The University of Winnipeg in Canada expressed regret for “antisemitic statements” made at a campus event on Jerusalem during a Jewish holiday in February. In a report authored earlier this month, a university committee...
Tag - Antisemitism
Antisemitic Crimes Increase Dramatically in Germany
By: JTAThere were 401 antisemitic crimes in Germany from January through June. The number of antisemitic crimes in Germany during the first half of 2018 increased 10 percent over the same period last year. There were 401 antisemitic...
New study: BDS activists hostile toward Jewish students, not just Israel
By: Miriam Elman- Legal InsurrectionFor many years we’ve been documenting anti-Israel activity on U.S. university and college campuses, typically part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and carried out by student groups like Students for...
Far left Jewish groups defend Israel critics from ‘false accusations of anti-Semitism’
By: JTA News BriefThirty-six far left Jewish groups from around the world have signed a statement condemning the conflation of anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel. “As social justice organizations from around the world, we write this letter...
Munich Mayor Accuses Roger Waters of Antisemitism, Sparking Legal Action
By: Benjamin Weinthal- Jerusalem PostWaters’s attorney demanded that social democratic mayor Dieter Reiter delete his press statement accusing Waters of antisemitism. Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter slammed Roger Waters, co-founder of the British band Pink Floyd...