Man jailed in UK for sending antisemitic abuse to Jewish lawmaker: Kevin Smith, 61, sent roughly 300 texts and three voicemails to the office of Labour MP Alex Sobel, who said the messages were deeply disturbing and left him fearing for his and his family's safety. www.reuters.com/world/uk/man...

After Spanish police and Europol’s counter-terrorism section arrested three suspected members of the Base – a globally proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group – in Castellón province, its American leader living in Russia was defiant and signaled further actions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#HongKong: Young activists suffer in silence. Five years after a Beijing-imposed national security law reshaped Hong Kong, two young ex-prisoners discover a freedom defined by an unsettling silence. www.dw.com/en/hong-kong... #communism #authoritarianism

Assad’s archive of death: Photographs of more than 10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of torture and mass murder in haunting, meticulous detail. www.icij.org/investigatio... By Nicole Sadek and @karriekehoe.bsky.social #Baathism #TheDamascusDossier

“The protocols of the elders of anti-Zion” is the 2.0 version of the conspiratorial antisemitic original. docemetproductions.com/protocols-of... By Andrew Pessin #HistoricalPoliticalMemory #antisemitism #conspiracism

Hillary Clinton isn’t wrong about the role that TikTok and other social media play in the spread of anti-Israel propaganda, but it’s clear now that there is something worse than brain-melting short-form agitprop: the elite celebrities of the arts. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...

We like to outsource in #Ireland. For decades, we’ve outsourced our health and housing problems to “charities”. Very rarely has this outsourcing worked. For longer still, we’ve outsourced our security to the UK, USA & NATO. www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/ireland-ne... #RussiaUkraineWar #defense

Whatever we might make of what Witkoff, Trump, Dmitriev & Kushner have been up to, at least let’s avoid the indecency of calling it a “peace” plan: In exchange for betraying Kyiv, the U.S. would gain preferential access to Russia’s frozen sovereign wealth fund nationalpost.com/opinion/trum...

A man hired for a grenade attack got cold feet at the last minute when he realised the target was the Israeli embassy in Denmark, he told a Copenhagen court, with the bombs finally being lobbed into the yard of a neighbouring house. www.dawn.com/news/1957633 #terrorism

Hamas coerced Gaza aid groups by designating ‘guarantors’ inside them: Pro-Israel watchdog NGO Monitor says declassified documents it obtained show how terror group surveilled staff at international organizations, used administrators as liaisons www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-coerce... #Hamas #Gaza

United Nations paid $11M to Syrian security firm owned by Assad intelligence services, documents show: For over a decade, U.N. aid agencies poured millions into the company despite warnings from human rights advocates. www.icij.org/investigatio... #UN #Baathism #Shorouk

#India will pay about $2 billion to lease a nuclear-powered submarine from #Russia, according to people familiar with the matter, finalizing delivery of the vessel after roughly a decade of talks just as President Vladimir Putin makes a visit to New Delhi. archive.ph/IE06V

Vladimir Putin ordered the Salisbury poisoning to demonstrate Russian strength around the world, a public inquiry has concluded: Report finds it was unlikely ‘astonishingly reckless’ Novichok attack could have been avoided by additional security measures archive.ph/phd0p #putinism #GRU

Israel is advancing a plan to develop a hospital on its territory to treat Jordanian patients as part of a joint Israeli-Jordanian industrial park along the border of the two countries, the Emek HaMaayanot regional council head tells The Times of Israel. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Lebanon and Israel sent civilian representatives to the latest US-led meeting of the committee overseeing the ceasefire, aiming to break the stalemate between the two countries as Israel intensifies its attacks on Lebanon over its delay in disarming Hezbollah. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Russia accused of sending abducted Ukrainian children to North Korean camp: Russian forces abducted at least two Ukrainian children & transferred them to a camp in North Korea, according to testimony delivered before a U.S. congressional subcommittee. tvpworld.com/90367656/rus... #RussiaUkraineWar

Over 300 rabbis & Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied Oct. 7 rapes: Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women, claimed that “no independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October” forward.com/fast-forward... #antisemitism

proposed New York state law to protect synagogues from angry demonstrations with a 25-foot buffer zone signals a defeat for American Jewry. Indeed, the mere introduction of such legislation is an admission that incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani has already inaugurated bleaker times for the city…

When it comes to financial security for Iran’s jittery public after the 12-day war with Israel, all that glitters is gold — and for many, it remains the most trusted hedge against inflation, sanctions and a weakening rial currency. apnews.com/article/iran... #Islamism #economy #Iran

Defending Israel: Against Hamas and its radical Left enablers. By Alan Dershowitz #glykoreads

The EU is finally blacklisting Russia for money laundering: The move will oblige financial institutions to strengthen due diligence on all transactions. www.politico.eu/article/the-... #RussiaUkraineWar

#Sudan war has killed 25,000 children, medics say; 45 girls raped fleeing El Fasher…All 45 rape cases were reported in October and November as families trekked the 60 km (37 miles) from El Fasher to the town of Tawila after the RSF seized the city on October 26… sudantribune.com/article/307724

The world after Israel’s longest war: It turns out that personal and professional relationships built on paranoid #antisemitism and dependent on permanent war aren’t so solid. Let that be a lesson for all politicians in the U.S. and Europe. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #YourParty

By Netanyahu’s own admission, at a time when Israel faced war on four fronts, its leader was preoccupied by his legal predicament. No country, let alone one facing existential threats during wartime, could be competently governed by someone so compromised... www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The European Commission is proposing a reparations loan of €165 billion for Ukraine using the cash value of frozen Russia assets held in Belgium…The reparations loan is part of a wider financial package, worth up to €210 billion, to keep Kyiv’s finances afloat for the coming years.

