Swords of Iron: sources IIIIIIII

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Introduction

Oct 7, 2023 atrocities, the thousands of "Palestinian" Arab Muslim barbarian (Hamas/PIJ, PFLP & ordinary Gazans) onslaught on southern Israel - under Allah Akbar cries: massacring youth at a festival, torching families alive at their homes, suffocating shelters with people in them, mass torture, mass rape - some even post mortem - all while laughing, slaughtering children in front of their parents - parents in front of their children, beheading babies, dismembering bodies, kidnapping kids, men women into Gaza while parading them to cheers of other racist Arab masses. It led to operation Swords of Iron.

Notes part I: Nov-27, 2025 - Dec 14, 2025 (Hanukkah massacre)

Iranian Funds for Hezbollah Are Flowing Through Dubai. U.S. is concerned as Tehran taps emirate’s money exchanges to rebuild battered ally By Dov Lieber, Omar Abdel-Baqui and Summer Said. Nov. 27, 2025.

Iran has sent the Lebanese militia Hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars over the past year via money exchanges and other businesses in Dubai, as Tehran seeks new ways to funnel money to its ally, people familiar with the matter said.

Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, is in desperate need of funds to rebuild and rearm its militia and pay other costs stemming from its bruising fight with Israel last year, the people said. Its smuggling routes through Syria were disrupted by the fall of the Iran-aligned Assad regime a year ago, and Lebanese authorities have made strides cracking down on couriers bringing suitcases of cash through the Beirut airport. WSJ

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Magazine N12. "They shout at us from across the fence: 'We will rape you, Itbach al-Yahud [slaughter the Jew]'": The relentless terror on the seam line. Life in the communities near the Green Line is being lived under increasingly severe threats, and they are not just the kind we have come to know. Thousands of Palestinians cross the separation fence every week, and some take part in terrorism. In addition, residents also talk about the constant sounds of gunfire, garbage burning that affects children's health, and even the teasing from across the separation fence: "This is terrorism in every sense of the word."

Gilad Shalmor. The main edition. Published:27.11.25, 14:41

In Jerusalem, the city with a wall at its core, there is another wall, devoid of charm or history . It separates the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority from the Israeli territories. A border that separates work and unemployment , and is supposed to protect against attacks. The fence is high, decorated with a wire, but some people manage to get in . "It's mainly an economic motive," explains Yehuda Noam, director of the Jerusalem area of ​​the Regavim movement . "It's almost twice the salary , and there is a very, very small minority that ends up carrying out the attacks, but that minority is enough to carry out a terrible attack like we saw in Ramot, for example," he adds.

Six Israelis were murdered in this attack by two terrorists who climbed the fence and jumped into Israeli territory, with the aim of killing, through a gap cut in the barbed wire fence by an unknown individual . "This is just one point out of dozens on the seam line, just around Jerusalem," Yehuda notes. The police presence is noticeable . Since October 7, Israel has been protecting the borders more with patrols and drones. But the procedure is that only when they are caught for the third time are they indicted. Until then, they are thrown out , straight into the Palestinian Authority territory.

"Ready to die for a livelihood"

Only 4 years ago we documented the separation fence, which was as perforated as Swiss cheese, in a manner that was completely Israeli . Tens of thousands of people entered Israel to work every week, mainly in construction, with tacit agreement , based on the concept that if money entered the West Bank, peace would be bought . But since October 7, the situation has changed , far fewer are able to cross the border, many are still trying .

The Israeli Security Service climbs the separation wall. "Ready to die for livelihood." Palestinian worker enters Israel over the separation wall.

"The fence has been closed since October 7," a Palestinian worker from Tulkarm tells us in a phone conversation. "They're passing through, I'm passing through too. We're going to work , we're not going to sabotage," he clarifies. "You have to climb the fence , I'm ready to die for my livelihood." Mako [1]

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Shocking NHS Scandal. "Worse Than Nazis": British Doctor Suspended for Antisemitic Rants and Hamas Support. British Surgeon Suspended for Vile Antisemitic Rants, Holocaust Denial, and Hamas Praise.

Gila Isaacson. Nov 27, 2025 03:59

In a shocking case of hate speech infiltrating the medical profession, British authorities have suspended Dr. Rahma Al-Adwan, a 31-year-old surgeon and trauma specialist, from her duties for 15 months amid an ongoing investigation into her inflammatory online posts, as reported by Ynet. The doctor, employed by the UK's National Health Service (NHS), allegedly spewed antisemitic vitriol, endorsed Hamas terrorism, and denied the Holocaust, prompting outrage and over 200 complaints from the public and Jewish organizations. JFeed

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The Hitler-Praise Playbook: How Arab Extremists Weaponize “Nazi” Slurs While [Secretly-or-Not] Idolizing the Führer. Suspension of Virulently Anti-Jewish Arab Racist Rahma Al-Adwan. Al-Adwan equated the Jewish State of Israel with Nazis — a vile blood libel — while openly supporting the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas. 11.27.25.

Shocking NHS Scandal. "Worse Than Nazis": British Doctor Suspended for Antisemitic Rants and Hamas Support. British Surgeon Suspended for Vile Antisemitic Rants, Holocaust Denial, and Hamas Praise. JFeed, 11.27.25

Asides from this racist al-Adwan's elevating the Nazis..

Fact: Every Arab-Muslim extremist who invokes the “Nazi” slur against Jews does so cynically, knowing it stings in the West — yet privately or publicly reveres Hitler. This tactic was admitted over 20 years ago by Neo-Nazi convert to Islam Ahmed Huber (inspired by the infamous Mufti al-Husseini), who explained: call Jews “Nazis” to demonize them in Western eyes, while Hitler admiration runs deep in Islamist circles. The same pattern emerged in 2014 when BBC Ramallah journalist Tala Halawa compared Israel to Nazis — then added: “Hitler was right”. The identical playbook was used by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, who “explained” Hitler’s actions as a response to Jewish “usury” rather than antisemitism — a classic Holocaust inversion to mask Jew-hatred.

This is not rhetoric. This is not criticism of policy. This is genocidal antisemitism disguised as political discourse.

Always the same playbook: Holocaust inversion to mask Jew-hatred.

Documented Sources & References:

1. Michael, George. The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, 2006, p. 115. [2] [W]e Muslims were fascinated by the Third Reich in the 1930s because Hitler had some ideas at the political level and the economic level, and the cultural field, which were very close to the political, economic, and cultural…

Even if now, of course, when the Muslims protest against America, they say Bush equals Hitler, or Sharon equals Hitler, they say that not for themselves, but [because] they know that it has an impact on Western public opinion.

You see Hitler himself had a quite positive attitude towards Islam… "After the final war the swastika will rule over Europe… We will help the Muslims in North Africa and the Middle East to reestablish the Caliphate."

2. Livingstone, David. Black Terror White Soldiers: Islam, Fascism & the New Age. CreateSpace, 2013, pp. 552–553. [3] Nada is the key conduit for continuing ties between the Muslim Brotherhood and neo-Nazis… appointed president to Al Taqwa by former Nazi Francois Genoud, who said: "My views have not changed since I was a young man. Hitler was a great leader, and if he had won the war the world would be a better place today."

Nada has also been associated with Muslim convert and neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, whose views were strongly influenced by his 1965 meeting with Mufti al Husseini.

3. "BBC opens probe into reporter after 'Hitler was right' tweet emerges." i24NEWS, May 25, 2021. [4] "#Israel is more #Nazi than #Hitler! Oh, #Hitler was right[sic] #IDF go to hell. #PrayForGaza," Tala Halawa posted in 2014 during Operation Protective Edge.

“These tweets predate the individual’s employment with the BBC but we are nevertheless taking this very seriously and are investigating,” a BBC spokesperson said.

4. Weimers, Charlie. "The EU’s response to the latest antisemitic comments by Mahmoud Abbas." European Parliament Written Question, Sep 21, 2023. [5] Mahmoud Abbas said: ‘They say that Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews… Not true. It was clearly explained that [the Europeans] fought [the Jews] because of their social role… which had to do with usury, money and so forth.’

5. "US and EU slam Palestinian president's remarks on Holocaust." Reuters, Sep 7, 2023. [6]

6. "Antisemitic Comments by Palestinian Leader Cause Uproar." The New York Times, Sep 7, 2023. [7] Just sayin'

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New Iranian cyber campaign targets Israeli officials with deep social engineering National Digital Agency exposes 'SpearSpecter,' a cyber espionage campaign linked to the IRGC, using WhatsApp lures, impersonation and a PowerShell backdoor to target senior defense and government figures Raphael Kahan | published: 11.27.25 04:09 YNet

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After outcry, Mamdani shifts tone on NYC synagogue protest. After backlash over rebuking Park East Synagogue, Mayor‑elect Mamdani toughens his stance, condemning chants of “death to the IDF” as “unacceptable, full stop,” while pledging to protect Jewish institutions. Israel National News. Nov 26, 2025, 4:22 AM (GMT+2)

New York City Mayor‑elect Zohran Mamdani has issued a stronger statement after sharp criticism of his initial response to last week’s protest outside Park East Synagogue.

The protest, organized by pro‑Palestinian Arab activists, saw demonstrators chanting “death to the IDF” and “globalize the intifada” outside one of New York’s most prominent congregations. The synagogue had rented space to Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that assists Jews moving to Israel. INN

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Air pollution in Judea & Samaria: Shocking data revealed in the Knesset. MK Tzvi Sukkot convened an urgent discussion in the Knesset's Judea and Samaria Committee following the spread of garbage fires in the area, which caused 1,400 deaths in 2023. Israel National News. Nov 27, 2025, 6:03 PM (GMT+2)

The subcommittee for Judea and Samaria in the Knesset, chaired by MK Tzvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism), held a special discussion today (Thursday) on the growing issue of waste fires in Judea and Samaria, particularly in the Na'alin area.

Representatives from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of National Security, the cities of Modiin, Yehud-Monosson, the Shoham community, and the Binyamin Regional Council participated in the meeting.

MK Sukkot described the phenomenon as "environmental terror" and said it was an ongoing and deliberate attack on Israeli citizens. He explained that residents in the area wake up to mornings with thick smoke in the air, making life unbearable.

During the meeting, representatives from the "Green Now" organization presented worrying statistics. According to the data, in 2023 alone, about 1,400 Israelis died from diseases related to air pollution caused by illegal waste fires in Judea and Samaria.

Sukkot pointed out that families are forced to close their windows, forgo outdoor activities, and even refrain from sending their children to educational institutions due to the fear of exposure to carcinogenic materials. INN

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Poll: Most US Jews fear Mamdani victory hurts New York Jewish security. American Jews express sharp concern over Mamdani’s election, with most fearing it will harm Jewish security and reflect rising anti-Israel sentiment in the US. Israel National News. Published: Nov 27, 2025, 4:05 PM (GMT+2)

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race has sharply increased concern among American Jews, according to the Jewish People Policy Institute’s (JPPI) November Voice of the Jewish People Index. In the wake of the election, nearly two-thirds of respondents (64%) said they view Mamdani as both anti-Israel and antisemitic - the highest share recorded by JPPI since the metric was introduced in July 2025. One-fifth (19%) perceive him as anti-Israel but not antisemitic, while a tenth (9%) believe he is neither anti-Israel nor antisemitic.

The survey, conducted November 14-15 among 745 American Jews registered to JPPI’s Voice of the Jewish People panel, found that the predominant emotional response to Mamdani’s win is concern (56%). Other emotions reported included hope (13%), fear (11%), and sadness (7%); overall, 84% of respondents chose a negative emotion in response to the election. INN

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Palestinian Authority TV again denies Holocaust for second time in a month Palestinians' "holocaust" is the real one; Jews' Holocaust has "many question marks" - Syrian journalist. Nov 27, 2025. PalWatch

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Year of ceasefire in Lebanon: 370 terrorists eliminated, 1200 targeted operations conducted. One year after the ceasefire with Lebanon began, the IDF says troops carried out hundreds of operations, dismantled terrorist infrastructure, and eliminated over 370 terrorists. Israel National News. Nov 27, 2025, 5:11 PM INN

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Spain officially announces: We will boycott Eurovision if Israel participates. Spain has officially announced that it will boycott the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest if Israel participates. The Spanish Broadcasting Union sharply criticized Israel, claiming that it "systematically violated the competition rules and used them for political purposes, while other countries are punished for doing so." The declaration comes one week before the decisive discussion regarding Israel's participation in the contest. Spain is considered one of the strongest and most significant countries in Eurovision. Ran Boker|11.27.25 YNet

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Tucker Carlson’s New ‘West’: A Civilization with No Room for Mainstream Jews. Carlson is not defending Western civilization. He is trying to redefine it into something smaller, harsher, and hostile to the very people who shaped it.

Micha Danzig. November 27, 2025

Tucker Carlson has spent years sanding down the edges of old antisemitic narratives and repackaging them as elevated commentary about “Western civilization.” But last week, on the Shawn Ryan Show, he aggressively abandoned the polish. What emerged was not just his open hostility toward Israel. It was an attempt to evict Jews from the very civilization they helped create.

In an alarming monologue, Carlson declared that “identity politics,” “tribalism,” and “group supremacy” are the enemies of the West — and he then added a new villain (at least for most self-described “conservatives”) to the list:

“It’s DEI, it’s tribalism… it’s Zionism. Netanyahu says he defends Western civilization. No. He’s its enemy — literally its main enemy.”

He went further:

“Why are the Nazis bad? Because they said we’re fighting these people based on who they are… and Netanyahu believes the same thing.”

This was not analysis. It was moral derangement — the leader of the world’s only Jewish state cast as indistinguishable from Hitler, and Zionism smeared as the twin of Nazism.

It is the oldest hatred dressed up in pseudo-philosophy. And Carlson is now its most visible American salesman.

Carlson’s “West”: A Civilization with Judaism Removed

Carlson cloaks his argument in talk about “the individual soul,” claiming Zionism violates Western values by affirming Jewish peoplehood. This may resonate with those unfamiliar with history, but it collapses instantly under scrutiny.

Judaism has always existed as both a faith and a people tethered to the land of Israel. And the West, itself, does not exist without Judaism.

The ideas of a moral universe governed by law, of human dignity rooted in a divine source, of covenant and equality — these are Jewish innovations. Christianity’s intellectual framework is built directly on Jewish scripture and philosophy. The American Founders repeatedly cited Hebrew texts as the basis for natural rights and the inherent worth of the individual.

To claim Zionism — the modern expression of Jewish self-determination — is anti-Western is like claiming the spine is anti-body. It is not merely false. It is an erasure.

And it echoes Charles Lindbergh’s 1941 assertion that Jews “distort American policy” and threaten Western civilization — a narrative Carlson now repeats almost word for word.

Projection Disguised as Principle

Carlson accuses Zionism of “tribalism,” “group supremacy,” and “identity politics.” But these traits define the “woke right” movement he has helped empower.

Nick Fuentes openly advocates stripping Jews of civil rights. Marjorie Taylor Greene promotes Christian nationalism. The “National Conservative” sphere defends ethnic hierarchy. White nationalist rhetoric about Jewish “control” now circulates across the digital landscape Carlson helped cultivate.

These are not champions of universal individualism. Along with the far-left, they are among the most identity-obsessed factions in American politics. Carlson’s charge against Jews is not simply hypocritical — it is psychological projection.

He sees in mainstream Jews what the “woke right” and the far-left are both championing: a politics of grievance, fear, and internal enemies. And, as history shows, it is always the Jews who get cast in the internal enemy role.

Manufactured Disloyalty.

A few weeks ago, Carlson railed against Jewish commentators like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin: “Give us the money for our preferred little country… You’re flirting with real backlash. Like a real one.”

“Backlash” is not an observation. It is a threat.

And it follows the same script used by Lindbergh: Jews are steering America to ruin, and if people turn on them — well, they brought it on themselves.

Now Carlson has escalated from warning of “backlash” to labeling Jews who support Israel — meaning the overwhelming majority — as enemies of the West itself.

This is how demagogues test the boundaries of acceptable discourse. And then push them.

No, Zionism Is Not Racism.

And Carlson’s Chosenness Smear Is Either Ignorant or Malicious

Carlson’s newest accusation is that Zionism is racist and premised on harming people “for the way they were born.” This is wrong on every level.

Zionism is not a racial ideology. It is a national liberation movement — no different from Greek, Irish, or Armenian self-determination. Jewish identity predates European racial categories, and Jews come in every pigmentation known to humankind. Israel’s Jewish population is majority “non-white” by American standards, and Arab Israelis serve across government, the judiciary, the military, and the police.

There is nothing racist about Jewish self-rule — any more than Japanese or Latvian self-rule is racist.

Carlson’s dog whistle about Jewish “chosenness” — paired with his attacks on Christian Zionists — is equally dishonest. Chosenness in Judaism is not a claim of ethnic or racial superiority. It is a burden of obligation: a mandate to follow moral law, not a license to dominate others. And unlike Christianity or Islam, Judaism does not claim that one must join the Jewish people to merit salvation. It is the only Abrahamic faith that does not require membership for a place in heaven — hardly the posture of a people obsessed with supremacy.

What Carlson presents as proof of Jewish exclusivity is actually one of the most inclusive theological frameworks in Western religion.

His smear relies on twisting a complex religious idea into something sinister, recasting Jews — and the Christians who support Israel — as zealots driven by visions of innate superiority. It is a distortion as old as antisemitism itself, repackaged for a new audience.

Why Carlson Needs Jews as the Villain

The far-left claims Israel “controls” America. The woke-right claims Jews “subvert” America.

This is the political horseshoe closed into a circle: the oldest hatred meeting itself on the other side.

And Carlson is working to become its most effective megaphone.

He needs a villain that unites both fringes. He needs a target requiring no evidence. He needs a narrative that flatters resentment.

And history has shown which group fills that role. It is always the same group — the one that rhymes with “news.”

The Real Threat to the West

Carlson insists the West is built on the dignity of the individual — and that Zionism contradicts it. But what he promotes violates Western values far more clearly:

Declaring a minority’s political participation illegitimate. Warning Jews of “backlash” if they do not alter their politics. Comparing Jewish self-defense to Nazism. Erasing Judaism’s foundational role in Western civilization. Suggesting Jews who support a democratic ally are disloyal. Dressing conspiracy rhetoric in philosophical language. This is not Western civilization. It is its dark mirror.

Carlson wants Americans to mistake that mirror for the real thing.

The Real Threat to the West

At a time when truly anti-Western forces — Iran’s theocrats, their fascist militias, and the campus radicals cheering them on — proudly chant for America’s decline, Tucker Carlson has chosen to target the people who helped articulate the ideals the West is built on.

Not the ones burning American flags. The ones who helped write the ideas those flags represent.

Carlson is not defending Western civilization. He is trying to redefine it into something smaller, harsher, and hostile to the very people who shaped it.

Because the West he claims to champion was built on Jewish ideas, Jewish texts, and Jewish moral philosophy.

If he wants a civilization without Jews, he is not defending the West — he is abandoning it. JewishJournal

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Palestinian Authority TV again denies Holocaust for second time in a month. Ephraim D. Tepler and Itamar Marcus|Nov 27, 2025. Two weeks ago, Palestinian Media Watch exposed that Palestinian Authority television hosted a journalist who insisted the gas chambers "narrative" could be dismissed with "very simple evidence." Now, PA TV has done it again. This time, the channel invited a Syrian journalist who said the war in Gaza is the "real" holocaust while the history of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews is a "game that Israel plays".. PalWatch

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Analyst estimates: Secret section in deal provides Hamas significant protection. Analyst Ohad Hemo explains why Hamas agreed to release hostages, even though it was their last card left. Israel National News. Nov 28, 2025, 3:04 PM INN

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My Word: UN Solidarity Day ignores Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries - opinion. Two years after October 7, 2023, to mark International Solidarity with the Palestinians, while ignoring what has been inflicted on Israel and the Jewish world, is particularly jarring.

By Liat Collins, November 28, 2025. This isn’t just a perversion of history. It’s perverted, period.

Tomorrow, the United Nations marks “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.” The date, November 29, was not chosen by chance. On November 29, 1947, the UN accepted the Partition Plan that would lead to the establishment of the State of Israel. The Arab world rejected the partition and declared war on the nascent Jewish state, hoping to swiftly eradicate it. This is the origin of the “Nakba,” the Palestinian “catastrophe.”

Choosing to commemorate one side of the conflict – the side that launched the war – and on that particular date, is more than cynical. It’s manipulative; a reframing of the narrative. It also deliberately ignores the other half of the story. Hence on November 30, Israel commemorates the expulsion of more than 800,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim lands who came to Israel. These are the Middle East’s most overlooked refugees.

Two years after the Hamas-led invasion and mega-atrocity on October 7, 2023, to mark International Solidarity with the Palestinians, while ignoring what has been inflicted on Israel and the Jewish world, is particularly jarring.

Thanks to the UN granting the Palestinians “perpetual refugee status,” the number of Palestinian refugees has risen in the past 70-plus years from some 750,000 to more than five million. So much for the charges of “genocide” by Israel JPost

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Israeli Student in Paris Shocked to Learn Her Taxi Driver Was a Former Hezbollah Fighter Frightening. Israeli Student in Paris Shocked to Learn Her Taxi Driver Was a Former Hezbollah Fighter A routine taxi ride in Paris turned into a chilling confrontation when an Israeli student discovered her driver was a former Hezbollah fighter, leading to a tense exchange showing the rising dangers facing Israelis abroad.

Gila Isaacson. Nov 28, 2025. JFeex

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Oliya Scootercaste @ScooterCasterNY: NOW: Black Friday pro Palestine protesters storm through ZARA store in Manhattan, police pushed the crowd away. Nov 28, 2025. X

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'Manipulated'. Videos of Jenin clashes were systematically edited. Following uproar surrounding Jenin gunfire, Israeli citizen analyzes video clips, finds them systematically cut and edited. Israel National News. Published: Nov 28, 2025, 12:27 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Israel signals to al-Sharaa as Syria decries strike as ‘war crime[sic]’; dramatic shootout footage released. IDF footage shows the Beit Jann arrests and the moment gunfire erupted on the troops: 'Terrorist! He’s sticking his head out'; six soldiers were wounded; Israel sent messages to al-Sharaa and prepared response options, while Syria called the retaliatory strikes a 'war crime' that killed at least 13; the suspects had been detained in their beds before the clash Lior Ben Ari, Itamar Eichner, Yoav Zitun | updated:11.28.25 07:23 YNet

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IDF: Terrorist eliminated after approaching troops near Yellow Line in southern Gaza. The Air Force eliminated a terrorist who approached troops in the area of the Yellow Line in southern Gaza. This was reported by the IDF spokesperson. Yoav Zitun|11.28.25 YNet

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IDF: 40 terrorists arrested and dozens of weapons seized during operation in northern Samaria. About 40 terrorists were arrested and dozens of weapons were confiscated during Operation "Five Stones" conducted by the IDF, police and Shin Bet in northern Samaria. This was reported by an IDF spokesperson, who noted that as part of the operation, hundreds of buildings were searched, dozens of kilograms of potassium intended for explosives production were seized, an operational apartment in the Tamun area was destroyed and tens of thousands of shekels meant to finance terrorism were confiscated. Elisha Ben Kimon, Yoav Zitun|11.28.25. YNet

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WATCH: IDF kills, arrests Jaama Islamiya terrorists in southern Syria, six reservists wounded. "All of the suspects were apprehended, and a number of terrorists were eliminated," the IDF noted.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob, Miriam Sela-eitam, November 28, 2025.

Soldiers of the IDF's 55th Brigade killed three members of the Jaama Islamiya terror organization in Beit Jen in southern Syria in an overnight operation, the military confirmed on Friday.

Jaama Islamiya, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, has been involved in several attacks against Israel since the beginning of the war, working alongside Hamas in Lebanon and Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. JPost

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Yamas members questioned over Jenin shooting of two wanted terrorists. Three Yamas fighters questioned after two wanted terrorists were shot in Jenin. DIP launched a criminal probe into the incident. Israel National News. Published: Nov 28, 2025, 8:58 PM (GMT+2) INN

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‘Unstable Syria’: Israel readies responses; Sunni terror group behind Beit Jinn clash. After the ambush that wounded six IDF reservists in southern Syria, officials say Israel will not pull back from seized buffer areas or Mount Hermon and sees no near-term path to an accord with Damascus Lior Ben Ari | published: 12.28.25 | 18:43

After the clash in which six IDF reservists, three of them seriously, were wounded overnight in southern Syria, Israel sent stern messages to President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government and began preparing a range of possible responses.

Security officials said there is no indication so far that al-Sharaa’s people were directly involved, but stressed the incident underscores Israel’s view that it must not allow hostile forces to entrench themselves near the border or withdraw from areas it has seized, especially Mount Hermon, and that there is no realistic path to an agreement with Damascus while Syria remains unstable. YNet

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Report: Syrian intelligence linked to attacks on IDF, Druze community. Israel National News. Nov 28, 2025, 10:05 PM INN

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Hezbollah leader vows response to elimination of chief of staff. Hezbollah’s Naim Qassem condemns Israel’s killing of Haytham Ali Tabtabai, vowing retaliation “at the right time.” Elad Benari, Canada. Nov 28, 2025, 8:11 PM INN

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German Chancellor Merz to visit Israel, meet Netanyahu. Elad Benari, Canada. Nov 28, 2025, 10:39 PM INN

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UK and Israel spearhead regional AI pact with Abraham Accords states. HIT and the UK Abraham Accords Group sign landmark MOU at the British ambassador’s residence to advance AI collaboration between Israel, the UK and Abraham Accords nations. ynet Global | 12.29.25 YNet

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Leaked Iranian Footage Reveals Devastating Precision of Israeli Strikes | WATCH. Gila Isaacson. Nov. 29, 2025. Shocking leaked Iranian CCTV footage resurfaces, exposing the razor-sharp precision of Israel's 2025 strikes that obliterated command centers and radar sites deep in Tehran's defenses. JFeed

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IDF uncover, destroy lab producing explosives during military operation in Jenin. Israeli forces also uncovered and destroyed weapons, ammunition, and several explosives during the operation.

By Jerusalem Post Staff November 29, 2025 19:35 The IDF’s Menashe Brigade located and destroyed a laboratory producing explosives during an operation in Jenin, the military announced Saturday.

The operation was carried out in collaboration with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). JPost

Elite IDF Paratroopers Destroy Explosives in Jenin | WATCH. Israel continues offensive operations in northern Judea and Samaria. Gila Isaacson. Nov. 29, 2025. JFeed

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Testimonies of officers who fought in Jenin revealed. Terrorists made suspicious movements during Jenin clashes, 'kept putting their hands down, made movements as if putting their hands in their pockets,' Border Police officers who were present at the scene say. Israel National News. Published: Nov 29, 2025, 11:29 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Father of last Israeli hostage: Hamas is toying with us and torturing us. Father of Yasam officer Ran Gvili, the only Israeli hostage still held in Gaza, speaks at Hostages Square, demanding Israel not move to second stage, rebuild Gaza, until his son's body is returned to Israel. Israel National News Nov 29, 2025, 9:13 PM (GMT+2) INN

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IDF pursues terrorist who threw iron rod at Israeli car in West Bank, driver not physically injured. The driver was physically unharmed but Magen David Adom paramedics treated them for shock at the scene.

By Efrat Forsher, Maariv. November 29, 2025 23:44 An individual threw an iron rod towards an Israeli vehicle traveling along Highway 5, near Mas’ha in the northern West Bank, on Saturday night.

The rod hit, pierced, and became embedded in the windshield in front of the driver. JPost

Miracle: Near-murder in Samaria. Terrorist hurls iron rod towards car traveling on key road in Samaria, striking windshield near driver. Israel National News. Published: Nov 29, 2025, 11:38 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Most X accounts claiming to post from Gaza are run abroad, ministry says. Analysis by the Diaspora Affairs Ministry finds most X accounts claiming to post from Gaza or the West Bank are actually operated abroad or from unverifiable locations, fueling concerns of coordinated propaganda against Israel. Itamar Eichner|Updated:11.29.25 | YNet

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Israel marks anniversary of UN Partition Plan. “Palestinians remain embedded in the rejectionist camp. It’s time for Palestinians to change their tune,” the Foreign Ministry tweeted. JNS Staff. Jews in the nascent state of Israel dance the hora to celebrate the United Nations decision to partition British Mandatory Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state, Nov. 29, 1947. Credit: Israeli Foreign Ministry/X.Jews in the nascent state of Israel dance the hora to celebrate the United Nations decision to partition British Mandatory Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state, Nov. 29, 1947. Credit: Israeli Foreign Ministry/X.

(Nov. 29, 2025 / JNS) The Israeli Foreign Ministry marked the anniversary of the Nov. 29, 1947, United Nations decision to partition British Mandatory Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state.

On that day, the U.N. General Assembly adopted the plan as Resolution 181, by a vote of 33-13 with 10 abstentions and one absentee. The resolution gave international backing for the establishment of the State of Israel, which was admitted to the United Nations as a full member on May 11, 1949.

“Almost a century now. Israel said yes to every proposal, seeking engagement & partnership. Palestinians remain embedded in the rejectionist camp. It’s time for Palestinians to change their tune,” the ministry tweeted on Friday.

The post was accompanied by a graphic depicting Israel’s arm outstretched for peace, noting that Jerusalem has accepted a long series of proposals to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A banner on the graphic added: “Peace was never their goal. Eliminating Israel is.”

The ministry noted that 78 years since the U.N. supported the establishment of Israel, “much of the Arab world is now in partnership with Israel. Palestinians are still making bad decisions”—a reference to the peace deals with Egypt and Jordan, as well as the Trump administration–brokered Abraham Accords, which normalized Jerusalem’s relations with four countries: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.

On Nov. 6, Kazakhstan agreed to join the accords, although it already maintained formal ties with Jerusalem. JNS

Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA: Since 1947, one truth has never changed: Israel chooses peace. Arab leaders chose war, terror, and rejectionism - again and again.

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Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA: 29 November, 1947. The United Nations supports the establishment of Israel. Almost a century now. Israel said yes to every proposal, seeking engagement & partnership. Palestinians remain embedded in the rejectionist camp. [8]. It’s time for Palestinians to change their tune. on X

PJ Media. Israel Roasts Hamas, Exposes a Century of Arab Rejection of Peace. Catherine Salgado | on November 29, 2025.

From the Grand Mufti’s alignment with Hitler to the Hamas charter, and from the Arab invasion of 1948 to the Oct. 7 massacre, Israel has always tried to choose peace, and the Muslim Arabs have always insisted on destroying it.

The Israeli foreign ministry packed nearly a hundred years of Arabs rejecting peace to destroy Israel into a little over a minute of hard-hitting video. Israel is not the reason Hamas has repeatedly violated the ceasefire or the Palestinian Authority is still rewarding terrorists through pay-for-slay. This conflict has roots going all the way back to the founding of Islam and its inherent command to Jihad.

An Israeli ambassador and government spokesman struck a humorous note when mocking Hamas propaganda for Black Friday below, but the results of Hamas lies are the opposite of hilarious. The terrorists are trying to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, while simultaneously convincing many nations that they are the victims. Yasser Arafat (above) invented the “Palestinian people” for propaganda purposes, and unfortunately, it was a wildly successful gambit.

A cycle emerged even before Israel’s modern rebirth on the lands it held in ancient times by God’s divine grant (Joshua 1:4, Genesis 17:8), centuries before Islam was invented. From the early 20th century on, and especially after Israel’s re-founding, the Muslim Arabs are always offered a deal more favorable to them than to the Jews (hence the creation of Jordan). The Arabs refuse the deal, and immediately or soon after launch a war against Israel.

Eventually, Israel either wins the war or grows tired of fighting, and offers the Arabs another favorable deal. The Arabs refuse that deal in part or in whole, and prepare for the next war. This is the unending cycle that has always gone on for the last century, and that will continue to go on as long as most of the world backs false Muslim claims to Israeli land.

It is rather astounding to consider that the Muslims who now call themselves Palestinians were already given their own state — Jordan — so many years ago, that Muslim nations outnumber the single Jewish nation 50 to one, that the Muslims commit all of the mass atrocities, and that Israel goes out of its way to try and conciliate its genocidal enemies, and yet even many Americans are against Israel. This truly is one of those very rare instances in history where one side is clearly in the right and the other clearly in the wrong. But even most of the West is on the wrong side. PJmedia

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Islamic Jihad Official In Lebanon Abu Samer Musa On Hizbullah TV: Even Hitler Said Jews Must Be Erased From The Face Of The Earth; I Am Against The Jews Who Occupied Palestine - There Should Be NoNegotiations With Them, They Should Be Killed. Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Plj) official Abu Samer Musa said in a November 29, 2025 appearance on Al-Manar TV Source: Al-Manar TV (Lebanon)

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Washington Post Goes to Bat for Hamas-Linked CAIR. R. Spencer | 6:12 PM on November 30, 2025

One thing you can say about the left: they almost always take care of their own. While many establishment Republicans and self-professed conservatives have been all too willing over the years to throw their compatriots under the bus at the slightest sign of leftist disapproval, leftists generally tend to stand by any of their number who is in trouble. The targeted leftist, meanwhile, can always count on the left’s media establishment to rush to his or her or xis defense and to defame any of the leftist’s patriotic critics as hateful, bigoted, and racist. PJmedia

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Manchester synagogue survivor: I felt evil radiating from attacker. Gabriella Swerling, Telegraph, November 30, 2025.

A survivor of the Manchester synagogue terror attack has said he could feel evil “radiating” from the killer.

Jihad al-Shamie, a 35-year-old Syrian-born UK citizen, drove his car into the gates of Heaton Park synagogue on Oct 2. He then began attacking people with a knife, while wearing a fake suicide belt, and tried to break into the building.

Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed, while Yoni Finlay, 39, was among three men treated for serious injuries after the attack which took place on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.

Mr Finlay, who was among those who barricaded the doors of the synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, preventing Shamie from claiming more victims, has now spoken about his ordeal and revealed he is struggling with “a huge amount of guilt”.

A police bullet punctured and collapsed his left lung and he spent seven hours in surgery for his injuries. Doctors repaired damage to his lung, diaphragm and kidney and removed part of his bowel.

The bullet is thought to have passed through Shamie’s body, then the door of the synagogue before puncturing Mr Finlay’s chest. It passed through his body and hit Mr Daulby in the chest, killing him. Mr Cravitz was stabbed outside the synagogue by Shamie.

Speaking about the attack, Mr Findlay revealed that he had been finding it “really difficult” and was struggling with “a huge amount of guilt”.

He told The Sunday Times: “I believe there is light and there is darkness, and there was a huge amount of darkness that day. I have never been that close to evil. You could feel it radiating off him [al-Shamie].”…

At the time of deadly attack, Shamie, who was born in Syria but moved to Britain as a child, was on bail after being arrested on suspicion of rape.

Police revealed after the attack that he had called 999 and pledged allegiance to Islamic State during his deadly assault. Yahoo

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Unfulfilled commitments: PA continues to transfer payments to terrorists. Israel National News. Nov 30, 2025, 8:45 AM INN

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IDF: Chief of Staff orders investigation of Hamas massacre plan. Israel National News. Nov 30, 2025, 7:51 AM INN

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Sensitive info may be leaked to Hezbollah through UNIFIL. The IDF has expressed deep concern in recent weeks over the possible leakage of sensitive information and valuable intelligence to Hezbollah via UNIFIL personnel operating along the northern border. Israel National News. Nov 30, 2025, 8:35 AM INN

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Unknown Enemy: The Terror Group Most Israelis Don't Know—But Now Target—After Deadly Encounter. The IDF suffered six wounded soldiers in a fierce encounter with the Al-Jama'ah Al-Islamiyyah terror group during an operation in Syria, forcing the military to focus on the independent Sunni-Islamist movement that cooperates closely with Hezbollah and Hamas.

Eliana Fleming. Nov 30, 2025.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have marked a little-known but powerful group, Al-Jama'ah Al-Islamiyyah (The Islamic Group), as a key target in Syria after a recent counterterrorism operation ended in a fierce firefight, wounding six Israeli soldiers, three of them seriously. While most Israelis are unfamiliar with the name, the organization is one of the region's oldest and most active terrorist groups operating against Israel. JFeed

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Ambush in Syria: dozens of terrorists trap IDF unit, senior officers wounded | New details. Eight minutes after capturing a terror cell leader in Beit Jinn, reservists came under intense fire; junior troops took command, directing point-blank battles; up to 20 gunmen killed as aerial and artillery support called in. Yoav Zitun|11.30.25 YNet

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The attack in Samaria: "He threw an axe. I froze, I couldn't speak". An attack, which ended without any significant casualties, was carried out last night (Saturday) on Highway 5, when the IDF launched a pursuit and began making arrests. One of the victims recalled the moments of fear in a conversation with the "Morning News" team: "I felt what it was like to be hit by such predatory animals."

Morning news. Mako. Published:30.11.25, 00:33

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Attack in Samaria in which three women were slightly injured: Last night (Saturday), a terrorist threw an iron rod at a car traveling near the Gitti Avissar intersection on Highway 5 "Crossing Samaria." The rod the terrorist threw was embedded in the windshield of the vehicle, very close to the driver's seat.

"I went to visit friends in the settlement of Einav near Kedumim, and when I returned with girls who had gone to the area I needed, it happened. When I was at the Defense Ministry after what happened, they said that always on evenings the Palestinians tend to throw stones at night because they know that people are returning from families and they want to harm Jews," recalled Meital Azariahu, who was slightly injured, in a conversation with the "Morning News" editorial team.

What happened there? "My friend Merav was driving, there were cars but not many. I saw something echoing in the car, that something was going to explode and I told her to be careful. I saw like a child, a teenager, not an adult, who threw an axe handle that went through the windshield and everything exploded. We stopped driving. She wasn't afraid, she thought the car would be destroyed. She opened the door and I noticed glass on her legs, I took them out, it was a small injury. I was in shock, I had a concussion and couldn't speak. I felt like my body was being beaten and I went outside. Soldiers calmed me down."

Did you fear for your life? "Very much, I've never felt what it's like to be harmed by such predatory animals. He was right, it's really unbelievable."

In a conversation this morning with Niv Raskin, Azariahu added more details from the incident: "I didn't sleep that much last night, trying to digest. Yesterday I was a panic attack with glass in my legs, but nothing serious." Regarding the moments of fear, she said, "We felt like the car was hijacked, the windshield shattered. The terrorist didn't reach us, he threw it quickly. We felt that the Creator was protecting us." Mako

Samaria attack: 'He threw an iron rod, I froze. I couldn't talk'. Meital Azariah was lightly hurt when a teenager threw an iron rod that shattered her windshield near Giti Avishar junction. “It’s unbelievable; we felt God protected us,” she recounted. Israel National News. Nov 30, 2025, 12:25 PM (GMT+2)

A terrorist last night threw an iron rod at a car driving near the Giti Avishar junction on Route 5, the “Cross Samaria” road. The rod pierced the vehicle’s windshield, very close to the driver’s seat.

The driver, Meital Azariah, was lightly injured in the incident.

The attack occurred as Azariah was returning from Einav, a village near Kdumim, accompanied by other young women. “When I was at the Defense Ministry after what happened, they said that Palestinian Arabs tend to attack at night because they know people are returning from family visits, and they want to harm Jews,” Azariah told Morning News. INN

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Murad Awawdeh is President & CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, a nationally acclaimed strategist and organizer, and the son of Arab "Palestinian" immigrants. He has been invited by Mamdani to be on his transition team, focused on immigration. Dec 1, 2025 at EoZ

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Oxford Union picks first Palestinian president amid controversy. Oxford Union elected Arwa Elrayess as its first Palestinian president, a win shaped by past controversies, activism, and debate over her statements.

By Mathilda Heller. November 30, 2025.

The Oxford Student Union is set to have a Palestinian president for the first time, after second-year PPE student Arwa Hanin Elrayess was elected for Trinity Term 2026.

Her election follows a stormy term for the Union after the previous president-elect, George Abaraonye, was ousted for celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk (he posted a message on Instagram which read “Charlie Kirk got shot loool”).

Elrayess is not uncontroversial. In a union committee meeting to discuss a no-confidence vote on Abaraonye, Elrayess said, “Alumni are racist and are incapable of making a rational judgment,” and called for them to be disenfranchised. She said that, because alumni members of the union were “racist,” they would therefore vote against then-president-elect Abaraonye.

Gaza was mentioned in Elrayess’ manifesto. In it, she referred to the union as “the only place where freedom is not just protected but encouraged.” JPost

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The truth behind the video that was viewed 4 million times on Instagram. "A dangerous step up": The influence campaign of pro-Palestinian celebrities. Sophisticated pro-Palestinian groups are waging psychological warfare by impersonating popular celebrities, forging content with advanced deepfake AI technology, and building fake credibility over time, Israeli company Vetric reveals. The method relies on exploiting the emotional connection between a fan and a star to instill extremist political messages, which results in the lies being spread authentically by real users. Here’s how it works

Dana Gutterson. Mako. Published:30.11.25, 08:57| Updated:30.11.25, 23:00 ([10]. Pro-Palestinian impersonation campaign | Photo: From social networks according to Section 27A of the Copyright Law).

In recent months, a disturbing picture of a new battleground in the digital space has emerged. Organized pro-Palestinian networks have adopted advanced psychological warfare tactics based on deception, impersonation, and advanced technology, according to a study by Israeli company Vetric, which provides a data infrastructure for analyzing public information that helps identify predictions, fake news, and suspicious activity online.

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According to the company, “in contrast to past attempts that relied on armies of simple, anonymous bots, the current campaign marks a dangerous escalation.” It is characterized by the cynical and sophisticated use of stolen identities of key cultural assets, such as fan pages of soccer stars from Europe’s top leagues, edited videos and photos of top YouTubers and major influencers, to make it appear that they support the Palestinians – which they neither did nor have done.

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The infrastructure that has been exposed is not accidental or sporadic. It is operated by pro-Palestinian ideological groups that resort to a strategy of using an influential “proxy.” “The strategic rationale is clear: when a revered soccer star or popular singer expresses a position, the fan’s critical barriers almost disappear. The networks exploit the deep emotional connection between the fan and the star to inject extremist political messages, using prominent visual symbols such as Palestinian flags and slogans associated with Islam,” says Or Katznelson, partner and COO at Vetric.

The network's method of operation relies on building credibility over time. The operators do not attack immediately, but rather establish or take over existing profiles that appear credible, sometimes ones that have already gained experience. The vast majority of them have a blue V, which increases the sense of authenticity and credibility and creates the appearance of an official page for that person.

In the first stage, the profiles are maintained with a content routine that simulates the character's real activity, such as photos from training sessions, clips from performances, and documentation from public events. Only after the profile has gained enough followers and credibility does the activity begin: a targeted integration of political content within the daily content, in a way that makes it difficult to quickly identify unusual activity but is well received by the followers.

An example of this is a coordinated campaign in which dozens of pages impersonating players from rival teams simultaneously posted the slogan #winGaza with the announcement of the ceasefire, creating an artificial image of victory and a sense of global consensus.

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One of the key findings of the study is the way in which organized activity creates page waves that affect ordinary users. The initial distribution of the fake post is done by the activists, but it is designed to go viral. As soon as such a post gains momentum, the imitation effect appears: private users who are not part of the organized network are exposed to the viral success and imitate it. They share the fake news believing that it is true, or they set up similar pages themselves to ride the viral wave, gain sympathy and become popular. In this way, a planned fraud becomes a semi-authentic mass movement that makes it very difficult to locate the source of the forgery and stop it, because the distributors at this stage are real people who are convinced of the righteousness of their path.

The key factor that makes the phenomenon particularly dangerous is the technological maturity of the artificial intelligence that creates it. "We are at a historical turning point. If in the past, a reliable video fake required expensive studios and a team of special effects experts, today any hostile entity can create a fraud with minimal investment and effort," says Katznelson.

A notable example revealed in the study are deepfake videos of well-known figures, such as YouTuber Jake Paul, who appear to speak directly to the camera in a completely natural manner. The mimicry is almost perfect and the lip-syncing is at a very high level, even when the character speaks in languages ​​that the original person does not speak at all, such as Arabic, and incorporates religious chants.

Technological capability allows not only quality, but also quantity: industrial production of content at almost zero cost. A single command to a computer can produce dozens of versions of the same supposed star, expressing support for Gaza in variations adapted to each platform. This capability allows the network to be flooded until the truth is swallowed up in endless digital noise.

According to Wetrick, despite attempts to cover up, extensive activity has been identified, run from Egypt, where teams operate using local infrastructure and a uniform language structure. In addition, additional centers have been located throughout Europe. The operators work in coordination and use different profiles to create the appearance of a broad consensus.

"We are witnessing a leap forward in the evolution of disinformation. The combination of pro-Palestinian ideological motivation, hierarchical organization, and accessible and powerful artificial intelligence tools has created a well-oiled machine for consciousness engineering. The danger lies not only in the false content itself, but in its ability to cause millions of people to act on its basis, share it, and unwillingly turn them into agents of spreading lies. The assessment is that this is only a pilot, and that we are expected to see this method expand and become operational on a much wider scale in the near future," concludes Katznelson.

[Deep Fake. Fake News. Social networks.] Mako

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Rom Braslavski returns to the soccer pitch. Captivity survivor Rom Braslavski makes his long-anticipated return to Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium and is welcomed by a sell-out crowd of Beitar fans. Neri Weiss. Nov 30, 2025, 9:46 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Yosef Haim Ohana returns home. Captivity survivor Yosef Haim Ohana finally returns home after completing rehabilitation at the Kfar Maccabiah resort in Ramat Gan. Israel National News. Nov 30, 2025, 3:30 PM (GMT+2) INN

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IDF Operation in Syria. Unknown Enemy: The Terror Group Most Israelis Don't Know—But Now Target—After Deadly Encounter. The IDF suffered six wounded soldiers in a fierce encounter with the Al-Jama'ah Al-Islamiyyah terror group during an operation in Syria, forcing the military to focus on the independent Sunni-Islamist movement that cooperates closely with Hezbollah and Hamas.

Eliana Fleming. Nov 30, 2025 14:56 JFeed

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Surgeons’ Dilemma. Miracle Survival: IDF Soldier Survives Heart-Piercing Bullet in Syrian Firefight. An IDF soldier critically wounded in a Syrian firefight survived a bullet that pierced his protective vest and lodged inside his heart, thanks to a high-risk surgery at Rambam Hospital, where doctors made the complex decision to temporarily leave the projectile in place.

Eliana Fleming. Nov, 2025 16:51 JFeed

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Security Breach Warning. Deep Infiltration: The Growing Concern That Hezbollah Is Leveraging UN Forces for Terror Attack Planning. The IDF has expressed deep concern that UNIFIL personnel are documenting and filming sensitive military activity along the northern border, raising fears that the intelligence is being leaked directly to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.

Eliana Fleming. Nov 30, 2025 13:42 JFeed

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The New Battlefield. Hezbollah’s Architect Eliminated: IAF Pilots Reveal Surgical Strike That Killed Hezbollah Military Chief in Beirut The IAF revealed details of the "zero-mistake" surgical strike that killed Hezbollah Military Chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai in a crowded Beirut apartment, demonstrating that the terror group’s most guarded safe houses are now part of the battlefield.

Eliana Fleming. Nov 30, 2025 18:07 JFeed

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Unseen War. WATCH: Leaked Footage Confirms Israeli Precision Strikes Decapitated Iranian Command Centers. Leaked CCTV and cellphone footage circulating on Iranian channels confirms the surgical accuracy of Israeli strikes inside Iran, showing single impacts hitting key IRGC and security buildings in Tehran and other cities.

Eliana Fleming Nov 30, 2025 18:25 JFeed

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London anti-Israel protesters target Israeli bakery. Israel National News. Dec 1, 2025, 6:17 AM INN

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The Jews provoke disgust[sic] – Palestinian Authority village council chairman. Palestinian hatred for Israel is rooted in hatred for Jews. Nov 30, 2025 PalWatch

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Lapid sparks uproar: Strip voting rights from draft dodgers - but not Arabs. Yair Lapid explains that the bill his party will advance will focus on revoking voting rights from those who received a draft order but failed to report, and will not apply to the Arab public. Israel National News. Published: Dec 1, 2025, 3:06 AM (GMT+2) [Yair Lapid, Haredim, Draft Law]. INN

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In Miami. Famed tenor Andrea Bocelli hosts freed hostage Segev Kalfon. Israel National News. Dec 1, 2025, 5:55 AM INN

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Declassified files reveal Mengele’s carefree life in Argentina. Israel National News. Dec 1, 2025, 1:09 AM INN

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Disgraceful. Turkey Pressured Hamas Not to Return Hadar Goldin's Body. Turkey is no friend of ours, and their latest tricks are no surprise. It's no wonder we won't let Turkish soldiers anywhere near Gaza.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 1, 2025. JFeed

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Third released hostage says he was sexually abused during Gaza captivity. Alon Ohel, freed after 738 days in Hamas tunnels, describes sexual abuse when held alone; his account follows similar testimonies from two other former hostages, adding to mounting evidence of systematic mistreatment in captivity ynet|13.1.25 16:35

Alon Ohel, a former hostage held in Gaza for more than two years, said Monday he was subjected to sexual abuse during his captivity, becoming the third recently released survivor to publicly recount such treatment.

Ohel, who was freed in the most recent hostage-release deal after 738 days in Hamas captivity, described the abuse in an interview with Channel 12. His account follows similar testimony in recent weeks from former hostages Guy Gilboa Dalal and Rom Braslavski. The report contains graphic descriptions.

Ohel said the abuse began after he was left alone in the tunnels, once the other hostages held with him had been released in earlier deals. “From the moment I was alone, and after the second hostage deal collapsed, their new goal was to terrify me,” he said. He described guards manipulating food rations and engaging in sexual harassment.

He said one incident occurred when he went to shower. “He came in to shampoo me. He put shampoo on his hands and began to wash me in the shower. He touched me,” Ohel said. Even when he protested and tried to push the captor away, the guard persisted, telling him it was important that he “wash properly” to avoid rashes. “Fortunately, it did not go further,” Ohel added.

Last month, Gilboa Dalal detailed a series of sexual assaults he said he endured during his time in captivity. He told Channel 12 that a captor “started touching me, kissing me on the neck and back. It was very frightening.” Galbo’a Dalal said the man then held a rifle to his head and a knife to his throat, warning him never to tell the other hostages. “So not only did I go through that terrible experience, I also couldn’t tell anyone,” he said.

In another incident, he said he was pulled from a shower, forced naked into a room and assaulted. “He rubbed his genitals against me for several minutes. I froze. I didn’t know what to do with myself,” he said. Braslavski, who was held for the same 738-day period as Ohel, previously told Channel 13 that he, too, was stripped, tied up and sexually assaulted. “That was sexual violence, and the goal was one thing — humiliation,” he said. Asked if there were additional incidents, he replied, “Yes. It’s hard for me to talk about that part. That was the horrible thing. It’s something the Nazis didn’t do. You just pray it stops. Every day, every blow, every night you say, ‘I survived another day in hell. Tomorrow will be another hell, and another hell.’ It didn’t end.” Israeli authorities have said that multiple released hostages have reported sexual violence in captivity... YNet

'I choose life:' Ex-hostage Alon Ohel recounts Hamas kidnapping, torture, sexual harassment - N12. Former hostage Alon Ohel describes threats, sexual harassment, starvation, and surgery without anesthesia during months in Hamas captivity.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 2, 2025 .

Content warning: This article discusses sensitive topics, such as violence, sexual harassment, and disturbing images.

Former hostage Alon Ohel recounted his time spent in captivity, including threats, sexual harassment, and surgery without anesthesia, while being held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip during an interview with N12 on Monday.

Ohel recounted how he was temporarily left alone in a terror tunnel after being held with other hostages. During this time, he was faced with terrorists whose "entire aim was to terrorize."

"They would play with the amounts of food, and sexually harassment," Ohel said.

"You go into the shower, and the terrorist comes to shampoo you. He puts shampoo in his hand and starts soaping you in the shower. He touches you," he recounted.

Ohel tried to move away from the sexually abusive terrorist, telling him that he could wash alone, but the terrorist continued.

"He said it was important to him that I shower well, so that I don't get rashes. Luckily, the sexual abuse didn't go further," Ohel added. Former hostage Alon Ohel recalls his kidnapping Ohel told N12 about the moment when Hamas terrorists kidnapped him.

"They threw me like a sack of potatoes into the pickup truck. I was in shock, and asked myself if I was dreaming," Ohel said.

"I saw someone jump from the pickup, and they took him apart. I told myself, 'No matter what, I choose life,'" he added.

"They started driving, and within seconds, we were in Gaza. I was in shock. We passed a gate, and boom, Gaza. You say 'f***, where is the air force? What is happening?" he stated.

"All of my hair was full of concrete from the shelter I was hiding in, and I was dripping endless blood with crazy amounts of pain in my head, shoulder, and eye. I couldn't see," he recounted.

Ohel noted how they arrived at a hospital, and saw a large crowd of Gazans full of hatred for the hostages.

"You can't call them uninvolved," Ohel said, describing the crowd. "Everyone there is involved," he affirmed.

"I screamed to them that I could not see, and they took off my clothes while trying to make sure people did not come in," he said, adding that they were taken to a house next to the hospital and were given anesthesia. "I woke up the next day, and could not breathe from the pain," he recalled.

Ohel recounted that the terrorists sewed the hostages up "in a degrading manner," without applying anesthesia, forbidding them to scream or speak.

"In the first two weeks, we didn't speak. I sat there with people and had no idea who they were," Ohel said.

"They take you in a moment from life. I'm a 22-year-old. What do I know about life? They tore me from reality and put me in hell in a second," he stated.

Alon Ohel's injured right eye.

When Ohel closes his left eye, his vision becomes blurry, but when both of his eyes are open, he is able to see, N12 noted. However, he recounts that he always knew he was going to "come back to my mother in the end, whatever happens."

Shortly before his eye surgery upon his return to Israel, doctors explained the procedure to Ohel, checking that he understood. One moment during the surgery he was laughing, and then the next moment he would cry, N12 said.

"In Gaza they took away my rights of movement, freedom, and liberty, but not the right to choose to be a victor," Ohel said.

"You break down all the time, but [fellow hostage] Eli [Sharabi] would tell me 'it is ok to break, but you must never lose hope,'" Ohel remembered.

Ohel recalls running away at Nova "We ran from the Nova music festival the moment the bombing started," Ohel recalls. "We saw the interceptions and said, 'we are out of here.' We thought of stopping at a shelter, and I really wanted to continue running once the rockets ended. We stood in the shelter, but the rockets didn't stop. Even more so, we started hearing Kalashnikovs. 'Where is the army?' we asked. You were simply waiting for your death," he continued.

Ohel saw Aner Shapira, an IDF soldier, throwing grenades from inside the shelter to outside. "I told him everything will be ok. He didn't look me in the eyes. He saved all of us."

"After Shapira was murdered, there was a grenade that Hersh [Goldberg-Polin] came to throw. I screamed at him to throw it, but he didn't make it in time. The grenade exploded a few centimeters from Hersh and blew up his hand. I saw everything, and think that was the grenade that blew up my eye," Ohel remembered.

The interviewer asked if Ohel felt that the IDF knew where they were.

"Absolutely not," he answered. "I'm afraid of the army that was supposed to protect me. They didn't know anything."

Ohel recounted how he was taken into a terror tunnel after 52 days, meeting Eli Sharabi, Almog Sarusi, Ori Danino, and Goldberg-Polin.

However, shortly afterwards, Sarusi, Danino, and Goldberg-Polin were taken away, with Ohel recounting how he felt sure they were being taken to be released. In fact, they were taken to be a different tunnel, where they were murdered by terrorists in August 2024.

Ohel was left in a tunnel with Eliya Cohen and Sharabi, who Ohel describes as a father to him during their captivity.

