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Hamas Applauds Ex-Google Employee Who Resigned Over Company’s Israel Ties

Hamas is applauding an ex-Google employee who resigned over the company’s ties to Israel, the global terror group said in a statement Wednesday.

Ariel Koren, who began working in marketing at Google in 2015, resigned in a public blog post Tuesday over disagreement with Google and Amazon’s $1.2 billion “Project Nimbus” agreement with Israel to supply its military with artificial intelligence. Now, Hamas has announced its support for Koren, praising her for fighting “the Zionist occupation” of Palestine.

“Hamas hails the courageous stance of Google marketing manager, Ariel Koren, who rejects Google’s policy of providing services and logistical support to the Zionist occupation, which targets the Palestinian people and their rights, and accuses Google of being complicit in violations against Palestinian human rights,” the terror group said on its website under a headline titled “Hamas hails Google worker stance against supporting Israeli occupation.”

Koren, who said in her blog post she is Jewish, has spent more than a year protesting Project Nimbus, The New York Times reported Friday. She circulated petitions and lobbied executives at Google to dissuade the company from its deal with Israel and in November 2021 was told she had to move to Brazil or lose her job, the outlet reported.

Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist group and it is designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. and other countries. The group is responsible for a wide array of attacks against Israel and has killed American citizens.

“Hamas calls for Israel’s destruction in their charter, and if you’re getting their endorsement, you’re on the wrong side of humanity,” Liora Rez, executive director of the group StopAntisemitism, which tracks anti-Israel bias and violence, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Alex Winston, spokesman for the Israeli watchdog NGO Monitor, which probes terrorism, told the DCNF “once again the world can see” how campaigns to “delegitimize” Israel are only aiding the cause of Hamas.

Koren eventually filed a complaint with Google and the National Labor Relations Board over the Brazil incident but no wrongdoing was concluded, The New York Times reported.

“I have consistently witnessed that instead of supporting diverse employees looking to make Google a more ethical company, Google systematically silences Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, and Muslim voices concerned about Google’s complicity in violations of Palestinian human rights — to the point of formally retaliating against workers and creating an environment of fear,” Koren wrote in her blog post.

Cleveland Cop Who Praised Hitler Will Face No Repercussions

Cleveland’s 2019 police officer of the year will keep his award and job after a months-long investigation into his anti-Semitic social media postings concluded without any charges being filed.

Ismail Quran, who was the subject of a Cleveland police internal affairs unit investigation over "inappropriate social media content" that included praise for Adolf Hitler and the Hamas terrorist organization, will keep his job and not face any disciplinary consequences, according to information provided by the police department on Tuesday to the Washington Free Beacon.

"We are frustrated and disappointed that no charges can be filed against Officer Ismail Quran, despite extensive internal investigations by the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP), the City Prosecutor, and the Law Department," Mayor Justin M. Bibb and Chief of Police Wayne Drummond said in a joint statement. "Officer Quran’s hateful offenses were communicated years before he was hired, making it impossible to successfully enforce discipline."

Quran will not face any consequences and will keep his 2019 officer of the year award. Even though the investigation was closed with no punitive actions, Bibb and Drummond claimed in their statement that the city has "zero tolerance for hateful and dangerous rhetoric directed at our Jewish communities. This type of hate speech is a horrible example of explicit bias in our police force. We cannot emphasize strongly enough that discrimination of any kind, against anyone, simply will not be tolerated."

Jewish and pro-Israel community groups reacted with outrage to the decision, saying the city failed to combat anti-Semitic bias in its police force as violent crimes against Jews skyrocket across the country.

"The lack of any meaningful consequences for Quran sends a disturbing message—discrimination against Jews is tolerated and excused," the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Canary Mission, and StopAntisemitism.org said in a joint statement following the city’s decision. Each of the groups was instrumental in publicizing Quran’s anti-Semitic posts and alerting Cleveland city officials to them.

"While he is undoubtedly pleased that his anti-Semitism was dismissed on a ‘technicality,’ the Jewish community is left to wonder—would officer Quran still be employed if he had posted other forms of bigotry?" the groups said.

Quran has not issued a public apology for his tweets, which included a "salute to Hitler the great" and messages threatening violence against Jewish people. He also accused "the Jewish lobby" of running the United States and issued profanity-laden screeds against Jewish Twitter users.

Because the tweets were issued around 2014, before Quran was hired by the department in 2018, he was let off the hook, according to the Cleveland police department.

"This officer was hired in July 2018, prior to the implementation of key pre-employment, onboarding and training policies," the police department and mayor’s office said in their statement, adding that as a response to the situation, they are putting new regulations in place to review social media posts before an individual is hired.

Quran was only issued "a non-disciplinary letter of counseling" that was placed in his personnel file. "While these actions cannot undo the hurt and anger this officer’s behavior has caused our Jewish community, we hope that they illustrate how seriously we take this situation," the department and mayor’s office said.

The Jewish advocacy groups say this is not nearly enough to address the seriousness of Quran’s anti-Semitic leanings.

"Without action, words of condemnation surrounding antisemitism are meaningless and only green-lights further hatred against Jews," said Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism.org.

The advocacy groups are demanding "a full public apology from officer Quran," a guarantee the "Cleveland Division of Police will rescind all awards given to officer Quran," and a "statement of assurance by the Cleveland Division of Police that officer Quran does not present a risk and will not be biased against the Jewish community."

The organizations say they are primarily concerned the police department "has offered no assurance that officer Quran" will fairly police members of the Jewish community.

Anti-Israel NYC Candidate Yuh-Line Niou Loses Democratic Primary to Dan Goldman

Yuh-Line Niou, a New York state assemblymember of the 10th District who has been outspoken about her support for the The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), was defeated in Tuesday's Democratic primary by attorney Dan Goldman. 

Jewish groups took to Twitter to congratulate Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who is new to politics, on his victory in defeating Niou in the heated battle for the newly redrawn 10th district. 

"We’re proud to have played a role in defeating Yuh-Line Niou—an anti-Israel candidate who endorses the BDS campaign against Israel—through our significant support of a local New York SuperPac," the United Democracy Project—AIPAC’s new super PAC wrote. 

The 38-year-old Assemblywoman, who was elected in 2016 to represent the 10th district of NYC (lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn), has previously been vocal about her stance on the BDS movement. However, last month was the first time she was candid about her position since she came into office.

