Wednesday, September 03, 2025

09/03 Links Pt2: Antisemitism Needs Hosts to Survive; Mosab Hassan Yousef: Honoring a Voice of Strength Against Israel’s Enemies; Chris Martin’s comments leave fans mortified

From Ian:

NGO Monitor: Dutch-Funded Terror-Linked NGOs Suing the Netherlands
At the end of 2024, a consortium of Dutch, Dutch-funded, and terror-linked Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) filed a lawsuit against the Netherlands, alleging that it is abetting Israeli violations of international law. NGO plaintiffs included Al Mezan and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – both Dutch-funded and terror-linked – as well as Al-Haq, an Israel-designated terrorist organization. They were joined by Dutch NGOs SOMO and Groningen-Jabalya (both funded by the Netherlands), as well as the Netherlands-based European Legal Support Center (ELSC), Palestine Foundation, Plant een Olijfboom, Kifaia Foundation, Nederlands Palestina Komitee (NPK), Een Ander Joods Geluid, and Erev Rav.

The involvement of NGOs with strong ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Hamas, both EU-designated terrorist organizations, in an attempt to impose an arms embargo against Israel, is deeply concerning. In addition, the phenomenon of NGOs that receive funding from the Netherlands using the Dutch legal system to influence Dutch foreign policy raises questions about democratic norms and internal policy coherence. About the Lawsuit

In October 2024, the aforementioned NGOs filed a civil lawsuit against the Dutch government, alleging that the Netherlands “is not doing enough to prevent or end the violations and crimes committed by Israel,” citing the Genocide Convention and the Geneva Conventions, as well as the an International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion issued in July 2024 within the framework of South Africa’s case against Israel.

The coalition was seeking to implement “[a] ban on Dutch export and transit of weapons, weapon parts, and dual-use items to Israel” as well as “[a] ban on all Dutch trade and investment relations that help maintain the illegal occupation, racial segregation, and colonisation” (emphasis added), claiming that “[any] economic dealing with companies that operate in Israeli settlements is illegal.”

In December 2024, the District Court of The Hague rejected the NGOs’ petition on the grounds that the Netherlands “complies with [its] obligation” to “assess whether there is a clear risk that the goods could be used by Israel in a manner that could lead to a violation of the humanitarian law of war.” The coalition filed an appeal in March 2025.

In July 2025, SOMO announced that the NGOs will appear before the Dutch Court of Appeal on September 3, 2025, to challenge the December 2024 ruling.

This legal action is part of longstanding lawfare campaigns by NGOs in the Netherlands, including a civil suit launched by Oxfam Novib, PAX and The Rights Forum against the Dutch government, seeking to prevent the transfer of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel. A High Court ruling in that case is still pending.
CAMERA Letter in the WSJ_ Antisemitism Needs Hosts to Survive
Ambassador Kushner is right to express his concern over the rise of antisemitism in France. And he’s correct to note “the lack of sufficient action” by the French government. However, it is worth noting that previous French governments were not only complacent in combating antisemitism. Rather, a number of them have enabled some of its worst purveyors.

Amin Al-Husseini, the founding father of Palestinian nationalism and an infamous Nazi collaborator, was briefly given refuge in France after World War II. Husseini had helped recruit Waffen SS regiments in the Balkans and served as Hitler’s chief Arab propagandist. He incited pogroms from Jerusalem to Baghdad. Yet France gave him a villa in the Parisian suburbs, two secretaries and a cook, with the director general of the Quai d’Orsay calling for the man nicknamed “Hitler’s Mufti” to be “treated with consideration.”

Three decades later France gave sanctuary to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the regime which calls for, and actively seeks, the destruction of the Jewish state. Like Husseini before him, Khomeini was provided with housing and security by French authorities. Khomeini left France for Iran, launching another regime committed to the genocide of Jews.

History tells us that antisemitism, like other deadly viruses, needs hosts to survive.
Letter in the Canberra Times: Comparisons are hurtful, flawed and they cross a line
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism has been adopted by 44 countries, including Australia and most other Western nations, and is supported by the UN, the EU, the Organisation of American States and the Council of Europe. Included in its examples of antisemitism are “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”

It should be self-evident that it is particularly hurtful to Jewish people, and completely baseless. Yet this is the entire basis of Mark Kenny’s appalling column “The atrocities keep coming” (August 31). The Nazis industrialised their slaughter of the Jews, even to the detriment of their war effort. Israel is trying to defeat the genocidal terrorist group that attacked it, while evacuating and warning civilians, to the detriment of its war effort. It is not murdering them, as Kenny claims, nor starving them – Hamas causes starvation by stealing huge quantities of food, as UN figures demonstrate.

