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Michael Savvakis

Jul 13, 2026, 7:39 AM

Israeli Ambassador Exposes Australia’s Antisemitism Problem

Photo of antisemitic graffiti inn Queensland (Photo sent to author from an Australian Jew).

“I have never seen such levels of hatred of...Jews, as I experience and witness here in Australia.” Those are the words of Hillel Newman, Israel’s ambassador to Australia. Even worse, Newman has previously served as the Israeli ambassador to...

Jul 12, 2026, 7:14 AM

How fusing Zionism with Judaism endangers the very people it claims to defend

Orthodox Jews outside Downing Street protesting in solidarity with Palestine. On May 14, 2022, thousands assembled in London, both to commemorate the Nakba and also to protest the murder by the Israeli army of the veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Alisdare Hickson / Wikimedia Commons.

For decades, the sentence you heard across the Arab and Muslim world was: we have no quarrel with Jews; our quarrel is with Zionists. Israel was the Zionist entity. The formula was often a fig leaf – I will...

Silas Anastacio

Jul 11, 2026, 12:37 AM

Spain: From the Inquisition to Hamas

At Spain’s traditional bull run, held this July 2026 during the chupinazo that opens the San Fermín festivities, a crowd unfurled a banner reading “Destroy Israel.” The scene, which seems like something out of a horror film, is unfortunately...

Silas Anastacio

Jul 10, 2026, 12:17 AM

Ida Sztamfater: The Power of Family Memory, Overcoming Adversity

The story of Ida Sztamfater is a living testimony to how Holocaust memory and the resilience inherited from her mother shaped a life dedicated to care and solidarity. Her mother, born in Poland, survived by hiding in a barn...

Ilene Munetz-Pachman

Jul 6, 2026, 7:13 PM

Paying Tribute to a Survivor’s Moral Victory: A CNN Documentary that Resonates

Photo of Zayde and Daniel. Photo courtesy of the author.

I felt totally immersed listening to my Newtown, Pa. Hadassah chapter's guest speaker CNN'S Elie Honig, producer of the documentary, 60 Years Ago We Saw the Face of Evil. Honig was clearly infused with a Jewish pride that mirrored my own! A CNN analyst and...

Silas Anastacio

Jul 6, 2026, 3:07 AM

Brazil: Federal Police Investigate Online Trade of Nazi Items

The National Human Rights Council (CNDH), an agency linked to the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, has submitted a petition to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office requesting an investigation into the sale of Nazi memorabilia online, which continues to...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jul 4, 2026, 10:08 AM

Collective Responsibility in Modern Practice

In a recent essay, I interrogated collective responsibility as one of those dangerously predictable historical mechanisms that keeps returning, not through scattered anecdotes but through patterns that reappear under shifting political language. Since that piece appeared, two unrelated news...

Jun 29, 2026, 7:25 PM

Gaza: Confronting Complicity and Extremism

25th anniversary of Hamas celebrated in Gaza. 8 December 2012. (Source: Hadi Mohammad/Wikimedia Commons)

The Hard Questions Masked by the Selective Outrage of Sonia Gandhi: A Reckoning with Islamism, Gaza, and the World’s Convenient Amnesia There is a version of the Gaza story the world has agreed to tell. It is clean, photogenic, and...

Jun 29, 2026, 6:24 PM

Bankstown Nurses Ruling is No Vindication — Just the Law at Work

The exclusion of the viral video is a setback for the prosecution, but it does not erase what was said, what was admitted, or the deeper fear the case has unleashed in the Jewish community. The exclusion of the Bankstown...

Silas Anastacio

Jun 29, 2026, 5:50 AM

StandWithUs Brazil: A National Phenomenon

StandWithUs Brazil has established itself as one of the country’s most significant phenomenon, emerging as a true success story in the institutional and media landscape through its work on education about Israel and the fight against antisemitism. The organization is...

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