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Israel’s Mossad Names Iranian Terror Operative Behind Global Antisemitic Attacks
The Mossad stated on Oct. 26, 2025, that Iranian operative Sardar Amar was behind antisemitic attacks in Australia and European countries. Photo: Israeli Prime Minister’s Office Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad has revealed that an Iranian commander directed multiple foiled attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide over the past two years, exposing what it described…
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Campus Antisemitism Surges at Start of New Academic Year, New Report Finds
Illustrative: Pro-Hamas activists at Dartmouth College. Photo: New Deal Coalition/Instagram. Incidents of campus antisemitism continue to rise around the world, as revealed in a new monthly report published by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) civil rights organization. Published by the group’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC), the report said CAM recorded 53 antisemitic incidents on college…
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Bob Vylan Frontman Responds to British Airways Pulling Sponsorship of Louis Theroux’s Podcast Over Interview
Louis Theroux in conversation with Bobby Vylan on the Oct. 24, 2025, episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast.” Photo: YouTube screenshot The frontman of the British punk rap duo Bob Vylan responded on Sunday to the decision by British Airways to withdraw sponsorship from Louis Theroux’s podcast following his interview with the musician, who said…
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Embattled Irish Jewish Leaders Congratulate Country’s New President Despite Anti-Israel Record, Seek Fresh Start
President-elect Catherine Connolly is applauded by Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheal Martin and Irish Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Harris at Dublin Castle, on the day of the announcement of the results of the Irish presidential election in Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Ireland’s Jewish community has welcomed the election of the…
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Who is Jessica Tisch, the Jewish police commissioner both Mamdani and Cuomo want to keep?
For Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who would be New York City’s first Muslim mayor if elected, promising to keep Jessica Tisch as police commissioner is a key campaign gesture, given his past stance on defunding the police. For many Jewish New Yorkers, still shaken by rising antisemitism since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and…
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One was born Catholic, another was a West Virginia Protestant — now they’re all making Jewish art
In artist Yona Verwer’s “Immersion VIII,” a nude woman in a fetal position floats in a swirl of water. The image is at once ethereal and surreal, not unlike Verwer’s first mikveh experience, a purification ritual, and central to conversion, the transition from non-Jew to Jew. “It is the joy of weightlessness and the feeling…
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VIDEO: Social media activist asks Jerusalem passers-by why Yiddish is important
Yirmiyahu Danzig (aka @that_semite on Instagram and @Unpacked on YouTube), an Israeli Jewish rights and anti-racism activist of Caribbean and Ashkenazi descent, usually explores questions of identity on his Instagram account in English, Hebrew and Arabic. But last week, he posted a video where he speaks to Orthodox passers-by on the streets of Jerusalem —…
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‘Genocidal Settlers’: Pomona College Group Issues Rabid Manifesto After Raiding Jewish Event on Campus
Illustrative: Anti-Zionist protesters being arrested at Pomona College on April 5, 2024. They had taken over an administrative building. Photo: Screenshot/Students for Justice in Palestine via Instagram In a disturbing open letter, an anonymous group has claimed credit for storming a Jewish event at Pomona College in California held to commemorate the lives of the…
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‘Nowhere Near Netanyahu’: Thom Yorke Says Radiohead Will ‘Absolutely Not’ Perform in Israel
Thom Yorke, frontman of Radiohead. Photo: Alex Cropper/Sipa USA Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke said the British rock band will not be performing in Israel again, even though the group’s lead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, has family roots in the Jewish state. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Yorke, 57, was asked if Radiohead would return…
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Rubio Says Israeli Strike on Gaza Didn’t Violate Ceasefire
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the press following his meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not pictured) at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, Oct/ 23, 2025. Photo: Fadel Senna/Pool via REUTERS US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that Washington does not view a strike that Israel said targeted a member of…
