Friday, August 07, 2026

08/06 Links Pt2: The antisemites are converging—and Jews will not be fooled; Abdul El-Sayed Socializes the Intifada; The Judas Statue Lie

From Ian:

The antisemites are converging—and Jews will not be fooled
The anguish of watching our children exposed to such hatred leaves no room for political disguises. It is genuine. The monstrosity of Nazi-style antisemitism—the classic racist variety—now dares to reveal itself openly because it has become part of a broader ecosystem in which movements with very different ideological origins converge on a common target.

That convergence matters.

The various factions are not necessarily coordinating with one another. But they all benefit from the growing legitimacy afforded to hatred of Jews, Judaism, Israel and Zionism. Together, they reinforce an environment in which antisemitism flourishes.

Bulgaria illustrates how these forms of hatred increasingly overlap. Throughout the year—and especially since Oct. 7, 2023—the country has witnessed the public display of neo-Nazi symbols, swastikas and repeated attempts to revive the annual march honoring Hristo Lukov, the leader of Bulgaria’s pro-Nazi Legions.

At the same time, anti-Israel activism has targeted Jewish institutions. In 2025, “Free Palestine” graffiti was sprayed across the Sofia synagogue, covering photographs of those murdered during the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

On Oct. 9, 2025, Sofia’s Monument of Salvation, dedicated to those who opposed the deportation and persecution of Bulgaria’s Jews during World War II, was vandalized and covered in red paint. The city’s Holocaust memorial was desecrated as well.

These are only a few examples.

The attacks have come from both the right and the left, directed at the same targets: Jews.

This pattern is no longer confined to Bulgaria. Europe is increasingly afflicted by antisemitism from both extremes of the political spectrum. Across the Atlantic, the phenomenon is equally striking. A neo-Nazi such as Nick Fuentes and politicians such as Zohran Mamdani may come from vastly different ideological traditions, yet both participate in portraying “Zionism” as the embodiment of Jewish wrongdoing.

Who, then, still believes that one side merely offers “legitimate criticism of Israel” while the other alone represents antisemitic extremism?

The truly dangerous development is the convergence itself.

Vile are the Nazis. Vile, too, are the red-green antisemites. Vile are those who accuse Jews of orchestrating global conspiracies, and equally vile are those who portray the Jewish state as the source of the world’s evils. Different slogans, different histories—but increasingly the same target.

That convergence is poisoning Europe and spreading far beyond it.

It will eventually be exposed for what it is.

And Jewish children will not remain locked away in fear. They will walk out, calmly and confidently, toward life.
Jake Wallis Simons: The enemy we welcomed
The uncomfortable truth is that by investing so heavily in centrist fundamentalism, the West has set itself up to fail. Amid the radical diversity that our leaders have imposed upon our societies and the consequent loss of shared cultural norms, newcomers with hostile and subversive attitudes are placed under no pressure to adapt. Civic respect has declined and crime rates have increased, making people in certain regions feel that they no longer recognise their country. The child rape scandal that erupted in 2024 in Britain shone a spotlight on the mainly Pakistani gangs who had been subjecting thousands of mostly white girls to the most depraved abuse for decades, while the authorities looked the other way for fear of being accused of ‘Islamophobia.’ In the first nine months of 2024, the most recent available data at the time of writing, almost fourteen per cent of grooming suspects were Pakistani, five times their share of the population. In March 2025, data from the Ministry of Justice revealed that foreigners, who comprise just 9.3 per cent of the population, had committed almost a quarter of sex crimes, as well as large proportions of violence, robbery, fraud and drug offences, between 2021 and 2023. Among the first victims of this social collapse have been the Jews. Rising antisemitism is a potent expression of the wholesale importation of other people’s bigotries to our shores.

The worst part is that this corrosion of our country served no useful purpose. For generations of politicians, loosening the borders was considered an easy solution to the economic conundrum of an aging, shrinking and workshy population. But the magic bullet has proved no solution at all, burdening the taxpayer, straining infrastructure and failing to boost productivity and growth. Meanwhile, the influx came with deep social problems. If it hadn’t been for the ideological myopia of the elites, this would have come as no surprise, given that newcomers from overseas added around seven million to the population of Britain — roughly equivalent to the number of residents of London — in the first two decades of this century, accounting for over four-fifths of total demographic expansion.

They remain unwilling to change course. Despite all the evidence of social and cultural strain, amid the political reluctance to find a better solution to our economic woes, the numbers continue to rise. Net migration into Britain hit a record high of almost a million in 2024; on current trends, it will grow to 72.5 million by 2032, entirely fuelled by a further five million migrants. According to the latest projection, by 2032, fourteen per cent of the population will have arrived in the preceding decade, almost all of them from Pakistan, India, Nigeria and China. At the same time, a quarter of Britain’s workforce is unemployed, with more than three million receiving sickness and disability benefits, a million more than before the Covid years. For a neutered and screen-addicted generation, the problem is only expected to get worse. A recent study revealed that Generation Z — those aged roughly between thirteen and twenty-eight — are giving up on work, with almost four in ten considering leaving their job to claim benefits, largely due to ‘mental health’ complaints. Economic inactivity was on course to rise further, it added, with 4.4 million workers, or a tenth of the workforce, ‘on the brink of leaving the labour market.’ So the demoralisation of Britain’s existing population and the surge in newcomers develop in tandem. None of this needed to happen. If both the numbers and attempts to undermine our values would have been kept in check, and measures taken to strengthen ordinary Britons to boost our economy and our confidence, the country would be a very much happier place today.

