Block, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, edit, Moderators, protect
28,077
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 4:
Line 4: − + Line 910:
Line 910: + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Swords of Iron: sources IIIIII (view source)
Revision as of 01:59, May 11, 2025
, 01:59, May 11, 2025→May 4, 2025: Iran limked Islamist Houthis' missile finally hit near TLV airport
==May 4, 2025: Iran limked Islamist Houthis' missile finally hit near TLV airport==
==May 4, 2025: Iran limked Islamist Houthis' missile finally hit near TLV airport +==
_____
_____
Who Is the Real Mohsen Mahdawi?
By Maya Sulkin. 05.06.25.
Last year on Instagram, Mahdawi described a cousin, Maysara Masharqa, as a “fierce resistance fighter” and “dreamer of liberation” who was killed “after a clash with a traitor Zionist force.”
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a network of Palestinian armed groups, said that Masharqa was one of its “most prominent field commanders” in Jenin. The Israeli Defense Forces said Masharqa “took part in shooting attacks against Israeli communities” and was in a vehicle with Hamas’s leader in Jenin when they were killed by the Israeli military in August of 2024.
Israeli court records show that Masharqa also confessed in 2012 to throwing improvised explosive devices and Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers “on a large number of occasions and from a short distance,” making pipe bombs, and conspiring to shoot and kill. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.
“Justice is inevitable,” Mahdawi wrote in an Instagram post in January of this year when his uncle’s name appeared on a list of Palestinian prisoners expected to be released in a deal that also returned to Israel four female soldiers who were taken hostage during the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.
The uncle, Yousef Mahdawi, was sentenced to life in prison for planning a 2003 suicide bomber attack in the Israeli city of Netanya that injured more than 60 people. Israeli court documents show that Yousef Mahdawi recruited the bomber and has received about 1.1 million shekels ($311,000) from the Palestinian Authority since his arrest as part of its “pay for slay” program for Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israel.
Two of Mohsen Mahdawi’s other cousins died in a firefight with Israel in 2023. An Instagram post last October shows their faces and those of four more cousins and an uncle, all “born, raised, and killed in refugee camps” by “the Israeli Zi0nists [sic] violence in the West Bank,” he wrote.
Then there’s the question of what, exactly, Mahdawi has been doing since he arrived in the U.S. in 2014.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Mahdawi studied computer engineering at Birzeit University in Gaza from 2008 to 2014. He then worked at a bank in New Hampshire for about a year. Mahdawi was at Dartmouth College in 2016 and 2017, and “studied a handful of classes for one year,” his LinkedIn profile said.
But Dartmouth told The Free Press that its records “indicate that no one by that name is or has been enrolled as a Dartmouth student.”
Mahdawi then studied at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania for more than two years, but left in the spring of 2020 without finishing a degree, the college said. His LinkedIn profile said he started a “Middle Eastern student organization” and “a catalyst group to bring change and diversity into the student senate.”
In 2021, Mahdawi began at Columbia. By then he had logged more than 20 semesters as an undergraduate between his stints at Birzeit and Lehigh. After more than a decade in the U.S., he has said he hopes to graduate this month and start a master’s degree program in September in international and public affairs. Columbia declined to comment about Mahdawi.
After October 7, Mahdawi emerged as one of the leaders of the anti-Israel protests on Columbia’s campus. In November 2023, New York magazine described him as co-president of the Palestinian Students Union. A month later, 60 Minutes called Mahdawi a student on the “fight for a free Palestine and the fight against antisemitism.”
[https://www.thefp.com/p/who-is-the-real-mohsen-mahdawi TheFP]
____
Dana Nessel, Rashida Tlaib, and a Very Dangerous Precedent.
Seth Mandel. May 7, 2025.
Meanwhile, as the case dragged on, Nessel was left to fend for herself and the “Jewish disqualification” argument persisted. The judge was even considering granting a hearing on it. That same judge, from Nessel’s perspective, had slow-walked the case nearly to a stall while the AG took steady fire from the left.
It was too much for Nessel. This week, she threw in the towel, dropped all the charges, and, according to court observers, surprised even the defendants with her actions.
“Despite months and months of court hearings, the Court has yet to make a determination on whether probable cause was demonstrated that the defendants committed these crimes, and if so, to bind the case over to circuit court for trial, which is the primary obligation of the district court for any felony offense. During this time, the case has become a lightning rod of contention,” Nessel said in a statement. She lamented that the “distractions and ongoing delays have created a circus-like atmosphere to these proceedings. While I stand by my charging decisions, and believe, based on the evidence, a reasonable jury would find the defendants guilty of the crimes alleged, I no longer believe these cases to be a prudent use of my department’s resources.”
If that were all she had said, the statement would have been a run-of-the-mill copout from an official who was under a lot of pressure and who’d been abandoned by her party.
But it wasn’t. Nessel also mentioned a letter that the Jewish Community Relations Council, part of the local Jewish Federation, sent to the court. The JCRC letter criticized the call for Nessel’s recusal: “If it were successful, this would mark the first time a prosecutor would be disqualified from prosecuting a case based on perceived bias due to their religious faith. The notion that AG Nessel is biased against Muslims and Americans of Arab descent is unfounded and deeply offensive.”
The open letter was intended to be copied to the court’s public information office to make sure all parties at least knew the letter went out. But according to the JCRC, it might have accidentally been sent to an address for a court administrator instead. Such letters are turned into official court documents.
The difference is significant. Nessel blamed the letter’s “impropriety” at least in part for her decision to drop the charges: “now, we have learned that a public statement in support of my office from a local non-profit has been directly communicated to the Court. The impropriety of this action has led us to the difficult decision to drop these charges.”
This was an inexcusable attempt to throw the JCRC under the bus. The letter was in response to, not the impetus for, nearly a year of accusations of bias just because Nessel is Jewish. And even if the letter was sent to the wrong address and therefore became a court document, the mistake is easy to explain and would not strike any reasonable observer as disqualifying.
Finally, even if Nessel was right about the impropriety of the letter’s unintended destination, publicly denouncing and blaming the letter rather than taking responsibility for the decision is petty, harmful to the few people actually defending her from allegations of bias, and chilling to the many U.S. Jewish groups already inclined to sit on the sidelines of these battles.
Dropping the charges amid the looming prospect of a bias hearing will only reinforce the religious bigotry at the heart of the demonstrators’ cases. And it will incentivize members of Congress to continue to use Jewish officials’ religion against them in a public setting.
It’s one thing that Nessel couldn’t take the heat. But her larger sin was burning others in the Jewish community along the way.
[https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/dana-nessel-rashida-tlaib-and-a-very-dangerous-precedent/ Commentary]
____
Amnesty nominates far-left journalist who appeared to hail October 7 for People’s Choice Award.
In a social media post on the morning of the attacks, Michael Walker referenced ‘the right of an occupied people to fight an occupier’.
May 7, 2025.
Amnesty International has nominated a journalist who appeared to hail the October 7, 2023 attacks for its People’s Choice Award.
Michael Walker, who works for far-left outlet Novara Media, made and then deleted a social media post on the day of the attacks, seemingly suggesting they were the act of “an occupied people”.
At 8.54 am on October 7, as the attacks were unfolding, Walker tweeted: “So guys, do we support the right of an occupied people to fight an occupier or not?”
Walker has also previously attracted controversy for his comments disputing the scale of antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.
In one 2018 post, he wrote: “Many members are genuinely scared of talking about what’s going on.
"They can see many of the attacks on Corbyn are politically motivated, that many mainstream Jewish [organisations] have strong ties with Israel, and that part of this row is to suppress Palestinians and their advocates.”
He also said that Labour’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism was a “complete abdication of responsibility by Labour and represents us selling out the Palestinian cause”.
However, in his biography on Amnesty’s site, these controversies was not mentioned. Instead, it read: “Michael is a contributing editor at Novara Media and principal host of Novara Live. He has hosted current affairs shows at Novara Media for over eight years, and has overseen Novara Live to become the most watched online daily news show in the UK.
"He also regularly appears on mainstream outlets, including the BBC, Sky and Channel 5.”
Other nominees include Walker’s Novara colleague Ash Sarkar, who has called Israel’s military operation in Gaza a “genocidal[sic] war”, and long-time Israel critic Owen Jones.
[https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/amnesty-far-left-journalist-october-7-michael-walker-award-xshytqn8 TheJC]
____
How Jew-hate is becoming the norm in the music industry.
May 7, 2025.
Itay Kashti will never know whether it was one of his comments on social media pushing back against the anti-Israel narrative in the music industry that led to him eventually being kidnapped. He just has a hunch that it was.
A record producer who has lived in the UK for nearly two decades, his case – where he was lured to a remote farmhouse in Wales before being physically beaten up and handcuffed to a radiator – was certainly motivated by antisemitism. The three attackers, who were each jailed for eight years in March, had a plan to keep him hostage and then extort money from his family, who they believed were rich.
“Even the police weren’t able to tell me where this thing started but it seems that someone who worked with me or knew of me had given them my name,” he says. “I believe it was probably a product of a heated debate. I had a lot of friends in the music industry who were posting about the war and against Israel and I was responding to them.
“In the group chat between the three kidnappers, the conversation very quickly turned from calling me ‘the music producer’ to ‘the Israeli’ and then just ‘the Jew’.”
After his attackers were sentenced and the story became public, Kashti was approached by some of his former friends, people he had fallen out with after October 7. People who had put the Palestinian flags on their social media on October 8 and told him, “Well, those people shouldn’t have been living there in the first place” when he challenged them about Hamas’s murderous rampage.
“A couple of my former friends reached out but they didn’t make any connection with what they had written about Israel,” he says. “There was no remorse or accountability. Nothing along the lines of, ‘Yes, I now see things in a slightly different light.’ So, it felt more that what they were really saying was, ‘I’m sorry this happened to you, but unfortunately you are still the bad guys.’”
Antisemitism, or at least, anti-Israel hatred in the music industry is in the news thanks to Kneecap, the Irish band who yelled “Up Hamas” and “Up Hezbollah” at one concert and “kill your MP” in another. They are a symptom of an anti-Israel mindset that sees pro-Palestinian activism encouraged while companies, bands and individuals with a connection to Israel are boycotted and cancelled. Those advocating for Kneecap’s free speech are often the same people ruthlessly trying to get Israelis and Jews cancelled.
In fact, this week Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa, one of Israel’s leading rock stars, have blamed threats from pro-Palestinian activists for the cancellation of their UK shows next month and called out the hypocrisy of those defending Kneecap’s right to expression while simultaneously silencing them. The venues where they were due to play – Bristol’s Beacon Hall and London’s Hackney Church – and their “blameless staff” received “enough credible threats to conclude that it’s not safe to proceed”. In a letter, they said: “Forcing musicians not to perform and denying people who want to hear them an opportunity to do so is self-evidently a method of censorship. Intimidating venues into pulling our shows won’t help achieve the peace and justice everyone in the Middle East deserves.”
Israeli singer Dudu Tassa and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s UK shows next month have been cancelled under pressure from the BDS movement.
Dudu Tassa is facing the same hate as his grandfather before him.
Dudu Tassa’s family was expelled from Iraq simply for being…[ pic.twitter.com/6pHH9kOWTz]
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 7, 2025
Two of the UK’s most prestigious artistic institutions have appointed new leaders. Many will never have heard of them, but they are well known to the Jewish community.
Nine years ago, Indhu Rubasingham headed the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn (then known as the Tricycle) when it tried… [pic.twitter.com/NtbG73Qwgj]
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) May 7, 2025
[https://www.thejc.com/life/how-jew-hate-is-becoming-the-norm-in-the-music-industry-cx8poype TheJC]
___
Who Cares If the Anti-Israel Movement Is Anti-Semitic? It’s Evil No Matter What.
May 7, 2025.
I’ve often wondered if the endless debate over whether, and when, hatred of Israel (misleadingly called anti-Zionism) constitutes anti-Semitism is a trap that Jews have laid for themselves and then stepped into. After all, cheering on murderous terrorists in their quest to destroy a successful democratic state is indefensible even if not motivated by racial or religious prejudice. Jacob M. Miller, considering the conclusions of Harvard’s anti-Semitism task force, has come to a similar conclusion:
Take the (Arab. ed.) Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee’s infamous statement blaming Israel for the slaughter of its own people. Was the statement offensive? Surely. Did it reveal an astonishing misunderstanding of the conflict? I would say so. Did it fundamentally change how I see my classmates and make me seriously question their moral compasses? Most definitely.
But was it anti-Semitic? I suppose one could argue that it was—it did, after all, betray a disgraceful disregard for Jewish life. But to me that argument seems tenuous. Instead I content myself with calling the statement what it was: a stunningly shameful act for which, to my knowledge, no one in Harvard’s pro-Palestine coalition has apologized to this day.
There is a reason Harvard created twin task forces on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia—not a “Task Force on Callous Statements Disregarding Human Life,” or a “Task Force on Violent Protest Chants,” or a “Task Force on Stupid Political Ideologies That Could Open Up Millions of People to Religious Persecution.” It’s because we as a society have agreed identity-based discrimination is morally wrong, but have struggled to reach a consensus that any other way of thinking is unethical.
[O]ur national politics, which rightly protects identity groups from prejudice but hasn’t adequately articulated other moral wrongs, has created a twisted incentive structure—one in which Jews on campus feel compelled to characterize certain behaviors as anti-Semitic because they know that is the one sin campus will surely condemn.
[https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2025/05/who-cares-if-the-anti-israel-movement-is-anti-semitic-its-evil-no-matter-what/ MosaicMagazine]
____
Greta Thunberg’s moral siege of Israel.
This is an armada of Israelophobic activists, not an aid mission.
Brendan O'Neill. May 7, 2025.
People talk about the siege of Gaza but few are prepared to reckon with the siege of Israel. For years, the Jewish State has been subjected to a double siege. There’s the physical siege by the armies of anti-Semites that surround it and which dream of its obliteration. And there’s the moral siege by the intellectuals of the West. By our credentialed classes, our activist set, our literary elites, all of whom increasingly derive their fantasy of virtue from their hostility to the Jewish nation. And some of whom also dream of its destruction. ‘From the river to sea’, they cry, to let the world know that their utopia is a Middle East with no Jewish homeland.
It’s a pincer movement of bigotry, a hippy-Islamist nexus of contempt for the world’s only Jewish state. Both the military siege of Israel by Iran’s deranged proxies and the moral siege of it by the West’s post-civilisational left speaks to this century’s crisis of Enlightenment. It should horrify everyone who believes in reason that neo-fascist regressives like Hamas don’t only still exist but also win the sympathy of many of the educated of the West. What the Greta flotilla threatened to do was make the activist class’s moral siege of Israel into something more physical. They wouldn’t be breaking a siege but intensifying one.
Blockades have been a tactic of every war in history. They’re a key means of depriving the enemy of the ability to rearm and refortify. Greta and her chums couldn’t break a big stick far less a military siege, I know. But that they desire to weaken Israel’s siege of a piece of land ruled by a fascist militia that murdered more Jews in one day than anyone else since the Nazis is chilling. There’s a war between the democratic Jewish State and a medieval militia that was founded to kill Jews, and the West’s activist class continually says and does things that benefit the latter more than the former. Never forget how unusual that is, how horrendous.
Greta has jumped from the green bandwagon to the anti-Israel bandwagon, her critics say. I think she’s been consistent. For climate-change alarmism and Israelophobia share something important in common – a haughty weariness with modernity. A doom-mongering built more on bigotry than truth in which either industrious mankind or evil Israel is always on the cusp of destroying humanity. That the West’s youthful End is Nigh hysterics have now taken the wrong side in an existential clash between a modern state and a barbarous militia should not surprise us. It should worry us, though – enormously.
[https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/07/greta-thunbergs-moral-siege-of-israel/ SpikedOnline]
____
Antisemitism: The Assimilation Killer.
We're Jews, and no one can ever defeat us.
Joshua Namm. May 06, 2025.
In each case, our mere existence threaten ideologies that are man centered, not G-d centered. Their ultimate goal is either tyrannical power or to embrace an animalistic lifestyle where every urge and action are justified by invoking the supremacy of the self. In many cases, they go hand in hand.
The Jews stand in the way of both. We always have.
In terms of antisemitism, the period before the Exodus was no different than today. What our ancestors experienced pre-Exodus, is very much the same as what we are experiencing right now.
The good news is that, again as Rabbi Shore points out, and this is not new, antisemitism can remind us of who we are:
“The Midrash teaches that the Jews were redeemed from Egypt because they maintained their distinctiveness—they didn’t change their clothes, names, or language, even in the face of slavery (Shemot Rabbah 1:28). On the surface, this seems like a small detail, but its meaning runs deep. Even in the depths of oppression, the Jews understood they were different—a family with a unique role, even if they weren’t fully ‘doing it all’ in terms of observance. This awareness of their special identity was the crucial step that paved the way for redemption.’”
I have seen this all around me since 10/7. On social media there are stories every single day of people whose Jewishness was awakened by 10/7 and, unfortunately, by Jew hatred all around them. I know people who have gone out of their way, every day, since 10/7 to publicly display their Jewishness, from Magen Davids to tzitzit – there is a national understanding that we are unique, and that understanding often ignites an inner pride that is manifested in Jews - Jewishly doing Jewish things. That pride extends to people doing more mitzvot, lighting Shabbat candles, putting on tefillin, giving more tzedakah, etc. I personally know people who have had this type of experience.
Antisemitism can be a forge that is, once again, galvanizing the Jewish spirit. Not because, obviously, we enjoy being targets of hate, but because at the level of our souls, and our national consciousness, the hate reminds us of who we are.
I know that sounds like it is kind of backwards There is so much beauty in Judaism, it seems like it shouldn’t have to be awoken by a bunch of people acting in barbaric ways. I don’t view it that way.
[https://joshuanamm.substack.com/p/antisemitism-the-assimilation-killer On Substack]
____
Union Officials Fought to Keep 'Rallying Cries for Murdering Jews' Displayed in Legal Aid Office, Complaint Alleges.
Alana Goodman. May 7, 2025.
Union officials promoted an "anti-Semitic toxic environment" at a New York legal aid organization where employees adorned the office with posters defending Hamas terrorism and calling for "intifada," according to a federal anti-discrimination complaint filed on Wednesday.
Jewish union members of A Better NYLAG (ABN)—the employee union of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG)—said the guild has forced them to work next to cubicles plastered with signs supporting the destruction of Israel and terrorist violence.
Slogans mentioned in the complaint include "ABOLISH THE SETTLER STATE," "LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE!," and "INTIFADA NOW."
While the pro-terrorist signs violate NYLAG policies, the complaint states that ABN officials have fought against management in an effort to keep the images up. The union has been actively involved in anti-Israel advocacy, issuing a statement shortly after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in which it accused the Jewish state of "war crimes against Palestinians."
In response to Jewish employees’ concerns, NYLAG management banned those in the office from displaying images related to the Israel-Hamas war. ABN objected, filing an unfair labor practice allegation with the National Labor Relations Board. The union also staged a protest in the NYLAG office, posting on Instagram that members were "wearing their keffiyehs and flying flags in solidarity with Palestinians," the complaint notes.
Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law chairman Kenneth L. Marcus, whose organization filed the complaint with the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said ABN leadership’s behavior flies in the face of the purpose of organized labor.
"Jewish American union members, like all other working people, are entitled to union representation that supports them fairly and equally against toxic environments," Marcus said. "In this case, the union actually made things worse, actively attempting to block management efforts to address a workplace that had been made inhospitable for Jewish workers. This is exactly the opposite of what unions should be doing."
Jewish union members repeatedly raised concerns about the "inhospitable" environment Marcus referenced, the complaint notes. In one email to NYLAG management, a Jewish employee described the posters as "rallying cries for murdering Jews," writing, "[a]s a Jew, I feel threatened when I see these and depressed that they surround my workplace."
[https://freebeacon.com/israel/union-officials-fought-to-keep-rallying-cries-for-murdering-jews-displayed-in-legal-aid-office-complaint-alleges/ FreeBeacon]
____
Student who filmed Barstool ‘f*** the Jews sign’ calls on ‘humanity to join forces’ against ‘J.. supremacy’
The Philadelphia student who uploaded a video of a customisable sign reading “f*** the Jews” in a Barstool Sports bar has called on “humanity to join forces” against “J.. supremacy”.
Mo Khan, who has claimed he was not involved in ordering the sign and that he was acting as a “citizen journalist” by displaying it on Instagram, gave an interview to notorious antisemitic conspiracy theorist Stew Peters, in which he claimed that Barstool’s Jewish founder Dave Portnoy had “ruined” his life.
At one point in the interview, Peters told Khan: “These Jews are very tribal...we’re seeing these people come together.
"We have seen the entire Jewish community...make sure that your life is 110 per cent destroyed.”
He then asked: “Do you think it’s time for humanity to become tribal and join forces against J. supremacy?”
In response, Khan said: “Absolutely, especially in this case, in the case of Americans.
"Our First Amendment right, if we’re not supporting what America’s built on...I have no idea what this country was even born for.”
Earlier in the interview, he had also said: “[This incident] just goes to show how much control one group can have on anyone’s potential career.
“I’ve seen arguments saying that if the same sign said ‘f*** the Muslims’, ‘f*** the blacks’, ‘f*** the Christians”, the impact...would not have been anywhere near the impact that this sign had.
"They’re completely and utterly uprooting and annihilating one individual based on pretty much nothing. If that doesn’t show some kind of supremacy...then I don’t really know what else counts as supremacy.”
Khan has previously released a statement regarding the Barstool incident, in which he insisted he was not responsible for the sign’s creation and said: “I abhor hate in all its forms. I was raised to be respectful and amicable to all people.”
However, at various points during the interview Khan made a number of antisemitic comments, as well as failing to challenge Peters as the latter expressed his own antisemitic beliefs.
Mo Kahn is your typical example of college antisemitism.
Step 1: engage in/promote blatantly antisemitic behavior.
Step 2: face the consequences.
Step 3: play the victim and claim you were just criticizing Israel @stoolpresidente Thank you for your strong leadership 💪 [https://t.co/UW5RwnK1Q5]
— David lederer (@Davidlederer6) May 7, 2025
Everybody knows the rules: I stand with Dave Portnoy. [https://t.co/dR3IhuJacI]
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 7, 2025.
What kind of person throws a bucket of water on a sleeping homeless person for fun? Just another edgy joke. [pic.twitter.com/nkSbGcuzpr]
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 7, 2025
This dude is a flat liar. I talked to him on the phone with his buddy and they both owned up to it and cried about it. He then lawyered up after speaking with his family. His name got out because he’s a moron and uploaded “F#ck the Jews” sign to his instagram before I even… [https://t.co/YHkujPTCEA]
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 7, 2025
NYT asked @stoolpresidente for a comment about the recent antisemitism flap at the Barstool Sports bar.
Portnoy's response: [pic.twitter.com/FQTYrqH4GT] ("I'd rather stick a pencil in my eye than give you the time of day."...)
— Ashley Rindsberg (@AshleyRindsberg) May 7, 2025
Neo Nazi Stew Peters hosts Mo Khan, the now suspended Temple U. student who posted the Barstool “F*ck the Jews” sign to his IG.
Watch as Khan defends the sign as a call to bring attention to Israel’s action & agrees w/Peters about “J.. supremacy”.
[pic.twitter.com/vkFT80n6KU]
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 7, 2025
This is my last post of night but this is unintentionally very funny. It was going so good for Mo on his Neo Nazi show right up till the Nazi said he hates Muslims too. You can’t make this up. [pic.twitter.com/mtCtNpbEto]
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 7, 2025
[https://www.thejc.com/news/usa/student-barstool-fuck-jews-sign-stew-peters-jewish-supremacy-gushm8kt TheJC]
____
Antisemitism is degrading the integrity of our universities – here’s how we can fight it.
By Alex Hearn. May 6, 2025.
Using polls and data, Professor Nelson demonstrates that this toxic environment had been primed long before the encampments. For example, in a pre-October 7 survey of 5,000 students from 600 institutions across the US by the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Threats, 13% said that Jews deserved physical attacks. That figure jumped to 20% after the Hamas attacks.
Nelson does not exaggerate, sensationalise or claim the problem is part of a mainstream mindset. Instead, he investigates how the pernicious influence of a radical but vocal minority of staff and student groups became embedded within academic institutions, culminating in public statements that celebrated the massacre of Jewish families as a “historic win” and a “spectacular feat”.
From encampments, boycotts and exclusion to department activism, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) and hate speech, Mindless pulls the threads together to help us make sense of all the manifestations of this indoctrination. What it successfully illustrates is how politicisation can run riot through all areas of a department, creating preordained conclusions without debate or learning. These negative forces even impact the identities of students, who are pressured to pick a side. What remains is no longer recognisable as a university, because “anti-Zionism” has damaged its core mission.
Although he paints a grim overall picture, Professor Nelson gives the reader hope that those who reject the radicals but whose voices just need to be lifted are in the majority. Best of all, he provides concrete proposals for making immediate and comprehensive reforms, which he has spoken about to the House of Lords.
His recommendations include penalties for faculties imposing conformity, practical implementation of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and establishing respect for Jewish tradition, history, culture and differing views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Every vice-chancellor in the UK has been sent a copy of Mindless, which is a start, but everyone else in academia should also read it to fully understand the gravity and implications of the issues.
One advantage of this being published in a Jewish publication is that it unashamedly centres antisemitism and talks about the impact on Jewish students. But it’s also a shame that Mindless wasn’t published in a more mainstream publication, as it works as a cautionary tale of how antisemitism can degrade the integrity of any institution, even one which prides itself on free thinking.
My hope is that universities will try to understand the issues and follow the remedies of this expert insider who understands how to resolve them, rather than continuing to allow themselves to be compromised by a vocal minority.
Antisemitic thinking signals a wider malaise and it is obvious the air in academia is becoming toxic, not just for Jewish students but for anyone who doesn’t conform. Let’s hope academia pays attention to Mindless and cleans up the environment before it becomes irredeemably polluted.
[https://www.thejc.com/opinion/antisemitism-degrading-universities-how-fight-joibg1aw TheJC]
____
Pro-Hamas Protesters Caused Over $1 Million in Damage to University of Washington Building, School Says.
Matthew Xiao. May 7, 2025.
Anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas protesters caused more than $1 million in damage during a violent demonstration Monday evening at the University of Washington in Seattle, according to school officials.
Police arrested 31 protesters for taking over and vandalizing the Boeing-funded Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office told KOMO News on Tuesday. The protesters, who also set several nearby dumpsters on fire, demanded that the university sever ties with Boeing for supplying weapons used in Israel's war against Hamas terrorists.
The protest comes as the Trump administration cracks down on anti-Semitic activity that has swept college campuses following Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.
The organization behind the Monday protest, Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return, is a "suspended student group," university spokesman Victor Balta told CNN. The group has published a manifesto overtly praising Hamas's October 7 attack and also helped organize an anti-Semitic protest on campus in February.
"What occurred [Monday] night in no way compares to last year's encampment," Balta told KOMO News. The protest "involved immediate threats to safety for those inside and around the building and was resolved within a few hours."
"At least two dozen classes are being moved to other locations while the build[ing] remains closed for the rest of the week," Balta said.
[https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/pro-hamas-protesters-caused-over-1-million-in-damage-to-university-of-washington-building-school-says/ FreeBeacon]
____
Calls for inquiry as UK universities branded ‘hubs of hate’ for Jewish students.
Peers demand action over ‘institutional failure’ to protect Jewish students on campus
May 7, 2025.
UK universities are becoming “hubs of hate” for Jewish and pro-Israel students, according to a damning new report backed by senior MPs and peers who are calling for a public inquiry into campus antisemitism.
The 33-page report, published by pro-Israel educational charity Stand With Us, accuses university leaders of “systematic and institutional failure” to protect Jewish students, many of whom say they have faced violent threats, intimidation and ostracism, often with no meaningful response from their institutions. Some students claim they were even investigated themselves after reporting abuse.
A letter of support, backed by eight cross-party parliamentarians including Lord Austin, Baroness Hodge and Bob Blackman MP, says anti-Jewish racism on campuses is “spiralling beyond control”.
“We are witnessing the normalisation of the previously unthinkable – flagrant support for proscribed terror groups, and the intimidation and ostracisation of Jewish and Zionist students simply because of their identity,” it says.
Baroness Deech, the first independent adjudicator for higher education, said the report “offers a chilling insight into the high levels of discrimination and even acts of violence that Jewish and pro-Israel students are subjected to daily across UK campuses”.
Deech, a former principal at St Anne’s College, Oxford, added: “Universities appear to be systematically failing these students, despite these same institutions rightly taking a zero-tolerance approach to all other forms of racism and discrimination.”
The report follows a nationwide survey conducted by Stand With Us in April 2024. After polling over 1,000 students, the charity found 64 per cent of respondents did not describe the October attacks as terrorism, while 29 per cent said they were an “understandable act of resistance”.
The latter figure rose to 38 per cent among students at the elite Russell Group universities. More than half of this group agreed that those who publicly support Israel on campus should “expect” abuse.
Between October 2023 and March 2025, Stand With Us also conducted interviews and received written testimonies from Jewish students.
These findings, published on Wednesday, include one student who said they had “completely stopped speaking Hebrew on campus because I feel unprecedented levels of being scared”. They added that one student with an Israeli-sounding name “was booed during her own graduation”.
Another said: “Fear is considered ‘normal, baseline’ for Jewish and Israeli students.”
The task force did more in 24 hours re one university than the Biden administration did at all universities for over a year after 10/7. And yet people kept asking me, "what more can the Biden administration really do?" [https://t.co/my67fFvRhV]
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 7, 2025
[https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/calls-for-inquiry-as-uk-universities-branded-hubs-of-hate-for-jewish-students-xva9e0pe TheJC]
____
Blackstone president Jonathan Gray donates $125 million to TAU.
By Uri Sela. May 7, 2025.
Jonathan Gray, president of the American investment firm Blackstone, and his wife, Mindy, have made a landmark donation of $125 million (approximately half a billion shekels) to the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine.
This donation, the largest in the history of the university, will fund the development of new facilities and scholarships for the School of Health and Medical Sciences. In recognition of this generous contribution, the faculty will now bear the Gray family name: The Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences.
This donation comes at a critical time as Israel faces a shortage of doctors. Jonathan and Mindy Gray’s contribution is expected to alleviate this issue by expanding the capacity of the medical school to train more healthcare professionals. It marks a significant step forward in Israel’s efforts to strengthen its medical workforce and enhance its health system.
The donation is not only the largest gift to Tel Aviv University, but also one of the largest ever given to any Israeli university. It will be used for a variety of initiatives, including the construction of new dormitories for 600 students, scholarships, and the expansion of research and teaching facilities.
Israel’s healthcare system suffers from a shortage of doctors, with the number of physicians per capita about 10% lower than the average for countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The donation will significantly increase the number of students enrolled at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, which is already the largest of its kind in Israel. As part of the expansion, the school will increase its intake of medical students by approximately one-third, training over 400 new doctors annually, double the capacity of other large faculties in Israel.
[https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/banking-and-finance/article-853027 JPost]
____
Masked anti-Israel protesters storm Columbia library, shove past security as Ivy Leaguers prep for finals.
Joe Marino, Marie Pohl, Chris Nesi and David Propper
Published May 7, 2025
A mob of masked anti-Israel protesters stormed Columbia University’s Butler Library Wednesday — with the chaos injuring at least two school safety officers and later sparking dozens of arrests, officials and law enforcement sources said.
Around 80 agitators were taken into custody so far Wednesday evening, sources said, just hours after a large group of activists were caught on camera shoving past a security guard at the library’s front entrance earlier in the day.
Once inside, they draped large signs over bookshelves, one declaring the library a “liberated zone” and another bearing the name of Bassel al-Araj, a Palestinian activist killed by Israel Defense Forces in a 2017 raid in the West Bank — though they misspelled his first name as “Basel.”
The raucous demonstrators then donned keffiyeh headscarves and beat drums while clapping to chants of “free, free Palestine” during a time when other students are preparing for end-of-the-year exams.
Photos obtained by The Post show protesters defacing the library walls, hanging Palestinian flags and marking tables with colored tape. Other images show about half a dozen security guards forming a line opposite a much larger group of protesters.
Columbia’s Butler Library: pro terror mob takes over AGAIN, chanting “Min el-maiyeh lel mayieh, Falastin arabieh” (“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab”).
[https://nypost.com/2025/05/07/us-news/masked-anti-israel-protesters-storm-columbia-library-shove-past-security-as-ivy-leaguers-prep-for-finals/ NYPost]
According to students, they’re distributing stickers and pamphlets glorifying 10/7.
[pic.twitter.com/igKJhX66lE]
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 7, 2025
The Hamas sympathizers at Columbia are handing out their own “syllabus."
It is indistinguishable from the standard Columbia political science course [https://t.co/4Ifv2tOfOd] [pic.twitter.com/8AWsQYFcQC]
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 7, 2025
More on Hasan Piker's vile antisemitism here: [https://t.co/ylHI5cHVix]
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 7, 2025
WATCH: Pro-Hamas seminar from Temple SJP and Samidoun “When we ask universities to divest from imperialism[sic], the only way to pull that demand is destroying the university ... We must accept the eventuality of bringing the USA to its knees" [pic.twitter.com/5mPBpl38Vy]
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) May 7, 2025
If you are painfully familiar with terrorist communiques, the darkness lifts a bit when you see cosplaying idiot students.
Cardiff, today. Oh dear. [pic.twitter.com/EhHFUosHJB]
— habibi (@habibi_uk) May 7, 2025
Last week, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) @Columbia reposted an image featuring the insignia of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
This is not an isolated incident. For over 18 months, SDS… [pic.twitter.com/6B45sxyzjc]
— Shoshana Aufzien🎗️ (@shoshanaaufzien) May 6, 2025
[pic.twitter.com/QOJARpbJsf]
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) May 7, 2025
_____
Hospitalist Osamah Abdallah poses as a “humanitarian” while spewing antisemitism - comparing Zionists to ISIS, calling Jews “whisperings of the devil,” and glorifying suicide for Palestine.
Why won’t @Aurora_Health act?
ACT NOW: [https://t.co/ubqk2h84Ow https://t.co/eSOZy2zLZ5]
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 6, 2025
Nazmi Sabi's Jew hatred continues:
- pushes the antisemitic conspiracy that Jews control[sic] the media.
- claims J... have a “chokehold” on America due to money.
- says J... only exist because of the U.S., and American leaders should fear them.
How is someone like this employed at @GM?… [pic.twitter.com/NYeejfqzCP]
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 7, 2025
____
Columbia’s Pulitzer Disgrace
May 7, 2025..
The increasingly irrelevant Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday to a slew of left-wing news reports, chronicled by our colleague Andrew Stiles here.
The prize for commentary went to the "Palestinian poet" Mosab Abu Toha for his work in the New Yorker—"deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir," as the Pulitzer board put it—depicting the evils of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
It took just more than 24 hours for Abu Toha’s public statements defending the atrocities of Oct. 7 and assailing the Israeli victims of those attacks to surface. ("How on earth is this girl called a hostage?" he wrote of Emily Damari, a 28-year-old IDF soldier abducted by Hamas. He objected to the media’s humanization of Israeli "hostage" Agam Berger: "These are the ones the world wants to share sympathy for...")
Somehow the intrepid reporters on the Pulitzer Prize board missed them. Huh.
Columbia University’s role in the administration of the Pulitzers and selection of the prize winners is not lost on us. The president of the university, Claire Shipman, sits on the Pulitzer board, which selects the prize winners. So does the president of the Columbia School of Journalism, Jelani Cobb, and the editor in chief of the Columbia Journalism Review. The administrator of the prizes, Marjorie Miller, is also a Pulitzer board member and a Columbia employee. Deliberations over the prize winners take place on the Columbia campus.
Were the Pulitzer board members, including Shipman and New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick, aware of Abu Toha’s public statements before they gave him the award? Will they reevaluate their decision given that, in the immortal words of Jeff Lebowski, new s— has come to light? They aren’t saying, but Miller leaves us to read between the lines, telling the Washington Free Beacon, "The Pulitzer Board is committed to recognizing excellence in reporting, literature, history and culture, and the selection process for each award is based on a review of the submitted works." A Columbia spokeswoman, meanwhile, said the school "is proud to administer the Pulitzer Prizes" but distanced it from the Pulitzer board, which "is independent of the university and operates as such." She did not provide a a response from Shipman. Hey, ignorance is bliss!
Bestowing this award when the university is under federal investigation for violating the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students takes chutzpah.
[https://freebeacon.com/media/columbias-pulitzer-disgrace/ FreeBeacon]
EXPOSED: New Pulitzer Prize Winner Excused Abduction of Israelis by Hamas.
HonestReporting Staff. May 7, 2025.
The Pulitzer Prize was awarded this week to a Gazan poet who excused the abduction of Israelis by Hamas, HonestReporting revealed on Tuesday (May 6), while calling for the prestigious award to be rescinded.
Mosab Abu Toha, who also spread antisemitic content and fake news on his social media platforms, won the top honor in journalism on Monday (May 5) for his essays published in the New Yorker describing the ongoing war in the enclave.
But it seems that both the magazine and the Pulitzer committee failed to check Abu Toha’s virulent social media posts against Israeli hostages whom Hamas brutally abducted on October 7, 2023.
HonestReporting exclusively shared these posts with Fox News Digital, which reached out to Abu Toha, The New Yorker, and the Pulitzer Prize organization for comment.
“How is this girl called a hostage?”
Abu Toha, who currently lives in the U.S., specifically disparaged female Israeli hostages, questioned their hostage status and implicitly justified their abduction.
Toha posted the following about Israeli hostage Emily Damari on January 24, 2025:
How on earth is this girl called a hostage? (And this is the case of most ‘hostages’). This is Emily Damari, a 28 UK-Israeli soldier that Hamas detailed on 10/7… So this girl is called a ‘hostage?’ This soldier who was close to the border with a city that she and her country have been occupying is called a ‘hostage?’
Damari, an Israeli civilian, was shot twice and abducted from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7. Hamas held her for 471 days. But Abu Toha thinks that she cannot even be considered a hostage because she was a “soldier.”
A similar post by Abu Toha, posted on February 3, 2025, targeted former Israeli hostage Agam Berger:
The Israeli ‘hostage’ Agam Berger, who was released days ago participates in her sister’s graduation from an Israeli Air Force officers’ course. These are the ones the world wants to share sympathy for..! These are the ones whom CNN, BBC and the likes humanize in articles and TV programs and news bulletins.
Hamas held Agam Berger hostage with none of the rights due to a prisoner who has gone through a legal process. But that doesn’t matter to Abu Toha. Because no Israeli could be a hostage in his eyes.
Toha also cast doubt on the forensic evidence that showed that the Bibas children — 9-month-old Kfir and Ariel, 4 — were killed by their captors.
[https://honestreporting.com/exposed-new-pulitzer-prize-winner-excused-abduction-of-israelis-by-hamas/ HonestReporting]
Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig:
One of the journalists who won a Pulitzer Prize this year has a history of denying that Hamas holds hostages.
Mosab Abu Toha believes that if someone served in the army in the past, they can never be held hostage.
Even if their conditions do not comply with requirements for POWs.
Even if they finished their service years prior.
Even if their service was required, in the first place.
That isn’t a legitimate perspective for a journalist, who is meant to tell an unbiased story.
It’s a clear double standard that dehumanizes Jews.
Shame on Pulitzer for ignoring their own standards when it comes to Jews and Israelis.
May 7, 2025
[pic.twitter.com/XvQ1blF2h1]
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 7, 2025
____
Journalist Killed by Israel Was Cousin of Euro Med Rights Chief — and Linked to Hamas.
May 7, 2025.
Earlier today, Ramy Abdu, head of the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, claimed that his cousin, Nour Al-Din Matar Abdu, was killed in an Israeli airstrike. However, a Jewish Onliner investigation reveals social media posts showing what appears to be Nour as a child holding an AK-47 and wearing Hamas paraphernalia. Nour has also been pictured alongside former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Additional posts from Nour show him praising deceased Hamas militants and terrorist activity, while another photo reveals his mother holding an AK47 and attending a Hamas rally.
As Jewish Onliner previously reported, Abdu has in the past admitted to having close ties with family members involved in Hamas, including his brother-in-law, Muhammad Daoud Ismail al-Jamassi (Abu Obeida), a senior Hamas figure. Abdu also claimed to be childhood friends with Assad Abu Sharia, the founder of the Mujahideen Brigades, a Hamas-affiliated terrorist group involved in the kidnapping of Israeli children during the October 7 massacre. In 2013, the Israeli government officially designated Abdu as a Hamas affiliate, placing him under sanctions for supporting the group’s activities.
Social Media Evidence of Support for Hamas.
Nour’s Facebook page paints a clear picture of his sympathies and ties to Hamas. Images show him with former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and he captions one photo, “Uncle Abu Al-Abd Haniyeh, may God bless your evening.”
In other posts, he shares photos of his mother holding what appears to be an AK47, and attending a rally supporting Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades. Credit: Noor M Abdu on Facebook.
One post commemorates a deceased al-Qassam terrorist that Nour refers to as his “friend,” while another praises Mohammad Deif, a former Hamas military leader and one of the masterminds behind the October 7 massacre.
In 2021, Nour posted an image of what appears to be a Carlo submachine gun, an improvised weapon frequently used in attacks by Palestinian terrorists with the caption, “In Jerusalem, the bullets have spoken ✌🏻💪🏻.”
Ramy Abdu's post has been shared by prominent journalists, including Myriam Francois from Al Jazeera, with no mention of his cousin's Hamas ties. The same is true of Drop Site News, which wrote that Nour’s death is “part of a systematic Israeli campaign to assassinate Palestinian reporters.”
Nour Abdu’s Facebook page paints a clear picture of his sympathies toward Hamas. Images show him with former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and he captions one photo, “Uncle Abu Al-Abd Haniyeh, may [Allah] bless your evening. [pic.twitter.com/ba1IObjctcp
— Jewish Onliner (@JewishOnliner) May 7, 2025
[https://jewishonliner.org/p/journalist-killed-by-israel-was-cousin JewishOnliner]
____
The latest "journalist" to die in Gaza is Yahya Sobeih.
In a completely unrelated coincidence, he also believes that J.. are "defiling" the land of Israel by living there.
Seems like a pleasant fellow. [pic.twitter.com/y2RTsGvzbn]
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) May 7, 2025.
____
Pulitzer Prize finalist criticizes Israeli military in remarks to newsroom.
(May 7, 2025 / JNS).
Louisa Loveluck, a reporter for The Washington Post who has faced scrutiny over factual errors in her reporting about the war in the Gaza Strip following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, blasted Israeli military operations on Monday after the paper’s coverage was named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
[...]
Loveluck, who is based in London and listed among several Post journalists in the Pulitzer announcement, condemned actions by the Israel Defense Forces, according to a recording of her comments obtained by Jewish Insider.
Saying “individual stories are lost in the deluge,” Loveluck pointed to one that examined the circumstances surrounding the death of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old girl allegedly killed by Israel while she and her relatives tried to escape the violence in Gaza City, the Insider reported.
“The Israeli military maintains to this day that it was not there, it was not responsible,” Loveluck said, urging “anyone who can bear it to read her story.”
Loveluck also referred to Hamas casualty figures that do not distinguish between civilians and terrorists, something critics say the Post regularly fails to acknowledge...
An anonymous Post journalist told Jewish Insider that Loveluck didn’t “mention Hamas or the hostages once” during her remarks.
The journalist told the Insider that Loveluck’s oversight, “really exemplifies the Post’s coverage of the war: ignoring Hamas’ actions—so readers don’t understand why Israel is fighting in Gaza at all.”
[https://www.jns.org/pulitzer-prize-finalist-criticizes-israeli-military-in-remarks-to-newsroom/ JNS]
___
All At Sea_ Reuters’ Confused Coverage Of Conscience, The Latest Gaza ‘Aid’ Ship.
By Tamar Sternthal. May 6, 2025.
There is no independent confirmation of the anti-Israel activists’ claim that their boat is carrying aid. To the contrary, as Times of Israel reports in its improved-upon version of the same Reuters story:
The Saudi Al Arabiya news channel, citing a Western security source, reported Friday that the aid ship had been arranged by Hamas and that those onboard planned to engage with IDF troops as they approached the Gaza shore.
Moreover, as Reuters’ own reporting in the very same story notes, Malta (with a record of pro-Palestinian stances) itself has not yet been able to determine that the cargo is aid:
Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Sunday that Malta was prepared to assist the ship with necessary repairs so that it could continue on its journey, once it was satisfied that the vessel held only humanitarian aid.. .
