How ‘Made in Israel’ is powering European security
On the last day of August, a group of Greek military officials arrived in Tel Aviv, led by Major General Ioannis Bouras, to sign what would become one of the largest defense export deals in both countries’ histories.London bookshop that sold Mein Kampf stocks book calling Jews ‘evil’ and promoting Protocols conspiracy
The €3 billion agreement — called Achilles Shield — will provide a suite of Israeli tech to protect Greece against a wide range of threats, including missiles, aircraft and drones.
The deal is the latest installment in a growing relationship between European governments and the Israeli defense sector. As the continent races to rearm, it has largely relied on the United States for guns, tanks and aircraft. For many of the less-visible systems now at the center of modern security — sensors, interceptors, surveillance technology — governments are increasingly turning to Israel.
That dependence is deepening even as Europe’s political relationship with Israel grows more strained. The wars in Gaza and Lebanon have fueled tensions between the European Union and Israel, even as the bloc’s governments have become increasingly dependent on the country for critical systems — but those disputes have done little to slow cooperation between Israel’s defense sector and individual countries.
“Looking right now on our relations with the EU, yes, there are challenges,” said Avi Nir-Feldklein, Israel’s ambassador to the bloc. “But when you look at what we’re doing on the bilateral level with EU member states, the constructive, practical cooperation is intensive and flourishing.”
Israel’s advantage begins with its military. Young engineers serve in elite intelligence and cyber units, where they work on real-world security threats. After leaving the Israel Defense Forces, many join defense companies or launch security start-ups. The result is a conveyor belt between the battlefield and commercial product development. Multicopter drones hang on display at the Elbit exhibition stand at the 2026 ILA Berlin Air Show on June 11, 2026. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Israel’s top three defense companies — Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems — are either state-owned or maintain deep institutional links to the Israeli defense establishment, with senior military figures embedded in their governance structures.
“Israel is an excellent example of how defense or private companies are so well integrated,” said Kaupo Rosin, the head of Estonia’s foreign intelligence service. “And that makes them very capable.”
Israel’s broader security sector has also become a magnet for investment: Its firms attract nearly a quarter of global cyber investment, according to the Israel Innovation Authority 2025 High-Tech Report, with Google’s $32 billion purchase of Israeli start-up Wiz this year underscoring the sector’s attractiveness.
Hiba Tareef, spokesperson for Israel’s Mission to the EU and NATO, said the appeal lay in the close integration of government, academia and the private sector — and in technology shaped by real-world operations.
“By leveraging our real-time operational experience, we enable our partners to shift from a reactive to a proactive posture, significantly bolstering our collective resilience and defense,” she said. Deepening dependence
A complete picture of Israel’s role in European defense is difficult to establish. Many contracts are undisclosed on national-security grounds, and some Israeli companies operate through European subsidiaries. But dozens of entries in the European tender database reviewed by POLITICO show Israeli firms becoming go-to suppliers for military communications, surveillance and electronic warfare.
Many of the public contracts — including the €3 billion Greek deal — were awarded directly to Israeli firms without opening the work to competing bids as is preferred by EU law, according to the tender notices.
European procurement rules treat competition as the default, even in defense and security. Direct awards are allowed only in narrow circumstances — for instance, in cases of genuine technical exclusivity or narrowly defined national-security concerns.
The central London bookshop at the centre of controversy last month after selling copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf has now also been found to be selling a book that accuses Jews of possessing “evil qualities” and reproduces excerpts from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the JC can reveal.
Aafaq Bookstore in Westminster has been found to be selling copies of So That We Do Not Forget: Jewish Crimes - Zionist Resentment, an Arabic-language book dedicated to “every martyr whose blood was shed on the land of Palestine, Jerusalem, and Al Aqsa”.
The book’s first chapter describes Jews as a “people who committed great sins and possess evil qualities, thus deserving the wrath of [God]. God Almighty has mentioned their characteristics and actions in the Holy Quran, and how He punished them, yet they did not learn a lesson. Therefore, we must know their history so that we may be wary of them… God’s victory for the believers over the Jews is inevitable.”
The latest discovery comes just weeks after the bookshop, which is close to West Central London Synagogue, was found to be selling Arabic-language copies of Mein Kampf, with Nazi Germany’s dictator depicted performing a Nazi salute on the front cover.
The store subsequently removed the book from its shelves, saying its presence “should not be interpreted as an endorsement of its content or ideology”. It added that the bookshop rejects “Nazi ideology, antisemitism, racism and all forms of hatred”.
The Community Security Trust (CST) said the latest find merits an investigation by police and Westminster Council.
The book describes “Jewish Zionism” as the “embodiment of the worst characteristics and morals of the Jews, reflected in policies and protocols that demonstrate the evil and deviation that Jews believe toward [non-Jews], with audacity and extreme arrogance, using control of money and economic, and military power.”
It continues: “Today, we are in urgent need of studying the history of the Jews and Zionism, and the history of what happened in Palestine, and what confrontations we have experienced with the Zionist entity in Palestine, in order to rebuild awareness among the nation regarding hidden conspiracies and ongoing measures aimed at implementing the project of establishing a Jewish Zionist state from the Nile to the Euphrates.”
The reference to the Nile and the Euphrates reflects a conspiracy theory that the Zionist movement seeks to establish a single state stretching from Egypt’s Nile to the Euphrates, which runs through Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
The book calls for increased vigilance “across the generations” in confronting Zionism.
It says “Zionist hatreds” is directed “on the colonisation of Palestine, [through] the theft of the land from its owners, the killing, displacement, and extermination of its people to replace it with an expansionist, borderless Jewish Zionist state”.
The book also presents the notorious antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as fact. Produced in the Russian Empire in the early 20th century, the fabricated text was created to propagate the false claim that Jews were conspiring to achieve world domination by controlling governments, economies and society.
Brendan O'Neill: We are still failing the moral test of 9/11
For here we are, 25 years after the greatest Islamist outrage in history, and it is safer to sympathise with Islamists than to condemn them as a foreign pox on our civilisation. Plaudits await the bourgeois youths who put on keffiyehs and cheer the Islamist foes of Zionism and its Western backers. Shame and blacklisting await the brave souls who say Islamism is the greatest menace the West faces. Hating the West is the intellectual bread and butter of bourgeois society, while those of us who love Western civilisation, and think it infinitely superior to any desert ideology that hates homosexuals and puts women in black sacks, risk being branded as racist. Behold the creeping, sickening victory of the Islamo-imagination, the slow-motion conquest of the West by the rancid anti-civilisational bigotry of the very men who brought terror to New York City 25 years ago today.Clifford D. May: The cruel awakening of 9/11
We have a tendency to focus on the visceral terror of 9/11. Every documentary, every book, dwells on the sheer pain of the day. The jumpers from the towers. The voicemails people left before being engulfed by al-Qaeda’s flames. The fight for survival on Flight 93 before it plunged into a field in Pennsylvania. All of this is important – of course it is. But the fixation on individual agony can distract us from the almost unbearable moral weight of that day. Emotionalism risks numbing us to the deeper, harder truth of 9/11. Which is that it was not just a tragedy, not even just terrorism, but an act of calculated and savage war against Western civilisation itself.
‘Are you Americans willing to fight for your civilisation?’ – that was the unspoken cry of this Islamist stab at the heart of the West. The selection of NYC as the prime target – alongside the Pentagon – was no accident. On one side, the self-styled Mujahideen of a seventh-century ideology with 21st-century tendencies. On the other, the greatest city Earth has ever known: the teeming, mettlesome metropolis that is the throbbing heart of Western culture and publishing and attitude. ‘The man that hates America hates the human race’, said Brendan Behan. 9/11 was barbarous proof of that. NYC was attacked as a proxy for the West itself, as a gleaming testament to the 20th-century spirit of reason, growth and swagger. Nothing – and I mean nothing – offends the cave-dwelling rich boys of the Islamist disease more than New York Fuckin’ City.
The importance of this historic atrocity is not only that it laid brutish waste to so much precious life but also that it set a moral test for the West. And while we have done our moral duty by the former – righteously commemorating all who died – we have catastrophically failed at the latter. For 25 years we have shirked our generational responsibility to assert the greater moral virtue of Western civilisation over the infantile, murderous rage of Islamism and its braindead apologists. On the contrary, we have bowed to the truthless creed of anti-Westernism, all but agreeing with the death worshippers of Islamism that our moral universe is in fact a violent, polluting, marauding and Zio-cucked horror show.
This is what 9/11 exposed: the pre-existing self-hatreds of the West. It raised to the surface of our societies, like scum on water, our shame at being modern and powerful and enlightened and special. Some clocked the explosive impact 9/11 would have in terms of entrenching and worsening our moral malaise. Martin Amis called it an act of ‘horrorism’, of ‘maximum malevolence’, of ‘pure totalitarian evil’. All should have united against this ‘fantastic vehemence ranged against [America]’, he said. But we didn’t. We ermed and ahhed. We said the West has done bad things too. We said, ‘What about Vietnam?’. To hell with your moral equivalence, said Amis. Whatever the undoubted sins of the West, the ‘paranoid, irrational, death-loving, freedom-hating’ Islamist ideology is worse. He was right. Others were too. Yet their words, like the World Trade Center, crumbled and evaporated into the dust of history.
Twenty-five years on, our moral corrosion has worsened. Bin Laden is dead and al-Qaeda is a busted flush, yet on 9/11 those religious tyrants planted a seed that continues to grow. The seed of doubt. The seed of self-loathing. It was this disease of self-flagellation that was animated like Frankenstein’s monster 25 years ago. The West needs to learn to love itself again. For the 3,000 dead, for New York City, for civilisation itself, it’s time we reminded ourselves of our greatness. Say it with me: we are better than them.
Americans have not suffered another mass-casualty attack on the homeland directed from abroad. That’s no small achievement.
But al-Qaeda lives. Its richest wing is Al-Shabaab, based in Somalia and tactically allied with the Houthi rebels of Yemen—proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, long designated by both Republican and Democratic administrations as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
Today, al-Qaeda’s de facto leader is Saif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer last reported living in Tehran. As the conflict between Iran’s theocrats and Washington has escalated, he’s rumored to have returned to Afghanistan, which former President Joe Biden handed back to the Taliban five years ago last month.
I find it astonishing that Zohran Mamdani, the current mayor of New York City, in seven years of 9/11 statements, has never said plainly who attacked us and why.
Since 2019, he has marked almost every anniversary with a post on X in wording that barely changes. The 2023 version: “Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died on 9/11; 22 years later, the death hasn’t stopped. We mourn our neighbors who died that day. The hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed. The unknown millions injured & displaced. In their memory, we work toward a better world.”
Note: New Yorkers “died.” Not murdered. Missing entirely: al-Qaeda jihadi perpetrators. And he adds that a higher death toll followed, implying that America is to blame.
Mamdani also interviewed Hasan Piker, a streamer who in 2019 said that America deserved 9/11. For months, Mamdani wouldn’t condemn the remark. Pressed at a 2025 debate, he called it “objectionable and reprehensible.”
Faced with a July petition from some victims’ families asking him to stay away from this year’s commemoration, the mayor vowed to attend and called Sept. 11 a “horrific terror attack.” But by whom and for what goal?
In 1983, self-proclaimed jihadis attacked Americans in Beirut; in 1993, they attacked the World Trade Center for the first time; in 1996, Tehran’s proxies attacked Americans in Saudi Arabia; in 1998, al-Qaeda bombed two U.S. embassies in Africa; in 2000, al-Qaeda bombed the USS Cole in Yemen.
Despite all this and more, after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Americans took a peace dividend and a holiday from history.
Ten years later, the attacks of 9/11 woke us. The challenge now is to stay awake and do whatever is necessary to defend ourselves.
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, a drone display using 2,977 drones has recreated the Twin Towers, each representing a life lost on 9/11. pic.twitter.com/BadP2VXBsA
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) September 11, 2026
A rabbi answered the call at Ground Zero. Two decades later, it cost him his voice
For more than four decades, Rabbi Ronald Kaplan’s primary tool for his work was his voice. It was the instrument he relied on every Shabbat and holiday on the bimah, in the classroom, under the chuppah, at the cemetery and in the hospital — guiding congregants through both moments of celebration and grief. As he puts it, a rabbi’s task is to “pray, to teach, to inspire, to counsel and to lead” — and the voice is the means to do it.Phyllis Chesler: 9/11: Our emergency number
But this year, as the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — a commemoration that falls as the major Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins on Friday night — that work of speaking and remembering holds particular resonance for Kaplan, whose service as a spiritual first responder at Ground Zero during the aftermath of the attacks ultimately cost him his “greatest sacrifice” — his voice.
In the late 1990s, the American Red Cross and the National Association of Jewish Chaplains sought to prepare clergy for disasters that were not acts of nature. In the wake of the 1997 crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, they piloted a program for “spiritual first responders” to support survivors, bereaved families and recovery workers. Kaplan, then a congregational rabbi living in northern New Jersey, enrolled in what became known as the Spiritual Air Disaster Intervention Response (SAIR) program in the fall of 2000.
“When the program was offered, I was energized by its content and thought it would add to my chaplaincy skills,” Kaplan wrote in a recollection to Jewish Insider. “I never assumed nor expected to be mobilized so quickly.”
Kaplan said the call to serve at Ground Zero came just days after the attacks. “It was nearly as startling as the attacks themselves, for I felt so ill-prepared and inadequate with any experience,” he said. His instructor’s chilling hypothetical — what if a plane hit the World Trade Center? — “immediately came to mind.”
Starting on Sept. 19, 2001, Kaplan began making regular journeys from New Jersey to Lower Manhattan, returning weekly through the spring of 2002. At the staging area at Liberty State Park, he donned a green vest emblazoned with the word “CHAPLAIN” and introduced himself to grieving families and exhausted rescue workers.
“Who would I meet? Who or what would be recovered? What will I say, what will I learn, and where could we see any source of light in this darkness,” Kaplan recalled in a personal reflection he wrote this week titled “Pain in the Neck: Speaking Up Without the Voice 9/11 Took From Me.”
“I was tasked with meeting with many of the grieving family members and rescue workers, identifying myself as a chaplain,” Kaplan told JI. “I explained what they would witness, encouraged them to hold on to each other and gain strength as a group.”
From there, he joined New Jersey state troopers and families on the ferry across the Hudson, heading toward an elevated wooden platform overlooking the ruins that recovery workers called simply “The Pile.”
Kaplan describes the scene as “ancient liturgy for modern horror”: the acrid air, pulverized concrete, twisted steel and battered office furniture strewn amid the rubble, punctuated by sudden cries when recovery teams found human remains or fragments of clothing.
“I can vividly picture the walk to the pile, seeing the flames, feeling the intense heat and hearing the deafening noise from the machinery,” Kaplan said. “The horrific scene was incomprehensible. I could not process what my eyes were seeing and my ears were hearing.”
Although we have been under attack for a while, most Americans have not really prepared for war. Even after 9/11, we continue to invite radical Muslims to teach and study at our universities and command posts in our media; we elect anti-American and anti-Israeli Muslims to public office. We have adjusted to women in hijabs, niqabs and even burqas, and compare Muslim-on-Muslim honor killings to Western domestic violence.Amit Segal: 25 Years Since 9/11: An Israeli Perspective
If Westerners refuse to do so, it’s considered “Islamophobic.” In other words, the Muslim Brotherhood has succeeded in persuading Westerners that criticizing any of this is “racist.” Neat trick that. But Islam is not a race. It is a religious and political ideology.
Is there any significance that this year 9/11 falls on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, when we are commanded to consider our sins, apologize to others whom we may have harmed or hurt, try to come closer to God, choose light over darkness, choose good over evil, and try to be more compassionate to others? I am not at all sure.
What I am sure about is what I remember about that terrible day. On 9/11/01, at about 11 a.m., I walked over to my computer and typed the sentence: “Now, we are all Israelis.”
I sat transfixed on the couch in my living room and knew that when I rose, the world would have changed enormously—that there would be no going back. I would never again feel safe from terrorist bombings, stabbings, car-rammings, beheadings or from lone “sudden jihad” attackers in U.S. cities or, for that matter, anywhere in the world.
Afterwards, the billionaire Osama bin Laden (who had been exiled both from Saudi Arabia and from Sudan, but who later found shelter in Afghanistan and in Pakistan) called the assault on America “blessed attacks” against the “infidel ... the new Christian-Jewish crusade.”
He explained that the Twin Towers had fallen because of American support for the State of Israel.
Always, it begins with the Jews.
War and a new kind of antisemitism and anti-Zionism had been declared. Bin Laden’s religiously obsessed and misogynistic pilots had torn a hole clear through history.
From the moment the plane struck the first tower, Israel was ready and willing to assist in Bush’s war on terror. Within weeks, delegations from every security agency of every allied country began to land at Ben Gurion before being ushered to Shin Bet headquarters. Sharon ordered them to “show them everything.” With more than 40 years of experience fighting terrorism, Israel was more than an ally; it was the indispensable arsenal of democracy. While Sharon had discouraged the invasion of Iraq, U.S. forces entered the country with Israeli training. The war inaugurated a new era of military cooperation. February's Operation Epic Fury was the climax of the joint-war against terror that began in 2001.25 years after 9/11, memory and resolve endure at Jerusalem memorial
Bush had raised the banner against terror, endowing Israel with desperately needed legitimacy in its own struggle with extremism. Under that banner, Sharon launched Operation Defensive Shield and crushed the second intifada. Ehud Olmert destroyed Syria’s nuclear reactor to near-total international silence. Netanyahu sent bombers to Sudan’s capital to destroy an Iranian arms shipment on the airport tarmac. Israel’s standard of near-zero tolerance for terror became the international standard.
But while Israel was an enthusiastic ally, it was a far less willing battlefield. “Israel will not be Czechoslovakia,” Sharon declared in October 2001. “Do not try to appease the Arabs at our expense.” The Americans ignored him. The 20 years following the attack, contained more than six separate American attempts at peace—more than in the previous 52 years of the country’s history.
Before 1991, Israel was a strategic asset in the struggle against the Soviets. Palestine was a problem insofar as it interfered with the Arab world switching sides, not because it fueled Soviet hostility. 9/11 placed Israel at the center of American security, both as a partner in the fight and as a barrier to vanquishing the threat altogether. Israel was simultaneously empowered by the U.S.’s ideological struggle and trapped in its specificities.
Even as Trump took a more apolitical approach to the region, domestically Americans were still contending with why al-Qaeda had attacked. Radicals offered a new answer. They recast America not as the groundskeeper of a natural growth of peace, justice and democracy, but as its primary obstacle, with Israel playing the part of its most deleterious creation. These individuals rallied in the wake of October 7, Israel’s 9/11. Many of these activists were children, if they were alive at all, when the towers came down. Yet, confident in their narrative of history, they turned their eyes from the atrocities, insisting that America, and especially Israel, deserved the monstrous violence.
It’s evidence that talk of the arcs of history and global politics tends to trivialize tragedy and suffering, so let me end with this.
High above the forests of the Jerusalem hills stands a monument.
It is a bronze ribbon unfurling, twisting, rising as if caught mid-air between collapse and ascension. What begins below as a heavy, draped flag curls upward into a soaring column, its crest tapering into an eternal flame. Embedded beneath clear glass at the base of the sculpture rests a jagged shard of melted steel brought from Ground Zero.
The sculpture is enclosed by a low, circular wall with plaques, embossed with almost 3,000 names. It is the only memorial outside of the United States that lists every victim. As it is written at Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, “Unto every person there is a name.”
For all its symbolism and political weight, we must not forget the simple duty inscribed as deeply on the hearts of terror-stricken Israelis as it is into the marble at Ground Zero: Never forget.
The memorial embodies that connection.Pentagon witness blasts Virginia school district's 'vanilla' 9/11 teacher guide
Established in 2009 by KKL-JNF and JNF-USA, it is the only memorial outside the United States displaying the names of all those killed in the 9/11 attacks. Created by Israeli artist Eliezer Weishoff together with KKL-JNF landscape architect Yechiel Cohen, the bronze sculpture depicts the American flag transforming into a flame.
A piece of steel recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center is incorporated into its base.
Around it are the names, arranged alphabetically, each representing a life, a family and a story.
Five Israelis were among those killed: Alona Avraham, Leon Lebor, Daniel Lewin, Shai Levinhar and Hagai Shefi.
As darkness settled over the Judean Hills, representatives of KKL-JNF, JNF-USA and the U.S. embassy jointly lit the memorial torch. Wreaths were placed at the foot of the flame, aided by U.S. Marines and Israeli firefighters.
The Israel Police Orchestra and Special in Uniform band performed, while the Heart of Nova group brought another layer of remembrance to the ceremony.
Tali Binar and Guy Ben-Shimon, survivors of the Supernova music festival massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, performed alongside Ofri Nahum, whose sister Nitzan was murdered in the attack.
American actress Patricia Heaton also participated, reciting a poem at the memorial ceremony before returning to the United States.
The connection between two generations of terrorism was underscored by a 27-year-old U.S. Army veteran whose mother worked at the Pentagon on Sept. 11. Five of her mother’s colleagues were killed. In all, 59 passengers and crew aboard American Airlines Flight 77 and 125 people at the Pentagon were killed when the hijacked plane struck the building.
The juxtaposition was impossible to miss: a memorial to the victims of one generation of terrorism standing in a country still confronting the consequences of another.
Yet the evening was not solely about grief. It was about memory and resolve—remembering those who were murdered, those who survived, those who rushed toward danger, those who became ill years later and those who continue to confront terrorism today.
In the fading light, visitors moved along the memorial wall, stopping at individual names to place red roses. Twenty-five years after the deadliest terrorist attack in American history, the names remain etched in stone—and the obligation to remember endures.
A wealthy Washington, D.C., suburb's public school district is advising teachers not to link 9/11 with radical Islam and to be sure to create "safe spaces" for Muslim students as the nation somberly marks the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
The guardrails in a six-page instructional guide, "25th Anniversary and Commemoration of 9/11" and distributed to teachers, has prompted critics to accuse Fairfax County (Virginia) Public School's liberal leaders of coddling post-9/11 sensitivities rather than teaching history.
s"It's sort of a vanilla way to do things," retired Navy Vice Admiral Lou Crenshaw, who was stationed inside the Pentagon when al Qaeda terrorists crashed a hijacked passenger jet into the building. "Everybody can go through the deal and feel good about it. And at the end of the day, nobody complains.
"To me, that's not exactly what we need to do. We need to make sure that the kids have learned a lesson here. And that's not going to happen if we try to shave the facts to the point where it's hard to figure out what we're talking about."
A digital content analysis reveals that about half of the 1,740-word document is devoted to tips for creating "safe spaces for Muslim and Middle Eastern students," about 15% spells out specific 9/11 instruction and the rest of the document tip-toes around managing "emotional responses" to the lesson.
The guide by the school district, which sits only a few miles from the Pentagon and several military bases, mentions military families only three times and first responders only once, saying at one point, "Many families of military personnel and first responders experienced loss and hardship."
Meanwhile, it has 30 references to Islam, "Muslim families," "Muslim students," "anti-Muslim racism," "anti-Middle Eastern" rhetoric, "Islamophobic rhetoric" and "Middle Eastern students" and families. It includes a bulleted list of "critical considerations" to challenge anti-Muslim bias.
The curriculum guidance speaks to a wider tension about how the 9/11 attacks are described by influential figures from teachers, journalists and politicians to social media influencers as a network of powerful Muslim organizations have built educational programs over the past 25 years downplaying discussions about the extremist interpretations of Islam that motivated al Qaeda and the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks.
On Thursday, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch called for "moral clarity" about what happened on 9/11, saying in a speech, "The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes.
"Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction, and shame on those who do."
Last month, after a major public backlash, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reversed earlier guidance that instructed journalists to avoid calling 9/11 a "terrorist attack."
The guide includes a "Do" and "Don't" list for teachers. Among the don'ts: don't "associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims." Don't "center the extremists or the acts of the extremists." pic.twitter.com/RsinYXRQlG
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) September 10, 2026
MEMRI Films Presents ‘Arab and Iranian Reactions to 9/11 – Five Years Later’ Narrated by Ron Silver pic.twitter.com/Zovb2qlcw7
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 10, 2026
Mamdani, NYPD vow tight security for synagogues during High Holidays
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Wednesday announced increased security for Jewish sites during the High Holidays, as the city continues to grapple with a high rate of antisemitic hate crimes.
Rosh Hashanah, beginning on Friday, coincides this year with the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, an anniversary that has also prompted security preparations from the police.
There are no known, specific threats to Jewish communities, Mamdani and Tisch said.
“Too many of our neighbors have been the victims of antisemitic hate crimes, and too many are understandably afraid to come together and celebrate openly,” Mamdani said at a security briefing. “Your safety during these sacred days is of the utmost importance to our administration, and we will work tirelessly to ensure that you can observe the holiday securely.”
Mamdani vowed an increase in NYPD protection for synagogues and other Jewish religious and cultural sites.
The NYPD will also monitor threats online, Mamdani said.
New York authorities regularly increase security for Jewish sites during holidays, but Tisch, a Jewish moderate, said that police have “amped up” deployments this year, “particularly since the start of hostilities in Iran.”
“Our deployment this year at the World Trade Center for 9/11 will be larger than it has been in previous years, as will be our deployment this year for the High Holy Days at shuls and yeshivas and Jewish cultural institutions, just based on the realities of the world that we live in today,” Tisch said.
Tisch acknowledged that, while violent crime has decreased in the city, “Hate crimes are moving in the wrong direction.”
Overall hate crimes are up 16% since Mamdani took office at the start of the year and antisemitic hate crimes have increased 9%. Jews are targeted far more than any other group in the city.
Jews have been targeted in 229 confirmed hate crimes so far this year, accounting for 54% of the total hate crimes in the city, according to NYPD data, despite Jews making up around 10% of the city’s population.
Tisch said security measures for the holidays will include intelligence monitoring, working with federal, state and international partners, and foot patrols at synagogues, yeshivas and other locations.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch demands ‘moral clarity’ on 9/11 with Mamdani by her side https://t.co/S4pVbI0Um5 pic.twitter.com/XVCe0xncZ2
— New York Post (@nypost) September 9, 2026
More than 100,000 people have signed a petition asking @NYCMayor to stay away from the 25th anniversary 9/11 ceremony.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 10, 2026
Wondering why?
Mamdani’s chief counsel represented an al-Qaeda terrorist. His wife reposted a tribute to PFLP plane hijacker Leila Khaled. He has repeatedly… pic.twitter.com/zVg7LmAzlc
What Mamdani failed to name? The Islamist terrorists responsible.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 10, 2026
New York City officials didn’t hijack planes. They didn’t crash them into the Twin Towers. They didn’t bring the buildings down and fill Lower Manhattan with toxic dust.
Al-Qaeda terrorists did.
Twenty-five… pic.twitter.com/Gz3PQJtHeJ
American University To Host Al Qaeda Sympathizer for 9/11 Anniversary Who Laments Bin Laden's 'Extrajudicial Assassination,' Hailed 'Palestinian Liberation' on Oct. 7
American University in Washington, D.C., will host a symposium on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 that features an "Islamophobia" expert who has lamented the "extrajudicial assassinations" of 9/11 masterminds Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Maha Hilal, the cofounder of the Justice for Muslims Collective, has also defended Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack, which many Israelis consider their version of 9/11, as a laudable act of "resistance" against the Jewish state.