“I believe in the right to protest as a fundamental tenet of Western democracy, so I do support BDS,” said Niou in an interview with Jewish Insider.

Niou is part of a small faction of House Democrats that support BDS — including "The Squad" composed of Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). 

Days after her BDS comment, Niou sparked outrage when she posted a photo posing with a Challah, a bottle of Hebrew Coke and Israeli soda stream. The nonprofit watchdog StopAntisemitism claimed she was pushed by Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, known for spreading anti-Israel conspiracy theories.

Goldman, who is Jewish himself, was heavily favored among Orthodox voters, who made up a significant part of the electorate in this race. “Dan is someone who appreciates the diversity of the city, and that includes the Orthodox Jewish community,”  Simcha Eichenstein, a Democratic assemblymember in Borough Park who supported Goldman’s campaign told Jewish Insider. “I look forward to working with him on the issues where we find common ground.”

Given the district's immense Democratic tilt, Goldman is all but certain to join Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) as the only two Jewish members of Congress from New York City, assuming both win the November general election and remain in Congress come January. Congressional stalwart Nadler is currently the only Jewish representation from NYC in the House, after he won the hostile incumbent vs. incumbent battle for NY-12 on Tuesday, defeating longtime colleague Carolyn Maloney, an election also chalked up to newly drawn maps. 

“My Jewish faith and values have inspired me to dedicate my career to public service," Goldman told Jewish Insider on Wednesday. "I look forward to joining Congressman Nadler in Congress to represent the Jewish community in the city and country." 

Judge Denies Ben & Jerry’s Lawsuit to Stop Selling in the West Bank

A federal judge rejected an effort from Ben & Jerry’s lawsuit against their parent company Unilever’s decision to resume selling ice cream in the West Bank.

Reuters reported that Ben & Jerry’s filed the lawsuit on July 5 after Unilever vetoed the ice cream giant’s July 2021 decision to stop selling ice cream to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, arguing that Unilever was contractually prevented from interfering in Ben & Jerry’s social justice activism. After the two sides failed to reach a settlement, Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. sided with Unilever, ruling that Ben & Jerry’s arguments failed to demonstrate that Ben & Jerry’s would suffer “irreparable harm” from it. 

Ben & Jerry’s had argued that customers could be under the false impression that the company supports the Israeli settlements if Unilever’s veto wasn’t overturned; Carter dismissed this line of reasoning as being “speculative.”

Jewish groups celebrated the verdict. The Simon Wiesenthal Center tweeted that Ben & Jerry’s “should stick to making great ice cream and not using its profits as an ATM for anti-peace and extremists who hate #Israel. If they don’t, our community and many other Americans will buy elsewhere.”

The watchdog group Stop Antisemitism tweeted that the verdict was a “big loss” for Ben & Jerry’s and that the ice cream giant should bring forward a “sour grapes” ice cream flavor.

Orthodox Jewish Man Stabbed in the Face by Coworker in Montreal

An Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed in the face with a pair of scissors on Thursday in Montreal, Canada, CTV News Montreal reported.

According to the watchdog group StopAntisemitism, the 24-year-old victim was attacked outside of a kosher meat processing plant.

The assailant was a Lebanese immigrant who was recently employed at the plant, according to the organization.

According to the CTV News report, the victim and the attacker are coworkers.

The victim survived and is in stable condition, but had a laceration on his right eye, for which he received stitches, according to the American watchdog group.

CTV News noted that the Jewish group B'nai Brith found that in 2021, Canada saw the highest number of antisemitic incidents since the group began tracking the data in 1982.

The news outlet quoted former Montreal city councilor and director of B'nai Brith Canada Marvin Rotrand as saying that Canadian authorities must have a "better understanding" of antisemitism and that the country needs to pressure social media platforms to remove hateful content.

"We think the tools are there, but it's going to take regulation and legislation from the government of Canada," Rotrand told CTV.

56-year-old Man Fined $4k for Antisemitic Fliers in Kenosha

Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Friday fined a 56-year-old man $4,300 in fines after he put antisemitic flyers on car windshields, driveways and sidewalks.

The police issued him 23 citations for violating a local littering ordinance.

The citations do not mention antisemitism.

The ordinance that the man violated describes littering as: "[To] throw, place or deposit any paper, glass, bottle, cans, containers, grass clippings, rubbish, waste, filth or other debris upon private property without the consent of the owner or occupant, or upon the streets, alleys, highways, sidewalks, parks, or beaches, or into any pond, stream, river or lake."

Police did not reveal the man's name in their statement on Friday, but the man can appeal the citation in municipal court.

Kenosha police explained that officers have been investigating antisemitic flyers since December 2021, according to the statement.

Police also say that technically, the flyer is a form of free speech, protected by the First Amendment. But Kenosha residents expressed their concerns and asked if the act of distributing the fliers could be considered a hate crime.

The FBI defines hate crimes as "criminal offenses against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity."

Kenosha Police Public Information Officer Joseph Nosalik responded to the residents, saying, "Recognizing the fear and concerns surrounding the flyer distribution, KPD committed to continuing the investigation, which we did."

Some of the residents say that the littering charges don't go far enough. Marilyn Propp, a Jewish Kenosha resident, told TMJ4 Milwaukee that she picked up an antisemitic flyer months ago and she got scared.

"The flyers come from a long history of accusing the Jews of anything and everything to ferment [sic] hatred," she said. "Hatred leads to violence, and that's terrifying."

The watchdog group StopAntisemitism released photos of one of the fliers, which read, "Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish" and provided a long list with a QR code leading to a website called GoyimTV.

The CEO of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, Miryam Rosenzweig, told CBS58, "We encourage anybody who sees anything to report it. That is the most important thing we can do, is to track it, be able to see it and share it so that we can see these patterns so we work together with law enforcement."

"It's important for us as a society to recognize that these expressions are getting more and more," she added.

According to FBI hate crime statistics, hate crimes against the Jewish people in America were the most frequent religiously-based hate crimes, making up 57.8% of them.

NYC City Councilwoman Calls on NY Gov to Take Action Against CUNY Antisemitism

New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, a Republican, called on New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, to take action against the antisemitism at the City University of New York (CUNY).

