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→Notes part IIII: Jan 22, 2026+
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'Yahel was 3 years old, and a Hamas terrorist was holding her. I didn't think, I ran and took her'.
Former hostage Adi Shoham speaks for the first time since her release from Gaza; She waited two years to tell her story because her husband Tal was still held by Hamas and they called her and threatened to kill him
ynet|01.22.26 |
Adi Shoham, a psychologist specializing in trauma therapy who was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, has spoken publicly for the first time since her release. Shoham, her mother, and her two young children — Yahel and Naveh — were taken from her parents’ home, and her husband, Tal Shoham, was kidnapped separately. Tal survived 505 days in captivity before being released in January 2025.
In an interview on Pgisha (Meeting)with Roni Kuban on Kan 11, her first since being freed, Shoham explained the reason for her silence over the past two years: phone threats from Hamas directed at her husband. The program is scheduled to air Saturday night after the news.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1nmrge8bx YNet]
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Disturbing.
Disturbing.
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KLM cancels Israel flights amid regional security tensions.
Iris Lifshitz-Klieger|01.23.26
[|https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hj4ayuwiwx YNet]
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Witkoff and Kushner head to Israel.
Itamar Eichner|01.23.26
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkvyfbw8zl YNet]
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Judge grants sweeping immigration protections to plaintiffs in anti-Israel protest case.
“The court recommends that an advisory jury be empaneled to assist the court in deciding factual issues,” judge William Young wrote. “The people’s participation in this act of government is long overdue.”
Andrew Bernard.
(Jan. 23, 2026 / JNS)
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that academic groups suing the Trump administration to halt the deportations of students and faculty who engaged in anti-Israel protests will be granted a blanket presumption that their activity is protected free speech under the First Amendment.
The ruling from judge William Young, a Reagan appointee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, shifts the burden to the government to prove that any change in the immigration status of members of the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association is justified.
“It shall be presumed that the alteration in immigration status is in retribution for the exercise during the course of the present case of their First Amendment rights,” Young wrote.
The groups sued the Trump administration in March over its “ideological-deportation policy” after the arrest and attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the anti-Israel protest movement at Columbia University.
“While President Trump and other administration officials have described pro-Palestinian campus protests as ‘pro-Hamas,’ they have stretched that label beyond the breaking point to encompass any speech supportive of Palestinian human rights or critical of Israel’s military actions in Gaza,” the plaintiffs wrote.
“They have left no doubt that their new policy entails the arrest, detention and deportation of noncitizen students and faculty for constitutionally protected speech and association,” they added in the complaint.
Young ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in September.
At a hearing earlier this month, Young described the actions of the Trump administration as “an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people” for their protests, Politico reported.
“I find it breathtaking that I have been compelled on the evidence to find the conduct of such high-level officers of our government—cabinet secretaries—conspired to infringe the First Amendment rights of people with such rights here in the United States,” Young said. “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.”
Young’s rulings in the case have raised eyebrows over his unusual commentary and suggestions.
In September, Young attached a hand-written postcard from an anonymous sender asking, “Trump has pardons and tanks … what do you have?” to the top of his ruling.
“Alone I have nothing but my sense of duty,” Young wrote in reply, in a space above the listed plaintiffs that is usually left blank. “Together, we the people of the United States—you and me—have our magnificent Constitution.”
Young’s ruling on Thursday includes more unusual remedies and commentary on the case.
“The court recommends that an advisory jury be empaneled to assist the court in deciding factual issues,” Young wrote. “The moral effect of a jury verdict cannot be overstated. The American jury is the most robust and vital expression of direct democracy extent in the world today.”
“The people’s participation in this act of government is long overdue,” he added.
The protections extended to the plaintiffs include only non-citizens, who were members of AAUP or MESA between the time the plaintiffs brought suit and Young’s decision on the case in September. They do not apply to any such members who were convicted of a crime or whose immigration status expired.
