anti-semitism

A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol spread by celebrities is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence. Former President Donald Trump hosted a Holocaust-denying white supremacist at Mar-a-Lago. The rapper Ye expressed love for Adolf Hitler in an interview. Basketball star Kyrie Irving appeared to promote an antisemitic film on social media. Those...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., opened a news conference on Tuesday with a comment on former President Donald Trump having dinner with rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, and White Nationalist Nick Fuentes.

According to a Meta spokesperson, Instagram deleted content from Ye’s Instagram page and placed a restriction on the account after the company said that the rapper violated its rules and guidelines.

A Jewish civil rights organization says its annual tally of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reached a record high last year

Police and school officials are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti found in bathrooms at a Marblehead elementary school. Superintendent John Buckey confirmed Friday that they were looking at three incidents at the Village Elementary School on three different days in January. In the first two, swastikas were found etched into stalls in bathrooms. The third involved what Buckey called “profane language targeted…

Holocaust survivors and politicians warned about the resurgence of antisemitism and Holocaust denial as the world remembered Nazi atrocities and commemorated the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp

A leader in the Greater Boston Jewish community said he watched in horror Saturday as a hostage situation played out over several hours in Texas. Rabbi Marc Baker said it was a difficult reminder of the state of our nation. “This extremist targeted Jews on the most sacred day of the week. I think we know this was an act…

A swastika and a racial slur targeting Jews were found in a bathroom at Mount Holyoke College earlier this week, the third antisemitic incident reported at the prestigious women’s school this fall, the Anti-Defamation League in New England said Thursday. The graffiti, written in black marker on tile, was reported to ADL-New England on Tuesday by a parent of...

On the second night of Hanukkah, members of the Jewish community in Boston gathered to celebrate the festival of lights, with a renewed fight against anti-Semitism. “We are shining a light on anti-Semitism and coming together to say ‘No, we will not tolerate Jew hatred or any hatred,’” said Marc Baker, CEO of Combined Jewish Philanthropies. A coalition of Jewish…

Students at a middle school in Danvers, Massachusetts, have found anti-Semitic graffiti in a bathroom for the second time in two weeks, officials said Thursday. A swastika symbol — used by the Nazis and by neo-Nazis — was found in a student bathroom at Holten Richmond Middle School on Thursday and reported to school officials, said Danvers School Superintendent Lisa…

Residents of Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood have been finding hateful messages left inside plastic Easter eggs. Sarah, a 27-year-old who lives on Roslindale Avenue, came across a plastic egg in her front yard Monday night. “I found it kind of strange,” she said. She didn’t think much of it at first. “I figured I’d open it, just check it, make...

Amr Awadallah, a former Google vice president, recently appeared on the Our Voices Matter Podcast to discuss his firing. Awadallah was fired in the summer after writing a long LinkedIn post discussing his past antisemitic beliefs, which came from his upbringing and he renounced after meeting Jewish people in real life. “His views changed as he got to know people...

An offensive post on the public Facebook page of Worcester’s police union compared the city’s mayor to Hitler after the return of the city’s mask mandate.

While the panel cannot fire Eichhammer, it said it found the photo highly offensive and the demands to fire the officer are valid.

Amid an “alarming” rise in hate crimes, elected officials and members of the Jewish community reflected on the significance of remembrance at the New England Holocaust Memorial Thursday morning in Boston. The event bringing them together was an unveiling of a new website and interactive mobile tour experience at the memorial downtown, but it came at what organizers call a...

The man who killed two people in a shooting rampage in Winthrop, Massachusetts, last month wrote less than two days earlier that “Racism is healthy and natural” in a bigoted, hateful screed revealed by officials Wednesday.

The man who killed two Black people in Winthrop, Massachusetts, in a brief shooting rampage “had very disturbing beliefs,” Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Monday, reiterating her belief that the attack was motivated by bigotry.

Investigators have found the gunman who killed two people Saturday in Winthrop, Massachusetts, had made “some troubling white supremacist rhetoric” that targeted Black and Jewish people, and both his victims were Black, officials said Sunday. The shooting is now being investigated as a hate crime, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. The gunman “walked by several other people…

An independent investigation into the use of anti-Semitic language in the Duxbury High School football team’s play calls has found that it was likely a systemic issue, one coaches were aware of, that may have been used in practices since 2010. A reference to the Holocaust during a game on March 12 has already led to the firing of head…

Two swastikas drawn with feces were found in a high school bathroom in Newton, Massachusetts, while the MCAS test was being administered Thursday. Police say the anti-Semitic markings were each about three inches tall in a boys’ room at Newton South High School. A student discovered them around noon Thursday. Custodians removed the hate symbols. Police said that because the…