As the reaction to October 7 has shown, this betrayal of ourselves enabled the betrayal of the Jews. ‘We, like everyone else, depend upon a shared culture for our security, our prosperity and our freedom to be,’ Sir Roger Scruton wrote more than a decade ago. ‘We don’t require everyone to have the same faith, to lead the same kind of family life or to participate in the same festivals. But we have a shared civil culture, a shared language and a shared public sphere… We can welcome immigrants only if we welcome them into our culture, and not beside or against it.’ Antisemitism has always been present in British life but its latest expression is largely imported. Sadly, as politicians recklessly continue to usher large numbers of migrants into the country, Sir Roger’s sagacity has been lost on the wind.
Nicole Lampert: From Chaplin To Boy George, Fighting Antisemitism Means Facing The Mob
In 1940, at the start of World War II, when America had not yet entered the conflict, it was Charlie Chaplin’s film “The Great Dictator,” which lampooned Hitler and the Nazis and spoke clearly of their dangerous antisemitism and the threat they posed to the world. The clown became the soothsayer, the voice of morality.

Until that point, Hollywood, even with its many Jewish studio heads, had been mainly too frightened to tackle this threat head-on. Just one major film, Warner Bros. “Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” which looked at a German-American Nazi spy ring, had come close.

And the reaction to that film had been immediate; theaters across the U.S. were picketed and vandalized. One cinema was even burned down. It was a warning to beware the anger of the mob. For Hollywood Jews, feeling their place in society so untethered, the message was clear—they needed to pipe down, keep schtum.

Which is why Chaplin’s self-financed and risky move—from a non-Jew who understood antisemitism—was so important. His film told the world he saw the problem. He saw it was wrong. And everyone else should see the danger, too.

Now it's Boy George's turn.

He first found fame in the 1980s with the band Culture Club. He wore makeup and long hair, and was a proud gay man in the AIDS era. Like many pop stars, he’s battled drug addiction. Unlike most of them, in 2008 he ended up in jail for the false imprisonment of a Norwegian escort.

So his career has seen many ups and downs, but last week he did something extraordinary. He wrote and released a reggae song on his social media accounts, “We Will Dance Again,” which has the key lyrics: "But if you’re ever confused/I stand with the Jews/I don’t feel brave/I just need to behave like a human."

It was possibly the most extraordinary thing a non-Jew has done for the Jewish people since the October 7 attack in 2023 created a new and deadly wave of antisemitism. Just as in the 1930s, too many celebrity Jews–apart from a brave few—have maintained a frightened silence and their gentile friends have echoed their anxious muteness. They know what will happen if they dare stand up against today’s antisemitic mob, a contrast to “pro-Palestine” celebrities who often seem to treat the war like a football match, dress up in kaffiyehs and applaud themselves.


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A Tale of Two Authors
In Nashville, a bookshop called Bell Bird Books was due to host the launch of a memoir. The book is called White. Blonde. Jew. Its author, Alyssa Rosenheck, had written about her life as a Jewish woman. The launch was set for August 20. Then a campaign began online; activists accused the shop of promoting Zionism, and the event was canceled. The owner, Mary Ann Weprin, explained her reasoning plainly. Her concern, she said, was“whether my small neighborhood bookstore could responsibly host an event that appeared likely to require heightened security.” Rosenheck herself named it for what it was: bookshops that “cancel authors under pressure from activists,” she said, “are silencing speech and making a mockery of the First Amendment.”

The Other Author
At roughly the same time, Simon & Schuster, one of the largest publishers in the world, confirmed it would republish the backlist of the writer Susan Abulhawa. Her author page is live on their website. The publisher praises her work as“lyrical.” Her novels are being repackaged and pushed back out into the world with the full weight of a major house behind them.

Here is what that same house has decided it can live with. She writes, in her own posts, of “parasites.” She writes of“demons.” She has described the objects of her contempt as“Jewish supremacist zionist ghouls, vampires, parasites.” After the Mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, mildly distanced himself from her, she turned to American Jews as a class and called them“monsters,” “the most privileged demographic in this country,” and added that she did“not have a vocabulary that’s terrible enough to describe what they’re doing.”

Abulhawa is a Jew-hater. Parasites, vampires, ghouls, demons: this is the oldest vocabulary of Jew-hate, the imagery of the medieval blood libel and of the twentieth-century cartoon, dressed for 2026. It did not come from a fringe account with nine followers. It came from a woman a global publisher has chosen to celebrate.

So, let’s contrast these two situations. One author cannot be hosted in a shop because she is Jewish and it is deemed a security risk. The other author calls Jews demons and is handed a marketing budget. This is a single system, working exactly as it now works.

As a Jewish Author
I write this as a Jewish author. I have written three books about our people. I wrote about Jewish Pride as the answer to the shame the non-Jewish world keeps trying to hand us. I wrote about reclaiming our own story from those who would tell it for us. And I wrote about the Jews as an indigenous people, with the right every people has to name itself and speak for itself. That is the work of my life, and it is Jewish work, done openly and unapologetically as a Jew.

I am also a gay man, and I have spent much of my life thinking about what it means to carry more than one identity. So let me say clearly what I have watched happen to my own books. They have been largely ignored by the mainstream, non-Jewish world. Not attacked. Not argued with. Ignored.

And I have asked myself a question I would now put to you. Would that have been the case if my intersecting identities were not gay and Jewish, but gay and almost anything else? A gay author writing with pride about the indigeneity and dignity of another minority would find the world’s doors open to him. The festivals would want him. The review pages would find the room. It is the Jewish half of the sentence that closes them. The same progressive culture that taught me the word “pride” turns out to have no use for it once the people reclaiming it are mine.

