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Line 7,859: − What is the actual death toll of the Iranian protests? | DW News.+ − Jan 15, 2026 #iran #protests #qatar+ − Human rights groups say more than 2,500 people have been killed since anti-government protests erupted in Iran some three weeks ago. The Iranian government has been carrying out a vicious crackdown. − "These figures, 12 thousands or 10 thousand, that are being circulated. They are laughable compared to we have seen." − [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQvbi-CWYVc&t=1m37s pn YouTube] − ____+ + − Report: UN Experts Silent on Iran.+ − January 14, 2026. − United Nations. − According to a report published today by the Swiss non-governmental organization UN Watch, the majority of UN human rights experts—known officially as Special Procedures—have been mostly silent on the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown against civilian protests since December 28, 2025. This includes experts who routinely speak out on Israel and are quick to condemn the United States. − [https://unwatch.org/report-un-experts-silent-on-iran/ UNWarch] − _____+ + + − The hypocrisy of the luvvies over Iran is sickening.+ − Compared to the anti-Israel outcry, the double standards are despicable. − This regime is one of the most monstrous on earth. We must all combat it.+ − Allister Heath. − 14 January 2026 6:33pm GMT − Where are the luvvies when you need them? Where is their outrage, their fury, their passion as thousands of freedom-loving Iranians, sons and daughters, are being massacred by millenarian Islamist theocrats? − Many Leftist entertainers, personalities and activists spent years occupying our streets, flooding social media, denouncing Israel’s just war of self-defence in Gaza as “genocide”, and yet now, when actual crimes against humanity are being committed in Iran, their near-silence is deafening. Every horror they claimed, falsely, Israel was inflicting upon Palestinians, the Iranian regime is actually meting out to its own people: protesters are being shot in the back of the head or machine-gunned in the streets, hospital rooms are being broken into, young people summarily executed, dissidents tortured.+ − It is pure, unadulterated evil, an obscene moment in history, a stain on humanity. So where are the chants of “from the Gulf to the Caspian Sea, Iran will be free”? Where is Greta Thunberg’s flotilla? Why isn’t Bob Vylan firing up the crowds against the Ayatollahs? Where are the pins, the Shir o Khorshid emblems, the pictures of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the emojis, the student protestors, the sit-ins, the storming of lectures, the mass demonstrations taking over central London?+ + − The hypocrisy is sickening, the double standards despicable. The luvvies don’t really care about Iran, just as they are largely unbothered by deaths in Sudan, the persecution of the Uyghurs and the pogroms of October 7. They are more interested in demonising Israel and the West than in saving innocent lives.+ − + − Why is there no such thing as LGBTQ+ for Iran, or Iranian Lives Matter, or Justice for Iran, or groups advocating “intersectional resistance” to the Ayatollahs’ “patriarchy and occupation”?+ + − If you are the wrong kind of victim, the luvvies don’t care about you. As long as a regime is anti-Western, its atrocities don’t matter, or are whitewashed.+ − Where have those who supposedly care about ethnic cleansing been as millions of Iranians fled their beloved homeland since 1979, fuelling a diaspora of 4-6 million?+ − Erfan Soltani, 26, will be executed for demanding basic rights. Where are the anti-death penalty advocates who always protest America’s penal regime? Iran persecutes gays, women and religious minorities. Where are those bishops who claim to care about religious freedom in the Middle East? Where are all those who keep telling us (wrongly) that America is turning into a Handmaid’s Tale, when confronted with a real-world, woman-hating theocracy?+ − + + − Mojtaba Torshiz, a former midfielder for Tractor, the Iranian football league winners, left his daughters with his parents and went out to protest. He and his wife were murdered. Rebin Moradi, 17, one of Tehran’s most promising youth footballers, was assassinated. Where are the international footballing authorities? Where are the Premier League footballers taking the knee?+ − For many not especially ideological celebrities or activists, loudly supporting Gaza was an act, a performative ritual, to signal their virtue, their membership of the high-status “good people’s” club. Iran’s young are heroes, taking on IRGC thugs and dying for their beliefs, yet speaking up for them isn’t modish, so the celebs keep shtum.+ − Such behaviour is despicable, but not as bad as those of the true believers. Millions of educated people across Europe and America have succumbed to the omnicause, an anti-Western, totalitarian mindvirus, the byproduct of hundreds of years of intellectual error from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Karl Marx, from Jacques Derrida to Edward Said, laced with Leninism, superstition, conspiratorial thinking and prejudice.+ + − The omnicause deems America, Israel and the capitalist world as the epitome of Westernness, the fount of all evil, guilty of every “ism” and “cide”, and thus promotes and supports third worldist regimes and causes that undermine our societies. It is nihilistic and shape-changing, embracing any doctrine that advances its ends, regardless of contradictions.+ − Countries and movements are judged according to what they represent, not their actions; the Iranian revolution of 1979 is the original fusion of Leftism and Islamism, so it remains a model for deluded proponents of the omnicause. − This is why so few Western activists support Iran’s freedom-fighters. These dissidents are pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-democracy. They curse Hamas and Hezbollah, and demand the end to Tehran’s handouts to its proxies, anathema to our useful idiots.+ + − The “oppressed” aren’t meant to have agency, so sinister motives must be attributed to the protesters, such as being in hock to foreign spies.+ + − The Left dismiss their critics as “Islamophobic”, so cannot process scenes from Iran where women burn their compulsory hijabs and where crowds reject state-enforced religion as part of a secularist uprising.+ − There is a growing grassroots alliance between the Jewish and Iranian diasporas. There are Israeli flags in every anti-regime demo in Britain and America, and imperial Iranian flags in every pro-Israel demo. The regime-funded death squads of October 7 were horrifically similar to those roaming Iranian cities today; one day, a free Tehran will resemble Tel Aviv.+ − The failure of the Islamist dictatorship is total. The banks are collapsing. Chants of “Jāvid Shāh”, long live the Shah, dominate anti-regime demos; only a total break with the past 47 years will suffice.+ − The luvvies have disgraced themselves. This regime is one of the most monstrous on earth. We must all combat it. Its collapse, when it comes, will be akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall – but this time, rather than being freed from communism, millions will be liberated from Islamism. Long live a free Iran.+ − [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/14/silence-luvvies-iran-exposes-left-war-on-west-middle-east/ DailyTelegraph] − ____+ + − Azar @Azar_Javidan:+ − There has been a massacre in Iran in last few days, with estimates of more than 30,000 innocent, unarmed civilians being slaughtered by machine guns in the streets. − + − Do Not Look Away − #JavidShah − #MassacreInIran − Quote: − Azar @Azar_Javidan − · − Jan 14 − Machine guns vs civilians in Tehran. − A genocide is unfolding in Iran. − Be the voice of Iran. − [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-o7QdhXMAE0bJf?format=jpg&name=small] − #MassacreInIran − #JavidShah − #JavidShahRevolution − [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-t25NUXkAER8Z4?format=jpg&name=360x360]+ − [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-t25N0bQAgabe6?format=jpg&name=360x360] − [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-t25NzbQAMEU_N?format=jpg&name=360x360] − [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-t25N1bQAcq88s?format=jpg&name=360x360] − 5:06 PM · Jan 15, 2026 − [https://x.com/Azar_Javidan/status/2011832388750299169 on X] − _____+ + − Forced confession fears as Iran chief justice interrogates protesters.+ − Paris (France) (AFP) – Iran's hardline judiciary chief has personally interrogated protesters arrested in a crackdown that has sparked an international outcry, amplifying fears among rights groups about the use of "forced confessions" to instil fear in society.+ + − Issued on: 01/15/2026 - 16:25+ − On Thursday, state television showed Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, who has spent his career at the heart of the Islamic republic's legal apparatus and has been sanctioned by both the European Union and United States, quizzing several people the authorities accuse of being "rioters".+ − It aired footage of the former intelligence minister and top Tehran prosecutor interrogating two detained women, their faces blurred, both of whom broke down in tears while questioned.+ − The day earlier, he had spent five hours inside one of the prisons of Tehran to examine the cases of prisoners arrested in the protests, state television said, showing him interrogating some detainees.+ − According to rights groups, state television has broadcast dozens such "confessions" of individuals accused of attacks on security forces and other acts of violence in the demonstrations.+ − "State media began airing the forced confessions of protesters within days of the outbreak of protests," said Norway-based Iran Human Rights.+ − "Confessions that were obtained under coercion and torture being aired prior to legal proceedings violate the right of defendants to be presumed innocent until proven guilty," it added.+ − In another example, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said two teenage girls arrested in the central city of Isfahan were shown in "forced confessions" saying they received money from an individual to participate in street protests.+ − + + + − 'Work quickly'.+ − In the latest footage, Ejei was shown seated in a room flanked by other officials, beneath a double picture of Khamenei and revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini. The detainee sat in a chair opposite. − One woman, accused of sending a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said: "I've done something that even I can’t forgive myself for."+ − "For what... to who," pressed Ejei, speaking softly while clasping his hands.+ − Another woman is accused of dropping concrete blocks on security forces in Tehran from a balcony.+ − "I don't know what happened, why I did something so foolish," she said, after Ejei pressed her by asking, "What was the day?" and "How did you know they were officers?"+ + − No further evidence of their alleged involvement was shown.+ − US-based group United Against Nuclear Iran in 2024 described Ejei, who has vowed fast-track trials for those arrested, as a "ruthless enforcer of the Islamic republic with no regard for human rights". − Opposition groups also accuse him of involvement in the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners in the Islamic republic.+ − Media freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said he has "journalists' blood on his hands", recalling that Ejei in 2004 even bit a journalist on the shoulder during a debate.+ − "If a person burned someone, beheaded someone and set them on fire then we must do our work quickly," Ejei said on Wednesday.+ − With any delays, "it wouldn't have the same effect," he said.+ − [https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260115-forced-confession-fears-as-iran-chief-justice-interrogates-protesters France24] − ____+ + − Iran attack postponed but not canceled: The reasons, and the brutal repression that achieved its goal.+ − Analysis: Washington concluded that potential costs - harm to American bases, Israel, and energy industry in the Gulf - far outweigh any strategic gain and will return to diplomacy; Meanwhile, Iranians are terrified of the brutal suppression of the protest and have stopped. − Ron Ben-Yishai|01.15.26 | 22:21 − [https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/hkzqg0iswe YNet] − ____+ + − Iran regime leaders ordering own children to slaughter civilians, commander’s daughter says.+ − January 16, 2026 | 2:54pm − Ruthless Iranian regime leaders are now ordering their own children to slaughter innocent civilians, a commander’s distraught daughter revealed as she sobbed in a gut-wrenching interview on Thursday. − The woman broke down on Persian media outlet Manoto TV as she said leaders are “Giving them batons, electric batons, guns, to go and kill fellow citizens,” adding her father has ordered her “to kill.”+ − “They are killing their own children, suppressing them,” she said of the regime’s commanders.+ − [https://nypost.com/video/iran-regime-leaders-ordering-own-children-to-slaughter-civilians-commanders-daughter-says/ NYPost] − _____+ + − Germany urges ban on AI-generated fake Holocaust images to prevent historical distortion.+ − German memorial institutions and the government are urging social media platforms to halt the spread of AI-generated fake Holocaust images, clearly distinguish them from authentic material and label them, warning that such content distorts history and harms the memory of the victims − Reuters|01.16.26 22:57 − [https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/r1uep700b11e YNet] − _____+ + + + − Killers on the go.+ − REGIME IMPORTS KILLERS: 5,000 Iraqi Militia Fighters Cross Border to Slaughter Iranian Protesters. − As the Ayatollahs lose control of the streets, they are bringing in foreign mercenaries from Kataib Hezbollah and the PMF to do the dirty work. European and Iraqi military sources confirm the invasion − Yair Kleinbaum. − Jan 16, 2026 − [https://www.jfeed.com/news/iranian-regime-iraqi-militia-crackdown JFeed] − _____+ + + + + + − 🎗️ Jonah − @jonahelshout: − 30,000 Killed? − Goldie Ghamari Says #Iran’s #Uprising Could Topple the Regime.+ − @gghamari is a[n] Iranian Canadian lawyer+ − [youtube.com]+ − 30,000 Killed? Goldie Ghamari Says Iran’s Uprising Could Topple the...+ − Jan 16, 2026+ − − ____+ − Rawan Osman.+ − January 15, 2026.+ − − Silence is complicity — and they still have the nerve to cry “hypocrisy.” − [https://www.facebook.com/reel/1294841126010843/ on FB] − ______+ + + + + − 6,000 sought care for eye injuries in Tehran during protests.+ − January 15, 2026 − More than 6,000 people with eye injuries have sought treatment at a major eye clinic in Tehran over the past few days following recent protests, the head of the Munich Eye Center told Iran International. − Amir Mobarez Parasta said the figure reflected the scale of eye trauma cases linked to the unrest, based on information he said he had received from his colleagues.+ − He said the number pointed to widespread eye injuries in recent days.+ − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601150995 IranIntl] − ____+ + + + − Pay for bullets: How Iran pressures families after killing protesters.+ − Arash Sohrabi. − January 15, 2026 − Updated: 14:56 GMT − After Iran’s deadliest protest crackdown in decades, authorities have extended their response beyond the streets into morgues, hospitals and family homes, turning the protesters’ bodies into a key tool for suppressing dissent and controlling the narrative. − Iran International has received a large volume of videos, audio testimonies and written accounts describing how the bodies of protesters killed in the latest unrest are being collected, stored and released under strict security conditions.+ − While a nationwide internet blackout, now about a week, has made independent verification difficult in some cases, Iran International has cross-checked and verified key elements through corroborating footage, eyewitness commentary and the consistency of reports from multiple cities.+ − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601151162 IranIntl] − ____+ + − Iranian forces attacked peaceful protesters with knives, live fire - sources+ − January 15, 2026. − Iran’s security forces attacked protesters with knives and live gunfire in the northern town of Chamestan during demonstrations on January 8 and 9, local sources told Iran International.+ − Reports also indicate that security personnel fired live ammunition, targeting a number of protesters.+ − During the January 9 demonstrations in Chamestan, around 26 bodies were lying on the city’s main street, according to local sources.+ − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601153988 IranIntl] − ____+ + − 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] − _____+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − Anti-Israel protesters enter BBC Scotland HQ.+ − Israel National News.+ − + − + + + − Israel declares Iranian bank a terrorist organization.+ − Israel National News.+ − Jan 15, 2026, 7:01 PM+ − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/420964 INN]+ − _____+ + − + − Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump and reportedly asked him to delay the possibility of a military strike on Iran.+ − Israel National News.+ − Jan 15, 2026, 8:41 PM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/420972 INN] − _____+ + − UK:+ − NHS doctor suspended over social media posts praising Hamas.+ − Israel National News.+ − Jan 15, 2026, 8:42 PM+ − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/420971 INN] − _____+ + − The Israel Institute of New Zealand:+ − "In 2 years of fighting in Gaza, 30k militants and 30-40k civilians died. − The world screamed genocide[sic]. − In 2 weeks, the Iranian regime has massacred 20k civilians. − The world looked away." − @israel_advocacy. − January 16, 2026. − [https://www.facebook.com/Israel.Institute.NZ/posts/in-2-years-of-fighting-in-gaza-30k-militants-and-30-40k-civilians-diedthe-world-/1181432964204379/ on FB] − ____+ + − middleeastbull18:+ − January 16, 2026 − London witnessed a massive demonstration as around 30,000 protesters, including Iranians, Israelis and international supporters, gathered in central areas to express solidarity with Iran’s protest movement. Demonstrators called for freedom, human rights and an end to repression, highlighting growing global concern over the situation in Iran. − #LondonProtest #IranProtests #IranFreedom #HumanRights #GlobalSolidarity #WorldNews #BreakingNews #FreeIran #TrendingNow #FreeIran #HumanRights #BreakingNews #StandWithIran − ____+ + − Blackout.+ − HEADLINE: IRAN GOES DARK UNTIL MARCH: Regime Burns Its Own Cities as Martial Law Descends After 5 PM.+ − Russian sources confirm the internet blackout will last months. In Rasht, security forces torched a historic market to trap protesters as the country enters a new phase of total repression.+ − Yair Kleinbaum.+ − Jan 16, 2026 + − + − _____ + + + + − Corpse of slain Iranian mother of two found in grim 'warehouse of bodies'.+ − January 16, 2026 − The body bags at Tehran’s main cemetery were stacked in their many hundreds on rows and on shelves, according to an eyewitness, who found among the corpses of slain protestors his friend, a 41-year-old mother of two. − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601168709 IranIntl] − _____ + + + − At least 1.5 million people took to Tehran streets on January 8, source says.+ − January 16, 2026 − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601162278 IranIntl] + + − Defiance met with massacre: Iran’s biggest protest wave in generations.+ − January 16, 2026+ − + − + − Pay for bullets: How Iran pressures families after killing protesters.+ − January 16, 2026+ − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601151162 IranIntl]+ − ____+ + + + − Steven Phillips, MD @StevePhillipsMD − Declassified U.S. State Department telegram quoting an Arab League meeting in Lebanon in August 1960, when Arab states decided to create a "Palestinian entity" aimed at undermining Israel through UN manipulation & military action. − With the help of the Soviets, this resulted in the 1964 founding of the PLO, as a tool for collective Arab action against Israel, consistent with Russia's efforts to counter Israel's alliance with the West.+ + + − Arab-Soviet alliances during the Cold War shaped modern Palestinian nationalism primarily as an anti-Israel strategy rather than an indigenous pre-1948 movement.+ + + + + + − Defund the UN.+ − [https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v17/d34] − Jan 16, 2026 − Download the app and never miss what’s happening. − [https://x.com/StevePhillipsMD/status/2011995124335599727 on X] − _____+ + + + + + − Trump Says Laura Loomer ‘Can Be a Little Nasty,’ But Is ‘Always Nice’ to Him: ‘That’s All That Matters’. − Kathryn Wilkens. − Fri, January 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM UTC − During a Friday press appearance+ − to mark the renaming of a Palm Beach boulevard in his honor, President Donald Trump said that right-wing commentator+ − Laura Loomer “can be a little nasty” but is “always nice” to him, adding, “And that’s all that matters.”+ − While touting the success of the “extraordinarily red” state of Florida, Trump reflected on one year ago, when “we were a dead country.”+ − Now, he said, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar are investing “two trillion dollars” each into the United States. “So we took in six trillion,” Trump claimed. “That’s why we have 18, because we took six from three countries. That helps, right? Laura? Is that right?” Trump said, gesturing to Loomer in the crowd.+ − Importantly, per a November Bloomberg investigation, the “actual investment promises are significantly smaller, raising questions not just over the size of Trump’s claimed boom but the nature, durability, and real economic impact of the influx he wants credit for.”+ − “Hi, Laura,” the president continued on Friday, amidst cheers from the crowd. “Boy, you are something. What spirit you have. Laura Loomer. Thank you, honey, for being here. I appreciate it.”+ − “You know, she can be a little nasty, but to me, she’s always nice, and that’s all that matters,” Trump said. “I want her to stay that way, too.” − According to two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Risen in July, Loomer acts as “Trump’s de facto national security adviser.” − Earlier on Friday, Loomer actually slammed − the president for meeting with former Fox host Tucker Carlson in the West Wing, writing, “Every time Tucker Qatarlson visits the White House, GOP voter turnout decreases.” − In a follow-up post, she added, “Looks like the 2 million Iranian American voters will be sitting out in the midterms,” insinuating that Carlson’s July interview with the president of Iran somehow influenced Trump not to use military force as the country “continue[s] to murder thousands of innocent people.”+ − [https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-says-laura-loomer-can-be-a-little-nasty-but-is-always-nice-to-him-thats-all-that-matters/ MediaIte]+ + + + − ____+ + + − 🚨 BREAKING: Multiple Iranians INJURED In London - UK Police Crackdown On Anti-IRGC Protesters.+ − Tousi TV. − January 16, 2026. − [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg5AAIhakoU on YouTube] − _____ + + − Trump's help did not come, and the protest in Iran faded: "There is a lot of death".+ − Guy Elster. January 16, 2026. − Iran's nationwide protest movement appeared to be slowing down on Thursday, weighed down by a brutal crackdown by the authorities that has left thousands dead and tens of thousands in prison. In Tehran, Iranians reported relative calm on the streets, just a week after the protests peaked in Tehran and elsewhere in the capital, escalating into clashes between demonstrators and security forces. But they were brutally suppressed. A resident of the capital, Tehran, where the protest began in a bazaar two and a half weeks ago, told Al Jazeera that there was a heightened security presence alongside uncertainty about the future. "There is a large military presence on the streets of the capital and elsewhere," the resident said. He said Revolutionary Guards had been deployed in the capital, along with numerous checkpoints and police checkpoints. He added that armed forces were patrolling the streets on motorcycles. “There is a lot of uncertainty. A lot of people are worried,” said the resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of his safety. He said many expect American action soon, but opinions are divided about its implications. “There is a lot of death, sadness and anger.” − According to reports in American and other media outlets, Trump was under heavy pressure from leaders in the Middle East not to launch strikes, a move that would almost certainly lead to Iranian retaliatory strikes against American bases throughout the region. The New York Times reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the American president during a phone call, and Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Egypt were also among those pressuring him to give Tehran "another chance." On social media, some Iranians expressed disappointment at Trump's apparent withdrawal from military intervention. An artificial intelligence image showing Trump removing a mask and revealing former President Barack Obama - who was perceived among the Iranian diaspora as taking a soft line towards Iran - was widely circulated. The slowdown in protests came just two days after US President Donald Trump called on Iranians to "keep protesting - take over your institutions," and promised that "help is on the way." Intelligence assessments have indicated that the United States is preparing to attack Iran, a move Trump has threatened if the Iranian government continues to kill protesters. But on Wednesday night, Trump appeared to back away from the brink of military intervention, telling reporters that Iranian authorities were halting executions. “We’ve been told that the killing in Iran has stopped — it has stopped — it has stopped now. And there is no plan for executions, or executions, or executions — I’ve been told by a very competent source,” Trump said.+ − The White House later claimed that 800 executions planned in Iran had been canceled. White House spokeswoman Carolyn Levitt said Trump and his team had warned of “serious consequences” if the killings continued. “The president understands that today 800 executions that were planned and were scheduled to take place yesterday have been stopped,” she said. However, she said Trump continues to monitor the situation closely. “All options are still on the table for the president,” Levitt said. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Walz reiterated this at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Thursday night, saying the United States stands with “the brave people of Iran” and that Trump “has made it clear that all options are on the table to stop the massacre.” Iran's deputy ambassador to the UN, Hossein Darazi, sharply criticized the United States for what he called its "direct involvement in turning the unrest in Iran into violence." "Under the hollow pretext of concern for the Iranian people and claims of supporting human rights, the United States is trying to present itself as the friend of the Iranian people, while at the same time laying the foundations for political subversion and military intervention under a supposedly 'humanitarian' narrative," Darazi said. Russia's UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, accused the United States of convening the meeting in an attempt to "justify open aggression and interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state." Russia defended Iran's actions and was the only member of the council to do so. France's UN ambassador, Jerome Bonfon, called for the immediate release of all arbitrarily detained detainees and a moratorium on the death penalty, while Britain's deputy ambassador, Archibald Young, said that "Iran must urgently change course" and respect the fundamental rights of its citizens, "including the right to demonstrate without fear of violence or repression." At least 2,637 people have been killed in the protests, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.+ + − Human rights groups have expressed concern about forced confessions among detained protesters after state media broadcast footage of the head of the hardline judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohsani Ajayi, personally interrogating detainees. Ajayi, who is subject to US and European sanctions, is accused by opposition figures of involvement in the mass executions of political prisoners in 1988. Footage broadcast yesterday showed Ajayi interrogating women, one of whom was accused of sending a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Another woman, accused of throwing concrete blocks at security forces, said during her interrogation by Ajayi: “I don’t know what happened, why did I do such a stupid thing.” From the beginning of the protests, state media broadcast footage of such confessions, as part of an attempt to portray the protests as a movement that originated from foreign intervention aimed at destabilizing Iran. The Norway-based Iran Human Rights organization said: “The broadcast of confessions obtained under duress and torture before legal proceedings violates the right of defendants to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.” The protests began on December 28 following a sharp drop in the value of the local currency, and quickly expanded to demands for political reforms and even an end to the Iranian regime’s rule. The protest spread to all 31 provinces of the country and is the most serious wave of unrest the government has faced in decades. Iranian President Masoud Pazakhian said yesterday that the government was working to improve living conditions in the country and to address the factors that ignited the protests. He pledged to fight corruption and price gouging, which he said would improve citizens’ purchasing power. Iran’s national currency has lost about two-thirds of its value in the past three years, while the prices of basic goods have soared, with food prices rising by 72% since last year. Experts have said that while the protests point to deep-seated problems in Iran's system of government that are likely to plague it in the long term, a state collapse is unlikely. This concern has also been raised by Israeli and Arab officials, who have told the US administration in recent days that the Iranian regime is not yet weak enough for US strikes to topple it.+ − [https://hamal.co.il/main/%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%94-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A4-%D7%9C%D7%90-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%94-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%90%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9F-%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%9B%D7%94-%D7%99%D7%A9-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%94-%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%B4-238849 Hamal] − _____ + + + + − Melika Razavi (Poker player, Magician, Writer, Miss global Iran 2016, Miss global fitness 2016, Miss power woman 2017).+ − melirazavii:+ − Jan 16, 2026. − This is Iran. − This is what the Islamic Republic looks like. − This is genocide, not “governance.” − Over 25,000 people are dead — men, women, children — murdered by their own government. Internet shut down. Communications cut. Streets turned into war zones so killing can happen in silence.