Jewish Agency: Anti-Semitism highest since World War II
Anti-Semitism has reached a global peak since the end of Israel's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip last winter, and levels of Jew-hatred have not been so high since the Second World War, according to the Jewish Agency's annual report on anti-Semitism issued on Sunday. The report was presented by Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein
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Jewish groups concerned at dramatic rise in attacks
JEWISH groups have reported an ''unprecedented'' rise in racial violence and vilification in the past year. The annual meeting of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry in Sydney today will hear that there have been 962 reports of anti-Jewish violence, vandalism, harassment and intimidation
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Hate crimes up against religious groups, new FBI numbers show
The FBI issued its most recent statistics on hate crimes on Monday — and they showed a slight uptick in hate crimes against religious groups in 2008. Last year, there were 1,519 incidents against people based on their religion, a 9% increase from the year before. While anti-Jewish attacks make
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Swastika vandalism on synagogue case transferred to Hate Crimes Unit
Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials are reassessing the vandalism of a synagogue in Whittier over the weekend. The case has been transferred to the department's hate crimes investigation unit. "I cannot speak on the specifics of the case at this time," Detective Daniel Zuma said
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Police probing N.Y. signs with ‘Kill Jews’
NEW YORK (JTA) — Police are investigating a series of incidents involving the spread of anti-Semitic material in Brooklyn. On Wednesday morning, residents of the Bay Ridge neighborhood found hundreds of 2-inch signs with the words “Kill Jews” across part of a street, the New York Daily
Swastika desecrates church
A possible hate crime stained an otherwise calm weekend in Brooklyn Heights, as a swastika and other scrawl was discovered inside a Monroe Place church. “Very inappropriate statements, and a swastika” were discovered painted inside the First Unitarian Universalist Church, between Pierrepont
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2 Arundel teens to be charged with hate crimes, police say
Two teens accused of spray painting the letters KKK on a bus owned by a predominantly black church will be charged with hate crimes, Anne Arundel County Police said today. The teens were arrested Wednesday for the Sept. 10 vandalism of a bus parked at St. Matthews United Methodist Church, police said.
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Patchogue mayor: Man accused of hate-crime had dispute with church
A man arrested on charges of leaving anti-Hispanic messages on the altar of a Patchogue church earlier this week and flinging a log and a bottle at a churchgoer Friday night apparently was involved in a feud with the pastor over tithing or fees, the village’s mayor said Saturday. Mayor Paul V.
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Burglary probed at Latino church in Patchogue
Hate crimes detectives are investigating a burglary at a Latino church in Patchogue, across the street from where Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero was stabbed to death in what police called a bias attack in November. Suffolk County police said an "unknown person or people unlawfully entered"
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Madison Co. Residents Not Frightened By Hateful Graffiti
MADISON COUNTY, Miss. — Madison County residents said Thursday that they’re angry, not frightened after vandals again wrote “KKK” on a structure in the county. For the second time in less than a month, the Madison County Sheriff’s Department is investigating vandalism involving
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Metro Pastor Says Twitter Post Led to Hate Crime
KANSAS CITY, MO – A metro pastor says that his church was the target of a hate crime which he says came in response to a message he posted on Twitter. Pastor Devan Taylor of the Beyond Four Walls Church says that somebody spray-painted racial slurs urging him to get out of town after he expressed
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Community honors memory of hate crime victim a decade later
It wasn’t something anyone thought could happen in Bloomington. But on July 4, 1999, former IU student Benjamin Nathaniel Smith opened fire on a small group of people walking into the Korean United Methodist Church, killing IU Ph.D. candidate Won-Joon Yoon. “The physical brutality is not
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Police: Vandalism at Salinas synagogue may be a hate crime
Salinas police detectives are investigating vandalism at Temple Beth El as a possible hate crime after swastikas and ethnic slurs were found at the synagogue’s property last week. David Finkelstein, first vice president of Congregation Temple Beth El, said swastikas, anti-Semitic and Nazi graffiti,
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Racist Graffiti Found At Potter’s House
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as well as the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officer are investigating after racist graffiti and images were painted all over a the property of a popular Jacksonville church on Monday. Vandals painted words and images
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