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Line 8,853: + + + + − 'NYT’: Pennsylvania’s Shapiro says Harris vetting team asked if he was an ‘Israeli agent’+ − The Jewish governor was said to have responded.+ − (Jan 19, 2026 / JNS)+ − [https://www.jns.org/nyt-pennsylvanias-shapiro-says-harris-vetting-team-asked-if-he-was-an-israeli-agent/ JNS]+ + − Biden envoy slams Harris over 'Israeli agent’ question to Shapiro.+ − Deborah Lipstadt her deputy, Aaron Keyak, condemn Harris campaign staff after Josh Shapiro revealed he was asked if he was “an Israeli agent" during the vetting process for Harris’s running mate.+ − Elad Benari.+ − Jan 20, 2026, 2:15 AM (GMT+2)+ − Kamala HarrisDeborah+ − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421165 INN]+ − ____+ + + − Jewish Americans Shouldn’t Be Shocked by Scott Wiener’s Genocide Lie.+ − By Irit Tratt. − Opinion. − At first glance, California State Sen. and Democratic candidate for US Congress Scott Wiener is representative of what many consider a genuine American Jewish success story: a Jewish boy from New Jersey whose childhood memories were shaped by parents who helped build a local Conservative synagogue. − Wiener possesses the boy-next-door charm and familiarity of a Jewish American who came of age in the 1980s and early 1990s, was academically gifted, and later graduated from Harvard Law School.+ + − The budding lawmaker soon found his footing in politics and eventually rose to become a state senator in the nation’s most populous state.+ − The youthful-looking Wiener, who calls himself “one of the strongest LGBTQ civil rights champions in the nation,” also co-chairs the California Legislative Jewish Caucus.+ − The one critical wrinkle to Wiener’s path to Jewish political prominence is that the 55-year-old politician recently promoted the disgusting blood libel that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.+ − After enduring jeers from left-wing attendees at last week’s candidate debate featuring Wiener and two other Democrats vying to succeed retiring Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Wiener pivoted from his initial refusal to characterize Israel’s actions as genocide and made the decision, days later, to turn against the Jewish state in a 90-second cringe-inducing video unveiled Sunday on the social media platform X.+ − For those following evolving attitudes toward Israel within liberal Jewish spaces, where Zionism is increasingly disassociated from Judaism, Wiener’s comments condemning Israel are perhaps the least shocking development in the progressive Democrat’s political career.+ − + − Moreover, when support for Israel is passed down from one generation to the next, with little explanation of the moral, legal, and historical rights undergirding the Jewish people’s right for self-determination, Zionism is treated as another dispensable political movement.+ − It’s a phenomenon that leaves people like Wiener susceptible to the anti-Israel animus entrapping a rising cohort of Jewish Democrats. It’s why anti-Zionists like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be quick to denounce a swastika plastered at a Jewish school in Brooklyn but grant a pass to violent pro-Hamas mobs descending on New York City synagogues that aim to disrupt Israel-related events.+ − Absent a firm framework explaining why it is a Jewish imperative to advance a pro-Israel narrative, the strategy to widen the wedge between Zionism and one’s Jewish identity will yield more Jews like Wiener who cave to the whims of keffiyeh-wearing voters...+ − + − Witnesses report mass eye injuries during protests in Iran’s Bushehr.+ − Iran International. Jan 20, 2026.+ − Witnesses in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr have told Iran International that security forces fired at protesters from elevated positions over two nights, leaving more than 20 people with severe eye injuries.+ + + − According to the messages received by the outlet, forces fired from locations including rooftops, mosques and some school buildings on the night of Jan. 9 and 8.+ − Witnesses said medical centers were overwhelmed by the number of wounded, with staff struggling to cope with the influx of patients.+ − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601207229 IranIntl] − ____+ + − The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post:+ − Jewish community leaders visited the Great Mosque of Stockholm to gift a Quran from Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque as an act of solidarity. − Reporting by @pieceofshirr . − From jpost.com − Jan 20, 2026 − [https://x.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/2013591407760433564 on X] − _____+ + + − + − Report: Senior Hamas leaders are preparing a “safe exit” from Gaza following the launch of Phase II of Trump’s Gaza plan. Leaders of the "military" factions insist they will stay, sources told a Saudi outlet.+ − ✍️ − @JamesGenn − From jpost.com [https://t.co/MpC7eh8cLX]. − Jan 20, 2026 − [https://x.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/2013589442921926714 on X] − _____+ + − Demolition of UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem begins | Watch.+ − At Ammunition Hill in the capital, representatives of the Israel Land Authority began demolishing the UNRWA headquarters, after the Knesset decision to cut ties with the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. − Idan Bloemhof|01.20.26 Updated:10:46 − (Related Topics: Jerusalem UNRWA, October 7)+ − Representatives of the Israel Lands Authority (ILA), accompanied by security forces, arrived Tuesday morning to demolish the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem, located at Ammunition Hill.+ − The evacuation of the site — which took place earlier this month, and Tuesday’s demolition, stem from a government decision to cut ties with UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, by creating alternative services through other bodies. Legislation passed in the Knesset stipulates that the organization’s assets be transferred to the state and that its diplomatic immunity be revoked, because some of its staff are suspected of participating in the October 7 massacre.+ − [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skxjpn2sbx YNet] − _____+ − Agreement to transfer Kurdish autonomy in Syria collapsing amid renewed fighting.+ − Syrian president announced two days ago a ceasefire with SDF forces that maintain Kurdish autonomy, and said the Kurds agreed to hand over all territories to the stat and to integrate into security mechanisms; But a meeting between al-Sharaa and the SDF commander failed, and fighting resumed − Lior Ben Ari, News Agencies|01.20.26 Updated:10:06 − An agreement to transfer control of the Kurdish autonomous region in Syria appeared to be collapsing Tuesday morning, after a night of heavy fighting between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and forces loyal to President Ahmad al‑Sharaar. In response to the escalating violence, the Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria declared a general mobilization overnight and called on young Kurds living outside Syria to return home to defend their people.+ − Only two nights ago, the Syrian government announced a ceasefire deal with the SDF — an organization whose fighters are mostly Kurdish — following days of intense fighting in which Syrian army units stormed Kurdish strongholds and forced SDF fighters to withdraw. Al‑Sharaa described the agreement as a major victory and what was effectively a Kurdish surrender, saying the Kurds agreed to hand over control of all territory to the state, transfer rights to oil and gas fields, disband their military forces, and integrate as fighters within state security structures.+ − [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skwysp3szl YNet] − _____+ + + − Netanyahu: Iran will face unprecedented force if it attacks Israel. − "No one can predict what tomorrow will bring in Iran, but one thing is clear: no matter what happens—Iran will not return to being what it was," said the Israeli premier. − Akiva Van Koningsveld. − (Jan. 20, 2026 / JNS)+ − If the Islamic Republic attacks Israel, Jerusalem “will act with might that Iran has not seen before,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. − [https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-iran-will-face-unprecedented-force-if-it-attacks-israel/ JNS] − _____+ + − The Blood Trail of Islamist Death Cult: From Tehran to Gaza.+ − The Regime Behind the Carnage: Iran’s War on Its Own People and on Israel.+ − Iran’s Hypothetical Atrocities and Its Proxy War Against Israel. − The Islamic Republic of Iran has a dark history of brutally suppressing its own people, with estimates suggesting that in just two weeks of crackdowns (Jan/2026), it massacred between 20,000 and 50,000 unarmed civilians. Extrapolating this rate over two years yields a staggering 1.04 million to 2.6 million potential deaths—a chilling reminder of the regime’s capacity for mass murder against innocents, far exceeding even the most tragic conflicts.+ − This same ruthless regime fuels terrorism through its backing of genocidal Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza, providing weapons, funding, and training as part of its “axis of resistance” to destabilize the region and target Israel. On October 7, 2023, “Palestine” regime Hamas launched a barbaric invasion, massacring over 1,200 Israelis and taking hundreds hostage in acts of unspeakable cruelty, including rape, torture, and the slaughter of families. This unprovoked assault forced Israel into a defensive war to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure and secure its citizens from endless rocket barrages and threats.+ − In a cynical strategy to garner international sympathy, Hamas and PIJ deliberately embed their military operations—rocket launchers, tunnels, and command centers—amidst civilian areas like hospitals, schools, and UN facilities, using Gazan civilians as human shields to inflate casualties and demonize Israel’s precise responses. Despite these tactics, Israel’s military has gone to extraordinary lengths to minimize harm, issuing evacuation warnings, creating humanitarian corridors, and adhering to international law, even as Hamas diverts aid and holds its own people hostage to its ideology of destruction.+ − As of late 2025, Israel eliminated over 25,000 terrorists, early 2026, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry claims around 67,000–71,000 deaths, though these figures include combatants and are often inflated or unverified; independent analyses suggest the true toll, while heartbreaking, reflects the consequences of Hamas’s war crimes rather than Israeli aggression. Israel’s fight is not against Palestinians but against Iranian-backed extremists who prioritize jihad over peace, sacrificing their own to perpetuate conflict.+ − + − In the face of such evil, Israel’s resilience and commitment to defending democracy shine through, underscoring the moral clarity: a sovereign nation protecting its people from genocidal threats, while the world must hold Iran and its proxies accountable for the bloodshed they engineer. − + + + + + − Brutal.+ − Triggernometry's Viral Skit Destroys Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate and 'Friends' | WATCH. − Hitler himself would rage-quit over today's motley crew of antisemites: Mexicans, Sudanese influencers, and IQ-deficient Arabs peddling Nazi vibes. TRIGGERnometry's viral Downfall parody exposes the pathetic irony. − Jfeed Staff. − Jan 20, 2026 09:29 − [https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/triggernometry-hitler-parody-antisemitism JFeed] − ____+ + + − Violent ambush.+ − TORONTO CHAOS: Pro-Palestinian Mob Targets Israeli Comedian Guy Hochman | WATCH. − Jan 20, 2026. − [https://www.jfeed.com/antisemitism/guy-hochman-toronto-assault-protest JFeed] − ____+ + − No apology issued+ − Tate Brothers Deny That They Danced to Heil Hitler at Miami Club − Despite clear footage, Andrew and Tristan Tate dodge accountability for a Miami nightclub fiasco where Kanye West's 'Heil Hitler' blared amid Nazi salutes. Denials fly, but no apology, exposing their toxic ties and hollow condemnations. − Bianca Jones+ − Jan 20, 2026 08:54 − [https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/tate-brothers-heil-hitler-controversy JFeed] − ____+ + + + − Apology follows major backlash. − Channel 13 Reporter Sparks Outrage with Tweet Wishing for End of Haredi Society − "Only in museums": Channel 13's Yosef Israel ignites a firestorm by calling for the total erasure of Haredi society and branding them "leeches." Inside the brutal backlash, the Nazi comparisons, and the apology that failed to stop the outrage. − Jfeed Staff+ − + − + + + − Melbourne Jewish teens threatened, ‘Heil Hitler’ yelled as car nearly struck boy.+ − The five boys, who were dressed in traditional Chassidic garb, were walking home when they were subjected to antisemitic abuse and threats.+ − JNS Staff. − ([https://me.jnsi.org/uploads/2023/11/Pro-Palestinian-Rally-in-Melbourne-Australia-1-1320x880.jpg]. − A pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 15, 2023). − (Jan. 20, 2026 / JNS)+ − Melbourne police said on Tuesday that they were investigating reports that a group of Jewish teenagers was threatened and narrowly missed being struck by a vehicle while walking home from school on Monday night. − Police said the five boys, who were dressed in traditional Chassidic garb, were walking home after evening classes when they were subjected to antisemitic abuse and threats by occupants of a white utility vehicle.+ − The occupants of the car were said to have shouted slurs, threatened to stab them and yelled “Heil Hitler,” before the vehicle narrowly missed one of the boys as the group frantically ran from the scene.+ − Victoria Police acting Commander Adrian Healy told ABC News that the car, which was fitted with New South Wales registration plates, then ran a red light and continued driving around the area looking for the boys. − The vehicle had been stolen and was previously used to carry out two aggravated burglaries and a series of car thefts in the same area, according to police.+ + − The incident reportedly occurred near Melbourne’s Haredi Adass Israel Synagogue, which was firebombed on Dec. 6, 2024 in a terrorist attack Canberra has said was orchestrated by the Islamic Republic of Iran.+ − The father of one of the victims, Chayim Klein, told ABC News that the boys did not carry mobile phones and had to run to a payphone to call police. He said they were put on hold and had to hang up to escape.+ − “They are little children. Yes, they’re 16, but they’re not exposed to this. They’re good boys. They’re in school, they study, they learn hard. They’re not used to that kind of behaviour or intimidation,” Klein told the outlet.+ − Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the “antisemitic hate incident … targeting young Jewish boys has no place in our country.”+ − “At a time when Australians are joining with the Jewish community in sorrow and solidarity, it is beyond disgusting to see these cowards shouting Nazi slogans at young people,” he said, per The Guardian.+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − The incident came as parliament convened in Canberra on Monday for a special sitting to commemorate the 15 people shot and murdered by two terrorists at a Chanukah celebration in Sydney on Dec. 14.+ − The father-and-son terrorists, inspired by Islamic State ideology, opened fire on a crowd gathered for a celebration of the holiday, killing and wounding dozens in a premeditated, antisemitic terrorist attack.+ − The Jewish community is “not alone,” Albanese said in his speech to the House of Representatives. “I give you this solemn promise on behalf of every Australian—we will not meet your suffering with silence. We will not leave you in darkness,” the premier’s remarks continued.+ − “We will continue to do everything required to ensure your security, uphold your safety, and protect and honor your place here with us, as Australians,” he vowed.+ − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
→Notes part III: Jan 6, 2026+
Under the agreement, which did not directly address nuclear arms, an attack on one country is considered an attack against all. Turkey, which also hosts Hamas leaders, is “very likely” to join the agreement, Bloomberg said. Ankara hosts US nuclear weapons as part of its role in NATO, but does not have any of its own….
