President Trump did not take a public stance on UK recognition of Palestine, but emphasized his concern for the civilian population in Gaza.

By World Israel News Staff

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is reportedly preparing to recognize an independent Palestinian state in the near future, following French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that Paris will do so in September.

Starmer is expected to hold an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon, during which his ministers are likely to endorse a plan for a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The proposal would include formal recognition of a Palestinian state.

The leader of the left-wing Labour Party, Starmer is said to be under mounting pressure from MPs and constituents to take decisive action on the issue.

According to the Independent, U.S. President Donald Trump, who is currently visiting the UK, gave Starmer the “green light” for the move.

At a press conference in Scotland, Trump declined to say whether the UK should follow France’s lead in recognizing a Palestinian state.

“I’m not going to take a position, I don’t mind [Starmer] taking a position,” Trump said.

He added that he is concerned about malnutrition among Gazan civilians and is focused on “getting people fed right now.”

On Tuesday, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar struck a defiant tone, saying that Israel will not bow to international pressure to end the war or accept the creation of a Palestinian state along its borders.

“Establishing a Palestinian state today is establishing a Hamas state. A jihadist state,” Sa’ar said at a media conference. “It ain’t gonna happen.”

Drawing a historical comparison to European countries’ attempts to compromise with Adolf Hitler, Sa’ar stated, “Israel will not be the Czechoslovakia of the 21st century.”

He accused European governments of surrendering to pressure from Muslim populations within their own countries, stressing that Israel “won’t sacrifice our own existence” or “give up our basic interests for the sake of internal politics in certain countries that lost control over their own streets.”

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One janitor, who was held against his will by violent rioters, was called a “Jew-lover” and beaten with furniture.

Two Columbia University janitors who were held hostage and assaulted during a violent anti-Israel protest on campus have reached a settlement with the university, agreeing to drop a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in exchange for an undisclosed sum in punitive damages.

The janitors, Lester Wilson and Mario Torres, were targeted during the April 2024 takeover of Hamilton Hall by anti-Israel demonstrators.

The settlement funds will come from a $220 million fine Columbia agreed to pay to the Trump administration for racially discriminatory practices and other violations.

Despite the agreement with the university, Wilson and Torres are continuing with a separate lawsuit against 40 demonstrators who confined them inside the building.

That suit seeks compensation for physical injuries, as well as emotional and psychological distress caused by the attack.

“The whole idea of this case was to go after and to hold accountable those organizations and individuals who were actually responsible for planning, coordinating and carrying out the takeover of Hamilton Hall and the assault of these janitors,” Alyza Lewin, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which is representing the janitors in both cases, told JNS.

According to the now-withdrawn lawsuit, Wilson and Torres were working inside Hamilton Hall when masked intruders flooded the building and zip-tied the exits shut.

Torres said he was called a “Jew-lover” and repeatedly assaulted with furniture as he attempted to flee. He eventually escaped the building.

Wilson, who is African-American, pleaded with the mob to let him leave.

“I work here. Let me out,” he said, according to the filing.

Protesters mocked him and responded with slurs, telling him, “You work for the Jews,” and “You’re a Zionist.”

Eventually, one of the demonstrators opened a door and Wilson was violently shoved out of the building.

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‘While the international community accuses Israel of engineering a famine in Gaza, the reality is far more complex—Israel is working to block aid from reaching Hamas and ensure it goes to the civilians who truly need it.

ממשלת ישראל הכנסתם משאיות לעזה תיראו מה קורה להם, הביזיון נמשך!
דיר אל-בלח, מרכז הרצועה: החמושים של חמאס משתלטים על משאיות הסיוע. pic.twitter.com/1PF9ig36w6

— מה חדש. What’s new (@Gloz111) July 29, 2025

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One in five young Australians reported witnessing or hearing about anti-Semitic incidents in their area.

By Ashley Perry, CAM

Amid record levels of anti-Semitic incidents in Australia, a special survey initiated by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) has revealed alarming findings highlighting the state of emergency the country is currently facing.

The survey, which polled 1,000 respondents from across Australia between 27th June and 1st July, found that less than a quarter of Australians (24%) would describe general public attitudes to Jewish People in Australia as very positive (9%) or slightly positive (15%). 28% of respondents described attitudes towards Jews as very negative (8%) or slightly negative (20%).

In another poll response, one in five young Australians (ages 18 to 34) reported witnessing or hearing about anti-Semitic incidents in their area. In New South Wales, the most populous of Australia’s six states. Amongst youths, the situation is particularly severe, with nearly one in four young people reporting local anti-Semitic incidents, as did one in five respondents aged 35 to 54.

