Monday, October 27, 2025

10/27 Links Pt2: The origins of today’s anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric; Radiohead and the Gaza Thought Police; Asia-Pacific envoys honor foreign workers killed in Oct 7 attacks

From Ian:

The origins of today’s anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric
In The Three Faces of Antisemitism: Right, Left and Islamist (Routledge Taylor and Francis Group for the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.2025) Jeffrey Herf, professor emeritus of History at the University of Maryland, summarizes his excellent academic books about the various kinds of antisemitism sponsored by governments and by political movements. He shows that much of the current anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric is recycled Nazi, Soviet bloc and extreme Islamist propaganda deliberately generated for purely ideological and political reasons.

So, the Jews are both Communists and capitalist-imperialists, the fomenters of revolutions and the oppressors, exploiters and colonizers of others. They control the media and act in secret. There is hardly an anti-Jewish lie from the Twentieth century, whether from the Nazis, the Communists or the Islamists themselves missing from this package of hate-soaked rubbish.

Herf also shows that ‘Radical, theologically based hatred of Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel is part of the core ideological beliefs of the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran.’ The world view of the Iranian leadership is so delusional and divorced from reality that if that nation were to acquire a nuclear weapon Iran would not act like a rational state ‘according to the customary norms of what constitutes reasonable behavior in international affairs.’ It cannot be assumed that Iran will value its own survival above eliminating the hated Jewish enemy.

Westerners frequently assume that radical Islamist Jew-hatred is just another form of prejudice and therefore can be worked around. But the irrational, paranoid conspiracy theory that proposes that the evil Jew is part of a satanic design to weaken the solidarity of Islamic people everywhere is a central guiding and operating principle of the Iranian leadership. Even more, according to mainstream Iranian thought, the Jews are enemies of humanity as a whole and not just Islam.

Iran is the first national government since Hitler’s Germany to make hatred of Jews a central ideological principle.

Although many of these essays were written before October 7, 2023 one of the necessary conclusions of reading Three Faces of Antisemitism: Left, Right and Islamist is that almost all the anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric one hears today is the product of deliberate political and ideological decisions made by Jew-haters over the last one hundred years or so.

Today’s Jew-haters are parroting the rhetoric of the Nazis, the Soviets and the Islamists. Just as they often don’t know anything about the history of Israel and the Jewish people, so also today’s Jew-haters do not know that they are the heirs of the Nazis, the Communists and the Islamists whose rhetoric has now been all rolled up into one big, ugly, toxic homicidal ball.
Hear Him Roar
In the closing acknowledgments of his new book, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America, Ben Shapiro declares, “Some books are suffused with a cold objectivity. Others are written at white heat. This book was written passionately, because we live in shockingly turbulent times, and because the truth has never been more urgently necessary.”

He is stating, in other words, that his book is a polemic. Some polemics are tendentious, slapdash, indifferently sourced rants. Others are essential—the rhetorical equivalents of a ship’s lookout sounding the alarm at the sudden appearance of an enormous iceberg. Shapiro’s book fits into the latter category, although the peril that faces our civilization is not an iceberg but a swarm of pirates.

Does this sound a bit melodramatic? So be it. The pirates, or “Scavengers,” in Shapiro’s terminology, are those individuals and institutions in Western cultures, increasingly ascendant, who valorize terrorism and political violence, worship at the altar of Marx, favor the takers rather than the makers, and believe that wealth and success are, by definition, evidence of evil-doing.

As many have noted, the dominant notion in modern intellectual discourse, incubated in our universities and cultural institutions, is that the powerful are automatically evil and the powerless are inherently good. It’s an incredibly simple, and simplistic, notion, despite all the post hoc intellectual appurtenances attached to it by radical thinkers ranging from Edward Said and Frantz Fanon to modern-day leftist fashionistas such as Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler.

The effectiveness and pervasiveness of this worldview is illustrated every day in our news media, where the sins of the powerful are quite rightly excoriated while the sins of the supposedly powerless are either excused away or, more often, utterly ignored.

The very simplicity of the message “Western civilization bad” is the reason for its success and uncritical acceptance on our college campuses and, increasingly, among Western leaders. It’s a message that appeals to primal human emotions such as envy and guilt (though wealthy radicals believe they can easily expiate their guilt by declaring a “land acknowledgment” and bellowing “Free Palestine!”) and takes advantage of these leaders’ wish to be, or at least to appear, decent, fair-minded, and “empathetic.”

Shapiro, editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and host of the podcast The Ben Shapiro Show, has set out to flip the script on the radicals. Too often, defenders of capitalism and Western freedoms have gotten bogged down in patient explanations and defenses (not that these aren’t necessary) rather than creating a simple and comprehensible framework for understanding why postcolonial Western civilization, despite its manifest shortcomings, is superior to its alternatives. This is doubly true for the defenders of Israel, who find themselves constantly engaged in running skirmishes and dead-end debates with naive or bad-faith actors about non-existent “apartheid” and “settler colonialism” instead of engaging in a full-throated and confident defense of the only free democracy in the region.

Shapiro’s effervescent intelligence, adherence to traditional values, and his boyish, earnest, debate team persona combine to make him seem both deeply sincere and utterly uncool. The latter, I suspect, is something Shapiro doesn’t care about, and that is decidedly to his credit. He is a moderate thinker who writes with immoderate passion.
Stop Being Jew-ish and Start Being Jewish
In his foreword to the catalogue of a recent exhibition at New York’s Jewish Museum, The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt, museum director James S. Snyder seeks to evoke his institution’s tradition of exploring the works of Western artists, like Rembrandt, who specialize in Hebrew biblical subjects and of world cultures that engage with Jewish ideas. These are topics on which any reasonable person would expect a Jewish museum to focus, especially the one located in the American city with the largest and most culturally engaged Jewish population.

So it is profoundly telling that the three exhibitions Snyder cites as examples of the museum’s specialization in these themes—The Jews in the Age of Rembrandt; Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy; and Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain—were all presented more than three decades ago, in 1982, 1989, and 1992 respectively. That one has to go back to the year Bill Clinton was elected president to cite an exhibition demonstrating the Jewish Museum’s serious engagement with the intersection of Jewish and world culture is a sad testament to how dramatically impoverished the Jewish Museum had become in the 21st century.

