One Antisemitic Hate Crime Every Six Hours

The FBI counted an antisemitic hate crime every six hours last year. Jews were the target in 1,528 hate crimes in 2025 — 63% of all religion-based hate crimes, though Jews are 2% of the population. That's a 21% drop from 2024, the third-highest on record. Three people were killed. ¹

An Israeli soldier missing since 1982 is home. Sgt. First Class Yehuda Katz went missing at the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in Lebanon 44 years ago. Military Intelligence and the Mossad found his remains and flew them to Israel Tuesday; his parents died without knowing. Zamir, the IDF chief: "We will leave none of our people behind." ²

A Bay Area special election has AIPAC spending millions against a Gaza "genocide" claim. State Sen. Aisha Wahab, who wants to end U.S. military aid to Israel, faces moderate Melissa Hernandez in Tuesday's special election. AIPAC's super PAC put $2.5 million against Wahab; a group it funds added $1.8 million more. ³

Hero: Haley Van Erem. The DOJ Civil Rights lawyer spent nearly a decade there before joining Trump's antisemitism task force, then told investigators the administration pushed Ivy League settlements past what the facts supported: $200 million from Columbia before the probe was finished, $50 million from Brown after her own team found no violation. Rep. Jamie Raskin called it "a pre-baked frame-up." ⁴ The backstory →

Villain: The IDF's Duvdevan unit. Commandos raiding the West Bank village of Qabatiya on Monday wrote numbers on detained Palestinians, including a "44" on one man's forehead. It's the second such incident this year; the first was in April, at Jenin. MK Ahmad Tibi called it "shocking and disgusting," saying it recalled "dark times." The military's own statement: "lessons have been learned." ⁵

Today is 6 Elul. Twenty-one years ago, Pope Benedict XVI's first trip to Germany as pope included a stop at a Cologne synagogue, where he warned of "new signs of anti-Semitism." ⁶