Swords of Iron: sources IIIIII

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Continuing from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.

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 (May 4, 2025: Iran linked Islamist Houthis' missile finally hit near TLV airport +)

OVERNIGHT ISRAEL: The Houthis Finally Land a Hit. Israel Might Finally Hit Back. Houthi Missile Hits Near Ben Gurion Airport: Israel on Edge, Flights Grounded, Hamas Cheers, Turkish Jets Clash Real Middle East War Updates with Zero Filter Simcha Brodsky. May 4, 2025 05:55 JFeed

Houthi missile hits Ben-Gurion Airport, wounding six, disrupting flights. “Whoever harms us, we’ll harm them sevenfold,” vows Defense Minister Israel Katz • “It is Iran that is firing ballistic missiles at the State of Israel, and it must bear responsibility,” says National Unity chief Benny Gantz. Joshua Marks.

(May 4, 2025 / JNS) A ballistic missile fired from Yemen struck near Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday morning, lightly to moderately wounding six people and disrupting takeoffs and arrivals.

The attack triggered air-raid sirens across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the Shfela/Judaean Foothills. Several attempts were made to intercept the missile, according to the Israel Defense Forces. JNS

Attack on Ben Gurion Airport: Airlines cancel Israel flights after Houthi missile strike. Israel National News. May 4, 2025, 2:04 PM INN

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Jewish students flee rising campus antisemitism. From Columbia to Reichman: Amb. Baker says actions against antisemitism on campus needs to be taken 'without hesitation'. Lidar Grave-Lazi, ILTV |06.04.25. YNet

Netanyahu: 'Israel will respond to Houthi attack'. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/04/2025 07:30 PM. JPost

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IDF strikes over 100 terror targets in Gaza over the weekend. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/04/2025 11:39 AM JPost

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IDF dismantles dozens of terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip. Over the past weekend, the IAF struck over 100 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including terrorist cells, tunnels, underground infrastructure sites, and military structures in which terrorists were operating. Israel National News. May 4, 2025, 11:41 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Following 10/7 massacre: Zaka volunteer recognized as severe PTSD victim. Israel National News. May 4, 2025, 12:54 PM INN

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Initial reports of an explosion in Iran. Israel National News. May 4, 2025, 3:35 PM INN

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Rafah: Weapons found in civilian buildings near hospital and school. Israel National News. May 4, 2025, 4:05 PM Troops located weapon stockpiles approximately 80 meters from a building that previously served as a school and approximately 100 meters from a building that previously served as a hospital in Rafah. INN

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Mezuzah from Mt. Ebal placed at American embassy.

The new U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, met with Samaria governor Yossi Dagan. The two fixed a mezuzah made of stones from the biblical Mt. Ebal on Huckabee's office door.

Israel National News. May 4, 2025, 3:43 PM INN

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Syria to sign deal to import electricity from Turkey, minister says. By Reuters. 05/04/2025 02:27 PM JPost

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US Defense chief Hegseth to visit Israel May 12 - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/04/2025 03:27 PM JPost

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Police arrest minor on suspicion he planned to carry out terror attack at Tira police station. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/04/2025 04:55 PM JPost

Attempted terror attack: 16-year-old tries to stab police officers. Israel National News. May 4, 2025, 4:22 PM [/news/407815 INN

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'There will be severe blows': PM threatens Houthis after missile hits Ben Gurion Airport. After months of restraint and dozens of launches from Yemen, Netanyahu vows Israel will act against Houthis following missile strike on airport and days of nationwide sirens Itamar Eichner, Lior Ben Ari|05.04.25. YNet

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State Department: "Bad optic" for UN to on Hamas' side on aid. The official made his comment in reference to the refusal of the UN and its associated organizations to take any part in the IDF's plan to organize independent aid distribution to Palestinians, bypassing Hamas. Avi Woolf. May 4, 2025 14:54 JFeed

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IDF: Tech issue let Houthi missile hit near airport. Army says alert systems worked, but interceptor malfunctioned, allowing missile to land near Ben Gurion without interception. Yoav Zitun|05.04.25. YNet

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Trump looking for 'total' disarmament of Iran's nuclear program. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/04/2025 07:37 PM [1]

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Netanyahu calls for pressure to be applied on Qatar. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/04/2025 08:28 PM JPost

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Incoming German interior minister skeptical about ban on far Right AfD. By Reuters. 05/04/2025 10:19 PM JPost

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Security cabinet approves expanding IDF Gaza operations. By Walla! 05/05/2025 01:42 AM JPost

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US airstrikes on Sanaa injure 14 - report. By Walla! 05/05/2025 02:37 AM JPost

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Hamas 'deliberately and systematically' using Gazans as 'human shields' in Israel war. EXCLUSIVE: Hamas are 'deliberately and systematically' using human shields to cause civilian deaths that can be used for propaganda, a report claims. By Conor Wilson, News Reporter. May 5, 2025.

A damning report has found that Hamas are “deliberately and systematically” using Gazan civilians as human shields in order to use their deaths for propaganda purposes. The group, which the US and UK have designated as a terrorist organisation, launched a brutal assault on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 Israelis were murdered and 251 were taken hostage.

The resulting conflict has seen as many as 50,000[sic] people killed in Israeli strikes, according to Palestinian health[sic] authorities, although this number is impossible to verify, as is the cause of death of those included in the statistics. Israel has been largely condemned for its part in the killing, with a case being lodged in the International Court of Justice accusing the country of genocide, but the report’s author believes that the role of Hamas in the killing is too often overlooked.

Andrew Fox a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society who previously served as a Major in the Parachute Regiment, told the Daily Express: “This report is the missing chapter from every UN statement, every NGO report, and every media narrative that has ignored how Hamas weaponised Gaza’s civilians.”

Fox, who served three tours of Afghanistan, believes that the group “want their fellow Palestinians to die in vast numbers” and have “created ‘death trap’ conditions for millions of people” deliberately.

He added: “The truth is simple and devastating: every death Hamas could provoke became a propaganda asset.”

Co-author Salo Aizenberg, a leading researcher on media bias and casualty data, believes that the terror group are fighting a war on multiple fronts, including in the information sphere.

She said: “This war wasn’t just fought with rockets. It was fought with camera lenses and casualty counts.

“By ignoring how Hamas deliberately blurred the line between combatant and civilian, much of the world became an unknowing accomplice in their war strategy.”

Since the Israel Defence Force (IDF) commenced military action in Gaza, pro-Palestinian marches have erupted regularly across Europe and North America, highlighting the disparity between criticism of Israel and that directed towards Hamas.. Express UK

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Report: UK Muslim advocacy chief justified Oct. 7, denied rapes. The Muslim Association of Britain denied that Anas Altikriti speaks for it, although he's listed as the group's director. Canaan Lidor.

(May 5, 2025 / JNS) The leader of two prominent Muslim advocacy groups in the United Kingdom appeared to justify Hamas’s taking of hostages in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and denied that the terrorists had raped women during the massacre, The Telegraph reported on Thursday. JNS

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Israeli lecturer sues NJ university over bias claim. Dr. Tal Ben-Zvi alleges anti-Jewish bias at Stevens Institute over religious, dietary and medical requests; school denies claims. Daniel Edelson, New York|05.04.25. YNet

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TERROR ATTACKS FOILED: UK Police Arrest 7 Iranian Nationals. May 4, 2025. YWN

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Dave Portnoy's 'punishment' for those who ordered an antisemitic sign at his bar. Barstool President Dave Portnoy was infuriated at a group of young customers who ordered a sign cursing the Jews. At first, he wanted to ruin their lives, but decided to turn the incident into a learning experience. Yitz Goldberg. Published: May 5, 2025, 9:16 AM (GMT [...] However, Portnoy later had a change of heart and decided to turn the incident into a learning experience for those involved.

"The more I thought about it, these are young morons who did this, they were drunk, do you really want to ruin sombody's life?" Portnoy stated in a second video.

"Let's try to turn a hideous incident into a learning experience," he added.

Portnoy noted that he spoke to the two main culprits and that "I'm sending these kids to Auschwitz, they agreed to go."

According to the Barstool President, he discussed the matter with Jewish businessman Robert Kraft, and that the culprits will tour the death camp in Poland.

He reiterated that the two waitresses were still fired, calling one of them "the dumbest human I've ever talked to," and explaining, "I don't know if she thought she was making a political statement, but it was her alone, she didn't go to a manager, she kinda forced another girl to do it.".. INN

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Watch: IDF strikes Hamas rocket launcher aimed at Israel. Israel National News. May 5, 2025, 1:47 PM INN

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Cleared for publication: SGM Dejen Daniel Sahalo killed in operational accident near Gaza. Israel National News. May 5, 2025, 10:07 AM INN

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Iran boasts its new advanced weaponry. Israel National News. May 5, 2025, 2:51 PM. INN

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Israel's ultimatum: Hamas has until end of Trump's visit to reach hostage deal. Senior official provides details on 'Operation Gideon Chariots,' including that Hamas faces its final chance to reach a deal to accept the Witkoff outline. Nitsan Keidar. May 5, 2025, 3:27 PM INN

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Iranian explosives located in kibbutz near Gaza. Israel National News. May 5, 2025, 6:43 PM INN

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Trump: 'We'll help people of Gaza, Hamas is taking everything'. Israel National News. May 5, 2025, 9:16 PM INN

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Dozens of IAF aircraft carrying out airstrikes in Yemen. Israeli Air Force striking in Yemen following the Houthi ballistic missile strike at Ben Gurion Airport that resulted in the injury of 6 civilians.

Israel National News. May 5, 2025, 7:50 PM INN

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IDF troops find Assad-era military infrastructure at regime HQ on Mount Hermon in Syria. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/05/2025 03:17 PM JPost

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Israel Police arrested 18 illegal residents in Haifa from West Bank. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/05/2025 03:52 PM JPost

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IDF foils attempt to smuggle weapons from Jordan to Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/05/2025 04:54 PM JPost

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IDF thwarts weapons trafficking infrastructure in Nablus. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/05/2025 06:31 PM JPost

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Police find Iranian-made explosive device used by Hamas terrorists on Gaza border. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/05/2025 06:33 PM JPost

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IDF strikes northern Lebanon on Syria border - report. By Walla! 05/05/2025 09:06 PM JPost

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Netanyahu: ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ to seize, hold Gaza ground. PM says Israel’s Gaza offensive will intensify; IDF will not retreat from captured areas and aims to defeat Hamas, rescue hostages.

(May 5, 2025 / JNS) The IDF operation in Gaza will intensify and Israeli forces will remain in every area they capture, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Monday in a direct video message.

Speaking in a Q&A video posted to his X account and translated from Hebrew by Ynet, Netanyahu said the decision followed a late-night Security Cabinet meeting and was based on a recommendation from IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir. JNS

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Iran: Uranium enrichment has reached industrial stage. By Amichai Stein. 05/05/2025 09:59 PM JPost

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Israeli FM, Ethiopian PM meet in Ethiopia to discuss strengthening ties. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/05/2025 10:45 PM JPost

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Starmer, Macron discuss situations in Gaza and Russia. By Reuters. 05/05/2025 11:11 PM JPost

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Trump administration says it is freezing billions in grant funding to Harvard. By Reuters. 05/06/2025 01:25 AM JPost

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Call for Intifada at U of Washington. T-shirts glorifying the Oct. 7 massacre, Hamas propaganda flyers and open support for the terror group’s military wing. Yitzchak Tessler|05.05.25. YNet

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'Death sentence for Hamas terrorists a possibility'. Alan Baker, former ambassador to Canada, says terrorists behind October 7 atrocities could face death penalty. Ynetnews |05.05.25. YNet

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'Al-Sharaa’s grip is weak': IDF doubts Syria’s control as Golan buffer zone expand. Six months after entering the Syrian Golan without resistance, Israeli troops face a divided landscape—stability in the north under Ahmad al-Sharaa, volatility in the south, and uncertainty over who truly controls the fractured country next door Yoav Zitun |05.06.25. YNet

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IDF attacks Yemen 2nd day in a row IDF: "We have completely shut down the airport in Sanaa". The airport, like the port of Hodeidah that was attacked last night, is used by the Houthis for the transfer of weapons and operatives, and is routinely operated by the regime for terrorist purposes. Avi Nachmani. May 6, 2025. JFeed

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IDF strikes Houthi-run airport in Yemen after evacuation order. JNS Staff. (May 6, 2025 /JNS) JNS

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Trump declares national holidays for World War I and II victories. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/06/2025 02:03 AM JPost

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Iranian Foreign Minister spoke with Pakistani army chief amid regional tensions - report. By Maariv. 05/06/2025 05:12 AM JPost

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Ten Syrian Druze transferred to Israel for medical care. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/06/2025 11:03 AM JPost

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'Antisemitism': UW Slams Activists Who Occupied Building, Set Fires. Published May 06, 2025.

By Shane Croucher. Breaking News Editor

The University of Washington slammed the "offensive and destructive behavior" of activists who ignited dumpsters and occupied a campus engineering building, and said it opposed antisemitism, as police arrested around 30 of those involved.

The activists said they were pro-Palestinian and fighting for the university to end its relationship with Boeing over the manufacturing giant's dealings with Israel amid the war with Hamas. Newsweek

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Next round of Iran-US nuclear talks scheduled for May 11 in Oman - Iranian media. By Reuters. 05/06/2025 02:14 PM JPost

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Diaspora Jews murdered in antisemitic attacks commemorated. At the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, the first four families receive certificates in which the State of Israel officially recognizes the loss of their loved ones. David Brummer. May 5, 2025

Arecent event at the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) offices in Jerusalem marked the implementation of a government resolution adopted in 2023 to officially recognize Diaspora Jews murdered in antisemitic attacks as part of the Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) ceremonies and commemorations.

Hosted by JAFI, the World Zionist Federation and the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, four families—the first of more than 270—received certificates, in which the State of Israel officially recognized the loss of their loved ones as being motivated by antisemitism.

The families included the widow and children of Eliot Fine, who was murdered in Cardiff on September 19, 1981; the widow and best friend of Dr. Joseph Wybran, gunned down in a Brussels hospital parking lot on Oct. 3, 1989; the brother and son of Dr. Sarah Halimi, brutally murdered in her Paris apartment by a deranged Arab neighbor on April 4, 2017; and the widow of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, killed with two of his sons, Arie, 6, and Gabriel, 3, in a horrific attack in Toulouse in 2012. JNS

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Hamas hostage commander surrenders in Rafah. Yousef Qadi, tied to Oct. 7 massacre, and sniper chief Zaarab surrender; IDF says intel revealed key terror sites in Rafah area. Yoav Zitun |05.06.25. YNet

Hamas terrorists surrender to Israeli forces in Rafah. Troops from the IDF’s 188th Brigade arrested a Hamas terror commander who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre. Joshua Marks, Amelie Botbol. [2] (May 6, 2025 / JNS) Israeli forces apprehended Hamas terrorists who surrendered in the Shaboura neighborhood of Rafah, according to military footage released Tuesday.

Among those captured were a Hamas platoon commander who participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre and was involved in the holding of Israeli hostages, as well as a sniper unit commander. Several knives were reportedly found in their possession. JNS

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Surveying damage from Israeli bombardments, Houthis vow 'shocking response'. Israeli airstrikes hit Houthi targets in Yemen, including a cement plant and Hodeidah port, after drone and missile attacks on Israel; Yemeni rebels vow harsh retaliation as both sides brace for further escalation in the region Lior Ben Ari, Yoav Zitun|05.06.25. YNet

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IDF attacks Yemen 2nd day in a row IDF: "We have completely shut down the airport in Sanaa". The airport, like the port of Hodeidah that was attacked last night, is used by the Houthis for the transfer of weapons and operatives, and is routinely operated by the regime for terrorist purposes. Avi Nachmani. May 6, 2025. JFeed

IDF: Sana'a airport fully disabled. Houthis also say the Sana'a airport has been completely destroyed. Israel National News. May 6, 2025, 4:19 PM INN

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Defense Minister: 'We destroyed the airport in Sana'a, a message to Iran'. Israel National News. May 6, 2025, 6:30 PM INN

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Attacks on Israel to continue after ceasefire with US. The head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, warned Israelis to "remain in shelters" after agreeing to stop attacking international shipping. Israel National News. May 6, 2025, 10:22 PM INN

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Israeli sources: Trump's Houthi deal is very bad for the country. Israeli sources familiar with the matter said that the Houthis still have dozens of missiles, and are producing even more in underground facilities. Avi Woolf. May 6, 2025. JFeed

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Teenage former hostage: Terrorist touched me constantly, said he wants us to get married. Freed hostages Dafna Elyakim and Omer Wenkert recount harrowing experiences in Gaza, urging unity beyond politics and emphasizing the human cost of Hamas captivity. Idan Bloemhof | published:05.06.25

A 16-year-old Israeli girl freed from Hamas captivity said Tuesday that one of her captors repeatedly touched her and told her she would not be released with the others so he could marry her. Dafna Elyakim, who was taken hostage during Hamas’ October 7 assault on southern Israel, shared her account at a youth event organized by Israel’s Civil Public Diplomacy Directorate.

“One of the terrorists kept touching me,” she said. “He said everyone else would be freed, and I would stay with him so he could marry me.” Elyakim added that the same man insisted on escorting her to the shower, but she refused.

Another former hostage, Omer Wenkert, also spoke at the event, describing the traumatic experience of his abduction and months in captivity. “On the way to the party, we joked it would be a shame if there were rockets — and then it really happened,” he said. “We ran to the car, hid, and minutes later I was underground.”

Wenkert said he was initially held with another hostage, Liel Or, but later spent 179 days alone. “The hardest part was the confinement,” he said. “I couldn’t stand or jump. On my birthday, they beat me. I just prayed that next year they wouldn’t.” YNet

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MEMRI @MEMRIReports: Temple University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) President Rishi Arun during a Panel Honoring Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal: It Is Our Job to Destroy the U.S.; Samidoun Official Mohammed Khatib: Liberating Palestine Will Help Dismantle America. May 6, 2025 on X

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Jerusalem Conference in NYC: Strengthening global Jewish unity. Israel National News. May 6, 2025, 8:47 PM INN

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Two Palestinians, 19 and 24, face up to 15 years in prison for illegal weapons. (May 6, 2025 /JNS) JNS

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Report: Rubio to scrap State Department Office of Palestinian Affairs. US Secretary of State reportedly set to get rid of Biden-era office dedicated to elevating America's relations with the PA that was criticized for anti-Israel bias. Israel National News. Published: May 6, 2025, 9:32 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Turkish Bank Appeals Iran Sanctions Decision to US Supreme Court. by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. May 6, 2025. Turkey’s Halkbank asked the US Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling... Algemeiner

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Druze Near Damascus Resist Demand to Turn in Arms as Tensions Boil. by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. May 6, 2025. Algemeiner

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StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites: Neo Nazi Stew Peters hosts Mo Khan, the now suspended Temple U. student who posted the Barstool “F*ck the Jews” sign to his IG... May 6, 2025. X

Student who posted sign reading ‘F— the Jews’ doubles down on antisemitic podcast. “Dave Portnoy, and the greater Jewish community are making[sic] themselves[sic] out to be some kind of victims… but I am the real victim," claimed Mo Khan. By Grace Gilson/JTA. Jpost. May 8, 2025. ...Khan was suspended from Temple University as a result of the incident and fired from a job... [3]. Arch.

Ouriel 🇮🇱 @OurielOhayon: ❌❌ You are not going to believe this. Mo Khan, mr "Fuck[sic] the Jews" who now whines on X he did absolutely nothing and raises fund to fight @stoolpresidente owns shitloads of jew hating memecoins. He exposed himself by sharing "his only Solana wallet". Below here is what he owns, including JP_ROOF, the jew hating memecoin of realstewpeters and obviously a "Fuck[sic] the jews" Token. You even own the "Juck[sic] the Fews" token and one "Against Dave Portnoy" You see Mo, you are not that smart. Everything in crypto is public and you exposed yourself as a jew hater without even realizing. So tell us? is that also an "edgy joke" that you "just recorded"? Or are you gonna own the fact you hate jews and did it? Quote: Adnan Khan @MoKhan_3 · May 6. [...] Readers added context: Several incidents of Mo Khan committing antisemitic acts have surfaced online, including him throwing quarters at Jewish students at Temple University. Mo also appeared on the show of Stew Peters, a white supremacist neo-Nazi who operates the website “dontbea#jew[dot]com.” [4] Arch. [5] Arch. May 6, 2025 X

Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity: Here's a video of Mohammed "Mo" Khan, the Muslim retard who wrote the "fuck the Jews" sign at a Barstool bar, throws water at a sleeping homeless guy, and then runs away laughing.

What a wicked person.

He is now begging people for money. May 6, 2025. X Arch.

Congratulations Mohammed Adnan Khan, you won a Free Trip to Auschwitz! May 7, 2025, 6:19 AM (GMT+3) We cannot fight antisemitism by taking Jew-haters to Auschwitz, it is not part of their collective memory or identity, it is part of ours. Opinion. INN Arch.

acohofficial: Temple student Mo Khan filmed an antisemitic sign, posted it to Instagram, then doubled down on a neo-Nazi podcast. This isn’t activism. It’s radicalization. Full breakdown now on The Aaron Cohen Show. May 7, 2025. Instagram

WATCH: Mo Khan, the Temple student behind the antisemitic Barstool Sansom bottle service sign, accidentally discovers that his actions have consequences. May 7, 2025. [...] Like clockwork, Mo Khan comes the Middle East deflection. Suddenly, he’s talking about Gaza, as if that justifies anything. What does Gaza have to do with bottle service in Philadelphia? Absolutely nothing—except that Khan sees an opportunity to shift blame, paint himself as the oppressed underdog, and score sympathy points with people who conflate hate speech with activism.

The cognitive dissonance is off the charts. You go to a bar owned by a Jewish man, use that platform to promote antisemitic garbage, and then act stunned when the guy uses his influence and name recognition to expose you. Libertyline

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New Study Exposes Antisemitism in University Medical Centers. by Dion J. Pierre. May 6, 2025. Algemeiner

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30 Arrested at University of Washington Pro-Hamas Encampment. by Dion J. Pierre. May 6, 2025. A pro-Hamas student group calling itself “Super UW” commandeered University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary. Engineering Building (IEB) on Monday night and refused to leave unless school officials accede to its demand that the institution’s partnerships with The Boeing Company be terminated, whose armaments manufacturing they identified as a resource aiding Israel’s war to eradicate Hamas from Gaza. "We are taking this building amidst the current and renewed wave of the student intifada, following the uprising of student action for Palestine after the heroic victory of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th,” the group said in a manifesto... Algemeiner

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Australian Police Arrest Third Suspect in Firebombing Attack on Jewish Leader’s Former Home. by David Swindle. May 6, 2025. ...The Jan. 17 attack saw two cars defaced with expletives targeting Jews and then set on fire with the flames soon engulfing a third. The vandals also threw red paint onto the house. Algemeiner

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French Lawmakers Propose Posthumous Promotion for Alfred Dreyfus in Symbolic Act of Justice. by Ailin Vilches Arguello. May 6, 2025. A group of French lawmakers on Tuesday put forward a proposal to promote Alfred Dreyfus — a Jewish army army captain wrongly convicted of espionage in the late 19th century — to the rank of brigadier general, more than a century after his death.

Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who is leading the initiative, said the law would “constitute an act of reparation, a recognition of [Dreyfus’s] merits, and a tribute to his republican commitment,” in an effort to rectify the wrongful conviction, which unfolded amid widespread antisemitism across the country at the time.… Algemeiner

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Anti-Israel Singer Kehlani’s NYC Concert Gets Cancelled After Mayor Faces Pressure. May 6, 2025 An upcoming New York City concert featuring Israel-hating, American singer Kehlani was cancelled... Algemeiner

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Witkoff Hints At ‘Expansion of the Abraham Accords’ During Event Marking 77th Israeli Independence Day. May 6, 2025. Algemeiner

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Terror threat eliminated: IDF eliminates senior Hamas commander in Lebanon airstrike. Yoni Kempinski. May 7, 2025, 12:57 PM INN

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Over 1,000 officers raid Rahat in major crackdown on Arab crime. Orli Harari. May 7, 2025, 2:13 PM INN

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Amb. Huckabee visits ancient Shilo. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee visits ancient Shilo in historic visit, holding official meeting with YESHA Council heads, becoming the first US ambassador to do so. Yoni Kempinski. May 7, 2025, 11:26 AM INN

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Israel sides with India in Pakistan clash, endorses military action on terror sites. With tensions rising between India and Pakistan, Israel aligned firmly with New Delhi, vowing continued cooperation in the global fight against terrorism and radical violence. Avi Nachmani. May 7, 2025. JFeed

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Have we learned nothing? WATCH: Jews expel Jews - Israeli Police bulldoze homes of three families in Binyamin. In a shocking dawn raid, children watched as their homes were flattened: without warning, explanation, or compassion. Avi Nachmani. May 7, 2025 00:27 JFeed

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Mother of captive soldier Tamir Nimrodi stunned after Trump claims: Only 21 Israeli hostages alive. Cherut Nimrodi, gripped by fear for her son, soldier Tamir, told Ynet’s studio she was shocked by the U.S. President’s statement, clinging to his known offhand remarks: “We’re one of three families unsure of their loved ones’ fate; maybe that’s what he meant. I hope they’re not hiding anything from me.” Gila Isaacson. May 7, 2025 02:21 JFeed

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Another US fighter jet falls into sea from Truman aircraft carrier, US officials say. By Reuters. 05/07/2025 05:12 AM JPost

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COGAT chief visited Jordan earlier this week - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/07/2025 08:34 AM Head of the IDF Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Major-General Ghassan Alian visited Jordan earlier this week ...over an expanded IDF operation in the Gaza Strip JPost

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Mediators looking to establish new Gaza ceasefire proposal in coming hours - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/07/2025 10:03 AM JPost

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Former US president Biden accuses Trump of appeasement of Russia. By Reuters. 05/07/2025 10:14 AM JPost

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IAF intercepts drone from the East. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/07/2025 10:50 AM JPost

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Police arrest ten suspected of weapons trafficking in Jerusalem in undercover operation. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/07/2025 11:55 AM ...ten residents of east Jerusalem and the area... JPost

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Steve Witkoff officially sworn in as US Middle East envoy. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/07/2025 12:00 PM JPost

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IDF kills senior Hamas, Hezbollah terror leaders in Lebanon strikes. Khalid Ahmad Ahmad and Adnan Harb were behind cross-border attacks, weapons smuggling, and operational rebuilding efforts for Iranian-backed terror groups. JNS Staff.

(May 7, 2025 / JNS) Israel eliminated senior Hamas operative Khalid Ahmad Ahmad via an airstrike near Sidon, Lebanon on Wednesday, according to the Israeli military. JNS

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Sen. Graham: ‘It’s long past time to hit Iran hard’. "Without Iran, the Houthis do not possess the capability to attack America, international shipping or Israel," said Graham. JNS Staff. (May 7, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Half of Gazans would leave if given opportunity. JNS Staff. (May 7, 2025 / JNS). YNet

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Report: UAE mediating secret talks between Israel and Syria. The indirect contacts, which have not been previously reported, are focused on security and intelligence matters and confidence-building between two states with no official relations. Reuters|05.07.25. YNet

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West Bank sees major drop in terror attacks l. April recorded lowest number of attacks in the West Bank in the past five years, with just 46 incidents, of which 3 were significant. Elisha Ben Kimon|05.07.25. YNet

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LIVE: DePaul students demanding accountability from university president after House testimony. FOX 32 Chicago. May 7, 2025. Students at DePaul University are holding a press conference at 3 p.m. on the Lincoln Park campus to demand accountability from University President Robert Manuel. on YouTube

Representative Lisa McClain. May 7, 2025. It took SEVENTEEN DAYS for DePaul to remove its antisemitic encampment. They KNEW it was a threat to Jewish student safety but deliberately ignored university policy. Your apologies ring hollow, DePaul University. on FB

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Who Is the Real Mohsen Mahdawi?

By Maya Sulkin. 05.06.25.

Last year on Instagram, Mahdawi described a cousin, Maysara Masharqa, as a “fierce resistance fighter” and “dreamer of liberation” who was killed “after a clash with a traitor Zionist force.”

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a network of Palestinian armed groups, said that Masharqa was one of its “most prominent field commanders” in Jenin. The Israeli Defense Forces said Masharqa “took part in shooting attacks against Israeli communities” and was in a vehicle with Hamas’s leader in Jenin when they were killed by the Israeli military in August of 2024.

Israeli court records show that Masharqa also confessed in 2012 to throwing improvised explosive devices and Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers “on a large number of occasions and from a short distance,” making pipe bombs, and conspiring to shoot and kill. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.

“Justice is inevitable,” Mahdawi wrote in an Instagram post in January of this year when his uncle’s name appeared on a list of Palestinian prisoners expected to be released in a deal that also returned to Israel four female soldiers who were taken hostage during the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.

The uncle, Yousef Mahdawi, was sentenced to life in prison for planning a 2003 suicide bomber attack in the Israeli city of Netanya that injured more than 60 people. Israeli court documents show that Yousef Mahdawi recruited the bomber and has received about 1.1 million shekels ($311,000) from the Palestinian Authority since his arrest as part of its “pay for slay” program for Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israel.

Two of Mohsen Mahdawi’s other cousins died in a firefight with Israel in 2023. An Instagram post last October shows their faces and those of four more cousins and an uncle, all “born, raised, and killed in refugee camps” by “the Israeli Zi0nists [sic] violence in the West Bank,” he wrote.

Then there’s the question of what, exactly, Mahdawi has been doing since he arrived in the U.S. in 2014.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Mahdawi studied computer engineering at Birzeit University in Gaza from 2008 to 2014. He then worked at a bank in New Hampshire for about a year. Mahdawi was at Dartmouth College in 2016 and 2017, and “studied a handful of classes for one year,” his LinkedIn profile said.

But Dartmouth told The Free Press that its records “indicate that no one by that name is or has been enrolled as a Dartmouth student.”

Mahdawi then studied at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania for more than two years, but left in the spring of 2020 without finishing a degree, the college said. His LinkedIn profile said he started a “Middle Eastern student organization” and “a catalyst group to bring change and diversity into the student senate.”

In 2021, Mahdawi began at Columbia. By then he had logged more than 20 semesters as an undergraduate between his stints at Birzeit and Lehigh. After more than a decade in the U.S., he has said he hopes to graduate this month and start a master’s degree program in September in international and public affairs. Columbia declined to comment about Mahdawi.

After October 7, Mahdawi emerged as one of the leaders of the anti-Israel protests on Columbia’s campus. In November 2023, New York magazine described him as co-president of the Palestinian Students Union. A month later, 60 Minutes called Mahdawi a student on the “fight for a free Palestine and the fight against antisemitism.” TheFP

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Dana Nessel, Rashida Tlaib, and a Very Dangerous Precedent.

Seth Mandel. May 7, 2025.

Meanwhile, as the case dragged on, Nessel was left to fend for herself and the “Jewish disqualification” argument persisted. The judge was even considering granting a hearing on it. That same judge, from Nessel’s perspective, had slow-walked the case nearly to a stall while the AG took steady fire from the left.

It was too much for Nessel. This week, she threw in the towel, dropped all the charges, and, according to court observers, surprised even the defendants with her actions.

“Despite months and months of court hearings, the Court has yet to make a determination on whether probable cause was demonstrated that the defendants committed these crimes, and if so, to bind the case over to circuit court for trial, which is the primary obligation of the district court for any felony offense. During this time, the case has become a lightning rod of contention,” Nessel said in a statement. She lamented that the “distractions and ongoing delays have created a circus-like atmosphere to these proceedings. While I stand by my charging decisions, and believe, based on the evidence, a reasonable jury would find the defendants guilty of the crimes alleged, I no longer believe these cases to be a prudent use of my department’s resources.”

If that were all she had said, the statement would have been a run-of-the-mill copout from an official who was under a lot of pressure and who’d been abandoned by her party.

But it wasn’t. Nessel also mentioned a letter that the Jewish Community Relations Council, part of the local Jewish Federation, sent to the court. The JCRC letter criticized the call for Nessel’s recusal: “If it were successful, this would mark the first time a prosecutor would be disqualified from prosecuting a case based on perceived bias due to their religious faith. The notion that AG Nessel is biased against Muslims and Americans of Arab descent is unfounded and deeply offensive.”

The open letter was intended to be copied to the court’s public information office to make sure all parties at least knew the letter went out. But according to the JCRC, it might have accidentally been sent to an address for a court administrator instead. Such letters are turned into official court documents.

The difference is significant. Nessel blamed the letter’s “impropriety” at least in part for her decision to drop the charges: “now, we have learned that a public statement in support of my office from a local non-profit has been directly communicated to the Court. The impropriety of this action has led us to the difficult decision to drop these charges.”

This was an inexcusable attempt to throw the JCRC under the bus. The letter was in response to, not the impetus for, nearly a year of accusations of bias just because Nessel is Jewish. And even if the letter was sent to the wrong address and therefore became a court document, the mistake is easy to explain and would not strike any reasonable observer as disqualifying.

Finally, even if Nessel was right about the impropriety of the letter’s unintended destination, publicly denouncing and blaming the letter rather than taking responsibility for the decision is petty, harmful to the few people actually defending her from allegations of bias, and chilling to the many U.S. Jewish groups already inclined to sit on the sidelines of these battles.

Dropping the charges amid the looming prospect of a bias hearing will only reinforce the religious bigotry at the heart of the demonstrators’ cases. And it will incentivize members of Congress to continue to use Jewish officials’ religion against them in a public setting.

It’s one thing that Nessel couldn’t take the heat. But her larger sin was burning others in the Jewish community along the way. Commentary

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Amnesty nominates far-left journalist who appeared to hail October 7 for People’s Choice Award. In a social media post on the morning of the attacks, Michael Walker referenced ‘the right of an occupied people to fight an occupier’. May 7, 2025.

Amnesty International has nominated a journalist who appeared to hail the October 7, 2023 attacks for its People’s Choice Award.

Michael Walker, who works for far-left outlet Novara Media, made and then deleted a social media post on the day of the attacks, seemingly suggesting they were the act of “an occupied people”.

At 8.54 am on October 7, as the attacks were unfolding, Walker tweeted: “So guys, do we support the right of an occupied people to fight an occupier or not?”

Walker has also previously attracted controversy for his comments disputing the scale of antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.

In one 2018 post, he wrote: “Many members are genuinely scared of talking about what’s going on.

"They can see many of the attacks on Corbyn are politically motivated, that many mainstream Jewish [organisations] have strong ties with Israel, and that part of this row is to suppress Palestinians and their advocates.”

He also said that Labour’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism was a “complete abdication of responsibility by Labour and represents us selling out the Palestinian cause”.

However, in his biography on Amnesty’s site, these controversies was not mentioned. Instead, it read: “Michael is a contributing editor at Novara Media and principal host of Novara Live. He has hosted current affairs shows at Novara Media for over eight years, and has overseen Novara Live to become the most watched online daily news show in the UK.

"He also regularly appears on mainstream outlets, including the BBC, Sky and Channel 5.”