This impoverishment—which is to say, a deliberate and shocking dearth of Jewish content—fell to astonishing lows during the tenure of Claudia Gould. She led the museum between 2011 and 2023, and during that time, one was hard-pressed to find anything resonantly Jewish in the museum’s special exhibitions. This was a conscious choice. Founded in 1904, the Jewish Museum (known in institutional circles as the JM) has vacillated for more than a century between being a Jewish museum and being a Jew-ish museum. In its mode as a Jew-ish museum, it has tried to echo the lofty, non-culturally specific artistic standards of its famous neighbors, the Guggenheim and The Met, and denied its founding purpose. Gould wanted to run a Fifth Avenue museum, not a museum dedicated to the rich cultural, artistic, and historical legacies of the Jewish people.

And so it was, and is, something to celebrate that the JM conceived and mounted an exhibition from March to August this year that placed at its core a distinctly Jewish text, which carries through to the wonderful catalogue that will immortalize it. The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt does nothing less than bring to life—through visual, theatrical, political, ceremonial, and domestic culture—the central and monumental role this text had in the life and consciousness of the Jewish and non-Jewish communities of 17th-century Holland. This story is read aloud every year in synagogues across the world on the joyous Jewish holiday of Purim and is very specific to the Jewish experience. The exhibition documents the surprising emergence of Esther as a cultural superstar in the 17th-century Netherlands, Holland’s economic and artistic Golden Age.


'Part of me died with you': Slain Gaza hostage Yossi Sharabi laid to rest in Kibbutz Be'eri
Ex-hostage Yossi Sharabi, who was murdered while in Hamas captivity and whose body was returned to Israel during the first phase of the US-brokered Gaza deal, was buried at Kibbutz Be’eri Cemetery on Monday.

Sharabi is survived by his wife, Nira, and their three daughters, Yuval, Ofir, and Oren.

“My brother, my Yossi, today, after more than two years of waiting, of anxiety, of uncertainty, we finally get to bury you here at home,” said released hostage Eli Sharabi, Yossi’s older brother.

Both of Yossi’s brothers, Sharon and Eli, recited kaddish at the start of the funeral procession. Then the prayer El Malei Rachamim was said.

“This is not the end we had hoped for, but it is the beginning of a long-awaited justice – allowing for a space to breathe, a place to weep,” Eli Sharabi said. “Yossi, you were more than just a brother,” he said. “You were our anchor – a person with a huge heart, quiet dedication, and a family man. You didn’t seek headlines; you just wanted to be good. And you were good. You were the best.”

“Our hearts are broken, but our heads are held high, because you were lucky to be buried here in the land you loved, in the heart of your community, among people who didn’t forget,” Eli Sharabi said. “We promise to remember, to speak, and to love, just as you had loved.”


Asia-Pacific envoys honor foreign workers killed in Oct 7 attacks
Ambassadors and representatives from across the Asia-Pacific region gathered on Sunday at Kibbutz Be’eri for a memorial honoring the foreign workers who were killed in Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

The ceremony, hosted by embassies representing Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and other Asia-Pacific nations, commemorated dozens of foreign nationals whose lives were cut short while living and working in Israel.

Many of the victims were caregivers, agricultural laborers, and students who had come seeking opportunity and became part of Israeli life.

A representative of Nepal’s embassy came in place of Ambassador Dhan Prasad Pandit, who had not returned to Israel yet, as he was involved in the repatriation of slain Nepalese hostage Bipin Joshi.

Joshi was killed in Hamas captivity. Previously released footage of him by the terrorists had shown him alive. Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the hardest-hit Gaza border communities during the attack, was home to many of the victims.

Four Filipinos, two Sri Lankans, and one Australian were killed there. Moreover, two Thai workers were abducted and later killed in Gaza. The body of one Thai national, Sudthisak Rinthalak, has remained in Gaza for over two years.

During the memorial service, Thai Ambassador Boonyarit Vichienpuntu talked about the 28,000 Thai nationals currently living and working in Israel, most of them in agriculture.

“They were highly commended for their hard work, dedication, and kindness,” he said. “They helped cultivate this land and feed this nation. Gradually, they became an integral part of the Israeli economy and society.”

The ambassador paid tribute to the 42 Thai citizens murdered during the Hamas assault, including Sudthisak, who had worked in Be’eri.

“He will never be forgotten,” Boonyarit said. “We strongly call, once again, for the long-awaited release of his body and all other remaining victims.”
In first interview, released hostage says he convinced Hamas captors not to kill him
Former hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana recounted being beaten in captivity and convincing his captors not to kill him by appealing to their desire to see Palestinian prisoners released, in his first interview with Israeli television since his release.

In the first location where he was held captive, “suddenly an irritated man enters the room, pulls out his handgun, holds it against my head, [and asks], ‘Tell me how many people have you killed. Now I will kill you,'” Ohana recounted, in an excerpt of the interview aired on Monday. The full interview is to be screened on Tuesday.

“I told him, ‘Zero, zero, I didn’t kill anyone.’ Then he said, ‘Oh, you are lying to me too,’ and was about to shoot me,” Ohana continued. “Then some sheikh came, grabbed his arm and pulled, and told him, ‘Not now.'”

Ohana said that he was sometimes beaten “spontaneously” by captors, but also in “organized” sessions, when captors would tell hostages, “Your country did this or that, and now we are taking revenge.”

“They let us choose between us, who to kill, who to just hurt. They ran a lottery for us,” he said, describing the psychological abuse by the captors.

Ohana also described the tunnel he was kept in: “On one side, there’s a dark corridor; on the other side, there’s a dark corridor. I don’t know, right or left, we have an LED lamp.” Yosef-Haim Ohana arrives at a hospital following his release from two years of captivity in Gaza, October 13, 2025. (Shauli Landner/GPO)

“When someone comes with a lamp, at first, there were periods when we waited for it, maybe they’ll bring us a teapot or something,” he said. “One time they came, we greeted them, and suddenly they started beating us.

“They received an order, and they started beating us. They put us against the wall on one side, they just take off our shirts and beat us,” he said.

