“I spoke today with Speaker Pelosi about the importance of strong US-Israel relations and I thanked her for her commitment. The link between us is between peoples, based on historical ties, strong friendships and shared values, not dependent on the links with either party.” Read Here

Jeffrey Dye, a New Jersey state employee and head of a local NAACP chapter was fired over anti-Semitic social media posts such as “the Jewish news media don’t want to show us black news,” and that elections in Passaic are being stolen “with Jewish votes coming from Brooklyn.” Read Here

A New York Times editor apologized for prior anti-Semitic tweets including: “I was going to say ‘Crappy Jew Year,’ but one of my resolutions is to be less anti-Semitic. So… HAPPY Jew Year. You Jews.” Read Here

Jewish groups condemned President Trump’s comments which insinuated that Jews who vote for Democrats either have a “total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” Other groups came to Trump’s defense, arguing that the real focus needs to be on the anti-Semitic remarks of Tlaib and Omar. Read Here

The Justice Department’s immigration arm sent judges a briefing that included a blog post from anti-Semitic website VDARE that featured a reference about Jews and power. Assistant Press Secretary Mattingly said the briefings are compiled by a contractor and the post shouldn’t have been included. Read Here

Per a previous report, the teacher accused of praising Hitler in a yearbook is no longer employed by the Whitesville Central School District in NY. Read Here

The ADL and other Jewish groups criticized Omar and Tlaib for sharing a cartoon on Instagram by a cartoonist who placed second in Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest. ADL CEO said “Tlaib and Omar absolutely shouldn’t have lifted up the work of a cartoonist who frequently mocks the Holocaust and traffics in #antiSemitic tropes…” Read Here

Newtown police are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti painted on the Adath Israel Synagogue. The town dispatched the Public Works Department to repaint the synagogue. Read Here

Radio talk show host Bill Mick is under fire for an anti-Semitic exchange a caller had with him. The caller said: “anti-Semitism is a big hoax…100% of our government is Zionist…a form of communism…It’s the idea that, in end times, you will have a Jewish king, and a Jewish court, in which every Jewish member will have 2,800 non-Jewish slaves. All other people are blood sacrificed to the king.” Read Here

A US Army commander in Houston was suspended after he distributed a memo in which he used the phrase “Arbeit Macht Frei”. He used the phrase to headline a section of the memo that explains incentives, including time off, available to recruiters. Read Here

A medical resident at the Cleveland Clinic lost her position after scores of anti-Semitic social media posts were exposed and requested a hearing before the State Medical Board. While a medical student, she posted: “hahha ewww..ill purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the wrong meds…” Read Here

Anti-Semitic fliers have been posted to different locations throughout Tuscon, Arizona. The fliers state “the only way to make America great again is to remove the Jews from power over banking, media and government.” Read Here

The US attorney’s office in Pittsburgh filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Robert Bowers in last year’s Tree of Life attack. The government’s death sentence justification included planning, premeditation, vulnerability and number of victims, and a motivation of religious hostility. Read Here

Graffiti was painted on the exterior of the historic Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim yeshiva on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit is investigating the graffiti as a “possible bias incident.” Read Here

Linda Sarsour called Zionists who protested her speech in North Carolina “disgusting.” Sarsour said that “not only were they holding confederate flags, they were joined by right wing Zionists carrying Israeli flags. So disgusting.” Twitter users fired back, showing evidence that there were pro-Israel protesters, but not a single Confederate flag. Read Here

Brandeis University says it does not believe there’s a threat to campus safety after photos of students and professors were posted to an anti-Semitic website. School safety officials are investigating after the images appeared on Vanguard News Network Forum, which promotes white nationalist views. Read Here

Four Jewish organizations are calling on Ontario university students to opt out of paying dues to the Canadian Federation of Students because it supports the BDS movement. Read Here

The University of Pernambuco in Recife canceled a lecture about the peace process hours before it was scheduled to take place,after the speaker, moderator and university received security threats from a pro-Palestinian group. Read Here

School officials in Orange County said they will reopen an investigation into a group of high school students seen on video giving Nazi salutes last year after more racist images surfaced. Read Here

The latest controversy has reignited anger and anxiety among Jewish communities with many questioning why this keeps happening. White supremacy has a long history in the county. Last year, a member of a local neo-Nazi group was charged for murdering a 19-year-old Jewish classmate. Read Here

