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A mob self-identifying as outraged Muslims attacked a Turkish street band in Istanbul this week for playing the Italian left-wing fight song “Bella Ciao,” complaining that the song was a “Jewish march” and that bands should not be allowed to play “Israeli music” freely in Turkey.

Alan Solow, a prominent Jewish leader and a close confidant of President Barack Obama since his Chicago days, has published an op-ed responding to the charge that Obama is using antisemitic language in pushing the Iran deal.

Kaukab Siddique, an associate professor of English at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, has called me and other defenders of free speech “dirty Jewish Zionist thugs” – and of course, he refuses to retract. On the contrary, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports Kaukab Siddique spewed, “I would say it again.”

Iran’s Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani, a radical Shiite cleric whose position grants him enormous influence in Tehran and who is appointed directly by Iran’s Supreme Leader, called on Friday for the Muslim nations of the world to “unite and expel the Zionists from this region.”

A plurality of American Jews now say they oppose the Iran nuclear deal, 45% to 40%–and a majority oppose the deal after they learn more about what is in it, according to a new poll.

This weekend, I shed tears over the Iran deal–literally, and publicly. It happened during a discussion among congregants at my synagogue about President Barack Obama’s capitulation to the Iranian regime.

When Irving Roth walked out of the Auschwitz concentration camp in April 1945, having watched in horror as members of his family were marched into the gas chamber upon their arrival the previous year, he was thankful that he would live to see his sixteenth birthday.

The Spanish government is offering citizenship to the descendants of formerly exiled Spanish Jews. No longer will such Jews actually have to travel to Spain; they need only “hire a Spanish notary and pass tests on the Spanish language and history.”

On Thursday, over five hundred years after Spain’s Jews were told to convert to Catholicism or leave the country, Spain offered the descendants of Jews who left the country the right to Spanish citizenship, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein reportedly told the cast and crew of Finding Neverland in April the Broadway show’s failure to garner a single Tony Award nomination was personal. Sunday, Seinfeld creator Larry David joked it was because he is Jewish.

On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, believed to be a religious Jew, was heckled by the audience at a Jerusalem Post conference when he defended the actions of the Obama administration vis-à-vis Iran over its nuclear program.

The tomb of Nahum the Elkoshi, who foresaw the end of the Assyrian Empire, is the latest piece of history in danger by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The terrorist group destroys anything that promotes idolatry.

Long-time sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer has courted controversy with her latest comments on sex. This time she is being criticized for comments on sexual consent by saying that men can’t help being sexually aroused when the clothes start coming off. Westheimer even cited the Jewish Talmud as proof to back up her claims.

On Tuesday, former Obama advisor David Axelrod informed an Israeli television channel that President Obama considers himself “the closet thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office.” Obama’s deep and abiding connection to Jewish identity is obviously rooted in his ethnic background, connected to Jews via (?); his ideological ties to Jews, such as (?); and a profound connection with the state of Israel as evidenced by (?).

Over several days this week, hundreds of anti-Semitic fliers have turned up on doorsteps in neighborhoods in Maryland and nearby Washington D.C., a report says.

With the rise in anti-Israel (anti-Semitic) activities capturing more headlines in recent years, especially on college campuses, Christians United For Israel is combating the trend with a new program that has been part of the Progressive playbook for nearly a generation.

Omar Hallak, the principal at the Al-Taqwa College in Australia, banned girls from running in school, alleging that the activity could cause them to lose their virginity. The regulators have launched an investigation into the accusations.

Trevor Noah, the newly-named replacement for Jon Steward on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, is still an unknown quantity to many Americans. Curious fans and critics, eager to learn more about the South African comedian, have been combing the Internet for clues, and have turned up troubling comments about Israel and Jews that have some wondering if the new host will, like Stewart (Leibowitz), take to hiding his Jewish-sounding name to avoid controversy. (I kid.)

Washington (AFP) – A prominent Jewish figure urged the United States to beware surging anti-Semitism in Europe and warned that seven decades after World War II Jews on the continent are having to look over their shoulders once more.

Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-9) was slated to be honored by Keshet Sunday evening, March 8, 2015 with its Community Service Award. According to reliable sources close to the situation, the developmental disabilities charity asked Schakowsky earlier this week not to attend their annual Rainbow Banquet.

Washington D.C. – From the moment the 2015 American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference kicked off Sunday morning, the message has been that support for Israel is bipartisan and must always be a bipartisan issue.

Christian churches are under increasing assault all over Europe, reports a Vienna-based group charged with monitoring such attacks.

Jewish college students awoke Monday morning to the news that they are not alone in their experiencing anti-Semitism at school.

In a new report by the Pew Research Center, China leads the pack of the world’s 25 most populous nations in government restrictions on religion.

A study titled “National Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students 2014,” conducted in the spring of 2014 by Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, revealed that over half of Jewish college students have experienced anti-Semitism on campus.

A New Jersey rabbi spent his second day on trial for allegedly charging undercover FBI agents to kidnap a man and force him to give his wife a religious divorce, called a “get.” Attorneys for Rabbi Mendel Epstein characterize him as a “defender of women’s rights.”

On Thursday, Iran launched its second international competition based on the theme of Holocaust denial. The 2nd International Holocaust Cartoons Contest was organized by Iran’s House of Cartoons and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex in reaction to French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s publication of Muhammad.

Earlier this week, before leaving for Auschwitz to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of the Nazi German extermination camp, President Francois Hollande appealed to French Jews, saying that “You, French people of the Jewish faith, France is your country, your place is here, in your home.”

A significant exodus of Jews from France is underway. It began long before the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the killing of innocent Jews at a kosher grocery store, but those events may well inspire further relocation. Scott Ott at PJ Media compiled the emigration figures into a graph, and its rocket-like ascent after 2012 is impossible to miss.

Jews in Brooklyn, New York, justifiably afraid after a series of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe, are asking the city for more security around their streets, their schools, and their synagogues.

On Tuesday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish rights organization, released a list of anti-Semitic acts that occurred last year in the Midwest.

Although French troops were deployed to guard Jewish schools across Paris on Monday, many Jewish parents kept their children home, fearing more violence against Jews after last Friday’s bloody murder of four Jews in a kosher supermarket.

On Sunday, rallies held in California’s major cities coincided with the massive rally in France to protest against the terrorist killings in Paris last past week. In Los Angeles, hundreds of people stood in the rain outside City Hall. Channel 10 in San Diego reported that roughly 130 people marched through Balboa Park despite the rain. In San Francisco, hundreds of demonstrators stood in front of San Francisco City Hall on Sunday afternoon, many adorned with the “Je Suis Charlie” mantra.

Dozens of Muslim men in Algeria took the streets outside of a mosque to celebrate the murders of 17 innocent lives in France at the hands of fundamental Islamist terrorists.

Charlie Hebdo was attacked for the crime of printing cartoons of Mohammed. The kosher supermarket was attacked for the crime of containing Jews. The Nazis and their European collaborators dreamt of a Jew-free Europe. With the help of radical Muslims, that’s now becoming a reality.

Better late than never.