January 12, 2026 — A ‘deliberate attack on Jews’: Community condemns arson attack on Mississippi synagogue. The pre-dawn blaze at the state’s largest and oldest synagogue, previously bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, has yet to be formally declared a hate crime

January 12, 2026 — Australia to call back parliament to pass hate crime, gun laws. The Australian premier said the legislation will deal with the “hatred” of the Bondi Beach terrorists, as well as their “guns.”

January 12, 2026 — US court rejects Mamdani’s attempt to block real-estate deal involving Israeli-owned company. The deal is valued at $451 million and includes more than 5,000 apartments across 90 buildings, most of them subject to rent regulation.

January 9, 2026 — Qatar is biggest foreign funder of US colleges, per Education Department. “Every single dollar given by our adversaries comes with strings attached,” Rep. Tim Walberg told JNS. “Enough is enough.”

January 9, 2026 — Half of US states file brief against AMP, NSJP for providing material support to Hamas on October 7. This brief has been filed in support of a group of survivors of Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack, family members of those murdered by Hamas, civilians under fire from Hamas’s terror, and others.

January 9, 2026 — The Israeli who became one of the world’s top soccer referees. Abraham Klein, an Israeli Holocaust survivor, officiated some of the most iconic matches of the 20th century.

January 9, 2026 — What normalizing antisemitism looks like. If Mamdani’s bigotry and obsessive hate of Israel don’t seem to bother most New Yorkers and even many Jews, then it illustrates how prejudice has become mainstreamed.

January 9, 2026 — Samoa plans to open embassy in Jerusalem, drawing praise and criticism. Currently, seven countries have embassies in Jerusalem: the United States, Honduras, Guatemala, Kosovo, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay and Fiji

January 9, 2026 — ‘We support Hamas’: Activists protest Israeli real estate expo at Queens yeshiva. Anti-Israel activists rally in Queens, calling for “intifada” in protest of an Israeli real estate event at a local yeshiva, accusing the Israeli company of “ethnic cleansing” and land theft.

January 8, 2026 — Popular Israeli restaurant in Lisbon forced to close due to antisemitic targeting, hostile campaign. Tantura was opened ten years ago by chef couple Elad Budenshtiin and Itamar Eliyahu.

January 8, 2026 — Audio bench bearing testimony of Holocaust survivor destroyed, thrown in lake in Manchester park The bench, dedicated to Holocaust survivor Chaim Ferster, was placed on the route of his daily walk as a way of paying tribute and preserving his wartime experiences.

January 8, 2026 — Employees of Tel Aviv bakery spinoff in NYC call for Jewish Israeli owners to cut Israeli ties. The new union is calling on the bakery’s operators, CEO Yonatan Floman and founder Gadi Peleg, to end Breads’ ties to Israel.