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‘Jews Not Allowed’: The Attempted Erasure of an Ancient People by Nils A. Haug

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21681/jews-not-allowed-the-attempted-erasure-of

For those Jewish scholars and experts from abroad, often invited by the local community in Australia to visit and share their views and expertise, there is news: you might not be permitted to come to Australia.

If, however, you are a dedicated Palestinian from Gaza, you are most likely welcome in Australia –little vetting required.

In Europe, Jew-hatred in France is on the rise again….. French President Emmanuel Macron, possibly to please his growing Muslim constituency, intended to recognize “steps toward” a borderless, atrociously governed, terrorist Palestine State – contrary to the interests of Israelis, the region, and especially the Palestinians.

“If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I’ve got a suggestion for them: Carve out a piece of the French Riviera, and create a Palestinian state. They’re welcome to do that… but they’re not welcome to impose that kind of pressure on a sovereign nation.”– US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, i24news.tv, June 1, 2025

Are Macron’s government and others not only denying Israel, and its majority Jewish population, the necessary arms to defend itself, but also seeking to recognise a hostile Islamist state inside another country’s borders? What is “chutzpah” in French?

Pro-Palestinian activists at Sydney University, Australia, a recent investigative report revealed, have been freely disrupting university lectures, shouting antisemitic slogans and carrying banners declaring “Jews not allowed.” According to the report:

“Jewish workers and students experienced antisemitism daily whilst on campus, creating a workplace of fear, anxiousness and a fear of retribution towards Jewish workers and students because they were Jewish people.”

As has become typical in the West, the report’s recommendations were ignored and a full investigation of the university not undertaken.

For those Jewish scholars and experts from abroad, often invited by the local community in Australia to visit and share their views and expertise, there is news: you might not be permitted to enter Australia. Your visa, even if approved at some earlier stage, could be revoked and you might be silenced. The governing leftist Labor Party may not want you there.

If, however, you are a dedicated Palestinian from Gaza, you are most likely welcome in Australia, with little vetting required. So, come join the many thousands who are there already. Come create your very own “private Idaho,” just as many of your fellow Islamists have already done in Europe.

Scheduled to speak to thousands of people at a fundraising event in June for Australian Friends of Magen David Adom (the offical Israeli ambulance and medical emergency service devoted to saving lives of all people), Hillel Fuld had his visa revoked at the last minute. Fuld, an American-Israeli who describes himself as “a proud Zionist, a tech columnist, advisor to Google and Microsoft, and a father of five,” has over the past 20 months posted on his X and LinkedIn accounts commentary about Hamas’s war on Israel.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, “responsible for importing thousands of Gazans to Australia without adequate security checks,” stated his reason for revoking Fuld’s visa as “‘islamophobia rhetoric’ which risked inciting discord against Australia’s Muslim population.”

Fuld, therefore, was supposedly a “threat to the ‘health, safety or good order’ of Australians.”

Over the past few weeks in Australia, the following incidents against Jews were reported without much consequence:

Ringleader of anti-Israel protest receives slap on wrist for assault – WATCH

Gaza comes to the City to Surf
Club bans ‘fatophobia’ and Zionists

Local Labor Party branch calls for antisemitic measures

Jews targeted at Newcastle surf event
Extremist ‘anti-racist’ to speak at NSW Government-sponsored organisation’s event

Western Sydney couple get slap on the wrist over antisemitic graffiti

In the overall scheme of things, these events might seem trivial. Jews, regrettably, are often the “canary in the coalmine” – meaning, how Jews as a defenceless minority in the diaspora are treated, portends escalating future actions not only against them but other minorities, and eventually all citizens.

With Fuld, the issue is the curtailment of freedom of speech. Facts are denied a platform, in order to make space for alternative narratives that suit the prevailing political trend. This issue should be of concern to all citizens.

More than a decade back, Charles Small noted about the US:

“Anti-Semitism is a deep, deep hatred, and once we permit this hatred to exist or target one group, it’ll only be a matter of time before other groups are targeted.”

Small was the director of the Yale University Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism until it was closed down by the university after only a few years. Small’s words in 2012 were far-sighted. A decade or so later, we see widely-supported, violent anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist events at Harvard, Yale and University of Pennsylvania, among others institutions (see Appendix). Columbia University, Northwestern University, Portland State University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota are currently under federal investigation.

