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

By on August 20th, 2025

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.”

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

By on August 11th, 2025

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.”

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Explaining the Geyser of Jew-Hatred By Joan Swirsky

By on August 9th, 2025

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.

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‘Horrific antisemitic attack’ on American, who served in IDF, in St. Louis area, Terrell says “I saw hate because of one’s religion, and I saw hate for an American who served as an IDF member in the Israeli army,” the federal task force on Jew-hatred head told JNS. Menachem Wecker

By on August 6th, 2025

https://www.jns.org/horrific-antisemitic-attack-on-american-who-served-in-idf-in-st-louis-area-terrell-says/?utm_campaign=

Leo Terrell, chair of the federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism at the U.S. Justice Department and a civil-rights attorney of 35 years, wrote on social media on Tuesday that the Israeli embassy told him about a “horrific antisemitic attack” in St. Louis, where a U.S. citizen who served in the Israeli military, as well as his family and friends, were targeted.

Graphic footage, which Terrell reviewed, showed cars belonging to the citizen, his family and friends were “set on fire and destroyed,” Terrell wrote. “Hateful graffiti outside the family’s home accused him of being a murderer and called for death to the Israel Defense Forces.”

“What I saw in the graphic videos, I saw hate,” Terrell told JNS. “I saw hate because of one’s religion, and I saw hate for an American who served as an IDF member in the Israeli army. That’s what I saw.” (JNS sought comment from the Israeli embassy in Washington.)

Terrell told JNS that U.S. President Donald Trump and Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general, aren’t going to tolerate Jew-hatred.

“I’m certainly not going to tolerate it as the head of the task force,” he told JNS. “So once I saw it, I immediately contacted the FBI.”

“I looked at the footage, found it offensive and called the FBI, sent them the information and made sure Attorney General Bondi was aware of everything,” he said. “The FBI—I cannot disclose what happened, but they are on the ground along with local authorities, and the perpetrators are going to face justice.”

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Mamdani Wants Cops to Stop Responding to Attacks on Jews Zohran Mamdani is preparing to enable a new wave of antisemitic violence. by Daniel Greenfield

By on August 4th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/mamdani-wants-cops-to-stop-responding-to-attacks-on-jews/

Jews are the victims of the majority of hate crimes, especially religious hate crimes, in New York City.

Jews were targeted in 345 hate crimes in New York City last year, more than all other minority groups combined, according to NYPD data released on Monday.

Anti-Jewish crimes accounted for 54% of the 641 total hate crimes reported to police in the city in 2024, the data showed.

Since the beginning of the year, 74 (60%) of the 123 recorded hate crimes have targeted Jews, according to the NYPD.

Zohran Mamdani, the radical Islamist and leftist terrorist supporter, has proposed that the NYPD not respond to hate crimes, instead that they be handled by social workers.

This is not simply police defunding, rather this shifts resources away from responding to attacks on Jews, moves away from having law enforcement deal with those attacks and instead has his political leftist allies ‘deal’ with them by burying them.

This isn’t just a pro-crime policy. It’s strategically calculated to protect members of his community who attack Jews while exposing Jews to religiously motivated assaults.

Zohran Mamdani is already building the infrastructure for enabling a new wave of antisemitic violence.

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The Most Favored Descendants of Abraham? by Nils A. Haug

By on August 3rd, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21771/descendants-of-abraham

At the Islamic Centre of Rhode Island, on May 30, an imam delivered a sermon that, according to Andrew Bostom, “invoked Islam’s supersessionism, its notion of being the true primordial monotheism of Jewish patriarch Abraham.”

Of course, the main problem in discussing religion is that it is often impossible to prove anything, so that all controversies continue indefinitely.

It is a contest of legitimacy with Muslims asserting Ishmael to be the rightful, favored heir to Abraham, rather than his only legitimate son and heir, Isaac.

Islamist claims of legitimacy — and their determination to rid Israel of Jews — are a core element in explaining the perpetual conflict between Islamists and Israel. Consequently, any peace agreement may well be fragile and temporary.

It has been claimed that the recent Iran-Israel war was simply a “violent prelude to a far grander and more terrifying prophetic chapter” in the effort to eliminate Israel and Jews from the face of the earth.

This objective comprises diverse but interconnected strategies, such as pro-Islamic and anti-Zionist propaganda; military attacks on Israel by Iran and its jihadist proxies; and, not least, theological contortions designed to negate legitimate Jewish claims to their ancient divine blessings, including the promised homeland of Israel — Eretz Yisrael — itself.

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Edinburgh’s shameful cancellation of Jewish comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon were dropped by venues over ‘safety’ concerns and pro-Israel social-media posts. Nicole Lampert

By on August 1st, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/31/edinburghs-shameful-cancellation-of-jewish-comedians/

Two Jewish comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, had their Edinburgh Fringe Festival slots cancelled last week thanks to alleged ‘safety concerns’. Simon was also dropped from a second venue in Edinburgh for his social-media posts calling, among other things, for the return of the Israeli hostages.

