In 2026, this feels even more urgent than when I first wrote it. The constant antisemitic harassment with which I grew up in 1960s London is no longer history. After October 7 it is happening more openly, aggressively, and globally. Silence didn’t work then. It won’t work now

Nine years ago today, Saudi Arabia agreed to let women drive. The NYT treated it as news. It was — that's the point. Women who had broken that ban had been arrested and jailed. In much of the Muslim world, women are still second-class citizens: their court testimony counts for less, they can't initiate divorce, can't get custody, and in some cases can't leave home without a male guardian. We talk about Afghanistan and Iran. Don't stop there.

I wish I were in London on 4 October. Ninety years after Cable Street, Jews and their supporters are marching again to mark the day thousands stopped Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts from storming the Jewish East End. This is not abstract for me. My uncle Sydney was beaten by a mob of them. My grandfather Abraham went with dozens of friends to confront Mosley in Bethnal Green. That is my inheritance. They taught me you stand up. What is not the inheritance: news that organizers barred a Jewish group from a sister commemoration because they once platformed a Reform Party speaker. We cannot fight antisemitism by deciding which Jews are allowed in the room. We fight — and prevail — only if we stay united.

Fire Cheryl Reeve. She coaches women but tells the world that defending those women from male bodies is an “attack” on the entire trans community. No. Wanting fair sport is not wanting anyone erased. It is wanting women to keep what they have earned. This has nothing to do with “acceptance.” It has everything to do with the females on her own bench. She should not be a WNBA coach if she does not understand that women’s sports are for women. #SaveWomensSports

On This Day in Holocaust History — September 25 1941—At Eišiškės—known in Yiddish as Eyshishok—German Einsatzkommando 3 and Lithuanian auxiliaries began the systematic murder of the town’s Jewish community. Thousands of Jews had been confined for days without food, water, or proper sanitation. On September 25, the perpetrators selected groups of men and boys, marched them to the old Jewish cemetery, forced them to undress, and shot them into a mass grave. The following day, the women and children were murdered at a gravel pit. German records listed 3,446 victims: 989 men, 1,636 women, and 821 children. In two days, a Jewish community that had existed for more than 250 years was virtually destroyed. The murdered residents of Eišiškės are commemorated through more than 1,000 prewar photographs in the “Tower of Faces” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 1942—German forces and Ukrainian auxiliary police surrounded the ghetto at Korets—then in occupied Poland and today in Ukraine—for its final liquidation. Before the operation, Moshe “Misha” Gildenman and a small group that included his son Simcha escaped into the forests with only a few weapons. They later formed a Jewish partisan group that attacked German installations and collaborators before joining a larger Soviet partisan formation. As the liquidation began, Judenrat member Moshe Krasnostavski set fire to his house. The flames spread across the ghetto, forcing the attackers to withdraw temporarily and allowing some prisoners to escape through the smoke and confusion. Most were subsequently captured or betrayed. German forces and local auxiliaries murdered approximately 2,000 Jews near Korets during the liquidation. The burning of the ghetto was not an act of surrender. It was a deliberate attempt to obstruct the killers and give others a chance to escape. 1942—A conference of Swiss federal and cantonal immigration officials opened in Montreux. Officials defended Switzerland’s existing policy that people fleeing solely because of “racial persecution”—meaning primarily Jews—were not to be considered political refugees. The policy had been formally imposed in August, when Swiss authorities ordered that people fleeing “purely on racial grounds” be refused entry. Refugees turned back at the border faced arrest, deportation, and death in Nazi-controlled Europe. The policy was controversial even within Switzerland and was opposed by relief organizations, churches, members of the public, and some government officials. 1942—A transport of 1,000 Jews that had departed Drancy on September 23 arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. During the selection, approximately 475 deportees were sent directly to the gas chambers. Most of those selected for forced labor would also perish. Among the deportees was René Blum, the Jewish journalist, art critic, and director of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. Blum was the younger brother of former French prime minister Léon Blum. Arrested with the assistance of French police in December 1941, René Blum had passed through several French internment camps before being deported. Accounts indicate that he was identified upon arrival, separated from the other prisoners, tortured, and murdered. His fate demonstrates how Nazi persecution sought to destroy not only individual lives but also Europe’s cultural and intellectual world. 1942—Another train, Convoy 37, departed Drancy for Auschwitz carrying 1,004 Jews. Approximately 729 were Romanian Jews arrested in France, many during a roundup conducted by French police on German orders the previous day. The transport also included children born in France. It reached Auschwitz on September 27, when hundreds of its passengers were murdered immediately in the gas chambers. The deportation shows the essential role played by French authorities in identifying, arresting, detaining, and delivering foreign Jews to Nazi Germany. 1942—German forces liquidated the ghetto at Kaluszyn, Poland. Abraham Gamzu, chairman of the Jewish Council, had refused to summon the community for supposed “resettlement.” The Germans executed him for refusing to assist in the deportation. German gendarmes and Polish police surrounded the ghetto and assembled its prisoners in the marketplace. People unable to walk were shot in their homes, while others were murdered during the roundup or at the Jewish cemetery. Approximately 3,000 Jews were marched to the railway station at Mrozy, forced into freight cars, and deported to the Treblinka killing center. Gamzu’s refusal was an act of moral resistance. Confronted with an order designed to make Jewish leaders participate in the destruction of their own communities, he refused—even though he knew the probable cost. 1942—German forces also began liquidating the ghettos around Łochów, Poland. Jews from Łochów, Łopianka, Baczki, Stoczek, and nearby communities were assembled for deportation to Treblinka. Many refused to report and attempted to hide or escape. German gendarmes, Polish police, and Ukrainian auxiliaries shot Jews during the marches and roundups. When prisoners forced open a freight car and jumped from the moving deportation train, guards opened fire. The train reached Treblinka that evening. 1943—Soviet forces recaptured Smolensk after more than two years of German occupation. Liberation exposed a region devastated by Nazi occupation, forced labor, mass shootings, and the destruction of its Jewish communities. Heinrich Himmler had ordered the liquidation of the remaining ghettos in the Baltic states and occupied Belarus on June 21, 1943, but the policy was implemented over several months. By September, the ghettos of Lida and other communities were being destroyed and thousands of Jews were being deported to Sobibór and forced-labor camps. The Minsk Ghetto, however, continued to exist until October 21–23, when German forces murdered its remaining 3,000 to 6,000 prisoners in gas vans and mass shootings at Maly Trostinets.

