Abdullah Qureshi, 30, was convicted last week in a British court of one count of racially or religiously aggravated grievous bodily harm and two counts of racially or religiously aggravated common assault for committing multiple assaults motivated by antisemitism, the Metropolitan Police Service said. Qureshi was a suspect in the investigation of three antisemitic attacks…
The director of the FBI has said the Jewish community in the United States is “getting hit from all sides” and “desperately” needs further support from the agency amid an apparent uptick in antisemitic attacks. In response to a question by US Congressman Josh Gottheimer on a recently thwarted attack on synagogues in New Jersey,…
In the latest wave of antisemitism to hit the US-based diaspora, Jewish schools and community centers around the United States have received bomb threats, forcing closures throughout the country. At Jewish day schools in Texas and Pennsylvania, bomb threats were made to these institutions, forcing them to evacuate for student safety. This follows a consistent…
An unhinged 22-year-old man has been arrested for making threats to Big Apple synagogues, sources said. The suspect, Christopher Brown, was collared at the Long Island Rail Road platform at Penn Station late Friday night, carrying weapons and a Nazi armband recovered in his bag, the sources added. The twisted suspect was wearing a T-shirt that said,…
BERLIN — German police staged a major deployment at a synagogue in the western city of Essen on Friday after several bullet holes were found in the rabbi’s residence. Police said “four shots were fired from a loaded weapon” into the exterior of the home next to the city’s Old Synagogue but that no one…
A prominent French Holocaust denier who fled the country after being convicted under anti-Nazi laws is remanded in custody by a court in Scotland. Vincent Reynouard, 53, will next appear in the Edinburgh Sheriff Court on December 8, ahead of a full extradition hearing in February. Reynouard was arrested in the Scottish fishing town of…
The Real Housewives of New York City is facing some turmoil despite not even being released yet. Cast member Lizzy Savetsky confirmed that she has left the show due to some targeted attacks toward her. “I will not be continuing on the Real Housewives of NYC,” she said in a statement posted to her Instagram…
A Jewish cemetery in a Chicago suburb was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti, local media reported on Monday. At least 16 headstones were painted with Swastikas and another 23 were defaced at the Am Echod cemetery in Waukegan, Illinois. The message “Kanye Was Rite” was spray-painted on one headstone that marked the grave of a husband…
Three members of a French Jewish family were kidnapped, tied up, brutally beaten and robbed on Thursday night in their home in the suburb of Livry-Gargan northeast of Paris, French authorities said Sunday.
A Herzliya municipal supervisor on Friday morning fined a Chabad hasid for offering to help passersby lay tefillin (phylacteries), calling the activity “a harassment to passersby.”