2018 One Year of Anti-Semitism Overflowing With French Attacks, Videos, T-Shirts, Books

 Nadene Goldfoot

2018                                               

                                  Algerian teenage girl

Living under the French Vichy regime which collaborated with the Nazis, they were persecuted for being Jewish; now they are eligible for a one-time payment of $3,183, Germany to compensate 25,000 Jews living there.

2018-Germany

It was announced that Germany agreed to grant monetary compensation to Jews who were persecuted in Algeria during World War II; this marks the first time for Jews who resided in Algeria between July 1940 and November 1942 to be compensated by the German government.

2018-March 16-Washington, DC

On 16 March 2018, Trayon White American politician from Washington, D.C. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Ward 8 on the Council of the District of Columbia from January 2017 to February 2025,  posted a video on his official Facebook page showing snow flurries falling, alluding to the Rothschild family conspiring to manipulate the weather. In his post, he stated, "Y'all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation ... And that's a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful." The comment was widely reported in the Washington media as an endorsement of an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. The Washington City Paper reported on 19 March that this was not the first time White alluded to a Jewish conspiracy to control global weather. White later apologized for making the statement, and said he was working with Jews United for Justice to develop a deeper understanding of anti-semitism.

2018- March 22-Berlin, Germany

Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl recalled diplomat Jürgen-Michael Kleppich from Israel after he was photographed wearing a T-shirt with slogans linked to Nazism.

A screenshot of Jürgen-Michael Kleppich's post on Facebook reportedly showed his green shirt

 with the words "Stand your ground" and "Frundsberg".  Mr Kleppich is a member of the far-right

 Freedom Party, junior coalition partner in Austria's government. He has not yet commented.

The attaché, who had been sent temporarily to the embassy in Tel Aviv, was summoned to 

"clarify all circumstances" of the  case, Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl told broadcaster ORF.

rundsberg was a German Waffen-SS armoured division during World War Two.  The picture was revealed by Austria's Falter weekly, which added that Mr Kleppich had previously posted a photo of

 his grandfather in a Nazi uniform, complete with swastika.

2018 April 17: 2018 Berlin

An  anti-semitic attack takes place.   The 2018 Berlin antisemitic attack was an attack on a street in the German capital of Berlin. Two young men wearing Jewish skullcaps were insulted by Arabic-speaking passers-by. One of the two, an Arab Israeli citizen, was beaten with a belt by a Syrian attacker. Video footage led to public outrage

2018-repeat of April 17

An Israeli man wearing a yarmulke was attacked in Berlin; the attacker allegedly beat him with a belt and shouted, "Yehudi" — the Arabic word for Jew. Authorities stated that the man who was assaulted and another man wearing a yarmulke were insulted by three men and then whipped by one. In response to this, thousands of Germans took part in rallies against antisemitism, many of them wearing yarmulkes.

2018

In April 2018-USA

 Syracuse University permanently expelled Theta Tau, an engineering fraternity,  after video of members surfaced that the university chancellor considered to be "extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist and hostile to people with disabilities."                  

2018

Alice Walker was asked by a New York Times interviewer, "What books are on your nightstand?" She listed David Icke's And the Truth Shall Set You Free, a book promoting an antisemitic conspiracy theory based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Walker described the book as, "A curious person's dream come true."                       

2018                                 

Israeli lawmakers Yuval Steinitz and Oren Hazan accused Jerusalem-born actress Natalie Portman of antisemitism and sought to revoke her citizenship, with Hazan calling her a "little hypocrite liar", after she decided not to travel to Israel and accept the US$2 million Genesis Prize.  Natalie Portman was initially slated to receive the Genesis Prize in 2018, an annual award that honors individuals who inspire the next generation of Jews. However, she withdrew from the ceremony, which was scheduled to take place in Jerusalem, citing recent events in Israel and her discomfort with participating in public events there. This decision led to the cancellation of the Genesis Prize ceremony.   It's widely understood that her decision was related to the violence and unrest along the Gaza border. As a citizen, maybe she worried about being expected to fight (?)

Natalie Hershlag was born on June 9, 1981, in West Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, to Jewish parents. Her mother’s ancestors immigrated from Austria and Russia to the U.S., while her father’s parents immigrated to Israel from Poland after World War II. One of her paternal great-grandmothers, who is said to have been a spy for British Intelligence during World War II, was born in Romania. She is the only child of Shelley Stevens, an Ohio-born artist, and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born gynecologist.  Portman is a dual citizen of Israel and the United States

2018-February                               

             

   Louis Eugene Walcott, b: May 11, 1933-age 92, in  New York City, USA

In 2018, media outlets reported on calls for the four co-chairs of the Women's March to resign for failing to denounce Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. 

