Tuesday, May 26, 2026

05/25 Links Pt2: The Enormous Blast Radius of the NYT’s Dog-Rape Debacle; Retired police officer awarded for bravery during Tree of Life shooting

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: The Enormous Blast Radius of the NYT’s Dog-Rape Debacle
Kristof relies on such NGOs as well. One of them is the Committee to Protect Journalists. That organization has, as we have detailed here at COMMENTARY, kept a running list of supposed “journalists” killed by Israel during the war, many of whom are later revealed to have been terrorist operatives for Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad all along. Those revelations come from the “martyrdom” notices of the terror groups themselves, as the researcher Salo Aizenberg has persistently pointed out. When that happens, CPJ tends to delete the terrorist’s name from its list of “journalists.”

The Washington Free Beacon argues, persuasively, that this process deeply undercuts CPJ’s credibility as a source and as a gatekeeper of sources for folks like Kristof. I agree. As I wrote two weeks ago: “The problem is that it’s easy for an organization like CPJ to quietly delete someone’s page from a false list well after the fighting stops and the hoax has outlived its usefulness. So that’s what they do.”

Others have focused on the fact that Kristof also relied on information from Euro-Med, an organization with ties to terrorist figures and which has perpetuated all sorts of weird science-fiction anti-Israel hoaxes. Because of that history, I tend not to think of Euro-Med as an NGO at all, though technically it is. Euro-Med is despised even by many Palestinians who see it as nothing but a shield for Hamas and therefore an enemy of human rights. But perhaps the point of the story is that more established NGOs have become just as corrupted as organizations like Euro-Med, and that they do belong in the same category after all.

In fact, CPJ’s impact could plausibly be considered more deleterious to democracy and human rights than Euro-Med’s precisely because it carries a sheen of legitimacy that Euro-Med never has and never will.

I would go a step further and suggest that the behavior of groups like CPJ incentivize the establishment of other groups that exist solely to feed journalists bad information. CPJ’s fall from grace is a major story all its own. That it enables the creation of bad actors that never had any grace to lose is just part of that story. The same is true of the Times.

This is not merely a story of one journalist behaving unconscionably. It’s a story of Western institutional collapse and the dreary remnants that rise from the rubble to perpetuate all the evil things its predecessors got away with.
Germany supported Hamas-linked organization for years without tracking funds, audit finds
Until 2019, the German foreign office supported an aid organization with close ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood without knowing how the funds were actually being used.

This information appears in a newly released confidential audit by Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors, which the Institute for Secular Law (Institut für Weltanschauungsrecht or IFW) has been trying to obtain for five years.

Until now, unsuccessfully.

The audit concerns state funding for the organization Islamic Relief, purported to have ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The now-public documents reveal, according to ifw advisory board member Seyran Ateş, “a shocking naivety on the part of the Foreign Office.”

Islamic Relief Germany (IRD) had long been regarded in Germany as a respected Muslim charity organization. Several consecutive German governments, including former chancellor Angela Merkel’s second, third, and fourth cabinets, provided IRD with millions of euros in funding.

IRD was a member of the German aid alliance Aktion Deutschland Hilft, and gained prominent supporters for its “Meals for Orphans” campaign, including former President Christian Wulff and his successor Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

However, in 2019, the Foreign Ministry stopped funding the organization, and, in 2020, IRD’s membership in Aktion Deutschland Hilft was suspended.

Foreign Office funded Islamic Relief largely 'blindly'
On April 15, 2019, the German government noted that both Islamic Relief Germany and its parent organization, Islamic Relief Worldwide, had “significant personnel connections to the Muslim Brotherhood or organizations close to it.”

The government also admitted that since 2014 it had known that “Islamic Relief Worldwide,” including its German branch IRD, was banned in Israel, regarded as “part of the financial system of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood movement,” and therefore classified as a “terrorist organization.”

It is worth noting that the IRW is also banned in the UAE, due to its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The German government refused to provide detailed information on how public funds given to Islamic Relief had been used, instead referring to an ongoing audit by the Federal Court of Auditors.

The audit report was nevertheless classified as confidential.
Young German anti-Zionists can no longer hide from their families’ Nazi past Story by Daniel Johnson
“Was my father/grandfather/great-grandfather a Nazi?” This variation on the question “Daddy, what did you do in the war?” has suddenly become urgent for millions of Germans, thanks to a decision by the US National Archive to make some 11 million Nazi party membership cards available online. The German weekly paper Die Zeit has made the full archive easily searchable for anyone with a subscription.

Hitherto, many Germans kept their family history during the Third Reich a closely guarded secret. Covering one’s tracks was made easier by the Federal Republic’s strict data protection laws, underpinned by a culture of denial and evasion that was already emerging even as Hitler committed suicide in 1945.

Allied investigators working in defeated and occupied Germany were struck by how a ruling party that had numbered over 10 million members appeared to have vanished overnight. Even decades later few Germans would willingly admit to having been a Nazi.

Now a younger generation has the opportunity to discover the truth about their forebears simply by accessing the newly released online party records, without having to go through a complex and deliberately obstructive process to obtain such information.

For more than 80 years, the gatekeepers of the German Federal Archives tried to shield individuals and their families from contamination by the nation’s putrid past. Now these self-appointed censors are under pressure to follow the American example and publish all official files for the Nazi period.

This new debate about the release of information is, though, only one aspect of the bigger question of how postwar generations of Germans should deal with a uniquely heinous past that is ever more temporally remote. Eight decades on, righteous anger at the ancestors who brought about the German catastrophe has been eclipsed by resentment at the perception that the sins of the grandfathers are still being visited upon their descendants.


Senior British-Jewish leader leaving country over fears for Jewish future
A senior figure in UK Jewish life has revealed he and his wife are leaving the country for Israel, warning that Britain will completely lose its Jewish community if antisemitism continues unchecked.

Jeremy Jacobs, the former chief executive of the United Synagogue, said his family had decided to leave Britain after generations in the country because of growing concern over hostility towards Jews.

Writing to the Daily Telegraph, Jacobs praised a recent article by journalist George Chesterton about antisemitism experienced by his Jewish family, saying it reflected the reality facing many British Jews.

“I applaud George Chesterton for his sensitive article on the antisemitism facing his family from so many elements of society,” Jacobs wrote. “My own family feels the same.”

He added that the perspective of “a non-Jew writing about his Jewish family made the article especially poignant”, arguing that the experiences described were representative not only of Britain but “across the Western world”.

Jacobs, who previously served as treasurer of the US and as chair of Tribe, warned political leaders had failed to grasp the scale of the problem and urged stronger action against anti-Jewish hatred.

“If only those in power could understand what is happening, and that they must take serious steps to counter the lies and hatred at the root of anti-Semitism,” he wrote.

The consequences of inaction, he argued, could be severe. “If they do not, British society will lose its Jewish community completely.”
Launch of "Fighting the Hate" - Melanie Phillips and Daniel Gordis
Since October 7, the Jewish world has been subjected to an unprecedented international onslaught. Israel has been defamed as the most evil nation in the world, and as a result, Jews across the West have been targeted by murderous attacks, vilification, and social ostracism.

"Fighting the Hate" is a pioneering guide to help Jews cope with these intense pressures and to work out a response. Hear the book's author Melanie Phillips in conversation with award-winning writer Daniel Gordis.


Our book began after my coma. It ended with Rabbi Schlanger’s murder at Bondi Beach
It is late evening in Sydney, and Nikki Goldstein’s voice breaks as she shares the story of the man to whom she feels she owes her life.

Four years ago, against all the odds, Rabbi Eli Schlanger helped her to survive. Six months ago, he himself was cruelly taken – killed by a terrorist at the ‘Chanukah by the Sea’ party he helped organise every year.

Back in 2022, Goldstein was 57 years old and chronic lung disease had pushed her into a ‘white out’ – where the air in the lungs is replaced by fluid.

She tells Jewish News: “I turned up at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney with what I thought was quite a bad chest infection. It had happened to me several times, so I thought a couple of days of IV antibiotics and I’ll be home, but very quickly the doctors looked worried, and they sent me to the ICU.”

After about 24 hours there, “with all sorts of drugs and machines”, the head of the ICU told her: “You’re really struggling to breathe. If we don’t intubate you, you’re going to be dead in an hour”.

“That”, recalls Goldstein, “really focuses the mind.”

Having sent a few last messages before being put into an induced coma, her desperate husband Rowan and 19 year-old daughter spotted Rabbi Schlanger in a hospital corridor and asked him to pray for her.

“We are not a religious family”, she says.

“My husband’s not Jewish. I haven’t brought my daughter up to be Jewish, so she’d never met a rabbi before.”

Having been advised to get her affairs in order, the family were “really preparing for the worst, and so when they saw the rabbi, my husband just leapt up, literally strode across the room, just called out ‘Rabbi!’, and to his surprise, Eli turned around and came to Nikki’s bedside.

“Rowan said: ‘My wife is Jewish, we’re not good Jews, but if this is her last day on earth, she would want Jewish prayers’. And Eli said, ‘What’s her Hebrew name? And Rowan went, ‘No idea, I don’t know’. And then Eli said, ‘What about her mother’s Hebrew name’, and Ro shrugged his shoulders, a total blank.”

Rabbi Eli asked Nikki’s family if he could blow the shofar. They had no idea what it was.

“So he reached into his jacket pocket, pulled out a shofar and explained, ‘this is a ram’s horn, it’s an ancient Jewish spiritual tool, and it acts as a kind of spiritual defibrillator'”.

Standing beside her bed, Rabbi Schlanger blew the shofar and prayed. One day later, against all the odds, Nikki began recovering. Doctors and the rabbi, euphoric, called it a miracle.

As she got stronger, Goldstein and the Chabad rabbi who had prayed for her formed an unlikely but beautiful friendship.


Bondi terror attack victim’s final photos revealed
AIJAC Sydney head Arsen Ostrovsky has described the final photos taken by Bondi victim Peter Meagher as “painful” yet “hopeful,” after the police returned the camera to his widow, Virginia.


Classified intelligence bombshell: Alerts about Bondi shooter Sajid Akram almost two decades before attack
Bondi shooter Sajid Akram was the subject of two National Security Hotline tip-offs — in 2007 and 2014 — placing him on the radar of authorities almost two decades before the Bondi terror attack.

A major investigation has uncovered that the first tip-off to the National Security Hotline in 2007 involved his interest in explosive material.

The second alert was made around 2014 and involved Akram’s interest in Islamic State and potentially travel.

Until this revelation, contained in classified files, it had previously been reported that the Akrams first came to the attention of authorities in 2019 when ASIO interviewed Sajid as part of an assessment on his son, Naveed, who was allegedly associating with extremist figures.

The discovery of the alerts to the National Security Hotline was made during the investigation for the book Bondi Terror, which is examining what the intelligence agencies and law enforcement knew about the Akrams in the years prior to the massacre at the Chanukah festival on December 14, 2025.

It’s understood that both of the tip-offs to the National Security Hotline were received, triaged and passed onto the Australian Federal Police and ASIO.

It’s unclear what subsequent action or investigations were launched by ASIO and the AFP.

But it’s understood that ASIO officers did not have the earlier hotline material before them when they conducted their 2019 assessment of Naveed.

The revelation will trigger alarm about why early red flags about Sajid Akram were missed - twice.

It will also fuel questions about the information flow and operation of Australia’s security establishment.

Confidential sources confirmed the tip-offs about Sajid Akram to the National Security Hotline were located in classified files in the aftermath of the Bondi Chanukah attack.

Sajid Akram was killed by NSW Police during the massacre at the Chanukah festival.


Australia spy chief says Jew-hatred was left unchecked after Gaza war began
Antisemitism in Australia was left unchecked and became normalized after the outbreak of the war against Hamas in Gaza in October 2023, fueling violence against Jewish people, the country’s national security and intelligence chief said on ‌Monday.

The frank remarks were made during a public inquiry into last December’s Bondi Beach mass shooting in Sydney, the worst terrorist attack in Australian history.

“There is no doubt that the war in the Middle East invoked a range of emotions in Australia,” said Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization. “Some of those violent aspects ... and those behaviors, including antisemitism that, in our view, were left unchecked, were therefore normalized and gave more permission for violence ..., and Jewish Australians were on the receiving end.”

Burgess told the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion that beginning in late 2024, antisemitism “escalated in severity from threatening, intimidating behavior ‌to direct targeting of people, businesses and places of worship.”

Australian Jewish groups had long claimed that the government turned a blind eye to the incitement to violence that began immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel and that it was allowed to fester unchecked for months before a rash of violent attacks began against the Jewish community, including arson and vandalism of synagogues, shops and private vehicles.

