Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Melbourne, Australia, chanted “Death to the IDF” at a rally Sunday, two days after a spate of violent attacks on Jewish targets including a synagogue and businesses with ties to Israel. Local police ramped up their presence at the rally after the attacks Friday night, which included the arson of a synagogue […]
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Incendiary rapper Ye, who was formerly known as Kanye West, has had his visa cancelled in Australia over a recent song release titled “Heil Hitler.” The announcement came Wednesday after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said officials had reviewed his visa status following the controversial song’s release in May. Ye is currently married to Bianca […]
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Members of the British punk band Bob Vylan have had their U.S. visas revoked by the State Department after leading thousands of concert-goers in chanting “Death, death to the IDF” last weekend at the Glastonbury music festival in England. The announcement by the State Department comes as the punk rock duo was slated to go […]
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BERLIN — A Danish citizen of Afghani descent has been arrested in Denmark on suspicion of helping Iran plan attacks on Jewish targets in Berlin. The suspect, identified only as Ali S., is accused of spying on Jewish institutions and individuals in the German capital for Iranian intelligence services in preparation for further actions, including […]
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Twenty-four members of the Jewish community in Tehran and Shiraz remain in prison as of Sunday after being arrested along with hundreds of others in a sweeping government crackdown in Iran that began as fighting ended with Israel. The arrests took in 35 Jews originally, according to a report put out Saturday by HRANA, the […]
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MADRID — Spanish police dismantled a major criminal network that allegedly falsified thousands of citizenship applications under the country’s Sephardic nationality law, according to El País. The immigration scheme allegedly exploited a 2015 law, dubbed the “Law of Return,” that allows the descendants of Jews expelled in the 1492 Spanish Inquisition to obtain Spanish nationality. […]
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A British punk band called Bob Vylan led thousands of Glastonbury attendees in chanting “Death, death to the IDF” in one of multiple pro-Palestinian sets at the vaunted music festival on Saturday. After the group’s lead singer, who goes by the stage name Bobby Vylan, led the crowd in chanting “Free Palestine,” he asked, “Have […]
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The far-right nationalist party Swedish Democrats apologized Thursday for its past links to Naziism and antisemitism ahead of the country’s national elections next year. The public apology, which included a study commissioned by the party that found Nazi and antisemitic views were pervasive in its publications and functions throughout the 1980s and 1990s, underscores efforts […]
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Ohr Torah Stone, the Israel-based Modern Orthodox educational organization, rejected claims made by far-right pundit Candace Owens Thursday that the group’s founding rabbi had sought to bribe Christian pastors to criticize her in their sermons. Owens, a provocateur who has previously embraced antisemitic rhetoric, made the allegations on her podcast and X account Thursday. Attaching […]
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BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine federal judge Thursday ordered that the 10 Iranian and Lebanese suspects accused in the deadly 1994 AMIA bombing be tried in absentia, allowing the case to move forward after decades of legal stagnation. The complaint, filed by the families of the victims of the bombing, asked Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas […]
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