The Algemeiner reported that Vernikov wrote an open letter to Hochul on August 1. The letter was signed by several Jewish groups. Vernikov wrote in the letter that antisemitism at CUNY is “pervasive and has been going on for years.” She added that she sits on the Higher Education Committee that has been investigating the antisemitism at CUNY and that the hearing was initially delayed to accommodate Chancellor Felix Matos-Rodriguez, only to have representatives of the university show up instead.

“The hearing’s waiting room had so many witnesses lined up to tell their stories that the hearing went on for almost seven hours,” Vernikov wrote. “At the hearing, the responses from CUNY representatives showed both a lack of understanding of antisemitism and a complete failure to deal with it.”

The committee did end up meeting with the chancellor and other CUNY representatives on July 13, which Vernikov called “productive” since CUNY pledged to follow some of the committee’s requests to address antisemitism at the university. But such commitments mean nothing “without concrete action,” the city councilwoman wrote. “The State of New York is the principle funding source for CUNY and your position and leadership as our Governor is integral to the state of affairs at CUNY, as you are empowered with authority to appoint their board of trustees, who in turn implement CUNY policy.”

Vernikov lauded Hochul for adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism and suggested that she urge CUNY to also adopt IHRA. She then listed a series of actions that CUNY needs to take, including “specific consequences” against those who engage in antisemitism, include antisemitism in bias training and to pledge that CUNY will never cave to those calling for academic boycotts of Israel. The letter concluded with a request to meet with Hochul to discuss the issues at CUNY.

The watchdog group StopAntisemitism tweeted that they were “proud” to be among the signatories of Vernikov’s letter, adding that CUNY’s “leadership has miserably failed to keep its Jewish students safe.” They added in a subsequent tweet that the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) filed a complaint to the Department of Education in July that CUNY had violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act for failing to curb antisemitism permeating the campus. According to The Algemeiner, the complaint documents incidents dating back to 2013 involving “Jewish faculty and students having their property vandalized, receiving threats and verbal abuse, and being held responsible for actions of the Israeli government.” A CUNY spokesperson told The Algemeiner that the university condemns antisemitism and all other forms of hatred and that they properly follow protocol when such incidents are reported to the university.

Other signatories to Vernikov’s letter included The Lawfare Project, Americans Against Antisemitism and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

CUNY Professor Jeffrey Lax, who chairs the business department at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community College, wrote in a July 29 New York Daily News op-ed recounting the antisemitism he has experienced on college. Lax, an Orthodox Jew and grandson of Holocaust survivors, wrote that in April 2019, “five professors surrounded me in the faculty dining room and began screaming at me. Twice I tried to leave, but they physically stopped me. One professor put his hand above my head and said, ‘We’re not done. We’re just starting.’” “I didn’t even know these professors, but they knew I was Jewish, observant and Zionist, and that was enough,” Lax wrote. He has since learned that one of these professors has raised money for an organization with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group and wrote an essay linking Jews with white supremacy.

“But this incident was about far more than one bad apple,” Lax continued. “The professors who surrounded me were part of a larger group called the Progressive Faculty Caucus, almost all of whom held, or were seeking, prominent positions in CUNY’s faculty union. The caucus went out of their way to create a hostile working environment for Orthodox and Zionist Jews, lobbying against Jews vying for elected positions on campus and arranging meetings on Friday nights, knowing that observant Jews could not attend.”

Lax is among the professors that filed a lawsuit in January in an attempt to overstate New York’s Taylor Law mandating that they be a part of the professor’s union, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC). Lax had resigned from the union after they had a passed an anti-Israel resolution in June 2021; the PSC told the Journal that the lawsuit was “meritless.”

“I’m under no illusion that this lawsuit alone will halt the spread of anti-Semitism on campus,” Lax’s op-ed concluded. “But I am determined to do my part to honor the legacy of my forebears by standing against injustice—especially when those in power turn a blind eye.”

Antisemitic Flyers Found in Sandy Springs

Mailboxes at about a dozen homes in Sandy Springs were stuffed with antisemitic flyers on Friday, July 15, distributed by a known antisemitic group, the Goyim Defense League (GDL).

The same group is thought to be the source of antisemitic flyers that appeared on cars in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood of South Atlanta in February.

According to Liora Rez, executive director of the watchdog group StopAntisemitism, the GDL has been responsible for placing flyers in a growing number of cities around the country over the last few years. StopAntisemitism confirmed the GDL’s role in at least 20 incidents in 2021 that included the distribution of flyers, graffiti, banner drops and harassment. That number has probably doubled this year, it says.

“Jews in Sandy Springs should not be subjected to such ugly antisemitic vitriol,” Rez told the AJT. “How is it possible for GDL to continue to spread hurtful antisemitic misinformation across the country, canvassing neighborhood after neighborhood, hitting Sandy Springs with its antisemitic hatred … and remain unstopped?”

She told the AJT that Sandy Springs may have been targeted because of its prominent Jewish population, noting the location of several Jewish day schools and synagogues in the city.

Rez said that her group believes the GDL has a handful of leaders, dozens of members and thousands of online followers throughout the country, with California and Florida sustaining the largest number of attacks. Rez said that her group has followed the GDL for the last four years but noted a particular increase during the pandemic. She called them “zealots, pranks and publicity stunts.”

In fact, Weinstein suggested that the GDL not even be named in the press to rob them of the publicity.

The flyers vary in subject, but the objective is the same: to caricature the perceived power of Jews in various industries.

The flyer Sandy Springs resident Steven Berne found in his mailbox, discovered by his wife, named 10 alleged employees of Disney and included headshots featuring Stars of David on their foreheads.

Others found flyers with headlines reading “Every Single Aspect of Mass Immigration is Jewish,” with names and Star-of-David headshots.

Last April, one flyer distributed by the GDL declared that “Every Single Aspect of the Media is Jewish” and displayed the names and photographs of prominent Jews in the news and entertainment business. As the AJT reported then, some of the people included are no longer alive. Another flyer, discovered in April, claimed that “Every Single Aspect of the Ukraine-Russia War is Jewish.” The flyers state their authors as Goyim TV, which is associated with the GDL.

“They have a horrible obsession with Jews,” said Rez. “They like to pit Jews in controversies” such as abortion, COVID, immigration and gun control, she said. “The problem is that these can so often lead to violence. These aren’t just words. And we feel they aren’t being given enough credit.”

Rep. Cori Bush Slammed for Ties to Supporter Who Said She Wanted to 'Set Israel on Fire'

Jewish groups are outraged by remarks made by an activist who once organized a fundraiser for Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and the congresswoman has yet to address them.