“Since then, we’ve called it ‘the lamps are coming.’ And every time we saw the lamps, we had a panic attack. No one knows where to go. ‘Shall I stand? Shall I sit? Who will be the first to take it?’ We want to run as far inside as possible, but then we realize that it won’t look good and that we have to spread out over the whole room,” Ohana said. “We would prefer that they don’t come for a week, two weeks, a month, that they leave us alone.”

He said he convinced his captors not to kill him by “using their logic,” knowing that he was an “important card” for the terror group.


Kosha Dillz - Habaita (Yardena Arazi Remix) prod. by Shekel Habayata!
"Habayta" (= Back Home). The song "habayta" is a protest song that was written by the late Ehud Manor on 1982 during the the first Lebanon war. The song called to bring the israeli soldiers back home from "foreign fields". On 2003 Manor was asked by Yardena to add a new verse to the song. In the summer of 2006, during the second Lebanon war, Yardena had recorded the new version of the song and dedicated it to the kidnapped and missing israeli soldiers.

Kosha Dillz recreated the song after a chance meeting with a band called Young Israelites who knew Kosha. They got together in the studio with Shekel and wrote something for the hostages after the eery feeling of celebration when so many of the fallen hostages were left behind.


No Hate in the Mosh Pit
David Draiman can appear terrifying. The bald head, the long leather coat, the guttural roar at the start of Down With the Sickness — it’s menace for show. But behind the image lies something else entirely. The Disturbed frontman has become one of the most outspoken Jewish voices in music, using his platform to call out antisemitism and stand up for Israel. Since October 7, Draiman has been relentless on social media, in interviews and on stage. At one show, he led thousands in a rendition of Hatikvah. At another, he strode out defiantly in a black top with a Magen David across his chest.

There have been moments of backlash – anger online after he signed shells for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) – but he remains unshaken. For fans like me, seeing someone in heavy metal proudly Jewish, proudly pro-Israel, is powerful. It’s why I feel so safe in this scene.

That feeling was especially strong last month at Blackstock 2025. While you might pick up a few bruises in the mosh pit, one thing you generally don’t have to worry about at a heavy metal gig is anti-Israel hate.

At Catton Park in Derbyshire in August, the front of the crowd was a flailing mass of bodies swirling and limbs colliding. Some people were hurled towards the barriers in front of the stage, where muscular security guards grabbed them to bring them back to Earth. But I only saw one person with a Palestinian flag draped over his shoulders and, upsettingly, Bob Vylan’s sick IDF quote on a toilet door. But beyond that, nothing.

No stage speeches, no organised hate, no chant of “from the river to the sea”. I felt safe being a Jew at Blackstock. I even bought bracelets from a vendor with a Hebrew tattoo. The annual heavy metal extravaganza might have an unpleasant-sounding name, but it’s pure fun to attend. Some of the biggest metal bands on the planet took to the stage to perform their songs, not to wave flags and shout about a war in another part of the world.

This is a huge contrast to what has been going on in other music scenes and what we see at mainstream festivals. Glastonbury was full of anti-Israel sentiment led by a fame-seeking faux rasta no one had heard of until that day.

Heavy metal can look frightening – the studs, the leather, the furious vocals, but it’s one of the safest fandoms around. Big burly men in metal-studded belts and leather jackets make sure the likes of me are kept safe. People pick you up if you get knocked down. You chat to strangers at the portable loos. There is a mutual respect between fans that comes from the crowd generally being made up of outsiders, the kids who were told they were weirdos at school.
James Maslow: Why I stand with Israel amid rising tide of antisemitism
I’ve been an artist my entire life. Music has always been my way of connecting with people, of finding common ground even when words fall short. But lately, it feels like art itself is under siege. Antisemitism in America has become an untamed beast, and in Hollywood and the music industry, it’s taking an ugly form: a boycott culture aimed squarely at Israel and the Jewish people. Instead of fostering creativity and dialogue, too many artists are cutting ties, canceling collaborations and demonizing an entire nation. It’s sucking the oxygen out of art.

That’s exactly why I decided to do the opposite. I put my money where my mouth is — in the middle of a war — and poured my energy into a project that means more to me than anything I’ve done in years. My new single, "On My Mind," is about Israel and the Jewish people. And I didn’t just write about it — I filmed the music video there, with the land itself as my stage, and I collaborated with two extraordinary Israeli artists: rapper Shahar Saul and singer Maya Dadon.

The backdrop wasn’t a studio set or a green screen. It was Israel — raw, real, beautiful and alive.

For me, this wasn’t just about making music. It was about standing up. When so many voices in entertainment are quick to pile on Israel, when it has become fashionable to call for boycotts or spread half-truths and outright lies, I chose to align myself with the only democracy in the Middle East, a place I love, and a people I admire.

Now, before you rush to scream "genocide" or launch into another antisemitic rant, I have one simple challenge: Go visit. See it with your own eyes. Because here’s the truth — there is nothing homogenous about Israel.

It is a country of staggering diversity. Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Armenians, Ethiopians and Bedouins — all living, working and debating side by side. It’s not one culture. It’s dozens. It’s not one ideology. It’s endless disagreements, arguments, protests and conversations — often louder and more chaotic than anything I’ve seen in America. And that’s the beauty of it. Israel is messy because it’s alive. It’s vibrant. It’s free.
Seth Mandel: Radiohead and the Gaza Thought Police
Members of the band Radiohead recently sat for a fascinating interview with the Times of London that, at one point, resembled a kind of group therapy session centered on the stress of the anti-Semitic BDS movement’s hounding of the band.

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s wife is Israeli and he has collaborated with Israeli musicians, further enraging the band’s progressive critics and subjecting them to threats and cancellations. Greenwood noted in the interview the irony of such people calling themselves “progressive” when they are protesting against his willingness to play with a diverse array of Middle Eastern musicians. “[T]hat feels progressive to me — booing at a concert does not strike me as brave or progressive.”

What really grabs the reader about the discussion, though, is how healthy it is. Band members disagree with each other on the issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict and yet they do not hate each other. Of the BDS-nik harassment, lead singer Thom Yorke says: “It’s a purity test, low-level Arthur Miller witch-hunt. I utterly respect the dismay but it’s very odd to be on the receiving end.”