This is not a suspicion I am reading into a silence. I was told, directly, by an editor at The Sunday Times that they do not publish Jewish stories unless those stories intersect with the wider population. That was not a fringe opinion shouted online. It was said to me plainly, by a gatekeeper at one of the most respected newspapers in the world.

So I do not write what follows from the outside, and I do not write it lightly. I know what it is to put a Jewish book into the world in this climate. I know what it is to be told that a Jewish voice is welcome only once it has apologized for itself. And I know precisely what these two decisions are built to do. They are built to make the open, unashamed Jewish author think twice.

The message a Jewish writer receives from these two decisions is not subtle. Your identity is a liability. Their hatred of you is a literary sensibility. When the mob comes for you, the institution will discover a sudden concern for security. When the mob loves the one who hates you, the institution will discover the word “lyrical.”
State Department announces charity with terrorism ties among partners in ‘historic’ $2 billion global health funding
The U.S. State Department announced what it said is a “historic” $2 billion distribution of global health foreign assistance, partnering with three faith-based organizations on the largest such U.S. allocation in two decades.

One of the partners that the department announced on Thursday, World Vision in the United Kingdom, has a history of links to terrorism funding.

In 2022, an Israeli court convicted Muhammad Halabi, manager of Gaza operations at World Vision, on charges of funneling up to $50 million to Hamas.

World Vision shuttered its Gaza operations until it carried out an audit, which it said found no evidence of financial irregularities involving Halabi. He was freed in a hostage-prisoner exchange deal during the most recent Israel-Hamas war.

World Vision was also the subject of a 2019 U.S. Senate Finance Committee probe, which found that the Christian charity contracted in 2014 with Islamic Relief Agency as a sub-grantee for a U.S. Agency for International Development-backed humanitarian project in Sudan.

Islamic Relief Agency is under U.S. Treasury Department sanctions for ties to terror financing, including for Osama bin Laden.

The Senate Finance Committee concluded that World Vision had inadequate internal compliance mechanisms in place and failed to properly vet Islamic Relief Agency, instead transferring $125,000 to the entity.

The Senate panel called World Vision’s vetting procedures “borderline negligent.”

It also took the charity to task for not releasing its audit of the Halabi case.

In 2022, World Vision received $491 million in “food, non-food commodities and cash” from the U.S. government, and it was the sixth largest implementor of USAID grants,” per the Senate committee. (JNS sought comment from the State Department and World Vision.)

Founded in 1950, World Vision International has a U.S. branch in Washington state. It operates in more than 90 countries and provides emergency services and relief in more than 56 countries, mostly in Africa and Asia, per its website.

According to NGO Monitor, World Vision describes itself as being “committed to advocating for the improved well-being of children living under Israeli occupation” and “believes that the Israeli occupation has negative spiritual and psychological effects on Palestinians and Israelis, especially the children.”

Its Israel branch was dissolved in 2024 after an audit process ordered by the Israeli Justice Ministry found that World Vision transferred assets to entities linked to terrorism and had board members, who were vocal advocates of boycotting and delegitimizing Israel.


El-Sayed won the Democrats a victory, but may lose the war
Michigan Democrats have won recent statewide races by nominating candidates such as Elissa Slotkin for senator and Gretchen Whitmer for governor, politicians who appeal to the political center rather than the activist Left.

Rogers is also not to be easily dismissed. A former Army lieutenant and FBI special agent who focused on organized crime and public corruption, he served seven terms in Congress and, in 2024, lost to Slotkin by just 25,000 votes – about one-third of one percentage point.

Nor did El-Sayed exactly sweep into the nomination. He defeated Stevens by less than one percentage point, or roughly 15,000 votes. It is reasonable to assume that at least some Democrats who supported Stevens in the primary will balk in November at El-Sayed’s positions and either cross party lines or simply stay home.

Rogers, moreover, is not easily caricatured as a MAGA firebrand. Though he has aligned himself with Trump, he remains very much an establishment conservative, something that could make him a more acceptable option for moderate Democrats than a more populist Republican nominee would have been.

Which brings us to the irony.

Had Stevens won the Democratic primary, Democrats might well have entered the general election as favorites, just as they did with Slotkin two years ago.

Instead, by choosing a candidate riding the Democratic Socialist wave flooding the party, they may have selected someone less able to win where elections in swing states are generally decided – in the political middle.

If that happens, El-Sayed’s primary victory could ultimately cost Democrats control of the Senate.

And for those whose overriding concern is preserving strong US support for Israel – and who are watching the Democratic Party’s trajectory on that issue with growing unease – that may not necessarily be viewed as a particularly bad outcome.
Abdul El-Sayed Socializes the Intifada
Across the country, the Democratic Party's leftward lurch has been fueled by a distinct cohort of voters—mostly white, mostly college-educated. Radical Chic rides again. A poll taken days before the Michigan primary showed El-Sayed up by more than 30 points among white voters and college graduates, which mirrored his projected margin of victory in the predominantly white college town of Ann Arbor. Stevens performed well in black and working-class areas such as Wayne County.

The same was true in Maine. Platner, who attended an elite prep school but routinely cast himself as a working-class champion, was not especially popular with working-class voters. A poll taken shortly before he quit the race—in response to a credible rape allegation—showed Platner trailing GOP senator Susan Collins by 21 points among non-college-educated voters.

The intraparty realignment has caused some friction, to say the least. Democratic infighting in the run-up to Election Day in Michigan has resembled the Republican Party's Trump-induced squabbling in 2016.