+ − And still, some of you defend this regime.+ − Not because you care about Iranians — but because of ideology, money, and comfort.+ − Call it what it is.+ − IRGC. ISIS. Hamas. − Different names, same violence, same terror, same blood on their hands. − Silence is complicity. − Excuses are cowardice. − History will remember who spoke up — and who chose comfort over humanity. − #Iran #IranGenocide #IslamicRepublic #IRGC #HumanRights StopTheSilence FreeIran.+ − + + + − Spawn of Iran’s ruling elite living large in US — and fed-up Iranian-Americans want them deported.+ − By Bianca Heyward.+ − Published Jan. 14, 2026, 8:58 p.m. ET+ + − The pampered offspring of Iran’s ruling elite are living the American Dream as the country’s brutal regime kills protesters by the thousands — and fed-up Iranians in California and across the US want them out.+ − Two explosive online petitions have been gaining steam as they call on the US government to immediately deport Eissa Hashemi and Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani — the children of current and onetime prominent Iranian government figures enjoying the comforts of the “Great Satan’’ as opposed to the oppressive streets of Tehran. − Eissa Hashemi is the 43-year-old son of Masoumeh Ebtekar — a k a “Screaming Mary,” the radical spokeswoman for the militants who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. + − His mom was notorious for trying to create propaganda during the hostage crisis by cruelly urging the US victims to describe their horrific ordeal in positive terms.+ − “If she were on fire on the street, I wouldn’t piss on her to put it out,’’ traumatized former hostage Michael Metrinko once said.+ + + − After her son Hashemi graduated from the University of Tehran in 2006, he reportedly moved to the US in 2010 and pursued his Ph.D. in organizational leadership from The Chicago School in LA.+ − He currently is an adjunct associate professor at his alma mater, enjoying the freedom his mother helped strip from American diplomats decades ago. − Records show he resides in Agoura Hills in LA County. + + + + + − Hashemi also did not respond to Post requests for comment.+ − Then there is Ardeshir-Larijani. − She is the daughter of Ali Larijani, the powerful former speaker of the country’s parliament who now serves as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.+ − Her father serves as a righthand man to Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has called the US the “Great Satan.”+ + + + + + + − Not long after President Trump urged Iranians to keep demonstrating against their nation’s dictatorship and condemned its officials for the “senseless killing of protestors,” Larijani fired back at him on X.+ − “We declare the names of the main killers of the people of Iran: 1- Trump 2- Netanyahu,” Larijani wrote, referring to the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu. − Ardeshir-Larijani, 40, lives in Atlanta, Ga., as her father rails against the West and oversees a legislative body that regularly burns the stars and stripes.+ + + + − She is a licensed doctor and an assistant professor in the hematology and medical oncology department at the prestigious Emory University School of Medicine — and a world away from the deadly crackdown on human rights in Iran.+ − She did not respond to Post requests for comment Wednesday. − “Why are visas given to these people?’’ raged Mersedeh Shahinkar, who lost her right eye to a bullet during a protest involving women’s rights in Iran in 2022, to The Post on Wednesday.+ + + + + + − “Why should they freely travel and live comfortably here? If Iran is good for them, if the Islamic Republic is good for them, they should go live there,” the California resident said.+ − − The petitions on Change.org argue that it is a slap in the face to the American people — and the Iranian people suffering under the regime — to allow the relatives to stay here. − “We, the Iranian people, demand the deportation of these individuals,” the petitions read. “They benefit from the wealth of the Iranian people and live safely in the United States, while their families rule a brutal dictatorship in Iran.” − + + + + + + − The White House did not respond to a Post request for comment on whether the administration might try to boot the relatives − [https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/us-news/spawn-of-irans-ruling-elite-living-large-in-us-and-fed-up-iranian-americans-want-them-deported/ NYPost] − _____+ + + − When Iran shakes, the axis holds its breath: proxies brace for a mothership crash.+ − Opinion: Iran’s proxies watch unrest with alarm, fearing collapse, as Gulf rivals warn it could leave Arabs 'under the Israeli hammer alone'. − Dr. Michael Milshtein|01.17.26 − [https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/skxkcodh11e YNet] − ____ + + + − Michigan event to feature daughter of convicted Hamas fundraiser. − The panel event will discuss what organizers call the “wrongful imprisonment” of the “Holy Land Five,” convicted in 2008 for funneling approximately $12.4 million to Hamas. − (Jan. 16, 2026 / JNS)+ − A panel discussion on the “Holy Land Five” scheduled for Jan. 17 in Grand Rapids, Mich., will feature the daughter of one of the five Palestinian-Americans convicted in 2008 for providing material support to Hamas. − Nida Abu Baker, daughter of Shukri Abu Baker, “will share her story and recount the decades of struggle to free her father and his colleagues in the Holy Land Foundation—the largest Muslim nonprofit in the U.S. that was targeted with trumped-up material support for terrorism charges,” event organizers stated. − Five officials of the foundation, nicknamed the “Holy Land Five,” were convicted in Dallas in November 2008 on “108 charges of funneling $12.4 million to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization,” according to Canary Mission.+ − + + − US sanctions Houthi revenue, procurement networks.+ − Scott Bessent, U.S. treasury secretary, stated that “the Houthis threaten the United States by committing acts of terror and attacking commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea.”+ + + + + − (Jan. 16, 2026 / JNS)+ − The United States imposed new sanctions on the Houthis on Friday, targeting networks that U.S. officials say help fund the group’s attacks and destabilizing activity in the region.+ − − Israel rejects Trump's Gaza Peace Council+ − Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that Trump's Gaza Peace Council was contrary to Israeli policy.+ − Orly Harari.+ − Published: Jan 17, 2026, 6:53 PM (GMT+2)+ − The Prime Minister’s Office said Saturday night that the announcement regarding the composition of the Gaza Peace Council, which is subordinate to the peace conference, was made without coordination with Israel and contradicts Israeli policy. − Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to raise the matter with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.+ − Opposition leader Yair Lapid criticized the government, saying: “For a year I have warned that if the government does not advance the Egyptian solution with the United States and the international community, Turkey and Qatar will end up influencing Gaza. Last night the makeup of the so-called ‘Peace Council’ was revealed. Turkey is included, Qatar is included, and according to the IDF Hamas still has 30,000 fighters in Gaza. This represents a complete diplomatic failure by the Netanyahu government, wasting the immense courage and sacrifice of IDF soldiers and commanders."+ − U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday night the members of the Peace Council that will oversee the Gaza Strip. According to Trump, who will chair the body, its members include U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff; his son-in-law Jared Kushner; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; former British prime minister Tony Blair; businessman Mark Rowan; World Bank President Ajay Banga; and U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gabriel.+ − The Turkish president’s office said Trump sent a letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inviting him to join the Peace Council, which is intended to supervise the interim administration in Gaza.+ − + + − Nick Fuentes: My problem with Trump ‘is that he is not Hitler’.+ − Nick Fuentes escalates rhetoric, says US President Donald Trump falls short of extremist agenda.+ − Joseph Strauss, JTA.+ − Jan 17, 2026, 7:51 PM (GMT+2) − In the fall, a video of Nick Fuentes criticizing US President Donald Trump drew the praise of progressive ex-Congressman Jamaal Bowman.+ + + − “Finally getting it Nick," Bowman commented, apparently recognizing some common ground between himself on the left and Fuentes, on the far right, who said in the video that Trump was “better than the Democrats for Israel, for the oil and gas industry, for Silicon Valley, for Wall Street," but said he wasn’t “better for us."+ − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421032 INN] − _____+ + − Bondi at IAC:+ − 'DOJ will seek death penalty in murder of Israeli diplomats'.+ − Yoni Kempinski, Florida. − Jan 18, 2026, 3:18 AM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421052 INN] − _____+ + + − Released hostage: I agreed to die in Gaza so that Israel could destroy Hamas.+ − Hamas captivity survivor Eitan Mor expresses support for his father's position, says he refused offer to spy for Hamas.+ − Israel National News. − Published: Jan 17, 2026, 10:38 PM (GMT+2) − − Watch: Arab rioters attack Samaria homestead. − On Friday, dozens of Arab rioters from the villages of Qaddum and Beit Lid attacked residents of the Shirat Tzion homestead in Samaria. − Israel National News. − Jan 17, 2026, 11:59 PM (GMT+2) − [Samaria. Hilltop Youth] − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421048 INN] − ____+ + + + + + − From Slogan to Industry: The invention of “Anti-Palestinian Racism".+ − APR is a dangerous term that suggests that trying to combat antisemitism is itself racist against Palestinian Arabs. A full report is linked below. Op-ed.+ − David Collier.+ − Jan 18, 2026, 7:20 AM (GMT+2) − In recent years the term anti-Palestinian racism (APR) has moved from activist discourse into the language of public institutions across multiple Western democracies. In the UK it has now been raised in both Houses of Parliament. In the U.S. a group of elected officials turned the phrase into a political weapon. In Canada, the Canadian government provided funding to support the creation of APR educational resources. And in Australia, the public broadcaster recently gave favourable coverage to a report claiming anti-Palestinian racism was “widespread."+ − If you are not paying attention, you should be. While APR markets itself as part of serious anti-racist discourse, in reality it functions as a dangerous, antisemitic tool. APR doesn’t just try to name a prejudice. It rewires the moral rules. It turns Zionism into racism, Jewish self-definition into exclusion, and antisemitism safeguards into “censorship" - then demands institutions enforce that inversion as policy.+ − Once inverted framing takes hold, everything becomes distorted. Neutrality is recast as hostility. Jewish communal safety is treated as an obstacle. And the most aggressive forms of anti-Israel activism are rebranded as “anti-racist" virtue. None of this directly causes violence, but it changes the climate: what can be said, what must be tolerated, and further marginalises a Jewish community that is already under considerable threat.+ + − And the truly scary part of all this? It was designed that way.+ − The pro-Corbyn network that incubated APR − Today I publish a report (available for download) that traces the origins of the term anti-Palestinian racism, and shows how it evolved from a fringe activist slogan into a deliberately weaponised framework within the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. − The turning point came on 4 September 2018. The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party had just voted to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, along with all its examples. The NEC adoption was a major defeat for Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters.+ + + + + + − Until then, APR was largely confined to the online activist ecosystem around the Electronic Intifada, a fringe anti-Israel outlet.+ − Inside a key Corbyn support group there was an immediate reaction. Palestine Live was a Facebook group set to “Secret" visibility. Members included leading figures from Israel-hostile organisations, along with journalists and community organisers. The UK-founded network had an international feel, with representation from groups in North America and beyond.+ + − Since 2015, Palestine Live had operated as a pro-Corbyn network. In early 2018, I published an exposé documenting the high levels of antisemitism and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories circulating inside the group, which triggered complaints and a formal party investigation.+ + + − The Invention of Anti-Palestinian Racism+ − A day after the NEC vote, one of the then administrators of Palestine Liveposted a reaction to it. The message was simple and stark: “The Labour Party has an anti-Palestinian racism problem":+ + − This linkage is at the heart of APR: it suggests that trying to combat antisemitism is itself racist against Palestinian Arabs.+ + − Later the same month, a member of Palestine Live posted an anonymously written definition of anti-Palestinian racism. The following day, the pro-Corbyn activist group Jewish Voice for Labour, many of whose leaders were members of Palestine Live, published a slightly refined version on their website. APR, in recognisable form, had arrived.+ − The Internationalisation and Institutionalisation of Anti-Palestinian Racism − A few weeks later, on 16 October 2018, the U.S.-based anti-Zionist outlet Mondoweisspublished an updated version, tightening the JVL version and polishing it for an international audience. There were now ten clauses in the definition, with the author suggesting the examples were absolutes, or “indisputable examples of anti-Palestinian racism." − Under this definition of APR, denying the (often false) narratives of anti-Israel activism, supporting the right of Israel to exist or even accusing someone of antisemitism could make you a racist.+ + + − + − Once this definition of anti-Palestinian racism had been introduced, it began to be incorporated as a key tool in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) arsenal:+ − In 2019, the Canadian government introduced a new anti-racism strategy “Building a Foundation for Change." The policy framework created a pathway for NGOs to propose new conceptualisations of racism and, potentially, to receive public funding.+ − Anti-Israel activists saw the opening, and launched an intensive campaign in Canada. In 2022, the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association (ACLA) finally introduced a codified definition of anti-Palestinian Arab racism.+ − The ACLA definition reads as a formal rewrite of the JVL and Mondoweiss versions. It is less concerned with addressing prejudice than with recasting Jewish identity and Jewish self-determination as racist.+ − The Canadian government has since awarded ACLA a grant of CAN$100,000 to develop educational tools and provide training on the subject of APR.+ − The deed was done. APR had moved from an activist smear to a government-funded weapon.+ − The Weaponisation of Anti-Palestinian Racism.+ − Having been incubated in the UK, internationalised in the U.S., and then codified in Canada, the Canadian government’s financial support officially legitimised the concept of anti-Palestinian racism. From this point, the ACLA definition could export itself internationally. − In both the U.S. and Australia, activist NGOs produced official-looking reports claiming APR was a widespread, urgent problem. Both supported the inclusion of educational material in schools as a key recommendation. These documents failed to meet basic academic standards, yet still received favourable treatment.+ − The term became a political weapon. In one U.S. state, a Senate resolution has been introduced labelling a tragic incident as an act of APR, even though there is no evidence at all to support it.+ − In the UK, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has been campaigning to get the UK government to recognise APR, and in March 2025 tabled a written question asking if the government will introduce educational material to tackle the problem in schools:+ + − And it gets worse. On 16 July 2025, Manchester City Counciladopted a motion recognising the need to challenge anti-Palestinian racism.+ − What does this mean in practice? It means a sitting MP wants to introduce a framework that functions as an antisemitic propaganda weapon into schools, while Manchester City Council moved to reframe antisemitism safeguards as suspect, and to legitimise unsubstantiated activist narratives. If anyone objects, they could be accused of racism.+ − Changing the Air People Breathe+ − Seventy-eight days later, just three miles away from the Town Hall, came the Yom Kippur terrorist attack at the Heaton Park synagogue. Two people were killed. − Manchester was not the only city where APR was being promoted against a backdrop of rising antisemitism. On 26 September there was an event launching a report into APR in Sydney. The venue was the Maritime Union Conference Centre. Just six miles from there, and seventy-nine days later, fifteen people were slaughtered in an antisemitic terror attack during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.+ − APR may not be directly responsible for either terrorist attack, but it is still a dangerous ideological weapon. APR reshapes the institutional climate. It is designed to change the air that people breathe.+ − The Jewish people are vulnerable and under attack around the world. Deliberately problematic concepts such as APR must not be allowed to make things worse than they are already.+ − The pushback starts here. Download the full report [https://david-collier.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/260115_anti_Palestinian_racism_final.pdf] and distribute it to local politicians, councils, journalists, and anyone involved in combating antisemitism.+ − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421058 INN] − Since when did grandchildren of immigrants become a separate "race?"+ − Arabs are Arabs are Arabs, whether with an Israeli ID or "palestine" paper.+ − + − [https://myrightword.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-palestine-entity-1960.html?showComment=1768781555040&m=1#c8841279863333103188 at MyRightWord] − ______+ + + − 'Every family knows a victim': Iranians in exile speak out on mass killings. − Negar Mojtahedi. − Iran International. − Jan 17, 2026, 23:18 GMT − ([https://i.iranintl.com/images/rdk9umy0/production/19026d7036f13c3c8d3f1e380de149a6aedfff37-810x1080.jpg?w=432&h=576&q=80&fit=max&auto=format].+ − A group of protesters in Iran holding a placard on which the slogan "Long Live the Shah (King)" is sprayed).+ + + − Iranians in exile say few families have been spared by the brutal crackdown back home, describing to Iran International an unprecedented wave of killings as security forces unleash violence under a nationwide communications blackout.+ − For Alex, an Iranian living in Texas, the violence is no longer something he is witnessing from afar. − His cousin Mehdi was killed on Friday, January 9, in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah after joining nationwide protests following exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s call for Iranians to rise up.+ + − Iran International is withholding Alex’s last name to protect family members inside Iran.+ + − “The Basij shot him in the head and the stomach," Alex said, recounting what his aunt told him. "They (Basij) hunted him like a dog."+ − Authorities later cut internet access across much of the country, severing communication and leaving families unable to confirm who was alive or dead.+ + − Alex only learned what had happened days later, on Wednesday afternoon, when landlines briefly reopened during the blackout. The connection was poor and repeatedly cut out, but he could hear his aunt howling in tears and screaming.+ − "I only got like three minutes out of the call but what I got out of it was my aunt screaming and she said he's been killed." − Mehdi was 32 years old. Alex said his aunt later identified the body at a forensic center after days of searching. He says his aunt recognized her son by his hair.+ + − "His face was completely unrecognizable," said Alex.+ + + − He said authorities are now demanding payment from the family to release Mehdi’s body.+ − From Texas, Alex said he feels hollow and barely able to function, but believes speaking publicly is the only way to honor his cousin and push back against the silence imposed by the blackout. − "He wanted a free Iran and King Reza Pahlavi."+ + + + + − 'Fear and helplessness'+ − In Canada, Iranian-Canadian Ghazal Shokri described a similar sense of fear and helplessness as she waits for fragile contact with her family inside Iran. She said she has heard her mother’s voice only for seconds and her sister’s for minutes since the violence escalated.+ − Shokri said the scale of the killings is unlike anything Iranians have experienced before, warning that nearly every family now knows someone who has been killed.+ + + − She said she is increasingly worried not only about the physical destruction of the country but about the long-term psychological toll on Iranian society, including widespread trauma, depression and lasting social damage.+ − “There is every family now in Iran knows a few people got killed," Ghazal said. − "Honestly, it's not easy to talk about it. I mean, as a human being, we haven't been designed for this," she said.+ + + + − Another Iranian in exile, Sobhan Nofar, said the nationwide communications blackout has intensified fear among Iranians living abroad.+ − “That silence is terrifying,” he said.+ + − He said the loss of contact with people inside Iran has left many Iranians outside the country sleepless and consumed by anxiety for their families, with every fragment of information feeling like evidence of a growing bloodbath.+ − Hediyeh, a journalist based in Washington, DC, says she is worried not only about the health of her parents and her husband's family, but also about their financial situation, as they largely relied on allowances the couple sent through friends and relatives.+ + + + + − With the internet shut down, it is no longer possible to send money to the family, leaving Hediyeh concerned about how the elderly parents will make ends meet under Iran’s severe economic conditions.+ − Iran International has reported that at least 12,000 people were killed in just two days as security forces unleashed what analysts describe as the deadliest wave of state violence in the Islamic Republic’s history. Other estimates suggest the toll may be even higher as the blackout continues to limit verification.+ + + + + − Growing calls for US action+ − The testimonies come as calls by Iranians inside the country and across the diaspora for US military action have intensified, with demands for targeted strikes against the Islamic Republic’s security and repression apparatus.+ + + + + + − For Iranians in exile like Alex, Shokri and Nofar, the debate is no longer abstract. It is shaped by the names and faces of people they knew and by the fear that more families will soon join them in mourning.+ − "Every piece of news, videos or photos coming from Iran feels like another sense of a blood bath," said Nofar "I'm really scared, deeply scared but I don't allow myself to completely fall apart because I truly believe Iranian people are bigger than this terrorist regime." − As Iran remains largely cut off from the outside world, they say speaking publicly is one of the few ways left to ensure the dead are not reduced to statistics.+ − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601178265 IranIntl]+ + + − _____+ + − Detained protesters injected with unknown substances in Iran jail.+ − Iran International. Jan 18, 2026. − Protesters held in Iranian prisons have described abuse, including forced nudity, exposure to cold, and injections with substances of unknown composition while in custody, a source close to a detainee’s family told Iran International. − The source said a detained young protester sent a message from inside prison saying he and several others had been subjected to such treatment after their arrest.+ − According to the detainee, prison officers stripped detainees naked in the courtyard of the detention facility and kept them outside the building for a prolonged period in winter conditions. The officers then sprayed the detainees with cold water using a hose, the source said.+ + − + − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601185741 IranIntl] − _____+ + − Israel, US back Argentina’s Quds Force terror designation.+ − Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and the U.S. State Department hailed Buenos Aires’ move to list Iran’s Quds Force as a terrorist group, calling it a key step against Iranian terror. − JNS Staff. − (Jan. 18, 2026 / JNS)+ − Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and the U.S. State Department on Saturday welcomed Argentina’s decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force as a terrorist organization, calling it an important step in combating Iranian-backed terrorism.+ − [https://www.jns.org/israel-us-back-argentinas-quds-terror-designation/ JNS] − _____+ + − US ‘has no better friend’ than Israel, Graham says.+ − + − JNS Staff − ([https://me.jnsi.org/uploads/2026/01/G-8I7j3WkAANEf2-1320x880.jpeg]. − Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, Jan. 18, 2026. Credit: Lindsey Graham/X). − − (Jan. 18, 2026 / JNS) − The United States “has no better friend than the State of Israel,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said following a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday. − In a post on X, the American lawmaker said the sit-down with the leader of the Jewish state was “great” and came “at one of the most consequential moments in recent memory.”+ − [https://www.jns.org/us-has-no-better-friend-than-israel-graham/ JNS] − _____+ + − Mamdani asked to appoint head of Jew-hatred office who can engage with Jews.+ − “We Jews are all navigating these new conditions we’re facing,” a member of one of the groups that signed the letter told JNS.+ − Debra Nussbaum Cohen.+ − (Jan. 18, 2026 / JNS)+ − As concerns about Zohran Mamdani and the safety of Jews continue to run high among many Jewish New Yorkers, 13 groups sent a letter to the new mayor asking that he appoint someone who is “grounded in the day-to-day realities of Jewish communal life and capable of engaging meaningfully with communities across all levels of observance, background and political belief” to lead the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism. − + − [https://www.jns.org/mamdani-asked-to-appoint-head-of-jew-hatred-office-who-can-engage-with-jews/ JNS] − _____+ + + − The Horn Brothers' Chilling Account.+ − Two Years in the Dark: Freed Hostage Reveals the Details of Hamas’s Tunnel City. − After more than 700 days in the depths of Gaza, Eitan Horn reveals how the strength of the Israeli people kept him alive when the government and the world seemed to forget. − Author: Eliana Fleming.+ − Jan 18, 2026 − [https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/hamas-tunnel-hostage-testimony JFeed] − ______+ + − The Shah’s Son Returns+ − Hijacking the Regime: Iranian State TV Hacked to Broadcast Calls for Revolution − In a daring act of cyber defiance, opposition hackers seized control of Iran’s state television to broadcast a message from the exiled son of the Shah, calling for the military to abandon the regime. − Eliana Fleming.+ − Jan 18, 2026+ − [https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/iran-state-tv-hacked JFeed] − _____+ + − 'No longer safe'.+ − Trump weighs asylum plan for UK Jews amid rising antisemitism. − Israel National News. − Jan 18, 2026, 11:37 PM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421099 INN] − _____+ + + − Four months in prison for Arab who spat at IDF officer.+ − Ahmad Muhammad, 25, from the PA city of Huwara, spat at an officer in uniform in Ramat Gan and fled the scene. − Israel National News. − Published: Jan 18, 2026, 10:01 PM (GMT+2) − + + − According to a report by Walla, Muhammad was convicted under a plea agreement on charges of assaulting an IDF officer and being illegally present in Israel. In delivering the sentence, the judge emphasized the seriousness of the offense, particularly as it occurred during a time of war.+ − The incident took place in May on bus line 161 in Ramat Gan. An IDF officer serving on active reserve duty, dressed in uniform, boarded the bus and sat near Muhammad. During the ride, Muhammad played music at a high volume, prompting the officer to move to another seat. − According to the amended indictment, to which Muhammad pleaded guilty, when the bus reached a stop he approached the officer from behind, leaned toward her, and spat in her face. As the bus doors opened, he fled the scene. Although the officer shouted after him, neither passengers nor the driver intervened. Muhammad returned to the Palestinian Authority but surrendered to authorities later that same evening...+ − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421095 INN]+ + + − _____+ + + − Iran warns Trump.+ − 'Any attack on Khamenei is full-scale war'. − Iran warns that any attack on Khamenei would mean war, as the US weighs military action amid escalating tensions. − Elad Benari. − Jan 19, 2026, 1:14 AM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421101 INN] − _____+ + − 'The nicest tunnel is here'.+ − Matan Angrest returns to the soccer pitch. − Israel National News. − Jan 18, 2026, 10:54 PM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421096 INN] − _____+ + − Despite drop in terror:+ − IDF reports rise in rock and firebomb attacks. − Yoni Kempinski. − Jan 19, 2026, 7:23 PM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421145 INN] − _____+ + − Netanyahu.+ − 'Turkish and Qatari soldiers? Not in Gaza' − Israel National News. − Jan 19, 2026, 6:06 PM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421142 INN] − _____+ + − IDF strikes Hezbollah terror assets in Lebanon.+ − The Israeli military said it attacked Hezbollah “military” camps. − JNS Staff. − (Jan. 19, 2026 / JNS) − The Israel Defense Forces said on Monday that it had attacked targets belonging to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror organization in Southern Lebanon. − + − [https://www.jns.org/idf-strikes-hezbollah-terror-assets-in-lebanon-2/ JNS] − ____+ + − Syrian army targets Kurdish forces in Aleppo, Israel sounds the alarm.+ − Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused the Syrian government of targeting the Kurdish population in Aleppo, warning that violence could escelate if the international community remains silent.+ − i24NEWS.+ − January 08, 2026 at 12:30 PM − latest revision January 19, 2026 at 01:26 PM − Syrian government forces began a new military campaign in Aleppo on Thursday, announcing precision strikes against Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in several northern neighborhoods of the city. − The operation prompted authorities to enforce a citywide curfew in affected districts and warn residents to avoid areas of active fighting.