Monday, September 22, 2025
The West is sliding into an anti-Semitic abyss
Ultimately, though, Wallis Simons believes that it was Tony Blair’s landslide election victory in 1997, and the dramatic culture-shift that subsequently took place throughout British society, that provided fertile ground in which toxic anti-Semitic attitudes could slowly take root. Suddenly, minority cults, once consigned to the margins of British society, took centre-stage in the nation’s culture wars. He quotes a telling observation made by the writer Douglas Murray in an interview for The Brink: “People have treated themselves to completely absurd ideologies, which are all reliant on a set of presuppositions which are not supported by the ideology they’ve fallen into. Things like human rights, things like tolerance, things like freedom.”When ‘as a Jew’ actually means “against the Jews’
Wallis Simons is particularly critical of what he calls the cult of “centrist fundamentalism”, by which he means the well-meaning but ill-informed liberal elites who appear more interested in promoting minority groups and their views than upholding the long-standing traditions that have forged the nation’s character over many centuries. He argues, for example, that even though Muslims account for just 6 to 7 per cent of the UK’s population, too many national institutions are more likely to respect Islamic holy events such as Ramadan than they are Christmas and Easter. In such a climate, it’s unsurprising that anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiments have replaced, as the norm, traditional British values such as tolerance and freedom from persecution. The result has been a staggering increase in anti-Semitic activity, with 121 incidents of assault reported in Britain in 2024, together with a 246 per cent rise in vandalism and an astonishing 465 per cent spike in anti-Semitism at universities.
One of the most compelling passages in Wallis Simons’s book is when he interviews young Israeli conscripts charged with the daunting task of doing battle with Hamas fanatics hiding in the complex network of tunnels the terror group had constructed beneath Gaza. Rather than complaining about their lot, the phrase these Israelis often used to justify their commitment to defending their country was “this is our shift”: they had no alternative but to tackle the jihadists who threatened their country’s very existence. Indeed, their commitment to defending their homeland echoes the sentiments of Golda Meir, the redoubtable Israeli wartime leader who once remarked: “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.”
Yet, instead of making any serious effort to understand why the atrocities committed on October 7 are regarded by many Jews as an existential event, there appears to be more interest in the West in absorbing Hamas propaganda. This is particularly the case on social-media platforms such as TikTok, where recent research has found that, since the 2023 attack, there have been 52 videos that are pro-Hamas or pro-Palestine for every one that’s supportive of the Israeli cause.
While Wallis Simons ranges widely to show how the modern cult of self-loathing has taken root in Western democracies, he can sometimes stray too far from his central theme: how this relates to the re-emergence of anti-Semitism as a threat to 21st-century Jews. No problem could be more urgent. At the end of the Second World War, when the true horrors of the Holocaust were revealed to the outside world, the cry “never again” became a familiar refrain for those determined to ensure history was never allowed to repeat itself. By deliberately choosing the same phrase as the title for his new book, Wallis Simons is making a direct appeal to both political leaders and ordinary men and women: they need to respond “to this great emergency” by “jumping to their feet” and confronting, once again, anti-Semitism’s curse.
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In my article on who gets to define antisemitism, I wrote about Hannah and her fellow antizionist Jews like Ben Platt and Ilana Glazer who have enjoyed successful careers off their Jewish identities yet jump at every opportunity to denounce the Jewish state in their desperation to be seen by their liberal comrades as ‘good Jews’. Meanwhile, visibly Jewish couples are gunned down in the streets, synagogues in London are defaced with faeces, Holocaust survivors are firebombed and Jewish families on holiday are mauled by dogs, all whilst hearing the chants of “Free Palestine” as the underscore to the horror and violence unleashed on them.The Fight Inside Amnesty International over Its Hamas Report
Predictably, following the backlash from Hannah’s Emmy speech, she posted a photo of some pickles on Instagram with the caption, “something ACTUALLY Jewish to cleanse the stories”. To quote the brilliant author Ben Freeman, “American reflections of Jewish identity have reduced 3,200 years of Jewish civilisation to a smoked salmon bagel and a punchline”. As the “as a Jew” Jews like Hannah live their Jewish identities through pickles, it seems as though the rest of us who recite thousand-year-old prayers for the land of Israel in shul, wear kippot and send our children to Jewish schools are left on our own to deal with the violent and antisemitic actions of the pro-Palestine movement.
I want to send an open and clear message to the Jewish people around Hannah, to encourage her to stop speaking on behalf of a community that she is happy to profit off and endanger in equal measure, but I would imagine that if she has any Jews around her at all they will be of the same pickled mindset, only affirming their Jewish identities through jars of Mrs Elswood.
When I walk to shul this Rosh Hashanah, greeting the extra security we have outside the synagogue gates to stop the lunatics from massacring us all in the name of peace and liberation, I’ll think of Hannah munching on a kosher dill pickle, looking out of her million dollar apartment and wondering why the bearded man across the street has a ram’s horn in his mouth.
