SPECIAL FEATURE
UK SPECIAL ENVOY FOR POST-HOLOCAUST ISSUES DISCUSSES HOLOCAUST RESTITUTION
By CAM
Lord Eric Pickles discussed the release of the JUST Act report by the U.S. State Department. The JUST Act requires the department to report on steps or lack thereof that signatories of the 2009 Terezin Declaration have taken to compensate Holocaust victims. Lord Pickles said that “the JUST Act is the only game in town,” when it comes to pressuring Poland and others to enact just laws around Holocaust restitution. Read Here
COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM MOVEMENT HOSTS HIGH HOLIDAY BRIEFING WITH US SPECIAL ENVOY TO MONITOR & COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM
By JNS Wire
Mr. Carr, noting how appropriate it was to discuss the challenges facing the Jewish people during the High Holidays, expressed the disbelief many have experienced in seeing rising anti-Semitism around the world. “Today by means of the internet and social media these ideologies are propagating and transmitting this contagion…at the speed of a click,” Carr said. Read Here
HOW DO JEWISH STUDENTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FEEL ABOUT THE BDS VOTE?
By CAM
Romy Ronen, a junior at Columbia, was deeply disappointed with the result of the vote and worries that BDS has become “suddenly normalized.” “Columbia produces politicians, presidents, members of congress. When you’re a student and BDS has passed you will perceive it as a normal thing.” Overall, Ronen hopes that this vote will act as a wake-up call. “We definitely need to think of ways to combat this.” Read Here
UNITED STATES
GOOGLE PLEDGES TO RETURN ‘MORE HELPFUL’ RESULTS AFTER SEARCH FOR ‘JEWISH BABY STROLLERS’ IS FOUND TO PRODUCE ANTI-SEMITIC IMAGES
By Benjamin Kerstein
Google responded following revelations that a search for images of a “Jewish baby stroller” turns up grossly anti-Semitic images. A spokesperson said the search engine tends to pick images according to the accompanying text, which could result in offensive images appearing. Read Here
YONKERS POLICE SEEK SUSPECT WHO STOLE TORAH SCROLL FROM LOCAL SYNAGOGUE
By Algemeiner Staff
Police in Yonkers, New York, are searching for a man who stole a Torah scroll and other items from the Lincoln Park Jewish Center , just before the Yom Kippur holiday. Read Here
ANTI-SEMITIC MESSAGE LEFT ON FLATHEAD VALLEY, MONTANA BILLBOARD INVESTIGATED
By MTN News
An anti-Semitic message left on a billboard in the Flathead Valley is being investigated by Kalispell police. The vandalism read “Porn is” next to a Star of David. Read Here
EDITOR RESIGNS AT MIAMI HERALD’S SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER OVER PUBLICATION OF ANTI-SEMITIC, RACIST COLUMN
By MARCY OSTER Writer
The managing editor of The Miami Herald’s Spanish-language publication el Nuevo Herald resigned after the publication of an anti-Semitic column. An investigation found the column included “multiple instances of anti-Semitic commentary since January.” Read Here
WORLD NEWS
United Kingdom
GIANT SWASTIKA PAINTED ON BRISTOL CAR ON YOM KIPPUR
By CAM
Police in Bristol, England, are investigating a giant swastika found painted on the hood of a car across the street from a Jewish resident on Yom Kippur. The owner of the car was Jewish and the swastika was found by Jewish resident Nick Bayne who tweeted the incident, expressing his horror at witnessing this symbol on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Read Here
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS LEADER SIR ED DAVEY RAISES CONCERN OVER THE PARTY’S VETTING PROCESSES
By Lee Harpin
Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey questioned the effectiveness of the party’s vetting processes after an anti-Semitism scandal saw Greta Sidhu-Robb, shortlisted as a party candidate for Mayor of London. She was suspended after video showed her urging voters not to back another candidate because he was “a Jew.” Read Here
FRED PERRY WITHDRAWS SHIRT DESIGN OVER ASSOCIATION WITH US NEO-NAZI GROUP
By Jewish News Reporter
Clothing brand Fred Perry has withdrawn one of its polo shirt designs from sale in North America because it has become associated with a US neo-fascist organisation. The company, founded and eponymously named by the British tennis and table-tennis champion, announced the decision after the black and yellow tops were adopted by the group Proud Boys. Read Here
WIFE OF EX-TORY MINISTER CRITICIZED OVER JEWISH LOBBY REFERENCES IN POLITICAL DIARIES
By Lee Harpin
A political diary written by the wife of former Conservative minister Hugo Swire includes two references to the alleged involvement of a “Jewish lobby” in Westminster. Lady Sasha Swires’s newly published Diary of an MP’s Wife includes the allegation that an “investigation into the Jewish lobby infiltrating parliament” was being conducted by the British Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Read Here
GERMANY
A YEAR AFTER HALLE, JEWS WHO WERE THERE STILL LOOKING FOR ANSWERS
By Joe Baur
The synagogue shooting in October 2019 was a symbol of rising neo-Nazi anti-Semitism in Germany. The Jewish community chairman in Halle expressed his gratitude: as opposed to the last time the synagogue was attacked, on Kristallnacht in 1938, this time the media and police were on their side. However, the psychological trauma experienced by the worshippers remains. Read Here