Other nominees include Walker’s Novara colleague Ash Sarkar, who has called Israel’s military operation in Gaza a “genocidal[sic] war”, and long-time Israel critic Owen Jones. TheJC

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How Jew-hate is becoming the norm in the music industry. May 7, 2025.

Itay Kashti will never know whether it was one of his comments on social media pushing back against the anti-Israel narrative in the music industry that led to him eventually being kidnapped. He just has a hunch that it was.

A record producer who has lived in the UK for nearly two decades, his case – where he was lured to a remote farmhouse in Wales before being physically beaten up and handcuffed to a radiator – was certainly motivated by antisemitism. The three attackers, who were each jailed for eight years in March, had a plan to keep him hostage and then extort money from his family, who they believed were rich.

“Even the police weren’t able to tell me where this thing started but it seems that someone who worked with me or knew of me had given them my name,” he says. “I believe it was probably a product of a heated debate. I had a lot of friends in the music industry who were posting about the war and against Israel and I was responding to them.

“In the group chat between the three kidnappers, the conversation very quickly turned from calling me ‘the music producer’ to ‘the Israeli’ and then just ‘the Jew’.”

After his attackers were sentenced and the story became public, Kashti was approached by some of his former friends, people he had fallen out with after October 7. People who had put the Palestinian flags on their social media on October 8 and told him, “Well, those people shouldn’t have been living there in the first place” when he challenged them about Hamas’s murderous rampage.

“A couple of my former friends reached out but they didn’t make any connection with what they had written about Israel,” he says. “There was no remorse or accountability. Nothing along the lines of, ‘Yes, I now see things in a slightly different light.’ So, it felt more that what they were really saying was, ‘I’m sorry this happened to you, but unfortunately you are still the bad guys.’”

Antisemitism, or at least, anti-Israel hatred in the music industry is in the news thanks to Kneecap, the Irish band who yelled “Up Hamas” and “Up Hezbollah” at one concert and “kill your MP” in another. They are a symptom of an anti-Israel mindset that sees pro-Palestinian activism encouraged while companies, bands and individuals with a connection to Israel are boycotted and cancelled. Those advocating for Kneecap’s free speech are often the same people ruthlessly trying to get Israelis and Jews cancelled.

In fact, this week Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa, one of Israel’s leading rock stars, have blamed threats from pro-Palestinian activists for the cancellation of their UK shows next month and called out the hypocrisy of those defending Kneecap’s right to expression while simultaneously silencing them. The venues where they were due to play – Bristol’s Beacon Hall and London’s Hackney Church – and their “blameless staff” received “enough credible threats to conclude that it’s not safe to proceed”. In a letter, they said: “Forcing musicians not to perform and denying people who want to hear them an opportunity to do so is self-evidently a method of censorship. Intimidating venues into pulling our shows won’t help achieve the peace and justice everyone in the Middle East deserves.” Israeli singer Dudu Tassa and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s UK shows next month have been cancelled under pressure from the BDS movement.

Dudu Tassa is facing the same hate as his grandfather before him.

Dudu Tassa’s family was expelled from Iraq simply for being…[ pic.twitter.com/6pHH9kOWTz] — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 7, 2025

Two of the UK’s most prestigious artistic institutions have appointed new leaders. Many will never have heard of them, but they are well known to the Jewish community.

Nine years ago, Indhu Rubasingham headed the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn (then known as the Tricycle) when it tried… [pic.twitter.com/NtbG73Qwgj]

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) May 7, 2025 TheJC

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Who Cares If the Anti-Israel Movement Is Anti-Semitic? It’s Evil No Matter What. May 7, 2025.

I’ve often wondered if the endless debate over whether, and when, hatred of Israel (misleadingly called anti-Zionism) constitutes anti-Semitism is a trap that Jews have laid for themselves and then stepped into. After all, cheering on murderous terrorists in their quest to destroy a successful democratic state is indefensible even if not motivated by racial or religious prejudice. Jacob M. Miller, considering the conclusions of Harvard’s anti-Semitism task force, has come to a similar conclusion:

Take the (Arab. ed.) Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee’s infamous statement blaming Israel for the slaughter of its own people. Was the statement offensive? Surely. Did it reveal an astonishing misunderstanding of the conflict? I would say so. Did it fundamentally change how I see my classmates and make me seriously question their moral compasses? Most definitely.

But was it anti-Semitic? I suppose one could argue that it was—it did, after all, betray a disgraceful disregard for Jewish life. But to me that argument seems tenuous. Instead I content myself with calling the statement what it was: a stunningly shameful act for which, to my knowledge, no one in Harvard’s pro-Palestine coalition has apologized to this day.

There is a reason Harvard created twin task forces on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia—not a “Task Force on Callous Statements Disregarding Human Life,” or a “Task Force on Violent Protest Chants,” or a “Task Force on Stupid Political Ideologies That Could Open Up Millions of People to Religious Persecution.” It’s because we as a society have agreed identity-based discrimination is morally wrong, but have struggled to reach a consensus that any other way of thinking is unethical.

[O]ur national politics, which rightly protects identity groups from prejudice but hasn’t adequately articulated other moral wrongs, has created a twisted incentive structure—one in which Jews on campus feel compelled to characterize certain behaviors as anti-Semitic because they know that is the one sin campus will surely condemn. MosaicMagazine

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Greta Thunberg’s moral siege of Israel. This is an armada of Israelophobic activists, not an aid mission. Brendan O'Neill. May 7, 2025.

People talk about the siege of Gaza but few are prepared to reckon with the siege of Israel. For years, the Jewish State has been subjected to a double siege. There’s the physical siege by the armies of anti-Semites that surround it and which dream of its obliteration. And there’s the moral siege by the intellectuals of the West. By our credentialed classes, our activist set, our literary elites, all of whom increasingly derive their fantasy of virtue from their hostility to the Jewish nation. And some of whom also dream of its destruction. ‘From the river to sea’, they cry, to let the world know that their utopia is a Middle East with no Jewish homeland.

It’s a pincer movement of bigotry, a hippy-Islamist nexus of contempt for the world’s only Jewish state. Both the military siege of Israel by Iran’s deranged proxies and the moral siege of it by the West’s post-civilisational left speaks to this century’s crisis of Enlightenment. It should horrify everyone who believes in reason that neo-fascist regressives like Hamas don’t only still exist but also win the sympathy of many of the educated of the West. What the Greta flotilla threatened to do was make the activist class’s moral siege of Israel into something more physical. They wouldn’t be breaking a siege but intensifying one.

Blockades have been a tactic of every war in history. They’re a key means of depriving the enemy of the ability to rearm and refortify. Greta and her chums couldn’t break a big stick far less a military siege, I know. But that they desire to weaken Israel’s siege of a piece of land ruled by a fascist militia that murdered more Jews in one day than anyone else since the Nazis is chilling. There’s a war between the democratic Jewish State and a medieval militia that was founded to kill Jews, and the West’s activist class continually says and does things that benefit the latter more than the former. Never forget how unusual that is, how horrendous.

Greta has jumped from the green bandwagon to the anti-Israel bandwagon, her critics say. I think she’s been consistent. For climate-change alarmism and Israelophobia share something important in common – a haughty weariness with modernity. A doom-mongering built more on bigotry than truth in which either industrious mankind or evil Israel is always on the cusp of destroying humanity. That the West’s youthful End is Nigh hysterics have now taken the wrong side in an existential clash between a modern state and a barbarous militia should not surprise us. It should worry us, though – enormously. SpikedOnline

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Antisemitism: The Assimilation Killer. We're Jews, and no one can ever defeat us. Joshua Namm. May 06, 2025.

In each case, our mere existence threaten ideologies that are man centered, not G-d centered. Their ultimate goal is either tyrannical power or to embrace an animalistic lifestyle where every urge and action are justified by invoking the supremacy of the self. In many cases, they go hand in hand.

The Jews stand in the way of both. We always have.

In terms of antisemitism, the period before the Exodus was no different than today. What our ancestors experienced pre-Exodus, is very much the same as what we are experiencing right now.

The good news is that, again as Rabbi Shore points out, and this is not new, antisemitism can remind us of who we are:

“The Midrash teaches that the Jews were redeemed from Egypt because they maintained their distinctiveness—they didn’t change their clothes, names, or language, even in the face of slavery (Shemot Rabbah 1:28). On the surface, this seems like a small detail, but its meaning runs deep. Even in the depths of oppression, the Jews understood they were different—a family with a unique role, even if they weren’t fully ‘doing it all’ in terms of observance. This awareness of their special identity was the crucial step that paved the way for redemption.’”

I have seen this all around me since 10/7. On social media there are stories every single day of people whose Jewishness was awakened by 10/7 and, unfortunately, by Jew hatred all around them. I know people who have gone out of their way, every day, since 10/7 to publicly display their Jewishness, from Magen Davids to tzitzit – there is a national understanding that we are unique, and that understanding often ignites an inner pride that is manifested in Jews - Jewishly doing Jewish things. That pride extends to people doing more mitzvot, lighting Shabbat candles, putting on tefillin, giving more tzedakah, etc. I personally know people who have had this type of experience.

Antisemitism can be a forge that is, once again, galvanizing the Jewish spirit. Not because, obviously, we enjoy being targets of hate, but because at the level of our souls, and our national consciousness, the hate reminds us of who we are.

I know that sounds like it is kind of backwards There is so much beauty in Judaism, it seems like it shouldn’t have to be awoken by a bunch of people acting in barbaric ways. I don’t view it that way. On Substack

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Union Officials Fought to Keep 'Rallying Cries for Murdering Jews' Displayed in Legal Aid Office, Complaint Alleges. Alana Goodman. May 7, 2025.

Union officials promoted an "anti-Semitic toxic environment" at a New York legal aid organization where employees adorned the office with posters defending Hamas terrorism and calling for "intifada," according to a federal anti-discrimination complaint filed on Wednesday.

Jewish union members of A Better NYLAG (ABN)—the employee union of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG)—said the guild has forced them to work next to cubicles plastered with signs supporting the destruction of Israel and terrorist violence.

Slogans mentioned in the complaint include "ABOLISH THE SETTLER STATE," "LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE!," and "INTIFADA NOW."

While the pro-terrorist signs violate NYLAG policies, the complaint states that ABN officials have fought against management in an effort to keep the images up. The union has been actively involved in anti-Israel advocacy, issuing a statement shortly after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in which it accused the Jewish state of "war crimes against Palestinians."

In response to Jewish employees’ concerns, NYLAG management banned those in the office from displaying images related to the Israel-Hamas war. ABN objected, filing an unfair labor practice allegation with the National Labor Relations Board. The union also staged a protest in the NYLAG office, posting on Instagram that members were "wearing their keffiyehs and flying flags in solidarity with Palestinians," the complaint notes.

Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law chairman Kenneth L. Marcus, whose organization filed the complaint with the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said ABN leadership’s behavior flies in the face of the purpose of organized labor.

"Jewish American union members, like all other working people, are entitled to union representation that supports them fairly and equally against toxic environments," Marcus said. "In this case, the union actually made things worse, actively attempting to block management efforts to address a workplace that had been made inhospitable for Jewish workers. This is exactly the opposite of what unions should be doing."

Jewish union members repeatedly raised concerns about the "inhospitable" environment Marcus referenced, the complaint notes. In one email to NYLAG management, a Jewish employee described the posters as "rallying cries for murdering Jews," writing, "[a]s a Jew, I feel threatened when I see these and depressed that they surround my workplace." FreeBeacon

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Student who filmed Barstool ‘f*** the Jews sign’ calls on ‘humanity to join forces’ against ‘J.. supremacy’ The Philadelphia student who uploaded a video of a customisable sign reading “f*** the Jews” in a Barstool Sports bar has called on “humanity to join forces” against “J.. supremacy”.

Mo Khan, who has claimed he was not involved in ordering the sign and that he was acting as a “citizen journalist” by displaying it on Instagram, gave an interview to notorious antisemitic conspiracy theorist Stew Peters, in which he claimed that Barstool’s Jewish founder Dave Portnoy had “ruined” his life.

At one point in the interview, Peters told Khan: “These Jews are very tribal...we’re seeing these people come together.

"We have seen the entire Jewish community...make sure that your life is 110 per cent destroyed.”

He then asked: “Do you think it’s time for humanity to become tribal and join forces against J. supremacy?”

In response, Khan said: “Absolutely, especially in this case, in the case of Americans.

"Our First Amendment right, if we’re not supporting what America’s built on...I have no idea what this country was even born for.”

Earlier in the interview, he had also said: “[This incident] just goes to show how much control one group can have on anyone’s potential career.

“I’ve seen arguments saying that if the same sign said ‘f*** the Muslims’, ‘f*** the blacks’, ‘f*** the Christians”, the impact...would not have been anywhere near the impact that this sign had.

"They’re completely and utterly uprooting and annihilating one individual based on pretty much nothing. If that doesn’t show some kind of supremacy...then I don’t really know what else counts as supremacy.”

Khan has previously released a statement regarding the Barstool incident, in which he insisted he was not responsible for the sign’s creation and said: “I abhor hate in all its forms. I was raised to be respectful and amicable to all people.”

However, at various points during the interview Khan made a number of antisemitic comments, as well as failing to challenge Peters as the latter expressed his own antisemitic beliefs. Mo Kahn is your typical example of college antisemitism.

Step 1: engage in/promote blatantly antisemitic behavior.

Step 2: face the consequences.

Step 3: play the victim and claim you were just criticizing Israel @stoolpresidente Thank you for your strong leadership 💪 [6]

— David lederer (@Davidlederer6) May 7, 2025 Everybody knows the rules: I stand with Dave Portnoy. [7]

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 7, 2025.

What kind of person throws a bucket of water on a sleeping homeless person for fun? Just another edgy joke. [pic.twitter.com/nkSbGcuzpr] — Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 7, 2025

This dude is a flat liar. I talked to him on the phone with his buddy and they both owned up to it and cried about it. He then lawyered up after speaking with his family. His name got out because he’s a moron and uploaded “F#ck the Jews” sign to his instagram before I even… [8] — Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 7, 2025

NYT asked @stoolpresidente for a comment about the recent antisemitism flap at the Barstool Sports bar.

Portnoy's response: [pic.twitter.com/FQTYrqH4GT] ("I'd rather stick a pencil in my eye than give you the time of day."...) — Ashley Rindsberg (@AshleyRindsberg) May 7, 2025

Neo Nazi Stew Peters hosts Mo Khan, the now suspended Temple U. student who posted the Barstool “F*ck the Jews” sign to his IG.

Watch as Khan defends the sign as a call to bring attention to Israel’s action & agrees w/Peters about “J.. supremacy”.

[pic.twitter.com/vkFT80n6KU] — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 7, 2025

This is my last post of night but this is unintentionally very funny. It was going so good for Mo on his Neo Nazi show right up till the Nazi said he hates Muslims too. You can’t make this up. [pic.twitter.com/mtCtNpbEto] — Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 7, 2025 TheJC

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Antisemitism is degrading the integrity of our universities – here’s how we can fight it. By Alex Hearn. May 6, 2025.

Using polls and data, Professor Nelson demonstrates that this toxic environment had been primed long before the encampments. For example, in a pre-October 7 survey of 5,000 students from 600 institutions across the US by the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Threats, 13% said that Jews deserved physical attacks. That figure jumped to 20% after the Hamas attacks.

Nelson does not exaggerate, sensationalise or claim the problem is part of a mainstream mindset. Instead, he investigates how the pernicious influence of a radical but vocal minority of staff and student groups became embedded within academic institutions, culminating in public statements that celebrated the massacre of Jewish families as a “historic win” and a “spectacular feat”.

From encampments, boycotts and exclusion to department activism, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) and hate speech, Mindless pulls the threads together to help us make sense of all the manifestations of this indoctrination. What it successfully illustrates is how politicisation can run riot through all areas of a department, creating preordained conclusions without debate or learning. These negative forces even impact the identities of students, who are pressured to pick a side. What remains is no longer recognisable as a university, because “anti-Zionism” has damaged its core mission.

Although he paints a grim overall picture, Professor Nelson gives the reader hope that those who reject the radicals but whose voices just need to be lifted are in the majority. Best of all, he provides concrete proposals for making immediate and comprehensive reforms, which he has spoken about to the House of Lords.

His recommendations include penalties for faculties imposing conformity, practical implementation of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and establishing respect for Jewish tradition, history, culture and differing views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Every vice-chancellor in the UK has been sent a copy of Mindless, which is a start, but everyone else in academia should also read it to fully understand the gravity and implications of the issues.

One advantage of this being published in a Jewish publication is that it unashamedly centres antisemitism and talks about the impact on Jewish students. But it’s also a shame that Mindless wasn’t published in a more mainstream publication, as it works as a cautionary tale of how antisemitism can degrade the integrity of any institution, even one which prides itself on free thinking.

My hope is that universities will try to understand the issues and follow the remedies of this expert insider who understands how to resolve them, rather than continuing to allow themselves to be compromised by a vocal minority.

Antisemitic thinking signals a wider malaise and it is obvious the air in academia is becoming toxic, not just for Jewish students but for anyone who doesn’t conform. Let’s hope academia pays attention to Mindless and cleans up the environment before it becomes irredeemably polluted. TheJC

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Pro-Hamas Protesters Caused Over $1 Million in Damage to University of Washington Building, School Says.

Matthew Xiao. May 7, 2025.

Anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas protesters caused more than $1 million in damage during a violent demonstration Monday evening at the University of Washington in Seattle, according to school officials.

Police arrested 31 protesters for taking over and vandalizing the Boeing-funded Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office told KOMO News on Tuesday. The protesters, who also set several nearby dumpsters on fire, demanded that the university sever ties with Boeing for supplying weapons used in Israel's war against Hamas terrorists.

The protest comes as the Trump administration cracks down on anti-Semitic activity that has swept college campuses following Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.

The organization behind the Monday protest, Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return, is a "suspended student group," university spokesman Victor Balta told CNN. The group has published a manifesto overtly praising Hamas's October 7 attack and also helped organize an anti-Semitic protest on campus in February.

"What occurred [Monday] night in no way compares to last year's encampment," Balta told KOMO News. The protest "involved immediate threats to safety for those inside and around the building and was resolved within a few hours."

"At least two dozen classes are being moved to other locations while the build[ing] remains closed for the rest of the week," Balta said. FreeBeacon

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Calls for inquiry as UK universities branded ‘hubs of hate’ for Jewish students. Peers demand action over ‘institutional failure’ to protect Jewish students on campus May 7, 2025.

UK universities are becoming “hubs of hate” for Jewish and pro-Israel students, according to a damning new report backed by senior MPs and peers who are calling for a public inquiry into campus antisemitism.

The 33-page report, published by pro-Israel educational charity Stand With Us, accuses university leaders of “systematic and institutional failure” to protect Jewish students, many of whom say they have faced violent threats, intimidation and ostracism, often with no meaningful response from their institutions. Some students claim they were even investigated themselves after reporting abuse.

A letter of support, backed by eight cross-party parliamentarians including Lord Austin, Baroness Hodge and Bob Blackman MP, says anti-Jewish racism on campuses is “spiralling beyond control”.

“We are witnessing the normalisation of the previously unthinkable – flagrant support for proscribed terror groups, and the intimidation and ostracisation of Jewish and Zionist students simply because of their identity,” it says.

Baroness Deech, the first independent adjudicator for higher education, said the report “offers a chilling insight into the high levels of discrimination and even acts of violence that Jewish and pro-Israel students are subjected to daily across UK campuses”.

Deech, a former principal at St Anne’s College, Oxford, added: “Universities appear to be systematically failing these students, despite these same institutions rightly taking a zero-tolerance approach to all other forms of racism and discrimination.”

The report follows a nationwide survey conducted by Stand With Us in April 2024. After polling over 1,000 students, the charity found 64 per cent of respondents did not describe the October attacks as terrorism, while 29 per cent said they were an “understandable act of resistance”.

The latter figure rose to 38 per cent among students at the elite Russell Group universities. More than half of this group agreed that those who publicly support Israel on campus should “expect” abuse.

Between October 2023 and March 2025, Stand With Us also conducted interviews and received written testimonies from Jewish students.

These findings, published on Wednesday, include one student who said they had “completely stopped speaking Hebrew on campus because I feel unprecedented levels of being scared”. They added that one student with an Israeli-sounding name “was booed during her own graduation”.

Another said: “Fear is considered ‘normal, baseline’ for Jewish and Israeli students.” The task force did more in 24 hours re one university than the Biden administration did at all universities for over a year after 10/7. And yet people kept asking me, "what more can the Biden administration really do?" [9] — David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 7, 2025 TheJC

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Blackstone president Jonathan Gray donates $125 million to TAU. By Uri Sela. May 7, 2025. Jonathan Gray, president of the American investment firm Blackstone, and his wife, Mindy, have made a landmark donation of $125 million (approximately half a billion shekels) to the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine.

This donation, the largest in the history of the university, will fund the development of new facilities and scholarships for the School of Health and Medical Sciences. In recognition of this generous contribution, the faculty will now bear the Gray family name: The Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences.

This donation comes at a critical time as Israel faces a shortage of doctors. Jonathan and Mindy Gray’s contribution is expected to alleviate this issue by expanding the capacity of the medical school to train more healthcare professionals. It marks a significant step forward in Israel’s efforts to strengthen its medical workforce and enhance its health system.

The donation is not only the largest gift to Tel Aviv University, but also one of the largest ever given to any Israeli university. It will be used for a variety of initiatives, including the construction of new dormitories for 600 students, scholarships, and the expansion of research and teaching facilities.

Israel’s healthcare system suffers from a shortage of doctors, with the number of physicians per capita about 10% lower than the average for countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

The donation will significantly increase the number of students enrolled at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, which is already the largest of its kind in Israel. As part of the expansion, the school will increase its intake of medical students by approximately one-third, training over 400 new doctors annually, double the capacity of other large faculties in Israel. JPost

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Masked anti-Israel protesters storm Columbia library, shove past security as Ivy Leaguers prep for finals. Joe Marino, Marie Pohl, Chris Nesi and David Propper Published May 7, 2025 A mob of masked anti-Israel protesters stormed Columbia University’s Butler Library Wednesday — with the chaos injuring at least two school safety officers and later sparking dozens of arrests, officials and law enforcement sources said.

Around 80 agitators were taken into custody so far Wednesday evening, sources said, just hours after a large group of activists were caught on camera shoving past a security guard at the library’s front entrance earlier in the day.

Once inside, they draped large signs over bookshelves, one declaring the library a “liberated zone” and another bearing the name of Bassel al-Araj, a Palestinian activist killed by Israel Defense Forces in a 2017 raid in the West Bank — though they misspelled his first name as “Basel.”

The raucous demonstrators then donned keffiyeh headscarves and beat drums while clapping to chants of “free, free Palestine” during a time when other students are preparing for end-of-the-year exams.

Photos obtained by The Post show protesters defacing the library walls, hanging Palestinian flags and marking tables with colored tape. Other images show about half a dozen security guards forming a line opposite a much larger group of protesters. Columbia’s Butler Library: pro terror mob takes over AGAIN, chanting “Min el-maiyeh lel mayieh, Falastin arabieh” (“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab”). NYPost

According to students, they’re distributing stickers and pamphlets glorifying 10/7. [pic.twitter.com/igKJhX66lE] — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 7, 2025

The Hamas sympathizers at Columbia are handing out their own “syllabus."

It is indistinguishable from the standard Columbia political science course [10] [pic.twitter.com/8AWsQYFcQC] — Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 7, 2025

More on Hasan Piker's vile antisemitism here: [11] — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 7, 2025

WATCH: Pro-Hamas seminar from Temple SJP and Samidoun “When we ask universities to divest from imperialism[sic], the only way to pull that demand is destroying the university ... We must accept the eventuality of bringing the USA to its knees" [pic.twitter.com/5mPBpl38Vy] — Canary Mission (@canarymission) May 7, 2025

If you are painfully familiar with terrorist communiques, the darkness lifts a bit when you see cosplaying idiot students.

Cardiff, today. Oh dear. [pic.twitter.com/EhHFUosHJB] — habibi (@habibi_uk) May 7, 2025

Last week, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) @Columbia reposted an image featuring the insignia of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). This is not an isolated incident. For over 18 months, SDS… [pic.twitter.com/6B45sxyzjc] — Shoshana Aufzien🎗️ (@shoshanaaufzien) May 6, 2025 [pic.twitter.com/QOJARpbJsf] — Canary Mission (@canarymission) May 7, 2025

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Hospitalist Osamah Abdallah poses as a “humanitarian” while spewing antisemitism - comparing Zionists to ISIS, calling Jews “whisperings of the devil,” and glorifying suicide for Palestine.

Why won’t @Aurora_Health act?

ACT NOW: [12] [13] — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 6, 2025

Nazmi Sabi's Jew hatred continues: - pushes the antisemitic conspiracy that Jews control[sic] the media. - claims J... have a “chokehold” on America due to money. - says J... only exist because of the U.S., and American leaders should fear them.

How is someone like this employed at @GM?… [pic.twitter.com/NYeejfqzCP] — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 7, 2025

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Columbia’s Pulitzer Disgrace May 7, 2025.. The increasingly irrelevant Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday to a slew of left-wing news reports, chronicled by our colleague Andrew Stiles here.

The prize for commentary went to the "Palestinian poet" Mosab Abu Toha for his work in the New Yorker—"deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir," as the Pulitzer board put it—depicting the evils of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

It took just more than 24 hours for Abu Toha’s public statements defending the atrocities of Oct. 7 and assailing the Israeli victims of those attacks to surface. ("How on earth is this girl called a hostage?" he wrote of Emily Damari, a 28-year-old IDF soldier abducted by Hamas. He objected to the media’s humanization of Israeli "hostage" Agam Berger: "These are the ones the world wants to share sympathy for...")

Somehow the intrepid reporters on the Pulitzer Prize board missed them. Huh.

Columbia University’s role in the administration of the Pulitzers and selection of the prize winners is not lost on us. The president of the university, Claire Shipman, sits on the Pulitzer board, which selects the prize winners. So does the president of the Columbia School of Journalism, Jelani Cobb, and the editor in chief of the Columbia Journalism Review. The administrator of the prizes, Marjorie Miller, is also a Pulitzer board member and a Columbia employee. Deliberations over the prize winners take place on the Columbia campus.

Were the Pulitzer board members, including Shipman and New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick, aware of Abu Toha’s public statements before they gave him the award? Will they reevaluate their decision given that, in the immortal words of Jeff Lebowski, new s— has come to light? They aren’t saying, but Miller leaves us to read between the lines, telling the Washington Free Beacon, "The Pulitzer Board is committed to recognizing excellence in reporting, literature, history and culture, and the selection process for each award is based on a review of the submitted works." A Columbia spokeswoman, meanwhile, said the school "is proud to administer the Pulitzer Prizes" but distanced it from the Pulitzer board, which "is independent of the university and operates as such." She did not provide a a response from Shipman. Hey, ignorance is bliss!

Bestowing this award when the university is under federal investigation for violating the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students takes chutzpah. FreeBeacon

EXPOSED: New Pulitzer Prize Winner Excused Abduction of Israelis by Hamas. HonestReporting Staff. May 7, 2025.

The Pulitzer Prize was awarded this week to a Gazan poet who excused the abduction of Israelis by Hamas, HonestReporting revealed on Tuesday (May 6), while calling for the prestigious award to be rescinded.

Mosab Abu Toha, who also spread antisemitic content and fake news on his social media platforms, won the top honor in journalism on Monday (May 5) for his essays published in the New Yorker describing the ongoing war in the enclave.

But it seems that both the magazine and the Pulitzer committee failed to check Abu Toha’s virulent social media posts against Israeli hostages whom Hamas brutally abducted on October 7, 2023.

HonestReporting exclusively shared these posts with Fox News Digital, which reached out to Abu Toha, The New Yorker, and the Pulitzer Prize organization for comment.

“How is this girl called a hostage?”

Abu Toha, who currently lives in the U.S., specifically disparaged female Israeli hostages, questioned their hostage status and implicitly justified their abduction.

Toha posted the following about Israeli hostage Emily Damari on January 24, 2025: How on earth is this girl called a hostage? (And this is the case of most ‘hostages’). This is Emily Damari, a 28 UK-Israeli soldier that Hamas detailed on 10/7… So this girl is called a ‘hostage?’ This soldier who was close to the border with a city that she and her country have been occupying is called a ‘hostage?’

Damari, an Israeli civilian, was shot twice and abducted from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7. Hamas held her for 471 days. But Abu Toha thinks that she cannot even be considered a hostage because she was a “soldier.”

A similar post by Abu Toha, posted on February 3, 2025, targeted former Israeli hostage Agam Berger: The Israeli ‘hostage’ Agam Berger, who was released days ago participates in her sister’s graduation from an Israeli Air Force officers’ course. These are the ones the world wants to share sympathy for..! These are the ones whom CNN, BBC and the likes humanize in articles and TV programs and news bulletins.

Hamas held Agam Berger hostage with none of the rights due to a prisoner who has gone through a legal process. But that doesn’t matter to Abu Toha. Because no Israeli could be a hostage in his eyes.

Toha also cast doubt on the forensic evidence that showed that the Bibas children — 9-month-old Kfir and Ariel, 4 — were killed by their captors. HonestReporting

Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig: One of the journalists who won a Pulitzer Prize this year has a history of denying that Hamas holds hostages.

Mosab Abu Toha believes that if someone served in the army in the past, they can never be held hostage.

Even if their conditions do not comply with requirements for POWs.

Even if they finished their service years prior.

Even if their service was required, in the first place.

That isn’t a legitimate perspective for a journalist, who is meant to tell an unbiased story.

It’s a clear double standard that dehumanizes Jews.

Shame on Pulitzer for ignoring their own standards when it comes to Jews and Israelis. May 7, 2025 [pic.twitter.com/XvQ1blF2h1] — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 7, 2025

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Journalist Killed by Israel Was Cousin of Euro Med Rights Chief — and Linked to Hamas. May 7, 2025. Earlier today, Ramy Abdu, head of the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, claimed that his cousin, Nour Al-Din Matar Abdu, was killed in an Israeli airstrike. However, a Jewish Onliner investigation reveals social media posts showing what appears to be Nour as a child holding an AK-47 and wearing Hamas paraphernalia. Nour has also been pictured alongside former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Additional posts from Nour show him praising deceased Hamas militants and terrorist activity, while another photo reveals his mother holding an AK47 and attending a Hamas rally.

As Jewish Onliner previously reported, Abdu has in the past admitted to having close ties with family members involved in Hamas, including his brother-in-law, Muhammad Daoud Ismail al-Jamassi (Abu Obeida), a senior Hamas figure. Abdu also claimed to be childhood friends with Assad Abu Sharia, the founder of the Mujahideen Brigades, a Hamas-affiliated terrorist group involved in the kidnapping of Israeli children during the October 7 massacre. In 2013, the Israeli government officially designated Abdu as a Hamas affiliate, placing him under sanctions for supporting the group’s activities.

Social Media Evidence of Support for Hamas. Nour’s Facebook page paints a clear picture of his sympathies and ties to Hamas. Images show him with former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and he captions one photo, “Uncle Abu Al-Abd Haniyeh, may God bless your evening.”

In other posts, he shares photos of his mother holding what appears to be an AK47, and attending a rally supporting Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades. Credit: Noor M Abdu on Facebook.

One post commemorates a deceased al-Qassam terrorist that Nour refers to as his “friend,” while another praises Mohammad Deif, a former Hamas military leader and one of the masterminds behind the October 7 massacre.

In 2021, Nour posted an image of what appears to be a Carlo submachine gun, an improvised weapon frequently used in attacks by Palestinian terrorists with the caption, “In Jerusalem, the bullets have spoken ✌🏻💪🏻.”

Ramy Abdu's post has been shared by prominent journalists, including Myriam Francois from Al Jazeera, with no mention of his cousin's Hamas ties. The same is true of Drop Site News, which wrote that Nour’s death is “part of a systematic Israeli campaign to assassinate Palestinian reporters.” Nour Abdu’s Facebook page paints a clear picture of his sympathies toward Hamas. Images show him with former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and he captions one photo, “Uncle Abu Al-Abd Haniyeh, may [Allah] bless your evening. [pic.twitter.com/ba1IObjctcp — Jewish Onliner (@JewishOnliner) May 7, 2025 JewishOnliner

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The latest "journalist" to die in Gaza is Yahya Sobeih.

In a completely unrelated coincidence, he also believes that J.. are "defiling" the land of Israel by living there.

Seems like a pleasant fellow. [pic.twitter.com/y2RTsGvzbn] — Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) May 7, 2025.

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Pulitzer Prize finalist criticizes Israeli military in remarks to newsroom.

(May 7, 2025 / JNS).

Louisa Loveluck, a reporter for The Washington Post who has faced scrutiny over factual errors in her reporting about the war in the Gaza Strip following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, blasted Israeli military operations on Monday after the paper’s coverage was named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist. [...] Loveluck, who is based in London and listed among several Post journalists in the Pulitzer announcement, condemned actions by the Israel Defense Forces, according to a recording of her comments obtained by Jewish Insider.

Saying “individual stories are lost in the deluge,” Loveluck pointed to one that examined the circumstances surrounding the death of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old girl allegedly killed by Israel while she and her relatives tried to escape the violence in Gaza City, the Insider reported.

“The Israeli military maintains to this day that it was not there, it was not responsible,” Loveluck said, urging “anyone who can bear it to read her story.”

Loveluck also referred to Hamas casualty figures that do not distinguish between civilians and terrorists, something critics say the Post regularly fails to acknowledge...

An anonymous Post journalist told Jewish Insider that Loveluck didn’t “mention Hamas or the hostages once” during her remarks.

The journalist told the Insider that Loveluck’s oversight, “really exemplifies the Post’s coverage of the war: ignoring Hamas’ actions—so readers don’t understand why Israel is fighting in Gaza at all.” JNS

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All At Sea_ Reuters’ Confused Coverage Of Conscience, The Latest Gaza ‘Aid’ Ship.

By Tamar Sternthal. May 6, 2025.

There is no independent confirmation of the anti-Israel activists’ claim that their boat is carrying aid. To the contrary, as Times of Israel reports in its improved-upon version of the same Reuters story: The Saudi Al Arabiya news channel, citing a Western security source, reported Friday that the aid ship had been arranged by Hamas and that those onboard planned to engage with IDF troops as they approached the Gaza shore.

Moreover, as Reuters’ own reporting in the very same story notes, Malta (with a record of pro-Palestinian stances) itself has not yet been able to determine that the cargo is aid: Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Sunday that Malta was prepared to assist the ship with necessary repairs so that it could continue on its journey, once it was satisfied that the vessel held only humanitarian aid.. .

A Malta government spokesman said its offer was to assist in repairs out at sea once the boat’s cargo was verified to be aid.

Does Reuters have information that the Maltese authorities do not?