Fifteen people, including a 10-year-old girl and an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor, were killed by father-and-son gunmen in the shooting at Bondi Beach on the first night of Chanukah.

Iran fingered
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization had concluded that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia, including one on a kosher restaurant in Sydney and another at Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue, leading to the expulsion of Iran’s ambassador in August, Burgess noted.

He added that the Islamic Republic was likely involved in other attacks.


NSW Premier labels Bondi attack a ‘giant intelligence failure’ after Sky News journalist publishes major investigation
NSW Premier Chris Minns has vowed to "get to the bottom" of critical intelligence failings exposed in the wake of the December 14 Bondi terror attack, urging the Royal Commission to investigate evidence uncovered by Sky News Australia journalist Sharri Markson.

His comments come after SkyNews.com.au revealed shooter Sajid Akram had been the subject of two National Security Hotline tip-off as far back as 2007.

Federal and border police also failed to communicate the pair’s travel to known terror hotspots with local enforcement agencies.

After authorities failed to act, the accused terrorists are alleged to have gone on to commit Australia's worst ever terror attack, killing 15 people at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach.

When asked to explain the intelligence failures on breakfast radio this morning, Mr Minns said the evidence would be placed under the microscope during the course of the Royal Commission.

He conceded there were “giant law enforcement and intelligence" failures in the lead up to the attack.

"It would be insane for me to come on the program and suggest that it's all working perfectly because the end result is 15 innocent people were murdered on the beaches of Bondi and we need to make sure we do better next time," he said.

“While we can’t go back to the days before December 14, we need to make sure that we learn from it, it's the minimum obligation we owe to the people who have been killed or injured."


Israel Now News - Episode 617 - Eugene Kontorovich
Israel Now News is a creative and innovative weekly TV news magazine presenting a unique perspective of Israel's current events, politics, and culture to an English speaking audience. Israel Now News consists of a dynamic format offering its viewers an exciting educational experience unparalleled by any other news source.




Anti-Israel streamer Sneako surprised as Arab-Christian guest celebrates life in Tel Aviv
Controversial online streamer Sneako appeared caught off guard when an Arab-Christian guest on his livestream celebrated the freedom of his life in Israel.

The clip, which began circulating widely online this week, shows the US influencer who has 1.3 million YouTube followers talking to a young man who has recently moved from Nazareth to Tel Aviv.

He described no discrimination, free practice of faith, and good relations with Jewish neighbours.

“What’s it like living as a Christian in Israel?” Sneako asked the man.

“Super fun,” he replied.

Sneako, whose real name is Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy, has become one of the internet’s most polarising political streamers in recent years. The American influencer converted to Islam in 2023 and has frequently aligned himself with controversial figures including Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes.

Last year, Sneako posted on X: “Israel is not compatible with Western civilization.”

He appeared visibly surprised throughout the conversation this week with the Arab Christian, who described how he enjoyed religious freedom in Israel.

“They don’t spit on you?” Sneako asked.

“No, they don’t.”

“Oh okay, okay.”

Sneako asked: “Are you treated well or do they see you as different? Because, you know, they believe that they’re chosen and you’re not.”

The man replied: “I’ve lived my whole life around Jews, and, Sneako, I believe life happens from you. If your heart is full of hate and racism, you’ll always find hate and disloyalty. There are plenty of bad people on both sides, there are Arabs who are bad people, Christians who are bad people, Muslims who are bad people, Jews who are bad people. But I believe you have to live your life with a pure heart, love everybody.”

Sneako again pushes for an answer to the question of “What it’s like practicing Christianity in Israel?”, to which the man responds: “I practice it freely, I mean I’m not living in Iran or Syria.”


UK and allies warn businesses against bidding on E1 West Bank projects
Businesses considering bids for tenders in the controversial E1 corridor of the West Bank have been warned of potential “legal and reputational consequences” in a joint statement issued by the UK and other allies.

The statement—issued by the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, and the UK—notes that, in recent months, conditions in the West Bank have deteriorated significantly, with settler violence reaching unprecedented levels.

They add that “the policies and practices of the Israeli government, including the further entrenchment of Israeli control, are undermining both stability and the prospects for a two-state solution.”

The statement, also backed by Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, warns: “The E1 settlement development would divide the West Bank in two and constitute a serious breach of international law.”

It adds:“Businesses should not bid for construction tenders for E1 or other settlement developments.