I should finish by saying that all of the words in this article are from me. Not on behalf of an entire diverse multifaceted community but on behalf of one Jewish person who will not remove his Magen David necklace or his kippah when he walks to shul on a Friday night, even if that means being attacked in the name of peace.
As the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre approaches, Amnesty International, the Nobel Prize–winning human rights monitor, has still not published a long-delayed report on the atrocity—and faces internal resistance to doing so, according to internal Amnesty emails and other documents obtained by The Free Press.Don’t buy Israeli-haters’ lies about reporter deaths in Gaza
In the works for well over a year, but long since superseded by media reports and other NGO publications, Amnesty’s report is now set for release “in the coming weeks,” an Amnesty spokesperson says.
Yet a faction within Amnesty has waged a last-ditch effort to persuade the group’s senior leaders not to publish the report, arguing that even a belated acknowledgment of Hamas’s crimes might help Israel in the court of public opinion.
“Our concern is about timing and impact,” Usman Hamid, the section director for Amnesty in Indonesia, emailed the organization’s top officials on August 8. “The situation in Gaza is at a peak of humanitarian crisis, famine is unfolding, and the Israeli security cabinet has just approved plans for full occupation. In this climate, there is a real risk the report could be used to divert attention from the current crisis or justify ongoing genocide.”
Seydi Gassama, section director for Senegal, echoed that view the same day. “The situation in Gaza is getting worse,” he wrote in an email. “This decision will worsen the humanitarian crisis and loss of lives. We urge the [international secretariat] to reconsider the timing of the publication of the report as it may be used by Israel to justify its actions.”
Such blatant politicization of what is supposedly an impartial human rights reporting process stunned even critics who have long seen anti-Israel bias in Amnesty’s coverage of the Middle East. The group has produced a 2022 report finding Israel guilty of apartheid and another in 2024 accusing it of genocide in Gaza.
Invective about alleged Israeli atrocities dominates the X feed of Amnesty’s secretary general, Agnes Callamard, and of other Amnesty officials and staff. Earlier this year, the organization suspended its Israeli chapter after some members publicly dissented from the genocide accusation.
“You can see the bias when the organization only holds space for the suffering of one group of people in a conflict,” says a former Amnesty employee who requested anonymity because of the topic’s sensitivity.
“This is what happens when you make human rights work more of a work about narrative,” says Yariv Mohar, former co-director of Amnesty’s now-defunct Israel section.
An enormous number of these “journalists” have been identified as either closely affiliated with Hamas, or outright Hamas militants.
Reporters Without Borders mourned the death of “journalist” Abdullah al-Jamal, a freelance reporter who wrote occasionally for Al Jazeera.
He was killed when Israeli special forces stormed his home, where he was keeping three hostages.
Nevertheless, The Guardian included al-Jamal in a photo spread of murdered Palestinian journalists.
Anas al-Sharif’s video reporting for Al Jazeera made him the “face of the war in Gaza,” per CNN.
His death in August 2025 was met by an international outcry.
But Israel provided substantial evidence that al-Sharif was an active member of Hamas and, in fact, a cell leader in a guided-rocket platoon.
He was photographed being embraced by former Hamas commander Yahya Sinwar.
Fact is, if you’re reporting from Gaza, chances are high that you’re somehow in bed with Hamas, either as a collaborator or a soldier using a “Press” vest as cover.
And that’s been true even before the war: The Foreign Press Association, the oldest and largest organization for foreign correspondents, has long protested the pressure and threats of violence that Hamas routinely imposes on visiting journalists.
In a 2014 statement, the FPA denounced the “blatant, incessant, forceful and unorthodox” methods that Hamas uses to control the dissemination of information in and out of Gaza.
Professionals who’ve worked in the region know that Hamas, a totalitarian regime, will not permit “neutral” observers (or even aid workers) to exist in Gaza.
The Hamas propaganda machine has been running full steam since Oct. 7, with the assistance of its Fifth Column in the West.
It has promulgated lies about the bombing of hospitals, the targeting of children, the outbreak of famine, massacres at aid sites and a “genocidal” death toll 10 times larger than what Hamas itself reports.
The fog of war inevitably generates uncertainty, and that is no different in Gaza.
But outright lies such as Hasan’s about the unprecedented deaths of journalists in Gaza shine so brightly that they offer a beacon by which we can begin to discern truth.
Jonathan Tobin: Antisemites are trying to hijack Charlie Kirk’s legacy
For Carlson, Owens and their acolytes, their embrace of anti-Israel and antisemitic tropes in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks caused them to align themselves in sympathy with the red-green alliance of leftists and Islamists who seek to target Jews on campuses. The way extremists on the left and right come together on antisemitism is nothing new. But it put them in the uncomfortable position of conservatives opposing the Trump administration’s pro-Israel foreign policy, as well as its laudable campaign to rid college campuses of the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion that is the engine of 21st-century Jew-hatred.Late-Stage Woke Rightism By Abe Greenwald
That is why it’s so important for them to tie Kirk to their campaign to legitimize the mainstreaming of post-Oct. 7 antisemitism.