In an appendix to Thursday’s ruling, Young mused about potential applications of his decision involving situations not directly related to the case, including the hypothetical revocation of temporary protected immigration status to Venezuelans and comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“If it’s just speech—it may be repulsive speech or disgusting speech, but if it’s just speech, well, the Department of State can’t do that,” Young wrote. “Again, this is a hypothetical. But let’s say that happened, we’ll assume that happened. And then the person comes in and says, ‘I’m a member of this class. You can’t do that to me.’”
“Well again, the government’s going to have to prove that their reason was not in fact in retribution,” he said, “and in addition, my second, that it’s an appropriate exercise of governmental power.”
The Trump administration can appeal Young’s ruling.
[https://www.jns.org/judge-grants-sweeping-immigration-protections-to-plaintiffs-in-anti-israel-protest-case/ JNS]
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Trump admin imposes additional sanctions on Iranian illicit oil export network.
“Tehran’s decision to support terrorists over its own people has caused Iran's currency and living conditions to be in free fall,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
Mike Wagenheim.
(Jan. 23, 2026 / JNS)
The Trump administration has imposed additional sanctions targeting Iran as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic regime, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Jan. 23.
[https://www.jns.org/trump-admin-imposes-additional-sanctions-on-iranian-illicit-oil-export-network/ JNS]
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NYC speaker visits vandalized Brooklyn playground, touts new anti-hate safety plan.
“These abhorrent incidents are part of an alarming trend,” said Julie Menin.
(Jan. 23, 2026 / JNS)
Julie Menin, the newly elected speaker of the New York City Council, visited a park playground in Brooklyn, N.Y., that was vandalized twice in a single week with dozens of red- and blue-painted swastikas, and the name: Adolf Hitler.
On Thursday, the same day that two teenage boys were arrested for the incidents at Gravesend Park in the Borough Park neighborhood, she toured the site withother communal leaders.
[https://www.jns.org/nyc-speaker-visits-vandalized-brooklyn-playground-touts-new-anti-hate-safety-plan/ JNS]
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Georgia congressman says medical board, Emory must oust daughter of top Iranian official.
“Dr. Ardeshir-Larijani’s continued role treating American patients at a major U.S. medical institution is unacceptable,” Rep. Buddy Carter stated.
Mike Wagenheim.
(Jan. 23, 2026 / JNS)
Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, an oncologist, ought to be fired from Emory University due to her “familial ties” to an Iranian leader, whom the federal government sanctioned earlier this month, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) wrote to the Atlanta private school.
[https://www.jns.org/georgia-congressman-says-medical-board-emory-must-oust-daughter-of-top-iranian-official/ JNS]
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Witnesses report sniper killing and nighttime burial of teenage protester in Karaj.
Iran International. Jan 24, 2026
Images and messages received by Iran International indicate that protesters in Karaj were killed by sniper fire during demonstrations, followed by the nighttime burial of victims, including a 16-year-old boy identified as Reza.
According to witness accounts on January 8 and at around 9:00 at night, Reza was shot dead in an alley in the Shahin Villa neighborhood. Witnesses said the shot was fired by a sniper positioned on the rooftop of a fruit shop.
Witnesses said Reza was moved after being shot into a nearby home’s parking area, where he died. After the situation calmed, his body was taken to a local clinic.
The following day, people close to the family were told that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces had buried the teenager’s body overnight and informed the family of the grave’s location.
According to residents, armed forces were deployed at Shahin Villa’s Eighth and Ninth bases and prevented people from approaching by firing live ammunition. Witnesses said at least six people were killed by gunfire on Shahin Villa Street alone, adding that the shooting appeared targeted, particularly against younger protesters.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601243715 IranIntl]
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US targets Iran's 'shadow fleet' over crackdown on protesters
By Daphne Psaledakis and Timothy Gardner
January 23, 2026.
4:59 PM GMT.