A Malta government spokesman said its offer was to assist in repairs out at sea once the boat’s cargo was verified to be aid.
Does Reuters have information that the Maltese authorities do not?
In addition to reporting as fact that Conscience is carrying aid (despite the fact that the Maltese authorities have yet to establish this information), the article also falsely reports that in 2010 the Mavi Marmara was likewise seeking to deliver aid. Regarding the Mavi Marmara passengers who violently attacked the Israeli naval commandos, shooting them and taking three captive, Christopher Scicluna whitewashed:
Another NGO ship on a similar mission to Gaza in 2010 was stopped and boarded by Israeli troops, and nine activists died.
Regarding this deadly incident, the facts have long been well known and documented. The Mavi Marmara was armed with weapons — deployed against IDF soldiers — not aid. Passengers had also wrested guns from Israeli soldiers, and organizer Greta Berlin later admitted — though only in a private Facebook group whose contents were leaked — that contrary to her public statements Israelis “would not have started to fire” had one of the passengers not disarmed a soldier. (The Southern Poverty Law Center later described that passenger as a “raving, David Duke-endorsing anti-Semite.”)
As documented in the UN’s 2011 Palmer report (p. 47), the ship carried 546 passengers but no humanitarian aid supplies for the people of the Gaza Strip.
If the flotilla had been a purely humanitarian mission it is hard to see why so many passengers were embarked and with what purpose. Furthermore, the quality and value of many of the humanitarian goods on board the vessels is questionable. There were large quantities of humanitarian and construction supplies on board the Gazze 1, Eleftheri Mesogeio and Defne-Y. There were some foodstuffs and medical goods on board the Mavi Marmara, although it seems that these were intended for the voyage itself. Any “humanitarian supplies” were limited to foodstuffs and toys carried in passengers’ personal baggage. The same situation appears to be the case for two other of the vessels: the Sfendoni, and the Challenger I. There was little need to organize a flotilla of six ships to deliver humanitarian assistance if only three were required to carry the available humanitarian supplies. The number of journalists embarked on the ships gives further power to the conclusion that the flotilla’s primary purpose was to generate publicity.
In October 2023, the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reported that:
…several other initiatives for sending aid boats to the Gaza Strip have been reported since the beginning of the war. All of them are based in Turkey and Zaher Birawi is involved in all of them. Birawi is a Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood activist from Britain who is the chairman of the International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza, which is a founding member of the Freedom Fleet coalition and who was one of the leaders of the Mavi Marmara flotilla.
Reuters itself previously corrected in both in English and Arabic after wrongly reporting in 2023 that the Mavi Marmara was carrying aid. The New York Times has also corrected the identical error regarding the Mavi Marmara. Reuters has yet to follow up on CAMERA’s request to correct the latest mischaracterization of the Mavi Marmara‘s 2010 cargo, and to likewise clarify that Freedom Flotilla’s claim that Conscience is carrying aid is unconfirmed.
[https://www.camera.org/article/all-at-sea-reuters-confused-coverage-of-conscience-the-latest-gaza-aid-ship/ CAMERA]
____
When will the BBC start reporting accurately and impartially on UNRWA?
May 7, 2025.
As we see, for well over a year the BBC – including its BBC Verify department – has refrained from conducting any meaningful independent investigation into the topic of the participation of UNRWA employees in the October 7th massacre or the wider issue of UNRWA connections to proscribed terrorist organisations, opting instead to blandly amplify that UN agency’s denials and claims.
An Israeli government report dated April 23rd 2025 provides declassified intelligence concerning The Connection between UNRWA and Hamas in Gaza.
“At least 1,462 UNRWA employees in Gaza are members of Hamas, PIJ, or similar organizations—comprising nearly 12% of the agency’s workforce in Gaza were verified up to this point, Of these:
– 1,157 are employed in the education system.
– 80 school principals and deputy principals are members of terrorist groups, including 16 from Hamas’ military wing.
– Additional operatives were found in engineering, health, logistics, and administration.
These figures are based on cross-referencing UNRWA’s official staff lists with Hamas’ own personnel records—including internal recruitment databases, military training rosters, and administrative files—matched through national ID numbers.”
Given Holligan’s promotion of the statement “Unrwa has challenged Israel’s allegation that it knowingly has Hamas members in its ranks”, it is particularly interesting to see that in some cases, Israel had informed UNRWA of the terror connections of employees long before the current war began.
Clearly it is past time for the BBC to change its longstanding editorial policy of uncritical amplification of UN and UNRWA statements and to begin providing its audiences with accurate and impartial coverage of stories concerning issues relating to that UN agency.
[https://camera-uk.org/2025/05/07/when-will-the-bbc-start-reporting-accurately-and-impartially-on-unrwa/ CAMERA]
_____
Is it possible to talk about Israeli policy without comparing it to the Nazis?
Apparently not at the @Guardian!
According to the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is an example of… [pic.twitter.com/as8oO6pnp2]
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) May 7, 2025
____
Is @washingtonpost trying to justify Houthi attacks on Israel and U.S. targets by citing civilian deaths in Gaza?
Reminder: The Houthi slogan is "Death to America, Death to Israel." Their attacks aren't a form of protest. [pic.twitter.com/6nHEKXEUDo]
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 7, 2025
____
In what alternate reality did Israel break a "peace agreement" with Hamas?!
And in whose world did this "diminish hopes of an eventual two-state solution"?!
Just @guardian's. 🤦 [pic.twitter.com/URVGJVbbJN]
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 7, 2025
____
Shame on @ajplus this child, according to her own mother, has a debilitating disease which doctors have been unable to diagnose.
Saying that she has “malnutrition” is an outright lie.
Using a child’s illness to score political points like this is disgraceful.#BanAlJazeera.
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GqWIIi_W4AAGnbv?format=jpg&name=900x900].
[pic.twitter.com/gODYAriG40]
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) May 7, 2025
____
🔥 The incident at the Thai restaurant has sparked a lot of questions.
Here’s a thread with clips and observations that naturally come up just from watching the footage.
(Graphic content. Not making claims — just raising questions.)
1/🧵 [pic.twitter.com/6Dmz7izCUU]
— GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) May 7, 2025
The Bolivian mummy photos were “borrowed” and falsely presented as children from Gaza.
What’s interesting is that even after the deception was exposed, the image continues to circulate — misleading countless people. [pic.twitter.com/VLUFRNAsjp]
— GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) May 7, 2025
How does that even make sense? [pic.twitter.com/jDs605l5qS]
— GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) May 7, 2025
One of Israel’s finest heroes ever to grace X… he tirelessly destroys the Pallywood industry one fake video at a time. It’s the one, the only…@GAZAWOOD1 🔥🔥🔥 [pic.twitter.com/DeOpLWJukV]
— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) May 6, 2025
______
acohofficial:
Temple student Mo Khan filmed an antisemitic sign, posted it to Instagram, then doubled down on a neo-Nazi podcast.
This isn’t activism. It’s radicalization.
Full breakdown now on The Aaron Cohen Show.
May 7, 2025.
[https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJXUKkFBhxx/ Instagram]
____
WATCH: Mo Khan, the Temple student behind the antisemitic Barstool Sansom bottle service sign, accidentally discovers that his actions have consequences.
May 7, 2025.
[...]
Like clockwork, Mo Khan comes the Middle East deflection.
Suddenly, he’s talking about Gaza, as if that justifies anything. What does Gaza have to do with bottle service in Philadelphia? Absolutely nothing—except that Khan sees an opportunity to shift blame, paint himself as the oppressed underdog, and score sympathy points with people who conflate hate speech with activism.
The cognitive dissonance is off the charts.
You go to a bar owned by a Jewish man, use that platform to promote antisemitic garbage, and then act stunned when the guy uses his influence and name recognition to expose you.
[https://thelibertyline.com/2025/05/07/mo-khan-barstool-dave-portnoy/ Libertyline]
____
Here’s Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a US-designated global terrorist and high-level Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, leading funeral prayers for those who died in the Indian missile strikes.
Representatives of the Pakistan Armed Forces and police stand next to him.
Hafiz Abdul Rauf is closely… [pic.twitter.com/OzuSL2Yfnx]
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 7, 2025
Their strategy is to provoke you with terrorist attack after terrorist attack
And then when you finally respond, they portray you as the villain
I stand with India 🇮🇳 [pic.twitter.com/zBvPHIURml]
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) May 7, 2025
____
It was never about Palestine.
It’s a war of political Islam against anything that isn’t Muslim. India and Israel are just the first dominoes. Europe, Australia, the U.S., and Canada are next.
Ask Mohammed, he doesn’t even bother to deny it. [pic.twitter.com/hTVisDPHqh]
— Ella Travels (Ella Kenan) (@EllaTravelsLove) May 7, 2025
____
Seth Frantzman: Can Syria’s New Government Protect the Country’s Minorities?
The Syrian government now faces a major test. It has support from Western countries and countries that opposed the Assad regime. It has a lot of goodwill because people have sympathy for Syrians who suffered fourteen years of brutal civil war. However, with each clash and each attack on minorities, the goodwill and capital the new government in Damascus has built up is slipping away. This could cause a crisis between Damascus and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, who have sought to integrate their forces with the government in the coming year. The United States backs the SDF. And while they have been flexible in dealing with the new government, they don’t want to see minorities persecuted in eastern Syria.
There are other challenges facing Damascus. Israel has vowed to protect the Druze. After the attacks on that community, Israel carried out several rounds of airstrikes in and around Damascus at the beginning of the month. These airstrikes can weaken the new Syrian government. The Syrian government knows it can’t oppose Israel, and this puts it between a rock and a hard place. If Damascus gives in and fails to enforce law and order in areas like Latakia or Suwayda, then the government will find itself without the legitimacy to continue rebuilding Syria.
For instance, Syria needs to secure Afrin in northwest Syria and take control of Turkish-backed areas in northern Syria. If each region thinks it can be autonomous, Syria is not likely to emerge as a stable and prosperous polity.
On May 5, the U.S. Embassy in Damascus called on Syria to hold perpetrators of recent violence accountable. Acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea also said that “the Syrian people deserve leadership that is transparent, accountable, and fully committed to a more peaceful and prosperous future after 54 years of ruinous rule under the Assad regime. The United States continues to closely monitor the actions of the Syrian interim authorities…”
Syria is on notice. It can learn from the clashes in March and May and put in place a law enforcement model to pre-empt clashes in the future. For instance, the mechanism could involve a quick reaction force designed to create protective zones, checkpoints, and a buffer around areas where communal tensions erupt. Authorities could also take steps to monitor social media to identify, prepare for, and pre-empt clashes in the future.
The wider problem in Syria is that there are too many well-armed and independent militias. Most of these groups were involved in the civil war. Some of them are backed by Turkey and the Ankara-supported Syrian National Army. Others are linked to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group Shara’a led before he became the transitional president. Then there are groups such as the Druze forces in Suwadya and also remnants of the Eighth Brigade in southern Syria, a former rebel group that reconciled with the Assad regime and then backed the new government. It was disbanded in April but likely has numerous adherents in Dara’a province in the south of the country.
Syria has sought to collect some small arms, but the government has found this is a challenge. There are also numerous incidents of smuggling in Syria. Some of the arms being smuggled include Iranian-made rockets likely destined for Hezbollah. Fourteen years of civil war means the country is awash in weapons. The imperative for reining in militias and armed groups, as well as extremists who seek to exploit sectarian tensions, is clear. The road ahead is not easy. However, the clashes in March and May show that Damascus needs a new mechanism to address emerging crises that can derail Syria’s critical state-building project.
