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Thursday, October 22, 2026

10/21 Links Pt2: Why the Green Party’s argument about Zionism destroys itself; The rank hypocrisy of the ‘Palestine poppy’; Dustin Hoffman and other stars celebrate the Jewish connection to Israel

From Ian:

Why the Green Party’s argument about Zionism destroys itself
However, in the Soviet Union, the “anti-Zionism” was conducted with a level of unparalleled cynicism. Officially, antisemitism was a crime. In reality, the USSR, under the pretext of anti-Zionism, conducted a policy of institutional antisemitism. Jews were barred from a variety of professions and largely prevented from studying at prestigious universities, as well as being rejected from travel, even internally within the Eastern Bloc. Jews living in the USSR had “Yevrey” stamped in their passports and official documents on the “nationality” line – they may have lived in Moscow, Kyiv or Chisinau, but they were not considered “Russian”, or “Ukrainian” or “Moldovan” . A notorious 1970s Soviet propaganda film about the evils of Zionism, Secret and Explicit, literally re-used footage from a 1940 Nazi propaganda film, Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew).

But it is in various Arab nations that the conflation between Judaism and Zionism was made so unambiguous. The ethnic cleansing of three quarters of a million Jews from Arab lands is an inconvenient truth for much of the far left, so much so that they have had to resort to increasingly desperate attempts to try and explain it away by alleging some vast Zionist conspiracy designed to inculcate fear into local Jewish populations in order to convince them to flee to Israel. Of course, to believe that you would also have to believe that “the Zionists” managed to infiltrate the governments of all Arab states which instituted sweeping campaigns of repression against Jewish communities, confiscating their homes and possessions and stripping them of their citizenship. You would also have to believe that the fledgling state of Israel wanted nothing more than having to deal with a mass humanitarian situation, year-after-year, in which hundreds of thousands of people with little more than the clothes on their backs were arriving in the country. But once you have convinced yourself, as so many Green party members apparently have, that Zionism is the ultimate evil, it is only a short onward step to entering a fantasy land where Zionism is not only capable of, but likely to have conducted, any evil you can imagine.

But we do not have to look so far afield, of course, for a prime example of an anti-Zionist policy leading to antisemitism. After the passing of the UN’s infamous “Zionism is Racism’ motion in the mid-70s, which was pushed by the Soviet Bloc and the Arab League, various far left groups in the UK attempted to use it at universities to shut down campus Jewish Societies. Not Israel Societies, not Zionist Societies; Jewish Societies. The “argument” made at the time was that such groups had links to Israel, or to Zionism. That argument was precisely the one which the Green Party had the opportunity to separate itself from earlier this month, when an amendment proposed that the party make it clear that Jewish people who attended Synagogues seen as “Zionist” would not be targeted. Members at Green party conference resoundingly rejected this amendment.

So if we are indeed to judge an ideology solely by its real-world manifestation, as the Green party would have us do, then anti-Zionism is unambiguously antisemitic, even if many of its ‘anti-racist’ adherents might be horrified by that notion. So I would respectfully suggest that if they are going to continue to defend the indefensible, they’re going to need a better argument.
Nicole Lampert: The rank hypocrisy of the ‘Palestine poppy’
There is a woman who likes to stand outside the Houses of Parliament holding up pro-Palestine placards. She wears a striped outfit and hat to make her look like a prisoner in Auschwitz. A Holocaust survivor.

A yellow symbol – the crescent moon and star of Islam – is sewn onto her clothes to add to the offensive appropriation of one of the great crimes of human history.

She’s been arrested several times but still she continues to do it because, presumably, she enjoys the horror she invokes. She’s never been charged because Holocaust inversion isn’t a crime, just a moral obscenity.

The cult of Palestinianism is built on such things. So it is no surprise that the same people who tramp on war memorials and graffiti statues of Winston Churchill in red paint saying “Globalise the intifada” are now brandishing their own version of the Remembrance Day poppy, which symbolises the brave men and women of our armed forces who fought against tyranny. This is how they do things.

Ironically, many of the activists who engage in the appropriation typical of the pro-Palestinian movement view “cultural appropriation” as a grave sin.

Palestinianism is an empty vessel into which real history, real values, are poured into and poisoned. It tarnishes all that we hold dear, upends history and sometimes makes us question the sanity of the world we live in. That is also its intention.

Cults offer simple answers to complex problems, which is why Palestinianism appeals. But they also need more: icons, history, ideology. But because Palestinianism was created only in opposition to something – the Jewish state – and its only contribution to world history is popularising plane hijackings, there isn’t much there.

Even its flag came from a design invented by the Brit Sir Mark Sykes to unify the Arabs in the Ottoman Empire to rebel on our side. Even the keffiyeh – which isn’t really worn inside the Palestinian territories – came from Iraq.

Palestinianism has put surprisingly little effort into creating its own symbols, preferring to appropriate others. It steals them and it takes joy in knowing how much people get upset by that.

The key people they embezzle from are, of course, the Jews. Thus Jewish history in the land is overturned and ignored. They tell us only Palestinians were native, indigenous to the land, even though Arabs arrived there eight centuries after Jews had been thrown out by the Romans.

And because Jewish history in the land is undeniable – from the history, the archaeological finds – they seek to subvert it.
Twenty-Four Mentions of ‘Jew’ and The New York Times Used Zero
Imagine reading an article about a virulently homophobic or racist professor who sent threatening messages to a gay or African-American colleague. The messages and conduct were so egregious that the professor was indicted for cyberstalking, but none of the quoted threats in the article had anything to do with the professor being gay or African-American.

You probably cannot imagine it because it is nonsensical.

But replace homophobic or racist with antisemitic, and replace gay or African-American with Jewish, and it’s not just imaginable – it happened. On Oct. 7, 2026, The New York Times removed the “Jew” from the Jew-hatred.

In Vimal Patel and Yair Rosenberg’s “Religion Professor Accused of Harassing Colleague with Antisemitic Posts,” the authors reported on Haverford College religion professor Guangtian Ha’s indictment for felony cyberstalking of a Jewish colleague. In doing so, The Times omitted the vilest of Ha’s threats and simultaneously failed to convey the sheer volume of them. Of course, The Times could not be expected to list all of the threats, but that did not explain The Times’ egregious and total whitewashing of Ha’s alleged conduct when it omitted the word “Jew” or “Jewish” from each of the few threats it either quoted or directly referenced in the article.

For example, the indictment included the following threat: “The goyim have woken up, jew [sic]. Run. Flee. Leave. Blurring your home on google map and installing a security camera next to your mailbox won’t help.” The Times edited out the first sentence, beginning its quote with the word “Run.” No Jew-hatred to be seen here.

Vimal and Rosenberg also excised the words “Jew” and “Jews” (which Ha did not capitalize) when it quoted the professor’s threat as saying, “Remember this. You scums have had it too easy.” The Times left out the rest of the threat, which was “LM [Lower Merion] jews are going to have it big time, jew [sic].”

And when describing how Ha threatened to post the victim’s home address, infant child’s name and a photograph of the family’s mailbox, rather than use the quote from the indictment: “Jew, watch your [child’s name]. There will be a sign,” the paper of record described the threat, but made no mention of Ha’s reference to the colleague being Jewish.

With regard to the sheer volume of antisemitic threats that was simply not conveyed by the article, the paper of record ignored an additional 20 instances of Ha using the word “Jew” or “Jewish” in the alleged threats set forth in the indictment. The number increases to 22 if one includes “Israeli” and “Zio.” Rather than give readers a taste of some of the monstrous antisemitism contained in the threats, the authors instead reported that there were “countless antisemitic slurs and threats.”


Jonathan Frisher: Why the Bell Review regarding antisemitism in education is so important
The Bell Review offers a transformational opportunity to change the experience of Jewish children in schools. After years of campaigning, I believe we are closer than ever to making that change a reality.

As soon as my peers at high school found out I was Jewish, I experienced antisemitic abuse. Fellow students told me I should be in a gas chamber, like members of my family who were murdered in the Holocaust. Someone threatened to vandalise my house with swastikas.

As the only Jewish pupil in my school, I had no community of Jewish students around me who understood what I was experiencing. At just 12 years old, I was left explaining why this antisemitism was so harmful. No Jewish child should have to educate their classmates about antisemitism after they have just been subjected to it.

I am not alone. I live in an area where Jewish people are a small minority, but across Britain Jewish children like me attend different schools but share experiences of being targeted for the same reason. Being the only Jewish pupil in a classroom can be profoundly isolating when those around you do not understand antisemitism.

I saw the difference this education can make. When my school taught pupils about contemporary antisemitism, attitudes began to change. Some students even apologised to me for their previous behaviour. That experience inspired me to campaign nationally: I have seen what education could achieve and want other Jewish children to have the same opportunity.

This education is just as important in schools with no Jewish pupils. They have just as much reason to teach about antisemitism, to prevent antisemitic views from becoming entrenched and persisting at university, for example.

This is exactly why the Bell Review matters so much: antisemitism is a national problem and requires a national response.

The publication of Sir David Bell’s review into antisemitism in schools and colleges is a landmark moment. Its recommendations address issues my campaign has spent years highlighting, including education about contemporary antisemitism, teacher training, and Holocaust education. After building a campaign supported by more than 40,000 people, I am incredibly encouraged that the case for change is now being taken seriously at the highest levels of government.

I am also delighted to be part of the group working on the implementation of the review. For me, this is a chance to help ensure that the lived experiences of Jewish pupils inform the changes schools make, so that the next generation of Jewish students don’t suffer what I did.

The Bell Review is not the end of the story; recommendations are only as good as their implementation, and they must translate into meaningful change in classrooms across the country. I want every pupil to learn about contemporary antisemitism as part of a consistent national approach, rather than this education depending on which school they go to. Holocaust education is essential, but it must be taught alongside how antisemitism persists today, such as through conspiracy theories, stereotypes, Holocaust denial and the dehumanisation of Jews.

The Bell Review gives us a real opportunity to change the status quo of antisemitism being normalised and accepted in schools across the country. For too long, the burden of tackling antisemitism in schools has fallen on Jewish students themselves. We now have a chance to change that, and I am determined to make sure we do.


Nazi salutes to gas chamber taunts: UK review finds rising antisemitism in English schools
A review of antisemitism in British schools and colleges set to be released on Wednesday shows that the “oldest hatred” is on the rise in English educational institutions. Details of the report were leaked to the press ahead of its release.

In March 2026, Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson, who served in British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government, asked Sir David Bell, a former schools inspector, to conduct a review into antisemitism in schools and colleges in England.

Bell told Sky News on Wednesday that he was “very struck” by the evidence that antisemitism was on the rise and by the fact that it was under-reported.

The report includes 27 recommendations, among them encouraging schools to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, ensuring teachers receive antisemitism awareness training, teaching modern-day Judaism in religious education classes and making clear to staff that antisemitism is unacceptable.

Bell said the report is not only about identifying antisemitic incidents, but also about “helping schools and colleges themselves to think about what they can do to tackle antisemitism and educate that next generation to be more open and tolerant.”

The review shows that “a general commitment to tackling racism or prejudice or hate has not properly identified antisemitism as a particular kind of hate. … We do need to name antisemitism as a particular kind of prejudice and hate, because I think if you don’t name it, you don’t actually know what you’re tackling or what you’re going to be able to do to respond to it.”

Jonathan Frisher, a 17-year-old Jewish student from Cheshire, told Sky News that he has been calling for more education about antisemitism in non-Jewish schools since becoming a victim of it himself.

“I was the only Jewish student at my school, and I experienced lots of antisemitic bullying. There were lots of comments around gas chambers, people telling me that I belonged in a gas chamber. And I also saw a wider culture in school of swastikas and Nazi salutes becoming quite normalized,” he said.

“And the burden was often left on me as a 12-year-old Jewish student to explain to my peers why this antisemitism was so wrong,” he said. “And I really believed then, and I believe now, that this has to come from the government, teachers have a role to play in tackling antisemitism. The responsibility is on them to tackle antisemitism.”

Sky News reported that the Department for Education intends to accept the report’s 27 recommendations.
Leader of largest education union says calling on schools to adopt IHRA definition the ‘wrong approach’
The left-wing leader of the largest education union has sparked a row after claiming calling on schools to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism is the “wrong approach”.

Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said the recommendation, made in Sir David Bell’s report into antisemitism in schools in England, “risks deepening the problem rather than tackling it”.

After Sir David’s report was unveiled, and the government accepted its 27 recommendations, it seemed inevitable that hard-left activists would raise concerns about the IHRA definition.

Kebede said: “Recommending the IHRA definition risks tightening the chilling grip already stifling classroom discussion of the Gaza genocide.

“Schools need practical support to confront antisemitism, not a contested framework that risks shutting down legitimate discussion.

“The very real risk is that children who cannot critically explore issues through classroom discussion will instead seek their answers in online and unsafe groups.”

Kebede added: “It is the wrong approach.”

The Bell review also noted that education unions should have robust policies and processes to tackle antisemitism and ensure members are sufficiently trained in understanding, recognising and responding to antisemitism.

Any incidents of alleged antisemitism by trade union officials, representatives or members must be consistently addressed in line with union policies to tackle racism or prejudice.

Tory shadow education secretary Laura Trott also raised the fact that an NEU office had led the protests against a school visit by Jewish Labour MP Damian Egan, which was postponed due to a protest


Heritage Foundation taps critic of U.S. involvement in Middle East as distinguished fellow
The Heritage Foundation announced the hiring of Will Ruger, a critic of U.S. military engagement who served as a key deputy to former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, as a distinguished fellow.

The conservative think tank announced on Monday that Ruger’s new role “will contribute to policy work, bringing the perspective of a scholar-practitioner” to the Heritage team.

Before his government service, Ruger, an Afghan war veteran, was an outspoken critic of U.S. military engagement in the Middle East and a defender of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Ruger defended Israel’s war in Gaza as “justified” given Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks but was also a vocal opponent of both the maximum pressure sanctions campaign against Iran and potential U.S. military operations against the regime.

News of Ruger’s hiring at Heritage comes months after he was fired from his Trump administration post, which involved overseeing the president’s daily intelligence briefing, by then-acting DNI Bill Pulte in late June — in what was described at the time as a series of cuts targeting “deep state” operatives. President Donald Trump directed Pulte to enact further cuts at the agency in addition to those done by Gabbard prior to her departure, according to CBS News.

Ruger was previously affiliated with the isolationist Defense Priorities think tank before joining the Trump administration last year He also served as president of the libertarian American Institute for Economic Research, which has been a staunch opponent of Trump’s tariff policies.

Ruger was nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan toward the end of the first Trump administration, though he was not confirmed by the Senate.
Australia’s antisemitism crisis
The first responsibility of any government is to protect its citizens. For Australia’s Jewish community, still confronting the consequences of the deadly Bondi Beach terrorist attack, that responsibility has particular urgency.

At the moment, the government of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces serious questions about its oversight of taxpayer funding, its response to antisemitic incitement and the consequences imposed when recipients of public money fail to meet expected standards.

On Oct. 14, the government confirmed that it had initiated the termination of a AU$308,000 grant to OnePath, an Islamic media organization based in western Sydney, following concerns about antisemitic material.

The decision raises a fundamental question: How did the grant receive approval in the first place?

Robert Gregory, president of the Australian Jewish Association, criticized the government’s handling of the matter. “Labor is more concerned about winning votes than confronting extremism,” he said. “Australians are entitled to know how organizations spreading antisemitism and radicalism came to receive taxpayer funding in the first place. Revoking a grant after public outrage is not evidence of a functioning system.”

His criticism comes as Australia’s auditor-general investigates the government’s Supporting Multicultural Communities program following allegations of political favoritism and noncompetitive grant allocations.

The questions extend beyond Sydney.

In Melbourne, MyCentre—a registered Islamic charity—has come under scrutiny following allegations concerning the accused co-pilot in the Sept. 30 attempted hijacking of a flydubai passenger aircraft bound for Israel.

According to authorities in the United Arab Emirates, the suspect reported contact with individuals associated with MyCentre while studying at Melbourne’s RMIT University in 2017. His alleged radicalization did not occur in a traditional Middle Eastern conflict zone. According to the suspect’s account, it occurred in Melbourne, one of Australia’s largest and most multicultural cities.
Australian politician has both legs amputated after being hit in car ramming attack
Suspect makes first appearance in court, motive still unclear
Earlier Wednesday, Brendan Nugent, a 43-year-old man from nearby Tarrawingee, appeared in the Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court charged with intentionally causing serious injury, dangerous driving causing serious injury and causing harm to a federal official.

Nugent didn’t apply for bail or enter a plea. He will remain in custody until his next court appearance in February.

Police believe the attack was targeted, though they have yet to determine a motive.

Investigators haven’t ruled out “further serious charges,” Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush told reporters in Melbourne on Wednesday. Bush wouldn’t elaborate on the suspect’s believed motivations but said the question would form the “centerpiece” of the police inquiry.

“There was nothing known to us that would have arisen or piqued our interest or given any indication that he was an immediate threat,” Bush said.

While Nugent’s social media presence showed no outward signs of hostility toward Haines, he appeared to have frequently criticized the Australian government over various issues, including the environment, disability support, and its response to Israel’s war in Gaza. There was no immediately apparent link between Nugent’s views on Gaza and the attack against Haines.
AIPAC says it will stop endorsing, making direct political donations
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the biggest, and most controversial, political givers during the 2026 midterm elections, said on Wednesday that it would stop endorsing candidates and making direct political action committee donations to them.

The group said it would continue its super PAC, the United Democracy Project, which can take unlimited contributions and make independent expenditures for or against candidates.

“Our mission and strategy remain the same,” AIPAC spokeswoman Daryn Sousa told JNS. “Our goal is to build support for the U.S.-Israel relationship. AIPAC members gave more than $90 million directly to candidates this cycle, and that organized, direct giving from our members will continue and increase.”

