No Jews Allowed—Again

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October 20, 2025

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From England to Indonesia, Jews are once more barred from public life. The bans spread quietly, but their implications are deafening.

On Thursday, November 6, 2025, Maccabi Tel Aviv faces Aston Villa in a UEFA Europa League clash in Birmingham, England. Yet the spotlight is less on the pitch than on politics: police, activists, and local officials—including Birmingham’s outspokenly anti-Israel MP, Ayoub Khan—warn that the very presence of Israelis could spark violence. Birmingham’s Safety Advisory Group went further, urging that Israelis be barred from attending. The police backed the move, citing consultations with “community representatives” and deeming the attendance of Israeli fans a “high-risk” provocation.

Their supposed proof? Last year’s anti-Jewish pogrom in Amsterdam.  During a November 7, 2024 game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Dutch team Ajax in Amsterdam, scores of Muslim men roamed the streets, beating up anyone who seemed to be Israeli or Jewish. Dozens of Israelis and Jews were injured and 62 men were arrested.

Instead of vowing to prevent another pogrom like this, English politicians are gaslighting Jews around the world by claiming the violence in Amsterdam was the fault of the Jews.  MP Kahn claims Jewish fans started the melee because their “level of provocation was substantial.”  After smearing Jews as so uniquely evil that their very presence provokes violence, Mr. Kahn and local police claim that similar violence in Birmingham is to be expected.

A host of other bans on Israelis and Jews - in Britain and around the world - are spreading with little opposition.

Politicians, including Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are calling for Birmingham’s ban on Israelis to be reversed, yet a host of other bans on Israelis and Jews - in Britain and around the world - are spreading with little opposition.

Israeli Gymnasts Barred

More and more places are becoming Zionist-free and Jew-free zones. Take the 2025 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, which are currently underway in Indonesia.  Israeli gymnasts - typically among the best in the world in this sport - are banned from the competition.  Indonesia refused to issue visas for Israel’s team, with barely a whisper of publicity or opposition.  When the Israeli Gymnastics Federation appealed Indonesia’s decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport - the world’s final arbiter for sporting disputes - the Court ruled against Israel.

Nobody protested.  The International Olympic Committee did express “great concern” about the ban, but did nothing about it.  For Israeli gymnasts, competing at the highest level on the global stage is now simply an impossibility.

“Jewish Kids Not Welcome”

Jewish and Israeli children were turned away from public spaces in at least two incidents in recent months.  In July, 2025, Spain’s Vueling Airlines forcibly removed a group of 44 French teenage campers and 8 adults who were flying home to Paris from a summer camp in Spain.  (Vueling representatives accuse the teens and their counselors of being disruptive; the campers and their minders counter that they did nothing wrong and were removed after singing Jewish songs.)  Following the incident, Spain’s Transportation Minister, Oscar Puente, called the French Jews “Israeli brats.”

In August, 2025, 150 Israeli children who were attending a Spanish summer camp arrived at Tyrovol, a popular outdoor adventure park in France’s Pyrenees region, close to the Spanish border, only to find that the manager immediately announced he was closing the entire park.  Though the manager, Florian Sollac, claimed he was closing the park for an unplanned safety inspection, French police arrested him for “refusal to provide service or conduct business based on religious discrimination.”

No Jews Allowed

It’s becoming more acceptable to ban Jews outright. Take the bookstore in Flensburg, Germany.  In September 2025, its owner put a sign in its window reading: “JEWS are banned from here!!!!  Nothing personal.  Not even antisemitism.  I just can’t stand you.”

When asked about his new policy, the owner proudly told journalists that his Jewish ban was a natural reaction to Israel’s supposed crimes in Gaza.

Examples of Jews being banned from restaurants and bars in 2025 are almost too numerous to count.  In Naples an Israeli couple was kicked out of a restaurant after the owner heard them talking about Israel: “Zionists are not welcome here,” he declared.  Far from being embarrassed, the restaurant owner proudly defended his actions as a stand for Palestinian rights.

Three British Jewish couples were called baby-killers expelled from a taverna in the Greek island of Naxos after the owner realized they were Jews. In Vigo, Spain, several Israelis were kicked out of a bar while the manager screamed “you kill people then you go on vacation - get out of here.”  Israeli cellist Amit Peled and two friends were told to leave a restaurant in Vienna after a waiter overheard them speaking Hebrew together.  The owner of a restaurant in Thailand posted a video of himself shouting “Free Palestine!” and ordering a group of Israeli customers to leave.  In Oakland, California, a coffee shop refused to serve customers who looked visibly Jewish on at least two ocassions.

The House of Blues in Chicago cancelled a concert by the American Jewish singer Matisyahu last year over vaguely-defined “safety concerns.” It was thought that the presence of a proudly Jewish singer might offend people and spark violence - so Matisyahu was silenced instead. Venues in Santa Fe and Tucson also claimed the Jewish singer was too dangerous to host.

Jewish Life Is Not a Provocation

What ties these stories together is not just hostility toward Israelis, but the normalization of treating Jews as a “security risk” simply for existing in public life. The message from Birmingham to Jakarta, from Paris to Chicago, is chillingly consistent: Jewish presence itself is framed as a provocation, and Jewish participation in civic, cultural, or sporting life is now contingent on the goodwill of those who might be “offended.”

The world is testing whether Jews will quietly accept exclusion as the new normal.

The lesson is stark. Jews can no longer assume that institutions, courts, or governments will reliably defend their right to participate equally in public life. Appeals to fairness or precedent often fall flat when Jewish inclusion is on the line.

Jews must draw three key insights:

  1. This is not about Israel alone. When Israeli athletes, children, or tourists are banned, local Jews are targeted next. The line between “anti-Zionist” bans and open antisemitism is vanishingly thin.
  2. Silence enables normalization. Every unchallenged ban, every shrugged-off insult, strengthens the precedent that Jews can be excluded without consequence. Outrage and organized resistance are not optional—they are survival tools.
  3. Jewish continuity depends on resilience and solidarity. Just as Jews in one city cannot remain silent when Jews are targeted in another, our security and dignity depend on refusing to accept “special rules” for Jews anywhere.

The world is testing whether Jews will quietly accept exclusion as the new normal. The answer must be clear: Jewish life is not a provocation, Jewish presence is not a crime, and Jews have an equal right to live, play, sing, compete, and celebrate—without apology and without permission.

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Dodo
Dodo
1 month ago

Not allowed means not allowed.

Mark Kotzen
Mark Kotzen
2 months ago

Wrong response. I thought that we learned from the holocaust that antisemitism is a push from God towards correcting our ways and becoming better Jews - not to insist that "Jews have an equal right to live, play, sing, compete, and celebrate"

Joe
Joe
2 months ago

Because this is so horrible, disturbing and a clear sign of things getting worse, there is all the more reason to be very careful about using words like "pogrom." Thank Hashem no one was killed in the Holland football incident. Thank Hashem no women were sexually assaulted in that incident. No-one's house was burnt down etc... If, G-d forbid, it gets that far, our words must retain their potency.

Last edited 2 months ago by Joe
KWisler
KWisler
2 months ago

This makes me angry! How can this be happening again! No Jew should stand for this, that is what happened before, we must fight back! We are people too and have the same rights as everyone else. What if everyone decided to pick other races or religions and said you can not come here because you are Muslim or, Irish, or Catholic, or whatever. It would be called discrimination and would not be acceptable but for some reason people think they have the right to do this to a person because they are Jewish because they don’t like what is going on in Israel. In today’s world we do not have to take it and we shouldn’t. The idea that someone doesn’t deserve the same rights as others because you don’t agree with their government is ludicrous.