I wish I was making this up, but in 2025, being Jewish is considered a safety risk. Whistlebinkles, the venue that was slated to host Creeger and Simon’s gigs, decided to cancel the shows when bar staff expressed fears of feeling ‘unsafe’. These concerns were reportedly raised when the venue was told it would need extra police protection to guarantee the safety of Jewish acts.

Rachel is a friend of mine. I’ve seen her show, Ultimate Jewish Mother, and it mainly features laughs about motherhood and how to make good chicken soup. She is the only female Orthodox Jew on the comedy circuit and the only dangerous thing about her is that she may drown you in love and cuddles. Each year at the Edinburgh Fringe, she hosts Friday night dinners for other Jews and makes sure there is kosher food for everyone who needs it. It makes me sick to think her presence at a comedy venue might lead to anyone feeling ‘unsafe’.

Philip Simon was not only taken off the line-up at Whistlebinkles, he was then barred from the Banshee Labyrinth, too. The management cited its ‘duty of care to our customers and staff members’. Having monitored his social media, the venue said it was ‘inappropriate’ to host anyone whose ‘views and actions align with the rhetoric and symbology of groups associated with humanitarian violations’ – ie, Israel. The supposedly offending tweets included images from a vigil for Israeli hostages, a call to ‘stand strong against terror’ and a plea not to forget the rape victims of 7 October 2023. All demands for peace, in other words.

‘I am still processing the concept that in 2025 I can be cancelled just for being Jewish’, Simon said in a statement on Saturday. His and Creeger’s cancellations are the obvious, if alarming, outgrowth of the campaigns to cancel anyone with any connections to Israel.

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Too Little, Too Late, Harvard Is Told About Its Response to Antisemitism Claims

By on July 31st, 2025

https://www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-too-little-too-late-harvard?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

After months of negotiations, the Trump administration tells Harvard that it could face a civil-rights lawsuit.

Harvard may now face litigation from the Justice Department for alleged antisemitic harassment. After concluding that Harvard would not voluntarily comply with civil-rights law, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday referred its investigation to the Justice Department, according to a letter sent to Harvard president Alan Garber.

On June 30, the Office of Civil Rights at HHS found Harvard in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in federally funded programs. Both before and after that finding, the government engaged in “extensive communications with Harvard about the steps needed to address antisemitism on its campus,” according to today’s letter.

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“Rather than voluntarily comply with its obligations under Title VI, Harvard has chosen scorched-earth litigation against the Federal government,” wrote Paula M. Stannard, the director of the HHS Office of Civil Rights. “The parties’ several months’ engagement has been fruitless.”

An HHS official told The Free Press that since the matter is now also in the Justice Department’s hands, a court could order penalties beyond the suspension of future funds. These could include a “consent decree or injunction” that would force Harvard to enforce its own policies on discrimination, harassment, and protest.

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Hungry to revive the world’s oldest hatred Ruthie Blum

By on July 30th, 2025

https://www.jns.org/hungry-to-revive-the-worlds-oldest-hatred/

Let’s not kid ourselves. Israel’s heightened efforts to guarantee that humanitarian aid reaches the residents of Gaza without falling into the hands of Hamas aren’t going to put a dent in the “purposeful starvation” propaganda campaign.

We don’t have to look far for evidence that this is the case. Take Israel’s exposing of the false depiction of certain children in the Strip with congenital diseases as victims of the “Israel-imposed famine,” for instance.

Revealing the truth behind the viral photos and front-page fabrications hasn’t stopped mainstream media outlets, including Israeli ones, from perpetuating the lie. Nor has it prevented European leaders from finger-wagging at Israel.

On the contrary, the more that Israel presents the facts, the louder the cacophony grows. The same goes for the higher the number of compromises it makes with Hamas—in order to secure the release of at least some of the hostages—and the greater the amount of aid it provides to Gazans. Indeed, the blood libels lobbed at the Jewish state since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre nearly two years ago only increase with each passing Israeli concession.

The timing of the current Hamas-spurred media blitz isn’t accidental. It coincided with the ceasefire/hostage-release talks in Qatar. To be more precise, it began when the American and Israeli delegations had reached the end of their rope—with the terrorist group’s constant upping of its ante in the negotiations—and returned home.

Hamas’s intransigence was given a boost by the likes of The New York Times, the United Nations, and, of course, French President Emmanuel Macron, who announced his country’s unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas atrocities.

It’s not surprising that none of those professing grave concern for the plight of hungry Palestinians bothers to mention the massive amounts of aid stolen by Hamas or the truckloads of food decaying at the border, due to the refusal by the United Nations to distribute it.

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VACATION: NO POSTINGS UNTIL WEDNESDAY JULY 31

By on July 23rd, 2025

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