Muslim anti-Semitism

Illustrative: Children look out from a doorway as armed soldiers patrol outside a school in the Jewish quarter of the Marais district in Paris, January 13, 2015. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images/via JTA)

January 7, 2019, 8:49 am

Anti-Semitic attacks in Europe in recent years

A unifying thread links the terrorists who’ve targeted Europe’s Jews

By AFP

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaking on October 14, 2018, in Michigan. (Twitter screen capture)

October 18, 2018, 10:29 am

Twitter says no plans to ban Farrakhan after comparison of Jews to termites

ADL urges removal of Nation of Islam leader’s tweets after he thanks Jewish ‘deceivers’ for ‘putting my name all over the planet because of your fear of what we represent’

By TOI staff

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in an interview with The Associated Press in Putrajaya, Malaysia, August 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Yam G-Jun)

October 2, 2018, 4:48 pm

Anti-Semitic Malaysian PM insists Jews are ‘hook-nosed’ to BBC

Mahathir Mohamad also claims only 4 million Jews killed in Holocaust, blames Israel for region’s woes in interview set to air Tuesday

By Michael Bachner and TOI staff

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad speaks during the General Debate of the 73rd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on September 28, 2018. (KENA BETANCUR / AFP)

September 30, 2018, 12:16 pm

Virulently anti-Semitic Malaysian PM welcomed in UK

Mahathir Mohamad speaks at Oxford University, visits Imperial College, with another address set for prestigious think tank Chatham House; Jewish leaders condemn warm reception

By TOI staff and AP

Alain Finkielkraut in his Paris home. (Robert Sarner/ Times of Israel)

August 24, 2018, 6:10 am

Controversial Jewish analyst Alain Finkielkraut is worried for France’s future

Leading French scholar says Jews in dire straits and government’s failure to integrate massive wave of Muslim immigration is to blame — a ‘diabolical juncture’

By Robert Sarner

August 13, 2018, 3:36 pm

Virulently anti-Semitic Malaysian PM says he should be allowed to criticize Jews

Mahathir Mohamad, who has accused Jews of ‘Nazi cruelty’ and seeking to wipe out all Muslims, says ‘Anti-Semitic’ is ‘an invented term to prevent criticizing Jews for doing wrong’

By AP and JTA

Ilana Edner, marching behind the Israeli flag, with participants of the Jewish contingent of the gay pride parade in Malmo, Sweden, June 10, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

June 21, 2018, 5:58 pm

In Sweden, Jews and Muslims united around Israeli flags at a gay pride parade

Local newspapers prominently featured the rare show of solidarity, but critics say anti-Semitism in this city with a large immigrant population isn’t going away anytime soon

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Saudi scholar Sheikh Saad ibn Abdullah Al-Humayd during an interview aired on the Saudi Wesal TV channel on March 21, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube/MEMRI)

April 15, 2018, 6:22 pm

Saudi scholar: Jews in Hollywood implementing ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’

Anti-Semitic book’s authenticity hasn’t been proven, says Riyadh-based sheikh, but its claim that wealthy Jews are trying to take over the world is ‘translated into reality’

By Michael Bachner

Aiman Mazyek, chairman of Germany's Central Council of Muslims, poses for the media prior to a press conference in Berlin, Germany, February 3, 2016. (Michael Sohn/AP)

March 28, 2018, 3:55 pm

German Muslim leader urges imams, rabbis to unite against school anti-Semitism

Idea comes after leader of Germany’s Jewish community says Muslims are not doing enough to combat problem

By JTA

Mohammad Delavari, left, and two members of his filming crew interviewing Iris Tzur at her home in Amsterdam, March 1, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

March 28, 2018, 5:06 am

What a Jewish reporter learned from an afternoon with 3 Iranian journalists

Cordial interactions were superimposed over a mutual distrust, says Cnaan Lipshiz, but perhaps signify a crack in the usual demonization

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Maajid Nawaz speaking at a Liberal Democrat campaign event in West Hampstead, London, in 2015. (Wikimedia commons/flickr/eregis)

February 19, 2018, 12:47 am

The British activist who went from radical Islam to staunch Israel ally

Maajid Nawaz spent 5 years in an Egyptian prison for espousing extremism. Now living in London, he educates about the dangers of radicalization in the Western world

By Robert Philpot

German chancellor Angela Merkel looks on after addressing the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 24, 2018 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. (AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI)

January 27, 2018, 3:32 pm

Merkel: Ongoing need to protect Jewish institutions ‘a disgrace’

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, German leader warns of rising anti-Semitism in country, calls to create position of anti-Semitism commissioner

By Agencies

Pedestrians walk past Istanbul’s Neve Şalom Synagogue, one of the most important Jewish landmarks in Turkey. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)

January 10, 2018, 4:01 am

As Israel-Turkey tensions rise, so does foot traffic to Istanbul’s Jewish Museum

While PMs Erdoğan and Netanyahu trade barbs, mostly local visitors flock to ‘the only place Turks can learn about Jewish culture’

By Larry Luxner

Illustrative: An Iranian Jew prays in a synagogue in Shiraz, Iran. (Public domain/Creative commons)

December 28, 2017, 8:55 am

A second synagogue reported vandalized in southern Iran

Vandals in Shiraz rip Torah scrolls, steal their silver ornaments, throw prayer books in the toilet, and soil prayer shawls and phylacteries

By TOI staff and JTA

Hamas official Nasouh Al-Ramini at a Nablus rally (MEMRI)

December 23, 2017, 12:00 am

Hamas official: Trump gave Jerusalem to descendants of pigs and apes

Speaking at Nablus rally, Nasouh al-Ramini thanks US president for uniting ‘our people and our nation with your injustice and tyranny’

By TOI staff