Joshua Orizu
Joshua Orizu
2 months ago

I read this with nostalgia and near tears the segregation and aggressive behaviour we Jews face today in some parts of the world. However, it won't be wrong for the State of Israel to review some of it's policies. Today Israel has failed to recognise Nigeria Jews who are facing almost a similar problem with them. MNK who has professed Judaism is left to languish at the Nigerian DSS custody with the Holly Land preferably trying to protect it's revenues from Christian prigrims from Nigeria as against the teeming Jews who are being killed and persecuted for nothing other than being Jewish.
While I pray and wish this does not continue I also pray that the State of Israel do the needful and protect the black skinned Jews of Nigeria by giving them the needed recognition.

ellen north
ellen north
2 months ago

This article shows the subtle and not so subtle anti semitism that is spreading across Western Europe, Australia and parts of the USA. It must be countered asap
I make sure everyone I meet knows i am Jewish in conversations

Jeff Kahn
Jeff Kahn
2 months ago

I wear a kippah in public, sometimes at work. It's the only advertising I allow on my body. It says, we're still here.

Miriam
Miriam
2 months ago

So what is your suggestion on how to stand up to this and speak out about it? Both in and beyond the Jewish community.

Freed
Freed
2 months ago

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point has the hater Tucker Carlson on tour with them. He will spread more hate against the Jews and Israel. Candace Owens is another hater. They should be investigated as to where their $ comes from. Some say Qatar. And I read that Tucker's son works for J.D. Vance in the White House. WHAT? A haters son. Tucker hates so much and laughs like a donkey. He spoke at Kirk's memorial and spoke about the Jews of old and killing Jesus and then laughed like a donkey. And Turning Point let him get away with that.

Ilana Parsons
Ilana Parsons
2 months ago

I see this differently.
Spiritually, the Jewish people flourish when we are where we are meant to be. Sports competitions and concerts are not inherently Jewish pastimes. We are here for a higher purpose, not to mimic other nations. No one is barring us from attending shuls, Jewish schools, Yeshivos, Chessed organizations, and other places where we can fulfill our mission of bringing Hshems light to a dark world. I see these bans as blessings not in disguise. They help us to be sheltered from the world around us that is spinning out of control.

Brian D
Brian D
2 months ago
Reply to  Ilana Parsons

yes

Nancy
Nancy
2 months ago
Reply to  Ilana Parsons

Two things can both be true. We are indeed here for a higher purpose and we CAN enjoy sports and concerts. Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein zt'l were Jewish concert pianists who brought the world tremendous joy whenever and wherever they performed. The baseball player Sandy Koufax refused to play on Yom Kippur. Giving joy to others as these people did is I believe is a Kiddush Hashem.

Jeff Kahn
Jeff Kahn
2 months ago
Reply to  Ilana Parsons

Okay, there are certain places where we shouldn't be because of our higher calling. That's one way to look at it.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I see it as a concession.
As Americans, some of us don't appreciate being put in a corner or set apart for special treatment. We can decide for ourselves when and where we should be. This is not for others to decide for us. If we concede this point, where does it end?

Cheryl
Cheryl
2 months ago
Reply to  Ilana Parsons

I agree. G-d wants his People to be holy. It is very hard to be holy when walking in a world full of sin. Truly, I believe we are being separated. This is Hashem’s doing and we should abide by it though we may not understand it.

Michael
Michael
2 months ago

You have to feel sorry for people who hate and dislike the Jewish people. They don’t seem to realize that they are their own worst enemy, and that God will get even with them for their hatred of the Jewish people, and for the way that they treat them.

Elizabeth Aldam
Elizabeth Aldam
2 months ago

As usual, the woke and politically correct world attacks the Jewish people while ignoring the real enemy of all countries, Islam
The world owes many advances in the fields of technology, health ,farming ,education and others' to Israel and the Jewish people
The only thing Islam.has done for years is terrorize people and cause harm.

Joyce Wolpert
Joyce Wolpert
2 months ago

I know you are upset with the actions of some radical Muslims. but I think you get onto dangerous ground when you slam an entire religion.

Barbara Berman
Barbara Berman
2 months ago

Welcome to 1938

Susan Smith
Susan Smith
2 months ago

Jewish presence is a necessity. Without it, there is no light!

Steven Froyse
Steven Froyse
2 months ago

Suppose the International Gospel Church (made-up name), or some similar body, announced they were holding a festival and banned Israelis from taking part - why be upset? Personally, I feel the same about all of these other places. To echo W.S.Gilbert's words: "I've got them on my list and none of them would be missed!"

