Home · Faith · Oct 7 archive
Murdered for Being Jewish!
Confirmed
In Short: According to the report, 2025 saw 20 people murdered in antisemitic attacks, making it the deadliest year for anti-Jewish violence outside of Israel since the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.
For nearly 40 minutes, a group of seven French Jewish tourists were surrounded and verbally abused by a mob after leaving a synagogue in the port area of Barcelona, Spain, last month.
One of the tourists, identified only as Zaghroun, said, 'We feared we would be murdered.' He attempted to explain that the group was French, not Israeli, but the crowd did not relent.
The report noted that the number of antisemitic incidents across seven countries was 136% higher than in 2022, with Germany recording nearly 70 incidents for every 1,000 Jewish residents, the highest per-capita rate among the seven countries.
In Ireland, a country with no national strategy to combat antisemitism or dedicated security funding for its Jewish community, the Jewish community of about 2,200 people reported 143 antisemitic incidents in six months.
The report also highlighted specific incidents, including 15 people killed at a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, two killed at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, and two killed at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
These attacks underscore the ongoing challenges faced by Jewish communities worldwide and the need for increased awareness and action to combat antisemitism.
In New York, a Georgian man who pleaded guilty to plotting to kill Jewish children with poisoned candy will be sentenced tomorrow morning in Brooklyn federal court.
What's confirmed
- For nearly 40 minutes, a group of seven French Jewish tourists were surrounded and verbally abused by a mob after leaving a synagogue in the port area of Barcelona, Spain, last month.
- One of the tourists, identified only as Zaghroun, said, 'We feared we would be murdered.' He attempted to explain that the group was French, not Israeli, but the crowd did not relent.
- The report noted that the number of antisemitic incidents across seven countries was 136% higher than in 2022, with Germany recording nearly 70 incidents for every 1,000 Jewish residents, the highest per-capita rate among the seven countries.
- In Ireland, a country with no national strategy to combat antisemitism or dedicated security funding for its Jewish community, the Jewish community of about 2,200 people reported 143 antisemitic incidents in six months.
- The report also highlighted specific incidents, including 15 people killed at a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, two killed at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, and two killed at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
- These attacks underscore the ongoing challenges faced by Jewish communities worldwide and the need for increased awareness and action to combat antisemitism.
- In New York, a Georgian man who pleaded guilty to plotting to kill Jewish children with poisoned candy will be sentenced tomorrow morning in Brooklyn federal court.
What's still developing
- The chants started with “Free Palestine,” then escalated into “Baby killers,” “Jews are not welcome here,” “Zionists are not welcome here,” and “Death to Israel.” Zaghroun tried to explain to the assailants that the group was French, not Israeli, but the crowd did not relent.
- A new poll shows Rep. Dan Goldman trailing 5 points behind his primary challenger Brad Lander, another Jewish Democrat who casts himself as more progressive and critical of Israel than Goldman.
- Previous protests drew accusations of antisemitism from Jewish leaders and spurred a “buffer zone” law recently passed by the New York City Council that allows police to insulate houses of worship from protesters.
- Some attendees told our Grace Gilson that they “came to protect” the congregation and “show support” for Jews after a string of demonstrations outside synagogues hosting events on real estate sales in Israel and the West Bank.
- City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who is Jewish, called the vandalism “yet another hateful incident meant to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers and divide our city” and said it underscored the need for the council’s plans to combat antisemitism through education and heightened security.
- As the new year begins, so does another year of covering the people, stories, and institutions that make Jewish life in New York what it is.
- (Grace Gilson) Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters as well as pro-Israel counter-protesters flocked to an Israeli real estate event last night at Young Israel of Midwood, an Orthodox synagogue in the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood.
- Some counter-protesters reportedly sang “May Your Village Burn,” a chant associated with Israel’s far right, according to the Times of Israel.
- But identifying the best Jewish player will send “even a group of the most historically literate Jewish football nerds into a prolonged silence”.
- Because this former player, a league champion in both his native Hungary and in Austria – he moved to Vienna to escape rampant Hungarian antisemitism, which amounted to jumping out of the fire and into the frying pan – was among the very few European Jewish footballers who lived to forge a career after the Second World War.
- There might be rueful smiles at the idea of Jews being good enough at football for the question to matter.
- NEW YORK, NEW YORK: September 16, 2020 – Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), today announced the release of the U.S. Millennial Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey, the first-ever 50-state survey on Holocaust knowledge among Millennials and Gen Z.