Under the agreement, which did not directly address nuclear arms, an attack on one country is considered an attack against all. Turkey, which also hosts Hamas leaders, is “very likely” to join the agreement, Bloomberg said. Ankara hosts US nuclear weapons as part of its role in NATO, but does not have any of its own….
[https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkey-said-very-likely-to-join-saudi-arabia-pakistan-mutual-defense-pact/amp/ TOI]
[https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkey-said-very-likely-to-join-saudi-arabia-pakistan-mutual-defense-pact/amp/ TOI]
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Julie Szego: The faux martyrs of Oz.
Jan 12, 2026.
Maybe I’m naive in still believing the answer to the radicalisation of Australian cultural life isn’t institutional purges of virulent anti-Zionists; for one thing, there’s too many of them. Instead, we should focus on letting contrary voices in. Because when Abdel-Fattah seeks to deny Zionists “cultural safety”, she’s insisting on that right for herself. She shouldn’t have it. Neither should she be censored. She and her fellow travellers should be forced to open their ideas to vigorous attack.
No more foreclosing of contestation on Israel-Palestine through the linguistic stitch-ups of “apartheid”, “settler-colonialism”, of “genocide”, a most convenient allegation that retrospectively cancels the “Never again” moral case for Jewish sovereignty in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Bring on the countercultural revolution. It is to the nation’s enduring shame that it has taken the murder of innocents for such a thing to even seem plausible.
But maybe it’s not too late for redemption.
Flood the festival programs and “progressive” opinion pages with Zionists, Jewish and non-Jewish. Most of all, move heaven and earth to platform Palestinians and Arabs bitterly opposed to the “pro-Palestine” movement in the West because it’s essentially pro-Hamas, the organisation that ritually sacrificed thousands of Palestinian children in a futile crusade to eliminate the state of Israel.
Platform, as this paper has done, diaspora Palestinians Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib and John Aziz; Palestinian nationalists who, while critical of Israel’s campaign in Gaza, advocate – genuinely – for a two-state solution and stand firmly against Jew-hating jihadism. Let them have it out with the likes of Abdel-Fattah.
Our cultural gatekeepers love to hear from the small number of Jewish anti-Zionists. Let them also hear from Palestinian dissenters from the “pro-Palestine” left.
Abdel-Fattah has accused the Adelaide Festival of “anti-Palestinian racism”. There’s plenty of that about but not in the way she thinks.
Is anything more racist than gatekeeping the boundaries of acceptable Palestinian opinion to exclude all but the most hardline?
Enough with flattering the world views of pampered radicals, spewing hate while believing themselves the embodiment of virtue, even as bodies pile up on the beach.
[https://szegounplugged.substack.com/p/the-faux-martyrs-of-oz on Substack]
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From Archetype to Libel: The Misinterpretation of Amalek in Genocide Accusations.
Jan 15, 2026.
Conclusion: From Archetype to Libel
The controversy surrounding the modern invocation of Amalek in Israeli discourse, especially after the October 7 massacre, highlights a fundamental conflict between internal Jewish cultural memory and external political misinterpretation. In Jewish legal and historical tradition, the term has long been regarded as a symbolic command rather than a literal one. Amalek is thus viewed as a metaphysical archetype of unprovoked, existential evil and baseless hatred, which appears throughout history in figures like Haman and the Nazis. When Prime Minister Netanyahu used the term, he engaged in a profound act of typological memory (Zakhor), placing the unprecedented trauma of October 7 within the ongoing struggle between cosmic good and evil. By imposing this literalist, hostile interpretation, detractors are engaging in defamation of the Jewish state.
Post-Script: The Anti-Zionist Echo Chamber
The rejection of the present article by Analyse & Kritik, which published the original article by Azzam, serves as a sobering case study in the circular nature of modern anti-Zionist scholarship. Rather than engaging with the provided evidence, the peer-review process revealed a systemic refusal to permit any narrative that challenges the “genocide” label, treating the accusation not as a hypothesis to be tested but as an absolute truth. Central to this failure was the reviewers’ total omission of the vast body of internal Jewish interpretive traditions—sources that explicitly reject or spiritualize the Amalek archetype. By failing to engage with these central points, the reviewers maintained a closed system that dismissed dissenting data as “denial,” thereby precluding genuine academic exchange.
The review process appeared driven by a palpable ideological bias that favored political positioning over substantive analysis. For instance, one reviewer asserted, without providing a shred of evidence, that for “any Israeli ear,” the mention of Amalek carries an immediate association with complete annihilation. This claim was made while simultaneously ignoring the centuries of rabbinic legal tradition cited in the article—such as the rulings of the Sages and Maimonides—that explicitly state that the literal commandment against Amalek is inapplicable today. Furthermore, the use of charged, ad hominem language—specifically labeling the arguments as those of “Netanyahu apologists”—reveals a hostile environment where scholarship is judged by its political utility rather than its factual merit.
Ultimately, this experience highlights the intellectual “incest” inherent in much of the anti-Zionist academic ecosystem. The editor’s response, which took it for granted that Israel has committed “horrible” crimes and demanded that any publication must include “commenting on the destruction of Gaza,” functions as a form of gatekeeping. By dismissing the concept of “self-defense” as a “conventional cliché” and refusing to engage with the primary and secondary sources presented, the reviewers merely confirmed that their objective is not the pursuit of truth. Instead, they serve to protect an echo chamber in which the same scholars quote each other ad nauseam, effectively weaponizing the peer-review process to perpetuate the very libel this article seeks to expose.
[https://isgap.org/flashpoint/from-archetype-to-libel-the-misinterpretation-of-amalek-in-genocide-accusations/ ISGAP]
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Author: Eliana Fleming.
Author: Eliana Fleming.
Jan 18, 2026 20
Jan 18, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/hamas-tunnel-hostage-testimony JFeed]
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/hamas-tunnel-hostage-testimony JFeed]
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Netanyahu.
Netanyahu.
In a statement, the Israeli military said it had struck Hezbollah “military” camps used to train terrorist operatives for planning and carrying out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.
In a statement, the Israeli military said it had struck Hezbollah “military” camps used to train terrorist operatives for planning and carrying out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.
[https://www.jns.org/idf-strikes-hezbollah-terror-assets-in-lebanon-2/ JNS]
[https://www.jns.org/idf-strikes-hezbollah-terror-assets-in-lebanon-2/ JNS]
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MLK was clear: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism
King's support for Israel.
The question is not what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say today – he already told us. The question is whether we are prepared to listen.
Marc Schneier. Jan 18, 2026.
In March 1968, just weeks before his assassination, King addressed the Rabbinical Assembly in New York. His words were unequivocal: “Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all of our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity.” He went on to describe Israel as “one of the great outposts of democracy in the world,” language preserved in contemporaneous accounts and archival collections.
King’s support for Israel was not political posturing. It flowed directly from his understanding of oppression and liberation. He recognized what it meant for a people to be denied sovereignty, safety, and dignity. He saw in the Jewish people’s return to Israel a moral parallel to the Black struggle and the pursuit of equality.
The civil rights leader also warned against moral double standards. He understood how political language can be used to deny the legitimacy of a people while claiming the mantle of justice. Just as he confronted coded racism directed at Black Americans, he recognized the danger of rhetoric that singled out Jews by denying their collective right to self-determination.
King believed deeply in peace for both Israelis and Palestinians. He supported a political solution that would allow both peoples to live with dignity and security. But he never suggested that peace required the dismantling of the Jewish state. Peace, in his vision, was built on mutual recognition, not erasure.
A moral contradiction.
Calls to deny Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish democracy are often framed as progressive. King would have recognized this for what it is: a moral contradiction.
Judaism is not merely a body of faith: It is a peoplehood rooted for thousands of years in its ancestral Land of Israel. To bifurcate Israel from the Jewish religion is to deny Jewish identity itself.
King believed justice is indivisible. You cannot fight racism while tolerating antisemitism. And you cannot champion liberation while denying Jews the same right.
The question is not what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say today – he already told us. The question is whether we are prepared to listen.
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-883672 JPost]
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Sydney massacre was a warning for the world.
Jan 18, 2026.
For decades, Israel has justified its existence to the world primarily through tragedy rather than justice. We spoke about the Holocaust, instead of about our inherent right to our land. We spoke the language of pain, rather than the language of purpose. Instead of standing upright as a nation with moral clarity, we presented ourselves as perpetual victims.
Even after Oct. 7, when moral clarity should have been unavoidable, Israel continued to apologize for its existence instead of stating a simple truth: This is the Jewish state by right, not by international permission and not by sympathy.
Antisemitism is not a reaction to a particular Israeli military operation. It is a reaction to moral weakness. It thrives on confusion. It responds to a message projected outward—that we ourselves are not certain of the justice of our cause.
When Israel speaks in the language of victimhood, the world hears an admission of guilt. When Israel hesitates to say plainly that this is our land and that the Jewish state requires no external validation, hatred and antisemitism re-emerge—and Jews become targets, even on the far side of the globe.
The attacks in Australia, America and Germany are therefore not a “Diaspora problem.” They are an indictment of an apologetic Israeli discourse.
Jewish communities across America have spent decades nurturing ideological identities that focused on cultivating loyal liberals rather than strong Jews.
Only a nation that is able to say, clearly and without hesitation, that we are here by right—rooted in history, faith and moral conviction, not in mercy—can protect not only its own citizens but Jewish communities everywhere.
Those who fail to understand that the battle over Jewish identity in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv directly affects the safety of Jews in Sydney, Australia; Jackson, Miss.; Giessen, Germany—and increasingly, London, New York and Los Angeles—do not understand what a Jewish state is.
It is time to stop apologizing. It is time to stop pleading with the world for understanding. It is time to return to the language of justice.
Because when Israel stands upright, Jews everywhere do. And for Americans, the lesson is unavoidable: a weak and apologetic Israel does not stabilize the democratic world. Rather, it accelerates the same forces of extremism and moral confusion that threaten U.S. cities, campuses and Jewish communal institutions.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/16/jewish-americans-shouldnt-be-shocked-scott-wieners-genocide-lie/ Algemeiner]
[https://www.jns.org/sydney-massacre-was-a-warning-for-the-world-2/ JNS]
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Simon Sebag Montefiore warns of ‘devalued’ anti-racist language and threats to Holocaust memory.
Lee Harpin. Jan 19, 2026.
The celebrated historian Simon Sebag Montefiore has issued a striking warning about the devaluation of anti-racist language in contemporary discourse, arguing that terms such as “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion” are now frequently manipulated to serve agendas running counter to their original intent.
Delivering the keynote speech at the Holocaust Education Trust’s event in Parliament, Montefiore observed:“Words are important—as we learned last week, the people behind the banning of a Jewish MP from his school because of his Jewishness were a cabal of teaching unions and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) coordinators who constantly repeat the language of anti-racism.
“We exist in a struggle where words have often come to mean their very opposite. In that case, and others, diversity came to mean discrimination, equity, injustice, inclusive, exclusion.
“And as it turns out, every bigot is a proud anti-racist to their bones. Every antisemite is against antisemitism, and naturally, everybody is against the Holocaust and genocide.”
At Monday evening’s event—held to mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations—the author warned that Holocaust memory is “in peril” and under attack from new forms of antisemitic distortion and ideological abuse.
Also among the speakers were Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Holocaust survivor Annick Lever, and several of the charity’s young ambassadors. HET’s chief executive, Karen Pollock, pointedly addressed recent concerns about the state of Holocaust education, stating: “Despite challenges, our experience at the Holocaust Educational Trust is that we’re working with hundreds more schools since October 7th,” following earlier newspaper reports suggesting Shoah education was being snubbed by many schools since the Hamas attacks.
In his main address, Montefiore recounted witnessing repeat protests outside the part Israeli-owned Miznon restaurant in Notting Hill, near his home.
“I hate to say it reminded me of Kristallnacht in Notting Hill Gate,” he said. “I came across a restaurant almost besieged by about 60 screaming activists who were referring specifically to the Holocaust, to the genocide, and applying this to an innocent restaurant, British owned, though with an Israeli connection, that they were specifically trying to drive out of Britain and trying to drive out of the neighborhood, trying to destroy a small business by terrorizing passers by, people going to the restaurant, and the owners of the restaurant.”
[https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/montefiore-warns-of-devalued-anti-racist-language-and-the-threats-to-holocaust-memory/ JewishNews]
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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post:
The Bad History of ‘Palestine 36’ An Oscar short-listed film, funded by Qatar, Turkey, and the BBC, rewrites the past to serve a modern political fantasy.
Oren Kessler. Jan 19, 2026.
And yet the film’s gravest failing may be depriving the Jews of a voice. I don’t mean metaphorically; I mean there are precisely two words spoken by a Jew, in any language, in the entire film.
In fact, Jews appear on-screen only twice. Early in the film, a Jewish figure is briefly ushered to a microphone at the inauguration of the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation. Later, Jewish immigrants are seen in the distance, silently toiling behind a kibbutz wall.
And that’s it. For a film centered on an Arab revolt against Jews, it’s a glaring, flagrant omission.
It would have been easy for the screenwriters to have included two stock Jewish characters: The “bad” Jew who is arrogant, land-greedy, and patronizing toward Arabs, and the “good” one who respects their culture, learns their language, and is willing to limit Jewish immigration. I suspect that behind this choice lies the deep-rooted Palestinian and wider Arab taboo against “normalization” of Israelis—in this case, even before they were Israelis.
Nonetheless, wishing something away doesn’t make it so. Like it or not, the Jews were there, and their continued arrival was the key driver of the revolt. Portraying the rebellion as directed primarily against British imperialism (with the Jews as the silent beneficiary thereof) is historical malpractice.
The film’s last quarter is a crescendo of British brutality that bears only a patchy resemblance to the historical record. Soldiers detonate a home despite knowing an elderly couple is in their bed, embracing as they await the end. Wingate shoots a civilian in the head after gathering the townspeople to watch. In the climax, troops force civilians onto a bus and force it to drive over a landmine. Among the dead is a Christian priest whose young son then kills a British soldier in revenge. It’s essentially the film’s only moment in which blood is spilled by Arab hands.
The British have much to answer for in Palestine—a handful of well-documented atrocities, like that at al-Bassa, are amply described in my book. They indeed demolished homes during the revolt, just not with people inside. Wingate did inflict collective punishment on uncooperative villages. But there is no evidence of him ever ordering an execution, much less conducting one himself, nor of the British murdering a priest (or imam), nor of any Christian Arabs (let alone children) taking up arms against them.
Only in the final credits, and only in minuscule type, does Palestine 36 concede that the movie is a work of fiction, merely “inspired by actual events and characters.” Such a disclaimer should have appeared prominently at the outset, not buried where few viewers would notice, although that would erroneously suggest that the spirit if not the details of the Arab uprising of 1936–1939 had been captured. It has not.
As publicly funded British institutions, the BFI and BBC Film should have insisted on transparency. Their failure to do so places them uncomfortably close to the film’s other state-backed co-producers, in Turkey and Qatar, which reliably promote their governments’ harmful, extremist agendas in the region. The omission raises an obvious question: whether the lack of candor reflects more than oversight, and instead a shared comfort with reshaping the historical record to suit a contemporary agenda.
All the world’s a stage, a British dramatist once wrote, and nowhere more so than the Holy Land. But it is an affront to history that a portrait of a revolt against Jews should treat the latter as silent props or erase them altogether. However the filmmakers feel about Jewish immigration, land purchase, and nation-building in mid-’30s Palestine, these too are part of the history. These too are “actual events” performed by “actual characters” in the century-long drama still playing out between the river and the sea.
[http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2026/01/19/the-bad-history-of-palestine-36-an-oscar-short-listed-film-funded-by-qatar-turkey-and-the-bbc-rewrites-the-past-to-serve-a-modern-political-fantasy-by-oren-kessler/ RuthfullyYours]
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Emily Damari on one year of freedom and those who did not return.
Annabel Sinclair. Jan 19, 2026.
Emily Damari has marked one year since her release from Hamas captivity by reflecting on survival, recovery and the enduring absence of those who did not return home alive.
Damari, a dual British-Israeli citizen, was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza during the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023. She was shot during the abduction, losing two fingers, and held in Gaza for 471 days before being released on 19 January 2025, as part of a negotiated deal.
In a statement issued to mark the anniversary, Damari described the moment of her release as a return from prolonged darkness. “One year ago, after 471 days in the dark – 471 days of pain, of tunnels, of holding on with everything I had – I came back to life,” she said.
She recalled reuniting with her mother and experiencing ordinary moments once again. “I hugged my mum, I breathed real air, I saw the sun without fear. That moment, that first real breath of freedom, still hits me every single day.”
Damari spoke openly about the injuries she sustained during her kidnapping, saying they have come to symbolise resilience rather than victimhood. “My scars tell the story,” she said. “The hand missing two fingers, the marks on my leg – they aren’t just wounds. To me, they represent freedom, hope, and unbreakable strength.”
Since her return, she has become a prominent voice advocating for hostages taken on 7 October. She said the release of Gali and Ziv was central to her own sense of freedom, while acknowledging that one person she was waiting for will never return alive.
That person is Master Sgt. Ran Gvil, who was killed and whose body remains held in Gaza.
[https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/emily-damari-marks-one-year-since-release-as-she-reflects-on-survival-and-those-who-did-not-return/ Jewish News]
[https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/faith-and-solidarity-evangelical-leaders-stand-with-israel/#comment-47067 at N.E.R.]
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@YosephHaddad:
Children should be playing in playgrounds, not having playgrounds named in their memory because they were kidnapped and murdered by a terrorist organization.
We will never forget Ariel and Kfir Bibas, and their mother, Shiri.
Jan 19, 2026.
[https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/2013233561441100029 on X]
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Bondi survivor Ya'akov Tetleroyd lost his father and nearly his arm in Bondi Beach terrorism event. He forgives the gunmen.
Jan 19, 2026.
Ya'akov Tetleroyd suffered a gunshot wound to the arm while his father, Boris, was killed in the Bondi terror attack.
Yet nearly six weeks on, the 38-year-old has let go of his anger towards the gunmen.
"I was initially very angry and very unforgiving," Mr Tetleroyd told 7.30 in an exclusive interview.
"Just saying, may God, just wanting to devour them, wanting for them to descend to the grave alive, that's what I wished for these people initially. But I came to a point where I thought to myself, if I can forgive my own person, my own people, I can forgive these people as well."
He said the reason for his personal forgiveness was so he no longer had to dwell on the terrorism event.
"It's not something that I want to carry with me every day.
"It's very easy to get caught in a cycle of hatred."
Bondi terror survivor labels shooters 'evil and sick' but forgives them | 7.30
[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-19/bondi-terror-survivor-yaakov-tetleroyd-speaks-naveed-akram/106238196 anc.net]
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‘We owe it to the victims’: Jacinta Price reflects on parliament’s return after Bondi massacre.
Jan 20, 2026 09:05
Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price discusses parliament’s early return following the Bondi massacre, saying politicians “owe it to the victims” to ensure history “is never repeated”.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/haredi-society-controversy JFeed]
Sky News Australia.
Jan 19, 2026
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ePsLFo5ejM on YouTube]
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Hate group members should ‘lose their citizenship’
Former Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo believes there should be amendments to take away citizenship from anyone convicted of a hate crime.
“I would go further, I’d amend section 36C of the Citizenship Act,” Mr Pezzullo told Sky News Australia.
“If you're convicted to be a member of one of the prohibited hate groups, you go on that list of offences that carry citizenship revocation, lose your citizenship.”
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Nicole Lampert: British schools have failed to properly teach children about the dangers of anti-Semitism.
In truth, the Holocaust has become increasingly politicised for many years. HMD became watered down. First – and probably rightly – it included all the victims of the Nazis, including gay men, the Roma and Sinti gypsy groups, people with disabilities, and political enemies.
While this was encouraged – including by Jewish groups who wondered if the only way to get people to feel sorry for Holocaust victims was to universalise them – it also meant that the political ideology behind the Holocaust, the intentional and industrial attempt to eradicate an entire people, was neutered.
I even had to explain to my son’s own history teacher that the Holocaust is the word just for the murder of the Jews – and that it was a core plank of Nazi ideology separate from all its other evil behaviour.
But even that was not universal enough for some. Increasingly, HMD has become an “all genocides of the 20th century” day. Children should know about these genocides – Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur – but once again it meant the specific racist industrialised machine of the Holocaust became just another event in history.
Or, as Whoopi Goldberg (who appropriated a Jewish second name because she thought it would help her in Hollywood) once said: “White on white violence.”
Friends who worked in Holocaust education warned me quite soon after the October 7 massacre of the new problems they were facing, as schools they had worked with for years cancelled their Holocaust Memorial Day events. Too complicated.
At one point, I sat on a panel in front of a group of children about anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. There had been a day of events, and a law expert had explained why what was happening in Gaza did not fall into the definition of genocide.
Yet, still, we were asked at least three times about why we weren’t talking about “the genocide” in Gaza.
This is hardly surprising when we look at what is going on in our schools and universities. The NEU, Britain’s biggest teaching union with half a million members, has become so openly and obsessively hostile to Israel that most Jewish teachers have left.
We were given an example of why, just a few days ago, when it emerged that teachers and members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (and frequently they are both) had helped stop Jewish Bristol MP Damian Egan from hosting a talk about democracy.
Teachers told this newspaper how one colleague told her Israel didn’t exist and how anti-Israel propaganda was being pushed in schools by teachers. Children are being educated in the new way of how to hate Jews instead of what anti-Semitism leads to.
As Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis writes: “The Shoah was not inevitable. It began not in concentration camps but in classrooms, newspapers and public squares where people learnt to look away.”
Here it is again in our classrooms, newspapers and public squares. Schools need to stop looking away but confront what their behaviour could lead to. I am not surprised this is too difficult for them.
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/80a1ee7d48a4b9db Telegraph]
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David Collier: Open Letter to Manchester City Council: Don’t Undermine Antisemitism Safeguards.
Dear Councillors of Manchester City Council,
I am writing regarding Manchester City Council’s decision to adopt a motion referencing what activists are calling “anti-Palestinian racism” (APR), and the council’s intention to explore definitions and related commitments.
This is a serious and dangerous error.
As part of my own investigation into how the concept of APR was developed and is being promoted in activist circles, I watched the council discussion that took place on 16 July. I do recognise that while it did adopt a motion, Manchester City Council did not adopt the formal definition of APR on the night. I also note that Labour produced an amended version that stripped away some of the more overtly dangerous activist framing.
However, this is precisely the problem.
Even a watered-down motion still leaves the council trapped inside the activist premise that “APR” is a legitimate category requiring institutional recognition, policy development, and follow-on action. The council has effectively been manoeuvred into a corner – having accepted the framing, it is then left feeling obliged to “do something,” because backing away will be portrayed as indifference or hostility.
That is how this works. It is not neutral anti-racism. It is political pressure, and Manchester City Council should not allow itself to be manipulated into granting a dangerous concept such as APR any legitimacy at all.
Let me be clear at the outset – racism is real. Prejudice against anyone on the basis of race or ethnicity must be confronted.
But APR is not a neutral anti-racism concept. It is an activist framework designed to do something very specific. It reframes mainstream safeguards against antisemitism as illegitimate and pressures public bodies into treating anti-Israel political narratives as protected truth.
That is not “anti-racism”. It is political capture. Manchester does not need a new racism category. If a person is discriminated against because of their Arab, Middle Eastern, or Palestinian heritage, we already have the legal and institutional tools to address it.
[https://www.jns.org/melbourne-jewish-teens-threatened-heil-hitler-yelled-as-car-nearly-struck-boy/ JNS]
Jan 19, 2026.
[https://david-collier.com/open-letter-to-the-manchester-city-council/ David Collier]
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France faces court over embassy built on confiscated Jewish family home.
Annabel Sinclair. Jan 19, 2026.
The French government is appearing before a Paris court this week over its continued use of a former Jewish-owned mansion in Baghdad as its embassy, in a case brought by the descendants of Iraqi Jews who say the French state stopped paying rent after their property was confiscated under antisemitic laws.
The lawsuit, now formally being heard by a French administrative court, concerns a large riverside home built in the 1930s by brothers Ezra and Khedouri Lawee, members of Iraq’s once-thriving Jewish community. France has operated the buildings as its embassy since the mid-1960s and continues to do so today.
The Lawee family says it originally leased the property directly to France, believing that a foreign government tenant would protect it at a time when Iraqi Jews were increasingly targeted. But after Iraq nationalised Jewish-owned property in the late 1960s and 1970s, France allegedly stopped paying rent to the family and instead began paying the Iraqi state.
The descendants are now seeking around €22 million (approximately £19 million) in unpaid rent and damages, arguing that France benefited from discriminatory laws that stripped Jews of citizenship and assets, without ever compensating the original owners.
“To save the house, my father leased it to the French,” said Mayer Lawee, 86, the son of Ezra Lawee. “My father was upset. It’s his home. He built it from scratch, and it was taken away.”
Iraq was home to around 150,000 Jews in the 1940s, part of one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in the world. Following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jews in Iraq faced escalating persecution, including arrests, denaturalisation and the seizure of property. By the early 1950s, the vast majority had fled or been expelled.
Much of the Lawee family settled in Canada, but their Baghdad home remained standing and under family ownership until it was leased to France. The family says it was never compensated when Iraq later claimed ownership.
[https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/france-faces-court-over-embassy-built-on-confiscated-jewish-family-home/ Jewish News]
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Stanford SJP Calls for "Student Intifada," Plans Walkout Against Company That Helped Find Bin Laden.
Jan 19, 2026.
Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine is organizing a campus walkout on January 20 at noon, calling on the university to sever ties with Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company the group describes as part of a “genocide tech axis.” The protest at White Plaza is being co-organized by Tech For Palestine, Vigil for Gaza, Jewish Voice for Peace Stanford, the Stanford Asian American Action Committee, and involves the ACLU, according to promotional materials shared on social media.
The same SJP chapter recruited members last September by asking Stanford students to “join the student intifada,” using terminology historically associated with violent Palestinian uprisings. That Instagram post, dated September 18, 2025, featured an image of a person in a keffiyeh with the text “STANFORD SJP NEEDS YOU - JOIN THE STUDENT INTIFADA TODAY,” and promised to build solidarity while organizing against what they called Stanford’s “complicity in genocide[sic].”
The Target: Palantir.
The January protest centers on Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm founded in 2003 by Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, and others in the wake of September 11. The company was created specifically to help U.S. intelligence agencies “connect the dots” after the 9/11 attacks exposed fatal gaps in America’s ability to analyze disparate intelligence data.
Palantir’s software has played a role in some of America’s most significant counterterrorism operations. The company provided intelligence software that contributed to locating Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan in 2011. According to CEO Alex Karp, “Terror suspects leave patterns they don’t really realize they’re leaving,” and “at least one U.S. agency reported that hundreds of terror attacks around the world have been stopped with our product.”
The company’s work extends beyond counterterrorism. Palantir’s Maven platform is used by the entire U.S. military and international allies including the UK and Ukraine. Mike Gallagher, Palantir’s head of defense and former Republican congressman from Wisconsin, described Maven’s function simply: it “helps fewer good guys kill more bad guys.” According to Karp, Palantir is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine” in its war against Russia.
What Stanford SJP Claims.
In their promotional materials for the walkout, Stanford SJP accuses Palantir of profiting from “ICE raids, police violence, and mass surveillance at home,” while helping to “power a digital dragnet that enables apartheid and mass killing in Palestine.” The group claims Stanford provides Palantir with “research, legitimacy, and talent,” framing the January 20 action as part of a “national day of action” against what they describe as escalating ICE terror under the Trump administration.
The protest organizers describe their goal as cutting off the “Stanford pipeline to Palantir and the genocide tech axis.” Stanford SJP previously attracted international attention for hosting a vigil in “honor of our martyrs”, in apparent reference to the terrorists who infiltrated Israel on October 7.
[https://jewishonliner.org/p/stanford-sjp-calls-for-student-intifada-boycott-palantir JewishOnliner]
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University of Washington lifts suspensions of anti-Israel protesters.
“Long live the student intifada,” wrote the student group behind the May 5 protest, which allegedly resulted in $1 million in damages.
(Jan. 19, 2026 / JNS)
The University of Washington has completed conduct hearings for the “UW33,” a group of students accused of occupying and damaging the university’s Interdisciplinary Engineering Building in May, finding them guilty of violations and lifting their suspensions.
The anti-Israel protest on May 5, organized by Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return, demanded the university sever ties with Boeing over the company’s dealings with Israel. University officials said demonstrators caused approximately $1 million in damage to the building on the public school’s Seattle campus.
The university suspended the involved students pending the results of a conduct hearing that has been completed, Victor Balta, a university spokesperson, told JNS.
“The students have been found responsible for violations of the student conduct code and held accountable,” Balta said. “The students were out of class and banned from campus for three quarters.”
Balta added that “SUPER is not a recognized student organization and does not enjoy the benefits” of such status.
SUPER UW celebrated the lifting of the suspensions.
[https://www.jns.org/university-of-washington-lifts-suspensions-of-anti-israel-protesters/ JNS]
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Judge orders Ohio State to revoke student’s expulsion over anti-Israel videos.
“We’re disappointed in the ruling,” a spokesman for the university told JNS.
(Jan. 19, 2026 / JNS)
A district judge issued a preliminary injunction last week, ordering Ohio State University to revoke its expulsion of a student who made anti-Israel videos.
Edmund Sargus Jr., a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, stated the student, Guy Christensen, was expelled from the university on the grounds that his videos were incitement and risked disrupting the campus.
According to Sargus, Christensen had said in a May video that he retracted his earlier condemnation of the shooting deaths of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., stating, “I take it back. I do not condemn the elimination of those two Zionist officials, who worked at the Israeli embassy last night.”
He also said in that video, “Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinian civilians in cold blood without any shame, with pride, rejoicing in the streets of Israel over this, and they get no attention in this country, while this attack is being used to weaponize violence against the movement.”
Christensen added that “we will meet it with our own greater resistance and escalation.”