Last edited 2 months ago by Steven Froyse
Hesh
Hesh
2 months ago

Well, Yvette, maybe Jews could help themselves a little by staying out of other people’s affairs instead an attempt to get a pat on the head? Maybe throwing open the doors of America via the 1965 immigration reform act and then welding those doors open wasn’t such a good idea?

Brian D
Brian D
2 months ago
Reply to  Hesh

yes

Paula
Paula
2 months ago

We are seeing a repeat of what Hitler did in WWII. When will people realise the Jews are not to blame for the Palestinian situation, Hamas are. If you disagree with these terrorists you are on their radar, they hate anyone who doesn't believe exactly as they do, even other muslims.
Do we stand by and see these radical Muslims murder 6 million or more Jews before we wake up and stand up to this milgant cancer. Do we close our eyes and say it is not our problem? It is our problem, once they have murdered a;; Jews, who will be next? Christians, Sadly many Muslims and non Muslims (our young) have been radicalised without questioning why they follow these beliefs. When will it stop, when only Muslims are left. Wake up before it is too late!

Robert Whig
Robert Whig
2 months ago

All this just goes to show how precious Israel is.

The only homeland and place of refuge there is when the rest of the world is hostile.

It also means how Jews must turn away from Christians and Muslims and towards Hindus and Buddhists who have never once been anti-semitic.

Anon
Anon
2 months ago
Reply to  Robert Whig

The last part of your last statement is inaccurate!

Robert Whig
Robert Whig
2 months ago
Reply to  Anon

No it isn't.

When on Earth have you ever met an anti-semitic Hindu or Buddhist?

They don't exist!

Chaplain
Chaplain
2 months ago
Reply to  Robert Whig

Except when these idol worshippers berate the originators of monotheism!

Robert Whig
Robert Whig
2 months ago
Reply to  Chaplain

Oh great.

You want to antagonise them.

Don't you think Jews have more than enough enemies already?

Robert Whig
Robert Whig
2 months ago
Reply to  Robert Whig

Mystifying downvotes.

You turn away from people who hate you and turn towards people who don't.

Simple common sense.

Last edited 2 months ago by Robert Whig
Robert Whig
Robert Whig
2 months ago
Reply to  Robert Whig

Whoever it is who's downvoted me.

Go on then.

Hug and embrace all those anti-semitic Christians and Muslims who hate you.

Go on.

Do it.

Judy
Judy
2 months ago

Why don't the people that ban Jews, ban Muslim Arab terrorists instead, then that would make more sense, Jews don't go around promoting acts of terror in normal society, Jew build and don't destroy, Iread in Europe they murdered 6 million Jews and now Europe has a invasion of a milgant cancer called radical Muslims

Kira Bacal
Kira Bacal
2 months ago

Despicable behavior from some - and even more appalling conduct by those who watch in silence

Judy
Judy
2 months ago

It happened in America too a long time ago so Jews build schools, hospitals, hotels, Jews were even banned from certain neighborhoods so I guess they found away around it, when Jews could not get a job in publishing companies the Jews created their own genre which is comic books it got so popular they have a big exhibit everyone wants to go to, so once again Jews have to be creative and create their niche once again, so maybe Jews should ban the non Jews too, to see how it feels to be banned

Marianne (the 2nd one, commenting here)
Marianne (the 2nd one, commenting here)
2 months ago
Reply to  Judy

No bans at all!

Judy
Judy
2 months ago

It would be nice, if that was the reality,

Eli
Eli
2 months ago

What I'm going to say here may be controversial, but I think it's worth considering. This list is reminiscent of the bans on Jews' participation in public life prior to the Holocaust. While we cannot possibly relate to the struggles the Jews faced then - Rachmana latzlan - I think we do need to ask ourselves whether Hashem may be telling us that Jews don't belong at football matches in Birmingham (I grew up there - I know!) or at gymnastics competitions. This is, of course, no way a justification of the bans on the part of the hateful non-Jews who are finding any excuse to vilify our community. Was it the Chazon Ish or a different rabbi (I am not sure) who said, "If the Jews don't make kiddush (i.e., a kiddush Hashem), the non-Jews will make havdalah (i.e., separate us from them)."

