Antisemitism · Politics

The Jewish Priority We Can’t Ignore in 2026

Summarizing Nachum Kaplan in Future of Jewish · Published Friday, January 2, 2026

JL;DR SUMMARY Nachum Kaplan's essay on the Jewish experience in 2025 outlines the alarming normalization of antisemitism across Western democracies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Places mentioned

Israel

"Even a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, ending the fighting about which the anti-Israel brigade claimed to be protesting, did not stop attacks on Diaspora Jews."

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

"Throughout 2025, chants of Globalize the intifada! echoed through mass demonstrations in London, Sydney, Toronto, New York, and capitals across Europe."

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"Throughout 2025, chants of Globalize the intifada! echoed through mass demonstrations in London, Sydney, Toronto, New York, and capitals across Europe."

New York, United States

"Throughout 2025, chants of Globalize the intifada! echoed through mass demonstrations in London, Sydney, Toronto, New York, and capitals across Europe."

Australia

"Only in the final weeks of the year, following the appalling Bondi Beach massacre in Australia that killed 16 Jews and injured dozens of others, did officials begin to rediscover the elementary truth that words carry meaning and consequences and that permitting death chants might not be the wisest or most moral choice a society can make."

France

"Across the UK, France, Australia, and North America, Jewish schools now operate under perpetual security lockdowns: armed guards at gates, police patrols at pick-up time, controlled entry points as routine."

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

"Synagogues were vandalized, defaced, firebombed, and besieged from Paris to Berlin to Melbourne."

London, United Kingdom

"Throughout 2025, chants of Globalize the intifada! echoed through mass demonstrations in London, Sydney, Toronto, New York, and capitals across Europe."

Paris, Île-de-France, France

"Synagogues were vandalized, defaced, firebombed, and besieged from Paris to Berlin to Melbourne."

Berlin, Germany

"Synagogues were vandalized, defaced, firebombed, and besieged from Paris to Berlin to Melbourne."

United Kingdom