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Line 6,553: − Gulf states, Iran postpone talks.+ − Sep 14, 2026+ − Talks between Persian Gulf states and Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and establish future frameworks have been postponed, multiple officials said on Monday.+ − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a0b9-df78-afb1-a1bb9b1a0000 JNS]+ + − ____+ + − Israeli filmmaker of 'NAZA' under scrutiny over longstanding ties to Hamas-linked activist.+ − − Mathilda Heller. September 14, 2026. − Israeli filmmaker Yuval Avraham has a longstanding relationship with Hamas-linked Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Alnaouq, investigative journalist Eitan Fischberger first reported Sunday. − Avraham has been in the headlines this week after his film, NAZA, won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Saturday.+ − + − In 2019, Avraham – then a young journalist – reached out to Alnaouq...+ − Avraham has often referred to Alnaouq as a “close friend” and “partner.” − Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.+ − Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.+ − Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”+ − Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.+ − Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.+ − Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”+ − Earlier this year, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry also revealed that Euro-Med founder Ramy Abdu is a Hamas operative.+ − Alnaouq's brother was eulogized by Hamas.+ − Alnaouq has also previously claimed that his brother, Ayman, was a “member of the resistance” killed in 2014 by the Israeli security forces.+ − Hamas’s Qassam Brigades posted an eulogy of Ayman with a picture of him holding a machine gun and wearing a Hamas headband. This post is still available through archival engines.+ − Speaking to American journalist Pam Bailey in 2017 Alnaouq said, “I came to understand that resistance fighters are nothing more than young people who loved life and loved their homeland, but left their comfortable lives and joined the resistance to confront the Israeli occupation, and defend their homeland and land that had been taken from them since the Nakba of the Palestinian people in 1948.”+ − In an interview with 'Zman Yisrael' in 2021, Avraham referred to the killing of Ayman as a “very great tragedy.”+ − [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-908586 JPost] − ___+ − Israel has the horrific evidence. Where is the international campaign? - comment.+ − NAZA draws on anonymous testimony from soldiers and intelligence personnel who say the army calculated expected civilian deaths before airstrikes and proceeded with them anyway. − By Zvika Klein. September 14, 2026. − Three years after October 7, Israel still invites people into closed rooms to watch evidence that it wants the whole world to understand. An officer brings a hard drive. Recording is forbidden. After 47 minutes, the screening ends and the footage leaves with him. − I was invited to one of those screenings and didn’t go. I had seen enough of that day. But I keep wondering about the foreign editor who would investigate a recording, the filmmaker who could spend six months reconstructing an attack, or the audience that would trust their work. What are we doing to make that possible?+ − The Venice prize for NAZA, the documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, makes the question more urgent.+ − Whatever we think of its allegations about Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, its filmmakers have assembled the partnerships and experience needed to reach an international audience. Israel has an enormous archive of October 7. Access to it should produce far more reporting than a series of invited screenings.+ − IDF: The testimony cannot be verified, people approve targeting decisions+ − NAZA draws on anonymous testimony from soldiers and intelligence personnel who say the army calculated expected civilian deaths before airstrikes and proceeded with them anyway. The IDF says the testimony cannot be verified and that people approve targeting decisions. − [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908587]. − Foreign journalists should investigate those allegations and press the army for detailed answers. Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar’s threat to revoke the directors’ citizenship gave them something considerably easier to write about.+ − Abraham and Szor, who won an Oscar last year for No Other Land, secured The Guardian as a co-producer and Jonathan Glazer as an executive producer. They know whom to approach, how to finance a production, and how to get it seen. Israeli officials could learn something from that, however much they dislike the film.+ + − In April, I wrote about Al Jazeera and the sustained investment behind its international reach. I argued for substantial funding for independent international journalism, with owners prepared to finance reporting and respect editorial decisions.+ − Working through the October 7 [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-908557] archive would require that kind of commitment. Researchers, translators, editors, and lawyers have to be paid. Distribution takes money and contacts. A donor needs to understand that the film may take a year and include conclusions he dislikes. Financing it should buy him neither script approval nor the right to remove an inconvenient interview. − I would ask the authorities to identify 100 previously unpublished recordings that could responsibly be released, then offer them individually to foreign newsrooms. Reporters would receive original files, information about their origins, and help contacting witnesses willing to speak.+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − An exclusive gives an editor a reason to assign staff. Those reporters can establish locations, compare recordings, and question the explanations they receive. When they publish, they can explain to readers what they could verify and what they couldn’t.+ + + + + + − Officials would need to accept some uncomfortable reporting. A recording might document both a Hamas atrocity and the hours before help arrived. A witness might describe extraordinary bravery and a government failure in the same interview. Trying to suppress the second part would give people reason to distrust the first.+ − Reconsider the assumption that the most graphic recording is the most useful+ − Last December, I proposed a civilian public diplomacy reserve, with a permanent staff and professionals contributing several weeks a year. Teams would work in languages they knew, dealing with countries whose media and culture they understood. I offered to volunteer and wrote that others with media experience were willing to contribute.+ + + − They could spend those weeks helping foreign journalists work through the archive. A producer needs a translation checked; a reporter is waiting for an answer from the army; a documentary team cannot find a witness. These requests often require repeated calls and someone who knows whom to ask. A journalist abroad should have a reliable contact who will pursue an answer.+ − The reserve’s advocacy role would be public. Journalists would retain control over their reporting and disclose relevant funding or assistance. − We should also reconsider the assumption that the most graphic recording is the most useful. Footage can establish planning, coordination, and the sequence of an attack. People can learn something substantial without watching someone die. Given my own decision to decline the screening, I can hardly demand that everyone else watch it.+ − − Families must approve the use of recordings showing their relatives. They need time to decide, and a refusal must be respected. Material involving sexual violence requires particular care and a specialist’s review. − − Much has already circulated. Some people have justified what it shows, and another recording may change nothing for them. October 7 evidence also cannot answer every allegation about Israeli conduct in Gaza. The army must address those questions separately. − − There are still readers who know little about the massacre, or who doubt accounts they have encountered. Someone who distrusts an IDF statement may be moved by an investigation from a newspaper they have read for 20 years. That newspaper, thus, should be able to examine the evidence. − − Helping it do so may earn the government very little credit. A completed documentary may omit mentions of Israeli officials or may include criticism of them. Ministers would have to tolerate that in return for reaching people who rarely believe anything they say. − − I would consider that a good use of public money. Another closed screening for people already sympathetic to Israel needs a better justification, three years on. − https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-908591 − − Line 6,687:
Line 6,693: − ____+ + + + + − USPS probing apparent Hartford staffer caught on video saying ‘Jewish garbage[sic]’.+ − The independent executive branch agency told JNS that the behavior is “not acceptable” and the incident is being “fully investigated.” − Rebecca Szlechter. − (Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Postal Service told JNS that it is investigating an employee in Hartford, Conn., who appeared to refer to “Jewish garbage” in a video recording that has circulated on social media. − In the video, which appears to be from a doorbell camera, the apparent employee of the independent executive branch agency, who has a mailbag slung over his shoulder, stuffs envelopes into a mailbox. − + − StopAntisemitism, a nonprofit, posted the video on Sept. 11 and called the behavior “atrocious bigotry.”+ − Amy Gibbs, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service, told JNS that USPS had reviewed the footage and was investigating the incident.+ − + + − ____+ + − London police seeks British man accused of assaulting three Jewish teens on bus.+ − “Jewish children must be able to go about their daily lives without fear of being targeted for who they are,” the Board of Deputies told JNS. − Rebecca Szlechter. − (Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) A man allegedly assaulted three Jewish teens on a north London bus last week in an incident that the Metropolitan Police is investigating as an antisemitic hate crime, the police department told JNS. − The three 14-year-old boys were traveling on a bus near Sanders Lane in Mill Hill at about 8:15 a.m. on Sept. 10, the day before Rosh Hashanah. − [https://www.jns.org/news/world/uk-police-seek-suspect-after-three-jewish-teens-allegedly-assaulted-on-london-bus JNS] − ____+ + − US ‘on top of’ Houthi activity in Red Sea, Vance says.+ − Sep. 14, 2026 − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a0de-d342-afaf-f8ff1cb60000 JNS] − ____+ + + − Saudi Arabia discovers 114 million tons of uranium ore in Medina.+ − Sep. 14, 2026 − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a110-d864-a5fa-f97e42670000 JNS] − ____+ + − ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti at student 9/11 memorial on California State University campus.+ − Sep. 14, 2026. − Some 30 of the 2,177 American flags that the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at California State University, Stanislaus planted on the Turlock, Calif., “free speech lawn” were vandalized with “free Palestine graffiti,” the College Fix reported. − There was also graffiti supporting the “antifa” movement, and some of the American flags were dislodged, according to the report.+ − The public school told JNS that campus police “received a report of the vandalism and is actively investigating the situation.”+ − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a134-d0c1-a5ee-a33519070000 JNS] − ____+ + + − Israel unlikely to improve Saudi ties despite Houthi threat, expert tells 'Post'.+ − “If there was a new governing coalition that seemed more committed to discretion, then perhaps there would be an opening for greater cooperation,” Dr. Brandon Friedman suggested.+ − + − [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908541 JPost]+ − _____+ + − Saudi crown prince meets CENTCOM chief in bid for US help amid escalating Houthi attacks.+ − Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have been conducting strikes and seizing territory throughout the region, prompting serious concern from Gulf nations.+ − September 14, 2026 − [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908519 JPost] − _____+ + − IDF kills five Hamas terrorists, among them military commander, in Gaza counterterrorism operation+ − The IDF and Shin Bet have intensified counterterrorism efforts in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks with the goal of killing Hamas terrorists and minimizing reconstruction efforts. − Avi Ashkenazi. Sep 15, 2026 01:31 − [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908599 JPost] − _____+ + − + − Among the illegal weapons and ammunition seized were several which are suspected to have been stolen from the IDF, the police stated. − Tzvi Jasper. Sep 15, 2026 01:51 − [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-908600 JPost] − _____+ + − Uri Kurlianchik: The New Mercenaries.+ − There is something people need to understand about Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the producers of the anti-Israel propaganda films “No Other Land” and “Naza.” − They are not whistle blowers. They are not concerned citizens. They are not Israeli Snowdens or even Israeli Wallace Shawns.+ − If they were, they would have gone with whatever “evidence” they have uncovered to the authorities, or the press if they don’t trust the authorities, or some international investigative body if they don’t trust the press. They would have presented concrete facts and actionable evidence that would have led to prosecution, not insinuations that cannot be used in any legal way.+ − They would not have released a highly-stylized film in a foreign film festival to the thunderous applause of Israel’s foreign enemies. They would not have produced a dramatic story where faceless, nameless people who, for all we know might be actors, read lines seemingly written by al-Mayadeen and Al-Jazeera with no sources or attributions.+ + − Yuval claims that exposing state actions is a moral responsibility for Israelis, but he and his accomplices didn’t expose anything. Is there a single person that can be prosecuted based on his tall tales? These are not witness testimonies, it’s not even hearsay. Any judge in the world would have laughed him out of court with this “evidence.”+ − No. Except for giving ammunition to Israel’s enemies, he and his accomplice have done nothing. − They are not even Kapos, because Kapos acted under duress against their own people to save their families and lives, not for clout and profit.+ + + + + − People like Yuval and Szor are mercenaries funded by Israel's enemies to damage the country during war. Even the great champions of free speech, the United States, don’t tolerate unregistered foreign agents acting against Americans on American territory.+ − So why does Israel?+ − And make no mistake.+ + − Everything about this movies is foreign. The production companies are foreign. The country of origin is foreign. The release is foreign.+ − These are not Israeli films. These are foreign, anti-Israel films wearing Israeli creators like a fig leaf. − They are being paid to give credence to anti-Israel propaganda by giving it the "validation" of an Israeli voice. They are astroturfed Solzhenitsyns. They are international Quislings. They are collaborators in a foreign anti-Israel operation.+ + + + + + − Contrary to their claims, there is nothing Jewish about what they are doing.+ − Fun fact: the Venice Film Festival awarded a gold medal to Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film "the Triumph of Will" in 1935 and the best film award to her Nazi propaganda film "Olympia" in 1938. Sadly, we don't know for how long they applauded both films. [pic.twitter.com/Uwxlhyu5aS]. − — Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) September 13, 2026. − [https://urikurlianchik.substack.com/p/the-new-mercenaries on Substack] − _____ + + + − MEMRI+ − @MEMRIReports − #ICYMI: Member Of #Iranian Parliament's National Security Commission Says: 'We Provided Military Training To Afghan [#Taliban] Forces After 9/11 [To Confront Americans]'; '#Israel Must Also Be Eliminated' - Report & audio here [ow.ly/7xAG50ZM5GV] [#MEMRI #September11]. − Sep 13, 2026. − [https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/2099234411329782064 on X] − ______ + + + − MEMRI+ − @MEMRIReports. − #Palestinian Journalist: #AlJazeera Is A Strategic Tool Of The #Qatari Regime For Spreading Extremist Ideas And Terrorist Propaganda - Report & audio here [ow.ly/mcgR50ZNogj [#MEMRI] − Sep. 14, 2026. − [https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/2099509083237748999 on X] − _____ − Sete octubre+ − @siete octubre:+ − Israel's culture minister moves to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers who turned lies against the IDF into a venice-winning act of betrayal a film that endangers Israel's soldiers and citizens, fuels antisemitism and gives it justification.+ − Sep 14, 2026 − [https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLnbDcixDa6/ on Instagram] − ___+ + + − Bassam Tawil: The Palestinians' Dead-End Choice: Fatah or Hamas+ − Both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority [PA] owe the Palestinian people – as well as Israelis and other victims – countless apologies. They owe apologies for corruption and mismanagement. They owe apologies for failing to build transparent and accountable institutions. They owe apologies for suppressing dissent and freedom of expression and for persecuting political opponents, journalists, human rights activists, and critics. They owe apologies for repeatedly rejecting compromises and peace initiatives and for policies that have contributed to decades of Israeli and Palestinian bloodshed. They owe apologies for failing to use international assistance to build a functioning economy and institutions that serve ordinary Palestinians. They owe their people an honest explanation for why Palestinians remain divided between two rival governments and without a functioning democratic political system. − The timing of this latest dispute is particularly significant. − Hamas has decided to participate [in the upcoming PA elections on November 28]... if true, such an arrangement would allow Hamas to re-enter Palestinian politics through the back door.+ + + + − So, instead of changing its goals – brutally ruling Gaza and destroying Israel – Hamas will simply change its "name, structure and framework"?+ − Changing the label does not change the organization. A Hamas-affiliated candidate does not cease to be affiliated with Hamas simply because the word "Hamas" does not appear next to his name on the ballot. − Such a maneuver would turn the election into a political fiction: Hamas would be permitted to obtain parliamentary representation while avoiding the political consequences of openly running as Hamas. Allowing Hamas— in disguise or not – to run in the election would also legitimize the terrorist group without requiring it fundamentally to change.+ + + + − That would be a serious mistake. The Palestinians have already seen what happens when Hamas acquires political power.+ − Hamas is bad, but who said that the PA is any better? − Palestinians have experienced corruption, political repression, and an absence of meaningful political renewal.+ + + + − The problem is: What if one of the negotiating parties decides never to come to the table? Is the other party just supposed to hold everything in abeyance – unsettled forever – in case one day the other party might change its mind?+ − The Palestinians need a genuine third way – not merely another faction with a different name. They need leaders who are prepared to challenge the entrenched political culture of Fatah and Hamas. They need leaders who believe that the Palestinian national interest is more important than factional interests. They need leaders willing to confront corruption, reject authoritarianism, protect freedom of expression, build functioning institutions, and end the glorification of violence. − Above all, Palestinians need leaders courageous enough to tell their people an uncomfortable truth: there can be no genuine progress so long as the political choice remains confined to Fatah and Hamas, and that the primary objective of both groups remains the obliteration of Israel.+ − + + + − ____+ − @JonathanMajburd+ − J.Majburd+ − @JonathanMajburd − When Terror Gets a Standing Ovation − https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRtL9iOXGO/?stkn=MWoyNnYzeGxmY2RqOQ== − Sep 14, 2026. − [https://x.com/JonathanMajburd/status/2099555825643557184 on X] − ___+ + − Netanyahu confirms New York trip for UN General Assembly, to address UN on September 24.+ − Sep 14, 2026. − Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to the United States on September 23 to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, the Prime Minister's Office announced Monday. − The visit will take place on September 23-25, following Yom Kippur and ahead of the Sukkot holiday.+ − Netanyahu is expected to address the General Assembly on Thursday, September 24.+ − The prime minister last visited New York for the 80th UNGA in September 2025, before New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected, when he delivered an address denouncing Western countries for embracing Palestinian statehood.+ − "You know what message the leaders who recognize the Palestinian state this week sent to the Palestinians? It’s a very clear message: murdering Jews pays off,” Netanyahu told the 80th UNGA.+ − [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908544 JPost] − ____+ + − Trusting your audience: What NAZA could learn from Fauda's latest season - editorial+ − Israeli self-criticism has never been absent from Israeli culture. Fauda itself is proof. − JPost Editorial. September 15, 2026. − Two Israeli productions arrived before global audiences within days of each other, both shaped by the trauma of October 7. Yet they approach Israel’s reckoning very differently. The fifth season of Fauda, now streaming worldwide, turns revenge inward and forces its Israeli characters to confront its cost. NAZA, the Venice Prize-winning documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, takes a different direction. Its argument appears settled before its evidence is weighed. − + − Trusting the viewers enough to leave judgement open.+ − Serious art can expose wounds without pretending that one moral interpretation explains every decision made under fire. It can look directly at Palestinian suffering, Israeli leadership failures, and the brutality that war produces, while preserving context, uncertainty, and human agency. Fauda has never required viewers to believe every Israeli action is justified. It trusts them enough to leave judgment open. − NAZA asks for a different kind of trust. The film is built around interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence personnel whose identities are concealed. They make grave allegations about targeting decisions in Gaza, including claims that mass civilian deaths were knowingly built into military operations. Those allegations deserve examination. They also demand exceptional scrutiny. The IDF has categorically rejected them, arguing that the anonymous speakers’ identities and military roles cannot be verified.+ − + − Anonymity does not invalidate testimony, especially when whistleblowers fear professional or legal consequences. It does, however, place a heavier burden on filmmakers making claims of extraordinary scale. Viewers cannot assess the sources’ rank, access to information, direct involvement, or possible motives. When a documentary presents testimony under those conditions, its framing becomes even more consequential. NAZA’s public presentation leaves little sense that the central proposition remains contested.+ − + − Robert Kraft confirms role in pushing Macklemore off Ed Sheeran tour. − Patriots owner Robert Kraft confirms he helped pressure Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore, citing antisemitic rhetoric and imagery at recent shows. − Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 4:24 AM (GMT+3) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433167 INN] − _____+ + + + + + − Israel Is Fighting Tomorrow’s War with Yesterday’s Tools.+ − Israel Can Present Impressive Military Achievements While Upholding the Purity of Arms, Yet at the Same Time Watch Its Room for Maneuver Steadily Shrink.+ − September 13, 2026.+ − Zvi Hauser. Israel Hayom+ − Israel is losing its standing on the international stage because it continues to rely on military achievements alone, while the battle over consciousness and influence has become the new decisive front. Establishing a national influence apparatus could strengthen Israel's value in the eyes of its allies and make it vital to them in the future.+ − + + + + + + − Jewish students returned to campus at Wilfrid Laurier University after celebrating Rosh Hashanah to find their mezuzahs smashed and torn down.+ − Sep 14, 2026. − [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-908569 JPost] − ____ − UKMTO: Ship hit by ‘unknown projectile’ in Strait of Hormuz.+ − Sep 15, 2026, 05:24+ − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a466-dbe1-adaf-afee098a0000 JNS] − ____+ + − IDF strikes kill two Hamas terror commanders.+ − Sep 15, 2026, 06:07 − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a478-dda4-abe4-ef7a9fcb0000 JNS] − ____+ + − Air-raid alerts activated in Mecca amid Houthi escalation.+ − Sep 15, 2026, 06:24 − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a48a-dd48-afe6-f6af82460000 JNS] − ____+ + − Samaria: IDF arrests Palestinian taxi driver after suspected ramming.+ − Israel Defense Forces soldiers arrested a Palestinian taxi driver suspected of an attempted car-ramming near Ariel in Samaria on Tuesday, the military told JNS. − Sep. 15, 2026. − No one was hurt in the incident, according to initial Hebrew-language reports. − The IDF said troops were dispatched to the scene and detained the driver. − https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a49a-d584-a1ea-bc9eacfc0000 − ____+ + + − “It’s shocking. You know, we are fighting global antisemitic incitement. But when it comes from within us, it’s simply intolerable,” he said of the film by directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.+ − “And it starts with Yair Golan, who says that we murder babies as a hobby,” he continued, referencing May 2025 remarks by the far-left politician. − “It then continues with the MAG [former Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi], who leaks a fabricated and false video that smears IDF soldiers all over the world.” (Tomer Yerushalmi was dismissed in May after admitting she leaked the video, which the accused soldiers say was doctored to falsely implicate them.)+ − + − “And now, two Israeli directors who present the IDF as war criminals and are lauded at the Venice festival,” he said.+ + + + + − Netanyahu noted that the Directors Guild of Israel came out in support of Abraham and Szor. The guild’s head, Eliran Elya, who announced his resignation earlier this month, is now a candidate for Eisenkot’s party, he said.+ − “So I say to Gadi Eisenkot: Cancel your surplus-vote agreement with Yair Golan’s party, come out with a sharp condemnation of this thing and kick this guy off your list,” he added. − Eisenkot had condemned “NAZA” in an X post earlier on Monday.+ + + − “The choice of Israeli filmmakers to stand on an international stage, present a distorted and one-sided picture and cast a moral stain on the soldiers who protect our home is moral blindness, a disconnect from reality and harms the State of Israel at a difficult hour,” he wrote.+ − ___+ + − Netanyahu to Eisenkot: Cancel surplus-vote deal with Yair Golan over ‘NAZA’ film.+ − Sep 15, 2026, 07:03 + − Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on Yashar Party leader Gadi Eisenkot to cancel his surplus-vote agreement with Yair Golan’s Democrats Party, in a video statement slamming the anti-Israel film “NAZA.” − − _____+ − COGAT: More than 24,000 tons of medical supplies entered Gaza since ceasefire.+ − Sep 15, 2026, 07:27+ − More than 24,000 tons of medical equipment and supplies have entered the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10, 2025, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit said.+ + − COGAT said the deliveries include X-ray machines, oxygen concentrators, generators, spare parts and incubators, and are coordinated with international organizations under a monitoring mechanism intended to prevent Hamas terrorists from taking control of the aid.+ − The agency said additional efforts include establishing new medical facilities and arranging medical evacuations from the Strip.+ − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a475-dd48-afe6-f6ffc7cf0000 JNS]+ − ___+ − Pennsylvania man charged with securing gun to commit ISIS terror attack.+ − Sep 15, 2026+ − Jonathan Hunter Kramer, of Valencia, Pa., obtained a gun with the intention of carrying out an ISIS terror attack, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. − Federal agents arrested the 21-year-old at a hotel, where he had three 30-round capacity rifle magazines and five boxes of rifle ammunition, the FBI said. Agents seized a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition from the hotel room.+ − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a5e2-d4bf-a1fc-efe61e870000 JNS] − ___+ + + + − Footage from Lebanon:+ − IDF destroys 32 rockets aimed at Israel. − Israel National News. − Sep 15, 2026, 10:16 AM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433182 INN] − ___ − + − Hezbollah will mount significant attack after regrouping, studying Israeli activity, IDF warns.+ − According to IDF assessments, Hezbollah's senior leadership is closely awaiting developments in the Iranian arena, with everything dependent on Tehran.+ − September 15, 2026.+ − + + − IDF eliminates two Hamas commanders who posed immediate danger.+ − Israel National News.+ − + − − _____+ + + + − European Parliament to screen 'The Bibi Files' ahead of Israel's 2026 Knesset election.+ − September 15, 2026 − [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908615 JPost] − _____ + + + − How a Yemeni fishing city has become a second front in the US-Iran conflict.+ − September 15, 2026 − [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908624 JPost] − _____ + + + − Israel provided Saudi Arabia with intel. assistance as Houthi attacks on Riyadh's assets continue.+ − September 15, 2026 − [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908610 JPost] − Secret channel against Houthis. − Israel transfers intelligence to Saudi Arabia via US. − Israel National News. − Sep 15, 2026, 10:04 PM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433216 INN] − _____+ + + + + + + − The final frontier: US reveals Space Force has 'on-orbit space control weapons' for first time. − September 15, 2026 − [https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-908651 JPost] − _____+ + − Shin Bet, police arrest central Israel resident for planning October 7-inspired terror attack+ − The suspect was reportedly inspired by the October 7 massacre and was planning on carrying out a terrorist attack involving explosives.+ − Hodaya Ran. September 15, 2026.+ − A 19-year-old resident of Kafr Kassem was arrested on suspicion of advancing terrorist activity and planning to carry out an attack, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Israel Police stated on Tuesday. − The joint investigation found that Issa had been influenced by the October 7 massacre. According to the investigation, he subsequently began advancing a plan to carry out a terrorist attack.+ − [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908627 JPost] − _____+ + − Jewish patients hide their identity amid NHS antisemitism.+ − − Sep 15, 2026, 12:36 PM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433187 INN] − ____+ − Poll:+ − Nearly half of secular Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur.+ − IDI poll finds 74% of Israeli Jews fast at least partially on Yom Kippur and 57% attend synagogue, including many who rarely attend during the year.+ − + − Sep 15, 2026, 12:25 PM − − ____+ − Poll:+ − Nearly three-quarters of Jewish Israelis reject full Gaza pullout.+ − Israel National News.+ − − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433183 INN] − ____+ − Families of Oct. 7 victims: “The time for reckoning has come".+ − Israel National News.+ − Sep 15, 2026, 6:38 PM − − ____+ + + + − Hostage survivor:+ − 'I prayed not to be moved - then the IDF bombed the building’.+ − Bar Kupershtein recounts the miraculous moment during his Gaza captivity when a canceled transfer kept him from a building later destroyed in an IDF strike. − Israel National News. − Sep 15, 2026, 8:27 PM − − ____+ − + − US, Israeli, Arab military chiefs hold secret meeting in Germany.+ − + − + − ____+ − + − The IDF has already begun an investigation by its Information Security Department and at several other units suspected of being sources of materials and information provided to the creators of the film “Naza."+ − Israel National News.+ − Published: Sep 15, 2026, 8:35 PM (GMT+3)+ − − ____+ − NYC Council, healthcare groups hold their first meeting on Jew-hatred in medicine.