+ − [https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/artc-syrian-army-targets-kurdish-forces-in-aleppo-israel-sounds-the-alarm i24] − ____+ + − Sen. Graham Warns Damascus Against Military Action on Kurds, Threatens to Revive Caesar Sanctions.+ − U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham says any attack on SDF would signal the nature of Syria’s new leadership and deepen regional instability. − 2026-01-17 18:40+ − [https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/887899/sen-graham-warns-damascus-against-military-action-on-kurds-threatens-to-revive-caesar-sanctions Kurdistan24] − ____+ + − Al-Monitor: Trump Urges End to Syria–SDF Violence, Secures Pledge to Avoid Hasakah.+ − 2026-01-19. − The call followed a meeting between Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi to finalize a ceasefire agreement announced earlier, with both sides agreeing to continue cooperation against ISIS. − [https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/888481 Kurdistan24] − ____+ − Senior Iranian UN Diplomat in Geneva Defects, Seeks Asylum in Switzerland.+ − By i24 News and Algemeiner Staff. + − January 18, 2026. − i24 News – A senior Iranian diplomat posted to the United Nations’ European headquarters in Geneva has reportedly defected and applied for political asylum in Switzerland, according to diplomatic sources cited on Sunday by the Iranian opposition outlet Iran International.+ − The diplomat, Alireza Jiranieh Hokambad, served as a minister-counselor, the second-highest-ranking position in Iran’s UN delegation in Geneva. − [https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/18/senior-iranian-un-diplomat-in-geneva-defects-seeks-asylum-in-switzerland/ Algemeiner] − ____+ + + + − Argentina Blacklists Iran’s Quds Force as Country Marks Death of Nisman, Who Charged Tehran for AMIA Bombing+ − − Tuesday, January 20th | 2 Shevat 5786 − By Ailin Vilches Arguello. − Argentine President Javier Milei has proscribed Iran’s Quds Force — the elite unit responsible for directing Tehran’s proxy militias and overseas terrorist operations — as the country’s Jewish community marks the 11th anniversary of the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who investigated the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.+ + − On Saturday, the Argentine president’s office announced that it had designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force as a foreign terrorist organization, describing the unit as specializing in “training for the execution of terrorist attacks in other countries.”+ − “Argentina was a victim of their operations in the 1990s, including the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center,” the statement read, referring to the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) bombing. − With the designation, “members of the Quds Force and their allies are subject to financial sanctions and operational restrictions aimed at limiting their capacity to act, as well as protecting the Argentine financial system from being used to support their activities.”+ + + − Milei “maintains an unbreakable commitment to recognizing terrorists for what they are,” the statement continued. + + + − The Argentine president has previously designated Hamas, the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s branches in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan as terrorist organizations.+ − US and Israeli officials praised Milei’s latest move in the fight against terrorism, highlighting its significance in combating international extremist networks. − Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar applauded Milei’s decision, describing it as a “significant step that strengthens the international front against Iranian terrorism and honors the memory of the victims of the attacks on the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA.”+ − + − On Sunday, Argentina commemorated the 11th anniversary of Nisman’s death. Nisman died on Jan. 18, 2015, while investigating the 1994 AMIA bombing — the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 300 — as Argentine Jews renewed calls for justice after more than a decade without resolution.+ + + + + + − “Eleven years after the assassination of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, we reaffirm our steadfast demand for justice,” the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA), the country’s Jewish umbrella organization, wrote in a post on X. + + − Last year, prosecutors handling the case released a report as part of the ongoing, still unresolved trial, confirming that Nisman was killed for trying to expose the Argentine government’s role in covering up the 1994 AMIA bombing.+ − In 2006, Nisman formally charged Iran for orchestrating the attack and its Lebanese terrorist proxy Hezbollah for carrying it out. Nine years later, he accused former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of attempting to cover up the crime and block efforts to extradite the suspects behind the AMIA atrocity in return for Iranian oil. − The alleged cover-up was reportedly formalized through the memorandum of understanding signed in 2013 between Kirchner’s government and Iranian authorities, with the stated goal of cooperating to investigate the AMIA bombing.+ + + − One day before Nisman was set to appear before the Argentine Congress to present evidence supporting his allegations against Kirchner and several of her colleagues, he was found dead in his apartment, with a gunshot wound to the head and a pistol at his side.+ + − An official investigation into his death initially concluded that the prosecutor took his own life. However, a federal judge later reversed this decision, stating that Nisman’s gunshot wound could not have been self-inflicted.+ + − Investigations are still underway to identify both those who carried out the act and those who ordered it.+ − Kirchner is set to stand trial for the allegations against her, though there is no set date. − As for the AMIA investigation, an Argentine federal judge ordered last year the trial in absentia of Iranian and Lebanese nationals suspected of orchestrating the 1994 bombing.+ + + − The 10 suspects set to stand trial include former Iranian and Lebanese ministers and diplomats, all of whom are subject to international arrest warrants issued by Argentina for their alleged roles in the terrorist attack.+ + + − Lead prosecutor Sebastián Basso — who took over the case after the murder of his predecessor, Nisman — also requested that federal Judge Daniel Rafecas issue national and international arrest warrants for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over his alleged involvement in the attack.+ − Despite Argentina’s longstanding belief that Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah terrorist group carried out the devastating attack at Iran’s request, the 1994 bombing has never been claimed or officially solved. − Tehran has consistently denied any involvement in any of these attacks and has refused to arrest or extradite any suspects.+ − [https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/19/argentina-blacklists-irans-quds-force-country-marks-death-nisman-who-charged-tehran-amia-bombing/ Algemeiner]+ + − ____+ + + − 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.+ − + − Sydney massacre was a warning for the world.+ − + + + + + − 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. − 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.+ − + + + + − Simon Sebag Montefiore warns of ‘devalued’ anti-racist language and threats to Holocaust memory.+ − Lee Harpin. Jan 19, 2026.+ − + + + − 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.”+ − + − − 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] − ____+ + + + + − 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] − _____+ − @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] − ____+ + − 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] − _____+ + + − ‘We owe it to the victims’: Jacinta Price reflects on parliament’s return after Bondi massacre.+ − 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”.+ − Sky News Australia.+ − + − [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ePsLFo5ejM on YouTube] − ____+ + − 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.”+ + − ____+ + − 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.+ − + − 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://david-collier.com/open-letter-to-the-manchester-city-council/ David Collier] − ____+ + − 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 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. − − Stanford SJP Calls for "Student Intifada," Plans Walkout Against Company That Helped Find Bin Laden.+ − + − 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.+ − + + + + − 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.+ − + + − ____+ − 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] − ___+ + − 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] − ____+ + − 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] − ____+ + − 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.+ − + − 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] + − ___+ + − 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] − ___+ + − Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News.+ − Tuesday, January 20, 2026 − How the Left and the Right Keep Borrowing Each Other’s Antisemitic Ideas. − + + − 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.+ − + − 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] − ____ + − '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.+ − − 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 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...+ − + + + − _____+ − 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] − _____+ − 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.+ − ✍️ + − + − From jpost.com [https://t.co/MpC7eh8cLX].+ − + − + − _____+ − 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. − + − 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.] − _____+ + − 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+ − Jan 20, 2026 09:05+ − − Melbourne Jewish teens threatened, ‘Heil Hitler’ yelled as car nearly struck boy.+ − + − + − ([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.+ − + − “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] − ____+ + + − 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.+ − + Line 9,596:
Line 9,607: + − ____+ − 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+ + − + − 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] − ____ + + + − 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] − ____+ + − 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.”+ − + − 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/ − Algemeiner] − 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.”+ − + − 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] − ____+ + − Miaminewtimes:+ − January 20, 2026. − Over the weekend, videos began circulating online showing a group of right-wing influencers partying to rapper Kanye West’s song “Heil Hitler” at at Vendôme’s, a Miami Beach nightclub. In the clips, “manosphere” figures Andrew Tate and Myron Gaines, as well as well-known white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes, are seen singing along to the song — which glorifies Adolf Hitler — inside the nightclub Vendôme. − The videos quickly drew widespread backlash, with hundreds of commenters flooding the nightclub's Instagram page and some calling for a boycott. In response, the club issued a statement condemning antisemitism and hate speech, calling the incident “deeply offensive and unacceptable” and saying it was investigating how it occurred.+ − However, the same viral clips appear to show Vendôme owner Jonathan Mansour standing alongside the influencers during their time at the club.+ + − 👉 To read the full developing story by Alex DeLuca, visit miaminewtimes.com at the link in bio. + − 📸 Screenshot via Kick − [https://www.instagram.com/p/DTvNH-JDX6R on Instagram] − End Jew Hatred @EndJewHatred:+ − When Jew-hating rhetoric shows up at your door, you don’t appease it, you shut it down.+ − Miami nightlife entrepreneur + − @davidgrutman David Grutman did exactly that. After neo-Nazis Myron Gaines, Nick Fuentes, and their supporters were welcomed at Vendome, a club owned by competitor Jonathan Mansour, Grutman made it clear these individuals have no place in his venues or his city. He banned them from all of his nightclubs and restaurants, standing up against hatred without excuses. − Jan 20, 2026 − [https://x.com/EndJewHatred/status/2013727964983075055 on X] − Vendôme Co-Owner Appeared Alongside Influencers Partying to ‘Heil Hitler’.+ − Jonathan Mansour is an owner and co-founder of the South Beach nightclub. − By Alex DeLuca. − January 20, 2026 − [https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/vendome-co-owner-appeared-alongside-influencers-partying-to-heil-hitler-40518817/ MiamiNewTimes] + − ____+ + + − Crazy footage from inside the run-over bus: “Crazy! Oh my!” | Must investigate.+ − New footage from inside the bus that ran over the young man Naftali Zvi Kramer (18) from Jerusalem, a student at the Satmar Yeshiva on Route 3533 at the entrance to Kommiyot. Girls who were on the bus documented the driver's rampage, which raises serious questions about the possibility of a deliberate runover. − JDN staff. − 3 Bishvat 5775 (January 21, 2026) − [https://www.jdn.co.il/news/2562600/ HDN] − An ordinary accident? The heavy question marks following the shocking footage of the run-over of the late teenager Naftali Kramer.+ − While the police were quick to determine that the runover of the late Naftali Kramer was a "normal traffic accident," new footage from inside the bus reveals a different and horrifying reality: "We will not rest until the driver is brought to justice" | United Torah Judaism Chairman in conversation with Minister Ben Gvir: "An act committed with malice". − Avi Gadlovitch| News in Israel. − 21.01.26 | 10:35 − An ordinary accident? The hard question marks following the shocking footage of the run-over of the late teenager Naftali Kramer+ − The moment of the crush Photo: Courtesy of the family. − The terrible tragedy that occurred last night at the Kommiut intersection, in which the young man Naftali Zvi Kramer, a Satmar yeshiva student, lost his life, is taking a dramatic turn this morning. While in the early hours the police tried to portray the incident as a routine traffic accident unrelated to the demonstrations held in the area, a new video released this morning raises serious and disturbing question marks about the driver's conduct.+ − In the chilling footage from inside the bus, girls on the bus can be heard recognizing the approaching danger even before the impact. The screams heard on the bus left no doubt about the panic that gripped the passengers at the way the driver was driving: "Here are all the boys, what is he doing? He's crazy, motherfucker... It's boys, enough! What is this, what did he do, you idiot!"+ − Seconds later, a horrific scream is heard – the moment when the bus violently hit the late Kramer, who was on his way to a yeshiva. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and the shock turned into heavy mourning with his funeral procession held at night in Jerusalem.+ − The driver is expected to be brought in for an extended detention on suspicion of reckless homicide, negligent homicide, and endangering human life on a highway. In light of the new evidence, Kramer's family is demanding that the police complete their investigation of the driver.+ − "The blood of the Haredim is not in vain".+ − Following the shocking documentation, United Torah Judaism Chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf spoke this morning with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and demanded an uncompromising investigation.+ − "The new footage, which shows the bus driver accelerating toward the group of protesters, leaves no room for doubt that the action was done maliciously," Goldknopf attacked. According to him, Minister Ben Gvir promised that the police would investigate the incident thoroughly and emphasized: "The blood of our Haredi brothers will not be in vain."+ − MK Meir Porush also commented and linked the matter to the tragedy of the killing of the young man Yosef Eisenthal, the late: "The serious phenomenon whereby time after time, ultra-Orthodox Jews participating in protests are injured, and in two cases this even claimed human lives, requires a rigorous and incisive examination. Every person has the right to protest, and every Jew in the Land of Israel deserves the opportunity to express his pain over what is happening without fear of being harmed. Every effort must be made to ensure that these acts will not, God forbid, be repeated, and the drivers who run over people must be punished very severely."+ − [https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1716854 Bhol]+ + + − The courage of Iranians and the cowardice of Westerners − Cowardice is an effective survival strategy for effete westerners, but courage emerges in Iran where fear no longer has any power. Opinion. − Giulio Meotti − Jan 20, 2026, 7:11 PM (GMT+2) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421201 INN] − ____+ + + − Iran hospitals, morgues face body bag shortages, local sources say.+ − Iran International l. January 21, 2026 − Iran hospitals, morgues face body bag shortages, local sources say − Medical facilities in several Iranian cities are facing shortages of body bags as the number of people killed in nationwide protests rises, witnesses told Iran International, describing a heavy security presence at hospitals and morgues. − In messages received from inside Iran on Wednesday, sources said the shortage has led to the accumulation of protesters’ bodies in hospital halls and morgues, while security forces have intervened in the process of handing over the remains.+ − They said hospital entrances are being tightly controlled, medical staff and families are under pressure, and the registration of information related to the dead has been restricted, in an apparent effort to prevent the true number of those killed from becoming public.+ − [https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601214183 Iran Intl] − ____+ − US deploys F‑15 squadron to Mideast as tensions with Iran rise.+ − CENTCOM deploys an F‑15 squadron to the Middle East, citing enhanced readiness and regional security as tensions with Iran persist. − − Jan 21, 2026, 5:22 AM (GMT+2) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421224 INN] − ____+ + − EU moves to expand drone, missile tech ban on Iran.+ − EU chief Ursula von der Leyen announces plans to expand drone and missile tech export bans on Iran as the regime’s crackdown leaves thousands dead.+ − Israel National News.+ − Jan 21, 2026, 5:40 AM (GMT+2) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421225 INN] − ____+ − + − IAEA chief warns Iran standoff nearing breaking point. − IAEA chief Rafael Grossi warns Iran must account for missing enriched uranium and allow inspections at bombed sites, saying the standoff “cannot go on forever". − Elad Benari. − Jan 21, 2026, 6:57 AM (GMT+2) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421229 INN] − ____+ + − U.S. Troops in Israel.+ − Exposed: Pentagon Planning Massive "Mega-Base" in Gaza Envelope - Here's What to Know. − Secret US Plan Exposed: The Pentagon is planning a $500 million "mega-base" near the Gaza border to house thousands of international peacekeepers. Report reveals a dramatic expansion of US military presence in Israel. − Jfeed Staff. − Jan 21, 2026 13:06 − [https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/pentagon-mega-base-israel JFeed] − ____+ + − IDF Responds to Gaza Incident: "We Struck Suspects Operating a Hamas Drone".+ − IDF Confirms Drone Strike: The Israeli military responds to the deadly incident in Gaza, stating forces targeted suspects operating a "Hamas drone" that posed a threat. The event is under review.read more+ − Jfeed Staff. January 21, 2026.+ − − ____+ + + − WARNING: GRAPHIC.+ − Chilling Footage: Iranian Security Forces Attack Protester with Axe [VERY GRAPHIC]. − Horrific screams echo as Iranian thugs hack a defenseless protester with an axe, raw proof of Tehran's savage tyranny crushing dissent. − Jfeed Staff. January 21, 2026. − [https://www.jfeed.com/general/iran-protest-violence-crackdown JFeed] − ____+ + − Netanyahu Joins Trump's 'Board of Peace' Despite Serious Concerns.+ − Trump's UN Alternative: The "Board of Peace" expands beyond Gaza with a $1B entry fee. As Israel and Argentina sign on, Europe pushes back against the initiative to bypass the United Nations.read more − Jfeed Staff. January 21, 2026 − [https://www.jfeed.com/general/trump-gaza-board-of-peace JFeed] − ____+ + − + − Opinion: To fixate on flawed accusations against Israel while ignoring genuine, massive atrocities elsewhere is to repeat ominous historical precedents. − From jpost.com [https://t.co/0msO2w2pGU] − Jan 21, 2026. − [https://x.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/2014001305124057373 on X] − Buzzwords and false allegations are Western human rights inversion - opinion.+ − To fixate on flawed accusations against Israel while ignoring genuine, massive atrocities elsewhere is to repeat ominous historical precedents. − By Alan Baker. January 21, 2026.+ − With tragedies abounding, the Western brainwashing machinery is working overtime against Israel.+ − Thousands murdered and brutally subjugated in Iran. Thousands of non-Arab ethnic groups butchered in Sudan. Massive death tolls in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Myanmar violently represses its Rohingya and other minorities. Mass atrocities by Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria. Extrajudicial killings of civilians in Tanzania. Massacres of Christians in churches and hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo.+ − But Western media outlets, social-media platforms, UN and human rights committees, political leaders and parliamentarians, incited university students, and ignorant show-biz celebrities spout accusations against Israel of genocide, apartheid, starvation, and disproportionate military actions.+ − Such paragons of humanitarian virtue claim to defend human rights and advocate for Palestinians, but glaringly ignore everyone else and deny the rights to which Israel and its citizens are entitled. They ignore genocidal violence and terror by Palestinian and Islamist fanatics, which is incited by Palestinian leadership and supported, encouraged, and financed by Iran, Qatar, and Turkey. − No less glaring is the fact that the Western world chooses to forget the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023 – the rape, torture, burning, and butchery of thousands of Israelis and foreigners; the taking of hundreds of hostages; and the use of Hamas’s own civilians as human shields.+ − A child wears a Hamas head banner after Friday prayers in Gaza City. − What should be a universal moral standard of human rights has become a cynical and transparent political weapon, directed against Israel.+ + − Popular buzzwords against Israel.+ − Popular buzzwords – “genocide,” “apartheid,” “colonialism,” “racism,” “starvation,” and “indiscriminate destruction” – are the lingua franca of this propaganda fixation against Israel. They are chanted at demonstrations, repeated in Western parliaments, and echoed in politicized international courts.+ + − A well-financed system of brainwashing, funded by Qatar, Iran, and Turkey, feeds this narrative, which is eagerly absorbed by a woke-inspired international chorus of useful idiots in Europe and the West.+ − The allegation of “genocide” is particularly offensive and contrived. It was coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin in response to the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews and was criminalized in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Today it is cynically repackaged and applied against Israel, most prominently in South Africa’s absurd claims at the International Court of Justice. Thus, a legal instrument intended to punish genocide, as well as a once-respected international court, have been turned into political weapons.+ − This genocide accusation willfully misinterprets the convention’s definition, while those accusing Israel conveniently ignore explicit genocidal calls to eliminate Israel “from the river to the sea,” which heralded Hamas’s October 7 “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack. No proceedings have been initiated against those inciting or supporting genocide against Israel and the Jewish people.+ + − The apartheid claim.+ − Equally contrived is the buzzword “apartheid,” copy-pasted from South Africa’s repressive system of institutionalized racial segregation. The UN-driven attempt to label Israel an apartheid state traces back to the 1975 General Assembly’s politicized resolution branding Zionism as racism – later revoked in 1991 but never erased from the public narrative. − It resurfaced at the 2001 Durban Racism Conference and continues to fuel campaigns to delegitimize Israel and justify sanctions modeled on those once imposed on South Africa.+ + + + + − This propaganda ignores Israel’s multi-racial, pluralistic democracy, where Arab citizens enjoy constitutional equality, freedom of expression, and full political representation. Israel’s security restrictions on Palestinian movement and access in parts of Judea and Samaria are not racially based, but a legitimate response to ongoing terror and incitement by Hamas and other groups.+ − False starvation charge.+ + + − The allegation that Israel pursues a policy of starvation in Gaza is another false charge, promoted through manipulated Hamas statistics and willingly amplified by Arab and foreign media, UN bodies, and even the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in his arrest warrant against Israel’s prime minister. − Hardships faced by civilians in Gaza stem from the conflict situation – including chaotic handling of aid by international bodies and the systematic commandeering of trucks and cargo by Hamas, which sells supplies at inflated prices in local markets.+ + − A controversial August 2025 study by the UN-affiliated “Famine Review Committee” fueled this narrative, despite being widely criticized and discredited for methodological flaws and data manipulation. Israel enables rapid and unimpeded passage of relief into Gaza, as reflected in UN and World Food Programme statistics on functioning food markets and the availability of humanitarian goods.+ + + + − Accusations of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks and destruction by Israel in Gaza, disseminated by the Hamas disinformation machine, are readily amplified by sympathetic politicians and media. In reality, the Jewish state undertakes significant efforts, consistent with international humanitarian law, to warn civilians and remove them from combat areas – even as Hamas deliberately embeds its terror infrastructure and operatives in homes, schools, hospitals, high-rises, and an extensive tunnel network beneath civilian neighborhoods. International law explicitly prohibits such use of human shields.+ + + + + − Property used for acts of terror constitutes a legitimate military target. − To fixate on flawed accusations against Israel while ignoring genuine, massive atrocities elsewhere is to repeat ominous historical precedents. This inversion of human-rights values, aimed solely at singling out Israel, should be obvious – but sadly, it is not.+ − + − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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How Turkey’s dangerous course in the Middle East fuels massacres - opinion.
Ankara has created, sustained, and directed a well-established network of Islamist proxies.
By Veysi Dag. January 14, 2026.
After the massacres against the Alawite community in March and the Druze in July 2025, Kurdish residents of Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafieh neighborhoods have become the latest victims. They were targeted by the same coalition of forces that includes the Turkish-backed Syrian Free Army (SFA), Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and affiliated jihadist groups.
Numerous images and video recordings circulating widely on social media show jihadists mutilating the bodies of Kurdish civilians and fighters, torturing children until they lose consciousness or die, and burning bodies while chanting “Allahu Akbar” and “Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews,” referring to an Arab massacre of Jews in the 7th century. While the immediate perpetrators identify themselves as Islamist jihadists, the true architect behind these atrocities is the Turkish state – its ministers, military, and intelligence apparatus.
Ankara has created, sustained, and directed a well-established network of Islamist proxies, providing them with equipment, intelligence, logistical support, and transportation. Hakan Fidan, the former head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and current foreign minister, has been central to this system, as revealed by leaked recordings dating back to 2014.
Turkey’s longstanding jihadist infrastructure
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Turkey has played a profoundly destructive role in shaping the conflict. Ankara actively endorsed radical jihadist groups across Syria and beyond and Istanbul served as the primary gateway for thousands of global jihadists from Europe, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Gulf.
These fighters passed freely through Turkish airports and were transported to the Syrian border with the assistance – or acquiescence – of Turkish intelligence. They were subsequently trained, armed, and deployed inside Syria. Turkey’s jihadist infrastructure was neither hidden nor accidental: international media reported on it extensively, human rights organizations documented it, and Western intelligence agencies acknowledged it.
Yet Turkey faced no serious repercussions, largely due to its NATO membership, its leverage over refugee flows, and its role in facilitating the movement of jihadists into Europe. This reluctance among Western capitals to confront Ankara enabled Turkish impunity while rendering it complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians – a toll rivaled only by the Bashar al-Assad regime itself.
Turkey’s policy in Syria has never been driven by a commitment to civilian protection or democratic transformation. Instead, Ankara has pursued a geopolitical agenda aimed at subordinating Syria to Turkish influence and crushing Kurdish political aspirations at any cost. The consequences are evident in Aleppo, where massacres of Kurdish civilians mirror earlier attacks on Alawite and Druze communities.
US political cover and the role of Tom Barrack
These massacres are further compounded by the role of Tom Barrack, the US special envoy for Syria under President Donald Trump, whose policy has contributed to advancing Turkey’s regional ambitions and to the political legitimization of jihadist actors.
Despite a documented record of massacres, Barrack has repeatedly provided political cover for Turkish-backed forces and has continued to promote Ankara’s agenda. Numerous social media users, along with Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) director Rami Abdulrahman, have accused Barrack of complicity in the Aleppo massacre. His actions have effectively shielded jihadists from accountability.