In addition to reporting as fact that Conscience is carrying aid (despite the fact that the Maltese authorities have yet to establish this information), the article also falsely reports that in 2010 the Mavi Marmara was likewise seeking to deliver aid. Regarding the Mavi Marmara passengers who violently attacked the Israeli naval commandos, shooting them and taking three captive, Christopher Scicluna whitewashed: Another NGO ship on a similar mission to Gaza in 2010 was stopped and boarded by Israeli troops, and nine activists died.

Regarding this deadly incident, the facts have long been well known and documented. The Mavi Marmara was armed with weapons — deployed against IDF soldiers — not aid. Passengers had also wrested guns from Israeli soldiers, and organizer Greta Berlin later admitted — though only in a private Facebook group whose contents were leaked — that contrary to her public statements Israelis “would not have started to fire” had one of the passengers not disarmed a soldier. (The Southern Poverty Law Center later described that passenger as a “raving, David Duke-endorsing anti-Semite.”)

As documented in the UN’s 2011 Palmer report (p. 47), the ship carried 546 passengers but no humanitarian aid supplies for the people of the Gaza Strip. If the flotilla had been a purely humanitarian mission it is hard to see why so many passengers were embarked and with what purpose. Furthermore, the quality and value of many of the humanitarian goods on board the vessels is questionable. There were large quantities of humanitarian and construction supplies on board the Gazze 1, Eleftheri Mesogeio and Defne-Y. There were some foodstuffs and medical goods on board the Mavi Marmara, although it seems that these were intended for the voyage itself. Any “humanitarian supplies” were limited to foodstuffs and toys carried in passengers’ personal baggage. The same situation appears to be the case for two other of the vessels: the Sfendoni, and the Challenger I. There was little need to organize a flotilla of six ships to deliver humanitarian assistance if only three were required to carry the available humanitarian supplies. The number of journalists embarked on the ships gives further power to the conclusion that the flotilla’s primary purpose was to generate publicity.

In October 2023, the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reported that: …several other initiatives for sending aid boats to the Gaza Strip have been reported since the beginning of the war. All of them are based in Turkey and Zaher Birawi is involved in all of them. Birawi is a Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood activist from Britain who is the chairman of the International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza, which is a founding member of the Freedom Fleet coalition and who was one of the leaders of the Mavi Marmara flotilla.

Reuters itself previously corrected in both in English and Arabic after wrongly reporting in 2023 that the Mavi Marmara was carrying aid. The New York Times has also corrected the identical error regarding the Mavi Marmara. Reuters has yet to follow up on CAMERA’s request to correct the latest mischaracterization of the Mavi Marmara‘s 2010 cargo, and to likewise clarify that Freedom Flotilla’s claim that Conscience is carrying aid is unconfirmed. CAMERA

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When will the BBC start reporting accurately and impartially on UNRWA?

May 7, 2025.

As we see, for well over a year the BBC – including its BBC Verify department – has refrained from conducting any meaningful independent investigation into the topic of the participation of UNRWA employees in the October 7th massacre or the wider issue of UNRWA connections to proscribed terrorist organisations, opting instead to blandly amplify that UN agency’s denials and claims.

An Israeli government report dated April 23rd 2025 provides declassified intelligence concerning The Connection between UNRWA and Hamas in Gaza.

“At least 1,462 UNRWA employees in Gaza are members of Hamas, PIJ, or similar organizations—comprising nearly 12% of the agency’s workforce in Gaza were verified up to this point, Of these: – 1,157 are employed in the education system. – 80 school principals and deputy principals are members of terrorist groups, including 16 from Hamas’ military wing. – Additional operatives were found in engineering, health, logistics, and administration. These figures are based on cross-referencing UNRWA’s official staff lists with Hamas’ own personnel records—including internal recruitment databases, military training rosters, and administrative files—matched through national ID numbers.”

Given Holligan’s promotion of the statement “Unrwa has challenged Israel’s allegation that it knowingly has Hamas members in its ranks”, it is particularly interesting to see that in some cases, Israel had informed UNRWA of the terror connections of employees long before the current war began.

Clearly it is past time for the BBC to change its longstanding editorial policy of uncritical amplification of UN and UNRWA statements and to begin providing its audiences with accurate and impartial coverage of stories concerning issues relating to that UN agency. CAMERA

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Is it possible to talk about Israeli policy without comparing it to the Nazis?

Apparently not at the @Guardian!

According to the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is an example of… [pic.twitter.com/as8oO6pnp2] — Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) May 7, 2025

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Is @washingtonpost trying to justify Houthi attacks on Israel and U.S. targets by citing civilian deaths in Gaza?

Reminder: The Houthi slogan is "Death to America, Death to Israel." Their attacks aren't a form of protest. [pic.twitter.com/6nHEKXEUDo] — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 7, 2025

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In what alternate reality did Israel break a "peace agreement" with Hamas?!

And in whose world did this "diminish hopes of an eventual two-state solution"?!

Just @guardian's. 🤦 [pic.twitter.com/URVGJVbbJN] — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 7, 2025

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Shame on @ajplus this child, according to her own mother, has a debilitating disease which doctors have been unable to diagnose.

Saying that she has “malnutrition” is an outright lie.

Using a child’s illness to score political points like this is disgraceful.#BanAlJazeera. [14]. [pic.twitter.com/gODYAriG40] — GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) May 7, 2025

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🔥 The incident at the Thai restaurant has sparked a lot of questions. Here’s a thread with clips and observations that naturally come up just from watching the footage. (Graphic content. Not making claims — just raising questions.) 1/🧵 [pic.twitter.com/6Dmz7izCUU] — GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) May 7, 2025

The Bolivian mummy photos were “borrowed” and falsely presented as children from Gaza. What’s interesting is that even after the deception was exposed, the image continues to circulate — misleading countless people. [pic.twitter.com/VLUFRNAsjp] — GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) May 7, 2025

How does that even make sense? [pic.twitter.com/jDs605l5qS] — GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) May 7, 2025 One of Israel’s finest heroes ever to grace X… he tirelessly destroys the Pallywood industry one fake video at a time. It’s the one, the only…@GAZAWOOD1 🔥🔥🔥 [pic.twitter.com/DeOpLWJukV] — Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) May 6, 2025

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acohofficial: Temple student Mo Khan filmed an antisemitic sign, posted it to Instagram, then doubled down on a neo-Nazi podcast. This isn’t activism. It’s radicalization. Full breakdown now on The Aaron Cohen Show. May 7, 2025. Instagram

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WATCH: Mo Khan, the Temple student behind the antisemitic Barstool Sansom bottle service sign, accidentally discovers that his actions have consequences. May 7, 2025. [...] Like clockwork, Mo Khan comes the Middle East deflection. Suddenly, he’s talking about Gaza, as if that justifies anything. What does Gaza have to do with bottle service in Philadelphia? Absolutely nothing—except that Khan sees an opportunity to shift blame, paint himself as the oppressed underdog, and score sympathy points with people who conflate hate speech with activism.

The cognitive dissonance is off the charts. You go to a bar owned by a Jewish man, use that platform to promote antisemitic garbage, and then act stunned when the guy uses his influence and name recognition to expose you. Libertyline

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Here’s Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a US-designated global terrorist and high-level Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, leading funeral prayers for those who died in the Indian missile strikes.

Representatives of the Pakistan Armed Forces and police stand next to him.

Hafiz Abdul Rauf is closely… [pic.twitter.com/OzuSL2Yfnx] — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 7, 2025

Their strategy is to provoke you with terrorist attack after terrorist attack

And then when you finally respond, they portray you as the villain

I stand with India 🇮🇳 [pic.twitter.com/zBvPHIURml] — Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) May 7, 2025

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It was never about Palestine. It’s a war of political Islam against anything that isn’t Muslim. India and Israel are just the first dominoes. Europe, Australia, the U.S., and Canada are next.

Ask Mohammed, he doesn’t even bother to deny it. [pic.twitter.com/hTVisDPHqh]

— Ella Travels (Ella Kenan) (@EllaTravelsLove) May 7, 2025

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Seth Frantzman: Can Syria’s New Government Protect the Country’s Minorities? The Syrian government now faces a major test. It has support from Western countries and countries that opposed the Assad regime. It has a lot of goodwill because people have sympathy for Syrians who suffered fourteen years of brutal civil war. However, with each clash and each attack on minorities, the goodwill and capital the new government in Damascus has built up is slipping away. This could cause a crisis between Damascus and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, who have sought to integrate their forces with the government in the coming year. The United States backs the SDF. And while they have been flexible in dealing with the new government, they don’t want to see minorities persecuted in eastern Syria.

There are other challenges facing Damascus. Israel has vowed to protect the Druze. After the attacks on that community, Israel carried out several rounds of airstrikes in and around Damascus at the beginning of the month. These airstrikes can weaken the new Syrian government. The Syrian government knows it can’t oppose Israel, and this puts it between a rock and a hard place. If Damascus gives in and fails to enforce law and order in areas like Latakia or Suwayda, then the government will find itself without the legitimacy to continue rebuilding Syria.

For instance, Syria needs to secure Afrin in northwest Syria and take control of Turkish-backed areas in northern Syria. If each region thinks it can be autonomous, Syria is not likely to emerge as a stable and prosperous polity.

On May 5, the U.S. Embassy in Damascus called on Syria to hold perpetrators of recent violence accountable. Acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea also said that “the Syrian people deserve leadership that is transparent, accountable, and fully committed to a more peaceful and prosperous future after 54 years of ruinous rule under the Assad regime. The United States continues to closely monitor the actions of the Syrian interim authorities…”

Syria is on notice. It can learn from the clashes in March and May and put in place a law enforcement model to pre-empt clashes in the future. For instance, the mechanism could involve a quick reaction force designed to create protective zones, checkpoints, and a buffer around areas where communal tensions erupt. Authorities could also take steps to monitor social media to identify, prepare for, and pre-empt clashes in the future.

The wider problem in Syria is that there are too many well-armed and independent militias. Most of these groups were involved in the civil war. Some of them are backed by Turkey and the Ankara-supported Syrian National Army. Others are linked to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group Shara’a led before he became the transitional president. Then there are groups such as the Druze forces in Suwadya and also remnants of the Eighth Brigade in southern Syria, a former rebel group that reconciled with the Assad regime and then backed the new government. It was disbanded in April but likely has numerous adherents in Dara’a province in the south of the country.

Syria has sought to collect some small arms, but the government has found this is a challenge. There are also numerous incidents of smuggling in Syria. Some of the arms being smuggled include Iranian-made rockets likely destined for Hezbollah. Fourteen years of civil war means the country is awash in weapons. The imperative for reining in militias and armed groups, as well as extremists who seek to exploit sectarian tensions, is clear. The road ahead is not easy. However, the clashes in March and May show that Damascus needs a new mechanism to address emerging crises that can derail Syria’s critical state-building project. Seth Frantzman: Syria's president to visit Europe, and why France was the natural choice Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is making his first trip to Europe this week. He is traveling to France after a surprise announcement on Tuesday.

Sharaa was appointed the leader of Syria’s transition government in January, and in March, he formed a new government of around two dozen ministers for the country.

He is a former leader of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a rebel group that also had historic ties to al-Qaeda. There have been concerns that members of his group are extremists who will suppress minorities. Sharaa is trying to show that Syria is going to be an inclusive country.

Sharaa’s trip and his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron are important. This is his first trip to a Western country.

Many European countries have embraced the new government of Syria. Damascus wants an end to sanctions, and it wants investment. This will take time.

France is a natural choice for the first Western trip by Sharaa. This is because France was a former colonial power. It is also the former colonial power of Lebanon and has interests in Lebanon and Syria.

France also differs from the US and UK approaches to Damascus and the region. As such, France is seen as perhaps a more balanced country in terms of its Middle East policy, and one where Syria will find favor. The UK and the US are more cold and cautious in their approach. Who would have imagined that the leader of ISIS would be welcomed as a guest of honor in Paris?

Welcome to 2025 🤯 [pic.twitter.com/Rwsp6gk0lE] — Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) May 7, 2025

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The Iran nuclear deal Trump wants.

Clifford D. May. (May 7, 2025.l / JNS)

A fourth round of talks between Tehran’s envoys and Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead negotiator, did not take place in Rome over the weekend as had been expected.

Neither Tehran’s spokesmen nor the U.S. State Department gave a clear explanation for why, but I’ll venture a guess: Iran’s rulers want concessions in exchange for continuing to talk.

They think Trump needs negotiations more than they do. Their assessment is based on years of palaver with presidents Obama and Biden.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei hopes that, concession by concession, he can convince Trump to embrace a warmed-over version of Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, the fatally flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Trump called “a horrible one-sided deal that should never, ever have been made.”

Sunday on “Meet the Press,” President Trump reiterated what he wants: “Total dismantlement [of Tehran’s nuclear weapons program]. That’s all I would accept.”

That means no uranium enrichment or reprocessing, and a halt to the regime’s development of missiles that can deliver nuclear warheads to American cities.

Witkoff is not a career diplomat. That may prove advantageous. Too often, career diplomats are overly eager to conclude deals because doing so brings them professional plaudits.

If those deals turn out to be bummers, so what? By then, the diplomats will have been promoted or awarded a professorship at an elite university where they can hold forth on The Art of Diplomacy.

That’s how North Korea became nuclear-armed after decades of negotiations and agreements.

That’s how Syria retained a stock of chemical weapons after the Obama administration claimed a Russian-mediated dialogue had brought about the destruction of the Assad regime’s CW arsenal.

The 2015 JCPOA is an especially egregious example. As Sen. Tom Cotton observed: “The deal didn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb; it paved the path.”

🚨JUST IN: Trump on Hugh Hewitt's podcast about the nuclear talks with Iran: Prefers a strong agreement with a high level of certainty. There are only two options to blow them up (presumably Iran's centrifuges)—in a nice way, i.e. with an agreement, or in a brutal way (with an… — Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) May 7, 2025. JNS

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BREAKING 🔴 The Iran’s curse deepens!

Facing a worsening energy shortage, the Iranian government has announced daily power cuts and shortened work hours in all government buildings to 6 a.m. to 1 p.m., five days a week. [pic.twitter.com/oEPuDqjA56] — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 7, 2025

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The trial that kept us safe from Holocaust denial – at least for one generation. May 7, 2025. Antisemitism is both static and dynamic: that is its nature, and a function of its success. Lipstadt, who served as Joe Biden’s envoy on antisemitism, says that those who practise Irving’s brand of Holocaust denial (she calls it “hardcore denial”) are outliers still, though “they will have their followers”. And those sometimes get onto Piers Morgan’s show and Joe Rogan’s podcast. Rogan, once a comedian, has the No1 podcast in the world. He has hosted guests who claim Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israel, and that Hitler opposed Kristallnacht. But I doubt Rogan would allow a guest to say the Holocaust didn’t happen; in any case, he doesn’t need to.

Modern Holocaust denial, Lipstadt said, is “squishier. ‘Oh, here’s the Holocaust again’, or rolling the eyes. That diminution, and that’s much harder, that’s whack-a-mole.”

What she calls “softcore Holocaust denial” is broad. Sometimes it is subtle; sometimes it is not. There is mainstream belief in Jewish evil (the idea that it happened but the Jews deserved it); attempts to minimise the Jewishness of the victims with an over-representation of perpetrators in popular culture (didn’t everyone suffer?); romantic novels set in death camps (how bad could it be?); and sometimes an emphasis on so-called Jewish collaborators (who did it really?).

There is, above all, fatigue. I used to think this was a product of shame, and the need for moral survival – if the Jews deserved their fate the world is a safer place for the rest – but I am not so sure now.

Towards the end Julius said: “These battles are fought in every generation.” Victories, he added, “are always critical but never more than provisional”, and he is right.

In that spirit I will say this: I thought the appearance of the playwright David Hare on the panel – he dramatised the trial in the film Denial (2016) – was odd for the following reason: Hare also dramatised Bernard Schlink’s novel The Reader in 2008. This is a self-serving, exculpatory and trivial film about an illiterate (and beautiful) concentration camp guard (Kate Winslet). It suggests that, had she known poetry, she would not have helped burn 300 Jews alive in a church.

Yet, the majority of the men around the table at the Wansee Conference had post-graduate degrees and the SS volunteer units were heavy with doctoral theses, many of them in the humanities.

The Reader is a terrible and immoral book: for a novel about the Holocaust its emphasis, to me, is repugnant. Still, it was a happy day, and to quote Billy Wilder: nobody’s perfect. TheJC

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DOJ officials tell Orthodox leaders they have launched probes into antisemitic discrimination. Senior Justice Department officials revealed on Wednesday that they have “several open investigations involving Orthodox Jewish communities across the country.”

During a meeting between Trump administration officials and Orthodox Jewish leaders at the Justice Department, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Michael Gates told attendees that the DOJ is looking into several matters impacting the Orthodox community, including how some municipalities’ use of zoning laws had affected individual religious communities’ ability to operate normally.

“We currently have several open investigations involving Orthodox Jewish communities across the country. These investigations include municipalities that have restricted building or operation of houses of worship or other religious land uses, and we are investigating cities that have made changes to zoning laws that negatively impact religious communities. In another matter, we are investigating antisemitic discrimination in public accommodations, including whether a restaurant, believe it or not, has engaged in a pattern practice of religious discrimination for refusing service to Jewish patrons,” Gates said.

Given the ongoing nature of the probes, Gates noted that he couldn’t “get into the specific details” about each.

Top officials from the department’s Civil Rights Division took part in the meeting, which was organized by the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, including Gates; Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights; and Leo Terrell, senior counsel to Dhillon. The trio assured attendees that the DOJ is working on shared priorities such as combating domestic antisemitism and ensuring religious liberty protections. They outlined legal mechanisms they are utilizing to prosecute antisemitic hate crimes and target state and local governments that may not be in compliance with federal laws protecting religious freedom.

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One of China’s Leading Economists Lectures about the Evils of “Jewish Financial Capital”. Mosaic Magazine. May 7, 2025. In that same category of “anti-Israel and evil but not necessarily anti-Semitic” one might be tempted to place China, which has aligned itself with the Russia-Iran axis primarily out of hostility toward the American alliance system. But still, it’s hard not to wonder if a de-facto alliance with Hamas and Hizballah, and cooperation with the Houthis, has given anti-Semitism a chance to rub off on the secular Communist regime. Or maybe it’s just inevitable that totalitarians will end up blaming their problems on the Jews.

Tuvia Gering notes that, on April 20, a prominent Chinese economist delivered a sweeping, ideologically loaded speech on the U.S.–China trade war and great-power rivalry. What began as a provocative, at times insightful, commentary on the U.S.–China trade war quickly spiraled into tin-foil-hat grand theorizing about world order and Western civilization. It culminated . . . with claims that Western democracy is a sham front for mythical “Jewish financial capital” that controls the Federal Reserve and manipulates U.S. politics and foreign policy to undermine China and the working people of the world.

The speaker, Liu Yuhui, is a Communist-party member and sits on the executive council of China’s Chief Economist Forum .. Mosaic Magazine

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Sheba Medical Center to open outpost in Boston. Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital in Israel, announced on Wednesday that it will open its first U.S.-based healthcare startup accelerator in Massachusetts in 2026. (May 7, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Security forces arrest Reihan crossing terror attack suspect. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/08/2025 09:29 AM JPost

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Police thwart illegal residents smuggling network. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/08/2025 02:01 PM JPost

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Police arrest Kafr Kassem resident who pledged allegiance to ISIS. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/08/2025 02:09 PM JPost

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After last year's snub, Nagasaki to invite Israel to A-bomb memorial. Itamar Eichner||05.08.25. YNet

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Report: Suspected Iran nuke site found Fox News shows possible nuclear site near known Iran facilities; Tehran says it’s a chemical plant as enrichment talks stall. Ynet|05.08.25. YNet

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US unveils Gaza aid plan to bypass Hamas. Exclusive: Witkoff reveals new initiative at UN, aiming to bypass Hamas and the UN via the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Itamar Eichner|05.08.25. YNet

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IDF kills Hamas Oct 7 abductor in Gaza airstrike. 17 months after her abduction, IDF kills Hamas terrorist seen with Yafa Adar. Elisha Ben Kimon, Itamar Eichner|05.08.25. YNet

Terrorist who abducted 87-year-old woman eliminated. Israel National News. May 8, 2025, 7:10 PM INN

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Emily Austin and Eylon Levy: 'If they hate you for who you are, double down'. Eylon Levy and Emily Austin open up about the personal cost of advocacy and Israel's ongoing PR battle. Ynetnews|05.08.25 YNet

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Ecuador President: Israel Willing to Help Fight Drug Cartels. |05.08.25. YNet

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Tunisia: Jewish jewelry store owner attacked with axe in Djerba, hospitalized but not in danger|05.08.25. YNet

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‘We strike far, we strike sharp’ | IAF Pilot goes behind the scenes in strikes on Yemen. In a rare interview with Arutz Sheva, IAF pilot Maj. A. shares the tension, risks, and precision behind the long-range strike on Houthi military targets in Yemen. Uzi Baruch. May 8, 2025, 7:18 PM INN

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Israel normalization requirement dropped from Saudi nuclear talks. Israel National News. May 8, 2025, 7:36 PM INN

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Tamir Nimrodi among hostages whose fate is unknown. Since the October 7th Massacre, no sign of life was received from Tamir Nimrodi.

Israel National News. May 8, 2025, 8:53 PM INN

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Saudi Arabia invites leaders of GCC for Gulf-US summit in Riyadh, says adviser to Bahraini king. By Reuters. 05/08/2025 09:16 PM JPost

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No longer afraid: UNIFIL reportedly take down Hezbollah flags in southern Lebanon. Yitz Goldberg. May 8, 2025, 9:49 PM INN

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US State Dept says a solution for Gaza food aid is 'steps away'. By Reuters. 05/08/2025 09:56 PM JPost

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Netanyahu proposes cross‑party Knesset probe into Oct. 7. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/08/2025 10:03 PM JPost

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A mother’s hope. Hostages' mothers mark second Mother's Day without their sons. Israel National News. May 8, 2025, 10:28 PM IN

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US says it opened foreign funding probe into University of Pennsylvania. By Reuters. 05/08/2025 10:45 PM JPost

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International law: Israel establishes legal team to defend soldiers abroad. David Hacohen. May 8, 2025. JFeed

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IDF hunting terrorists who injured infant with stones. A woman was also stricken with anxiety following the attack. The IDF is currently in pursuit of any suspects. Avi Woolf. May 8, 2025. JFeed

Baby lightly wounded after terrorists pelt bus with rocks near Jericho. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 12:18 AM JPost

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Syria confirms indirect talks with Israel to ‘contain’ tensions. Charles Bybelezer. (May 8, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Anti-Israel protesters arrested after takeover of Columbia library.. Vita Fellig. (May 8, 2025 / JNS) JNS

'Pro-Hamas thugs no longer welcome': Marco Rubio orders visa status review of Columbia library protesters. TOI World Desk / Timesofindia.com / May 08, 2025. TimesOfIndia

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NY man charged with hate crimes for assaulting Jews has phone ‘littered’ with pro-Hamas material. "The recent spike in violent crime against Jewish citizens is deeply disturbing," stated Kash Patel, the FBI director. (May 8, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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IRGC chief threatens to 'open gates of hell' on Israel, US. Elad Benari. May 9, 2025, 1:09 AM INN

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59% of Palestinians under the Palestinian Authority: October 7 was “correct decision”. Ephraim D. Tepler and Itamar Marcus|May 8, 2025. [Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research website]

More than a year and a half after the Hamas-led atrocities of October 7, 59% of Palestinians polled in the "West Bank" still think that Hamas' made the "correct decision" to torture, rape, burn alive, murder, and kidnap hundreds of hostages—even including children—according to the most respected Palestinian polling agency. The new poll by Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research asks: "In your view, was Hamas' decision to launch its offensive against Israel on 7 October a correct or incorrect one?" The polling shows a continuation of the pattern of decreasing support since December 2023, when the first poll was taken after the October 7 atrocities. It found that 82% of "West Bank" Palestinians thought October 7 was a "correct decision." In March and June 2024, just over 70% of Palestinians there supported it. In September 2024, support dropped to 64%. And now, 59% still say it was a "correct decision."

The slow but continuous decline in support directly correlates with the worsening military defeat in Gaza. Although the overwhelming majority of Palestinians supported and still support the atrocities, as the cost goes up, fewer think it was the correct decision. PalWatch

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Air Europa cancels Sunday's Tel Aviv-Madrid flights. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 11:51 AM JPost

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Germany's Merz discussed Gaza, Syria in call with Netanyahu. By Reuters. 05/09/2025 12:18 PM JPost

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Good To Know! Witkoff: We're not going for another Obama-style Iran Deal. Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff spoke to Breitbart News, dispelling some of the misconceptions being reported regarding US plans for Gaza and Iran's nuclear weapons program. Avi Woolf. May 9, 2025 13:07. JFeed

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Report: Trump held private meeting with Ron Dermer to discuss Iran and Hamas. Axios reports the two discussed urgent regional security issues, including Tehran’s ambitions and Hamas hostilities. Avi Nachmani. May 9, 2025. JFeed

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'Terror encounters the army': IDF Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth discusses Wednesday's attacks. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 01:35 PM JPost

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IDF strikes over 60 targets in Gaza over past 24 hours. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 01:51 PM JPost

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IDF arrests terrorist who manufactured explosives in West Bank. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 02:11 PM JPost

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IDF captures terror cell responsible for molotov attack near Efrat. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 03:30 PM JPost

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IDF chief meets former hostages, vows to bring all captives home. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 05:11 PM JPost

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Israeli Embassy in France receives unusual envelope. By Amichai Stein. 05/09/2025 05:34 PM JPost

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Security forces arrest shooter near Israeli consulate building in Istanbul. By Walla! 05/09/2025 06:03 PM JPost

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Security forces eliminate top Islamic Jihad terrorist.

IDF, Yamam and Shin Bet forces eliminate terrorist Noor Beitawi, the head of the Islamic Jihad's terror network in Jenin, who was planning imminent attacks.

Israel National News. May 9, 2025, 8:07 PM INN

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IDF strikes several Hamas terrorists in northern Gaza. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025 JPost

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Priority for Trump admin is releasing hostages from Gaza, Leavitt says. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/09/2025. JPost

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Report: Spike in Jew-hatred towards Jewish lawmakers due to new Meta policy. The Anti-Defamation League says that such attacks on Facebook rose 500% due to the changes in how the platform moderates content. Jonathan D. Salant. May 9, 2025 JNS

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More info needed on US deal with Houthis, five congressmen tell Trump. The agreement “sends the wrong message to both our allies and adversaries,” the bipartisan group of House members wrote. JNS Staff. May 9, 2025 JNS

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Choosing sides in the battle over fighting antisemitism. Rather than get behind Trump, the American Jewish Committee, left-wing rabbis and Democrats oppose reforms that would punish schools that discriminate against Jews. Jonathan S. Tobin. May 9, 2025 JNS

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‘Vital role’ for lawyers in fighting Jew-hatred, StandWithUs says. “When there is a legal remedy, lawyers can play a vital role in ensuring that there is a strong response from our Jewish community to antisemitic activity,” Deedee Bitran told JNS. May 9, 2025. JNS

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California school-board trustees teach hate, division and hypocrisy. When done right, an ethnic-studies curriculum promotes mutual understanding, respect and democratic values. Mitch Siegler and Sara E. Brown May 9, 2025 JNS

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US Ed Department: ‘Inaccurate, incomplete’ disclosure by Penn of foreign funding. “The Trump administration will vigorously uphold the law and ensure universities are transparent with their foreign gifts and investments,” the department stated. May 9, 2025 JNS

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The willing executioners of today’s anti-Israel hatred. Words like “genocide” and “apartheid” are recklessly thrown into political discourse. Fiamma Nirenstein. May 9, 2025. JNS

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We’ll keep hitting them': Israel vows more strikes on Houthis, considers hitting Iran. Iran-backed Yemeni rebels keep launching missiles at Israel; in response, Israel plans wider, more forceful strikes; 'Deal with US doesn't bind us—they’ll pay,' says security official; 'Iran won’t get off easy'. Itamar Eichner, Lior Ben Ari | 05.09.25 YNet

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Nabbed terrorists lead IDF to major Rafah tunnel. One kilometer long, 8 stories deep: Captured Hamas terrorists lead IDF to major Rafah tunnel. IDF says massive complex included living quarters, bathrooms, a kitchenette, blast doors and multiple exit shafts; following a thorough examination, Israeli forces demolished the site. Elisha Ben Kimon|05.09.25. YNet

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Columbia University: 65 students suspended after anti-Israel protest at library. Elad Benari, Canada. May 9, 2025. INN

65 Columbia University Students Suspended After Taking Over Library with Palestinian Flags. 65 students were temporarily suspended from Columbia University in New York following their participation in the takeover of the university's main library building, bypassing campus security, placing signs, hanging Palestinian flags, beating drums and chanting 'Free Palestine.' Among those detained was Ramona Sarsgaard, daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, who received a court summons for trespassing. Additionally, 33 more people were banned from entering the campus. Daniel Adelson, New York|05.09.25. YNet

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Despite war, S&P holds Israel’s credit rating. Gad Lior|05.09.25. YNet

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They tried to kill him, but Israeli Batman fights on. At 52, Israeli MMA pioneer Haim Gozali isn’t slowing down; speaking to Ynet, the fighter recalls his Madison Square Garden debut, fighting with a broken rib, his kids in the ring, an online battle since Oct. 7—and surviving an attack in Ukraine. Shimon Elbaz|05.09.25. YNet

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The surprising prize everyone at Cannes wants. Amir Kaminer|05.09.25. YNet

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Israeli forces eliminate top Palestinian jihadist in Jenin. Nur Bitawi was one of the most wanted Palestinian terrorists in West Bank. May 09, 2025 i24

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I Am a Former Hamas Hostage. Here’s My Message to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. May 9, 2025.

By Tal Shoham. Contributor

Tal Shoham was held hostage by Hamas for 505 days. He was released in February. Some mornings I wake up and forget, for a split second, that I’m free.

Then I remember the silence. The darkness. The wet concrete. And the two young men who were lying beside me, deep underground, who are still there.

Their names are Evyatar David and Guy Dalal.

We were held together along with Omer Wenkert for eight and a half months in a Hamas tunnel—just 40 ft. long, less than 3 ft. wide. We slept on soaked mattresses, shared a single pita a day, and took turns whispering stories from home to keep ourselves sane.

We were strangers when we entered that darkness. But we became brothers.

It’s been more than 100 days since President Trump returned to the White House and the ceasefire deal that brought me, Omer, and dozens of others back was achieved. I haven’t been back above ground for that long—but even now, every breath of fresh air, every step in the sun, every quiet moment with my family feels like something sacred. Time feels different now. I carry it more carefully. Because I know how quickly time can run out—and how brutal each passing day is for those still living in captivity.

I spent 505 days as a hostage—held deep beneath the ground. We were watched constantly by a surveillance camera. A bomb was planted above us, rigged to detonate if Israeli forces came too close. We were told we would be blown up if anyone tried to save us. We were threatened, degraded, and at times tortured—not treated as people, but as objects to be controlled and broken.

I am not a soldier. I was kidnapped on Oct. 7 from my in-laws’ home in Kibbutz Be’eri. My wife and children were with me. When terrorists couldn’t break open the door of our safe room, they came in through the window. They dragged me out, threw me into a trunk, and then paraded me through the streets of Gaza.

Before we were separated, I looked into my nine-year-old son's terrified eyes and made a choice no parent should ever face. I told him the truth—that I didn’t know if we were going to die. I couldn’t lie to him in what might have been our final moments together.

For 50 agonizing days after that, I did not know if my family had survived. It was a rare flicker of hope when I learned in November they were about to be released.

Evyatar and Guy, both 22 years old, had been taken from the Nova music festival. Their friends were slaughtered around them. By the time we met in captivity, they were in terrible shape—starved, handcuffed, terrified. For weeks, they’d been fed almost nothing. Their hands were bound behind their backs, their ankles tied, their heads covered with plastic bags. But somehow, they still had spirit. During those last eight and a half months we spent together in the tunnel, they held on.

The men who held us didn’t see us as human. They tortured us for fun. Sometimes they would light pieces of paper on fire to suck up the small amount of oxygen from the tunnel. We would choke and have to lie on the floor to avoid suffocating.

We came up with daily rituals just to remember who we were. In a place built to break us, we held each other up. We became a unit. We became family.

When I walked out of that tunnel in February, I made a vow: I would speak for those who can’t.

President Trump, I was released in a deal your administration helped progress. Your decision to make the hostages a priority helped bring many people home. I am one of them. I’m here today because this issue was treated with the urgency it demands.

But we are not done. Fifty-nine hostages remain in Hamas captivity. And every day that passes makes it harder for them to survive.

Hamas didn’t release us out of goodwill. They responded to pressure—the kind that comes from international focus and relentless advocacy. I am asking you to do that again to bring every hostage home—both the living and the dead... We can’t let military momentum override moral clarity.

Evyatar and Guy are not statistics. They are sons. Friends. Music lovers. Gentle, funny, full of life. They deserve to walk in the sun again. They deserve a future.

I have seen the darkness. I have felt the weight of airless days, of hunger, of silence. But I also know what it means to breathe again.

President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu, you made that possible for me. Please—bring them home too. Let them breathe again. Time

Tal Shoham reveals the horrors of captivity in a letter to Trump and Netanyahu: "They tortured us for pleasure." In a painful personal column in "Time" magazine, the released hostage tells of the suffering in the tunnels in Gaza - and the sadism of the terrorists: "They lit paper to suck out the little oxygen, we would suffocate. They tortured us for pleasure" • He reveals details about the condition of Eviatar and Guy: "Their heads were covered with bags, they still had spirit." • A difficult testimony to read. N12 | 05.10.25. "Some mornings I wake up and forget, for a split second, that I'm free" - this is how Tal Shoham, who survived 505 days in Hamas captivity, began a personal column in "Time" magazine, in which he directly addresses US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Shoham, who was released last February, asks leaders to work for the release of the remaining hostages, and especially for Eviatar David and Guy Dalal, who shared the inferno with him in a narrow tunnel in Gaza.

"Then I remember the silence. In the darkness. In the wet concrete. And the two young men who lay next to me, deep underground, who are still there," Shoham wrote in the moving column. "Their names are Eviatar David and Guy Dalal." Mako

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Central Command chief: 'Positive trends in Judea and Samaria'. Israel National News. May 9, 2025, 1:21 PM INN

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Week of Raids: 55 arrested, terrorists eliminated in Judea and Samaria. Commanding Officer of the Central Command, MG Avi Bluth, visits the Jordan Valley Regional Brigade and says a "major shift in the eastern arena" is approaching. Israel National News. May 9, 2025, 3:50 PM INN

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11 Percent of Columbia Library Arrestees Identify as They/Them—Nearly 7 Times. America's Trans Population. Marco Rubio says he's reviewing foreign nationals arrested following the raid, putting one they/them student born in Vietnam at risk. Jon Levine. May 9, 2025 It's a they-tifada.

