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Friday, May 01, 2026

05/01 Links Pt2: Israel’s first lady: British Jews have always supported Israel. Now, they need us; How Wokeness Came for the Jews; Mahmoud Khalil wants your sympathy

From Ian:

Israel’s first lady: British Jews have always supported Israel. Now, they need us
Israel has fought many battles to survive over the decades, with Jewish communities across the world raising billions of pounds for critical services and providing tens of thousands of volunteers in times of crisis.

Thousands of people, from London to Sydney and New York, went over to help after the Oct 7 massacre by Hamas, many of them caring for traumatised survivors, while funds raised by Jews abroad helped rebuild the Israeli communities most affected by the attacks.

But, as an extraordinary wave of anti-Semitism has hit the Jewish diaspora, there has been a subtle change in who is looking after whom. Which is why Israel’s first lady Michal Herzog, wife of its president Isaac Herzog, happened to be paying a visit to Britain this week, when two Jewish men were stabbed in a terror attack in Golders Green.

Herzog describes Wednesday’s attack as “very disturbing”. But, tragically, it wasn’t a surprise. In fact, it was a desire to support Britain’s Jewish population in the face of shocking levels of anti-Semitism that compelled her to arrange her visit in the first place, with the intended focal point being Manchester’s Heaton Park Synagogue, where an anti-Semitic attack resulted in the death of two men seven months ago.

“The diaspora communities were always so wonderful to us,” she says. “They came to volunteer and help, not to mention the philanthropy. But it is a two-way street and that has become more apparent since October 7. We help each other in every possible way.”

In February, the Herzogs travelled to Australia to meet the families of the victims of last December’s Bondi Beach massacre. They were warmly welcomed by the Australian Jewish community and the Australian government, but the couple also faced ugly protests by Palestinian supporters, who hounded them, even when they were talking to survivors of the attack.

For the first lady, an instinctive feminist, one of the most disturbing aspects of the Western anti-Israel hatred has been the denial of horrific sexual assaults carried out by Hamas terrorists on Oct 7.

“One UN rapporteur, Pramila Patten, did come and do a report about the sexual violence and she was attacked for it,” says Herzog. “For months afterwards, whatever war she was talking about, people in the crowd would scream at her about Israel. The fact that women won’t defend just one group of women – Israelis – can only be anti-Semitism.”

Witnessing such behaviour convinced her and her husband to do more to engage with Jewish communities around the world. “Seeing the demonstrations, some of them fierce, some violent, just made us realise how important that mission is,” she says. “I think people realise that whatever begins with the Jews never ends with them.”

Herzog, 63, a former top lawyer and the daughter of a celebrated military hero, was born on a kibbutz in Israel, but spent part of her childhood in Brazil and Argentina, where her father was a military attaché. It means she has an idea of life as a diaspora Jew and the anti-Semitism that can accompany it – something many of her fellow Israelis are only just beginning to grasp.
Jake Wallis Simons: Jews have Israel. It’s the future of Britain that I fear for
Jews are also deeply patriotic. My Jewish grandfather, who was hugely proud of serving for the RAF in the War, was typical. It has been some years since I attended a Sabbath service, which invariably takes place against the hum of gossip (and the occasional SSSSH!), but once you have passed through security and sat through the Torah reading, there is always a prayer for the Royal family, the only part that is recited in English.

These are the people who have been betrayed by Britain. The awful truth is that successive governments have preferred to placate the country’s most bigoted minorities rather than protect its most patriotic ones. Can nobody draw a line between the jihadis of Hamas and those who blew up the Manchester Arena and the Tube, or who stabbed people on London Bridge? Does nobody draw the obvious conclusion when the statue of Winston Churchill is defaced by Gaza thugs, or when they attack RAF Brize Norton? Did the Prime Minister, who expended far more energy criticising Israel during the war than condemning Hamas, not understand that he was emboldening the enemy?

Truly, Britain has been fanning the flames with one hand and funding more fire extinguishers with the other. In addition to Israeli-style security measures, we need a counter-propaganda campaign to overcome incitement in universities and schools, the NHS, the media and the arts, the Civil Service and even Parliament. We need to suppress the hate marches, starting with a moratorium, as Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terror legislation, has argued.

We need systemic reform – a dedicated anti-Semitism unit for the CPS, for instance, as former attorney general Michael Ellis has proposed – and we need no-questions-asked deportations of foreign nationals who offend. We need an end to uncontrolled immigration, both legal and illegal, a robust programme of assimilation, and careful measures to suppress extremist entryism. We need to crack down on dodgy charities. We need to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, the Revolutionary Guards and other terror groups, and a revolution in education that restores our sense of national pride.

But now I’m doing Starmer’s job for him. Don’t get me wrong: it isn’t the Jews who need all this. They may be first in the firing line, but there is a reason they have survived for thousands of years. We’ve got Israel. It is the future of Britain and the West that is the worry.
How Wokeness Came for the Jews By Abe Greenwald
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If you’re looking to stir up mob hatred of a designated enemy, you can’t do better than the Jews. Three years of whiny anti-whiteness made woke into a punchline, but anti-Semitism is serious business. The committed Jew-hater enters an ancient tradition with a long instructional literature and counter-history. There are mentors and potential sympathizers around the globe. Just follow the playbook: Accuse the Jews of blood libel, hidden influence, and ill-begotten gains. Establish them as the motive force behind everything that’s wrong, and don’t let up. You’ll even find fellow travelers on the right.

When the woke replaced whites with the Jews, they were back in business. “White privilege” became “Jewish supremacy”; “white fragility” was dropped for the supposed Jewish hypervigilance over anti-Semitism and intolerance for criticism of Israel.