Summary.
US targets nine vessels in the shadow fleet
Treasury: the revenues fund regional militants, weapons programs.
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on nine vessels of what is known as the shadow fleet and eight related firms, the U.S. Treasury Department said, as the Trump administration sought to escalate pressure on Iran over the recent killing of protesters.
The Treasury said the vessels and their respective owners or management firms, which include entities based in India, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, have collectively transported hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil and petroleum products to foreign markets.
[https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-targets-irans-shadow-fleet-over-crackdown-protesters-2026-01-23/ Reuters]
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US threatens to starve Iraq of its oil dollars over Iranian influence, sources say.
By Maha El Dahan, Timour Azhari and Humeyra Pamuk. January 23, 2026.
[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-control-oil-dollars-heaps-pressure-iraq-over-iranian-influence-2026-01-23/ Reuters]
U.S. threatens to target Iraq oil.
Reuters. Jan 24, 2026. — Washington has threatened senior Iraqi politicians with sanctions targeting the Iraqi state, including potentially its critical oil revenues.
[https://www.jpost.com/international/article-884355 JPost]
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The death rates in Iran are vastly higher than those in Gaza — and the obvious reason why.
Mark Changizi.
Jan 24, 2026.
Per capita per unit time, suppose around 30,000 Iranians were massacred in just a couple of days. Let’s contrast that with Gazan civilian deaths, which may be of the same order of magnitude relative to population, but spread over two years. Let’s put Gazan deaths at 50,000 (a likely overestimate).
Iran: 167 deaths per million per day
(30,000 of 90 million killed in 2 days)
Gaza: 34 deaths per million per day
(50,000 of 2 million killed in 2 years)
Even this is not a fair comparison. Per-capita rates implicitly treat all 90 million Iranians as equally at risk as all 2 million Gazans. But that plainly isn’t so. In Gaza, a very large fraction of the population was genuinely at risk even while staying at home, precisely because Hamas embedded its military activity within civilian areas. In Iran, by contrast, the killings would be a straightforward massacre concentrated on demonstrators and their immediate surroundings; so long as one avoided the protests, one was almost certainly safe.
So using total population as the denominator already dilutes the intensity of what a 30,000-dead-in-two-days Iran scenario would represent. Adjusting for who was actually exposed would only widen the gap further — astronomically so.
It also isn’t a fair comparison for another reason: the notion of a “civilian” in Gaza is inherently fuzzy. There are large numbers of Hamas supporters among the civilian population — many aiding, abetting, or directly participating in Hamas’ war effort — and their deaths would nevertheless be labeled “civilian.” In Iran, by contrast, every last person killed was a civilian.
And even this understates Iran’s dead. Authoritarian regimes systematically suppress reporting, intimidate families, and conceal bodies. The true toll in Iran would almost certainly be higher than what could ever be reliably counted, whereas Gaza’s deaths are tracked by Hamas itself, who wants to exaggerate, not underreport, the number.
The main moral is this:
If Israel had truly been “genociding” Gazans for two years, as has been claimed since 10/7 itself, the number of deaths per million per day would be orders of magnitude higher. And Israel is more — not less — technologically and militarily capable than the IRGC at doing so.
The numbers are vastly different because the situations are not comparable in the first place. In Iran it was a straight-out massacre, whereas in Gaza the deaths were inadvertent casualties resulting from Hamas fighting from civilian centers.
[https://www.loofwired.com/p/the-death-rates-in-iran-are-vastly LoofWired]
Mamdani efforts to unwind 50 years of NYC investment in Israel Bonds can’t be ignored, ADL says.
“Policy evolution is legitimate. Policy exceptionalism aimed solely at the Jewish state is not,” Jonathan Greenblatt told JNS.
Debra Nussbaum Cohen.