Louis Farrakhan born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black nationalist organization. Farrakhan is notable for his leadership of the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C., and for his rhetoric that has been widely denounced as antisemitic and racist. The Daily Beast traced the controversy to February 2018, when Tamika Mallory attended a Nation of Islam Saviours' Day event hosted by Farrakhan, during which he referred to the "Satanic Jew" and declared that "the powerful Jews are my enemy". The Daily Beast later reported that the Women's March appeared to be losing support. In October 2018, actress Alyssa Milano, who spoke at the 2018 Women's March, told The Advocate that she refused to participate in the 2019 March unless Mallory and Linda Sarsour condemned what have been described as homophobic, antisemitic, and transphobic comments by Farrakhan. The Women's March released a statement about anti-Semitism, defending Sarsour and Mallory. In November 2018, Teresa Shook, the co-founder of the Women's March, called for march organizers Bob Bland, Mallory, Sarsour and Carmen Perez to resign, saying, "they have allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs".The organization's leadership rebuffed calls to step down; Sarsour's initial response alleged that criticisms were motivated by racism and her opposition to Israel. Sarsour later issued a statement that apologized to the march's supporters for its "slow response" and condemned anti-semitism. In December 2018, Tablet published an article by Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel alleging that during the first meeting between Bland, Mallory, Perez, and others in the days after the 2016 US Presidential election, Mallory and Perez repeated an anti-Semitic canard promoted in Farrakhan's book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews telling fellow organizer Vanessa Wruble, who is Jewish, that Jews were leaders in the American slave trade and are especially responsible for subsequent exploitation of racial minorities.  Wruble suggested that Mallory and Perez had berated her for her Jewish heritage, saying "your people hold all the wealth." Mallory denied Wruble's account but acknowledged telling "white women" at the meeting, including Wruble, that she "did not trust them."

2018

Tamika Danielle Mallory (born September 4, 1980) is an American activist. She was one of the leading organizers of the 2017 Women's March.  

On 25 February 2018, Tamika Mallory attended an anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan speech, where she was directly acknowledged by Farrakhan. Farrakhan made multiple inflammatory comments during his three-hour speech. He claimed that "the powerful Jews are my enemy", that "the Jews have control over agencies of those agencies of government" like the FBI, that Jews are "the mother and father of apartheid", and that Jews are responsible for "degenerate behavior in Hollywood turning men into women and women into men". Mallory was criticized for her support of Louis Farrakhan, as well as her support of Assata Shakur, a former Black Liberation Army member convicted of murder. On 17 April 2018, Tamika Mallory criticized Starbucks for allowing the ADL, an organization dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism, to participate in a company-wide racial bias training after the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, claiming that the "ADL attacks black and brown people".

2018

The Echo Music Prize was heavily criticized worldwide when Farid Bang and Kollegah received the award for best hip hop/urban album in April 2018. The nominated album, Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 3 (English: "Young, brutal, handsome 3"), contains the track "0815", in which the artists refer to their muscles as being more defined than those of Auschwitz inmates. The duo was even allowed to perform this track during the ceremony, despite heavy protests weeks before the award show. This was much criticized, and as a consequence, the Echo Music Prize was discontinued.                                      

2018

Patrick Little, a Republican candidate for the Senate in California, was openly anti-semitic and even called for a United States "free from Jews." When Patrick Little’s anti-Semitic campaign run for Dianne Feinstein’s U.S. Senate seat ended in a crushing defeat, he cried foul, while some among his white supremacist supporters have  responded with talk of revolution, violence, and the need for white supremacist candidates to focus on areas of the country with a white majority. Little won about 1.4 percent of the vote, or roughly 61,000 votes, according to initial counts. In a post-election livestream, Little blamed “Jewish supremacists and Zionists” for his loss, and pledged on GAB to contest the election results, and either find the “200,000 – 400,000 votes” he believes were cast for him, or proof that the votes were destroyed. 

Nehlen's professional experience includes working as an executive, manager, and shop floor worker in manufacturing. He has been associated with Operation Homefront, March of Dimes, Walk America, and S.A.F.E. Place women's shelter.

Paul Nehlen, a Wisconsin Republican who hopes to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan, is increasingly spewing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and unapologetically racist jargon from his official Twitter account and on white supremacist podcasts. Nehlen, a businessman with no political experience, ran unsuccessfully against Ryan in 2016. This year, he initially set out to woo right-of-center Republicans with an “America First” campaign, but appears to have tacked further right in recent months, posting a stream of overtly anti-Semitic, racist and anti-immigrant messages, many of which have been celebrated and promoted widely by hundreds of accounts linked to alt righters and other white supremacists, including Richard Spencer and David Duke:Paul Nehlen, a Republican candidate for Wisconsin's first congressional district, often made anti-semitic remarks on social media. Paul Nehlen (born May 9, 1969) is a white supremacist and former Congressional candidate from Wisconsin. During the 2016 and 2018 Republican Party primary elections in Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, he spouted various racist, white nationalist, nativist, protectionist, and antisemitic views.