In a separate May video responding to a comment by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, Christensen stated that “screenshots are forever, and what you’ve said and done will haunt your family for eternity as you will eventually, if you’re still alive, end up in a Nuremberg trials for all the elected officials in America who facilitated and protected this genocide[sic].”
Sargus said Christensen’s videos did not constitute incitement because in past ones, he advocated for nonviolence and in subsequent ones, he stated that he is nonviolent. In the judge’s view, Christensen’s use of the words “resistance” and “escalation” was meant in a nonviolent manner, and that his videos had “no specific call to action” and “were unlikely to result in the imminent use of violence or lawless action.”
As for the university’s claims that Christensen’s presence could disrupt campus activities, Sargus stated this would be unlikely given that Christensen was on summer break at the time of the videos and did not identify himself as an OSU student, nor did any students express concern to the university about it.
Sargus said Christensen’s lawsuit is “likely to succeed on the merits” and ordered the school to remove his expulsion from his academic record.
[https://www.jns.org/judge-orders-ohio-state-to-revoke-students-expulsion-over-anti-israel-videos/ JNS]
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What would MLK do? Demand that Arabs free their black slaves.
Charles Jacobs, Ben Poser. Jan 19, 2026.
The activist group “NYC Educators for Palestine” is apparently staging a “teach-in” for New York public school children of all ages, using Martin Luther King Jr. Day to equate the non-violent movement for black American civil rights with anti-Jewish jihad.
What these propagandists will never tell children as young as 6 is that their actions are covering up for history’s greatest anti-black catastrophes while blaming innocent Jews.
For a start, many of King’s own African ancestors were trafficked to the Americas in the first place, partially as the result of the enslavement of black people by Palestinians’ fellow Muslims. Arabs and Islamized Africans bear substantial responsibility for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, with the Europeans buying many slaves from Muslim rulers who eagerly profited from selling off their non-Muslim war captives.
By contrast, Jews were among the most passionate opponents of racial discrimination in America, making up nearly a quarter of all white freedom riders, with some murdered alongside blacks for their anti-racist activism.
Professed Arab “concern” for black civil rights during the 1960s was no more than a cynical disinformation campaign concocted by Communist China and the KGB to pull politically active black Americans closer toward Third Worldist Marxism and away from patriotic integrationism.
But these “educators” are hiding something far worse: Arabs and Muslims, kin to the Palestinians, still own black slaves. The following could serve as the basis for any serious curriculum on black-Arab relations:
In Algeria and Libya, tens of thousands of Africans attempting to make their way to Europe are enslaved by local Arabs, some terrorist militiamen. The Global Slavery Index says that they number 84,000 and 47,000, respectively. Those who escape have detailed torture, blackmail and use as grunt labor, with CNN disseminating chilling video in 2017 of a nighttime auction in which two Nigerien men were sold for the equivalent of $400 apiece.
The U.S. State Department’s 2024 human-rights report on Libya documents that “criminal and nonstate armed groups controlling extralegal facilities routinely tortured and abused detainees [including refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrants], subjecting them to arbitrary killings, rape and sexual violence, beatings, electric shocks, burns, forced labor, and deprivation of food and water, according to dozens of testimonies shared with international aid agencies and human rights groups. In many instances, the purpose of this abuse was reportedly to extort payments from detainees’ families.” Those black migrants within Algeria who are not enslaved also face deeply seated (systemic) racism.
Outrage as rabbi disinvited from MLK Day event over ties to Israel
A California rabbi claimed his invitation to lead the closing prayer at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration was pulled because of his ties to Israel.
Rabbi Hanan Leberman, of Tifereth Israel Synagogue in in San Diego, posted a revealing letter on Instagram to organizers of the All Peoples Celebration in Balboa Park, claiming they disinvited him from the event.
He said his message “is deeply aligned with the Reverend Dr. King’s teachings, regardless of how I may be perceived by others.”
“When I agreed to participate in this event, I did so fully aware that I would be sharing a stage with individuals whose politics and ideas I do not always share.” the rabbi wrote. “That, to me, is precisely the work Dr. King called us to do: sharing space with those with whom we disagree, seeking common ground, and recommitting ourselves to the dream that all people are treated equally.”
It’s unclear who was responsible for dropping Leberman from the event or when the decision was made. Calls to event organizer Alliance San Diego by The Post weren’t immediately returned.
[https://www.jns.org/what-would-mlk-do-demand-that-arabs-free-their-black-slaves/ JNS]
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Canary Mission · Jan 18, 2026
@canarymission ·
Meet Lana Abugharbieh: Licensed to care but publicly promotes extremist rhetoric, Holocaust distortions, and inflammatory comparisons.
[https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/2012891658518495535 on X]
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Elliot Kaufman @ElliotKaufman6:
This profile tries to be snotty about it, but it mostly seems like Bari was proved right?
Iran protests were a bigger deal than media first realized. Post-Oct 7, Israel was the target of a massive propaganda war. The Columbia prof was a crazy Jew-hater.
Jan 19, 2026.
[https://twitter.com/ElliotKaufman6/status/2013271388589601199 on X]
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StopAntisemitism · Jan 19, 2026 @StopAntisemites ·
Update: Jewish Miami nightlife mogul David Grutman has banned Nick Fuentes, Myron Gaines, SNEAKO, and the rest of their Nazi crew from all of his Miami establishments.
Jan 19, 2026.
[https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/2013246445747372281 on X]
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Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert:
Good to see @LauraTrottMP
asking for a thorough investigation into the teaching union the NEU and the dangerous Jew hatred it has encouraged.
The education secretary @bphillipsonMP
has pledged to root out antisemitism in our schools. She cannot do this without tackling the NEU as my stories from this weekend proved.
Jan 19, 2026.
[https://x.com/nicolelampert/status/2013307300530823598 On X]
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
How the Left and the Right Keep Borrowing Each Other’s Antisemitic Ideas.
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One of the most persistent errors in how antisemitism is discussed is the belief that it flows from ideology – that antisemitism is something generated by the Left, or the Right, or Islamism, depending on who is misbehaving at a given moment. History suggests something more unsettling.
Antisemitism is not only downstream of ideology. It is portable.
Across centuries, antisemitism has shown a remarkable ability to detach itself from one philosophical framework and reattach to another, reshaping its language while preserving its structure. It borrows the moral vocabulary of whatever movement it inhabits, presents itself as principled critique rather than inherited prejudice, and offers radicals a ready-made explanation for why the world is broken – and who is to blame.
Anti-Zionism has become one of antisemitism’s most effective modern vehicles precisely because it allowed ancient tropes to be rebranded as contemporary politics. What we are witnessing today, as right-wing antisemites increasingly adopt the language of left-wing and Arab anti-Zionism, is not a novelty. It is a recurrence.
And the history that produced it is far more entangled than our political categories allow.
For most of modern history, Zionism had nothing to do with left-wing antisemitism. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century leftist antisemitism was rooted in Enlightenment secularism, early socialist thought, and misdirected anti-capitalism. Jews were cast not as nationalists or colonizers, but as embodiments of abstraction, money, cosmopolitanism, and bourgeois exploitation – obstacles to the realization of a rational and egalitarian society.
Marx’s On the Jewish Question treated Judaism itself as a metaphor for capitalism. Proudhon and Bakunin were more explicit, describing Jews as parasitic, conspiratorial, and socially corrosive. This was what August Bebel famously called “the socialism of fools” – a critique of capitalism that replaced systemic analysis with scapegoating.
Zionism, when it appeared at all in left-wing discourse, was typically dismissed as a bourgeois distraction from class struggle. It was not yet the organizing metaphor it would later become.
European-style antisemitism begins circulating in the Arab East in the nineteenth century, carried by colonial penetration, missionary activity, and European education networks. One early and concrete marker is the Damascus Affair of 1840, a blood libel modeled on European Christian accusations and actively escalated by a French consul. This was not an Islamic inheritance; it was a European import.
In the Arab world, Zionism was greeted with alarm, and they needed a philosophical framework to fight it especially for Western audiences. Christian antisemitism found particular resonance in some Arab Christian milieus, where exposure to European religious polemics, nationalism, and racialized discourse was often earliest and most intense. Early Palestinian nationalist journalism in the 1910s and intellectual leadership included a significant Christian Arab component, long before the era of Islamist mass mobilization.
By the early twentieth century, a hybrid vocabulary already existed – one in which European antisemitic motifs could be localized, repurposed, and politicized.
Hajj Amin al-Husseini did not start Palestinian antisemitism but he ran with it. Initially he placed it in the context of Islamism, claiming that Jews planned to attack Muslim holy places and raising funds based on that fantasy. The Mufti's antisemitism and anti-Zionism clearly predate his formal alliance with Nazi Germany. Where they came from is not reducible to a single source: local elite rivalries, imported European tropes, religious mobilization, and the dynamics of mandatory politics all played roles.
What Nazism provided was not the creation of his antisemitism, but its acceleration, systematization, and internationalization. Fascist and Nazi ideology offered him a global explanatory framework, material resources, and a language of total struggle. His alliance with the Axis was opportunistic, ideological, and mutually reinforcing – but it built on pre-existing foundations.
This pattern – local antisemitic motifs fused with external ideological systems – repeats again and again.
The most consequential transformation came after the Holocaust.
In the West, overt antisemitism became morally radioactive. In the Soviet sphere, it was re-engineered. Stalin’s campaigns against “rootless cosmopolitans,” followed by the Doctors’ Plot and the Slánský trials, performed a decisive maneuver: they translated classic antisemitic tropes – conspiracy, dual loyalty, elite domination – into the language of anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism.
Jews were no longer targeted as Jews, but as Zionists, Western agents, and subversive elites.
This framework was exported aggressively. Soviet propaganda recast Israel as a racist, colonial outpost of American empire, a narrative that spread through Eastern Europe, the Arab world, and Western leftist movements. Anti-Zionism became a way to say what could no longer be said openly.
The Western Left’s embrace of decolonial theory in the 1960s and 1970s created a powerful point of convergence.
Third-Worldism reframed global politics as a struggle between colonizer and colonized. After the Six-Day War, Israel was reclassified – often abruptly and without historical nuance – from post-genocide refuge to imperial aggressor. Arab nationalist narratives, Soviet anti-Zionism, and New Left ideology fused into a single moral grammar.
All the antisemitic and anti-Zionist tropes converged. Concepts such as settler-colonialism, indigeneity erasure, racialized power, and structural domination – developed in other contexts – were retrofitted to the Jewish case, often by erasing Jewish history altogether. Older antisemitic tropes survived the translation intact, rebranded as structural critique.
Within the Palestinian movement itself, ideological incoherence was not a weakness but a feature.
Secular Marxist groups like the PFLP and Islamist movements like Hamas routinely cooperate, coordinate attacks, and avoid mutual criticism. Yasser Arafat mastered the art of balancing Islamists and leftists under a single nationalist umbrella. Palestinian nationalism subordinated theology and ideology alike to the primacy of anti-Zionism.
This mattered far beyond the Middle East. It taught Western activists that Islamism was not an obstacle to leftist solidarity, but a legitimate partner in “resistance.” It normalized silence about illiberalism, Islamist antisemitism, and violence in the name of unity.
