Wednesday, June 03, 2026

06/02 Links Pt2: Cities Without Jews; EU Sanctions Israel, Welcomes Taliban; SJP praised last year’s antisemitic firebombing

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: Cities Without Jews
Once, while researching the development of Israel’s economy, I came across an incredible statistic. Between the late 1980s and 1996, during which somewhere around 800,000 Soviet and Russian Jews came to Israel, the Jewish state’s unemployment rate actually dropped. That is, Israel absorbed an immigration explosion that increased its population by about 15 percent so smoothly that unemployment actually went down.

How? Well, broad economic trends tend to be driven by multiple factors, but one of them surely was that Israel benefited greatly from Russia’s Jewish brain drain. (It turns out the real “Jewish Problem” is not having enough Jews.)

It is the intangible part of population shifts, as Americans—also citizens of a country blessed by immigration waves—well know.

This is what came to mind when I read the story in the Montreal Gazette about one of Canada’s leading doctors leaving the country for the U.S., largely over anti-Semitism, and decamping to Atlanta. Dr. Emmanuel Moss is the chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He is also, according to the website of McGill University, where Moss directs the cardiac surgery residency training program, “one of the only surgeons in Canada routinely performing both robotic mitral valve and coronary bypass surgeries.” The president of Quebec’s association of cardiothoracic surgeons said that Moss is “ultra-specialized in robotic surgery” and “in the prime of his career.”

Canada’s loss, our gain.

There’s more to the significance of this than one man’s life-saving talent, of course. And to be fair, anti-Semitism isn’t the only reason Moss was reportedly unhappy. He has been warning of the hospital system’s staffing and equipment shortfalls. But, as noted in the piece, those aren’t new problems. Anti-Semitism, as one source put it, has reached a tipping point: “The problems with the health system have existed for years, and [Moss] could have left at any time before. So what it comes down to is the antisemitism and the feeling that this (city) has become an increasingly dangerous or unrecognizable place to live.”

We can zoom out several ways here. First, I’ve written here at length about Canada’s anti-Semitism problem and the lack of initiative being taken to stop it. So it isn’t all that surprising that a certain number of Jews would leave as long as the status quo remained or worsened. What’s worth adding here is that this is Canada, our neighbor to the north, and not some far-flung post-Soviet province.
The Joyless Art of Jew-Hatred By Abe Greenwald
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Regarding the “moral” satisfaction of Jew-hating, he writes: “The antisemite does not feel like a bully. His experience is one of courage. He is exposing hidden power. Defending society. Cruelty becomes public service.”

Here’s a disturbing recent social media clip that’s especially helpful on this point. It shows a musclebound white nationalist harassing a Jewish man in Nashville a few weeks ago. He says things such as “You’re so Jewish and disgusting looking. You’re so Jewish it’s hideous” and “You’re Jewish scum. You got Israel. Go to Israel…you cross eyed Jew…look at this dysgenic Jew.” He’s not exposing or defending anything. There is no sense of public service. What you see is bullying distilled down to its very essence, the high-school locker room in the public square. The unsalvable personal insecurity of the harasser is visceral. Like all bullies, he just wants to make someone else feel as worthless as he feels about himself. To his target’s credit, it didn’t work.

As for the “entertainment” factor, Pittinsky writes, “These pleasures—revelation, belonging, moral certainty—are not merely felt. They are performed. Antisemitism has always understood spectacle. During Crusader massacres along the Rhine, mobs formed through religious processions full of hymns, banners, and ecstatic collective emotion. Later centuries would perfect the form with burning Judas effigies, parades, costumes, cheering crowds. Antisemitism survives not merely as doctrine but as collective entertainment.”

I fear Pittinsky is mistaking frenzy for entertainment. Mobs of the like-minded—whether hateful or religious or merely delinquent—feed on group hysteria to give their pursuits a kind of cheap transcendence. The spectacle isn’t entertainment. It’s a frantic attempt at manufacturing enthusiasm.