2018                                        

John Fitzgerald, an anti-semite and Holocaust denier, was a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives.  John Fitzgerald, a candidate in 2018 for California’s East Bay House seat, is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier. While running, he appeared on a radio show hosted by antisemite Andrew Carrington Hitchcock and claimed the goal of his campaign was to expose the lie that is the Holocaust. While speaking with the New York Times, he doubled down on his denial, calling the Holocaust a “complete fabrication.” Also during his campaign, a robocall targeting East Bay voters urged them to, “End the Jewish takeover of America and restore our democracy by voting John Fitzgerald for U.S. Congress,” adding, “Your vote for John Fitzgerald means no more U.S. wars for Israel based on their lies, like the Jewish conducted attack on 9/11.”

2018

Walter Stolper of Florida was arrested after attempting to burn down his condo to "kill all the f------ Jews".  A 72-year-old Florida man was arrested Friday after he vowed to burn down his condo to kill “all the f—ing Jews.”Walter Stolper was in the midst of being evicted from his Miami Beach condo this week when a resident complained about smelling gas in the building, CBS 4 Miami reported on Friday.  When law enforcement officers arrived at the scene, they found Stolper trying to bring two gasoline tanks inside the building, the outlet reported.  Stolper tried to tell police that he bought the canisters “to make a small BBQ.”                                          

2018

Arthur J. Jones, an American neo-Nazi far-right white nationalist and Holocaust denier, was the Republican candidate for Illinois's 3rd congressional district. His back is to the camera.  Arthur Joseph Jones (born January 1, 1948) is an American neo-Nazi, Holocaust denier and perennial candidate. After running unopposed in the primary election, he was the Republican candidate for Illinois's 3rd congressional district in the November 2018 midterm elections, losing to Democrat Dan Lipinski.  

2018                                             

Antisemitic graffiti was discovered at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Indiana.  Police are investigating.                                     

2018

This one is too amazing!  U.S. Magistrate Mark Hornsby of Louisiana ruled that Jews are racially protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in a case regarding Joshua Bonadona's claim Louisiana College's president, Rick Brewer, refused to approve his hiring because of what he allegedly called Joshua's "Jewish blood."On July 16, after hearing Bonadona v. Louisiana College, a magistrate judge in Louisiana ruled in favor of Joshua Bonadona, a football coach who was denied a job because of his “Jewish descent.” As part of his decision, Judge Mark Hornsby had to determine whether Jews should be considered a religious or racial group. Ultimately, he deemed antisemitism to be a form of racism in the law.When Bonadona arrived in 2009 at Louisiana College, a Baptist college in Pineville, Louisiana, he tried out for the football team and won his place as a kicker. Despite the fact that it was “widely known” that Bonadona’s mother was Jewish, he quickly converted and became a practicing Christian, often even leading his team’s Christian devotional. After a successful playing career, he interviewed for an assistant coaching position at his alma mater. The coach wanted to hire him, but college president Rick Brewer blocked his employment, citing his “Jewish descent.”Bonadona sued. He argued that since he was a practicing Christian, his only connection to Judaism was his racial heritage.

2018

Stanford University student Hamzeh Daoud, who posted Facebook messages promising to "fight Zionists on campus", resigned as a resident assistant and said he would begin therapy.  Hamzeh Daoud is a Palestinian organizer, researcher, and resource strategist from Amman, Jordan. They arrived to the US by way of education, completing their Bachelors and Masters degrees at Stanford University. With a diverse background in research and organizing, Hamzeh focuses on using data to drive impactful advocacy. In the past, they’ve been involved in organizing for a free Palestine with SJP, and worked with the UNHCR in Switzerland, the NYC Commission for Human Rights, and nonprofit strategists across California. Most recently, they co-led a significant needs assessment survey for LGBTQIA+ Muslims in the U.S. with Queer Crescent, and is now a research fellow with Social Insights Research.

2018

Antisemitic graffiti was found on the house where Elie Wiesel was born.

On August 3, 2018, the childhood home of Elie Wiesel, located in Sighetu Marmației, Romania, was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.The graffiti was spray-painted in fluorescent pink. It included phrases like "Jewish Nazi who is in hell with Hitler", "Public toilet", and "Anti-Semite pedophile".The incident was widely condemned as an antisemitic attack. Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

2018

Detention Officers Howard Costner and Jesse Jones of Spalding County were fired because of their online comments expressing sympathy for Hitler and American neo-Nazis.

