French synagogue attacker ‘wanted to scare people’

French prosecutors say a man accused of an arson attack on a synagogue told investigators he acted to make Israeli authorities react. Read more

Arrest made over attempted arson on French synagogue

A 33-year-old man has been arrested over an attempted arson attack on a synagogue in southern France. Read more

The UN gives a master class in anti-Semitism

Guilty of Nazi-like crimes. That’s the verdict of a United Nations “commission of inquiry” on Israel that was created by the U.N. Human Rights Council to commit the Nazi-like crime of demonizing and destroying the Jewish state. Read more

NSW Labor to consider membership application from extremist

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Anti-Semitism: Back to square one?

Monitoring and analyzing contemporary anti-Semitism, which I do rather frequently, is most of the time a frustrating experience, but no more so than now. Read more

The lonely, angry anti-Semite

At high school, he made no friends and didn’t belong to any clubs. He liked girls but having a girlfriend was beyond his abilities. Academically, he was undistinguished, doing well in biology but failing in English. Read more

Twitter permanently bans David Duke

Twitter announced yesterday that it has permanently banned white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke for “repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct.” Read more

Knesset makes effort to confront anti-Israel, anti-Jewish posts, hate speech online

Once heralded for bringing people together as a new form of digital communication, social-media companies have come under greater scrutiny in recent years for the spread of disinformation and extremism on their platforms. Read more

A chill wind from Poland

I’ve known Rafal Pankowski, the Polish academic and campaigner against antisemitism and racism, for almost 20 years, but I don’t think I’ve heard him sound as worried about the political situation in his country as I did when he addressed a seminar last week on Polish antisemitism. Read more

In midst of apology for one antisemitic cartoon, ‘New York Times’ publishes yet another

Despite apologizing on Sunday for running an antisemitic cartoon that ran in its international edition on Thursday, The New York Times published another antisemitic cartoon in the same edition over the weekend. Read more

Dunedin residents exposed to holocaust denial literature in letterboxes

Dunedin residents found leaflets dropped into their letterboxes, promoting antisemitic, Holocaust denial material. Read more

Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘existential threat’

On the evening of Monday, July 23, the parliamentary group of the British Labour Party held what Sky News called an “emotionally charged meeting,” during which they endorsed the definition of antisemitism used by hundreds of government departments, law-enforcement agencies, municipal authorities and community associations around the world…writes Ben Cohen/JNS. Read more

Who’s right? Not the left in Europe!

If someone showed British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn or Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan footage of the waving of Israeli flags during a speech in front of a mass of people made by Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Interior Minister, at the his party’s (the League) annual gathering a few days ago in Pontida, Italy, both would undoubtedly interpret this in their own way…writes Fiamma Nirenstein. Read more

Europe is not antisemitic, but there is antisemitism in Europe

Anti-Semitism in many parts of Europe is on the rise not because of government policies, but rather due to pervasive sentiments among various sections of the public, the most senior Jewish community professionals from France, Germany, and Hungary said this week at the World Jewish Congress’ 5^th annual National Community Directors’ Forum. Read more

South African Jewish leaders condemn ‘alarming’ antisemitic attacks in recent days

South African Jewish leaders condemned “alarming” amount of antisemitic attacks this week. Read more

Do the Jews control the World?

Our secret is out.  The Jews control the world!  We own the media. Politicians do our bidding.  Wall Street is a Jewish shtetle.  Hollywood moguls make secret deals in Yiddish.  Jewish professors propagandise their students to support Israel.  Jewish puppet masters pull the strings and their compliant puppets simply follow…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Israel’s annual antisemitism report: ‘Mein Kampf’ now German bestseller

Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett has presented the Jewish state’s annual report on global antisemitism to the Israeli government. The report demonstrated that antisemitism is on the rise in several notable areas, particularly in Europe. Read more

Ugly slogan at Sydney station

The pristine white walls of Sydney’s Martin Place station have been daubed with a message calling for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to be “1st in the oven”. Read more

Anne Frank on Antisemitism

The theatre production of The Diary of Anne Frank is playing in Newtown, Sydney. I saw it last month when it opened…writes Julie Nathan. Read more

Identifying and combating the new antisemitism

How does one effectively fight antisemitism and its newest mutation, anti-Israelism?…asks Isi Leibler. Read more

Outrage at antisemitic attacks on Frydenberg

There has been strong reaction both within the Jewish community and without to a tirade of antisemitic tweets against federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Read more

French rejection of Tel Aviv students echoes 1942 Benzion Netanyahu episode

The world-famous Louvre art museum stands accused of discriminating against Israeli students, after being exposed by some clever amateur investigative journalism that echoes a 1940s incident involving the father of Israel’s current prime minister. Read more

ADC welcomes President Obama’s stand against antisemitism

Australia’s B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has welcomed President Obama’s stirring speech at Congregation Adas Israel in Washington in which he warned of the alarming rise in global antisemitism and noted that, “When we allow antisemitism to take root, our souls are destroyed. It will spread.”  Read more

Global antisemitism continues escalating…writes Isi Leibler

This week, the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Diaspora Affairs Ministry are jointly sponsoring the 5th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism. Read more

Rebutting Julian Burnside

It is Julian Burnside’s opinion that the Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Andrew Bolt pose the greatest threat to our way of life (“The Islamophobia stirred up by Abbott and Bolt is a bigger threat to us than terrorism” The Guardian 26/2)…writes Geoff Bloch. Read more

Israel’s scandalous deficient response to antisemitic tsunami

Successive Israeli governments have failed miserably to meet the challenge of global antisemitism, not providing the leadership demanded of a Jewish state in these turbulent times and leaving Diaspora Jews to their own devices…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Antisemitism in the 21st century…writes Julie Nathan 

The murder in Denmark of a Jewish man outside a synagogue is just the latest in a long series of acts of violence and murder directed at Jews in Europe over the last few decades. Only last month in Paris Jews were targeted and four were murdered at the Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket. Read more

On Denmark

The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council has expressed its sincere condolences to the victims and their families of the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on the weekend. Read more

Anglican church apologises for remarks harmful to Jews

The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia has issued an apology for ‘hurtful’ remarks made by a bishop in Christchurch, which offended both Jews and Muslims. Read more

Jewish headstones desecrated in Dunedin

A Nazi swastika was painted on a headstone and two other headstones were knocked over and broken in an antisemitic attack at a Dunedin cemetery. Read more

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