Thursday, April 30, 2026

04/30 Links Pt2: Anti-Zionism is a menace to every Jew on Earth; Being Jewish in Britain means living in a security ghetto; NYTs platforms professor who imagined joining terrorists on Oct. 7

From Ian:

Brendan O'Neill:Anti-Zionism is a menace to every Jew on Earth
It is staggering the extent to which anti-Zionists refuse to be bound by the linguistic rules they enforce on everyone else. These are people who think JK Rowling is responsible for anti-trans violence because she says men aren’t women, and who will accuse you of playing with ‘Islamophobic’ fire if you comment on the rape gangs. And yet apparently their cruel, ceaseless, voluble and entirely disproportionate loathing for the world’s only Jewish nation – and for everyone who supports it, which includes most British Jews – has no impact whatsoever. It magically exists above the grubby fray of cause and effect that the lowly speech of us riff-raff is compelled to inhabit.

Apparently, our measured opinions cause violence, whereas their meticulously constructed and ruthlessly enforced culture of burning animus for the Jewish nation causes nothing. And woe betide the Jew who says it does. He shall be found guilty of ‘weaponising anti-Semitism’ to silence ‘critics of Israel’. See how cynical the Jews are? They will even marshall and monetise their own historic suffering – the Holocaust, 7 October, recent atrocities in Britain – to the end of protecting their precious genocidal homeland from the decent-hearted critique of pacifist Brits. They lie, and they do so for slippery reasons of dual loyalty – that’s what anti-Zionists are saying when they tar Jews as ‘weaponisers’ simply for saying something they themselves say every day: that words have consequences.

Can we cut the crap? Our moral emergency is too pressing. This is the truth: the industry of hatred for the Jewish nation is endangering Jewish people everywhere. It is not merely opinion – it is a vast system of moral instruction enforced through the institutions of education and culture which singles out Zionism as the most repulsive ideology of our time, and Zionists as enablers of apartheid, settler-colonialism and genocide. Golders Green is full of Zionists. I know some of them. They are good people. Yet according to the ideological superstructure of anti-Zionism, they are agents of chaos, facilitators of crime and simps for a regime whose crimes are so uniquely barbarous that even just reflecting on them can feel like ‘opening a door to the darkest recesses of Hell’. It is utterly untenable to say anti-Zionism is not the cause of anti-Jewish violence.

‘It is morally consistent to oppose both anti-Semitism and Israel’s genocide’, said armies of leftists after Golders Green. Actually, it isn’t. For it is the latter – the ceaseless defamation of ‘the Zionist entity’ as a genocidal machine that lusts after the blood of innocents – that inflames the former. There is a determined effort to draw a moral distinction between ‘real anti-Semitism’, like that in Golders Green, and anti-Zionism. No, no, no. Anti-Zionism is the foul soil in which violent Jew hate has taken root. It is the most menacing hate movement of our time. It has power and clout. It is the ideology of the new ruling class. It is ruthlessly communicated through the digital highways and popular culture. And it is hanging a target sign around the necks of Jews everywhere on Earth. It must be defeated, urgently.
Being Jewish in Britain means living in a security ghetto
Don’t you just hate it when your kids need a security briefing to go to primary school? Isn’t it annoying to have airport-style security at your place of worship so that congregants aren’t murdered?

If you’re Jewish in Britain, this is the reality. We don’t live our lives like normal British citizens any more. We live in a security ghetto – one where tolerant Britain is fading away.

This week – before two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, in an attack police declared a terrorist incident – my better half and I were due to attend a documentary screening by a Jewish-Israeli journalist. We worked out that, given the risk, only one of us should go, so our child would still have a parent if something happened. These are the kind of calculations British Jews now make.

The security services have advised friends’ children to hide their school uniforms when travelling to and from their fortified Jewish schools. Children are asked to conceal what they are in case it upsets racists.

I don’t hide my Star of David on public transport – I don’t mind the glares. The exception is medical appointments. Almost every Jew I know does the same. It is hard not to, when doctors feel free to post Nazi-grade racism under their own names on social media (I’ve been shown a private Facebook group of nearly 17,000 GPs, where anti-Jewish hatred was expressed openly and seldom challenged). And we’re to trust these people to treat us when we are at our most vulnerable?

Soon, it will be my turn again. My turn to put on a stab-proof vest, stand alongside a paid security guard, and guard the gates of my own synagogue. Everyone in the community who can will take a turn. Every synagogue in Britain that I know of runs the same rota. Metal gates. CCTV. Volunteers in body armour. This is what worship looks like now.

Incidents happen when you least expect them. The day before my son’s bar mitzvah, I went to the synagogue to drop off wine. As I left and the gate shut behind me, I turned and saw a man I didn’t know inside the grounds. Scruffy, well-built, tattooed, wearing a vest. He had scaled the perimeter fence as I was leaving and was heading for the door.

I went back in and confronted him. I barely had time to register the backpack.

He was looking around, taking in the layout. I took his picture and shepherded him out. On the pavement, he dropped into the Islamic prayer position. The rest of my day was spent with the police and the Community Security Trust, the Jewish security charity.
DOJ’s Harmeet Dhillon compares contemporary antisemitism of ‘educated elites’ to 1930s Germany
In a speech at a federal government commemoration of the Holocaust on Thursday, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon argued that the post-Oct. 7 wave of antisemitism in the U.S. resembles 1930s Germany and warned that modern bigotry is often perpetrated by “educated elites” under the cover of intellectual language.