Stevens backers have called El-Sayed an "obnoxious, boorish, and insufferable grandstander" who is doomed to lose the general election. Some Democrats have refused to support him if he wins. In response, El-Sayed's left-wing allies have urged the establishment hacks to "drop the act and just become Republicans." The candidate himself has made clear that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and other party elites should consider him "dangerous."

El-Sayed called Stevens "the least capable candidate in America" and suggested that her Israeli puppet masters should have picked a different candidate who could "string together two coherent sentences." Stevens blasted El-Sayed as a "communist" who wants to "blame all of [his] problems on Jewish Americans."

Nevertheless, Stevens has already pledged to support El-Sayed, as has McMorrow. "The goal now is not to dunk on anybody," El-Sayed said on Tuesday. "The goal now is to come together."

For better or worse, Republicans appear to have gotten the result they wanted. El-Sayed was widely viewed as the weaker candidate in the general election, but polling suggests the race is a toss-up. His GOP opponent, former congressman Mike Rogers, is a repeat nominee who narrowly lost to Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) in 2024 as Donald Trump carried the state.

Sometimes rooting for the "weaker" candidate works out, sometimes not. Just ask President Hillary Clinton.

Piker, meanwhile, will set his sights on Wisconsin, where he is backing Francesca Hong in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Hong, a college dropout with bipolar disorder, is heavily favored to win. In addition to hating Israel and capitalism, she has described Thanksgiving as "the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous folx [sic]" and endorsed its cancellation as a national holiday.

"This is just the beginning," Piker told Politico.
Commentary Podcast: Pyrrhic Victories
Our friend Noah Rothman joins us today to share in our crushing morosity over recent election news, and whether the rise of terrorism-friendly politics and academia are the result of the decisive win in the War on Terror. What strategies might work in countering candidates like Abdul El-Sayed and Francesca Hong and the intersection of Marxism and Islamism?
The Wrong Way to Beat a Radical By Abe Greenwald
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Noah Rothman joined the podcast this morning, and we came around to discussing Mike Rogers’s potential lines of attack against Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s upcoming Senate election. The basic question was whether it would be more effective to go after El-Sayed for his socialism or his adjacency to jihadism.

I suspect it would be profitable for Rogers to hit him on both counts, but there’s a potential risk in focusing the race too narrowly on El-Sayed’s radicalism altogether. It’s become clear in high-profile elections over the past few years that naming and shaming the big, glaring, awful thing that defines one’s opponent doesn’t have the persuasive power we’d like to think—no matter how accurate the characterization.

We’ve seen this approach flop on both sides of the aisle and in primary races. The 2016 presidential election left no doubt about the exact nature of Donald Trump’s flaming outlandishness, and he stunned the world by becoming the GOP nominee and then president. Starting years before the 2024 election, Democrats made a full-time job of repeating that Trump was a threat to democracy, a sexual predator, a grifter, and a convicted felon, and then he was elected president by a greater margin than in 2016.

Republicans and conservatives pointed to Zohran Mamdani’s defining radicalism for the entirety of his 2024 mayoral campaign. And not only did Mamdani win (barely), but it’s still not clear that a critical mass of New Yorkers has come to terms with how much of an ideological outlier he really is. In Maine this year, Graham Platner had done his opponents’ work for them, tattooing himself with an SS symbol and leaving a lengthy digital trail of poisonous opinions. In the end, he was undone by accusations of indefensible personal conduct.

A number of factors have taken the sting out of direct-attack politics. For one, there’s so much of it that it’s become political white noise—the thing that normies and independents tune out first. For another, Americans have grown acutely untrusting. Our wary populace doesn’t want to be told by politicians what to believe. They like to think, at least, that they’re making their own assessments. This is especially true when the politician who’s pointing the finger is associated with the established order. When someone like Mike Rogers, who’s been an elected official since the 1990s, accuses an outsider like El-Sayed of radicalism, it arouses populist suspicions, unfounded or not.


Jonathan Tobin: El-Sayed, the Democrats, AIPAC and the war on American Jews
The existence of a large Arab and Muslim-American population in Michigan—and the ubiquity of anti-Jewish prejudice in that particular community—was another factor, though one that hasn’t been replicated in U.S. politics, except in certain circumstances, as Mamdani’s victory in New York City showed.

Still, El-Sayed’s support was largely limited to white privileged voters, along with his Arab and Muslim base. The credentialed elites are the base of the Democratic Party these days, not the working-class voters it once represented and now largely scorns. He did poorly among African-Americans, who are a vital constituency for Democrats. As much as Jews and blacks have split on many issues, convincing African-Americans to buy into the idea that a pro-Israel lobby was the country’s greatest problem was a tough sell.

Nevertheless, the consequences of a campaign that normalizes El-Sayed’s vile tactics will be felt throughout the political system and American discourse.

It remains to be seen whether Rogers will be more effective in pointing out El-Sayed’s extremism. It will also be interesting to see if African-Americans turn out for a candidate with little to say to them in the numbers Democrats need to prevail.

Much attention will also focus on Michigan’s Jewish community, mainly in and around Detroit, which makes up only 1.4% of the state’s electorate. It is still overwhelmingly politically liberal and loyally votes the Democratic ticket. If a significant minority reflexively votes for the Democratic candidate, as was the case with Mamdani in the 2025 New York City mayoral election, regardless of El-Sayed’s contempt for Jewish interests and rights, it will be a sign of the moral collapse of liberal Jewry.

It should be remembered that in March, a domestic terrorist, Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, crashed his pickup truck—loaded with gasoline and commercial fireworks—into Temple Israel, a large Reform synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. Fortunately, no one was hurt except for the attacker himself, who was shot and killed by law enforcement. El-Sayed rationalized that crime by saying it was understandable since the terrorist was upset about the death of his brother, a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, who was killed as a result of Israel’s efforts to prevent the Iranian proxy group from attacking their country.

