Academics & Education

Major European universities foster ‘climate of fear’ for Jewish students, report finds A comprehensive study details the normalization of antisemitism, glorification of terror, and widespread Holocaust distortion across campuses in nine countries.

(Israel Hayom) A new report published by B’nai B’rith International, the European Union of Jewish Students, and the German think tank Democ found that in nine of Europe’s key countries there is “a climate of fear and exclusion at European universities.” The […]

Academics & Education

George Mason SJP releases radical recruitment video months after police uncovered terrorist flags at leaders’ home ‘The spirit of resistance will not be quenched until we see full liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea,’ a speaker concealed with a keffiyeh and a voice modifier says in the video

(Free Beacon) George Mason University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter reemerged Sunday evening with a recruitment video claiming “the spirit of resistance will not be quenched.” The radical group went dark for months after police found terrorist propaganda and weapons […]

Academics & Education

Cotton to IRS: Investigate terrorist-supporting Palestinian Youth Movement The group maintains ties to terror orgs and is illegally receiving tax-exempt donations, Arkansas senator says

(Free Beacon) Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Friday formally petitioned the IRS to investigate the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) — a “virulently antisemitic” activist group that released maggots into Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hotel room last year — for potential […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

London hospital reports midwife to Prevent after UK Lawyers for Israel complaint over Gaza posts Midwife was accused of antisemitism for social media posts and referred to the counterterrorism programme a year after she left her job at the hospital

(Middle East Eye) A London hospital reported a former midwife to Prevent and the nursing regulator more than a year after she had left her job, following a complaint from UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) over her social media posts describing Israel’s […]

Crime

Berlin police arrest nearly 200 at pro-Palestinian protest Demonstrators chanted slogans glorifying Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and denying Israel’s right to exist.

(European Conservative) A pro-Palestinian demonstration near the German Chancellery on Monday night ended with 188 arrests after protesters chanted slogans glorifying Hamas leaders and rejecting the existence of Israel. According to Berlin police, around 150 demonstrators marched from a protest camp on […]

Government & Politics

Zarah Sultana previously expressed support for antisemitism definition she now opposes Anti-Israel MP expressed support for IHRA in 2019 survey

(Jewish News) Anti-Israel MP Zarah Sultana “willingly” expressed support for the IHRA definition of antisemitism during the 2019 general election, despite now accusing Jeremy Corbyn of “capitulating” to those who support it. Jewish News has learned that the Coventry South independent MP, now […]

Demonstrations

Notorious doctor claims quarter of UK MPs are ‘collaborators and foreign agents’ for Israel in demo rant Dr [Rahmeh] Aladwan, facing multiple complaints of antisemtism, told Leeds pro-Palestine demo anti-Zionist Jews have duty to 'hold Jewish communities accountable'

(Jewish News) A doctor facing multiple complaints of antisemitism has delivered another inflammatory speech to pro-Palestine activists in Leeds in which she claimed a quarter of UK MPs are “collaborators” and “foreign agents” who “put the interests of Israel above the interests […]

Academics & Education

University of Maryland will pay anti-Israel group that planned campus rally on October 7 The group says it 'will spend every dollar we receive ... organizing and supporting the movement for a free Palestine.'

(Daily Wire) The University of Maryland has agreed to pay Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) $100,000 after the university first defended, but then briefly tried to reschedule, a rally on the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks […]

Demonstrations

Mahmoud Khalil ripped over attempt to ‘justify’ Oct. 7 attack in Ezra Klein, NYT interview: ‘Must be immediately deported’

(NY Post) Anti-Israel campus leader Mahmoud Khalil was ripped Thursday over his attempt to “justify” the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks in a recent interview — with elected officials saying it boosts the Trump administration’s case seeking to kick him out […]

Children & Teens

Germany: Palestine activists blend crafts for kids with pro-Hamas speeches People are invited to bring their friends and colleagues to hear supporters of the Islamist death cult.