Neeven Ayesh, who describes herself as a political strategist in her Twitter bio, was said to have used the social media platform to make a number of inflammatory remarks against Israel and Jews over the years, including a blatant endorsement of violence. The since-deleted posts were captured by Canary Mission, an organization that works to expose hatred of the U.S., Israel, and Jews and Ayesh has admitted to posting them.

"I want to set Israel on fire with my own hands & watch it burn to ashes along with every Israeli in it," Ayesh tweeted in February 2014. "Once again I want to personally set Israel & all the Israelis in it on fire & watch them burn to ashes. Burn you bastards #IHateYou," she posted in March of that year. A few years earlier, in January 2011, she posted, "#crimesworthyoftherope being a Jew."

Ayesh has addressed the tweets posted by Canary Mission in a thread posted on July 13. She acknowledged posting the tweets but claimed that she has changed since then.

"First and foremost, I want to take ownership and acknowledge how horrendous the context of those tweets actually are. I was young, dumb, & said horrible things that I never acted on, that I never would act on, because I am not that person," Ayesh tweeted on July 13. She went on to explain that her words came from a place of "pain & anger," as spent time n the Palestinian territories and that during that period, "the only interaction I ever had with a Jewish person was through the IDF."

She then defended herself by noting the timing of the messages.

"If you look at the dates/years they were sent out, it was always, always after chaos occurred back home. Chaos that resulted in a lot of blood shed & loss," she said.

While Ayesh's more recent tweets about Israel and Jews have not expressly endorsed violence, she continues to put forward messages against Israel and Jews, such as one from July 14, in which she posted a meme denigrating "White zionists" from New York.

Now, Jewish groups are questioning Bush over Ayesh's comments, and the congresswoman herself has also expressed an anti-Israel view, accusing the Jewish state of having an "apartheid system."

Liora Rez, the executive editor of watchdog site StopAntisemitism.org, noted that Bush's newly-redrawn district now includes a significant Jewish community.

"How can her constituents trust her to represent them when she profits off of someone who wants to ‘watch Israel burn to ashes, along with every Israeli in it?’" she asked.

So far, Bush, a member of the group of left-wing House members known as the "Squad," has not weighed in on this. Fox News reached out to Bush's office but they did not immediately respond.

Bush is up for reelection this November. Her Democratic primary opponent, Missouri State Senator Steve Roberts, posted an open letter earlier this month addressing the situation.

"It has now been reported that my opponent, Cori Bush, has the ongoing financial and electoral support of Neveen Ayesh and other activists who openly call for antisemitic terrorism and violence against Jews and the State of Israel," Roberts said, adding that "Cori Bush is being paid by hate and she knows it."

Jewish Groups Slam Rep. Cori Bush for Support by Woman who Aims to ‘Set Israel on Fire’

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a member of the far-left “Squad” in the U.S. House of Representatives, is under fire by Jewish and pro-Israel groups for accepting fundraising assistance from Neveen Ayesh, a woman with a history of making threats against Jews and Israel. The most recent of those was at a July 16 reception in support of Bush.

According to the watchdog group Canary Mission, Ayesh—a government relations coordinator for the St. Louis Chapter of the American Muslims for Palestine—has in the past tweeted that she would like to “set Israel on fire with my own hand and watch it burn to ashes along with every Israel in it” and that “if you are a ‘yahoodi,’ a Jew, “please kill yourself cause you aren’t welcome anywhere.”

Bush is facing Missouri State Sen. Steve Roberts in the Aug. 2 Democratic primaries to represent Missouri’s 1st Congressional District. Roberts has his own connection to Ayesh, as the two reportedly dated for a time, with Roberts claiming in a public letter that they parted when “her views became clear to me … .”

The district was redrawn in 2020 and includes neighbors such as University City, where a large segment of St. Louis’s Jewish community resides.

“What part of this anti-Semitic activist did Rep. Bush not know about? Her wish to see Israel and the world’s largest Jewish community burn and be reduced to ashes? Her support for Hamas terrorism?” asked Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Do these sentiments reflect Cori Bush’s worldview? If not, say so and return the money!”

Bush previously described Israel’s relationship with Palestinians as an “apartheid system.” She has also claimed that the “black and Palestinian struggles for liberation are interconnected, and we will not let up until all of us are free.”

Executive editor of StopAntisemitism.com Liora Rez told JNS that Bush’s association with Ayesh was “appalling.”

“Bush’s recently redrawn district includes a large Jewish population,” said Rez. “How can her constituents trust her to represent them when she profits off of someone who wants to ‘watch Israel burn to ashes, along with every Israeli in it?’ ”

Neither Ayesh nor the American Muslims for Palestine responded to requests for comment.

Cleveland Officer’s Antisemitic Posts Never Screened Before Hire

The FOX 8 I-Team has uncovered a new mystery surrounding a Cleveland police officer under investigation for allegedly posting antisemitic posts on his social media accounts four years before he was hired.

The I-Team has now reviewed dozens of pages of documents in the personnel file of Cleveland Police Officer Ismail Quran. Nothing in the reports specifically refers to whether his social media accounts were checked before he was hired.  One document states public safety conducted the background check. A city official tells the I-Team it doesn’t appear anyone doing his background check knew about the posts.  

A review of the officer’s personnel file shows he does not have any prior disciplinary issues and he was named officer of the year in 2019.

In June, Canary Mission, an antisemitism watchdog organization, released several posts allegedly made by Quran in 2014 and posted on his social media account. Many of the posts contained antisemitic hate speech and remained on his social media page until June of this year.

The city’s internal investigation started in June. Officials say it is still ongoing and they don’t know how long it will take. Quran is assigned to administrative duties while the investigation is ongoing.

“We are very disappointed,” said Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, a national watchdog organization.  “It has been at least one month, and we still do not have any answers or updates from Cleveland’s police department.”

Rez tells the I-Team they have reached out to the chief’s office three times but have not received any information. The organization is asking that Quran be fired and his awards rescinded.

“This should be a pretty cut and dry case we feel,” Rez said. “The Cleveland police department should have an easy time sending a loud and clear message to the Jewish community and the community at large that anti-Semitism among its officers is unacceptable.”

Officials with the Anti-Defamation League of Cleveland say they are also awaiting the findings of the investigation.

