Saturday, August 22, 2026

From Ian:

Antizionism unites people who disagree on almost everything.
Politics built on grievance and blame can be extraordinarily effective because it offers a simple answer to complex problems: Identify a common enemy and unite otherwise disparate groups against it.

Professor of Yiddish Literature at Harvard University Ruth Wisse asserts that antisemitism and antizionism are unusual among modern ideologies because they are exclusively negative. Even socialism, communism, and totalitarianism promise people something in their attempt to win them over.

Pointing the finger at Jews has a long record, which historians and archaeologists date back to the Jewish Exodus from the Egypt of the pharaohs in the 13th century BCE. But here I want to focus on its modern political forms. These “anti-isms,” as Wisse calls them, turn complicated social, cultural, and political problems into a single story of blame. Their power lies not only in whom they target, but in their ability to create coalitions among groups that may otherwise have little in common.

A useful starting point is Germany in 1879, when Wilhelm Marr founded the League of Antisemites. The German Empire had been created only eight years earlier from 25 states and remained divided by regional loyalties, religious tensions, and political friction.

Marr recast classical religious prejudice against Jews as a secular, pseudo-scientific political movement. He blamed Jewish emancipation and modern capitalism for Germany’s problems and sought to reverse Jewish civil rights and remove Jews from the country. In a fractured society, blaming Jews created a common cause.

The same political mechanism appeared in different settings. In Soviet Russia, the Yevsektsia was established in 1918 by Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik government as a Jewish antizionist unit tasked with bringing the Jewish working class into the Soviet system. It closed synagogues, banned the teaching of Hebrew, and prevented traditional Judaism, Zionism, and rival political movements from operating.

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, developed a different Islamist political project: removing Western colonial influence from the Islamic world and building government around sharia law. Its core principle is that Islam is both a religion and a state, with social Islamisation progressing from individual piety towards political power and, ultimately, aspiring to reunite Muslim nations under a revived pan-Islamic caliphate.

In 1945, the Arab League was organised as an antizionist league in Cairo, before the creation of the State of Israel. Arab societies had oil, land and large populations, while European imperial powers were exhausted by World War II.

Yet the Arab world remained politically divided and pan-Arabism had failed to unite it. Antizionism and antisemitism became powerful unifying ideas across otherwise competing states and movements and currently remain a unifying thread underlying Sunni, Shia, and Ibadi Islam.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini later popularised the language of “the Little Satan” for Israel and “the Great Satan” for the United States during the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution. His stated aim was to first eliminate Israel, then the United States, and then the Western world, accusing it of deceptive and corrupting power that uses political, cultural, and economic influence to weaken Islamic societies.

Poland in 1968 offers another example. Although antisemitism was officially illegal, university protests were blamed on the “Zionists,” and the government purged 13,000 Jews and revoked their citizenship. How did authorities decide who was a Zionist? They targeted Poles with Jewish names. Political belief was not the test. The operative assumption was “Zionist unless proven innocent,” a pattern that has echoes in the treatment of doxed Jewish creatives and academics in Australia in 2024.

Today, coalition-building may be one of antizionism’s most important political functions. At Harvard University October 7, 2023, 33 grievance groups formed a coalition against Israel as it was being attacked by Hamas.
Police officer fired after describing 7 October as ‘resistance’
A police officer has been fired after a misconduct trial found he spent months posting and engaging with antisemitic content, celebrating the deaths of Israelis and describing the 7 October 2023 as an “act of resistance”.

A panel held between 6 and 8 July at the Met’s disciplinary hearing centre at Palestra House on Blackfriars Road, Southwark, heard that PC Mohammed Nizam posted, reposted or ‘liked’ a number of messages and pictures on social media between September 2023 and July 2024.

These include responding to a post from London Mayor Sadiq Khan expressing distress at the terrorist attacks in Israel on 7 October with an image reading “you f***ing w**k stain”; liking a post responding to a Jewish commentator accusing him of continuing to “play the Holocaust card to justify Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza”; liking a post referring to the “Zionist-controlled mass media”; re-posting a post mourning the death of an IDF soldier with “suck it” and re-posting a tweet stating that “Israel controls all the Muslim countries but Gaza”.

According to the trial’s report, Nizam accepted the alleged conduct “without reservation”, explained that his mental health had deteriorated following the 7 October 2023 attacks. He described becoming increasingly distressed by images of violence and the killing of children in Gaza, stating that he felt “incensed” by what he saw online.

He accepted that some of the posts he ‘liked’ were antisemitic, acknowledged that he had not considered the impact of his actions and maintained he is not antisemitic, expressing sympathy for the Israeli victims of the 7 October attacks.

He did accept that several of the comments he made would be deemed antisemitic under the IHRA definition. Expressing remorse, he stated that he deeply regretted the posts and recognised that such comments were wholly inappropriate for a police officer.

Nizam added that since the investigation began, he has undertaken “significant personal reflection and education”, “broadened the sources he consulted, including reading Jewish News daily, attending events aimed at improving understanding of antisemitism” and sought advice from members of the Jewish community.

Additionally, he has contacted the Jewish Police Association, who “provided guidance and recommended materials to help him understand the harm caused by antisemitic content”, attended an online seminar on antisemitism, an event at a synagogue commemorating the Holocaust, and an exhibition displaying artefacts from terrorist attacks.