Hilal will appear on a panel Friday evening entitled "Tracing the Impact of 9/11 Forever Wars: From 2001 to the Present," hosted by American University's School of International Service, whose alumni include Obama national security adviser Susan Rice, "antiracism" scholar Ibram X. Kendi, and Ayman Mohyeldin, the recently demoted Israel-bashing MS NOW contributor.
Hilal is a staunch critic of the United States and the "War on Terror." She often promotes her book, Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11, while donning a T-shirt that reads, "Stay Trashy America."
What little condemnation Hilal makes of the 9/11 attacks, in which al Qaeda operatives killed 2,977 Americans, including 184 near Washington, D.C., is overshadowed by her outrage over the deaths of Muslim militants, including notorious al Qaeda leaders.
In an Aug. 4, 2022, article for Middle East Eye, a U.K.-based outlet that is allegedly funded by the Qatari government, Hilal bemoaned the "extrajudicial assassinations" carried out against bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
"But extrajudicial assassinations contradict any meaningful semblance of justice, especially for a country that constantly parades the superiority of its values, legal system and adherence to the rule of law," she wrote.
Hilal asserted that in the case of al-Zawahiri, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan on July 31, 2022, "the US's victimhood was used to justify a targeted assassination—absent any stated legal process—nearly 21 years after the 9/11 attacks."
"Even though Zawahiri was central to the 9/11 attacks, this narrative promotes the problematic assumption that these killings are the only form of 'justice' that the US has pursued in more than two decades of the 'war on terror,'" wrote Hilal.
Less than 25 years apart 💔💔💔 pic.twitter.com/UfrBioF8zW
— GAZAWOOD - The Pallywood Saga - Official (@GAZAWOOD2) September 9, 2026
Would you look at that?
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) September 10, 2026
I looked up Fahad Ahmad, the professor quoted here on Islamophobia, and found a paper he coauthored accusing Israel advocacy groups of peddling “inflated antisemitism numbers.”
Quite a choice of topic and expert for your 9/11 coverage, CTV. https://t.co/CQ3dgm3PoD pic.twitter.com/iKxtzHWwVp
Premier Chris Minns, Lachlan Murdoch, Josh Frydenberg praise Sharri Markson and Alex Ryvchin's at book launch for 'Bondi Terror'
News24 host Sharri Markson and Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin's launch for their book 'Bondi Terror' saw a range of emotional speeches and raw interviews.
The event, hosted by 2GB's Ben Fordham, heard speeches by Premier Chris Minns and News Corp Chairman Lachlan Murdoch, among others, on the hallowed ground near where the terror attack took place last December.
The book launch began at 6.30pm with an address from Mr Murdoch, before Premier Minns took the stage.
Afterwards, the co-authors of the book read excerpts and made acknowledgments before speeches from former treasurer Josh Frydenberg and a panel discussion with victims of the Bondi attack.
News Corp Chairman Lachlan Murdoch has congratulated News24 host Sharri Markson and ECAJ co-CEO Alex Ryvchin on the launch of their book 'Bondi Terror'.
Mr Murdoch said the battle against antisemitism would not be easy and would take a concerted effort from Jewish and non-Jewish Australians, political leaders and universities.
"It won't be easy, it must be a constant, unrelenting, and proactive pursuit," he said.
"But I can promise you one thing, at News Corp, we stand with the Jewish community."
Mr Murdoch said it was a privilege for Harper Collins to publish 'Bondi Terror' and thanked the victims of the terror attack for sharing their stories.
"This book bears witness to those stories, stories of immense tragedy and great courage, and, I hope, honours you and those we lost," he said.
What privilege to attend launch of this extraordinary book by two incredible people and dear friends, @SharriMarkson & @AlexRyvchin.
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) September 10, 2026
Their deeply powerful account of Bondi’s darkest day bears witness to the horror, the heartbreak and the extraordinary courage that followed. pic.twitter.com/iJZOUN6Ruh
"The past is irrevocable, but the future is not, and while we cannot change what happened at Bondi, each of us can choose what we do next!"
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) September 10, 2026
🗞️ My reflections as a Bondi survivor in @dailytelegraph, ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. pic.twitter.com/w4Ms8wflkV
Grace Tame apologises after claiming Israeli rape allegations were ‘propaganda’
Grace Tame has apologised for the harm caused by her dismissing claims of sexual abuse against Israeli victims of Hamas' October 7 attacks.
On Thursday, the former Australian of the Year said she stands with survivors of sexual violence regardless of their nationality.
However, Ms Tame continued to dispute the characterisation of her original remarks, saying she did not deny individual allegations of rape against Israeli women.
She also maintained that there was insufficient evidence to support claims that Israeli women were raped en masse during the terrorist attacks.
“There’s something I’ve wanted to clarify for a while which I regret not clarifying sooner,” she said in a video posted to Instagram.
“I stand for survivors of sexual violence everywhere no matter who they are. Comments I made on ABC Radio in March of this year were misinterpreted to mean that I disbelieve Israeli survivors of sexual violence.
“This is not the case. I always have and always will stand with survivors of sexual violence."
But Ms Tame then continued to deny allegations that Israeli women suffered sexual abuse "en masse" during the October 7 terror attacks.
"Human Rights Watch was unable to find evidence to support the claim that Israeli women were raped en masse on October 7, 2023,” she said.
“I do not deny the legitimate accusations of rape made by individual Israeli women, including accounts of gang rape. I do not hate Israelis. I do not hate Jewish people.
“I abhor the crimes of the State of Israel. I believe Israeli survivors. I believe Jewish survivors as I believe all survivors.
“While the intention of my remarks was not to imply otherwise, I acknowledge and sincerely apologise for any harm their mischaracterisation has caused.”
Multiple Israeli hostages have revealed the horrific abuse they suffered at the hands of Hamas terrorists.
Note the basket of oranges in the foreground of the shot, to give the overall shot a softer feel. Highly manipulated production, and she even doubles down on the claim that Israeli women were not raped "en masse" on Oct 7th. What a vile piece of trash she is.
— MEME THE LEFT (@memetheleft) September 10, 2026
Not only was her non-apology through gritted teeth, it probably made things worse. Nor has she repudiated republic call to globalised the intifada
— Daniel (@ListenToLewko) September 10, 2026
She was recruited by Palestinian activistd happy for her to suicide bomb her own career and credibility. Dogs, fleas. https://t.co/o7wxAN2SIF
Major Jewish groups announce NYC rally against antisemitism during UN General Assembly
Major Jewish groups in New York City announced on Thursday a rally against antisemitism, to be held during the UN General Assembly in the city this month.
The rally aims to “call on world leaders to act decisively to stop the growing tide of antisemitism.”
“Tell world leaders — no more excuses,” read the protest advertisements.
The rally is being organized by a broad swath of large communal organizations, some of which do not frequently sign onto protests.
Organizers include the UJA-Federation of New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the Conference of Presidents, the Union for Reform Judaism, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Yeshiva University, the Israeli American Council and StandWithUs.
