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Paris Riots See Synagogue Vandalized, Jewish Businesses Looted · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Antisemitism Watch. I'm Rachel Adler. Before we begin,
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  Speaker 1: a brief note on our expanded coverage. Antisemitism Watch. Mid-Atlantic
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  Speaker 1: and the Philadelphia region. You can find it all at clockworkmedia.org
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  Speaker 1: slash ma reports from France detail escalating nationwide riots that
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  Speaker 1: saw antisemitic targeting. According to the Algeminer, A synagogue in
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  Speaker 1: Paris' 19th arrondissement was broken into and vandalized, with footage
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  Speaker 1: circulating showing Jewish prayer books on the floor. In Marseille,
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  Speaker 1: Jewish businesses were looted. Bruno Benjamin, president of the Marseille-Pravas
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  Speaker 1: branch of CRIF, noted that many protesters carried Palestinian flags
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  Speaker 1: and chanted Intifada. The violence, which began with student protests,
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  Speaker 1: expanded to include demonstrations against the cost of living. with
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  Speaker 1: Interior Minister Laurent Nunez admitting a loss of control in
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  Speaker 1: some cities, as reported by the Aljaminer. In Queens, New York,
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  Speaker 1: Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the indictment of Dawood
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  Speaker 1: Faisal for a hate crime. According to QNS.com, Faisal is
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  Speaker 1: accused of repeatedly destroying property outside a kosher bagel store,
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  Speaker 1: Bagels & Co., in fresh meadows that displayed Israeli flags.
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  Speaker 1: DA Katz stated, As alleged, Dawood Faisal, repeatedly targeted a
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  Speaker 1: Fresh Meadows business specifically because it is Jewish-owned and featured
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  Speaker 1: Israeli flags, and destroyed property as an expression of anti-Semitism.
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  Speaker 1: The indictment charges Faisal with two counts of criminal mischief
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  Speaker 1: in the third degree as a hate crime, facing up
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  Speaker 1: to seven years if convicted. This follows earlier reporting on
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  Speaker 1: the incidents in May. Also in New York, the JTA
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  Speaker 1: reports a hateful and threatening message, nuke Jews, save lives,
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  Speaker 1: was discovered at the Center for Jewish History. Internationally, leading
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  Speaker 1: Jewish organizations are appalled by incidents disrupting a professional development
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  Speaker 1: trip for Jewish early childhood educators to Reggio Emilia, Italy.
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  Speaker 1: According to ADL and AJC, the announcement of the trip
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  Speaker 1: was met with protests and antisemitic rhetoric, and participants' social
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  Speaker 1: media profiles were reportedly searched for connections to Israel. Reggio
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  Speaker 1: Children issued a pledge renouncing Israeli policies, which organizations called
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  Speaker 1: a political litmus test, an antisemitic. While the mayor of
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  Speaker 1: Reggio Emilia has clarified that a signature was not required
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  Speaker 1: and renounced political tests, AJC notes that the organization's statement
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  Speaker 1: denouncing genocide in reference to Israeli policy remains. In Germany,
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  Speaker 1: officials summoned the Iranian ambassador over an attempted plot to
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  Speaker 1: assassinate Jewish communal leaders Joseph Schuster and Volker Beck, according
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  Speaker 1: to CombatAntisemitism.org. In London, a Jewish woman was sucker-punched twice, unprovoked,
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  Speaker 1: while standing at a bus stop in Stamford Hill, described
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  Speaker 1: by WorldIsraelNews.com as a shocking antisemitic attack. On the campus front, CombatAntisemitism.org
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  Speaker 1: reports a nine-year-old Jewish boy left his London school after
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  Speaker 1: a teacher allegedly blamed Jewish people for the October 7 attacks. Separately,
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  Speaker 1: a National Student Ombudsman investigation found the University of Technology Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: UTS mishandled complaints from Jewish students following a pro-Palestine protest
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  Speaker 1: on March 26, 2025. According to ABC News, the ombudsman's
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  Speaker 1: report stated that some complaints related to comments made by
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  Speaker 1: an external guest speaker, who had singled out a Jewish
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  Speaker 1: student counter-protester. UTS has since accepted its handling of complaints
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  Speaker 1: was inadequate. In politics and media, Cleveland Jewish News reports
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  Speaker 1: that Imran Siddiqui, the Washington State Executive Director for CAIR
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  Speaker 1: and a Democratic candidate for the State House, demanded the
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  Speaker 1: University of Washington reinstate a cancelled lecture by anti-Semitic streamer
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  Speaker 1: Hassan Piker, praising him as an unapologetic and consistent voice
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  Speaker 1: condemning Israel's war crimes. JTA reports that rapper Macklemore is
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  Speaker 1: facing backlash from Jewish organizations over plans to donate proceeds
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  Speaker 1: from his upcoming concert tour to the Palestinian youth movement,
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  Speaker 1: or PYM, which described the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on
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  Speaker 1: Israel as a prison break. Colorado congressional candidate Dr. Shimon
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  Speaker 1: Blau told Denver 7 he has faced a barrage of
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  Speaker 1: anti-Semitic comments online since launching his campaign, calling the attacks
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  Speaker 1: on a different level. Blau also criticized Democratic nominee Melette
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  Speaker 1: Kairos for stating she could not call the Boulder firebombing
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  Speaker 1: attack anti-Semitic without knowing the suspect's intent. and the Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: Post reports that Larry David has penned a satirical, modest proposal,
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  Speaker 1: in air mail skewering the Democratic Socialists of America for
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  Speaker 1: alleged hypocrisy and antisemitism, mocking their response to the October
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  Speaker 1: 8 rally celebrating the Hamas massacre. In online extremism, an
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  Speaker 1: Associated Press review of thousands of posts on Nevada GOP
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  Speaker 1: House candidate Marty O'Donnell's online forum between 2022 and 2026
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  Speaker 1: found racial slurs, minimizations of Nazi Germany, and defenses of
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  Speaker 1: white nationalist conspiracy theories, according to the Reviewjournal.com. Finally, in
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  Speaker 1: institutional response, the National Post reports that Toronto Metropolitan University
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  Speaker 1: redacted findings from a retired justice's report that its codes
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  Speaker 1: of conduct were repeatedly breached, a move criticized as an
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  Speaker 1: attempt to delay action. I'm Rachel Adler, thank you for
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