דוס פוליטי DOSS POLITE

‏‏רואים רחוק רואים שקוף . בן אדם

[CAMERA @CAMERA4Truth]

"You Zionists are not welcome. And, if you must attend, please keep silent."

That is the unofficial curriculum and institutional norm taking over UK universities today. Last term, the University of Birmingham Student Guild hosted two free screenings of "The Encampments," a short film documenting the 2024 Columbia University protests. Advertised as an "urgent" and "intimate" viewing, it felt like a public endorsement of hate to Jewish students on campus.

The documentary completely erases the atrocities of Oct. 7th and the plight of the hostages, instead romanticizing a narrative that leaves Jewish students feeling unsafe. This is not an isolated incident; it mirrors a terrifying 117% rise in antisemitic incidents on campus. From "Zionists Not Welcome" placards to students being told to "go back to Auschwitz," Jewish and Zionist voices are being targeted, harassed, and systematically silenced by student officials and peer groups alike.

For Jewish students at Russell Group universities, education now comes with a hidden cost: making ourselves invisible to appease the crowd. But silence offers a temporary solution at best. The Guild was right about one thing: this is urgent. It is a call to action. We must resist intimidation, proudly wear our Magen Davids, and refuse to be sidelined on our own campuses.

Our CAMERA Fellows say they are done hiding.

Read the full perspective from our Fellow, Simi Jacobs, on how radicalization is reshaping UK student life.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

An Israeli tourist in Bangkok says she was waiting at her table for her meal when she noticed a sign saying "No Israel tourist."

She called for staff and offered to pay for her drink, but would like to cancel her food order.

The manager came, all smiles and hospitality, and tried to convince her to stay. Finally, she admitted that she was leaving because of the sign on the door.

The smiles disappeared. He asked her if she was Israeli, and when she confirmed, he began shouting.

She said he demanded she pay an exorbitant price for her can of coke as he got closer in order to intimidate the woman who just wanted some food.

In an instant, her humanity was stripped from her because of the location she was born. That's the reality Israelis have to face: you tell us to get out of Israel and, when we do, you make sure we know we aren't welcome.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

Just received:

"Itai Olej is an Ottawa area realtor, guilty of the crime of being a Jew who was born in Israel. That sign in downtown Ottawa was defaced and then stolen."

As I write in my book The Hidden Hand, the inverted red triangle is a Hamas symbol indicating a person has been marked for death.

[Leslie Kajomovitz @kikas6652]

More quiet removals of journaterrorists from the lists, this time by @IFJGlobal. 90% of CPJ's database are linked to terror groups, IFJ's is not much better at 87%. Instead of quietly removing a handful of names, all these organizations need to remove every single name and acknowledge the reality we have all known for years, none of them were journalists or killed for their work.

[ADL @ADL]

This past Saturday in Grenoble, France, roughly 200 protesters stormed a concert by lesbian Jewish DJ Barbara Butch, forcing her offstage by throwing projectiles and harassing concertgoers. The attack followed weeks of incitement from local leadership of the far-left party La France Insoumise, which celebrated the disruption online.

This was a coordinated effort to intimidate and silence a Jewish artist.

Since the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony, Butch has faced attacks from the far-right over her Jewish and queer identities. After supporting legislation to combat antisemitism, she also became a target of the far-left. Her experience is a stark reminder that antisemitism knows no political boundaries.

[Joo @JoosyJew]

Palestinianism.

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

UNESCO stayed silent as Hezbollah turned the Beaufort Castle in Lebanon into a military terror stronghold.

Beneath this historic site, Hezbollah built a vast terror tunnel network and launched hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians.

An organization that excuses the weaponization of world heritage has abandoned its mission.

[Krisztina Maria @KrisztinaMaria]

JEW-HATRED IS REAL

A shared experience. My husband Thomas Finn takes the floor.👇🏽

Last week we were sitting at a lunch restaurant down by the harbour in Skagen. High season, thirty degrees, full tables, children and draft beer and fried plaice - Denmark at its most Danish.

A young couple sat down at the table next to us. Mid-twenties, from a mid-sized Danish town, he a tradesman, she friendly and well-spoken.

We fell into conversation, the way you do while waiting for the food - where are you from, what do you do - and the conversation drifted, as conversations do these days, onto the culture war, which he in particular was preoccupied with. Islam, Christianity, the EU, political life.

A completely ordinary conversation between completely ordinary Danes over lunch.

And then he says it. Calmly, out of the blue, as if he were remarking on the weather:

"If you ask me, we obviously need to keep an eye on Islam - but the real threat is the Jews."

Krisztina was about to get up. I managed to put a hand on her leg under the table and send her the look that, between partners who have been together for decades, means - wait.

Not because the sentence didn't deserve an answer - but because I wanted to know how deep the well was before I said anything. So I asked, as neutrally as I could -

"Ok. Well, some people do think that. Are there many around you who feel that way?"

"Yes, pretty much all my friends."

Krisztina tried again, by way of history - "But surely you know the history. They have always been persecuted - and during the war Hitler killed six million of them..."

She never got to finish the sentence.

"Well, they deserved it. They brought it on themselves."

The sun was shining. The plaice arrived.

I looked at Krisztina, and we understood each other without words - not here, not now.

We had driven to Skagen for the day's sake and for each other's, and there were families with children at every other table. You have to know when a conversation is a conversation - and when it is merely an occasion.

So we ate our food in peace, wished them a good day and walked out into the sun.

But the sentence came with us.
And it is still lying on the table between us.

