From a new American Jewish Committee report: “AJC’s first-ever State of Antisemitism in America report, released on October 26, 2020, shows deep anxiety among American Jews, and a disturbing lack of awareness among the general public, about the severity of antisemitism in the United States. Parallel surveys of American Jews and the U.S. general public…
Founded in 1998, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is composed of 34 member countries…
The Global Imams Council, the world’s largest NGO organization of Muslim clerics, has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. Among other things, the definition condemns certain forms of vitriolic anti-Zionist and anti-Israel statements. The positive move has been severely criticized by Muslim and Palestinian groups, as well as by others who claim…
Arthur J. Jones, 72, is an American neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and Holocaust denier. In 2018, his website called the Holocaust a “racket.” He has also characterized it as “the biggest, blackest lie in history” and “nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews.” Over more than four decades, Jones has run many times…
OOOOO French Jews were outraged in mid-October by the case of a man who spray painted more than 20 swastikas along the rue du Rovili in the heart of Paris. The Paris prosecutor’s office refused to link the incident to antisemitism, claiming that because the vandalism did not specifically deface a historically “Jewish building,” the…
There are an untold number of tragic stories from the Holocaust — indeed, the entire horrific event was an unimaginable tragedy — but one story that has resonated for the past eight decades is the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis. In 1939, the German passenger liner carried more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing…
Perhaps today’s most virulent and vituperative antisemitic, anti-Zionist, and anti-Israel rhetoric comes from the Muslim world — Palestinians, Arab countries, Iran, Turkey, and elsewhere. Of course, the extremists don’t represent the views of every Muslim, but their constant barrage of hate speech does have a corrosive effect on Muslim-majority societies. The haters seek to demonize…
If Donald Trump did indeed say Jews “are only in it for themselves,” the irony was of monumental proportions. (See this and other examples of his antisemitism in the NEWS section.) That Trump of all people would criticize anyone for being driven by self-absorbed, narcissistic, selfish motivations must be some sort of cosmic joke. …
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WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed