BREAKING: Protests across Australia have erupted.

500,000 patriots on the streets across the country demanding remigration.

Australia has woken up. pic.twitter.com/jVU2ubVcLe

— The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) August 31, 2025

 The protest in Australia is taking place against the backdrop of growing tensions over national identity and immigration in several countries. In Britain, the "fly the flag" protest recently broke out, a grassroots movement to fly British and English flags in protest of the country's record-breaking illegal immigration. At the same time, huge pro-Palestinian demonstrations have shaken both countries, with calls in some cases for support for terrorism and hatred against Israel.

In Sydney, the country's largest city, between 5,000 and 8,000 protesters gathered wrapped in Australian flags, according to Reuters estimates. The demonstration took place next to the Sydney marathon course, where 35,000 participants ran. Police deployed hundreds of officers across the city, and the event ended "without significant incident," according to a police spokesperson.

In Melbourne, the most serious clashes were recorded when thousands of anti-immigration protesters confronted a counter-protest by left-wing organizations and pro-Palestinian groups. Large police forces were deployed to separate the rival camps, and officers used pepper spray to disperse protesters, according to the Australian network ABC. In Melbourne, Thomas Sewell, a leader of the country's far right who is defined as a neo-Nazi and supports white supremacist ideas, was among the speakers who addressed the protesters.

Marie Watt, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, issued a strong condemnation of the protests. "We absolutely condemn the march for Australia," she said in an interview with Sky News. "This is not intended to increase social harmony. We do not support rallies aimed at spreading hatred and dividing our community."

The organizers of the protest claim that mass immigration "tore the social fabric that held our communities together," citing damage to local culture, a decrease in wages, traffic congestion, a housing crisis, environmental damage, a burden on infrastructure and hospitals, an increase in crime, and a loss of a sense of community.

"Our country can no longer contain more people, and the government continues to bring more and more in," Glenn Olchin, one of the protesters in Sydney, said in an interview with Reuters. "Our children cannot buy houses, people wait seven hours in hospitals, and there are not enough roads."

The largest protests against mass-immigration in Australia's history are taking place right now.

Tens of thousands are taking part in the "March for Australia" protests in:

- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Brisbane
- Perth
- Adelaide
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Townsville
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 Since the war in Gaza began, huge pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been held in major cities in Australia, with some protesters carrying Taliban flags, pictures of Khamenei and Iranian nuclear scientists, and shouting chants such as "death to the IDF." These demonstrations were also attended by politicians, including a member of parliament from the Labor Party and a senator from the Green Party, who called for recognition of a Palestinian state and the imposition of sanctions on Israel.

At the same time, an unprecedented wave of antisemitism is afflicting the country, a wave that has included the burning of synagogues, attacks on Israeli restaurants by masked individuals, and other events. Australia recently revealed that Iran was behind at least some of the attacks, with agents of Iranian origin using local criminals to carry out the arsons, which led to the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador from Canberra.

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Members of the National Socialists Network held a flashmob protest last night, marching through the Melbourne CBD for over an hour whilst displaying a banner reading "WHITE MAN FIGHT BACK"

The march was led by NSN leader Thomas Sewell.
This is the first major protest the group… pic.twitter.com/I0Y06C0TRz

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 During the march, a 26-year-old man who approached the group and tried to stop them was violently attacked and taken to the hospital in non-life-threatening condition. No one was arrested during the march.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan harshly condemned the march and said, "Nazis don't belong in this country and they know it. That's why they hide behind masks in the dark." Allan announced that new anti-vilification laws will take effect next month, and subsequently, police will be granted powers "to unmask cowards at protests."

Nazis don't belong in this country and they know it.

That's why they hide behind masks in the dark.

I thank Police who maintained the public order.

It's clear they need more powers, and we're giving it to them.

Our criminal Anti-Vilification laws come into effect next month.…

— Jacinta Allan (@JacintaAllanMP) August 9, 2025

The march was led by the far-right organization "National Socialists Network," and it is considered the first major demonstration by the organization since Australia Day events, when more than a dozen participants were arrested, including the organization's leader himself, but all charges were later dropped.

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The 40-year-old defendant, who faces significant legal penalties for his actions, attended the race wearing a brown shirt emblazoned with "ADOLF" in English letters and the numeral 8 beneath it. This name-number combination clearly referenced Adolf Hitler – symbols strictly forbidden under German law.

Neo-Nazi groups routinely employ the number 88 as coded language for "Heil Hitler," utilizing the numerical position of the letter H in the alphabet.

