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Governor DeSantis and the state of Florida have taken a stand by passing a hate crime bill sponsored by Republican State Representatives Mike Caruso and Randy Fine in the House and Republican Senator Alexis Calatayud in the Senate. Caruso and Fine joined the Governor in Israel to sign this historic legislation at the new Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. The rise in antisemitism in Florida motivated Caruso to sponsor this legislation; it protects all Floridians, including those of the Jewish Faith, from all acts of religious and ethnic animus. Caruso gave an impassioned speech on the House floor. Every member...

Israel used the NSO Group’s software as a tool of diplomacy. The F.B.I. wanted it for domestic surveillance. Then everything soured. Here are highlights of a New York Times Magazine investigation. It is widely regarded as the world’s most potent spyware, capable of reliably cracking the encrypted communications of iPhone and Android smartphones. The software, Pegasus, made by an Israeli company, NSO Group, has been able to track terrorists and drug cartels. It has also been used against human rights activists, journalists and dissidents. Now, an investigation published Friday by The New York Times Magazine has found that Israel, which...

Recently, a Pakistani religious leader, Pirzada Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai, said: "When the Jews are wiped out ... the sun of peace [will] begin to rise on the entire world." The same preaching is routinely done not only by clerics, but by politicians -- in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and elsewhere. This is not just Ahmedinijad; it is at the heart of Islamic theology that world peace will be established only when all Jews are wiped from the earth. But few people in Western media are alarmed by this kind of rhetoric or care to expose this dreadful dark side...

Last Update: Tuesday, January 25, 2005. 8:13am (AEDT) Schroeder condemns Holocaust walkout By Europe correspondent Fran Kelly German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has condemned members of a far right political party who walked out during a minute's silence last week for the victims of the Holocaust. The NPD politicians refused to honour the millions killed by the Nazis, insisting any commemoration of World War II should also recognise the allied destruction of Dresden, which they described as a "bombing holocaust". But in a speech later today, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Mr Schroeder will...

Last Update: Tuesday, January 25, 2005. 2:33pm (AEDT) British media blamed for rise in anti-Semitic crimes The Israeli Government alleges that the reason Britain recorded the steepest rise in anti-Semitic crimes of any country last year is hostile and biased reporting in the British media. The Guardian newspaper reports that an Israeli Government report has found violent attacks on Jews in Britain had risen by nearly half last year to 77. The Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism, the Israeli body responsible for the report, has found that France still had the most anti-Semitic violence, with 96 incidents reported. But it says...

The "New" French Anti-Semitism By Don FederFrontPageMagazine.com | August 23, 2004 Earlier this month, Jews were attacked at Auschwitz. Their assailants weren’t Arabs, Germans, Poles or members of another group historically associated with anti-Semitism, but Frenchmen – the children of liberty, equality and fraternity.The incident was part of a growing trend. Despite the protestations of President Jacques Chirac, European anti-Semitism has a French address.The Jews – students from the U.S., Israel and Poland – were touring the museum at the death camp that’s come to symbolize the horrors of the Holocaust. One of them, Tamar Schuri, had an Israeli...

Friday, September 06, 2002 Elul 29, 5762 Israel Time:  17:55  (GMT+3) Nazi death march museum firebombed in Germany BERLIN - German authorities have posted a 10,000 euro reward for clues leading to an arrest in the worst anti-Semitic attack on a Holocaust memorial in a decade, the fireboming of a museum honoring the victims of a Nazi death march. The attack Thursday night destroyed the main exhibition of the death march museum in the Belower Woods, which detailed how the Nazis drove concentration camp inmates deeper into Germany as the Soviet Army advanced at the end of World War II....