Jews, unlike whites, are associated with an ideology and political movement of their own: Zionism. That makes things a lot easier for the woke. They can attack Zionism—already mischaracterized and demonized for ages—as one of history’s great evils. And they can, when they even bother, hide behind anti-Zionism to disguise their Jew-hatred.

This all began way before Israel launched its ground invasion into Gaza. But once that happened, the anti-Jewish campaign exploded. Now there were images (fake or out of context) and reports (false or slanted) to bolster the grisly accusations. On campuses, at rallies, and on social media, the woke jihad produced leaders and spokespeople. The Biden administration and the Democrats began to pay them heed.

Eventually, the woke jihad threw up political contenders. New York’s sitting mayor was the first to reach office. Now there’s Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed running for the Senate and Graham Platner (complete with a giant Nazi tattoo) doing the same in Maine.

And just as the liberal Democrats once took up the woke cause of anti-whiteness, they’ve now fully accommodated the left’s naked anti-Semitism. The Democratic establishment, along with the liberal commentariat, has come around to endorsing every leftist anti-Semitic candidate or influencer that comes their way.

The war in Gaza has been stalled for months, and the left barely mentions it anymore. But they don’t have to because this was never about Palestinians or liberation. It was about siccing the mob on the Jews, once again, and turning Jew-hatred into political power. You don’t need Gaza when you can talk about the dark hand of AIPAC, the immorality of U.S. aid to Israel, and Benjamin Netanyahu dragging us into war. The new woke and their establishment enablers have an array of anti-Jewish lies to choose from. Believing the wind at their backs, they’re going with all of them at once.
ABC panel discusses Bondi massacre without any mention of Jewish community or radical Islam
Michael Gawenda Outs Australia’s left-liberal media quartet
There was a time when The Age in Melbourne and the Sydney Morning Herald were fine newspapers of record. This was especially the case after the arrival of The Australian as a national newspaper in 1964 – since it put pressure on the (then) broadsheets in Melbourne and Sydney to improve. Both became strong performers in the 1970s and 1980s. But not anymore. Now in tabloid size [Nine Newspapers calls it “compact”, I believe. – MWD Editor] they are essentially expressions of the left (or “liberal” in the North American sense of the term) political point of view.

This was demonstrated in the article on 29 April in The Australian by James Dowling and Stephen Rice titled “Age legend to air left-wing media’s failure on anti-Semitism at Royal Commission”. The reference was to Michael Gawenda.

Michael Gawenda was a man of the moderate left – until anti-Semitism became an increasing reality in Australia. A former contributor to leftist The Digger magazine, he became, in time, editor of the left-of-centre Melbourne Age.

As The Australian revealed last Wednesday, Michael Gawenda has provided a submission to the Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion. In it he has identified Australia’s influential left-liberal media quartet. Namely, in alphabetical order, the ABC, The Age, The Guardian Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Reflecting on the fact that the anti-Semitism spike in Australia occurred after Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, Gawenda had this to say:
I think the left liberal media – the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC, the Guardian – have basically not done the sort of job that I would expect mainstream media organisations to do. They have minimised in their commentary the effect on Jews of what is clearly an increase in antisemitism. They have favoured minority Jewish organisations and used them as if they represent some sort of mainstream Jewish opinion. That media was shocking in its treatment of the antisemitism envoy’s [Jillian Segal] report. So I think they’ve done a ­terrible job. I think it’s got to do with the fact that journalists see themselves now, not as reporters, but as social activists wanting to change the world rather than report the world.

And so, it has come to pass that Michael Gawenda, a one-time successful Age editor, cannot get published in the newspaper he once edited on account of his support for Israel’s right to exist within secure borders and outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism in Australia. Can You Bear It?


Seth Mandel: Stop Talking and Start Acting, Starmer
In his speech announcing, for the millionth time, that he’s had it with anti-Semitism, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the following:
“We will strengthen the visible police presence in our Jewish communities. We will increase our investment in those Jewish Security Services. We will introduce much stronger powers to shut down charities that promote antisemitic extremism. We will prevent hate preachers from entering our country, bar them from our campuses, our streets, our communities. Work with our justice system to speed up sentences on antisemitic attacks so there is a stronger deterrence factor as we do with riots.

“And we need stronger powers to tackle the malign threat posed by states like Iran because we know for a fact that they want to harm British Jews which is why we will fast-track the necessary legislation. And yet the truth is while we can and we will bring the full power of the state to bear on this, this is about society every bit as much as it is about security. At moments like this we often say this is not Britain, that these attacks are an afront to British values, to British tolerance, British decency, but they keep happening.”

Stronger powers to fight the Iran threat?

Listen, prime minister, if you’re interested in joining the coalition against Iran, just say the word. Because last I checked most of the work was being done by the United States military and the IDF, plus some Gulf Arab states. And while Britain has certainly contributed here and there to the general anti-Iran fight since October 7, if the UK is constrained from doing more because it doesn’t have certain powers, it would surprise me greatly.

What I took from Starmer’s remarks today was that the UK is doing everything in its power. This is the best it can do, for now. Maybe Parliament can change that, but a London in which terror attacks against Jews is a daily concern is Keir Starmer’s government at the height of its power.

Who is supposed to believe that? Thank God Keir Starmer wasn’t prime minister during World War II.
Melanie Phillips: The Palestinian laundromat
Horrifyingly, anti-Zionism and antisemitism have become so deeply ingrained in the West as an unchallenged narrative presenting Israel as the fount of all evil that they’ve developed into a belief system that defines an individual’s moral identity.

This has been made possible through the decades-long erosion of the West’s historic culture and the moral precepts on which it was constructed. That cultural attrition has replaced objective truth by feelings and emotion, with morality being reframed as “anything that offends me.”

The values of the Western nation, which have been deemed illegitimate because of colonialism, oppression and “whiteness,” are said to be superseded by universal laws and transnational institutions such as the United Nations, human-rights law, the international courts and the big NGOs, such as Amnesty International or Save the Children.

