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Jews are now being persecuted all over Britain by Danny Cohen

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jews-are-now-being-persecuted-all-over-britain/ar-AA1Mqa8z?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=9809012558ec41b69160fac8398d0013&ei=6

Last week a survey showed that more than one in five Britons now hold or agree with anti-Semitic views. This number has doubled in less than five years.

When it comes to Jew-hate in Britain much of the focus has been on London. You can understand why. It was in London that groups of men gathered to celebrate on 7 October even whilst the Hamas massacre of Jews was taking place. It was in London where mass marches have included those openly waving antisemitic signs and showing support for murderous terrorist organisations. It was in the capital too where Jewish children were advised to hide the insignia on their school uniforms.

Yet more focus is needed on Britain’s smaller Jewish communities dotted around the country. These communities are even more vulnerable and isolated when it comes to the rise of antisemitism.

In Bournemouth last month a Jewish child was shot in the head with an air-gun. Before firing the weapon the suspect is alleged to have shouted obscenities at the child as he walked to a synagogue wearing a skullcap.

Let that sink in for a moment. A child allegedly shot in the head for being Jewish. One might expect a violent incident like this to lead to serious national soul-searching, but it seems that antisemitism is becoming so embedded in British society that an attack of this nature causes little outcry and limited national reporting.

Just down the coast in Brighton, the Jewish community has been experiencing a persistent wave of antisemitic abuse. Local Jewish residents tell me of a poisonous litany of hate crimes and destruction, with a local memorial to victims of the 7 October pogrom under consistent attack.

The memorial has been vandalised over fifty times. Jews visiting the memorial have faced chants of “die die”, with gun gestures pointed at the back of their heads. Faeces has been left on the ‘book of the dead’. Swastikas and Holocaust denial graffiti have been plastered nearby. It is only due to the dedication of the local Jewish community that each time the memorial is destroyed it is re-built with love and care.

Our house is on fire, and the cavalry isn’t coming The responsibility to protect our families and our future is going to fall on us. Charles Jacobs

https://www.jns.org/our-house-is-on-fire-and-the-cavalry-isnt-coming/

The failure of the Jewish establishment—the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Community Relations Councils and Jewish Federations—to protect and defend the Jewish community against the decades-long build-up and the current surge of hatred in the United States has become a subject of public concern and analysis. The organizations that have claimed to speak for us and guard us against antisemitism have proven unwilling or unable to meet the challenge.

The Jewish Leadership Project, along with others across the country, for years has sought to persuade, pressure, and, when necessary, shame establishment leaders into prioritizing the defense of our community. We believed that if they could be made to see the growing danger with clarity, they would recalibrate and lead. But they have not, even after the explosion of antisemitism following the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023, and even as their supposed progressive allies turned on us.

Our leaders have refused to pivot. I believe that they will not and cannot.

Many resist this conclusion. It is far easier to cling to the hope that our old structures still work—that the powerful organizations of the past can still deliver security and stability. Abandoning that means accepting that the responsibility to protect our families and future now rests on us all. And the sooner we face this truth, the better.

But first, the community needs to understand why the Jewish establishment won’t change. Effective leadership of any enterprise requires a sober recognition of errors and a concerted effort to analyze why the leadership’s assumptions failed and the courage to chart a new course. It is human nature to resist acknowledging catastrophic mistakes, especially when you have raised hundreds of millions of dollars promoting yourselves as the most competent to do the work. Jewish leaders fear that when the enormity of their errors becomes broadly known, their community support might collapse, their (often) lucrative jobs will be at risk, and they will feel public shame.

Leadership is about knowing the territory so you can develop effective paths forward. Jewish leaders, however, have failed to grasp the obvious tectonic shifts in the American political culture. They assumed—and then placed all our bets on—the notion that classical liberalism, which had for so long protected Jews, would endure.

Thousands march in London against rising anti-Semitism

Around 60,000 people marched through central London to combat a wave of anti-Semitism they see becoming ‘normalised’ in British society.

Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove, Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis united to lead the march to Parliament Square the day after 200,000 pro-Palestine activists took over the area.

Addressing the crowd in Parliament Square, the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis urged Britain to ‘wake up’.

