Tag: anti-Semitism

The City of Clearwater, which at one point was target for a take-over plot by the Church of Scientology, has told the cult to remove a massive sign from a temporary building.

Has the NSA violated the former pope’s privacy? Also, from our ‘You Call That Religion Reporting?’ file: the story about an ultra-conservative rabbi’s comments regarding soy products was not true.

Plus: a prominent evangelical leader says evangelicals should change tactics when it comes to their involvement in politics and the culture wars.

Anti-Jewish feeling is “significantly” entrenched in German society, according to a report by experts appointed by Germany’s parliament.

They say the internet has played a key role in spreading Holocaust denial, far-right and extreme Islamist views.

Anti-Semitism has gone mainstream, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, named for the famous Nazi Hunter.

Today, the center releases its Top Ten list of such offensive speech by politicians, Hollywood figures, journalists, historians, and everyday people on social media such as Facebook pages.

A Paris court is hearing the appeal of 18 people convicted in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of a young French Jew.

One who’s not appealing is Gang leader Youssouf Fofana, who chose not to appeal his conviction and life sentence.

‘People’ is a big word for a gang of criminals who refer to themselves — appropriately — as Barbarians.

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking “repair of my people from the damage” he claims Jews have caused blacks for centuries.

The hate-monger is notorious for his racist and anti-Semitic speech.

A Jewish dance group was attacked with stones by a group of children and teenagers during a performance at a street festival in the Germany city of Hannover, police said Thursday.

The teenagers also used a megaphone to shout anti-Semitic slurs during the Saturday afternoon attack, Hannover police spokesman Thorsten Schiewe said.

Schiewe said there were several Muslim immigrant youths among the attackers.

A bomb blast rocked a synagogue in Russia on Monday, drawing condemnation from the country’s Jewish community, who linked the attack with the upcoming anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia.