Friday, June 05, 2026

06/04 Links Pt2: J Street Vindicates Its Critics Once Again; Thank You For Being Decent?; Berlin to rename section of street after Yad Vashem

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: Don't Rush to Blame Israel's Leader for Attacks on Jews in the Diaspora
A sizeable number of British Jews are responding to the current tsunami of antisemitism by blame other Jews. To be precise, one specific Jew. They blame Benjamin Netanyahu. If only he wasn't prime minister, they say, the hatred would fade away. Seriously? You don't have to be a fan of Netanyahu to see how spectacularly and dangerously wrong-headed this is.

Security officials tell us that the Iranian regime is behind the attacks on British Jews, with Iranian cells in Britain posing an acute terrorist threat. Much incitement against Israel and Jews has been generated by the inflammatory hate marches since the atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 - marches organized by Iran, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Imams incite murderous hatred towards Jews in British mosques. Was any of that Netanyahu's fault?

His critics claim he prolonged the war in Gaza in his own interests. But his war aims - to eliminate the threat posed by Hamas and return all the hostages - were shared by the vast majority of Israelis. Are these critics really so ignorant of the terrible threat Iran posed to Israel through its proxy seven-front "ring of fire"? Are they really unaware of the genocidal hatred of Jews held by so many Palestinians?

To hold Netanyahu responsible for the onslaught on Israel and the Jewish people is not just warped and perverse. It's also cowardly and despicable. Blaming the victims like this is not only disgusting, it's also a weapon in the armory of those who want Israel and the Jews destroyed. For shame.
Seth Mandel: J Street Vindicates Its Critics Once Again
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter touched off a row within the Israel-focused Jewish political groups in America two weeks ago by describing the left-wing J Street lobby as a “cancer within the Jewish community.”

He was referring more broadly to a particular trend of American Jews going beyond self-criticism and into territory in which they seek to serve as human shields for anti-Zionists who delegitimize Israel. Nonetheless, it was inflammatory phrasing and Leiter soon toned down his rhetoric while expanding his critique of the progressive group.

Enabling an arms embargo against the Jewish state while at war, he said, isn’t “pro-Israel,” nor was the group’s amplification of Nick Kristof’s now-infamous dog-rape blood libel.

This spurred a brief debate over whether J Street is, as it claims to be, “pro-Israel.”

Meanwhile yesterday J Street announced it would oppose a section of the new U.S. defense bill that would increase military-to-military cooperation between the U.S. and Israel, which is being debated in Congress today.

And that perfectly sums up why it’s so absurd for anyone to claim J Street is pro-Israel. Not because of one position on one bill or one vote, but because it was an example of what J Street does. And an organization is what it does.
Seth Mandel: The Threat of Jean-Luc Melenchon
While there will no doubt be concern about the opportunity that would open for a nationalist right-wing president, Melenchon isn’t less extreme in his own politics. Here’s what he said about Israel and Lebanon this week on social media, flagged by the Algemeiner:

“Israel is invading and annexing all of southern Lebanon. Netanyahu has raised his flag over Beaufort Castle. This French name should remind us of the thousand-year history that binds us to Lebanon. We owe the Lebanese people aid, solidarity, and support in the face of genocidal forces.”

He added: “The aircraft carrier would serve as a more useful symbol in the Mediterranean than in the Strait of Hormuz, to remind Netanyahu that his interference in our elections and his invasions of our allies’ territories are viewed as threats by the French. The UN Security Council must condemn Israel and organize the withdrawal of its forces from the occupied territory.”

So Melenchon believes Lebanon is still a French colony, essentially—that Israel’s seizing of the castle is an act of war against France. Then he accuses Netanyahu of interfering in French elections, suggesting that too is an act of war.

But the last part may be the most deranged. Israel took South Lebanon from Hezbollah, not the Lebanese army. Hezbollah is an Iranian occupation force. Why isn’t Iran’s occupation of South Lebanon viewed as a threat to France? Because when he talks about “invasions of our allies’ territory,” the ally is apparently imperial Iran.