Kenny also claims it’s “the most imponderable of all” that the Jews would claim the “ground of others” for their state and force the Arabs out. They didn’t. They claimed the Jewish homeland, where Jews are indigenous and have lived for thousands of years. They accepted the UN plan to partition the land, but the Arabs refused, and it was the war the Arabs started that caused the refugees. The “right of return” of the many millions of descendants of these refugees, as Kenny calls for, would endanger Jewish self-determination there or worse.


Nicole Lampert: There’s nothing shameful about being Israeli
The whole episode was chilling in a couple of ways. One of them is that Martin – so profoundly lyrical in his music writing – stammered inanities. So keen was he to avoid offence and being cancelled himself that he had to remind people that Israelis are humans too in the most dehumanising of ways. It is also an indication of how far society has gone in hating the Israeli, and therefore the Zionist and the Jew, once again.

There should be nothing offensive about being a Jew coming from the indigenous Jewish homeland, a country which has had to fight for its existence since its modern inception and which is fighting a war against Islamist terrorism – even if many fail to recognise the genocidal aims of Hamas and many music acts even celebrate them.

For me, this is a symptom of a bigger societal problem in which anti-Semitism is at record levels, where calling Jews baby killers – that blood libel that has come down the centuries from mediaeval England – is echoed from schools and universities to the world of the arts.

The problem starts from the top, where our government has pledged to give the Palestinians a state even as Hamas continues to hold onto 48 hostages – 20 of them living and being tortured and starved – in what can only be seen as a reward for October 7.

Keir Starmer became Labour leader promising to stamp out anti-Semitism in his party: instead, as PM, he has presided over an orgy of hatred, leaving our Jewish community wondering whether it has a future in this country.

The booing of the young Israelis was symptomatic of a modern form of an ancient hatred. The Jew was booed by everyone from the Romans, who destroyed Jerusalem, to the Nazis, who booed and then murdered. And it won’t end until someone has the balls to say it is wrong. But who dares go against the crowd?
‘Picking his words’: Chris Martin’s comments leave fans mortified
Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel expresses discomfort over Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin's comments about equality, highlighting a perceived bias against Israelis.

Ms Haskel emphasised the global threat posed by Iran, noting its support for radical groups and the troubling reception of its president by various nations.

“It was only when an Israeli was on his stage that he reacted so differently, so awkwardly, you could see that doesn’t come naturally and you could see he’s very, very carefully picking his words,” Ms Haskel told Sky News host Sharri Markson.


What Matters Now to Deborah Conway & Tamar Paluch: Australia is rife with antisemitism
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with Australians Tamar Paluch and Deborah Conway about “Ruptured, Jewish Women in Australia Reflect on Life Post-October 7,” a book of essays.

Paluch, who edited the book with Lee Kofman, discusses how the idea came from a painful place, following the events of October 7 that brought a deluge of antisemitism upon Australia’s Jewish community.

She talks about putting together a book written and edited by women. The silence of women’s organizations regarding the sexual crimes committed by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attack prompted her and her co-editor to launch the project.

Conway, one of the contributors and a well-known Australian musician and performing artist, speaks about the antisemitism and hatred she experienced in the wake of October 7; many of her appearances and performances were canceled and sometimes interrupted by virulent pro-Palestinian protestors.

Both women discuss the historical background of Australian Jewry, the sense that the dream of a Jewish paradise has ended, and how they plan on moving forward.
Australian, Israeli citizens to protest at Australian embassy about antisemitism, weakened ties
Australians and Israelis are set to rally outside the Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv on Friday, protesting what they see as Canberra’s failures to address rising antisemitism in the country and policies that have weakened diplomatic ties with Jerusalem.

Demonstrators have been directed to bring Australian and Israeli flags to the rally to urge Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government to do more to protect the Australian Jewish community amid a rise in violent incidents.

Since the October 7, 2023, massacre, Australia has seen a wave of antisemitic vandalism and arson attacks, including against synagogues.

Last Tuesday, Albanese alleged that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was responsible for at least two arson attacks on Jewish sites, leading to the expulsion of senior Iranian diplomats and the withdrawal of Canberra’s own mission in Tehran.

