Lyn Brown, Member of Parliament for West Ham, urged members of her local party to back a hardline anti-Zionist activist named Roger Silverman who once accused the “Israeli diplomatic service” of being behind an anti-Semitism “smear campaign” against Jeremy Corbyn. Silverman is running for a spot on the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party. Read Here
Watch this Week's Summary of Anti-Semitic Incidents Around the World.
As Jews around the world celebrated Rosh Hashanah, a series of anti-Semitic incidents from Russia to Ontario to San Francisco offered stark reminders of the challenges facing our movement. But there were also inspiring signs of hope, including a teenager (who won a recent CAM action contest) organizing an advocacy workshop to get his generation mobilized to stop anti-Semitism.
THIS WEEK’S CONTENT
We wish all of our readers celebrating the holiday of Yom Kippur an easy fast and G’mar Hatimah Tovah!
TAKE
ACTION
SOCIAL MEDIA SPOTLIGHT
SPECIAL FEATURE
HIGH HOLIDAY BRIEFING ON ANTI-SEMITISM WITH U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY ELAN CARR
By CAM
The Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM) hosted a special high holiday briefing on anti-Semitism with U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan S. Carr. Members of CAM along with Rabbis and Jewish community professionals were updated by Special Envoy Carr on the work of his office and the current administration towards combatting the rise in anti-Semitism around the world. Read Here
HOLOCAUST REFUGEE MIRIAM SCHREIBER GRADUATES HIGH SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 88
By CAM Because Miriam Schreiber spent her youth escaping the Nazis, she was never able to complete her education. At age 88, she, at last, fulfilled a lifelong dream: receiving her high school diploma from New England Jewish Academy in Connecticut. Watch this story of triumph over anti-Semitism. Read HereCAM URGES RECTOR OF SPANISH UNIVERSITY TO RECONSIDER ANTI-SEMITIC COURSE
By CAM
The Public University of Navarra in Spain launched a course this month that advocates for the dissolution of the world’s only Jewish state and takes a discriminatory approach to Israel and its Jewish citizens. In response, CAM sent a letter demanding the university’s rector Ramón Gonzalo García take action to remove the anti-Semitic course.” Read Here
“Teenager Mobilizes Gen Z to Help Fight Anti-Semitism”
By Zack Singermann (Founder, Gen Z Jews)
15 year-old Zack Singerman is on a mission. After winning CAM’s Theodore Herzl Contest
with a proposal to engage teens in the movement to stop anti-Semitism, he is putting his vision into
action via a special “Gen Z Summit on Anti-Semitism” featuring Bari Weiss. Read Here
UNITED STATES
TRUMBULL, CT RESIDENTS SAY THEY’RE CONCERNED AFTER NEIGHBOR HANGS IMPERIAL GERMAN FLAG
By News 12 Staff
Trumbull residents say they’re concerned after a neighbor hung an Imperial German flag across their garage. The black, white and red flag is marked with an Iron Cross in the center. Neighbors say the flag was placed across the street from a Jewish family during the High Holy Days. Read Here
NAZI FLAGS SPOTTED IN DOWNTOWN MIAMI AHEAD OF JEWISH HOLIDAY; OWNER SAYS THEY BELONG TO MUSEUM
By Marisela Burgos
Residents of a high-rise in Miami spotted large Nazi flags unfurled near their building twice, including hours before the start of Rosh Hashanah, but the flags’ owner said this was all a misunderstanding. As it turns out, they belong to a museum called the Museum Club Miami. Read Here
PARTNERS IN TORAH CLASS VICTIM OF ZOOMBOMBING
By SKYLAR DUBELKO
Partners In Torah of Cleveland Rabbi Pinchas Landis was the victim of a Zoombombing while teaching a Jewish history class. “The topic for that night was the development of reform and conservative and Orthodox movements,” Landis said. Landis estimated about 30 people were watching. What started with anti-Semitic comments led to Landis’ screen being taken over by the Zoombomber. Read Here
POLICE INVESTIGATING DAMAGE TO JEWISH CEMETERY BENCHES IN PEABODY, MA
By Julie Manganis Staff Writer
Police are investigating damage to two memorial benches inside Peabody’s Lebanon Tifereth Israel Cemetery. Two memorial benches were smashed, possibly with a sledgehammer or other heavy object, inside the Jewish cemetery. A caretaker first noticed damage to one bench on the afternoon of Sept. 12. Then, on Sept. 17, the caretaker noticed the second bench broken. Read Here
WORLD NEWS
United Kingdom
LABOUR SHADOW MINISTER BACKS ‘ANTI-SEMITISM IS ISRAELI SMEAR’ CANDIDATE FOR PARTY ELECTION
By Lee Harpin
CARLISLE MEN RACIALLY ABUSED JEWISH RAIL PASSENGERS
By Phil Coleman
A group of Jewish passengers on a train were subjected to racial abuse by two Carlisle men. A district judge at the city’s Rickergate court fined the two men. Both admitted a charge of racially aggravated disorderly behaviour. “The group were talking and laughing among themselves and both defendants could be heard making racially abusive comments,” said prosecutor John Moran. Read Here