Seth Frantzman: Syria's president to visit Europe, and why France was the natural choice
Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is making his first trip to Europe this week. He is traveling to France after a surprise announcement on Tuesday.
Sharaa was appointed the leader of Syria’s transition government in January, and in March, he formed a new government of around two dozen ministers for the country.
He is a former leader of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a rebel group that also had historic ties to al-Qaeda. There have been concerns that members of his group are extremists who will suppress minorities. Sharaa is trying to show that Syria is going to be an inclusive country.
Sharaa’s trip and his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron are important. This is his first trip to a Western country.
Many European countries have embraced the new government of Syria. Damascus wants an end to sanctions, and it wants investment. This will take time.
France is a natural choice for the first Western trip by Sharaa. This is because France was a former colonial power. It is also the former colonial power of Lebanon and has interests in Lebanon and Syria.
France also differs from the US and UK approaches to Damascus and the region. As such, France is seen as perhaps a more balanced country in terms of its Middle East policy, and one where Syria will find favor. The UK and the US are more cold and cautious in their approach.
Who would have imagined that the leader of ISIS would be welcomed as a guest of honor in Paris?
Welcome to 2025 🤯 [pic.twitter.com/Rwsp6gk0lE]
— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) May 7, 2025
____
The Iran nuclear deal Trump wants.
Clifford D. May.
(May 7, 2025.l / JNS)
A fourth round of talks between Tehran’s envoys and Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead negotiator, did not take place in Rome over the weekend as had been expected.
Neither Tehran’s spokesmen nor the U.S. State Department gave a clear explanation for why, but I’ll venture a guess: Iran’s rulers want concessions in exchange for continuing to talk.
They think Trump needs negotiations more than they do. Their assessment is based on years of palaver with presidents Obama and Biden.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei hopes that, concession by concession, he can convince Trump to embrace a warmed-over version of Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, the fatally flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Trump called “a horrible one-sided deal that should never, ever have been made.”
Sunday on “Meet the Press,” President Trump reiterated what he wants: “Total dismantlement [of Tehran’s nuclear weapons program]. That’s all I would accept.”
That means no uranium enrichment or reprocessing, and a halt to the regime’s development of missiles that can deliver nuclear warheads to American cities.
Witkoff is not a career diplomat. That may prove advantageous. Too often, career diplomats are overly eager to conclude deals because doing so brings them professional plaudits.
If those deals turn out to be bummers, so what? By then, the diplomats will have been promoted or awarded a professorship at an elite university where they can hold forth on The Art of Diplomacy.
That’s how North Korea became nuclear-armed after decades of negotiations and agreements.
That’s how Syria retained a stock of chemical weapons after the Obama administration claimed a Russian-mediated dialogue had brought about the destruction of the Assad regime’s CW arsenal.
The 2015 JCPOA is an especially egregious example. As Sen. Tom Cotton observed: “The deal didn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb; it paved the path.”
🚨JUST IN: Trump on Hugh Hewitt's podcast about the nuclear talks with Iran: Prefers a strong agreement with a high level of certainty. There are only two options to blow them up (presumably Iran's centrifuges)—in a nice way, i.e. with an agreement, or in a brutal way (with an…
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) May 7, 2025.
[https://www.jns.org/the-iran-nuclear-deal-trump-wants/ JNS]
____
BREAKING 🔴
The Iran’s curse deepens!
Facing a worsening energy shortage, the Iranian government has announced daily power cuts and shortened work hours in all government buildings to 6 a.m. to 1 p.m., five days a week. [pic.twitter.com/oEPuDqjA56]
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 7, 2025
____
The trial that kept us safe from Holocaust denial – at least for one generation.
May 7, 2025.
Antisemitism is both static and dynamic: that is its nature, and a function of its success. Lipstadt, who served as Joe Biden’s envoy on antisemitism, says that those who practise Irving’s brand of Holocaust denial (she calls it “hardcore denial”) are outliers still, though “they will have their followers”. And those sometimes get onto Piers Morgan’s show and Joe Rogan’s podcast. Rogan, once a comedian, has the No1 podcast in the world. He has hosted guests who claim Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israel, and that Hitler opposed Kristallnacht. But I doubt Rogan would allow a guest to say the Holocaust didn’t happen; in any case, he doesn’t need to.
Modern Holocaust denial, Lipstadt said, is “squishier. ‘Oh, here’s the Holocaust again’, or rolling the eyes. That diminution, and that’s much harder, that’s whack-a-mole.”
What she calls “softcore Holocaust denial” is broad. Sometimes it is subtle; sometimes it is not. There is mainstream belief in Jewish evil (the idea that it happened but the Jews deserved it); attempts to minimise the Jewishness of the victims with an over-representation of perpetrators in popular culture (didn’t everyone suffer?); romantic novels set in death camps (how bad could it be?); and sometimes an emphasis on so-called Jewish collaborators (who did it really?).
There is, above all, fatigue. I used to think this was a product of shame, and the need for moral survival – if the Jews deserved their fate the world is a safer place for the rest – but I am not so sure now.
Towards the end Julius said: “These battles are fought in every generation.” Victories, he added, “are always critical but never more than provisional”, and he is right.
In that spirit I will say this: I thought the appearance of the playwright David Hare on the panel – he dramatised the trial in the film Denial (2016) – was odd for the following reason: Hare also dramatised Bernard Schlink’s novel The Reader in 2008. This is a self-serving, exculpatory and trivial film about an illiterate (and beautiful) concentration camp guard (Kate Winslet). It suggests that, had she known poetry, she would not have helped burn 300 Jews alive in a church.
Yet, the majority of the men around the table at the Wansee Conference had post-graduate degrees and the SS volunteer units were heavy with doctoral theses, many of them in the humanities.
The Reader is a terrible and immoral book: for a novel about the Holocaust its emphasis, to me, is repugnant. Still, it was a happy day, and to quote Billy Wilder: nobody’s perfect.
[https://www.thejc.com/opinion/the-trial-that-kept-us-safe-from-holocaust-denial-at-least-for-one-generation-sdl9nnmy TheJC]
____
DOJ officials tell Orthodox leaders they have launched probes into antisemitic discrimination.
Senior Justice Department officials revealed on Wednesday that they have “several open investigations involving Orthodox Jewish communities across the country.”
During a meeting between Trump administration officials and Orthodox Jewish leaders at the Justice Department, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Michael Gates told attendees that the DOJ is looking into several matters impacting the Orthodox community, including how some municipalities’ use of zoning laws had affected individual religious communities’ ability to operate normally.
“We currently have several open investigations involving Orthodox Jewish communities across the country. These investigations include municipalities that have restricted building or operation of houses of worship or other religious land uses, and we are investigating cities that have made changes to zoning laws that negatively impact religious communities. In another matter, we are investigating antisemitic discrimination in public accommodations, including whether a restaurant, believe it or not, has engaged in a pattern practice of religious discrimination for refusing service to Jewish patrons,” Gates said.
Given the ongoing nature of the probes, Gates noted that he couldn’t “get into the specific details” about each.
Top officials from the department’s Civil Rights Division took part in the meeting, which was organized by the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, including Gates; Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights; and Leo Terrell, senior counsel to Dhillon. The trio assured attendees that the DOJ is working on shared priorities such as combating domestic antisemitism and ensuring religious liberty protections. They outlined legal mechanisms they are utilizing to prosecute antisemitic hate crimes and target state and local governments that may not be in compliance with federal laws protecting religious freedom.
____
One of China’s Leading Economists Lectures about the Evils of “Jewish Financial Capital”.
Mosaic Magazine. May 7, 2025.
In that same category of “anti-Israel and evil but not necessarily anti-Semitic” one might be tempted to place China, which has aligned itself with the Russia-Iran axis primarily out of hostility toward the American alliance system. But still, it’s hard not to wonder if a de-facto alliance with Hamas and Hizballah, and cooperation with the Houthis, has given anti-Semitism a chance to rub off on the secular Communist regime. Or maybe it’s just inevitable that totalitarians will end up blaming their problems on the Jews.
Tuvia Gering notes that, on April 20,
a prominent Chinese economist delivered a sweeping, ideologically loaded speech on the U.S.–China trade war and great-power rivalry. What began as a provocative, at times insightful, commentary on the U.S.–China trade war quickly spiraled into tin-foil-hat grand theorizing about world order and Western civilization. It culminated . . . with claims that Western democracy is a sham front for mythical “Jewish financial capital” that controls the Federal Reserve and manipulates U.S. politics and foreign policy to undermine China and the working people of the world.
The speaker, Liu Yuhui, is a Communist-party member and sits on the executive council of China’s Chief Economist Forum ..
[https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2025/05/one-of-chinas-leading-economists-lectures-about-the-evils-of-jewish-financial-capital/ Mosaic Magazine]
____
Sheba Medical Center to open outpost in Boston.
Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital in Israel, announced on Wednesday that it will open its first U.S.-based healthcare startup accelerator in Massachusetts in 2026.
(May 7, 2025 / JNS)
[https://www.jns.org/sheba-medical-center-to-open-outpost-in-boston/ JNS]
____
Security forces arrest Reihan crossing terror attack suspect.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/08/2025 09:29 AM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853135 JPost]
____
Police thwart illegal residents smuggling network.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/08/2025 02:01 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853196 JPost]
____
Police arrest Kafr Kassem resident who pledged allegiance to ISIS.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/08/2025 02:09 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853198 JPost]
____
After last year's snub, Nagasaki to invite Israel to A-bomb memorial.
Itamar Eichner||05.08.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sycyggqxgl YNet]
____
Report: Suspected Iran nuke site found
Fox News shows possible nuclear site near known Iran facilities; Tehran says it’s a chemical plant as enrichment talks stall.
Ynet|05.08.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjigco9gee YNet]
____
US unveils Gaza aid plan to bypass Hamas.
Exclusive: Witkoff reveals new initiative at UN, aiming to bypass Hamas and the UN via the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Itamar Eichner|05.08.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sj83o9qllx YNet]
____
IDF kills Hamas Oct 7 abductor in Gaza airstrike.
17 months after her abduction, IDF kills Hamas terrorist seen with Yafa Adar.
Elisha Ben Kimon, Itamar Eichner|05.08.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rk6hecqeel YNet]
Terrorist who abducted 87-year-old woman eliminated.
Israel National News.
May 8, 2025, 7:10 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408056 INN]
____
Emily Austin and Eylon Levy:
'If they hate you for who you are, double down'.
Eylon Levy and Emily Austin open up about the personal cost of advocacy and Israel's ongoing PR battle.
Ynetnews|05.08.25
[https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/sj6bawgelg YNet]
____
Ecuador President: Israel Willing to Help Fight Drug Cartels.
|05.08.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/uyi7skluk YNet]
____
Tunisia: Jewish jewelry store owner attacked with axe in Djerba, hospitalized but not in danger|05.08.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/dmcqh9cat YNet]
____
‘We strike far, we strike sharp’ | IAF Pilot goes behind the scenes in strikes on Yemen.
In a rare interview with Arutz Sheva, IAF pilot Maj. A. shares the tension, risks, and precision behind the long-range strike on Houthi military targets in Yemen.