Protest organizers allege that Albanese’s August 11 proposal to recognize a Palestinian state had encouraged antisemitism and rewarded Hamas for committing the October 7 pogrom in southern Israel.

“Australia is giving a prize to terror by recognizing a Palestinian state,” Australian-Israeli event organizer Michael Frumer said in a press release.

“This irresponsible – even incomprehensible – move disincentivizes Hamas from reaching a ceasefire deal, since the terror group now believes it can achieve its goals through international pressure on Israel, instead of negotiation,” he added.

“The veteran Jewish community in Australia feels abandoned, and the Australian government must act immediately to protect its Jewish citizens and reaffirm its alliance with Israel,” he continued.

The organizers were also concerned about how the move had weakened ties between Australia and Israel. Israeli and Australian leaders have been locked in an extended exchange of jabs and insults since Canberra’s commitment to a Palestinian state.
CherylWroteIt: Mosab Hassan Yousef: Honoring a Voice of Strength Against Israel’s Enemies
A pivotal shift in Mosab’s worldview came through his spiritual awakening. In 1999, while in Jerusalem, he encountered Christians and delved into the Bible, drawn to teachings of love and forgiveness that contrasted sharply with Hamas’s doctrine of hate. Converting to Christianity in secret, he found a moral foundation that fueled his fight. No longer bound by the radical Islam that demanded endless war, Mosab embraced a vision where strength defends the vulnerable. His faith reinforced his commitment to stand against Israel’s enemies, seeing the conflict not just as territorial, but as a clash between civilization and barbarism.

By 2007, with his cover endangered, Mosab fled to the United States, seeking asylum and cutting ties with his past. His father disowned him publicly, branding him a traitor, but Mosab’s fighting spirit only intensified. In 2010, he published Son of Hamas, an explosive memoir that laid bare the organization’s corruption, brutality, and genocidal aims. The book, an international bestseller adapted into the 2014 documentary The Green Prince, became his weapon of choice… a voice that pierced the veil of propaganda. Through it, he warned the world that Hamas isn’t fighting for freedom. He warned that Hamas was waging a religious war to eradicate Israel and impose radical Islam.

In the years since, Mosab has emerged as one of the most vocal advocates for Israel’s security, using his platform to dismantle myths peddled by terror sympathizers. He condemns Hamas for its use of human shields, its embezzlement of aid, and its indoctrination of children into hatred, teaching them to glorify death through twisted school curricula and media.

In interviews and speeches, he argues that peace requires the total defeat of such groups, not negotiations that reward aggression. “Show no weakness to Hamas,” he declared in a recent appearance, emphasizing that any sign of hesitation ignites global jihad. His message is clear… Israel’s enemies thrive on division and appeasement, and only through military and moral strength can they be vanquished.

Mosab’s strength of voice has only amplified in recent years, particularly amid ongoing conflicts. Following the horrific October 7, 2023, attacks, he labeled the assault a “religious conquest” aimed at replacing Judaism and Christianity. He called Hamas a “death cult” and “neo-Nazi” movement, urging the world to recognize its threat to all free societies. In 2025, at age 47, Mosab made a rare visit to Israel in July for a special event at the forthcoming October 7 Museum, reaffirming his dedication to defending the Jewish people. There, he stressed that Hamas seeks to annihilate not just Israel, but the foundations of Western civilization.

Mosab has become an inspiration and voice to so many around the world. He epitomizes the fighting spirit. And I for one am grateful beyond words for all he does for our people.
"The Lie of Moderate Islam" — Yasmine Mohammed Exposes the Truth
Yasmine Mohammed is a Canadian human rights activist and author of "Unveiled". She escaped a forced marriage to an al-Qaeda member and now campaigns against Islamism’s grip on women and the West. In this raw and fearless conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti, she dismantles the illusion of “moderate Islam”, exposes the dangers of Western appeasement, and warns that what happened on October 7th is only the beginning.

From honour killings and forced veiling to Islam’s political takeover of Western institutions, Yasmin shows how the West’s silence, naivety, and suicidal empathy are fuelling the very forces that want to destroy it. She insists that the problem is not cultural quirks or isolated extremists, it is Islam itself, and unless the West wakes up, the snake will keep biting.

👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand is Islam can be reformed, and why Western denial is handing victory to its enemies.

