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Friday, May 08, 2026

05/07 Links Pt2: Boulder firebomber sentenced to life plus 2,128 years for murder; Israel’s Creation: The Ultimate ‘Decolonisation’ Project; From ‘Punch a Nazi’ to nominate one

From Ian:

Douglas Murray: The obvious truth about anti-Semitism
It is the same with the Prime Minister and MPs who have spent the past week saying that we need to tackle ‘hate’ and ‘extremism’. But what hate? And what extremism? Might the government ban the various Iranian proxies which seem to be behind this recent spate of attacks in Britain? Or are we to tackle all hate? And after we have tackled all hate what shall we move on to next? Gluttony? Avarice?

Ask people to get specific on these questions and almost everybody in any position of power melts away. Last week a member of the audience on the BBC’s Question Time asked the Green party’s deputy leader Rachel Millward to specify where the ‘hatred’ she mentioned is coming from. Millward assumed that look people assume when they know the truth but cannot speak it. She pretended to find the question imponderable before finally saying that the two men who were attacked in Golders Green were the victims of our ‘cost-of-living crisis’, ‘rip-off Britain’ and more. Which is strange, because our ancestors went through far worse economic times and I do not remember stabbing religiously identifiable Jews being one inevitable consequence.

Perhaps Millward, like her party’s leader, Zack Polanski, is hampered by a certain voting demographic and by people in the party? After all, the Greens’ other deputy leader is Mothin Ali, who appeared to celebrate the attacks of 7 October. On the day that Israeli citizens were raped, murdered and abducted from their homes, he tweeted: ‘White supremacist European settler colonialism must end!’ He also seemed to defend the slaughter of men, women and children by Hamas as being the right of ‘indigenous people to fight back’. On winning the subsequent local elections in Leeds he dedicated his win to ‘the people of Gaza’ and finished his victory speech with the trad-itional electoral cry of ‘Allahu Akbar’.

It is easy enough to point to Polanski’s Green party as being a special hotbed of anti-Semitism. Two of their candidates were actually arrested by the police for alleged anti-Semitism in the week of the Golders Green attack. But the problem isn’t with the Greens. It is with Britain as a whole.

I have said for too many years now that Britain is pursuing several things that make no sense. One is the pretence that turning a pretty homogenous society into a ‘multicultural society’ has no downsides: that it is a blessing and that – all together now – ‘diversity is our strength’. Whereas the fact is that if you import a lot of people who bring a backwards worldview into your country then at some stage diversity actually becomes your greatest weakness – especially if you go on pretending that even identifying the sources of contemporary anti-Semitism constitutes a different form of ‘hate’, ‘bigotry’ or even ‘racism’. Several British Muslims have admitted in recent years that anti-Semitism in Britain’s Muslim communities is ‘rife and commonplace’. We know that only a quarter of British Muslims believe Hamas carried out any rapes or murders on 7 October.

There are some very simple answers to all this. And we don’t need another ‘conversation’ in order to arrive at them.
Seth Mandel: A Tale of Two Commencement Addresses
Whenever I see a headline claiming that so-and-so was criticized or canceled for their “pro-Palestinian advocacy,” I usually try to find out what was actually said. In media terms, “pro-Palestinian advocacy” doesn’t mean that the person said “the Palestinians should have self-determination.” Rather, “pro-Palestinian advocacy” inevitably ends up meaning the person said something psychotic about Jews.

And of course, that’s what happened this week.

Rutgers University disinvited its engineering school’s commencement speaker, Rami Elghandour, who is the producer of a revisionist passion play about the Gaza war. I can understand Rami and his fans being disappointed at the cancellation, but you’d be hard-pressed to find them accurately characterizing Rami’s own conduct. Elghandour himself, for example, whined about being canceled for his “advocacy for Palestine.”

What he actually said was: Israel is “running dungeons where they train dogs to sexually assault prisoners.”

In other words, he’s a bit of a lunatic conspiracy theorist who wanted to take his blood libel tour to a college campus. No doubt his speech would have been highly entertaining, as he told a taxpayer-funded university all about “Jewish rape dogs” or whatever he might have said.

The accusations of Jewish sexual deviancy aren’t new, of course—the Hamasniks trying to storm synagogues in New York have taken to emphasizing their belief that Jews are pedophiles. Elghandour fits right in with the activist left and, one imagines, with many in his intended audience. That’s probably part of the reason for Rutgers’s skittishness here: How would it look when a commencement speaker told graduating college students about the importance of destroying the Jewish nation before the Jewish nation gets your kids—and having the crowd applaud in delirious ecstasy?

At the same time, what exactly did Rutgers expect when it invited him? He was on their radar because he’s famous for producing war propaganda. Aren’t they getting precisely what they asked for? You want to invite the sun with no light or heat? You invite the guy who’s famous for calling Jews child-murderers but want him to talk about engineering?
Boulder firebomber sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, 2,128 years for murder and 100 others charges for antisemitic attack
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 46, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and 2,128 years, the maximum available sentence, after pleading guilty on Thursday to first-degree murder and 100 other charges for throwing Molotov cocktails at people rallying, on behalf of Hamas-held hostages, in Boulder, Colo., on June 1, 2025.

Karen Diamond, 82, died from injuries sustained in the attack. Soliman also injured 28 people and yelled “free Palestine” during the assault and expressed intent to kill Zionists.

Michael Dougherty, Boulder County district attorney, said at a press conference on Thursday that “this was an attack on the Jewish community and an act of terror.”

“Today we’ve seen the defendant held fully accountable and fully responsible for the horrific hate crime that he committed and the act of antisemitism he committed after planning it out and taking methodical and intentional steps to harm as many people in the Jewish community as he possibly could here in Boulder,” Dougherty said.

“The defendant is now going to spend the rest of his life in state prison, or federal prison, knowing he destroyed the lives of innocent, wonderful people,” the district attorney said. “And he killed Karen Diamond.”

“As much as this act was brutal and monstrous and horrific, it was also—and hear me loud and clear—cowardly, because you want to come to Boulder County, you want to go to any community and set innocent people on fire, you are truly a coward,” he added. “And we saw that reflected in the statements he made in court today, too.”

Stephen Redfearn, chief of the Boulder Police Department, said at the press conference that he is “very thankful” for the verdict.

“That verdict sent a message, not only to the offender but also to anybody who thinks they can come and harm our community,” he said. “This targeted attack against our Jewish community was unacceptable, and this verdict here today provides some sense of justice.”

“I’ve seen a lot in my career, and this was not my first response to an incident of mass violence,” he said. “But this was one of the most heinous and cowardly crimes that I have ever seen.”
Boulder County gov working with local Jews to commemorate anniversary of fatal attack on pro-Israel rally
The government of Boulder County, in Colorado, is working with representatives of the city’s Jewish community to find ways to mark the one-year anniversary of the June 21 attack against pro-Israel participants in Boulder Run for Their Lives.

The county government is doing so “mark this upcoming anniversary and ensure this tragedy is not forgotten,” it stated.

“Almost a year ago, on June 1, 2025, there was a heinous antisemitic attack on 29 members of the Boulder community during a peaceful gathering in front of the Boulder County Courthouse,” the county government said. “The community members were gathered for the weekly Boulder Run for Their Lives walk, and tragically, Karen Diamond died from her injuries.”

It invited members of the community who want to honor survivors and remember Diamond to come to the Boulder Jewish Festival on June 7.


Roy Altman: Israel’s Creation: The Ultimate ‘Decolonisation’ Project
The claim that Jews are imperialist “colonisers” isn’t new. It emerged from the Victorian-era antisemitism of an influential English journalist and matured in the early Soviet Union, long before the modern state of Israel was founded. As Paul Johnson (1928–2023), the great historian, observed:
The Soviet campaign against the Jews, after 1967 a permanent feature of the system, was itself conducted under the code-name of anti-Zionism, which became a cover for every variety of anti-Semitism. [The] Leninist theory of imperialism, like Marx’s theory of capitalism, had its roots in anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

As Johnson showed, the claim that Jews are “imperialists” predated Vladimir Lenin, leader of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924. Johnson traces the source of this claim to the English writer and journalist J.A. Hobson, who travelled to South Africa to cover the Boer War in 1899. Hobson, as Johnson relates, regarded Jews as “almost devoid of social morality,” and possessing “a superior calculating intellect” that allows them “to take advantage of every weakness, folly and vice of the society in which he lives.”

In his 1900 work, The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Effects, Hobson blamed the conflict (falsely) on “a small group of international financiers, chiefly German in origin and Jewish by race.” Two years later, in 1902, Hobson expanded on this conspiracy theory in Imperialism: A Study, which argued that international finance—directed by Jews—was “the chief force behind colonies and wars.”

In his own book about imperialism—and its supposedly Jewish causes—Lenin wrote that he’d “made use of the principal English work on imperialism, J.A. Hobson’s book, with all the care that, in my opinion, this work deserves.” As Johnson explains, Hobson’s theory that an international oligarchy of Jewish financiers—the “peculiar race,” in Hobson’s words—was behind all European colonialist projects “became the essence of Lenin’s own” view, expressed to great effect in his above-quoted 1916 work, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.
The (Ancient) Historical Case for Israel, with Roy Altman.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with U.S. District Court Judge Roy Altman, whose new book traces Jews’ indigenous presence in the holy land over the last 3,231 years.


From ‘Punch a Nazi’ to nominate one
The ADL, the Jewish Democratic Council of America, and Maine’s only Jewish federation have said publicly that this candidacy worries them. Democrats, even some Jews, endorsed Platner anyway. That contrast is the whole story of progressive Jewish politics in 2026. Some of us still have eyes.

Modern Jewish life in the West has rested on a wager that the great liberal projects would treat Jews as full citizens because they treated everyone as full citizens. The wager has been good. It still is. But it required, on both flanks of the political map, a baseline refusal to flirt with the ideologies as well as the symbols and slogans that have killed us. That baseline is eroding. On the right, it winks at the conspiracy fringe. On the left, in Maine and across the country, in the willingness of senior Democrats to wave through a man whose résumé reads like a content warning.

So what do American Jews do?

Stop pretending. The party of Henry Jackson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Joe Lieberman is being pulled, hard, by a faction that treats Zionism as the world’s original sin. That faction has been organizing patiently for a decade. It is not a fringe. In Maine, it is the nominee. Across America its politicians make life dangerous for Jews and dismiss the consequences.

Organize as Jews, not as partisans. Pro-Israel Democrats must be honest about it on the left, including in the calculations of their Senate leadership. A community that cannot tell the truth about both sides will be useful to neither.

Vote and give accordingly. Susan Collins has earned a serious second look from Jewish Mainers. So has every Democrat in a contested primary willing to say plainly that Platner is not normal.

Zachor, remember, is a commandment, not a mood. The Jewish people are not an interest group. We are a covenant people. Covenants are not negotiated away to keep a coalition together. If the Democratic Party has decided that we are negotiable, our answer should be firm and unmistakable. We are not. We never were. And we will vote, give, organize, and remember accordingly.
From the Right Fringe to the Left Fold By Abe Greenwald
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One can understand why a candid Nazi like Fuentes would have a hard time resisting the pull of today’s Democratic Party. The Democrats have fully embraced Graham Platner, the Senate candidate from Maine who not only has a documented history of Nazi fandom, but also literally wears his affection for the Third Reich on his chest.

Why would Fuentes need to bother with the right anymore? On the left, a Jew-hater doesn’t have to deal with the pushback from high-profile Republicans, conservative scholars, and pundits. In fact, you don’t have to face the biggest challenge that Fuentes has faced up until now: the condemnation of the majority of the American right. If you’re an anti-Semite, the left’s got your back.

A few days ago, the New York Times aired a lengthy interview with Tucker Carlson, in which he got to denounce Trump, praise Platner, and expound on his theories about magical Zionist influence. In fairness to the Times, the interview wasn’t slavering—but it wasn’t exactly prosecutorial either. The point is, where else in the world of institutional journalism would one go to say such things? He wasn’t going to get the opportunity from National Review.

Carlson, for what it’s worth, plans to meet with Platner soon.

Finally, this week, Megyn Kelly said that both she and Carlson might be losing some pro-Trump, pro-Israel “Fox News viewers,” but they’re making up for it among Muslims. And like a good liberal, she made her pitch to them by denouncing Israel-supporters and their “anti-Muslim rhetoric.”

I’m happy to see the right rid itself of its leading anti-Semites. At the same time, this is all an unspeakable tragedy. When William F. Buckley Jr. first cleansed the Republican Party and the right of anti-Jewish kooks, they dispersed to the fringes of American politics. That’s where the current crop belongs, as well. But this time around, they’re being furnished with a safe haven right across the street.

Many would cite this phenomenon as an example of the horseshoe theory of politics. The extremes of left and right, goes the thinking, arrive at their respective ends of the horseshoe, each the mirror image of the other. I’ve grown uncomfortable with that explanation here.

Anti-Semites operate under a different behavioral paradigm. They set everything else aside and ally with one another against the Jews. Communists, fascists, Islamists, leftists, and reactionaries have joined forces in various combinations for this purpose. They don’t need a horseshoe to find one another. They just follow their broken moral compass. Today, that points due left.
Jonathan Tobin: Antisemitism, Islam and the future of the GOP
Yet the decline of support for Israel among young conservatives does raise the question about the future and whether a post-Trump GOP will, like the Democrats, fall into the hands of those who are hostile to Israel. Carlson, and other Israel-bashers and antisemites on the right, are still hoping that Vice President JD Vance—still considered the frontrunner for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination—will champion their cause. Their main worry is that he might be tainted by association with the Iran war.

While progressives speak of Israel and Jews in the jargon of the intersectional left as “white” oppressors, the antisemitic right talks of them as manipulating hapless non-Jews into waging wars against American interests. The practical effect of both is to isolate Jews and the Jewish state. And just as Islamists have successfully aligned themselves with progressives—the coalition that elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an obvious example—Carlson’s and Kelly’s boasts of their growing Muslim audience is evidence that they’d like this to be repeated on the right.

But there is a basic problem with the belief that the right is doomed to undergo its own version of Corbynization, at least as far as Israel and antisemitism are concerned. A conservative movement that rejects, as Carlson advocates, the idea of a Judeo-Christian heritage is rejecting core conservative values about liberty. To “speak up for Islam” and deny the threat that the theocratic terror regime in Iran poses to the West and America is not so much a blow against Israel, but one against a Western civilization that is being assaulted by woke progressives as well as Islamists. Should the views of Carlson and Kelly prevail in a post-Trump era, it will not be so much the U.S.-Israel alliance that will suffer but traditional American beliefs that give substance to the conservative critique of the left.

Antisemitism would be enabled by such a development, but so would the woke push to erase American exceptionalism that Carlson once opposed so articulately before he became obsessed with Israel. The ideas that fueled the backlash against the left on family values and national security that sent Trump back to the White House in 2024 would be negated.

A political alignment in which the far-right joins forces with the far left is a nightmare scenario for Jewish Democrats as well as Republicans. But more than that, it is a fifth column effort that would sink American conservatism. That movement traces its roots back to the writings of William F. Buckley, the triumphs of President Ronald Reagan, and now, the efforts of Trump to roll back the woke tide that has taken possession of the education system, pop culture, the fine arts and much of journalism in recent years.

Successfully resisting this antisemitic alliance won’t just save the Republican Party, but also any hope of preserving America and the West from the worldview of the ayatollahs, AOC and Mamdani.
WSJ Editorial: Protesters Lay Siege to a New York Synagogue
Anti-Israel protesters say objecting to the existence of the Jewish state doesn't make them antisemitic, but that line is becoming impossible to believe.

Note the protesters Tuesday who swarmed New York City's Park East synagogue calling for "intifada revolution." The 100 or so protesters, many with faces covered by keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags, yelled, "Israel should not exist" outside the synagogue.

In its annual report released Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recorded 32 physical antisemitic assaults in 2025 involving a deadly weapon - a new high. The ADL said 7 targeted victims had some "perceived support for Israel." But that means 25 were attacks on Jews because they are Jewish.

In April 2025 a man firebombed the residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Passover while his family was at home. In May 2025, a man shot and killed Israeli embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
NYPost Editorial: Mamdani’s cheering antisemitic mob violence like he WANTS blood on the streets
Don’t let them call it a “protest”: It was a riot outside Park East Synagogue on Tuesday night, as a hundred violent thugs with keffiyeh rags tied around their faces battled with the NYPD for hours.