The human rights lawyers, the ICC, the ICJ and all the other acronyms have proved equally useless, and we are still waiting for the UN resolutions and investigations. Three months ago, the UN Human Rights Council elected an Iranian regime diplomat to its advisory committee, an Orwellian parody if ever there was one. Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, falsely claimed last year that “14,000 babies” were facing starvation within 48 hours in Gaza, fuelling much anti-Israel hatred. As of Wednesday evening, his X feed has so far made no mention of the horrendously real Iranian massacre.
The widespread circulation of videos documenting atrocities against Alawite, Druze, and Kurdish communities reveals methods strikingly similar to those employed by ISIS and Hamas. These acts are not isolated incidents but deliberate campaigns of terror, designed to inflict maximum suffering, terrorize civilian populations, dismantle social and political structures, and cleanse contested areas of minoritized communities in accordance with Ankara’s vision for Syria under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
Ankara’s alignment with Iran and Hezbollah
Turkey’s destabilizing role extends well beyond Syria. Ankara has expanded its regional maneuvering in ways that directly undermine US policy objectives, particularly with regard to Iran.
Turkey has quietly cooperated with Iran’s clerical regime to prevent its collapse, even as millions of Iranians demand meaningful political change. The recent visit of Fidan to Iran further cemented this cooperation, framed around a shared “common enemy” in Jerusalem.
This collaboration has manifested in intelligence sharing, coordination, and support for Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful proxy. Turkey’s political, financial, and logistical ties to Hezbollah sharply contradict its claim to be a bulwark against extremism. By sustaining Hezbollah’s operational capacity and armament, Ankara contributes to instability in Lebanon, Syria, and beyond, while undermining efforts to curb Iran’s regional influence.
Multiple reports also indicate that Turkish forces have tracked Kurdish fighters across borders, entered Iranian territory, and shared actionable intelligence with Iranian security services. This cooperation has enabled Tehran to target and eliminate Kurdish fighters who pose no threat to Turkey but challenge Iran’s authoritarian system. These actions place Turkey directly at odds with America’s stated objectives in Iran, including support for human rights, democratic transformation, and constraints on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs and proxy networks.
The Iranian director and filmmaker, Javad Ganji, was murdered last week. Why didn’t anybody at the Golden Globes care? Why did Mark Ruffalo not mention him? Where was the solidarity?
A policy that perpetuates violence
Turkey’s regional policy seeks to expand its influence across the Middle East while suppressing communities – particularly Kurds – that challenge its domestic and external ambitions. The human cost of this strategy is immense. From the Syrian coast and Sweida to Aleppo and into Iran, Turkish maneuvering has inflicted severe harm to civilians.
This approach disproportionately targets minoritized communities, stifles democratic aspirations, strengthens authoritarian regimes, and perpetuates cycles of violence. Turkey’s policy fosters instability, generates chaos, and then exploits that chaos for geopolitical gain.
By supporting Iran’s authoritarian regime while strengthening jihadist networks in Syria, Ankara’s actions run counter to Trump’s stated vision for regional stabilization, peace, and the resolution of proxy wars. If the US administration is serious about achieving lasting stability in the Middle East, it may need to reconsider its approach to Turkey.
The massacres on the Syrian coast, in Sweida, and in Aleppo are not aberrations. They are the predictable outcomes of a decade-long Turkish policy that prioritizes power, expansion, and control over coexistence, stability, and peace. Until Turkey’s role is confronted, the cycle of violence is likely to persist – adding more communities to an already growing list of victims.
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-883206 JPost]
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Why global media obsess over Israel and ignore deadlier wars - opinion.
How disproportionate media attention and a misleading conflict frame turn Israel into a moral symbol while eclipsing far deadlier wars.
By Samuel J. Hyde.
January 13, 2026. Updated: January 17, 2026.
When arguments about international coverage of Israel arise, they almost always begin in miniature. They circle around language. Is it a “settlement” or a “neighborhood”? A “security fence” or an “apartheid wall”? Was 1948 a war of independence or a Nakba? These debates have the feel of forensic disputes, as if the great drama of the Middle East might finally be settled by the correct choice of noun.
They are not unimportant. Words matter. But they are also a distraction. They keep us arguing on the surface of the story, while the deeper, more corrupting structures shaping it remain largely untouched, and thus unseen.
There are two such structures, two distortions so large that they become strangely invisible. Together, they help explain why Israel occupies such an outsized and morally charged place in the media’s imagination, particularly in the West.
Obsession with Israel.
The first is the sheer scale of attention. Not criticism, attention. A systemic fascination, bordering on obsession, with covering Israel as though it were the gravitational center of world affairs. The fascination is both disproportionate and scalable.
For example, as Prof. Gil Troy noted in his 64-page The Essential Guide to October 7 and Its Aftermath: Facts, Figures, History, published by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), “In the first nine months after October 7, 2023, the New York Times published 6,656 articles about the Gaza War. That compared to 80 articles about the American-led battle to free Mosul [Iraq] over nine months in 2016-2017, [some] 198 articles about the Tigray War in Ethiopia, which killed 600,000 in a year, and 5,434 articles during the first 13 years of Syria’s civil war. One Microsoft Copilot Artificial Intelligence analysis found [that] between 50,000 and 70,000 articles about Gaza were written worldwide in nine months – compared to 1,000 articles about Mosul in nine months.”
Former Associated Press reporter Matti Friedman observed that AP employed more full-time journalists covering Israel than it did covering China, India, and Russia combined.
The World Should Wake Up
The imbalance becomes even more bizarre at AP when extended further. Israel is covered by more full-time staff than all of sub-Saharan Africa combined, which is made up of dozens of countries, encompassing hundreds of millions of people, multiple wars, famines, mass displacement, and – in some cases – genocidal violence.
If news coverage were meant to be a rational analysis, this is not. Even if news were merely supposed to be the coverage of suffering, power, and danger on planet Earth, this would still be indefensible. You cannot plausibly cover Israel more than an entire continent without warping the reader’s sense of reality.
Illusion of centrality.
This saturation coverage creates the illusion of centrality. It trains audiences to believe that whatever they see most frequently must be the most important event in the world. Israel becomes not just another country among many but a kind of moral index of the age – a stage upon which the world’s conscience is imagined to be tested and revealed.
Meanwhile, catastrophes of far greater scale and brutality – such as the ongoing genocide in Sudan – flicker briefly, if at all, across the screen before disappearing into silence a week later.
This is not accidental. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict occupies a peculiar and disproportionate place in the West’s political imagination, unmatched by conflicts that are deadlier or more brutal. Israel is small enough to be grasped symbolically, but complex enough to absorb endless projection.
It is intimate, familiar, and endlessly legible to Western eyes in a way that “distant” tragedies are not. And so it becomes over-seen, over-examined, intensely dissected, and uniquely moralized until the examination itself becomes both activism and a substitute for understanding.
Regional conflict.
The second distortion is conceptual. Israel’s wars are routinely framed as the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” as though the entire story were a localized struggle between two neighboring peoples, one strong and one weak, one powerful and one victimized. This framing is tidy, emotionally resonant, and yet profoundly misleading.
Most of Israel’s wars have not been fought against Palestinians but against Egyptians and Jordanians, Syrians and Lebanese, Iraqis and, increasingly, Iranians. Israel’s most significant enemy today is the Islamic regime in Iran – a non-Arab, non-Palestinian regional power pursuing its own ideological, nuclear, and strategic ambitions. The rockets fired at Israel during the war did not come only from Gaza. They came from Lebanon, from Yemen, from Iraq, and from Iran itself.
Imagine for a moment a satellite photograph that does nothing but trace the arcs of ballistic missiles and rockets fired at Israel over the past years – a dark map illuminated by red lines streaking inward from multiple directions. Such an image would reveal instantly what the dominant narrative conceals: the contours of a regional war. A multi-front conflict involving state and non-state actors, militias and proxies, ideologies and regimes, stretching across the Middle East.
Yet this is not how the story is told. Instead, a vast and intricate regional struggle is reduced to a single dyad: Israelis vs Palestinians. In this reduction, Israel is cast as the dominant actor, the controlling force, and ultimately the villain. Power flows in one direction only. Agency belongs almost exclusively to Israel. The wider forces shaping the conflict fade into the background or vanish altogether.
Shrinking facts.
This is how media distortion always works – not by inventing the facts but by shrinking and enlarging them selectively. A small story is made to seem enormous. A large story is compressed until it fits the awaiting political template.
The use of such alleged admissions comes against the backdrop of a crackdown that rights group say has left thousands dead in rallies that have openly challenged the authority of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to international media on the Gaza war, in Jerusalem, August 10, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to international media on the Gaza war, in Jerusalem, August 10, 2025 (credit: CHAIM TZACH/GPO)
The result is a narrative that is both emotionally compelling and intellectually impoverished, a morality play in which a villainous country called Israel comes to embody the worst sins of the modern age, while the broader regional dynamics dissolve into abstraction.
Once this narrative is established, it becomes self-reinforcing. The more Israel is covered by the media, the more it seems to matter uniquely. The more it is framed as the central actor in a simplified conflict, the easier it becomes to load it with symbolic meaning. Israel ceases to be a state acting within a volatile region and becomes instead a metaphor for everything the imagination fears about power and injustice.
That is why disputes over terminology feel so intense and yet change so little. The problem is not whether a journalist chooses one word over another. It is that the story being told is already too small to hold the truth, and too large to escape moral projection. It magnifies Israel until it eclipses the region, and then isolates it until it bears responsibility for forces far beyond its control.
To notice this is not to deny Palestinian suffering, nor to sanctify Israeli policy. It is to insist on proportionality, context, and intellectual honesty – qualities without which journalism becomes a kind of secular theology, assigning sin and virtue according to narrative convenience rather than reality.
If the coverage of Israel feels uniquely charged, moralized, and obsessive, it is because it is. And until we confront the media structures that produce this obsession – the imbalance of attention and the fiction of a purely local conflict – we will continue arguing over words while missing the story those words were meant to describe.
[Samuel J. Hyde is a South African-Israeli writer on Israel and the Middle East based in Tel Aviv. He began his career studying the rise of Nazism at the Holocaust and Genocide Center and is currently a fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute based in Jerusalem].
[https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-883135 JPost]
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London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia to burnish Qatar’s image.
Wikipedia is such a cesspool of far-left, pro-jihad propaganda that it is quite likely that other pages have been revised at the behest of well-heeled, malign actors as well.
“London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires,” by Claire Wilmot, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, January 14, 2026.
Twenty-five years after it was founded, Wikipedia stands as an unrivalled achievement. Not only is it the single largest collection of information in human history, it has also built a stellar reputation for reliability in a digital world awash with lies and deception.
For this reason, new AI tools have begun to carry the site’s contents far and wide. Chatbots and AI-generated search summaries – which are rapidly transforming the way people get their information – both use Wikipedia as a key source.
Now, we can reveal Wikipedia has been subject to shady, paid-for edits ordered by partners at an elite London PR firm with links to Downing Street. And the clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
The firm in question is Portland Communications, whose founder Tim Allan is now the director of communications for Keir Starmer. And it has been busted once already for this practice, which is in breach of the British PR professionals’ code of conduct.
But after the firm was exposed, former employees told us, it simply started hiring middlemen instead. As one of them put it: “No one said, ‘We should stop doing this.’ The question was how we could keep doing it without getting caught.”
Portland’s subcontractors have polished the public image of Qatar by burying references to critical reporting ahead of the 2022 World Cup, according to the firm’s insiders. They have also obscured mentions of a major terrorist-financing case involving Qatari businessmen; scrubbed evidence that a billion-dollar Gates-funded project failed in its mission; and promoted one side of Libya’s post-Gaddafi government over the other.
Often, however, their changes were more subtle: burying bad press under descriptions of a client’s philanthropic work or swapping out critical news references with something more positive…
In December 2010, the tiny Gulf state of Qatar became the centre of huge international attention when it was chosen as the shock host for the 2022 World Cup. Almost immediately, the country’s human rights record began to draw intense scrutiny. And as stadium construction projects got underway, reports began to emerge detailing the deaths of migrant workers.
With its reputation in the spotlight, Qatar turned to Portland. In 2013, the firm was handed a lucrative contract with the country, its remit covering “government affairs through to nation branding”.
According to six former Portland employees involved in some of this work between 2013 and 2024, Wikipedia edits were a common request from the Qataris. They said Portland hired subcontractors to target pages detailing Qatar’s human rights record, particularly around stadium-building, with pages of prominent politicians also targeted.
TBIJ’s analysis confirms several networks of accounts editing pages to raise the prominence of positive coverage of Qatar, as well as hedging negative press or burying it under more favourable material. Many of these changes – some of which Wikipedia editors flagged as suspicious in separate investigations – were performed by accounts outside of the Web3 network.
Wikipedia reaches into AI and distributes information throughout the internet
Stephen Harrison, journalist.
Other edits by the Web3 network focussed on the country’s business interests, including the removal of references to a case in which two Qatari billionaires were sued in the British high court for allegedly channelling funds to Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syrian terrorist group. The case appears to have collapsed in July 2024 after claimants withdrew some claims (lawyers told the Guardian that their clients had been intimidated by Qatari state operatives). But in October 2019, Web3’s network erased all mentions of the case from the page of the men’s business.
Three Wikipedia editors told us that in general, if a case is subject to media coverage as this one was, it should not be deleted….
[https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-01-14/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires The Bureau of Investigative Journalism]
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What is the actual death toll of the Iranian protests? | DW News.
Jan 15, 2026 #iran #protests #qatar.
Human rights groups say more than 2,500 people have been killed since anti-government protests erupted in Iran some three weeks ago. The Iranian government has been carrying out a vicious crackdown.
"These figures, 12 thousands or 10 thousand, that are being circulated. They are laughable compared to we have seen."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQvbi-CWYVc&t=1m37s pn YouTube]
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Report: UN Experts Silent on Iran.
January 14, 2026.
United Nations.
According to a report published today by the Swiss non-governmental organization UN Watch, the majority of UN human rights experts—known officially as Special Procedures—have been mostly silent on the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown against civilian protests since December 28, 2025. This includes experts who routinely speak out on Israel and are quick to condemn the United States.
[https://unwatch.org/report-un-experts-silent-on-iran/ UNWarch]
[https://x.com/jonahelshout/status/2012241525057413144 on X]
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The hypocrisy of the luvvies over Iran is sickening.
Compared to the anti-Israel outcry, the double standards are despicable.
The Iranian people are victims of the “Free Palestine” camp and its leaders.
This regime is one of the most monstrous on earth. We must all combat it.
Allister Heath.
14 January 2026 6:33pm GMT
Where are the luvvies when you need them? Where is their outrage, their fury, their passion as thousands of freedom-loving Iranians, sons and daughters, are being massacred by millenarian Islamist theocrats?
Many Leftist entertainers, personalities and activists spent years occupying our streets, flooding social media, denouncing Israel’s just war of self-defence in Gaza as “genocide”, and yet now, when actual crimes against humanity are being committed in Iran, their near-silence is deafening. Every horror they claimed, falsely, Israel was inflicting upon Palestinians, the Iranian regime is actually meting out to its own people: protesters are being shot in the back of the head or machine-gunned in the streets, hospital rooms are being broken into, young people summarily executed, dissidents tortured.
It is pure, unadulterated evil, an obscene moment in history, a stain on humanity. So where are the chants of “from the Gulf to the Caspian Sea, Iran will be free”? Where is Greta Thunberg’s flotilla? Why isn’t Bob Vylan firing up the crowds against the Ayatollahs? Where are the pins, the Shir o Khorshid emblems, the pictures of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the emojis, the student protestors, the sit-ins, the storming of lectures, the mass demonstrations taking over central London?
The hypocrisy is sickening, the double standards despicable. The luvvies don’t really care about Iran, just as they are largely unbothered by deaths in Sudan, the persecution of the Uyghurs and the pogroms of October 7. They are more interested in demonising Israel and the West than in saving innocent lives.
The human rights lawyers, the ICC, the ICJ and all the other acronyms have proved equally useless, and we are still waiting for the UN resolutions and investigations. Three months ago, the UN Human Rights Council elected an Iranian regime diplomat to its advisory committee, an Orwellian parody if ever there was one. Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, falsely claimed last year that “14,000 babies” were facing starvation within 48 hours in Gaza, fuelling much anti-Israel hatred. As of Wednesday evening, his X feed has so far made no mention of the horrendously real Iranian massacre.
Why is there no such thing as LGBTQ+ for Iran, or Iranian Lives Matter, or Justice for Iran, or groups advocating “intersectional resistance” to the Ayatollahs’ “patriarchy and occupation”?
If you are the wrong kind of victim, the luvvies don’t care about you. As long as a regime is anti-Western, its atrocities don’t matter, or are whitewashed.
Where have those who supposedly care about ethnic cleansing been as millions of Iranians fled their beloved homeland since 1979, fuelling a diaspora of 4-6 million?
Erfan Soltani, 26, will be executed for demanding basic rights. Where are the anti-death penalty advocates who always protest America’s penal regime? Iran persecutes gays, women and religious minorities. Where are those bishops who claim to care about religious freedom in the Middle East? Where are all those who keep telling us (wrongly) that America is turning into a Handmaid’s Tale, when confronted with a real-world, woman-hating theocracy?
The Iranian director and filmmaker, Javad Ganji, was murdered last week. Why didn’t anybody at the Golden Globes care? Why did Mark Ruffalo not mention him? Where was the solidarity?
Mojtaba Torshiz, a former midfielder for Tractor, the Iranian football league winners, left his daughters with his parents and went out to protest. He and his wife were murdered. Rebin Moradi, 17, one of Tehran’s most promising youth footballers, was assassinated. Where are the international footballing authorities? Where are the Premier League footballers taking the knee?
For many not especially ideological celebrities or activists, loudly supporting Gaza was an act, a performative ritual, to signal their virtue, their membership of the high-status “good people’s” club. Iran’s young are heroes, taking on IRGC thugs and dying for their beliefs, yet speaking up for them isn’t modish, so the celebs keep shtum.
Such behaviour is despicable, but not as bad as those of the true believers. Millions of educated people across Europe and America have succumbed to the omnicause, an anti-Western, totalitarian mindvirus, the byproduct of hundreds of years of intellectual error from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Karl Marx, from Jacques Derrida to Edward Said, laced with Leninism, superstition, conspiratorial thinking and prejudice.
The omnicause deems America, Israel and the capitalist world as the epitome of Westernness, the fount of all evil, guilty of every “ism” and “cide”, and thus promotes and supports third worldist regimes and causes that undermine our societies. It is nihilistic and shape-changing, embracing any doctrine that advances its ends, regardless of contradictions.
Countries and movements are judged according to what they represent, not their actions; the Iranian revolution of 1979 is the original fusion of Leftism and Islamism, so it remains a model for deluded proponents of the omnicause.
This is why so few Western activists support Iran’s freedom-fighters. These dissidents are pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-democracy. They curse Hamas and Hezbollah, and demand the end to Tehran’s handouts to its proxies, anathema to our useful idiots.
The “oppressed” aren’t meant to have agency, so sinister motives must be attributed to the protesters, such as being in hock to foreign spies.
The Left dismiss their critics as “Islamophobic”, so cannot process scenes from Iran where women burn their compulsory hijabs and where crowds reject state-enforced religion as part of a secularist uprising.
There is a growing grassroots alliance between the Jewish and Iranian diasporas. There are Israeli flags in every anti-regime demo in Britain and America, and imperial Iranian flags in every pro-Israel demo. The regime-funded death squads of October 7 were horrifically similar to those roaming Iranian cities today; one day, a free Tehran will resemble Tel Aviv.
The failure of the Islamist dictatorship is total. The banks are collapsing. Chants of “Jāvid Shāh”, long live the Shah, dominate anti-regime demos; only a total break with the past 47 years will suffice.
The luvvies have disgraced themselves. This regime is one of the most monstrous on earth. We must all combat it. Its collapse, when it comes, will be akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall – but this time, rather than being freed from communism, millions will be liberated from Islamism. Long live a free Iran.
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/14/silence-luvvies-iran-exposes-left-war-on-west-middle-east/ DailyTelegraph]
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Azar @Azar_Javidan:
There has been a massacre in Iran in last few days, with estimates of more than 30,000 innocent, unarmed civilians being slaughtered by machine guns in the streets.
The World Should Wake Up
Do Not Look Away
#JavidShah
#MassacreInIran
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Jan 14
Machine guns vs civilians in Tehran.
A genocide is unfolding in Iran.
Be the voice of Iran.
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#MassacreInIran
#JavidShah
#JavidShahRevolution
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[https://x.com/Azar_Javidan/status/2011832388750299169 on X]
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Forced confession fears as Iran chief justice interrogates protesters.
Paris (France) (AFP) – Iran's hardline judiciary chief has personally interrogated protesters arrested in a crackdown that has sparked an international outcry, amplifying fears among rights groups about the use of "forced confessions" to instil fear in society.
Issued on: 01/15/2026 - 16:25
On Thursday, state television showed Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, who has spent his career at the heart of the Islamic republic's legal apparatus and has been sanctioned by both the European Union and United States, quizzing several people the authorities accuse of being "rioters".
It aired footage of the former intelligence minister and top Tehran prosecutor interrogating two detained women, their faces blurred, both of whom broke down in tears while questioned.
The dramatic phone call between Netanyahu and Trump.
The day earlier, he had spent five hours inside one of the prisons of Tehran to examine the cases of prisoners arrested in the protests, state television said, showing him interrogating some detainees.
According to rights groups, state television has broadcast dozens such "confessions" of individuals accused of attacks on security forces and other acts of violence in the demonstrations.
"State media began airing the forced confessions of protesters within days of the outbreak of protests," said Norway-based Iran Human Rights.
"Confessions that were obtained under coercion and torture being aired prior to legal proceedings violate the right of defendants to be presumed innocent until proven guilty," it added.
In another example, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said two teenage girls arrested in the central city of Isfahan were shown in "forced confessions" saying they received money from an individual to participate in street protests.
The use of such alleged admissions comes against the backdrop of a crackdown that rights group say has left thousands dead in rallies that have openly challenged the authority of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
'Work quickly'.
In the latest footage, Ejei was shown seated in a room flanked by other officials, beneath a double picture of Khamenei and revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini. The detainee sat in a chair opposite.
One woman, accused of sending a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said: "I've done something that even I can’t forgive myself for."
"For what... to who," pressed Ejei, speaking softly while clasping his hands.
Another woman is accused of dropping concrete blocks on security forces in Tehran from a balcony.
"I don't know what happened, why I did something so foolish," she said, after Ejei pressed her by asking, "What was the day?" and "How did you know they were officers?"
No further evidence of their alleged involvement was shown.
US-based group United Against Nuclear Iran in 2024 described Ejei, who has vowed fast-track trials for those arrested, as a "ruthless enforcer of the Islamic republic with no regard for human rights".
Opposition groups also accuse him of involvement in the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners in the Islamic republic.
Media freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said he has "journalists' blood on his hands", recalling that Ejei in 2004 even bit a journalist on the shoulder during a debate.
"If a person burned someone, beheaded someone and set them on fire then we must do our work quickly," Ejei said on Wednesday.
With any delays, "it wouldn't have the same effect," he said.
[https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260115-forced-confession-fears-as-iran-chief-justice-interrogates-protesters France24]
[https://www.jfeed.com/news/t8z1ad HFeex]
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Iran attack postponed but not canceled: The reasons, and the brutal repression that achieved its goal.
Analysis: Washington concluded that potential costs - harm to American bases, Israel, and energy industry in the Gulf - far outweigh any strategic gain and will return to diplomacy; Meanwhile, Iranians are terrified of the brutal suppression of the protest and have stopped.
Ron Ben-Yishai|01.15.26 | 22:21
[https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/hkzqg0iswe YNet]
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Iran regime leaders ordering own children to slaughter civilians, commander’s daughter says.
January 16, 2026 | 2:54pm
Ruthless Iranian regime leaders are now ordering their own children to slaughter innocent civilians, a commander’s distraught daughter revealed as she sobbed in a gut-wrenching interview on Thursday.
The woman broke down on Persian media outlet Manoto TV as she said leaders are “Giving them batons, electric batons, guns, to go and kill fellow citizens,” adding her father has ordered her “to kill.”
“They are killing their own children, suppressing them,” she said of the regime’s commanders.
[https://nypost.com/video/iran-regime-leaders-ordering-own-children-to-slaughter-civilians-commanders-daughter-says/ NYPost]
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Germany urges ban on AI-generated fake Holocaust images to prevent historical distortion.
German memorial institutions and the government are urging social media platforms to halt the spread of AI-generated fake Holocaust images, clearly distinguish them from authentic material and label them, warning that such content distorts history and harms the memory of the victims
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601151368 IranIntl]
Reuters|01.16.26 22:57
[https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/r1uep700b11e YNet]
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Killers on the go.
REGIME IMPORTS KILLERS: 5,000 Iraqi Militia Fighters Cross Border to Slaughter Iranian Protesters.
As the Ayatollahs lose control of the streets, they are bringing in foreign mercenaries from Kataib Hezbollah and the PMF to do the dirty work. European and Iraqi military sources confirm the invasion
Yair Kleinbaum.
