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Antisemitism Watch - August 11, 2026, 05 PM 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 incidents of physical assault and harassment targeting
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  Speaker 1: Jewish individuals across Europe. In Rome, a twenty two year
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  Speaker 1: old French Jewish tourist was assaulted on two separate occasions
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  Speaker 1: for wearing a kippa, according to Italian news agency at Cronos.
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  Speaker 1: The first incident on August seventh, involved a thirty one
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  Speaker 1: year old Algerian citizen allegedly spraying the tourist in the face.
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  Speaker 1: The following day, he was kicked by a group of
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  Speaker 1: four people, including the same suspect. In both instances, attackers
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  Speaker 1: allegedly shouted free Palestine. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani strongly
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  Speaker 1: condemned the attacks, expressing solidarity with the victim and the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish community. Meanwhile, in Montenegro, two young Israelis on a
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  Speaker 1: pre army vacation reported being targeted and chased by a
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  Speaker 1: group of around fifteen people. They told En twelve that
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  Speaker 1: after identifying themselves as being from Israel at a casino,
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  Speaker 1: a man followed them out and alerted a waiting group. Yoov,
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  Speaker 1: one of the tourists, described it as a planned ambush,
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  Speaker 1: saying he heard the pursuers shouting Jews, Jews while he hid.
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  Speaker 1: His companion door was caught and kicked before escaping. Joov's
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  Speaker 1: mother stated that the Foreign Ministry and the Israeli Consulate
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  Speaker 1: in Serbia provided assistance, and Montenegrin authorities are conducting an
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  Speaker 1: ongoing investigation. Separately, a performance by the Klesmer band Daubernach
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  Speaker 1: at a folk festival in Galicia, Spain, was cut short
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  Speaker 1: when pro Palestinian audience members began heckling the musicians and
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  Speaker 1: throwing stones. The band was targeted over recent concert appearances
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  Speaker 1: they made in Israel. Festival organizers released a statement condemning
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  Speaker 1: the violence and canceling the concert out of concern for
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  Speaker 1: the musician's safety. On u S college campuses. A report
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  Speaker 1: obtained by the Free Press reveals that an investigation by
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  Speaker 1: the Virginia Attorney General's Office concluded Yorktown High School in
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  Speaker 1: Arlington was deliberately indifferent to antisemitism affecting Jewish students. The
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine page summary detailed incidents including a male student
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  Speaker 1: being repeatedly targeted for wearing a kippa, with a classmate
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  Speaker 1: attempting to pull it off, and other Jewish students reporting
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  Speaker 1: Nazi salutes, Holocaust jokes, and being told they belonged in
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  Speaker 1: a gas chamber. Investigators found reasonable cause to believe the
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  Speaker 1: school district violated anti discrimination laws. This follows a broader
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  Speaker 1: trend detailed by NBC News, where historian Pamelin NADL notes
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  Speaker 1: an unprecedented scale and intensity of social media fueled hatred,
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  Speaker 1: contributing to a spike in antisemitic incidents, hate crimes, online vitriol,
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  Speaker 1: and harassment of Jewish students across the US in the
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  Speaker 1: wake of the Israel Hamas war. UC San Diego has
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  Speaker 1: also condemned an off campus antisemitic and racist incident targeting students,
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  Speaker 1: which are investigating in Boulder, Colorado. Parents and community members
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  Speaker 1: are speaking out against the ADL's role in BVSD schools,
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  Speaker 1: citing concerns over how antisemitic bullying is addressed. Turning to
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  Speaker 1: politics and media, Democratic Socialists of America co chair Megan
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  Speaker 1: Romer has drawn widespread condemnation for remarks made in an
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  Speaker 1: interview with The New Yorker. Romer stated that the October
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  Speaker 1: seventh Hamas attacks were largely inevitable and that she probably
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  Speaker 1: would have attended a rally the day after. The Anti
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  Speaker 1: Defamation League called the interview jaw dropping and characterized her
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  Speaker 1: remarks as hateful and demonizing rhetoric. An article published this
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  Speaker 1: week critically examines Tucker Carlson's announced intention to build a
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  Speaker 1: third political party, arguing that his foreign policy perspective suggesting
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  Speaker 1: America's policy is effectively controlled by Israel, is dripping with antisemitism.
