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Wall Street Journal
2 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Antisemitism Moves Into the Political Mainstream
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born writer intimately familiar with Islamist and anti-Israel extremism, recently warned that a global 'purge of the Jews' is under way. It's an ideological insurgency with a clear goal: 'Erase not just Israel 'from the river to the sea,' but the Jewish people from the moral map,' Ms. Ali wrote in a recent essay. Her words ring true in this new world, where politicians refuse to denounce a 'global intifada,' kosher restaurants become targets and lunatics shoot Jews on the street. The purge includes the vilification of Israel and the blacklisting of Jews and Israelis in various professions by the unlikely pairing of militant Islamism and a revived Maoism. Together, their political credo of 'resistance' and 'liberation' declares that Jews are the oppressors and must be driven out of polite society. It's happening in many areas of public life. Several prominent international authors won't permit their books to be translated into Hebrew or published in Israel. Many Israeli authors have a hard time finding publishers outside Israel. Israeli scholars and their writings are no longer welcome at certain professional conferences and journals. The exclusion also extends to Israelis participating in sports events, musical programs, art exhibitions and pride parades. Israeli and Jewish-owned restaurants have been protested, boycotted and vandalized in Philadelphia, Miami, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Houston, Los Angeles and as far as Athens and Melbourne, Australia. One New York restaurant owner, trying to make sense of why his establishment was vandalized, said, 'It's not about Zionism or not Zionism. It's kosher food.'
Sky News AU
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Glastonbury 2025: ‘Hatred against Jews' is being ‘mainstreamed'
Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali says hatred against Jews is being mainstreamed. This comes amid the English music festival Glastonbury, where rap duo Bob Vylan began chanting anti-Israel rhetoric. 'Hatred against Jews is being mainstreamed,' Ms Ali told Sky News host Steve Price. 'If you look at, if you watch very closely … don't focus on the rap or the artist, look at the audience. 'The audience is enraptured by this.'
Sky News AU
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Iranian people are ‘desperate' for regime change: Hirsi Ali
Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali says the Iranian people are 'desperate' for regime change. One ballistic missile has been fired into Israel from Iran after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a bilateral ceasefire. 'They just need a little bit of help from us,' Ms Hirsi Ali told Sky News host Peta Credlin. 'I hope that Donald Trump and Netanyahu rise to the occasion.'
Sky News AU
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why the Iranian regime needs to be ‘brought down'
Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali says the Iranian regime is committed to expanding 'terror' beyond its borders. One ballistic missile has been fired into Israel from Iran after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a bilateral ceasefire. 'The reason why it is really important, in my view, to bring this particular regime down is because it is explicitly committed to exporting the Islamic revolution beyond Iran's borders,' Ms Hirsi Ali told Sky News host Peta Credlin. 'At this very moment, it is weak, and I think we have been doing for many decades ... a half-done job.'
Sky News AU
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Iran would wipe Israel ‘off the map' if they secured nuclear weapons
Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses the 'divine mandate' of the Iranian regime and their 'apocalyptic' goals in the Middle East. One ballistic missile has been fired into Israel from Iran after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a bilateral ceasefire. 'First and foremost, they would wipe Israel off the map,' Ms Hirsi Ali told Sky News host Peta Credlin. 'The quest for the caliphate never stops; it is to change your society, to change your region and then to change the whole world.'