At least 9 of the 81 people, or 11 percent, arrested in connection with storming a Columbia University library Wednesday use "they/them" pronouns, a review of public records by the Washington Free Beacon shows. That share is well above the 1.6 percent of Americans who identify as transgender or nonbinary, according to the Pew Research Center, and more than double the 5 percent of people who identify as transgender or nonbinary under 30. FreeBeacon

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IDF strikes 60 Gaza targets, foils terror threats. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/10/2025 03:48 PM JPost

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Trump says India, Pakistan agree to ‘full and immediate’ cease-fire after ‘long night of talks’ mediated by US. By Diana Glebova. Published May 10, 2025. NYPost

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Fed-up AOC constituents in Bronx, Queens mock absentee ‘rock star’ who’s never in the district: ‘This woman has done nothing’. By Gabrielle Fahmy and Rich Calder Published May 10, 2025. NYPost

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Maher lashes out at woke, anti-American Dem base, says they ‘are with the terrorists’. May 10, 2025 | Kevin Haggerty. Woke fatigue found comedian Bill Maher lashing out at the left for failing to set their “young, loyal followers” straight on being “embarrassed” to be American.

“You couldn’t survive a week living in Intifadaville.”

Like pests drawn to a bug zapper, the mask and keffiyeh-clad Hamas sympathizers that comprised the Democratic Party’s base continued to force their way into the spotlight despite the backlash it had meant in the last election. As those sentiments represented a sliver of the left’s anti-American attitude, Maher’s latest episode of HBO’s “Real Time” excoriated the party for its continued favor for the “weak and woke.”

“Seriously, this is a serious problem for Democrats. Less than one in four Democrats under 30 say they’re proud to be an American. Fifty-four percent say they’re embarrassed by it,” explained the host during his “New Rule” segment. “Embarrassed, like America is your mom picking you up at school? You’re embarrassed to be an American? Well, guess what? The feeling’s mutual because you have no perspective.”

In aiming to provide that perspective, Maher contrasted the rights of women and minorities in the United States with the atrocities committed under Islamist authority and said, “Yes, in America, gays buy buildings. In other places, they get thrown off them.”

“They actually think Hamas is a liberation movement,” the comedian said as occupation efforts had resumed at college campuses like those in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. “They chant for the Houthis. They’re chanting, ‘We will honor our martyrs,’ at Yale … Someone needs to tell the kids America is not the society where women basically have no rights, where there’s zero freedom of religion and where dissent is punishable by death.”

Pointing out how the rotgut had seeped into culture, Maher raised the Irish hip hop group Kneecap’s decision to rail against Israel during their Coachella performance as well as the failure of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) to lambast attendees of the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour that snubbed America for sympathizing Hamas.

“At an AOC/Bernie Sanders rally in Idaho last month, someone threw a Palestinian flag over an American flag and the crowd erupted in approval. What should have happened after that is one of the adults on stage should have told their young, loyal followers, this is not a symbol of freedom. This is,” he said, referring to Old Glory.

“The Democrats’ problem is the energy of the party is with the young, and the young are with the terrorists. That’s not good,” explained the host. “So talk to your children and remind them you don’t really want to live like your heroes in Hamas. All the sh*t you do all day, it was all made in America.”

“Your smartphone, your Grubhub, your freedom to bitch about America — that’s all American stuff. You tell your phone you want a milkshake and a guy brings it to your house, please. You couldn’t survive a week living in Intifadaville,” concluded Maher in part. BPR

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Trump drops normalization demand for Saudi nuclear deal, counts on Kushner connection. As Trump prepares for a Middle East visit, Jared Kushner is quietly advising on talks with Saudi Arabia and other Arab leaders; While normalization with Israel seems distant, Kushner’s deep ties and strategic input are shaping Trump’s ambitious regional agenda. Ynet correspondents | 05.10.25 YNet

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German Foreign Minister departs for Israel: 'Will inquire about war objectives'. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadfull departed for a visit to Israel and the Middle East. Before taking off from Berlin, Wadfull said his visit would include 'critical discussions' and added: 'I will inquire about the strategic objective of the fighting since it resumed in March.' During his visit to Israel, the minister is expected to meet with his counterpart Gideon Saar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and families of hostages. Reuters | 05.10.25. YNet

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Ben-Gvir slams hostage deals with Hamas amid terrorist recidivism. Approximately 50% of Palestinian prisoners released in the November 2023 hostage deal returned to terrorism. JNS Staff. (May 10, 2025 / JNS) National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir lashed out on Friday at Israel’s concessions to Hamas as a “capitulation” to terrorism, citing data on recently freed Palestinian prisoners who resumed attacks. JNS

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Psychological warfare: Hamas publishes video of hostages Bohbot and Ohana. Hamas released a new video of hostages Elkana Bohbot and Yosef Haim Ohana - the latest in Hamas' psychological warfare campaign. Israel National News May 10, 2025, 8:17 PM INN

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Nine soldiers injured by explosive in Shejaiya. Orly Harari. May 10, 2025, 8:51 PM INN

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Khamenei endorses ‘Death to America’ chants ahead of nuclear talks. Khamenei praised the crowd's anti-American stance as talks in Vienna approach amid Tehran's defiance. By Jerusalem Post Staff. May 10, 2025. JPost

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ICC Set Plan to Charge Netanyahu Just After Prosecutor Was Accused of Sexual Assault. The bold step to pursue the Israeli leader for war crimes[sic] built support at the international court for prosecutor Karim Khan as allegations of sexual abuse were surfacing...

By Matthew Dalton. May 10, 2025 9:00 pm ET

Two months after the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, pressure was mounting on Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as he considered charges against Israeli officials for their conduct of the war in Gaza.

Pro-Palestinian "activists" who had labeled him a “genocide[sic] enabler” and a bloc of ICC member countries in the developing world insisted that action was long overdue, pushing Khan into conflict with Israel’s staunch allies in Washington and other Western capitals. WSJ

Report details sexual assault allegations against ICC’s Khan, questions if they may have spurred Israeli arrest warrants. May 11, 2025.

The Wall Street Journal details some of the allegations of sexual assault leveled against International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan and says that he announced his intention to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant just 2.5 weeks after he heard about the accusations against him.

The report says that Khan was coming under increasing pressure to take action over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in the days and weeks after the Hamas-led October 7 onslaught, and that he had been lashing out at his team.

A Malaysian lawyer in her 30s reportedly asked to meet with Kahn to ask him to change his manner of interactions with the staff.

According to the Journal, the woman testified to UN officials that Khan started to touch her in a sexual manner, something that she said had occurred for a number of months.

“She said she attempted to leave the room several times, but he took her hand and eventually pulled her to the bed. Then he pulled off her pants and forced sexual intercourse, according to the testimony,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“He always holds on to me and leads me to the bed,” she said in testimony reviewed by the Journal. “It’s the feeling of being trapped.”

The report says the woman said it was one of multiple incidents of “coerced sexual intercourse” but that she stayed in the job because she felt it was an important role in human rights and she was additionally paying for medical care for her mother. The report says she also began to fear retaliation if she were to complain.

She alleged that Khan carried out “nonconsensual sex acts” in New York, Colombia, Congo, Chad and Paris, as well as at a residence owned by his wife in The Hague, the report says. [...] The newspaper says that just 2.5 weeks after Khan learned of the allegations, he announced his intention to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant over the war in Gaza, in addition to Hamas leaders.

“The timing of the announcement has spurred questions about whether Khan was aiming to protect himself from the sexual-assault allegations. The day before announcing the warrant application, Khan abruptly canceled a trip to Israel and Gaza that he had previously said was important to make his decision,” the report says.

According to the Journal, Alan Dershowitz had been organizing a meeting that was set to take place during the trip between Khan and Netanyahu.

... court officials tell the newspaper that the arrest warrants shored up support for Khan from anti-Israel countries if the allegations were to become public and additionally discouraged his accuser from coming forward.

The woman allegedly told investigators that Khan informed her that her accusations would harm the investigation into the Gaza war.

“Think about the Palestinian arrest warrants,” she said he told her, according to her testimony.

Last month, it was reported that United Nations investigators examining the allegations of sexual misconduct were also looking into allegations that Khan retaliated against staff who reported the allegations or were critical of his handling of the matter. TOI

Report: ICC sought Israel warrants after Khan accused of sexual assault. Karim Khan was accused of serious sexual crimes by an assistant less than 3 weeks before his surprise announcement of the cancelation of a fact-finding trip to Israel and the seeking of warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant, raising concerns the warrants are meant to protect him. Israel National News. May 11, 2025, 9:24 AM

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it would file arrest warrants against Israeli leaders less than three weeks after ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan was accused of sexual assault, the Wall Street Journal reported.

According to the report, Khan responded to the international pressure to criminalize Israel's response to the October 7 massacre by taking out his frustrations on his staff. When one of Khan's assistants asked him to ease up in his treatment of her, he summoned her to his suite at the Millennium Hilton hotel near the UN's New York headquarters.

The staffer, a Malaysian woman in her 30s, testified that Khan sexually assaulted her and prevented her from leaving, and act she said was part of a pattern of similar actions.

The alleged victim said that she did not come forward at first because she was afraid of losing her job and of not being able to pay the medical bills for her mother, who was suffering from cancer. In addition, she feared retaliation from Khan.

Two and a half weeks after he learned of the accusations against him, Khan canceled a fact-finding mission to Israel and announced that he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in May 2024. In an unusual move, the ICC prosecutor announced the warrants during an interview with CNN rather than in an official setting, despite receiving advice from fellow prosecutors not to make the announcement in such a manner.

The timing and unusual manner of the announcement of the warrants against the Israeli leaders has caused concern that the warrants were connected to the accusations against Khan, whose shift against Israel has shorn up his support among the parties that criticized him in the early days of the war between Hamas and Israel.

While Khan has denied both the accusations of sexual assault and any connection between the accusations and the warrants, the report found that he used the investigation against Israel in an attempt to silence his accuser, who had supported the ICC's investigation of the Jewish State. He is alleged to have told her, “Think about the Palestinian arrest warrants.”

In his announcement, Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that he was seeking to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, for "war crimes and crimes against humanity." INN

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Heathrow Airport worker runs charity tied to Hezbollah in Lebanon - report. According to the report, Harake, 29, operates Zayir UK, an unregistered charity that has raised over £300,000 in funds for Lebanese aid. By Jerusalem Post Staff. May 11, 2025 10:48 ... Hussain Harake, a security guard at a British Airways lounge in Britain's Heathrow Airport, had his security clearance taken away after he eulogized Hezbollah terrorists on social media, The Sunday Times reported. JPost

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Israel pushed to the side. Report: Trump to meet Israel’s enemies - Abbas and Al-Julani - at Saudi conference The Palestinian outlet Al-Quds reports that Trump will sit down with Abbas and leaders of Syria and Lebanon, with Israel left out entirely. Avi Nachmani. May 11, 2025. ... the same time, the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen, firmly rejected the proposal to establish an American government in Gaza during a press conference he held in Moscow after a meeting with Russian President Putin.

Abu Mazen said: "We have informed the Americans that we oppose this firmly; there is no right for the Americans or any other entity to be in the Gaza Strip. We (the Palestinian Authority) need to go to the Gaza Strip, return to the area, and we are capable of controlling it fairly, justly, and with love."

Meanwhile, yesterday the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, firmly rejected the claim that President Donald Trump plans to announce U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state during his visit to the Middle East next week. "This report is nonsense; Israel has no better friend than the U.S. President," Huckabee wrote on his account on X. JFeed

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Report: ICC sought Israel warrants after Khan accused of sexual assault. Karim Khan was accused of serious sexual crimes by an assistant less than 3 weeks before his surprise announcement of the cancelation of a fact-finding trip to Israel and the seeking of warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant, raising concerns the warrants are meant to protect him. Israel National News. May 11, 2025, 9:24 AM INN

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Hamas continues to build new terror tunnels. Israel National News. May 11, 2025, 10:16 AM INN

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Body of missing soldier Tzvi Feldman recovered after 4 decades.

PM announces recovery from Syria of the body of soldier who was killed in Lebanon in 1982 for burial in Israel in a joint operation of the Mossad and the IDF.

Israel National News. May 11, 2025, 10:21 AM INN

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Trump antisemitism envoy to attend NYC Jerusalem conference. Israel National News. May 11, 2025, 12:56 PM INN

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Israel reportedly recovers four add'l bodies from Syria - KAN. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/11/2025 05:05 PM JPost

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Prospects of Saudi Ties to Israel Elusive as Trump Seeks $1 Trillion Bonanza. by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. May 11, 2025.

When US President Donald Trump lands in Riyadh on Tuesday, he will be greeted with opulent ceremonies, gilded palaces and the prospect of $1 trillion in investments. But, the raging war in Gaza has denied him one goal he has long craved: Saudi-Israel normalization.

Behind the scenes, US officials are quietly pressing Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire in Gaza – one of Saudi Arabia’s preconditions for any re-start of normalization talks, said two Gulf sources close to official circles and a US official. Algemeiner

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Israel Police arrests Palestinian for allegedly defrauding dozens on Facebook Marketplace. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/11/2025 05:14 PM JPost

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IDF strikes over 50 terror targets across Gaza as it continues operations. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/11/2025 06:26 PM JPost

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Israel maintains ultimatum issued to Hamas over expanded Gaza invasion, source tells ‘Post’. By Amichai Stein. 05/11/2025 11:46 PM JPost

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Disguised commandos in wheelchairs: Dramatic footage of West Bank anti-terror special op. Undercover forces arrive at Balata refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus and, after identifying their target, a senior local terrorist, they are joined by uniformed soldiers. Einav Halabi, Elisha Ben Kimon|05.11.25. YNet

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Will U.S. Defund the UN? GOP bill targets UN over Pro-Palestine moves to defend Israel. Senate Republicans have unveiled a bill to slash U.S. funding to the UN if it advances Palestinian statehood. The move aims to block PLO upgrades and defend Israel against rising anti-Israel bias at global institutions. Eliana Fleming. May 11, 2025. JFeed

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Witkoff dismisses reports of Trump-Netanyahu rift as 'preposterous'. Trump’s Middle East envoy dismisses reports of a rift with Netanyahu as "preposterous," reaffirms the strong US-Israel alliance. Israel National News. Published: May 12, 2025, 1:25 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Hamas will release hostage Edan Alexander Monday at noon - report By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/12/2025 12:11 AM JPost

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Edan Alexander release: Qatar pressured Hamas to give Trump win. Avi Woolf. May 11, 2025. Israeli sources speaking to Maariv said that Qatar pressured the terrorist group hard to give Trump an achievement he could celebrate during his visit to the Middle East. [15] [16]

To bring Edan Alexander home, Israel will pause the war. Israeli sources speaking to Maariv said that Edan Alexander will be released within 48 hours. Avi Woolf. May 11, 2025 19:27

Sources familiar with the matter said that Israel does not have to free any terrorists for Edan Alexander, but will have to cease fire and end drone surveillance long enough for the hostage to be freed.

A source "familiar with the matter" told Axios reporter Barak Ravid that Israel will not have to free Palestinian terrorists in exchange for Edan Alexander, but will have to briefly cease fire and end drone surveillance long enough to allow for the hostage to be handed over.

The ceasefire will last a few hours, according to Israel Hayom.

Hamas announced that it is freeing Alexander as a good will gesture to jump-start negotiations to reintroduce aid into the Gaza Strip and bring about an end to the war. Thus far, no Israeli official has made any commitment in this direction. JFeed

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump:

I am happy to announce that Edan Alexander, an American citizen who has been held hostage since October 2023, is coming home to his family. I am grateful to all those involved in making this monumental news happen. This was a step taken in good faith towards the United States and the efforts of the mediators — Qatar and Egypt — to put an end to this very brutal war and return ALL living hostages and remains to their loved ones. Hopefully this is the first of those final steps necessary to end this brutal conflict. I look very much forward to that day of celebration!

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Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander to be released.

Family of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander says US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff has notified them that Hamas will release him from captivity. Senior Hamas official: We were advised to “give a gift to President Trump and in return he will give back a better one.”

Israel National News. May 12, 2025, 1:45 AM INN

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Adam Boehler to head to Israel with Alexander family - source to 'Post'. By Amichai Stein. 05/12/2025 03:37 AM JPost

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President Herzog lands in Germany under heavy security By Walla! 05/12/2025 03:45 AM JPost

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Israeli Cabinet votes to stop Palestinian takeover of Judea and Samaria. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the decision was part of his "normalization and de facto sovereignty revolution" in Judea and Samaria. Akiva Van Koningsveld.

(May 12, 2025 / JNS) The Israeli Cabinet voted on Sunday to back a series of “revolutionary” measures aimed at stopping what it said was the Palestinian Authority-led takeover of lands in Judea and Samaria, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced. JNS

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Source to 'Post': No direct talks between US-Hamas for Edan Alexander release. By Amichai Stein. 05/12/2025 06:28 AM JPost

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PMO: Edan Alexander's release not possible without Trump support, military pressure. By Amichai Stein. 05/12/2025 07:12 AM JPost

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Kurdish PKK dissolves after decades of struggle with Turkey, news agency close to militants says. By Reuters. 05/12/2025 09:21 AM JPost

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Edan Alexander set to arrive at Sourasky Medical Center following release. By Dr. Itay Gal. 05/12/2025 09:29 AM JPost

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Hamas: Edan Alexander to be released Monday without ceremony. By Amichai Stein. 05/12/2025 09:54 AM JPost

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Houthi missile falls outside of Israeli territory. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/12/2025 11:13 AM JPost

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Witkoff to meet with cabinet MKs on Wednesday. By Amichai Stein. 05/12/2025 12:40 PM JPost

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Minister Eli Cohen: Hamas' fear of escalation led to hostage release. 103FM. May 12, 2025, 12:49 PM INN

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Pres. Herzog: We'll bring them all back, no matter what passport they have. Israel National News. May 12, 2025, 1:16 PM INN

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Israel to send hostage deal delegation to Cairo on Monday - WSJ. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/12/2025 01:22 PM JPost

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Eight Israelis physically attacked by drunk German tourists, who also shouted antisemitic threats, 'We were attacked without any provocation, just because we are Jews.' Israel National News. Published: May 12, 2025, 2:48 PM (GMT+3)

A violent antisemitic incident rocked the heart of Budapest roughly ten days ago, when a group of drunk German tourists assaulted eight haredi Israeli men, including two residents and six tourists, shortly after Shabbat evening prayers.

The victims, all clearly identifiable by their religious appearance, were on their way to a friend’s apartment when they were confronted by approximately 15 young Germans. According to testimonies, the Germans began hurling racist slurs such as "Heil [sic] Hitler," "dirty [sic] Jews," and "kill the Jews." INN

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MK claims: Egyptian intelligence chief was in on October 7th attack. Israel National News. May 12, 2025, 2:52 PM INN

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Survey: Europe facing antisemitism crisis, survey reveals. Israel National News. May 12, 2025, 3:01 PM INN

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Preparations for release of Edan Alexander in Khan Younis | Watch the live broadcast. IDF agrees on a temporary ceasefire to secure the safe transfer of the Israeli-American hostage; Family waiting to greet him at Re'im on southern border; Israeli delegation reportedly heads to Cairo for talks on broader deal. Itamar Eichner, Einav Halabi |05.12.25. YNet

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28% in Europe see Jew-hatred of anti-Israel activists, per poll. Eight-two percent of survey respondents do not support prioritizing efforts to combat antisemitism. Canaan Lidor.

(May 12, 2025 / Madrid / JNS) A survey of 4,400 European adults published on Monday found that more than a quarter said they had seen antisemitism disguised as pro-Palestinian activism.

The 28% figure suggests a high level of public awareness of Jew-hate in the media and at thousands of rallies across Europe that have proliferated since Oct. 7, 2023. JNS

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Smotrich says Israel will not hold its fire on Gaza outside of release of Edan Alexander. By Amichai Stein. 05/12/2025 04:09 PM JPost

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Palestinian president lifts ban on operations of Qatar's Al Jazeera TV inside Palestinian territory. By Reuters. 05/12/2025 07:34 PM Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has lifted on Monday a ban imposed on operations of Qatar's Al Jazeera television in the territory, with the broadcaster set to resume operations on Tuesday, the network's bureau chief in Palestine Walid Omary said. The decision comes months after Al Jazeera's operations were halted in the Palestinian territories in January over the network's dissemination of "inciting material." JPost

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Trump offers to join potential Russia-Ukraine talks in Turkey. By Reuters. 05/12/2025 07:48 PM JPost

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'Our lives are worth less': Kibbutz Nir Oz pushes back against Israeli gov't. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/12/2025 09:49 PM JPost

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US military replaces B-2 bombers that were sent amid Middle East tensions. By Reuters. 05/13/2025 12:11 AM JPost

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Edan Alexander's moving reunion with his family. Footage shows the moving moment released American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander reunited with his family in Israel.

Israel National News. Published: May 12, 2025, 10:34 PM (GMT+3)

Edan Alexander reunited with his family on Monday at the Re'im Camp in southern Israel after 584 days in Hamas captivity.

After a moving hug to his parent's he was surprised by how much his younger brother had grown, and exclaimed: "This kid is a giant, who is he?!"

Kan News reported that Edan described being tied hand and foot inside a cage, deprived of daylight, and suffering from extreme hunger in a Hamas-controlled tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip.

During his release, Alexander was visibly weakened, struggling to walk due to the toll of prolonged confinement. INN

Hostage tells all mere hours after release. "Chained in a cage and tortured," Edan Alexander reveals shocking testimony from Gaza captivity. Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old Israeli-American soldier, endured 584 days of torture, starvation, and confinement in a Hamas cage in Gaza’s tunnels, emerging weakened but free on May 12, 2025. His chilling testimony of brutal interrogations and malnutrition, shared after his U.S.-negotiated release, highlights the ongoing agony of 58 remaining hostages. Eliana Fleming. May 12, 2025. JFeed

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IDF strikes Hamas command center inside Gaza hospital. The hospital compound was being used as a command-and-control center for executing attacks against Israeli civilians and military personnel, according to the Israeli military. JNS Staff.

(May 13, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces overnight Monday carried out a precision strike targeting Hamas terrorists inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. JNS

'Journalist' who documented October 7th eliminated in Khan Yunis. IDF strikes significant Hamas terrorists who were operating from within the “Nasser” hospital in Khan Yunis. PA reports: Gazan "journalist" who broadcast live footage of a burning tank on October 7th eliminated in the strike. Israel National News. Published: May 13, 2025, 4:26 AM [...] The successor of the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip and head of Hamas' finances and institutions, Ismail Barhoum, who was eliminated in a precise strike this past March, operated from within the Nasser hospital, the IDF said.

“Senior Hamas officials continue to use the hospital for terrorist activity, through cynical and brutal use of the civilian population in the hospital and its surroundings,” the IDF statement said. INN

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British tourist belonging to Israel boycott org. deported from Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/13/2025 08:51 AM ...Police added that the tourist had also entered a closed military zone in the West Bank. JPost

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Sa'ar lands in Tokyo in first Israeli FM visit in 15 years. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/13/2025 09:00 AM JPost

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WATCH: Netanyahu Credits Military and Diplomatic Pressure For Return of Hostage Edan Alexander. May 12, 2025. YWN

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Edan Alexander will not fly to Qatar, source tells 'Post'. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/13/2025 09:40 AM JPost

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Netanyahu speaks with released hostage Edan Alexander. By Amichai Stein. 05/13/2025 10:39 AM JPost

Netanyahu to Edan Alexander: 'All of Israel embraces you'. Nitsan Keidar. May 13, 2025, 1:31 PM INN

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Edan Alexander speaks with President Trump. Steve Witkoff and Adam Boehler meet Alexander at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Medical Center, Witkoff praises his resilience and reaffirms US commitment to bring all hostages home. Yitz Goldberg. Published: May 13, 2025, 11:45 AM (GMT+3) INN

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US official Boehler sees better chance for hostage release in Gaza. By Reutets. 05/13/2025 12:30 PM JPost

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IDF launches crackdown to arrest Yeshiva draft dodgers. The IDF has launched an operation to apprehend draft dodgers, aiming to create deterrence against growing enlistment refusal. Shas has warned that even one arrest of a yeshiva student will lead his party to exit the government. Israel National News. Published: May 13, 2025, 11:50 AM (GMT+3) [...] The operation has brought condemnation from the haredi parties, and even threats of leaving the government. The haredi parties wrote to Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday morning to clarify that they will withdraw immediately if the IDF begins actual arrests... INN

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Trump kicks off Mideast tour with arrival in Saudi Arabia.

US President Donald Trump to meet Saudi leaders, discuss Gaza and Iran, and receive luxury Boeing jet gift during regional visit.

Israel National News. May 13, 2025, 1:07 PM INN

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War still drives surge in US Jewish engagement. New data show American Jews remain deeply connected to Israel and their communities nearly two years after October 7. Maayan Hoffman/The Media Line|05.13.25. YNet

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Witkoff's emotional gesture to released hostage. US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff visited released hostage Edan Alexander in hospital and gifted him a necklace that belonged to his late son. Israel National News. Published: May 13, 2025, 9:53 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Trump in Riyadh: 'A new Middle East is within our grasp'. Speaking at the US-Saudi Investment Forum, Trump calls for unity, peace, and regional transformation, 'nations must 'export technology, not terrorism, and seize a new future of peace.' Israel National News. May 13, 2025, 6:35 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Hamas leader Sinwar targeted in strike on Gaza bunker. The IDF struck Hamas terrorists in a command and control center located in an underground terrorist infrastructure site beneath the European hospital in Khan Yunis. Yoni Kempinski. Published: May 13, 2025. INN

IDF targets Hamas military chief Mohammed Sinwar in Gaza. A bunker-busting airstrike hit a Hamas command center under the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, where Sinwar was reportedly leading operations. Joshua Marks. (May 14, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Tuesday carried out a precision airstrike on a Hamas command center located beneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

According to reports, the target of the strike was Mohammed Sinwar, a senior Hamas commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of the organization in Gaza, who was killed by Israel earlier in the conflict. Following his brother’s death, Mohammed Sinwar served as the group’s top military leader in Gaza, according to Israeli defense sources. JNS

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Trump says he’ll accept a $400 million gift from Qatar — which helped fund Hamas The president attacked universities in the name of "protecting" Jews. But he's happy to receive a donation from Qatar's royal family. May 12, 2025 By Anthony L. Fisher, Senior Editor, MSNBC Daily. [...] Trump is poised to accept an exorbitant personal gift from a government that has provided substantial funding for the antisemitic, fascistic terror group Hamas. At the same time, Trump’s administration continues to employ Kingsley Wilson as deputy press secretary for the Department of Defense, despite a recent social media record of posts widely seen as antisemitic. ... MSNBC

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Report: With Qatar help, US agreed to push Israel for 3-month truce-hostage deal to secure captive’s release. By Nava Freiberg. 13 May 2025, 4:00 pm The United States, in coordination TOI

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IDF confirms: Hamas 'journalist' eliminated in Khan Yunis. Hassan Aslih, a terrorist from the Hamas Khan Yunis brigade, infiltrated Israel and documented acts of looting, arson, and murder, and uploaded the footage to the internet. Israel National News. May 13, 2025, 10:53 PM (GMT+3) INN

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The US appears ready to sell Turkey advanced stealth aircraft, and Israel is worried. Itamar Eichner |05.13.25. YNet

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Bound with a bag over his head, and stuck in a collapsed tunnel: Freed hostage Edan Alexander describes captivity. Lihi Gordon|05.13.25. YNet

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Killing confirmed: Hamas terrorist who posed as journalist, broadcast live footage from Oct. 7 attack eliminated Hassan Aslih, a Hamas operative and media figure, was killed in strike in Khan Younis; Aslih, who documented October 7 atrocities, was killed in a targeted strike, highlighting Hamas’ use of hospitals for terror operations

Elisha Ben Kimon | 05.13.25. YNet

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Outrage as Gary Lineker posts pro-Palestine video featuring a rat emoji - as critics draw parallels with Nazi propaganda and flag it as 'hateful content' on social media. By Aidan Radnedge. 10:38 13 May 2025, updated 16:04 13 May 2025 Gary Lineker has been condemned after sharing an Instagram video which featured an emoji of a rat, with critics accusing him of promoting a familiar anti-Semitic slur. The Match Of The Day presenter and former England football captain posted a reel originating with the pro-Palestine group Palestine Lobby. The cartoon image of a rat was seen on screen throughout, above the video in which Canadian-Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu attacks Israel's war in Gaza. Lineker has been vocal in his own criticisms of Israel's actions. But campaigners say sharing this particular video with the rat image goes too far and have also criticised the BBC for whom Lineker will remain until after next year's World Cup while stepping down as Match Of The Day host this month. Disgusted users on X shared his post to on the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter. Screenshots of Lineker's shared video were immediately flagged as posts which 'may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct'. Images of rats and other vermin were regularly used as tropes by Nazi Germany to depict Jewish people, as many of Lineker's critics today have pointed out. DailyMail

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Scant mention of Israel in vision Trump lays out for Middle East on Saudi visit. “Oh, what I would do for the crown prince,” Trump said in announcing that he will lift sanctions on Syria, as a gesture to Mohammed bin Salman. Mike Wagenheim.

(May 13, 2025 / Riyadh, Saudi Arabia / JNS) After signing agreements with Saudi Arabia worth about $600 billion on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to tout the deals that evening during a speech in Riyadh at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum. Instead, he broke news announcing a major shift in U.S. foreign policy by saying that he intended to lift sanctions on Syria, which had been imposed during the regime of Bashar Assad.

“In Syria, which has seen so much misery and death, there’s a new government that will hopefully succeed in stabilizing the country and keeping peace,” Trump told attendees, of the new government of Ahmed al-Sharaa, who leads a U.S.-designated terror group.

“That’s why my administration has already taken the first steps toward restoring normal relations between the United States and Syria for the first time in more than a decade,” Trump said, to some applause.

The U.S. president said that he made the decision after talking with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” Trump said, to the night’s largest ovation. “Oh, what I would do for the crown prince,” he said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stated earlier in the day that Israel is “extremely concerned about the state of play in Syria.” He also suggested that Congress had a role to play in lifting sanctions on Syria, but Reuters reported that “most sanctions laws passed by Congress, including a 2019 package of stiff sanctions on Syria, include a provision allowing a president to suspend them if he deems it to be in the U.S. national security interest.”

Asked during the U.S. State Department daily press briefing how quickly Trump intends to lift the sanctions on Syria and if Washington will ask the United Nations Security Council to lift its sanctions on al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, Tommy Pigott, the department’s principal deputy spokesperson, said that he had nothing further to add.

Trump is expected to meet with al-Sharaa in Riyadh on Wednesday. The new Syrian leader is scheduled to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later in the week in Turkey.

‘Olive branch’

Jonathan Bass, a Jewish-American businessman who was on hand at the forum in Riyadh, told JNS that he backs the president. “We need to give al-Sharaa oxygen to move forward and bring together his country,” said Bass, who said that he often acts as a diplomatic backchannel and who met with Sharaa recently for four hours. “Everyone’s past has a tendency to haunt them.”

“It’s time for us again to bring an olive branch to the table and stop bombing,” Bass told JNS.

The businessman thinks that the issue of Israeli protection of the Arab Druze minority in Syria is misunderstood. Just as there is progressive left, conservative center and religious right in the United States, the Druze community isn’t monolithic, Bass told JNS.

“No one’s sitting at the same table, so you can’t expect that anybody else has a complete table around them,” he said. “We all need to be active participants. We need to show up, and we need to make a difference in the future of the region.”

Trump appeared to echo that point when he spoke of neocons, liberal groups and “nation builders,” who he said were damaging the region with their failed ideas.

“If the responsible nations of this region seize this moment, put aside your differences and focus on the interests that unite you, then all of humanity will soon be amazed at what they will see,” Trump said.

“My administration stands ready to help Lebanon create a future of economic development and peace with its neighbors,” he added.

Trump Mohammed Bin Salman SaudiU.S. President Donald Trump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud, also known as MBS, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.

‘Hit them hard’.

The president directed harsh words at Tehran. “I’m here today not merely to condemn the past chaos of Iran’s leaders but to offer them a new path and a much better path toward a far better and more hopeful future,” he said. “We will never allow them to threaten America and our allies with terrorism or a nuclear attack.”

Trump also said the United States had beaten the Houthi rebels in Yemen, although the terror group denied that it chad apitulated in a ceasefire.

“Following repeated attacks on American ships and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, the United States military launched more than 1,100 strikes on the Houthis in Yemen,” Trump said. “We hit them hard. We got what we came for, and then, we got out.”

Much of the president’s praise was reserved for the Saudi prince, known as MBS, with whom he signed a $142 billion arms deal earlier in the day. “Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts and tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos,” Trump said.

The president said that it is his “fervent hope, wish and even my dream” that Saudi Arabia join the Abraham Accords, but said that it will do so “in your own time.”

Israel was noticeably absent from Trump’s remarks, but Bass, the Jewish businessman, said that there is some room for a business relationship between the Jewish state and the kingdom above the radar.

“I think that there is a place for American Jews, European Jews. I think that Israelis coming directly for the moment will probably represent a little bit of a challenge, but I think that this community here is very open,” he said, of the Saudis.

Bass thinks that about 300 Jews, mainly non-Israelis, attended the forum.

“I’ve never received any iota of antisemitism in Saudi Arabia,” he told JNS. “These are amongst the most embracing, loving, welcoming people for our community. We need to be part of the future of the region.”

Avraham Berkowitz, another Jewish businessman who attended the forum, told JNS that he was pleased that Trump mentioned the release of Edan Alexander, the dual U.S.-Israeli citizen who was freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza on Monday.

Berkowitz was also pleased that Trump said that “all civilized people must condemn the Oct. 7 atrocities against Israel” and that it drew no hint of condemnation from the Saudi crowd, even as the government has criticized Israel’s prosecution of the war harshly. (That mention of Israel was the only direct reference in Trump’s half-hour remarks.)

Trump is scheduled to attend a Gulf Cooperation Council leaders’ meeting on Wednesday morning before flying to Doha for the second leg of his trip. JNS

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Ontario: Antisemitic assailant sentenced after vile attack on Jews. Israel National News. May 14, 2025, 6:38 AM INN

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Despite antisemitism failure Columbia ex-President to return. Former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong will return as CEO of the university’s medical center in June, after taking a sabbatical following a controversial deposition in which she failed to recall antisemitic incidents documented in Columbia’s own report. Elad Benari. May 14, 2025, 6:54 AM INN

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Over 200 explosives. Explosives lab dismantled in Tulkarm. Israel National News. May 14, 2025, 6:23 AM INN

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Shin Bet agent from Gaza admits to lying and misleading Israel before Hamas attack. During his interrogation, a Shin Bet agent from Gaza admits to acting as a double agent and providing false information about Hamas’s intentions, contributing to the failure to prepare for the massacre. Israel National News. Published: May 14, 2025, 3:02 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Transgender IDF soldier imprisoned in Russia. Born in Tajikistan as Andrei, Olga Sivushkova moved to Israel at 13, renounced her citizenship over her hatred of Zionism, and later transitioned in Russia; Now, she’s jailed for backing Ukraine and opposing Putin. Itamar Eichner|05.14.25. YNet

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Pre-dawn demolition in Gush Etzion: Homes razed at Noda B'Yehuda. Israeli forces demolish homes at Noda B'Yehuda near Ma'ale Amos, evicting a family as their children watched, in a rare and traumatic pre-dawn raid. Israel National News. Published: May 14, 2025, 10:22 AM (GMT+3) ...Noda B'Yehuda was founded around three years ago with the stated aim of preventing the spread of Arab construction in the area and protecting strategic territory near the community. Despite repeated terrorist attacks over the past two years, including incidents in which residents were seriously wounded, the community has remained resilient, continuing development efforts and welcoming additional families.