Today's antisemitism on the Right is different from previous, crude neo-Nazi forms. Contemporary right-wing antisemites have discovered that left-wing and Arab anti-Zionist rhetoric offers moral camouflage. Language about apartheid, genocide, settler-colonialism, and global elites allows them to recycle older claims about Jewish power while borrowing the credibility of human-rights discourse.
This is not accidental. David Duke openly praised left-wing critiques of the “Israel lobby” for giving his views respectability. Neo-Nazi outlets have long cited progressive anti-Zionist publications as evidentiary support. More recent figures have simply made the synthesis explicit. And the desire for solidarity trumps ideology - when Hamas attacked Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023 in Israel proper, it characterized it as an attack on "settlements" and the Left immediately dropped any pretense of differentiating between Israel's pre-1967 borders and "occupation" to legitimize Hamas' position.
The ideological content barely matters anymore. Antisemitism adapts itself to whatever language will pass.
This is why the Left/Right binary fails so badly as an explanatory framework.
Antisemitism is not a consequence of ideological error so much as a reusable narrative technology – a way of personifying abstraction, assigning moral blame, and repurposing innate antisemitism as a moral position. It thrives wherever movements need an omnipotent villain who is both inside and outside the system.
-Sometimes that villain is capitalist.
-Sometimes colonial.
-Sometimes globalist.
-Sometimes Zionist.
The labels change. The structure does not.
The current moment feels novel because the alliances feel strange: “anti-woke” conservatives echoing decolonial slogans, white nationalists waving Palestinian flags, leftists defending the indefensible to preserve solidarity. But this is not a rupture. It is a recurrence.
Antisemitism has always been a shared underground passage between radical movements. When one entrance collapses, another opens.
The tragedy is not merely that Jews keep finding themselves at the center of other people’s moral dramas. It is that societies keep mistaking the costume for the cause – congratulating themselves for opposing the wrong version of an ancient hatred while unknowingly reproducing its logic in a new dialect.
History does not absolve either side. It indicts both – repeatedly.
And it leaves us with a sobering conclusion: antisemitism is never re-invented. It is translated.
[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2026/01/how-left-and-right-keep-borrowing-each.html EoZ]
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'NYT’: Pennsylvania’s Shapiro says Harris vetting team asked if he was an ‘Israeli agent’
The Jewish governor was said to have responded.
(Jan 19, 2026 / JNS)
[https://www.jns.org/nyt-pennsylvanias-shapiro-says-harris-vetting-team-asked-if-he-was-an-israeli-agent/ JNS]
Biden envoy slams Harris over 'Israeli agent’ question to Shapiro.
Deborah Lipstadt her deputy, Aaron Keyak, condemn Harris campaign staff after Josh Shapiro revealed he was asked if he was “an Israeli agent" during the vetting process for Harris’s running mate.
Elad Benari.
Jan 20, 2026, 2:15 AM (GMT+2)
Kamala HarrisDeborah
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421165 INN]
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Jewish Americans Shouldn’t Be Shocked by Scott Wiener’s Genocide Lie.
By Irit Tratt.
Opinion.
At first glance, California State Sen. and Democratic candidate for US Congress Scott Wiener is representative of what many consider a genuine American Jewish success story: a Jewish boy from New Jersey whose childhood memories were shaped by parents who helped build a local Conservative synagogue.
Wiener possesses the boy-next-door charm and familiarity of a Jewish American who came of age in the 1980s and early 1990s, was academically gifted, and later graduated from Harvard Law School.
The budding lawmaker soon found his footing in politics and eventually rose to become a state senator in the nation’s most populous state.
The youthful-looking Wiener, who calls himself “one of the strongest LGBTQ civil rights champions in the nation,” also co-chairs the California Legislative Jewish Caucus.
The one critical wrinkle to Wiener’s path to Jewish political prominence is that the 55-year-old politician recently promoted the disgusting blood libel that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
After enduring jeers from left-wing attendees at last week’s candidate debate featuring Wiener and two other Democrats vying to succeed retiring Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Wiener pivoted from his initial refusal to characterize Israel’s actions as genocide and made the decision, days later, to turn against the Jewish state in a 90-second cringe-inducing video unveiled Sunday on the social media platform X.
For those following evolving attitudes toward Israel within liberal Jewish spaces, where Zionism is increasingly disassociated from Judaism, Wiener’s comments condemning Israel are perhaps the least shocking development in the progressive Democrat’s political career.
Jewish communities across America have spent decades nurturing ideological identities that focused on cultivating loyal liberals rather than strong Jews.
Moreover, when support for Israel is passed down from one generation to the next, with little explanation of the moral, legal, and historical rights undergirding the Jewish people’s right for self-determination, Zionism is treated as another dispensable political movement.
It’s a phenomenon that leaves people like Wiener susceptible to the anti-Israel animus entrapping a rising cohort of Jewish Democrats. It’s why anti-Zionists like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be quick to denounce a swastika plastered at a Jewish school in Brooklyn but grant a pass to violent pro-Hamas mobs descending on New York City synagogues that aim to disrupt Israel-related events.
Absent a firm framework explaining why it is a Jewish imperative to advance a pro-Israel narrative, the strategy to widen the wedge between Zionism and one’s Jewish identity will yield more Jews like Wiener who cave to the whims of keffiyeh-wearing voters...
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/16/jewish-americans-shouldnt-be-shocked-scott-wieners-genocide-lie/ Algemeiner]
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Witnesses report mass eye injuries during protests in Iran’s Bushehr.
Iran International. Jan 20, 2026.
Witnesses in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr have told Iran International that security forces fired at protesters from elevated positions over two nights, leaving more than 20 people with severe eye injuries.
According to the messages received by the outlet, forces fired from locations including rooftops, mosques and some school buildings on the night of Jan. 9 and 8.
Witnesses said medical centers were overwhelmed by the number of wounded, with staff struggling to cope with the influx of patients.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601207229 IranIntl]
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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post:
Jewish community leaders visited the Great Mosque of Stockholm to gift a Quran from Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque as an act of solidarity.
Reporting by @pieceofshirr .
From jpost.com
Jan 20, 2026
[https://x.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/2013591407760433564 on X]
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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post:
Report: Senior Hamas leaders are preparing a “safe exit” from Gaza following the launch of Phase II of Trump’s Gaza plan. Leaders of the "military" factions insist they will stay, sources told a Saudi outlet.
✍️
@JamesGenn
From jpost.com [https://t.co/MpC7eh8cLX].
Jan 20, 2026
[https://x.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/2013589442921926714 on X]
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Demolition of UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem begins | Watch.
At Ammunition Hill in the capital, representatives of the Israel Land Authority began demolishing the UNRWA headquarters, after the Knesset decision to cut ties with the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
Idan Bloemhof|01.20.26 Updated:10:46
(Related Topics: Jerusalem UNRWA, October 7)
Representatives of the Israel Lands Authority (ILA), accompanied by security forces, arrived Tuesday morning to demolish the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem, located at Ammunition Hill.
The evacuation of the site — which took place earlier this month, and Tuesday’s demolition, stem from a government decision to cut ties with UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, by creating alternative services through other bodies. Legislation passed in the Knesset stipulates that the organization’s assets be transferred to the state and that its diplomatic immunity be revoked, because some of its staff are suspected of participating in the October 7 massacre.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skxjpn2sbx YNet]
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Agreement to transfer Kurdish autonomy in Syria collapsing amid renewed fighting.
Syrian president announced two days ago a ceasefire with SDF forces that maintain Kurdish autonomy, and said the Kurds agreed to hand over all territories to the stat and to integrate into security mechanisms; But a meeting between al-Sharaa and the SDF commander failed, and fighting resumed
Lior Ben Ari, News Agencies|01.20.26 Updated:10:06
An agreement to transfer control of the Kurdish autonomous region in Syria appeared to be collapsing Tuesday morning, after a night of heavy fighting between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and forces loyal to President Ahmad al‑Sharaar. In response to the escalating violence, the Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria declared a general mobilization overnight and called on young Kurds living outside Syria to return home to defend their people.
Only two nights ago, the Syrian government announced a ceasefire deal with the SDF — an organization whose fighters are mostly Kurdish — following days of intense fighting in which Syrian army units stormed Kurdish strongholds and forced SDF fighters to withdraw. Al‑Sharaa described the agreement as a major victory and what was effectively a Kurdish surrender, saying the Kurds agreed to hand over control of all territory to the state, transfer rights to oil and gas fields, disband their military forces, and integrate as fighters within state security structures.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skwysp3szl YNet]
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Netanyahu: Iran will face unprecedented force if it attacks Israel.
"No one can predict what tomorrow will bring in Iran, but one thing is clear: no matter what happens—Iran will not return to being what it was," said the Israeli premier.
Akiva Van Koningsveld.
(Jan. 20, 2026 / JNS)
If the Islamic Republic attacks Israel, Jerusalem “will act with might that Iran has not seen before,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
[https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-iran-will-face-unprecedented-force-if-it-attacks-israel/ JNS]
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The Blood Trail of Islamist Death Cult: From Tehran to Gaza.
The Regime Behind the Carnage: Iran’s War on Its Own People and on Israel.
Iran’s Hypothetical Atrocities and Its Proxy War Against Israel.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a dark history of brutally suppressing its own people, with estimates suggesting that in just two weeks of crackdowns (Jan/2026), it massacred between 20,000 and 50,000 unarmed civilians. Extrapolating this rate over two years yields a staggering 1.04 million to 2.6 million potential deaths—a chilling reminder of the regime’s capacity for mass murder against innocents, far exceeding even the most tragic conflicts.
This same ruthless regime fuels terrorism through its backing of genocidal Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza, providing weapons, funding, and training as part of its “axis of resistance” to destabilize the region and target Israel. On October 7, 2023, “Palestine” regime Hamas launched a barbaric invasion, massacring over 1,200 Israelis and taking hundreds hostage in acts of unspeakable cruelty, including rape, torture, and the slaughter of families. This unprovoked assault forced Israel into a defensive war to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure and secure its citizens from endless rocket barrages and threats.
In a cynical strategy to garner international sympathy, Hamas and PIJ deliberately embed their military operations—rocket launchers, tunnels, and command centers—amidst civilian areas like hospitals, schools, and UN facilities, using Gazan civilians as human shields to inflate casualties and demonize Israel’s precise responses. Despite these tactics, Israel’s military has gone to extraordinary lengths to minimize harm, issuing evacuation warnings, creating humanitarian corridors, and adhering to international law, even as Hamas diverts aid and holds its own people hostage to its ideology of destruction.
As of late 2025, Israel eliminated over 25,000 terrorists, early 2026, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry claims around 67,000–71,000 deaths, though these figures include combatants and are often inflated or unverified; independent analyses suggest the true toll, while heartbreaking, reflects the consequences of Hamas’s war crimes rather than Israeli aggression. Israel’s fight is not against Palestinians but against Iranian-backed extremists who prioritize jihad over peace, sacrificing their own to perpetuate conflict.
In the face of such evil, Israel’s resilience and commitment to defending democracy shine through, underscoring the moral clarity: a sovereign nation protecting its people from genocidal threats, while the world must hold Iran and its proxies accountable for the bloodshed they engineer.