Jan 16, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/news/iranian-regime-iraqi-militia-crackdown JFeed]
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🎗️ Jonah
@jonahelshout:
30,000 Killed?
Goldie Ghamari Says #Iran’s #Uprising Could Topple the Regime.
@gghamari is a[n] Iranian Canadian lawyer
[youtube.com]
30,000 Killed? Goldie Ghamari Says Iran’s Uprising Could Topple the...
Jan 16, 2026
[https://x.com/jonahelshout/status/2012241525057413144 on X]
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Rawan Osman.
January 15, 2026.
The Iranian people are victims of the “Free Palestine” camp and its leaders.
Silence is complicity — and they still have the nerve to cry “hypocrisy.”
[https://www.facebook.com/reel/1294841126010843/ on FB]
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6,000 sought care for eye injuries in Tehran during protests.
January 15, 2026
More than 6,000 people with eye injuries have sought treatment at a major eye clinic in Tehran over the past few days following recent protests, the head of the Munich Eye Center told Iran International.
Amir Mobarez Parasta said the figure reflected the scale of eye trauma cases linked to the unrest, based on information he said he had received from his colleagues.
He said the number pointed to widespread eye injuries in recent days.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601150995 IranIntl]
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Pay for bullets: How Iran pressures families after killing protesters.
Arash Sohrabi.
January 15, 2026
Updated: 14:56 GMT
After Iran’s deadliest protest crackdown in decades, authorities have extended their response beyond the streets into morgues, hospitals and family homes, turning the protesters’ bodies into a key tool for suppressing dissent and controlling the narrative.
Iran International has received a large volume of videos, audio testimonies and written accounts describing how the bodies of protesters killed in the latest unrest are being collected, stored and released under strict security conditions.
While a nationwide internet blackout, now about a week, has made independent verification difficult in some cases, Iran International has cross-checked and verified key elements through corroborating footage, eyewitness commentary and the consistency of reports from multiple cities.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601151162 IranIntl]
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Iranian forces attacked peaceful protesters with knives, live fire - sources
January 15, 2026.
Iran’s security forces attacked protesters with knives and live gunfire in the northern town of Chamestan during demonstrations on January 8 and 9, local sources told Iran International.
Reports also indicate that security personnel fired live ammunition, targeting a number of protesters.
During the January 9 demonstrations in Chamestan, around 26 bodies were lying on the city’s main street, according to local sources.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601153988 IranIntl]
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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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Anti-Israel protesters enter BBC Scotland HQ.
[https://www.instagram.com/p/DTil8figotW/ On Instagram]
Israel National News.
Jan 15, 2026, 8:01 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/420968 INN]
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Israel declares Iranian bank a terrorist organization.
Israel National News.
Jan 15, 2026, 7:01 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/420964 INN]
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The dramatic phone call between Netanyahu and Trump.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump and reportedly asked him to delay the possibility of a military strike on Iran.
Israel National News.
Jan 15, 2026, 8:41 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/420972 INN]
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UK:
NHS doctor suspended over social media posts praising Hamas.
Israel National News.
Jan 15, 2026, 8:42 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/420971 INN]
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The Israel Institute of New Zealand:
"In 2 years of fighting in Gaza, 30k militants and 30-40k civilians died.
The world screamed genocide[sic].
In 2 weeks, the Iranian regime has massacred 20k civilians.
The world looked away."
@israel_advocacy.
January 16, 2026.
[https://www.facebook.com/Israel.Institute.NZ/posts/in-2-years-of-fighting-in-gaza-30k-militants-and-30-40k-civilians-diedthe-world-/1181432964204379/ on FB]
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middleeastbull18:
January 16, 2026
London witnessed a massive demonstration as around 30,000 protesters, including Iranians, Israelis and international supporters, gathered in central areas to express solidarity with Iran’s protest movement. Demonstrators called for freedom, human rights and an end to repression, highlighting growing global concern over the situation in Iran.
#LondonProtest #IranProtests #IranFreedom #HumanRights #GlobalSolidarity #WorldNews #BreakingNews #FreeIran #TrendingNow #FreeIran #HumanRights #BreakingNews #StandWithIran
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Blackout.
HEADLINE: IRAN GOES DARK UNTIL MARCH: Regime Burns Its Own Cities as Martial Law Descends After 5 PM.
Russian sources confirm the internet blackout will last months. In Rasht, security forces torched a historic market to trap protesters as the country enters a new phase of total repression.
Yair Kleinbaum.
Jan 16, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/news/t8z1ad HFeex]
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The petitions were created on Jan. 11 and 12 by “Iran Etehad” and have already collected tens of thousands of signatures.
Corpse of slain Iranian mother of two found in grim 'warehouse of bodies'.
January 16, 2026
The body bags at Tehran’s main cemetery were stacked in their many hundreds on rows and on shelves, according to an eyewitness, who found among the corpses of slain protestors his friend, a 41-year-old mother of two.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601168709 IranIntl]
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At least 1.5 million people took to Tehran streets on January 8, source says.
January 16, 2026
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601162278 IranIntl]
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Defiance met with massacre: Iran’s biggest protest wave in generations.
January 16, 2026
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601151368 IranIntl]
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Pay for bullets: How Iran pressures families after killing protesters.
[https://www.jns.org/michigan-event-to-feature-daughter-of-convicted-hamas-fundraiser/ JNS]
January 16, 2026
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601151162 IranIntl]
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Director Of NY MAS Youth Center Mohammad Badawy In Brooklyn Friday Sermon: As A Muslim, My Life's Mission Is To Fight The U.S. Government, The U.S. Army, And ICE Until My Last Breath - That Is My Reason For Existence.
#12497 I 01:16 Source: Online Platforms - "MAS Youth Center on YouTube".
Imam Mohammad Badawy, Director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) Youth Center in Brooklyn, NY, said in a January 16, 2026 Friday sermon that "as a Muslim," it is his life's mission to fight the U.S. government, the U.S. Army, ICE, or "whatever they control," declaring: "Do your worst."
He added that even if his body is broken, his spirit cannot be reached, and that he must fight these entities with "every single iota of strength, wealth, and spirit" he possesses, "to the last breath" and until he dies or until they cease their oppression and injustice. Badawy concluded: "That's my reason for existence. "
[https://www.memri.org/tv/brooklyn-youth-muslim-center-badawy-fight-usa-gov-army-ice MEMRI]
[https://www.jns.org/us-sanctions-houthi-revenue-procurement-networks/ JNS]
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Steven Phillips, MD @StevePhillipsMD
Declassified U.S. State Department telegram quoting an Arab League meeting in Lebanon in August 1960, when Arab states decided to create a "Palestinian entity" aimed at undermining Israel through UN manipulation & military action.
With the help of the Soviets, this resulted in the 1964 founding of the PLO, as a tool for collective Arab action against Israel, consistent with Russia's efforts to counter Israel's alliance with the West.
Arab-Soviet alliances during the Cold War shaped modern Palestinian nationalism primarily as an anti-Israel strategy rather than an indigenous pre-1948 movement.
Defund the UN.
[https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v17/d34]
Jan 16, 2026
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421030 INN]
Download the app and never miss what’s happening.
[https://x.com/StevePhillipsMD/status/2011995124335599727 on X]
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Trump Says Laura Loomer ‘Can Be a Little Nasty,’ But Is ‘Always Nice’ to Him: ‘That’s All That Matters’.
Kathryn Wilkens.
Fri, January 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM UTC
During a Friday press appearance
to mark the renaming of a Palm Beach boulevard in his honor, President Donald Trump said that right-wing commentator
Laura Loomer “can be a little nasty” but is “always nice” to him, adding, “And that’s all that matters.”
While touting the success of the “extraordinarily red” state of Florida, Trump reflected on one year ago, when “we were a dead country.”
Now, he said, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar are investing “two trillion dollars” each into the United States. “So we took in six trillion,” Trump claimed. “That’s why we have 18, because we took six from three countries. That helps, right? Laura? Is that right?” Trump said, gesturing to Loomer in the crowd.
Importantly, per a November Bloomberg investigation, the “actual investment promises are significantly smaller, raising questions not just over the size of Trump’s claimed boom but the nature, durability, and real economic impact of the influx he wants credit for.”
“Hi, Laura,” the president continued on Friday, amidst cheers from the crowd. “Boy, you are something. What spirit you have. Laura Loomer. Thank you, honey, for being here. I appreciate it.”
“You know, she can be a little nasty, but to me, she’s always nice, and that’s all that matters,” Trump said. “I want her to stay that way, too.”
According to two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Risen in July, Loomer acts as “Trump’s de facto national security adviser.”
Earlier on Friday, Loomer actually slammed
the president for meeting with former Fox host Tucker Carlson in the West Wing, writing, “Every time Tucker Qatarlson visits the White House, GOP voter turnout decreases.”
In a follow-up post, she added, “Looks like the 2 million Iranian American voters will be sitting out in the midterms,” insinuating that Carlson’s July interview with the president of Iran somehow influenced Trump not to use military force as the country “continue[s] to murder thousands of innocent people.”
[https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-says-laura-loomer-can-be-a-little-nasty-but-is-always-nice-to-him-thats-all-that-matters/ MediaIte]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421043 INN]
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🚨 BREAKING: Multiple Iranians INJURED In London - UK Police Crackdown On Anti-IRGC Protesters.
Tousi TV.
January 16, 2026.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg5AAIhakoU on YouTube]
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Trump's help did not come, and the protest in Iran faded: "There is a lot of death".
Guy Elster. January 16, 2026.
Iran's nationwide protest movement appeared to be slowing down on Thursday, weighed down by a brutal crackdown by the authorities that has left thousands dead and tens of thousands in prison. In Tehran, Iranians reported relative calm on the streets, just a week after the protests peaked in Tehran and elsewhere in the capital, escalating into clashes between demonstrators and security forces. But they were brutally suppressed. A resident of the capital, Tehran, where the protest began in a bazaar two and a half weeks ago, told Al Jazeera that there was a heightened security presence alongside uncertainty about the future. "There is a large military presence on the streets of the capital and elsewhere," the resident said. He said Revolutionary Guards had been deployed in the capital, along with numerous checkpoints and police checkpoints. He added that armed forces were patrolling the streets on motorcycles. “There is a lot of uncertainty. A lot of people are worried,” said the resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of his safety. He said many expect American action soon, but opinions are divided about its implications. “There is a lot of death, sadness and anger.”
According to reports in American and other media outlets, Trump was under heavy pressure from leaders in the Middle East not to launch strikes, a move that would almost certainly lead to Iranian retaliatory strikes against American bases throughout the region. The New York Times reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the American president during a phone call, and Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Egypt were also among those pressuring him to give Tehran "another chance." On social media, some Iranians expressed disappointment at Trump's apparent withdrawal from military intervention. An artificial intelligence image showing Trump removing a mask and revealing former President Barack Obama - who was perceived among the Iranian diaspora as taking a soft line towards Iran - was widely circulated. The slowdown in protests came just two days after US President Donald Trump called on Iranians to "keep protesting - take over your institutions," and promised that "help is on the way." Intelligence assessments have indicated that the United States is preparing to attack Iran, a move Trump has threatened if the Iranian government continues to kill protesters. But on Wednesday night, Trump appeared to back away from the brink of military intervention, telling reporters that Iranian authorities were halting executions. “We’ve been told that the killing in Iran has stopped — it has stopped — it has stopped now. And there is no plan for executions, or executions, or executions — I’ve been told by a very competent source,” Trump said.
The White House later claimed that 800 executions planned in Iran had been canceled. White House spokeswoman Carolyn Levitt said Trump and his team had warned of “serious consequences” if the killings continued. “The president understands that today 800 executions that were planned and were scheduled to take place yesterday have been stopped,” she said. However, she said Trump continues to monitor the situation closely. “All options are still on the table for the president,” Levitt said. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Walz reiterated this at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Thursday night, saying the United States stands with “the brave people of Iran” and that Trump “has made it clear that all options are on the table to stop the massacre.” Iran's deputy ambassador to the UN, Hossein Darazi, sharply criticized the United States for what he called its "direct involvement in turning the unrest in Iran into violence." "Under the hollow pretext of concern for the Iranian people and claims of supporting human rights, the United States is trying to present itself as the friend of the Iranian people, while at the same time laying the foundations for political subversion and military intervention under a supposedly 'humanitarian' narrative," Darazi said. Russia's UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, accused the United States of convening the meeting in an attempt to "justify open aggression and interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state." Russia defended Iran's actions and was the only member of the council to do so. France's UN ambassador, Jerome Bonfon, called for the immediate release of all arbitrarily detained detainees and a moratorium on the death penalty, while Britain's deputy ambassador, Archibald Young, said that "Iran must urgently change course" and respect the fundamental rights of its citizens, "including the right to demonstrate without fear of violence or repression." At least 2,637 people have been killed in the protests, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
Human rights groups have expressed concern about forced confessions among detained protesters after state media broadcast footage of the head of the hardline judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohsani Ajayi, personally interrogating detainees. Ajayi, who is subject to US and European sanctions, is accused by opposition figures of involvement in the mass executions of political prisoners in 1988. Footage broadcast yesterday showed Ajayi interrogating women, one of whom was accused of sending a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Another woman, accused of throwing concrete blocks at security forces, said during her interrogation by Ajayi: “I don’t know what happened, why did I do such a stupid thing.” From the beginning of the protests, state media broadcast footage of such confessions, as part of an attempt to portray the protests as a movement that originated from foreign intervention aimed at destabilizing Iran. The Norway-based Iran Human Rights organization said: “The broadcast of confessions obtained under duress and torture before legal proceedings violates the right of defendants to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.” The protests began on December 28 following a sharp drop in the value of the local currency, and quickly expanded to demands for political reforms and even an end to the Iranian regime’s rule. The protest spread to all 31 provinces of the country and is the most serious wave of unrest the government has faced in decades. Iranian President Masoud Pazakhian said yesterday that the government was working to improve living conditions in the country and to address the factors that ignited the protests. He pledged to fight corruption and price gouging, which he said would improve citizens’ purchasing power. Iran’s national currency has lost about two-thirds of its value in the past three years, while the prices of basic goods have soared, with food prices rising by 72% since last year. Experts have said that while the protests point to deep-seated problems in Iran's system of government that are likely to plague it in the long term, a state collapse is unlikely. This concern has also been raised by Israeli and Arab officials, who have told the US administration in recent days that the Iranian regime is not yet weak enough for US strikes to topple it.
[https://hamal.co.il/main/%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%94-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A4-%D7%9C%D7%90-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%94-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%90%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9F-%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%9B%D7%94-%D7%99%D7%A9-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%94-%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%B4-238849 Hamal]
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Melika Razavi (Poker player, Magician, Writer, Miss global Iran 2016, Miss global fitness 2016, Miss power woman 2017).
melirazavii:
Jan 16, 2026.
This is Iran.
This is what the Islamic Republic looks like.
This is genocide, not “governance.”
Over 25,000 people are dead — men, women, children — murdered by their own government. Internet shut down. Communications cut. Streets turned into war zones so killing can happen in silence.
And still, some of you defend this regime.
Not because you care about Iranians — but because of ideology, money, and comfort.
Call it what it is.
IRGC. ISIS. Hamas.
Different names, same violence, same terror, same blood on their hands.
Silence is complicity.
Excuses are cowardice.
History will remember who spoke up — and who chose comfort over humanity.
#Iran #IranGenocide #IslamicRepublic #IRGC #HumanRights StopTheSilence FreeIran.
[https://www.instagram.com/p/DTil8figotW/ On Instagram]
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Spawn of Iran’s ruling elite living large in US — and fed-up Iranian-Americans want them deported.
By Bianca Heyward.
Published Jan. 14, 2026, 8:58 p.m. ET
The framework was now complete. It pushed back against efforts to combat antisemitism, while creating an atmosphere in which activist claims and antisemitic commentary became moral absolutes that could not be challenged.
The pampered offspring of Iran’s ruling elite are living the American Dream as the country’s brutal regime kills protesters by the thousands — and fed-up Iranians in California and across the US want them out.
Two explosive online petitions have been gaining steam as they call on the US government to immediately deport Eissa Hashemi and Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani — the children of current and onetime prominent Iranian government figures enjoying the comforts of the “Great Satan’’ as opposed to the oppressive streets of Tehran.
Eissa Hashemi is the 43-year-old son of Masoumeh Ebtekar — a k a “Screaming Mary,” the radical spokeswoman for the militants who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
His mom was notorious for trying to create propaganda during the hostage crisis by cruelly urging the US victims to describe their horrific ordeal in positive terms.
“If she were on fire on the street, I wouldn’t piss on her to put it out,’’ traumatized former hostage Michael Metrinko once said.
After her son Hashemi graduated from the University of Tehran in 2006, he reportedly moved to the US in 2010 and pursued his Ph.D. in organizational leadership from The Chicago School in LA.
He currently is an adjunct associate professor at his alma mater, enjoying the freedom his mother helped strip from American diplomats decades ago.
Records show he resides in Agoura Hills in LA County.
Hashemi also did not respond to Post requests for comment.
Then there is Ardeshir-Larijani.
She is the daughter of Ali Larijani, the powerful former speaker of the country’s parliament who now serves as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
Her father serves as a righthand man to Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has called the US the “Great Satan.”
Not long after President Trump urged Iranians to keep demonstrating against their nation’s dictatorship and condemned its officials for the “senseless killing of protestors,” Larijani fired back at him on X.
“We declare the names of the main killers of the people of Iran: 1- Trump 2- Netanyahu,” Larijani wrote, referring to the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu.
Ardeshir-Larijani, 40, lives in Atlanta, Ga., as her father rails against the West and oversees a legislative body that regularly burns the stars and stripes.
She is a licensed doctor and an assistant professor in the hematology and medical oncology department at the prestigious Emory University School of Medicine — and a world away from the deadly crackdown on human rights in Iran.
She did not respond to Post requests for comment Wednesday.
“Why are visas given to these people?’’ raged Mersedeh Shahinkar, who lost her right eye to a bullet during a protest involving women’s rights in Iran in 2022, to The Post on Wednesday.
“Why should they freely travel and live comfortably here? If Iran is good for them, if the Islamic Republic is good for them, they should go live there,” the California resident said.
The petitions on Change.org argue that it is a slap in the face to the American people — and the Iranian people suffering under the regime — to allow the relatives to stay here.
“We, the Iranian people, demand the deportation of these individuals,” the petitions read. “They benefit from the wealth of the Iranian people and live safely in the United States, while their families rule a brutal dictatorship in Iran.”
The bigoted invented "APR," no wonder the same infamous racist 'iskandar323' pushes this on Wikipedia and had just removed data from the 30,000 massacred in 1988 Iran. A typical supporter of genocidal Islamists, Hamas or Iran. Just like the ORGANIZED gang of 32 wikipedians backing this. All "decide" what is a RS.
The petitions were created on Jan. 11 and 12 by “Iran Etehad” and have already collected tens of thousands of signatures.
The White House did not respond to a Post request for comment on whether the administration might try to boot the relatives
[https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/us-news/spawn-of-irans-ruling-elite-living-large-in-us-and-fed-up-iranian-americans-want-them-deported/ NYPost]
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When Iran shakes, the axis holds its breath: proxies brace for a mothership crash.
Opinion: Iran’s proxies watch unrest with alarm, fearing collapse, as Gulf rivals warn it could leave Arabs 'under the Israeli hammer alone'.
Dr. Michael Milshtein|01.17.26
[https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/skxkcodh11e YNet]
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Michigan event to feature daughter of convicted Hamas fundraiser.
The panel event will discuss what organizers call the “wrongful imprisonment” of the “Holy Land Five,” convicted in 2008 for funneling approximately $12.4 million to Hamas.
(Jan. 16, 2026 / JNS)
A panel discussion on the “Holy Land Five” scheduled for Jan. 17 in Grand Rapids, Mich., will feature the daughter of one of the five Palestinian-Americans convicted in 2008 for providing material support to Hamas.
Nida Abu Baker, daughter of Shukri Abu Baker, “will share her story and recount the decades of struggle to free her father and his colleagues in the Holy Land Foundation—the largest Muslim nonprofit in the U.S. that was targeted with trumped-up material support for terrorism charges,” event organizers stated.
Five officials of the foundation, nicknamed the “Holy Land Five,” were convicted in Dallas in November 2008 on “108 charges of funneling $12.4 million to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization,” according to Canary Mission.
[https://www.jns.org/michigan-event-to-feature-daughter-of-convicted-hamas-fundraiser/ JNS]
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US sanctions Houthi revenue, procurement networks.
Scott Bessent, U.S. treasury secretary, stated that “the Houthis threaten the United States by committing acts of terror and attacking commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea.”
(Jan. 16, 2026 / JNS)
The United States imposed new sanctions on the Houthis on Friday, targeting networks that U.S. officials say help fund the group’s attacks and destabilizing activity in the region.
[https://www.jns.org/us-sanctions-houthi-revenue-procurement-networks/ JNS]
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Israel rejects Trump's Gaza Peace Council
Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that Trump's Gaza Peace Council was contrary to Israeli policy.
Orly Harari.
Published: Jan 17, 2026, 6:53 PM (GMT+2)
The Prime Minister’s Office said Saturday night that the announcement regarding the composition of the Gaza Peace Council, which is subordinate to the peace conference, was made without coordination with Israel and contradicts Israeli policy.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to raise the matter with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid criticized the government, saying: “For a year I have warned that if the government does not advance the Egyptian solution with the United States and the international community, Turkey and Qatar will end up influencing Gaza. Last night the makeup of the so-called ‘Peace Council’ was revealed. Turkey is included, Qatar is included, and according to the IDF Hamas still has 30,000 fighters in Gaza. This represents a complete diplomatic failure by the Netanyahu government, wasting the immense courage and sacrifice of IDF soldiers and commanders."
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday night the members of the Peace Council that will oversee the Gaza Strip. According to Trump, who will chair the body, its members include U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff; his son-in-law Jared Kushner; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; former British prime minister Tony Blair; businessman Mark Rowan; World Bank President Ajay Banga; and U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gabriel.
The Turkish president’s office said Trump sent a letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inviting him to join the Peace Council, which is intended to supervise the interim administration in Gaza.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421030 INN]
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Nick Fuentes: My problem with Trump ‘is that he is not Hitler’.
Nick Fuentes escalates rhetoric, says US President Donald Trump falls short of extremist agenda.
Joseph Strauss, JTA.
Jan 17, 2026, 7:51 PM (GMT+2)
In the fall, a video of Nick Fuentes criticizing US President Donald Trump drew the praise of progressive ex-Congressman Jamaal Bowman.
“Finally getting it Nick," Bowman commented, apparently recognizing some common ground between himself on the left and Fuentes, on the far right, who said in the video that Trump was “better than the Democrats for Israel, for the oil and gas industry, for Silicon Valley, for Wall Street," but said he wasn’t “better for us."
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421032 INN]
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Bondi at IAC:
'DOJ will seek death penalty in murder of Israeli diplomats'.
Yoni Kempinski, Florida.
Jan 18, 2026, 3:18 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421052 INN]
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Released hostage: I agreed to die in Gaza so that Israel could destroy Hamas.
Hamas captivity survivor Eitan Mor expresses support for his father's position, says he refused offer to spy for Hamas.
Israel National News.
Published: Jan 17, 2026, 10:38 PM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421043 INN]
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Watch: Arab rioters attack Samaria homestead.
On Friday, dozens of Arab rioters from the villages of Qaddum and Beit Lid attacked residents of the Shirat Tzion homestead in Samaria.
Israel National News.
Jan 17, 2026, 11:59 PM (GMT+2)
[Samaria. Hilltop Youth]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421048 INN]
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From Slogan to Industry: The invention of “Anti-Palestinian Racism".
APR is a dangerous term that suggests that trying to combat antisemitism is itself racist against Palestinian Arabs. A full report is linked below. Op-ed.
David Collier.
Jan 18, 2026, 7:20 AM (GMT+2)
In recent years the term anti-Palestinian racism (APR) has moved from activist discourse into the language of public institutions across multiple Western democracies. In the UK it has now been raised in both Houses of Parliament. In the U.S. a group of elected officials turned the phrase into a political weapon. In Canada, the Canadian government provided funding to support the creation of APR educational resources. And in Australia, the public broadcaster recently gave favourable coverage to a report claiming anti-Palestinian racism was “widespread."
If you are not paying attention, you should be. While APR markets itself as part of serious anti-racist discourse, in reality it functions as a dangerous, antisemitic tool. APR doesn’t just try to name a prejudice. It rewires the moral rules. It turns Zionism into racism, Jewish self-definition into exclusion, and antisemitism safeguards into “censorship" - then demands institutions enforce that inversion as policy.
Once inverted framing takes hold, everything becomes distorted. Neutrality is recast as hostility. Jewish communal safety is treated as an obstacle. And the most aggressive forms of anti-Israel activism are rebranded as “anti-racist" virtue. None of this directly causes violence, but it changes the climate: what can be said, what must be tolerated, and further marginalises a Jewish community that is already under considerable threat.
And the truly scary part of all this? It was designed that way.
The pro-Corbyn network that incubated APR
Today I publish a report (available for download) that traces the origins of the term anti-Palestinian racism, and shows how it evolved from a fringe activist slogan into a deliberately weaponised framework within the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The detainee also said that the following day, prison officers injected him and several other prisoners with substances whose contents were not identified.
