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A Facebook history page noted a massacre of British Jews. Cue the laughing emojis.

The Facebook page British History has a devoted but not particularly emotive following. Multiple times a day, it posts an image and factoid from, well, British history, to a handful of comments and thumbs-up emojis. But when it showed followers an image of Clifford’s Tower in York, England, over the weekend and informed them about […]

University of Amsterdam ends student exchange with Hebrew U, saying it’s complicit with Israeli military

The University of Amsterdam has suspended a student exchange with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, saying the institution has failed to distance itself from human rights violations in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war. The Dutch university announced last week that it was cutting the program following advice from an internal committee on projects with its […]

After welcoming far-right politicians, Israel’s antisemitism conference is hemorrhaging speakers

Antisemitic terror plot in Australia was fake and staged by a crime boss, police say

Jesse Eisenberg receives Polish citizenship after ‘A Real Pain,’ set in Poland, wins Oscar

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