In Europe, Jew-hatred in France is on the rise again. In early June, French dockworkers prevented a shipment of military goods destined for Israel intended to assist it surviving an onslaught of jihadists from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran and its own West Bank. French President Emmanuel Macron, possibly to please his growing Muslim constituency, intended to recognize “steps toward” a borderless, atrociously governed, terrorist Palestine State – contrary to the interests of Israelis, the region, and especially the Palestinians. To justify his actions, and Macron has been lobbying other European nations to follow suit.

Fahad Ali, a Nasty Piece of Work Timothy Cootes

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/anti-semitism/fahad-ali-a-nasty-piece-of-work/

Since October 7, the misbehaviour of Australia’s academics has provided excellent and amusing copy for Quadrant, but hasn’t yet effected much improvement in the hiring standards of our universities. This is the topic, you might say, of my thesis-in-progress, which posits that you can get away with the most obscene displays of moral imbecility in this country so long as you brandish your academic title.

A new case study, I’m bound to report, may very well test the credibility of my thesis. Dr Fahad Ali, a casual lecturer at the University of Sydney, set out his preferred foreign policy vision and objectives just as Israeli airstrikes began targeting the greater Tehran area. “F*** sanctions,” Ali advised his social media followers. “I want Zionists executed like we executed Nazis.”

His post, due to an obvious violation of community standards, was removed by X, and a similar decision now falls to his employer. The University of Sydney, according to The Australian, is “appalled” by Ali’s remarks and has promised to conduct a speedy investigation.

The coverage of this incident so far suggests Ali (right), a sensitive plant, is just a well-meaning and passionate advocate for Palestine who let himself become emotionally overwhelmed. On the contrary, this latest hissy-fit, in both content and volume, looks rather similar to many of Ali’s previous outbursts, so the evidence against him is really starting to pile up. In the spirit of cooperation with Quadrant, the University of Sydney, in its review of Ali’s ongoing employment status, might pursue any of the following lines of inquiry. 

University Abuse of Taxpayers Must End Why private colleges should become part of the marketplace. by Larry Sand

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/university-abuse-of-taxpayers-must-end/

When perusing the news these days, you can’t escape the onslaught of stories about Harvard. The once venerable institution, with its current involvement with Jew-hatred—which the school fosters or disregards—has become emblematic of the degradation of our nation’s higher education system.

Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, has repeatedly acknowledged an epidemic of antisemitism at the university. “It is present on our campus. I have experienced antisemitism directly, even while serving as president, and I know how damaging it can be to a student who has come to learn and make friends at a college or university.”

Harvard, however, is hardly a one-off.

The nation’s colleges are hotbeds of Jew-hatred. StopAnti-Semitism, an advocacy group, issued a report card in late 2024 that details how 25 colleges across the country treat Jewish students.

In the introduction, the group states, “Since last year’s staggering 1,500% increase in antisemitic submissions, StopAntisemitism has been forced to triple the size of our team just to manage the deluge of reports. This year alone, we’ve seen a jaw-dropping 3,000% rise in antisemitic tips and submissions, as universities across the country fail to protect their Jewish students in the wake of violent antisemitic uprisings.”

The findings are quite disturbing:

55% of Jewish students have personally been victims of antisemitism at their schools.
43% did not feel safe enough to report the incidents.
Of those who did report, 87% believe their school failed to investigate properly.
43% hide their Jewish identity from their classmates out of fear.
72% feel unwelcome in certain spaces on campus simply for being Jewish.
67% say Jews are entirely excluded from their school’s DEI initiatives.
69% are blamed for the actions of Israel—actions they have no control over.
67% feel their university did not take sufficient action to protect Jewish students in the wake of the 10/7 massacre.
43% would not recommend their school to fellow Jewish students.

California Coffee House Intifada “Hamasnik” coffee shop owner in Oakland refuses to serve Jews. by Lloyd Billingsley

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/california-coffee-house-intifada/

“The Trump Justice Department,” the California Globe reports, “this week sued the Palestinian owner of an Oakland coffee shop for denying service to visibly Jewish customers in a panoply of crass anti-Semitism that shows Hamasniks use ‘Zionist’ as a code word for Jews.” The Jerusalem Coffee House owned by Fathi Abdulrahim Harara is now the target of a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice.

“It is illegal, intolerable, and reprehensible for any American business open to the public to refuse to serve Jewish customers,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in a statement. “Through our vigorous enforcement of Title II of the Civil Rights Act and other laws prohibiting race and religious discrimination, the Justice Department is committed to combatting anti-Semitism and discrimination and protecting the civil rights of all Americans.”

