Hate speech

Watchdog reports uptick in online antisemitism, conspiracy theories after Canada synagogue attack

The flagged content included posts celebrating the shooting and expressing regret that no worshippers were injured.

|ByALEX CARSON
Belleville deputy police chief Sheri Meeks speaks to reporters near the scene of a shooting where a police officer was shot outside a Yom Kippur gathering at Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, September 21, 2026.
Charlie and Erika Kirk in Jerusalem in March of 2019

Remembering Charlie Kirk — One year later

"We should honor his legacy by creating more open dialogue, not less. Debate ideas. Challenge each other. Listen. Speak freely. Reject hate and political violence."

|ByHARRISON FURMAN
NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan denies expressing support for Hamas on social media.

NHS doctor denies posting social media support for Hamas in London court

She also denied one count of stirring up racial hatred in written material and a further count of using words that were threatening or abusive.

|ByALEX CARSON
Screenshot of an Irish man who threatened to "put a bullet in your head" to Jewish tourists in a grocery store in France.

Irish man arrested in France after threatening to murder Jewish couple and invoking Hitler

The mid-August incident gained attention after video footage circulated on social media.

|ByALEX CARSON

Elon Musk and social media’s profit-making mechanisms - comment

Forget the news; now it’s all about entertainment. And that’s how billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk got into trouble over antisemitism.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
IN THIS video grab posted on his account, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk shows himself in Oct. 2022 carrying a sink into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters, days before his contentious takeover of the social media giant (which he eventually renamed X).

Protest against Rabbi Levinstein is justified - Merav Michaeli

Opposition leader Yair Lapid also refused to condemn the incident.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Rabbi Yigal Levinstein delivers a lesson while activists protest against him outside an apartment building in Tel Aviv, on September 19, 2023.

'Jews won't replace us': Neo-Nazis rally in Disney World, across Florida

The neo-Nazis hurled insults and abuse at a female Jewish journalist present at the rally.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023BySAM HALPERN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Nazi Swastika flag captured and signed by members of a black segregated U.S. Army unit in World War II is displayed amid the collection of Elizabeth Meaders, New York, February 2, 2022.

How can Jews fight progressive antisemitism? - opinion

A professor told me that the “Jew with the violin” is endearing, but the Jew with the rifle is “not my type of Jew.”

AUGUST 13, 2023ByNAYA LEKHET
U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) lead a House Progressive Caucus news conference on Capitol Hill in the midst of ongoing negotiations seeking a deal to raise the United States' debt ceiling and avoid a catastrophic default, in Washington, U.S. May 24, 2023.

German police busted for Nazi symbols and child porn

Investigators discovered five junior police officers who were in possession of child pornography and exchanged Nazi imagery in a group chat. 

AUGUST 10, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
German police secures the area at the scene of a hostage situation at a pharmacy in the western German city of Karlsruhe, Germany, March 10, 2023. Police in Karlsruhe cordoned off an area in the central part of the city and urged residents to avoid the area.

Glaring, blatant anti-Israel hate speech at EU - opinion

Vitriolic anti-Israel hate speech in the EU is tolerated and ignored.

AUGUST 7, 2023ByOLGA DEUTSCH
SVEN KUHN von Burgsdorff, the representative ambassador of the European Union in Palestine, speaks to the media at Jenin refugee camp, last month.

Watchdog says Musk threatened legal action after hate speech report

A letter from a law firm representing Musk's X. Corp accused a watchdog of attempting to harm Twitter's ad revenue.

AUGUST 1, 2023ByTZVI JOFFRE
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, looks on as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023.

American psychologists: the mere detection of hateful language is not a real solution

Despite efforts to address the language of hate in the public sphere, the psychological processes involved in hateful language remain unclear.

JULY 14, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
WORKS BY Eliran Jan, Karen Knorr and Pavel Wolberg are part of ‘The Language of the Liminal’ at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art.

Protecting, predicting, and preventing online antisemitism - opinion

Many global initiatives have been launched to combat virulent, rising antisemitism.

JULY 2, 2023ByMICHAL COTLER-WUNSH
THE WRITER (front row, fourth from left) is among the members of the task force appearing at a European Parliament hearing.

Outrage erupts as police allow neo-Nazis to protest outside Georgia synagogue

The leader of the hate Goyim Defense League group was apprehended during antisemitic demonstration in Macon, Georgia.

JUNE 25, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
A protestor carries a white supremacist and antisemitic sign outside the Kenosha County Courthouse on the second day of jury deliberations in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, US, November 17, 2021.