Wednesday, July 22, 2026

07/21 Links Pt2: The Church of England has betrayed British Jews – again; Australia has ‘disturbing parallels’ with Nazi Germany; The lies behind Mamdani’s Netanyahu stunt are the real threat

From Ian:

The Dangers of Dog Whistles
Political scientists describe the range of ideas treated as acceptable in mainstream discourse as the Overton window, and coded language is one of the most efficient tools for shifting the window over time. A claim too radioactive to state directly gets introduced in euphemism, absorbed as normal, and then, because it no longer shocks, becomes available for a more overt statement by the next speaker. Researchers tracking this pattern have pointed to figures like Tucker Carlson, who took replacement theory language from its fringe, explicitly anti-Jewish origins and delivered a version of it, describing an effort to “replace the current electorate… with new people… from the Third World,” to a mainstream cable audience. Carlson stripped most overt of the anti-Jewish framing but left its basic structure intact. Once that version is broadcast and normalized, the fuller, more explicit version becomes an easier next step for anyone already primed toward it.

The platforms that carry this language today reward exactly the dynamic that makes it dangerous. Long form, low pushback interview formats, hours of unchallenged conversation, are especially efficient vehicles, because ambiguous claims can be floated, sit unexamined by the host, and reach enormous audiences before anyone fact-checks them. Researchers who study platform radicalization describe a pipeline effect: audiences move from ambiguous, “just asking questions” content toward progressively more explicit material, because engagement driven recommendation systems reward escalation over caution. The mechanism doesn’t require any deliberate strategy on the part of a host or platform. It emerges naturally from incentives that favor the more provocative claim over the more careful one.

This is the sharpest edge of the danger, and it has a name. Stochastic terrorism describes how hostile rhetoric, repeated and amplified across media, statistically raises the likelihood that some unknown individual, somewhere, commits ideologically motivated violence, without any direct coordination or explicit instruction from the person whose rhetoric inspired it. The concept traces to a 2002 risk modeling paper by analyst Gordon Woo and was popularized in its current form around 2011. Researchers who study it describe a three part chain. An originator deploys hostile, coded rhetoric while maintaining plausible deniability. Amplifiers (media outlets, platforms, algorithms) repeat and spread the rhetoric. Receivers, individuals already primed by exposure to the underlying conspiracy, act on the rhetoric without ever having been in direct contact with the originator.

This isn’t an abstract model. Robert Bowers, who killed eleven people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, spent the weeks before the attack posting on the platform Gab that the refugee resettlement group HIAS “likes to bring invaders in that kill our people.” Bowers blended replacement theory anti-immigrant rhetoric with older conspiracy theories about George Soros and Jewish organizations secretly directing immigration policy with coded language he had absorbed, restated, and ultimately acted on. Months later, John Earnest opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, citing the same replacement theory framework and explicitly blaming Jews for orchestrating demographic change. Brenton Tarrant‘s 2019 Christchurch mosque attack manifesto was titled, without irony, “The Great Replacement.” Patrick Crusius, who killed twenty-three people in El Paso that same year, referenced a “Hispanic invasion” of Texas in language that drew on the same replacement framework, minus the explicitly anti-Jewish layer but built on the identical structure. None of these men were following direct orders from anyone. All of them were downstream of language that had been circulating in increasingly mainstream form for years before they picked up a weapon.

The scale of what that produces is measurable. The ADL’s 2024 audit recorded 9,354 anti-Jewish incidents in the United States, the highest total in the organization’s 46 year tracking history. This was a 5 percent rise over 2023, an increase of 344 percent over five years, and 893 percent increase over the past decade. Assaults rose 21 percent year over year, vandalism rose 20 percent, and incidents on college campuses rose 84 percent, now accounting for the highest share of total incidents on record. None of that traces to a single podcast episode or a single politician’s word choice. It traces to a decades long accumulation of coded and semi-coded language that made the underlying ideas feel, to enough people, like something other than what they actually are.

None of this means every use of a loaded word is evidence of bigotry, and it’s worth saying plainly that overcorrecting carries its own cost. “Globalist” is sometimes just a policy label. Skepticism about a specific intelligence agency’s conduct is not automatically an anti-Jewish accusation. Treating every instance of contested vocabulary as proof of hidden intent empties the term “dog whistle” of its actual meaning and makes it easier for bad faith critics to dismiss real instances as overreach. The useful distinction isn’t between words that are always innocent and words that are always coded. It’s between an isolated, ambiguous phrase and a documented pattern, repeated across time, drawing recognizably on a specific and traceable lineage, delivered to an audience where at least some listeners will receive the second meaning whether or not the speaker intended to send it.

That distinction is the actual danger of a dog whistle: not the phrase itself, but what repeated, deniable exposure to the phrase does over time. It reaches the people who already believe the conspiracy underneath it and gives them confirmation. It slowly acclimates a much larger audience that never consciously signs on to anything. And in the worst and rarest cases, it reaches the handful of listeners who decide the coded version was never coded enough and act on the plain meaning they hear underneath. Recognizing the vocabulary, knowing that “globalist” has a lineage running through Bannon back to Stalin’s purges, that “secret banker” runs through the Rothschild pamphlets to the Protocols, that “replacement” runs through Camus to Charlottesville to a string of synagogue and mosque shootings, isn’t about assuming bad faith in every speaker who reaches for a loaded word. It’s about being able to tell, over time and in aggregate, when a pattern with a documented, century-long track record is being repeated in front of an audience of millions, regardless of who happens to be holding the microphone that day.
The Church of England has betrayed British Jews – again
Endorsing Kairos II without this history of anti-Semitism would have been bad enough. But given the Christian church’s record of Jew hatred, voting in favour of this document makes it significantly worse. It has lent authority to the modern blood libel that Israel is deliberately murdering Palestinians as part of a genocidal campaign. Kairos II also leans on a theology in which Jesus is refashioned as a Palestinian martyr – a modern update of the medieval ‘Christ killer’ myth. It even offers moral cover for the 7 October massacres by framing them inside a narrative of righteous resistance.

The church’s endorsement of Kairos II has left Britain’s Jewish community shattered. UK chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said: ‘It is truly shocking that a document which purports to speak in the name of truth contains so much falsehood.’ He also warned that it risks undermining relations between Christians and Jews. Indeed, it already has.

Here is the double betrayal. The first victims are British Jews, watching an ancient institution rehabilitate a modernised version of the oldest lies in Christian anti-Semitism. The second victim is less discussed but no less wronged: Middle Eastern Christians. Kairos II places the blame for Christian suffering on Israel, while staying entirely silent on the reasons Christian populations have collapsed across the Palestinian territories. It is a silent exodus driven only partially by the conflict, but also by land-grabbing from Muslim clans, as well as extortion and Sharia-based discrimination under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. It says nothing about the Christians harassed out of Bethlehem and Gaza by their own neighbours. Instead, it pins the blame exclusively on the Jews.

With a few honourable exceptions, Synod chose to ignore the fact that one of the few places in the Middle East where Arab Christians hold full rights, worship freely and are growing rather than vanishing is Israel. That isn’t the case in the Palestinian territories, and legitimising this text does nothing to improve the lives or safety of Christians in the region.

History shows us that poisonous documents like Kairos II seldom remain theoretical. They outlive those who draw them up and can even end in bloodshed. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion – which gave rise to the belief that influential Jews rule the world – remains popular, particularly in Muslim countries in the Middle East. Let’s be under no illusion: by promoting Kairos II, at a time of unprecedented anti-Semitism and rising threats to British Jews, the church has chosen to fan the flames of prejudice.

The church didn’t have to choose. It could have stood with persecuted Christians in the Middle East by naming their actual, Islamist persecutors and taken a position more conducive to genuine peace in the Middle East. Instead, the church has reached for that trusty old hatchet: it’s all the fault of the Jews.
Where does new UK premier Andy Burnham stand on Israel and antisemitism?
Recent comments on Gaza
Burnham has been critical of Israel’s military campaign in the aftermath of October 7. He doubled down in a leadership campaign video released last week and took his own party to task.

He condemned Hamas and once again rejected antisemitism, but he argued Britain should “do more to put pressure on the Israeli government,” including considering further restrictions on arms exports and action against illegal West Bank settlements.

“I know many people feel that at the start of Israel’s military action in Gaza, my party didn’t get it right, and I am sorry about that,” he said. The party was “too slow to call for a ceasefire.”

He called images from Gaza “a scar on our collective conscience.”

His comments reflect a parliamentary push across the board that Britain should do more to take action against Israel, including supporting a ban on all Israeli goods coming from the West Bank — something that Ireland and other European countries have been pushing for.

In his video, Burnham stopped short of describing Israel’s actions as genocide, saying that such a determination should be made by international courts.

Mixed reaction in Jewish community
The video drew a swift response from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council. Burnham had seen “first hand the links between hatred of Israel, antisemitic extremism and deadly violence against British Jews,” the groups said.

They urged Burnham and other political leaders to “show the utmost care in their rhetoric” at a time when antisemitism in Britain had become “more normalized, more extreme and more violent.”

