Asian Americans reported the single biggest increase in serious incidents of online hate and harassment as racist and xenophobic slurs blaming people of Asian descent for the coronavirus pandemic spread over the past year, according to a new survey from ADL. ADL is asking for an independent investigation into a Massachusetts high school football team that used Holocaust-related language including “Auschwitz” and Jewish words in its on-field play calling during a recent game. A London man has been arrested in connection with the March 18 attack on a pregnant Jewish woman.

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• A truly grotesque display of hate from the Brazilian Labor Party Leader Roberto Jefferson, accusing Jews of sacrificing children…
• Singling out a Black student to kneel to apologize is not acceptable. We echo his mother’s demands for accountability & racial sensitivity courses…
• This week marked three years since 85-year-old #Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll was stabbed and burnt to death in her apartment in Paris for being Jewish…

• Columbus man charged with hate crime for anti-Semitic threats (Cleveland Jewish News)
• New Jersey newspaper fires journalist after anti-Jewish, misogynistic caption (JNS.org)
• Suburban radicals: Inside the resurgence of right-wing extremism in Orange County (Los Angeles Times)

• When Is Racial Harassment Considered A Hate Crime? (NPR’s 1A – Allison Padilla-Goodman interviewed)
• Neo-Nazi Street Fighting Gang Continues Bragging About Attending Jan. 6 (Vice News)
• Why won’t Twitter ban Khamenei when it permanently suspended Trump? (Arab News)

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