“Five years after ‘People Love Dead Jews,’ the novelist’s new book reframes Jewish hatred as a lie about destruction — and tells Jews they don’t have to accept it”

JEWISH INSIDER
Dara Horn’s shocking new title hides a serious argument about fighting antisemitism
Gabby Deutch
August 5, 2026

If you thought People Love Dead Jews — Dara Horn’s 2021 essay collection examining society’s reverence for remembering deceased Jews while failing to support the living ones — was an awkward book to read in public, just wait until you get your hands on Horn’s newest title: The Final Solution to the Jewish Question. Horn, a celebrated novelist who has become the bard of contemporary antisemitism since Dead Jews was published five years ago, is in on the joke; she likes to say that both titles make great beach reads because no one will dare sit within several feet of you. (Her dad even made a custom People Love Dead Jews beach towel for her to test out the theory.) But despite borrowing its title from the name of the Nazis’ infamous plan to rid Europe of its 11 million Jews during World War II, Horn’s latest book, which will be published on Sept. 1, is not a Nazi manifesto. READ MORE

LISTEN TO THIS DAN SENOR – DARA HORN INTERVIEW WHERE SHE DEFINES ANTISEMITISM IN A TOTALLY NEW WAY WITH IDEAS FOR SOLUTIONS

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“Holocaust memory was never meant to be simply about learning dates, visiting museums, or repeating the words “Never Again.” It was meant to teach something more demanding: that the murder of Jews is wrong regardless of the political circumstances in which it occurs”

FUTURE OF JEWISH
They remember the Holocaust, but forgot its lesson
Shane Shmuel
August 14, 2026

There are places where history should impose a particular seriousness upon us. Mauthausen is one of them. A concentration camp is not merely a historical attraction. It is a place where human beings were stripped of their names, their dignity and, ultimately, their lives — because they were Jews, political opponents, Roma, prisoners of war, and members of other persecuted groups. To walk through such a place is to confront what happens when hatred becomes ideology and when the humanity of an entire people is treated as expendable. That is why the video gone viral showing students wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the Palestinian flag and the image of a Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel is so morally jarring and repugnant. In that attack, 38 Israelis were killed, including 13 children. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis until the Nova musical festival on October 7th. At the time, it was aimed at undermining the Egyptian peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. It raises an uncomfortable question: Have we remembered the Holocaust in a way that we have forgotten its moral lessons? READ MORE

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Haddad: “I was attacked by a groyper in the U.S… he just didn’t realize he had picked a Golani soldier!”

COMBAT ANTISEMITISM MOVEMENT
Pro-Israel Advocate Assaulted by Failed Congressional Candidate After Los Angeles Podcast Debate
August 12, 2026

Israeli Arab activist Yoseph Haddad was attacked outside a Los Angeles podcast studio on Monday after a debate opponent called him a “baby killer” and “murderous monster” over his past IDF service. Haddad, known globally for his pro-Israel advocacy, took part in a one-against-ten debate with pro-Palestinian counterparts on the American podcast Digital Social Hour. The assailant, former Republican congressional candidate Dennis Feitosa, called Haddad a “genocidal f***ing freak” during the exchange. Feitosa recently ran California’s 30th Congressional District primary contest, but finished in sixth place with 4.7% of the vote in the June 2 election. Video footage showed Feitosa grabbing at Haddad’s hand as the two argued, before Haddad pulled him forward and their heads collided. The two were separated, then continued the confrontation outside, where Feitosa came up behind Haddad and put him in a headlock. READ MORE

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Bibi: “We can and know how to stand our ground—even against our best friends when necessary”

JNS
Inside Story: Why Israel rejected the Board of Peace’s plan for Gaza
Charles Bybelezer and Amelie Botbol
August 9, 2026

…“There will be no Israeli withdrawal from the [ceasefire] Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip before Hamas disarms,” the source said, adding that Israel had conveyed its objections to aspects of the proposed roadmap through the appropriate channels….“There will be no Israeli withdrawal from the [ceasefire] Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip before Hamas disarms,” the source said, adding that Israel had conveyed its objections to aspects of the proposed roadmap through the appropriate channels. Strook emphasized that Trump’s original 20-point plan stipulated that all weapons in the Gaza Strip would be removed or destroyed, whereas under the Board of Peace’s new roadmap they would instead remain in Palestinian hands. “All the missiles, weapons, explosives and tunnels will go to this new entity, which is meant to govern in accordance with existing Palestinian law. It will be far worse than the Palestinian Authority, which does not possess such an arsenal,” she said. READ MORE

MIRYAM INSTITUTE Benjamin Anthony and John Spencer: Disarming Hamas and Acronyms without Meaning Anthony: This disarmament plan really appears to have been written by a 6-year old inhabitant of Candyland where unicorns and fairies are the only inhabitants of the areas around. It’s completely and utterly detached from reality.

