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Jewish Leaders Fear Antisemitic Celebrities Are Normalizing Hate: ‘Everyone Needs to Be Concerned'
A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol spread by celebrities is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence. Former President Donald Trump hosted a Holocaust-denying white supremacist at Mar-a-Lago. The rapper Ye expressed love for Adolf Hitler in an interview. Basketball star Kyrie Irving appeared to promote an antisemitic film on social media. Those...
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Police Investigate Antisemitic Vandalism in Stow
Investigators said an antisemitic message was found carved into a car, and that the vandals may have also tried to set the house on fire.
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Antisemitic Vandalism and Possible Arson Under Investigation in Stow
An antisemitic message was carved into the side of a car at a home in Stow, Massachusetts, over the weekend, according to Stow police, and it seems the vandal may have also tried to set the house on fire. Police said officers were called to a home on North Shore Drive for the report around 9:45 a.m. Saturday. There they…
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Community Rallies Around Hyde Park LGBTQ Housing Project
The community is spreading the love after signs at an LGBTQ-friendly Boston housing project for seniors were vandalized with violent and threatening hate messaging.
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Community Counters Hateful Messaging With Love at Boston LGBTQ Housing Project
The community is spreading love after signs at an LGBTQ-friendly Boston housing project for seniors were vandalized with violent and threatening hate messages. People stood together in solidarity Sunday night after developers said “virtually every sign” for the Pryde, which broke ground less than a month ago, was covered in spray-paint. The building project will turn an old middle school…
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Community Shows Support for LGBTQ Housing Project After Hateful Vandalism
After an LGBTQ-friendly housing project for seniors was spray-painted with messages of hate, members of the community gathered in solidarity.
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Community Shows Support for LGTBQ Housing Development After Hateful Vandalism
An LGBTQ-friendly senior housing facility that’s under construction in Boston has been spray-painted with threatening hate speech.
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LGBTQ-Friendly Housing Project in Hyde Park Vandalized With Hate Speech
Signs at the Pryde, an unfinished LGBTQ-friendly housing project for seniors in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, were targeted with violent and threatening hate speech
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U.S. ‘Decades Behind' on Legislation to Fight Online Hate Speech
The arrests of members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Pride march show a continuing problem with hate groups and hate speech in the U.S., says Sophie Bjork-James. The Vanderbilt University anthropology professor joined LX News to discuss how Congress and platforms can take action that could limit hate groups’ ability to spread hateful...
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Ex-Head of DHS Disinformation Board Faced Wave of Online Abuse. She's Not Alone
A United Nations report released earlier this year that studied Finland confirmed what many of those women already suspected: Female politicians, regardless of political affiliation, are subjected to 10 times more abusive messages on Twitter.
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Police Investigate Swastika Graffiti at Curry College
Police are investigating hateful vandalism and graffiti including antisemitic language and symbols found on the campus of Curry College starting late last week. Milton police Deputy Chief James O’Neil said there were five cases of vandalism reported, the first of which was of a swastika drawn in a laundry room along with other graffiti on Thursday, the Boston Globe reported....
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Plymouth Charter School Investigating Racist Messages, Incidents
A charter school in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is investigating after hateful messages were discovered, the latest in a series of racist incidents that have been reported. Officials at the Rising Tide Charter Public School confirm a white supremacist slogan and homophobic slurs were found written on the walls of a boys’ bathroom. The school also says there have been other times…
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Father Decries Racist Messages, Incidents at Plymouth School
A charter school in Plymouth says it is investigating hateful messages that were discovered in a bathroom, with other incidents involving racist slurs being reported.
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Quincy Students Plan Walk Out Over Hateful Videos
Quincy High School and middle school students planned to stage a walk out again Monday after a new racist video circulated through the community.
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Danvers School Officials to Debate Superintendent Removal
Danvers school officials are expected to discuss Monday whether to remove the district’s superintendent over an alleged attempt to cover up bigoted locker room behavior by the 2019-2020 boys varsity high school hockey team.
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Quincy Students Plan Walk Out Over Latest Hateful Video
Quincy High School and middle school students are expected to stage a walk out again Monday after a new racist video circulated through the community.
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Quincy Students Plan Walk Out Over Latest Hateful Video
Quincy High School and middle school students planned to stage a walk out again Monday after a new racist video circulated through the community. Hundreds of students walked out of Quincy High School last week after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” resurfaced and led to a fight between two students. A new video emerged Friday of three Point…
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Danvers School Officials to Discuss Superintendent Removal
Danvers school officials are expected to discuss Monday whether to remove the district’s superintendent over an alleged attempt to cover up bigoted locker room behavior by the 2019-2020 boys varsity high school hockey team. Danvers High School has been roiled by the description of rituals where players disrobed and were fondled, something dubbed “Gay Tuesday,” and where players were...
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Quincy Students Confront Administrators, Walk Out Over Racist Video
Students in all grades walked out of class and marched down the busy streets of Quincy Friday. Some stopped at the district’s administration building to chant, “we want change.”
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Hundreds of Quincy Students Walk Out Over Racist Video
Hundreds of students walked out of Quincy High School on Friday morning after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” led to a fight between two students earlier this week.