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| | Mohamud discussed traveling overseas to fight for al-Shabaab and later said he wanted to join ISIS. He also expressed support for a terrorist who killed 14 people by driving a truck into a crowd in New Orleans. He planned the Mall of America attack for an event scheduled for October 24 and targeted the mall because he believed its owners were Jewish and wanted to kill non-Muslims. | | Mohamud discussed traveling overseas to fight for al-Shabaab and later said he wanted to join ISIS. He also expressed support for a terrorist who killed 14 people by driving a truck into a crowd in New Orleans. He planned the Mall of America attack for an event scheduled for October 24 and targeted the mall because he believed its owners were Jewish and wanted to kill non-Muslims. |
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| | + | Israel’s economy continues to grow despite three years of war and mounting international pressure. |
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| | + | The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation’s leader criticizes New York City Ialamic bigot Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s October 7 message, saying Jewish New Yorkers should be able to mourn the Hamas massacre without having their grief turned into an indictment of Israel. |
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| | + | Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, condemns Mamdani’s October 7 message, comparing it to turning September 11 into a day of mourning for al-Qaeda. He accuses the mayor of hijacking the anniversary of the Hamas attack to condemn Israel. |
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| | + | Zohran Mamdani faces bipartisan criticism over his social media message marking the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks. Elisha Wiesel, chairman of the Elie Wiesel Foundation, discusses the controversy and growing antisemitism with Fox News. |
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| | + | U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee expresses anger over Mamdani’s October 7 comments. |
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| | + | The Haverford case exposes a pattern in which individuals use anti-Israel or anti-Zionist rhetoric, blame Israel for antisemitism, and promote Palestinian causes while concealing their identities behind anonymous accounts. The case involving religion professor Guangtian Ha highlights the transition from political rhetoric to explicit antisemitic threats, Nazi references, Holocaust rhetoric, and threats against a Jewish colleague and his family. Ha faces charges related to anonymous antisemitic threats and cyberstalking. |
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| | + | Hundreds of "pro-palestinian" demonstrators gather across New York City during the third anniversary of the atrocious October 7 Hamas attacks. Protesters at NYU and Columbia University chant slogans supporting the racist Arab "Palestinian" intifada, while demonstrations target Israel and demand university divestment. At Union Square, racist demonstrators surround an October 7 memorial vigil organized by Israelis for Peace, display images of genocidal [[Hamas]] leader [[Yahya Sinwar]], and chant slogans supporting Hamas. A demonstrator, for example, tells organizers that they do not want peace with Israelis and refers to the October 7 attack. |
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| | + | NYU radical professor Andrew Ross justifies the October 7 attack and promotes a conspiracy theory that Israeli forces supposedly killed some Israeli citizens during the massacre. |
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| | + | Signs displayed on buildings beside Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway target Zohran Mamdani with the message “Mamdani Go Back to Gaza.” |
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| | + | New York City’s consul general of Israel and U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee condemn Zohran Mamdani’s October 7 message, calling it antisemitic and accusing him of expressing sympathy for jihadist causes. |
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| | + | Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter condemns Mamdani’s October 7 statement as a series of lies and blood libels against Israel. Leiter accuses the mayor of defending Palestinian terrorism, promoting antisemitism, and advancing anti-Americanism. He criticizes Mamdani for attacking Israel with accusations and propaganda while marking the anniversary of the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. |
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| | + | Pressure mounts to bring those responsible for the October 7 massacre to justice as legal proceedings continue to drag on three years after the attack. |
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| | + | New York City Councilman Jim Gennaro criticizes Mamdani’s October 7 statement for turning remembrance into an indictment of Israel. He says the message betrays the victims, harms New York’s Jewish community, and distorts the history of the massacre. |
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| | + | [[Hezbollah]] activity under civilian cover has been identified in Froun, Srifa, and Zotar al-Gharbiya, areas the Israeli military is expected to leave under a U.S.-brokered agreement with Lebanon. Control of these areas is then supposed to pass to the Lebanese army. |
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| | + | Yehuda Avidan, director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Religious Services, recounts the first hours after the Simchas Torah massacre. He describes taking command on the morning of the disaster, enduring sleepless nights, and confronting hundreds of burned bodies and horrific cases of abuse. |
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| | + | The U.S. Treasury sanctions 17 vessels and their owners under Operation Economic Outcast in an effort to dismantle Iran’s shadow fleet. The action effectively neutralizes most of the fleet that remains. |
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| | + | Hezbollah’s external operations unit recruits foreign nationals in Iran and uses safe houses in Qom and Tehran to train and shelter them. Recruitment began five years ago among foreign students at Al-Mustafa International University. Recruits receive training in weapons handling, sabotage, cyberattacks, and espionage. The operation coordinates with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and targets students at the state-run university, which was established on the orders of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and has branches in more than 60 countries. |