"From the beginning, we connected. There was this click. There was one time they threw a bowl with a bit of pasta, and I lost it, punching the wall, breaking my hand, and I started crying. Eli was there to hug me, it was a father's hug," Ohel recalled.

Sharabi told Ohel about his daughters, who were murdered by terrorists during the massacre, and burst into tears. They promised each other that they would survive for the sake of their family members waiting for them.

"Whoever was not there will not be able to understand our captivity. In your life, you have not experienced starvation, you have not been connected to chains for a year and a half, shackled like a monkey, and eating like a dog. You are not a human being, you are an animal," he said.

"We would eat pita and four spoons of peas a day. There was a period when we ate only dried dates. And you know they have food. You tell yourself, ‘In the end, you get used to hunger,’ but no. It’s pain in the whole body, all the time. You look like a skeleton. You look at yourself, and you see a corpse, and it makes them feel good in their heart," Ohel said, describing how he tried to stay strong mentally.

The IDF bombed the tunnel they were in and a missile blew up the mosque and school from which the tunnel shafts came out, Ohel said.

The hostages were sure they would be rescued and that IDF soldiers were entering the tunnels. "We went out and ran between the ruins," he said. "We heard machine guns, and we kept running until we reached another tunnel that had nothing."

Ohel recalled how a senior terrorist told them how the other hostages being held with Ohel were being released. They tore him from Sharabi, and he refused to leave. Both he and Sharabi were shaking, he recalled.

"I told Eli, 'Wow, I'm happy for you.' He said that everything will be okay."

Ohel recounted how, after eight months in captivity, he was relocated to the south of the Gaza Strip.

"Suddenly, we stopped," he said. "They took me out of the vehicle, and we started wandering in Gaza. In retrospect, I understood that they relocated me to create pressure on Israel."

After being moved, Ohel was united with fellow hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal. The two served together in the navy, and recognized each other immediately, Ohel recounted.

The two were taken into a tunnel and ordered by terrorists to write a letter to their families.

Izzadin al-Haddad, then-commander of Hamas's Gaza Brigade, who has since been promoted to head of the so-called military wing, the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, came into the tunnel and told Ohel and Gilboa-Dalal that they were being released.

"From there, everything happened very quickly. A woman from the Red Cross took me and apologized. She was very embarrassed because the Red Cross didn't do anything. They're a disgraceful organization - no different from the UN," he affirmed.

From the window of the Red Cross vehicle, he saw IDF soldiers. He recalled how he noticed that they were reservists with families and children.

Ohel noted that he did not break down upon being reunited with his family. What was important to him was to give them the feeling that he returned sane, healthy, and whole, but then he allowed himself to show emotions.

When he learned that Sharabi lost his entire family, he broke down, he remembered.

"For two years, I was a dead person. I prayed that someone would save me, but I discovered that I am strong, I can do everything, I am not a victim, I am not looking for self-pity. I went through what I went through, and I take it and grow, continuing to learn and develop. I am going to conquer the world," Ohel concluded. JPost

The Unthinkable. Two Years in Hell: Alon Ohel Details Hamas Captivity, Sexual Harassment, Chains, and Starvation in Gaza Tunnels.

Alon Ohel, a survivor of two years in Hamas captivity, gave a terrifying exclusive interview detailing the use of chains, brutal starvation, and the moment a terrorist attempted to sexually harass him while he was alone in a Gaza tunnel.

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After two years of agonizing captivity in Gaza, survivor Alon Ohel has revealed his harrowing ordeal in an exclusive interview, detailing the brutal conditions, his fight to maintain his sanity, and the deep, father-son bond he formed with fellow hostage Eli Sharabi. Ohel, a sensitive pianist before his abduction, recounted his transformation, developing a "hide of an elephant" against the threats and humiliations inflicted by the Hamas terrorists.

From the moment he was seized at the Nova music festival, Ohel, now 22, decided he would do everything to survive. Weeks of enduring treatment were laid bare, including months spent chained, enduring sexual harassment in the tunnels, and the agonizing moment he watched Israeli soldiers the men meant to protect him, from the window of the Red Cross vehicle.

The Massacre and The Bullet’s Impact.

Ohel described the chaos at Nova, recalling fleeing the party when shelling began, followed by the terrifying sound of Kalashnikovs. Inside a concrete shelter, he witnessed the heroic last stand of Aner Shapira, who hurled incoming grenades out one after the other until he was killed. Ohel believes the explosion from a grenade that detonated near Hersh Goldberg-Polin, shattering his arm, is what caused the severe injury to his own eye.

"I saw everything with my own eyes, and I think that’s the grenade that burst my eye," he remembered.

The abduction was sudden and brutal. Ohel was thrown "like a sack of potatoes" into a pickup truck, dripping blood from severe wounds to his head, shoulder, and eye. "They tore me from reality and put me in hell in a second," he stated, describing his terror at crossing the border fence with no sign of the Israeli Air Force.

Abused, Starved, and Chained.

Ohel and other captives were taken to a hospital where they faced a hostile, hate-filled mob. "Call them uninvolved?" he asked dismissively. "Everyone is involved there." The initial medical treatment was barbaric; he was crudely stitched up with no anesthesia, forbidden to scream or speak, and remained chained for months.

"You never experienced starvation, you were never chained for a year and a half. Chained like a monkey, and eating like a dog. There, you are not a human being, you are an animal," he stressed.

The physical torment was compounded by mental anguish. They survived on meager portions, a single pita and four tablespoons of peas a day, or sometimes only dry dates, even though they knew the terrorists had food. Ohel said they constantly looked like skeletons, which pleased their captors.

The "Father's Hug" and The Music.

His only anchor during weeks of isolation was Eli Sharabi. They met 52 days into captivity after being moved to the tunnels. Ohel described Sharabi as being "like a father" to him. "He was there to hug a father’s hug," Ohel recounted, recalling how Sharabi comforted him when he punched a wall in despair. Sharabi, whose daughters Noya and Yahel were killed on October 7, carried Ohel through the ordeal. The two promised to survive for their waiting families.

To keep his sanity, Ohel, a pianist, would secretly sing while the terrorists prepared food nearby. They told him to stop, as their faith forbids music. But he continued, clinging to the memory of the music, unaware that a grand piano awaited him in Hostages Square at home.

Sexual Harassment and The Final Moments.

Ohel revealed that the terror escalated when he was left alone in the tunnel after Sharabi and others were taken out as part of a temporary deal. He faced threats and sexual harassment from the guards.

"I went in to shower and he came to shampoo me... He put shampoo on his hand and started to soap me in the shower. He was touching me," Ohel bravely recounted. He pushed the terrorist away, who insisted he only wanted to ensure Ohel didn't get a rash. "Luckily, it didn't go further," Ohel said.

Ohel’s survival was secured months later. As he was being driven away by the Red Cross, an organization he slammed as "disgraceful", he saw the Israeli soldiers fighting for him. He was overcome, not with relief for himself, but with the sight of the older reservists, "f***ing grown-up people, with families and children," who were fighting for his freedom.

Upon learning that his father figure, Eli Sharabi, had lost his entire family, Ohel finally broke down. He concluded that while he was "a dead person for two years," he is now "not a victim" but a survivor, ready to "devour this world." JFeed

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Trump pushes for 'strong and true dialogue' between Israel, Syria. This statement came during a meeting between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and US Special Envoy Tom Barrack in Damascus. By Amichai Stein, Jerusalem Post Staff. December 1, 2025. JPost

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Authorities charge two French teens for planning ISIS-linked antisemitic terror attack - report French authorities charged two teens with an ISIS-inspired terror conspiracy after finding messages suggesting a planned antisemitic attack.

By Eli Leon. December 2, 2025. Two French teenagers who were radicalized by ISIS terrorists were charged with conspiracy to carry out an antisemitic terror attack, French outlet Le Parisien reported on Monday. JPost

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Nick Fuentes complains about being left off StopAntisemitism's ‘Antisemite of the Year’ list StopAntisemitism named Tucker Carlson, Ms Rachel, Marcia Cross, and Cynthia Nixon, among others, as finalists for the award. Previous finalists, including Fuentes, are not nominated again.

(Nick Fuentes sits down for an interview with Tucker Carlson, Oct. 28, 2025).

By Andrew Lapin/JTA December 2, 2025. Nick Fuentes says he feels snubbed by StopAntisemitism, which neglected to include him among its finalists for “Antisemite of the Year.”

The group’s finalists, announced Sunday, include conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, whose friendly interview with Fuentes has splintered the conservative movement. JPost

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NYC Jewish groups to hold solidarity rally for Park East Synagogue. Jewish groups across New York are planning a solidarity rally near Park East Synagogue weeks after an anti-Israel protest targeted an Aliyah event.

By Michael Starr. December 2, 2025. New York City Jewish groups are organizing a solidarity rally near the Park East Synagogue on Thursday, a few weeks after a controversial anti-Israel protest against an Aliyah event held at the synagogue.

The United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York, Jewish Community Relations Council, Anti-Defamation League New York/New Jersey, American Jewish Congress New York, and New York Board of Rabbis said in an advertisement for the event that they were organizing the rally to stand together as proud New Yorkers, Jews, and Zionists. JPost

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Andrea Bocelli hosts former Gaza hostage Segev Kalfon for private concert at Miami home Former hostage Segev Kalfon, held for 738 days, endured beatings, psychological torture, and being pressured to convert to Islam during Hamas captivity.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 2, 2025. Internationally recognized Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli hosted former Gaza hostage Segev Kalfon for a private concert at the artist's home in Miami, Florida, last week.

Bocelli, who has previously expressed sympathy for Israelis freed from Hamas captivity, along with his wife Veronica, welcomed Kalfon for a day of music, conversation, and support. JPost

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AI Images of Suffering Gazans Spark Fury Not surprising. AI Images of Suffering Gazans Spark Fury These AI abominations are the digital equivalent of a bad Photoshop job on a dating profile, overhyped, underdelivering.

Gila Isaacson Dec 2, 2025 04:52 JFeed

Two soldiers lightly wounded in West Bank terror stabbing attack, assailant killed by IDF Magen David Adom noted that its paramedics subsequently arrived at the scene and provided medical care to the men.

By Sam Halpern. December 2, 2025.

Two soldiers were mildly wounded in a stabbing attack near the Israeli settlement of Ateret in the West Bank on Tuesday morning, and the terrorist who perpetrated the incident was killed, according to the IDF.

"A short while ago, following a report that was received regarding a suspect near Ateret, IDF soldiers were dispatched to the area," the IDF stated. "While confronting the suspect, he began to stab the soldiers, who responded with fire and eliminated him." JPost

{GRPAHIC} Crazy New Footage Breaking: Terrorist Stabs 2 IDF Soldiers in Ateret | WATCH. Two soldiers were stabbed by a terrorist this morning (Tuesday). The terrorist has been neutralized and the soldiers are being treated at the scene.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 2, 2025 00:44 JFeed

Two Terror Attacks in Days. Update: Female Soldier Injured in Ramming Attack Near Kiryat Arba, Terrorist Flees to Hebron

A female IDF soldier sustained light injuries in a ramming attack near Kiryat Arba, with forces opening fire and launching a massive pursuit after the terrorist fled in his vehicle into the city of Hebron.

Eliana Fleming Dec 1, 2025 17:34 JFeed

Terrorist draws knife, lunges at soldiers. Footage shows the moment a terrorist stabbed two soldiers as they were questioning him near the town of Ateret. Israel National News. Dec 2, 2025, 11:11 AM INN

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Terrorist who rammed soldier near Hebron eliminated Uzi Baruch Dec 2, 2025, 7:21 AM INN

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Ramallah and Hebron: IDF raids and seals HQ of PFLP-tied 'agricultural' organization. Israel National News. Dec 2, 2025, 11:39 AM INN

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Ex-kibbutz security chief who fought off Hamas on Oct. 7 opens coffee stand near Gaza border. Rony Sfedj, who held off terrorists for hours in Kfar Kissufim during the attack, now runs a roadside coffee stand serving soldiers and bereaved families near the Gaza border as a message of resilience and community. Roni Green Shaulov|12.01.25 | YNet

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December 1, 2025. The Guardian’s malevolence towards Israel has no limits. by Adam Levick.

It’s helpful to think of antizionists as akin to addicts, in that, over time, they can’t get sufficiently high off the old anti-Israel canards anymore, and thus continue needing to impute greater degrees of malevolence to the Jewish state in order to maintain the visceral thrill of their belief that they’re fighting pure evil.

The libels of “racism”, “colonialism” and “apartheid” – particularly following the Hamas massacre – were no longer sufficient. So, all it took was a few distorted and fake quotes by traumatised Israeli leaders in the days following Hamas’ pogromists murdered, raped, tortured, and pillaged their way through the country’s south, and they had a new Israeli sin to add to their antizionist cosmology: genocide.

Variations of this charge would be leveled by Guardian contributors 11 times in 13 days, beginning a mere week after Hamas’ mass slaughter of Jews.

Enter Raz Segal, another academic operating within the ideologically closed echo-chamber of antizionist ‘scholarship’, who signed a letter, on Oct. 18th, 2023, by “scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies” warning of Israel’s potential genocide[sic].

He published an op-ed at the Guardian on Oct. 24, 2023, reiterating that the Jewish state was at least laying the groundwork for genocide, in a piece titled “Israel should stop weaponising the Holocaust”. He also insisted, in the piece, that Hamas’ attacks should not be seen as evil, but should properly be understood within the “historical context of Israeli settler colonialism since the 1948 Nakba”.

He further ridiculed claims of victimhood by Israel, who he portrayed as “a powerful state, with powerful allies and a powerful army, engaged in a retaliatory attack against stateless Palestinians under Israeli-settler colonial rule, military occupation and siege.”

Segal returned to the Guardian three days ago, warning readers that, despite the ceasefire, Israel is still committing genocide (“The genocide[sic[ in Gaza is far from over”, Nov. 28), while adding a new term of abuse, white supremacism[sic], which arguably goes beyond vilifying Israel’s conduct as “genocidal”, by characterising the state’s essence as at odds with the morality of the civilised world.

Though the op-ed is full of factual errors and egregious historical distortions, we’ll narrowly focus on the outlet’s publication of this uniquely grotesque libel: 'But the victors of World War II had no intention of coming to terms with [Nazi] white supremacy, because the US, the UK, and France were white supremacist empires themselves. The victors of World War II similarly sought no accountability for nationalism, because they were, all of them, including the Soviets, nationalists and true believers in national “homogenization” as the essential precondition for security and peace. Nowhere was the meaning of such peace, this post-World War II reproduction of nationalism and white supremacy, clearer than in the Israeli state, a self-proclaimed exclusionary nation-state and a self-proclaimed exclusionary settler state – what Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the father of revisionist Zionism, described in his well-known essay from 1923 as a settler colonial project that can only work with an “Iron Wall.” '

Though it would be a mistake to treat this libel as serious thought, it is nonetheless important – within the context of understanding the Guardian’s willingness to trade in the most toxic calumnies about Israel – to stress the cruelty, malice and moral perversion in framing the rebirth of the Jewish state, three years after the murder of six million Jews by a white supremacist Nazi state which viewed Jews as non-white and racially inferior, is itself a white supremacist state. While, for instance, the implausibility of the charge that Israel, where the majority of Israeli Jews are of Sephardi, Mizrahi, or other non-European descent, that is “non-white”, is a “white supremacist” state, should be obvious to even the most casual observer, as Adam Lewis-Klein observed, those who overemphasise such face-based rebuttals make the mistake of assuming that antizionists like Segal are operating in good faith.

Those who do so, Lewis-Klein added, fail to understand how “anti-Zionism actually works—as a closed system of accusation, designed to force Jews to disavow their identities.”

Indeed, suggesting that Zionism is a white supremacist state akin to Nazism is a way of framing both Israelis and diaspora Jews as morally beyond the pale – as acceptable targets.

Given the dramatic rise in British antisemitism since the Hamas massacre, we wrote in our complaint to the Guardian’s Readers’ Editor, such incendiary rhetoric – which serves to satisfy their readerships’ insatiable craving for antizionist content – will further inflame already dangerous levels of hostility towards Jews in the country.

Regardless of the outcome of our complaint, the fact that Segal’s white supremacism charge was greenlighted by editors again shows that the institution has little if any moral guardrails which would prevent publishing the most fringe, vitriolic and unhinged content about Jews and the Jewish state – as long as such hate is properly couched in the language of human rights and scholarship.

“Language changes. It modernises and adapts”, the CST’s Director of Policy Dave Rich observed in his 2023 Kristallnacht commemoration speech in Sydney. “The emblematic idea of the current wave of antisemitism is not”, he stressed, “the Nazi slogan ‘The Jews are misfortune’, or the earlier allegation that Jews are ‘Christ-killers’. It is, he added, “that Jews are settlers and colonisers, racists[sic] and white supremacists[sic].”

The implication, he concluded, “is that Jewish collective identity is not like other identities: either it is a hollow fraud because Jews are not worthy of calling themselves a people, and therefore are not deserving of the rights that come with that status; or it bears a uniquely malevolent stain that must be suppressed for the good of humanity.”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio With Sean Hannity of Fox News’ Hannity Interview. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. Washington, D.C. December 2, 2025. [...] QUESTION: We talk a lot, and a lot of people talk in the Make America Great Again movement, about America First. And I believe in America First, but I also believe that we have to have insight, wisdom, understanding that goes along with that. And it seems like every one of the examples I just gave you where the President did use the might of the U.S. military, it’s against radical Islam. And that threat, I think when people are chanting, “Death to Israel,” when they’re chanting, “Death to America,” specific threats against our country, I have not forgotten 9/11/01. What is the nature of radicalism that maybe some people don’t understand why it’s in America’s first interest?

SECRETARY RUBIO: Because ultimately all radical Islamic movements in the world identify the West writ large but the United States in particular as the greatest evil on the Earth. And every chance they have – the notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not borne out by history. Radical Islam has shown that their desire is not simply to occupy one part of the world and be happy with their own little caliphate; they want to expand. It is a – it’s revolutionary in its nature. It seeks to expand and control more territories and more people.

And radical Islam has designs, openly, on the West – on the United States, on Europe. We’ve seen that progress there as well. And they are prepared to conduct acts of terrorism – in the case of Iran, nation-state actions, assassinations, murders, you name it. Whatever it takes for them to gain their influence and ultimately their domination of different cultures and societies.

That’s a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially to the United States, who they identify as the chief source of evil on the planet. Okay, the reason why they hate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the leadership of the UAE, of Bahrain, is because they’ve allowed the United States to partner with them. That’s why they hate them. They consider them infidels for it. They hate Israel. But they also hate America, and they hate anywhere in the world that we have influence; they seek to attack it, including here in the homeland.

If you look at the domestic terrorist – at the attacks that have happened here domestically, the overwhelming majority of them have been inspired by radical Islamic viewpoints.

QUESTION: Do you —

SECRETARY RUBIO: And that includes the shooting in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. That includes the Saudi pilot in Pensacola, my home state. Two attacks that people seem to have forgotten... State.gov

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PA Textbooks: Six-year-olds to be taught about 'martyrs' Israel National News Dec 2, 2025, 10:09 AM INN

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Israel adopting messaging reforms, following Charlie Kirk's warning in final letter to Netanyahu The initiative is expected to expand over the coming year, incorporating multiple languages, shorter digital content, and first-person testimonies.

By Idan Kweller. December 2, 2025.

Israel is working to reshape its international messaging according to recommendations outlined in a final letter from US Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the country was “losing the information war” among young Americans.

Working with the Prime Minister’s Office, officials are gradually implementing key elements of Kirk’s message, which highlighted growing concern over Israel’s deteriorating image among younger audiences in America.

Kirk’s letter, sent shortly before his death, stood out not only for its timing but for its tone. Long considered a staunch supporter of Israel, Kirk, a prominent voice in the Christian evangelical and conservative movement, expressed deep concern over what he saw as a failure to communicate effectively with young Americans.

He described how, during campus events that drew thousands of students, questions about Israel were increasingly shaped by what he referred to as anti-Israel narratives. According to polling data he shared, nearly 50% of Americans aged 18 to 24 expressed sympathy for Hamas.

Kirk said the defeatist attitude of “Everyone already hates us, so what’s the point of trying?” had shaped Israel’s communication strategy. He called for Israel to move away from relying solely on American pro-Israel advocates and instead to develop a direct, independent voice to reach international audiences.

Rapid response team launched. In response, the government began establishing a rapid-response team to monitor online activity, identify negative trends in real time, and deliver counter-messaging. The team operates across government ministries and draws on techniques from US digital political campaigns. In addition, a central “facts site” has been launched to provide background, legal context, and historical information related to Israel and the region. This site serves as a foundation for a broader network of digital platforms targeting specific audiences, including university students, evangelical Christians, Latino communities, liberals, African Americans, and Jewish Americans.

The initiative is expected to expand over the coming year, incorporating multiple languages, shorter digital content, and first-person testimonies.

Centering Israeli voices. One of the main elements of the new strategy is the “first voice” model, a shift toward using Israelis to tell their own stories. These include civilians, evacuees, reservists, and individuals from minority communities. To support the effort, the government is providing influencers and other content creators with access to video production tools, editing services, and subtitling to ensure professional presentation. The move reflects Kirk’s argument that simply asserting “Israel is right” is no longer sufficient in shaping public opinion.

Instead, he wrote, audiences must “see faces, hear personal experiences, and feel humanity.”

Delegations and digital diplomacy Recent delegations to the United States, including survivors of captivity and individuals wounded in conflict, are part of the broader push to share Israel’s story with American audiences. Participants have appeared in US media, taken part in interviews, and spoken publicly – an approach that closely mirrors Kirk’s recommendations.

Unified messaging structure.

In another significant move, the government has adopted a unified communications model similar to that of the White House. A single spokesperson now serves as the central point for foreign media messaging, eliminating the previous fragmentation between spokespeople from the IDF, the Foreign Ministry, and the Prime Minister’s Office.

Shosh Bedrossian, the Prime Minister’s spokesperson for foreign media, took on the role just days after Kirk’s letter and his subsequent killing. She now delivers briefings and statements almost daily.

The decision to centralize media messaging is seen as a key step toward consistency, clarity, and focus in Israel’s international outreach efforts. JPost

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Terrorist eliminated. Female soldier injured in ramming attack near Hebron. Israel National News. Dec 2, 2025, 6:58 AM INN

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Hamas: Body of slain hostage handed over to Israel. Israel National News. Dec 2, 2025, 3:40 PM INN

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Netanyahu cancels statement on haredi draft bill as opposition slams legislation. Opposition leader Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) responded that Netanyahu canceled his statement “because he knows we know the details of the draft-evasion law, and he has no way to defend it.”

([15]. Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry a banner in Hebrew that reads, “to prison and not the army,” during a “million man” protest against military conscription, in Jerusalem October 30, 2025. Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry a banner in Hebrew that reads, “to prison and not the army,” during a “million man” protest against military conscription, in Jerusalem October 30, 2025. photo credit: Am Kadosh/Reuters)

By Keshet Neev. December 2, 2025.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his planned statement on the controversial (ultra-Orthodox) conscription law, minutes before it was scheduled at press time on Tuesday, citing “scheduling constraints.”

The remarks were set to be made after a marathon of back-to-back meetings on the haredi conscription bill took place in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, with lawmakers criticizing the legislation for not being nearly effective enough. JPost

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IDF kills three terrorists breaching Gaza ceasefire yellow line The Israeli Air Force eliminated the terrorists in separate incidents in both northern and southern Gaza. JNS Staff (Dec. 2, 2025 / JNS) Israeli forces killed three terrorists on Tuesday after they crossed a designated buffer zone and approached Israeli troops in separate incidents in northern and southern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Two of the terrorists were killed in southern Gaza after crossing the yellow line and posing an immediate threat to troops, according to an IDF statement. In a separate incident in northern Gaza, another terrorist was eliminated after similarly crossing the line.

The Israeli Air Force carried out the strikes in both cases.

IDF troops remain deployed in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to respond to immediate threats, the military said. JNS

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Israel warns Hezbollah racing to rebuild in Lebanon. Beirut is aware of the Iranian terror proxy's efforts to strengthen but there is no enforcement, according to the IDF. Joshua Marks.

(Dec. 2, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces warned on Tuesday that the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon is rapidly rebuilding its military capabilities despite Jerusalem’s ongoing strikes since the ceasefire took hold over a year ago. JNS

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The Next Move. US Envoy Stunned: The Classified Evidence That Proves Hezbollah Is Preparing for All-Out War. As a critical deadline looms in Lebanon, Israel warns American officials about Hezbollah's alarming rearmament pace, escalating fears of a potential Israeli strike.

Eliana Fleming Dec 2, 2025 16:47 JFeed

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The Evidence They Couldn't Ignore. Massive Federal Probe Exposes UNRWA: The Secret Blacklist of Terror-Tied Staffers Federal investigators have launched a massive probe into the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), compiling a list of staffers with direct ties to the Hamas terror group to prevent their movement into US-funded aid programs.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 2, 2025 18:00 JFeed

The Evidence They Couldn't Ignore. Massive Federal Probe Exposes UNRWA: The Secret Blacklist of Terror-Tied Staffers Federal investigators have launched a massive probe into the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), compiling a list of staffers with direct ties to the Hamas terror group to prevent their movement into US-funded aid programs.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 2, 2025 18:00 JFeed

New evidence of Hezbollah’s accelerated armament. US envoy Morgan Ortagus receives evidence from senior Israeli officials pointing to Hezbollah’s rapid rearmament and Lebanon’s lack of action. Israel National News. Dec 3, 2025, 12:10 AM INN

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The Next Move. US Envoy Stunned: The Classified Evidence That Proves Hezbollah Is Preparing for All-Out War. As a critical deadline looms in Lebanon, Israel warns American officials about Hezbollah's alarming rearmament pace, escalating fears of a potential Israeli strike.

Eliana Fleming Dec 2, 2025 16:47 JFeed

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New evidence of Hezbollah’s accelerated armament. US envoy Morgan Ortagus receives evidence from senior Israeli officials pointing to Hezbollah’s rapid rearmament and Lebanon’s lack of action. Israel National News. Dec 3, 2025, 12:10 AM INN

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Israeli president hosts African Muslim leaders “I believe Africa should be a bridge of peace in our region,” said Isaac Herzog. JNS Staff. (Dec. 2, 2025 / JNS) Israeli President Isaac Herzog met in Jerusalem on Monday with a delegation of imams and Muslim leaders from across Africa, in the latest Israeli diplomatic outreach to the continent.

“I believe the future of this region is rooted in Jews and Muslims speaking to one another, building mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation — as we have seen in the Abraham Accords,” Herzog wrote on X. “We must work to expand this circle of peace in an era of brainwashing and spreading hatred.” JNS

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Two Jerusalem Arabs sentenced for bomb plot near Knesset Mustafa Abd Al-Nabi received a 12-year sentence, while Ahmad Natasha was sentenced to five years for the planned bombing attack. JNS Staff. (Dec. 2, 2025 / JNS) A Jerusalem court sentenced two eastern Jerusalem residents to prison on Tuesday for plotting a bombing attack near the Knesset, according to the State Prosecutor’s Office. JNS

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75% of Arab Israelis support Arab party joining government coalition post-war, survey reveals The survey, conducted by Tel Aviv University, examined the attitudes of Israel’s Arab population following the conclusion of the war in Gaza.

By Jerusalem Post Staff December 2, 2025. More than 75% of Israel’s Arab citizens support an Arab party joining the government coalition following the end of the war, a new study revealed.

The study surveyed the attitudes of Israel’s Arab population following the conclusion of the war in Gaza after October 7th, and was conducted by the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University. JPost

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US civil rights chief calls NY mayor-elect 'antisemitic demagogue'. US Civil Rights Chief Harmeet Dhillon calls New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani an 'antisemitic demagogue' and vows federal protection against rising hate crimes. Israel National News Dec 2, 2025, 8:27 PM (GMT+2) INN

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IDF reveals: Hezbollah assassinated Lebanese officials to hide role in Beirut blast. Hezbollah assassinated four Lebanese public figures who attempted to reveal that the August 2020 Beirut port explosion was caused by ammonium nitrate stored for Hezbollah’s use. Israel National News. Dec 2, 2025, 9:10 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov reveals: This is how I was tortured in Iraq. Elizabeth Tsurkov, the Israeli researcher who spent two and a half years in captivity under a pro-Iranian militia in Iraq, speaks about the physical and psychological abuse she endured. Nissan Tzur. Dec 2, 2025, 11:45 PM (GMT+2)

For the first time since her release from captivity, Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov is revealing the harrowing ordeal of abuse she suffered over the past two and a half years.

Tsurkov was taken hostage in March 2023 by Kataib Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian Iraqi terrorist organization. In an interview with the BBC, she described how her captors discovered she was Israeli, after which she was subjected to severe physical and psychological torture.

“During the first month, they starved me and interrogated me, but at the time they didn't know about my Israeli citizenship. They're simply convinced that all foreigners are spies,” Tsurkov recounted.

She initially told her captors she was a Russian citizen, but after they examined her phone, "because I'm not a spy and don't have multiple encrypted devices, everything showed that I'm Israeli."

Immediately afterward, her captors began torturing her brutally. According to Tsurkov, the torture included electrocutions, beatings, whippings, sexual abuse and what she described as Middle Eastern "specialities".

"Being hung from the ceiling with hands cuffed behind my back. Being hung with the hands above my head. [There is] a particular method that is used in Iraq. It's called 'the scorpion'. You get handcuffed with [your] shoulders crossed behind the back. It often leads to dislocation of shoulders."

She said that throughout her captivity, she tried inventing various conspiracy theories to lessen the torture, even “confessing” to things she had not done in hopes of stopping the abuse. "They would torture me so I would give them these confessions that I would invent, and then they simply got greedy. So, they would return, hang me by my wrists and start beating me with a stick and using even harsher methods of torture and saying, 'I want something new.'"

Torture, isolation and threats in captivity After 100 days of severe abuse, Tsurkov was transferred to another hideout, where she said the torture stopped.

Ultimately, after two and a half years in captivity, she was released on September 9 this year following US pressure and with the assistance of Iraqi security services. INN

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Manhattan Institute poll finds 17% of GOP members are ‘anti-Jewish Republicans’. The poll suggests that majorities of Hispanic, black and young male Republican voters “believe the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen.” Andrew Bernard. Tucker Carlson speaking with attendees at the Indiana University tour stop of the "This Is The Turning Point" tour at IU Auditorium in Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 21, 2025).

(Dec. 2, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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'We will not abandon the Golan'. UN passes resolution against Israel’s Golan presence. Elad Benari. Dec 3, 2025, 2:06 AM INN

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Anti-Israel Protesters Vandalize Memorial to Murdered 2-Year-Old. “Free Palestine” was spray-painted nearby December 2, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield.

Why did Hamas think it could commit horrifying atrocities and get rewarded for it politically? It worked for the PLO, didn’t it.

On Shemini Atzeret, 1982, parents brought their children to the Great Synagogue for the local tradition of Birkat HaYeladim, when the rabbi blesses the children on that day. As they were preparing to leave after the service, PLO terrorists attacked with hand grenades and a machine gun, killing 2-year-old Stefano Tache and wounding 34 people, including his 4-year-old brother and parents.

According to the documents revealed Friday, Italian internal intelligence, then-known as Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica (SISDE), sent several warnings to the government that groups of Palestinian students “intended” to attack Jewish targets in Rome. At the top of the list of possible targets was the synagogue.

A follow-up warning sent to the Italian interior ministry cited a “usually reliable source” as saying the Abu Nidal group planned to carry out an attack during the Jewish holiday period and was likely to hit Jewish sites as the Israeli embassy was too well guarded.

But despite the warnings, not only was security not increased, but on the day of the attack, the police vehicle that usually stood outside the synagogue on holidays was absent, the documents showed.... FPM

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Radical Rebrand. Gaza War Fuels Surge in UK Conversions: 20% Turn to Islam Blaming Israel for Terror. New UK study links Gaza war outrage to 20% rise in Islam conversions, a radicalization red flag where Hamas propaganda lures the uninformed into terrorist sympathy. Eliana Fleming. Dec 3, 2025. JFeed

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Body of slain hostage Sudthisak Rinthalak returned to Israel. Prime Minister's Office announces that the body of deceased hostage Sudthisak Rinthalak has been returned to Israel. Gaza terror groups are still holding the body of Yassam officer Ran Gvili. Israel National News. Published: Dec 3, 2025, 12:51 PM (GMT+2) Updated: 12/4/2025, 8:18:00 AM INN

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Column. Campus Antisemitism. CAIR’s ‘pay-for-Jew-hatred’ policy. The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations launched a “Champions of Justice Fund” that pays $1,000 “educational grants” to students disciplined for anti-Israel actions.

Mitchell Bard. (Dec. 3, 2025 / JNS)

For years, the Palestinian Authority has rewarded terrorism through its “pay-to-slay” stipends—monthly salaries for Palestinians who murder Jews and for the families of “martyrs,” including suicide bombers. Some of the killers recently freed in Israel’s hostage exchanges have even become millionaires. That morally bankrupt model is now being replicated inside the United States. Hamas’s supporters here have created their own incentive system—this time to reward anti-Israel activism on American campuses.

The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) launched a “Champions of Justice Fund” that pays $1,000 “educational grants” to students disciplined for anti-Israel actions. In October 2024 alone, CAIR-CA distributed $20,000 to protestors from elite universities like Harvard University, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

According to the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), the fund raised more than $64,000 and framed unlawful encampments as “acts of solidarity,” urging universities to collaborate with demonstrators and portraying police enforcement as “violence.” NCRI’s Joel Finkelstein warned, “These programs support students after acts of criminality and violence, creating a reward structure for building the most militant face of the movement. This is how ideologies metastasize.”

This is not an aberration.

CAIR has a documented, decades-long record of extremism. Founded by leaders of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)—described by the U.S. government as part of Hamas’s “propaganda apparatus—CAIR is led by Nihad Awad, IAP’s former public-relations director. Awad publicly declared, “I am in support of the Hamas movement” in 1994. He eulogized Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, a recruiter and fundraiser for Al-Qaeda. He asserts that “Zionist organizations” are “enemies of the Muslim community” and are the “core of the Islamophobia network in the United States.” He has claimed that the “Zionist lobby, or pro-Israel” lobby has corrupted Congress.

Astonishingly, the Biden administration had listed CAIR among the organizations that would help implement its national strategy to counter antisemitism. Then came Oct. 7.

Awad publicly celebrated the massacre as Palestinians “breaking the siege,” while denying Israel the right to self-defense, later offering a farcical, antisemitic “clarification” that the attackers were merely taking a symbolic walk on “ethnically cleansed land.” It wasn’t clear which “average Palestinians” he was referring to when the video footage shot by the terrorists showed “civilians” participating in the attack.

The White House disavowed the organization and erased its name from the antisemitism plan’s website. Spokesman Andrew Bates said that “we condemn these shocking, antisemitic statements in the strongest terms.”

Other CAIR officials have echoed similar themes: comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, denying Israel’s right to self-defense and cheering Hamas’s atrocities as “decolonization.” CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial, where Hamas funders were convicted, prompting the FBI to sever all ties in 2008.

Lawmakers have taken notice. Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) introduced legislation urging the U.S. State Department to designate CAIR as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. “This takes long-overdue action to confront the terrorist threat posed by CAIR, a Trojan horse for terrorism operating inside our own borders,” said Fine.

He noted that “CAIR still maintains a direct relationship with Hamas” and “is a group that celebrated the massacre on Oct. 7, saying it made them ‘happy.’” In an interview with The Daily Signal, Fine said CAIR is an “orchestrated Muslim terror front intended to legitimize Muslim terror and to shut down critics of it.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) requested that Internal Revenue Service commissioner Billy Long investigate CAIR’s nonprofit status “due to the group’s ties to terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has already acted, designating CAIR as an FTO under state law and barring it from acquiring land. “The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation and harassment are unacceptable,” he said.

By adopting its own “pay-to-slay” model (“pay-for-Jew-hatred”), CAIR has again revealed that it is an organization that excuses terror, rewards antisemitism and works to mainstream extremism under the veneer of civil rights advocacy. The federal government should follow Texas’s lead. The State Department and IRS must strip CAIR of its tax-exempt status and formally designate it for what its record plainly shows it to be. JNS

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Federal Judge Dismisses CAIR-Backed Lawsuit Targeting Jewish Couple For Exposing Antisemitism. U.S. District Court rules that sharing truthful public information is protected speech, rejecting a CAIR-supported attempt to punish Jews for confronting antisemitism. TheJ.ca Staff By: TheJ.ca Staff. December 3, 2025 TheJ.ca

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Victims sue for tens of thousands of shekels 5 years after attack. Two Jews who were sprayed with pepper spray by an Arab attacker in Jerusalem have filed a civil lawsuit for 60,000 shekels. Israel National News. Published: Dec 3, 2025, 9:38 PM (GMT+2)

Yossi Zeigler/TPS

Two Jewish men who were attacked with pepper spray in the Old City of Jerusalem about five years ago have submitted a civil lawsuit for 60,000 NIS against the assailant, with legal representation from the Honenu organization.

The attack occurred in May 2021. The perpetrator was arrested following the incident and sentenced to 10 months in prison. Now that the criminal proceedings have concluded, the civil suit has been filed with the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court.

In the lawsuit, attorney Chaim Bleicher of Honenu describes the sequence of events:

"One of the plaintiffs was riding his bicycle in the Old City when he saw the defendant and another individual attacking Jews. The plaintiff followed the attacker and called the police. When they reached Chabad Street, the attacker turned toward two additional Jewish men, including the second plaintiff, and began shouting. At that point, he noticed the first plaintiff reporting him to the police, distanced himself, then returned and sprayed both of them with pepper spray. The two suffered severe eye irritation and required treatment from Magen David Adom medics at the scene. They claim the incident caused physical and psychological harm that warrants compensation."

Attorney Bleicher stated that such legal actions are essential for deterrence:

"We will continue working to ensure that Islamic terror rioters pay a heavy price for their actions. The knowledge that anyone who assaults Jews will pay dearly, and for many years, creates deterrence against terrorism and strengthens citizens' sense of security in our capital, Jerusalem." INN

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Senate panel advances Trump nominee on Jew-hatred. If confirmed by the full Senate, the Chabad rabbi would become the second Chassid to be approved by the Senate for a senior administration position..

(Dec. 3, 2025 / JNS) The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations advanced the nomination of Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun to be the Trump administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday.

If confirmed by the full Senate, the Chabad rabbi would become the second Chassid to be approved by the Senate for a senior administration position after Mitchell Silk was confirmed as assistant secretary of the treasury for international markets during the first Trump administration in 2020. JNS

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Body of slain hostage transferred to IDF. An official statement by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organization claims it found the body of a slain hostage in the northern Gaza Strip. Israel National News. Dec 3, 2025, 6:10 PM INN

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300 women's rights activists, rabbis urge removal of UN denier of Hamas rape In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the 300 signatories expressed their “horror and outrage” at Reem Alsalem’s rape-denial. Israel National News. Dec 3, 2025, 10:11 PM (GMT+2)

Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, wrote on X on November 14, 2025, that “No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October."

In a letter to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, more than 300 women’s rights advocates, rabbis, Jewish studies scholars and community activists expressed their “horror and outrage” at Alsalem’s rape-denial. They pointed out that two UN reports, one by the Secretary-General himself, have confirmed that Hamas committed rapes and other sexual atrocities against Israeli women.

The signatories include the former U.S. Ambassador for Combating Antisemitism, Prof. Deborah E. Lipstadt; the past chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg; Dr. Judith Rosenbaum, head of the Jewish Women’s Archives; Rabbi Dr. Deborah Waxman, president of Reconstructing Judaism; Hebrew College president Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld; two past presidents of the Association for Jewish Studies, Prof. Jonathan Sarna and Prof. David Berger; and Prof. Deborah Dash Moore, multiple National Jewish Book Award laureate.

The petition was organized by Prof. R. Amy Elman of Kalamazoo College, in Michigan, and Dr. Rafael Medoff, historian and author of the new book, The Road to October 7.

Prof. Elman said: “The targeted sexual abuse of Israelis by Hamas and its supporters is one weapon in the arsenal of those seeking Israel’s obliteration. It’s outrageous that deniers such as Reem Alsalem are aiding and abetting the sexual violence by claiming it never happened. These apologists should be ashamed of themselves.”

Dr. Medoff commented: “If a UN official made such a remark concerning rape victims from any other ethnic or religious group, there would be an international uproar. The same standard should apply to Israeli Jewish women who were sexually assaulted by Hamas terrorists.” INN

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UN spokesman doesn’t name Albanese but refutes controversial comment on press freedom “It is very clear that journalists should never come under any violence,” Stéphane Dujarric said, after the special rapporteur said that an attack on an Italian paper should be a “warning.” Mike Wagenheim.

(Dec. 3, 2025 / JNS) Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, didn’t name Francesca Albanese in response to a question from JNS about the special rapporteur’s comment that appeared to partly justify an attack on journalists. But he rejected her statement in strong terms.

Albanese, whom the global body considers an independent “expert” and who has denounced Israel frequently in ways that U.S., Israeli and other diplomats have called Jew-hatred, drew criticism from across the Italian political spectrum, including the left, when she responded to an anti-Israel attack on the offices of Italian paper La Stampa on Nov. 28.

After the attack, Albanese, an Italian native, reportedly said that “we must not commit acts of violence against anyone, but at the same time this should also serve as a warning to the press to go back to doing its work.”

The comment was widely viewed as a threat that journalists should cover the war against Hamas in Gaza differently.

Dujarric told JNS during the Tuesday U.N. press briefing that, for Guterres, “it is very clear that journalists should never come under any violence wherever they may be, whether that violence is physical or whether that violence is verbal, whether they are intimidated.”

“Journalists need to be able to do their work freely, and they should never ever be intimidated,” he said.

Dujarric did not address Albanese’s comments directly, in line with a broad U.N. policy that special rapporteurs and independent “experts” appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council are beyond Guterres’ purview.

Separately, Dujarric told JNS that it is a priority for Guterres to wind down the U.N. peacekeeping mission on the Israel-Lebanon border.

Envoys of the states that are U.N. Security Council members are slated to visit the region later this week with officials from the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, as UNIFIL approaches its mandated conclusion at the end of 2026, despite renewed tensions on the border.

The Security Council’s resolution to shutter UNIFIL operations calls on Guterres to present options for proceeding without a UNIFIL presence in 2027. Multiple diplomats told JNS that ambassadors of states that are council members aim to return from the trip with ideas for Guterres.

The U.N. secretary-general’s radar “is wide and it is deep,” Dujarric told JNS, when asked if the UNIFIL issue had Guterres’s attention.

“Of course it’s a priority,”

said, noting Guterres’s longstanding support for the mission. That has come amid persistent efforts by Israel, and more recently the United States, to close the mission in the wake of accusations of its ineffectiveness and passive complicity in Hezbollah’s military buildup in southern Lebanon.

JNS

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Rafah Crossing to reopen, allowing Gazans to exit to Egypt. Gaza residents to be allowed to exit Gaza into Egypt, subject to coordination and oversight. Israel National News. Dec 3, 2025, 9:54 PM (GMT+2) INN

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IDF Soldier seriously injured in clash with terrorists in Rafah. 4 soldiers were wounded,1 seriously, when terrorists emerged from a tunnel in eastern Rafah and confronted IDF troops. Israel National News. Published: Dec 3, 2025, 7:18 PM (GMT+2) INN

Four Israeli troops wounded in Rafah clash with terrorists. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implied that the incident constituted a violation of the terms of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. JNS Staff. (Dec. 3, 2025 / JNS) An Israel Defense Forces soldier was severely wounded, with three others sustaining lighter injuries, on Wednesday after encountering terrorists leaving a tunnel in the Gaza Strip, the military said.

In the eastern Rafah area in southern Gaza, troops encountered “several terrorists who emerged from an underground terrorist infrastructure,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. JNS

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Rafah tunnel terrorists in constant contact with Hamas leadership. All Hamas terror cells hiding in Rafah’s tunnels remain in continuous contact with the group’s senior military leadership, contradicting Hamas’ public claim that the cells act independently, Kan News reports. Israel National News. Dec 3, 2025, 10:53 PM INN

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Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza following Rafah tunnel ambush. Hours earlier, terrorists ambushed Golani troops, wounding four; Jerusalem accuses Hamas of violating the ceasefire amid delays in returning the last hostage bodies. Yoav Zitun, Einav Halabi|12.3.25. YNet

Rafah Flashpoint. Hamas Leadership Terrified of Israeli Surprise Attack as Rafah Crossing Announcement Ignites Egypt War. Fear of targeted assassinations and a swift return to war has gripped the Hamas leadership following recent Israeli strikes, even as a contentious announcement to open the Rafah border crossing sparks a diplomatic row with Egypt. Eliana Fleming. Dec 3, 2025 13:51 JFeed

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Using ChatGPT to Build Bombs. Terror Plot Foiled: Israeli Teen Planned to Attack Soldiers at Bus Station After ISIS and Hamas Influence A young man from the Negev region has been arrested and indicted after planning a terror attack against soldiers at a Be'er Sheva bus station, inspired by ISIS and later Hamas, and attempting to construct explosive devices.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 3, 2025 14:33

Counter-Terror Operation Foils Planned Attack.

A joint operation by Israel's Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Police has revealed that a resident of the Negev, approximately 18 years old, was arrested last month on suspicion of planning a terror attack at a bus station in Be'er Sheva. The operation was launched after intelligence indicated the suspect's increasingly radicalized activities.

Following the investigation, the Southern District Prosecution filed a serious indictment against the young man today (Wednesday), which includes charges of preparation for an act of terrorism, receiving instruction for terror purposes, and weapons offenses.

Investigation findings indicate that the suspect began actively browsing channels and websites affiliated with the ISIS terror group as far back as 2020. This exposure led him to decide on carrying out a stabbing attack at a bus station frequented by soldiers in the city. To prepare, he purchased a knife and began practicing its use while searching for instructional videos online on "how to stab people."

Switching Allegiance and Planning Explosives.

The suspect's plans later escalated. He decided to execute the attack using explosive devices or a suicide belt. Notably, following the events of October 7th, the accused decided to rebrand his planned attack as being on behalf of the Hamas terror group rather than ISIS.

In recent months, the young man began constructing improvised explosive devices. However, fearing that the initial devices would fail during the attack, he unsuccessfully tried to acquire a handgun to ensure the plot's success. Due to the difficulty in obtaining necessary materials to complete the construction of the explosives, the accused ultimately decided to replace his two initial devices with a simpler one and discarded the first two into a trash can near his home.

Wider Network of Radicalization This case is part of a series of arrests highlighting the issue of self-radicalization and terror-inspired plotting within Israel.

Just last month, a 14-year-old resident of Jaffa was arrested in Ramallah in a joint operation led by the Tel Aviv Central Unit and directed by the Shin Bet. The investigation revealed that the youth had established contact with both ISIS and Hamas, providing them with videos and documentation of structures in Israel allegedly related to security forces. It was further reported that the autistic 14-year-old, who taught himself languages, traveled alone to Jenin to prepare explosives and successfully created devices whose functionality remains under investigation. The youth reportedly exchanged messages with ChatGPT for hours on how to construct an explosive device and viewed Hamas instructional videos.

Furthermore, two months ago, an indictment was filed against Najib Dik, a 25-year-old resident of Baqa al-Gharbiya. Dik was arrested after pledging allegiance to the ISIS terror group and planning a deadly attack. According to the prosecution, Dik considered attaching an explosive device to a kiosk near Moshav Ma'or where soldiers were present, aiming to cause fatalities. He even drove around the area listening to jihadist songs but did not carry out his plan. His indictment detailed that he systematically viewed terror and execution videos, downloaded guides for making explosives, and read aloud the ISIS oath, thereby considering himself a full member of the terror organization. JFeed

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Italy turns on UN's Francesca Albanese for comments excusing violence against journalists and Israel. Albanese, long criticized in Israel for inflammatory accusations, faces backlash at home after appearing to justify a pro-Palestinian mob’s attack on a major newsroom, prompting mayors to reconsider honors. Daniel Bettini | published: 12.4.25 | 01:28

For years, her voice has been prominent on every platform critical of Israel, especially over the past two years during the war in Gaza. Francesca Albanese, the Italian special rapporteur for the UN Human Rights Council on the Palestinian territories, has become one of the most aggressive and visible faces of Italy’s anti-Israel left.

She rarely misses a chance to level harsh accusations at Israel and to encourage rhetoric that critics say borders on incitement. Israel and the United States, along with many figures in Italy’s Jewish community and politicians on the right, have accused her of antisemitism. YNet

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Palestinian Authority keeps glorifying terrorists, contradicting Macron’s claim. Palestinian Authority keeps promoting the same terror ideology that it has for decades. Dec 3, 2025. PalWatch

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Kids were born to die for Allah – child abuse by Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education Itamar Marcus|Dec 4, 2025. Instead of encouraging children to reach heights in education and contribute something positive in their lives, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education continues to indoctrinate children to see dying for Allah – Shahada (Martyrdom) – as the great ideal.

This child abuse was once again highlighted this week during celebrations of the UN's "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People." The Tulkarem Directorate of Education proudly posted photos on Facebook taken at the school events of children holding signs glorifying Martyrdom. One sign portrayed Martyrs as smelling sweeter than a jasmine flower.. PalWatch

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Israel’s defining year captured through the lens 'Local Testimony 2025,' Israel’s top. photojournalism exhibition, opens at the Eretz Israel Museum, showcasing powerful images from a year marked by war with Iran, hostage returns, civil unrest, and moments of resilience and humanity. ynet|12.4.25 21:41

The year 2025 was one of the most turbulent and painful in Israel’s history. Hostages returned, war broke out with Iran, fires swept through the north, violence flared in the West Bank, and civil unrest shook major cities.

All of these shaped a reality marked by fear, resilience, and moments of human grace. Amid an overwhelming flow of information and images that sometimes blurred the truth, photojournalism offered clarity, a way to pause, to witness, and to remember. YNet

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Culture Triumphs Over Hate. Israel Confirmed for Eurovision 2026: Four Countries Immediately Quit Following the Historic Vote. In a victory against cultural discrimination, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) decisively voted to allow Israel’s participation in Eurovision 2026, triggering an immediate and divisive withdrawal by several anti-Israel nations. Eliana Fleming. Dec 4, 2025. JFeed

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The Dual Message. Direct Threat: Iran Launches Massive Naval Drill in Persian Gulf, Issues Warning to US Vessels Iran's Revolutionary Guards commenced a large-scale naval exercise in the Persian Gulf, showcasing sophisticated air defense systems and delivering a "dual message" of regional friendship and stern deterrence to adversaries, primarily the United States.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 4, 2025 JFeed

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High-Value Kill. WATCH: Son of Senior Hamas Official Killed Alongside Top Rafah Terror Leaders While Fleeing Tunnel Complex. A precise Israeli operation successfully neutralized the entire chain of command of Hamas’s East Rafah Battalion, including the commander and his deputy, after they were caught attempting a desperate escape from an underground tunnel network. Eliana Fleming Dec 4, 2025 [16] JFeed

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"Inevitable Destiny

Hamas Celebrates: Terror Group Gloats Over Death of Anti-Hamas Militia Leader Yasser Abu Shabib. Hamas has openly celebrated the death of Yasser Abu Shabib, the leader of a local militia group in the Gaza Strip, calling his fate the "inevitable destiny" of those who betray their people and serve Israel.

Eliana Fleming Dec 4, 2025 JFeed

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Hamas fears eliminations: Even air conditioners banned. Israel National News. Dec 5, 2025, 4:40 AM INN ____

Egypt opposes division of the Gaza Strip. Dalit Halevi. Dec 5, 2025, 4:23 AM INN

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After long suspension. easyJet to resume Israel flights in March 2026. Israel National News. Dec 5, 2025, 5:47 AM INN

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JD Vance rejects claim that antisemitism is growing inside the GOP, breaking his silence on topic. Vice President JD Vance dismissed warnings of rising antisemitism in GOP circles, pushing back on conservatives who cite growing influence from far Right figures.

By Asaf Elia-shalev/JTA. December 5, 2025.

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that he does not believe antisemitism is surging inside the Republican Party, pushing back on prominent conservatives who have raised alarms about hostility toward Jews among young right-wing activists.

“I do think it’s important to call this stuff out when I see it. I also, when I talk to young conservatives, I don’t see some simmering antisemitism that’s exploding,” Vance told NBC News in an interview marking his first year in office.

Vance said antisemitism is wrong, stating that “judging anybody based on their skin color or immutable characteristics, I think, is fundamentally anti-American and anti-Christian.” (Vance himself is a convert to Catholicism who recently said he hopes his Hindu wife chooses to become a Christian in the future.)

Vance added, “In any bunch of apples, you have bad people. But my attitude on this is we should be firm in saying antisemitism and racism is wrong. … I think it’s kind of slanderous to say that the Republican Party, the conservative movement, is extremely antisemitic.”

These remarks amount to Vance’s most direct response to Sen. Ted Cruz and other prominent figures on the right who have, in recent weeks, warned of rising antisemitism among conservatives, especially after Tucker Carlson, a Vance ally, hosted Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast.

(Nick Fuentes sits down for an interview with Tucker Carlson, Oct. 28, 2025. credit: screenshot)

Vance’s comments land amid a larger, unresolved debate inside Republican circles over how seriously to treat the rise of explicitly antisemitic figures such as Fuentes, whose online “groyper” movement has attracted a following among young GOP staffers and activists. Jewish conservatives and other right-leaning commentators have expressed alarm at Fuentes’ influence, estimating that significant numbers of junior Republican staffers consume his content. Fuentes has described “organized Jewry” as a threat to American unity.

Vance’s silence on antisemitism was a prominent topic of conversation at a recent confab for Jewish conservatives, where speakers questioned his close association with Carlson.

President Donald Trump recently defended Carlson after the podcast host interviewed Fuentes, saying, “You can’t tell him who to interview."

Trump's alleged connections with far Right activists, including Fuentes, Kanye, Tucker Carlson.

Carlson campaigned for Trump in 2024 and remains influential within the administration. Trump himself met with Fuentes and Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, later claiming he did not know who Fuentes was.

Vance has taken a similarly restrained approach. He defended Carlson’s son, Buckley, from accusations of antisemitism without addressing Carlson’s interview with Fuentes. In October, he was criticized for responding to a college student’s question about Jews and Israel without acknowledging its antisemitic framing. JPost

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'Nothing frees you from bringing a living hostage back dead,' IDF intelligence officer says. A senior reserve IDF intelligence officer who spent 11 years with the Goldin and Shaul families breaks his silence on missed chances, the hunt for October 7 hostages and why he believes every captive can be brought home. Eti Abramov|12.5.25 YNet

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The Future of War: Israel Takes Global Lead on Military Innovation With New AI Division, Iron Beam Laser System. By David Swindle. December 4, 2025

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced this week a revolutionary reorganization of the technology and artificial intelligence capabilities of the Jewish state’s military, unveiling new plans to prepare for future warfare with cutting-edge advancements.

Israel’s major defense overhaul, unveiled on Tuesday, comes in preparation for the deployment of the long-anticipated “Iron Beam” laser interceptor system, which will be delivered to the military at the end of the month.

Under the name “Bina” — Hebrew word “intelligence” — the IDF has chosen to shut down its Lotem Unit from the C41 Corps, replacing it with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Division and the Spectrum Division. The latter will focus on communications and electronic warfare with an emphasis on threats from Iran, China, and Russia.

The AI Division will grow through merging other sections within the IDF, including Mamram (the abbreviation for the Center of Computing and Information Systems) and software development units Shahar and Mitzpen. This consolidation of AI-development related divisions intends both to intensify security and avoid accidentally duplicating research efforts. The project will align with Israel’s Project Nimbus cloud computing program supplied by Amazon and Google.