If it sounds crazy to think Melenchon sees Iran as an ally against Israel, it shouldn’t. The Western left has been marching for three years explicitly cheering Hezbollah and Iran. In fact, it’s been cheering loudest for Hamas, the Iranian satrapy that carried out the savage murder spree of October 7, 2023. Hamas recorded its exploits on that day, and admitted to some of the worst of the crimes not caught on camera. If Melenchon’s ideological base can celebrate the Iranian militia carrying out a massive campaign of sexual torture and child murder, why wouldn’t Melenchon also see Iran as the good guy in this fight?

This is something the West needs to grapple with before it gets completely out of hand. It is not that the European left, along with its acolytes in the U.S., want the end of war in the Middle East. It’s that they want a different war—one that pits Western militaries against Israel and fights alongside Iran.

That obviously won’t happen—now. But the desire to reorganize the alliance around Iran and its associated “resistance” movements is there. And it should be a five-alarm fire in any corner of Europe that has retained its sanity.


Joshua Namm: Thank You For Being Decent?
We all know why that sentiment is so common: fear. It is scary to think that we as Jews are, mostly, on our own in the fight against those who hate us. People want to believe that we “need” allies, particularly now, but the problem with that mentality is that we have never had large numbers of non-Jews as allies. Huge throngs of people never show up at the last minute to beat back the “bad guys.” So I don’t understand why we would think that this time is different. It is not. I had hoped that, in the aftermath of the Shoah, America (and possibly Britain), were different. They are not.

We have fought this fight before and, if we have to, will again. No matter what – we always win, we always survive, and we always thrive. So being scared to acknowledge that we are on our own is irrational.

Most importantly, we have what no other nation has – an unshakable connection to Hashem. That faith, and trust, creates an understanding that the most irrational aspect of antisemites is that they never understand that they always lose, and always will. One of the most rational aspects of the Jewish nation is the understanding that Hashem is always with us.

While trust needs to come first, history makes that fact clear. That knowledge is the real, primary, and last reason why, as Jews, we should never live in fear.

The correct attitude was displayed in a different article written almost at the same time. Ruthie Blum gets it right (again) when she expressed a similar attitude and asserted that “Bill Maher deserves praise, not gratitude, for telling the truth about Israel.” After Maher went on a long rampage defending Israel. Maher is a Jew obviously, but the sentiment is the same.

She writes that “Jews shouldn’t need to treat intellectual honesty as heroism. Nor does it behoove us to grab any morsel of sympathy with the hunger of a hostage.”

I wish I had written that.

Blum also points out that “As worthy of praise as Maher might be for his wise and witty words, however, something is disturbing about the elation they elicited. It’s one thing to give credit to those brave enough to tell the truth about Israel and antisemitism. It’s quite another to be grateful for it.”

Exactly.

Never be afraid. Never give up.

Am Yisrael Chai.
Pew poll of 36 countries finds declining support for Israel, Netanyahu
A Pew Research Center poll released on Thursday found that most people in 36 countries around the world have a negative view of Israel and that in many of those countries, the Jewish state’s favorability rating is declining rapidly.

Across the countries Pew examined, which include both close partners of Israel like the United States and Hungary and hostile states like Pakistan, a median of 67% of adults hold an unfavorable view of Israel while just 25% have a favorable one.

Of the 24 countries where Pew asked the same question in 2025, only Greece saw a marginal improvement in its favorability of Israel.

In 13 of those countries, unfavorable opinions of Israel have become more common.

The number of adults saying that they now hold an unfavorable view of Israel compared to a year ago jumped by 10 percentage points in South Korea; nine percentage points in Argentina, Germany, Italy and Nigeria; eight percentage points in Poland and the United Kingdom; seven in the United States; six in Indonesia and South Africa; five in Australia and Canada; and four in Turkey.

“People in all European countries surveyed also give relatively negative assessments of Israel,” Pew stated. “In Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, around half of adults or more say they have a very unfavorable view of the country.”