Should we believe the claims made in a Carlson podcast—in which Carlson assembled a lineup of antisemitic figures like “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams, Greek Orthodox priest Father Josiah Trenham, left-wing commentator Cenk Uygur and podcaster Megyn Kelly, a recent convert to Israel-bashing—the week after the assassination about Kirk undergoing a change of heart about Israel or that he hated Netanyahu?
There’s no reason to trust anything that he or his cronies say about Israel, especially their claims of pro-Israel donors trying to bribe or blackmail Kirk to back Israel and distance himself from Carlson. As legal columnist and podcaster Josh Hammer—a stalwart defender of Israel—has said, he was on the phone with Kirk discussing their mutual support for the Jewish state the night before the assassination on Sept. 10.
We do know that Carlson benefited from Kirk’s instinctive opposition to deplatforming anyone. Although he disagreed with Carlson’s stands on Israel and Holocaust denial, Kirk still gave him the opportunity to speak at his influential TPUSA conferences.
Most on the right understand that their support for Israel and its just war against Hamas in Gaza is inextricably linked to their backing for traditional values, Western civilization and faith. Aligning themselves with the leftists and Islamists who hate the Jews is antithetical to those beliefs.
By allowing Carlson to keep his foot in the door, Turning Point USA is giving credence to pro-Hamas talking points about “genocide” and antisemitic tropes about the Jews using money to manipulate American foreign policy.
Opposing letting these ideas be considered debatable, rather than despicable notions that should be confined to the fever swamps of the far right and left, is not a matter of banning free speech. It’s just common sense. Conservatives should not be willing to treat such toxic ideas as legitimate any more than they should accept woke myths about race, intersectionality or settler-colonialism that they know to be both false and damaging to American society.
Yet that is the position that Carlson is claiming is now both mainstream conservatism and part of a Kirk legacy that should be defended.
Planting a seed of Jew-hatred
His presence on the podium at the Kirk memorial in Arizona, alongside administration leaders, was appalling in and of itself. But the fact that he used that bully pulpit to invoke the ideas that guys who eat hummus (aka Jews) plotted Jesus’s death the way the contemporary left plotted to silence Charlie planted an insidious seed of Jew-hatred in an otherwise moving tribute to the activist’s life and work.
It isn’t cancel culture to seek to rid the public square of this kind of hate any more than it is wrong to seek to reclaim academia for Western values by expelling woke DEI commissars and mobs of pro-Hamas hate-mongers. Doing so is a defense of the values of the American republic that Charlie Kirk believed in and for which he gave his life.
Defending the antisemitism of Carlson and Owens—and all of their friends and allies on the far right and the far left that agree with them—is not consistent with Kirk’s lifework. Nor is it necessarily a natural corollary to his efforts to end the silencing of conservatives in mainstream culture and society.
Anyone who cares about honoring the 31-year-old husband, father and activist—and his beliefs—should be outraged at the way Tucker Carlson is trying to hijack his legacy. If he succeeds, it will be more than a boost for pro-Hamas thugs and antisemites on both the left and the right. It will also set back any hopes that the efforts to win back America for Kirk’s conservative faith will ultimately succeed.
Via Commentary Newsletter, sign up here.The Dangerous Surge of Anti-Jewish Conspiracies After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination — and Why It Portends Disaster
Whatever we choose to call this right-wing movement, it’s becoming clear that it’s falling prey to the same mistakes that broke the political influence of the woke left. Which is to say that the movement’s leaders are spiraling deep into a world of abstruse theories and unrelatable causes—pet obsessions far removed from the day-to-day concerns of average right-wing Americans.
This is how the woke left lost its purchase among liberals. Whatever support Democratic voters had for social justice and police reform in 2020 was eroded by years of DEI mandates, pronoun wars, gender-affirming care for minors, spiking crime, and rising prices. The needs of average liberals weren’t answered by the luxury abstractions promoted by woke-left activists.
It might be strange to think of the woke right’s anti-Semitism as a luxury abstraction, but to the normal right-wing American, that’s what it is—at best. Studies show that right-wing America continues to care most about the economy, the border, crime, and inflation—issues that affect their actual lives. What’s more, self-identified MAGA voters are still overwhelmingly supportive of Israel. A recent poll by the Washington Free Beacon even found that a majority of conservatives between the ages of 18 and 34—the woke right’s target demographic—both support Donald Trump’s handling of Israel and believe that the U.S. should continue to support the Jewish state.
While the gulf between the Jew-hating right and the Republican electorate was plenty wide before Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it has surely grown wider since. What did Kirk’s killing mean to the larger American right? It inspired a heartfelt and renewed interest in faith, open debate, patriotism, and family, while it highlighted the crises of wayward American youth, online degeneracy, and left-wing violence. But for the Candaces and Tuckers, it was an opportunity to expostulate on a fantastical and convoluted plot centering on the Mossad. To the extent that anyone cared, it was to debunk their conspiracy theories.