The IDF also announced the ICT Division, which will focus on satellite warfare in outer space.

According to the military, about 50 percent of the new divisions are composed of women soldiers, with female officers comprising 40 percent of the senior command including two of the five top leadership positions. Algemeiner

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US Lawmakers Advance Bill to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Organization. December 4, 2025. The US House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday advanced legislation to designate the entire Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist Organization. Algemeiner

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Australia Sees Continued Surge in Antisemitic Attacks as Jewish Leaders Warn of Global Threat December 4, 2025. Antisemitic incidents in Australia remained at “unprecedentedly high levels” ... Algemeiner

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Protesters ‘targeted Jewish community’ at Los Angeles synagogue, rabbi says. Rabbi Joel Nickerson, of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, told JNS that it was a “disturbing outbreak of hate.” Aaron Bandler.

(Dec. 4, 2025 / JNS) Things “turned unlawful,” and two people were arrested—one for battery and the other for vandalism—after a group protested outside and within Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jeff Lee, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, told JNS.

Private citizens held the suspects, who were then transported to the police department and booked, Lee said.

Rabbi Joel Nickerson, senior rabbi of the Reform congregation, told JNS that “these individuals targeted the Jewish community and chose to disrupt a community event on synagogue property that was focused on advancing public safety in Koreatown.”

The temple, the oldest synagogue in Los Angeles, is located in the city’s Koreatown neighborhood. Video footage that circulated on social media appeared to show protesters shouting, including cursing, at people entering the synagogue and at people who were already inside during the event. Some footage showed a broken vase with an Israeli flag on the ground.

The footage also appeared to capture someone yelling “get out of our synagogue” at the protesters, and “there’s a nursery downstairs.” Someone responded, “and there are children[sic] in Palestine,” per the footage. JNS

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Hamas Braces for Israeli Operations Abroad, Continued Clan Opposition in Gaza. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. December 5, 2025.

Hamas is increasingly preparing for what it sees as an imminent Israeli attempt to assassinate senior leaders abroad, urging members to tighten personal security as the group simultaneously works to consolidate its weakened position in Gaza and reassert control over the enclave.

According to the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, Hamas officials reported rising concern over additional Israeli strikes on the Palestinian terrorist group’s top echelon abroad in the wake of last week’s killing of Hezbollah commander Haitham Tabtabai and September’s operation in Qatar targeting Hamas’s senior leadership.

Despite US “reassurance messages” to several parties — including mediators in Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt — that further strikes on senior Hamas members abroad would not be repeated, the group’s leadership says it “does not trust Israel.”

“There are expectations of a new assassination attempt with the Israeli government’s efforts to obstruct the second phase of the ceasefire agreement and its claim that the movement has no intention of advancing toward a deal,” the Palestinian terrorist group said.

Hamas members reportedly received new instructions requiring all fixed meetings at a single location to be canceled, with leaders instead holding irregular gatherings at rotating sites. Algemeiner

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Denmark Unveils $18 Million Plan to Combat Rising Antisemitism Amid Surge in Attacks Denmark’s government on Tuesday unveiled an $18 million, five-year plan to combat antisemitism through 2030, focusing on security, education, and… December 5, 2025. Algemeiner

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Greek Parliament Approves Purchase of Rocket Systems From Israel. December 5, 2025 Greek lawmakers approved late on Thursday the purchase of 36 PULS rocket artillery systems from Israel for about 650 million euros... Algemeiner

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Palestinian Official Calls Drop Site News Founder an ‘Apologist’ for Hamas, Ex-Obama Aides Say They ‘Love’ the Site. By Jack Elbaum. Dec 5, 2025.

Abdal Karim Ewaida, the Palestinian ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, in October 2023. Photo: Screenshot

A Palestinian diplomat accused a popular new anti-Israel website of running cover and acting as an apologist for Hamas.

Abdal Karim Ewaida, the Palestinian ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, posted on social media about Drop Site News on Tuesday, after the website reported that the Palestinian Authority was planning to ban Hamas and other terrorist factions from running in future elections.

“Pro-resistance parties and armed resistance remains one of the single most popular points in [Palestinian] public polling,” said Jeremy Scahill, founder of Drop Site News. “The Palestinian Authority is saying, ‘You are not allowed to run for public office anymore.’ And when you look at what the defense of this is on the part of the Palestinian Authority, it is a pathetic defense.”

In response, Ewaida lambasted Scahill in a social media post.

“As for Jeremy Scahill — a journalist who transitions between outlets, perhaps pursuing higher remuneration — he consistently excuses Hamas and [Yahya] Sinwar’s purported interest in reconciliation solely to vilify the Palestinian National Authority and President Mahmoud Abbas. It is astounding,” the Palestinian official wrote.

Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli forces last year, was the leader of Hamas and mastermind of the Palestinian terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.

“He acts as a fervent apologist for Hamas and jihadist elements,” Ewaida continued, referring to Scahill, “even to the point of rationalizing [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s claims of financially bolstering Hamas as being in Israel’s interest, while attempting to spin it as favorable to Hamas itself. He seems to believe he can speak with impunity.”

Ewaida went on to castigate Drop Site News in general, saying that the “platform’s credibility is deeply compromised. We are acutely aware of its sources of funding and underlying motives. The day will come when your malicious objectives and relentless advocacy for Hamas — now apparent to all — will be fully exposed, leaving little doubt about your benefactors.” Algemeiner

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StandWithUs Legal Team Requests Florida Investigate Guinness World Records for Anti-Israel Policy. By Shiryn Ghermezian. December 5, 2025.

In 2019, students, faculty and parents from the San Diego Jewish Academy broke the Guinness World Record for most sandwiches made in under three minutes, all of which were donated to San Diego’s Alpha Project, an organization dedicated to helping the homeless achieve self-sufficiency. Photo: Courtesy.

StandWithUs, the international nonprofit organization that fights antisemitism and promotes education about Israel, has called on the state of Florida to investigate Guinness World Records (GWR) over its ban on applications from Israel and to ensure that public funds do not support companies engaged in such a “discriminatory policy” against the Jewish state.

StandWithUs Saidoff Law, which carries out legal action for the pro-Israel group, sent a letter on Thursday to members of the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA) following the revelation this week that GWR has enforced a policy since 2023 not to accept submission applications from Israel and the Palestinian territories. Saidoff Law formally requested that the board investigate GWR and its affiliate Guinness World Records North America regarding the “boycott policy” to see if they should be included on Florida’s official list of “Scrutinized Companies or Other Entities that Boycott Israel” in accordance with Florida law. Guinness World Records North America is registered in Florida as a foreign profit corporation... Algemeiner

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Federal Judge Dismisses Harvard Graduate’s Antisemitism Lawsuit Against School.

By Dion J. Pierre. December 5, 2025

April 20, 2025, Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University and Harvard Square scenes with students and pedestrians. Photo: Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect.

A US federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former graduate student accusing Harvard University of unlawfully declining to discipline two anti-Israel activists who led a mob that surrounded him and screamed “Shame!” in his face.

“While the court does not condone an assault on a fellow student by campus protesters, nothing in the Amended Complaint plausibly supports the notion that his assailants’ conduct was motivated by race-based antisemitism,” US District Judge Richard G. Stearns wrote in his ruling on Thursday.

Stearns dismissed former Harvard Business School student Yoav Segev’s complaint without prejudice, so Segev can sue again.

The ruling confers a significant legal victory to Harvard, which has twice requested that Segev’s complaint be tossed out of court on the grounds that it failed to articulate a legally recognizable grievance. Harvard submitted its first motion to dismiss in October, and Segev fired back on Nov. 17, with his attorneys writing in response that Harvard’s litigation strategy is a “morally indefensible” attempt to disappear allegations which they say the school knows are true.

“The harassment also came from Harvard faculty, who publicly blamed Mr. Segev because his presence, as a Jew, was somehow ‘frightening’ to other students,” Segev’s attorneys wrote in a memorandum to the court. “This pervasive harassment also includes Harvard mistreating and misleading Mr. Segev to deny him a fair process while protecting and rewarding his attackers. Harvard ignores these allegations.”

They added, “Moreover, while the complaint focuses on Mr. Segev’s assault, ensuring harassment, and Harvard’s unreasonable response, it details the many other ways Harvard neglected the entire Jewish community, of which Mr. Segev is a member.”

Harvard argued in turn that Segev “does not attempt to explain how the facts alleged about that single, short-lived event — shouting and some brief instances of non-injurious physical contact — could be vile enough to have a systemic effect on his education experience.”

Stearns — who was appointed to the bench in 1993 by former US President Bill Clinton (D) and served as a political operative for and special assistant to Israel critic and former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern — seemed to imply in his ruling that Segev was randomly singled out and not targeted for being Jewish, while supporting the university’s contentions. Algemeiner

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Report links Hezbollah to global ransomware group. Researchers identified a Lebanese computer engineering student as the leader of the Iranian terror proxy's offensive cyber arm. JNS Staff.

(Dec. 5, 2025 / JNS) A new joint report by DOS-OP and the Alma Research and Education Center describes the BQT.Lock (BaqiyatLock) ransomware group as an offensive cyber arm of the Hezbollah terrorist group, not a purely criminal outfit.

The authors say the group shows a direct and systematic affiliation with Hezbollah and the Iranian cyber apparatus. JNS

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‘I’m on the right side of history’: Journalists who won’t bend to anti-Israel pressure “There’s a hunt here for anyone who publicly expresses positive views about Israel,” says Danish-Israeli journalist Yotam Konfino. Nissan Shtrauchler Dec. 5, 2025

Journalists who challenged Hamas propaganda after the terrorist organization’s onslaught on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, discovered the limits of Western tolerance—losing careers, receiving death threats and requiring police escorts simply for reporting a perspective sympathetic to Israel.

They live in democratic countries with freedom of expression and work for major media outlets—yet they paid a heavy price for criticizing Hamas. Despite everything, they continue to speak out, while their colleagues criticize Israel or choose comfortable silence.

In early November, Yotam Konfino, 35, a Danish-Israeli journalist, was invited to lecture at the Tivoli Hotel in Copenhagen about propaganda and misinformation in the Gaza war. Konfino, who reports from Israel for leading media outlets in Denmark, the U.S., and Britain, arrived early. He knew pro-Palestinian activists were preparing a “reception” for him. As someone who is half Israeli, he has always been under a magnifying glass, but since Oct. 7, he has been accompanied by police to every public event. JNS

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Harvard prof who fired pellet gun near synagogue on Yom Kippur to leave US before being deported. "It is a privilege to work and study in the United States, not a right," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated. "There is no room in the United States for brazen, violent acts of antisemitism like this." JNS Staff.

(Dec. 5, 2025 / JNS) Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a visiting law professor whom Harvard University suspended in October after he was arrested for firing a pellet gun near Temple Beth Zion, an “independent, inclusive” congregation in Brookline, Mass., on Yom Kippur, has agreed to leave the country, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. JNS

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More Than 200 Celebrities Join Campaign Calling for Israel to Release Convicted Terrorist Marwan Barghouti. By Shiryn Ghermezian. December 5, 2025. Algemeiner

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Lebanese President, Hezbollah Split Over Expanded Talks With Israel. December 5, 2025 Lebanon’s president on Friday defended his decision to expand talks with Israel as a way to avoid further violence.... Algemeiner

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‘Like Black Hawk Down’: 19-year-old IDF combat documentarian captures Syria battle | Watch. Cpl. B captured rare footage of last week’s firefight in Beit Jann, where three soldiers were seriously wounded and at least 13 terrorists were killed, revealing how clash unfolded and how reservists fought to evacuate injured under heavy fire. Yoav Zitun|12.5.25. YNet

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US Congress introduces bill to promote uncensored internet access in Iran. The Feasibility Review of Emerging Equipment for Digital Open Media Act, if passed, would open a probe into the possibility of implementing new technology to improve uncensored internet access. By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 5, 2025. JPost

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Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia. December 5, 2025. JPost

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Iran holds drills in Gulf, firing ballistic, cruise missiles at simulated targets. December 5, 2025. JPost

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Iran, Qatar, other foreign actors backing anti-Israel demonstrations, LA Israeli consulate says. The Israeli LA consulate warned that authorities need to pay attention to aggressive and violent protests before another Washington shooting occurs.

By Michael Starr. December 5, 2025. Foreign actors backed protests like the Wednesday Los Angeles synagogue demonstration, claimed the Israeli Los Angeles consulate, also warning that unless authorities checked belligerent behavior, it could lead to another Washington embassy staff terrorist attack.

Some of the protesters at the Innovating Safety, Empowering Communities public safety event at Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s Audrey Irmas Pavilion had no connection to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said Deputy Consul General of Israel to The Pacific Southwest, Yulia Rachinsky-Spivakov, and were likely an example of foreign backing of anti-Israel demonstrations. JPost

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Not surprising. George Clooney Admits: Amal Works for the Muslim Brotherhood If George Clooney had been able to see past his nose, he would have realized that admitting Amal works (or worked) for the Muslim Brotherhood wasn't his brightest moment.

Gila Isaacson Dec 5, 2025. In a jaw-dropping moment on The Drew Barrymore Show that has sent shockwaves through Hollywood and beyond, George Clooney casually bragged about his wife Amal's involvement in drafting Egypt's 2012 constitution under the Muslim Brotherhood regime, a group widely condemned as a terrorist organization responsible for fomenting jihadist violence and Islamist extremism across the globe. JFeed

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Tucker Carlson to headline Qatar’s Doha Forum, triggering pro-Israel backlash. Right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson is slated to speak at the Doha Forum in Qatar this weekend, sharpening debates over US-Qatari ties.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 5, 2025. Right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson is now listed as a featured speaker at the Doha Forum in Qatar this weekend, sharpening a growing fight inside the pro-Trump camp over Qatar’s ties to Hamas and its role as a global platform for Islamist movements.

Florida-based activist Laura Loomer, a close ally of United States President Donald Trump, flagged Carlson’s addition in a new post on X on Thursday, sharing what she said was a screenshot from the Doha Forum website that shows the former Fox News host on the official speakers list. Loomer has spent months accusing Carlson of being too soft on Qatar and Iran and of undermining support for Israel. JPost

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Hamas officials create new security guidelines amid fear of Israeli assassination attempt - report. Concern grew after the killing of senior Hezbollah official Haytham Ali Tabatabai in late November, Hamas officials told the Saudi news site. 

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 5, 2025 JPost

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Iran Holds Drills in Gulf, Firing Ballistic, Cruise Missiles at Simulated Targets. December 5, 2025. The Navy of Iran‘s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired ballistic and cruise missiles at simulated targets in the Gulf on Friday... Algemeiner

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Not surprising. George Clooney Admits: Amal Works for the Muslim Brotherhood If George Clooney had been able to see past his nose, he would have realized that admitting Amal works (or worked) for the Muslim Brotherhood wasn't his brightest moment.

Gila Isaacson Dec 5, 2025. In a jaw-dropping moment on The Drew Barrymore Show that has sent shockwaves through Hollywood and beyond, George Clooney casually bragged about his wife Amal's involvement in drafting Egypt's 2012 constitution under the Muslim Brotherhood regime, a group widely condemned as a terrorist organization responsible for fomenting jihadist violence and Islamist extremism across the globe. JFeed

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1,100 Jewish New Yorkers brave bitter cold to rally against Jew-hatred outside targeted synagogue. “We’re not going anywhere so fast. We can’t be erased,” one attendee told JNS. “People aren’t surrendering.” Debra Nussbaum Cohen. (Dec. 5, 2025 / JNS) On a bitterly cold Thursday night last week, some 1,100 Jewish New Yorkers braved the freezing temperatures to participate in a solidarity rally outside the Orthodox synagogue which was targeted by anti-Israel protesters two weeks earlier.

At the Dec. 4 rally, the mood was one of pride and determination.

“This felt like ‘We are Jewish New Yorkers. Don’t you dare f*** with us.’ It was the necessary response to those crazy hoodlums trying to intimidate Jews. Because we’re not going to allow it,” said Shira Dicker, a writer and publicist from the Upper West Side.

On Nov. 19, Nefesh b’Nefesh held an event at Park East Synagogue promoting aliyah when demonstrators outside chanted “death to the IDF” and “globalize the intifada,” as well as “we don’t want no Zionists here.” One organizer from the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation reportedly told the 200-person crowd, “We need to make them scared.”

“I was glad to see the Jewish community organize this rally,” said participant Daniel Treiman, an attorney who lives on the Upper East Side. “It’s really important to stand up against this abominable, genuinely hateful trend of protests outside Jewish institutions in which they chant unambiguously murderous slogans.” JNS

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Herzog: The fountains of American life are based on ‘biblical values’. The Israeli president said he was following with concern the growing anti-Israel sentiments among American youth. JNS Staff. (Dec. 6, 2025 / JNS) “The fountains of America, of American life, are based on biblical values, just like ours [in the Jewish state],” Israeli President Isaac Herzog told Politico in a long-format interview .. JNS

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Bibas Footprints' memorial grove opens near Kibbutz Tze’elim to honor Shiri, Ariel and Kfir. With the Bibas family present, President Isaac Herzog joined western Negev residents to inaugurate 'Bibas Footprints,' a minimalist environmental installation near Kibbutz Tze’elim memorializing Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir, murdered in Hamas captivity ynet Global|Updated:12.5.25 | 17:06

An environmental memorial honoring Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir, was inaugurated Thursday in a grove near Kibbutz Tze’elim, with the family, President Isaac Herzog and western Negev residents attending.

The installation, called 'Bibas Footprints,' commemorates Shiri and the children, who were kidnapped from their home in Nir Oz during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, murdered in captivity and returned for burial in February 2025. The site is located near Tze’elim, where Yarden Bibas, Shiri’s husband and the children’s father, grew up. Yarden was also abducted on October 7 and held by Hamas for 484 days before his release. YNet

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Bodycam footage: IDF concludes major operation in northern Samaria IDF forces concluded a two-week counterterrorism mission in northern Samaria, eliminating six terrorists, arresting suspects, and seizing weapons and major terror funds. Uzi Baruch. Dec 5, 2025, 3:32 PM INN

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Last hostage’s sister: 'Do not proceed to Phase 2 until Rani is home' Israel National News. Dec 5, 2025, 8:59 PM INN

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US praises Syria for blocking Hezbollah weapons shipments. Elad Benari, Canada. Dec 5, 2025, 9:32 PM INN

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Despite boycott calls. Belgium confirms Eurovision participation Elad Benari, Canada Dec 5, 2025, 10:07 PM INN

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New York Gov. Hochul: 'Mamdani cannot arrest Netanyahu' Elad Benari, Canada Dec 5, 2025, 10:41 PM INN

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Artificial intelligence or artificial confidence? Why blind trust in AI is the real danger. Opinion: The problem isn’t that AI makes mistakes but that we stop making our own, Israel learned this when overconfidence in a 'smart,' automated system before Oct. 7 proved costly — a reminder of the danger in trusting technology too much. Prof. Guy Hochman|12.6.25 YNet

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NYC police chief apologizes after brother’s attack. After Benjamin Tisch called mayor-elect Mamdani an ‘enemy,’ his sister apologized; Mamdani said he will serve all New Yorkers ynet|12.6.25 YNet

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'The Zionists deleted my YouTube channel'. Dozens of pro-Houthi users say their accounts vanished; Houthis blame Israel and the US; a comedian vows to open new channels Lior Ben Ari|12.6.25 YNet

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Germany hails Arrow 3 as chancellor arrives in Israel to revive relations. Days after Israel’s historic deployment of the Arrow 3 interceptor, Friedrich Merz will meet Netanyahu and Herzog to reset strained ties; German media are highlighting the system’s advantages and already discussing the potential purchase of the Arrow 4. News Agencies|12.6.26 YNet

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‘America First’ returns: Trump’s strategy slams Europe, signals shift on Russia and Middle East. For the first time since returning to the White House, the administration has released Trump’s national security principles under the banner 'America First,' outlining reduced U.S. involvement in Israel and the Gulf, a reset with Putin and doubts about Europe’s strength amid migration and 'loss of national identities'. News Agencies | published:12.6.25.

A policy paper released Friday by the Trump administration outlining a new national security strategy is expected to unsettle U.S. allies around the world, including Israel. The document formally codifies the approach President Donald Trump has long promoted — a sharp pullback from American involvement overseas, including in the Middle East — under the guiding principle of “America First.”

According to the Associated Press, despite Trump’s deep engagement in Israel’s war in Gaza, as well as in Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, and despite his extended tour of the Gulf states, the United States plans to shift its strategic focus away from the region. The stated reason is Washington’s declining dependence on Arab oil.

The paper sharply criticizes previous U.S. administrations for efforts to shape political systems in the region or judge them. It says the U.S. must abandon what it calls the “misguided experiment” of lecturing Middle Eastern governments — especially Gulf monarchies — about their traditions and forms of rule. Trump views them as ripe for economic opportunity, and therefore the U.S. should “encourage and applaud reform when and where it emerges organically, without trying to impose it.”

The document, which the administration is required by law to publish, is the first since the Republican president returned to the White House in January. Its contents mark a sharp departure from the strategy set by his predecessor, Joe Biden, who sought to rebuild alliances strained during Trump’s 2016–2020 term and counter Russia under Vladimir Putin.

Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat on the intelligence and armed services oversight committees, called the new strategy “catastrophic to America’s standing in the world,” arguing that retreating from alliances will make the world — and Americans — less safe.

Beyond its Middle East implications, the paper portrays U.S. allies in Europe as socially and economically weakened, citing migration, declining birthrates, “censorship of free speech,” “suppression of political opposition” and “loss of national identities.” As a result, the document warns, they could face “civilizational erasure.” Consequently, the Trump administration raises doubts about the long-term reliability of European allies. At the same time, the paper states the U.S. seeks improved relations with Russia after years of hostility, saying that ending the war in Ukraine is a key American interest for restoring strategic stability with Moscow. “Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,” it reads. “As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies.”

The strategy also addresses the rise of far-right parties in Europe that advocate restricting immigration and halting climate legislation. “America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit,” it says. “The growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.” The document further states that the United States under Trump seeks to “rebalance” its relationship with China. The administration wants to prevent a war over Taiwan — the island claimed by Beijing and supported militarily by the U.S. under domestic law — and expects other regional allies to shoulder more responsibility in countering China’s pressure. “The American military cannot, and should not have to, do this alone,” it says. YNet

What does Trump’s National Security Strategy mean for Israel, Iran, and Gaza? - analysis. Clearly, the White House will not welcome more wars between Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran.

By Seth J. Frantzman. December 6, 2025 The Middle East doesn’t get much attention in US President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, and that is what makes it important for Israel and the region, at large.

Much of the discussion about the strategy focuses on its view of Europe. It was already clear that the administration was skeptical of Europe and wanted to focus more domestically and on the Western Hemisphere.

The strategy doesn’t concern itself much with the Middle East. This is interesting because Trump has focused much of his doctrine in the first year of his second administration on the region. He bombed Iran and helped end the 12-day war between Jerusalem and Tehran. He pushed for the Gaza ceasefire and also worked with the UN to get a resolution supporting it. He has also worked with the Saudis and the new Syrian government.

As such, one might get the impression that the White House is intensely focused on the Middle East. For a decade, US policymakers, going back to the Obama administration, have tried to wind down the US role in the region. This is a result of a kind of hangover from the Gulf wars and the Global War on Terrorism.

“On my first day in office, we restored the sovereign borders of the United States and deployed the US military to stop the invasion of our country. We got radical gender ideology and woke lunacy out of our Armed Forces, and began strengthening our military with $1 trillion of investment,” Trump wrote in the new strategy.

What does Trump's new Mideast policy mean for Israelis? Hamas terrorists in Beit Lahiya in the northern “In Operation Midnight Hammer, we obliterated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity. I declared the drug cartels and savage foreign gangs operating in our region as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. And over the course of just eight months, we settled eight raging conflicts – including between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the [Democratic Republic of Congo] and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and ending the war in Gaza with all living hostages returned to their families. America is strong and respected again – and because of that, we are making peace all over the world.”

US wants Israel to be secure, take responsibility for its own policies.

The US wants Israel to remain secure. But it also wants Israel to be able to take responsibility for its own policies. That means the US can’t always step in to help Israel deal with Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, or Iran. The US also wants peace in the region, not more wars. Israeli leaders tend to hint at more wars with Iran, Hezbollah, or Hamas. The new strategy says “conflict remains the Middle East’s most troublesome dynamic, but there is today less to this problem than headlines might lead one to believe. Iran – the region’s chief destabilizing force – has been greatly weakened by Israeli actions since October 7, 2023, and President Trump’s June 2025 Operation Midnight Hammer, which significantly degraded Iran’s nuclear program.”

In addition, it notes that “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains thorny, but thanks to the ceasefire and release of hostages President Trump negotiated, progress toward a more permanent peace has been made.”

The section on Syria is interesting, calling the country a “potential problem,” which is less upbeat than Trump’s recent statements about Damascus. The strategy calls for Arab countries, Israel, and Turkey to support stabilization in Syria. The White House has not been happy with Israel’s bombing and incursions into Syria.

Overall, the administration believes that the US doesn’t have the same historic reasons to be focused on the Middle East today.

“Instead, the region will increasingly become a source and destination of international investment, and in industries well beyond oil and gas, including nuclear energy, AI, and defense technologies. We can also work with Middle East partners to advance other economic interests, from securing supply chains to bolstering opportunities to develop friendly and open markets in other parts of the world, such as Africa.”

For this to happen, conflict can’t underpin the region.

The US wants to make sure that Gulf energy supplies continue to flow and the “Strait of Hormuz remains open.” The Red Sea will also need to be free from attacks on shipping. The US wants Israel to remain secure, but the document is light on other details. “We also have a clear interest in expanding the Abraham Accords to more nations in the region and to other countries in the Muslim world,” it says.

At the end of the day, the administration doesn’t want the region to dominate the US foreign policy focus. It dominated in 2025. The administration has done much for Israel.

The White House wants to see the region flip into an area for “partnership, friendship, and investment – a trend that should be welcomed and encouraged. In fact, Trump’s ability to unite the Arab world at Sharm el-Sheikh in pursuit of peace and normalization will allow the United States to finally prioritize American interests.”

Clearly, the White House will not welcome more wars between Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran. This means that when politicians in Jerusalem talk and boast about disarming Hezbollah in another military campaign, or claiming the IDF will go back into parts of Gaza where two million people live, there is not going to be a lot of welcome for this in Washington.

The question is whether the strategy will be fulfilled as part of the “Trump Doctrine,” or whether the White House will continue to try to manage various issues in the region. JPost

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IDF identifies and kills terrorist approaching forces in northern Gaza One other terrorist identified by the IDF accompanied him as the two approached Israeli forces, the military added. The other terrorist survived the strike, which was carried out by the IAF. By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 5, 2025 JPost

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'There was nothing I could do': Thai family's long wait for slain Gaza hostage ends For months, the family waited through multiple hostage releases, hoping Sudthisak would be among those freed alive. Each time brought disappointment. By Reuters. December 6, 2025. JPost

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Nigel Farage told peers Jews should be ‘gassed’ and ‘Hitler was right,’ former classmates claim. Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish BAFTA and Emmy-winning director, alleged Farage would tell him “Hitler was right” and “gas them” while sometimes simulating the sound of gas chambers.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 6, 2025 UK Reform Party leader Nigel Farage engaged in racist and antisemitic bullying targeting fellow students at school; over 20 school classmates and teachers of Farage’s at Dulwich College complained, according to a Friday The Guardian.

Farage dismissed the reports of racist bullying, claiming instead that he may have engaged in “banter in a playground” and suggested the accusations against him were politically motivated. JPost

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Southern Gaza: IDF eliminates terrorists who crossed yellow line Israel National News. Dec 6, 2025, 5:32 PM INN

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Israel to mediators: Hamas knows where body of last hostage is. Israel sends message to mediators, stressing that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, know where the body of Yasam officer Ran Gvili is located, and that Hamas can access it.

Israel National News Dec 6, 2025, 6:49 PM INN

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Gaza Power Shift. Hamas Issues 10-Day Surrender Ultimatum to Rival Militias in Gaza After Abu Shabab's Murder Since the October ceasefire, Hamas has ramped up its campaign against alleged collaborators, detaining or eliminating individuals accused of aiding Israel as it moves to reassert authority in areas where its control had weakened. Gila Isaacson. Dec 6, 2025. JFeed

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Israeli tourists, Palestine protesters clash in Italy. Videos from Brindisi show Israeli cruise passengers trading insults and gestures with demonstrators; police intervene ynet|12.6.25 YNet

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Pres. Herzog welcomes German chancellor, deepening bilateral ties. Israel National News. Dec 6, 2025, 11:10 PM INN

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Abu Shabab's deputy speaks out after appointment: 'Why would I be afraid of Hamas?' In an interview with N12 News, Al-Duhaini said that he fights Hamas "in the name of the people and the free individuals.” Jerusalem Post Staff Dec 6, 2025. The new leader of the Abu Shabab clan, Ghassan al-Duhaini, told N12 News on Friday that his militia would continue to fight Hamas in southern Gaza with greater intensity JPost

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'We want security, not your land': Israeli Amb. to US calls for partnership in address to Lebanese. "Let us pray that next year, 2026, will become the year of Abraham Accords 2.0, and we will all live in peace and harmony," he said. By TPS, Jerusalem Post Staff Dec 6, 2025. JPost

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Terror attack thwarted in Hebron Paratroopers eliminate two terrorists attempting to ram Israelis at police checkpoint; one Israeli suffers very light injuries. Israel National News. Published: Dec 6, 2025, 9:39 PM (GMT+2) Updated: 23:25 INN

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Israel ‘fighting ghosts,’ Syrian president says, accuses Jerusalem of exploiting Oct. 7. Israel often brings its crises to other countries and tries to evade taking responsibility for the "horrifying massacres it committed in Gaza," Sharaa told the crowds.  JPost

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Canada removes Syria from terror list. Dalit Halevi. Dec 6, 2025, 10:40 PM INN

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Israel thwarts Hamas attempt to infiltrate northern towns. IDF reveals Hamas infrastructure and plans to infiltrate Galilee towns, kidnap Israeli civilians. Israel National News. Dec 6, 2025, 10:27 PM INN

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Friends and family urge Israel not to advance Gaza deal until last hostage accounted for. At an emotional gathering, relatives and fellow officers of Ran Gvili — the final hostage still missing in Gaza — press leaders in Jerusalem and Washington to halt progress on ceasefire deal until he is found, saying fallen Yasam fighter cannot be abandoned. Ilana Curiel|12.7.25 YNet

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PLO: “Every achievement of Hamas is a victory for the Palestinian people”. Palestinian officials continue to embrace unity with Hamas. Dec 7, 2025. PalWatch

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Report: White House seeking breakthrough on Israel-Egypt gas agreement. Israel National News. Dec 7, 2025, 4:40 PM INN

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Near Azzun: IDF neutralizes terrorists, preventing injuries to civilians. Israel National News. Dec 7, 2025, 9:39 PM INN

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1000 leaders in Shiloh 'Israel is the firewall between radical Islam and America'. Over 1,000 US Christian leaders visited ancient Shiloh, where Mike Evans and Eliana Passentin speak with Arutz Sheva about their mission’s significance in Judea and Samaria. Israel National News. Dec 7, 2025, 8:10 PM INN

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MK visits hilltop community - to discover surprise evacuation. Israel National News. Dec 7, 2025, 9:45 PM INN

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US, Israel, Qatar set high-level talks to repair strained ties. High-level talks seek to rebuild coordination among Washington, Jerusalem and Doha following the fallout from the Israeli strike in Qatar. Israel National News. Dec 7, 2025, 8:41 PM INN

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Five Local Militias Mobilize. "The Gentle One is Gone": Succession Shock as Ruthless Commander Takes Anti-Hamas Helm Despite the death of their founding leader in an internal dispute, anti-Hamas militias in Gaza are escalating their fight, vowing to exploit the terror group's weakness and pursue its operatives until their "last day," revealing a map of local power centers that challenge Hamas control.

Eliana Fleming Dec 7, 2025. JFeed

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Ilhan Omar Strikes Again. Ilhan Omar Sparks Firestorm After Comparing Stephen Miller’s Rhetoric to Nazi-Era Language | WATCH. Ilhan Omar ignited fresh controversy by comparing Trump aide Stephen Miller’s immigration rhetoric to language once used by Nazi Germany, sparking fierce backlash online and renewed debate over political discourse, antisemitism, and U.S. immigration policy. Bianca Jones. Dec 7, 2025 JFeed

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Hamas official says the terror group ready to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ its weapons. Hamas official Bassem Naim says the terrorist group is 'open to a comprehensive approach to avoid further escalations' as Israel and Hamas prepare for a far more complex second phase of the US-brokered ceasefire Associated Press|12.7.25 13:24 YNet

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IDF chief says Gaza ceasefire line ‘a new border’ Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says IDF is preparing for future surprise attack scenarios. JNS Staff. (Dec. 7, 2025 / JNS). JNS

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Hamas chief rejects key points of Trump peace plan, calls for Israel’s destruction. Global anti-Israel sentiment has created opportunities "to remove this entity [Israel] from our homeland," said Khaled Mashaal. Akiva Van Koningsveld. (Dec. 7, 2025 / JNS) Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Saturday repeated his call for Israel’s destruction, rejecting U.S.- and U.N.-backed demands to disarm the Iranian-supported terrorist group and demilitarize the Gaza Strip. JNS

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Former hostage families praise US, press for return of Ran Gvili. They traveled to Washington to thank officials who were involved in securing the release of their sons’ remains from the Gaza Strip. Or Shaked. (Dec. 7, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Former hostage welcomed by Italy's ruling party Rom Braslavski was a guest of Prime Minister. Giorgia Meloni, received great sympathy; 'I saw the horrors with my own eyes' Daniel Bettini|12.8.25 YNet

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Netanyahu casts doubt on Gaza international force: ‘can’t carry out the main objectives’. As US struggles to assemble a stabilization mission for Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu says key tasks will fall to Israel alone and vows to discuss Phase II of the Trump plan with the president later this month. Itamar Eichner|12.8.25 YNet

____ . The Seven Days that Shatter the ‘Nakba’ Myth. In anti-Israel circles, the dominant narrative of the Palestinian ‘Nakba’ rests on a single, almost unchallenged assumption: That a passive and defenceless Arab population was suddenly overwhelmed by violent Jewish militias determined to expel them and seize their land. From this foundational myth flow all the modern accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide, repeated by governments, activists, and even the UN. This is the central pillar upon which the entire pro-Palestinian movement is built

Take this recent post from the UN Palestine account which ties all the different strands together:

But that story collapses the moment you look at what actually happened. Not decades later, not in later stages of the war, but in the very first seven days after the UN partition vote.

Using mostly Arab newspapers of the time, the record is unmistakable: within hours of the UN decision, Arab political factions, militias, and regional actors launched a campaign of violence and mobilisation aimed at preventing the creation of a Jewish state. The civil war that followed – and the refugee crisis it produced – emerged from this aggressive, openly-declared Arab rejectionism, not from a premeditated Jewish plan.

What follows is a look through that history, reconstructed day by day from contemporary Arab and Jewish press.

Day one – November 30 1947 Arab media reacts to partition with mobilisation and incitement.

The morning after the UN vote, neither Ad-Difa nor Al-Wahda reported the partition as a political event. Instead, both papers erupted with outrage and calls for Arab mobilisation across the region. The pages were saturated with threats, anti-Jewish invective, and demands for an ‘Islamic Front’ to rise.

Ad-Difa’s lead built explicitly toward violent resistance. Al-Wahda’s headline declared: “O Arabs, the West has chosen your enemies. Will you remain stunned, or will you prepare?”

There is no ambiguity here. Arab media was calling on the Arab people inside the Mandate area and across the region to mobilise.

Day two – 1 December 1947 Violence erupts across the country. The Palestine Post reported seven Jews murdered in multiple attacks on 30 November.

Arab newspapers themselves documented the killings. Look at Ad-Difa’s own front page on the same date. Ad-Difa was a staunchly Pan-Arab media outlet that was aligned with the Husayni, ‘Holy War’ factions in the mandate area. It eventually promoted open support for the Nazis. At the time, the paper was run by Ibrahim al-Shanti.

Its headline read: “23 Jews killed and wounded in 8 separate incidents in Haifa, Jaffa, Beit Ve-Gan, Sarona, and Jerusalem.”

The article described bus ambushes around Jerusalem, attacks in Lod, Tulkarm, Haifa and Jaffa, and other assaults on Jewish civilians.

The war had begun – and it had begun with Arab-initiated violence.

Dec 7, 2025 David Collier

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South Africa Revokes Visa-Free Access for Palestinians After Controversial Gaza Flight. By i24 News and Algemeiner Staff. December 7, 2025

i24 News – South Africa has canceled its long-standing visa exemption for Palestinian passport holders following an investigation into a charter flight that brought 153 Gazans into Johannesburg without valid documentation.

Authorities say the operation was likely exploited by actors connected to Israeli “voluntary migration” initiatives.

Interior Minister Leon Schreiber told reporters that national security agencies determined there had been “deliberate and ongoing abuse” of the 90-day visa waiver.

The passengers, who arrived via Kenya, were neither tourists nor holders of tickets purchased independently. Investigators said the trip had been arranged by intermediaries who appeared ready to “abandon” the travelers upon arrival.

Authorities are also examining a similar case from October. Schreiber emphasized that revoking the exemption is “the most effective way to prevent the repetition of such flights” while ensuring that legitimate Palestinian travelers can visit South Africa safely. He added, “South Africa will not be complicit in any scheme aimed at exploiting or displacing Palestinians from Gaza.”

The decision follows widespread controversy over the charter flight, which reportedly held passengers onboard for 12 hours in difficult conditions before they were allowed entry. Some officials have pointed fingers at Israel for its role in the operation.

South African media reports identified the organization Al-Majd, linked to Israeli-Estonian national Tomer Yanar Lind, as the orchestrator of the transfer. The passengers were said to have traveled from Rafah to Israel’s Ramon Airport before flying via Kenya on a charter operated by the Romanian airline Flyyo. Many reportedly paid around $2,000 for the journey. Algemeiner

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The scholars fueling the current wave of antisemitism. As anti-Israel hatred reaches a new high in Europe, a group of Italian Jewish intellectuals has come out against the IHRA definiton.

Fiamma Nirenstein. Dec 7, 2025.

Former US President Bill Clinton understood this when then-Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat declared that Jerusalem had never been Jewish. Clinton threatened to walk out of the room at the Camp David Summit in July 2000 if Arafat continued uttering such false claims. He recognized the statement for what it was—the purest form of antisemitism.

What Clinton grasped instinctively, these intellectuals refuse to see: that the Jewish people and Israel are inseparable. To delegitimize Israel is to delegitimize Jews. That is why antisemites applaud efforts to weaken IHRA; it leaves them free to proclaim Israel a crime and Zionism a pathology.

Delrio’s initiative represents moral courage at a time when it is desperately needed. The Jewish scholars who oppose him, intentionally or not, provide cover for those who seek to dissolve the line between criticism and hatred, between debate and incitement.

These Jews do not understand that the Jewish people and Israel are the same. The stances expressed by King, Clinton and now Delrio are more Jewish than theirs.

History is watching. And today, as in the past, the refusal to name antisemitism is its most reliable accomplice. JNS

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December 7, 2025 1:01 pm. Revealed: Hamas Money Laundering Network in Turkey Linked to Iran avatar by i24 News and Algemeiner Staff Share Share On Facebook Tweet Share On Twitter Email Email This Article

Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladimir Putin of Russia pose for a picture after a news conference during their meeting in Ankara, Turkey, September 16, 2019. Photo: Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS.

i24 News – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet revealed on Sunday that Hamas, under the direction of Iran, is operating a clandestine network of money exchangers in the heart of Turkey, using the country’s financial infrastructure to fund terrorist activities against Israel.

According to documents obtained by Israeli authorities, the network is composed primarily of Gazans who manage the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars directly to Hamas and its leadership.

These funds are received from Iranian sources, stored, and then forwarded to the terrorist organization to support its operations. Algemeiner

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Jerusalem Israel’s ‘rightful capital,’ says Trump on anniversary of city’s recognition. The city is the “rightful capital that stands at the heart of Israel’s traditions, government and heritage,” said the U.S. president. JNS Staff. (Dec. 8, 2025 / JNS) President Donald Trump said on Dec. 6 that his decision on that day in 2017 to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to begin the process of moving the U.S. embassy there was “a transformative step forward in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East.”

“Today, eight years later, my administration renews its commitment to ushering in a new era of peace, prosperity and stability in the region and all around the world,” he stated.

“Since the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948, Jerusalem has served as its cultural and religious heart and the seat of its government,” the president stated. “However, for decades, weak politicians refused to formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, despite Congress voting to support the action, because they believed that moving our embassy would harm the cause of peace in the region,” he continued.

“In recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving our embassy to that beautiful city, we acknowledged the rightful capital that stands at the heart of Israel’s traditions, government and heritage,” he said. “Now we stand on the doorstep of one of the greatest diplomatic achievements in history as a strong, durable and everlasting peace is emerging across the Middle East.”

The “significant peace agreement” that he has led between Israel and Hamas is a “monumental agreement,” which is a “massive leap toward an enduring peace for the Israeli and Palestinian people—one that ensures security, brings stability and offers hope for generations to come,” said Trump. JNS

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IDF dismantles Hezbollah tunnel in Southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said that the operation was carried out to ensure the terror group can't reuse the route. JNS Staff. (Dec. 8, 2025 / JNS) Israeli forces recently carried out an operation to dismantle a tunnel previously used by the Hezbollah terrorist group in the Houla area of Southern Lebanon, the military said Sunday. JNS

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Canada: Jewish seniors ‘shocked’ after mezuzahs pried off doorways. “Toronto cannot look the other way while seniors are intimidated in their hallways,” said city councilor James Pasternak. JNS Staff. (Dec. 8, 2025 / JNS) A number of mezuzahs were torn from the doorways of Jewish seniors’ homes in an apartment building in North York, Toronto, Canada on Saturday.

Toronto police’s Hate Crime Unit launched an investigation into the matter, according to CTVNews. (Dec. 8, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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2,000-year-old Jerusalem city wall uncovered The section of the wall unearthed at the Tower of David Museum is among the longest and most intact segments ever uncovered. JNS Staff.

([17]. A section of the Hasmonean Wall unearthed in the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem. Credit: Gabriel Volcovich, December 8, 2025.A section of the Hasmonean Wall unearthed in the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem. Credit: Gabriel Volcovich, December 8, 2025).

(Dec. 8, 2025 / JNS) A section of Jerusalem’s city wall dating from the Hasmonean period more than two thousand years ago has been unearthed in the city’s Tower of David Museum, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday.

The wall was discovered during an excavation on the grounds of the museum, located just inside the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, adjacent to the citadel, within the historic complex known as the Kishle, the state-run archaeological body said.

The newly uncovered section of the wall known in ancient historical sources as the “First Wall” is particularly impressive in both size and degree of preservation, being over 40 meters long and about 5 meters wide, according to excavation directors Amit Re’im and Marion Zindel.

The historian Josephus details the originally 10-meter high wall and its gates, and contended that it was “impregnable,” with 60 towers standing along its length.

“There is much more to this wall than meets the eye,” the excavation directors said. “It is clear that it was systematically destroyed and razed to the ground.”

The researchers surmise that the wall may have been dismantled by the Hasmoneans themselves, or that alternatively King Herod, in seeking to distinguish his rule from that of the Hasmonean kings, deliberately destroyed their construction projects, including their monumental city wall, as a political statement.

“We are committed to preserving this impressive and unique sight, and allowing the general public to experience this tangible link to Jerusalem’s past spanning thousands of years,” said Eilat Lieber, director of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum.

“This segment of Jerusalem’s ancient city wall is tangible and moving evidence of Jerusalem’s might and stature during the Hasmonean period,” said Israeli Heritage Minister Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu. “The archaeological discoveries allow us to connect to the historical continuity that binds us—generations of Jews, to Jerusalem, and demonstrates and exhibits our proud heritage to the world.” . JNS

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Mindblowing. Tucker Carlson In Deep Trouble After Doha Summit. Conservative firebrand Tucker Carlson just unleashed a jaw-dropping revelation at the glitzy Doha Forum, declaring he's snapping up property in Qatar's bustling capital and he's not backing down from the backlash.

Gila Isaacson Dec 8, 2025 04:10

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson turned heads at the Doha Forum yesterday (Sunday), by revealing his intention to buy property in Qatar's capital, a decision he described as a personal choice driven by his fondness for the region and a search for "peace and quiet."

The statement, made during a live interview with Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, has ignited debate and drawn pushback from some in conservative circles.

In the interview, Carlson positioned the purchase as an exercise of American freedom. "I'm a free American. I can live wherever I want," he stated, countering suggestions of Qatari influence by adding, "I've never taken anything from your country and don't plan to. I am, however, tomorrow, buying a place in Qatar."

The Prime Minister responded warmly, joking that he hoped it would be "a big one, not a cheap one."

The announcement follows scrutiny over Carlson's ties to Qatar, a nation often critiqued for its connections to Hamas and its media outlet Al Jazeera. Carlson has previously spoken positively about Qatar, calling it a "nice place" and highlighting its diplomatic role with the U.S.

However, this latest move has prompted accusations from critics, including Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), who suggest it may reflect deeper influences.

Journalist Yashar Ali captured Carlson's irritation in an X post on December 7, sharing a clip from Doha News where Carlson affirmed his right to "travel where he wants and associate with whom he wishes." He also alluded to an unspecified group attempting to impose "mental bondage" on the population, a comment that aligns with his history of discussing perceived elite controls.

Here's where it gets sticky: Not everyone can buy property in Qatar.

In fact, non-Qataris (including expats and foreigners) can only own freehold property outright in about two dozen designated zones, such as The Pearl, Lusail City, West Bay Lagoon (Legtaifiya), and Al Khor.

It's not a fully open market like in Texas, and the ruling Al Thani family does influence broader real estate policy through government channels, but purchases in approved zones don't typically need special royal sign-off, it's more bureaucratic than "curated" for rewards. That said, high-profile deals could involve networking or incentives, and Qatar's system is opaque (no public records for verifying ownership details), which fuels speculation.

Also, this latest bombshell lands amid a torrent of criticism from Carlson's own conservative allies and pro-Israel heavyweights, who blast him for "normalizing" a regime entangled with Hamas and wielding influence via Al Jazeera. Indeed, Tucker's pro Qatar tilt gets stronger and stronger, with many calling him 'Qatarlson'.

Even though he denies it, his pro-Qatar reporting certainly gives his critics a leg to stand on.

Is this new Doha palace Carlson's genuine escape hatch or a slick PR masterstroke to soften Qatar's image? JFeed

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Sunday, December 07, 2025. Face it - Jew-hatred is no longer a minus for politicians, as [MTG] says "they" force Congress to vote against antisemitism.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a poster child for how today's politicians no longer care about antisemitism, not even for lip service.

When she was considered a card-carrying MAGA member she gave her theory on Rothschild space beams causing California wildfires to clear way for a high speed rail project.

To their credit, the House GOP at the time voted to remove her from committees for her crazy conspiracy theories. Many, however, defended her. And now antisemitism is no longer considered a negative for politicians on the Right.

But the interesting thing is that now that she has emerged as a critic of Donald Trump, the Left is suddenly enamored of her. She was praised on The View, by Jimmy Kimmel, The Guardian and even some Democratic members of Congress.

But has she stopped her antisemitism? No, she's doubling down. In a 60 Minutes interview Sunday night, she told Lesley Stahl that voting against antisemitism was “an exercise” that “they force on Congress.”

Hmmm, who could "they" be?

The interview then went even more off the rails. When Stahl asked her whether she didn;'t feel that there was value in standing up in the "face of a growing problem, ” Greene replied, "“We don’t have to get on our knees and say it over and over again—”

“Get on our knees?” Stahl asked, surprised.

“Yes, we do not have to get on our knees,” Greene reiterated.

Then when Stahl said most members of Congress disagree with her, she associated the antisemitism bill with AIPAC: “Well, most members of Congress take donations from AIPAC, and I don’t,” Greene said.

So )[MTG] proves yet again that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are two sides of the same coin.

But now that she is being celebrated for calling Gaza a "genocide," will any Democrats condemn her for her naked antisemitism on national TV?

We'll see. But if her previous antisemitic statements didn't give the progressives pause in embracing her positions on Israel, there is no reason to think that they will consider this interview problematic at all.

Today, partisanship wins over principle just about every time. An antisemitic politician can count on support from their own party.

And in such an environment, Jews are the ones who get victimized first. EoZ

As much as some liberals wished to see MGT (the Jewish space lasers theorist) as a "reformed," she is still that anti Jewish fanatical racist. She doesn't realize, she only beautified AIPAC as she explains that this pro Israel lobby actually fights [raw] antisemitism. at EoZ

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Terrorist at Large. A Month After Initial Report, Hamas Terrorist Roams Free in Antwerp. Hamas terrorist Mohanad al-Khatib, who was photographed in Israel on October 7th, seen enjoying Belgian Christmas market despite previous reports of his location

Judah Pe'er. Dec 8, 2025. JFeed

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Captivity survivor speaks in Italy: Islamic Jihad murdered me mentally every single day. Rom Braslavski, survivor of Hamas captivity, tells a conference of Italy’s ruling party about the October 7 massacre, his trauma in captivity, and his plea for justice and peace, 'I saw young and beautiful women riddled with bullets.' Israel National News.

Published: Dec 8, 2025, 5:45 AM (GMT+2) Updated: 8:15

Captivity survivor Rom Braslavski appeared on Sunday at a conference of the “Brothers of Italy,” the ruling party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

During the conference, Braslavski was received with applause by the audience and was interviewed on stage by Jewish-Italian journalist Maurizio Molinari.

In his remarks, Braslavski recounted the horrors he witnessed on October 7, shared some of the difficulties he experienced in captivity, and also commented on the psychological effects that his time in captivity is having on him today. INN

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IDF: Sharp rise in number of injured soldiers. IDF reports that 82,400 injured soldiers are being treated in the Rehabilitation Division, about 22,000 of them from the current war. Ministry of Defense warns of a worsening situation by 2028. Israel National News. Dec 8, 2025, 7:37 AM (GMT+2) INN

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'We will not be silent': Arab journalists reveal death threats from Hamas. In an interview with ynet, Arab journalists and activists reveal torture, threats and smear campaigns by Hamas for exposing dissent inside Gaza and vow to keep reporting despite the danger. Lior Ben Ari|12.8.25 YNet

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Qatar, Turkey trying to dissuade Hamas from disarming, as Phase II of ceasefire still under discussion. Alternatives proposed would see Hamas give up its weapons to the Palestinian Authority or transferred them to a secure storage under oversight, which could preserve Hamas' influence in Gaza; this is likely to be the main issue discussed at the Trump-Netanyahu meeting in Florida Itamar Eichner|12.7.25 | 17:59

The second phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan is still being shaped by the Americans, though nothing has been finalized. Israel and the U.S. jointly drafted the original 20‑point plan, which included a clear agreement that Hamas must be disarmed. But now Jerusalem warns that Qatar and Turkey — nations that helped negotiate the recent hostage‑release deal — are pushing to shield Hamas from disarmament.

According to Israeli officials, Qatar and Turkey are now working to extract Hamas from the requirement to disarm. They are reportedly offering alternatives: either Hamas gives up its weapons to the Palestinian Authority (PA), or the weapons are transferred to some kind of secure storage under oversight. Behind both proposals lies the aim of preserving Hamas’ influence in Gaza. Israel insists, however, that Hamas must remain weapon‑free. YNet

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Headed for conflict? Qatar: Israel Must Withdraw Regardless of Hamas Disarmament Qatari PM stresses need for Israel to withdraw completely, unrelated to Hamas progress. Earlier today, Zamir called Yellow Line "a new border."

Judah Pe'er Dec 8, 2025. JFeed

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Israel Police Invade East Jerusalem UNRWA Office, Confiscate Property, Raise Israeli Flag. UNRWA complains that the office, closed since last year, was politically targeted. Israel Police say enforcement was related to UNRWA debts. Judah Pe'er Dec 8, 2025 11:06 JFeed

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Infighting in Gaza. Hamas Abducts Prominent Gazan Merchant, Forces Him to Pay Millions in Ransom. Gaza trader Fadi al-Dayeb was held by Hamas and forced to pay a multimillion-shekel ransom, highlighting how the terror group and local merchants profited amid wartime hardship, sparking public outrage.

Judah Pe'er Dec 8, 2025 03:54 JFeed

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Tired of waiting U.S. Congress Proposes Steps to Pressure Lebanon to Act on Hezbollah Bill would suspend American aid to Lebanon if concrete progress is not maid to dismantle Hezbollah by July. Ending Assad-era sanctions on Syria also addressed, if new government meets certain conditions.

Judah Pe'er Dec 8, 2025 07:19 JFeed

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DeSantis designates CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist entities. Florida Governor designates CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, directing agencies to block support and prevent unlawful activities. Elad Benari Published: Dec 9, 2025, 1:12 AM (GMT+2) INN

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Arab Convicted for Intentional Assault on Haredi Jew On His Way to Pray in Jerusalem's Old City. WATCH. Arab Convicted for Intentional Assault on Haredi Jew On His Way to Pray in Jerusalem's Old City A Jerusalem court convicted an Arab man for deliberately spraying a Jewish worshipper with a hose, ruling the incident was a racist act aimed at humiliating the victim due to his Haredi appearance.

Eliana Fleming Dec 8, 2025.

Arab targeting Jewish man in the Old City (Photo: Police Spokesperson) Assault Driven by Hatred Pensioners born before 1964 are now eligible for new hearing aidsSponsored Pensioners born before 1964 are now eligible for new hearing aids Complete this short Quiz to see if you qualify AudioNova The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court has delivered a verdict against an Arab man, convicting him of assault after he intentionally sprayed a Jewish man with a garden hose in the Old City of Jerusalem. Crucially, the court explicitly determined that the perpetrator's actions were driven by racist motivations targeting the victim due to his Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, appearance.

The incident under review occurred approximately four years ago. The victim, a Jewish man, was walking late at night toward prayers near the Council Gate of the Temple Mount. The convicted individual was standing nearby, occupied with cleaning a mobility scooter using a garden hose. The court found that the suspect then deliberately redirected the hose and sprayed water at the Jewish man multiple times. JFeed

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Secret IDF Briefing. 1,000 Missiles Warning: Western Allies Reveal Iran's Next Massive Attack Plan on Israel. In a closed Knesset session, an IDF representative revealed that Iran has resumed high-tempo ballistic missile production six months after its last war with Israel, as Hamas exploits the ceasefire to rebuild its military capabilities, setting the stage for potential future war.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 8, 2025. JFeed

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The Next War. The 12-Day Aftermath: Iran Officials Claim New Missiles Are Far More Capable Than Last War's Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed Israel underestimated Iran's resilience in the last war and warned that any future aggression would be met with Iranian self-defense, noting that de-escalation is in Israel's best interest.

Eliana Fleming Dec 8, 2025 17:46 JFeed

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Jewish groups concerned after LA County records second most anti-Jewish hate crimes. The report found a decrease in anti-Jewish hate from 2023 to 2024, but the number of crimes targeting Israelis rose, and 80% of all religious-based hate crimes in the country targeted Jews in 2024. Aaron Bandler.

(Dec. 8, 2025 / JNS) Los Angeles County recorded the second-highest number of hate crimes targeting Jews last year in the 44 years that it has calculated such statistics, according to a report from the county’s human relations commission.