The protest will take place at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, across from the United Nations headquarters in midtown Manhattan, on September 23, at the beginning of the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Week, in which world leaders address the UN.
The protest will take place the day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the UN. Pro-Israel protesters hold signs at a rally in opposition to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani denounced Netanyahu as a “war criminal” while lamenting that New York lacked the authority to arrest the premier on an International Criminal Court warrant.
Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon confirmed on Wednesday that Netanyahu would be making a whirlwind 24-hour trip to speak at the General Assembly because “there is no option” but to do so after Mamdani’s comments.
The scheduled rally reflects growing frustration in the New York Jewish community over antisemitism. There has been an uptick in protests against antisemitism in the past year, as organizations and activists transitioned from rallying for the release of the hostages in Gaza to demonstrating for local Jewish concerns.
. @FranceskAlbs has repeatedly echoed narratives that serve Hamas.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) September 10, 2026
You'd think a @UN Special Rapporteur would condemn Hamas - not be its spokesperson.#unmasktheUN pic.twitter.com/V5l3ezEt8e
Ask Haviv Anything: 145: Waking up from our rage-filled slumber
Rosh Hashanah is the only major Jewish holiday that begins in total darkness — no full moon, no light on the road. And it is there, in deepest darkness, that the new year is born, that the new light kindles.
Jewish tradition teaches that this pivot from darkness to light is a time of freedom, when Joseph first came out of Pharaoh’s dungeon, when the Jews first tasted freedom from Egyptian bondage.
This Rosh Hashana, we ask what happens when an entire industry farms our attention for profit. From Proverbs to Rambam to the Ramchal's blind man walking the riverbank, we show that attention -- the world's most profitable commodity -- is also our most precious personal possession. That, at least, is a core principle of Judaism. And if it’s true, then the attention-hording rage-scrolling of social media, which now dominates our culture and claims much of our attention, is a form of slavery.
This Rosh Hashanah, make this moment of darkness and awakenings a pivot in your own life, a moment for reclaiming your mind.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction: The Significance of Losh Hashanah
02:26 The Creation and Significance of Rosh Hashanah
02:54 Struggling to Understand Our Current Moment
03:29 Objectively Better Conditions, Yet Greater Anxiety
04:10 The Impact of Attention Industry and Algorithms
05:19 Manipulation and the Erosion of Trust
07:26 Attention as the Foundation of the Soul
08:56 Jewish Law and Guarding Attention
11:19 The Shofar Blast as Wake-Up Call
13:30 The Path of the Just and Self-Awareness
15:17 The Evil Inclination and Constant Distraction
17:50 The Cunning of the Evil Inclination
18:59 Awakening to Our Duties and Responsibilities
20:18 The Danger of Righteousness Without Action
22:22 Fasting and True Justice
23:00 The Power of Action Over Words
24:07 From Distraction to Engagement in the World
25:26 The Power of Naming and Giving Meaning
25:56 Embracing Boredom and Stillness for Awakening
26:39 Walking Through the Door to Freedom
Hugh Hewitt: Jesse Arm on Abdul El-Sayed's campaign and his unhealthy obsession with Israel
Less than a day after Charlie Kirk was shot, thousands had already decided who did it. No evidence, just an accusation with a 150-year track record of landing on one perpetrator. pic.twitter.com/GTBSJfaHgW
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 10, 2026
“Oh yeah. Down with the US empire!”
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 10, 2026
As 9/11 approaches, meet Luke Sweeney, a self-described “Revolutionary Marxist” and Boston University alum who spread conspiracy theories claiming Israel was behind the attacks and openly said he wanted America to lose its war with Iran.… pic.twitter.com/bWxRkkv2Oe
A good mosque choice for this tour. In October 2023, Muslims at JMIC Slough were told that the war between Hamas and Israel was nothing less than a conflict between "truth and falsehood". All Muslims should back Gazans, who die for the "ummah" (community of believers). Those who… pic.twitter.com/p1PmdLkn1x
— habibi (@habibi_uk) September 10, 2026
Seattle anti-Israel activists are set to hold a protest at a local college on the anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, proclaiming that the day marks three years of "genocide."https://t.co/aBLkI3tODK pic.twitter.com/KgYDxgn7rj
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 10, 2026
Error-Riddled Harvard Law School Report Demonizes Israel as ‘Inhumane’
An error-filled new Harvard Law School report relies on terror-linked sources to depict Israel as burning Palestinian children to a crisp.
Antisemitism at Harvard contributed to the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay and is at the center of a legal battle between Harvard and the U.S. government over billions of dollars in research funding. In court and in public statements, Harvard says it is working to improve the situation.
The release of the half-baked report, though, highlights how Harvard has not yet implemented even the recommendations of its own antisemitism task force. The April 29, 2025 report of the task force said, "We were surprised to encounter significant academic programs that lacked any involvement from the ladder faculty, and we think as a nearly hard rule that the University should avoid creating programs like these in the future." Ladder faculty, in academic jargon, are core academic faculty who progress up the ranks of the ladder from junior assistant or associate to senior tenured full professors on the basis of their world-class academic research. It recommended, "Requiring a faculty director, who is a responsible tenured member of the ladder faculty, to oversee all activities of such programs." The International Human Rights Clinic that produced the demonize-Israel report is led by a clinical professor of law, Susan Farbstein. That is not a "ladder faculty" position.
The report’s lead author is identified as Bonnie Docherty, who serves simultaneously as senior adviser at Human Rights Watch, an anti-Israel advocacy group, and as a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School. Five Harvard Law-affiliated students—Talish Babaian, Siri Beck-Friis, Sumaya Daghestani, Sofia Fruet, and Luisina Kemanian-Leites—are credited in the report for having "contributed significantly to the research, analysis, and writing." A May 2025 report by NGO Monitor called the overlapping relationship between Harvard and Human Rights Watch "problematic," and said the "close cooperation" is "inconsistent with, and in violation of, basic academic norms."
The nongovernmental organizations "systematically demonize Israel…in contrast to the academic norm of political neutrality and balance," NGO Monitor said.
It’s not the first time the Harvard Law School human rights clinic has been a trouble spot. A February 2022 report from the same clinic accused Israel of apartheid. That report was published jointly with Adameer, which was sanctioned in June 2025 by the U.S. Treasury department, which called it a "fraudulent charity linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. " The PFLP has been designated since 1997 by the U.S. government as a foreign terrorist organization.
Glickman became vice-chair, then chair, of The New School’s University Student Senate after participating in and being arrested at its pro-Hamas encampment in May 2024.
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 8, 2026
He was also the lead author of a 38-page report accusing Hillel of ties to alleged violations of international… pic.twitter.com/lp2WVgIRVc
On May 1, 2026, the senate declared Hillel “not in good standing,” threatening its access to student funding.
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 9, 2026
The administration overturned the decision, calling it a “misguided” attempt to target fellow students.
Former NYU lecturer Charles Gelman was filmed ripping down Israeli hostage posters in 2023.
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 6, 2026
In 2026, he signed a letter backing a push to defund Hillel at The New School while demonizing its members and promoting BDS.