Pew found that respondents’ views of Israel often tracked the left-right ideological divide, with those on the left having more negative views of Israel and those on the right a more positive view.

“This gap is widest in the U.S.: 83% of liberals and 37% of conservatives have an unfavorable view of the country,” the researchers wrote. “In Australia, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, around nine-in-10 or more among the left have a negative view of Israel.”

“In each of these nations, that share is at least 23 percentage points higher than it is among those on the right,” they wrote.
Maureen Lipman reveals she has had to hire security to protect herself from pro-Palestine activists after Labour's lack of action on anti-Semitism
Dame Maureen Lipman claimed she has been 'forced' to hire security because of Labour's 'inaction' on anti-Semitism.

The Jewish actress, 80, said she has hired protection after 'bigots' tried to have her new stage show cancelled in Aberdeen.

She has claimed that pro-Palestine supporters are boycotting her 'non-political' play, Allegra, over her support for Israel, adding that anti-Semitic caricatures have been shared of her online.

This includes a 'doctored' poster which depicts the actress as having horns and a pitchfork.

Writing in The Spectator about the activists trying to cancel her, Dame Lipman said: 'I am forced by government inaction on anti-Semitism to hire security for the tour.

'A few bigots in Aberdeen have been campaigning to get the show cancelled because of my support for Israel, which they describe as "extremist" and, for good measure, "hateful".

'Online they've circulated a version of the show's poster which has been doctored to give me horns and a pitchfork. That dopey old trope again.'

It comes after Police Scotland was last month criticised for ruling that the 'anti-Semitic' image of Dame Maureen Lipman was not a hate crime.
Britain’s NHS to curb political symbols after antisemitism review
The National Health Service in England will curb political symbols on staff uniforms and require antisemitism training for health leaders after a government-ordered review found Jewish staff and patients face “routine ostracism” and abuse.

In a 60-page report published on Thursday, Lord John Mann, the government’s antisemitism adviser, warned that anti-Jewish hostility in the NHS is so widespread that some patients conceal their identity, delay care or avoid treatment, while Jewish staff “suffer in silence.”

The findings follow a series of disciplinary cases, including two doctors struck off the U.K. medical register for antisemitic conduct and another facing trial on charges of inviting support for Hamas, stirring up racial hatred and using threatening language at a protest.

Under the plans, the chairs and chief executives of all 205 NHS trusts in England will undergo mandatory anti-racism training, including specific modules on antisemitism, within six months, and new national guidance will limit political badges and symbols on uniforms while protecting religious expression.

Officials said the measures are intended to tackle all forms of racism and discrimination in the health service and to restore Jewish patients’ confidence that they will receive equal treatment.

“Since Lord Mann was commissioned to undertake this review, the experience of the Jewish community in this country has only worsened. The arson attack on a Hatzola ambulance station in Golders Green in April was the clearest sign yet of how growing antisemitism in our society has reached our health services,” The Guardian quoted Rebecca Gray, a director at the NHS Alliance, as saying.

“It is vital that Jewish staff and patients feel safe at work, are able to practice and seek treatment without fear of prejudice or abuse, and are provided with the respect and dignity we all deserve,” she continued.

The Department of Health and Social Care said it is “supporting all of the recommendations from Lord Mann’s review to tackle antisemitism and other forms of racism across the NHS.” The department added that this “will mean that both NHS patients and staff will be better protected against hate.”


After pro-Israel PM forms government, Sa’ar says Israel to open embassy in Slovenia
After Slovenia’s parliament approved the formation of a government under newly elected Prime Minister Janez Jansa, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced Thursday that Israel will open an embassy in the Central European country for the first time, after years of sour ties with outgoing premier Robert Golob.

Since relations were established in 1992, Israel’s diplomatic affairs in Slovenia have been handled via the embassy in Vienna, which has served as a non-resident mission.

“Janez Jansa is a clear and steadfast friend of Israel, and his election creates a unique opportunity to advance bilateral relations between our countries, which have been at a low point in recent years due to the hostility of the previous government in Ljubljana,” Sa’ar said in a statement, adding that the Foreign Ministry will “act without delay” to implement the embassy opening.