Facing Antisemites and Beating Them at their Own Game

Liora Rez, StopAntisemitism

‘I receive a lot of threats,” says Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, matter-of-factly. “The antisemites try to intimidate me, but I’m not going anywhere.” Though she dismisses the threats with a chuckle, antisemitism in the United States, says Rez, is no laughing matter.

StopAntisemitism is a watchdog organization dedicated to calling out antisemites and antisemitic behavior across the United States. Rez co-founded the organization as a response to the antisemitism she had encountered in her professional life and the frustration she felt in dealing with the phenomenon. “I have been working in the digital space since 2012,” she says. “My social media handle that I was using identified me as Jewish, and I received atrocious comments – everything from ‘baby killers’ to ‘you’re like Nazi Germany – you guys are doing to the

Palestinians what was done to you,’ to ‘Hitler should have finished the job.’”Rez says she also felt frustrated that expressions of antisemitism from the extreme Right seemed to attract more attention than comments made by members of the extreme Left. “It was very frustrating to have those that espouse hatred toward Jews get a pass,” she says.

Antisemitic behavior is occurring everywhere in the United States today, says Rez, adding, “This is what makes it extremely frustrating and extremely frightening.” To prove her point, Rez cites events that have occurred over the past few years, from the neo-Nazi white supremacist movement that resulted in the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh in 2018 and the shooting in Poway, California, in 2019 to the taking of hostages by a radical Muslim in a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, in January 2022.

“We see explosions of antisemitism and violence on college campuses from the Free Palestine movement,” adds Rez. “We see Louis Farrakhan and his crew spewing their hatred. Antisemitism is erupting all around us, and this is why our work is so vital – we spotlight every single one of them. We don’t cherry-pick based on ethnicity, religion or political affiliation.”

StopAntisemitism’s efforts also extend to the political realm. The organization recently accused Colorado Democratic congressional candidate Elisabeth Epps of posting a series of antisemitic tweets. “Antisemitism comes from the Right and the Left,” says Rez. “This woman was on the Left. Our job is to call out these candidates as well.“Everyone is online – whether it is Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram or Reddit. The majority of people do not turn on their TV to get their news. Most people are scrolling through their phones.” Antisemitism on social media has become so normalized that people don’t think there are consequences. “This is where we come in, and we say this is racism and bigotry,” she declares.

Antisemitism today, reports Rez, may be clothed in a modern social media format, but it follows the age-old formula of casting blame for society’s ills on the Jews. “The Jews are vilified as the cause of society’s evil. Whatever happens is the Jews’ fault, whether it’s COVID, communism, capitalism, or the war in Ukraine,” she says.To counter antisemitic behavior, StopAntisemitism started to use the very same social media tools used by antisemites. “Social media is a powerful force, and we use it to expose antisemites, and create consequences for them, whether it would be to let their employers know of their hate or if their university or fellow classmates were unaware that they were sitting next to a Jew-hater.”

People who encounter or experience antisemitism can report the incident to the StopAntisemitism website (stopantisemitism.org), send a direct message on social media, or anonymously call the organization’s hotline. Once the incident is reported and verified, StopAntisemitism will act by contacting the media, liaising with law enforcement or partnering with other organizations that have a similar mission. More than 1,700 antisemitic incidents were reported to the organization in 2021, a 55% increase from the previous year.

Rez recounts how the organization replied to a doctor’s antisemitic social media activity in the US. “In 2021,” she recalls, “we were alerted to a pediatric radiologist in Arizona – Dr. Fidaa Wishah – who was espousing troubling antisemitic rhetoric openly and publicly on her Facebook page. She referred to Israelis as cannibals and went on horrific antisemitic rants. We took a peek at her social media platforms and were extremely alarmed someone with such hatred and bigotry was allowed to interact with children who might be Jewish.” StopAntisemitism alerted the hospital, and the doctor was dismissed within weeks.

StopAntisemitism also highlights an “Antisemite of the Week,” a weekly feature of people who have conducted notable antisemitic activity or espoused antisemitic points of view in the public eye. One of the cases that the organization recently spotlighted was that of Saadah Masoud, an activist with the radical pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime. Back in April, a victim contacted StopAntisemitism alleging Masoud assaulted him. Once the attacker was identified as Masoud, StopAntisemitism featured him as its Antisemite of the Week and included a call to action for concerned citizens to call the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force to demand an arrest. The organization’s outreach and partnership with police resulted in federal hate crime charges levied against Masoud last month.

In the case of Masoud and others, StopAntisemitism garners “results” when antisemites face the consequences for their actions. In April, GEICO invited Linda Sarsour to speak at the insurance company’s internal diversity event celebrating Middle Eastern and North African Heritage Month. Sarsour, an Arab-American Palestinian activist, has a history of making antisemitic and derogatory comments against Jews and Israel, such as stating in 2019 that Israel “is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else.” StopAntisemitism received word of Sarsour’s scheduled appearance and took no time in calling GEICO out on Twitter, ultimately leading to them disinviting Sarsour and canceling the event. “Our goal is always to obtain a tangible result,” says Rez.

Rez says that while antisemitic activity keeps skyrocketing, more organizations and employers are becoming receptive to the fact that Jews are a minority that deserves the same treatment as other minorities. “But,” she adds, “there is still so much work to do to level the playing field when it comes to this.” Rez explains that while most schools, corporations and universities in the US have diversity, equity and inclusion departments, they do not properly address issues of discrimination against Jews.

Society views the Jews, she explains, as what she terms a “model class minority.” Despite the fact that two-thirds of Europe’s Jews perished in the Holocaust, the general public sees the Jews as having rebounded quickly and thrived “to a point of vilification where we are all (falsely) perceived as white, rich and educated.” Though the Jews comprise less than 2% of the total US adult population, almost 60% of all religious hate crimes in the US are committed against Jewish people.

The organization has a small but dedicated team of workers that has managed to build a significant social media and real-world presence: in 2021, there were millions of visitors across all social media platforms, with 145,000 people visiting the organization’s website each month. “I am proud to be leading this organization, and for the safety and preservation of my people and heritage. I pray for the day we are no longer needed.”

Jewish Students are Fighting Antisemitism at this University

University of California San Diego recently sponsored two events featuring controversial American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Director of Outreach Taher Herzallah. 

Herzallah is known for his inflammatory rhetoric against Israel and its people. 

In response, senior Blake Dickman organized a peaceful sit-in in front of Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s office. 

