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Trump is running out of time to crush Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Richard Kemp. June 08, 2025.
Iran’s nuclear programme threatens the world and especially the Middle East, with Sunni Arab countries viewed as sworn enemies in Tehran’s maniacal eyes. But Israel is most immediately in Khamenei’s cross-hairs with his repeated guarantees to annihilate it. It is the only country other than the US that is capable of damaging Iran’s nuclear project, but is now on the horns of a dilemma.
Israel can hardly attack while its number one ally is in negotiations on exactly this issue. And if Trump eventually agrees a deal which does not fully dismantle nuclear production facilities – which is a distinct possibility – it will be faced with a decision on whether to go ahead anyway against Trump’s likely desire.
Israel is also certain to face obstruction from European leaders who will cravenly do what they can to avoid conflict no matter the consequences. If Trump’s negotiations grind to a halt and snapback sanctions are imposed, they will no doubt demand that these are given a chance to work and meanwhile Israel should refrain from attacking.
Such vacillation can be more easily swept aside than hard objections from the US, from which Israel would anyway need support including with potentially large retaliation from Iran.
On that subject, Tehran’s ballistic missile stockpiles have been severely depleted by two major attacks against Israel last year, the IDF’s strikes against Iranian ballistic missile production facilities and by export of missiles to Russia to attack Ukraine. But Iran is not sitting on its hands over that challenge any more than it is over uranium enrichment.
Earlier this year it took delivery of shipments of ammonium perchlorate from China and has reportedly ordered thousands of tons more, expected to arrive in the coming months. This is an essential component for solid fuel ballistic missiles, including nuclear armed missiles. As well as direct use against Israel, Iran will also send missiles to Lebanon to rebuild Hizballah and to its other proxies in Iraq and Yemen to attack Israel and potentially US forces in the region.
All this means the time for effective military action is now. Iran will do everything it can to spin out talks with the US, doing its best to lead the negotiators along while manipulating Europeans to throw a lifeline.
As well as building up its offensive capabilities, it will be trying to replace its Russian-supplied air defences shattered by an IDF counterstrike last October. It will also be further hardening and dispersing its nuclear facilities.
Trump needs to understand that, even if a deal is agreed, it won’t be worth the paper its written on. Tehran has repeatedly breached the terms of Obama’s deal as well as its obligations under the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty. Whatever obfuscation it comes up with, Iran will not voluntarily surrender its nuclear weapons programme.
All these negotiations will therefore achieve is to obstruct and delay the inevitable. It is imperative that the US now gives a green light to Netanyahu to do what he has to do, and provide him with whatever support he needs.
The consequences of failure to act go beyond Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Trump’s moves will also be measured in Moscow and Beijing. Anything other than a hard line with Tehran will be taken as a sign of weakness. It will encourage Putin to continue to refuse to negotiate over Ukraine, believing the cost to be low.
And it will show Xi that even the most bullish and unpredictable president the White House has seen for many years may not stand in the way of his own imperial ambitions. Ultimately, deterrence comes down to demonstrable political will. If a (not yet) nuclear armed state can’t be prevented from endangering the world by the American superpower, then what hope is there for anyone deterring two nuclear states.
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/08/trump-must-act-now-to-crush-irans-nuclear-dream/ DailyTelegraph]
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‘For Dummies’-style manual aims to equip college-bound Jews for campus life.
Targeting college-bound Jewish students and their parents, two American immigrants to Israel penned a “For Dummies”-style primer on being a Jewish collegiate during times of surging antisemitism.
June 8, 2025.
The authors of “10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go to College” — Emily Schrader and Blake Flayton — were each at the center of antisemitism scandals on their respective college campuses. Although they now live in Israel, Schrader and Flayton remain closely connected to the scene on American campuses.
In an interview with The Times of Israel, Schrader said the antisemitism at her former campus — University of Southern California — spurred her to move to Israel in 2015.
Incidents ranged from antisemitic Tweets to chants of “Death to Israel” on the USC campus quad, said Schrader. The journalist quickly became an outspoken opponent of Students for Justice in Palestine, the anti-Israel network that has been banned on several campuses in recent months.
“The administration did nothing,” said Schrader. “I knew the trajectory was going the wrong way even at schools like USC.”
Although “10 Things” is most relevant for North American Jews, the book makes note of campus developments around the world. Anti-Israel university activities often migrate from Europe to North American campuses, said Schrader.
“It’s worse in Europe. What happens in the UK is sort of a precursor to what happens in North America,” said Schrader.
The book is divided into 10 chapters based on topics including the media, the West Bank and the United Nations. There is content regarding campus support networks — including Hillel and Chabad — as well as warnings about Israel’s campus opponents and their activities.
[https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-dummies-style-manual-aims-to-equip-college-bound-jews-for-campus-life/ TOI]
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David Collier: The world has fallen into the moral abyss over Gaza.
This article is not about the conflict – it is about the international community.
The war – whatever you think of it – is ongoing. Israel rightly or wrongly seeks to eliminate the Hamas threat from Gaza and successfully return every single hostage (whether alive or dead). That is a given. And it is true, everyone does have a right to oppose the Israeli action and call on them to stop.
But that is only part of the equation. This war has been going on now for over 19 months. The world’s human rights NGOs argue that many of the people trapped inside are ‘refugees’. Legacy media have been running (real or imagined) massacre stories non-stop for 18 months. Yet not one of them has run a campaign to get the refugees to safety.
This is nothing to do with the Gazans. The international Palestinian solidarity movement, the hard-left, and the Islamist extremists, all want Gazans to stay in place. Not one of them, actually thought about the people of Gaza, what they wanted, or what was safest for them. Instead they wanted the civilians to remain caught between Hamas and the IDF. Just as Hamas use these people as human shields and want a high casualty count – that same accusation can equally be placed on the shoulders of the entire industry of ‘human rights’.
