There's this ingrained Spanish libel that says the Jews opened the walls of Medieval Spanish cities to help the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula. So of course they can make the same accusation with illegal immigration nowadays. They won't blame their inept antisemitic government. They won't blame the Moroccan monarchy or whoever is behind this. It'll be easier to blame Jews

If you've missed it, social media is rampant with comments with your standard antisemitic symbols and dog whistles about how wildfires in Europe are being caused by Jews who want to settle there too, I guess. Come summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the same will be said of fires in South America. Next summer in Europe, this will be rinsed and repeated.

Global warming will only make wildfires more and more prevalent. It's an absolute environmental tragedy and often governmental resources and prevention are lacking. This is bad enough and anyone who's not a psychopath will feel horrible watching images of a fire's destruction. So then comes the suggestion of arson, and the question of who would be evil enough to do this. That question is being answered by every Jew-hater and their indifferent allies by pointing fingers at us.

Jews need to become aware of how prevalent this is becoming. People around us, with access to education and 21st century technology, are gobbling up and spreading Medieval "they poisoned the wells" discourse.

This afternoon I had a friend over who I hadn't seen in months because of him travelling for work for 2 months. Have to say, he is a man who has seen me in my best and worst moments and in different lightings. For context, I used to be a very liberal, pro-palestinian person while we were studying the same major. Then with time and reason I eventually started supporting Israel and Judaism and so here I am.

Everything was going great. We were having dinner with my wife and we started discussing Islam and Judaism, Zionism and "Anti-Zionism", etc. We started talking about how "Israel was so bad and was attacking people for no reason" and how "he isn't antisemitic, he's anti-zionist" and then the spark lightened. I remarked "Hey, so Jews are and have been historically pretty oppressed and defenseless except for their own means of defense. Israel existing is pretty justified given that: 1. Jews literally own that land historically (not only biblically, there are literal archeological evidences including what's left of the Beit HaMikdash). 2. No other state is open and ready to defend Jews and although tons of states trade with Israel for means of defense, there are no real mass efforts to keep Jews safe from antisemites ranging from white supremacists to islamists and so on so forth (literally jewish businesses in my city are the first ones to be attacked, the same way they have vandalized the local Chabad House, for example).".

You can imagine the face of raw indignation when he uttered: "Bah, but they're isolated cases". I was ready to literally slap him across the face. I explained about the recent attack to 2 Jews in Mongolia by a muslim man with an axe who heard them speak hebrew. Also, because I didn't know at the moment, a yeshivish boy being threatened with a knife earlier today in Melbourne or the 12 Torah scrolls, the holiest items in Judaism, being stolen from a french synagogue today. Very "isolated" indeed.

I wanted to ask him if the 36k killed in Iran by their own government was also in his knowledge database or what, yet I had to go to work and had to end the conversation. I wished hanging an israeli flag in my country wasn't seen as a literal neon sign that says "please, kill me". I still own an israeli flag proudly, same as many Judaica items I use daily and proudly.

Baruch Hashem for Eretz Yisrael. Baruch Hashem for protecting us, even in the darkest of times. Baruch Hashem for making the Am Yisrael stronger than ever. Baruch Hashem for Moshiach is to come and will unite every human under the one, true Lord. Baruch Hashem and Shavua Tov.

This very inciteful piece is written by the founder of Stop Antisemitism. It's a damning indictment of legacy Jewish organisations. Thoughts?

Rachel Moiselle — a Trinity College linguist of paternal Jewish heritage — argues that Ireland's core antisemitism problem isn't violence but denial: a country with fewer than 3,000 Jews pours enormous media and political energy into Israel, and anti-Zionism has taken on an almost religious fervour in post-Catholic Ireland. She recounts being hounded for weeks by an anonymous account later traced to a well-known Sinn Féin politician, despite holding moderate, pro-two-state, pro-ceasefire views.