British Jews will watch closely how Burnham balances his longstanding engagement with the Jewish community and his increasingly critical stance toward the Israeli government. Members of the Jewish community watch as forensic officers search the area after two people were stabbed in north London’s Golders Green neighborhood, on April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

The Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Chief Executive Gideon Falter read aloud an open letter to Burnham on Monday calling on him to take a stand against the rise in antisemitism in the country.

“Your legacy will not be remembered solely in terms of tax rates and hospital waiting times,” Falter said. “It will be whether Jews were murdered or thrived in Andy Burnham’s Britain.”

Board of Deputies President Phil Rosenberg congratulated Burnham on X, and welcomed the new prime minister’s “early commitment to tackling antisemitism,” and that the Board “will work with his administration towards the UK playing its strongest role in global peace and security.”

Ephraim Mirvis, the country’s chief rabbi, posted a photo on X of himself and Burnham and offered a blessing.

“He assumes the immense responsibility of leadership at a time of great challenge, both at home and abroad,” Mirvis said. “May he be blessed with the wisdom, strength and good judgment to keep our country safe and may his service bring prosperity and harmony for all.”


Australia has ‘disturbing parallels’ with Nazi Germany, says Shoah survivor representative
The president of Australia's Holocaust survivors’ association has warned that the country's worsening antisemitism has “disturbing parallels” with the climate that preceded the Holocaust.

Speaking to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion George Foster OAM, president of the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants, stressed that Australia was not “becoming another Germany in the 1930s”, pointing to the country's democratic institutions and legal system.

“However… I can't ignore certain disturbing parallels in the social atmosphere,” Foster told the commission in Melbourne. He cited “the exclusion of Jews from parts of public life, the normalisation of antisemitic language, dehumanising descriptions of Jews, conspiracy theories, the resurgence of antisemitic tropes, attacks on Jewish schools, synagogues and businesses, and fear about displaying Jewish identity publicly”.

Foster, who was born in Hungary to Holocaust survivors before emigrating to Australia in 1947, recalled his “shock” at the anti-Israel demonstration outside the Sydney Opera House on October 9, 2023, two days after Hamas's massacre in Israel.

“I never thought that I would see such a thing in this country,” he told the Commission on Monday.

His evidence came as the commission examined the security challenges facing Jewish institutions, with synagogue leaders, educators and communal representatives describing the profound impact of nearly two years of sustained antisemitic incidents.

Australia has experienced an unprecedented surge in antisemitism since October 7, 2023. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has documented record numbers of antisemitic incidents, including assaults, threats, vandalism, online abuse and attacks on Jewish institutions.

Synagogues, schools and community buildings have been subjected to graffiti, arson attacks and security threats, prompting many organisations to introduce enhanced security measures and increasing concern among Jewish Australians about openly displaying signs of their identity.

On December 14, 2025, the country witnessed the worst terrorist attack in its history at Bondi Beach, in which 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl, were murdered by a father and son duo in an Isis-inspired terrorist attack.

Among those giving evidence on Monday was Benjamin Klein, president of Melbourne's Adass Israel Synagogue, which was founded by Holocaust survivors and was destroyed in an early morning arson attack in December 2024. Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has said the attack was directed by Iran.

Klein described the destruction of the synagogue as an assault on the heart of the community.

“The synagogue is a place where you celebrate all your milestones,” he said. “To have that taken away, and simply for the reason that you're Jewish, is quite devastating to say the least.”

He also revealed that the community’s applications for government security funding had been unsuccessful before the attack, leaving the congregation without additional protection despite growing threats.


Wong reaffirms statehood conditions before conference
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has reaffirmed the conditions Australia set around its recognition of a Palestinian state in an announcement that comes days before Labor’s national conference begins.

It comes after The AJN reported earlier this month that a draft platform circulated ahead of the conference had dropped explicit requirements for Hamas to disarm and the Palestinian Authority to reform, and after the Israeli embassy this week weighed in on the issue.

In a joint statement today (Tuesday) with Minister for International Development Anne Aly, Wong noted that a new $25 million support package for recovery in Gaza and to “strengthen the institutional foundations of the State of Palestine” included $10 million to the World Bank’s Palestinian Fund for Reconstruction and Development, to strengthen the Palestinian Authority’s public financial management.

Wong said strong, accountable and effective Palestinian institutions would be critical to recovery, regional stability and the long-term prospects for peace.

“We will continue to work with partners to hold the Palestinian Authority to commitments it has made to Australia and the international community which include to reform governance, terminate prisoner payments, institute schooling reform, demilitarise and hold general elections,” the statement said.

“Australia remains unequivocal in its condemnation of Hamas, including for its atrocities on 7 October 2023 and its ongoing acts of terror. The Australian Government reaffirms that Hamas must disarm and play no role in the State of Palestine.”