He said: ‘Since the attack on Israel on the 7th of October 2023, we have seen an explosion of hatred right across the UK. A government-backed report recently told us that antisemitism has now become normalised within middle-class Britain.

‘You can expect to see anti-Jewish prejudice in our professional life. Within our cultural life and in the public centre. Antisemitism is rife right across the UK.

‘You will see it, you will hear it, you will feel it.’

A minute’s silence was held in memory of the 1,200 killed on October 7 2023 and to maintain awareness of those who remain captive in the dungeons of Gaza.

One activist blew a shofar (ram’s horn), which is customary on the approach the Jewish New Year.

Campaign Against anti-Semitism said, on X: ‘It is a clarion call to wake up, and no message is more important right now for Britain.’

Michael Gove told The Jewish Chronicle: ‘I think it’s absolutely vital that people from every background stand with the Jewish community at this time.

‘There’s been an unprecedented level of hatred and prejudice directed towards the Jewish community, both on our streets and online. And we need to send a clear message that we’re against prejudice and against hate and in favour of inclusivity and tolerance.

‘And it’s particularly important that we do so because history tells us that the health and safety of the Jewish community is invariably aligned to how strong, free and warm a society is.’

The Real Reason Jews Are Hated by Nils A. Haug

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21830/the-reason-jews-are-hated

“Jewish people brought morality to the world thousands of years ago, and some people are still mad about it.” — Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle, ynetnews.com, January 27, 2024.

Even trying to conduct the most moral war in history, and sending humanitarian aid to the Gazans trying to kill them, all of Israel’s enemies consider themselves free of such constraints. (Someone asked if the British had ever sent aid to Germany in WWII.)

“Israel Has Created a New Standard for Urban Warfare. Why Will No One Admit It?” — John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, Newsweek, March 25, 2024.

“The Jews represent everything the enemies of American civilization seek to destroy: the moral code of the Hebrew Bible, which the anti-Jews seek to replace with woke secularism or radical Islam.” — Eric Cohen, editor-at-large of The New Atlantis, Mosaic, May 2024.

“Palestinians are not about creating a state; they’re about destroying a state” — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, August 10, 2025.

Israel and the Jews are fighting to save Western Civilization — for us. If we would let them.

“The hate of the Jews,” Safra Catz, CEO of the US technology giant Oracle, pointed out in 2024, “is the most ancient and continuous hate in human history, and you can dress it up any way you want…. It is basically exactly what it has always been — the Jewish people brought morality to the world thousands of years ago and some people are still mad about it.”

Not only did the Jews introduce moral and ethical precepts; they also brought to the world at large that there were prohibitions on behavior in which many of us might wish to indulge. The deep hatred of Jews stems from fanatical followers of other faiths, and perhaps those of no faith at all, but especially those zealots whose religious worldview compels them to conquer and destroy those of competing faiths, or for undesirable tendencies that they see in themselves but prefer to attribute to others.

In short, at least three millennia ago, at Mount Sinai in Egypt, the Hebrew prophet Moses received specific moral-ethical precepts by which the Jewish nation were directed to live. These codes comprised virtues much later identified in the West as the Ten Commandments and became the foundational values and the essential moral guide of Western civilization, its societies, and laws.

Gaza Part Two: The Global Political Fallout Western elites, from academia to media, keep amplifying Hamas propaganda—fueling unrest abroad and eroding their own nations’ credibility. By Thaddeus G. McCotter and Andrew Zack

https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/23/gaza-part-two-the-global-political-fallout/

This is the second installment of a three-part series on the Gaza situation, political fallout, root causes, and real-world ramifications.

The United States and the European Union have rightly designated Hamas a terrorist organization. Yet one would be hard-pressed to know it, given the global political fallout regarding Gaza.

Literally, the day after Hamas invaded Israel—killing, raping, and kidnapping innocent civilians—and weeks before Israel counterattacked, there were pro-Hamas demonstrations throughout the United States and Europe. Some Hamas supporters denied outright that the designated terrorist organization had committed their atrocities, claiming it was all fabricated Israeli propaganda. Still, other Hamas supporters accepted that Hamas had committed the terrorist atrocities but argued they were justified by Israel’s purported “occupation” of Gaza. Both sets of Hamas supporters tendentiously alleged Israel was a genocidal, racist Western colonial power oppressing “people of color,” i.e., the Palestinians.