Anti-Semites hate Jews not because it’s joyful to hate Jews. They hate Jews because their own lives are joyless. And this is important for Jews to remember because it accounts for the depths of the anti-Semite’s depravity. They’re not celebrating anything, and we shouldn’t view their obsession as a dark party theme. They’re taking out their assorted failures on us. As I’ve said before, anti-Semitism is chicken soup for losers. So long as we recognize that, anti-Semites will never win.
Gerald M. Steinberg: Doctors Without Borders: Promoting Hate Through Medicine
[L]ike other powerful groups in the NGO industry, MSF has become a major platform for political and ideological propaganda campaigns that often accompany wars and terror atrocities.

A major new report by the NGO Monitor research institute... documents how MSF has been transformed from a medical humanitarian organization into one of the most aggressive institutional promoters of anti-Israel messaging, most notably the canard that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

This is far from the only example of MSF's participation in demonization campaigns that are entirely inconsistent with the humanitarian agenda.

On October 7, while Hamas terrorists were still murdering and raping civilians in Israel, dragging hostages into Gaza, and live-streaming their "conquests," MSF officials were accusing Israel of war crimes.

Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, an MSF-affiliated anti-Israel activist, participated in a grotesque press conference organized by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health, to promote the libel.

In a massive understatement, the text acknowledged that MSF lacked the legal expertise to determine genocidal intent – the central element of the crime under international law. But that disclaimer did not stop the organization from running with the libel. At least 272 times.

In parallel, MSF was deafeningly silent on Hamas' real war crimes: embedding of military (terrorist) infrastructure in hospitals (documented by NGO Monitor), schools, and civilian neighborhoods; the theft of humanitarian aid; and the continued holding of Israeli civilian hostages. Across MSF's international social media feeds, hostages were scarcely mentioned – appearing as the primary subject of only three posts out of hundreds.

By embracing false and defamatory accusations, Doctors Without Borders and all who are associated with this NGO have undermined fundamental moral and humanitarian values. They have traded white coats and medical missions for hate slogans and lies.


Daniel Greenfield: EU Sanctions Israel, Welcomes Taliban
[T]he consequence of extremism and violence is an invite to Brussels.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Jewish people and organizations sanctioned by the European Union, like Regavim and Nahala, have engaged in dangerous extremist behavior by establishing new farms in Israel and suing on behalf of farmers in areas that the Muslim terrorists claim for themselves.

Regavim also had the chutzpah to publish a report disproving the lie that there is a campaign of "Jewish settler violence," which in reality consists of radical NGOs funded by the EU staging clashes with local Jewish farmers and then demanding more money from the EU to fight them.

The Taliban invite by the European Commission comes after the Taliban imposed Islamic Sharia laws banning girls from getting an education above the sixth grade, leaving the house without a male guardian, showing their faces or even speaking aloud in public.

If you fight Islamic terrorists, the EU will sanction you, but if you are the terrorists, it will welcome you over for a visit.

The European Union has, however, continued providing 'humanitarian aid' to Afghanistan, with €161 million being dispatched last year as part of over €2 billion since the original Taliban takeover.

Even while the European Union was inviting the Taliban to Brussels, the UN decided, coincidentally, to highlight the EU's contributions to Afghanistan, including "4,300 Sharia compliant loans".

The Taliban will ask the European Union for money and will receive it. In exchange, the Taliban will take back 100 or so Afghan 'migrant' terrorists and criminals. Then it will send 1,000 of them back to the European Union and demand twice as much aid in exchange for taking them back.

The process will continue, and even more of the European Union will turn into Afghanistan.

And the EU will sanction Israel for doing what it won't, by standing up to Islamic terrorism.
Being Jewish with Jonah Platt: Does Antizionism = Antisemitism? The Definitive Answer From MAAZ Founder Adam Louis-Klein
What is antizionism, is it the same as antisemitism, and what can Jewish people actually do about it? Adam Louis-Klein — founder of MAAZ, the Movement Against Antizionism — was deep in the Amazon with no internet when October 7th happened, and what he witnessed when he returned changed everything.

