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→Notes part IIII: Jan 22, 2026+
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Palestinian immigrant jailed for murder-for-hire plot, convicted of trying to pay inmates to kill targets.
Nahro Sudoi Innab "came here to take advantage of the American dream, but he has repeatedly tried to hire thugs to murder his perceived enemies," the U.S. Justice Department said.
JNS Staff
(Jan. 30, 2026 / JNS)
A federal jury convicted Nahro Sudoi Innab, 70, of Rocky Mount, N.C., on three counts of making interstate calls to plan new murders while the Palestinian immigrant was in jail awaiting a prison term after pleading guilty to having tried to murder other people.
He faces up to 30 years in prison for the new convictions.
“This Palestinian immigrant came here to take advantage of the American dream, but he has repeatedly tried to hire thugs to murder his perceived enemies,” Ellis Boyle, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, stated on Friday
(https://www.jns.org/palestinian-immigrant-jailed-for-murder-for-hire-plot-convicted-of-trying-to-pay-inmates-to-kill-targets/ JNS]
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Palestinian immigrant jailed for murder-for-hire plot, convicted of trying to pay inmates to kill targets.
Nahro Sudoi Innab "came here to take advantage of the American dream, but he has repeatedly tried to hire thugs to murder his perceived enemies," the U.S. Justice Department said.
JNS Staff
(Jan. 30, 2026 / JNS)
A federal jury convicted Nahro Sudoi Innab, 70, of Rocky Mount, N.C., on three counts of making interstate calls to plan new murders while the Palestinian immigrant was in jail awaiting a prison term after pleading guilty to having tried to murder other people.
He faces up to 30 years in prison for the new convictions.
“This Palestinian immigrant came here to take advantage of the American dream, but he has repeatedly tried to hire thugs to murder his perceived enemies,” Ellis Boyle, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, stated on Friday
[https://www.jns.org/palestinian-immigrant-jailed-for-murder-for-hire-plot-convicted-of-trying-to-pay-inmates-to-kill-targets/ JNS]
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Father of former hostage to join faculty at Columbia University.
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of Sagui Dekel-Chen, is set to join the School of International and Public Affairs.
(Jan. 30, 2026 / JNS)
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of former Israeli-American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, is slated to join the faculty at Columbia University as a visiting professor at the School of International and Public Affairs in July.
Dekel-Chen, 62, currently holds the Rabbi Edward Sandrow Chair in Soviet and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on contemporary Jewish history. He said that at Columbia, he hopes to give a “holistic perspective” to modern conflicts.
[https://www.jns.org/father-of-former-hostage-to-join-faculty-at-columbia-university/ JNS]
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Largest US labor union accused of ignoring Jewish concerns during Holocaust education event.
The National Education Association “used a webinar meant to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day to instead make links to events in Minnesota and call for activism,” the North American Values Institute said.
Jessica Russak-Hoffman.
(Jan. 30, 2026 / JNS)
The National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union, is being accused of politicizing an online International Holocaust Remembrance Day event.
The Jan. 27 “understanding antisemitism” event was a conversation between Becky Pringle, president of the union, and Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
“At JCPA, we believe that engagement and solidarity, not retrenchment and insularity, is the way to strengthen our democracy and end the rise of antisemitism, bigotry and hate in our country,” JCPA stated. “Together with our allies at the National Education Association, JCPA is working to provide educators, administrators and school boards with the resources needed to provide Jewish students and educators with safe, inclusive spaces.”
[https://www.jns.org/largest-us-labor-union-accused-of-ignoring-jewish-concerns-during-holocaust-education-event/ JNS]
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Man arrested after allegedly threatening Florida temple with bomb.
(Jan. 30, 2026 / JNS)
A man was arrested on Jan. 28 as a result of a bomb threat made against a synagogue in Ormond Beach, Fla., six miles from Daytona Beach in the northern part of the state, according to local police.
The Ormond Beach Police Department stated that Robert Tuck, 57, is suspected of calling Temple Beth-El, a Reform synagogue in the city, that morning and making the threat. The synagogue’s elementary school was subsequently placed on lockdown, and law enforcement searched the area for explosives, ultimately finding none
[https://www.jns.org/man-arrested-after-allegedly-threatening-florida-temple-with-bomb/ JNS]
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naz_hashem
Feb 1, 2026.