Officer Nizam said he has deactivated all relevant social media accounts and believes he has undergone “enormous personal growth.”
Washington-Based 501(c)(3) to Host Fatah Terrorist Convicted in 1993 Murder
Palestine House of Freedom, also known as Dar Alhurriya, a federally tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to host an event Thursday with Nasser Abu Srour, a Fatah member convicted of participating in the brutal 1993 murder of an Israeli security officer.

Abu Srour will appear virtually from Egypt, where he has lived since Israel released him in a 2025 hostage-prisoner exchange. The event will run from 6 to 8 p.m. on Aug. 20.

Admission is free, but the registration page solicits “tax receipt eligible” donations to Palestine House of Freedom. The organization also says copies of Abu Srour’s prison memoir, The Tale of a Wall, will be offered as gifts in exchange for donations.

The Murder Missing From the Event Description
Abu Srour was serving a life sentence for participating in the January 1993 murder of Haim Nahmani, a 25-year-old officer with Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service.

Contemporaneous reporting said Nahmani was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in an apartment in Jerusalem’s Rehavia neighborhood on Jan. 3, 1993. He had arrived to meet Maher Abu Srour, a Hamas terrorist who had been acting as an informant.

Palestinian sources have also independently acknowledged both his affiliation and participation.

A 2023 Arabic-language profile published by the Palestinian Vision Center for Political Development states that Abu Srour joined Fatah, participated in operations against Israelis during the First Intifada and established an armed cell with his cousins Maher and Mahmoud Abu Srour. It explicitly says he “participated in killing a Zionist officer.”

Fatah’s own media outlet has likewise reported that Abu Srour was serving life for participating in the killing of an Israeli officer.

In a 2013 prison interview with Israel’s Channel 2, Abu Srour described himself as a soldier rather than an innocent bystander.

“I was a soldier in the army of Palestine,” he said. “What do soldiers do? They fight.”

Abu Srour added that he had done his part in the struggle and would “continue” through other means. He predicted that, without a diplomatic solution, there would be “a third, fourth, fifth and sixth intifada.”


How Tucker Carlson Mainstreamed the Gaza GenoLIE
Tucker Carlson has transformed from a cable news primetime host into America’s most influential independent media figure — and one of its most notorious antisemites. Since his dismissal from Fox News, Carlson has built a digital brand with which he has engaged in a relentless campaign to mainstream the genocide accusation against Israel, personally promoting it in his own voice at least 140 times across more than 400 podcast episodes analyzed by Jewish Onliner.

Carlson’s rhetoric closely mirrors the patterns documented by the Gaza GenoLIE coalition, which brings together over 71 legal and civil society organizations. Its eight-part framework documents how the genocide accusation emerged almost immediately after October 7, before Israel began ground operations, and was subsequently reinforced through legal distortion, historical delegitimization, and collective blame against Jews.

Jewish Onliner’s analysis reveals Carlson engages with five of the eight GenoLIE types directly, employing sophisticated rhetorical strategies that have moved fringe accusations into his massive audience’s default framework for understanding the Israel-Hamas war.

Four Patterns, One Narrative
Carlson’s coverage repeatedly reaches the same conclusion through several overlapping routes:
1. He presents genocidal intent as having been apparent almost immediately after October 7, before Israeli ground forces entered Gaza. “Everybody knew from the first week after October 7 that Israel planned to commit genocide,” Carlson said in May 2026, citing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reference to Amalek as evidence of premeditated intent.
2. He has also invoked the 1948 Genocide Convention to present a disputed legal determination as settled fact. “I think that what the Israelis are doing fits that description,” Carlson said in July 2025, asserting that Israel was “systematically trying to destroy the Palestinians as a national group.”
3. From there, Carlson repeatedly frames Israel’s military campaign not as a war against Hamas but as an effort directed against Palestinians themselves. In the same July 2025 discussion, he described October 7 as providing Israel with “an excellent opportunity for ethnic cleansing” and said the goal was to “drive the Palestinians out of Gaza and solve that demographic problem.”
4. That interpretation is then placed inside a much broader historical narrative. Carlson has portrayed ethnic cleansing not as a consequence of the current war but as inherent to Zionism itself, describing the establishment of a Jewish state amid an existing Palestinian population as impossible “without doing ethnic cleansing.”

Together, the claims form a closed framework: genocidal intent was supposedly evident from the beginning, the legal threshold has supposedly been met, the war is framed as targeting Palestinians rather than Hamas, and the present conflict is portrayed as merely the latest stage of an eliminationist project dating to Israel’s founding.

The Context Carlson Leaves Out
Among the most striking findings, however, concerns not what Carlson says but what he does not.

Across 33 episodes discussing civilian casualties in Gaza, Jewish Onliner found zero acknowledgments of Hamas’s roughly 350-mile tunnel network, military infrastructure embedded beneath civilian sites, or its documented use of human shields as a factor in civilian deaths. That omission removes virtually every competing battlefield explanation from Carlson’s presentation of Gaza casualties. Civilian deaths are repeatedly presented to his audience while Hamas’s military strategy disappears from the equation.

At this scale and consistency, the omission itself becomes part of the narrative. Carlson’s audience is left with one principal framework for interpreting civilian deaths: deliberate Israeli mass murder.