Israel did not want this. Israel did not seek this conflict. Hamas did. And Israel would much rather be fighting Hamas with no civilians around. So ask yourself why on earth the self titled bastions of moral virtue in the international community have done everything they can to make sure that the civilians have stayed in an area of urban conflict – and then they all express absolute outrage and pointed a finger of blame at Israel when anything happens to them?
And I will leave you with this one simple thought.
If your reflex opposition to this idea of Gazans leaving Gaza is also to reject it because ‘it is what Israel would want’ – then the Palestinian cause has turned you into an absolute monster. It really is that simple.
[https://david-collier.com/moral-abyss-gaza/ David Collier]
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New report debunks ‘settler violence’ narrative.
David Isaac. June 9, 2025..
The “settler violence” campaign, which claims that violence against Arabs by Jewish “settlers” spiked post-Oct. 7, 2023, is based on fraudulent numbers, according to a report published on Sunday.
The campaign’s goal, according to the report, is to defame not merely the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria, but the Israeli army and by extension the entire State of Israel.
The 125-page report, “False Flags and Real Agendas,” produced by Israeli NGO Regavim, describes the “settler violence” smear as a “modern-day blood libel.”
The report dissects the narrative and the numbers behind the slander, which went into overdrive following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack. A flurry of news items appeared in the liberal mainstream press in the United States and elsewhere about escalating “settler violence” in Judea and Samaria.
These reports claimed that Jewish violence had increased in retaliation for the Hamas massacre. “The breadth and intensity of the violence has revived memories of the ‘nakba,’ or catastrophe, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their homes, never to return,” reported The Washington Post on Nov. 9, 2023.
In February 2024, the Biden administration, for the first time, sanctioned Israelis it claimed had engaged in violence against Arab civilians, citing “high levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of people and villages and property destruction.” It would sanction more Israelis in subsequent months, along with certain pro-Israel NGOs. (Regavim was threatened with sanctions though none were applied.)
The Biden White House justified its interference in another country’s internal affairs by claiming that Israel’s government had not done enough to “hold accountable extremist settlers who commit acts of violence,” in the words of then-State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
[https://www.jns.org/new-report-debunks-settler-violence-narrative/ JNS]
Research finds 90% of reports of ‘violence’ by Judea and Samaria Jews were fake
A new report published by Israel’s Regavim Movement NGO on Sunday has found that some 90% of incidents of “violence” attributed to Judea and Samaria Jews in recent years by the United Nations were fabricated.
Regavim’s 128-page research report in English, titled “False Flags and Real Agendas,” scrutinized a database maintained by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which claims to have documented thousands of alleged incidents of Israeli “settler violence” against Palestinian Arabs from January 2016 through April 2023.
An analysis of the 6,285 incidents documented by the U.N. showed that some 90% of the alleged acts in Judea and Samaria did not take place in the disputed territory but in eastern Jerusalem, or were entirely peaceful, such as visits by Israeli Jews to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, as well as legal activities such as civilian hikes or infrastructure work.
Filtered for verified incidents of physical violence by Israeli Jews against Palestinians, the list shrinks to just 833 cases over a period of seven and a half years, averaging fewer than 10 incidents per month, according to Regavim.
In addition, the Regavim report found that many of these confirmed cases were also misclassified or involved anti-Israel provocations orchestrated by Palestinian and foreign left-wing activist groups.
Examination of the reports also revealed that “in many of them, it is not settler violence of one kind or another, but rather the opposite: these are terror attacks by Arabs against settlers that ended with the injury or elimination of the attacker,” according to the research document.
Regavim said that the term “settler violence” has been used by global bodies, media outlets and left-wing activists to draw a false moral equivalence between Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria and Palestinian terrorism.
“For years, we have been told about a ‘serious phenomenon’ of settler violence, but we have never been shown the data that proves that it exists,” Meir Deutsch, Regavim’s director-general, said in a statement.
“After years in which there was no pushback whatsoever against this false narrative, Regavim is presenting the facts, and they must be seen, heard and internalized in Israel and around the world,” Deutsch stated.
[https://www.jns.org/research-finds-90-of-incidents-of-violence-by-judea-and-samaria-jews-were-fake/ JNS]
The lie of “settler violence” just got exposed, with facts they can’t ignore.
Regavim just dropped a devastating report that tears the mask off one of the biggest blood libels of our time.
They said there were 6,000 attacks. After cutting the propaganda and double-counting? Just… [pic.twitter.com/7zMaqtQOVO].
— Gedaliah Blum 🇮🇱 (@GedaliahBlum) June 8, 2025.
[https://twitter.com/GedaliahBlum/status/1931740594742722586 on X]
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Jewish woman reveals plot to poison Israelis at Boom Festival in Portugal - KAN.
Strychnine is a highly toxic, colorless alkaloid used as a pesticide, which leads to convulsions and then death through asphyxia if ingested.
By Mathilda Heller. June 10, 2025.
A WhatsApp group for left-wing activists in Portugal plotted to poison Israelis at the upcoming Boom Festival, Sarah (not her real name) told KAN News on Monday. The members also intended to defecate on the Israelis' tents and urinate in their food.
Sarah, who is Jewish, said she entered the group chat through her work as an artist, though she imagined they didn't know she was Jewish.
The unnamed Jewish woman said she entered the group chat through her work as an artist, though she imagined they didn't know she was Jewish.
"Their idea was to infiltrate the Boom Festival (set to take place in July), because a lot of Israelis go there after doing their service at the IDF. And they felt that it was unfair that [Israelis] should be allowed to be included.
"It started off as quite a mess, but then they started to organize themselves. What started off with just silly ideas then started to become plans. And as you can see, it's truly sinister."
KAN broadcast screenshots of three messages from the chat.
One of the texts read "they are all pretty much IOF veterans boys and girls. I was thinking of giving them a taste of their own medicine. Wake them up and let them know that they are getting a humanitarian warning to leave their tents, make sure they are at a safe(ish) distance away and then torch their tent. I'd let them know that I am the most moral arsonist in the world and then give them the strychnine drop to cheer them up."
Another says: "Oh c'mon, strychnine in their acid is not dismemberment of babies... they are all former or current IOF after all... what's a little strychnine to people who have torn babies to shreds while wearing their mother's stolen underwear."
A third says "The entire world needs to adopt this tactic [of boycotting] wherever Israelis are found."
Strychnine is a highly toxic, colorless alkaloid used as a pesticide, which leads to convulsions and then death through asphyxia if ingested.
Sarah told KAN that she was also on a group phone call where similar plans were expressed, although she said the plans on the phone call were "worse."
"Plans to defecate on Israelis tents, plans to urinate in their food, plans to set their tents on fire, plans to put bad substances inside other substances they may take. Plans to make them feel uncomfortable, plans to attack."
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-857126 JPost]
“We’ll lace the Israelis’ acid with pesticides.”
“They’ll get a warning — then we’ll burn their tents.”@mayarachlin exposes how violent pro-Palestine activists plotted to poison thousands of Israelis at Portugal’s “Boom Festival” — until a Jewish woman uncovered the plan. [pic.twitter.com/JtFUXthj6f].
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) June 9, 2025
[https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1932141871150551154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw On X]
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‘Disgusting’ Massive Attack display Sinwar footage during concert.
Daniel Sugarman. June 9, 2025.
The band Massive Attack has been criticised after including footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his family members as part of a video montage at their Manchester concert last weekend.
The band, who have been vocal critics of Israel for many years, included the video footage as part of a montage titled “Open the doors to the merchants of death” during their set at the Lido Festival, held at Manchester’s Co op Live Arena. The footage, released by the IDF last year, shows members of the Sinwar family, including the terrorist leader, attempting to hide in tunnels beneath Gaza on 10 October 2023. Three days earlier Hamas had launched an attack on Israel which had been masterminded by Sinwar himself, murdering 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages.
Commenting on social media, Alex Gandler, deputy spokesperson for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, described the band’s use of the footage as “just disgusting. People have completely lost the plot. They are aligning themselves with the worst humans. Not even hiding their hatred anymore.”
Massive Attack have been vocal supporters of the censure and boycott of Israel. Prior to their concert at the Co op Live, they released a statement condemning the arena’s new sponsorship deal with Barclays, describing the latter as “a commercial endeavour synonymous with the large scale financing of new fossil fuel extraction, and billions of dollars of investments in arms companies that supply Israel in its genocidal onslaught of Gaza, and war crimes in the West Bank.” The band went on to say that “Co op live ownership have agreed to our insistence that all physical and digital Barclays livery and logos be completely removed from the arena itself and our show page on the arena website, and that no show tickets – for sale of complimentary – will go to Barclays.”
Recently, the band were at forefront of those defending Belfast rap trio Kneecap, after the group faced censure when video footage emerged of one of its members waving the Hezbollah flag on stage. Massive Attack released a statement saying that “Kneecap are not the story…as a band that has spoken publicly for more than 30 years about the illegal occupation, apartheid system and killing with impunity of thousands of Palestinians, we are hyper aware of both the human cost of abject silence and the commercial implications of publicly expressing solidarity with an oppressed people.” Hezbollah, which is also a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, is notorious for having aided the Assad regime in the mass murder of civilians during the Syrian civil war.
[https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/massive-attack-criticised-for-using-sinwar-footage-in-concert-video/ JewishNews (UK)]
BREAKING @MassiveAttackUK screen footage of mass murderer Yahya Sinwar and his family in tunnels on October 10, 3 days after his men butchered people at a music festival very much like @TheCoopLive and @lidofestival where the video was shown!
Irony really is dead [pic.twitter.com/rEbpNI9GvI].
— The Electronic Uprising (@uprising_1) June 8, 2025
[https://twitter.com/uprising_1/status/1931784988933918875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw on X]
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Pro-Palestinian activists dress as Hamas, re-enact Oct 7 massacre in Brussels.
Pro-Palestinian activists dressed as Hamas terrorists reenacted the October 7 Massacre in central Brussels during the third annual Samidoun-organized "Resistance Festival," which ran from June 6 to Sunday, June 8.
By Mathilda Heller. June 9, 2025.
Videos from the event show masked men in keffiyehs and army fatigues pointing prop guns, while other actors play dead bodies heaped on the floor. When the men playing Hamas terrorists see that everyone is dead, they put their arms around one another and raise their hands in victory. Fake blood is also seen in the video.
The re-enactment, accompanied by music and a voice-over about “From the river to the sea,” was met with whoops, cheers, and applause from the audience.
One of the attendees posted on Instagram: “Resistance is justified when people are occupied. When there is a genocide, resistance is justified.”
Israel’s ambassador to Belgium, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, posted the video on X/Twitter, saying she “just couldn’t believe it’s real, but it is.”
“Here in Brussels. Reenactment of the 7/10 massacre. Blood and bodies on the floor and all.”
Belgian MP Sam van Rooy said on X that Samidoun had promised in advance not to make any explicit or implicit reference to Hamas or Hezbollah, “not to call for hatred or violence and to strictly respect social cohesion.”
He added that the mayor of the city, Jean Spinette (who condemned the footage and asked the police to investigate) had acted “too little, too late.”
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-857117 JPost]
In Brussels, a group of men staged a public performance where they acted out the murder of Israelis—mock rifles aimed at civilians on the ground, chants glorifying the intifada playing in the background. A reenactment of October 7, performed in the middle of the European capital,… [pic.twitter.com/ghQQhDK0W8]
— Hamza (@HowidyHamza) June 8, 2025
[https://x.com/HowidyHamza/status/1931844464059842750/video/1 on X]
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Miniseries on how Oct. 7 impacted Latinos premieres in Tel Aviv.
Survivors of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion joined prominent members of the Israeli Latin American community, ambassadors, journalists and other guests in a packed theater at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on May 28 to watch two episodes of a new four-part miniseries that showcases Latinos who were affected by the attack.
