After an Israeli airstrike killed Hassan Nasrallah, the charismatic leader of Hizballah, many Lebanese mourned him, especially in heavily Shiite areas like the country’s south. But there were many others who were relieved, or even overjoyed, to see him go. In Syria, which suffered immensely at the hands of Hizballah fighters who fought alongside Russian and Iranian forces to crush the opposition to Bashar al-Assad’s rule, there were scenes of people celebrating and handing out candy.

The Center for Peace Communications has conducted a number of interviews with the people of these countries about their attitudes to Hizballah, taking care to protect the identities of the interviewees. In the videos (which can be watched here), one can hear about the extent to which Hizballah indoctrinates children in the areas under its control, the centrality of religion in motivating its supporters and fighters, and its brutal tools for suppressing dissent. Herewith, Joseph Braude presents the eighth and final interview, with a young woman who grew up in southern Lebanon. (Video, 4 minutes.)

In October, a young Mauritanian national murdered an Orthodox Jewish man on his way to synagogue in Chicago. This alone should be sufficient sign of the rising dangers of anti-Semitism. Nathan Diament explains how the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (AAA) can, if passed, make American Jews safer:

We were off to a promising start when the AAA sailed through the House of Representatives in the spring by a generous vote of 320 to 91, and 30 senators from both sides of the aisle jumped to sponsor the Senate version. Then the bill ground to a halt.

Fearful of antagonizing their left-wing activist base and putting vulnerable senators on the record, especially right before the November election, Democrats delayed bringing the AAA to the Senate floor for a vote. Now, the election is over, but the political games continue.

You can’t combat anti-Semitism if you can’t—or won’t—define it. Modern anti-Semites hide their hate behind virulent anti-Zionism. . . . The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act targets this loophole by codifying that the Department of Education must use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of anti-Semitism in its application of Title VI.