#Ireland is a case study in the futility of trying to distinguish anti-Zionism from #antisemitism… It’s unhinged fixation, righteous fury, and an invincible credulity towards even the most dubious accusations, provided the finger is being pointed Zionwards… www.spectator.co.uk/article/irel...

Let anti-Semites dig themselves out of trouble www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... By @sethamandel.bsky.social #antisemitism #conspiracism #RahmehAladwan #DublinCityCouncil #KevinRoberts

Spanish police had broken up the country’s first known cell linked to The Base, a neo-Nazi group designated as a terrorist organization by the EU; 3 arrested north of Valencia; firearms, knives, tactical gear and extremist material seized by law enforcement www.timesofisrael.com/spanish-poli...

How it all began: The personal account of a West German urban guerrilla. By Bommi Baumann #glykoreads

This is the sort of demand that sounds reasonable—“time-bound” evokes calendars and deadlines and commitments. But in fact there is no such thing as a time-bound path to a Palestinian state… www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #Israel #Palestine

How Venezuelan gangs and African Jihadists are flooding Europe with cocaine: Surging trans-Atlantic drug flows mean that cocaine seizures in Europe now exceed those in North America archive.ph/3SoGb #Drugtrafficking #Jihadism #AuthoritarianLeft #OrganisedCrime

Dublin is quietly becoming a Jew-free city: Anti-Israel fervour has become the new communion wafer of parts of the Irish left. This is not an isolated spasm. It is the latest symptom of a very old disease. archive.ph/RVGIk By Rory Hanrahan #antisemitism #Ireland

US Envoy Tom Barrack warned Baghdad not to involve itself in Israel’s war against Hezbollah, telling officials the country may face Israeli strikes if they or Iran-backed militias there intervened, the Saudi state-run al Hadath news outlet reported on Monday. www.jpost.com/israel-news/... #Islamism

Walk around Israel and instantly understand that is the opposite of the case for Christians governed by the Jewish state. Ideological and theological debates over Zionism (of any flavor) are beside the point here, because it is where theory ends and reality reigns. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...

In the days to come there will be much chatter about how this – as the Taoiseach says – might be “seen” as antisemitic. That’s not the problem. The problem is that #Ireland is, increasingly, an antisemitic country... gript.ie/mcguirk-perc... By John McGuirk #antisemitism #HerzogPark

Documents revealing how infamous Nazi doctor #JosefMengele, known as the "Angel of Death," led an open post-war life in #Argentina were found among a massive trove of evidence released and declassified earlier this year by President Javier Milei. www.foxnews.com/world/how-na... #nazism

Wang Dinghua, the owner of a major Chinese drone parts supplier company has taken a 5% stake in one of Russia’s leading drone companies, that builds drones widely used in attacks on Ukraine, highlighting a deepening relationship between Moscow and Beijing’s military-industrial complexes.

War without end: Russia’s shadow warfare.  To secure its grip on power, Russia adopts Soviet practices coupled with modern tactics of covert influence, violence, and manipulation. cepa.org/comprehensiv... By @samagreene.bsky.social @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan #glykoreads

From Herzog Park to the classroom, Irish Jews face a rising tide of hatred: Jews like my daughter are targets of hatred from left and right, and a new report will show how pervasive it has become in Ireland archive.ph/STFRX #antisemitism #nationalism #Ireland

The faith of our fathers: About a massacre, about Ireland and Israel, about the IRA and the Nazis, and why my family ended up in Canada. “Not a few of Ireland's gallant heroes were vulgar antisemites and Nazi collaborators.” therealstory.substack.com/p/the-faith-... By Terry Glavin #antisemitism

While consolidating an ideological and strategic bloc with Russia, Iran and North Korea, China is seeking nuclear parity with the U.S., technological and economic autonomy, and greater control over global supply chains and international payments. The implications for Western security are profound.

Inside Trump’s latest push for peace in Ukraine: The most consistent thing about Trump’s 10-month search for an end to the war in Ukraine has been his inconsistency. archive.ph/ciTbQ #RussiaUkraineWar

The Dublin city council is set to vote to rename a park named after Israel’s Irish-born sixth president, Chaim Herzog, following a campaign by anti-Israel groups amid a swell in anti-Israel sentiment in #Ireland since the October 7… www.timesofisrael.com/dublin-city-... #nationalism #antisemitism

Make Money Not War: Trump’s real plan for peace in Ukraine: The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board. www.wsj.com/world/russia... #RusdiaUkraineWar #trumpism

At last, a name for the murderous face in a Holocaust photo: With the help of A.I., a historian has identified the killer in a 1941 image that defined the savagery of the Nazi regime. archive.ph/GtRxT #Shoah #Nazism #HistoricalPoliticalMemory

Holocaust museums are “false propaganda,” and Israel has blackmailed the world with the Holocaust, said Osama Abu Irshaid, national director of American Muslims for Palestine, in a speech published to YouTube last week. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant... #Islamism #antisemitism

Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin? The anthropologist and father of New York’s mayor-elect offers a revisionist view of modern Ugandan history www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... By Pratinav Anil #HistoricalPoliticalMemory #BookReview #Uganda

#Australia has listed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a state sponsor of terrorism, its Foreign Ministry announced on Thur., after an intelligence assessment that it orchestrated an attack on the country's Jewish community last year. #Islamism #terrorism #Iran

The revelations about what the Gaza hostages suffered are the most painful yet #Islamism #terrorism #Hamas #IslamicJihad

Israel has now confirmed that roughly half of the returned hostages reported some form of sexual abuse. The methods include forced nudity, sexualised torture, coercive touching & threats of rape. Both women & men were targeted. The full extent of this abuse has only recently started coming to light.