Dhillon, drawing on a speech that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave at a Holocaust remembrance event nearly three decades ago, said that Germany’s reputation as an intellectual and scientific hub in the 1920s and 1930s is closely connected to the development of the Holocaust.

“The road to Auschwitz was incremental and methodical. It began with excluding Jews through the legal, political, economic and social life of everyday society,” Dhillon said. “Many perpetrators of the Holocaust were often the most educated intelligentsia in Germany.”

She was speaking at the 33rd annual Federal Interagency Holocaust Remembrance Program, an event organized by and for federal government employees. It took place in the Justice Department’s Great Hall, and as attendees arrived, they walked up a staircase lined with portraits of historic legal experts, like the Babylonian king Hammurabi. One showed Moses, pictured with the twin tablets of the Ten Commandments.

The fact that the perpetrators of the Holocaust often had advanced degrees and impressive credentials is relevant for our understanding of contemporary antisemitism, Dhillon said.

“Today we are experiencing a rise in antisemitism in the world, including right here at home. As in the past, it often begins with social exclusion. On some university campuses, Jews have been blocked by mobs from entering certain spaces,” said Dhillon. “As in 1930s Germany, these actions are often perpetrated by the educated elites of our nation, framed in intellectual language, giving them a veneer of legitimacy.”


Unholy Podcast: Howard Jacobson on Howl, October 7, and Jewish Rage | Unholy Conversations
Howard Jacobson screamed "liar" at the BBC every day for two years. Then he wrote a novel.

Howl — hailed as a comic masterpiece — is the first serious post-October 7 novel: the story of a Jewish headmaster in South London who watches the educated world he believed in applaud a massacre and slowly lose his mind. Jacobson joins Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland to discuss the ungovernable rage behind the book, why he chose comedy as the vehicle for it, the friends he lost, and the question he and his wife have started asking each other: is it still safe to be here?

Jonathan refers to an audio clip from the book, you can listen to it on the audio version of the interview on all podcasting platforms.

⏱ CHAPTERS:
[00:00] Intro — the first post-October 7 novel
[01:50] Waking up angry every day: rage vs. madness
[03:27] Screaming "liar" at the BBC — and the book that started as 99 lies
[09:05] Losing friends after October 7th
[11:36] Did the Prosecco scene actually happen?
[17:19] Can a novel change minds? On marchers and Zoe
[22:38] The Manchester synagogue and Jewish fear
[26:22] Guilt, Israel, and imagination
[29:51] Is there a safe place for Jews?
[38:45] What "never again" got wrong
[44:37] Comedy as consolation, comprehension, and compact


Stephen Pollard: Starmer's hypocrisy over the hate marches is breathtaking in its shamelessness
What a loathsome hypocrite Keir Starmer is.

For over two and a half years he has said not a word about the hate marches, neither in opposition nor, more importantly, as prime minister. He has remained mute as the marchers chant their slogans calling for the murder of Jews, and as they parade with their banners of Hamas symbols and assertion that ‘Zios’ run politics, banking and the world.

Despite rising antisemitism, with CST reporting record increases, despite the deaths at Heaton Park shul, despite the firebombing of the Hatzolah ambulances, despite the arson attempts at two shuls…despite all of it, all Starmer has done is offer pro forma warm words. And as for the marches – by far the most poisonous element behind the ‘ambient antisemitism’ that now characterises Britain - he has said not a word of condemnation.

Now, today, after the Golders Green terror attack, he has the gall to stand at the podium in Number 10 and claim the mantle of leader of the fight against antisemitism, highlighting the impact of the marches and calling for prosecutions. George Burns famously said: “The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you’ve got it made.” Starmer is as bad at faking sincerity as he is at everything else. He is a transparent hypocrite.

For nearly two years he has led a government that has been so petrified of the impact of the sectarian Muslim vote that it has demonised Israel as some sort of uniquely evil pariah state, rewarded Hamas for its massacre of October 7 2023 with a Palestinian state and scrapped the previous government’s opposition to the arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. If he thinks that all that – setting an agenda in which antisemitism is given its head – can be forgotten in one hastily cobbled together press conference designed to present him as giving a damn about what has been happening to British Jews, then he is even more deluded than the British public already thought.
Government announces £25m for security after Golders Green attack
A further £25 million will be invested to increase security for Jewish communities after the suspected terror attack in north London, the Government has said.

The funding will be aimed at boosting police patrols and protection around synagogues, schools and community centres.

Legislation creating proscription-like powers to pursue people and organisations acting on behalf of malign state-sponsored groups will also be “fast-tracked” in the coming weeks, ministers said.

The Press Association understands the plans will be included in the King’s Speech setting out the Government’s legislative agenda for the coming parliamentary session on 13 May.

Police across the country have stepped up patrols in response to the attack that saw two Jewish men – 34-year-old Shilome Rand and 76-year-old Moshe Ben Baila, named locally as Moshe Shine – taken to hospital after being stabbed in Golders Green.

