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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: anti-Semitism

anti-Semitism stories: 53 news summaries

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Anti-Semitism Pushed Google Guru's Family From Russia

Brin: Discrimination was 'major influence'

May 19, 08 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Anti-Semitism pushed Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s family to leave Russia, he told an Israeli website. “The great suffering put on my parents in Russia because of anti-Semitism was the primary reason that they left. And that has had a major influence on my life,” Brin told TheMarker.... More »

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Russia • Google • Sergey Brin • anti-Semitism

 Hamas Amps Up
 Anti-Jewish Rant 

Hatred of Jews pervades media in Gaza, worries Fatah

Apr 1, 08 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the 15 years since the Oslo accords, the Palestinian Authority under Fatah has tamped down anti-Semitic rhetoric. But in Hamas-controlled Gaza, incitement to violence against Jews has been amped up in everything from sermons to television cartoons. The New York Times investigates how virulent hatred of Jews—not just... More »

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Palestinian Authority • television • Gaza • Hamas • Fatah • Palestinians • Zionism • anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism on the Rise: Report

Criticism of Israel
helps fuel hatred worldwide, warns
State Department

Mar 14, 08 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Over 60 years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, warns a State Department report. US embassies across the globe have noted that attacks on Jewish people, their property and institutions have risen in the last ten years. In 2006 more than 100 synagogues were vandalized, hundreds of... More »

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Iran • Israel • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Holocaust • Jews • State Department • synagogue • anti-Semitism

OPINION

Clinton Ignores Code She Sets for Obama

Hopeful refused to blast racist, but wants rival to slam Farrakhan

Mar 1, 08 6:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Pot, meet kettle: Hillary Clinton recently insisted that Barack Obama “reject and denounce” Louis Farrakhan’s endorsement, but did not apply the same standards to herself, writes Colbert King in the Washington Post. When a Latina in Texas said Hispanics won't vote for Obama because “he... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • race relations • Clinton 2008 • Obama 2008 • Latinos • Louis Farrakhan • anti-Semitism

Critics Blast Sarkozy's Holocaust School Plan

Prez wants each 5th grader to study a victim

Feb 16, 08 12:53 PM CST
(Newser) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a new controversy: The maverick leader is  now defending his plan to have every fifth grader study a French youth killed in the Holocaust. Critics, including Jewish analysts, warn the move could traumatize students. But one historian applauded Sarkozy's "courage" and said what... More »

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education • Israel • Holocaust • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Jews • religion • Nazi • Catholicism • separation of church and state • anti-Semitism • French schools

Judge
Cuts Loose
Mel Gibson

Road Warrior can finish DUI probation without returning to court

Feb 14, 08 4:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Actor Mel Gibson is free to serve out the rest of his drunk driving probation without returning to the courthouse, Reuters reports. "You're on your own now with the self-help groups, so this is the most difficult time for you," a judge told the Apocalypto director yesterday. "... More »

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drunk driving • probation • Mel Gibson • anti-Semitism

Jewish Voters Aren't Feeling Obama

Smear campaign
aside, more US
Jews trust in Hillary

Feb 6, 08 11:35 AM CST
(Newser) - More US Jews are looking askance at Barack Obama and opting for Hillary Clinton, unsure of Obama's devotion to Israel. The New Republic looks beyond a recent email campaign—which claimed Obama was a Muslim and anti-Semite—to uncover the roots of an estimated 2-1 preference for Hillary and continuing... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Israel • Jews • Zbigniew Brezinski • George Soros • the Jewish vote • anti-Semitism

OPINION

Obama Pastor
Faulted for
Farrakhan Rave

Incensed scribe cries racism; candidate deplores same

Jan 15, 08 4:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s controversial pastor is back in the press—and the blogosphere—this time for praising Louis Farrakhan in an issue of the church's magazine, calling him "an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose."... More »

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Barack Obama • racism • civil rights • Nation of Islam • Jeremiah Wright • Louis Farrakhan • Richard Cohen • Jewish • anti-Semitism • Election 2008

Coulter Crossed the Line This Time, Critic Says

LAT columnist calls her latest salvo anti-Semitic and dangerous

Oct 14, 07 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ann Coulter has gone too far this time, says LA Times media critic Tim Rutten. Reacting with outrage at the conservative firebrand's statements may be playing into her game, but after her remark on CNBC that Jews must be "perfected" into Christians, it's necessary, he says. Coulter's comment is... More »

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Ann Coulter • CNBC • Donny Deutsch • anti-Semitism

Jewish Hate Grows in
Jewish State

Neo-Nazi arrests point to frustrations of Israeli non-Jews

Sep 16, 07 8:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel may seem an odd place for anti-Semitism, but as more immigrants claim Jewish heritage to gain citizenship through the loose "law of return," though they aren't technically Jewish, neo-Nazism is on the rise. Poverty, unemployment and social exclusion mark the lives of many non-Jews in Israel, reports... More »

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immigration • Israel • racism • Nazi • Nazism • Israeli Arabs • Neo-Nazi • anti-Semitism

Officer Resigns After Racist YouTube Rants

Columbus cop referred to blacks, Jews, Cubans, and illegal immigrants as "filthy"

Sep 15, 07 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Ohio patrol officer who made racially charged comments in homemade videos posted on YouTube resigned yesterday, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Susan Purtee, who was reassigned to desk duty after the videos drew national attention, will resign effective Sept. 22 and seek retirements from an unnamed disability. “Clearly, she... More »

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YouTube • Bill O'Reilly • police • racism • Susan Purtee • Barbara Gordon Bell • anti-Semitism

Billionaires Flee Putin's Russia

For mainly Jewish oligarchs, wealth and power has given way
to prison and exile

Jul 2, 07 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - A cadre of 50 or so Russian businessmen struck it rich when the USSR's state-owned industries went up for grabs. But most of these billionaire oligarchs are now in prison or have fled, hounded and hectored by the KGB-style tactics of president Putin. The Guardian profiles 7 deposed plutocrats, who've... More »

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Russia • wealth • Jews • Vladimir Putin • Soviet Union • KGB • Roman Abramovich • Kremlin • billionaire • anti-Semitism

Holocaust
Critic Loses Tenure Bid

University cuts controversial Finkelstein loose

Jun 12, 07 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Polarizing poli-sci scholar Norman Finkelstein has been refused tenure at DePaul University in Chicago. The school's president said that Finkelstein, a virulent critic of Israel who's been accused of anti-Semitism for his remarks on the Holocaust, stirred too much controversy and ill will for the nation's largest Catholic University. More »

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Holocaust • higher education • Norman Finkelstein • Alan Dershowitz • DePaul University • anti-Semitism

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