Thursday, April 03, 2025

04/03 Links Pt2: Seth Mandel: Rules for Jews; We see what you’re doing, Sadiq Khan; Six Lessons from the Holocaust According to Menachem Begin

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: Rules for Jews
Unlike most voters, American Jews apparently do not get to choose which policies or government actions they support based on political principles. There’s a list, you see, of Special Obligations. Jews must do this or that, because as Jews we have a special obligation to everyone except ourselves.

This Law of Special Obligations is on full display in a New York Times article on the pro-Hamas crackdowns on college campuses.

The Times article itself was inevitable. Any time a politician or government does something ostensibly “for the Jews,” the Times will assign a reporter to write a story on how “the Jewish community is divided” over that thing. If kosher Chinese food were to fall like manna from the heavens, the New York Times would write a story titled “U.S. Jews Are Divided Over Free Chinese Food.” If the Times were around during the Exodus from ancient Egypt, it would publish an article titled “Schism Within Jewish Community Over Freedom From Slavery.” If the Purim story were to happen today, we’d get “How Haman’s Humiliation Has Become Fraught For Many Jews.”

The current version is “Trump’s Fight Against Antisemitism Has Become Fraught for Many Jews,” though another Times article about this topic used the “schism” framing, and a third used “divide” in the headline.

The point is not that it’s unusual for Jews to have varying opinions on the same issue—that’s the norm. Instead, what jumps out from the Times piece and others like it is the idea that Jews don’t get to choose. Like Hebrew National hot dogs, we answer to a higher authority apparently. Unlike Hebrew National hot dogs, the higher authority being referenced isn’t God.

It turns out that, like Judaism itself, Jewish political opinion-forming entails many rules. As far as I can tell, here are the main ones.

From the Times: “‘Find me a moment in history when Jews anywhere benefited from a mix of rampant nationalism and repression,’ wrote the journalist Matt Bai in a Washington Post opinion piece on Tuesday. ‘You’ll be looking awhile.’”

You’ve heard, no doubt, the refrain that “Jews are the canary in the coalmine.” It’s true: When Jews are systematically mistreated, others will likely be in for some pain in the near future. But here we have the inverse: Jews are not the canaries but the miners who are saved by the selfless sacrifice of the precious yellow birds.

Hence we have a new rule: Jews are the coalminers in the coalmine. (How’s that for an image.) If something is happening to someone else, that thing will also happen to the Jews. It’s the corollary of: If something is happening to the Jews, that thing will also happen to others. (Sensing a pattern here.)

On to the next rule. The Times writes: “‘Anytime you put Jews in the middle on an issue, it’s not good for the Jews,’ said Jonathan Jacoby of the Nexus Project, a progressive Jewish group that has been searching for a way to combat antisemitism without suppressing political debate. ‘That’s a classic antisemitic position that antisemites like to put Jews. So they can be scapegoated.’”
Schama: Toxic spread of antisemitism in popular culture is weaponising hate
The British historian Sir Simon Schama has spoken out about the “toxic” spread of antisemitism in popular culture since 7 October 2023.

He said that the rise of anti-Jewish hatred was “extremely upsetting” before the events of that day, but that the hatred had now spread like an “infection”.

Sir Simon described the “trivialisation and debasement” of Holocaust memory by controversial public figures with vast social media followings.

He singled out disgraced rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, for the design of his latest album which he said was “nothing more than an enormous swastika”; and the billionaire Elon Musk for doing the “heil salute twice in a public setting”.

The remarks were part of a keynote lecture that Sir Simon delivered at the Contemporary Antisemitism London 2025 conference at the JW3 centre this week. It came days before the screening of his latest film, Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz, which airs on BBC2 on 7 April.

Despite having written extensively about Jewish history and the holocaust, Sir Simon — who was born two weeks after the liberation of Auschwitz — had never previously visited the Nazi death camp.

“It’s when you see this really horrifying transfusion of this toxin into popular culture, when it’s coupled with data from the Anti-Defamation League and the Claims Conference that it’s the younger generation … who are least likely to be familiar with the Holocaust and are most likely to dismiss its magnitude, that really if you happen to be in a position to get to make the kind of film that I have, that you want to grab that opportunity,” he said.

The documentary sees Sir Simon travel to mass killing sites in Lithuania, the home of his mother’s family, and to the Netherlands — a nation famed for its long history of tolerance — to reveal how deep-rooted prejudice was weaponised across the continent to turn people against their Jewish neighbours.

Speaking at JW3, he said that he feels the Holocaust memory “has, in a way, been reduced to Anne Frank on the one hand and Auschwitz on the other”. He explained this by saying he believes the memory of the Holocaust has been de-Judaised and made more palatable for a broad audience.

