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Antisemitism Watch - August 4, 2026, 11 AM Eastern · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to antisemitism. Watch I'm Rachel Adler. Today we
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  Speaker 1: begin with a troubling escalation of antisemitic acts in Montreal, Canada,
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  Speaker 1: over a weekend marked by fear. A Kosher restaurant was
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  Speaker 1: severely damaged in a suspected arson, A visibly Jewish man
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  Speaker 1: was assaulted with antisemitic verbal abuse. An anti Israel chance,
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  Speaker 1: including calls of death to Israel, echoed through a soccer
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  Speaker 1: match with objects thrown at an Israeli player. Israeli Ambassador
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  Speaker 1: to Canada Ido Moaid warned that the hate must be
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  Speaker 1: stopped before it transforms into something lethal, a sentiment echoed
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  Speaker 1: by US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoakstra, who urged decisive
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  Speaker 1: action against this grave threat. The Center for Israel and
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  Speaker 1: Jewish Affairs condemned the chance as dangerous incitement, reflecting a
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  Speaker 1: broader pattern. Bean I Bris Canada reported twenty seven violent
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  Speaker 1: antisemitic incidents nationwide between January one and July fifteenth of
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  Speaker 1: this year, more than double the total for all of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Statistics Canada also indicates Canadian Jews were
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  Speaker 1: targets of over seventy percent of all religion motivated hate
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  Speaker 1: crimes reported to police in twenty twenty five. Major League
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  Speaker 1: Soccer and c F Montreal have launched investigations into the
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  Speaker 1: soccer stadium incident, with the league stating hateful language has
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  Speaker 1: no place in our league or our sport. In New
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  Speaker 1: York City, despite an overall drop in violent crime, confirmed
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  Speaker 1: hate crimes targeting Jewish people have risen by two point
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  Speaker 1: three percent to one hundred and seventy eight this year
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  Speaker 1: through July. According to NYPD statistics, these incidents constitute over
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  Speaker 1: fifty five percent of all reported bias crimes, with another
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  Speaker 1: report noting an eight point five percent increase in anti
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  Speaker 1: Jewish hate crimes this year. In Australia, testimony before an
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  Speaker 1: Antisemitism Royal Commission described appalling conduct at a pro Palestinian
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  Speaker 1: rally in Sydney following the October seventh attacks. Witnesses reported
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  Speaker 1: chants like f the JGA Jews and the burning of
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  Speaker 1: an Israeli flag. Jewish community leaders reported being advised by
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  Speaker 1: police to avoid the Sydney Central Business district due to
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  Speaker 1: safety concerns, a move described as having profound psychological impacts.
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  Speaker 1: A German higher regional court has acquitted a woman who
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  Speaker 1: compared Israel to Nazi Germany on Instagram. The court ruled
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  Speaker 1: that such comparisons, when accompanied by a clear distancing from
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  Speaker 1: Nazi ideology, can be protected under freedom of expression. The
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  Speaker 1: judges stated that harsh criticism of another state does not
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  Speaker 1: automatically meet the legal threshold for incitement, especially when not
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  Speaker 1: disturbing public peace through denial or trivialization of the Holocaust.
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  Speaker 1: In the United States, the Trump administration is launching a
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  Speaker 1: nationwide campaign sending Justice Department officials to fifteen cities it
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  Speaker 1: accuses of failing to adequately protect their Jewish communities. The
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  Speaker 1: initiative aims to highlight local government failures in prosecuting hate
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  Speaker 1: crimes and to educate Jewish communities about their legal rights
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  Speaker 1: on campuses. At the University of Pittsburgh, various groups have
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  Speaker 1: submitted an alternative vision to the Chancellor's Working Group on
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  Speaker 1: Antisemitism report. This vision emphasizes education, dialogue, academic freedom, and
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  Speaker 1: free speech, proposing that university responses be situated within a
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  Speaker 1: broader context of injustice, rejecting repression and equating political criticism
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  Speaker 1: of Israel with hate speech. Online conspiracy theories claiming Israel
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  Speaker 1: orchestrated the recent migrant surge into the Spanish enclave of
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  Speaker 1: Ceuta have been viewed over one hundred million times on x.
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  Speaker 1: Prominent figures including Javier Bardam and Candace Owen's amplified these claims.
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  Speaker 1: Researchers found over one hundred influencer accounts spreading these theories,
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  Speaker 1: generating millions of views and shares. A report from the
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  Speaker 1: Combat Antisemitism Movement also indicates that antisemitic content is nearly
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  Speaker 1: seven times more likely on Instagram's mode post viewed platforms,
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  Speaker 1: with Holocaust inversion and antisemitic conspiracies spreading rapidly. In other news,
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  Speaker 1: John Galliano, a fashion figure who hurled antisemitic slurs in
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, is set to be honored at the Met Gala,
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  Speaker 1: raising questions about accountability in the UK. Joshua Bonehill Paine,
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  Speaker 1: a former neo Nazi activist with convictions for harassing a
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  Speaker 1: Jewish MP and posting antisemitic material, has been selected as
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  Speaker 1: a Conservative candidate for a local election, drawing accusations of hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: Colorado Democratic congressional nominee mel At Cairo's has walked back
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  Speaker 1: comments made during a televised interview after criticism from left
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  Speaker 1: wing activists regarding her stance on Israel and antisemitism. Separately,
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  Speaker 1: an antisemitic attack outside a synagogue in Golder's Green left
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  Speaker 1: two people seriously injured. A new report by the International
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  Speaker 1: Center for Counter Terrorism and the European Jewish Congress analyzed
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty four antisemitic incidents across Europe in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, concluding that jihadist terrorism represents the greatest
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  Speaker 1: antisemitic terrorist threat on the continent. I'm Rachel Adler. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for listening to Antisemitism Watch. 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.