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Graffiti linked to Ziheng Fang at San Jose State University, seen in a criminal complaint released on July 9, 2026. (US Department of Justice)
July 14, 2026, 3:51 am
‘100% woke’ US grad student charged with hoax over ‘kill Jews,’ pro-Trump graffiti
Ziheng Fang, who identifies as ‘social justice activist,’ allegedly posted fake threats, hate speech and swastikas around San Jose State University, causing chaos on California campus
By Luke Tress
Students gather around tents at an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest camp at Kings College at Cambridge University in Cambridge, eastern England on May 7, 2024 (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
March 16, 2026, 2:59 pm
1 in 5 UK university students ‘reluctant’ to share house with Jewish student — poll
In poll covering 170 institutions, about half of students report seeing glorification of proscribed terror groups; large majority (82%) say ‘globalize the intifada’ is antisemitic
By ToI Staff
A protester speaks through a megaphone as he stands with others holding flags and banners outside Flinders Street station during the visit of Israel's President Isaac Herzog in Melbourne on February 12, 2026. (MARTIN KEEP / AFP)
February 26, 2026, 4:29 pm
Australian tribunal rules ‘All Zionists are terrorists’ chant is unlawful
Melbourne Jewish community representative successfully argues the protest slogan crosses from political speech into illegal racial and religious vilification as it incites against Jews
By ToI Staff
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (right) wears a kippah as he arrives to attend a memorial for the victims of a terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 21, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)
January 12, 2026, 8:43 am
Australian parliament to meet early to pass hate speech laws after Bondi terror attack
Legislative response to Hanukkah shooting would create new offenses for ‘hate preachers,’ expand ban on prohibited symbols, and set framework for new list of banned hate groups
By AFP
French President's wife Brigitte Macron arrives ahead of the ceremony outside 'La Belle Equipe' bar, Nov. 13, 2025 in Paris (Ludovic Marin, Pool photo via AP, File)
January 5, 2026, 2:54 pm
French court convicts 10 of cyberbullying over claims about Brigitte Macron’s gender
Defendants posted ‘malicious comments’ about French first lady, falsely saying she’s male or calling her a pedophile, but several say they were joking; one gets 6 months in prison
By Sylvie Corbet
Imran Ahmed speaks onstage at the TAAF Heritage Month Summit at The Glasshouse in New York City, May 2, 2024. (JP Yim / Getty Images via AFP)
December 25, 2025, 1:38 pm
US Jewish groups defend European media monitors barred from entering US
State Dept. accuses Imran Ahmed, Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg of ‘censorship,’ Federations of North America, Council for Public Affairs laud work on antisemitism
By Andrew Lapin
Alisher Tursunov, widely known as Mubashshir Ahmad, on October 1, 2023. (Javlonbek Ilhomovich, Public Domain)
August 19, 2025, 8:51 pm
Uzbek cleric on trial for inciting hate, after backing call for jihad against Israel
Alisher Tursunov, widely known as Mubashshir Ahmad and boasting a million followers online, pleads not guilty after endorsing Qatar-based fatwa; could face 5-8 years in prison
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Members of the racist British Movement unfurl a flag with a swastika and SS imagery at the Duke of Edinburgh pub (who say they weren't aware) in Royton, England on April 20, 2025, in celebration of Adolf Hitler's birthday. An image of Hitler has been superimposed onto the image. (British Movement)
April 29, 2025, 9:55 pm
UK Police investigating after British neo-Nazis celebrate Hitler’s birthday in pub
Manchester-area bar says it didn’t know about the incident, totally condemns it; crew of racist British Movement members caught on CCTV, may have broken hate speech laws
By ToI Staff
The stone steps leading up to Clifford's Tower, York, site of the most notorious anti-Semitic bloodshed in medieval English history. (Times of Israel staff)
March 21, 2025, 8:44 am
Facebook group for British History ‘laughs’ at photo of antisemitic massacre site
Thousands respond to image of Clifford’s Tower, where 150 Jews were murdered in 1190, with ‘laugh’ reacts and antisemitic jokes
By Grace Gilson
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Joel Kaplan, named in January 2025 as Meta's president of global affairs, after leaving a meeting with a Republican senator in Washington, D.C., September 19, 2019. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP )
January 19, 2025, 12:52 am
US Jewish groups pushed Meta to crack down on hate speech. Now, it’s reversing course
The company will loosen restrictions and halt automation to detect most violations as it adapts to a political era increasingly shaped by Trump and the Republican Party
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
People walk on a 'funeral march' and hold a flag with the German colors during a commemoration organized by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party at the cathedral square after the Christmas market car-ramming attack in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 23, 2024. (RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 5:18 pm
Germany sees rise in far-right crime and online hate, partly linked to Gaza war
Report finds 33,963 registered cases of right-wing politically motivated crime in first 11 months of 2024, mostly online offenses and hate speech
By Agencies
Left to right: Dani Kogan, Deborah Greenblatt, Julian Voloj, Francil Tejada and Bradley T. Borden hold copies of 'We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope,' a comic book celebrating the diversity of the borough and of participants in the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate, November 18, 2024. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)
November 29, 2024, 2:28 am
To fight hate, these Brooklyn-based nonprofit professionals wrote a comic book together
Six members of the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate tell their stories in a project initiated by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Anti-Israel demonstrators protest outside Columbia University, September 3, 2024, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
October 22, 2024, 1:10 am
Anti-Israel US campus groups radicalize, with no one to stop them, experts warn
Former security officials say increasingly violent rhetoric mimics that of 1960s students who pivoted to domestic terror. It’s going unhindered as students point to First Amendment
By Cathryn J. Prince
A Youtube video screenshot of a panel during Twitch's conference in which streamers rated fellow streamers based on their affinity to Arabs, September, 2024. (used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 21, 2024, 3:35 pm
Streaming site Twitch accused of unchecked antisemitism, anti-Israel bias
After a slew of complaints, platform acknowledges blocking Israel-based users post-Oct. 7 ‘to prevent uploads of graphic material,’ doesn’t address lifting ban on antisemitic users
By ToI Staff
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, pictured in 2016, was recently arrested in France. (Manuel Blondeau/AOP.Press/Corbis)
September 16, 2024, 7:14 pm
What you need to know about Telegram, the app Hamas uses to spread its message
The messaging platform recently blocked some Hamas channels after its Russian-born founder was detained in an arrest by French authorities seeking to clamp down on illicit content
By Josh Axelrod
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