His film, he said, was an attempt to “reanimate Jewish presence” and “resist the temptation to dilute, to moderate, to universalise”.
Uri Kurlianchik: Six Lessons from the Holocaust According to Menachem Begin
In 1978, former Israeli Prime Minister Begin wrote down what he considered were the most important lessons of the Holocaust. These lessons are as important today as they were 45 years ago.

First, if the enemy of the Jews says that he has in his heart, in his blood, an ambition to destroy the Jews - do not underestimate him, do not mock him. Do not doubt him. Take his ambition seriously, treat his words with all the severity inherent in them. Deprive him of the power to destroy you. Prepare every day for the day. Never again say: it is not serious.

Second, never again ask: what will the world say? Know this: the world will never have mercy for slaughtered Jews but the world will always have respect for fighting Jews.

Third, keep a weapon. Study it and sanctify it wherever you dwell. It is the weapon of holiness. A weapon of life, honor, freedom. Never abandon it and never throw it away. We believe in the vision of the end of days, yes, but who knows when it will come? Meanwhile, as long as there is a weapon in the hands of even one enemy of the Jews, a people that has been slaughtered and butchered throughout the generations… keep your weapons.

Fourth, the Torah, in order to preserve it, demands that safeguards be placed around it. The same is true for the people of the Torah. The first safeguard is Jewish dignity. The seeds of Jewish destruction lie in passively enabling the enemy to humiliate us. Only when the enemy succeeds in turning the spirit of the Jew into dust and ashes in life, can he turn the Jew into dust and ashes in death. During the Holocaust it was after the enemy had humiliated the Jews, trampled them, divided them, deceived them, afflicted them, drove brother against brother, only then could he lead them to the gates of Auschwitz. Therefore, at all times and whatever the cost, safeguard the dignity and honor of the Jewish people.


Incredible! How an undercover UK journalist exposed BBC terror ties (David Collier) | The Quad
Did the BBC knowingly promote Hamas propaganda? Israeli Innovation Envoy Fleur Hassan-Nahoum sits down with David Collier, a prominent UK-based investigative journalist, to expose one of the most shocking examples of media malpractice in recent memory. Collier reveals how a BBC documentary about a young boy’s suffering during the Gaza war deliberately failed to disclose that the child was the son of a senior Hamas official—information he uncovered in just three hours through basic research that the BBC either ignored or intentionally concealed. That was only the tip of the iceberg!

🎯 In this episode:
How David Collier uncovered the Hamas connection behind the BBC’s Gaza documentary
The role of BBC Arabic and its ideological alignment with radical elements
How anti-Zionist activism online and in academia is driven by antisemitism
Collier’s undercover infiltration into anti-Israel groups, including meetings with top BDS NGOs
Why British institutions—media, government, and even Jewish organizations—fail to confront rising Jew-hatred

Collier and Hassan-Nahoum also explore how modern antisemitism is masked as anti-Zionism, how the UK’s demographic shifts empower Islamist narratives and why legacy media like the BBC are losing credibility with the public. They discuss the silent complicity of Western journalists who source content from Hamas-aligned fixers in Gaza and the structural failures that allow disinformation to spread unchecked. With chilling insight into the mechanics of propaganda, Collier makes the case for dismantling biased media institutions and rebuilding them with integrity.

Chapters
00:00 Uncovering the Truth: David Collier's Journey
02:48 The Rise of Antisemitism: A Deep Dive
05:56 The BBC's Agenda: A Critical Examination
09:05 Inside the Anti-Zionist Movement: David's Experiences
11:59 The BBC Documentary Controversy: A Closer Look
15:03 The Fallout: Implications of David's Findings
19:49 Media Bias and the Gaza Narrative
22:54 The Role of Journalists in Conflict Zones
25:52 The Crisis of Legacy Media
29:12 Rebuilding Trust in Journalism
32:18 The Impact of AI on Information
35:19 Cultural Challenges in the UK
40:14 The Fight for Truth and Accountability


ADL announces policy change to conference sponsorship after anti-Israel speakers revealed
After an annual conference on combating antisemitism in law featured speakers affiliated with anti-Zionist organizations last week, the Anti-Defamation League, one of the event’s sponsors, announced a policy shift on Wednesday.

The antisemitism watchdog’s future participation and sponsorship in the conference “will be contingent on our ability to exclude such extraordinarily inappropriate speakers,” the group told Jewish Insider.

The fourth annual Law vs. Antisemitism conference, which was held this year at UCLA for two days beginning on March 23, included University of Toronto law professor Mohammed Fadel; Thomas Harvey, a civil rights lawyer representing Faculty for Justice in Palestine; and Ben Lorber, a former campus coordinator for Jewish Voice for Peace. Attendees told JI that several of the speakers used the event to promote anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric — including a panel where Fadel “defined Zionism as an ideology of Jewish ethnic supremacy.”