‘ANTI-SEMITIC’ POSTS SPARK PROBE INTO LABOUR COUNCILLORS
By Bob Cooper
Two Labour councillors in Copeland, Cumbria are being investigated for allegedly making anti-Semitic comments on social media. The Community Security Trust (CST) said some of the comments were “worrying.” An ex-Labour councillor from Copeland was expelled from Labour in June over “offensive” social media comments. Read Here
TWO TEENS ARRESTED OVER SWASTIKAS DAUBED IN BOREHAMWOOD
By JACK MENDEL
Two teenagers suspected of arson and daubing swastikas in Borehamwood have been arrested by police. Councillor Jeremy Newmark reported the offensive symbols found in multiple locations. The swastikas were daubed alongside Stars of David on a park bench and on garage doors, with the tag ‘Azza’. Read Here
GERMANY
ANTI-SEMITIC PHRASES SHOUTED AT THE JEWISH CEMETARY IN LINGEN
By Daniel Stuckenberg
An anti-Semitic incident occurred at the Jewish cemetery in Lingen. A group of young people was taking part in a tour of the cemetery when three cyclists drove along the cemetery and then shouted anti-Semitic slogans in the direction of the group. The police are now investigating. Read Here
THE MIDDLE EAST
AT UN, ERDOGAN ASSAILS ISRAEL’S ‘DIRTY HAND’ IN JERUSALEM; ERDAN WALKS OUT
By Jacob Magid
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued an aggressive verbal attack against Israel during his address to the United Nations General Assembly, accusing the Jewish state of extending its “dirty hand” over Jerusalem.“The dirty hand that reaches the privacy of Jerusalem, where the sacred places of the three great religions coexist, is constantly increasing its audacity,” the autocratic leader said. Israel’s UN envoy Gilad Erdan walked out of the assembly in protest. Read Here
MOSQUES INSTRUCT PALESTINIANS TO REJECT PEACE DEALS AS WORLD CELEBRATES
By Donna Rachel Edmunds
Palestinians throughout the West Bank attending mosque this Friday will be told in the sermon that the peace deals between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain amount to high treason against the Palestinian cause, and are condemned by Allah himself. The instruction sheet includes sermon talking points such as: “There is nothing that harms Palestine and its holy sites more than making an alliance with the Jews, being connected to them, and relying on them,” and “Obedience to the Jews and being dragged after them will lead the nation to weakness, lawlessness, humiliation, and shame.” Read Here
OTHER WORLD NEWS
THREE HOLOCAUST MONUMENTS VANDALIZED WITH SWASTIKAS IN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In three separate incidents this week, swastikas were painted on two monuments for Holocaust victims in Ukraine, and another one in Russia. At the former concentration camp Bogdanovka, in southern Ukraine, a note with three swastikas was addressed to prominent Jews in Ukraine, including their president. In Russia, police arrested a man for painting a cross and pouring yellow paint on a monument for Holocaust victims in Aksay. Read Here
‘WHY THIS HATRED OF THE JEW?’ FATHER OF MURDERED KOSHER MARKET VICTIM’S AGONIZED QUESTION AT FRENCH TERROR TRIAL
By Ben Cohen
The father of one of the four victims murdered by an Islamist gunman at the 2015 Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket attack in Paris broke down during court testimony while he recalled the virulent anti-Semitism that had fuelled the atrocity. “Why this gratuitous wickedness, why this hatred of the Jew?” shouted a grief-stricken Eric Cohen, the father of Yohan Cohen, murdered in the terror attack. Read Here
HEARING IN TRIAL OF HYPER CACHER STORE KILLINGS SET FOR YOM KIPPUR, AND COURT WON’T CHANGE DATE
By JTA
A hearing in the trial of alleged accomplices in the 2015 Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket attack in Paris was set for Yom Kippur. Lawyers for the families of victims have asked for a postponement for the hearing on the most sacred on the Jewish calendar. The court’s administration is reluctant to change the date of the hearing because of concerns connected to the separation of church and state. Read Here
NEO-NAZI HOLOCAUST DENIER JAILED FOR ANTI-SEMITISM BY FRENCH COURT
By CAM
A French court sentenced anti-Semitic activist Hervé Lalin to 17-months in jail for online posts promoting anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. In 2018, Lalin released a YouTube video entitled “The Jews, Incest, and Hysteria.” Also in 2018, Lalin published an online book titled “Anti-Semitism Without Complexity or Taboo” which denied the Nazi Holocaust—a criminal offense in France. Read Here
ALAIN SORAL SENTENCED FOR BLAMING THE NOTRE-DAME FIRE ON THE JEWS
By World Zionist Organization