(European Conservative) Parents in Berlin stuck for ideas about how to entertain their children this Saturday might consider attending the so-called Solidarity Neighborhood Event — so long as they don’t mind their craft and dance classes being accompanied by antisemitic rants. The […]

Demonstrations

YouTuber who approached Jews in Golders Green about Gaza loses libel case against Douglas Murray Mohammed Hijab had brought a defamation suit against the writer and the Spectator over a 2022 article focusing on his actions during 2022 riots in Leicester

(Jewish News) A social media influencer notorious for approaching strictly Orthodox Jews in Golders Green on a Shabbat to quiz them about Israel has lost a defamation case against the Spectator magazine and its associate editor Douglas Murray, with the judge ruling […]

Academics & Education

Mahmoud Khalil pushes back on claims of antisemitism at Columbia in Ezra Klein interview 'I would say there is this manufactured hysteria about antisemitism at Columbia because of the protests,' said Khalil.

(JTA) Six weeks after being released by federal detention, Mahmoud Khalil, the first student pro-Palestinian protest leader to be arrested by the Trump administration last spring, said concerns about antisemitism at Columbia University reflected a “manufactured hysteria.” Khalil first made the allegation […]

Crime

‘Death to Jews’ migrant who crossed Channel in small boat returned to prison Palestinian Mosab Abdulkarim Al-Gassas, who posted armed images and violent antisemitic rants, recalled to serve remainder of sentence

(Jewish News) A Palestinian man who arrived in Britain illegally after crossing the Channel in a small boat — and who was filmed calling for the mass killing of Jews — has been sent back to prison after breaching his release conditions. […]

Health & Medicine

Frustration from communal groups as ‘Jewish supremacy’ doctor continues to hold medical licence Dr Rahmeh Aladwan's latest includes the claim that the Royal Free Hospital in North London, used by many in the Jewish community, is a 'Jewish supremacy cesspit'

(Jewish News) The General Medical Council has been unable to confirm the status of an investigation into a doctor who regularly posts screeds about “Jewish supremacy” and has called for the ethnic cleansing of Jews living in Israel. Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who […]

Demonstrations

Recognizing Palestine would deepen French Muslim-Jewish rift President Emmanuel Macron's announced intention to recognize a Palestinian state has sharply divided French politicians. France's Jewish and Muslim communities also fear it could drive them even further apart.

(Deutsche Welle) Mohammed Iriqat has witnessed first-hand France’s shifting stance on the crisis in the Gaza Strip, from the taunts he once received for wearing a kaffiyeh, a scarf symbolizing Palestinian solidarity, to being part of widespread protests as the devastating war in the […]

Academics & Education

‘Growing influence’ of Muslim Brotherhood in Canada, report warns Charles Small, of ISGAP, stated that organizations linked to the Brotherhood are 'undermining Canadian democracy itself.'

(JNS) Canadian organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood have masqueraded “as charitable or humanitarian organizations” and funneled millions of dollars toward supporting Hamas, according to a report published in late June by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. […]

Health & Medicine

Dutch-Muslim nurse threatens to kill Israeli patients with injections, sparking investigation Batisma Chayat Sa’id, a Dutch-Muslim nurse, allegedly threatened to kill Israeli patients with lethal injections

(Ynet) Batisma Chayat Sa’id, a Muslim nurse in the Netherlands, has been accused of threatening to administer lethal injections to Israeli patients under her care. In a disturbing Instagram comment, she wrote: “You know what [I’m] doing with Zionists — giving an […]

Christians

Report: After war with Israel, Iran seeks Jewish targets in Europe, increases arrests Islamic Republic has increased convictions and executions of minorities, including Iranian Jews, a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom finds

(Times of Israel) Iran is increasing its efforts to carry out attacks against Jewish targets in Europe, as well as ramping up its persecution of minority religions, including Jews, within the Islamic Republic, according to a report by the United States Commission […]

Books

Mahmood Mamdani, credited with shaping son Zohran’s thinking, wrote of ‘moral equivalence’ between 9/11 and US war on terror Zohran Mamdani has said he edits his father's speeches and writings and has described his father as an intellectual influence

(Free Beacon) New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father wrote shortly after 9/11 that there was a “moral equivalence” between the al Qaeda attack and retaliatory U.S. bombing of Afghanistan. “There is an eerie similarity between the American bombing of Iraq […]

Interfaith

This is the Hezbollah-linked activist behind lawfare on Israelis Dyab Abou Jahjah's Brussels-based NGO exploits courts to spread antisemitic hate, his critics say.

