Hen Mazzig is an international speaker, writer, and activist who combats anti-Semitism around the globe. CAM spoke to Mazzig about how his past experiences on the frontlines of campus anti-Semitism have impacted his work in engaging new allies in the fight against Jew-hatred. Read Here
Watch this Week’s Summary of Anti-Semitic Incidents Around the World
Official Iranian media this week not only denied the Holocaust but also falsely blamed the Jews for a 6th Century genocide in Yemen – a new low in anti-Semitism by the Islamist regime.
Meanwhile, the UK Labour Party suddenly reinstated former leader Jeremy Corbyn after recently suspending him over his failure to act on anti-Semitism within the party. And the FBI’s annual hate crimes statistics revealed Jews are the targets of over 60% of all religion-based hate crimes in the US.
Fighting back against the tide are an international network of advocates. Below are interviews, webinars, and lectures for several groundbreaking activists challenging anti-Semitism on university campuses worldwide. Be aware, be alert, and be inspired!
THIS WEEK’S CONTENT
FEATURED VIDEOS
The ISGAP Project: Follow The Money
October 2020 Saw Flurry of Adoptions of the IHRA Definition
Balkans Forum: Perspectives on Implementing the IHRA Definition
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SPECIAL FEATURE
INTERVIEW: HEN MAZZIG ON ANTI-SEMITISM AND CANCEL CULTURE
By CAM
ANTI-SEMITISM ON CAMPUS: TWO WOMEN’S STRUGGLE TO PROTECT JEWISH STUDENTS
By Hadassah
Jewish students today are targeted not only with anti-Semitism but with anti-Jewish hatred attacking their relationship with Israel. In Anti-Semitism on Campus: Two Women’s Struggle to Protect Jewish Students Nationwide, you’ll hear from two extraordinary women — one an accomplished attorney, the other a student activist — about bringing their fights against campus anti-Semitism to the highest levels of the US government. Register Here
UNITED STATES
AMANPOUR SAYS SHE ‘REGRETS’ TRUMP-KRISTALLNACHT COMPARISON AFTER CRITICISM
By Laura Kelly
CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour apologized for comparing President Trump’s term in office to the historical turning point in Germany and Europe that culminated in the Holocaust and the genocide of six million Jews. “Hitler and his evils stand alone, of course, in history. I regret any pain my statement may have caused,” Amanpour said. Read Here
PENTAGON SENIOR ADVISER SAID US SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL WAS DUE TO ‘ISRAELI LOBBY’ MONEY
By JNS
Retired US Army Col. Douglas Macgregor repeatedly said that US support for Israel was due to money from the “Israeli lobby” and accused prominent political figures, including the Secretary of State, of getting “very, very rich” from their support for the Jewish state—echoing the anti-Semitic tropes of Israeli control of the US government and Jewish money controlling politics and policy. Read Here
FAR-RIGHT PROPAGANDIST BLAMES JEWS FOR TRUMP ELECTION LOSS, USES BLOOD LIBEL
By Dexter Van Zile
WORLD NEWS
United Kingdom
UK LABOUR PARTY READMITS CORBYN AFTER SUSPENSION OVER ANTI-SEMITIC COMMENTS
By Axios
The Labour Party reinstated its former leader, Jeremy Corbyn after he was suspended over his response to a watchdog report that found the party failed to take action against anti-Semitism during his tenure. Keir Starmer, Labour’s current leader, called it “another painful day for the Jewish community…” Read Here
CORBYN SAYS HE DIDN’T MEAN TO DOWNPLAY ANTI-SEMITISM PROBLEM. BRITISH JEWS AREN’T SWAYED
By JTA
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain’s Labour Party, said he didn’t mean to downplay the problem of anti-Semitism when he called its scale “dramatically overstated for political reasons.” The president of Britain’s Jewish umbrella group responded, “The Jewish community does not accept this pathetic non-apology from Jeremy Corbyn.” Read Here
GERMANY
SWASTIKAS CARVED INTO JEWISH HEADSTONES, SPRAY-PAINTED ON MEMORIALS IN GERMANY
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Swastikas were etched into headstones at a cemetery in Haren, 220 miles west of Berlin. Separately, unidentified individuals in Chemnitz, 120 miles south of Berlin, spray-painted a swastika in purple on memorial Stolperstein, brass street tiles placed at the former homes of Holocaust victims to commemorate them. Read Here
THE MIDDLE EAST
AL-QAEDA NO. 2 WAS PLANNING ATTACKS ON ISRAELIS, JEWS WHEN KILLED IN TEHRAN
By Times of Israel Staff
The Al-Qaeda No. 2 reportedly shot dead by Israeli agents in Tehran was planning attacks on Israeli and Jewish Diaspora targets when he was killed. Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was sought by the US for orchestrating two devastating attacks on embassies in Africa in the 1990s. Read Here
PUSHING HOLOCAUST DENIAL, IRANIAN MEDIA CLAIMS JEWS PERPETRATED SIXTH CENTURY GENOCIDE IN YEMEN
By i24 News
Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency published an article that claimed Jews were responsible for a historic “Holocaust” in Yemen. Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of the Kayhan, a conservative Iranian newspaper, claimed “we referred to undeniable evidence that the Holocaust was falsely claimed by the Zionists and Western governments — but now show that historical documents refer to a real Holocaust that the Jews of that time, the ancestors of the Zionists, did.” Read Here
OTHER WORLD NEWS
ANTI-SEMITIC GREEK PAPER UNDER FIRE FOR CONSPIRACY-LADEN ATTACK ON JEWISH CEO OF PFIZER
By Ben Cohen
The Greek newspaper Makeleio has run a series of incendiary articles attacking Pfizer chief Albert Bourla, a Greek Jew, following the company’s announcement of a coronavirus vaccine. The front page featured a photograph of Bourla with notorious German SS officer Josef Mengele, who carried out brutal medical “experiments” on inmates at Auschwitz. Read Here
ARGENTINA TIGHTENS BORDERS AFTER ALLEGED BOMB THREAT ON JEWISH COMMUNITY
By Abigail Adler