+ − Rikki Zagelbaum. Sep 15, 2026+ − + + + − ____ − Damaged Saudi oil pipeline will operate ‘in days,’ US energy secretary says.+ − Sep 15, 2026+ − + − + − Sep 15, 2026+ − + − ____+ − Rubio decries Iranian attacks in talk with Omani foreign minister.+ − Sep 15, 2026.+ − + − ____+ − + − PFLP-linked New Zealand party running on Palestine platform enters election, sparking concern.+ − The Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party was almost not allowed to register following the submission of over 200 submissions opposing it.+ − Mathilda Heller. September 15, 2026.+ − − Mum’s the word from El-Sayed a week after call for him to defend Jews, Michigan rabbis say.+ − Sep 15, 2026.+ − Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan and a former Detroit health director, has yet to respond a week after local rabbis and Jewish leaders issued a campaign, called “Nonnegotiable Michigan,” asking him to “affirm five baseline commitments to Jewish safety, identity, political participation and self-determination,” the rabbis said.+ + + − El-Sayed is “the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in America,” according to the Republican Jewish Coalition. − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a589-d649-a9b7-edcdb74e0000 JNS] − ____+ + + + + + − Butler County Man Charged with Receiving a Firearm and Ammunition With Intent to Commit Terrorism on Behalf of ISIS. + − Department of Justice, September 15, 2026: − Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, a resident of Valencia, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with receiving a firearm and ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the firearm and ammunition would be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, including providing, attempting to provide, and conspiring to provide material support or resources to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). FBI agents interdicted Kramer this weekend as he returned to a hotel in possession of three 30-round capacity rifle magazines and five boxes of rifle ammunition. The FBI then executed search warrants, seized a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition from his hotel room, and arrested him…. − “Kramer was taken into custody just as he appeared to be preparing for a mass shooting that could have taken many lives, having already secured a rifle and approximately 190 rounds of ammunition for what he called his ‘mission,’” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg. “His apparent ISIS inspiration and escalation toward violence show how close this country came to a devastating attack. This arrest prevented what could have been a horrific tragedy.”… − According to the affidavit filed in support of the complaint, Kramer has been known to the FBI since an earlier investigation in 2023, which resulted in Kramer, then a minor, being charged and adjudicated delinquent by Pennsylvania state authorities for his role in a plot to commit a mass casualty incident and for possessing child sexual abuse material. On March 19, 2026, following Kramer’s release from a Pennsylvania juvenile detention facility, an anonymous individual made an online tip to the FBI reporting a return to troubling behavior by Kramer, including, among other activities, his ordering of “mysterious” packages and “talking to his friends from before” his juvenile adjudication. Subsequent investigation confirmed that Kramer had been using the online persona of “Hamza Al Rashid” who claimed affiliation with ISIS, offered to share explosive manuals with others, and expressed his intent to prepare for his “mission” and that he was just missing a “weapon.”+ + + + − On Sept. 12, the FBI observed Kramer quickly depart his residence while carrying a bag and travel via rideshare to a retail store, where he purchased a disposable phone. After exiting the store, he met an individual in the parking lot and acquired a long black bag from the trunk of a vehicle. Kramer then traveled to a hotel in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, where he paid cash to book a room. Witnesses from both the store and hotel noted Kramer’s bag making a metallic clicking sound when he placed it down. After checking into his room, Kramer traveled to a sporting goods store and was observed by the FBI at the gun counter.+ − Upon returning to the hotel’s parking lot, FBI agents approached Kramer while he carried two bags containing the contents of his purchase from the sporting goods store. Kramer agreed to speak with the agents and placed the bags on the ground. The FBI then executed federal search warrants on Kramer’s person, hotel room, and residence. Agents seized a semiautomatic rifle, five rifle magazines (two loaded and the other three each offering a 30-round capacity), a rifle bipod and scope, a total of 190 rounds of rifle ammunition, an entrenchment tool, a prayer rug, pepper spray, and approximately 30 knives, along with a handwritten note stating “DoNt look For me[.] IDK what I did buT I cant live In constant Fear[.]” − [https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/butler-county-man-charged-receiving-firearm-and-ammunition-intent-commit-terrorism-behalf Department of Justice] − Pennsylvania man charged in plot to assist ISIS in terror attack, feds say.+ − Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, has been known to the FBI for years as a terror threat, according to a federal criminal complaint.+ − Sept. 15, 2026.+ − By Shayna Jacobs+ − The complaint says the FBI also tracked Kramer’s suspicious purchases since his release from juvenile jail, including a 5-inch knife and pepper spray ordered from Amazon.+ + − Kramer also allegedly had an online alias, “Hamza Al Rashid,” where he brainstormed “methods of violence against the Kuffar, as well as tools that can be useful to remain anonymous,” according to the complaint. Kuffar is a reference to non-Muslims.+ − A shared document Kramer administered discussed how “fire is an extremely useful tool to cause irreplaceable damage to the kuffars homes and land, and cost millions, if not billions of dollars, in damage if used correctly,” the complaint says. − “While fire leads to less deaths, it causes much more chaos/displacement,” Kramer said in the alleged document, according to the complaint.+ + + + + − Kramer also allegedly suggested that “good areas to target” are places like “nightclubs, theaters, concerts, and apartment buildings/hotels and schools with low security.”+ − “Not only does the fire carry risk of death, in events of mass confusion, people will normally stampede each other trying to escape, leading to more possible deaths,” the document allegedly continued.+ − + − Kramer’s alleged planning document highlighted poisonings, large trucks and firearms as “methods to increase your jihad’s destruction.” Battaglia said he promoted “distracting emergency services” as a strategy for carrying out an attack.+ − + − “I might be able to carry out an operation soon against the kuffar, please pray for my success brothers,” Kramer allegedly wrote to the online community on May 26. − − Pro-Israel Michigan Dem says she was ‘harassed, followed’ over her Zionist views.+ − “People are free to disagree with me, challenge me and protest my positions. That is democracy. But disagreement is not license for intimidation or harassment,” said Rep. Haley Stevens.+ − Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep. 15, 2026.+ − + + + − Israel says it hit Hamas commander of Rafah Brigade.+ − “Our message is clear. No terrorist is immune, and Hamas will not be in Gaza,” stated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, according to an English translation of their remarks provided by Netanyahu’s office.+ − + − + + − Rom Braslavski: I’m afraid a Palestinian government will be established here.+ − Captivity survivor Rom Braslavski spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and admitted that despite their disagreements, he is very apprehensive about giving his vote to the left.+ − + − + + + − _____ − − Chilling | Keshet Casarotti’s last call on October 7 − In the recording, Keshet can be heard trying to call for medical assistance, describing the severe pain he was suffering and the paralyzing fear that left him unable to move. − Israel National News. − Published: Sep 16, 2026, 12:17 AM (GMT+3) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433222 INN] − − ____ + + + − 'US-Iran war will enter much different phase within months'. − Vice President JD Vance says the US-Iran conflict will enter a “much different phase" within months as Washington pressures Tehran and restores traffic through Hormuz. − Israel National News − Sep 16, 2026, 1:22 AM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433223 INN] − + − Report:+ − Trump admin plans $2.8 billion military package for Israel.+ − Israel National News. − − − PIDF eliminates Hamas Rafah Brigade commander in drone strike.+ − Abu Obeid replaced Mohammed Shabana after his death alongside Mohammed Sinwar; strike comes amid series of operations against senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.+ − Elisha Ben Kimon, Einav Halabi | updated:09.15.26 | 16:38+ − − 'An UNRWA teacher kept my mother trapped in his attic': Testimony at the UN and the agency's 'reform'. − Neta Heiman-Mina tells the UN Human Rights Council how her 84-year-old mother was held for 48 days by a UNRWA teacher, as a new UN Watch report shows the agency overstated reforms meant to address neutrality failures. − Itamar Eichner| 09.15.26 | 22:12 − [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjs9mzdfze YNet] − Daughter of former Gaza hostage confronts UN over UNRWA funding despite Hamas ties.+ − September 16, 2026.+ − Neta Heiman Mina, whose elderly mother, Ditza Heiman, was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, and held prisoner in Gaza for nearly two months, spoke at the 63rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. She spoke on a panel on human rights education, confronting the UN over its continued funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) despite its ongoing ties to Hamas.+ − − Palestinian-American Press TV reporter detained near Bethlehem on suspected espionage.+ − Naqaa Hamed was detained at a checkpoint near Tekoa; IDF sources say she is suspected of cooperating with an enemy entity and may also face an espionage investigation.+ − Elisha Ben Kimon, Lior Ben Ari, Einav Halabi | published:09.15.26 | + − + − IDF arrests Iran's Press TV journalist in West Bank, hands her to police, source confirms to 'Post'.+ − The IDF confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that the journalist, identified by the Iranian state broadcaster as Palestinian-American Naqqa Hamad, was transferred to the Israel Police. − September 16, 2026. − [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908720 JPost] − ____ + + + − Drake's "Pray for Gaza" Lyric Sparks Fury.+ − The Jewish-Canadian rapper included the controversial line in his new film FOMO, reigniting debate over his silence on Hamas terror and his ties to the Jewish community+ − Gila Isaacson. − Sep 16, 2026 − − Lebanon Signals Hope for Peace with Israel+ − In talks with international reporters. President Joseph Aoun expressed optimism that American-mediated negotiations could transform relations between the two countries beyond a mere ceasefire+ − Gila Isaacson.+ − Sep 16, 2026+ − [https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/tlgbds JFeed]+ − Labor Court Ruling.+ − Gush Etzion Firm Pays Guard $40K − After 16 years of work, Jerusalem labor court rules Palestinian security guard was actually an employee, not contractor, awards full severance and benefits. − Gila Isaacson. − Sep 16, 2026 − [https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tlgksp JFeed] − ____+ − US officials met Iran-backed Houthis in Oman over the weekend, sources say.+ − + − Reuters. September 16, 2026. − − US Gave Houthis Green Light on Saudi Strikes.+ − American officials met covertly with Yemeni terror group leaders in Oman, reaching understandings that attacks may continue against the Saudis as long as international shipping lanes remain untouched.+ − Gila Isaacson.+ − Sep 16, 2026+ − [https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/tlgias JFeed]+ + + + + − _____+ + − Iran live updates: Houthis claim new attacks on Saudi oil facility, air base.+ − Fighting has intensified in Yemen in recent weeks. − By David Brennan,Meredith Deliso andIvan Pereira. − September 16, 2026, 8:12 AM ET − [https://abcnews.com/amp/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-oil-prices-rise-after-strikes/?id=136415261 ABC] − ____+ − Riyadh pledges severe response to Houthi attacks as US reveals munition shortages.+ − Houthi terror barrage ignites massive fires and sparks fury in Riyadh. New report reveals the US is facing a critical ammunition deficit.+ − By Erez Linn. − Published on 09-16-2026 06:13 − − Houthi rebels 'fire drone at Mecca' as Saudi Arabia warns attempted attack on holy city is a 'red line'.+ − 16 February 2026.+ − + + + − Enigmatic Houthi commander Abdul Malik al-Houthi elevated amid terror group's Red Sea offensive.+ − Since the start of the civil war, foreign officials who dealt with al-Houthi have not been known to have met him in person, a source familiar with the matter said.+ − September 16, 2026+ − + − Netanyahu’s New York UN visit sees unusual US Secret Service security involvement+ − This comes after NYC Mayor Mamdani admitted that his office lacked the authority to arrest the prime minister, though he emphasized that Netanyahu "is not welcome in New York City."+ − By Idan Kweller. September 16, 2026+ − + + − ____+ − + − IDF Chief:+ − War not yet over, Hezbollah must be removed from south of Litani.+ − Uzi Baruch.+ − + − − Israel didn’t pressure Trump into Iran war, didn’t put boots on ground ‘for Israel,’ Huckabee says.+ − + − + + + − ___+ − + − The meeting of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, and US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz comes a day after the sixth anniversary of the Abraham Accords.+ − September 16, 2026+ − + + − ___+ − Sweden expels Iranian embassy official over activity incompatible with Vienna Convention.+ − The official's expulsion follows a CNN report in April that Iran allegedly used criminal gangs in Sweden to target Israeli and Jewish interests.+ − September 16, 2026+ − + + + + + − IAI debuts new tactical vehicle for German special forces.+ − Two TAHRs to be transported inside CH‑47 Chinook helicopters, with crews able to achieve combat readiness shortly after landing. − + + + + + + − Shurat HaDin, representing victims of the October 7 massacre.+ − They demand criminal investigation into the creators of NAZA: “Every day that passes may cause substantial harm to the investigation”.+ − By Jerusalem Post Staff. September 16, 2026 + − Shurat HaDin, an organization representing more than 500 victims of terrorism from the October 7 massacre, has appealed to the Attorney General, Adv. Gali Baharav-Miara, and the State Attorney, Adv. Amit Eisman, demanding that they order the immediate opening of a criminal investigation into the production and publication of the film NAZA. The organization is calling for an examination of the involvement of the film’s creators, sources, and participants. Should the state fail to act promptly on the matter, the organization is considering petitioning the High Court of Justice.+ − − IDF kills Nukhba terrorist who killed, abducted Omer Neutra, Nimrod Cohen on October 7.+ − According to the IDF, the terrorist, Jihad Samih Mahmoud Ismail, had taken part in the killing of Capt. Omer Neutra, St.-Sgt. Oz Daniel, and Sgt. Shaked Dahan.+ − [https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_448,w_632/738054].+ − + + − NYT blasted for baffling Oct. 7 terror attack take, stating ‘Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims.’+ − By Chris Nesi.+ − Published Sep. 16, 2026.+ + + − The New York Times came under fire Wednesday over a baffling passage that appeared in an article about an Israeli documentary — which said the Jewish state “still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7.”+ + + + + + − The Sept. 14 article, penned by Jerusalem-based reporter Isabel Kershner, covers the controversy..+ − [https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/us-news/nyt-blasted-for-baffling-oct-7-terror-attack-take/ NY Post] − _____+ + + + − + − FBI chief Kash Patel warns online radicalization fueling threats to synagogues, public officials.+ − September 16, 2026+ − + + − Netanyahu announces he will propose laws to revoke citizenship of people 'smearing' IDF.+ − + − + + + − _____+ + + + + + − EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani Taps ‘Gay Communist’ for Senior Government Role: New Adviser Called for ‘Abolition of Police’ and ‘Undoing Capitalism,’ Condemned Gandhi as ‘Anti-Black Misogynist’.+ − Washington Free Beacon | September 16, 2026 | Jon Levine − In addition to her government and advocacy work, Afridi is currently listed as an editor at Pinko, a magazine which describes itself as “a collective for thinking gay communism.” On the masthead, she went by “L. Israh Afridi.” Israh is an Arabic word for “night journey” that is sacred in Islam. . . . .+ + + − Afridi is a close friend of Cea Weaver, the notorious top Mamdani housing official who’s called home ownership “a weapon of white supremacy” and expressed a desire to “impoverish the white middle class.”. . .+ − Afridi is only the latest in a string of oddballs, cranks, antisemites, and Lulu Lenins named into Mamdani’s orbit during his time as mayor.+ − + + + − Ali Taher was IDF's most complex battle terrain yet, Egoz forces chief tells 'Post' - interview. − The Egoz Special Forces commander told the Post that the battle signified a major setback to Hezbollah and to Iran "both on a symbolic and command and control operational level." − September 16, 2026. − [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908810 JPost] − Under the ridge.+ − Hezbollah's strategic tunnel system revealed.+ − IDF releases new footage from Hezbollah tunnels in the Ali Taher Ridge, where troops uncovered and destroyed strategic terrorist infrastructure.+ − Israel National News.+ − Sep 16, 2026, 8:47 PM − − Kansas man arrested for threatening to murder Ben Shapiro on Yom Kippur.+ − A Kansas man was arrested after allegedly making multiple antisemitic death threats against Jewish right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro, including an ominous countdown to Yom Kippur.+ − Israel National News.+ − Published: Sep 16, 2026, 11:02 PM (GMT+3)+ + + + − A Kansas man has been arrested after threatening to murder right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro. − Korby Allen Strube, 29, was arrested in Florida, where Shapiro lives, after making multiple threats on social media, including an ominous countdown to Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which will be held next week.+ − + + − ____+ − How to “Other” an Israeli. − First discriminate, then the silent treatment. − Jewish Review of Books. − Sep 16, 2026 − By Malcolm M. Feeley. − Last spring, UC Berkeley formally acknowledged the stream of antisemitic incidents on campus after October 7, 2023, which had resulted in the disruption of scheduled lectures and meetings, harassment of students and faculty, assaults, injuries, and property damage—not to speak of a pervasive atmosphere of menacing groupthink. This acknowledgement was part of a legal agreement that settled a suit by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education. Berkeley also paid $1,000,000 to the Brandeis Center, listed programs the university had established or promised to establish, and the website it would update. − [https://jewishreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/how-to-other-an-israeli JewishReviewOfBooks] − ____+ − + − Nazis Were Organizing in New York. So Were the Jews.+ − In 1934, 45,000 people filled Yankee Stadium to help Germany’s Jews. Ninety-two years later, their program tells us how.+ − Melissa Brodsky. Sep 16, 2026 − − Three-quarters of religion-based hate crimes in Hawaii last year targeted Jews, who are less than 1% of the state.+ − Rabbi Itchel Krasnjansky of Chabad in Hawaii told JNS that “we don’t experience really any antisemitism, besides for the pro-Palestinian crap that goes on here, like everywhere else.”+ − Jessica Russak-Hoffman, Menachem Wecker.+ − Sep. 16, 2026.+ − − − Germany plans tougher measures against Islamist terror after Berlin CSD attack · September 16, 2026.+ − The German government unveiled a ten-point plan to combat Islamic terrorism after the July attack on Berlin's Christopher Street Day parade, where one woman was killed and 31 people injured.+ − + + − How Propaganda Uses Emotion to Teach You What Not to See.+ − The Case of Jadallah Jihad Jadallah and How Narrative Framing Works.+ − GlobalDisconnect.+ − Sep 16, 2026.+ − There is something profoundly revealing about the way the story of Jadallah Jihad Jadallah has been told.+ − A Palestinian boy from the al-Far’a refugee camp was shot by Israeli forces on November 16, 2025. Al-Far’a is in the northern West Bank, near Tubas. This was not a story from Gaza or Hamas. The details surrounding Jadallah’s death came instead from the West Bank, from his own community, and from Fatah, the movement led by Mahmoud Abbas.+ − The death itself is not disputed. He was shot, and forty-five minutes later, he died. What is revealing is everything that followed and has been left out. His case provides a clear example of how narrative framing is created and how effective emotional propaganda works. − Propaganda does not always require fabricating an event. Sometimes the more powerful technique is to take a real event, select the facts that support a particular emotional response, place those facts in a carefully constructed sequence and narrative, and leave other relevant facts out. The audience is then given a story that may contain real images, real people and real events, while being guided toward a particular conclusion that contradict the very evidence right in front of their eyes.+ − + + + − These 8 news outlets relied on terror group for casualty figures when reporting on Israel-Hamas war: study. − + + + − Major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Guardian and Associated Press, relied on casualty figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health, run by terrorist organization Hamas, when reporting on the Israel-Hamas war, according to a new study.+ − + + − “Together, these patterns support a narrative in which total casualty figures are treated as civilian losses.”+ − The study, _Selective Sources, Scrutiny, and the Absence of Standards in Military Conflict Coverage_, was published on Sept. 15, in the peer-reviewed journal _Digital Hate Review_. − Researchers found that journalists cited numbers from the ministry in 100 per cent of the publications reviewed in the study, whereas only three per cent of all articles reviewed cited Israeli data.+ + + − The Israel-Hamas war was triggered by an attack by Hamas terrorists, who killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023. Although the Israeli military began withdrawing troops from Gaza as part of a peace deal in 2025, there is still violence and unrest in the region.+ − The study focuses on 1,378 articles published from March to June 2024 by eight English-language outlets: CNN, BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Reuters and Associated Press. − During that time period, there were still living hostages in Gaza.+ + + − The study found that like the Gaza Ministry of Health, the outlets did not distinguish between terrorist and civilian deaths in their reporting. Articles rarely included data from Israeli sources.+ − “Estimates indicating a high proportion of civilian deaths may contribute to reframing a conflict from war to genocide,” according to the study. “In this sense, quantitative representations of harm are not neutral; they carry interpretive consequences that shape both public discourse and institutional judgment.” − The study suggests that a more comprehensive understanding of deaths during the war could be reached by including both primary sources: the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which provides estimates of terrorist casualties, and the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not.+ + − The IDF said in 2024 that they classify terrorists as individuals who were killed while holding weapons, but did not provide further details, the study said.+ − Through its analysis, the study concluded that the Gaza health ministry “became the primary source of statistical information about the war casualties.” Neither the ministry nor the IDF offer data specific to civilian casualties.+ − The study also looked at which outlets mentioned that the ministry’s figures do not distinguish between civilians and terrorists.+ + − Associated Press and The Washington Post noted the limitation in around 40 per cent of articles, whereas, on the lower end of the spectrum, the BBC and Reuters rarely did (about 1 to 2 per cent of articles).+ − “Overall, this essential disclaimer about the composition of the casualties appeared in only about 15 per cent of all analyzed publications,” the study said.+ + + + − The outlet that most frequently mentioned the ministry’s affiliation with Hamas was the BBC, in about 95 per cent of its articles. Conversely, the connection was made in about 5 per cent of CNN articles, and in 2 per cent of articles by The New York Times and The Washington Post.+ + + + + + − Reporting without providing a fuller picture of where the data comes from can lead to one side being viewed as victims and the other side as “criminal or genocidal,” especially in the online discourse.+ − “These simplified narratives may, in turn, contribute to the spread of hate speech, conspiracy claims, and the amplification of antisemitic or anti-Muslim sentiment,” the study said. − The study calls for “clearer professional standards and greater transparency in reporting conflict-related data.”+ + + + − Articles for the study were selected by a search using the keyword “Gaza.” Researchers manually extracted statements about casualties and used a coding system to categorize them. No artificial intelligence was used for those tasks.+ − [https://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/news-outlets-hamas-casualty-reporting-war-study NationalPost] − [https://archive.is/Wwyql] − ___+ + + − Iran struggles to reroute trade as US blockade disrupts supply lines.+ − Tehran has turned to overland routes to move goods after the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, but border delays and rising costs are hampering the effort, The Wall Street Journal reported.+ − David Isaac.+ − Sep. 17, 2026+ − + + + − _____+ + + + + − Natasha Hausdorff discusses NAZA "documentary" allegations about IDF in Gaza.+ − UKLFI Charitable Trust. − Sep 17, 2026 − A new documentary about Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has made serious allegations about how the IDF selects targets and assesses potential civilian casualties.+ + + + + − NAZA relies heavily on testimony from 24 anonymous Israeli military and intelligence personnel to portray a system in which large numbers of civilian deaths were knowingly accepted and artificial intelligence allegedly played a significant role in identifying targets. The IDF has strongly rejected that portrayal. − UKLFI Charitable Trust has not seen the documentary itself. This interview is based on published reports about its contents, the film’s trailer and a clip that has circulated publicly. + − In this interview, UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director Natasha Hausdorff examines the allegations against the legal framework governing armed conflict. − She explains the principle of proportionality and why anticipating potential civilian casualties does not, in itself, make an attack unlawful. Hausdorff argues that assessing expected civilian harm before a strike is an essential part of complying with the law of armed conflict, rather than evidence of an intention to harm. + + + − The discussion also examines one of the documentary’s most striking reported allegations: that an IDF attack was approved in which as many as 500 civilians could be killed to eliminate a single Hamas target. The IDF has described that claim as “completely false”. Hausdorff discusses both the evidential problems surrounding the allegation and the legal question it raises: international humanitarian law does not prescribe a fixed numerical ceiling for civilian casualties. Proportionality requires expected civilian harm to be assessed against the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated in the particular attack. + − Hausdorff also addresses claims concerning the IDF’s use of artificial intelligence, including systems such as Lavender and Habsora. She discusses the IDF’s stated position that technological systems assist intelligence analysis but do not make decisions to attack, which remain decisions for human personnel. The IDF’s published account says each strike requires an individual assessment of anticipated military advantage and expected civilian harm. − + + + + + − Hausdorff concludes that the material described publicly does not establish the systematic policy alleged by the filmmakers. She also stresses that this doesn't mean every individual strike during the war was lawful and that specific allegations with identifiable dates and locations should be investigated. + − References+ − Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, Article 51 - Protection of the Civilian Population https://ihl-databases....+ + − Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court [https://www.icc-cpi.in...]+ − IDF Targeting Methods During the First Weeks of the Hamas-Israel War https://www.idf.il/en/...+ − The IDF's Use of Data Technologies in Intelligence Processing https://www.idf.il/en/...+ − International Court of Justice: Judgment of 26/2/2007 in Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro https://www.icj-cij.or...+ − About Natasha Hausdorff+ − Natasha Hausdorff is an international lawyer specialising in international law, foreign affairs & national security. She is Legal Director of UKLFI Charitable Trust and a sought-after commentator on the law of armed conflict, the International Criminal Court and international humanitarian law. She has addressed governments, legislators, international organisations and media audiences around the world on legal issues relating to Israel and international law.+ − [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c6IneL1NEQ YouTube] − ___+ + − After Ed Sheeran Tour Ouster, Macklemore Pledges $1 Million to Gaza Aid Groups With Terror Ties, Watchdog Says.+ − By Debbie Weiss. September 17, 2026. − [...] − An internal 2022 Hamas document cited by NGO Monitor described a senior Gaza employee of MAP as “affiliated with the Hamas movement” and working in “the positive,” terminology the watchdog said was used for Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The document also said he had “allegiance” to Hamas rule. − + − A separate 2021 Hamas intelligence document cited by NGO Monitor said a former employee of Anera, a US-based humanitarian organization operating in Gaza, “used to work as an intelligence source” for a unit of the Hamas-run Interior Ministry. Other Hamas records, however, described Anera itself as “not cooperating” with the ministry and said it had resisted Hamas financial and administrative inspections. + − + − PCRF also has ties to the Holy Land Foundation, a US charity later convicted of providing material support to Hamas. The two groups jointly staged a 1996 fundraising tour, with 40% of the proceeds going to PCRF. After Holy Land was designated a Hamas fundraising organization and its assets frozen, it sought Treasury approval in 2004 to transfer $50,000 to PCRF. + − MAP has rejected allegations of Hamas ties, while Anera says it maintains a strict “no-contact” policy with Hamas. + − NGO Monitor founder and president Gerald Steinberg accused Macklemore of “blatant antisemitism under the thin facade of antizionism” and said his plan to donate to “terror-tied NGOs adds another dimension to this travesty.”+ − Some of the groups Macklemore pledged to “are well known as sources of propaganda that demonize Israel,” he said, with “links to the heinous Hamas terror regime.”+ − “Macklemore’s attempt at virtue signaling does nothing to build peace, rather the opposite,” he told The Algemeiner. + − [...]+ − UNRWA itself has faced repeated allegations of Hamas infiltration. A UN investigation concluded in 2024 that nine staff members “may have been involved” in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and terminated their employment. In June, UNRWA fired 70 Gaza employees after accusations that they were affiliated with Hamas. − Israeli forces have on multiple occasions reported finding weapons, Hamas command facilities, and a 700-meter tunnel used by Hamas military intelligence beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters...+ − [https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/17/after-ed-sheeran-tour-ouster-macklemore-pledges-1-million-gaza-aid-groups-terror-ties-watchdog-says/ Algemeiner] − NGO Monitor+ − @NGOmonitor: − Macklemore and @edsheeran pledged millions to Palestinian orgs and challenged Robert Kraft to match the funding. But where is the money going? − 3 of the 6 orgs @macklemore pledged to (MAP, Anera, and PCRF) appear in internal Hamas documents analyzed by NGO Monitor. − Sep. 17, 2026. − [https://x.com/NGOmonitor/status/2100525899070296312 on X] − ___+ + − Fighting Terror.