The Epstein files shocked the world, and rightly so. What was exposed was ugly, disturbing, and inhumane.
But I keep thinking if people truly saw what happens under Khamenei’s regime, inside his prisons, inside the mullahs homes, the shock would be far greater.
Pedophilia, the abuse of young girls, and the systematic exploitation and torture of women are not isolated crimes. They are part of a brutal system that operates daily, in silence, and has been for 46 years.
This includes pushing girls as young as nine into marriage under extremist interpretations of Sharia law, stripping them of childhood, consent, and protection.
Innocent people are violated with total impunity while the world looks away. #FreeIran .
[https://www.instagram.com/p/DUL2u8HEvLh/ on Instagram]
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Gal Hirsch reveals: Hostage rescue missions were halted to avoid endangering captives
Gal Hirsch reveals: Hostage rescue missions were halted to avoid endangering captives.
The Hostages and Missing Persons. Coordinator, in an interview with i24NEWS, denies claims that hostage deals were delayed due to politics. "There were no political considerations in decision-making in our field."
The Hostages and Missing Persons. Coordinator, in an interview with i24NEWS, denies claims that hostage deals were delayed due to politics. "There were no political considerations in decision-making in our field."
Israel National News. Feb 1, 2026, 2:59 AM (GMT+2)
Israel National News. Feb 1, 2026, 2:59 AM (GMT+2)
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Candace Howls at Claim that Erika Kirk Killed Charlie.
Descending into the abyss.
February 2, 2026 by Frontpagemag.com
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/candace-howls-at-claim-that-erika-kirk-killed-charlie FPM]
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Candles for the People of Iran.
Every candle represents a life stolen. Every photo, a future erased.
February 2, 2026 by Frontpagemag.com.
As the Iranian people continue to rise up courageously in the face of unconscionable suppression by the fundamentalist mullah regime, the number of protesters massacred skyrockets. Estimates of the murdered range widely, but number into the tens of thousands. The social media post below cites 86,677 Iranians in 33 days and depicts the tragedy of so many lives brutally cut short simply for seeking freedom.
Meanwhile the Iranian people wonder if President Trump will follow through on his promise to come to their aid and support…
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Iranian-victims.jpg]
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/candles-for-the-people-of-iran/ FPM]
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The Return of ‘United in Hate’.
A pivotal book makes a vital comeback at the right - and dire - time.
February 2, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield.
When ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas‘ first appeared, the Obama era was only beginning, Obama’s ‘New Middle East’ was still far on the horizon, and the ‘Iran Deal’ had yet to be dealt. What made Jamie Glazov’s magnum opus so remarkable was how thoroughly it not only recapitulated the ugly history of Communism, but anticipated what was only an emerging alliance between two terrible ideologies united by their hateful mutual ambition to destroy civilization as we know it and love it.
Even as it connected the dots between the two totalitarian ideologies, ‘United in Hate’ also helped conservatives bridge the Cold War era and the 9/11 period. Many conservatives were struggling to understand the nature of the new Jihadist enemy and how it differed from the old Communist foe. The Carter and Reagan era flirtations with the Afghan ‘Mujahadeen’ was only one manifestation of deeper links that had been built with the Saudis, the Pakistanis and other players in Al Qaeda during the Cold War, and some conservatives continued to defend Islam.
Even though the Obama era is in the rearview mirror, the situation today is not so different.
Some conservatives view Islamists as ‘natural allies’ against ‘woke’ leftists the way that some foolishly believed that Islam was a natural opponent, rather than a partner, of Communism. In doing so, they ignore much of history, including the vital role Communists played in spreading and supporting Islamic terrorism, and the Marxist-Islamist riots taking place in major cities now.
Including in Minneapolis.
That is why the return of ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas‘ is badly needed. The book’s vital dive into the bloody murk of Communist brutality and evil, and the ideological underpinnings of Islamic mass murder, is supplemented by a new section of Oct 7 which chillingly and recently brought Marxists and Islamists together with the common aim of not only destroying Israel, but America, and the entire civilized world (the Columbia University pro-Hamas encampment insisted it was “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization”) that connects it to the current events of the moment.
And from Minneapolis to the Hamas riots, the moment couldn’t be more relevant.
