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Montreal passes Palestinian solidarity motion after removing text on cutting ties with Israel

August 25, 2026August 25, 2026Jesse Orine

Montreal has passed a motion of solidarity with Palestinians after stripping a clause that called for severing institutional and diplomatic ties with Israel. Montreal’s city council late Monday adopted the measure, which also removed earlier references to Israeli “apartheid” and “genocide,” after a contentious debate about the role of local government in denouncing conflicts abroad. […]

Dutch broadcaster pulls out of Eurovision over Israel’s participation

August 24, 2026August 24, 2026Jesse Orine

The Dutch public broadcaster Avrotros has pulled out of the next Eurovision Song Contest, saying that Israel’s participation undermined the event’s neutrality. Avrotros announced on Monday that it was withdrawing from the world’s largest music event next year because it “can no longer be considered neutral, with a participating country still involved in a large-scale […]

Argentina removes federal judge over antisemitic remarks in historic first

August 21, 2026August 21, 2026Jesse Orine

An Argentine federal judge was removed from office Tuesday for a series of antisemitic posts on his social media accounts that constituted misconduct incompatible with his role, an impeachment panel ruled. Alfredo Eugenio López, who headed Federal Court No. 4 in the coastal city of Mar del Plata, was removed by Argentina’s Jury of Impeachment, […]

Iran appoints AMIA bombing suspect to National Security Council

August 11, 2026August 11, 2026Jesse Orine

For the second time this year, Iran has named a wanted suspect in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires to a top security role. A spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said Monday that Mohsen Rezaei had resigned as an adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba […]

How 3 Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch

August 10, 2026August 10, 2026Jesse Orine

REYKJAVIK, Iceland —This city in the autumn of 1935 was a small fishing port of corrugated-iron houses battered by high winds, cod trawlers idling in the harbor, and geothermal steam curling up from hot springs that would one day heat the whole city. Fewer than 30,000 people lived there. There was no concert hall, no […]

Montenegro’s tiny Jewish community navigates uncertain territory as hostility toward Israel increases

August 7, 2026August 7, 2026Jesse Orine

PODGORICA, Montenegro — At the entrance to Nikšić, Montenegro’s second-largest city, a vintage fighter jet painted in the colors of the Israeli Air Force perches atop a giant concrete pedestal, as if about to take flight. The monument, unveiled in 2024, commemorates “Operation Velvetta” — a top-secret plan that ferried 17 Supermarine Spitfire aircraft from […]

Over 95% of Canadian Jewish university students report exposure to antisemitism

August 6, 2026August 6, 2026Jesse Orine

Nearly all Jewish students surveyed on Canadian university campuses said they have experienced or witnessed antisemitism, according to a new government-commissioned report. The survey from the Department of Canadian Heritage found that 95.7% of Jewish students said they were exposed to antisemitism, with 70% saying their university did not take antisemitism seriously and 22% reporting […]

Antisemitic incidents in Britain rose 21% in first half of 2026, remaining near record levels

August 5, 2026August 5, 2026Jesse Orine

Britain’s antisemitism watchdog says it received reports of nearly 2,000 incidents in the first half of 2026 — the second-most its recorded ever for the time period, following only the first half of 2024. The new figures released Wednesday by the Community Security Trust represent a 21% increase in reported incidents over the same time period […]

British Conservatives face backlash for nominating a former neo-Nazi for local office

August 5, 2026August 5, 2026Jesse Orine

LONDON — Britain’s Conservative Party has defended its decision to endorse a former neo-Nazi activist as a candidate in next year’s local elections despite his imprisonment for crimes including racially aggravated harassment of Jewish former Labour MP Luciana Berger. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said the candidate, Joshua Bonehill-Paine, had demonstrated rehabilitation through his work […]

Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue as Lithuanian Jews dispute its future

August 4, 2026August 4, 2026Jesse Orine

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Archaeologists have uncovered the full floor of Lithuania’s historic Great Synagogue, revealing treasures nearly erased by Nazi and Soviet occupations — and exposing rifts between Lithuanian Jews over how to preserve and interpret what survived. Locals walking through the center of Vilnius now pass a hole in the ground, a portal to […]