The French far-right essayist Alain Soral was sentenced to three fines last Friday, including for statements he made blaming the Notre-Dame fire of April 2019 on the Jews. The Paris Criminal Court imposed a fine of 5,400 euros on Alain Bonnet, known as Soral, for incitement to hatred because of religion. Read Here
THREE ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKS IN ONTARIO DURING ROSH HASHANAH
By B’nai Brith Canada
Three separate incidents occurred over the holiday period. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, a man accosted a Jewish father and son outside a synagogue in Thornhill.. Two days later, as the holiday was ending, two private garage doors, also in Thornhill, were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti reading “Jews Run the World” and “Jews Hate Blacks.” In Ottawa, a prominent member of the local Jewish community reported that while praying at an outdoor service, a man drove by spitting and shouting slurs at worshippers. Read Here
CANADIAN PARISH BANS ANTI-SEMITIC PRIEST
By CAM
The Catholic archdiocese of Edmonton in the province of Alberta, has denounced a Polish priest who aired anti-Semitic ideas on his radio station, Radio Maryja. Father Tadeusz Rydzyk was barred from visiting or speaking at the Archdiocese of Edmonton and affiliated parishes. Read Here
BULGARIA COURT JAILS DUO FOR LIFE IN ABSENTIA OVER 2012 BURGAS BOMBING
By Diana Simeonova
A Bulgarian court sentenced two men to life in prison over a deadly 2012 bus bomb attack on Israeli tourists at the country’s Burgas airport. The attack in July 2012 killed five Israelis, including a pregnant woman, and their Bulgarian bus driver, and left over 35 people injured. Read Here
ON CAMPUS
COLUMBIA STUDENTS TO VOTE ON BDS REFERENDUM
By Sarah Chemla
On Tuesday, online voting opened for a Columbia University student referendum on divesting “stocks, funds, and endowment from companies that profit from or engage in the State of Israel’s acts towards Palestinians.” The referendum has caused discrimination against pro-Israel groups on campus. Read Here
STUDENT GOVERNMENT AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN TO VOTE ON BDS REFERENDUM
By Jackson Richman
The student government of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is scheduled to vote on a resolution that calls on the university to divest from Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Company, Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar Inc. and Elbit Systems Ltd. claiming they participate in Israeli human rights violations in the Palestinian territories. Read Here
ZOOM SAID TO CANCEL EVENT WITH PALESTINIAN TERRORIST HIJACKER LEILA KHALED
By Times of Israel
A planned speech by Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled at a virtual event to be hosted on Zoom by San Francisco State University suffered a setback . Zoom reportedly decided to no longer host the event on its platform amid a public outcry. “In light of the speaker’s reported affiliation or membership in a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization, we determined the meeting is in violation of Zoom’s Terms of Service,” Zoom said in a statement. Read Here
LOCAL MAN VANDALIZES NYU BUILDING WITH ANTI-SEMITIC AND ANTI-BLACK REMARKS
By NBC New York
New York City police are searching for a man who allegedly wrote anti-Semitic remarks on the side of an NYU building near Washington Square Park. The vandalism suspect used a black marker to graffiti a swastika on the side of The NYU Silver Center for Arts and Science building. Read Here
ANALYSIS
QANON AN OLD FORM OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN A NEW PACKAGE, SAY EXPERTS
By BEN SALES
QAnon is inherently anti-Semitic — and only growing more so. The theory is expansive and elastic, stretching to include many different tropes. That can make its core anti-Semitism hard to detect or track. The claim that rich Jews, including the Rothschild banking family, secretly control the world has long been a recurring feature. Other elements that don’t explicitly mention Jews also have anti-Semitic resonance, like the blood libel. Read Here
BRITAIN MUST STOP ENABLING HATE TO BE TAUGHT IN PALESTINIAN CLASSROOMS
By Steve McCabe
Through the Department for International Development, UK taxpayers’ aid funds the salaries of some 33,000 teachers and civil servants in the PA Education Ministry. Across the curriculum, there are 2,795 references to violence. [This] does nothing to promote Britain’s long-standing commitment to promoting a two-state solution, peace and reconciliation between Israel and the Palestinians. We shouldn’t forget that [UK] ministers are still writing the cheques the PA needs to inflict this dangerous and divisive curriculum on Palestinian children. Read Here
LIKE A VIRUS, QANON SPREADS FROM THE U.S. TO GERMANY
By Andreas Kluth