And Yorke really does “respect the dismay.” Though he has played Israel in the past, he expresses his frustration with how difficult it has become to avoid getting pulled—sometimes against one’s will—into the conflict’s sectarianism. Greenwood grants him the point: “It’s the embodiment of the left. The left look for traitors, the right for converts and it’s depressing that we are the closest they can get.”

But Greenwood pushes back on Yorke’s readiness to avoid playing in the country: “I would argue that the government is more likely to use a boycott and say, ‘Everyone hates us — we should do exactly what we want.’ Which is far more dangerous.”

Yorke notes Greenwood’s “roots” there and says he understands where his bandmate is coming from.

It’s all so civil. Yorke shares certain critiques of the Israeli government with the protesters, but he is far more bothered by their attempt to police his—everybody’s, really—art: “This wakes me up at night. They’re telling me what it is that I’ve done with my life, and what I should do next, and that what I think is meaningless. People want to take what I’ve done that means so much to millions of people and wipe me out. But this is not theirs to take from me.”
Nicole Lampert: Radiohead should not cave in to vicious pro-Gaza bullies
BDS claims to be an anti-violent movement, but the threat of violence has been enough to see British band Oi Va Voi cancelled from venues in Bristol and Brighton for the seeming crime of having an Israeli singer.

For a long time, British indie band Radiohead was the JK Rowling of the anti-BDS movement. Too big to cancel – their latest tour sold out in hours despite the threats to boycott them – they stood firm despite the hatred, the threats and the denouncement. But now frontman Thom Yorke has said they will not play Israel, at least while Netanyahu is in charge.

This is caving into the bullies who will notch it up as one of their greatest victories, not least because earlier this year they forced the closure of lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s tour of the UK with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa. What a shame, not only for music fans but also all of us who believe that you cannot appease intimidation and threats.

Greenwood – who is married to Israeli artist Sharona Katan and insists he will continue to work with Tassa and other artists from the Middle East – admits to feeling shame that he had dragged his bandmates into the laser beams of the BDS movement. Yorke admits that the demands that the band turn their back on Israel and cry “Free Palestine” from the stage “wakes me up at night”.

Yet even as he describes the movement as a “purity test, low-level Arthur Miller witch-hunt”, he has thrown the band onto the fire and helped in the demonisation of Israelis who, for the past two years, have been fighting a terrorist organisation that started a war. It feels like a punch in the stomach to those of us who have no choice but to be linked to Israel, because we are Jewish or Israeli. And we need our friends.

It takes bravery to stand up to the intimidators. They are dangerous and they don’t mind baring their fangs to show us just how much they want to hurt us. But if we – any of us – have any chance to defeat the tyrannical bullies behind the likes of the BDS movement, we have to stand firm.
‘Do I look traumatised? No, I am very angry’: Israeli professor Michael Ben-Gad remains defiant after ‘beheading’ threat
Israeli professor Michael Ben-Gad, who has faced threats from students at the London university where he lectures, has ridiculed those responsible, reading out a mock “apology” for undertaking military service, a “term” he said was dictated by the mob in order to “have [his] life back”.

Ben-Gad, a professor of economics at City, St George’s, University of London, laughed off the threats from those he characterised as “thugs” in a defiant interview, demonstrating once again that he will not be bullied or intimidated.

In recent weeks, the lecturer has faced a targeted campaign to oust him from his job – which has included posters on campus branding him a “terrorist”, a masked mob storming his classroom and even a threat to behead him.

However speaking to comedian Josh Howie on his GB News show Free Speech Nation, the academic – who was conscripted to serve in the IDF in the 1980s – once again made it clear that he is not going anywhere, and far from feeling scared, he is merely angry on behalf of his students.

Recounting the latest developments, Ben-Gad said: "They are now offering me ‘terms’: I can have my life back if I apologise for my military service.”

He then went on the deliver his “apology” to camera, opening with the line “Good evening, thugs”.

Far from apologising for his IDF service, which took place from 1982 to 1985, Ben-Gad said that although as an Israeli citizen military service was compulsory, “for most of us, conscription merely absolved us of the need to volunteer.”

He then added: “I was born less than 20 years after nearly my entire family was gassed at Treblinka. And personally, I would have crawled over cut glass to get to that induction centre, to put on the uniform and defend my people.”

Ben-Gad, who has worked at the university since 2008, said that City had offered him paid leave and joked that although it was “very tempting” as as an academic with “a lot of research projects”, he was determined to turn up to “every single lecture”, adding that the institution was working to bolster his security to make sure that could happen.

He added: "Do I look traumatised? No, I am very angry.”

Some 1,600 academics, writers and political figures have come out to defend Ben-Gad in recent days.


David Collier: BBC The Global Story: lies, distortion, and antisemitic conspiracy
Wasting yet more of the public money it receives, the BBC recently launched another vanity project – this time an online podcast-based news program called The Global Story. And just like its flagship BBC Verify, the Global Story has already sunk into familiar territory – distortion, misinformation, and antisemitic conspiracy – compounded by the BBC’s habit of openly allowing political activists to shape its coverage.

The Netanyahu Episode and the classic antisemitic trope
The episode that took my eye was titled ‘Why Netanyahu gets what he wants from the US’.

As the title implies, the programme set out to suggest that successive US Presidents are little more than puppets of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The claim that Israel secretly controls America is a classic antisemitic trope rooted in centuries-old conspiracy theories about Jewish power and manipulation. It recycles the same false narrative once used in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion- that Jews operate behind the scenes to dominate governments, media, and finance. In modern form, it disguises traditional antisemitism in political language but serves the same purpose: to demonise Jews as a hidden, malevolent force.

This classic antisemitic framing was locked in from the opening line:
“From the BBC, I am Tristan Redman – and this is the Global Story. Benjamin Netanyahu has a proven history of getting exactly what he wants from US Presidents, including Donald J. Trump.”