However, because such transnational bodies are dominated by dictatorships and fanatical Islamic regimes that hate Jews and Judaism alongside their left-wing Western acolytes, this entire humanitarian infrastructure has been fashioned into a weapon against the existence of Israel.

For the post-religious West, though, this infrastructure is assumed to embody the ideal of the brotherhood of man. It’s therefore become a kind of priesthood administering the secular religion of human rights.

The shocking outcome, therefore, is that the West has framed antisemitism and anti-Zionism as conscience itself. Western conscience has thus been enlisted in the service of evil.

Small wonder that Jews and all decent people feel as if they’re now inhabiting a looking-glass world where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor have all been reversed.

With the Western mind already spinning crazily from the onslaught on truth and core biblical values, the Palestine cause has delivered a definitive blow to its moral compass.

Diaspora Jews won’t be safe—and nor will anyone else—unless the West disentangles itself from this morass and returns to the core values of the civilization that it has so tragically tossed aside.
Golders Green exposes the lethal incompetence of Prevent
What all these terrorists have in common is they are Islamists. Prevent is astonishingly ill-equipped and even reticent to tackle Islamist extremism. This was highlighted by the 2023 Shawcross Review, which found that a mere 16 per cent of cases referred to Prevent in the year ending March 2022 were related to Islamist radicalisation. Given that Islamism is the focus of 75 per cent of ongoing counter-terror investigations in the UK, something is clearly going wrong here. Shawcross cites a ‘lack of training’ as well as a ‘culture of timidity among practitioners’ when it comes to tackling extremism of an Islamist nature. Apparently, even using the word ‘Islamist’ was a no-no among both funded and non-funded Prevent staff, who feared it would ‘act as a barrier to engagement with communities’.

Indeed, Islamism-related referrals to Prevent dropped a huge 72 per cent between 2017 and 2022. During that same period, far-right referrals began to take precedence. According to the government’s Standards and Compliance Unit Annual Report: 2024 to 2025, training reportedly involved ‘a disproportionate focus on extreme right wing in comparison to Islamist extremism, and excessive focus on wider influences and ideologies which do not reflect the predominant terrorist threat’. These ‘wider influences and ideologies’ were revealed to be socialism, anti-abortion, Brexit, gender-critical views, and those who rejected vaccinations.

Apparently, the enjoyment of certain authors was also a red flag for Prevent, with the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Lewis and Tolkien being indicative of potential far-right affiliations. The supposedly corrupting influence of TV shows like The Thick of It and Great British Railway Journeys was also noted – because nothing screams ‘fascist’ more than watching the flamboyantly-trousered Michael Portillo enthuse about steam trains.

Unless we arrive at some honesty about where the majority of terror threats within the UK are coming from, Suleiman will not be the last to give Prevent the slip. Unless Prevent starts taking Islamic extremism more seriously, then it will not prevent much of anything.
The Muslim antisemitism debate Britain keeps avoiding
As the carcasses of four burned-out Hatzolah ambulances smouldered in the background, last month, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “We have to deal with this hatred at its source. We have to confront and beat the evil ideas that are permeating our society.”

Ministers took a similar line after Wednesday’s alleged attempt by a 45-year-old Somali man to stab two Jews to death in Golders Green. “We need to stamp out this growing tolerance of violence and antisemitism in our country” said Chris Ward, the Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary. It was “an absolute poison that we need to root out.”

Inching his cautious way towards identifying the source of that poison, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley named “….the Iranian state terrorist groups, extreme right and extreme left racists.”

It was left to the plainer-speaking Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation Jonathan Hall KC to identify the one “interesting omission” by Rowley.

To rip this poison from its ideological roots, said Hall, would require “parts of the Muslim community “ to be “addressed. It is something of huge concern.”

This is the one source of the exponential rise in antisemitism about which ministers have had little to say about since 7 October.

Nor mainstream broadcasters, I observe, partly to avoid the world of pain for programme makers that highlighting Muslim sourced antisemitism inevitably provokes; and partly because the principal focus of broadcast media has been on the proximate cause of the rise – and understandably so: the reported 72,000 Gazan deaths and bomb damage so extensive normal life has collapsed.

The root cause of the revival of antisemitism here in the UK is the permissive environment in which the febrile politics of the Middle East have become embedded in activism and pro-Palestinian institutions here, several of them Hamas aligned, these past three decades.

As Hall also says, confronting this in all its forms means “politicians will need to step in and start basically risking a degree of unpopularity through what they say.”

And how!
‘He could have taken my life’: Golders Green victim speaks from hospital after attack
One of the victims of the Golders Green stabbing has described the moment he was attacked as he walked through the street, saying he did not realise he had been stabbed until he ran for safety.

Shlomie Rand, 34, spoke while recovering in hospital following Wednesday’s knife attack in north-west London, in which two Jewish men were injured.

A 45-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after police said he allegedly ran through the area armed with a knife before being detained and tasered.

Speaking to Sky News by phone from the hospital, Rand said he was walking normally through the area and speaking on the phone when the attacker suddenly came towards him.

“I was walking in the street, regular, comfortable, I was on the phone,” he said.

“This fellow came towards me, running towards me, and he just stabbed me in my chest.”

Rand said he managed to turn and escape after the attack.

“I turned back, and I managed to escape, so it was only one stab,” he said.

“Thank God. He could have taken my life, but thank God I’m here. I had a major miracle.”

Rand said he had no warning before the assault took place.

“I didn’t know at that moment that I was stabbed,” he said.

“I ran to take shelter. That’s when I noticed that I was bleeding.”

Rand said he suffered a stab wound to the chest, which affected his lungs.

