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Antisemitism Watch - September 18, 2026, 09 AM Eastern · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Antisemitism Watch. I'm Rachel Adler. According to
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  Speaker 1: Statistics Canada figures released in July 2026, police reported hate
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  Speaker 1: crimes against Jewish Canadians fell to 788 in 2025, down
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  Speaker 1: 16% from 943 in 2024. However, Jewish advocacy organization Bione
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  Speaker 1: Brith Canada reported 6,800 antisemitic incidents in 2025, with 6,000
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  Speaker 1: 248 of those occurring online. Even with the police-reported drop,
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  Speaker 1: the numbers remain well above pre-October 7th levels, showing a
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  Speaker 1: 60% increase from 2021 to 2025. The Jewish community continues
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  Speaker 1: to be the most targeted religious group in Canada, accounting
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  Speaker 1: for roughly 70% of all religiously motivated hate crimes reported
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  Speaker 1: to police in both 2024 and 2025. In the world
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  Speaker 1: of fashion, British designer John Galliano has cancelled a major
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  Speaker 1: retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had
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  Speaker 1: been scheduled for spring 2027. Galliano announced the decision on
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  Speaker 1: August 31, 2026, following significant backlash over his history of
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  Speaker 1: antisemitic and racist remarks. In a statement posted on Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: Galliano acknowledged the pain caused by his words in the past,
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  Speaker 1: specifically mentioning the Jewish and Asian communities. The proposed exhibition
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  Speaker 1: had drawn criticism from Jewish leaders and New York officials,
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  Speaker 1: including New York City Council Speaker Julie Menon, daughter of
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  Speaker 1: a Holocaust survivor, who called the event a grave mistake
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  Speaker 1: due to its planned opening around Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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  Speaker 1: In education, a middle school teacher in Mercer Island, Washington,
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  Speaker 1: is facing criticism from groups like Stop Antisemitism, for a
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  Speaker 1: lesson that compared the religious persecution faced by Jews during
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  Speaker 1: the Holocaust to the discrimination experienced by American Muslims after 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: According to reporting by Jason Rance on Seattle Red, a
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  Speaker 1: lesson slide titled Push Factors paired a 1936 German street
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  Speaker 1: sign indicating Jews were not wanted with a discussion of
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  Speaker 1: post-9-11 anti-Muslim discrimination, suggesting it could force people to leave
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  Speaker 1: a city or a state. Stop Antisemitism stated on X that,
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  Speaker 1: equating it with the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews
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  Speaker 1: is not. This false equivalence trivializes genocide, distorts history. This
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  Speaker 1: incident comes after the school itself experienced antisemitic and racist
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  Speaker 1: graffiti in January 2025. We also track rhetoric targeting public figures.
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  Speaker 1: In New Jersey, the mayor of a town, who has
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  Speaker 1: Jewish family members, has reportedly received misogynistic and antisemitic slurs. Separately, U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee publicly criticized the artist Macklemore
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  Speaker 1: for alleged antisemitism, stating he supports cancelling the artist's performances. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: a recent commemoration of the 9-11 anniversary offered context on
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  Speaker 1: evolving prejudice. Reporting from the Derrick noted that while anti-Muslim
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  Speaker 1: hate crimes surged after 9-11, 25 years later, Similar prejudice
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  Speaker 1: is now directed at the Jewish community, stating, Jews are
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  Speaker 1: not the co-religionists of the attackers, but their victims. The
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  Speaker 1: article also observed that national trauma can curdle into prejudice
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  Speaker 1: against entire communities. Noting this trend manifests on American campuses,
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  Speaker 1: where criticism of Israeli government policy can sometimes cross into antisemitism.
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  Speaker 1: This mirrors concerns raised by watchdog organizations regarding IHRA's contemporary examples.
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  Speaker 1: such as holding Jews collectively responsible or applying double standards
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  Speaker 1: to Israel. I'm Rachel Adler, thank you for listening to
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