On a more positive note, 43% of respondents said that local councilors taking action against reducing religiously motivated intolerance would make them more likely to receive their vote, with 42% saying it wouldn’t change their vote, and 5% said it would make them less likely.

Australia, once thought of as a calm and safe haven for Jews living there and Israelis visiting, has in recent months turned into a nightmare. Recent disturbing events include a recent arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne, which occurred while around 20 worshippers were inside, making it, in the eyes of many, an attempted mass murder. In the same city, there were violent pro-Palestinian protests outside prominent Israeli chef Eyal Shani’s restaurant, which included smashed windows, thrown chairs, and chants of “Death to the IDF!”, marking a new escalation in the unprecedented wave of anti-Semitic incidents in Australia over the last two years.

The survey also found that about half (49%) of respondents expect elected officials, mayors, and local leaders to take a firmer stance against manifestations of hate, violence, and religious or ethnic intolerance in their communities.

In light of the current situation, the Combat Antisemitism Movement has decided to initiate an Emergency Summit, which will take place from September 3 to 5 in the Gold Coast, Australia.

The summit will draw hundreds of participants from across the country, including government officials and mayors, local leaders, city council members, religious and community leaders, diplomats, cultural influencers and online personalities, educators, artists, and business leaders. They will hold discussions, meetings, and lectures to formulate policies and an action plan to fight antisemitism and combat the growing wave of Jew-hatred.

“Australia used to be thought of as a safe haven for Jews, but that image has unfortunately been shattered over the last two years,” said CAM CEO Sacha Roytman Dratwa. “Many national and local authorities were left shocked and surprised by this wave of hate and we are working with our partners in Australia to provide strategies and the necessary tools to fight hate and antisemitism.”

“I am confident that hundreds of mayors will heed our call and join us to unite in the fight against antisemitism, terrorism, and violence. We will ask them to commit to a unified and firm stance against hate, to take a tougher line on the intolerable incidents happening daily in Australia, and I believe they will all commit to a policy of ‘zero tolerance.’ We believe we can form a coalition against antisemitism and bring about a deep, meaningful, and strategic social change in Australia’s fight against Jew-hatred. Australia must return to being the paradise it once was, a place where Jews and all citizens can live freely, safely, and with pride.”

The Australia Emergency Summit is the latest summit organized by CAM around the world, which has held high-level mayors’ summits in North America, Latin America and Europe in recent years. These summits are based on the belief that mayors and regional leaders have a unique ability to proactively confront antisemitism at the local level, knowing their communities most closely.

The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) is a global coalition engaging more than 950 partner organizations and five million people from a diverse array of religious, political, and cultural backgrounds in the common mission of fighting the world’s oldest hatred. CAM acts collaboratively to build a better future, free of bigotry, for Jews and all humanity.

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The French minister threatened Israel with punitive measures via the European Commission, which is discussing possible actions this week.

By Mike Wagenheim, JNS

Monday’s United Nations conference on the subject of a two-state solution offers “a rare and indispensable opportunity” that “can and must serve as a decisive turning point,” António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, said at the opening of the two-day event.

Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, the Saudi foreign minister whose county was one of the event co-hosts, told attendees that the kingdom’s view has “always been” that Fatah, the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization “are the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”

“That continues to be the case,” the Saudi diplomat said.

France, which has said that it will recognize a Palestinian state during the U.N. General Assembly in September, also co-hosted the conference.

Jean-Noël Barrot, the French foreign minister, told attendees that Palestinian Authority leader Mamhoud Abbas “wrote a letter and thus mobilized himself for peace by condemning, for the first time, military attacks of Oct. 7, calling for the release of hostages, the disarmament of Hamas and for Hamas’s exclusion from the governance in Gaza.”

Abbas penned that letter on Jun. 9, about 20 months after Oct. 7. Barrot stated on Monday that Abbas’s letter was the reason that Emmanuel Macron, the French president, decided to recognize a Palestinian state.

Israel does not allow the Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza, noting the latter’s inability to thwart terror within its own area of governance in Judea and Samaria, and Abbas’s weak grip on power.

Barrot said that other Western countries will confirm their intention to recognize a Palestinian state during their time in New York this week. He didn’t specify which countries, and none made such a statement on Monday.

“Historic commitments have been crystallized,” Barrot said. He added that a “common vision of Gaza” will be adopted at the conference, “based on the international notion of stabilization.”

He also said that Saudi Arabia and other Arab and Muslim countries “for the first time, will condemn terrorism, the acts of terror on Oct. 7, call for the disarmament of Hamas and express their hope to have a normalized relationship with Israel in due time.”

