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Extremist Speakers Blame Jews, Warn of Islamism Surge

7/15/2026

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Eve Barlow Condemns

Former music journalist Eve Barlow told Austin that creeping Islamism and anti-Zionism act as a Trojan horse and generate a dark energy from the growing Muslim presence.
Jesse Brown said hatred is fun, needs new fuel, and claimed Zionists are losing and censored in the media.
Saad dismissed physician Gabor Maté as a Holocaust survivor, introduced “suicidal empathy,” and blamed Jews for crimes, citing a debunked UK Muslim sex-trafficking figure.

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Tafsik Hosts Symposium

The World Symposium Against Antizionism took place on May 17 in Woodbridge, Ontario.
Far-right Jewish group Tafsik organized the symposium as a “wartime” response to October 7.
Police guarded the venue while Zionist vigilante group Magen Herut staffed doors.
Jews Say No To Genocide activists offered a bagel lunch and a sign “Anti-Zionism is Love.”
Tafsik director Amir Epstein said the museum’s Palestine exhibit does not reflect Jews who “celebrate the Nakba.”

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Goldfeder Defends Zionism

Lawyers are seeking to bind Zionism to Judaism as an immutable characteristic under civil-rights law.
Mark Goldfeder, CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, says Zionism is essential to Jewish identity and should be protected.
He warns that any government move to separate Zionism from Judaism would be dramatic and abhorrent.
Proponents argue the framing would use the Civil Rights Code to shield Jews from discrimination claims over Israel.

History

Historical Context

In November 1975 the UN General Assembly, backed by the Arab League, passed Resolution 3379 labeling Zionism a form of racism (72-35-32), a Cold-War split opposed by Israel and the United States. The determination was overturned on 16 December 1991 by Resolution 46/86 (111-25-13) to enable Israel’s participation in Madrid conference, and U.S. lawyers and National Jewish Advocacy Center seek to enshrine Zionism as a protected class, echoing the debate.

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Eve Barlow Condemns

Former music journalist Eve Barlow told Austin that creeping Islamism and anti-Zionism act as a Trojan horse and generate a dark energy from the growing Muslim presence.
Jesse Brown said hatred is fun, needs new fuel, and claimed Zionists are losing and censored in the media.
Saad dismissed physician Gabor Maté as a Holocaust survivor, introduced “suicidal empathy,” and blamed Jews for crimes, citing a debunked UK Muslim sex-trafficking figure.

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