They claimed to be protesting a meeting to promote the sale of West Bank land to Jews; in reality it was purely about moving to Israel — with few brochures that had photos of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Despicably, Mayor Zohran Mamdani let the goons know he’s on their side: His spokesman said the mayor was “deeply opposed” to the event promoting the “sale of land” in the West Bank, which is “illegal under international law.”

That’s two falsehoods, one about the event, and one about international law — which says nothing about private land sales anywhere.

As best we can tell, Mamdani’s confusing “international law” with the century-old ravings of Amin al-Husseini, the Hitler-allied Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (appointed such by the British colonial overlords!), whose 1935 fatwa declared the entire mandate of Palestine to be the eternal and inalienable property of Islam.

Yes, our mayor is that ignorant, or that phony.

Fine, he waved a finger at the rioters while noting the importance of “ensuring safe entry and exit” from houses of worship, but he also stressed the need to ensure “all protesters are able to exercise their First Amendment rights.”

Guess he’s ignorant of US law as well as the international kind: The First Amendment does not, in fact, grant any right to fight police in the streets, let alone to assault a meeting because somebody told you it was about something you oppose.

In any case, the antisemitic mob came prepared for war; what would it have done had it broken through the police line — disrupt the event? Beat up the attendees? Wreck the synagogue?
UK venues decline antisemitism exhibition shown across Europe
An exhibition examining the history and repetition of antisemitism has struggled to find a public venue in Britain, despite being hosted by major institutions across Europe.

The Vicious Circle, devised by the National Holocaust Museum, explores recurring anti-Jewish hatred through a series of historical case studies spanning from Nazi Germany to the 7 October attacks in Israel.

The exhibition was briefly displayed in a privately rented Soho gallery in London in January 2025 before beginning a European tour. Since then, it has appeared at institutions including the European Parliament, the Berlin House of Representatives, Austria’s interior ministry and the Estonian National Museum. It was also shown during the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, although that display was not open to the public.

As reported by The Times, the exhibition was offered to several British institutions, including St. Paul’s Cathedral and the UK Foreign Office, as organisers sought a public British venue following its European tour.

The exhibition uses five objects and stories from Jewish communities affected by anti-Jewish violence in Berlin, Baghdad, Kielce, Aden and southern Israel to examine how antisemitic ideas reappear across generations. Promotional material from the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin describes the exhibition as focusing on “five pogroms that led to the ethnic cleansing of these communities” between 1938 and 2023.

In a letter sent to The Times, Michael Hilsenrath, chair of the Anglo-Jewish Association, said the difficulty securing a British venue reflected a wider unwillingness to confront antisemitism publicly.

He wrote: “Antisemitism is culturally tolerated and yet persistently minimised – including by the government, universities and those who readily condemn prejudice against other minorities.”

Referring to The Vicious Circle, Hilsenrath added: “Efforts to host the exhibition in public venues across the UK have so far been unsuccessful. This contrast speaks for itself and reinforces your editorial.”
Arts Council-funded venue chief shares Golders Green ‘conspiracy’
The chairman of an Arts Council-funded organisation has shared a conspiracy theory about the Golders Green attack.

Misan Harriman, who has a well-documented friendship with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, serves as the chairman of the Southbank Centre in London.

The pro-Palestinian arts boss shared online posts claiming that the attack was an “Islamophobic attack” as well as an anti-Semitic one and the media were “ignoring the attack on the Muslim victim”.

The original post was shared on X by Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for Birmingham Perry Barr.

Mr Harriman reposted this message and added his own comment, writing: “Wait, so there was a third victim on the same day who was Muslim?! And our press isn’t reporting it? Even the Met Police didn’t mention the Muslim victim in its X post?”

The Telegraph and other media outlets, had in fact reported that Essa Suleiman, the suspect, was charged with the attempted murder of Ishmail Hussein in Southwark on April 29, in addition to the attempted murder of two Jewish men in Golders Green the same day.

Other theories were shared in the aftermath of the attack, and Rachel Millward, the Green Party co-deputy leader, reposted a message on X, which claimed a Muslim victim had been erased from news stories to “suit a weaponised, desperate narrative”.

Mr Harriman, a Nigerian-born British photographer who has worked with Hollywood stars and attended the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, has served as the unpaid chairman of the Southbank Centre’s board of governors since 2021.

The Southbank Centre recently received £10m from Arts Council England, which was accused this week by Sir Keir Starmer of funding organisations that promote the work of artists accused of anti-Semitism.

It also receives regular Arts Council funding as a National Portfolio Organisation.


Met Police investigating after Jewish pupils flee apparent attempted car ramming
An incident last month where the driver of a vehicle reportedly mounted the curb and drove towards Jewish school pupils in north London is being treated by the police as religiously aggravated assault, with efforts being made to find the individual responsible.

According to the letter sent by Hasmonean High School for Boy’s headteacher James Fisher, on Monday 20 April, at approximately 3:40pm, a group of the school’s pupils were involved in a “concerning incident” near the A1 carriageway by Holders Hill Road NW4, close to the pedestrian crossing near October Place.

Police report that “a black saloon-type vehicle” reportedly “drove towards the students whilst they were waiting to cross the road, mounting the curb and causing the students to move quickly out of the way” before the vehicle drove off towards Henlys Corner / the A406.”

A Met police spokesperson said: “We are investigating reports a car drove towards three 14-year-old boys on Holders Hill Road, Barnet on Monday, 20 April. While enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances, this is currently being treated as a religiously aggravated assault.
Third arrest over attempted arson attack at Finchley synagogue
A 19-year-old man has been arrested by counter-terror police investigating an attempted arson attack on a synagogue in Finchley, becoming the third person detained in connection with the incident.