A 45-year-old man, said by police to be a Somali-born British national, was arrested following the incident on Wednesday.

The stabbings are the latest in a series of attacks on Jewish sites over recent weeks and have prompted calls for urgent action and accusations the Government has not done enough to tackle antisemitism.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood signalled she would consider banning the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an Iranian military group, as she faced questions about the new laws.

Speaking to broadcasters on Thursday morning, she said it would be inappropriate to confirm such a move before the laws are on the statute books, but that she would be looking at “all organisations that would then fall within the purview” of the legislation.
Volunteer who took on Golders Green knifeman ‘only thought of protecting others’
A hero volunteer who told of confronting the Golders Green attacker has said his only thoughts were of protecting others as the knifeman came towards him.

Yonathan Elkouby, 33, who volunteers for Jewish community security group Shomrim, said he was at work in Hendon on Wednesday when he heard on his radio that a man had a knife.

Mr Elkouby, who works in sales and lives close to where the stabbings of two Jewish men took place, said he dropped everything and ran to his car to drive to the scene.

The married father-of-five told the Press Association that the attacker was trying to “hit anyone he could” as he blocked the suspect with his car before helping police officers detain him.

He said: “At one point, the guy came towards me with the knife, and what was most important to me was actually making sure others were safe.

“I didn’t actually think about myself there and then, I was more thinking about other people, making sure they’re safe and making sure I can help the police tackle down the person, to make sure he’s unable to do anything.

“At that moment, I had no idea that two people had been stabbed, all I knew was the guy had a knife.

“Afterwards when I think about it, it was quite traumatising, because I was thinking the guy did come towards me, he was going towards the police, to all the people around him, trying to basically hit anyone that he could.”

Mr Elkouby said he held the attacker’s legs and one of his hands while the man was on the ground, after police officers had Tasered him.
Golders Green suspect referred to counter-extremism programme in 2020
The man suspected of carrying out a knife attack in north London was previously referred to the Government’s counter-extremism programme, police have said, as Sir Keir Starmer was heckled on a visit to the site.

The 45-year-old was born in Somalia and came to the UK legally as a child in the 1990s, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said earlier on Thursday.

The Metropolitan Police said he was known to Prevent and that a referral had been made in 2020 which was closed in the same year.

In a statement on Thursday afternoon, the force said: “Given the investigation remains ongoing, we will not be providing any further information in respect of this matter at this time and we remain focused on securing justice for the victims of this attack.”

Police across the country have stepped up patrols in response to the double stabbing that saw two Jewish men – Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Ben Baila, 76, named locally as Moshe Shine – taken to hospital.

The suspect was detained and arrested by officers in Golders Green following the suspected terror attack. He is a British citizen, police have said.

The Prime Minister faced chants of “Keir Starmer, Jew harmer” from around 100 poster-waving protesters as he arrived at a Golders Green Jewish community ambulance centre on Thursday afternoon to meet emergency services who responded to the attack.

One of the demonstrators, Niaz Maleknia, 57, told the Press Association Sir Keir had “done nothing but stand in the way of Donald Trump and Israel” and needed “waking up”.


Britain’s most senior police officer slams Polanski over Golders Green post
Britain’s most senior police officer has said that Green Party leader Zack Polanski sharing a post about the arrest of the Golders Green terror suspect will have a “chilling effect”.

Polanski retweeted an X post accusing officers of “repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head” when he was already incapacitated from being tasered.

But Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said in a letter to Mr Polanski that he was “disappointed”, adding that the post was “inaccurate and misinformed”.

Sir Mark said that the officers “are nothing short of extraordinary”, saying: “Without their efforts to stop him I dread to think what the outcome could have been.”

He added: “London’s Jewish communities are scared.

“They have experienced a series of targeted attacks on the community, and they expect our officers to act, protect them.

“That is exactly what our officers did yesterday. Your decision to criticise these officers, using your public profile and reach will have a chilling effect.”


Starmer booed upon arrival at site of terror attack in London Jewish suburb
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits the site of a terrorist attack in London’s Golders Green, a suburb with a significant Jewish population, where his arrival is greeted by a small group of protesters jeering and shouting “Shame on you,” and “Jew harmer.”

There is also loud booing and cries of “Starmer is a coward” and “show your face,” AFP witnesses.

Yesterday, a man, who was later detained, stabbed and injured two Jewish men in the suburb.

Starmer’s critics have accused the government of not doing enough to combat antisemitism in the country.


Jonathan Sacerdoti: Starmer dodges angry crowds in Golders Green: Jonathan Sacerdoti says government not doing enough
As Keir Starmer visits Golders Green in London, where two Jewish men were stabbed, Jonathan Sacerdoti says the government is not doing enough to protect Jewish people or to root out the causes of Jew hatred in the UK.




Fire breaks out beside synagogue in Stamford Hill as emergency crews respond
A major fire broke out beside a synagogue in the heart of Stamford Hill’s Orthodox Jewish community on Thursday afternoon, prompting a large emergency response and road closures in the area.

Fire crews, police and Jewish volunteer groups were called to Cazenove Road in Stoke Newington after flames engulfed a building next to a synagogue.

The cause of the fire is not yet known, and there is currently no indication that it was started deliberately.

Shomrim volunteers assisted emergency services as firefighters tackled the blaze, which sent smoke rising above nearby residential streets.