The only time that the county recorded more anti-Jewish hate crimes (244) was in 2023, the year that Hamas led attacks in southern Israel. In 2024, the number dropped by about 17%, to 202, but that and the prior year were the most in the county’s history. And in 2024, the anti-Jewish incidents were 80% of all religious hate crimes in the county, according to the report. JNS

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Following pressure from Arab, Muslim states, Blair dropped from Gaza ‘peace board’. The former U.K. prime minister reportedly faced criticism for his 2003 support for the invasion of Iraq and is expected to instead serve on the board’s executive committee with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. JNS Staff. JNS

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California law on Jew-hatred in K-12 schools ‘badly needed,’ AJC says in brief to court. “It is not controversial to say the state has a right to give direction to teachers as far as what it is they should be instructing their classrooms,” Seth Brysk, of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS. Aaron Bandler. (Dec. 8, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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US defense spending bill shifts Israel funds from Iron Dome to countering ballistic missiles. The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act keeps overall U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation spending at $200 million, consistent with 2025 expenditures. Andrew Bernard. (Dec. 8, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Hamas terrorists eulogized as ‘Gazan reporters’ at Washington gala. Those eulogized included a Hamas sniper, the head of a Hamas unit responsible for rocket attacks against Israel, and a member of Hamas's Nukhba forces. By Tobias Holcmam. December 9, 2025. The Association and Club of Foreign Press Correspondents USA bestowed posthumous honors on individuals exposed as terrorists who were posing as journalists for the Qatari news network Al Jazeera, Honest Reporting shared on Monday.

According to the report, 10 Al Jazeera reporters were eulogized during the association's annual gala in Washington with a moment of silence and their photos displayed at a “memorial table.”

Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst, who was given an award during the ceremony, used his speech to “criticize Israel for restricting independent journalistic access to Gaza.”

“These fearless and tenacious Palestinian journalists in Gaza who don’t have the luxury to leave when reporting becomes too dangerous,” said Yingst, and added, “May we not forget their sacrifice and contributions to our industry.”

The report also mentioned how the organizers didn’t name the “reporters,” while only pictures of the terrorists were displayed in the table. JPost

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Noa Tishbi: I was attacked at a pro-Hamas terror rally in Paris People shouted for "resistance," denied Hamas atrocities, and praised convicted killers - all without knowing even the basic facts. This is what unchecked propaganda looks like An Eighteen production directed by @YoavDavis, edited by Ram Shemi. Dec 8, 2025 on Instagram (https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1179304230976923&id=100066920705784 on FB]

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Jewish Ex-Miss Slovakia: Toronto Uber Driver Told Me ‘I Don’t Drive Jews’ — Antisemitism ‘Must Have Consequences’.

([18]. Miriam Mattova at the 2025 Road to the Golden Globes Party during the Toronto Film FestivaGeorge Pimentel/Penske Media via Getty Images). Joshua Klein. 8 Dec 2025.

Former Miss Slovakia Miriam Mattova says a Toronto Uber driver slammed on the brakes and ordered her out of the car after overhearing her talk about a recent visit to Israel, telling her, “we don’t drive Jewish people,” in what she calls a “blatant act of antisemitism” that must carry real consequences.

Speaking in recent days to Canadian, American, and Israeli media outlets, the 33-year-old Slovakian-Canadian model and Jewish activist described how a late-night ride home turned into a stark reminder of how quickly open hatred can surface — and how slowly a global corporation can respond when it does.

The incident occurred just after midnight on November 30 when a friend ordered her an Uber on Toronto’s Dundas Street so she could get home. Breitbart

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Uncovering the Gaza mega-tunnel where Lt. Hadar Goldin was held for 11 years. IDF officers describe Hamas’ vast Rafah tunnel network as the most complex they have seen; Yahalom and Shayetet 13 commandos fight underground for 18 months and get within meters of fallen officer's remains; Hamas operatives ultimately retrieve body Yoav Zitun|12.9.25 YNet

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While Their Babies Starve. Hamas Left Stockpiles of Baby Formula to Rot While Palestinian Babies Starved | WATCH Heartbreaking footage from Gaza shows tons of discarded, still-sealed baby formula left to rot, raising urgent questions about Hamas hoarding essential supplies and creating a humanitarian crisis that leaves children starving.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 9, 2025. JFeed

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Complete with Nazi salutes. Uproar in Argentina After Leftist Lawmakers Swear Allegiance to "Free Palestine". Leftist deputies used their oaths of office to attack Israel and object to American actions in Venezuela. Comments spark backlash across Argentine political spectrum.

Judah Pe'er. Dec 9, 2025. JFeed

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Watch: gunmen in pickups roll by IDF forces with weapons drawn in southern Syria. IDF says troops fire warning shots after riots and stone-throwing in Khan Arnabeh; rare footage shows Syrian security forces passing Israeli vehicles as both sides deny reports of a pending security deal. Elisha Ben Kimon, Lior Ben Ari, Yair Kraus|12.9.25

Footage circulated Tuesday on Syrian media showed forces from President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s General Security Service driving past IDF vehicles near the town of Khan Arnabeh, in the Syrian-controlled section of the Golan Heights.

The area is one where limited Syrian military and police presence is permitted under long-standing understandings, and the Israeli troops were believed to be present temporarily during arrest and search operations. YNet

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Frightening. Panic in Brussels: Bomb Threat at Grand Synagogue – Streets Closed.

Panic in Brussels as the Grand Synagogue is evacuated over a bomb threat – streets were closed, but no suspicious items were found after police inspection.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 9, 2025 JFeed

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Pope Leo Praises Turkey for its Religious Tolerance. What can the pope be thinking?

December 9, 2025 by Hugh Fitzgerald.

Pope Leo is fresh from visiting Turkey, where he praised the country for its religious tolerance. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople could in private have told him hair-raising stories about that “tolerance,” including the forced closure of the last Orthodox seminary in the country and the refusal of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to allow it to reopen. The pope might have visited Hagia Sophia, for a thousand years the greatest church in Christendom, that the Ottomans had turned into a mosque, and Ataturk had turned into a museum in 1935, and Erdogan has again made into a mosque. The pope could in that place have made a public plea to Erdogan to turn it back into a church, putting him on the spot and reminding Christians worldwide of how Turkey now treats Christians. But he chose not to embarrass his malevolent host. At least the pope did not pray when visiting the Blue Mosque, as his hosts had hoped... FPM

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Actor Michael Rapaport Blasts Fellow Celebs for Terrorist Support. Credit where credit is due. December 9, 2025, by Mark Tapson.

Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”

In 2022, the late great David Horowitz and I published a Freedom Center pamphlet titled, The 20 Dumbest Hollywood Hatemongers: Celebrities Unhinged, which included the hysterical and profane outbursts of such notable Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers as Robert DeNiro, Cher, Rob Reiner, and Rosie O’Donnell. At number six on the list was actor Michael Rapaport, recognizable from prominent supporting roles in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and TV’s Friends, among others.

Never let it be said that we at the Freedom Center are averse to acknowledging credit where credit is due. I am genuinely if guardedly pleased to report that Rapaport, 55, has moderated his unhinged Trump criticism since the publication of that pamphlet – or more precisely, since the savage Hamas attacks in Israel of October 7, 2023 – and become one of Hollywood’s most scathing critics of the antisemitic far Left. FPM

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Tucker Carlson at the Doha Forum. Not merely an invitee, but given pride of place.

December 10, 2025 by Hugh Fitzgerald.

Qatar is the main foreign backer of Hamas. Hamas leaders live in luxury in Doha. Qatar has for years supplied Hamas with money, weapons, and diplomatic support. And now, Tucker Carlson is a featured guest at this year’s Doha Forum: “Tucker Carlson to headline Qatar’s Doha Forum, triggering pro-Israel backlash,” Jerusalem Post, December 5, 2025: 'According to the event agenda and parallel reporting by US media outlet Mediaite, Carlson is scheduled to interview Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, on stage, while Patel appears in his capacity as co-founder and CEO of the Tucker Carlson Network. Tucker Carlson is not merely an invitee, but has been given pride of place, for it is he who will be interviewing the man who is second only to the emir, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, that is, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani. Do you think they will discuss the “genocide” in Gaza? Or how “it is time to stop the killing and create a Palestinian state that will live “side by side, in peace and security, with its Israeli neighbor.” Yes to the first, yes to the second...' FPM

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Netanyahu on 10/7 inquiry. 'We will investigate and protect no one' PM Netanyahu addressed the need for an investigative committee into the failures of October 7, and said that the committee will examine in depth the responsibility of all levels. Nitzan Keidar Dec 9, 2025, 8:27 PM INN

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The dormitory massacre: 50 years since Yeshivat HaGolan attack. What happened on the night of the deadly attack at Yeshivat HaGolan? Rabbi Yoel Katan, then a third-year student, reconstructs the event and the yeshiva students' response. Dvir Amar. Published: Dec 9, 2025, 9:24 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Smotrich: IDF ‘likely’ to step up enforcement in Lebanon. "It is likely that we will soon need to return and operate there to preserve the gains achieved against Hezbollah," Smotrich told JNS. Charles Bybelezer, ,Amelie Botbol. (Dec. 9, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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US Marines billboard in Baltimore vandalized with ‘Nazi’-like graffiti. “The perpetrator of this cowardly act of hatred should know that Baltimore will not tolerate antisemitism,” Zeke Cohen, city council president, told JNS.

(Dec. 9, 2025 / JNS) A U.S. Marine Corps billboard in Baltimore City was spray-painted last week with the word “Nazi” in bold black letters, including a Hitler-style mustache drawn on an image of a service member.

Arch McKown, a local safety commission chairperson, saw the billboard on Dec. 3 at the intersection of East Baltimore Street and North Central Avenue, telling Fox45 News that he called Baltimore Police.

McKown said the graffiti was offensive not only to the Marines but to “our Jewish neighbors.” After calling the police, he called city council president Zeke Cohen, who is Jewish.

Cohen told JNS that “as the first Jewish city council president in more than 40 years, I will not stand for acts of antisemitism nor the desecration of the Marines.”

He added that “the perpetrator of this cowardly act of hatred should know that Baltimore will not tolerate antisemitism. I hope whoever committed this crime is held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. JNS

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Nanny charged with trying to poison French Jewish family. The defendant, an illegal alien from Algeria, allegedly put non-lethal substances in food, drink and even makeup in the household. Canaan Lidor. (Dec. 9, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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IDF finds rockets, bombs in Samaria tied to roadside attacks. Israeli soldiers found three rockets "at various stages of preparation," as well as explosive devices and materials for producing bombs.

JNS Staff. (Dec. 9, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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World Jewish leaders warn of rising antisemitism at Sydney summit. Representatives of the world’s largest Jewish communities said Australia’s spike in antisemitic attacks reflects a growing global threat to Jewish safety and democracy. Joshua Marks. (Dec. 9, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Israel and Costa Rica sign landmark free trade deal. Israeli Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat hailed San José as "a natural trade partner" for the Jewish state. JNS Staff. (Dec. 9, 2025 / JNS) Israel and Costa Rica have taken a “leap forward” in bilateral relations with the signing of a free trade agreement encompassing goods, services and investments, Jerusalem’s Foreign Ministry announced on Monday.

The announcement came just days after Costa Rica’s minister of foreign trade, Manuel Tovar Rivera, announced that San José would be opening an office for innovation in trade and investment in Jerusalem in 2026. JNS

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Never Before Seen. Devastating Footage: Six Hostages Captured Lighting Hanukkah Candles Before Being Murdered by Hamas | WATCH. New, intimate recordings filmed inside a Hamas tunnel will be made public, documenting the final hours of six hostages, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Carmel Gat, as they attempted to light Hanukkah candles before being murdered.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 9, 2025 JFeed

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IDF spokesman reveals how Arabic videos influenced Hamas. At a Knesset hearing, the IDF Arabic spokesman revealed that an Arabic informational video he published, responding to Hamas messages, reached the terrorists holding the hostages. Israel National News. Dec 9, 2025, 4:31 PM (GMT+ INN

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CAIR political arm operating illegally in 22 states, linked to Turkish gov't, report finds. In 22 states, CAIR Action solicits donations, collects membership dues, and coordinates votes, all without the license or registration required of political non-profits.

By Mathilda Heller. December 9, 2025.

The political arm of the Council of American-Islamic Relations has been acting without legal authority, licenses, or registration in 22 American states, according to a joint report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN), first published in The Washington Free Beacon.

CAIR National is known for its radical anti-Israel activities, pro-Palestinian stance, and potential ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR Action is its political arm that operates as a national political-solicitation and voter-mobilization enterprise.

CAIR Action does have the ability to engage in political activity under its 501(c)(4) status. However, this is only the case if it complies with state and federal reporting laws and registrations, which the NCRI and IAN found was not the case in 22 states.

In these 22 states, CAIR Action solicits donations, collects membership dues, and coordinates votes, all without the license or registration required of political nonprofits. Even in Washington, DC, where the group is incorporated and from where it directs its nationwide activity, CAIR Action has never obtained the Basic Business License it would need to be able to operate legally. In California, it is registered but only as an out-of-state nonprofit, which does not allow it to solicit funds. In the other states, there are no registrations.

According to the report, that makes CAIR Action an unlicensed interstate political-solicitation enterprise, operating “entirely outside the legal framework required for entities seeking funds across state lines.”

CAIR faces legal problems following report This creates two legal problems: first, federal criminal exposure, such as wire fraud, deceptive solicitation, and false statements to the Internal Revenue Service; and second, state-enforced exposure nationwide. The latter is because every state in which CAIR Action solicits funds can treat its fundraising and political influence as unlawful. Because CAIR Action is openly presented as CAIR National’s political arm, any unauthorized solicitation is CAIR National’s responsibility.

The report also found that CAIR Action’s ecosystem exhibits a “converging pattern of foreign-state alignment,” especially regarding Turkey. This includes sponsorships from Turkish Airlines (state-linked), political programming hosted at the Turkish government’s Diyanet Center of America, multiple CAIR leaders’ appearances on Turkey’s state-run broadcaster (TRT World), and technical indicators showing CAIR Action’s official accounts routing through the Turkey App Store.

Taken together, these factors indicate that CAIR Action is functioning as an unregistered national 501(c)(4) political-influence machine operating entirely outside the regulatory framework that Congress requires, the report added.

NCRI and IAN urgently referred CAIR Action to the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Internal Revenue Service for investigation.

Florida gov. designates CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood as terror orgs. EARLIER ON Tuesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order designating both CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.

The executive order is effective immediately.

“From the moment Ron DeSantis took office as Florida governor, he has prioritized serving the Israeli government over serving the people of Florida,” said CAIR National in response. “He hosted his very first official cabinet meeting in Israel. He diverted millions in Florida taxpayer dollars to the Israeli government’s bonds. He threatened to shut down every Florida college’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, only to back off when CAIR sued him in federal court.”

"Like Greg Abbott in Texas, Ron DeSantis is an Israel First politician who wants to smear and silence Americans, especially American Muslims, critical of US support for Israel’s war crimes.

"We look forward to defeating Gov. DeSantis’s latest Israel First stunt in a court of law, where facts matter and conspiracy theories have no weight. In the meantime, we encourage all Floridians and all Americans to speak up against this latest attempt to shred the Constitution for the benefit of a foreign government."

DeSantis is not the first state governor to designate the two groups. Texas’s Greg Abbott designated both CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood last month. JPost

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'Hamas has to go': Waltz tells Herzog US determined to end ‘cycle of insanity’. Herzog and Waltz discuss UN Resolution 2803, President Trump's Peace Plan, and the return of the last Gaza hostage. Israel National News. Dec 10, 2025, 4:13 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Trump's ultimatum for the ICC. Washington warns it may expand sanctions on the International Criminal Court if judges do not halt probes involving US and Israeli officials. Israel National News. Dec 10, 2025, 6:40 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Mossad names Aleph as next deputy head. Mossad chief Dedi Barnea appoints Aleph as deputy head, citing his two decades of operational experience. Appointment approved by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Nitsan Keidar. Published: Dec 10, 2025, 8:00 PM (GMT+2)

Mossad Director David Barnea announced his decision to appoint 'Aleph' as the next Deputy Director of the Mossad. The appointment was approved today by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. INN

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Rabbis from Israel joined rare visit to Aleppo synagogues. A Jewish delegation, including two rabbis from Israel, visited long-closed synagogues in Aleppo as SOHR reports rising Israeli activity in Syria and local concerns. Israel National News. Dec 10, 2025, 6:03 PM INN

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"Mic-drop" truth bomb. Israeli Ambassador Claps back at NBC Host: "Quoting Gaza Health Ministry is Like Quoting MS-13's Welfare Stats" | WATCH. An on-air clash goes viral as Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter slams NBC’s Kristen Welker for citing Gaza casualty figures, igniting a fierce debate over media bias, wartime propaganda, and the battle to control the narrative.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 10, 2025.

Welker referenced the ministry's reported death toll while grilling Leiter on civilian casualties during Israel's operations in Gaza and Lebanon. Leiter fired back: "Kristen, you just quoted the Gaza Health Ministry. That’s like quoting MS-13 Social Welfare Ministry."

The analogy, equating the ministry to the brutal Salvadoran gang MS-13, quickly went viral via the Washington Free Beacon's X post.

Leiter's jab underscores Israel's longstanding critique of the ministry's data: Operated by Hamas since 2007, it has inflated civilian deaths, ignored combatant casualties, and served as a PR tool, manipulating the figures for narrative gain.

The full interview delved into ceasefire prospects, with Leiter, appointed ambassador in early 2025 by PM Netanyahu, insisting on Hamas's full disarmament: "We won't stop until the threat is neutralized."

Welker challenged on humanitarian aid blockages, but Leiter's zinger dominated headlines, fueling memes and op-eds on media bias in conflict reporting. JFeed

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025. Palestinian Sociological and Anthropological Association only exists to issue BDS statements The BDS Movement published a statement from the Palestinian Sociological and Anthropological Association insisting that the Israeli Sociological Society remain suspended by the International Sociological Association. EoZ

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Revealed: RCMP Insider Behind Push To Advance Palestinian Messaging In Federal Workforce Internal federal records show that an RCMP strategic policy analyst helped found a Palestinian-aligned advocacy group inside the national police force, prompting questions about political messaging and internal influence.

Ron East. December 10, 2025 RCMP civilian employeesm

OTTAWA – Newly disclosed federal records show that a strategic policy analyst within the RCMP helped found an internal advocacy network that circulated political materials promoting Palestinian perspectives across the federal public service. The revelation has raised concern over political influence within Canada’s national police force, according to details released through Access To Information requests and reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

An RCMP spokesperson confirmed that the force does not publicly disclose the identities of employees involved in internal advocacy organizations. However, an RCMP Facebook post and a 2024 internal newsletter identified civilian employee Leila El-Khatib as the founder of the Muslim Federal Employees Network. El-Khatib is employed within the RCMP’s federal policing branch.

The Network, created in 2021, is an unincorporated volunteer group with approximately 70 active members across federal departments. Although its external footprint is limited, internal communications show that it circulated materials advocating for what it described as a more robust representation of Palestinian perspectives within federal institutions. TheJ.ca

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Police raid Izz ad-Din al-Qassam grave complex. Law enforcement dismantled a tent that was placed over the terror figure's grave, removed illegally installed security cameras, and removed a propaganda sign designed to commemorate his legacy. Israel National News Dec 10, 2025, 10:08 PM. INN

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US press group memorializes Al Jazeera Hamas-linked reporters. The ceremony included a moment of silence for 10 Al Jazeera reporters killed in Gaza, with their photos displayed at a memorial table. The organization also awarded Al Jazeera a "press freedom grant." JNS Staff. (Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) The Association and Club of Foreign Press Correspondents USA honored several individuals later identified as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror operatives at its Dec. 4 gala in Washington, according to media watchdog HonestReporting.

The ceremony included a moment of silence for 10 Al Jazeera reporters killed in Gaza, with their photos displayed at a memorial table. The organization also awarded Al Jazeera a “press freedom grant.” JNS

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Berkeley denies liability, opts to pay $116,000 to settle lawsuit alleging anti-Israel bias The university “agreed to everything we were demanding,” Paul Eckles, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS. Aaron Bandler.

(Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) The Regents of the University of California, a 26-person body that governs the public school system, agreed on Wednesday to pay $116,000 to Yael Nativ, an Israeli dance instructor, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law to settle a lawsuit alleging anti-Israel bias.

The center and the professor alleged in the suit that the University of California, Berkeley rejected Nativ’s application to be a visiting professor in the 2024-25 academic year due to her Israeli nationality. She taught at the school in 2022. JNS

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"You Are Making Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Off My Family". ‘This Isn’t OK’: Erika Kirk Fires Back at Candace Owens Over Family Accusations. Erika Kirk directly addressed Candace Owens, accusing the commentator of making a substantial profit by spreading baseless claims about her family and loved ones, asserting, "No, this isn’t ok. This is a mind virus." Eliana Fleming Dec 10, 2025 JFeed

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Inside the Deception. Propaganda Exposed: Top Iranian Official Admits Regime Lied About Shooting Down Israeli F-35 The head of Iran's state media, Peyman Jebelli, confessed during a conversation with students that the regime lied about shooting down an Israeli F-35 fighter jet, admitting the propaganda severely damaged the state's credibility during the war. Eliana Fleming. Dec 10, 2025. JFeed

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Trump says Gaza Board of Peace lineup to be announced early next year, calls it ‘legendary’ US president says various leaders have expressed interest in joining the board, which was created as part of a Gaza plan establishing a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas Reuters|12.10.25 | 18:18 YNet

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Global Christian lawmakers gather in Washington to strengthen support for Israel. Lawmakers from more than 30 countries gather for the Israel Allies Foundation’s annual conference, aiming to deepen global legislative cooperation, confront rising antisemitism and bolster support for Israel amid regional and political challenges.

Maayan Hoffman|12.10.25 | 22:16

On the heels of a historic delegation of 1,000 U.S. Christian pastors who visited Israel last week in the largest evangelical mission since the country’s founding, and just three weeks after the launch of the first Judeo-Christian Zionist Congress in Washington, D.C., another group of Christian leaders and lawmakers is celebrating Israel and working to strengthen international legislative cooperation, defend Israel amid global challenges, and advance shared Judeo-Christian values. YNet

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New Front Lines. Iranian Blueprint: Militia Trucks With 10 Terrorists Each Prepare Mass Border Breach. Intelligence reveals an Iranian-backed militia preparing a war-style breach on the Syrian border using up to 40 armed trucks, while a local terror cell was caught manufacturing rockets near central Israel.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 10, 2025. JFeed

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Iraqi militias, Houthis threaten to reach Israel through Jordan as IDF reinforce the border. Once treated as a 'peaceful border,' Israel’s frontier with Jordan is now seen as an Iranian backed threat after the October 7 Hamas terror attack; the IDF is reoccupying old outposts, deploying forces and forming five volunteer reserve brigades of older Israelis to hold the line Ron Ben-Yishai|12.10.25 YNet

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Members of Congress mark 50 years of ‘Zionism is racism[sic]’ resolution. “This should be a time not to run and hide but to indeed prove that Zionism is not racism,” Rep. Joe Wilson told attendees. Andrew Bernard. ([19] Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, condemns the U.N. General Assembly vote to call Zionism "racism," Nov. 10, 1975). (Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) Members of Congress gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations resolution determining that Zionism is a form of racism[sic] and Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s denunciation of that “infamous act.” JNS

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Netanyahu and Modi talk renewed ties, said to be meeting ‘very soon’. Indian officials now openly refer to Hamas as a terrorist organization, a term they once avoided. Canaan Lidor.

(Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on Wednesday, when they discussed bilateral ties and agreed to meet very soon, according to Netanyahu’s office.

“At the end of the warm and friendly conversation, the two leaders agreed to meet very soon,” the Prime Minister’s Office in Israel said about the phone conversation. JNS

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Israeli lawmakers scrap Georgia trip after terror threat. "A conversation was held with lawmakers by the Knesset Guard," the parliament confirmed. JNS Staff (Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) Knesset lawmakers canceled their planned participation in an “Israeli Week” conference in Georgia after authorities received indications of a terrorist threat facing participants, Arutz 7 reported on Wednesday. JNS

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House passes $900 billion defense bill with ‘critical pro-Israel provisions’. "The bill critically prioritizes U.S.-Israeli defense cooperation to further enable both nations to counter missile, drone and emerging high-tech threats," AIPAC said. JNS Staff

(Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) The U.S. House of Representatives voted 312-112 on Wednesday night to pass the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, with 18 Republicans and 94 Democrats voting against it.

The bill, which is now bound for the Senate and which authorizes more than $900 billion, includes “critical pro-Israel provisions,” according to AIPAC.

“The bill critically prioritizes U.S.-Israeli defense cooperation to further enable both nations to counter missile, drone and emerging high-tech threats,” the pro-Israel group said. “Importantly, the bipartisan defense measure authorizes $500 million in fiscal year 2026 for U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation.” JNS

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Shocking: Father of Noa Marciano reveals how she was murdered. Avi Marciano, the father of IDF lookout Noa Marciano, who was abducted from the shelter at the Nahal Oz outpost on October 7, recounts for the first time how his daughter was murdered in Hamas captivity. Israel National News. Dec 11, 2025, 12:07 AM (GMT+2)

Avi Marciano, the father of IDF lookout Noa Marciano, who was abducted from the shelter at the Nahal Oz outpost on October 7, appeared in a video posted on Instagram by pro-Israel activist Shai DeLuca, where he revealed for the first time how his daughter was murdered in Hamas captivity.

In a recording sent to him, Noa described the airstrikes in the area and pleaded for her distress to be conveyed: “They’re bombing us,” she said in the video. She made a desperate request: “Stop the bombings because you might hit us.”

Later, as IDF forces approached the area, Hamas terrorists attempted to move Noa into central Gaza City. On the way, the car she was in was struck, and Noa sustained injuries to her leg and head, though they were not life-threatening. She was evacuated to Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

Her father recounted that one of the medical staff at the hospital decided to murder her. “He injected air into her vein,” he said. Marciano received confirmation of Noa’s death through another video sent to him, in which his daughter is seen begging for her life. At the end of the footage, she appears to be sweating but lifeless.

Afterward, Hamas terrorists attempted to smuggle Noa’s body out of the hospital, but IDF forces prevented this. Ultimately, she was brought to Israel for burial.

“What I went through is the greatest nightmare I know,” Avi Marciano said tearfully. “Noa was my eldest daughter. She was so loved, and there isn’t a moment in the day when I don’t miss her INN

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Druze teen describes rape by Syrian Jihadists. Israel’s Druze leader urges global action after unveiling testimony of rape, torture and killings in Syria’s Sweida province. Lior Ben Ari|12.10.25 YNet

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Israel's Druze use AI to present to testimonies of 'sexual terrorism' against Syrian Druze women. Sheikh Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, also drew the diplomats’ attention to the crimes committed against Druze women in the attacks on Sweida and the nearby Druze villages.

By Danielle Greyman-kennard December 10, 2025. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) was presented with evidence that Syrian Druze women were sexually assaulted during the recent waves of attacks committed by Damascus-backed militia groups in southern Syria. JPost

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'One Ring' of pro-Palestine propaganda shaping the war on Zionism. Yisrael Medad, December 10, 2025. The results of an intriguing study on anti-Israel and anti-Zionist language usage were published on December 2. Veteran blogger Elder of Ziyon displayed a detailed table with results of a study that reviewed the terminology employed in academic papers going back from 2005 through 2024. His findings are that antisemitic and activist anti-Zionist language is used in thousands of academic papers, thus reinforcing a negative subjective narrative.

The phrases and terms used in these papers included “Jewish supremacism,” “Talmudic rituals,” “Israeli Occupation[sic] Forces,” Gaza as an “open air prison[sic],” and “Judaization[sic],” among others. Such language seeps from the academic world into mainstream media op-eds, and then back again. Students and university colleagues are regularized to express themselves by using the exclusionary language of castigation and of animosity regarding Jewish nationalism and Middle East politics.

What is at work here results not in detached independent scientific research, but rather, it eventually locks the public into an ideological entrenchment primed and positioned to disallow any refutation. Moreover, there is no possible defense by those targeted as “colonialists.” Even more dangerous, it is a rhetoric of volatility.

The articulation may seem to be lofty academic verbiage, but it is just a repeat of medieval theological cancellation as when Jews were forced to engage in demeaning, unfair disputations. Today’s anti-Zionist hordes – safe in their self-constructed castles of words that reinforce the visceral animosity they already have in place – always have the advantage.

Raef Zreik, an Israeli Arab who is a senior lecturer of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic College and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, wrote a 2023 article titled “Zionism and Political Theology.” It purports to “identify what is unique about the political theology of Zionism” and “explores what the consequences of this uniqueness might be.” JPost

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More than 2 years later: Amnesty concludes that Hamas committed crimes against humanity. INN. Dec 11, 2025. INN

Amnesty's Long-Overdue Reckoning: Hamas's October 7 Atrocities Finally Labeled Crimes Against Humanity—But Two Years Late Exposes Deep Bias.

Two years, two months, and four days after Hamas's barbaric October 7, 2023, rampage through southern Israel—leaving 1,221 dead, including over 800 civilians slaughtered in their homes, at a music festival, and in bomb shelters—Amnesty International has finally mustered the courage (or the PR savvy) to classify it as what it always was: 'crimes against humanity' In a 173-page report released today, December 11, 2025, the self-proclaimed human rights watchdog details a litany of horrors orchestrated by Hamas and allied Palestinian armed groups, including murder, extermination, torture, enforced disappearance, rape, and other sexual violence. This isn't just "war crimes"—it's systematic extermination, with Hamas's leadership explicitly directing fighters to hunt civilians, abduct 251 hostages (mostly women, children, and the elderly), and even steal the bodies of the dead to torment families further.

The evidence is damning and irrefutable: verified survivor testimonies, forensic analysis of mutilated bodies, and hundreds of videos from the terrorists themselves showing gleeful executions in kibbutzim like Be’eri, Kfar Aza, and Nahal Oz. Over 3,000 Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades fighters, plus goons from Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, poured across the border in a premeditated orgy of violence. Even unaffiliated Gazan civilians joined the looting and lynchings, turning a terrorist assault into a pogrom. Hostages endured months of incommunicado hell in Gaza's tunnels—starved, beaten, sexually assaulted—while Hamas withheld even the corpses of 44 dead Israelis taken as "trophies." Amnesty slams this as "imprisonment" and "torture," noting it was all part of a blueprint from Hamas bosses to inflict maximum civilian suffering.

Why Did It Take So Damn Long? Amnesty's "Palestine" Blind Spot Is a Badge of Shame. Let's cut the crap: This report didn't emerge from some sudden epiphany of impartiality. It took 'over 26 months' for Amnesty to connect the dots that were glaring from day one—dots backed by Israeli investigations, UN reports, and even Hamas's own boasts. Why the glacial pace? Because Amnesty has spent those years laser-focused on one target: Israel. Just last December (2024), they recycled the Pallyweid "genocide" lie screed against Israel in Gaza, parroting Hamas-run health ministry death tolls that lump terrorists with civilians and ignore how Hamas embeds fighters in hospitals and schools to inflate "civilian" casualties. That report was shredded as propaganda by experts for cherry-picking evidence and ignoring Hamas's human shields. Israel called it "fabricated" and "false"—rightly so.

This Hamas report feels like damage control. After global backlash to their anti-Israel hit job— including from Jewish communities, legal scholars, and even some left-leaning outlets—Amnesty needed a fig leaf to pretend they're "balanced." As one X user bluntly put it: "Better two years late than ever," but let's be real—it's a half-hearted mea culpa that still tiptoes around full accountability. They criticize "investigative failures" by Palestinian authorities (read: Hamas cover-ups) and even nudge Israel on better forensics, as if the Jewish state hasn't already documented every atrocity while fighting a war on two fronts. And note: Amnesty couldn't fully assess sexual violence due to "access limits" in Gaza—code for Hamas stonewalling.

Hamas's response? Dismissal as "lies," of course—proving once again they're allergic to truth. On X, reactions range from sarcastic cheers ("Amnesty discovers Nuremberg trials!") to grim reminders that this "human rights" org has been MIA on Jewish suffering for decades.

The Bigger Picture: Hamas's Reign of TerrorDemands Justice, Not Amnesty's Timid Nod.

This report, for all its tardiness, is a crack in the facade. It confirms what Israel has screamed from the rooftops: October 7 wasn't "resistance"—it was extermination, a blueprint for genocide straight out of Hamas's charter. The last hostage body, that of soldier Ran Gvili, still rots in Gaza—Amnesty demands its return, as they should. But words aren't enough. The ICC must haul Hamas leaders before The Hague. The U.S. and allies should ramp up sanctions on Hamas funders—Qatar, Iran, anyone bankrolling this death cult.

Amnesty's bias isn't just inconvenient; it's complicit. By dragging their feet on Hamas while sprinting to demonize Israel, they've fueled the very propaganda that justifies more attacks. Too late for redemption? Maybe. But at least now, the world record shows: Hamas isn't "freedom fighters"—they're butchers of humanity. Israel will keep fighting for justice, with or without Amnesty's reluctant stamp of approval. The victims of October 7 deserve nothing less. --- Sources and Notes.

- Amnesty's disgraceful 'genocide' slander against Israel disqualifies the group. JNS. Dec 18, 2024. https://www.jns.org/amnestys-disgraceful-genocide-slander-against-israel-disqualifies-the-group/

- Amnesty Israel rejects Amnesty International's report accusing Israel of genocide. JPost. Dec 5, 2024 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-832119 -- - Amnesty accuses Hamas of committing crimes against humanity. JPost, Dec 11, 2025. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-879982

- More than 2 years later: Amnesty concludes that Hamas committed crimes against humanity. INN. Dec 11, 2025. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419161

- Additional coverage confirming the report's release and details: Reuters, The Times of Israel, Le Monde, and others (December 11, 2025). Just sayin' [20]

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Majority of young American adults 'active in Hamas resistance,' Khaled Mashaal claims. Mashaal praised the "resistance" of youth on university campuses, and rejected Hamas disarmament as tantamount to "taking away our souls," in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday. By James Genm. December 11 2025.

A slight majority, 51%, of Americans between the ages of 18-21 are not only involved in the Palestinian cause, but are active in Hamas "resistance," leader of the terror group Khaled Mashaal said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday.

"Can you imagine that the Palestinian case entered into the minds of young Americans and Europeans? This is a new division of resistance. In the street, the youth, university campuses, political parties, and countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia - there has been a great gain for the Palestinian cause," Mashaal claimed.

Israel's image has also been damaged during this period among that demographic, Mashaal stated. "What happened during the two years for the image of the Zionist entity before the world - this Israel which used to glorify how they are a democratic state and a pioneer for Western civilization in the Middle East reared its ugly head."

"You see it in the international area. [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has been issued an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Israel has become a target. It is a killer who committed the crime[sic] of a real[sic] Holocaust[sic] - the massacres," the terror leader accused.

Mashaal reaffirmed his rejection of disarming Hamas's weapons, emphasizing that disarmament is "rejected in the culture of the Palestinian people," because their weapons "represent the spirit of resistance and a means of protecting the people under occupation."

Disarming Palestinians would be tantamount to "taking out their souls," he added.

In addition, he alleged that the "real danger comes from the occupation forces [Israel] and not from Gaza."

He noted that Hamas is confident it can convince the Trump administration of its approach, and that mediators are discussing details with Washington.

Mashaal also commented that terrorist's "resistance" and international pressure is the reason that the Israel-Hamas War is ending.

Mashaal: International Stabilization Force must not impose peace The Al Jazeera interviewer asked Mashaal on his views towards the International Stabilization Force being proposed as part of Phase II of US President Donald Trump's peace plan. Advertisement

"There are documents talking about their role being to deal with people and remove weapons, in other words, impose peace. This is unacceptable," he stated.

"It's role should be to ensure that there are no clashes, to preserve peace - not impose it," he affirmed.

"As for the general feeling of having international forces within the Gaza Strip, this would result in an occupational power, according to Palestinian culture," he continued.

The only way the ISF could work, in Mashaal's view, is if "they preserve peace by keeping them [the IDF] on their borders so they don't enter Gaza. Entry into Gaza means a transformation of Israeli occupation."

He also discussed how Hamas, along with "our Egyptian brothers" settled on a group of technocrats who would be able to administer Gaza, including eight that are all "capable and represent the diversity of Gazan society," as well as able to receive support from Gazan police forces. "Israel can't achieve that - we have to stop it," he alleged...

"Did people not hate what happened in Egypt and Jordan? What did they get from normalizing. The general opinion is against normalization," he argued.

The Trump administration is trying to push for normalization through the Abraham Accords in order to "save Israel from itself," and "save its reputation," he alleged. JPost

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'Gazan doctors killed my daughter by injecting air into her veins,' father of murdered soldier says. Avi Marciano said that rather than treat his daughter Noa for her wounds, a doctor at al-Shifa hospital killed her. He was sent a video of her last moments.

By Danya Saperstein. December 11, 2025. Content warning: This article contains disturbing images including lethal injections, torture

Avi Marciano, the father of murdered IDF Cpl. Noa Marciano, described how he learned of his daughter’s death in Hamas captivity through a video of her last moments shared with him on Telegram in an Instagram video posted by Israel activist Shai Deluca on Wednesday.

He recounts how he saw footage of a medical professional lethally injecting air into her veins after she was taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza. JPost

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UK rock band under fire for swastika-Star of David imagery at London show. Jewish watchdog files police complaint after Primal Scream displays visuals linking Nazi symbols with Jewish iconography during anti-Israel performance; venue launches investigation amid accusations of antisemitism. ynet|12.11.25 21:42

British rock band Primal Scream is facing backlash after displaying edited images of the Star of David merged with swastikas during a Monday night concert in London.

The controversial visuals were projected on screen during the performance of the band’s 1999 song Swastika Eyes, a track originally written as a critique of U.S. foreign policy. During the performance, footage of Gaza was shown, followed by images of a Star of David containing a swastika. YNet

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Amid dispute over Hezbollah. Iranian FM accepts Beirut invite. Elad Benari. Dec 12, 2025, 5:07 AM INN

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House passes bill with $500 million for Israel missile defense. “We talked to the secretary of state directly and got guarantees that any NGOs that are funneling American tax dollars to the Taliban are officially going to be cut off,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said. Andrew Bernard. (Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Cabinet approves: 19 new communities in Judea and Samaria. Israel National News. Dec 12, 2025, 1:22 AM INN

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Pennsylvania, Utah governors decry political violence in joint appearance in DC. “We need to begin by saying that all leaders must condemn all political violence, not cherry-pick which violence to condemn and which violence to accept,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said. Jonathan D. Salant. (Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Speaker Johnson ‘The Bible is clear: Judea and Samaria are the Land of Israel’. “I do not understand why we debate this anew every single day,” Rep. Mike Johnson told Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan. JNS Staff.

(Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), speaker of the House of Representatives, told visiting Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan in Washington this week that “Judea and Samaria are the Land of Israel,” Dagan’s office stated on Thursday.

“I visited Samaria—both as a member of Congress before becoming speaker, and again last summer as speaker with a small group of colleagues,” Johnson told Dagan, according to a Hebrew readout the Samaria Regional Council provided to JNS on Thursday. JNS

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Trump: 'Mideast peace achieved after strikes on Iran’s nuclear program'. Israel National News. Dec 12, 2025, 3:21 AM INN

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'The Beautiful Six' Families of the six hostages reflect on Hanukkah captivity video Israel National News Dec 11, 2025, 11:23 PM INN

Chilling video: 6 hostages light Hanukkah candles in captivity. Newly published footage reveals the six hostages who were murdered in August 2024 lighting Hanukkah candles and singing in a captivity tunnel in Rafah. Israel National News Published: Dec 11, 2025, 5:50 PM (GMT+2) INN

Video shows hostages lighting candles for Chanukah in Gaza tunnel months before murders The footage shows six men and women reciting the blessings over the candles in Hebrew and singing the traditional holiday song “Ma'oz Tzur” (“Rock of Ages”). JNS Staff. (Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) JNS

The full documentation: How the six hostages tried to hold on to hope. Additional footage found in the Gaza Strip shows the six hostages who were murdered in the tunnel, embracing, wishing each other a Happy New Year, playing games, cutting hair, and lighting Hanukkah candles. Israel National News. Dec 12, 2025, 12:18 AM INN

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Iran star may miss World Cup over US visa issue Taremi’s IRGC service, anti-Israel post may bar US entry; Iran warns more players, staff could face 2026 World Cup visa issues ynet|12.11.25 YNet

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Hezbollah terrorists increasingly approach northern border, soldiers critique IDF response. According to soldiers, Hezbollah members have been seen approaching IDF forces while carrying hoes or performing tasks in the fields. By Amir Bohbot. December 12, 2025. JPost

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No Mercy. Tzvi Yehezkeli Slams Gaza Flood Videos as Propaganda: "No Drop of Compassion for Staged Victimhood" | WATCH. Israeli analyst Tzvika Yehezkeli ignites controversy after dismissing Gaza flood videos as staged propaganda, accusing Hamas and Qatari-backed networks of pushing AI-generated victimhood clips, including a debunked “floating hand” video, as Storm Byron batters the region and intensifies an already polarized information war. JFeed Staff. Dec 12, 2025 05:17 JFeed

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Fierce Airstrikes. Israeli Airstrikes Target Hezbollah Positions in Southern Lebanon | WATCH. Israel will not sit back and watch Hezbollah rebuild and re-arm itself. And if these airstrikes do not manage to contain Hezbollah, a ground operation will likely follow in early 2026.

JFeed Staff. Dec 12, 2025 03:36 JFeed

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Nvidia’s unwavering support for kidnapped employee shows true workplace family. Noa Argamani tells on X how during the two years her boyfriend Avinatan Or was held captive, Nvidia went beyond being a workplace, offering extraordinary support, demonstrating what true mutual responsibility looks like. Israel National News. Published: Dec 12, 2025, 3:17 PM (GMT+2) INN

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UN General Assembly backs ICJ call for Israel to work with UNRWA. UNGA votes 139-12 to back ICJ’s call for Israel to allow Gaza aid via UN agencies, including UNRWA. Israel denounces UNRWA as complicit in terror, rejecting the resolution as “morally distorted.” Elad Benari, Canada Dec 12, 2025, 8:15 PM INN

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Israel hands mediators names, maps to locate Ran Gvili. Israel gives mediators names of Islamic Jihad terrorists and maps to locate Ran Gvili, stressing no progress in talks or deal will occur until his return. Israel National News. Published: Dec 12, 2025. INN

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'Go to the gas chamber': Rabbi and children targeted in antisemitic verbal attack on Melbourne tram. The accused woman hid her face ... By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 12, 2025

"I was riding the tram home in St Kilda East, with my 8-year-old and 14-year-old daughter and this woman, with her Free Palestine kaffiyeh bag, tells us 'You should all go to the gas chambers!'" JPost

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US forces seize Chinese cargo ship delivering military equipment to Iran - WSJ. The ship was boarded on the Indian Ocean a month ago, with military equipment being seized, officials revealed to the Wall Street Journal.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 13, 2025.

Nashville Jewish community center sues Goyim Defense League over alleged campaign of intimidation Travis Garland, a Tennessee man affiliated with the Goyim Defense League, allegedly disguised himself as an Orthodox Jewish man and infiltrated the Jewish center’s secured campus.

(Neo-Nazi groups Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League hold a rally on September 2, 2023 in Orlando, Florida).

By Asaf Elia-Shalev/JTA December 13, 2025. JPost

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Israel hands mediators list of PIJ terrorists with knowledge of Ran Gvili’s location - report In addition to the names of terrorists, Israel reportedly handed over a map with locations relevant to the search for Gvili’s remains.

Posters of Ran Gvili, whose body is still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, seen at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. December 02, 2025. Posters of Ran Gvili, whose body is still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, seen at Hostage. Danielle Greyman-Kennard, December 13, 2025 00:45 JPost

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Scottish band Primal Scream draws backlash over backdrop of Israeli officials with swastika-eyes Primal Scream is also one of the most prominent acts to demand in recent months that its music not be available on the music platform Spotify to listeners in Israel.

By Grace Gilson/JTA December 13, 2025 02:46 JPost

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European Jewish Association initiates legal actions against Bob Vylan for 'death to the IDF' chants

The demand cites the show Robinson-Foster performed on December 2 at the Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, and argues that the singer "attacked every Jew and Israeli."

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 13, 2025. The European Jewish Association (EJA) initiated legal proceedings on Thursday against Bob Vylan’s singer, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, after he chanted on repeated occasions “death to the IDF” during their performances across Europe.

The demand cites the show Robinson-Foster performed on December 2 at the Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, where he repeated the chant alongside other phrases, such as “everyone hates the police.” JPost

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Gaza hostage Eitan Mor electrocuted, starved in Hamas hands. The Jerusalem Post. December 13, 3025.

Hamas official told Eitan Mor he would be released two weeks after abduction, ex-hostage recounts. Eitan Mor described how he was starved, beaten, and electrocuted during his captivity.

Former hostage Eitan Mor said that he encountered Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the current leader of Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, while in Gaza in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon published on Friday.

Mor recalled the Hamas leader telling him in the early days of his captivity that he would be released within two weeks. However, he was released after two years in October 2025. JPost

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Trump admin discusses possibility of terror-related sanctions on UNRWA U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the longtime U.N. agency as a “subsidiary of Hamas.” Mike Wagenheim (Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS) Trump administration officials are currently in talks to impose terror-related sanctions on the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has long been accused of complicity with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and serving as cover for their terror activities, according to a Reuters report. (Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)

Trump administration officials are currently in talks to impose terror-related sanctions on the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has long been accused of complicity with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and serving as cover for their terror activities, according to a Reuters report. JNS

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House Ed committee requests information about continued hostility towards Jews at MIT. The committee previously sent the private university a letter addressing “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” in March 2024. (Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)

In a Dec. 12 letter sent to Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT, Walberg noted that while the committee had documented “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” at the private university in Cambridge, in March 2024, “this hostility appears to have continued throughout 2025.” JNS

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Bipartisan Senate bill could lead to sanctions on Houthis in Yemen. “The severity of the Houthi menace is magnified by their human rights abuses, antisemitism and their continued theft of international humanitarian aid,” wrote Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.). Mike Wagenheim. (Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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As Republicans soften on Muslim Brotherhood, Dems say terror sanctions must move forward. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) told JNS that the United States is behind Qatar’s neighbors in branding the Brotherhood a terror entity, “and it’s clearly because of lobbying influence by different targets.” Mike Wagenheim

(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS) Just weeks ago, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order triggering a review of chapters and offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood for potential terrorist designations. But critics and even some allies say the administration is too cozy with Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood hub, for the sanctions to work.

And now, Republicans in Congress may be letting Qatar off the hook as well. JNS

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Tucker Carlson and the Qatar First Republicans are sabotaging Trump. Americans fawned over the emirate at the Doha Forum love fest for the home office of Islamist terror. They’re setting the president up for a fall as well as fueling antisemitism.

Jonathan S. Tobin.

(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS) Placed in the broad context of history, the Doha Forum held earlier this month by the Emirate of Qatar doesn’t matter much. It’s neither the first nor the last time that a tyrannical regime bent on exporting a vicious ideology aimed at destroying Western civilization put on a show for the world. But the Qataris had good reason to think that they scored yet another public relations triumph last week as the world flocked to the Persian Gulf state to fawn upon them at an event whose theme was not ironically titled “Justice in Action: Beyond Promises to Action.”

That a vicious authoritarian regime whose long record of human-rights abuses and financial support for Islamist terrorism would have the chutzpah to put on an event about achieving international justice could be dismissed as something of a bad joke. But like so much of what passes for public affairs discourse at shindigs such as these, the ability of the hosts to pretend to be legitimate actors in international diplomacy and even human-rights advocacy is no joke.

The most troubling aspect wasn’t just this latest success for Qatar’s massive investment in an information operation designed to launder their reputation and bolster an invidious effort to undermine the defense of the West. It’s the way that their efforts may be tilting the scales toward appeasement of Islamists inside a Trump administration that is debating whether or not to sanction the Muslim Brotherhood.

A massive influence operation

The Doha Forum is but a small part of the Qatari regime’s efforts to convince Americans to view them as valued allies, rather than the primary engine of the Islamist threat to the United States and its allies. It spends billions to influence politicians and even congressional staffers, as well as buy university Middle East studies programs. It also fosters strategic investment designed to make friends who become indebted to them. That’s done both by bailing out people like President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and pouring money into schemes floated by those close to the president, like his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his son, Donald Trump Jr. JNS

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Islamism’s strategic scarcity: hoarded baby formula exposes the economy of martyrdom. Opinion: A viral video from Gaza exposes Hamas stockpiling baby formula and aid as civilians starve, shattering Western illusions and indicting an ideology that weaponizes suffering for global sympathy. Amine Ayoub|12.13.25

There is a specific kind of evil that the Western mind cannot process. It is the evil that looks at a hungry child and sees not a tragedy to be solved, but a weapon to be loaded.

A video from Gaza has been tearing across the internet. It was not filmed by the IDF. It was filmed by a courageous local, a man tired of the lies. It shows a Hamas-controlled warehouse in the Khan Younis area. Inside, it is not a war zone. It is a supermarket. Floor-to-ceiling stacks of baby formula, mountains of white flour, crates of medicine.

Outside those steel doors, Palestinian mothers are weeping for the cameras, begging for milk. Inside, the "Mujahideen" sit on a stockpile that could feed the entire southern strip for weeks.

This image—the starving child outside and the hoarded milk inside—is the perfect summary of this war. It is also the ultimate indictment of the Islamist ideology that has held Gaza hostage for two decades.

Why does the world struggle to understand this? Because we project our own morality onto our enemies. In London, Paris and New York, we assume that a government’s first priority is the survival of its people. When we see starvation, we assume it is a failure of logistics or the result of a blockade. We cannot conceive of a regime that wants its own population to starve.

But Islamism is not a normal political movement. It is a revolutionary theology that fetishizes death. Hamas did not hoard that formula to sell it. They didn't even hoard it to feed their fighters. They hoarded it specifically to ensure that the images of starving babies would continue to flow. They know that a photo of a gaunt infant is their air force. They know it neutralizes the Israeli military. They know it brings the United Nations to its knees.

The baby formula was locked away because a fed baby is useless to the jihad. A fed baby doesn't make the front page of the New York Times. A fed baby doesn't inspire protests at Columbia University. To Hamas, that milk was dangerous contraband—because it had the power to solve the very crisis they needed to perpetuate.

The West’s complicity. The horror is not that Hamas does this. The horror is that the West helps them.

International media widely reported on the starvation and blamed Israel.

For a year, the "civilized world" has played the role of the useful idiot. They sent the trucks. They paid the bills. The UN coordinated the delivery. And then, when the goods vanished into the terror tunnels, they turned around and blamed the only democracy in the region for "not doing enough."

A perverse ecosystem was built where the West funds the bait (the aid), Hamas sets the trap (the starvation) and Israel gets blamed for the catch. This video strips away the excuses. You cannot say "Israel is blocking aid" when the warehouse is full. You cannot say "logistics are difficult" when the shelves are organized with military precision.

A war of truth. This is why the war against Hamas is not just a territorial dispute. It is a civilizational struggle.

On one side, you have a society that builds Iron Domes to protect its children. On the other, you have an ideology that builds cages for its children to starve in, so they can blame the other side. The sheer cynicism of hoarding baby formula while your people cry out for food reveals the terminal cancer of political Islam. It views human beings—even its own—as disposable props in a divine theater.

If this video does not wake up the West, nothing will.

The hunger in Gaza is real. But the key to the pantry isn't held by an Israeli soldier. It is held by a masked terrorist who would rather watch his own people die than lose his propaganda war. The "Starvation Libel" is over. We found the milk. And we found the monsters who hid it. Amine Ayoub, a Middle East Forum fellow, is a policy analyst and writer based in Morocco. YNet

Dec. 11: Hamas Hid Baby Formula To Advance Child Starvation Propaganda Narrative. By Adam Lehrer. December 11, 2025

The Big Story. After nearly a year of Israel being accused of “deliberately starving Gazan children,” new reports prove the crisis was, at least in large part, engineered by Hamas. According to Wednesday reports from the New York Post and others, the terror group hid massive stockpiles of baby formula and children’s nutritional shakes inside a Gaza warehouse, letting children starve to sabotage Israel’s credibility. Anti-Hamas Palestinian activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, who posted video evidence of the hoarded supplies to social media, said on X Tuesday that Hamas also intentionally withheld the aid to force the return of the United Nations’ distribution program and oust the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

The discovery of the hidden formula appears to vindicate the explanation of Gaza’s food shortages outlined by Erez Winter and Gadi Taub in their August Tablet article “Feeding the Enemy”:[Gazan] pockets with shortage are the TabletMag

(Related: Feeding the Enemy. By abandoning its original plan and bending to international pressure, Israel handed Hamas control of aid, of the narrative, and of the war By Erez Winner and Gadi Taub August 06, 2025

([21]. Footage released by the IDF on July 23, 2025 shows Hamas operatives gleefully displaying provisions in an underground tunnel X/@ID)

Israel is not starving Gaza. Any claim to the contrary is mendacious propaganda. That said, Israel did create the situation that gave rise to the current avoidable crisis, which it has badly mishandled, to boot. It is not too late, however, to course-correct and resume focus on the mission of defeating Hamas.

Here are the facts: Enough food enters Gaza. Pockets with shortage are the result of two things: the United Nations not relinquishing control to the American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and Hamas’ war strategy of increasing its own population’s suffering to put international pressure on Israel—confident in the press’ willful cooperation.

Israel’s original plan at the end of the long second cease-fire in March would have denied Hamas the ability to execute this strategy. The plan was to break Hamas’ control over Gaza’s population by breaking its control of the aid entering the strip. The IDF was to divide Gaza into discrete areas, isolating each one while providing it with a humanitarian corridor to enable civilians to leave combat zones and move south to temporary accommodation in safe sanctuaries, which is what the IDF had already done before the second cease-fire (during which many evacuated Gazans returned). Meanwhile, the American GHF was to distribute food in these sanctuaries. It would do so in family packages, rather than through wholesale supply, which invites middlemen. More than 100 million such meals were distributed by GHF in the past two months.

After the evacuations, any remaining person in the combat zones would be considered a combatant. A siege would be applied until all combatants surrendered and gave up the hostages they held. It’s important to note that a siege is a legal means of war sanctioned by international law and authorized by the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual (2015), even when applied to a civilian population in certain cases. However, the IDF plan was to implement it only after civilians were safely evacuated.

Implementing the original plan will surely result in opprobrium from a hypocritical international community, but at least it will succeed and end the war.

But Israel did not execute this plan. Instead, it concentrated on the effort to reach a hostage deal while attempting to prove its morality to the world. Subjecting itself to standards far stricter than international law requires, the IDF opted for half measures and did not move the population to designated safe zones to supply them with food. Instead, fearing a humanitarian crisis, the IDF began sending aid to pockets where Hamas has been using the population and the hostages as human shields to create safe havens for itself. In so doing, Israel became the first country in the history of warfare to assume responsibility for feeding the enemy population. It thus relieved Hamas of responsibility instead of insisting that the group surrender and release the hostages. So far from scoring points for morality, Israel dug itself into a hole, and still it was blamed for the crisis that Hamas and the United Nations have manufactured.

According to the United Nations’ data, almost 90 percent of aid trucks sent to Hamas-controlled areas are looted. Consequently, Hamas gets to control distribution and to sell food and other necessities at exorbitant prices. This allows it to continue feeding its men and their families and paying their salaries, which in turn perpetuates Hamas’ administrative grip on the population. For example, baby food enters the strip as free aid. It is then sold by private merchants for $70 per small package and $125 for larger ones. Hamas then takes its cut by collecting an exorbitant tax.

At the same time, huge quantities of food are rotting in the sun in U.N. storage lots, because the United Nations would not relinquish its control over supplies to GHF. It has strong incentives to continue doing so: Many of the United Nations’ employees in Gaza are also Hamas members or are married to Hamas members. Moreover, if aid distribution is shifted away, the United Nations stands to lose funding, as major donors, including the United States, withhold funds or redirect them to alternative mechanisms.

