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November 30, 2023 A Wave of Hate Crime Unleashed by Israel-Hamas War Is Testing the World

By Bloomberg News November 30, 2023 Hamas’s assault and the Israeli military response in Gaza is fueling antisemitism and Islamophobia faster than governments can react.   Three college students of Palestinian descent out walking over the Thanksgiving break were shot in Vermont. A synagogue in Berlin was hit with Molotov cocktails. And a mosque in Ottawa was smeared with excrement. […]

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November 29, 2023 The disturbing rise of antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes

Desert News By Hanna Seariac November 29, 2023   On Saturday, three college students of Palestinian descent were shot and injured in Burlington, Vermont, as they walked to a family member’s home for dinner. Authorities are currently investigating this attack as a possible hate crime, The Associated Press reported. A 48-year-old man named Jason Eaton […]

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October 2, 2023 Frankly Speaking: How do US Jews feel about a Saudi-Israel deal?

Frankly Speaking (Arab News’s flagship talkshow) By Katie Jensen October 1, 2023 Rabbi Marc Schneier says Jewish American community is “ecstatic” about the prospect of normalization of ties Expects to see Israel, KSA, US Congress ‘on the same page’ on US arms sales to Kingdom, help with civilian nuclear progam Explains his rationale for supporting […]

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January 16, 2022 Muslims need their own Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Arab News By: Rabbi Marc Schneier January 16, 2022 As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the US on Monday, let us recall the words of this peerless and universal civil rights leader, who emphasized that “our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation.” Clearly, the cause for […]

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May 3, 2021 Jews are increasingly welcome in the Islamic world

The National By: Rabbi Marc Schneier May 03, 2021 Almost 100,000 Jews live in the Muslim world today, spread out across 14 countries on three continents. This figure is far short of the hundreds of thousands of Jews that formerly flourished in the African, Asian and European countries where Islam is dominant. But for the […]

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