The incident unfolded close to several Jewish communal buildings, including Simon Marks Jewish Primary School, in an area with one of the largest Orthodox Jewish populations in the UK.


When Jews Are Attacked, the Media Won’t Say “Jew”
Jews are being targeted as Jews.

The data makes that impossible to ignore. According to the Community Security Trust (CST), 3,700 antisemitic incidents were recorded in the UK in 2025 – the second-highest total on record and a 4 percent increase from 2024. That followed 4,298 incidents in 2023, itself a historic peak. The trajectory is clear: antisemitic violence is escalating.

And it is visible beyond statistics. In recent weeks alone, Hatzola ambulances were firebombed, synagogues in Finchley and Kenton were targeted in arson attacks, and a building that formerly hosted a Jewish charity in Hendon was targeted. Now, Jews have been stabbed in one of Britain’s most prominent Jewish communities.

Yet even as this reality intensifies, large parts of the media still struggle—or refuse—to name it plainly.

Why?

Part of the answer lies in a broader narrative environment. For months, British audiences have been exposed to coverage that portrays the Jewish state as uniquely malevolent, often with little context or balance. Mass protests openly invoking “intifada” have been downplayed or sanitized. Extremism, when directed at Jews, has too often been reframed as legitimate grievance.

Within that climate, the reluctance to say “Jew” is not accidental. It reflects a deeper discomfort with acknowledging Jews as a distinct and targeted group.

But language matters. When the media erases victims’ identities, it erases the nature of the crime. And when the nature of the crime is blurred, so too is the urgency to confront it.

This is how normalization happens – not through a single headline, but through repetition. Through omission. Through the quiet reshaping of reality.

If the trend continues, the consequences will not remain confined to headlines. Britain’s Jewish community is already questioning its future in a country where anti-Jewish violence is rising—and where even that violence is not always named for what it is.

Two men were not simply stabbed in Golders Green. Jews were attacked for being Jews. And the media should be able to say so.
Lineker’s curious silence on Golders Green attack
As a darling of the progressive commentariat, Gary Lineker is not usually one to let injustice pass unremarked. The former BBC star has become a tireless outrider for the Palestinian cause, devoting generous acreage on social media and in interviews to Gaza. On that subject, dear Gary has told us that ‘when I see some images on social media, I cry all the time’ and warned that ‘if you’re silent on these issues, you’re almost complicit’.

Nor should one expect the podcast entrepreneur to fall silent on immigration. While raking in more than £1.3 million a year to host Match of the Day, in 2023 Lineker found time to train his moral artillery on Suella Braverman. Responding to a video in which the then home secretary vowed to crack down on small boat crossings, he proclaimed: ‘Good heavens, this is beyond awful.’ He later likened the language around Britain’s asylum policy to that used by ‘Germany in the 30s’.

With such a finely tuned moral antenna, one might reasonably have expected Lineker to come out, studs up, after two Jewish men were stabbed in an aantisemitic attack in London yesterday. But almost 24 hours on: crickets.


Days before Bondi shooting, Australian Jewish group warned police attack was likely
An Australian Jewish community group warned police an attack was “likely,” days before two terrorists carried out a mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, 2025, an inquiry said on Thursday.

The revelation about the warning ahead of the worst terrorist attack in Australian history immediately raised renewed questions over the lack of adequate security at the Chanukah event, which followed a rash of antisemitic attacks in the country triggered by the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel.

“A terrorist attack against the NSW Jewish Community is likely and there is a high level of antisemitic vilification,” the Community Security Group wrote in an email released by the inquiry sent less than a week before the Bondi attack.

Australian Police had said they could not provide dedicated officers, but would send mobile patrols to “check in and monitor the event.”

The inquiry said police should consider increasing security at Jewish events.

“The findings confirm what our community has been saying for some time—that antisemitism in Australia has escalated significantly in both frequency and severity, and that Jewish Australians have increasingly been targeted not just with words, but with violence,” the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies said in a statement.
‘Radical Islamic elephant in the room’: Jewish leaders warn Bondi interim report fails to confront extremist ideology behind attack
Australia’s Jewish community says the interim report into the Bondi terror attack leaves questions unanswered, with leaders warning it fails to confront the threat driving violence.

The report, handed down on Thursday as part of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism, sets out 14 recommendations to strengthen counter-terrorism coordination and protect high-risk events.

The federal government has accepted all of them.

However, Australian Jewish Association president Robert Gregory said the findings avoid a central issue.

“It's the radical Islamic elephant in the room that nobody seems to want to talk about,” he told Sky News host James Macpherson on Thursday.

The December 14 attack which targeted a Jewish community event, came after warnings of a heightened threat environment.

Intelligence alerts were issued days before the attack, yet concerns remain over how authorities responded.

Mr Gregory said the report offers practical measures, but does not address the ideology behind the violence.

“We can't have an inquiry into the worst radical Islamic terrorist attack in Australian history without looking at the cause of it, the ideology behind it,” he said.

He acknowledged the report is only an interim step, but warned the omission risks undermining the broader inquiry.

“Yes, the report had some good recommendations and, yes, it is just an interim report, but there's going to be a lot more coming out of this royal commission,” he said.