Jansa, a former nationalist premier, is known as an admirer of US President Donald Trump and a supporter of Israel. After Golob failed to clinch a deal following parliamentary elections in March, he was able to strike a coalition deal to form a government.

Under Golob, Slovenia recognized a Palestinian state in May 2024, and is one of the few EU countries to charge that Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza was a “genocide,” a claim Israel has strongly rejected.

Slovenian public broadcaster RTV was the first in Europe to demand Israel’s exclusion from the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest and boycotted it in 2026, citing the ongoing war in Gaza.

Slovenia also became the first EU country to impose a travel ban on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last September.

Jansa, meanwhile, previously said that if he returns to power, he will relocate Slovenia’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and rescind Ljubljana’s recognition of Palestine.


Ami’s House: The Real Strategy to DESTROY Israel?
Nuclear bombs failed. Tank invasions failed. The ring of fire failed. So what is the new strategy to destroy Israel?

United States District Judge Roy K. Altman explains the long game: a 30-to-40-year plan to demonize and isolate Israel until scientists, professors, and doctors voluntarily give up their Israeli passports to work on the global stage. Nicholas Kristoff is a frontline soldier in that war one brick in the wall, one cut in the death by 10,000 cuts strategy.

Judge Altman also breaks down why the real audience is never the true believers, it is the massive middle electorate that does not care about Israel but is being slowly poisoned by false narratives. And why you should always bring a map of the Middle East: it is not 7 million Jews against 6 million Palestinians. It is 7 million Jews surrounded by 2 billion Muslims, with Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Iran all aimed at their destruction.

Breakdown:
0:00 The New Strategy: Demonize and Isolate
0:47 The 30-40 Year Plan to Empty Israel
1:17 Martin Luther King Was a Zionist — And They Will Fail
1:50 Roger Waters, Bricks in the Wall & Death by 10,000 Cuts
2:37 Kristoff on Bill Maher: A History of Obfuscation
3:03 The NYT Ran a Defense Piece — And It Revealed Insecurity
4:00 Islamophobia vs. Antisemitism: What the FBI Data Says
4:58 How Do You Fight Propaganda Without Being Reactionary?
6:08 The Middle Electorate Is Who We Are Fighting For
7:50 Inoculating People With the Right Methodology
9:07 Israel: A Victim of Its Own Success
10:01 Always Bring a Map of the Middle East
10:45 7 Million Jews vs. 2 Billion Muslims: The Real Scale
12:40 Closing: Zoom Out for the Full Picture


Israeli UN ambassador reveals shocking antisemitic question Tucker Carlson asked him during wartime phone call
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations revealed the shocking question antisemitic provocateur Tucker Carlson asked him during a phone call at the height of the Israel-Hamas War.

Danny Danon, who is currently serving his second stint as Israel’s representative in the United Nations, recounted the odd conversation during a talk at the Jewish Policy Center.

Carlson, an ousted Fox News host who holds frequent tête-à-têtes with antisemites, called Danon and demanded he be taken “off the list.”

Danon, startled by the meandering line of questioning, asked Carlson to clarify.

“He told me, ‘I’m being attacked by the Jews, so maybe you have, like, a list. Can you take me off the list?’,” Danon explained during the talk.

Danon effortlessly schooled Carlson on the reality of the attention he will inevitably attract while leading the charge against Israel.

“I told him, ‘Mr.Carlson, we don’t have a list. You are being attacked because you’re spreading lies, blood libels against our soldiers’,” Danon said.

“I told him, ‘You’re spreading antisemitism. You are hosting antisemites, so you are being attacked’,” he added.

Carlson has previously platformed people like Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes and Holocaust denier Candace Owens.

When their call wrapped, Danon suggested that “maybe we should have a list” to monitor bigots who spread hate online.