+ − 230+ Terror Suspects Arrested in Two Months+ − Nahal Brigade forces have detained hundreds of wanted individuals and confiscated more than 100 weapons across Judea and Samaria in ongoing counter-terror operations.+ − Eliana Fleming+ − Sep 17, 2026+ − − ____+ − Despite Ongoing Conflict.+ − + − The State Department announced it will issue entry visas to senior Iranian officials, including President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, for next week's UN General Assembly in New York. But the delegation will face strict movement restrictions.+ − + − + + + − ____ + − Ireland says it plans to boycott Eurovision next year due to Israel’s involvement.+ − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-b03f-d361-a5f5-f2bfc2fa0000 JNS] − ___+ + − ‘Much appreciation’ to Israel for killing Hamas terrorist who abducted Omer Neutra, GOP NY gubernatorial candidate says.+ − Sep 17, 2026 − Bruce Blakeman, the Jewish executive of Nassau County, N.Y., thanked Israel and its military for “bringing justice to the Hamas terrorist that abducted the body of New Yorker Omer Neutra, who was killed on Oct. 7.” − “Omer was an American from Nassau County, and his murder struck close to home for all of us,” Blakeman stated. − ]https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-afa9-d2c2-adbc-afef45940000 JNS] − ____+ + − NY state rep calls on police to protect Netanyahu during his UN visit.+ − Sep 17, 2026 − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-afa9-d511-a1bb-ffb9029b0000 JNS] − ____+ + − Sending a Message to Erdoğan+ − Israel-Greece Naval Drill Amid Turkey Spat − Two Israeli missile boats and two Greek naval vessels participated in the exercise, which included emergency scenarios and threat identification drills in the maritime domain − Eliana Fleming − Sep 17, 2026 − [https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news/israel-and-greece-hold-joint-naval-exercise-amid-turkey-tensions-52046 JFeed] − ___+ + − The Ultimate Betrayal+ − Vance Tried to Help Clinton Beat Trump − Vanity Fair investigation reveals JD Vance reached out to Clinton campaign officials in 2016 offering strategic advice to defeat Trump. I hate Hillary, but I hate Trump more, he reportedly said at the time. − Eliana Fleming. − Sep 17, 2026 − − ____+ + − Hen Mazzig+ − @HenMazzig − In Milan 🇮🇹, a 51-year-old rabbi was attacked by 3 men while waiting for a bus. − According to Milan’s Jewish community, they identified him as Jewish by his clothing.+ − They allegedly surrounded him, cursed him, kicked and punched him, knocked him and his hat to the ground, and spat at him. 1 suspect has been arrested.+ + − Antisemitism is not just words. It’s not just a few bad apples. Jews are being beaten in the streets+ − Sep 17, 2026. − [https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/2100653569607159887 on X] − Milan rabbi attacked by three men while waiting for bus, police arrest one suspect. − By Yoav Etiel, Jerusalem Post, September 17, 2026. − A 60-year-old rabbi from Milan’s Jewish community was assaulted by three young men while waiting for a bus near the city’s Jewish quarter on Tuesday, according to the Jewish community.+ + + + − A 20-year-old Tunisian man was arrested on suspicion of “religiously motivated violence,” while two other young men are suspected of involvement in the attack.+ − According to a statement from the Jewish Community of Milan, the three identified the rabbi as Jewish because of his clothing, surrounded him, cursed him, kicked him, and punched him. The community’s president, Walker Meghnagi, described the incident as “violence unlike anything we have seen.”+ − Meghnagi said the assailants removed the rabbi’s hat, threw it to the ground, stepped on it and spat toward him.+ − The rabbi managed to photograph the suspects as they fled… − [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-908919 JPost] − ____+ + − US sanctions Iranian financier's crypto exchange, says it processes Hormuz payments.+ − September 17, 2026. − [https://www.jpost.com/international/article-909009 JPost] − ____+ + − Shin Bet chief Zini: We will hunt down every Hamas member involved in October 7, across the globe.+ − September 17, 2026.+ − + + + + + + + + + + + + − ____ − + − The embattled Committee to Protect Journalists relies heavily on the group for its much-disputed list of journalists killed in Gaza.+ − Adam Kredo.+ − September 17, 2026.+ − ...The group, known as the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS), is led by a "pro-terrorist official" who has glorified "individual terrorists with blood on their hands" and advocated on behalf of imprisoned jihadists. The PJS is a Ramallah-based media union that cites "struggle against the occupation" as one of its core missions and has played an outsized role in seeding spurious claims that Israel is "silencing the press through killing." Two of the world's most prominent journalist advocacy groups—the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)—have relied heavily on PJS's research to build their widely cited lists of "journalists" killed in Gaza.+ − + − Arms Export Security.+ − US State Department Approves Landmark F 35 Fighter Jet Package For Saudi Arabia.+ − + − Eliana Fleming.+ − + − + + + + + + + − NGO B’Tselem report presents baseless claims of Israel dismantling Palestinian life in West Bank+ − September 18, 2026 00:00+ − [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908992 JPost]+ + + + − US conducted 'tremendous terror,' worse than al-Qaeda, Hasan Piker says in Axios interview.+ − Piker, who has over 3 million followers and is one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, came under renewed attention due to his participation in campaigning for the Abdul El-Sayed.+ − September 18, 2026 02:07+ − − Far-left streamer Hasan Piker says US commits ‘pound for pound’ more terrorism than Al Qaeda.+ − By Samuel Chamberlain. − Published Sep. 17, 2026. − Far-left streamer Hasan Piker argued in an interview published Thursday that the US military has committed more terrorism than Al Qaeda, the Islamist network behind the 9/11 attacks. − “Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes,” Piker, a prominent surrogate for Michigan Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, told “The Axios Show” after being challenged over a recent comment describing America as “the top dog in terrorism. − [https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/SEPTEMBER18.P1_LCF.jpg?resize=1200,1324&quality=80&strip=all] − [https://nypost.com/2026/09/17/us-news/far-left-streamer-hasan-piker-says-us-commits-pound-for-pound-more-terrorism-than-al-qaeda/ NYPost] − ____+ + + + + + + − October 7 survivor to UN chief: Hamas planning the next massacre. − Tzav 9's Yael Savarigo hits back at UN Secretary-General António Guterres: 'We demand UN stop supporting terrorist organizations, focus on disarming Hamas.'+ + + + + + − Israel National News+ − Sep 18, 2026, 10:23 AM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433360 INN] − ___ + + + − (Arab-)+ − Israeli accused of contacting Hamas, Iranian intelligence − Tamra resident repeatedly contacted Hamas, later established ties with Iranian intelligence before being arrested, Shin Bet, Israel Police reveal. − Uzi Baruch. − Published: Sep 18, 2026, 9:21 AM (GMT+3) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433355 INN] − − ____ + − IDF goes on heightened alert for Yom Kippur+ − Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir orders reinforcements across all fronts, with armed aircraft, missile ships and additional forces placed on standby.+ − Uzi Baruch.+ − Published: Sep 18, 2026, 11:18 AM (GMT+3) − − ____+ + + − Yeshiva student killed in Hadera ramming.+ − Amichai Attia, a 12th-grade student from Samaria, named as teen victim killed in ramming by Arab driver; police say incident was criminal, not terrorism. − Israel National News. − Sep 18, 2026, 9:02 AM (GMT+3) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433356 INN] − ____+ + + + − Robert Kraft was right about Macklemore, the explanation was all wrong - opinion.+ − We should stop defending ourselves against the accusation and start challenging the accusation itself. − By David Zalik. September 18, 2026. − The problem was not Robert Kraft’s decision. The problem is how we explain it. − We removed the messenger from the stage without confronting the lie he was spreading. We focused on Macklemore–his rhetoric, his history, the hurt his words cause–when the far greater threat is the message itself. And in doing so, we inadvertently helped create precisely the narrative Macklemore and his defenders wanted.+ + + − Now the story practically writes itself: Macklemore dared to “speak truth to power.” He said what others supposedly do not want Americans to hear, and for his courage, a Jewish billionaire and other venue owners took away his microphone. Macklemore becomes the martyr. His cancellation becomes evidence of his righteousness. And Jews assume precisely the role his rhetoric already assigns us: morally compromised and willing to use our influence to suppress anyone brave enough to expose an uncomfortable truth.+ − We should stop defending ourselves against the accusation and start challenging the accusation itself. − Macklemore did not belong on that stage because he was using it to spread hateful lies about the Jewish state. He was telling an audience that the world’s only Jewish state is committing “genocide” and practicing “apartheid,” presenting those accusations not as arguments to defend, but as settled truths.+ + + − That is not the same as supporting Palestinians or criticizing Israel. Macklemore remains free to say what he believes. But freedom of speech does not entitle anyone to someone else’s microphone, particularly an entertainment stage before thousands who bought tickets for a concert rather than to hear a political polemic.+ − There is also a bitter irony in the outrage over Macklemore being “canceled.” Where was this defense of artistic freedom when American Jewish musician Matisyahu had concerts canceled after activists targeted venues over his support for Israel, creating security and staffing concerns? Macklemore did not lose his place because of his identity. He lost that stage because of what he chose to do with it.+ + + + + + − The accusations coming from more than Macklemore.+ − And this is much bigger than Macklemore. He did not invent these accusations. He is simply their latest celebrity messenger. − “Genocide.” “Apartheid.” “Ethnic cleansing.” “War criminal.” We hear these charges on college campuses, across social media, in newsrooms, entertainment, politics, and our institutions. Repeated often enough, they enter our discourse not as extraordinary accusations requiring proof, but as established facts requiring allegiance.+ + + + + + − That is where the Jewish community has missed something fundamental. We have become very good at identifying antisemitism and condemning those who traffic in it. We have been far less willing to confront the lies that make the antisemitism possible.+ − Dara Horn has articulated something essential about antisemitism: it does not operate simply as hatred or intolerance toward Jews. It operates through a recurring lie–that Jews are responsible for destroying whatever a society holds most dear.+ + + − That distinction changes the prescription. If we treat antisemitism primarily as intolerance, we answer it with tolerance: more education, dialogue, and opportunities to understand Jews. Those things have value. But you cannot cure a lie by teaching people to become more tolerant of the people being lied about. You have to challenge the lie.+ − And we must confront the genocide lie more boldly. Israel is not committing genocide. The accusation is false and outrageous. − Genocide is not a synonym for a terrible war, a high civilian death toll, or even violations of the laws of war. It is a specific crime requiring intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such. Intent is not incidental to the definition. It is essential.+ + + + − Israel’s conduct matters too. John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at West Point’s Modern War Institute, has argued after studying the Gaza campaign that Israel has implemented more measures to prevent civilian harm than any military he has studied. That does not mean every Israeli decision was correct or every strike justified. But warnings, evacuations, and extensive civilian-harm precautions are evidence that must be confronted before accusing a country of intending to destroy a people.+ + + + − The genocide accusation is a modern blood libel.+ + + − The original blood libel accused Jews of deliberately murdering Christian children. Its power came from transforming hatred into righteousness. Those who believed it did not imagine themselves persecuting innocent Jews. They imagined themselves protecting innocent children from evil.+ − The moral vocabulary changes. The mechanism remains hauntingly familiar. Today, someone can accuse the Jewish state of deliberately destroying a people and still sincerely insist–as Macklemore has–that he has nothing against Jews. He may genuinely believe he is standing against evil. That is precisely what makes the libel so dangerous. − Concern for Palestinian human rights, advocacy for Palestinians and criticism of Israel are not antisemitic. Palestinian suffering is real. Innocent civilians have died, and where individuals commit crimes, they should be held accountable.+ − But none of that establishes genocide. And compassion does not demand self-flagellation or self-erasure.+ − Jews should not have to accept the lie that Israel is committing genocide to prove that we care about Palestinian lives. We should not have to sever our connection to Israel to establish our moral credibility or repeat a blood libel against the Jewish state to demonstrate our decency.+ + + − Yet that is increasingly the moral test imposed upon us.+ − Accept that the world’s only Jewish state is committing one of humanity’s gravest crimes, and you can remain among the righteous. Challenge that premise, defend Israel against the charge, or refuse to distance yourself from the Jewish state, and suddenly your disagreement becomes complicity–and your connection to Israel becomes evidence against you. − That is not incidental to the antisemitism. It is how the antisemitism works.+ + + + + + − Some argue that Netanyahu’s government or particular Israeli policies have made defending Israel more difficult. But difficulty does not turn an accusation into a fact. We do not have to support Netanyahu or defend every Israeli action. And distancing ourselves from Israel will not make American Jews safer; it only reinforces the dangerous fiction that Jewish safety depends on Jewish behavior.+ − We can defend Palestinian humanity without surrendering our own. We should not disavow Israel to demonstrate our decency or accept collective guilt for a crime Israel did not commit. − The answer to a blood libel is not to prove that Jews are good people. It is to expose the blood libel as a lie.+ + + + + − Robert Kraft is a hero for standing up. Now it is our job to stand with him–and fight the lies.+ − [https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-909016 JPost] − ____ − Dave Portnoy backs Robert Kraft after Macklemore ban: 110 percent.+ − Barstool founder Dave Portnoy strongly backs Robert Kraft’s decision to ban Macklemore, criticizing the rapper’s politics and antisemitic history.+ − Published: Sep 18, 2026, 6:58 AM (GMT+3)+ − [...]+ − Portnoy further pointed to Macklemore’s previous controversy involving antisemitic imagery. "Bob Kraft, I am sure, did what I did when I saw this, he researched Macklemore," Portnoy said. "It didn't take long to learn that Macklemore has a pretty shady past. He already, at a prior concert, dressed in wildly antisemitic tropes." − − He was referring to Macklemore’s 2014 performance in Seattle, where the rapper appeared in a dark suit while wearing a fake beard and prosthetic nose. The appearance drew criticism for invoking antisemitic caricatures of Jews... − − Protesters tear down PLO flag in Amsterdam+ − Crowd erupts in cheers as pro-Israel demonstrators pull massive PLO flag from building overlooking Amsterdam’s Dam Square.+ − Israel National News.+ − Sep 18, 2026, 10:49 AM (GMT+3)+ − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433363 INN]+ − Netherlands: Thousands participated in a rally in support of Israel organized by Christian organizations that love Israel yesterday at Dam Square in Amsterdam. (September 18, 2026)+ − [https://abualiexpress.com/en/2026/09/ Abualiexpress] − ___+ + − Dutch cinema drops Oct. 7 screening of ‘NAZA’+ − But Filmhuis Lumen in Delft will still show the film, which portrays Israeli soldiers as war criminals, on two other dates. − Canaan Lidor. − (Sept. 18, 2026 / JNS) A Dutch movie theater had scheduled an Oct. 7 screening of “NAZA,” a documentary widely seen as anti-Israel, but appeared to have removed it from its online schedule amid an outcry on Thursday. − Filmhuis Lumen in Delft, near Rotterdam, this week initially scheduled screenings of “NAZA” on Oct. 4, Oct. 7 and Oct. 11, making it one of the first theaters in the world to screen the film following its premiere last week at the Venice International Film Festival. The film won the festival’s Special Jury Prize. − The theater then dropped the Oct. 7 screening of the film, which alleges that Israel systematically targeted Palestinian civilians during the war against Hamas in Gaza. Israeli officials and others have dismissed the film as a mendacious instrument of anti-Israel propaganda. The change followed criticism online, including on Lumen’s Facebook page, over the Oct. 7 screening.+ − Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned “NAZA” as an “intolerable” and “terrible” film that “slanders IDF soldiers” and portrays Israeli soldiers as war criminals. The film was co-directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and named for the Hebrew military acronym for “collateral damage.”+ − Filmhuis Lumen did not reply by press time to a JNS query about what led to its decision to drop the Oct. 7 screening, which would have fallen on the third anniversary of Hamas’s massacres. Hamas terrorists and other Gazans killed about 1,200 people on Oct. 7, 2023, among other atrocities.+ − Oded Nir, a member of the Consulting Board of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, also known as Habithonistim, condemned the decision to screen the film on that date and said it was indicative of indifference in Western Europe to Israeli casualties.+ − Nir, an Israeli musician who lived in the Netherlands for 19 years before returning to Israel last year, told JNS that Delft was “a quiet and picturesque place. And as Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote in ‘Shir Betar’: ‘Quiet is squalid, an abandonment of blood and soul.’” Jabotinsky was a right-wing Zionist leader who founded the Betar youth movement in Riga in 1923.+ − Lumen has previously screened anti-Israel films, including “No Other Land,” “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and “Palestine 36.” It did not advertise screenings of recent films that represent the mainstream Israeli narrative, such as “We Will Dance Again,” “Screams Before Silence,” “One Day in October” or “Of Dogs and Men.”+ − https://www.jns.org/news/world/dutch-cinema-drops-oct-7-screening-of-naza − ____+ + − WSJ report:+ − Kraft told Sheeran Macklemore’s Gaza claims were hate speech. − Robert Kraft told Ed Sheeran that Macklemore’s claims about Israel and Gaza were hate speech in a 40-minute call, according to The Wall Street Journal. − Israel National News − Sep 18, 2026, 8:18 PM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433378 INN] − ____+ − Iran is rapidly rebuilding a fortified facility at the Parchin military complex near Tehran that has been linked to past nuclear weapons research, according to new satellite imagery analyzed by the Institute for Science and International Security.+ − Satellite images from Sept. 13 show extensive reconstruction at the Taleghan 2 facility, including a large tarp covering the damaged underground structure to conceal work from satellite and aerial surveillance, the Washington-based research institute said on Thursday.+ − Construction equipment, including cranes, bulldozers, dump trucks and concrete mixers, was visible at the site, while new concrete reinforcement appeared intended to provide additional protection against airstrikes, according to the analysis.+ − Taleghan 2 was destroyed in an Israeli strike in October 2024 and subsequently rebuilt and hardened before being struck again in March. The institute assessed after the second attack that the facility’s internal structure had likely been destroyed.+ − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-b3da-dea2-a5aa-bbdf2e260000 JNS] − ____+ + − Germany: Afghan national arrested over suspected arson attack on synagogue.+ − German police arrest 37-year-old Afghan national suspected of setting fire to a synagogue in Wuppertal. − Israel National News. − Published: Sep 18, 2026, 5:53 AM (GMT+3) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433349 INN] − Arsonist targets German synagogue ahead of Yom Kippur.+ − Sep 18, 2026. − An arson attack targeted the Bergische Synagogue in Wuppertal, Germany, days before Yom Kippur, the European Jewish Congress said on Friday. − At about 2 p.m. local time on Thursday, a man threw several bags filled with flammable liquid at a side entrance to the synagogue in North Rhine-Westphalia state and set them alight before fleeing, according to the EJC.+ − [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-b423-d627-a5b8-f72b83610000 JNS] − ____+ + − Huckabee: International media may be Israel’s ‘toughest enemy’.+ − Sep 18, 2026. − U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday accused the international media of pervasive bias against Israel, citing an analysis of millions of news articles. − “Read the meticulously documented analysis of the bias of news coverage of Israel ... and you will find that the int’l media may be Israel’s toughest enemy!” Huckabee wrote on X.+ − He was referring to “Center of Attention,” published on Aug. 27 by Jeremy Musighi, a technology entrepreneur and investor who researches media coverage of Israel, and who said he analyzed 14.7 million news articles in 65 languages, as well as cable news airtime and data from X.+ − + − “Every news story follows a predictable decay function—it peaks, then is soon forgotten,” Musighi wrote. “That is, every story except one: Israel.” − − Musighi said his analysis found unusually persistent media attention on Israel, describing the results as “staggering.” − + + + + + + − El-Sayed Gushed Over ‘Hilarious’ Antisemitic Comedian and Conspiracy Theorist Who’s Mehdi Hasan’s ‘Good Friend’: Zeteo Contributor Depicted Jews as Deceitful Redheads.+ − Bassem Youssef calls 9/11 ‘the biggest false flag operation’ by Israel.+ − Chuck Ross. − September 18, 2026 − − Hundreds of Jewish residents protest outside of NYC Mayor Mamdani's home. − Jewish protesters gather outside NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home after a spike in antisemitism in the city over the Summer. − Idan Kweller, Yoav Etiel. September 18, 2026. − Hundreds of Jewish community leaders and residents are currently protesting outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home to demonstrate their support for Israel and bring attention to rising antisemitism in the city. − The event was prompted by an increase in attacks on Jews this summer, which included a stabbing near a synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and a disruption of services at the Great Refrom Synagogue in August.+ − + + + + + + + − ____+ − Open letter to US President Donald Trump: Carpe diem - opinion.+ − You have made clear that America must win the artificial intelligence race. I agree. But another question must stand beside it: How does America win without all of us ultimately losing?+ − Jeffrey Kahn. September 18, 2026.+ − [https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-908938 JPost]+ + − ____+ − Serious Security Indictment.+ − Israeli Arab Arrested for Hamas Contact − Sultan Abu al-Hija reached out multiple times to Hamas's military wing and attempted to establish contact with Iranian intelligence operatives before his arrest. − Eliana Fleming − Sep 18, 2026. − [https://www.jfeed.com/crime-and-justice/tlkb86 JFeed] − ____+ + − Live Updates: Yemen conflict displaces 112,000 as Qatar, UN agree to ship 1.3 million liters of fuel to Gaza.+ − Sharaa secretly building up Syrian military • Ex-Fatah official says he passed on Oct. 7 warning to Israel • Iraq lifts civilian restrictions in its western airspace.+ − Sep 18, 2026.+ − [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-18/live-updates-909020 JPost]+ − The left lobs yet another ‘Big Lie’ on Israel — and the fallout keeps getting worse.+ − By Post Editorial Board.+ − Published Sep. 18, 2026, 8:58 p.m. ET+ + + + − The left’s Big Lies about Israel keep growing bigger — as do the ugly consequences.+ − The latest: Rep. Gregory Meeks’ bid to place a “hold” on a $2.8 billion sale of US bombs to the Jewish state.+ − “The Trump administration’s proposed sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs . . . raises grave, unresolved concerns about how these munitions could be used in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon,” huffed Meeks; it’s empty virtue-signaling, since he can’t actually stop the sale.+ − How bad have the lies about Israel gotten?+ − These are weapons needed to destroy underground tunnels and bunkers; withholding them helps sustain Hamas and Hezbollah, though Meeks claims he backs Israel’s right to defend itself from the terrorists.+ + − Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) likewise opposed the sale, claiming preposterously that “US weapons are being used to perpetrate a genocide.”+ − It’s all nonsense: Israel has never — never — used bombs indiscriminately or where it believed major civilian casualties were likely, let alone to “perpetrate a genocide.” − And there’s no legitimate fear it ever would.+ + + + + − These charges fit with a slew of whoppers in a new film, “NAZA” (an acronym for the Hebrew words for “collateral damage”), that the Israel Defense Forces used AI to identify targets in Gaza and carried out strikes knowing they’d mostly kill civilians.+ + + − Contrary to the vicious smears, the IDF never leaves targeting decisions to AI, nor would it proceed with a strike if it expected a high civilian-casualty rate.+ + − What makes these lies especially heinous is that the precise opposite is true: Israel goes to lengths to avoid civilian casualties. [https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/opinion/joe-biden-and-world-media-are-relying-on-bogus-hamas-stats-to-smear-israels-conduct-of-gaza-war/].+ − Even as Hamas tries to maximize them by using them as human shields. − Urban warfare expert John Spencer, who’s studied the war in Gaza, reports that Jerusalem has “implemented more civilian harm mitigation measures than any military in history.” [https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/opinion/the-lies-behind-the-gaza-casualty-figures/].+ + + − That includes not just calling off strikes and diverting missiles mid-flight rather than skirt the rules of war, but also informing civilians in advance of an attack by phone and leaflets, using pinpoint targeting and more.+ − And it doesn’t just avoid casualties; IDF soldiers have actually risked their lives to protect civilians — from Hamas.+ − The military has also opted for ground attacks rather than airstrikes to avoid civilian casualties, even though it knew it would lose its own soldiers by doing so.+ − Of course, the charge of genocide goes way beyond lies like those in “NAZA.”+ + − Along with Jayapal, countless lefties — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Brad Lander, Rashida Tlaib and on and on — fling the term with abandon.+ − Never mind that Israel could have wiped out Gaza’s population if it wanted to, nor that it’s provided food and medicine to the strip instead. − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − Adolf Hitler defined the “Big Lie” as a fabrication so wild that people would believe it, not realizing anyone would “distort the truth so infamously.”+ − He pretended Jews used the technique; in reality it was central to the Nazis’ anti-Jewish propaganda.+ − How telling that it’s now deployed on a global scale against Israel.+ − + − Michigan Mayor Sued Over Alleged Discrimination Against Jews, Christians. − By Corey Walker. September 18, 2026. − Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud speaks at a press conference in Dearborn, Michigan.+ − Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud speaks at a press conference in Dearborn, Michigan. Photo: Screenshot+ − + − Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan is facing a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing his administration of using taxpayer-funded city resources to promote Islam while refusing comparable recognition to Christian and Jewish holidays and retaliating against a journalist who challenged the disparity.+ − + − The lawsuit, filed Thursday by Dearborn resident and Federalist senior legal correspondent Margot Cleveland, paints a picture of a city government that, according to the complaint, was willing to spend public money celebrating Ramadan but repeatedly brushed aside requests for equal treatment of other faiths. The American Freedom Law Center, which represents Cleveland, alleges that Dearborn’s conduct violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution, including protections involving religious freedom, free speech, and equal protection. − [https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/18/michigan-mayor-sued-alleged-discrimination-against-jews-christians/Algemeiner] − − ___ − − − Bid to disqualify Balad chairman: Dispute emerges within State Attorney’s Office. − Senior officials support disqualifying Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh, while the Deputy State Attorney has reservations and the AG awaits his response. − Israel National News. Sep 18, 2026 − ...an article published by Abu Shehadeh on October 8, 2023 - one day after the Hamas attack, while fighting was still ongoing inside Israel. The article appeared on Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, a website owned by former Knesset member Azmi Bishara, who fled to Qatar after being accused of passing intelligence to Hezbollah during the 2006 Second Lebanon War. − − In the piece, Abu Shehadeh described the Hamas attack as "an important historic event from a military, political, and strategic perspective." − − US Representative: 'Ben Gvir in the Cabinet is an existential threat'.+ − Brad Sherman, one of Israel’s most prominent supporters in Congress, warns of a collapse in public support for Israel in the United States.+ − + − Published: Sep 19, 2026, 10:32 PM (GMT+3) − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433398 INN] − − ____ + + + − Last Selichot prayers before Yom Kippur.+ − Crowds gather at the Western Wall ahead of Selichot prayers, recited the day before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. − Israel National News. − Sep 19, 2026, 11:12 PM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433402 INN] − − ____ + − Iran says it has conveyed conditions to re-engage in talks, end war with US.+ − The conditions include ending the war on all fronts, unfreezing Iranian funds, and ending the US naval blockade, Iran's Security Chief Mohsen Rezaei said. − September 19, 2026 − [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-909123 JPost] + + − Live Updates: Two IDF soldiers lightly injured in southern Lebanon, prompting retaliation strikes on Hezbollah+ − Turkey revokes operating license of Iran's Mellat Bank • Report: Pentagon's US-Iran war fatality accounting may be inaccurate • Iran reconstructing nuclear test-linked Taleghan 2 site.+ − [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-19/live-updates-909093 JPost]+ − − ____ − + − Gaza journalist Motaz Azaiza says he filmed hostage abuse on October 7 but hid footage.+ − Motaz Azaiza also criticized Hamas’s leadership over its months-long refusal to agree to a deal.+ − By Eli Leon. September 19, 2026. − Gazan photographer and journalist Motaz Azaiza said he filmed Israeli hostages being beaten by a Gazan mob on October 7, 2023, but chose not to publish the footage because he feared it could put the Palestinians involved at risk. − − “I saw the vehicle of the Al-Qassam Brigades, and there were Israeli captives there,” Azaiza recalled. “People got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed. But I did not publish those videos. Why? Because I did not want to ruin the lives of the people who were filmed. − − − Houthis fire ballistic missile at Riyadh − Israel National News. − Sep 20, 2026, 12:05 AM − [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433404 INN] − − ___
Continued operations on Islamic Republic of Iran, proxies , May 4 2026+ - sources: Pt II (view source)
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‘Why the hell are they laughing?’ Mamdani, AOC clip at 9/11 memorial sparks uproar
‘Why the he_ll are they laughing?’ Mamdani, AOC clip at 9/11 memorial sparks uproar
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Trump unloads on AOC, Mamdani for laughing during sacred 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero.
