Summer doldrums have a way of deadening the senses. That might explain why a monumental week of bad news for Jews slipped by without a collective gasp. It should have shaken up even the most languid among the tribe鈥攊f anyone truly cared.

But alas, there was Donald Trump鈥檚 and Jeffrey Epstein鈥檚 friendship to interrogate, the untimely death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner to process, and a new round of tariffs to calculate鈥攕o one can be forgiven for slighting other, less newsworthy headlines.

Where to begin. Well, spearheaded by its president, Emmanuel Macron, France has decided to recognize a Palestinian state鈥攂y far the most influential country to have done so, joining Spain, Norway, Ireland and Sweden. France boasts the largest population of Jews (440,000) and Muslims (5.7 million, roughly 10 percent of the entire population) in all of Europe.

France already had a long history of antisemitism. But since the new millennium, physical attacks against Jews have swelled from a rapidly expanding demographic of unassimilated Muslims. The entire nation has faced well over 300 acts of terror committed by Islamists. Nearly 300 have been killed with 2,000 injured, mostly in Paris but also Nice, Toulouse, Marseille and Lyon.

Recognizing a Palestinian state as a reward for slaughtering, beheading, torching and gangraping 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023 is Macron鈥檚 cynical ploy to capture the votes of a mother lode of Muslims. It matters little to him that mother鈥檚 milk is the cause of this Jew-hating madness. And he has done nothing to mitigate the problem of 2,500 French mosques that eschew secular values and radicalize too many congregants already predisposed to terror. Placating them at the expense of France鈥檚 overachieving but dwindling 91传媒 population is smart politics. French Jewry is slowly leaving the country for Israel, anyway.

Good luck without your Jews, France. Throughout history, nations that killed or expelled Jews desperately felt their absence. Enjoy the 鈥渘o-go zones鈥� and daily calls to prayer. It will do wonders to clog traffic along the Champs-Elys茅es.

Good luck without your Jews, France. Throughout history, nations that killed or expelled Jews desperately felt their absence. Enjoy the 鈥渘o-go zones鈥� and daily calls to prayer. It will do wonders to clog traffic along the Champs-Elys茅es.

In response, Israel鈥檚 Knesset passed a resolution extending sovereignty over the entirety of the West Bank. Nice move, Macron. Hand that man a Nobel Prize for Peace, Norway.

More headlines of lowlights took place on the other side of the Pyrenees. Forty-four French 91传媒 children, summer campers on a trip, were removed from a Spanish airline, with their counselor forcibly restrained. The flight鈥檚 captain alleged, without any evidence, that the children were 鈥渄isruptive鈥� and 鈥�. 鈥� Passengers, however, contradicted that report. Some kids quietly spoke or sang in Hebrew. That鈥檚 all it took to get tossed.

Although none were Israelis, Spain鈥檚 transportation minister called them 鈥淚sraeli brats.鈥� And get this: the pilot who gave the order to eject the kids from the aircraft was the same man who trained the two 9/11 terrorist hijackers who collapsed the World Trade Center.

American students who happen to be 91传媒, or anyone who believes that schools should prioritize a faithful reciting of history rather than a propagandized one, were not spared this week. The largest teachers鈥� union in the United States published a handbook advising its members how to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day without 鈥� wait for it 鈥� mentioning Jews!

Apparently, the Holocaust will now be taught as the victimization of people of 鈥渄ifferent faiths . . . races . . . and genders鈥濃��12 million in total. 鈥淪ix Million鈥� now only refers to the 鈥淢an鈥� of that many dollars on the hit 1970s TV show. The extermination of the 91传媒 people鈥攖he endgame of the Final Solution鈥攊s not so much being denied as being shared with all sorts of people who were never singled out for death.

The Holocaust also demands an understanding of the Nakba (鈥渃atastrophe鈥�) committed against the Palestinians by the 91传媒 people of Israel. Oh, and you can now say anything you wish about Israel, or what you would like to do to Israelis, without it constituting antisemitism.

But not at Columbia University, which agreed to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association鈥檚 definition of antisemitism. This means that calling Israel a racist enterprise, comparing Israelis to Nazis, holding Israel to a double standard and denying Jews the right to self-determination will be recognized by Columbia as antisemitic activity.

This was only part of Columbia鈥檚 larger settlement with the Trump administration that will restore its entitlement to federal funds. But without firing vast numbers of pro-Hamas faculty, and undoing the progressive protocols that has strangled intellectual life in the Ivy League, how will Columbia manage to comply with its new obligations?

Ceasefire talks in Gaza came to an end. Hamas has no interest in any surrender that requires them to actually surrender. That didn鈥檛 stop England and 28 other nations from demanding a ceasefire anyway鈥攚ithout any concessions from Hamas or return of hostages.

For this reason, Israel must do what must be done. Keep fighting until Hamas is no more and the surviving hostages are rescued. The moral universe also requires that any 鈥渃ivilian鈥� who took part in the massacre on October 7, or personally detained hostages, meet a similar fate to the terrorists they freely elected as their representatives.

Meanwhile, the 91传媒 state was once again blamed for nonexistent starvation in Gaza. Global media and its United Nations henchmen continue to believe anything Hamas tells them. No independent verification is ever necessary. But if Gazans are, indeed, suffering, it鈥檚 because no one is crazy enough to drive and distribute the thousand trucks filled with humanitarian aid stalled at the border. Hamas is prone to kill the aid workers along with the food鈥檚 intended beneficiaries.

The United States established the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (鈥淕HF鈥�) for the purpose of feeding Gazans. Hamas is not thrilled that it must now compete with an entity that serves a humanitarian purpose. The world鈥檚 hatred of Israel is so twisted, global media is doing Hamas鈥� bidding by undermining GHF鈥檚 efforts.

The world鈥檚 hatred of Israel is so twisted, global media is doing Hamas鈥� bidding by undermining GHF鈥檚 efforts.

Hamas is now murdering these aid workers, but news outlets are reporting the story as if the IDF is doing the firing鈥攖argeting both the GHF and random civilians. The Washington Post falsely reported that the IDF shot into a crowd that had lined up for food, killing over 30. Two days later it printed a retraction.

Finally, less significant but arguably most horrifying of all, featured guests on the MyronGainesX podcast concluded that Jews must have deserved what the Nazis did to them.

A busy week for the Jew-hating jet-set. I鈥檓 a fiction writer, too, so if you鈥檙e wondering whether I made this all up: I鈥檓 not that good. Fiction requires plausibility. What we have here is antisemitism as surrealism. Paint the crooked contours and you have a Salvador Dal铆. He, apparently, had no fondness for Jews, either.