The demolition at Noda B'Yehuda comes amid a wave of enforcement actions across Judea and Samaria over the past week. These include the razing of three family homes in the Or Nachman hills in Binyamin, the uprooting of a fruit tree orchard near Shiloh, and multiple demolitions of a fledgling Jewish community near Amichai. INN

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NHL Suspends Minority Team Owner for Calling for Destruction of Hamas. Calling for the destruction of Israel is free speech. Calling for the destruction of Hamas isn't. May 14, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield.

These are the rules.

Calling for the destruction of Israel is free speech. Rioting and vandalizing campuses is free speech. Assaulting Jewish students on campus and community members outside synagogues is free speech. Any effort to stop them is an assault on “free speech” and “democratic norms”.

Florida Panthers minority owner Doug Cifu tweeting “Israel now and forever. Until ever last Hamas rat is eliminated” at a troll resulted in him being suspended by the NHL and forced to apologize for “unacceptable and inappropriate” posts.

The same activists, media outlets and elected officials who keep claiming that the “free speech” of the people tearing down hostage posters and assaulting Jewish students is under fire have no problem with this.

They don’t believe in free speech. They believe in unlimited violence disguised as speech. They believe that their allies have the right to do anything from throwing Molotov cocktails at police to smashing windows to holding entire campuses hostage. And they believe that you have the right to keep quiet or get canceled.

Their current free speech pose is a lie. And it doesn’t take long to show it.

Calling for the destruction of Israel is free speech. Calling for the destruction of Hamas isn’t. FPM

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Trump touches down in Qatar amid controversy over luxury jet gift and hopes for Gaza ceasefire. 07:33 EDT 14 May 2025, updated 07:33 EDT 14 May 2025. By Emily Goodin, Senior White House Correspondent And Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent. [...] But Trump's trip also raised questions on where America's relationship with Israel stands and turned the spotlight on Qatar's wealthy royal family and its gift of a 'flying palace' to the president.

The president argued his trip does not sideline Israel.

'This is good for Israel, having a relationship like I have with these countries; Middle Eastern countries, essentially all of them. I think it's very good for Israel,' he told reporters on Air Force One ahead of his arrival in Doha. DailyMail

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Hamas abuse of civilian facilities in Gaza City revealed. The IDF revealed new intelligence indications demonstrating the continued terrorist activity of the Hamas organization from within and near civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including hospitals, educational institutions, and other civilian facilities. Israel National News. Published: May 14, 2025, 7:54 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Tortured by Hamas, known as ‘the American’: Edan Alexander’s ordeal in captivity. Ynetnews|05.12.25. Ynet

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'Drank murky water,' held with Hamas leaders: New details about Edan Alexander's captivity revealed. Released hostage's aunt offers new details in wake of Edan's return to Israel after 19 months in Hamas captivity, including more about the inhumane conditions, torture and emotional family reunions; 'From the moment Trump started talking about him, they gave him more food so he could gain weight'. Lihi Gordon|05.14.25. Ynet

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Trump, tech giants ink titan AI deals in Gulf visit. Trump, Nvidia's Huang, OpenAI's Altman clinch $600B+ in Saudi tech investments and Humain AI project. Israel Wullman|05.14.25. YNet

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Hamas abuse of civilian facilities in Gaza City revealed. The IDF revealed new intelligence indications demonstrating the continued terrorist activity of the Hamas organization from within and near civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including hospitals, educational institutions, and other civilian facilities. Israel National News. Published: May 14, 2025, 7:54 PM (GMT+3) [17]. INN

IDF reveals intel on Hamas terror activity within civilian sites. The intelligence underscores the terrorist group's “cynical exploitation” of civilian environments to carry out attacks, according to the military. JNS Staff.

(May 15, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday released intelligence indicating that Hamas continues to conduct terrorist operations from within and around civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including hospitals, schools and other public facilities.

According to the IDF, the intelligence underscores the “cynical exploitation” by Hamas of civilian environments to carry out attacks, using non-combatants as human shields and putting civilian lives at risk.

Amid the ongoing operation in Gaza, the IDF on Wednesday issued a warning to residents in the southern Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, an area it said contains terrorist strongholds embedded within the civilian population. JNS

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'We won't bow!' Iran rejects Trump's call to end proxy wars for nuke deal. Elad Benari. May 15, 2025, 2:07 AM INN

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Massive Israeli anti-terror op transforms Tulkarm. Top terrorists in Nur Shams killed or fled; schools reopen, shops revive, signaling new local reality amid ongoing wider campaign. Elisha Ben Kimon|05.15.25. YNet

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German president visits Kibbutz Be’eri with Herzog. “585 days after the massacre, there are still hostages in the hands of Hamas, including German companions,” noted Frank-Walter Steinmeier. JNS Staff. (May 15, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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US sanctions Iran's missile suppliers in China and Iran. Israel National News. May 15, 2025, 6:36 AM INN

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Doha pessimistic. Qatari PM blasts Israel's 'bad signal' on Gaza. Israel National News. May 15, 2025, 5:38 AM INN

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Harvard President takes pay cut amid funding freeze. Elad Benari. May 15, 2025, 6:54 AM INN

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German Chancellor: Netanyahu must be able to visit Germany. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be allowed to travel to Germany, despite an ICC arrest warrant, stresses Netanyahu was democratically elected. Elad Benari. Published: May 15, 2025, 5:59 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Minister Strock: Terror risks must not travel Israel’s heartland. Israel National News. May 15, 2025, 8:23 AM INN

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Bruchin shooting attack: Husband released from hospital, infant in stable condition. Hananel Gez released from hospital, neonate stable but in serious condition, following deadly shooting attack. Israel National News. May 15, 2025, 9:46 AM (GMT+3) shooting attack INN

Terrorist kills pregnant woman driving to delivery room in Samaria. "The murder of Tzeela Gez, on her way to give birth at the hospital, is a spine-chilling, horrific act of terror that shakes us to the core," Israeli President Isaac Herzog stated.

([18]. The scene at a shooting terror attack in Samaria on May 14, 2025. Credit: Magen David Adom).

(May 14, 2025 / JNS) The Israeli military is hunting for a terrorist who shot and killed Tzeela Gez and injured her husband, as the Israeli couple drove to the delivery room near the small community of Bruchin, in Samaria.

Gez’s baby was delivered in hospital, Ynet reported. The infant is listed in serious but stable condition. The Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital said its neontal unit at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center “fought all night for his life.”

The mother was pronounced dead on Thursday morning.

“I am deeply shocked by the horrific attack in Samaria, targeting a heavily pregnant woman and her husband as they were on their way to the delivery room,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.

“This vile act precisely reflects the difference between us—those who cherish and bring life—and the despicable terrorists whose very purpose is to kill us and cut lives short,” the prime minister said.

([19]. Tzeela Gez was murdered by a terrorist in Samaria on her way to the delivery room, where doctors delivered her baby, May 14, 2025). JNS

On the way to the delivery room: Tze'ela Gez murdered in Samaria shooting attack. Tzela Gez, a resident of Bruchin who was nine months pregnant murdered and her husband lightly wounded in a shooting attack between Bruchin and the Peduel Junction in Samaria. Security forces are searching for the terrorists. Israel National News. Published: May 14, 2025, 10:17 PM (GMT+3) Updated: 5/15/2025, 6:30:00 AM INN

Newborn between life and death after mother killed in W. Bank attack; 'Always there for others'. Tzeela Gez, mother of three from Bruchin, killed on her way to hospital to deliver baby; child delivered via emergency C-section and remains in grave condition; loved ones remember her as a devoted mother and pillar of her community. Nina Fox, Elisha Ben Kimon, Itamar Eichner, Sharon Kidon|05.15.25. YNet

Blinding Green Lasers: Missed Signs Before Sniper Murdered Pregnant Woman. Thirty minutes before Tze’ela Gaz was killed, drivers reported seeing green lasers on the roads, which often precedes terror attacks. So why was nothing done? Gila Isaacson. May 15, 2025 04:36 JFeed

Benny Gantz on Samaria shooting attack: Human monsters. Chairman of the National Unity Party responds to shooting attack in Samaria: "Against this murderous terror, we must act with strength and determination." Netanyahu: “A horrific attack, we will settle the score with the terrorists.” Israel National News. May 15, 2025, 12:14 AM INN

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US-backed Gaza aid group to launch by end of May. The U.S.-led, Israel-endorsed aid plan seeks to bypass the United Nations and prevent aid being diverted by Hamas. JNS Staff.

(May 15, 2025 / JNS) A new U.S.-backed humanitarian group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), is set to begin operations in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, Reuters reported on Thursday. The group aims to provide aid through a plan endorsed by Israel and supported by private American firms. JNS

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Christians kick anti-Israel protesters out of Dutch coastal town. Dozens of Muslims came to the Christians for Israel's Independence party in Katwijkand had to "run for their lives," an observer said. Canaan Lidor.

(May 15, 2025 / JNS) Anti-Israel protesters who demonstrated outside a Christian-Zionist celebration in the Netherlands on Wednesday were chased away by locals, some of whom assaulted the outsiders and made others “run for their lives,” an observer told JNS. JNS

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US presents Iran with written nuclear deal proposal - report. By Walla! 05/15/2025 2:46 PM JPost

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Trump hails Qatari pledge to invest $10 billion in US airbase, heads to UAE. By Reuters. 05/15/2025 2:48 PM JPost

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Security guard lightly wounded in ramming at Meitar Crossing in West Bank, suspect flees. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 5:23 PM JPost

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Mike Huckabee: 'The US stands with Israel preserving the truth of history'. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 05:26 PM JPost

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Hostage deal can be made at any time, Lapid says following a security update. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 06:33 PM JPost

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IDF: Two soldiers moderately wounded in car crash in military exercise abroad. By Jerusalem Post Staff, Yonah Jeremy Bob. 05/15/2025 07:23 PM JPost

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IDF kills Hezbollah terrorist attempting to rebuild infrastructure in southern Lebanon. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 07:44 PM JPost

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Rubio speaks to Netanyahu, says US troubled by Gaza humanitarian situation. By Reuters. 05/15/2025 08:00 PM JPost

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US Ambassador Mike Huckabee takes shelter following Houthi missile strike. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 10:11 PM JPost

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Trump announces over $200 billion in deals with UAE, White House says. By Reuters. 05/15/2025 10:27 PM JPost

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Israel drops to sixth place in betting odds after qualifying for Eurovision final. By Maariv. 05/16/2025 01:05 AM JPost

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Navy and Air Force attacking in the Gaza Strip -report. By Liran Haroni. 05/16/2025 02:13 AM JPost

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Democrats look to block UAE arms sales, as Trump announces new deals. By Reuters. 05/16/2025 02:19 AM JPost

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Missile from Yemen sends Israelis to shelters. Over a million Israelis leave their Lag B'Omer bonfires for safety from Houthi ballistic missile; IDF defense systems intercepted it. Raanan Ben-Zur|05.16.25. YNet

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One in five Israeli combat troops is a woman. New data shows significant rise in women serving in combat roles, now accounting for 20% of combat troops Sivan Hilaie|05.16.25. YNet

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Hardline on Iran: Republicans insist on end to all enrichment. Congressional Republicans urge President Trump to eliminate all Iranian nuclear enrichment capacity, citing fears of another "buy time" deal. Elad Benari. May 16, 2025, 4:45 AM INN

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US-Iran nuclear talks: Tehran denies receiving written offer from US. Elad Benari. May 16, 2025, 6:26 AM INN

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China Breaks Silence on Hamas Massacre, Opens Door to Strategic Partnership with Israel. Discourse Power | May 14, 2025 Tuvia Gering. May 14, 2025. Greetings from Jerusalem,

On May 10, 2025, in a rare display of dugri דוגרי - Israeli straight talk, or 直截了当 in Chinese - PRC Ambassador to Israel Dr. Xiao Junzheng made his first TV appearance since arriving in Israel six months ago.

The 45-minute prerecorded interview with Maayan Hoffman for ILTV touched on everything from Hamas to Iran, tariffs to Taiwan, and managed to avoid the usual diplomatic fog.

Top headlines:

The ambassador finally issued China’s unambiguous, on-the-record condemnation of the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre. 581 days later. The ambassador even wore the yellow ribbon for the 58 hostages still held in Gaza - also a first, as far as I remember.

Amb. Xiao said China is open to upgrading the Innovative Comprehensive Partnership with Israel to the strategic level.

“China firmly opposes Iran acquiring nuclear weapons,” Xiao says, while arguing regional integration is a better option and “will ultimately benefit Israel”. He dismisses notions about the China–Russia–Iran axis as “absurd”.

Backs Xi’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) as a path to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Denies Chinese military exports to Iran, while evading questions on hard evidence of dual-use components aiding IRGC and Iran-backed terror groups.

Subtle warning amid US pressure on Israel: “Anyone who bets on China losing will lose the enormous market opportunities China offers.” Discoursepower.

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Israel ישראל @Israel: Hamas spokesperson released a statement praising the murder of Tzeela Gez, a pregnant mother of three.

The baby is still fighting for life.

For Palestinian jihadists, shooting a mother on her way to deliver her baby is “heroic”.

Sickening. May 15, 2025 [20] On X

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Watchdog: Gazan reporters ‘intimidated, threatened, assaulted by Hamas’. Committee to Protect Journalists says phenomenon ‘vastly underreported’ due to reporters’ fears of coming forward; journalists self-censoring rather than reporting on dissent By Michael Horovitz. May 16, 2025.

Gazan journalists face beatings and threats by Hamas while covering anti-Hamas protests and dissent in the Strip, forcing them to self-censor to ensure their safety, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Thursday.

In a report headlined, “Gaza journalists speak out about Hamas intimidation, threats, assaults,” the media watchdog lamented that the phenomenon has been “vastly underreported.” It noted that the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, the Palestinian journalists’ union, does not publicize the testimonies it compiles of Hamas attacks on reporters because of fear of reprisals.

Gazan Tawfiq Abu Jarad told CPJ, a New York-based NGO, that he complied with a Hamas security agent’s warning not to cover a women’s anti-war protest on April 27 in Beit Lahiya, adding that the agent told him he would be “responsible” if his wife took part in the rally. TOI

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Trump ends Mideast tour with synagogue visit in Abu Dhabi. The president departed for the United States after securing economic deals in the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Joshua Marks.

(May 16, 2025 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump concluded his Middle East tour on Friday with a visit to the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, an interfaith complex housing a mosque, church and synagogue. JNS

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How much trust has Trump earned in the Middle East? Eschewing both nation-building and appeasement is wise. But an embrace of Qatar’s agenda—and gifts—undermines confidence that his decisions advance U.S. national interests.

Jonathan S. Tobin. (May 16, 2025 / JNS) What exactly is President Donald Trump trying to accomplish in the Middle East? That’s not an easy question for either his supporters or his detractors to answer after a tour that emphasized closer relations with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as a renewal of relations with Syria, and a major policy speech that laid out American goals in the region. JNS

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Salman Rushdie stabber sentenced to 25 years for attempted murder. Hadi Matar was convicted in the 2022 stabbing attack on the author.

By Meredith Deliso May 16, 2025.

A New Jersey man convicted of attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie, while on stage at a speaking event, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday, the maximum sentence he faced. ABC

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Suspected arsonists linked with Remembrance Day fires released - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/16/2025 08:21 AM JPost

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Nir Barkat, Mike Huckabee meet to discuss Israel-US economic ties, trade barriers. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/16/2025 10:19 AM JPost

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Freed hostage Edan Alexander discharged from hospital. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/16/2025 12:13 PM JPost

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Shin Bet, police arrest Israeli teen linked with online Iranian terror agents. By Walla! 05/16/2025 03:05 PM JPost

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Trump says Iran needs to move quickly on proposal. By Reuters. 05/16/2025 03:14 PM JPost

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World Bank says Syria arrears cleared, making country eligible for new loans. By Reuters. 05/16/2025 04:53 PM JPost

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Manhunt tightens for terrorist who murdered expectant mother; newborn's condition. improves slightly. Elisha Ben Kimon|05.16.25. YNet

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Police officer stabbed in Jerusalem's Old City, attacker neutralized. Roi Elman|05.16.25 YNet

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Israeli Air Force carrying out strikes on two ports in Yemen. ynet correspondents|05.16.25 YNet

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Yisrael Ganz: 'We will win this war because we are united, like Jerusalem'. Yoni Kempinski, New York. May 16, 2025, 11:01 PM INN

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15 jets, 30 bombs: IDF pounds Houthi ports in Yemen. Israel National News. May 16, 2025, 10:12 PM INN

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Consul General Akunis in NY: 'We returned to our old homeland, we will not withdraw again'. Yoni Kempinski, New York. May 17, 2025, 12:30 AM INN

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Stabbing attack in Jerusalem. Police officer moderately wounded, attacker neutralized. Israel National News. May 16, 2025, 10:43 PM INN

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Report: White House explores mass Gaza resettlement in Libya. Elad Benari, Canada. May 16, 2025, 11:43 PM INN

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Full scale ahead; IDF broadens Gaza offensive, launches 'Gideon's Chariots'. IDF announces launch of Operation "Gideon's Chariots," expanding its Gaza campaign to seize strategic areas, defeat Hamas, and secure hostage release. Israel National News. May 17, 2025, 12:04 AM INN

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Hamas Celebrates “Heroic” Murder of Pregnant Woman on Way to Give Birth. "Mr. Gez told them that his wife was about to give birth" May 17, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield. FPM

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Report: ICC’s Khan Goes on Administrative Leave Amid Sexual Misconduct Probe. by i24 News and Algemeiner Staff. May 17, 2025 Algemeiner

UK Memorial to Oct. 7 Victims Vandalized Again Amid Surge in Antisemitism. by Ailin Vilches Arguello. May 16, 2025

A memorial in Brighton, southeastern England, honoring the victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel, has been vandalized. Photo: Screenshot

A Jewish memorial in Brighton, southeastern England, dedicated to the victims of the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has been vandalized once again — one of more than 40 attacks on the site since it was first established.

On Wednesday afternoon, the memorial — which is located in Palmeira Square, in the coastal city of Brighton and Hove — was found badly defaced, with pages displaying victims’ photographs ripped from a folder and strewn across the pavement. Algemeiner

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Danon: UN accusation of genocide ‘without evidence’. Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon slammed the U.N.’s chief of humanitarian affairs for making baseless claims about the IDF’s war against Hamas. JNS Staff. (May 17, 2025 / JNS) [...] “To weaponize the word ‘genocide’ against Israel is not just distortion—it is the desecration and subversion of a term with unique force and weight,” the Israeli diplomat said.

Those who use the term seek to “demonize” their targets, Danon remarked.

On Thursday, Reuters reported that a new U.S.-backed humanitarian group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), is set to begin operations in the Gaza Strip by the end of May.

The group aims to provide aid through a plan endorsed by Israel and supported by private American firms. JNS

Anti-Israel propagandist Amanpour, of the first "genocide" propaganda promoters already weeks after Oct 7, on May 15, 2025, so excited to play the propaganda rhetoric clip of that UN guy, tried to push Wendy Sherman to use the G word. Sherman, though a very liberal and a critic of Israel especially radical against Netanyahu, still, did not follow Amanpour's order.

Though she was caught in on the 'bash only Israel.' On that Sherman's rhetoric, activist replied:

Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ @Ostrov_A: You’re right @wendyrsherman, you haven’t done everything possible. 'You could’ve held Hamas accountable. And you could have pressured Qatar, and Egypt and Turkey, as well as obviously Iran, to reign in Hamas and release the hostages.' Christiane Amanpour @amanpour: "I don't think any of us have done all that we could or should when it comes to Gaza... We have led Palestinians in Gaza to a point of starvation," says former top U.S. diplomat @wendyrsherman. May 16, 2025 X JustSayin

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Riyadh, Paris seek to impose Palestinian state. A June U.N.-backed conference will establish a binding timeline with sanctions for noncompliance, while not requiring Palestinian recognition of Israel. Shirit Avitan Cohen.

(May 17, 2025 / Israel Hayom). Saudi Arabia and France will host an international conference next month with United Nations backing, establishing a roadmap for Palestinian statehood with specific timelines and enforcement mechanisms that completely circumvent Israel’s position on the matter. JNS

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Report: White House explores mass Gaza resettlement in Libya. Elad Benari, Canada. May 16, 2025, 11:43 PM INN

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Iran: 'No US nuke deal proposal received, enrichment continues'. Elad Benari, Canada. May 17, 2025, 1:17 AM INN

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IDF warns Gazans to steer clear following night strikes that kill 58 Palestinians. Aiming to launch an expanded ground offensive, IDF has distributed leaflets warning residents to evacuate targeted areas... Reuters | 05.17.25. YNet

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Drone launched from the east intercepted. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/17/2025 04:01 AM JPost

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Putin to host first Russia-Arab summit in October, Russian agencies report. By Reuters. 05/17/2025 09:51 AM JPost

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Morocco to reopen embassy in Syria. By Reuters. 05/17/2025 09:33 PM JPost

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Nat-Sec Council: Large pro-Palestinian protest taking place in Basel, Israelis must take care. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/17/2025 11:07 PM JPost

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IAF conducts major strikes on Houthi terror sites in Yemen. “If the Houthis continue to fire missiles at the State of Israel, they will suffer painful blows," said Defense Minister Israel Katz. Charles Bybelezer.

(May 17, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces launched a large-scale aerial operation on Friday night targeting terrorist infrastructure belonging to the Iranian-backed Houthi regime at the Hudaydah and Salif ports in Yemen. JNS

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Terrorist who murdered pregnant woman eliminated. In Saturday afternoon operation in Burkin, IDF eliminates terrorist who murdered Tze'ela Gez and wounded her husband. Israel National News. Published: May 17, 2025, 8:19 PM (GMT+3) Tze'ela Gez. As part of the IDF and ISA’s efforts to locate the terrorist who carried out the shooting attack in which Tzeela Gez was murdered, the IDF conducted targeted searches in the area of Bruchin, adjacent to the scene of the attack, with the direction of the ISA. This morning (Saturday), several suspects of involvement in the terrorist attack were apprehended. INN

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Gal Gadot to Yuval Raphael ahead of Eurovision final: 'You've already won, you're a hero'. In video call, Gadot calls Raphael 'stunning, sweet, a champion, a hero,' telling her, 'You’ve already won — now it’s just about enjoying the moment'. Ran Boker, Basel | 05.17.25. YNet

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Campus. Northwestern Lobbying Expenses Skyrocket While Facing Scrutiny Over Campus Anti-Semitism. The midwest university more than quintupled its first quarter lobbying expenditures.

Jessica Costescu. May 17, 2025 Freebeacon

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Trump On War: 'Gaza is nasty and Bibi is an angry man'. In a fiery Fox News interview, President Donald Trump shared his blunt takes on the Israel-Gaza war, offered a controversial vision for Gaza's future, praised Gulf states as peace partners, sympathized with Netanyahu and condemned Hamas. Nissan Tzur. May 17, 2025, 10:12 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Herzog meets JD Vance, Pope Leo XIV at Pope Inauguration. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/18/2025 3:19 PM JPost

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IDF, Israel Police, Shin Bet arrest 15, confiscate weapons in West Bank operation. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/18/2025 3:53 PM JPost

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Two rockets cross into Israel, one intercepted, second falls in open area. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/18/2025 5:37 PM JPost

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Hamas willing to release seven-nine hostages for two month ceasefire, official says. By Amichai Stein. 05/18/2025 8:02 PM JPost

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Aspiring US politician: October 7 sparked a new generation of Zionists. Aspiring US politician Debra Lea says that 10/7 Hamas massacre ignited a renewed sense of Jewish identity among young US Jews, her political journey began with a commitment to defend Israel and strengthen Zionism. Yoni Kempinski. Published: May 18, 2025, 8:15 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Blast at police station in eastern Syria leads to casualties, state news agency says. By Reuters. 05/18/2025 08:37 PM JPost

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No real victory without the hostages, Yuval Raphael says in return from Eurovision. By Hannah Brown. 05/18/2025 08:48 PM JPost

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‘People of Israel aren’t alone’: Thousands march in Israel parade in New York City. The parade is "a clear expression of the enormous support from all Jewish communities and a very large segment of the American public for our country," the Israeli consul general in New York stated. JNS Staff. (May 18, 2025 / JNS) JNS

Am Yisrael Chai: Massive pro-Israel parade takes over Fifth Avenue. Israel National News. May 19, 2025, 3:30 PM INN

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Despite 'reconciliation'. New Syrian regime confiscates Jewish properties. Israel National News. May 19, 2025, 3:51 AM INN

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Congressman Lawler: 'World doesn’t understand the horror of Hamas captivity'. Yoni Kempinski, New York. May 19, 2025, 5:29 AM INN

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Trump taps Orthodox rabbis for Religious Liberty Commission. Grace Gilson, JTA. May 19, 2025, 9:09 AM INN

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Murder victim's body arrives in US: American Jew murdered in Turkey to be buried in New York today. Israel National News. May 19, 2025, 11:11 AM INN

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Golani’s payback: IDF dismantles terror tunnel that killed two soldiers. Israel National News. May 19, 2025, 2:34 PM INN

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Iran summons British diplomat over arrest of nationals in UK. By Reuters. 05/19/2025 08:21 AM JPost

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Iran says nuclear talks will fail if US pushes for zero enrichment - Nournews. By Reuters. 05/19/2025 10:27 AM JPost

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'Our fates were bound in hell'. Sagui Dekel-Chen embraces fellow hostage Edan Alexander. Israel National News. May 19, 2025, 1:21 PM INN

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IDF conducts strike in Lebanon's Baalbek District - report. By Walla! 05/19/2025 03:14 PM JPost

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IAF attacks 160 terror sites as Gaza offensive expands. Israeli soldiers are "taking control of strategic areas within the Strip" as part of "Operation Gideon's Chariots," the military said. JNS Staff.

(May 19, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces continued wide-scale operations Monday as part of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” reporting more than 160 airstrikes in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip and expanded ground activity targeting Hamas infrastructure. JNS

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Turkish citizen to be tried for visiting Israel. Umut Ataseven was arrested, fired from his job at Turkish Airlines and forbidden to travel abroad after posting the picture in a WhatsApp group during an April visit to Israel. Etgar Lefkovits.

(May 19, 2025 / JNS) A 29-year-old Turkish citizen who visited Israel last month and posted on social media a picture of himself next to an Israeli flag on a Tel Aviv beach will go on trial in September in Istanbul, JNS has learned JNS

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Mossad retrieves official Syrian Eli Cohen archive. The recovered archive includes approximately 2,500 documents, photographs and personal effects—most of which are being revealed to the public for the first time. JNS Staff. (May 19, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Iranian FM meets with Hamas delegation. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/19/2025 04:00 PM JPost

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Police detain German suspected of planning to throw Molotov cocktails at Tel Aviv's US Embassy. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/19/2025 05:37 PM JPost

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Watch: IDF razes illegal structures near site of Tze'ela Gez murder. Israel National News. May 19, 2025, 3:12 PM INN

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Samaria Council head moves office near Arab village in response to terror attack. The move came in response to the murder of Tzeela Gez, a pregnant Israeli who was murdered while driving to the delivery room. JNS Staff.

(May 19, 2025 / JNS) Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan announced on Sunday that he was moving his office to the site of the May 14 terrorist attack in which a pregnant Israeli woman was murdered and her husband was wounded. JNS

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Huckabee: All Israel's Enemies Are Servants of the Same Master — Iran. Israel National News. May 19, 2025, 3:16 PM INN

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Minister Bezalel Smotrich: 'Humanitarian aid a necessity, will not reach Hamas'. Hezki Baruch. May 19, 2025, 2:01 PM INN

The 'red line' that lead to Israel's decision to resume aid to Gaza. Explainer: Government reinstates limited humanitarian aid to Gaza under international pressure, bypassing coalition opposition and delaying a new US-led system aimed at starving Hamas of resources while balancing hostage risks.

Itamar Eichner | published: 06.19.25

Israel's right-wing government approved the resumption of humanitarian aid to Gaza on Sunday night, nearly two months after halting it at the end of the hostage deal. As reported by Ynet over six weeks ago, Israel had been preparing to reinstate aid delivery “within weeks” under a new mechanism involving an American foundation meant to prevent Hamas from seizing the supplies. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision does not yet implement the new system, which is still being finalized. In the meantime, Ynet has obtained and published the first images of armed and vest-clad personnel from the American company that’s expected to distribute the aid in Gaza through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an initiative backed by U.S. special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.

This decision comes as fighting intensifies and while 58 hostages are still believed to be held by terrorist groups in Gaza. Old method for now, limited in scope

Despite Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s assertion that “not a single grain” will reach Hamas, all aid entering Gaza in the coming days will follow the existing method: through border crossing at Kerem Shalom, distributed by the UN and aid organizations. This route has previously allowed Hamas to seize, sell and redistribute supplies to its members, though the UN claims there’s no conclusive proof. YNet

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White House: Trump wants to see all hostages released and the end of the war. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt states that President Donald Trump has conveyed to Hamas his desire for the release of all hostages. Tziki Brandwine. May 19, 2025, 4:58 PM INN

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StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites: Beverly Hills CA - woman in hijab spotted throwing up Nazi salutes as a truck with anti Israel language accompanies her.

Both she and the driver were detained and questioned by local police. [21]. May 19, 2025 X Arch.

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US Senate Democratic leader proposes ban on foreign Air Force One. By Reuters. 05/19/2025 10:45 PM JPost

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Netanyahu wishes Joe Biden speedy recovery after prostate cancer diagnoses. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/20/2025 1:45 AM JPost

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IAF strikes terror targets throughout Gaza Strip - report. By Liran Aharoni. 05/20/2025 2:10 AM JPost

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US Senate confirms Trump nominee Kushner to be ambassador to France. By Reuters. 05/20/2025 03:59 AM JPost

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IDF thwarts weapon smuggling attempt from Egypt into Israeli territory. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/20/2025 08:38 AM JPost

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IDF kills Hamas missile and rocket battery commander. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/20/2025 03:28 PM JPost

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UK pauses trade deal talks with Israel, summons ambassador over new Gaza offensive. By Reuters. 05/20/2025 04:38 PM JPost

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Delta resuming direct flights between New York and Tel Aviv. By Reuters. 05/20/2025 04:56 PM JPost

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IDF kills Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/20/2025 05:16 PM JPost

IDF eliminates senior Hezbollah commander in Southern Lebanon strike. Video footage of the airstrike published by the Israeli military showed that the Hezbollah operative was targeted while traveling in a vehicle. JNS Staff.

(May 20, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday that it had “struck and eliminated” a senior Hezbollah operative who commanded a terrorist base in the village of Mansouri in the Tyre district of Southern Lebanon. JNS

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Rubio: When Syria is unstable the region becomes unstable. By Reuters. 05/20/2025 05:53 PM JPost

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Rubio says reaching nuclear agreement with Iran will not be easy. By Reuters. 05/20/2025 06:14 PM JPost

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Too late, lie already spread. UN walks back wild Gaza starvation claim: 14,000 children not at immediate risk. After the UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher claimed 14,000 Gazan children are set to starve to death in the next 48 hours without aid, the numbers were revealed to be without foundation.

Avi Woolf. May 20, 2025.

The claim that 14,000 Gazan children are at immediate risk of dying within the next 48 hours is false, according to a report today (Tuesday) by the BBC.

UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher claimed that 14,000 Gazan children are days away from starving to death due to lack of humanitarian aid, a claim that was widely and very rapidly echoed in other mainstream media outlets, including in the United States. NBC even published an article with a skeletal-looking child to get the point across.

However, when the BBC asked to know where this figure came from, they ran into either hedging or pointing to a report saying that 14,000 children are at risk of serious malnutrition over the course of the next year, with an emphasis on "could." JFeed

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Israel resumes aid to Gaza under strict new conditions. Jerusalem allows limited food deliveries to Gaza, stressing inspections and efforts to block Hamas from diverting aid during ongoing operations. Joshua Marks, Amelie Botbol.

(May 20, 2025 / JNS) Five United Nations trucks carrying humanitarian aid, including baby food, entered the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom Crossing on Monday, the Israeli military confirmed. JNS

Israel and UAE reach agreement to send humanitarian aid into Gaza. The Emirati Foreign Minister spoke with Foreign Minister Sa'ar on the phone, agreeing to introduce humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. Avi Woolf. May 20, 2025. JFeed

COGAT: 93 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza today. By Emanuel Fabian. May 20, 2025, 8:23 pm.

The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announces that 93 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip today.

Israel resumed aid deliveries to Gaza yesterday, after a pause since March 2.

COGAT says the aid delivery comes “following the recommendation of professional IDF officials and in accordance with the directive of the political echelon.”

Today’s trucks included “flour for bakeries, food for babies, medical equipment and pharmaceutical drugs,” COGAT says.

The aid underwent an inspection first by Israeli authorities before entering Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing. TOI

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EU's Kallas asks for EU-Israel trade deal review, lifts Syria sanctions. By Reuters, Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/20/2025 07:56 PM JPost

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HHS cancels $60m in CDC-related grants for Harvard citing Jew-hatred. “Grant dollars should only support institutions that comply with principles and laws of nondiscrimination,” Jamie Legier, of the CDC, wrote to Harvard. Vita Fellig.

(May 20, 2025 / JNS) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has canceled $60 million in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-related grants to Harvard University as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to cut funding from institutions that fail to address campus Jew-hatred, according to reporting by the Daily Caller. JNS

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The ugly truth is that ‘pro-Palestinian’ now means antisemitic. “The New York Times” and leftist Jews have become outraged about the Heritage Foundation’s project for a national effort to fight an organized Jew-hatred movement.

Jonathan S. Tobin (May 20, 2025 / JNS) As far as groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and the Nexus Project—and their cheering section at The New York Times are concerned—what the Heritage Foundation is doing is pretty much the end of the world. The Washington think tank has been at the center of a set of “democracy is doomed” conspiracy theories floated by the American left for the last three years. JNS

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Virginia’s governor signs executive order combating campus antisemitism. “No one should be unsafe in the classroom or on campus or feel targeted because of their religion or heritage,” said Glenn Youngkin.

(May 20, 2025 / JNS) Glenn Youngkin, the governor of Virginia, signed an executive order on Monday that combats antisemitism in the state’s public schools and institutions of higher education. JNS

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Rubio: Syrian transitional regime 'weeks away' from collapsing. U.S. top diplomat tells Senate Foreign Relations Committee assessment based on 'challenges they're facing,' saying collapse will lead to civil war of 'epic proportions'. Reuters | 05.20.25 YNet

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Barely standing, mute and starving: New testimonies reveal condition of hostage Matan Zangauker.