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Jonathan Tobin: Why is Rep. Jamie Raskin enabling campus antisemitism?
The Jewish world has been shaken to its core by the global surge of antisemitism that followed the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab terror attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. But amid the heartbreak and justified anger about the mainstreaming of Jew-hatred in American education, culture, media and politics, there have been some notable victories.

A series of congressional hearings beginning in December 2023 and continuing into 2025 that exposed elite universities that tolerated and encouraged antisemitism on their campuses made it clear that the bullying and targeting of Jewish students wasn’t being ignored by everyone in power. That paved the way for the Trump administration’s efforts to take action on the issue.

His initiative has forced many schools to acknowledge their failures and to sign settlements either with the federal government or with private plaintiffs. They involved both financial compensation and necessary changes in the way administrations run their institutions. If enforced, these agreements will make a difference in how Jews are treated, as well as cause it to become harder for the sort of woke antisemitism that prevailed throughout academia to continue.

Enforcing Title VI
That some people are unhappy about this isn’t surprising. The academics who embraced toxic left-wing ideas like critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism—and falsely label Israel and Jews as “white” oppressors—are outraged about being held accountable for how they have normalized anti-Zionism and Jew-hatred. And they are particularly angry about being called out for the fact that their policies violated Title VI of the 1964 U.S. Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin.

It is especially disturbing that one of the loudest critics of the push against campus antisemitism is a prominent Jewish member of Congress.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, claims that Trump’s efforts to stop campus antisemitism were “fake, a pre-baked frame-up operation thoroughly political in nature.”

He cited a complaint by a federal bureaucrat who opposed the president’s determination to root out both the Jew-hatred and the way the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) had enabled discrimination, and then resigned and filed a “whistleblower complaint. He not only seeks to pursue retribution against members of the antisemitism taskforce, but also to possibly change the civil-rights laws that prohibit this illegal bias.

Raskin, like the academics who made anti-Zionism (indistinguishable from antisemitism) the new orthodoxy throughout American education and culture, thinks colleges and universities should be free to create hostile environments for Jews on their campuses. This is neither a matter of free speech nor academic freedom. A generation of faculty members and students who were indoctrinated in the “anti-racist” faith think advocating for Jewish genocide (“From the river to the sea”) and terrorism against Jews everywhere (“Globalize the intifada”) is a matter of free speech. Of course, these same voices would be in favor of the harshest retaliation for those who made similar threats against other minority groups, like African Americans or Hispanics. But when it comes to discrimination against Jews, it’s a different story.

As the heads of three such institutions—Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—all said when they were questioned about it by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) in December 2023, it depended on the “context” as to whether advocacy for Jewish genocide violated the rules of their schools. Yet Raskin thinks the ordeal that Jewish students have endured by not disavowing their connection to the land of Israel is somehow unworthy of public concern.
Tikvah Podcast: Rachel Fish on the Corruption of Jewish Studies
Friends of Israel and enemies of Israel both commit the same mistake when they assume that, in American colleges and universities, the faculty hired to teach Jewish subjects are, in their own way, supportive of the Jewish state. The assumption is a reasonable one, and each side's error mirrors the other. The friends of Israel naturally suppose that academic scholars of Jewish history, Jewish thought, the history of Israel, and the arts and letters of Hebrew are there to offer context and support and are both capable of and inclined to explain Israel's case on campus. That doesn't mean that they would be expected to support any particular Israeli policy or Israeli politician or each and every maneuver of the Israeli military, but that they support Zionism in some fundamental sense. And Israel's enemies think that same thing, but of course from the opposite point of view, seeing in the entire enterprise of Jewish studies and all of its related fields and disciplines a vehicle for propaganda. It turns out that both are wrong. There's a good chance that an average member of a faculty of Jewish studies, Israel studies, Hebrew studies, or Holocaust studies holds a documented public position against Israel. Nearly four in ten of the professors specifically teaching Jewish civilization on American campuses are on the record as being hostile to Israel.

Those data come from newly released findings of the largest audit yet undertaken of the views of professors of Jewish civilization in America, published recently by the Ronn Torossian Foundation and a publication called The Olam. The audit's own headline number is higher still—better than half, and past 70 percent at the Ivies—but that figure blends named professors together with institutional listings and petition tallies. The number above is the most important: faculty individually identified as teaching these subjects, and what they've put on the public record.

To think through what this means, Jonathan Silver, the editor of Mosaic and host of the Tikvah podcast, is joined by Rachel Fish. Fish is a scholar of modern Israel, Zionist thought, and contemporary anti-Semitism, and the incoming CEO of the Israel Institute. They discuss not just these numbers, but how a discipline built to study Jewish civilization on serious scholarly terms ends up, in a meaningful share of cases, working against that civilization's national survival. We talk about what it means for the pipeline that produces the next generation of professors: graduate admissions, dissertation topics, and the hiring committees that decide who gets to teach. And I ask her about what a Jewish family sending a child to campus in the coming weeks needs to understand before that student walks into the classroom.
The Spectator: ‘Universities are grooming a whole generation of anti-Semites’ – Maureen Lipman | The Edition
William Moore is joined by The Spectator’s political editor Tim Shipman, commissioning editor Tali Fraser and actress Maureen Lipman. This week: has the West lost the will to defend itself? The panel discuss the threats posed by China, Russia and Islamism – and whether Western societies have become too reluctant to defend their own values. Maureen also warns about the rise of antisemitism, arguing that universities are ‘grooming’ a generation of anti-Semites.


