This is a developing story. A man was arrested on multiple charges including a hate crime after allegedly striking a Jewish man on his way to synagogue in the Los Angeles enclave of Beverly Hills on Saturday. The man, Jarris Silagi, 44, allegedly hit Raphael Nissel, 75, on the head and said, “Jew, give me your jewelry,” according to a report on the incident published by the L.A. Times. Nissel was treated for a laceration at the scene and continued on to his Orthodox synagogue, where he read Torah as planned, according to the report and a tweet by his…
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‘Let me help them out here: Calling for the genocide [death] of anyone obviously constitutes harassment.’ Billionaire Elon Musk took to his X platform to criticize universities for not doing more to combat antisemitism on their campuses. He mockingly requested to “help out” university officials who wouldn’t give direct answers to the question of whether calling for genocide of Jews violates the university’s harassment code. Musk wrote, “Let me help them out here: Calling for the genocide [death] of anyone obviously constitutes harassment.” Elon Musk followed this with another tweet criticizing the culture of universities. “The top institutions in the…
A US study revealed an unusual volume of transactions at the New York and Tel Aviv stock exchanges that gambled on the collapse of the Israeli stock market a week before the October 7th attack, The Marker revealed for the first time on Monday The report was based on a study called Trading on Terror?, carried out by two of the greatest US experts in the field of securities law: Prof. Robert Jackson Jr. of New York University, formerly one of the heads of the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Prof. Joshua Mitts of Columbia University, an expert in…
US spy agency warns employees to stay away from politics. A senior CIA official is under fire for posting pro-Palestinian social media posts following the Hamas invasion of Israel. Amy McFadden, the Associate Deputy Director for Analysis at the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is one of the agency’s highest-ranking officials. She attracted media attention when, two weeks after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, she changed the cover photo of her personal Facebook account to that of a young man waving a Palestinian flag. The Financial Times first reported the incident, and the CIA, via an internal email, warned…
The NYPD has made two arrests in connection with a recent hate crime assault on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. The arrests follow an incident in which a female victim was attacked by two individuals while she was recording them removing Israeli missing person posters from a light pole. The incident took place at approximately 9:55 p.m. near Riverside Drive and West 82nd Street on Thursday, November 9, 2023. During the altercation, the victim, a 41-year-old woman, was physically assaulted by the two women, who also forcibly removed a Star of David necklace from her neck. The attackers knocked…
‘We expect this man to be fired immediately. He puts passengers in danger on every flight.’ United Airlines has suspended a pilot, Ibrahim R. Mossallam, for calling Hamas terrorists “brave people” on an X post. A United Airlines spokesperson said the pilot was removed from their flight schedule but is still being paid a salary. The airline said it will investigate the issue before taking further steps. On October 7th, shortly after the Hamas massacre of 1,200 people in Israel and the kidnapping of 240 others, Mossallam posted on X: “This is a resistance by a brave people who have…
(JTA) — The world’s first Israeli-Palestinian boy band landed in Los Angeles to start recording songs on Oct. 6, the day before Hamas attacked Israel and kicked off a war in Gaza, a new feature from Billboard magazine reveals. As1one—pronounced “as one”—is a group of four Jewish Israelis and two Palestinians, one Muslim and one Christian. The project was first envisioned by music executives James Diener and Ken Levitan as an Israeli version of BTS—the seven-piece Korean pop group that has reached superstardom around the world—and has been in development for a couple of years. Diener, who worked in top…
Democrat Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has taken action against a member of his own hate crime task force following the discovery of numerous antisemitic social media posts. Zainab Chaudry, who serves as the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Maryland office, posted the hateful messages in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, which resulted in over 1,200 casualties, including the beheading and burning of children and babies. In a press release, Attorney General Brown stated, “The Office of Attorney General learned last week about personal social media posts of a member of the Maryland Commission…
A majority of New Yorkers believes Jews and Muslims are experiencing widespread discrimination and that such bigotry has increased since Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel, according to a poll released on Monday. The survey from the Siena College Research Institute also found that 25% of respondents said the attack was a result of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, while condemning the murder of civilians. A slim majority said the attack left Israel with no choice but to launch a counteroffensive against Hamas. The study surveyed 803 registered voters in New York State and was conducted between November 12-15. The…