Furthermore, while competitors thundered around the track, the law-breaking suspect approached a nearby beer concession stand and donned a rubber Hitler mask, parading openly with the offensive disguise. Astonishingly, other race attendees eagerly posed for photographs with him, apparently delighted to capture selfies with "the dictator."

Security personnel eventually received complaints about the display, prompting immediate action to eject the neo-Nazi from the facility. Officials arrested him on-site and transported him for interrogation. "Such behavior has absolutely no place at our racetrack. We responded instantly upon identification," declared the race director, emphasizing that the individual would be permanently banned from future events.

Gestern beim MotoGP am Sachsenring – Typ mit Hitler-Maske posiert öffentlich für Fotos. Wir sind komplett verloren.
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German police representatives confirmed that "criminal investigators have launched an immediate inquiry into this incident. The suspect faces charges for displaying symbols of prohibited organizations."

The neo-Nazi now confronts severe legal consequences as prosecutors prepare their case. German statutes mandate harsh penalties for his violations, including substantial monetary fines potentially reaching tens of thousands of euros, plus judicial discretion to impose up to three years imprisonment.

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A community theater production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in Michigan was marred Saturday night when five masked men positioned themselves outside the venue, brandishing Nazi flags and shouting antisemitic slurs. The threatening display created such tension that audience members required security escorts to reach their vehicles safely.

The cast members, who were portraying Anne Frank and her family, discovered the demonstrators' presence during intermission. In a powerful display of resilience, the actors maintained their roles as Jewish refugees hiding from the Nazis, ensuring the performance continued. "The shocked staff united and completed the performance with strength and professionalism," theater officials stated.

During a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank in Fowlerville, Michigan, masked protesters waving Nazi flags gathered outside the theater.

The Fowlerville Community Theater informed the audience of the incident at intermission, but the cast continued the play "with… pic.twitter.com/1tYcOEipOv

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"This production focuses on real people who lost their lives in the Holocaust, and we tried to tell their story as realistically as possible," the theater's statement read. "On Saturday night, things became more real than we expected; the presence of protesters outside gave us a small glimpse into the fear and uncertainty felt by those in hiding."

Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Jewish Democrat who represents the district and was recently elected to the Senate, strongly condemned the incident. "It's more important than ever to fight hatred, especially at the local level," Slotkin wrote on X. "And to the handful of cowardly antisemites hiding behind masks and waving Nazi flags: Nazis always lose."

"Hail Hitler" and "Hail Trump" - People wave Nazi flags outside theatre presenting Jewish play, "The Diary of Anne Frank," in Michigan. pic.twitter.com/bjC2Z1e4Ak

— Bryan Dawson (@BryanDawsonUSA) November 12, 2024

The performance was held at the American Legion Hall in Howell, a city of about 10,000 residents east of Lansing, which had provided its space to the Fowlerville Community Theater. Legion officials confirmed they had agreed to host the play specifically to address concerns about rising antisemitism.

Bobby Bright, a legion commander and military veteran, told local news outlets, "People were stunned and shocked." He noted that the situation had become so menacing that numerous audience members required security escorts to their vehicles following the performance.

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German neo-Nazi and Holocaust-denier Henry Hafenmayer's remains were recently buried in a plot that once held the remains of Jewish musicologist Max Friedlaender and which still features his gravestone.

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Hafenmayer was convicted for incitement after sending Holocaust-denying letters to public institutions, gaining him notoriety among extremists before his death at 48 years old.

The neo-Nazi's burial at the Protestant Stahnsdorf Southwestern Cemetery in Brandenburg, just outside of Berlin, was attended by dozens of far-right extremists, including Holocaust-denier and founder of a German terror group, Horst Mahler.

Friedlaender, who died when Hitler was in power in Berlin in 1934, was from a Jewish family but identified as "Protestant" in the burial registration slip. His cremated remains were moved to another plot in 1980, though the headstone was left and declared as a monument, said the BBC.

According to The Guardian, Hafenmayer's lawyer initially requested a central plot for the remains of the neo-Nazi, but it was rejected over fear that extremists would rally there – and a second request for Friedlaender's plot was granted because, stated the church, "everyone has a right to a final resting place."

After photos from the burial show Hafenmayer's urn placed on Friedlaender's headstone – which the extremists covered with a black cloth displaying his name and a quotation from John 8:32: "And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" – church authorities admitted that a "terrible mistake" was made that needs to be rectified.

Leah Floh, president of the Jewish community of Monchengladbach/Viersen in Western Germany, expressed to Jewish News Syndicate that such mistakes only exist in "antisemitic fairy tales," as the "Protestant church in Germany has big problems with Jews and especially Israel."

