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Belgian Musicians, Italian Broadcast Union Pressure Their Countries to Boycott Eurovision Over Israel’s Participation
A photographer takes a picture of a TV screen in Wiener Stadthalle, the venue of next year’s Eurovision in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger Two collective groups in Belgium and Italy are pressuring their respective countries to withdraw participation in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest because of Israel’s involvement in the competition,…
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Iran Accuses Israel of False Flag Attacks on Jews Abroad as Regime’s Executions Reach Record Levels
People walk near a mural of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tehran, Iran, June 23, 2025. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS Iran continues to accuse Israel of orchestrating false-flag attacks against Jews and Israelis abroad to stoke fears of antisemitism in the wake of the…
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Israel’s Consul General in New York: Attempts to Isolate Jewish Communities From Israel ‘Will Fail’
Ofir Akunis, the consul general of Israel in New York, delivering a speech at the Altneu Synagogue on Dec. 21, 2025. Photo: Ohad Kab Photography The Consul General of Israel in New York Ofir Akunis said in a statement shared with The Algemeiner that attempts to separate Jewish communities from the State of Israel will…
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Australian Kids Soccer Club Renames Mascot ‘Matilda’ in Honor of 10-Year-Old Killed in Bondi Hanukkah Attack
The father of Matilda Britvan, 10, one of the victims of a mass shooting that targeted Jewish holiday celebration on Sunday, holds a photo of his daughter while standing next to his wife, on the day of a vigil at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hollie Adams A soccer team for…
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Antisemitic Vandal Strikes Chabad at Michigan State University Twice Over Hanukkah
Vandalism of Chabad Jewish Center at Michigan State University. Photo: Screenshot An unidentified perpetrator twice vandalized the Chabad Jewish Center at Michigan State University (MSU) during the Hanukkah holiday, police said, continuing a pattern of rampant campus antisemitism across the Western world. According to local reports, the vandal hurled rocks at and defaced the building’s…
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Just before Hanukkah attack, Jewish mayor of Bondi Beach region had been praised for fighting antisemitism
Three weeks before the Hanukkah mass shooting in Australia that has become the deadliest attack on Diaspora Jews in decades, the mayor of the affected region had been feted at a global summit for fighting antisemitism. “I think it’s really important for us here in Australia, and particularly Waverley, to be proud that we’ve been…
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Vance says ‘religious liberty is a Christian concept.’ Where does that leave Jews?
During his speech at Turning Point USA’s annual convention on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance claimed the “famously American idea of religious liberty is a Christian concept.” Vance has made this argument before. At the International Religious Freedom Summit, held in Washington, D.C. in February, he said it was “a conceit of modern society that…
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26 conceivably believable pop culture predictions for 2026
Picture me alone in some remote garret, clutching a copy of the American Jewish Year Book like it’s the Grimmerie in Wicked. Pages flutter, the wind howls, and I once more set out to divine what is in store for the year ahead. But how did I do last year? Taylor Swift is still with…
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A new organization aims to combat antisemitism and spread Jewish joy in New York’s theater industry
Shortly after Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, Seth Rudetsky, a well-known New York City theater fixture and a host on Sirius XM’s On Broadway station, received an email from an American living in Israel who expressed confusion at the relative silence of the theater community concerning the plight of the hostages. At first, Rudetsky…
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Lebanon Denies Any Army Link to Hezbollah After Israeli Strike
People inspect a damaged building, after Israeli military said on Sunday that it struck a militant from the Lebanese Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Nov. 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir Lebanon on Tuesday rejected Israeli accusations that a Lebanese soldier killed in an air strike near the southern city of Sidon…
