France is setting up a national office to fight anti-religious hate crimes. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announces the creation of the gendarmerie entity at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg in eastern France, where more than 100 graves had been found covered with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti the day before. SOUNDBITE
French Interior minister Christophe Castaner condemns an “act of hatred” that “desecrates all the Republic” after more than 100 graves were found covered with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg in eastern France on Tuesday. SOUNDBITE
Ahead of the arrival of French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, members of the Jewish community came to see the damage after graves were vandalised at the Westhoffen Jewish Cemetery near Strasbourg on Tuesday. More than a hundred gravestones were daubed with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti. IMAGES
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits the Synagogue in Halle to visit the scene of a deadly anti-Semitic gun attack carried out on the holy day of Yom Kippur. Two people were shot dead in the eastern German city of Halle on Wednesday, with a synagogue among the targets. The suspect, identified by media as 27-year-old German Stephan Balliet, filmed the assault and streamed it online. IMAGES
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A video auto-generated by Facebook based on one user’s posts contains images of a burning U.S. flag, anti-Semitic messages and a call for ‘retribution.’
The New York Times has been forced to apologise for printing an anti-Semitic cartoon. It appeared in the paper’s international edition, and depicts the Israeli Prime Minister as a guide dog leading President Trump, who’s wearing dark glasses and a skull cap. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9t6s
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One woman has been killed & three other people wounded including a rabbi, in a shooting at a synagogue near San Diago in California.
Police have detained a 19-year-old man in connection with the incident, which took place during a service to mark the Jewish holiday of Passover. The suspect reportedly posted an anti-Semitic message online before the attack. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9t6q
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Shocked Polish lawmaker discovered that the newsstand in the nation’s parliament offered a newspaper with instructions on how to spot Jews by name and face, and tackle their “disinformation activities.”
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President Donald Trump has slammed the Democratic Party’s supposed anti-Israel stance amid a row over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s alleged anti-Semitic comments and a condemnation bill passed in response.
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A memorial stone marking the site of Strasbourg’s Old Synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis in World War II, is damaged once more after it was knocked down from its plinth vandals overnight. France is currently grappling with a surge in anti-Semitic violence and hate speech. IMAGES
Yorai Feinberg runs a restaurant offering Middle Eastern specialities in the Berlin district of Schöneberg. In December 2017, a man attacked him in front of his shop: “You will all go back to your gas chambers!”. Since the video of the incident was posted on social media, the 37-year-old Israeli restaurateur has been harassed by anti-Semites on all sides and tries with difficulty to get them convicted by the justice”.
Yorai Feinberg runs a restaurant offering Middle Eastern specialities in the Berlin district of Schöneberg. In December 2017, a man attacked him in front of his shop: “You will all go back to your gas chambers!”. Since the video of the incident was posted on social media, the 37-year-old Israeli restaurateur has been harassed by anti-Semites on all sides and tries with difficulty to get them convicted by the justice”.
A spike in attacks targeting the Hasidic population of New York’s Crown Heights is bringing a new call to unity among Jewish and Black leaders, who have worked to bring the community together since the anti-Semitic riots that tore it apart in 1991.
More than a thousand people rally in Strasbourg on a day of nationwide actions against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks in France, including the daubing of swastikas on nearly 100 graves in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France.
French President Emmanuel Macron visits a Jewish cemetery in eastern France where dozens of graves were daubed with swastikas overnight. It was discovered just hours ahead of nationwide marches called to denounce a surge in anti-Semitic vandalism and hate speech.
Around 80 graves are daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, hours ahead of nationwide marches called to denounce a surge in anti-Semitic vandalism and hate speech.
(1 Nov 2018) With two more funerals set for Thursday, the anti-Semitic truck driver accused of gunning down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue pleaded not guilty to federal charges that could put him on death row. (Nov. 1)
Donald Trump visits the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 people were gunned down at the weekend in an anti-Semitic attack, as more than 1,000 protesters gathered nearby to say the US president was unwelcome.
More than 1,000 protesters gather near the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 people were gunned down at the weekend in an anti-Semitic attack to make it clear that US President Donald Trump was unwelcome. IMAGES
Robert Bowers, the man charged with killing 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue, made extreme anti-Semitic statements before launching the assault. SOUNDBITE
A man suspected of bursting into a Pittsburgh synagogue during a baby-naming ceremony and gunning down 11 people has been charged with murder, in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent US history.