The series, titled “7/O: Testigos del Terror” (“10/7: Witnesses of Terror”), is in Spanish with subtitles in English. According to a press release, it “is the only docuseries chronicling the Hamas massacre and its aftermath from the perspective of Latin American immigrants in Israel.”
Just weeks after the attack, the release said, filmmakers from the Miami-based NGO, Fuente Latina, traveled to Israel, where they interviewed dozens of Latinos who survived the massacre. Fuente Latina was founded by Leah Soibel, a Jewish American Middle East expert whose parents emigrated from Argentina, in 2012 to provide news and commentary on the Middle East to Spanish-language news outlets.
“The unique angle of this film is not only that it looks at Oct. 7 through a Latino lens, but also that it delves into the very particular migratory experiences of Latinos in Israel,” said Soibel, who serves as executive director of Fuente Latina.
“It is very interesting to note that this immigrant community constitutes a significant part of the Israeli population and was a fundamental pillar in the establishment of the kibbutzim on the Gaza border that were the main target of the Hamas attack,” she added.
After the screening, sister and brother Clara and Fernando Marman, immigrants from Argentina, spoke to the audience about their harrowing ordeal in Hamas captivity.
Clara, together with her partner Luis Har, sister Gabriela, brother Fernando, niece Mia, and Mia’s puppy, Bella, were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on Oct. 7. The women were released in the first ceasefire in November 2023. Luis and Fernando remained with their captors in Gaza.
June 9, 2025.
[https://www.jns.org/miniseries-on-how-oct-7-impacted-latinos-premieres-in-tel-aviv/ JNS]
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The media doesn't talk about the Thai hostages. Because none are Jewish. None Israeli.
And that contradicts the whole "Hamas are freedom fighters" narrative.
Please listen to released hostage Watchara Sriaoun.
After 482 days in captivity, "I felt like I was reborn."🎗️ [pic.twitter.com/5hgk0B6frY]
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) June 8, 2025
[https://x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1931510127313760289 On X]
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Anti-Israel Pamphlets From Group Behind Columbia Encampments Line Barnard Library Shelves.
June 9, 2025.
Barnard College's library shelves are stocked with anti-Israel pamphlets, including some from Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the anti-Semitic student group behind last spring's encampments. Others direct readers to content praising assassinated Hamas leaders like Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh and justifying the Oct. 7 attack, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The pamphlets, known as "zines," are listed on Columbia University’s online catalog, meaning they were officially incorporated into Barnard’s Milstein Library and not slipped onto the shelves by students. A Free Beacon review found a dozen anti-Israel publications—some of which are available online to students of Barnard and Columbia, its sister school—in the catalog of roughly 4,000 zines. The zine collection is overseen by several Barnard students and director Jenna Freedman, who has long pushed anti-Israel sentiments and helped form a group called Librarians and Archivists for Palestine.
The zines, which have not been previously reported, are yet another example of pervasive anti-Semitism at Barnard and Columbia. CUAD led a March 5 raid on Milstein Library, where the zines are housed. During the storming, the mob injured two security officials and distributed Hamas propaganda justifying the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack.
Two of the anti-Israel pamphlets, both published by CUAD, were included in Milstein Library’s June 2024 exhibit of zines focused on recognizing "how we can be complicit in systems of oppression locally and abroad." One of those pushed the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement and called on "KKKOLUMBIA" to defund its Public Safety office. It also quotes Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) founder George Habash in calling Columbia a "bodyguard of U.S. imperialism," and includes a sprawling flowchart connecting university leadership to military contractors, tech giants, Israel, and the New York City Police Department.
Barnard still shelves two copies of that zine, photos obtained by the Free Beacon confirm. At least one of those sports a sticker with a barcode and text that reads "COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES."
The other was stylized as a tween scrapbook—complete with a Barbie Band-aid and a keffiyeh-clad teddy bear waving a Palestinian flag—condemning Barnard president Laura Ann Rosenbury. It accused her of "weaponizing Jewish pain to support genocide" and called for a boycott of her February 2024 inauguration. CUAD lists the zine’s title as Barnard Burn Book, but the library exhibit sanitized the name to simply For Laura. A copy still remains on Barnard’s shelf, a photo obtained by the Free Beacon confirms.
[https://freebeacon.com/campus/anti-israel-pamphlets-from-group-behind-columbia-encampments-line-barnard-library-shelves/ FreeBeacon]
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Don't rehire antisemitic, pro-Nasrallah doctor, over 1000 doctors urge Brown University.
Some 1,170 doctors and medical professionals sent a letter to Brown University demanding that the school does not rehire a known antisemitic physician.
The letter, organized by the National Jewish Advocacy Center, urged Dr. Louis Rice, head of the Department of Medicine at Brown’s medical school, not to rehire known Hezbollah supporter Dr. Rasha Alawieh as an assistant professor.
According to the transcript of a Homeland Security interview unsealed on May 7, 2025, Alawieh expressed support for deceased Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
At one point, immigration officials asked Alawieh why, if she knew that Nasrallah was the leader of a foreign terrorist organization, she “chose to ignore the terrible acts that he advocates for?” She responded, “Because it’s not related to politics. It’s related to faith and spirituality.”
Alawieh, a transplant nephrologist, traveled to her home country of Lebanon in February to “visit family” and attend Nasrallah’s funeral. She was detained by US customs officials upon returning and was deported. 'No place for Dr. Alawieh’s support of those who advocate Jew-hatred'
Mark Goldfeder, CEO and director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, said the Department of Homeland Security acted “appropriately” in deporting Rasha Alawieh.
“Particularly, as a non-citizen work visa holder, there is no place for Dr. Alawieh’s support of those who advocate Jew-hatred and jihad terror in the US, let alone in US medicine,” he added.
The letter asked that Alawieh not be allowed to resume working at Brown University Health, regardless of the outcome of her ongoing litigation.
“She is a threat to fellow faculty, as well as to patient safety and care for which Brown University is on notice, making her also a liability threat to the university itself,” the letter adds.
“Antisemitism is running rampant in the medical profession,” stated Peggy Shapiro, executive director of the Center for Combating Antisemitism.