The founder of MAAZ (Movement Against Antizionism) joins Jonah Platt for one of the most clarifying conversations you'll hear on the subject. Adam breaks down why antizionism is not simply antisemitism by another name — it's its own distinct category of bigotry, built on three core libels: colonizer, apartheid, and genocide, each engineered to exploit modern moral sensibilities and justify violence against Jews and Israelis.

00:00 - Antizionism Is A Hate Movement
02:18 - The Three Core Libels: Colonizer, Apartheid, Genocide
09:19 - Why Call It Antizionism, Not Antisemitism?
18:47 - Is There A Legitimate Antizionism?
22:09 - Pre-1948 Jewish Anti-Zionism vs Today
29:19 - How Antizionism Harms Palestinians & Allies
41:29 - The West Bank, Judea & Samaria Debate
49:11 - Reaching Anti-Zionist Jews
55:45 - How To Shut Down Antizionists Online
1:00:00 - A Vision For A Post-Antizionism World


Polanski backs monitoring of British-Israeli nationals who served in the IDF
Green Party leader Zack Polanski is among a group of politicians, activists and academics who have signed a petition calling for British nationals who have served in the IDF since October 2023 to have their movements tracked, urging the government to “support robust war crimes investigations”.

Far-left publication Declassified UK, together with the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), have launched what they describe as “a major campaign to demand the end of impunity for British nationals who fought for Israel in Gaza.”

The petition states that “individuals who have returned from committing war crimes in Gaza may now be living alongside us and working in public institutions such as hospitals, the police, and schools.

“Nobody wants to live next to a war criminal – not least members of the Palestinian community in the UK who have family or friends who have been subjected to war crimes.”

It noted that in May the Metropolitan Police’s War Crimes Unit announced the closure of an investigation into ten British nationals accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting in Gaza. The Met said an effective investigation could not be conducted, nor was there a realistic prospect for a conviction. A number of those behind the dossier submitted to the Met last year are also involved in this latest initiative.
Strictly-Orthodox schoolgirls subjected to antisemitic abuse at A-level exam site
A group of 16-year-old Orthodox Jewish girls from Stamford Hill who were attending New City College in Hackney to sit A-level exams were targeted by antisemitic comments, leading to a second group of students subsequently attending the site to be chaperoned by college staff.

Due to an arrangement with NCC Hackney, students from the Be’er Miriam seminary were scheduled to take A-level exams at the college’s Clapton site 12 days ago, with some sitting a geography exam and others due to sit an English exam later.

According to reports, there were two separate incidents involving strictly- Orthodox girls who had come to sit their geography A-level. The first took place in the toilets, where some of the Jewish girls were reportedly told, “We’re surprised people like you are allowed into here”. In the second, another group of the girls were followed by an NCC Hackney student, who repeatedly chanted “Jew, Jew, Jew” at them.

Staff at the college, which holds an ‘Outstanding’ designation from Ofsted, were informed, which led to the second group of girls attending the site for their A-level English exam being chaperoned during their stay.

In a statement from Be’er Miriam the seminary said: “We are aware of an incident in which students were subjected to antisemitic comments while attending examinations at New City College. Any such incident is deeply concerning. We are, however, grateful to the college leadership team for the speed and seriousness with which the matter was addressed, and for the steps taken to support and safeguard our students.
Thornberry claims Starmer government too soft on Israel over settlements
Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair Emily Thornberry has claimed that the UK government is “failing the Palestinian people” by doing “too little, too late” to prevent Israeli settlement expansion.

Speaking in Westminster on Monday night at an event organised by Medical Aid for Palestinians and the Council on Arab-British Understanding, the Labour MP argued that Keir Starmer’s government had “fallen well short” in taking strong action against Israel since recognising a Palestinian state last September.

“We should be banning the import of goods produced in illegal settlements,” Thornberry said. “We should be placing sanctions on those involved in the settlements, stopping the involvement of any British companies, and coming down hard on insurance networks.”

She continued: “We should make it clear that constructing settlements on the West Bank is unacceptable, and we will do everything possible to stop it.”

Thornberry insisted that diplomatic recognition should have been only the first step: “Where is the second step, where is the tenth step, what are we doing?”


