It is always interesting, and sometimes surprising, to find out which celebrities declare their support for the embattled Jewish state, and which ones instead malign it. Just now, the musician Boy George has stood up publicly for Israel with a song, “We Will Dance Again,” a reference to the Nova Music Festival that was attacked […]
Antisemites Shoot at Bagel Shops in Toronto
Two locations of a well-known bagel shop in Toronto were hit overnight on July 25 with gunfire. It’s the latest of a rash of attacks on Jewish targets in Canada. Jews are 1% of Canada’s population, but they are the target of two-thirds of the religion-based hate crimes in the country. More on the bagel […]
Unhinged Antisemitism Running Wild on the Internet
“First a little, thence to more They posted all their killing lore” If you think the people who are alarmed at the world-girdling expressions of murderous antisemitism are exaggerating, just take a look at what is being posted about Jews and Israel all over the internet, and at what the hair-raising comments on those posts […]
Australian Academics Demand That Winner of ‘Israel-Linked’ Prize Refuse to Accept It
Dan David was a remarkable man, who survived both the Nazis and the Communists in his native land of Romania. After many travails, he finally made aliyah to Israel, where he borrowed money to buy the Photo-Me (those booths where you can have your photo taken) franchise for several countries. He eventually sold his stake […]
Israeli Planes Keep Getting Hit on the Tarmac at the UK’s Luton Airport
Every so often, in airports around the world the ground crew’s vehicle will clip the wing of a plan on the tarmac, but it is unusual, and it is even more unusual when such vehicles keep running into planes that all belong to the same airline and at the same airport. At Luton Airport, just […]
Annals of Antisemitism: In Italy, Mural of Anne Frank and Primo Levi Defaced — Again
How low can the world’s antisemites go? This low: they keep defacing posters, prints, paintings, memorials of all kinds, depicting Jewish victims of the Nazis. Their latest achievement is the defacing, for the second time, of a mural in Milan that depicts the Holocaust victim and diarist Anne Frank and Italian Holocaust survivor and writer […]
In Australia, Antisemitism Now Sky-High
The latest news from Down Under bodes ill for the nation’s Jews. The land of Botany Bay and We of the Never Never and Crocodile Dundee has become a place where Jews have been subjected nationwide to a sustained increase in harassment, vandalism, and arson. This includes recent incidents such as a Jewish family’s home […]
In Sweden, a Jewish Doctor Is Subjected to Antisemitic Harassment, and Then Fired
In Sweden, a Jewish physician complained after a colleague made him the object of antisemitic harassment. Then he, not the harasser, was fired. More on his ordeal can be found here: “Swedish Jewish Doctor Alleges Antisemitic Abuse by Colleague After Losing Healthcare Position,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, July 13, 2026: A Jewish physician in Sweden has […]
Ireland: Music festival bans IDF veteran because it ‘stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people’
Since October 7, incidents of anti-Israel hatred, and open Jew-hatred, are bewildering. Not one critic has presented any ideas on what Israel could possibly do in the face of the strategy of jihadists hiding themselves and their deadly weapons caches, rocket launchers, and operational centers in populated areas of Gaza (Hamas) and Lebanon (Hizballah). Those […]
Norway Wants to Kick Israel Out of World Soccer
Amazing, isn’t it, how the anti-Israel virus shows up everywhere on our giddy globe, even in places where you thought there was still a sooterkins of decency. Take, for example, Norway, the land of fjords and fårikål, but also, let’s remember, the land of Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborator, and of Roald Dahl, the kindly […]