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‘Fine Scholar’: UC Berkeley Chancellor Praises Professor Who Expressed Solidarity With Oct. 7 Attacks.
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by Dion J. Pierre, July 15, 2025
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[https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/07/15/fine-scholar-uc-berkeley-chancellor-praises-professor-who-expressed-solidarity-with-oct-7-attacks/ Algemeiner]
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Professor who called for Iran to strike US base removed, Georgetown says at House hearing.
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Interim president Robert Groves told the House Education and Workforce Committee that Jonathan Brown “is no longer chair of his department. He’s on leave, and we’re beginning a process of reviewing the case.”
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Andrew Bernard.
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(JNS /July 15, 2025).
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[https://www.jns.org/at-house-ed-panel-hearing-georgetown-confirms-removal-of-professor-who-called-for-iranian-strike-on-us-base/ JNS]
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Mamdani pretends not to hate Jews anymore
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Mamdani Seeks to Ease Tensions Over ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Phrase at Business Leaders’ Meeting.
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Gila Isaacson.
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Jul 16, 2025.
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[https://www.jfeed.com/antisemitism/zohran-mamdani-globalize-intifada-controversy JFeed]
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Mamdani Supported Terrorist Who Killed 2 Jewish Students in Supermarket.
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Localizing the intifada.
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July 16, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield.
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Zohran Mamdani has been promising that if he takes over New York, then the city’s Jewish population will be safe. His record of ‘localizing the intifada’ raises all sorts of questions about that. Including his support for a Muslim terrorist linked to a supermarket bombing attack that killed two Jewish college students shopping for groceries before the Sabbath.
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Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner were 22 and 21 years old when they were killed. The two Hebrew University students were at the SuperSol supermarket when a bomb that had been planted under the counter went off, killing both students and wounding 10 others.
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Rasmea Odeh, the terrorist linked to the attack, who immigrated to America had become a popular cause for Islamists and leftists.
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Including Zohran. His chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a Muslim Brotherhood group that supports Hamas and Oct 7, rallied for Odeh.
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But that’s what globalizing and then localizing the intifada means.
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[https://www.frontpagemag.com/mamdani-supported-terrorism-who-killed-2-jewish-students-in-supermarket/ FPM]
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Terrorists eliminated minutes after firing missile at troops.
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Israel National News.
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Jul 16, 2025, 10:59 AM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411740 INN]
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IDF opens new security corridor in southern Gaza, dividing Khan Younis.
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IDF forces have opened the new 15-kilometer 'Magen Oz' corridor in Khan Younis, splitting the city and targeting Hamas infrastructure; military says move aims to pressure terrorists and secure Israeli border communities.
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Yoav Zitun|07.16.25 09:40 [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1k4n6eugl YNet]
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Footage from Gaza: IDF clears key corridor in Khan Yunis.
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Israel National News.
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Jul 16, 2025, 9:29 AM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411734 INN]
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'What Else Needs to Happen?': Sa'ar calls out international community amid Syria bloodbath.
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Israel's Foreign Minister warns of escalating violence against minorities in Syria and urges international action to prevent further atrocities and regional instability.
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Israel National News.
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Jul 16, 2025, 3:14 PM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411757 INN]
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Conspiracy theorists blame Jews because they are cowards.
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Blaming the Jews is a comforting thought because the Jews are so few in number. Opinion.
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Gary Willig.
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Published: Jul 16, 2025, 3:22 PM (GMT+3)
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JK Rowling captured the conspiracy theorist mindset perfectly in the fifth Harry Potter book. The Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, and his underling, Dolores Umbridge, cannot face the frightening reality of Voldemort’s return. So they create a fictional conspiracy centering on Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore, the two people sounding the alarm about the real threat to Wizarding Britain. In their cowardice, those government officials seek to avoid facing the real threat by inventing a fake threat from a far less terrifying source, an act that allows Voldemort to grow too powerful for them once they can no longer pretend reality does not exist.
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This is the primary reason conspiracy theories almost always lead to “the Jews are behind it all.” Conspiracy theorists do not seek real solutions to real problems. That would require bravery they do not have.
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We saw this again with Tucker Carlson and other right-wing figures - even surprising ones such as Megyn Kelley - when they claimed without any evidence that the Mossad is the real power behind the case of Jeffery Epstein. Why the Mossad? Why not an actual opponent of America like China or Russia? Because the Mossad is a more comfortable choice.
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Deep down, they know that neither Israel nor the Mossad are going to plot attacks in America, that Israel will not attempt to undermine the American government, and that Israel values and needs a strong America. So, blaming Israel in a bizarre way lessens the threat and the impact of the conspiracy they have deluded themselves into believing exists. Far less has to be done about such a conspiracy than if Russia or China were the designated scapegoats or behind a real conspiracy.
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Blaming the Jews is a comforting thought because the Jews are so few in number. Real threats such as Jihadists are too scary for cowards like Tucker Carlson to accept. With about two billion Muslims in the world, suicide bombings, airplane hijackings, and the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents shed by terrorist gangs such as ISIS, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda, that is a threat that is too real and frightening to even acknowledge.
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In a world where cartoonists who draw religious figures and people who are actually brave, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, are threatened with death for standing up against real evil, cowards like Carlson pick targets who don’t stab their opponents and threaten to murder them.
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Carlson and his ilk do not want to lose an eye because their beloved Iran put out a fatwa against them, as Salman Rushdie did. They hear the chants of “death to America” and are cowed into obedience and silence. They look at the billions in China and the sheer size of Russia’s landmass and nuclear arsenal and slink away in search of cost-free enemies who are small in number. Little Israel, barely the size of New Jersey and a tenth of the population of Iran, which does not go around killing people who criticize it, is a far more tempting target. Never mind that Iran’s actual military is far weaker than Israel. Iran is willing to kill people who annoy its leaders, so it cannot be criticized or angered or else “World War Three” will somehow break out.