If Israel is to recover momentum and achieve its war aims—dismantling Hamas’ military and governing capabilities, returning the hostages, and ensuring Gaza does not pose a danger to Israel in the future—it must first gain control over the aid supply and ensure it flows only through GHF. This can be achieved, at a minimum, by expanding the GHF distribution mechanism to the full width of the strip, from Rafah up to the Netzarim Corridor, bringing aid directly to populations now receiving it from—or being deprived of it by—the United Nations and Hamas.

But this is only a stopgap measure. In the long run, without evacuating the civilian population from combat zones and applying effective sieges to places where combatants are still able to hide, Israel will not fully achieve any of its aims. Implementing the original plan will surely result in opprobrium from a hypocritical international community, but at least it will succeed and end the war. In fact, the attempt to avoid criticism through half measures manages to achieve the worst of both worlds: It brings only an even worse cascade of international condemnation while prolonging the war. That could then lead to more needless suffering, potentially turning international pressure into a strategic danger. All this without accomplishing what Israel must accomplish if it is to survive: the utter and total destruction of the organization that perpetrated the horrors of Oct. 7 on the Jewish people.

Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Winner is the former head of operational planning in the IDF’s Southern Command. Gadi Taub is an author, historian, and op-ed columnist. He is co-host of Tablet’s Israel Update podcast. TabletMag)

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib: Hamas's chief legal officer & "human rights lawyer," Ramy Abdu, who was literally sent to Europe by the terror organization to create a fake organization (EuroMed Monitor) to launder propaganda, received instructions from his Hamas handlers to lie & clean up the mess my post has caused them!

10:02 PM · Dec 12, 2025 on X

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Executed Iranian nuclear scientist confessed to aiding Israel after torture, threats against mother. Vahid Razavi, a member of the Vadi family, told the dissident media site that Rouzbeh Vadi was detained a year and a half ago after a dispute at work. Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters. December 13, 2025. JPost

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Hamas terror group passes the buck. Hamas sources claim fallen Yasam officer Ran Gvili was buried in eastern Gaza but cannot be located due to the elimination of those involved. Orly Harari. Dec 13, 2025, 7:16 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Unusual ambush in Syria. US and Syrian soldiers injured after gunman opens fire near Palmyra, Syria; shooter eliminated. Israel National News Published: Dec 13, 2025, 6:31 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Israel Defense Forces @IDF: ELIMINATED: Ra’ad Sa’ad, Head of the Weapons Production Headquarters of Hamas’ Military Wing and One of the Architects of the Brutal October 7th Massacre.

Sa’ad was one of the last remaining veteran senior militants in the Gaza Strip and a close associate of Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’ military wing. He held several senior positions and was a central figure within the organization’s military leadership.

He was responsible for the deaths of many soldiers through explosive devices manufactured by Hamas’ weapons production units during the war.

In recent months, Sa’ad played a leading role in Hamas’ military wing, including direct involvement in violating the ceasefire agreement. He also oversaw the continued production of weapons in the Gaza Strip during the ceasefire period.

His elimination significantly degrades Hamas’ ability to reestablish its capabilities. Dec 13, 2025 on X

IDF Eliminates Hamas #2 Raad Saad in Targeted Gaza City Airstrike | WATCHm

The IDF confirms a precision drone strike in Gaza City killed Raad Saad, Hamas’s senior military commander and alleged second-in-command, in a targeted operation during the ongoing ceasefire. He had survived two assassination attempts.

JFeed Staff. Dec 13, 2025.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Saturday that a precision drone airstrike in western Gaza City killed Raad Saad (also spelled Ra'ad Sa'ad or Raed Saad), a senior Hamas military commander widely regarded as the second-in-command of the group's armed wing, behind only Izz ad-Din al-Haddad. JFeed

Netanyahu, Katz: Israel killed top Hamas official Sa'ad for rearming instead of demilitarizing Sa'ad was also one of the few remaining living Hamas officials directly involved in planning the October 7 invasion and slaughter of around 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians.

Yonah Jeremy Bob. December 13, 2025. JPost

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Disney+ Christmas Ad Sparks Controversy Over Pro-Palestinian Symbol | WATCH. Disney+ is facing a social-media firestorm after viewers spotted a watermelon symbol, widely linked to pro-Palestinian activism, in its 2025 Christmas ad, igniting accusations of hidden political messaging and reigniting the culture-war debate over wokeness in family entertainment.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 13, 2025.

Disney+ has faced backlash over its 2025 holiday advertisement, titled "A Lifetime of Stories," after viewers spotted a watermelon sticker on a teenage character's laptop. The watermelon, whose sliced colors (red, green, black, and white) match those of the Palestinian flag, has long been used as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity, dating back to the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel banned public displays of the flag in "occupied territories". JFeed

Propaganda for children?: Controversy over Disney+ holiday ad. Entertainment giant Disney is accused of embedding covert pro-Palestinian messages in a Christmas commercial by showing a watermelon, which has become a symbol associated with support for Palestinians. Nissan Tzur. Dec 13, 2025, 11:38 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Two IDF Reservists Wounded in Southern Gaza. Dec 13, 2025 Two reservist soldiers were lightly wounded earlier today when an explosive device detonated in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF said. According to the military, the explosion occurred while the troops were operating in the area as part of efforts to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure. The wounded soldiers received medical treatment, and their families have been notified. IDF forces continue operations in the sector. JFeed

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IDF warns Lebanon of impending strike. Dec 13, 2025 Earlier today, the IDF issued an evacuation warning in the Yanoch area of southern Lebanon ahead of a planned strike. Following the evacuation notice, the Lebanese Army contacted the mechanism to access the targeted site again and address the violation. The IDF decided to allow this, and as a result, the strike was postponed. The IDF continues to monitor the target closely and remains in communication with the mechanism. The IDF will not allow the Hezbollah terrorist organization to establish or rebuild its strength JFeed

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ISIS terrorist who killed two US troops was member of Syrian security forces, local officials say A Syrian interior ministry spokesperson told Syrian television channel Al-Ikhbariya that the attacker did not have a leadership role in the security forces.

By Reuters, Danielle Greyman-kennard. December 13, 2025.

Two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in an Islamic State attack on Saturday in Palmyra, Syria, where they were supporting counterterrorism operations, the Pentagon said.

Three others were wounded, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the attacker was killed by partner forces. JPost

Trump on deadly ISIS ambush in Syria: We will retaliate. Trump vows “very serious” retaliation after two US troops and a civilian were killed in an ISIS ambush in Syria. CENTCOM confirmed the attacker was eliminated. Israel National News. Dec 14, 2025, 2:38 AM (GMT+2) INN

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Dr. Einat Wilf: 'We lied to ourselves about the Palestinians'. Wilf says her focus is to confront the “right of return” and UNRWA’s role in perpetuating conflict, arguing that state services should prioritize those who serve the state.

By Sherry Makover-balikov December 13, 2025.

Dr. Einat Wilf, a former Labor MK who says she underwent a political awakening, explains in a recent interview with Maariv why she views Mahmoud Abbas as an adversary and why she is forming a new party, Oz, to advance a program that ties peace to Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism. Wilf says her focus is to confront the “right of return” and UNRWA’s role in perpetuating conflict, arguing that state services should prioritize those who serve the state.   Wilf frames her platform around three points: peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism, state services for those who serve the state, and a shift from a diasporic mindset to sovereign governance. ‘After October 7, these issues are at the core’ About a year ago, Wilf was invited to a filmed interview about Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians. The former Labor MK and left-wing figure, who experienced a political awakening, tried to explain why she sees Mahmoud Abbas as an enemy.

“I spoke about his commitment to the Palestinian ethos that believes in the right of return and fights against the existence of a Jewish state for the Jewish people,” she recalls. “It was a long interview, and when I finished, studio staff, from the lighting tech to the director, came up to me and said, this is what we want to vote for. Why is there no one in Israeli politics who represents your ideas?”

Were you surprised?

“No. After October 7, everywhere I went, I saw that the issues I have worked on for 20 years are now at the center. So I decided to bring them to the forefront, and at this stage, the only way to express them clearly, without diluting them with political considerations, is to establish a party and lead it.”

That is quite an ambition.

“For years, people asked me, who in Israel even shares your ideas? I always said, either it is five people who are my best friends, or it is 70% of the Israeli public. There is an old joke about a shoe company that wanted to know whether there is a market in Africa...”

What is your story?

“To advance peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism, to ensure that state services reach those who serve the state, and to move from a diasporic mindset to sovereign conduct.”

People dismissed these ideas until October 7 Not everyone identified with these ideas. Until October 7 many saw them as marginal. “A few weeks before the massacre, I sat on a panel... a very senior left-wing journalist said to me, Einat, who cares about the Palestinians today, it is so passé.” “It was a closing remark, but it reflected a mindset. We had the Abraham Accords, and Hamas was supposedly deterred. Even Bennett said Palestinians are a splinter in the backside. I took my book The War of Return to security officials and ministers. I said our enemies, especially the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, still seek a reality where Jews have no state.” “We also dealt with the billions for Gaza... pouring money would not buy quiet because Gazans believe Gaza is a base to ‘liberate Palestine.’ We wrote that transferring billions to the Palestinians will not end well.” What did they answer you? “They said, give us a few weeks of quiet... why say no return, no UNRWA, no refugeehood. Once, in the Defense Ministry, we explained that someone who grows up believing he will take back his house in Israel will get up each morning and dig a tunnel to ‘liberate Palestine.’” “I said, listen to them. They say openly that they aim to destroy the Jewish state. The aide said, We need quiet until after the holidays... i left deeply shaken, seeing the addiction to quiet.” ‘I was told I would ignite a third intifada’ And before that? “As a Labor MK, I was called to a committee and accused of causing a third intifada because I dared touch the core Palestinian issue. I thought we were lying to ourselves.” Why because of you? “I tried to cut UNRWA funding. The Defense Ministry resisted. I agreed to expose that there are not really five million refugees, only tens of thousands, but without touching funding... The campaign succeeded. Congress required UNRWA to report actual numbers. Then the Defense Ministry told me, you will ignite a third intifada... It taught me that the lies are agreed upon.”

What did you do with that realization? Did you stay silent?

“No. I spoke and wrote in Israel and abroad... Then, on October 7, everyone understood. Editor Shmuel Rosner asked us to publish an updated book.” “We wrote Shiva be-Oktober in May, and last Saturday night Kan 11 aired a documentary based on the book. Most importantly, people now say we were right.” The UNRWA documentary and its reception The film UNRWA by Duki Dror, based on Wilf and Adi Schwartz’s book, shows how UNRWA maintains war by nurturing a violent ‘return’ and reinforcing generations of non-refugee ‘refugees.’ The film won a research prize at Haifa’s documentary festival and is available digitally. “After the Tel Aviv Cinematheque premiere, the director received many angry messages from friends," Wilf said. “They were angry that he presented a depressing work. But that is the point. After seeing the film, one cannot ignore how refugee and return ideas shape Palestinianism, or that a people next to us was formed around a destructive idea of negating Zionism. Beyond its educational role, the film confirms that my long engagement is central to Israel’s future and security.” From advocacy back to politics Since October 7 Wilf has become one of the most effective international voices for Israel, with lectures, podcasts, delegations and meetings filling her schedule. Beforehand, she was a Left-wing figure, a PhD and an MK, then crossed the aisle to focus on delegitimization as a strategic challenge. “I speak about what the conflict is, what we do and do not do, why anti-Zionism rises in the West, and what Israeli policy should be.” “Since October 7, people tell me they follow every lecture and read everything I write. Suddenly, my work is so relevant.” So you woke up one morning and started a party? “It is a process... Now it is not only telling the Israeli-Zionist story but knowing what to do for it. Because I worked on these issues, I knew what should be done in Gaza and could present a day-after policy. Through the party, I am testing whether my ideas can become policy.” You were already in politics. That chapter seemed closed. “True, but after October 7, I saw the gap between public and government, and that central issues are not addressed. If no one else advances them, I will, as a party leader.” Many new parties may split the bloc and lose votes. “Now is exactly the time for many parties and ideas. Close to the deadline will be the time for mergers to avoid lost votes. For now, I am checking if there is real demand for my ideas.” But you are not really doing politics. No consultants, polls, or HQ. “I do not use polls or consultants. Nothing replaces direct contact with the public... If there is no support, I will not run independently.” How does it feel to return? “I left not by choice after a Labor split. Today, it is jumping into the fire. I remind myself I do it because I believe in these ideas.” Where is your party on the map? “My ideas are not Left, Right, or Center... I will speak to those tired of politics and media wired around one person. Critics focused on the man, not processes.” But he [Netanyahu] is the leader who drives the processes. “People did not say what should be done to drive processes. They said what was wrong and who was to blame.” Does The Democrats Party fit your ideas? “Everyone asked me to join. I told all that I must present my ideas to the public without diluting them. Joining a party silences you because the goal is to make the chair the prime minister. So I founded my own.” Where is the funding from? “Social media is free and is all the fuel. If ideas fit the moment, something good can happen. If not, money will not help. If they fit, donations come in by law.” Any lessons from your past? “Do not get excited by everything people say. Some bring ideas, others know the craft. It is rare to have both.” “I do not know how much political skill I have, but sometimes reality tears, and what worked no longer works. I am testing whether this is that moment.” Who is on your list, and how will it be set? “For now, there is no list. If momentum builds, I will submit a list mainly of women from the public sector who know how systems work. If a centrist Zionist government is formed, it will have months, maybe a year, to make dramatic changes. I need people who know budgets, laws, and systems.” Why ‘Oz’? “Because of the verse, ‘The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace,’ strength and peace, and because it echoes Nir Oz and Nahal Oz. I also like the name. Short and clear.” The party’s core ideas Wilf’s party proposes answers to security, policy, and public issues. The first is to advance peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism. “Leadership striving for peace, and understanding that peace and security are impossible while the Palestinian ideology that negates Zionism persists.” How can you strive for peace opposite an ideology that denies the Jewish people’s existence in its land? “The Palestinians are not ready for peace or any arrangement that includes a Jewish state. Still, Israel must say it strives for peace under conditions, not ‘no’ to every initiative. The Saudi crown prince said he would advance the Abraham Accords if a path to two states opens, and Israel said, ‘we do not agree.’” “If we were wiser, we would say, excellent. The path to peace is between two states, Jewish and Palestinian. For a hundred years, the Palestinians have said they are not ready for a neighboring Jewish state. The day they want to live beside us, not on our ruins, they will find we were never the problem.” “Return the ball to the crown prince. Ask him to help West Bank Arabs abandon the war. Tell the Palestinians, your war against Zionism is over. The Jews will have a state, and you can live beside them, not instead of them. That means you are not refugees and have no right of return, and in return, we will help with budgets and education.” Do Palestinians oppose two states for two peoples? “Yes. They say aloud that they want a state alongside Israel. Quietly, they talk about the right of return. Recently, the Palestinian beauty queen’s dress had a huge key. If you listen, they are clear. They meant an Arab state in Gaza and the West Bank, and another Arab state to replace Israel through return. They never compromised. They are consistent.” How do you bridge the desire for peace and the aspiration for two Palestinian states? “It will not happen tomorrow. It is a vision and a process. Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall must be upgraded. Enter their arena and say the truth: you do not really want a state, you do not want us here.” What is the practical meaning? “If we had acted correctly in Gaza, we would say the war does not end with disarming Hamas but when the ideology disintegrates and no one in Gaza is a refugee and nothing will be built or enter until everyone is removed from UNRWA’s refugee rolls.” “Unfortunately, we did not work with countries that fund UNRWA. We talked only about disarming Hamas, while its greatest weapons are ideology, refugeehood, right of return, and international legitimacy. We do nothing about that ideology, or worse, we fund it through UNRWA and Hamas.” If UNRWA ceases and Palestinians understand there is no right of return, will hostility disappear, and will we live in security? “We will get closer to security. Once Palestinians understand that ideology is dead and the Jews are here to stay, they can live alongside us, and a political arrangement will be possible.” Can an ideology be killed? “Yes. Ideologies die and are replaced. When people see their ideas have no market, they seek other worldviews. From ruin can come change, personally and collectively.” ‘State services for state service’ What stands behind the second idea? “Welfare rests on solidarity. We put Haredim and Arabs under the welfare umbrella without solidarity. Since October 7, solidarity means defending Israel. First, everyone is enlisted. Those who refuse lose benefits and services. No need for a culture war. If you will not defend Israel, we will not give rights.” Also for Arab citizens? “Israel did them no favor by exempting them. This is their state. They must defend it. Many security problems with Arab Israelis stem from putting them aside.” And moving from a diasporic mindset to sovereign conduct? “We behave as if still in the Diaspora. On the legal issue, both the government and the Supreme Court must return power to the Knesset, the sovereign.” What happens when the Knesset weakens compared to the government? “That is a problem. Strengthen oversight. Expand the Knesset. One committee per MK. Regular question hour. Increase the ability to summon ministers and officials.” Breaking with the Left Wilf began as part of the Peace Camp... believed that once Palestinians had a state, peace would come. All this changed when she encountered Jew-hatred and understood the link between Zionism and antisemitism. October 7 intensified this. “I wrote that in Palestinian eyes there is no difference between me and a hilltop youth. If I want a Jewish state and reject a right of return that ends it, they see me as seeking their harm. I even wrote that the Left needs a Palestinian defeat, because for them a Jewish state is a defeat.” Is there a Zionist Left today? “Labels hardened. The radical Left seeks one state and the end of Jewish sovereignty, represented by Hadash-Ta’al. Others think Israel is the refuser. There are a few. Some in Labor believe the PA is moderate. Also few.” Netanyahu says half the Knesset is Left. “Rhetoric. The real Left disappeared. Despite Israel’s attempts at arrangements, Palestinians made clear they do not want that. October 7 was the final nail in that belief.” ‘Anti-Zionism in the West was built over years’ How did anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian movements penetrate Western academia and politics? “The Soviets, Qatar, and Arab states have long worked in academia, NGOs, and UN bodies to legitimize anti-Zionism. Doctorates on Zionism as colonialism. Professorships for calling Israel apartheid. October 7 exposed what was built for years.” “It is a long process. We fell asleep. An Egyptian colleague said what happened in academia after October 7 was symbolic participation in a pogrom. Academia did not see Jews as victims because for it Zionism is the ultimate evil. I have heard for 15 years that a better world will come without Israel and Zionism. The Palestinians are heroes because they will erase the collective Jew.” What did you learn from public confrontations? “Sometimes I thought, there are billions. But with research and knowledg,e I am calm. Their ideology is clear. It is not about settlements or genocide in Gaza, but a belief that without Israel and Zionism the world will be better.” How can we deal with it? “We cannot be alone. We are small. We need allies. Anti-Zionism will not stop without enough Americans, Canadians, Britons, and French fighting it.” How do you recruit them? They are against us. “Every society that lets anti-Zionism take over is failing, and Jews leave it. The key message Jews must bring to the West is that anti-Zionism is not about Israel or the conflict. It attacks society as a whole.” JPost

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Testimony from captivity: The terrorist and the propaganda.

Eitan Mor, who returned from captivity in Gaza, reveals that a Hamas interrogator asked him for advice on how to draw more people to the Saturday night demonstrations at Hostages Square. Israel National News. Published: Dec 14, 2025, 1:15 AM (GMT+2) INN

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ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24: Palestinian activist Malak Fadda, who collected thousands of dollars from Gulf donors under the pretext of funding her brother’s medical treatment, has reportedly fled Gaza and was seen in Qatar’s capital, Doha... Dec 13, 2025. on X

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ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24: Yemen: Arab Media Reveal Secret Houthi Strategy Using Hostages

According to reports published today by Arab newspapers, a leaked internal document shows Yemen’s Houthi militia deliberately using local detainees and foreign hostages as political leverage to pressure the United Nations... Dec 13, 3025. on X

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Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig: Let me get this straight… They’re cancelling Taylor Swift for treating Israelis as human?

The hashtag #TaylorSwiftisaZionist is trending (as if that’s a bad thing… it’s not) after her new documentary included a lovely interview of 3 girls saying they met Israelis at her London concert, and because a CNN news clip that appeared came from a Tel Aviv corespondent.

Now, Free Palestine is accusing her of “specifically planting Jewish ppl... in an effort to humanize baby [here comes the slur] killers & [here comes the pallyweid] genociders[sic].”

And towards Jewish Swifties? Supposedly “progressive” activists are calling them “Zios” — a white supremacist slur for Jews, popularized by the KKK’s David Duke.

The mere reminder that Jews and Israelis are human beings shouldn’t enrage someone this much in 2025.

But for Free Palestine, if they can’t dehumanize us, their entire world view collapses. Acknowledging that Jews are here to stay, that we have a homeland, that we live normal lives, that we love artists like Taylor Swift too, and that we exist like anyone else would force them to confront their own bigotry.

Taylor, HaYarkon Park in Tel Aviv holds some 100,000 fans if you want to make history next tour! Dec 13, 2025 on X

In case you needed more proof that the pallyweid "genocide" lie machine is bigotry. See the latest (Dec 12, 2025) attacks on Taylor Swift and the Zio slur on anti Jewish fans. Not to mention that the one started this campaign "@Brooke_816" called (on 2 June 2025) the rapper Drake a 'zionist' because his mother is a Jew. She turned noble label 'zionist" into something "negative" and exposes her anti Jewish hatred. Dec 13, 2025 at EoZ

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Dec 14-22, 2025+

Gunmen kill 15, wound 42 in terror attack at Sydney Chanukah event. "This was a treacherous act of terror—an attack on community, on goodness and on light itself," the Chabad Lubavitch movement said. Akiva Van Koningsveld.

(Dec. 14, 2025 | Updated Dec. 14, 15:55 / JNS) At least 15 people were killed and 42 injured were hospitalized in a terror attack that targeted a Chanukah party on Bondi Beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Sunday, according to Australian authorities and local media reports on Sunday morning local time.

Those who were killed were between the ages of 10 and 87, according to the Australian public broadcaster ABC, which cited Chris Minns, premier of New South Wales.

The shooters are believed to be a father and son, according to ABC, which reported that the alleged terrorist Naveed Akram, 24, is under police guard in the hospital, and police shot and killed his father, 50, on Sunday.

The commissioner of the New South Wales police said that officers found “two ‘basic’ explosive devices” at the shooter’s home on Sunday night and that the “explosives had not been activated,” according to ABC.

When a reporter asked the New South Wales premier about reports that police froze rather than returning fire, Minns said that “I’m not going to go into the circumstances of police officers that returned fire, but I can tell you their bravery, their courage in these circumstances saved countless lives and I would urge everyone not to jump to conclusions,” ABC reported.

The attack took place at a Chanukah celebration attended by hundreds of people and organized by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, said that he was in “continuous contact” with Australian Jewish leaders.

Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters stated that it is “devastated and heartbroken by the barbaric terror attack against a public Chanukah celebration in Sydney, Australia, on the first night of Chanukah.”

“We grieve for the families whose loved ones were murdered, among them Chabad emissary Rabbi Elie Schlanger, who led the Chanukah celebration with the people of Bondi Beach,” it said. “Rabbi Schlanger devoted his life to sharing Jewish warmth, faith and community with others. He was doing exactly what he had been sent to do—bringing light and joy into the public square—when his life was cut down.”

It added that the rabbi “leaves his wife, Chayale, and their children, including a 2-month-old baby” and that “we mourn him as family and stand with his loved ones and his community in their immeasurable loss.”

“This was a treacherous act of terror—an attack on community, on goodness and on light itself,” the movement said. “It reflects a climate in which Jew-hatred has been allowed to grow and to turn violent. That reality must be confronted.”

Australian Prime Minister Antony Albanese told a press conference following the attack that “this afternoon, there has been a devastating terrorist incident at Bondi at the Chanukah by the Sea celebration.”

“This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Chanukah, which should be a day of joy, a celebration of faith,” the premier said.

“An act of evil antisemitism, terrorism, that has struck the heart of our nation,” he added. “An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.”

Alex Ryvchin, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, told Sydney radio station 2GB that the group’s director of media was injured in the attack, which he called “deliberate and very targeted.

“Hundreds of people were gathered. It’s a family event,” he said. “They heard, like, dozens of popping sounds, and people just started running, running over barricades, grabbing their children. It was mayhem.”

New South Wales state opposition leader Kellie Sloane, who was at the beach, told Sky News that the shooting a “horrific attack on our way of life, a very targeted attack on our Jewish community.”

“I was there when the shooting was still happening, and there was so many people,” he told the outlet. “We were trying to we were trying to support people. We were trying to save people.”

Four months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Albanese to confront what he called a “tsunami of antisemitism” that had spread in Australia since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

Netanyahu also slammed the decision by his Australian counterpart to recognize a Palestinian state while the Jewish state was still fighting “a war on behalf of Western civilization” as a “sign of weakness.” JNS

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World leaders react to deadly Chanukah attack in Sydney. Israel accuses Australia of letting Jew-hatred fester, some leaders offer condolences without naming antisemitism. Canaan Lidor. (Dec. 14, 2025 / JNS) World leaders and diplomats offered varied reactions to Sunday’s terrorist attack against Jews in Sydney, ranging from offering general condolences, to accusing the Australian government of allowing antisemitic hatred to fester, as alleged by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.

Following the attack by at least two shooters on participants in a Chanukah celebration at Bondi Beach, in which 11 people were murdered, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that “the United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Jewish celebration.”

Antisemitism, he continued, “has no place in this world. Our prayers are with the victims of this horrific attack, the Jewish community, and the people of Australia.”

Sa’ar wrote on X: “These are the results of the antisemitic rampage in the streets of Australia over the past two years, with the antisemitic and inciting calls of ‘Globalize the Intifada’ that were realized today. The Australian government, which received countless warning signs, must come to its senses!”

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee endorsed Sa’ar’s remarks, writing on X: “Horrific attack in Australia. Gideon Saar and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs [have] it right.”

Sa’ar also criticized Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s initial reaction to the attack, parts of which were seen in videos posted online. “Words you will not find in the PM statement: Jews. Antisemitism. Terror,” Sa’ar wrote.

Later on Sunday, Albanese gave a live statement to reporters in which he spoke about “a devastating terrorist incident at Bondi at the Hanukkah by the Sea celebration. This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy, a celebration of faith, [was] an act of evil antisemitism, terrorism that has struck the heart of our nation,” Albanese said.

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, reposted criticism to the same effect. Albanese, the leader of the Australian Labor Party and a critic of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, had written initially: “The scenes in Bondi are shocking and distressing. Police and emergency responders are on the ground working to save lives. My thoughts are with every person affected.” He added details about his office’s liaison with the police.

Sa’ar also criticized Starmer’s laconic reaction to the massacre, who had written: “Deeply distressing news from Australia. The United Kingdom sends our thoughts and condolences to everyone affected by the appalling attack in Bondi Beach. I’m being kept updated on the developing situation.” Sa’ar replied: “Distinguished PM, the terror attack targeted Jews.”

Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament, wrote in a statement: “Absolutely horrified to see the images emerging of the appalling attack on so many people on Bondi Beach as Hannukkah celebrations began in Sydney. All my thoughts are with the victims and the wider Jewish community in Australia and beyond. This light will not be extinguished.”

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon published a statement similar to that of his Australian counterpart, writing, “I am shocked by the distressing scenes at Bondi, a place that Kiwis visit every day. My thoughts, and the thoughts of all New Zealanders, are with those affected.”

He mentioned how New Zealanders and Australians are “family,” but did not mention Jews.

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott wrote on X: “The events at Bondi Beach are an absolute atrocity. A horror for the victims and a massive escalation of the hatred directed at Australia’s Jewish community. There should be no place in Australia for the kind of evil we’ve seen this evening.”

French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged in a statement about the attack that it was “an antisemitic terrorist attack” at a Chanukah celebration. “France extends its thoughts to the victims, the injured and their loved ones. We share the pain of the Australian people and will continue to fight relentlessly against antisemitic hatred, which hurts us all, wherever it strikes,” he wrote.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote that he “strongly condemns the ghastly terrorist attack” on “people celebrating the first day of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.”

On behalf of the people of India, Modi added, “I extend my sincere condolences to the families who lost their loved ones. We stand in solidarity with the people of Australia in this hour of grief. India has zero tolerance towards terrorism and supports the fight against all forms and manifestations of terrorism.”

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said he was “shocked and appalled by the gun attack targeting Sydney’s Jewish community.” Antisemitism, he added, “has been one of the most consistent and pernicious prejudices throughout history, providing the foundation for murderous outrages in many eras and many places.”

Alan Shatter, a former justice minister of Ireland, who is Jewish, accused the Irish government under Martin of fueling the kind of hate that led to the Bondi Beach attack.

“Like the Australian government, the Irish government’s unbalanced toxic rhetoric and conduct relating to the Israel/Gaza war has contributed to escalating antisemitism in Ireland,” Shatter wrote in a statement. Ireland has accused Israel of perpetrating genocide in Gaza.

The Foreign Ministry of Qatar’s statement also did not mention that it was directed at Jews, expressing “condemnation and denunciation” of the attack that “took place on Bondi Beach near Sydney, Australia, which “resulted in deaths and injuries.”

Qatar has a “firm stance against violence, terrorism and criminal acts, regardless of the motives or reasons,” and its foreign ministry conveyed “condolences to the families of the victims” and wishes “for a speedy recovery for the injured,” the statement read.

António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, whom Israel has accused of “antisemitic behavior” following his support for singling out Israel for condemnation, while failing to condemn attacks against it, wrote: “I am horrified and condemn today’s heinous, deadly attack on Jewish families gathered in Sydney to celebrate Hannukah.”

Guterres added: “My heart is with the Jewish community worldwide on this first day of Hannukah, a festival celebrating the miracle of peace and light vanquishing darkness.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz tweeted on Sunday morning that Chanukah menorahs, “which are lit in homes and on squares, are a sign of hope and confidence. Let us let their light shine together.”

He did not mention the attack in that post, but followed up with a statement saying that “the antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach during Hanukkah leaves me speechless. My thoughts are with the victims and their families. This is an attack on our shared values. We must put a stop to this antisemitism—here in Germany and worldwide.” JNS

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Witnesses describe ‘absolute bloodbath’ in Bondi Hanukkah attack. "I saw blood gushing from me. I saw people hit, saw people fall to the ground," said Ostrovsky, “My only concern was, where are my kids? Where are my kids? Where’s my wife, where’s my family?”

(Arsen Ostrovsky, an Australian-Israeli activist, was injured in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack on Dec. 14, 2025, in Sydney).

By Philissa Cramer/JTA.December 14, 2025.

Arsen Ostrovsky moved back to Australia from Israel two weeks ago to helm the Sydney office of AIJAC, the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council.

On Sunday, he was one of scores of people shot during an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. At least 11 people were killed, as well as one of the attackers.

Ostrovsky, who grew up in Sydney after leaving the Soviet Union as a child, was injured in the head and treated at the scene.

“It was actually chaos. We didn’t know what was happening, where the gunfire was coming from. I saw blood gushing from me. I saw people hit, saw people fall to the ground,” he told a local news station, his head bandaged with blood visible on his face and clothing. “My only concern was, where are my kids? Where are my kids? Where’s my wife, where’s my family?”

He said he had been briefly separated from his family before finding them safe.

[Bondi Beach attack shows what 'globalize intifada' means]

'An absolute bloodbath'.

“I saw children falling to the floor, I saw elderly, I saw invalids,” he said. “It was an absolute bloodbath, blood gushing everywhere.”

The attack struck at a centerpiece of Jewish community in Sydney, home to an estimated 40,000 Jews, nearly half of Australia’s total Jewish population. At least 1,000 people had turned up for the beachside celebration on the first night of Hanukkah.

“There were people dead everywhere, young, old, rabbi - they’re all dead,” Vlad, a Jewish chaplain with the State Emergency Service, told a local TV station. “And then two people died while we’re trying to save them, because the ambulance didn’t arrive on time.”

He said the people who died were an elderly woman who had been shot in the leg and an “older gentleman” who was shot in the head.

“It’s not just people, it’s people that I know, people from our community, people that we know well, people that we see often,” said Vlad, who had covered his 8-year-old son with his body during the attack. “My rabbi is dead.”

The rabbi who was killed, Eli Schlanger, moved to Bondi Beach as an emissary of the Chabad movement 18 years ago. He was the father of five children, including a son born two months ago.

“​He wasn’t some distant figure. He was the guy staying up late planning the logistics for a Menorah lighting that most people will take for granted. The one stressing about the weather. The one making sure there were enough latkes and the kids weren’t bored,” wrote Eliezer Tewel, another Chabad emissary, on social media.

“​He was just doing his job. Showing up. Being the constant, reliable presence for his community,” Tewel added. “​And that’s where the gut punch lands: He was killed while doing the most basic, kindest, most normal part of our lives. It wasn’t a battlefield. It was a Hanukkah party.” JPost

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Holocaust survivor killed while shielding wife from Bondi Beach terror attack. By Anthony Blair. Published Dec. 14, 2025, 3:01 p.m. ET

One of the victims of Sunday’s deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Australia has been identified as a Holocaust survivor who was killed while shielding his wife from bullets, she revealed.

Alex Kleytman had travelled to Sydney’s world-famous Bondi Beach with his wife of 57 years, Larissa, for the Hanukkah event, when two terrorists opened fire.

“We were standing and suddenly came the ‘boom boom,’ and everybody fell down,” Larissa told the Australian newspaper.

(Larissa Kleytman, wife of victim Alex Kleytman, speaking to a reporter outside St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia).

“At this moment he [Alex] was behind me and at one moment he decided to go close to me. He pushed his body up because he wanted to stay near me,” she said.

Larissa’s relatives said Alex was shot and killed as he lay on the ground on top of his wife, saving her life in his final act.

“His body is still there and I am sitting there and don’t know what I have to do,” Larissa said as she left the hospital where she was taken in the wake of the deadly shooting.

“I have no husband. I don’t know… nobody can give me any answers,” she told reporters, clearly still in shock.

At least 15 people were killed and 29 wounded in the shooting at Bondi Beach, where around 2,000 people had gathered to mark the first day of Hanukkah.

Larissa, a fellow Holocaust survivor, met her husband in their native Ukraine before the pair moved to Australia, living for many years in the southeastern Sydney suburbs. NYPost

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Holocaust survivor killed protecting wife in Bondi Beach shooting; surviving terrorist was recently fired construction worker. Alex Kleytman was shot in the head while shielding his wife; police raid home of surviving attacker Naveed Akram and detain three; slain terrorist was known to police but not deemed an imminent threat. News Agencies, Ynet, |12.14.25. YNet

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Famed Australian rabbi Eli Schlanger, who just welcomed newborn son, among 15 killed in Bondi Beach terror attack. By Anthony Blair. Published Dec. 14, 2025. A popular rabbi who had recently welcomed a new son just two months ago has been named as one of the first victims in Sunday’s deadly terrorist attack in Sydney which targeted worshippers at a Hanukkah event.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41, had been one of the 2,000 in attendance at the event on Bondi Beach to mark the first night of Hanukkah when two terrorists opened fire on the crowd, killing at least 15 people and wounding 29 others.

Schlanger, the assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, had shared news of his new son in an Oct. 12 post on Facebook.

The father-of-five was born in the UK, where friends and family remembered him as “vivacious” and “joyful.”

His cousin, Rabbi Zalman Lewis, from Brighton, England, only learned of Schlanger’s death when a relative saw a list of the victims people were being asked to pray for.

“I left shul this morning and saw messages from my wife and sister on the family WhatsApp group. They recognised one of the names people were being asked to pray for,” Lewis told the British outlet Jewish News.

“We are just beginning to process this. It makes no sense at all. How can a joyful rabbi who went to a beach to spread happiness and light, to make the world a better place, have his life ended in this way?” he said.

Schlanger’s great-uncle, the late Reverend Lesli Olsberg, served as a rabbi at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, where two congregants were murdered in a terror attack during Yom Kippur last October.

Following that attack, he had criticised Australia’s Prime Minister for “fuelling terrorism” in the country.

“In these difficult times, we must stand united. Terrorism must never be excused, rewarded or negotiated with,” he wrote, as reported by Jewish News.

“To Anthony Albanese [Australia’s Prime Minister], I say this with urgency – stop fuelling terrorism by legitimizing those who spread hate. Listen to the voices of those who understand it firsthand,” he wrote.

Just weeks ago, Rabbi Schlanger had written a letter to the PM begging him to support Israel.

“As a rabbi in Sydney, I beg you not to betray the Jewish people and not God himself,” Schlanger wrote to Albanese, a left-winger widely seen as critical of Israel, according to Australian outlet Channel 12.

“Jews have been torn from their land again and again by leaders who are now remembered with contempt in the pages of history. You have an opportunity to stand on the side of justice,” Schlanger wrote. NYPost

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Unspeakable Tragedy. Fallen Hero: United Hatzalah Volunteer Hami Erlanger Killed in Tragic Crash on Way to Hanukkah. Hami Erlanger, a devoted father of five and United Hatzalah hero, was tragically killed in a severe motorcycle crash while riding home from his army base to celebrate the Hanukkah holiday with his family in Harish. Eliana Fleming Dec 14, 2025 / JFeed

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French Jewish engineer named among victims of Bondi Beach attack. Dan Elkayam, 27, recent émigré and active member of Sydney’s Jewish community, killed in shooting that left 16 dead; France condemns attack as antisemitic terror and vows to 'spare no effort to root out' phenomenon.

Itamar Eichner|12.14.25 14:54 YNet

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Police raid home of Pakistani Muslim man suspected of Bondi Beach terror attack - report. According to his Facebook page, viewed by the Post, Akram studied at Central Queensland University in Sydney and Hamdard University in Islamabad.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 14, 2025 14:23 One of the terrorists who carried out the shooting attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah party was likely a Muslim man of Pakistani origin, a senior law enforcement official told ABC News.

The man's name is Naveed Akram, from Bonnyrigg, and his house had been raided. JPost

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Bondi Beach terrorists were father and son who legally owned 6 guns — despite tough firearms laws. By Alex Oliveira. Published Dec. 14, 2025, 4:01 p.m. ET

The two gunmen who opened fire on Australia’s Bondi Beach where thousands of Jews were celebrating Hanukkah are believed to be a father-son duo who had a trove of legally-owned guns.

Naveed Akram, 24, and his 50-year-old accomplice are believed to be father and son, authorities said on Monday.

A report claims that the shooters are a father-son duo.

The father was killed at the scene during a shootout with police, while Akram is in the hospital after being critically wounded by cops.

Together they allegedly murdered at least 15 people ranging in age from 10 to 87 years old, most of whom are believe to be Jewish.

They owned at least six guns between them, each of which were fully licensed.

The shooting — which appears to have involved shotguns and a bolt-action rifle — come despite Australia cracking down on firearms following the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting.

Semi-automatic rifles were banned and the country enacted strict registration and purchasing restrictions for all weapons.

The Bondi attack is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since Port Arthur, which left 35 dead and 24 wounded. NYPost

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The Jewish world should honor, praise Ahmed al-Ahmed. If there is a Jewish Nobel for saving Jews, Ahmed al-Ahmed just won it - comment. Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations."

By Zvika Klein. December 14, 2025. The footage is hard to watch, and impossible to forget.

On the eve of Hanukkah’s first night, as families gathered on Bondi Beach to celebrate the Festival of Lights, gunfire tore through the crowd. Then, in the middle of chaos, one man did the unthinkable. Identified by Australian and international media as Ahmed al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old Sydney fruit shop owner and father of two, he moved toward the attacker, wrapped him from behind, wrestled away the long gun, and forced the shooter to retreat. He was shot and hospitalized, but his split-second decision is widely credited with preventing even greater carnage

There is something profoundly Hanukkah about that moment.

Not because Ahmed is Jewish (as far as the reporting shows, he is not), and not because heroism belongs to any one people or faith. It is Hanukkah because Hanukkah is the insistence that light is not a metaphor. It is a responsibility. A candle does not negotiate with darkness. It pushes back, stubbornly, flame-first.

In Jewish history, the phrase “Righteous Among the Nations” is reserved for non-Jews who risked everything to save Jews during the Holocaust, recognized by Yad Vashem under a framework established by Israeli law. The names are etched into the Jewish conscience: Oskar Schindler, who used his factory to save Jews marked for death, and Raoul Wallenberg, who helped rescue Jews in Budapest with Swedish protective papers. Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who issued visas that became lifelines. Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped smuggle Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Ulma family in Poland, murdered for hiding Jews.

(People hold signs that read, "Antizionism is Bondi Beach, Anti-zionism is Jew Hate" and "Antizionism gets Jews killed" during a vigil outside the Australian Consulate on December 14, 2025 in New York City following the mass shooting at Bondi Beach, Sydney).

These stories are not only about the Holocaust, but they are also about moral clarity under pressure, the choice to see a fellow human being and refuse to look away.

Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree. The setting is different. The century is different. The weaponry is different. But the basic equation is hauntingly familiar: Jews gather publicly as Jews, and someone decides that visibility is a crime punishable by death. That is not politics. That is not “tension.” That is hatred with a body count. Australian authorities have treated this Bondi Beach massacre as a terror attack targeting a Jewish Hanukkah gathering.

So what does the Jewish world do when a non-Jew quite literally runs into the line of fire to save Jewish lives?

First, say thank you loudly, clearly, and repeatedly. Not with vague platitudes about “humanity,” but with a direct acknowledgment of what he did: he likely saved dozens, perhaps hundreds, by stopping at least one gunman in the middle of an active attack. Gratitude should not be whispered, especially not in an era when moral cowardice is often presented as sophistication.

Second, honor him, publicly and formally.

It is time for Jewish organizations in Australia and worldwide to elevate Ahmed al-Ahmed as a symbol of what courage looks like when it is unscripted and unpolished, when it comes from instinct and decency rather than ideology. He did not have to calculate the risk. He lived it. According to reports, he was wounded and underwent medical treatment after being shot during the confrontation.

And yes, I believe the State of Israel should acknowledge him. Maybe he should be the next laureate of the Genesis Prize.

Not because Jews need saviors, but because Jews recognize righteousness when they see it. Israel is not only a refuge and a military power, but it is also the sovereign expression of Jewish memory. That memory includes a sacred ledger of those who stood with Jews when it was dangerous, inconvenient, or unpopular. When Israel honors that courage, it signals to the world that there is a difference between those who spread light and those who spread darkness, and that the Jewish people know the difference.

What would recognition look like? An invitation to Jerusalem. A public meeting with Israel’s president. A national citation for civilian bravery. A tree planted in his honor, not to imitate Yad Vashem’s specific Holocaust framework, but to echo its message: that saving Jewish life is an act the Jewish people record, remember, and repay with eternal gratitude.

There is another reason this matters.

The Bondi Beach attack will be exploited by extremists who want to turn it into fuel for collective blame, collective suspicion, and collective hate. That road leads nowhere good. Jews know what it means to be judged not as individuals but as a category, a problem, a target.

Ahmed’s story is the antidote to that poison.

“There are those in every religion who spread light, and there are those in every religion who spread darkness and hate,” I wrote to myself after reading the accounts of what happened. That is not a slogan. It is a reality check. The murderer on Bondi Beach chose darkness. Ahmed chose light.

Hanukkah’s message is not triumphalism. It is resolve. The miracle was not only that the oil lasted. The miracle was that Jews insisted on lighting the menorah anyway, in a world that had grown comfortable telling them to dim their presence. That is why Hanukkah is so emotionally charged in a year when Jews around the world are being told, explicitly or implicitly, to celebrate quietly, to hide symbols, to make themselves smaller for their own safety.

No. The answer to darkness is not disappearance. It is light.

The Jewish tradition calls this being an “or la’goyim” (a light unto the nations). It is also tied, in modern language, to tikkun olam (repairing the world). Those phrases are often overused, sometimes emptied of meaning. But on Bondi Beach, they snapped back into focus. A light unto the nations is not a branding exercise. It is a demand that human beings choose decency over cruelty, even when the consequences are immediate and personal.

Ahmed al-Ahmed did not deliver a speech. He did not write an op-ed. He did not post a manifesto about coexistence.

He saw Jews being hunted, and he acted.

The Jewish people owe him more than applause. They owe him recognition, memory, and honor. And Australia, too, should treat his bravery as a standard, not an exception, in the fight to protect minorities and defend the public square.

This Hanukkah, candles will be lit in Sydney, in Jerusalem, in New York, and in countless other places where Jews are asking a simple question: is it still safe to be visibly Jewish?

One answer, at least, came from a fruit shop owner who ran toward the gunfire.

Ahmed al-Ahmed reminded the world what light looks like. / JPost

Sydney Hanukkah massacre terrorists identified as father and son; 10-year-old girl, 87-year-old man among victims. Australian authorities say 15 people were killed in the antisemitic terror attack at Bondi Beach, including a child and an elderly man, as investigators rule out a third terrorist and release a minute-by-minute account of the massacre.

Itamar Eichner|12.14.25 15:49

Australian authorities said Sunday night that the death toll from the antisemitic terror attack at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach has risen to 15, including a 10-year-old girl and an 87-year-old man.

According to a report by Australia’s ABC network, the two terrorists who opened fire were a father and son. The father, believed to be in his 50s, was killed during the terror attack, while his son, Naveed Akram, 24, was seriously wounded and hospitalized. The father’s name has not yet been released.

Minute-by-minute account of the massacre.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said there is no indication that a third terrorist was involved, after that possibility was examined earlier. He described the attack as “an act of pure evil” directed at Australian Jews and pledged that “every possible resource” would be devoted to the response, amid fears of copycat attacks during Hanukkah.

The terrorists identified as father and son So far, authorities have released the names of three of the victims: Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a Chabad emissary who helped organize the event; Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, whose wife said he was killed while trying to shield her; and Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French Jewish citizen who had immigrated to Sydney about a year ago. A total of 38 people were wounded in the attack.

'Kids lying by wounded mother under car, calling for help': testimonies from Bondi Beach attack.

The massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in Australia in nearly 30 years, since the 1996 Port Arthur shooting in Tasmania that killed 35 people. The following is a timeline of the attack, based on Australian local time:

5 p.m. The ‘Hanukkah by the Sea’ event begins near Bondi Park at the northern end of Bondi Beach. Organized by Chabad, the celebration draws more than 1,000 people, including many children, for the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle.

6:47 p.m. Police receive the first reports of gunfire, which investigators believe began minutes earlier. The two terrorists, dressed in black, arrive by car. A flag described as resembling that of ISIS is later reported near the vehicle. Video footage shows the terrorists opening fire from a nearby bridge.

7:05 p.m. Police issue a public warning urging people in the area to take shelter, several minutes after the initial reports.

7:20 p.m. According to the Daily Mail, the shooting is still ongoing more than 13 minutes after police were first alerted. Footage emerges of a civilian tackling one of the terrorists from behind after he leaves the bridge and continues firing inside the park. The civilian, identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old fruit shop manager and father of two, is shot twice and hospitalized. Another bystander is seen helping subdue the terrorist, who later returns to the bridge.

7:30 p.m. Additional footage shows both terrorists neutralized and handcuffed by police. The father is killed, and the son is critically wounded as bystanders shout at them.

9 p.m. Police establish a closed security perimeter around the scene and confirm that several improvised explosive devices were found inside the terrorists’ vehicle. The devices are later neutralized.

9:20 p.m. Dozens of police officers raid a property linked to the terrorists in Bonnyrigg, a suburb in southwestern Sydney. Three people are seen leaving the house with their hands raised. Police confirm that two people are arrested but do not disclose their identities or their connection to the attackers. YNet

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US groups horrified but not surprised by attack on Sydney Jews, say Australia must do better. "We will not just move on from this. Not in Australia or Europe or America. Antisemitism is a threat to all of society everywhere in the world," stated Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee. JNS Staff. (Dec. 14, 2025 / JNS) North American Jewish organizations decried an antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, a popular tourist site in Sydney, Australia, in which at least 11 people were killed at a Chanukah celebration.

Many others were injured, including Arsen Ostrovsky, who recently moved to the country from Israel and who has written for JNS often. “I lived through Oct. 7. Never imagined I’d see this horror in Australia,” the human rights lawyer stated on social media, sharing a photo of himself bandaged and with his face covered in blood.

“Bullet grazed my head. Doctors said miracle survived, but will make recovery,” he wrote. “Tonight is first night of Chanukah. The forces of darkness and hate will never triumph. We will prevail.”

Betsy Berns Korn and William Daroff, chair and CEO respectively of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group for American groups, stated that they had joined a group of Jewish leaders in Australia the prior week to confront the “sharp rise” of Jew-hatred in the country.

The Conference of Presidents leaders said that they visited Jewish sites that had been firebombed and vandalized in Australia and also “experienced the strength and vibrancy of Australian Jewish life.”

Attending services the prior Shabbat at Chabad of Bondi Beach, they noted the “beautiful new building” and the community’s “warmth, faith and energy.”

“After services, we had the honor of sharing Shabbat lunch in the home of Rabbi Yehoram and Shternie Ulman with their family, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger and his wife, Chaya. We are devastated to learn that Rabbi Schlanger, z”l, was among those murdered today,” they said, using the Hebrew initialism for “may his memory be a blessing.”

“Our hearts are with the families of those killed and injured, and with our brothers and sisters in Sydney as they confront this brutal tragedy,” the two said. “This attack on the Bondi Beach community strikes at the heart of the entire Jewish people. We pray for the swift recovery of the injured and mourn those whose lives were taken in this senseless antisemitic act.”

Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, said that Washington “strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Jewish celebration” and that “antisemitism has no place in this world.”

The American Jewish Committee stated that it is “heartbroken, sickened, horrified and outraged.”

“At least 11 people, including children, were murdered in cold blood in an antisemitic attack by two terrorists at Bondi Beach in Sydney, where a Chanukah celebration was taking place on Sunday,” the AJC said. “Our thoughts are with the victims and their families, and we pray for the full and swift recovery of those who were wounded.”

The AJC added that the terror attack came “after repeated warnings, including from the Australian Jewish community itself.” The Austrlaian Jewish community “had already endured fire bombings, graffiti, physical attacks and threats,” it said. “The community’s warnings have now become a devastating reality.”

Ted Deutch, CEO of the committee, stated that he was “horrified but not surprised.”

“Bondi Beach is one of the most beautiful places in the world, and Jewish kids celebrating the joyous holiday of Chanukah with their families is likewise one of the most beautiful images of our people,” he stated. “Both have now been ripped to pieces.”

Deutch said that Australian leaders must respond strongly.

“Not just statements, but bold action. From the prime minister. From state government leaders. From law enforcement and from Australian society,” he said. “This cannot be tolerated. We will not just move on from this. Not in Australia or Europe or America. Antisemitism is a threat to all of society everywhere in the world.”

“It’s not only the Jewish community that’s at risk if leaders fail to respond,” he added.

Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters stated that it is “devastated and heartbroken by the barbaric attack against a public Chanukah celebration.”

The movement said that Schlanger “devoted his life to sharing Jewish warmth, faith and community with others.”

The murdered rabbi “was doing exactly what he had been sent to do—bringing light and joy into the public square—when his life was cut down,” the movement said. “Rabbi Schlanger leaves his wife, Chayale, and their children, including a 2-month-old baby. We mourn him as family and stand with his loved ones and his community in their immeasurable loss.”

“This was a treacherous act of terror—an attack on community, on goodness and on light itself,” Chabad said. “It reflects a climate in which Jew-hatred has been allowed to grow and to turn violent. That reality must be confronted.”

It said that its emissaries worldwide will continue to light public menorahs “responsibly, in coordination with security authorities and without surrendering visibility or pride.”

“Jewish life will not be driven from the public square,” it said.

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America stated that the “act of violent extremism targeted a Jewish religious gathering during the most public expression of Jewish faith.”

“This was a direct assault on Jewish life,” the OU said. “Chanukah is the most public of Jewish holidays. We mark the defeat of ancient antisemitic persecution by lighting our menorahs openly and unapologetically. That is precisely why this attack matters. It was meant to intimidate, silence and drive Jews out of the public square. It will fail.”

“At a time when antisemitism is being normalized, excused and even justified in public discourse, this attack is no longer shocking,” the OU said. “It is the predictable result of unchecked incitement, extremist rhetoric and repeated failures by leaders to draw red lines.”

“Calls to ‘globalize the intifada’ are not slogans. They are threats, and they lead directly to violence,” the OU said.

Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, who has said that he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested in New York and who declined to decry the statement “globalize the intifada,” said that the attack “was a vile act of antisemitic terror.”

He added that “when I am mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul in every moment of every day.”

B’nai Brith Canada stated that “Bondi Beach was not random.”

“Jews were targeted because they were Jews. This is part of a global pattern of antisemitic violence, in synagogues, schools, cafés, streets and now beaches,” it said. “Waiting for it to happen here is not leadership, it’s negligence. To the Canadian government, do not wait for a Canadian Bondi Beach.”

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who denounced the “cowardly terrorist attack” at the Chanukah event, said that “although there are no specific threats to New Jersey at this time, out of an abundance of caution, we are boosting security at synagogues and community Chanukah celebrations throughout the state.”

He also directed the state attorney general, director of of the state homeland security office and state police superintendent to meet with rabbis “who are concerned about the safety and security of their houses of worship,” he said.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said that state police will “maintain heightened awareness of potential threats across our state” after the “cowardly terrorist attack against the Jewish community at Bondi Beach on the first night of Chanukah.”

“New York will always stand against the scourge of antisemitism and confront violence head-on,” she said.

Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said, “Make no mistake, this will not break us.”

“We will continue to stand proudly, united against all forms of violence and hate, and in unwavering solidarity with Jewish communities everywhere,” he stated. JNS

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PM Albanese avoids questions about failure to protect Jews. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, NSW Premier Chris Minns and police chiefs vowed to combat antisemitism, announced nationwide security measures, and confirmed the attackers were a father and son. Israel National News. Dec 14, 2025, 10:38 PM INN

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Ivanka Trump: 'The world needs more light and more Kiddush Hashem'. Marking the first night of Hanukkah, the US president’s daughter said the Sydney terror attack underscores the need for compassion, sanctifying G-d’s name, and bringing light into a dark world. Israel National News. Published: Dec 14, 2025, 10:08 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Beacons of Solidarity. Knesset Illuminates in Australian Colours As Sydney Attack Death Toll Rises to 15. The Israeli Knesset building was illuminated in the colours of the Australian flag as a sign of solidarity with the Jewish community in Sydney, where the death toll from the horrific terror attack tragically rose to 15 victims, including one child.

Eliana Fleming Dec 14, 2025 JFeed

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Beyond Belief: Mamdani Condemns Sydney Attack But Calls Terrorists "Men With Long Guns" Politician Zohran Mamdani condemned the Sydney terror attack as a "vile act of antisemitic terror" but sparked furious backlash from the Jewish community for deliberately referring to the perpetrators as just "men with long guns."

Eliana Fleming. Dec 14, 2025 . JFeed

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Mossad sent warnings to Australia about antisemitic terror attack risks. The local police commissioner denied that there was any intelligence prior to the attack, KAN noted. By Yonah Jeremy Bob. December 14, 2025 . The Mossad has been warning Australia regularly for months about Iranian and other potential terror plots against Jews... JPost

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Shooting at Bondi Beach is what a globalized intifada looks like - analysis. The Bondi shooting was not an isolated act of violence. It was the logical endpoint of the normalization of radicalized anti-Israel rhetoric in Australia.

By Herb Keinon. December 14, 2025. All those wondering what the slogan “globalize the intifada” means need look no further than Bondi Beach.

Terrorists calmly firing into a crowd at a Hanukkah celebration. Screams. Panic. Parents fleeing with hysterical children. Victims lying dead on the sand. JPost

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'F*** the Jews': Gunman fires 20 bullets into Jewish family's Hanukkah-decorated home in California. According to door cam footage, the suspect shouted antisemitic slurs such as 'F*** the Jews' as he fired at the home from his car.