‘Squad’-backed NJ Dem Adam Hamawy spent a month at Gaza hospital where Israelis later exposed tunnels and found Sinwar
The New Jersey Democrats’ newly crowned nominee for the 12th Congressional District race, Adam Hamawy, once spent a month at a hospital in Gaza, which he insisted was “completely benign” months before the Israelis found a tunnel system leading to a Hamas leader.

Hamawy, an Egyptian-born former combat surgeon, had done volunteer work at Gaza’s European Hospital in May 2024 for several weeks and later publicly fended off accusations that Hamas was operating there.

“In my three weeks at the European Hospital, I did not see a single weapon. Not one rifle. Not one pistol. Not one grenade launcher. This was a completely benign civilian hospital with no tunnels underneath it,” he told Jacobin Magazine months later in August 2024.

Questions about Hamawy’s shocking ties to people or organizations associated with terrorism loomed over his campaign, but there hasn’t been proof that he was personally involved in terrorism.

Notably, Hamawy fought for the US in the Iraq War, where he served as a surgeon and later received awards for his service. Sen. Tammy Duckwork (D-Ill.) has said he saved her life after she was injured when her helicopter was taken down.

The future congressional hopeful reiterated his claims about the hospital in Gaza being benign multiple times publicly, as the Washington Free Beacon reported.


Avila Chevalier attended the Oct. 8 pro-Palestinian rally Lander condemned
One of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsed congressional candidates cut ties with the Democratic Socialists of America for promoting a controversial pro-Palestinian rally the day after Hamas attacked Israel. The other candidate attended that rally.

Brad Lander said at a NY1 debate Monday he canceled his decades-old DSA membership after the socialist organization “advertised a rally that I thought was heinous, that spoke about Hamas in ways that I just thought were vile.” He was referring to the gathering in Times Square on Oct. 8, 2023 organized by leftist groups like The People's Forum and Al-Awda New York, where rallygoers held signs such as “Resistance is Justified when People are Occupied.”

The rally was widely criticized by political leaders who saw it as condoning the violence by Hamas fighters, who killed nearly 1,200 Israelis the day before. Gov. Kathy Hochul called it “abhorrent and morally repugnant” when it was announced. NYC-DSA even distanced itself from the rally, and apologized for the “confusion” caused by its social media post advertising the event. All of the democratic socialist legislators, including then-Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, avoided the rally.

But Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is now running for Congress against Rep. Adriano Espaillat, was there in Times Square.

“I can only say I have been advocating for the human rights of Palestinians for my adult life. And as someone who has seen a pattern, whenever anything happens on the ground (in Israel), there's always a really outsized reaction that costs thousands of people their lives,” Avila Chevalier told City & State on Thursday. “And that is what I was worried about.”

By the time people were rallying on Oct. 8 2023, Israeli forces had immediately responded to the Hamas attack with airstrikes on Gaza, killing hundreds of people.


UK government rules out resumption of Israel trade talks
Business Secretary Peter Kylie has reiterated there are currently “no plans” by the government to restart trade negotiations with Israel.

At a Westminster lunch for journalists he was asked about the possibility of resuming negotiations and confirmed: “I am watching very closely; there are no plans to restart immediately.”

Former Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the suspension of trade talks in May 2025 in response to Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza, as well as the worsening situation in the West Bank due to settlements and violence.

At the time, a spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry claimed that trade negotiations had already stalled and described the move, along with the announcement of further sanctions, as “unjustified.”

Despite the pause in Free Trade Agreement negotiations, trade has continued under the original Trade and Partnership Agreement, which was rolled over from pre-Brexit EU-Israel treaties.

Kylie had previously appeared to hint that the suspension could be lifted following the implementation of phase two of the Gaza ceasefire and the start of the second stage of Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan.

But government sources were quick to row back on suggestions earlier this year that a resumption of trade talks between the UK and Israel were imminent.
Celtic fan group opposes manager role for Robbie Keane over his previous Maccabi Tel Aviv job
An anti-Israel Celtic fan group is opposing the potential appointment of Robbie Keane as manager of the Glaswegian club on the basis of his stint in charge of Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Keane led the Israeli side to the league title in the 2023/24 season, his only full season in the Jewish state, which coincided with Israel’s war with Hamas after October 7.