New details from captivity reveal that Matan Zangauker, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, is enduring severe physical and psychological abuse, malnutrition and isolation, with his health rapidly declining after nearly two years in Hamas captivity. Hagar Kochavi | 05.20.25. YNet

Tortured, starving, alone: Matan Zangauker’s dire condition in Hamas captivity. Israel National News. May 20, 2025, 10:12 PM INN

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Britain, France and Canada’s Hamas lifeline is a dangerous blunder. Opinion: As terror group teeters on collapse, joint Western statement opposing Israel’s military operations offers them renewed hope—undermining Israeli security, encouraging jihadist violence and betraying the very cause of peace. Richard Kemp | 05.20.25 YNet

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'Aimed at Israel’s destruction'. Berlin declares BDS Movement unconstitutional. Israel National News. May 20, 2025, 8:56 PM INN

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Chief of Staff to Gazans: We aren't the ones who started this war. Israel National News. May 20, 2025, 9:40 PM INN

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The UN’s Pride Goes Before Delivering Humanitarian Relief in Gaza. Insists on its own flawed aid delivery plan. May 20, 2025 by Joseph Klein. FOM

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'More advanced than Israel'. Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome'. defense system. Israel National News. May 20, 2025, 11:39 PM INN

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US Ambassador to Israel: 'America is your friend—we stand with Israel against evil'. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declares unwavering US support for Israel at a high-level economic reception in Tel Aviv, affirming, 'Your enemies are our enemies.' Israel National News. May 20, 2025, 11:10 PM INN

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Spanish parliament advances arms embargo on Israel – report. By Maariv. 05/20/2025 09:56 PM JPost

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Ambrey says Panama-flagged products container reportedly interdicted northwest of Iranian port. By Reuters. 05/20/2025 11:27 PM JPost

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US intel suggests Israel preparing strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, CNN reports. By Reuters. 05/21/2025 01:18 AM JPost

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UN retracts aid chief's claim that 14,000 Gazan babies will die in 48 hours without aid. The UN later cited a report that said there could be 14,100 cases of malnutrition in children in Gaza between April 2025 and March 2026, a timeframe of one year not two days. By Mathilda Heller. May 21, 2025. JPost

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Exposed: The Lie About Gaza Starvation. NBC Under Fire for Promoting Discredited “14,000 Babies Will Die” Claim Despite UN Retraction. The article discusses how NBC News continues to circulate a widely debunked claim regarding mass infant deaths in Gaza, despite the United Nations walking back the statement and clarifying the data. It explores the dangerous implications of spreading misinformation, particularly when it aligns with anti-Israel propaganda. Eliana Fleming. May 21, 2025 17:52

NBC makes false report on Gaza situation Photo: Screenshot of NBC site.

NBC News is facing intense backlash after continuing to circulate a discredited and inflammatory claim that “14,000 babies will die in the next 48 hours” if humanitarian aid is not delivered to Gaza. The quote, originally made by UNRWA representative Sam Rose Fletcher during a BBC interview, quickly went viral, sparking outrage and prompting mainstream outlets like NBC to amplify the statement without proper verification or context.

[...] Critics accuse NBC and similar outlets of irresponsibly parroting Hamas propaganda aimed at portraying Israel as deliberately starving Palestinian children, a claim not supported by the facts. Public responses to NBC’s post have been scathing:

• “Will we get an expose on why the UN humanitarian chief lied so egregiously?” – Ari Paul.
• “The @UN, @NBCNews, and international media made up and instigated a blood libel against the Jewish people.” – Ron M.
• “NBC wants so much to see starving children… so their dumb readers will think this is a child being starved to death by evil Jews.” – Chava P.
• “Why is @nbcnews acting as Hamas’ mouthpiece parroting false claims without evidence?” – Michal Sabra.

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IDF soldier killed in southern Gaza battle, second casualty in ongoing operation. Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu, a combat support soldier in the 7th Armored Brigade's 82nd Battalion, killed when an explosive device detonated, causing the collapse of the building where his unit was operating; another soldier lightly wounded in the incident. Yoav Zitun, Elisha Ben Kimon | published:00:14. 05.21.25. YNet

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Terrorist murderer of Tzeela Gez confirmed eliminated in IDF raid. JNS Staff. (May 21, 2025). JNS

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Rocket from Gaza heading for Ashkelon downed by Israeli air defenses. JNS Staff. (May 21, 2025). JNS

Rockets fired from Gaza at southern Israel for 2nd time in hours. Ynet|05.21.25. YNet

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Congressional human-rights panel focuses on rise in Jew-hatred. Jonathan D. Salant. (May 21, 2025). JNS

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Israel won’t work with UN relief chief sans apology, Danon says. “We are not planning a genocide. This is outrageous that a senior U.N. official would use that language,” the Israeli envoy told JNS. Mike Wagenheim.

(May 21, 2025 / JNS) Danny Danon, the Israeli envoy to the United Nations, expects an apology from Tom Fletcher, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, for his comments last week about Gaza to the U.N. Security Council. JNS

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US to appoint Turkey ambassador Thomas Barrack as special envoy for Syria, sources say. By Reuters. 05/21/2025 03:38 PM JPost

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Classifying Taliban as 'foreign terrorist organization' under review, Rubio says. By Reuters. 05/21/2025 06:31 PM JPost

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IDF kills Hezbollah Radwan forces commander in southern Lebanon. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/21/2025 06:37 PM JPost

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Mohammed Sinwar killed in Gaza strike last week – report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/21/2025 06:59 PM JPost

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Next round of Iran-US talks to take place on May 23 in Rome, Oman foreign minister says. By Reuters. 05/21/2025 07:26 PM JPost

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US formally accepts luxury jet from Qatar. By Reuters, Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/21/2025 07:34 PM JPost

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Israeli Druze leaders to meet Syrian govt. officials. Israel National News. May 21, 2025, 8:42 PM INN

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Netanyahu. All of Gaza will be under Israeli security control. Prime Minister Netanyahu holds first press conference in half a year discusses war in Gaza, Iran, among other things. Hezki Baruch. May 21, 2025, 8:52 PM INN

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IDF Arabic spox. calls on Gaza residents to evacuate southwards. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/21/2025 09:03 PM JPost

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French government to tackle Muslim Brotherhood threat. Israel National News. May 21, 2025, 11:37 PM INN

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Overnight Israel: "Free Palestine!”- The Deadly DC Shooting Outside a Jewish Museum | Watch. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were killed in an antisemitic terror attack outside a Jewish museum in DC. Simcha Brodsky. May 22, 2025.

On May 21, 2025, a chilling act of antisemitic terror struck at the heart of Washington, DC. Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, two devoted staffers at the Israeli Embassy, were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum after participating in an American Jewish Committee event promoting humanitarian aid for Gaza.

The attacker, Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago, confessed to the murders while waving a red kaffiyeh and shouting "Free Palestine." His statements revealed a deep alignment with violent anti-Israel extremism. He was swiftly arrested, but the damage was done. The tragedy sent shockwaves through the Jewish community in the United States and around the world.

Victims Who Stood for Peace. Yaron, a German-born Israeli who made aliyah as a teenager, served in the embassy’s political department and championed Jewish-Arab coexistence. Sarah, a Jewish American involved in public diplomacy, previously worked at Tech2Peace, an initiative for Jewish and Arab dialogue in Tel Aviv. The couple were planning to get engaged in Jerusalem the following week. Their shared commitment to peace and unity made their murder especially devastating.

The Ideology Behind the Attack. Rodriguez’s ties to the far-left Party for Socialism and Liberation, combined with his public endorsement of an “Intifada revolution,” expose how radical rhetoric can translate into violence. This was not a senseless crime but a targeted antisemitic act. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar both labeled it an act of terrorism driven by dangerous lies and incitement. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed this sentiment, calling for full justice.

Denial and Deflection from the Far Left In the aftermath, pro-Palestinian activists online attempted to deflect blame, pushing unfounded conspiracy theories and downplaying the motive. Even Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, typically a critic of Israeli policy, acknowledged the attack as antisemitic. Yet many activists refused to reckon with the extremist ideologies that inspire such violence. Their silence and denial speak volumes.

A Broader Pattern of Threats. Just a day later, on May 22, Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen launched a missile toward Jerusalem. Though it was intercepted by Israel’s Arrow 3 defense system, debris landed dangerously close to Palestinian homes in Halhul, illustrating the recklessness of such attacks. This second attempted terror incident in two days underscored the growing threat to Israel and Jews globally.

Jenin Standoff Highlights Security Tensions. Also on May 22, Israeli forces fired warning shots near a convoy of international diplomats in Jenin after they entered a restricted military zone without authorization. While no one was harmed, the incident sparked diplomatic outrage. Yet critics ignored the context: Jenin is a hub for terror activity. The IDF’s response was measured and meant to protect both soldiers and foreign envoys.

France’s Dangerous Double Standard. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron offered only vague condolences for the DC victims while advocating for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Israeli leaders viewed this as rewarding terror rather than confronting it. Macron’s stance, in light of the week’s violence, struck many as dangerously naive.

Faith and Resilience in the Face of Trial. Adding to the week's tension, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in Crete was felt across Israel. While it caused no major damage, it served as a reminder of both Israel’s physical vulnerability and spiritual strength. From ancient times, Jewish tradition has held that even natural disasters are part of a larger divine story.

Conclusion: Israel Stands Strong. The events of this week make clear that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not mere ideologies. They are threats with deadly consequences. Yet in the face of terror, political hypocrisy, and natural upheaval, Israel endures. The legacy of Yaron and Sarah, who lived with courage and compassion, calls on all who cherish Jewish life to speak out, stand firm, and trust in the resilience of the Jewish people. JFeed

Live Updates: Slaying of Israeli Embassy Aides Was Targeted Antisemitic Violence, F.B.I. Says. The suspect from Chicago, who has attended pro-Palestinian rallies, shouted “Free Palestine” while being arrested Wednesday night after the fatal shooting in Washington, officials said. Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush, Chris Cameron and Mitch Smith. May 22, 2025. NYT

White House: Trump 'saddened & outraged' over murders of Israeli embassy staff. Israel National News. May 22, 2025, 8:53 PM INN

PM Netanyahu: 'Free Palestine' is just today’s version of 'Heil Hitler'. Israel National News. May 22, 2025, 8:26 PM INN

Netanyahu: Embassy staff killing a result of ‘blood libels against Israel’. (May 22, 2025 / JNS) JNS

Washington DC shooter charged with first-degree murder. Elias Rodriguez charged with two counts of first-degree murder, murder of foreign officials, causing the death of a person through the use of a firearm, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. Israel National News. May 23, 2025, 12:13 AM INN

Killing of Israeli embassy staffers ‘direct result’ of campus riots, Akunis says Nine Dems in Congress decry ‘all forms of hate’ after murder of Israeli embassy staffers in DC. JNS Staff. (May 22, 2025 / JNS) JNS

Domestic terror is the inevitable next step for Hamas sympathizers. The murders at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., are a warning that “pro-Palestine” activism is leading to antisemitic violence. Jonathan S. Tobin

(May 22, 2025 / JNS). For the past 19 months, angry mobs have taken over college campuses and the streets of major American cities. These demonstrations, tent encampments and building takeovers have not just been expressions of opposition to Israel’s efforts to eradicate the Hamas terrorists who led the Palestinian Arab assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. They have also often been indicative of the protesters’ support for Hamas and the embrace of terrorist goals, as well as their antisemitism—something that was made obvious by the way they have targeted Jews during the course of their “activism.” (May 22, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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‘Magnify, multiply’ efforts to end this hate, Leo Terrell says, after Israeli embassy staffers killed in DC. Mike Wagenheim. (May 22, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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US leaders condemn murder of Israeli embassy staffers. David Isaac. (May 22, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Sa’ar orders flags lowered: 'Yaron fell like a soldier in battle'.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar mourns murder of Israeli diplomat Yaron Lischinsky and his girlfriend Sara Milgram, calling it a direct result of global antisemitic incitement. 'This is the atmosphere that has made Jewish blood cheap.' Israel National News. May 22, 2025, 1:27 PM INN

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IDF raids village linked to murder of Tze'ela Gez. Ohevya Sharabi. May 22, 2025, 12:56 PM INN

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Terrorists feast as the people bleed: IDF blasts Hamas in scathing cartoon. IDF Arabic spokesman releases blistering cartoon showing Hamas leaders indulging in luxury while Gazan civilians suffer. 'Hamas leaders live in paradise — while their people suffer in hell.' Israel National News. Published: May 22, 2025, 10:45 AM (GMT+3) [22] INN

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Security forces demolish home of West Bank terrorist responsible for attack in August 2024. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/22/2025 8:02 AM JPost

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IDF intercepts second Houthi missile in 24 hours. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/22/2025 11:52 AM JPost

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IDF issues evacuation orders across north Gaza Strip. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/22/2025 01:15 PM JPost

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IDF's Division 98 struck 200 terror targets since start of 'Operation Gideon's Chariots'. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/22/2025 06:27 PM JPost

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IDF arrests terror cell of 20 suspects in West Bank operation. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/22/2025 06:31 PM JPost

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IDF tank commander severely wounded in Gaza. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/22/2025 06:55 PM JPost

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IDF orders evacuation near Hezbollah target in southern Lebanon. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/22/2025 07:21 PM JPost

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Netanyahu and Trump discuss Iran, Gaza, and embassy attack in Washington. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/22/2025 07:54 PM JPost

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IDF kills Hezbollah terrorist in southern Lebanon strike. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/22/2025 07:55 PM JPost

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Explosions in Sanaa caused by failed Houthi minister, local minister claims. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/23/2025 12:15 AM JPost

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Trump Admin bans Harvard from enrolling foreign students. Israel National News. May 22, 2025, 9:38 PM INN

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NY radio host: Liberal Jews are 'killing us' Radio host Sid Rosenberg slams liberal Jews as “the weakest” and calls out the divide within American Jewry Maayan Hoffman, ILTV | published:05.21.25 | YNet

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He waited, opened fire, discarded gun—and declared 'Intifada': Step by step through the Washington attack. Attack outside Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., which lasted only minutes, claimed the lives of couple and embassy staffers Yaron Lishinsky and Sarah Milgrom, shocked a community and triggered global security responses. Daniel Edelson, New York, Itamar Eichner, Idan Blumhof | published:05.22.25 | 11:55

Here is how the events unfolded, according to eyewitnesses and law enforcement: Rodriguez was seen walking back and forth in front of the Jewish museum, which was hosting an event for young diplomats. Among the attendees were Yaron Lishinsky, 30, and his partner, Sarah Milgrom, 26, both staffers at the Israeli Embassy.

At 9:07 p.m., as the event concluded and participants began exiting the building, Rodriguez pulled out a firearm and opened fire on four people. Lishinsky and Milgrom were killed at the scene. The shooter then threw away his weapon. Witnesses, unaware he was the assailant, mistook Rodriguez for a bystander in shock. “We saw a distressed man and thought he needed help and a safe place,” said Katie Klesher, an attendee. Rodriguez was brought inside the museum by others offering aid. “People calmed him down, gave him water, cared for him,” said witness Yoni Klein. “We had no idea he was the shooter.” When police arrived, Rodriguez identified himself as the gunman. “I did it. I’m unarmed,” he reportedly told officers. He then produced a keffiyeh and added: “I did it for Gaza. There is only one solution—intifada, revolution. Free Palestine.” He also directed police to the location where he had discarded the firearm.

Investigators said Rodriguez did not know the victims or that they worked for the Israeli Embassy. Israeli officials believe the attack was antisemitic in nature and targeted Jews at a Jewish institution.

In the aftermath, security was increased for Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, and other diplomatic officials.

The following morning, U.S. law enforcement searched a residence in Chicago linked to Rodriguez. CNN reported that 20 law enforcement vehicles arrived at the scene and blocked off the street. Lishinsky had planned to propose to Milgrom during an upcoming trip to Israel. “She told me they were flying to Israel to meet his family,” said Einav Hadari, deputy spokesperson at the embassy. “I asked if she expected to return with a ring. She said, ‘I hope so.’” Lishinsky had immigrated to Israel from Germany and faced early challenges integrating into Israeli society. His former teacher at Boyar High School in Jerusalem, Lior Gutman, recalled, “He struggled at first with Hebrew and cultural differences, but he found connection through soccer and music. He became a confident representative of Israel abroad.” “Sadly,” Gutman added, “he and his partner never got the chance to build a home in Israel.” Ynet

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Party For Socialism And Liberation, Linked To Perpetrator Of Terror Attack On DC Jewish Event For Young Professionals That Killed Two Israeli Embassy Employees, Was Among The Endorsers Of The May 2024 3-Day 'People's Conference For Palestine' In Detroit Where Speakers Openly Praised 'Heroic' October 7 And Called For Escalating Armed Resistance; Conference Was Largely Overlooked By Dearborn And Detroit Media, Despite The Participation Of U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Dearborn Mayor Hammoud, High-Profile Jihadi Members Of Designated Terror Groups. May 22, 2025 Palestinians | Special Dispatch No. 11993

On May 21, 2025, a shooting attack took place outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was holding an event for young professionals. Two employees of the Israeli Embassy were shot dead in the attack. The accused suspect, Elias Rodriguez, who yelled "Free Palestine!" as he was apprehended, has been linked to the anti-U.S. extremist Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Against this backdrop, MEMRI is re-releasing its October 29, 2024 Inquiry & Analysis report on the "People's Conference for Palestine," held in Detroit, Michigan on May 24-26, 2024, an event closely tied to U.S.-designated Palestinian terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The conference was endorsed by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, among many other pro-jihadi groups, and featured an in-person speech by U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), along with a pre-recorded video message by Dearborn, Michigan Mayor Abdullah Hammoud. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was listed as an endorser on the conference website. Memri

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abbaleh @abbaleh: You might think “well that’s probably not what most of these protesters mean when they use those phrases”. Unity of Fields, formerly “Palestine Action, a protest/“direct action” group, posted this today. May 22, 2025 On X

Anti-Israel group that helped incite Columbia library takeover praises DC shooter: ‘an act of solidarity and love. By Kate Sheehy, New York Post, May 23, 2025.

A rabid anti-Israel hate group accused of helping to incite a Columbia University library takeover is now praising alleged DC Jewish Museum shooter Elias Rodriguez’s heinous crime as an act of “love.”

The notorious radical Unity of Fields also touted and provided a link to Rodriguez’s reported hate-fueled manifesto titled, “ESCALATE FOR GAZA, BRING THE WAR HOME.’’

“What Elias Rodriguez did was an act of solidarity and love for the Palestinian people,’’ the extreme lefty organization wrote on X Friday.

“If this seems crazy and unhinged to you, ask yourself why you are so well adjusted to a constant stream of disemboweled and starving children — made possible by the country in which you reside.”

Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago was caught on surveillance video gunning down soon-to-be-engaged Jewish couple Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, outside the museum late Wednesday after an event aimed at fostering peace.

The homegrown radical continued to shoot Milgrim even as she lay mortally wounded on the ground and tried to crawl away, authorities said.

Rodriguez admitted to authorities minutes later that he was the shooter, shouting “Free, free Palestine!”

Unity of Fields called the accused double-killer a “political prisoner.

“And the people defending him the hardest, like us, are people also facing repression,’’ it seethed on X on Thursday.

“We don’t condemn armed resistance,’’ it wrote. “We don’t condemn direct action. We back the left and want this energy to be more organized as opposed to shunned and isolated.”… NYPost

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Palestinian activists can finally see their ‘intifada’ in action. The shooting in Washington should serve as a well-needed reminder that we are witnessing a struggle between the West and the forces of jihad.

Jake Wallis Simons 22 May 2025.

During the notorious parliamentary debate on Israel this week, in which the foreign secretary announced that he was suspending trade talks with the sole democracy in the Middle East, the false claim that “14,000 babies could be dead in the next 48 hours” was repeated no fewer than 13 times, according to the record in Hansard.

The following day, a man shot dead two Israeli diplomats outside a Jewish Museum in Washington DC while allegedly crying “free Palestine”.

In the latest anti-Semitic outrage in 2,000 years of anti-Semitic outrages, a couple in their twenties, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were about to become engaged, were gunned down after an event, apparently by a brainwashed Gaza junkie.

Their portrait says it all. There they stand in formal attire, full of optimism and life, smiling at the camera as they look forward to making a home together, flanked by the flags of the United States and Israel, two of the best and freest countries in their respective regions.

Both are also nations that have, to very different extents, suffered the scourge of jihadi terror. The 9/11 attacks in New York were motivated largely by anti-Semitism, a trial of a surviving member of the terror cell in Hamburg later revealed.

To this coupling we can add other countries across the West, including our own. As it happened, the shooting in Washington took place on the eighth anniversary of the bombing of the Manchester Arena. Did Salman Abedi have “Palestine” in the back of his mind as he butchered 22 children and their relatives at the Ariana Grande concert? My money’s on yes.

The grim truth is that there is a common denominator between the affront to Western values and interests on display in parliament this week and the gruesome murders in Washington and elsewhere.

It is unlikely that anybody would carry out any form of jihadi murder without believing deeply in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Such as the claim that 14,000 Palestinian babies could be dead in the next 48 hours.

These conspiracy theories have been commonplace ever since the Cold War, when Soviet propagandists invented them and spread them around the world, where they were received with some glee by the Muslim world and the Western Left.

Foremost, of course, is the false claim that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza, despite the fact that if it had wished to do so, it could have obliterated the entire Strip from the air in about half-an-hour without risking the life of a single soldier.

There are many others, however: apartheid, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, white supremacy, Nazism. To these we may add false claims specific to Israel’s operations in Gaza. The IDF bombs hospitals for fun. Shoots civilians for fun. Kills infants for fun, just like the Jews have done since 1144 in Norwich.

But 14,000 babies? Surely that stretched the bounds of credulity. In the fever dream of Israelophobia, however, even the most Satanic behaviour is credible when we’re talking about the Middle East’s only democracy.

So it was that after a United Nations humanitarian chief made the claim on Radio 4’s Today, it travelled halfway round the world in a matter of minutes.

As the BBC established shortly afterwards, however, the assertion was false. It came from a recent UN report speculating that 14,000 children between the ages of four and six could be in danger of acute malnutrition in Gaza over the next year.

No babies. No 48 hours. No actual starvation, just a fear of it. Yet this was insufficient to prevent the lie from occupying centre stage in Parliament, riling up MPs from both sides of the aisle as they agitated for David Lammy to put the boot into the Jewish state.

It makes for an ugly picture. Every single one of those parliamentarians who defiled the chamber by so self-righteously repeating an obviously false allegation, made by a representative of an organisation – the UN – which has traded in anti-Semitic tropes for decades, should issue an immediate apology.

Lammy should correct the shamefully hostile stance that he has taken on behalf of the country towards the Jewish state. The suggestion in his opening remarks that Israel’s war of self-defence was “an affront to the values of the British people” could not have been more ironic, given the way he was trampling those values himself.

Because the true common denominator in all this is that Britain, the United States and Israel all face different heads of the hydra of jihadism. The greatest success of Hamas propagandists is to make us believe that their bloodlust is some form of “resistance” to Israeli “occupation” and “oppression”, something we should support. This is ahistorical garbage.

The Arab world launched two wars of annihilation against the Jewish state, in 1948 and 1967, before there was a single Israeli boot on the West Bank or in Gaza. The “apartheid slur” was being used before then, too. Hamas went on to derail the Oslo peace accords, which would have delivered a Palestinian state, with a campaign of suicide bombs.

It is disgraceful that the foreign secretary has allowed Hamas to blind him to the interests of Britain. It is disgraceful that he has shown himself to be as susceptible to propaganda as the next idiot in a keffiyeh. The shooting in Washington should serve as a well-needed reminder that we are witnessing a struggle between the West and the forces of jihad, and there can be no question about which side we must take. DailyTelegraph

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Swedish MEP assaulted as European Parliament debates Gaza. Alice Teodorescu Måwe said recognizing Israel as a state should be a prerequisite to obtaining citizenship in the Scandinavian nation. Yossi Lempkowicz.

(May 22, 2025 / European Jewish Press) A pro-Israel Swedish member of the European Parliament, Alice Teodorescu Måwe, was verbally and physically attacked by a civil servant from the Left group in the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday.

The incident happened as the E.U. assembly was debating the situation in Gaza.

In Sweden, Teodorescu Måwe is a member of the Christian Democrats, which is part of the governing coalition, and in the European Parliament, she is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.

While initial reports of the incident were contradictory, European Parliament spokesperson Delphine Colard indicated that the assessment “confirmed the MEP’s version of events’,’ as a CCTV surveillance camera was in operation in the part of the legislature where the incident occurred.

The incident started when the Left staff member, reportedly a Swede of Middle Eastern descent, photographed and filmed the Bucharest-born MEP.. JNS

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israelmfa: Tom Fletcher, Head of @un_ocha, conveniently “forgets” that Hamas terrorists operate from hospitals, fire rockets from @unitednations schools, and hijack humanitarian aid - profiting from it while recruiting thousands and stockpiling weapons. May 22, 2025. Instagram

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Daniel @VoteLewko: This is why nobody trusts the media. It has now been 48hrs since the @UNReliefChief

Tom Fletcher claimed on the BBC that "14,000 babies in Gaza could die in the next 48 hours". 

So did 14,000 babies die? Or anything near that? Of course they didn't. The entire suggestion was always completely preposterous and lacking any credibility whatsoever.

But that didn't stop the BBC publishing it, did it? The entirely dishonest blood libel was then amplified by the UN, Time, The Guardian, the ABC, The Independent UK, Associated Press, NBC, SBS... The list goes on. The claim was then used by world leaders to condemn Israel based on wildly improbable claims, hysteria and lies.

No fact checking was required. The claim was clearly total BS. But even 48 hours later it still appears on many news sites, who once again are prepared to believe anything bad about Israel. 48 hours is more than enough time to correct the record and stand down everyone responsible.

So why the hell does @TFletcher still have a job? Why does the producer of the BBC Radio program still have a job? Why do media outlets get to spread lies which lead directly to violence towards Jews, with zero accountability?

If they'd simply said something sexist, racist or about other groups there would be marches in the street demanding their cancelling. But spread lies about the Jewish state? Crickets!

Will they ever learn? These are the same outlets that fell for the "Jenin Massacre" (which never occurred) and which nearly 2 years ago said that fuel and water would run out in Gaza and spread Hamas lie after lie after lie.

Either they are breathtakingly incompetent at their job, or they are wilfully dishonest and antisemitic. It can only be one or the other. And their leadership are just as responsible. May 22, 2025 X

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"Objective" United Nations: Tom Fletcher [the "14,000 babies" lie producer] tells to propagandist/journalist Amanpour (5.22.25): "We don't think it's Hamas doing that looting."

Ponder: 1. Does that mean, the UN, UNRWA always knows who is Hamas? How is that not a guilty charge on the UNRWA, again? 2. Is he as "free" to say, just as journalists recently reported of being threatened as reported by International Press Centre (IPC). ["Watchdog: Gazan reporters ‘intimidated, threatened, assaulted by Hamas’". TOI. 5.16.25]? 3. Both? On Wiki, facts

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Hostage talks falter: Israel refuses Hamas demands for guarantees, recalls delegation. As indirect negotiations stall, Hamas pushes for UN resolution and U.S. guarantees; Israel pulls entire team from Doha, warning deal possible only if Hamas accepts Witkoff outline. Itamar Eichner | published: 06.22.25 | 08:57. YNet

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IDF tank commander severely injured in northern Gaza fighting. Ynet correspondents |05.22.25. YNet

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13 MPs who repeated ‘14,000 Gazan babies’ lie named in Parliament. Widely shared statement, originally made by UN emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher, sparked a wave of outrage By Michelle Rosenberg May 23, 2025.

A group of 13 MPs has been named and shamed in the House of Lords after parroting the discredited claim that 14,000 babies in Gaza were at risk of dying within 48 hours.

The widely shared statement, originally made by UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher during an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, sparked a wave of outrage and was cited multiple times in Parliament. Fletcher had claimed: “There are 14,000 babies who will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.” JewishNews

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Douglas Murray: DC killings show how Americans are being incited to kill Jews by anti-Israel propaganda. By Douglas Murray. Published May 22, 2025, 7:36 p.m. ET

On Wednesday afternoon, Yaron Lischinsky was trying, as always, to fight lies.

On social media he could be found pushing back against just one of the many big lies spread every day about the Jewish state.

Specifically he was commenting on the UN Report which garnered headlines around the world.

This was a completely lying, untrue report from one Tom Fletcher (UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs) that 14,000 Gazan babies were likely to die in the next 48 hours unless aid reached them.

Mr. Fletcher’s claim ignored every reality on the ground.

That reality includes the fact that when aid trucks — including UN aid trucks — enter Gaza they tend to be hijacked by Hamas, who then use the aid for their terrorists or sell it at a hiked-up rate to the Gazan citizens it is meant for.

“Reputable” news organizations like the BBC spread the lie around the world.

For days they have been ramping up their coverage of Gaza. Always on a mission — a mission to claim that Gaza above any other story on earth needed to be the subject of media and international pressure.

The Jewish state was committing a “genocide[sic]” many of these outlets claimed.

On Wednesday the UN retracted its own report, but not until they had sent that brutal, brutal lie all over the world.

I wonder what radical left media think will happen when they act as Hamas’s propaganda outlets? Clearly they are trying to radicalize their readers.

And it works.

On Wednesday evening, Yaron Lischinsky was with his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim and other attendees at an event in Washington DC’s Capital Jewish Museum.

The couple happened to be staffers at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, but the gunman wouldn’t have known that.

Elias Rodriguez, 31, had hidden a gun outside the event and simply wanted to kill Jews.

“Free, free Palestine” he said as he whipped out his terrorist keffiyeh scarf and shot them.

It was a chant he repeated minutes later when he was arrested.

As a result of his actions, two beautiful young lives have been ended in an assassination-style killing on the streets of the US capital.

Rodriguez is associated with the far-left Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).

Presumably Rodriguez believed the lies that have been pumped around this country and the world. Presumably he was one of those people who actually believe that Israel has been committing a “genocide” in Gaza since October 2023, as opposed to fighting a careful war intended to bring home the remaining Israeli hostages being held by Hamas and capturing or killing the terrorist group’s leadership.

If he did believe these things then he is not alone.

Indeed, as The Post revealed yesterday, even in this city such chants and such hatred are routine.

The same day that Rodriguez ended two young lives, students at Columbia University’s graduation also chanted that inane and ignorant chant of “Free, free Palestine.”

They did so even as their cowardly acting president Claire Shipman tried to placate the mob.

“I know many in our community are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil,” she said, referring to the Columbia protest leader who has spent the past two years trying to halt normal life on Columbia’s campus amid a claim that Columbia is somehow involved in the “genocide” in Gaza.

Khalil is now the left’s great free-speech martyr, but he is a hard person to miss.

His idiot radical group (Columbia University Apartheid Divest) called the October 7th massacres “a moral, military, and political victory” and states that it is “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”

One of the people to graduate Columbia on Wednesday was Mohsen Madawi, who for the past 19 months has led students in chants to “globalize the intifada.”

What did such groups and such individuals think about the consequences of their actions?

When they chanted to “globalize the intifada” they meant exactly what Rodriguez did.

They meant — and they mean — that the targeting of Jews by acts of terror should be brought from the Middle East here to America.

For the past year and a half many people — Jewish and non-Jewish — have warned about the escalation in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activism in this country.

We have warned about the radical leftist groups — and the radical right-wing commentators — who have had a field-day appealing to the most base human bigotries.

When these people were accused of “blood libels” many of them decided to look into the claim and then tell their followers that Jews were in fact busily killing and using the blood of Christian children in the Middle Ages.

When people said that they sounded like they were celebrating a death cult they showed that they were proud of it.

The streets of DC, like the streets of this city, have resounded for 19 months to chants calling for the annihilation of the Jewish State and the killing of Jewish people.

It was allowed to go on despite the fact that no similar incitement would ever be allowed in this country against any other group.

Rodriguez does not appear to be a radical Muslim.

He is someone who has been radicalized in America by radical left groups that believe that killing Jews makes them ethical people. NYPost

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IDF expands Gaza offensive, hits 75+ terrorist targets in one day | WATCH. Airstrikes and ground ops span the Gaza Strip as Israel ramps up pressure on terror groups with targeted attacks and eliminations. Avi Nachmani. May 23, 2025. JFeed

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Typical Terrorist Response. Hamas Rejects Netanyahu’s Peace Plan: “We Will Not Disarm or Leave Gaza”. Hamas rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conditions for ending the Gaza war, refusing to disarm or exile its leaders. The group’s stance underscores its commitment to continued violence against Israel, prioritizing conflict over peace and the welfare of Gaza’s civilians. Eliana Fleming. May 22, 2025. JFeed

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Yaron Lischinsky's body, killed in Washington attack, returned to Israel. By Amichai Stein. 05/23/2025 01:41 PM JPost

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IDF to expand operations in Gaza, sounds of explosions expected to be heard in South - report. By Yanir Yagna. 05/23/2025 09:05 PM JPost

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US ambassador to Turkey will serve as special envoy to Syria. By Reuters. 05/23/2025 06:18 PM JPost

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Netanyahu on Zini: 'He warned of a ground invasion half a year before the massacre' Israel National News May 23, 2025, 8:12 PM INN

Netanyahu defends Shin Bet appointment, lauds Zini's report written before Oct. 7. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/23/2025 06:16 PM JPost

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Rocket fired from Gaza intercepted by IAF, triggers sirens in Gaza border area. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/23/2025 05:35 PM JPost

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British Airways cancels flights to Israel until end of July. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/23/2025 04:20 PM JPost

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Court releases Huwara resident indicted for spitting at IDF officer on bail. By Walla! 05/23/2025 01:49 PM JPost

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ‘Iran is today’s Nazi threat’: Syrian insider delivers stark warning, urges Israel to embrace opportunity for peace. Mzahem Alsaloum, a survivor of Assad-regime torture, warns that time is running out for Israel to support a new Syrian leadership eager to normalize ties. Gabriel Colodro/The Media Line |05.23.25 | 13:13 YNet

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As US-Iran nuclear talks stall, Israel ramps up preparations for multi-front war. Yossi Yehoshua. |05.23.25 | 15:15 YNet

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Germany: At least 12 injured in knife attack at Hamburg railway station. Israel National News. May 23, 2025, 8:50 PM INN

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Harvard wins temporary reprieve on student visa program. Elad Benari, Canada. May 23, 2025, 9:38 PM INN

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NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Refuses to Acknowledge Israel’s Right to Exist as a Jewish State. by Corey Walker, May 23, 2025. Algemeiner

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Guterres blames looting of Gazan aid on low supplies, though Hamas often steals aid. “In recent days, almost 400 trucks were cleared for entry to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, but supplies from only 115 trucks have been able to be collected,” the U.N. chief said. Mike Wagenheim.