Doctors told me they would refuse to save dying Israelis, says Jewish NHS medic
A Jewish doctor has revealed that some medics have vowed not to save dying patients if they are from Israel.

Baruch, who works in the NHS, was appalled when fellow doctors told him they would refuse to treat Israelis fighting for life in A&E.

He said: “It is very scary to me that I have met doctors who’ve said that they will not, point-blank, treat somebody who has come from certain areas of the world.

"If they are dying in A&E, I’ve been told by doctors that if they’re from Israel, then they will not treat that person. That to me is disgraceful.”

Baruch, his wife Daniella, and their young family, live in Golders Green but are leaving the UK and moving to Israel as Jew-hate continues to surge.

Speaking to ITV News in Golders Green as part of a special report into antisemitism, he also said he had witnessed Jewish patients being refused kosher meals.

The Department of Health said Baruch’s revelations were “shocking”, adding that: “It is unacceptable that people do not currently feel safe working in and using the health service.”

It also acknowledged that “the medical healthcare professional regulatory system is failing to protect Jewish patients and NHS staff.”

Baruch, who works at a London hospital, said rising levels of antisemitism, both in wider society and within the health sector, had contributed to his and his wife’s decision to begin preparations to make aliyah.

They were filmed packing away belongings in their house.


UKLFI Charitable Trust: Silenced No More – Sexual Terror Unveiled
This is a recording of a UKLFI Charitable Trust webinar on Wednesday 27 May 2026 with Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy and Olivia Flasch, chaired by Natasha Hausdorff.

Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy and Olivia Flasch speak about the report they co-authored, along with Adv. Merav Israeli-Amarant and Adv. Meital Nir-Tal, titled "Silenced No More – Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity".

The report sheds light on the systematic sexual violence carried out across the attack sites on 7th October 2023 and subsequently against the hostages in captivity, emphasised by the scale, repetition and continuation of the sustained abuse.

The report is grounded in a unique war crimes archive, and together the report and archive reveal the full scope of the atrocities while providing an evidentiary and legal foundation for future investigation, prosecution, and prevention. The archive will serve both as a historical record and a source of evidentiary material, with the aim of preserving victims’ stories while supporting legal proceedings seeking justice around the world.


Comedy Cellar USA: Live from the Table: Charlie Kirk, Trump and Pro-Israel Conservatives with Daniella Bloom
Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Daniella Bloom to discuss her journey from Democrat to conservative, the rise of anti-Israel sentiment, Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, free speech, Trump, antisemitism and the future of the conservative movement.

Daniella Bloom is a former California Democrat, a psychotherapist, keynote speaker, producer and on-air commentator. She appears regularly on Fox News and is the #1 bestselling author of the Under the Tree series.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:14 New York, Israel, and Changing Political Culture
06:44 From California Democrat to Jewish Patriot
11:43 The Rise of Anti-Israel Voices on the Right
23:52 Daniella Bloom's Charlie Kirk Controversy
31:33 Free Speech, Tucker Carlson, and Conservative Media
40:14 The Digital War and Social Media Influence
44:04 Why Daniella Supports Trump
45:50 Iran, Israel, and American Foreign Policy
49:19 The Future of Gen Z and the Conservative Movement




Carney appoints denier of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' terror status, encampment lawyer to antisemitism council
In response to rising antisemitism in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new racism advisory board on Monday and tasked it with assessing antisemitism in the country.

However, the board included among its members a politician who had previously rejected describing the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades as a terrorist organization, along with a lawyer who had represented anti-Israel encampment activists.

At a speech at the Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, Carney acknowledged that “Canada’s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians.”

He appointed a former senator, Marc Gold; an LGBT activist, Martine Roy; a retired Olympian skater, Catriona Le May Doan; and a Metis advocate, Gary LaPlante, as well as academic Aftab Erfan, litigator Avnish Nanda, and former transport minister, Omar Alghabra, to the Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality, and Inclusion.

Among them, Alghabra, the former president of the Canadian Arab Federation, in a 2004 press release, chided CanWest publications for adding descriptions of Middle Eastern groups as “terrorists” into news wire stories.