If, rather than a test of the appeal of El-Sayed’s antisemitism, the election hinges on a verdict about the Trump administration, the Democrats may be able to carry their candidate over the finish line. If so, then the problem won’t be just the addition of an antisemite to the Senate. It will be a signal sent to his party as well as the still relatively small minority of Republicans that share his prejudices, that targeting Jews will be both acceptable and good politics in 2028.
Joshua Namm: The Real Boys (And Girls) From Brazil
At a DSA event in March, attended by Ro Khanna (D-CA) and former democratic Rep. Cori Bush, attendees bemoaned the loss of Iranian Leader Khamenei and Iran’s (apparent) inability to fund Hezbollah and Hamas. One speaker at the event referred to Israelis as “terrorists” and compared them to Hitler and Mussolini, while ironically claiming that America and Israel are building a “fourth Reich.”

In attendance were DSA congressional candidates, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Melat Kiros. Both of whom won their respective Democratic primaries.

More clones.

Mamdani endorsed Chevalier who participated in an October 8, 2023 rally – in support of the events of October 7. She subsequently converted to Islam, does not believe that Israel has a right to exist, and refuses to condemn Oct. 7, claiming that anyone who does “ignores the 75 years of occupation that the Palestinian people have endured.”

The district in which she won includes Yeshiva University.

On the night Melat Kiros won in Colorado, she immediately claimed that she wants to “‘end genocide in Palestine.” She called Oct. 7 “inevitable,” and refused to label the deadly June 2025 firebombing in Boulder targeting people at a rally in support of Israeli hostages as “antisemitic.” In typical “blame the Jews” fashion, her solution to antisemitism is to “reevaluate our relationship with Israel.”

Claire Valdez, another Mamdani endorsed candidate, also running for Congress in New York, was the first person to organize the attempt to release Jew hater Mahmoud Khalil. He, in turn, led the crowd in chants of “free, free Palestine” while introducing her at her inaugural campaign event. She has also repeated the false “genocide” claim.

More clones.

Then there is Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for a Senate seat from Michigan(istan). Like all of the above-mentioned candidates, El-Sayed has demonized AIPAC, routinely denigrating anyone who will not say that Israel is guilty of genocide as somehow being compromised by AIPAC.

As of this writing, El-Sayed is scheduled to attend a fundraiser hosted by a woman, who very literally honored the service of her grandfather – an actual Nazi.

Finally, let’s not forget about defeated Texas Democrat Maureen Galindo who called for “Zionists” to be arrested and put in camps, while saying that the camps will also “be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.”

More clones.

Meanwhile outside of the world of the political, in Italy, Jewish News Service reported an incident which they, correctly, deemed “reminiscent of the 1930s”:

“An online campaign calling on people to surveil and report the whereabouts of Jewish and Israeli tourists, or anyone suspected of having ties to ‘Zionists,’ has sparked anger among Israeli diplomats, local Jewish leaders and Italian politicians.”

In Mongolia Muslims shouted “heil Hitler” at Israeli tourists.

Finally, two more synagogues were attacked in Queens, New York.

To go back to the previous scenario, we are still at some point in the mid-1930s, so it is critical that we wake up and, most of all, act: before the clock strikes 1939.

The ideological boys and girls from Brazil represent every imaginable or possible outside threat to the Jewish people. They are the progeny of not traditional Jew hatred, which is bad enough, but of genuine Nazism (with a dose of Soviet fueled anti-Zionism). And there are thousands of them, in every aspect of Western public life – those that I outlined here are a tiny sample. But, unlike our grandparents or great-grandparents, we have the nightmare example of the Shoah to guide us. I’ve written about this before, but if “never again” means anything, the gathering storm clouds are our cue to stop this. Now.

Never give in. Never give up.
Jewish Democrats in Michigan weigh crossing party lines after El-Sayed’s Senate primary win
Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory over Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in Michigan’s bruising Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday is forcing many Jewish leaders in the state to confront an uncomfortable decision as they now look ahead to the general election in November.

Several Jewish Democrats in the battleground state are now indicating that they will break with a party they have long called home and instead vote for the Republican nominee, Mike Rogers, in the November election, citing their continued alarm over El-Sayed’s hostile rhetoric toward Israel as well as remarks they have interpreted as indifferent to rising antisemitism, among other concerns.

“I can’t vote for El-Sayed,” Michael Horowitz, a Jewish community leader and Detroit businessman who supported Stevens, a pro-Israel moderate, told Jewish Insider. “So many things I find despicable about him, not the least of which is his close association with Hasan Piker,” the antisemitic Twitch streamer, who Horowitz said “demeans America, demeans Jews and demeans all but the most radical among us.”

Horowitz confirmed he was now “leaning strongly to Rogers,” a former congressman who narrowly lost in his bid for Senate last cycle. “And I have heard from many in the Jewish community who say they will be supporting Rogers,” he said on Wednesday.

Hannan Lis, a Democratic fundraiser and Jewish leader who splits his time between Michigan and Israel, was among those who had told JI before the primary that he would vote for Rogers in the general election if El-Sayed won the nomination, noting he knows “many” Jewish Democrats who plan to do the same.

