It has been five long years of seeking justice since gay University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein was murdered. His family hopes a judge will move the case against the teen’s accused killer forward. The suspect is scheduled to appear for a pre-trial hearing in a California court Friday, according to the news site Forward.…
On Monday, the traveler, who is from New York but was away in Florida on a business trip together with his family, boarded the plane, Delta flight 1541, carrying a single suitcase and hat box. His attorneys say that the packages were well within Delta’s restrictions for carry-on luggage in size and weight. Moments after…
An Amarillo man was sentenced in January for threatening to execute three prominent Jewish rabbis. Christopher Stephen Brown placed threatening calls to Chabad Lubavitch, a Jewish organization in New York that has provided spiritual guidance and assistance to Jewish people since before the Holocaust, said U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.…
A Montreal resident was found guilty Monday of promoting hatred toward Jews based on an item he posted on a far-right website. In a decision delivered at the Montreal courthouse, Quebec Court Judge Manlio Del Negro did not accept Gabriel Sohier Chaput’s defence that what he wrote for the Daily Stormer was satirical or intended…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Antisemitic propaganda and wood chips were discovered Sunday morning in the employee parking lot at Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office headquarters, a spokeswoman told WPTV. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Teri Barbera said someone left the antisemitic propaganda and small bags filled with an unknown substance – later determined to be wood chips…
A man on a London city bus was recorded shouting antisemitic comments at a Jewish woman and her son, according to a report by Shomrim London. The London-based crime prevention and safety group tweeted about an incident on London city bus on Thursday. The organization cited an incident with a “deranged male” screaming at a…
The 35-year-old Dearborn man already charged with ethnic intimidation is now facing federal weapons charges for being a felon in possession of a firearm and lying on a federal firearms form. Hassan Chokr had tried purchasing a shotgun, a rifle, and a semi-automatic pistol on Dec. 2 – the same day he visited the Temple…
Amazon has removed Nazi items from its site after being called out by a Jewish human-rights group. The Simon Wiesenthal Center blasted Amazon for “monetising” Nazi and white supremacist paraphernalia by allowing third-party sellers to sell swastika pendants and neo-Nazi face masks. In a blog post, the organisation urged Amazon to immediately remove and stop…
TikTok is being flooded with anti-Israeli videos, mainly produced by pro-Palestinian groups — and Jewish leaders say they’re poisoning the minds of the millions of young adults who get their news from the Chinese-owned platform. “TikTok is wildly popular, short and to the point, and a brilliant marketing tool,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon…
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has offered a sweetheart plea deal to a suspect charged in the brutal anti-Semitic beating of a Jewish man in Midtown, prosecutors confirmed. Waseem Awawdeh — who defiantly said “I would do it again” after his arrest in the cowardly assault on Joseph Borgen near a pro-Israel rally in…