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Antisemitism Watch - September 14, 2026, 05 PM Eastern · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Antisemitism Watch. I'm Rachel Adler. We begin
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  Speaker 1: today with disturbing displays of overt antisemitism in New York City,
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  Speaker 1: where neo-Nazis sporting swastikas and performing Sieg Heil salutes counter-protested
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  Speaker 1: a far-right activist. According to AFP and The Forward, these
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  Speaker 1: individuals distributed flyers that read No More Wars for Jews
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  Speaker 1: and stated, I want them out of our government. And
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  Speaker 1: not just Zionists, Jews. One man, identified as Gregory Conte,
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  Speaker 1: reportedly told a bystander he had, never had one do
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  Speaker 1: a good thing for me, when asked if he hated
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  Speaker 1: Jewish people. In Munich, Germany, authorities are investigating a death
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  Speaker 1: threat made against Charlotte Knobloch, the 93-year-old president of the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, and a Holocaust survivor.
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  Speaker 1: Reporting cited by Antisemitism Watch indicates the threat was discovered
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  Speaker 1: as graffiti referencing the recent election victory of the AfD party. Reading,
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  Speaker 1: the AfD has won, Tomorrow we will hang no block,
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  Speaker 1: and including a Star of David. Ambassador Ron Prosser condemned
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  Speaker 1: the threat, calling it disgusting, cowardly, antisemitic, and Bavaria's Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: for Jewish Life, Ludwig Spinell, stated it had crossed every line.
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  Speaker 1: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, or JTA, reported that New England
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  Speaker 1: Patriots owner Robert Kraft took credit for pressuring Ed Sheeran
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  Speaker 1: to drop rapper Macklemore from his tour. Kraft stated in
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  Speaker 1: a release shared with the JTA that Macklemore's broader history
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  Speaker 1: of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been
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  Speaker 1: deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community. Cross the line.
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  Speaker 1: And that advocacy should not come at the expense of
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish community. A report from AI company Anthropic, detailed
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  Speaker 1: by Aljaminer, found that Iran-linked operatives have used artificial intelligence
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  Speaker 1: to profile hundreds of Israelis and members of the Jewish
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  Speaker 1: diaspora as part of a broader surveillance and cyberwarfare campaign.
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  Speaker 1: The operatives used Anthropix's Claude Chatbot to automate information gathering,
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  Speaker 1: building detailed profiles on targets. In London, the Metropolitan Police
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  Speaker 1: are investigating a suspected anti-Semitic incident at Lauderdale Road Synagogue
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  Speaker 1: in Maida Vale, where fireworks were reportedly launched at the
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  Speaker 1: building on the second night of Rosh Hashanah. According to
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  Speaker 1: reporting by London Now, security footage showed suspects launching objects
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  Speaker 1: toward the synagogue. While a Jewish family with young children
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  Speaker 1: had reportedly walked past moments earlier, police have increased patrols
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  Speaker 1: in the area. On a Canadian campus, mezuzahs were smashed
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  Speaker 1: on Jewish students' doors at Wilfrid Laurier University, an act
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  Speaker 1: condemned as antisemitic by Hillel Ontario and Stand With Us Canada,
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  Speaker 1: who highlighted it as part of escalating hostility toward Jewish students.
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  Speaker 1: A viral AI video promoting an oregano oil supplement falsely
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  Speaker 1: claims it is a closely guarded Jewish secret. for weight loss,
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  Speaker 1: linking to the antisemitic Goislop conspiracy theory that Jews feed
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  Speaker 1: the masses unhealthy food while consuming secret healthy sustenance, according
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  Speaker 1: to reporting reviewed for this episode. An article argues that
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  Speaker 1: journalist Peter Baynard's interpretation of concerns raised by Michigan Jewish
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  Speaker 1: leaders regarding a Senate candidate minimized their valid fears about
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  Speaker 1: antisemitism and personal safety, especially after a terror attack at
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  Speaker 1: Temple Israel. The piece notes that Michigan's Attorney General Dana
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  Speaker 1: Nessel feels unsafe attending her own party's convention due to
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  Speaker 1: anti-Semitism concerns. Looking at institutional responses, Henry Ford's historic home,
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  Speaker 1: Fair Lane, will reopen in June 2027 with programming that
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  Speaker 1: confronts his history of anti-Semitism. This move was praised by
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Kangany, CEO of the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: who told the JTA that this reckoning is long overdue.
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  Speaker 1: In Canada, police have arrested and charged a 27-year-old man
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  Speaker 1: for anti-Semitic social media posts, including willful promotion of hatred
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  Speaker 1: and advocating genocide, according to Hamilton Police. The Hamilton Anti-Racism
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  Speaker 1: Resource Center hailed the charges. Estimates from the Jewish Federations
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  Speaker 1: of North America, or JFNA, reveal that Jewish synagogues, schools,
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  Speaker 1: and community centers are now spending an estimated $ 1. 02 billion
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  Speaker 1: annually on security measures. a record high diverting funds from
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  Speaker 1: other community programs. Finally, the initiative, jujitsu, is introduced as
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  Speaker 1: a method to fight antisemitism, according to reporting reviewed for
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  Speaker 1: this episode. I'm Rachel Adler. Thank you for listening to
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  Speaker 1: Antisemitism Watch. Follow Antisemitism Watch in your podcast app so
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  Speaker 1: you don't miss the next update. This report was generated
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  Speaker 1: with AI assistance and may contain inaccuracies. Please verify important
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  Speaker 1: details with primary sources. Thank you.