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Who's responsible for deadly antisemitism? Everyone will hate the answer

JL;DR SUMMARY This analysis by Joel Swanson highlights the troubling rise of deadly antisemitic attacks in 2025, as documented by a Tel Aviv University report. 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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Jewish CommunitiesDiaspora JewsViolenceRight Wing PoliticsPolitical ManipulationProgressive ViewsBondi Beach MassacreTel Aviv University Report

Places mentioned

London, England, United Kingdom
"Police officers guard a Hanukkah candle-lighting organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Chabad in London on Dec. 15, 2025."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"This information, released in a report from Tel Aviv University on the eve of Yom HaShoah earlier this week, should haunt everyone, regardless of political affiliation."
Bondi Beach, New South Wales, Australia
"The Bondi Beach massacre did not happen because a government defined antisemitism too broadly."
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
"The synagogue attackers in Manchester, England did not gun down worshippers because someone misapplied the IHRA definition."
Boulder, Colorado, United States
"The victims of attacks in Boulder, Colorado and Washington, D.C. were not statistics manufactured by an advocacy group."
Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"The victims of attacks in Boulder, Colorado and Washington, D.C. were not statistics manufactured by an advocacy group."
Canada
"In Canada, incidents rose from roughly 2,000 in 2022 to 6,800 in 2025."
Australia
"In Australia, the total number of reported antisemitic incidents rose from 472 in 2022 to 1,750 in 2025 nearly a fourfold increase in three years, including multiple arson attacks on synagogues, in addition to the Bondi Beach shooting."

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