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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

03/30 Links Pt2: No one can deny it now: anti-Zionism is an ideology of hatred; Feminism’s Jewish Problem; The disturbed mind of the anti-Israel activist

From Ian:

Brendan O'Neil: No one can deny it now: anti-Zionism is an ideology of hatred
Actually, it was even worse than that. Over the weekend, Polanski aimed his ire not at those Green activists spouting Jew hate on WhatsApp but at a Jewish journalist who had the temerity to interview members of his family about the Green Party’s possible adoption of a ‘Zionism is racism’ policy. Polanski himself is Jewish and the fine journalist Nicole Lampert found that some of his relatives think he is taking the Greens in a very dark direction. They said it would be devastating for Britain’s Jews if the Greens decreed that ‘Zionism is racism’ – a policy they didn’t get around to discussing in the end at their party conference this weekend. Polanski accused Lampert of ‘parasitic behaviour’ – oof – and she swiftly found herself on the receiving end of a shitshow of hate from all those ‘good guys’.

So, a recap. Green activists referred to Jews as an ‘abomination to this planet’. The Green Party is considering adopting a policy singling out Jewish nationalism as racist. Polanski called a Jewish journalist ‘parasitic’. And, going back further, the Greens’ deputy leader, Mothin Ali, made excuses for the anti-Semitic barbarism of 7 October 2023, as did other Greens. Can we say it now – that the Green Party has a very serious problem with that most ancient of bigotries?

The Israelophobic left loves to say: ‘But Polanski is a Jew! How can you say the Greens have a problem with Jews?’ Here I will merely cite the words of Ms Lampert, who has been fighting the Jews’ corner in British journalism for many years. Polanski uses his Jewish heritage, she wrote in the Telegraph, to ‘kosherise the rampant Jew hatred in the Greens’. It’s a devastating line, and one it is increasingly hard to disagree with: that Polanski’s historic role is to provide the middle-class adherents to the new Socialism of Fools with a get-out-of-jail card. They point to his Jewishness as proof of their righteousness even as they engage in truly hateful behaviour against that ‘abominable’ people.

‘We’re not anti-Semitic, we’re anti-Zionist’, they’ll say. The irritation of Greens for Palestine at having to say Zionist rather than Jew surely explodes that crap once and for all. But more to the point, what do people mean when they say they’re anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic? All I hear is: ‘I don’t hate Jews, I just want to deprive them of a right enjoyed by every other people and bring about the destruction of their homeland so that they will once again be scattered across the Earth.’

I’m sick of pussyfooting around this: if you dream of the Jewish nation’s destruction, and chant for the death of Jewish soldiers, and demonise Jewish nationalism as uniquely barbarous, then you have a problem with Jews. It might take 10 years, maybe 30, perhaps longer, but I am confident we will one day look back at the people who said, ‘I’m an anti-Zionist’, in the same way we look at those who said, ‘Round up the Jews’.
Is it time to retire the term antisemitism?
Synagogues are not embassies. Chanukah celebrations are not military installations. Museums are not government offices. These are Jews, living their lives, thousands of miles from Israel. Jews murdered in the name of anti-Zionism.

If this is anti-Zionism, then anti-Zionism does not stay in Israel. It does not confine itself to policy debates or territorial disputes. It follows Jews wherever they are. It attaches itself to Jewish identity itself.

At that point, the distinction collapses. Anti-Zionist, in practice, means anti-Jewish. And there is a deeper reason for that, one that goes beyond contemporary politics.

“Zion” is not merely the name of a modern state. The prophet Isaiah records God’s words: “And I say to Zion: You are My people.” Zion is not just a place. Zion is a people. And so, anti-Zionist, according to the Bible, means anti-Jewish. Tragically, it is almost unsurprising when Jews are attacked across the globe in the name of anti-Zionism.

So let us stop pretending. Let us stop arguing over whether anti-Zionism is or is not antisemitism. Let us simply call it what they call it: anti-Zionism.

Let it include every Jew who has been targeted, harassed, attacked or murdered under the banner of opposition to Zion.

Because if anti-Zionism consistently manifests as hostility toward Jews, if it repeatedly finds its targets not in government offices but in Jewish communities, if it aligns itself with violence against Jews across continents, then it has already answered the question.

We were looking for a word that means anti-Jewish. They have given us one.

If changing the label from antisemitism to anti-Zionism helps expose the scope and nature of what is happening, then perhaps it is a worthwhile exercise. Not because it resolves the debate, but because it sharpens it.

In the end, the question is not what we call the hatred. The question is whether we are willing to see it clearly. Words matter, but reality matters more.

Call it antisemitism. Call it anti-Zionism. The victims know no difference. And neither, it seems, do those who target them.
The disturbed mind of the anti-Israel activist
Collings’s turn from Britpop-loving centrist dad to an uncloseted Israelophobe took him into Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, and then straight out again. He was adopted as the parliamentary candidate for South West Norfolk in 2019. Within a day of his selection, he was suspended from the party for having dismissed allegations of anti-Semitism in Labour as a ‘witch-hunt’, and for calling the late chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, a ‘hate-filled racist’. He also shared conspiratorial diagrams on social media, purporting to reveal the ‘influence’ of Jewish businessmen on British politics. That’s right – Collings took things too far, even for the Corbynistas.

The Margate exhibition is laughably titled Drawings Against Genocide. The artworks look childish and this is deliberate. Collings is trying to strip away all artifice to let the unalloyed feelings shine out. The trouble is that, in letting us see directly into his soul, what we see there is repulsive.

Collings would no doubt argue that his ‘art’ is in the tradition of the anti-Vietnam War art of the 1960s radicals, like Michael Sandle’s Mickey Mouse at the Machine Gun (1972) or Leon Golub’s paintings of torture and killing, even though his Margate show is entirely misanthropic and hate-filled.

Some have called for the exhibition to be banned, but that would be a mistake. On the contrary, Matthew Collings has done us a great service by showing us the disturbed mind of the anti-Israel activist. It is good that we all see the depravity that lies at the heart of this movement.


Feminism’s Jewish Problem
The discursive explanations—identity politics, postcolonial theory, the afterlife of Soviet “Zionology”—help describe how we arrived at this moment. But they don’t fully explain its persistence or why the same pattern keeps reasserting itself. It raises the question of whether there is something in the DNA of the movement itself that makes this fracture almost inevitable.

Some observers point to “feminization theory,” which is advanced by a growing number of heterodox right-wing and gender-critical scholars. This suggests that the Women’s Liberation Movement itself, and the current Western feminist movement, is a symptom of a “feminized” society, born when Boomer and Gen X women entered the workforce and took over professions like law and academia. As Helen Andrews wrote in a fire-starting essay in Compact Magazine, a feminized society prioritizes “empathy over rationality,” and our current age of wokeness is a manifestation of this society’s “failure to compartmentalize.”

“Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine,” says Andrews. Emotion over logic, feelings and intuition over evidence. If a movement coalesces around these “feminine” values, one might infer that it is likely to come apart in chaos and division. Also, if a group is formed around sex lines, and when that sex is women, you’re going to see just as much unraveling, nastiness, even violence, as with men—if not more. In this topsy-turvy world, in which the underdog always accrues virtue, women feel they need to show they care by attaching themselves to a patriarchal jihadist movement.

Chesler, the author of a book called Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, notes, “Women are not compassionate towards each other,” a trait that is sharpened through the internal pressure to conform. “Women especially want to please, want to be liked, want to be popular. And cannot and haven’t been trained to withstand the absolute ostracism and punishment that comes along with standing apart and saying, hey, the emperor has no clothes.”

Feminism has always involved some kind of conflict. Funnily enough, there’s something quite Jewish about the in-group debates. “There were hot wars within feminism and courts about sex and about sexual preference and identity, and about prostitution, and eventually, about surrogacy and about trafficking,” says Chesler. “Feminists who cared were engaged in hotly contested ideological battles, to our credit. It’s what Jews do best. … Everybody jumped in with her point of view. And when everyone is a little wrong and everyone is a little right, how do you get them to work together? That’s the ball game.”

But we’re not playing that game anymore. We’re in a darker one now, with a new set of rules. Women face real dangers across the globe, yet sisterhood—if that ever truly existed—still can’t seem to get over its problem with the Jews.


Seth Mandel: Western Europe Gets Thrown From Its High Horse
Which is to say, plainly: You can publicly combat anti-Zionism and the demonization of the Jewish people and the Jewish state, or you can watch ambulances get blown up and synagogues attacked and Jewish businesses picketed and vandalized.

In the parts of Europe where governments don’t kowtow to violent anti-Zionist mobs and don’t demonize Israel, this is far less of a problem.

Which brings us back to the reason for the discrepancy between Eastern and Western European Jews’ prioritization of acting as a political pressure group. It’s less important to influence the government’s rhetoric and policies on Israel in the East, because those policies need less influencing.

One can, correctly, assign the term “authoritarian” to Eastern European leaders much more readily than to Western European ones. But what does that mean for the Jews of London who are arrested for literally showing up in public wearing identifiably Jewish items because it is considered provocative to the marching Hamasniks? An Israeli-owned factory was broken into, vandalized, and had property destroyed by sledgehammer-wielding “anti-Zionists” who were acquitted at trial despite admitting to their actions because the jury sympathized with their desire to attack Jewish sites. What kind of democracy is that? Democracy for whom?

Extend the blessings of democracy to the Jews, and perhaps you can claim some bragging rights over Hungary or Poland. But at the moment, Western Europe does not, in fact, offer substantially more freedom to its Jews than Eastern Europe, and it often offers far less security.

Let’s call this what it is: democratic backsliding. And let’s be clear on what to call the engine driving this backsliding: anti-Semitism. Any reasonable way forward begins by admitting the the truth of those two statements—and then actually, you know, doing something about it.
Revealed: MSF accused by own staff of Israel ‘obsession’ that breaches pledge of neutrality
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stands accused by staff members of breaching its commitment to “neutrality and impartiality” when concerned with activities related to Israel, a JC investigation reveals.

They warn that a “disproportionate obsession” with the Jewish state fuels political activism over humanitarian aid.

The giant global charity – also known as Doctors Without Borders – has also failed to adequately address antisemitism, according to one former employee who has spoken to this newspaper.

Another long-serving former MSF staffer alleges that after October 7, a statement of sympathy for those who were killed was rejected for fear of “victimising the perpetrators”.

The JC has seen a number of messages from MSF internal discussions revealing that some employees use incendiary terms including “fascism”, “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” in discussing Israel and Zionism.

And one leading figure in the charity has described the situation in Gaza as involving “white supremacist logic”.

It is also alleged that MSF staff in a Gaza hospital knew and accepted Hamas militants were present there too and using the building as a base of operations.

The revelations appear to undermine the pledge by the more than half-century-old charity in its charter to observe “neutrality and impartiality in the name of universal medical ethics”.

Last year, controversial rap group Kneecap – one of whose members was charged with a terror offence over the alleged display of a Hezbollah flag at a concert – donated their fee from a music festival to the UK branch of MSF. While the charge was dismissed months later, the charity’s executive director, Natalie Roberts, celebrated the donation with a LinkedIn post: a heart emoji and a raised fist.

MSF operates in more than 70 countries and employs tens of thousands of staff.

Yet interviews and internal material reviewed by the JC suggest that the organisation’s principle of témoignage, or “bearing witness”, has taken on a political character in relation to Israel.

MSF public statements started using the term “genocide” to describe the Gaza war in November 2024.

One former employee described “pushback” when it was first adopted, citing concerns about the lack of “legal rigour” behind the claim.

MSF leaders have for years made such similar statements about the Jewish state. In January 2025, shortly before becoming international president of MSF, Javid Abdelmoneim reposted a message on X claiming that Israel had “transformed Jewish symbols into symbols of genocide” and was “the greatest threat to Judaism & the Jewish people on planet earth”.

In another repost, Abdelmoneim – who has endorsed a full boycott of the Jewish state – shared a message describing Israel as “a colony of settlers that continue to ethnically cleanse the native Palestinian population”.
Intersectionality and the Mainstreaming of Antisemitism on Campus
My name is Amanda Stulman, and I speak today on behalf of the Intersectionality Project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation. Thank you, commissioners, for the opportunity to speak with you today on how intersectionality ideology is one of the root causes of mainstreaming antisemitism on American campuses.

As a theory, intersectionality was originally most well-known for the idea that different forms of discrimination can overlap and should be reflected as such in the law.

However, even from its inception, intersectionality used a framework of systems of “privilege” and “oppression” to assign status based on group identity.

Viewed through a simplistic and divisive oppressor-oppressed dynamic, intersectionalists argue that all struggles against oppression are linked, encouraging perceived marginalized groups, no matter how disparate or in conflict their interest, to unite together in radicalized collective action. For decades, intersectionality has been the dominant ideology on campus, both in and out of the classroom.

Through their focus on Israel, activists have placed Jews firmly in an “oppressor” role. This is in large part the result of years of false marketing of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict using intersectional language.

Under this twisted framing, the existence of Israel itself is labeled racist, genocidal, apartheid, white supremacist, imperialist. Jews, unless they openly adopt this intersectional lens of Israel as illegitimate, risk being tainted as white, privileged, Nazi, colonizers, oppressors.
Being Jewish Shouldn’t Feel Like This – The Truth About Being Jewish at UIC
The worst antisemitism that I have experienced at UIC was on one specific day: October 6th, 2025. As Vice President of UIC’s Levine Hillel Jewish Student Association, I was tabling in Student Center East with my co-board members and two Hillel staff members. We were well prepared for students to engage with us aggressively, given the current climate on our campus. Still, nothing could have prepared us for what actually happened that day–a mob of antisemitic students surrounded us, trapping us behind our table, screaming accusations of murder and genocide at us. The main antagonizers told others not to let us leave with footage on our phones, given our “Jewy connections.” This isn’t inconsequential political discourse– it’s a textbook antisemitic conspiracy theory. One of the main aggressors posted on a public UIC student forum, giving a “shout out to everyone who stopped by the table of genocide supporters in SCE and made them take their s*** and leave.” This event single-handedly revoked every ounce of safety and belonging I ever felt on UIC’s campus and set the tone for the remainder of my two years here. I ended up having to miss class the next day because the anxiety I felt about stepping foot on campus made me physically ill.