“A recent study revealed that 40% of Jewish healthcare workers have experienced antisemitism in their professional or academic environment since the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel.”
Breaking news out of Ohio: Vile Jew-hater Guy Christensen is no longer enrolled at OSU.
Grateful to Mothers Against College Antisemitism and Ohio State University Hillel for exposing his presence and leading the charge. [pic.twitter.com/RmNiaWSmav]
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) June 9, 2025
https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1931882255938371951/photo/1 on X]
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CBS' Denial Distortion, Al Jazeera Creep and Militarized Aid Myopia. By: Tamar Sternthal June 8, 2025.
Last week we wrote about the particular strain of journalistic malady called “denial denial.” Today’s post is a study of a close cousin of denial denial: “denial distortion.”
Thus, CBS dutifully reported that the Israeli military issued a denial regarding Hamas-fueled reports that it had gunned down dozens of civilians at an aid distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1. But the problem is that the network fudged what it was exactly that the army denied.
Thus, CBS’ Imtiaz Tyab fabricated in the introduction of the June 1 “Sunday Weekend News” broadcast: “The Israeli military denies anyone was killed in the incident, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.” Further down in the broadcast, he offered up a slightly changed variation of the same theme: “Israel had denied any shooting took place today.”
In fact, the IDF never denied that anyone was killed in the incident. Nor did it deny that any shooting took place. Rather, the army denied that its troops fired on civilians in or near the aid distribution site. The IDF’s denial stated:
False reports have been spread In [sic] recent hours, including serious allegations against the IDF regarding fire toward Gazan residents in the area of the humanitarian aid distribution site in Gaza.
Findings from an initial inquiry indicate that the IDF did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the humanitarian aid distribution site and that reports to this effect are false.[Emphasis in original.]
The IDF is cooperating with the GHF and international aid organizations in order to enable the distribution of aid to Gazan residents—and not to Hamas.
The IDF calls on the media to be cautious with information published by the Hamas terrorist organization, as proven in many previous incidents.
The Israeli military also released drone footage which it said showed Hamas combatants firing on civilians at a different aid distribution site, raising the possibility that Hamas was responsible for the deadly shooting.
Aside from his imprecise strawman reporting of the IDF’s denial, Tyab’s factual liberties also include the number of reported casualties. Regarding the June 1 incident at the food distribution site in Rafah, the CBS journalist intoned: “At least 49 people were killed and over 200 wounded, most suffering from gunshot injuries, according to Gaza health officials.”
In fact, the “Gaza health officials,” also known as Hamas employees, did not cite 49 dead in that disputed incident. On June 1, at 1:53 PM (Israel time) Hamas’ Ministry of Health reported that hospitals across the coastal territories, meaning from various incidents in different locations, received 37 fatalities within the previous 24 hours. The Hamas-employed health officials reported 136 wounded within the same time period, which covered both the Rafah aid distribution site incident along with other deadly events.
So how did CBS’ Tyab reach these inflated casualty figures, which exceeded Hamas’ own notoriously questionable figures for both the dead and wounded? Tyab, who joined CBS after a stint at the Qatari-controlled Al Jazeera, apparently relied on the erroneous reporting of his previous employer without carrying out any independent checking of his own. In this June 1 report, Al Jazeera wrongly reported that the Gaza Ministry of Health reported 49 dead and more than 200 wounded in an Israeli airstrike [sic] on a Rafah aid distribution site.
While Tyab failed to make clear that the Gaza Health Ministry is run by Hamas, or that Hamas is a designated terror organization, his treatment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation did not get the same pass. He referred to it as “a controversial U.S. and Israeli backed aid distribution center,” and added: “The United Nations and other aid agencies have refused to work with the group, saying it has, quote ‘militarized aid,’ which goes against all humanitarian principles.” Moreover, two days later, on July 3, he dedicated an entire broadcast to “Investigating Aid in Gaza.”
At some point in the not to distant future the British Jewish community will no longer exist as it does today.
https://www.camera.org/article/cbs-denial-distortion-al-jazeera-creep-and-militarized-aid-myopia/
I just want @bbcnews @SkyNews journos to know that when the history is written - all their names will be on the charge sheet.
Instead of using their influence to tll…
— David Collier (@mishtal) June 9, 2025
Jerusalem is Israel's capital city.
The U.S. recognizes the status of Jerusalem.
But @CBSNews and its senior foreign correspondent, Elizabeth Palmer, *covering events in Gaza*, make a point of stating that she is reporting from "East Jerusalem." [pic.twitter.com/qsKGGxbH5u]
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) June 9, 2025.
[https://x.com/HonestReporting/status/1932090564549210224 on X]
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The media need to stop platforming people who have made antisemitic statements or who have supported terrorism. @yvonneridley is a well known Holocaust denier who raises money for Hamas.@GBNEWS [https://t.co/N9cOI7ogo4] [pic.twitter.com/zP6mRV74ql]
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) June 9, 2025
[https://x.com/GnasherJew/status/1932013230190125100 on X]
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‘Disgusting, cowardly act’: Ottawa national Holocaust monument vandalized.
“When you desecrate the Holocaust monument, it causes tremendous pain for the community,” Lawrence Greenspon, volunteer co-chair of the National Holocaust Monument Committee, told JNS.
Dave Gordon. (June 9, 2025 / JNS).
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“Sadly, these days, we continue to see this hate,” Adam Silver, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, told JNS. “It’s not unexpected, I guess, but it’s certainly still jarring to see.”
Silver told JNS that he refers to the monument being “desecrated” rather than “defaced.”
“It’s supposed to be a beacon of education and tolerance, and to honor the memories of all the victims,” he said. He told JNS that city crews were scrubbing the graffiti on Monday morning.
Silver told JNS that authorities told him that there are cameras around the monument and the surrounding area, which makes it easier to find vandals.
“City leadership are committed to identifying the perpetrators and holding them accountable as best they can,” he said. “We know that there are all kinds of attempts from haters to intimidate and create fear.”..
