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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408821 INN]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408821 INN]
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NY radio host: Liberal Jews are 'killing us'
Radio host Sid Rosenberg slams liberal Jews as “the weakest” and calls out the divide within American Jewry
Maayan Hoffman, ILTV | published:05.21.25 |
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r19uyrswgg YNet]
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He waited, opened fire, discarded gun—and declared 'Intifada': Step by step through the Washington attack.
Attack outside Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., which lasted only minutes, claimed the lives of couple and embassy staffers Yaron Lishinsky and Sarah Milgrom, shocked a community and triggered global security responses.
Daniel Edelson, New York, Itamar Eichner, Idan Blumhof | published:05.22.25 | 11:55
Here is how the events unfolded, according to eyewitnesses and law enforcement:
Rodriguez was seen walking back and forth in front of the Jewish museum, which was hosting an event for young diplomats. Among the attendees were Yaron Lishinsky, 30, and his partner, Sarah Milgrom, 26, both staffers at the Israeli Embassy.
At 9:07 p.m., as the event concluded and participants began exiting the building, Rodriguez pulled out a firearm and opened fire on four people. Lishinsky and Milgrom were killed at the scene. The shooter then threw away his weapon.
Witnesses, unaware he was the assailant, mistook Rodriguez for a bystander in shock. “We saw a distressed man and thought he needed help and a safe place,” said Katie Klesher, an attendee.
Rodriguez was brought inside the museum by others offering aid. “People calmed him down, gave him water, cared for him,” said witness Yoni Klein. “We had no idea he was the shooter.”
When police arrived, Rodriguez identified himself as the gunman. “I did it. I’m unarmed,” he reportedly told officers. He then produced a keffiyeh and added: “I did it for Gaza. There is only one solution—intifada, revolution. Free Palestine.” He also directed police to the location where he had discarded the firearm.
Investigators said Rodriguez did not know the victims or that they worked for the Israeli Embassy. Israeli officials believe the attack was antisemitic in nature and targeted Jews at a Jewish institution.
In the aftermath, security was increased for Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, and other diplomatic officials.
The following morning, U.S. law enforcement searched a residence in Chicago linked to Rodriguez. CNN reported that 20 law enforcement vehicles arrived at the scene and blocked off the street.
Lishinsky had planned to propose to Milgrom during an upcoming trip to Israel. “She told me they were flying to Israel to meet his family,” said Einav Hadari, deputy spokesperson at the embassy. “I asked if she expected to return with a ring. She said, ‘I hope so.’”
Lishinsky had immigrated to Israel from Germany and faced early challenges integrating into Israeli society. His former teacher at Boyar High School in Jerusalem, Lior Gutman, recalled, “He struggled at first with Hebrew and cultural differences, but he found connection through soccer and music. He became a confident representative of Israel abroad.”
“Sadly,” Gutman added, “he and his partner never got the chance to build a home in Israel.”
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sybllt3wee Ynet]
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Party For Socialism And Liberation, Linked To Perpetrator Of Terror Attack On DC Jewish Event For Young Professionals That Killed Two Israeli Embassy Employees, Was Among The Endorsers Of The May 2024 3-Day 'People's Conference For Palestine' In Detroit Where Speakers Openly Praised 'Heroic' October 7 And Called For Escalating Armed Resistance; Conference Was Largely Overlooked By Dearborn And Detroit Media, Despite The Participation Of U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Dearborn Mayor Hammoud, High-Profile Jihadi Members Of Designated Terror Groups.
May 22, 2025
Palestinians | Special Dispatch No. 11993
On May 21, 2025, a shooting attack took place outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was holding an event for young professionals. Two employees of the Israeli Embassy were shot dead in the attack. The accused suspect, Elias Rodriguez, who yelled "Free Palestine!" as he was apprehended, has been linked to the anti-U.S. extremist Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Against this backdrop, MEMRI is re-releasing its October 29, 2024 Inquiry & Analysis report on the "People's Conference for Palestine," held in Detroit, Michigan on May 24-26, 2024, an event closely tied to U.S.-designated Palestinian terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The conference was endorsed by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, among many other pro-jihadi groups, and featured an in-person speech by U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), along with a pre-recorded video message by Dearborn, Michigan Mayor Abdullah Hammoud. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was listed as an endorser on the conference website.
[https://www.memri.org/reports/party-socialism-and-liberation-linked-perpetrator-terror-attack-dc-jewish-event-young Memri]
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abbaleh @abbaleh:
You might think “well that’s probably not what most of these protesters mean when they use those phrases”.
Unity of Fields, formerly “Palestine Action, a protest/“direct action” group, posted this today.
May 22, 2025
[https://x.com/abbaleh/status/1925641277585981456 On X]
Anti-Israel group that helped incite Columbia library takeover praises DC shooter: ‘an act of solidarity and love.
By Kate Sheehy, New York Post, May 23, 2025.
A rabid anti-Israel hate group accused of helping to incite a Columbia University library takeover is now praising alleged DC Jewish Museum shooter Elias Rodriguez’s heinous crime as an act of “love.”
The notorious radical Unity of Fields also touted and provided a link to Rodriguez’s reported hate-fueled manifesto titled, “ESCALATE FOR GAZA, BRING THE WAR HOME.’’
“What Elias Rodriguez did was an act of solidarity and love for the Palestinian people,’’ the extreme lefty organization wrote on X Friday.
“If this seems crazy and unhinged to you, ask yourself why you are so well adjusted to a constant stream of disemboweled and starving children — made possible by the country in which you reside.”
Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago was caught on surveillance video gunning down soon-to-be-engaged Jewish couple Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, outside the museum late Wednesday after an event aimed at fostering peace.
The homegrown radical continued to shoot Milgrim even as she lay mortally wounded on the ground and tried to crawl away, authorities said.
Rodriguez admitted to authorities minutes later that he was the shooter, shouting “Free, free Palestine!”
Unity of Fields called the accused double-killer a “political prisoner.
“And the people defending him the hardest, like us, are people also facing repression,’’ it seethed on X on Thursday.
“We don’t condemn armed resistance,’’ it wrote. “We don’t condemn direct action. We back the left and want this energy to be more organized as opposed to shunned and isolated.”…
[https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/us-news/group-that-helped-incite-columbia-library-takeover-praises-dc-shooter/ NYPost]
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Palestinian activists can finally see their ‘intifada’ in action.
The shooting in Washington should serve as a well-needed reminder that we are witnessing a struggle between the West and the forces of jihad.
Jake Wallis Simons
22 May 2025.
During the notorious parliamentary debate on Israel this week, in which the foreign secretary announced that he was suspending trade talks with the sole democracy in the Middle East, the false claim that “14,000 babies could be dead in the next 48 hours” was repeated no fewer than 13 times, according to the record in Hansard.
The following day, a man shot dead two Israeli diplomats outside a Jewish Museum in Washington DC while allegedly crying “free Palestine”.
In the latest anti-Semitic outrage in 2,000 years of anti-Semitic outrages, a couple in their twenties, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were about to become engaged, were gunned down after an event, apparently by a brainwashed Gaza junkie.
Their portrait says it all. There they stand in formal attire, full of optimism and life, smiling at the camera as they look forward to making a home together, flanked by the flags of the United States and Israel, two of the best and freest countries in their respective regions.
Both are also nations that have, to very different extents, suffered the scourge of jihadi terror. The 9/11 attacks in New York were motivated largely by anti-Semitism, a trial of a surviving member of the terror cell in Hamburg later revealed.
To this coupling we can add other countries across the West, including our own. As it happened, the shooting in Washington took place on the eighth anniversary of the bombing of the Manchester Arena. Did Salman Abedi have “Palestine” in the back of his mind as he butchered 22 children and their relatives at the Ariana Grande concert? My money’s on yes.
The grim truth is that there is a common denominator between the affront to Western values and interests on display in parliament this week and the gruesome murders in Washington and elsewhere.
It is unlikely that anybody would carry out any form of jihadi murder without believing deeply in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Such as the claim that 14,000 Palestinian babies could be dead in the next 48 hours.
These conspiracy theories have been commonplace ever since the Cold War, when Soviet propagandists invented them and spread them around the world, where they were received with some glee by the Muslim world and the Western Left.
Foremost, of course, is the false claim that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza, despite the fact that if it had wished to do so, it could have obliterated the entire Strip from the air in about half-an-hour without risking the life of a single soldier.
There are many others, however: apartheid, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, white supremacy, Nazism. To these we may add false claims specific to Israel’s operations in Gaza. The IDF bombs hospitals for fun. Shoots civilians for fun. Kills infants for fun, just like the Jews have done since 1144 in Norwich.
But 14,000 babies? Surely that stretched the bounds of credulity. In the fever dream of Israelophobia, however, even the most Satanic behaviour is credible when we’re talking about the Middle East’s only democracy.
So it was that after a United Nations humanitarian chief made the claim on Radio 4’s Today, it travelled halfway round the world in a matter of minutes.
As the BBC established shortly afterwards, however, the assertion was false. It came from a recent UN report speculating that 14,000 children between the ages of four and six could be in danger of acute malnutrition in Gaza over the next year.
No babies. No 48 hours. No actual starvation, just a fear of it. Yet this was insufficient to prevent the lie from occupying centre stage in Parliament, riling up MPs from both sides of the aisle as they agitated for David Lammy to put the boot into the Jewish state.
It makes for an ugly picture. Every single one of those parliamentarians who defiled the chamber by so self-righteously repeating an obviously false allegation, made by a representative of an organisation – the UN – which has traded in anti-Semitic tropes for decades, should issue an immediate apology.
Lammy should correct the shamefully hostile stance that he has taken on behalf of the country towards the Jewish state. The suggestion in his opening remarks that Israel’s war of self-defence was “an affront to the values of the British people” could not have been more ironic, given the way he was trampling those values himself.
Because the true common denominator in all this is that Britain, the United States and Israel all face different heads of the hydra of jihadism. The greatest success of Hamas propagandists is to make us believe that their bloodlust is some form of “resistance” to Israeli “occupation” and “oppression”, something we should support. This is ahistorical garbage.
The Arab world launched two wars of annihilation against the Jewish state, in 1948 and 1967, before there was a single Israeli boot on the West Bank or in Gaza. The “apartheid slur” was being used before then, too. Hamas went on to derail the Oslo peace accords, which would have delivered a Palestinian state, with a campaign of suicide bombs.
It is disgraceful that the foreign secretary has allowed Hamas to blind him to the interests of Britain. It is disgraceful that he has shown himself to be as susceptible to propaganda as the next idiot in a keffiyeh. The shooting in Washington should serve as a well-needed reminder that we are witnessing a struggle between the West and the forces of jihad, and there can be no question about which side we must take.
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/22/palestinian-activists-can-finally-see-their-intifada-in-act/ DailyTelegraph]
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Swedish MEP assaulted as European Parliament debates Gaza.
Alice Teodorescu Måwe said recognizing Israel as a state should be a prerequisite to obtaining citizenship in the Scandinavian nation.
Yossi Lempkowicz.
(May 22, 2025 / European Jewish Press)
A pro-Israel Swedish member of the European Parliament, Alice Teodorescu Måwe, was verbally and physically attacked by a civil servant from the Left group in the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday.
The incident happened as the E.U. assembly was debating the situation in Gaza.
In Sweden, Teodorescu Måwe is a member of the Christian Democrats, which is part of the governing coalition, and in the European Parliament, she is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.
While initial reports of the incident were contradictory, European Parliament spokesperson Delphine Colard indicated that the assessment “confirmed the MEP’s version of events’,’ as a CCTV surveillance camera was in operation in the part of the legislature where the incident occurred.
The incident started when the Left staff member, reportedly a Swede of Middle Eastern descent, photographed and filmed the Bucharest-born MEP..
[https://www.jns.org/swedish-mep-assaulted-as-european-parliament-debates-gaza/ JNS]
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israelmfa:
Tom Fletcher, Head of @un_ocha, conveniently “forgets” that Hamas terrorists operate from hospitals, fire rockets from @unitednations schools, and hijack humanitarian aid - profiting from it while recruiting thousands and stockpiling weapons.
May 22, 2025.
[https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ8Xyj6sc21/ Instagram]
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Daniel @VoteLewko:
This is why nobody trusts the media. It has now been 48hrs since the
@UNReliefChief
Tom Fletcher claimed on the BBC that "14,000 babies in Gaza could die in the next 48 hours".
So did 14,000 babies die? Or anything near that? Of course they didn't. The entire suggestion was always completely preposterous and lacking any credibility whatsoever.
But that didn't stop the BBC publishing it, did it? The entirely dishonest blood libel was then amplified by the UN, Time, The Guardian, the ABC, The Independent UK, Associated Press, NBC, SBS... The list goes on. The claim was then used by world leaders to condemn Israel based on wildly improbable claims, hysteria and lies.
No fact checking was required. The claim was clearly total BS. But even 48 hours later it still appears on many news sites, who once again are prepared to believe anything bad about Israel. 48 hours is more than enough time to correct the record and stand down everyone responsible.
So why the hell does @TFletcher still have a job? Why does the producer of the BBC Radio program still have a job? Why do media outlets get to spread lies which lead directly to violence towards Jews, with zero accountability?
If they'd simply said something sexist, racist or about other groups there would be marches in the street demanding their cancelling. But spread lies about the Jewish state? Crickets!
Will they ever learn? These are the same outlets that fell for the "Jenin Massacre" (which never occurred) and which nearly 2 years ago said that fuel and water would run out in Gaza and spread Hamas lie after lie after lie.
Either they are breathtakingly incompetent at their job, or they are wilfully dishonest and antisemitic. It can only be one or the other. And their leadership are just as responsible.
May 22, 2025
[https://x.com/VoteLewko/status/1925437721750712818 X]
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"Objective" United Nations: Tom Fletcher [the "14,000 babies" lie producer] tells to propagandist/journalist Amanpour (5.22.25):
"We don't think it's Hamas doing that looting."
Ponder:
1. Does that mean, the UN, UNRWA always knows who is Hamas? How is that not a guilty charge on the UNRWA, again?
2. Is he as "free" to say, just as journalists recently reported of being threatened as reported by International Press Centre (IPC). ["Watchdog: Gazan reporters ‘intimidated, threatened, assaulted by Hamas’". TOI. 5.16.25]?
3. Both?
[https://on-wiki-facts.blogspot.com/2025/05/uns-tom-fletcher-14000-babies-lie.html On Wiki, facts]
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Hostage talks falter: Israel refuses Hamas demands for guarantees, recalls delegation.
As indirect negotiations stall, Hamas pushes for UN resolution and U.S. guarantees; Israel pulls entire team from Doha, warning deal possible only if Hamas accepts Witkoff outline.
Itamar Eichner | published: 06.22.25 | 08:57.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skcf69nblx YNet]
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IDF tank commander severely injured in northern Gaza fighting.
Ynet correspondents |05.22.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1fgjnnzlx YNet]
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13 MPs who repeated ‘14,000 Gazan babies’ lie named in Parliament.
Widely shared statement, originally made by UN emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher, sparked a wave of outrage
By Michelle Rosenberg
May 23, 2025.
A group of 13 MPs has been named and shamed in the House of Lords after parroting the discredited claim that 14,000 babies in Gaza were at risk of dying within 48 hours.
The widely shared statement, originally made by UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher during an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, sparked a wave of outrage and was cited multiple times in Parliament. Fletcher had claimed: “There are 14,000 babies who will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.”
[https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/13-mps-who-repeated-14000-gazan-babies-lie-named-in-parliament/ JewishNews]
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Douglas Murray: DC killings show how Americans are being incited to kill Jews by anti-Israel propaganda.
By Douglas Murray.
Published May 22, 2025, 7:36 p.m. ET
On Wednesday afternoon, Yaron Lischinsky was trying, as always, to fight lies.
On social media he could be found pushing back against just one of the many big lies spread every day about the Jewish state.
Specifically he was commenting on the UN Report which garnered headlines around the world.
This was a completely lying, untrue report from one Tom Fletcher (UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs) that 14,000 Gazan babies were likely to die in the next 48 hours unless aid reached them.
Mr. Fletcher’s claim ignored every reality on the ground.
That reality includes the fact that when aid trucks — including UN aid trucks — enter Gaza they tend to be hijacked by Hamas, who then use the aid for their terrorists or sell it at a hiked-up rate to the Gazan citizens it is meant for.
“Reputable” news organizations like the BBC spread the lie around the world.
For days they have been ramping up their coverage of Gaza. Always on a mission — a mission to claim that Gaza above any other story on earth needed to be the subject of media and international pressure.
The Jewish state was committing a “genocide[sic]” many of these outlets claimed.
On Wednesday the UN retracted its own report, but not until they had sent that brutal, brutal lie all over the world.
I wonder what radical left media think will happen when they act as Hamas’s propaganda outlets? Clearly they are trying to radicalize their readers.
And it works.
On Wednesday evening, Yaron Lischinsky was with his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim and other attendees at an event in Washington DC’s Capital Jewish Museum.
The couple happened to be staffers at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, but the gunman wouldn’t have known that.
Elias Rodriguez, 31, had hidden a gun outside the event and simply wanted to kill Jews.
“Free, free Palestine” he said as he whipped out his terrorist keffiyeh scarf and shot them.
It was a chant he repeated minutes later when he was arrested.
As a result of his actions, two beautiful young lives have been ended in an assassination-style killing on the streets of the US capital.
Rodriguez is associated with the far-left Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).
Presumably Rodriguez believed the lies that have been pumped around this country and the world. Presumably he was one of those people who actually believe that Israel has been committing a “genocide” in Gaza since October 2023, as opposed to fighting a careful war intended to bring home the remaining Israeli hostages being held by Hamas and capturing or killing the terrorist group’s leadership.
If he did believe these things then he is not alone.
Indeed, as The Post revealed yesterday, even in this city such chants and such hatred are routine.
The same day that Rodriguez ended two young lives, students at Columbia University’s graduation also chanted that inane and ignorant chant of “Free, free Palestine.”
They did so even as their cowardly acting president Claire Shipman tried to placate the mob.
“I know many in our community are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil,” she said, referring to the Columbia protest leader who has spent the past two years trying to halt normal life on Columbia’s campus amid a claim that Columbia is somehow involved in the “genocide” in Gaza.
Khalil is now the left’s great free-speech martyr, but he is a hard person to miss.
His idiot radical group (Columbia University Apartheid Divest) called the October 7th massacres “a moral, military, and political victory” and states that it is “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
One of the people to graduate Columbia on Wednesday was Mohsen Madawi, who for the past 19 months has led students in chants to “globalize the intifada.”
What did such groups and such individuals think about the consequences of their actions?
When they chanted to “globalize the intifada” they meant exactly what Rodriguez did.
They meant — and they mean — that the targeting of Jews by acts of terror should be brought from the Middle East here to America.
For the past year and a half many people — Jewish and non-Jewish — have warned about the escalation in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activism in this country.
We have warned about the radical leftist groups — and the radical right-wing commentators — who have had a field-day appealing to the most base human bigotries.
When these people were accused of “blood libels” many of them decided to look into the claim and then tell their followers that Jews were in fact busily killing and using the blood of Christian children in the Middle Ages.
When people said that they sounded like they were celebrating a death cult they showed that they were proud of it.
The streets of DC, like the streets of this city, have resounded for 19 months to chants calling for the annihilation of the Jewish State and the killing of Jewish people.
It was allowed to go on despite the fact that no similar incitement would ever be allowed in this country against any other group.
Rodriguez does not appear to be a radical Muslim.
He is someone who has been radicalized in America by radical left groups that believe that killing Jews makes them ethical people.
[https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/opinion/dc-killings-show-how-americans-are-being-incited-to-kill-jews-by-anti-israel-propaganda/ NYPost]
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IDF expands Gaza offensive, hits 75+ terrorist targets in one day | WATCH.
Airstrikes and ground ops span the Gaza Strip as Israel ramps up pressure on terror groups with targeted attacks and eliminations.
Avi Nachmani.
May 23, 2025.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-gaza-offensive-terrorist-targets JFeed]
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Typical Terrorist Response.
Hamas Rejects Netanyahu’s Peace Plan: “We Will Not Disarm or Leave Gaza”.
Hamas rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conditions for ending the Gaza war, refusing to disarm or exile its leaders. The group’s stance underscores its commitment to continued violence against Israel, prioritizing conflict over peace and the welfare of Gaza’s civilians.
Eliana Fleming.
May 22, 2025.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/hamas-rejects-netanyahu-peace-plan JFeed]
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Yaron Lischinsky's body, killed in Washington attack, returned to Israel.
By Amichai Stein.
05/23/2025 01:41 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855199 JPost]
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IDF to expand operations in Gaza, sounds of explosions expected to be heard in South - report.
By Yanir Yagna.
05/23/2025 09:05 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855226 JPost]
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US ambassador to Turkey will serve as special envoy to Syria.
By Reuters.
05/23/2025 06:18 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855217 JPost]
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Netanyahu on Zini:
'He warned of a ground invasion half a year before the massacre'
Israel National News
May 23, 2025, 8:12 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408872 INN]
Netanyahu defends Shin Bet appointment, lauds Zini's report written before Oct. 7.
By Jerusalem Post Staff.
05/23/2025 06:16 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855188 JPost]
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Rocket fired from Gaza intercepted by IAF, triggers sirens in Gaza border area.
By Jerusalem Post Staff.
05/23/2025 05:35 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855215 JPost]
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British Airways cancels flights to Israel until end of July.
By Jerusalem Post Staff.
05/23/2025 04:20 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855206 JPost]
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Court releases Huwara resident indicted for spitting at IDF officer on bail.
By Walla!
05/23/2025 01:49 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855200 JPost]
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
‘Iran is today’s Nazi threat’: Syrian insider delivers stark warning, urges Israel to embrace opportunity for peace.
Mzahem Alsaloum, a survivor of Assad-regime torture, warns that time is running out for Israel to support a new Syrian leadership eager to normalize ties.
Gabriel Colodro/The Media Line
|05.23.25 | 13:13
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bylpu7azel YNet]
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As US-Iran nuclear talks stall, Israel ramps up preparations for multi-front war.
Yossi Yehoshua.
|05.23.25 | 15:15
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjdglrr11ll YNet]
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Germany:
At least 12 injured in knife attack at Hamburg railway station.
Israel National News.
May 23, 2025, 8:50 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408873 INN]
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Harvard wins temporary reprieve on student visa program.
Elad Benari, Canada.
May 23, 2025, 9:38 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408874 INN]
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Refuses to Acknowledge Israel’s Right to Exist as a Jewish State.
by Corey Walker, May 23, 2025.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/05/23/nyc-mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-refuses-acknowledge-israels-right-exist-jewish-state/ Algemeiner]
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Guterres blames looting of Gazan aid on low supplies, though Hamas often steals aid.
“In recent days, almost 400 trucks were cleared for entry to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, but supplies from only 115 trucks have been able to be collected,” the U.N. chief said.
Mike Wagenheim.
(May 23, 2025 / JNS)
Former high-ranking U.N. officials have signed on to lead a new aid delivery mechanism to the Gaza Strip that aims to avoid Hamas looting. But António Guterres, the world body’s secretary-general, said again on Friday that the global body “will not take part in any scheme that fails to respect international law and the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality.”
[https://www.jns.org/guterres-blames-looting-of-gazan-aid-on-low-supplies-though-hamas-often-steals-aid/ JNS]
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Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby:
BREAKING: Video shows Hamas looting the aid trucks entering Gaza.
Under international law, Israel not only has a right, but a duty to not send aid if Hamas steals it.
From
Open Source Intel [https://x.com/i/status/1925470522206265382].
May 23, 2025
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Suspected DC Jewish Museum terrorist Elias Rodriguez has links to radical groups funded by socialist multi-millionaire Neville Singham.
By Isabel Vincent.
Published May 23, 2025.
The suspected terrorist charged with gunning down two Israeli embassy workers in Washington Wednesday is associated with radical socialist groups funded by the far-left Chinese sympathizer, millionaire Neville Singham and his activist wife Jodie Evans.
Elias Rodriguez, 31, who allegedly confessed to killing the couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum and chanted “free, free Palestine!” was part of that network through his association with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a Communist political organization that has fielded presidential candidates since 2008.
In 2018, Rodriguez also raised $240 in a GoFundMe campaign to join the March to Fight Poverty in Washington DC and took part in demonstrations and protests around Chicago as a member of the ANSWER coalition around 2017 and 2018, another radical socialist group, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Alleged DC shooter Elias Rodriguez was once affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which backed its own candidates for US president since 2008.
Katie Kalisher via Storyful
Both the PSL and ANSWER Coalition are connected to People’s Forum – a Manhattan-based non-profit which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party – through funding from Singham, 71.
All three groups have been involved in anti-Israel protests, with the People’s Forum having a cadre of operatives embedded at Columbia University — an epicenter of protest — according to previous reports.