“The believer has filled the void left by communism’s disappearance with radical Islam. Instead of living vicariously through the oppression imposed by the KGB or the Red Guards, the believer now satisfies his yearnings through the violence perpetrated by suicide bombers,” Glazov warns in ‘United in Hate’. “We can see a balance in this scale. The less brutal an ideology is, the less interest the average believer has in it and the less praise he is inclined to give it. By contrast, when the death cult is in full gear, the believer supports it most strongly.”
That is what we have seen in the embrace of the BLM riots, the riots for Hamas and now for illegal alien murderers and pedophiles in Minneapolis. The more evil and violent the cause, the more enthusiasm there is for it. Hamas became far more popular after Oct 7. The BLM race riots and the riots in defense of illegal aliens only took off once they became truly violent.
That’s why the abortion rallies petered out and #NoKings recorded sizable crowd sizes, but no real enthusiasm and fire. It’s why the violence of Jihad will always attract the most leftist support. Nothing today can quite compare to the untarnished brutality and genocide of Islam.
That is why Islam and the Left are natural allies. Both seek to realize a utopia ‘tabula rasa’ through revolutionary violence. Violence in this scenario is not just a means, it’s an end in and of itself, a cleansing ceremony that transforms the world, and makes the otherwise unworkable communes and caliphates seem more real, while excusing the inability to maintain them.
What cannot be achieved can always be exterminated. And that is what the triumphs of Communism and Islam come down to, not triumphs of civilization, but conquest and destruction. A new and better world never came into being, whether it was given 70 years in the USSR or over 1,000 years under Islam, Homo Sovieticus and Homo Islamus led only to barbarism.
Those on the right who seek to make common cause with Islam are either fundamentally naive about Islam or are telling on themselves about what sort of new world order they envision.
The destruction of America, specifically, and Western Civilization in general, ‘unites’ the two terror ideologies profiled in ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas‘. Both Marxism and Islam represent warped religions, heresies promising a kingdom of heaven on earth that is to be realized through the gross material agency of the sword, not by heaven.
America is everything they resent and are jealous of. Its perfect imperfection must be shattered and torn apart so that everyone can see once and for all that their way is the only right one.
As Glazov writes in ‘United in Hate‘, radicals “gravitate toward genocide because believers consider themselves higher life forms, their inferiors become not only expendable but necessary waste… this is where the Western Left and militant Islam (like the Western Left and Communism) intersect: human life must be sacrificed for the sake of the idea.”
The pursuit of the ‘idea’ killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Just as it licensed the murder of thousands in Tehran. Reasonable causes, right or wrong, fight for realizable benefits, from territory to individual rights, but the fanatical causes depicted in ‘United in Hate’ fight for the supremacy of their ideology, and whether they are Nazis and Communists or Marxists and Islamists, horseshoe theory draws them together, at least for a time, because their governing monad is ideology, the transcendence of the real by the unreal, the limitations of the world by the unlimited will of the ego through the medium of unlimited power to build a new world order.
What we call ‘extremism’ is really the desire to unmake the real world for an unreal one.
That is why the reemergence of ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas‘ is worth celebrating. A book too long absent returns now at just the right time.
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-return-of-united-in-hate/ FPM]
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Strong Language
Trump’s Explosive Message to Influencers - "Let Me Cook" | WATCH
In first-ever direct rebuke, Trump tells far-right antisemites including Owens and Carlson to "shut up," defending his close relationship with Israel.
Jfeed Staff. Feb 1, 2026
The video marks the first time Trump has launched such a blunt, direct attack against these antisemitic influencers, who regularly criticize the president's foreign policy and his close ties to Israel.
The move signals Trump's willingness to confront elements within his own political coalition over their antisemitic rhetoric, even as he seeks to consolidate support across the Republican Party.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/trump-antisemitism-right-wing JFeed]
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Diplomatic Crisis.
Erdogan’s Newest Hostage? Israeli Woman Rotting in Turkish Jail for "Insulting Palestine"
Handcuffed in Taksim Square and held for 10 days in freezing conditions, Is this a legal arrest or a political kidnapping?
Yair Kleinbaum.
Feb 2, 2026 04:31
What began as a solo trip to Turkey has turned into a nightmare for one Israeli woman, who has now spent over 10 days in Turkish custody. Her alleged crime? Insulting the Turkish flag, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and, most controversially, the "State of Palestine."