A German town council in Heidenau just held a secret ballot to ban new Stolpersteine — the small brass plaques that name the Jews dragged from those exact doorsteps and murdered. They don’t want anyone stumbling over the names in the street. They’d rather hide the dead in a cemetery. Israel’s ambassador says he is “ashamed.” In the middle of the Gaza frenzy, this is how Holocaust memory is quietly erased — with a vote no one has to own. Disgraceful.

Chilling: female Taliban morality police dragging Afghan women and girls into a van in Kabul. Women arresting women for the "crime" of existing under Sharia. In the Holocaust there were Jewish kapos. Collaboration to survive is still unforgivable. These women are the kapos of the Taliban. The machinery of oppression always seems to find willing hands.

Gerald and I have been partners on these projects for decades. You can tell what the current passion is by the way the apartment looks. The dining table is now covered in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Yazidi case law. His lawyer’s background is tailor-made for a topic this complex and controversial. My editor’s touch is to make sure it is readable to the widest audience. Intense week ahead.

The Netherlands just handed the world the PR headline it wanted: “We’re coming back to Eurovision.” Look how reasonable we are. Not steeped in anti-Israel extremism at all. That announcement dropped at the exact moment their new Israeli goods boycott criminal law took force. From this week, it is a criminal offense in the Netherlands to import, buy or sell goods produced by Jews in Judea and Samaria (and the Golan). Intentional violation: up to six years in prison. Even an “unintentional” bottle of wine or dates in your luggage can get you a year in jail. So, the Dutch will sing with Israel on a Saturday night in Bulgaria. But they will jail you for buying what a Jewish farmer grew on the hills of Samaria. That is not a boycott of “settlements.” That is a government deciding which Jews are allowed to make a living on their ancestral land — and treating the rest as criminals. The Eurovision return is the fig leaf. The six-year sentence is the policy.