By Mathilda Heller. December 14, 2025. A gunman fired 20 bullets into the home of a Jewish family in Redlands, California, on Saturday.

The family’s home was clearly Jewish, as they had decorated the exterior for Hanukkah. JPost

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IDF says Hezbollah violated ceasefire 1,900 times, citing continued presence in southern Lebanon. Yoav Zitun |12.14.25 YNet

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IDF takes out Zakaria Yahya al-Hajj, senior Hezbollah terrorist, in southern Lebanon. IDF successfully eliminates Zakaria Yahya al-Hajj, senior member of Hezbollah, in Jwaya area strike, vows to continue its operations to eliminate any threat to Israel’s security. Israel National News. Published: Dec 14, 2025, 8:34 PM (GMT+2) Updated: 21:24 INN

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Corrupt to the core. IDF Spokesman: Hamas Demanded Rent on Tents During Storm "Byron". Pictures of Gaza during Storm "Byron" last week caused renewed anti-Israel sentiment online and around the world. IDF Arabic Spokesman Avichai Adraee released documents showing that Hamas demanded rent from civilians to stay in tents on the beach during the storm. Judah Pe'er Dec 14, 2025. JFeed

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Australia mass shooting latest: Suspects identified after 15 killed at Bondi Beach One suspect was killed in the attack and the other suspect was injured.

By David Brennan. December 15, 2025, 4:51 PM ET [...] Sajid Akram and Naveed Akram have been identified as the father and son who allegedly opened fire on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney, according to a briefing distributed to U.S. law enforcement and reviewed by ABC News.

Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, allegedly stood on an overpass bridge near the event and shouted "Allahu Akbar" as they carried out the massacre, according to the briefing...

Australian law enforcement determined that "the suspects had pledged allegiance to ISIS," according to the briefing obtained by ABC News, and "Naveed was previously investigated in 2019 due to possible ties to a Sydney-based ISIS-linked cell."

Australia is now grieving the 15 victims killed, who range in age from 10 to 87, the NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team said. ABC

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Baruch Dayan HaEmet. 10-Year-Old Matilda Named as Youngest Victim of Bondi Beach Massacre. Ten-year-old Matilda, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah terror attack, died after gunmen opened fire at a “Chanukah by the Sea” event hosted by Chabad; Australian authorities have declared the shooting an antisemitic terrorist act.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 15, 2025. JFeed

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Son of former Iranian ambassador to Australia posts antisemitic message hours before Sydney attack. Citing statements by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Abyaneh wrote that “spiritual defense” during Jewish Hanukkah ceremonies is "necessary." Fraidy Moser. December 15, 2025. JPost

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26 Bondi Beach victims remain hospitalized; hero fundraiser tops $1M. Investigators are examining attackers’ links to ISIS as Australia mourns victims and hails Syrian Muslim immigrant who saved lives by disarming one of the terrorists; Former PM: 'Antisemitism has been allowed to flourish in Australia since Oct. 7 attack'. News Agencies, ynet|12.16.25 YNet

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Cries 'blood on your hands' at the home affairs minister and Muslim lawmaker visiting Bondi Beach. Senator Mehreen Faruqi faced angry members of the public and tough questioning from Sky News while visiting the site of the Bondi Beach terror attack that killed 15 at a Hanukkah event, amid scrutiny of her rhetoric on Israel and antisemitism News Agencies, ynet|12.16.25 11:00

Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi was confronted by angry members of the public and pressed by a Sky News journalist on Monday over her past rhetoric on Israel and antisemitism, as she visited the site of the Bondi Beach massacre in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration event.

([22] The post Faruqi was forced to delete in 2024: At a protest beside a sign that 'throws Israel in the trash') [...] ([23] Bondi Beach a day after the massacre). YNet

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In Wake of Hanukkah Massacre in Sydney, Netanyahu Blames Australian Prime Minister for Fostering an Environment of Antisemitism. December 15, 2025.

Latest Developments. - Albanese’s Policies ‘Encouraging Antisemitism’: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reminded his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese, of an earlier warning “that the Australian government’s policy was promoting and encouraging antisemitism in Australia.” Speaking in the aftermath of the December 14 massacre at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which left at least 15 people dead and dozens more injured, Netanyahu said that the Australian government’s policies, particularly its recognition of a Palestinian state in September, “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire, rewards Hamas terror, emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.” Albanese rejected the allegation, saying that “overwhelmingly, most of the world recognizes a two-state solution as the way forward in the Middle East.” - Shooters Traveled to ISIS Hotspot: Just weeks before the attack, the alleged shooters, father and son Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, reportedly visited the Philippines, home to the Islamic State of East Asia terrorist organization. Australia’s Joint Counter Terrorism Team discovered two improvised explosive devices and an ISIS flag inside the shooters’ vehicle parked near Bondi Beach. Despite the Australian authorities having investigated Naveed Akram for ties to terrorist organizations in October 2019, Albanese claimed that an “assessment was made that there was no indication of any ongoing threat or threat of him engaging in violence.” - Trump Calls Attack ‘Purely Antisemitic’: President Donald Trump told American Jews to “celebrate proudly” in the wake of the massacre, calling it a “purely antisemitic attack.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the attacks, emphasizing that “antisemitism has no place in this world.” Australia’s head of state, King Charles III, stated that he was “ appalled and saddened by the most dreadful antisemitic terrorist attack,” calling on Australians “to rally together in unity and resolve.” FDD

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When ‘Context’ Becomes Complicity — The Language That Incited the Bondi Beach Massacre. December 15, 2025. by Micha Danzig

On Sunday, a Chabad Hanukkah candle-lighting at Bondi Beach was turned into a massacre. At least 16 people are dead. Witnesses report that the terrorists shouted “Allahu Akbar” between bursts of gunfire. What should have been a moment of communal joy became a scene of mass murder, carried out in full view of a society that has spent years purposefully ignoring antisemitic incitement and terror attacks that led to this moment.

Around the same time, elsewhere in Australia, the same moral failure surfaced again. On a Melbourne tram, an Australian woman verbally accosted a rabbi and his two children, aged eight and 14, telling them to “go to the gas chambers.” She was carrying a bag bearing the PLO flag. A Jewish father and his children were told, in public, to imagine their extermination.

And that was after “protesters” in Sydney chanted “gas the Jews” — with absolutely no consequences.

“Go to the gas chambers.” There is no metaphor here. No policy critique. No political argument hiding behind rhetoric. There is only genocidal hatred, delivered calmly and directly.

And yet anyone familiar with the pattern already knows what comes next. Not moral clarity, but “context.” Not unambiguous condemnation, but explanation.

We will be told about anger, about trauma, about spillover from Israel’s war with Hamas. We are reminded that emotions are high, tensions are inflamed, and nothing can be viewed in isolation.

This is not analysis. It is evasion.

This is the anti-Zionism exception.

In any other context, this kind of mass murder would end the conversation. No editor would ask what provoked it. No official would suggest it must be understood through global politics. No journalist would hesitate to call the racism exactly what it is. And don’t forget that before the State of Israel was created, one third of the entire global Jewish population was murdered for their religion. But now we’re going to be told that this is only happening because of Israel.

When the targets are Jews, and when the hatred can be draped in the language or symbols of the Palestinian cause, the rules change. Antisemitism becomes negotiable. Murderous language becomes expressive speech. The victims become abstractions.

This is why anti-Zionism has become the dominant framework through which antisemitism is excused in the modern West. Zionism is the belief that Jews, like any other people, have the right to collective self-determination and national survival through sovereignty in part of their indigenous and historical homeland. To deny that right uniquely to Jews — while granting it to every other people — is not a policy disagreement. It is a moral inversion that recasts Jewish survival itself as illegitimate.

For years, Australia, like much of the democratic West, has tolerated rhetoric that would be unthinkable if directed at any other group.

Crowds have chanted “gas the Jews” and many other murderous slogans with no consequence. Universities have hosted speakers who portray Jewish sovereignty as a unique moral crime. Media outlets have repeatedly softened or obscured antisemitic incidents — like burning synagogues — treating them as political reactions rather than as hatred with a long and documented history.

Law enforcement responses have been hesitant and inconsistent, often focused on crowd control instead of stopping incitement.

In England, Jews wearing yarmulkes and Stars of David have been arrested for “provocation,” while standing before crowds chanting “Globalize the Intifada,” “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas,” and “Khaybar, Khaybar ya Yahud” — an explicit invocation of the massacre of Jews in seventh-century Arabia.

This matters because antisemitism does not operate like other hatreds. It has always depended on permission structures. It advances not only through violence, but through ideas that render violence against Jews intelligible, justifiable, and even necessary to those inclined to act.

When genocidal slogans are tolerated in public space, when Jewish identity is reframed as provocation, when Jewish self-determination is condemned as uniquely evil, and when hatred is endlessly contextualized rather than condemned, the distance between speech and action collapses.

What happened at Bondi Beach was 100% predictable. A slogan shouted yesterday becomes gunfire today. The targets were not symbols or states or abstractions. They were Jews lighting candles.

The media plays a central role in this process, whether it admits it or not. Language is softened. Headlines are hedged. Victims are pushed to the margins of their own stories. A massacre becomes an “incident.” A threat of extermination becomes “heated rhetoric.” Jewish presence itself is recast as a political act that invites response.

This is how a Hanukkah celebration becomes a “flashpoint.” This is how a rabbi and his children become “part of a broader conflict.” This is how Jews going about their lives in Sydney, London, or New York are quietly reassigned responsibility for the hatred directed at them.

Some will insist that Bondi Beach and the Melbourne tram were isolated events. They never are. Antisemitism has never announced itself first with bullets. It begins with the libels societies allow to circulate. It begins when calls for violence against Jews — “Globalize the Intifada,” “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas” — are treated as political opinions rather than warnings.

A culture that cannot draw a red line at “go to the gas chambers” has already erased the line entirely.

Bondi Beach was not unforeseeable. It was foretold — in slogans excused, in threats contextualized, in hatred endlessly rebranded as politics. The massacre did not appear without warning. It appeared after years of permission. Algemeiner

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From coverage to carnage: How incitement against Israel turned deadly. Opinion: Sustained antisemitic incitement, amplified by Western media and academia while downplaying Hamas’ genocidal ideology, has helped fuel deadly attacks against Jews in Washington, Manchester and Sydney

Ben-Dror Yemini|12.16.25

The recognition of a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, led to the murderous attack in Sydney. Albanese flatly rejected the claim and, in this case, he is right. And this may be the only claim related to the attack in which he is right, because Israel has also recognized a Palestinian state. That is, Netanyahu’s Israel. Not once, but again and again. So is Netanyahu to blame for previous attacks?

There are far more serious accusations to be made against Australia and against all the countries of the free world. Yes, they too bear responsibility for murder. Yes, they too gave tacit approval to masses of rioters, consumed by burning hatred, to run amok in the streets of every Western city. They are guilty, and Israel is guilty as well, of allowing obscene propaganda produced by the antisemitic campaign to dominate front-page headlines. YNet

Iranians take to social media to show support for Jews, Israel after Bondi Beach terror shooting “This regime is the root cause of global terror and instability,” one user wrote, as others called for the implementation of the Cyrus Accords and for Israel to destroy the regime.

By Shir Perets. December 15, 2025 10:02 Many Iranians took to social media to express their support for Israel and the Jewish community with the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael following the Bondi Beach terror attack, where 15 people were murdered, and dozens more were injured at a Hanukkah party on Sunday.

“This regime is the root cause of global terror and instability,” one user wrote on X/Twitter, as others called for the implementation of the Cyrus Accords and for Israel to destroy the regime.

“Light triumphs over darkness, and the hearts of we Iranians across the world are with you, my Jewish friend,” another user wrote, sharing a photo of two women draped in the Israeli and Iranian dresses.

Son of regime member shared antisemitic message hours before Sydney attack. Ahmad Ghadiri Abyaneh, the son of Iran’s former ambassador to Australia, Mohammad-Hassan Ghadiri Abyaneh, posted an antisemitic message on X just hours before the event, where he labeled Hanukkah celebrations as a “platform for satanic rituals of Masonic circles” and called for “defense.”

“Every breath of these illegitimate offspring tied to the wretched Islamic Republic regime reeks of blood,” one user responded.

“Global security means the downfall of this satanic terrorist regime… #IraniansStandWithIsrael.”

Officials were also probing links to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is connected to al-Qaeda. JPost

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Iranians take to social media to show support for Jews, Israel after Bondi Beach terror shooting Iranians Turn on Tehran After Chanukah Horror in Australia. December 15, 2025

In the aftermath of the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack, Iranians – many of them longtime critics of their own government – are publicly expressing solidarity with Israel and the global Jewish community.

Under the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, users on X and other platforms posted messages mourning the victims of Sunday’s Chanukah celebration shooting in Sydney, where 15 people were killed and dozens wounded, while casting the Islamic Republic as a common enemy.

“This regime is the root cause of global terror and instability,” one user wrote, echoing a theme that appeared repeatedly across posts. Others called for the implementation of the so-called Cyrus Accords — a symbolic framework for Iranian-Israeli rapprochement after regime change — and openly urged Israel to confront or dismantle Iran’s leadership.

The online surge is notable not just for its volume but for its political framing. Rather than treating the attack as an isolated act of violence, many Iranian users folded it into a broader indictment of Tehran’s regional influence, tying the massacre to Iran’s support for terrorist groups across the Middle East.

“Light triumphs over darkness,” one post read, accompanied by an image of two women draped in Israeli and Iranian attire. “The hearts of we Iranians across the world are with you, my Jewish friend.”

The moment has also revived scrutiny of Iran-linked rhetoric closer to the attack itself. Ahmad Ghadiri Abyaneh — the son of Iran’s former ambassador to Australia — posted an antisemitic message on X just hours before the shooting, describing Chanukah celebrations as a “platform for satanic rituals of Masonic circles” and calling for “defense.”

Israeli officials, meanwhile, are probing whether the Iranian regime had any operational role. Shortly after the shooting, Israeli authorities opened an investigation into possible Iranian involvement, according to officials familiar with the matter. A senior U.S. official told Fox News that if evidence emerges showing the Islamic Republic ordered or directed the attack, Washington would recognize Israel’s right to strike Iran in response.

Security agencies are also examining potential links to Iran-backed or aligned groups, including Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant organization with historical ties to al-Qaeda.

The online reaction from Iranians reflects a deeper political paradox confronting Tehran: while the regime positions itself as the vanguard of “resistance” against Israel, a growing segment of the Iranian public — particularly in the diaspora — increasingly identifies Israel as a counterweight to what they view as an illegitimate and violent ruling system.

“Global security means the downfall of this satanic terrorist regime,” one user wrote. “#IraniansStandWithIsrael.” YWN

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More US police patrols at Jewish sites, ‘abundance of caution’ cited after Sydney attack “They usually do this during these times,” the CEO of a private security company told JNS. “Then they go back to being complacent like normal.” Jessica Russak-Hoffman. (Dec. 15, 2025 / JNS) Following the deadly terror attack at a Chanukah event in Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday, law enforcement agencies across the United States said that there were no known local threats but that they were increasing patrols and visibility around Jewish institutions and events.

In Montgomery County, Md., which has a large Jewish community, Marc Elrich, the Washington-area county executive, said that he heard from local Jews, who are “shaken and concerned.”

“I want them to know that their safety is a priority,” he stated. “Out of an abundance of caution, the Montgomery County Police Department has increased patrols at synagogues and at Chanukah-related events across the county.”

Carmine Marceno, sheriff of Lee County, Fla., stated that “in light of recent events,” the county “increased patrols and visibility in and around Jewish communities and gathering areas as a precaution.” And Santa Monica, Calif., said that its police department, “out of an abundance of caution,” had “increased patrols and officer presence at Jewish places of worship and community celebrations throughout the city to provide visibility and reassurance.” JNS

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Suspect Neutralized Near Kedumim. An individual was shot and neutralized early Monday morning at the entrance to the settlement of Kedumim in Samaria after being suspected of attempting to harm IDF soldiers, Israeli journalists reported. According to initial reports by Amit Segal, the suspect approached the area in a manner that raised concern of an imminent attack. IDF forces on site responded by opening fire.. Dec 15, 2025 JFeed

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Pro-Israel Candidate José Antonio Kast, the Son of a Nazi Official, Wins Presidency in Chile. December 14, 2025. YWN

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FBI foils 'pro-Palestinian' terror attack in Los Angeles. FBI Director Kash Patel announces arrest of 'pro-Palestinian' cell planning attack in LA on New Year's Eve. Israel National News. Published: Dec 15, 2025, 6:10 PM (GMT+2) INN

FBI arrests five in ‘credible’ pro-Palestinian plot to bomb LA, New Orleans on New Year’s Eve. "They had everything they needed to make an operational bomb," the U.S. Justice Department said. "We disrupted this terror plot before buildings were demolished or innocent people were killed." Andrew Bernard, Aaron Bandler. (Dec. 15, 2025 / JNS) Federal agents arrested five members of an extremist, pro-Palestinian group who were plotting to carry out coordinated bombing attacks in Los Angeles and New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, FBI director Kash Patel said on Monday.

“They had everything they needed to make an operational bomb,” Bill Essayli, assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said at a press conference on Monday. “We disrupted this terror plot before buildings were demolished or innocent people were killed.”

Essayli added that the defendants aimed to detonate “complex pipe bombs” at “multiple companies” at the same time. They also sought to conduct the attacks without leaving a trace, he said.

He named the defendants, all from the Los Angeles area, as Audrey Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41. All were also part of a group called the Order of the Black Lotus. At the home of one of the defendants was a sign stating “long live Palestine,” Essayli said.

Patel, the FBI director, stated that “the subjects self-identified as members of a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, an extremist group motivated by pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement and anti-government ideology.” JNS

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15 Precious Lives Stolen. Bondi Massacre Claims Beloved Rugby Stalwart and Retired Officer Peter 'Marzo' Meagher. Peter Meagher, a retired NSW police detective and beloved rugby volunteer, was among 15 victims killed in the antisemitic terror attack at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration, authorities confirmed.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 15, 2025 JFeed

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Misinformation Alert: Viral 'Fake Blood'. Photo of Arsen Ostrovsky Falsely Linked to Bondi Attack. It's not enough that Arsen Ostrovsky was nearly murdered on Bondi Beach yesterday. Now, baseless claims that he invented the whole thing have gone viral, denying the antisemitic terrorist attack, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 15, 2025.

As Australia mourns the victims of the deadly terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, false claims and fabricated images are spreading online, targeting one of the survivors: international human rights lawyer and pro-Israel advocate Arsen Ostrovsky. https://www.jfeed.com/jewish-world/bondi-attack-misinformation JFeed

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Paper Cup Memorial. Heartbreaking Post: Mother of Slain Hostage Hirsch Goldberg-Polin Lights Hanukkah Menorah. Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of murdered hostage Hirsch Goldberg-Polin, posted a picture of a menorah made from paper cups, declaring it will be her sacred holiday symbol for all the Hanukkah celebrations she has left in this world.

Eliana Fleming Dec 15, 2025 13:00 Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose son, Hirsch Goldberg-Polin, was brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists after being held hostage for nearly a year, has found a unique way to mourn and remember him this Hanukkah. In an intensely emotional post shared online, she revealed a simple, hand-crafted menorah made from paper cups, stating this raw, humble creation will replace all her treasured heirlooms.

Hirsch Goldberg-Polin was murdered alongside five other hostages in the Gaza Strip in August 2024. He was abducted from the Re'im music festival on October 7, 2023, after losing part of his arm in a grenade blast. His unwavering spirit and his parents' tireless advocacy made him one of the most recognizable faces of the hostage crisis. JFeed

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Not a big surprise. Veteran Palestinian Commentator Reveals Abu Mazen's Initial Reaction to October 7 Massacre: "A Great Day". Palestinian commentator Hani al-Masri reveals Abbas’s reported reaction to October 7 as “the greatest day in Palestinian history,” detailing Fatah-Hamas dynamics, internal divisions, and missed opportunities for Palestinian unity. Gila Isaacson Dec 15, 2025 07:56 JFeed

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ICC keeps Netanyahu, Gallant warrants in force after Israeli appeal fails. ICC appeals judges reject Israel’s challenge to the Gaza probe, keeping arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant in force. Israel condemns the ruling as political and unjust. Elad Benari. Published: Dec 16, 2025, 12:12 AM (GMT+2) INN

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'The hunt has begun': Iran-linked hackers put bounties for info on Israeli air defense developers The release of information is part of a broader series of bounties, threats, and doxing.

By Michael Starr, Mathilda Heller. December 15, 2025.

An Iran-linked hacker group has put a bounty for information on over a dozen Israelis it claims are developers of Patriot, Arrow, and David's Sling air defense systems, as part of a continued project threatening and doxing Israeli academics, journalists, and defense personnel. JPost

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Dutch Police Arrest 22 After Anti-Israel Protests, Vandalism at Amsterdam Venue During IDF Cantor Performance. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. Dec 15, 2025. Algemeiner

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Jewish comedian draws big applause thanking security at Brooklyn gig, after Sydney, Providence attacks. Debra Nussbaum Cohen. (Dec. 15, 2025 / JNS). JNS

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Alleged Bondi gunman tells bystanders to move away as he shoots at Hanukkah crowd. December 15, 2025 — 12.52pm

One of the two alleged Bondi gunmen, Naveed Akram, paused his shooting spree to wave people away who were behind him and on the Campbell parade side of the pedestrian footbridge.

Footage shows the alleged father and son shooters walking to the peak of the footbridge on Sunday evening, at about 6.30pm, before shooting north towards a large gathering celebrating the first day of Hanukkah in the park.

As the father, Sajid Akram, 50, runs down steps and closer to the crowds in the park, his 24-year-old son, Naveed, turns to bystanders behind him and to his right, gesturing for them to go away. He then turns back to shoot at crowds in the park. SMH

Video: Sydney Gunman Tells Bystanders To Move Away As He Shoots At JewsA senior police official reportedly said authorities took an interest in Naveed Akram six years ago after police foiled plans for an IS terrorist attack. Dec 15, 2025. NDTV

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‘You Know I’m Arab, Right?’ Jillian Michaels Hits Back at NYT’s Wajahat Ali Calling Her a ‘White Nationalist’. Sean James. Mon, December 15, 2025. Mediaite

Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon WATCH:

After a New York Times writer calls her a “white nationalist” for warning about Islamic extremism, Jillian Michaels reveals her ethnicity.

“You know I’m Arab, right?” Dec 16, 2025 on X

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GUT-WRENCHING GRIEF. ‘No tears left’: Devastated parents of tragic Matilda, 10, pay heartbreaking tribute to youngest Bondi victim at vigil Matilda was killed in front of her six-year-old sister while celebrating Hanukkah.

Bethan Moss, 16 Dec 2025.

THE heartbroken parents of Matilda Britvan, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach massacre, have spoken out at a candlelit vigil.

Matilda was just 10 years old when she was shot in the stomach in front of her six-year-old sister.

([24]. The parents of 10-year-old Matilda embraced at a candlelit vigil for the Sydney shooting victims)

She had been celebrating Hanukkah with her parents Michael and Valentyna on Bondi Beach, Sydney, when the attack began.

Naveed and Sajid Akram were named as the suspects thought to be responsible for killing 15 people in the massacre which targeted the Jewish community on December 14.

Michael and Valentyna spoke out about the tragedy for the first time today, December 16, addressing a candlelit vigil for the victims.

Speaking through tears, the 10-year-old’s father described Matilda as “the most kindest person, child ever”.

SISTER’S GRIEF Gutwrenching question sister, 6, asked after tragic girl, 10, died in Bondi

BONDI HEROES Moment couple tries to disarm Bondi gunman before dying in each other's arms He told the crowd how he had named his daughter to honour Australia, after the family had moved to the country from Ukraine.

He said: “I named her Matilda because she was our first Australian.

“We came here from Ukraine and Matilda was my firstborn in Australia.

“I thought that Matilda is the most Australian name that can ever exist.” The Sun

Matilda, a young victim of Bondi massacre, farewelled as families offered funds. The youngest victim, 10-year-old Matilda, has been remembered as a bright and spirited girl. Published 18 December 2025.

The youngest and oldest victims of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting have been laid to rest as the community continues grieving after the terror attack.

Scores of friends and family flocked to a funeral home to honour 10-year-old primary school student Matilda, struck down while enjoying the day with her family on Sunday.

As well as her devastated family, mourners included NSW Premier Chris Minns, Governor-General Sam Mostyn, Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin, local Labor MP Matt Thistlethwaite and Opposition leader Sussan Ley, who wiped away tears at the door.

Matilda has been remembered by her school as a "little ray of sunshine" who always brought joy to those around her, and by her aunt as "full of life and happy".

Her grieving father, Michael, asked the crowd gathered at the service in Bondi on Wednesday to remember his daughter's name.

A woman standing outside, holding a newspaper, speaking into microphones. "I couldn't imagine I would lose my daughter here," Matilda's mother, Valentyna, told a crowd in Bondi. (Source: AAP / Flavio Brancaleone)

"I thought that Matilda was the most Australian name that could ever exist," Michael said.

"So just remember — remember her name."

Jewish funerals do not traditionally take place in a synagogue, with both Matilda and Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, 87, having their funeral service in a centuries-old Sydney Jewish funeral house.

Chevra Kadisha has helped the Jewish community mourn its dead since 1817, including conducting Jewish funerals, known as 'levaya'.

Many of those entering the funeral carried sunflowers and wore stickers adorned with bumblebees, which have been handed out over the past few days to commemorate Matilda.

These are the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack.

The service for Kleytman was held earlier on Thursday morning at the funeral house.

His wife has remembered her Ukrainian-born husband for his resilience and courage after he moved to shield her from gunfire in his last moments. Government support package Meanwhile, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has announced a joint federal and state government support package, including $75,000 for the victims and family members of those killed in Sunday's attack.

He said the package would cover funeral and burial costs, as well as repatriation costs for family members overseas.

A community support hub at North Bondi RSL club, including representatives from the NSW Reconstruction Authority, Service NSW and Lifeline, will also be established. SBS

Heartbreaking Tribute to Matilda at Bondi Beach. Instagram · dailytelegraph Dec 16, 2025. Till this mum and miss Michael said we came from Ukraine. I brought from Ukraine my oldest son like him and I was so happy that he's not fighting for his land and he's safe On Instagram

Bymoalem Israel News: Dec 16, 2025. Valentyna and Michael (surnames withheld on family request), who came to Australia as Ukraine immigrants, articulated a heartbreak too vast to fully comprehend as they mourn their 10 year old daughter Matilda, who was killed in Sunday’s terrorist attack. On FB

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PBS Newshour's Amna Nawaz Downplays Islamist Hanukkah Massacre as Mundane "Shooting" – A Slap in the Face to Jewish Resilience.

On the sacred first night of Hanukkah, as Jews worldwide kindled lights symbolizing hope and defiance against darkness, a horrific dark attack unfolded. This wasn't random gun violence – it was part of a chilling wave of global Islamist fascist terror targeting Jews.

Yet, PBS Newshour treated it like just another weekend "mass shooting," the Hanukkah massacre in Australia by a 'family from hell' shouting Allah Akbar targeting Jews, without a whisper of the anti-Semitic undertones or the Hanukkah timing. Here's the verbatim transcript – no further comment needed to expose the media's willful blindness:

"Geoff Bennett: Welcome to the "News Hour." The fallout from two weekend mass shootings continued today, one in Rhode Island, the other half-a-world away in Australia. Amna Nawaz: We begin in Providence, Rhode Island, where officials today released new video of a person of interest as the hunt continues for the gunman behind a shooting in a lecture hall at Brown University. Two students were killed and nine others were injured."

In a time of surging anti-Semitism, this sanitized coverage erases the targeted hatred against Jews, dishonoring victims, while ignoring the broader jihadist threat. Jews won't be silenced – we'll light our menorahs brighter, stand taller, and demand truth over whitewashing. 🕎✡️ Just sayin'

PBS Coverage Ignores Islamic Connection in Australia Hanukkah Massacre. Dec. 17, 2025 . Clay Waters On Sunday PBS acted like the good liberal news channel it is by whitewashing the obvious Islamic roots behind the massacre of Jews at an outdoor Hannukah party at Bondi Beach in Australia anti-Semitism to instead discuss wholly unrelated incidents in America, like the decade-old Charlottesville, ignoring that even more virulent anti-Semitism was on display in every march in Australia and even in America for over two years now. MRC

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‘Politics in the guise of law’: Israel slams ICC ruling allowing Gaza probe to proceed. The ruling upheld a decision to allow the investigation of alleged crimes in the war on Hamas in Gaza as part of its "Palestine" probe, opened in 2021. JNS Staff. (Dec. 16, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Man Who Survived 'Unspeakable Terror of Holocaust' Killed in Bondi Beach Shooting. Alex Kleytman, 87, was among 15 people killed in a shooting local authorities say was an act of antisemitic terror.

By Samira Asma-Sadeque. Published on December 15, 2025 03:19PM EST

Alex Kleytman, 87, died while trying to save his wife Larisa Kleytman in the Dec. 14 shooting at Bondi Beach near Sydney, Australia.

Both Alex and Larisa survived the Holocaust Naveed Akram, 24, and his father Sajid Akram, 50, were identified as the shooters. Sajid died at the scene while Naveed was taken to a local hospital with critical injuries The oldest victim of the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia was a Holocaust survivor.

The carnage, now known to be Australia's worst mass shooting in three decades, left 15 people dead and several others injured.

The victims ranged in age from 10 and 87, according to local officials cited by NBC News.

The oldest of the victims has been identified as 87-year-old Alex Kleytman, whose family says he was a Holocaust survivor.

His wife Larisa Kleytman told The Australian that he died protecting her.

“We were standing and suddenly came the ‘boom boom’, and everybody fell down," she told the outlet. "At this moment he was behind me and at one moment he decided to go close to me. He pushed his body up because he wanted to stay near me."

“His body is still there and I am sitting there and don’t know what I have to do,” she added.

Both Alex and Larisa survived "the unspeakable terror of the Holocaust" before eventually moving to Australia from Ukraine, according to the 2023 annual report by JewishCare, an Australian service provider for the Jewish community.

"Their resilience, strength, and adaptability serve as a testament to the enduring nature of the human spirit," read part of the report documenting their separate journeys.

"Alex’s memories are particularly harrowing; recalling the dreadful conditions in Siberia where he, along with his mother and younger brother, struggled for survival," the report said.

Naveed Akram, 24, and his father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, allegedly carried out the shooting which Australian Prime Minister has said was an “an act of pure evil, an act of terror and an act of antisemitism," per CNN.

Sajid died at the scene and Naveed was taken to a hospital in critical condition.

[The youngest victim, 10-year-old Matilda Poltavchenko, is being remembered by her teacher as a "bright, joyful, and spirited child who brought light to everyone around her." A GoFundMe has been set up to assist her family].

The attack left Australia's Jewish community bereft and traumatized.

“It’s not random,” Jillian Segal, Australia's special envoy on antisemitism, said following the attack, per The New York Times. “It is an attack on the Jews of Australia. It’s an attack on Australia as well.” People

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Couple Tackled Bondi Beach Gunmen Before Being Fatally Shot Just Weeks Before 35th Wedding Anniversary. Boris Gurman, 69, and Sofia Gurman, 61, were among the 16 people fatally shot at Bondi Beach in Australia on Sunday, Dec. 14

By Latoya Gayle. Published on December 16, 2025.

Following a terror attack at Bondi Beach in Australia on Sunday, Dec. 14, 16 people have been confirmed dead and 40 injured Victims Boris and Sofia Gurman were filmed by a dash cam attempting to stop the incident in its early stages.

“This encapsulates who Boris and Sofia were – people who instinctively and selflessly tried to help others," their family said of the viral footage A couple in their sixties died attempting to stop the terror attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.

Boris and Sofia Gurman were among 16 people fatally injured in the country’s worst mass shooting in three decades. At least 40 others were also wounded when the gunmen opened fire at around 6:40 p.m. local time on Sunday, Dec. 14, the New South Wales (NSW Police) said in a news release.

Boris, 69, and Sofia, 61, have since been identified as the people seen in a viral dash cam video shared on the Chinese social media platform Rednote. In the video they attempted to tackle one of the shooters as he emerged from a car that had an Islamic State flag over the windshield in the early stages of the terror attack, according to The Sydney Morning Herald and News.com.au.

“We are heartbroken by the sudden and senseless loss of our beloved Boris and Sofia Gurman,” their family said in a statement obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald. “They had been married for 34 years, with their 35th wedding anniversary approaching in January.

“We were looking forward to celebrating Sofia’s 62nd birthday on Wednesday 17th of December,” the statement added.

The Russian-Jewish couple lived in Bondi and had a son in his 30s, per News.com.au.

Boris was a retired mechanic known for his generosity, while Sofia had worked at Australia Post, The Guardian reported.

The Sydney resident whose dash cam captured the couple's efforts to stop the attack said their heroism “shouldn’t be forgotten.”

“While nothing can lessen the pain of losing Boris and Sofia, we feel an overwhelming sense of pride in their bravery and selflessness,” the couple’s family said in a statement acknowledging the viral footage, per The Guardian. “This encapsulates who Boris and Sofia were – people who instinctively and selflessly tried to help others.

“We are deeply grateful for the love, compassion and support that has been shown to our family during this unimaginable time,” the family concluded. “From here, we kindly ask for privacy as we grieve.”

A fundraiser set up to support the couple's son has raised over $100,000.

Many children and families from the Jewish community had gathered at Bondi Beach for Chanukah by the Sea, an event marking the first day of Hanukkah. The victims of the attack, which is Australia’s worst since the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, range in age from 10 to 87.

Suspected gunman Sajid Akram, 50, and his 24-year-old son, Naveed Akram, were not on a terrorism watchlist before the incident, ABC News reported.

Sajid died at the scene and Naveed was taken to a hospital in critical condition. People

Dashcam footage reveals Sydney couple’s heroic fight with terrorist. Boris and Sofia Gurman tackled one of the Islamic State-inspired attackers before being murdered along with 13 others. Erez Linn.

(Dec. 16, 2025 / Israel Hayom) Dramatic video evidence has surfaced of two individuals physically engaging one of the two armed terrorists who carried out Sunday’s Bondi Beach shooting, before being shot and killed themselves, according to The Guardian.

Family members confirmed their identities as Boris Gurman, 69, and Sofia Gurman, 61, in a statement to The Sydney Morning Herald, stating that they were “heartbroken by the sudden and senseless loss.”

Relatives added that the two “had been married for 34 years, with their 35th wedding anniversary approaching in January. We were looking forward to celebrating Sofia’s 62nd birthday on Wednesday, Dec. 17.”

Dashcam footage uploaded to Rednote, a Chinese social networking site, documented Boris—dressed in purple—tackling shooter Sajid Akram along Campbell Parade as the gunman exited a vehicle displaying an Islamic State banner, The Guardian reported.

Boris can be seen forcing Akram down and wresting a firearm from his possession, while Sofia participated in the struggle.

A Sydney resident whose camera inadvertently recorded the encounter shared the material with a Mandarin-language caption stating: “Such civilian heroes shouldn’t be forgotten … I’m truly heartbroken.”

Later footage shows the slain couple lying motionless side by side on a sidewalk.

Relatives characterized Boris as “retired mechanic, known for his generosity, quiet strength and willingness to lend a hand to anyone in need. Sofia worked at Australia Post and was deeply loved by her colleagues and community,” according to the Guardian.

The family continued: “Together, they lived honest, hardworking lives and treated everyone they met with kindness, warmth and respect.

“Boris and Sofia were devoted to their family and to each other,” they said. “They were the heart of our family, and their absence has left an immeasurable void.”

The relatives added: “While nothing can lessen the pain of losing Boris and Sofia, we feel an overwhelming sense of pride in their bravery and selflessness. This encapsulates who Boris and Sofia were—people who instinctively and selflessly tried to help others.”

The family concluded by stating that, “We are deeply grateful for the love, compassion and support that has been shown to our family during this unimaginable time. From here, we kindly ask for privacy as we grieve.”

The Gurmans number among 15 fatalities from the Bondi beach terror attack. Most of the victims were participating in a Chanukah celebration. It was the second-worst mass shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in the state of Tasmania.

Thirty-eight people were wounded in the Bondi beach shooting, with 24—including two police officers—remaining hospitalized as of Tuesday afternoon.

Six Australia Post workers visited Bondi Pavilion Tuesday afternoon honoring Sofia, with one colleague declining identification while confirming years working together, according to The Guardian.

All arrived uniformed, placing individual white roses and a card. One coworker stated: “It’s very tragic and seeing this video made us realize just how brave she and her husband [were],” according to the report.

Multiple bystanders confronted danger while attempting to halt the attack. Among them is Ahmed al-Ahmad, acknowledged by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Donald Trump for charging toward Akram and wrestling away his weapon.

Ahmad remains injured but stable at Sydney’s St George Hospital after sustaining gunshot wounds to the shoulder during the encounter, his parents told The Guardian.

Meanwhile, Reuven Morrison’s daughter identified her father as the man observed throwing an object at one of the gunmen in widely distributed footage, CBS News reported on Tuesday.

“If there was one way for him to go on this earth, it would be fighting a terrorist. There was no other way he would be taken from us. He went down fighting, protecting the people he loved most,” she stated.

The alleged shooters are a father and son, per public broadcaster ABC. Naveed Akram, 24, is under police guard in the hospital, while police shot and killed his father, Sajid Akram, 50, at the scene of the attack. JNS

Couple Confronted Suspected Bondi Gunman, New Footage Shows. Previously unseen dash cam footage captured the moment Boris and Sofia Gurman tackled one of the suspected Bondi Beach gunmen during the attack on Sunday, in which at least 15 people were killed — including the Gurmans. By Monika Cvorak. December 16, 2025 NYT

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Bondi shooting victim's daughter calls out 'biased' ABC reporting. Victoria Teplitsky, whose Holocaust survivor father was shot and wounded in the Sydney terror attack, accuses local ABC news station of contributing to antisemitic atmosphere. Israel National News. Dec 16, 2025, 8:39 PM (GMT+2)

The daughter of a Holocaust survivor whose father was shot and wounded in the terrorist attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday accused Australia's ABC news of "biased" reporting and called on the media and the Australian government to "listen" to Jewish voices.

In an interview with ABC correspondents James Glenday and Emma Rebellato this morning (Tuesday), Victoria Teplitsky was asked how she was feeling in the wake of the attack, which left 15 people dead and dozens more hospitalized, including her 86-year-old father. INN

Government "Allowed Hatred to Fester". “Is This Enough Now?”: Daughter of Bondi Shooting Victim Confronts ABC News Over Biased Coverage | WATCH. Victoria Teplitsky, daughter of a wounded Holocaust survivor, stunned ABC news anchors by accusing their station of biased reporting that fueled the antisemitic atmosphere leading to the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 16, 2025 JFeed

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‘Significant concerns’ state not responding to Jewish schools on security grants, Stefanik tells Hochul. The state’s silence calls “into question the state government’s commitment to combating the rising threat of antisemitism and other hate crimes in New York,” the congresswoman said. JNS Staff. (Dec. 16, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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US Congressmen write to Australian PM affirming support for Jewish community. Members of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism send letter to Australian Prime Minister Albanese calling on Australia to implement critical measures to combat antisemitism and protect the Jewish community. Israel National News. Dec 16, 2025, 9:22 PM (GMT+2) INN

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IDF finds weapons, surveillance gear during raids along truce line in Rafah. The soldiers also dismantled several terrorist infrastructure sites and eliminated dozens of terrorists who were operating in tunnels. JNS Staff. (Dec. 16, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Iranian regional influence ‘extremely negative’ and a ‘source of instability,’ says Lebanese FM "By the end of 2025, the area south of the Litani River must be free of all illegal weapons," he said of Iranian-backed Hezbollah. JNS Staff. (Dec. 16, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Can't they give it a break? Pro-Palestinian Protest Sparks Panic at Brussels Christmas Market | WATCH. Viral footage from Brussels’ Winter Wonders Christmas market shows a pro-Palestinian protest sparking panic among families, as chants and flares triggered evacuations and reignited fierce debate over public safety, extremism, and Europe’s holiday security.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 16, 2025 11:52 JFeed

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From 'virus' to 'Zionazi[sic]': Turkey’s delegitimization campaign deepens rift with Israel, expert says. Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Ankara’s rhetoric, media narratives, diplomatic actions and legal moves have transformed ties with Jerusalem from pragmatism to ideological confrontation, a Turkey specialist warns.

Itamar Eichner|12.16.2_ 19:15

Since Hamas’ October 7 attack, the trajectory of relations between Israel and Turkey has reflected a deep and deliberate political rupture, driven by an escalating strategy of delegitimization by Ankara that includes inciting rhetoric, systematic media narratives, diplomatic sanctions and participation in international legal initiatives.

That is the assessment of a Turkey expert, who outlines what he describes as a troubling deterioration in ties between the two countries and a broad campaign led by the Turkish state against Israel on diplomatic, legal and media fronts. YNet

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Jewish MIT professor fatally shot at Massachusetts home. MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, fatally shot at his Brookline home. Police say the case is an active homicide investigation. Israel National News. Published: Dec 16, 2025, 11:17 PM (GMT+2)

A Jewish, pro-Israel Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has died after being shot at his home Monday evening, campus officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, 47, a Portuguese-born nuclear science and engineering professor, was shot "multiple times" at his Brookline apartment and succumbed to his injuries Tuesday morning at a Boston hospital, according to Brookline police and MIT authorities.

Officers responded to reports of gunshots around 8:30 p.m. local time, police said. No suspects are currently in custody, and the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office described the case as “an active and ongoing homicide investigation.”

CBS News reported that a neighbor recalled hearing “three loud bangs” Monday evening, initially believing someone was “kicking in a door.”

Loureiro earned a physics degree from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon in 2000 and a Ph.D. in physics from Imperial College London in 2005, according to his faculty profile. INN

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Police Probe Motive. MIT Nuclear Scientist and Pro-Israel Advocate Shot Dead in Boston Home. A massive police investigation is underway in Boston after Nuno Loureiro, a world-renowned MIT nuclear scientist and outspoken pro-Israel advocate, was found shot to death in his home.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 16, 2025 JFeed

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Iran threatens new Hezbollah war in Palestine Square. ‘Nahariya get ready’: Banner displaying Hezbollah threat mounted in Tehran’s Palestine Square. The banner, which reads “For the next war, Nahariya be prepared,” features images of Hezbollah.

By Danielle Greyman-kennard December 16, 2025 22:38 The Iranian regime placed a new banner in Tehran’s Palestine Square threatening Israel’s northern city of Nahariya, according to photos shared online.

The banner, which reads “For the next war, Nahariya be prepared,” features images of Hezbollah. JPost

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Trump expands travel ban to include Palestinian Arabs. Trump adds Syria and Palestinian Authority passport holders to the US travel ban, citing security and cultural concerns, while extending restrictions across several African and Asian nations. Israel National News. Dec 17, 2025, 12:04 AM INN

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Israel ready to strike Hezbollah while Washington seeks to avert wider Lebanon war. Two weeks before deadline for disarming Hezbollah and Israel is convinced that conflict is inevitable, because terror group is recovering more than it is being damaged; As IDF continues to bomb, Washington believes that escalation can still be stopped. Yoav Zitun, Itamar Eichner, Itamar Shashua|12.17.25 YNet

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Turkey not invited to Gaza peacekeeping force talks in Qatar, source tells 'Post'. “The Turks are still pressing the US administration to be involved. They haven't given up,” one regional diplomat told The Jerusalem Post.

By Amichai Stein. December 16, 2025.

Turkey was not invited to a Tuesday conference organized by US Central Command (CENTCOM) in Qatar regarding the International Stabilization Force (ISF) that is set to be deployed in the Gaza Strip.

Mid-level officials from 32 countries attended the meeting, where they discussed key elements of the force's potential deployment, including command structure, rules of engagement, locations within Gaza, and the force’s role in disarming Hamas. JPost

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Hero mum who acted as a human shield to protect stranger's little girl during Bondi Beach terror attack reunites with her grateful parents. By Antoinette Milienos, News Reporter, Australia.

Published: 23:21 EST, 15 December 2025 | Updated: 02:35 EST, 16 December 2025

A pregnant mum who used her body as a human shield to protect a three-year-old girl during the Bondi Beach terror attack has been thanked by her grateful parents.

The deadly attack at the iconic beach unfolded as hundreds gathered for the Chanukah by the Sea event just before 7pm on Sunday.

Naveed Akram, 24, and his 50-year-old father Sajid are alleged to have opened fire with military-grade weapons on hundreds of beachgoers.

Vanessa had been watching her three-year-old daughter Gigi dance when suddenly 'she was gone'.

After calling her husband Wayne to check if Gigi was with him, she soon realised the toddler was missing and 'absolute panic' set in.

Jess, who is five months pregnant, was also searching for her son after they became separated when she spotted Gigi crying for her parents.

Jess had been at Bondi Beach celebrating Hanukkah with her mum, mother-in-law, husband and their three-year-old son and 18-month-old baby.

While looking for her son, Jess spotted Gigi in an open area and ran towards her, grabbed her and lay on top, using her body as a human shield.

([25]. Parents Vanessa and Wayne (right) have met with pregnant mother-of-two, Jess (left), after she used her body to shield their three-year-old daughter Gigi during the chaos in Bondi).

([26]. The mothers broke down in tears and embraced after Vanessa thanked Jess for saving her little girl's life, claiming the heroic mother ran towards the bullets to protect her baby girl)

'We stayed still, I laid on top of her and we spoke about how we were going to stay still and calm, and quiet,' she told Sky News.

As bullets rang out around them, Jess comforted Gigi, saying: 'I got you, we are going to stay here and be nice and safe and no one is going to hurt us.'

([27] Footage from the scene showed Jess laying on top of Gigi as blood dripped down her forehead and bullets rang out around them).

Video showed Jess, with blood dripping down her forehead, shielding a scared Gigi who asked if they could hide, to which she replied: 'Yes, we can hide baby girl.'

Jess protected Gigi until the ordeal came to an end, with Wayne finding the heroic mother still lying on top of his daughter.

Both Jess and Vanessa broke down in tears during an emotional reunion on Tuesday.

The family embraced Jess and thanked her for saving their little girl.

'Everyone ran for their lives, you ran towards the bullets, to my baby girl. I know she wouldn't be here if it wasn't for [Jess],' Vanessa said.

'What three-year-old knows to duck and take cover?'

Jess said a woman had been fatally shot less than two metres from where she had been lying on the ground with Gigi.

She said she felt 'very afraid' but protecting Gigi was the only thing she could do as she could not find her own son.

'I'm just a mum and I did what mums do. I saw a little girl and she needed help and I tried to do what I could. I couldn't help everyone,' Jess said.

After the shooting stopped, Jess found her son alive and well at the playground with his grandmother.

The death toll has risen to 16 people including gunman Sajid Akram, while a further 42 people, including four children, were injured and taken to hospital.

The victims include 10-year-old girl Matilda, prominent Sydney Rabbi Eli Schlanger, Rabbi Yakkov Levitan, 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, beloved husband and father Tibor Weitzen, an assistant at a synagogue Reuven Morrison, beloved rugby volunteer and photographer Peter Meagher and 27-year-old French Jewish national Dan Elkayam.

([28]. Hundreds have flocked to pay tribute to the 15 innocent people who were killed and the dozens injured in the attack (pictured, memorial outside the Bondi Beach Pavilion) DailyMail

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How did world leaders react to the Sydney Hanukkah massacre? A Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) AI analysis finds world leaders largely recognized the significance of the Bondi Beach shooting, but Australia's PM & Muslim nations' reactions were disappointing. Israel National News. Dec 16, 2025, 4:13 PM (GMT+2)

The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) used advanced artificial-intelligence tools to examine the immediate reactions of world leaders and governments to the murder of 15 people in the shooting attack against the Jewish community in Sydney during a Hanukkah event on December 14, 2025.

The analysis reviewed the first official responses to the attack in 25 major countries worldwide, including Western countries, Asian countries, and Muslim and Arab states. The material examined included official statements by government spokespersons, public declarations, and social media posts immediately after the attack. In cases where no statement was issued by a head of state, the analysis examined statements released at a lower governmental level, such as diplomats or foreign affairs officials.

Each response was weighted according to several parameters, including whether it explicitly stated that the attack targeted Jews, that it occurred on Hanukkah, and whether it used terms connected to terrorism or antisemitism. Mentions of Israel or Israelis, and the level of the official issuing the statement were also factored in. Statements delivered by heads of state received greater weight than general announcements released by foreign ministries. The full ranking is attached for reference.

Keyword analysis found that “terrorism” was the most frequently used term, followed by “antisemitism” and “Jews.”

The findings show that the highest scores were recorded in Argentina and Canada. In both cases, the nation’s leaders clearly and explicitly stated that the attack was antisemitic terrorism directed against Jews and carried out during the Hanukkah holiday.

By contrast, Australia, where the attack took place, as well as New Zealand and the United Kingdom, received relatively low scores because their initial statements did not explicitly mention Jews, antisemitism, or Hanukkah. In Australia, the prime minister was widely criticized by both traditional and social media outlets, and only later issued a clarification referring to the attack as antisemitic terrorism. A similar pattern was observed in New Zealand.

At the bottom of the ranking were Muslim and Arab countries. In most of these cases, responses were issued by foreign ministries rather than by national leaders. In some instances, the fact that the attack targeted Jews was omitted, and condemnations were framed in general terms opposing “any form of violence,” without reference to the antisemitic motive. This group included Egypt and Jordan, countries that maintain peace agreements with Israel.

Israel was mentioned only once, in a statement by Argentine President Javier Milei, who directly criticized the Australian government, linking Australia’s recognition of a Palestinian state to what he described as a climate that enabled the antisemitic attack. This response was unusual in that it explicitly connected Australia's foreign policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians with the security of the local Jewish community.

The analysis also examined which officials spoke and which remained silent. In most democratic countries, the responses were issued directly by heads of state, indicating the gravity attributed to the attack. No leader of a Muslim country issued a direct response. INN

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The hidden objectives behind the Australia massacre. Psychological warfare expert: Terrorism against Jewish communities around the world is part of a process aimed at isolating Israel and Jews. Shimon Cohen.

Dec 17, 2025, 12:50 PM (GMT+2)

Dr. Ron Schleifer, an expert in psychological warfare, analyzes the recent wave of antisemitic terrorism around the world and argues that it is part of a broader strategy aimed at weakening the bond between Israel and the Jewish diaspora, as well as between Jews and the countries they live in - ultimately leading to Israel’s total isolation.

Dr. Schleifer views the massacre in Australia not only as an act of murder but also as an intentional effort to instill fear in Jewish communities abroad and thereby erode their support for Israel.

"Since the Vietnam War, we have learned how small organizations and movements can defeat powerful superpowers or far stronger nations," Dr. Schleifer explains. "It begins with psychological warfare - non-violent acts - then escalates to terrorism, targeting civilians randomly, followed by guerrilla warfare targeting state representatives, and finally full-scale warfare leading to victory."

He notes that “Vietnam was a small rural country that managed to defeat the world’s strongest superpower,” and cites the principle of terrorism: “You kill one to scare a thousand - because no one knows where or when the next attack will happen, leading to public unrest and ultimately regime change.” INN

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Spread the message’: Accused gunman’s preaching video. As a baby-faced 17-year-old, Naveed Akram was already a fervent follower of Islam, preaching on the streets of western Sydney. Dec 17, 2025. News.com.au

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Naz... Bondi Terror Suspect Confronts Police at Pro-Palestinian Rally. Dec 15, 2025. on Instagram

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First funeral of one of 15 Sydney terrorist attack victims, as alleged gunman charged.

SBS News. Dec 17. 2025. The first funeral of one of the 15 victims of Sunday's terror attack has taken place in Bondi at a Jewish community centre. Hundreds of people gathered to farewell 41-year old Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a married father of five. His murder described as a massive loss for the Jewish nation.

The funeral taking place as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faced damning criticism from former Coalition Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who is Jewish, that the government had not done enough to combat anti-semitism. on YouTube

Sydney holds funerals for Bondi Beach shooting victims. The local community mourns as funerals begin for those killed in the antisemitic terror attack.

i24NEWS. December 17, 2025 at 02:43 AM latest revision December 17, 2025 at 02:53 AM

The first funerals for victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting began on Wednesday, as family, friends, and members of the Jewish community gathered to mourn those killed in the deadly Hanukkah celebration attack on Sunday. The services come amid tight security and ongoing shock across Australia.

The initial funeral was held at the Chabad of Bondi Synagogue for Rabbi Eli Schlanger, one of the 15 people killed during the attack that authorities have described as an antisemitic terrorist act targeting Jewish families celebrating the Festival of Lights. Hundreds of mourners attended the heavily guarded service.

([29]. Family members of Rabbi Eli Schlanger mourning over his coffin Hollie ADAMS / POOL / AFP).

Rabbi Schlanger, 41, was remembered by mourners and community leaders as a devoted spiritual leader and compassionate figure. Rabbi Levi Wolff described him as “one of the purest and most sincere and compassionate people any of us have known,” while Schlanger’s father-in-law, Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, spoke of his deep commitment to supporting others even in difficult circumstances.

In an emotional eulogy, Ulman spoke through tears about the profound loss felt by his family and community. “You became everything to me. My hands, my feet… You were my son, my friend, my confidant… to go a day without you seems impossible,” he said, choking up as he addressed Schlanger’s absence.

Ulman likened the pain of the Bondi massacre to other tragedies faced by the Jewish people, urging resilience in his community. He said the loss was “massive for the entire Jewish nation” and emphasized the need for unity and strength in the face of terror.

(Hanukkah goes on: Jew worldwide refuse to hide after Sydney massacre).

Authorities have maintained a strong police presence around the synagogue and funeral sites, reflecting heightened security concerns following the attack. The alleged gunman in the shooting has been charged with multiple offenses, including murder and terrorism, as investigations continue and funerals for other victims, including a 10-year-old girl, are scheduled in the coming days.

The funerals have underscored both the grief of those directly affected and broader calls for action on antisemitism and public safety. State and federal leaders have attended the services or expressed support as communities across Sydney and beyond seek comfort and solidarity in the days after one of Australia’s deadliest attacks i24

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Alleged Sydney terror gunman charged with 15 counts of murder. Australian prosecutors charged the surviving accused gunman with 59 terror-related offenses over the Chanukah attack that killed 15 and wounded dozens. Joshua Marks. (Dec. 17, 2025 / JNS) The surviving alleged gunman in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack has been charged with 59 offenses, including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act, Australian authorities said on Wednesday.

Naveed Akram, 24, awoke from a medically induced coma on Tuesday and faced court via video conference from his hospital bed, where he remains under police guard after sustaining injuries during an exchange of gunfire with officers.

Police shot and killed Akram’s father, Sajid, 50, the second accused gunman, at the scene. https://www.jns.org/bondi-terror-gunman-charged-with-15-counts-of-murder/

University of Sydney Fires Staff Member Over Antisemitic Abuse of Students. By Dion J. Pierre. December 16, 2025.

The University of Sydney in Australia has dismissed an employee who was filmed shrieking at Jewish students over their support for Israel, a tirade in which she described them as “depraved” and inhuman.

“They’re shredding children!” staff member Rose Nakad screamed at the students in October, repeating pro-Hamas propaganda Hamas falsely accusing Israel of targeting Palestinian children in Gaza. “You are a f—king filthy Zionist. Nothing to do with being a Jew, you disgusting, depraved person.”