“They must be aware of the legal and reputational risks involved in participating in such projects, including the potential for involvement in serious breaches of international law.”

The E1 corridor is an area of the Israeli-occupied West Bank within the municipal boundary of the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim.

The statement reiterates previous calls for Israel to end its expansion of settlements and administrative powers, ensure accountability for settler violence, investigate allegations against Israeli forces, respect the Hashemite custodianship over Jerusalem’s Holy Sites and the historic status quo, and lift financial restrictions on the Palestinian Authority and economy.
Dutch plan to ban settlement goods targets tiny Israel trade
The Dutch government announced on Friday a plan to ban the import of goods produced by Israelis in Judea and Samaria.

The move, part of a broader E.U. shift against Israel, will likely have a negligible effect on trade because of the limited scope of export to the Netherlands from the relevant parts of Israel. This portion accounts for a small share of the approximately $1.4 billion in bilateral trade annually.

A ban would, however, have some impact on one enterprise: The Israel Products Center (IPC), a business run by the Christians for Israel organization. It is the largest Dutch importer of products from Judea and Samaria.

Under the ban, IPC may need to stop importing around 20,000 wine bottles from Judea, Samaria or the Golan, Roger van Oordt, the former director of Christian for Israel and the honorary consul in the Netherlands, told JNS. These bottles, bought for about 100,000 euros ($116,000) constitute the bulk of IPC’s imports from those regions, which account for 3-5% of IPC’s imports overall, he said.

Even at the IPC, the ban would have a limited impact, but van Oordt fears that this could be only the beginning of a push whose ultimate goal is to end all trade with Israel, and Christians for Israel’s charity projects in Judea and Samaria. The Dutch group spends hundreds of thousands of euros annually to help needy Jews in Israel, including Judea and Samaria.

“We feel that we are the target of this ban, because there’s practically nobody besides us that imports products from Judea and Samaria,” van Oordt added, noting that the Dutch government has targeted Christians for Israel since 2019 in an effort to limit their purchases from Judea and Samaria.

The plan, which needs to receive the approval of the government’s advisory Council of State to be implemented, speaks of banning “the import and sale or purchase” of “products from illegal Israeli settlements,” the government’s announcement said.

Van Oordt said he hoped Israel would “take countermeasures in the field of security and technology.”

Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not react publicly to the announcement of the plan to ban Israeli products from Judea and Samaria, and did not reply to a JNS query in time for publication.


A Mysterious Children’s Search Engine Is Misleading Kids
Since 2016, governments, media, and tech companies have warned about online disinformation targeting adults. Far less attention has been paid to the information tools increasingly shaping children, even as such “kid-safe” platforms become more embedded into the internet’s trust infrastructure.

One significant child-focused platform, Kiddle, delivers a striking pattern of geopolitical and ideological framing that softens authoritarian regimes and extremist movements while presenting itself as a trusted educational resource. Foreign terrorist organizations, like Hamas and Hezbollah, are whitewashed. Russia’s war on Ukraine is downgraded to a “military operation,” mirroring Kremlin language, while Joseph Stalin’s role in Russian history is reduced to his success in building a “strong, modern nation.”

Launched in 2014, Kiddle, which bills itself as a visual search engine for kids, appears prominently in Google searches, often ranking near the top of results. When asked for child-safe educational resources, ChatGPT recommended Kiddle alongside legacy institutions like Encyclopædia Britannica, World Book, National Geographic, and the Smithsonian.

While it boasts far less traffic than other search engines, Kiddle’s role in information infrastructure gives it outsize influence, as schools, libraries, and even PTAs link to the site. The International Society for Technology in Education (ITSE), an association with 100,000 education stakeholders, recommends Kiddle on its website, noting that “results are vetted by editors.” The top referrer of traffic to Kiddle in early 2026 was DiscoveryK12, an online homeschool curriculum.

Yet the content is less kid-friendly than expected. The platform’s article on Vladimir Putin, for example, offers a softened portrayal of the Russian president. Putin is presented as a peacemaker who is “known for ending the Second Chechen War.” When it comes to Putin’s successive wars of territorial conquest, Kiddle users learn only that under Putin, Russia “took control of Crimea” and “supported a war in eastern Ukraine.” While the need to present information to children in simple language can be appreciated, this characterization is jarringly at odds with nearly a decade of horrific warfare.