Immediately following the incident, my fellow Hillel board members and I filed complaints, which the University ignored for three months. In that time, we received little communication and seemingly little action, and when we finally received a response, the University determined that mob intimidation of a group of members of a protected class “does not reach the threshold of harassment at UIC.” The Associate Chancellor of the Office of Access and Equity insinuated that the incident was our fault, and if we hadn’t taken out our phones to record the harassment, the situation wouldn’t have escalated. Our case was closed after the preliminary review. Two months after our case was closed, we discovered that the University never actually brought in one of our main aggressors, whom we identified by name, as part of the initial review. A high-ranking administrator claimed that the individual didn’t respond to the few emails they sent and that there was “nothing more they could do.” The irony is almost laughable; they claim there is not enough evidence to substantiate a formal investigation, and yet our attempt to collect evidence makes the incident our fault. I am still reeling emotionally from this event, and the Administration chose to twist the knife. I don’t know how I could ever feel safe on campus again, knowing that those who are meant to protect me repeatedly and intentionally contribute to my victimization.

The message is clear: UIC is not responding to antisemitism on its campus. The Jane Addams College of Social Work, which produces 25% of the licensed social workers in the state of Illinois, perpetuates rhetoric that teaches anti-Jewish, anti-Israel mindsets as a requirement for graduation. As someone who wants to work with pediatric chronic and terminal illness patients, I’ve always been told that graduate school must help build the mental fortitude required for a field such as that, but I never would’ve thought it would happen like this. I feel like the Offices of Access and Equity, Diversity and Equity, Student Affairs, and the entire UIC Administration do not care about Jewish students. They have not protected us, even from an aggressive, antisemitic mob. Is it because they silently support it? Or at least don’t disagree with it? I know if I were an administrator and had multiple Jewish students coming to my office with reports of events of this nature, I would feel utterly ashamed, and it would be my priority to rectify what has happened, and to do all I could to actively prevent this from continuing to happen. Now I ask you, UIC administrators, why aren’t you doing the same?
How the King became the Jewish community’s greatest ally
Charles is an avowedly religious Christian, and his instinct is to be ecumenical. In 1994, he suggested he would like to be considered the “Defender of Faith” as opposed to the official title of “Defender of the Faith”, and he shows concern for all the religious groups of the UK and interfaith relations. But even though the Jewish community is relatively small – at just 300,000 – he has demonstrated his commitment in a wide range of ways. As well as the patronage of CST, he is also patron of the Jewish Museum London, World Jewish Relief, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and the Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade.

In 2020, he attended the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, alongside Mirvis, and made a speech at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust remembrance centre. In 2022, he commissioned portraits of seven Holocaust survivors to be part of an exhibition for the Royal Collection.

An illustration of the King’s commitment to supporting Holocaust survivors came in December 2022 – three months after the death of his mother – when he visited the JW3 community centre in West Hampstead, London. He stayed twice as long as his planned 45 minutes, helping teenagers wrap Hanukkah presents and talking to the non-Jewish refugees the centre was supporting before he approached the auditorium, where a meeting of survivors was taking place.

“He talked to every individual, and in the end, his aides had to drag him away,” recalls JW3’s chief executive, Raymond Simonson. “The elderly survivors talked to him like he was their son, saying, ‘I’m sorry for your loss’ or, as Jewish people say, ‘I wish you long life’ for the death of his mother.”

As he left the room, there was a band playing “To Life” from the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and the staff and survivors formed a circle to dance in the traditional way you might see at weddings and bar mitzvahs. The King recognised one of the dancers as Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister, and she reached out her hand and pulled him into the circle.

“The King danced in that circle with Holocaust survivors,” says Simonson. “The image the world has of survivors is of unbearable suffering, but here you saw them laughing and dancing with the King to Jewish music. Everyone there understood there was something very special about this person and his connection to the Jewish community.”

The King condemned the October 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas as “barbaric acts of terrorism”, and has since expressed concerns about the “dangerous re-emergence of anti-Semitism”.

In conversations with Jewish community leaders and luminaries , the Yiddish word “mensch” comes up several times. It’s a big term, broadly meaning someone who is kind, honourable and considerate. It’s what first comes to mind for Dame Maureen Lipman, the actress, when asked about the King’s relationship with her community. “King Charles is a ‘mensch,’” she tells The Telegraph. “I’m convinced the King accepted this CST patronage very deliberately at this dangerous juncture in our history. It was his way of stating that he is as much a part of our Jewish life, as we are of his British life – and I am deeply grateful for his gesture.”

“At every point that the community has felt vulnerable, he has been there,” adds Sacker.

At the end of the impromptu lesson delivered by Sacks on the royal flight in 1995, the former Chief Rabbi made a blessing, quoting to himself a line from Psalm 119: “I will speak of your statutes in the presence of kings and will not be ashamed.” Between Charles and British Jews, there is certainly no shame – only, it seems, mutual admiration and respect.
Britain’s Islamo-left is on the march
The ‘left’ has simultaneously become dumber and more extreme. Green Party leader Zack Polanski, the de facto headliner yesterday, embodies this lobotomisation. A man who got involved in politics about five minutes ago and gives off the distinct impression he has never read a book that wasn’t written by Owen Jones. A man who thinks and speaks in faux-inspirational Insta talking points – replete with talk of ‘hope’ and ‘love’ – while pushing leaflets through letterboxes appealing to voters on the basis of ginned-up ethno-religious grievance. A man who confuses virtue-signalling for politics, blokes in wigs for women, and hardline conservative Muslims for allies in the fight for rainbow-coloured ‘social justice’.

This is not your grandfather’s anti-fascism. There were appeals from the podium yesterday to the Battle of Cable Street and the fight against the National Front. This is an insult to historical memory, almost a form of stolen valour. At Cable Street, Jews, leftists and East Londoners faced down Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts. In the 1970s, genuine anti-fascists organised to stop genuine far-right thugs stabbing Asian people or burning black families out of their homes. Yesterday, tens of thousands of Daunt Books botherers gathered in Westminster to collectively screech about a migration-sceptical political party they happen to dislike leading in the opinion polls. It’s not the same thing.

Alongside Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson was the other bête noire of the day. The Together Alliance was hastily formed after the anti-Islam, nationalist activist’s Unite The Kingdom demonstration last September, which brought north of 100,000 people out on to the streets. The speeches from Together Alliance organisers implied they feel they are losing ground. They constantly stressed theirs was a gathering of ‘working people’, despite the overwhelmingly more bourgeois vibe, and insisted their march had attracted half a million (the Metropolitan Police reckon it was closer to 50,000).