Call me Back: Will Liberal Democracy Survive? - with Jonah Goldberg
Why have the classical liberal ideas that helped emancipate the Jews become so vulnerable? Dan is joined by Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch to ask why classical liberalism, which is the political tradition that embraces equality, individual rights, and restraints on government, has become so vulnerable. They discuss how the terms liberal, progressive and socialist got confused, and why they think the DSA agenda will fail. Goldberg also explains the economic and cultural forces he sees fueling populism on the left and right, whether America’s liberal tradition is strong enough to withstand them, and what its erosion could mean for Jews.

In this episode:
What is classical liberalism?
How liberalism paved the way for Jewish emancipation starting in the 17th century
How the terms socialism, capitalism, free market, liberal and progressive got jumbled
Why young Americans are rejecting liberalism and the status quo
How economic and technological change fuel discontent and dislocation
What pop culture reveals about the rise of populism
Can classical liberalism make a comeback?
Could the proposals of Mamdani and the DSA actually damage American cities?
Why Jews are caught between the illiberal left and right


Noa Tishby: AI Is Now a Superweapon Being Used Against the Truth | Van Jones & Noa Tishby
What you’re seeing right now did not happen. Neither did this.

AI misinformation is no longer just fake news—it has become a superweapon in the global information war.

Noa Tishby speaks with Van Jones to discuss how artificial intelligence, social media and powerful algorithms are manipulating what billions of people see, believe and share. When anyone can manufacture a convincing image, voice or video in seconds, how do we know what is real? And what happens to democracy when voters are making decisions from inside completely different algorithmic realities?

Noa and Van examine how this crisis is shaping global perceptions of Israel, Gaza and Iran; why anti-Israel content overwhelmingly dominates young people’s social media feeds; and how propaganda can reach millions before those committed to the facts have even finished verifying the truth.

They also confront the failures of both fringe and legacy media, the addictive online economy built around anger and engagement, and the danger of allowing algorithms to hijack our shared reality.

This is bigger than Israel. It is bigger than the Jewish people. It is about the future of democracy itself.

Before you believe, like or share something online: stop, question it and verify it.




At Massachusetts Senate debate, Markey touts early call for blocking Israel arms sales
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) touted his early support for efforts to block certain U.S. arms sales to Israel during a Senate debate on Thursday with Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), who is challenging the Massachusetts senator for his seat.

“Trump had Netanyahu’s back in his unbelievably unconscionable war against Gaza. And that’s why Bernie Sanders and I and Elizabeth Warren, we were [some] of the first 11 who voted against these 1,000-pound bombs going in against Gaza,” Markey said. “The man has no conscience. He has no wisdom whatsoever. He is endangering the United States, our national security, our standing in the world every single day that he’s allowed to sit in that Oval Office.”

Moulton did not directly address Israel policy during the debate.

Both candidates also focused significant time on condemning the war in Iran and expressing their opposition to it, while jabbing at each other over who has been the more effective opponent of the war.

Moulton named ending the Iran war as the most important thing that Congress can do in the current moment, taking credit for bringing a war powers resolution to the House floor.

Throughout the debate, Markey repeatedly attacked Moulton for voting, months before the start of the war, for a 2026 appropriations bill that included funding for the Defense Department. Moulton responded by repeatedly highlighting Markey’s past support for other defense appropriations bills, including during the Iraq war.
El-Sayed Campaign Gets a $175,000 Boost From CAIR, Whose Leader Was 'Happy' About Oct. 7, After Alleging Primary Opponent's AIPAC Support Constituted 'Foreign' Intervention in Election
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the anti-Israel group whose leader said he was "happy" about October 7, is quietly funding left-wing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's Senate bid in Michigan. That financial support comes after El-Sayed made demonization of the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) a central pillar of his primary campaign against Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens, maligning the American group's support as foreign meddling in the election.

The Unity & Justice Fund, which CAIR launched in 2024 as part of its effort "to elevate the political influence of the Muslim community" in the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023, gave $175,000 on July 21 to Fighting for Michigan PAC, which was formed to back El-Sayed's Senate bid, according to campaign finance records released Thursday.

Fighting for Michigan, which calls itself a "coalition of progressive, labor, veterans, and advocacy organizations working to elect" El-Sayed," has emerged as the largest outside group supporting the far-left Democrat, spending nearly $3 million to date on digital ads and polls in support of El-Sayed.

CAIR's sizable financial support for El-Sayed underscores the candidate's foundational dislike of Israel and thinly veiled sympathy for Islamic extremism. He has faced intense scrutiny for campaigning with Hasan Piker, an influencer who said that "America deserved 9/11" and that Hamas is "a thousand times better" than Israel.

Some Jewish leaders have accused El-Sayed of fostering antisemitism over his barrage of attacks on AIPAC, a pro-Israel advocacy group that supported Stevens. "AIPAC has spent a record amount in this race to elect my opponent because she'll be a reliable vote to a foreign government that is aiding, arming, and abetting a genocide," El-Sayed said last month.

The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment about whether CAIR's support for his campaign constitutes foreign meddling in the election.

El-Sayed, who has rubbed shoulders with members of the antisemitic Nation of Islam during his campaign, will appear at an Islamic conference over Labor Day weekend with clerics who have called the Holocaust a "hoax." Another cleric who is known for "pedophilic rhetoric" was kicked off a panel following a report in the Washington Free Beacon.

CAIR is the largest Muslim advocacy group in the United States and one of the most controversial. The Department of Justice labeled CAIR an "unindicted coconspirator" of the Holy Land Foundation, a Hamas front group, in a federal terrorism investigation in 2008. Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) and Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) have declared CAIR a "terrorist organization" and banned state agencies from cooperating with the nonprofit.

Nihad Awad, the cofounder and executive director of CAIR, stoked outcry in late 2023 for stating he was "happy to see" Hamas attack Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The Biden White House condemned Awad's "antisemitic" statements and removed CAIR from its "Combat Antisemitism" working group.

Awad announced the formation of "a lobbying organization" in a podcast interview on "Unlocking Muslim American Power" in 2024, saying that CAIR launched it "to elevate the political influence of the Muslim community, and especially this was created after the genocide in Gaza."

"CAIR has also created a super PAC … and it's called Unity & Justice Fund," said Awad, who added, "If you want to have influence, you have to pay for it."


Anti-Israel activist cleared of inviting support for Hamas after 7 October
Tony Greenstein, 72, of Brighton, was charged with one count of inviting support for a proscribed terrorist organisation relating to three posts he made on October 7 2023, after the Hamas-led attack on Israel.

Greenstein described Gaza as a “human prison” and told Kingston Crown Court that while he believed the attack was “justified”, he does not support Hamas.

He said: “When a colonial power holds another people down, they have the right to resist.”

On Friday afternoon, a jury of five women and seven men found Greenstein not guilty after two hours 11 minutes of deliberation.

Greenstein grinned and looked visibly emotional as the verdict was read out, and supporters in the public gallery gasped excitedly.

Giving evidence to the court on Thursday, Greenstein said Palestinians had been “locked up” for 57 years and accused the judge of “turning a blind eye to genocide”.

On multiple occasions during his evidence, Judge Sarah Plaschkes KC halted proceedings to ask Greenstein to stop talking about the history of Israel and Palestine.

Greenstein said to the judge: “That’s the problem with the ruling class in this country, they turn a blind eye to genocide.”

Judge Plaschkes warned Greenstein about treating the trial as a “political forum” and said the jury was “not concerned with events in the Middle East”.

In the social media posts, Greenstein wrote the line: “Please share. Full support for the Gaza ghetto uprising,” the court heard.

Jurors were told the posts had links to a blog, which included the line: “The time to fight is now. Whatever criticisms one can make of Hamas, we should congratulate them on this well planned and audacious attack on the Zionist enemy.”
Palestine Action bank attack ‘not terrorism-linked’, judge rules
An attack on a Barclays Bank by five people from the Palestine Action group will not be treated as terrorism when they are sentenced, a judge has ruled.

The five smiled with relief and were hugged and cheered by supporters as the ruling was given at Preston Crown Court on Friday.

It means all five will still be sentenced next month for criminal damage in the attack costing £200,000.

But Judge Robert Altham, the Recorder of Preston, ruled section 69 of the Sentencing Act, establishing a terror link to the criminal damage offence, did not apply – so the defendants will face lesser sentences when they are dealt with.

Judge Altham said while the damage was substantial, it was not of the size of other attacks or on a sensitive property, such as an arms firm, as has happened during previous Palestine Action action.

He said: “For section 69 to apply the damage must amount to serious damage.

“The threshold is a high one, the quality of the act must also be considered.

“I agree the monetary value is not the only factor.

“The nature and sensitivity of the property damaged is also relevant.

“Whilst the damage is undoubtedly significant, I’m not satisfied it amounts to serious damage for the purposes of the Terrorism Act.

“Section 69 does not apply in this case.”

Around 100 supporters, many waving the red, white, black and green flag of Palestine, cheered and banged drums on the steps outside as the defendants left court.

Palestine Action, was not proscribed as a terror group at the time of the attack.

The group targeted the Barclays branch on St James’s Street in Burnley, Lancashire, on August 5 2024.

Brendon O’Hagan, 28, Amanda Kelly, 31, Mohammed Malik, 26, Hmeera Atiqnisar, 31, and Alma Yaniv, 70, were convicted of criminal damage in June after a trial at Preston Crown Court.

All will be sentenced on September 4.

They claimed the 2am attack was designed to pressure Barclays into withdrawing financial support for weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, a firm based in Israel.

Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in July 2025 and has been behind a string of direct action protests targeting Elbit due to the firm’s links to the Israeli military.

In May this year, a judge at Woolwich Crown Court ruled Palestine Action activists who caused £1.2 million of damage in a raid on Elbit’s factory near Bristol should be sentenced as terrorists.


US civil-rights commission approves bipartisan report on Jew-hatred at American colleges, federal agencies
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has unanimously approved a bipartisan report examining how U.S. colleges and universities and the federal government have responded to antisemitism on campus.

The report, The Federal Response to Antisemitism on American College and University Campuses, is expected to be finalized and released in September. It is the product of an investigation led by commissioners Peter Kirsanow, a Republican, and Mondaire Jones, a Democrat. The commission voted to approve it on July 21.