Uzi Baruch. May 8, 2025, 7:18 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408055 INN]
____
Israel normalization requirement dropped from Saudi nuclear talks.
Israel National News.
May 8, 2025, 7:36 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408059 INN]
____
Tamir Nimrodi among hostages whose fate is unknown.
Since the October 7th Massacre, no sign of life was received from Tamir Nimrodi.
Israel National News.
May 8, 2025, 8:53 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408062 INN]
____
Saudi Arabia invites leaders of GCC for Gulf-US summit in Riyadh, says adviser to Bahraini king.
By Reuters. 05/08/2025 09:16 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853272 JPost]
____
No longer afraid:
UNIFIL reportedly take down Hezbollah flags in southern Lebanon.
Yitz Goldberg.
May 8, 2025, 9:49 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408060 INN]
____
US State Dept says a solution for Gaza food aid is 'steps away'.
By Reuters. 05/08/2025 09:56 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853280 JPost]
____
Netanyahu proposes cross‑party Knesset probe into Oct. 7.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/08/2025 10:03 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853283 JPost]
____
A mother’s hope.
Hostages' mothers mark second Mother's Day without their sons.
Israel National News.
May 8, 2025, 10:28 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408065 IN]
_____
US says it opened foreign funding probe into University of Pennsylvania.
By Reuters. 05/08/2025 10:45 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853295 JPost]
_____
International law: Israel establishes legal team to defend soldiers abroad.
David Hacohen.
May 8, 2025.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/israel-establishes-legal-team-defend-soldiers JFeed]
____
IDF hunting terrorists who injured infant with stones.
A woman was also stricken with anxiety following the attack. The IDF is currently in pursuit of any suspects.
Avi Woolf.
May 8, 2025.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-pursues-stone-throwing-terrorists JFeed]
Baby lightly wounded after terrorists pelt bus with rocks near Jericho.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 12:18 AM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853300 JPost]
____
Syria confirms indirect talks with Israel to ‘contain’ tensions.
Charles Bybelezer.
(May 8, 2025 / JNS)
[https://www.jns.org/syria-confirms-indirect-talks-with-israel-to-ease-tensions/ JNS]
_____
Anti-Israel protesters arrested after takeover of Columbia library..
Vita Fellig.
(May 8, 2025 / JNS)
[https://www.jns.org/anti-israel-protesters-arrested-after-takeover-of-columbia-library/ JNS]
'Pro-Hamas thugs no longer welcome': Marco Rubio orders visa status review of Columbia library protesters.
TOI World Desk / Timesofindia.com / May 08, 2025.
[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/pro-hamas-thugs-no-longer-welcome-marco-rubio-orders-visa-status-review-of-columbia-library-protesters/articleshow/120988051.cms TimesOfIndia]
_____
NY man charged with hate crimes for assaulting Jews has phone ‘littered’ with pro-Hamas material.
"The recent spike in violent crime against Jewish citizens is deeply disturbing," stated Kash Patel, the FBI director.
(May 8, 2025 / JNS)
[https://www.jns.org/ny-man-charged-with-three-hate-crimes-for-assaulting-jews-has-phone-littered-with-pro-hamas-material/ JNS]
____
IRGC chief threatens to 'open gates of hell' on Israel, US.
Elad Benari.
May 9, 2025, 1:09 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408071 INN]
____
59% of Palestinians under the Palestinian Authority: October 7 was “correct decision”.
Ephraim D. Tepler and Itamar Marcus|May 8, 2025.
[Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research website]
More than a year and a half after the Hamas-led atrocities of October 7, 59% of Palestinians polled in the "West Bank" still think that Hamas' made the "correct decision" to torture, rape, burn alive, murder, and kidnap hundreds of hostages—even including children—according to the most respected Palestinian polling agency.
The new poll by Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research asks: "In your view, was Hamas' decision to launch its offensive against Israel on 7 October a correct or incorrect one?" The polling shows a continuation of the pattern of decreasing support since December 2023, when the first poll was taken after the October 7 atrocities. It found that 82% of "West Bank" Palestinians thought October 7 was a "correct decision." In March and June 2024, just over 70% of Palestinians there supported it. In September 2024, support dropped to 64%. And now, 59% still say it was a "correct decision."
The slow but continuous decline in support directly correlates with the worsening military defeat in Gaza. Although the overwhelming majority of Palestinians supported and still support the atrocities, as the cost goes up, fewer think it was the correct decision.
[https://palwatch.org/page/37148 PalWatch]
____
Air Europa cancels Sunday's Tel Aviv-Madrid flights.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 11:51 AM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853332 JPost]
____
Germany's Merz discussed Gaza, Syria in call with Netanyahu.
By Reuters. 05/09/2025 12:18 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853335 JPost]
____
Good To Know!
Witkoff: We're not going for another Obama-style Iran Deal.
Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff spoke to Breitbart News, dispelling some of the misconceptions being reported regarding US plans for Gaza and Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Avi Woolf.
May 9, 2025 13:07.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/us-rejects-obama-iran-nuclear-deal JFeed]
____
Report: Trump held private meeting with Ron Dermer to discuss Iran and Hamas.
Axios reports the two discussed urgent regional security issues, including Tehran’s ambitions and Hamas hostilities.
Avi Nachmani.
May 9, 2025.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/trump-dermer-meeting-iran-hamas JFeed]
____
'Terror encounters the army': IDF Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth discusses Wednesday's attacks.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 01:35 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853339 JPost]
____
IDF strikes over 60 targets in Gaza over past 24 hours.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 01:51 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853341 JPost]
____
IDF arrests terrorist who manufactured explosives in West Bank.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 02:11 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853342 JPost]
____
IDF captures terror cell responsible for molotov attack near Efrat.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 03:30 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853343 JPost]
____
IDF chief meets former hostages, vows to bring all captives home.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 05:11 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853354 JPost]
____
Israeli Embassy in France receives unusual envelope.
By Amichai Stein. 05/09/2025 05:34 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853357 JPost]
____
Security forces arrest shooter near Israeli consulate building in Istanbul.
By Walla! 05/09/2025 06:03 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853360 JPost]
____
Security forces eliminate top Islamic Jihad terrorist.
IDF, Yamam and Shin Bet forces eliminate terrorist Noor Beitawi, the head of the Islamic Jihad's terror network in Jenin, who was planning imminent attacks.
Israel National News.
May 9, 2025, 8:07 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408111 INN]
____
IDF strikes several Hamas terrorists in northern Gaza.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853372 JPost]
____
Priority for Trump admin is releasing hostages from Gaza, Leavitt says.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025.
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853371 JPost]
____
Report: Spike in Jew-hatred towards Jewish lawmakers due to new Meta policy.
The Anti-Defamation League says that such attacks on Facebook rose 500% due to the changes in how the platform moderates content.
Jonathan D. Salant.
May 9, 2025
[https://www.jns.org/report-spike-in-jew-hatred-towards-jewish-lawmakers-due-to-new-meta-policy/ JNS]
____
More info needed on US deal with Houthis, five congressmen tell Trump.
The agreement “sends the wrong message to both our allies and adversaries,” the bipartisan group of House members wrote.
JNS Staff.
May 9, 2025
[https://www.jns.org/more-info-needed-on-us-deal-with-houthis-five-congressmen-tell-trump/ JNS]
____
Choosing sides in the battle over fighting antisemitism.
Rather than get behind Trump, the American Jewish Committee, left-wing rabbis and Democrats oppose reforms that would punish schools that discriminate against Jews.
Jonathan S. Tobin.
May 9, 2025
[https://www.jns.org/choosing-sides-in-the-battle-over-fighting-antisemitism/ JNS]
____
‘Vital role’ for lawyers in fighting Jew-hatred, StandWithUs says.
“When there is a legal remedy, lawyers can play a vital role in ensuring that there is a strong response from our Jewish community to antisemitic activity,” Deedee Bitran told JNS.
May 9, 2025.
[https://www.jns.org/vital-role-for-lawyers-in-fighting-jew-hatred-standwithus-says/ JNS]
____
California school-board trustees teach hate, division and hypocrisy.
When done right, an ethnic-studies curriculum promotes mutual understanding, respect and democratic values.
Mitch Siegler and Sara E. Brown
May 9, 2025
[https://www.jns.org/california-school-board-trustees-teach-hate-division-and-hypocrisy/ JNS]
____
US Ed Department: ‘Inaccurate, incomplete’ disclosure by Penn of foreign funding.
“The Trump administration will vigorously uphold the law and ensure universities are transparent with their foreign gifts and investments,” the department stated.
May 9, 2025
[https://www.jns.org/us-ed-department-inaccurate-incomplete-disclosure-by-penn-of-foreign-funding/ JNS]
____
The willing executioners of today’s anti-Israel hatred.
Words like “genocide” and “apartheid” are recklessly thrown into political discourse.
Fiamma Nirenstein.
May 9, 2025.
[https://www.jns.org/the-willing-executioners-of-todays-anti-israel-hatred/ JNS]
____
We’ll keep hitting them': Israel vows more strikes on Houthis, considers hitting Iran.
Iran-backed Yemeni rebels keep launching missiles at Israel; in response, Israel plans wider, more forceful strikes; 'Deal with US doesn't bind us—they’ll pay,' says security official; 'Iran won’t get off easy'.
Itamar Eichner, Lior Ben Ari | 05.09.25
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sk9czkhgxe YNet]
____
Nabbed terrorists lead IDF to major Rafah tunnel.
One kilometer long, 8 stories deep: Captured Hamas terrorists lead IDF to major Rafah tunnel.
IDF says massive complex included living quarters, bathrooms, a kitchenette, blast doors and multiple exit shafts; following a thorough examination, Israeli forces demolished the site.
Elisha Ben Kimon|05.09.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hys8u1hexg YNet]
____
.
Columbia University:
65 students suspended after anti-Israel protest at library.
Elad Benari, Canada.
May 9, 2025.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408115 INN]
65 Columbia University Students Suspended After Taking Over Library with Palestinian Flags.
65 students were temporarily suspended from Columbia University in New York following their participation in the takeover of the university's main library building, bypassing campus security, placing signs, hanging Palestinian flags, beating drums and chanting 'Free Palestine.' Among those detained was Ramona Sarsgaard, daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, who received a court summons for trespassing. Additionally, 33 more people were banned from entering the campus.
Daniel Adelson, New York|05.09.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/8rz47ilov YNet]
____
Despite war, S&P holds Israel’s credit rating.
Gad Lior|05.09.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/s1di5kngxe YNet]
____
They tried to kill him, but Israeli Batman fights on.
At 52, Israeli MMA pioneer Haim Gozali isn’t slowing down; speaking to Ynet, the fighter recalls his Madison Square Garden debut, fighting with a broken rib, his kids in the ring, an online battle since Oct. 7—and surviving an attack in Ukraine.
Shimon Elbaz|05.09.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/r1jzw2ixle YNet]
____
The surprising prize everyone at Cannes wants.
Amir Kaminer|05.09.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/s16czz5glg YNet]
____
Israeli forces eliminate top Palestinian jihadist in Jenin.
Nur Bitawi was one of the most wanted Palestinian terrorists in West Bank.
May 09, 2025
[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/artc-israeli-forces-eliminate-top-palestinian-jihadist-in-jenin i24]
____
I Am a Former Hamas Hostage. Here’s My Message to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
May 9, 2025.