Trump unloads on AOC, Mamdani for laughing during sacred 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero.
Video of the two Democrats smiling during the reading of 9/11 victims' names sparked backlash online.
Video of the two Democrats smiling during the reading of 9/11 victims' names sparked backlash online.
By Stepheny Price Fox News
By Stepheny Price Fox News.
Published September 13, 2026.
Published September 13, 2026.
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Sunni cleric, who was ‘active’ in fight against Zionism, reportedly killed in Iran.
Sunni cleric, who was ‘active’ in fight against Zionism, reportedly killed in Iran.
Sep 14, 2026
Sep 14, 2026.
An unidentified gunman killed Molavi Yusef Gorgij, a senior Muslim cleric, in the southeastern part of Iran on Monday, Reuters reported, citing state media.
An unidentified gunman killed Molavi Yusef Gorgij, a senior Muslim cleric, in the southeastern part of Iran on Monday, Reuters reported, citing state media.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a0b9-ddd4-a1f9-e9fd176e0000 JNS]
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a0b9-ddd4-a1f9-e9fd176e0000 JNS]
Islamist Infiltrates the Florida Republican Party.
State House candidate Imtiaz Mohammad campaigns at terror-related groups and mosques.
by Joe Kaufman.
Special to IPT News.
September 14, 2026
Imtiaz Mohammad, the Republican nominee for Florida House District 103 following an uncontested primary, has undergone a striking political transformation. His history in Democratic and progressive politics, involvement with controversial Muslim groups, appearances at an institution linked to persons implicated in terrorism, and past statements disparaging America present a political résumé more aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) than the Republican Party.
Mohammad, who grew up in the Hyderabad region of Pakistan and arrived in the United States in 1991, has spent years participating in South Florida politics. He founded the American Muslim Progressive Caucus (AMPC) and has been a strong supporter of Bernie Sanders, the Squad, abolishing ICE and turning Florida into a sanctuary state for illegals.
Mohammad changed his party registration, reportedly by mid-2022. In 2024, when he ran for State Senate as a Republican, the Broward Republican Executive Committee (BREC) removed him from a voter guide following protests from several individuals, including this author.
In 2019, Avraham reached out to Alnaouq to discuss what young people in the Gaza Strip think about politics in Gaza. Alnaouq serves as vice president of Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
Two years later, the reception appears markedly different.
The film has received intense criticism from most Israeli politicians, and the IDF stated its categorical rejection of the film’s allegations..
The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) recently included Mohammad on a flyer congratulating State House candidates. Last month, Mohammad attended the RPOF Victory Rally in Tampa, where his campaign photographed and filmed encounters with prominent Florida Republicans, including gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, U.S. Senator Ashley Moody, Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, and RPOF Chairman Evan Power – and posted them on social media.
It was not the first time Mohammad used the image of a prominent Republican to enhance his political presentation. He previously posted a graphic on Facebook featuring an AI-generated likeness of U.S. Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart alongside his own. Mohammad removed the graphic after this author brought it to the congressman's attention.
Politicians routinely pose with candidates and members of the public, and such encounters do not necessarily constitute endorsements. But when exploited, the images can falsely suggest political affiliation or approval.
This is a problem when considering that Mohammad is involved with radical Muslim groups.
This past June, Mohammad posted on Facebook that he had partnered with WhyIslam to serve food to its volunteers. While this may seem innocuous, WhyIslam is the religious outreach, or dawah division, of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a group with deep historical roots in Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), a South Asian Islamist movement that has provided an ideological platform and recruiting base for terrorist groups in the region. In November 2019, three Republican congressmen wrote to the State Department accusing ICNA and its affiliated charity, Helping Hand for Relief and Development, of being "directly involved in terror finance" and of having "openly worked with U.S. designated terrorist organizations" in Kashmir.
In 2006, ICNA partnered with and was a top donor to JI charity Al-Khidmat Foundation (AKF), at the same time that AKF presented $100,000 to Hamas leader Khaled Mashal at his Syria residence. ICNA continues to partner with AKF. ICNA also counted ex-JI death squad commander Ashrafuzzaman Khan among its senior leaders. In 2013, Khan was sentenced to death in absentia by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal for the murders of 18 people during the country's 1971 war of independence. In 2014, ICNA co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in Miami.
Mohammad has been well acquainted with ICNA for years. He describes the group as a "humanitarian champion." In 2017, Mohammad was a contact for an ICNA benefit dinner featuring Monzer Taleb, a self-proclaimed Hamas memberwho has shared a Facebook post that Jews in Israel "should be relocated to Germany."
WhyIslam has generated controversies of its own. A 2008 promotional video for the group featured Mazen Mokhtar, a supporter of Palestinian suicide bombings and former administrator for qoqaz.net, a fundraising and recruitment website for al-Qaeda. WhyIslam's now-defunct online message board was run by moderators who posted messages glorifying Hamas and Hezbollah, denigrating Jews, and calling for Israel's destruction.
This past July, Mohammad posted on Facebook photographs of himself campaigning at the Darul Uloom Institute (DUI), an educational facility where several al-Qaeda-related terrorists have passed through.
Jose Padilla, who was convicted in 2007 of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas and of providing material support to terrorists, arrived at Darul Uloom in 1992 to study Arabic and the Quran under the mosque's late imam, Shafayat Mohamed, and left in the late 1990s. Adnan el-Shukrijumah, who led prayers at the institute, went on to become a senior al-Qaeda operative and was charged in 2010 over the plot to bomb New York City's subway system; he was killed in Pakistan in 2014. Imran Mandhai, who taught Arabic at Darul Uloom, was sentenced to 14 years for conspiring to bomb electrical power stations and a National Guard armory in South Florida.
Shafayat Mohamed himself acknowledged reports that one of the 9/11 hijackers may have prayed at Darul Uloom as well, as this author witnessed on April 17, 2005.
Shafayat Mohamed generated separate controversy through his extreme rhetoric concerning homosexuals. In a 2005 essay titled "Tsunami: Wrath of God," the imam claimed that gay sex caused the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. In a 2015 sermon, he lamented the existence of gay Muslim communities and discussed his removal from "several" Broward County advisory boards – which this author proudly caused – over this issue.
In 2018, it was at Darul Uloom that Imtiaz Mohammad infamously proclaimed "America [is] run on hate" and "American people are the most uneducated nation in the world."
The following year, Mohammad took aim at his fellow Democrats – U.S. Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ted Deutch. In what appeared to be a bigoted allusion to their Jewish backgrounds, he asked, "Are they representing all Americans or just one community?????"
And in December 2025, just as Republican candidates were readying themselves for the coming election year, Mohammad sought to condemn Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a terrorist organization. CAIR has foundational and financial ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohammad has also been photographed with CAIR figures, including former CAIR legal advisor Khurrum Wahid.
Political conversions happen. People legitimately change their views, parties and priorities. Photographs do not constitute endorsements, and associations with controversial organizations do not establish criminal wrongdoing.
But political reinvention does not erase political history.
Imtiaz Mohammad has gone from progressive Democrat activism to appearing alongside prominent Republican leaders and representing the party on the ballot. The question is not whether Mohammad is permitted to call himself a Republican. He is. The question is whether party officials are going to stay silent and ignore his bigoted and Islamic extremist background.
In 2024, Broward Republicans took that record seriously enough to remove Mohammad from a voter guide following public objections. Two years later, the Florida Republican Party needs to step up and do the same.
Mohammad should be banned from party events, and his photo and name should be immediately removed from RPOF's "Congratulations" flyer. Legitimizing his campaign is a threat to the Republican Party and a threat to Florida's security.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
Joe Kaufman is a nationally recognized counterterrorism expert and Chairman of Kaufman Security. For two decades, he has served as an advisor to the Iranian opposition and co-founded the opposition group Cyrus Force. Recently, Kaufman successfully led the shutdown of a pro-Hamas conference scheduled to take place in South Florida. He was the 2024 Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Florida's 23rd District, receiving 48% of the vote – the highest vote percentage of any Republican to run for the seat.
[https://www.investigativeproject.org/9459/islamist-infiltrates-the-florida-republican-party IPT]
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Varda Meyers Epstein:
Regavim challenges Yuval Abraham's Gaza reporting with new research on Naza film
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From Regavim:
'September 15th, 2026 — As filmmaker and journalist Yuval Abraham draws renewed international attention over his new film NAZA, the Regavim Movement is releasing previously unpublished research into one of Abraham’s earlier reports from Gaza, raising questions about the information presented to viewers and the material that was left outside the frame.
In 2020, Abraham produced an episode of the web series Shasheh / Screen focusing on the Nafha Center, a Hebrew-language school in Gaza run by Ahmad Al-Faleet.
Al-Faleet was presented as a former prisoner who had served approximately 20 years in an Israeli prison after killing “a soldier his own age.”
The victim, however, was Shimon Biran, a 32-year-old Israeli civilian who was murdered while on his way to work in Kfar Darom. The Forum for Regional Thinking subsequently corrected its description to acknowledge that Biran was a civilian.
Moran Tal, Regavim’s Arabic OSINT researcher, began examining Al-Faleet’s background and found extensive Arabic-language material that presented a dramatically different picture.
In footage published years before Abraham’s report, Al-Faleet returned to the scene of Biran’s murder and described planning the attack for approximately two months. He reenacted the stabbing and discussed the fear generated by knife attacks against Israelis. In the same interview, he defended Palestinian “resistance” using “a stone, a knife or a gun.”
Regavim’s research also documented Al-Faleet’s repeated praise for terrorists and senior Hamas figures.
In social media posts published before Abraham’s report, Al-Faleet celebrated his release in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange as his “rebirth,” praised senior Hamas commander Ahmad Jabari and honored figures involved in the operation that led to Shalit’s abduction.
The investigation also examined content published by the Nafha Center itself.
One Hebrew-language video featured a student telling Israelis to leave the land and declaring that “the only language you understand is resistance,” alongside imagery of masked men carrying knives. The center also published a message from Hamas terrorist Hassan Salameh, who is serving 47 life sentences.
Even Abraham’s original episode showed students being exposed to Hebrew military terminology including “intelligence officer,” “Border Police,” “Chief of Staff,” “IDF” and “attack helicopter.”
Following the October 7 massacre, Al-Faleet’s online activity became significantly more explicit. Regavim documented posts in which he shared material from the Hamas assault, tracked the rising Israeli death toll, described civilians fleeing the Nova music festival as “settlers” fleeing Palestinian “resistance,” circulated images of dead Israeli soldiers and shared a prayer containing a call for destruction upon the Jews.
This is also not the first time Regavim has challenged Abraham’s work. Following the success of his oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, Regavim released footage from Masafer Yatta that showed provocations omitted from scenes presented as Israeli aggression, published research challenging the film’s portrayal of the area, and participated in the Daily Wire documentary No Other Lie, which returned to Masafer Yatta to fact-check the Oscar-winning film.
“Yuval Abraham is once again asking international audiences to place enormous trust in his reporting, his sources and the context he chooses to present,” Regavim said. “Years ago, our researchers examined another story he told from Gaza. We found that the civilian victim had been described as a soldier, while publicly available material showed the man at the center of the story reenacting the murder, defending knife and gun violence and praising terrorists. Abraham wants to be treated as an investigative journalist, but this record gives the public every reason to see an ideological activist whose reporting repeatedly serves a deeply political narrative. Turning a convicted terrorist into the sympathetic face of a ‘coexistence’ story while his victim becomes a ‘soldier’ is whitewashing, plain and simple. Before the world accepts Abraham’s latest claims about Israel at face value, it should take a much harder look at the journalist making them.”
The research was compiled by Regavim several years ago but was never published in full.
With NAZA placing Abraham’s journalistic work and conclusions about Gaza at the center of renewed international discussion, Regavim is now releasing the investigation publicly.
The full investigation, “Before NAZA: How Yuval Abraham Repackaged a Convicted Terrorist as a Gaza ‘Coexistence’ Story,” is available here:
Sep 16, 2026.
[https://www.facebook.com/vardae/posts/from-regavimseptember-15th-2026-as-filmmaker-and-journalist-yuval-abraham-draws-/10244889818448795/ on FB]
Before NAZA: How Yuval Abraham Repackaged a Convicted Terrorist as a Gaza “Coexistence” Story.
As Yuval Abraham’s new film NAZA puts his reporting back in the international spotlight, Regavim is releasing previously unpublished research into an earlier Gaza story in which a civilian murderer who praised terrorists and defended knife attacks was presented as the face of a Hebrew-language “coexistence” story.
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[https://www.regavim.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Before_NAZA_Yuval_Abraham_Gaza_Coexistence_Investigation.pdf]
Sep 14, 2026.
[https://www.regavim.org/position_papers/before-naza-how-yuval-abraham-repackaged-a-convicted-terrorist-as-a-gaza-coexistence-story/ Regavim]
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Gulf states, Iran postpone talks.
Sep 14, 2026
Talks between Persian Gulf states and Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and establish future frameworks have been postponed, multiple officials said on Monday.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a0b9-df78-afb1-a1bb9b1a0000 JNS]
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Israeli filmmaker of 'NAZA' under scrutiny over longstanding ties to Hamas-linked activist.
Israeli filmmaker of 'NAZA' under scrutiny over longstanding ties to Hamas-linked activist
In 2019, Avraham reached out to Alnaouq to discuss what young people in the Gaza Strip think about politics in Gaza. Alnaouq serves as vice president of Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
In 2019, Avraham reached out to Alnaouq to discuss what young people in the Gaza Strip think about politics in Gaza. Alnaouq serves as vice president of Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
Mathilda Heller. September 14, 2026.
Mathilda Heller. September 14, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-908586 JPost]
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-908586 JPost]
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Israel has the horrific evidence. Where is the international campaign? - comment.
NAZA draws on anonymous testimony from soldiers and intelligence personnel who say the army calculated expected civilian deaths before airstrikes and proceeded with them anyway.
By Zvika Klein. September 14, 2026.
Three years after October 7, Israel still invites people into closed rooms to watch evidence that it wants the whole world to understand. An officer brings a hard drive. Recording is forbidden. After 47 minutes, the screening ends and the footage leaves with him.
I was invited to one of those screenings and didn’t go. I had seen enough of that day. But I keep wondering about the foreign editor who would investigate a recording, the filmmaker who could spend six months reconstructing an attack, or the audience that would trust their work. What are we doing to make that possible?
The man appears to become frustrated with an apparently overstuffed mailbox. “What the Christ is this f***ing crap?” he appears to say. “Oh, of course. It’s Jewish garbage[sic].”
The Venice prize for NAZA, the documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, makes the question more urgent.
Whatever we think of its allegations about Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, its filmmakers have assembled the partnerships and experience needed to reach an international audience. Israel has an enormous archive of October 7. Access to it should produce far more reporting than a series of invited screenings.
IDF: The testimony cannot be verified, people approve targeting decisions
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/usps-probing-apparent-hartford-staffer-caught-on-video-saying-jewish-garbage JNS]
NAZA draws on anonymous testimony from soldiers and intelligence personnel who say the army calculated expected civilian deaths before airstrikes and proceeded with them anyway. The IDF says the testimony cannot be verified and that people approve targeting decisions.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908587].
Foreign journalists should investigate those allegations and press the army for detailed answers. Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar’s threat to revoke the directors’ citizenship gave them something considerably easier to write about.
Abraham and Szor, who won an Oscar last year for No Other Land, secured The Guardian as a co-producer and Jonathan Glazer as an executive producer. They know whom to approach, how to finance a production, and how to get it seen. Israeli officials could learn something from that, however much they dislike the film.
In April, I wrote about Al Jazeera and the sustained investment behind its international reach. I argued for substantial funding for independent international journalism, with owners prepared to finance reporting and respect editorial decisions.
Working through the October 7 [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-908557] archive would require that kind of commitment. Researchers, translators, editors, and lawyers have to be paid. Distribution takes money and contacts. A donor needs to understand that the film may take a year and include conclusions he dislikes. Financing it should buy him neither script approval nor the right to remove an inconvenient interview.
I would ask the authorities to identify 100 previously unpublished recordings that could responsibly be released, then offer them individually to foreign newsrooms. Reporters would receive original files, information about their origins, and help contacting witnesses willing to speak.
An exclusive gives an editor a reason to assign staff. Those reporters can establish locations, compare recordings, and question the explanations they receive. When they publish, they can explain to readers what they could verify and what they couldn’t.
Officials would need to accept some uncomfortable reporting. A recording might document both a Hamas atrocity and the hours before help arrived. A witness might describe extraordinary bravery and a government failure in the same interview. Trying to suppress the second part would give people reason to distrust the first.
Reconsider the assumption that the most graphic recording is the most useful
Last December, I proposed a civilian public diplomacy reserve, with a permanent staff and professionals contributing several weeks a year. Teams would work in languages they knew, dealing with countries whose media and culture they understood. I offered to volunteer and wrote that others with media experience were willing to contribute.
They could spend those weeks helping foreign journalists work through the archive. A producer needs a translation checked; a reporter is waiting for an answer from the army; a documentary team cannot find a witness. These requests often require repeated calls and someone who knows whom to ask. A journalist abroad should have a reliable contact who will pursue an answer.
The reserve’s advocacy role would be public. Journalists would retain control over their reporting and disclose relevant funding or assistance.
We should also reconsider the assumption that the most graphic recording is the most useful. Footage can establish planning, coordination, and the sequence of an attack. People can learn something substantial without watching someone die. Given my own decision to decline the screening, I can hardly demand that everyone else watch it.
Families must approve the use of recordings showing their relatives. They need time to decide, and a refusal must be respected. Material involving sexual violence requires particular care and a specialist’s review.
Much has already circulated. Some people have justified what it shows, and another recording may change nothing for them. October 7 evidence also cannot answer every allegation about Israeli conduct in Gaza. The army must address those questions separately.
There are still readers who know little about the massacre, or who doubt accounts they have encountered. Someone who distrusts an IDF statement may be moved by an investigation from a newspaper they have read for 20 years. That newspaper, thus, should be able to examine the evidence.
Helping it do so may earn the government very little credit. A completed documentary may omit mentions of Israeli officials or may include criticism of them. Ministers would have to tolerate that in return for reaching people who rarely believe anything they say.
I would consider that a good use of public money. Another closed screening for people already sympathetic to Israel needs a better justification, three years on.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-908591
Israeli filmmaker of 'NAZA' under scrutiny over longstanding ties to Hamas-linked activist
In 2019, Avraham reached out to Alnaouq to discuss what young people in the Gaza Strip think about politics in Gaza. Alnaouq serves as vice president of Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
September 14, 2026
Mathilda Heller. September 14, 2026.
Israeli filmmaker Yuval Avraham has a longstanding relationship with Hamas-linked Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Alnaouq, investigative journalist Eitan Fischberger first reported Sunday.
Avraham has been in the headlines this week after his film, NAZA, won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Saturday.
The film has received intense criticism from most Israeli politicians, and the IDF stated its categorical rejection of the film’s allegations..
In 2019, Avraham – then a young journalist – reached out to Alnaouq...
Avraham has often referred to Alnaouq as a “close friend” and “partner.”
Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.
Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.
Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”
Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.
Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.
Israel Police find illegal weapons, explosives among Arab communities in operation against crime
Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”
Earlier this year, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry also revealed that Euro-Med founder Ramy Abdu is a Hamas operative.
Alnaouq's brother was eulogized by Hamas.
Alnaouq has also previously claimed that his brother, Ayman, was a “member of the resistance” killed in 2014 by the Israeli security forces.
Hamas’s Qassam Brigades posted an eulogy of Ayman with a picture of him holding a machine gun and wearing a Hamas headband. This post is still available through archival engines.
Speaking to American journalist Pam Bailey in 2017 Alnaouq said, “I came to understand that resistance fighters are nothing more than young people who loved life and loved their homeland, but left their comfortable lives and joined the resistance to confront the Israeli occupation, and defend their homeland and land that had been taken from them since the Nakba of the Palestinian people in 1948.”
In an interview with 'Zman Yisrael' in 2021, Avraham referred to the killing of Ayman as a “very great tragedy.”
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-908586 JPost]
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USPS probing apparent Hartford staffer caught on video saying ‘Jewish garbage[sic]’.
The independent executive branch agency told JNS that the behavior is “not acceptable” and the incident is being “fully investigated.”
Rebecca Szlechter.
(Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Postal Service told JNS that it is investigating an employee in Hartford, Conn., who appeared to refer to “Jewish garbage” in a video recording that has circulated on social media.
In the video, which appears to be from a doorbell camera, the apparent employee of the independent executive branch agency, who has a mailbag slung over his shoulder, stuffs envelopes into a mailbox.
The man appears to become frustrated with an apparently overstuffed mailbox. “What the Christ is this f***ing crap?” he appears to say. “Oh, of course. It’s Jewish garbage[sic].”
StopAntisemitism, a nonprofit, posted the video on Sept. 11 and called the behavior “atrocious bigotry.”
Amy Gibbs, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service, told JNS that USPS had reviewed the footage and was investigating the incident.
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/usps-probing-apparent-hartford-staffer-caught-on-video-saying-jewish-garbage JNS]
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London police seeks British man accused of assaulting three Jewish teens on bus.
“Jewish children must be able to go about their daily lives without fear of being targeted for who they are,” the Board of Deputies told JNS.
Rebecca Szlechter.
(Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) A man allegedly assaulted three Jewish teens on a north London bus last week in an incident that the Metropolitan Police is investigating as an antisemitic hate crime, the police department told JNS.
The three 14-year-old boys were traveling on a bus near Sanders Lane in Mill Hill at about 8:15 a.m. on Sept. 10, the day before Rosh Hashanah.
[https://www.jns.org/news/world/uk-police-seek-suspect-after-three-jewish-teens-allegedly-assaulted-on-london-bus JNS]
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US ‘on top of’ Houthi activity in Red Sea, Vance says.
Sep. 14, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a0de-d342-afaf-f8ff1cb60000 JNS]
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Saudi Arabia discovers 114 million tons of uranium ore in Medina.
Sep. 14, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a110-d864-a5fa-f97e42670000 JNS]
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‘Free Palestine’ graffiti at student 9/11 memorial on California State University campus.
Sep. 14, 2026.
Some 30 of the 2,177 American flags that the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at California State University, Stanislaus planted on the Turlock, Calif., “free speech lawn” were vandalized with “free Palestine graffiti,” the College Fix reported.
There was also graffiti supporting the “antifa” movement, and some of the American flags were dislodged, according to the report.
The public school told JNS that campus police “received a report of the vandalism and is actively investigating the situation.”
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a134-d0c1-a5ee-a33519070000 JNS]
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Israel unlikely to improve Saudi ties despite Houthi threat, expert tells 'Post'.
“If there was a new governing coalition that seemed more committed to discretion, then perhaps there would be an opening for greater cooperation,” Dr. Brandon Friedman suggested.
September 14, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908541 JPost]
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Saudi crown prince meets CENTCOM chief in bid for US help amid escalating Houthi attacks.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have been conducting strikes and seizing territory throughout the region, prompting serious concern from Gulf nations.
September 14, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908519 JPost]
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IDF kills five Hamas terrorists, among them military commander, in Gaza counterterrorism operation
The IDF and Shin Bet have intensified counterterrorism efforts in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks with the goal of killing Hamas terrorists and minimizing reconstruction efforts.
Avi Ashkenazi. Sep 15, 2026 01:31
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908599 JPost]
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Israel Police find illegal weapons, explosives among Arab communities in operation against crime
[https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22856/palestinians-choice-fatah-hamas Gatstoneinstitute]
Among the illegal weapons and ammunition seized were several which are suspected to have been stolen from the IDF, the police stated.
Tzvi Jasper. Sep 15, 2026 01:51
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-908600 JPost]
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Uri Kurlianchik: The New Mercenaries.
There is something people need to understand about Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the producers of the anti-Israel propaganda films “No Other Land” and “Naza.”
They are not whistle blowers. They are not concerned citizens. They are not Israeli Snowdens or even Israeli Wallace Shawns.