QAnon is probably the vilest conspiracy theory since medieval Europeans fabricated tales about Jewish people poisoning wells and drinking the blood of Christian children. Those older lies, which never entirely died out, led to centuries of pogroms and anti-Semitism. It’s too early to say what evils QAnon will cause. But the potential is huge. Like the old European “blood libel” narrative, QAnon recycles anti-Semitic tropes and alleges that there’s an international conspiracy of powerful and rich people running a pedophile ring that traffics, abuses and even eats children. Read Here
STUDIES AND STATISTICS
IN TANDEM WITH PANDEMIC, ANTI-SEMITIC HATE CRIMES RISE IN BERLIN DURING 2020
By Algemeiner Staff
Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Berlin registered another rise, as a new report showed that an increasingly emboldened hostility toward Jews was taking on new forms, particularly online, alongside more established ones. An analysis released by the Department for Research and Information on Anti-Semitism Berlin (RIAS), documented 410 incidents — more than two per day — during the first half of 2020. Read Here
NEW REPORT SHOWS PALESTINIAN TEXTBOOKS STILL RIFE WITH ANTI-SEMITISM, GLORIFICATION OF TERROR, DESPITE PROMISED CHANGES
By Benjamin Kerstein
A new report on educational materials used by the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA in the West Bank and Gaza Strip reveals a curriculum replete with anti-Semitism, racism and glorification of terrorism. The study — published by the IMPACT-se organization — shows that, despite the PA’s pledge to European officials that official textbooks would be revised, there have been no significant changes made and in some ways the problem has gotten worse. Read Here
JEWISH HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION WARNS ABOUT THREAT OF QANON
By CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO 
The Simon Wiesenthal Center released a report detailing the origins of the QAnon conspiracy theory and warning about its anti-Semitic nature. The organization highlights just how much of the theory can be traced back to other well known conspiracies. “QAnon perpetuates the canard that has been retold for hundreds of years of the Rothschilds controlling banks along with the baseless blood libel against the Jewish people.” Read Here
FEATURED PARTNER
Maccabi World Union (MWU) is the largest and longest running Jewish sports organization spanning over five continents, in 80 countries, 450 clubs, and 450,000 members. MWU is a Zionist organization that utilizes sports as a means to bring Jewish people of all ages closer to Judaism and Israel in addition to various informal educational activities in a manner that surpasses politics and sectarianism.
MACCABI TZAIR IN THE WORLD
By Maccabi World Union
Maccabi World Union Youth Movement, Maccabi Tzair, is one of its pearls and a real motor of its success worldwide. Founded in 1929, and with 55 branches across the globe, Maccabi Tzair brings Jewish-Zionist education to 100,000 Jewish youngsters through weekly activities, camps, in-service trainings, regional, continental and international seminars organized by MWU departments. Read Here
CAM PARTNERS CONTENT
WITH A NEW YEAR COMES RENEWED COMMITMENTS – INCLUDING FIGHTING HOLOCAUST DENIAL
By Elizabeth Arif-Fear, Trustee, MAAS
Racist tropes, conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial and misinformation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are not uncommon and as Muslims: we need to change this. It’s not easy, but here at MAAS, we’ve taken on the challenge and we’re ready to see it through. There is a problem of anti-Semitism in the Muslim community and that’s exactly why MAAS was created. We’re here to call it out, to dispel myths, to educate and to build greater links between the Jewish and Muslim communities – as well as engage with policy and decision-makers. As Muslims, we can, we must and will fight this vile form of hatred. Read Here
86 JEWISH GROUPS CONTEST LEILA KHALED’S SFSU SPEAKING EVENT
By Aaron Bandler
A coalition of 86 Jewish groups sent a letter to San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Lynn Mahoney asking if the upcoming event featuring Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Leila Khaled is legitimately protected under academic freedom. The coalition, which was spearheaded by the AMCHA Initiative, noted that Mahoney has said that just because a speaker is brought to campus doesn’t mean the university agrees with his or her point of view. Read Here
GOVERNMENT & POLICY
GOTTHEIMER INTRODUCES BILL CONDEMNING PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PAYMENTS TO TERRORISTS
By Marc Rod
A resolution introduced Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) criticizes the Palestinian Authority for payments to terrorists and honors a woman from his district killed in a suicide bombing. The bill is cosponsored by Reps. Tom Reed (R-NY) and Max Rose (D-NY) and calls on the international community to condemn Palestinian Authority payments to terrorists and reaffirms the penalties for such activity as laid out in the Taylor Force Act. Read Here