When JI originally reported on the event on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the ADL declined to weigh in on any of the controversial speakers, instead noting that the group was “pleased to co-sponsor the conference and to support bringing legal academics and representatives of Jewish organizations together to discuss these issues.”

“The organizers deserve credit for productively calling attention to ways in which the legal system can help address antisemitism,” the ADL said.

But the following day the ADL — which did not have a role in selecting speakers — suggested there will be a change of course going forward in its sponsorship of the event, which it has helped fund since the inaugural conference in 2021.

“It’s deeply troubling that the organizers of this conference invited a former JVP coordinator and other problematic speakers without consulting us,” the ADL said. “JVP is despicable and too far outside the mainstream to be a credible participant. Our future sponsorship and participation in an otherwise important conference will be contingent on our ability to exclude such extraordinarily inappropriate speakers.”
Jake Wallis Simons: We see what you’re doing, Sadiq Khan
I would’t object so much – not at all, in fact – if the activists had been protesting against the jihadis of Hamas, who continue to hold Israeli hostages, crush Palestinian dissent under their jackboots and started this war in the first place. But instead, the marchers tend to be unequivocal in their support for the “resistance”, which according to their slogans is “justified”.

OK. Only last week, those very “resistance” fighters kidnapped 22-year-old activist Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai, one of the leaders of the ongoing uprising against Hamas in Gaza, and subjected him to four hours of torture before dumping him on his family’s doorstep to die of his wounds. Was that “justified” too?

You got to hand it to these people. While a young man in Gaza is murdered for resisting jihadism, people of his own age are marching happily through the streets of London to express their support for his murderers, applauded by the mayor himself. Chutzpah level: God.

This morning, I spoke to to my friend in Gaza on the phone. He has been a committed participant in the rallies against Hamas, which he described as significant but not yet at any kind of tipping point.

We spoke about Sadiq Khan’s beloved Palestine marches in London, in every way the mirror image of the ones my friend supports. He was unimpressed. “The keffiyeh people in London, if they like Hamas so much, they can come to replace me,” he remarked, ruefully. “They can stay here for a few weeks, or even one day will be enough.

“I want to see how they will manage to go to the bathroom, for example, or take a shower. I want to see that, I want to see how they deal with it.

“It takes me five hours to have a shower. I have to get the water, heat it with a fire, get cold water to make a mix, close my privacy. They can come and live like that in a tent for a week and see how they feel then. Anyway, they need a transgender bathroom.”

I found myself wishing that I could connect the call to the mayor’s office and have the two of them duke it out. But it wasn’t even the support for these useful idiots and their antisemitic activist leaders that was most egregious in Khan’s message. It was the way he shamelessly appropriated the suffering of the Sudanese as a cover for his true agenda.

You deny it? Answer me this. In what way precisely have Londoners not “averted their gaze” from the war in Sudan? It strikes me that the overwhelming majority have never heard of it in the first place. Mr Khan: forget the tree. Just admit that you’re an elephant.
Sadiq Khan Is A Disgrace
The Mayor Of London turned his Eid video message into an Israel-hating, antisemitic blood libel.




Sadiq Khan responds to backlash over Gaza comments
In response, a spokesperson for the Mayor’s office told Jewish News: “The mayor has repeatedly conveyed his outrage at attacks by Hamas on Israel and has strongly condemned these acts of terrorism.. He is deeply saddened by the loss of all lives and continues to support calls for a permanent ceasefire.”

The mayor’s office did not clarify his comment describing Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza as “betraying humanity”.

A spokesperson at the embassy of Israel to the UK said the office was “deeply dismayed by the message from Sadiq Khan,” adding: “We would like to emphasise to Mr Khan that the war is a result of the brutal and horrific attack by Hamas, a proscribed terror organisation in the UK. It is alarming that throughout the message, there is no mention of Hamas or any condemnation of terrorism and a call for the release of 59 hostages that are being held in horrific and inhumane conditions.”

The statement continues: “Ultimately, Hamas terrorists murdered people of all faiths and none with impunity on 7 October. Indeed, in recent days, Hamas has tortured and murdered many Gazans protesting against the terror group, including Uday al-Rabbay. The values Mr Khan speaks of must not be applied selectively.

“Furthermore, the death toll Mr Khan reports is taken from Hamas propaganda and thus not based on facts, nor do they differentiate between combatants and non-combatants. Even this week, Hamas again tampered with the death toll that they reported. Amid the alarming increase in antisemitic incidents across the UK, it is crucial that we all act with the utmost responsibility.”

In an article titled ‘Sadiq Khan’s Eid message is a disgrace‘ for The Spectator, Jonathan Sacerdoti wrote: “Cloaked in the warm language of unity and peace, the mayor of London delivered a politicised monologue that whitewashes terrorism, stokes division and fundamentally misrepresents the moral landscape of the Israel–Palestinian conflict.”