💬 We Discuss:
👩‍🦱 Life as a woman under Sharia — from forced marriage to niqab
⚔️ Is Islam inherently totalitarian and violent?
📖 Is moderate or reformed Islam a myth?
🩸 Honour killings, blasphemy laws, and the price of free thought
🐍 The fable of the snake — and how it explains October 7th
🏳️‍🌈 How the Left betrays women and gays by defending Islamists
📚 Universities, media, and government captured by Islamist influence
🇮🇷 Why Iran’s protestors show more courage than the West
🪖 Hamas, ISIS, al-Qaeda — different names, same jihadist project
⚰️ Why silence in the West is cultural surrender


Dutch hospitals snub lecture by Israeli ICU head
Three Dutch hospitals last month have canceled or declined to host lectures by a senior Israeli physician who specializes in intensive care treatment, the Dutch media reported.

Separately, a tour boat operator in Amsterdam said it had fired one of its guides after he cut short a canal excursion for Israeli tourists, reportedly explaining to them last week that he “can’t be around” them.

The incidents are part of a stream of cases of exclusion of Israelis in Western Europe and beyond amid a wave of hostility, which critics say often carries antisemitic undertones, toward the Jewish state over its war on Hamas in Gaza.

Radboud Medical Center, Amsterdam University Medical Center and Leiden University Medical Center have declined a request by their own staff to host a lecture by Dr. Amit Frenkel, head of intensive care at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, about treating victims of multi-casualty events, including terrorist attacks, De Telegraaf reported last week.

In a letter last week explaining to a staffer the decision not to host Frenkel, Radboud Dean professor Jan W.A. Smit, cited “serious concerns” over safety, referencing the possibility of violence by anti-Israel activists. He added: “The topic of medical response to terrorist calamities is indeed an important subject. However, addressing this issue in the context of October 7 places the lecture immediately in the broader tragedy of the Israel-Hamas war,” and cannot be done in a “politically neutral fashion.”

Smit’s stated commitment to neutrality drew ire from Dutch Jews, who noted that the university employs a lecturer, Harry Pettit, who has repeatedly called for violence against Israelis, including in an Aug. 26 tweet in which he wrote: “’Israel’ will only be dismantled by force.”
Ireland’s deputy PM hears personal accounts of antisemitism from Irish Jews and voices ‘deep concern’
Ireland’s deputy prime minister has publicly acknowledged the level of antisemitism in the country following a meeting with representatives of Irish Jewry, who said the community’s “disappointment” in the country’s leaders could not be repaired in just one meeting.

The 14-strong Jewish delegation was made up of schoolchildren as young as 12, university lecturers and professors, communal leaders and the Chief Rabbi of Ireland Yoni Wieder.

That diversity was meant to “represent the fact that antisemitism is hitting all strands of Jewish people in many walks of life,” the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland said.

During the two-hour meeting on Tuesday, which took place at the request of the Tánaiste, Simon Harris TD said he was “deeply concerned” to hear about the level of intolerance and antisemitism and was “particularly concerned” at the accounts shared by Jewish students and young people, which he said was “entirely unacceptable”, according to a statement issued after the meeting. He said Ireland’s Jewish community was an “integral part of Irish society”.

“I want to be clear there can be no room for antisemitism in Irish society,” the statement read.

“The government is committed to upholding the rights, dignity and security of all in our Republic. I condemn antisemitism wherever it occurs, online and in the real world. We must do more to counter this scourge.”

He said the meeting was “an important step” in listening to the community’s concerns and “moving forward with implementation of the commitments relating to countering antisemitism in the Programme for Government.”


Columbia Taps Radical Anti-Israel Prof Who Has Accused Jewish State of Ethnic Cleansing To Lead Initiative on ‘Meaningful Dialogue’
Columbia University has tapped Jonathon Kahn, a Vassar College professor who has endorsed the "Palestinian struggle" as "an indigenous resistance movement confronting settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing," to spearhead an initiative promoting "meaningful dialogue."

Columbia College dean Josef Sorett, himself embroiled in a scandal over mocking Jewish leaders during a campus panel on anti-Semitism, announced the appointment on Tuesday. Kahn will serve as senior associate dean of community and culture, a role in which he "will build and lead initiatives that cultivate curiosity, civic purpose and meaningful dialogue," as Sorett put it.

