October 16, 2026 — Greece launches Israel caucus. The move comes amid growing relations and strategic cooperation between Israel, Greece and Cyprus focused on energy integration, defense cooperation and regional security.

October 16, 2026 — Dublin hotel cancels 70 rooms booked for antisemitism envoys. Former justice minister Alan Shatter said Herbert Park Hotel declined the conference after asking about an IDF connection, and later released delegates’ rooms.

October 16, 2026 — Italian mayor walks back attempt to have Jewish educators sign anti-Israel declaration. The U.S. antisemitism envoy welcomed assurances that Jewish educators can visit Reggio Emilia without political conditions, after a study trip’s cancellation.

October 16, 2026 — SCOOP: Paraguay to join International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Paraguay became the eighth Latin American country to say that it is adopting the IHRA working definition of Jew-hatred.

October 16, 2026 — Kamala Harris criticizes Biden administration’s failure to curb Israel’s conduct during Gaza war. Harris said that the United States needed to uphold its obligation to international law and that the Biden administration’s response to Israel’s war was a failure in that regard.

October 16, 2026 — Canadian authorities arrest two suspects of anti-Israel incidents, assaults in Edmonton, Toronto The Edmonton incident included a knife attack during a festival, while the Toronto case involved an assault during a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

October 16, 2026 — Bomb threat hoaxes called into 4 Jewish American day schools. Threats, all of which have been confirmed as fraudulent, target pair of yeshivas in Brooklyn and schools in Boca Raton and Los Angeles

October 16, 2026 — Online antisemitism hits record high three years after October 7, study finds. No social network has dipped back to pre-Oct. 7 hate level, Australian Online Hate Prevention Institute says, adding the data refutes claim that legitimate criticism of Israel is mislabeled as Jew-hatred

October 16, 2026 — China will keep speaking up for Palestinian cause, supports two-state solution, FM Wang Yi says. Chinese FM Wang Yi pledged continued support for Palestinians and urged backing for a two-state solution, as he separately met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog to discuss bilateral ties.

October 16, 2026 — German court sentences two for plotting to kill leader of German Jewish community for Iran. A Hamburg court ruled that Iranian intelligence recruited a man to carry out state-sponsored terrorism in Germany, sentencing him to eight and a half years in prison.

October 16, 2026 — Israel ‘took the land’ from Palestinians, has ‘ceded moral ground,’ Obama tells Belfast crowd. In a conversation with journalist Susan McKay, Obama said that the hostility toward Israel after the October 7 massacre was an indication that a “genuine cessation” was needed.

October 16, 2026 — Anti-Israel editors using ‘subtler’ ways to slander Jewish state on Wikipedia, ADL says. “Not even the Wikimedia Foundation knows who any of the editors are on contentious topics,” Daniel Kelley of the Anti-Defamation League told JNS.