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Antisemitism Watch - September 15, 2026, 05 AM Eastern · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Antisemitism Watch. I'm Rachel Adler. Today, we're tracking
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  Speaker 1: escalating threats in Germany and the US, alongside critical reports
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  Speaker 1: on institutional antisemitism and online hate. In Munich, police are
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  Speaker 1: investigating death threats against 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Charlotte Noblock, a
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  Speaker 1: prominent Jewish community leader. According to reporting from JTA and
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  Speaker 1: German media, graffiti found in a park explicitly linked the
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  Speaker 1: threat to the far-right alternative for Germany, or AfD, party stating,
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  Speaker 1: The AfD has won, tomorrow will hang Noblock. Munich police
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  Speaker 1: are investigating the incident, which occurred following the AfD's significant
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  Speaker 1: gains in a recent state election. Noblock, an ardent critic
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  Speaker 1: of the AfD, has long called for its ban. In Berlin,
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  Speaker 1: a woman wearing a star of David necklace was attacked
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  Speaker 1: and injured by two men who shouted anti-Semitic insults and
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  Speaker 1: assaulted her with a broken glass bottle, according to city
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  Speaker 1: police reported by JTA. the state security unit is investigating.
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  Speaker 1: Antisemitic incidents in Berlin remain significantly elevated, reports indicate. In London,
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  Speaker 1: during Rosh Hashanah, a synagogue was allegedly targeted with fireworks.
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  Speaker 1: GB News reported that two rocket fireworks were launched towards
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  Speaker 1: Lauderdale Road Synagogue by hooded youths. The Community Security Trust
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  Speaker 1: is working with police on the investigation. The CSD recorded
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  Speaker 1: over 1,000 900 antisemitic incidents nationwide in the first half
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  Speaker 1: of 2026. In the United States, a 29-year-old Kansas man,
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  Speaker 1: Corby Aron Strub, has been arrested for allegedly issuing online
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  Speaker 1: antisemitic death threats. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office reports
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  Speaker 1: Strub faces multiple felony counts for making threats, enhanced under
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  Speaker 1: hate crime laws. The threats targeted commentator Ben Shapiro and others,
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  Speaker 1: specifically referencing Shapiro's Jewish faith and coinciding with Yom Kippur.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators traced the threats to Stroube, who had previously been
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  Speaker 1: interviewed by the Secret Service regarding threats against other public figures.
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  Speaker 1: In Canada, Hamilton police arrested and charged a 27-year-old man,
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  Speaker 1: Simran Mander, with multiple hate crimes, including willful promotion of
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  Speaker 1: antisemitism and advocating genocide, following an investigation into antisemitic online content. U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Representative David Kustoff, has stated that while antisemitism is rising
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  Speaker 1: on the left and being accepted by some Democrat politicians,
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  Speaker 1: it is not welcome by the right, according to reporting
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  Speaker 1: reviewed for this episode. The Israeli Defense Forces are pursuing
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  Speaker 1: legal action against the British-Israeli documentary, NAZA, which frames the
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  Speaker 1: Gaza war as genocide. IDF Chief of Staff L.T. Jen.
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  Speaker 1: Eyal Zamir described the film as an attack on the
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  Speaker 1: state of Israel, based on blood libels, deliberate distortions of reality,
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  Speaker 1: and grave, false accusations against IDF soldiers. The film received
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  Speaker 1: a special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival. A
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  Speaker 1: new documentary by the Campaign Against Antisemitism alleges widespread antisemitism
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  Speaker 1: within the United Kingdom's National Health Service. Reported by VIN News,
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  Speaker 1: Antisemitism in the NHS features testimony from Jewish staff and
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  Speaker 1: patients detailing incidents of antisemitic behavior. Polling data released with
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  Speaker 1: the film indicates significant fear among British Jews regarding fair
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  Speaker 1: treatment within the NHS, and a tendency to conceal their
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  Speaker 1: identity when seeking care. This follows a government review that
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  Speaker 1: found routine ostracism of Jewish people in the health service.
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  Speaker 1: In France, reporting suggests that antisemitic data should be treated
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  Speaker 1: as a security warning when expressions take threat-relevant forms like
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  Speaker 1: targeted threats and intimidation. An analysis for this programme argues
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  Speaker 1: that national security must increasingly focus on strengthening internal civic fabric,
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  Speaker 1: citing the alarming surge in domestic antisemitic attacks and targeted
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  Speaker 1: hate crimes as clear evidence. In Australia, Special Envoy Gillian
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  Speaker 1: Segal is urging Parliament to pass digital duty of care laws.
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  Speaker 1: As reported by the Daily Telegraph, Segal warned that algorithms
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  Speaker 1: should not serve antisemitic content to children, referencing the Bondi attack,
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  Speaker 1: and the rapid spread of conspiracy theories online. She hopes
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  Speaker 1: the proposed laws will reduce algorithmic amplification of hate content.
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  Speaker 1: Reporting reviewed for this episode indicates that during Rosh Hashanah,
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  Speaker 1: Jewish students on a U.S. campus discovered mezuzahs smashed, raising
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  Speaker 1: concerns about antisemitism during Jewish holidays. I'm Rachel Adler. Thank
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  Speaker 1: This report was generated with AI assistance and may contain inaccuracies.
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