“I was stabbed in my chest. It touched my lungs,” he said.
History of violence against Jews, police: What we know about Golders Green attacker
On Friday, Suleiman, 45, was charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a bladed article in a public place.

Suleiman was also charged with attempted murder in relation to a separate incident on the same date. On the morning of the Golders Green attack, police were called to an incident at an address in Great Dover Street, where Suleiman had attempted to murder his friend, Ishmail Hussein, at his home. Hussein received minor injuries.

In court on Friday, it was revealed that Suleiman was living in supported accommodation for people discharged from a secure hospital. South London and Maudsley NHS Trust then confirmed that Suleiman was under the care of their mental health services until the start of this week.

It was also revealed that Suleiman had been reported to the UK government's anti-extremism program, Prevent, in 2020; however, the case was later closed.

Suleiman's history of violence against Jews, police
However, an investigation by Campaign Against Antisemitism and confirmed by The Jerusalem Post reveals a long history of violence.

In December 2008, Suleiman was jailed for 9 years for stabbing two policemen and a police German Shepherd dog.

During the sentencing hearing, the court was told that Suleiman had previous convictions for assaults on police officers.

Judge Douglas Field told Suleiman, “You were responsible for three episodes of grave violence. The first happened in the flat in which you were staying, and you attacked someone who was living there, running at him with a knife raised above your head, then proceeded to assault him to his face and his head. He must have been terrified.

“The police were then called. You pulled out a knife, and you attacked [the officer], firstly attacking the dog. Another police officer intervened, and you maintained the ferocity of your attack. They tried using a Taser on you to no effect."

The first policeman was stabbed several times in the head, face, and leg, and the dog was stabbed in the chest.

At the time of the 2008 attack, Suleiman was working as a security guard at a Swindon primary school.

CAA also received reports that Suleiman had gone in the past to vigils held for the hostages formerly held by Hamas in Gaza, where he was verbally and physically abusive towards Jews, resulting in him being reported to the police.
Golders Green: the horror of Islamist anti-Semitism | spiked podcast
Andrew Gold, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Britain’s anti-Semitism crisis, the small-boats crime wave.


Jonathan Sacerdoti: Anti Jewish violence in the UK has risen, and the government has increased the terror threat level
Jonathan Sacerdoti discusses the latest news regarding antisemitism in the UK, and recent terrorist attacks.


Jonathan Sacerdoti drops some truth bombs on The Jeremy Vine Show, discussing Jew hate and Israel
I was invited to discuss Jew hatred and attacks on Jews on Chanel 5’s Jeremy Vine Show. One of the other guests was Marina Purkiss, whose extraordinary blend of ignorance and arrogance perfectly illustrated the very point I was making about warped and twisted coverage of Israel contributing to the climate of hatred and danger in the UK today.




The grim reality behind Keir Starmer’s speech on antisemitism
He says antisemitism will not be tolerated, but it already has been.

“Antisemitism will not be tolerated.” It is a powerful line, it is also one that collides directly with reality. Because antisemitism has been tolerated, not in rhetoric, but in practice.

It has been tolerated when intimidation was reframed as activism, when escalation was dismissed as exaggeration, when those raising concerns were told they were overreacting.

Tolerance is not just what you endorse, it is what you allow to continue and for nearly three years, too much has been allowed to continue.

He understands the ideology, so why leave its infrastructure intact?

If yesterday’s speech shows anything, it is that the Prime Minister understands that this problem is not random. It is ideological, organised and sustained.

So why has so little been done to dismantle the infrastructure that sustains it?

Why is the Muslim Brotherhood still not banned? Why does Al Jazeera continue to operate freely despite repeated concerns about the narratives it amplifies? Why do hate preachers, many of them well known, continue to find platforms with limited consequence?

You cannot say you are tackling the outcome while refusing to confront the ecosystem that produces it. That is not a strategy, it is avoidance.

He speaks of extremism, so why reward it with recognition?

The government’s approach to recognising Palestine reveals the same contradiction. If extremist ideology is, as he now acknowledges, a driver of antisemitism, then why extend recognition without conditions?

Why was there no insistence on the return of hostages, the removal of Hamas from power, a clear rejection of terror, before such a unilateral recognition?

To act without those conditions is not neutrality, it is a signal; and signals shape behaviour, particularly among those who test the limits of what they believe they can get away with.

This was never about not knowing. What yesterday’s speech made unmistakably clear is that this was never a failure of understanding. He knows where the threat comes from. He knows how it manifests. He knows what it looks like on Britain’s streets.

Which leaves only one conclusion, he chose not to act. Because every single factor he identified today was visible long before today. Every one was raised, repeatedly, by the Jewish community. Every one presented an opportunity to intervene and every one was, in practice, allowed to continue.

So when Keir Starmer stands at a podium and explains the forces driving antisemitism in Britain, he is not offering new insight. He is confirming prior knowledge and once that is clear, the judgment becomes unavoidable.

History will remember him not for the words he finally found, but for the time he did nothing while his country’s Jews were warning, pleading, and suffering.

In the end, it will not be his critics who condemn him, it will be his own words and those words were finally spoken yesterday.


Polanski is an extremist, says Israel
Zack Polanski is an “extremist”, the Israeli government has said.

The Green Party leader was accused by Sharren Haskel, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, of fuelling anti-Semitism in Britain over his response to the latest attack in Golders Green, north London.

Mr Polanski was criticised after he shared a post by another user on X about police officers kicking a suspect, who was lying on the ground after being tasered. It followed the stabbings of two Jewish men on Wednesday.

He also accused his political opponents of using anti-Semitism as a “political football” and said pro-Palestinian protests must be allowed to proceed in the coming weeks.

Mr Polanski apologised more than 24 hours after sharing the post, which Ms Haskel said was “too little too late”.