The records of both Sorett and Kahn, however, raise questions about Columbia's commitment to civil discourse. In May 2021, after Hamas launched missiles into Israel, beginning a nearly two-week war, Kahn signed a letter that accused Israel of instigating the confrontation.

"We affirm that the Palestinian struggle is an indigenous resistance movement confronting settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people," the letter read. "This is not a symmetrical battle," it continued before noting any "so-called peace process" propagates a "fiction of a ‘two-sided conflict’ and the perpetual postponement of a just solution."

"In the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and within Israel, Palestinians resist daily humiliation and violence from the Israeli military, settler militias, and lynch mobs. We salute their bravery and steadfastness."

Kahn said in a statement sent to the Washington Free Beacon that he is "a Zionist" who "believe[s] deeply in Israel’s right to exist and thrive as a Jewish state" and also "deeply value[s] Palestinian life and Palestinians’ aspirations for statehood."

"My beliefs are not fully captured in this letter that was authored more than four years ago," he said. "I didn’t agree with every sentence then, and I still don’t. But I put my name to that letter at a time when I felt in deep disagreement with actions taken by the Israeli government and I wanted to signal my support for the Palestinian civilians who were suffering."
Trump admin must restore Harvard’s funding, federal judge rules
Allison Burroughs, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must restore more than $2.2 billion in federal funding to Harvard University.

“Although combating antisemitism is indisputably an important and worthy objective, nothing else in the administrative record supports defendants’ contention that they were primarily or even substantially motivated by that goal,” the judge wrote, “or that cutting funding to Harvard bore any relationship to achieving that aim.”

She added that “it is clear, even based solely on Harvard’s own admissions, that Harvard has been plagued by antisemitism in recent years and could, and should, have done a better job of dealing with the issue.” But, she wrote, “there is, in reality, little connection between the research affected by the grant terminations and antisemitism.”

The judge added that the Trump administration “used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities.”

Alan Garber, president of Harvard, stated that the ruling “validates our arguments in defense of the university’s academic freedom, critical scientific research and the core principles of American higher education.”

Madi Biedermann, deputy assistant secretary for communications at the U.S. Department of Education, told JNS that the ruling was “an unsurprising turn of events.”

“The same Obama-appointed judge that ruled in favor of Harvard’s illegal race-based admissions practices, which was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court, just ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to hold Harvard accountable for rampant discrimination on campus,” Biedermann said.

“Cleaning up our nation’s universities will be a long road but worth it,” she told JNS.
Judge orders University of Pittsburgh to reinstate Students for Justice in Palestine
A federal judge ordered the University of Pittsburgh to reinstate Students for Justice in Palestine after suspending its chapter earlier this year, saying that the school was unfairly restricting the group’s right to recruit students at the start of a new school year.

The decision comes as the school year kicks off with multiple battles over the pro-Palestinian group’s presence on college campuses, as the fallout continues from a crackdown on protest activity that drew allegations of antisemitism.

It also follows what advocates say was likely the largest financial penalty for suppressing pro-Palestinian student speech, against the University of Maryland over the summer.

SJP, one of the most prominent pro-Palestinian groups on college campuses, has frequently faced suspensions from universities amid the wave of campus protests during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Many chapters played leading roles in organizing pro-Palestinian encampments during the spring of 2024 that drew allegations of antisemitism.

Early on in Israel’s war in Gaza in November 2023, the SJP chapters at Columbia University, George Washington University and Brandeis University faced bans and suspensions over their anti-Israel rhetoric and activity.

Pitt suspended its SJP chapter in March for six months, alleging the group had disrupted its disciplinary process after publishing an open letter condemning its prosecution of a December 2024 overnight “study-in” at the campus library.
UMass Amherst reviews event it plans to host after learning organizer boycotts Israel
The University of Massachusetts Amherst, a highly ranked public school, is reviewing an upcoming conference that it plans to host in November after learning that the organizer excludes scholars who receive funding from Israeli institutions.

“The university has the matter under review,” Emily Gest, associate vice chancellor for news and media relations at the university, told JNS.

“The University of Massachusetts fundamentally opposes academic boycotts of any kind, including the BDS movement,” Gest said, referring to the movement to boycott Israel.

The Coalition of Women in German, a more than 50-year-old group based at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, which doesn’t state the size of its membership, is scheduled to hold a conference at UMass Amherst from Nov. 6 to Nov. 9.