The example given in the statement was a National Post story in which the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades was called a terrorist group. CAF and NCCAR argued that the qualifiers about such groups indicated bias toward Arabs and Muslims in reporting.

“CanWest, one of the largest media conglomerates in Canada, is failing its responsibility toward all Canadians, not just Arabs and Muslims,” Alghabra, then-CAF president, said. “The media has moral and ethical obligations to report the facts when it comes to news reporting, not the opinions of their editors.”

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades had been listed by Canada as a terrorist entity in 2003, a year before Alghabra took issue with the descriptor.


Anti-Israel Texas businessman bankrolling PAC pushing trio of Mamdani-backed, far-left NY House candidates
A pro-Palestinian Texas businessman has been bankrolling an anti-Israel super PAC that’s now backing a a trio of insurgent far-left New York congressional candidates, records show.

Hussein “Sam” Mahrouq — the owner of Enterprises International, which runs AutoMax and Dollar Rent-A-Car — donated $400,000 to the American Priorities PAC, which was formed earlier this year as a counter to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The organization said Tuesday it would drop $2 million on TV, streaming and digital ads to boost House candidates, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez and Brad Lander, who have all been endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Some of the PAC’s largest funders were big league donors that helped fuel Mamdani’s winning mayoral campaign last year.

Among them was New York-based Muslim businessman Mohammad Waqas, who funneled $1 million to American Priorities after being the top donor to the pro-Mamdani PAC New Yorkers for Lower Costs.
Mamdani-backed House hopeful Darializa Avila Chevalier called for abolition of prisons, claimed ‘Israel doesn’t exist’
Far-left New York congressional hopeful Darializa Avila Chevalier called for the seizure of property from landlords and the abolition of police and prisons in more unhinged social media posts — in which she also rejected the existence of the state of Israel.

Chevalier, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat in New York’s 13th Congressional District primary later this month, has been endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani despite a series of offensive messages that include calling Joe Biden a “rapist” and “war criminal” during the 2020 presidential election, referring to the US as a “f—ing disgrace,” gleefully talking about wiping her dirty hands on the American flag and describing interracial relationships involving white females as “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.”

The newly revealed posts, all from between 2018 and 2022 on her since-deleted X account and dug up by CNN via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, feature even more hateful takes.

In August 2020, Chevalier, now 32, retweeted a post that read “Israel suddenly disappears, your third emoji is your reaction,” with the reply “Trick question — Israel doesn’t exist!”
Israel a central focus in first debate between Goldman and Lander for NY 10th Congressional District
The first quarter of the inaugural, hour-long debate between Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and former New York City comptroller Brad Lander, who is running to unseat Goldman in New York’s 10th Congressional District, focused on Israel, a subject that has become a litmus test in Democratic politics.

Both Jewish men, who are facing off in a hotly contested race with the primary slated for June 23, describe themselves as liberal Zionists and progressive Democrats. They differ strongly on particulars.

Goldman participated in the Israel Day on Fifth parade on Sunday, which reportedly drew 50,000 participants. “I was proud to march in the Israel Day parade to celebrate the nation and the State of Israel, a Jewish and democratic state that is distinct from its government,” he said.

Lander sat out the parade, as did his supporter Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, who broke with 60 years of precedent for a city mayor by boycotting the pro-Israel event.

Lander said that there are “profound differences” between him and Goldman. The former comptroller said that “while Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, violating Palestinian human rights, I believe we should not be sending additional U.S. military aid to Israel.”

“I have been fighting against the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza since 1990 and have never heard him say the word ‘occupation’ ” Lander said, of Goldman.

Both men say that they oppose the BDS movement to boycott Israel, but Lander said that he understands the recent vote of the Park Slope Food Coop to boycott Israeli products. Constituents are “looking for some way to voice their anger” over the Palestinian plight, he said during the debate.


Student group, banned from University of Colorado, calls for convicted antisemitic fire bomber to be released
One year after Mohamed Sabry Soliman killed Karen Diamond, 82, in an antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colo., the city’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter called for Soliman to be freed.