Let’s ‘verify‘ this claim. Since 1996, across his three stints as Prime Minister, Netanyahu has held the office for roughly 216 months – about 36 under Clinton, 94 under Obama, 48 under Trump (so far) and 38 with Biden. During that period, three of those four Presidents took major policy actions directly contrary to Netanyahu’s stated goals:
1996-1999 – Clinton: confrontations over Oslo and ‘settlements’
Late 1990s – Political pressuring – U.S. abstention on UNSC Resolution 1073, the Mashaal affair
1998-1999 – Clinton: overt support for opposition leader Ehud Barak before election
2009-2017 – Obama: the ‘Daylight‘ doctrine
2010 – Obama: public rift over Biden visit
2014 – Obama: arms and munitions delays during Gaza war
2015 – Obama: Iran nuclear deal
2016 – Obama: UN Security Council Resolution 2334
2023 – Biden: open opposition to Netanyahu’s judiciary legislation
2023-2024 – Biden: open criticism of Israeli operations in Gaza
2023- 2024 – Biden: weapons delays

The programme’s central assertion collapses under its own weight. Despite what Redman states in his opening line, the historical record shows not subservience but recurring friction, policy clashes, and at times outright hostility between US administrations and Netanyahu.

Far from being ‘a man who always gets what he wants,’ Netanyahu has long faced open opposition from American presidents.
Calling for the death of Jews: Danger and hatred in countries that Jews call home Echoes of history
These incidents are not the first time that death threats have been heard publicly. During the Holocaust, that was a common outcry throughout Europe. Not long after Hamas’s barbaric massacre of October 7, it was reported that pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Sydney, Australia, had been heard chanting, “gas the Jews,” although the media denies such calls were heard. If so, why did the media report that the Australian government apologized for the incident?

Amid many death threats to Jewish groups and individuals, Nicholas Ray, a Texas resident, was arrested this week after a lengthy investigation took place following death threats to several Jewish, pro-Israel and conservative media commentators. They included journalist Laura Loomer, author Josh Hammer, and New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz.

Hardly a day goes by without similar death threats being reported in newspapers throughout the world, making it clear that Jews are not guaranteed the safety they once felt in their respective countries.

This unexpected phenomenon, which took off following Hamas’s bloody massacre in Israel, has clearly morphed into a desire expressed throughout the world to openly wish for the death of Jews – a concern that should trouble everyone. When calls for the death of any people are heard, it is time to reflect on a dreadful malady invading the collective society.

If a segment of the population can be blamed for bogus actions attributed to them, solely on the basis of their ethnicity, it is telltale of depravity that testifies to the accusers having seriously lost their way. It reveals a dark tendency that seems to emerge with each generation, indicating that important lessons have not been gleaned from the tragedies of our shared history.

The desire to kill off an entire group of people is about as perverse as it gets. These calls to kill Jews indicate that we are, once again, at a time when society has broken down and is desperately in need of profound soul-searching.

While we know that Israel’s obligation to protect its people is nothing different from what any other country would have done, the outcries of protest would have us believe otherwise. They forget that Israel is protecting all those who live here, and that includes Arabs, Druze, Christians, and other ethnicities.

Rockets have fallen on each of those groups. Tragically, 12 Druze children from Israel’s northern community of Majdal Shams died when a rocket hit the soccer field where they were innocently playing; an additional 42 were wounded.

The evil is deepened when non-Jews are included in the threatening calls for the death of those who live in Zion. It is the spirit of murder, destroying anyone who has an association with Jews. It really doesn’t get darker than that.

178 House Democrats did the unthinkable by siding against Jewish families
Jewish families have been banned from living in Saudi Arabia for decades. Is this the model that Democratic House leaders now support for Judea and Samaria?

When 178 House Democrats signed a letter on Sept. 25 to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposing any Israeli move to annex territory in the West Bank, they weren’t just making a policy statement, but endorsing a future where no Jews would live in Judea and Samaria. Do they believe that Jews should be barred from living in their ancestral homeland—the biblical heartland of the Land of Israel? Is it moral to declare any land off-limits to Jews—to make it Judenrein?

Let’s be clear: A future Palestinian Arab state in Judea and Samaria, as envisioned by the Palestinian Authority and now tacitly endorsed by much of the Democratic Party, would be as Judenrein as Saudi Arabia is today (and as Hitler intended Nazi Germany to be). That is not a slur; it is a fact based on what Palestinian leaders themselves say. P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly insisted that not a single Israeli—not a single Jew—would be allowed to remain in a future Palestinian state.

This is the same Abbas who wrote his 1982 doctoral thesis on “The Secret Relationship between Nazism and Zionism” and who has questioned the legitimacy of the Holocaust.

While Israel was preparing to enter Gaza City to rescue hostages held by Hamas, these 178 Democrats chose that exact moment to sign a letter, declaring: “We are deeply opposed to proposals for unilateral annexation of territory in the West Bank.”

Let’s translate that. They oppose Jewish communities—and that is all that settlements really are—that exist in areas Israel didn’t control before the 1967 Six-Day War. These so-called “settlements” are cities and towns with schools, synagogues and generations of Jewish families in the historic heartland of the Jewish people: Judea and Samaria.

No settlements were involved in the Oct. 7 massacre. But the Democratic letter paints Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria as an obstacle to peace—not Hamas, not Hezbollah, not the P.A. or the Fatah Party, not decades of terrorism, antisemitic incitement or agreements broken by the P.A.

This isn’t just wrong. It’s morally backwards.
Jewish film festival in Sweden cancelled after cinemas refuse to host it
A Jewish film festival in Sweden has been cancelled after every cinema in the city of Malmö refused to host screenings, citing security concerns.

The organisers of the Jewish International Film Festival, planned as a four-day celebration of 250 years of Jewish life in Sweden, said the event had been “stonewalled” by all commercial and art-house venues in the city.

One organiser told Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT: “A couple of them refer to security concerns. They are worried something might happen. I don’t understand what security threat there could be with showing Jewish films.”

Co-organiser and journalist Sofia Nerbrand said police had even offered to provide security outside cinemas. Writing on X, she said: “The Jewish film festival that we planned in Malmö must now be cancelled because no cinema dares to rent out its premises. It is outrageous if Sweden cannot protect cinemagoers who are interested in Jewish film.”

Sweden’s Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand called the situation “an absolute disaster for society,” adding: “That one of our national minorities feels so vulnerable, and that organisers believe they cannot arrange events and cultural activities with Jewish content, is an absolute disaster for society.”

Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson said: “If we are serious about Jews feeling safe in Sweden, we must put an end to the culture where vulnerable people are expected to step aside for their attackers. Those who praise terrorism and persecute Jews have no place in our country.”