2018                                  

                                                  Steve West (West campaign website)

Antisemite Steve West won the Republican Missouri House primary election in the 15th District. LIBERTY, Missouri — The son and daughter of a Missouri House candidate are urging people not to vote for him because he regularly espouses racial and homophobic views and dislikes Jews and Muslims.

2018😟

Germany lifted a blanket ban on Nazi symbolism in video games, including the swastika.

2018-September-USA

Antisemitic fliers were discovered near and at five East Bay synagogues.

In September 2018, antisemitic fliers were discovered at and near five synagogues in the East Bay area of California. 

2018😀

The painting Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin by Pierre Auguste Renoir, which was stolen from the Jewish art collector Alfred Weinberger by Nazis in 1941, was returned to his granddaughter.

2018-October                                

Brett Michael Kavanaugh born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Fliers blaming Jewish people for the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were posted on the University of California campuses of Berkeley and Davis, and at Vassar College.  In October 2018, fliers blaming Jewish people for the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were posted at the University of California campuses of Berkeley and Davis, as well as at Vassar College. The fliers reportedly contained antisemitic messages claiming that "Every time some Anti-White, Anti-American, Anti-freedom event.....

On October 27, 2018, a right-wing extremist attacked Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The congregation, along with New Light Congregation and Congregation Dor Hadash, which also worshipped in the building, was attacked during Shabbat morning services. The perpetrator killed eleven people and wounded six, in the deadliest attack on a local Jewish community in American history.  On 27 October 2018, 11 people were murdered in an attack on the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  The perpetrator, 46-year-old Robert Gregory Bowers, was shot multiple times by police and arrested at the scene. Bowers had earlier posted antisemitic comments against HIAS (formerly, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) on the online alt-tech social network Gab.

2018

Justin Trudeau, then the Prime Minister of Canada, gave a formal apology on behalf of Canada for its refusal to accept 907 Jewish refugees who, fleeing Nazi Germany, arrived in Canada on the MS St. Louis in 1939.  In May 1939, the German liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana, Cuba. The 937 passengers were almost all Jewish refugees. Cuba's government refused to allow the ship to land. The United States and Canada were unwilling to admit the passengers. The St. Louis passengers were finally permitted to land in western European countries rather than return to Nazi Germany. Ultimately, 254 St. Louis passengers were killed in the Holocaust.--79 years since

2018-November 29, USA

A Jewish professor, Elizabeth Midlarsky, found swastikas spray-painted on her office walls at Columbia's Teachers College.The New York City Police said Thursday that it has opened a hate-crimes investigation after swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur were found spray-painted in red on the office walls of a Columbia University professor who is Jewish and has written about the Holocaust.The NYPD said the vandalism was discovered Wednesday at Columbia University’s Teachers College in Manhattan.

With great sadness, I am writing to share that Elizabeth Midlarsky, former Professor of Psychology and Education, passed away on January 4, 2023. Professor Midlarsky joined Teachers College in 1990 as part of the faculty of the Ph.D. Program in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology. She was instrumental in launching the department’s M.A. Program and served as the Program Coordinator from 1998-2011. She also co-chaired the department from 2006-2009.

2018

                                      

2018 In a Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg, France, antisemitic graffiti was written on tombstones.

Tombstones vandalized with code for Adolf Hitler; fourth incident in 2 months of graffiti featuring far-right rhetoric at Jewish sites in eastern Alsace.

2018, 23 March                                                   

                                85 year old lady upon hearing of this murder

Murder of Mireille Knoll.

Mireille Knoll was an 85-year-old French Jewish woman and Holocaust survivor who was murdered in her Paris apartment on 23 March 2018. The murder has been officially described by French authorities as an antisemitic hate crime, which has since been on the rise in France. The New York Times noted, "The speed with which the authorities recognized the hate-crime nature of Ms. Knoll’s murder is being seen as a reaction to the anger of France’s Jews at the official response to that earlier crime, which prosecutors took months to characterize as anti-Semitic."There are two alleged assailants, Yacine Mihoub and Alex Carrimbacus. Mihoub was a 29-year-old neighbor of Knoll— who suffered from Parkinson's disease— and had known her since he was a child. Carrimbacus was an unemployed 21-year-old. The two suspects entered the apartment and reportedly stabbed Knoll eleven times, before setting her on fire. The older suspect told investigators that the younger suspect asserted “She’s a Jew. She must have money.” The two suspects accused each other of the stabbing, one of them claiming that the other shouted Allahu akbar as he stabbed her.

Resource
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism_in_the_21st_century#2002