On two occasions, the lawsuit alleges “Harara ordered Jewish customers — identified because they were wearing baseball caps with Stars of David on them — to leave the coffee house. During one incident, an employee told a Jewish customer who was trying to make a purchase, ‘You’re the guy with the hat. You’re the Jew. You’re the Zionist.  We don’t want you in our coffee shop. Get out.’”

During another incident, “Harara accused another Jewish customer who was with his five-year-old son of wearing a ‘Jewish star,’ being a ‘Zionist,’ and supporting ‘genocide.’ Harara repeatedly demanded that the customer and his son leave and falsely accused them of ‘trespassing’ to the Oakland police. Neither customer stated anything about their political views to Harara or any other employees while at the coffee house.”

On the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, “the Jerusalem Coffee House announced two new drinks: ‘Iced In Tea Fada,’ an apparent reference to “intifada,” and ‘Sweet Sinwar,’ an apparent reference to Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of Hamas who orchestrated the attacks on Israel.” The lawsuit also alleges that “the coffee house’s exterior side wall displays inverted red triangles, a symbol of violence against Jews that has been spray painted on Jewish homes and synagogues in anti-Semitic attacks.”  This was predictable from the start.

Stories Told by the Ghosts of Babyn Yar By Janet Levy

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/stories_told_by_the_ghosts_of_babyn_yar.html

No monument stands over Babi Yar. A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. I am afraid. Today I am as old in years as all the Jewish people. Now I seem to be a Jew.

So begins Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s heart-wrenching poem Babi Yar, published in 1961.  Written to protest antisemitism, it shames communist leaders by saying their hands are “unclean” for having erased the memory of the gunning down of over 34,000 Jews by the Nazis in Babyn Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv on September 29–30, 1941.

The poem wasn’t proscribed, but censors ensured that for 22 years, it wasn’t published in any of Yevtushenko’s collections.  Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony 13, inspired by the poem, suffered a similar fate: performances faced bureaucratic interference and disruptions, and the lyrics, an interlinked collage of Yevtushenko’s poems, had to be changed off and on.

But such is the irony of how human nature and memory respond to suppression that everyone came to know Yevtushenko’s poem anyway.  And Symphony 13, which resonated deeply with audiences in the Soviet Union, came to be known as the Babyn Yar symphony.  A massacre to which even a cold memorial plaque was denied thus became enshrined in collective memory through the power of art whose creators defied an authoritarian regime.

In The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War, published in March this year, Shay A. Pilnik presents the story of that internal memorialization of the Babyn Yar massacre through literature.  For there were many other writers, too, who wrote essays, poems, stories, and other works about Babyn Yar.

In the introduction, Pilnik quotes James Young, author of a seminal study of Holocaust memorials: “The more memory comes to rest in its externalized forms, the less it is experienced internally….”  Then, speaking of the story his book tells, Pilnik says: “Ours is a story of the most effective memorial one could think of — albeit not one made out of stones, but rather of words — calling its memory-bearers to act rather than simply to recall, galvanizing a literary, social, and national movement to revolve around it.”

Fight or Flight? On both sides of the Atlantic, life turns darker for Jews. by Bruce Bawer

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/fight-or-flight/

In France, vandals deface the Holocaust Memorial along with several other Jewish sites in Paris – a city already plagued for years by Islamic car-burnings, church-burnings, and machete attacks, not to mention several major acts of jihadist terror. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames this latest rash of antisemitic acts on French President Emmanuel Macron’s support for a Palestinian state and indifference to rising antisemitism.  

In Sweden, which during the last few years has been increasingly tormented by Islamic violence, Jewish students are reported to be “hiding their identities. They walk to class in fear, avoid social media, and feel abandoned by their teachers and universities.”

In Germany, statistics show that the number of antisemitic incidents almost doubled last year.

In Switzerland, a new report reveals that antisemitism has reached an “unprecedented level.” It has “reached the streets”; it has “visibly prevailed against all resistance and taken a frightening turn.” While some observers expected Swiss Jews in Israel to return home after the Hamas attacks, the number of Swiss Jews moving to Israel has actually increased.

In Norway, whose Foreign Minister has promised to arrest Netanyahu if he sets foot in Norway, a writer using the pseudonym Anonymous Jew charges that the Hamas terrorists who butchered Jews in Israel are being treated as “heroes in the streets of Oslo.” Anti-Semitism is everywhere. The Norwegian government, which recognized Palestine last year, seems now to have divorced itself entirely from Israel and abandoned all sense of obligation to Norwegian Jews. “I am tired, writes Anonymous Jew, “of hiding who I am, tired of feeling like a stranger in my own country.” Consequently: “I am leaving. Not because I want to, but because I have to. I am leaving Norway, the country I loved, because it is no longer safe to be a Jew here.”