The teenager was arrested at an address in Portsmouth on Thursday morning on suspicion of attempted arson and remains in custody.

The investigation relates to an attempted attack on a synagogue in Fallow Court Avenue in the early hours of 15 April. No injuries were reported, and no damage was caused to the building.

Two other suspects, a 38-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man, were arrested on the day of the incident on suspicion of arson endangering life. Both have since been released on bail until July while enquiries continue.

The case is being led by Counter Terrorism Policing London as part of a wider investigation into a series of recent arson incidents affecting Jewish-linked sites and areas across London.

“Counter-terrorism officers continue to work closely with our colleagues in the Metropolitan Police in response to the incidents. We’re providing protective security advice and support to various organisations, community venues and businesses.

“With the threat level now raised to severe, everyone can play their part to keep themselves and their communities safe. If you have concerns about someone behaving suspiciously, please report it to us. Your information could help us save lives.”
Bus passenger arrested after alleged Hitler and gas chamber comments to Jews
Police have arrested an individual in Hackney after he reportedly threatened Jewish passengers, including children, on board a London bus, claiming to be in possession of a knife and making comments including “you should all go in the gas chambers”.

The incident, which took place on Thursday afternoon aboard TfL’s 254 bus, saw the suspect allegedly target Jewish passengers, making threats to kill Jewish children and saying “Shame Hitler didn’t kill you.”

As reported by the Shomrim Jewish security organisation in North East London, “the bus driver stopped the bus and activated the emergency alarm”, while “members of the public intervened and assisted.” The group said that “Shomrim volunteers attended swiftly [and] detained the suspect, who was subsequently arrested by Hackney police and British transport police.”

Shomrim called for any further witnesses to contact either themselves or the Metropolitan police, quoting CAD 5358/07MAY26.

This is the second such arrest in less than 24 hours. Last night, Greater Manchester police detained an individual in his 60’s, who had reportedly made threats against Jews in the Heaton Park area of Salford, which is home to a large strictly orthodox community. The man is believed to have threatened Jews to “take knives and cut your throat” and shouted: “Jew leave the country, and we’ll make it like the Nazis in the gas chambers.” GMP arrested him on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence.


Man arrested in Salford after alleged antisemitic threats about ‘gas chambers’
A man has been arrested after allegedly making violent antisemitic threats in Salford, including references to Nazis and gas chambers, as well as taking knives to cut your throat.

Greater Manchester Police said officers were called to Northumberland Street at around 10.37pm on Wednesday following reports that threats had been made.

According to reports shared online, the suspect allegedly threatened to “take knives and cut your throat” and shouted: “Jew leave the country, and we’ll make it like the Nazis in the gas chambers.”

Officers attended the scene and arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence. He remains in custody for questioning.

Superintendent Yanica Weir said: “We will not tolerate this kind of behaviour and intimidation against any members of our community. We will come after offenders.

“You can report a crime to us via 101 or the LiveChat function on our website at Greater Manchester Police. Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”


Horror antisemitism Royal Commission testimonies mark pivotal moment for Australia’s global reputation
Australia’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has finally begun holding public hearings - marking the first meaningful attempt to confront the antisemitism taking hold in Australian society.

For most Australian Jews, the need for such a commission has been obvious for months, if not years.

Ever since the October 7 massacre in Israel, there has been a surge in antisemitism unlike anything seen in living memory.

Statistics suggest at least a 300 per cent increase.

From the scenes outside the Sydney Opera House, where the massacre was celebrated and people chanted “f*** the Jews”, to the horrific attack in Bondi in December 2024 - where 15 people at a Chanukah celebration were gunned down - the trajectory has been unmistakable.

What some initially dismissed as isolated or politically-driven tensions has revealed itself to be something deeper, older, and far more dangerous.


Promisingly, Commissioner Virginia Bell, who is heading the inquiry, acknowledged as much in her opening statement, noting that hostility towards Jewish Australians, “simply because they’re Jews”, is often expressed in ways that can be traced back to the Middle Ages, if not earlier.

Commissioner Bell believes this spike in antisemitism is “clearly linked to events in the Middle East” meaning Israel’s war against Hamas and other terror proxies.

But as she also noted, this hostility has existed for thousands of years, long before the October 7 attacks.

The context may change.

The underlying patterns do not.

For Jews, this is not theoretical.

It is lived experience - reinforced by generations who learned, often too late, what happens when warning signs are ignored.

Antisemitism did not suddenly emerge out of nowhere in Australia; its escalation here mirrors trends across much of the West.

But in recent years it has been emboldened and normalised in ways that have left the once self-assured Australian Jewish community profoundly shaken. Boundless Insights: Gazology – with Matti Friedman In the two and a half years since the Gaza war began, a new body of writing has taken hold, one that claims to explain not just the conflict, but the world itself. In this episode, host Aviva Klompas speaks with Matti Friedman about his essay Introduction to Gazology. He argues that this emerging genre isn’t really about Gaza as a place, but uses it as a framework to interpret global politics, morality, and power.

They discuss why this narrative has gained traction after October 7, the central role of language—especially the use of “genocide”—and how key elements of the conflict are often left out. The conversation also explores how Gaza has become a lens for broader Western concerns, and what that reveals about the way the conflict is being understood.