Shabbos Kestenbaum: Harvard Discriminated Against Me and Other Jews. Trump Is Right To Threaten Its Funding
Ignoring the fact that more professors are outraged at President Donald Trump's threatening to withhold federal funds than they are at their own students being followed to class by alleged “security marshals,” Harvard has consistently refused to enforce their internal school policies.

Although the University adopted a half-measured settlement in a seemingly desperate attempt to appease the newly inaugurated Trump Administration, when the spirit of the settlement was broken by numerous unsanctioned protests with mask mandates occurring on campus, the University continued to do nothing.

Given that the expenditure of American taxpayer funds is an expression of values, we are brought to the inevitable conclusion that if Harvard insists on discriminating against a student group on campus, then they have forfeited their right to the privilege of receiving American taxpayer money.

In the same way that the federal government threatened to withhold funds from racist school districts that refused to integrate, the power of the purse is the last tool available to coerce Harvard to treat all its students with equality and justice.

In his latest attempt at moral blackmail, University President Alan M. Garber ’76 insisted that the cutting of such funds would endanger “life-saving” research. If Garber truly believes that the research Harvard conducts is “life-saving,” he should consider two important facts.

First, Harvard shouldn't have normalized antisemitism, knowing full well this would happen. Neither the Trump campaign nor I minced words. We had repeatedly warned that funding cuts were an option. The majority of the American people agreed, and re-elected Trump to do just that.

Second, he can simply dip into its $53 billion endowment to fund the research. It is peculiar that a rallying cry for the campus far-left is that an institution with savings larger than most countries’ GDPs should still be given corporate handouts.

Segregationists experienced the same treatment as Garber. When the federal government threatened to withhold funds from schools that refused to integrate black students in the 1950s and 1960s, such cuts inevitably disenfranchised white children who were caught in the crosshairs.

Yet, aggregate national interest outweighed temporary harm, and all students benefited as a result. I would add that President Garber can skip this painful step entirely by simply choosing to follow federal law, especially Title VI.

Ultimately, Harvard initiated this disaster itself. Rather than treating all students with dignity and respect, they played politics and have jeopardized all programs and departments as a result.

Will the withholding of federal funds entirely solve antisemitism on college campuses? Certainly not. But that doesn’t mean the American taxpayer should be subsidizing it.


ADL’s Greenblatt Backpedals on Hamas Supporter Deportations
In a self-contradictory op-ed that tries to have it both ways, Greenblatt expresses appreciation for the Trump administration taking on antisemitism, but then dissolves into a puddle of objections involving “due process” and “constitutional values” that must take priority over securing the rights of Jews.

The Trump administration has gone ahead and pulled visas for people who publicly supported terrorism or were involved with groups that did, or broke the law by taking part in illegal activities including ‘occupations’. This is not a “constitutional” issue. And the due process involves identifying this behavior.

Greenblatt is under a lot of pressure from anti-Israel groups and media outlets. A few days, Matt Bai of the Washington Post launched a vitriolic attack on Greenblatt, claiming that the ADL could not be considered a “civil rights group” if it supported the arrest and deportation of those who target Jews.

“You can’t call yourself a civil rights organization in the United States right now — let alone a civil rights organization for a minority that has been brutally evicted all over the world — and not loudly oppose the cruel and unlawful removal of foreigners whose views happen to be out of fashion,” Bai argued.

Except that the “views” in this case involve the murder of Jews and the assault on Jews in this country and they are quite in “fashion” which is why the entire Left, including Matt Bai and the Washington Post, have risen to the defense of these Hamas supporters.

And why Greenblatt and the ADL are once again turning their backs on Jewish civil rights to defer to leftist antisemites.

It’s why liberal groups can’t be counted on to defend Jews.
Columbia 'Environmental Justice' Lecturer Endorses Palestinian 'Resistance in All Its Forms,' Calls for an End to Zionism
A Columbia University "environmental justice" lecturer endorsed Palestinian "resistance in ALL its forms" shortly after the Oct. 7 terror attack and called for an end to Zionism, a Washington Free Beacon review of her social media posts found. She also described Hamas’s underground tunnels as "an essential form of resistance."

The lecturer, Hadeel Assali, runs Columbia’s "Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice" seminar. She’s also a postdoctoral research scholar—a position supported by a grant from the university’s Graduate Equity Initiative, according to her Columbia bio. Her work focuses on the "ongoing colonial legacies of the discipline of geology as well as anti-colonial ways of knowing and relating to the earth in southern Palestine."