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| | + | Germany’s Left Party agrees to measures addressing antisemitic incidents, meeting a key condition for coalition talks in Berlin. The agreement revives the possibility of a three-party coalition between the Left, the Social Democrats, and the Greens after the Left emerged as the largest party in Berlin’s state election with 25.7% of the vote. |
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| | + | Israeli Channel 12 reports that the Pentagon has ordered U.S. Central Command to prepare for renewed large-scale military operations against Iran. Strikes could begin before Israeli and U.S. elections, but no final decision has been made and no date has been set. |
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| | + | Hamas celebrates [[Oct 7 War|October 7]] as a "glorious" day while Gaza suffers extensive destruction from the war. Approximately 82% of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged, and residents face severe hardship. Popular protests in Gaza have grown but quickly subsided. |
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| | + | Nir Oz rebuilds three years after one-third of its residents were murdered or kidnapped during the October 7 attack. Around 120 people now sleep in the kibbutz each night, and more than 220 homes are planned. Burned houses, memorials, and painful debates over returning and preserving the community’s memory remain. |
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| | + | Israeli forces conduct an anti-terror raid in Nablus to prevent another massacre. Two reserve battalions and Nahal troops detain or question approximately 200 Hamas-linked suspects, seize weapons and terrorist funds, and demolish 14 memorials and signs honoring terrorists. |
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| | + | Former Gaza hostage Mia Schem recounts 55 days of brutal captivity, condemns rising [[antisemitism]] and pro-Palestinian supporters, and criticizes Drake over lyrics about Gaza. She continues to hope for marriage, children, and happiness. |
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| | + | [[SJP]] Students for Justice in Palestine chapters across North America commemorate October 7 by celebrating Hamas terrorists and others who invaded Israel to rape, torture, and murder civilians. The movement celebrates the attempt to destroy Israel and treats the deaths of Israelis as acceptable while presenting itself as a defender of Palestinians. These organizations support violence and war against Israel rather than peace, while Western media have portrayed them as peace protesters during university encampments. |
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| | + | Former hostage Itay Regev recounts being shot on October 7, making a farewell call to his father, and facing a terrorist who held a gun to his head. He recalls praying and feeling that God was listening. |
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| | + | Reservist Shlomo Efrati recounts identifying victims of the October 7 massacre and preparing fallen Israeli soldiers for burial. His diary describes mutilated bodies, traumatic memories, struggles with faith, and a terrorist’s body mistakenly delivered to his unit. |
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| | + | In Michigan, the central political issue is the exclusion of Jewish interests rather than simply the Jewish vote. Electing progressive candidates such as Islamic Abdul El-Sayed requires normalizing antisemitism and antisemitic candidates while silencing Jewish objections. |
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| | + | The United States warns Americans in Saudi Arabia about Houthi threats targeting airports. |
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| | + | The Israeli military kills two Hamas terrorists who left Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. One planted explosives that had been stored inside the hospital near the ceasefire line to target Israeli soldiers. The second, Muhammad Tammous, served as a Hamas sniper and also worked as a civil defense worker in Gaza. |
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| | + | Police arrest an Arab man suspected of setting fire to a sukkah in Jerusalem in a racially motivated attack during the Sukkot holiday. The suspect is a 52-year-old resident of the Old City, and police plan to request an extension of his detention. |
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| | + | A Bedouin man is indicted for supplying weapons used to kill a soldier. |
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| | + | Seventy-two people are arrested after Israel’s Shin Bet security agency exposes a terrorist network operating in southern Israel. |
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| | + | Israel receives its first U.S.-manufactured Iron Dome interceptor, marking a milestone in the defense system’s production. |
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| | + | President Isaac Herzog presents an award to rescuers aboard a Flydubai flight. |
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| | + | The Israeli military eliminates two Hamas terrorists in Gaza who participated in holding hostages and planning attacks against Israeli troops and civilians. Both violated the ceasefire. Muhammad Muhsen Nimr Yazji, a commander in Hamas’s Shati Battalion, participated in holding hostages including Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Matan Angrest. Muhammad Fawzi Muhammad Awad Gamal, a member of Hamas’s Daraj Tuffah Battalion, is also killed in a separate strike. |
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| | + | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets [[Paraguay]]’s vice president to discuss closer relations between the two countries. |
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| | + | Antisemitic hate crimes in England and Wales rise by 10%, with Jews experiencing the highest rate of targeting per capita. |
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| | + | Three people are indicted for selling a gun to the terrorist responsible for an attack at the Beersheva bus station. |