THE JC Yaakov Katz: Most in the West will not get it, but Netanyahu’s rejection of the Trump plan is nothing to do with left or right After October 7, the gap between the prime minister and his two main rivals, Gadi Eisenkot and Naftali Bennett, on Hamas is far narrower than many imagine. The real question is whether they would stand up to a US president when necessary

FUTURE OF JEWISH Joshua Hoffman: The Gaza Board of BS You cannot have peace in Gaza when Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad remain meaningful political and military forces. You cannot have lasting peace in the Middle East while the Islamic Republic of Iran and Qatar finance and support armed organizations dedicated to destabilizing the region. And you certainly cannot create peace by constructing an elaborate international bureaucracy that depends, in significant part, on the cooperation of the very organizations that made Gaza the jihadist fortress it is today.

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“I serve in Congress. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory this week is only the latest evidence that my party is being overrun by antisemitism. We know where this leads”

FREE PRESS
The Democratic Party Is Being Hijacked by Socialists
Rep. Josh Gottheimer
August 7, 2026

This week, Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. He didn’t do so by focusing on lower costs for families. Instead, he did so by making the U.S.-Israel relationship the villain of his campaign, repeatedly questioning Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. He spent his last days on the campaign trail with Hasan Piker, an online streamer who has praised Hamas, referred to Orthodox Jews as “inbred,” and blamed America for 9/11. Hate is being normalized in plain sight, and not just online. It has now manifested not only in elections, but also outside synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses. This shouldn’t scare only the Jews. These sentiments are anti-American. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Julian Epstein: I’m a longtime Democrat — fighting for GOP’s Mike Rogers, and my party’s soul, in Michigan After decades of giving my all for Democratic House and Senate candidates, this fall I will support — and contribute to — Mike Rogers, Michigan’s GOP Senate nominee, instead. And I’ll do everything I can to make sure other Democrats follow. With the exception of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, my party’s leaders have sought to appease the dangerous faction rising in our midst.

REALITY CHECK Daniel Pomerantz: Abdul EI-Sayed could be the next President of the United States. And it’s worse than you think. A strike on Israel fits within Presidential authority. All that’s left is to elect someone who believes Israel is “evil.”

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The Tel Aviv plaza where for two years people rallied to demand the return of Israelis abducted by Hamas has had its nickname, Hostages Square, made official

JNS
Israeli embassy in US honors memory of six hostages murdered in Gaza
August 8, 2026

The Israeli embassy in Washington marked on Saturday the Hebrew calendar-dated second yahrzeit—the anniversary of a person’s death—of six hostages who were murdered by Hamas terrorists in a tunnel in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, in August 2024. The six are Master Sgt. Ori DaninoCarmel GatHersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander LobanovAlmog Sarusi and Eden Yerushalmi. “Alongside our Shabbat candles, we light candles in their memory and carry their light forward. May their memories forever be a blessing, and may their light continue to shine,” the embassy tweeted…The hostages were found in a 65-foot-deep tunnel with gunshot wounds to the head and other parts of their bodies. One of the hostages showed signs of being tied up and they all showed evidence of neglect and having not bathed for a long time. READ MORE

JTA ‘History cannot be erased’: ‘Hostages Square’ in Tel Aviv is formalized in official name change The plaza that became the center of Israel’s campaign to bring home the 251 captives Hamas seized on Oct.7, 2023 is now formally called “Hostages Square,” establishing a permanent reminder of the more than two-year struggle that ended with the return of the final hostage in January. Mayor Ron Huldai unveiled new signage at the plaza outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Wednesday, formally adopting the name Israelis had used for the site for close to three years. Hostage families and their supporters gathered at the square for mass rallies, weekly Shabbat gatherings, vigils and public events demanding the release of those held in Gaza. 

TIMES OF ISRAEL Former hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen returns home to perform songs he composed in Hamas captivity Former hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen took to the stage Monday night to sing nine songs he composed in his head during 498 days of Hamas captivity in Gaza. There were songs about his wife and daughters, one of whom was born while he was in captivity. He wrote about his fear that his young family hadn’t survived the October 7 Hamas onslaught — in fact, he didn’t know they were alive until mere days before his release on February 15, 2025. 

