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Ireland's President Michael Higgins with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin ahead of their meeting on Dec. 11, 2024. Photo by Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images.

Welcome to ‘Paddystine’

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The other day, during a discussion with a colleague about the wave of pro-Hamas, antisemitic hysteria sweeping the Republic of Ireland, I unthinkingly quipped that the people of Eire should rename themselves “Paddystinians.” I...
Anti-Israeli demonstrators march In support of Palestinians. Photo by Antony Jones/UK Press via Getty Images.

America’s electrifying counter-revolution

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America is attempting to clean up its house. Europeans are burning theirs down. Within hours of his re-election as president of the United States, Donald Trump started the process of rolling back the influence of...
Adam Davis at the match between the Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax soccer teams in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Nov. 7, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

‘Sorry, sir, we are unable to help you right now’

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Before I left for this trip to see Maccabi Tel Aviv play in Amsterdam—the month before I will be starting my service in the Israel Defense Forces—I couldn’t have imagined that it would make...
Rabbi Meir Villegas Henriquez at his synagogue in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 12, 2024. Photo courtesy of Villegas Henriquez.

Following pogrom, Dutch rabbi calls on Jews to make aliyah

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An Orthodox rabbi from the Netherlands has called on the country’s Jews to immigrate to Israel following mass antisemitic assaults in Amsterdam, accusing Dutch authorities of failure to address the root causes of the...
Assessing some of the damage after Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” in Germany on Nov. 9-10, 1938. Credit: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The echo of broken glass from Amsterdam

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I am horrified and outraged by the antisemitic attacks against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam. The events in Amsterdam last week mark a dark moment for European Jewry and demand our immediate attention. Jews were...
Fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team who flew on El Al rescue flight from Amsterdam arrive to the arrivals hall of the Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel on Nov. 8, 2024. Photo by Jonathan Shaul/Flash90.

The Amsterdam pogrom is what happens when the world tolerates antisemitism

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Much like the reaction to the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, it didn’t take long for some in the media and on the anti-Israel left to try to flip the...
French Israelis light memorial candles as they gather at Paris Square in Jerusalem in a demonstration against antisemitism in France following the murder of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman in Paris, March 28, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Swastikas painted on Paris home where Holocaust survivor murdered in 2018

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A troubling wave of antisemitism has surfaced in France, where a Jewish resident is enduring persistent threats in a building already marked by tragedy. Nancy is facing relentless antisemitic harassment, including death threats and Nazi symbols,...
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) during a meeting with ambassadors from 35 African nations about efforts to increase U.S. trade with Africa, May 8, 2012. Credit: Office of Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.).

US $4m fine of Lufthansa sends ‘strong message,’ says House Jew-hatred panel co-chair

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Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and co-chair of the legislative body’s Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, applauded the U.S. Department of Transportation’s agreement with Lufthansa to fine...

First half of year in France sees triple incidents of antisemitism from 2023

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French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin discussed new data on the rise of antisemitism in the country following the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7. The government official said on Friday at a ceremony commemorating...

Worrying signals on the Middle East from Britain’s new Labour government

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It’s been only three weeks since Sir Keir Starmer was elected as Britain’s new prime minister in the Labour Party’s first general election triumph since 2005, but so much has happened in the aftermath—the...