AIPAC said it would no longer raise money that it then forwards to candidate campaign committees. Its website won’t have a list of endorsed candidates that supporters can click on and make contributions.

That means candidates won’t have to denote specific donations as being raised for them by AIPAC.

Instead, AIPAC will organize its members to give directly to favored candidates rather than act as a conduit for contributions.

“The focus is on our members,” Sousa told JNS.

In addition, many lawmakers have sworn off special interest PAC contributions from all sources, so AIPAC will share its PAC funds with other political organizations rather than candidates.

In a letter to AIPAC members obtained by JNS, the group’s leaders said the new strategy would make the committee more effective in a changing political landscape.

“To win the fight for the future of the country and the U.S.-Israel alliance, we must build a more strategic, consequential and nimble political operation,” the committee said in its letter.

“Endorsements, direct PAC contributions and earmarking will no longer be part of our approach, so we can expand individual giving and utilize new tools to help our friends win,” it said.

AIPAC said that it had helped 290 pro-Israel candidates win their elections while defeating 29 critics of Israel.
In this Florida district, politicians battle over who most loves Israel
Rep. Jared Moskowitz said that he is “proud to be known as the most pro-Israel Jewish Democrat in Congress” during a synagogue event in one of the country’s most Jewish congressional districts on Tuesday evening.

The comment came during a one-hour candidates’ forum featuring Moskowitz and his Republican challenger, Scott Singer, both Jewish and wearing kippahs, that largely centered on Israel and grew testy at times.

Moskowitz said he is “proud to have AIPAC’s endorsement” at a moment when the popularity of Israel and the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has plummeted among Democratic voters amid Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and the war with Iran.

But the crowd at the Reform synagogue Congregation B’nai Israel in Boca Raton was, like Florida’s 25th Congressional District, split across party lines and staunchly pro-Israel.

“This isn’t New York, this isn’t Boston, this is South Florida,” attendee Edward Kone told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Florida's recently redrawn 25th Congressional District
Moskowitz soundly defeated Democratic Socialist challenger Oliver Larkin, a sharp Israel critic, in August. As Democrats look to take control of the House of Representatives, Florida’s recently redrawn 25th Congressional District, which would have favored Trump by 9 percentage points in 2024 but backed Joe Biden in 2020 under its new boundaries, is being closely watched ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

Despite some tense moments between Moskowitz and Singer, who was Boca Raton’s mayor until earlier this year, the two politicians have been largely aligned on the issue of Israel.

Both have condemned accusations that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. They each oppose any effort to condition or cut off US military aid to Israel. Both supported Israel’s strikes on Iranian facilities in 2025, though Moskowitz has since called for the US to end its war with Iran.

Moskowitz referenced his and Singer’s shared pro-Israel viewpoints on Tuesday during the forum moderated by South Florida Sun Sentinel journalist Anthony Man.

“This is exactly why nothing gets done in Washington. This is exactly why nothing is functioning: Because literally two people who agree on 99% of this stuff want to take this 1% and try to ram it down people’s throats,” Moskowitz said.

Singer, however, emphasized where the two candidates differ on Israel. He criticized Moskowitz for voting for the March 2026 war powers resolution in response to the Trump administration ordering strikes on Iran without congressional authorization. While Moskowitz has called for the administration to end the war, Singer argued that the threat of Iran must be thoroughly dealt with. “We have to ensure victory here,” he said.
Rogers describes El-Sayed as a national security threat in final Michigan Senate debate
Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers described his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, as a national security threat in their second and final debate, while appealing to Jewish and other disaffected Democratic voters to support him.

Overall, however, the debate was considerably more restrained and sedate than a previous debate two weeks ago.

“If you are going to the United States Senate, we need to know: Are you for America, or are you for these terrorist groups overseas?” Rogers said, referencing ties between El-Sayed supporters and Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood. “You can grin and you can smile and you can talk real pretty, but I’m going to tell you what — that is a risk to our national security.”

“My opponent can’t even condemn the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps], which is the terrorist enforcement arm of Iran, and doesn’t believe Iran is any more dangerous than Israel,” he said. “That is an absolute non-starter if you’re going to send somebody back to the United States Senate.”

Rogers also accused El-Sayed of lying about his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and of declining opportunities to distance himself from Muslim Brotherhood-backed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, whom El-Sayed previously praised.

“This is about an ideology, an ideology that’s banned in five Muslim countries, an ideology that’s banned in another six different countries, an ideology that is very concerning to law enforcement in the United States because they use it for funding overseas operations,” he added later in the debate.
El-Sayed letter to Jewish community on antisemitism fails to reassure skeptics
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed made his case to Jewish voters in a new mailer this week in which he pledged to combat antisemitism — but Jewish Democrats skeptical of El-Sayed said the letter only reinforced their concerns that he’s not prepared to acknowledge or address contemporary drivers and manifestations of antisemitism.

In the letter mailed to Jewish voters this week, El-Sayed said he knows “what it’s like to be discriminated against because of what I believe” and said that he wants to “protect the kind of America where everyone can pray how they choose to pray.”

“I care deeply about the threat of antisemitism to our communities, and I am committed to protecting all Michigan Jews against hatred and injustice,” El-Sayed continued. “As your senator, I will always stand up against antisemitism and take the threat of violence against our Jewish community incredibly seriously. Antisemitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all its forms. It has no place in our communities. Ever. Full stop.”

The letter, paid for by the Michigan Democratic State Central Committee, is the latest part of the El-Sayed campaign’s efforts to win over skeptical members of the Jewish community, with prominent community leaders saying they plan to support his opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), or sit out the race.

But some voters skeptical of El-Sayed’s campaign said the letter isn’t helping his case and that his focus on freedom of prayer and belief misunderstands the nature of the antisemitic threat that the community faces.

“What I have always said and what I will continue to say is that his continued emphasis on describing antisemitism solely as a religious bigotry leaves him ill-equipped to protect Jews should he be elected to office,” Democratic state Rep. Noah Arbit, who opposes El-Sayed, told Jewish Insider. “The attack on Temple Israel wasn’t motivated because the terrorist didn’t like how we pray. He attacked us because we are a proudly Zionist congregation.”