[https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/faith-and-solidarity-evangelical-leaders-stand-with-israel/#comment-47067 at N.E.R.]
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Brutal.
Triggernometry's Viral Skit Destroys Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate and 'Friends' | WATCH.
Hitler himself would rage-quit over today's motley crew of antisemites: Mexicans, Sudanese influencers, and IQ-deficient Arabs peddling Nazi vibes. TRIGGERnometry's viral Downfall parody exposes the pathetic irony.
Jfeed Staff.
Jan 20, 2026 09:29
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/triggernometry-hitler-parody-antisemitism JFeed]
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Violent ambush.
TORONTO CHAOS: Pro-Palestinian Mob Targets Israeli Comedian Guy Hochman | WATCH.
Jan 20, 2026.
[https://www.jfeed.com/antisemitism/guy-hochman-toronto-assault-protest JFeed]
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No apology issued
Tate Brothers Deny That They Danced to Heil Hitler at Miami Club
Despite clear footage, Andrew and Tristan Tate dodge accountability for a Miami nightclub fiasco where Kanye West's 'Heil Hitler' blared amid Nazi salutes. Denials fly, but no apology, exposing their toxic ties and hollow condemnations.
Bianca Jones
Jan 20, 2026 08:54
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/tate-brothers-heil-hitler-controversy JFeed]
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Apology follows major backlash.
Channel 13 Reporter Sparks Outrage with Tweet Wishing for End of Haredi Society
"Only in museums": Channel 13's Yosef Israel ignites a firestorm by calling for the total erasure of Haredi society and branding them "leeches." Inside the brutal backlash, the Nazi comparisons, and the apology that failed to stop the outrage.
Jfeed Staff
Jan 20, 2026 09:05
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/haredi-society-controversy JFeed]
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Melbourne Jewish teens threatened, ‘Heil Hitler’ yelled as car nearly struck boy.
The five boys, who were dressed in traditional Chassidic garb, were walking home when they were subjected to antisemitic abuse and threats.
JNS Staff.
([https://me.jnsi.org/uploads/2023/11/Pro-Palestinian-Rally-in-Melbourne-Australia-1-1320x880.jpg].
A pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 15, 2023).
(Jan. 20, 2026 / JNS)
Melbourne police said on Tuesday that they were investigating reports that a group of Jewish teenagers was threatened and narrowly missed being struck by a vehicle while walking home from school on Monday night.
Police said the five boys, who were dressed in traditional Chassidic garb, were walking home after evening classes when they were subjected to antisemitic abuse and threats by occupants of a white utility vehicle.
The occupants of the car were said to have shouted slurs, threatened to stab them and yelled “Heil Hitler,” before the vehicle narrowly missed one of the boys as the group frantically ran from the scene.
Victoria Police acting Commander Adrian Healy told ABC News that the car, which was fitted with New South Wales registration plates, then ran a red light and continued driving around the area looking for the boys.
The vehicle had been stolen and was previously used to carry out two aggravated burglaries and a series of car thefts in the same area, according to police.
The incident reportedly occurred near Melbourne’s Haredi Adass Israel Synagogue, which was firebombed on Dec. 6, 2024 in a terrorist attack Canberra has said was orchestrated by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The father of one of the victims, Chayim Klein, told ABC News that the boys did not carry mobile phones and had to run to a payphone to call police. He said they were put on hold and had to hang up to escape.
“They are little children. Yes, they’re 16, but they’re not exposed to this. They’re good boys. They’re in school, they study, they learn hard. They’re not used to that kind of behaviour or intimidation,” Klein told the outlet.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the “antisemitic hate incident … targeting young Jewish boys has no place in our country.”
“At a time when Australians are joining with the Jewish community in sorrow and solidarity, it is beyond disgusting to see these cowards shouting Nazi slogans at young people,” he said, per The Guardian.
The incident came as parliament convened in Canberra on Monday for a special sitting to commemorate the 15 people shot and murdered by two terrorists at a Chanukah celebration in Sydney on Dec. 14.
The father-and-son terrorists, inspired by Islamic State ideology, opened fire on a crowd gathered for a celebration of the holiday, killing and wounding dozens in a premeditated, antisemitic terrorist attack.
The Jewish community is “not alone,” Albanese said in his speech to the House of Representatives. “I give you this solemn promise on behalf of every Australian—we will not meet your suffering with silence. We will not leave you in darkness,” the premier’s remarks continued.
“We will continue to do everything required to ensure your security, uphold your safety, and protect and honor your place here with us, as Australians,” he vowed.
[https://www.jns.org/melbourne-jewish-teens-threatened-heil-hitler-yelled-as-car-nearly-struck-boy/ JNS]
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Florida club Vendome apologizes, fires employees for playing ‘Hitler’ song.
The venue has since banned media personalities Nick Fuentes, Myron Gaines and Andrew Tate, who requested the song while in the VIP section.
(Jan. 20, 2026 / JNS)
A Miami nightclub has fired three employees and permanently banned a group of antisemitic influencers, including far-right podcaster and “groyper” leader Nick Fuentes, blogger [Amrou Fudl ] Myron Gaines and former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate, after the club played the Kanye (“Ye”) West song, “Heil Hitler” on Jan. 17.
A widely circulated video shows the group in the VIP section of Vendome singing along to West’s song, which has been banned on major music streaming platforms.
“A group of influencers who bolster antisemitism with their hateful behavior walk into a club in Miami and request Ye’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song … No, this isn’t the setup of a joke. It actually happened. And guess what? The nightclub shamefully obliged,” the Anti-Defamation League said.
“Why would a nightclub play a song that glorifies Hitler and was banned by multiple streaming platforms?” the ADL asked rhetorically. “Imagine being Jewish, out for a fun night, and now you’re surrounded by people performing Nazis salutes to a song that glorifies the individual responsible for murdering 6 million other Jews. This is not ok.”
Vendome said on Jan. 19 that it had completed an interview review. “This isolated incident involved three people which have been terminated from their employment,” the club stated. “We have also permanently banned the individuals involved in this incident from the Vendome premises.”
It also acknowledged that the episode “should never have occurred,” and that it has implemented new safeguards to make sure that its venue “is never used as a platform for discrimination, hate, antisemitism or any other behavior harmful towards our community.”
JNS sought comment from Vendome but did not immediately hear back.
After the footage was circulated, Vendome released a statement saying it was “conducting an internal review to understand the circumstances surrounding how this requested song came to be played during a bottle parade. We will take immediate action to hold the responsible parties accountable.”
The club noted that “our ownership and leadership reflect a diverse group of partners, backgrounds and faiths, including members of the Jewish community, and we are deeply disturbed by the harm caused by this incident and the circulation of this footage.”
Vendome was founded by Jonathan Mansour, Adel Bourkia, Byram Zaied and Fallou Bathily, all French. Local outlets are reporting that Mansour can be spotted in the video.
Steven Meiner, the Orthodox Jewish mayor of Miami Beach, Fla., said he was “deeply disturbed by these videos of twisted individuals glorifying Hitler and the murder of millions.”
“Miami Beach is a welcoming, inclusive city built by people of all backgrounds and faiths,” he said. “These ‘influencers’ who spread hate should never have been welcomed into this club or allowed to play a song with ‘Heil Hitler’ lyrics that has been universally condemned.”
Daniella Levine Cava, mayor of Miami-Dade County, called the incident “deeply disturbing and unacceptable.” She stated that “we stand against antisemitism and all hate, and expect swift accountability to keep our community safe and respectful for all.”
[https://www.jns.org/florida-nightclub-apologizes-fires-employees-for-playing-hitler-song/ JNS]
The Hitlerist Islamo Arab clubbing:
Owned by the French citizens: Jonathan Mansour, Adel Bourkia, Byram Zaied and Fallou Bathily.
Jonathan Mansour has Arab-Iraqi roots; Adel Bourkia and Byram Zaied appear to have North African French backgrounds - AKA Arabs.
* Fallou Bathily is of Senegalese West African descent [Senegal is 95-97% Muslim].
* Amrou Fudl is that infamous "Myron Gaines" black Muslim fascist.
* Andrew Tate converted to Islam, once praised ISIS and became vocal pro "Palestine..." The Arab Mansour was seen in the Hitlerism video.
[http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-paralleling-of-germanys-nazification.html#c2115017235870889513 at MyRightWord]
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Netanyahu: Iran will face unprecedented force if it attacks Israel.
"No one can predict what tomorrow will bring in Iran, but one thing is clear: no matter what happens—Iran will not return to being what it was," said the Israeli premier.
Akiva Van Koningsveld.
(Jan. 20, 2026 / JNS)
If the Islamic Republic attacks Israel, Jerusalem “will act with might that Iran has not seen before,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
[https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-iran-will-face-unprecedented-force-if-it-attacks-israel/ JNS]
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Number of UK Schools Marking Holocaust Has Dropped by Nearly 60% Since Oct. 7 Massacre. January 20, 2026 .
By David Swindle
Tens of thousands joined the National March Against Antisemitism in London, Nov. 26, 2023. Photo: Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect
The number of British schools commemorating the Holocaust has plummeted by nearly 60 percent following the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel.
Since Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists perpetrated the largest single-day massacre of Jews since World War II, the number of secondary schools across the UK signed up for events commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, which takes place annually on Jan. 27, dropped to fewer than 1,200 in 2024 and 854 in 2025, according to data from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
The figure had been rising each year since 2019, reaching more than 2,000 secondary schools in 2023.
There are about 4,200 secondary schools in the UK.
Sir Ephraim Mirvis, chief rabbi of the UK, commented on the figures in an essay published in The Sunday Times, expressing alarm about an increasingly hostile environment for the British Jewish community.
“I fear for what will happen this year,” Mirvis wrote. “For if we cannot teach our children to remember the past with integrity and resolve, then we must ask ourselves what kind of future they will inherit.”
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/20/number-uk-schools-marking-holocaust-dropped-nearly-60-oct-7-massacre/ Algemeiner]
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French Jewish Community Marks 20 Years Since Ilan Halimi’s Brutal Murder.
By Ailin Vilches Arguello. January 20, 2026.
France’s Jewish community on Tuesday commemorated the 20th anniversary of the death of Ilan Halimi, a young Jewish man who was brutally tortured to death, as his memory continues to be defaced amid a rising tide of antisemitism threatening Jews and Israelis across the country.
“Twenty years on, Ilan Halimi’s memory still needs to be protected and honored, yet it continues to come under attack, as recent vandalism at his memorial site shows,” the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) — the main representative body of French Jews — wrote in a post on X.
“Antisemitism remains a persistent threat in France today,” the statement read.
Le 20 janvier 2006 marque l’enlèvement et le début de la séquestration d’Ilan Halimi, 23 ans, parce qu’il était Juif.
20 ans plus tard, alors que la mémoire d’Ilan Halimi doit être protégée et honorée, elle continue d’être atteinte, comme l’ont montré les récents actes de… [pic.twitter.com/Htu9ntMHhq]
[https://twitter.com/Le_CRIF/status/2013529660445905345]
— CRIF (@Le_CRIF) January 20, 2026
Last week, another olive tree planted to honor Halimi’s memory was vandalized and cut down, as French authorities continue efforts to replant trees in remembrance of the young Jewish man who was murdered in 2006.