The AJN understands the wording was included in the statement after the government was approached and asked why the conditions it had set around Palestinian statehood recognition — governance reform, an end to payments that reward terrorism, demilitarisation and no role for Hamas — had not been addressed in any of the conference motions.

The reaffirmation followed a detailed statement from the Embassy of Israel, in which it said it would continue to engage constructively with Labor through diplomatic channels, but submitted that several elements of the conference draft risked placing responsibility for the conflict on one party while giving insufficient attention to the conduct and obligations of the Palestinian leadership and terrorist organisations such as Hamas.

The embassy argued that recognition of a Palestinian state without genuine reform strengthened radicals, was perceived as a reward for terrorism and had not changed the Palestinian Authority’s conduct. It said the authority continued to maintain its “pay for slay” stipends to terrorists, to incite through its education system and media, and had not held a presidential election since 2005, and that it fell short of the criteria for statehood under the Montevideo Convention.


Australian shuls cancel Friday night services and divert funds to cover security
Synagogues across Australia are being forced to cancel services and divert funds to cover security costs, Jewish leaders have told the country’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

The commission, established after gunmen opened fire at a Bondi Beach Chanukah celebration in December 2025, murdering 15 people and wounding 40, has held five primary hearing blocks, investigating antisemitism and counter-terrorism responses.

According to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, there were 2,062 antisemitic incidents in the year after 7 October 2023, a fivefold increase from the year before.

Hearing Block 5, held in Melbourne between Monday 20 July and Friday 24 July, is focused on security for the Australian Jewish community. It will continue on Monday 27 in Sydney.

Senior Counsel assisting the enquiry, Richard Lancaster has revealed that synagogues have cancelled Friday night services because they “couldn’t afford to pay a guard, and felt that they could not discharge their duty of care to congregants without one.”

He added: “The commission has received submissions from very many synagogues around Australia. A constant theme is the organisational time, energy and money that has to be committed to security.”

An anonymous witness referred to as “ACO” estimated that volunteer security guards and administrative staff have devoted 113,700 hours to community protection in 2025, adding that the numbers were likely “substantially underestimated” and some volunteers were also on call to be available at short notice.

Another witness, “ACR”, a volunteer for Jewish security organisation CSG Victoria, said that safeguarding Jewish life in Australia has become “a second life”.


‘Modern antisemitism’ is pushed through anti-Zionism
Israel’s Ambassador to Australia Dr Hillel Newman says anti-Zionism is a manifestation of a “modern antisemitism”.

Mr Newman told Sky News host Chris Kenny that people try to “draw a wedge” between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

“But the truth is that it’s the same phenomenon.”




Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Jewish liaison says his old boss is promoting antisemitism
Joel Rubin, a former State Department official who led Jewish outreach for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 2020 presidential campaign, is now excoriating his former boss and the movement he has built for elevating stridently anti-Israel candidates — most notably former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.

The anti-Israel and antisemitic wave that’s taken hold on the left as a result of the efforts of Sanders and his allies, Rubin said, is bad for the Jewish community and politically unwise for the Democratic Party and for the U.S.’ own strategic interests.

“I think what Sanders and the Sanders operation have done is shove into our system the most categorically anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates that we’ve seen in a generation — if ever, certainly within the Democratic Party — and it’s by design,” Rubin said in an interview with Jewish Insider last week on the sidelines of the Aspen Security Forum. “It’s not by accident, and it’s very disruptive intentionally. The goal is to undermine Democratic unity and even rationality on Israel at this stage.”

He said that Sanders and his allies have directed anger and frustration toward Israel into a “highly unproductive debate about whether or not Israel should exist and whether or not we should support it or have any relationship” — rather than a “constructive” discussion of how the U.S. can work to resolve issues with a longtime ally and partner that plays an important role in American national security.

Sanders, Rubin said, has become an “outright hostile actor.”
Jonathan Tobin: The lies behind Mamdani’s Netanyahu stunt are the real threat
The lies that Mamdani—and those who echo his smears in outlets like the Times—tell about Israel are easily refuted by those who array the facts about the conflict against them in the same manner serious historians can answer Holocaust deniers. Still, the problem is that this only works against arguments that at least pretend to be reasoned.

But the algorithms that spread the new big antisemitic lies aren’t pretending to be rational. They are a function of manipulated images and rage about alleged crimes that are difficult to refute online. As Ferguson and Levin note, “The algorithms reflect our own vices back to us—and magnify them. As long as we indulge our wrathful impulses, we’ll see more rage bait that stokes them. As long as we give in to our short attention spans, our news feeds will carpet-bomb our brains with dopamine. As long as we guzzle flattering lies, the truth will be muscled off our screens by propaganda.”