Asked if she agreed with an Israeli embassy source who had described Mr Polanski as an “extremist”, she said: “It is as simple as that. Him and his party are continuing this path of conspiracy theories and hatred towards Jews and towards the Jewish community and towards British Jewish citizens.”

The Greens are on course to gain hundreds of seats at the local elections on Thursday, but have faced accusations of exploiting anti-Israel sentiment to win votes in majority-Muslim areas.

Mr Polanski was criticised for his response to the Golders Green attack, including by Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Police Commissioner, and members of his own party.

On Friday afternoon, the party leader apologised, saying: “Everyone in leadership has a responsibility for lowering the temperature at a time of such tension, and I apologise for sharing a tweet in haste.

“Police responses to emergency situations such as these do need later reflection in the right forums, but I accept that social media is not the appropriate channel for doing so. I have invited Mark Rowley to meet with me to discuss the police response and the wider issues raised in his letter.”

However, Ms Haskel said: “Sometimes an apology is too little, too late, especially when it comes to Polanski. When you choose to legitimise violence against Jews, you don’t just make a mistake – you cross a moral line that should never be crossed.

“It normalises hatred, emboldens others, and corrodes the standards that hold a society together. And once that line is breached, it cannot simply be undone with a few words of regret: you risk spending the rest of your life apologising for it.”
‘Disgraceful” Polanski sorry for sharing post about Golders Green police officers
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has apologised for “sharing a tweet in haste” which had accused police officers of violently kicking the Golders Green stabbing suspect in the head after he had been incapacitated.

Mr Polanski on Friday faced criticism from the chief of the Met Police for reposting another user’s social media post.

The original post on X had accused the officers of “repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head” when he was already incapacitated from being tasered.

Sir Mark Rowley said in a letter to the Green leader he was “disappointed”, adding the post was “inaccurate and misinformed”.

Sir Keir Starmer branded Mr Polanski “disgraceful” and “not fit to lead any political party” for reposting the criticism of police officers.

The Green Party initially said its leader “doesn’t know the full picture and knows it was a very difficult situation for the authorities”, in response to the letter from the Met commissioner.

In a statement released on Friday afternoon, Mr Polanski went further and offered his apologies.

He said: “Everyone in leadership has a responsibility for lowering the temperature at a time of such tension, and I apologise for sharing a tweet in haste.

“Police responses to emergency situations such as these do need later reflection in the right forums, but I accept that social media is not the appropriate channel for doing so.

“I have invited Mark Rowley to meet with me to discuss the police response and the wider issues raised in his letter.”


Islamism, not the cost-of-living, is the root of this anti-Semitic violence
Basically, Millward’s response can be summarised as: supermarket prices and Nigel Farage are the reasons why Jews are being stabbed in London.

It isn’t hard to understand why Millward gave such a tortured and dishonest answer. Just hours before Question Time went to air, two Green Party candidates standing in next week’s council elections were arrested by Metropolitan Police officers on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred. It probably goes without saying that Saiqa Ali (a Muslim woman) and Sabine Mairey were not charged under Section 19 of the Public Order Act because they had posted inflammatory pictures of their latest receipt from Sainsbury’s. They were arrested for allegedly sharing anti-Semitic content.

Of course, Millward would have been in a bind even without these untimely arrests. Since the Green Party’s Islamo-leftist turn, there was never any chance that someone from the leadership would say anything critical of Islam, or even Islamic extremism.

Everyone with a pulse knows where the ‘racial hatred’ against Jews is coming from. A party awash with Islamist-inspired Jew hatred is never going to acknowledge this.


Migrant convicted of attempted terror attack on Israeli embassy in London in 2025
Abdullah Sabah Albadri, a 34-year-old homeless migrant, was convicted of an attempted terror attack on the Israeli embassy in London on April 28, 2025, the Metropolitan Police Service said on Friday.

“Albadri wanted to carry out a terrorist attack at the embassy, but thanks to the courageous and swift actions of officers on duty, they prevented him from breaching the security perimeter and stopped what could have been a deadly incident,” stated Helen Flanagan, head of counter terrorism policing in London.

The terrorist, who entered the United Kingdom on a small boat from France some two weeks before the incident, tried to climb over a fence around the embassy with two knives. Detectives found that he “wanted to attack the Israeli embassy as an act of revenge against the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza,” police said.

Met Police shared video footage of two officers pulling Albadri, who wears a red-and-white keffiyeh, off a fence around the embassy.

“Sadly, the embassy has faced various security alerts in recent times,” Flanagan stated. “However, counter terrorism policing works closely with the embassy and our colleagues in the Met to continuously review and strengthen protective security plans to ensure the site and the wider community is kept as safe as possible.”

“Body-worn footage from Albadri’s arrest showed that he told officers he had ‘weapons’ and wanted to ‘make a crime’ inside the embassy,” the Met Police said. “Officers found two knives with red-and-white handles inside his pockets. Albadri also had a martyrdom note on him when he was arrested, which explained that he intended to die, in his words, ‘for the glory of God.’”

Analysis of Albadri’s phone indicated that he researched the Israeli embassy location and that “he had also searched several Arabic terms related to suicide and martyrdom during the five days leading up to his arrest.”


Enough with the whining from Mahmoud Khalil, who needs to be accompanied by the world’s tiniest violin
Mahmoud Khalil wants your sympathy.

A lead organizer of the 2024 anti-Israel tentifada at Columbia University — which included the storming of Hamilton Hall — he is featured in the current issue of New York Magazine with an essay titled, “I Miss My Old Life.“

In it, Khalil delivers a masterclass in self-pity while detailing the state of merely existing in the Big Apple.

It should only be read to the strains of the world’s tiniest violin.

“One year after my abduction by ICE, I still watch my back every day,” he writes.

Khalil, a Syrian national born to Palestinian parents, was a graduate student at Columbia, where he led the school’s Apartheid Divest group, which explicitly called for the “total eradication of Western civilization.”

