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It’s sad that the Jews were taken as slaves and that resulted in the European diaspora, but that does not give anyone the right to displace the Palestinians living there in modern times. It’s disgusting to see such a dive into fascism be unchecked.

What exactly made you write this message to a blog focusing on antisemitism in the US?

Thank you for proving, once again, that anti-Zionism IS antisemitism

Besides this, your history is wrong.

In the US, if you'll tell Native Americans that they have no right to their land because they've been colonized for so long, you'll be considered a racist.

Because antisemitism (AKA "anti-Zionism") is acceptable in today's society, telling Jews the same thing is very progressive and enlightened. That does not mean it's not racist and antisemitic.

A new report reveals an increase in antisemitic incidents on U.S. college campuses, with hundreds of current and former students noting that antisemitism is a problem.

Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF), an alumni network trying to combat campus antisemitism and anti-Israel bias, conducted the survey between March 25 and June 14 and noted that the report included first-hand accounts from students who said they experienced Holocaust comparisons, Jewish stereotyping and common antisemitic tropes on their college campuses. The students also cited administrative negligence in the report titled "A Growing Threat: Antisemitism on College Campuses."

ACF released the results of the survey of Jewish college students and recent alums last week and found 95% of those who participated said antisemitism is an issue, with three out of four describing it as a "very serious problem."

The survey found that nearly half of current students said antisemitism is getting worse on their college campuses.

One anonymous student noted that a professor made "a horribly offensive analogy about the Holocaust."

"When I told her it was offensive, she gaslit me and said if I was so sensitive, I should find another career," that student continued, adding that "there has been rising anti-Israel activity on-campus" and that "we have found swastikas and hate-speech from alt-right groups on campus."

Another student said that "UConn [The University of Connecticut] has experienced seven antisemitic incidents in the year and three during Passover alone."

"Each act has gotten bigger and bolder, and the students have become frightened," the student continued.

Police in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, are beefing up patrols at Jewish sites in the city after a number of antisemitic incidents, specifically the vandalization of a local Jewish cemetery, local CBS affiliate WCCO reported.
Vandals had targeted the Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery, with its caretaker telling police Thursday that he found 30 tombstones knocked over, according to the Star Tribune.
Another incident in nearby St. Louis Park saw a local Beth El Synagogue close its preschool and cancel in-person Shabbat evening prayer services after a possible threat was received by the Anti-Defamation League, according to the Star Tribune.

A man charged with shooting prominent attorney Georgette Kaufmann allegedly harbored anti-Semitic thoughts and harbored a bizarre belief that the Memorial Park neighborhood was the epicenter of a supposed Satanic abortion ritual site, before attacking her home in Central El Paso last November.

Police arrested Joseph Angel Alvarez, 38, on one count of murder and another count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the 2020 murder of the attorney and shooting of her husband, Daniel Kaufmann. His bond is listed at a total of $2.5 million.

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Police detailed messages and statements Alvarez allegedly made about his own beliefs and what may have been a motive for the attack on Nov. 14. Police found Alvarez emailed a military intelligence group hours before the attack at the Kaufmann’s house.

He had allegedly written a 22-page manifesto to the Army’s 902D Military Intelligence group claiming “pro-choice” individuals were the “Jewish Satanist Party,” according to the police affidavit. And, he had identified Memorial Park as a supposed “ritualistic satanic ground to conduct abortions by manner of magic.”

“(Alvarez) makes several references to Democrats being liars and calls for ‘No more Democrat Party Officials,'” the affidavit states. “(Alvarez) goes on to explain abortion is ‘Jewish child sacrifice.'”

Annamie Paul, the head of Canada’s Green Party, will keep her position after an emergency meeting over tensions within the party without the no-confidence vote that her critics had demanded.

Instead, the party is demanding that Paul, who last year became the first Black and Jewish leader of a Canadian political party, disavow a former adviser who accused Canadian politicians of antisemitism, according to CBC News.

The meeting Tuesday night was spurred by a rift that opened within the party during the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. After Paul issued a statement calling for both sides to cease violence, two party lawmakers said she had not gone far enough to condemn Israel. A senior adviser, Noah Zatzman, criticized that response and accused Canadian lawmakers, including in the Green Party, of antisemitism.

