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ITALY 🇮🇹 “22-year-old man suspected of planning attacks on synagogue, mosque arrested in Milan. Suspect had allegedly planned assembly of explosives down to the smallest detail. Carabinieri police said Thursday that they have arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of planning attacks on a synagogue and on an Islamic place of worship in the Milan area. The suspect had allegedly “planned in minute detail how to assemble explosive devices and modify firearms” for the attacks. “Supremacist... Holocaust-denying, and xenophobic content” was found on the suspect’s devices.”

BBC and Jew-hatred seem to be inextricably linked, and not just in biased reporting. According to The Telegraph, Jewish staff at the BBC who complained about Jew-hatred were called “oversensitive” and offered therapy. The BBC did not take their complaints seriously, even though just a few years ago, when faced with calls for a formal investigation into antisemitism and senior management’s handling of it, the BBC said it had complaints procedures and opposed prejudice. Clearly, the BBC cannot be trusted to police itself. An independent investigation is needed to hold leadership to account for how it handles complaints, alongside an examination of how the BBC’s culture of tolerance towards Jew-hatred influences editorial decisions and reporting on antisemitism. Jewish employees deserve a safe work environment. Everyone deserves reporting free of anti-Jewish bias. Jew-hatred requires consequences.

NEW LAWSUIT: Man arrested while holding Israeli flag sues Montreal and four police officers. With support from The Lawfare Project, Daniel Bercovici is suing the City of Montreal and four Montreal police officers over his arrest at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal on September 14, 2025. According to the lawsuit, Bercovici was peacefully holding an Israeli flag in support of the Israel Premier Tech cycling team while approximately 200 anti-Israel demonstrators protested its participation. Within seconds of approaching Bercovici, officers allegedly pushed him along the barrier and took him to the ground, injuring and arresting him. The lawsuit also alleges that demonstrators attempted to strike him with flagpoles, yet no arrests were made or investigation opened concerning those attempts. The lawsuit further alleges that officers filed materially false reports that are contradicted by video evidence and led to Bercovici’s prosecution for obstructing a peace officer. More than ten months later, prosecutors withdrew the charge, expressly because of video evidence provided by the defense, according to the filing. Bercovici is represented by Michael Hollander and Neil G. Oberman of Spiegel Ryan LLP. “The right to stand peacefully in a public place with an Israeli flag cannot depend on whether a hostile crowd approves of the message.” — Benjamin Ryberg, Attorney and Chief Operating Officer, The Lawfare Project Want to help fund the lawsuit? Join the fight by visiting thelawfareproject.org

THANK YOU, TOM STILLMAN! 🏒💙 We applaud St. Louis Blues Chairman Tom Stillman for taking a firm stand against Jew-hatred after hateful banners were displayed during the team’s October 22 home game. “Antisemitism has no place in our community and we will never allow it in our building.” — Tom Stillman This is what leadership looks like. Thank you, Chairman Stillman, and the entire St. Louis Blues organization, for making it clear that Jew-hatred has no place in hockey, in sports, or in our communities. Standing up against hate shouldn’t be controversial. It should be the standard. 💙🏒 THANK YOU FOR STANDING WITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. #EndJewHatred #StLouisBlues #NHL #StandAgainstJewHatred

NEW YORK 📣 SHOW UP TODAY at 6PM! 64 Morningside Drive at 117th St! Columbia will be hosting MAHMOUD KHALIL on October 27th!! Yes, Mahmoud Khalil, who was at the helm of campus encampments and the Hamilton Hall takeover! Columbia swore Zero Tolerance for CUAD, the group behind the encampment and the Hamilton Hall takeover yet now it is hosting CUAD leader with a book event and signing! Jewish students lived through the chaos, and Columbia paid $200 million to settle claims it failed to protect them. ✍️Comment “KHALIL” to blast an urgent letter campaign urging cancellation of this event because THERE IS NO PLACE FOR HATE AND VIOLENCE ON CAMPUS!!!

*LET’S TAKE ACTION! Is Columbia University serious?!?!*🤬 📣LET’S SHOW UP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27th at 6PM! 64 Morningside Drive at 117th St! Columbia will be hosting *MAHMOUD KHALIL* on October 27th!! Yes, Mahmoud Khalil, who was at the helm of campus encampments and the Hamilton Hall takeover! Columbia swore Zero Tolerance for CUAD, the group behind the encampment and the Hamilton Hall takeover yet now it is hosting CUAD leader with a book event and signing! Jewish students lived through the chaos, and Columbia paid $200 million to settle claims it failed to protect them. ✍️Comment “KHALIL” to blast an urgent letter campaign urging cancellation of this event because THERE IS NO PLACE FOR HATE AND VIOLENCE ON CAMPUS!!!