(May 23, 2025 / JNS) Former high-ranking U.N. officials have signed on to lead a new aid delivery mechanism to the Gaza Strip that aims to avoid Hamas looting. But António Guterres, the world body’s secretary-general, said again on Friday that the global body “will not take part in any scheme that fails to respect international law and the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality.” JNS

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Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: BREAKING: Video shows Hamas looting the aid trucks entering Gaza.

Under international law, Israel not only has a right, but a duty to not send aid if Hamas steals it.

From Open Source Intel [23]. May 23, 2025 X

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Suspected DC Jewish Museum terrorist Elias Rodriguez has links to radical groups funded by socialist multi-millionaire Neville Singham. By Isabel Vincent. Published May 23, 2025. The suspected terrorist charged with gunning down two Israeli embassy workers in Washington Wednesday is associated with radical socialist groups funded by the far-left Chinese sympathizer, millionaire Neville Singham and his activist wife Jodie Evans.

Elias Rodriguez, 31, who allegedly confessed to killing the couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum and chanted “free, free Palestine!” was part of that network through his association with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a Communist political organization that has fielded presidential candidates since 2008.

In 2018, Rodriguez also raised $240 in a GoFundMe campaign to join the March to Fight Poverty in Washington DC and took part in demonstrations and protests around Chicago as a member of the ANSWER coalition around 2017 and 2018, another radical socialist group, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Alleged DC shooter Elias Rodriguez was once affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which backed its own candidates for US president since 2008. Katie Kalisher via Storyful Both the PSL and ANSWER Coalition are connected to People’s Forum – a Manhattan-based non-profit which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party – through funding from Singham, 71.

All three groups have been involved in anti-Israel protests, with the People’s Forum having a cadre of operatives embedded at Columbia University — an epicenter of protest — according to previous reports.

[Friends and former classmates remembered slain Israeli Embassy staffer Sarah Milgrim as a "beautiful soul" and "peacemaker" who embraced her Jewish faith with pride just days after she was gunned down by a pro-Palestine terrorist in an antisemitic attack in Washington, DC, Wednesday night].

(Murdered Israeli Embassy diplomat Sarah Milgrim remembered as a ‘fiercely loyal friend,’ ‘beautiful soul’ devoted to her faith [24]).

The People’s Forum received more than $20 million in grants from Singham, much of it filtered through the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, a fiscal sponsor, as The Post has previously reported.

Another group, the Bronx Antiwar Coalition is also connected to groups in Singham’s orbit. The Bronx group applauded the murders of the Israeli diplomats on X Thursday.

“What Elias Rodriguez did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism,” a tweet from the group proclaimed.

The Bronx Anti-War Coalition was founded by Dee Knight, a radical socialist and pro-China activist, who has worked with People’s Forum, according to reports.

Knight’s latest book, “Befriending China: People to People Peacemaking,” garnered advance praise from Evans, 70, who lobbies for closer relations with China.

“He reveals in so many ways that China is not our enemy, but has an abundance to share with us,” wrote Evans, who has written her own book about embracing China in conjunction with Tricontental Insitute for Social Research, a Marxist think tank center funded by her husband and the Communist Party of China (CCP), according to the Network Contagion Research Institute.

The research center employs Singham’s son, Nate Singham, as a researcher, according to a report from the National Contagion Research Institute, a New Jersey-based think tank.

“The People’s Forum… and ANSWER Coalition serve as the conduit through which CCP-affiliated entities have effectively co-opted pro-Palestinian activism in the US, advancing a broader anti-American, anti-democratic, and anti-capitalist agenda,” according to NCRI’s 2024 report, “Contagious Disruption: How CCP Influence and Radical Ideologies Threaten Critical Infrastructure and Campuses Across the United States.”

Donations to the radical groups are filtered through Progress Unity Fund, a radical-left fiscal sponsor, according to public records.

Singham, who is now believed to be based in Shanghai, is married to activist Jodi Evans, founder of Code Pink, a women’s anti-war group which has also taken a pro-China stance in recent years.

Born in Chicago, Singham is former chair of ThoughtWorks, an IT consulting company which he sold for a reported $785 million in 2017. He is a socialist and Maoist, who was a former member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a Maoist group, according to sources.

He did not respond to The Post’s request for comment, but previously told the New York Times: “I categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a member of, work for, take orders from, or follow instructions of any political party or government or their representatives.

“I am solely guided by my beliefs, which are my long-held personal views.”

On the GoFundMe page for the March to Fight Poverty, Rodriguez had said he was joining to protest US involvement in foreign wars after his father, a National Guardsman, was sent to Iraq when Rodriguez was 11 years old.

When his father returned, Rodriguez was angry he had brought back a small Iraqi flag he ripped off a dead Iraqi’s uniform.

“I don’t want to see another generation of Americans coming home from genocidal imperialist wars with trophies,” he wrote at the time. [...] “We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it.”

Claudia de la Cruz, a Bronx-born socialist activist, is listed as the first president of People’s Forum in 2017 and ran for president of the USA on the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s ticket in 2024.

De La Cruz, who raised nearly $400,000 during her presidential run, stepped down from the top position at the non-profit in 2023, according to federal filings.

Ben Becker, a founding member of the party, is listed as a board member of Breakthrough Media, a non-profit affiliated with People’s Forum which also shares its Midtown address, according to public records.

De La Cruz is also listed as a board member of the media group on its federal filings for 2023. NYPost

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Israel's US ambassador defends Netanyahu, slams legal system in interview. Yechiel Leiter condemns the Israeli left and media for spreading 'blood libels' against Netanyahu, defends his integrity amid corruption charges and reveals Israel’s undisclosed role in the U.S.-led Gaza Humanitarian Fund

Daniel Edelson, New York | 05.24.25. YNet

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Tsurkov release deal hinges on US approval over Iranian tied to American’s murder. Deal for release of Israeli-Russian academic includes freeing Mohammad Reza Nouri, tied to 2022 killing of Stephen Troell; Washington has not approved; ransom reportedly paid and all terms agreed—only her release remains. Lior Ben Ari, AFP | 05.24.25. Ynet

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Aid trucks begin entering Gaza Strip via Kerem Shalom crossing - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/24/2025 09:23 AM JPost

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timesofisrael: IDF kills 6 gunmen guarding trucks amid looting as humanitarian aid trickles into Gaza. UN chief says Palestinians entering 'cruelest phase of war'; footage on social media shows crowd of Gazans surrounding bakery [By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff. May 24, 2025]. Threads

Delays hit launch of US-backed aid distribution in Gaza as chaos and looting persist. Efforts to begin direct food distribution to Palestinians through a new American-run network stall amid chaos on the ground, continued looting and fierce international criticism over Israel’s handling of the humanitarian crisis. Itamar Eichner, Daniel Edelson, New York | published:05.24.25.

The launch of a new U.S.-backed aid distribution network in Gaza, intended to bypass Hamas and alleviate mounting humanitarian concerns, has been delayed amid ongoing looting, logistical setbacks and deepening international criticism. Israel had hoped the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a new American-run operation with Israeli support, would begin distributing food directly to Palestinian families as early as Saturday. But the opening of four distribution centers has been pushed to Monday or Tuesday due to last-minute complications, Israeli officials said. Ynet

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timesofisrael: UK police charged Jewish man with racial harassment after holding anti-Hezbollah sign timesofisrael.com/uk-po… UK police charged Jewish man with racial harassment for holding anti-Hezbollah sign. [May 24, 2025]. Threads

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Erdogan, Syria's Sharaa hold talks in Istanbul, media reports say. By Reuters. 05/24/2025 03:14 PM JPost

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Houthis intensify missile strikes on Israel after concluded US operation in Yemen. Terror group brags at launching 41 ballistic missiles at Israel since the American operation ended, leading to a strike on Ben Gurion Airport, heightened nighttime barrages and regional instability.

Lior Ben Ari | 05.24.25. YNet

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Report: Hamas faces deep financial crisis, fails to pay terrorists. Israel National News. May 24, 2025, 8:36 PM INN

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All in: IDF deploys entire Infantry and Armored forces into Gaza.

In major escalation, IDF deploys all regular infantry and armored brigades into Gaza, including the Paratroopers Brigade fighting focuses on northern Gaza and Khan Yunis.

Israel National News. May 24, 2025, 8:29 PM INN

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IDF unleashes wave of strikes, destroys Gaza launcher behind border attack.

In a sweeping response to rocket attack, IDF eliminates terrorists, dismantles underground networks, and strikes over 100 targets in Gaza, including the launcher used in Friday’s attack on Israeli border towns. Israel National News. May 24, 2025, 9:05 PM (GMT+3) INN

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‘Still there, still trembling’: Freed hostage exposes ongoing Hamas brutality. Thousands gather in Tel Aviv as Israel nears 600 days since the October 7 massacre, survivor Naama Levy recounts the horrors of captivity and the fear still haunting those left behind. 'They’re there, clinging to walls, praying to survive.' Israel National News. Published: May 24, 2025, 9:19 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Looking For Leads: DOJ council takes on influencer who praised Washington murders. Following a video by influencer Guy Christensen praising the murder of Israeli embassy workers in Washington, a DOJ official called on the public to submit evidence against him. Israel National News. Published: May 25, 2025, 12:20 AM (GMT+3) LEO Terrell, a senior council at the DOJ, tweeted that he 'will review all leads' against Guy Christensen, a TikTok influencer with more than three million followers, after Christensen praised the murder of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington. INN

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Chicago Mayoral Appointee Resigns After Backlash Over Tearing Down Israeli Hostage Poster. May 23, 2025 An appointee to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Fiscal Sustainability Working Group, Ishan Daya, resigned just hours after his selection was announced, following criticism over a 2023 video showing him tearing down posters of Israeli hostages... YWN

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Shurat HaDin founder: 'We're going after the money behind Hamas and Iran'. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner says her organization has filed lawsuits against entities funding Hamas, including Qatari foundations, cryptocurrency platforms, UNRWA, and even the Red Cross. Emily Schrader, ILTV | published:05.24.25 YNet

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Influential Palestinian author callously calls DC Jewish Museum victims ‘genocide[sic] cheerleaders’. By Katherine Donlevy. Published May 24, 2025. A prominent Palestinian author and activist callously ripped the two victims of the DC Jewish Museum shooting as “genocide[sic] cheerleaders” in a series of hateful tweets — saying she was shocked the bloodshed hadn’t “happened sooner.”

Susan Abulhawa, who served as the director of the controversial 2023 “Palestine Writes” festival at the University of Pennsylvania, fired off numerous posts that apparently supported suspected shooter Elias Rodriguez’s actions just hours after he allegedly killed two Israeli embassy staffers.

Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, who were engaged to be married, were attending a Jewish conference of the American Jewish Committee focused on fostering peace when they were killed on Wednesday. NYPost

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Washington Post asked "Where do Jews belong?" after DC shooting. The internet went stir-crazy. The Washington Post is facing intense backlash for an offensive headline that echoed antisemitic tropes following the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Gila Isaacson. May 25, 2025.

The Washington Post faced fierce backlash on Friday for a tone-deaf and widely criticized article that many have branded as blatantly antisemitic. The piece, titled “For U.S. Jews, D.C. Museum Killings Deepen Resolve – and Fear,” included a subheading and promotional tweet that insensitively questioned “where Jews belong” following the tragic shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening. JFees

Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig: “Where Jews belong”? No newspaper would ever dare say that about any other ethnic or religious group. “Where Asians belong?” “Where Muslims belong?” It would be a scandal. And rightfully so. But because it’s about Jews, it’s somehow acceptable? That’s deeply wrong. on X

PhantomHonky @BenBell86931876: Time for WAPO to die . In darkness or in daylight ? It makes no difference. Absolutely disgusting. Surprised they didn't use a racist JAK cartoon (1840's Irish as Apes or Pigs) or 1930's-40s Nazi cartoon ( Jews as Rats) . May 24, 2025 on X

Joel M. Petlin @Joelmpetlin: The @washingtonpost is "confused" about "where Jews belong." Perhaps they belong in the newsroom, the opinion page, the editors' office, the social media page, and everywhere else at WaPo to avoid such outrageous headlines, articles and posts from being published in the future. On X

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Former Israeli hostage tells French FM: ‘It’s either us or them’. "Diplomatic solutions won't work," said Agam Berger during a meeting in France with Jean-Noël Barrot. David Isaac.

(May 25, 2025 / JNS) Former Hamas hostage Agam Berger told French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot during a meeting in France on Saturday that Israel has no choice but to fight the terrorist group.

“As soon as there is a war of survival over our land, that’s what we will do. They don’t want ‘togetherness,'” said Berger, referring to Hamas. “Diplomatic solutions won’t work because it’s either us or them,” she added.

Berger, 20, an Israel Defense Forces field observer, was released from Gaza on Jan. 30 after 482 days in Hamas captivity. She was abducted by Hamas terrorists from the IDF’s Nahal Oz outpost during the terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of southern Israel. HNS

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“‘F*** the West’: Tourist Who Tried to Set Fire to U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv is a German-American Nazi. The identity of the man has been revealed; it is currently unclear how he was able to enter the State of Israel at all. Yair Kleinbaum. May 25, 2025.

Joseph Neumeier, 28, a German-American citizen, was arrested after spitting at a security guard at the embassy and leaving a bag at the scene containing flammable liquid. He was arrested at JFK Airport and could face up to 20 years in prison in the U.S. on suspicion of attempting a terror attack. JFeed

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Watch Canada's "Walk With Israel" Parade LIVE. Thousands of Jews are expected to march in support of Israel in Toronto, even as provocative pro-Palestinian protestors are expected to clash with the marchers. Avi Woolf. May 25, 2025. JFeed

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Captivity survivor: Before the IDF entered Rafah my captors deliberately starved me. At legal forum, hostage Omer Wenkert recounts 420 days of Hamas captivity marked by isolation, starvation, and abuse: 'They came to me once in never.' Israel National News. May 25, 2025, 7:26 PM INN

“Intentional Starvation, Metal Rods, No Time”: Freed Hostage Omer Wenkert Reveals Gaza Hell. A recently freed Israeli hostage shares a harrowing account of psychological and physical abuse during nearly 300 days of captivity in Gaza. His testimony sheds light on the brutal conditions endured by hostages and the lasting impact of their ordeal. Eliana Fleming. May 25, 2025. JFeed

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Bombshell Report Says British Government Knowingly Funding Hamas With Millions. By Hank Berrien, May 25, 2025.

A bombshell new report states that the British government is knowingly sending millions of pounds to the terrorist group Hamas.

NGO Monitor obtained a British Consulate-General in Jerusalem (BCGJ) document dated November 2022 with a plan for “UK Humanitarian Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

The document notes distribution of “multi-purpose cash” assistance in Gaza. The document states, “The cash assistance component will be implemented in coordination with the Ministry of Social Development MoSD. … The MoSD in Gaza is affiliated with the de facto authorities and thus UK Aid can be linked directly or indirectly with supporting the de factor [sic] authority (Hamas) in Gaza which is part of a proscribed group... Daily Wire

UK poured millions into aid program linked to Hamas-controlled group. The Foreign Office sent the money to UNICEF, even though it knew the agency worked with the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Social Development. David Isaac.

(May 26, 2025 / JNS) The United Kingdom is one of the chief funders of Hamas, Israel’s Channel 12 “Weekend News” reported on Saturday night.

While a great deal of the money comes from private donations to so-called Muslim “charities,” the investigation revealed that the British government also funds the terrorist group. Admittedly, the money reaches Hamas indirectly, via UNICEF, but the British Foreign Office is aware of the terror connection, as evidenced by an internal 2022 report. JNS

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US special envoy praises Syrian leader's steps on foreign fighters. By Reuters. 05/24/2025 07:49 PM JPost

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IDF troops kill terrorists in Gaza who wounded Israeli tank commander By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/25/2025 10:04 AM JPost

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Yair Golan backtracks: 'Israel doesn't kill babies as a hobby'. Israel National News. May 25, 2025, 10:35 AM INN

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Erdogan, Pakistan PM Sharif to meet in Istanbul on Sunday. By Reuters. 05/25/2025 12:22 PM JPost

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IDF kills Hamas naval commando terrorist who infiltrated Kerem Shalom on Oct. 7. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/25/2025 05:15 PM JPost

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Following DC murders: US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrives in Israel. Israel National News. May 25, 2025, 9:33 PM INN

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Gaza 75% under control in 2 months, Hamas leadership crumbling.

IDF says it eliminated over 800 terrorists, now controls more than 40% of Gaza, aiming for full operational dominance over 75% of the territory while dismantling Hamas' core infrastructure.

Yoni Kempinski. May 25, 2025, 8:58 PM INN

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IDF Intensifies Pressure on Hamas: Over 800 Militants Killed, Gaza Operation Expands. Israel strikes nearly 3,000 targets, dismantles Hamas command structure, and launches humanitarian aid while warning of ongoing threats from remaining rocket stockpiles. Yair Kleinbaum May 25, 2025. JFeed

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Swiss Authorities Exploring Probe Into US-Backed Gaza Aid Group. by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. May 25, 2025. Algemeiner

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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation board disappointed by head’s ‘sudden’ resignation "Unfortunately, from the moment GHF was announced, those who benefit from the status quo have been more focused on tearing this apart than on getting aid in," the board said. JNS Staff.

(May 25, 2025 / JNS) The board of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation stated just before midnight late on Sunday night that it is disappointed” by the “sudden” resignation of Jake Wood, the group’s executive director, some six hours prior.

“He has been a passionate advocate for the need to safely deliver humanitarian assistance to Gazans without diversion or delay, and achieved real progress for the entire humanitarian community in the short time he was involved in this effort,” the board stated. “The fact that aid is beginning to trickle back into Gaza is a testament to his work.”

The foundation is part of a plan to circumvent the United Nations and to deliver aid to Gazans without supplies falling into the hands of Hamas.

“Unfortunately, from the moment GHF was announced, those who benefit from the status quo have been more focused on tearing this apart than on getting aid in, afraid that new, creative solutions to intractable problems might actually succeed,” the foundation board stated.

“We will not be deterred,” it added. “Our trucks are loaded and ready to go. Beginning Monday, May 26, GHF will begin direct aid delivery in Gaza, reaching over 1 million Palestinians by the end of the week. We plan to scale rapidly to serve the full population in the weeks ahead.” JNS

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Nearly 600 days after Oct. 7, Gaza border communities struggle with trauma and job loss. New survey finds nearly one-third are unemployed, most remain displaced and many face severe emotional distress and rising costs—underscoring ongoing challenges after the Hamas attack. Roni Green Shaulov | 05.25.25. YNet

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Eurovision: Yuval Raphael absent from official clip despite placing 2nd. May 25, 2025 i24

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Three projectiles fired from Gaza, one intercepted. IDF says two projectiles fell short and one was intercepted by air defense prior to crossing into Israeli territory. Ynet |05.26.25. YNet

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Defense News Israeli security forces gear up for Jerusalem Flag Parade. May 25, 2025 i24

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Hunt for Hamas: IDF says 3 commanders from Oct. 7 general staff remain.

With over 75% of the Gaza Strip now under Israeli control, and the network of Hamas tunnels heavily targeted, Israeli defense officials believe the group is being pushed into a corner. i24NEWS. May 26, 2025. i24

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Toronto man charged for death threats against Israeli community. Toronto Police announce arrest of Basel Al-Sukhon, 26, for hate-motivated death threats against the Israeli community on social media. Elad Benari. Published: May 26, 2025, 6:58 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Trump to announce Gaza ceasefire deal tied to hostage release.

US President Donald Trump expected to announce Gaza ceasefire within days as part of a deal to release Israeli hostages and return of bodies, reports say.

Israel National News. May 26, 2025, 8:21 AM INN

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Three Arab Israeli youths charged with plotting ISIS-inspired terror attacks. 'We're going to blow ourselves up on the infidels': 2 brothers and 15-year-old from Arara allegedly pledged loyalty to ISIS, built and tested bombs and plotted attacks on Israeli civilians and police; authorities say suspects radicalized online and guided by Syria-based ISIS operative. Elisha Ben Kimon, Lior El-Hai, Raanan Ben-Zur, Eitan Glikman | 05.26.25. INN

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Trump announces cut of $3 billion from 'very antisemitic' Harvard. Israel National News. May 26, 2025, 3:57 PM INN

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Jewish Students Attacked at GWU: Is the University Hiding a Hate Crisis? “They Spat on Us”: Jewish Students Demand Justice from George Washington University Jewish students at George Washington University have filed a federal lawsuit, alleging the school ignored widespread anti-Semitic harassment, including physical attacks and verbal abuse. The complaint highlights a hostile campus environment fuelled by certain faculty and student groups, amid broader legal challenges against universities. Eliana Fleming May 26, 2025. 9https://www.jfeed.com/antisemitism/jewish-students-sue-george-washington-university JFeed]

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Trump's message to Netanyahu and the deadline he set for Iran: 'Real, serious progress'. Trump sounded particularly optimistic about negotiations with Tehran, estimating that he would share 'good news' on the subject soon - and the senior American official visiting Israel conveyed messages to Netanyahu: 'I asked him to cooperate with us'. Itamar Eichner | 05.26.25. YNet

Netanyahu. 'Hope we can announce something on hostages today or tomorrow'

PM makes hopeful statement on the remaining hostages amid reports a deal to free 10 hostages in exchange for a 70-day ceasefire could be reached soon.

Israel National News. May 26, 2025, 7:38 PM INN

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36th Division completes Rafah mission, continues operations in Khan Yunis. IDF forces, including Golani, Armored, and Kfir Brigades, work alongside Yahalom troops to dismantle extensive terrorist networks and eliminate threats in the Gaza Strip’s Khan Yunis and Rafah areas. Israel National News. Published: May 26, 2025, 8:04 PM. INN

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IDF senior officer: There's no hunger or close to it in Gaza. A discussion held by the IDF also revealed who is stealing humanitarian aid off of trucks. Avi Woolf. May 26, 2025 JFeed

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IDF eliminates Hamas mortar team | WATCH. The IDF continues to advance into the Gaza Strip with five whole divisions. Avi Woolf. May 26, 2025 13:48 JFeed

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US homeland security chief says she had 'candid' conversation with Netanyahu about Iran talks. By Reuters. 05/26/2025 03:42 PM JPost

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Gov't approves two new settlements in North, Goldknopf says. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/26/2025 07:07 PM JPost

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Aid distribution center in Rafah, Gaza will not open on Monday due to logistical reasons. By Amichai Stein. 05/26/2025 08:11 PM JPost

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Iran's Khamenei calls for Iranian, Pakistani 'joint efforts' against Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/26/2025 08:43 PM JPost

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IDF excavating near hospital tied to Mohammed Sinwar assassination attempt - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/26/2025 08:46 PM JPost

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Yesha council campaign: Only sovereignty will prevent the next massacre. Israel National News. May 26, 2025, 9:21 PM INN

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Iranian official denies claim that uranium enrichment would be halted under Omani proposal - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/26/2025 10:45 PM JPost

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Homeland Security Secretary prays for slain Israeli embassy staff at Western Wall. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem prays at Western Wall with US Ambassador Huckabee, honoring fallen embassy staff and calling for hostages’ return. Israel National News. May 25, 2025, 10:57 PM (GMT+3). INN

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Another "starving" Gaza child whose problems cannot be blamed on Israel. May 26, 2025.

Reuters reported in March 2024: In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms

Six-year-old Fadi al-Zant is acutely malnourished, his ribs protruding under leathery skin, his eyes sunken as he lays in bed at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, where famine is bearing down. ... Fadi suffers from cystic fibrosis. Before the conflict, he was taking medicine that his family can no longer find and eating a carefully balanced variety of food no longer available in the Palestinian enclave, according to his mother Shimaa al-Zant.

...Fadi's condition began to deteriorate about two months ago and he was admitted to Kamal Adwan hospital, Zant said. Creon - the medicine that people with cystic fibrosis need to supplement pancreatic enzymes that help digest food - was not available. It turns out that there were, and still are, shortages of creon worldwide, with articles about the shortages throughout the year.

Fadi managed to leave Gaza, with Israeli permission, two months later, and he was treated in a hospital in Queens, NY. EoZ

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US-backed aid foundation says it began operations in Gaza amid threats, controversy. After delay and surprise resignation of CEO, GHF says it has begun operations in Gaza, though no aid has been distributed yet; group condemns Hamas for threatening its staff and blocking residents’ access to aid Daniel Edelson, New York, Itamar Eichner | published:05.27.25. YNet

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Pro-Hamas Protesters Cause $1M in Damage to UW Engineering Building. Masked anti-Israel protesters at the University of Washington caused extensive damage to an engineering building, targeting its ties to Boeing. The violent occupation, leading to arrests, has sparked controversy over campus activism and university. partnerships. Eliana Fleming. May 27, 2025.

On May 5, 2025, masked anti-Israel protesters from Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return (Super UW) occupied the University of Washington’s newly opened Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, causing over $1 million in damage, as reported by The Seattle Times. The 75,000-square-foot facility, partially funded by a $10 million Boeing donation in 2022 and valued at $102 million, houses advanced manufacturing equipment for multiple engineering departments. JFeed

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Netanyahu at IHRA Conference: 'Israel fights civilization's war against barbarism'.

Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses the IHRA Conference, warning that antisemitism is a virulent disease threatening all free societies, not just Jews.

Israel National News May 28, 2025, 12:10 AM INN

Netanyahu: Hamas without aid like a "fish without water". The Prime Minister defended the importance of the independent aid project as a means to weaken the terrorists. Avi Woolf May 27, 2025. JFeed

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IDF general: If we don’t kill the last Hamas leader, his own people will—like Gadhafi. In candid remarks to Gaza border residents, Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram defends local self-defense doctrine, details IDF failures on October 7 and outlines vision for post-Hamas Gaza.

Matan Tzuri | published: 05.27.25. YNet

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Reserve officer severely wounded by sniper fire in Gaza. Uzi Baruch. May 27, 2025, 10:05 PM INN

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VP Vance pays respects to murdered Israeli Embassy staffers. Israel National News. May 27, 2025, 10:10 PM INN

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COGAT accuses UN aid chief of 'libel' for claiming 10,000 aid trucks sat at Gaza border. By Mathilda Heller. May 27, 2025 09:45

"We've got 10,000 trucks on the border right now, cleared, ready to go, and we'll do everything to get them in and save lives," Fletcher told CNN. Israel accused Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, of “libel” for a second time after the relief chief said there are 10,000 aid trucks on the Gaza border, cleared and ready to go.

“We’ve got 10,000 trucks on the border right now, cleared [and] ready to go, and we’ll do everything to get them in and save lives,” Fletcher told CNN’s Christine Amanpour on Monday. JPost

Israel accuses UN of refusing to collect, distribute aid for Gaza. COGAT publishes photograph of aid trucks waiting at the Kerem Shalom Crossing for the UN to use them to distribute aid in Gaza. 'The UN still refuses to do its job.' Israel National News. May 27, 2025, 10:36 PM INN

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IDF kills Hezbollah Radwan Forces terrorist in southern Lebanon. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/27/2025 06:09 PM JPost

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Terrorists who murdered one, injured another in 2023 sentenced to life in prisonm By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/27/2025 05:05 PM JPost

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Dramatic footage: IDF sniper hits terrorist in the heart of Shechem. Israel National News. May 27, 2025, 11:41 PM INN

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"We will carry your torch Sarah': Hundreds attend funeral of slain embassy employee. A week after Sarah Milgrim was murdered in an antisemitic attack in Washington alongside her partner, hundreds came to her funeral in Kansas; Embassy official: 'Look down on us from above, help us navigate the jungle of hatred and madness'; Her rabbi: "Sarah was a peace seeker and a fighter for justice. Did you want a solution to the conflict? You would have asked her."

Daniel Edelson, New York | 05.27.25. YNet

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Hamas-Run Ministry of Interior Warns Gaza Civilians to Reject Aid From Group Backed by US, Israel.

by Corey Walker. May 27, 2025.

The Hamas-run Ministry of Interior in Gaza has urged civilians to reject incoming humanitarian aid deliveries from an organization backed by the US and Israel, calling the plan to distribute aid and circumvent Hamas “unacceptable” and threatening those who accept it.

“The expected Israeli mechanism for distributing aid in Gaza is completely unacceptable, and we call on our people not to cooperate with it, as the occupation will use the aid distribution as a security and intelligence operation under the cover of the Israeli-funded ‘Gaza foundation,’ the ministry posted on X/Twitter on Monday. Algemeiner

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PA honors baby killer in official ceremony. Senior PA and Fatah officials held ceremony in “appreciation for the symbols of ‎the Palestinian people’s struggle” with two released terrorists, each convicted for ‎murdering three people . Glorifying terrorists and terror. May 27, 2025 PalWatch

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Don't blame Israel for deaths of Gazans; the PA blames Hamas. Hamas see women as factories “for producing babies” to be killed as human shields, says Fatah.

Nan Jacques Zilberdik |May 26, 2025.

• Hamas said: "We will fight using the flesh of Gaza's children" – Fatah protests use of Gazans as "human shields".
• Hamas carries out "‘child flesh production'... viewing the Palestinian woman… purely as a factory for producing babies, which they fatten in their farms, and afterwards lead to their slaughterhouses to be slaughtered by the razor-sharp Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) knife!" – official PA daily.
• "Palestinian blood has no meaning for Hamas" - Fatah spokesman.
• Gazans against Hamas:

"May God take revenge on Hamas. We want you [Israelis] to rule here". "Hamas killed us. Hamas wounded me and killed us". "We do not want Hamas, let Hamas' rule fall. If I see a Hamas member, I will kill him… With Allah's help you [Israel] will destroy them. Continue to the end, until you eliminate them". While the international community is blaming Israel for the tragic civilian deaths in Gaza, Palestinians are correctly blaming Hamas for intentionally using civilians as using human shields. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah published a short video criticizing Hamas for its responsibility for the deaths of Gazan civilians, because they use them as human shields in the war:

Fatah-run Awdah TV narrator: "From [Hamas leader] Khaled Mashaal, who described the Martyrs of the Gaza Strip as ‘tactical losses,' to [Hamas official] Musa Abu Marzouq and [Al-Jazeera's] Sa'id Ziyad who said ‘We will fight using the flesh of Gaza's children,' there is a clear way in whose name people are being sacrificed with utmost arrogance and denial. But from the heart of the Gaza Strip voices are rising … Today the Palestinians are demanding that Hamas leave the political scene after it failed to provide the most minimal protection to the civilians and used them as human shields in an endless war." [Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, May 18, 2025]

A regular columnist of the official PA daily echoed this criticism two days later, saying Hamas is preoccupied with "child flesh production," viewing Gazan women merely as "factories for producing babies" so they can be led to "the slaughterhouse" of the war:

"Hamas, has demonstrated the discourse of disaster... The first was broadcasted on the [Al-Jazeera] screen of deceit and fraud: ‘We will fight using the flesh of our children,' as [Al-Jazeera commentator] Sa'id Ziyad said, and the second: ‘The Martyrs, Allah willing – we will create dozens of times as many in their place,' as was said… by their [Hamas] Spokesman Dr. Sami Abu Zahri… Since they all drink from the same murky swamp, there is no explanation for the story of ‘child flesh production' and so-called ‘rockets'... other than them viewing the Palestinian woman, the bereaved mother, purely as a factory for producing babies, which they fatten in their farms, and afterwards lead to their slaughterhouses to be slaughtered by the razor-sharp Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) knife!" [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 20, 2025]

A top Fatah official condemned Hamas citing several statements from Hamas leaders during the current war that testify to the lack of value of human life for the Hamas terror organization and its evil use of civilians as human shields:

Fatah Spokesman in Europe and Fatah Revolutionary Council member Jamal Nazzal: "Hamas' main demand is to leave it in power and not bringing the PA into the Gaza Strip... In return for this, Hamas is prepared to release all the [Israeli] hostages… It considers this as a gain because the value of the Palestinian person… has no consideration or value according to Hamas' perspective… [Hamas Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri] says that in return for the Martyrs, we will produce several times of them. [Hamas Political Bureau member] Ghazi Hamad said that whether Israel will kill 100,000 or 200,000 [Gazans] we will continue. Or as [Hamas leader] Khaled Mashaal said that these Palestinian losses are "tactical losses." … [Hamas official] Musa Abu Marzouq said we did not establish the [bomb] shelters for the Palestinian people in Gaza, because the Palestinian people in Gaza are under the responsibility of the UN and our [Hamas'] responsibility is our fighters… One of the people called Hamdan also says that the Palestinian people will eat the trees, the tree leaves. If we have a white cloth, we won't use it as a white flag, on the contrary. We must use it in Gaza – while he of course lives in Mauritania or Algeria – as shrouds for our children. What more is needed than this to convey a message to Israel that Palestinian blood has no meaning for Hamas." [Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, May 20, 2025]

Gazans themselves have been speaking out against Hamas, for some time now. In November 2024, when the Gaza war launched by Hamas had lasted for more than a year, Israeli journalist Ohad Hemo entered the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and interviewed Gazans about Hamas. This video shows some of their statements (longer excerpt below):

Woman 1: "The situation is difficult, may God take revenge on those who uprooted us and killed us in our homes." Channel 12 reporter Ohad Hemo: "Who killed you?" Woman 1: "Hamas killed us. Hamas wounded me and killed us. Hamas." Hemo: "Is Hamas responsible for everything we see here?" Woman 1: "It's all Hamas, Hamas." … Woman 2: "May God settle accounts with Hamas. May God take revenge on Hamas. They destroyed our lives. We want you [Israelis] to rule here, we do not want Hamas. The entire people hates Hamas." Woman 3: "Hamas has ruined our lives. We are a poor people. Hamas has eaten us up. Hamas has taken our [humanitarian] aid, they have taken everything. Hamas' wicked government. Hamas are terrorists. Exterminate Hamas from the world! We are with you! We are with you! We are with you!" … Hemo: "What about the resistance and Hamas who are supposedly defending you?" Woman 3: " You are in the right! We do not want Hamas, let Hamas' rule fall. If I see a Hamas member, I will kill him. I swear I was happy when you assassinated Sinwar, who destroyed and killed our children… With Allah's help you will destroy them. Continue to the end, until you eliminate them." … Child: "May God take revenge on Hamas, may an F-16 missile from the Jews come at them. The Jews are better. Hamas caused a Nakba (i.e., "a catastrophe," usually used about the establishment of the State of Israel) to us. Hamas are sons of bitches. May the Jews kill you. The Jews are better than you. The Jews give us food, bring us everything, allow us a humanitarian corridor." … Woman 4: "Hamas are Shi'ites, Hamas are murderers, Hamas are bloodsuckers." Man 2: "We want an Israeli civilian government to rule the Gaza Strip." [Channel 12 (Israel), Nov. 10, 2024]. PalWatch

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'Kisses for Netanyahu and Trump': Gazans cheer as aid distribution sets off. Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distributes 14,550 food parcels amid celebrations and gratitude toward Israel, U.S. leaders; Israel facilitates vaccine shipments as Hamas-linked chaos disrupts aid centers Itamar Eichner, Einav Halabi |05.28.25. YNet

Celebrating Aid Delivery. "Trump, Trump!" Gazans celebrate independent aid stations | WATCH A social media video shows Gazans celebrating Trump and even Netanyahu for providing aid. Avi Woolf May 28, 2025. "Trump, Trump!" background "Trump, Trump!" Use according to Section 27a. A video was posted to social media today (Wednesday) showing Gazans shouting "Trump, Trump!" in celebration of the independent aid stations providing them with food independent of Hamas. One even shouted "Netanyahu" and gave a chef's kiss.

