A University of Cambridge college has been criticised after it failed to suspend students who made death threats against an undergraduate who visited Israel.
The visit, organised by the Pinsker Centre think tank, took Oxbridge student leaders to Israel, where they met Israelis and Palestinians to better understand the Gaza conflict.
But one of the party, Bradley Smart, 21, said he received death threats from fellow students when he returned to Homerton College.
Samuel Hayek, president of the Jewish National Fund, shocked England by saying: “Jews have no future in the United Kingdom,” Not only Jews, but Western civilizatiion.
— Yossi BenYakar (@YossiBenYakar) May 3, 2026
Toronto police are looking for a suspect who allegedly fired a replica firearm at three members of the Jewish community in North York on Thursday.
Police said the assault, which is being investigated as a hate-motivated incident, occurred in the area of Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue West.
Three people, who police say were visibly Jewish, were walking in the area when a suspect in a blue SUV allegedly discharged an Orbeez-type gun at them.
I was, in an intellectual sense, as prepared as I could be for the end of my grandmother’s life – a life that began in the suburbs of Budapest, in 1935, and ended in Toronto, just over 80 years later.
In that time, she had lived through the piece-by-piece destruction of her world, first by fascists, then Nazis, then communists – the original incarnations of these still undefeated movements. She had seen her mother and father dispossessed of their belongings and their home – legally, at the time. She witnessed the sudden (equally legal) disappearance of her father, then the sudden and permanent disappearance of her aunts and uncles. When she returned to her small and mostly Jewish neighbourhood after the war, she found almost every other child she used to know was no longer there, leaving behind grieving parents.
Some pro-Palestinian demonstrations could be stopped, the prime minister has warned, as the UK’s most senior police officer said the threat to the Jewish community was greater than it had ever been.
Keir Starmer indicated he wanted the language expressed on some protest marches to be subjected to “tougher action” as he sought to allay the fears of British Jews after a series of attacks on their communities in recent weeks.
“When you see, when you hear some of those chants – ‘globalise the intifada’ the one that I would pick out – then clearly there should be tougher action in relation to that,” Starmer told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
I doubt GB has the means or the will to ban the Islamist marches.
On Thursday night, the day after the stabbing of two Jewish men in north London, Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward was asked a simple question on the BBC’s Question Time. ‘You’ve stated you’ve seen racial hatred in this country’, said a member of the audience. ‘Could you please specify where that hatred is coming from?’
This is the way. Get them to be specific and they fall apart. pic.twitter.com/3mQUhSfoyK
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) May 1, 2026
Police have released images of a suspect wanted in connection with back-to-back shootings targeting synagogues in the GTA.
The first incident happed at a synagogue near Clark Avenue West and York Hill Boulevard in Vaughan just before midnight on March 6 while the second incident happened shortly after midnight that night at a synagogue in the area of Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue in Toronto.
h/t Patti Jo
While much of the world’s attention remains fixed on Iran and the broader regional conflict, a darker and largely ignored reality is unfolding inside the Gaza Strip: credible and deeply disturbing reports of sexual exploitation, abuse, and coercion carried out under Hamas rule.
New testimonies emerging from the Gaza Strip reveal that Hamas terrorists are systematically sexually exploiting vulnerable Palestinian women — demanding sex in exchange for basic aid, food, and shelter. The accounts describe a predatory system targeting widows, displaced mothers, and divorcees without male breadwinners, with victims threatened into silence by Hamas operatives.
Pro-Palestinian activists say at least 22 boats from a flotilla carrying aid for Gaza have been intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters near the Greek island of Crete.
The organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) denounced the action as “piracy”, saying those on board had been seized unlawfully more than 965km (600 miles) from Gaza, which is under an Israeli naval blockade.
The Israeli foreign ministry said about 175 activists from more than 20 boats had been detained and were being transported to Israel. It dismissed the flotilla as a “PR stunt”.
No Greta?
Greta Thunberg’s freedom flotilla rocked by sexual misconduct allegations https://t.co/HTJc03V5bc pic.twitter.com/JduoHSfwS2
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) April 19, 2026
It is undeniable now: war has been declared on British Jews. A fascistic crusade is being waged against our Jewish compatriots. The anti-Semitic atrocity in Golders Green today is further brutish proof of this unsettling fact. We’ve had firebombings at synagogues, the murder of Jews in Manchester on Yom Kippur, and now this frenzied knifing of Jews in London. There can be no more equivocating – this is a moral emergency.
🚨Here is the moment the Golders Green terrorist is subdued and kicked in the head as he clutched his bloody knife after stabbing two Jews.
I don’t think they kicked him hard enough. pic.twitter.com/NQRT3jWMr1
— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) April 29, 2026
Too late for Britain I fear.
Suspect also attempted to stab police; victims in stable condition; counter-terror police lead investigation
We’ve just had a statement from the Metropolitan Police.
“At 11:16hrs on Wednesday 24 April, officers responded following reports of people stabbed in Highfield Avenue.
“Local officers and armed officers attended, alongside the London Ambulance Service.
“The suspect also attempted to stab police officers, and was Tasered before being arrested. No officers were injured.
DO NOT LOOK AWAY.
This is the footage captured by CCTV of the stabbing in Golders Green. It happens in a split second. No warning. No care in the world. The Muslim casually walks up to the visibly Jewish man, pulls out the knife, and just starts stabbing.
This is Islam. And… pic.twitter.com/RcC1fWnNhk
— Mor Edge Insight (@MorEdge_Insight) April 29, 2026
Earlier …. ‘Arson attack’ on memorial wall in Golders Green
Counter-terror police are investigating another arson attack in Golders Green, north London.
A memorial wall commemorating anti-regime protesters killed in Iran was targeted in the attack in the early hours of Monday morning.
The wall is outside a synagogue on Limes Avenue, in a largely Jewish area of north London. It follows another alleged arson attack that saw four Jewish community ambulances destroyed in Golders Green in late March.
The latest annual audit of antisemitic incidents in Canada shows an increase of almost 10 per cent since last year, driven by a spike in online harassments even as incidents of violence and harassment fell slightly.
B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights released its annual audit on Monday, documenting 6,800 incidents of antisemitism across the country, equivalent to an average of 18.6 incidents per day. This is the highest volume recorded since the audit began in 1982.
It’s the third time this popular Jewish gift shop has had its windows smashed by rocks.
But the owner of Aleph Bet Judaica store on Bathurst St. in North York said he will do what he did the last two times: He’s putting in a new window.
I’m not going to pretend to have approached the BBC’s recent Panorama documentary, Anti-Semitism: Why British Jews Are Afraid, with any degree of impartiality. The title alone triggered me. ‘YOU! YOU, YOU UTTER BASTARDS! YOU’RE WHY WE’RE AFRAID!’ Alas, the BBC has declined to make a 30-minute documentary about itself.
A Jewish student is suing Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) for more than $1.3 million, alleging the school created a “poisoned environment” and disregarded several instances of antisemitism and harassment following the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel.