El-Sayed continues to face criticism for his response to the Hezbollah-inspired attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich., earlier this year, of which he said, “hurt people hurt people.” El-Sayed has since apologized for those remarks, and has been working since the primary election to win over skeptical Jewish voters.

Arbit said that El-Sayed “can’t bring himself to speak to the violent antisemitism that stems from blind, burning hatred of Israel” and questioned how he’ll respond if Jews face similar attacks going forward.

“When Jews in Michigan are targeted with violence because of our connections and our commitments to Israel, will Abdul El-Sayed stand with us?” Arbit said. “Or will he — as so many of his friends on the extreme, far left have done — deflect, excuse and blame us or blame the Israeli government for the fact that radicalized people have taken their anger about a foreign conflict out on Michiganders?”


Illinois Democrats spend big for anti-Israel candidate running for state Senate
Illinois Democrats are pumping significant cash into a state Senate race in the Chicago suburbs, hoping that an anti-Israel state representative can take down a Republican appointed to the seat.

Since Labor Day, Democratic leadership has put more than $2 million — a substantial investment for a state-level race — behind state Rep. Nabeela Syed, boosted further by more than $500,000 in individual contributions. Republican state Sen. Darby Hills, an attorney and Barrington Hills Village Board member, has been massively outraised and outspent by Syed and her allies.

Hills was appointed to the seat, in the 26th District, after Republican Dan McConchie resigned from the Senate to work for a nonprofit organization. Now, Democrats see the district, which former Vice President Kamala Harris carried in the 2024 presidential election, as potentially winnable.

Syed was one of several Illinois Democratic legislators who issued a joint statement on Oct. 8, 2023, which appeared to point blame for Hamas’ deadly terror attacks the day prior toward Israel.

“Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians have been killed, and thousands injured,” the statement read. “We will not be able to achieve peace when millions of Palestinians are denied basic human rights. We urge the United States and the international community to work toward long-term solutions that end the inequality that is at the root cause of the violence.”

Syed has also accused Israel of genocide and said the U.S. is culpable for it, also blaming U.S. aid to Israel for the lack of social programs for Americans. She also accused states of trying to crack down on free speech through efforts to combat antisemitism.

The Chicago Tribune recently endorsed Hills, describing her as a Republican willing to break with party leadership and work in a bipartisan fashion.

Elevating Syed to the Senate would give anti-Israel forces an additional Senate vote in efforts to overturn the state’s anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions law — one of the first such statewide efforts to gain steam. The bill already has 14 cosponsors in the state Senate, after being introduced in 2025, and Syed has cosponsored it in the state House.
Jacob Frey, Betty McCollum join Minnesota Dem chorus condemning Piker event
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon on Wednesday joined the chorus of Democrats speaking out against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and state Sen. Omar Fateh’s planned event in Minneapolis with Hasan Piker, set to take place next week.

“We shouldn’t only condemn bigotry when it’s politically convenient. We as Democrats need to hold ourselves to the same standards that we hold the right,” Frey said in a statement shared with Jewish Insider.

“We should support Ilhan when a politically motivated Department of Justice is weaponized against her,” he said, referring to the Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) immigration history, which included an FBI raid of her Washington home this month. “But a voting strategy that relies on excusing hateful rhetoric against Jews should be no more acceptable than a strategy relying on hate against any other community.”

His comments appear to reference Omar’s campaign’s explanation for the event, which is to turn out young voters.

“Early voting among people under 40 is down, and we need to do everything to get young people to the polls,” Omar’s campaign spokesperson told the local Fox affiliate. “The Congresswoman knows the Democratic Party is a big tent party, and she’s excited to join Senator Omar Fateh’s event to mobilize young voters and get them to vote in this critical midterm election.”

McCollum and Simon also spoke out on Wednesday in statements to local outlet TC Jewfolk.

“Minnesotans stand united against hate in all its forms. Hasan Piker has used hate-filled, incendiary rhetoric that divides Americans and his presence in Minnesota is not welcome,” McCollum, herself a vocal critic of Israel, said in a statement. “I am committed to strengthening community, uniting people, and rejecting hate — from anyone. Following the pain and harm inflicted on Minnesota by ICE’s Metro Surge, as well as President Trump’s vicious attacks on our vibrant Somali American community, now is the time for Minnesotans to seek common ground in healing, standing with our neighbors, and elevating human dignity.”


Burnham defends ‘evidence-based’ proscription of Palestine Action
Andy Burnham has rejected calls to commit to a review of the Keir Starmer-led government’s decision to proscribe the Palestine Action group.

Northern Irish SDLP MP Claire Hanna said the move had “extraordinary consequences for freedom of expression, including for constituents of mine who are facing terror charges for peaceful protest.”

But, responding at Prime Minister’s Questions, the Burnham stressed: “When it comes to the proscription of Palestine Action, it followed a rigorous and evidence-based process that came before this House, endorsed by Parliament.”

The Prime Minister added that the matter was also “a live legal case,” and said he “won’t comment further than that.”

Earlier, Hanna had cited the case of a three-year-old girl left badly burned in Gaza, “having watched her mother being killed by an Israeli airstrike.”

Palestinian media reported that journalist Ali al-Jaafrawi, who filmed the incident, reached the girl, Maryam Ghanem, carried her out of the flat, and handed her to people at the scene to take her to hospital.

Israel has said it is investigating the strike, claiming it targeted a Hamas operative.

Burnham told MPs: “We agree the scenes from Gaza and the West Bank are deeply distressing.”

“It’s why the Foreign Secretary has taken the action that he has. We won’t stand by while the viability of the two-state solution is threatened, and he has made a further statement in relation to that this week.”


Police will take ‘no further action’ over antizionist chanting at Green conference
Sussex Police will take no further action over antizionist chants at the Green Party’s annual conference in Brighton last month, after Labour MPs called on officers to investigate whether activists had encouraged hostility towards Jews.

The force said it had completed its enquiries into chants of “say it loud, say it clear, Zionists are not welcome here”, which were heard after delegates voted to adopt a controversial motion declaring “Zionism is racism”.