“Hamas facts for kids” informs young readers that “Hamas grew out of an Islamic charity” and supports “Palestinian nationalism,” meaning that it “believe[s] in the idea of a Palestinian nation.” Kiddle says that the U.S.-designated terrorist group’s “fight is with Zionists.” The word “terrorist” is mentioned just once, at the bottom of the article. Former Hamas leader and October 7 planner Yahya Sinwar is portrayed as a “very important leader” who “said he wanted to work for ‘peaceful, popular resistance’ against the Israeli presence.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, meanwhile, is “a special part of Iran’s military” whose goal is to “protect the Islamic Revolution.” Curious kids will also learn that the IRGC “work[s] to keep the country stable.” The late Ayatollah Khamenei, Kiddle claims, “supported Iran’s nuclear program for peaceful uses.” He was also a “strong supporter of the Persian language” with a penchant for poetry. No mention is made of the 2025–2026 protests during which state forces—acting at Khamenei’s direction—killed around 30,000 civilians.

Occasionally, a Russo- and Sino-centric view of key conflicts and figures shines through. “Hassan Nasrallah facts for kids” acknowledges that Hezbollah has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union, but it notes that “some countries like Russia and China have different views.” Kiddle even clarifies that Russia considers Hezbollah a “legal social and political organization.”
'My job is to bring Israel down,' alleged Hamas financier says as he goes to trial in Netherlands
An alleged Hamas financier on trial in the Netherlands for funneling funds to the Palestinian terrorist organization told an undercover investigator that his job was to take down Israel, according to the NGO Ad Kan.

The Rotterdam Court is expected on Wednesday to rule on the accusation that Amin Abu Rashid transferred approximately €8 million to Hamas networks between 2010 and 2023, in cooperation with the Rotterdam-based Israa Charitable Foundation Netherlands.

Ad Kan said that evidence provided by a plant in Abu Rashid's circle and other activist organizations helped secure aspects of the prosecution, with undercover footage showing the motive behind his actions.

"My job is Israel down," Abu Rashid said in a video filmed by the Ad Kan undercover agent. "That's my job."

The footage of the 58-year-old alleged Hamas financier was part of a multi-year undercover operation by an agent who infiltrated groups such as the International Solidarity Movement.

"Ad Kan has been working for years to strike at the leaders of global antisemitism," said Ad Kan founder Gilad Ach.


Israel objects to Ukrainian reburial with state honors of Nazi collaborator
The Foreign Ministry expresses Israel’s objections to an official Ukrainian state reburial of a Ukrainian political and military leader who was connected to military units that collaborated with the Nazis.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky provided full state honors for the reburial ceremony.

“We regret the decision to hold an official state reburial ceremony for OUN leader Andriy Melnyk, who collaborated with the Nazis. There is no place for ignoring historical truth and the memory of the victims murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators,” the Foreign Ministry says in a statement on X.

The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center similarly writes on X: “The reinterment of Andriy Melnyk for a state burial in Ukraine raises serious concerns. Honoring the leader of a movement that supported and collaborated with Nazi Germany during the persecution and murder of millions of Jews undermines the moral integrity essential to Holocaust remembrance.”

Melnyk, who died in 1964, was the leader of a branch of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), a prominent independence group that challenged Soviet rule, including by working with the Nazis.

The OUN was mainly active between the 1930s and 1950s, and its members took part in the deportation and massacres of Jews and Polish people.

The reburial was held at the National Military Memorial in the Kyiv region, a cemetery opened last year for soldiers killed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.


New Jersey man indicted for threats against NYC Jewish organization
A New Jersey man was indicted last Monday for making threats against a New York City Jewish organization, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Public Affairs Office announced on Wednesday.

Newark resident Cameron Patterson faces a charge for transmitting an interstate threat, three emails he allegedly sent in October 2024, threatening physical harm to a Jewish non-profit.

The Jewish group reportedly feared for their safety upon receiving the emails attributed to the 34-year-old man, and notified law enforcement.

DOJ cites evidence in suspect's iCloud account
The DOJ claimed that Patterson's iCloud account contained multiple images depicting or referencing violence and mass shootings.

Patterson faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.


Man charged after alleged antisemitic assault outside Hendon synagogue on Shavuot
A man has been charged after two visibly Jewish men were allegedly assaulted outside a synagogue in Hendon during Shavuot.

