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A prominent Michigan attorney and University of Michigan regent is speaking out after he was targeted twice by anti-Israel agitators. Jordan Acker told Fox News Digital his Michigan law firm was vandalized Monday morning with antisemitic messages spray-painted on the building, including “Free Palestine, divest now,” and other vulgar language. “I saw just absolutely horrendous, over-the-top, criminal behavior essentially having …

A University of Delaware student who allegedly went on “an antisemitic tirade” while screaming “f— Jews” and destroying a symbolic memorial on campus now faces a hate crime charge, according to the arrest warrant. Jenna Kandeel, 23, spit on and destroyed the memorial’s color-coded flags, each representing 10,000 people from different groups who lost their lives during the Holocaust, the …

As the world commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new report highlights the lingering disease of antisemitism around the world. The Annual Antisemitism Worldwide Report, published by Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), indicates an increase of dozens of percentage points in the number of antisemitic incidents in Western countries between 2022 and 2023. Antisemitic incidents spiked dramatically …

Columbia University in New York has officially reopened its campus following weeks of unrest that included anti-Israel agitators taking over an academic building and hundreds of arrests. On Thursday, the university notified faculty that they could return to working on the Morningside campus and would be able to access offices as early as Friday. The university said it was also …

President Biden broke his silence and condemned violent protests shaking college campuses across the U.S. amid the worst antisemitism outbreak in decades and added that Islamophobia has no place in America. “There should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students,” Biden said. “There is no place for hate …

Polish police have arrested a 16-year-old male on suspicion of attacking a synagogue with Molotov cocktails and said they plan to ask prosecutors on Thursday to open an investigation. The Nożyk Synagogue was attacked around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, sustaining some damage to its facade. Nobody was in the prayer hall at that time and there were no injuries. Police …

A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan, opening fire and killing six people as they were praying, a Taliban official said Tuesday. Local media reports and a former president of Afghanistan said the mosque was targeted because it was a place of worship for the country’s Shiite Muslim minority. The attack happened on Monday night in the district of …

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday warned that the New York City Police Department “cannot have a presence” at Columbia University’s campus “unless specifically requested by senior university officials,” decrying “professional agitators” and “antisemitism being spewed” at the Ivy League School. “I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus,” …

The Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University and Barnard College sent a message recommending Jewish students leave campus and go home as anti-Israel agitators have continued an “encampment” on campus and participants were caught on camera espousing full-on support for terrorism and supporting violence toward Jewish students. In a WhatsApp message sent to hundreds before the start of Passover, Rabbi Elie …

An 18-year-old from Portsmouth, accused of creating hate-motivated graffiti, has turned himself into police on criminal charges, authorities said Friday. SWISS PARLIAMENT APPROVES NAZI SYMBOL DISPLAY BAN Loren Faulkner was arrested on Thursday on 31 counts of criminal mischief and hate-motivated criminal mischief for the graffiti spree targeting religious buildings and other communities in February 2023, police said. He was …