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The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion released a report last Thursday offering the first detailed analysis of the Bondi terror attack.
The report found that just six days before the Hanukkah event at Bondi the Community Security Group (CSG NSW), a Jewish security agency, warned police of a “high” threat of a terrorist attack on the Jewish community.
Despite the warning and CSG’s request for police protection, 15 people were murdered in the Bondi Beach massacre.
This report should haunt every institution responsible for protecting Jewish communities.
Antisemitic threats are not hypothetical, and when Jews raise the alarm, governments must do something before the next attack occurs.
The new generation of Lebanon, and some from older generations, are ready for normalization and peace with Israel.
After a clip of a young man advocating for an Israeli Embassy in Beirut went viral around the world, other media outlets have begun to ask everyday Lebanese people where they stand.
While some of them shared negative views, many others expressed feeling connected to everyday Israelis who talk, act, and “party” just like they do.
While there’s still anti-Israel indoctrination present in the country, the young people are starting to see what actually exists on the other side of the border; a people who want to live in peace and prosperity as they do.
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Broadcaster, former politician, and founding Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Great Britain, Trevor Phillips, addressed what so many are trying to ignore.
Jews are being attacked in Britain right now merely because they are Jews and the people denying that are justifying persecution.
A graduation stage should be a place of unity, not a platform for political messaging that ignores reality.
At the University of Michigan, a professor called on graduates to “sing for pro-Palestinian activists,” despite a year marked by reports of harassment and hostility targeting Jewish students on campus.
Celebrating ‘activism’ without acknowledging its basis in double standards sends a message to Jewish students that they don’t deserve recognition, safety, or respect.
While guiding 40 Jewish teenagers through Auschwitz, Rabbi Doron Birnbaum received news of the terror attack against Jews in his neighborhood yesterday. London’s Golders Green was also the victim of the recent arson attack against Hatzola ambulances.
Rabbi Birnbaum reflected on the deeply personal experience of fearing for the lives of your family members after a terror attack against Jews.
The students were learning about Holocaust history. This terrifying experience reflects an unacceptable reality.
A U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Polk, Louisiana, has been charged after allegedly making antisemitic threats on Discord in which he said, “I am going to walk into a synagogue with my AK...and I am going to kill every single Jew...” The DOJ says the FBI investigated after a tip and arrested him on April 23.
This is the reality of antisemitism in America: threats serious enough to trigger federal charges are becoming more and more common. Jewish communities deserve protection, accountability, and a society that treats threats against synagogues with absolute seriousness.
Duke University acknowledged that SJP’s online content alluded to antisemitic tropes, and still chose to reverse the group’s suspension.
According to the Duke Chronicle, a University official explained in a letter to SJP, “The post, while offensive, in that it alludes to antisemitic tropes, does not violate the Policy on Prohibited Discrimination, Harassment and Related Misconduct [PPDHRM] because there was insufficient information to support the existence of a hostile educational environment.”
The post in question contained a decades old illustration depicting two pigs standing nose-to-nose, holding hands, with one pig’s sleeve labeled “US Imperialism”, and the other’s labeled “Zionism”.
UNWRA indoctrination: is it still happening?
UN Watch has shared video footage reportedly showing a student at an UNRWA school speaking 2024. According to the translation, the student advocates violence against Jews and glorifies martyrdom.
Instead of learning to uphold peace and coexistence as fundamental values, many Palestinian children are being radicalized by the very institutions that are supposed to help them.