In the Netherlands, where more than a hundred Muslim men assaulted dozens of Jews in Amsterdam last November 7, a 48-year-old Jewish woman declares that the country is “over” for Jews. “Education has failed, integration [of Muslim minorities] has failed. Respect for us Jews has disappeared and will never return. There are simply too few of us, the other side is so much larger and more aggressive.” Another Dutch Jew agrees. “Jews who would have never considered aliyah before [i.e., moving to Israel] now understand there’s no future for them in Europe.” Yet another Dutch Jew says: “I am usually an optimist, a very happy person, but I worry about my children. Will they be able to go to university safely? When will it be too late to leave if things get worse? Are we back in the 1930s? Two of my grandparents survived Auschwitz. Even after October 7, we thought we could tough it out, the war would end, and antisemitism would eventually die down.” But it hasn’t.

POSITIVE NEWS FROM ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com 

After World War II, between 1945 and 1960, three dozen nations in Asia and Africa achieved autonomy or outright independence from their European colonial rulers. Israel was decolonized from England in May 1948 after 30 years of oppressive and duplicitous rule.

Despite wars and genocidal terrorism from Arab enemies, Israel is one of the crown jewels of the break-up of the British, French, Belgian and Portuguese empires. It is a diverse democracy with outsize contributions to healing the scourges of famine, drought, disease, and natural disasters  throughout the globe as Michael Ordman discloses in his weekly postings. rsk

 

Civilian startups are battlefield life-savers. (TY WIN) The IDF is turning  civilian tech into battlefield tools, thanks to Innotal – a program that fast-tracks Israeli startups into military service. It integrates breakthrough civilian technologies – medical, food tech, energy, drones, AI, logistics, infrastructure and more.
https://tps.co.il/articles/medical-drones-ai-therapy-and-foodtech-israeli-civilian-startups-are-becoming-battlefield-lifesavers/  https://ddrd-mafat.mod.gov.il/en/mafat-for-startups/innotal
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-tech-innovations-gaza-operations
 
From lab to battlefield in 18 months. (TY JNS) The inside story of the unprecedented successful development timescale of Israel’s new laser defense system. Already operational for several months, the rapidly deployed system’s success rates surpassed all projections.  https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/05/29/how-israels-secret-laser-weapon-went-from-lab-to-battlefield-in-18-months/
 
Promoted to Brigadier at 80. At 80 years old, lifelong armored corps veteran Moshe Peled was busy hauling tanks on reserve duty – until the IDF Chief of Staff surprised him with a promotion to Reserve Brigadier General in front of his proud family. IDSF article reflects his dedication and loyalty to the Jewish State.
https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-elderly-idf-armored-division-reservist-honored-with-surprise-promotion/
https://idsf.org.il/en/interviews-en/playing-into-the-hands-of-hamas/
 
Teens rebuild farm of fallen hero. The first Israel Youth Conference of HaShomer HaChadash (see here previously) opened with hundreds of teens from across Israel rehabilitating the Philip Farm in the Negev. The farm’s manager, Yochai Hershberg, fell fighting Hamas on Oct 7 2023 and the farm had been unattended since.
https://www.jns.org/wire/from-loss-to-legacy-teens-rebuild-farm-of-fallen-hero-in-israels-south/
 
The first brit milah since Oct 7. Itay and Moran, who survived Oct 7 2023 at Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri, held the first brit milah ceremony there since the attack. They named their newborn son Bar Shavit after Moran’s parents Yuval and Maayan Bar – murdered by Hamas, and Shavit Lev – the IDF soldier who rescued them.
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/hjwk8t6glg
 
Kibbutz Nir Oz celebrates Shavuot. For the first time since Oct 7 2023, Kibbutz Nir Oz residents gathered to mark the Shavuot holiday in the community’s fields. The traditional agricultural exhibition was led by former Israeli hostage Gadi Moses who blessed the volunteers and Thai workers.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-856222
 
“Eternity of Israel”. An exhibition of Israeli resilience replaces the usual posters that are displayed on the walls of the departure escalator at Ben Gurion airport. “Eternity of Israel” takes passengers on a journey through history showing how the nation survives and recovers from every tragedy, as it will after Oct 7 2023.
https://www.israelunwired.com/ben-gurion-airport-is-featuring-something-that-will-blow-you-away/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT-zteZi1GQ
 