That’s a sobering thought that puts the failures of pro-Israel voices to effectively counter the “genocide” blood libels in perspective.

With respect to Holocaust denial, historians now feel as if they are helpless to combat the fallout of so many lies.

“In the face of an avalanche of AI-powered anti-history, the real historians are powerless. We thought we could prevail in a fair fight about what really happened in the past. We naively believed that, if we went to the right archives, and read the right documents, and summarized them with the right footnotes, and published our scholarly books and peer-reviewed articles, then the Holocaust deniers would be driven from the field. What fools we were,” Ferguson and Levin conclude.

Can virtue defeat hate?

The same problem applies to the debate about Israel. Similar rage-based distortions about the actions of the Jewish state and those of its genocidal foes—combined with a biased media whose journalists have been indoctrinated in leftist ideologies about “white” oppressors—have materially altered public opinion. If a plurality of Americans now tell pollsters that they believe Israel has committed “genocide,” it’s not because of anything Netanyahu has said or done. It’s because we live in a time when fast-paced technology has the power to persuade people to accept patently false assertions with much greater ease than the manner in which the Nazis employed print, film and radio nearly a century ago.

Answering this isn’t going to be enabled with attempts to ban hate speech. It will, among other things, require the clever use of social media and technology. But as Ferguson and Levin assert, there is more to it than that. “We must recover a shared sense of moral responsibility not to contribute to the conditions that let a Fuentes thrive,” they say. “It’s a lesson that dates back to Cleon in ancient Athens. Ultimately, as Plato and Aristotle discovered, the only bulwark against demagogues is a people virtuous enough to resist their lure.”

A leering young mayor peddling blood libels against Jews like Mamdani doesn’t seem to fear such a turnaround. Indeed, in an age where virtue seems conspicuously absent in our politics and culture, optimism about the future can be difficult to maintain.

Still, giving up isn’t an option. And the rise of current advocates for antisemitism, the hatred of Jews and Israel, like the mayor, isn’t unprecedented in history. They have been defeated before by decent people who are ready to heed fact-based journalism in the same way they have sometimes heeded the lessons of real, rather than AI-distorted, history.

What is required is not just better use of AI and social media by the forces of truth but an appeal to higher virtues by a new generation of journalists, artists and faith leaders that will undermine the appeal of social media-driven hate. It’s a tall task, but there is no alternative available but to begin that fight.
Mamdani admits NYC can’t arrest Netanyahu in message Israeli envoy calls ‘blood libel’
Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, released a video on Tuesday stating that New York City doesn’t have the authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he called a war criminal.

Mamdani, who made that a campaign promise, said that federal authorities should arrest the Israeli leader. In the video, he cited statistics that resemble those of Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization that counts its fighters as civilians.

In the past, Mamdani’s spokeswoman has said that synagogues violate international law when they host pro-Israel events.

Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, stated that it was “enough with the blood libels.”

“Enough with the attacks on Jewish organizations. Enough with the outreach to the Iranian regime,” he said. “You were elected to serve New Yorkers not Hamas’s propaganda. Do your job.”

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) stated that the statement came “from the same guy who opposed Nicholas Maduro’s capture and arrest, despite him being indicted by the United States Southern District two times.”

“This raging antisemite has no problem defending dictators, despots and terrorist regimes,” the congressman said. “Sadly, he has not called for the arrest of Putin, Xi, the ayatollah or any other enemy of America. The question is why?”

Vickie Paladino, a member of the New York City Council, stated that “the mayor of New York is just straight up promoting” an “antisemitic blood libel courtesy of Hamas propaganda from an official government social media account tonight.”

Mamdani was doing so “Less than a week after his administration tried to arrange a diplomatic meeting with the Iranian terror regime, which has repeatedly pledged to kill every Israeli and murder the president of the United States,” Paladino said.


It's All in the Family: Abdul El-Sayed's Radical Sister Called for a 'Stateless, Communized Society' and Was Arrested for Spitting on Cop
The left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed launched a new ad campaign last week highlighting his family's "roots in mid-Michigan." The ad features his step-grandparents, Judy and Jan Johnson, lauding his work as Wayne County health director.

Absent from the spot was any mention of the candidate’s maternal half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, the self-described "queer Muslim activist" and professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago who has advocated for a "stateless, communized society" and called to abolish the police. Abdelhadi was arrested for allegedly spitting on an Illinois state trooper at an anti-ICE protest last year.

Abdelhadi focuses on "gender and sexuality in American Islam." A self-described "Queer Muslim" and "community organizer" who uses the pronouns "she/they," she has been at the center of far-left protests on campus.