“We will bring those responsible to justice,” French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez wrote in a post on X. “Our collective outrage is matched only by our unwavering determination to combat antisemitic and anti-religious acts that continue to tarnish the memory of an innocent man.”
This latest antisemitic act came after a plaque honoring Halimi was vandalized in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a town in southeastern France, prompting local authorities to open an investigation for “destruction and antisemitic damage.”
According to local reports, a 29-year-old man with no prior criminal record has been arrested. While he admitted to the acts, he denied any antisemitic motive and is now awaiting trial.
Last year, a tree planted in memory of Halimi was also vandalized and cut down in Épinay-sur-Seine, a suburb north of Paris.
Two Tunisian twin brothers were arrested and convicted for cutting down the tree, but were acquitted of the antisemitism charges brought against them.
Both of them were sentenced to eight months in prison, but one of them received a suspended sentence, meaning he will not serve time unless he commits another offense or violates certain conditions.
According to local media, one of the brothers has reportedly been deported from France.
Halimi was abducted, held captive, and tortured in January 2006 by a gang of about 20 people in a low-income housing estate in the Paris suburb of Bagneux.
Three weeks later, Halimi was found in Essonne, south of Paris, naked, gagged, and handcuffed, with clear signs of torture and burns. The 23-year-old died on the way to the hospital.
In 2011, French authorities planted the first olive tree in Halimi’s memory. However, the young Jewish boy’s memory has faced attacks before, with two other trees planted in his honor vandalized in 2019 in Essonne, where he was found dying near a railway track.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/20/french-jewish-community-marks-20-years-since-ilan-halimis-brutal-murder/ Algemeiner]
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US-Based Anti-Zionist Groups Spread Terrorist Propaganda on Social Media, New Report Shows.
By Dion J. Pierre. January 20, 2026.
Anti-Zionist groups operating in the US are using social media to spread anti-Israel propaganda confected by foreign terrorist organizations based in Gaza and elsewhere across the Middle East, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
“Protesters and activists are not merely praising the activity of terror groups; they are actively sharing their official propaganda, disseminating communiqués, videos, and other materials directly into mainstream platforms,” says the report, titled “Digital Couriers.”
“This propaganda spread functions to normalize the eliminationist goals and terrorist tactics espoused by groups like Hamas and the [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] within certain activist circles in the US,” the report continues. “It blurs the line between legitimate protest and explicit endorsement of terrorism and antisemitic violence.”
The groups employ a number of social media platforms to further the mission, including “Resistance News Network” (RNN) on Telegram, a “radical, antisemitic, anti-Zionist” channel which “plays a key role in getting translated terrorist content into the hands of American activists, while also creating and packaging its own content and glorifying terror attacks and other violence.”
Instagram is another online service which pro-Hamas activists use as a news wire. It is especially popular with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), an organization that has been central to the campus antisemitism crisis that has seen Jewish students harassed, excluded, and assaulted at colleges across the US.
SJP, the ADL says, has shared messages by Hamas spokesmen, commemorated the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel as a day of celebration for the anti-Zionist movement, and shared footage from that day in which a Hamas fighter was “inside the home of an Israeli family.”
The ADL argues social media platforms should aim for “disrupting the pipeline,” enforcing their “existing policies” which already proscribe sharing content of foreign terrorist groups. College and universities, it continues, are responsible for ensuring that students do not do so and break federal law in the process.
“More broadly, it is incumbent upon the general public to engage in due diligence when consuming and sharing content online and associating with activist groups and individuals,” the report concludes.
Anti-Zionist groups have been flagged before for functioning as arms of Hamas while promoting Islamism as well as the geopolitical aims of countries such as Iran.
In October, SJP’s national office (NSJP) appeared to call for executing Muslim “collaborators” working with Israel in retaliation for the death of Palestinian influencer Saleh Al-Jafarawi during a brewing conflict between the Hamas terrorist group and a rival clan, Doghmush, in Gaza City.
“Saleh’s martyrdom is a testament to the fact that the fight against Zionism in all its manifestations — from the [Israel Defense Forces] to its collaborators — must continue,” the group said in a statement posted on social media. “In the face of hundreds of thousands of martyred Palestinians these past two years alone, collaborators and informants maintain their spineless disposition as objects of Zionist influence against their own people.”
The statement launched a series of unfounded charges alleging that anti-Hamas forces are “exploiting Gaza’s youth for money” and pilfering “desperately needed aid to the killing of their own people in service of Zionism.” NSJP added, “Death to the occupation. Death to Zionism. Death to all collaborators.”
Additionally, NSJP has publicly discussed its strategy of using the anti-Zionist student movement as a weapon for destroying the US, saying in 2024 that “divestment [from Israel] is not an incrementalist goal” but enacted with the later goal of setting off “the total collapse of the university structure and American empire itself.” On the same day the group issued that statement, Columbia University’s most strident pro-Hamas organization was reported to be distributing literature calling on students to join the Palestinian terrorist group’s movement to destroy Israel during the school’s convocation ceremony.
“This booklet is part of a coordinated and intentional effort to uphold the principles of the thawabit and the Palestinian resistance movement overall by transmitting the words of the resistance directly,” said a pamphlet distributed by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), an SJP spinoff, to incoming freshmen. “This material aims to build popular support for the Palestinian war of national liberation, a war which is waged through armed struggle.”
Other sections of the pamphlet were explicitly Islamist, invoking the name of “Allah, the most gracious” and referring to Hamas as the “Islamic Resistance Movement.” Proclaiming, “Glory to Gaza that gave hope to the oppressed, that humiliated the ‘invincible’ Zionist army,” it said its purpose is to build an army of Muslims worldwide.
“We call upon the masses of our Arab and Islamic nations, its scholars, men, institutions, and active forces to come out in roaring crowds tomorrow,” it added, referring to an event which took place the previous December. “We also renew our invitation to the free people and those with living consciences around the world to continue and escalate their global public movement, rejecting the occupation’s crimes, in solidarity with our people and their just cause and legitimate struggle.”
Middle East experts have long suspected that foreign agents are conspiring with SJP chapters.
In July 2024, then-US National Intelligence Director Avril Haines issued a statement outlining how Iran has encouraged and provided financial support to the anti-Israel campus protest movement and explaining that it is part of a larger plan to “undermine confidence in our democratic institutions.” Haines also confirmed that US intelligence agencies have “observed actors tied to Iran’s government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support to protesters.”
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/20/us-based-anti-zionist-groups-spread-terrorist-propaganda-social-media-new-report-shows/
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ALARMING: College Campus Activists Peddling Hamas Propaganda Encouraging Violence Against Jews.
January 20, 2026.
Activists on New York City college campuses are helping funnel propaganda directly from Hamas onto mainstream American platforms, amplifying messaging that openly encourages violence against Jews, according to a new study released by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
The report, titled Digital Couriers: How U.S. Anti-Israel Activists Amplify Terror Propaganda on Mainstream Platforms, concludes that some anti-Israel protest movements have crossed a critical line, moving beyond rhetoric and into the active dissemination of official materials produced by Hamas.
“Protestors and activists are not merely praising the activity of terror groups; they are actively sharing their official propaganda, disseminating communiqués, videos, and other materials directly onto mainstream platforms,” the report states.
According to the study, the circulation of Hamas-produced content across Telegram, X, Instagram and other social media platforms has accelerated since the group’s October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel. Researchers warn that the trend reflects a growing normalization of terror rhetoric that explicitly endorses violence against both Israel and Jewish communities worldwide.
“This shared material, which openly praises violent actions and actors, comes at a time of heightened danger for Jews worldwide,” the report notes, pointing to record levels of antisemitic incidents in the United States. “American Jews specifically have been navigating an unprecedentedly high threat landscape.”
The ADL found that propaganda originating from Hamas’ official Arabic-language channels is often translated into English by intermediary accounts before being repackaged and shared by U.S.-based activist groups. One of the most prominent hubs cited in the report is Resistance News Network, a radical English-language Telegram channel with more than 150,000 subscribers that routinely promotes violence against Israel.
From there, the material has spread into activist ecosystems tied to American cities and campuses.
The study documents multiple cases involving groups and individuals in the city sharing or distributing Hamas material. In March 2025, the Bronx Anti-War Coalition reposted a Hamas propaganda poster accompanied by a caption from antisemitic rapper Jonathan Azaziah celebrating the destruction of Israel and using hashtags such as “#WeAreAllHamas.” The same group also reshared a Hamas military post praising a Houthi missile attack on Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport that injured civilians.
The report also highlights in-person dissemination. At Barnard College, activists distributed an English-language document authored by Hamas’ media office that explicitly justified the October 7 attacks. Similar incidents were identified at other institutions nationwide.
On social media, campus-based chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine were repeatedly cited. The SJP chapter at CUNY John Jay College shared a Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades graphic in July 2024 featuring militant imagery and militant slogans in Arabic. At the University of Illinois at Chicago, the SJP chapter posted video footage that appeared to show a Hamas gunman filming himself inside an Israeli family’s home during the October 7 assault. And at University of California, Davis, activists marked the one-year anniversary of the attack by quoting a Hamas spokesperson praising it as a historic military operation.
“These are not abstract expressions of solidarity,” the report notes. “They are direct reproductions of terrorist messaging, presented without context, condemnation, or disclaimers.”
The ADL warns that such activity risks radicalizing audiences, legitimizing terrorist violence, and eroding the guardrails that once kept extremist propaganda off major platforms. It urged social media companies to aggressively enforce existing policies that already prohibit content produced by designated terrorist organizations.
The group also called on Congress to pass the Stopping Terrorists Online Presence and Holding Accountable Tech Entities Act, which would compel platforms to better police terrorist content they currently claim to ban.
College administrators, the ADL said, have a separate responsibility. The report urges universities to clarify when distributing terrorist propaganda violates campus rules or state and federal law, and to hold registered student organizations accountable when they cross that threshold.
“More broadly,” the report concludes, “it is incumbent upon the general public to engage in due diligence when consuming and sharing content online and associating with activist groups and individuals.”
[https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2501333/alarming-college-campus-activists-peddling-hamas-propaganda-encouraging-violence-against-jews.html YWN]
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Israel Issues Veiled Warning to Turkey as Countries Clash Over Gaza Role.
Ny Ailin Vilches Arguello. January 20, 2026.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday warned regional powers — in an apparent swipe at Turkey — to abandon any ambitions of restoring an empire, as tensions mount over postwar reconstruction in Gaza and competing efforts to assert regional influence.
At a joint press conference with Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias in Athens, Katz said Israel was determined “not to allow actors seeking to undermine regional stability to establish a foothold through terrorism, aggression, or military proxies — in Syria, in Gaza, in the Aegean Sea, or in any other arena.”
“Those who dream of dragging the region backward, establishing control through terror, or rebuilding empires at the expense of sovereign states will encounter a resolute alliance of free, strong nations capable of defending themselves,” Katz continued.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/20/israel-issues-veiled-warning-turkey-countries-clash-gaza-role/ Algemeiner]
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