It wasn’t bad before. Arab blogger Hoda Jannat exposes the truth about Gaza before Hamas launched its attack on Oct 7.   https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/hamas/the-gaza-you-thought-you-knew-versus-the-real-gaza/2023/12/25/
 
IDF mission to save girl’s life. A Golani IDF battalion commander sent a 21-year-old commando from the Gaza front line to donate life-saving bone marrow to a 5-year-old girl battling leukemia. His saliva sample, taken on IDF induction, was a genetic match and the transplant took place at Hadassah Ein Kerem.
https://www.jns.org/golani-commando-pulled-from-gaza-to-save-a-life-at-hadassah/
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Making an Israeli invention even better. The Israeli-invented CAR-T cancer treatment is saving thousands of lives today. The patient’s own immune T-cells are extracted, increased and put back in the patient. Ben Gurion University researchers have extended T-cell longevity using different shaped surfaces for the growth medium.
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-nanostructures-boost-car-cell-potency.html  
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202412482
 
The immune cells that promote cancer. Tel Aviv University researchers have advanced the 2015 research by Hebrew University scientists (see here previously) and isolated the specific neutrophils that support cancer progression. It boosts the development of new therapies and adds a biomarker for early detection of the disease.
https://emergexint.tau.ac.il/neutrophil_immune_cancer_research  
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-025-00924-3
 
Antibiotics in the “garbage”. More about the discovery (see here previously) by Israeli scientists of the natural antibiotic properties of the proteasome – a protein complex known as the “garbage can” of many cells because it removes non-working proteins. Its antibiotic function, however, was previously unknown.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-scientists-discovery-could-lead-to-new-antibiotics-1001504039
 
Teva promotes its pipeline. Current treatments from Israel’s Teva include Austedo (involuntary movements), Ajovy (migraine), and Uzedy (schizophrenia). It expects soon to launch Olanzapine (schizophrenia), Duvakitug (IBD), Dari (asthma), Emrusolmin (Multiple System Atrophy), and has fast-tracked TEV-53408 (Celiac).
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-teva-gives-aggressive-guidance-on-1001511802
 
Healing the healers. Teva has also has partnered with Israel’s Momentum over the past 20 months to run the “Support the Soul” program for 1,300 mental health professionals. It gives therapists training and safe spaces to release the trauma they absorb from their patients; plus therapy support tools. No Teva remedies involved.
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/hj4mluffll
 
Kids & teens can save lives too. United Hatzalah’s Leight Legacy Heroes Program empowers kids and teens across America to save lives. Each participant is challenged to raise $180 which will sponsor an oxygen tank for a medic in Israel – vital for emergency responses. It also teaches tzedakah and strengthens links to Israel.
https://israelrescue.org/heroes
 
Mobile clinic in the South. Israeli emergency medical NGO United Hatzalah has unveiled a groundbreaking mobile emergency clinic in Ofakim. The clinic is equipped with state-of-the-art treatment beds, smart triage, and medical tech that doubles the capacity of a standard ambulance. It is staffed by doctors and paramedics.
https://israfan.com/p/united-hatzalah-mobile-clinic-israel

‘Anti-Semitism is an early-warning siren for a sickness in society’ Douglas Murray on the scapegoating of Israel, the fascism of Hamas and the moral disintegration of the West.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/08/anti-semitism-is-an-early-warning-siren-for-a-sickness-in-society/

Has the West failed the moral test of 7 October 2023? From the moment news emerged that Hamas terrorists were tearing through southern Israel, butchering, raping and kidnapping civilians, a sizeable proportion of Westerners, including among the elites, failed to understand what was at stake. Here was a Western liberal democracy under attack by an army of Islamist anti-Semites, hell-bent on the destruction of the Jewish State. Yet every attempt by Israel to defend itself has been cast as an act of unjustified aggression – or worse, an attempt at genocide. Instead of inspiring solidarity, the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust fuelled a wave of anti-Semitism across much of the West, with self-described progressives at the forefront. Jihadism marched under the banner of social justice.

Douglas Murray’s new book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West, looks at how we got here, the real meaning of 7 October and how we should respond. This week, he joined spiked’s Brendan O’Neill on his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show, to discuss all this and more. You can watch the whole thing here.