The purpose of the sit-in, Dickman told Campus Reform, was to get the Chancellor to “recognize what we as Jewish students have been going through, and to explicitly express our concerns for our safety by having a Hamas affiliate-Mr. Herzallah's- presence on campus.”  

“Inviting a speaker who openly incites violence against Jews is blatantly anti-Semitic and poses an extreme threat and danger to the Jewish population on campus,” he continued. 

Recent San Diego graduate Nov Dubnov told Campus Reform that Khosla “only gave us 15 minutes of his time.” 

“I personally believe [that] was kind of rude and inconsiderate,” he continued.

Concerns from students were motivated by Herzallah’s long history of rhetoric against Israel and Israelis. 

In 2010 Taher Herzallah, along with nine other students, disrupted Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren's speech at UC Irvine. 

Herzallah and the others were charged and found guilty for unlawfully disrupting the speech, and put on three years of informal probation.

At a 2014 AMP con­fer­ence, Herzallah said that “Israelis have to be bombed, they are a threat to the legit­i­macy of Pales­tine, and it is wrong to main­tain the State of Israel. It is an ille­git­i­mate cre­ation born from colo­nial­ism and racism”, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League.

In February 2017, Herzallah was arrested for protesting during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on David Friedman’s nomination for U.S. ambassador to Israel. Herzallah was charged with unlawful disruption of Congress.

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) first announced on May 1 that it would be hosting the May 4 event on campus featuring Herzallah. 

Dubnov said that on the day of the SJP event, a swastika was found in the on-campus library bathroom. The day after, two Israel–themed art pieces were allegedly vandalized.

Dubnov shared with Campus Reform that he and a friend drew “proud to be Jewish, love everybody” and the Flag of Israel on a wall in the school’s graffiti park on the night of the SJP event. 

The next morning, Dubnov discovered that it was graffitied over with “You are proud of apartheid. Free Palestine.” 

Because Jewish students on-campus experienced “severe hostility” following the event, Dubnov started a petition on Change.org stating that “Chancellor Khosla should be held responsible for his clear negligence, ignoring his Jewish students' safety when they went above and beyond to bring it to his awareness.”

The petition has garnered 1,700 signatures as of May 24. 

Dubnov also told Campus Reform that he posted 100 flyers around campus promoting the petition, but they were “torn down by the next morning.”

In an attempt to address students’ concerns, Khosla sent an email to the student body condemning antisemitism, but announced that Herzallah will ultimately be allowed to speak because “the university vigorously defends the principles of the First Amendment and academic freedom.”

“It is a great disappointment that some speakers on our campus may choose to exercise their right to free speech by advancing antisemitic points of view, and while those speakers have a right to be heard, they do not have a right to be free from criticism,” the email states.

The watchdog group StopAntisemitism provided Campus Reform with a statement on the matter in which it says that Khosla’s “condemnation of antisemitism and call for civility and respect fell short.”

Dickman had a similar message about Khosla. “Unfortunately, some members of the student community have only spewed more antisemitic rhetoric as a response to the Chancellor’s message,” Dickman said.

On May 9, Herzallah spoke for a second time on campus. The UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities event “Global Freedom Struggles from Kashmir to Palestine” hosted Herzallah as a panelist. 

“There’s another thing from a student club having a terrorist speaker versus a university. A university paying, hosting, taking time out of their own faculty’s day to host an event” is “especially what’s hurtful,” Dubnov told Campus Reform. 

“As a Jewish [former] student, it disgusts me. And it disgusts a lot of other students as well,” he continued.

Dubnov started a second Change.org petition called “Condemn UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla for protecting antisemitism and sponsoring speakers.” 

As of May 26, the petition received 145 signatures. 

“Hate speech can be codified as ‘free speech’ until it incites discrimination, hostility and violence," StopAntisemitism's statement reads, "which is prohibited under international law according to the UN.”

“And that’s exactly what we were afraid would happen – and did happen – with federally convicted felon Taher Herzallah’s multiple speaking engagements at UCSD and the resulting antisemitic graffiti on campus,” StopAntisemitism's statement continues. 

When asked how the environment on-campus is now, Dubnov told Campus Reform that the Jewish community feels “extremely defeated.” 

“StopAntisemitism calls on Chancellor Khosla to utilize his own free speech and condemn Herzallah’s words to let his Jewish staff and students know that the university does not endorse, and will not condone, hateful and inciteful [sic] rhetoric that jeopardizes their safety on campus," StopAntisemitism told to Campus Reform. 

UC San Diego, Khosla, AMP, UCSD Institute of Arts and Humanities, and Herzallah did not respond to Campus Reform’s request for comment in time for publication. 

Anti-Hate Group Speaks out Against Antisemitic Incident in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills

Days after a group of people dressed in clothing reminiscent of Nazi brownshirts drove a rented box truck displaying hateful messages down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, a watchdog group is speaking out against the incident and says it has identified the hate group and two of its members.

According to StopAntisemitism, an organization that works to expose people and groups that engage in antisemitic behavior, the group responsible for Saturday’s incident is the Goyim Defense League.

The organization also named two people who were captured on video participating in the hateful rally: Jon Minadeo II and Robert Frank Wilson.

“We are horrified that innocent bystanders in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, Jewish and otherwise, were subjected to such vile and atrocious hate,” Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, told The Times on Monday. “When white supremacists like the Goyim Defense League are allowed to spread this type of vile bigotry without any pushback, then it normalizes Jew hatred and sends the message that this is tolerable.”

Neither Beverly Hills police nor the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which responded to the incident, have identified the group or any participants.

StopAntisemitism said it identified the two men “based off of physical appearance.”

The group also said the antisemitic messaging on the truck has been noted in prior incidents involving the hate group, including in March when Wilson was seen driving in San Diego in a similar truck.

“The GDL has also been responsible for passing around antisemitic fliers as well as hanging signs with hate-filled rhetoric on freeway overpasses,” StopAntisemitism said.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Joana Warren told The Times on Sunday that investigators identified the truck’s license plate and were working to identify who rented it.

A Sheriff’s Department spokesperson told The Times on Monday that the incident remains under investigation and said she couldn’t share any more information.

“The Goyim Defense League is a loose network of individuals connected by their virulent antisemitism,” according to the Anti-Defamation League. “The group includes five or six primary organizers/public figures, dozens of supporters and thousands of online followers.”