On Monday — just one day removed from the Bondi Beach massacre in which gunmen opened fire on Jews celebrating the start of Hanukkah in Sydney, hospitalizing dozens of people in addition to the 15 individuals who were murdered — the university denounced Nakad’s conduct as “distressing and utterly unacceptable.” It had previously suspended Nakad, signaling its appreciation of the gravity of her misconduct amid a global surge in antisemitism.

“The behavior that took place on our campus in October this year was deeply distressing and utterly unacceptable. We immediately suspended the staff member pending a formal process and have now terminated their employment on the grounds of serious misconduct,” the university said in a statement. JNS

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Scrutiny Intensifies. Sydney Bloodbath Blunder: Only 2 Officers Were Guarding 1000 Jews at Chanukah Event When Terrorists Struck. Premier Chris Minns has confessed that only two police officers were guarding a crowd of 1,000 Jewish families when gunmen launched a deadly ten-minute massacre, raising urgent questions about a catastrophic security failure.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 17, 2025 17:53 JFeed

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Wikipedia debating if attack targeting Jews at Sydney Chanukah event was ‘terror’. Deborah Lipstadt, scholar and former U.S. envoy on Jew-hatred, said that if the online encyclopedia was downplaying the attack that was unsurprising and it was “being true to itself.”

(Dec. 16, 2025 / JNS) The attack, in which gunmen thought to be a father and son shot and killed 15 people at a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday, is widely described as a terror attack. But editors on Wikipedia are debating whether that phrase is appropriate or it should just be called a “shooting.”

The site’s current page about the incident refers to a “shooting” in the headline and, in the body of the article, to a “terrorist mass shooting.”

Editors on the site, who are volunteer and often unnamed, are also reportedly trying to keep the names of the shooters out of the article. Law enforcement have said that the shooters were inspired by ISIS.

On the “talk” section of the page, editors on Wikipedia are debating whether a sufficient number of sources has called the attack “terror” and if the suspected gunmen, one of whom is dead, are public figures who ought to be named.

Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism and professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University, stated that if editors are actually trying to characterize the attack merely as a “shooting” on Wikipedia, then that’s “hardly a surprise.

“Just Wikipedia being true to itself when it concerns Israel, Jews, antisemitism,” she stated.

“Chanukah should be celebrated with oil lighting, not gaslighting,” added David May, research manager and senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. JNS

The same coordinated clique of Wikipedians that promoted Pallyweid and amplified genocidal Hamas narratives through its allied Turkey/Qatar/Iran-linked, unreliable sources is now sabotaging factual coverage of the Islamic Hanukkah Massacre. December 17, 2025.

Digital Erasure of Jewish Victims: The Wikipedia Campaign to Protect Genocidal "Palestine" Leadership and Rewrite History.

The same coordinated clique of Wikipedians that previously promoted Pallyweid and amplified genocidal Hamas narratives—relying heavily on Turkey/Qatar/Iran-linked, demonstrably unreliable sources—is now actively sabotaging factual coverage of the Islamic Hanukkah Massacre. Their pattern is consistent: marginalize Jewish victims, blur or excuse Islamist violence, and replace documented facts with ideologically driven distortions. This is not neutral editing but a sustained effort to erase Jewish suffering, shield extremist actors from scrutiny, and weaponize Wikipedia against historical truth and Jewish self-defense.

Wikipedia debating if attack targeting Jews at Sydney Chanukah event was ‘terror’ JNS . December 16, 2025..

[Hamas’s operational strategy intentionally endangers civilians by embedding its forces among them, obstructing aid and evacuations, and then instrumentalizing the resulting casualties to advance political and propaganda objectives against Israel]. Just sayin'

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France 24, Mother Jones Receive UN Award for Work Built on Word of Discredited Ex-Contractor Who Lied About Israel.

By Corey Walker. December 16, 2025

Anthony Aguilar, a former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) who previously served as a US Army Green Beret. Photo: Screenshot

The UN press corps on Friday gave an award to news outlets France 24 and Mother Jones for their reporting based on the testimony of Anthony Aguilar, a US Army veteran and former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) who has made discredited claims against Israel.

France 24 and Mother Jones were awarded the Bronze medal in the Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize category at the UN Correspondents Gala Awards, an event hosted by the UN Correspondents Association at the global body’s headquarters in New York City. The award is for broadcast coverage of the UN, its agencies, and field operations.

According to France 24, its journalists were the first to interview Aguilar on camera on the morning of July 23, 2025. Aguilar claimed he witnessed human rights abuses perpetrated by the Israeli military and others at sites run by the GHF, which until the Gaza ceasefire went into place was an Israel- and US-backed program that delivered aid directly to Palestinians, with the goal of blocking Hamas from diverting supplies for terrorist activities and selling the remainder at inflated prices.

France 24 and Mother Jones both published a story based on Aguilar’s testimony.

However, it was revealed last year that Aguilar’s most explosive claim, about the death of a Gazan boy, was false and that he was fired by the GHF for his conduct and pushing misinformation.

Aguilar claimed he witnessed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shoot a child — Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamdene, known as Abboud — as the GHF was distributing humanitarian aid on May 28.

After Aguilar made his claim, he rapidly rose to prominence, presenting himself as a whistleblower exposing supposed Israeli war crimes. His story gained traction internationally, going viral on social media. He subsequently embarked on an extensive media tour, in which he accused Israel of indiscriminately killing Palestinian civilians as part of an attempt to “annihilate” and “disappear” the civilian population in Gaza.

However, Aguilar, who erroneously labeled the boy in question as “Amir,” gave inconsistent accounts of the alleged incident in separate interviews to different media outlets, calling into question the veracity of his narrative.

The GHF launched its own investigation at the end of July, ultimately locating Abboud alive with his mother at an aid distribution site on Aug. 23. The organization confirmed his identity using facial recognition software and biometric testing.

Abboud was escorted in disguise to an undisclosed safe location by the GHF team for his safety, according to The Daily Wire, which noted that the spreading of Aguilar’s false tale put the boy’s life in danger, as his alleged death was a powerful piece of propaganda for Hamas.

Fox News Digital reported that Abboud and his mother were safely extracted from the Gaza Strip in September.

In footage obtained by both news outlets, the boy can be seen playfully interacting with a GHF representative and appearing excited ahead of their planned extraction.

During the summer, as Aguilar’s claims were receiving widespread media attention, the GHF released a chain of text messages showing that Aguilar was terminated for his conduct. It also held a press conference to present evidence showing that Aguilar “falsified documents” and “presented misleading videos to push his false narrative.”

There was no apparent mention of the revelations about Aguilar’s narrative when the award was given out on Friday. Algemeiner

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UK Police Plan Tougher Action Against Antisemitic Chants and Protests. by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. December 17, 2025. British police on Wednesday said they would take tougher action against people who use placards and chants to target the Jewish community, saying recent violent incidents had changed the context around such protests.

The move comes days after 15 people died in a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach targeting an event for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, and following an attack at a synagogue in Manchester in northern England in October in which two Jewish worshippers were killed. Algemeiner

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Arab man arrested after posting video of dancing on police car. An eastern Jerusalem resident posted a video on TikTok showing him dancing on the roof of a police vehicle. He was detained yesterday for questioning. Israel National News. Dec 17, 2025, 6:00 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Herzog urges Pope to intensify fight against antisemitism. President Isaac Herzog spoke with Pope Leo XIV ahead of Christmas, discussing rising global antisemitism, Israel’s ties with the Holy See, and hopes for peace in the coming year. Israel National News. Dec 17, 2025, 7:41 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Netanyahu approves $35 Bil. gas deal with Egypt. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced approval of a NIS 112 billion gas deal with Egypt, saying billions in revenue will strengthen Israel’s economy and education system. Israel National News. Dec 17, 2025, 9:02 PM (GMT+2) INN

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EU official at Hanukkah ceremony: No place for the poison of antisemitism. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen lights Hanukkah candles in Brussels, condemns rising antisemitism across Europe and unveils plan to protect Jews after deadly Sydney terror attack. Israel National News. Dec 18, 2025, 4:38 AM (GMT+2) INN

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Sa'ar to Al Arabiya: Iran, not Israel, threatens regional stability in Middle East. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar points out that Hezbollah violates Lebanon’s sovereignty, calls for peace with neighbors, tougher global action on antisemitism, and an end to Iran-backed terror. Israel National News. Published: Dec 18, 2025, 3:14 AM (GMT+2) INN

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Belgium ends federal protection for Antwerp’s Jewish quarter, community livid. Federal police protection for Antwerp’s Jewish quarter ends January 1 despite growing risks to local Jewish community. Israel National News. Published: Dec 18, 2025, 12:15 AM (GMT+2) INN

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US Rep. Byron Donalds Opens Wide Lead Over Anti-Israel Candidate, Rest of Field in Florida GOP Primary for Governor.

By Corey Walker. December 17, 2025.

US Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) speaks on stage during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on July 11, 2025, in Tampa, Florida. Photo: Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect

US Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) has firmly established himself as the frontrunner in Florida’s Republican primary for governor, new polling shows, building a substantial lead over the field, which includes anti-Israel investment firm CEO James Fishback.

The survey, carried out by The American Promise, finds Donalds leading the field with 38 percent support among likely Republican voters. Lt. Gov. Jay Collins trails far behind at 9 percent, while Azoria CEO James Fishback registers 2 percent and former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner garners just 1 percent. Nearly half of respondents, 49 percent, say they remain undecided.

Donalds, a stalwart conservative and strident ally of US President Donald Trump, has established himself as a firm ally of Israel. Donalds expressed support for Israel’s right to self-defense in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel. As skepticism about Israel has surged within the Republican Party in recent months, Donalds has maintained strong vocal support for the Jewish state.

During an interview with Fox Business this week, Donalds lamented rising antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment within the country and around the world.

“This level of antisemitism, this hatred against Jewish people and against Israel, it’s out of control. It’s insane,” Donalds said.

Donalds also reflected on the antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Sunday, connecting the rise of extremism in Western countries to relaxed migration policies.

“I mean, this rhetoric around hating Israel, hating the Jewish people, that has to stop because there are real-world consequences. There are crazy people who will carry this out,” he said. Algemeiner

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Foreign Ministry weighs closing Norway embassy amid diplomatic rift. Itamar Eichner|12.17.25 YNet

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Mamdani’s Father Blasts Columbia University Over Antisemitism Policies, Says Anti-Israel Students ‘Terrorized’. By Dion J. Pierre. December 17, 2025.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s father — Mahmood Mamdani — denounced Columbia University’s efforts to combat antisemitism on Friday, exacerbating concerns that the incoming Mamdani administration will be an anti-Zionist coterie bent on fostering a hostile climate for Jews and supporters of Israel.

“Well, students are terrified; they are terrorized,” Mamdani — who was the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University before going on leave in September — said on the Substack of Peter Beinart, a prominent anti-Israel writer. Beinart earlier this year refused to classify Hamas as a terrorist organization, arguing that the designation carries racial undertones. Algemeiner

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Europe Moves to Toughen Stance on Antisemitic Incitement After Bondi Beach Massacre. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. December 17, 2025.

In the wake of last weekend’s deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, some European authorities are stepping up efforts to crack down on antisemitic incitement, with Britain and Germany targeting certain slogans and ramping up legal and security measures.

On Wednesday, London and Manchester police warned that anyone publicly chanting to “globalize the intifada” — a popular slogan among anti-Israel activists that has been widely condemned as a call for violence against Jews and Israelis — will be arrested.

Local law enforcement said the crackdown comes as the “context has changed” in the wake of Sunday’s massacre in Australia, where gunmen murdered 15 people and wounded at least 40 others who gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Algemeiner

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Leaked Chats and Photos.

"Operation Octopus": Iranian Hackers Target Former PM Naftali Bennett in High-Stakes Cyber Campaign. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has admitted his Telegram account was breached by Iranian hackers who are now circulating sensitive government documents and personal photos in a campaign dubbed "Operation Octopus."

Eliana Fleming. Dec 17, 2025 JFeed

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Immediate action: Four arrested in London for Globalize the Intifada chants at Palestine protest The four protestors were arrested almost immediately after the British government introduced the new crackdown.

By Mathilda Heller. December 18, 2025.

Four individuals were arrested for chanting 'Globalize the Intifada' during a Palestine Coalition protest in London on Wednesday night, almost immediately after the British government introduced the new crackdown.

The Palestine Coalition protest entered controversy straight away, as the planned route would have interrupted the menorah lighting at Trafalgar Square. JPost

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Israel examining possibility Iran involved in murder of nuclear scientist in US - report. This is an assessment that has not yet been verified and is not supported at this stage by official findings from the investigative authorities in the United States.

By Anna Barsky. December 17, 2025.

Israeli officials are examining intelligence from recent days that suggests an Iranian connection to the murder of Prof. Nuno Loureiro, a senior nuclear scientist at MIT, who was shot dead in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday evening.

This is an assessment that has not yet been verified and is not supported at this stage by official findings from the investigative authorities in the United States. JPost

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Israel, Greece, Cyprus weigh joint military force amid Turkey tensions. Planned 2,500-strong rapid response force would include troops, ships and aircraft from all three countries, aimed at protecting regional energy infrastructure and deterring Turkey, while strengthening strategic ties and postwar cooperation on Gaza. ynet|12.18.25 YNet

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Australia Mourns the Youngest Victim of the Bondi Beach Shooting. Sydney’s devastated Jewish community gathered for the funeral of “Matilda Bee,” an ebullient, smiling 10-year-old girl.

By Damien Cave. Reporting from Sydney, Australia

Dec. 18, 2025. Every mourner entering the funeral home in one of Sydney’s oldest Jewish neighborhoods received a sticker that said “Matilda” in purple script, above a smiling bumblebee holding a menorah. A woman in a long, black skirt wiped tears from under her glasses as she placed it on her black blouse.

A grandfather, carrying flowers and a cane, seemed to speak for everyone there for Matilda — a smiling 10-year-old and the youngest of the 15 victims who were killed in Sunday’s horrific attack on a Hanukkah festival by Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

“She should be alive,” he said.

Tears and wails poured forth from Matilda’s parents and family members. They stood at the front, near shiny helium balloons and a mountain of flowers. None of it could obscure the casket at the center of a modest building, built in the 1940s by an earlier generation of Jews who had pushed Australia to become a refuge for Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors.

The pain of past and present — or just the pain of many — seemed to swirl through the room, intertwining like streams of smoke from sticks of incense.

It had only been a few days since two gunmen, who the authorities said were motivated by Islamic State ideology, opened fire on a crowd of hundreds. Witnesses said they waved bystanders away to target their fire on the Jews who had gathered for the festival of light.

Damien Cave leads The Times’s new bureau in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, covering shifts in power across Asia and the wider world. NYT

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ISIS praises Bondi Beach massacre as ‘source of pride’ without claiming responsibility.

Terror group endorses deadly attack in Australia's Sydney and also highlights Palmyra ambush

i24NEWS. Ariel Oseran. December 18, 2025. 9https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/iran-eastern-states/artc-isis-praises-bondi-beach-massacre-as-source-of-pride-without-claiming-responsibility i24 News]

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Open Source Intel @Osint613: Additional footage of Australian police foiling a suspected terror plot, intercepting five men en route to Bondi Beach to target Jewish mourners at a vigil for recent attack victims. Officers forced their vehicle off the road.

Quote: Open Source Intel @Osint613 · Sydney police arrested five men near Bondi Beach on suspicion of carrying weapons after a vehicle they were in collided with a police car, officials said. Authorities acted on specific intelligence linking the group to potential threats near the site of Sunday’s deadly attack. Dec 18, 2025 on X

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The Muslim Brotherhood is a global threat, not a movement. Opinion: Terror attack highlights the global threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islam, and the opportunity for Israel to expose extremist networks, counter disinformation and help lead a broader international response Ella Kenan | published:12.18.25 21:17

The shocking terror attack in Bondi Beach, in which innocent people were killed and wounded, is a painful reminder that the extremist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islam is not a local threat, but a global danger.

Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, is only one example of how jihadist ideas cross borders and harm Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and atheists alike, from Europe to Australia, and from the Middle East and Africa to the Americas. YNet

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Appointee to Zoharah Mamdani's team resigns over antisemitic posts. Katherine Almonte de Costa, who was supposed to fill a position in the team of New York City Mayor-elect Zoharah Mamdani, resigned following social media posts she published more than a decade ago containing antisemitic statements. De Costa expressed regret about the posts, which were exposed by the Anti-Defamation League. She stated that "the statements reflected in these posts do not represent who I am, including as a mother of Jewish children. I feel deep sadness and regret for the hurt I have caused." (AP) 12.18.25 YNet

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Australia: December 21 - Special day to remember victims massacred at Bondi Beach. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared December 21 as a special day to commemorate the victims of the Hanukkah massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Reuters |12.18.25 YNet

Australia declares day in honor of Bondi Beach attack victims, announces gun buyback scheme. Albanese went on to say that intelligence has confirmed that the Bondi Beach attack was ISIS-inspired.

By Reuters. December 19, 2025. The Federal and New South Wales governments have declared Sunday, December 21, as a day of reflection in order to honor the victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, announced Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in a press conference early Friday.

Albanese went on to say that intelligence has confirmed that the Bondi Beach attack was ISIS-inspired. JPost

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Fifty years of Islamic rule can’t erase 2,600 years of Jewish-Iranian friendship. Today, the friendship between Jews and ordinary Iranians is alive and well, with Iranians taking to social media to express support for Israel after the Bondi attack. We must stand with them in turn.

By Alex Winston. December 18, 2025.

It was the middle of the night when the regime snuck the statue away. The sculpted figure was of the ancient Sasanian King Shapur I, and the statue, which briefly stood at Tehran’s Enghelab Square, depicted the Roman Emperor Valerian kneeling before him. Now it is gone after just a matter of weeks.

The statue was part of a broader attempt by the regime to revive a form of Persian nationalism aimed at soothing public discontent and redirecting attention away from the country’s other internal problems.

But it was called out by the Iranian people for the propaganda farce that it was. Because the Iranian people are well aware of their own history.

Iranian history with the Jews. It is a history that dates back over 2,500 years, and, for the majority of that time, the Iranians have enjoyed a special friendship with the Jews. Indeed, it is unlikely there is any other example of two civilizations enjoying such a long and prosperous relationship.

Jews have lived in the region since the Assyrian conquest of the northern Kingdom of Exile, but the friendship was founded two centuries later.

After the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile, it was the Persian King Cyrus the Great who, in 537 BCE, permitted the Jews to return to their ancestral homeland. Additionally, Cyrus granted the Jewish community freedom of worship, a policy shown in the Cyrus Cylinder, in contrast to the religious restrictions imposed by the earlier Assyrian and Babylonian empires. Cyrus is the only non-Jewish monarch in the Jewish Tanakh (scriptures) to be named God’s “anointed one” (mashiach).

Since then, over the course of 2,500 years, there has been a continual Jewish presence in Iran.

Of course, there have been bad times, too. The story of Purim took place entirely in the Persian Empire, and there was also the case of the Mashhad Jews. The Allahdad, literally meaning “God’s Justice,” was a violent anti-Jewish outbreak in 1839 in Mashhad, in Iran’s northeast, then under Qajar rule.

Muslim mobs targeted the city’s Jewish population, killing many and coercing others into conversion to Islam. In the aftermath, most Mashhadi Jews were forced into a life of secrecy, outwardly conforming to Islamic practices while privately maintaining Jewish observance.

Iran is more than the regime that rules it It is essential to distinguish between Iran and the regime that has ruled it since 1979. The Islamic Republic is not the inheritor of Persian civilization; it is merely a brief interruption in a long chain of comradeship. Its hostility toward Jews and toward Israel is not rooted in Iran’s ancient history, culture, or collective memory. Rather, it stems from an Islamist extremist ideology enforced on the people.

Today, in 2025, the friendship between Jews and ordinary Iranians is alive and well.

It was telling that at the Bondi Beach vigil and hanukkiah lighting in London, one of the most prominent flags seen in the crowd was the Lion and Sun flag, the symbol of imperial Iran. It is a flag that has appeared time and time again at marches or gatherings showing support for Israel or Jewish communities post-October 7.

Many Iranians took to social media after the Bondi attack to express their support with the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael following the terror attack in Australia, which left 15 people murdered.

“Light triumphs over darkness, and the hearts of we Iranians across the world are with you, my Jewish friend,” one social media user wrote, with similar messages of support coming from around the world.

“This regime is the root cause of global terror and instability,” one user wrote on X, as others called for the implementation of the Cyrus Accords and for Israel to destroy the regime.One Iranian within the country reached out to this writer with the message, “As Iranians, we understand the meaning and cost of terrorism all too well.

For that reason, many of us feel a genuine sense of closeness and solidarity with Jewish communities around the world, and especially with the people and state of Israel. Today has been a difficult day for us as well, much like it has been for you.”

The mullahs who rule Iran seem to be under the impression that 46 years of Islamic rule can wipe out the memories of two millennia of endearment. They seem to think they can sweep away a special bond, the like of which has not been seen anywhere else in the world. But they are mistaken. Iranians know full well their own history. Even if they can’t show it publicly for fear of the Islamic Republic, they live it and breathe it every day.

And in the spirit of that friendship, as Iranians continue to suffer under the regime – and as they continue to be locked away for the smallest of infractions, such as calling for basic freedoms – we must stand with them.

We must call for the release of Bita Shafiei and her mother, Maryam, who have been in the hands of the security apparatus for over a month, and are reportedly being held in solitary confinement and under torture.

We must call for the release of the 40 innocent people who turned out last week for the memorial ceremony of human rights lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who died under suspicious circumstances just hours after a visit from security forces.

We must call for the release from incarceration of:

Abolfazl Abri; Ali Adinehzadeh; Hasti Amiri; Javad Alikordi; Akbar Amini; Mohammadreza Babaei; Heydar Chahchamandi; Mohammadali Dehestani; Milad Fattah; Noura Haghi (Vahideh Haghparast); Hamed Hosseini; Javad Jalali; Mahmoud Khanali; Amir Khavari; Narges Mohammadi; Aliyeh Motalebzadeh; Tayyebeh Nazari; Pouran Nazemi; Sepideh Gholian; Hamed Rasoulkhani; Mehdi Rasoulkhani; Amin Vosoughinia; Hamed Zareh; Mohammad Zanganeh; Zahra (Raha) Sharifi

Regimes rise and fall. Statues are erected in the night and quietly removed by morning. But civilizations endure. The bond between Jews and Iranians was forged long before the Islamic Republic and will outlive it as well. JPost

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PBS Coverage Ignores Islamic Connection in Australia Hanukkah Massacre.

Dec. 17, 2025 . Clay Waters. On Sunday PBS acted like the good liberal news channel it is by whitewashing the obvious Islamic roots behind the massacre of Jews at an outdoor Hannukah party at Bondi Beach in Australia anti-Semitism to instead discuss wholly unrelated incidents in America, like the decade-old Charlottesville, ignoring that even more virulent anti-Semitism was on display in every march in Australia and even in America for over two years now. MRC

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ISGAP @ISGAP. BREAKING NEWS: Heavily armed Australian forces just intercepted what appears to be a potential follow up attack in Sydney, Australia.

The plot appears to have been serious enough for the authorities to deliberately ram the suspects car off the road before they managed to get to Bondi.

Following @isgapinternational for the developing story! [#sydney #australia #bondi] Dec 18, 2025 On X

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Ben Shapiro denounces Tucker Carlson at Heritage, urges policing of conservative movement. “A conservatism that treats Tucker Carlson as a thought leader is no conservatism,” Shapiro said.

By Assf Elia-Shalev/JTA. December 18, 2025. Ben Shapiro walked onto a Heritage Foundation stage Wednesday and used it to draw a line against Tucker Carlson and a strain of conservatism Shapiro warned is drifting toward conspiracy theories and antisemitism.

For a talk that lasted about an hour, Shapiro, one of the most prominent Jewish voices on the American right, denounced Carlson by name, arguing that the former Fox News host no longer belongs inside the conservative movement and urging the institution hosting him to enforce what he called “ideological border control.” JPost

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The Second Wave. Seven ISIS Terrorists Remanded in Custody After Plotting Second Massacre at Bondi Beach Australian authorities have successfully dismantled a seven member ISIS cell that was in the final stages of planning a second deadly attack on Bondi Beach, seizing IED components and firearms during a massive city wide crackdown. Eliana Fleming Dec. 18, 2025 JFeed

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The End of the NYPD? NYC in Danger: Zohran Mamdani Moves to Replace Police With Social Workers in Radical Safety Overhaul. New York City is on the verge of a radical transformation as the City Council advances a $1 billion plan to replace police officers with social workers, a move that has many residents fearing a total collapse of law and order.

Eliana Fleming Dec 18, 2025. JFeed

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Hate on Campus. Brazen Antisemitism: Michigan State Chabad Targeted in Brazen Back to Back Attacks A serial vandal has struck the Michigan State Chabad center on back-to-back nights, moving from an attempted break-in to painting swastikas and threatening messages on the front door.

Eliana Fleming Dec 18, 2025 JFeed

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Footage from heart of Jenin: Undercover units arrest terrorists and seize weapons. Security forces continue operations in Jenin as part of a large-scale operation in northern Samaria, which began last night. Israel National News. Dec 18, 2025, 8:25 PM (GMT+2) INN

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French court jails nanny for poisoning Jewish couple, rejects antisemitism charge. A French court sentences a nanny to 2.5 years for poisoning a Jewish couple’s drinks but rejects antisemitism as a motive. Israel National News. Dec 19, 2025, 2:13 AM (GMT+2) INN

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Trump: 'Netanyahu would like to see me, we’ll probably meet in Florida'. Trump says a meeting with PM Netanyahu is likely next week in Florida, though the White House has not yet confirmed plans. Israel National News. Dec 19, 2025, 12:08 AM INN

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The victims of the Sydney Hanukkah Massacre Two terrorists murdered 15 people at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. The names of 14 of them have been publicized. Israel National News.

Published: Dec 16, 2025, 11:28 AM (GMT+2) Updated: 12/18/2025, 6:39:00 PM [Sydney, Hanukkah Massacre]

Fifteen people were murdered, and dozens were wounded when two terrorists opened fire Sunday evening at Bondi Beach in Sydney during a Hanukkah gathering attended by members of the Jewish community. The victims ranged in age from a young child to elderly attendees.

So far, the names of 14 victims have been publicized:

Adam Smyth.

Adam Smyth, a 50-year-old father of four, was murdered as he walked with his wife, Katrina, on Bondi Beach. His family remembered him as a sports fan. He was particularly fond of Liverpool FC, the Sydney Swans, and the Manly Sea Eagles. “We will forever cherish the time we have had with him. Adam was a generous and kind person who will be dearly missed and is forever irreplaceable,” his family said.

Boris Tetleroyd.

Boris Tetleroyd, a 68-year-old immigrant from the former Soviet Union. He spent almost 30 years working with Transport for NSW. Boris was described as a beloved husband and father who loved nature and would often share photos of the animals he encountered on his hikes. Tetleroyd was attending the Hanukkah event at Bodi with his son Yakov. Boris was murdered, and Yakov was wounded. Another one of his children posted on social media following the attack, searching for him. The following day, the family learned that he had been murdered.

Boris and Sofia Gurman.

Boris, 69, and Sofia, 69, a Russian-Jewish couple living in Bondi, were the first two victims of the attack. Boris and Sofia noticed the terrorist, Sajid Akram, emerging with a rifle from a car with an Islamic State flag draped across the windshield. Boris initially managed to push the terrorist to the ground and take his rifle. However, Akram then shot the two at close range before proceeding to murder 13 others.

Edith Brutman.

Edith Brutman was among those murdered in the attack. According to 7NEWS, she attended the Hanukkah by the Sea event together with Tibor Weitzen and his wife, and was seated next to Weitzen when the shooting began. Both Brutman and Weitzen were killed during the assault.

Matilda.

Matilda, aged 10, was the youngest victim identified. She was a former student at Sydney’s Harmony Russian School. Teachers and family members described her as a bright and joyful child whose life was cut short while she was celebrating Hanukkah at the event.

Marika Pogany.

Marika Pogany, 82, was identified as one of the victims on Monday night. Friends expressed shock and grief on social media, sharing photos of her from the Bondi Beach gathering and mourning the loss of a close friend.

Tibor Weitzen.

Tibor Weitzen, 78, was a member of Bondi’s Chabad Synagogue. He attended the event with his wife and grandchildren and was reportedly killed while attempting to shield his wife from gunfire.

Peter Meagher.

Peter Meagher, a retired NSW Police detective sergeant, was killed while working as a photographer at the event. After more than three decades in the police force, he had pursued photography following his retirement. His family described him as a devoted husband, brother, and uncle.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41, a British-born Chabad rabbi known as the “Bondi Rabbi,” was killed in the attack. A father of five, he was a prominent and widely loved community figure who regularly organized and promoted Jewish events in Sydney.

Dan Elkayam.

Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French national, was also among the dead. He had been living in Australia for two years and was described by friends as a warm and positive presence. His death was confirmed by French officials following the attack.

Alex Kleytman.

Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman was shot and killed during the shooting. According to his wife, he was struck in the back as chaos erupted and people attempted to flee or take cover.

Rabbi Yaakov Levitan.

Rabbi Yaakov Levitan served as secretary of the Sydney Beth Din. Friends remembered him as a kind and peaceful individual, noting that his final message to one friend ended with the words, “peace and love.”

Reuven Morrison.

Reuven Morrison, a member of the Chabad community who divided his time between Melbourne and Sydney, was killed after attempting to confront one of the gunmen. According to his family, he tried to stop the attacker before being fatally shot by a second assailant. INN

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Tucson Jewish community targeted with antisemitic graffiti after Bondi Beach massacre. According to the statement, flyers posted around the Community Center included “highly derogatory and concerning content targeting both the Jewish community and law enforcement.”

(Conversation JCRC Bay Area @SFJCRC Anti-Israel activists vandalized property along Market St. in San Francisco with pro-Hamas graffiti).

By Leo Feierberg Better. December 19, 2025.

Tucson Jewish Community Center (Tucson J) staff discovered “hateful” antisemitic materials posted near the building, Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona (JPSA) announced on Monday.

According to the statement, flyers posted around the Community Center included “highly derogatory and concerning content targeting both the Jewish community and law enforcement.." JPost

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Pathetic PBS Ignores Islamic Connection in Australia Hanukkah Massacre. Clay Waters. December 17th, 2025 10:26 PM

On Sunday PBS acted like the good liberal news channel it is by whitewashing the obvious Islamic roots behind the massacre of Jews at an outdoor Hannukah party at Bondi Beach in Australia. Instead the discussion clung to wholly unrelated incidents in America, like the decade-old Charlottesville march, ignoring the even more virulent anti-Semitism constantly on display at pro-Hamas marches in Australia and America alike for over two years running. NewsBusters

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Palestinian Terrorism How ‘CNN’ sanitizes Hamas terrorism The word “official” is not neutral; it confers legitimacy, authority and a sense of normalcy—qualities that should never be associated with leaders of a designated terrorist organization. . Moshe Phillips. (Dec. 16, 2025 / JNS) Recently, CNN labeled a leader of the Hamas terrorist organization “a senior official.” This begs the question: When is a terrorist not a terrorist according to mainstream media?

Far too often, news outlets like CNN apply titles and adjectives to terrorists or mention their profession as if these are the things that matter, rather than the fact that they belong to a group pledged to commit murder.

This proclivity is not abstract or theoretical. It plays out in real time, in real headlines, from some of the most influential news organizations in the world.

CNN’s article was titled “Hamas willing to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ weapons, senior official says, amid concerns over ceasefire.” The word “official” connotes legitimacy that in no way should be bestowed upon leaders of an organization that led the terrorist invasion of Israel with its mass kidnappings, atrocities and sexual violence.

That phrasing is far from incidental. The word “official” is not neutral; it confers legitimacy, authority and a sense of normalcy—qualities that should never be associated with leaders of a designated terrorist organization.

What’s more is that the “senior official” CNN is touting is Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, who has for years used the fact that he is a physician as legitimacy.

The problem becomes even clearer when one examines who this so-called “senior official” actually is. The media fell for Naim’s doublespeak back in 2018 in the aftermath of the shooting murders of 11 Jewish worshippers in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Headlines blared: “Hamas official condemns Pittsburgh attack,” but what Naim was really saying was that terrorists aren’t only Muslims.

His verbatim comments were abhorrent: “As Palestinians and as victims of the Israeli terror of occupation, we know the meaning of terror and its horrific outcomes,” and “This heinous attack, especially against a place of worship, proves that terror has no religion or nation.”

But this was not a rejection of terrorism. It was a reframing of it—one that shifted blame and relativized violence rather than condemning it outright.

In November, Naim’s son, Mohammad, was arrested by police in the United Kingdom for receiving weapons he later transported to Vienna. “Globalize the intifada” must run the family. This context matters because terrorism is rarely an accident of circumstance. It is sustained by ideology, networks and environments, including families, which normalize or excuse violence.

Getting back to Naim’s profession, it is past time to understand that “education” does not stop terrorism. Which brings us to a persistent and dangerous assumption: that education, professional success or intellectual achievement serves as an antidote to terror. History repeatedly disproves this belief.

Many of the leaders of the most bloodthirsty Palestinian Arab terrorist groups have been highly educated.

George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was a physician. Another PFLP leader, Wadie Haddad, was also a medical doctor and founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-External Operations (PFLP-EO).

Hanan Ashrawi, a current member of the PLO’s so-called “Executive Committee” and a leader of the Intifada Political Committee in the 1980s, has a Ph.D. in Medieval and Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia.

Abu Nidal was a Fatah terrorist who later formed what was widely known as the Abu Nidal Organization and studied engineering at Cairo University.

Ahmad al-Shugairi, the first chairman of the PLO, earned a law degree at the Institute of Law in Jerusalem.

Yasser Arafat had a degree in engineering from King Fuad I University (now Cairo University) in Egypt, where he was born.

Mahmoud Abbas, current chairman of both the PLO and Fatah, completed a law degree at the University of Damascus.

These examples are not anomalies. They demonstrate that ideology, not ignorance, is the driving force behind terrorist movements.

If the Allies had merely rebuilt Germany after World War II without completely changing German society, it would have been only a matter of time before the Nazis rose up and again threatened the free world. That’s why the United States insisted on complete denazification of postwar Germany.

Ideology is the engine of terrorism. Defeating it requires more than reconstruction or economic investment—it requires cultural and institutional transformation.

If U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision for Gaza is ever to have a chance, then we know what needs to be done by looking at history: Change the schools by eliminating Jew-hatred from textbooks and curricula, ban the terrorists and eradicate the symbols of terrorism. Such a complete transformation is the only hope for Gaza. JNS

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Sickening slur is levelled at the Bondi Beach hero who saved countless lives during terror attack. 06:01 EST 18 Dec 2025, updated 07:59 EST 18 Dec 2025 By Ashly Nickel, News Reporter, Australia l.

Palestinians have called Ahmed al-Ahmed, the brave Syrian-Australian who risked his own life to disarm a gunman during the Bondi massacre, a 'traitor'... Ramallah News' post about Mr al-Ahmed was quickly spread around Arab communities, which overwhelmingly condemned him for saving Jewish lives.

According to analysis by a senior researcher for Palestinian Media Watch, Ahron Shapiro, of the 1,000 comments left under the article - 75 per cent were unsupportive of Mr al-Ahmed, 20 per cent were supportive and five per cent were neutral...

Other comments were just as appalling.

'He sold himself and his life for the safety of the Jews,' one said.

'I wish it (the bullet) hit (his) heart,' another wrote.

Other commenters accused Mr al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Arab Muslim, of seeking money.

'He played it right, he wants the money,' one wrote, while another said, 'He has received a million dollars in rewards … he acted 'manly' in the wrong place'.

Some comments were even threatening towards Mr al-Ahmed.

'By Allah we will surely chop you to pieces … we will not leave a trace of you,' one said. 'May God send you a disease,' another wrote Daily Mail

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Report: Abbas called Oct. 7 ‘the greatest day in Palestinian history’. The P.A. leader allegedly praised the Hamas-led massacre on the morning of the attack. JNS Staff.

(Dec. 18, 2025 / JNS) Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas praised the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, calling it “the greatest day in Palestinian history,” Palestinian researcher Hani al-Masri said in a recent interview.

Al-Masri, the director general of Masarat—The Palestinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies—spoke when asked by Palestinian content creator Ahmad Biqawi in a YouTube interview posted on Dec. 11 how Ramallah reacted on the morning of the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.

“This is the ‘authority’ people want the ‘Palestinian Authority’ to be? A terror-worshiping authority,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in an X post on Wednesday, accompanying the relevant clip from the interview. The ministry noted that al-Masri is also a member of the Board of Trustees at the Yasser Arafat Foundation, saying he “knows a thing or two about the P.A.”

Al-Masri also said that the P.A. is continuing terror payments to the families of prisoners and “martyrs,” despite commitments to the European Union and the United States to end its “pay-for-slay” policy.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar highlighted the continuation of the P.A.’s payments policy in an X post on Wednesday, accusing Abbas of once again lying about ending the practice. He added that the P.A. is disguising payments to released murderers as pensions for members of the Palestinian Security Services.

“This is distorted. End ‘pay-for-slay’ now!” Sa’ar wrote. JNS

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Muslim hero who tackled Sydney terrorist honored with $2.5M from global supporters. Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian man hailed for tackling terrorist in the Bondi Beach massacre, receives over $2.5M in donations from around the world as officials and citizens praised his bravery. Israel National News. Published: Dec 19, 2025. INN

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From Hamas tunnels to Disney: Former hostages reunite for healing trip in Florida theme parks. Some 180 released hostages and relatives were flown to Florida by Lehosheet Yad for two weeks of respite at amusement parks; Ynet reporter finds family that was forged by tragedy now singing, grieving, healing, bound by shared pain and unspoken understanding Hagar Kochavi | published:12.18.25 | 13:30 YNet

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Trump Administration Imposes Sanctions on Two More ICC Judges for ‘Politicized Actions Targeting Israel’. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. December 18, 2025. President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on two more judges from the International Criminal Court over their involvement in the court’s case against Israel, ratcheting up Washington’s pressure campaign against the war tribunal. Algemeiner

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Trump Administration Appeals Harvard Funding Ruling. By Dion J. Pierre. December 19, 2025. US President Donald Trump filed an appeal of a ruling by an Obama-appointed federal judge which restored $2.7 billion in public grants he had impounded from Harvard University over its alleged failure to address campus antisemitism along with other faults.

The move aims to put Harvard on the back foot, as his efforts to penalize the institution have run into repeated legal roadblocks despite that virtually every other elite institution he has targeted for reform — such as Columbia University, Brown University, and Northwestern University — decided that settling with Trump is preferable to fighting the administration. Algemeiner

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Lebanon-Israel Truce Committee Talks Widen as Hezbollah Disarmament Deadline Nears. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. December 19, 2025. The committee overseeing the Hezbollah–Israel truce in Lebanon focused on Friday on how to return displaced people to their homes, addressing civilian issues to help prevent renewed war if a year-end deadline to disarm Hezbollah is not met. https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/12/19/lebanon-israel-truce-committee-talks-widen-hezbollah-disarmament-deadline-nears/

Israel, Germany Sign $3.1 Billion Contract. Expansion for Arrow Air Defense System. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. December 18, 2025. Israel and Germany signed a contract worth around $3.1 billion to expand the Arrow-3 air and missile defense system manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries, Israel‘s defense ministry said on Thursday. Algemeiner

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Saudi, French, US Officials Push Hezbollah Disarmament Plan. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. December 18, 2025. French, Saudi Arabian, and American officials held talks with the head of the Lebanese army on Thursday in Paris aimed at finalizing a roadmap to enable a mechanism for the disarmament of the Hezbollah terrorist group, diplomats said.

Israel and Lebanon agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire in 2024, ending more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that severely weakened the Iran-backed terrorists.

Since then, the sides have traded accusations over violations with Israel questioning the Lebanese army’s efforts to disarm Hezbollah. Israeli warplanes have increasingly targeted Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and even in the capital. Algemeiner

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Nearly 18,000 Gather at Barclays Center for Menorah Lighting in Tribute to Sydney Hanukkah Attack Victims. By Shiryn Ghermezian. December 19, 2025. Nearly 18,000 people gathered at Barclays Center in New York City on Thursday night for a menorah lighting that honored the 15 people murdered in Sunday’s terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.

“Nets fans, tonight as we celebrate the Jewish festival of light, we ask you to help us mourn the lives of those lost in the senseless attack that took place at the Bondi Beach Hanukkah festival in Sydney, Australia on Sunday,” the Barclays announcer told the crowd. “Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the victims, their families and friends, and the worldwide community.” Algemeiner

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Israel Charges Russian With Allegedly Spying for Iran. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. December 19, 2025. Israel has charged a Russian citizen with spying for Iran, including photographing Israeli ports and infrastructure under the direction of Iranian intelligence agencies, Israel‘s domestic security agency the Shin Bet said on Friday.

The Russian individual was then paid in digital currency, the agency said in a joint statement.

A decades-long shadow war between Israel and Iran escalated into a direct war in June when Israel struck various targets inside Iran, including through operations that relied on Mossad commandos being deployed deep inside the country. Algemeiner

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British Police Report Jewish Children Are Requesting Armed Escorts for Hanukkah Celebrations. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. December 19, 2025. British law enforcement say they are receiving calls from Jewish children — some as young as 10 years old — requesting armed police protection for Hanukkah celebrations, as fears and threats against the UK’s Jewish community intensify in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre and a surge in antisemitic incidents.

Speaking at the Policy Exchange think tank in London, Greater Manchester Police Chief Sir Stephen Watson said fear within the Jewish community has risen sharply after the Yom Kippur terror attack in Manchester and the deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach — with even young children now asking for armed police protection to simply attend Hanukkah parties.

“We are getting telephone calls into Greater Manchester Police day in and day out over the past few days, where you have a group of 10-year-old girls wanting to go to a Hanukkah party — where they should, frankly, be interested in balloons and bicycles — and are requesting armed police officers,” Watson said.

“Jewish children are the only children in our country who, day to day, go to school behind large fences, guarded by armed personnel, with routine patrols around those areas,” he continued. “Our Jewish communities endure a way of life in this country that no one else has to endure.”

“The intolerable has become normalized and is now almost accepted as the way things are,” he added. Algemeiner

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Australian Teen Wounded While Shielding Children During Bondi Attack Says She Is Not a Hero. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. December 19, 2025. As two gunmen opened fire on hundreds celebrating Hanukkah on Sydney’s Bondi Beac

two gunmen opened fire on hundreds celebrating Hanukkah on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, 14-year-old Chaya Dadon’s mind was clear.

Across from where she had taken cover from the gunshots under a bench, Dadon saw two children stranded out in the open, beside their wounded parents.

“I knew in that moment, I felt like Hashem was sitting right next to me,” she said in an interview with Reuters, using a Hebrew name for God. “He was whispering into my ear, ‘This is your mission: go save those kids.'”

The schoolgirl left the safety of her hiding spot, pulled the children away, and jumped on top of them, covering their bodies with her own. At some point, she was shot in the thigh. But she kept shielding them, reciting the Shema, a Jewish prayer.

“I knew I got shot, but I wasn’t even worried. I channeled all that energy that I had into strength, and I made sure that I knew I had to be there for those kids,” she said.

“If I could give up my life saving these children, that’s what I was going to do.”

Her father eventually found them and took her to get help. “When he found me, he told me this after, that I had the girl in this arm and the boy in this arm. And I was just kissing them.” Algemeiner

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Nova hero: I just did what needed to be done. Chen Moshe Mizrahi, one of the survivors of the Nova party, received a certificate of recognition for his extraordinary bravery. Hezki Baruch. Dec 19, 2025, 9:56 AM (GMT+2)

Chen Moshe Mizrahi, who was present at the Supernova music festival in the Re'im Forest on the morning of October 7, received this week a certificate of recognition for his exceptional bravery during the terrorist attack.

The certificate was presented to him by Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay, Raul Latorre, as an acknowledgment of "choosing hope in the midst of darkness."

Mizrahi, who was injured during the event, helped rescue dozens of partygoers and wounded individuals under missile fire and terrorist infiltration for about seven hours JPost

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Operation Behind the Back: The naval raid that exposed Hezbollah's secret unit. Shayetet 13 commandos arrested a Hezbollah terrorist working under civilian cover to create a naval unit for the terrorist organization. Uzi Baruch. Dec 19, 2025, 2:13 PM (GMT+2) JPost

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Suspected kidnapping: Israeli citizen rescued safely near Jericho. Israeli woman abducted near Jericho and rescued unharmed by IDF forces. Authorities warn civilians against entering Area A, citing safety risks and legal restrictions. Israel National News. Published: Dec 19, 2025, 8:00 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Watch: Arab blows out menorah in Tel Aviv mall. Hijab-clad woman caught on camera blowing out candles on a menorah in Weizmann City Mall in Tel Aviv as another man applauds her. Police investigating. Orly Harari. Dec 19, 2025, 3:34 PM (GMT+2)

The police have opened an investigation against an Arab who was captured by security cameras blowing out Hanukkah candles in Weizmann City Mall in Tel Aviv.

In the footage, the hijab-clad woman is seen blowing out the four candles on the menorah as a man, who appears to be accompanying her, applauds her. A few moments later, the woman returns to blow out the "shamash" candle, which was not extinguished in the first attempt. The woman also appears to film the act using her cellphone. INN

Peaceful Arabs? Outrage as Arab Woman Extinguishes Hanukkah Candles Near Ichilov; Arab Man Applauds | WATCH. Outrage erupted after a video showed an Arab woman putting out Hanukkah candles at the Weizmann Mall in Tel Aviv, with authorities now examining the criminal and legal aspects of the shocking act.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 19, 2025.

The police have launched an investigation following complaints over a video circulating on social media showing an Arab woman extinguishing Hanukkah candles at the Weizmann Mall in Tel Aviv, apparently without any provocation.

According to security camera footage, the incident occurred yesterday at the mall near Ichilov Hospital. The woman was seen walking through the mall with her partner, approaching a Hanukkah menorah on display, and extinguishing the candles. The man accompanying her appeared to clap after the act, and the woman then returned to extinguish another candle. JFeed

WATCH: Woman goes viral for blowing out Hanukkah candles at Tel Aviv mall Based on the number of lit candles, the incident likely occurred on Thursday.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 19, 2025. A Muslim woman has gone viral after she was recorded blowing out the Hanukkah candles in the Weizmann Mall near Ichilov Hospital.

Based on the number of lit candles, the incident likely occurred on Thursday. JPost

Open Source Intel @Osint613: WATCH: A Muslim woman was caught on camera inside a Tel Aviv shopping mall blowing out the candles of a Hanukkah menorah, smiling as she recorded the moment on her phone. Dec 18, 2025 on X

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Rubio: 'No peace if Hamas retains the ability to attack Israel'. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns Hamas must fully disarm to ensure peace, as Washington seeks partners for Gaza stabilization and urges Lebanese control over Hezbollah. Israel National News. Dec 19, 2025, 8:47 PM INN

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Gaza borderlands: Israel's southern kibbutzim rebuild from the ruins of October 7 Today, Kibbutz Kissufim, like other Jewish communities in the area, is still recovering from the Oct. 7 attack in 2023.

By Seth J. Frantzman December 19, 2025. JPost

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Rocket fire from Gaza has subsided, but Israelis are still on alert. Domestic Affairs: While a veneer of normalcy has returned, true feelings of security and trust in Israel's defense may never be the same as before the war. By Hannah Brown. December 19, 2025 16:34 JPost

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Bondi Beach Massacre. 15 dead. This is Anthony Albanese’s Stupid Answer to Bondi Beach Massacre. Following the ISIS-inspired Bondi Beach attack, Anthony Albanese announced Australia’s largest gun buyback in decades, sparking outrage that he is ignoring radical preachers and antisemitic incitement.

Gila Isaacson Dec 20, 2025 11:40

What in the world is wrong with Anthony Albanese? In the wake of the horrific antisemitic terror attack at Bondi Beach, where ISIS-inspired monsters gunned down 15 innocent people, including a child and rabbis, during a Hanukkah celebration, the Australian Prime Minister's grand solution isn't to crack down on the radical Islamic preachers fueling anti-Jewish hatred in our streets. No, it's to launch a massive gun buyback scheme to destroy hundreds of thousands of firearms from law-abiding citizens. Because apparently, the real threat isn't jihadist ideology seeping into protests, it's your grandpa's hunting rifle.

Let's not mince words: this is cowardice wrapped in policy. The Bondi massacre on December 14 wasn't some random act of violence; it was a targeted jihad against Jews, carried out by a father-son duo waving ISIS flags in their car. And what does Albanese do? He stands up and announces the "largest" gun buyback since the Port Arthur reforms of 1996, vowing to "get more guns off our streets" and work with states on tougher laws to confiscate and destroy banned or illegal weapons.

Australia now has more guns than three decades ago, he whines, as if that's the root cause of terrorists radicalized by global hate campaigns.

Meanwhile, the streets of Sydney, Melbourne, and beyond have been overrun by anti-Israel marches laced with outright antisemitism—chants of "from the river to the sea," glorification of Hamas, and yes, radical preachers spewing venom that dehumanizes Jews and delegitimizes Israel. For over two years, since the October 7 Hamas atrocities, Australia has seen a surge in antisemitic incidents tied directly to these protests.

Jewish communities live in fear, synagogues are vandalized, and schools advise kids to hide their kippahs. Warnings from groups like the Antisemitism Research Center have screamed about the rising threat of violence, yet Albanese's government has dithered, offering platitudes like a "day of reflection" for victims and vague promises of hate speech crackdowns.

Where's the fury against the imams and activists who radicalize young minds, turning "pro-Palestine" rallies into breeding grounds for terror? Instead of deporting hate preachers or banning groups that celebrate October 7, Albanese targets everyday Aussies' firearms—as if disarming the public will stop ISIS fanatics from smuggling weapons or radicalizing online.This isn't leadership; it's a betrayal. Former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, grieving and furious, called for a royal commission into antisemitism after Bondi, highlighting how governments have failed to confront the "ancient hatred" intersecting with anti-Zionism.

Even activists are pushing back against plans to restrict rallies, but the real scandal is the silence on the radical elements within them. Australia has become an "epicenter of antisemitic violence," with Jews wondering if they're next, yet Albanese's big move is to echo the far-left playbook: blame the tools, not the ideology.

Ed Halmagyi, the celebrity chef behind the now-closed Avner’s Bakery in Surry Hills, has expressed deep fears for the safety of Australia's Jewish community following the December 14 Bondi Beach terror attack, with sources close to the situation describing his view that further incidents are inevitable without stronger protections.

Halmagyi, known as "Fast Ed" from his long stint on Better Homes and Gardens, announced the immediate and permanent closure of his popular Jewish-themed bagel shop on December 17, just days after the ISIS-inspired massacre that killed 15 people at a Hanukkah event.

In interviews, Halmagyi has spoken of underestimating the rising dangers but now recognizing that motivated individuals have "many resources" beyond firearms. Reports indicate he believes the Bondi attack has made previously "unimaginable" risks a reality, and that further terror attacks targeting Jews in Australia will happen, not as a matter of 'if' but rather as one of 'when'.

Albanese was begged to do something against the rising tide of antisemitism. But as 15 people lie dead, his bigger answer isn't to address extremism and target extremists, but rather it's to ensure that even less people will be able to repsond the next time something like this happens.

No wonder Australia wants him gone. JFeed

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Toronto trio arrested for alleged attempted abductions of Jews, women. The suspects were named as Waleed Khan, 26, Osman Azizov, 18, and Fahad Sadaat, 19.

By Danielle Greyman-Kennard. December 19, 2025. Police in Toronto arrested three men for attempting to kidnap members of the Jewish community and women in late November, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced on Friday.

The suspects were named as Waleed Khan, 26, Osman Azizov, 18, and Fahad Sadaat, 19. JPost

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'Roy’s death was not in vain, he is saving people through his story'. 'During shiva, I faced a choice: sink into darkness or carry Roy’s light forward': Tom Wasserstein, whose brother Roy died by suicide after wartime trauma, in a special column for the 'We Came to Embrace the Darkness' project by the MOSHE Movement Tom Wasserstein | published:12.19.20

My brother Roy, my younger brother, was almost 25 when he died by suicide as a result of a silent war. But that is not the whole truth. The truth is that his death began long before the day our father found him. YNet

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China delays renewal of UN force mandate on Syria border. A planned vote to renew the UNDOF mandate for another six months was pulled from the UN Security Council agenda after China unexpectedly sought changes to the text that the US opposes.

Itamar Eichner | 12.20.25.

The UN Security Council on Friday failed to adopt a resolution renewing the mandate of UNDOF, the UN peacekeeping force along the Israel-Syria border, for another six months as planned, after China sought last-minute changes to the text. YNet

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'Biased, distorted': COGAT slams UN following claims of food insecurity in Gaza The United Nations IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) report on the Gaza Strip stated that even if famine conditions were alleviated, the situation "remained critical."

(Trucks carry aid for Palestinians, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 14, 2025). By Tobias Holcman December 19, 2025. The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) on Friday criticized a United Nations report on Gaza that said famine had been averted but conditions “remained critical,” calling the assessment “a distorted and baseless picture of reality.”

Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, COGAT's director, said that the claims are "a blatant, biased, and deliberate disregard for the volumes of food that entered during the ceasefire - the distorted conclusions were written in advance."

JPost

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US, Jordanian forces conduct joint strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, Hegseth confirms. The attacks come after US President Donald Trump vowed to retaliate after an attack on US personnel last weekend in Syria by a suspected Islamic State terrorist.

By Goldie Katz. December 20, 2025. The United States, collaborating with Jordanian forces, struck over 70 Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed.

The series of strikes, dubbed "Operation Hawkeye Strike," targeted Islamic State infrastructure and weapons sites, according to a statement released by Hegseth on social media. JPost

‘Operation Hawkeye Strike’: US hits over 70 ISIS terror targets in Syria. CENTCOM forces used fighter jets, attack helicopters, artillery and more than 100 precision munitions. JNS STAFF.

(Dec. 20, 2025 / JNS) U.S. Central Command launched “Operation Hawkeye Strike” against ISIS in Syria on Friday in response to last week’s deadly attack on American and partner forces in Palmyra.

CENTCOM forces struck more than 70 targets across central Syria using fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery, according to a statement. The operation used over 100 precision munitions to target known ISIS infrastructure and weapons sites.

The Jordanian Armed Forces supported the operation with fighter aircraft. JNS

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GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, loyal Trump ally, ends New York governor bid, to leave politics. Stefanik's decision last month to challenge the re-election bid of New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul was clouded weeks by Trump ally Bruce Blakeman's own bid

By Reuters. December 20, 2025. US Representative Elise Stefanik, a House Republican leader and loyal ally of President Donald Trump, said on Friday she was bowing out of politics, including her recently announced bid for governor of New York, to spend more time with her family.

Stefanik, 41, the fourth-ranking member of her party in the House of Representatives as House Republican Conference chair, said she was halting the gubernatorial campaign she launched in November and would not seek re-election to Congress.

When her current term representing New York's upstate 21st congressional district expires in January 2027, she will have served 12 years in office on Capitol Hill. JPost

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Lion of Persia: The online warrior fighting for Iran's future, and Israeli coexistence - interview. Comparing Israel and Gaza before the war, Sadaghiani noted, 'So much investment, so much real estate and innovation [in Israel], and the other side is building tunnels.'

By Isaac Marrache. December 20, 2025. In the fierce battle against antisemitism and the anti-Israel blood-libel mob, Younes Sadaghiani stands out boldly, defiantly, and fearlessly. A true “lion of Persia,” he is an online warrior, fighting for the future and the freedom of Iran, as well as of the United Kingdom, alongside Israel’s right to exist. He calls antisemites by their name.