The investigation examined how higher-education institutions and federal agencies responded to allegations of antisemitism in violation of federal civil-rights protections, with a focus on developments since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. It included a review of a representative sample of colleges and universities, as well as the responses of the U.S. departments of Education, Justice and Health and Human Services.

As part of the investigation, the commission held a Feb. 19 briefing featuring current and former federal officials, students, university representatives, advocacy organizations and legal and policy experts. The following day, it held a public-comment session at which students, educators, university officials and community members shared their experiences. The commission received 37 public comments that informed the report.

Rochelle Garza, chair of the commission, said the report will provide an “important factual record” for the president, Congress, universities and the public. She emphasized the need to protect Jewish students from discrimination and harassment while respecting constitutional protections for free speech and expression.

Jones said the investigation examined the intersection of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin in federally funded programs and activities, with First Amendment protections and academic freedom.

Kirsanow said the investigation provided evidence of the “scale and breadth” of antisemitism on college campuses and offered insights into ways to address the problem.


Springfield NBC Affiliate Omits Counterargument Against Northampton Divestment Resolution
Audi alteram partem roughly translates from Latin as “listen to the other side.” But NBC’s affiliate station in Springfield, Massachusetts, WWLP, did not give its viewers the opportunity to do so when it reported on a lawsuit against a controversial divestment bill set to be debated in Hampshire Superior Court next week. During the coverage, WWLP’s anchor stated that
The hearing will consider [Northampton’s] motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging [a] resolution [which] … calls for the city to divest from entities it says are complicit in human rights violations in Israel and Palestine.

And that’s all she wrote. WWLP did not take the time to educate their viewers about the lawsuit against the resolution, leaving viewers with a one-sided perspective on the issue while omitting key legal statutes that may make the resolution obsolete. So, let’s dive into some background:
In September 2025, the Northampton City Council unanimously passed a divestment resolution explicitly calling for the city to divest public funds “from entities complicit in human rights violations in Israel and Palestine.” The resolution, R-25.314, cites Amnesty International studies alleging that Israel has “imposed a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians,” which “amounts to the international wrong of apartheid.” CAMERA researchers have written rebuttals to the report in the past, critiquing its blatant falsehoods and distortion.

The resolution also references a list of firms from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) to allege that some $71,010 of Northampton funds are invested in “companies identified … as complicit in substantial, ongoing and international violations of international law and human rights in Israel and Palestine.”

Of course, this is the same AFSC that NGO Monitor had previous investigated and found in collusion with Hamas by covering up or downplaying its atrocities on October 7, 2023. This led to Israel barring the nonprofit from operating in Gaza. Other reports indicate that AFSC donates to Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, whose employees have included members of designated terrorist organizations, Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Hamas.

Despite the reliance on non-transparent sources, the resolution passed anyway. This led to a lawsuit being filed on behalf of 10 Northampton residents by the National Jewish Advocacy Center and Gevura Fund. Their argument? The resolution violates the U.S. Constitution by interfering with U.S. foreign policy and meddling in foreign commerce, and that it violates state law by directing public investment on moral considerations. The lawsuit also states that “The Resolution provides no objective definitions for its key terms, including “complicity” or “human rights violations,” leaving enforcement entirely to subjective political judgement.”


New online study tracks migration of antisemitic language from fringe forums to mainstream platforms
A new study of online antisemitism found that coded language originating on fringe forums is migrating into mainstream online discourse, where its original meaning can become less apparent to outsiders while remaining recognizable to extremists.

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue analyzed roughly 305,000 posts classified as antisemitic, collected between September 2025 and March 2026 from more than 15 platforms and forums, including 4chan, X, YouTube, Reddit, Telegram, Tumblr and Bluesky. Researchers used roughly 1,000 keywords to identify potential posts before classifying them with a language model grounded in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.

The report, published on Aug. 20, examines what ISD calls “lexical laundering,” defined as the process by which extremist vocabulary moves from fringe spaces into mainstream discourse while retaining its original in-group meaning and becoming more “deniable” to outsiders.

Of the 47,119 posts classified as antisemitic hate speech directed at other users, roughly 51% originated on 4chan. ISD cautioned that the figure understates the platform’s role because its data was downsampled to 20% to comply with export limits. Corrected for the downsampling, 4chan accounted for roughly 84% of such posts, according to the report.

One example is “goyslop,” a term that emerged from a conspiracy theory claiming that Jewish elites deliberately promote unhealthy processed food to weaken non-Jews. The term later spread into health and wellness communities on X, Reddit, YouTube and Bluesky. One creator used it in 37 videos over six months, including a post that received 205,000 engagements.

“It works, in part, because the words are Trojan horses. Slang does not receive the same scrutiny as an argument, so an obscure shell (for example, goy, the Hebrew and Yiddish word for a non-Jew) can seem like harmless internet slang,” the report states. “Thus, it gets waved through, ideology and all.”

Another example is “gorillion,” a Holocaust-denial term that “mocks the six million Jews murdered by Nazis, substituting an absurd, invented figure (‘six gorillion’) to frame the death toll as fabricated.” ISD found that its use surged on X beginning in October 2023 as the war in Gaza unfolded, even as use on 4chan remained relatively flat.