J-TV: Melanie Philips Reveals How To FINISH OFF Islamism Forever!
00:00 Intro
2:00 You can't separate the "genocide" lie from antisemitism
07:42 “You Better Not Be a Zionist”
09:19 Why Jews Should Stop Apologising for Israel
11:34 How to Respond
15:16 Can You Separate Zionism from Judaism?
20:16 Should Britain Ban the Hate Marches?
25:06 The Islamist Force Behind the Protests
28:24 Britain’s Red Line Against Islamism
32:53 When “Criticism of Israel” Isn’t Criticism
35:55 Mehdi Hasan, Smears & Media Double Standards
38:02 Why People Are Afraid to Tell the Truth
39:35 The Palestinian Peoplehood Question
42:41 What Palestinian Polling Reveals After Oct 7
47:20 Fighting the Hate: Melanie’s New Book
50:03 How to Open Someone’s Mind “A Crack”
51:26 Why Jewish Leadership Must Change Strategy
53:02 Jews, Christians & the Fight for the West
57:23 The root cause of antisemitism


Jeremy Boreing: Candace's Latest Screed and the Breakdown of Media: 236 Accusations in 30 Minutes | Ep. 19
Last night, Candace Owens released a thirty-minute screed — roughly 236 separate claims, accusations, and insinuations against Jeremy Boreing, the Daily Wire, and just about anyone else she could string into a narrative. It's one of the most concise examples of a Gish gallop — the rhetorical strategy of firing off so many accusations in rapid succession that no opponent can possibly address them all — that anyone has produced in years. It is not journalism. It is not commentary. It is the new genre of online media: the grift industrial complex.

For tonight's Wednesday Live, Jeremy is joined by three people who understand exactly what's happening in this moment — Ami Kozak (Jewish American comedian and impressionist who has spent the last two years documenting the online antisemitism wave), Shabbos Kestenbaum (Harvard graduate who sued his alma mater for antisemitism and has become one of the most articulate voices on campus Jew-hatred), and Billy Hallowell (Christian author and journalist working at the intersection of faith, culture, and media accountability).

They get into the anatomy of a Gish gallop and why it is the perfect weapon for the personality-driven podcast economy; Brandolini's Law and why refuting bullsh*t always takes an order of magnitude more energy than producing it; the asymmetric skepticism and burden-shifting that lets Candace's audience demand proof from her targets while requiring none from her; what to do (and what not to do) when an online pile-on comes for you; the Christian-Jewish alliance forming in response to the rising tide of right-wing antisemitism; the structural failure of the broader online media ecosystem to apply any editorial standards, any correction mechanism, or any accountability whatsoever; and the bigger argument from Ep. 18 — that the personality-driven podcast economy has not fixed the failures of legacy media. In many ways, it has made them worse.

Not a debate. Not a both-sides conversation. A real-time response to a real-time attack — and an honest accounting of the broken information environment that lets attacks like this one spread.

00:00 “Hey guys!”
02:56 Candace's 236-Claim Response Video
19:07 The Wine Moms Smearing Erika Kirk
26:06 Why Gen Z Will Surprise Everyone
39:35 Obama Broke the Institutions, Trump Broke the Manners
52:38 "I Fired Candace. I'd Do It Again."
1:12:24 Tucker Carlson, the Confusion Artist
1:30:42 The Federal Pastors Briefing on Aliens


The Brink: “I Was No Friend Of Israel… Then I Went There” | Claire Fox On The Collapse Of Britain
In this episode of The Brink, Andrew and Jake are joined by Claire Fox for a wide-ranging conversation on Britain’s political realignment, the rise of populism, free speech, and the cultural fallout from October 7th.

Fox argues that both Labour and the Conservatives have become increasingly detached from ordinary people, creating the conditions for populist movements to surge across Britain. From Brexit and the financial crash to identity politics and the decline of national pride, we explore why so many voters feel alienated from the political establishment.

The discussion also examines censorship and self-censorship across universities, public institutions, and politics. Fox warns that ideological conformity and fear of social punishment are reshaping public life, while identity politics and multiculturalism have weakened a shared sense of citizenship.

The conversation then turns to the aftermath of October 7th and the rise of anti-Semitism in Britain. Fox reflects on how her own views on Israel changed over time and argues that hostility toward Israel increasingly reflects a deeper crisis within Western societies themselves.

A provocative and timely discussion about Britain’s future, democratic change, and the growing battle over national identity and free speech.


In These Times with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch: Antisemitism, Rebranded: Adam Louis-Klein
Writer and anthropologist Adam Louis-Klein argues that antizionism is not simply a continuation of the “classical” antisemitism of the past, but a new framework for anti-Jewish hatred. Drawing on his experiences in elite academic spaces and fieldwork with indigenous communities in the Amazon, Louis-Klein explores how ideas about colonialism, identity, and power have been weaponized to reshape how many young Americans understand Israel and the Jewish people.


spiked: You can be cancelled for being Jews | Rosie Kay on the anti-Semitism crisis in the arts
Rosie Kay – co-director of Freedom in the Arts (FITA) – joins spiked’s Georgina Mumford to discuss FITA’s latest report, ‘The New Boycott Crisis’. Rosie and Georgina discuss how challenging art is now ‘pre-cancelled’, the artists cancelled for being Jewish, and how to fight back against the woke bullies.




Britain’s universities are sewers of anti-Semitism
Finally, anti-Semitism on campus is beginning to get the attention it deserves. For too long, the vile abuse experienced by Jewish students at some of the UK’s leading universities has been ignored or, worse, condoned as just criticism of Israel. But following last week’s horrific attack on two men in Golders Green, and – before that – the killing of two people at a Manchester synagogue, the prime minister has had to do more than offer thoughts and prayers to the Jewish community. This week, Starmer announced that ‘every part of society’ has a responsibility to tackle anti-Semitism, including universities where it has been allowed to fester unchecked.

