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Colorado man accused of plotting to blow up synagogue claimed he was in ‘racial holy war’

USA Today by Trevor Hughes FBI agents arrested a southern Colorado man they said tried to blow up a synagogue with pipe bombs and dynamite after espousing virulent white supremacist views. Richard Holzer, 27, was arrested Friday in Pueblo, Colorado, wearing a Nazi armband and carrying a knife, a mask, and what he believed was a bag of explosives, according to federal investigators. FBI agents for several months secretly investigated Holzer after he repeatedly posted…
Evelyn Markus
November 7, 2019

First UN Study On Anti-Semitism Is ‘Call-out To The World’

The New York Jewish Week by Jonathon Mark From Brooklyn to Burma; from east to west; among intellectuals and illiterates; among the remnants of old Christianity and the strongholds of radical Islam; on the political right and left: There is no place on the planet where anti-Semitism is not surging or percolating, says a new United Nations report on global anti-Semitism. The first U.N. report dedicated wholly to anti-Semitism was submitted to the General Assembly…
Evelyn Markus
November 7, 2019

Anti-Semitism ‘toxic to democracy’

Ahmed Shaheed reported his findings on the growth of the anti-Semitism to the General Assembly on Thursday, and took part in a panel discussion on the importance of education in addressing the problem on Friday. Mr. Shaheed noted that anti-Semitism is rising amongst groups associated with both the political right and left: “I am alarmed by the growing use of anti-Semitic tropes by white supremacists, including neo-Nazis and members of radical Islamist groups, in slogans,…
Evelyn Markus
November 7, 2019