[https://www.jfeed.com/news/israeli-woman-detained-turkey JFeed]
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Immigrant Who Threw 89-Year-Old Jewish Neighbor from 17th-Floor Balcony Will Stand Trial.
French court to determine if the brutal 2022 killing of René Hadjadj was a targeted hate crime or a psychotic break, as the Jewish community demands accountability.
Author: Yair Kleinbaum
Yair Kleinbaum.
Feb 2, 2026 06:50
[https://www.jfeed.com/news/french-antisemitism-trial JFeed]
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Sinwar's Chilling Plan.
Hamas Leader Wanted 10 Years of Captivity: Gal Hirsch Drops Bombshell Details.
Israel's former hostage coordinator Gal Hirsch disclosed that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar planned to keep the hostages captive for up to ten years as leverage in endless negotiations. Hirsch detailed the impossible rescue challenges, the intelligence gaps, and the emotional toll of witnessing atrocities while fighting to bring people home.
Eliana Fleming.
Feb 2, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/sinwar-hostage-strategy-ten-years JFeed]
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The New Gaza.
GAZA: THE NEW EMIRATE? UAE to Assume Full Control in Shock Multi-Billion Dollar "Takeover" Backed by Israel and U.S.
Abu Dhabi moves to become Gaza’s "Civilian Sponsor," deploying armed security and multi-billion dollar investments in a revolutionary post-war blueprint.
Yair Kleinbaum
Feb 2, 2026 04:42
[https://www.jfeed.com/news/t9t8dr JFeed]
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Windows smashed at Paris Jewish school, investigation underway.
Jewish school in Paris vandalized, with windows smashed and a CCTV camera torn off. Authorities launch an investigation.
Israel National News. Feb 2, 2026, 5:44 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421813 INN]
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'Peace requires Iran regime’s fall'.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says peace requires Iran’s regime to fall, as Trump urges Tehran to reach a deal and responds to Khamenei’s warning that any conflict would become a regional war.
Elad Benari.
Feb 2, 2026, 6:25 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421814 INN]
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Former Haredi Minister: 'Religious Zionism loses their souls in the army'.
Former minister Shlomo Benizri claimed that those who send their children to the IDF do not care about their spiritual wellbeing.
Israel National News.
Published: Feb 2, 2026, 8:14 AM (GMT+2)
[Shlomo Benizri].
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421817 INN]
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IDF demolishes home of terrorist who murdered Shalev
Home of terrorist Mahmoud Abed, who murdered 22-year-old Shalev Zevuloni in July, is demolished.
Israel National News.
Feb 2, 2026, 8:24 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421820 INN]
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Tehran Fixing Launchers Fast
Iran Doubles Missile Production to Counter Trump.
A former Iranian diplomat reveals that Tehran has doubled its missile production and moved launchers into hardened mountain positions, as Gulf nations warn the U.S. they cannot survive an Iranian counterattack.
Eliana Fleming
Feb 2, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/iran-missile-production-trump JFeed]
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Ankara Summit Incoming.
US and Iran Set for Face-to-Face in Istanbul Friday: Nuclear Talks Back On.
White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are expected to hold direct talks in Istanbul on Friday, marking the first meeting since the collapse of negotiations and the 12-day war in June. The session follows intense mediation by Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar, even as U.S. military forces remain heavily deployed in the Gulf.
Eliana Fleming
Feb 2, 2026.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/us-iran-nuclear-talks-istanbul JFeed]
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Britain targets Iran minister, police chiefs in new sanctions.
Israel National News.
Feb 2, 2026, 8:50 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421858 INN]
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Khamenei adviser warns:
'A US strike will pull Israel into the conflict'.
Israel National News.
Feb 2, 2026, 11:46 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421866 INN]
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'We have big ships heading there, we have talks going with them'.
Trump reiterates that major US forces are heading toward Iran as Washington continues talks, warning that while a deal is possible, failure could lead to “bad things."
Elad Benari.
Feb 3, 2026, 12:04 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421867 INN]
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Netanyahu’s office:
'PA will have no role in Gaza'.
Elad Benari.
Feb 3, 2026, 1:11 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421868 INN]
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Iranian officials say Tehran may halt nuclear program to ease tensions with US.
Two Iranian officials told the New York Times a dramatic nuclear compromise with the United States is possible, saying Tehran favors a regional nuclear consortium proposed last year and could transfer enriched uranium to Russia, as Israel fears a deal without missile limits.