Yad Vashem said the attack is the “latest in a series of appalling acts of vandalism against Jewish and Holocaust-related sites worldwide.”
“Holocaust memorials serve as solemn reminders of the unparalleled horrors perpetrated during one of the darkest chapters in human history and are a stark reminder of the dangers of unchecked antisemitism,” the Israeli memorial institution stated.
“Yad Vashem calls on authorities in Canada to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice,” it stated. “Beyond that, we urge the country’s leadership to do more to counter the root of the problem: hatred and antisemitism.”
Michael Levitt, president and CEO of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Toronto, stated that “this wasn’t just an act of hateful vandalism.”
“It was a direct assault on the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and a slap in the face to survivors and their families,” stated Levitt, a former parliamentarian for York Centre, in Toronto, a riding with a large Jewish population.
“Every member of Parliament in the House of Commons today should ask themselves: What will I do about this? Because as much as our community welcomes expressions of sympathy, statements alone won’t stop the hate we’re facing,” he said.
“It’s time for actions that will send an unmistakable message to those who are perpetrating hate on our streets and in our communities: Every time you target Jews, you will achieve the opposite of your goal,” he added. “You won’t scare us. You won’t infect others with your hate. But what you will do is provoke the full force of Canadians fighting back.”
Lawrence Greenspon, 71, whose paternal grandparents and whose aunt were killed in Auschwitz and whose father was liberated from Dachau by the Americans, is a volunteer co-chair of the National Holocaust Monument Committee.
“When you desecrate the Holocaust monument, it causes tremendous pain for the community, and it’s also very personal for me,” Greenspon told JNS.
“I never expected that my daughter would ever be exposed to this sort of antisemitism,” he said. “It’s almost to the point of daily. When we had these events at the monument, it was a question of ‘What if?’ Until today, nothing like that has happened.”
“The important thing to come across is we’ve heard from our political leaders that this is ‘unacceptable’ and this should not be happening in Canada,” he told JNS. “It’s very little comfort. It’s time for action.”
“Our prime minister has to, first of all, stop blaming Israel for the war, because it becomes the justification for these acts of hatred,” he said.
Mark Sutcliffe, the Ottawa mayor, stated that the attack on a “solemn and sacred place” is “shocking and disturbing,” and Melissa Lantsman, a Conservative member of Parliament who is Jewish, called it a “disgusting and cowardly act.”
“Parliament is just steps away. That’s where dissent belongs,” she wrote. “Defacing sacred ground in honour of the millions of victims of the Holocaust in the middle of the night with spray paint isn’t protest. It’s vandalism. Someone this pathetic deserves to be identified and held accountable.”
At the intersection of Wellington and Booth Streets in Ottawa, the National Holocaust Monument is a solemn tribute to the 6 million Jewish men, women and children and millions of others whom the Nazis and its collaborators murdered during the Holocaust.
Justin Trudeau, then the prime minister, opened the site officially on Sept. 27, 2017. The monument, designed by Polish-American Jewish architect Daniel Libeskind, is the largest commemorative structure built in the capital in more than 70 years.
It is composed of six towering triangular concrete segments that, when viewed from above, form the points of a star—a direct reference to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust.
Large-scale monochromatic murals by photographer Edward Burtynsky line the concrete walls, depicting present-day images of Holocaust sites, such as death camps and killing fields.
[https://www.jns.org/disgusting-cowardly-act-ottawa-national-holocaust-monument-vandalized/ JNS]
Mark Sutcliffe @_MarkSutcliffe:
The National Holocaust Memorial is a solemn and sacred place in Ottawa designed to honour the millions of innocent people who were murdered under the Nazi regime and to recognize the significant contributions of Holocaust survivors in Canada. It’s shocking and disturbing to see it defaced today. Protests and demonstrations are an essential part of our democracy. Disfiguring a sacred monument in a way that will traumatize victims, survivors and their families is not.
I am reaching out to Ottawa’s Jewish community and other faith leaders, and to the Ottawa Police Service. Let’s continue to unite together as a community to fight against hatred in all its forms.
Le Mémorial national de l'Holocauste est un lieu solennel et sacré à Ottawa, conçu pour rendre hommage aux millions d'innocents qui ont été assassinés sous le régime nazi et pour reconnaître les contributions importantes des survivants de l'Holocauste au Canada. Il est choquant et troublant de le voir aujourd'hui défiguré. Les protestations et les manifestations sont un élément essentiel de notre démocratie. Défigurer un monument sacré d'une manière qui traumatise les victimes, les survivants et leurs familles ne l'est pas.
Je m'adresse à la communauté juive d'Ottawa, aux autres chefs religieux et au service de police d'Ottawa. Continuons à nous unir en tant que communauté pour lutter contre la haine sous toutes ses formes.
Jun 9, 2025.
[https://x.com/_MarkSutcliffe/status/1932094372339695931 on X]
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Deborah Lyons @DeborahLyonsSE:
The National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa is a sacred space of remembrance and reflection to honour the 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis. Vandalizing the monument does nothing to bring peace to the Middle East. It is an act of vile antisemitism and a hate crime. Full stop.
This is a disgusting display of Jew Hatred in our nation’s capital. I will be speaking immediately with the relevant federal authorities & law enforcement agencies about this.
May the memories of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust be a blessing.
Jun 9, 2025.
[https://x.com/DeborahLyonsSE/status/1932082615139315929 on X].
[https://archive.ph/DtJO0].
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Palestinians Weigh In: The Real Reason Hamas Wants To 'Sacrifice' Them.
by Khaled Abu Toameh.
June 9, 2025.
Like most senior Hamas leaders, [Khalil] al-Hayya and his family members live outside the Gaza Strip, having fled the Gaza Strip before the October 7 attack on Israel. These Hamas leaders are leading safe, often resplendent lives in Qatar, Lebanon, Algeria, Turkey and other comfortable countries.
Hamas, [these Palestinians] say, has decided to sacrifice tens of thousands of Palestinians to please its patrons in Qatar and Iran.