ATTN NEW YORK 🚨 The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is examining discrimination against Jews on New York college and university campuses since October 7, 2023. Your written comments help build the official public record. Detailed, firsthand accounts of what Jewish students and community members have faced on New York campuses can document patterns of harassment, exclusion, threats, unequal enforcement, and institutional failure. That record can inform the committee’s findings, strengthen the factual basis for Title VI enforcement, support future civil-rights complaints, and create a lasting reference point for accountability. If you have experienced, witnessed, or documented harassment, exclusion, threats, unequal enforcement of rules, hostile environments, or failures to protect Jewish students on any New York campus (Columbia, NYU, CUNY, Cornell, SUNY, Hofstra, etc.) since October 7, 2023, submit a written comment by November 20, 2026. Use the official form: https://wkf.ms/4el1dOG What you should include: Specific, factual accounts - dates, what happened, impact on your ability to learn or feel safe, and how the university responded (or failed to respond). Personal stories from students, alumni, parents, faculty, and witnesses matter more than generic statements.

An exclusionary membership rule of the kind proposed would breach the Equality Act of 2010, and the University, to its credit, has said as much. Calling for a “Zionist-free campus” is discrimination dressed up as policy, and must be rejected outright. Student groups that adopt it should lose affiliation and funding. If you’re a Jewish student facing this kind of discrimination on your campus, contact us for help.

🚨 The Trump administration has moved to impose sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), escalating its efforts to hold the controversial international body accountable for what the administration considers politically motivated attacks against the United States and Israel. For years, the ICC has faced accusations of operating as a politically weaponized institution, attempting to exercise authority over sovereign nations that never agreed to its jurisdiction. The United States is not a party to the ICC’s founding treaty, yet the court has pursued investigations involving American military personnel and issued arrest warrants against Israeli officials. The Trump administration argues that the ICC has overstepped its authority and is being used as a political weapon rather than an impartial instrument of justice. The administration’s sanctions are intended to restrict the court’s financial resources and its ability to pursue actions against Americans and U.S. allies. The message from Washington is clear: Unelected international institutions should not be permitted to weaponize the legal system against sovereign nations without accountability.

On the morning of October 8, at a Mequon, Wisconsin gas station, Matthew Arndt was arrested after a recorded tirade against another driver - an Israeli father with a child in the car. On the video: “Go post it on fing social media. I’m running for Congress here in the 6th District and f Israel.” The charge is disorderly conduct with Wisconsin’s hate crime penalty enhancer. Asked about it afterward, Arndt gave this answer: he “could have used a better choice of words. But my stance on Israel stays.” A father with a child in the car - the hate crime enhancement exists for exactly this, and must be prosecuted as such to the full extent of the law. To the family: our attorneys @lawfareproject are available to you, pro bono.

Gerard Filitti, senior counsel with The Lawfare Project, a Jewish civil and human rights organization, described the case in more detail in comments to Fox News Digital. “In May, The Lawfare Project sent The New York Times a seven-page retraction demand on the [Nicholas] Kristof column, documenting that the column’s primary source is chaired by a man on Israel’s list of Hamas operatives who called the October 7 attackers ‘heroic knights,’ and that its validating expert left UCLA amid sexual harassment allegations involving minors,” Filitti said. “The Times’ deputy general counsel answered that he saw ‘no basis for a retraction or correction’ because the story ‘was carefully edited and fact-checked.’ Yet less than two months later, the paper’s executive editor said the newsroom ‘wouldn’t have done that exact piece,’” he continued. “Shortly after our demand, the paper’s own shareholders asked a narrower question – whether anyone above the editors checks that the Times follows its own written standards — and the Times refused to even provide them with the charters and standards handbook it already publishes. “The petition filed today puts the Times’ credibility in front of a judge, along with a record the paper has refused to answer anywhere else: 72 errors the paper admitted in eight months of war coverage, 48 of them about Israel; a front-page caption calling a Gaza child ‘born healthy’ that the paper walked back five days later; a columnist who quoted his own campaign donors in at least a dozen columns without telling readers; a 10-year Jewish employee told by Human Resources, according to the petition, to ‘go find a place whose values align with yours;’ and a federal jury that found the Times liable for defamation on August 20, the paper’s first loss at trial in more than fifty years,” Filitti added.