The university announced an investigation into her conduct after she condemned the school as a "colonial landlord" and "police force," adding, "like, fuck the University of Chicago, it's evil. Like, you know?" Months later, in October, she was arrested and charged with felony aggravated battery after prosecutors said she "knowingly and intentionally" spit on a state trooper while protesting outside of an ICE facility near the university.

Abdelhadi is the author of the "funky, commie, queer novel" Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune alongside her "bestie," coauthor M.E. O'Brien, a "trans communist" who wrote the 2023 book Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care. The novel is a fictionalized "oral history" of "sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes" who band together to create a "radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse." It depicts a "communized" New York in which police are abolished and the nuclear family is replaced by "caretaking relationships within the commune." It also depicts a Middle East in which Israel is destroyed by a "Final Intifada."


Washington state official website includes candidate statement with ‘globalize the intifada’
Early in his candidate statement, which is posted to the official website of the Washington Secretary of State, David Blomstrom, who is running to unseat Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), admits that after he used the word “Jewarchy” in his 2016 voters pamphlet statement, “people called me an ‘antisemite,’ whatever that is.”

“Then came the Gaza genocide,” he wrote. “Now you know what I was talking about.”

In the rest of the statement, the candidate calls himself “more staunchly pro-Iran and anti-Israel than either of my two opponents from India,” and says that he doesn’t “draw the line at Zionism, which sprouted in Seattle during World War II.” He also threatens Jews.

“Be honest: do you think the Republicans and Democrats care more about us or Israel? Do you think things are getting better or worse?” he wrote. He also thanked “all the pro-Palestinians and pro-Iranians supporting my campaign” and wrote, “from the river to the sea, let’s globalize the intifada.”

The statement “from the river to the sea” is seen widely as a call to erase Israel from the map, and “globalize the intifada” is understood to refer to violence against Jews.

Blomstrom is running to unseat Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who has also accused the Jewish state of “genocide.” (JNS sought comment from Jayapal.)

His campaign website accuses Jews of controlling both the Democratic and Republican Parties and “the global economy.” It also states that “we will never fix any major problems until we deal with our Jewish problem.”

JNS sought comment from Washington state officials about whether there are rules governing what candidates are allowed to say in their statements. Some counties in the state direct candidates to avoid making statements that are “libelous or otherwise inappropriate.”

“‘Globalize the intifada’ is an outright horrifying call for the murder of Jews. We would never tolerating a call to murder blacks or gays or Asians,” Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS.

“This is dangerous incitement to mass murder and should never be tolerated. This is an illegal terrorist threat,” he said.


Appeals court overturns release order of Columbia anti-Israel activist
A federal appeals court vacated a lower court order on Tuesday releasing former Columbia University graduate student and anti-Israel activist Mohsen Mahdawi from immigration detention, ruling that the district court lacked jurisdiction because his claims must be litigated through the immigration system.

The decision clears the way for Mahdawi’s possible re-arrest as the Trump administration continues its effort to deport him.

In a unanimous opinion, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Mahdawi’s challenge was directed not merely at his detention but at the government’s effort to remove him from the United States, placing the case within the Immigration and Nationality Act’s exclusive review process. The panel said Congress requires such claims to be pursued through immigration proceedings before they can be reviewed by federal courts.

Mahdawi, 35, a lawful permanent resident, was arrested in April 2025 while attending a U.S. citizenship interview after Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that his “presence or activities would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”

The appeals court noted that the government’s determination alleged Mahdawi had “called for the destruction of Israel” and had been identified during Columbia University protests as “having engaged in threatening rhetoric and intimidation of pro-Israeli bystanders.”


Swedish doctor alleges antisemitic abuse, claims his contract was ended after he complained
A Swedish Jewish consultant has claimed he suffered antisemitic abuse from a colleague at a Meliva health clinic in Stockholm, and that his contract was ended after he reported it.

In an interview with Swedish paper Expressen last week, Gregory-Zvi Wirschubsky, 69, recounted an incident that took place in a cafeteria of a Meliva clinic.

A colleague of Middle Eastern descent publicly asked him if he was Jewish, and when he affirmed, she asked: “Why are you killing Palestinian children?”

"I said 'I am not killing any Palestinian children. I came here when I was seven years old. I am Jewish, but I do not live in Israel and have nothing to do with the Israeli army,'" he told Expressen.

Wirschubsky added that several colleagues witnessed the incident but remained silent. She then allegedly said: “Go to hell, you damn Jew.”

He allegedly faced repurcussions for speaking out
Wirschubsky reported the incident to his manager.

"I felt that it was discrimination, and I brought up that we had agreed not to discuss the Israel conflict at the workplace. The manager then says that they will handle the matter themselves. And then I found out that I was no longer allowed to stay. It was very strange," he told Expressen.