In a statement, Sussex Police said: “All necessary enquiries have been undertaken, and we are satisfied that no evidence of criminality has been identified and no further action is required.”

The force added that its major crime team had considered the complaint in consultation with relevant partners to ensure it was assessed in accordance with the law.

Former Home Office minister Mike Tapp was among the Labour MPs who asked police to examine whether the language used at the conference could amount to incitement to hostility against Jewish people.

In a letter to the force, the MPs asked officers to establish who had participated in the chanting, whether anyone had been directly targeted and whether the circumstances warranted a criminal investigation.

They also questioned whether the term “Zionist” had been used as a proxy for Jewish people.

Responding to the police decision, Tapp said: “I respect the police decision and thank them for assessing the complaint.

“It is important as politicians that we continue to call out racism and antisemitism. All political parties should be accessible to all minority groups; that is our democracy.”

The police decision relates to the chants alone and does not resolve separate complaints concerning the Green Party’s newly adopted policy, which are being examined by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
Green ‘anti-racism’ session told ‘international law protects armed resistance’ in question on Hamas
A speaker at an anti-racism session organised for Green Party members said that “international law protects armed resistance” and bemoaned British laws that she claimed prevented her from speaking “freely” about Hamas.

Dr Zahira Jaser, an academic at the University of Sussex, was speaking at a members’ only session for Green members on anti-Palestinian racism. The JC has heard a recording of the meeting on September 10.

Though she did not in any way indicate support for the proscribed terrorist organisation, Dr Jaser told the online gathering: “International law protects armed resistance. So that’s a fact. You know, I, as an academic, I am against violence as a person… That’s my way of being, right? Do I understand that oppressed people at some point explode in armed resistance. That is a logical consequence of oppression.

“You know, like you’ve seen it again and again and again. You see it in Algeria. You’ve seen it in all the settler colonial states that have been fighting from the native [sic] in order not to be wiped out.”

She went on to suggest British law stopped her from speaking freely about Hamas, saying: “Now Hamas has become a particularly contested term in this country because it has been deemed a terroristic organisation.

“So, when we speak about Hamas, we are in the same conundrum when we speak about Palestine Action because there is a law that prevents us to speak freely about Hamas and about Palestine Action, and therefore I am also prevented here from speaking freely in a relaxed manner.”
Hackney releases heavily redacted messages regarding 7 October deadline decision
Hackney Council has finally sent heavily redacted correspondence regarding the decision to de-twin from Haifa and to send its Mayor a letter asking him for a response by “7 October 2026” – despite the governing Green party having pledged to bring back “greater transparency, communication and accountability back to Hackney’s local government.”

Jewish News submitted a Freedom of Information Request to Hackney Council after widespread communal anger when Mayor Zoe Garbett wrote to Haifa’s Mayor, Yona Yahav, specifically requesting a response to the Green plans to break the twinning agreement “by 7 October 2026”.

The correspondence – the majority of which has been blacked out – means that the council has not revealed who initially proposed the 7 October deadline. Nor does it show any of the messages sent in the immediate aftermath of the widespread public anger at Hackney council having selected that date – the third anniversary of the 7 October attacks.

It does show, however, that the initial plan, as described on 26 July, was for the process of consulting about de-twinning to “run until the end of October”, followed by “the working group meeting in November to formulate its recommendations, and a final decision at full council in January.”

However, it appears that the elected Mayor of Hackney, the Green party’s Zoe Garbett, pushed for the process to be expedited; an e-mail two days later says: “The Mayor is keen that we make a decision at November full council if possible. I’ve explained that this will probably be too tight, but I would suggest we conclude the engagement on 7 October (avoiding the Jewish holidays, and allowing ten weeks) which would leave the window open to a November decision dependent on how many responses we receive and how long it takes to complete the EqIA [Equalities Impact Assessment]”.

Some 98 percent of the remaining e-mails in this chain are redacted, meaning that it is impossible to see whether anyone flagged if there was an issue of designating the third anniversary of the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust as the date by which an Israeli Mayor had to respond to a letter telling him that maintaining twinning with his city was “at odds with our anti racist values”.

With regards to its response, Hackney Council breached its Freedom of Information requirements by failing to respond within the specific time period allotted to it, even after availing itself of an extra few weeks by citing a specific clause, Section 36 (weighing the public interest) of the Freedom of Information Act.


Jewish leaders urge protection of community sites as London protest planned after French riots
Jewish leaders have called for community sites to be protected as protesters plan a massive demonstration in London next month following riots in France.

The Board of Deputies says it is “engaging with the UK police and other authorities to ask for action to prevent the disruption seen in France and elsewhere”.

The move comes after a protest movement calling itself Youth International Strike (YIS) urged youth organisations and other groups to “mobilise” in the capital on November 20.

Pro-Palestine supporters are due to take part in the demonstration.

Around 500,000 protesters joined demonstrations across France, 2,400 arrests have been made, and 3,000 businesses have been looted.

Buildings have also been damaged including the 19th century city hall in Limoges.

A synagogue in Paris was also targeted in the riots.

The Ohalei Yaakov Synagogue in the capital's 19th arrondissement was broken into on Saturday night with prayer books, tefillin and other objects taken out of drawers and cupboards and scattered on the floor. The Rabbi’s office was also raided.

The YIS site has issued a statement stating: “Now is the time to escalate.”

Demonstrators plan to gather in Trafalgar Square on November 20.

One group promoting the event is London’s School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS) Liberated Zone, which has consistently protested against Israel in the capital over the last three years.

Another is the Stop the War Coalition which works in collaboration with several anti-Israel groups.

The YIS advert reads: “Over the past year, students across Europe and beyond have organised walkouts, strikes and coordinated actions against genocide, militarisation, conscription and fossil imperialism [imperialism based on fossil fuels].

“Our future will not be given to us. Now it is time to escalate.


Tulane student groups to host talk accusing Israel of disease ‘weaponization’ in Gaza
Two recognized student organizations at Tulane University plan to host an Oct. 22 event on campus titled “Israel’s weaponization of infectious diseases in Gaza,” featuring Dr. Salman Khan, a Columbia University assistant professor of medicine.

