#Israel #Zionism #Antisemitism #Antizionism #ColdWar #Russia #SovietUnion #7October

Yom Hashoah 2026 and The Cold War Roots of Modern Antisemitism

https://www.newsweek.com/yom-hashoah-2026-and-the-cold-war-roots-of-modern-antisemitism-opinion-11811467

“#Jewish respondents describe opportunities disappearing after #7October 2023 – not because they expressed any particular political views, but because their Jewish identity itself was treated as a political position,” the report says.

“Jewish identity is treated as a reputational risk. Jewish themes in #art are treated as inherently political and provocative, even when the work contains no reference to #Israel or contemporary geopolitics. Jewish #artists are advised by their own agents to remain invisible.”

In addition to more covert forms of #antisemitism, Jewish respondents described a “sharp escalation in explicit #antisemitic content within their professional circles”, including “the casual use of #Holocaust comparisons and accusations of #Nazism directed at Jewish artists purely based on their heritage”.

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2026/05/jewish-artists-are-being-frozen-out-by-cultural-boycotts-report-finds/

Alleged 🤣

"[O]wner #CandyBerger said she did not discover the #Nazi symbol until she removed the covering earlier this week.

“Today we wanted to cover it all up again,” she wrote in an #Instagram post.

“I stood there in shock, thinking about what that symbol represents. What it has meant to my people … I am the granddaughter of a #Holocaust survivor, and today felt like a punch that landed deeper than most.”

Lox in a Box was founded in #Bondi and has sites in #Coogee and #Marrickville. The business had been painting and renovating the #Paddington site ahead of its opening on 9 April.

The etching is the latest in a string of alleged #antisemitic incidents in #Sydney’s east in the wake of the Hamas attack on #7October 2023 and Israel’s war in #Gaza.

Cars had been set alight and houses vandalised in the area, which is home to many #Jewish Australians, before the #terrorist shooting that killed 15 at a #Bondibeach #Hanukah event in December."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/27/swastika-lox-in-a-box-paddington-sydney-ntwnfb

"[#HowardJacobson] has #written and spoken about how unmoored he has felt from his country, society and fellow citizens during the brutal conflict in #Israel and #Gaza, and has attracted opprobrium for doing so; in #Howl, he explores not simply a feeling of being out of joint with the times, but of experiencing the reawakened fear of #displacement and #violence that #antisemitism provokes. He knows, one suspects, that some #readers will find this utterly enraging, not to say morally repulsive, and he confronts them head on; in Ferdinand Draxler, he creates a man who wholeheartedly believes that #7October has allowed #Jew-hatred to flourish untrammelled, who argues – to anyone who will listen, and even more to those who will not – that it has provided the alibi for #antisemites to do what they wanted to do all along.

Unsurprisingly, Howl is an immensely uncomfortable #novel; it is also, like most of #Jacobson’s work, a comic one."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/16/howl-by-howard-jacobson-review-a-tragicomic-portrait-of-a-jewish-mans-despair

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/roei-shalev-survivor-of-7-october-nova-festival-attack-in-israel-found-dead Survivor of #7October #Novafestival attack in #Israel found dead

Roei Shalev, 30, whose girlfriend and best friend were killed in front of him at festival, took his own life on Friday night

The Kaddish, then flute play from yesterday's memorial event #7oct at the square of the synagogue in #Göttingen

Thank You! 🖖

(Es sind Zugvögel im Hintergrund laut zu hören, bitte nicht wundern)

#Israel #7October #NeverAgain #BringThemHome #BringThemHomeNow #dig

#TheParentsCircle #ParentsCircle
#SeventhOfOctober #7October

We must get rid of all #extremists,
break the cycle of violence

#FreePalestine
#StandingTogether
#TwoStateSolution