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JTA – Two minors have been arrested in connection with a car burning in the Jewish quarter of Antwerp in what is being treated as an...
“It’s something shocking … but no-one is shocked,” was how South African-born Rabbi Sandor Milun described the firebombing of four Jewish community ambulances in the early...
JTA – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author Roald Dahl is a terrible messenger for a serious conversation about Jews and Israel. Which is part of what makes Giant,...
JTA – Rabbi Matt Cutler was wrapping up a local TV interview last Thursday when a text from State Police came through. The man who had been...
It’s no secret that antisemitism has risen precipitously in the wake of 7 October 2023, subjecting Jewish communities worldwide to levels of open hostility not seen since...
To borrow the opening line of Charles Dickens’ historical novel A Tale of Two Cities, this week has been both the best of times and the worst of times for Australia’s...
Roedean School, a top Johannesburg private girls’ school, is facing allegations of antisemitism after its first-team tennis side refused to play scheduled tennis matches against players from King David Linksfield (KDL) because...
South Africans in Cape Town have once again defied the local hate movement that wants to exclude Jews from society. A music event went ahead at the Castle of Good Hope (the Castle) on Saturday, 24 January,...
JTA – A disagreement over how to define the sources of rising antisemitism in Europe escalated into a public clash this week between two prominent Jewish...
JTA – A property belonging to the antisemitism commissioner for the German state of Brandenburg was targeted in a suspected arson attack on Sunday. Andreas Büttner,...
Matthew Gruter, a South African civil engineer, was identified participating in a vehemently antisemitic neo-Nazi rally outside the New South Wales Parliament in Sydney on 9...
Many South African Jewish emigrants to the United Kingdom have experienced or are fearful of experiencing antisemitism in the National Health Service (NHS), and they appear...
When United States (US) Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, sanctioned United Nations (UN) special rapporteur Francesca Albanese in July, he said that it was because she...
After three and a half decades of enmity, Jacob finally prepares to meet and confront his brother, Esau. The Torah describes the night before this fateful...
Antisemitism at school is a global phenomenon, and it’s important for pupils to develop resilience and a strong Jewish identity to deal with it, experts say....
JTA – Jason Epstein travels internationally as a public affairs consultant, and although he is a proud Jew, he does not announce it in countries where...
JTA – The number of antisemitic assaults and acts of vandalism on college campuses fell sharply in the past school year, according to Hillel International. And...
French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was best known for his epic documentary Shoah, a viscerally confronting nine-hour magnum opus in which he interviewed Holocaust survivors, witnesses, and...
Thomas Torr, found guilty by the Equality Court of antisemitism and hate speech in May 2025 and ordered to apologise to the Jewish community and pay...
As we witness the surge of antisemitism the world over, we’re also reminded of something darker: more than 3 000 years of antisemitism that began with...
American-Israel activist, social media influencer, and basketball trainer Barak Swarttz says he wants Jews around the world to “wake up” and recognise that “the boots on...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s global Jewish initiative, the Voice of the People, this week released a report based on the views of 10 000 Jews internationally...
When Douglas Murray confronted Joe Rogan about giving a platform to dangerous conspiracy theories, particularly those stemming from Darryl Cooper’s Holocaust-denial narratives rooted in David Irving’s...
In decades on the frontline of advocacy work in Australia, including 17 years at the helm of the New South Wales (NSW) Jewish Board of Deputies,...
Within 24 hours of wannabe comedian Thomas Torr being found guilty of hate speech by the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town, he not only...
It’s hard to stomach the hypocrisy. The very nations and institutions that let Jews burn in industrial ovens now line up to instruct us on morality,...
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape SAJBD) awaits a conclusive finding against local aspiring comedian Thomas Torr for depraved videos and utterances in...
For the first time in the history of Australian Jewry, antisemitism and Israel are significant issues in an Australian election. Australia will go to the polls...
More than 30 years ago, my wife and I left South Africa with our first-born son to escape the cruel injustice and racism of apartheid. We...
Dara Horn’s new graphic novel imagines the seder as a Harry Potter style portal which opens up centuries of Jewish history for us. It imagines seders...
Radical Islamism or Islamic fundamentalism is fuelling antisemitism in the West, experts agreed at a panel discussion held in Jerusalem at the International Conference on Combating...
NOT FOR SENSITIVE READERS “Jewish people murder, rape, and eat children,” claims aspiring South African comedian Thomas Torr in a recent YouTube video. He is one...
I’m lying at a beach resort, the kind of place where time stretches, where the biggest decision of the day is whether to order another coffee...
The Israel hatred on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus shocked a South African-born Israeli influencer who has used his five million TikTok followers to...
The leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Johannesburg City Council this week demanded that the mayor secure an urgent public apology from a council...
What if, for thousands of years, a remarkably small group of people, less than 0.1% of the global population, were blamed for everything? Imagine if, despite...
A late-night incident at OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday, 4 February, ignited global outrage and confusion after three religious Jewish men were denied permission to...
Australian Jewry is facing a “tsunami of antisemitism”, according to South African expat and former chief executive of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies...
“Skyrocketing rise”; “Spreading a fire already out of control”; “Like a dam burst”; “Open season on Jews”; “A year of disbelief”. Reports on what Jewish communities...
This past December was unusual, with Chanukah coming later in the year and coinciding with Christmas when many members of the community were well into their...