Celtic Fans for the Liberation of Palestine said that they “oppose the proposed appointment” of Keane, who spent the second half of the 2009/10 season at Celtic as a player.

“Celtic supporters have a long and proud history of solidarity with the Palestinian people,” the letter read.

“For us, Robbie Keane’s decision to manage Maccabi Tel Aviv during the genocide in Gaza is impossible to ignore.

“To choose to manage a club in Israel while, less than 40 miles away, the same country was using indiscriminate weapons of mass murder against a defenceless people is unconscionable.”

Keane became manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv in June 2023, three months before October 7. During his tenure, he neither endorsed nor criticised Israel’s military actions, drawing criticism from both inside and outside the country.


Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed makes explosive allegations against his own family as he breaks down in tears after being charged with assault
Bondi terror attack hero Ahmed Al Ahmed broke down in tears on Friday as he denied allegations he attacked his father - and claimed family members have been trying to extort him out of his $2.6million GoFundMe fortune.

Ahmed, 44, was issued a court attendance notice on Wednesday for alleged domestic violence offences of common assault and stalking or intimidation with intent to cause fear of physical harm.

The charges relate to an alleged incident at a Bankstown home on March 9, which was reported to police almost a week later. Ahmed is due to appear before Bankstown Local Court on July 29.

Police allege Ahmed placed his elderly father in a headlock during the incident.

An Apprehended Violence Order has also been taken out on behalf of his father, preventing Ahmed from assaulting, stalking, harassing or contacting him. He must also remain at least 100m away from his father's home and workplace.

Speaking to 2GB's Ben Fordham on Friday, Ahmed denied the allegations and became emotional as he claimed he was the victim of an extortion plot by family members over the millions donated to him after his act of heroism at Bondi.

He claimed the dispute began in February after tensions arose over money from his recovery fundraiser, when two of his brothers arrived in Australia to support him.

'They've harassed and abused me and pushed to get money from me before they leave Australia, because I've been sponsoring them and brought them to Australia,' Ahmed claimed.

Ahmed alleged both his brothers demanded $100,000 each, while he claimed his father had asked for half the money raised through the GoFundMe campaign.

Ahmed said his brothers travelled to Australia on three-month visas but alleged they later refused to leave.

Ahmed claimed the relationship with his father deteriorated after he reported his brothers' alleged extortion attempts to police.


Oxford Union to host banned US commentators via livestream after UK denies them entry
Two anti-Israel American commentators who were denied entry to the UK will address an Oxford Union event via livestream instead, organizers said Thursday, justifying the move in the name of freedom of speech.

Earlier this week, Britain blocked Cenk Uygur, a left-wing Turkish-American media personality, and his nephew, Hasan Piker, a US left-wing commentator and influencer, from entering the country to speak at events.

The pair were to address the Oxford Union, a debating society based in the university city of Oxford and whose members primarily come from the university.

They will instead participate in the event via livestream on Saturday, June 6, the UK’s Jewish News outlet reported.

“This event will not be cancelled,” said the president of the Oxford Union Arwa Elrayess. “The Union will ensure this discussion takes place. Free speech does not require a visa.”

“The Oxford Union was founded on one principle: that ideas are challenged through debate, not silenced by decree,” she said. “We have never turned a speaker away because of their political beliefs, nor have we sought a permission slip from the state. We will not start now.”
Calls for Oxford Union president to resign after hailing Hamas as ‘future heroes’
Arwa Elrayess, a politics, philosophy, and economics (PPE) student and the first Palestinian to serve as president of the Oxford Union debating society, is facing backlash after saying Hamas will one day be “lauded as heroes.”

Elrayess made the remarks, which recently came to light, in a student WhatsApp group of about 100 incoming freshmen in September 2025, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.

She also described the terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of the northwestern Negev as “proportional,” claiming that after “decades” of mistreatment of Palestinians by Israel, “You can’t be surprised [by the events of Oct. 7.]”

