French Jews have suffered numerous horrific anti-Semitic attacks on their schools, kosher stores, places of worship, and even their own homes, in the form of Islamist terrorism. In an exclusive English-language interview, we spoke to the preeminent French writer and researcher Marc Knobel about Islamist anti-Semitism on the streets of France and online. Read Here
This week, a dead pig was left outside a New Jersey Rabbi’s home, and an Austrian Rabbi was threatened by a knife-wielding attacker on the street. Around the world, visibly-Jewish people face increased threats to their physical safety.
Our movement continues to urge leaders and institutions to adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism to combat all forms of contemporary Jew-hatred. CAM board member and UK Anti-Semitism Advisor Lord John Mann recently inspired the entire English Premier Football league to adopt the IHRA definition. Meanwhile, a student-led campaign at Northeastern University in Boston saw the IHRA definition adopted by the student government – one of the first adoptions at a private U.S. university.
See below for more of the latest headlines, video stories, interviews, and campaigns from our global activist network.
THIS WEEK’S CONTENT
SPECIAL FEATURE
INTERVIEW: HISTORIAN MARC KNOBEL ON RADICAL ISLAMIST ANTI-SEMITISM IN FRANCE
By CAM
DISMANTLING ANTI-SEMITISM: JEWS TALK JUSTICE
By CAM
CAM, in partnership with The Tel Aviv Institute, will host an important discussion to set the record straight – on December 16th . This empowering program, Dismantling Anti-Semitism: Jews Talk Justice, will provide an accurate account of anti-Semitism in the progressive and political spheres by amplifying the voices of actual Jewish leaders. Read Here
COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM MOVEMENT URGES GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY TO ACT OVER ARTICLE INSULTING KRITALLNACHT MEMORY
By CAM
CAM called for Georgetown University to take concrete action over an article in a publication of one of its programs. The article exploited and cheapened the memory of Kristallnacht, in order to criticize the Austrian government’s actions against radical Islamism. The article was authored by Austrian political scientist Farid Hafez, in the Bridge Initiative, a research project on Islamophobia at Georgetown. Read Here
COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM MOVEMENT WELCOMES ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE’S ADOPTION OF IHRA ANTI-SEMITISM DEFINITION
By CAM
CAM welcomed the announcement that the English Premier League and all Premier League clubs have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. The announcement follows efforts spearheaded by the UK Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism Lord John Mann, who also serves as a CAM board member. Read Here
UNITED STATES
DEAD PIG FOUND OUTSIDE RABBI’S DOOR IN HEAVILY ORTHODOX NEW JERSEY TOWNSHIP
By Ben Sales
A dead pig’s body was found outside the door of a rabbi in the heavily Orthodox township of Lakewood, New Jersey. The body was found on Shabbat and the local police department is treating the incident as a bias crime. Read Here
DEMOCRAT TLAIB SHARES TWEET ALLUDING TO ISRAEL’S ELIMINATION
By RON KAMPEAS
Rep. Rashida Tlaib removed from her Twitter feed a retweet that said “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a phrase that has been associated with calls to wipe out Israel. Read Here
WORLD NEWS
United Kingdom
LABOUR SUSPENDS NOTTINGHAM EAST CLP CHAIR AFTER JEWISH MEMBER RAISES CONCERN OVER ‘HORRIFIC’ MEETING
By Lee Harpin
The chair of Nottingham East constituency Labour Party (CLP) has been suspended after she pressed ahead with a motion in support of Jeremy Corbyn despite the atmosphere becoming so hostile that a Jewish member said he felt he had to leave. Read Here
KEIR STARMER MAY ALLOW THOSE ‘DRIVEN OUT’ OF LABOUR DUE TO ANTI-SEMITISM BACK IN
By Jenni Frazer
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he will look at the possibility of readmitting people to the Labour party who left in protest of anti-Semitism and then campaigned for other parties. Read Here
GERMANY
GERMAN POLICE RAID SITES LINKED TO NEO-NAZI PARAMILITARY NAMED IN HONOR OF WAFFEN SS WAR CRIMINAL
By Ben Cohen
A German neo-Nazi paramilitary group named in honor of a sadistic SS war criminal was banned by the federal government, as police carried out raids on the homes of its supporters in three separate states. Knives, machetes, a crossbow, narcotics and a range of illegal Nazi insignias were uncovered during the raids. Read Here
GERMAN TROOPS SUSPECTED OF RUNNING ANTI-SEMITIC CHAT GROUP
By Reuters
German authorities have uncovered a group of soldiers suspected of organizing a chat group relating to anti-Semitism, right-wing extremism and pornography, according to a Defence Ministry document. Many of the 26 soldiers belong to a logistics unit in Neustadt am Ruebenberge in northern Germany. Read Here
THE MIDDLE EAST
PA SHOW: ISRAEL ‘DELIBERATELY KILLING PALESTINIAN CHILDREN’
By JNS
To mark International Children’s Day, Palestinian children were taught that Israel deliberately targets and murders them on the children’s program “The Best Home,” which airs on official P.A. Read Here
ISRAELI MISSIONS AROUND WORLD SAID ON ALERT AFTER HIT ON IRAN NUKE CHIEF
By TOI Staff
Israel has raised alertness in its embassies around the world in the wake of the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Tehran’s finger-pointing at Israel and the Islamic Republic’s vow to avenge his death. Jewish communities across the globe are also taking precautions. Read Here
OTHER WORLD NEWS
WOMAN THREATENS RABBI WITH A KNIFE ON STREET IN VIENNA, STEALS HIS KIPPAH
By JTA
