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Antisemitism Watch - August 4, 2026, 12 PM Eastern · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to antisemitism. Watch, I'm Rachel Adler. New York
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  Speaker 1: City is grappling with a significant rise in anti Jewish
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  Speaker 1: hate crimes. According to NYPD statistics reported by JTA, incidents
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  Speaker 1: climbed eight point five percent from January to July twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, with two hundred and five confirmed incidents, up
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  Speaker 1: from one hundred and eighty nine the previous year. Even
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  Speaker 1: as overall violent crime fell, Jews remain disproportionately targeted, accounting
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  Speaker 1: for fifty seven percent of all hate crimes despite being
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  Speaker 1: only ten percent of the city's population. This trend has
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  Speaker 1: drawn sharp criticism, with Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Dannon,
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  Speaker 1: stating that since Mayor Zorin Mamdanni took office, there's been
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  Speaker 1: a troubling rise in hate crime's targeting Jews. Mayor Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: acknowledged its unacceptable for Jews to comprise the majority of
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  Speaker 1: hate crime victims and highlighted his administration's budget increase for
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  Speaker 1: hate crime prevention, stating they've boosted the Office of hay
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  Speaker 1: eight Crime Preventions budget by more than eight hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: In his effort to uproot antisemitism in the UK, the
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  Speaker 1: Charity Commission is assessing concerns over antisemitic sermons preached at
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  Speaker 1: Manchester's Al Sana Mosque. As reported, these sermons, delivered in
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  Speaker 1: April twenty twenty four and later deleted from YouTube, are
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  Speaker 1: linked to the perpetrators of the October twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: Heaton Park Synagogue attack, which resulted in two deaths. Sermon
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  Speaker 1: transcripts indicate prayers asking Alla to deal with the Jews
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  Speaker 1: and deal with the Zionists, imploring God to seize them
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  Speaker 1: with the seizure of the Mighty the Powerful. At Brown University,
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  Speaker 1: president Christina Packson announced she will step down at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the twenty twenty six minutes twenty seven academic year,
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  Speaker 1: a year before her contract extension. Her tenure, spanning from
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  Speaker 1: July twenty twelve, included resolving federal investigations, one of which
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  Speaker 1: involved alleged Title V violations, and the university's response to
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  Speaker 1: antisemitism on campus. Brown reached an agreement with the federal
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  Speaker 1: government that restored research funding without requiring payments or admitting wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 1: Britain's Reform UK party is facing scrutiny as deputy leader
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  Speaker 1: Richard Tice is under investigation by Parliament's standards watchdog. The inquiry,
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  Speaker 1: open July twenty eight, concerns whether Tye should have declared
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  Speaker 1: a September twenty twenty five trip to Israel sponsored by
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  Speaker 1: Reform Friends of Israel before speaking in a June twenty
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  Speaker 1: two House of Commons debate on pro Israel influence. Tye
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  Speaker 1: claims the complaint stems from his opposition to what he
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  Speaker 1: described as antisemitic claims, and alleges it was filed by
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  Speaker 1: an antisemitic anti Israel lobby group. On the sports field,
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  Speaker 1: an Israeli national team player faced antisemitic abuse during a
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  Speaker 1: Saturday match c F Montreal supporters directed chance of death
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  Speaker 1: to Israel and through objects at player door Turgeman. The
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  Speaker 1: New England Revolution strongly condemned the antisemitic and discriminatory abuse
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  Speaker 1: directly at Turgimen. Dartmouth College has joined a coalition of
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  Speaker 1: thirty five universities, including all Ivy League institutions except Harvard,
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  Speaker 1: in filing an amicus brief. The brief supports Harvard's lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: against the Trump administration's freeze on federal grants, challenging demands
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  Speaker 1: that universities address antisemitism and other bias. On campus. A
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  Speaker 1: new report from Israel's Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry
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  Speaker 1: details the financial landscape of US based anti Israel organizations.
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  Speaker 1: It identifies twenty groups that collectively raised over two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars in cumulative funding over five years.
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  Speaker 1: The report analyzes operational patterns and funding sources, alleging links
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  Speaker 1: to incitement and terrorism. It highlights concerns regarding transparency and
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  Speaker 1: the potential for funds to support political activity, naming organizations
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  Speaker 1: like American Muslims for Palestine and Students for Justice in Palestine,
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  Speaker 1: and detailers alleged ties to Hamas and the Popular Front
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  Speaker 1: for the Liberation of Palestine. At Columbia University, Abigail black
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  Speaker 1: Elbaum has replaced David Greenwald as co leader of a
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  Speaker 1: campus initiative. Greenwald was associated with a group that had
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  Speaker 1: identified a dangerous concentration of Antisemites at the university. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: a concerning trend of antisemitic sentiment is being reported at
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  Speaker 1: elite universities, raising significant concerns for Jewish students, As described
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  Speaker 1: in a five alarm fire assessment in New Jersey, swastikas
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  Speaker 1: were discovered inside a synagogue on the morning of July
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine, prompting a police response to the potential hate incident.
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  Speaker 1: The Metropolitan Museum of Arts planned exhibition for fashion designer
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  Speaker 1: John Galliano, is sparking debate. Fifteen years after Galliano's antisemitic
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  Speaker 1: remarks led to his dismissal from Diore, the met is
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  Speaker 1: honoring him. This comes as the Jewish community notes a
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  Speaker 1: spike in antisemitism, while the met held meetings with rabbis
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  Speaker 1: and Jewish leaders. The decision touches on complex questions of
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  Speaker 1: repentance and accountability, with the ADL having previously stated they
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  Speaker 1: believed Galiano demonstrated true contrition. Regarding online content, A report
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  Speaker 1: from Jewish News twenty four on July thirty one detailed
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  Speaker 1: how social media rumors convinced thousands of migrants to attempt
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  Speaker 1: crossing into Seyuda Spain. However, the provided evidence does not
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  Speaker 1: specify or demonstrate that these particular online rumors contained antisemitic content. Internationally,
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  Speaker 1: events in Seyuda, Spain involved a surge of migrant arrivals.
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  Speaker 1: Spanish officials noted no prior warning while interviewed migrants rejected
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  Speaker 1: claims of smuggling, stating the border was open. The evidence
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  Speaker 1: provided for this international incident does not demonstrate antisemitic content.
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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.