Tag: Hate Crime

Joey Borgen, a victim of an antisemitic assault in New York City in 2021, has seen the legal saga continue with a sixth attacker, Salem Seleiman, being indicted on hate crime charges.
Samuel Woodward, on trial for the murder of Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein, testified that he killed Bernstein in a panic after thinking Bernstein was going to out him for being gay.
Following the alleged antisemitic rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl by two teenage boys in a Paris suburb, France has been grappling with a surge of protests and political action against rising antisemitism.
Progressives in New York, from politicians like AOC to cultural figures like the director of the Brooklyn Museum, are beginning to acknowledge the presence of antisemitism within progressive circles.
Vandals targeted the homes of five Jewish board members of the Brooklyn Museum, including director Anne Pasternak, with anti-Zionist graffiti and symbols, leading New York officials to denounce the act as overt antisemitism.
In the Blaze Bernstein murder trial, the mother of the accused, Samuel Woodward, testified about his troubled childhood, detailing his struggles with fitting in, undiagnosed autism, and family dynamics.
A Jewish volunteer participating in a restorative justice program, REACCH, shared their experience meeting an antisemite, named Robert, who committed a hate crime against the Jewish community.
The Bais Chaya Mushka Jewish girls school in Toronto was targeted with gunfire over the weekend, sparking fear and shock in the community.
Jaime Tran, the suspect in the shootings of two Jewish men outside synagogues in Los Angeles, has agreed to plead guilty to hate crimes and firearm charges.
Shaked Tsurkan, a 14-year-old Israeli high school student in New Brunswick, was physically assaulted by an older Muslim student off school grounds, possibly due to antisemitic targeting.
A man who identified himself as a Jew hater targeted a Detroit-area synagogue, shouting antisemitic slurs and throwing an object at a woman outside the building.
Several New York City synagogues and cultural institutions, including Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, Chabad of Midtown, and Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, received emailed bomb threats on a Saturday, although they were deemed not credible by the police.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism has opted to cancel a planned walk of defiance in central London due to concerns about safety.
A Jewish student at Yale, Sahar Tartak, was assaulted and stabbed in the eye during an anti-Israel protest on campus, which she believes stemmed from the university's failure to address policies being violated by students and their glorification of violence against Jews.
In the trial of Samuel Woodward for the murder of Blaze Bernstein, the focus on Bernstein's Jewish identity alongside his sexual orientation has brought the issue of antisemitism into question.
In the trial for the murder of Blaze Bernstein, the alleged murderer, Samuel Woodward, made a chilling phone call to Bernsteins parents claiming he wanted to find Blaze as much as they did.
A former Cornell University student, Patrick Dai, pleaded guilty to threatening to harm Jewish students, including planning to shoot up the kosher dining hall.
Former Cornell student, Patrick Dai, pleaded guilty to threatening Jewish students by posting messages about violence towards them, including plans to shoot up the kosher dining hall and harm Jewish men, women, and babies on campus.
Blaze Bernstein's final texts before his tragic murder in January 2018 were revealed in court during the trial of Samuel Woodward, accused of the crime.
In the trial for the murder of Blaze Bernstein, accused killer Samuel Woodward admitted to unlawfully killing Bernstein but claimed it was not premeditated.
The upcoming trial in the Blaze Bernstein murder case involves his former high school classmate, Samuel Woodward, who is accused of stabbing Bernstein to death in a park in 2018.
Queens College Hillel has condemned recent pro-Hitler graffiti targeting Jews on campus as a threat to student safety, demanding action from the administration.
A Chabad house in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was damaged in an apparent arson attack, leading to the arrest of a 50-year-old man, Scott Hannaford.
Effys Café, a kosher restaurant on the Upper West Side in NYC, was vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti in March 2024, which police are investigating as a hate crime.
Effys Café, a kosher establishment on the Upper West Side, was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti in March 2024, leading to police investigating the incident as a hate crime.