It was responsible for at least 74 antisemitic propaganda incidents in 2021, the Anti-Defamation League said.

According to an account of Saturday’s incident by StopAntisemitism, the truck was parked in the driveway of the Beverly Hilton hotel, where Minadeo, Wilson and two other members of the hate group dressed in clothing resembling that of the brownshirts in Nazi Germany were seen parading and shouting “The Nazis are coming” and “here comes Jew boy ... we’re going to make you go extinct.”

Another video captures an encounter between the group and a law enforcement officer, StopAntisemitism said. A member of the hate group says “Holocaust denial ... 6 million, that’s an exaggeration.”

The person then thanks the officer, calling him a “good goy,” StopAntisemitism said.

The truck bore hate-filled messages such as “Ann Coulter was right about Jews” and “Resisting the Great Replacement = Greatest Threat?”

The so-called great replacement conspiracy theory is a racist philosophy espoused by white nationalists.

FBI statistics show that Jews continue to be the most targeted minority in the U.S. and that antisemitic crimes are on the rise, Rez said.

“Yet, Jews are often overlooked when discussing issues of civil rights and social justice because they are categorized as a ‘model class minority’ and are inaccurately portrayed as a privileged group,” she said. “Hateful individuals, both among fringe groups but also in the mainstream, then use this perception as an excuse to attack Jews.”

The privileged perception of Jewish people leads to antisemitism not drawing the same level of attention as discrimination against other groups, Rez said, adding that her organization is working to ensure that antisemitism is given equal attention and combatted with the same level of fervor.

“The lack of fear that white supremacists have should be frightening to everyone,” she said.

'The Nazis Are Coming!'

A box truck covered with antisemitic slogans and men dressed in Nazi uniforms drove through the Los Angeles area last weekend sparking an investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The watchdog group, StopAntisemitism, has identified the men as part of an antisemitic hate group called the Goyim Defense League.

On Sunday, the truck was film driving through the LA area and stopping in front of the posh Beverly Hills hotel. 

In the video, a man in yellow shorts and a hat with fake sidelocks, mocking the style of a Hasidic person, runs out of the box truck yelling 'The Nazi's. The Nazis are coming.' 

Two men in brown shirts with arm bands and helmets with their faces cover by gas masks followed after him and loitered outside the hotel. 

Antisemitic slogans like 'Ann Coulter is right about the Jews' and 'Jewish Lives Matter More' and 'Need any more proof that your'e [sic] living in a occupied country,' with the 'o' replaced by a star of David, where written on the truck.

'We are aware of an incident that occurred yesterday involving non-guests outside of The Beverly Hilton,' a hotel spokesperson told the Jerusalem Post. 

'Upon being notified of the incident, we contacted local authorities immediately. We take this matter very seriously as our hotel has zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind and we are committed to providing a welcoming, hospitable and safe environment for our guests and team members.'

Beverly Hills and West Hollywood police were also recorded talking to the men asking them to move on.

'A disgusting antisemitic truck spewing vulgar Jew-hatred drove through our streets today. An example of inhumanity,' Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bosse posted on Twitter. 'As a daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, I will always stand up, speak out and fight this hatred.' 

No arrests were made, but the West Hollywood Sheriff's station are monitoring the incident as 'in case it raises to the level of a crime,' according to the Patch. 

StopAntisemitism said the stunt was perpetuated by the GDL and the letters could be seen printed on the truck, but the police have not reported who was behind the incident. 

'We are horrified that innocent bystanders in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, Jewish and otherwise, were subjected to such vile and atrocious hate,' Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism told the LA Times. 

'When white supremacists like the Goyim Defense League are allowed to spread this type of vile bigotry without any pushback, then it normalizes Jew hatred and sends the message that this is tolerable.' 

Rez said that Minadeo and his collaborator Robert Frank Wilson can be seen in the videos of the truck. 

Minadeo, along with another perpetrator Dominic Di Giorgio, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, posts white supremacist, homophobic and antisemitic videos on the YouTube-like platform, GoyimTV.

Liora Rez, the executive director of StopAntisemitism, said that the Goyim Defense League have violent and disturbing criminal histories. She said that Minadeo pays members to join and uses GoyimTV to post hate-inspired stunts like the one in Beverly Hills.

Minadeo also reportedly started a rash of banner drops along highways across the U.S. in 2020, beginning with in the Bay Area. 

'The City of Beverly Hills and BHPD strongly condemns antisemitism in all its forms,' the police department said in a statement. 

The truck also had slogans that echoed the same paranoid white supremacist great replacement theory as the Buffalo spree shooter Payton Gedron.

'Resisting Replacement = Greatest Threat,' had been spray painted on the truck. 

The Los Angeles area has seen a rash of anti-Jewish hate incidents this year.

In February, flyers espousing Covid-19 conspiracy theories about Jews were strewn around Huntington Beach and Newport and in Beverly Hills on the first night of Hanukkah. These are also believed to be the work of the GDL.

In mid-April, during Passover, the flyers again were left on doorsteps in Hollywood and Beverly Hills.

There has been a rise in anti-Semitic crime across the country.

'Here in Beverly Hills, we do have a large Jewish population and so, unfortunately, we have been the target in the past for hate speech directed against Jews, and so it is something that we care about deeply and something that we won't tolerate,' said Mayor Bob Wunderlich.

Hate crimes against Jews jumped 59 percent from 2020, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University. 

Hate crimes in the United States shot up to their highest level in 12 years in 2020, according to the FBI's annual hate crime statistics report that was released in October. 

More than 7,700 victims reported that they had been subjected to hate crimes because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion or disability last year, 450 more people than the agency reported in 2019. 

Sanders Adviser - Israel Rejecting Palestinian ‘Right of Return’ is Great Replacement Theory

Israeli rejection of the Palestinian “right of return” is the same as the “Great Replacement Theory” – the conspiracy theory that drove the Saturday night Buffalo shooter – US Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy adviser Matt Duss and several American commentators claimed on Monday. 

“In the Israeli-Palestinian context, ‘Great Replacement Theory’ is expressed as opposition to the Palestinian right of return, which treats Palestinians as a ‘demographic threat,’” said Duss. “US leaders condemn the former while constantly declaring support for the latter.