If they were, they would have gone with whatever “evidence” they have uncovered to the authorities, or the press if they don’t trust the authorities, or some international investigative body if they don’t trust the press. They would have presented concrete facts and actionable evidence that would have led to prosecution, not insinuations that cannot be used in any legal way.
They would not have released a highly-stylized film in a foreign film festival to the thunderous applause of Israel’s foreign enemies. They would not have produced a dramatic story where faceless, nameless people who, for all we know might be actors, read lines seemingly written by al-Mayadeen and Al-Jazeera with no sources or attributions.
Yuval claims that exposing state actions is a moral responsibility for Israelis, but he and his accomplices didn’t expose anything. Is there a single person that can be prosecuted based on his tall tales? These are not witness testimonies, it’s not even hearsay. Any judge in the world would have laughed him out of court with this “evidence.”
No. Except for giving ammunition to Israel’s enemies, he and his accomplice have done nothing.
They are not even Kapos, because Kapos acted under duress against their own people to save their families and lives, not for clout and profit.
People like Yuval and Szor are mercenaries funded by Israel's enemies to damage the country during war. Even the great champions of free speech, the United States, don’t tolerate unregistered foreign agents acting against Americans on American territory.
So why does Israel?
And make no mistake.
Everything about this movies is foreign. The production companies are foreign. The country of origin is foreign. The release is foreign.
Israeli self-criticism has never been absent from Israeli culture. Fauda itself is proof. The series has spent years showing Israeli operatives as brave, impulsive, traumatized, and sometimes disastrously wrong. Season five goes further. Its central theme is blood revenge, born from the October 7 massacre, and the story refuses to offer revenge as closure. The characters pursue it, suffer for it, and discover how little comfort it provides. Their pain is real, yet the series still allows the audience to question what to do with it.
These are not Israeli films. These are foreign, anti-Israel films wearing Israeli creators like a fig leaf.
They are being paid to give credence to anti-Israel propaganda by giving it the "validation" of an Israeli voice. They are astroturfed Solzhenitsyns. They are international Quislings. They are collaborators in a foreign anti-Israel operation.
Contrary to their claims, there is nothing Jewish about what they are doing.
Fun fact: the Venice Film Festival awarded a gold medal to Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film "the Triumph of Will" in 1935 and the best film award to her Nazi propaganda film "Olympia" in 1938. Sadly, we don't know for how long they applauded both films. [pic.twitter.com/Uwxlhyu5aS].
— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) September 13, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-908590 JPost]
[https://urikurlianchik.substack.com/p/the-new-mercenaries on Substack]
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MEMRI
@MEMRIReports
#ICYMI: Member Of #Iranian Parliament's National Security Commission Says: 'We Provided Military Training To Afghan [#Taliban] Forces After 9/11 [To Confront Americans]'; '#Israel Must Also Be Eliminated' - Report & audio here [ow.ly/7xAG50ZM5GV] [#MEMRI #September11].
Sep 13, 2026.
[https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/2099234411329782064 on X]
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MEMRI
@MEMRIReports.
#Palestinian Journalist: #AlJazeera Is A Strategic Tool Of The #Qatari Regime For Spreading Extremist Ideas And Terrorist Propaganda - Report & audio here [ow.ly/mcgR50ZNogj [#MEMRI]
Sep. 14, 2026.
[https://www.meforum.org/mef-online/israel-is-fighting-tomorrows-war-with-yesterdays-tools MEForum]
[https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/2099509083237748999 on X]
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Sete octubre
@siete octubre:
Israel's culture minister moves to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers who turned lies against the IDF into a venice-winning act of betrayal a film that endangers Israel's soldiers and citizens, fuels antisemitism and gives it justification.
Sep 14, 2026
[https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLnbDcixDa6/ on Instagram]
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Bassam Tawil: The Palestinians' Dead-End Choice: Fatah or Hamas
Both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority [PA] owe the Palestinian people – as well as Israelis and other victims – countless apologies. They owe apologies for corruption and mismanagement. They owe apologies for failing to build transparent and accountable institutions. They owe apologies for suppressing dissent and freedom of expression and for persecuting political opponents, journalists, human rights activists, and critics. They owe apologies for repeatedly rejecting compromises and peace initiatives and for policies that have contributed to decades of Israeli and Palestinian bloodshed. They owe apologies for failing to use international assistance to build a functioning economy and institutions that serve ordinary Palestinians. They owe their people an honest explanation for why Palestinians remain divided between two rival governments and without a functioning democratic political system.
The timing of this latest dispute is particularly significant.
Hamas has decided to participate [in the upcoming PA elections on November 28]... if true, such an arrangement would allow Hamas to re-enter Palestinian politics through the back door.
So, instead of changing its goals – brutally ruling Gaza and destroying Israel – Hamas will simply change its "name, structure and framework"?
Changing the label does not change the organization. A Hamas-affiliated candidate does not cease to be affiliated with Hamas simply because the word "Hamas" does not appear next to his name on the ballot.
Such a maneuver would turn the election into a political fiction: Hamas would be permitted to obtain parliamentary representation while avoiding the political consequences of openly running as Hamas. Allowing Hamas— in disguise or not – to run in the election would also legitimize the terrorist group without requiring it fundamentally to change.
That would be a serious mistake. The Palestinians have already seen what happens when Hamas acquires political power.
Hamas is bad, but who said that the PA is any better?
Palestinians have experienced corruption, political repression, and an absence of meaningful political renewal.
The problem is: What if one of the negotiating parties decides never to come to the table? Is the other party just supposed to hold everything in abeyance – unsettled forever – in case one day the other party might change its mind?
The Palestinians need a genuine third way – not merely another faction with a different name. They need leaders who are prepared to challenge the entrenched political culture of Fatah and Hamas. They need leaders who believe that the Palestinian national interest is more important than factional interests. They need leaders willing to confront corruption, reject authoritarianism, protect freedom of expression, build functioning institutions, and end the glorification of violence.
Above all, Palestinians need leaders courageous enough to tell their people an uncomfortable truth: there can be no genuine progress so long as the political choice remains confined to Fatah and Hamas, and that the primary objective of both groups remains the obliteration of Israel.
[https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22856/palestinians-choice-fatah-hamas Gatstoneinstitute]
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@JonathanMajburd
J.Majburd
@JonathanMajburd
When Terror Gets a Standing Ovation
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRtL9iOXGO/?stkn=MWoyNnYzeGxmY2RqOQ==
Sep 14, 2026.
[https://x.com/JonathanMajburd/status/2099555825643557184 on X]
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Netanyahu confirms New York trip for UN General Assembly, to address UN on September 24.
Sep 14, 2026.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to the United States on September 23 to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, the Prime Minister's Office announced Monday.
The visit will take place on September 23-25, following Yom Kippur and ahead of the Sukkot holiday.
Netanyahu is expected to address the General Assembly on Thursday, September 24.
The prime minister last visited New York for the 80th UNGA in September 2025, before New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected, when he delivered an address denouncing Western countries for embracing Palestinian statehood.
"You know what message the leaders who recognize the Palestinian state this week sent to the Palestinians? It’s a very clear message: murdering Jews pays off,” Netanyahu told the 80th UNGA.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908544 JPost]
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a440-df06-a7f4-ece01e790000 JNS]
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Trusting your audience: What NAZA could learn from Fauda's latest season - editorial
Israeli self-criticism has never been absent from Israeli culture. Fauda itself is proof.
JPost Editorial. September 15, 2026.
Two Israeli productions arrived before global audiences within days of each other, both shaped by the trauma of October 7. Yet they approach Israel’s reckoning very differently. The fifth season of Fauda, now streaming worldwide, turns revenge inward and forces its Israeli characters to confront its cost. NAZA, the Venice Prize-winning documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, takes a different direction. Its argument appears settled before its evidence is weighed.
Israeli self-criticism has never been absent from Israeli culture. Fauda itself is proof. The series has spent years showing Israeli operatives as brave, impulsive, traumatized, and sometimes disastrously wrong. Season five goes further. Its central theme is blood revenge, born from the October 7 massacre, and the story refuses to offer revenge as closure. The characters pursue it, suffer for it, and discover how little comfort it provides. Their pain is real, yet the series still allows the audience to question what to do with it.
Trusting the viewers enough to leave judgement open.
Serious art can expose wounds without pretending that one moral interpretation explains every decision made under fire. It can look directly at Palestinian suffering, Israeli leadership failures, and the brutality that war produces, while preserving context, uncertainty, and human agency. Fauda has never required viewers to believe every Israeli action is justified. It trusts them enough to leave judgment open.
NAZA asks for a different kind of trust. The film is built around interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence personnel whose identities are concealed. They make grave allegations about targeting decisions in Gaza, including claims that mass civilian deaths were knowingly built into military operations. Those allegations deserve examination. They also demand exceptional scrutiny. The IDF has categorically rejected them, arguing that the anonymous speakers’ identities and military roles cannot be verified.
Anonymity does not invalidate testimony, especially when whistleblowers fear professional or legal consequences. It does, however, place a heavier burden on filmmakers making claims of extraordinary scale. Viewers cannot assess the sources’ rank, access to information, direct involvement, or possible motives. When a documentary presents testimony under those conditions, its framing becomes even more consequential. NAZA’s public presentation leaves little sense that the central proposition remains contested.
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-908590 JPost]
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Robert Kraft confirms role in pushing Macklemore off Ed Sheeran tour.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft confirms he helped pressure Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore, citing antisemitic rhetoric and imagery at recent shows.
Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 4:24 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433167 INN]
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Israel Is Fighting Tomorrow’s War with Yesterday’s Tools.
Israel Can Present Impressive Military Achievements While Upholding the Purity of Arms, Yet at the Same Time Watch Its Room for Maneuver Steadily Shrink.
September 13, 2026.
Zvi Hauser. Israel Hayom
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908648 JPost]
Israel is losing its standing on the international stage because it continues to rely on military achievements alone, while the battle over consciousness and influence has become the new decisive front. Establishing a national influence apparatus could strengthen Israel's value in the eyes of its allies and make it vital to them in the future.
[https://www.meforum.org/mef-online/israel-is-fighting-tomorrows-war-with-yesterdays-tools MEForum]
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Jewish students returned to campus at Wilfrid Laurier University after celebrating Rosh Hashanah to find their mezuzahs smashed and torn down.
Sep 14, 2026.
Sep 15, 2026, 12:57 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-908569 JPost]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433188 INN]
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UKMTO: Ship hit by ‘unknown projectile’ in Strait of Hormuz.
Sep 15, 2026, 05:24
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a466-dbe1-adaf-afee098a0000 JNS]
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IDF strikes kill two Hamas terror commanders.
Sep 15, 2026, 06:07
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a478-dda4-abe4-ef7a9fcb0000 JNS]
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Air-raid alerts activated in Mecca amid Houthi escalation.
Sep 15, 2026, 06:24
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a48a-dd48-afe6-f6af82460000 JNS]
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Samaria: IDF arrests Palestinian taxi driver after suspected ramming.
Israel Defense Forces soldiers arrested a Palestinian taxi driver suspected of an attempted car-ramming near Ariel in Samaria on Tuesday, the military told JNS.
Sep. 15, 2026.
No one was hurt in the incident, according to initial Hebrew-language reports.
The IDF said troops were dispatched to the scene and detained the driver.
https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a49a-d584-a1ea-bc9eacfc0000
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“It’s shocking. You know, we are fighting global antisemitic incitement. But when it comes from within us, it’s simply intolerable,” he said of the film by directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
“And it starts with Yair Golan, who says that we murder babies as a hobby,” he continued, referencing May 2025 remarks by the far-left politician.
“It then continues with the MAG [former Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi], who leaks a fabricated and false video that smears IDF soldiers all over the world.” (Tomer Yerushalmi was dismissed in May after admitting she leaked the video, which the accused soldiers say was doctored to falsely implicate them.)
“And now, two Israeli directors who present the IDF as war criminals and are lauded at the Venice festival,” he said.
Netanyahu noted that the Directors Guild of Israel came out in support of Abraham and Szor. The guild’s head, Eliran Elya, who announced his resignation earlier this month, is now a candidate for Eisenkot’s party, he said.
“So I say to Gadi Eisenkot: Cancel your surplus-vote agreement with Yair Golan’s party, come out with a sharp condemnation of this thing and kick this guy off your list,” he added.
Eisenkot had condemned “NAZA” in an X post earlier on Monday.
“The choice of Israeli filmmakers to stand on an international stage, present a distorted and one-sided picture and cast a moral stain on the soldiers who protect our home is moral blindness, a disconnect from reality and harms the State of Israel at a difficult hour,” he wrote.
Israel National News.
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Netanyahu to Eisenkot: Cancel surplus-vote deal with Yair Golan over ‘NAZA’ film.
Sep 15, 2026, 07:03
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on Yashar Party leader Gadi Eisenkot to cancel his surplus-vote agreement with Yair Golan’s Democrats Party, in a video statement slamming the anti-Israel film “NAZA.”
Israel National News.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a440-df06-a7f4-ece01e790000 JNS]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433186 INN]
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COGAT: More than 24,000 tons of medical supplies entered Gaza since ceasefire.
Sep 15, 2026, 07:27
More than 24,000 tons of medical equipment and supplies have entered the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10, 2025, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit said.
Sep 15, 2026, 11:11 AM
COGAT said the deliveries include X-ray machines, oxygen concentrators, generators, spare parts and incubators, and are coordinated with international organizations under a monitoring mechanism intended to prevent Hamas terrorists from taking control of the aid.
The agency said additional efforts include establishing new medical facilities and arranging medical evacuations from the Strip.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a475-dd48-afe6-f6ffc7cf0000 JNS]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433208 INN]
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Pennsylvania man charged with securing gun to commit ISIS terror attack.
Sep 15, 2026
Jonathan Hunter Kramer, of Valencia, Pa., obtained a gun with the intention of carrying out an ISIS terror attack, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Federal agents arrested the 21-year-old at a hotel, where he had three 30-round capacity rifle magazines and five boxes of rifle ammunition, the FBI said. Agents seized a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition from the hotel room.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a5e2-d4bf-a1fc-efe61e870000 JNS]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433213 INN]
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Footage from Lebanon:
IDF destroys 32 rockets aimed at Israel.
Israel National News.
Israel National News.
Sep 15, 2026, 7:55 PM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433211 INN]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433182 INN]
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IDF turns to Shin Bet in 'Naza' investigation.
Hezbollah will mount significant attack after regrouping, studying Israeli activity, IDF warns.
According to IDF assessments, Hezbollah's senior leadership is closely awaiting developments in the Iranian arena, with everything dependent on Tehran.
September 15, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908648 JPost]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433214 INN]
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IDF eliminates two Hamas commanders who posed immediate danger.
Israel National News.
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/nyc-council-healthcare-groups-hold-their-first-meeting-on-jew-hatred-in-medicine JNS]
Sep 15, 2026, 12:57 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433188 INN]
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European Parliament to screen 'The Bibi Files' ahead of Israel's 2026 Knesset election.
September 15, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a66e-d5cc-abbb-e6ffaafb0000 JNS]
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908615 JPost]
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US military hosts Jordanian army at Colorado training.
How a Yemeni fishing city has become a second front in the US-Iran conflict.
September 15, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a12c-d8d0-a9b9-bb2eab000000 JNS]
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908624 JPost]
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Israel provided Saudi Arabia with intel. assistance as Houthi attacks on Riyadh's assets continue.
September 15, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a616-dad2-adfd-fe96f2960000 JNS]
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908610 JPost]
Secret channel against Houthis.
Israel transfers intelligence to Saudi Arabia via US.
Israel National News.
Sep 15, 2026, 10:04 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433216 INN]
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-908712 JPost]
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The final frontier: US reveals Space Force has 'on-orbit space control weapons' for first time.
September 15, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-908651 JPost]
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Shin Bet, police arrest central Israel resident for planning October 7-inspired terror attack
The suspect was reportedly inspired by the October 7 massacre and was planning on carrying out a terrorist attack involving explosives.
Hodaya Ran. September 15, 2026.
A 19-year-old resident of Kafr Kassem was arrested on suspicion of advancing terrorist activity and planning to carry out an attack, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Israel Police stated on Tuesday.
The joint investigation found that Issa had been influenced by the October 7 massacre. According to the investigation, he subsequently began advancing a plan to carry out a terrorist attack.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908627 JPost]
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Jewish patients hide their identity amid NHS antisemitism.
Israel National News.
Sep 15, 2026, 12:36 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433187 INN]
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Poll:
Nearly half of secular Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur.
IDI poll finds 74% of Israeli Jews fast at least partially on Yom Kippur and 57% attend synagogue, including many who rarely attend during the year.
Israel National News.
Sep 15, 2026, 12:25 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433186 INN]
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Poll:
Nearly three-quarters of Jewish Israelis reject full Gaza pullout.
Israel National News.
Sep 15, 2026, 11:11 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433183 INN]
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Families of Oct. 7 victims: “The time for reckoning has come".
Israel National News.
Sep 15, 2026, 6:38 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433208 INN]
[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pennsylvania-man-charged-plot-assist-isis-terror-attack-feds-say-rcna597895 NBC News]
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Hostage survivor:
'I prayed not to be moved - then the IDF bombed the building’.
Bar Kupershtein recounts the miraculous moment during his Gaza captivity when a canceled transfer kept him from a building later destroyed in an IDF strike.
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/pro-israel-michigan-dem-says-she-was-harassed-followed-over-her-zionist-views JNS]
Israel National News.
Sep 15, 2026, 8:27 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433213 INN]
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US, Israeli, Arab military chiefs hold secret meeting in Germany.
Sep 15, 2026
Israel National News.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a6ab-d702-a1fd-eefbd1590000 JNS]
Sep 15, 2026, 7:55 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433211 INN]
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IDF turns to Shin Bet in 'Naza' investigation.
The IDF has already begun an investigation by its Information Security Department and at several other units suspected of being sources of materials and information provided to the creators of the film “Naza."
Israel National News.
Israel National News.
Sep 15, 2026, 11:05 PM (GMT+3)
Published: Sep 15, 2026, 8:35 PM (GMT+3)
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NYC Council, healthcare groups hold their first meeting on Jew-hatred in medicine.
Rikki Zagelbaum. Sep 15, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/nyc-council-healthcare-groups-hold-their-first-meeting-on-jew-hatred-in-medicine JNS]
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Damaged Saudi oil pipeline will operate ‘in days,’ US energy secretary says.
Sep 15, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a66e-d5cc-abbb-e6ffaafb0000 JNS]
Sep 16, 2026, 3:16 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433225 INN]
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US military hosts Jordanian army at Colorado training.
Sep 15, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a12c-d8d0-a9b9-bb2eab000000 JNS]
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk5yw7ptml YNet]
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Rubio decries Iranian attacks in talk with Omani foreign minister.
Sep 15, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a616-dad2-adfd-fe96f2960000 JNS]
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908737 JPost]
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PFLP-linked New Zealand party running on Palestine platform enters election, sparking concern.
The Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party was almost not allowed to register following the submission of over 200 submissions opposing it.
Mathilda Heller. September 15, 2026.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1lcqmdtfl YNet]
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-908712 JPost]
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Mum’s the word from El-Sayed a week after call for him to defend Jews, Michigan rabbis say.
Sep 15, 2026.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan and a former Detroit health director, has yet to respond a week after local rabbis and Jewish leaders issued a campaign, called “Nonnegotiable Michigan,” asking him to “affirm five baseline commitments to Jewish safety, identity, political participation and self-determination,” the rabbis said.
El-Sayed is “the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in America,” according to the Republican Jewish Coalition.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a589-d649-a9b7-edcdb74e0000 JNS]
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/tlg8x8 JFeed]
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Butler County Man Charged with Receiving a Firearm and Ammunition With Intent to Commit Terrorism on Behalf of ISIS.
Department of Justice, September 15, 2026:
Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, a resident of Valencia, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with receiving a firearm and ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the firearm and ammunition would be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, including providing, attempting to provide, and conspiring to provide material support or resources to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). FBI agents interdicted Kramer this weekend as he returned to a hotel in possession of three 30-round capacity rifle magazines and five boxes of rifle ammunition. The FBI then executed search warrants, seized a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition from his hotel room, and arrested him….
“Kramer was taken into custody just as he appeared to be preparing for a mass shooting that could have taken many lives, having already secured a rifle and approximately 190 rounds of ammunition for what he called his ‘mission,’” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg. “His apparent ISIS inspiration and escalation toward violence show how close this country came to a devastating attack. This arrest prevented what could have been a horrific tragedy.”…
According to the affidavit filed in support of the complaint, Kramer has been known to the FBI since an earlier investigation in 2023, which resulted in Kramer, then a minor, being charged and adjudicated delinquent by Pennsylvania state authorities for his role in a plot to commit a mass casualty incident and for possessing child sexual abuse material. On March 19, 2026, following Kramer’s release from a Pennsylvania juvenile detention facility, an anonymous individual made an online tip to the FBI reporting a return to troubling behavior by Kramer, including, among other activities, his ordering of “mysterious” packages and “talking to his friends from before” his juvenile adjudication. Subsequent investigation confirmed that Kramer had been using the online persona of “Hamza Al Rashid” who claimed affiliation with ISIS, offered to share explosive manuals with others, and expressed his intent to prepare for his “mission” and that he was just missing a “weapon.”
On Sept. 12, the FBI observed Kramer quickly depart his residence while carrying a bag and travel via rideshare to a retail store, where he purchased a disposable phone. After exiting the store, he met an individual in the parking lot and acquired a long black bag from the trunk of a vehicle. Kramer then traveled to a hotel in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, where he paid cash to book a room. Witnesses from both the store and hotel noted Kramer’s bag making a metallic clicking sound when he placed it down. After checking into his room, Kramer traveled to a sporting goods store and was observed by the FBI at the gun counter.
Upon returning to the hotel’s parking lot, FBI agents approached Kramer while he carried two bags containing the contents of his purchase from the sporting goods store. Kramer agreed to speak with the agents and placed the bags on the ground. The FBI then executed federal search warrants on Kramer’s person, hotel room, and residence. Agents seized a semiautomatic rifle, five rifle magazines (two loaded and the other three each offering a 30-round capacity), a rifle bipod and scope, a total of 190 rounds of rifle ammunition, an entrenchment tool, a prayer rug, pepper spray, and approximately 30 knives, along with a handwritten note stating “DoNt look For me[.] IDK what I did buT I cant live In constant Fear[.]”
The meeting, which has not been made public, was held at the US Embassy in Muscat, three of the sources said on the condition of anonymity.
[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/butler-county-man-charged-receiving-firearm-and-ammunition-intent-commit-terrorism-behalf Department of Justice]
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908779 JPost]
Pennsylvania man charged in plot to assist ISIS in terror attack, feds say.
Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, has been known to the FBI for years as a terror threat, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Sept. 15, 2026.
By Shayna Jacobs
The complaint says the FBI also tracked Kramer’s suspicious purchases since his release from juvenile jail, including a 5-inch knife and pepper spray ordered from Amazon.
Kramer also allegedly had an online alias, “Hamza Al Rashid,” where he brainstormed “methods of violence against the Kuffar, as well as tools that can be useful to remain anonymous,” according to the complaint. Kuffar is a reference to non-Muslims.
A shared document Kramer administered discussed how “fire is an extremely useful tool to cause irreplaceable damage to the kuffars homes and land, and cost millions, if not billions of dollars, in damage if used correctly,” the complaint says.
“While fire leads to less deaths, it causes much more chaos/displacement,” Kramer said in the alleged document, according to the complaint.
Kramer also allegedly suggested that “good areas to target” are places like “nightclubs, theaters, concerts, and apartment buildings/hotels and schools with low security.”
“Not only does the fire carry risk of death, in events of mass confusion, people will normally stampede each other trying to escape, leading to more possible deaths,” the document allegedly continued.
Kramer’s alleged planning document highlighted poisonings, large trucks and firearms as “methods to increase your jihad’s destruction.” Battaglia said he promoted “distracting emergency services” as a strategy for carrying out an attack.
“I might be able to carry out an operation soon against the kuffar, please pray for my success brothers,” Kramer allegedly wrote to the online community on May 26.
[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pennsylvania-man-charged-plot-assist-isis-terror-attack-feds-say-rcna597895 NBC News]
[https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/09/16/saudi-arabia-houthi-missile-attacks/ ILH]
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Pro-Israel Michigan Dem says she was ‘harassed, followed’ over her Zionist views.
[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/40397004/houthi-fire-mecca-saudi-rebels-drone/ TheSun]
“People are free to disagree with me, challenge me and protest my positions. That is democracy. But disagreement is not license for intimidation or harassment,” said Rep. Haley Stevens.
Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep. 15, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/pro-israel-michigan-dem-says-she-was-harassed-followed-over-her-zionist-views JNS]
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Israel says it hit Hamas commander of Rafah Brigade.
“Our message is clear. No terrorist is immune, and Hamas will not be in Gaza,” stated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, according to an English translation of their remarks provided by Netanyahu’s office.
Sep 15, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908801 JPost]
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a6ab-d702-a1fd-eefbd1590000 JNS]
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Rom Braslavski: I’m afraid a Palestinian government will be established here.
Captivity survivor Rom Braslavski spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and admitted that despite their disagreements, he is very apprehensive about giving his vote to the left.
Israel National News.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908791 JPost]
Sep 15, 2026, 11:05 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433221 INN]
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Chilling | Keshet Casarotti’s last call on October 7
In the recording, Keshet can be heard trying to call for medical assistance, describing the severe pain he was suffering and the paralyzing fear that left him unable to move.
Israel National News.
Published: Sep 16, 2026, 12:17 AM (GMT+3)
Sep 16, 2026, 8:04 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433222 INN]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433269 INN]
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'US-Iran war will enter much different phase within months'.
Sep. 16, 2026
Vice President JD Vance says the US-Iran conflict will enter a “much different phase" within months as Washington pressures Tehran and restores traffic through Hormuz.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-ab3f-d661-a9bd-ef7f7db50000 JNS]
Israel National News
Sep 16, 2026, 1:22 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433223 INN]
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Israel, Morocco agree to upgrade diplomatic ties, expand flights at US-backed summit.
Report:
Trump admin plans $2.8 billion military package for Israel.
Israel National News.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908835 JPost]
Sep 16, 2026, 3:16 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433225 INN]
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PIDF eliminates Hamas Rafah Brigade commander in drone strike.
Abu Obeid replaced Mohammed Shabana after his death alongside Mohammed Sinwar; strike comes amid series of operations against senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.
Elisha Ben Kimon, Einav Halabi | updated:09.15.26 | 16:38
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-908799 JPost]
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk5yw7ptml YNet]
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'An UNRWA teacher kept my mother trapped in his attic': Testimony at the UN and the agency's 'reform'.