Despite a brief mobbing of one of its aid stations, the independent Gaza Humanitarian Fund's provision of aid packages to Palestinian civilians continued today, with the provision of almost twice as many packages as yesterday. Meanwhile, Hamas' flour warehouses were broken into in central Gaza. JFeed

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Witness to Jihad. I never met Elias Rodriguez, the accused murderer of Lischinsky and Milgrim, but I know his world. Kathleen Hayes May 25, 2025.

The cult has metastasized.

For 25 years, I belonged to a far-left, insular, authoritarian Trotskyist organization. Today I’d prefer not to write about myself and my bizarre past, but about the murders of two young people, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. last week. I’d like to simply express my shock and sorrow about the killings of these clearly beautiful souls, and my fear about what they bode for America, Israel and the West. And yet it’s impossible for me to write that kind of piece, because of who I am and where I’ve been. I’m gripped with the sense that the deranged sect I left behind is now everywhere, spawning toxic new cells scoring previously unimaginable victories.

I never met Elias Rodriguez, the accused murderer of Lischinsky and Milgrim, but I know his world. I’m quite familiar with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the radical Maoist organization he once belonged to; my now-ex-comrades supported the PSL’s candidates in the 2024 presidential election and I had many encounters with its predecessor group, the Workers World Party. Before quitting my former group in 2016, I marched countless times in demonstrations organized by ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), another activist group Rodriguez apparently belonged to. His beliefs and delusions were, broadly speaking, mine.

Today they’re shared by a wide swath of liberal society—people who would never shoot a young man and woman in cold blood, but who think there’s a context in which the shootings are, if not justifiable, then at least comprehensible as a response to Israel’s “genocide.” As Time magazine helpfully explains: “The shooting comes amid rising tensions over Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, which has left an estimated at least 50,000 Palestinians dead and millions more displaced since Oct. 7, 2023.” With so much Palestinian suffering, they imply, what’s a couple of Israeli embassy staffers?

Then there’s the open gloating, enthusing, and calling for more. Social media activist Rebekah Jones posted a video (since deleted) on TikTok. “Want to feel safe?” she smirks. “Don’t commit a genocide.” If you’re attending concerts outside concentration camps or starving tens of thousands of babies, she continues, “maybe you should not feel safe.” Another TikToker, teenager Guy Christensen, hails Rodriguez’s actions to his millions of followers and calls, like a juvenile Che, for “the movement” to respond “with escalation and stronger resistance”—i.e., to murder more Jews. Days after a Jewish couple were publicly executed in the nation’s capital, the zeitgeist is more pogromist than ever.

They’re starting with the Jews, but of course they won’t end there. As Columbia University Apartheid Divest, one of today’s myriad “pro-Palestinian” groups, declared last year with disarming clarity: “We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” One may wonder how many of them are really Westerners, but the point remains: Today’s insurgents are actually intent on barbarism against the West.

I witnessed the cancer taking hold. Twentieth-century Marxism had its (totalitarian) problems, but at least in 1989, my comrades and I defended Salman Rushdie against Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa. Twenty years later, we asserted Iran’s right to nuclear weapons and denounced Rushdie as a pro-imperialist stooge. Iran and Rushdie didn’t change—we did, and a large swath of Western society changed with us.

Because the terrorists who flew hijacked passenger planes into the Twin Towers on 9/11 didn’t “only” murder thousands of innocent people: they ushered in a new Dark Age. Lower Manhattan was still shrouded in ash when the tacit message went out: To be a good progressive, you had to see the World Trade Center victims as somehow guilty by virtue of residing in the rapacious West, and the perpetrators as the provoked victims of imperialism. September 11 was simply, as many put it, a case of “the chickens coming home to roost.”

Wanting to believe we were good people, my comrades and I spilled some ink denouncing terrorism and the reactionary nature of radical Islam. Quickly, however, those subjects faded in importance as jihadists emerged as the sole force challenging the hated status quo. Only Western imperialism, and its monstrous crimes, deserved condemnation. When a highly respected party Central Committee member postulated that ISIS is, in fact, worse than U.S. imperialism, shock reverberated within my little group. The comrade was forcefully reminded that nothing is, and could not possibly be, worse than U.S. imperialism. She quickly recanted.

I relate this embarrassing anecdote because what happened in my weird, cultish, Trotskyist organization had its version in society overall. Far-out as my former group sounds to most people, much of its worldview is shared by today’s liberals and progressives. The latter have ditched our hoary language like “imperialism,” “bourgeoisie” and “proletariat,” but when they talk about “neocolonialism” or “the West,” “the oppressed” and “the oppressors,” they mean essentially the same thing. They learned it in the universities, from professors who repackaged Marxism to resonate in our modern age, using the Jews and Israel as their instruments of choice.

But beyond the focus on Jews, this Manichean worldview declares entire classes of people reactionary and evil, and suggests they ultimately must be eliminated for the sake of human betterment. This is the premise of both Communism and fascism. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, defenders of the Jewish state, were murdered at a Jewish museum by an avowed socialist, but it could just as well have been a modern-day Nazi.

In the last century, Whittaker Chambers described Communism as “the focus of the concentrated evil of our time,” but he also emphasized that Communists were not (necessarily) morally depraved or stupid, but had joined chiefly for moral reasons—responding to a “profound appeal to the human mind.” What he called “man’s second oldest faith” continued to recruit thousands and hold the hearts of millions, despite everything that was known about its crimes and horrors, because in a Godless world, it alone gripped man’s imagination and gave life meaning and purpose. “Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies,” Chambers wrote.

This is every bit as true today. I support all efforts to fight antisemitism, support Israel and bolster Jewish safety (it’s shocking how little security there apparently was at the Washington, D.C. museum), but these alone are insufficient. We must think more broadly and deeply. Our society is in a death spiral because we’ve jettisoned the traditions on which it was built. It’s necessary to heed thinkers like Melanie Phillips, Douglas Murray and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who point out that abandoning the Judeo-Christian heritage has left a hole that must be filled—and our modern tragedy is that it is being filled by powers dedicated to our destruction.

These forces understand what Chambers knew and we in the West have largely forgotten: that human beings require faith, convictions that can move mountains and men. Western society increasingly provides everything for its citizens, except something to live and die for. May the hideous deaths of these two young people prompt a return to a truer, more fruitful search for meaning.

Kathleen Hayes is the author of ”Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir.” Jewish Journal

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UNRWA chief warns of the organization's 'dire' financial state. By Reuters. 05/28/2025 09:59 AM JPost

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Gov't to advance deportation of terrorists with Israeli citizenship, Katz says. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/28/2025 12:16 PM JPost

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EU council adopts legal acts to lift economic sanctions on Syria. By Reuters. 05/28/2025 01:49 PM JPost

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IDF destroys launcher used to fire rockets towards Israel, dismantles terror infrastructure in Gaza. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/28/2025 01:54 PM JPost

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IDF and Border Police arrest 18 wanted suspects during overnight West Bank raid. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/28/2025 02:26 PM JPost

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Sana'a Airport. Watch: Plane left totally engulfed in flames after Israeli strike. Israel National News. May 28, 2025, 7:04 PM INN

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Israel reveals it shot down Hezbollah drones with laser air defense system. Yoav Zitun|05.28.25. YNet

Iron Beam incoming: Israel's laser shields take down enemy threats. Israel National News. May 28, 2025, 7:16 PM INN

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IDF chief says campaign against Hezbollah not over as troops on Lebanon border reduced. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/28/2025 07:20 PM JPost

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I told Netanyahu attack on Iran is not appropriate right now. The President said a military strike would be inappropriate as talks near a resolution, emphasizing that a strong deal with inspections could save lives, but noted that the situation could shift at any moment. Israel National News. May 28, 2025, 8:03 PM INN

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No longer afraid? Hundreds of Gazans raid Hamas flour. storehouses. Israel National News. May 28, 2025, 9:08 PM INN

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Danon accuses UN of 'shakedown' of NGOs involved in Gaza aid. Israeli UN Ambassador accuses UN of 'mafia-like' conduct against NGOs that participate in the new intitiative by Israel and the US to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel National News. May 28, 2025, 8:16 PM INN

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Israeli Consul General: 'Leaders who talk about Palestinian state forgot October 7'. Yoni Kempinski. May 28, 2025, 7:55 PM INN

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'600 days of unbearable hell': Macron calls for return of Gaza hostages. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/28/2025 09:15 PM JPost

(600 days.... [25]).

Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig: This Wednesday, we will mark 600 days since Hamas committed one of the worst atrocities against the Jewish nation we have ever seen. It will mark 600 days of our agony, torment, and horror, as 58 of our own remain hostages in conditions we cannot even conceive. A deal must be secured before we hit that number. Day 1 was too many days. Day 600 will be humanity’s biggest failure. May 26, 2025. on X

StandWithUs May 27, 2025 @StandWithUs: May 27, 2025 -Romi Gonen, a survivor of 471 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, shared the following message on social media.. on X

Balloons and Beach Tribute: Israel marks 600 days since October 7th | WATCH. In the quiet sky above Nahal Oz, 600 balloons drifted upward, each one a silent cry for justice, memory, and the return of those still lost. Gila Isaacson. May 28, 2025. JFeed

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Netanyahu welcomes US Senator James Lankford to Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/28/2025 09:33 PM JPost

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Israel’s latest crime? Feeding the people of Gaza. By Brendan O’Neill. May 27, 2025. …The haughty cynicism of the West’s Israel-haters in response to this humanitarian drive has been extraordinary. The foundation started its work yesterday. Truckloads of food were dispatched on day one. Many more are due this week. It is reported that Israel’s aim is to set up four secure distribution sites in central and southern Gaza. Israeli forces, assisted by private military contractors from the US, will oversee the safe provision of food to the neediest Gazans who have fled the fierce fighting in the north of the strip. Israel’s hope is that armed guards will deter Hamas from looting the aid and hawking it on the black market to boost the coffers of its fascistic war against the Jewish nation, as has happened many times in the past 18 months. Given how dire things are in Gaza, after a year-and-a-half of this infernal war Hamas started, this should be cause for celebration. Gaza’s innocents are as much the victims of Hamas’s fascistic writ as Israelis are. Their dignity, and in many cases their lives, have been sacrificed by Gaza’s autocratic religious regime at the altar of its racist crusade against the Jews’ homeland. These people did not ask for their land to be made into a theatre for Hamas’s demented apocalyptic showdown with the Jews. They need relief, they need food. And yet, far from breathing a sigh of relief that many of them will now receive precisely that, the West’s legion Israelophobes are raging over Israel’s life-saving aid.

Why does this aid initiative feel ‘so problematic’, asks one headline? I can answer that: it’s because the Jewish State is spearheading it. Everywhere you look there is conceited suspicion over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. It will ‘militarise aid delivery’, says the UN – big talk from an outfit whose facilities in Gaza have been used by a neo-fascist militia to propagate Jew hatred and house kidnapped Jews. Aid agencies are refusing to work with the foundation on the grounds that ‘militarising’ aid delivery is an insult to ‘humanitarian principles’. The naivety is staggering. Gaza is an active warzone. The idea that Israel could just sit back as the strip was swamped by boxes of who knows what is infantile in the extreme. It’s war – everything is militarised in war. SpikedOnline

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Oh, look, discredited Feroze Sidhwa gives "testimony" at UN, no less.

Feroze Sidhwa, a long anti-Israel activist, at least since 2005, poses today at UN as some kind of "objective" opinion to rail against Israel via statements he states in Gaza and happily interviewed by BBC. (... a June 2005 screenshot of Sidhwa propaganda at the infamous E.I. - Ali Abunimah blog).

In his hit piece in NYT in Oct. 2024, already shredded online for his falsehoos, he replied with another lie, denying Hamas uses civilians.

"New York Times Guest Essay Shredded Online After Claiming IDF Targets Gazan Children." Channa Rifkin. Honest Reporting, October 13, 2024. [26] ...But it’s the response of the article’s author, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, that really puts a nail in the coffin of this piece’s legitimacy. The author of the NYT piece weighs in, and it’s exactly what you’d expect [pic.twitter.com/BFe4qK9cro] — Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) October 13, 2024. To deny that Hamas use civilians as human shields and claim Israel does, as well as denying that “maximizing civilian deaths” is in Hamas’ interests is not only delusional, it is an intentional, blatant lie. There are countries, journalists and international bodies, the UN included, which have confirmed the use of human shields. Hamas leaders, like Yahya Sinwar, have even been outspoken on the role innocent civilians play in their strategy to defeat Israel. On Wiki, Facts

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Arafat’s associate admits “Palestinians” are a modern invention. Despite Palestinian Authority lies about 10,000 years of history, Fatah official admits “Palestinian people” only started after Ottoman occupation. A world without Israel: Past, Present & Future. May 28, 2025. PalWatch

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Smotrich: 'I will not allow signing a partial deal that gives Hamas oxygen and a lifeline' By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/28/2025 09:27 PM JPost

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Witkoff: Israel to receive new hostage deal proposal soon. Trump envoy says new hostage deal draft calling for 10 releases and temporary ceasefire to be reviewed by Jerusalem; Smotrich slams proposal as 'madness'. Itamar Eichner | 05 28.25. YNet

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Overnight Israel: Israel Destroys Houthis & Plans Iranian Attack | Day 600 Of Gaza War. As Israel marks 600 days since the Hamas attack on October 7, the nation faces escalating challenges on multiple fronts. From precision strikes in Yemen to protests over hostages and humanitarian efforts in Syria, here’s a detailed look at today’s top stories. Simcha Brodsky. May 28, 2025. JFeed

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Overnight Israel: Israel Destroys Houthis & Plans Iranian Attack | Day 600 Of Gaza War. As Israel marks 600 days since the Hamas attack on October 7, the nation faces escalating challenges on multiple fronts. From precision strikes in Yemen to protests over hostages and humanitarian efforts in Syria, here’s a detailed look at today’s top stories. Simcha Brodsky. May 28, 2025. JFeed

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Israel News Pulse @israelnewspulse: Hamas Kill 5 Gazan Civilians Who Stormed Aid Warehouse in Gaza.

Earlier today, hundreds of Gaza residents broke into a large warehouse in central Gaza, used by Hamas to stockpile vast amounts of food, including sacks of flour.

The warehouse had been storing supplies that had not been distributed to civilians for months.

In response, Hamas opened fire on the civilians, killing five of them on the spot.

IDF Arabic Spokesperson Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee released footage of the incident and harshly condemned Hamas:

“For months, Hamas tried to spread the lie of famine, only to be exposed as hiding tons of flour." [27]. May 28, 2025 On X

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Target: Jewish. “Wrong Place, Wrong Faith”: Jewish Business Vandalized in London Hate Attack Orthodox-owned store trashed with axes, red paint, and anti-Israel graffiti — just for being Jewish in the wrong postcode Avi Nachmani May 29, 2025

A Jewish-owned business in Stamford Hill, North London, was violently vandalized overnight in what police are treating as a racially motivated hate crime.

According to the Jewish Chronicle, the attackers smashed windows, destroyed computers and property inside the store, and spray-painted red graffiti outside reading “Drop Elbit” — a reference to Israel’s defense contractor, Elbit Systems.

Surveillance footage shows two masked vandals approaching the business just after midnight. One smashes the storefront with what appears to be an axe, while the second sprays red paint from a canister labeled “Palestine.” The business sits just 150 meters from the nearest synagogue.

The owners are members of the local Orthodox community and have no ties to Elbit or the Israeli government, according to the neighborhood rabbi. “We’re just trying to live in peace,” he told the Chronicle. “But peace isn’t what we’re getting.” JFeed

Thugs smash up Jewish-owned business in Stamford Hill. By Jane Prinsley, The Jewish Chronicle, May 29, 2025.

A Jewish-owned business in Stamford Hill was vandalised overnight on Wednesday, in what a community leader has described as a “traumatic antisemitic targeting”. The Metropolitan Police are treating the incident as “racially aggravated criminal damage” and have increased local patrols.

The property company, located in the heart of the strictly Orthodox community of north London, had its windows smashed, computers and furniture destroyed, and red paint thrown across the shopfront. The pavement outside was marked with the slogan “Drop Elbit” – an apparent reference to Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems.

In CCTV footage of the incident, two vandals dressed in black approach the business. One smashes the shopfront with what appears to be a hammer, before the other sprays red paint from a canister that says Palestine.

The Stamford Hill business, situated less than 150 metres from the nearest synagogue, is owned by members of the strictly Orthodox Jewish community but has no connection to Israel, according to the local rabbi.

Rabbi Herschel Gluck, president of Shomrim and a lifelong Stamford Hill resident, told the JC: “This should be treated as [an] antisemitic incident without any doubt. [The owners] are visibly Jewish; the people who run the business and this business itself have nothing to do with Israel.”…

“Look at the property, these people did a full monty on it, they didn’t spare anything. They smashed up the shop, everything – including computer, tables, chairs – everything was destroyed,” he said. TheJC

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Democratic Socialists of America Defends Accused DC Jewish Museum Shooter Elias Rodriguez as ‘Political Prisoner’. by Corey Walker. May 28, 2025. Algemeiner

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US envoy deal: 9 living hostages, 60-day ceasefire, IDF withdraws. Israel National News. May 29, 2025, 10:07 AM INN

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Footage from the field: Nahal Brigade dismantles rocket launchers near Gaza school. Yoni Kempinski. May 29, 2025, 1:02 PM INN

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IDF dismantles major terror tunnel in southern Gaza security zone. Yoni Kempinski. May 29, 2025, 1:15 PM INN

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Michigan: Man pleads guilty after threatening Jews, trying to buy guns. Hassan Chokr yelled antisemitic threats at parents near a synagogue, then tried to buy firearms for 'God’s wrath'; he now faces up to 15 years in prison. Grace Gilson, JTA. May 29, 2025, 3:01 PM INN

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Feds: Hassan Chokr pleads guilty to gun crime after threatening parents, kids at Jewish preschool. By FOX 2 Staff. Published May 28, 2025. The Brief. A man who allegedly threatened parents and children outside of a Bloomfield Township Jewish preschool pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge Tuesday. Authorities said that after the outburst, he went to a gun store and lied about having a felony conviction in an attempt to buy firearms. He allegedly made comments about how he would "even the score" and use the guns for "God’s wrath." [28] Fox2Detroit

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ISA foils 85 Iranian cyber attacks against senior officials. Uzi Baruch. May 29, 2025, 3:27 PM INN

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First time since 2012: US envoy opens ambassador’s residence in Damascus. Yitz Goldberg. May 29, 2025, 3:51 PM INN

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Watch: Funeral of baby Ravid Chaim. Ravid Chaim passed away at two weeks old after being delivered in an emergency procedure when his mother Tze'ela Gez was murdered in a terrorist attack. Hezki Baruch. Published: May 29, 2025, 5:12 PM (GMT+3)

The funeral of the baby Ravid Chaim Gez, who died two weeks after his mother Tze'ela, was murdered in a terrorist attack near Baruchin, is being held today (Thursday) at the Har Hamenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem.

Hananel Gez, Ravid Chaim's father and Tze'ela's husband, who was also wounded in the shooting that ultimately claimed the lives of two members of his family, stated at the funeral, "I stand here and my heart is broken twice."

"He looked like an angel," Hananel said of the infant son he is burying today.

Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan also spoke at the funeral and called on the government and security forces to act against the "root causes" of terrorism to prevent future attacks. INN

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David Libi, 19, dies in Gaza explosion. David, of blessed memory, was engaged in clearing operations in the terror city of Jabaliya when Hamas terrorists detonated an explosive on the equipment he was operating. Gila Isaacson. May 29, 2025. JFeed

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DeSantis warns nuclear talks with Iran are 'hazardous'. Florida Governor voices deep skepticism of the Trump administration's talks with Iran on the regime's nuclear weapons program and says the regime cannot be trusted. Israel National News. Published: May 29, 2025, 6:54 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Poll: Growing Syrian support for peace with Israel. Survey by Syrian research center shows deep divides on normalization, with notable support in southern provinces and among minority groups. Israel National News. Published: May 29, 2025, 8:09 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Report: Hamas and Israel agree to 60-day ceasefire. President Trump reportedly expected to personally unveil terms of US-brokered ceasefire, as both sides agree to phased release of hostages and prisoners over 60-day truce period. Israel National News. May 29, 2025, 8:52 PM INN

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Israel destroys Houthis’ final aircraft in strike on Saana airport. By Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, May 28, 2025.

The IDF on Wednesday attacked Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport in response to several Houthi ballistic missile attacks fired against Israel over the last week.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said the air force destroyed the last airplane the Houthis still had to use at the airport after Israel had already struck it multiple times in the past several months.

Katz continued, saying that Israel had or was in the process of instituting an aerial and naval blockade on the Houthis to try to deter them from future attacks on the Jewish state.. JPost

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Israeli Baby Delivered After Pregnant Mother’s Murder in Terror Attack Dies Following Two Weeks in Intensive Care. May 29, 2025. Algemeiner

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Gaza aid resumes as IDF urges civilians to expel Hamas from distribution centers. Central Gaza aid center reopens as planned after Hamas disruptions and reports of an Israeli strike nearby; military drops leaflets urging residents to distance themselves from Hamas operatives hiding among civilians. Itamar Eichner, Einav Halabi | 05.29.25. YNet

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US Says That Israel Accepts Gaza Ceasefire Plan; Hamas Cool to It. by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. May 29, 2025. Algemeiner

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The War Escalates Gideon's Chariots expands massively: Evacuation map released. The IDF Spokesperson in Arabic released a map covering large swathes of northern Gaza. Avi Woolf. May 29, 2025 17:30 JFeed

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IDF responds to UN accusations of starvation | WATCH. The IDF released a video by the IDF Spokesperson explaining its side in the debate over the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Avi Woolf. May 29, 2025.

The IDF released a video today (Thursday), in which IDF Spokesperson Effi Defrin explained Israel's perspective regarding responsibility for the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.

Defrin said that while the independent aid stations - two of which have been opened and a third of which will open soon, as a plan for the "long term" - the United Nations and other such programs "prefer to work with Hamas" to the detriment of ordinary Gazans. JFeed

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IDF strikes Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon as groups tries to reestablish bases. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/29/2025 11:55 PM JPost

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Netanyahu: Designate Arab criminal rings as terrorist organizations. A senior Shin Bet official warned that Arab crime "has reached the level of a security threat." JNS Staff.

(May 30, 2025 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to designate Arab criminal organizations as terrorist groups.

“The murderous criminal organizations pose an existential threat to the State of Israel,” Channel 12 cited Netanyahu as telling the Ministerial Subcommittee on Advancing the Fight against Crime in the Arab Sector on Thursday.

The prime minister reportedly asked Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, and the head of the government’s task force on crime in Arab society to convene a discussion on the matter.

Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster, in a separate report on Thursday, cited a senior Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) official as warning the government that crime “has reached the level of a security threat.”

The phenomenon “endangers the democratic system and it requires greater involvement from the Shin Bet,” the official declared, adding that a “Guardian of the Walls 2,” would endanger the state’s security.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has often spoken about instructing the Israel police to prepare for another wave of Hamas-incited riots similar to those in 2021, calling the possible scenario of a “Guardian of the Walls 2.” JNS

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66 MKs sign Diaspora solidarity letter following DC shooting. "It was a vile act of antisemitism—pure and simple," the lawmakers and ministers said of the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. JNS Staff.

(May 30, 2025 / JNS) In a powerful display of unity, 66 Israeli lawmakers from across the political spectrum signed a letter of solidarity with Jewish communities around the world on Thursday, a week after the May 21 murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at Washington, D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum. JNS

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IDF soldier severely injured during combat in northern Gaza. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/30/2025 06:14 AM JPost

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Hamas official tells BBC terror group will reject hostage deal proposal. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/30/2025 07:48 AM JPost

BBC News America's anchor advocates for Hamas and even tries the Pallyweid drama language but for once, is pushed back. May 29, 2025

Caitríona Perry anchoring BBC News America, May 29, 2025.

Perry advocates for Hamas and tries the Pallyweid drama language but for once, is pushed back.

The begins with repeating what "Hamas official" argues why they can't agree to ceasefire Netanyahu agreed to [beacuse they want a guarantee of not resuming the war after 60 days], presents them as of equal and normal side in the war.

She interviews David Satterfield of the Baker Institute.

She asks Satterfield about UN objecting the US/Israel GHF and his opinion about it.

He replies that we should encourage any food entering.

[She misses the point of playing politics while they all say, the situation there is desperate].

Then she tries something else.

She plays the rhetoric and hyperbolic terminology (such as the G word) to see maybe he will budge. And asks if the US can force Netanyahu...

But Satterfield tells her "let's remind your listeners" whose fault it is there's no ceasefire in Gaza: "that lies exclusively with Hamas." They massacred Jews on Oct 7 and have said they will do it again and again. And reminds Hamas' stubbornness past too - such as late 2023; their goal of "claiming victory." That steps against / forcing Israel will only encourage Hamas.

Then Perry tries another thing. She plays Hamas argument and arguing as "not having a choice."

Satterfield: I would not wish to comment upon a terrorist organization... On Wiki, Facts

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Yonkers man jailed for antisemitic assault on Jewish barber. Ahmed al Jabali sentenced to six years in prison for a hate crime attack after attacking a Jewish barber with scissors, leaving him injured. Israel National News. Published: May 30, 2025, 6:59 AM (GMT+3)

A Yonkers man received a six-year prison sentence and three years of supervised release on Thursday for attacking a Jewish barber, News 12 Westchester reported.

Ahmed al Jabali, 34, was sentenced by Judge James McCarty at Westchester County Court in White Plains.

Judge McCarty condemned al Jabali's actions, stating, "You admitted to and committed a reprehensible act, which hurt another person."

The victim, 50-year-old Jewish barber Slava Shushakov, was attacked with scissors in his Yonkers Avenue barbershop last August. Police reported that al Jabali used expletives and expressed a desire to kill the victim during the assault, which left Shushakov with multiple cuts.

Al Jabali pleaded guilty in April to second-degree assault as a hate crime and expressed remorse in court through an interpreter, saying, "I'm very sorry for this." INN

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Soldier severely injured by stray bullet in southern Gaza. A soldier in the 74th Armored Corps Battalion, 188th Brigade, severely injured in the southern Gaza Strip and evacuated to a hospital to receive medical treatment. Uzi Baruch May 30, 2025, 6:09 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Border Police volunteer injured in ramming attack at Rantis Crossing. Palestinian Authority Arab suspect rams Border Police volunteer during an anti-car theft op, is later caught in Samaria. Israel National News. May 30, 2025, 10:33 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Israel accuses Macron of launching a ‘crusade against the Jewish state’. Itamar Eichner|05.30.25. Ynet

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During World Jewish Congress: African delegation visits bereaved families at Gvura Forum. A delegation of representatives from Africa in Israel for the World Jewish Congress gathering, visits the Gvura Forum Tent to offer support to the bereaved families and demand victory over Hamas. Israel National News. May 30, 2025, 5:03 PM. INN

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Amb. Hotovely counters British slander: 'What future do you promise my children?' In a fiery exchange, Israel's Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely challenges Piers Morgan on Hamas, war ethics, and global hypocrisy: 'Would you accept Hamas on your doorstep?' Israel National News. Published: May 30, 2025, 1:47 PM (GMT+3)

UK broadcaster Piers Morgan attacked Israeli Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely, asking if she is "prepared to kill" children in the war against Hamas, since in his opinion, Israel's strategy "is failing."

"How many Japanese children were killed under American attacks, and how many German children were killed under UK attacks in the Second World War?" she shot back.

"If you want to play a fair game you need to understand how Western armies operated in the past. Israel is not anywhere near the American attacks in Tokyo that killed 100,000 civilians, and not anywhere near to what the UK was doing in the Second World War."

Noting that she hears "all the people criticizing Israel today, including yourself," she demanded: "I'm asking you this question: If Israel finishes the war today and Hamas stays on our doorstep, what kind of future do you promise my children - a future that the seventh of October will happen again and again, just like Hamas leaders promised? This is what you expect the Israelis and Israeli leadership to accept?!"

Morgan admitted, "I did not think of that," adding that Hamas should not be allowed to even run a store after the war.

"So how do you achieve that?" Hotovely challenged. "Who's volunteering there to demilitarize the Gaza Strip?"

"Israel doesn't like fighting," she stressed. "These are our sons, brothers, and husbands who are fighting this war. No one has an interest to lose his business and to fight for 600 days unless it's a really existential threat. And Gaza has become an existential threat because of what happened, because they're being backed up by Iran, and we are not going to let it repeat even if we lose your sympathy. And we need to win this war and Israel will do everything to make sure Hamas won't control the Gaza Strip and I don't get to hear from anyone, including the leaders of Europe, a better plan of how to dismantle Hamas besides fighting." INN

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'Despite Hamas' ongoing abuse of Gazans, they continue to come and receive aid.' IDF Spokesman: 'Hamas is starving the residents of Gaza and looting the aid intended for them; Hamas continues to hold 58 of our hostages captive.' Israel National News. May 30, 2025, 3:57 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Security forces arrest 80 in West Bank, seize NIS 7 mn in terror financing. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/30/2025 05:22 PM JPost

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Author of the article: Joe Warmington. Published May 28, 2025.

([29].

When Jewish Torontonians are forced to face Nazi salutes and antisemitic taunts, the city has fallen to Hamas sympathizer.

When Jewish Torontonians feel they were facing Nazi salutes and antisemitic taunts, the city takes on the appearance of having fallen prey to Hamas sympathizers. https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/warmington-a-near-pro-hamas-riot-at-casa-loma-results-in-charges Joe Warmington @joe_warmington: “If you are going here, you’re a Nazi” — words of Pro-Hamas supporter — check out my new column on the potential riot at Casa Loma - TorontoSun

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UN blames ‘admin error’ for delisting groups that Israel says are tied to US-backed Gaza delivery org. The global body has previously said that no entities outside of the United Nations can provide adequate and necessary assistance to Gazans. Mike Wagenheim.

(May 30, 2025 / JNS) The United Nations is blaming an “administrative error” for its removal of two relief organizations, which the Israeli U.N. delegation has said are tied to the U.S.-backed, independent Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, from its database of aid organizations. But an Israeli diplomatic source with knowledge of U.N. issues told JNS that the global body dragged its feet on fixing the problem due to its animosity toward the foundation.

Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that there is a “mafia-like” shakedown at the global body, which has involved removing non-governmental organizations, which are part of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, from its central system for tracking aid delivery in the Strip. JNS

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Arizona state Senate passes bill to hold teachers legally liable for Jew-hatred in schools. The state’s largest teachers’ union and a coalition of other advocacy groups, which oppose the legislation, said that it fails to address other forms of bigotry. Andrew Bernard.

(May 30, 2025 / JNS) The Arizona state Senate passed legislation on Wednesday that would allow public school students to sue their teachers for Jew-hatred.

HB 2867 adopts the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of antisemitism and forbids education officials from propagating any “antisemitism or antisemitic conduct, act or process that constitutes harassment or discrimination and that creates a hostile educational environment.” JNS

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DM Katz to Hamas: 'Accept the deal or be eliminated'. Elad Benari, Canada. May 30, 2025, 8:14 PM INN

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IDF strikes Syrian targets posing maritime and air threats. Israel National News. May 30, 2025, 11:27 PM INN

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'No entry'. Israel to bar Saudi-led delegation of FMs from visiting Ramallah. Elad Benari, Canada. May 30, 2025, 11:45 PM INN

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IDF confirms: Top Hamas military chief Mohammed Sinwar eliminated in airstrike. Uzi Baruch. May 31, 2025, 8:46 PM As part of the preparations for the strike, extensive intelligence measures were taken to enable a precise strike that would mitigate civilian harm to the greatest extent possible. The hospital's functioning was not affected by the strike. Mohammed Sinwar was among the most senior and long-serving members of Hamas’s military wing and played a significant role in planning and executing the brutal October 7th massacre, serving as Chief of Operations at the time. [30] INN

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In homes and UNRWA bags. IDF finds weapons, explosives, and tunnel shafts. Israel National News. May 31, 2025, 12:29 AM INN

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Humanitarian aid convoy looted in Gaza. Einav Halabi, News Agencies |05.31.25. YNet

Sacks of flour looted from aid trucks in the Gaza Strip. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/31/2025 12:29 PM JPost

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Israel delivers hundreds of aid trucks to Gaza via Hamas-free route. Yossi Yehoshua |05.31.25 [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1niijygxg YNet[

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Barcelona city council votes to cut ties with Israel over the Gaza War. Itamar Eichner|05.31.25. YNet

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Rockets from Gaza Strip fall in open areas, none injured. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/31/2025 07:35 PM JPost

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Hamas demands: Seven-year ceasefire, full IDF withdrawal in latest proposal. Israeli official: Hamas’ response to ceasefire plan is 'a slammed door,' with demands far from Israel’s offer. Witkoff: Hamas' response 'totally unacceptable.' Israel National News. May 31, 2025, 9:54 PM INN

Witkoff says Hamas response to ceasefire proposal 'totally unacceptable, only takes us backward'. Israeli officials say terror group's new proposal, which includes a 7-year ceasefire, full IDF withdrawal from areas seized since March and end to current aid distribution model, strays far from US plan and amounts to de facto rejection. Itamar Eichner, Reuters | 05.31.25. YNet

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IDF strikes and eliminates Hamas weapons chief, foils terror plots in Gaza. In sweeping day of operations, IDF troops eliminate terrorists, dismantle explosives, and destroy Hamas infrastructure — including a top weapons manufacturing commander. Israel National News. May 31, 2025, 10:32 PM (GMT+3) INN

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US Congressmen to Arutz Sheva: Gaza should be sovereign Israeli territory. US Reps. Andrew Clyde & Marlin Stutzman speak to Arutz Sheva-Israel National News during their Israel visit, part of a Congressional delegation. Both condemn Hamas and emphasize Israel's need for strength as well as Gaza's return to Israeli sovereignty. Hezki Baruch. Published: May 31, 2025, 10:17 PM (GMT+3). INN

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Al-Julani: 'We share a common enemy with Israel'. The new president of Syria, Al-Julani, was interviewed by a Jewish newspaper and addressed his country's relationship with Israel. Israel National News. May 31, 2025, 10:03 PM (GMT+3)

The new president of Syria, Al-Julani, was interviewed by the Jewish newspaper Jewish Journal and referred to Israel.

“The era of endless tit-for-tat bombings must end. No nation prospers when its skies are filled with fear. The reality is, we have common enemies — and we can play a major role in regional security.”

He expressed a desire to return to the disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria that was signed after the Yom Kippur War in 1974, “Syria’s Druze are not pawns,” he said. “They are citizens — deeply rooted, historically loyal, and deserving of every protection under the law. Their safety is non-negotiable.” INN

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Further reading

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• 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

Lord Peel to 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."