The Palestine Solidarity Coalition and the Minority Association of Pre-Med Students are organizing the event, scheduled for Lake Theater on Tulane’s campus in New Orleans. According to the university’s event listing, Khan will speak virtually about his experience working as an infectious disease physician in Gaza.

Khan traveled to Gaza on a three-week medical mission in February and March 2026, according to Tulane’s event listing.

“Come gain insights on what it’s like to practice medicine during an active genocide and how intentional weaponization of healthcare perpetuates within a region from the perspective of infectious diseases,” the organizers wrote.

In a May 2026 article, Khan accused Israel of “weaponizing infectious diseases in Gaza.” In the article, he wrote that he observed tent camps that were “an ideal breeding ground for rodents,” which spread disease. (JNS sought comment from Tulane and Columbia.)

He also blamed Israel for Gazan doctors prescribing the wrong antibiotics to patients and for Gazan grocery stores stocking “overpriced junk food.”

Khan also criticized the quality of antibiotics prescribed by Gazan doctors and the availability of what he called “overpriced junk food” in Gaza’s grocery stores. He accused Israel of keeping Gaza “at the brink of starvation” even before Oct. 7, arguing that the resulting malnutrition weakened immune systems and left children more susceptible to infection.

Eveline Shekhman, CEO of the American Jewish Medical Association, told JNS that “it is unacceptable for Tulane University to lend its name and academic credibility to an event that presents an outrageous, unproven accusation against Israel as established fact.”

“Future physicians should be trained to follow evidence, not perpetuate inflammatory allegations that echo centuries-old antisemitic tropes about Jews poisoning people and spreading disease,” Shekhman said.
Berkeley Public Schools Raised Money for Group With 'Fiscal and Personnel Ties' to Palestinian Terror Outfit, House Report Finds
A public middle school in the Berkeley, California, school district held fundraisers to raise money for a group with "fiscal and personnel ties" to a Palestinian terrorist organization, a House Committee on Education and Workforce report released on Wednesday found. The district's superintendent also promoted the organization in a district-wide teaching guide, according to the report.

Students at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, a public school in Berkeley, California, held the fundraisers for the Middle East Children's Alliance, a nonprofit group that funds programming in Gaza, emails obtained by the committee show. Mariam Al-Shawaf, an official at the school, wrote in a March 2024 email that the school's South and Southwest Asia and North Africa student group "will be doing a bake sale and Palestine bracelet sale to raise money for the Middle East Children's Alliance." Kathleen Marte, an English language development lead teacher, responded, "These sound like amazing events. I will definitely make it to at least one of them."

MECA's Gaza director reportedly worked for a known front group for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. Last month, the House Ways and Means Committee called for MECA's tax-exempt status to be revoked because it "repeatedly funded organizations tied to the PFLP" for "more than a decade."

The fundraisers weren't the only promotion of MECA at Berkeley schools, according to the committee report.

Enikia Ford Morthel, the superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District, touted MECA as one of five "Local Organizations & Programs to Learn About" in a district-wide teaching guide for National Arab American Heritage Month. A ninth-grade Arab American Studies presentation also listed MECA as a "curriculum resource." And MECA officials were invited to teach at the schools: Andrea Prichett, a Willard Middle School history teacher, sent out an email promoting an event with Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch, executive director of MECA, who would be "speaking in the library about his organization and how it is supporting displaced people in Gaza" on March 18, 2024. Prichett sued California last year to try to overturn a new law combating antisemitism in schools, arguing that the policy was overbroad and violated her "academic freedom."

The report comes a year after the House Committee on Education and Workforce launched its investigation into rising antisemitism in public schools. In 2023, following the Oct. 7th Hamas attacks in Israel, "antisemitic incidents in K-12 schools increased by 135 percent," according to the committee report.

The report revealed pervasive antisemitism in other school districts and within the National Education Association, the nation's largest labor union.
Pittsburgh public school’s ethnic-studies class assigns high-schoolers 20-year-old article on Gazans being trapped ‘like the Warsaw Ghetto’
A high school ethnic studies course at Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy, which is part of the Pittsburgh Public Schools district, directs students to read a 20-year-old academic article that suggests that Gazans are trapped in the Strip as Jews were in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.

The syllabus, which the North American Values Institute obtained in a records request and which JNS viewed, assigns Patrick Wolfe’s 2006 article “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native” to students.

In the article, Wolfe, who was a professor in Australia and who died in 2016, referred to “Zionism’s chronic addiction to territorial expansion.”

“It is hardly surprising that a nation that has driven so many of its original inhabitants into the sand should express an abiding fear of itself being driven into the sea,” he wrote in the article.

He added that “the positive force that animated the Jewish nation and its individual new-Jewish subjects issued from the negative process of excluding Palestine’s indigenous owners.”

“Nonetheless, as Palestinians become more and more dispensable, Gaza and the West Bank become less and less like Bantustans,” who were segregated under apartheid in South Africa, “and more and more like reservations,” he wrote. “Or, for that matter, like the Warsaw Ghetto. Porous borders do not offer a way out.”

Steve Rosenberg, regional director for NAVI in Philadelphia, told JNS that the nonprofit has two concerns. “First, the Warsaw Ghetto comparison is extraordinarily provocative and requires serious historical examination,” he said.

“The Warsaw Ghetto was established by Nazi Germany as part of its persecution of European Jews,” Rosenberg said. “Comparing it to Gaza or the West Bank risks obscuring important distinctions between the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian ongoing war.”

“Students should understand those distinctions rather than encounter the comparison as an uncontested historical conclusion,” he told JNS.


Malaysia bans civil servants from using Israeli-made Waze navigation app
Malaysia banned civil servants from using the navigation app Waze, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s office said on Wednesday, citing data security concerns over its links to Israel.

Kuala Lumpur is a longstanding and vocal critic of Israel and maintains no diplomatic relations with it.

Waze, which is owned by Google LLC, was founded in Israel and remains incorporated there.

Anwar “has decided to prohibit the use of the navigation application Waze among all civil servants,” his office said.

“This measure is intended to safeguard government information and users’ personal data against the threat of misuse by the Israeli regime,” it added in a statement posted on Facebook.