But rather than ask why ordinary people are so fed up with uncontrolled migration, multiculturalism and Islamic extremism that they are taking to the streets – even getting behind questionable characters they might have previously swerved – the speakers yesterday appeared convinced the little folk are just sadly mistaken. Billy Bragg and others charitably conceded they have a right to be angry. They are just angry about the wrong things! Silly geese. That gnawing sense of unease at how the country is changing, in ways no one ever voted for? That’s just misdirected anger at ‘the billionaires’ and the sorry state of public services. As one placard put it, rather less diplomatically, ‘Stop blaming immigrants… for your shit life’. Scratch an ‘anti-fascist’, find a classist.

But it’s not just Robinson, is it? The left and even the centrist dads have spent the past decade calling Brexit fascist, the Tories fascist, Farage a fascist. What they mean is democracy. The public’s stubborn refusal to lie back and accept their own disenfranchisement. That is what really keeps the great and good up at night. Meanwhile, these supposed warriors against black-clad barbarism appear remarkably chilled out about the threat posed by the Islamists – who account for 94 per cent of all terror deaths since 1999, and three-quarters of MI5’s terrorism caseload. Hell, they will even happily march alongside them on a sunny Saturday. With ‘anti-fascists’ like these, who needs fascists?
When Jewish ambulances burn, no one is safe
This moment does not call for statements. It demands action.

First, governments must take responsibility for the security of Jewish institutions. In the United States alone, Jewish communities spend more than $750 million each year on guards, surveillance, hardened infrastructure, and emergency preparedness. These costs reflect threat, not choice. Governments still expect the targets to pay for their own defense.

That is indefensible. Protecting houses of worship, schools, and communal institutions sits at the core of state responsibility. Expand security grants. Increase law enforcement coordination. Ensure rapid response. Treat this as obligation, not option.

Second, leaders must define antisemitism with clarity and enforce legislation dealing with it. Violence does not begin with violence. It begins with language that society excuses, minimizes, or disguises. “Globalize the Intifada.” “From the river to the sea.” These are not slogans in a vacuum. They create permission structures.

Too often, Western leaders recognize the threat only after violence erupts, and even then, respond with hesitation, euphemism, or moral equivocation.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism gives governments, universities, and civil society a tool to identify modern forms of antisemitism, including those that hide behind political language. Use it. Apply it. Stop pretending that rhetoric and violence exist in separate worlds.

Too many observers treat each attack as an aberration. That instinct invites the next attack. The burning of ambulances in London, the assault on a synagogue in Michigan, and the massacre at Bondi Beach tell a single story.

When attackers target institutions of care, worship, and communal life because they are Jewish, the issue extends beyond antisemitism. It becomes a test of whether democratic societies still enforce their own rules.

This is not a question of awareness. It is a question of will.

History draws a clear line. Societies that fail to defend these boundaries lose them. The threat is no longer in doubt. The only question is whether we will act before the next boundary falls.
Fury as Green Party candidate claims fiery Jewish ambulance attack was an 'inside job'
A rising star of the Green Party has suggested last Monday's destruction of four ambulances run by a Jewish charity was an 'inside job'.

Tope Olawoyin shared a series of social media messages claiming the arson attack in Golders Green, north London, was 'done by a fellow Jew'.

The burning of the four ambulances used by the Hatzola charity has drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum and is being investigated by counter-terrorism police as a potential anti-Semitic hate crime.

Two men, British nationals aged 47 and 45, were later arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life, and have now been bailed until April.

But Ms Olawoyin, a close ally of Green Party leader Zack Polanski, shared a claim that the attack was a 'false flag' - a term for an action carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it.

A spokesman from the Campaign Against Antisemitism said: 'Their views are straight out of Nazi Germany... This is a major moment for the Green Party to decide what it is and which side of morality it wants to be on.'

There has been growing criticism of the Greens over a failure to tackle allegations of anti-Semitism in the party. In recent days, leaked WhatsApp messages exposed Green Party activists referring to Jewish people as 'an abomination to this planet'.

And last month, a document was sent to party members warning them against sharing messages online that could be viewed as anti-Semitic. It stated: 'Those who oppose us will be looking for the opportunity to say that we are a bunch of unpleasant, vengeful anti-Semites. They will seek to bait us into making statements emotionally, and smear us whenever they can. Don't take the bait!'
Knesset approves death penalty for Palestinian terrorists convicted of murder
The Knesset passed a controversial law on Monday allowing courts to impose the death penalty on convicted terrorists found guilty of murder.

While Israel already allowed the death penalty for genocide and crimes against humanity, it had not been invoked since the execution of senior Nazi Adolf Eichmann in 1962. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party proposed the new law in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks with an aim to have terrorists sentenced to death, and conditioned the party’s support for the state budget, which the Knesset approved earlier Monday, on passage of the bill.

The law applies in military courts to non-Israeli residents of the West Bank — meaning, in the vast majority of cases, Palestinians.

In civilian courts, the law permits applying the death penalty to those who “intentionally cause the death of a person with the aim of denying the existence of the State of Israel” — language which would also likely exclude Jewish assailants.

The law further states that the government cannot free or exchange prisoners sentenced to death. Israel released around 2,000 Palestinian security prisoners last fall in exchange for hostages held in Gaza, including about 250 prisoners who were serving life sentences for carrying out deadly terror attacks.

The legislation passed along coalition lines, with 62 in favor and 48 opposed.


UK breaks with Tory policy and confirms it will abstain on Human Rights Council Israel votes
The UK will retain its “principled objection” to matters raised under Item 7 at the UN Human Rights Council on the grounds it “uniquely singles out Israel” – but on issues such as settler violence or Palestinian self-determination could now abstain on votes.

The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) confirmed the shift to Jewish News, saying it would “bring us closer in line with European partners and the longstanding UK position from 2006-2019.”

The FCDO said that while the previous Tory government had for much of its time in government voted “no” by default on any Item 7 resolution, the UK would now “engage in constructive dialogue to influence discussions and other HRC members, and to ensure consistency in our policy positions.”

They added: “However, we will seek to avoid votes and abstain to reflect our continued objection to the unfair mechanism by which these legitimate issues are raised.”

Confirmation of the change angered communal leaders and also infuriated Israel.

Only last week, the World Jewish Congress took the floor at the United Nations to protest against Item 7 , saying it ” exemplifies the Council’s institutional bias against one country – Israel – subject to different treatment compared to the rest of the world.”

But being re-elected as a voting member of the HRC after a gap of two years, the UK said it would now seek engage in “constructive dialogue” with other states on issues such as settler violence in the West Bank, and Palestine state recognition.
Anne Bayefsky vs Francesca Albanese at the UN
During recent meetings, United Nations Human Rights Council Vice President Council Chair Marcos Gómez Martínez cut off an address by Professor Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices, after Bayefsky noted the antisemitic statements made by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

Prof. Bayefsky provided Arutz Sheva - Israel National News with a video of her statement, Martínez's response, and Albanese's recent antisemitic accusations.