“It’s fine and appropriate to discuss the historical context for Israel’s restrictive immigration policies, which is different from the US,” Duss continued, saying that proponents of Israel’s position “should understand, though, that treating a disfavored minority as a ‘demographic threat’ is an approach shared by ethnonationalist movements.”

Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart and Al Jazeera journalist Ali Harb also indicated that Israel’s rejection of the Palestinian “right of return” was comparable to the narrative expressed by the gunman that killed 10 people and injured three in the Buffalo mass shooting on Saturday.

In response to an Anti-Defamation League statement criticizing American politicians it felt have espoused great replacement theory, Harb noted that the ADL had previously warned of the impact that an “influx of Palestinian refugees and their descendants” would have on Israel.

“The ADL denounces in America the principles it advocates in Israel,” said Beinart.

The league has said the Palestinian right of return – the right for Palestinian refugees of the 1948 and 1967 wars and their descendants to emigrate to Israel – “would result in Jews being the minority and the end of Israel as a Jewish state.”

 “Matt Duss is exploiting a racist attack by an avowed antisemite to argue… Jews should be gerrymandered out of their one, tiny state,” tweeted CAMERA senior research analyst Gilead Ini, who also argued that terrorist organizations and Arab leaders had acknowledged that the policy was intended to dissolve Israel. Ini noted Duss had in the past described “Jews moving into east Jerusalem” as "’Judaizing’ – which by his own definition makes him the same as the white-supremacist Buffalo shooter.”

Great Replacement is the conspiracy theory that a cabal of political elites – Often Jews – are trying to destroy white culture or race through mass migration of non-white peoples. It is often part of a narrative about “white genocide.” It has manifested in the slogan “you will not replace us,” or “Jews will nor replace us.” Another connected refrain is “open borders for Israel,” which points to Jews as the hypocritical malicious force behind the supposed replacement.

“Exploiting the tragic massacre in Buffalo to push the Palestinian agenda is distasteful and disrespectful to the many families who were victimized by a white supremacist whose manifesto included hatred of both Blacks and Jews,” said StopAntisemitism executive director Liora Rez.

Manifesto Attributed to Buffalo Shooting Suspect Pushes Antisemitic Conspiracies

A man suspected of killing 10 people in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday appeared to target Black Americans, in what authorities called “racially motived violent extremism.”

The mass shooting killed mostly Black people and the FBI was investigating the attack as a hate crime.

In an alleged manifesto posted online before the attack, Payton Gendron, 18, also directed intense hatred at Jews, expressed support for Nazism and subscribed to the antisemitic and racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which says Jews are plotting to replace white Americans with non-whites.

The 180-page manifesto circulating online included the alleged shooter’s name, described the attack plans and matched statements from law enforcement.

Law enforcement officials who spoke with the Associated Press identified the alleged Buffalo shooter as Gendron, from the central New York town of Conklin, around a three and a half hour drive from Buffalo.

The manifesto attributed to Gendron was rooted in the white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which says Jews are responsible for non-white immigration, and that non-whites will overwhelm and wipe out the white race.

Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, also cited the conspiracy theory before his attack. The white supremacist who killed one worshiper at a synagogue in Poway, California, said Jews were responsible for the genocide of “white Europeans.”

The author of Saturday’s manifesto wrote that the shooting was meant to kill and intimidate non-whites and spread his ideas. He said he was mainly inspired by the shooter who killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. He also named the Poway attacker, Bowers and other white supremacist mass shooters.

Gendron’s alleged manifesto closely resembled a document posted by the New Zealand shooter, and in some cases appeared to duplicate it, the ADL said.

He said he was acting alone, not affiliated with any particular group, and had been radicalized online starting in 2020. The author explicitly endorsed neo-Nazism, white supremacy and fascism in the document.

He said he had targeted Black people, but that Jews were “the biggest problem.”

He said Black Americans were killing white people and taking public funding, and Jews were responsible, and that although he was targeting Black Americans, Jews “can be dealt with in time.”

In the manifesto, Gendron allegedly called for a war between Jews and non-Jews.

“The real war I’m advocating for is the gentiles vs the Jews. We outnumber them 100x, and they are not strong by themselves,” he wrote.

“By their Jewish ways, they turn us against each other. When you realize this you will know that the Jews are the biggest problem the Western world has ever had,” the manifesto said. “They must be called out and killed.”

“I wish all JEWS to HELL! Go back to hell where you came from DEMON!” he wrote.

He also wrote that he was inspired to stream his attack online by another shooting that was broadcast on the platform Twitch for about 35 minutes, in a reference to the 2019 Halle Synagogue shooting in Germany, according to the ADL.

The manifesto includes lengthy passages describing the author’s views about Jewish history, genetics and beliefs, and denouncing Jewish religious texts.

“The Jews are responsible for many problems that we in the western world face today,” he wrote, saying Jews mainly used control of the media to spread propaganda. “For our self-preservation, the Jews must be removed from our Western civilizations, in any way possible.”

The advocacy group StopAntisemitism, which flagged some of the anti-Jewish content in the manifesto, said, “Once again the hatred manifested towards Jews never ends with Jews but nearly always extends to other minorities. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims’ families.”

Other Jewish groups expressed shock and horror over the shooting, with the Jewish Federations of North America saying, “We must all stand together to defeat the vile hatred of racism.”

The shooter opened fire on shoppers at a Tops Friendly Market, a supermarket chain, on Saturday afternoon, starting in the parking lot, then going inside.

After the attack, police officials said the gunman had worn body armor and military-style clothing and streamed the shooting via a camera affixed to his helmet.

He wounded three people in addition to the 10 fatalities.

Taxpayers are Helping CUNY Law School Promote Antisemitism

Publicly funded CUNY Law School has chosen a flagrant antisemite for this year’s commencement speaker.

Nerdeen Mohsen Kiswani is the founder and a leader of Within Our Lifetime, an outfit dedicated to the complete eradication of Israel. The group’s been banned from Instagram for hate speech; StopAntisemitism.org named Kiswani its antisemite of the year for 2020.

At WOL’s violent protests, the hate-monitor Canary Mission reports, “activists physically attack Jews and passersby. The group targets Jewish groups, businesses and individual philanthropists who support the state of Israel.”

Kiswani is typically front and center at WOL rallies, leading such chants as “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution.” (“Globalize the Intifada” is WOL’s latest campaign). At a protest last July, she allegedly told the crowd, “I hope that a pop-pop is the last noise that some Zionists hear in their lifetime.”