"Keep fighting for #ceasefire keep fighting for #Palestine to be free from the river to the sea, keep supporting our resistance in ALL its forms," Assali wrote in an Instagram post on Dec. 6, 2023, just two months after Hamas massacred over 1,200 Israeli civilians. Just over a year later, Assali wrote in a Jan. 14, 2025, post, "May we see the end of Zionism and the liberation of Palestine within our lifetime." She’s also used her Instagram account, which has nearly 3,400 followers, to fundraise for Palestinians in Gaza. She switched her account to private after publication of this story.

Assali’s radical rhetoric underscores Columbia’s struggle to rein in campus anti-Semitism, which has caused leadership instability and cost the university $430 million in federal funding.
Columbia University must act against CUAD
The U.S. government’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Hamas ringleader of the chaos at Columbia University, has cast a bright light on the university’s moral collapse.

Khalil is the admitted spokesperson and “mediator” for Columbia University Apartheid Divest. CUAD, as it is known, is an intersectional, neo-Marxist/Islamist group that sees “Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation.”

Utilizing classic Soviet verbiage, it seeks “an end to all interlocking systems of oppression through collective action and solidarity with oppressed people worldwide.” CUAD was reconstituted shortly after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, leveraging “Palestine as central to broader movements for collective liberation.”

In its Nov. 14, 2023, manifesto, published in The Columbia Spectator school newspaper, CUAD listed 94 student groups as members. It is not known how many of these groups are officially recognized student clubs by Columbia, but presumably, many are. Columbia did derecognize the two lead groups—Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace—for their disruptive activities. It is not known whether CUAD is officially recognized by Columbia, but the university’s Undergraduate Student Life office does not permit unrecognized groups to use the name “Columbia University.”

On Nov. 7, 2024, a year and one month after the atrocities on Oct. 7, CUAD took its radical mission to a new extreme, publishing a “Tribute to Yahya Sinwar,” the mastermind behind the assault that amounted to Hamas’s declaration of war against Israel. It was Sinwar who led Hamas as it killed more than 1,200 people (including more than 40 Americans) and took 251 hostage back to Gaza.

In its tribute, which was dripping with KGB and Islamist-inspired bombast against Israel and America, CUAD virtually deified Sinwar, saying, “Yahya Sinwar was not afraid to die. Throughout his time with the resistance, Sinwar consistently upheld martyrdom, discipline, and self-sacrifice as fundamental tenets of the revolutionary lifestyle. … As members of the collective pursuit of Palestinian freedom, each of us should look to him as a clear illustration of what it means to devote a full lifetime to the intifada.”

CUAD continued writing, “Yahya Sinwar and his resilience will live in the hearts of many, and he will be remembered as a brave man who did not give up on his goal to defeat the zionist [sic] entity until his last breath. The Palestinian people and their steadfast resistance remain our compass, and we continue to work towards our goals here at Columbia.”


Welcome to Columbia: Keffiyeh-Clad Activists Chain Themselves to Campus Gate, Call for 'Intifada'
Several Columbia University student activists chained themselves to a school gate Wednesday afternoon, chanting "globalize the intifada" as prospective students walked by.

The four unmasked protesters secured to the St. Paul’s Chapel gate, which serves as a campus entrance, were joined by additional students behind them, wearing masks and holding signs that read "Pigs aren’t kosher," "Israel bombs, Columbia pays," and "ICE off campus." The group assembled to demand the names of the trustees who "collaborated" with the Trump administration, resulting in the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil.

As a group of prospective students and their families passed by, the anti-Israel agitators chanted, "There is only one solution, intifada revolution," and "Intifada, intifada, globalize the intifada."

Columbia’s Public Safety removed the chains after several hours and escorted the activists through the gate, where they continued their protest. Later in the evening, Public Safety removed a second group that had chained themselves to a nearby fence on campus.

Wednesday’s events unfolded amid Columbia’s ongoing battle to curb rampant campus anti-Semitism, a crisis that has destabilized its leadership and triggered a $430 million loss in federal funding. On Friday, Claire Shipman, co-chair of Columbia’s Board of Trustees, stepped into the role of acting president following the abrupt resignation of Katrina Armstrong, who exited after just seven months at the helm.

It’s unclear whether the protesters’ stunt will dissuade or encourage the prospective students from attending Columbia. A university report published Monday noted that Columbia has "maintained a tradition of student-led political protest" since the Vietnam War.

A university spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon that the protest "constitutes violations of the Rules of University Conduct."


Another Pro-Hamas Student Faces Deportation
The latest candidate for deportation is Badar Khan Suri:
Suri is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown’s Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which is part of the university’s School of Foreign Service. His arrest was first reported by Politico….

The Saudi-funded Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding was founded by John Esposito — the name of its greatest benefactor, Alwaleed Bin Talal, was added later — who is an energetic defender and promoter of Islam. The Center is devoted to persuading Christians that they have nothing to fear either from Muslims or from the faith of Islam, and Christians are encouraged to believe that Islam and Christianity are compatible, whereas Judaism remains worrisome for both.

Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, is a US citizen, said his lawyer. Saleh is from Gaza, according to the Georgetown University website, which said she has written for Al Jazeera and Palestinian media outlets and worked with the foreign ministry in Gaza. Saleh has not been arrested, the lawyer added.

Suri’s wife writes for Al Jazeera, the pro-Hamas news channel funded entirely by the government of Qatar. Qatar has provided refuge to several of the top Hamas leaders, including Khaled Meshaal and the late Ismail Haniyeh, and given huge financial support to Hamas as well, some $1.8 billion to date. Saleh has not been detained, or threatened with deportation, as yet; she enjoys a higher degree of protection, against deportation, as a U.S. citizen, than her husband.

Pro-Palestinian protesters are antisemitic if they call for the destruction of the only Jewish state, and the expulsion or killing of all of its Jewish inhabitants, so that it can be replaced by a 23rd Arab state. They are antisemitic if they surround and hold captive, however briefly, Jewish students, while screaming such slogans as “Intifada Now” at Jewish — not Israeli but Jewish — students. They are antisemitic if they harass and even pummel Jewish students who simply had the misfortune to be walking across the campus while a protest was going on.


DePaul University sued for Jew-hatred on campus, including assault
The Lawfare Project, with co-counsel Grant & Eisenhofer P.A, has filed a lawsuit against DePaul University in Chicago on behalf of two students who allege antisemitic discrimination, the organization announced on Wednesday.

The two Jewish students, Max Long and Michael Kaminsky, were tabling for Israel on campus—something Kaminsky told JNS they did every week—when they were approached by masked assailants and attacked. Long, an IDF reservist, was beaten to the point of concussion, and Michael sustained an injury to his wrist that required surgery.

Long no longer attends in-person classes for fear of his safety, Kaminsky told JNS at the StandWithUs International Conference in Los Angeles last month.

The lawsuit alleges that during this altercation, “DePaul public safety officers stood idly by and watched the assault unfold.” The complaint also states that after the incident, pro-Hamas groups continued to broadcast Long’s photo on social media and fliers around campus, branding him as “wanted,” referring to him as an “IDF butcher” and stating Long “got what he deserved,” in reference to the assault.

Before the assault, the complaint alleges “there had been repeated acts of violence and other criminal behavior on DePaul’s campus against Jewish and/or Israeli students, including acts against Max and Michael specifically,” and that DePaul’s administration “failed to take any decisive action.”


THE IRAN BREAKDOWN | The Israeli Perspective (Mark Dubowitz featuring Yair Lapid and Eyal Hulata)
"Death to Israel, the little satan!"
It's all too familiar, this rallying cry of Islamic Republic regime officials and their sympathizers — they've been chanting this for almost 50 years now. But make no mistake: they mean what they say.

With its terrorist proxies across the region, the Iran threat has been knocking at Israel's door for decades. But on October 7, 2023, they knocked down the door—what was previously considered a "war between wars" came out of the shadows and into plain sight.

Tehran activated its regional terror proxies like Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthi rebels in Yemen to pile on with direct rocket attacks in an attempt to overwhelm Israel's already-taxed security apparatus. And in an unprecedented move — not once but twice in recent months — a missile attack on Israel was launched directly from Tehran.

As the new Trump administration grapples with how to face the Iran threat, understanding the Israeli perspective will be vital.

To help us do just that, host Mark Dubowitz speaks with Israel's former Prime Minister Yair Lapid as well as with former Israeli national security advisor Eyal Hulata, now a senior international fellow at FDD.


THE IRAN BREAKDOWN | Woman, Life, Freedom (Mark Dubowitz featuring Masih Alinejad)
In today’s episode, host Mark Dubowitz is joined by one of the Iranian regime's most fearless enemies, Masih Alinejad. Masih is not just a journalist or an activist—she’s a one-woman revolution. Born in Iran, exiled for speaking truth to power, and now living under constant threat, Masih has become a voice for the voiceless, especially for Iranian women fighting back against the regime's brutality. Her campaigns, My Stealthy Freedom, White Wednesdays, and United for Navid all went viral. Her social media platforms have become lifelines for Iranians risking everything to protest.

The regime sees her as a threat, and they've tried to silence her the only way they know how, through violence. In the past few years, the Islamic Republic has made multiple attempts to kidnap or assassinate her on US soil. A New York court recently convicted two men for their roles in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Iranian operatives to assassinate Masih right in Brooklyn. We break down her story, the verdict, and what it tells us about the regime's global terror machine.


