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Ephraim Mirvis joins 48-hour boycott after grime musician Wiley’s antisemitic tiradeThe UK’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, has accused Facebook and Twitter of complicity in antisemitism through inaction as he urged both platforms to do more to tackle hate speech after an antisemitic tirade last week from the grime musician Wiley.In a letter to the technology companies’ chief executives, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jack...

Campaign group asks police to investigate rapper’s posts likening Jews to Ku Klux KlanThe grime artist Wiley has been dropped by his management company and was temporarily banned from posting on Twitter after posting a tirade of antisemitic comments on the site.The musician’s manager, John Woolf, said A-List Management had “cut all ties” with Wiley after a series of social media posts were made...

Ronald Lauder’s Auschwitz memorial address will demand action against a rising tide of hatredThe president of the World Jewish Congress has accused leaders of contributing to the “drip, drip method” of spreading antisemitism, comparing it to the defamation campaigns that culminated in the Holocaust.Ahead of the 75th anniversary on Mondayof the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ronald Lauder said that governments...

Representatives from Europe, Russia and America warned against the resurgence of antisemitism at a memorial event at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem. Prince Charles, representing Britain, said the lessons of the Holocaust were ‘searingly relevant to this day’Israel: world leaders warned of growth of antisemitism at Holocaust eventPrince Charles: lessons of Holocaust still ‘searingly relevant’ Continue reading...

The US president has renewed his attack on four Democratic congresswomen who have been critical of Israel, and reiterated a longstanding antisemitic trope implying that American Jews had divided loyalty to America and to Israel. Over almost 24 hours he has repeatedly described Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats as showing ‘either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty’Trump stands by antisemitic trope...

President repeated view that voting Democrat was ‘disloyal to Jewish people’, remarks that have caused shock and disdainDonald Trump on Wednesday repeated an antisemitic trope that has prompted dismay among prominent American Jews, saying that voting Democratic was “disloyal to Jewish people and … very disloyal to Israel”.Prominent US Jews have reacted with shock and disdain to Trump’s renewed adoption of a longstanding antisemitic...