By Tal Shoham. Contributor
Tal Shoham was held hostage by Hamas for 505 days. He was released in February.
Some mornings I wake up and forget, for a split second, that I’m free.
Then I remember the silence. The darkness. The wet concrete. And the two young men who were lying beside me, deep underground, who are still there.
Their names are Evyatar David and Guy Dalal.
We were held together along with Omer Wenkert for eight and a half months in a Hamas tunnel—just 40 ft. long, less than 3 ft. wide. We slept on soaked mattresses, shared a single pita a day, and took turns whispering stories from home to keep ourselves sane.
We were strangers when we entered that darkness. But we became brothers.
It’s been more than 100 days since President Trump returned to the White House and the ceasefire deal that brought me, Omer, and dozens of others back was achieved. I haven’t been back above ground for that long—but even now, every breath of fresh air, every step in the sun, every quiet moment with my family feels like something sacred. Time feels different now. I carry it more carefully. Because I know how quickly time can run out—and how brutal each passing day is for those still living in captivity.
I spent 505 days as a hostage—held deep beneath the ground. We were watched constantly by a surveillance camera. A bomb was planted above us, rigged to detonate if Israeli forces came too close. We were told we would be blown up if anyone tried to save us. We were threatened, degraded, and at times tortured—not treated as people, but as objects to be controlled and broken.
I am not a soldier. I was kidnapped on Oct. 7 from my in-laws’ home in Kibbutz Be’eri. My wife and children were with me. When terrorists couldn’t break open the door of our safe room, they came in through the window. They dragged me out, threw me into a trunk, and then paraded me through the streets of Gaza.
Before we were separated, I looked into my nine-year-old son's terrified eyes and made a choice no parent should ever face. I told him the truth—that I didn’t know if we were going to die. I couldn’t lie to him in what might have been our final moments together.
For 50 agonizing days after that, I did not know if my family had survived. It was a rare flicker of hope when I learned in November they were about to be released.
Evyatar and Guy, both 22 years old, had been taken from the Nova music festival. Their friends were slaughtered around them. By the time we met in captivity, they were in terrible shape—starved, handcuffed, terrified. For weeks, they’d been fed almost nothing. Their hands were bound behind their backs, their ankles tied, their heads covered with plastic bags. But somehow, they still had spirit. During those last eight and a half months we spent together in the tunnel, they held on.
The men who held us didn’t see us as human. They tortured us for fun. Sometimes they would light pieces of paper on fire to suck up the small amount of oxygen from the tunnel. We would choke and have to lie on the floor to avoid suffocating.
We came up with daily rituals just to remember who we were. In a place built to break us, we held each other up. We became a unit. We became family.
When I walked out of that tunnel in February, I made a vow: I would speak for those who can’t.
President Trump, I was released in a deal your administration helped progress. Your decision to make the hostages a priority helped bring many people home. I am one of them. I’m here today because this issue was treated with the urgency it demands.
But we are not done. Fifty-nine hostages remain in Hamas captivity. And every day that passes makes it harder for them to survive.
Hamas didn’t release us out of goodwill. They responded to pressure—the kind that comes from international focus and relentless advocacy. I am asking you to do that again to bring every hostage home—both the living and the dead... We can’t let military momentum override moral clarity.
Evyatar and Guy are not statistics. They are sons. Friends. Music lovers. Gentle, funny, full of life. They deserve to walk in the sun again. They deserve a future.
I have seen the darkness. I have felt the weight of airless days, of hunger, of silence. But I also know what it means to breathe again.
President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu, you made that possible for me.
Please—bring them home too. Let them breathe again.
[https://time.com/7283392/tal-shoham-freed-hamas-hostage-gaza-essay/ Time]
Tal Shoham reveals the horrors of captivity in a letter to Trump and Netanyahu: "They tortured us for pleasure."
In a painful personal column in "Time" magazine, the released hostage tells of the suffering in the tunnels in Gaza - and the sadism of the terrorists: "They lit paper to suck out the little oxygen, we would suffocate. They tortured us for pleasure" • He reveals details about the condition of Eviatar and Guy: "Their heads were covered with bags, they still had spirit." • A difficult testimony to read.
N12 | 05.10.25.
"Some mornings I wake up and forget, for a split second, that I'm free" - this is how Tal Shoham, who survived 505 days in Hamas captivity, began a personal column in "Time" magazine, in which he directly addresses US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Shoham, who was released last February, asks leaders to work for the release of the remaining hostages, and especially for Eviatar David and Guy Dalal, who shared the inferno with him in a narrow tunnel in Gaza.
"Then I remember the silence. In the darkness. In the wet concrete. And the two young men who lay next to me, deep underground, who are still there," Shoham wrote in the moving column. "Their names are Eviatar David and Guy Dalal."
[https://www.mako.co.il/news-world/2025_q2/Article-e04eeeb9c79b691027.htm Mako]
____
Central Command chief:
'Positive trends in Judea and Samaria'.
Israel National News.
May 9, 2025, 1:21 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408107 INN]
____
Week of Raids:
55 arrested, terrorists eliminated in Judea and Samaria.
Commanding Officer of the Central Command, MG Avi Bluth, visits the Jordan Valley Regional Brigade and says a "major shift in the eastern arena" is approaching.
Israel National News.
May 9, 2025, 3:50 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408107 INN]
____
11 Percent of Columbia Library Arrestees Identify as They/Them—Nearly 7 Times. America's Trans Population.
Marco Rubio says he's reviewing foreign nationals arrested following the raid, putting one they/them student born in Vietnam at risk.
Jon Levine. May 9, 2025
It's a they-tifada.
At least 9 of the 81 people, or 11 percent, arrested in connection with storming a Columbia University library Wednesday use "they/them" pronouns, a review of public records by the Washington Free Beacon shows. That share is well above the 1.6 percent of Americans who identify as transgender or nonbinary, according to the Pew Research Center, and more than double the 5 percent of people who identify as transgender or nonbinary under 30.
[https://freebeacon.com/campus/11-percent-of-columbia-library-arrestees-identify-as-they-them-nearly-7-times-americas-trans-population/ FreeBeacon]
_____
IDF strikes 60 Gaza targets, foils terror threats.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/10/2025 03:48 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-853417 JPost]
____
Trump says India, Pakistan agree to ‘full and immediate’ cease-fire after ‘long night of talks’ mediated by US.
By Diana Glebova.
Published May 10, 2025.
[https://nypost.com/2025/05/10/us-news/trump-says-india-pakistan-agree-to-cease-fire-after-talks-mediated-by-us/ NYPost]
____
Fed-up AOC constituents in Bronx, Queens mock absentee ‘rock star’ who’s never in the district: ‘This woman has done nothing’.
By Gabrielle Fahmy and Rich Calder
Published May 10, 2025.
[https://nypost.com/2025/05/10/us-news/bronx-and-queens-residents-mock-aoc-as-absentee-rockstar-whos-never-in-district/ NYPost]
____
Maher lashes out at woke, anti-American Dem base, says they ‘are with the terrorists’.
May 10, 2025 | Kevin Haggerty.
Woke fatigue found comedian Bill Maher lashing out at the left for failing to set their “young, loyal followers” straight on being “embarrassed” to be American.
“You couldn’t survive a week living in Intifadaville.”
Like pests drawn to a bug zapper, the mask and keffiyeh-clad Hamas sympathizers that comprised the Democratic Party’s base continued to force their way into the spotlight despite the backlash it had meant in the last election. As those sentiments represented a sliver of the left’s anti-American attitude, Maher’s latest episode of HBO’s “Real Time” excoriated the party for its continued favor for the “weak and woke.”
“Seriously, this is a serious problem for Democrats. Less than one in four Democrats under 30 say they’re proud to be an American. Fifty-four percent say they’re embarrassed by it,” explained the host during his “New Rule” segment. “Embarrassed, like America is your mom picking you up at school? You’re embarrassed to be an American? Well, guess what? The feeling’s mutual because you have no perspective.”
In aiming to provide that perspective, Maher contrasted the rights of women and minorities in the United States with the atrocities committed under Islamist authority and said, “Yes, in America, gays buy buildings. In other places, they get thrown off them.”
“They actually think Hamas is a liberation movement,” the comedian said as occupation efforts had resumed at college campuses like those in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. “They chant for the Houthis. They’re chanting, ‘We will honor our martyrs,’ at Yale … Someone needs to tell the kids America is not the society where women basically have no rights, where there’s zero freedom of religion and where dissent is punishable by death.”
Pointing out how the rotgut had seeped into culture, Maher raised the Irish hip hop group Kneecap’s decision to rail against Israel during their Coachella performance as well as the failure of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) to lambast attendees of the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour that snubbed America for sympathizing Hamas.
“At an AOC/Bernie Sanders rally in Idaho last month, someone threw a Palestinian flag over an American flag and the crowd erupted in approval. What should have happened after that is one of the adults on stage should have told their young, loyal followers, this is not a symbol of freedom. This is,” he said, referring to Old Glory.
“The Democrats’ problem is the energy of the party is with the young, and the young are with the terrorists. That’s not good,” explained the host. “So talk to your children and remind them you don’t really want to live like your heroes in Hamas. All the sh*t you do all day, it was all made in America.”
“Your smartphone, your Grubhub, your freedom to bitch about America — that’s all American stuff. You tell your phone you want a milkshake and a guy brings it to your house, please. You couldn’t survive a week living in Intifadaville,” concluded Maher in part.
[https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/10/maher-lashes-out-at-woke-anti-american-dem-base-says-they-are-with-the-terrorists-1542536/ BPR]
_____
Trump drops normalization demand for Saudi nuclear deal, counts on Kushner connection.
As Trump prepares for a Middle East visit, Jared Kushner is quietly advising on talks with Saudi Arabia and other Arab leaders; While normalization with Israel seems distant, Kushner’s deep ties and strategic input are shaping Trump’s ambitious regional agenda.
Ynet correspondents | 05.10.25
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hytysu2gxl YNet]
_____
German Foreign Minister departs for Israel: 'Will inquire about war objectives'.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadfull departed for a visit to Israel and the Middle East. Before taking off from Berlin, Wadfull said his visit would include 'critical discussions' and added: 'I will inquire about the strategic objective of the fighting since it resumed in March.' During his visit to Israel, the minister is expected to meet with his counterpart Gideon Saar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and families of hostages.
Reuters | 05.10.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/oaj5h6dj5 YNet]
____
Ben-Gvir slams hostage deals with Hamas amid terrorist recidivism.
Approximately 50% of Palestinian prisoners released in the November 2023 hostage deal returned to terrorism.
JNS Staff.
(May 10, 2025 / JNS)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir lashed out on Friday at Israel’s concessions to Hamas as a “capitulation” to terrorism, citing data on recently freed Palestinian prisoners who resumed attacks.
[https://www.jns.org/ben-gvir-slams-hostage-deals-with-hamas-amid-terrorist-recidivism/ JNS]
_____
Psychological warfare:
Hamas publishes video of hostages Bohbot and Ohana.
Hamas released a new video of hostages Elkana Bohbot and Yosef Haim Ohana - the latest in Hamas' psychological warfare campaign.
Israel National News
May 10, 2025, 8:17 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408121 INN]
____
Nine soldiers injured by explosive in Shejaiya.
Orly Harari.
May 10, 2025, 8:51 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408123 INN]
____