Embassies in Israel mark 25 years since Stockholm Declaration that laid groundwork for IHRA
The American, British and Swedish embassies in Israel marked the 25th anniversary of the Stockholm Declaration during a joint event at the U.K. ambassador’s residence in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

The Stockholm Declaration—signed in 2000 by the United States, United Kingdom and Swedish governments—is the foundation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and underscores the commitment of its member states to Holocaust education, remembrance and research.

The gathering, held ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) on April 23-24, brought together envoys of IHRA member states and representatives of organizations dedicated to preserving the memory of the 1941-1945 mass murder of Jews.

Attendees heard testimony from 99-year-old Michael Smuss, the last remaining survivor of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He told of his experiences smuggling supplies into the ghetto and surviving Treblinka.

U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Stephanie Hallett, British Ambassador Simon Walters and Swedish Ambassador Alexandra Rydmark delivered remarks, as well as IHRA Chairman Dani Dayan of Yad Vashem.

Ambassadors to Israel from 18 additional IHRA member countries, including Germany, Poland, Italy and Canada attended the event.

“We are committed to combating the rise of antisemitism in the United States and around the world,” Hallett declared in her remarks.
64% of Jews experienced antisemitism in workplace since October 7 - UK survey
Since the October 7 massacre, 64% of British Jewish employees experienced antisemitism in their workplaces, according to a survey published Tuesday by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council and Work Avenue.

The online survey conducted at the end of 2024 found that 11.5% of respondents frequently experienced antisemitism from colleagues or clients since October 2023, while 52% said rarely or occasionally. Thirty-six percent of participants said they had never experienced antisemitism.

The 427 survey participants related 128 incidents that occurred in conversations that they were part of, and another 83 that they overheard. Some 102 incidents occurred over email and internal communications, and 109 over text messages. Another 32 incidents occurred over social media, which the report said indicated the overlap between personal and professional life.
Fine Gael suspends councillor from party for 18 months for saying US economy ‘ruled by the Jews’
FINE GAEL HAS suspended its councillor Punam Rane over comments she made last year about Jewish people and Israel at a Dublin City Council meeting.

In a statement this evening, the party said the Fine Gael Hearing Committee has determined that “comments made by Councillor Punam Rane at a meeting of Dublin City Council in October 2024 amount to misconduct”.

Rane, who is a councillor for Kimmage-Rathmines, is to be suspended from all rights and privileges of party membership for a period of 18 months.

She has also been requested to formally withdraw her comments in writing to the Lord Mayor and to “include in that a repeat of her previous apology to members of the Jewish community”.

She has also been requested to undergo appropriate training.

Rane faced an immediate backlash after she claimed that the “entire US economy is ruled by the Jews, by Israel” at a Dublin City Council meeting last October.

One common antisemitic trope is to suggest that Jewish people run the world or control the media.

The comments came during a debate about a motion demanding that the Irish Government enact the Occupied Territories Bill, which would ban trade between Ireland and illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine.

Rane was the last councillor to make a statement during the debate and claimed that it was evident the United States is no longer the global “superpower” it once was as the country “hasn’t taken a stance” against Israel’s offensive in Gaza.


41 Israelis make Forbes billionaires club; Wiz founders double fortunes
The Israeli founders of cloud security firm Wiz, which was sold last month to Google in a historic $32 billion deal, more than doubled their fortunes over the past year, according to Forbes’ uber-exclusive roster of the world’s richest people. Forty-one Israelis made this year’s Forbes list of billionaires, up by four from last year.

Now with a net worth of about $2.1 billion each, Wiz co-founders Assaf Rappaport, 41, Yinon Costica, 42, Ami Luttwak, 41, and Roy Reznik, 36, were already part of the ranking after entering the billionaires club last year with a net worth of about $1 billion each.

This year they were joined by newcomers Canadian-Israeli philanthropist Sylvan Adams, 66, with a net worth of $2.8 billion; Ishay Davidi, 63, founder of private equity firm FIMI Opportunity Funds, with $1.8 billion; real estate businessman Yigal Dimri with $1.2 billion; and Oran Holtzman, 41, founder of Oddity Tech with $1 billion in the list released late on Tuesday.

The highest-ranked Israeli was Miriam Adelson, 79, the widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who was listed as the 56th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $32.1 billion. Adelson is from Israel, but Forbes placed her in the US in its annual ranking of the world’s richest people, since she holds American citizenship and is based in Las Vegas. Miriam Adelson arrives for the 60th US Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)

As in 2024, Israeli-born shipping and real estate magnate Eyal Ofer, 74, was ranked the wealthiest person listed by Forbes as Israeli, at 68th place globally with a fortune of $28.2 billion, up from 84th place last year.
Fitness influencer to run marathon dressed as Batman in honour of Bibas family
On Wednesday, Yoel Levy celebrated his 26th birthday not by eating cake and indulging as one might expect. Instead, he was preparing his body and mind to complete the International Jerusalem Winner Marathon, which is set to take place tomorrow.