Yesterday, when Carlson spoke at Kirk’s memorial in Arizona, his brief anti-Semitic sermon on the hummus-eaters who killed Jesus established him as an out-of-tune soloist in the orchestra. And his villainous cackle punctuated the disaster with a final shriek. Mourners came to honor Kirk’s life, comfort his loved ones, and find the solace and strength to move on. All those boxes and more were checked for them by the love, courage, and faith exemplified by Kirk’s widow Erika. Carlson and the movement he represents will be remembered as the failed hijackers of a national tragedy and the cranks who lost the plot.
That movement, which seeks to demonize not just Israel but all Jews who show affinity with our ancestral home, is why the antisemitic libels linked to Kirk’s horrifying killing resonated so quickly. Anger at Israel has become one of the driving forces behind antisemitism in the United States, particularly on the far left. The Anti-Defamation League reported that in 2024 more than half of antisemitic incidents in the country were connected in some way to Israel or Zionism. Criticism of Israeli policy is, of course, legitimate. But too often it is mutating into something older and darker: the idea that Jews, collectively, are uniquely malevolent and secretly powerful. These days, that idea is seemingly everywhere.Josh Hammer: Exploiting Charlie Kirk, Kimmel’s Fall, and the Domestic Terrorism Threat
The evidence in Robinson’s prosecution is straightforward: it points to an individual killer with documented motives, not a cabal of Jews. But the facts rarely keep up with the lie. The blood libel has always thrived on speed and simplicity. A murder occurs; grief follows; and before truth is established, a rumor points the finger at Jews. What once traveled by whisper or pamphlet now races across X, Instagram, and TikTok, reaching millions before the first police press conference is held. That is what makes the current moment so combustible.
The Kirk case shows just how fragile the line between tragedy and libel can be. A killing happens. A community mourns. Within hours, another community is accused, slandered, threatened. The pace is dizzying; the danger for Jews, ever-present. If America wants to avoid repeating the darker chapters of its past — or of Jewish history writ large — it must treat these conspiracies not as fringe sideshows but as alarms. Because once such stories harden into common belief, they rarely stay confined to words.
Prosecutors and police say Charlie Kirk’s murder was carried out from a rooftop by a single, misguided maniac, driven by political anger and personal rage. To twist that act into a tale of Jewish plots is to commit another crime: defamation, scapegoating, dragging an old poison back into public life. The murder must be prosecuted. The libel must be debunked and rejected with equal vigor.
The blood libel is not a relic of medieval Europe. It is happening now, in the open, with millions watching. And if left unchecked, the lie will become license for still more violence against American Jews — violence on a scale I’m afraid to contemplate.
That fire, I fear, is smoldering at our feet.
On today’s show, Josh rips into the shameless voices on the Right trying to exploit Charlie Kirk’s death to pit Christians against Jews. He torches the Left’s meltdown over Jimmy Kimmel losing his late-night perch—a so-called “free speech” fight that exposes their blatant hypocrisy. Josh also sounds the alarm on the very real terrorist threats facing America and breaks down the president’s long-overdue crackdown on Antifa.
'Willfully blind': Christians condemn Tucker Carlson's claim Judea and Samaria are like Narnia, 'not real'
Christian supporters of Israel are pushing back against Tucker Carlson’s claim that using terms like Judea and Samaria instead of the West Bank is like referencing the fictional world of Narnia, along with other remarks the political pundit made during a podcast with a recently fired U.S. State Department press officer.Tucker Carlson at Charlie Kirk memorial: Like Jesus, murdered by guys 'eating hummus' in Jerusalem
The former Fox News host released on Friday his interview with Shahed Ghoreishi, a contractor who had previously worked for the Bureau of Near East Affairs. During the interview, Ghoreishi reiterated his claim that the State Department had fired him following disputes over the language and terminology used in statements about Israel.
Ghoreishi cited several events that he believes resulted in his termination. One involved a reported dispute between him and David Milstein, a spokesman and senior advisor to the Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, over the use of “Judea and Samaria” instead of the “West Bank” in a press statement.
Milstein is also the stepson of conservative radio host and Fox News commentator Mark Levin. Ghoreishi claimed that Milstein preferred the State Department use wording that was also being applied by “the more extreme wing of the Israeli government.”
“Just to be clear, again, putting Judea and Samaria in an official U.S. government communication, it's like using the term Narnia or something,” Carlson said to Ghoreishi's agreement. “It's not a real place.”
Luke Moon, the executive director of The Philos Project, a nonprofit organization that equips Christians seeking to support Israel and the Jewish people, asserted that anyone who has read the Bible knows Judea and Samaria are not fairy tales. Moon told The Christian Post that the regions are “the real heartland of Israel.”
“These are the same hills where Abraham walked, where David tended sheep, where prophets thundered the Word of God,” Moon said. “The only people who believe Judea and Samaria to be fictional names are the ones who’ve never opened the Book they claim to believe in.”
Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson referred to a murderous plot of people eating hummus in Jerusalem in a speech, comparing the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk to that of Jesus, at the activist's memorial service on Sunday. This led many commentators to accuse Carlson of engaging in antisemitic dog whistles and flirting with conspiracies about an Israeli hand behind the September 10 murder.
Carlson said that Kirk's Christian evangelism reminded him of the story of Jesus arriving in Jerusalem to denounce people in power.
"He starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it, and they just go bonkers. They hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop," Carlson said in a TPUSA YouTube video. "And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about what to do about this guy telling the truth about us. We must make him stop talking. And there's always one guy with the bright idea, and I could just hear him say, "'I've got an idea. Why don't we just kill him? That'll shut him up.'"
Conservative journalist Laura Loomer questioned on X/Twitter on Monday why the Republican Party wasn't condemning Carlson for using the Arizona memorial to imply that Jews murdered Kirk.
"Tucker is poisoning the party," said Loomer.
The NGO StopAntisemitism said on social media that Tucker had desecrated the service for Kirk "with his ridiculous insinuation that Jews were behind his assassination."
Journalist Yashar Ali commented that it was difficult to see Carlson's remarks in any other way, particularly given his recent rhetoric and guests invited on his show.
"Almost every single Neo-Nazi I track on a daily basis believes strongly that Tucker was talking about Jews," said Ali.
Anti-Israel activist Jackson Hinkle clipped the segment of the speech and posted it to his X account, remarking, "mic drop."
Quds News Network also captioned the speech as Carlson suggesting "Israeli involvement in Charlie Kirk’s death."
The ironic part here is that virtually all anti-Israeli antisemites will completely agree with Tucker Carlson’s conspiracy theory about us, but object on one small detail - the “hummus eaters”
— Michael Elgort (@just_whatever) September 22, 2025
Don’t forget, for them Jews are alien imposters who appropriated local food just now https://t.co/tVcgrWzKzh
Charlie Kirk’s Wife... Bill Belichick’s Girlfriend... And a Palestinian State?https://t.co/MqVPTwhay7
— Erin Molan (@Erin_Molan) September 22, 2025
Always a pleasure spreading blood libels with the great @TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/MTA9QahyRF
— Lyle Culpepper (@ShutupLyle) September 22, 2025
— Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 (@HanShawnity) September 22, 2025
Green deputy leader ‘personally caused harm and distress to my family’ former Leeds University rabbi says
A former Leeds University chaplain has criticised the deputy leader of the Green Party for his role in inciting division against him.UK doctor suspended for saying all Jews ‘feel superior’
Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, an Israeli citizen, was forced into hiding and his family were subject to threats of murder and rape after it emerged shortly after October 7, 2023 that he had returned to Israel for reserve duties with the IDF.
On his return to the UK, Deustch and his wife were subjected to hundreds of intimidating phone calls, recordings and online messages and were moved to a secret location on the advice of police in February last year.
Mothin Ali, the party’s current deputy leader, labelled Deutsch a “creep” in a now-deleted video.
Ali said: “that’s the only way I can describe him politely, is someone who went from Leeds to Israel to kill children and women and everyone else over there.”
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Deutsch lamented Ali’s behaviour and his subsequent election as deputy leader of the Green Party.
“Mothin Ali’s actions personally caused harm and distress to my family. His social media posts had a really significant impact on the Leeds community. I’m surprised and concerned that he has been elevated to a senior position in the Green Party.
“It’s very concerning that he is gaining power. A man who wants to be a public figure should not incite division and cause harm”, he told the paper.
Ali gained national attention when he defeated Labour in local election in May last year.
He dedicated his victory to “the people of Gaza” and was filmed shouting “Allahu Akbar” while standing in front of the Palestinian flag shortly after the result was announced.
A hospital in north London last week suspended a physician for claiming publicly that all Jews have “feelings of supremacy” and downplaying antisemitism.UKLFI: European Association of Social Anthropologists reported to Charity Commission Over Racist Boycott Motion
Whittington Hospital in the London suburb of Highgate suspended Dr. Ellen Kriesels, a consultant developmental pediatrician, for statements she made online and with signage at an anti-Israel protest, The Telegraph newspaper reported.
The news underlined concerns that the surging antisemitism problem in the U.K. was affecting the public health system and other areas of society that had been thought of as more resistant to Jew-hatred than environments with relatively low education levels.
An account bearing Kriesels’s name on X last month featured the claim that “Virtually every Jew has some feelings of supremacy (result of their Zionist upbringing) and they might oppose Zionism, but they are not going to challenge their precious community. That just doesn’t feel right to them!”
In one post about the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, she wrote: “Always trying to frame the Jews as victims. So ridiculous. So exhausting.”
At a Sept. 6 protest event, Kriesels was photographed holding a placard depicting the Israeli flag with the Star of David replaced by words such as “Rape,” “Lie” and “Kill.”