After receiving an anonymous tip about explosives entering the country ahead of a potential terrorist attack on the Jewish community, the government has asserted controls at Argentina’s border crossing with Paraguay. The Security Ministry is investigating a complaint about “a bomb in Argentina with a Jewish objective.” Read Here
ON CAMPUS
BROOKLYN COLLEGE ADOPTS UNIVERSAL DEFINITION OF ANTI-SEMITISM
By JNS
The student senate at Brooklyn College in New York adopted the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. Read Here
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COMMITS TO ADDRESSING ALARMING INCREASE OF ANTI-SEMITISM
By Jackson Richman
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) announced its commitment to address an alarming increase in anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist harassment and discrimination on its campus. The statement came in response to recent incidents at the university outlined in a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education. Read Here
ANALYSIS & OP-EDS
STUDIES & STATISTICS
ANTI-SEMITIC HATE CRIMES ROSE 14% IN U.S. ACCORDING TO FBI
By CAM
Anti-Semitic hate crimes in the U.S. increased by 14% in 2019, according to the FBI’s annual hate crimes statistics. In a year that saw three lethal attacks against Jewish-Americans, anti-Semitic incidents again made up a majority of religion-based hate crimes in the U.S., constituting 62% of all hate crimes based on religion. Read Here
AUSTRIAN JEWS RECORD AVERAGE OF 43 ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKS EACH MONTH, NEW REPORT SHOWS
By Algemeiner Staff
Anti-Semitic attacks targeting Jews in Austria come to an average of 43 each month. Perpetrators include far-right and far-left groups, as well as Islamists, the report from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG) — the group representing Jews in Austria — noted. During the first six months of 2020, a total of 257 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded. Read Here
OSCE REPORT: 86.3% CASES OF ANTI-SEMITISM RECORDED BY THE UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITY OF UKRAINE
By UNIAN
According to the United Jewish Community of Ukraine (UJCU), 44 cases of anti-Semitism occurred in Ukraine over the past year, as shown in the 2019 OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE / ODIHR) hate crimes report in Ukraine. Read Here
FEATURED PARTNER
The March of Life is an initiative by TOS Ministries from Tübingen, Germany. Together with descendants of Nazi soldiers and officials, they have organized memorial and reconciliation marches at sites of the Holocaust all over Europe. Since 2007, marches have been held in 20 nations and in more than 400 cities in cooperation with Christians from different churches and denominations, as well as from many Jewish communities.
MARCH OF LIFE: DESCENDANTS OF NAZIS REMEMBER THE HOLOCAUST
By Menucha Chana Levin
When members of the Protestant TOS church in Tübingen began to investigate the hidden Nazi history of their city and their own families they were in shock. “Many were horrified to discover that their fathers and grandfathers had been involved in the Holocaust,” explains Claudia Kiesinger, director of TOS America. Read Here
FROM OUR PARTNERS
DEFINE IT TO FIGHT IT – ADOPT IHRA
By Students Supporting Israel
Join Students Supporting Israel in our effort to fight antisemitism across college campuses throughout the world by adopting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. Contact us at www.ssimovement.org/IHRA to start the process of adopting IHRA on YOUR campus today! Watch Here
SCN DEVELOPS TRAINING PROGRAM IN CASE OF ATTACKS ON SYNAGOGUES, SCHOOLS
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF 
The Secure Community Network (SCN) has developed a new training program to help combat extremist and terrorist actions in Jewish communities in the Diaspora, focusing on active threat response and emergency life-saving responses. Read Here
NOVEMBER 23, 2020 LECTURE WITH DR. FELIX KLEIN: “JEWISH LIFE IS A PART OF GERMANY”
By Classrooms Without Borders
GOVERNMENT & POLICY
‘IT’S A CANCER’: POMPEO SAYS US WILL BRAND BDS ‘ANTI-SEMITIC,’ CRACK DOWN ON IT
By RAPHAEL AHREN
The United States government will formally designate the anti-Israel boycott movement “anti-Semitic” and immediately start cracking down on groups affiliated with it, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced during a visit to Israel, calling BDS a “cancer.” Read Here
ANTI-JEWISH DISCRIMINATION ‘TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,’ EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT TELLS TOP RABBINICAL GROUP
By Algemeiner Staff
In remarks to the Conference of European Rabbis, European Parliament President David Sassoli urged unity in the fight against religious discrimination. “The European Union must set an example to those who want to defy us. Freedom of religion is a founding value of Europe. The contribution of the Jewish people is the contribution to the greater good of Europe,” Sassoli concluded. Read Here
HUMANITY
PROTESTANT, CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN GERMANY LAUNCH CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM
By Ecumenical News
Germany’s main Protestant and Catholic churches announced plans for a campaign to encourage Christians to take a clear stand against increasing anti-Semitism, recognizing it also has Christian roots. The motto of the campaign is “Jewish and Christian – closer than you think” and it will launch in January. Read More
MODERNA’S ISRAELI CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER HELPS SPREAD GOOD COVID VACCINE NEWS
By JTA
As Moderna announced that it had developed a COVID-19 vaccine that is 94.5 percent effective, Israeli scientist Tal Zaks was among the company leaders touting the good news. That’s because Zaks is the chief medical officer at Moderna and has been involved in overseeing its unprecedentedly rapid push for a coronavirus vaccine. 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, 289 organizations and 297,000 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.