Rory Lancman, senior counsel at the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, wrote to the university on Wednesday asking it to stop the group’s boycott policy.

“Israeli scholars must be allowed the same opportunities as scholars from every other country,” Lancman wrote. He added that the group “effectively bars Israeli students and academics from attending and participating” in the conference.


Columbia probes ‘potential violations’ of its anti-discrimination, harassment policies
Columbia University, which agreed to a $221 million settlement in July in a federal probe of Jew-hatred, stated on Sept. 2 that it is investigating “incidents that took place today and over the weekend that involve potential violations of the university’s student anti-discrimination and discriminatory harassment policies and university rules.”

“The university takes these incidents seriously, and the individuals involved are being notified that the university will immediately pursue its process for disciplinary action regarding their conduct,” Columbia stated.

“These individuals are being informed that further actions designed to intimidate or harass specific groups of students will not be tolerated and will result in immediate action, including interim measures ranging from campus access restrictions to interim suspensions,” it added. “Actions that target community members for harassment based on identity are a violation of our policies.”

Columbia didn’t mention antisemitism in its announcement. A social media account that identifies with Jewish and Israeli students at the Ivy League school posted what it said was an image of a spokesman for an anti-Israel encampment at Columbia in 2024 with a sign stating “some of your classmates were Israel occupation forces criminals committing genocide in Palestine.”

“Why is he still on campus?” the account stated. “Telling students to be automatically suspicious of Israelis is textbook discrimination.”


House ed panel to hold hearing on ‘drivers’ of Jew-hatred in K-12 schools
The House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, which is part of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, plans to hold a Sept. 10 hearing on antisemitism in K-12 schools.

The hearing will “focus more broadly on trends and drivers” of Jew-hatred in primary and secondary schools, according to a committee spokesman.

Teachers’ unions are promoting “antisemitism in professional development materials, seminars and curricula,” and colleges of education are “offering classes that encourage classroom activism on Palestine or deconstructing white supremacy,” the spokesman told JNS.

He added that “outside groups,” like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, “partner with local schools to lead classroom discussions.” CAIR’s leaders “celebrated the Oct. 7 massacre,” according to the spokesman. (CAIR also blamed Israel for being attacked that day.)

“Broadly speaking, these trends are driving antisemitism in K-12 education and create a hostile environment for Jewish students and faculty,” the spokesman told JNS.


Jeremy Corbyn’s brother joins his new party, then shares antisemitic conspiracy theory
Jeremy Corbyn’s brother has shared a notorious white supremacist antisemitic conspiracy theory on social media, days after stating that he had joined his sibling’s new political grouping.

Piers Corbyn, best known for climate change and Covid-19 vaccine denial, told an interviewer in late August that he would be joining “Your Party”, the new political group formed by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. Video footage showed Piers Corbyn saying: “It hasn’t formed policies yet, but I’ve joined it, to make debate about the issues which he [Jeremy Corbyn] is missing, the issues about migration… and the issues on climate, which he’s currently very confused on”.

On Monday Piers Corbyn shared an antisemitic conspiracy theory known as the Kalergi Plan, attributed to a political thinker named Richard Coudenhove Kalergi.

The graphic shared by Jeremy Corbyn’s brother included the incorrect claim that Kalergi was “Jewish”, and attributed a false quote to him, which read: “We intend to turn Europe and North America into a mixed mongrel race of Asians and Negros ruled over by Jews”.

The graphic shared by Piers Corbyn also included a supposed 11-point plan of Kalergi’s “to subvert Western civilisation”, including “the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children” and “huge immigration to destroy identity”. Alongside the graphic, Piers Corbyn had written “Everything in the Kalergi plan is being attempted now. Resist! Defy! Do Not Comply!”
UK Green Party elects new leader who accuses Israel of ‘genocide’
The Green Party of England and Wales elected a 42-year-old Jewish London assembly member, who has accused Israel of genocide and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of war crimes, as its party leader on Tuesday.

“As a Jewish person, I know that ‘never again’ means never again for everyone,” Zack Polanski stated on July 27. “End the genocide.”

Jake Wallis Simons, former editor of the Jewish Chronicle, called Polanski “a disgrace to his own people.”