GERMAN POLICE THREATEN ISRAELI WITH CRIME FOR SHOW OF ISRAELI FLAG
By Benjamin Weinthal
German police in Frankfurt have launched an investigation into Israeli musician Ana Agre who waved the Israeli flag at an anti-Israel demonstration organized by a pro-BDS group in July. Agre was confronted by protestors yelling “Nazis out.” A Frankfurt police officer addressed Agre in English, recorded her identity and asked her to leave the demonstration because her presence was “provocative to the young Muslims.” Read Here
THE MIDDLE EAST
“ALL JEWS HATE ALL ARABS AND WANT TO KILL THEM” – HAMAS DEMONIZES JEWS IN TV SERIES
By Nan Jacques Zilberdik
In a scene in the Hamas TV series Self-Sacrificing Fighter (Fida’i), a Jewish family sits by the hospital bed of a relative, discussing who might have injured him. They reach the “conclusion” that this could only have been an Arab. The son exclaims that he “hates Arabs” and “wants to kill them.” His statement receives instant support from the adult relatives: “We all hate Arabs.” Read Here
QATARI POLITICAL CARTOONS ATTACK EMIRATI, BAHRAINI PEACE AGREEMENTS WITH ISRAEL
By MEMRI
Qatari press published numerous cartoons mocking Arab countries who support normalization with Israel. These countries were portrayed as traitors who serve Israel and the U.S. while stabbing the Palestinians in the back. One cartoon portrayed Israel using a stereotypical image of a Jew with a large nose and another referenced a popular anti-Semitic hadith about Muslims and Jews fighting on the Islamic Judgement Day. Read Here
ROUHANI ACCUSES US OF’ ATROCITY’ OVER SANCTIONS, BLAMES ‘ZIONISTS’ FOR WOES
By TOI
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a televised address accused the US of committing an “atrocity” through sanctions imposed on the Iranian regime. In the same address he blamed the ails of Iranian society on “Zionism, reactionary approaches, and US extremists.” Read Here
OTHER WORLD NEWS
FRENCH JEWISH TV PRESENTER CONFRONTED BY ASSAILANT ANGERED BY HER DENUNCIATION OF ANTI-SEMITIC RAPPER FREEZE CORLEONE
By Algemeiner
Police in France have arrested a man for an attempted assault on a Jewish TV presenter at the Paris studio where she works. The unnamed man was taken into custody after he entered the studio and confronted Valerie Benaim over her trenchant criticism of Freeze Corleone — a French rapper whose hit debut album is steeped in “anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, and apologies for Hitler, the Third Reich and [Afghan Taliban commander] Mullah Omar.” Read Here
KOSHER SUPERMARKET CASHIER TO TESTIFY ON THE ‘MOST HORRIBLE 4 HOURS’ OF HER LIFE
By Karine Perret
Zarie Sibony, who now lives in Israel, travelled to Paris to testify in the trial of fourteen individuals suspected of helping Hyper Cacher gunman Ahmed Coulibaly who killed three people. Sibony recalls her traumatic memories of Coulibaly’s verbal attacks, violence, and murder. She remembers Coulibaly saying: “You Jews, you’re wrong, because you think life is the most important thing, when it’s death that is most important.” Read Here
MOSCOW COPS ARREST MAN FOR ANTI-SEMITIC VANDALISM AT JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER
By Algemeiner
Police in Moscow arrested a man for vandalizing the offices of a Russian Jewish organization in an anti-Semitic attack. The man shouted anti-Semitic slurs as he attempted to break through the door of the building. When he failed to do so, he reportedly broke the nameplate on the mailbox and toppled a large decorative menorah. He also did minor damage to the rabbi’s car before he was arrested. Read Here
DUTCH CITY NAMES AS ITS POET A RAPPER WHO CALLED HOLOCAUST A ‘JOKE’
By Cnaan Lipshiz
A Dutch city named as its resident poet rapper Darryl Dancelo Osenga, who in a 2012 song, called the Holocaust a “cover up for dumb sheep” and a “joke” compared to slavery. The decision by the office of Jos Wienen, the mayor of Haarlem, sparked protest from Jewish groups. Read Here
JEWISH POLITICIAN IN GIBRALTAR TARGETED WITH ANTI-SEMITIC DUAL LOYALTY SLUR
By Algemeiner
Marlene Hassan Nahon said she had been the target of an “orchestrated campaign” of anti-Semitism last week. Nahon said that the comments attacked both her and her late father, former Gibraltar Chief Minister Sir Joshua Hassan, negatively highlighting her links with the State of Israel. “Of particular concern in the latest barrage of abuse is the age-old anti-Semitic trope of dual loyalty that has been lobbed at me for being Jewish,” Nahon said. Read Here
NEO-NAZI SCANDINAVIAN GROUP TARGETS JEWS ON YOM KIPPUR
By CAM
The Nordic Resistance Movement took anti-Semitic actions in 20 different cities in the region. They onfronted Jewish worshippers, stood in front of synagogues, and placed anti-Semitic posters in public areas with Jewish communities. The Nordic Resistance Movement wrote that it had chosen to do these actions on Yom Kippur in order to “make the Nordic people aware of foreign customs and Zionist ruling plans throughout the Nordic region.” Read Here
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