Another bruising week for Jewish communities: families on a summer break in the French Alps woke to their hire cars spray‑painted “Free Palestine”; relatives of Israeli hostages laid Shabbat tables with empty chairs outside the prime minister’s residence; and volunteers hanging hostage posters in Frankfurt were splashed with red paint. Across oceans, Iran‑backed Houthis fired a cluster‑warhead missile at Israel, while in Maine, a neo‑Nazi flyer urged shoppers to boycott Jewish businesses.

At the same time, Australian police charged another suspect over the arson that gutted Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue; Hamas publicly celebrated the Dutch foreign minister’s resignation after an EU sanctions dispute; and a Baroque portrait looted by Nazis resurfaced in an Argentine property listing.

These stories: vandalism, intimidation, terror and stolen art; span continents but share a disturbing thread: attacks on Jewish life, people and dignity.

Online, a new trend mocks Jewish ties to the land by showing AI‑generated caricatures claiming random objects were “promised 3,000 years ago.” On Friday, Australia responded to the firebombings of Jewish venues by expelling Iran’s ambassador, suspending its embassy in Tehran and moving to list the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.

Across all these episodes, the answer is the same: keep naming the facts and refuse to normalise antisemitism, whether in red paint or viral memes.