antisemitism

A new art exhibit on display at a Massachusetts college imagines a future that never occurred for people killed in the Holocaust. For those pictured in “Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated” — now on exhibition at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University in Waltham — it isn’t about what could have been, but what should have been. “I feel compelled to…

A synagogue in Brookline, Massachusetts, is on alert after a man called police and claimed to have placed bombs in what authorities are calling a swatting incident. Terrifying 911 audio shared by the Brookline Police Department depicts the moments on the evening of Aug. 18 when the caller told police he had put two pressure cooker bombs at Temple Beth…

Neo-Nazis are active in New England, holding public demonstrations and targeting our Jewish, Black and LGBTQ+ communities. They’ve stormed Harvard Square, threatening pedestrians and passersby, hung antisemitic messages off a Saugus highway overpass, and harassed people attending a drag queen story hour in New Hampshire. Drag performer Juicy Garland organized last month’s event at the Teatotaller cafe in Concord,...

As antisemitic attacks and white supremacist activity escalate in Massachusetts, the Anti-Defamation League is imploring Beacon Hill policymakers to pass legislation to crack down on hate crimes and online harassment. Massachusetts logged the country’s sixth highest rate of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in 2022, according to a a new report from the ADL Center on Extremism. There were 152…

A woman has been charged with leaving five swastikas in the yard of a Stoneham, Massachusetts, couple last year, court documents show. Kathleen Collins, of Woburn, faces a civil rights violation and a felony charge of intimidating a witness over the incident, discovered the day after Halloween, according to documents filed in Woburn District Court. They reveal that police suspect…

New England saw a record number of antisemitic incidents last year, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League. The 204 incidents, including harassment, assault and vandalism, recorded in the advocacy group’s annual audit was a 32% increase from 2021 and the highest total of incidents in New England ever, ADL New England said. Every New England state besides…

The incident is the third instance of swastikas being found on campus over the past two weeks, according to the university’s website.

Police departments across New England have issued alerts and stepped up their presence this weekend after social media posts referenced a supposed “National Day of Hate” against Jewish groups. Brookline police said the situation started with an anti-Semitic group based in Iowa, which reached out to its supporters calling for them to “shock the masses with banners, fliers, & graffiti.”...

The Anti-Defamation League says they are closely monitoring this anticipated “Day of Hate” campaign

Police in Massachusetts and New Hampshire will step up their presence this weekend after social media posts referenced a supposed “National Day of Hate” against Jewish groups. Brookline police said the situation started with an antisemitic group based in Iowa, which reached out to its supporters calling for them to “shock the masses with banners, fliers, & graffiti.” The department...

A Massachusetts high school is investigating after a swastika was drawn in dirt on a Jewish student’s car. Superintendent Beth McCoy of the Dover Sherborn Regional School District said the incident occurred last week at Dover-Sherborn High School. She said police and the Anti-Defamation League had been notified. “The presence of a swastika on our campus on the vehicle...

The man allegedly seen on video in a ski mask lighting a Molotov cocktail and throwing it at the front door of a New Jersey synagogue has been arrested, the FBI and spokesperson for the temple said.

American extremists pose a “persistent and lethal threat” to the LGBTQ, migrant and Jewish communities. That troubling advisory came last week from the Department of Homeland Security.  With antisemitic acts and threats at an all-time high, NBC10 Boston checked in with the greater Boston Jewish community’s top security expert. Our cameras were invited in to see an active shooter...

Two men arrested at New York City’s Penn Station last month in connection with what authorities described as a “developing threat” to the Jewish community have been indicted on weapons, conspiracy and, in the case of one defendant, making terroristic threats, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.

An antisemitic message was carved into the side of a car at a home in Stow, Massachusetts, over the weekend, according to Stow police, and it seems the vandal may have also tried to set the house on fire. Police said officers were called to a home on North Shore Drive for the report around 9:45 a.m. Saturday. There they…

A Jewish family in Stoneham, Massachusetts, found multiple swastikas made of paper left in front of their home Tuesday morning, which police are investigating as a possible hate crime. There were hateful antisemitic messages left on the lawn as well, a melted candle and the words “go to hell.” The incident comes amid a rise of antisemitism and other acts…

A Jewish family found antisemitic graffiti covering their Stoneham lawn, amid a rise of such incidents around the country.

Adidas has cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, after he made anti-semitic comments both online and in interviews.

Police in Saugus, Massachusetts, are condemning a message of hate speech hung on a banner over Route 1 this weekend. Drivers heading southbound on Route 1 in Saugus saw a hateful banner that read “Jews Did 9/11” on Sunday as the world commemorated the anniversary of the terror attacks on Sept. 11. The police department responded after receiving “multiple complaints…

A Jewish advocacy group is calling on Iceland’s government to take action against a pro-Palestine website seeking to “dismantle” various Boston-area Jewish institutions that’s being hosted by an Icelandic internet company. The website is hosted by Reykjavík-based 1984 Hosting Co. The Anti-Defamation League, in a letter Wednesday to Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, said it has already voiced its concerns about...