At least five cinemas operate in Malmö, including one run by Sweden’s largest chain Filmstaden, which declined to host the festival over “safety concerns”. “Our priority is always to ensure a safe and positive experience for both our guests and employees,” a spokesperson said.
Israeli business owners in Spain say bank froze accounts under new ‘Gaza decree’
Spain’s fourth-largest bank, Banco Sabadell, is under fire from Israeli business owners who say their accounts have been frozen under a new Spanish royal decree targeting trade linked to Israeli settlements.

Israeli financial publication Calcalist reported that the Catalonia-based bank has asked all Israeli clients to sign declarations confirming they do not “conduct, export, or import goods or services” connected to Israeli settlements – a move it says complies with new Spanish legislation introduced in September.

Royal Decree No. 10/2025 – formally described as “urgent measures against the genocide in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian population” – expands Spain’s arms embargo on Israel and prohibits the import, export or promotion of products originating in Israeli settlements.

In recent days, several Israeli entrepreneurs with Spanish-registered companies said they had been warned that incoming funds from Israel would not be released unless they submitted the new forms. One businesswoman told Calcalist: “Every Israeli who receives money from an Israeli must prove that it is clean and complies with the new law. It’s a crazy situation I never believed would come to us.”

The form requires customers to confirm that transactions “do not violate the restrictions set forth in Royal Decree No. 10/2025” and to provide details including end-user addresses and product origin. Banco Sabadell’s compliance department must now clear all payments before approval.

An Israeli client quoted by Calcalist said she had “more than €10,000 stuck” and that “dozens of other Israelis” were unable to access funds for rent or food.

Critics argue the bank is interpreting the decree too broadly. “It seems they are applying the law in an excessive and possibly illegal way,” said another Israeli business owner, noting that the regulation applies to Spanish companies, not individual clients.
Norwegian state TV faces backlash for airing antisemitic jokes about Jews
'Antisemitism disguised as a joke'
Senior Deputy Director General for Public Diplomacy at Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Yacov Livne, said, “Antisemitism disguised as a ‘joke’ doesn’t hide the hate – it exposes it. It’s time someone in Norway’s state media was held accountable.”

Eytan Halon, charge d’affaires at the Israeli embassy in Norway, tweeted: “Once again, Norway’s state-run media outlet NRK broadcasts outrageous ‘jokes’ about Jews. Antisemitic humor on NRK has become a frequent occurrence. Where is the condemnation? It cannot continue.”

“What if the program had suggested replacing the word “Fentanyl” – with the words “Palestinian,” “Hamas,” “Arab,” or “Islamic”? Not as much fun for Bård & Co as “Jew”?” commented a member of Norway’s Jewish community on the ‘Stop antisemitism on Norwegian TV’ Facebook group.

Other members of the community compiled a list of antisemitic incidents in the channel’s past.

In 2008, Otto Jespersen, on an NRK-affiliated program, joked about “billions of fleas and lice” that died in the gas chambers together with the Jews and claimed that Jews killed Jesus. In 2016, NRK aired a cartoon comparing student debt to Nazi concentration camps, using Holocaust imagery.

In 2021, NRK downplayed an imam’s Facebook post calling for Jews to be killed as a “strongly worded statement.”

Just a week before the fentanyl incident, on October 17, 2025, a Nytt på Nytt sketch mocked the Nazi-era deportations of Norwegian Jews.


Anti-Israel actress Rachel Zegler and YouTuber Ms. Rachel named Glamour magazine’s ‘Women of the Year’
Glamour magazine’s latest “Women of the Year” include a pair of Rachels — both of them with a trail of controversies over the Israel-Hamas war.

Actress Rachel Zegler and children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel were added to the magazine’s annual list of high-achieving women Monday, joining actress Demi Moore and singer Tyla for this year’s awards so far.

Both had explosive years, with 24-year-old Zegler becoming a household name after spouting off a string of tone-deaf hot takes while promoting the release of Disney’s live-action theatrical bomb “Snow White,” and then going on to star in the hit musical “Evita.”

Ms. Rachel — a 42-year-old mom whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso — meanwhile, continued to amass a commanding following on YouTube, where her educational children’s videos have been watched more than 10 billion times.

But the pair have also been dogged by controversy in the last year after both became outspoken about the Israel-Hamas war.

Zegler infamously caused chaos for Disney after she posted “and always remember, free Palestine” shortly after the Snow White trailer first dropped. Later reports claimed that she and her Israeli co-star, Gal Gadot, were butting heads over the conflict.

The Anti-Defamation League notes that the seemingly benign rallying cry has at times been used “to intimidate and attack Jews and Jewish institutions and to justify violence committed against Jews globally.”

Notably, the phrase was shouted by accused DC Israeli Embassy assassin Elias Rodriguez as he gunned down a pair of young diplomats in May, as well as Boulder, Colo. firebomber Mohamed Soliman.
The New York Times Tries to Rebrand the Campus Antisemites Who Terrorized Their Colleges for Two Years
In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, as the country fought to dismantle the terrorist organization and rescue the hostages dragged into Gaza, anti-Israel demonstrations erupted across Europe and the United States.

Nowhere were they more intense than on American college campuses. Within days, student activists transformed university quads into sprawling encampments, vowing not to leave until their institutions cut – in many cases, entirely imaginary – financial and academic ties with Israel under the banner of “divestment.”

What began as “protesting” quickly devolved into intimidation. Jewish students were harassed, campus events were hijacked, and in several cases, violence and vandalism followed.

HonestReporting has extensively investigated these anti-Israel campus movements – from uncovering Arab funding to universities mired in antisemitism scandals, to exposing media outlets that whitewashed the hate and violence on display. We also documented how some universities quietly reversed disciplinary measures against protest ringleaders, bowing to activist pressure instead of upholding academic integrity.

As the 2024 academic year began, the encampments began to thin out. Universities, after months of chaos and countless reports from Jewish students describing fear and harassment, finally started dismantling the protests. The long-overdue clean-up marked an uneasy pause – but not an end – to the wave of antisemitic activism that swept American campuses in the wake of October 7.
Washington student group holds lecture on October 7 massacre 'victory'
A University of Washington student group is holding an off-campus lecture on Sunday to explain why the October 7 massacre was a victory for the pro-Palestinian movement.

Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return, University of Washington (SUPER UW), is hosting a “teach-in” called “The right to resist: Al-Aqsa Flood and Armed Resistance,” about the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel led by Hamas.

“Why do we commemorate the Al-Aqsa Flood as a victory of Palestinian struggle and resistance? How can we continue to support the Palestinian struggle and resistance through changing conditions on the ground in Palestine and in our area? Join us to learn together and discuss!” read a description of the event on Instagram.

Terrorist ties
The October 19 Instagram post was made in collaboration with Tariq el-Tahrir, the youth wing of Masar Badil Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path, which is closely linked to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. Samidoun was sanctioned last October by the US for acting as a “sham” charity for the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

In a Tariq el-Tahrir video with Samidoun International Coordinator Charlotte Kates, shared on Thursday by SUPER UW, Kates acknowledges that Samidoun was part of the same “political project” that “bears the name of the Masar Badil” group, led by her husband, Khaled Barakat.

SUPER UW works closely with Masar Badil and Tariq el-Tahrir, including their names in its account bio. It has featured other Samidoun officers, including Samidoun Europe coordinator Masar Badil, executive committee member, and PFLP agent Mohammed Khatib, on April 25.


NYC News Nonprofit Hailed Savior of Local Journalism Hired Pro-Hamas Organizer Who Raised Money for Terrorists and Defended Assassination of Israeli Diplomats
A journalist for THE CITY, a New York City news nonprofit hailed as a beacon of hope for local journalism, served as an organizer for the Bronx Anti-War Coalition, a virulently anti-Israel group that held vigils for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, raised money for the terrorist group Samidoun, and defended Elias Rodriguez's alleged assassination of two Israeli diplomats in Washington, D.C., earlier this year as "morally justified."

Marina Samuel, a data fellow at THE CITY, led a "teach-in" for Bronx Anti-War Coalition last year with leaders of the terrorist groups Samidoun and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Washington Free Beacon investigation has found. During the event, Samuel praised Hamas's use of "guerrilla warfare," and solicited donations for Samidoun, requesting that "paper checks" be sent in lieu of online donations "due to the Zionist forces working against them."

Samuel joined THE CITY earlier this year on a data intern fellowship funded by the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the philanthropy of Revlon's founder and donor to numerous Jewish causes. Samuel has written about the New York City mayoral and city council races for THE CITY, which launched in 2019 to widespread buzz as a potential savior of local journalism.

Bronx Anti-War, which emerged as one of the most vocal anti-Israel groups in the country after Oct. 7, has largely shielded the identity of its members.

The revelation comes at a tumultuous time for THE CITY, which has faced financial headwinds, forcing employees to take a 20 percent pay cut in 2023 to avoid mass layoffs, Semafor reported.

Major journalism organizations like the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ProPublica, and the American Journalism Project donated a combined $1.8 million through 2023 to fund THE CITY's operations, according to tax filings.

Pro-Israel charities are also major donors to THE CITY, whose newsroom is overseen by former Nation editor Richard Kim. The charity of Len Blavatnik, a prolific backer of Jewish and Israeli causes, donated $400,000 in 2022 and 2023 to THE CITY, according to tax filings. The Leon Levy Foundation, which funds the Center for Jewish History, gave $750,000 to the outlet in 2022 and 2023.
Jewish newspaper in Portland booted from Democratic Socialist press conference on Israel: editor
The editor of Portland’s only Jewish news outlet said he was blocked from attending a virtual press conference held by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America discussing Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Rockne Roll, editor of The Jewish Review, slammed the DSA for booting him out of the meeting last week, calling it a “disservice” to his readers as four members of the Portland city council attended it to learn about “Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid, or genocidal violence against Palestinians.”

“I know there are a wide range of opinions about the Jewish state; out of respect for all of them, I made plans to attend and report what I saw fairly and accurately – just as I have endeavor to do on every story,” Roll wrote.

“Someone decided I shouldn’t have that chance. I was removed from the event before it even started,” he added.

Roll is the sole staff member of the Review, an online bi-weekly paper owned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland.

The editor claimed that when he entered the conference to listen in on the discussion, he was logged out and not allowed back in.

“While four members of Portland’s City Council assembled to discuss something of import to Portland’s Jewish community, the representative of the lone outlet that focuses on Portland’s Jewish community was unceremoniously ushered out – without explanation, without notice, without a word,” Roll wrote.

“All it took was a couple of mouse clicks to erect a barrier between elected officials and the press that is meant to hold them accountable.”


Anti-Israel activists target South African Holocaust centers
Anti-Israel activists have targeted Holocaust and genocide centers in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, holding protests outside the institutions and sending threatening letters in what Jewish community leaders are calling “a campaign of intimidation.”

Two protests were held outside the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center (JHGC) in the past week, coinciding with an International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference it hosted from October 20 to 24.

Ahead of the conference, 14 anti-Israel organizations—including the South African BDS Coalition, South African Jews for a Free Palestine and Queers for Palestine—sent a “declaration of intent” to the JHGC, accusing it of “silence and complicity at a time when a genocide is unfolding before the eyes of the world.”

The letter demanded that the center publicly label Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as “genocide,” denounce “Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism,” support the closure of the Israeli Embassy and endorse the global BDS movement.

According to JHGC director Tali Nates, the center’s leadership met with representatives of the signatory groups “in good faith” earlier in October. “Following the informal meeting, they came out with a declaration against the JHGC, completely rejecting in writing any further dialogue or formal meetings,” Nates said.

“Our engagement with their representatives stands in stark contrast to the Genocide Scholars’ Biannual Conference, where open—and often differing—views were expressed and debated rather than pressure tactics in place of engagement,” he added.

Nates emphasized that the center’s mission is “to be a place of memory, education and dialogue, drawing lessons for humanity from past atrocities.”

The protests outside the JHGC have drawn strong criticism. Cape Town-based public relations specialist Tim Flack said, “When people gather outside a Holocaust center to accuse Jews of genocide, it tells you everything about the moral collapse of our time. The Holocaust was the industrial annihilation of a people; to invoke it against the descendants of its victims is not ignorance; it is malice disguised as virtue.”