“If people are going to take it seriously, then we can't tiptoe around this important topic.”
‘This is just the start’: Report reveals counterterrorism ‘deprioritised’ in alarming findings
Sky News host Sharri Markson details how counterterrorism under the Albanese government was “deprioritised”.

“The interim report on the Royal Commission paints a devastating picture of counterterrorism being deprioritised under the Albanese government,” Ms Markson said.

“These are the lessons, the hard lessons, that are coming out of the Royal Commission into the deadliest terror attack in Australia's history ... And this is just the start. There's much more to come.”


Bondi RC interim report is a ‘step in a long process’ from getting back to ‘normality’
Executive Council of Australian Jewry Alex Ryvchin claims the Bondi royal commission is going to be a “long and arduous process”.

“This is going to be a long process,” Mr Ryvchin told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“We look to our federal government … to lead, to set a tone, to stand in solidarity unequivocally with the Jewish community.

“We are such a long way from getting back to any semblance of security or normality for this community.”




Judge Roy K. Altman Interrogates Six Claims Against Israel
Judge Roy K. Altman on his new book, "Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law."

On April 4, 2019, Judge Altman was confirmed to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. At 36, he became the youngest federal district court judge in the country—and the youngest federal judge ever appointed in the Southern District of Florida.

Judge Altman received a BA from Columbia University, where he played quarterback on the football team and pitched for the baseball team—earning All-Ivy honors. He received his JD from the Yale Law School, where he was projects editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, the Judge clerked on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Stanley Marcus. He then became a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, where he twice received the Director of the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys’ Award for Superior Performance by a federal prosecutor. In 2013, Judge Altman was named “Federal Prosecutor of the Year” by the Miami Dade Chiefs of Police and the Law Enforcement Officers’ Charitable Foundation.

Recorded April 14, 2026 at UATX.

00:00 — Preview
00:38 — Introduction by Judge Don Willett
07:11 — What happened after October 7?
09:53 — How did Jews become the aggressors?
13:45 — Why Judge Altman wrote his new book
16:48 — Mass confusion
22:26 — Are Jews colonists?
23:15 — Follow the incentives
25:29 — How to think like a judge
32:53 — Tucker Carlson, Ambassador Huckabee, and genetic tests
35:14 — What modern DNA reveals about Jewish history
38:10 — Do indigenous people have rights?
42:13 — Is Palestine a state?
45:23 — 80% of Palestinians refuse a two-state solution
46:31 — “If you find a Jew, you shall kill him”
47:07 — You can tell a lot about a state by who they will die to defend
49:25 — What is genocide?
56:19 — The war for Western Civilization




Venice Biennale jury resigns after demanding, in vain, that Israel and Russia be excluded
The international jury of the upcoming Venice Biennale Art Exhibition resigned en masse on Thursday in a row over the organization’s decision to allow Israel and Russia to participate in this year’s event.

The five-strong jury, headed by Brazilian curator Solange Farkas, said last week that “in the defense of human rights,” it would not consider works from countries whose leaders face charges at the International Criminal Court, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin do.

Biennale President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has refused to back down on his decision to include Russia and Israel, saying the festival is “a space of coexistence for the whole planet” without censorship.

At the same time, the Biennale did not criticize the jury for boycotting the Russian and Israeli artists, saying the panel, which also included Zoe Butt, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marta Kuzma and Giovanna Zapperi, operated with “full autonomy and independence.”

The jury’s decision to snub the two nations had been widely criticized in some quarters, with the Israeli artist showing at Venice, sculptor Belu Simion Fainaru, accusing the jury of racial discrimination and threatening legal action.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry also condemned the “political jury,” accusing it of turning the event into a “spectacle of false, anti-Israeli political indoctrination.” Jerusalem has strenuously denied all accusations of war crimes and genocide, branding the charges as “antisemitic.”
Harvard Cancels Conference That Was To Feature Keffiyeh-Wearing Israel-Demonizer Who Uses ‘Retard’ as a Slur
Harvard Business School, which had declared itself "thrilled" to host at an upcoming AI conference a businessman who was ostracized in Silicon Valley for social media posts that demonized Israel, has now canceled the event.

The Washington Free Beacon wrote on April 28 about the conference under the headline, "Harvard Business School Is ‘Thrilled To Welcome’ Keffiyeh-Wearing Israel-Demonizer Who Uses ‘Retard’ as a Slur."

The story reported on Harvard Business School email invitations to alumni and social media posts touting Amjad Masad, the CEO of a Foster City, California-based artificial intelligence company called Replit. "We’re thrilled to welcome Amjad Masad, Founder & CEO of Replit, to the Leading with AI 2026 conference at Harvard Business School, May 14-15," an email invitation from HBS Alumni Relations, obtained by the Free Beacon, said. "Amjad just raised $400M in a Series D and unveiled Agent 4; an AI that can vibe code an entire company from scratch. He’s not just building a product. He’s redefining what it means to be a ‘developer’—and what it means to run a business."

The Free Beacon article reported on social media posts by Masad. It also recapped an interview he gave to the San Francisco Standard in which he said his company had a deal with the government of Saudi Arabia but would not work with the "illegitimate and criminal government" of Israel.
Canadian Jewish schools hit with CRA complaint over alleged support for Israeli military
A group of pro-Palestinian organizations has filed a complaint with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) accusing 11 Jewish schools of “promoting the Israeli military and potentially aiding and abetting illegal military recruiting.”