Levy, known to his 154,000 Instagram followers as The Jewish Fitness coach, is taking on the race dressed as Batman in memory of Ariel and Kfir Bibas and their mother Shiri, who were held hostage before being brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists. Images of the young family donning various Batman t-shirts and costumes became some of the abiding images following the atrocities of October 7. They have taken on even greater meaning since the Bibas deaths were confirmed, the memory of their coffins being transferred to the Israeli authorities impossible to shake off.

Levy reveals he decided to tackle the hilly Jerusalem marathon, which he tells me contains “more elevation than the London, Berlin and New York [marathons] together,” after completing the Dead Sea Half Marathon back in February. However, he wondered “how else can I make it a bit more special?” He decided on the Batman costume following the widespread horror at the murder of the Bibas family members.

There is another meaningful aspect to his marathon too. Levy is raising money for Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, which is based in Jerusalem. The organisation does work to provide a space for children with conditions such as Down syndrome and autism, as well as their families, allowing them to receive some care and respite.

Levy’s sister Hannah has Down syndrome and often appears in his social media content as well as finishing runs with him. His cousin in Israel also has the condition and goes to Shalva every afternoon. “I know a lot of people who volunteer, and it’s just such a lovely organisation,” says Levy, who is aiming to raise a total of £5000.
Israel’s Moshe Zuares elected to top UEFA committee
Israel Football Association Chairman Moshe “Shino” Zuares was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee, the top governing body of European soccer, the organization announced on Thursday.

Zuares was voted in for a two-year term alongside Royal Spanish Football Federation President Abal Rafael Louzán, UEFA stated.

Zuares received 31 votes from the 55 national federations as one of five candidates for two vacant seats through 2027 on the ruling board. Louzán retained his seat with 32 votes.

Ukrainian Football Association President Andriy Shevchenko failed in his bid to be elected to the seat vacated by Russia’s Alexander Dyukov on Wednesday, garnering just 15 votes from fellow members, the Associated Press reported.

Zuares, who became the president of the Jewish state’s national soccer association in 2019 and was re-elected in 2022, campaigned across Europe, visiting almost every member association.

Last month, the Palestinian Authority’s Football Association called on UEFA chief Aleksander Čeferin to bar Zuares from running for a seat.

In the letter to Čeferin, Ramallah’s soccer association noted that Zuares visited an Israeli Air Force base during the current war against Hamas terrorists, where he reportedly told military personnel, “Together, we will win.”

The P.A. group expressed “profound disappointment” that Zuares was able to pass eligibility checks carried out by UEFA’s electoral committee.

In October, two prominent Israeli research institutes lodged a complaint with the world soccer body FIFA against Palestinian Football Association head Jabril Rajoub for using sports to promote terrorism and violence in violation of FIFA regulations.

In 2023, Rajoub said that the Hamas -led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, in which Gazan terrorists killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 others, was “heroic” and came “in the context of the defensive war our people are waging.”


Sotheby’s unveils oldest known Kiddush cup with rare Hebrew-Arabic inscriptions
The oldest known Kiddush cup in existence has been revealed by Sotheby’s and will go on public display for the first time in London later this month.

Named the “Cup of Joy”, the 11th-12th century silver goblet is expected to fetch between £2.4-4 million when it goes to auction in New York this October.

The medieval artefact, discovered in a private collection, is thought to originate from the Khorasan region along the Silk Road – an area that once hosted a thriving Jewish community. It is the only known piece of medieval Judaica from this early period still in existence.

“This cup is an extraordinarily rare record of the existence and importance of Jewish communities in Central Asia and in the The “Cup of Joy”, the earliest known Kiddush cup, features rare Hebrew and Arabic inscriptions and dates to 11th–12th century Central Asia. Photo Credit: Sotheby’s

Middle Ages,” said Sharon Liberman Mintz, Sotheby’s International Senior Judaica Specialist. “Its survival for nearly a millennium is truly remarkable.”

Decorated with blessings in both Hebrew and Arabic, the cup is inscribed: “Simcha son of Salman, Simcha may he live for Eternity,” along with: “With Good-fortune, and Blessing, and Joy and Joy, and Happiness… Long Life to its owner.”

Experts believe the doubled Arabic word joy, surur, mirrors the Hebrew name Simcha, which also appears twice – a rare example of interfaith artistic symbolism.


Unexpected Debra Messing: Grace, Grit, and Jewish Pride
In the premiere episode of And They’re Jewish, Hen Mazzig sits down with Emmy-winning actress and outspoken advocate Debra Messing for an intimate conversation about identity, courage, and being loudly, proudly Jewish in today’s world. From her iconic role in Will & Grace to her fearless activism, Debra shares the roots of her Jewish pride, the moments that shaped her voice, and why she refuses to stay silent.




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