In the U.S., pro-Hamas activists took over parts of many American college campuses, denouncing Israel and chanting “from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” and “globalize the intifada.” Both slogans are barely disguised demands that Israel be destroyed and its Jewish citizens be expelled or, more likely, slaughtered. Pro-Hamas supporters also chant them to seek to instill fear and intimidate Israel’s supporters, especially American Jews, into silence. Pro-Hamas supporters assaulted American Jews, notably by physically harassing students. College administrations, many of whom are sympathetic to Hamas and its aims, did nothing to quell these acts. Nor did the Biden administration. Seeing no pushback to end the intimidation and abuse of Israel’s supporters, in particular, and Jews, in general, professional associations took it as a green light to demand a U.S. boycott of Israel (along the lines of their continued Boycott, Divest, and Sanction campaign), and, yes, to continue to make American Jews feel unwelcome.

Such assaults and batteries against Jews are not limited to the United States. Antisemitism in Europe, already rising before Hamas attacked Israel, has sharply increased. Israelis have been assaulted in Europe, including the pogrom against Jews in Amsterdam earlier this year. Jewish restaurants in Europe (and the U.S.) have been damaged, and their patrons have been harassed. Israeli cruise ships have been prevented from landing at European ports by gangs of pro-Hamas demonstrators. Predatory acts against Israelis and Jews seemingly abound worldwide with apparent impunity and abetment.

Antisemitism Is Proliferating in Our Public Schools Jews face discrimination in many K-12 schools and colleges. By Larry Sand

https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/21/antisemitism-is-proliferating-in-our-public-schools/

As I recently noted, UC Davis—a research university with 40,000 students—has a well-documented anti-Jewish problem. In April last year, the StandWithUs Center For Legal Justice filed a formal complaint with the Department of Education, claiming “a pervasively hostile, antisemitic campus climate, with incidents of unlawful discrimination and harassment, for students.” Not surprisingly, in November, Davis was ranked as one of the most anti-Jewish universities in the country by the advocacy group StopAntisemitism, which gave Davis a grade of “F.”

Davis is hardly an isolated case. A federal probe of the University of California, Los Angeles, found that the school acted with “deliberate indifference” to threats against Jews and violations of their rights during an antisemitic encampment in the spring of 2024.

In a letter to UCLA leaders, Justice Department officials stated that Jewish and Israeli students at the school “were subjected to severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment that created a hostile environment by members of the encampment,” including being “assaulted, verbally harassed, and physically prevented from accessing parts of the UCLA campus.”

DOJ officials explained that UCLA received complaints from Jewish students that the school took no meaningful action to eliminate the hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students caused by the encampment until it was disbanded. The DOJ also alleged that they violated the Equal Protection Clause and Title VI due to antisemitism and race-based discrimination. As a result, in July, the university settled a lawsuit with Jewish students for $6.45 million.

University presidents at other California institutions face growing pressure to explain discrimination against Jewish students and faculty.

Nationally, 83% of Jewish college students have experienced or witnessed some form of antisemitism since the October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, according to a recent poll.

Anti-Jewish bigotry also exists in K-12 schools. In late 2024, the Sequoia Union High School District in California’s Silicon Valley faced a lawsuit over widespread antisemitism experienced by students, with administrators standing by and allowing it to worsen. When SUHSD parents and students raised concerns—through emails, petitions, and formal complaints—the District responded with “bureaucratic obfuscation and outright denial, demonstrating a deliberate indifference to SUHSD’s Jewish students. Emails were ignored, and meetings were canceled without explanation,” the lawsuit states.

Yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism Zarah Sultana is so wrong. Today’s obsessive loathing for Israel is definitely driven by bigotry. Brendan O’Neill *******

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/20/yes-anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism/

Is it anti-Semitic to criticise Israel? Of course not. No nation on Earth should be shielded from the brickbats or even the ridicule of the world’s citizens.