“Gorillion’s antisemitic meaning is recognizable only to those familiar with the reference—especially when used without the ‘six’ prefix,” the report states. “It’s this obscurity to outsiders that provides the deniability more explicit slurs lack.”
Report finds TikTok has best response to Jew-hatred, then Instagram, X
When StopAntisemitism asked three social media companies to remove antisemitic content in the last year, it found that TikTok had the best record of the trio, followed by Instagram, then X, according to a report that the nonprofit shared exclusively with JNS.

“We’ve seen time and again how hatred that starts online doesn’t stay online. It emboldens people, it normalizes antisemitism, and ultimately we see the consequences in the real world,” Liora Rez, president and CEO of StopAntisemitism, told JNS. “Yet there is very little accountability for the platforms where this hatred spreads.”

“We wanted to put the data on paper and show exactly what happens when antisemitic content is reported, who takes action, who doesn’t and where these companies need to do better,” she told JNS.

The nonprofit chose those three, since they are the “most influential platforms for the type of content we were examining and gave us a strong foundation for comparing enforcement practices,” Rez said.

StopAntisemitism said it submitted weekly reports to TikTok, Meta (which owns Instagram), and X from July 2025 to July 2026, with an average of five examples from an account on each platform that appeared to violate its policies.

The nonprofit identified offenders based upon what it said was “repeated or egregious examples of content that appeared to violate one or more platform policies.” It reported both accounts with large and small followings, and some of the accounts glorified terrorism against Jews and Israelis, it said.
Boston police probes possible ‘bias incident’ after driver allegedly directs anti-Israel expletive at Jews going to synagogue
The Boston Police Department told JNS that a driver who accelerated into a crosswalk and allegedly shouted at two Jews walking to synagogue on Aug. 14, a Friday night, did not intend to “drive at somebody.”

“They may have driven through the crosswalk when someone was in the crosswalk, which is a crosswalk violation,” Sgt. Det. John Boyle told JNS.

Boyle added that police are still investigating for “bias indicators.” The driver reportedly accelerated while driving toward the Jewish couple.

“With the Jewish holidays coming up, people are always going to be on edge,” he said. “I don’t want people to be in fear.”

The incident occurred shortly after 7:20 p.m. on Aug. 14, as a husband and wife crossed at Washington Street and Euston Road on their way to Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe, an Orthodox synagogue in Brighton, Mass.

The driver allegedly shouted, “F**k Israel!”

Surveillance footage showed what appeared to be a green metallic Audi A-series sedan with distinctive stickers on its rear bumper, according to an incident report. The driver was listed as an unidentified male.
‘Deeply disturbing, unacceptable,’ Surfside, Fla. rabbi says of alleged antisemitic assault
An antisemitic attack on a Jewish couple is “deeply disturbing and unacceptable” but seems to be “an isolated incident,” Rabbi Gavriel Koskas of Magen David Congregation of Surfside-Bal Harbour told JNS.

“It is important to put it in perspective,” the rabbi of the Orthodox synagogue said. “This appears to have been an isolated incident involving individuals who are not Surfside residents, and it does not reflect the community we live in.”

JNS sought an incident report from the local police. According to news reports, a Jewish man, who was visiting South Florida from New York with his wife, was punched in the head and threatened on Aug. 16 at night.

Jorden Stephen Perozo, 35, allegedly approached the couple on an electric scooter, cursed at the man, his wife and others in the Jewish community and then punched the man, according to news accounts, citing the police report.

“Now you’re going to die,” Perozo allegedly told the man, per the report. “Walk away before I kill you.”

Perozo allegedly continued making antisemitic remarks and statements about Israel and “Palestine,” which the wife recorded, in part, on her phone.

Police reportedly arrested Perozo on Wednesday at Flanigan’s Bar & Grill, where he worked, and he faces a count of battery with prejudice and a count of harassing or intimidating a person based on religious or ethnic heritage.

As of Thursday, he was reportedly being held on $6,000 bond.

Rabbi Zalman Lipskar of the Shul of Bal Harbour, a Chabad synagogue, told JNS that the local police departments “work very closely with the Jewish community and are doing an amazing job ensuring the safety of all our residents.”

“We are very grateful to them for their tireless efforts to protect our community,” he said.
Iraqi national charged in connection with Yom Kippur Manchester synagogue attack
Counter Terrorism Policing North West announced that Hekmat Omar Ali Hakim, a 49-year-old Iraqi national living in the Manchester area, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of failing to disclose information related to the terrorist attack at Manchester’s Heaton Park Synagogue on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025.

Hakim, who is accused of an offense under the UK Terrorism Act, is due to appear Friday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Authorities have not disclosed what information he allegedly possessed, when he became aware of it, or the nature of his connection to the terrorist.

Hakim was first arrested on May 26, when Counter Terrorism Policing North West and Greater Manchester Police conducted a raid as part of their search for suspects. He was detained on suspicion of the same offense, questioned, and released on bail the following day.

Hakim was the eighth person arrested in the extensive investigation launched after the attack. Following nearly three additional months of investigation, and with the approval of prosecutors, authorities decided to charge him and arrested him again.

Police continue to piece together 'full picture' of attack
Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts, the operational head of Counter Terrorism Policing North West, described the charge as “a significant development in the investigation.”

Potts said investigators were continuing their efforts to “establish the full picture” behind the attack and identify anyone who may have been involved in any way. He said the charge resulted from a lengthy and meticulous investigation conducted with the assistance of British prosecutors.
Man pleads guilty to arson attack at Golders Green memorial wall
A man has pleaded guilty to an arson attack at a memorial wall in Golders Green.