"Khalil al-Hayya's statement of sacrificing Gaza isn't a slip of the tongue – it's the mask coming off. When he says Gaza 'offered itself as a sacrifice,' what he means is that the people of Gaza were handed over...to foreign capitals and thrones... Gaza wasn't 'offered'- it was 'traded.' Traded for relevance in Tehran, applause in Doha, and invitations to summits where men in suits congratulate themselves for their loyalty [to Iran and Qatar] while entire neighborhoods [in the Gaza Strip] are flattened. What al-Hayya revealed – with disturbing pride – is that Hamas has never seen Gaza as a society to build or protect, but as a tool to elevate themselves in the eyes of unelected monarchs and ideological overlords.... to secure long-term contracts of power and protection from the patrons they truly serve..... [f]or the Qatari ruling elite who fund the fire from a safe distance, then host the [Hamas] arsonists as statesmen. Hamas offers Gaza as a sacrifice ... because they know that a Gaza in ruins keeps them relevant, funded, and feared." — Hamza Howidy, a Gaza-born peace and human rights advocate, X, June 6, 2025.
[https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/pics/5385.jpg].
"[O]ur lives have been stolen. People in Gaza... are furious. They're asking: how dare he (Khalil al-Hayya) speak in our name while he lives safely abroad with his family in Qatar? His words echo something even more horrifying once said by the late Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh: 'We need the blood of children and women to awaken the spirit of revolution within us.' What kind of ideology is this? What twisted logic allows men living in comfort to turn the suffering of an entire people into a slogan? I can't describe how infuriated I feel right now. I want to smash my head against the wall." — "Alaa from Gaza," X, June 5, 2025 [Emphasis in the original].
"Khalil al-Hayya's statement of sacrificing Gaza isn't a slip of the tongue – it's the mask coming off. When he says Gaza 'offered itself as a sacrifice,' what he means is that the people of Gaza were handed over... Traded for relevance in Tehran, applause in Doha..." — Hamza Howidy, a Gaza-born peace and human rights advocate. Pictured: Al-Hayya speaks on Al Jazeera, in June 2025. (Image source: X.com/Osint613)
On the eve of the Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice), Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya -- in charge of the negotiations to release the hostages and reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel -- delivered a speech in which he said: "Gaza has offered itself as a sacrifice for the Muslim ummah [nation] and deserves its full support in return."
Al-Hayya's statement triggered a wave of angry reactions and condemnations from many Palestinians, especially those from the Gaza Strip who have been facing death and destruction since October 7, 2023, when Hamas and thousands of "ordinary" Palestinians invaded Israel and murdered 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals. Another 251 people were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 55 – dead and alive – remain in captivity...
Like most senior Hamas leaders, al-Hayya and his family members live outside the Gaza Strip, having fled the Gaza Strip before the October 7 attack on Israel. These Hamas leaders are leading safe, often resplendent lives in Qatar, Lebanon, Algeria, Turkey and other comfortable countries.
Palestinians expressed outrage that the senior Hamas official compared them to lambs offered as sacrifices in the terror organization's jihad (holy war) against Israel. According to Hamas, more than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the war, which Hamas initiated on October 7, 2023.
For these Palestinians, al-Hayya's remarks are an example of the total disregard displayed by Hamas leaders for the lives of the residents of the Gaza Strip, who continue to pay a heavy price because of the terror group's refusal to hand over all the hostages, disarm and relinquish control of Gaza. Hamas, they say, has decided to sacrifice tens of thousands of Palestinians to please its patrons in Qatar and Iran.
Hamza Howidy, a Gaza-born peace and human rights advocate, pointed out that the leaders of Hamas have decided to sacrifice their people in service to Qatar and Iran.
"Khalil al-Hayya's statement of sacrificing Gaza isn't a slip of the tongue – it's the mask coming off. When he says Gaza 'offered itself as a sacrifice,' what he means is that the people of Gaza were handed over – not to a cause, not to liberation, but to foreign capitals and thrones that see Palestinian blood as nothing more than leverage.
"Gaza wasn't 'offered'- it was 'traded.' Traded for relevance in Tehran, applause in Doha, and invitations to summits where men in suits congratulate themselves for their loyalty [to Iran and Qatar] while entire neighborhoods [in the Gaza Strip] are flattened...
"What al-Hayya revealed – with disturbing pride – is that Hamas has never seen Gaza as a society to build or protect, but as a tool to elevate themselves in the eyes of unelected monarchs and ideological overlords. It's death on commission. It's turning a population into a spectacle of martyrdom to secure long-term contracts of power and protection from the patrons they truly serve.
"The 'Muslim nation' he invokes isn't some united moral force. It's a euphemism for the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] IRGC. For the Qatari ruling elite who fund the fire from a safe distance, then host the [Hamas] arsonists as statesmen. Hamas offers Gaza as a sacrifice not to God, not to freedom, but to the very forces who benefit most from the endless war – because they know that a Gaza in ruins keeps them relevant, funded, and feared."
A resident of the Gaza Strip, "Alaa from Gaza," noted that al-Hayya's statement proves that the leaders of Hamas living in Qatar are oblivious to the suffering of their people in the Gaza Strip.
"It's the eve of Eid Al-Adha across the Islamic world, a time that used to bring joy and celebration in Gaza before October 7. But our lives have been stolen....
"People in Gaza, including my family and friends, are furious. They're asking: how dare he [Khalil al-Hayya] speak in our name while he lives safely abroad with his family in Qatar?...
"His words echo something even more horrifying once said by the late Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh: 'We need the blood of children and women to awaken the spirit of revolution within us.'
"What kind of ideology is this? What twisted logic allows men living in comfort to turn the suffering of an entire people into a slogan? I can't describe how infuriated I feel right now. I want to smash my head against the wall. I genuinely cannot understand how this so-called leadership thinks." [Emphasis in the original]
Zaher Abu Hussein, another Palestinian, commented:
"Khalil al-Hayya offers the blood of Gaza's children and women as a sacrifice... to the arms of the Supreme Persian (Iranian) Leader....
