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Antisemitic conspiracies about French protests spread across social media – watchdog

Combat Antisemitism Movement finds 1,384 posts on X claiming that Jews, Israel, and Zionists are to blame for or are profiting from the widespread unrest over the weekend.

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‘Israel is not our friend’: Michigan’s El-Sayed doubles down on anti-Israel stance

"An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn't be fighting is not an ally," he argued.

Read More: The Jerusalem Post

Gaza aid shipments resume as Hamas backs down from extortion threats targeting private merchants

Merchants previously suspended truck coordination activities in protest of a tax threatened by Hamas, wherein the terror organization demanded payments of approximately NIS 10,000 per truck.

Read More: The Jerusalem Post

Three Jewish women assaulted in suspected antisemitic attack in London

Metropolitan Police are treating the assaults as a hate crime following swift intervention by Shomrim volunteers.

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Iran hosts Russia’s FM Lavrov as Moscow seeks benefit from US sanctions relief

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's visit to Tehran this week to meet Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shows Moscow's maneuvering.

Read Now: The Jerusalem Post

UK anti-Israel activists target defense workers’ homes in ‘sinister escalation’

A group calling itself “The List” has claimed responsibility for a series of incidents in recent weeks in which hooded individuals vandalize property and cars and post video online.
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US missions across Mideast warn of Iranian threats, Houthi escalation

(Oct. 19, 2026 / JNS)
U.S. diplomatic missions in 12 Middle Eastern countries issued security alerts on Sunday, urging Americans to “exercise heightened vigilance” over threats from Iran and its proxies and the risk of escalating Houthi attacks.

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Since Oct. 7, Jews have been targets of nearly three-quarters of all religion-based hate crimes in Portland, Oregon

Bob Horenstein, of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, told JNS that the Federation “spent over $1.5 million last year for security for our community institutions.”
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WATCH: Palestinians throw stones at People of Israel’s Hassan-Nahoum while visiting West Bank town

A stone is thrown through Hassan-Nahoum's car window while she is speaking to a camera, breaking it and wounding one of the passengers.
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Rubio: Iran, not Palestinian issue, main obstacle to Mideast peace

The U.S. secretary of state listed conflicts across the Middle East, which he maintained are instigated directly by Tehran or its proxies.
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Gazan merchants being taxed, threatened as private sector goods delivery halted, Israel says

The Jewish state clarified a prior report and said it did not suspend private-sector operations for entry of goods into the Gaza Strip.
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Banning Beersheba fans, allowing pro-Hamas rally shows Netherlands broken, Israeli ambassador says

"Hamas is a designated terrorist organization in the Netherlands - the same group responsible for the October 7 atrocities, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust," Vapni said.
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IDF kills two terrorists in Gaza Strip for roles in October 7, attempts to harm Israeli civilians

Al-Khalek Hala was a commander in the weapons productions headquarters of Hamas's military wing, producing different weapons and advancing Hamas's military presence in the Gaza Strip.
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US sanctions Iran-tied shadow banks, sends alert on religious charity abuse

“The Department of the Treasury will not relent until the Iranian regime’s coffers are empty and every remaining financial lifeline sustaining its war machine has been severed,” stated Scott Bessent, U.S. treasury secretary.
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‘Hold a Kalashnikov and shoot Jews’: IDF reveals letter by Yahya Sinwar’s son

“I am constantly making pistols, tanks and Kalashnikovs out of paper and cardboard,” the boy wrote to his father.
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Israel ‘took the land’ from Palestinians, has ‘ceded moral ground,’ Obama tells Belfast crowd

Former US president Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Israel "took land off people and they were excessive," in reference to Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people throughout the history of the nation.

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Knesset speaker rejects genocide charges in speech to European parliamentary leaders

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, addressing European parliamentary leaders in Rome on Thursday, rejected allegations of genocide in Gaza and accused world leaders of spreading falsehoods for political gain, drawing some applause.

Read More: The Times of Israel

How the Houthis are helping Iran turn Saudi Arabia into a pressure point

The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are about more than Yemen.

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‘Indefensible,’ Jewish leaders say of NYC comptroller opting to abort city’s Israel Bonds investments

The reversal “sends an unfortunate signal at a time of rising antisemitism and sustained efforts to isolate Israel economically,” Evan R. Bernstein, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.
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German court sentences two for plotting to kill leader of German Jewish community for Iran

A Hamburg court ruled that Iranian intelligence recruited a man to carry out state-sponsored terrorism in Germany, sentencing him to eight and a half years in prison.
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