WAVE OF HARASSMENT TOWARDS LONDON ORTHODOX JEWS CONTINUES

By DION PIERRE

Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London continue to face an onslaught of antisemitic harassment, according to a slew of reports by a neighborhood watch group. There have been 211 antisemitic hate crimes in London so far in 2023, according to data reported by MPS. Members of the city’s Orthodox Jewish community, one of the largest in Europe, were victims in a substantial portion of the 3,280 antisemitic hate crimes that MPS has recorded since 2018. 853 were tallied in 2021 alone.

GERMAN PROSECUTORS CHARGE FAR-RIGHT POLITICIAN OVER NAZI SLOGAN

By AFP

German prosecutors charged a prominent member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Monday with using a banned Nazi slogan in an election campaign. Bjoern Hoecke, the party’s regional leader in Thuringia, allegedly used the motto of the Nazi’s Stormtroopers SA paramilitary wing (the Sturmabteilung), “Everything for Germany,” the Halle prosecutor’s office said.

CANADIAN IMAM YOUNUS KATHRADA: DISBELIEVERS LIVE LIKE ANIMALS

During a May 26, 2023 Friday sermon delivered at the Muslim Youth Victoria Islamic Center, Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada said that Allah has commanded the Muslims to hate the disbelievers. He qualified that hating someone does not "indicate violence" against them, saying: "Hatred might lead to violence, but not necessarily."

ANTISEMITIC GRAFFITI ON THE SYNAGOGUE OF ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX

By PRÉFET DES HAUTS-DE-SEINE

Antisemitic graffiti was discovered on the synagogue of Issy-les-Moulineaux. Numbers, letters and inscriptions made with a red spray paint were found outside the place of worship on Boulevard Gallieni. A continuous line with a length of about 30 meters was drawn and a small plaque “in memory of the victims of Nazism” was covered. A triangle with the words “+ 1” was also drawn.

SOUTH AFRICA: AL JAMA-AH LEADER CALLS FOR ARREST OF JEWISH LEADERS

By TALI FEINBERG

The leader of South African political party Al Jama-ah has called on the South African Police Service (SAPS) to “arrest Zionist bodies in Cape Town”, claiming they are “after our students at UCT [the University of Cape Town].” The call was made by Ganief Hendricks, a founder member of the extremist Al Jama-ah party and member of parliament (MP). He made the comments on a Facebook post, which was later deleted.

LECTURE ON HOLOCAUST IN POLAND CANCELED AFTER FAR-RIGHT LAWMAKER STORMS PODIUM

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV

Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski was about to deliver a lecture in Warsaw Tuesday related to his battle against efforts by Polish leaders to suppress uncomfortable truths about the history of antisemitism in the country before and during the Holocaust. But before Grabowski could get started, a far-right Polish lawmaker with a record of antisemitic statements stormed the speaker’s podium, smashing the microphone, knocking over loudspeakers, and yanking cables.

LIBYAN TV SHOW HOST AFAF ABDEL MOHSEN PRAISES PALESTINIANS FOR HAVING MANY CHILDREN, PUSHING THEM TO BECOME MARTYRS

By MEMRI

In a May 19, 2023 show on Libya Mostakbal TV, Libyan show host Afaf Abdel Mohsen praised the Palestinian people for having so many children in order to "push" them towards death and martyrdom. She said that Palestinian mothers raise their children on resistance and the "honor of returning to this land, using their blood, by sacrificing them."