The diplomatic isolation of Israel during the war in Gaza following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre will go down in history as a moral failure and a defeat of humanity, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy said on Thursday.
“The absence of support for Israel will be considered by future historians as a moment of huge disgrace for the West,” Lévy told JNS in an interview in Tel Aviv. “It is a defeat of humanity and a moral defeat. It is the loss of any moral compass.”
Lévy, who lives in Paris, rushed to Israel the day after the Oct. 7 attacks and the following year penned Israel Alone, a book about the lack of diplomatic support for the Jewish state in the West.
“I was beyond shocked,” he said.
He was back in Israel on Thursday to deliver the keynote address at the annual conference on contemporary antisemitism hosted by the Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa. The gathering is the largest annual academic conference on modern-day antisemitism, drawing an estimated 550 participants, including 250 in-person presenters, with others joining virtually from abroad.
The 77-year-old French intellectual, commonly known as BHL, decried the surge in antisemitism, which he called “unprecedented in my lifetime,” noting that he rarely gives lectures in France for security reasons and that the only safe place for him to speak in the United Kingdom is a synagogue.
“Even if I come to speak about philosophy or non-Jewish issues, the only safe place for me in the U.K. is a synagogue,” he said.
Jewish News Syndicate
Réflexions de Dan Burmawi (auteur né en Jordanie) sur la solution à deux États :
Je pense que ça vaut le coup d'être lu.
Voici ce qu'il a posté sur X :
"Écoutez. Je suis Jordanien, et je vous dis que la solution à deux États est morte, complètement. Et je vais vous dire pourquoi.
En 1994, quand Yitzhak Rabin était prêt à remettre aux Palestiniens un État sur un plateau d'argent, qui était la voix la plus forte contre cela ?
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Et comment le monde l’a-t-il appelé ?
Un radical, un ennemi de la paix, un va-t-en-guerre.
Même en Israël, beaucoup pensaient qu'il était extrême.
Mais l'était-il vraiment ?
L'argument de Bibi était simple :
On ne donne pas un État à des gens qui déclarent ouvertement que votre pays n'a pas le droit d'exister et que leur but ultime est de vous effacer de la carte.
Ce n'est pas un "processus de paix", c'est un suicide national.
Il comprenait les risques pour la sécurité. Un État palestinien en Judée et en Samarie (la Cisjordanie) laisserait Israël à peine 9 miles de large à son point le plus étroit.
Ce n'est rien.
C'est une route d'invasion facile.
C'est un cauchemar sécuritaire.
Il ne faudrait que quelques minutes pour couper Israël en deux et massacrer son peuple.
Mais Israël a-t-il écouté ?
Bien sûr que non. En 2000, Ehud Barak est revenu et a amélioré l'offre.
Il a de nouveau proposé un État à Arafat. Dieu merci, Arafat a dit non.
Et pourquoi a-t-il dit non ? Parce qu'il ne voulait jamais d'un État, il voulait la disparition d'Israël.
Avançons jusqu'en 2005. Ariel Sharon a essayé une autre approche.
Il a dit : "D'accord, faisons un essai."
Il a donc évacué chaque Juif de Gaza, 70 000 colons, retirés de force.
Il en est même venu à exhumer des tombes juives pour s'assurer que Gaza était 100 % Judenrein.
Plus aucune excuse. Les Palestiniens avaient une chance de prouver qu'ils pouvaient gérer un État.
Que ont-ils fait alors ?
Ont-ils construit des hôpitaux, des écoles et des infrastructures ?
Ont-ils travaillé sur la construction d'une nation ?
Ont-ils saisi cette occasion en or et créé un mini-État florissant pour prouver au monde qu'ils étaient prêts pour l'indépendance ?
Non. Au lieu de cela, ils ont transformé Gaza en tremplin pour le terrorisme.
Depuis 2005, Gaza est une usine de roquettes, un camp d'entraînement jihadiste et un réseau de tunnels tout droit sorti d'un film d'horreur. Des milliards d'aides ont afflué, et au lieu de construire un avenir, Hamas a construit des armes pour détruire Israël.
Alors revenons à la question initiale : Qui avait raison, les rêveurs qui continuaient à offrir un État aux Palestiniens ou Bibi Netanyahu, qui les a avertis que cela serait une catastrophe ?
