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Midtown Rabbi Stabbed Amidst Rising Tensions · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: slash m-a-a-rabbi was stabbed with a syringe on a busy
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  Speaker 1: Midtown street Wednesday. An attack the NYPD's Hate Crime Task
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  Speaker 1: Force is investigating as potentially antisemitic. Rabbi Yosef, who spoke
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  Speaker 1: on condition his full name not be revealed, told the
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  Speaker 1: New York Post that despite being shaken by the incident,
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  Speaker 1: he returned to the same street the next day to
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  Speaker 1: continue his Jewish outreach. He believes he was targeted because
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  Speaker 1: he is visibly Jewish. In Utah, a man identified as
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  Speaker 1: Skyler A.J. Rose, 22, has been indicted by a federal
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  Speaker 1: grand jury for attempting to commit a hate crime. According
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  Speaker 1: to the U.S. Department of Justice, Rose allegedly searched online
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  Speaker 1: for synagogues and possessed multiple pipe bombs, rifles, and ammunition.
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  Speaker 1: He also made online threats, including, I wanna blow up
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  Speaker 1: a synagogue, the DOJ stated. Rose pleaded not guilty to
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  Speaker 1: the charges. At UC Merced, history, critical race, and ethnic
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  Speaker 1: studies professor Sean Malloy is calling for the desionization of
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  Speaker 1: the UC system. In a piece published on the Ethnic
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  Speaker 1: Studies Council at UC Substack, Malloy, argued that Zionism is
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  Speaker 1: a driving force behind many of the external and internal
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  Speaker 1: threats to the UC and its faculty, staff, and students.
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  Speaker 1: He advocates for ending the university's complicity in Israeli state
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  Speaker 1: actions and confronting Zionist organizations. Notably, Mal suggests that a
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  Speaker 1: path forward should include formally rejecting the International Holocaust Remembrance
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  Speaker 1: Alliance definition of antisemitism, according to thecollegefx.com. Concerns over faculty
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  Speaker 1: conduct and accountability are surfacing on college campuses. AmericanThinker.com reports
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  Speaker 1: that at the University of Chicago, assistant professor Iman Abdel-Hadi
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  Speaker 1: continues her appointment despite controversial statements and actions, including participation
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  Speaker 1: in a pro-Palestinian encampment and remarks critical of the university.
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  Speaker 1: At UC Berkeley, computer science lecturer Perrin Kao who was
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  Speaker 1: suspended for using classroom time for pro-Palestine advocacy, has returned
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  Speaker 1: to teaching. The university has worked to remind faculty about
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  Speaker 1: policies restricting political advocacy in the classroom. Meanwhile, Solon schools
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio are taking action in response to antisemitic incidents
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  Speaker 1: occurring at their middle school, Fox8. com reports. An article on AmericanThinker.com,
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  Speaker 1: authored by Walter E., Block argues for a distinction between
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  Speaker 1: antisemitic speech and violent actions. Block contends that while violent
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  Speaker 1: acts against Jews should be criminal, hateful rhetoric, which he
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  Speaker 1: defines using the IHRA working definition, should be protected under
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  Speaker 1: free speech principles, stating that sticks and stones will break
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  Speaker 1: my bones while name-calling will never injure me. He believes
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  Speaker 1: that while all of the as and all of the
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  Speaker 1: bs are antisemitic, only the bs, the violent acts, should
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  Speaker 1: be illegal. In international policy news, The Dominican government adopted
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  Speaker 1: the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism on
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  Speaker 1: August 24, according to Mondoes.net. The article notes this adoption
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  Speaker 1: is controversial, with critics describing the IHRA definition as infamous
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  Speaker 1: for equating opposition to Israeli apartheid and Zionist colonialism with antisemitism.
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  Speaker 1: The Dominican Foreign Ministry justified the decision by referencing a
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  Speaker 1: long-standing policy against hate and discrimination. Similarly, in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: Barnett Council has approved a motion declaring anti-Zionism to be anti-Semitism,
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  Speaker 1: using the IHRA definition. Esquawkbox.org criticizes this move, linking it
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  Speaker 1: to the Israel lobby and a broader campaign against the
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  Speaker 1: Green Party. The article argues that the motion is a
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  Speaker 1: transparent tactic to attack anti-Zionism rather than genuinely addressing anti-Semitism.
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  Speaker 1: In New York, Attorney General Letitia James, campaigning for re-election,
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  Speaker 1: highlighted her office's work combating antisemitism and discrimination, alongside efforts
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  Speaker 1: against gun and drug trafficking. She stated that the protection
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  Speaker 1: of the Jewish people cannot and will not be the
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  Speaker 1: responsibility of the Jewish people alone. Veteran American Jewish leader
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm Hohenlein warned that despite significant spending to combat antisemitism,
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  Speaker 1: efforts are undermined by divisions and ineffective coordination, leading the
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  Speaker 1: community to losing the war. Honlein, vice chairman emeritus of
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  Speaker 1: the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, urged
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  Speaker 1: major donors to scrutinize spending and seek greater cooperation, telling
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  Speaker 1: I-24 News TV that we promise them never again, and
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  Speaker 1: what we're giving them is ever again. Separately, reporting from blogs.timesofisrael.com
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  Speaker 1: notes that French Jews have endured years of threats, harassment,
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  Speaker 1: and violence. Finally, a story of resilience. Rabbi Yosef, who
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  Speaker 1: was stabbed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, returned to his
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  Speaker 1: street rounds the very next day to offer religious services.
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  Speaker 1: He told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that despite still feeling shaken,
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  Speaker 1: he was determined to continue his work, emphasizing, we can't
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  Speaker 1: allow some hate to stop us. He added, we need
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  Speaker 1: more mitzvahs in the world, we need more light in
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  Speaker 1: the world. This act of defiance underscores a commitment to
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  Speaker 1: facing down hate with continued observance and public presence. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Adler, thank you for listening to Antisemitism Watch. For
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