Likewise, German student Vanessa Maas, 22, who attends Maastricht University, told JNS that "the people who buried the ashes knew exactly what they were doing."

Originally from Trier, Germany, Maas is active in the Union of Jewish students in Germany and is currently undertaking an internship in Berlin, which involves monitoring and combating antisemitism in Germany.

"Above all," the student said, "this shows that antisemitism has arrived in the [mainstream] of society. … There must be more information about what antisemitism is, especially in official structures, and especially how it can be better prevented. It doesn't just come from the right, from the left and from elsewhere. No, antisemitism also comes from the middle and is often hidden," she maintained, suggesting that seminars and workshops about antisemitism are not being taken seriously enough in Germany.

Floh labeled the incident "a provocation of neo-Nazis" who believe "einmal Jude, immer Jude – once Jewish always Jewish" – and said that such a situation cannot be properly rectified.

"Is it possible to reanimate 6 million Jews and return them their lives?" she asked rhetorically. "Is it possible to return us our grandparents, who were killed in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Babi Yar or even buried alive? Who knows and can understand Jewish heartache and tragedy? Of course, the church will check if the relocation of the ashes is possible and will try to find a dignified burial site. … But is it possible to solve it at all?"

The fact that the Protestant church allowed a neo-Nazi hero to be buried in the plot of a famous Jew is a "slap in the face and offense to all the Jewish people," she added, noting that antisemitism in Germany can very quickly become socially acceptable and even in fashion among all sectors of society.

"That is what we see and feel in Germany at the moment. It is dangerous, tragic and hard to stop," she said.

'It makes me angry and sad'

Indeed, in a recent survey initiated by the Action and Protection League, 22% of Germans were found to hold moderately antisemitic beliefs, while 6% were found to hold strongly antisemitic beliefs. One-quarter of Germans were found to believe that Jews exploit Holocaust victimhood for their own purposes.

According to the initiator of the European-wide antisemitism study, Rabbi Slomó Köves, while this represents a relatively low prejudice when viewed among other European countries, Germany has one of the highest rates of antisemitic attacks among the 16 European nations with large Jewish populations.

"I knew that the recent rise in antisemitism in Germany was dramatic, but I didn't expect to hear these high numbers," said Floh, who attended the presentation of the survey in Brussels on Oct. 12, together with other leaders of Jewish communities around Europe. "This makes the situation even more complicated and threatening."

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"It makes me angry and sad that something like that still happens in the 21st century," said Maas. "This is what is tolerated in Germany. In some ways, Germany does a lot in historical reappraisal; for instance, that it is part of the curriculum to learn about the Holocaust, but it is still far from being a champion in historical reappraisal, as it often claims."

Berlin's antisemitism official Samuel Salzborn reportedly filed a criminal complaint at the justice department, telling The Guardian: "It is obvious that right-wing extremists deliberately chose a Jewish grave in order to disturb the eternal peace through the internment of a Holocaust denier."

He added that "it must now be quickly examined how quickly the Holocaust-denier can be reburied to no longer disturb the dignified memory of Max Friedlaender."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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Two men and a woman, alleged neo-Nazis, were indicted Friday evening over an alleged plot to attack at least one Masonic lodge, French media reported Friday.

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The three were handed over to France's anti-terrorism prosecutor.

French news channel BFMTV reported that a Masonic lodge in the eastern Moselle region was targeted, although it appeared the attack had not gone beyond the planning stage.

The three were among six people arrested Tuesday in the Bas-Rhin and Doubs regions. Three of the six were released. The men being investigated are 29 and 56 years old and the woman was 53, according to French media.

The three, already on the radar of authorities, were arrested because of communications between them and stake-outs of targets, the newspaper Le Monde reported.

In recent years in France, there have been numerous arrests of extreme-right groups, including neo-Nazis.

In 2018, six people were arrested on suspicion of plotting to attack French President Emmanuel Macron. Nine members of an ultra-right group calling itself OAS who were arrested in 2017, are awaiting word of when they will go to trial.

Last year, 15 members of a group calling itself Operational Action Forces, allegedly looking to target Muslims, were placed under investigation.

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Argentinian journalist Julio López recently discovered a Spanish-speaking hate network by creating a computer program that scans websites for hate speech. A journalist and hacker by trade, López originally sought to search for groups like QAnon, wondering if there were similar groups in Argentina. His study unexpectedly uncovered a secret network of alt-right, Nazi groups in Latin America that perpetuate conspiracy theories related to Jews.