Read more at the link in bio. pic.twitter.com/VOSjocMQM1
Don't like something happening at King's College London? Just wreck it! Shouting, scuffles, it's all good. Do it over and over!
— habibi (@habibi_uk) September 10, 2026
The British academy sinks ever lower into its stinking hatred swamp. Employers and wider society must slash the value they assign to degrees. https://t.co/C1Oi4QnYJ2 pic.twitter.com/w1JzApzNpR
Mehdi Hasan Whines That He Can't Get 'Blue Chip Advertisers' for His Israel-Hating Rants: Zeteo Host, MS NOW Boss Headline Liberal Media 'Summit'
Zeteo founder and noted terrorism apologist Mehdi Hasan is struggling to find advertisers for his company and drops tens of thousands of dollars on defamation insurance, the host told an audience in New York City Wednesday.When Even the Hyrax Becomes Part of the Story
Hasan made the admission during remarks at the Status News conference, a staid progressive media coffee klatch that charged full-paying attendees $750 to watch conversations with liberal media executives whom Status also covers—ostensibly objectively—in its media newsletter, which charges $15 a month.
One of the conference's main sponsors was Planned Parenthood, which got its name on the wifi for the venue—inside the New York Times building—with the password Care4All.
Status founder and event moderator Oliver Darcy—who frequently scolds his competitors and news organizations he covers about conflicts of interest—made no reference to any conflicts of his own during his chats with Hasan and other liberal media luminaries. Among the summit sponsors lining Darcy's pockets were the media platform Beehiiv, which hosts Status, and talent agency William Morris Endeavor, which represents Darcy.
"You spend quite a lot of money on defamation insurance, and I'm assuming that cost has only gone up," Darcy said to Hasan, prompting an affirmative response.
"It's a lot. It's a lot. It's more than tens of thousands," Hasan added.
The virulently anti-Israel TV host, whose low-rated and inflammatory MSNBC show was canceled shortly after Oct. 7, 2023, has made attacks on Israel, including near-constant smears about "genocide," a mainstay of Zeteo, which he said has made many advertisers skittish.
"I think the biggest issue for us when we started was, of course, a lot of the coverage we were doing in 2024 was of the genocide in the run up to election. Not a lot of people want to advertise against the content about genocide. Not a lot of people want to advertise against quote-unquote divisive, polarizing, controversial issues. So that becomes an issue, of course, for big blue chip advertisers," Hasan said.
Later on in the program, Darcy revealed he too was dropping significant cash on defamation insurance.
"We have defamation insurance," Darcy said during a conversation with his former CNN colleague Kaitlan Collins. "We have purchased as much defamation insurance as possible. So we spend a lot of money on that."
Hasan is also a noted plagiarist and has compared non-Muslims and atheists to "cattle" and included "homosexuals" in a list of behaviors deviant to Islam, alongside pedophilia—something that also may give sponsors pause.
In addition to Hasan, the program also featured the disgraced news personality Brian Williams, who was bounced from the NBC Nightly News anchor chair and demoted to MSNBC with a giant pay cut in 2015 after he was exposed for decades of making up tall tales of his journalistic heroism.
The Guardian’s latest portrayal of Israel’s war in Lebanon begins not with Hezbollah or military targets, but with three small furry animals. The photographs reveal how an environmental story can become an emotional frame for an entire conflict.
First, look at the photograph.
Three small rock hyraxes peer out from between the stones of southern Lebanon.
They’re furry. They’re vulnerable. And they’re the first thing Guardian readers see in an article headlined: “How the fate of a small furry animal reveals the ecological tragedy of Israel’s war on Lebanon.”
The image isn’t incidental.
It is the doorway into the story.
The article was written by Hisham Younes, founder and president of Green Southerners, a Lebanese environmental organization that has spent years documenting wildlife and biodiversity in southern Lebanon. Since the war began, however, the organization has also become an outspoken campaigner over Israeli military activity, repeatedly accusing Israel of “ecocide” and a “scorched earth” strategy.
The first two photographs in The Guardian article, both showing hyraxes, were supplied by Green Southerners itself.
Environmental damage caused by warfare is a legitimate subject for journalism. Wildlife and habitats can unquestionably suffer during military conflicts.
But look at how this particular conflict is presented.
There are hyraxes.
There are destroyed habitats.
There are burned landscapes.
There is repeated Israeli “bombardment.”
There are villages described as being under Israeli “occupation.”
There is just one rather conspicuous absence.
Hezbollah.
The organization whose military presence and activities form a fundamental part of the conflict does not appear once in the article.
Israel’s explanation does eventually appear, at the very end. The IDF says that it does not target wildlife, that its operations are directed solely against military targets and that precautions are taken to minimize environmental harm.
There is another detail worth noticing.
For all the certainty communicated by the photographs and headline, the article itself acknowledges significant uncertainty.
Younes writes that the status of some hyrax colonies “requires field verification.” He acknowledges that direct and indirect damage cannot properly be assessed without access and comprehensive field surveys. There is no official nationwide assessment of Lebanon’s rock hyrax population, and the article concedes that the full ecological cost of the conflict cannot yet be measured.
Yet the visual narrative has already been established.
A small, vulnerable animal.
Its disappearing home.
And Israel.
Mainstream media: Severe water shortage in Gaza.
— GAZAWOOD - The Pallywood Saga - Official (@GAZAWOOD2) September 10, 2026
Gazans in 2026: Making compilations laughing about pouring out and wasting water. pic.twitter.com/7Hgdc2MyLr
Switzerland releases digital files on Josef Mengele to public with 'as little as possible' redacted
Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service (NDB) published the Josef Mengele file on Thursday. A digital version of the file, which is held in the Federal Archives in Bern, was uploaded to the government website for public access, although parts of it were redacted. The original document remains in the archives.
A statement from Bern said that after a historian requested access to the file, the intelligence service received many additional requests. In light of the “exceptionally high public interest,” the authorities decided not to limit access to individual reviews at the archives, but instead publish the file online. However, they emphasized that wherever protections applied to sources or the personal details of third parties, “there was no room for maneuver,” and the information was redacted.
According to the official statement, “as little as possible” was redacted: the names of current and former government employees connected to the service and its predecessors, protected information about sources, and personal details of private individuals. Public figures were not redacted. The service said the documents remained readable as a whole and that the course of events could be understood from them.
The file was originally compiled by the Federal Prosecutor’s Police Service, the predecessor of the intelligence service, and transferred to the archives in 2001. Under Swiss archival law, it was supposed to remain classified until the end of 2071. Requests for access were repeatedly rejected, with the latest denial coming in February 2026. A historian appealed the decision to the Federal Administrative Court.
During the proceedings, it emerged that the file had previously been reviewed by the Bergier Commission, which investigated Switzerland’s ties with Nazi Germany. Materials examined by the commission were subject to a government decision from December 7, 2001, instructing authorities to adopt a more liberal policy on access to documents. In May, the service announced that it would reconsider its refusal. On September 8, a new decision was issued, and on Thursday the file was uploaded online.
