“Oct 7 2023”

Friday’s YouGov survey shatters the caricature of Holocaust deniers as old, white, right-wingers in rural America. The poll exposes the left as home to those who refuse to believe the fate of 6 million Jews and illuminates Democratic reluctance to expose the antisemitism festering in their midst.

YouGov asked 1,500 adult Americans if they “agree or disagree” that “the Holocaust is a Myth.” Ten percent of Democrats agreed, double the number of Republicans. Seven percent of liberals and 6 percent of conservatives said the same.

Pro-Palestine protests have cost police as much as £20 million and have put a strain on other frontline duties as thousands of officers have had to be redeployed every week since the Israel-Hamas conflict began on October 7.

Bills are set to rise further as demonstrators have pledged to keep taking to the streets until Israel ends its military campaign in Gaza.

A survey published this week by the German Central Council of Jews reports that a third of Jews in Germany have experienced some type of antisemitic attack since October 7th. The attacks have ranged from antisemitic graffiti to personal insults, and almost all communities report increased psychological pressure, receiving threatening calls and threatening emails.

A stunning 80% of the Jewish religious congregation leaders surveyed stated that life has become more unsafe for Jews—specifically Jews who wish to express their faith in public in any form—since the October massacre.

Germany has a tendency to classify Muslim anti-semitism as “right-wing.”

Anything happening to a mosque is a major story. But an Iraqi Muslim immigrant running around with a shotgun outside a synagogue is a minor story.

The prime minister of Canada recently blasted Israel for accidentally killing civilians in Gaza— even though the Canadians deliberately killed German civilians in World War II.

Hypocrisy? Cynical indifference to the historical record? Perhaps a little bit of both.

How Soviet propaganda survived the USSR

Antisemitism is on an alarming rise as Israel continues to respond to the Hamas massacres of October 7. But the particular strain of antisemitism that we see today, in which Israel and Jews are cast as oppressors subjugating their Palestinian victims, arose long before the Hamas attack and has roots in a time and place that many no longer consider: the Soviet Union. In fact, the very notion of distinct Palestinian nationhood emerged from a Soviet project devised under the banner of national liberation.

Cries of “From London to Gaza, globalise the intifada!” rang out as tens of thousands of pro-Palestine activists marched through the capital on Saturday.

As the crowd wound its way from Bank in the City of London to Whitehall, sections also chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, regarded by many Jews as being a hateful call for the destruction of the state of Israel and its replacement with a Palestinian state.

One hand-drawn placard showed a star of David, symbol of the state of Israel, being pushed into the sea, with around it the words “The Final Solution?” – a clear reference to the Holocaust.

The Intifada they call for has already been ‘globalised.’ 9/11, 7/7, Bataclan, Manchester Arena, London Bridge (x2), Westminster Bridge, on and on… https://t.co/XmcduzekgR

— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) December 9, 2023

You have seen the video of my daughter Naama Levy. Everyone has. You have seen her dragged by her long brown hair from the back of a Jeep at gunpoint, somewhere in Gaza, her gray sweatpants covered in blood. You may have perhaps noticed that her ankles are cut, that she’s barefoot and limping. She is seriously injured. She is frightened. And I, her mother, am helpless in these moments of horror.

On October 7, Naama had been sleeping at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, and was awakened by the chaotic sound of a missile barrage. At 7 a.m., she sent me a WhatsApp message: “We’re in the safe room. I’ve never heard anything like this.” That was the last I heard from her.

The president of the University of Pennsylvania, M. Elizabeth Magill, resigned on Saturday, four days after her testimony at a congressional hearing in which she seemed to evade the question of whether students who called for the genocide of Jews should be disciplined.

The announcement, in an email sent to the Penn community from Scott L. Bok, the chairman of the board of trustees, followed months of intense pressure from Jewish students, alumni and donors, who claimed that she had not taken their concerns about antisemitism on campus seriously.

More than twice as many Democrats (50%) as Republicans (21%) say that the Israeli government bears “a lot” of responsibility for the war against the Hamas terror organization in the Gaza Strip.

That’s according to a new poll that the Pew Research Center conducted of 5,203 adults between Nov. 27 and Dec. 3.

.@Harvard president: “it really depends on the context” pic.twitter.com/nzuVUiqf4v

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) December 8, 2023