There is nothing innocent about confusing antisemitism with anti-Zionism. Italian semiologist Valentina Pisanty (Milan, 1969) asks a rather provocative question at the beginning of Antisemita! (Comanegra, translated by Marta Nin): "How is it possible that in the name of the memory of the Holocaust we have collectively thrown open the doors to the return of ultranationalists in Europe and their consolidation in Israel?" A professor at the University of Bergamo and author of essays on interpretive semiotics, fairy tales, humor, political discourse, the rhetoric of racism, and memory, she analyzes how the use of the word antisemite has changed. Pisanty argues that the word antisemite "has been hijacked" by the Israeli right with the support of many international organizations officially tasked with fighting racism and antisemitism. All of this, together, according to Pisanty, with the approval of almost all Western governments.

The Jewish Community of Barcelona (CJB) publicly denounced a vandalism attack against several graves in the Jewish section of the Les Corts cemetery in the city. In a statement, the organization explained that all Jewish areas in the city's cemeteries—Les Corts, Collserola, and Sant Andreu—will remain closed until Monday, January 26, following the recommendation of Barcelona Cemeteries, to prevent further desecration, gather information, and "accurately assess the situation and take appropriate action." The incidents reportedly took place on Saturday afternoon, and the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) opened an investigation on Sunday to identify the perpetrators and their motive, according to sources within the Catalan police force who spoke to EFE. However, no formal complaint has been filed. Images published by the CJB show a number of vandalized graves. The disorder is widespread: marble gravestones are broken, displaced, or lying on top of other graves or on the ground. In some cases, they are cracked, and in others, fractured into several pieces, making it clear that there has been a deliberate act of destruction.

"Then came days of orgiastic slaughter. Jews from all over the region, families in carts, women pushing their children in strollers, trains full of Jews, columns of Jews on foot were being dragged into the city, by the hundreds, by the thousands, and were being massacred everywhere, in the streets, in the fields, alive. They were being shot, shot at, I saw a German officer approaching and looking at a pretty thirteen-year-old girl who had just gotten off a train. Mordecai Striegler, a Polish Jew, escapee from various camps and ghettos, was telling the American journalist Meyer Levin about his life and survival one April day in 1945 in Buchenwald.

I am writing in the midst of the ruthless August of the Netanyahu Israeli government, culminating in the announcement of the invasion of Gaza and a new colonial plan in the West Bank. With these actions—let us not forget, endorsed by a democratically proclaimed executive—the Israeli leadership is combating the growing consensus on a two-state solution to end the war and conflict in Palestinian territory. I could write filled with indignation, but I do so enlightened by two texts on the Jewish Question that I rediscovered this summer, written almost a century ago by European voices.

A video, visibly made with artificial intelligence, is circulating on the Internet, showing a series of Hollywood stars (directors such as Steven Spielberg or Woody Allen, actresses such as Scarlett Johansson, musicians such as Lenny Kravitz), who have in common the fact that they are Jewish. They are all dressed in a white T-shirt with a drawing of a closed fist with the middle finger raised, above the name Kanye. The message, therefore, would be "fuck you, Kanye", in reference to the rapper Kanye West, who has recently declared himself a Nazi again (he had done so on previous occasions) and has paid a large amount of millions of dollars to advertise during the Superbowl his latest fashion design: a T-shirt with the Nazi swastika printed on it. West, who lately also calls himself Ye, claims that this "is my best performance design", and has obsessively spread his admiration for Hitler and his anti-Semitism on the networks and in statements to the media. Also his machismo and his aporophobia: at the last Grammy Awards gala, Kanye West and his partner, the model Bianca Censori, appeared again as they usually do: without saying either donkey or beast, he fully clothed and she completely naked. West's statements on this controversy were: "I have control over my woman, this is not feminist shit." woke"She's with a billionaire, why should she listen to any of you poor fools?" All of it, a good MAGA Trumpist manual.

A video, visibly made with artificial intelligence, is circulating on the Internet, showing a series of Hollywood stars (directors such as Steven Spielberg or Woody Allen, actresses such as Scarlett Johansson, musicians such as Lenny Kravitz) who have in common the fact that they are Jewish. They are all dressed in a white T-shirt with a drawing of a closed fist with the middle finger raised, above the name Kanye. The message, therefore, would be "Fuck you, Kanye", in reference to the rapper Kanye West, who has recently declared himself a Nazi again (he had done so on previous occasions) and has paid a large amount of millions of dollars to advertise during the Superbowl his latest fashion design: a T-shirt with the Nazi swastika printed on it. West, who lately also calls himself Ye, claims that this is his "best performative design", and has obsessively spread his admiration for Hitler and his anti-Semitism on the networks and in statements to the media. Also his machismo and his aporophobia: at the last Grammy Awards gala, Kanye West and his partner, the model Bianca Censori, appeared again as they usually do: without saying either donkey or beast, he fully clothed and she completely naked. West's statements on this controversy were: "I have control over my woman, this is not feminist shit." woke"She's with a billionaire, why should she listen to any of you poor fools?" All of it, a good MAGA Trumpist manual.

At least 44 people have been killed and more than 150 injured when they were trapped by crowds at a Jewish religious festival on Mount Meron in the Galilee, northern Israel. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox pilgrims were taking part last night in the Lag B'Omer celebration, in which Jews congregate for all-night prayers and religious dances. It was the most crowded event since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, as the country is now getting back to normal after vaccinating more than 60% of the population.