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Mr. Mamdani, you couldn’t even give us one day to mourn?
Israeli President Isaac Herzog marked the third anniversary of the Hamas attack by lighting a memorial candle at 6: 29 a.m., the time the terror invasion began. Read more » »
Record number of states boycott UN event for 25th anniversary of anti-Israel Durban conference
More than 40 countries boycotted a U.N. event on Monday marking 25 years since the 2001 anti-Israel Durban Conference. That set a new record, surpassing the previous high of 38 countries that skipped the event in 2021, according to the Israeli delegation to the United Nations. Read more » »
‘Incredible value’ meeting with diplomats on sidelines of UNGA, Jewish groups say
Marina Rosenberg, senior vice president for international affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, had good things to say about the German government just before she went into a meeting with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly last week. Read more » »
AOC fundraises off Macklemore boycott
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s refusal to host American rapper Macklemore at the stadium he owns over the singer’s accusations of Israeli “genocide” drew the ire of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), one of the Jewish state’s harshest critics in Congress. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith’s new CEO seeks ‘rebirth’ for oldest US Jewish organization
Evan R. Bernstein, the new CEO of B’nai B’rith International, does not think America is heading down the path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. But the bad news is that he doesn’t think that American Jews need to look so far afield to be worried about what the community faces in the United States. Read more » »
Over 50 Jewish organizations declare: ‘Zionism is part of Jewish identity’
Jewish organizations from around the world signed the J50 Declaration on Zionism and Antisemitism in Jerusalem on Thursday, which states unequivocally that “Zionism is part of Jewish identity. Read more » »
Western Europe ‘on the decline’ amid moral bankruptcy, says director-general of Israel’s FM
Western Europe is “on the decline” amid clear demographic changes which are leading to the increased radicalization of their societies and to moral bankruptcy, the director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Read more » »
As High Holidays loom, NYC records slight drop in anti-Jewish hate crimes in August from 2025, but Jews targets of 53.9% of hate crimes so far this year
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Thursday that the city had experienced its safest summer, when it came to murders and to shooting incidents and victims, in recorded history, but Jews continued to be disproportionately targeted in the city. Read more » »
French FM wants EU ban on Israeli Judea and Samaria goods
France’s foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, on Wednesday said his country would push for fresh sanctions on Israel in connection with Judea and Samaria, including an E.U.-wide ban on products made or marketed by Israelis there.The remarks, which Barrot made during the E.U. Read more » »
Durban at 25: Seeds of hate
Join B’nai B’rith, in partnership with JNS, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, for an important live program, Durban at 25: Seeds of Hate. We will connect the dots from the shocking display of hatred at a 2001 U.N. conference to the antisemitism, anti-Zionism and violence we are witnessing around the world in 2026. Read more » »
