On October 8, even prior to the disclosure of Israel-related news by several major media outlets, the Department of Aliyah Promotion within the World Zionist Organization, under the leadership of its North American director, Eugene Lekah, organized an emergency rally in New York City.

The assassination of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah by Israel was a resonant event, and the world’s reaction to it was ambiguous.

The criminal court of the city of Ghent in Belgium acquitted Belgian writer and playwright Herman Brusselmans of charges of inciting hatred and advocating violence against the Jewish community.