The chapter said that the attacker “took direct action against a manifestation of genocidal Zionism in our community.”

“We stand with him,” it said.

The University of Colorado has barred the group from hosting events on campus.

Diamond was taking part in a march to support the hostages in Gaza in 2025 when Soliman, who has pleaded guilty, threw Molotov cocktails at demonstrators, killing her and injuring 28 others.

Soliman was sentenced earlier in May to life in prison without possibility of parole and 2,128 years for murder and 100 other charges.

The student group told JNS that Instagram removed its post.

It said that it condemns “the eight consecutive life sentences imposed by the federal government to assassinate him.”

The Anti-Defamation League said that the student group’s post was “unacceptable and simply horrific.”

“The content of the post is beyond reprehensible,” it said. “It is so detached from basic facts, human decency and reality that it would be difficult to take seriously if its message were not so dangerous.”


Most Colorado electeds remain silent on SJP praising last year’s antisemitic firebombing
Colorado’s elected officials remained largely silent after the CU Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine chapter posted a statement supporting the perpetrator of a deadly antisemitic firebombing on the attack’s one-year anniversary.

“Today, Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine publishes this statement in support of Mohamed’s decisive act of resistance against a genocidal global order,” Boulder SJP — which is an unsanctioned campus group — wrote Monday in a since-deleted Instagram post. “We stand with him.”

Last June, Mohamed Soliman attacked a “Run For Their Lives” march — held in solidarity with Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas — on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall using Molotov cocktails. The attack killed 82-year-old Karen Diamond and injured a dozen others. Soliman pled guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

SJP praised Soliman for taking “direct action against one manifestation of the zionist death cult that we have allowed to fester in our city.” The group called his attack “the only sane response available to a rational human being confronted with the normalization of genocide.”

In a statement to Jewish Insider, Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) condemned SJP’s statement as “utterly deplorable.”
Harvard Divinity School Launches Journal Devoted to ‘Queerness,’ ‘Palestinian Liberation’
Harvard University—which is being sued by the federal government for antisemitism, has been laying off employees, and is going around telling courts, Congress, and alumni that federal funding cuts are threatening life-saving cancer research—is launching a new publication named after a Canaanite goddess that the Bible bans.

The first issue of Asherah: A Harvard Divinity School Journal touts "Innovations in Jewish Prayer and Ritual." It is really something to behold, even by the provocative and sophomoric standards of student publications.

While the journal’s website describes it as "a student publication of Harvard divinity school," it also says it was "Created by Shaul Magid," who is not a student but rather the Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence at Harvard Divinity School and a member of the executive committee of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. In his 2023 book, The Necessity of Exile, Magid declared that "Israel is mired in an increasingly chauvinistic ethnonational project," and said that he doesn’t think "that liberalism and Zionism can be seen as compatible in any easy way." The book, he writes, is "in some sense, anti-Zionist" or "more precisely … counter-Zionist." Magid wrote two of the 16 articles in the journal, including a preface that begins, "When we first announced our new Harvard Divinity School Jewish liturgy journal, ASHERAH, we received many responses stretching from congratulations to curiosity to disturbance and even anger."

Magid writes, more than a little defensively, that the name was chosen "not to subvert the norms that constitute Judaism today as much as to enhance them." A reasonable response would be, spare us the enhancement. Deuteronomy 16:21 states: "Do not plant an Asherah for yourself [or] any tree near the altar of Adonoy, your God, that you will make for yourself." Encyclopedia Judaica describes Asherah as "A Canaanite fertility and mother goddess." The Babylonian Talmud, in Sanhedrin 7b, describes it as a tree used for idolatry.
An Elite St. Paul Private School Displayed an Antisemitic Poster to Middle Schoolers—Latest in a Series of Controversies to Roil School With ‘Best Academic Curriculum in Minnesota’
One of the most elite private schools in Minnesota is under fire after its head of school gave a tepid public response—and failed to hold his faculty to account—after a virulently antisemitic cartoon was approved by a teacher and displayed as part of an 8th grader’s social studies project on "Taking a Stand."