Is it anti-Semitic to rage day in, day out against Israel? To think of little else? To let this tiny state occupy your every waking thought? To call it uniquely barbarous, borderline demonic, a nation that lusts after blood like no other? To dream of its destruction? To traipse through the streets every week hollering for its obliteration? To call its citizens genocidal freaks and lunatics? To taunt them with memories of their ancestors’ extermination by branding them ‘Nazis’? To devote yourself so singularly to this one nation’s erasure that you come to define your entire political personality by that warped goal and proudly declare yourself an ‘anti-Zionist’?

Yes. Yes, that is anti-Semitic. If you maniacally obsess over the Jewish homeland, and detest Jewish nationalism more than any other nationalism, and gleefully chant for the death of the Jewish nation’s soldiers, and fantasise about the violent excision of the Jewish State ‘from the river to the sea’, then you have a problem with Jews. And more of us need to say so.

The anti-Zionism vs anti-Semitism debate is one of the most infuriating of our times. It reared its head again this week following an interview Zarah Sultana gave to the New Left Review. She’s the former Labour MP, now independent MP, who is setting up a new political party with the Magic Grandpa of Britain’s knackered left, Jeremy Corbyn. She praised Corbyn’s tenure as leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020, but she made some digs, too. He too meekly ‘capitulated’ to the definition of anti-Semitism put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, she said. And that was bad because the IHRA ‘equates [anti-Semitism] with anti-Zionism’.

She is presumably referring to the IHRA’s insistence that some forms of Israel-bashing cross the line from political critique into something darker and dodgier. For example, using ‘symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism’, such as ‘claims of Jews killing Jesus’, to ‘characterise Israel or Israelis’. That seems reasonable to me. I once saw a placard on a ‘pro-Palestine’ demo that said ‘They killed Jesus and now they’re killing Palestinians’ – anyone denying the virulent Jew hatred in such a crude cry is either a fool or a liar.

The IHRA also says it is suspect to make comparisons between ‘contemporary Israeli policy’ and the policies of the Nazis. Again, that’s reasonable. I don’t want anyone cancelled or censored for drawing pitiless and historically illiterate links between the Nazis’ industrialised burning of the Jews and Israel’s wars against the armies of anti-Semites that surround it. But it is unquestionably bigoted. The gross fashion for referring to Gaza as a new Warsaw Ghetto, or to Israel’s war on Hamas as a new holocaust, or to Benjamin Netanyahu as the new Hitler, has one aim and one aim only: to wound Jews with reminders of their people’s near destruction; to shame them by likening them to the very monsters they were once gassed by.

Ms Sultana got some flak on X. Some people even called her anti-Semitic. She fired back. Your ‘smears won’t work this time’, she said. And then, definitively: ‘Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.’ She warned those accusing her of being anti-Jewish to ‘lawyer up’. I am more than happy to accept that Ms Sultana is not an anti-Semite. I hope she and her new party extend that courtesy to others and hold back from branding them ‘Islamophobes’. Otherwise, who knows, they might have to ‘lawyer up’, too. But on anti-Zionism, she is plain wrong. To some of us, it is patently clear that this strange and feverish ideology that has such a brutish grip on the minds of our young and our intellectuals is often anti-Semitism in wokeface.

Let’s leave to one side Ms Sultana and take a look at the broader Israelophobic animus that has swept the West like a fever since Hamas’s fascistic pogrom of 7 October 2023. There is nothing more disingenuous than when leftist hotheads or liberal scribes say, ‘It isn’t anti-Semitic to criticise Israel’, because we are not talking about criticism of Israel. We are talking blind hatred for Israel. Hysteria about Israel. The fantasy of Israel’s death. The wild and demented conviction that Israel is the most murderous state in existence, if not the most murderous state ever, and that it wields staggering power over the obsequious nations of the West. That’s not criticism – it’s a species of madness, built on the foul belief that the Jewish State is the most nefarious, most bloody and most sneakily powerful state on Earth.

Netanyahu: Aussie PM is ‘weak,’ has ‘abandoned’ Australian Jews By David Isaac

https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-denounces-australian-pm-after-mk-banned/

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a weak leader after Canberra canceled the visa of a Knesset member who had been planning to visit the country.