Mengele suspected of passing through Switzerland
Mengele, the SS doctor known as the “Angel of Death of Auschwitz,” was responsible for selections and medical experiments at the camp. After the war, he fled to South America and was never brought to trial. He died in Brazil in 1979.
At the center of interest in the Swiss file is a long-standing suspicion: that in 1961, after West Germany issued an arrest warrant against him, Mengele visited the Kloten area near Zurich Airport. His wife, Martha, rented an apartment in the area, and police monitored her. Historians hope the file will clarify what Swiss authorities knew at the time and whether the war criminal passed through the country without being arrested.
Even before the file was published online, historians sharply criticized the manner of its release. Instead of allowing access to the original documents, the intelligence service chose to publish a redacted digital version. Swiss newspapers reported that researchers described the move as “scandalous” and argued that it damaged Switzerland’s reputation.
Almost three years ago, I screamed my lungs out in the center of campus, begging the world to notice the celebration of Hamas and the October 7 Massacre at Columbia University.
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) September 10, 2026
I did it for one reason, and one reason only: to make sure people understood what was happening.…
They have the algorithm. We have each other.
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) September 10, 2026
Thank you to everyone helping me break through the noise and make Jewish, Israeli, and Zionist voices impossible to ignore.
Let's break the algorithm.
Pre-order American Intellectual Antisemitism today:https://t.co/h6gyBwPZNL pic.twitter.com/5jzpQTe8b1
Turkey 🇹🇷 has cancelled upcoming concerts for French singer Emma Shapplin because of her support for Israel 🇮🇱.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 10, 2026
The truly awful crimes she is accused of are performing in Israel and expressing horror and sympathy after the October 7th massacres.
Now the people of Turkey can… pic.twitter.com/TCvzPLaRLQ
This video does not necessarily indicate a violation of Uber's policies, but passengers shouldn't have to sit through drivers pushing politics and fake conspiracy theories.
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 10, 2026
In Vancouver, Boy George performs ‘We Will Dance Again’ for first time in public
Some 800 people gathered at Temple Sholom in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Wednesday night to honor musical artist Boy George for his public support of Israel and the Jewish community following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
For the first time in public, the 65-year-old British singer performed “We Will Dance Again,” his tribute to those murdered at the Nova music festival.
The singer also joined Rabbi Dan Moskovitz, senior rabbi at the synagogue, on stage for a conversation about the inspiration behind his song and the backlash to its release.
Moskovitz said he has been listening to the artist since he was a teenager in the 1980s, “first on my Walkman, then on my Discman.”
He asked Boy George why he chose the title of the song.
“I went to the Nova Exhibit,” he answered. “I’ve done festivals in Israel. I’ve done festivals all over the world. So it was like walking into my world.”
“I walked into that room they’d set up, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I’ve been here, I know what this is,’” he said. He met a Nova survivor and told her he was going to write a song.
“She looked at me like I was mad,” Boy George said. “When I wrote it, it just kind of came.” He described crying while recording the song.
During the performance at the synagogue, the audience cheered after the lyric, “I stand with the Jews.”
Boy George told the crowd that as someone whose mother is Irish, “it’s been a real shock to me that the Irish people are so antisemitic.”
“People have said to me, ‘Oh, your mother would be ashamed of you,’ I’m like, ‘No. My mother would be proud of me,’” he said.
Apple’s R&D centers in Israel, including Herzliya, Haifa, and Jerusalem, contributed to the design of key silicon in the iPhone Duo, including the C2 cellular modem and N1 wireless chip for connectivity. Apple’s camera technologies also draw on work by Israeli teams and past… pic.twitter.com/kpHxjcUXOo
— AP (@Average_NY_Guy) September 10, 2026
What a night in Sydney!
— Natasha Hausdorff (@HausdorffMedia) September 9, 2026
Celebrating 125 years of the JNF with the amazing Australian team, the inspirational Ori Epstein and the extremely moving testimony and music of Alon Ohel.
Picking up that baton and fighting for truth and for the next generation is a duty and a privilege. pic.twitter.com/KxjcIRYEWo
Over 20,000 olim made Aliyah to Israel from 100 countries in past year, data shows
More than 20,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel during the Jewish year 5786 (September 23, 2025 to September 3, 2026), coming from over 100 different countries worldwide, according to a new data report released by the Aliyah and Integration Ministry and the Jewish Agency.
The breakdown of the Aliyah figures released on Tuesday for the past year shows that Russia topped the charts with 5,685 olim (immigrants to Israel) arriving in Israel, followed by 4,364 from France, 3,333 from the United States, and 975 from the United Kingdom.
Additionally, 797 olim came from Ukraine, 491 from Belarus, 440 from Canada, 247 from Australia, 243 from Argentina, 241 from Georgia, 210 from South Africa, 210 from Germany, and 200 from Brazil.
Olim of all age groups
The data also showed that 35% of the olim were people aged 18-35, reflecting significant growth in Israeli society and the economy.
According to the data report, many of these young immigrants were physicians and professionals in in-demand fields. Some 24% of the olim are children and youth up to age 17, who have now been integrated into the Israeli education system. An additional 18% are aged 36-50, 9% are aged 51-60, 5% are aged 61-65, and 10% are 66 or older.
The two oldest olim this year were both 102 years old at the time of their arrival in the country – one from Russia and one from France. The youngest was a two-week-old infant who arrived with his family from Mexico.
Where are Olim making their start?
About 31% of all olim this year settled in communities north of Hadera or south of Ashdod. Specifically, 3,862 olim (about 20% of the total) settled from Hadera northward, while 2,247 (about 11%) settled from Ashdod southward.
Tel Aviv attracted the largest number of new olim this year, with 2,762 newcomers, followed by Netanya (2,224), Jerusalem (2,134), Haifa (1,504), Ra’anana (1,042), Bat Yam (957), Ashdod (846), Beit Shemesh (680), Ashkelon (534), and Rishon LeZion (450). Nahariya, the northernmost city on the list, absorbed 307 olim, while Eilat, the southernmost, welcomed 132.
'The essence of Zionism'
Reflecting the year’s data, the Aliyah and Integration Ministry and the Jewish Agency touched on the Diasporas connection to the Jewish state, stating in the report, “Even in a year marked by a challenging security situation, thousands of Jews from every corner of the globe chose to make aliyah to Israel, build their homes there, and raise their children there – a choice that reflects the deep and enduring connection between world Jewry and the State of Israel.”
Maj.-Gen. (res.) Doron Almog, chairman of the Jewish Agency, commented on the Aliyah numbers during a challenging year, stating that they represent “the essence of Zionism.”
“Aliyah is the strongest response to every challenge we face; it serves as a growth engine that contributes to strengthening the State of Israel,” Almog said.
Everyone is home. 🎗️
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) September 10, 2026
Those who returned to the warm embrace of their families, and those who were brought home to eternal rest.
Through unimaginable pain, the strength and unity of the Israeli people carried us forward, as we never stopped fighting for every single hostage.… pic.twitter.com/9CoF9eVSBM
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