(JNS) Long before he perfected the use of lawfare to hound Israelis abroad, Belgian-Lebanese anti-Israel activist Dyab Abou Jahjah was already seen as “one of the most dangerous figures” for modern European Jews, according to a community activist from Antwerp. Versatile, charismatic […]

Government & Politics

Zohran Mamdani’s pro-Palestinian positions drove 83% of his new voters in the NY primary, poll shows The poll was commissioned by IMEU Policy Project, a pro-Palestinian advocacy nonprofit.

(JTA) Zohran Mamdani’s advocacy for Palestinians was a motivating factor for most of the New Yorkers who voted for him in the mayoral primary, new polling from a progressive research group suggests. Most voters who showed up for Mamdani were inspired by […]

Demonstrations

In the heart of Berlin: Hundreds celebrate massacres of Druze The crowd, including Syrian refugees, chanted for rape, murder, and ethnic cleansing in a chilling public rally.

(European Conservative) In front of Berlin’s Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall), the seat of the city’s mayor, nearly 400 men — many of them reportedly Syrian refugees — publicly celebrated the recent massacres committed against the Druze community in Syria. Eyewitnesses report […]

Government & Politics

Shapiro rebukes Mamdani for failing to condemn ‘blatantly antisemitic’ extremists The Pennsylvania governor told JI: ‘When supporters of yours say things that are blatantly antisemitic, you can't leave room for that to just sit there’

(Jewish Insider) Inside a coffee shop in this small town of 8,500 people, hundreds of miles from the bustle of Manhattan, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro made his first public comments about Zohran Mamdani, criticizing the New York City Democratic mayoral candidate for […]

Arts & Entertainment

Islamist radio fined for antisemitism accuses Ofcom of ‘Zionist bias’ Charity behind Salaam BCR surrenders licence after Ofcom fines it for hate speech branding Jews ‘enemies of humanity’

(Jewish News) A UK-based Islamic radio station that aired a hate-filled sermon accusing Jews of “killing prophets” and being the “biggest enemies of humanity” just days after the Hamas massacres has launched a blistering attack on Ofcom — branding the regulator a […]

Demonstrations

Douglas Murray libel trial closes with barrister defending Hijab’s ‘provocative’ online conduct Royal Courts of Justice hears four days of evidence as social media influencer sues Spectator and its associate editor

(Jewish News) The barrister representing Mohammed Hijab described his client as “provocative, a bit of a smart-alec, a bit too cocky” but insisted that lawyers for the Spectator and its associate editor Douglas Murray had failed to substantiate serious claims against him. […]

Demonstrations

Mohammed Hijab clashes with barrister in libel case against Douglas Murray Influencer in witness box in Royal Courts of Justice libel case involving the Spectator magazine and its associate editor

(Jewish News) Social media personality Mohammed Hijab appeared in the witness box at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday in a libel case he has brought against the Spectator magazine and its associate editor, Douglas Murray. Hijab, who has 1.28 million […]

Government & Politics

Mamdani says he will ‘discourage’ the term ‘globalize the intifada’ Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in the race for mayor of New York City, moved to distance himself from comments that sparked outrage during the primary.

(NY Times) Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, told an influential group of business leaders on Tuesday that he would not use the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which has been seen as a call to violence against Jews, […]

Academics & Education

Elise Stefanik takes CUNY chancellor to task for hiring chief diversity official from CAIR: ‘Unacceptable to New York taxpayers’ Felix Matos Rodriguez said Saly Abd Alla, a former civil rights director for the pro-Hamas group, still works for the public university system

(Free Beacon) Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) grilled City University of New York (CUNY) chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez over the school’s decision to hire Saly Abd Alla, a former employee of the pro-Hamas Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as its chief diversity officer. “In 2021, you hired […]

Christians

Doctor who asked ‘are Jewish News readers normal human beings?’ reinstated by medical tribunal Dr Rehiana Ali also shared conspiracy theories about Jews and 'Jewish extremism'

(Jewish News) The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has lifted the interim suspension of a doctor with a history of spreading conspiracy theories about Jews and talking about “Jewish extremism,” apparently accepting her claim during her hearing that she was speaking “about Israel […]