Jewish student representatives said they felt “reassured” after meeting Universities Minister Jo Johnson to discuss anti-Semitism on campus. “The Minister’s work on the issues of anti-Semitism on campus reassures us that under this government, Jewish life on campus will thrive in a safe and welcoming environment for all.” Read Here

Students from more than 80 campuses in the US, Canada, UK and Israel gathered in Boston for a high-level training hosted by CAMERA to gain support and learn the tools necessary to respond to the upsurge in campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism. Read Here

In the US, many felt a line was crossed when President Trump asserted it’s “disloyal” for Jews to vote for Democrats because the party has lawmakers who have used anti-Semitic rhetoric. But for Jews in Britain, this discussion was nothing new. The growth of anti-Semitism in the left-wing Labour Party introduced years ago discussions on whether Jews who support it are betraying themselves and their coreligionists. Read here

Rather than discussing whether Israel should or should not have allowed them in, Maher wanted to talk about the BDS campaign itself because, “that’s what’s behind this.” In his brief attack on BDS morality, Maher touched on motive, racial bias, selective reporting, lack of context, lack of historical perspective, and anti-Semitism. Maher covered a lot of ground. Let’s hope his four million viewers were listening with an open mind. Read Here

The timing of the Palestinian Authority being called to task for anti-Semitism in its textbooks by the UN coincides with the UNRWA mandate coming under debate for renewal. The PA contracted with UNRWA to function as the exclusive supplier of schoolbooks for all UNRWA schools. Read Here

Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL), the co-sponsor of the anti-BDS bill recently passed by the House, discusses the characterization of Jewish Democrats as “disloyal,” as well the move by the Israel to bar Omar and Tlaib. Dr. Kurt Graham, director of the Harry Truman Library, discussed President Truman’s role in the birth of Israel. Listen Here

“It’s a word that I wouldn’t use, with a long history of being used by others who have a hatred towards Jews,” Rep. Lee Zeldin said. “Even if the person using it is filled with love towards Jews and Israel, I still avoid it because of that history.” Zeldin believes Trump is right on policy and hopes Democrats marginalize the Israel-critical minority Trump was targeting when he made the “disloyalty” comment. Read Here

While the Jewish people are one – those who live in Israel and those who live in the US live in fundamentally different realities that color how they look at the world. Read Here

Marking 90 years since the Hebron Massacre in 1929, the Palestinian Authority has wholeheartedly embraced the event, glorifying three of its participants and perpetuating the spark that ignited the carnage. The PA justifies the murder of 130 Jews that week by saying it was in response to Jews marking the fast of Tisha B’Av by singing the Jewish national anthem at the Western Wall. Read Here

The study found that 12.5% of the people tested had 10% or more Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity. “Anti-Semitism is becoming very common these days…I hope research like this might change the attitude of people who are prejudiced,” one participant said. Read Here

A poll from the Palestine Center for Public Opinion last month showed that half of West Bank and Gaza Palestinians agree with this proposal: “The Palestinian Authority should stop special payments to prisoners…” Read Here

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1.Are Terror Groups Recruiting on College Campuses?

By Paul Miller

The Department of Education is investigating an anti-Israel conference held at UNC-Chapel Hill, after multiple reports surfaced that showed pro-terrorist and anti-Semitic propaganda in the seminar’s content. Reports indicate that Students for Justice in Palestine and Coalition for Peace With Justice were involved with this controversial event and show recruiters urging students to travel as a delegation to Ramallah for in-home visits with leaders of the PFLP. The Coalition for Peace with Justice reportedly covers the travel expenses. Students from Duke and from North Carolina Central University enthusiastically described on video their “transformational” meetings at the homes of leaders of the PFLP back in 2017. The PFLP has been on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations since 1997. Read Here

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“The secretary expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself against threats posed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and to take action to prevent imminent attacks against Israeli assets in the region,” Pompeo’s office said in a statement. Read Here

Rep. Nadler criticized fellow Democratic lawmakers Omar and Tlaib for sharing a cartoon that shows Trump and Netanyahu covering their mouths, saying in a tweet, “The Carlos Latuff cartoon forwarded by @RepRashida and @Ilhan can surely be read for its vile underlying message.” Read Here

The US condemned a terrorist bombing that killed a teenage Israeli girl and US Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt suggested that the international community should reconsider its aid allocations to the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the attack. Read Here

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world on the first international day to remember the victims of religious persecution to “step up to stamp out anti-Semitism… “Jews have been murdered in synagogues, their gravestones defaced with swastikas…” Read Here