The complaint was submitted on April 22, 2026, by Palestinian and Jewish Unity, Ontario Palestinian Rights Association, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, and Just Peace Advocates.

The organizations are essentially formally asking the tax regulator to investigate whether a registered charity or nonprofit has broken Canadian charity/tax rules.

Given that many private schools are registered charities, the complaint is asking the CRA to examine whether those schools’ activities are consistent with the rules required to keep charitable status.

It comes just months after The Maple’s Davide Mastracci, who formerly released the Find IDF Soldiers project, unveiled his new project called GTA to IDF, which doxes institutions that Canadian-Israeli soldiers attended and their involvement with them.


‘The New York Times’ platforms professor who imagined joining terrorists on Oct. 7
By platforming Ussama Makdisi as a moral voice on Israel, America’s newspaper of record handed its op-ed page to a man who publicly said he wished he had been among those who massacred 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7.

There are editorial decisions that make you scratch your head. And then there are decisions so staggering in their moral recklessness that they demand a public accounting. The choice by editors at The New York Times to publish an op-ed on April 23 by Makdisi, a history professor at the University of California, Berkeley—positioning him as a credible, sober commentator on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—falls firmly, irredeemably, in the second category.

This is not a close call. This is not a matter of reasonable people disagreeing about which voices belong in the public square. This is the Times conferring the prestige of its op-ed page—the most coveted platform in American journalism—on a man whose public record on this subject is not merely controversial, but morally indefensible. The editors who authorized this piece owe their readers an apology.

Let’s begin with the statement that, on its own, should have ended any conversation about Makdisi as a Times contributor on this topic.

In the aftermath of the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023—in which 1,200 Israeli men, women and children were slaughtered, babies were beheaded in their homes, elderly Holocaust survivors were dragged from kibbutzim, and young people were gunned down at a music festival—Makdisi took to social media and shared an article with this title: “I Could Have Been One of Those Who Broke Through the Siege on October 7.”

Read that again. Slowly. A tenured professor at one of America’s most prestigious public universities openly expressed that he could identify with the men who committed the deadliest mass killings of Jewish people since the Holocaust.

This statement was so alarming that it was raised explicitly during congressional hearings on antisemitism on college campuses. Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) confronted UC Berkeley’s chancellor directly: “On Oct. 7, Makdisi described the Hamas attacks against Israel as ‘resistance,’” Fine said. “Why would you give a position to someone who said Oct. 7 was justified?”


Palestinian couple allegedly lived in Israel over 20 years under false identity
he Israel Police arrested on Wednesday a Palestinian couple on suspicion of living in Israel for over two decades using a false identity.

The couple, residing in the Israeli city of Rahat, north of Beersheva, is originally from the Palestinian city of Halhul, north of Hebron in Judea.

According to police, the suspects wed 20 years ago but shortly afterward filed for divorce so the woman could fraudulently obtain an Israeli identity card.

The man, 57, who holds a “family unification” permit allowing him to reside periodically in Rahat, married an Israeli citizen from Ar’ara BaNegev, southeast of Beersheva, whom he had never met, Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reported.

This woman’s identity was allegedly “adopted” by the Palestinian divorcée, 43, and the two Palestinians have since lived in Israel. The Palestinian couple eventually remarried, according to police.

The investigators of the case found that whenever the suspects visited Halhul, they referred to the woman by her true name, and upon returning to Rahat, they used her false name in engagements with their surroundings, the Kan report read.
European Parliament renews calls for PA funding freeze over textbook incitement
For the seventh consecutive year, the European Parliament on Wednesday passed resolutions calling for future Palestinian Authority funding to be conditioned on the removal of antisemitic incitement in their textbooks, according to an educational watchdog group.

The latest resolutions note that P.A. textbooks continue to include “antisemitic content, incitement to violence and the glorification of martyrdom and jihad,” and that Palestinian pledges to reform the curriculum as part of a 2024 agreement with the E.U. have not taken place, the UK-based IMPACT-se research organization said.

Over the years, the E.U.’s executive body, the European Commission, has never imposed a funding freeze despite the repeated resolutions passed by the European Parliament in Brussels.

“Year after year, the European Parliament has sent a consistent message to the Commission—that there is no excuse for a curriculum that indoctrinates the next generation with hatred and a jihadist death wish,” IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff told JNS. “But now more than ever, the Commission must take action. Failure to act and impose real financial and diplomatic consequences is a recipe for a Palestinian future of extremism and violence.”

“Unfortunately, I don’t see any concrete actions from the European Commission as they naively see the P.A. as their reliable partners and are reluctant to put too much pressure on them,” said Dutch MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen who has been a longtime advocate of financial sanctions on the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority over textbook incitement.
Hamas Uses Ceasefire to Amass Illicit Cash
Since the October 2025 ceasefire, Hamas in Gaza has amassed hundreds of millions of dollars, in addition to $134-335 million in cash it managed to hide in its tunnel network during its war against Israel.

Much of that money came from the Bank of Palestine in Gaza City, which Hamas looted multiple times in 2024.