"While Israelis are fighting for their lives, the United Nations is fighting to increase the hardship and pain. The depth of depravity is personified by Francesca Albanese, the so-called 'human rights expert' appointed by the UN Human Rights Council. Under the guise of presenting her latest UN 'report,' Albanese has just headlined an extraordinary five events at the UN in one week alone. Over the course of a 'dialogue' at the Council, a press briefing and three 'side events,' Albanese used her UN platform to incite violent Jew-hatred. In effect, she’s a diplomatic envoy for Iranian missiles. The feat was backstopped by the Human Rights Council bosses, the Palestinian entourage, the array of Islamic states fronted by Pakistan, along with Qatar and South Africa and a gang of terror-supporting non-governmental organizations such as Al-Haq," Prof. Bayefsky said.

"This modern Joseph Goebbels couldn’t operate without that UN microphone and the UN machinery’s continuous efforts to shut down her critics. On this occasion, as a representative of a UN-accredited NGO, I was given a 90-second slot to participate in the Council’s 'interactive dialogue' with Albanese. Ninety seconds was too much truth for the UN human rights system and Albanese to handle. She responded by attacking me, before proceeding to double down on her malevolent rhetoric. In a condemnation that the UN reserves for Albanese’s critics, Council Chair Marcos Gómez Martínez (Spain) accused me of failing to observe the 'dignity' and 'respect' he alleged was on display by everyone else during their 'discussion of human rights.'

"What counts as 'dignity' and 'respect'at the UN when the targets are the Jewish people? Led by Albanese, this time it was a six-step process. (1) accuse the victims of 'weaponizing' the Holocaust, (2) erase the Jew from the Jewish state, (3) actually weaponize the Holocaust, (4) analogize Israelis to Nazis, (5) demonize the Jewish state, and (6) delegitimize Israel, period. For this agenda, there were no interruptions or admonitions from those running UN 'human rights' operations. Listen for yourselves. As the battle in the field rages, the UN has joined the battle - on the side of the forces of evil," she said.


Neuer to Albanese at UN: “Why do you only speak for the Iranian regime, never for its people?”
At the United Nations Human Rights Council, UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer confronted Francesca Albanese:
• Why did you ignore Hamas's torture of hostages?
• Why do you only speak for the Iranian regime, never for its people?
• Yes or no, do you stand by your statement that “Israel is the incarnation of evil”?
Albanese refused to answer.




UN rights nominee Zeina Jallad defends Hamas terror: “Hamas is a political party, Oct. 7th a revolt”
Hamas terrorism supporter Zeina Jallad is set to be appointed as a UN human rights expert on March 31, 2026. UN Watch is urging the UK to oppose her appointment by voting NO.

JALLAD: “Hamas is a political party. The biggest image: ‘Let's create always a devil. Let's create the biggest elephant in the room. If we have someone that we create as the devil, then it's easy to blame.’

“It's easy to, ‘But they did this.. But they did that...’
Hamas is a political party. They won the elections in 2007. Right?”

“Europeans decided to boycott Hamas. The entire world bashed Hamas. Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza... And then, ‘Oh, they are revolting...’ Why we didn't hear about the Gazans all the past 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 60, 70, 80 and 80 years ago?”


UN watchdog bashes Mark Carney's 'procedural theatre' on Iran war
Few people can make tyrants look over their shoulder, but Hillel Neuer has built a career doing exactly that. The Montreal-born, Geneva-based lawyer and human rights crusader has become one of the most unrelenting watchdogs of the United Nations, exposing hypocrisy and defending the world’s dissidents in some of the globe’s most repressive regimes.

As executive director of UN Watch — the Geneva-based NGO known for holding dictatorships to account within the UN system — Neuer has been called “feared and dreaded by the world’s dictatorships” (Tribune de Genève) and “the most hated man at the UN” (Bild).

Since 2009, he has chaired the annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, bringing dissidents from Cuba, Iran, China, and beyond to testify before the world. Neuer has addressed the U.S. Congress, European Parliament, and UN General Assembly, and has appeared on CNN, BBC, and Le Monde as an authority on UN reform.

He spoke to Dave Gordon for National Post about the international legal ramifications of the ongoing Iran conflict, as well as the UN’s silence on the Islamic regime’s recent slaughter of its own civilians, estimated at 30,000 or more.


The Brink: ‘What would Thatcher do?’ Iran, Islam, Trump and Reform with Charles Moore
In this episode of The Brink, we sit down with Charles Moore, former editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and the definitive biographer of Margaret Thatcher, to examine a West in crisis.

With geopolitical tensions rising, the transatlantic alliance under strain, and Britain facing deep internal divisions, Moore offers a sweeping diagnosis of where things have gone wrong and what might come next.

The conversation begins with one of the most difficult and urgent questions facing Europe today: how Islam fits within Western societies. Moore reflects on decades of thought on the subject, arguing that the challenge is not simply demographic, but philosophical, rooted in unresolved tensions between religion, state, and pluralism. From integration and extremism to the failures of government policy, he lays out why current approaches may be empowering the wrong voices.

We then turn to British politics, where the collapse of trust in the main parties has given rise to insurgent movements on both left and right. Moore explains why this fragmentation is both understandable and dangerous, and why populist parties often diagnose problems better than they solve them.

The discussion also explores the weakening of the transatlantic relationship in the age of Trump, the rise of ideological extremes in American politics, and the growing confusion in the information age, where truth, propaganda, and narrative increasingly blur together.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:42 Why the Public No Longer Believes the Establishment
03:58 The Rise of Ideology Over Evidence
06:12 How Elite Institutions Became Politicised
08:47 The Media’s Role in Shaping Public Narrative
11:05 Truth vs Narrative: What Changed?
13:26 Social Media, Censorship and Information Control
15:52 The Expert Class and the Illusion of Authority
18:34 Covid, Groupthink and Institutional Failure
21:06 The Incentives That Drive Bad Decisions
23:41 Why Dissent Is Shut Down
26:12 Identity Politics and Institutional Capture
29:05 How Bureaucracies Protect Themselves
32:18 Political Leadership and Failure of Accountability
35:44 The Consequences for Democracy
39:12 Immigration, Culture and Social Fragmentation
42:36 Economic Stagnation and Policy Failure
46:18 Britain vs the United States: A Growing Divide


Europe’s Most Hated Imam | ‘I Could Be Killed for This"
⁩Stefan Tompson meets in Brussels with French imam Hassen Chalghoumi, the imam of Drancy (mosque near Paris) and one of Europe’s most outspoken critics of political Islam, to discuss the growing threat of Islamism in Europe, parallel societies and security challenges in cities like Brussels, the influence of networks such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and the broader geopolitical role of actors like Iran and Qatar.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Chalghoumi — who has lived under constant threats and security protection for his positions — explains the risks of speaking out, the failures of European policy, and what must be done to counter extremism while preserving social cohesion in the West.