La réponse est claire. Bibi avait raison.
Les Palestiniens ne se sont jamais souciés de la souveraineté. I
ls se sont seulement préoccupés de détruire l'État juif.
Et c'est la partie que la plupart des gens ne veulent pas dire à voix haute : Ce conflit n'a jamais été une question d' "occupation". C'était toujours un mensonge.
La Cisjordanie et Gaza ne sont que des excuses pratiques. Le vrai problème, c'est le jihad islamique.
Bibi comprend cela mieux que quiconque. Les gens avec qui Israël négocie depuis des décennies ne veulent pas de frontières. Ils veulent l'annihilation. Ce n’est pas une question de compromis. C’est une question d'effacer Israël de la carte.
Donc non, la solution à deux États n'est pas "en train de mourir".
Elle est déjà morte.
Et elle est morte depuis la première fois qu'Israël a essayé de faire la paix avec des gens qui ne croient pas en la paix."
How did this police make themselves the tools of anti-Semites?
That is what West Midlands Police did when they banned Israeli fans from Villa Park.
And this is how it happened.
UNRWA is a terrorist organization whose staff took part in the October 7 Massacre and whose senior leadership covered it up.
UNRWA’s schools produced the child-snatchers and rapists of October 7.
Not one penny of UK taxpayer money should go towards funding terror.
Remembering the Battle of Cable Street – but forgetting the Jews who fought in it.
Unite the Union, one of the UK’s largest trade unions, appears to have excluded the Jewish community from a page on its website advertising its 90th anniversary event to commemorate the Battle of Cable Street.
This omission erases the central role that Jews played in one of Britain’s defining victories against fascism.
The primary aim of Sir Oswald Mosley’s planned march of his British Union of Fascists (BUF) through London’s East End was to intimidate the local Jewish community. Ignoring warnings to avoid the march, Jews helped to mobilise opposition to the BUF.
However, the Union's description of the event instead says that Mosley's fascists were defeated by “a strong, organised working class”, with no mention of the Jewish community.
The event is scheduled to take place on Shabbat — a day before the actual anniversary of the Battle on Sunday 4th October, making it harder for Jewish people to participate.
@UnitetheUnion has reportedly said that it will speak to the event organisers about the date and amend the information on its website. We urge the Union to rectify this oversight, and to honour the historic contribution of British Jewry to defeating fascism.
The disappearing of Jews from major historical events that in fact often centred around them is a growing problem.
https://t.co/j8Zhj07lTS
At Israel’s Sheba Medical Center - ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the world - an Arab and Jewish shift supervisors work side by side, every single day. Belal Aegbaria and Nissim Ovadia-Zaig don't just share a workplace. They share a mission. And together, they have a message for the world: come learn from Sheba.
"It's possible to live in coexistence, just like we live at Sheba. Respecting each other is the most important thing."
This video is part of the StandWithUs Beating Heart project at Sheba Medical Center - where coexistence isn't a slogan. It's a daily reality. For the full episode: https://t.co/bvitAglGUl
Yesterday in Dublin at the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress, a speaker took the mic to declare that “Jews” are “harmful to the whole planet” and described them as “the chaos engine of humanity”. He then went on to say that we need to change Jewish religion and culture to “save humanity”, which was followed by a round of applause.
This isn't new. In 1921, the Association of German National Jews was established and was defined by a radical, self-directed hostility toward traditional Jewish identity. They despised their own heritage, viewing Eastern European Jews with open contempt and fiercely opposing Zionism. They later went on to back the Nazi party.
Just like the Association of German National Jews, these antizionists goal are the total assimilation and self eradication of Jewish Identity.
Most antizionist Jews don't just hate Israel, they hate the Jewish religion, they hate Jewish culture and they hate Jewish history. Antizionism is a hate movement regardless of who's practicing it.
In October it will be 90 years since the East End cockneys, Irish dockers and communists joined hands with the East End Jews to force back Oswald Mosley’s fascist Blackshirts who were there to threaten the Jews.
This year @unitetheunion will commemorate this event by erasing Jews and holding their event on Shabbat.
My friends in the Jewish community and our allies will host our own event on the Sunday which will remind people of what the Battle of Cable Street was actually about.
“Many people imagine antisemitism only in its crudest forms: swastikas daubed on walls, abuse, threats and violence. But the prejudice we face today as Jews often presents itself in more subtle ways. It arrives wrapped in the language of human rights and social justice.”
