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Antisemitism Watch - August 7, 2026, 11 AM 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 alarming findings from Canada, where a new survey
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  Speaker 1: reveals that nearly all Jewish students on university and college
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  Speaker 1: campuses ninety five point seven percent, have witnessed or experienced
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  Speaker 1: antisemitism in the past year. Researchers found incidents attributed to
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  Speaker 1: faculty members and teaching assistants. The survey documented widespread Holocaust denial,
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  Speaker 1: hateful or discriminatory treatment of Zionists, vandalism, intimidation, and even
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  Speaker 1: physical violence. As Jack Jedwab, the reports author and executive
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  Speaker 1: director of the Association for Canadian Studies, stated, the antisemitism
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  Speaker 1: identified can reasonably be described as systemic. Advocacy groups including
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  Speaker 1: the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs ben I Brisk
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  Speaker 1: Canada and the Friends of Simon Weisenthal Center are calling
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  Speaker 1: on university leaders and governments to take immediate action. In
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  Speaker 1: the United States, the Department of Education's Office for Civil
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  Speaker 1: Rights has launched federal investigations into San Jose State and
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco State Universities. These probes will determine if the
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  Speaker 1: universities violated Title V of the Civil Rights Act by
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  Speaker 1: failing to protect Jewish students from discrimination and harassment, thereby
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  Speaker 1: creating hostile environments. Allegations include threats, shunning, physical attacks, and
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  Speaker 1: faculty members reportedly using their positions to foster antisemitism. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class action
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit against McGill University. Jewish students allege the institution failed
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  Speaker 1: to combat antisemitism and anti Zionist activities, harassment and assault
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  Speaker 1: during protests. They are seeking five million dollars in damages.
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  Speaker 1: Jewish advocacy organization Bani Briss praise the judgment as an
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  Speaker 1: important step toward accountability on the K Though, twelve level
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  Speaker 1: students at the prestigious Wesley College in Perth, Australia were
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  Speaker 1: suspended for engaging in antisemitic bullying via an online group chat,
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  Speaker 1: sharing hateful language and means targeting a classmate. The school
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  Speaker 1: stated it acted immediately to address the matter with the
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  Speaker 1: students and families involved. Nationally and internationally, the numbers underscore
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  Speaker 1: a persistent threat. New York City saw approximately eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty antisemitic incidents in twenty twenty five, according to
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  Speaker 1: the ad L. Early twenty twenty six, data from the
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  Speaker 1: NYPD indicates anti Jewish hate crimes comprise over half of
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  Speaker 1: all reported hate crimes in the city. In Lowe's Angels,
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  Speaker 1: the District Attorney's office announced numerous hate crime prosecutions. This
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  Speaker 1: comes amid a national trend where religious hate crimes are
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  Speaker 1: rising sharply, now making up twenty three percent of all
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  Speaker 1: hate crimes nationwide, up from just nine percent in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. Ben Harreriri noted that religious hate crimes against
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  Speaker 1: Jews specifically have increased by four hundred to five hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent in some cities since October seventh. The FBI shows
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  Speaker 1: a similar trend nationally. Globally, the J seven Task Force
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  Speaker 1: documented over twenty three thousand antisemitic incidents in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: three across seven major diaspora countries, marking a one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty six percent increase from twenty twenty two. Violent
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  Speaker 1: incidents rose ninety seven percent year over year. Violence against
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  Speaker 1: Jews outside of Israel in twenty twenty five reportedly reached
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  Speaker 1: levels not seen since the nineteen ninety four bombing of
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  Speaker 1: a Jewish community center in Argentina. In Montenegro, a recent
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  Speaker 1: brawl involving Israeli tourists reportedly escalated when locals began shouting
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  Speaker 1: free Palestine and f Israel after learning the tourist's origins,
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  Speaker 1: leading to an aggressive physical assault. Rabbi Ari Edelkopp, who
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  Speaker 1: heads the religious Jewish community of Montenegro, noted that while
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  Speaker 1: the situation is better than some places, antisemitism has demonstrably
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  Speaker 1: increased since October seventh, necessitating heightened security. In British politics,
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Bonehill Pain, previously convicted in twenty sixteen for antisemitic
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  Speaker 1: hate speech and harassment, withdrew his candidacy as a Conservative
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  Speaker 1: Party candidate for a local election following significant backlash. The
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  Speaker 1: Board of Deputies of British Jews called him a former
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  Speaker 1: neo Nazi with criminal convictions for antisemitic hatred. Conservative leader
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  Speaker 1: Kemy Badenock defended the decision to select him, citing his
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  Speaker 1: rehabilitation and his work focused on deradicalization Separately, commentary in
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  Speaker 1: one article described New York candidate Zorin Mamdani as exhibiting
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  Speaker 1: more or less patent anti semitism on social media. An
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  Speaker 1: organization's technical investigation linked over one hundred posts on ex
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  Speaker 1: to antisemitism, finding that major social media countries failed to
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  Speaker 1: take action against this content. This programs operates under the
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  Speaker 1: IHRA Working definition of antisemitism, which includes contemporary examples related
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  Speaker 1: to rhetoric about Israel. In that context, Professor raz Segel
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  Speaker 1: received a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars settlement from
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  Speaker 1: the University of Minnesota. The university had rescinded its offer
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  Speaker 1: to hire him as director of the Holocaust and Genocide
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  Speaker 1: Studies Center following backlash over his criticism of Israel's actions
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza, which he termed a textbook case of genocide.
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  Speaker 1: E Mails obtained through a public Record's request revealed a
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  Speaker 1: coordinated campaign by donors and activists that pressured university officials. Segel,
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  Speaker 1: who is Jewish and a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, stated
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  Speaker 1: the settlement should encourage others punished for criticizing Israel. Returning
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  Speaker 1: to institutional responses. The US Department of Education's Office for
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  Speaker 1: Civil Rights is investigating San Jose State and San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: State Universities for alleged antisemitism and failed to protect Jewish
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  Speaker 1: students to determine if Title V of the Civil Rights
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  Speaker 1: Act was violated. Allegations include creating hostile environments through threats, shunning,
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  Speaker 1: physical attacks, and faculty actions. At the University of Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 1: a resolution was reached between the university and the Equal
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  Speaker 1: Employment Opportunity Commission sparing pen from disclosing personal information about
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  Speaker 1: Jewish employees related to an eeo C antisemitism investigation. However, interveners,
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  Speaker 1: including the American Association of University Professors, are seeking to
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  Speaker 1: vacate the court opinion, concerned it leaves them vulnerable to
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  Speaker 1: future constitutional rights violations. In Jerusalem, the coffee shop Cafe
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  Speaker 1: Basin To run by Jews for Jesus has faced significant
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  Speaker 1: protests from ultra Orthodox Jews for operating on the Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: Demonstrations involving hundreds of participants have led to clashes and
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  Speaker 1: required police intervention, reflecting ongoing tensions in the city. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Adler. Thank you for listening to Antisemitism Watch. This
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  Speaker 1: report was generated with a I assistance and may contain inaccuracies.
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  Speaker 1: Please verify important details with primary sources.