A woman stole the kippah of a rabbi whom she threatened with a knife on a street in the Austrian capital of Vienna. The assault happened after several minutes in which the woman shouted anti-Semitic slogans at the rabbi as multiple passersby looked away. Read Here
JEWISH MAN CONFRONTED WITH HITLER SALUTES WHILE WALKING IN AUSTRALIAN CITY OF MELBOURNE
By Algemeiner
A Jewish man in the Australian city of Melbourne was reported to be in shock after he was showered with anti-Semitic abuse by a couple he encountered in the street. The couple began yelling “Heil Hitler” and made Nazi salutes. Read Here
IN SWEDEN, SASKIA PANTELL EXPERIENCED ANTI-SEMITISM AT A PROTEST COMPARING ISRAEL TO NAZI GERMANY
By CAM
ON CAMPUS
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY IN BOSTON ADOPTS IHRA DEFINITION OF ANTI-SEMITISM
By CAM
The Student Government Association at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, becoming one of the first large private universities in the United States to do so. Read Here
BIRMINGHAM UNI AGREES TO ADOPT IHRA DEFINITION OF ANTI-SEMITISM
By Tali Fraser
The University of Birmingham has agreed to adopt the internationally accepted definition of antisemitism following calls from Jewish students and the university’s guild. Home to one of the largest Jewish society in the United Kingdom, Birmingham’s student government had already adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. Read Here
ANALYSIS & OP-EDS
FIGHTING ANTI-SEMITISM ONLINE REQUIRES A GLOBAL EFFORT
By Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Anti-Semitism
STUDIES & STATISTICS
ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS DOWN 10% IN AUSTRALIA
By J-Wire 
Anti-Semitic incidents in Australia have decreased by 10% according to the annual report from The Executive Council of Australian Jewry. In the year ending September 2020, there were 331 anti-Semitic incidents logged by the ECAJ and other bodies. Read Here
22% OF HATE CRIMES IN EUROPE IN 2019 WERE AGAINST JEWS, REPORT SHOWS
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Anti-Semitic incidents accounted for 22% of hate crimes recorded last year in the pan-European region, though Jews comprise less than 1% of the population. The data comes from a report about 5,954 incidents recorded in Europe by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Read Here
FROM OUR PARTNERS
HADASSAH: ANTI-SEMITISM ON CAMPUS: TWO WOMEN’S STRUGGLE TO PROTECT JEWISH STUDENTS NATIONWIDE
By CAM
Hear directly from two extraordinary women – Alyza Lewin, an accomplished attorney and Adela Cojab, a student activist – about bringing their fights against campus anti-Semitism to the highest levels of the US government. Read Here
JEWISH AGENCY LAUNCHES ‘SAFETY NET’ FOR WORLD JEWRY
By TALI FEINBERG
The Jewish Agency for Israel launched a support system to help Jews around the world handle the continuing coronavirus crisis and other emergency situations. The aim of JReady – the Jewish Emergency Network is to ensure the long-term resilience of Jewish communities around the world, and for the Jewish Agency to assist wherever needed. Read Here
‘MIZRAHI STORIES’ HIGHLIGHT NEWEST CAMPUS CAMPAIGN BY CAMERA
By ELIANA RUDEE
In its new campaign, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) celebrates Mizrahi Jews on college campuses around the world, encouraging students to host and plan a variety of events and speakers, and write articles for their newspapers that demonstrate the diversity of the Jewish world. Read Here
GOVERNMENT & POLICY
EU INVITES ALL MEMBER STATES TO ADOPT DEFINITION OF ANTI-SEMITISM THAT INCLUDES ISRAEL HATRED
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
The Council of the European Union “invited” all the bloc’s 27 members to adopt a definition of anti-Semitism that includes anti-Israel vitriol. The invitation to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition came in a declaration published by the Council, which is made up of cabinet ministers from all the bloc’s member states. Read Here
CORONAVIRUS CAUSING SPIKE IN ANTI-SEMITISM, SAYS GERMANY’S POINT MAN ON ISSUE
By Algemeiner Staff
Echoing concerns among many that the coronavirus pandemic and resulting social upheaval were leading to an upsurge of Jew-hatred, the German government’s point man on the issue said that opponents of social-distancing measures were beginning to engage in anti-Semitic activities and Holocaust minimization. Read Here
HUMANITY
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE ADOPTS IHRA DEFINITION OF ANTI-SEMITISM
By Alex Winston
The English Premier League, the highest level of soccer in England, has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. The league said it had adopted the definition as a part of its “ongoing commitment to promote equality and diversity, and to combat discrimination of any form in football.”
FIRST ETHIOPIAN FALASH MURA LAND IN ISRAEL
By Jerusalem Post
The first flight of Operation Rock of Israel brought 316 members of the Falash Mura community from Ethiopia to Israel. About 100 more Falash Mura community immigrants will also arrive as part of a plan to airlift some 2,000 of the group by the end of January 2021. Read Here
The Combat Anti-Semitism Movement is a non-partisan, global grassroots movement of individuals and organizations, across all religions and faiths, united around the goal of ending anti-Semitism in all its forms. Since its launching in February 2019, 294 organizations and 299,000 individuals have joined the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement by signing the campaign’s pledge. The CAM Pledge draws upon the IHRA international definition of anti- Semitism and its list of specific behaviors used to discriminate against the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel.