Last week, the party voted not to renew Zatzman’s contract. Now Paul must formally disavow his comments or face a potential no-confidence vote in the future, according to the CBC.

Police in Campbell arrested a suspected prowler on July 9 and found that his vehicle was full of weaponry, drugs, and a journal in which he allegedly talked about eradicating Black, Latinx, and Jewish people.

Prosecutors say that the truck belonging to 32-year-old Wesley Charles Martines of Los Gatos contained body armor, a possible pipe bomb, assault weapons including two illegal AR-style rifles, and bullets engraved with things like "Cop Killer" and "A good start." They also found methamphetamine and heroin in the truck, as well as a journal discussing his racial genocide fantasies and "a plan to go to a sporting goods store, dress up as an employee and tie everybody up," as the Santa Clara County DA's Office said in a release.

His roommate Aidan says he and Awad were friends until Awad attacked him in their shared kitchen on day, prompting Aidan to move out and get a restraining order.

“We were friends, to be honest with you. I’m Jewish. And he knew that since I moved in,” said Aidan Anderson, the suspect’s former roommate.

Aidan and Eric say Awad’s beliefs towards certain cultures became evident early on.

“He was very much anti-Semitic. He would say like all types of Jewish jokes. I thought he was joking at first and then I started to see seriousness in his comments,” said Eric.

Binder groups — a secretive network of Facebook communities to help writers who aren’t cisgender men find writing jobs — are supposed to be safe spaces.

But recently, Jews have been feeling as though they’ve become just as unwelcome as men.

In the last few weeks, one group with approximately 12,300 members, Binders Full of Global Freelance Writers, muted and expelled several Jewish members without explanation or warning in the wake of an argument in the comments of a post about a book club on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jewish members expressed discomfort with the political discussion in a group that was supposed to be focused on work — especially as the post included a map of Israeli and Palestinian borders that they felt misrepresented the occupied Palestinian territory.

The group’s moderators, they say, responded by tagging, calling out and expelling users with Jewish names in the discussion.

Alyssa Schwartz, a travel writer, had simply liked some of the comments from other Jewish members when she was blocked, meaning she is no longer a member of the group, can’t see it in search results and can’t re-request membership. She said several non-Jewish friends, who had commented expressing support for the Jews in the group, told her in a group message that they were also banned without warning.

Boston authorities are looking into the brutal stabbing of a Boston rabbi as a possible hate crime as the alleged assailant was arraigned on assault charges.

Khaled Awad, 24, appeared in Brighton District Church on Friday and was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on an officer and will be held without bail until a dangerousness hearing on July 8.

Awad allegedly stabbed Rabbi Shlomo Noginksi eight times on the street outside Shaloh House, a Jewish Day School and synagogue on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton, at around 1.19pm on Thursday afternoon.

Rabbi Noginski, who is a teacher and rabbi at the Shaloh House, was reportedly sitting outside talking on his cell phone when the suspect launched his attack on him.

Awad allegedly approached the rabbi, drew a firearm and attempted to force him in the car and kidnap him, reports Chabad. But Rabbi Noginski struggled and attempted to run across the street where the suspect stabbed him in the arm multiple times.

The rabbi's family and community leaders believe he was targeted in the attack because he is Jewish, reports Fox News.

For Jassey and Blake Flayton, a 20-year-old senior at The George Washington University, in Washington, DC, the greatest concern is the more insidious, seemingly regular and casual anti-Semitism, the cloaked language being used -- whether knowingly or not -- in progressive circles they once considered themselves integral parts of.
"An American Jew is only used to perceiving anti-Semitism as Nazis in Charlottesville carrying tiki torches, or a swastika being spray-painted onto a synagogue wall, or the Christian right saying that Jews killed Jesus Christ. We're not very attuned to and good at recognizing anti-Semitism when it doesn't come from that extreme side of the political spectrum," Flayton says. "But we are going to have to get used to it, because that's what's coming here. It's already here."

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) – A man told officers he was ‘cleansing the world’ after allegedly setting fire to Ripley’s Haunted House.

According to a police report, officers heard people yelling ‘fire’, inside Ripley’s Haunted House on Ninth Avenue in Myrtle Beach Saturday night before setting walls of a tunnel inside the building on fire.

