
51 members of Hebrew Israelites Community ordered to leave Israel by Sept. 23
Interior Ministry turns down appeals against deportation orders issued in April; recipients, some born in Israel, are demanding legal status, plan to take case to court
By Sue Surkes
Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of Dimona dance during festivities marking the Shavuot festival in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, May 26, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
May 16, 2021, 7:22 am
Dimona’s African Hebrews launch campaign to stay put as deportations loom
Population Authority: ‘We’re asking them to go back to their country, one of the most developed in the world, but every few years they come with new people out of the blue’
By Sue Surkes
In this Sunday, May 26, 2013 file photo, members of the Black Hebrews community attend the Shavuot harvest festival in their Village of Peace in the town of Dimona, southern Israel. The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, as they call themselves, a community of black Americans who left the United States for Israel, believe they are the lost tribe of Judah, exiled from the Holy Land by the Romans in 70 A.D. According to their teachings, their ancestors wandered across North Africa and eventually settled in West Africa, where they were later captured and sold into slavery in the New World. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 27, 2021, 12:12 am
African Hebrews say dozens set to be deported from Israel
Spokesman of group says Interior Ministry gave notice to at least 46 families that they must leave country within 60 days despite much of community having permanent residency
By Ilan Ben Zion
A screen shot from a video of an incident in Philadelphia in which visibly Jewish men at a Black Lives Matter protest were shoved and told to leave, October 27, 2020. (Screenshot from Instagram via JTA)
October 31, 2020, 8:53 am
Jewish men abused with anti-Semitic slurs at Philadelphia racial justice protest
Harassment of 3 Jews at demonstration instigated by adherent of Black extremist movement linked to deadly shooting at Jersey City kosher market
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: The Be'chol Lashon organization summer camp fosters community and Jewish education to kids from diverse backgrounds. (Courtesy Be'chol Lashon)
January 20, 2020, 4:23 pm
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, dreams of a better conversation about race
Be’chol Lashon, an organization that promotes ethnic diversity within Jewish community, publishes curriculum in honor of US civil rights leader to tackle difficult identity issues
By Melanie Lidman
Former NBA All-Star Amar'e Stoudemire rests during a basketball training session with his Hapoel Jerusalem in Jerusalem on October 7, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
January 7, 2020, 2:47 am
Amar’e Stoudemire calls for end to anti-Semitism among African-Americans
‘To attack someone in that manner shows another level of ignorance,’ says former NBA star who identifies with the Hebrew Israelites
By JTA
Responders at the scene of a shooting that left multiple people dead at a kosher market, December 11, 2019, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)
December 18, 2019, 2:49 am
Jersey City shooter called Jews ‘Nazis,’ showed hatred of police in online posts
ADL says it found Facebook page of attacker in which he refers to ‘Synagogue of Satan,’ also makes negative comments about white people, LGBTQ community
By Josefin Dolsten
Rabbi Capers Funnye of the Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation stands in the sanctuary of the synagogue, September 2, 2008, in the Marquette Park neighborhood of Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
December 17, 2019, 10:36 pm
Black Hebrew Israelite leader condemns ‘heinous’ Jersey City shooting
Distancing himself from the attack, Rabbi Capers Funnye says his organization isn’t ‘some radical fringe group with a false narrative… We are Torah-oriented Jews’
By JTA
A pedestrian walks past the world headquarters of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)
December 13, 2019, 2:19 am
Jersey City shooting shines light on Black Hebrew Israelites’ extreme beliefs
FBI raids Harlem offices of a major Black Hebrew Israelite group as killer linked to sect that often spreads anti-Semitic rhetoric
By AP
Black Hebrews from Dimona seen celebrating the giving of the harvest on Shavuot. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
December 11, 2019, 11:46 pm
Who are the Black Hebrews, the group linked to Jersey City shooter?
Community claims to be descended from the biblical Israelites and practice certain Jewish rituals; Southern Poverty Law Center classifies some as a hate group
By Ron Kampeas
JERSEY CITY, NJ - DECEMBER 11: Recovery and clean up crews work the scene in the aftermath of a mass shooting at the JC Kosher Supermarket on December 11, 2019 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Six people, including a Jersey City police officer and three civilians were killed in a deadly, hours-long gun battle between two armed suspects and police on Tuesday in a standoff and shootout in a Jewish market that appears to have been targeted, according to Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop. Rick Loomis/Getty Images/AFP
December 11, 2019, 10:18 pm
Answers sought as authorities shy from declaring Jersey City attack anti-Semitic
Footage emerges of gunmen parking outside kosher supermarket, opening fire and making a beeline for the store; 3rd victim of attack identified as Miguel Jason Rodriguez
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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