In the UK general election on July 4, 2024, the Green Party gained three seats—from one to four—out of a total of 650 parliamentary seats. It was the first time that it had secured more than a single seat, according to a parliamentary analysis, which noted that Green parties won 6.7% of the vote nationally, compared to 2.7% in 2019.
Pressure is mounting on Green Party's new leader to sack his deputy for defending Hamas's attack on Israel
The Green Party's new leader came under pressure on Tuesday to sack his deputy for defending Hamas's attack on Israel.

Zack Polanski won a landslide victory on a ticket of 'eco-populism' and a new focus on Left-wing issues such as supporting Palestine.

But his win was quickly overshadowed hours later by the emergence of a video in which his newly elected deputy said all people had a right to 'fight back against occupiers'.

In the footage posted on TikTok on the morning of the attacks, Mothin Ali claimed Israel would use the 'fightback' by Hamas as a 'pretext' to attack Gaza.

Mr Ali also accused Israel of launching an attack on civilians after Hamas terrorists killed more than a thousand people in Israel and took around 200 hostages.

He told his followers that Israel were going to justify this by using the 'pretext of the fightback by Hamas fighters - or supposedly Hamas fighters - this morning'.

He added that people should 'support the right of indigenous people to have freedom and to fight back against occupiers'.

The deputy co-leader also added that Israel uses the 'weapon of anti-Semitism so effectively anyone who criticises Israel is labelled anti-Semitic'.


Seth Frantzman: Sweida security shake-up highlights Syria’s struggle with Druze autonomy
Syria is redeploying two key commanders of its internal security forces in Damascus and the Druze area of Sweida, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Syria’s official news agency, reported Wednesday.

The Interior Ministry appointed Brig.-Gen. Hussam Mamoun al-Tahhan to head of internal security in Sweida, and then transferred his predecessor, Brig.-Gen. Ahmad Haitham al-Dalati, to a position in the Damascus countryside, essentially switching their current roles, the report said.

This move comes in the wake of the clashes in Sweida in July, when Dalati was criticized for his response to the fighting between the Druze and Bedouin.

The reassignment could lead to reduced tensions. It is not yet clear whether Tahhan will have a different approach or if the local population will prefer him.

“Previously, on May 25, Tahhan had been assigned to the Damascus countryside, while Dalati, former Quneitra governor, was tasked with Sweida – before today’s reassignment,” SANA reported.

Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri, who has essentially been governing Sweida since the July clashes, had appointed Shakib Ajwad Nasr as the head of security, the Syrian Observer reported in early August. Nasr had previously served the Assad regime in Tartus, the report said.


Iran expanded near weapons-grade uranium stockpile before Israeli attack — UN watchdog
A confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog circulated to member states and seen by The Associated Press said Wednesday that Iran increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels before Israel launched its military attack on June 13.

The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said that as of June 13, Iran had 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%, an increase of 32.3 kilograms (71.2 pounds) since the IAEA’s last report in May.

The report stated that this figure is “based on the information provided by Iran, agency verification activities between 17 May 2025 and 12 June 2025 (the day preceding the start of the military attacks), and estimates based on the past operation of the relevant facilities.”

That material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

According to the IAEA, approximately 42 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium is theoretically enough to produce one atomic bomb, if enriched further to 90%.
Argentina recovers Nazi-looted painting that went missing after being spotted in property ad
Argentine police have recovered an 18th century painting stolen from a Dutch Jewish art collector over a week after it appeared in a property ad, investigators said Wednesday.

Prosecutors said that “Portrait of a Lady” by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi, which was photographed hanging in the home of the daughter of a senior SS officer, had been returned by the woman’s lawyer.

Art expert Ariel Bassano, who worked on the case, told reporters it was “in good condition for its age, as it dates from 1710.”

He was quoted by the local La Capital Mar del Plata newspaper as valuing it at “around $50,000.”

The painting was recognized last week by the Dutch newspaper AD in photographs of a house for sale in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata.

The painting of a noblewoman could be seen hanging above a green sofa in the living room of Patricia Kadgien, daughter of SS financial guru Friedrich Kadgien who fled to Argentina after the war.

It was among over 1,000 artworks stolen from Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker from the Nazis during World War II.

The discovery generated a flurry of excitement on both sides of the Atlantic.
UKLFI: London Midwife wearing pro-Palestine accessories alarmed Jewish couple
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) have accused the nurse of breaching the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) regulations and the Equality Act 2010.

The nurse on duty for the planned c-section was wearing several obvious pro-Palestinian symbols, including a watermelon lanyard, a Palestinian flag on her wrist-watch, a Palestinian-themed, heart-shaped badge and an inverted triangle badge with a keffiyeh pattern.