The grotesque cartoon, which has since been removed, was displayed at St. Paul Academy and Summit School (SPA) in mid-May. It depicts an ICE officer with an Israeli flag on his chest, pointing his smoking gun downward at a bleeding, dead body clinging to a Palestinian flag. The officer is instructing a class of masked shock troopers, wearing American flag patches, to, "Shoot first. Block the ambulances. Call the victims a terrorist."

It was not until the image was spotted by a horrified parent. When the Jewish advocacy organization StopAntisemitism was notified and posted the image to social media, the tri-fold project board displaying the antisemitic cartoon was removed and the school issued a statement from the head of school, Dr. Luis Ottley—as well as the "director of intercultural life" and the middle school principal—explaining the school’s response to the incident.

Ottley wrote that the school was "examining our process to ensure that the final posters have taken into account how they may be viewed from multiple perspectives in a way that’s consistent with our core values of community, kindness, and belonging," adding that "our students are encouraged to take intellectual risks" and that "on occasion, if the work of learning results in the harm of another community member … our job is to help them learn from their mistake."
Federal judge dismisses Columbia janitors’ suit against anti-Israel occupiers of Hamilton Hall
Colleen McMahon, a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, dismissed a civil rights claim made by two Columbia University janitors, who alleged that they were assaulted and detained during the April 2024 occupation of the school’s Hamilton Hall as part of an anti-Israel protest.

Mariano Torres and Lester Wilson, who are not Jewish, alleged that those who occupied the hall, the group People’s Forum, called them “Jew lover,” “Jew worker” and “Zionist” while preventing them from leaving the building.

Protesters repeatedly asked Torres, “What are you, a Jew lover?” and “Why are you defending them?” per the complaint.

Wilson alleged that protesters mocked him, saying, “You work for the Jews” and “You’re a Zionist.”

The judge granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss the plaintiff’s claims on Monday.

The court concluded that the complaint plausibly alleged that there was an agreement to occupy Hamilton Hall but not that it was a conspiracy with the purpose of depriving Jews, or perceived supporters of Jews, of civil rights.

“The purpose, and the only purpose, of the alleged conspiracy was, in plaintiffs’ own words, ‘to seize and hold Hamilton Hall until such time as Columbia acquiesced to CUAD’s anti-Zionist, anti-Israeli and antisemitic demands,” McMahon wrote, of Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
High school valedictorian yanked from stage after hijacking speech to rant against Israel, ICE
A North Carolina high school valedictorian hijacked her graduation speech to rant against Israel and ICE — and was dramatically yanked from the podium, shocking video showed.

Clayton High School senior Leen Hijaz was delivering the commencement speech Thursday when she ditched her pre-approved remarks, unleashing a fiery tirade blasting immigration enforcement and backing the Palestinian cause, according to ceremony footage and district officials.

“Before I leave the stage, I have one last thing to say. Every single person here has a voice; we have the privilege to use it when millions around the world are struggling and suffering to be heard,” Hijaz raged.

“Whether it’s the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan and so many other countries around the world, or families being torn apart by ICE. These are not just an issue here; they are happening there, they’re happening right here as I speak.

“My point is, we’re not given a voice to stay silent,” she shouted as high school principal Melissa Moore rushed to the stage and cut her off, pulling her by the arm from the microphone, the video showed.

Hijaz then returned to her seat on the stage, smirking and waving to the crowd as she sat down.
Oxford Union president said Hamas would be ‘lauded as heroes’
The Oxford Union president said Hamas would be “lauded as heroes” and claimed that their actions were “proportional”.

Arwa Elrayess also suggested it was “quite rich” for people to “act shocked” by the October 7 atrocities, given the harsh treatment of Palestinians by Israel, according to leaked messages.

She made the remarks in a private WhatsApp group of around 100 students who were about to take up places at Oxford to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Ms Elrayess faced calls to resign as president of the prestigious debating society on Tuesday night, and Oxford University was urged to launch an investigation.

It is the latest scandal to engulf the union, coming just months after its previous president was ousted following comments he made that appeared to celebrate the shooting of Charlie Kirk, the Right-wing US influencer.