The turning point came on 4 September 2018. The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party had just voted to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, along with all its examples. The NEC adoption was a major defeat for Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters.
Until then, APR was largely confined to the online activist ecosystem around the Electronic Intifada, a fringe anti-Israel outlet.
Inside a key Corbyn support group there was an immediate reaction. Palestine Live was a Facebook group set to “Secret" visibility. Members included leading figures from Israel-hostile organisations, along with journalists and community organisers. The UK-founded network had an international feel, with representation from groups in North America and beyond.
Since 2015, Palestine Live had operated as a pro-Corbyn network. In early 2018, I published an exposé documenting the high levels of antisemitism and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories circulating inside the group, which triggered complaints and a formal party investigation.
The Invention of Anti-Palestinian Racism
A day after the NEC vote, one of the then administrators of Palestine Liveposted a reaction to it. The message was simple and stark: “The Labour Party has an anti-Palestinian racism problem":
This linkage is at the heart of APR: it suggests that trying to combat antisemitism is itself racist against Palestinian Arabs.
Later the same month, a member of Palestine Live posted an anonymously written definition of anti-Palestinian racism. The following day, the pro-Corbyn activist group Jewish Voice for Labour, many of whose leaders were members of Palestine Live, published a slightly refined version on their website. APR, in recognisable form, had arrived.
The Internationalisation and Institutionalisation of Anti-Palestinian Racism
The senator’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu came “at one of the most consequential moments in recent memory,” Lindsey Graham wrote.
A few weeks later, on 16 October 2018, the U.S.-based anti-Zionist outlet Mondoweisspublished an updated version, tightening the JVL version and polishing it for an international audience. There were now ten clauses in the definition, with the author suggesting the examples were absolutes, or “indisputable examples of anti-Palestinian racism."
Under this definition of APR, denying the (often false) narratives of anti-Israel activism, supporting the right of Israel to exist or even accusing someone of antisemitism could make you a racist.
The framework was now complete. It pushed back against efforts to combat antisemitism, while creating an atmosphere in which activist claims and antisemitic commentary became moral absolutes that could not be challenged.
Once this definition of anti-Palestinian racism had been introduced, it began to be incorporated as a key tool in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) arsenal:
In 2019, the Canadian government introduced a new anti-racism strategy “Building a Foundation for Change." The policy framework created a pathway for NGOs to propose new conceptualisations of racism and, potentially, to receive public funding.
Anti-Israel activists saw the opening, and launched an intensive campaign in Canada. In 2022, the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association (ACLA) finally introduced a codified definition of anti-Palestinian Arab racism.
The ACLA definition reads as a formal rewrite of the JVL and Mondoweiss versions. It is less concerned with addressing prejudice than with recasting Jewish identity and Jewish self-determination as racist.
The subtext of the letter? Please do not appoint an anti-Zionist, as Mamdani did with many of the Jews who were on his transition committees. The first Muslim to win the city’s top office, Mamdani has long been anti-Israel and has said that he would have Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he visits the Big Apple.
The Canadian government has since awarded ACLA a grant of CAN$100,000 to develop educational tools and provide training on the subject of APR.
The deed was done. APR had moved from an activist smear to a government-funded weapon.
The Weaponisation of Anti-Palestinian Racism.
Having been incubated in the UK, internationalised in the U.S., and then codified in Canada, the Canadian government’s financial support officially legitimised the concept of anti-Palestinian racism. From this point, the ACLA definition could export itself internationally.
In both the U.S. and Australia, activist NGOs produced official-looking reports claiming APR was a widespread, urgent problem. Both supported the inclusion of educational material in schools as a key recommendation. These documents failed to meet basic academic standards, yet still received favourable treatment.
The term became a political weapon. In one U.S. state, a Senate resolution has been introduced labelling a tragic incident as an act of APR, even though there is no evidence at all to support it.
In the UK, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has been campaigning to get the UK government to recognise APR, and in March 2025 tabled a written question asking if the government will introduce educational material to tackle the problem in schools:
And it gets worse. On 16 July 2025, Manchester City Counciladopted a motion recognising the need to challenge anti-Palestinian racism.
What does this mean in practice? It means a sitting MP wants to introduce a framework that functions as an antisemitic propaganda weapon into schools, while Manchester City Council moved to reframe antisemitism safeguards as suspect, and to legitimise unsubstantiated activist narratives. If anyone objects, they could be accused of racism.
Changing the Air People Breathe
Seventy-eight days later, just three miles away from the Town Hall, came the Yom Kippur terrorist attack at the Heaton Park synagogue. Two people were killed.
Manchester was not the only city where APR was being promoted against a backdrop of rising antisemitism. On 26 September there was an event launching a report into APR in Sydney. The venue was the Maritime Union Conference Centre. Just six miles from there, and seventy-nine days later, fifteen people were slaughtered in an antisemitic terror attack during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.
APR may not be directly responsible for either terrorist attack, but it is still a dangerous ideological weapon. APR reshapes the institutional climate. It is designed to change the air that people breathe.
The Jewish people are vulnerable and under attack around the world. Deliberately problematic concepts such as APR must not be allowed to make things worse than they are already.
The pushback starts here. Download the full report [https://david-collier.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/260115_anti_Palestinian_racism_final.pdf] and distribute it to local politicians, councils, journalists, and anyone involved in combating antisemitism.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421058 INN]
Since when did grandchildren of immigrants become a separate "race?"
Arabs are Arabs are Arabs, whether with an Israeli ID or "palestine" paper.
The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Thursday sentenced Ahmad Muhammad, 25, a resident of the Palestinian Authority city of Huwara, to four months in prison after he spat at an IDF officer while riding a public bus.
The bigoted invented "APR," no wonder the same infamous racist 'iskandar323' pushes this on Wikipedia and had just removed data from the 30,000 massacred in 1988 Iran. A typical supporter of genocidal Islamists, Hamas or Iran. Just like the ORGANIZED gang of 32 wikipedians backing this. All "decide" what is a RS.
[https://myrightword.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-palestine-entity-1960.html?showComment=1768781555040&m=1#c8841279863333103188 at MyRightWord]
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'Every family knows a victim': Iranians in exile speak out on mass killings.
Negar Mojtahedi.
Iran International.
Jan 17, 2026, 23:18 GMT
([https://i.iranintl.com/images/rdk9umy0/production/19026d7036f13c3c8d3f1e380de149a6aedfff37-810x1080.jpg?w=432&h=576&q=80&fit=max&auto=format].
A group of protesters in Iran holding a placard on which the slogan "Long Live the Shah (King)" is sprayed).
Iranians in exile say few families have been spared by the brutal crackdown back home, describing to Iran International an unprecedented wave of killings as security forces unleash violence under a nationwide communications blackout.
For Alex, an Iranian living in Texas, the violence is no longer something he is witnessing from afar.
His cousin Mehdi was killed on Friday, January 9, in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah after joining nationwide protests following exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s call for Iranians to rise up.
Iran International is withholding Alex’s last name to protect family members inside Iran.
“The Basij shot him in the head and the stomach," Alex said, recounting what his aunt told him. "They (Basij) hunted him like a dog."
Authorities later cut internet access across much of the country, severing communication and leaving families unable to confirm who was alive or dead.
Alex only learned what had happened days later, on Wednesday afternoon, when landlines briefly reopened during the blackout. The connection was poor and repeatedly cut out, but he could hear his aunt howling in tears and screaming.
"I only got like three minutes out of the call but what I got out of it was my aunt screaming and she said he's been killed."
Mehdi was 32 years old. Alex said his aunt later identified the body at a forensic center after days of searching. He says his aunt recognized her son by his hair.
"His face was completely unrecognizable," said Alex.
He said authorities are now demanding payment from the family to release Mehdi’s body.
From Texas, Alex said he feels hollow and barely able to function, but believes speaking publicly is the only way to honor his cousin and push back against the silence imposed by the blackout.
"He wanted a free Iran and King Reza Pahlavi."
'Fear and helplessness'
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 Canada, Iranian-Canadian Ghazal Shokri described a similar sense of fear and helplessness as she waits for fragile contact with her family inside Iran. She said she has heard her mother’s voice only for seconds and her sister’s for minutes since the violence escalated.
Shokri said the scale of the killings is unlike anything Iranians have experienced before, warning that nearly every family now knows someone who has been killed.
She said she is increasingly worried not only about the physical destruction of the country but about the long-term psychological toll on Iranian society, including widespread trauma, depression and lasting social damage.
“There is every family now in Iran knows a few people got killed," Ghazal said.
"Honestly, it's not easy to talk about it. I mean, as a human being, we haven't been designed for this," she said.
Another Iranian in exile, Sobhan Nofar, said the nationwide communications blackout has intensified fear among Iranians living abroad.
“That silence is terrifying,” he said.
He said the loss of contact with people inside Iran has left many Iranians outside the country sleepless and consumed by anxiety for their families, with every fragment of information feeling like evidence of a growing bloodbath.
Hediyeh, a journalist based in Washington, DC, says she is worried not only about the health of her parents and her husband's family, but also about their financial situation, as they largely relied on allowances the couple sent through friends and relatives.
With the internet shut down, it is no longer possible to send money to the family, leaving Hediyeh concerned about how the elderly parents will make ends meet under Iran’s severe economic conditions.
Iran International has reported that at least 12,000 people were killed in just two days as security forces unleashed what analysts describe as the deadliest wave of state violence in the Islamic Republic’s history. Other estimates suggest the toll may be even higher as the blackout continues to limit verification.
Growing calls for US action
The testimonies come as calls by Iranians inside the country and across the diaspora for US military action have intensified, with demands for targeted strikes against the Islamic Republic’s security and repression apparatus.
For Iranians in exile like Alex, Shokri and Nofar, the debate is no longer abstract. It is shaped by the names and faces of people they knew and by the fear that more families will soon join them in mourning.
"Every piece of news, videos or photos coming from Iran feels like another sense of a blood bath," said Nofar "I'm really scared, deeply scared but I don't allow myself to completely fall apart because I truly believe Iranian people are bigger than this terrorist regime."
As Iran remains largely cut off from the outside world, they say speaking publicly is one of the few ways left to ensure the dead are not reduced to statistics.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601178265 IranIntl]
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Detained protesters injected with unknown substances in Iran jail.
Iran International. Jan 18, 2026.
Protesters held in Iranian prisons have described abuse, including forced nudity, exposure to cold, and injections with substances of unknown composition while in custody, a source close to a detainee’s family told Iran International.
The source said a detained young protester sent a message from inside prison saying he and several others had been subjected to such treatment after their arrest.
According to the detainee, prison officers stripped detainees naked in the courtyard of the detention facility and kept them outside the building for a prolonged period in winter conditions. The officers then sprayed the detainees with cold water using a hose, the source said.
The Algemeiner.
The detainee also said that the following day, prison officers injected him and several other prisoners with substances whose contents were not identified.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601185741 IranIntl]
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Israel, US back Argentina’s Quds Force terror designation.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and the U.S. State Department hailed Buenos Aires’ move to list Iran’s Quds Force as a terrorist group, calling it a key step against Iranian terror.
JNS Staff.
(Jan. 18, 2026 / JNS)
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and the U.S. State Department on Saturday welcomed Argentina’s decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force as a terrorist organization, calling it an important step in combating Iranian-backed terrorism.
[https://www.jns.org/israel-us-back-argentinas-quds-terror-designation/ JNS]
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US ‘has no better friend’ than Israel, Graham says.
The senator’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu came “at one of the most consequential moments in recent memory,” Lindsey Graham wrote.
JNS Staff
([https://me.jnsi.org/uploads/2026/01/G-8I7j3WkAANEf2-1320x880.jpeg].
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, Jan. 18, 2026. Credit: Lindsey Graham/X).
(Jan. 18, 2026 / JNS)
The United States “has no better friend than the State of Israel,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said following a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday.
In a post on X, the American lawmaker said the sit-down with the leader of the Jewish state was “great” and came “at one of the most consequential moments in recent memory.”
[https://www.jns.org/us-has-no-better-friend-than-israel-graham/ JNS]
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Mamdani asked to appoint head of Jew-hatred office who can engage with Jews.
“We Jews are all navigating these new conditions we’re facing,” a member of one of the groups that signed the letter told JNS.
Debra Nussbaum Cohen.
(Jan. 18, 2026 / JNS)
As concerns about Zohran Mamdani and the safety of Jews continue to run high among many Jewish New Yorkers, 13 groups sent a letter to the new mayor asking that he appoint someone who is “grounded in the day-to-day realities of Jewish communal life and capable of engaging meaningfully with communities across all levels of observance, background and political belief” to lead the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism.
The subtext of the letter? Please do not appoint an anti-Zionist, as Mamdani did with many of the Jews who were on his transition committees. The first Muslim to win the city’s top office, Mamdani has long been anti-Israel and has said that he would have Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he visits the Big Apple.
[https://www.jns.org/mamdani-asked-to-appoint-head-of-jew-hatred-office-who-can-engage-with-jews/ JNS]
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The Horn Brothers' Chilling Account.
Two Years in the Dark: Freed Hostage Reveals the Details of Hamas’s Tunnel City.
After more than 700 days in the depths of Gaza, Eitan Horn reveals how the strength of the Israeli people kept him alive when the government and the world seemed to forget.
Author: Eliana Fleming.
Jan 18, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/hamas-tunnel-hostage-testimony JFeed]
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The Shah’s Son Returns
Hijacking the Regime: Iranian State TV Hacked to Broadcast Calls for Revolution
In a daring act of cyber defiance, opposition hackers seized control of Iran’s state television to broadcast a message from the exiled son of the Shah, calling for the military to abandon the regime.
Eliana Fleming.
Jan 18, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/iran-state-tv-hacked JFeed]
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'No longer safe'.
Trump weighs asylum plan for UK Jews amid rising antisemitism.
Israel National News.
Jan 18, 2026, 11:37 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421099 INN]
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Four months in prison for Arab who spat at IDF officer.
Ahmad Muhammad, 25, from the PA city of Huwara, spat at an officer in uniform in Ramat Gan and fled the scene.
Israel National News.
Published: Jan 18, 2026, 10:01 PM (GMT+2)
The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Thursday sentenced Ahmad Muhammad, 25, a resident of the Palestinian Authority city of Huwara, to four months in prison after he spat at an IDF officer while riding a public bus.
According to a report by Walla, Muhammad was convicted under a plea agreement on charges of assaulting an IDF officer and being illegally present in Israel. In delivering the sentence, the judge emphasized the seriousness of the offense, particularly as it occurred during a time of war.
The incident took place in May on bus line 161 in Ramat Gan. An IDF officer serving on active reserve duty, dressed in uniform, boarded the bus and sat near Muhammad. During the ride, Muhammad played music at a high volume, prompting the officer to move to another seat.
According to the amended indictment, to which Muhammad pleaded guilty, when the bus reached a stop he approached the officer from behind, leaned toward her, and spat in her face. As the bus doors opened, he fled the scene. Although the officer shouted after him, neither passengers nor the driver intervened. Muhammad returned to the Palestinian Authority but surrendered to authorities later that same evening...
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-883672 JPost]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421095 INN]
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Iran warns Trump.
Jan 18, 2026.
'Any attack on Khamenei is full-scale war'.
Iran warns that any attack on Khamenei would mean war, as the US weighs military action amid escalating tensions.
Elad Benari.
Jan 19, 2026, 1:14 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421101 INN]
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'The nicest tunnel is here'.
Matan Angrest returns to the soccer pitch.
Israel National News.
Jan 18, 2026, 10:54 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421096 INN]
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Despite drop in terror:
IDF reports rise in rock and firebomb attacks.
Yoni Kempinski.
Jan 19, 2026, 7:23 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421145 INN]
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Netanyahu.
[https://www.jns.org/sydney-massacre-was-a-warning-for-the-world-2/ JNS]
'Turkish and Qatari soldiers? Not in Gaza'
Israel National News.
Jan 19, 2026, 6:06 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421142 INN]
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IDF strikes Hezbollah terror assets in Lebanon.
The Israeli military said it attacked Hezbollah “military” camps.
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.
JNS Staff.
(Jan. 19, 2026 / JNS)
The Israel Defense Forces said on Monday that it had attacked targets belonging to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror organization in Southern Lebanon.
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]
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Syrian army targets Kurdish forces in Aleppo, Israel sounds the alarm.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused the Syrian government of targeting the Kurdish population in Aleppo, warning that violence could escelate if the international community remains silent.
i24NEWS.
January 08, 2026 at 12:30 PM
latest revision January 19, 2026 at 01:26 PM
Syrian government forces began a new military campaign in Aleppo on Thursday, announcing precision strikes against Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in several northern neighborhoods of the city.
The operation prompted authorities to enforce a citywide curfew in affected districts and warn residents to avoid areas of active fighting.
[https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/montefiore-warns-of-devalued-anti-racist-language-and-the-threats-to-holocaust-memory/ JewishNews]
[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/artc-syrian-army-targets-kurdish-forces-in-aleppo-israel-sounds-the-alarm i24]
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Sen. Graham Warns Damascus Against Military Action on Kurds, Threatens to Revive Caesar Sanctions.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham says any attack on SDF would signal the nature of Syria’s new leadership and deepen regional instability.
2026-01-17 18:40
[https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/887899/sen-graham-warns-damascus-against-military-action-on-kurds-threatens-to-revive-caesar-sanctions Kurdistan24]
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Al-Monitor: Trump Urges End to Syria–SDF Violence, Secures Pledge to Avoid Hasakah.
2026-01-19.
The call followed a meeting between Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi to finalize a ceasefire agreement announced earlier, with both sides agreeing to continue cooperation against ISIS.
[https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/888481 Kurdistan24]
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Senior Iranian UN Diplomat in Geneva Defects, Seeks Asylum in Switzerland.
By i24 News and Algemeiner Staff.
January 18, 2026.
i24 News – A senior Iranian diplomat posted to the United Nations’ European headquarters in Geneva has reportedly defected and applied for political asylum in Switzerland, according to diplomatic sources cited on Sunday by the Iranian opposition outlet Iran International.
The diplomat, Alireza Jiranieh Hokambad, served as a minister-counselor, the second-highest-ranking position in Iran’s UN delegation in Geneva.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/18/senior-iranian-un-diplomat-in-geneva-defects-seeks-asylum-in-switzerland/ Algemeiner]
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Argentina Blacklists Iran’s Quds Force as Country Marks Death of Nisman, Who Charged Tehran for AMIA Bombing
The Algemeiner.
Tuesday, January 20th | 2 Shevat 5786
By Ailin Vilches Arguello.
Argentine President Javier Milei has proscribed Iran’s Quds Force — the elite unit responsible for directing Tehran’s proxy militias and overseas terrorist operations — as the country’s Jewish community marks the 11th anniversary of the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who investigated the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
On Saturday, the Argentine president’s office announced that it had designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force as a foreign terrorist organization, describing the unit as specializing in “training for the execution of terrorist attacks in other countries.”
“Argentina was a victim of their operations in the 1990s, including the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center,” the statement read, referring to the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) bombing.
With the designation, “members of the Quds Force and their allies are subject to financial sanctions and operational restrictions aimed at limiting their capacity to act, as well as protecting the Argentine financial system from being used to support their activities.”
Milei “maintains an unbreakable commitment to recognizing terrorists for what they are,” the statement continued.
The Argentine president has previously designated Hamas, the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s branches in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan as terrorist organizations.
US and Israeli officials praised Milei’s latest move in the fight against terrorism, highlighting its significance in combating international extremist networks.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar applauded Milei’s decision, describing it as a “significant step that strengthens the international front against Iranian terrorism and honors the memory of the victims of the attacks on the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA.”
On Sunday, Argentina commemorated the 11th anniversary of Nisman’s death. Nisman died on Jan. 18, 2015, while investigating the 1994 AMIA bombing — the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 300 — as Argentine Jews renewed calls for justice after more than a decade without resolution.
“Eleven years after the assassination of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, we reaffirm our steadfast demand for justice,” the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA), the country’s Jewish umbrella organization, wrote in a post on X.
Last year, prosecutors handling the case released a report as part of the ongoing, still unresolved trial, confirming that Nisman was killed for trying to expose the Argentine government’s role in covering up the 1994 AMIA bombing.
In 2006, Nisman formally charged Iran for orchestrating the attack and its Lebanese terrorist proxy Hezbollah for carrying it out. Nine years later, he accused former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of attempting to cover up the crime and block efforts to extradite the suspects behind the AMIA atrocity in return for Iranian oil.
The alleged cover-up was reportedly formalized through the memorandum of understanding signed in 2013 between Kirchner’s government and Iranian authorities, with the stated goal of cooperating to investigate the AMIA bombing.
One day before Nisman was set to appear before the Argentine Congress to present evidence supporting his allegations against Kirchner and several of her colleagues, he was found dead in his apartment, with a gunshot wound to the head and a pistol at his side.
An official investigation into his death initially concluded that the prosecutor took his own life. However, a federal judge later reversed this decision, stating that Nisman’s gunshot wound could not have been self-inflicted.
Investigations are still underway to identify both those who carried out the act and those who ordered it.
Kirchner is set to stand trial for the allegations against her, though there is no set date.
As for the AMIA investigation, an Argentine federal judge ordered last year the trial in absentia of Iranian and Lebanese nationals suspected of orchestrating the 1994 bombing.
The 10 suspects set to stand trial include former Iranian and Lebanese ministers and diplomats, all of whom are subject to international arrest warrants issued by Argentina for their alleged roles in the terrorist attack.
Lead prosecutor Sebastián Basso — who took over the case after the murder of his predecessor, Nisman — also requested that federal Judge Daniel Rafecas issue national and international arrest warrants for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over his alleged involvement in the attack.
Despite Argentina’s longstanding belief that Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah terrorist group carried out the devastating attack at Iran’s request, the 1994 bombing has never been claimed or officially solved.
Tehran has consistently denied any involvement in any of these attacks and has refused to arrest or extradite any suspects.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/19/argentina-blacklists-irans-quds-force-country-marks-death-nisman-who-charged-tehran-amia-bombing/ Algemeiner]
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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.
Jan 19, 2026
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.
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.telegraph.co.uk/gift/80a1ee7d48a4b9db Telegraph]
[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 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.
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 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 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 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 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]
[https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/france-faces-court-over-embassy-built-on-confiscated-jewish-family-home/ Jewish News]
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Emily Damari on one year of freedom and those who did not return.
Jan 19, 2026.
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]
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@YosephHaddad:
[https://jewishonliner.org/p/stanford-sjp-calls-for-student-intifada-boycott-palantir JewishOnliner]
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."
[https://www.jns.org/university-of-washington-lifts-suspensions-of-anti-israel-protesters/ JNS]
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.
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”.
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.
Jan 19, 2026.
Jan 19, 2026.
[https://twitter.com/ElliotKaufman6/status/2013271388589601199 on X]
[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.
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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 Western Left’s embrace of decolonial theory in the 1960s and 1970s created a powerful point of convergence.
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.
By Irit Tratt.
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:
The budding lawmaker soon found his footing in politics and eventually rose to become a state senator in the nation’s most populous state.
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 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 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
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/16/jewish-americans-shouldnt-be-shocked-scott-wieners-genocide-lie/ Algemeiner]
@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.
@JamesGenn
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 20, 2026
Jan 19, 2026.
[https://x.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/2013589442921926714 on X]
[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 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.
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]
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/haredi-society-controversy JFeed]
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'NYT’: Pennsylvania’s Shapiro says Harris vetting team asked if he was an ‘Israeli agent’
The five boys, who were dressed in traditional Chassidic garb, were walking home when they were subjected to antisemitic abuse and threats.
The Jewish governor was said to have responded.
JNS Staff.
(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 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.
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.
[http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-paralleling-of-germanys-nazification.html#c2115017235870889513 at MyRightWord]
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skwysp3szl YNet]
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"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.
"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.
Akiva Van Koningsveld.
(Jan. 20, 2026 / JNS)
(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.
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]
[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 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.
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 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.”
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.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2501333/alarming-college-campus-activists-peddling-hamas-propaganda-encouraging-violence-against-jews.html YWN]
[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.”
Israel National News.
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/
Algemeiner]
[https://www.jfeed.com/general/idf-gaza-drone-strike JFeed]
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 Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post:
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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Miaminewtimes:
January 20, 2026.
Over the weekend, videos began circulating online showing a group of right-wing influencers partying to rapper Kanye West’s song “Heil Hitler” at at Vendôme’s, a Miami Beach nightclub. In the clips, “manosphere” figures Andrew Tate and Myron Gaines, as well as well-known white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes, are seen singing along to the song — which glorifies Adolf Hitler — inside the nightclub Vendôme.
The videos quickly drew widespread backlash, with hundreds of commenters flooding the nightclub's Instagram page and some calling for a boycott. In response, the club issued a statement condemning antisemitism and hate speech, calling the incident “deeply offensive and unacceptable” and saying it was investigating how it occurred.
However, the same viral clips appear to show Vendôme owner Jonathan Mansour standing alongside the influencers during their time at the club.
👉 To read the full developing story by Alex DeLuca, visit miaminewtimes.com at the link in bio.
