UFC President and CEO Dana White criticized mixed martial artist Bryce Mitchell for making antisemitic and homophobic comments on a podcast during which the featherweight also praised former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and denied the Holocaust. “I’ve heard a lot of dumb and ignorant (stuff) said over the years, but this is probably the worst,”…
President Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as “critical race theory” and other material dealing with race and sexuality or risk losing their federal money. A separate plan announced Wednesday calls for aggressive action to fight antisemitism on college campuses, promising to prosecute offenders and revoke visas for international students…
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, son-in-law and daughter of President-Elect Donald Trump, expressed deep sorrow over the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad emissary to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in a statement shared on social media on Monday. Kushner called Kogan’s death a “senseless murder” aimed at halting his efforts to foster…
The first plane from Amsterdam with evacuated Israelis on board landed in Israel, KAN reported on Friday. The Israel Airports Authority announced that it is prepared to receive passengers arriving from Amsterdam on evacuated flights, Ynet reported. It also reportedly stated that there is an increase in staff members and a designated area at…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A U.S. judge overseeing lawsuits accusing Harvard University of antisemitism on Tuesday narrowed but refused to dismiss a case by two advocacy groups accusing the Ivy League school of making it unbearable for Jewish students to study there. U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns said the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human…
PITTSBURGH — President Joe Biden on Saturday marked the sixth anniversary of a gunman’s deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue and called out what he called an “appalling surge of antisemitism” amid the war in Gaza. The 2018 attack claimed the lives of 11 worshippers from Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life congregations,…
berlin — U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will discuss increased reports of antisemitic acts in both countries over the last year as war has raged in the Middle East when they meet Friday in Berlin, a Biden administration official told reporters on the eve of Biden’s state visit to Germany. “This…
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestine protesters marched through London on Saturday, as worldwide anti-Israel rallies took place ahead of the upcoming one year anniversary of October 7. Social media and British news outlets depict protesters holding banners expressing support for Hezbollah and Hamas, such as “Hezbollah are not terrorists” and “I love Hezbollah”. Other…
washington — Spamouflage networks with connections to China are posting antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media, casting doubt on Washington’s independence from alleged Jewish influence and the integrity of the two U.S. presidential candidates, a joint investigation by VOA Mandarin and Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab, a social media analytics firm, has found. The investigation has so…