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Police arrested two people who called for “intifada” during a protest following decision to toughen enforcement of hate speech laws.

Naveed Akram, lone surviving suspect in Sunday’s massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney, was charged Wednesday with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist act.

Australia’s left-wing government has finally admitted that the terror attack on Bondi Beach was likely motivated by radical Islam.

Leading Australian Jewish advocate Dionne Taylor declares Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “has blood on his hands” after the Bondi Beach massacre targeting Jewish locals celebrating Hanukkah. She described the terrorist attack as “a transformational watershed moment” for the country, while urging the left-wing PM to “call President Trump” to learn how to lead with strength in protecting citizens and countering rising threats, citing Trump’s success in combating antisemitism “on campuses and elsewhere.”

Australian police said that they will not be commenting yet on the motive behind the Sydney terror attack allegedly committed by a father and son duo.

Top Israeli officials accused the leftist government in Australia of failing to meaningfully confront antisemitism before the deadly terror attack against the Sydney Jewish community in Bondi on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the mass-casualty terrorist shooting that killed at least 11 people at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney came after he warned left-wing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese months ago that Canberra’s policies were “promoting and encouraging antisemitism.” He further charged that Australia “replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement” as Jewish blood was spilled.

Twelve people, including one terrorist, were killed in what has been designated a terror attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday evening. An additional 29 people were injured and a second terror gunman was arrested after the local Jewish community was directly targeted, according to Australian media.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder warned Wednesday that surging antisemitism in the West amounts to a “full-scale assault on the truth, on democracy, and on the safety of the Jewish people,” urging Jews and their Christian allies to confront it on campuses, in classrooms, and across social media.

Former Miss Slovakia Miriam Mattova says a Toronto Uber driver slammed on the brakes and ordered her out of the car after overhearing her talk about a recent visit to Israel, telling her, “we don’t drive Jewish people,” in what she calls a “blatant act of antisemitism” that must carry real consequences.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed two executive orders on Wednesday blocking city funds from going to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. 

The Trump administration’s negotiation with Northwestern University has resulted in the school agreeing to fork over $75 million to the U.S. government to resolve a series of investigations into campus antisemitism.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) defended the United States’ relationship with Israel, pointing out that it is “really important” to have an ally and partner like Israel in “that corner of the world.”

A man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism, an Australian magistrate said on Monday.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists besieged Manhattan’s prestigious Park East Synagogue on Wednesday night, chanting, “Globalize the intifada,” “Death to the IDF,” and “take another settler out,” in what critics warned is “just the beginning” of a radicalized climate under socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams used his visit to Israel to deliver one of his bluntest warnings yet about incoming socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, declaring, “If I were a Jewish New Yorker I would be concerned about my children,” and insisting, “Everything is not fine” for the city’s Jews as antisemitism surges and a new administration prepares to take power.

A Miss. college student has been arrested after being caught on video hurling a vile antisemitic slur at Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy

Hungary’s annual pro-Israel summit rallied behind a single pledge — “No migration, no antisemitism, no terrorism” — as speakers from Hungary, Israel, and the United States declared that Central Europe is defending faith, borders, and freedom while much of the West drifts into moral confusion.

The son of Hamas’s co-founder delivered a chilling warning about New York City’s socialist mayor-elect, describing Zohran Mamdani as a catastrophic figure who will “only succeed in one thing — burning the castle down” by functioning as a “Trojan horse” for what he identified as the Red-Green Alliance — a coordinated effort between radical communist and Islamist forces seeking to dismantle Western capitalism and fundamentally transform America’s largest city.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized Tucker Carlson’s Nick Fuentes interview but noted that “does seem like the entire Republican establishment lined up against this” in a way he’s unsure you could say about Democrats,

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) stated that antisemitism “has run through the whole party. We have tried to not talk about it, we’ve tried to tamp it down, but it is everywhere. It is

A pro-Palestine protest was held outside the stadium before kick-off, where hundreds turned up with Palestinian flags.

Austrian police captured a Hamas weapons cache smuggled and hidden for use in terrorist attacks against “Jewish” targets.

A man suspected of promising to get weapons for an attack on Jewish targets in Germany was arrested Wednesday in Denmark, Germany’s top prosecutor said.

Democrat Socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa after a campaign defined by national attention, polling leads throughout the fall, and public debate over his economic, immigration, and foreign policy positions.

A volunteer hockey coach has been fired by Drake University after she was seen in a photo standing next to a man in a Hitler Halloween costume

Corbyn once called U.S. involvement in British elections “entirely unacceptable” and was purged from his own party over antisemitism scandals.

Four Bulgarians were sentenced to between two and four years in prison for their involvement in spray-painting blood-red hands on Paris’ Holocaust Memorial in an act of vandalism that French intelligence services linked to a destabilization campaign by Russia.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told leaders of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) at their annual summit in Las Vegas on Thursday night that the GOP faced a “time for choosing” in confronting growing antisemitism on the right. “In the last

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) shook up higher education with her pointed hearing questioning of university administrators over their tolerance of antisemitism. Now she is telling the full story of the troubling decline of American universities.

Kiss rocker Gene Simmons called out Jewish Hollywood celebrities pushing “incendiary” anti-Israel propaganda. “They don’t understand, they’re just idiots,” the “I Love It Loud” singer said.

Anti-Israel activists in South Africa are planning protests at a local Holocaust museum to demand that it recognize the recent Gaza war as a “genocide,” comparable to the Nazi murder of six million Jews.

The organizers of the Jewish International Film Festival say they were forced to postpone the event because cinemas in Malmö, Sweden, would not screen the films, with some citing safety and security concerns.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) has announced he will return donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and refuse future support.