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"I found out there are groups like QAnon in Argentina – there are many – and they're large and have done a tremendous job" infiltrating the web, López told Jewish News Syndicate. After creating computer code utilizing terminology that is considered hate speech, his program scanned thousands of sites, exposing a "breeding ground" for hate that he says is experiencing a "boom."

"The first one I found had a YouTube channel with 220,000 subscribers, 3,000 hours of video and over 24 million views," he explained. "They were recording on a TV studio to replicate regular media content." The channel, named "TLV1" posed as a legitimate Israel-based news site with the same name, violated YouTube community standards and was eventually taken down for inciting hate.

Conspiracy theories perpetuated, according to López, such as "theories like the Andean plan for Jews to merge a nation into Patagonia, and the idea of a new order governed by key positions that are occupied by Jews;" ideas about "a superior race and the male man as the center of the family;" as well as portraying Jews as "immigrants who steal jobs."

This particular YouTube channel, he explained, spanned multiple countries including Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Spain, and had linked Facebook groups in order to reach the maximum number of people. It operated for three years before López's advocacy got YouTube to shut it down. "However, Facebook allowed their groups to stay open while YouTube banned them; therefore they still had the power to regroup," he said.

A second group that López found was "more militarized and had more than 80,000 subscribers, wore black and used Nazi fonts and icons … recruiting young people and nurturing them with these ideals. We also found hundreds and hundreds of Telegram channels and satellite groups on Facebook, just waiting to regroup and take action."

According to López, a self-proclaimed "tech geek who loves media and happened to end up with a microphone in front of me," his algorithm also uncovered hate speech in the network towards the LGBTQ community, women and reproductive rights, and other minorities, and calls to disobey the state.

López, who hosts the most-listened-to radio show in the country, "Lanata Sin Filtro," said Argentine media originally refused to broadcast his findings (which López said occurred out of fear of the sites losing financial partnerships with Facebook and Google) until pro-Israel NGO Fuente Latina secured him an interview on CNN Español and other major news networks.

'Hate is country-specific'

According to the founder of Fuente Latina, Leah Soibel, only after the story received international press did Argentinian media organizations begin to cover the story.

What López's network uncovered, said Soibel, is an "incredibly dangerous" trend that exists in the context of fatal antisemitic attacks within the Jewish communities of Latin America. Referring to the anniversary of the March 17, 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that killed 29 people and injured more than 250, Soibel told JNS that "the scars are still real and fresh, and no one has been brought to justice."

"The proliferation of hate speech in Spanish is very real and needs to quickly be addressed," she said. "We know too well that what is published on these sites inevitably leads to someone acting on it."

Soibel commended López for his interest, which intrigued many, as López is not Jewish and even Jewish professionals were not aware of the "tightly knit network that expands to Spanish media in America" that he has exposed.

Uncovering the antisemitic "dark web," said Soibel, is vitally important in what she views as an "information gap" that has occurred during the pandemic, as journalists are not working from their normal production studios, and extremist outlets have sought to fill that void.

Once his study was disseminated in the media, López reported receiving death threats by the extremists that he exposed, with his picture circulating and being called a "Zionist pig."

He has also spoken out against inadequate responses by tech giants. "Facebook and Google don't have the adequate personnel to work on hate speech as compared to [those companies in] the United States," said López, whose efforts to flag content as racist and antisemitic proved unsuccessful on social-media websites.

His long-term goal is to educate social-media platforms such as Facebook that they must approach hate speech differently – not grouping all Spanish-speaking countries together, but understanding that hate speech is a separate phenomenon occurring in countries with different histories and cultures supporting it.

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"Facebook needs to recognize that Holocaust denial, while it is a serious European and American issue, is not the No. 1 form of verbal antisemitism in Latin America," said Soibel. "Each country has its own form of expressing hate. Hate groups are cultural; there is no one linguistic standard. Rather, hate is country-specific, and Facebook should assign a representative for each country to deal with such challenges."

López added that he hopes his study will help to uncover "one more piece in the puzzle that clears the confusion between freedom of expression and  hate crimes," as well as empower Jewish organizations to fight hate and collect enough evidence to "take these groups to court and generate a ruling."

"Hate is not simply stopped," he said. "Hate must be taken to court."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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The report reveals extremely disconcerting trends of increased and intensifying anti-Semitic incidents across the globe in general, and in Western Europe and the United States in particular.

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In 2019, according to the report, seven Jews and non-Jews were murdered in a series of anti-Semitic attacks, and many others were wounded. The report also states that anti-Semitic violence came from different directions and was inspired by various ideologies, by the far-right, white supremacists, the extreme left, radical Islam and even escalating street violence perpetrated by African-American youths.