0:00 — Intro
1:08 — Imam Hassen Chalghoumi
1:32 — Going to Molenbeek
3:26 — Speaking Against Islamism
4:43 — Who Is Responsible?
5:14 — Iran’s Role: War, Terror, and Influence
7:41 — Muslim Brotherhood Influence in Europe
8:26 — Qatar & Al Jazeera
10:21 — UAE Model: Banning the Muslim Brotherhood
11:10 — Street Confrontation
13:58 — Final Reflections




Jewish comic Modi drops out of ‘Downtown Seder’ after learning of Mamdani’s attendance
Israeli-American comedian Modi Rosenfeld, known simply as “Modi,” pulled out of a Passover-themed benefit Monday after his manager revealed that the Modern Orthodox entertainer had been “blindsided” with the news that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani would participate in the Lower Manhattan event.

Quoting Jewish Insider’s initial report on the mayor’s scheduled involvement in the 33rd Annual “Downtown Seder” at impresario Michael Dorf’s venue City Winery, Rosenfeld’s official Instagram account announced the Tel Aviv-born, Long Island-reared performer had withdrawn from the event.

“We were not told Mamdani was participating in this event until today,” the post read. “Modi will no longer be attending.”

Reached by phone, Rosenfeld’s manager told JI that they had committed to featuring in the festivities months ago — and said the venue should have notified them earlier that the mayor, whose political initiation began with anti-Israel campus activism, would be part of the program as well.

“It’s just inappropriate to be blindsided with that information the day of the event, regardless of anyone’s political feelings,” said Leo Veiga, who is also Rosenfeld’s husband. “That’s a very polarizing thing right now, so it’s not appropriate for us to be attending.”

Veiga declined to elaborate further on his and Rosenfeld’s feelings toward the mayor and the event, and expressed hope that any controversy provoked would “die down.”
'There Are a Lot of People in Dearborn Who Are Sad': Democratic Senate Hopeful Abdul El-Sayed Said He Needed To Stay Silent on Khamenei Killing Because Many of Michigan’s Muslim Voters ‘Are Sad’
Michigan's left-wing Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, told staffers he wanted to avoid making a public statement about the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—or taking any public position on it at all—because "there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad" about his death, according to audio from a private campaign strategy call obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.


If reporters pressed him to take a position, he said, he would change the subject to Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. "I'm just gonna go straight to pedophilia, frankly," El-Sayed said. "I'll just be like, 'Pedophile president decides that he doesn't like the front page news, so he decides to take us into another war.'"

His remarks came during a conference call with his communications team on March 1, during which the candidate and his communications team discussed his messaging on Operation Epic Fury. The previous day, Feb. 28, an Israeli airstrike killed the Iranian dictator, who, as president of Iran and then as the country's supreme leader starting in 1989, oversaw the murder and torture of political opponents inside Iran and deadly terrorist attacks against the country's enemies, including hundreds of Americans.

"I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today. So, like, I just don't want to comment on Khamenei at all. Like, I don't think it's worth even touching that," El-Sayed told his campaign team.
Michigan's El-Sayed Says Free Beacon 'May Have Illegally and Unethically Obtained Recording' and Employs Diversion Tactic Discussed in Campaign Strategy Call
Michigan's left-wing Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, said the Washington Free Beacon "may have illegally and unethically obtained" audio of an internal campaign meeting in which El-Sayed said he wanted to avoid commenting on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death because many of Michigan's Muslim voters were "sad" about it. In line with his strategy, El-Sayed's statement did not mention Khamenei.

The Free Beacon broke the news on Monday that El-Sayed told staffers he wanted to avoid making a public statement about the assassination of Khamenei because "there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad" about the late Iranian dictator’s death. The story was based on audio from a private campaign strategy call obtained by the Free Beacon.

Nearly 12 hours after the story broke, El-Sayed released a statement calling the Free Beacon a "rightwing news outlet" that "may have illegally and unethically obtained" the audio recording.

"The fact that a rightwing news outlet may have illegally and unethically obtained a deliberation about how to talk about this by way of a disgruntled former employee is only a distraction," El-Sayed said in the statement. "They’re distracting from the fact that Donald Trump, Mike Rogers, the entire MAGA base doesn’t want to talk about the pain they’re forcing us all into."

El-Sayed also accused the Trump administration of an "illegal and unjustifiable war" and argued that "Americans are paying with their lives and livelihoods for a war MAGA swore they’d never take us into."

Rather than comment on the story when contacted by the Free Beacon ahead of publication, the El-Sayed campaign responded through a lawyer who said the "campaign is considering legal options against the individual" who took the recording.
'She Has a Police Detail and a Government Staff': Mamdani Allies Urge NYC Mayor To Confront Wife's Controversial Social Media History
Some allies of Zohran Mamdani are urging the New York City mayor to confront the social media history of his wife Rama Duwaji—which has included support for terrorism and the use of a variety of slurs—after Mamdani reduced the weight of her posts to those of "a private person."

Five people close to the mayor, including one from his transition team, disputed Mamdani's characterization of Duwaji, telling Politico that she is in fact a public figure.

"As the leader of New York City, he has to start addressing this," Moms United For Black Lives NYC's Tanesha Grant told the outlet. "It's his responsibility. It's not good enough to just say she's 'a private person' — she's not. He can't let things fester like that."

"She has a police detail and a government staff," another Mamdani ally added, while an elected official close to Mamdani said Duwaji "would need to do an interview, better explain herself, and ... do some visits and meetings with key constituencies, like Jewish museums."

Growing angst among the mayor's inner circle comes on the heels of a Washington Free Beacon report, which Politico cites, uncovering a series of inappropriate posts made by Duwaji. "@_AlyaF Helllll yeah, nigga," she posted on Feb. 2, 2013. "Whyyyyyy are all these fgts folllowing [sic] meeeeeeeee," she added on June 16 later in the same year.

The racial slur has not been received kindly by black New Yorkers.

"Black folks were left stunned and outraged after throwing their support to Mamdani and his wife," the Root wrote.

Duwaji's posts, which came when she was in her late teens and early 20s, also included praise for terrorists.

"If it does good for my cause, I'll be happy to accept death," one 2017 caption posted to Duwaji's Tumblr account read in honor of famed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist Leila Khaled, who participated in two plane hijackings. Duwaji also reposted a 2015 tweet praising fellow PFLP terrorist Shadia Abu Ghazaleh—who participated in the bombing of an Israeli bus and led several other terror attacks—as the "first palestinian woman to fight in resistance after 1967 occupation."


DNC committee to consider resolutions condemning AIPAC, Israel
The Democratic National Committee’s resolutions committee is set to consider resolutions condemning AIPAC and Israel at its upcoming meeting next week in New Orleans — a sign of the continued and growing discord in the party over Middle East policy.

It’s unclear at this point how great of a chance the resolutions stand of passing in their current form, but they are emerging as the AIPAC brand has been tarnished inside the Democratic Party.

The resolution targeting AIPAC, described in a resolution packet obtained by Jewish Insider as a “Resolution On Electoral Integrity, Transparency, And Limiting The Influence Of Corporate Money In Democratic Elections,” specifically calls out the pro-Israel group for its spending.

“The use of massive outside spending to support or oppose candidates based on their positions regarding international conflicts or foreign governments raises concerns about undue influence over democratic debate and policymaking, potentially constraining elected officials’ ability to represent the views of their constituents including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) spending approximately $14 million in a single Illinois Democratic primary,” the resolution reads.