This incident in Birmingham isn't just a terrible desecration of the Union Flag and St George’s Cross, but deeply antisemitic too.
https://t.co/DBmVUWSFWi
By using the Star of David to defile these national flags, the perpetrators are referencing classic tropes about Jewish power that have no place in our country.
They may also be trying to imply that Jews committed the vandalism, which would represent another layer of hate.
British Jews are proud of our national flags and values.
Rabbi Birnbaum's response to the purity test demanded by the renter of a hiday house in France is absolutely magnificent and exemplary. My parents who were members of Finchley United Synagogue would have cheered him on and wished him a great shekoach.
In his resignation speech this morning, Sir Keir Starmer said: “Six years ago I inherited a party that was...morally bankrupt.”
He elaborated, declaring: “We changed our Party, ripping out the poison of antisemitism.”
The reality is that Sir Keir’s record on antisemitism is a very mixed bag.
He sat in the antisemite Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet for years and backed him to become Prime Minister. Only later, following electoral defeat and then the EHRC report, which followed our referral, did he decide that the Party had become “morally bankrupt” and needed antisemitism torn out “by its roots”.
To his credit, he then did change the Party in relation to antisemitism from what it was under Mr Corbyn, who, to underscore the scale of the change, is no longer even a member.
Still, the Party has more to do – year on year in our polling of British Jews it is viewed as more tolerant of antisemitism among its officeholders than any other. The remedial job is not over. But Sir Keir deserves gratitude for starting that process.
Addressing antisemitism in a political party is one thing. Confronting it in society is another, and far more urgent.
On that score, Sir Keir, like his predecessor, has been a failure. Antisemitism in Britain has surged to levels unknown in living memory. That has taken place under the watch of this Government and the last one, across two parties, with no end in sight.
Not only has far too little been done, even after repeated promises, but Sir Keir’s Government has even taken measures that have made matters worse, with some foreign policy declarations pouring fuel on the fire.
As the country looks forward, addressing this shocking extremism in our society must be a top priority for Sir Keir’s successor.
CAA will be there every step of the way, to support the right policies and call out the failures.
🚨 Wayne Rooney on Declan Rice's set-pieces that inspired England's 4-2 victory:
🗣️ “For the whole of last season, people mocked Arsenal's set-pieces. They called them boring, said they were ruining football and claimed they could never win the biggest trophies playing that way.
Now look at England.
Declan Rice is delivering those same quality dead balls and they've played a huge part in a 4-2 win.
I've watched this World Cup closely and one thing stands out: Arsenal players have consistently produced dangerous set-pieces, with several leading directly to goals.
Maybe the issue was never the set-pieces.
Maybe people were simply frustrated because their own teams didn't have players capable of executing them at that level.
Football fans love effective set-pieces when they're winning games. They only complain when someone else is better at them.”
First England, then Scotland and now Ireland.
The upcoming UEFA Nations League fixture between Ireland and Israel will go ahead, but in a “neutral venue” with supporters barred from attending.
First, England could not guarantee the safety of foreign Jewish fans in the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match: police barred them from coming.
Then Scotland could not guarantee their safety for the Women’s World Cup qualifier between Scotland and Israel: the match was moved abroad.
Now Ireland too won’t take responsibility for protecting Jewish fans from local Jew-haters.
What message is this sending? Intimidation works, and those who threaten peaceful events can successfully dictate public life.
Law-abiding citizens should not have to pay the price for the hooliganism of pro-Palestine extremists.
@UEFA, @FAIreland and all relevant bodies involved must ensure that any decisions made are based on principle, not on yielding to the mob.
Football is supposed to bring people together. That includes Jews.
https://t.co/9DZrpkH39l
@Varticoo You mean “old people”? Yeah 🙋♂️😳 Spain 82, Mexico 86, Italia 90, USA 94, France 98, Japan Korea 02, Germany 06, South Africa 10, Brazil 14, Russia 18, Qatar 22. Eleven and counting. Some older mates have seen more.
BREAKING 🚨 The Kroenke’s Message To The Arsenal Family.
To our players, staff, and the incredible Arsenal family,
🗣️Yesterday’s result was a painful one, but pain is part of the journey when you’re building something lasting. We’ve come too far, worked too hard, and grown too much as a group to let one defeat define us.