The epicenters of anti-Semitism: Western democracies

The report reveals that anti-Semitism mainly poses a threat to Jews living in Western democracies with large Jewish communities – the US, France, Great Britain and Germany. The US saw a rise in the number of violent anti-Semitic incidents, with over 100 violent street attacks in Brooklyn alone in the past year.

In France, too, there was a drastic increase in the number of reported anti-Semitic attacks in the first half of 2019. And for the second consecutive year, online anti-Semitic abuse intensified, with many anti-Semitic commenters no longer searching for an excuse, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to spew classic anti-Semitic rhetoric.

In Germany, there was a 20% increase in anti-Semitic incidents, among them the Halle synagogue shooting on October 9, in which two bystanders lost their lives. Additionally, throughout 2019 Jews were assaulted in the streets, targeted with insults and threats, and neo-Nazi groups and political parties openly disseminated neo-Nazi propaganda and called for the release of Holocaust deniers from prison.

In Great Britain, meanwhile, where an ant-Semitic candidate, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, vied for the premiership in 2019, the Jewish community sensed an existential threat to its future in the country.

Success in combatting anti-Semitism on social media

A positive trend noted in the report was the drastic drop, about 25%, in anti-Semitic discourse on monitored online sites and forums, primarily the result of new policies – mainly on Facebook and Twitter. However, anti-Semitic activists have been moving to alternative social media sites and to the dark web.

Diaspora Affairs Minister Tzipi Hotovely addressed the report's findings at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday.

"To our great regret, the trend of rising anti-Semitism is continuing, and it seems the lessons of history are not erasing the deep hatred toward the Jewish people," she said. "Our duty is to turn the impressive show of international solidarity here on Thursday [at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum] into an actionable work plan to effectively fight hatred of Israel."

Hotovely added: "2019 was a watershed period for US Jewry. Half of the hate crimes reported to the FBI targeted Jews; there were terrible anti-Semitic attacks, such as the attack at the synagogue in San Diego, the attack at the kosher grocery in Jersey City and the Hanukkah attack in Monsey (New York); all these represent a dangerous and worrying escalation. In France and Britain the concerning trend is continuing at unprecedented levels. The Corbyn case proves that the problem of anti-Semitism reaches the highest levels of politics."

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The action came after the identities of hundreds of Iron March users were leaked onto the internet.

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"Anyone sympathetic to neo-Nazi ideology and violent extremism has absolutely no place on Airbnb, and our community is a better place without them," an Airbnb spokesman said in a statement.

Iron March is an online site that allows people from all over the world to connect in a forum-like setting and its members have been linked to murders and terror attacks across Western countries.

"This was a no-brainer – when we see people on our platform pursuing behavior antithetical to our Community Commitment, we take action to prioritize the safety of our community," the spokesman told the Daily Mail.

"Through our trust and safety systems, we are continuously seeking to proactively identify those who could put our hosts and guests at risk," the spokesman added.

So far, Airbnb has removed over 1.2 million users the company deemed had violated its "Community Commitment" anti-discrimination policy instituted in 2016, its spokesman told the Daily Mail.

In early October, Airbnb said it would back off a plan to remove Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria from its rental listings to end lawsuits brought by hosts.

Israeli lawyers had filed a class action suit against Airbnb in November immediately after it said it planned to remove listings of Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria "that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians."

Parts of this article were originally published by i24NEWS.

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The virulently anti-Semitic slogan infuriated the local Jewish community.

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Yaakov Hagoel, acting chairman of the World Zionist Organization, said in response to the incident that "Diaspora Jews are crying out for security, justice, and a calm life. It's time to devote effort and resources to an uncompromising battle against anti-Semitism. Education, laws, and even strict enforcement in cases of hate speech, threats, or attacks are vital in every country right now, and sooner rather than later."

Last month, the French police arrested five members of a neo-Nazi cell who were planning to carry out terrorist attacks on Jewish and Muslim places of worship throughout France. France 24 reported that a senior French legal official said that the cell members who were arrested "held opinions similar to those of the Nazis."

Europe in general and France, in particular, have seen a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in recent years. A new survey conducted by the Conference of European Rabbis, which represents hundreds of Jewish communities on the continent, indicated that nearly half (49%) of Israeli travelers were afraid they would encounter anti-Semitism while abroad. More than half (55%) of parents of young children said they were afraid of being targeted in anti-Semitic attacks.

In addition, 71% of respondents said they believed that European Jews were no longer safe in their own countries.  When asked if European Jews should move to Israel, 91% of respondents said they should.

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