From now on, universities will be required to monitor and publish data exposing the scale of anti-Semitism, along with specific details of how they plan to respond to it. Starmer warned that there will be ‘zero tolerance for inaction’, although he did not spell out the consequences for universities that do fail to act. In addition, the government wants to see increased efforts to protect Jewish university staff and students, and will provide a £7million budget for anti-Semitism training for staff in schools, colleges and universities.

At the same time, Vivienne Stern, chief executive of Universities UK, also decided the time was right for universities to be expected to do more to tackle anti-Semitism. She said she had written to vice-chancellors to ask them to ‘review security arrangements in light of evidence of escalating violence’ and announced she was working with the Union of Jewish Students to promote its anti-Semitism training.

What’s astonishing is that such measures are not already in place. Jewish students have been raising the alarm about anti-Semitic abuse on campus for more than two years now. Every twist and turn of the war in Gaza became an excuse either to target Jewish students directly or to create a climate of hostility on campus where any expression of sympathy to Israel could prompt vitriol.
Headmaster of Elite Houston School Resigns Amid Controversy Over Award to Students Who Erased Israel From Map
The head of an elite Houston private school that counts President George W. Bush and his brother Jeb as alumni is resigning from his post amid controversy over campus antisemitism.

Jonathan Eades, the headmaster at the Kinkaid School, announced his resignation on Wednesday, citing the need to "prioritize" his family. The Kinkaid Board of Trustees said in a letter that Eades had been weighing the decision for over a year, though sources familiar with the situation told the Washington Free Beacon it was evident that the board had moved swiftly to push him out.

The departure comes as Eades and Kinkaid faced scrutiny over the school’s teachers giving an award to a pro-Palestinian student group during the school’s "Culture Fest" in March. The event, typically held in the spring, features booths and exhibits on various cultures and countries, according to the school’s website. This year, a booth on "Palestine" featured a poster that referred to Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as "Palestine"—effectively denying the existence of the Jewish state.

When the viral X account StopAntisemitism took note that faculty members had bestowed an award on the students behind the poster, Eades pointed the finger at the social media posting. "These posts and their associated comments go against everything that Kinkaid stands for and how we teach our students civil discourse," he wrote in a letter to the school community on May 2, adding that Kinkaid "will not tolerate antisemitism."


Austin mass shooter motivated in part by US, Israeli military actions in Iran, FBI says
The FBI said on Thursday that the gunman who carried out a mass shooting in downtown Austin on March 1 was motivated in part by grievances over U.S. and Israeli military actions against Iran and admiration for the slain Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei. But investigators found no evidence that he was directed or supported by a foreign terrorist group, the bureau said.

Ndiaga Diagne, 53, killed three people and wounded 15 others outside Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden on Austin’s West Sixth Street before police fatally shot him during an exchange of gunfire, according to the FBI.

The FBI said that roughly 400 people from across the bureau and partner law enforcement agencies assisted in the investigation, which included reviewing more than 3,000 videos and 150 million digital files. Authorities also conducted 88 interviews, executed 22 search warrants and seized 30 electronic devices as part of the ongoing probe.

“There is no evidence of outside direction or radicalization,” the bureau stated on Thursday. “Rather, the investigation indicates an escalation in violent behavior in part tied to specific personal triggers and grievances related to U.S. and Israeli military actions involving Iran, culminating in a violent, impulsive attack.”
Norway rector cites ‘free speech’ after professor praises Oct. 7
The head of a state-funded university in Norway said on Tuesday he had no plans to discipline a professor who last month called the Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, massacres “the most beautiful thing that has happened in our century.”

Following an uproar this week over comments made on April 21 by Professor Bassam Hussein of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Rector Tor Grande told broadcaster NRK that Hussein’s views do not represent NTNU, the country’s largest university.

He added, however, that “freedom of expression is strong in Norway, and it gives Hussein, like other citizens, the freedom to express his opinions, as long as they are within the broad framework of Norwegian law.”

Asked by NRK whether there would be “consequences” for Hussein, Grande replied that the university has no written rules governing how employees express themselves. He added that it would have been “natural” for Hussein to clarify to the Socialist Forum in Trondheim that his remarks were made in his “personal” capacity.

JNS contacted the Norwegian Ministry of Education and NTNU, which receives most of its funding from the state, for comment on how they view the content of Hussein’s remarks during the lecture. Neither responded in time for publication.

Eytan Halon, the chargé d’affaires at the Israeli embassy in Oslo, wrote a letter to Grande urging him to act. “As rector of Norway’s largest university, and as chair of Universities Norway and the Nordic University Association, I urge you to take action to protect your students from the dissemination of support for terror and its glorification by senior members of faculty,” Halon wrote in the letter, which he also posted on X on Tuesday.

“When rhetoric can quickly turn into action, I believe that university leadership must also show zero tolerance and take immediate disciplinary action when it comes to the support and glorification of terror,” Halon added.
Company claiming to be ‘official’ Manchester United ticket reseller shared posts calling IDF ‘baby killers’
A company that bills itself as an “official ticket reseller” for Manchester United matches shared several anti-Israel posts on its social media, the JC has learned.

Go Official has reposted a swathe of anti-Israel comments, including one from “unapologetic antisemite” Dan Bilzerian, which read: “The government of Israel listed me as the #1 antisemitic influencer in the world. We are so f****** back!”.

