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Dr Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary left antisemitism. We interviewed Izabella and asked her to comment on antisemitism since October 7 and the current state of academia.

“Holocaust education was the best cure for antisemitism,” he stated in an interview with Australian actor Nathaniel Buzolic, who has been vocal in his support of Israel since October 7. He immediately followed that statement and said, “It turns out it’s not true.”

The Holocaust Foundation supports the recent call for the appointment of a special envoy to combat antisemitism. Quoting a recent media release by NZJC and HCNZ, it is time for New Zealand to get “serious about battling the world’s oldest hatred – antisemitism. We call on the government to appoint a special envoy…”

Antisemitism is surging throughout the world and nowhere is this more evident than on university campuses. Yad Vashem Chairman, Dani Dayan, has written to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik urging her to show leadership and moral clarity in the face of unveiled Jew hatred on her campus.

Glazer specifically said that he refutes his Jewish ancestry and secondly accuses Israel (whom he doesn’t mention by name) of “hijacking the Holocaust by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many, for so many, innocent people.”

Retired Associate Judge of the High Court, David Robinson, writes: “If the press is to avoid having blood on its hands it must be very careful not to inflame a very volatile situation and go down in history as causing a pogrom.”

In response to the antisemitic thuggery of Hamas supporters, Auckland Museum has now apologised for the lighting of its building in expression of solidarity with the Jewish nation. This is shameful.

Our grief is further compounded by the equivocation of several New Zealand leaders, in their response to Hamas’ attack… This is a time for moral clarity. Antisemitism is virulent and knows a multitude of expressions. It must be called out.

A pogrom is conventionally defined as a mob attack resulting in a massacre, with the approval of authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national group. As the details of the barbaric acts against Israelis become clear, the leadership of Hamas, the Iranian Regime, and the Hamas paymasters, the Qatari Regime, are guilty of carrying out and supporting a pogrom, and actually celebrating these unspeakable crimes…

Narratives that prevail in academia soon filter down to politics, media and culture more broadly. The founder of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, Dr Charles Asher Small, recently spoke of his findings concerning Muslim Brotherhood funding of many of the world’s finest universities. The implications for antisemitism are significant.