MBPD officers and a SLED agent were able to get a description of the suspect from witnesses, according to the report.

The suspect was taken into custody shortly after on Tenth Avenue and Withers, where he told officers he was ‘cleansing the world by burning the synagogue.’

Former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney tweets 'Zionists' responsible for 9/11 attacks

Conspiracy theorist has also questioned the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust

Former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on Monday tweeted that "Zionists" were responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks committed by Al-Qaeda that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.McKinney served six terms in the US House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 as a member of the Democratic Party from Georgia before leaving the Democrats in 2008 to run for president on the Green Party ticket.

The tweet to her nearly 50,000 followers shows an image of the World Trade Center twin towers aflame on 9/11 after being hit by the airplanes with the picture presented as a jigsaw puzzle. Under the picture reads "the final piece of the puzzle..." with the words "Zionists" on one of the puzzle pieces about to be inserted, forming the words "Zionists did it."

Last year, McKinney posted to Twitter a link to an article in Haaretz on the total number of Jews murdered by the Nazis, questioning in the tweet the established figure of six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

The tweet reads: “So, the figure wasn’t six million after all?? What about those punished and even imprisoned for saying so?? Is this a ‘You can’t say, but I can’ kind of thing??”

Moshava said it is working with both Eat Up the Borders and Sunflower Philly “to try and educate and grow together in a safe space for everyone. Although we were disappointed with how the situation was greatly mishandled, we do not believe the organizers intention came from an antisemitic place, but the threats they were receiving to their event were.”

Earlier on Sunday, the Anti-Defamation League’s Philadelphia chapter said it was “deeply disturbed” by the incident, and was working to meet with the organizers “to discuss what happened, provide education on antisemitism and share communal security resources.”

Free-agent NBA forward Meyers Leonard spoke to children at a Florida synagogue last weekend, addressing his use of an antisemitic slur that led to him being fined $50,000 and suspended one week by the NBA.

Leonard, who again apologized for his comments, said he has spent the last three months reflecting on his actions and getting better acquainted with the Jewish community.

"I've had a lot of really good moments and some pretty dark emotional moments but I'd just like to say, again, I'm so, so thankful for the people in the Jewish community whether it's a little kid, a teenager, a high schooler or a rabbi," Leonard said.

"I've just been very educated, I've had so many events away from the public eye that have just uplifted not only myself, my wife and our immediate family but my friends. I just learned so much and I'm so thankful through a very dark moment. Sometimes people say God works in mysterious ways."

Leonard used the word "k--e," an ethnic slur used to denigrate Jewish people, while streaming himself playing video games on Twitch in March. The NBA suspended him a day later and condemned his statement, with Leonard issuing an apology on Instagram.

A couple who left the noise of New York City for the peace and quiet of the Long Island suburbs in 2020 says they have found anything but peace, after they claim to have been bombarded with threats from their neighbor over a disputed property line.

Eric and Elina Goldman are shaken and scared. Ten months after the couple left Manhattan for a home in Roslyn Harbor, they say they are being tormented by a neighbor.

“He points in the window to me, went like this,” Eric said, moving his hand across his throat. Goldman said their next-door neighbor, Thomas Cerna, looked him in the eye and said, “You’re dead!”

A doorbell camera captured Tuesday’s expletive-filled and antisemitic rant on video. A law enforcement source confirmed to NBC New York that the threatening voice heard in the video belongs to Cerna.

“It’s terrifying honestly. The fact that we now know this type of behavior is alive and well in 2021 and literally living next door,” said Eric.

Unbridled fear is pervading Chicago’s Jewish community. Over the past few weeks alone, chants of “Kill the Jews” were heard in the Chicago area, and bricks were thrown through a synagogue window in Skokie. In Naperville, agitators stole and set on fire an Israeli flag, and attacked a car with Jewish children inside — events that led to three citations for disorderly conduct. And a local Jewish high school student received a series of gruesome death threats and hate mail.

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But far too many have maintained a deafening silence. Some have recognized that antisemitism is a societal problem, have joined your Jewish neighbors in standing up and speaking out against the new surge in hate targeting Jews. Please join us and them at AJC’s #WheresTheOutrage campaign and help raise awareness that Jews are under attack.