It goes on to accuse “corporate money PACs” of also weighing in against “candidates who have advocated for Palestinian human rights, ceasefire efforts, or changes to U.S. foreign policy.” It states that opposition to such spending should be part of the party’s 2028 platform. Though the rest of the resolution is generally aimed at condemning dark money and independent spending in primaries, AIPAC is the only group singled out by name.

AIPAC and the DNC declined to comment on the resolution.


Toronto Police under fire for allowing pro-Palestine protesters to march past Jewish institutions
Toronto Police have received criticism for allegedly not fully enforcing a ban on pro-Palestinian protests in Jewish residential areas, despite having announced protest restrictions just last week.

One week ago, Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank Barredo announced a new ban on pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Jewish residential areas of the city. He said demonstrators and protesters could still attend the Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue area, but can no longer enter residential side streets.

However, just a week later, police were seen escorting a pro-Palestinian protest through that same intersection, past Darchei Noam Synagogue, the Toronto Heschel School, and the L’Chaim Seniors Residence. The protesters shouted chants through megaphones, including “all Zionists are terrorists.”

According to Israel’s consul in Toronto, Idit Shamir, small groups did break off onto side streets to reach Jewish residents more directly. There were no arrests.

Toronto City Councillor James Pasternak, who is Jewish, confirmed that the protesters were walking westbound on Sheppard Avenue “looking for an entry point into the neighborhood to harass the local residents.”

He said, however, that the police “are doing the best they can.”

In one video, a local resident can be heard telling the police, “I don’t know who gives you your mandate, but start enforcing the law,” as pro-Palestine protesters marched down Sheppard Avenue.

However, separate footage did show police, paramedics, and firefighters blocking a residential side street as protesters marched down the avenue.


Birenbaum ‘vindicated’ as Cairo Takeaway defamation case settles
Ofir Birenbaum says he feels “vindicated” after a legal dispute with Cairo Takeaway was settled after more than 400 days, with the restaurant offering a public apology for false statements made about him.

The case arose from an incident on February 11, 2025, when Birenbaum, wearing a Star of David cap and pendant, entered the Newtown restaurant as part of a Daily Telegraph investigation into antisemitism in Sydney.

“I have been completely vindicated. After more than 400 days, my defamation proceedings against Cairo Takeaway have settled and I have been given a unreserved public apology for the lies they told about me,” Birenbaum said.

“Those lies were amplified by media, seized upon by politicians, and repeated by commentators who rushed to condemn – and who are now nowhere to be found.

“This was never a stunt. It was legitimate public interest journalism at a time when anti-semitism in Sydney was escalating, visible, and dangerous, and heading towards more violent and hateful atrocities.”

Birenbaum said he walked the streets of Sydney as a visibly Jewish man to answer a simple question: would he be treated differently?

“The answer was yes. And when that truth was exposed, the response was not reflection – but ridiculous fabrication. I was lied about, vilified, and turned into a target. The consequences were real: a torrent of abuse, public condemnation, and even a police raid on my home based on false reports.”

Birenbaum’s lawyer Rebekah Giles, founder of Giles George, said: “This is an important win for Ofir Birenbaum and the Australian Jewish community. It’s vindication for Jews across the globe who have been falsely accused of staging acts of antisemitism.

“How quickly our media, politicians and community leaders adopted the antisemitic trope being peddled by this Café and its staff and then, after the video footage of the incident was released exonerating Ofir, how quickly did the guilty parties offer up ‘context’ to their lies.

“Full credit must go to Ofir Birenbaum for having participated in this exercise at a time of increasing antisemitism and then having the courage of his convictions to seek accountability despite the tsunami of hate, contempt and ridicule directed at him. A lesser man would have cut his losses and walked away.”


‘Controversial’: Cairo Takeaway issues public apology to Ofir Birenbaum
Sky News host Sharri Markson details how Newtown’s Cairo Takeaway has publicly apologised to Ofir Birenbaum.

“Now, you might remember the controversial undercover sting when The Daily Telegraph took a Jewish man into a pro-Palestinian cafe to see what the reaction would be,” Ms Markson said.

“That was Cairo Takeaway in Sydney's Newtown, where the owner had called Zionists "pigs" on social media.”




Palestinian shot dead during alleged ramming attempt in the West Bank, IDF says
Israel Defense Force soldiers shot and killed a suspect in the West Bank on Monday after, according to the military, he accelerated his vehicle toward them in a threatening manner, in the third incident to apparently target troops in the West Bank within less than 24 hours.

No Israeli injuries were reported in the incident, which took place near Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank.

A security source later identified the suspect as Abd al-Rahman Mahza Abu al-Rub, a junior officer in the Palestinian Authority’s Tulkarem police department. He held a rank equivalent to lieutenant.

The military, in a statement, said that al-Rab had accelerated toward troops stationed at the Einav checkpoint near Tulkarem “in a manner that posed a threat,” leading soldiers to open fire and “neutralize” him in response.

The Palestinian Authority health minister later confirmed al-Rub’s death, and said the IDF had taken away his body.

Earlier on Monday, the military announced that it had halted two separate attacks on troops, including another attempted ramming.

It said that in the Palestinian town of Al-Ram in the central West Bank, troops fired at a man who accelerated his car toward them in a manner that constituted a threat and neutralized him.

And in Dura, near Hebron in the southern West Bank, the IDF said forces identified a man running at them with a knife. It said the troops opened fire and killed the would-be attacker.
Israel foils Hamas terror network run from Turkey
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said on Monday it uncovered a Hamas terror network in Judea and Samaria that was directed by a Hamas operative based in Turkey.

The cell was allegedly overseen by Mahmoud Radwan, a Hamas member released in a 2025 prisoner exchange and deported to Turkey after serving a prison term in Israel for his role in the 2001 murder of Yossi Alfasi. Radwan is accused of recruiting two residents of the village of Azzun, near Qalqiliya in western Samaria, for planned terrorist activity.

According to the Shin Bet, Radwan met the recruits in Turkey in December 2025, discussed his ongoing terrorist involvement, and encouraged them to join his efforts.

Indictments were recently filed against the suspects.

The agency said it would continue to act “resolutely” against attempts by Hamas and other groups to advance terror activity against Israel from abroad and within Judea and Samaria.
Scathing UN report demands Syria probe abuses during clashes with Druze; 1,700 were killed
A United Nations inquiry said Friday that there is “no indication” Syria has investigated violations its forces committed during sectarian clashes last summer in which at least 1,700 people were killed, the vast majority from the Druze religious minority.

In a scathing 85-page report, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic urged Syria’s government to investigate the leadership of its security forces that allowed or organized sectarian attacks against the Druze community.

The report estimates that about 200,000 people were displaced in the violence in Sweida, the heartland of Syria’s Druze community. Among the dead were almost 200 women and children.

In mid-July, armed groups affiliated with Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri clashed with local Bedouin clans, spurring intervention by government forces who effectively sided with the Bedouins.