🗣️This team has shown character, resilience, and real quality all season. We’ve earned the right to be fighting at the highest level, and that doesn’t change because of a single bad night. The standards we’ve set remain. The belief is still there. The hunger is even stronger.
🗣️To the players: rest, recover, and refocus. We back you completely. Use this as fuel. The bigger picture is still very much alive, and the opportunity ahead is one this club has waited a long time for.
🗣️To our supporters: thank you. Your passion and loyalty, even in disappointment, is what makes this club special. We feel it, we appreciate it, and we’re determined to give you moments worthy of that support.
🗣️We are building something special here. Together. No standing still. Let’s channel everything into the weeks ahead and get ready to celebrate what we know this group is capable of.
Onward. The parade is still on.
Come on you Gunners.
Stan And Josh Kroenke.
Proud of the boys, took on the most rested and monied team in the world to penalties… roll of a dice at that point.
Love all the players. Can’t knock any of them. Fans were incredible. We go again next season.
🚨🎙️ José Mourinho on Mikel Arteta and the rise of Arsenal F.C.:
🗣️ “The fact he has won the league and joined the list of the three youngest managers ever to win the Premier League tells you everything.”
🗣️ “He became the first former Premier League player to win the league as a coach. That gives you a clear picture that he is here to dominate, conquer and become a nightmare for English football.” 😳🔥
Mourinho also praised how quickly Arteta has risen in management 👏
🗣️ “In just seven years of coaching, in his first managerial role, he has already won a major trophy and still has a Champions League final to play.” 🏆
🗣️ “We may not be ready for what’s coming.”
Breaking🚨 Official Press Release by Kroenke Stan…..
Arsenal Football Club
Official Statement.
Wednesday , May 21, 2026
Stan Kroenke: A Message of Gratitude to Mikel Arteta.
On behalf of myself, my family, and everyone at Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, I want to extend our deepest thanks and appreciation to Mikel Arteta for the outstanding work he has done as Manager of Arsenal Football Club.
Since taking charge in December 2019, Mikel has transformed our club with vision, intelligence, relentless work ethic, and an unwavering belief in what Arsenal stands for. He has rebuilt our squad with purpose, instilled a winning mentality throughout the organisation, and returned us to the elite level of both domestic and European competition. The progress we have made under his leadership on the pitch, in our style of play, and in the culture of the club has been remarkable and fills us all with immense pride.
Mikel’s commitment to excellence, his development of young talent, and his ability to unite players, staff, and supporters have been instrumental in restoring Arsenal to where we belong. We are incredibly grateful for everything he has achieved and continue to believe strongly in the journey we are on together.
This message is not just one of thanks for a job well done it is one of continued confidence and partnership. We look forward to many more successful seasons ahead as we strive for the ultimate prizes in the game.
Mikel, thank you. The Kroenke family and the entire Arsenal family stand firmly behind you.
Stan Kroenke
Owner & Chairman, Arsenal Football Club
🚨🚨🗣️ Thierry Henry with an Emotional Speech as Arsenal wins the 2025/2026 Premier League Title 🥹❤️
“22 years… 22 long years of waiting, dreaming, suffering, hoping and believing. let that sink in. Today, Arsenal are finally Premier League champions again and honestly… this one feels different. This one is emotional.
I know what this football club means to the people. I know what those fans have been through. People laughed at Arsenal, people mocked the club, questioned the players, questioned the process, questioned whether this team could ever come back to the top again. But they stayed together. The supporters never stopped believing.
And I have to say this… without Mikel Arteta, this would not have been possible. What he has done for this football club is unbelievable. He brought back the identity, the discipline, the connection with the fans and most importantly, the belief. He suffered, he learned, he stayed strong under pressure and today he deserves all the credit in the world.
Also, respect to Josh Kroenke and Stan Kroenke because they trusted the manager when many people wanted change. They supported the project, they stayed patient and today they are seeing the reward for that trust.
To the players… thank you. You gave everything for the badge. You fought for each other, for the fans and for the history of this football club.
And to the Arsenal supporters around the world… enjoy this moment. Celebrate it with your families, with your friends, with everyone who stayed loyal through the difficult years. Because tonight, Arsenal are back where they belong.
Champions of England again.” ❤️