(Jan. 23, 2026 / JNS)
A fight over whether New York City should invest in Israel has brought into stark relief a conflict between two of its most powerful elected officials: the mayor and the comptroller, who is charged with managing $294.6 billion in pension funds on behalf of some 750,000 teachers, firefighters and police officers.
[https://www.jns.org/mamdani-efforts-to-unwind-50-years-of-nyc-investment-in-israel-bonds-cant-be-ignored-adl-says/ JNS]
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Three Top Belgian Universities Spark Outrage by Honoring Controversial UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
By Ailin Vilches Arguello. January 23, 2026
Three Belgian universities sparked outrage within the local Jewish community this week by announcing plans to award honorary doctorates to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who has an extensive history of using her role to denigrate Israel and seemingly rationalize Hamas attacks against the Jewish state.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Ghent University, and the University of Antwerp — three of Belgium’s top-ranked institutions — are expected to award Albanese honorary doctorates in April, recognizing “the importance of [her] contributions, which are deemed of undeniable significance.”
The honorary doctorate recognizes Albanese’s “exceptional commitment to the protection of human rights and the strengthening of international law,” the three universities wrote in a joint statement.
Herwig Leirs, rector of the University of Antwerp, praised Albanese for her “determination in publishing truthful reports on the condition in the occupied Palestinian territories, with particular focus on Gaza in recent years.”
In the months following the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Albanese accused the Israeli government of perpetrating a “genocide[sic]” against the Palestinian people in revenge for the attacks and circulated a widely derided and heavily disputed report alleging that 186,000[sic] people have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israeli actions.
On Monday, Jewish leaders across Belgium joined in condemning this latest decision, with both the French-speaking Coordinating Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium (CCJOB) and the Flemish-speaking Forum of Jewish Organizations (FJO) calling for the honor to be revoked.
“This sends the wrong message to students and is in no way an example of academic integrity or ethics,” FJO wrote in a statement on Monday.
“Her repeated comparisons of Israel to the Nazis are perceived as Holocaust trivialization and antisemitic under the IHRA definition, and the US government also labels it as such,” the statement reads.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/01/23/three-top-belgian-universities-spark-outrage-by-honoring-controversial-un-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese/ Algemeiner]
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"The Fleet Is Already on the Way" – Trump Issues Dramatic Ultimatum to Iran.
President Trump revealed the scale of military preparations against Iran: "If they deviate from the line – we will act with even greater ease than before." Meanwhile, the president confirmed that Putin has already committed a billion dollars to the Board of Peace, and dismissively canceled the invitation to the Canadian Prime Minister: "A council too prestigious for him"
Jfeed Staff
Jan 23, 2026.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/trump-iran-military-ultimatum-putin-peace-council JFeed]
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UN official who financed Rina Schnerb HY"D murder on Gaza Board.
How can the U.S. be elevating a leftist Dutch globalist who hates Trump and Geert Wilders? What is Witkoff's motivation for doing so? Opinion.
Daniel Greenfield.
Jan 24, 2026, 7:55 PM (GMT+2)
(JNS) “The entire population of Gaza is facing the risk of famine," Sigrid Kaag, the U.N.’s coordinator for Gaza, falsely claimed, echoing Hamas propaganda. “Israel must halt its devastating strikes."
Kaag, a leftist Dutch politician and U.N. official, had been picked for the role in Gaza by the Biden administration. And she had all the right credentials including from the U.N.’s World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum and leftist politics. She had cheered the BLM race riots and claimed that America was systematically racist because New Yorkers had mistaken her husband, who worked for a Muslim terrorist group, for a janitor.
Now she’s been picked for a seat on the Gaza Executive Board by the Witkoff team.
Kaag was ousted from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994 after she secretly married a top member of the PLO, Anas al-Qaq. The same behavior that made her untrustworthy, however, qualified her for a job at the U.N. There she worked for the International Organization for Migration, the U.N.’s mass migration group, and UNRWA, the U.N.’s “Palestinian" agency, a front for Hamas.