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  Eli

There is a saying I heard if " Jews don't make Kiddush , then non Jews make Havdalah." maybe this is happening because of assimilation and intermarriage, also before there was the Holocaust there was a lot of assimilation and intermarriage in Germany, so Hashem is trying to wake us up if you assimilate and intermarry you end up getting banned, that is how the Nurenberg Laws started in Germany to stop Jews from assimilation and intermarriage, it is around 70% or more around the world, so Hashem is saying enough already stick to Jews, why are you running away from yourself, some men end up with non Jewish women and then they convert the non Jewish women and poof she becomes Jewish, in my view this is ridiculous the women only convert to marry a Jewish men, only I think

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 months ago
Reply to  Judy

In my family my 3 nephews married out. Two of them have adorable babies, but it hurts ti know that these children are not halachically Jewish. Assimilation is 100% the enemy. However, I am staying anonymous because I don't want to get into a family feud. One of my nephews lives in NYC and I hope he is not voting for Mandani in the upcoming mayoral race.

ellen north
ellen north
2 months ago
Reply to  Anonymous

i understand that now in Reform Judaism the child is considered Jewish if one parent is Jewish

Brian D
Brian D
2 months ago
Reply to  ellen north

right, but - the child isn't jewish "actually" unless his mother is jewish. reform just needs more money and members so they make up laws.

anonymous
anonymous
2 months ago
Reply to  Brian D

🙁 When people refer to their children as being "half Jewish," I keep my mouth shut. My parents were members of a Reform Synagogue and I never felt at home there. It seems to me that the Reform and Reconstructionist movement are busy trying to please everyone by not making too many demands on their congregants.

Esther
Esther
2 months ago
Reply to  Anonymous

My only nephew married out, too. It is horrible that my father's only grandson, the one who will carry the family name, is married to a non-Jew.

Rachel
Rachel
2 months ago
Reply to  Judy

I converted 40 years ago. I keep Shabbat and kosher, dress modestly, and we sent our children to day schools. There was no poof before my conversion. There were months of study, payment for the rabbi’s time, and finally immersion in a mikvah. My husband is the son of Holocaust survivors who grew up knowing virtually nothing about Torah Judaism.

BBS
BBS
2 months ago
Reply to  Eli

Very insightful comment. We must always be aware that everything that happens to us, both personally and globally, is a message from Hashem telling us not to forget who we are—a nation with a unique mission.
I also don't recall the originator of the apt quote you cite, but it perfectly encapsulates our challenge in this world.

To all the naysayers, anti-religious and self-hating Jews, I appeal to you to consider the truth of this quotation (and while you're at it, learn the truth about our history)!

Dhianna
Dhianna
2 months ago

Rabbi Sacks said, "It may begin with the Jews, but it never ends there." Living in Iran, I witnessed a revolution led by an aging cleric who was welcomed by France because they thought he was no threat and they thought they would get cheap oil. When I said this will happen in the U.S.(think Dearborn or the new mayor of NYC), I was called crazy, a bigot and racist by tolerant Jews who knew the religion of Peace better than those who had experienced it. I couldn't get an article published in a Jewish magazine or website because I was an alarmist. Now it is 1 September 1939 and the liberal and tolerant are shocked because they ignored reality for decades.

Barbara S
Barbara S
2 months ago
Reply to  Dhianna

Sadly, it seems to always work this way: we don't learn from history until it's too late, then enter a repeat scenario of denial.
The common denominator is that we become too comfortable in the Diaspora and deceive ourselves by feeling at home outside of our Land, the only one that truly has holiness if we just live according to the Creator's rules.

William Cook, Annapolis Maryland USA
William Cook, Annapolis Maryland USA
2 months ago

Two things I find disturbing in this article are: First, if dates and places are removed, one would think this text is an historical description of Nazi Germany. Second, these events are world wide, not confined to a single area. These events seem to be independent, but how much is Hamas and its allies behind the scenes, organizing and orchestrating.