Catching up with Sadaghiani on one of his many visits to Israel, I spoke to him in my home in Jaffa, the city famous for the biblical Jonah’s – aka Younes – journey to sea. Five minutes into our conversation, the picture hanging on the wall behind him crashed to the floor, and the glass of the frame shattered. His response was, “Mazal tov; the energy of the universe is too strong.” JPost

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‘Their souls are injured forever’: Israeli trauma team rushes to Bondi after shooting. Israeli emergency psychotrauma responders provided immediate support to victims and the wider community coping with shock, grief, and fear. Maayan Hoffman/The Media Line | 12.20.25.

People were celebrating a holiday, enjoying themselves, when they were ambushed and shot at, and forced to run for their lives.

“Some of them are injured, but even the people who are not injured on their bodies, their souls are injured forever,” said Hadas Rucham, clinical director of the United Hatzalah Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit. “We saw this many times on October 7, the people who escaped Nova, and now we see it here. It is very sad.” YNet

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Turning Point Conference: Omer Shem Tov reveals the Psalm that helped him in captivity. When there was nothing else left to hold on to in the tunnels of Gaza, Omer Shem Tov found a card with a Psalm that gave him strength to survive. Israel National News. Published: Dec 20, 2025, 8:53 PM (GMT+2)

Former Hamas hostage Omer Shem Tov, who endured 505 days in captivity after being abducted from the Supernova music festival during the October 7th massacre, spoke about his ordeal at the Turning Point USA's AmericaFest conference.

"One moment I was dancing with my friends and the next I was at the back of a pickup truck being dragged into Gaza. I spent 505 days underground in terror tunnels. There was no fresh air, no sunlight, no sense of time. Just darkness, pitch black 24 hours a day. I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. At one point, I thought that I had gone blind."

Shem Tov spoke of the physical and emotional toll: "The hunger was constant. I was weak, dehydrated, and starving. Many days all I had was a single cracker and few drops of salty water. But the hardest part was the loneliness. Some hostages were held together. I wasn't. For more than a year, I did not see another hostage. No voices, no faces, no human connection. Just silence, darkness, and fear."

Omer said that he found God even in such a bleak place: "Before my captivity, I had never really spoken to God before. But alone in that darkness, I began to pray. Every day, I spoke to him. I whispered, 'God, how are you? How was your day? Are you okay?' And in that darkness, I felt His presence. I thanked Him for everything. For the food even though there was almost none. For the water even when it was salty. For my life even though it was in danger every single day."

Although he was not rescued, he heard the IDF fighting directly above him. "About 100 days into my captivity, the IDF fought just above me. And when they moved on, they left behind books. My captors brought them to me."

Among the discarded books, he found something that lent him strength for his ordeal: "I found a small card with Psalm 20 - 'Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will trust in the name of the Lord our God.' I didn't know it then, but while I was whispering those words in Gaza, my mother was reciting the same psalm in my bedroom in Israel, praying for my return. The psalm continues, 'Lord, answer us when we call.' God answered us. In those tunnels, I found God and He saved me."

Omer reminded the crowd that the fight was not his, but everyone's. "What I experienced is not just my story. It is a part of a much larger fight. We have seen these same radical terrorists commit violence in Israel, in Europe, not long ago, just last week in Australia and even here in the United States, including the attack in Washington DC where two national guardsmen were shot. This is the evil we're fighting. This is not a distant conflict. These are terrorists who attack freedom wherever freedom is undefended."

He quoted Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point: "Charlie Kirk of blessed memory once said, 'Israel is a civilized country. Hamas are savage animals.' Take it from someone who spent 505 days as their hostage. He was right. They are savage animals."

Shem Tov reserved special thanks for President Trump: "I can tell you something else about the terrorists who held me captive. There was one man they feared the most: President Donald Trump. When he was elected, the way they treated me changed completely. They were terrified of him. And I want to state this clearly so the whole world hears it now. On behalf of the hostages, our families, and our nation, thank you, President Donald Trump, for our freedom. He fought for us. He brought us home. When he met us at the White House, he promised to bring home the remaining hostages, living and dead, in one deal. And he kept that promise. I told him he was sent by God and I thank him."

'Don't leave my brother' behind.

"Thank you to everyone who prayed for us, who stood for truth because this fight is between good and evil. A fight against terrorists who turn hospitals into torture chambers, schools into military bases, who murder young people at a music festival, who kill Jews because they're Jewish, and Christians because they're Christians. This evil is spreading. But when I stand here with you today, I feel strong because we're united. We are free and together we will defeat evil. I stand here not as a victim but as a witness. A witness to what faith can build, to what resilience can sustain, to what happens when a person and a nation refuse to surrender." INN

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IDF’s Kfir Brigade concludes mission along yellow line in southern Gaza. Kfir Brigade completes two months of deployment along Gaza's yellow line, dismantles underground tunnel routes in Khan Yunis area. Israel National News. Dec 20, 2025, 6:44 PM (GMT+2) INN

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IDF soldiers capture ISIS-affiliated suspect in southern Syria operation. IDF soldiers conduct operation in Rafid, southern Syria, apprehending ISIS-affiliated suspect, and seizing weapons. Israel National News. Dec 20, 2025, 8:42 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Trump's plan for Gaza: 'New Rafah' and skyscrapers. Trump administration presents plan for rebuilding Gaza, starting in southern Gaza and working northwards, to the tune of $112.1 billion. Israel National News. Dec 20, 2025, 8:01 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Report: Israel preparing for strike on Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to brief US President Donald on need to strike Iran, offer options for him to join or assist, NBC News reports. Orly Harari. Dec 20, 2025, 5:57 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Candace Owens Loses it After Ben Shapiro’s AmericaFest Smackdown. JFeed, Dec 20, 2025; [...] She also said a bunch of nonsensical and classic Jew-hating things about the Talmud, not even a week after antisemitism cost 15 Australians their lives on a Sydney Beach..

Mahyar Tousi @MahyarTousi: Candace Owens has called on black Americans to wake up and fight against Jews. This is absolutely insane in 2025. Left wing identity politics because she’s being exposed. Dec 19, 2025

Joydiana7: [Dec 20, 2025]. PAY ATTENTION.

Hey Candace, the Talmud is a 1,500-year-old collection of rabbinic debates about law, ethics, and daily life — arguments on arguments, not commandments to harm anyone. Jews don't *follow the Talmud* like a checklist, and non-Jews aren't targets in it. That claim is medieval blood-libel cosplay.

What Owens is doing is recycling discredited antisemitic tropes once used to justify censorship, expulsions, and pogroms — now repackaged for clicks. She strips lines from their context, ignores how Judaism actually works, and sells paranoia as revelation. This isn’t courage or truth-telling. It’s ignorance weaponized — the same old lie with a new influencer voice. And it’s deranged. She’s deranged.

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Candace Owens is maintaining Neo-Nazi propaganda — knowingly, to millions..

Responding to Ben Shapiro, Owens repeats some of the oldest antisemitic lies on record: 🌟 that Jews “dominated” the Atlantic slave trade (false) 🌟 that the Talmud teaches Jews to hate, deceive, exploit, or enslave non-Jews (blood libel) 🌟 that Judaism has a “secret rulebook” governing behavior toward outsiders (Neo-Nazi mythology)

🎥 She chants “WAKE UP” — a classic radicalization cue, signaling that listeners are being initiated into forbidden truths that “they” (Jews) don’t want you to know.

🎥 Owens holds up 'The Talm*udic Jew' by August Rohling — a notorious Jew-hater whose work is built on mistranslation, selective quotation, and outright fabrication. This book has been used for over a century to incite hatred and justify violence against Jews.

🎥 She invokes the “contract lords” trope — coded Neo-Nazi language implying Jews control others through everyday legal agreements. It isn’t unique. It’s demonization.

And context matters: Owens has millions of viewers, a top-5 news podcast, and a top-10 podcast overall. This isn’t fringe ignorance. It’s antisemitism at scale, pushed for clicks, clout, and outrage.

So the question isn’t what this is — that’s clear. The question is why: money? ideological collapse? simple Jew-hatred? What happened to the person once promoted by PragerU?

Whatever the motive, the outcome is the same: historic hate, rebranded — and deliberately amplified. Candace has become one of the most dangerous voices on social media with doing immeasurable harm daily.

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A warning shot to Erdogan: Israel’s message to Turkey comes via Athens and Nicosia Commentary: Jerusalem denies joint military force plans with Greece and Cyprus, but has ordered the IDF to begin planning in signal to Ankara to shift course; existing trilateral ties already act as a counterweight to Erdogan’s rising influence with Trump. Ron Ben-Yishai | 12.20.25 YNet

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One in Three Muslims in France Want Sharia Law to Rule Entire World: Poll. Kurt Zindulka. December 20, 2025. A survey from the French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop) has found that at least one in three Muslims living in France believe that the Sharia law should be instituted globally.

In a follow up to its annual survey of Muslim opinion in France, Ifop released another poll of 1,005 Muslims over the age of 15 to specifically examine “the influence of political Islamism” in the country, notably through the Muslim Brotherhood, which the French government has accused of engaging in a decades-long campaign to undermine Western civilization.

According to the survey, 32 per cent of Muslims in France consider Islam to be both a religion and a legal system which should be used to define all aspects of life, Le Figaro reported.

A total of 36 per cent said that they believe Western countries suffer from a moral and spiritual decay which can only be remedied by Islam. Even more, 43 per cent, said that they believed it was legitimate to campaign politically to advance Islamic values in Western nations such as France.

Specifically on the issue of Sharia law, 33 per cent of respondents said that they believe it is intended to apply to the entire world. Of those who were in favour of such conquest, 88 per cent said that they would prefer a gradual adoption through education and preaching. However, nine per cent said that they would condone the use of coercion or force to spread Islamic law across the globe.

In terms of the Muslim Brotherhood, nearly one in four Muslims in France (23 per cent) said that they align with the radical group’s way of thinking. Breitbart

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Hamas operative behind group leading anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian marches in UK – report. 20 Dec 2025.

A man said to be an operative for the Hamas terror group is at the head of an organization leading anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests in the United Kingdom, The Times reports.

Zaher Birawi serves as the chair of the Palestine Forum in Britain (PFB), one of six groups that make up the Palestine Coalition which has organized at least 20 rallies this year, including one this week to support detained hunger strikers from Palestine Action, proscribed as a terror group.

Israel said in September that Birawi is one of a number of “high-ranking, well-known Hamas operatives” involved in the Gaza flotilla movement. He is described on the pro-Palestinian outlet Middle East Monitor as a journalist, the chairman of the International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza, and a founding member of the International Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

In October 2023, Labour MP Christian Wakeford used parliamentary privilege to name Birawi as one of four “senior Hamas operatives” active in Britain, The Times reports.

“This house rightly voted to proscribe Hamas in its entirety in November 2021,” he said. “It is therefore a serious national security risk for Hamas operatives to be living here in London.”

One of the other three individuals named by Wakeford was Ziad El Aloul, who is also connected with PFB, The Times says. TOI

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Ryan Saavedra @RyanSaavedra: 🚨 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard warns that the greatest threat to freedom is Islamist ideology:

"It is a political ideology that seeks to create a global caliphate that governs us here in America"

She says it is already here and is happening in the U.S.

Dec 20, 2025 On X

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Gefen Bitton, Israeli who tried to stop Bondi Beach shooter, under coma in critical condition. A friend of Israeli national Gefen Bitton, who was shot three times by the Bondi Beach shooters, said that he was "currently in the ICU, after multiple surgeries, and has a long way to go.".

By Yoav Etiel, Jerusalem Post Staff December 20, 2025.

Israeli national Gefen Bitton, who ran towards the Bondi Beach shooters to try and stop them, has been hospitalized and is in a coma, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Saturday.

Bitton was seriously wounded while trying to assist and stop the attackers. The man in his 30s works as a garage door installer. Although he had initially managed to escape the danger, he chose to return to the scene upon realising what was happening.

"Not a mere bystander, but an absolute hero who deserves recognition,” his friend Cay Barr said, as per the Morning Herald. “He is currently in the ICU, after multiple surgeries, and has a long way to go. We are praying that in the next few days, he will be stable enough to wake up.”

Social media footage shows Bitton approaching one of the attackers with another man, appearing to distract the gunman in an effort to protect others. JPost

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Hamas Ran Gaza’s Aid System — and NGOs Helped Keep the Secret. By HonestReporting Staff. December 19, 2025.

For years, international NGOs and humanitarian agencies told the world they were working “neutrally” in Gaza. But according to newly declassified Hamas documents, that neutrality never existed.

In a conversation with HonestReporting, NGO Monitor vice president Olga Deutsch explains how Gaza was run not as a normal territory, but rather as a tightly controlled police state where Hamas oversaw almost every aspect of international aid. “No one was neutral or independent in Gaza,” she says. “Hamas controlled everything.”

The documents, seized by the IDF and later declassified, come from Hamas’ own ministries. They show a system in which Hamas approved NGO staff, tracked individual employees, and controlled which projects and grantees received funding.

The “Guarantors” Inside Humanitarian Groups.

At the heart of this system is something Hamas called the “guarantor.”

Every international organization working in Gaza had a local liaison, many of whom held senior roles inside the NGOs, and at least some of them were identified as Hamas members or affiliates. That person had two jobs: report back to Hamas on what the organization was doing, and make sure foreign staff didn’t see what Hamas didn’t want them to see.

The guarantors watched staff behavior, tapped phones, monitored social media, and filed detailed reports. Those reports graded organizations as “cooperative,” “medium cooperative,” or “non-cooperative” — but even “non-cooperative” groups still had to toe Hamas’ line if they wanted to operate at all.

It wasn’t just about skimming food or supplies. Hamas treated NGOs as a strategic asset: a way to control the population, gather intelligence, and cover military activity. Aid groups working on agriculture near the Israeli border were of particular interest, because those areas overlapped with Hamas infiltration routes and surveillance of the fence.

One internal report describes a Norwegian Refugee Council delegation visiting an elderly couple whose apartment floor was shaking from below. The couple suspected Hamas was digging a tunnel. The delegation, escorted by Hamas officials, ignored the complaint and moved on. No warning was issued, no public statement was given when the delegation later returned home. Just silence.

Why Gaza Is Different — and Why That’s Not an Excuse.

Deutsch acknowledges that working under a terror regime poses real risks for aid workers. But she rejects the idea that this explains everything, or excuses anything.

In other conflict zones, she notes, the same organizations have no problem openly labeling groups like Boko Haram or Al-Qaeda as terrorist organizations, even while negotiating access on the ground. In Gaza, by contrast, Hamas is often softened into “militants” or “fighters,” while Israel is frequently accused of crimes that are never substantiated.

Gaza is also structurally unique. In many war zones, international staff live in fortified compounds separate from the local population. In Gaza, NGOs live and work inside the civilian areas, making it easier for Hamas to monitor their every move — and harder for them to claim they don’t know what was going on.

But whatever the operational challenges, Deutsch says the line was clearly crossed when organizations not only adapted to Hamas rule but then turned around and accused Israel of crimes while hiding what they knew about Hamas’ tactics.

From “Neutral NGOs” to Narrative Warfare The documents also confirm what Israel has long said about Hamas’ use of hospitals and medical centers.

According to Deutsch, Hamas records show that every hospital and medical center in Gaza had a Hamas wing, with at least one tunnel linked to many of these sites. All the international organizations working there knew that Hamas used protected civilian infrastructure for meetings, medical treatment of operatives, and military activity.

Yet when the IDF struck near these sites after October 7, many of the same humanitarian groups were among the first to accuse Israel of targeting civilians or attacking hospitals, without mentioning Hamas’ presence at all.

Deutsch says part of the problem is what NGO Monitor calls the “halo effect.” NGOs are treated by journalists, politicians, and the public as uniquely trustworthy — as if their reports are objective, apolitical snapshots of reality.

In practice, many of these organizations arrive in Gaza with political assumptions already formed by the media and activist networks back home. They then produce reports that reinforce those assumptions, which are eagerly picked up by international outlets and quoted as fact.

Journalists have told Deutsch they “have to stay neutral,” which, in the Israel-Hamas context, means refusing to label Hamas a terrorist organization even when their own governments have done so. At the same time, these outlets unquestioningly quote casualty figures and narratives that originate with Hamas-controlled institutions.

The result is a vicious cycle: NGOs produce politicized reports, the media amplifies them, and then new NGO staff and donors absorb those narratives as the starting point for their own “humanitarian” work.

From Durban to October 7: This Didn’t Start Yesterday.

The entanglement of NGOs, politics, and anti-Israel campaigning is not new. NGO Monitor itself was founded after the 2001 UN Durban Conference in South Africa, where international NGOs embraced the edict that “Zionism is racism” and committed themselves to using human rights language as a strategic weapon against Israel.

What has changed, Deutsch argues, is the intensity. In the last decade, and especially since October 7, accusations that once lived on the fringes — genocide, apartheid, deliberate starvation — have moved into the mainstream language of humanitarian organizations.

At the same time, record levels of antisemitic incidents in North America and Europe have not been treated by major human rights giants as a central human rights crisis, even as those same organizations repeatedly single out Israel.

What the Documents Show — And Why It Matters Now.

The Hamas documents at the center of NGO Monitor’s report were seized by the IDF in Gaza and later declassified. Most come from Hamas’ Ministry of Internal Security — the same body responsible for policing dissent, internal surveillance, and managing foreign organizations. A smaller number are linked to the ministries of education and agriculture, where project activity overlapped.

NGO Monitor translated and analyzed thousands of pages, connecting Hamas’ internal tracking of NGOs with publicly available information on the same organizations and their funding.

Deutsch says the timing of the report is critical. As the international community debates how to rebuild Gaza, estimates for reconstruction have reached around $70 billion. If that money is channeled into the same systems that existed before October 7, she warns, the world will simply rebuild the infrastructure that allowed Hamas to thrive.

For individual donors who want to help civilians but fear enabling Hamas or politicized NGOs, Deutsch’s advice is simple: do basic due diligence.

Check an organization’s public statements and social media. See what it says about Israel, Gaza, and the war. Ask whether it operates in Gaza or the West Bank, and what projects it funds there. If the group regularly accuses Israel of genocide, apartheid, or deliberate starvation, that should trigger serious questions.

“Money should be conditional,” she says. “The same logic you use to choose a doctor or a school should apply to the charities you support. Don’t send money blindly.”

A Moment of Choice.

Deutsch has been presenting this report in parliaments and policy forums across Europe. For her, the stakes go far beyond the Israeli–Palestinian arena.

The way NGOs, governments, and media handle Gaza’s reconstruction will signal whether the international system is willing to confront how human rights and humanitarian language have been weaponized, or whether it will simply pour money back into an unreformed structure controlled by a terror group.

“If we don’t learn from what these documents show,” she says, “we’re not just failing Israelis or Palestinians. We’re undermining the credibility of humanitarian work and the democratic societies that depend on it.”

To read the full report and learn more about the organization’s critical work, visit ngo-monitor.org

HonestReporting is a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared. Algemeiner

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Exclusive: October 7 – The al-Shifa Hospital Hostage Convoy. Shortly after 10:40am on October 7 2023, a large convoy of vehicles drove through the gates of al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex. They were not ambulances, and they were not carrying wounded terrorists. They were carrying Israeli hostages.

Using newly uncovered footage, it can now be shown that al-Shifa Hospital functioned as a key Hamas control hub in the transfer and distribution of abducted Israelis.

This is the first time this material is being publicly presented and properly analysed.

Until now, official evidence has suggested that only two or three hostages passed through al-Shifa on October 7. The evidence below, including frame-by-frame analysis of previously unseen footage, demonstrates that this figure is a significant underestimate and indicates the true number was far higher.

One of the most revealing aspects of what happened at al-Shifa is not only what occurred, but what didn’t. With prominent Gazan journalists present, no one reported the arrival of hostages. One even misrepresented a jeep full of captive Israeli women as “injured Palestinians” brought for treatment.

Warning: This article contains disturbing footage of hostages taken on October 7.

The Hostages of Nahal Oz.

On the morning of October 7, one of the gravest failures in the history of the IDF unfolded at the Nahal Oz army base near Gaza. The base was rapidly overrun by large numbers of terrorists, and more than 50 soldiers were killed there – including sixteen female surveillance personnel.

Ten live hostages were abducted from the base – seven female surveillance “spotters” and three members of a tank crew.

Of particular importance to this investigation are two pieces of video footage showing hostages abducted from the base.

Firstly – an extended video was released with the families’ permission in May 2024. A frame-by-frame analysis shows that six hostages were forced into a single stolen IDF jeep: four female “spotters,” all visibly alive at the time; a fifth hostage lying prone on the floor of the vehicle; and a sixth, a soldier, who appears to have been seriously injured or already dead:

What follows is a second piece of footage of the hostages. Filmed somewhere inside Gaza, it shows the vehicle surrounded by a noisy mob, and was uploaded to Palestinian Telegram channels on October 7:

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The critical evidentiary detail captured in this footage is the vehicle’s number plate. The abducted women are shown inside a jeep bearing the registration number 703-145:

With the registration plate identified, and by searching through dozens, if not hundreds, of Telegram channels, it became possible to trace part of this vehicle’s journey.

The Hostages Inside Gaza This footage was taken shortly after the stolen vehicle entered Gaza City. In the clip, the jeep carrying the Nahal Oz hostages is driving through a narrow street in Gaza. The civilians celebrate as the stolen jeep drives past:

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The visible landmarks allowed for a precise location to be attached to the footage (this find with thanks to ‘TwistyCB” on X):

The street we can see in the clip is Riyadh St, and it is in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood. The jeep is travelling westwards towards Rimal and the coast.

Two screenshots from this footage are of particular importance. The first captures the terrorists travelling at the rear of the vehicle. This detail will allow for further identification later, as individuals seen here reappear in footage recorded at the hospital itself.

The second occurs as the clip ends. Several bystanders turn their heads in unison towards the same direction – behaviour consistent with the arrival of another vehicle immediately behind the one that just passed. This coordinated reaction strongly suggests the vehicle was not travelling alone, but as part of a larger convoy moving towards al-Shifa.

Onwards to al-Shifa.

Other images of the jeep allow us to follow the journey. From this location we know this image was taken shortly after the footage of the street scene. This is the jeep at the Baghdad Street – Salah al-Din Road junction, and continuing to head west – towards Gaza’s Rimal district and the coast:

In the image on the left, the number plate 703-145 is visible, confirming this is the same vehicle. In the image on the right we can see satellite imagery of the same junction. Marked features include: (1) tree cluster behind a low construct; (2) distinctive cleared plot and curb; (3) adjacent building massing; and (4) a vehicle choke point.

Another useful image from the same post on Telegram captured the vehicle just before the turn – three distinctive bullet holes can be seen in the windscreen – a tell-tale feature that will later allow the vehicle to be identified again with certainty.

The Abduction of Naama Levy.

Not all of the Nahal Oz hostages were transported in the same vehicle. Some were separated at the base and placed into different cars before being driven into Gaza. Here we see Naama Levy, surrounded by terrorists, as she is driven away from Nahal Oz.

The image below is taken from the widely circulated footage of Naama Levy, who was moved from the rear of a vehicle into the back passenger seats while the jeep was stopped in Gaza City. The vehicle is a dark-coloured Jeep Wrangler:

This footage has also been geolocated, placing this vehicle travelling along the same Baghdad Street route used by the captured IDF jeep carrying the other six hostages.

The significance of this is not the identity of the vehicle alone, but the convergence of routes. Both vehicles are shown moving west through Gaza City towards the Rimal district – the same direction as al-Shifa.

Using the geo-location of the image of the stolen IDF vehicle turning into Baghdad Street, and the position of the Jeep Wrangler holding Naama Levy captive we can difinitively state that these locations are just 160 meters apart.

1 Location of the Naama Levy footage. 2 Location of the jeep at the Baghdad Street junction.

This establishes that at least two separate hostage vehicles, carrying abductees from the same base, were travelling along parallel routes towards the same destination – in the same time window.

The Hospital Argument.

Based on the reconstructed route taken by the Nahal Oz convoy as it travelled towards the Hamas stronghold of Rimal, the vehicles passed another fully operational hospital en route – undermining any credible suggestion that this journey was about providing urgent medical care. Al-Ahli Arab Hospital was functioning normally on October 7. It is significantly closer to Nahal Oz and lies adjacent to the route taken through Gaza City.

As the convoy continued – Al-Ahli hospital was just a minute or two away:

l But the convoy did not stop there. Instead, it drove straight past Al-Ahli and continued west to al-Shifa, located in the heart of the Rimal district.

The al-Shifa Convoy.

While much of the footage from October 7 circulated widely, some critical material did not. The following video is one of two clips identified by the veteran German journalist Wolfgang Tietze, who worked with Spiegel TV / Der Spiegel from 1990 to 2003.

Both videos were later removed, and the account that uploaded them was deleted. They had been posted with downloading disabled. Recognising their significance, Tietze recorded the footage directly from his screen (Tietze has also issued a statement to be published along with this investigation). He has since shared both videos with me – along with his detailed findings and additional contextual material. Some of this material can still be found on Palestinian Telegram channels.

To my knowledge, this is the first time this footage has been publicly presented and properly analysed.

The video was recorded at the gates of al-Shifa Hospital on the morning of October 7.

As the first vehicle enters the hospital grounds, the number plate 703-145 is visible for a brief moment. This confirms that the same jeep which left Nahal Oz carrying Israeli hostages was present at al-Shifa.

The arrival is met by crowds celebrating. Armed terrorists can be seen exiting the vehicle and surrounding it, guarding the hostages.

Other vehicles arrive alongside it. The footage captures a chilling contrast. Outside, delirious crowds cheer as armed terrorists emerge to protect their prize; inside the vehicle, Israeli hostages endure terror, violence, and complete helplessness:

Armed and unarmed terrorists along with celebrating crowds surround the hostage vehicles at the entrance to al-Shifa Hospital, October 7, 2023. Crucially, thanks to later IDF disclosures, we can now assign a precise timestamp to this moment.

The IDF CCTV Footage.

On 19 November 2023, the IDF spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, held a press briefing in which he released still images taken from CCTV footage showing what he described as “stolen IDF vehicles” entering al-Shifa.

Unwittingly, those stills also captured the arrival of hostages.

When one of the IDF images is compared with a frame from the newly surfaced footage recorded at the hospital gates, it becomes clear that both depict the same moment as the convoy enters al-Shifa.

In both images, a man standing with his young son can be seen behind a white car. Another individual is visible walking in the roadway between the vehicles. The pickup truck following behind is also identical. These background details match precisely across both frames.

This match allows the convoy’s arrival at al-Shifa to be timestamped at 10:53am on October 7 – less than an hour after the vehicles departed the Nahal Oz base.

Given the level of attention and celebration visible at the scene, and with armed terrorists clearly guarding the vehicle, it is evident that hostages were still inside at this point.

Another Hostage Vehicle at al-Shifa: the Jeep Wrangler Another vehicle of interest arrives at al-Shifa during the same time window: a black Jeep Wrangler that matches the vehicle in which Naama Levy was transported after her abduction from Nahal Oz.

By 11:30am, footage of this vehicle was already circulating on Telegram. The location shown is clearly the entrance to al-Shifa:

As the images demonstrate, both vehicles are dark Jeep Wranglers configured for off-road use, each fitted with a raised snorkel air intake and a whip radio antenna mounted forward of the door – a distinctive combination that significantly narrows the likelihood of coincidence.

Given that we know the captured IDF jeep carrying hostages from Nahal Oz was driven to al-Shifa, the appearance of another hostage-linked vehicle at the hospital during the same time window is not unexpected.

Moreover, the behaviour of onlookers is telling. Their focused attention on the vehicle, and apparent attempts to identify those inside, are consistent with the arrival of another hostage vehicle – very likely the one in which Naama Levy was transported.

The Hamas Command and Distribution Centre A second piece of deleted footage, filmed by the same person on the access road leading into al-Shifa, further reinforces the picture of al-Shifa as a key Hamas operational hub on the morning of October 7.

In this previously unseen clip, another stolen IDF vehicle can be seen entering the hospital grounds.

There is no visible evidence to confirm whether hostages were inside this vehicle. However, its arrival – alongside other stolen military vehicles converging on the same location within a narrow time window – is significant in itself.

The scale of the convoy becomes impossible to ignore. The evidence places multiple stolen IDF vehicles at al-Shifa within minutes of one another, all arriving to large, celebrating crowds.

The IDF later released additional CCTV footage showing yet another stolen IDF jeep entering al-Shifa at 10:42 – just eleven minutes before the vehicle confirmed to be carrying hostages arrived at 10:53am.

The evidence also shows that dozens of armed fighters were present at the hospital at the time. Taken together, these sequences place al-Shifa at the centre of events – functioning as a command, rendezvous, and distribution point within Hamas’s operational network that morning.

In addition to the vehicles and hostages already documented, multiple confirmed cases further anchor al-Shifa within the broader trajectory of captivity and transfer.

We know that Noa Marciano was held in close proximity to al-Shifa before later being returned there, where she was brutally murdered by a “health professional”.

We also know that Ori Megidish was rescued from a location nearby.

Beyond these cases, footage shows another Israeli hostage – likely already deceased – being transported by motorcycle and then entering al-Shifa, where the arrival is met by a celebrating crowd.

Taken together, these images and outcomes extend the pattern already established by the convoy footage. They show al-Shifa not merely as a transit point, but as a location repeatedly intersecting with hostage movement, detention, and aftermath.

Even before considering hostages abducted from elsewhere – such as Yehudit Weiss, whose body was later found in the vicinity of al-Shifa – the pattern emerging from Nahal Oz alone is striking.

This raises a compelling question: is it now highly likely that all of the Nahal Oz hostages – both alive and dead – were taken to al-Shifa on October 7, at least initially?

Hit and Run.

Although the hostages appear to have been driven to the grounds of al-Shifa, there is little to suggest any were treated or held there for any meaningful length of time.

Images of several of the female surveillance soldiers show what appear to be rudimentary, improvised field dressings rather than professional medical care.

This is difficult to reconcile with a prolonged stay in Gaza’s largest medical facility.

One likely explanation is that the hostages were moved onward rapidly – potentially into the tunnel network beneath or near the hospital – and distributed elsewhere.

Supporting this interpretation, footage uploaded less than half an hour after the convoy’s arrival shows the stolen IDF jeep leaving al-Shifa. At that point, it is no longer clear whether all of the hostages had been removed from the vehicle or whether some remained inside.

If the hostages were still inside the vehicle as it sped away, then there is no plausible reason to drive them towards al-Shifa unless the hospital formed part of a Hamas command structure. If they were not, then who took possession of them on hospital grounds, if not a Hamas operational unit already present there?

The Journalists, Doctors, and Deliberate Deception For more than two years, much of the international media has downplayed al-Shifa’s role in Hamas operations, disputing Israeli claims that the hospital functioned as anything more than a civilian medical facility. Coverage consistently framed al-Shifa as isolated from Hamas activity and removed from the organisation’s political and security infrastructure.

The events of the morning of October 7 tell a different story.

At the time these events unfolded, multiple journalists were present at al-Shifa Hospital. Cameras were rolling. Live reporting from the hospital complex was taking place throughout the morning.

Yet despite the arrival of stolen military vehicles, armed terrorists, civilian convoys, and large crowds celebrating their arrival, not a single journalist reported the arrival of Israeli hostages at the hospital.

One example is particularly stark. A set of photographs posted on the Rudaw channel, taken by journalist Mohammed Salem, carry the caption: “continuous transfer of wounded Palestinians to the Shifa Medical Complex.”

The three distinctive bullet holes visible on the driver’s side window leave no doubt that this is the same jeep that carried the Nahal Oz hostages. The journalists present could see the crowds and the celebrations. They could see the armed terrorists surrounding the vehicle and knew exactly what was happening.

The post was published on Rudaw’s Facebook page at 11:31am, confirming that reporting was taking place in real time, from the hospital grounds, while hostages were present.

This was not an error made after the fact. It was deliberate misrepresentation.

Hospital officials were also available to speak to the media. Doctors and administrators provided commentary about events unfolding at al-Shifa, offering assurances and narratives that were then relayed uncritically by Western outlets.

These were the sources relied upon by much of the international press in the opening hours of the war. Yet they were already disseminating false or misleading accounts of what was happening inside and around the hospital.

Whether through ideological alignment, fear, or coercion, what followed was not journalism but deliberate omission and distortion. The arrival of Israeli hostages at the heart of Hamas’s stronghold at al-Shifa Hospital was one of the most significant events of the morning of October 7 – and it went unreported.

Until now. DavidCollier

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Day of Reflection: Australia pauses to mourn Chanukah terror victims. At 6:47 p.m., memorials and moments of silence honored those slain in the antisemitic attack in Sydney. Joshua Marks. (Dec. 21, 2025 / JNS) Australia was observing a nationwide moment of remembrance on Sunday for the victims of the Bondi Beach Chanukah terrorist attack, one week after the massacre, with vigils taking place at 6:47 p.m., the time the shooting started.

Thousands gathered in Sydney’s eastern suburbs where the attack occurred to observe the minute of silence as part of events taking place across the country. Amid heightened security, the Jewish community of New South Wales held a vigil and commemoration for the victims and survivors at Bondi Beach. Dignitaries and religious leaders addressed the event.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the Day of Reflection “a moment for Australia to stand with our Jewish community.” JNS

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Australian Prime Minister Booed as Bondi Beach Attack Victims Honored. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. December 21, 2025.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was booed by an angry crowd gathered at the famous Bondi beach on Sunday to honor the victims of a gun attack a week earlier that targeted a seaside Jewish Hanukkah festival event.

The nation marked a day of reflection on Sunday to honor the 15 people killed and the dozens wounded in the attack by two gunmen. With security tight and flags at half-staff on government buildings, a minute of silence was held at 6:47 p.m. (0747 GMT), the time the attack began.

Television and radio networks paused for a minute’s silence.

Tens of thousands, including Albanese and other leaders, attended the memorial that was guarded by a heavy police presence, including snipers on rooftops and police boats in the waters.

Albanese was booed by the crowd on arrival, and later when the speaker mentioned his name during the memorial. He sat on the front row wearing a kippah, the traditional Jewish cap.

Albanese, under pressure from critics who say his center-left government has not done enough to curb a surge in antisemitism since the start of the war in Gaza, was not scheduled to speak at the event.

The government has said it has consistently denounced antisemitism over the last two years and passed legislation to criminalize hate speech. It expelled the Iranian ambassador earlier this year after accusing Tehran of directing two antisemitic arson attacks.

“We have lost our innocence… last week took our innocence,” David Ossip, the president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies said in a speech to start the proceedings at Bondi.

“Like the grass here at Bondi was stained with blood, so, too, has our nation been stained. We have landed up in a dark place. But friends, Hanukkah teaches us that light can illuminate even the bleakest of places. A single act of courage, a single flame of hope, can give us direction and point the path forward.”

Also present at the memorial was the father of Ahmed al Ahmed, hailed as the “Bondi Hero” for wrestling a gun from one of the attackers.

Authorities invited Australians to light a candle at home on Sunday night, the start of the eighth and final day of the Jewish festival of lights.

Speaking at the memorial, 14-year-old survivor Chaya Dadon said: “We are getting stronger as a nation. We are growing. Sometimes growing hurts… life is going to move on and why not make the best of it.”

RECLAIMING BONDI.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, who was cheered and praised at the memorial, said the attack was an attempt to marginalize, scatter, intimidate and cause fear.

“You have reclaimed Bondi Beach for us,” he said.

Albanese announced a review of the country’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies earlier on Sunday. He said the review, to be led by a former chief of Australia’s spy agency, would probe whether federal police and intelligence agencies have the “right powers, structures, processes and sharing arrangements in place to keep Australians safe.”

The attack exposed gaps in gun-license assessments and information-sharing between agencies that policymakers have said they want to plug. Albanese has announced a nationwide gun buyback, while gun safety experts say the nation’s gun laws, among the world’s toughest, are riddled with loopholes.

Authorities are investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism targeting Jews. Patrols and policing across the country have been ramped up to prevent further antisemitic violence. Authorities believe the gunmen were inspired by terrorist Sunni Muslim group Islamic State.

“The ISIS-inspired atrocity last Sunday reinforces the rapidly changing security environment in our nation. Our security agencies must be in the best position to respond,” Albanese said in a statement, adding that the review would conclude by the end of April.

The Bondi Beach attack was the most serious of a string of antisemitic incidents in Australia, which have included attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars, since Israel launched the war in October 2023, in response to an attack by Hamas.

Albanese condemned anti-immigration rallies being held in Sydney and Melbourne on Sunday. Only about 200 people were at the Sydney rally.

Alleged gunman Sajid Akram, 50, was shot dead by police at the scene. His 24-year-old son Naveed Akram, who was also shot by police and emerged from a coma on Tuesday, has been charged with 59 offenses, including murder and terrorism, according to police. He remains in custody in hospital. Algemeiner

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Witkoff meets mediators to press phase 2 of Trump Gaza plan. The U.S. envoy noted the initial stage had produced the return of all but one hostage, a partial IDF withdrawal and expanded humanitarian assistance. JNS Staff. (Dec. 21, 2025 / JNS) Representatives from the United States, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey met in Miami on Friday to review implementation of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire and to advance preparations for the next stage, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff confirmed on Saturday. JNS

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Saving the heart of a Syrian Druze child. “When she was born, we realized immediately that something was wrong with her heart and that she needed treatment,” says Nadia, the child’s mother. Amelie Botbol.

(Dec. 21, 2025 / JNS) “When she was born, we realized immediately that something was wrong with her heart and that she needed treatment,” said Nadia (not her real name), a Druze woman from a war-affected village in Syria, speaking about her toddler in an interview with JNS.

Nadia arrived in Israel earlier this month with her daughter, in a transfer coordinated by the Israel Defense Forces and Save a Child’s Heart, the nonprofit through which her child received life-saving care. JNS

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Stefanik Demands Hochul Explain Qatar-Funded NYC School Curriculum. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) are pressing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to explain why New York City public schools are using curriculum and instructional materials funded by Qatar and what they describe as “malign domestic actors.” [12.19.25]. [30] on FB

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Disgusting antisemitism. California Mayor Claims Bondi Beach Pogrom Was Israeli "False Flag". While the Jewish world picks up the pieces in the wake of the massacre that killed fifteen and wounded many more on the first night of Chanuka, some have other ideas. Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez is using his personal social media to promote conspiracy theories that Israel is behind the murder.

Judah Pe'er. Dec 21, 2025 01:39

Richmond, California Mayor Eduardo Martinez is facing mounting scrutiny after he used his LinkedIn account to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories in the immediate aftermath of the deadly terrorist attack on a Chanuka celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

In the days following the December 14 attack, which killed 15 people, Martinez reposted and engaged with a series of posts that framed the massacre as a “false flag” operation and blamed Israel and Israelis for antisemitism. One reposted image shared by Martinez read, “The root cause of antisemitism is the behaviour of Israel & Israelis.” ..

That post went further, arguing that Chanuka, “traditionally a time of personal and private reflection,” had been “appropriated by Jewish Zionist organizations and weaponized as a political tool.” Martinez added his own comment to the repost, writing, “What are your thoughts?”

The posts appeared as Australian authorities confirmed the attack was carried out by an ISIS-inspired father and son and warned of a surge in online incitement following the killings. Despite this, Martinez continued to engage with content suggesting Jewish public expression was itself provocative and that the massacre was being manipulated for political ends.

As criticism grew, Martinez deleted the posts and issued a series of apologies. In one, he acknowledged that antisemitism existed long before the establishment of Israel and said he had shared the material “without thinking.” In a follow-up statement, he attempted to separate his remarks from his role as mayor, saying the posts reflected his personal opinions rather than the position of the City of Richmond.

Martinez’s LinkedIn activity was not an isolated incident. In the past, he has compared Hamas to a bullied child in a schoolyard, described support for the group as a “complicated question,” and appeared at events featuring slogans calling for violence against the IDF. As mayor of a city with an active Jewish community, his public amplification of conspiracy theories in the wake of a mass-casualty antisemitic attack has now placed his conduct under sustained public and political scrutiny. JFeed

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The victims of the Sydney Hanukkah Massacre. These are the 15 people murdered by two terrorists at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, ranging in age from 10 to 82. Israel National News. Published: Dec 16, 2025, 11:28 AM (GMT+2) Updated: 12/21/2025, 9:14:00 PM

Fifteen people were murdered, and dozens were wounded when two terrorists opened fire on Sunday, December 14, at Bondi Beach in Sydney during a Hanukkah gathering attended by members of the Jewish community. The victims ranged in age from a young child to elderly attendees.

These are the victims:

Tania Tretiak.

Tania Tretiak, a 68-year-old grandmother, was celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach when she was murdered. Waverley Council confirmed in a statement that Tretiak was not Jewish, but her husband was.

Adam Smyth.

Adam Smyth, a 50-year-old father of four, was murdered as he walked with his wife, Katrina, on Bondi Beach. His family remembered him as a sports fan. He was particularly fond of Liverpool FC, the Sydney Swans, and the Manly Sea Eagles. “We will forever cherish the time we have had with him. Adam was a generous and kind person who will be dearly missed and is forever irreplaceable,” his family said.

Boris Tetleroyd.

Boris Tetleroyd, a 68-year-old immigrant from the former Soviet Union. He spent almost 30 years working with Transport for NSW. Boris was described as a beloved husband and father who loved nature and would often share photos of the animals he encountered on his hikes. Tetleroyd was attending the Hanukkah event at Bodi with his son Yakov. Boris was murdered, and Yakov was wounded. Another one of his children posted on social media following the attack, searching for him. The following day, the family learned that he had been murdered.

Boris and Sofia Gurman.

Boris, 69, and Sofia, 69, a Russian-Jewish couple living in Bondi, were the first two victims of the attack. Boris and Sofia noticed the terrorist, Sajid Akram, emerging with a rifle from a car with an Islamic State flag draped across the windshield. Boris initially managed to push the terrorist to the ground and take his rifle. However, Akram then shot the two at close range before proceeding to murder 13 others.

Edith Brutman

Edith Brutman was among those murdered in the attack. According to 7NEWS, she attended the Hanukkah by the Sea event together with Tibor Weitzen and his wife, and was seated next to Weitzen when the shooting began. Both Brutman and Weitzen were killed during the assault.

Matilda.

Matilda, aged 10, was the youngest victim identified. She was a former student at Sydney’s Harmony Russian School. Teachers and family members described her as a bright and joyful child whose life was cut short while she was celebrating Hanukkah at the event.

Marika Pogany.

Marika Pogany, 82, was identified as one of the victims on Monday night. Friends expressed shock and grief on social media, sharing photos of her from the Bondi Beach gathering and mourning the loss of a close friend.

Tibor Weitzen.

Tibor Weitzen, 78, was a member of Bondi’s Chabad Synagogue. He attended the event with his wife and grandchildren and was reportedly killed while attempting to shield his wife from gunfire.

Peter Meagher.

Peter Meagher, a retired NSW Police detective sergeant, was killed while working as a photographer at the event. After more than three decades in the police force, he had pursued photography following his retirement. His family described him as a devoted husband, brother, and uncle.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41, a British-born Chabad rabbi known as the “Bondi Rabbi,” was killed in the attack. A father of five, he was a prominent and widely loved community figure who regularly organized and promoted Jewish events in Sydney.

Dan Elkayam.

Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French national, was also among the dead. He had been living in Australia for two years and was described by friends as a warm and positive presence. His death was confirmed by French officials following the attack.

Alex Kleytman.

Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman was shot and killed during the shooting. According to his wife, he was struck in the back as chaos erupted and people attempted to flee or take cover.

Rabbi Yaakov Levitan.

Rabbi Yaakov Levitan served as secretary of the Sydney Beth Din. Friends remembered him as a kind and peaceful individual, noting that his final message to one friend ended with the words, “peace and love.”

Reuven Morrison.

Reuven Morrison, a member of the Chabad community who divided his time between Melbourne and Sydney, was killed after attempting to confront one of the gunmen. According to his family, he tried to stop the attacker before being fatally shot by a second assailant. INN

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Erdogan warns Israel, Greece and Cyprus: Turkey will defend its maritime rights. Remarks come ahead of a trilateral summit in Jerusalem aimed at deepening security and energy cooperation with Athens and Nicosia amid tensions with Ankara. ynet | 12.21.25 Ynet

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Israel hosting trilateral summit with Greece and Cyprus on Dec. 22. The three allies are reportedly examining the creation of a joint rapid-response military force. JNS Staff.

(Dec. 21, 2025 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a trilateral meeting in Jerusalem on Monday with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, according to Netanyahu’s office.

The three eastern Mediterranean allies, who share a budding strategic partnership focused on energy, defense and economic ties, are reportedly examining the creation of a joint rapid-response military force in the region amid growing concern in Athens over Turkey’s expanding challenges. JNS

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Wikipedia's Israel page now unequivocally states Jewish state is 'committing genocide[sic]' The edit was made on December 11 and has not been reversed since, despite extensive discussion between editors. The section appears at the end of the third paragraph in the top section of the page.

By Mathilda Heller. December 21, 2025.

Wikipedia’s page on Israel now unequivocally states that Israel is committing genocide, despite the fact that there is no formal legal consensus among nations or international courts that this is the case.

This was first reported by JNS, but was independently assessed by The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

The edit was made on December 11, and has not been reversed despite extensive discussion between editors. The section appears at the end of the third paragraph in the top section of the page.

Before the change, the section read, “Israel’s practices in its occupation of the Palestinian territories have drawn sustained international [criticism], along with accusations from human rights organizations and UN officials that it has committed crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Palestinians during the Gaza war.” The wording acknowledged that accusations of genocide have been leveled, but did not present it as fact.

As of December 11, the section now reads, “Whether to state that Israel has committed .. links to the page on “Gaza genocide[sic].”

Wikipedia founder: Neutrality needs to be improved. This “Gaza genocide[sic]” page has also raised concerns. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said it fails to meet the website’s standards and is an example of how neutrality needs to be improved. “This article fails to meet our high standards and needs immediate attention,” Wales said in a November interview.

In August, the US Congress’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform began investigating Wikipedia for the possible influence of nation-state actors and bad actors in editing articles related to Israel.

The decision to investigate was at least partially influenced by a March 2025 report by the Anti-Defamation League, which found that at least 30 editors were altering Wikipedia to introduce antisemitic and anti-Israel biases, and that the 30 editors edited twice as much over the last 10 years compared to their colleagues and were 18 times more active in communications than other editors.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the risk of genocide is “plausible” but did not rule that genocide occurred. Likewise, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has pursued charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes, but not pursued formal charges of genocide as of late 2025. JPost

The Manufactured “Genocide” Narrative (wiki+) December 21, 2025 JPost 12. 21.25 reports:

Wikipedia's Israel page now unequivocally states Jewish state is 'committing genocide[sic]'. The edit was made on December 11 and has not been reversed since, despite extensive discussion between editors. The section appears at the end of the third paragraph in the top section of the page. The Manufactured “Genocide” Narrative Political Activism Masquerading as Law, Journalism, and Consensus The accusation that Israel is committing “genocide” is not the product of legal judgment, factual consensus, or evidentiary rigor. It is the result of a coordinated political campaign—spanning activist media, captured international institutions, and manipulated information platforms—designed to delegitimize the Jewish state by weaponizing the most morally charged word in international law.

This is not accountability. It is narrative warfare.

1. Genocide Is a Legal Term — Not a Protest Slogan Genocide has a precise and demanding definition under the Genocide Convention: specific intent to destroy a protected group as such. Civilian deaths, even at scale, do not constitute genocide without demonstrable intent.

To date, no international court—not the ICJ, not the ICC, not any tribunal—has ruled that Israel has committed genocide. Assertions made by activists, NGOs, UN rapporteurs, or media outlets are opinions, not verdicts. Treating allegations as findings collapses the distinction between law and propaganda.

2. UN Bodies Are Not Courts — and Are Not Neutral UN commissions of inquiry, special rapporteurs, and expert panels do not determine criminal guilt. They issue political reports reflecting the ideological makeup of UN bodies that have long displayed a disproportionate fixation on Israel.

This includes figures such as UNHRC (Kothari backed by Pilay) as well as appointed “Special Rapporteur” Francesca Albanese, who has repeatedly trafficked in antisemitic tropes and openly hostile framing. Elevating such reports to the status of judicial conclusions is not legal analysis—it is category error dressed as authority.

3. Intent Matters — and Israel’s Intent Is Military, Not Exterminatory Israel’s objective is the defeat of Hamas, a designated terrorist organization that:

Initiated the war Embeds itself in civilian infrastructure Explicitly calls for Israel’s destruction Israel’s conduct—advance warnings, evacuation corridors, humanitarian pauses, and aid coordination—is incompatible with genocidal intent. These actions do not negate civilian tragedy, but they directly contradict the legal requirement for genocide.

4. Urban Warfare Is Not Genocide Dense urban combat against an enemy that hides among civilians produces horrific outcomes. This is tragically true in Mosul, Raqqa, Aleppo, and Grozny—none of which were labeled genocide.

That Israel alone is branded as genocidal for conduct comparable to or less destructive than other modern conflicts exposes a double standard, not a discovery of new law.

5. Selective Outrage Reveals Political Targeting The genocide label is applied relentlessly to Israel while:

Actual mass atrocities elsewhere are ignored or relativized Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians, and its true genocidal goal and efforts, are minimized or reframed This asymmetry signals political targeting, not principled human rights advocacy.

6. Source Laundering Replaces Evidence With Activism The narrative is sustained through citation laundering, not proof. Outlets with clear ideological or geopolitical agendas are repeatedly elevated as “reliable sources” through sheer repetition:

Qatar-funded Al Jazeera, with documented ties to Hamas officials Other Qatar's linked Middle East Eye Turkish state media (Anadolu, TRT) aligned with Erdoğan’s Islamist, anti-Israel policy News entities, (who, in the last decades had) turned radical 'activist platforms' like Haaretz This is not sourcing—it is advocacy recycled as authority. Labeling such outlets “RS” does not make them reliable; it merely reveals how evidentiary standards have been replaced by political alignment.

7. Predetermined

The accusations began days after "Palestinian" Oct 7 attacks. Individuals, groups have predetermined the "aparthied" slur earlier. 8. Wikipedia as a Case Study in Narrative Capture Nowhere is this process more visible than Wikipedia. On December 11, Wikipedia’s Israel page was altered to state—as fact—that Israel is committing genocide, despite no legal ruling to that effect. Previous language correctly noted that accusations existed; that balance has been removed.

The article now links directly to a page titled “Gaza genocide”, a framing that presupposes guilt and entrenches a legally unproven claim as settled truth. Even Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has warned that the “Gaza genocide” article fails neutrality standards and requires immediate attention.

The page even cites a fake “genocide experts” group, IAGS, whose membership surged after October 7. Membership required only a $30 fee, and participants included individuals with clearly extremist views. One Gazan member, apparently influenced by anti-Jewish sentiment and admiration for Hitler among Arab Palestinians (then & now), publicly adopted the name “Adolf Hitler”. This is not expert analysis—it is performative activism and propaganda.

9. Evidence of Coordinated Bias Concerns extend beyond observers:

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight has opened an investigation into possible coordinated activist or nation-state influence on Israel-related Wikipedia content. A 2025 ADL report found that roughly 30 editors were responsible for a disproportionate share of anti-Israel framing: Twice as active as peers 18 times more active in coordination Consistently involved in contentious Israel articles Such behavior violates Wikipedia’s own rules against canvassing, meatpuppetry, and off‑platform coordination—manufacturing consensus where none exists.

10. No Court Has Ruled Genocide Occurred — Period The legal facts are unchanged:

The ICJ stated only that a risk of genocide was “plausible,” explicitly declining to rule that genocide occurred. The ICC has pursued allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity—not genocide. Yet Wikipedia now presents genocide as settled fact. Israel is currently the only country in the world whose Wikipedia lead paragraph contains an unqualified genocide accusation. That alone exposes the motivation behind the campaign.

Conclusion: Genocide as a Weapon, Not a Finding The charge of genocide against Israel is not a legal determination. It is rhetorical escalation—a deliberate effort to:

Strip Israel of the right to self‑defense Equate it with history’s worst crimes Collapse complex warfare into moral absolutism This is not journalism, scholarship, or human rights advocacy. It is delegitimization through narrative engineering—funded, coordinated, and enforced across institutions to normalize a lie by repetition.

When courts are bypassed, standards abandoned, and encyclopedias turned into activist battlegrounds, the goal is not truth. It is to make one word unavoidable.

That word is not a finding. It is a weapon. Just sayin

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The Hanukkah Target Ambushed in Istanbul: Jewish Community Targeted by Mob During Hanukkah Celebrations A peaceful walk to a Hanukkah candle lighting turned into a nightmare for seven Jewish residents of Istanbul as an aggressive mob surrounded them, shouting antisemitic slurs and demanding they leave the country.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 21, 2025 16:23 2 min JFeed

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The Shadow Returns. ISIS in Syria: The Resurrection of Terror and Israel’s Strategic Response. With the collapse of the old Syrian regime, ISIS terrorists have launched a desperate bid to reclaim power, forcing Israel to execute a high stakes capture operation on the Golan Heights border.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 21, 2025 JFeed

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'They jumped me with a gun': Israeli rescued from Jericho recounts kidnapping. The Israeli woman rescued from Jericho told police she had been in contact with her captor for some time and first met him when he led her to an apartment; 'Only later did I find out he was Palestinian'. Elisha Ben Kimon | published: 15:56 YNet

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Report: Israel warned US that Iranian drill could be cover for surprise attack. According to a report on the news site "Axios," IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi informed the commander of the US Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, on Saturday that the missile drill launched by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in recent days could be a cover for a surprise attack on Israel. This was reported by three Israeli and American sources. According to the report, an Israeli source claimed that the likelihood of an Iranian attack is "less than 50%, but no one wants to take the risk and determine that it's just a drill." An American source emphasized that US intelligence has no indication of an Iranian attack in the immediate timeframe. Ynet|12.21.25 18:18 YNet

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Iran’s ballistic missiles now rival its nuclear threat to Israel, US Sen. Graham tells 'Post'. “Hamas and Iran are regenerating. Hezbollah is trying to build more weapons. We hit them hard, but they’re trying to come back - and on the missile side, that’s a real threat to Israel,” said Graham. By Amichai Stein. December 21, 2025. Iran’s renewed push to rebuild its ballistic missile arsenal now poses as grave a threat as its nuclear program, US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R - South Carolina) warned in an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. JPost

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Report: Hezbollah rebuilds. weapons‑smuggling network through Syria US officials warn that Iran is funneling weapons to Hezbollah and to a Kurdish militia in northern Syria through a smuggling network. Dalit Halevi. Dec 22, 2025, 12:26 AM INN

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Caribbean Terror: How Venezuela Became a Strategic Stronghold for Hezbollah and Iran. The New Global Hub for Iranian Missiles Caribbean Terror: How Venezuela Became a Strategic Stronghold for Hezbollah and Iran In a terrifying shift for regional security, Venezuela has officially become a primary operational base for Hezbollah terrorists and Iranian military forces, using the nation's ports and passports to build a criminal empire just off the American coast.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 21, 2025 JFeed

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'Eyeing the exits': Nearly half of British Jews don't feel welcome in UK, don't see future - poll. The Campaign Against Antisemitism also found out that a clear majority of British Jews (61%) have considered leaving Britain in the past two years. By Marhilda Heller. December 21, 2025. JPost

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Further reading

• Mapping the Massacres

• Special Announcement – The Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center (HADC) (MEMRI)

• Testimonials from the War in Israel, Oct 23

• Hamas Massacre

• Hamas.com warning, graphic!

• List of Companies That Have Condemned Hamas' Terrorist Attack on Israel

See also

• Guardian of Walls
• Dogs of Hamas
• Loay Alnaji
• Columbia Untisemity

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

The difference between lies and reality is sometimes just a color on a map

W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."