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This mindset also explains Carlson’s love affair with Vladimir Putin and hatred for Ukraine. Russia is bigger. Russia has a lot of nukes. Therefore, Ukraine must be at fault because acknowledging the reality of Putin’s aggression is too scary.
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The Jews always become a convenient target for this reason. White supremacy and racism seem like insurmountable problems to the radical left since there are more than 200 million white people in the US. But if you reduce the number by 95%,; saying that the problem is not white people but the relatively tiny Jewish population, it starts to look a lot more manageable. Suddenly, the target of your ire is just the Jewish population of the US, a population of under six million. Instead of blaming Europeans and Middle Easterners for the slave trade, you can similarly reduce the problem by solely blaming the Jews.
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So too, if you can blame all the problems of the world on a population of 15 million people or on a tiny nation of 10 million people, suddenly, you have made complex problems simple and solvable. Just deal with the Jews and their state. That is how the Nazis arrived at their final solution and how generations of Western leaders and diplomats arrived at the same asinine belief that pressuring Israel into surrendering to those who seek to finish what the Nazis started would magically solve all of the problems in the Middle East.
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Attacking the Jews and Israel allows cowards to pretend to be brave. But the attacks of cowards disprove the conspiracy theories in and of themselves. If the conspiracy theories were true, if the Jews and the Mossad really were that dangerous, if criticizing Israel resulted in the same danger as drawing a cartoon of Mohammed or writing a novel about him, if Israel was an actual threat to the US, they would not have the courage to criticize the Jews or the Jewish State.
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When true acts of bravery take place, like President Trump’s decision to engage in limited but powerful military action to prevent the threat of a nuclear Iran, they shame the cowards who merely pretend to be brave, deepening the need for the conspiracy theory.
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Reality ultimately wins in the end, but the fake courage of cowards is an especially dangerous thing. While it allows people like Tucker Carlson to justify inaction, the spread of their lies influences people who have more of a backbone. The deranged man who held worshipers at a Texas synagogue hostage in 2022 believed the conspiratorial lies about Jews and that if he threatened the Jews who supposedly had all the power, that would automatically change American government policy. The monster who assassinated a young couple outside a Jewish museum and the monster who thought burning elderly Jews to death was a moral good were similarly influenced by those lies.
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The lies of cowards can be the deadliest weapons of all.
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411758 INN]
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Strikes caught live on air.
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Minister of Defense: The painful blows have commenced.
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Moments after Minister of Defense Katz warned of 'painful blows' to the Syrian regime, a live news broadcast captured the moment of an airstrike behind its studio.
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Israel National News.
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Jul 16, 2025, 3:56 PM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411761 INN]
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IDF strikes Syrian Military General Staff headquarters.
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Israel National News.
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Jul 16, 2025, 4:34 PM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411764 INN]
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Thousands of Druze cross into Syria; IDF preparing for several days of fighting.
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Thousands of Druze civilians crossed from Israel into Syrian territory in an attempt to assist their brethren who are under attack by Syrian regime forces.
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Israel National News.
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Jul 16, 2025, 4:54 PM (GMT+3)
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411765 INN]
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IDF prepares for days of battles in Sweida, carries out aerial strikes on 160 Syrian targets.
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After a number of strategic aerial attacks on Syrian soil, Israel won't send ground forces to protect Syrian-Druze.
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By Yonah Jeremy Bob.
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July 16, 2025.
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As of Wednesday afternoon, the IDF had undertaken 160 aerial attacks on Syrian regime forces in and around the vicinity of Sweida in southern Syria, where Israel says the regime’s forces are slaughtering Syrian Druze.
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In addition, the IDF has attacked, and possibly destroyed, Syria’s Defense Ministry, and also attacked part of the Presidential Palace in Damascus. Dozens or more Syrian regime forces are said to have been killed in IDF attacks.
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-861252 JPost]
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Shas spiritual leaders order party members to quit government.
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Shas's leaders directed MKs not to topple the government, though their decision shrinks Netanyahu's coalition to 29 MKs.
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By Eliav Breuer, Jerusalem Post Staff.
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July 16, 2025.
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Shas’s spiritual leadership on Wednesday instructed its party to resign from the government – but not leave the coalition – over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to follow through on a promise to exempt yeshiva students from IDF service.
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Despite the decision to quit the government, the Sephardi-ultra-Orthodox party’s spiritual leadership, known as the Council of Torah Sages, stressed it will not join with the opposition to bring down the government, since “they too led incitement against Torah scholars.”
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Rather, the council gave Netanyahu a new deadline – the beginning of the Knesset winter session on October 19 – to find a solution to the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) IDF draft issue.
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The decision came after the two Ashkenazi factions from United Torah Judaism quit the government on Monday and Tuesday at the directive of their spiritual leaderships.
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-861246 JPost]
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From dream get-away to death threats: Israeli travelers face targeted harassment abroad.
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Israeli tourists in Muslim-majority countries are increasingly targeted by pro-Palestinian social media groups that expose their identities and locations, leading to real-world threats and forced departures.
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Nina Fox|Updated:07.16.25 | 23:23
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[https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/byvazeslll YNet]
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'Any ceasefire deal will be thanks to your combat': Zamir credits Givati Brigade.
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"In the coming days, we will know whether or not we have an agreement. I want to say to you: if there is a deal and the hostages return, it will be thanks to your combat,” Zamir said.
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Jerusalem Post Staff. July 16, 2025. 23:45
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-861291 JPost]
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*[https://oct7map.com/ Mapping the Massacres]
 
*[https://oct7map.com/ Mapping the Massacres]
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