The decision was made at a National Cyber Security Committee meeting chaired by Anwar on Tuesday, local media reports said.

The Malaysian government did not give further details on why civil servants were prohibited from using Waze, which uses data from drivers to provide real-time traffic information.

It did not say how the ban would be enforced or monitored.

But the government said that “sensitive government information and the personal data of citizens must be protected from being exploited by the Israeli regime in a manner that could compromise national security and sovereignty.”

Anwar suggested users switch to platforms such as TuJu, a locally developed Malaysian road navigation app.

Waze is widely used in Malaysia, including as a back-up navigation aid by drivers for its Grab online cab hailing service.

“We will close any avenues that the Israeli regime could exploit to threaten the security of the nation and its people,” the Malaysian government said.


Tennessee man sentenced to 17.5 years for arson, trying to aid Hezbollah by giving info on Israeli gov members
Regan Darby Prater, 28, of Tullahoma, Tenn., was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison for trying to provide information about more than 35,000 people purportedly affiliated with the Israeli government to someone he believed was associated with Hezbollah, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Prater was sentenced on Oct. 20 to 210 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. The court also ordered him to pay $1.289 million in restitution.

He obtained a document in 2019 that purportedly contained the individuals’ personal information and sent it to the suspected Hezbollah associate, writing, among other things, “start the hunt,” prosecutors said.

Hezbollah is a U.S.-designated terror group.

He also pleaded guilty to setting the Highlander Center on fire, a nonprofit research and education center in Newmarket, Tenn., in March 2019. Prater used a homemade incendiary device containing napalm, destroying a building and causing more than $1.2 million in damages.

Before the fire, Prater painted a symbol associated with the Iron Guard, a Romanian Nazi paramilitary organization, in the center’s parking lot.

He acknowledged that his white-supremacist ideology and opposition to the center’s faith-based educational priorities and ties to the civil-rights movement motivated the attack.
‘I’ve had death threats just because I’m Jewish,’ says model in Canada
A Canadian-based model and former Miss Slovakia who has publicly defended Israel after October 7, has described receiving death threats and antisemitic abuse.

Miriam Mattova, who lives in Toronto, told Israel Hayom newspaper that she has had a barrage of hateful messages after an incident involving an Uber driver, but says she refuses to be intimidated into hiding her Jewish identity.

The female Uber driver allegedly told her to get out of the cab after hearing Mattova talking about Israel on her phone.

“I began receiving an enormous amount of death threats, antisemitic harassment, just because I’m Jewish,” she said.

The abuse has had a profound impact on her everyday life. Mattova said she had reported the threats to Toronto police and its hate crimes unit.

“I have 24-hour security because of this,” she said. “I don’t leave my apartment after dark, you know, my life changed drastically.”

Among the messages she received was one stating: “I hope someone finishes what Hitler started.”
Investors turn to Israel’s battle-tested defense-tech start-ups as funding hits record $40.8b.
Global investment in defense technology reached a record $40.8 billion during the first half of 2026, according to a new industry report released by Israel-based venture capital firm Protego Ventures.

The data in the State of Defense Report shared with Defense & Tech by The Jerusalem Post showed investment pouring into military and dual-use technologies at unprecedented levels due to a surge in geopolitical tensions, rising military spending, and demand for autonomous systems and deployable battlefield technologies.

The firm estimates global defense-tech investment has climbed to nearly $70 billion over the past 12 months, $24.4 billion in funding during the first quarter of the year alone, marking the strongest quarter on record. Investors are increasingly concentrating capital into a smaller number of large deals, with major defense start-ups attracting unprecedented valuations.

"The defense sector has moved from the margins of venture capital toward its center," the report states, reflecting a broader shift in investor sentiment as governments seek faster access to advanced military capabilities.

According to the report, 24% of the funding went toward autonomous systems (including drones, unmanned surface vessels, and unmanned ground vehicles), followed by sensing, connectivity, and security at 16.8%, and then weapons and munitions at 14.4% (including directed energy weapons).
Dustin Hoffman and other stars celebrate the Jewish connection to Israel
Dustin Hoffman, Gene Simmons, Jon Voight and Bob Odenkirk were among the Hollywood names who gathered at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Monday night for “Letters, Light and Love,” a theatrical production celebrating the centuries-old connection between the Jewish people and Israel through letters written by historical figures and ordinary people.

The sold-out Oct. 19 event, organized by Jewish Federation Los Angeles, blended readings, music and storytelling to trace that relationship across generations, from Maimonides and Julius Caesar to Golda Meir, Albert Einstein and Leonard Bernstein. The evening also featured personal accounts of people whose lives and families have been intertwined with Israel.

All ticket proceeds benefited the Sha’ar HaNegev Resilience Centre, which provides emotional and therapeutic support to individuals and families in southern Israel as they work to recover and rebuild after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks.

For Rabbi Noah Farkas, president and CEO of Jewish Federation Los Angeles, the event carried particular significance because of its setting.

Less than three years ago, UCLA was the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment where Jewish students reported feeling unsafe. The campus became a flashpoint in the national debate over antisemitism and anti-Israel activism, with buildings and property damaged during the demonstrations.

“This place [Royce Hall] was inundated with protesters during the encampment,” Farkas told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “It was boarded up. Its windows were broken. There was graffiti everywhere.”

On Monday, the hall had been restored as a gathering place, with UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk and his wife, Felicia Knaul, among those attending and participating in the staged readings.

“The fact that the chancellor himself is here tonight is, I think, really restorative,” Farkas said. “It’s almost like teshuvah for the campus.”

The evening’s celebrity readings offered moments of humor alongside more solemn reflections on Jewish history and the enduring ties to Israel.

Simmons, the KISS co-founder who was born in Israel, introduced himself with a joke that played on the name of the late television personality Richard Simmons.

“Hello, my name is Gene Simmons. I know some of you were expecting Richard Simmons,” he said, before adding, “And I’m a Jew. I was born in Israel, but more importantly, I’m a human being.”

Simmons later sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and read a letter by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the late British chief rabbi.





 


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