Neta Heiman-Mina tells the UN Human Rights Council how her 84-year-old mother was held for 48 days by a UNRWA teacher, as a new UN Watch report shows the agency overstated reforms meant to address neutrality failures.
Itamar Eichner| 09.15.26 | 22:12
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjs9mzdfze YNet]
Daughter of former Gaza hostage confronts UN over UNRWA funding despite Hamas ties.
September 16, 2026.
September 16, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-908770 JPost]
Neta Heiman Mina, whose elderly mother, Ditza Heiman, was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, and held prisoner in Gaza for nearly two months, spoke at the 63rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. She spoke on a panel on human rights education, confronting the UN over its continued funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) despite its ongoing ties to Hamas.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908737 JPost]
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Palestinian-American Press TV reporter detained near Bethlehem on suspected espionage.
Naqaa Hamed was detained at a checkpoint near Tekoa; IDF sources say she is suspected of cooperating with an enemy entity and may also face an espionage investigation.
Elisha Ben Kimon, Lior Ben Ari, Einav Halabi | published:09.15.26 |
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1lcqmdtfl YNet]
IDF arrests Iran's Press TV journalist in West Bank, hands her to police, source confirms to 'Post'.
The IDF confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that the journalist, identified by the Iranian state broadcaster as Palestinian-American Naqqa Hamad, was transferred to the Israel Police.
September 16, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908720 JPost]
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-908798 JPost]
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Drake's "Pray for Gaza" Lyric Sparks Fury.
The Jewish-Canadian rapper included the controversial line in his new film FOMO, reigniting debate over his silence on Hamas terror and his ties to the Jewish community
Gila Isaacson.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908805 JPost]
Sep 16, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/tlg8x8 JFeed]
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Lebanon Signals Hope for Peace with Israel
In talks with international reporters. President Joseph Aoun expressed optimism that American-mediated negotiations could transform relations between the two countries beyond a mere ceasefire
Gila Isaacson.
Sep 16, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/tlgbds JFeed]
Labor Court Ruling.
Gush Etzion Firm Pays Guard $40K
After 16 years of work, Jerusalem labor court rules Palestinian security guard was actually an employee, not contractor, awards full severance and benefits.
Gila Isaacson.
Sep 16, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tlgksp JFeed]
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US officials met Iran-backed Houthis in Oman over the weekend, sources say.
The meeting, which has not been made public, was held at the US Embassy in Muscat, three of the sources said on the condition of anonymity.
Reuters. September 16, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908779 JPost]
US Gave Houthis Green Light on Saudi Strikes.
American officials met covertly with Yemeni terror group leaders in Oman, reaching understandings that attacks may continue against the Saudis as long as international shipping lanes remain untouched.
Gila Isaacson.
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-908836 JPost]
Sep 16, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/tlgias JFeed]
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Iran live updates: Houthis claim new attacks on Saudi oil facility, air base.
September 16, 2026
Fighting has intensified in Yemen in recent weeks.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908828 JPost]
By David Brennan,Meredith Deliso andIvan Pereira.
September 16, 2026, 8:12 AM ET
[https://abcnews.com/amp/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-oil-prices-rise-after-strikes/?id=136415261 ABC]
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Riyadh pledges severe response to Houthi attacks as US reveals munition shortages.
Houthi terror barrage ignites massive fires and sparks fury in Riyadh. New report reveals the US is facing a critical ammunition deficit.
By Erez Linn.
Published on 09-16-2026 06:13
[https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/09/16/saudi-arabia-houthi-missile-attacks/ ILH]
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Houthi rebels 'fire drone at Mecca' as Saudi Arabia warns attempted attack on holy city is a 'red line'.
16 February 2026.
[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/40397004/houthi-fire-mecca-saudi-rebels-drone/ TheSun]
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Enigmatic Houthi commander Abdul Malik al-Houthi elevated amid terror group's Red Sea offensive.
[https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/exclusive-mamdani-taps-gay-communist FreeBeacon]
Since the start of the civil war, foreign officials who dealt with al-Houthi have not been known to have met him in person, a source familiar with the matter said.
September 16, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908801 JPost]
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Netanyahu’s New York UN visit sees unusual US Secret Service security involvement
This comes after NYC Mayor Mamdani admitted that his office lacked the authority to arrest the prime minister, though he emphasized that Netanyahu "is not welcome in New York City."
By Idan Kweller. September 16, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908791 JPost]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433270 INN]
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IDF Chief:
War not yet over, Hezbollah must be removed from south of Litani.
Uzi Baruch.
Sep 16, 2026, 8:04 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433269 INN]
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Israel didn’t pressure Trump into Iran war, didn’t put boots on ground ‘for Israel,’ Huckabee says.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433276 INN]
Sep. 16, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-ab3f-d661-a9bd-ef7f7db50000 JNS]
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Israel, Morocco agree to upgrade diplomatic ties, expand flights at US-backed summit.
The meeting of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, and US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz comes a day after the sixth anniversary of the Abraham Accords.
September 16, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908835 JPost]
[https://melissabrodsky.substack.com/p/nazis-were-organizing-in-new-york on Substack]
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Sweden expels Iranian embassy official over activity incompatible with Vienna Convention.
The official's expulsion follows a CNN report in April that Iran allegedly used criminal gangs in Sweden to target Israeli and Jewish interests.
September 16, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-908799 JPost]
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/three-quarters-of-religion-based-hate-crimes-in-hawaii-last-year-targeted-jews-who-are-less-than-1-of-the-state JNS]
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IAI debuts new tactical vehicle for German special forces.
Two TAHRs to be transported inside CH‑47 Chinook helicopters, with crews able to achieve combat readiness shortly after landing.
[https://www-br-de.translate.goog/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/so-will-die-bundesregierung-islamistischen-terror-bekaempfen,VVOlnGh?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true br-de]
September 16, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-908770 JPost]
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Shurat HaDin, representing victims of the October 7 massacre.
They demand criminal investigation into the creators of NAZA: “Every day that passes may cause substantial harm to the investigation”.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. September 16, 2026
Shurat HaDin, an organization representing more than 500 victims of terrorism from the October 7 massacre, has appealed to the Attorney General, Adv. Gali Baharav-Miara, and the State Attorney, Adv. Amit Eisman, demanding that they order the immediate opening of a criminal investigation into the production and publication of the film NAZA. The organization is calling for an examination of the involvement of the film’s creators, sources, and participants. Should the state fail to act promptly on the matter, the organization is considering petitioning the High Court of Justice.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-908798 JPost]
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IDF kills Nukhba terrorist who killed, abducted Omer Neutra, Nimrod Cohen on October 7.
[https://globaldisconnect.substack.com/p/how-propaganda-uses-emotion-to-teach GlobalDiscomnect]
According to the IDF, the terrorist, Jihad Samih Mahmoud Ismail, had taken part in the killing of Capt. Omer Neutra, St.-Sgt. Oz Daniel, and Sgt. Shaked Dahan.
[https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_448,w_632/738054].
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908805 JPost]
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By Courtney Greenberg. Published Sep 17, 2026.
NYT blasted for baffling Oct. 7 terror attack take, stating ‘Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims.’
By Chris Nesi.
Published Sep. 16, 2026.
The New York Times came under fire Wednesday over a baffling passage that appeared in an article about an Israeli documentary — which said the Jewish state “still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7.”
The findings showed a dependence on aggregate numbers from Hamas, limited citation of data on terrorist deaths and “disproportionate doubt directed at different sources,” writes author Tatiana Glezer, from independent research group Fifty Global.
The Sept. 14 article, penned by Jerusalem-based reporter Isabel Kershner, covers the controversy..
[https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/us-news/nyt-blasted-for-baffling-oct-7-terror-attack-take/ NY Post]
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FBI chief Kash Patel warns online radicalization fueling threats to synagogues, public officials.
September 16, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-908836 JPost]
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Netanyahu announces he will propose laws to revoke citizenship of people 'smearing' IDF.
September 16, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908828 JPost]
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EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani Taps ‘Gay Communist’ for Senior Government Role: New Adviser Called for ‘Abolition of Police’ and ‘Undoing Capitalism,’ Condemned Gandhi as ‘Anti-Black Misogynist’.
Washington Free Beacon | September 16, 2026 | Jon Levine
In addition to her government and advocacy work, Afridi is currently listed as an editor at Pinko, a magazine which describes itself as “a collective for thinking gay communism.” On the masthead, she went by “L. Israh Afridi.” Israh is an Arabic word for “night journey” that is sacred in Islam. . . . .
Afridi is a close friend of Cea Weaver, the notorious top Mamdani housing official who’s called home ownership “a weapon of white supremacy” and expressed a desire to “impoverish the white middle class.”. . .
Afridi is only the latest in a string of oddballs, cranks, antisemites, and Lulu Lenins named into Mamdani’s orbit during his time as mayor.
[https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/exclusive-mamdani-taps-gay-communist FreeBeacon]
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Ali Taher was IDF's most complex battle terrain yet, Egoz forces chief tells 'Post' - interview.
The Egoz Special Forces commander told the Post that the battle signified a major setback to Hezbollah and to Iran "both on a symbolic and command and control operational level."
September 16, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908810 JPost]
Under the ridge.
Hezbollah's strategic tunnel system revealed.
IDF releases new footage from Hezbollah tunnels in the Ali Taher Ridge, where troops uncovered and destroyed strategic terrorist infrastructure.
Israel National News.
Sep 16, 2026, 8:47 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433270 INN]
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Kansas man arrested for threatening to murder Ben Shapiro on Yom Kippur.
A Kansas man was arrested after allegedly making multiple antisemitic death threats against Jewish right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro, including an ominous countdown to Yom Kippur.
Israel National News.
Published: Sep 16, 2026, 11:02 PM (GMT+3)
A Kansas man has been arrested after threatening to murder right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro.
Korby Allen Strube, 29, was arrested in Florida, where Shapiro lives, after making multiple threats on social media, including an ominous countdown to Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which will be held next week.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433276 INN]
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How to “Other” an Israeli.
First discriminate, then the silent treatment.
Jewish Review of Books.
Sep 16, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/news/world/iran-struggles-to-reroute-trade-as-u-s-blockade-disrupts-supply-lines JNS]
By Malcolm M. Feeley.
Last spring, UC Berkeley formally acknowledged the stream of antisemitic incidents on campus after October 7, 2023, which had resulted in the disruption of scheduled lectures and meetings, harassment of students and faculty, assaults, injuries, and property damage—not to speak of a pervasive atmosphere of menacing groupthink. This acknowledgement was part of a legal agreement that settled a suit by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education. Berkeley also paid $1,000,000 to the Brandeis Center, listed programs the university had established or promised to establish, and the website it would update.
[https://jewishreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/how-to-other-an-israeli JewishReviewOfBooks]
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Nazis Were Organizing in New York. So Were the Jews.
In 1934, 45,000 people filled Yankee Stadium to help Germany’s Jews. Ninety-two years later, their program tells us how.
Melissa Brodsky. Sep 16, 2026
[https://melissabrodsky.substack.com/p/nazis-were-organizing-in-new-york on Substack]
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Three-quarters of religion-based hate crimes in Hawaii last year targeted Jews, who are less than 1% of the state.
Rabbi Itchel Krasnjansky of Chabad in Hawaii told JNS that “we don’t experience really any antisemitism, besides for the pro-Palestinian crap that goes on here, like everywhere else.”
Jessica Russak-Hoffman, Menachem Wecker.
Sep. 16, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/three-quarters-of-religion-based-hate-crimes-in-hawaii-last-year-targeted-jews-who-are-less-than-1-of-the-state JNS]
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Germany plans tougher measures against Islamist terror after Berlin CSD attack · September 16, 2026.
The German government unveiled a ten-point plan to combat Islamic terrorism after the July attack on Berlin's Christopher Street Day parade, where one woman was killed and 31 people injured.
[https://www-br-de.translate.goog/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/so-will-die-bundesregierung-islamistischen-terror-bekaempfen,VVOlnGh?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true br-de]
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The interview considers how much evidential weight can be placed on anonymous testimony when the identities, roles, access and first-hand knowledge of sources cannot independently be examined; the distinction between allegations concerning individual incidents and evidence of a systematic IDF policy; the legal significance of Hamas operating within a densely populated civilian environment; and allegations that Israel is being judged by standards not applied to other Western militaries.
How Propaganda Uses Emotion to Teach You What Not to See.
The Case of Jadallah Jihad Jadallah and How Narrative Framing Works.
GlobalDisconnect.
Sep 16, 2026.
There is something profoundly revealing about the way the story of Jadallah Jihad Jadallah has been told.
A Palestinian boy from the al-Far’a refugee camp was shot by Israeli forces on November 16, 2025. Al-Far’a is in the northern West Bank, near Tubas. This was not a story from Gaza or Hamas. The details surrounding Jadallah’s death came instead from the West Bank, from his own community, and from Fatah, the movement led by Mahmoud Abbas.
The death itself is not disputed. He was shot, and forty-five minutes later, he died. What is revealing is everything that followed and has been left out. His case provides a clear example of how narrative framing is created and how effective emotional propaganda works.
Propaganda does not always require fabricating an event. Sometimes the more powerful technique is to take a real event, select the facts that support a particular emotional response, place those facts in a carefully constructed sequence and narrative, and leave other relevant facts out. The audience is then given a story that may contain real images, real people and real events, while being guided toward a particular conclusion that contradict the very evidence right in front of their eyes.
[https://globaldisconnect.substack.com/p/how-propaganda-uses-emotion-to-teach GlobalDiscomnect]
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These 8 news outlets relied on terror group for casualty figures when reporting on Israel-Hamas war: study.
By Courtney Greenberg. Published Sep 17, 2026.
Major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Guardian and Associated Press, relied on casualty figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health, run by terrorist organization Hamas, when reporting on the Israel-Hamas war, according to a new study.
The findings showed a dependence on aggregate numbers from Hamas, limited citation of data on terrorist deaths and “disproportionate doubt directed at different sources,” writes author Tatiana Glezer, from independent research group Fifty Global.
“Together, these patterns support a narrative in which total casualty figures are treated as civilian losses.”
The study, _Selective Sources, Scrutiny, and the Absence of Standards in Military Conflict Coverage_, was published on Sept. 15, in the peer-reviewed journal _Digital Hate Review_.
Researchers found that journalists cited numbers from the ministry in 100 per cent of the publications reviewed in the study, whereas only three per cent of all articles reviewed cited Israeli data.
The Israel-Hamas war was triggered by an attack by Hamas terrorists, who killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023. Although the Israeli military began withdrawing troops from Gaza as part of a peace deal in 2025, there is still violence and unrest in the region.
The watchdog also said MAP was funded by the Abdel Shafi Community Health Association, which it described as founded and directed by senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, while previous Gaza partners included the Hamas-run Health Ministry and an organization funded by Interpal, a charity designated by the US Treasury over alleged support for Hamas.
The study focuses on 1,378 articles published from March to June 2024 by eight English-language outlets: CNN, BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Reuters and Associated Press.
During that time period, there were still living hostages in Gaza.
The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a US-based nonprofit that provides medical care to Palestinian children, also appears repeatedly in internal Hamas records. One document cited by NGO Monitor lists PCRF as a donor to a Gaza rehabilitation association whose board included two members identified as Hamas-affiliated, while others show the group operating under Hamas restrictions governing foreign medical delegations.
The study found that like the Gaza Ministry of Health, the outlets did not distinguish between terrorist and civilian deaths in their reporting. Articles rarely included data from Israeli sources.
“Estimates indicating a high proportion of civilian deaths may contribute to reframing a conflict from war to genocide,” according to the study. “In this sense, quantitative representations of harm are not neutral; they carry interpretive consequences that shape both public discourse and institutional judgment.”
The study suggests that a more comprehensive understanding of deaths during the war could be reached by including both primary sources: the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which provides estimates of terrorist casualties, and the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not.
The IDF said in 2024 that they classify terrorists as individuals who were killed while holding weapons, but did not provide further details, the study said.
Through its analysis, the study concluded that the Gaza health ministry “became the primary source of statistical information about the war casualties.” Neither the ministry nor the IDF offer data specific to civilian casualties.
The study also looked at which outlets mentioned that the ministry’s figures do not distinguish between civilians and terrorists.
Associated Press and The Washington Post noted the limitation in around 40 per cent of articles, whereas, on the lower end of the spectrum, the BBC and Reuters rarely did (about 1 to 2 per cent of articles).
“Overall, this essential disclaimer about the composition of the casualties appeared in only about 15 per cent of all analyzed publications,” the study said.
The outlet that most frequently mentioned the ministry’s affiliation with Hamas was the BBC, in about 95 per cent of its articles. Conversely, the connection was made in about 5 per cent of CNN articles, and in 2 per cent of articles by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Reporting without providing a fuller picture of where the data comes from can lead to one side being viewed as victims and the other side as “criminal or genocidal,” especially in the online discourse.
“These simplified narratives may, in turn, contribute to the spread of hate speech, conspiracy claims, and the amplification of antisemitic or anti-Muslim sentiment,” the study said.
The study calls for “clearer professional standards and greater transparency in reporting conflict-related data.”
Articles for the study were selected by a search using the keyword “Gaza.” Researchers manually extracted statements about casualties and used a coding system to categorize them. No artificial intelligence was used for those tasks.
[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/news-outlets-hamas-casualty-reporting-war-study NationalPost]
[https://archive.is/Wwyql]
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tlioxt JFeed]
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Iran struggles to reroute trade as US blockade disrupts supply lines.
U.S. Grants Iran UN Visas – With Conditions
Tehran has turned to overland routes to move goods after the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, but border delays and rising costs are hampering the effort, The Wall Street Journal reported.
David Isaac.
Sep 17, 2026
Sep. 17, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news/u-s-to-grant-visas-to-iranian-officials-for-un-assembly-with-one-catch-52049 JFeed]
[https://www.jns.org/news/world/iran-struggles-to-reroute-trade-as-u-s-blockade-disrupts-supply-lines JNS]
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Natasha Hausdorff discusses NAZA "documentary" allegations about IDF in Gaza.
UKLFI Charitable Trust.
Sep 17, 2026
Sep 17, 2026
A new documentary about Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has made serious allegations about how the IDF selects targets and assesses potential civilian casualties.
NAZA relies heavily on testimony from 24 anonymous Israeli military and intelligence personnel to portray a system in which large numbers of civilian deaths were knowingly accepted and artificial intelligence allegedly played a significant role in identifying targets. The IDF has strongly rejected that portrayal.
UKLFI Charitable Trust has not seen the documentary itself. This interview is based on published reports about its contents, the film’s trailer and a clip that has circulated publicly.
In this interview, UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director Natasha Hausdorff examines the allegations against the legal framework governing armed conflict.
She explains the principle of proportionality and why anticipating potential civilian casualties does not, in itself, make an attack unlawful. Hausdorff argues that assessing expected civilian harm before a strike is an essential part of complying with the law of armed conflict, rather than evidence of an intention to harm.
The discussion also examines one of the documentary’s most striking reported allegations: that an IDF attack was approved in which as many as 500 civilians could be killed to eliminate a single Hamas target. The IDF has described that claim as “completely false”. Hausdorff discusses both the evidential problems surrounding the allegation and the legal question it raises: international humanitarian law does not prescribe a fixed numerical ceiling for civilian casualties. Proportionality requires expected civilian harm to be assessed against the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated in the particular attack.
Hausdorff also addresses claims concerning the IDF’s use of artificial intelligence, including systems such as Lavender and Habsora. She discusses the IDF’s stated position that technological systems assist intelligence analysis but do not make decisions to attack, which remain decisions for human personnel. The IDF’s published account says each strike requires an individual assessment of anticipated military advantage and expected civilian harm.
The interview considers how much evidential weight can be placed on anonymous testimony when the identities, roles, access and first-hand knowledge of sources cannot independently be examined; the distinction between allegations concerning individual incidents and evidence of a systematic IDF policy; the legal significance of Hamas operating within a densely populated civilian environment; and allegations that Israel is being judged by standards not applied to other Western militaries.
Hausdorff concludes that the material described publicly does not establish the systematic policy alleged by the filmmakers. She also stresses that this doesn't mean every individual strike during the war was lawful and that specific allegations with identifiable dates and locations should be investigated.
References
Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, Article 51 - Protection of the Civilian Population https://ihl-databases....
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court [https://www.icc-cpi.in...]
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/tlinvi JFeed]
IDF Targeting Methods During the First Weeks of the Hamas-Israel War https://www.idf.il/en/...
The IDF's Use of Data Technologies in Intelligence Processing https://www.idf.il/en/...
International Court of Justice: Judgment of 26/2/2007 in Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro https://www.icj-cij.or...
About Natasha Hausdorff
Natasha Hausdorff is an international lawyer specialising in international law, foreign affairs & national security. She is Legal Director of UKLFI Charitable Trust and a sought-after commentator on the law of armed conflict, the International Criminal Court and international humanitarian law. She has addressed governments, legislators, international organisations and media audiences around the world on legal issues relating to Israel and international law.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c6IneL1NEQ YouTube]
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After Ed Sheeran Tour Ouster, Macklemore Pledges $1 Million to Gaza Aid Groups With Terror Ties, Watchdog Says.
By Debbie Weiss. September 17, 2026.
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An internal 2022 Hamas document cited by NGO Monitor described a senior Gaza employee of MAP as “affiliated with the Hamas movement” and working in “the positive,” terminology the watchdog said was used for Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The document also said he had “allegiance” to Hamas rule.
The watchdog also said MAP was funded by the Abdel Shafi Community Health Association, which it described as founded and directed by senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, while previous Gaza partners included the Hamas-run Health Ministry and an organization funded by Interpal, a charity designated by the US Treasury over alleged support for Hamas.
A separate 2021 Hamas intelligence document cited by NGO Monitor said a former employee of Anera, a US-based humanitarian organization operating in Gaza, “used to work as an intelligence source” for a unit of the Hamas-run Interior Ministry. Other Hamas records, however, described Anera itself as “not cooperating” with the ministry and said it had resisted Hamas financial and administrative inspections.
The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a US-based nonprofit that provides medical care to Palestinian children, also appears repeatedly in internal Hamas records. One document cited by NGO Monitor lists PCRF as a donor to a Gaza rehabilitation association whose board included two members identified as Hamas-affiliated, while others show the group operating under Hamas restrictions governing foreign medical delegations.
PCRF also has ties to the Holy Land Foundation, a US charity later convicted of providing material support to Hamas. The two groups jointly staged a 1996 fundraising tour, with 40% of the proceeds going to PCRF. After Holy Land was designated a Hamas fundraising organization and its assets frozen, it sought Treasury approval in 2004 to transfer $50,000 to PCRF.
MAP has rejected allegations of Hamas ties, while Anera says it maintains a strict “no-contact” policy with Hamas.
NGO Monitor founder and president Gerald Steinberg accused Macklemore of “blatant antisemitism under the thin facade of antizionism” and said his plan to donate to “terror-tied NGOs adds another dimension to this travesty.”
Some of the groups Macklemore pledged to “are well known as sources of propaganda that demonize Israel,” he said, with “links to the heinous Hamas terror regime.”
“Macklemore’s attempt at virtue signaling does nothing to build peace, rather the opposite,” he told The Algemeiner.
[...]
UNRWA itself has faced repeated allegations of Hamas infiltration. A UN investigation concluded in 2024 that nine staff members “may have been involved” in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and terminated their employment. In June, UNRWA fired 70 Gaza employees after accusations that they were affiliated with Hamas.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908958 JPost]
Israeli forces have on multiple occasions reported finding weapons, Hamas command facilities, and a 700-meter tunnel used by Hamas military intelligence beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters...
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/17/after-ed-sheeran-tour-ouster-macklemore-pledges-1-million-gaza-aid-groups-terror-ties-watchdog-says/ Algemeiner]
NGO Monitor
@NGOmonitor:
Macklemore and @edsheeran pledged millions to Palestinian orgs and challenged Robert Kraft to match the funding. But where is the money going?
3 of the 6 orgs @macklemore pledged to (MAP, Anera, and PCRF) appear in internal Hamas documents analyzed by NGO Monitor.
Sep. 17, 2026.
[https://x.com/NGOmonitor/status/2100525899070296312 on X]
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Terror-Loving Palestinian Reporters’ Group Is Behind Notorious List of ‘Journalists’ Slain in Gaza: Group Manipulates Western Orgs ‘To Pass Off Terrorists as Journalists’.
Fighting Terror.
230+ Terror Suspects Arrested in Two Months
Nahal Brigade forces have detained hundreds of wanted individuals and confiscated more than 100 weapons across Judea and Samaria in ongoing counter-terror operations.
Eliana Fleming
Sep 17, 2026
[https://freebeacon.com/media/terror-loving-palestinian-reporters-group-is-behind-notorious-list-of-journalists-slain-in-gaza-group-manipulates-western-orgs-to-pass-off-terrorists-as-journalist/ FreeBeacon]
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tlioxt JFeed]
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Despite Ongoing Conflict.
U.S. Grants Iran UN Visas – With Conditions
The US State Department approved a potential Foreign Military Sale to Saudi Arabia involving 48 F 35 stealth fighter jets valued at 24.3 billion dollars, moving the transaction to Congressional review despite intelligence assessments regarding potential Chinese espionage risks.
The State Department announced it will issue entry visas to senior Iranian officials, including President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, for next week's UN General Assembly in New York. But the delegation will face strict movement restrictions.
Sep 17, 2026
Sep 18, 2026 00:14
[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news/u-s-to-grant-visas-to-iranian-officials-for-un-assembly-with-one-catch-52049 JFeed]
[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news/us-state-department-approves-landmark-f-35-fighter-jet-package-for-saudi-arabia-52056 JFeed]
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Ireland says it plans to boycott Eurovision next year due to Israel’s involvement.
Sep 17, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-b03f-d361-a5f5-f2bfc2fa0000 JNS]
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‘Much appreciation’ to Israel for killing Hamas terrorist who abducted Omer Neutra, GOP NY gubernatorial candidate says.
Sep 17, 2026
Bruce Blakeman, the Jewish executive of Nassau County, N.Y., thanked Israel and its military for “bringing justice to the Hamas terrorist that abducted the body of New Yorker Omer Neutra, who was killed on Oct. 7.”
“Omer was an American from Nassau County, and his murder struck close to home for all of us,” Blakeman stated.
]https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-afa9-d2c2-adbc-afef45940000 JNS]
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NY state rep calls on police to protect Netanyahu during his UN visit.
Sep 17, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-afa9-d511-a1bb-ffb9029b0000 JNS]
[https://www.jpost.com/international/article-909011 JPost]
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Sending a Message to Erdoğan
Israel-Greece Naval Drill Amid Turkey Spat
Two Israeli missile boats and two Greek naval vessels participated in the exercise, which included emergency scenarios and threat identification drills in the maritime domain
Eliana Fleming
Sep 17, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news/israel-and-greece-hold-joint-naval-exercise-amid-turkey-tensions-52046 JFeed]
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The Ultimate Betrayal
Vance Tried to Help Clinton Beat Trump
Vanity Fair investigation reveals JD Vance reached out to Clinton campaign officials in 2016 offering strategic advice to defeat Trump. I hate Hillary, but I hate Trump more, he reportedly said at the time.