It was unclear on Monday which countries would sign on to such a statement.

The French minister also threatened Israel with punitive measures via the European Commission, which is discussing possible actions this week.

“We know exactly what terms Israel must meet. It owes the Palestinian Authority over $2 billion,” Barrot said, referring to tax revenues Israel has collected on behalf of the authority but refused to disperse to compensate for the stipends that the authority pays to terrorists for their crimes.

Barrot demanded that Israel halt construction in the so-called E1 area of Judea and Samaria, which could block a contiguous Palestinian territory in Judea and Samaria.

The French official also said that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a “militarized system that has resulted in a bloodbath.” (The foundation, which disputes that charge, is on pace to deliver its 100 millionth meal this week.)

Both the French and Saudi ministers said that despite Washington’s strong rejection of the conference and Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, their visions align with those of U.S. President Donald Trump.

“We think it’s very compatible with the steps undertaken by President Trump during his first term, in the Abraham Accords, for example,” Barrot said.

The Saudi minister said that Trump “can be a catalyst for an end to the immediate crisis in Gaza and potentially a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the long term.”

“So obviously, we, as strong partners of the United States, continue to work closely with the United States on many issues, and we hope that the United States will continue to lead in the efforts for peace,” he said.

The Saudi official dismissed the idea of Israeli-Saudi normalization prior to a Palestinian state.

Anita Anand, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, announced that Ottawa was pledging about $7.3 million “for the Palestinian Authority to assist in its much needed reform.”

States are expected to sign a series of memoranda of understanding on Tuesday to reinforce Palestinian Authority institutions.

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Islamic scholar Dr. Yasir Qadhi claimed after visiting Auschwitz and Dachau that Gaza is suffering worse than the Nazi death camps—while using that comparison to justify continued attacks.


Texas Friday Sermon by Islamic Scholar Dr. Yasir Qadhi: I Have Visited Auschwitz and Dachau – What Israel Is Doing Is “Demonstrably More Evil” Than Anything the Nazis Have Done; Israel and AIPAC Have Taken U.S. Hostage – Epstein Scandal Is Exposing Their Tactics pic.twitter.com/70RwstQYaF

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) July 29, 2025

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Iran’s missile attacks last month have now killed 30 people in Israel, while wounding more than 3,000 and displacing over 13,000 others.

By JNS

An 85-year-old man who sustained moderate injuries in an Iranian missile attack during the 12-day war with the Islamic Republic in June has succumbed to his wounds, local media reported on Monday night.

The victim, who was wounded when a residential building in Rehovot in central Israel took a direct hit on June 15, died at Kaplan Medical Center, according to Israel Hayom. His funeral took place on Monday evening.

The Hebrew daily cited Elchanan Roth, commander of the ZAKA rescue organization’s Unit 360, as recalling how the victim was saved from the “heavy destruction” caused by the Iranian ballistic missile assault.

“From one of the apartments we heard the voice of the elderly man who was moderately injured. We approached the rubble and spoke to him to understand his condition, and then, with the assistance of additional forces, we rescued him from the rubble,” Roth told Israel Hayom.

“Today, we sadly received the news of his death,” stated the ZAKA rescuer, adding: “This is a difficult day for me and the volunteers.”

Iran’s missile attacks last month have now killed 30 people in Israel, while wounding more than 3,000 and displacing over 13,000 others.

Two weeks ago, the Philippine Embassy in Israel announced that Leah Mosquera, a Filipino caregiver working in Israel, had died of wounds sustained in the same June 15 missile attack.

Mosquera was rushed to Shamir Medical Center, where she underwent many surgeries and spent several weeks in the intensive care unit. The embassy noted that Mosquera would have turned 50 on July 29.

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Last week, approximately 1,600 Israeli passengers expecting a peaceful stop on their cruise were unable to disembark from a ship docked on the island of Syros after a pro-Palestinian protest erupted at the port, raising safety concerns.

By Ailin Vilches Arguello, The Algemeiner

Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with Greek riot police on Monday on the island of Rhodes as they attempted to block an Israeli cruise ship from docking at the island’s main port.

The MS Crown Iris — operated by Israeli cruise line Mano Maritime — was once again targeted by anti-Israel activists this week.

Demonstrations against the war in Gaza took place during the ship’s scheduled stop on the island, where more than 600 passengers were set to disembark.

According to videos circulating on social media, riot police can be seen confronting a group of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered near the dock, who shouted antisemitic slogans like “Freedom for Palestine.”

As authorities worked to control the crowd, tensions escalated and brief clashes broke out.