Brendan O’Neill: At what moment after 7 October did you know the West had lost its mind?

Douglas Murray: There was a very specific moment on 8 October, which I describe in the book. I saw a pro-Hamas demonstration taking place in Times Square. At that time, the massacre was still ongoing in the south of Israel. Yet here were hundreds of people in New York, all celebrating and waving placards saying things like ‘by any means necessary’. I just thought, what is happening?

Of course, it’s possible to favour the creation of a Palestinian state. But why would you choose the moment when Hamas’s massacre is still going on to support the people doing the killing? This was before Israel had even done anything in response. I knew something had gone wildly wrong, and that I had better gear up. I realised too that we were about to enter an era of denial. Of hearing statements like ‘it didn’t happen’ and ‘it would be good if it did happen’ spoken simultaneously.

O’Neill: Did it make you think we were in more trouble in the West than you had initially believed?

Murray: Yes. It occurred to me that there is something about the Israelis in the minds of some of the general public which makes them uniquely undeserving of empathy. Survivors of the Nova festival – young people who were dancing in the early hours of the morning, and who were set upon by Hamas terrorists, massacred and raped – are treated wherever they go as if they themselves are the culprits. It’s totally different from the way in which Britain remembers things like the Manchester Arena bombing of 2017. We would be amazed and horrified if two young women who had survived the suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert travelled elsewhere in the world and were treated as if they’d done it. Nobody would tolerate that. But for some reason, the Israelis are uniquely undeserving of understanding.

Boulder and the Gaza Mind-Virus by Seth Mandel

https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/boulder-and-the-gaza-mind-virus/

The terror attack on Jews in Boulder has exposed how deeply heads have been buried in the sand, especially when it comes to anti-Semitism and the left. Reporting out of the Colorado college town has an Invasion of the Body Snatchers quality to it, depicting a community of identical-looking but hollowed-out replacements for the humans that once populated it.

Infected with Hamas propaganda, American cities have become creeping horror flicks, with a trio of New York Times reporters in place of the scriptwriters. In today’s Times, those narrators set the scene:

“In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the college town of Boulder, Colo., has long been known as a laid-back hippie haven. Its residents cherish the outdoors, and its leaders are often elected on reliably liberal promises to expand affordable housing, address climate change and increase racial equity.

“In recent months, however, the City Council has been pulled apart over an entirely different matter: the war in Gaza.

“Pro-Palestinian protesters have regularly interrupted meetings with shouting and other unruly behavior, even prompting the council to temporarily move its meetings online to avoid further disruption and later adding rules to more easily bar people from City Hall.”

So the city of Boulder increasingly cannot function, and the reason is Gaza. This is the sort of thing that should have raised alarm bells long before the inevitable anti-Semitic terror attack it produced. How was this not a major story? The pro-Hamas (in some cases Hamas-connected) network in America is grinding the gears of local government to a halt, and the answer in Boulder was: Let’s have our council meetings on Zoom?

“It’s been a hard time here in Boulder,” Mayor Aaron Brockett told the paper. “We reiterate over and over and over again that international affairs are not the business of the Boulder City Council, and our work is to clean the streets and make sure the water comes out when you turn the tap.”

On Anti-Semitism and Delegitimization The path from delegitimizing Israel to justifying violence is paved with historical lies—and too often, ends in bloodshed. By Thaddeus G. McCotter

https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/07/on-anti-semitism-and-delegitimization/

In the past, I have often cited George Santayana’s famous warning: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

It is sound advice for those not seeking to replicate past wrongs. Yet, what if someone seeks to weaponize the past to justify perpetuating and recreating its horrors? For such moral reprobates, there are unfortunately fertile fields of extant hate to sow and reap.

In former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Dr. Michael B. Oren’s authoritative history, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, one finds this heated exchange between the United Nations ambassadors for the Soviet Union and Israel:

American-Israeli differences, though sharpening, were minuscule compared to those between Israel and the Soviets. “Israel’s military hordes [are] following in the bloody footsteps of Hitler’s executioners,” ranted [Nikolai] Federenko, and Gideon Rafael responded in kind: “Neither Israel nor the Jewish people concluded a pact with Hitler’s Germany, a pact which encouraged Nazi Germany to unleash its aggression against the world.”

What is striking is how little has changed within the latest eruption of violent anti-Semitism spurred by the barbarous Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, 2024. And, in the above exchange, we can therefore glimpse the broad contours of how such anti-Semitism proceeds and is protested—if, however tragically often, in vain.