SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Did a New York City coffee shop’s workers quit over the owner’s pro-Israel stance? Was the library at Cooper Union barricaded to protect Jewish students inside from an angry pro-Palestinian mob? Ten weeks into the Israel-Hamas war, these are the kinds of stories fueling angry debate on social media, with Jews charging bigotry and critics of Israel saying antisemitism is being weaponized to silence them. These weren’t the kinds of events being debated—at least formally—at the 55th annual convention of the Association for Jewish Studies, held this week in San Francisco. Some 1,000 scholars gathered to…
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In filmed rant, the rapper went off on ‘Jewish niggas’ several times, and compared himself to Jesus and Hitler in a tirade against sponsors. Rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West launched into a 10-minute tirade Friday among a group of friends, offering conspiracy theories linking American schools to “Zionists,” “Rothschilds,” and “Jewish niggas.” Standing in a small Las Vegas hotel room in a small crowd, some of whom live-streamed his monologue, the famed rapper and clothing designer known as Ye spoke quickly, in an often incoherent stream of thought. “It is our money, nigga. It is our country, nigga. They…
Tal Chaimi, H’yd, (left) and Joshua Mollel were murdered by Hamas and their bodies are being held in Gaza. Kibbutz Nir Yitchak announced on Wednesday evening that Tal Chaimi, H’yd, was murdered by Hamas on October 7th and his body is being held by Hamas. Chaimi, H’yd, 41, left behind his wife Ella and three children, nine-year-old twins and a six-year-old. He was part of Nir Yitzchak’s civilian defense team and left the house the morning of October 7th to protect the residents against the terrorists. He had been listed as missing ever since. The statement from the kibbutz said…
Suspects in a terror plot, revealing that seven terrorist operatives acting on behalf of Hamas were involved in a planned attack aimed at killing innocent citizens on European soil. “In recent years, and even more so after the murderous attack on October 7, Hamas strives to expand its operational capabilities around the world and in Europe, in particular, in order to realize its ambitions to hit Israeli, Jewish and Western targets at any cost,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement. Danish police arrested several people in the early morning on Thursday suspected of planning terrorist attacks, two…
This is a developing story. A man was arrested on multiple charges including a hate crime after allegedly striking a Jewish man on his way to synagogue in the Los Angeles enclave of Beverly Hills on Saturday. The man, Jarris Silagi, 44, allegedly hit Raphael Nissel, 75, on the head and said, “Jew, give me your jewelry,” according to a report on the incident published by the L.A. Times. Nissel was treated for a laceration at the scene and continued on to his Orthodox synagogue, where he read Torah as planned, according to the report and a tweet by his…
‘Let me help them out here: Calling for the genocide [death] of anyone obviously constitutes harassment.’ Billionaire Elon Musk took to his X platform to criticize universities for not doing more to combat antisemitism on their campuses. He mockingly requested to “help out” university officials who wouldn’t give direct answers to the question of whether calling for genocide of Jews violates the university’s harassment code. Musk wrote, “Let me help them out here: Calling for the genocide [death] of anyone obviously constitutes harassment.” Elon Musk followed this with another tweet criticizing the culture of universities. “The top institutions in the…
Sharon Cunio, 34, and her twin daughters, Yuli and Emma, 3 were released from captivity in Gaza last week. Sharon’s sister, Danielle Aloni, and her daughter, Emilia, 5, were released three days earlier. Sharon’s husband and the twins’ father, David, remains in captivity. Both families were abducted on October 7th from Kibbutz Nir Oz. On Sunday evening, Ramos Aloni, Sharon and Danielle’s father, told Channel 12 News that in Gaza, the terrorists separated one of the twins, Yuli, from the rest of her family and they had no idea where she was. “On the second day, they took Yuli to…
A US study revealed an unusual volume of transactions at the New York and Tel Aviv stock exchanges that gambled on the collapse of the Israeli stock market a week before the October 7th attack, The Marker revealed for the first time on Monday The report was based on a study called Trading on Terror?, carried out by two of the greatest US experts in the field of securities law: Prof. Robert Jackson Jr. of New York University, formerly one of the heads of the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Prof. Joshua Mitts of Columbia University, an expert in…
The young IDF soldier shivers in the cold, a sharp contrast to sweating during the desert heat that day. Every member of his elite unit has one of the most highly trained dogs in the world at their side as they lead the way into the tunnels in Gaza, but there are no coats. When one of the young men in this unit tells his family about the extreme cold, his father knows who to call. “You have to help him because, you see, my son is also your child,” said the father to Nir Salomon, executive director of EFRAT,…
Israeli police and IDF troops have thwarted a large-scale attempt to smuggle 137 firearms into Israel from Jordan, marking the largest weapons bust ever on the Jordanian border. The successful operation was the culmination of months of surveillance by the police’s Magen anti-smuggling unit, which had been tracking a gun smuggling ring responsible for numerous attempts to transport weapons into Israel from Jordan. The breakthrough occurred last Thursday when members of the Magen unit, positioned near the southern town of Tzofar, detected an effort by the ring to move weapons across the border. Troops were dispatched to intercept a vehicle…