During a group conversation about the Israel-Gaza conflict last September, Ms Elrayess explained to incoming students why she thought the West had never recognised Hamas:

During the discussion, Ms Elrayess went on to argue: “I think the severity of resistance is often proportional to the severity of oppression,” and added: “This is not to justify anything, but just to point out that it’s quite rich to allow for decades of systematic oppression and massacres, only to act shocked when the resistance movement responds with proportional severity.”

Challenged by a fellow student in the group, who said: “I’m amazed that you are essentially describing Hamas’s actions as ‘proportional’”, Ms Elrayess responded: “I am, actually. In fact, some would argue it’s less than proportional.

“Have you seen what Israel has put Palestinians through for decades???”
HonestReporting: Follow the Money: How the Muslim Brotherhood Bought a Seat in America's Schools
Qatar has funneled an estimated $100 billion into American universities, and campuses that took the money have up to 300% more antisemitic incidents. That's not a coincidence: Dr. Charles Asher Small has spent 23 years following it.

Dr. Small is the founding director of ISGAP, co-founded with Elie Wiesel in 2003. His research project "Follow the Money" traced how Qatari funding tied to the Muslim Brotherhood rewired academic discourse at America's top universities. Last year, ISGAP played a direct role in the U.S. government designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.

In this episode:
How America's most prestigious universities, including Cornell, Yale, and Georgetown, accepted billions from Qatar and didn't report a dime
The Muslim Brotherhood's 50-year strategic plan to use antisemitism to destroy the West
The Brown University curriculum used in 8,000 American schools that erased Israel from the map
Who really funds the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine
How ideas move from the faculty lounge to the streets




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‘Sorry, there are no Jews allowed’: Israelis denied booking at German hotel
Israeli tourists were recently denied accommodation at a hotel in southern Germany after receiving a message through an online booking site stating, “Sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel,” the Israeli Consulate in Munich said Monday.

The guests were refused by the Hotel zum Hirschen in Lam, Bavaria, according to the Ynet news site, which said a review of the message confirmed its authenticity.

The report did not specify when the message was sent.

The tourists filed a complaint with the Bavarian Justice Ministry’s commissioner for combating antisemitism, the report added.

The guests also filed complaints with Booking.com, which has temporarily removed the property from its platform.

“Are we back in the 1930s?” asked Israeli Consul General Talya Lador, sharing the message in a German-language post on social media.


Regavim urges Israeli authorities to protect Second Temple-era site in Samaria
An Israeli NGO on Tuesday called on authorities to halt illegal Palestinian agricultural development at an ancient archaeological site in northern Samaria, saying the works were damaging antiquities and encroaching on state land.

The Regavim movement, a research-based advocacy organization focusing on land use and sovereignty issues, said it had sent an urgent missive to “relevant authorities” highlighting the developments at Khirbet Farsin, an archaeological site located about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Jewish community of Hermesh in northern Samaria.

According to Regavim, the Palestinian Authority has caused damage to four adjacent plots at Khirbet Farsin, which contains remains dating back roughly 2,000 years to the Second Temple period. The historical site features a Jewish ritual bath, or mikveh, burial caves, underground passages and Ottoman-era structures.

Regavim said aerial photographs indicate that land-clearing and road construction at the site began in 2021 and has accelerated significantly over the past two years. The work is being carried out using heavy machinery without archaeological supervision, causing irreversible damage, it stressed.

The group alleged that the area has been converted into an agricultural plot through plowing, planting and fencing operations, while unauthorized structures have also been erected.

Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, described Khirbet Farsin in a Regavim statement as one of the sites “that tell the story of the Jewish people’s presence in the Land of Israel over thousands of years.”

“Every effort must be made to preserve and protect it,” he added, warning that a “living history book is being erased before our eyes.”

Roi Drucker, Regavim’s field coordinator for Judea and Samaria, said the case reflected a broader pattern of damage to Jewish heritage sites across the territories.

“This is one more example of a widespread and destructive phenomenon in which historical heritage sites throughout Judea and Samaria are being trampled and destroyed,” said Drucker.





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