This week’s news update covers a troubling pattern across the globe.
In the UK, West Midlands Police Chief Craig Guildford resigned after fabricating AI-generated “evidence” to justify banning Israeli football fans while a whistleblower accuses the force of institutional antisemitism and routinely dismissing hate crimes against Jews. Meanwhile, Trump’s personal lawyer has engaged the State Department about offering asylum to British Jews, arguing the UK is “no longer safe.” From Sydney to Lisbon to Antwerp, Jewish and Israeli businesses are being forced to close under coordinated harassment campaigns. In NYC, bakery employees are demanding their Israeli owners stop catering “Zionist events” meaning Jewish community fundraisers. In Charlotte, Nazi imagery was discovered at a Jewish community campus housing a day school and JCC. In London, Jewish schoolchildren were terrorised on their bus by attackers shouting slurs and throwing rocks. But there’s resilience too. Israeli comedian Guy Hochman was detained 6 hours at the Toronto airport , then performed anyway. Wheelchair tennis star Guy Sasson competed at Adelaide as a top seed despite everything.