Hamas has been levying charges of 15-25% per humanitarian aid vehicle, with 4,200 aid trucks entering every week.

An IDF source said Hamas taxes the aid twice - a percentage "on every truck carrying food, fuel, or medicine, and an additional tax on the goods when they are sold in the market. Hamas is making tens of millions of shekels a day, and the coffers keep growing."
Holocaust center in Oslo sparks outrage over ‘Nakba’ lecture
A Holocaust-studies center in Norway, which the government had created as compensation for complicity in the genocide, announced plans to discuss the nakba—the “catastrophe” Palestinian Arabs call the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948—triggering a sharp-worded rebuke this week.

Israel’s embassy in Oslo, a prominent Holocaust scholar in the United States and an influential Norwegian-Jewish pundit responded strongly to a lecture titled “Nakba and Holocaust as cultural traumas,” which is planned to be held on Thursday at the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities.

Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C., called the planned lecture a form of “Holocaust-inversion” and a “shocking desecration of the memory of the 6 million Jews, including Norwegian Jews.”

Contacted by JNS, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Holocaust studies center said the institution was trying to reply to all queries it has received on the matter, though did not reply in time for publication.

The lecture asks, “What meaning does the entanglement of the Holocaust and the ‘Nakba’ gain in the shadow of Oct. 7 and the war on Gaza?” The Center wrote in advertising the event.

Delivering it is Nadim Khoury, a professor at the Department of Law, Philosophy and International Studies of the University of Inland Norway. In November 2023, about a month after thousands of Hamas terrorists murdered some 1,200 Israelis, Khoury penned an op-ed lamenting Western concerns about Israel’s security.
Australian billboard advertising synagogue event torched
A billboard in Australia promoting an event involving an Israeli volunteer emergency medical service was torched on Tuesday night.

The Melbourne sign advertised an event with the president and founder of United Hatzalah of Israel at a local synagogue.

“This is the reality for Jews in Melbourne in 2026,” the Australian Jewish Association posted on X.

The Jewish group had partnered with both organizations.

The vandalism was the latest in a rash of antisemitic incidents that have shaken Australia since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.

Last week, a joint Jewish-Greek choral concert in Australia, intended to raise money for the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre, was abruptly canceled after Greek choir members voted against performing with Jews.

About 110,000 Jews live in Australia, primarily in Melbourne and Sydney.
GOP lawmaker pushed to add a Holocaust denier to New Hampshire’s Holocaust panel
A Republican state lawmaker in New Hampshire partnered with a notorious German Holocaust denier in an effort to insert Holocaust denial into the state’s public education guidelines.

Rep. Matt Sabourin dit Choinière successfully pushed the New Hampshire Commission on Holocaust and Genocide Education to hear testimony from Germar Rudolf, a German chemist who has previously been deported from the United States and served prison time in his home country for propagating Holocaust denial.

Two other Holocaust deniers also testified before the state House as a result of Sabourin dit Choinière’s efforts, including a man who grew up Jewish who has led protests outside a Michigan synagogue weekly for more than two decades.

Sabourin dit Choinière’s antics were first reported Wednesday by NPR. But the push actually took place in public view, during a livestreamed meeting of the state House’s Executive Departments and Administration Committee in January.

During the meeting, Sabourin dit Choinière testified that he had visited Dachau and seen a gas chamber, then learned that no one was ever gassed at Dachau. (The Dachau historic site says the chamber’s lack of use “remains unexplained.” More than 40,000 people died at Dachau.)

“This was the first doubt in my mind that over time led towards a revisionist thinking about the Holocaust,” Sabourin dit Choinière said before explaining that he was relieved to have discovered the “Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust,” a group that produced a 54-volume set of books that he offered to the committee.
Moment MI5 swoop in and arrest neo-Nazi, 21, trying to buy gun and 200 rounds of ammo for terror attack - as he is found guilty
A neo-Nazi inspired by the murder of MP Jo Cox has been found guilty at the Old Bailey of planning a mass gun attack after being snared trying to purchase a gun by MI5 in an undercover sting.

Alfie Coleman, 21, of Great Notley, Essex, was swooped on by armed police officers in September 2023 after trying to buy a firearm he planned to use in a terror attack.

He was today convicted of plotting such an attack, having previously admitted 12 offences including attempting to purchase prohibited gun and 200 rounds of compatible ammunition and possessing several terrorist manuals.

From the age of just 14, Coleman began to trawl the internet for extreme right wing material including a neo-Nazi text which he downloaded on his iPad.

The former part-time Tesco worker went on to compile a hate list of colleagues and customers he branded with racial slurs or as 'race traitors'.

Coleman, described in court as 'seething with hatred on the inside', became obsessed with the extreme-right and collected an arsenal of weapons and Nazi memorabilia in his bedroom.

He penned a 'manifesto' in a diary and identified potential targets, including the Lord Mayor of London's home and a mosque. Coleman also 'idolised' far-right figures including Thomas Mair, who murdered MP Jo Cox in 2016.

He was caught after undercover officers from MI5 engaged with Coleman in encrypted chat as he sought to buy weapons.
Conservatives face questions over ‘Hitler was right’ candidate in ward with Jewish school
A Labour MP has written to Kemi Badenoch asking her to confirm the suspension of a local candidate for the Conservative party, citing a tweet in which the prospective councillor for a ward containing a Jewish school said that “Hitler was right”.

