Antisemitism Archives

Sunak says pro-Palestine protests must be ‘policed, not just managed’

The prime minister said he was “shocked” to see footage of antisemitism campaigner Gideon Falter being threatened with arrest at a pro-Palestine demonstration in central London.

April 24, 2024, 1:16 pm

Man arrested on suspicion of rape and death treats against Jewish woman to ‘avenge Palestine’

Suspect reported to have sent a message to the Jewish woman's mother, saying: 'Good luck, you will never find your daughter, you will never see her again'

By JN Reporter

April 24, 2024, 9:31 am

Sunak says pro-Palestine protests must be ‘policed, not just managed’

The prime minister said he was “shocked” to see footage of antisemitism campaigner Gideon Falter being threatened with arrest at a pro-Palestine demonstration in central London.

By JN Reporter

Israeli professor Shai Davidai outside of Columbia University, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)

April 23, 2024, 10:09 am

Israeli professor barred from entering Columbia University campus

Shai Davidai tried enter the university’s main campus to hold a “peaceful sit in” in the area of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who have occupied the campus lawn since last week.

By Luke Tress (JTA)

Pictures posted on X by the UJS of graffiti at the conference

April 19, 2024, 5:05 pm

NUS conference is broken beyond repair, say Jewish students

After a swastika is scrawled at the event in Blackpool the National Union of Students ‘strongly condemns the racist antisemitic incidents’

By Michelle Rosenberg

Blair Hall at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, 2006. (Alfred Hutter via Wikimedia Commons)

April 12, 2024, 11:19 am

Princeton joins list of Ivy League unis under antisemitism investigation

US Department of Education opens Title VI inquiry into allegations at elite New Jersey private university

By Andrew Lapin (JTA)

Israeli reporters in Sweden ahead of Eurovision. Credit: Channel 12

April 11, 2024, 9:30 am

‘Pigs are better than Jews’: Israeli reporters met with antisemitism and October 7 denial in Sweden

The two Channel 12 reporters were also warned by security guards outside a mosque that a bombing attack would take place during Eurovision to hit Israelis

By Jotam Confino in Israel

Adam Langleben, executive director of Progressive Britain

April 10, 2024, 3:58 pm

‘I love my community… now I’m making sure Keir Starmer wins the next election’

Former JLC and JLM man Adam Langleben sat down with Jewish News to discuss his new job as executive director of Progressive Britain

By Lee Harpin

An antisemitism protest march in November. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News

April 9, 2024, 3:39 pm

OPINION: Rising antisemitism weakens our societies

EXCLUSIVE: Against a backdrop of increasing antisemitism in their countries, senior ministers and politicians from the UK, Germany and France reflect on the world's oldest hatred poses to Jews and non-Jews

By Aurore Bergé, Felix Klein and Lord Eric Pickles

Protestors take part in a demonstration against antisemitism in France, outside the French Embassy in Knightsbridge, London, following a decision by FranceOs highest court to spare the killer of Sarah Halimi from trial because the alleged perpetrator was high on cannabis at the time of the crime. Picture date: Sunday April 25, 2021.

April 9, 2024, 12:00 pm

Lord Pickles joins European leaders to issue new warning about rising antisemitism

Lord Pickles is joined by French and German leaders in warning about rising antisemitism, 20 years after the signing of the OSCE Berlin Declaration.

By Lee Harpin

A special exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race," explores how the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of individuals considered to be "biological threats." (Courtesy United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

April 4, 2024, 11:16 am

Leading American medical journal faces down its own history of endorsing Nazi race science

Titled “Nazism and the Journal,” the article is part of a series written by independent historians that focuses on biases and injustices that New England Journal of Medicine has historically countenanced

By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)

April 2, 2024, 3:22 pm

Rachel Riley advises sixth-formers on how to fight online antisemitism

TV presenter part of StandWithUs UK panel for 200 students at Stone X Stadium event

By Michelle Rosenberg

Daniel Sharabi, 24, and his brother Neriya, 22

March 26, 2024, 3:58 pm

‘A disgrace beyond all proportion’ – Israeli heroes of Nova terror attack detained and interrogated at Manchester Airport

Former attorney general condemns treatment of brothers Daniel and Neriya Sharabi, who tell Jewish News that once they told the border officers they were Jewish, “the attitude got worse”.

By Jenni Frazer and Lee Harpin

British Jews at a demonstration in support for Israel.

March 26, 2024, 11:57 am

‘Forge The Future’ plan launched to safeguard UK Jewish community post 7/10

Ambitious scheme spearheaded by Jewish Leadership Council aims to fortify British Jewish life in the aftermath of Hamas terror attack.

By Jenni Frazer

Pro-Palestine demo Oct 28 central London

March 26, 2024, 10:46 am

OPINION: Antisemitism shows why safeguarding needs to protect everyone

The impact may not always be immediate, but the gradual erosion of self-confidence and mental health is part of the dehumanisation process, writes Claudia Mendoza

By Claudia Mendoza

March 26, 2024, 9:51 am

US filmmaker Steven Spielberg ‘increasingly alarmed’ by rise of antisemitism

“I am increasingly alarmed that we may be condemned to repeat history, to once again have to fight for the very right to be Jewish,” Spielberg said

By JN Reporter

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