On This Day in Holocaust History — September 24 1934—Nazi Germany authorized the creation of the SS-Verfügungstruppe, a permanently armed force under SS chief Heinrich Himmler and available for special assignments from Adolf Hitler. Separate from the regular German army in peacetime, it later formed an important nucleus of the Waffen-SS. Waffen-SS units would participate in mass shootings, anti-partisan operations, the exploitation of forced labor, and numerous massacres throughout occupied Europe. 1939—At Żyrardów, Poland, German forces confined thousands of captured Polish soldiers—including Jewish servicemen—and civilian refugees in an open stadium under brutal conditions. Prisoners lacked adequate food, shelter, sanitation, and medical care. Jewish captives were singled out for humiliation and degrading labor. Local Jewish women risked beatings to carry food and clothing to those imprisoned inside. The mistreatment of Jewish prisoners during the invasion of Poland demonstrated how quickly Nazi racial ideology shaped military occupation. Jews serving in the Polish armed forces were frequently separated from other prisoners, abused, forced into labor, or murdered. 1940—Veit Harlan’s violently antisemitic film Jud Süß received its German premiere at Berlin’s Ufa-Palast am Zoo. Produced under the close supervision of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, the film transformed the historical figure Joseph Süß Oppenheimer into a predatory antisemitic caricature. More than 20 million people reportedly saw the film. Screenings were compulsory for many SS and police personnel, and it was shown to German forces and non-Jewish populations in occupied territories. Jud Süß illustrates how popular entertainment was weaponized to dehumanize Jews and prepare audiences to accept persecution, deportation, and mass murder. 1941—Explosives planted by retreating Soviet forces began detonating in German-occupied Kyiv. Buildings along Khreshchatyk—including hotels, offices, shops, and facilities taken over by the occupation authorities—were destroyed, and German personnel and Ukrainian civilians were killed. Fires continued for several days and devastated much of central Kyiv. Although the mines had been planted by Soviet forces, German authorities blamed Kyiv’s Jews collectively and used the explosions as a pretext for a massacre already consistent with Nazi extermination policy. On September 26, German military, SS, and police officials planned the operation. On September 29 and 30, German SS and police units, assisted by auxiliaries, murdered 33,771 Jews at Babyn Yar. 1942—Ukrainian auxiliary police and German forces surrounded and attacked the ghetto at Tuchin—then in occupied Poland and today Tuchyn, Ukraine. The Jewish underground, organized by Judenrat chairman Getzel Schwarzman, his deputy Meir Himmelfarb, and other resistance leaders, had secretly obtained a small number of rifles, pistols, and grenades. As the attack began, Jewish fighters opened fire while other residents set buildings ablaze, creating confusion and breaching the ghetto fence. Approximately 2,000 of the ghetto’s 3,000 prisoners escaped into the surrounding forests—one of the largest mass escapes from a Nazi ghetto. The escape did not guarantee survival. German forces and local collaborators hunted the fugitives; many were captured, betrayed, or murdered, and others died from hunger and exposure. Some younger escapees joined Soviet partisan units. Only about 20 Jews from Tuchin were reportedly still alive in the surrounding area when the Red Army arrived in January 1944. 1942—German Foreign Office official Martin Luther circulated a secret memorandum recording Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop’s demand that the deportation of Jews from European countries be accelerated “as much as possible.” The memorandum discussed deportations from Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, and German-occupied territories and called for increased pressure on Bulgaria, Hungary, Denmark, and Italy. The document exposes the active role of Germany’s professional diplomats in the Holocaust. The Foreign Office did not merely observe SS operations: it negotiated with allied and satellite governments, overcame diplomatic obstacles, and helped extend the “Final Solution” across Europe. Bureaucratic language such as “evacuation” concealed a process that delivered Jews into forced labor, ghettos, killing centers, and mass graves.

Of course they’re marching on October 7. That’s why they chose it. An “Inter-Uni March” from KCL → LSE → SOAS → UCL on the anniversary of the massacre, billed as “three years of genocide” and ending with “from the river to the sea.” Same campuses as last year, same date, same lies. Jewish students get the message while everyone else pretends not to. Don’t tell me it’s about Gaza. It is a mockery. jewishnews.co.uk/anti-israel…

Seems @NYCMayor Mamdani always makes it about himself. He almost managed to take the focus off the 9/11 anniversary by making it about ‘would he’ or ‘would he not’ attend. Now, just as Netanyahu starts his UN talk, Mamdani releases a wordless video of planting an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinians from Gaza. It is all cosplay theater.

Not a single female Democratic senator showed up at yesterday’s hearing in which female athletes explained—again—why men do not belong in women’s sports. The Democrats simply boycotted the room. You cannot erase sex by skipping the hearing. Women will not be pushed off competition so that men can take their medals, scholarships, and locker rooms. Women’s sports are for women. In 2026 we still cannot get bipartisan agreement on such a common sense issue? #savewomenssports

On This Day in Holocaust History — September 23 1939—The first group of Polish women—23 social, educational, and cultural activists from Polish minority communities inside Germany—arrived at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. They had been arrested after Germany invaded Poland because the Nazi regime considered their Polish identity and organizational activities politically dangerous. They were distinct from the first transport sent directly from German-occupied Poland, which arrived later. Ravensbrück became Nazi Germany’s principal concentration camp for women. Approximately 40,000 Polish women would be imprisoned there—more than any other national group. Prisoners endured starvation, forced labor, executions, medical experiments, and, during the camp’s final months, murder in a gas chamber. 1939—Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, became an occasion for calculated humiliation across German-occupied Poland. German soldiers and SS personnel dragged Jews from synagogues and homes, cut or tore out men’s beards, forced people to dance or perform degrading labor, desecrated sacred books and prayer shawls, and carried out public beatings. At Piotrków Trybunalski, accounts describe Jews being forced to defile a synagogue school and then use prayer shawls and religious books to clean it. Such attacks were intended to do more than cause physical pain: the perpetrators deliberately assaulted Jewish faith, dignity, communal leadership, and identity. September 22–24, 1941—Thousands of Jews from Ejszyszki—today Eišiškės, Lithuania—and surrounding communities remained imprisoned inside a synagogue and two houses of study. They were denied food, water, and sanitation. Some Jews had escaped or entered hiding before Lithuanian auxiliary police sealed the town, but most remained trapped. On September 25 and 26, German Einsatzkommando 3 personnel and Lithuanian auxiliaries took the prisoners to prepared pits and murdered approximately 3,500 Jewish men, women, and children. A Jewish community that had existed for more than 250 years was almost completely destroyed. 1942—German SS and police forces began liquidating the Szydłowiec Ghetto in occupied Poland. The town’s Jewish population had swollen as the Germans forcibly transferred Jews there from surrounding communities. Nearly 10,000 people were deported in transports departing on September 23 and 25. Most were taken to the Treblinka extermination camp and murdered; approximately 1,000 were selected for forced labor at the HASAG industrial complex in Skarżysko-Kamienna. Before the war, Jews constituted a majority of Szydłowiec’s population. Within days, a community that had shaped the town for generations had been virtually erased. 1942—Convoy 36 departed the Drancy transit camp outside Paris carrying 1,000 Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The train arrived on September 25. Following selection, 475 deportees were sent directly to the gas chambers. The others were registered as prisoners and subjected to forced labor, starvation, disease, and violence. Only 26 people from the transport are recorded as having survived the war. The transport included René Blum—journalist, theatrical director, and brother of former French prime minister Léon Blum—along with entire families uprooted through the cooperation of German occupation authorities and the French police apparatus. 1942—British Home Secretary Herbert Morrison defended Britain’s highly restrictive refugee policy in a government memorandum. He argued that Britain should not admit additional wartime refugees except in “rare and exceptional cases” in which their admission would directly benefit the war effort. The government was under pressure to admit Jewish children endangered in Vichy France. Morrison feared that accepting one group would establish a precedent for admitting many more refugees. Although he later supported an extremely limited admission proposal, his overriding policy kept Britain’s doors largely closed while deportations from France continued. The episode reflected a wider failure of the Allied governments: officials increasingly understood that Jews faced systematic destruction, yet concerns about immigration, transportation, security, domestic politics, and precedent repeatedly outweighed opportunities for rescue. September 23–24, 1943—German forces began the final liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto. Before the Holocaust, Vilna—today Vilnius—was one of the world’s greatest centers of Jewish religion, scholarship, literature, and political life. It was known as the “Jerusalem of Lithuania.” SS officer Bruno Kittel directed the liquidation. German forces and Ukrainian and Estonian auxiliaries surrounded the ghetto, assembled its remaining inhabitants, separated families, and conducted brutal selections. Approximately 3,000–3,700 Jews were deported to forced-labor and concentration camps in Estonia and Latvia. About 4,000—principally women, children, and elderly people—were sent to the Sobibór extermination camp and murdered. Hundreds of sick and elderly Jews were taken to Ponary and shot. The liquidation destroyed the principal surviving remnant of Jewish Vilna. Of the city’s approximately 55,000–60,000 prewar Jewish residents, only a few thousand survived the Holocaust. September 23 is now observed in Lithuania as the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews—a date chosen to commemorate the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto.