Before the suspension, the Whittington Health NHS Trust, which employs Kriesels, said it was investigating and claimed it would not tolerate “any form of discrimination, racism, antisemitism or Islamophobia.”
Kriesels reacted dismissively to a report by The Jewish News of London about her suspension, writing on X on Friday: “No credit for the rhyme on my placard? My comment you didn’t ask for: I ain’t listening to all that!” she wrote of article, adding: “Free Palestine.”
The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) has been reported to the Charity Commission following its adoption of a boycott motion that UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) believes breaches both charity law and the Equality Act 2010.Columbia Promotes Course at Pro-Hamas People’s Forum Featuring PFLP Terrorist's Teachings
EASA recently passed, and is now implementing, a motion prohibiting collaboration with Israeli academic institutions. The motion is predicated on guilt by association and relies on a series of false and misleading claims presented as fact. These include the suggestion that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found a “plausible genocide” or is “considering plausible a genocide” in Gaza. In reality, the ICJ made no such finding. As the ICJ President at the time clarified in relation to the Court’s Order in January 2024, the ICJ “didn’t decide that the claim of genocide was plausible.”
The boycott motion, together with its Implementation Guidelines, directly conflicts with EASA’s stated charitable objects, to “promote education and research in social anthropology by improving understanding of world societies and encouraging professional communication and cooperation between anthropologists, especially in Europe”. Instead, it advances a racist political campaign that undermines academic exchange and stifles collaboration.
Columbia University is promoting a course at the pro-Hamas People’s Forum taught by an anti-Israel professor emeritus, Rashid Khalidi, which requires students to read a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader’s teachings.Jewish professor files lawsuit accusing NJ university of Jew-hatred
Khalidi was slated to teach his class, "A Short Course on Palestine," at Columbia during the fall semester, but backed out and moved it to the People’s Forum over the Ivy League school’s settlement with the Trump administration. Now, Columbia’s Center for Palestine Studies is similarly condemning the deal on a webpage pushing the class, complete with a registration link.
"A course on modern Middle Eastern history was originally scheduled to be taught at Columbia University in Fall 2025," the webpage reads. "However, as Columbia continues its complicity in covering up the U.S.-Israeli genocide against Palestine and capitulates to the Trump administration at the expense of academic freedom and student rights, Professor Rashid Khalidi found it impossible to teach his course."
The class will examine "the history of Palestine since 1917" under the premise that any conflicts were "part of a systematic, if intermittent, war that has lasted for over a century, aimed at dispossessing the Palestinian people and transforming their homeland into an exclusive Jewish national home." It also argues that from the outset, the Zionist movement "was, and initially saw itself as, both a nationalist and a settler-colonial project."
It will be taught at the headquarters of the People’s Forum, which has a history of encouraging violent, anti-Israel riots and has ties to the Chinese Communist Party through its biggest donor, Neville Singham.
Ira Jaskoll, an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, alleges in a lawsuit that the private New Jersey school suspended him from a volunteer Jewish chaplain role after he denounced an anti-Israel event on campus.
Fairleigh Dickinson still lists Jaskoll as a faculty member and on a webpage devoted to its “yeshiva and seminary programs,” which allow Orthodox Jewish “yeshiva and seminary students to transfer various credits and earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in less than 15 months.”
Jaskoll alleges in the Superior Court of New Jersey that the school retaliated against him for decrying an event, in which a speaker accused Israel of “genocide” and being an “apartheid” state, the North Jersey Media Group reported.
The Jewish professor reportedly told the audience during the event that it discriminated against Jews and was told to leave. The school then suspended him until he apologized, per the report.
Dina Schipper, executive director of communication and news at Fairleigh Dickinson, told JNS that “we categorically deny the allegations of antisemitism put forward in this lawsuit.”
“Students, faculty and staff have been able to freely study and work at the university,” Schipper said.
Aidan Parisi, expelled by Columbia for pro-terror activism, is celebrating the attack on Charlie Kirk.
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 21, 2025
Parisi was arrested at the pro-Hamas Columbia encampment in April 2024 and has openly expressed support for Hamas terrorists, celebrated intifada (violent uprising), and spread… pic.twitter.com/x28ehbxbX0
I think I can help the Chair of the Southbank Centre in London with this one. He was a leading figure in the PFLP terrorist group. Their favourite activity? Hijacking airliners and slaughtering people at airports.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) September 22, 2025
A proper hero for progressive London. pic.twitter.com/Rd4xfh2URz
Update: antisemite Jorge Besada is no longer employed with Akvelon. https://t.co/C8BbOqnF66
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) September 22, 2025
Update: antisemite Jacob Aldama is no longer employed with J.B. Hunt. https://t.co/OEFbvz5H6t
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) September 22, 2025
NYT Says Palestinian Author ‘Canceled’ Over Jewish ‘Concerns’—Without Noting Her Praise for Oct 7 as an ‘Indigenous Uprising’
When the New York Times reported a Palestinian author’s New Jersey book launch event was canceled over the Jewish community’s "concerns," it omitted a key detail: The concerns stemmed from the author’s praise for Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre and anti-Semitic social media posts.