As part of President Trump’s executive orders “combating antisemitism,” Khalil was arrested by ICE in March 2025 and detained for 104 days. But he was freed last June after, he writes, “an army of lawyers sued the administration.” It was only a temporary win. Earlier this month, an immigration board denied his latest appeal to dismiss his case.

He is also accused of committing fraud on his green card application.

Thanks to New York Magazine, though, Khalil has been able to earn the title of most oppressed man in the free world. Even after all that due process.

In his account, he is both victim and center of the universe. Everyone is looking at him — he just can’t tell if they love him or loathe him.

He whines that he’s “been made into a symbol against my will.”

Khalil’s notoriety has gained him a certain political celebrity. He’s been a guest of our socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion during Ramadan. Admiring baristas quietly slip him free pastries. Even a waitress at Olive Garden “insisted on covering the bill out of her own pocket.” Seems he’s accepted.
Washington State Democratic Party distances itself from May Day rally calling for arms embargo
The Washington State Democratic Party is distancing itself from a May Day rally promoted in a newsletter from party chair Shasti Conrad that calls for an arms embargo in the Middle East, saying the party’s official policy platform has yet to be determined.

In a Thursday email, Conrad highlighted several May Day events, including a Friday rally organized by Seattle May Day that “demands” an arms embargo and an end to U.S. military support for conflicts in the Middle East.

“From Lebanon to the Philippines, from Cuba to Palestine, stop the U.S. war machine. No money for Trump’s war on Iran. Stop sending troops or weapons from JBLM, Bremerton or Whidbey Island. Arms embargo now,” organizers stated on the event website, referencing Joint Base Lewis-McChord and defense manufacturing locations in the state.

Asked whether the call for an arms embargo from state suppliers reflects the policy platform of the state party, Stephen Reed, director of communications for the party, told JNS that “delegates to the Washington Democratic Party State Convention in June will decide our state party’s policy platform as the guiding document for our party and candidates.”

“However, our state party does not have purity tests,” Reed said, noting that “the broader goals of protesting the Trump administration, calling for a more fair tax system and preventing the waste of American lives and resources in wars of choice are all in alignment with our party’s vision.”

“Specific policies, however, will be decided by delegates at our convention,” he reiterated.

With some Democrats in the state facing progressive-left challengers, local Democratic organizations will have to decide who to endorse, not the state party.

“Legislative district and county party organizations may endorse Democratic candidates in alignment with their own bylaws, and operate autonomously from the state party,” Reed told JNS, clarifying that “the state party doesn’t endorse. Additionally, when multiple Democrats are running in the same primary, we stay neutral.”
David Harsanyi: What would it take for Democrats to abandon a progressive candidate?
Listen, everyone makes mistakes, though perhaps something less drastic than permanently inking Nazi imagery on their chest. Platner keeps apologizing for every new comment that pops up, and there will almost certainly be more. What if the man has shown terrible temperament and judgment, little intelligence, and exhibited no perceptible skill that makes them right to serve in the most important deliberative body in the country?

No problem.

A few years back, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dismissed the influence of socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as largely irrelevant, noting that their influence extended to “like, five people.” Well, since that time, Democrats have abetted the rise of the unhinged Left at every turn, from communists to cultural wackos, and those preaching revolutionary violence. The Democratic Party has become such a big tent these days that unapologetic terror-shilling communist Hasan Piker, who tells his millions of followers to “soak the streets in capitalist blood,” has been invited into the movement by popular personalities on the mainstream Left such as Ezra Klein and Jon Favreau. Unsurprising coming from fans of Zohran Mamdani, a devotee of “globalizing the intifada” or, rather, the global violent targeting of Jews. These positions, it seems, only lift your stock on the contemporary Left. Ocasio-Cortez is quickly becoming a centrist in her party.

At this point, what could a progressive say to be shunned by Democrats? What sin could precipitate the party abandoning a candidate? It’s difficult to think of anything. And please, don’t bring up former California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell, who is now dealing with multiple accusations of sexual assault and rape. Democrats lose nothing by abandoning a primary candidate in a deep-blue state.

Come to think of it, the only offense that could conceivably turn the progressive Left against you is openly supporting Israel, as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has found out. Otherwise, you’re good.


Jewish Dem groups keeping distance from Maine candidate with Nazi tattoo
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president last cycle, opted to fly to Maine to stump for Graham Platner, an oyster farmer who is running for Senate and who has a Nazi tattoo.

Several members of Congress responded. “Don’t forget to ask him about his Nazi tattoo,” stated Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas). “Can you let him know there’s ways to remove the Nazi tattoos from his chest?” asked Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.).

“In case it wasn’t clear before why Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro. This is who they are,” the Republican Jewish Coalition stated.

The RJC also responded to a post from a host of Pod Save America, who used to be a speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, referring to Platner as “a good, decent man who’s struggled and grown and is always trying to do better.”

“A ‘decent man who’s struggled,’ huh?” it wrote. “Maybe Graham Platner should write a book about ‘his struggle’ in German to match his Nazi tattoo.”

AIPAC also weighed in. “‘Struggled’? That’s the word you’re going with for Platner?” it stated. “You want a candidate who had a Nazi tattoo for 18 years, and now singles out pro-Israel Americans, talking about ‘My Struggle?’” (Hitler’s book title, Mein Kampf, means “my struggle.”)

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said on Thursday of Platner that “people should have second chances.” But Jewish Democratic organizations don’t appear to be ready to give him a chance.

Democratic Majority for Israel’s PAC lists no Maine endorsements, and Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, stated recently that “we won’t support a Democrat who doesn’t represent the views and values of the vast majority of American Jews.”