His reservations about Republicans preserving their Senate majority by picking up the Michigan seat held by retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), he clarified, were superseded by his objections to El-Sayed’s stances on Israel and responses to antisemitism. “El-Sayed is no Democrat,” he claimed.
Moderate Michigan Rep. Hillary Scholten does not offer endorsement of El-Sayed
Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), a moderate Michigan lawmaker representing a swing district, broke with most other Democratic members of the Michigan congressional delegation in declining to offer an explicit endorsement of Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed as of Wednesday afternoon, after offering strident criticism of him during the primary campaign.

“Congratulations to everyone who participated in Michigan’s hard-fought primary elections last night, and thank you to every voter who made your voice heard. In these close elections, we want you to know — you are HEARD,” Scholten said in a statement that did not mention El-Sayed. “Now our focus turns forward. I’ve always said I’ll work with anyone committed to lowering costs, expanding affordable health care, creating more opportunity, and fighting corruption. I mean that.”

A Scholten spokesperson did not respond to a request for clarification on whether this constituted an endorsement of El-Sayed.

Scholten said that she is a “proud, commonsense Democrat” and said that she’s focused on helping to elect “similar candidates around the country.”

During the campaign, as a vocal supporter of Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), Scholten suggested she might struggle to support El-Sayed in the general election.

“I will not stand beside someone who has allowed distinctly anti-American sentiment to enter our public dialogue,” she said in one interview.

In another, she criticized El-Sayed for campaigning with antisemitic and anti-Israel influencer Hasan Piker.
‘Uncommitted’ founder who pushed Dems to vote against Biden over Gaza wins local primary
Abbas Alawieh, a founder of the Uncommitted movement that pressured former US president Joe Biden to change his Israel policy, is the projected winner of a Democratic primary for Michigan’s state Senate.

Alawieh rose to national prominence as a key architect of the campaign to withhold votes from Biden during Michigan’s presidential primary in 2024, a protest against the administration’s support for Israel as it inflicted mounting casualties in Gaza.

Alawieh defeated state representative Erin Byrnes in Tuesday’s primary to represent Michigan’s 2nd Senate District, a heavily Arab-American area covering Dearborn and parts of Detroit — and the epicenter of the Uncommitted effort. He won 59% of the vote to Byrnes’s 41% after more than 95% of votes were counted, according to the Associated Press, and is now almost certain to win the solid-blue state Senate seat in November.

Alawieh, who was born in Lebanon and grew up in Dearborn, acknowledged his victory without giving a speech on Wednesday. His staff announced that Alawieh’s maternal grandfather, Hajj Kassem Bazzi, died Tuesday night as they awaited the election results.

“Please keep Abbas’s family in your prayers as they take needed time together,” Alawieh’s team said in a statement. “Abbas will share his own thoughts on the race soon. For now, thank you to every community that made this win possible.”

Alawieh was backed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. He previously worked as a staffer for congressional Democrats, including Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib, former Michigan representative Andy Levin and former Missouri representative Cori Bush, who lost a primary against Representative Wesley Bell on Tuesday.


Schumer, Democrats are ‘cowards’ for backing El-Sayed, RJC says
The Republican Jewish Coalition called Democratic leaders “cowards” after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) pledged to help Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed defeat former Republican congressman Mike Rogers.

El-Sayed has said that Israel is “bloodthirsty,” guilty of “genocide” and an “illegal apartheid regime.”

Sam Markstein, national political director and spokesman at the RJC, told JNS that “Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Democratic Party are complete and total cowards.”

“Abdul El-Sayed is the most antisemitic candidate for the U.S. Senate in America, and yet, their party leadership is rallying around him,” he said. “November is a clear choice between Democrat crazy and Republican common sense.”

Schumer’s support for El-Sayed comes more than a year after the Jewish senator published Antisemitism in America: A Warning, a book about the resurgence of anti-Jewish hatred in the United States.

“In Michigan specifically, this is a choice between Mike Rogers, who will stand with Michigan’s Jewish community as he has always done, and Abdul El-Sayed, who will defend the people who come after us,” Markstein told JNS, citing Rogers’s pro-Israel record.

“Where Democrats failed, Republicans will clean up their mess,” he said.

In a joint statement on Wednesday, the two Democratic senators called on Democrats to unite behind El-Sayed to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s agenda.


Secret bot army boosting Mamdani on X may have just been traced back to his City Hall
Dozens of suspected bot accounts on X/Twitter are amplifying content from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his circle, and reportedly can be traced to New York City Hall IP infrastructure, the World Zionist Organization told The Jerusalem Post exclusively.

As part of its activities against the waves of antisemitism online, WZO’s dedicated Department for Combating Antisemitism was presented with data and findings collected by cyber experts specializing in the field.

The information included an analysis of IP addresses and mapping of activity patterns and distribution networks of suspected bot accounts.

WZO’s technological examination of activity on the X network points to dozens, if not hundreds, of accounts with unusual characteristics. The Post independently consulted the cyber experts involved, who said they are “100% sure” the IP addresses could be traced to city hall, although it did not provide evidence establishing who controlled the accounts or whether city officials directed their activity.

WZO examined unusual X accounts amplifying Mamdani
An examination of activity on X identified a broad group of accounts displaying unusual activity patterns that were remarkably similar to one another: hundreds of tweets and shares per day, an extremely high rate of repeated posts, newly created accounts or accounts with little personal activity, partial profile descriptions, and sometimes usernames that appear automated.

The WZO research team estimated that there are hundreds of suspected bot accounts, with more appearing each day.

The main common denominator among the accounts is their consistent tendency to amplify content originating from Mamdani’s official account, city accounts, and accounts belonging to political allies and officials identified with the mayor.
Despite Mamdani’s boycott stance, NYC funds Cornell Tech’s tree canopy project tied to Israel’s Technion
Despite New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s past calls to boycott Cornell Tech because of its partnership with Israel’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, city officials and Jewish community leaders on Wednesday announced a $250,000 investment in a Cornell Tech research initiative aimed at expanding New York City’s tree canopy to combat rising temperatures.