📸 Screenshot via Kick
[https://www.instagram.com/p/DTvNH-JDX6R on Instagram]
End Jew Hatred @EndJewHatred:
When Jew-hating rhetoric shows up at your door, you don’t appease it, you shut it down.
Miami nightlife entrepreneur
@davidgrutman David Grutman did exactly that. After neo-Nazis Myron Gaines, Nick Fuentes, and their supporters were welcomed at Vendome, a club owned by competitor Jonathan Mansour, Grutman made it clear these individuals have no place in his venues or his city. He banned them from all of his nightclubs and restaurants, standing up against hatred without excuses.
Jan 20, 2026
[https://x.com/EndJewHatred/status/2013727964983075055 on X]
Vendôme Co-Owner Appeared Alongside Influencers Partying to ‘Heil Hitler’.
Jonathan Mansour is an owner and co-founder of the South Beach nightclub.
By Alex DeLuca.
January 20, 2026
[https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/vendome-co-owner-appeared-alongside-influencers-partying-to-heil-hitler-40518817/ MiamiNewTimes]
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The author is director of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs and head of the Global Law Forum. He participated in negotiating and drafting the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, as well as peace treaties with Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, as well as having served as legal adviser and deputy director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and as its ambassador to Canada.
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-884034 JPost]
Crazy footage from inside the run-over bus: “Crazy! Oh my!” | Must investigate.
New footage from inside the bus that ran over the young man Naftali Zvi Kramer (18) from Jerusalem, a student at the Satmar Yeshiva on Route 3533 at the entrance to Kommiyot. Girls who were on the bus documented the driver's rampage, which raises serious questions about the possibility of a deliberate runover.
JDN staff.
3 Bishvat 5775 (January 21, 2026)
[https://www.jdn.co.il/news/2562600/ HDN]
An ordinary accident? The heavy question marks following the shocking footage of the run-over of the late teenager Naftali Kramer.
While the police were quick to determine that the runover of the late Naftali Kramer was a "normal traffic accident," new footage from inside the bus reveals a different and horrifying reality: "We will not rest until the driver is brought to justice" | United Torah Judaism Chairman in conversation with Minister Ben Gvir: "An act committed with malice".
Avi Gadlovitch| News in Israel.
21.01.26 | 10:35
An ordinary accident? The hard question marks following the shocking footage of the run-over of the late teenager Naftali Kramer
The moment of the crush Photo: Courtesy of the family.
The terrible tragedy that occurred last night at the Kommiut intersection, in which the young man Naftali Zvi Kramer, a Satmar yeshiva student, lost his life, is taking a dramatic turn this morning. While in the early hours the police tried to portray the incident as a routine traffic accident unrelated to the demonstrations held in the area, a new video released this morning raises serious and disturbing question marks about the driver's conduct.
In the chilling footage from inside the bus, girls on the bus can be heard recognizing the approaching danger even before the impact. The screams heard on the bus left no doubt about the panic that gripped the passengers at the way the driver was driving: "Here are all the boys, what is he doing? He's crazy, motherfucker... It's boys, enough! What is this, what did he do, you idiot!"
Seconds later, a horrific scream is heard – the moment when the bus violently hit the late Kramer, who was on his way to a yeshiva. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and the shock turned into heavy mourning with his funeral procession held at night in Jerusalem.
The driver is expected to be brought in for an extended detention on suspicion of reckless homicide, negligent homicide, and endangering human life on a highway. In light of the new evidence, Kramer's family is demanding that the police complete their investigation of the driver.
"The blood of the Haredim is not in vain".
Following the shocking documentation, United Torah Judaism Chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf spoke this morning with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and demanded an uncompromising investigation.
"The new footage, which shows the bus driver accelerating toward the group of protesters, leaves no room for doubt that the action was done maliciously," Goldknopf attacked. According to him, Minister Ben Gvir promised that the police would investigate the incident thoroughly and emphasized: "The blood of our Haredi brothers will not be in vain."
MK Meir Porush also commented and linked the matter to the tragedy of the killing of the young man Yosef Eisenthal, the late: "The serious phenomenon whereby time after time, ultra-Orthodox Jews participating in protests are injured, and in two cases this even claimed human lives, requires a rigorous and incisive examination. Every person has the right to protest, and every Jew in the Land of Israel deserves the opportunity to express his pain over what is happening without fear of being harmed. Every effort must be made to ensure that these acts will not, God forbid, be repeated, and the drivers who run over people must be punished very severely."
[https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1716854 Bhol]
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The courage of Iranians and the cowardice of Westerners
Cowardice is an effective survival strategy for effete westerners, but courage emerges in Iran where fear no longer has any power. Opinion.
Giulio Meotti
Jan 20, 2026, 7:11 PM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421201 INN]
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Fatah shares Hamas’s goal to destroy Israel.
Much of the international community has clung to the fiction that Hamas and Fatah are different—that Hamas is irredeemably extremist, while Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority, is flawed but pragmatic.
Moshe Phillips.
(Jan. 19, 2026 / JNS)
Abbas Zaki, a senior Fatah leader and member of its Central Committee, the Palestinian Authority’s ruling political party, said recently that “Israel is doomed to perish.”
This is not an isolated incident; when examined closely, there’s little difference between the future that Fatah and Hamas want. And that is a future where Israel does not exist.
Zaki said this is as part of a Jan. 9 interview with Arabi 21, an Arabic news website based in the United Kingdom: “In the end, the winner is the one who remains on the land … and those who will remain are the ones with the idea, the idea that says there is no escaping the fact that this land will be liberated, and that the land of peace cannot be based on revenge. Israel is doomed to perish.”
There is no ambiguity here. No mistranslation. No context that softens the meaning. This is not the rhetoric of a partner for peace or the language of a movement committed to a peaceful future. It is a declaration of intent—one that mirrors, almost perfectly, the genocidal aims openly proclaimed by Hamas.
But there’s more. Zaki is not a marginal figure in Fatah. Twenty years ago, he served as the top representative to Lebanon for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which at the time was one of the terror group’s most visible and important foreign-affairs posts. He went on to a position in Beijing. Fatah is the dominant faction of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority.
Nor was this anywhere near the first time Zaki spoke honestly about his desire to see Israelis and Jews slaughtered. In 2014, he said, “These Israelis have no religion and no principles, they are an advanced instrument of evil,” and “I believe that God will gather them so we can kill them.”
And just days after Hamas led the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, The Times of Israel reported: “In an interview with the Lebanese channel, Fatah’s Abbas Zaki thanked the armed wings of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, responsible for the Oct. 7 onslaught.”
For years, much of the international community has clung to the comforting fiction that Hamas and Fatah are fundamentally different—that Hamas is irredeemably extremist while Fatah, which dominates the P.A., is merely flawed but pragmatic. Zaki’s words expose that illusion. It is really hard to tell what separates Hamas and Fatah.
As uncomfortable as it may be for New York Times pundits and leaders of groups like J Street, who have spent decades heavily invested in the “peace process,” the truth is this: Hamas and Fatah share more in common than what separates them, and chief among their shared goals is the elimination of the Jewish state.
The P.A. and Hamas are partners in terrorism. The past moments of tension between the two terrorist groups reflected either internal disputes unrelated to Israel or arguments over tactics regarding Israel, not differences in their overall goals.
In July 2024, Hamas and Fatah agreed to form a unity government together after the Israel-Hamas war ends, and they issued a joint statement about their commitment to future meetings. The unity pact their representatives signed in Beijing (of all places) made their true motives very clear. Mahmoud Abbas, head of the P.A., has not made any official new statements since Beijing, saying that he will no longer abide by his July 2024 pledge that he would work with Hamas.
That unity agreement should have been a diplomatic earthquake. Instead, it was met with shrugs, rationalizations and willful blindness. Western governments that bankroll the P.A. continue to pretend that Fatah is a moderating force, even as it openly aligns itself with Hamas—the very organization responsible for mass murder, hostage-taking and the deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.
Consider that the 90-year-old Abbas has also long been given a free pass from the United Nations and others regarding the P.A.’s harboring and protecting of terrorists. The P.A. has one of the largest per-capita security forces in the world (more than 60,000 men), largely armed and trained by the United States. Yet instead of using those forces to arrest and extradite terrorists—as the Oslo Accords require—Abbas and friends pay salaries to terrorists and their families, and shelter fugitive terrorists so Israel can’t capture them.
This is not a failure of capacity. It is a failure of will—and, more accurately, a reflection of intent. The P.A. does not arrest terrorists because it does not see them as criminals. It sees them as assets.
That truth became even clearer with the cosmetic rebranding of the notorious “pay-for-slay” system that has rewarded Palestinian Arab terrorism for decades. We were told this system had been reformed. We were told it is now humanitarian, not ideological. This, too, was a lie.
The only way to truly end “pay-for-slay” is for the P.A. to announce that anybody who has engaged in violence against Israel is disqualified from any P.A. payments. That would demonstrate that the entity sincerely rejects terrorism. Anything less is a sham, which is designed to pull the wool over the eyes of the international community.
Zaki said the quiet part out loud: Israel is “doomed to perish.” Hamas has been saying the same thing for years. The difference is no longer substantive, only stylistic.
It is long past time for the international community to stop rewarding duplicity. Diplomatic recognition of the P.A., financial aid without conditions and the pretense that Abbas represents a peaceful alternative have all failed. They have not moderated P.A. leadership; they have emboldened it.
If words still matter, then Zaki’s utterances must have consequences. Governments that genuinely oppose terrorism and support Israel’s right to exist should immediately suspend diplomatic recognition of the P.A.; cut off funding that enables terrorism; and demand real, verifiable rejection of violence, not empty promises.
The future cannot be built on fantasies. And it certainly cannot be built with partners who openly proclaim that Israel “is doomed to perish.”
[https://www.jns.org/fatah-shares-hamass-goal-to-destroy-israel/ JNS]
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Trump on Iran: 'I ordered more bombers, hope we won't need to take action'.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that "Iran must stop with the nuclear program." He said this in an interview with CNBC, adding: "I ordered 25 more B2 bombers. I hope that no further action will be needed - they are firing indiscriminately at people in the streets."
Ynet|01.21.26.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/cpqsqy80n YNet[
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'80 million hostages': Iranians under a digital siege amid internet blackout
“The Islamic Republic turned the streets into rivers of blood. No one has been able to show the depth of the crimes, because the regime shut down the internet," one anonymous citizen wrote.
Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities
By Alex Winston. January 20, 2026
Many have described the current protests inside Iran as a “Berlin Wall” moment, meant to evoke the unforgettable, positive transformation European geopolitics underwent when the wall came down. Instead, for the past few weeks, what has taken place in Iran is better described as a digital Iron Curtain descending across the country.
What little information escapes the digital wall erected by the Islamic Republic comes only in fragments: text-only messages, broken calls lasting mere seconds, testimony passed through intermediaries abroad. Together, they describe a country under de facto martial law, where streets are controlled by guns and communication itself has become a punishable act.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-883992 JPost]
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
The NYT coverage of Iran murdering civilians vs. Gaza shows how media bias works
It has been nearly a month since Iran has been mowing down civilians in the streets.
The Jerusalem Post [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-883992] sums it up:
The human cost is staggering. According to figures cited by Iranian officials themselves, at least 5,000 people have been killed since protests erupted on December 28, including around 500 members of the security forces. Authorities blame “terrorists and armed rioters.” Human rights activists and opposition groups dispute that narrative and say the death toll could be far higher, potentially exceeding 20,000.
At least 24,669 Iranians have been arrested.
A doctor inside Iran described the killings as “genocide under digital darkness” to the British newspaper The Sunday Times. One couple told the paper they were given “ten minutes to cry” when shown the body of their daughter – after being forced to pay a $5,000 “bullet fee” to recover her remains. After paying, they were driven five hours to another town, where her body had been thrown into an old grave.
Numerous families have reported being charged exorbitant sums to retrieve the bodies of loved ones killed by the regime.
Images shared from within Iran during the past week also show injured protesters admitted to hospitals – tubes and catheters still attached, admission tags visible – and then shot point-blank in the head, their bodies lying on the ground. Doctors have also reportedly refused to treat protesters, branding them enemies of the regime.
Beyond live fire, the blackout is the Islamic Republic’s central weapon against the demonstrators. With mobile data cut nationwide and only sporadic landline access available, Iranians are isolated from one another and from the outside world. Evidence cannot be shared; deaths cannot be documented.
Several Iranians contacted by the Post used the same word to describe their condition.
Hostages.
By any reasonable measure, Iran is treating its own people worse than Israel treated Gazans in the first month of its war. While "human rights activists" complained about Israel's supposed limits on reporting, there were plenty of photos and stories that were published and Hamas' press releases were treated as truth.
During October 2023, the New York Times routinely had top stories about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, above the fold, accompanied by photos of Gaza civilians that were three columns wide:
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When Iran is the top story, it is more about politics than human lives. I only found one photo above the fold of Iranian civilians - very few stories about Iran make it to the front page, and of those only a tiny number center people being killed.
Here is one of the few.
Keep in mind that even according to Hamas, less than 10,000 were killed in the first month of the war. Human rights activists say 20,000 protesters were killed in Iran - all targeted killings of civilians.
To be sure, there are few photos of Iran that get smuggled out. The NYT did put one up of body bags. Notice that the deaths were placed in the subhead, not the headline.
But the Gaza war was on the front page every single day. These recent Iran articles are the exceptions, not the rule. Even though the regime is ruthlessly attacking its own people, murdering thousands.
The Times could use infographics to replace photos if they thought that the Iranian story was something to emphasize.
Clearly they felt Gaza was.
[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-nyt-coverage-of-iran-murdering.html EoZ]
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
Why Anti-Zionist Narratives Cannot Tolerate Jewish Victimhood.
The most extreme anti-Israel accusations are rarely argued. They are asserted, repeated, and emotionally charged, because their function is not to weigh evidence but to establish a moral starting point: Israeli Jews must be understood as uniquely malevolent actors.
Once that assumption is in place, accusations of colonialism, apartheid, or genocide no longer need to be demonstrated. They feel self-evident. Evidence becomes secondary to repetition, and contradiction is dismissed as propaganda.
There is a feedback loop. In order to believe anti-Israel accusations like "settler colonialism[sic]," "apartheid[sic]" or "genocide[sic]," one must initially believe that Israeli Jews [sic] are evil[sic[. Because if you think of them as normal human beings, it is easy to find alternative explanations for the cherry picked evidence that supposedly "prove" those accusations. It happens with Amnesty, it happens with Turkey, it happens with SJP and with Candace Owens.
This is why anti-Zionist narratives work so hard to condition moral intuition. Through slogans, analogies, and fictionalized portrayals, ordinary people are trained to associate Israeli Jews with the worst crimes imaginable. The aim is not persuasion but habituation – to make bad faith feel like common sense.
This conditioning also explains a striking and otherwise baffling pattern: any portrayal of Israelis as victims is treated as inherently suspect. Haters work overtime to make sure that no one else looks at Jews as being normal people, or victims of terror, who are just trying to survive in a neighborhood where most people want to see them dead. October 7 victims cannot be victims - they must be perpetrators. Bondi Beach victims must be part of a false flag operation.
This is not because the facts are unclear. It is because Jewish victimhood breaks the narrative.
To acknowledge Israeli Jews as victims is to acknowledge them as human. And once Jews are allowed to be human – capable of fear, vulnerability, and legitimate self-defense – the entire moral structure of the anti-Zionist narrative begins to collapse. The villain cannot be a victim without destroying the story.
As a result, suffering must be denied, inverted, or blamed on the Jews themselves. Even mass violence is reframed as provocation, manipulation, or performance. The denial is not incidental; it is structural. Anything that humanizes Jews threatens the propaganda’s core objective. Even antisemitism is blamed on Jews - if it is bad, it must be the Jews' fault.
If one begins instead with the assumption that Israelis are ordinary people living under extreme and often tragic constraints, the standard accusations no longer cohere. Civilian deaths remain tragic. Policies can be criticized, sometimes harshly. But claims of genocide or apartheid require importing a prior belief in uniquely evil intent.
That belief is not a conclusion drawn from evidence. It is the belief system that makes the narrative possible in the first place.
Antisemitism is not merely the emotional fuel of anti-Zionism. It is the moral infrastructure that cannot tolerate Jewish humanity.
[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2026/01/why-anti-zionist-narratives-cannot.html EoZ]
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Terror group paraphernalia sold at fundraiser in New York youth center.
Pop-up shop held to support Sudan features items in support of Hamas, Hezbollah and the PFLP
By Luke Tress. 20 Jan 2026.
NEW YORK — Vendors sold paraphernalia for US-designated terrorist groups during a fundraiser held at a New York City youth center on Sunday, according to videos posted online.
The footage showed tables at the event arrayed with keychains, pins and stickers in support of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The US State Department has designated all three groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
[https://www.timesofisrael.com/terror-group-paraphernalia-sold-at-fundraiser-in-new-york-youth-center/ ToI]
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Turkish Muslim student faces arrest, death threats after calling herself Zionist - interview.
Aspiring-journalist Avci moved to Israel from Turkey five years ago. Last week, Instagram influencer Tal The Traveler posted a video in which he asked Avci if she is a Zionist.
([https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_720,w_1280/702705].
TURKISH MUSLIM student Türkü Avci, now unable to go back to Turkey because of an arrest warrant in her name).
By Mathilda Heller.
January 20, 2026.
“There is a warrant out for my arrest,” Turkish Muslim student Turku Avci told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
Aspiring journalist Avci moved to Israel from Turkey five years ago to study at the Hebrew University. Last week, Instagram influencer Tal Oran, who goes by the username Tal the Traveler, uploaded a video in which he asked Avci if she, a Turkish Muslim woman, was a Zionist.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-883997 JPost]
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Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Attend Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan's Verna In Lahore, Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman: 'Israel Is An Illegitimate Child Of The West'; 'America Is An Open Enemy Of Humanity'.
January 20, 2026 I By Tufail Ahmad and Yigal Carmon.
Pakistan I Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1906.
A delegation of Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen ("the Muslim Brotherhood," MB) was among 150 delegates of Islamic religious organizations from 45 countries that took part in the three-day ijtema ("religious congregation") organized by Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan on November 21-23, 2025.[1]
The gathering addressed several issues concerning Pakistan and the Islamic world, while an international session on the second day of the three-day event was focused on Gaza and Israel.
The MB delegation was led by Dr. Muhyiddin Al-Zayt, member of the MB Supreme Administrative Authority, on behalf of Dr. Salah Abdel Haq, the acting General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.[2]
According to the official website of the Muslim Brotherhood, the delegation members included Dr. Helmy Al-Gazzar and Mahmoud Al-Ibiary, members of the MB Supreme Administrative Authority; and Suhaib Abdel Maqsoud, also a member of the MB Supreme Administrative Authority and its media spokesperson.[3]
It should be noted that on November 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), especially the organization's chapters in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt for engaging in or facilitating and supporting violence and destabilization campaigns that "harm their own regions, United States citizens, and United States interests" - according to a White House announcement.
[https://www.memri.org/tv/tareq-al-suwaidan-training-muslim-brotherhood-youth-jihad-west MEMRI]
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Activist Probed for Anti-Israel Posts No Longer Assistant Attorney General of Michigan, State Tells JNS.
By JNS.org -January 20, 2026.
([https://www.jewishexponent.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Nation-2-630x420.jpg].Zena Ozeir listed on a flyer for a Jan. 17, 2026 event. Source: Screen capture).
Jessica Russak-Hoffman | JNS
Zena Ozeir lists her current role on LinkedIn as assistant attorney general of the state of Michigan — a role that she has held since June 2023, per her profile.
The office of Dana Nessel, Michigan attorney general and a Democrat, told JNS exclusively that Ozeir does not currently hold that position.
“Zena Ozeir is no longer employed by the Michigan Department of Attorney General,” Kimberly Bush, Nessel’s director of public information and education, told JNS.
JNS sought comment from Nessel’s office about whether Ozeir was dismissed, and if so, whether it was as a result of a probe by the state office of her social media posts.
In June 2024, Nessel’s office told the Detroit News that it was investigating social-media posts, in which Ozeir appeared to direct expletives at America and Israel.
She made her handle private after the Detroit News sought comment from Nessel’s office, the paper said.
On Jan. 17, Ozeir was a panelist at an in-person event, which the group Palestine Solidarity Grand Rapids hosted in the city, per one of its social media posts. The event was hosted at the Fountain Street Church Sanctuary, per a flier, which identifies Ozeir as an “attorney, activist and USPCN member.” (The latter refers to the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, which “works closely with and unequivocally supports Students for Justice in Palestine,” per its site.)
The event flyer calls for the Holy Land 5 — leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, who were convicted in 2008 of funnelling millions of dollars to Hamas — to be freed.
According to the Grand Rapids group, more than 100 people attended the panel, which featured Nida Abu Baker, whose father, Shukri Abu Baker, is one of the five who were convicted. Anti-war activist Tom Burke was also listed on the flier.
“We have learned that the law is not meant to protect us,” Ozeir said at the event. “This was something that’s been going on before Palestine was in the headlines all the time, and before 2023, and it’s a shame that it took a genocide for Palestine to become front and center.”
“The Holy Land Foundation case established that humanitarian aid providing public-support benefit to a group like Hamas constitutes terrorism support,” she added. “Wherever the wind blows, you could wake up one day, and Trump says, ‘Hey, I’m going to designate this a foreign terrorist organization, and then you are at risk of material support of terrorism.’”
The State Bar of California website states that Ozeir has an active license. It lists her address as the Michigan Office of the Attorney General.
[https://www.jewishexponent.com/activist-probed-for-anti-israel-posts-no-longer-assistant-attorney-general-of-michigan-state-tells-jns/ JewishExponent]
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Michigan has to be more clear about how, why its assistant attorney general left, Jewish groups says.
JNS reported that Zena Ozeir is no longer an assistant attorney general in the Wolverine State, although the state attorney general’s office wouldn’t say if she was dismissed for antisemitic posts.
Jessica Russak-Hoffman.
(Jan. 21, 2026 / JNS)
National Jewish organizations called for the state of Michigan to be more clear about the nature of Zena Ozeir’s departure from the state government after JNS reported on Tuesday that she is no longer an assistant Michigan attorney general.
“No public office holder should be engaging in this kind of hateful and inciteful rhetoric,” Daniel Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.
“There is an obligation on the part of the Michigan attorney general’s office to make clear precisely what prompted her departure from such an influential public position,” Mariaschin said.
After JNS reported that Ozeir still listed her job as current on LinkedIn, she changed her profile to state that she is an “assistant attorney general” but that her job in that capacity at the Michigan Department of Attorney General ended in January 2026.
The office of Dana Nessel, Michigan attorney general and a Democrat, told JNS on Tuesday that Ozeir does not currently hold that position. “Zena Ozeir is no longer employed by the Michigan Department of Attorney General,” Kimberly Bush, Nessel’s director of public information and education, told JNS
[https://www.jns.org/michigan-has-to-be-more-clear-about-how-why-its-assistant-attorney-general-left-jewish-groups-says/ JNS]
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Iran hospitals, morgues face body bag shortages, local sources say.
Iran International l. January 21, 2026
Iran hospitals, morgues face body bag shortages, local sources say
Medical facilities in several Iranian cities are facing shortages of body bags as the number of people killed in nationwide protests rises, witnesses told Iran International, describing a heavy security presence at hospitals and morgues.
In messages received from inside Iran on Wednesday, sources said the shortage has led to the accumulation of protesters’ bodies in hospital halls and morgues, while security forces have intervened in the process of handing over the remains.
They said hospital entrances are being tightly controlled, medical staff and families are under pressure, and the registration of information related to the dead has been restricted, in an apparent effort to prevent the true number of those killed from becoming public.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601214183 Iran Intl]
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US deploys F‑15 squadron to Mideast as tensions with Iran rise.
CENTCOM deploys an F‑15 squadron to the Middle East, citing enhanced readiness and regional security as tensions with Iran persist.
Israel National News.
Jan 21, 2026, 5:22 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421224 INN]
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EU moves to expand drone, missile tech ban on Iran.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen announces plans to expand drone and missile tech export bans on Iran as the regime’s crackdown leaves thousands dead.
Israel National News.
Jan 21, 2026, 5:40 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421225 INN]
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IAEA chief warns Iran standoff nearing breaking point.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi warns Iran must account for missing enriched uranium and allow inspections at bombed sites, saying the standoff “cannot go on forever".
Elad Benari.
Jan 21, 2026, 6:57 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421229 INN]
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U.S. Troops in Israel.
Exposed: Pentagon Planning Massive "Mega-Base" in Gaza Envelope - Here's What to Know.
Secret US Plan Exposed: The Pentagon is planning a $500 million "mega-base" near the Gaza border to house thousands of international peacekeepers. Report reveals a dramatic expansion of US military presence in Israel.
Jfeed Staff.
Jan 21, 2026 13:06
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/pentagon-mega-base-israel JFeed]
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IDF Responds to Gaza Incident: "We Struck Suspects Operating a Hamas Drone".
IDF Confirms Drone Strike: The Israeli military responds to the deadly incident in Gaza, stating forces targeted suspects operating a "Hamas drone" that posed a threat. The event is under review.read more
Jfeed Staff. January 21, 2026.
[https://www.jfeed.com/general/idf-gaza-drone-strike JFeed]
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WARNING: GRAPHIC.