Democratic Fundraiser Threatens Free Beacon for Noticing Veterans Day Tribute to Grandfather Who Fought for Hitler
Kelly Neumann, a Michigan trial attorney and Democratic fundraiser, has threatened the Washington Free Beacon with "legal action" unless we retract our story about her Veterans Day Facebook post honoring her grandfather who served "on the German side" in World War II.

The Free Beacon and others reported in January that Neumann, who has ties to prominent Michigan Democrats and co-chairs the finance committee on U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow's campaign, had posted a bizarre message on her Facebook account in November 2024. McMorrow's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

"Happy Veterans Day to all my family and friends who serve/served!" Neumann's post read. "Interesting story, I do not talk much about but my Grandfather, Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII. He escaped to Brazil with my father after Germany lost..."

The post included several photos of the Nazi soldier in his Wehrmacht uniform. Neumann recalled that her grandfather was one of the first people to accept her as gay, which proved that "people can change and love can indeed win." Neumann appears to have deleted the post shortly after the Free Beacon published our story. In the interest of full transparency, we have included a screenshot below.

Last week, the Free Beacon received a letter from Neumann's attorney demanding a "formal retraction" of the "false and defamatory" statement in the article. The letter was signed by Eugenie B. Eardley, another Michigan trial attorney who describes herself as the "First Lady of Law." She even has her own catch phrase—"seriously serious about the law"—which is ironic given the profound unseriousness of the threatening letter she wrote on Neumann's behalf.
Green Party councillor: ‘Supremacist Jews find antisemitism everywhere’
The Green Party is believed to be investigating comments made by a councillor who responded to social media posts from the Chief Rabbi by saying “It would help Jews to be happy if supremacist Jews stopped finding antisemitism everywhere”, and said that “we can’t ignore the factors giving rise” to an arson attack on a synagogue.

Councillor Kevin McKeon, who is set to become mayor of the town of Horwich this summer, joined the Green Party in February, with the Bolton Green Party saying it was “delighted to welcome” him. McKeon left the Labour party in October 2024, due to what he described as “disgust at the support the Labour government was giving to Israel in its genocidal policies.”

Two weeks ago, in response to a Facebook post from Chief Rabbi Mirvis about the attempted firebombing of Kenton United Synagogue two weeks ago, McKeon responded: “Of course attacks on Jewish buildings are unacceptable and we must oppose antisemitism but we can’t ignore the factors giving rise to these things. Jews in the UK must disassociate themselves from the genocidal state of Israel.”

In response to an article posted by Chief Rabbi Mirvis on Facebook in late 2025 with the headline “Jews do have a long-term future in the UK, but more must be done to protect the community”, Cllr McKeon said: “It would help Jews to be happy if supremacist Jews stopped finding antisemitism everywhere. Groups like the Campaign Against Antisemitism do the Jewish community no good by accusing critics of Israel of antisemitism. Nobody takes any notice now.”
Green candidate called Jewish people cockroaches as depth of party’s anti-Semitism problem revealed
The arrest of two Green Party candidates over anti-Semitism allegations is “just the tip of the iceberg”, opponents have claimed.

Saiqa Ali and Sabine Mairey, who are both standing for the party in central London, were detained by Met Police officers on Thursday morning.

But The Telegraph can reveal almost 20 Green candidates at next week’s local elections have posted offensive material, with anti-Israel sentiment running deep in the party under Zack Polanski, its leader.

They include one who referred to Jewish people as “cockroaches”, while others expressed support for Palestine Action, a banned terror group.

Kevin Hollinrake, the Tory chairman, said: “These arrests appear to be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to anti-Semitism in the Green Party.

“Zack Polanski needs to step up and start taking action against those in his party who are openly promoting the oldest form of racism: anti-Semitism.”

A Green Party spokesman said: “We are investigating anything brought to our attention that doesn’t fit with Green Party values and views.”

Mothin Ali, the party’s deputy leader, has previously caused controversy by suggesting Hamas were “indigenous people defending themselves” on Oct 7.

Raja Ateeq, who is standing in the Rushall-Shelfield ward in Walsall, posted on social media in December 2023, referring to “Jewish cockroaches”.

When the post was highlighted by the Jewish News, a Green spokesman said: “Mr Ateeq has removed the tweet and recognises that it was wrong to have posted it.”
Aspire candidate Abul Monsur suspended following anti-semitic posts and Holocaust denial comments
Abul Monsur has been suspended from the Aspire Party following posts on Facebook, in which he expressed apparent approval for Adolf Hitler – but his name will still appear on the ballot papers in the upcoming local elections.

Tower Hamlets Council’s ruling Aspire Party has suspended one of its candidates, who is standing in next week’s local election, over anti-semitic social media posts.

Facebook posts by Abul Monsur – an Aspire candidate in Lansbury ward, Poplar – included Holocaust denial and apparent approval of Adolf Hitler.

Monsur said Aspire had suspended him after the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) contacted him and the party about the posts. He said he was ‘deeply sorry for these social media posts and ashamed of them’.

Aspire said it was not aware of the posts when it chose Monsur as a candidate and is ‘reviewing how we can improve social media checks’.

Monsur published a string of antisemitic posts to his Facebook page throughout 2025. These included posts that appeared to doubt the existence of the Holocaust.

On 30th May 2025, Monsur posted an image of a ‘Zionist victim card’ in which the word ‘Holocaust’ was crossed out and replaced with ‘Holohoax’.

A post on 1st May also asserted that ‘there is NO mention of a ‘Holocaust’ in papers written after WW2 by Churchill, Eisenhower, and De Gaulle’. It also referred to ‘Jews gaining control of the media’.
Anti-Israel Hadid Sister Lip-Syncs About Wanting To ‘Torture and Kill’ People, Turn Them Into ‘Fertilizer’
Anti-Israel activist Alana Hadid, the lesser-known sister of celebrity models Bella and Gigi Hadid, posted a video on social media of her lip-syncing to a song about wanting to "torture and kill" people and turn them into "fertilizer."

