HATEFUL, SHOCKING, DISGUSTING anti-semitic displays
Hate Crimes
For the second year in a row, revelers at the annual carnival parade in Aalst, Belgium, included stereotypical depictions of Jews. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Discrimination
December 11, 2018
Anti-Semitic pamphlets with Ku Klux Klan logos found around Pittsburgh neighborhoods: Report
Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating after anti-Semitic and racist pamphlets were reportedly found around Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s CEO, Jeff Finklestein, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he reviewed the fliers on Facebook and that they contained “recruitment information for the Ku Klux Klan.” Though it’s unclear where exactly the fliers were found, …
Hate Crimes
April 24, 2017
‘He’s a murderer’: Jewish high school students protest outside home of 92-year-old ex-Nazi
To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, students from a Long Island, New York, yeshiva rallied in front of a Nazi concentration camp guard’s home on Monday. The students traveled from Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence to the Queens home of Jakiw Palij, 92. According to the New York Daily News, the nonagenarian is the last known former Nazi camp guard …
February 27, 2017
Police say more than 100 Jewish cemetery headstones damaged
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, damage discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said. A man visiting the cemetery called police at 9:40 a.m. Sunday to report that three of his relatives’ headstones had been knocked over and damaged. “The …