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| | + | Dutch Jewish author and journalist Jigal Krant says pro-Hamas demonstrators kicked and beat him until he bled at Utrecht Centraal, the Netherlands’ largest railway station. Krant says police left the demonstrators alone, roughly led him away, and demanded his personal details after he objected to the anti-Israel protest. |
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| | + | Israel’s Foreign Ministry reports continued Palestinian terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria after five Jewish shepherds are injured in a rock-throwing attack near Sebastia. Palestinians from Ramin attack Israelis in grazing areas. One 25-year-old man suffers moderate head injuries and is taken to hospital, while four others receive treatment for minor injuries at the scene. |
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| | + | Former hostage Noa Argamani returns to the Supernova music festival massacre site near Kibbutz Re’im for the first time since her abduction. She joins approximately 1,000 Christian leaders visiting the site and receives the Friends of Zion Hineni Award alongside former hostages Romi Gonen and Elkana Bohbot and Hila Abir, whose brother was murdered at the festival. |
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| | + | Pennsylvania’s Human Relations Commission condemns racist and antisemitic graffiti at a playground, saying it caused widespread alarm and distress in the community. |
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| | + | President Donald Trump endorses Mike Rodgers over Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, whom he calls a radical extremist and an unsuitable candidate for Michigan and the United States. The Republican Jewish Coalition calls El-Sayed the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in the country. |
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| | + | New York Governor Kathy Hochul condemns anti-Israel protesters who disrupt an October 7 memorial vigil at Manhattan’s Union Square, chant antisemitic slogans, and wave Hamas flags. She says Jewish New Yorkers deserve to mourn without hatred or intimidation. |
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| | + | The USS Abraham Lincoln returns from operations involving Iran following what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls a historic mission. |
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| | + | Israel assassinated Iranian navy chief Alireza Tangsiri (3/26/36) because senior Israeli officials feared he could become head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and prove a more formidable adversary than Ahmad Vahidi, who eventually took the position. |
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| | + | Captain Eliav Haim Tzapalamus, 21, of Haifa, is killed during operational activity in southern Lebanon when the Humvee carrying him overturns. Three other soldiers sustain minor injuries. |
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| | + | Gunfire near the Arab village of Qaddum alarms residents of Kedumim. Local security forces and Israeli troops deploy to the area. |
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| | + | Police commander Amir Cohen retires after decades in uniform. On October 7, 2023, he recognized that the attack involved a large-scale terrorist infiltration rather than only rocket fire. At 6:41 a.m., he declared a “Philistine invasion” over police radio, triggering the mobilization of officers and the establishment of defensive lines that saved many lives. He fought terrorists at the Sderot police station, sustained shrapnel and gunshot wounds, refused evacuation, and continued commanding forces before handling events in Ofakim. He was later selected to light a torch at Israel’s Independence Day ceremony. |
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| | + | The United States upgrades Israel’s ranking in its human trafficking report after five years in Tier 2. Israel now ranks among the world’s leading countries in combating trafficking, with increased investigations, expanded victim services, and new legal protections introduced under Justice Minister Yariv Levin. |
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| | + | Israel introduces new screening rules for foreign airline crews from countries designated as high-risk. Crew members will undergo vetting 48 hours before flights to Israel. The plan also includes lists of travelers holding passports from countries without diplomatic relations with Israel. |
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| | + | October 7 exposed Israel’s vulnerability and the dangers of the complacency that preceded the massacre. Israel must not return to that complacency or become a fortress state. It must remain strong, united, and democratic while confronting continuing threats. |
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| | + | Columbia University faces backslash after its dining menu features an “October 7th Blush Sauce” as a pasta special on the third anniversary of the Hamas attacks. The name triggers outrage and accusations that the sauce’s color refers to the blood of massacre victims. Critics call the choice cruel, disturbing, and offensive. |
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| | + | The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office indicts Muhammad Shalabi, a 22-year-old Arab pharmacy student from Beit Hanina, for planning terrorist attacks against security forces and Jewish civilians using explosives and deadly poisons. He is accused of radicalization following October 7 and the ensuing war, consuming Hamas- and ISIS-related material, and planning to use his pharmaceutical knowledge and access to chemicals to carry out attacks. His first reported plot involved plans to plant an explosive device where enforcement officers regularly operated near a mosque after he became angry over parking tickets issued to worshippers. |
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| | + | U.S. Ambassador [[Mike Huckabee]] rejects a New York Times story about David Milstein, a senior policy adviser at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Huckabee calls the reporting factually baseless, disputes its proposed account, criticizes its reliance on anonymous sources, and warns of potential defamation litigation. R' Steven Burg also condemns the newspaper, defending Milstein’s integrity and accusing the publication of using anonymous accusations and damaging insinuations to advance an anti-Israel narrative. Burg compares the treatment of Milstein to the Dreyfus Affair and says the reporting threatens the reputation of a Jewish American serving his country. |
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