Hadid posted a video of herself flinging handfuls of dirt in a garden, wearing a necklace that shows Palestine "from the River to the Sea," and lip-syncing to the song "Fertilizer" by Peachkka—a rapper and "clairaudient and claircognizant intuitive reader and artist"—on Instagram Wednesday.

"There is only one more option for these disgusting individuals: fertilizer," the song goes. "Unpopular opinion, I think they should die if they f— with the children. I think we should take them out to the center of town and torture and kill them."

"I think we should make them suffer, make them eat their s— for supper," she lip-synced. "I want to see them squirm on stage and make them scream out for their mother, send them back to the earth, back to the dirt. That's all that they're worth."

Hadid captioned her post "Best song to Garden to." A text overlay on the video read, "Come Gardening With Me. Volume Up Please." While lip-syncing, she put on a t-shirt reading, "Life is Better With Empathy."

A representative for Hadid did not respond to a request for comment.

Hadid did not mention Israel or Gaza in the post, but she has made a name for herself as an anti-Israel activist who has falsely accused the Jewish state of committing a "genocide" in Gaza and has spread conspiracy theories about Israel.

Hadid has also falsely accused Israel of forcibly sterilizing Ethiopian Jews who immigrated to the country.


New hate- crime charges against rioters who disrupted pro-Israel event in Toronto
The Toronto Police Service said on Friday that it has brought new hate crime and riot charges against some of the six people, whom it arrested on Nov. 5, 2025, after rioters disrupted a private, pro-Israel event.

“The new charges include ‘public incitement of hatred’ and ‘take part in a riot while masked,’” stated Myron Demkiw, chief of the Toronto Police Service.

“This is an example of what we mean when we say our investigations continue and that charges can be laid well after an incident,” the chief stated. “Since Oct. 7, 2023, the Toronto Police Service have made over 517 arrests and laid over 1,275 charges in connection with demonstrations, protests and hate‑motivated offenses, and our members continue to enforce the laws every day.”

Toronto police officers arrested six people in connection with the disruption of the private event in 2025. The rioters are accused of forcing their way into a building, damaging property and entering an area where event attendees were gathered. “Teir actions caused those in attendance to fear for their safety,” the police department said. “One individual sustained injuries from broken glass during the forced entry,”

“During the arrest process, some of the accused obstructed officers, and one individual assaulted an officer while attempting to prevent an arrest,” the department said.


NY Jewish leaders call for probe after Jew-hatred at food coop meeting
The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York is calling on the New York State Division of Human Rights and the New York City Commission on Human Rights to take action after reports of a Thursday meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop about a boycott of Israeli goods in which members applauded when someone compared Jews to Nazis and said that “Jewish supremacism is a problem in this country.”

The New York Post, which obtained a recording of the meeting, reported that a member of the Brooklyn-based health food store told fellow members that “applauding a speech that labels Jews as supremacists is not principled. It is wrong.”

“This inflammatory rhetoric does not emerge in a vacuum,” stated Mark Treyger, CEO of the JCRC. “It is the predictable result of a sustained disinformation and demonization campaign advanced by some coop members under the pretext of legitimate criticism of Israel.”

“It is textbook antisemitism,” he added. “Jewish members of the coop should not be demeaned, targeted, made to feel unsafe or subjected to collective blame because of disagreements over Middle East policy.”

The New York and New Jersey office of the Anti-Defamation League stated that “we are appalled that a Park Slope Food Coop meeting this week allegedly platformed blatantly antisemitic tropes and allowed the declaration that ‘Jewish supremacism is a problem in this country’ to go unchallenged by the moderators.”

“It shouldn’t be hard to use good speech to combat all identity-based hate,” the ADL said.


WaPo Reporter, Al Jazeera Alumna Notorious for Error-Riddled Anti-Israel Reports Is Laid Off
A Washington Post reporter known for writing error-ridden anti-Israel stories has officially left the paper after announcing that she had been laid off in February.

Louisa Loveluck, a former Al Jazeera correspondent who most recently wrote for the Post from London, posted a note on X marking "Termination day."

"A lay-off is a funny thing," Loveluck wrote. "10 years of your life and then someone just cuts the bungee cord, without a thank you, goodbye, or even a chance to bid farewell to the constellation of colleagues who inhabited your world all that time. I'm grateful for all the opportunities the Washington Post gave me, and for the friends I made along the way. Onwards."

Loveluck, one of many Al Jazeera veterans who populated the Post's foreign desk, has a long and documented history of publishing false information that portrays Israel in a negative light and Hamas in a positive one. In August, Loveluck wrote a story headlined, "Palestinians mourn Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, crew in Gaza," who had been killed in a targeted Israeli strike. The Israel Defense Forces, though, discovered documents that identified the Al Jazeera "journalist" as a leader in a Hamas rocket-launching squad and a member of the commando unit behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

Loveluck was one of four reporters on a story from last June that accused Israel of killing "over 30" Gazans near a U.S. aid site without making clear that the claim came from Hamas and without giving equal weight to claims from Israeli officials. After changing the story without affixing a correction note to its website, the Post eventually released a statement saying that Loveluck's story "fell short of Post standards of fairness and should not have been published in that form."

The former London correspondent made headlines for delivering an anti-Israel diatribe to the Post newsroom after her reporting team was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for reporting on the Israel-Hamas war.

"Two million civilians are trapped there through no fault of their own," Loveluck said of Gaza. "The life they lead there is a nightmare. The level of suffering is so grave that we have often struggled to find the words."

Jewish Insider reported that several colleagues took issue with the fact that Loveluck omitted Hamas and the terror group's Israeli hostages in her remarks.




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