Lior Ben Ari|2.3.26
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1ado5ru11g YNet]
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Campus Antisemitism.
‘Extreme’ anti-Zionists taking over Wikipedia, former US official says.
Kenneth L. Marcus, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that the crowd-sourced encyclopedia quotes him out of context.
Aaron Bandler.
(Feb. 2, 2026 / JNS)
Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman and CEO of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and a former assistant U.S. secretary of education for civil rights, is cited four times in Wikipedia’s entry on “weaponization of antisemitism” and five times in notes at the bottom of the page.
“While warning in 2010 against denying or minimizing antisemitism, attorney and academic Kenneth L. Marcus also cautioned against overuse of the ‘antisemitism card,’ paralleling concerns raised by Richard Thompson Ford with the broader misuse of ‘the race card,’” states the page on one of the internet’s most visited websites.
Marcus told JNS that Wikipedia reveals its bias by having a page on “weaponizing” Jew-hatred at all, and that the references to his thinking are taken out of context.
“The so-called ‘weaponization’ is really more of a smear against Jewish advocates and should be recognized in that way,” he said.
“They may think that by citing my work, they are providing some degree of balance, but the opposite is the case,” Marcus told JNS. “I have previously cautioned against either minimizing or exaggerating antisemitism, just as I have made the same caution about other forms of bias.”
The Wikipedia entry cites his work “somewhat out of context, as if it were support for the inappropriate charge of weaponization,” Marcus said.
The former education official has tried to refute the notion of weaponized charges of Jew-hatred.
“Advocates for the Jewish community, such as myself, are very aware of the dangers of exaggeration and have been clear about the need for objective assessments,” he said. “This should be seen as an indication that weaponization charges are, at best, exaggerated or distorted and, at worst, fabricated.”
The Wikipedia article states that some have compared charging Israel’s critics with Jew-hatred to “Soviet censorship, McCarthyism and rhetorical strategies against the South African anti-apartheid movement.”
One of the citations appended to that sentence is a 2024 article by the Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Marshall Ganz. The Brandeis Center filed a lawsuit against Harvard in May 2024, alleging that the school found Ganz responsible for a hostile environment against three Israeli students but didn’t address the situation.
“Ganz is hardly an appropriate authority on the subject matter in light of his own positions and in light of the fact that he has been found to have discriminated against Israeli students,” Marcus told JNS. “This is just another example of Wikipedians, who profess to provide an objective assessment, in fact relying to an excessive extent on questionable figures.”
‘Taken over’.
Activists are pushing particular narratives on Wikipedia, where there is an indication that some foreign countries are paying for slanted edits to pages, according to Marcus. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is probing whether there are “systematic efforts” to promote Jew-hatred and anti-Israel material on the site.
“Wars develop within Wikipedia communities that are every bit as intense as the wars going on in the Middle East, so reasonable people are often scared away,” Marcus told JNS. “The result is that pages are taken over by extremist, anti-Zionist advocates.”
The encyclopedia’s entry on the movement to boycott Israel, which Marcus sees as an “antisemitic hate movement,” states that BDS is “a nonviolent, Palestinian-led movement” pushing for the Jewish state to obey international law.
Wikipedia doesn’t mention that the movement emerged from the Arab League’s boycott of the Jewish state, which “relates to the prior Nazi boycott, as well as earlier anti-Jewish boycotts in prior years,” Marcus told JNS.
The entry depicts “the BDS movement, inaccurately, as a human rights campaign, as opposed to a rebranded antisemitic boycott,” he said. “It’s not so much that they don’t mention the Arab League boycott and other boycotts of Israel, but they certainly downplay those in favor of a different narrative that the Wikipedians advance.”
The entry “takes at face value the self-serving descriptions of members of that movement rather than viewing the BDS movement in a more objective light,” he said.
The page cites a “relatively small number of mainstream, reasonable commentators,” who are “overshadowed” by a “very substantial number” of “highly biased, anti-Zionist figures and platforms,” according to Marcus.
“A very large number of major figures, including public officials, have pointed out the antisemitic character of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement,” he told JNS. “At a minimum, this entry should have a discussion of the major figures who have explained why BDS is antisemitic.”
PR for anti-Zionists.
The opening lines of Wikipedia’s entry for Students for Justice in Palestine “couldn’t have been written much more favorably if it had been developed by a public relations firm working on SJP’s behalf,” according to Marcus.