"After all of Gaza was sacrificed on the altar of the Iranian project, after homes turned into graves, and neighborhoods into ashes, Khalil al-Hayya came out in public to complete the ritual: the ritual of loyalty and submission [to the Iranian regime]...
"Khalil al-Hayya does not represent us. Rather, he represents the Iranian agency in Palestine, he represents the project that has turned the [Palestinian] issue into a hired gun, and the martyrs into negotiating cards. Whoever hands over Gaza to Iran is not from Palestine."...
[https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21674/hamas-wants-to-sacrifice-palestinians Gatestoneinstitute]
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In Video, Leader Of Al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) Calls On American Muslims To Assassinate President Trump, Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, And Musk; Attack Jews In Europe And The United States.
June 9, 2025.
[https://www.memri.org/reports/video-leader-al-qaeda-arabian-peninsula-aqap-calls-american-muslims-assassinate-president Memri]
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Arab Media Report: Egypt Warned U.S. That Boulder, Colorado Firebomber Was Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Member.
June 10, 2025
On June 1, 2025, 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman injured at least a dozen people marching at a gathering to support Israeli hostages in Gaza in Boulder, Colorado, shouting "Free Palestine" as he attacked demonstrators with Molotov cocktails and a homemade flamethrower, before being arrested at the scene.[1] The Egyptian-born Soliman entered the U.S. in 2022 as a non-immigrant visitor, after spending 17 years in Kuwait, and the following year received a two-year work authorization that expired in March 2025. He had previously sought asylum in the U.S. in 2005 but was denied a visa.
Soliman was described as a supporter of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (MB), which is banned in Egypt, and his Facebook account reportedly expressed support for MB-affiliated former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and for the MB's 2013 protests against his removal in a military coup led by current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
[https://www.memri.org/reports/arab-media-report-egypt-warned-us-boulder-colorado-firebomber-was-muslim-brotherhood-mb Memri]
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Nova Scotia man charged with promoting genocide for threatening Jews
“We alerted law enforcement, who acted in short order to prevent him from causing harm,” B’nai Brith Canada stated.
Dave Gordon
Police car lights. Credit: Fleimax/Pixabay.Police car lights. Credit: Fleimax/Pixabay.
(June 10, 2025 / JNS)
B’nai Brith Canada stated on Tuesday that its complaint led to criminal charges against Luke Alexander MacDonnell, 22, for allegedly calling for Israelis to be killed.
“B’nai Brith Canada observed MacDonnell using social media to make threats targeting Jewish people,” said Richard Robertson, the nonprofit’s research and advocacy director. “We alerted law enforcement, who acted in short order to prevent him from causing harm.”
The Nova Scotia man is accused of stating online that “I want all Israelis murdered,” and that he wanted to “see all Zios killed.”
[https://www.jns.org/nova-scotia-man-charged-with-promoting-genocide-for-threatening-jews/ JNS]
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Trump to Netanyahu: End the war in Gaza and drop Iran attack plans.
The President reportedly wants Israel to wind down its operations to help negotiate with Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Avi Woolf.
Jun 10, 2025 20:39
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/trump-netanyahu-gaza-iran-demands JFeed]
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Rubio slams sanctions on Israeli ministers: Don't forget who the real enemy is.
US Secretary of condemns decision by the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway to impose sanctions on Ben Gvir and Smotrich: The United States urges the reversal of the sanctions.
Elad Benari.
Published: Jun 10, 2025, 11:48 PM (GMT+3)
Updated: 6/11/2025, 12:41:00 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409778 INN]
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London-based Hamas operative linked with org. behind Greta Thunberg's Madleen vessel - Telegraph.
Zaher Birawi describes himself as a key member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
By Jerusalem Post Staff.
June 11, 2025 03:49
Zaher Birawi, who has been designated by Israel as a Hamas operative, has emerged as a key member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, British newspaper The Telegraph reported on Monday.
Birawi, a Palestinian-British journalist, describes himself as a founding member of the coalition, which was behind the journey of the Gaza aid vessel, the Madleen. The boat attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, until it was seized in international waters on Monday morning by the IDF, who detained the 12 activists onboard. Birawi attended the launch of the Madleen from Sicily, livestreaming the event.
[https://www.jpost.com/international/article-857267 JPost]
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The head of a new RFK Jr. support group believes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are real[sic].
The new head, Leland Lehrman, also believes (?) Israel may have been behind[sic] the 9/11 terror attacks, and has inveighed against “high-level Jewish Illuminists[sic], or Lucifer[sic] worshipers.”
By Andrew Lapin/JTA
June 11, 2025 06:29
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-857274 JPost]
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House Speaker: It's a dangerous time to be a Jewish American.
Bipartisan US lawmakers gather at the Capitol to mourn slain Israeli embassy employees Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky. US House Speaker Mike Johnson: 'Free Palestine’ is the chant of a violent movement that has found common cause with Hamas.
Israel National News.
Jun 11, 2025, 6:28 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409788 INN]
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Netanyahu to Argentina's President: "You are a true friend of Israel - we will increase cooperation".
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today with Argentina's President Javier Milei at his office in Jerusalem.
Yoni Gabbay.
Jun 11, 2025 01:38
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/netanyahu-meets-argentinas-president-milei JFeed]
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A Light In The Tunnel Of Darkness
Faith in the face of horror: Increase in connection to Judaism among Israelis since October 7th.
A new survey shows that most Israelis experienced a strengthening of their Jewish identity since October 7th, with practical expressions. The survey also indicates a need for deepening knowledge of Judaism.
JFeed Staff.
Jun 11, 2025 02:07
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/jewish-identity-strengthening-israel JFeed]
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Abu Shabab: Hamas steals the humanitarian aid.
Yasser Abu Shabab in an interview with the British Guardian: "We do not work directly with the Israeli army. Humanitarian aid is stolen in areas controlled by Hamas."
Nissan Tzur.
Jun 11, 2025, 4:40 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409783 INN]
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