anti-semitism

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…

An organizer of a neo-Nazi campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in Washington, Arizona and Florida has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and interference with a federally protected activity in federal court in Seattle

Duxbury High School’s football game this week has been canceled as school officials continue to respond to anti-Semitic remarks made by the team. Days after the firing of head coach David Maimaron over the use of anti-Semitic language in play calls, the school announced Monday that the team would be required to attend two workshops on diversity, equity and...

The school district says it’s working with the Anti-Defamation League regarding the seriousness of the allegations.

Massachusetts State Sen. Barry Finegold, a former college football player who practices Judaism, is offering to explain why anti-Semitic language is offensive to the Duxbury football team amid an ongoing play call scandal.

Massachusetts State Sen. Barry Finegold, a former college football player who practices Judaism, is offering to explain why anti-Semitic language is offensive to the Duxbury football team amid an ongoing play-call scandal. “I have heard a lot of line-of-scrimmage audibles, but I never heard anyone use ‘Auschwitz’ before,” Finegold wrote in an open letter to the team. “I thought it…

Duxbury Public Schools fired the head coach of its high school football team as it investigates the use of offensive language, including anti-Semitic remarks, in a recent game, officials announce Wednesday. Friday’s varsity football game as well as the junior varsity and freshman games scheduled for Saturday and Monday were canceled as well. And the district is hiring an...