The group is a “pro-Palestinian college student activism organization” that has “organized events about Israel’s human-rights violations,” per the entry, which quotes The New York Times calling it “the leading pro-Palestinian voice on campus.”
The page mentions charges, including by the Brandeis Center, that the student group is antisemitic, but “those accusations are relatively minimal as compared to the apparently favorable discussion of this highly controversial organization,” Marcus said.
JNS also asked Marcus about Wikipedia’s entries for anti-Israel protests at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at Columbia University in 2024. The Brandeis Center has active lawsuits related to both.
Although the center’s suit against UCLA has generated media coverage, Marcus said, “facts disclosed in that lawsuit are largely unreported in this article,” in the UCLA entry on the site.
“At best it’s lazy, but the fact that the omission is one-sided raises a significant question,” he told JNS.
The entry on Columbia portrays the private school as “the subject of a peaceful student protest activity as opposed to a series of hateful, violent activities that were the product of outside organizations, outside agitators, and yes, some students as well,” Marcus told JNS.
“The impression is given that this was largely a peaceful protest that provoked a forceful response from the Trump administration, but without giving a real understanding of the antisemitism that required a response,” he said.
“What’s scary about these articles is not just that people, including students, rely so much on Wikipedia,” but that artificial intelligence models “rely so heavily on it,” according to Marcus.
The site can “launder accusations” from anti-Israel sources and “turn them into encyclopedia entries,” which “become the basis for AI-generated materials that become the basis for all sorts of education indoctrination and decision-making,” which “should be frightening to people,” he said.
[https://www.jns.org/extreme-anti-zionists-taking-over-wikipedia-former-us-official-says/ JNS]
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US pick to govern Gaza called Israel ‘colonialist’ implant.
Ali Shaath’s “ideology is taken directly from the Palestinian Authority’s playbook of hate and terror promotion,” says Palestinian Media Watch.
David Isaac.
(Feb. 2, 2026 / JNS)
Ali Shaath, who has been tasked to head the Gaza administration reconstruction of the Strip, was praised by the White House last month as “a widely respected technocratic leader.” But an Israeli watchdog group said Shaath shares the radical anti-Israel ideology one would expect from a former Palestinian Authority functionary.
“[H]is ideology is taken directly from the Palestinian Authority’s playbook of hate and terror promotion,” said Palestinian Media Watch in a statement on Sunday.
Before U.S. President Donald Trump tapped Shaath to lead the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), Shaath shared his views about Israel and terrorism in an April 2025 podcast, as revealed by PMW.
In the YouTube interview, Shaath declared Israel a Western colonial project. “This colonialist [Israel], who was planted by America and Western Europe … , they planted it [Israel] in Palestine since the Balfour Promise [i.e., Declaration].”
[https://www.jns.org/us-pick-to-govern-gaza-called-israel-colonialist-implant/ JNS]
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Anti-Israel, former president of Chile nominated to be next UN secretary-general.
Michelle Bachelet, who green-lit a blacklist of companies operating in Judea and Samaria, could replace outgoing United Nations chief António Guterres.
Mike Wagenheim.
(Feb. 2, 2026 / JNS)
Backed by Mexico and Brazil, Gabriel Boric, Chile’s outgoing president, nominated former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, a harsh critic of the Jewish state, to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations.
Boric, who is also anti-Israel, made the announcement on Monday. José Antonio Kast, a right-wing politician who is set to assume the Chilean presidency next month, would be unlikely to nominate Bachelet, 74, for the role.
Bachelet, who was Brazil’s president twice—from 2006-10 and 2014-18—was the first head of U.N. Women and served as U.N. high commissioner for human rights.
She was a frequent critic of the Jewish state, which broke ties with her office in 2020 over her decision to implement a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution mandating the publication of a blacklist of companies engaged in business in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
According to U.N. Watch, Bachelet issued 14 comments about Israel, more than any democratic country. She made the same number of statements about Syria and fewer about Iran, according to the watchdog.
Bachelet used her final hours in office to decry Israel over its denial of visas to her staff. She ignored antisemitic comments made by a member of the Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for which the commissioner later apologized.
[https://www.jns.org/anti-israel-former-president-of-chile-nominated-to-be-next-un-secretary-general/ JNS]
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