“Proportional does not mean ‘right’ by the way. Just that you can’t be shocked that it happened,” she added.

“Any resistance group will inevitably be deemed a ‘terrorist’ organization by the West until they achieve their liberation (by which time, they’ll be lauded as heroes, as history has proven),” Elrayess said. She cited the Irish Republican Army and Palestine Liberation Organization as examples.

Some members of the WhatsApp group challenged her comments, saying Hamas’s massacres had been “too severe and bad” to consider them freedom fighters.

“I think the severity of resistance is often proportional to the severity of oppression,” she said, according to the Daily Mail.

“It’d be laughable if any Palestinian group tried to gain their freedom through, for example, chaining themselves to the gates of the borders. There were various, more peaceful forms of resistance in the past that ended with nothing but massacres.

“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,” Elrayess said.

Oxford Students Against Discrimination said it was “appalled” by Elrayess’s messages “at a time when Jewish students at Oxford have faced an unprecedented rise in harassment, intimidation, and fear.


Dutch court rejects appeal by Jewish group, rules Kanye West allowed to perform
A judge in Amsterdam on Wednesday rejected an appeal by a Jewish organization to block two performances by the rapper Kanye West, ruling that the concerts are not a threat to public order.

West has drawn widespread controversy in recent years for a series of antisemitic remarks, leaving Dutch authorities under mounting pressure to cancel the gigs on June 6 and 8.

The Central Jewish Council filed the emergency lawsuit on Tuesday, arguing that West should be banned from the country for voicing admiration for Adolf Hilter and selling T-shirts featuring swastikas.

According to the Amsterdam District Court, there were no grounds to bar West from performing. “There are no indications that West’s presence in the coming days will lead to concrete public order dangers,” the court said in a statement.

The Central Jewish Council expressed disappointment with the ruling. “The feeling we are getting is that it is okay if you are antisemitic,” Chanan Hertzberger, the organization’s chair, told The Associated Press.

Lawmakers in the Netherlands supported a motion to bar the artist from entering the country but the country’s immigration minister said there was no legal basis for such a move. West’s remarks were “reprehensible” but there was “no reason to bar him,” Bart van den Brink told journalists last week.
Bronx woman charged with hate crime after allegedly attacking Jewish subway rider, shouting ‘Jews are eating kids’
A Bronx woman was arrested and charged with hate crimes after allegedly assaulting a Jewish woman aboard a New York City subway train while shouting antisemitic slurs, authorities said.

A spokesperson for the New York City Police Department told JNS that Diana Smith was taken into custody on Sunday after officers responded to a report of an assault in progress on a northbound train at the Canal Street subway station in Lower Manhattan.

According to police, the 23-year-old victim reported that Smith approached her, made antisemitic remarks and then repeatedly struck her, pushed her to the floor and attempted to choke her. Emergency medical personnel treated the victim at the scene for minor injuries, the NYPD said.

Video recorded by the victim shows the assailant shouting, “Jews are eating kids,” a modern variation of the centuries-old antisemitic blood libel falsely accusing Jews of murdering children.

“You’re a Jew, I smell the kids,” the woman says in the footage, before lunging toward the victim and shouting, “It’s okay for her to eat a kid, but I can’t choke her down?”
Mamdani under fire for silence on harrowing antisemitic NYC subway attack: ‘No leadership’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani came under fire Thursday for failing to denounce the disgusting antisemitic attack of a Big Apple nurse on the subway — which came as the city saw a shocking 70% spike in anti-Jewish crimes.

Hizzoner was ripped by religious advocates and some fellow local pols for his silence after a 23-year-old Jewish woman was assaulted Sunday on a C train by a raging sicko who shouted “Jews are eating kids” at her and ripped out a chunk of her hair.

“Four days after a deranged antisemitic woman on the NYC subway brutally harassed and assaulted a Jewish girl ripping out her hair while screaming medieval blood libels like ‘Jews are eating kids,’ Mayor Zohran Mamdani has remained silent,” said Moshe Spern, a public school educator and the head of the advocacy group United Jewish Teachers.