New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, the first Jewish woman to hold the post, and other officials unveiled the funding for Cornell Tech’s Urban Tech Hub at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute on Roosevelt Island.

The grant will launch the Generative Tree Canopy Project, which will use artificial intelligence, aerial imagery, the city’s tree census and climate forecasting to develop neighborhood-specific tree-planting strategies intended to reduce extreme heat and related health risks, according to the project announcement.

The initiative will begin in three underserved neighborhoods in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, where tree coverage is roughly one-third lower than in better-resourced parts of the city. New York City’s overall tree canopy covers about 22% of the city, and officials hope to increase that figure to 30% over time, a goal established in the city’s Urban Forest Plan. Trees help lower temperatures, improve air quality, reduce energy use and mitigate heat-related health risks.

The century-old nonprofit New Yorkers for Parks is partnering with Cornell Tech’s Urban Tech Hub to lead community engagement for the project.


The Brink: Oxford Professor Exposes The Crisis Inside Britain's Universities
In this episode of The Brink, Andrew is joined by historian Lawrence Goldman, former Oxford professor and Executive Editor of History Reclaimed, for a wide-ranging conversation on the crisis facing universities, the rewriting of British history, and the growing influence of ideology in academia.

Drawing on more than four decades at Oxford, Goldman explains how the study of history has shifted away from archival research and evidence towards theory, ideology, and present-day moral judgments. He argues that today's students are increasingly taught to interpret the past through modern political frameworks, rather than understanding historical events on their own terms.

The conversation also explores the rise of anti-Semitism on university campuses, the relationship between anti-Zionism and academic culture, and why Goldman believes many institutions have failed to defend free inquiry and intellectual diversity. We discuss the expansion of higher education, the internationalisation of universities, and the growing disconnect between academia and wider society.

Finally, Andrew and Lawrence examine what it would take to restore trust in higher education. From academic freedom and leadership to educational standards and the purpose of universities themselves, they ask whether Britain's institutions can return to the pursuit of truth over ideology.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
05:19 The Rise Of Ideology In Universities
11:25 When Did It Start?
14:57 Why Academia Changed
17:45 Is Diversity Of Thought Disappearing?
19:24 The Cost Of Speaking Out
23:00 Why History Reclaimed Was Created
26:03 Does Oxford Have An Antisemitism Problem?
35:46 Why Antisemitism Is Getting Worse
39:19 Foreign Influence In British Universities
42:56 Has Academia Lost Its Purpose?
45:39 Are Universities Producing Better Students?




The Judas Statue Lie
Darryl Cooper's claim on Tucker Carlson's recent podcast that the Bolsheviks erected a statue of Judas Iscariot is an easily disproven lie. Or, to be precise, it might have happened, but there is no proof, aside from claims in revolutionary-era anti-Bolshevik propaganda. Proper historians today don't accept it as a fact, because the proof for it is slim to non-existent.

True, I would not be surprised if the Bolsheviks had done this. As the historian James Billington writes in "The Icon and the Axe," the pre-revolutionary elites (not all of them Marxists) openly extolled Lucifer as a model rebel. They didn't believe in the Devil, but they admired what he stood for. But Cooper doesn't present the Judas statue as a possibility; he presents it as a fact.

Of course Carlson did not challenge him on that claim. He never does. You don't have to lie, or (more charitably) present something that is strongly contested as true, based on historical evidence, to show that the Bolsheviks were hideously anti-Christian. So why did Cooper bring up that canard? Best I can figure, in context of the whole interview, is that he was using it to show that the Jews hate Christianity and want to destroy the West, just like they killed Jesus. Listen to the show yourself. A man who, as Cooper does in this interview, promotes reading the contemporary work of a confessed National Socialist (Thomas Cyr), is not someone whose authority I'm inclined to trust.

Now, it is true that Jews were disproportionately represented among the Bolshevik elite. Of course. But Russian anti-Semitism carried over into the Bolsheviks, and Jews were, naturally, persecuted under Communism. A Ukrainian emigre friend, a Christian, told me that his father was ethnically Jewish, but his family decided to give him the last name of his Christian mother, so he would not be kept out of universities. This was not under Stalinism, but under late Soviet times!

But why were so many Jews ardent Bolsheviks during the revolutionary times?

To answer the question, I think back to a conversation I had in Moscow, 2019. I was having dinner with a Russian Orthodox family on my last night there, after having spent days interviewing people who had resisted Communism. Some went to prison for it, and were tortured. I said to my hosts at dinner, "I don't know why anybody ever believed in Bolshevism."

"You want to know why?" said the father. And then he gave me a short course in 400 years of Russian history, leading up to the Revolution. His point was that the ruling class in Russia, under Tsarist rule, had treated the great mass of Russians -- all Russians -- like garbage. He said it shouldn't surprise anybody that a people who had been ground into the dirt for generation after generation would fall for revolutionaries who promised to Make It All Better.


US Congress introduces buffer zone bill meant to protect houses of worship
US Congress members on Thursday announced legislation that aims to create buffer zones around synagogues and other houses of worship to protect worshippers from protests.

The legislation came after vitriolic anti-Zionist protests at synagogues around the US and after similar legislative efforts in American states and cities.

The so-called buffer zone bills are generally opposed by progressive groups due to perceived threats to free speech.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the “Right to Worship Act” to the US Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday.

The legislation, if passed, would create a 100-foot buffer zone around houses of worship where protests would not be allowed during scheduled religious services.