Another retweet from the account featured a picture of the Israeli and USA flags alongside the words “THESE ARE THE FLAGS OF TERRORISM”.

And a third referenced the “Tesco Perfectly Ripe Avocados Twin Pack”, says the avocados are grown in Israel, before adding: “Been eating these unknowingly for ages, now feel sick”.

Two others accuse the IDF of targeting children deliberately, with one saying: “Hamas never shot 100 kids in the head with sniper bullets. The IDF did”.

Another claimed: “Almost 60 per cent of gunshot wounds that killed Palestinian children in Gaza were directly to the head and chest. They were targeted.

"It is not an ‘antisemitic blood libel’ to call Israelis who fight for the IDF baby killers.”

The JC understands that the company has since removed the tweets and believes that they were authored by a former employee using the account in error.

Upon seeing the posts, though, a Manchester United supporter wrote an email to the club, seen by the JC, which expressed their “serious concern regarding the conduct of one of your resellers”.


Shekel hits 33-year high against dollar
The Israeli shekel gained 1.1% on Wednesday, reaching its highest level against the dollar in 33 years, amid investor optimism over a possible end to hostilities between Iran and the United States.

The shekel, which has appreciated 9% so far in 2026, strengthened to 2.90 per dollar on Wednesday, its strongest level since October 1993, Reuters reported.
Norway to buy Rafael’s Trophy protection system
The Israeli developed active protection system for military armored vehicles is currently installed on 16 platforms around the world.

Even though Norway is one of the European countries most critical of Israel, what happens in the diplomatic arena is not necessarily reflect in defense procurement. Germany has begun supplying Norway with Leopard 2A8NOR tanks in the first sale of the advanced platform, which also carries Israeli technology. Each 2A8-series tank has the Eurotrophy system, the European version of Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Trophy, active protection system for military armored vehicles.

Eurotrophy is a joint venture by Rafael, Germany’s KMW and General Dynamics Land Systems Europe for the production, marketing and sale of Trophy systems in Europe. Trophy has been operational since 2010. In 2018, Trophy was sold to the US Armored Forces and in 2021, it was selected for the German Leopard and British Challenger tanks.

The system is currently installed on 16 platforms around the world, but it had not been operated on any major scale to protect tanks until the war which began in October 2023, with hundreds of maneuverable systems in the field. In meeting the challenge of anti-tank missiles, which military experts define as unprecedented, the system is successfully withstanding attacks from Hezbollah on Israel’s northern front.
WhatsApp founder donates record $200 million to Shaare Zedek
WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is donating $200 million to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in what is being described as the largest philanthropic contribution in the history of Israel’s healthcare system, officials from the Jerusalem hospital told JNS on Thursday.

The donation, made through the Jan Koum Family Foundation, is expected to triple the size of the hospital, which currently has approximately 1,000 beds. Koum, 50, who was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States as a teenager, co-founded WhatsApp in 2009 before selling the messaging platform to Meta for approximately $19 billion in 2014.

The funds will be used to construct a new inpatient tower that will also include housing for medical staff, tripling the size of the hospital. According to a source in Israel’s healthcare system, planning approvals for the new tower are advancing rapidly through Jerusalem’s municipal planning institutions.

The contribution surpasses the previous record donation to Israel’s healthcare sector, a $180 million gift made in 2025 by Anat and Shmuel Harlap to Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital.

The two donations reflect a growing trend in which private philanthropy—much of it from American Jewish donors—is increasingly funding major hospital infrastructure projects that the state has not undertaken on a similar scale.

As an independent hospital not affiliated with one of Israel’s health funds, Shaare Zedek relies heavily on philanthropic support to expand and develop its facilities. Officials said the latest donation underscores the widening gap between institutions capable of attracting major private capital and those primarily dependent on government funding.
Facing a mixed reception at Eurovision, Noam Bettan is ready ‘to enjoy the journey’
Noam Bettan has been practicing to the sounds of booing.

Israel’s Eurovision contestant is reluctant – and largely not allowed – to discuss any of the controversy surrounding Israel’s participation, but he knows he won’t be warmly welcomed by everyone at the song competition next week in Vienna.

“I’m surrounded by an incredible team who make sure to shout boos at me during rehearsals, so I’m prepared for it,” Bettan told The Times of Israel during a video interview last month. “I feel happy and proud to represent my country in such a big competition with so many viewers.”

While the biggest critics of Israel at Eurovision – Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands – quit this year’s contest in protest of Israel being allowed to participate, their exodus has amplified the anger among some of the competition’s biggest fans.

But Bettan – who will be 10th in the lineup in the first semifinal Tuesday night with “Michelle” – wants to put all the noise and drama aside.

“I’m very focused on what I have to do,” he said. “I’m not thinking about anything else, I’m focused on this thing, I’m looking ahead, I’m rehearsing as much as possible. I’m doing everything I can.”

Bettan, 28, was selected earlier this year to represent Israel at the 2026 competition after winning the latest season of “Hakochav Haba” (Rising Star). The native of Ra’anana, who was born to French immigrant parents, won over viewers with his soulful vocals, charming modesty and magnetic stage presence.

Before winning the reality TV contest Bettan was far from a household name, but he’s not a newcomer to the Israeli music industry. In 2018, he placed third on the music TV competition show “Aviv or Eyal,” and subsequently released a number of singles, including “Madame,” “Buba” and “Ahavot Leyom Ehad.”

“I’ve worked very hard for many, many years — more than eight years of hard work, Sisyphean work — with my team who has been with me through thick and thin,” Bettan said. “We learned to stay strong and to lift ourselves up even when things didn’t work.”




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