Tellitlikeitis
Tellitlikeitis
2 months ago

It seems that was precisely the point—to bring us to the realization that what's happening now follows the pattern of our history.

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  Tellitlikeitis

Exactly, in Germany besides bans there was boycotts of Jewish owned stores like Muslims are trying to do with BDS, in the history of Holocaust it starts with Jews and ends with everyone else, what I am saying is based on facts, Jews are like the canary in the coalmine, when the canary is in danger, then everyone else is in danger too

Albert Janzen
Albert Janzen
2 months ago

I am not Jewish but I have great respect and appreciation for Jewish people.
There are no easy answers and even fighting back or trying to prove you are right, which you are, is not the best solution. I honestly don't know how hateful people can be stopped or changed, only God knows how to do that, and He will do that in His time.
I do believe thought that Jews and Israel will never be utterly defeated or exterminated or anything like that. God will never let that happen.
At the root of this problem is nothing other than jealousy because people cannot stand to see the way God has always blessed His people, and always will despite imperfections which are common to all people, not just Jews.
I say to my Jewish friends, place your trust firstly in God and not in your military might!

Brian Harold Abrahams
Brian Harold Abrahams
2 months ago

The world has been fooled by Hamas propaganda. Now that the hostages have been returned, it is Hamas now killing the people in Gaza. I suggest that we use the various countries own anti-discrimination laws and fight back in the courts.
Shaloo Shalom Yerusholaim.

Golda
Golda
2 months ago

So how do we speak up? What concrete suggestions can be shared? We are not all activists - what steps can a person take? Shouldn't that be included in the article? Otherwise this article can encourage a kind of guilt and despair.

Robert Whig
Robert Whig
2 months ago
Reply to  Golda

Everybody has a phone.

When you see injustice, take out your phone and film it.

Put it up on Tik Tok and You Tube.

Let Injustice have no place to hide.

Gershom
Gershom
2 months ago

I'm not so surprised at the surging hatred of Jews. We need to look introspectively - in the Written Torah - that G-D gave us - as to WHY? Was G-D just making empty threats - when He warned us - what He was going to do to us - 7X7X7 - for NOT KEEPING HIS TORAH COMMANDMENTS - & TREATING HIM CASUALLY?

Golda
Golda
2 months ago
Reply to  Gershom

I agree.

Eli
Eli
2 months ago
Reply to  Gershom

Hear, hear. We all need to work on improving our own connection with G-d, and the non-Jews will back off.

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  Gershom

Also before October 7, 2023 Jews were not united, so Hashem unfortunately send a illness called terrorism to unite the Jews, like a Israeli taxi driver answered a Orthodox Jewish man who is your rabbi he answered Hitler ( Y " S) because our enemy doesn't care how Jewish you are all went to killings places and/ or concentration camps even people that did not consider themselves Jewish anymore went too, Jews should learn this lesson well/ good

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  Judy

How sad and unfortunate, the Jews are still in exile, because we didn't remedy this flaw, the Jews were exiled for baseless hatred, and to be redeemed we need to practice baseless love, so I don't know how to remedy the situation, I guess it is a complicated issue

Nancy Steele
Nancy Steele
2 months ago

The world is sliding into the very insanity that led to the Holocaust. Thinking people, Jewish and gentile, must not be silent. We must all fight this madness.

ruth
ruth
2 months ago
Reply to  Nancy Steele

Only a handful of nonjews will help 98 % are anti semitic. They had 2 years to raise their voice and didnt. Given up on them.

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  ruth

During the Holocaust there was righteous gentiles that helped save Jews, they are even honored in Yad Vashem, once again there will be special righteous gentiles that will step up to the plate for example Doug Murray, also like in the past the Holocaust started with the Jews and ended up with everyone else, Melanie Phillips wrote a book that says if non Jews don't speak up when Jews get attacked, then Juedo- Christian western values will be no more and G _ d forbid we will have Sharia Law ( Muslim Laws) that is the Muslims goal to take over the world and make everyone Muslim, so no Jews should beware too before it is to late, " warning, red alert"

Deena
Deena
2 months ago

I know that those of us who are reading this article on Aish already know that anti-Israel is just an excuse for anti-Jew. Was there outrage when Hamas immediately after the so-called peace treaty begin shooting folks in Gaza who were against their control? No. Of course not. As for the artistic gymnastics? I believe that banning Israeli athletes is motivated really by envy and jealousy. Israel has always shined at these events and without them there other athletes will move up.

