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Antisemitism Watch - September 15, 2026, 01 PM Eastern · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Antisemitism Watch. I'm Rachel Adler. Tonight, we
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  Speaker 1: begin with a disturbing look into Britain's National Health Service.
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  Speaker 1: Campaign Against Antisemitism has released a documentary, Malignant! Antisemitism in
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  Speaker 1: the NHS, exposing what they call the antisemitic rot within
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  Speaker 1: the organization. The film details shocking incidents, including antisemitic death
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  Speaker 1: threats against medical professionals and a Jewish emergency worker physically
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  Speaker 1: attacked by a colleague. according to reporting on the documentary.
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  Speaker 1: One nurse recounted a colleague performing a Nazi salute after
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  Speaker 1: learning she was Jewish. Another incident involved a patient being
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  Speaker 1: told by his surgeon during an operation that, the Jews,
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  Speaker 1: the Jews should know better, the Jews do it just
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  Speaker 1: for fun they shoot children in the head or the
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  Speaker 1: leg on a for fun, as reported by Campaign Against Antisemitism.
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  Speaker 1: Doctors with Jewish-sounding names have reportedly stopped wearing name badges,
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  Speaker 1: and requests for kosher meals have halved in two years,
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  Speaker 1: according to figures cited by CAA. Many doctors are resigning,
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  Speaker 1: citing unsafe conditions and unaddressed complaints, with one professional describing
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  Speaker 1: the trust's efforts to obfuscate his concerns as making him ill,
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  Speaker 1: as detailed in the documentary. In London, police are investigating
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  Speaker 1: an alleged anti-Semitic hate crime attack on three 14-year-old Jewish
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  Speaker 1: students from Hasmonean Boys' School. The Metropolitan Police confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: officers received reports of verbal assault and physical assault against
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  Speaker 1: two of the boys while they were on a bus
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  Speaker 1: on September 10. The incident is being treated as an
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  Speaker 1: anti-Semitic hate crime, with CCTV analysis ongoing, according to a
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  Speaker 1: police spokesperson. The Community Security Trust, or CSD, is also
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  Speaker 1: aware of the incident and working with the school and police.
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  Speaker 1: This follows another incident reported just 10 days prior. where
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  Speaker 1: a student from the same school was allegedly assaulted in
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  Speaker 1: Belsize Park, also being investigated as a hate crime, as
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  Speaker 1: reported by the JC. Abroad, summer 2026 saw a troubling
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  Speaker 1: surge in hostility towards Israelis and Jews travelling internationally. An
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  Speaker 1: ADL report details widespread harassment, exclusion, threats and violence across
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  Speaker 1: a range of countries. Israelis and Jews were reportedly targeted
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  Speaker 1: in public spaces, hotels and at religious services. often treated
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  Speaker 1: as stand-ins for the Israeli government. The ADL report highlights
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  Speaker 1: specific incidents. Seven French Jewish tourists pursued and spat upon
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  Speaker 1: in Barcelona, Spain. Israeli rabbis spat on in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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  Speaker 1: Israeli tourists beaten in Budva, Montenegro, with one suffering a
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  Speaker 1: fractured jaw. Six Israeli tourists attacked with an axe in
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  Speaker 1: northern Mongolia after speaking Hebrew. A French Jewish DJ forced
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  Speaker 1: off stage in Grenoble, France. and an Israeli mother and
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  Speaker 1: daughter severely beaten in Thailand. Conspiracy theories blaming Jews for
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  Speaker 1: various crises also spread, amplified by public figures and media,
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  Speaker 1: normalizing hostility, according to the ADL. Closer to home, federal
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  Speaker 1: authorities arrested an ISIS supporter in Pennsylvania who allegedly sought
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  Speaker 1: to poison food at a synagogue. Reporting indicates the individual
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  Speaker 1: was also sharing documents about assembling explosives and car bombs,
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  Speaker 1: highlighting the ongoing efforts in online threat monitoring concerning Jewish communities,
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  Speaker 1: according to FBI statements. On campus, mezuzahs were vandalized and
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  Speaker 1: removed from dorm rooms at Wilfrid Laurier University. Students returning
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  Speaker 1: after Rosh Hashanah reportedly felt targeted with anti-Semitic hatred, according
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  Speaker 1: to statements from Hillel Ontario and Stand With Us Canada.
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  Speaker 1: The incident has prompted an investigation and condemnation from Israeli
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  Speaker 1: community organizations. In political discourse, Toronto mayoral candidate Chris Alexander
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  Speaker 1: directly confronted incumbent Mayor Olivia Chow during a televised debate.
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  Speaker 1: Alexander criticized Mayor Chow's absence from a recent community event
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  Speaker 1: focused on combating antisemitism, stating that Jewish Torontonians feel neglected
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  Speaker 1: and that the city faces a significant rise in antisemitic incidents.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Chow affirmed that antisemitism is unacceptable and vowed to
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  Speaker 1: invest in confronting it. But the Jewish Lawyers of Canada,
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  Speaker 1: or JLC, noted that condemnation alone is insufficient and called
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  Speaker 1: for a substantive strategy. As reported by the Jerusalem Post,
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  Speaker 1: political scientist Norman Finkelstein appeared on Tucker Carlson's program, where
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  Speaker 1: he compared the current campus clampdown in the United States
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  Speaker 1: to McCarthyism. Finkelstein made this comparison while discussing post-October 7
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  Speaker 1: developments and free speech crises at American universities. according to
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  Speaker 1: reporting on the program. At Columbia University, a civil rights
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit has been filed by graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a
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  Speaker 1: spokesperson for pro-Palestinian activists. Khalil alleges the university's deliberate indifference
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  Speaker 1: led to the doxing of group members and his own
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  Speaker 1: detention by immigration agents. The Associated Press reports Khalil accused
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  Speaker 1: the university of discrimination aimed at intimidating Palestinian students. though
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  Speaker 1: Colombia stated its commitment to creating a welcoming environment. Separately,
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  Speaker 1: CAM's Antisemitism Research Center documented an antisemitic campaign to distort
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  Speaker 1: the truth of 9-11, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: the event, as reported by CAM. And in another political comment,
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  Speaker 1: house contender Joel Anabile Azuma cast a rapper's antisemitic posts
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  Speaker 1: as criticism of a music industry, power structure. According to
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  Speaker 1: reporting on his statement, I'm Rachel Adler, thank you for
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