“No statement. No condemnation. No leadership.”

Video of the hateful attack circulated on social media in the aftermath of the incident, showing the suspect — identified by cops as 45-year-old Diana Smith — spouting off the deranged comments about Jewish people as she came face-to-face with the victim.

“I was a ragdoll and I couldn’t defend myself — there should have been a human barricade around me,” the young Orthodox Jewish victim, who asked that her name be withheld, told The Post on Wednesday, recalling how the attacker yanked out her hair and shoved her to the ground.

Smith, whom law enforcement sources said has a history of mental illness, is facing hate crime charges, including for assault, according to the NYPD.


Travelodge investigates after ‘Free Palestine’ message appears on Jewish guest’s TV
Travelodge is investigating allegations of antisemitism after a visibly Orthodox Jewish tourist discovered a “Free Palestine” message displayed on his hotel television during a stay at a Travelodge in Finsbury Park.

Sruly Fogel, 24, from New York, was staying at Travelodge Manor House in Finsbury Park on Wednesday while visiting the UK for a friend’s wedding when the incident allegedly occurred.

Speaking exclusively to Jewish News, Fogel said he had checked into the hotel after arriving from the United States before noticing the message on the screen in his room.

“We just went to our room and all of a sudden someone put on the TV, and it came up, ‘Hi, welcome, Free Palestine,’” he said.

Fogel said the discovery left him feeling frightened and vulnerable.

“It was really, really uncomfortable and I didn’t feel safe,” he told Jewish News.

According to a report submitted to police, Fogel also alleged that a member of hotel staff appeared hostile towards him when he checked in. He said the interaction took on greater significance after discovering the message on the television screen.

Fogel said the five-member group he was travelling with had booked two rooms at the hotel and discovered the same message displayed on televisions in both rooms.


Tower of David Museum wants your old Western Wall photos
Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum is asking for historical photos of the Western Wall, from the 1860s through 1968, the year following the Six Day War.

The museum is planning a 2027 exhibit, “Eyes on the Wall,” marking 60 years since the 1967 reunification of Jerusalem, exploring the ancient wall’s history across two millennia, through the eyes of those who visited and worshiped at its stones.

As part of the research for the exhibition, the museum is asking the public to help expand its visual archive of the Western Wall.

“There is something profoundly moving about the moment when an intimate family photograph crosses the boundary from private memory into shared heritage,” said curator Shimon Lev. “Through this initiative, we hope to uncover additional visual testimonies that illuminate and preserve not only the stones of the Western Wall, but the human experience of encountering across generations.”

A Montreal professor, David Freedman, recently discovered the photo album of his grandfather, Dr. Abraham Orkin Freedman, a Canadian physician who lived in Jerusalem in the 1920s and documented the city and its residents.
Berlin to rename section of street after Yad Vashem
The Berlin Senate has decided that a prominent street near the German Reichstag will be officially renamed Yad Vashem Street, after Israel’s Holocaust museum, symbolizing the importance of Holocaust remembrance and sending a strong message against antisemitism.

The future Yad Vashem Street in Berlin will border Wilhelmstrasse, which was the center of power during the Nazi era, housing both Hitler’s Reich Chancellery and the Reich Security Main Office.

The official renaming ceremony is scheduled for January 20, 2027, the 85th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference. On Jan. 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials met in a villa on Berlin’s Lake Wannsee to coordinate the mass murder of millions of Jews across Europe.

“The symbolism of the date is enormous. There could hardly have been a better one for the day of the renaming,” said Kai Diekmann, chair of the Friends of Yad Vashem. “With this, Berlin is sending a powerful message against antisemitism and for preserving the memory of the crimes against humanity committed in the name of Germany.

The announcement comes less than a week after Yad Vashem announced that it selected Munich as the site for its first Holocaust education center outside Israel as part of its effort to expand Holocaust education and combat rising antisemitism and historical distortion in Europe.





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