Eli
Eli
2 months ago
Reply to  Deena

Jealousy is at the core of Jew hatred because Jews are blessed with success in whatever endeavour we pursue. Think of the Jewish doctor and lawyer stereotypes.

Dovid
Dovid
2 months ago

The only lesson to be taken from all this is the confirmation of what the Sages long ago taught us: "It is a halacha which is a known fact that Esav hates Yaakov." This does not and should not surprise us in the least. Secondly, it is Hashem - Who runs the world and does everything - who is reminding us that we are in Galus - exile - amongst the nations and that we are to be SEPARATE from them and not want or desire to be part of them and their culture!! This is the one and only lesson. And then to focus our prayers on the Geula and the coming of Mashiach, when we can all return to Eretz Yisroel with the Beis Hamikdash!

Last edited 2 months ago by Dovid
Miss Anonymous
Miss Anonymous
2 months ago
Reply to  Dovid

אמן, כן יהיה רצון!

Alison Raborn
Alison Raborn
2 months ago

It is time for non-Jews to take a stand. Are we going to allow history to repeat itself?? Who wants to sit in a restaurant, a bar or anywhere else and spend your money or time knowing the owner is a racist? Walk out and boycott.

Dvirah
Dvirah
2 months ago

One way to fight back is by suing the company/agency that refuses to serve Jews.
It should be checked first if the exclusion is truly illegal as there are some businesses for which the owner/manager is permitted to refuse to serve someone if there is a valid reason: for example, a bartender may refuse service to a customer who habitually harasses other customers after having a few drinks.
For such businesses “I don’t like you” might unfortunately stand up in court.

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  Dvirah

When it happened before Jews made their own establishment, like Home Depot was owned by a Jew that could not get into Medical school because of the quotas against Jews at that time

Dvirah
Dvirah
2 months ago
Reply to  Judy

That too is a way to fight back.

Grrrr
Grrrr
2 months ago

When random jews are discriminated against for things going on in the middle east you know it has nothing to do with Israel. That is the definition of anti semitism. It has always been simmering under the surface just waiting for another "reason" to make it safe again to say and do it in public.

Alison Raborn
Alison Raborn
2 months ago
Reply to  Grrrr

Sad, but true. So sorry.

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  Grrrr

Most of the Jews that experience this anti semitism in Europe, are Sephardic Jews and know nothing about the Holocaust, I read one guy from Israel told another guy from Israel about how nice it is in Germany one was Sephardic the other Ashkenzi the Ashkenzi Jew said to the Sephardic Jew " this is where the Nurenburg Laws originated from"

Silky
Silky
2 months ago
Reply to  Judy

Judy, I don't think that all Sephardic Jews are as ignorant of the Holocaust as the man you met. The Nazis, y"s, got all the way to North Africa and Israelis commemorate Yom Hashoah.
My parents were both Holocaust Survivors. My mother said for years that the world was starting to look like Europe in the 1930s. When she spoke to schools on Yom Hashoah, she would say that things didn't go from fabulous to cattle cars just like that. Things went slowly from "not so great" to "really terrible" over the course of a few years.
Germany is an odd place. The Nazis started there but on now, they seem to try to be nice. A few years ago, a family member of mine, went to Germany for a life saving operation that wasn't done anywhere else in the world. The people were all very nice to her.

Monica Levin
Monica Levin
2 months ago

It sounds just like the Nazis

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  Monica Levin

That could be true

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 months ago

I am a non-Jew who loves gymnastics and was excited to watch the World Championships but decided not to do so after hearing that Israel was banned.

Miss Anonymous
Miss Anonymous
2 months ago
Reply to  Anonymous

That was supposed to say: Amen, ken ihi ratzon!

