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Anti-Israel Activists Display Brazen Support for Terror at Hezbollah Chiefs’ Beirut Funeral

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In-person attendees at the joint funeral of Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine in Beirut, Lebanon, on February 23, 2025, included (left to right) Charlotte Kates, Jackson Hinkle and Haz Al-Din
In a notable development for the anti-Israel movement, prominent American and international anti-Zionist activists traveled to Lebanon last month to attend the joint funeral of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, leaders of the Lebanon-based, U.S.-designated terror group Hezbollah. Many other such activists marked the occasion by openly expressing their admiration for these notorious terror leaders at anti-Israel demonstrations and online. Attendees at Nasrallah and Safieddine’s…
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Far-Right UK Riots Blamed on Israel by Conspiracy Theorists

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Riots across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements broke out after the murder of three young girls at a dance class in the Southport knife attack was falsely attributed to a recently arrived Muslim migrant. It is predictable but still problematic to see Israel scapegoated as the cause of the riots raging across the United Kingdom involving far-right elements. This is happening across social media. The claims have no basis and contribute to the increasing anxiety among the Jews in the…
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Antisemitism in European soccer on the rise

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June 08, 2021 Just as Jewish individuals and institutions have been targeted with antisemitism during the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas in many European cities, antisemitic incidents have also occurred in European soccer stadiums and antisemitic vitriol has reached unprecedented levels online. Antisemitism has always been present in European soccer. Fans have written antisemitic, racist, neo-Nazi slogans on banners, sung them in songs, and shouted them during physical attacks on…
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Antisemitic Incidents at Anti-Israel Events and Actions Around the World

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Antisemitic Graffiti on a Synagogue Door in Norwich, UK
Updated: June 1, 2021 Since the start of the May conflict between Israel and Hamas, there have been numerous antisemitic incidents around the world related to the conflict. The perpetrators of these attacks deliberately targeted Jewish institutions in order to express their anger towards Israel.   Whenever anti-Israel actions target synagogues, Jewish community centers, kosher restaurants, Jewish owned businesses, or individual Jews – in other words, holding Jews…
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Why Do Houthis Curse the Jews?

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November 20, 2020 By David Andrew Weinberg The Yemeni Embassy in Washington recently released a report featuring primary source documents on the core ideology of the Houthi insurgents who seized Yemen’s capital in 2014.  That report, authored by Embassy official Salem Baafi, makes a case that antisemitism and other forms of hate form an essential part of the worldview and motivation of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The Houthis’ oft-invoked slogan is itself antisemitic…
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Tehran Launches its Third Holocaust Denial Cartoon Contest

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October 02, 2020 By David Andrew Weinberg   On September 12th, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the Iranian government for promoting an antisemitic libel about 9/11 as well as for announcing it will host another Holocaust cartoon contest.  Sadly, it appears that repulsive antisemitic cartoon competition is officially now underway.   At the time of Secretary Pompeo’s tweet, little information was available about this worrisome new…
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Usual Suspects: Iran and Turkey’s Scapegoating of Minorities during Covid-19

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June 11, 2020 By Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir and David Andrew Weinberg The global pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to governments around the globe.  But the Middle East in particular is one of the regions where majoritarian governments and their supporters are responding to the medical, societal and economic challenges of Covid-19 by doubling down on scapegoating minorities in order to whitewash the state’s own governance failures.   In the Middle East, Turkey…
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The Sbarro Bomber on Social Media

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April 29, 2020 A notorious terrorist who is on the FBI’s list of Most Wanted Terrorists was kicked off of several social media platforms this week after ADL sounded the alarm about her gratuitous, hateful and terrorizing social media presence. ADL provided to Twitter and Instagram information about the social media activities of Ahlam al-Tamimi, an international fugitive wanted for her key role organizing and carrying out Hamas’s 2001 suicide bombing at a Sbarro pizzeria in…
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International Scapegoating of Israel and Jews for Spreading COVID-19

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March 25, 2020 As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, examples of those seeking a scapegoat for the virus continue to proliferate. As ADL and other groups have explored, there have been numerous cases of xenophobia in the US related to the virus, particularly attacks against Asian individuals and groups. Internationally, there have also been many attempts to link COVID-19 to Israel, Zionists and Jews, with some people baselessly claiming the virus is part of a…
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