Wirschubsky was employed through a staffing company and not by Meliva directly. The agreement, which Expressen reviewed, stated that the client has the right to terminate the contract early with one month’s notice. It did not state that any reasons must be provided.

Wirschubsky told Expressen that he does not believe that he lost his assignment because he was Jewish, but he believed it was related to the conflict

Linn Christiernin, Meliva’s communications manager, told Expressen that they “are aware that there was a conflict between him and another person within the organization.”

“Decisions regarding consulting assignments and their extensions are always made on operational grounds. We have reviewed the matter carefully. The person’s background or religion had no impact on the decision,” she said.
Belgium advances boycott of Judea and Samaria goods
The Belgian government is advancing a royal decree to ban the import of goods produced in Israeli communities in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and Gaza.

The move makes Belgium the fourth European nation to impose such a boycott, joining Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland. The decision, approved by the Council of Ministers just before summer recess, amends a 1993 decree governing the transit and trade of goods and operates within the country’s existing import authorization system.

Laurens Soenen, spokesperson for Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot, told JNS in written comments on Monday that import authorizations will be “systematically refused” for goods originating from Israeli communities in these areas. The origins of the goods will be verified using an existing European Union postcode list that determines eligibility for preferential tariffs.

A 120-day transitional period will allow business and administrators to adapt to the new rules. Soenen noted exemptions are in place for local Palestinian Arab producers and humanitarian supplies, emphasizing that the measure strictly targets the Israeli economy in the territories.

According to Soenen, Brussels considers the Israeli communities illegal under international law, a position he said is shared across the European Union, referring to the July 19, 2024 International Court of Justice advisory opinion.

He claimed that the decree is a response to specific Israeli government policies and “takes nothing away from Belgium’s relationship with Israel or from our attachment to Israel’s security.”

Israeli officials sharply criticized the Belgian move.

“Belgium has reached a point of no return,” Israeli lawmaker Sharren Haskel wrote on X. The former deputy minister of foreign affairs, who resigned from her position earlier this month, accused Brussels of signaling it is “not interested in having a Jewish minority within its borders,” adding: “It can continue importing radical Islam. We will continue exporting products from Judea and Samaria to countries that choose to import innovation, quality and technology.”
Netherlands to introduce ban on goods, services from 'unlawful' Israeli settlements in West Bank
The Netherlands will begin its ban on the import, purchase, and sale of goods from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories on September 22, 2026, the Dutch government announced Tuesday. The government already decided on the sanctions on May 22, 2026, and the Council of State has now issued its advice, which has not led to any changes to the decision. The ban was made official today and will enter into force on September 22.

The Dutch government considers the settlements unlawful. With the proposed measures, the Netherlands says it is giving further substance to its obligation under international law not to contribute to this “unlawful” situation.

Practical impacts of the ban on imports
From September 22, it will be forbidden to import goods from Israeli settlements; buy and sell goods from Israeli settlements; provide services that facilitate trade in goods from Israeli settlements (so-called brokering services); and circumvent the above prohibitions.

“I am deeply ashamed of the betrayal by the Dutch left-liberal government of Islam lovers and Israel haters,” said Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

The ban is more symbolic in value than practical, as it will be challenging to enforce it.
‘Process without teeth,’ experts say of Pitt refusal to adopt Jew-hatred definition after working group report
Experts told JNS that University of Pittsburgh has shown that it isn’t serious about combatting Jew-hatred after the public school’s working group on antisemitism released a report and the university said that it won’t adopt a definition of Jew-hatred.

“How can anyone expect the university administration to take seriously incidents of antisemitism when administrators won’t even define what constitutes antisemitism?” Brandy Shufutinsky, director of the education and national security program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS.

Gerard Filitti, senior counsel at the Lawfare Project, told JNS that “without a definition that reaches anti-Zionist harassment and an accountability body the university does not control, the rest is process without teeth.”

“This is the posture of an administration claiming to fight Jew-hatred without implementing the architecture to end it,” he said. (JNS sought comment from Pitt.)

The university created the working group in March 2025 after “multiple reports of antisemitic activity” on the public campus after Oct. 7. The group advised the school to create a portal for reporting misconduct, clarify that its policies on Jew-hatred extend to electronic communications and state clearly that time, place and manner can restrict certain speech on campus.

The working group also told the university to form an independent unit to address Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and require students, faculty and staff to undergo Jew-hatred training. The report stated that “antisemitism may be expressed as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist bias.”


UKLFI: ITV urged to review participation of Love Island contestant following anti-Israel posts
ITV has been asked to conduct an urgent review of the continued participation of Love Island contestant Jasmine Gaziza Müller after UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) highlighted her social-media posts denying Israel’s legitimacy and expressing hostility towards its supporters.

