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New York City, which has the largest Jewish population of any city outside Israel,
recorded 205 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the first seven months of 2026,
up from 189 during the same period in 2025.
More than half of all hate crimes in the city were anti-Jewish,
despite Jewish New Yorkers comprising 10% of the city’s population, according to the NYPD

"The ruling implicitly confirms that under British law, anti-Zionism does not equate to anti-Semitism – prejudice against Jewish people"
#Palestine

Scott Wiener,
a gay Jewish state senator and trans rights advocate who is currently the frontrunner in the race to replace the longtime representative Nancy Pelosi in California’s 11th district,
said he felt forced to leave last week’s annual trans pride march in San Francisco
after a group of people ran up to him at a local park where the event was taking place, surrounded him and screamed at him over his positions on Israel’s war on Gaza.
“They were so physically and…

Gaza protests against two Democrats spark outcry and debate on tactics
Incidents involving California state senator Scott Wiener and New York congressman Dan Goldman underscore Israel-Palestine conflict’s role in US elections

A Jewish prosecutor filed charges based on law and was recused based on ideology
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5901398-jewish-prosecutor-recusal-case/

1) Israeli security minister joins Jewish extremists as they storm al-Aqsa mosque compound.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/23/israel-security-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-jewish-extremists…

Israeli security minister joins Jewish extremists as they storm al-Aqsa mosque compound
Far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was among thousands who gathered at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site

Let’s get one thing straight: if you’re bigoted against Jews, you’re no better than Israeli settlers and the Israelis who are complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Someone being Jewish does not mean that they’re Zionist or complicit in genocide. Not all Jews are Zionists. And not all Zionists are Jews.
Conflating the two is antisemitic.
And Israel and Zionists are guilty of pushing that narrative more than anyone else. (Yes, Israel and Zionists a…

Many US Jewish adults have experienced assault or harassment over the past year, AP-NORC poll finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — The findings highlight the vulnerability that many Jewish adults in the U.S. feel as bipartisan support for Israel erodes and significant divides emerge within the Jewish community about what constitutes antisemitism — particularly when it comes to protesting Israel.

During World War II, the Polish-Jewish immigrant Arthur Szyk became America’s leading anti-Nazi artist.
His art was so effective that Adolf Hitler reportedly put a bounty on his head
while the US military declared him a “citizen-soldier” of the free world.
Szyk steadfastly fought for the rescue of European Jewry during the Holocaust, creating artworks like
De Profundis, which imagines Jesus sharing the suffering of countless lifeless Jews.
His civil rights art c…

Rome’s Pride parade bars Jewish LGBTQ float over refusal to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ – The Forward
https://forward.com/fast-forward/827887/romes-pride-parade-bars-jewish-lgbtq-float-over-refusal-to-call-gaza-war-genocide/

The Trump administration is no longer offering due process protections to the most vulnerable immigrant children
-- as it tries to increase the number of deportations,
according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of six children,
five of whom reside in Allegheny County.
“This case is about the most vulnerable in our immigration system:
abused, abandoned, neglected, and trafficked children,”
the opening lines of the lawsuit read.
“One would assum…

Pittsburgh nonprofit sues Trump administration for deporting abused, trafficked children
Jewish Family and Community Services files lawsuit against Trump Administration on behalf of vulnerable Allegheny County immigrant children.

Mamdani was surrounded by naturalized citizens like himself as he listed the waves of immigrants who shaped the city.
“Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived with stomachs aching from a famine manufactured by imperial cruelty,” Mamdani said.
“Chinese sailors settled in what is today Chinatown.
Millions more traveled under the Statue of Liberty and through Ellis Island.
Jewish people escaping pogroms,
Italians fleeing poverty.
Syrians seeking ec…

Zohran Mamdani rebukes Trumpism with pro-immigrant speech for US’s 250th birthday
New York mayor’s speech cut ideological counterpoint to policies of president, who will deliver his own remarks later today