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Budapest Music Festival Says Spanish Group Not Invited Back After Defacing Israeli Flag

Spanish girl band Tribade spray-painting the words “Israel doesn’t exist” on the Israeli flag, as well as a caricature of male genitals with the words “Eat this.”

Swastikas, Neo-Nazi Language Discovered on Bethesda Bike Trail

"Hate has no place in our community," tweeted State Delegate Ariana Kelly (D-District 16), who posted an image of the graffiti on Sunday. "I have heard from a number of constituents this a.m. about white-nationalist vandalism along the Bethesda Trolley Trail."

Kelly's photo, which she "modified" to make it harder to see the hateful imagery, showed swastikas along with the numbers "1488" and "88" painted on white fencing at the Bethesda Trolley Trail.

On Twitter, the watchdog group StopAntisemitism explained the relevance of the graffiti calling it "atrocious white-supremacist references."

This follows several incidents in early June, including hate-filled fliers with swastikas pasted on a bus stop across the street from a synagogue in Silver Spring, Md.

According to the Montgomery County Police Department 2021 Annual Report of Bias Incidents, there were 34 incidents motivated by bias towards religion in the county last year. Of those, 85.3%, or 29 of them, "were considered anti-Jewish, despite Jewish persons making up only 10% of the population," said the report.

Missouri Attorney General Investigating Financial Giant Morningstar for Compliance with Anti-BDS Law

AG Eric Schmitt launches an investigation into whether Morningstar violated a state consumer-protection law through its evaluations of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues isolating the Jewish state.

White Supremacist Group 'Goyim Defense League' Targets Vermont with Antisemitic Flyer Campaign

Flyers with derogatory statements about people of the Jewish religion and culture have been showing up on driveways and sidewalks in front of some Vermont homes.

“Little baggies of hate” are what some Vermont residents are calling the flyers.

“My husband picked it up to look at it and it was all anti-Jewish propaganda,” said one Milton resident, who came across a sandwich bag filled with rice a flier with antisemitic messaging when she came home Sunday night with her family.

There’s a lot of kids in the area and I just want to make sure that a kid doesn’t pick it up, because also, on there, there’s a website they can go to that has some pretty radical things on it," she said. "I just wouldn’t want a kid to pick that up, scan the barcode, and have it bring them to that site.”

Others on Facebook have shared posts regarding similar experiences with the rice bags.

Just 20 minutes north in St. Albans, one resident found Jewish-related messaging in a similar matter they believe is tied to Ukrainian flags outside of their home.

“I was just like, 'Why?' So, I posted on Facebook, and I was like, 'Can someone explain this to me?' And I got a response that one of my neighbors who was flying a Pride flag received anti-LGBTQ-plus info in the same manner,” the resident said.

Some of the flyers read that they “were distributed randomly” and “without malicious intent."

But Rabbi Eliyahu Junik of the Chabad Vermont in Burlington relates these flyers to propaganda seen before the Holocaust.

“It’s antisemitic tropes, we know where it could lead," he said. "Last century, it led to the murder of 6 million Jews, so spewing hate doesn’t add any good in this world.”

The St. Albans Police Department confirms they have received one report so far of these flyers in the city.

Virginia Area School District Under Fire for Nazi Like Shirt Design

Hanover Public Schools issued an official apology Wednesday after printing T-shirts with a logo that resembled a swastika and distributing them to staff at a professional development conference.

“We are deeply sorry for this mistake and for the emotions that the logo has evoked by its semblance to a swastika,” Superintendent Michael Gill wrote in an apology. “We condemn anything associated with the Nazi regime in the strongest manner possible.”

Gill wrote that he believed the shirt design was “created without any ill-intent” by a teacher, and that the logo was intended to “represent four hands and arms grasping together” as a symbol of unity.

He added that the school division was no longer distributing the T-shirts, and that they were now attempting to remove the logo from all conference materials.

Photos of the T-shirt in question circulated online Wednesday morning, provoking heavy criticism of the school division.

The watchdog organization StopAntisemitism tweeted of the design Wednesday, stating “We’re finding it hard to believe no one stopped to question this throughout the entire design and implementation process”.