Diaspora Jewry
“I’m sorry that we have to feel isolated in our own city,” the former governor and mayoral candidate said.
The Met claim he was arrested for getting too close to anti-Israel protesters, and not because of the symbol.
“Today, we hide our Jewish identity, no one wears a kippah anymore, we remove the mezuzah, we avoid being recognized,” says local CRIF head.
“Antisemitism is a disease that will not end or diminish due to a ceasefire, because the disease has always been there,” said Spanish journalist and former politician Pilar Rahola.
A visit by the English activist spotlights Jerusalem’s expanding public-diplomacy efforts and differing views within the Jewish community.
Nearly 1,000 participants from 18 countries signed a declaration in Rio de Janeiro supporting Israel and condemning hate.
The “figures released just show what every British Jew already knows—antisemitic hate crimes in the U.K. remain at a historic high,” said the vice president of the Board of Deputies.
The Jewish Representative Council to Manchester in a letter to the concert venue stated it was “deeply concerned” about the upcoming performance.
The show has a “deep sense of certain kinds of Jewish language and knowledge that is sometimes absent in some treatments of U.S. Jewish life,” scholar Jeremy Dauber told JNS.
“It is profoundly sad that Jewish Americans are discussing worst-case scenarios,” stated Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the ADL.
“For generations after the Holocaust, the world said ‘never again.’ Never again would we allow Jews to be hunted, terrorized or live in fear because of who they are,” Kemi Badenoch said. “Those words ring hollow today.”
The best-selling author has defended Jews in the past, including in a statement shortly after Oct. 7.