GERMANY ALLOCATES $26 MILLION TO PROTECT SYNAGOGUES, JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS
By JTA
Germany has pledged an additional £20m ($26 million) to the country’s Jewish umbrella organisation this year to cover security costs as Jewish leaders fret over a rise in right-wing anti-Semitism. The announcement comes nearly a year after a violent attack on the synagogue in Halle, on Yom Kippur. The funds are to be used for drastic improvements to the physical security of synagogues and other communal buildings. Read Here
STARMER REITERATES COMMITMENT TO ‘ROOT OUT’ ANTI-SEMITISM IN CONFERENCE SPEECH
By JACK MENDEL
Sir Keir Starmer reiterated a commitment to “root out” anti-Semitism during his first speech to a Labour conference as leader. Starmer said: “As I promised on my first day as leader we will root out the anti-sSemitism that has infected our party. We’re making progress – and we will root it out, once and for all.” He urged voters who had deserted Labour to take a fresh look at it. Read Here
BARRIE CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS IHRA DEFINITION OF ANTI-SEMITISM
By Ian MacLennan
Barrie City Council has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism. During a deputation, Rabbi Audrey Kaufman of the Am Shalom Congregation in Barrie rejected any notion the definition is an attempt to silence criticism of Israel. City council unanimously adopted the IHRA definition. Read Here
HONDURAS TO RELOCATE EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM BY YEAR’S END
By JNS
Israel and Honduras will open embassies in each other’s capital cities before the end of this year. The joint announcement followed a conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. “Today, with their flags flying over each other’s capital cities, Israel and Honduras wish to announce the intention to complete before the end of this year, the reciprocal opening and inauguration of their embassies in the national capitals, Tegucigalpa and Jerusalem.” Read Here
FINLAND’S SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS BAN ON VIOLENT ‘PAN-NORDIC’ NEO-NAZI GROUP
By Algemeiner Staff 
The Finnish branch of a neo-Nazi movement that is active in five Scandinavian nations failed in its attempt to have a state prohibition on its activities overturned. The Supreme Court of Finland upheld an earlier decision to ban the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) at the recommendation of the country’s National Police Board. The Court cited hate speech against foreigners and Jews, along with use of violence, as key justifications for blacklisting the group, which was found to operate “in violation of the law and accepted principles of morality.” Read Here
HUMANITY
AS HOLOCAUST AWARENESS DECLINES IN US, YOUTH MAKE ART TO PRESERVE FADING HISTORY
By Matt Lebovic
A Claims Conference survey released disturbing new research about the state of Holocaust memory. This week, the New York-based Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI) deployed the artwork of teenagers to preserve Holocaust memory. Called “How High School Students See the Holocaust,” TOLI’s new online exhibit received 140 submissions from around the world, said Wall. According to the institute’s Marni Fritz, who coordinated the project, art can help students navigate the unspeakable aspects of the Holocaust. Read More
RUTH BADER GINSBURG, FIRST JEWISH WOMAN TO SERVE ON SUPREME COURT, DIES AT 87
By Sarah Wildman
Ginsburg was open about the importance of Jewish tradition as an influence on her life and career, hanging the Hebrew injunction to pursue justice on the walls of her chambers. “I am a judge, born, raised and proud of being a Jew,” she said in an address to the American Jewish Committee following her 1993 appointment to the court. “The demand for justice runs through the entirety of Jewish history and Jewish tradition.” Read Here
UNIVERSITY TEAM LAUNCHES AI-DRIVEN APPROACH TO “DECODE” ONLINE ANTI-SEMITISM
By Jewish News
A team led by King’s College London has launched a groundbreaking new project to use artificial intelligence to identify online anti-Semitism, both implicit and explicit. The ‘Decoding Antisemitism’ project is being funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation,which joined forces with King’s College London as well as the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin. Read Here
BAHRAIN, UAE, SAUDI, SUDAN, ALGERIA MEDIA FOLK JOIN ISRAELIS IN HISTORIC WEBINAR
By Raphael Ahren
Over a dozen senior communication professionals, journalists, and academics from the Arab world, including countries without formal ties to Israel, joined an unprecedented online forum to liaise with Israeli journalists and several senior government officials about the role of the media in bringing peace to the Middle East. Read More
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, 276 organizations and 289,000 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.