What do Greta Thunberg, Richard Gere, Cynthia Nixon, Marcia Cross, Viggo Mortensen, Brian Eno, Roger Waters, Paloma Faith and Angela Davis have in common? They are some of the 150 celebrities who have signed a petition to block the extradition from Spain to the U.S. of James “Fergie” Chambers, the 41-year radical who got $250 million when he cashed out of the Cox family media empire a few years ago. A self-described communist who in 2024 said, “I think the most important thing for the prosperity of humanity is the destruction of the US.,” Chambers has been writing checks to Gaza support groups and even paid for the legal fees of the radicals who hit Israeli defense contractor Elbit, and backing for Palestine Action — banned in Britain as a terrorist organization. The United States wants him extradited for money laundering and alleged material support to Hamas. Spanish socialists and the usual “pro-Palestine” chorus call it political. His lawyer is Baltasar Garzón, one of Europe's most famous—and expensive—human rights attorneys. Chambers is a trust-fund revolutionary using inherited American wealth to attack America and Israel — then hide behind celebrities who reflexively support him because he wears a keffiyeh and ticks off all the Gaza talking points. Spain just let the extradition case proceed to trial. One step at a time.

Europe’s cultural class no longer argues with Jews. It screens them and then bans them. The latest is Ariana Harwicz, an Argentine Jewish novelist. She got boycotted by a Spanish literary festival. Only days before she was due to speak, CULTUR-ALH dropped her. Campus activists and a reading club objected to her failure to join in on the boycott Israel chorus. Organizers said her presence would be “dangerous.” She offered to come anyway. The organizers insisted it wasn’t because she’s Jewish—that’s how you know it was. Now 350 writers and Spain’s Jewish community are demanding a public redress for her. At least that is good, some pushback against this cancellation culture. And it is not one festival but all over. May: two Israeli women ejected from a Spanish event after being grilled about Zionism. One was wearing a Star of David. Last month in Galicia: a klezmer band had stones thrown at them for having played in Israel. Belgium: a festival canceled a concert because the conductor leads the Israel Philharmonic. Amsterdam: a concert hall tried to bar an Israeli cantor from a Chanukah concert because he served in the IDF reserves. They reversed only after an uproar. 1930s boycotts come to mind. We must push back against this every time it happens.

When Christiane Amanpour asked @NYCMayor Mamdani whether his talk of arresting Israel's Prime Minister had added to the fears of NY's Jewish community, he doubled down. Netanyahu, he said, is "a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people." In the city with the largest Jewish population in America, Mamdani keeps repeating the most incendiary accusations anyone can make against the Jewish state. it is infuriating that he does not lower the temperature at a time of record antisemitic hate crimes.

