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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 563

racism in America

Archivist Sarah Hopley at the office of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York City, August 7, 2024. (Luke Tress/ JTA)
August 23, 2024, 6:24 am
New ADL archive aims to show how hate — and the fight against it — have evolved
A multi-year initiative will catalog and digitize files kept since the Anti-Defamation League’s 1913 founding, aiding researchers and showing the public how hate speech is recycled
By Luke Tress
In this photo taken from video provided by Stacey J. Spiehler, a pro-Palestinian protester is confronted by hecklers at the University of Mississippi, May 2, 2024, in Oxford, Mississippi. (Stacey J. Spiehler via AP)
May 4, 2024, 11:43 pm
Congressman shares clip of man making monkey gestures at Black anti-Israel protester
Republican Rep. Mike Collins draws backlash by posting clip of racist heckling at University of Mississippi with caption: ‘Ole Miss taking care of business’
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby have a new book titled 'Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew,' which candidly discusses race and antisemitism. (Courtesy)
May 3, 2024, 6:00 pm
Noa Tishby and Emmanuel Acho discuss their candid new book on Black-Jewish relations
The Israeli actress and the former NFL linebacker have both turned to activism. Their collaboration, ‘Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew,’ breaks taboos to find common ground
By Jordana Horn
Carl Mintz, a Jewish man in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in an audition tape he made for a stage production about Jesus Christ, uploaded September 17, 2021. Mintz was arrested on October 14, 2023, and charged with threatening to 'hunt Palestinians' amid deadly violence between Israel and Hamas. (Screenshot via YouTube via JTA)
October 20, 2023, 8:14 pm
Police arrest Detroit Jewish man who said he wanted to ‘hunt Palestinians’
Carl Mintz charged with making a terrorist threat after a post on social media proposing violence in the heavily Muslim neighborhood of Dearborn
By Andrew Lapin
Americans living in Israel march to the American Embassy in Tel Aviv with signs in Hebrew reading 'Americans for Equal Rights,' August 28, 1963. (AP Photo)
August 25, 2023, 6:46 pm
How Jews are joining the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Shabbat
About a dozen Jewish speakers will be among those addressing an estimated 75,000 people continuing the efforts that began six decades ago, and this time they include Jews of color
By Ben Sales
The US Supreme Court is seen June 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
June 30, 2023, 9:15 pm
Harvard’s Jewish quotas cited in US Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling
Two justices were sympathetic to group’s argument that demands for diversity were to an extent rooted in a past desire to limit numbers of Jewish students
By Ron Kampeas
Devon Arthurs in a photo provided on May 20, 2017. (Tampa Police Department via AP, File)
May 8, 2023, 9:18 pm
US ex-neo-Nazi convicted in Florida killing of roommates who mocked Islam conversion
Devon Arthurs, 24, pleads guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and will serve 45-year prison sentence, abruptly avoiding trial in which he planned to use insanity defense
By Curt Anderson
Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, California, October 26, 2006. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
February 26, 2023, 9:23 pm
US media drop ‘Dilbert’ comic series after creator’s Black ‘hate group’ remark
Outlets ax Scott Adams’ long-running comic after he defended earlier comments advising white people to ‘get the hell away from black people’
By DAVID A. LIEB
A person pays his respects at a makeshift memorial outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, May 15, 2022. (AP/Matt Rourke, File)
February 23, 2023, 5:51 pm
US mass killings linked to right-wing extremism spiked over last decade – ADL report
Study finds main threat in near future to likely be white supremacist shooters; all extremist killings identified in 2022 carried out by people with ties to far-right ideologies
By AP and ToI Staff
Clint Smith is the author of December’s cover story in the Atlantic, 'Monuments to the Unthinkable,' exploring how Germany — and by extension, the United States — accounts for the crimes of its past. (Courtesy the Atlantic via JTA)
December 3, 2022, 9:13 am
A Black writer explores how Germany remembers its ‘unthinkable’ past
Poet and journalist Clint Smith pens an insightful analysis on seeing Germany’s commemoration of the Holocaust firsthand and how it impacts his conception of US penance for slavery
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Mo Levy at the Roulette Records office, sirca 1969. (Wikimedia commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0/ Richard Carlin)
November 29, 2022, 1:38 am
Jewish organized crime made jazz noteworthy – but left Black musicians flat
In his new book ‘Dangerous Rhythms,’ author TJ English exposes a dark underside of the music industry, showing how mob-adjacent Jews fought segregation while exploiting the talent
By Rich Tenorio
Shervin Aazami holding his son Barrett and a sign protest outside City Hall during the Los Angeles City Council meeting, October 11, 2022 in Los Angeles. (AP/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
October 15, 2022, 9:21 pm
Los Angeles mystery: Who taped Democrat councilors’ meeting with racist rants?
Unclear how meeting of small group of friends — known as ‘the Fed’ — was recorded, but local Democratic Party leader Mark Gonzales suspects ‘insider job’
By Michael R. Blood
US President Joe Biden speaks during the United We Stand Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, September 15, 2022. (AP/Susan Walsh)
September 16, 2022, 11:51 am
Biden says ‘no place in America’ for hate-fueled violence
US president hails administration’s efforts to help stamp out violence against vulnerable groups, calls on Congress to clamp down on social media firms that allow hate speech
By Colleen Long and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Investigators work the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Monday, May 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
June 15, 2022, 7:13 pm
Hate crimes charges filed against Buffalo supermarket gunman
Payton Gendron, who is suspected of killing 10 Black people in racially motivated attack, could face the death penalty
By CAROLYN THOMPSON
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit the scene of a shooting at a supermarket to pay respects and speak to families of the victims of the shooting in Buffalo, New York, May 17, 2022. (Matt Rourke/AP)
May 17, 2022, 7:05 pm
Biden rejects racism, calls for gun control at memorial for Buffalo shooting victims
US president and his wife meet privately with families of the dead, first responders and local officials before delivering public remarks
By CHRIS MEGERIAN
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