Antisemitism

Gov. Glenn Youngkin is celebrating the passage of a bill supporters say will help Virginia better track and combat growing instances of antisemitism. Under the legislation, which will take effect July 1, Virginia will adopt a definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The state will use that non-legally binding definition for training and education, and for...

Antisemitic incidents hit record levels in the United States last year, continuing a five-year trend, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL recorded almost 3,700 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism in 2022 – the highest annual total since the organization started tracking the incidents in 1979. Maryland had the 10th most number of antisemitic incidents in the country with…

Antisemitic incidents hit record levels in the United States last year. Here’s where the DMV ranks.

The incident is the third instance of swastikas being found on campus over the past two weeks, according to the university’s website.

Nine antisemitic incidents have been reported at several schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, since Friday, school leaders say. “To have nine incidents happen within our school system says that this is absolutely unacceptable,” Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Monifa McKnight said during a virtual news conference Wednesday. She said four schools, including elementary, middle and high schools, reported the…

Montgomery County Public Schools is laying out tougher penalties after nine hate and anti-Semitic incidents happened at schools in a matter of days. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

The man allegedly seen on video in a ski mask lighting a Molotov cocktail and throwing it at the front door of a New Jersey synagogue has been arrested, the FBI and spokesperson for the temple said.

In 2022, the Montgomery County Police Department reported 48 anti-Jewish bias incidents, up 55% compared to 2021 when just 31 were reported. It was far more than any other religious-based bias incident. Nearly half of the 2022 incidents were in the last four months of the year, according to police data.

Reacting to the increase, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich and county leaders on Monday awarded $800,000 in grants to non-profits and places of worship to increase security and deter hate crimes.

News4’s Derrick Ward has more on the latest incident and why some religious leaders are encouraged by the community’s response.

Walt Whitman High School students plan to walk out Thursday morning after antisemitic graffiti was found at the school.

Antisemitic graffiti was found spray painted on a high school sign in Bethesda, Maryland, on Saturday morning. 

Montgomery County police said they were investigating and increasing patrols near schools, community centers and places of worship after the words “Jews not welcome” were found spray painted on a sign at the school.

Two men arrested at New York City’s Penn Station last month in connection with what authorities described as a “developing threat” to the Jewish community have been indicted on weapons, conspiracy and, in the case of one defendant, making terroristic threats, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.

Virginia released an official report Monday with statistics about increased antisemitic incidents in the commonwealth and a list of recommendations to better fight antisemitism in the state going forward.

Virginia released its report on antisemitism in the commonwealth. The report came from a group established by Gov. Glenn Youngkin by executive order on his first day in office. News4’s Shawn Yancy reports.

Antisemitic graffiti was found in a number of locations on and around the Bethesda Trolley Trail on Monday, and residents nearby say they’re fed up with the growing number of hate incidents in the area.

It happened along the Trolley Trail, in multiple locations in the Wildwood area. News4’s Pat Collins reports.

Adidas has cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, after he made anti-semitic comments both online and in interviews.

Holocaust survivors across the world are uniting to deliver a message on the dangers of unchecked hate and the importance of remembrance at a time of rising global antisemitism.