The bill would make it “unlawful to knowingly disrupt or impede people from attending” services, US Representative Tom Suozzi, a moderate Democrat from New York who sponsored the House bill, said in a statement.

The other sponsors are US Representative Brad Knott, a North Carolina Republican, and Senators Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, and Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan.

The bill’s text says it would bar individuals from “knowingly disrupting” or “knowing impeding people from participating” at scheduled religious services, including through threats or intimidation.


Trump admin announces probes of San Francisco State, San José State over alleged Jew-hatred
San Francisco State University and San José State University, both public schools, have “reportedly failed to acknowledge or meaningfully respond to cases of antisemitic harassment on campus, seeming, in some instances, even to condone such abhorrent acts,” the U.S. Department of Education said on Thursday.

The department said that it is probing both schools, which educate some 60,000 students collectively.

“The same California leaders, who wax eloquent about their commitment to ‘equity’ and ‘social justice,’ appear to turn their backs on violent, harmful acts of antisemitic intimidation and harassment,” stated Kimberly Richey, U.S. assistant secretary of education for civil rights. “We will investigate these allegations, ensure the safety of Jewish students and protect the right of every student in America to an education free from discrimination.”

There is a climate of “intimidation, exclusion and fear,” according to Jewish students at San Francisco State, the Education Department said. It added that it received reports of professors at the school creating a hostile environment for Jewish students.

The department “has been notified of antisemitic graffiti on campus, attempted break-ins targeting Jewish students and events featuring extremists with terrorist group ties hosted by the Arab and Muslim ethnicities and diasporas program,” the department stated.

Bobby King, director of communications for San Francisco State University, told JNS that the university is aware of the department’s investigation.

“Antisemitism and discrimination have no place at SFSU,” he told JNS. “We take the concerns raised by members of our Jewish community seriously and remain committed to ensuring that every member of our community can study, teach, work and participate in university life free from discrimination and harassment prohibited by law and university policy.”
Canadian gov report finds 90% of Jewish students in country saw or were victims of Jew-hatred
At a Canadian university, professors assigned readings that denied the Holocaust, and a student told a peer that it was “a shame Hitler did not finish the job.” Horrific as they were, the incidents are part of a pattern of widespread Jew-hatred, according to a federal Canadian government-led report on “campus antisemitism and student experience” issued on Aug. 4.

The study reaffirms “what we have been hearing from Jewish students on campus in Ontario for many, many years—that antisemitism on campus is running rampant and that the universities need to do more to safeguard the experiences of Jewish students,” Jay Solomon, chief advancement officer at Hillel Ontario, told JNS.

“It’s a wholesale failure of higher education institutions,” Solomon told JNS. “We need to do more as a society to ensure that Jewish students are able to be on campus and feel safe and express their identity.”

The Metropolis Institute, a think tank at the Association for Canadian Studies, released the study, which surveyed 900 Jewish students at more than two dozen Canadian colleges and universities, on behalf of the government.

The survey found that 90% of Jewish students were victims of or had witnessed antisemitism on campus in the past year. Of the latter, 71% reported seeing antisemitic graffiti, and more than 20% observed physical violence against Jews.

There were targeted actions, such as mezuzahs ripped from dorm room doors, at multiple institutions, per the survey, and about 33% of respondents reported course content or classroom discussions that were antisemitic or biased. A similar amount said that professors introduced Jews, Judaism, Israel and Zionism in unrelated ways to the subject matter.


Hamas tells Palestinians to kill Israeli-backed militia members for ‘salvation,’ Gazans tell ‘Post’
Hamas urges Palestinians to target leading figures in the Israeli-backed armed groups in the Gaza Strip.

The terror organization’s special security unit, Rada Force, which is responsible for addressing internal threats – specifically suspected collaborators with Israel – stated that the solution to dismantling what it described as “collaborator gangs” is to eliminate their top members.

“We say to all members of the collaborator gangs that assassinating senior collaborators in these groups will be your salvation before us and before your people,” the Rada Force said in a statement.

As part of Hamas’s attempts to crack down on armed militias in the strip, the force stated on Thursday that “with the assistance of residents, it apprehended a Palestinian closely linked to senior militia collaborators,” and added that his weapons and money were confiscated.

It expressed appreciation for what it called the public’s sense of national and ethical responsibility, urging Gaza residents to immediately report any suspicious behavior or the whereabouts of “wanted collaborators.”


Jewish teen attacked with phone and metal chair at North Miami Beach Starbucks
An 18-year-old Jewish teenager sitting at a Starbucks inside a Target store in Miami was targeted for wearing a kippah, struck with a cell phone, and assaulted with a metal chair in a violent antisemitic attack.

The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon at a Target store located at 140th Street and Biscayne Boulevard.

According to the victim’s interview with Local 10 News, he was sitting in the Starbucks seating area while his family shopped when a woman approached him. He said, “I wasn’t looking for problems, didn’t interact with her before, zero, it was completely unprovoked.”

Teen attacked by 43-year-old woman
According to the North Miami Beach Police Department arrest report and witness statements, 43-year-old Chyvonne Juanita Palmer stood up from her seat, approached the teenager, and began screaming at him before hitting him twice in the head and shoulder with a black cell phone.

After briefly returning to her seat, Palmer got back up and wielded a metal chair against him while shouting repeatedly, “I hate them.” Two bystanders intervened to prevent the chair attack while ushering the teenager away from the scene, where he hid in the store’s restroom.

Police took Palmer into custody at the scene. She has been charged with multiple offenses, including aggravated battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with prejudice, and disorderly conduct.





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