Targeted sectarian attacks, first against the religious minority group and later the Bedouin community, and a series of abductions, further soured ties.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has vowed to investigate the events and hold perpetrators on all sides to account, including government forces.

UN investigators spent weeks in Syria, interviewing more than 400 survivors, officials and alleged perpetrators. They visited affected areas, including those under government control and those under the de facto rule of an Israeli-backed umbrella group of local armed Druze factions.

Damascus needs to address whether “certain practices are tolerated” within elements of its security agencies, the report said, referring to the violence. It called for identifying members of the leadership who allowed it to happen and removing them.
Meta removes antisemitic AI account ‘Rabbi Goldman’ after backlash
An AI-generated Instagram account, which featured a fake Orthodox rabbi spreading antisemitic conspiracies to its more than 1.4 million followers, was taken offline over the weekend following major backlash from Jewish groups and one Democratic lawmaker — yet several similar, hate-peddling accounts have emerged with little to no public action from Meta.

An account called “Rabbi Goldman” “uses fake, AI-created authority figures to spread hate” in “a troubling and growing tactic,” according to a report published last week by Combat Antisemitism Movement.

The account, which was taken offline after the report was released, featured videos such as one in which the “rabbi,” wearing a tuxedo and seemingly seated in a luxury airplane, claims that Jews utilize empty private jets to evade taxes. A community note attached to the clip reads, “This is an AI generated rabbi who is trying to scam you by selling a fake 9$ get rich handbook. This account is ran by scammers based in south India.”

Several new Rabbi Goldman accounts started posting similar videos within the past two weeks — two already have followings of 18,500 and 10,000. Both remain active on Instagram and their bios state, “only Backup account for @rabbigoldman” and “old account got banned.”

The CAM report identified 12 AI-generated “rabbis” with a combined following of 2.1 million Instagram users, all of which promote classic antisemitic stereotypes. Many of the accounts remain active on the platform even after the Rabbi Goldman account was removed.

One account called “Rabbi Rothstein,” for example, with more than 57,000 followers, has posted more than 100 videos since February. In one video, “Rabbi Rothstein” states that “us Jews teach our children that being liked is expensive but being respected is profitable,” an apparent reference to the antisemitic trope that Jews are money obsessed. Another video also claims that Jews evade taxes, by purchasing expensive art.
Wisconsin governor signs IHRA bill into state law
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, signed state Assembly bill 446, which codifies the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred, and 26 other bills into law on March 27.

The new state law also adopts the contemporary examples appended to the IHRA definition. Those include “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination,” for example, “by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” and “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”

David Soffer, director of engagement at the Combat Antisemitism Movement, said that “since policymakers chose clarity and consistency in the fight against antisemitism, Jewish Wisconsinites are safer today.”

“AB 446 gives public institutions a common reference point to recognize anti-Jewish bias when it surfaces so responses can be timely, fair and grounded in established standards,” he stated. “AB 446 will help agencies and schools evaluate allegations responsibly and apply existing policies with greater precision, all while keeping First Amendment protections fully intact.”

“The enactment of this bill is a significant step forward in addressing rising Jew-hatred across Wisconsin and serves as an example to other policymakers throughout the United States,” he added.

Francesca Hong, a member of the Wisconsin state Assembly and a Democrat, said she was “disappointed that Gov. Evers has signed into law a controversial definition of antisemitism that will compromise free speech across the state and academic freedom at our universities.”
Six Pittsburgh-area men charged with antisemitic hate crime, conspiracy to obstruct justice
A federal grand jury returned an indictment with seven charges, including hate crime charges, against six Pittsburgh-area men, who range in age from 19 to 28, for a 2024 attack on a Jewish man and for obstructing justice.

The charges, which include conspiracy to obstruct justice, come with a maximum sentence of 15 years and up to $500,000 in fines.

Muhammed Koc, 27, and Omar Alshmari, 28, attacked a man wearing a Star of David necklace, and Abraham Choudhry, 22, Emirhan Arslan, 24, Ali Alkhaleel, 19, and Adeel Piracha, 22, lied in their testimony before the grand jury, according to the indictment.

Just after 2 a.m., the victim walked past five of the men on Sept. 27, 2024, and Koc said “‘F**k Israel’ and ‘F**k the Jews,’ or words to that effect,” per the filing. (Piracha wasn’t part of the group at the time.) During an exchange with the victim, Koc and at least one other defendant “made additional antisemitic comments,” including comments about the victim’s necklace, the filing alleges.

The victim “stood his ground and asserted it was ‘dumb’ to insult someone for being Jewish, or words to that effect, but was not physically aggressive towards any of the defendants,” it states. Then Koc allegedly punched the victim in the face, and Alshmari “struck” the victim, causing “bodily injury, including physical pain, a split lip and headaches.”

“We will prosecute this alleged act of violent antisemitism to the fullest extent of the law,” stated Pamela Bondi, the U.S. attorney general. “This Department of Justice will always protect the First Amendment right to worship freely and without fear for Jewish Americans and all Americans of faith.”

The University of Pittsburgh issued a crime alert later that day, which the defendants allegedly discussed in a Snapchat message conversation, in which Alshmari identified himself and Koc as the individuals involved. “In subsequent conversations by text messaging, both Alshmari and Koc admitted to being involved in the attack on the victim,” the U.S. Justice Department said.

The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to obstruct justice, including “agreeing to falsely align their testimony about the attack” and providing “false and misleading information before the federal grand jury.” In one message to the group, according to the filing, Piracha said that “I’ve been subpoenaed to court. What has everyone said, so we all on the same page?”
Australia: Seven women arrested on suspicion of defacing statue of Jewish feminist
The Victoria Police in Australia arrested and charged seven women on suspicion of damaging the statue of Jewish feminist Zelda D’Aprano (1928-2018) outside the Victorian Trades Hall earlier in March, police said on Friday.

“It’s alleged the women—who are all part of an activist group—attended Victoria Street at approximately 11 a.m. with umbrellas and red spray paint” on March 6, the statement on the police’s website read.

The suspects held the umbrellas up in an attempt to block street cameras and avoid being identified, according to Victoria Police. They then allegedly defaced the statue of the “iconic Melbourne women’s rights campaigner.”

The suspects are aged from 34 to 71 and have been charged with “a range of offences including criminal damage, behaving in a riotous manner in a public place, marking graffiti on a residence without consent, recklessly damaging part of a registered place without a permit and refusing to leave scheduled public place after a warning.”

Six of the women were freed on bail and ordered to appear before Melbourne Magistrate’s Court on Oct. 1, 2026.

Police are looking for an eighth accomplice, who is also part of the activist group.

D’Aprano was an Australian feminist activist, with most of her activities conducted from the ‘50s to the ‘80s. She went on to co-found the Women’s Action Committee in 1970, which led to the formation of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Melbourne. The statue in her honor was unveiled in 2023.

Meanwhile, police in Australia are searching for a female and three possible accomplices, who on March 25 allegedly swerved a stolen vehicle threateningly at a group of Jews in Melbourne, Jewish community representatives said.




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