"If attacks on #Jews are repeatedly explained as an understandable reaction to events in the #MiddleEast, the message is that it’s natural – or even legitimate – for anger about #Israel to translate into hostility toward Jews. Instead of insisting that this translation must stop, we end up conveying that, while we wish the attacks had not happened, we can understand why they did.

People may criticize Israel, be furious at its actions, and wish for it to change. None of this is #antisemitic. But the argument that changing the behavior of the State of Israel will end hostility toward Jews in the #UnitedStates or #Europe assumes that violence against Jews is merely a reaction to #Israeli policy. It ignores that ambiguous messaging is not a bug but a feature of antisemitic thinking. And it has a long history."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-wrong-way-to-condemn-violence-against-jews/

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