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  Speaker 1: In a notable political shift, Julian Epstein, a former adviser
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  Speaker 1: to the Clinton administration, announced his departure from the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: He stated in an op ed for The New York
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  Speaker 1: Post that the party has lost its moral center and
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  Speaker 1: that the lunatics are in charge of the asylum, adding
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  Speaker 1: there is no room in the tent for people that
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  Speaker 1: want to align themselves with anti Semitism. In New York City,
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  Speaker 1: rabbis met with Mayor z Or and Mamdani to express
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  Speaker 1: concerns that his rhetoric regarding Israel is alienating Jewish New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers and making them feel unsafe. According to the Jerusalem Post,
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  Speaker 1: the rabbis highlighted a perceived double standard and emphasized the
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  Speaker 1: need for city action to address rising antisemitism. Conservative writer
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  Speaker 1: Rod Dreher has publicly stated his friendship with J. D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance has ended, attributing the break to Vance's perceived refusal
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  Speaker 1: to confront rising antisemitism and white nationalism on the right
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  Speaker 1: and his dismissal of leaked racist and antisemitic chats among
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  Speaker 1: young Republican leaders as kids being Edgy. We also examine
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  Speaker 1: the rhetoric surrounding as anti Zionism. An article argues that
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  Speaker 1: the distinction often made between opposing Jews and opposing Zionists
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  Speaker 1: is a rhetorical mechanism used to mask antisemitism. It asserts
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  Speaker 1: that Zionism is fundamentally the belief in Jewish self determination,
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  Speaker 1: noting that surveys show upwards of eighty eight percent of
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  Speaker 1: American Jews affirm this right, even as online rhetoric often
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  Speaker 1: targets general Jewish identity regardless of political stance. In terms
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  Speaker 1: of institutional and policy responses, an article claims the Albanese
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  Speaker 1: government in Australia did next to nothing to counter alarming
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  Speaker 1: antisemitism following October seventh, referencing a Jewish leader's cruel grilling
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  Speaker 1: at an antisemitism Royal commission. Conversely, NYPD data shows antisemitic
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  Speaker 1: hate crimes have risen eight point five percent this year,
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  Speaker 1: prompting a meeting organized by the Mayor's office to combat
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  Speaker 1: antisemitism ahead of the High Holy Days. On the security front,
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  Speaker 1: UK jewis Bish schools are now dedicating ninety percent of
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  Speaker 1: their resources to security due to an antisemitism crisis. The
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  Speaker 1: British government has launched a review following a rise in
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  Speaker 1: antisemitic incidents, and finally, an incident in Romania illustrates the
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  Speaker 1: tangible dangers of unchecked online misinformation. Sociologist Alein Tiodorescue criticized
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  Speaker 1: tik Tok's content moderation after an ambulance crew in Cludge
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  Speaker 1: was attacked provoked by a false TikTok message about child stealing.
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  Speaker 1: Tiodorescue described TikTok as a Chinese network without anti violence, antisemitism,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera moderation, highlighting its role in spreading fear and
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  Speaker 1: potential for violence. This week, we also look at community resilience.
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  Speaker 1: Over one thousand pro Israel students, activists, and faculty gathered
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. For the Israel on Campus Coalition
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  Speaker 1: National Leadership Summit, focusing on combating antisemitism and developing strategies
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  Speaker 1: for college campuses. I'm Rachel Adler. Thank you for listening
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  Speaker 1: to Antisemitism Watch. This report was generated with AI assistance
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  Speaker 1: and may contain inaccuracies. Please verify important details with primary sources.