Kanye West Marseille concert postponed after anti-Semitic remarks
🔎 US rapper #Kanye West said on Tuesday he was postponing his show in Marseille, France’s second-biggest city, until further notice. Keywords for this article Source link
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Antisemitic attacks in 2025 led to highest number of fatalities in 30 years, study finds
Last year saw the highest level of deadly violence against Jews in over three decades, with 20 people killed in antisemitic attacks, according to an annual study released by Tel Aviv University on Monday. The violence, including a deadly attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia, continued a spike that began following Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza, the report’s authors said. Source link
Keir Starmer ‘deeply concerned’ by Kanye West’s Wireless festival booking ‘despite antisemitic remarks’ | Politics News
The prime minister has said it is “deeply concerning” that Kanye West has been booked for a London music festival “despite his previous antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism”. The 48-year-old rapper – who has not performed in the UK since he headlined Glastonbury in 2015 – will top the bill for all three nights of Wireless festival in July. In the time since he last performed on UK soil, West has drawn criticism for antisemitic X posts, a Super Bowl advert directing people to a swastika t-shirt and a song referencing Hitler. Sir Keir Starmer said in a statement: “It is deeply concerning that Kanye West has been booked to perform at Wireless despite his previous antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism. “Antisemitism in any form is abhorrent and must be confronted clearly and firmly wherever it appears. Everyone has a responsibility to ensure Britain is a place where Jewish people feel safe and secure.” West, also known as Ye, has been barred from X over antisemitism on multiple occasions. Image: West’s last UK …
Why the right’s antisemitic shift is scarier than the left’s
(RNS) — A friend asked me in a text message yesterday, “So, Jeff, you’ve been talking and writing about the antisemitism on all sides of the political spectrum. Which side do you think is the most dangerous?” It was just a few days after Menachem Rosensaft and I wrote about the “horseshoe” effect of antisemitism – how it exists both on the left and the right. For that op-ed, we recalled the passage from Exodus that describes how the Red Sea split for the Israelites, creating a wall of water on both sides and a metaphor for what we are experiencing today. Here’s another Passover-related image — and my answer to my friend. For a variety of arcane reasons, medieval illustrators would often include rabbit-hunting scenes in their haggadot: dogs or hunters chasing rabbits into a huge net. Jews would interpret themselves as the rabbit. The hunters are chasing us into a net. The hunters also come from both sides. Today, the hunters on the left are the anti-Zionists who promote their positions using antisemitic …
Jewish ambulances set on fire in London; Keir Starmer condemns ‘antisemitic attack’
LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the torching of four ambulances operated by a Jewish charity overnight was a “deeply shocking antisemitic arson attack.” The ambulances were set alight overnight in north London, police said in a statement, inflicting serious damage but causing no injuries. Police said they were investigating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime and had stepped up local patrols to reassure residents. Source link
Four Jewish volunteer ambulances set on fire in north London as police investigate antisemitic hate crime
“You have to ask yourself, why is this happening?” he added. “And the answer, tragically, is that a combination of circumstances, led by part of the Government and part of the media, has validated antisemitism in this country, to the point that three individuals have concluded that it’s okay to set ambulances, whose sole purpose, is life-saving or life helping, funded by the local community, alight.” Source link
Jewish volunteer ambulances set on fire in London in apparent antisemitic attack
LONDON — An arson attack on several ambulances from a Jewish volunteer service is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime, police in London said Monday. Authorities are searching for three suspects who appear to be seen in CCTV footage pouring accelerant onto the vehicles before igniting them and fleeing. The attack took place in Golders Green, a north London suburb that is home to several synagogues and dozens of Jewish schools and restaurants. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called it “a deeply shocking antisemitic arson attack.” It damaged four vehicles belonging to the volunteer organization Hatzola Northwest, with “multiple cylinders on the vehicles” exploding, causing windows to break in nearby buildings, the London Fire Brigade said in a statement. The police also said they were aware of explosions linked to the gas canisters onboard the ambulances. No arrests have been made and no one was injured, police said. Social media videos verified by NBC News showed massive flames rising from the ambulances as they burned, with the fire sending up thick plumes of smoke. Another …
Ambulances set on fire outside London synagogue in anti-Semitic attack
Manhunt launched for three suspects as police investigate ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ on Jewish emergency service Source link
Fury as Labour council promotes grotesque ‘antisemitic’ art exhibition | Politics | News
One of the images on display (Image: -) A Labour-run council is promoting a “grotesque” art display which critics say uses antisemitic images in the guise of supporting the Palestinians. Campaigners insisted Thanet District Council must apologise after promoting the exhibition by artist Matthew Collings, which features images of Israelis as demons with blood spewing out of their mouths, and shows a pro-Israel “lobby” hypnotising the world The exhibition is labelled “Drawings Against Genocide” and Thanet District Council is promoting the show, at Joseph Wales Studio in Margate, on the Visit Thanet website, which is run by the authority’s tourism and culture team. A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “These images are grotesque. This isn’t art but incitement, drawing on classic tropes. “Modern art is often as much, if not more, about the inner feelings of the artist than about the subject, and here the artist’s inner feelings about Jews and the Jewish state are all too clear.” READ MORE: Alarming university study finds 20% of students don’t want a Jewish housemate “It’s a …
Two Antisemitic Attacks in Two Days in the Netherlands Shake Residents
new video loaded: Two Antisemitic Attacks in Two Days in the Netherlands Shake Residents transcript Back transcript Two Antisemitic Attacks in Two Days in the Netherlands Shake Residents Explosive devices were set off at a Jewish school in Amsterdam and a synagogue in Rotterdam within two days, Dutch officials said on Saturday, denouncing what they described as antisemitic attacks. We’ve seen assaults on synagogues in recent days in Canada, in Belgium, in the United States and, most recently, in the Netherlands. The secretary general strongly condemns these antisemitic attacks in no uncertain terms. Explosive devices were set off at a Jewish school in Amsterdam and a synagogue in Rotterdam within two days, Dutch officials said on Saturday, denouncing what they described as antisemitic attacks. By McKinnon de Kuyper March 14, 2026 Source link