“The individual was making a very clear and conscious statement about her political beliefs,” the husband told UKLFI . “It is a very uncomfortable position to be in, when those who are entrusted with your family’s health and wellbeing hold views that are so blatantly hostile to the Jewish people.”

UKLFI wrote to the chief executive of the UCLH NHS Foundation Trust pointing out that the display of such items indicates strong support for the Palestinian cause, and conversely, opposition to the State of Israel . The husband said that he felt that, given what the nurse was wearing, she may also believe the blood libel that Jews/Israelis are baby killers. He felt afraid to think that this was a nurse that was about to take part in a c-section to deliver a new Jewish baby into the world.

“We are not necessarily obviously identifiable as Jewish,” he said, “but I questioned whether she knew or suspected it and if we would be treated any differently as a consequence.”
Community horror after faeces is smeared on north London synagogue
Faeces was smeared on the walls and buzzer of a synagogue in the heart of Golders Green this morning in what CST has called an “appalling incident”.

Images seen on social media clearly show the excrement on both two outer walls, one marked with a CCTV poster, and across the security buzzer for the building.

The name of the synagogue has yet to be confirmed.

A CST spokesperson told Jewish News they are “aware of an appalling incident that took place at an Orthodox Synagogue in North West London. We are in touch with the location providing them with support. We urge anyone with information to contact CST or the police.”

The horrific act takes places against a backdrop of unprecedented antisemitic hatred across the UK. Last week a swastika was sprayed on a rabbi’s home, a Jewish boy was reportedly shot at on Shabbat by an assailant with an air rifle, protesters outside the Israeli Embassy in London declared that “This will become the Embassy of Palestine”, the British wheelchair basketball team turned their backs to the Israeli players during Israel’s national anthem and a Jewish nanny with a baby was accosted in north London’s Belsize Park.


Fiji to inaugurate Jerusalem embassy in mid-September
Fiji is scheduled to inaugurate its embassy in Jerusalem later this month, becoming the seventh nation to have its official representation in Israel’s capital, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday.

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who first announced the decision in February, will come to Israel for the Sept. 17 opening.

Rabuka, who took office in December 2022, heads a three-party government that includes the right-wing Christian Sodelpa party, one of whose leaders’ demands was that Fiji open an embassy in Jerusalem.

“I congratulate Fiji and its Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Friend of Israel Sitiveni Rabuka, on its decision to open an embassy in Israel, in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Wednesday. “We will continue to work to open and transfer additional embassies to Jerusalem, our capital.”

Six countries currently have their embassies in Israel’s capital—the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, Paraguay and Papua New Guinea.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem in 2018 set the stage for other countries to follow suit, though the Hamas-led terrorist attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ensuing war against the terrorist group in Gaza temporarily derailed such moves.

Two years ago, Fijian Deputy Prime Minister Viliame Gavoka said in a phone interview with JNS: “Our desire to have an embassy in Jerusalem is very strong. We as a people feel very close to the descendants of Abraham and want to connect with Israel in its entirety.”


UK hostage families call on Lammy to do more to secure release of relatives held captive by Hamas
The families of eight British and UK-connected Gaza hostages have called on David Lammy and the government to do more to secure the release of those still cruelly held captive by Hamas.

A statement released by the two lawyers acting for the group, following a meeting with the Foreign Secretary on Tuesday, questioned what pressure the UK government was placing on the terror group to free the hostages still held in Gaza.

It was also confirmed that Lammy had told the families that the UK could go ahead with recognising a Palestinian state later this month, while the hostages were held by Hamas.

The Foreign Decretary had earlier told Jewish News of his “deeply moving” meeting with family members, and his attempt to persuade them that the UK was not “rewarding Hamas” by proceeding with recognition.

The statement, released on Wednesday by lawyers Adam Wagner and Adam Rose, said: “We are grateful to the Foreign Secretary for meeting with us.

“The meeting was not an easy one for us, but it is hugely important that the British state continues to hear the voices of the hostages and hostage families”.

It said that those meeting with Lammy held a range of political views and held “no collective view on whether recognition of a Palestinian state is in itself right or wrong”.

The British families were united, it said, by a continued demand for the immediate and unconditional release of all the hostages still held by Hamas, including two hostages with very close British connections and the other 46.




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