In its Thursday article, "Bookshop Cancels Event With Palestinian Author Over Community ‘Concerns,’" the Times reported the book launch for Jenan Matari was canceled simply over "her views on the war in Gaza." It blamed the Jewish community for calling on the shop, Watchung Booksellers, to cancel the event over "recent posts she had made on social media they regarded as hateful, divisive and antisemitic."
The Times didn’t quote or embed a single post, even though Matari's social media is rife with radical remarks defending violence, calling for Israel’s destruction, comparing Zionists to Nazis and fascists, and pushing anti-Semitic tropes.
On the day of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, she posted "RESIST" on Facebook with a Palestinian flag and flame emojis. The next day, she called for more violence, calling the brutal attack a "Palestinian uprising."
"May we witness an indigenous uprising and reclamation of our lands on a global scale," Matari wrote. "Our people are the protectors of life and land. May this Palestinian uprising be the push needed for the dominos of colonialism to fall from every corner of this world."
On the first anniversary of the attack, she posted, "One year + 76 of genocide and I don’t give a f*ck about what anyone says or how anyone feels about how we fight and rid our land of vicious colonizers. free Palestine. from the river to the sea."
"One year later and I’ve learned that we (Palestinians) are the first line of defense in protecting this pacified world and that we are absolute treasures in maintaining our dignity," Matari continued.
Imagine an entire article written about a war without mentioning the opening salvo.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 22, 2025
And who is the "health ministry" providing these casualty figures? Hamas.
Normally, we’d be shocked, but this is typical “journalism” from @SkyNews. pic.twitter.com/8RBOGW3Pct
Antisemitism accusations hound Corbyn’s new party as advisor accuses PM of taking money from Israel
Andrew Feinstein, an advisor who took a leading role in the formation of Jeremy Corbyn’s new Your Party, has been accused of antisemitism after claiming the current UK government is being “directed by Israel,” the Telegraph reported in September.
Feinstein was recorded claiming that “powerful Israel lobbyists” were influencing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour government.
The advisor claimed that the proscription of Palestine Action, which was recognized as a terror organization after causing significant damages to a Royal Air Force base, “was undertaken on the instruction of the Israeli Government.”
While appearing as the keynote speaker at a Your Party event organized by the Marxist organization Counterfire, Feinstein told crowds, “In my opinion Britain is sleepwalking into fascism and that sleepwalk into fascism is being directed by Israel, and I know we aren’t supposed to say things like that but frankly... f*** that.”
“In the face of the world’s first live-screened genocide, and as the state of Israel haemorrhages support globally, the time for this ill-informed name-calling and pathetic attempt at ignorant and mendacious smearing is long past and totally ineffective,” the self-proclaimed “proud Leftie Jew” said. “I will stand up to it publicly as I always have, and so too will my colleagues.”
Condemning the statement
A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said in response that, “Already, advisers for the new party are kicking off proceedings with rambling conspiracy theories about the malign unseen hegemony of the world’s only Jewish state and daring Jews to call him antisemitic.”
“The very same ideologies and people that corrupted the Labour Party into becoming the first party found to be illegally discriminating against Jews appear now to have found refuge in the party being formed by Zarah Sultana and Mr Corbyn.
“Normally there would be no comeback for such politics, but this is the depths to which such people will drag us all.”
A quite extraordinary way for a @ukhomeoffice minister to behave to a Jewish, female, professional, journalist.@MikeTappTweets should publicly apologise, & explain why he behaved in a way so obviously contrary to the Nolan Principles. His actions demonstrably lack integrity. pic.twitter.com/ZOh54gEMEo
— Simon Myerson KC 🎗️ (@SCynic1) September 21, 2025
Lebanese Islamic Scholar Sheikh Khaldoun Arimat: The Muslims Fought the Crusaders for 200 Years - the War with the “Zionist Enemy” Just Begun, It May Last Centuries; All of Palestine Is Allah’s Land “From the River to the Sea” pic.twitter.com/x7wHtj20Gx
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 22, 2025
Wow. And he’s our envoy? Absolutely appalling. pic.twitter.com/ruuBFxphSd
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) September 22, 2025
Iranian Majles Member Mohsen Zanganeh: Iran Recently Tested an ICBM Despite Attacks on Nuclear Facilities; We Must Abandon the West and Turn to China pic.twitter.com/rg9xeAnt3t
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 22, 2025
Suspect recorded killing of Israeli embassy staffers, prosecutors say
The man indicted for the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., in May recorded his crime with a body camera, prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday, according to the Associated Press.New Hampshire man accused of threats to kill governor, Jews
Elias Rodriguez, 31, who was indicted in August on murder and federal hate crime charges, purchased the camera online, the report read.
He had it delivered to the hotel where he was staying in Washington before the fatal shooting of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as the couple left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum on May 21.