Pulling mussels for a gel, Technion team creates bio-glue to seal internal wounds
Inspired by the super sticky glue used by mollusks to cling to rocks underwater, an Israeli lab says it has invented an adhesive hydrogel that can seal internal wounds within seconds, potentially saving lives on the battlefield or following surgery.

The hydrogel, which is currently in the trial stage and has not yet been tested on humans, is made of a new class of glue that can adhere to wet tissue inside the body to seal wounds on wet or bleeding organs without the need for stitches, sutures or staples, said Shady Farah, head of the Laboratory for Advanced Functional/Medicinal Polymers & Smart Drug Delivery at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

“Nature is the best teacher,” Farah, 39, told The Times of Israel. “We wanted to mimic the adhesive made by mollusks.”

The hydrogel, recently described in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Materials, can be easily prepared within 10 seconds to be used in areas with limited infrastructure, such as war zones and battlefield hospitals, according to Farah.

“Imagine a scenario where you have massive bleeding,” Farah said. “A vein has exploded, or you have to do surgery and there is an excessive amount of liquids. You can use this hydrogel material inside the body to seal the wound in seconds.”

He paused and then counted out loud, “Just one-two-three-four-five.”

By contrast, stitches, sutures and staples, common in surgeries and wound care, can take much longer to deploy, stealing precious time following traumatic injuries.

The gel can also be 3D printed if needed for a personalized application, increasing its efficiency.

Spielman, who served for nearly 20 years as vice president of the City of David Foundation, recently published the Hebrew edition of his book When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You To Know. The English version was published in the United States earlier this year and quickly became a bestseller.

Archaeology and identity
The City of David has produced dozens of findings linking Jerusalem’s earliest settlement to the biblical period — discoveries that have fueled both national pride and academic controversy. Spielman says the evidence has dismantled theories popular in the late 20th century that portrayed the biblical accounts of David and Solomon as myth.

“In academia there’s always debate about dating and pottery shards,” he said. “But once the discoveries here started matching the biblical record, the argument stopped being scientific and became political.”

He points to what he calls the “minimalist” school of archaeology, which gained influence in the 1980s and 1990s and, he argues, offered a narrative “convenient for the Palestinians and for the international community — that if David and Solomon never existed, then the Jewish people have no historical claim to Jerusalem.”
'The dream is to find Ark of the Covenant': inside Jerusalem’s City of David discoveries
To most Israelis, the City of David is little more than a dusty archaeological site south of Jerusalem’s Old City walls, in the heart of Silwan. Many first visit as children on a school trip or as soldiers on an army “culture day.” Few, however, realize that the site offers some of the strongest evidence of the Jewish people’s deep connection to the Land of Israel — dating back roughly a millennium before the birth of Jesus and more than 1,500 years before the rise of Islam. That connection, says author and archaeologist advocate Doron Spielman, is at the heart of a broader struggle over historical truth. “The effort to minimize Jewish history in the Land of Israel isn’t just academic,” Spielman said. “It’s an ideological tool used by Israel’s enemies and by those who seek to deny our right to Jerusalem.”


INTERVIEW: What's Modern Israel Like For Ancient Christian Communities?
Shadi Khalloul of the Israeli Christian Aramaic Association warns Tommy Robinson that Islam colonized the Middle East and, pointing to Lebanon as an example, says it could eventually take over European countries as well.


‘Thoughts of security are always with us,’ Pittsburgh rabbi says seven years after Tree of Life attack
The seventh anniversary of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, drew widespread reflections from political and Jewish leaders.

“Lori and I are thinking of the Pittsburgh community, as we remember the 11 Jewish Pennsylvanians who were murdered while they prayed at Tree of Life in the deadliest act of antisemitism in our nation’s history seven years ago today,” stated Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish.

“To those who’ve come together in the years since this tragic day—thank you for showing us that we are indeed stronger than hate,” Shapiro stated. “To the families who continue to bear the burden of empty seats at your tables, we offer you prayers of comfort and support.”

“It’s a terrible tragedy,” said Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Ra.), alongside Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), in a joint video. “We both are from Pittsburgh. I live right around the corner from the Tree of Life in Squirrel Hill. Those 11 souls that were murdered that day, a terrible tragedy.”

The anniversary of the attack ought to be a “national call to action for leaders at every level and for all Americans to stand together and act decisively before more lives are lost to this enduring hate,” according to Holly Huffnagle, director of antisemitism policy at the American Jewish Committee.

Since the attack, Jew-hatred has both persisted and intensified, threatening “not just Jewish communities but the very core of our democratic values,” she said.

Daniel Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS that the attack was “a tragic, horrific harbinger of the cascade of antisemitism we are experiencing today.”

“Floodgates were opened for further violence, intimidation, bullying, social media mis- and disinformation, and worse, in a way not seen in this country in most of our lifetimes,” he said. “Now raised to a feverish level, we have the responsibility not only to call out those who are the perpetrators of antisemitism, but to demand that those who have the ability to assist us in pushing back—the media, public officials, university administrators and the major media platforms—do so without equivocation.”

‘Wake-up call’

Vladislav Khaykin, executive vice president of social impact and North American partnerships at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told JNS that the attack “wasn’t only the deadliest act of antisemitic violence in American history,” but also “a wake-up call the world still hasn’t answered.”

“It reminded us how centuries-old hatreds adapt to new platforms, new politics and new excuses,” he said. “Seven years later, we’re not just confronting antisemitism in the dark corners of the internet. It’s been repackaged as moral virtue in classrooms, on campuses and in cultural institutions that should know better.”

As the child of Holocaust survivors, Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, still grieves and prays with and for the victims and their families, “along with all the victims of antisemitic hatred.”

“As I testified in Congress, the Tree of Life massacre was a stark reminder that we cannot lose sight of other hatreds. We cannot write off neo-Nazism as a marginal phenomenon,” Klein told JNS. “We need to pay attention to and combat the sickening neo-Nazi and white supremacist internet sites and ideology that foment hatred and violence.”

The attack seven years ago “also displayed the irrational contradictions that Jew-haters display,” Klein said. The shooter said he hated U.S. President Donald Trump for not being an antisemite but also “hated anti-Trump Jews,” Klein said.




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