Eliana Fleming.
Sep 17, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/tlinvi JFeed]
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Hen Mazzig
@HenMazzig
In Milan 🇮🇹, a 51-year-old rabbi was attacked by 3 men while waiting for a bus.
According to Milan’s Jewish community, they identified him as Jewish by his clothing.
They allegedly surrounded him, cursed him, kicked and punched him, knocked him and his hat to the ground, and spat at him. 1 suspect has been arrested.
Antisemitism is not just words. It’s not just a few bad apples. Jews are being beaten in the streets
Sep 17, 2026.
[https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/2100653569607159887 on X]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433361 INN]
Milan rabbi attacked by three men while waiting for bus, police arrest one suspect.
By Yoav Etiel, Jerusalem Post, September 17, 2026.
A 60-year-old rabbi from Milan’s Jewish community was assaulted by three young men while waiting for a bus near the city’s Jewish quarter on Tuesday, according to the Jewish community.
A 20-year-old Tunisian man was arrested on suspicion of “religiously motivated violence,” while two other young men are suspected of involvement in the attack.
According to a statement from the Jewish Community of Milan, the three identified the rabbi as Jewish because of his clothing, surrounded him, cursed him, kicked him, and punched him. The community’s president, Walker Meghnagi, described the incident as “violence unlike anything we have seen.”
Meghnagi said the assailants removed the rabbi’s hat, threw it to the ground, stepped on it and spat toward him.
The rabbi managed to photograph the suspects as they fled…
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-908919 JPost]
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US sanctions Iranian financier's crypto exchange, says it processes Hormuz payments.
September 17, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/international/article-909009 JPost]
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Shin Bet chief Zini: We will hunt down every Hamas member involved in October 7, across the globe.
September 17, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908958 JPost]
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Terror-Loving Palestinian Reporters’ Group Is Behind Notorious List of ‘Journalists’ Slain in Gaza: Group Manipulates Western Orgs ‘To Pass Off Terrorists as Journalists’.
The embattled Committee to Protect Journalists relies heavily on the group for its much-disputed list of journalists killed in Gaza.
Adam Kredo.
September 17, 2026.
...The group, known as the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS), is led by a "pro-terrorist official" who has glorified "individual terrorists with blood on their hands" and advocated on behalf of imprisoned jihadists. The PJS is a Ramallah-based media union that cites "struggle against the occupation" as one of its core missions and has played an outsized role in seeding spurious claims that Israel is "silencing the press through killing." Two of the world's most prominent journalist advocacy groups—the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)—have relied heavily on PJS's research to build their widely cited lists of "journalists" killed in Gaza.
[https://freebeacon.com/media/terror-loving-palestinian-reporters-group-is-behind-notorious-list-of-journalists-slain-in-gaza-group-manipulates-western-orgs-to-pass-off-terrorists-as-journalist/ FreeBeacon]
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Arms Export Security.
US State Department Approves Landmark F 35 Fighter Jet Package For Saudi Arabia.
The US State Department approved a potential Foreign Military Sale to Saudi Arabia involving 48 F 35 stealth fighter jets valued at 24.3 billion dollars, moving the transaction to Congressional review despite intelligence assessments regarding potential Chinese espionage risks.
Eliana Fleming.
Sep 18, 2026 00:14
[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news/us-state-department-approves-landmark-f-35-fighter-jet-package-for-saudi-arabia-52056 JFeed]
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NGO B’Tselem report presents baseless claims of Israel dismantling Palestinian life in West Bank
September 18, 2026 00:00
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908992 JPost]
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US conducted 'tremendous terror,' worse than al-Qaeda, Hasan Piker says in Axios interview.
Piker, who has over 3 million followers and is one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, came under renewed attention due to his participation in campaigning for the Abdul El-Sayed.
September 18, 2026 02:07
[https://www.jpost.com/international/article-909011 JPost]
Far-left streamer Hasan Piker says US commits ‘pound for pound’ more terrorism than Al Qaeda.
By Samuel Chamberlain.
Published Sep. 17, 2026.
Far-left streamer Hasan Piker argued in an interview published Thursday that the US military has committed more terrorism than Al Qaeda, the Islamist network behind the 9/11 attacks.
“Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes,” Piker, a prominent surrogate for Michigan Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, told “The Axios Show” after being challenged over a recent comment describing America as “the top dog in terrorism.
[https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/SEPTEMBER18.P1_LCF.jpg?resize=1200,1324&quality=80&strip=all]
[https://nypost.com/2026/09/17/us-news/far-left-streamer-hasan-piker-says-us-commits-pound-for-pound-more-terrorism-than-al-qaeda/ NYPost]
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October 7 survivor to UN chief: Hamas planning the next massacre.
Tzav 9's Yael Savarigo hits back at UN Secretary-General António Guterres: 'We demand UN stop supporting terrorist organizations, focus on disarming Hamas.'
Israel National News
Sep 18, 2026, 10:23 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433360 INN]
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(Arab-)
Israeli accused of contacting Hamas, Iranian intelligence
Tamra resident repeatedly contacted Hamas, later established ties with Iranian intelligence before being arrested, Shin Bet, Israel Police reveal.
Uzi Baruch.
Published: Sep 18, 2026, 9:21 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433355 INN]
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IDF goes on heightened alert for Yom Kippur
Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir orders reinforcements across all fronts, with armed aircraft, missile ships and additional forces placed on standby.
Uzi Baruch.
Published: Sep 18, 2026, 11:18 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433361 INN]
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Yeshiva student killed in Hadera ramming.
Amichai Attia, a 12th-grade student from Samaria, named as teen victim killed in ramming by Arab driver; police say incident was criminal, not terrorism.
Israel National News.
Israel National News.
Sep 18, 2026, 9:02 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433356 INN]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433352 INN]
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Robert Kraft was right about Macklemore, the explanation was all wrong - opinion.
We should stop defending ourselves against the accusation and start challenging the accusation itself.
By David Zalik. September 18, 2026.
The problem was not Robert Kraft’s decision. The problem is how we explain it.
We removed the messenger from the stage without confronting the lie he was spreading. We focused on Macklemore–his rhetoric, his history, the hurt his words cause–when the far greater threat is the message itself. And in doing so, we inadvertently helped create precisely the narrative Macklemore and his defenders wanted.
Now the story practically writes itself: Macklemore dared to “speak truth to power.” He said what others supposedly do not want Americans to hear, and for his courage, a Jewish billionaire and other venue owners took away his microphone. Macklemore becomes the martyr. His cancellation becomes evidence of his righteousness. And Jews assume precisely the role his rhetoric already assigns us: morally compromised and willing to use our influence to suppress anyone brave enough to expose an uncomfortable truth.
We should stop defending ourselves against the accusation and start challenging the accusation itself.
Macklemore did not belong on that stage because he was using it to spread hateful lies about the Jewish state. He was telling an audience that the world’s only Jewish state is committing “genocide” and practicing “apartheid,” presenting those accusations not as arguments to defend, but as settled truths.
That is not the same as supporting Palestinians or criticizing Israel. Macklemore remains free to say what he believes. But freedom of speech does not entitle anyone to someone else’s microphone, particularly an entertainment stage before thousands who bought tickets for a concert rather than to hear a political polemic.
There is also a bitter irony in the outrage over Macklemore being “canceled.” Where was this defense of artistic freedom when American Jewish musician Matisyahu had concerts canceled after activists targeted venues over his support for Israel, creating security and staffing concerns? Macklemore did not lose his place because of his identity. He lost that stage because of what he chose to do with it.
The accusations coming from more than Macklemore.
And this is much bigger than Macklemore. He did not invent these accusations. He is simply their latest celebrity messenger.
“Genocide.” “Apartheid.” “Ethnic cleansing.” “War criminal.” We hear these charges on college campuses, across social media, in newsrooms, entertainment, politics, and our institutions. Repeated often enough, they enter our discourse not as extraordinary accusations requiring proof, but as established facts requiring allegiance.
That is where the Jewish community has missed something fundamental. We have become very good at identifying antisemitism and condemning those who traffic in it. We have been far less willing to confront the lies that make the antisemitism possible.
Dara Horn has articulated something essential about antisemitism: it does not operate simply as hatred or intolerance toward Jews. It operates through a recurring lie–that Jews are responsible for destroying whatever a society holds most dear.
That distinction changes the prescription. If we treat antisemitism primarily as intolerance, we answer it with tolerance: more education, dialogue, and opportunities to understand Jews. Those things have value. But you cannot cure a lie by teaching people to become more tolerant of the people being lied about. You have to challenge the lie.
And we must confront the genocide lie more boldly. Israel is not committing genocide. The accusation is false and outrageous.
Genocide is not a synonym for a terrible war, a high civilian death toll, or even violations of the laws of war. It is a specific crime requiring intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such. Intent is not incidental to the definition. It is essential.
Israel’s conduct matters too. John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at West Point’s Modern War Institute, has argued after studying the Gaza campaign that Israel has implemented more measures to prevent civilian harm than any military he has studied. That does not mean every Israeli decision was correct or every strike justified. But warnings, evacuations, and extensive civilian-harm precautions are evidence that must be confronted before accusing a country of intending to destroy a people.
The genocide accusation is a modern blood libel.
The original blood libel accused Jews of deliberately murdering Christian children. Its power came from transforming hatred into righteousness. Those who believed it did not imagine themselves persecuting innocent Jews. They imagined themselves protecting innocent children from evil.
The moral vocabulary changes. The mechanism remains hauntingly familiar. Today, someone can accuse the Jewish state of deliberately destroying a people and still sincerely insist–as Macklemore has–that he has nothing against Jews. He may genuinely believe he is standing against evil. That is precisely what makes the libel so dangerous.
Concern for Palestinian human rights, advocacy for Palestinians and criticism of Israel are not antisemitic. Palestinian suffering is real. Innocent civilians have died, and where individuals commit crimes, they should be held accountable.
But none of that establishes genocide. And compassion does not demand self-flagellation or self-erasure.
Jews should not have to accept the lie that Israel is committing genocide to prove that we care about Palestinian lives. We should not have to sever our connection to Israel to establish our moral credibility or repeat a blood libel against the Jewish state to demonstrate our decency.
Yet that is increasingly the moral test imposed upon us.
Accept that the world’s only Jewish state is committing one of humanity’s gravest crimes, and you can remain among the righteous. Challenge that premise, defend Israel against the charge, or refuse to distance yourself from the Jewish state, and suddenly your disagreement becomes complicity–and your connection to Israel becomes evidence against you.
That is not incidental to the antisemitism. It is how the antisemitism works.
Some argue that Netanyahu’s government or particular Israeli policies have made defending Israel more difficult. But difficulty does not turn an accusation into a fact. We do not have to support Netanyahu or defend every Israeli action. And distancing ourselves from Israel will not make American Jews safer; it only reinforces the dangerous fiction that Jewish safety depends on Jewish behavior.
We can defend Palestinian humanity without surrendering our own. We should not disavow Israel to demonstrate our decency or accept collective guilt for a crime Israel did not commit.
The answer to a blood libel is not to prove that Jews are good people. It is to expose the blood libel as a lie.
Robert Kraft is a hero for standing up. Now it is our job to stand with him–and fight the lies.
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-909016 JPost]
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-b42c-d1ac-abbf-b53d24b20000 JNS]
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Dave Portnoy backs Robert Kraft after Macklemore ban: 110 percent.
Barstool founder Dave Portnoy strongly backs Robert Kraft’s decision to ban Macklemore, criticizing the rapper’s politics and antisemitic history.
Israel National News.
Published: Sep 18, 2026, 6:58 AM (GMT+3)
[...]
Portnoy further pointed to Macklemore’s previous controversy involving antisemitic imagery. "Bob Kraft, I am sure, did what I did when I saw this, he researched Macklemore," Portnoy said. "It didn't take long to learn that Macklemore has a pretty shady past. He already, at a prior concert, dressed in wildly antisemitic tropes."
He was referring to Macklemore’s 2014 performance in Seattle, where the rapper appeared in a dark suit while wearing a fake beard and prosthetic nose. The appearance drew criticism for invoking antisemitic caricatures of Jews...
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433352 INN]
[https://freebeacon.com/democrats/el-sayed-gushed-over-hilarious-antisemitic-comedian-and-conspiracy-theorist-whos-mehdi-hasans-good-friend-zeteo-contributor-depicted-jews-as-dece/ FreeBeacon]
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Protesters tear down PLO flag in Amsterdam
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-909068 JPost]
Crowd erupts in cheers as pro-Israel demonstrators pull massive PLO flag from building overlooking Amsterdam’s Dam Square.
Israel National News.
Sep 18, 2026, 10:49 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433363 INN]
Netherlands: Thousands participated in a rally in support of Israel organized by Christian organizations that love Israel yesterday at Dam Square in Amsterdam. (September 18, 2026)
[https://abualiexpress.com/en/2026/09/ Abualiexpress]
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Dutch cinema drops Oct. 7 screening of ‘NAZA’
But Filmhuis Lumen in Delft will still show the film, which portrays Israeli soldiers as war criminals, on two other dates.
Canaan Lidor.
(Sept. 18, 2026 / JNS) A Dutch movie theater had scheduled an Oct. 7 screening of “NAZA,” a documentary widely seen as anti-Israel, but appeared to have removed it from its online schedule amid an outcry on Thursday.
Filmhuis Lumen in Delft, near Rotterdam, this week initially scheduled screenings of “NAZA” on Oct. 4, Oct. 7 and Oct. 11, making it one of the first theaters in the world to screen the film following its premiere last week at the Venice International Film Festival. The film won the festival’s Special Jury Prize.
The theater then dropped the Oct. 7 screening of the film, which alleges that Israel systematically targeted Palestinian civilians during the war against Hamas in Gaza. Israeli officials and others have dismissed the film as a mendacious instrument of anti-Israel propaganda. The change followed criticism online, including on Lumen’s Facebook page, over the Oct. 7 screening.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned “NAZA” as an “intolerable” and “terrible” film that “slanders IDF soldiers” and portrays Israeli soldiers as war criminals. The film was co-directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and named for the Hebrew military acronym for “collateral damage.”
Filmhuis Lumen did not reply by press time to a JNS query about what led to its decision to drop the Oct. 7 screening, which would have fallen on the third anniversary of Hamas’s massacres. Hamas terrorists and other Gazans killed about 1,200 people on Oct. 7, 2023, among other atrocities.
Oded Nir, a member of the Consulting Board of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, also known as Habithonistim, condemned the decision to screen the film on that date and said it was indicative of indifference in Western Europe to Israeli casualties.
Nir, an Israeli musician who lived in the Netherlands for 19 years before returning to Israel last year, told JNS that Delft was “a quiet and picturesque place. And as Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote in ‘Shir Betar’: ‘Quiet is squalid, an abandonment of blood and soul.’” Jabotinsky was a right-wing Zionist leader who founded the Betar youth movement in Riga in 1923.
Lumen has previously screened anti-Israel films, including “No Other Land,” “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and “Palestine 36.” It did not advertise screenings of recent films that represent the mainstream Israeli narrative, such as “We Will Dance Again,” “Screams Before Silence,” “One Day in October” or “Of Dogs and Men.”
https://www.jns.org/news/world/dutch-cinema-drops-oct-7-screening-of-naza
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WSJ report:
Kraft told Sheeran Macklemore’s Gaza claims were hate speech.
Robert Kraft told Ed Sheeran that Macklemore’s claims about Israel and Gaza were hate speech in a 40-minute call, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Israel National News
Sep 18, 2026, 8:18 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433378 INN]
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Iran is rapidly rebuilding a fortified facility at the Parchin military complex near Tehran that has been linked to past nuclear weapons research, according to new satellite imagery analyzed by the Institute for Science and International Security.
Satellite images from Sept. 13 show extensive reconstruction at the Taleghan 2 facility, including a large tarp covering the damaged underground structure to conceal work from satellite and aerial surveillance, the Washington-based research institute said on Thursday.
Construction equipment, including cranes, bulldozers, dump trucks and concrete mixers, was visible at the site, while new concrete reinforcement appeared intended to provide additional protection against airstrikes, according to the analysis.
Taleghan 2 was destroyed in an Israeli strike in October 2024 and subsequently rebuilt and hardened before being struck again in March. The institute assessed after the second attack that the facility’s internal structure had likely been destroyed.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-b3da-dea2-a5aa-bbdf2e260000 JNS]
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Germany: Afghan national arrested over suspected arson attack on synagogue.
German police arrest 37-year-old Afghan national suspected of setting fire to a synagogue in Wuppertal.
Israel National News.
Published: Sep 18, 2026, 5:53 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433349 INN]
Arsonist targets German synagogue ahead of Yom Kippur.
Sep 18, 2026.
An arson attack targeted the Bergische Synagogue in Wuppertal, Germany, days before Yom Kippur, the European Jewish Congress said on Friday.
At about 2 p.m. local time on Thursday, a man threw several bags filled with flammable liquid at a side entrance to the synagogue in North Rhine-Westphalia state and set them alight before fleeing, according to the EJC.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-b423-d627-a5b8-f72b83610000 JNS]
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Huckabee: International media may be Israel’s ‘toughest enemy’.
Sep 18, 2026.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday accused the international media of pervasive bias against Israel, citing an analysis of millions of news articles.
“Read the meticulously documented analysis of the bias of news coverage of Israel ... and you will find that the int’l media may be Israel’s toughest enemy!” Huckabee wrote on X.
He was referring to “Center of Attention,” published on Aug. 27 by Jeremy Musighi, a technology entrepreneur and investor who researches media coverage of Israel, and who said he analyzed 14.7 million news articles in 65 languages, as well as cable news airtime and data from X.
“Every news story follows a predictable decay function—it peaks, then is soon forgotten,” Musighi wrote. “That is, every story except one: Israel.”
Musighi said his analysis found unusually persistent media attention on Israel, describing the results as “staggering.”
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-b42c-d1ac-abbf-b53d24b20000 JNS]
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Or that Gaza’s population has grown 50% in the past 20 years, and didn’t shrink even at the height of the “genocide.”
El-Sayed Gushed Over ‘Hilarious’ Antisemitic Comedian and Conspiracy Theorist Who’s Mehdi Hasan’s ‘Good Friend’: Zeteo Contributor Depicted Jews as Deceitful Redheads.
Bassem Youssef calls 9/11 ‘the biggest false flag operation’ by Israel.
Chuck Ross.
September 18, 2026
[https://freebeacon.com/democrats/el-sayed-gushed-over-hilarious-antisemitic-comedian-and-conspiracy-theorist-whos-mehdi-hasans-good-friend-zeteo-contributor-depicted-jews-as-dece/ FreeBeacon]
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Hundreds of Jewish residents protest outside of NYC Mayor Mamdani's home.
Jewish protesters gather outside NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home after a spike in antisemitism in the city over the Summer.
Idan Kweller, Yoav Etiel. September 18, 2026.
Hundreds of Jewish community leaders and residents are currently protesting outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home to demonstrate their support for Israel and bring attention to rising antisemitism in the city.
The event was prompted by an increase in attacks on Jews this summer, which included a stabbing near a synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and a disruption of services at the Great Refrom Synagogue in August.
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-909068 JPost]
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Open letter to US President Donald Trump: Carpe diem - opinion.
You have made clear that America must win the artificial intelligence race. I agree. But another question must stand beside it: How does America win without all of us ultimately losing?
Jeffrey Kahn. September 18, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-908938 JPost]
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Serious Security Indictment.
Israeli Arab Arrested for Hamas Contact
Sultan Abu al-Hija reached out multiple times to Hamas's military wing and attempted to establish contact with Iranian intelligence operatives before his arrest.
Eliana Fleming
Sep 18, 2026.
[https://www.jfeed.com/crime-and-justice/tlkb86 JFeed]
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Live Updates: Yemen conflict displaces 112,000 as Qatar, UN agree to ship 1.3 million liters of fuel to Gaza.
Sharaa secretly building up Syrian military • Ex-Fatah official says he passed on Oct. 7 warning to Israel • Iraq lifts civilian restrictions in its western airspace.
Sep 18, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-18/live-updates-909020 JPost]
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The left lobs yet another ‘Big Lie’ on Israel — and the fallout keeps getting worse.
By Post Editorial Board.
Published Sep. 18, 2026, 8:58 p.m. ET
The left’s Big Lies about Israel keep growing bigger — as do the ugly consequences.
The latest: Rep. Gregory Meeks’ bid to place a “hold” on a $2.8 billion sale of US bombs to the Jewish state.
“The Trump administration’s proposed sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs . . . raises grave, unresolved concerns about how these munitions could be used in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon,” huffed Meeks; it’s empty virtue-signaling, since he can’t actually stop the sale.
How bad have the lies about Israel gotten?
These are weapons needed to destroy underground tunnels and bunkers; withholding them helps sustain Hamas and Hezbollah, though Meeks claims he backs Israel’s right to defend itself from the terrorists.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) likewise opposed the sale, claiming preposterously that “US weapons are being used to perpetrate a genocide.”
It’s all nonsense: Israel has never — never — used bombs indiscriminately or where it believed major civilian casualties were likely, let alone to “perpetrate a genocide.”
And there’s no legitimate fear it ever would.
These charges fit with a slew of whoppers in a new film, “NAZA” (an acronym for the Hebrew words for “collateral damage”), that the Israel Defense Forces used AI to identify targets in Gaza and carried out strikes knowing they’d mostly kill civilians.
Contrary to the vicious smears, the IDF never leaves targeting decisions to AI, nor would it proceed with a strike if it expected a high civilian-casualty rate.
What makes these lies especially heinous is that the precise opposite is true: Israel goes to lengths to avoid civilian casualties. [https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/opinion/joe-biden-and-world-media-are-relying-on-bogus-hamas-stats-to-smear-israels-conduct-of-gaza-war/].
Even as Hamas tries to maximize them by using them as human shields.
Urban warfare expert John Spencer, who’s studied the war in Gaza, reports that Jerusalem has “implemented more civilian harm mitigation measures than any military in history.” [https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/opinion/the-lies-behind-the-gaza-casualty-figures/].
That includes not just calling off strikes and diverting missiles mid-flight rather than skirt the rules of war, but also informing civilians in advance of an attack by phone and leaflets, using pinpoint targeting and more.
And it doesn’t just avoid casualties; IDF soldiers have actually risked their lives to protect civilians — from Hamas.
The military has also opted for ground attacks rather than airstrikes to avoid civilian casualties, even though it knew it would lose its own soldiers by doing so.
Of course, the charge of genocide goes way beyond lies like those in “NAZA.”
Along with Jayapal, countless lefties — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Brad Lander, Rashida Tlaib and on and on — fling the term with abandon.
Never mind that Israel could have wiped out Gaza’s population if it wanted to, nor that it’s provided food and medicine to the strip instead.
Or that Gaza’s population has grown 50% in the past 20 years, and didn’t shrink even at the height of the “genocide.”
Adolf Hitler defined the “Big Lie” as a fabrication so wild that people would believe it, not realizing anyone would “distort the truth so infamously.”
He pretended Jews used the technique; in reality it was central to the Nazis’ anti-Jewish propaganda.
How telling that it’s now deployed on a global scale against Israel.
[https://nypost.com/2026/09/18/opinion/the-left-lobs-yet-another-big-lie-on-israel-and-the-fallout-keeps-getting-worse/ NYPost]
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Michigan Mayor Sued Over Alleged Discrimination Against Jews, Christians.
By Corey Walker. September 18, 2026.
Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud speaks at a press conference in Dearborn, Michigan.
Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud speaks at a press conference in Dearborn, Michigan. Photo: Screenshot
Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan is facing a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing his administration of using taxpayer-funded city resources to promote Islam while refusing comparable recognition to Christian and Jewish holidays and retaliating against a journalist who challenged the disparity.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday by Dearborn resident and Federalist senior legal correspondent Margot Cleveland, paints a picture of a city government that, according to the complaint, was willing to spend public money celebrating Ramadan but repeatedly brushed aside requests for equal treatment of other faiths. The American Freedom Law Center, which represents Cleveland, alleges that Dearborn’s conduct violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution, including protections involving religious freedom, free speech, and equal protection.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/18/michigan-mayor-sued-alleged-discrimination-against-jews-christians/Algemeiner]
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Bid to disqualify Balad chairman: Dispute emerges within State Attorney’s Office.
Senior officials support disqualifying Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh, while the Deputy State Attorney has reservations and the AG awaits his response.
Israel National News. Sep 18, 2026
...an article published by Abu Shehadeh on October 8, 2023 - one day after the Hamas attack, while fighting was still ongoing inside Israel. The article appeared on Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, a website owned by former Knesset member Azmi Bishara, who fled to Qatar after being accused of passing intelligence to Hezbollah during the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
In the piece, Abu Shehadeh described the Hamas attack as "an important historic event from a military, political, and strategic perspective."
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433340 INN]
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US Representative: 'Ben Gvir in the Cabinet is an existential threat'.
Brad Sherman, one of Israel’s most prominent supporters in Congress, warns of a collapse in public support for Israel in the United States.
Israel National News.
Published: Sep 19, 2026, 10:32 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433398 INN]
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Last Selichot prayers before Yom Kippur.
Crowds gather at the Western Wall ahead of Selichot prayers, recited the day before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year.
Israel National News.
Sep 19, 2026, 11:12 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433402 INN]
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HonestReporting on X: "25 minutes of applause. Glowing reviews. A major jury prize. Yet, most people still haven’t had the chance to see “NAZA” for themselves. The film argues that Israel’s targeting systems and calculations of expected civilian casualties reveal deliberate mass killing. But assessing expected civilian harm before a strike is part of the proportionality analysis international humanitarian law requires. Something that literally proves the opposite. The IDF has rejected the film’s allegations. Yet the film's anonymous testimony is already being treated by some critics as a definitive indictment. Before the broader public has even seen the film, the verdict was already written."
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25 minutes of applause. Glowing reviews. A major jury prize. Yet, most people still haven’t had the chance to see “NAZA” for themselves.
The film argues that Israel’s targeting systems and calculations of expected civilian casualties reveal deliberate mass killing. But assessing expected civilian harm before a strike is part of the proportionality analysis international humanitarian law requires. Something that literally proves the opposite.
The IDF has rejected the film’s allegations. Yet the film's anonymous testimony is already being treated by some critics as a definitive indictment.
Before the broader public has even seen the film, the verdict was already written.
Sep 19, 2026.
