In the wake of a series of anti-Semitic attacks in London over the weekend, the city’s Mayor, Sadiq Khan, sought to reassure the Jewish community about its safety.
The terrorists who attacked Brussels airport last year targeted Jews and passengers travelling to the United States, according to reports on the Belgian-led investigation. They were ‘’obsessed’’ with targeting Israeli passengers, the reports said.
Anti-Semitism globally increased in 2016, particularly in Germany, Britain and the United States, according to a report published by the Israeli Diaspora Affairs Ministry ahead of this week’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has issued a Security Advisory to Jewish institutions across the United States following a series of bomb threats to Jewish community centers in at least 16 states.
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder called on Montana’s authorities to put a stop to a ‘’March on Jews’’ being planned by neo-Nazis in the town of Whitefish on January 15. The march orgnizers also vowed to bring “high-powered rifles” to the event.
A Jewish family living in Arizona found the Hanukkah Menorah they erected outside their house vandalized and twisted into a swastika, the Phoenix New Times reported.
According to the latest report from Vyacheslav Likhachev of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, only one anti-Semitic assault was recorded in 2016 and one in 2015.