“History will remember Albanese for what he is: A weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s Jews,” Netanyahu posted to X.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar also weighed in, describing the Australian government’s decision as “shameful” during an interview with The Erin Molan Show.

“Instead of battling against antisemitism in Australia, as they should, they are doing the opposite. They are fueling antisemitism by these mad decisions to ban from Australia Israeli politicians and other figures,” Sa’ar said on Tuesday.

On Monday, Australia denied entry to Israeli parliamentarian Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism) ahead of his planned solidarity visit to the country’s Jewish community.

The move follows other visa cancellations by Australia, including that of Hillel Fuld, a pro-Israel social media personality, in June, and in November 2025 of former Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.

In retaliation for banning Rothman, Sa’ar on Monday revoked the visas of Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority.

In response, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong posted a statement to her ministry’s website on Tuesday:

“At a time when dialogue and diplomacy are needed more than ever, the Netanyahu Government is isolating Israel and undermining international efforts towards peace and a two-state solution. This is an unjustified reaction, following Australia’s decision to recognize Palestine.”

Zohran Mamdani SAYS He’s Not Antisemitic, But… His long record says otherwise. Robert Spencer

https://www.frontpagemag.com/zohran-mamdani-says-hes-not-antisemitic-but/

Zohran Mamdani, the man most likely to be New York City’s next mayor, has said: “Antisemitism is not simply something that we should talk about. It’s something that we have to tackle. We have to make clear there’s no room for it in this city, in this country, in this world.”

That doesn’t sound so bad, but there is so much else on Mamdani’s record that calls it into question. He said in 2021 that the Palestinian jihad against Israel made him a socialist: “I sincerely believe in this political project. I sincerely believe in socialism. For me, it was Palestine that brought me into this movement.”

He maintained, on the other hand, that this did not mean that he was in favor of violence against Israelis or Jews in general. When a pro-Palestinian gunman murdered two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington on May 21, 2025, Mamdani wrote the next day: “We owe it to one another to confront hate with the urgency and solidarity it demands, and to ensure our Jewish neighbors can live safely and free of fear. May the memories of both victims be a blessing.”

Once again, it sounded good, but Mamdani has also accepted money from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group with ties to Hamas. Along with money from Soros-linked far-left groups, Mamdani’s New Yorkers for Lower Costs PAC also collected $100,000 from the Unity & Justice Fund, a creation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In 2007, the Justice Department named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) Hamas funding case. When CAIR and other Muslim organizations, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), appealed this designation, Judge Jorge Solis ruled on July 1, 2009 that “the Government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF, the Islamic Association for Palestine (‘IAP’), and with Hamas.”

Explaining the Geyser of Jew-Hatred By Joan Swirsky

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/explaining_the_geyser_of_jew_hatred.html

Since the day that Israeli Jews were attacked, tortured, murdered, raped and burned to death on October 7, 2023, the entire world, save for a tiny minority, has vilified, excoriated, and blamed — ta-da! — the Jews!  The victims!

Why?  It’s really not that hard to figure out.

We live in a world of eight billion people, the vast majority of whom have never seen or spoken to or met a Jew…a Jew whose numbers constitute a microscopic 16 million, only half of that number in Israel, another approximate seven million in America, and about another million throughout the world.  This represents less than an almost invisible micro-droplet in the Atlantic Ocean.

If you questioned the bought-and-paid for Jew- and Israel-hating “protesters” on college campuses and their simpatico administrators and professors, and if you asked fulminating Jew-haters like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and the astoundingly long list that includes the pooh-bahs at the N.Y. Times, the American mainstream media, the BBC, et al. if they had ever been physically assaulted or robbed or cuckolded or beaten in sports by a Jew, 99% of them would say no, although they may have suffered true narcissistic injuries when all those smart Jews got better marks in school and beat them on the medical and law boards, and made more money — on drive and merit — than their jealous critics ever dreamed of.

Like oozing gangrene, a deadly systemic infection, or the metastasis of invasive cancers, Jew-hatred comes in many malignant strains.