[Friends and former classmates remembered slain Israeli Embassy staffer Sarah Milgrim as a "beautiful soul" and "peacemaker" who embraced her Jewish faith with pride just days after she was gunned down by a pro-Palestine terrorist in an antisemitic attack in Washington, DC, Wednesday night].
(Murdered Israeli Embassy diplomat Sarah Milgrim remembered as a ‘fiercely loyal friend,’ ‘beautiful soul’ devoted to her faith
[https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/us-news/murdered-israeli-embassy-diplomat-sarah-milgrim-remembered-as-a-fiercely-loyal-friend-beautiful-soul-devoted-to-her-faith/]).
The People’s Forum received more than $20 million in grants from Singham, much of it filtered through the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, a fiscal sponsor, as The Post has previously reported.
Another group, the Bronx Antiwar Coalition is also connected to groups in Singham’s orbit. The Bronx group applauded the murders of the Israeli diplomats on X Thursday.
“What Elias Rodriguez did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism,” a tweet from the group proclaimed.
The Bronx Anti-War Coalition was founded by Dee Knight, a radical socialist and pro-China activist, who has worked with People’s Forum, according to reports.
Knight’s latest book, “Befriending China: People to People Peacemaking,” garnered advance praise from Evans, 70, who lobbies for closer relations with China.
“He reveals in so many ways that China is not our enemy, but has an abundance to share with us,” wrote Evans, who has written her own book about embracing China in conjunction with Tricontental Insitute for Social Research, a Marxist think tank center funded by her husband and the Communist Party of China (CCP), according to the Network Contagion Research Institute.
The research center employs Singham’s son, Nate Singham, as a researcher, according to a report from the National Contagion Research Institute, a New Jersey-based think tank.
“The People’s Forum… and ANSWER Coalition serve as the conduit through which CCP-affiliated entities have effectively co-opted pro-Palestinian activism in the US, advancing a broader anti-American, anti-democratic, and anti-capitalist agenda,” according to NCRI’s 2024 report, “Contagious Disruption: How CCP Influence and Radical Ideologies Threaten Critical Infrastructure and Campuses Across the United States.”
Donations to the radical groups are filtered through Progress Unity Fund, a radical-left fiscal sponsor, according to public records.
Singham, who is now believed to be based in Shanghai, is married to activist Jodi Evans, founder of Code Pink, a women’s anti-war group which has also taken a pro-China stance in recent years.
Born in Chicago, Singham is former chair of ThoughtWorks, an IT consulting company which he sold for a reported $785 million in 2017. He is a socialist and Maoist, who was a former member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a Maoist group, according to sources.
He did not respond to The Post’s request for comment, but previously told the New York Times: “I categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a member of, work for, take orders from, or follow instructions of any political party or government or their representatives.
“I am solely guided by my beliefs, which are my long-held personal views.”
On the GoFundMe page for the March to Fight Poverty, Rodriguez had said he was joining to protest US involvement in foreign wars after his father, a National Guardsman, was sent to Iraq when Rodriguez was 11 years old.
When his father returned, Rodriguez was angry he had brought back a small Iraqi flag he ripped off a dead Iraqi’s uniform.
“I don’t want to see another generation of Americans coming home from genocidal imperialist wars with trophies,” he wrote at the time.
[...]
“We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it.”
Claudia de la Cruz, a Bronx-born socialist activist, is listed as the first president of People’s Forum in 2017 and ran for president of the USA on the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s ticket in 2024.
De La Cruz, who raised nearly $400,000 during her presidential run, stepped down from the top position at the non-profit in 2023, according to federal filings.
Ben Becker, a founding member of the party, is listed as a board member of Breakthrough Media, a non-profit affiliated with People’s Forum which also shares its Midtown address, according to public records.
De La Cruz is also listed as a board member of the media group on its federal filings for 2023.
[https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/world-news/israeli-diplomat-shooter-had-links-to-neville-singham-funded-radical-anti-israel-groups/ NYPost]
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Israel's US ambassador defends Netanyahu, slams legal system in interview.
Yechiel Leiter condemns the Israeli left and media for spreading 'blood libels' against Netanyahu, defends his integrity amid corruption charges and reveals Israel’s undisclosed role in the U.S.-led Gaza Humanitarian Fund
Daniel Edelson, New York | 05.24.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skjnjekmgl YNet]
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Tsurkov release deal hinges on US approval over Iranian tied to American’s murder.
Deal for release of Israeli-Russian academic includes freeing Mohammad Reza Nouri, tied to 2022 killing of Stephen Troell; Washington has not approved; ransom reportedly paid and all terms agreed—only her release remains.
Lior Ben Ari, AFP | 05.24.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjbb9bkfgx Ynet]
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Aid trucks begin entering Gaza Strip via Kerem Shalom crossing - report.
By Jerusalem Post Staff.
05/24/2025 09:23 AM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855244 JPost]
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timesofisrael:
IDF kills 6 gunmen guarding trucks amid looting as humanitarian aid trickles into Gaza.
UN chief says Palestinians entering 'cruelest phase of war'; footage on social media shows crowd of Gazans surrounding bakery
[By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff.
May 24, 2025].
[https://www.threads.com/@timesofisrael/post/DKCERA9sgpR Threads]
Delays hit launch of US-backed aid distribution in Gaza as chaos and looting persist.
Efforts to begin direct food distribution to Palestinians through a new American-run network stall amid chaos on the ground, continued looting and fierce international criticism over Israel’s handling of the humanitarian crisis.
Itamar Eichner, Daniel Edelson, New York | published:05.24.25.
The launch of a new U.S.-backed aid distribution network in Gaza, intended to bypass Hamas and alleviate mounting humanitarian concerns, has been delayed amid ongoing looting, logistical setbacks and deepening international criticism.
Israel had hoped the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a new American-run operation with Israeli support, would begin distributing food directly to Palestinian families as early as Saturday. But the opening of four distribution centers has been pushed to Monday or Tuesday due to last-minute complications, Israeli officials said.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1vw8iygll Ynet]
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timesofisrael:
UK police charged Jewish man with racial harassment after holding anti-Hezbollah sign timesofisrael.com/uk-po…
UK police charged Jewish man with racial harassment for holding anti-Hezbollah sign.
[May 24, 2025].
[https://www.threads.com/@timesofisrael/post/DKB5P9TM-4J Threads]
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Erdogan, Syria's Sharaa hold talks in Istanbul, media reports say.
By Reuters.
05/24/2025 03:14 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855261 JPost]
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Houthis intensify missile strikes on Israel after concluded US operation in Yemen.
Terror group brags at launching 41 ballistic missiles at Israel since the American operation ended, leading to a strike on Ben Gurion Airport, heightened nighttime barrages and regional instability.
Lior Ben Ari | 05.24.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sj9t1zjgeg YNet]
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Report:
Hamas faces deep financial crisis, fails to pay terrorists.
Israel National News.
May 24, 2025, 8:36 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408882 INN]
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All in: IDF deploys entire Infantry and Armored forces into Gaza.
In major escalation, IDF deploys all regular infantry and armored brigades into Gaza, including the Paratroopers Brigade fighting focuses on northern Gaza and Khan Yunis.
Israel National News.
May 24, 2025, 8:29 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408881 INN]
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IDF unleashes wave of strikes, destroys Gaza launcher behind border attack.
In a sweeping response to rocket attack, IDF eliminates terrorists, dismantles underground networks, and strikes over 100 targets in Gaza, including the launcher used in Friday’s attack on Israeli border towns.
Israel National News.
May 24, 2025, 9:05 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408884 INN]
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‘Still there, still trembling’: Freed hostage exposes ongoing Hamas brutality.
Thousands gather in Tel Aviv as Israel nears 600 days since the October 7 massacre, survivor Naama Levy recounts the horrors of captivity and the fear still haunting those left behind. 'They’re there, clinging to walls, praying to survive.'
Israel National News.
Published: May 24, 2025, 9:19 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408885 INN]
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Looking For Leads: DOJ council takes on influencer who praised Washington murders.
Following a video by influencer Guy Christensen praising the murder of Israeli embassy workers in Washington, a DOJ official called on the public to submit evidence against him.
Israel National News.
Published: May 25, 2025, 12:20 AM (GMT+3)
LEO Terrell, a senior council at the DOJ, tweeted that he 'will review all leads' against Guy Christensen, a TikTok influencer with more than three million followers, after Christensen praised the murder of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408896 INN]
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