Fleur Anderson, MP for Putney, identified Helena Kanaan, a candidate in the Roehampton ward of the Borough of Wandsworth, citing a tweet which she alleged Kanaan had written in early 2024. The tweet began: “Nevertheless, the way the Israel government behaved with Palestinians during the years showed the world that Hitler was right (just the government politics).”

It went on to say: “Please note that I am not against Jews people [sic] but against the Israel government [sic].”

In her letter to Kemi Badenoch, in which she also copied in the Tory party chair, Kevin Hollinrake, as well as the leaders of local Conservatives in Wandsworth and Putney, Ms Anderson pointed out the presence of a Jewish school – Mosaic Jewish primary – in Roehampton ward itself.

“At a time when antisemitic incidents in the UK have risen sharply and Jewish communities are experiencing heightened fear and vulnerability, it is deeply alarming that a Conservative candidate would publicly circulate language that endorses the horrors of the Holocaust”, the Putney MP wrote.

“This is especially distressing for the local community which includes a Jewish primary school in the very ward Ms Kanaan is standing to represent. Parents, children and staff will understandably be shocked to learn that a prospective councillor has posted material praising Hitler in this way. Roehampton’s Jewish residents — and indeed all residents — deserve reassurance that those seeking elected office reject antisemitism unequivocally.”
FBI concludes Brown, MIT shootings had ‘no nexus to terrorism’
Federal authorities said on Wednesday that the December 2025 shootings at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor were not acts of terrorism, concluding that the gunman acted alone and was driven by personal grievances.

The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts identified the shooter as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and U.S. legal permanent resident. Investigators said he killed two students and wounded nine others in a classroom at Brown in Providence, R.I., on Dec. 13, before fatally shooting MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his home in Brookline, Mass., two days later.

“His actions were determined to have no nexus to terrorism,” the FBI stated.

Valente “made a series of audio files and short videos in which he confessed to committing these crimes, showed no remorse and provided no reason for his actions” after the shootings, according to the findings of the investigation.

Valente, who lived in Miami, came to the United States in 2000 on a student visa at Brown University. He was found dead on Dec. 18 in a storage unit in Salem, N.H., with two legally purchased 9mm handguns nearby. Both weapons were used in the attacks, the FBI said.

The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit concluded that “Valente’s victims were symbolic in nature” and that he “was driven by an accumulation of grievances that he collected throughout his life.”

“Brown University as a whole and Dr. Loureiro represented to the shooter his personal failures and injustices he perceived were inflicted by others over time,” the unit stated. “By attacking them, Neves Valente was likely able to overcome his shame and envy by using violence to punish those communities that he perceived contributed to his downfall.”
L.A. school district recognizes Jewish American Heritage Month after Noa Tishby push
The Los Angeles Unified School District unanimously passed its first-ever resolution recognizing May as Jewish American Heritage Month, embracing a new educational curriculum on Judaism and Israel provided by Israeli activist and author Noa Tishby.

Designed for middle and high schoolers, the curriculum is based on Noa Tishby’s eight- episode YouTube series, “What is?,” which explores topics including Judaism, antisemitism, the Holocaust and Israel.

“We decided the series needed to be a curriculum in schools,” Tishby, founder of the nonprofit media company Eighteen and Israel’s former special envoy for combating antisemitism, told Jewish Insider.

When she found out that the LAUSD had never recognized JAHM, Tishby reached out to a Los Angeles educator to create a curriculum based on parts of her video series.

Tishby, who lives in LA, then connected with LAUSD School Board Member Nick Melvoin to draft the resolution, which was co-sponsored by Board Member Sherlett Hendy Newbill and Board President Scott Schmerelson.

The resolution passed with full support on April 21.

LAUSD, the second largest school district in the country after New York City, honors cultural heritage months including Black History Month in February, but has never formally acknowledged Jewish American Heritage Month. Several other school districts, such as NYC Public Schools and Berkeley Unified, also promote curricula, books and resources to celebrate the month.
Book by mother of slain Gaza hostage debuts at No. 1 on ‘NYT’ best sellers list
Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s book, When We See You Again, has reached the top spot on The New York Times nonfiction hardcover best sellers list, a week after its national publication.

Hamas terrorists executed Goldberg-Polin’s son Hersh Goldberg-Polin in cold blood in an underground tunnel in Gaza, 330 days after he was taken hostage from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023.

The book is “a searing portrait of a mother’s grief and strength in the wake of unthinkable tragedy,” publisher Random House writes.

Goldberg-Polin is an American who moved to Jerusalem 18 years ago with her husband, Jon, and three children. Hersh, her only son, was at the music festival with his best friend, Aner Shapira, when he was kidnapped.

Shapira and Hersh hid in a bomb shelter with other young festival goers. Hamas terrorists threw grenades into the shelter. Shapira threw back 10 before being killed. Hersh took his place, losing an arm while trying to toss back a grenade.

Hersh was shot at close range six times, shortly before his body was found by Israeli soldiers on Aug. 31, 2024. It is believed that his captors panicked when shelling came close to their hiding place, leading them to kill their hostages.




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