Miss Anonymous
Miss Anonymous
2 months ago
Reply to  Miss Anonymous

Sorry, it was supposed to say "Wonderful!"

Robin Diamond
Robin Diamond
2 months ago

I am speechless, even though I shouldn’t be. We should have known this was coming. But of course it still stings beyond belief. I am outraged and wish I knew what to do. I would do whatever I could if I knew what to do.

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  Robin Diamond

The people that lived through the Holocaust, warned their descendants this was coming, there instinct must of told them, this is coming and beware of the danger once again

Jewish & Proud
Jewish & Proud
2 months ago

Hear hear!
We MUST stand up!
We MUST speak out!
We must NOT be afraid!

Miriam
Miriam
2 months ago

I dont think there is a solution. This is an age old problem. Thankfully we have the state of Israel as a refuge.

Tellitlikeitis
Tellitlikeitis
2 months ago
Reply to  Miriam

There is a solution, as promised in our Torah; all we need to do is wake up to the Truth!

Esther
Esther
2 months ago
Reply to  Miriam

I was taking a computer graphics course in Manhattan 15 years ago, run by a British-based firm. The instructors were Brits, and I could feel a tangible dislike from them when I had to skip class on holidays or leave early for Shabbos. I guess antisemitism is ingrained in them. After all, Jews were massacred in York in 1290; they were herded into a structure called Clifford's Tower and burned alive. Of course, Spain had its Inquisition and Germany its Nazis and cooperating countries in the Holocaust. There is no shortage of countries with an antisemitic past and unfortunately present.

Jason Shapiro
Jason Shapiro
2 months ago

I agree with everything that you wrote. You did a great job of identifying the problems, however, no possible solutions were explored. Perhaps that needs to be your next article! It is very important for Jews to understand the problems that we face, but to understand what tools we have to combat those challenges!

MsA
MsA
2 months ago
Reply to  Jason Shapiro

As per a comment above; there's an unequivocally excellent solution readily available to truth seekers; just search for it in the Torah!

Nancy
Nancy
2 months ago

I live in a suburb about an hour outside of NYC. Zohar Mamdani is running for mayor of NYC,and has made his hatred of Jews very well known. Tragically he is leading in the polls. Among other actions, he has aligned himself with BDS and did not say one word when our hostages were released last week. He will be a disaster for NYC and I hope his opponent wins this election!

Gail Feldman
Gail Feldman
2 months ago
Reply to  Nancy

I too live in a suburb of New York City and I want to sell my house and move to a different state (Governor Hochal endorsed Mamdani. This is a horrible situation for all residents of NYC but the ones buying his rhetoric and nonsense will soon be sorry when they see what happens if MOMDANI GETS ELECTED. The NYPD HAS ALREADY DISBANDED ELITE UNITS AND CUT OVERTIME , MOMDANI IS essentially trying to disband the police force and use Social WORKERS TO GO ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CALLS. No more police recruits and he is tying the Police Departments HANDS. Free this Free that WHERE WILL THIS MONEY COME FROM.? He has no experience in running a large city like New York. Free transit FREE CHILDCARE AND CITY RUN SUPERMARKETS. I Fear for The Future Of New York and Jews living in this city. Communism 💀

Nancy
Nancy
2 months ago
Reply to  Gail Feldman

Those campaign promises are outlandish, to say the least! How is Mamdani going to keep them? Re: Kathy Hochul. All she cares about is her own power and being on "the winning side." 🙁

Eli
Eli
2 months ago
Reply to  Nancy

And whoever wins the election is just Hashem's puppet. We can't put our faith in any man, especially politicians. They'll turn on us as soon as it suits them.

Judy
Judy
2 months ago
Reply to  Eli

So people have to pray, also people in Israel should go to the Kotel, to stop the bad degree called Mamdani for mayor of New York, oh voy! Gevald!

Emitt
Emitt
2 months ago

Let's not forget about David Draiman's concert being canceled by the Mayor of Forest, Belgium. Just another example of this same unfortunate trend. David has been an amazing advocate for Israel these past two years!

Maureen Alt
Maureen Alt
2 months ago

Excellent and chilling article.

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