[https://x.com/HonestReporting/status/2101401077585236147 HonestReporting]
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The Western Spirit - With Ariel Whitman: The Anti-Israel Film That Undermines Its Own Genocide Claim | Andrew Fox.
Sep 18, 2026.
The new documentary Naza has ignited controversy over its allegations about Israeli airstrikes, civilian casualties and the IDF’s use of intelligence and AI in Gaza. But Andrew Fox, a former British Army officer and researcher at the Henry Jackson Society, says the claims being promoted simply don’t add up.
Fox challenges the film’s anonymous testimony, questions the lack of verification behind its most explosive allegations, and argues that the very process of calculating collateral damage around military targets may undermine rather than support claims of indiscriminate killing. He also explains what actually happens when Western militaries assess civilian casualties and proportionality before a strike.
We also discuss the film’s reception at the Venice Film Festival, the psychology of groupthink around Israel, the consequences of publicly defending the IDF, growing hostility toward Israel in Britain, and why Fox worries that European sanctions could become the beginning of something much larger.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to the controversy surrounding Naza
02:09 The claims made in the Naza documentary and their credibility
03:51 Legal and ethical considerations of targeting military leaders
08:00 The role of lawyers and rules of engagement in Israel's military
12:02 The influence of social media and groupthink on public perception
16:03 International sanctions and their impact on Israel
20:13 The importance of critical thinking and independent analysis.
23:56 The psychological aspects of disinformation and social conformity
28:10 The future of Israel's military strategy and international relations.
[https://youtu.be/3-VY2Ew0CvY on YouTube]
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Houthis Widen Their Threats.
Houthi Official Threatens Turkey and Pakistan Over Support for Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti warned that the Houthis would strike Turkey and Pakistan if they intervene for Riyadh, as the Mecca defense pact faces its first real test.
Gila Isaacson.
Sep 19, 2026
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/tlmhh6 JFeed]
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US Embassy in Jerusalem issues security alert warning of travel disruptions.
The US Embassy in Jerusalem has issued a security alert to American citizens in Israel, warning of potential flight and travel disruptions amid rising tensions in the region.
Gila Isaacson|
Sep 19, 2026 23:58
[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news/us-embassy-in-jerusalem-issues-security-alert-warning-of-travel-disruptions-52135 JFeed]
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Iran says it has conveyed conditions to re-engage in talks, end war with US.
The conditions include ending the war on all fronts, unfreezing Iranian funds, and ending the US naval blockade, Iran's Security Chief Mohsen Rezaei said.
September 19, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-909123 JPost]
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Live Updates: Two IDF soldiers lightly injured in southern Lebanon, prompting retaliation strikes on Hezbollah
Turkey revokes operating license of Iran's Mellat Bank • Report: Pentagon's US-Iran war fatality accounting may be inaccurate • Iran reconstructing nuclear test-linked Taleghan 2 site.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-19/live-updates-909093 JPost]
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Gaza journalist Motaz Azaiza says he filmed hostage abuse on October 7 but hid footage.
Motaz Azaiza also criticized Hamas’s leadership over its months-long refusal to agree to a deal.
By Eli Leon. September 19, 2026.
Gazan photographer and journalist Motaz Azaiza said he filmed Israeli hostages being beaten by a Gazan mob on October 7, 2023, but chose not to publish the footage because he feared it could put the Palestinians involved at risk.
“I saw the vehicle of the Al-Qassam Brigades, and there were Israeli captives there,” Azaiza recalled. “People got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed. But I did not publish those videos. Why? Because I did not want to ruin the lives of the people who were filmed.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-909113 JPost]
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Houthis fire ballistic missile at Riyadh
Israel National News.
Sep 20, 2026, 12:05 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433404 INN]
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Max 📟 on X: "BOMBSHELL: Motaz Azaiza admits Gazans were hoping for war. "Let me tell you a secret. I don't know if you'll keep it in. A lot of people in Gaza were wishing the war would come." Why? "When a war or an escalation comes, the NGOs talk to you. There's a job opportunity." "People only know us through war." The most prominent "photojournalist" in Gaza admits that Gazans wanted a war because it would convince international organizations to give them money. Azaiza is the man TIME named to the TIME 100 and who was nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. CNN, the Guardian and Sky have all interviewed him. This is an Arabic interview from January 2025. There has been no English-language reporting on it, until now. 🧵"
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BOMBSHELL: "Photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza stayed up until 4 AM the night before October 7 to celebrate his successful campaign to get US taxpayers to send $75 million to UNRWA.
"I had a small celebration planned with my work. I'd be on a Zoom call. Because videos I'd been making Show more
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BOMBSHELL: "Photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza stayed up until 4 AM the night before October 7 to celebrate his successful campaign to get US taxpayers to send $75 million to UNRWA.
"I had a small celebration planned with my work. I'd be on a Zoom call. Because videos I'd been making in Gaza had succeeded. To pressure the American Congress to lift the restrictions on 75 million dollars for food through UNRWA."
"UNRWA was accused of supporting terrorist organisations. So they froze its funding in the American Congress."
"After a lot of effort, roughly monthly, you work, you produce videos, you film, you show the American public to pressure."
This is true: On October 4, 2023, Blinken overrode a Republican hold on exactly $75 million in Palestinian food aid, days before the attack.
And UNRWA USA states on its own website that it hired Azaiza to run its online content before the war, then toured him through five American cities raising money in 2025.
CNN, the Guardian and Sky all presented him as an independent witness to Gaza.
Motaz Azaiza was not a neutral, independent journalist. He was an UNRWA employee working to create propaganda to restore US taxpayer funding.
[https://x.com/MaxNordau/status/2101727527589060806]
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ANOTHER BOMBSHELL: Motaz Azaiza says young men in Gaza burned their own legs with iron rods to fake sniper wounds, so they could collect the cash Hamas paid out for alleged injuries at the 2018 "Great March of Return."
"He'd hear there were stipends for people wounded at the Show more
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🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza admits: "When I was young, I was Hamas. I didn't find myself in it, and I withdrew. I went into university, I wanted scholarships, and you have to go along with a particular faction, so, alright, I started being Fatah."
In other words: he ..
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Max 📟 @MaxNordau · Sep 20
🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza, explains how Palestinian Arab society treats dissent:
"We have a division. 800 Palestinians of ours were killed by Palestinian hands. They threw people off rooftops. They shot people in their legs. They burned people. Palestinians on each ..
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Max 📟@MaxNordau ·Sep 20
🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza explains why his entire wartime output was in English rather than Arabic:
"In the first moments I was speaking Arabic. It came from rancor. We tried a lot, speaking Arabic. Nobody helped us. And there are plenty who speak Arabic. You want ..
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Max 📟 @MaxNordau · Sep 21
🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza explains his reaction to watching Hamas terrorists with their kidnapping victims on October 7.
"People were looking at the kidnapped soldiers. Filming them. Some hitting them. Some spitting on them. And I'm filming."
"I figured: as a ..
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🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza on the Holocaust: "It means nothing next to what is happening."
The host agrees: Gaza is way worse, because the Holocaust was targeted, but the war in Gaza is blanket targeting that hits everyone.
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wait this Motaz???
[https://x.com/MaxNordau/status/2101723773657559043 on X] ([https://archive.is/KLCHt]).
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Abbas’ advisor invites Hamas who “killed and tortured” Gazans for “true national unity”.
By Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, September 20, 2026.
On several occasions, the PA and Fatah, and in particular Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, have called for unity with Hamas under the PLO. This month, Al-Habbash openly stated that they are “hoping” for this unity, particularly with Hamas:
Al-Habbash: “Arranging the Palestinian home is a top priority for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership. We cannot truly advance, or at least move matters forward, and protect the Palestinian issue without true national unity (i.e., including Hamas), under an inclusive national umbrella, which is the PLO…
We hope that all these efforts will lead to a response, particularly from the Hamas movement.”
[https://palwatch.org/page/42496 PMW]
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Hamas allegedly built weapons depots across Europe, planned terror attacks as Oct 7 anniversary neared
Fox News | 09/20/2026 | Benjamin Weinthal.
The German federal prosecutor’s office recently announced that it indicted seven people for allegedly securing weapons for the Hamas terrorist organization, with the goal of launching terrorist attacks on the second remembrance date of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel.
The indictment has catapulted the danger of Hamas’ network in Europe to Israeli, American and European installations and citizens into the spotlight.
According to the prosecutor’s office, "All of the accused belong to the foreign terrorist organization Hamas. Some time ago, the organization’s military wing (the so-called Qassam Brigades) began establishing weapons depots in Europe. No later than July 2025, Hamas planned a concrete assassination in Germany or Austria targeting representatives of Israel, people of Jewish faith, or persons with pro-Israel views." The seven suspects were arrested between October 2025 and May 2026.
The statement added, "The attack was to take place in close temporal proximity to the second anniversary of Hamas’s assault on Israel on 7 October 2023 — i.e., in early October 2025."
The indictment listed the nationalities and first names and first letter of the last name of the suspects: German national Abed Al G., Danish national Yousif C., Lebanon-born Borhan El-K., Lebanon-born Wael F.M., German national Ahmad I., Lebanon-born Kamel M., Bulgarian national Mohammad S."
German law shields the last names of criminal suspects for privacy reasons.
[https://www.foxnews.com/world/hamas-allegedly-built-weapons-depots-across-europe-planned-terror-attacks-oct-7-anniversary-neared Fox News]
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Australia’s intelligence chief: Antisemitism has risen to ‘disturbing level’.
Iran might target Jewish leaders in the country, ASIO Director-General Burgess said.
Sept. 20, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/news/antisemitism/australias-intelligence-chief-antisemitism-has-risen-to-disturbing-level JNS]
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Nearly 150,000 people participate in final slihot ceremony ahead of Yom Kippur at Kotel.
Also in attendance were former hostage Eliya Cohen and his wife, Nova survivor Ziv Abud, as well as former hostages Rom Braslavski, Elkana Bohbot, and Ohad Ben Ami.
September 20, 2026
Approximately 150,000 people participated in the final slihot prayer service at the Western Wall ahead of Yom Kippur on Saturday night, marking the conclusion of 2026's traditional gatherings.
The gathering began in the early evening hours and reached its peak during the central ceremony at the Kotel, with participants standing in the Western Wall Plaza and spread across nearby balconies and throughout the Old City's alleyways.
Due to the large number of participants, the gathering was also broadcast on giant screens at the outskirts of the plaza...
[https://www.jpost.com/judaism/jewish-holidays/article-909157 JPost]
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Thousands of IRGC, Basij volunteers march through Tehran in show of defiance against US, Israel.
Participants said they were prepared to take up arms and defend the country after months of war and a worsening economic situation in Iran, the Associated Press reported.
September 20, 2026.
The volunteers are intended to serve as an additional layer of defense alongside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij militia, which has played a central role over the years in suppressing protests against the regime
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-909151 JPost]
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Germany:
AfD scores another victory as Merz suffers historic defeat.
Israel National News.
Sep 20, 2026, 8:39 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433436 INN]
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UEFA rejects Ireland request to keep Israel out of future draws.
Israel National News.
Sep 21, 2026, 1:05 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433442 INN]
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Israeli murdered in terrorist shooting in Binyamin.
A man in his 30s has been declared dead after being critically injured in a suspected terrorist shooting attack near Neveh Tzuf.
Israel National News
Sep 20, 2026, 11:44 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433422 INN]
Terrorist kills Netanel Shakron, father of six, in Samaria on Yom Kippur eve.
“Today, six young Israeli children lost their father to heinous terrorism,” the Israeli government stated. “May his memory be a blessing.”
JNS Staff. (Sept. 20, 2026 / JNS) A Palestinian terrorist shot and killed Netanel Shakron, a father of six, near Neveh Tzuf in the Binyamin region of Samaria on Sunday, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said
[https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/idf-responding-to-reported-gunfire-in-binyamin-region JNS]
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Ben Gvir demands: Execute the terrorist.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir calls for the Terrorist Death Penalty Law to be applied to the terrorist responsible for the attack in Binyamin.
Israel National News.
Published: Sep 20, 2026, 6:50 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433434 INN]
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Chief Rabbi issues special Yom Kippur prayer for Manchester synagogue victims.
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis writes a special Yom Kippur prayer honoring the two victims of last year’s Heaton Park synagogue terror attack.
Israel National News.
Sep 20, 2026, 9:32 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433437 INN]
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Gaza strike: IAF slays Oct. 7 terrorist working to rehabilitate Hamas.
Muhammad Suleiman Byouk infiltrated Israel during the 2023 massacre, and throughout the ensuing war he planted explosive devices across the Strip to harm IDF troops.
JNS Staff. Sep 20, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/gaza-strike-iaf-slays-oct-7-terrorist-who-was-working-to-rehabilitate-hamas JNS]
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Report: Trump administration preparing sweeping sanctions against ICC.
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing broad sanctions against the ICC that could block most transactions and restrict access to US dollars.
Israel National News.
Published: Sep 20, 2026.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433440 INN]
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In the shadow of October 7: How Yom Kippur has changed for some secular Israelis.
The October 7 attack has affected all Israelis somehow. Some have questioned God’s existence. Others have gotten closer to religion, and sought connection to spirituality.
Sep 20, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/judaism/jewish-holidays/article-908575 JPost]
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Live Updates: IDF reportedly raids several areas in West Bank after one killed in Neveh Tzuf terror attack.
Trump calls off planned US strikes on Houthis at last minute after Saudi plea • Iran says it has new targets, weapons ready if US launches new attack, Fars news says.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-21/live-updates-909207 JPost]
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Funeral at 11:00 p.m.:
IDF tracker fired at terrorist, saving victim's son
Uzi Baruch
Sep 21, 2026, 8:14 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433445 INN]
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Watch: Thousands gather for Ne’ila prayers in heart of Tel Aviv.
Israel National News.
Sep 21, 2026, 10:07 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433451 INN]
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Netanel Shakron laid to rest after deadly Binyamin terror attack.
Netanel Shakron, father of six murdered at Ein Riya spring, is laid to rest in Alei Zahav.
Israel National News
Sep 21, 2026, 11:27 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433458 INN]
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Chilling:
Terror victim's son recites first 'Kaddish' at father's funeral
Israel National News
Sep 21, 2026, 11:42 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433459 INN]
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One police officer wounded in shooting attack near Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur
Ontario Premier Doug Ford also condemned the shooting in a post on social media, saying Jewish community members had "every right to gather and worship safely and without fear."...
The suspected shooter was identified as 29-year-old Sean Ward from the nearby city of Quinte West by Belleville Police Deputy Chief Sherry Meeks...
Synagogue president recounts shooting to CNN.
Synagogue President Norm Weddum told CNN that the officer, who had been hired to protect the synagogue during Yom Kippur services, had saved the lives of everyone who had attended the evening services and that the building had been hit with multiple bullets.
One police officer wounded in shooting attack near Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur
Ontario Premier Doug Ford also condemned the shooting in a post on social media, saying Jewish community members had "every right to gather and worship safely and without fear."
Sep. 21, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-909199 JPost]
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B’nai Brith Canada said the shooting outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario during Yom Kippur must serve as a “wake-up call for Canada.”.
3:42
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-c78a-d804-adb9-e7cac8310000 JNS]
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Canadian Jewish groups demand action after Belleville synagogue shooting.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and Jewish Federations of Canada–United Israel. Appeal called for immediate government action Monday in a joint statement following the shooting outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, during Yom Kippur services.
“Jewish Canadians are emerging from Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, to the horrifying images of gunfire outside Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, where members of the Jewish community had gathered to pray,” the groups said. “Jewish Canadians should not need armed police outside their synagogues simply to pray safely.”
Sep 22, 2026 4:22 AM
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-c784-d13c-abb0-e7b434e80000 JNS]
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Sa’ar slams Miliband over silence on Samaria terror attack.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday night rebuked British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband for failing to condemn the Palestinian terrorist who murdered a Jewish father on the eve of Yom Kippur.
Sep 22, 2026 4:44 AM
“We didn’t hear the part where you condemn the Palestinian murderer who killed a Jewish father in front of his son yesterday, on the eve of Yom Kippur,” Sa’ar wrote on X. “‘Strong values’?”
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-c7bb-dab4-afe1-e7fb4d870000 JNS]
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Ben-Gvir: Samaria terrorist must face death penalty.
Sep 22, 2026 3:28 AM
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Monday that the terrorist attack in Samaria on the eve of Yom Kippur was the first case to meet the criteria of his law that imposes the death penalty on terrorists.
“The terrorist is alive, and therefore this is a mandatory punishment,” Ben-Gvir said on X in Hebrew.
‘Yoav, run!’: Teen recounts watching terrorist murder his father.
Sixteen-year-old Yoav Shakron recounts seeing a terrorist shoot his father Netanel, fleeing under fire and returning minutes later to find him dead.
Israel National News. Sep 22, 2026, 10:04 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433474 INN]
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Katz: Gaza City to be ‘evacuated’ if Hamas kidnaps Israeli soldier or civilian.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the warning comes on the back of “various intelligence reports.”
JNS Staf.
(Sept. 22, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a stark warning to Hamas on Tuesday against attempting to kidnap a soldier or a civilian, during an address at a memorial ceremony for the fallen of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
“In light of various intentions and intelligence reports, I hereby warn the terrorist organization [Hamas] and its supporters, from Iran to [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan,” Katz said at the National Memorial Hall for Fallen Soldiers at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem.
“If even one Israeli soldier or civilian is abducted, the city of Gaza—with its homes and terrorist towers—will be evacuated southward of its one million residents,” he continued, “and it will be dealt with in the same manner in which Rafah and Beit Hanoun and 70% of the Gaza Strip were dealt with, until he is returned.”
He further stated, “This is the language that the jihadist terrorist organizations in Gaza and Lebanon understand, and this is the language we speak: evacuating the population, destroying the infrastructure, and taking the territory.”
[https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/gaza-city-to-be-evacuated-if-hamas-kidnaps-one-israeli-soldier-or-civilian-says-israeli-defense-minister JNS]
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Arab Israeli sentenced after filming Gallant’s home for Iranian agent...
The Haifa District Court also imposed two years of probation on Fares Abu Elhija, a 32-year-old resident of the northern town of Kaukab Abu al-Hija.
Sep 22, 2026 4:01 AM
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-c800-d6ec-a7e2-cc19f1b50000 JNS]
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Netanyahu offers condolences to UAE over death of Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Sep 22, 2026 4:33 AM
(https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-c7bb-dab4-afe1-e7fb4d870000 JNS]
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Trump denounces Iran as 'terror regime behaving badly,' during UNGA address.
By James Genn, Idan Kweller, Jerusalem Post Staff. September 22, 2026.
US President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, denouncing the Islamic Republic of Iran and praising the UN Security Council for approving the Gaza peace plan and establishing the Board of Peace.
"There is no better example of a danger that was allowed to gather strength at the world's peril than the number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic," Trump said...
Trump discusses horrors of October 7 massacre at UNGA.
"In two weeks, we will mark the third anniversary of the October 7 attack in Israel, where terror is funded by Iran, tortured, mutilated, and killed. 1,200 very innocent civilians, including dozens of Americans and many babies, little, tiny, beautiful babies," Trump said.
"Iran's supreme leader celebrated that massacre and called it a service to humanity. The same regime slaughtered over 72,000 of its citizens this year. Recently, 10,000 were killed for protesting," he added.
"Just imagine such a vile regime were ever empowered to carry out large-scale terror attacks from behind a nuclear shield; this was the reality we had to confront-a reality that far too many preferred to ignore. They all ignored it. Many presidents and many others just wanted to ignore it. They were unwilling to do anything about it, but they knew the problem," he continued.
"As a result of Operation Epic Fury, all 159 ships of their navy are now lying at the bottom of the sea. Likewise, their air force is gone, their radar is gone, their anti-aircraft equipment is gone, their missiles and drone manufacturing capacity is almost gone," Trump said.
"Their economy is gone. The only thing that isn't gone is inflation, which is destroying their country, and is now well over 300 percent," he said.
"Yet even after we agreed to a ceasefire for nuclear discussions, Iran promptly violated it with brazen acts of terrorism against civilian ships from other countries," he continued.
"I want to thank the UN Security Council for voting overwhelmingly to pass a resolution condemning Iran's despicable terrorist attacks on commercial shipping," Trump stated.
"That resolution, I'm pleased to say, received more co-sponsors from UN member nations than any Security Council resolution in history," Trump added.
"The United States Navy has recently escorted more than 1 billion barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz, and more oil is flowing than at any point since the start of the war," he added.
"But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world. Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?"
"Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations? But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election because it doesn't make sense for them not to. They're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election," he said.
"They're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election. What they don't realize is that I'm not running. I gave absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election when it comes to Iran. It doesn't even enter my mind. The only thing that does is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon," Trump stated.
"The cowards and traitors would love to say the United States is low in munitions, but that's not true. We have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using, and we're building them at levels that we have never done before," Trump said.
"I call on all nations to join us in enforcing the complete economic isolation of Iran until they stop their attacks on commercial shipping, relinquish their nuclear ambitions, and cease their support of terror," Trump stated.
"The terrorist regime is behaving badly. badly, not because they are strong and confident, but because they are weak and desperate," he added.
"If we stand united, we will soon see a world free of the last 51-year menace of Iranian terror," he continued.
Trump praises establishment of Board of Peace during UNGA address.
"One year ago, when I addressed the great leaders in this hall, the war in Gaza was still raging brutally. The hostages were still deep in Hamas tunnels, and there was no end in sight. It was never going to be resolved. But here, on the sidelines of the General Assembly, we took the first steps that changed everything. A few weeks later, we ended the war in Gaza, saving untold 1000s of lives. We also brought home all remaining hostages, both living and dead. Every single one of them. Thank you. Thank you," he said. [https://www.jpost.com/international/article-909318 JPost]
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Revelation raises questions about reporting from Gaza.
Motaz Azaiza says he filmed Gazans assaulting hostages but withheld the footage out of concern that Israel would identify them. He also revealed pressure exerted by Hamas on journalists.
Israel National News. Sep 22, 2026,
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433489 INN]
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Chinese Spy Linked Donors Gave Six Figures to 2 Top 2028 Dem Candidates.
Fang Fang is back.
September 22, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield.
The Fang Fang gang is getting bigger.
A California family gave over $4.4 million in political donations to Governor Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and other leading California politicians. And now, that family’s alleged past links to infamous suspected honeypot spy Fang Fang, also known as Christine Fang, and other Chinese government officials have thrust them into an ongoing debate over foreign influence in American politics.
The Yin family made millions running McDonald’s franchises in the Golden State — and became prolific donors to politicians, according to state and federal campaign records. Newly released FBI files about Fang describe the family patriarch Chei Chen Yin, commonly known by his initials “C.C.”, as a one-time professional associate of Fang through an organization he founded.
And national security experts tasked with protecting U.S. institutions from infiltration by the Chinese government say they have documented alleged interactions between C.C. Yin’s brother, Henry Yin, and the foreign influence wing of the Chinese government, the United Front...
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/chinese-spy-linked-donors-gave-six-figures-to-2-top-2028-dem-candidates/ FPM]
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‘I’m going to tell the truth about you’: Netanyahu fires back at Mamdani
Netanyahu blasts NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his accusations against Israel and vows to “tell the truth" about him during his upcoming UN address.
Israel National News.
Published: Sep 22, 2026, 2:39 PM (GMT+3)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, after Mamdani renewed his accusations against the Israeli leader and again addressed the possibility of acting on an International Criminal Court arrest warrant.
“Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani," Netanyahu said. “Shame on you for supporting the Hamas terrorist monsters who butchered our people. Shame on you for inciting riots against New York Jews."
Netanyahu added that he intends to respond further during his upcoming appearance at the United Nations.
“I'm coming to the UN. I'm going to tell the truth about our heroic soldiers, and I'm going to tell the truth about you," he said.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433483 INN]
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Russia spreads AI fakes claiming Jews are being paid to settle in Ukraine.
A record number of Jewish pilgrims traveled to the Ukrainian city of Uman for Rosh Hashanah this year, according to local statistics.
By Mathilda Heller. September 22, 2026.
Russia carried out a large-scale disinformation campaign surrounding the Jewish pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation has claimed.
CCD is a Ukrainian government body that monitors and responds to disinformation and propaganda operations directed at Ukraine. It is part of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).
[https://nypost.com/2026/09/18/opinion/the-left-lobs-yet-another-big-lie-on-israel-and-the-fallout-keeps-getting-worse/ NYPost]
[https://www.jpost.com/international/internationalrussia-ukraine-war/article-909326 JPost]
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Israel AG backs possible disqualification of Balad leader over October 8 comments.
Sami Abu Shehadeh called the Hamas attack "an important historical event from a military, political and strategic perspective," on October 8, 2023
Yuval Barnea.
September 22, 2026.
[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-election-s-2026/artc-israel-ag-backs-possible-disqualification-of-balad-leader-over-october-8-comments i24]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433340 INN]
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Israel Grants Asylum l.
Sued by Erdogan, Turkish Woman Wins Asylum in Israel.
Israel National News.
Türkü Avcı, a pro-Israel Turkish activist sued by Erdogan, has been granted refugee status in Israel over threats she faces back home.
Gila Isaacson.
Sep 22, 2026.
Israel's Advisory Committee on Refugees approved her request, determining that her pro-Israel activism and the threats she has received over her views could put her in danger if she returns to Turkey. The director general of the Population and Immigration Authority adopted the decision and granted her refugee status, which will be reviewed in about a year.
The decision comes roughly three months after Erdogan filed a lawsuit against her.
Avcı first came to Israel in 2021 to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After the October 7 massacre, she began posting in defense of Israel on social media, drawing the attention of Turkish authorities, who accused her of insulting Erdogan. The fallout left her stranded. She told Israel Hayom last year that she feared arrest if she went home, and that the family who had been paying her tuition cut off their support. On a student visa, she could not legally work.
Refugee status changes that.
"I feel enormous relief, because for a long time I couldn't sleep," Avcı told Mako. "The most important thing for me is that now I'll be able to work in Israel and enjoy the rights that come with it. I want to focus on my studies and make the most of the privilege I've been given to be in Israel."
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tlrmia JFeed]
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Argentine court orders eight suspects to trial for 1994 Jewish community bombing.
Seven Iranians and a Lebanese face trial in absentia for their role in the most lethal terror attack in the Latin American country’s history.
Etgar Lefkovits
(Sept. 22, 2026 / JNS) An Argentine court has formally charged seven Iranians and one Lebanese national with involvement in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in a historic legal advancement of the Latin American country’s deadliest terror case, Argentina’s Justice Minister announced on Monday.
The ruling, issued by Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas, targets the prime suspects who remain at large three decades after the attack on the AMIA Jewish community center, which killed 85 people and injured more than 300.
[https://www.jns.org/news/world/argentine-court-orders-eight-suspects-to-trial-for-1994-jewish-community-bombing JNS]
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-909113 JPost]
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