The parents of the late Lt. Hadar Goldin who fell in battle in Gaza and whose body was kidnapped and still being held by Hamas, met in New York with UN Secretary-General Guterres who called for the “unconditional and immediate return of captive IDF soldiers held by Hamas.” Read Here

Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Ann Wagner, Phil Roe and Bradley Byrne were in Israel and the West Bank to meet with Israeli and Palestinian business leaders to discuss the potential for solutions and cooperation. They learned that 90% of Palestinians wants to work with Israel, but are unable to speak about this desire freely due to the PA’s anti-normalization policy. Read Here

“US Congress stands with our ally Israel & its right to defend itself from terrorism,” Ted Deutch, D-Fla., tweeted, responding to rockets being launched from Gaza into Israel. “Israel is under constant threat from enemies in all directions, and this only highlighted the real danger Israelis face daily.” Read Here

The government of New Zealand has suspended funding to the UN aid agency for Palestinians. The funding for UNRWA is on hold until due to allegations against the agency including misconduct, corruption, links to terror groups, and anti-Semitism. Read Here

Pro-Israel Democrats cheered after the California Democratic Party’s executive board passed resolutions condemning anti-Semitism and decrying anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism. Read Here

“We, the young generation, aspire to have normal relations with all states. We also know that 70 years ago there was no Palestinian state, while the Jews have existed for 3,000 years. We want peace and coexistence,” according to one Saudi Blogger. Read Here

Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life congregation will hold its High Holiday services in The Calvary Episcopal Church located down the street. The Church reached out to the congregation days after the attack that left 11 Jewish worshippers dead, offering its building for any of the congregation’s needs. Read Here

In my high school, I experience anti-Semitism on the regular. I bring hamantaschen, latkes, and kugel to school so that my peers can experience my world before they make the decision to blindly hate it. The anti-Semitism I have endured growing up in the Bible Belt — meant to intimidate me and/or discourage me from being overtly Jewish — has had the opposite effect: I am more Jewish than ever. Read Here

Moroccan officials and Jewish community leaders celebrated the renovation of a Jewish cemetery in the coastal city of Al Jadida. Read Here

Europe’s most exquisite synagogues will open to the public on the annual European Days of Jewish Culture. Visitors will gain access to synagogues that are usually closed to the public for security reasons, as well as Jewish cemeteries in 25 European countries. The events seek to “combat collective forgetfulness and to dignify European Jewish heritage. Read Here

Rabbi Marc Schneier and the Muslim World League’s Secretary General Dr. Muhammad Al-Issa were awarded the “Children of Abraham” award by the Florence School of Advanced Studies for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue. The award was created for spiritual leaders who dedicate their lives to the promotion of understanding and collaboration between religious groups. Read Here

The Chelsea Women’s Football Club took a tour through the Old City of Jerusalem. The women have been heavily involved with the ‘Say No To Anti-Semitism’ campaign by holding joint training sessions between Palestinian and Israeli girls, meeting with a Holocaust survivor and taking part in Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read Here

Montreal Coun. Marvin Rotrand presented a petition to city council to have a park named after Elie Wiesel. “It is my hope that Montreal can follow suit with an appropriate gesture that will give prominence to honoring the exemplary life of Elie Wiesel,” said Rotrand, a child of Holocaust survivors. Read Here

After arsonists attacked two Boston area Chabad centers, volunteers lined up to keep watch out front during its Hebrew school classes and events. The Police Department continues to swing by, and the Chabad center will soon start a Mitzvah Club to dole out kindness across town. Read Here

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg dedicated an ambulance to Israeli EMS service United Hatzalah during a visit to the organization’s headquarters in Jerusalem. The ambulance will be stationed in the city of Sderot, servicing the surrounding area that is often victim to Hamas rocket fire from Gaza. Read Here

Anti-Semitism is once again on the rise, just 75 years after the Holocaust. This irrational hatred of Jews and the world’s only Jewish state harms both innocent victims and perpetrators infected by bigotry. The resurgence of anti-Semitism poses a challenge to all people of conscience:

How can we work together to stop anti-Semitism?

This contest is crowd-sourcing new solutions to help end “the world’s oldest hatred.” The contest is sponsored by the CombatAntiSemitism.org coalition. People of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities are encouraged to participate by creatively addressing one of the categories below:

Round 1 Deadline: December 1, 2019 (future rounds coming soon)