However, unlike a previous incident, passengers were able to disembark from the cruise ship without any major interruptions.

Last week, approximately 1,600 Israeli passengers expecting a peaceful stop on their cruise were unable to disembark from a ship docked on the island of Syros after a pro-Palestinian protest erupted at the port, raising safety concerns.

Around 300 protesters had gathered at the dock to protest against the war in Gaza, while Syros Port Authority police guarded the area and intervened to prevent violence until the ship departed.

Amid the large anti-Israel protest, the cruise company chose to divert the ship to Limassol, Cyprus.

In videos circulating on social media, protesters were seen waving Palestinian flags and holding banners with slogans such as “Stop the Genocide” and “No AC [Air Conditioning] in Hell,” while chanting antisemitic slogans.

Since the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents have surged to alarming levels across Europe. This recent incident appears to be just one of the latest in a wave of anti-Jewish hate crimes that Greece and other countries have witnessed in recent months.

Earlier this month in Athens, a group of pro-Palestinian activists vandalized an Israeli restaurant, shouting antisemitic slurs and spray-painting graffiti with slogans such as “No Zionist is safe here.”

The attackers also posted a sign on one of the restaurant’s windows that read, “All IDF soldiers are war criminals — we don’t want you here,” referring to the Israel Defense Forces.

Last month, an Israeli tourist was attacked by a group of pro-Palestinian activists after they overheard him using Google Maps in Hebrew while navigating through Athens.

When the attackers realized the victim was speaking Hebrew, they began physically assaulting him while shouting antisemitic slurs.

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According to a leaked strategy paper, Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland sees socialist party Die Linke as a useful idiot that it can use to polarize society around culture-war issues. Die Linke shouldn’t play along.

Earlier this month, Politico leaked an internal strategy document from Germany’s anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). In a closed meeting, the AfD parliamentary group was shown a PowerPoint presentation titled “Introduction to the Strategy Process” that provided insight into the 3D chess the party is playing to outwit all its opponents.

The AfD wants to tear down the Brandmauer, or firewall — the mainstream parties’ informal pledge not to work with the far right — and turn the party’s leader, Alice Weidel, into Germany’s next chancellor. That’s all to be expected. What’s more interesting is that Die Linke, of all parties, is set to play a key role in this. The strategy paper envisions as a first bullet point a “cultural polarization between the AfD and Die Linke”: The AfD wants to instigate a contrived culture war with Die Linke in order to split the entire party spectrum into “bourgeois conservative vs. radical left.” Then the AfD would be left as the only possible partner for the governing Christian Democrats. The firewall would fall — and the AfD’s path to a position in the government, or even the chancellorship, would be open. That’s the plan so far.

The AfD is probably somewhat overestimating how “radical-left” the Social Democrats under their leader, Lars Klingbeil, and the Greens under Franziska Brantner really are. But there’s more to it than that. Die Linke can in any case be grateful to the AfD for making it so unmistakably clear that the culture war is a trap. Now they can more calmly hone their profile as a party focused on class-based politics, as important sections of the organization intend to do anyway.

The strategy paper not only reveals what the AfD wants from Die Linke but also implicitly makes clear what kind of left-wing politics it doesn’t find useful to its cause. It lists, for example, under the heading “Where We Are Strong” several demographics it intends to target with specialized working groups: “East Germans, rural areas, workers, Russian Germans, young voters” — demographics that a well-informed left should also focus on.

It’s obvious that the Left must rebuild its former strongholds in East Germany. Likewise, it should pay special attention to rural areas if it doesn’t want to become a party of “urban elites.” And it’s the most obvious thing in the world that a Left that claims to be a workers’ party must appeal to workers. In her successful direct-election campaign in Berlin’s Lichtenberg district, Die Linke party leader Ines Schwerdtner (a former Jacobin editor) showed that areas with a high Russian-German working-class population don’t necessarily have to be AfD territory. The fact that already in February’s federal election Die Linke could position itself as the strongest voice for young voters must also be causing some pain among AfD ranks.

If the AfD’s master plan truly depends on Die Linke jumping on command through “gender gaga” hoops (a derogatory term for identity politics around gender), then it should be easy to prevent their rise to power. The greater danger is that the far-right party might win even without a good strategy — simply because their opponents have no good strategy either.

My view, shared by very few, is that the Cold War was distinctly a US project that began in 1946–47 and ended in 1963. Its original impetus was to make internationalism — a euphemism for a worldwide scope of potential intervention — an unshakeable shibboleth of bipartisan foreign policy. Thus it denied the legitimacy of […]