July 8, 2026 — French Jews chased by mob in Barcelona. Visitors described dozens surrounding, spitting at and threatening them for 90 minutes after they left a synagogue following Shabbat services.

July 8, 2026 — Federal judge rejects CAIR bid to block Florida terror designation. The organization asked the court to reconsider, arguing that it could be forced to suspend operations in the state and nationwide if the designation takes effect.

July 8, 2026 — ‘Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land’: America’s relationship with the Torah – review. The language America reaches for, at its best moments and its worst, has always been ours. Not borrowed. Ours. We wrote the story it keeps retelling. We are still here to see how it ends.

July 8, 2026 — Israeli tourist cancels Italy hotel booking after receiving ‘No Room for Genocide’ email. “I wrote that I didn’t feel safe to go there,” the tourist, R, told N12. “It made me a little less eager to travel, but I’m getting over it. It’s still a very unpleasant feeling.”

July 8, 2026 — Germany launches ShoutOut platform to fight Holocaust denial and antisemitism online. A 2020 Claims Conference study of US Millennials and Gen Z found that 63% of the demographic were unaware that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.

July 8, 2026 — Despite restricting Israeli defense firms, Macron flew to Syria on jet equipped with Elbit system. France has restricted Israeli defense firms, yet Macron’s jet relied on Elbit’s DIRCM system as he became the first Western leader to meet Syria’s new president and discuss regional tensions.

July 7, 2026 — Two arrested after fake gun pointed at worshippers outside Sydney Chabad center. Mock firearm pointed at Jewish security staff outside the center, alarming a community already shaken by recent antisemitic violence

July 7, 2026 — Germany to provide Yad Vashem with €5 million annually under new agreement with Israel. The agreement will replace an older one agreed upon in 2020, in which Germany committed to providing €1 million annually until 2031.

July 7, 2026 — Trump presses NATO on spending as summit opens in Turkey. Leaders of the 32 member states of the North Atlantic alliance are gathering in Turkey amid strained relations and a US demand to raise the defense spending threshold to 5% of GDP: “Europe will take responsibility for the conventional defense of the continent.”

July 6, 2026 — World Cup fans: ‘We owe America a huge apology.’ Thousands of British fans who traveled to the US for the 2026 World Cup are sharing viral videos in which they admit that everything they thought about the country was wrong.

July 6, 2026 — Mamdani July 4 speech evokes biblical spies, whose lies got Jews condemned to 40 years in desert, rabbis say. “A less thoughtful and more self-sabotaging statement would be hard to imagine,” Rabbi David Wolpe, rabbi emeritus of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, told JNS of one of the mayor’s comments.

July 6, 2026 — Doctors Without Borders plagued by deep-rooted antisemitism, anti-Zionism, NGO Monitor says. The report documents MSF’s internal staff conversations and culture regarding Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the personal experiences of Jewish staff members within the organization.