A federal judge today set a Nov. 8 hearing date at which Alexander Giannakakis is expected to plead guilty to helping hide evidence that his brother set two Orthodox rabbis' homes on fire - in Arlington and Needham - also tried to burn down a "Jewish-affiliated" business in Chelsea and was involved in other white-supremacist activities in the area. Read more.
A federal judge today refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Harvard by a group of Jewish students that the school allowed the campus to become a hotbed of antisemitism where Jewish students came under attack by pro-Palestinian demonstrators from Harvard Yard to a Harvard Law School lounge. Read more.
MIT might have handled anti-Zionist protests on campus differently, but nothing the school did was designed to torment its Jewish students and professors - and in fact, the school took steps, if possibly not enough, to minimize hateful acts and rants against them - a federal judge ruled last week in dismissing a lawsuit by students and a pro-Israel group from California alleging MIT had helped turn itself into an antisemitic cauldron. Read more.
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski yesterday sued Khaled Awad, whom authorities say stabbed Noginski eight times as Noginski successfully managed to get the man away from children at a summer program at Shaloh House on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton Center on July 1, 2021. Read more.
Newton Police report charging a Boston man with driving around the city "in a white SUV in order to harass and intimidate Jewish community members walking in the area" on April 30 and pulling down blue ribbons on trees outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston on Nahanton Street on Tuesday. Read more.
Select Board Chairman Bernard Greene says the MBTA quickly responded to a town request to erase the "Zionist Pigs" and peace symbol somebody sprayed on at least one signboard at the Longwood Green Line stop yesterday.
Greene adds: Read more.
Surveillance photo by TPD.
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say took time out of his no doubt busy day to scrawl swastikas inside the Central Square Red Line station, around 5 a.m. on March 11.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050, anonymously if you prefer.
Two MIT students and a pro-Israel group from California yesterday sued MIT on charges it has allowed protests over the Israeli war in Gaza to blossom into full-blown anti-Semitic threats against Jewish students and professors. Read more.
An alleged anti-Semite from Millis was scheduled for arraignment today on federal hate-crime charges for calls he made last week to an Attleboro synagogue and two other Jewish institutions to threaten to rain death on them. Read more.
A group of Jewish students have sued Harvard University, alleging discrimination from top to bottom against Jews. Read more.
Winthrop Police are investigating an incident involving a Zoomed Town Council discussion on flag flying on town property yesterday in which somebody "shouted an antisemitic slur, displayed a swastika on their screen and appeared to give a nazi salute."
In a statement, police add they are investigating the ranting as a hate crime: Read more.
Fox News breaks the news that Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden has put True-See Allah, his director of community engagement/strategic partnerships, on leave to investigate an anti-Semitic statement he made in a 2016 interview. Read more.
The Currier Times reports on the aftermath of an investigation into crap that kept showing up on campus earlier this year.
Somebody who parks in the Roslindale Village commuter-rail station reports coming home tonight to a flyer promoting hatred of Jews and "sodomites" for the most part, but also Communists, Muslims, feminists, the European Union and the Open Society Foundation (founded by George Soros, so Jews again). Read more.
A Roslindale resident reports spending a minute this morning tearing down some anti-Semitic fliers posted at the Corinth Street bus stop in Roslindale Square.
They popped up a few days after a racist went around screaming about Asian-Americans, first at the city animal shelter on Mahler Road, then at the owner of a comedy club on Basile Street.
At Northeastern University, somebody vandalized a mezuzah at the entrance to the campus chapter of the Jewish organization Hillel, while at Tufts, two of the small cases, which contain parchment from the Torah and which are mounted at doorways, were stolen from dorms last month. Read more
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