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In an unprecedented move, 22 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, and Australia, issued a joint statement condemning the Islamic Republic of Iran for what they called “hostile actions and extraterritorial operations against individuals on the soil of other countries,” and demanded the immediate cessation of such actions.

In the statement, published on Thursday, June 11, the Islamic Republic’s security services were accused of using local and international criminal networks to carry out assassination plots, kidnappings, intimidation, and harassment against dissidents, journalists, and citizens in Europe, North America, and Oceania.

The signatories emphasized that attempts to kill, abduct, or threaten individuals on foreign soil constitute violations of national sovereignty and international law and must “cease immediately.”

The countries also held the IRGC Intelligence Organization and the Quds Force responsible for some of the operations and attacks against opponents of the Islamic Republic, Iranian journalists, and Jewish and Israeli communities and interests abroad.

Another section of the statement accused the Islamic Republic of covertly backing a series of attacks against Jewish centers and citizens in Europe, some of which were claimed by a group calling itself “Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya.” These include incendiary attacks on synagogues and Jewish sites in the United Kingdom, as well as a bladed-weapon attack on two Jewish citizens in North London.

The warning comes after Australia previously accused the Islamic Republic of involvement in several antisemitic attacks, including the arson of a synagogue in Melbourne and a kosher café in Sydney. Following those accusations, Canberra expelled the Islamic Republic’s ambassador and suspended consular activities at its embassy in Tehran.

The signatory countries concluded by stressing that they would remain “united” in the face of these threats and called on the Islamic Republic to immediately end what they described as “destabilizing and dangerous behavior.”

A New Jersey woman found her tires slashed and an antisemitic note on her car windshield while visiting family in Manhattan last week, according to police and family members.

“Zionist rats aren’t welcome anywhere but Antarctica or hell,” the hateful note said.

The vile note was found on a silver Kia parked on 124th Street in Harlem on Thursday, June 25, 2026, police said.

The 56-year-old woman was visiting her brother, Yaron, in Harlem on Thursday when she found the vile message on her silver Kia SUV parked near Marcus Garvey Park on West 124th Street at around 5:45 p.m., the brother and cops said.

“She was shocked. This is something that has never happened to us,” Yaron told PIX11 News on Monday.

Hours before the disturbing discovery, Yaron said he and his sister were walking along 124th Street when a passerby yelled, “Free Palestine.”

Yaron said they ignored the 6-foot stranger in a black baseball cap.

“It’s one of those things you feel would never happen to you, and if it does, it happens to someone else, not you,” he said. “This time it ended with vandalism. Next time it could be violence.”

Police said the antisemitic incident is being investigated by the Hate Crimes Task Force. There have been no arrests.

"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)

via ThoughtCo

Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:

But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.