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As antisemitism spirals, democracies must act now

Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:16:54 +0000

Without decisive state action, rising hatred risks exploding into widespread violence. Antisemitism today is like an atomic bomb: anything can happen—anything at all—if institutions fail to take it in hand and act quickly so that no one feels authorised to deal with it on their own. This is a very delicate moment. All countries and […]

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How to defend against antizionism – Part 3

Joshua Dabelstein — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:20:34 +0000

An Arsenal Against Antizionism: How to Reclaim the Language (click here for part 1) (click here for part 2) If antizionism is sustained through language, then language is where it must be confronted. This is a question of accuracy, not tone or wordplay. A show of strength is not another decade of failed attempts to […]

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How to defend against antizionism – Part 2

Joshua Dabelstein — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:38:43 +0000

Hostility as a Virtue: The Moral Logic of Antizionism (click here for part 1) Distinct forms of anti-Jewish hostility are produced in response to what a given society considers morally persuasive, intellectually legitimate, or politically necessary. What changes is the language through which violence justifies itself. This hostility tends to cluster into three dominant configurations. […]

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How to defend against antizionism – Part 1

Joshua Dabelstein — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:19:35 +0000

Part 1: Diagnosing the problem Today we rely on the word ‘antisemitism’ to describe all anti-Jewish sentiment. The word sprang into popularity through Wilhelm Marr’s The Victory of Judaism Over Germandom (1879), which mounts the antisemite’s moral case while rejecting the religious persecution of prior centuries. “I therefore unconditionally defend Jewry against all religious persecution […]

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The forgotten exodus: Sydney honours 850,000 Jews who fled Arab lands and Iran

Rob Klein — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:55:19 +0000

More than 200 people gathered at the National Council of Jewish Women hall in Woollahra on Sunday evening for the annual commemoration honouring Jewish refugees from Arab lands and Iran. The commemoration highlighted the long-overlooked story of the 850,000 Jews forced from Arab countries and Iran in the mid-twentieth century. Their departure reshaped the Jewish […]

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Between two blades: Global squeeze on world Jewry

Daniel Rosen — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:11:00 +0000

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the global Jewish Diaspora is facing an unsettling squeeze, one that is closing in from both ideological extremes. On the left, an unlikely alliance between progressive activists and Islamist movements has generated a wave of hostility toward Israel and, by extension, Jews worldwide. On the extreme […]

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Never Again? How the West betrayed the Jews and itself

Anne Sarzin — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:11:12 +0000

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin The recent exposure of the BBC’s bias and editorial ‘doctoring’ of speeches delivered by President Trump to convey the impression that he incited the violent attack on 6 January 2021 on the Capitol in Washington, DC, has triggered a crisis resulting in an apology and the resignation of the […]

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The threat posed by Zohan Mamdani

Menachem Rosensaft — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:27:58 +0000

By publicly and forcefully denouncing Zohran Mamdani as “a danger to the security of New York’s Jewish community,” Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of New York City’s Park Avenue Synagogue has demonstrated yet again why he is one of the most important and most influential Jewish leaders on the American scene. He is not just a man […]

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A credit to the community

J-Wire Newsdesk — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:56:56 +0000

Shadow Attorney General Julian Leeser and Labor MP Josh Burns have jointly won the coveted McKinnon Prize for 2024, McKinnon Political Leader of the year – federal. The award is presented by a joint partnership of McKinnon and the University of Melbourne. Julian Leeser’s citation reads: ‘”Julian Leeser MP has emerged as a principled and […]

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Sir Thomas More

Jeremy Rosen — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:31:20 +0000

I was always interested in history. Having been brought up in England, I have a particular interest in its history. One of the most significant eras in English history was the 16th century. After years of disastrous infighting in the Wars of the Roses, Henry 7th and then Henry 8th began to stabilise English society […]

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