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Antisemitism Watch - August 13, 2026, 09 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: look at entrenched online hate and a stark warning from
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  Speaker 1: a high school student about the rise of antisemitism among
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  Speaker 1: his peers. Our top story tonight concerns a disturbing surge
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  Speaker 1: in online antisemitism. A new study presented to the Dutch
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister reveals a pathological and entrenched level of online
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  Speaker 1: antisemitism in the Netherlands. According to the study by the
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  Speaker 1: Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, the share of
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  Speaker 1: antisemitic messages online doubled between twenty twenty one and twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. Critically direct antisemitic threats against Jews, ranging from
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  Speaker 1: calls for violence to mass extermination, have increased fivefold. The research,
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  Speaker 1: analyzing over one hundred and five million posts, indicates that
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  Speaker 1: antisemitic content has stabilized at an elevated level since October seven,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and has expanded beyond far right environments
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  Speaker 1: into far left and activist circles. Compounding this, a World
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  Speaker 1: Jewish Congress study finds that major tech platforms are largely
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  Speaker 1: failing to remove antisemitic social media content. Researchers examined seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four posts reported between February twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five and April twenty twenty six, and found that eighty
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  Speaker 1: one point two percent remained online. The WJCS Technology and
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  Speaker 1: Human Rights Institute reported that even calls to harm Jewish
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  Speaker 1: community members persisted online, with one hundred and fifty one
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  Speaker 1: of two hundred and thirty two insightful posts still accessible.
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  Speaker 1: While tik tok removed sixty four percent of flagged content, Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: Instagram and x removed under fifteen percent in terms of accountability.
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  Speaker 1: A French court has sentenced two nineteen year old men
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  Speaker 1: to prison terms for performing Nazi salutes outside a synagogue
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  Speaker 1: in Sarcels. According to reports from other unit An AFP
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  Speaker 1: news agency. One defendant, a Russian citizen, received an eight
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  Speaker 1: month sentence and permanent expulsion from France. His accomplice, a
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  Speaker 1: French citizen, was handed a six month prison term. Both
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  Speaker 1: will be registered in France's national database of individuals convicted
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  Speaker 1: of terrorism related offenses. The incident, which occurred beneath a
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  Speaker 1: plaque commemorating victims of the twenty twelve to Lose terrorist attacks,
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  Speaker 1: was met with strong condemnation. Mose Coloin president of Sarcel's
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  Speaker 1: Jewish Community, welcomed the court's decision, stating that swift and
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  Speaker 1: firm action is the only way to combat the wave
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  Speaker 1: of antisemitism. Turning to antisemitism in politics and media, far
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  Speaker 1: right podcaster Tucker Carlson escalated his feud with conservative commentator
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  Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro, accusing Shapiro of promoting a sinister economic agenda
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  Speaker 1: targeting non Jewish Americans. Carlson used the provocative term goeislop
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  Speaker 1: on X to characterize Shapiro's position on food price inflation.
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  Speaker 1: World Israel News reported that the Anti Defamation League describes
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  Speaker 1: goeislop as a derogatory term for low quality food marketed
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  Speaker 1: to non Jews, which is antisemitic and connected to conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: theories alleging Jews promote unhealthy food. Meanwhile, reporting indicates that
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  Speaker 1: within the Democratic Party, anger over Gaza has, according to
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  Speaker 1: the Daily News Eedition, metastasized into actual antisemitism. This rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: reportedly blames Jewish Americans and contributes to antisemitic incidents. Analysis
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  Speaker 1: suggests that anti Trump and antisemitic sentiment can coalesce into
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  Speaker 1: broader anti establishment movements, particularly among younger voters. On campus.
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  Speaker 1: A stark first hand account comes from high school student
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  Speaker 1: Leo Lewis. In an adapted essay published by The Free Press.
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  Speaker 1: Lewis describes his experience with what he calls jew hatred
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  Speaker 1: among his peers. He asserts the issue is worse than
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  Speaker 1: you think, detailing the prejude As taking hold within his
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  Speaker 1: generation and exploring why it has flourished. Regarding anti Zionism
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  Speaker 1: and IHR qualifying Israel rhetoric, The Times of Israel reported
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  Speaker 1: that a performer at Cincinnati Pride displayed Hitler salutes alongside
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  Speaker 1: signs stating Zionists did not belong. This occurred at an
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  Speaker 1: event that had aimed to welcome Jewish attendees. Finally, the
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  Speaker 1: provided evidence for international incidents focuses on geopolitical events like
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  Speaker 1: traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and who Tie attacks,
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  Speaker 1: but does not contain specific reports of antisemitic incidents or rhetoric.
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  Speaker 1: That's our report for today. I'm Rachel Adler. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for listening to Antisemitism Watch. This report was generated with
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  Speaker 1: with primary sources.