Chilling Footage: Iranian Security Forces Attack Protester with Axe [VERY GRAPHIC].
Horrific screams echo as Iranian thugs hack a defenseless protester with an axe, raw proof of Tehran's savage tyranny crushing dissent.
Jfeed Staff. January 21, 2026.
[https://www.jfeed.com/general/iran-protest-violence-crackdown JFeed]
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Netanyahu Joins Trump's 'Board of Peace' Despite Serious Concerns.
Trump's UN Alternative: The "Board of Peace" expands beyond Gaza with a $1B entry fee. As Israel and Argentina sign on, Europe pushes back against the initiative to bypass the United Nations.
Jfeed Staff. January 21, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/general/trump-gaza-board-of-peace JFeed]
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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post:
Opinion: To fixate on flawed accusations against Israel while ignoring genuine, massive atrocities elsewhere is to repeat ominous historical precedents.
From jpost.com [https://t.co/0msO2w2pGU]
Jan 21, 2026.
[https://x.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/2014001305124057373 on X]
Buzzwords and false allegations are Western human rights inversion - opinion.
To fixate on flawed accusations against Israel while ignoring genuine, massive atrocities elsewhere is to repeat ominous historical precedents.
By Alan Baker. January 21, 2026.
With tragedies abounding, the Western brainwashing machinery is working overtime against Israel.
Thousands murdered and brutally subjugated in Iran. Thousands of non-Arab ethnic groups butchered in Sudan. Massive death tolls in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Myanmar violently represses its Rohingya and other minorities. Mass atrocities by Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria. Extrajudicial killings of civilians in Tanzania. Massacres of Christians in churches and hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But Western media outlets, social-media platforms, UN and human rights committees, political leaders and parliamentarians, incited university students, and ignorant show-biz celebrities spout accusations against Israel of genocide, apartheid, starvation, and disproportionate military actions.
Such paragons of humanitarian virtue claim to defend human rights and advocate for Palestinians, but glaringly ignore everyone else and deny the rights to which Israel and its citizens are entitled. They ignore genocidal violence and terror by Palestinian and Islamist fanatics, which is incited by Palestinian leadership and supported, encouraged, and financed by Iran, Qatar, and Turkey.
No less glaring is the fact that the Western world chooses to forget the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023 – the rape, torture, burning, and butchery of thousands of Israelis and foreigners; the taking of hundreds of hostages; and the use of Hamas’s own civilians as human shields.
A child wears a Hamas head banner after Friday prayers in Gaza City.
What should be a universal moral standard of human rights has become a cynical and transparent political weapon, directed against Israel.
Popular buzzwords against Israel.
Popular buzzwords – “genocide,” “apartheid,” “colonialism,” “racism,” “starvation,” and “indiscriminate destruction” – are the lingua franca of this propaganda fixation against Israel. They are chanted at demonstrations, repeated in Western parliaments, and echoed in politicized international courts.
A well-financed system of brainwashing, funded by Qatar, Iran, and Turkey, feeds this narrative, which is eagerly absorbed by a woke-inspired international chorus of useful idiots in Europe and the West.
The allegation of “genocide” is particularly offensive and contrived. It was coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin in response to the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews and was criminalized in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Today it is cynically repackaged and applied against Israel, most prominently in South Africa’s absurd claims at the International Court of Justice. Thus, a legal instrument intended to punish genocide, as well as a once-respected international court, have been turned into political weapons.
This genocide accusation willfully misinterprets the convention’s definition, while those accusing Israel conveniently ignore explicit genocidal calls to eliminate Israel “from the river to the sea,” which heralded Hamas’s October 7 “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack. No proceedings have been initiated against those inciting or supporting genocide against Israel and the Jewish people.
The apartheid claim.
Equally contrived is the buzzword “apartheid,” copy-pasted from South Africa’s repressive system of institutionalized racial segregation. The UN-driven attempt to label Israel an apartheid state traces back to the 1975 General Assembly’s politicized resolution branding Zionism as racism – later revoked in 1991 but never erased from the public narrative.
It resurfaced at the 2001 Durban Racism Conference and continues to fuel campaigns to delegitimize Israel and justify sanctions modeled on those once imposed on South Africa.
This propaganda ignores Israel’s multi-racial, pluralistic democracy, where Arab citizens enjoy constitutional equality, freedom of expression, and full political representation. Israel’s security restrictions on Palestinian movement and access in parts of Judea and Samaria are not racially based, but a legitimate response to ongoing terror and incitement by Hamas and other groups.
False starvation charge.
The allegation that Israel pursues a policy of starvation in Gaza is another false charge, promoted through manipulated Hamas statistics and willingly amplified by Arab and foreign media, UN bodies, and even the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in his arrest warrant against Israel’s prime minister.
Hardships faced by civilians in Gaza stem from the conflict situation – including chaotic handling of aid by international bodies and the systematic commandeering of trucks and cargo by Hamas, which sells supplies at inflated prices in local markets.
A controversial August 2025 study by the UN-affiliated “Famine Review Committee” fueled this narrative, despite being widely criticized and discredited for methodological flaws and data manipulation. Israel enables rapid and unimpeded passage of relief into Gaza, as reflected in UN and World Food Programme statistics on functioning food markets and the availability of humanitarian goods.
Accusations of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks and destruction by Israel in Gaza, disseminated by the Hamas disinformation machine, are readily amplified by sympathetic politicians and media. In reality, the Jewish state undertakes significant efforts, consistent with international humanitarian law, to warn civilians and remove them from combat areas – even as Hamas deliberately embeds its terror infrastructure and operatives in homes, schools, hospitals, high-rises, and an extensive tunnel network beneath civilian neighborhoods. International law explicitly prohibits such use of human shields.
Property used for acts of terror constitutes a legitimate military target.
To fixate on flawed accusations against Israel while ignoring genuine, massive atrocities elsewhere is to repeat ominous historical precedents. This inversion of human-rights values, aimed solely at singling out Israel, should be obvious – but sadly, it is not.
The author is director of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs and head of the Global Law Forum. He participated in negotiating and drafting the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, as well as peace treaties with Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, as well as having served as legal adviser and deputy director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and as its ambassador to Canada.
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-884034 JPost]
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Iran acknowledges: At least 3,117 dead in protests.
Nitsan Keidar.
Jan 21, 2026, 9:05 PM
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421267
Eight Muslim‑majority nations join the US‑backed Peace Council for Gaza, supporting Trump’s initiative to secure a ceasefire, rebuild Gaza, and advance a political framework.
Israel National News.
Jan 22, 2026, 4:18 AM (GMT+2)
Foreign ministers from Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates announced on Wednesday that their countries will join a Peace Council for Gaza, following an invitation extended by US President Donald Trump to their leaders, reported Turkish media.
The joint statement, released by Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, reflects a significant diplomatic alignment among major Muslim‑majority states around the American‑led initiative. Each country will sign membership documents according to its own legal and procedural requirements, with Egypt, Pakistan and the UAE already formally declaring participation.
The eight ministers reaffirmed their support for President Trump’s peace efforts and committed to implementing the Peace Council mission as a transitional administration. The mission is outlined in the Comprehensive Plan to End the Conflict in Gaza, approved under UN Security Council Resolution 2803.
According to the statement, the initiative seeks to secure a lasting ceasefire, support Gaza’s reconstruction, and advance what it describes as a just and sustainable peace based on the Palestinian right to self‑determination and statehood under international law. The ministers said these goals are intended to promote security and stability for all peoples in the region.
The ministers emphasized their determination to pursue “fair and lasting peace," noting that diplomatic coordination among the participating countries will continue.
Trump's Board of Peace, an international body chaired by the US President himself, is a central element of the Trump administration's efforts to secure lasting stability in Gaza following the ceasefire which went into effect in October.
The Board of Peace is tasked with providing strategic oversight for Gaza's demilitarization, reconstruction, and transitional governance, coordinating with a Palestinian Arab-led National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) while mobilizing international resources and funding.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday morning that he has accepted Trump’s invitation and will join the "Board of Peace."
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421279 INN]
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Iranian man pretends to be dead for three days, fearing a regime execution - report
According to the account shared by the IHRDC, the family of the man spent three days looking for their son, who had gone missing, searching hospitals and the Behesht Zahra cemetery.
By Sam Halpern. January 21, 2026.
An Iranian man lay among the dead at a Kahrizak forensic facility, pretending to be deceased for three days, fearing that if he were discovered, regime officers would execute him with a “finishing shot,” the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center reported on Wednesday, citing an account it had received.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-884071 JPost]
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Witnesses say some victims still breathing at Tehran morgue.
Iran International. January 21, 2026.
Some victims were still breathing among the bodies of dead protesters seen at Tehran’s Kahrizak Forensic Medical Center after a crackdown on protests in the capital, witnesses said in messages sent to Iran International on Wednesday.
According to the accounts, witnesses saw “two piles of bodies” at Kahrizak, some of whom were still breathing, with security forces stacking bodies on top of one another.
Three eye witnesses said security forces used live ammunition and metal pellets during demonstrations in eastern Tehran on Jan. 9, leaving streets “filled with blood.”
They said the shooting took place in the area from Golbarg Street toward Haft-Hoz, adding that it was impossible to film because “bullets and pellets were coming from all directions.”
The witnesses described seeing the body of a naked man lying in a roadside drainage channel.
The eyewitnesses said they were injured but did not seek medical treatment out of fear of arrest or being shot at close range. They added that one of their friends was killed the same night.
They said clinics were overwhelmed with wounded people and that residents searching for missing relatives were forced to step over bodies.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601212867 IranIntl]
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Iranian security forces kill flower shop owner who sheltered protesters.
Iran International. January 21, 2026.
A shopkeeper who sheltered protesters was shot dead by security forces in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz during nationwide demonstrations, people familiar with the matter told Iran International in messages received on Wednesday.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601212814 IranIntl]
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Protesters outside US embassy demand US, Israeli action after Kurdish massacre.
Several signs pointed to Israel’s close relationship with the Kurdish community. One read “Israel loves Kurdistan,” while others went further, openly calling for military action against the regime.
Around 50 protesters gathered outside the US embassy to protest against what they described as Washington's inaction in the face of the latest massacre in Syria carried out by the Sharaa regime, on January 21, 2026.
By Danielle Greyman-Kennard
January 22, 2026 00:32
Around 50 protesters gathered outside the US embassy on Wednesday night, their voices rising in protest against what they described as Washington’s inaction in the face of the latest massacre carried out by the Sharaa regime. This time, after months of attacks on Syrian minorities, the violence was directed at Syrian Kurds.
Several signs pointed to Israel’s close relationship with the Kurdish community. One read “Israel loves Kurdistan,” while others went further, openly calling for military action against the Sharaa regime. “Bomb Juliani now,” one banner declared.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-884147 JPost]
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Trump on Iran:
'We hope there’s not going to be further action'
Speaking to CNBC, Trump says Iran canceled 837 planned executions after his threat of military action, urges Tehran to stop pursuing nuclear weapons.
Elad Benari.
Jan 21, 2026, 11:44 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421274 INN]
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Exclusive | After club vows to investigate Nazi incident, it turns out its owners were amid the far-right revelers.
Miami club owners who vowed to probe Nick Fuentes’ Nazi night out revealed to have partied with far-right revelers instead.
By Mara Siegler.
Published. Jan. 20, 2026.
A Miami nightclub solemnly vowed to investigate after a group of
white supremacists and accused sex-traffickers were given VIP treatment
and danced to Kanye West’s song “Heil Hitler” while enjoying bottle service.
But Page Six has learned that the club’s owners were partying with the vile posse.
A group of extremists partied at a Miami nightclub called Vendome this weekend.
@Antunes1/X
At least it should make the investigation easy!
Over the weekend, video circulated of reviled internet personality Nick Fuentes, Holocaust denier Myron Gaines, right-wing internet personalities Sneako and Clavicular, and Andrew and Tristan Tate — who both stand accused of rape and human trafficking — partying at Vendôme.
They were taped singing along and dancing to the West song.
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The group posted video of Myron Gaines giving a Nazi salute on the way to the club).
By Monday, the club released a statement saying, “We want to make it unequivocally clear: Vendôme and our hospitality group do not condone antisemitism, hate speech, or prejudice of any kind. These values are fundamentally opposed to who we are and the environments we strive to create.”
It even said its fired a number of staffers over the matter, and claimed that it “permanently banned the individuals involved” and has “implemented new protocols and safeguards” to ensure it does not happen again.
But video reviewed by Page Six appears to show the club’s owners, Byram Zaied and Jonathan Mansour, partying in the group with Fuentes and friends all evening.
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Nightclub owner Byram Zaied, shown here also crossing his arms in his LinkedIn photo, appears to be standing next to Andrew Tate in video taken during the evening).
One clip shows a man who appears to be Zaied standing next to Andrew, and in a livestream of the evening on Kick by Sneako, a man who appears to be Mansour can be seen at a table with the former kickboxer, who was treated to several shout-outs over the club’s sound system, while club staff carried an illuminated sign reading “Welcome Andrew Tate.”
There’s also video of the hate-filled crew listening to “Heil Hitler” in a van on the way to the club. Gaines, who wrote the book “Why Women Deserve Less,” can be seen yelling “Jews mad!” and throwing a Nazi salute.
Reps for the club did not respond when we asked if Mansour or Zaied were present in the VIP area, and Mansour hung up on us when we called, saying the club had already made a statement. Mansour also did not respond when we sent him a screenshot from the video, asking if the man in the image was him.
DJ Vybz was deejaying the evening.
Both Tate brothers have been charged with
human trafficking and rape
and are under investigation in three countries... [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/briefing/the-world-of-andrew-tate.html].
Fuentes is one of the most well known white supremacists and has espoused misogynistic and homophobic views. Sneako has been banned from several sites for hateful content. Gaines is known for his antisemitic and male supremacist views. Online streamer Clavicular is under age at only 20 years old. He focuses on “looksmaxxing” — a term used by so-called “incels” to describe an uncompromising and sometimes dangerous pursuit of conventional good looks — and advocates using crystal meth as an appetite suppressant and breaking bones to “improve” appearance.
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When we asked McBride if Zaied and Mansour were at the table with Tate, he told us he didn’t know.
The club issued an apology after getting backlash. Hours later they said they completed their investigation.
Miami Beach mayor Steven Meiner condemned the incident. He tells Page Six that his office is investigating.
He told us, “Multiple [Miami] club owners [have reached out to me since the incident] and said, ‘You don’t play that song, it’s off limits and you don’t have this group’.” He added, “It’s well known to not allow them a forum in a club. How did they get in and get treated as VIPs?”
“Miami Beach is a welcoming inclusive city built by people of all backgrounds and faiths,”
Meiner said in a statement. “I have and will continue to fight against hate speech against any group. Antisemitism, hate speech, or the normalization of extremist ideology has no place in our Miami Beach community, our nightlife or any public setting.”
On Sunday, Fuentes and Sneako tried to get into David Grutman’s Gekko and were turned away because they were with security guards carrying guns.
[https://pagesix.com/2026/01/20/society/after-club-vows-to-investigate-nazi-incident-it-turns-out-its-owners-were-amid-the-far-right-revelers/ PageSix]
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Putin to meet Kushner and Witkoff on Ukraine, Trump’s Peace Board.
Elad Benari.
Jan 22, 2026, 5:23 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421281 INN]
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Dozens of swastikas found in Brooklyn playground, hate crimes probe underway.
Dozens of swastikas found in a Brooklyn playground on two separate days, prompting a Hate Crime Task Force investigation and strong condemnation from Jewish organizations.
Israel National News.
Published: Jan 22, 2026, 2:15 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421277 INN]
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Day of mourning for Bondi Beach shooting victims begins in Australia.
"Today is an opportunity for us to remember and pay respect to the 15 lives," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters on Thursday.
By Reuters. January 22, 2026.
Australia began a national day of mourning on Thursday for the victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, with flags across the country flown at half mast ahead of a commemoration event at Sydney's iconic Opera House.
A father and son opened fire at an event celebrating Hanukkah on December 14, killing 15 people in Australia's worst mass shooting in decades.
Police claim the men were inspired by Islamic State to carry out the attack, that the government has called an act of terrorism against Jewish people.
"Today is an opportunity for us to remember and pay respect to the 15 lives," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters on Thursday.
"It's an opportunity for us as a nation to wrap our arms around the Jewish community because people were targeted because they were Jewish Australians."
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-884154 JPost]
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Trump Admin Crackdown.
DHS: Mahmoud Khalil Will be Deported to Algeria.
No exact date for Khalil's re-arrest has been announced, but DHS indicates enforcement is forthcoming. Khalil's legal team has until April 2026 to appeal the underlying deportation order, though the appeals court ruling accelerates the process.
Jfeed Staff.
Jan 22, 2026 05:25
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/mahmoud-khalil-deportation JFeed]
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"Send Them to Hell": Fury in Gaza Over Hamas Leaders' Exit Rumors
Betrayal from the Streets of Gaza
"Send Them to Hell": Fury in Gaza Over Hamas Leaders' Exit Rumors
As reports emerge that remaining Hamas leaders are negotiating a permanent escape to foreign soil, the people of Gaza are breaking their silence to condemn the corrupt officials who left them to face total ruin.
Eliana Fleming
Jan 21, 2026.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/hamas-leaders-exit-gaza JFeed]
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President Trump.
'Iran shoots protesters and continues experiments with nukes'.
The U.S. president addressed the possibility of military action against Iran and said his threats to the Tehran regime prevented executions of protesters.
Nitzan Kedar.
Jan 22, 2026, 10:02 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421296 INN]
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Survey: Half of Irish adults unaware 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust.
Recent survey reveals alarming gaps in Holocaust knowledge among Irish adults, with half unaware of the six million Jewish victims and 8% denying its occurrence.
Grace Gilson, JTA.
Published: Jan 22, 2026, 7:39 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421287 INN]
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Iran still among world’s worst countries for torture of jailed journalists – CPJ
January 22, 2026.
Updated: 04:05 GMT
Iran remains one of the world’s worst countries for abusing detained journalists, with reporters subjected to torture and harsh prison conditions amid intensified repression following nationwide protests, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
"Iran held five journalists as of December 1, down from a peak of 55 three years earlier, but has generated the highest number of documented torture and beating cases against imprisoned media workers since records began in 1992," CPJ’s 2025 global prison census published on Wednesday said.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601225175 IranInt]
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IDF forces thwart weapons smuggling from the east.
The IDF spokesperson announced that IDF observation units identified a drone last night crossing into Israeli territory from the east, carrying ten pistols. IDF forces from the Yoav Brigade intercepted the drone. The pistols were transferred to security forces for further handling.
Yoav Zitun|01.22.26
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/98ujc8fnu YNet]
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Britain: Concerned about Putin's participation in Gaza 'Peace Council', will not join.
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said that Britain will not join President Donald Trump's 'Peace Council' for Gaza at this stage due to concerns regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin's participation. This was reported by the BBC. Cooper said that the country will not participate in the signing ceremony that will be held today on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Ynet|01.22.26.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/zhbfunrx3 YNet]
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Trump at presentation of 'Peace Council' for Gaza: If Hamas doesn't surrender weapons - it's their end.
President Trump said at the presentation of the "Peace Council" for Gaza that "Hamas was born with weapons in its hands. If it doesn't surrender them - that will be its end."
Ynet|01.22.26
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/2qyootzqu YNet]
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Croccdile tears.
Ms. Rachel in Tears After Accidentally Showing Us She is a Massive Antisemite | WATCH.
Can Ms. Rachel get any more pathetic? We all know she hates Israel and Jews. She should just stop pretending.
Jfeed Staff.
Jan 22, 2026 10:12
Popular children's entertainer Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, is once again at the center of controversy after admitting to accidentally "liking" an antisemitic comment on her Instagram page. The 43-year-old YouTube star, known for her educational "Songs for Littles" channel with over 11 million subscribers, broke down in an emotional video apology, claiming the mishap occurred while trying to delete the hateful remark.
The comment in question, "Free America from the Jews," was posted under one of Accurso's recent advocacy updates and was liked by her account along with a few others, as shown in widely circulated screenshots. In her tearful response posted on January 21, she explained: "I tapped a comment that was antisemitic to delete it and it liked it by accident... I'm old, so I am not as good with touching things online, I guess." She stressed her commitment to combating hate, adding, "I am against all forms of hate including
antisemitism against the Jewish people," and shared evidence of a direct message alerting her to the issue the previous day.
This incident comes on the heels of prior accusations of antisemitism leveled against Accurso for her pro-Palestine activism. In December 2025, she was nominated for "Antisemite of the Year" by StopAntisemitism, a pro-Israel watchdog group, over social media posts focusing on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which critics argued echoed Hamas narratives and ignored Israeli perspectives. Advocacy efforts, including over 800 letters from groups like Pens for Swords, urged her to balance her messaging.
Compounding the fallout, Accurso interacted with a comment from the pro-Palestine account Palestine News Network (PNN) in her apology thread, which speculated the antisemitic remark was a "planted op" by adversaries, a claim some interpreted as endorsing a conspiracy theory.
Media coverage from outlets including the New York Post and Daily Mail has amplified the story, highlighting the challenges of online scrutiny for public figures No further updates have been provided by her team as of this morning.
Sadly for her, none of us believe her silly excuses after she spent years demonizing Israel, making videos for her millions of followers about poor suffering Gazan children, while not being able to find it in herself to mention the Israeli children massacred on October 7th.
Mamdani, not a big fan of Jews himself, also knows how she feels about Israel and Jews, and that's why he appointed her to sit on his inaugural committee.
[https://www.jfeed.com/antisemitism/ms-rachel-antisemitic-comment-controversy JFeed]
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Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
IDF Soldier Asa'el Ba'abad Dies After Hamas Violates Ceasefire.
Heartbreak in Bnei Adam: After a three-month battle for his life, St.-Sgt. Asa'el Ba'avad has died from injuries sustained in Gaza. He leaves behind a wife and five children. Israel Gantz pays tribute to the "heroic fighter."
Gila Isaacson.
Jan 22, 2026 09:34
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-soldier-combat-injuries JFeed]
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Frightening.
"We Will Just Hang You": Nazi Poster Terrifies Parents at Jewish Daycare in North Carolina.
"We'll just hang you": Horrifying antisemitic poster found at a Jewish school in Charlotte. The sign included a swastika and threats of murder against the community.
Jfeed Staff.
Jan 22, 2026 09:02
[https://www.jfeed.com/antisemitism/antisemitic-threats-jewish-daycare JFeed]
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Trump: Hamas ‘will be blown away very quickly’ if it won’t disarm.
At Davos, the U.S. president says the terrorist group agreed to give up its weapons under phase two of his Gaza peace plan.
JNS Staff.
(Jan. 22, 2026 / JNS)
President Donald Trump warned in Davos on Wednesday that Hamas “will be blown away very quickly” if it fails to disarm under the second phase of his Gaza peace plan.
[https://www.jns.org/trump-hamas-will-be-blown-away-very-quickly-if-it-wont-disarm/ JNS]
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IDF hits Hezbollah arms routes, top smuggler.
Muhammad Awasha, a key weapons dealer and smuggler, died near Sidon.
JNS Staff.
(Jan. 22, 2026 / JNS)
[https://www.jns.org/idf-hits-hezbollah-arms-routes-top-smuggler/ JNS]
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US hits Hamas nonprofit support network with sanctions.
“Hamas’s insidious practice of operating behind civilian organizations endangers Palestinians and undermines efforts to build a lasting and prosperous peace,” the federal government said.
Mike Wagenheim.
(Jan. 21, 2026 / JNS)
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned six Gaza-based organizations and the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad on Wednesday for what it said was their support of Hamas’s Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
“Hamas’s insidious practice of operating behind civilian organizations endangers Palestinians and undermines efforts to build a lasting and prosperous peace,” the department stated.
It accuses Hamas of operating a network of organizations in Gaza that “purport to be independent,” hiding their ties to the terror organization to raise funds from overseas donors.
“We are committed to ensuring that humanitarian aid can be delivered by reliable and safe organizations and supporting stabilization efforts for the Gaza Strip,” stated Tommy Pigott, principal deputy U.S. State Department spokesman.
The ties to Hamas were exposed by “documentary evidence taken from Hamas offices after Oct. 7, 2023,” the Treasury Department stated.
The sanctioned organizations include Gaza-based Waed Society, Al-Nur Society, Qawafil Society, Al-Falah Society, Merciful Hands and Al-Salameh Society.
[https://www.jns.org/us-hits-hamas-nonprofit-support-network-with-sanctions/ JNS]
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Israeli forces nab key bombmaker in Samaria raid
Magav and Shin Bet arrest Tulkarm terror explosives manufacturer in Shuweika village operation.
JNS Staff.
(Jan. 22, 2026 / JNS)
Israeli Border Police arrested a Palestinian explosives expert in the Samaria village of Shuweika this week, authorities said Wednesday.
The suspect, identified as Fadi Bahati, was described as a key explosives manufacturer for a terror group operating in the Tulkarm area. He was arrested following intelligence from the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) in an operation carried out by undercover and uniformed Magav forces under the IDF’s Ephraim Brigade.
[https://www.jns.org/israeli-forces-nab-key-bombmaker-in-samaria-raid/ JNS]
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