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Antisemitism Watch - August 19, 2026, 05 AM Eastern · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to antisemitism. Watch I'm Rachel Adler. Larry Montes
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  Speaker 1: has been charged with two counts of committing hate crimes
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  Speaker 1: and one count of damage to religious property resulting in
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  Speaker 1: bodily injury for an attack during a Shabbat's service at
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  Speaker 1: Manhattan's Central Synagogue. According to the Manhattan US Attorney's Office,
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  Speaker 1: Montes' faces up to twenty years in prison if convicted.
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  Speaker 1: As previously reported, Montes's allegedly called congregants Swine, declared himself
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  Speaker 1: Hasham and screamed an anti black slur at a security
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  Speaker 1: guard before attacking two people and breaking ten thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: candle holders. Mayor Mamdani condemned the attack, stating his administration
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  Speaker 1: will always stand against bigotry. The Simon Weissenthal Center noted
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  Speaker 1: that such violence occurs when antisemitism is ignored. Despite the attack,
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  Speaker 1: services at the synagogue resumed. In Portugal, the governt has
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  Speaker 1: asked its Prosecutor General to investigate allegations of antisemitic hate
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  Speaker 1: speech and intimidation at the University of Coimbra, affecting cases
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  Speaker 1: between July twenty twenty four and May twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: According to reporting, from JNS via the LUSA News Agency.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation concerns antisemitic posters, stickers, and graffiti displayed across
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  Speaker 1: university faculties. Examples include posters reading Zionists should carry a
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  Speaker 1: certificate to prove their human The State Secretary's Office also
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  Speaker 1: reported that doctoral student bar Herald faced death threats and
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  Speaker 1: physical assault for displaying an Israeli flag on his backpack.
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  Speaker 1: The Embassy of Israel in Lisbon welcomed the investigation. In
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  Speaker 1: American politics, the Florida f lminus six Republican primary saw
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  Speaker 1: incumbent Reprandy Fine win against Daniel Dan Bilzirian, described as
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  Speaker 1: an antisemitic influencer and Holocaust denier, as reported by VAX,
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  Speaker 1: Bilsyrian espose Hou's rhetoric, including that most of the problems
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  Speaker 1: today are caused by Jewish supremacy, fantasized about personally killing
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  Speaker 1: Israeli's and released an AI generated music video featuring Adolph
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  Speaker 1: Hitler referencing Jewish supremacist Satan's creepy little minions. Bilsyrian garnered
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  Speaker 1: approximately nineteen percent of the vote. Repfine himself has faced
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  Speaker 1: criticism for Islamophobic remarks. House leaders condemned Bilsirian's antisemitic attacks. Separately,
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  Speaker 1: Jewish Federation chief Eric finger Hut has accused Zorin Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: of fueling antisemitic violence, according to reporting reviewed for this episode. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: in Belfast, Northern Ireland, an unidentified man assaulted an EYE
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  Speaker 1: twenty four news television crew this week. The crew was
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  Speaker 1: filming a documentary series about antisemitism in Europe. According to
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  Speaker 1: I twenty four News, the man confronted reporter Yonatan Ravae
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  Speaker 1: and cameraman Nadav Abbas, yelling f K Israel, growing a
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  Speaker 1: glass object that caused a superficial cut to Abbas's head.
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  Speaker 1: He also attempted to snatch camera equipment. Turning to institutional
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  Speaker 1: and community engagement with these issues, doctor Marcia Langton testified
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  Speaker 1: before the Antisemitism Royal Commission, emphasizing the need to tackle
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  Speaker 1: racism in a coordinated way. According to reporting reviewed for
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  Speaker 1: this episode, Doctor Langton also addressed the profound challenges in
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  Speaker 1: educating children about racism and hate, recounting her experience with
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  Speaker 1: her daughter's questions about historical genocides and stressing the importance
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  Speaker 1: of carefully introducing such traumatic material into the class room. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: regarding security concerns. Reporting reviewed for this episode notes that
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  Speaker 1: a podcast discussion touched upon a growing backlash against flock
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  Speaker 1: surveillance cameras. Based on the evidence provided, there are no
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  Speaker 1: positive developments or community responses to report at this time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Rachel Adler. Thank you for listening to Antisemitism Watch.
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  Speaker 1: This report was generated with AI assistance and may contain inaccuracies.
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  Speaker 1: Please verify important details with primary sources.