Kaag’s hostility to Israel was public with the leftist Dutch politician blasting a significant proportion of Israel’s Jewish population as “illegal colonists on confiscated land" and complaining that someone had supposedly called her a “whore of the Arabs."
Back then she also complained that “Netanyahu’s way is of soundbites with racist, demagogic overtones about the Palestinian peace partner." The “peace partners" in question were the terrorists whom her husband was working for who were busy murdering Israelis.
As a member of the radical leftist Democrats 66 (D66) party, Kaag had her eye on political office while complaining that the Netherlands was racist and biased against her PLO husband and children. “Sometimes, because of my marriage and career, I am treated as a foreigner in my own country. And then I wonder: Who decides that? Who is the Dutch foreign national, and who is not?"
After working as a U.N. official in Syria and Lebanon, and despite having been previously ousted from the ministry for her marriage to a PLO official, she became the minister of foreign affairs in the Netherlands. The Netherlands was struggling with Muslim mass migration and appeasement of Muslim terrorists, and Kaag had the expertise to make both of those problems worse.
In 2018, Kaag, who had previously discussed her relationship with Hezbollah, visited Iran and met with its leaders while wearing a “headscarf." Geert Wilders, the popular Dutch leader who had rallied the public to defy Islamization, blasted Kaag for “submissively" bowing “for the fascist ayatollahs of Iran" at a time when Iranian women were risking their lives to appear in public without a hijab.
“While women are beaten there on the street for taking off their headscarves, you put on a headscarf and bowed to the ayatollahs. With that you’ve squandered women’s rights and betrayed those women," Wilders declared during his country’s election debates.
In 2019, Rina Shnerb, a 17-year-old girl, was hiking with her father and brother in Israel when she was killed in a Muslim terrorist attack. "I wanted to believe it was just a dream," Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, her father, said from his hospital bed. “I immediately called to Rina, shouting ‘Rina, Rina.’"
Kaag was forced to admit that her ministry had helped pay the salaries of Rina’s killers through a “nonprofit" acting as a front group for a terrorist organization. Kaag had allowed $12 million in funding to the “nonprofit" despite being repeatedly warned that the money was going to terrorists.
Around this time, the Dutch government was accused of directing money to a Muslim Brotherhood front group. Hamas is one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s organizations.
“She was photographed with terrorist Arafat and financed Palestinian terrorists," Wilders noted.
In 2021, Kaag was forced to resign once again, this time over the Afghanistan withdrawal. The former U.N. official, whose entire claim to fame was her expertise in the Muslim world, claimed that she had been caught by surprise. The Dutch evacuation under Kaag was so last-minute that they failed to leave until they received a message in the middle of the night from American forces warning that their embassy would soon be overrun by the Taliban.
She ran for office on a platform of fighting racism, bringing more Muslim refugees to the Netherlands and implementing the Paris climate accords which would wipe out Dutch agriculture.
“You are deliberately pursuing discriminatory policies. We need to talk about racism and exclusion, and you’re participating in that wholeheartedly," Kaag ranted at Wilders.
Two years later, the Biden administration selected her as the U.N. humanitarian envoy for Gaza. Kaag refused to cooperate with the Trump administration, spread lies about a fake famine and was part of a U.N. “aid" system that sabotaged aid deliveries in order to try and fake a famine to bail out Hamas. As a former UNRWA official, a U.N. organization whose ranks were heavily infiltrated by Hamas, Kaag was the worst possible person for the job.
That’s why the U.N. appointed her its special envoy for the Middle East.
By 2024, Sigrid Kaag had been caught meeting at the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Now, the White House has announced that Kaag had been appointed to the Gaza Executive Board alongside Steven Witkoff, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who has praised Hamas, and Ali al-Thawadi, a Qatari official allegedly linked to the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, and allegedly linked to espionage against America and other nations.
