{"id":47905,"date":"2026-04-27T23:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47905"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:45:35","slug":"man-to-be-charged-with-promoting-racial-enmity-after-posting-whatsapp-content-targeted-at-jewish-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47905","title":{"rendered":"Man to be charged with promoting racial enmity after posting WhatsApp content targeted at Jewish community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: A 50-year-old man will be charged on Tuesday (Apr 28) over offensive content he allegedly posted on WhatsApp targeting the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>The police said on Monday that they received a report on Sep 10, 2025, relating to three offensive images targeted at the Jewish community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The images were posted on WhatsApp with a 24-hour status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WhatsApp profile of the account also contained a description with antisemitic messaging,\u201d said the police in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The police added that the Chinese Singaporean was arrested three days later after he was identified as the owner of the account.<\/p>\n<p>He will be charged with two counts of attempting to promote enmity between different racial groups.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, he could face up to three years\u2019 jail, a fine or both.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police said they take a serious view of acts which have the potential to harm racial and religious harmony in Singapore and will deal firmly with offenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/man-post-offensive-content-whatsapp-jewish-community-charge-6084156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: A 50-year-old man will be charged on Tuesday (Apr 28) over offensive content he allegedly posted on WhatsApp targeting the Jewish community. The police&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--BeCWv8lp--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:mediacorp,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2024\/03\/27\/state_courts_file_photo.png?itok=3YN6piVv","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[141,4300,590,21490,6006,140,12598,21489,10861,9440,5990],"class_list":["post-47905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-charged","tag-community","tag-content","tag-enmity","tag-jewish","tag-man","tag-posting","tag-promoting","tag-racial","tag-targeted","tag-whatsapp","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}