Ali Fallahi, 46, from Ilford, east London, appeared before Harrow Crown Court on Friday, where he entered his guilty plea to the single count of arson.

He was said to have started a fire at the site in Limes Avenue on April 27, sparking an investigation by counter-terrorism police.

It was alleged that Fallahi damaged by fire a memorial cabinet belonging to advocacy group Miga Rally, intending to destroy or damage it or being reckless as to whether it would be destroyed or damaged.

The memorial wall was established by the group as a tribute to thousands of protesters killed in a regime crackdown in Iran in January.

A section of the wall is also dedicated to those killed in the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival in Israel on October 7.

The fire is said to have been started at around 12.15 am in a cabinet which sits next to the wall.

Miga Rally said the blaze was spotted and quickly extinguished, and did not spread to the wall itself.

After the incident, the group released a statement, saying: “The memorial wall is a peaceful place of remembrance, documenting lives lost and ensuring victims are not forgotten.

“Any attempt to damage or desecrate such a site is deeply troubling and an attack on the values of remembrance, dignity and community cohesion.

“We hope those responsible will be identified and held accountable.”

The Metropolitan Police said Fallahi is a dual British and Iranian national.
Teenager ‘stirred up antisemitism and posted terror video online’
A teenager accused of stirring up racial hatred against Jewish people and foreigners and sharing a video of a mass killing online has been remanded into custody.

Damian Woolfenden, 18, is accused of posting Christchurch terror attacker Brenton Tarrant’s live-streamed video of the 2019 killings onto the self-described “pro-white” platform White Pilled TV.

Tarrant fatally shot 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and livestreamed his actions on Facebook.

Woolfenden also allegedly posted the manifesto of far-right terrorist Andres Breivik, who killed 77 people in two attacks in Norway on June 22 2011, onto a Telegram group, the court heard.

He is also said to have had on his home computer the manifesto of US white supremacist mass shooter Payton Gendron and German neo-Nazi synagogue shooter Stephan Balliet along with a firearms guide.

The teenager, who is of no fixed abode but formerly from Bury, Greater Manchester, is charged with three counts of publishing threatening written material stirring up racial hatred, one relating to foreigners and one to Jewish people.

He is also charged with stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation.

Woolfenden is also charged with two counts of transmitting the contents of a terrorist publication electronically being reckless as to whether terrorism was encouraged, and one of possessing documents likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

The Brenton Tarrant video posted by Woolfenden onto White Pill TV account is said to have had been viewed 1,000 times.

Woolfenden appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday via video link from HMP Forest Bank wearing a grey prison tracksuit.


Israeli Olympic champion Dolgopyat wins third European championship title
Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat won the gold medal for his floor exercise at the European Gymnastics Championships in Croatia on Friday, marking his third European championship title.

Dolgopyat, representing Maccabi Tel Aviv, carried out an excellent routine, scoring 14.466 points.

He later took to the podium as the national anthem, Hatikva, played.

In a statement, Israel Gymnastics Federation chairman Avi Sagi congratulated Dolopyat on his win, saying that he “proves once again that he is made of the stuff that great champions are made of.”

Dolgopyat is Israel’s second-ever Olympic gold medalist, having secured the win during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He won a silver medal in the 2024 Paris Games.

In April, he won gold for floor gymnastics at the Osijek World Cup in Croatia, and in February, he won gold in the same field at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Germany.

Last year, Indonesian authorities refused to grant Dolgopyat a visa to compete at the World Championships, citing objections from groups such as a council of Islamic clerics and the local government over Israel’s conduct during the war with Hamas, preventing him from defending his title.


Yehuda Katz buried on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, 44 years after falling in Lebanon battle
The funeral for Sgt. First Class Yehuda Katz was held Friday in Jerusalem, 44 years after he went missing in the First Lebanon War’s battle of Sultan Yacoub.

Hundreds of people lined the streets to pay their last respects as the funeral procession set off from the Kerem B’Yavne yeshiva in southern Israel, where Katz studied before enlisting in the Israel Defense Forces.

His remains were returned to Israel on Tuesday from Lebanon, where he went missing during the 1982 battle in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley along with Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel and Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman. The fighting claimed the lives of 21 Israeli servicemen and injured more than 30.

Baumel’s remains were recovered with Russian assistance and returned to Israel in 2019, while Feldman’s remains were recovered by Mossad agents in May 2025. The IDF said Katz’s bones were recovered in a special operation led by the Military Intelligence Directorate in coordination with the Mossad spy agency.

Among those attending Katz’s funeral at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives were Mossad chief Roman Gofman and the government’s former hostage and missing persons pointman Gal Hirsch.

Katz’s brother Avi said the family would be sitting shiva — the seven-day Jewish mourning period — for him “because until now, we had not given up hope of finding him alive.”

“As far as we are concerned, Yehuda was killed this week, not 44 years ago.”

Avi Katz said that when his father was first told by the army that Yehuda was missing, he responded, “Auschwitz isn’t over,” referring to the notorious Nazi death camp.

“When they informed us this week about the [forensic] identification, we struggled for 14 hours to be finally convinced,” he told the mourners. “Brother, today we are burying you, but this isn’t our personal story. It’s the story of the people of Israel.”






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