The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to an incident outside Beis Gavriel synagogue at around 9pm on 21 May following reports of an assault.

Police confirmed that 25-year-old Daniel Nikzamir, from Sunningfields Road in Hendon, has since been charged with two counts of racially or religiously aggravated assault by beating, one count of assault by beating, religiously aggravated criminal damage and criminal damage.

According to police, the two victims were attacked outside the synagogue before members of the public detained the suspect until officers arrived at the scene.

One of the victims reportedly suffered cuts and bruising after his glasses were broken during the assault, according to the Daily Mail. No serious injuries were reported.

Nikzamir appeared before Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, where he pleaded not guilty. He was released on bail and is due to appear at Harrow Crown Court on 22 June.

The alleged attack comes amid continuing concern over rising antisemitic incidents across London following a series of attacks targeting Jewish individuals, businesses and communal sites in recent months.


Retired police officer awarded for bravery during Tree of Life shooting
A retired Pittsburgh police officer was awarded for his bravery during the 2011 Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation synagogue shooting, the Pennsylvania Western District US Attorney's Office announced on Wednesday.

Former Pittsburgh Bureau of Police (PBP) officer Daniel Mead was presented with the Hometown Hero Award at the PBP headquarters, at a ceremony attended by survivors of the antisemitic massacre that claimed the lives of 11 congregants and wounded two others.

Mead was given the award, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States, and it was offered to individuals who have made significant contributions to their community, in recognition of his efforts as the first to respond to emergency calls.

Alongside his partner, Michael Smidga, Mead approached the building and the shooter before being shot in the hand. Three other officers were wounded by the attacker.

"Nearly eight years after the shooting, our gratitude and admiration for the heroic bravery and selfless dedication of the first responders that day endures," said US Attorney Troy Rivetti, who presented the award to Mead. "On the morning of October 27, 2018, Officer Mead walked directly into the line of fire in fulfillment of his sworn duty to uphold the law and protect his fellow citizens. Today, we honor him. He is Pittsburgh’s Hometown Hero.”

The PBP congratulated the retired officer on his award in a Wednesday social media post.


Bench dedicated in memory of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas
Amemorial bench has been dedicated in memory of young mother Shiri Bibas and her sons, Kfir and Ariel, who were murdered in captivity in Gaza after being taken hostage on October 7.

The memorial is on a site in Finchley, where weekly vigils took place for 18 months until all 251 hostages came home.

Shiri, 32 and Ariel, four, and Kfir, nine months, were abducted from their home on Kibbutz Nir Oz, after thousands of Hamas terrorists broke through the border fence between Israel and Gaza. In all, around 1,200 people were murdered that day in the area - known as Otef Aza, or the Gaza Envelope - and 251 were taken hostage. Shiri’s husband, Yarden, was also abducted but was released alive in February 2025.

Speaking at the unveiling, Rabbi Steven Katz, emeritus rabbi of Hendon and Edgware Reform Synagogue, cited a mitzvah from Torah portion Ki Teitzei, which prohibits someone from taking the eggs from a nest when a mother bird is sitting on them. “Compare that to the 7th of October, when children were snatched and seized by Hamas, mothers left helpless and children murdered in front of their mothers.”

“All of us, I’m sure, will always remember the face of Shiri Bibas, the face frozen with fear, utterly creased with anxiety as she held her children, Kfir and Ariel, close to her. It was pitiful for us to watch, and we wish Yarden, her husband, healing, health and lovely memories.”

The bench has a plaque which bears the inscription: “In loving memory of the Bibas family and all victims of the October 7 massacre. Never again is now. May their memory be a blessing."

Ruth Leveson, one of the organisers of the vigils, who spearheaded the crowdfunding for the bench, said that she had decided on the Finchley location after hostility had been shown towards a bench near her home, which had become a makeshift memorial.

“The day that the news came out that the Bibas boys had been murdered, someone left some yellow roses on the bench, so I added a few things, and, over time, other people added more things.

“I came out one day, and a woman was shouting at me, saying: ‘This is not your personal cemetery, we don’t want this here.’ And I thought: ‘Okay, so you don’t want it here. We’ll have our own bench. It’ll be ours and we can put what we want on it.”

While she had considered putting the bench in a location which was less public, Ruth decided on the site of the Finchley vigils as “so people see it”, adding: “We are not hiding.”





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