The transaction demonstrates the premeditated nature of the crime, prosecutors said, according to AP.
Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek the death penalty for Rodriguez if he is convicted, the report continued.
The Trump administration said in August that the suspect would be eligible for the death penalty if found guilty.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office set an Oct. 20 deadline for Rodriguez’s lawyers to submit “mitigation evidence” against a death sentence, AP reported. However, his defense attorneys asked for an extension until March 19.
A hearing on that defense request is slated to take place on Wednesday.
Prosecutors, however, oppose an extension.
The killings were “calculated and planned,” prosecutors moreover said, as Rodriguez flew to Washington from Chicago with a handgun in his checked luggage.
Lischinsky and Milgrim were about to get engaged.
Lischinsky was a German-born Christian Zionist who had served in the Israel Defense Forces and “chose to dedicate his life to the State of Israel and the Zionist cause,” according to Israeli Ambassador to Berlin Ron Prosor.
Milgrim was a U.S. citizen.
D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith said following the killings that the suspect chanted, “Free, free Palestine” as he was taken into custody.
Tristan Alexander Anderson, 22, of Hooksett, N.H., was arrested last month and accused of threatening to kill New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, with “my weapon of mass destruction” and of saying that Jews must die.
Per court documents, which JNS viewed, Anderson was arrested on Aug. 28. He allegedly stated that “these Jew feds” need to die and referred to the “Israel deep state.”
The accused also allegedly stated that Jews created polygamy. Police said that he owned guns and materials to make bombs.
When @Arsenal wished its Jewish fans a Happy New Year, these were some of the responses: pic.twitter.com/LKvWuZm7Tl
— Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) September 22, 2025
As Israel ushers in the new year with Rosh Hashanah, its population crossed the milestone of 10.1 million. Israel continues to grow, not just in numbers, but in its mosaic of cultures. About 21.5% of the population are Arab Israelis, with the rest made up of Jewish citizens (in… pic.twitter.com/0Qj65jCUKj
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) September 22, 2025
🚨 *Shocking Video* 🚨
— Shomrim (London North & East) (@Shomrim) September 22, 2025
👤77-year-old #Rabbi targeted in a completely unprovoked antisemitic attack on the streets of #StamfordHill.
📍Victim was entering the Boots pharmacy when he was accosted by a deranged individual who hurled abuse & pelted the innocent victim with chicken… pic.twitter.com/YIyQyVl7mk
Chef Guy Vaknin, owner of 8 vegan restaurants in NYC, has been the target of a boycott campaign, vandalism, and personal threats simply because he was born in Israel.
— Lizzy Savetsky (@LizzySavetsky) September 21, 2025
Please share this widely and support the City Roots restaurants to show the hateful mob that we are not going… pic.twitter.com/Cjc77GcGiy
Honored to receive the White Rose given to non-Jews who support the Jewish people in time of need. The White Rose society were Christian Germans led by Hans Scholl who spoke out against Nazi atrocities in 1942. They were all killed. Happy Rosh Hashanah. You are not alone in this. pic.twitter.com/AAWs507Ie2
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) September 22, 2025
Ask Haviv Anything: Episode 44: Fateful choices to make in the new year, a comment for Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is the only Jewish holiday that falls on the first day of the lunar month - that begins in darkness. It is also the holiday most associated in Jewish tradition with great turning-points and new beginnings.
The coming year will be a time of great change and momentous decisions. Israel will have some fundamental choices to make.
This is a reflection on the holiday, on the state of the war, and on the responsibility that Judaism places upon us to shape our destiny.
As Israel ushers in the new year with Rosh Hashanah, its population crossed the milestone of 10.1 million. Israel continues to grow, not just in numbers, but in its mosaic of cultures. About 21.5% of the population are Arab Israelis, with the rest made up of Jewish citizens (in… pic.twitter.com/0Qj65jCUKj
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) September 22, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Rosh Hashanah Greeting:
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 22, 2025
“Dear Jewish brothers and sisters,
Dear supporters of Israel around the world,
On behalf of my wife, myself and the Government of Israel, I wish each of you a Happy New Year. pic.twitter.com/GVG5a39GS7
A message from Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, to all Jewish brothers and sisters around the world during these challenging times. Shana Tova! May this year bring peace and prosperity, and may we see all 48 hostages return home. Am Yisrael Chai! 🍎🍯🎗️@Isaac_Herzog pic.twitter.com/1UYMeepBZC
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) September 22, 2025
Did you know there are ancient ruins hidden beneath the Western Wall, buried for nearly 2,000 years?
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 22, 2025
The Great Bridge Route, now open to the public, reveals the underground path that once led to the Second Temple. A direct link between the Jewish people and Jerusalem.
Thank you… pic.twitter.com/qcOaj1GRzM
TOGETHER, WE’ll RISEhttps://t.co/JtJSuERhia pic.twitter.com/JDJ5uvM4zo
— J.Majburd (@JonathanMajburd) September 22, 2025
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