UKLFI wrote to ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall on 19 July 2026 after reviewing dozens of screenshots from Ms Müller’s public Instagram account, posted or reshared between approximately May 2021 and February 2024 and currently available to view on a Reel.

The material includes a graphic stating: “EDUCATE THE YOUNGER GENERATION. TELL THEM ITS CALLED PALESTINE NOT ISRAEL.”

Other posts describe Israel as a “colonial project” and “the entity”, while Ms Müller referred to it as a “shit ‘country’” that was “UNLAWFUL in EVERYTHING that it does”.

One photograph showed a sign reading: “NO WAY I AM SPENDING ETERNITY IN HELL WITH THE PRO-ISRAELERS!!!”

Another image depicted a fighter beside a map presenting Israel, the West Bank and Gaza together as Palestine, with Israel erased.

UKLFI stressed that it was not objecting to advocacy for Palestinian rights, calls for a ceasefire or criticism of Israeli policies. Its concern was with material denying Israel’s existence and directing hostility towards people who support it.

The letter said that this category includes many British Jews and warned that Israel could not be erased without the displacement or subjugation of millions of Jewish people.

UKLFI asked ITV to treat the matter primarily as a participant-welfare issue. It said that, if any contestant were Jewish, Israeli or pro-Israel, the risk to their welfare and dignity would be “obvious and foreseeable”.


15-year-old charged in German terror plot against synagogue
The Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged a 15-year-old from the district of Augsburg, about 50 miles west of Munich, with planning an attack on a synagogue, German media reported on Monday.

The charges were filed in the Augsburg juvenile court on June 26, 2026, according to German newpaper Bild.

Authorities accuse the teenager of preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state, unlawful handling of explosive substances, and causing an explosion and dangerous bodily harm. He had amassed a large amount of pyrotechnics, according to the charges.

The boy blew off two of his own fingers and slightly injured a friend standing nearby while testing a device, described as the size of a tennis ball, in Oct. 2025, and was under investigation since that time.

According to the Attorney General’s Office, the suspect is said to have sympathized with the terrorist organization Islamic State, Bild reported.
Puerto Rico man indicted for allegedly threatening to kill Jews, burn synagogues
Humberty Jesus Carillo Garcia, of Puerto Rico, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on five counts of transmitting interstate threats after allegedly using X and TikTok to post violent threats against Jews, U.S. soldiers, law enforcement officers and government buildings, federal prosecutors said.

According to the indictment, returned on July 16 and unsealed on Monday, Carillo Garcia posted photos of himself on X in March holding a knife and a machete, writing that he would use the knife “to tear apart American soldiers and Jews.”

Prosecutors allege that in a May TikTok video, he urged viewers to “take up arms against the United States,” “shoot at North American soldiers,” “hit and stab Jews,” and burn “gringo” businesses as well as “Jewish synagogues and Judeo Christian churches,” including Jehovah’s Witness and Pentecostal churches.

The indictment further alleges that Carillo Garcia later posted videos stating that police officers and CIA agents “must be killed” and calling for the bombing of the White House, Fort Buchanan and multiple banks.

The alleged threats were posted between March 3 and June 27, according to the indictment.
Italy shuts down ‘Jew hunting’ form seeking to ‘map Zionist tourism’ after uproar
An anonymous online form asking people to report the locations of Jews and Israeli tourists in Italy has been taken down after government officials intervened, according to media reports on Tuesday.

The Google form, circulated on social media and messaging groups before it was removed, asked users to identify Jews, Israelis and people believed to have ties to Zionism at hotels, vacation rentals, businesses and other public places. Its purpose was to “map Zionist tourism” and “Zionist neo-colonization” in Italy, the form said.

It was removed this week following the intervention of Italy’s commissioner for combating antisemitism, Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto.

Jewish leaders condemned the initiative, with Livia Ottolenghi, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, calling the campaign a “new yellow star,” reminiscent of Italy’s 1938 fascist racial laws.

Walker Meghnagi, president of the Jewish Community of Milan, warned that “hunting Jews” would encourage attacks by extremists. Government officials condemned the form as well.

In a statement on Sunday, Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa called the form “an aberrant initiative, in open violation of fundamental human rights and the constitutional principles on which our nation is founded.”

“Any form of profiling people based on their religious beliefs or their ties to Israel is neither acceptable nor justifiable. Behind all this lies a profound antisemitism that must be unanimously, firmly, and resolutely rejected. We cannot remain immobile in the face of such grave events that evoke the ghosts of the past. My deepest sympathy to the Jewish Community,” he said.

Dana, a resident of Bologna, told Israel’s Channel 12 news: “Among other things, they want to mark shops, just as the Nazis did to us in 1933.”





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