A nice, normal, friendly young couple - and the sentence Europe has spent eighty years promising itself never to hear again, served over lunch, as if he were noting that the food needed salt.

What I want to tell you today is that this sentence was not a bolt from a clear sky. I had expected to hear it out in the open this year.

Because it is not one stray young man in Skagen. It is the surface of something that has grown larger than most people quite notice, beneath us, while we were looking away - and I can document it - as can many others here on this platform - because I, or we, have been standing in it all year.

Over the course of this year I have written a series of exhaustive texts and hundreds of long comments about Jews. About their three-thousand-year history, from Abraham through the exiles to the rebirth of the State of Israel. About their traditions, their scriptures, their way of carrying memory through the centuries.

About everything the Western world stands on without knowing it - that Man bears the image of God, that the law stands above the king, that conscience cannot be owned, that every child should be able to read - foundation stones that are all Hebrew, and which were carried out to us through a Jewish saviour and his Jewish apostles.

I have written about the causes of the persecution, its patterns and its costumes through a thousand years. About the grammar of Jew-hatred - the kind that cannot imagine a human being who freely holds an opinion, or a people that wants something of its own.

And about why it is crucial that the world stands up for and in front of this people - not because they are worth more than others, but because the attack on them has always been the first act in the attack on Man as such. MORE👇🏽

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

When they said their election victories were “for the people of Gaza”, they weren’t kidding.

According to an astonishing new analysis by @SpikedOnline:

• One in ten urgent questions in the House of Commons since the last General Election have concerned Israel or Palestine.

• Since the last General Election, there have been seventeen urgent questions on Israel or Palestine, and this figure does not include questions on broader issues in the Middle East, which often return to those topics.

• Among several independent MPs elected in 2024, the number of times they have mentioned “Israel” or “Gaza” in Parliament substantially outnumbers their references to their own constituencies.

It says something about the level of obsessiveness with the Jewish state that MPs appear to be more passionately focused on a country far away where Britain exercises very little influence than on their own constituencies.

It is remarkable that so few people ask why this one foreign state provokes so much more interest than any other. It is as clear evidence as any that the Jewish state of Israel is subject to a double standard – something the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism recognises as an example of antisemitism.

https://t.co/l8Le2XWyBW

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

There is/was never a genocide in Gaza. The opposite actually, one side (Israel) vaccinating, feeding, helping with all services (medical, drinking water, power) while taking extraordinary steps to protect civilians in the worst urban warfare scenario arguably ever seen and the other side (Hamas) doing everything it can to get civilians killed, stealing food, targeting civilians that do not do their demands. The mayor is a liar and worse.

[CDA Jewish Caucus @CDAJewishCaucus]

College Democrats of America’s decision to platform antisemitic and misogynistic streamer Hasan Piker at this past weekend’s convention undermined Jewish safety and was incompatible with our shared Democratic values. Read our full statement below.

[ADL @ADL]

The College Democrats of America chose to platform Hasan Piker, a streamer with a long track record of antisemitic rhetoric and expressing explicit support for U.S.-designated terrorist groups.

It's deeply concerning to see the next generation of political leaders help normalize antisemitism rather than reject it. CDA's own Jewish Caucus condemned the move, rightfully calling it a "direct threat to Jewish safety and inclusion within the College Democrats community."

[Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt]

New: Ramzi Kassem, Mamdani's chief counsel and a longtime advocate for Palestinian rights, is invested in RTX, a weapons manufacturer for Israel's military — part of a sprawling stock portfolio Kassem maintains that includes other eyebrow-raising holdings. https://t.co/18E4uKyy3D

[Rep Josh Gottheimer @RepJoshG]

You’re mourning the former leader of the Iranian terrorist regime who spent decades in power killing scores of Americans and tens of thousands of his own people?

This isn't a hard call. It shouldn’t take a second thought to condemn a terrorist who has American blood on his hands. The fact that a Senate candidate hesitated at all should alarm every voter.

[Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik]

If he were a journalist and not an activist, Kristof would acknowledge that, unlike Bartov, most Israeli scholars, like any number of scholars around the world, do not believe Israel has committed genocide. But he's uninterested in reporting on the truth and all its nuances and complexities. He's uninterested in looking at all the data, the context. He cherry picks, focused on the party line, The Narrative, which is fine if you're open about your ideological priors, your worldview, your raison d'être, but unforgivably dishonest if you're a New York Times columnist, even one with an opinion.

[Benjamin Ze’ev 📚🎻🏺 @ArchaeoBenjamin]

Signs like this, in practice, ALWAYS mean "we will not serve anyone who is visibly Jewish or speaking Hebrew."

Because you KNOW they will not be conducting on-site political inquisitions of every customer upon entrance.

They will ONLY be harassing people they clock as Jewish.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

“We don’t serve Zionists” in a cafe on the Greek island of Andros. This antisemitic scourge is spreading. Shame on Greece.

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Reminder:

This is what CAIR posted on October 8th, after the largest massacre of Jews since the holocaust.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

If you’re keeping track, one bigoted DSA Dem confused two different Jewish politicians named Josh and then another one jumped in to defend the conflation by misleading about the referenced events.

Dishonest, hateful, and absurdly ignorant. Toxic for Dems.

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

Discussing ways to single out and arrest the prime minister of the Jewish state in NYC is nothing but political posturing — and it’s pathetic.

New Yorkers should recognize this for what it is: a waste of precious government resources.

The mayor should exert energy on serving and protecting all New Yorkers and perhaps try to curb his seething obsession with the only Jewish state in the world. https://t.co/DNQyTcm7oi