Michael Starr

Michael Starr is the Diaspora affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, covering global Jewish affairs, antisemitism, and radical anti-Israel activities.

Previously, Starr was the legal affairs and police affairs correspondent.

Starr is a veteran of the October 7 war and earned a BA in government and diplomacy and an MA in security studies at Reichman University.


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Texas officials seek vandals after ‘antisemitic’ flags hung on Heath school

The Nationaal Monument op de Dam, a memorial to World War II, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

'Never again is now': Anti-Israel activist arrested for vandalizing Amsterdam WWII memorial

A freighter belonging to the Australian company Toll (Illustrative).

'Death to Australia': Anti-Israel anarchist group responsible for series of attacks on freight firm


Ohio man pleads guilty to assaulting students because they were Jewish

Timur Mamatov, 20, pleaded guilty to assaulting two Jewish OSU students in a hate crime that left both hospitalized with serious injuries, the DOJ said Friday.

Timur Mamatov, 20, pled guilty to assulting OSU students because of their Jewish identity.

'Yemen Cyber Army' hacker who defaced Israeli, US websites sentenced in UK

Mashriky would target low security websites, often creating pages with messages about his "religious and political ideology."

Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky

Jewish scholar, historian, and leader Rabbi Berel Wein dies at 91

Rabbi Berel Wein's impact on the Jewish world blossomed not only from his films, books, and audio lectures, but also the founding and leadership of institutions.

‘JEWISH HISTORY is the key to faith and belief,’ opines Wein.

IDF reservist at GHF's aid project: Far from perfect, but not a Gaza 'death trap'

MILITARY AFFAIRS: The SDS system is not the “deadly trap" story from Hamas’s Gaza Health Ministry data, but it’s far from perfect. For the safety of civilians, the plan needs improvement.

Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels as they raid trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 9, 2025.

Rubio: US gov't will designate Muslim Brotherhood a terror org.

While this was "in the works," Marco Rubio noted challenges in the process, such as having to designate each branch of the Muslim brotherhood individually.

 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio takes part in a media briefing during the 58th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' meeting and related meetings at the Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 10, 2025.

New York man sentenced for firing shotgun outside Albany synagogue during Hanukkah

The 29-year-old had traveled to Temple Israel by Uber on December 7, and approached the house of worship's entrance with a Kel-Tec 12-gauge pump shotgun.

Albany, New York

Three firebombs hurled at Russian synagogue for second arson attack this year

The previous July 10, 2024, attack saw vandals set fire to the synagogue's electrical box

In second arson attack in year, three firebombs hurled at Russian synagogue.

UCLA holds emergency meeting after Trump demands $1b. antisemitism settlement

UC President James Milliken said that the Justice Department had made the proposal to UCLA on Friday, on the heels of the university system’s offer to engage “in good faith dialogue."

 PROTESTERS SUPPORTING Palestinians in Gaza gather at UCLA in May.

Victoria police seek synagogue vandal who threatened revenge against 'child-killing Jew-monsters'

The grey-haired Caucasian man is suspected of scrawling threatening antisemitic messages on a pillar at the entrance of the synagogue on August 2.

Canada's oldest synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El in Victoria, B.C., was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.

Three arrested for throwing paint, smashing Israeli Hague embassy door

Suspects of the vandalism were arrested by local police.

Smashed door at the Israeli embassy at The Hague.