‘Antisemitism is never funny’: Christian group condemns Che’s SNL joke

Jerusalem Post Staff FEBRUARY 23, 2021 ANCHOR COLIN JOST (left) and anchor Michael Che during Weekend Update on ‘Saturday Night Live’ last year. (photo credit: WILL HEATH/NBC/TNS) Michael Che’s now-infamous joke on Saturday Night Live about Israel’s vaccination priorities is riling up not only Jews, but Christians as well. “Israel is reporting that they’ve vaccinated […]

Jewish groups outraged by SNL ‘joke’ about Israel only vaccinating Jews

“The ‘Saturday Night Live’ libel has already been used to promote anti-Semitic words and deeds. ‘SNL’ and NBC should apologize and disown this dangerous and misleading assertion,” states StandWithUs. Jewish News Syndicate (February 22, 2021 / Israel Hayom) Jewish groups and Israeli officials on Sunday accused NBC’ s iconic American late-night variety show “Saturday Night […]

‘Antisemitic trope’: NBC under fire over ‘SNL’ sketch on Israeli vaccine rollout

Washington Times Valerie Richardson February 22, 2021 NBC officials are facing calls to apologize over a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that accused Israel of vaccinating only its Jewish citizens against the novel coronavirus, a claim that critics lambasted as untrue and anti-Semitic. Comedian Michael Che said during the show’s “Weekend Update” segment that “Israel is […]

Jewish Leaders and Groups Slam ‘Saturday Night Live’ Over Skit About Israel’s Vaccination Drive

The Algemeiner Staff FEBRUARY 21, 2021 Jewish leaders, groups, and educators on Sunday condemned as “antisemitic” a “Saturday Night Live” skit in which a cast member joked about Israel’s vaccine campaign. In the regular news parody segment “Weekend Update,” broadcast on Feb. 20, cast member Michael Che said, “Israel is reporting that they vaccinated half […]

The AJC wants ‘Saturday Night Live’ to apologize for vaccine joke

Jerusalem Post RON KAMPEAS/JTA FEBRUARY 22, 2021 The American Jewish Committee is circulating a petition asking “Saturday Night Live” to apologize for a joke that suggested Israel is vaccinating only its Jewish population. “Israel is reporting that they’ve vaccinated half of their population, and I’m going to guess it’s the Jewish half,” Michael Che, the […]

StandWithUs Launches Letter-Writing Campaign to SNL Over Antisemitic Comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE StandWithUs Launches Letter-Writing Campaign to SNL Over Antisemitic Comment (Los Angeles, CA — February 21, 2021) — StandWithUs launched a letter-writing campaign to SNL (Saturday Night Live) and NBC execs demanding an apology over antisemitic remarks made by Michael Che accusing Israel of vaccinating only “the Jewish half” of their population against […]

Orthodox Jews Slam New Amazon Prime Regulations

The Washington Free Beacon Santi Ruiz FEBRUARY 19, 2021 Photo: Claudio Divizia / Shutterstock.com Orthodox Jews are slamming a new Amazon policy they say will shut them out of a coveted program that allows sellers to ship goods directly from non-Amazon warehouses as “Prime” products. The changes, which were announced in August 2020 and instituted […]

Federal Appeals Court Sends Arkansas Anti-BDS Law to Lower Court

Jewish Journal By Aaron Bandler February 16, 2021 A United States federal appeals court sent Arkansas’ anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) law back to a lower court on February 12. The case in question stems from 2018, when one of the advertisers for The Arkansas Times, the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College ceased ties with […]

Mezuzah smashed, swastika carved into doorframe of Jewish student’s home in the Netherlands

Jewish Telegraphic Agency FEBRUARY 18, 2021 AMSTERDAM ( JTA ) — A swastika was carved into the doorframe of a Jewish student’s house in the Dutch city of Maastricht and the mezuzah was torn off. The Maastricht University student discovered the damage to his mezuzah, an object containing scripture on parchment that Jews affix to […]

Long Beach City College Board of Trustees Criticized for Not Voting on IHRA Resolution

Jewish Journal By Aaron Bandler February 17, 2021 Photo: Justin / Creative Commons Jewish groups are criticizing the Long Beach City College Board of Trustees for not voting on a resolution adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism during their January 27 meeting. During the meeting, which was the same day as […]

Next chapter: BDS, anti-IHRA bills fail at Florida State University

Southern Jewish Life Magazine February 12, 2021 Photo: Nagel Photography / Shutterstock.com Continuing a year of drama over the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the student senate at Florida State University dealt a large setback to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement by soundly rejecting three anti-Israel resolutions. The resolutions were written by Ahmad Daraldik, who had been […]

California’s ethnic-studies curriculum

Heritage – Florida Jewish News By Roz Rothstein February 12, 2021 (JNS) — For more than a-year-and-a-half, StandWithUs has worked tirelessly together with concerned citizens and partners to remove anti-Semitism, anti-Israel bias and other destructive ideas from California’s draft Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. At the same time, we have pushed for the inclusion of positive […]

Advocates see federal court decision on Arkansas anti-BDS law ‘disappointment,’ not setback

Jewish News Syndicate BY SEAN SAVAGE “StandWithUs is confident that the desire of the state—to refuse to use taxpayer dollars to enter into contracts with companies that discriminate against Israel—will prevail,” said co-founder and CEO Roz Rothstein. (February 16, 2021 / JNS) A federal appeals court on Feb. 12 ruled that an Arkansas anti-BDS law […]

SWU Confident of Reinstatement of Arkansas Anti-BDS Law

(Los Angeles, CA — February 13, 2021) — In 2017, Arkansas joined the majority of U.S. states in passing an anti-BDS law which denies state contracts to companies which engage in discriminatory practices towards Israel. The AR law was challenged ( Arkansas v Waldrip) , and the challenge dismissed in 2019 when the court found […]

Former Portugal leader sends anti-Jewish COVID tweet, Nazi salutes on Portuguese TV

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate FAYGIE HOLT February 11, 2021 Rodrigo Sousa Castro. Source: YouTube/United With Israel. A leader of Portugal’s 1974 revolution is being criticized after he posted anti-Semitic tweets earlier this week about the COVID-19 vaccine. The criticism comes just days after a contestant in a Portuguese TV show was kicked off the air for […]

Israeli tech turns air into water for Native Americans

Israel21C Naama Barak FEBRUARY 12, 2021 Israeli technology is set to convert air into clean drinking water for Native American communities in the United States as part of a collaboration between Israeli and American enterprises. A crowdfunding campaign is underway to supply four Watergen GEN-M water generating machines to Native American communities in need. The […]

Top 40 Latin American pro-Israel advocates and leaders

Jewish News Syndicate BY ELIANA RUDEE February 10, 2021 Israel maintains full diplomatic relations with all the countries of Central and South America, and the Caribbean region (with the exception of Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela). In recent years, pro-Israel Latin American influencers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, have further transformed the relationship. Andre Lajst (Brazil) @AndreLajst […]

UIUC Student’s Israeli Flag Egged

Jewish Journal By Aaron Bandler February 10, 2021 Photo: Killivalavan Solai An Israeli flag draped over a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) student’s balcony was egged on February 8. WCIA reported that the student, Jeremy Zelner, heard something hit one of his apartment windows at 1:00 A.M., and he found that 10-20 eggs had been […]