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“Officers in ‘Nili’ unit confirm facial recognition, artificial intelligence, detainee interrogations, humint being used in operation to track down every participant in Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion, massacre, abductions”

TIMES OF ISRAEL
IDF, Shin Bet acknowledge for first time special mission to hunt down and kill all Oct. 7 terrorists
Jeremy Sharon
August 9, 2026

…As recently reported by The Times of Israel, the IDF and Shin Bet have devoted significant time and resources to eliminating the terrorists who took part in the October 7 atrocities, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage. Officers of the special joint IDF-Shin Bet unit dubbed “Nili” have worked over the last three years to compile an extensive list running to thousands of names of those involved in the atrocities, and painstakingly worked to identify, find and eliminate them…According to the Channel 12 report, 2,800 people on Nili’s list have been killed, including the 1,200 terrorists killed by Israeli security forces in southern Israel during the onslaught, the worst-ever invasion of Israel and the bloodiest single attack in the history of the nation. READ MORE

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“October 7th did not expose a contradiction in “progressive” ideology. It revealed the ideology operating exactly as designed”

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The ‘progressive’ framework didn’t fail the Jews. It worked as planned.
Matt Field
August 11, 2026

…A document Sinwar wrote by hand in August 2022, more than a year before the attack, captures the calculation precisely. He predicted Israel would be “surprised by the attack and enter into chaos” before responding with “the means and weapons at its disposal.” He added: “It is possible that it will even use a nuclear bomb.” He proceeded with the plan. The military risk, up to and including nuclear annihilation, was a price he had already decided to pay. The bet he was making was not military. It was institutional. They had studied Western “progressive” institutions, their ideological architecture, their frameworks, their reflexes — and they concluded that those institutions would convert Jewish death into Israeli guilt, that the human rights infrastructure would perform against Israel on schedule, and that the aftermath would damage Israel more than the attack damaged Hamas. READ MORE

CNN CNN Poll: A third of Democrats now identify as democratic socialists They’re some of the party’s staunchest supporters, but many are also raring for a party overhaul at a time when democratic socialists are seeing new momentum at the polls.

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA DSA “Our Program” As one of my readers phrases this “prey on the uninformed, whine, envy, lie, confiscate what others produce, reward indolence, protect lawbreakers, extol social aberrations, demonize Israel and Jews”

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“The nutrition survey, coordinated by UNICEF, showed that children in Gaza have low levels of acute malnutrition”

JERUSALEM POST
‘Facts prevail over fiction,’ Danon says as new UNICEF-led survey challenges Gaza famine claims
August 7, 2026

A newly published UNICEF-led survey revealed that the levels of malnutrition in children are lower or similar to those registered before the Israel-Hamas war, with Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon saying on Thursday that it was proof that the “false narrative against Israel” of there being a famine in the Gaza Strip is falling apart… According to the results of the survey, acute malnutrition rates across Gaza ranged between 0.2% and 0.8%. These are levels comparable to or below those recorded in Gaza prior to the Israel-Hamas War, and are significantly lower than those reported in neighboring countries, including Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER UNICEF Report Dispels Gaza Famine Narrative, Enclave Less Malnourished Than Finland A newly released nutrition survey coordinated by UNICEF has found that acute malnutrition among children in the Gaza Strip remains at low levels, with Israeli officials arguing the findings undermine widespread claims that a famine is taking place in the enclave.

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‘Your antagonism toward Israel has remained steadfast,’ Michael Morris wrote. ‘Your vote continues to demonstrate a lack of support for the Jewish state’

JEWISH INSIDER
Atlanta Jewish Times publisher accuses Ossoff of ‘lying’ about Israel support
Marc Rod
August 12, 202

The publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times penned an open letter to Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Wednesday pressing the senator over his repeated votes to block U.S. military sales to Israel, accusing Ossoff of failing to support Israel and of misrepresenting his positions to his Jewish constituents. “I apologize for being blunt, but please, stop lying to me and your constituents. I hear you claim, over and over again, that you support Israel — that your support is ‘ironclad,’” Michael Morris wrote in the letter. “It is not. You vote against Israel on the Senate floor in Washington, then come home to Georgia and make this untruthful claim.” The open letter is the latest expression of frustration with the Jewish first-term senator, who is up for reelection in November, from prominent leaders in Georgia’s Jewish community. Others have told Jewish Insider they feel that they have no good options in November’s midterm, between Ossoff, whose stances on Israel have frustrated them, and Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), whose rhetoric and ties to antisemitic and far-right figures have raised alarms. READ MORE

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