In the past, Kaag had made little secret of her preference for the Biden administration, which had handpicked her for office, complaining after Donald Trump’s reelection, “I find it very hard to keep projecting that there’s still hope. There used to be some alignment with Washington-a willingness to think about international law and the civilian population in Gaza. That’s just gone.
“Last year around this time, there was still an American administration that was engaged with international law and concerned about the civilian population in Gaza," she whined.
However Kaag developed ties with Witkoff, whose disastrous tenure has included adopting the Biden administration’s policies on Gaza. And Kaag and Witkoff apparently bonded.
“I had WhatsApp contact with Steve Witkoff," Kaag told an interviewer.
Unfortunately, the Trump administration’s foreign policy has been hijacked by the same swamp and foreign policy blob that threw billions of dollars and decades of prestige into creating a “Palestinian Arab terror state." That’s the cause to which Saag is still dedicated. Now with US backing.
Saag’s appointment is yet more evidence that the architects of this disastrous policy are hostile to Trump, to America, and to the free world. Giving Saag, a globalist U.N. official, a role in Gaza will prime her for a political comeback in the Netherlands at the expense of Geert Wilders. The move undermines American national interests, the interests of Dutch patriots and the interests of Israel.
Whose interests are being served by elevating a leftist Dutch U.N. globalist who hates Trump?
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421392 INN]
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Flight cancellations
Major Airlines Cancel Flights to Israel and Gulf States
KLM, Air France, and Lufthansa cancel or adjust flights to Israel, Dubai, and Riyadh as US-Iran tensions escalate. Thousands stranded amid widening airspace closure
Jfeed Staff
Jan 24, 2026 16:49
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/airline-flight-cancellations-middle-east JFeed]
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Arab stone-throwing attack caught on camera.
Arabs from the town of Bir Zeit attacked a Jewish shepherd from Kfar Tarfon in the Binyamin region over Shabbat.
Israel National News.
Published: Jan 24, 2026, 7:54 PM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421391 INN]
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Report: Khamenei moved to underground bunker.
Israel National News.
Jan 24, 2026, 6:50 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421388 INN]
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Anger in Israel at US special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Israeli official claims: “Witkoff pushed to bring our major rival Turkey to the border. The clock is ticking backward toward a confrontation with Turkey."
Israel National News.
Jan 25, 2026, 1:28 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421404 INN]
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Family of last hostage urges Witkoff, Kushner to pressure Hamas, not Israel.
The imminent arrival of the American delegation was met with indignation by the family of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, whose body remains in Gaza.
JNS Staff.
(Jan. 24, 2026 / JNS)
The family of the last deceased hostage held in Gaza raised concerns on Saturday following the news that U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Board of Peace member Jared Kushner were to arrive in Israel later in the day and reportedly pressure Jerusalem into opening the Strip’s Rafah Crossing to Egypt, despite Hamas’s failure to retrieve the body of Border Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili.
[https://www.jns.org/family-of-last-hostage-urges-witkoff-kushner-to-pressure-hamas-not-israel/ JNS]
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Hundreds at rally in Meitar: Without Ran, there's no 'stage two'.
Hundreds of attendees at Meitar rally call for the immediate return of deceased hostage Ran Gvili and the completion of the first phase of the deal with Hamas.
Israel National News.
Published: Jan 25, 2026, 12:05 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421403 INN]
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Germany arrests Lebanese suspect in Hamas plot targeting Jewish institutions.
German police arrest a Lebanese man accused of aiding a Hamas plot to attack Jewish and Israeli institutions.
Israel National News. Jan 25, 2026, 4:44 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421407 INN]
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Teen arrested north of Toronto for antisemitic threats on Jewish sites.
14‑year‑old boy from Newmarket, north of Toronto, arrested after police say he made antisemitic calls to Jewish institutions. He faces multiple charges.
Dalit Halevi.
Jan 25, 2026, 5:30 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421408 INN]
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