On This Day in Holocaust History — September 22 1933—Nazi Germany enacted the Reich Culture Chamber Law, establishing the Reich Chamber of Culture under Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. The organization controlled seven fields: literature, journalism, radio, theater, music, film, and the visual arts. Anyone wishing to work professionally in German cultural life was required to belong to the appropriate chamber. Jews and people whose art or political beliefs the Nazis considered unacceptable were denied membership, effectively destroying their careers. Books, music, paintings, plays, films, and news reporting were brought under ideological control. The persecution of Jewish culture was not incidental. By silencing Jewish writers, musicians, artists, actors, and journalists, the regime sought to remove Jewish voices from Germany’s collective memory before it attempted to remove Jewish people themselves. September 22–23, 1938—British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met Adolf Hitler at Bad Godesberg to continue negotiations over Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. Britain and France had already pressured Czechoslovakia to surrender territory to Germany. Hitler now escalated his demands, insisting upon an almost immediate German occupation and rejecting the slower transfer Chamberlain believed they had discussed. The crisis culminated in the Munich Agreement of September 29–30, reached without Czechoslovakia’s meaningful participation. Germany acquired Czechoslovakia’s border defenses and strategic industries. Tens of thousands of Jews fled the annexed territory, while those who remained came under Nazi racial rule. 1939—German forces formally handed Brest-Litovsk in occupied Poland to the Soviet Red Army. German and Soviet commanders observed a military ceremony marking the transfer of the city under the territorial division secretly arranged in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Poland was being partitioned between two dictatorships. Brest remained under Soviet rule until Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Germans subsequently established a ghetto there and murdered most of the region’s Jewish population. September 22–24, 1941—Thousands of Jews from Ejszyszki—today Eišiškės, Lithuania—and nearby communities remained imprisoned inside a synagogue and two houses of study. They were held for at least three days without food, water, or sanitation. Some Jews had escaped or found hiding places when Lithuanian auxiliary police began the roundup on September 21, but most were trapped. On September 25 and 26, German Einsatzkommando 3 personnel and Lithuanian auxiliaries took the prisoners to prepared killing sites and shot approximately 3,500 Jewish men, women, and children. In a matter of days, they destroyed a Jewish community that had existed for more than 250 years. 1941—German police formations and local auxiliaries carried out mass shootings of Jews in and around Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Older chronologies place the culmination of the killing operation on September 22 and estimate that approximately 28,000 people from Vinnytsia and surrounding communities were murdered during the September massacres. Vinnytsia became one of the killing grounds of the “Holocaust by bullets”—the phase of the genocide in which entire communities were assembled, marched to pits, forced to surrender their clothing and possessions, and shot at close range. 1942—German SS and police forces began the destruction of the Częstochowa Ghetto in occupied Poland. The deportations continued through October 8. Approximately 39,000 Jews were packed into freight cars and transported to the Treblinka extermination camp. Elderly residents and children from the ghetto’s orphanage were murdered locally. Around 5,000 Jews considered capable of forced labor were confined in a smaller ghetto. Others escaped or hid. The surviving prisoners were subsequently exploited in German-controlled armaments factories, where forced labor temporarily postponed—but did not end—the threat of murder. 1942—The National Council of the Reformed Church of France issued a public protest against the deportation of Jews. The statement endorsed the efforts of Pastor Marc Boegner, president of the Protestant Federation of France, and declared that the church could not remain silent while thousands of human beings who had sought refuge in France were being persecuted. Boegner had confronted Vichy premier Pierre Laval earlier that month over the deportation of Jewish children. He offered alternatives that would allow the children to remain in France, but Laval refused. According to Boegner’s account, Laval insisted that “not one of them must remain in France.” The protest was later read from Protestant pulpits across France. Some Protestant communities, pastors, and relief organizations went beyond public declarations, hiding Jewish children, producing false documents, and helping families escape. Boegner was later recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. September 22–24, 1943—Members of the Waffen-SS division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler murdered Jewish families and refugees at several locations around Lake Maggiore in German-occupied northern Italy. At the Hotel Meina, sixteen Jewish men, women, and children were taken away in small groups, shot, and thrown into the lake. Jews were also murdered at Baveno and Stresa. Some bodies resurfaced, making concealment of the crime impossible. These killings formed part of the first organized SS massacre of Jews on Italian territory following Germany’s occupation of northern and central Italy. They demonstrated how quickly persecution escalated after Italy’s armistice: within weeks, German forces had begun identifying, arresting, and murdering Jews who had sought safety there.

A 71-year-old Jewish woman is dead in Queens. Cara Trager was a Conservative Jew who visited Israel 11 times and flew there in 2024 to sit with hostage families. She and her husband were walking home from a kosher Israeli restaurant on Memorial Day when a driver allegedly tore through a red light at 75 mph. The same driver had already been caught on video vandalizing a kosher bagel shop flying Israeli flags. Her family asked @NYCMayor Mamdani to meet them about the antisemitism tearing through his city. He declined. This is what “never again” looks like when the mayor won’t even sit down with the family of a slain Jewish woman.

Jews have few greater enemies than the "as Jews" who platformed radical antisemite Mahmoud Khalil on the holiest day of the Jewish year. Rabbis for Ceasefire, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and the American Council for Judaism — handed him the microphone under a sign that read “FOR THE SIN OF GENOCIDE WE ATONE.” Congressional candidate Brad Lander, a longtime JFREJ member, spoke from that same podium and confessed “complicity” in what he called "genocide." Their cosplay memorial service was a stage set so Khalil could accuse Israel of "genocide" and “engineered starvation,” and then ask G-d to punish the Jewish state. This was not about atonement. It was a desecration.