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Hezbollah terrorists increasingly approach northern border, soldiers critique IDF response.
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According to soldiers, Hezbollah members have been seen approaching IDF forces while carrying hoes or performing tasks in the fields.
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By Amir Bohbot. December 12, 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-880154 JPost]
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No Mercy.
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Tzvi Yehezkeli Slams Gaza Flood Videos as Propaganda: "No Drop of Compassion for Staged Victimhood" | WATCH.
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Israeli analyst Tzvika Yehezkeli ignites controversy after dismissing Gaza flood videos as staged propaganda, accusing Hamas and Qatari-backed networks of pushing AI-generated victimhood clips, including a debunked “floating hand” video, as Storm Byron batters the region and intensifies an already polarized information war.
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JFeed Staff.
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Dec 12, 2025 05:17
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[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/gaza-flood-propaganda-videos JFeed]
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Fierce Airstrikes.
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Israeli Airstrikes Target Hezbollah Positions in Southern Lebanon | WATCH.
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Israel will not sit back and watch Hezbollah rebuild and re-arm itself. And if these airstrikes do not manage to contain Hezbollah, a ground operation will likely follow in early 2026.
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JFeed Staff.
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Dec 12, 2025 03:36
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[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/israel-hezbollah-airstrikes-lebanon JFeed]
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Nvidia’s unwavering support for kidnapped employee shows true workplace family.
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Noa Argamani tells on X how during the two years her boyfriend Avinatan Or was held captive, Nvidia went beyond being a workplace, offering extraordinary support, demonstrating what true mutual responsibility looks like.
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Israel National News.
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Published: Dec 12, 2025, 3:17 PM (GMT+2)
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419222 INN]
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UN General Assembly backs ICJ call for Israel to work with UNRWA.
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UNGA votes 139-12 to back ICJ’s call for Israel to allow Gaza aid via UN agencies, including UNRWA. Israel denounces UNRWA as complicit in terror, rejecting the resolution as “morally distorted.”
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Elad Benari, Canada
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Dec 12, 2025, 8:15 PM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419223 INN]
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Israel hands mediators names, maps to locate Ran Gvili.
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Israel gives mediators names of Islamic Jihad terrorists and maps to locate Ran Gvili, stressing no progress in talks or deal will occur until his return.
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Israel National News.
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Published: Dec 12, 2025.
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419226 INN]
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'Go to the gas chamber': Rabbi and children targeted in antisemitic verbal attack on Melbourne tram.
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The accused woman hid her face ...
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By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 12, 2025
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"I was riding the tram home in St Kilda East, with my 8-year-old and 14-year-old daughter and this woman, with her Free Palestine kaffiyeh bag, tells us 'You should all go to the gas chambers!'"
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[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880167 JPost]
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US forces seize Chinese cargo ship delivering military equipment to Iran - WSJ.
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The ship was boarded on the Indian Ocean a month ago, with military equipment being seized, officials revealed to the Wall Street Journal.
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By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 13, 2025.
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Nashville Jewish community center sues Goyim Defense League over alleged campaign of intimidation
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Travis Garland, a Tennessee man affiliated with the Goyim Defense League, allegedly disguised himself as an Orthodox Jewish man and infiltrated the Jewish center’s secured campus.
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(Neo-Nazi groups Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League hold a rally on September 2, 2023 in Orlando, Florida).
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By Asaf Elia-Shalev/JTA
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December 13, 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880201 JPost]
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Israel hands mediators list of PIJ terrorists with knowledge of Ran Gvili’s location - report
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In addition to the names of terrorists, Israel reportedly handed over a map with locations relevant to the search for Gvili’s remains.
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Posters of Ran Gvili, whose body is still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, seen at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. December 02, 2025.
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Posters of Ran Gvili, whose body is still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, seen at Hostage.
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Danielle Greyman-Kennard, December 13, 2025 00:45
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-880194 JPost]
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Scottish band Primal Scream draws backlash over backdrop of Israeli officials with swastika-eyes
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Primal Scream is also one of the most prominent acts to demand in recent months that its music not be available on the music platform Spotify to listeners in Israel.
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By Grace Gilson/JTA
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[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880200 JPost]
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European Jewish Association initiates legal actions against Bob Vylan for 'death to the IDF' chants
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The demand cites the show Robinson-Foster performed on December 2 at the Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, and argues that the singer "attacked every Jew and Israeli."
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By Jerusalem Post Staff.
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December 13, 2025.
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The European Jewish Association (EJA) initiated legal proceedings on Thursday against Bob Vylan’s singer, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, after he chanted on repeated occasions “death to the IDF” during their performances across Europe.
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The demand cites the show Robinson-Foster performed on December 2 at the Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, where he repeated the chant alongside other phrases, such as “everyone hates the police.”
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[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880202 JPost]
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Gaza hostage Eitan Mor electrocuted, starved in Hamas hands.
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The Jerusalem Post. December 13, 3025.
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Hamas official told Eitan Mor he would be released two weeks after abduction, ex-hostage recounts.
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Eitan Mor described how he was starved, beaten, and electrocuted during his captivity.
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Former hostage Eitan Mor said that he encountered Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the current leader of Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, while in Gaza in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon published on Friday.
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Mor recalled the Hamas leader telling him in the early days of his captivity that he would be released within two weeks. However, he was released after two years in October 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-880198 JPost]
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Trump admin discusses possibility of terror-related sanctions on UNRWA
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the longtime U.N. agency as a “subsidiary of Hamas.”
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Mike Wagenheim
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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Trump administration officials are currently in talks to impose terror-related sanctions on the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has long been accused of complicity with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and serving as cover for their terror activities, according to a Reuters report.
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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Trump administration officials are currently in talks to impose terror-related sanctions on the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has long been accused of complicity with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and serving as cover for their terror activities, according to a Reuters report.
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[https://www.jns.org/trump-admin-discusses-possibility-of-terror-related-sanctions-on-unrwa/ JNS]
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House Ed committee requests information about continued hostility towards Jews at MIT.
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The committee previously sent the private university a letter addressing “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” in March 2024.
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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In a Dec. 12 letter sent to Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT, Walberg noted that while the committee had documented “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” at the private university in Cambridge, in March 2024, “this hostility appears to have continued throughout 2025.”
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[https://www.jns.org/house-ed-committee-requests-information-about-continued-hostility-towards-jews-at-mit/ JNS]
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Bipartisan Senate bill could lead to sanctions on Houthis in Yemen.
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“The severity of the Houthi menace is magnified by their human rights abuses, antisemitism and their continued theft of international humanitarian aid,” wrote Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.).
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Mike Wagenheim.
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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[https://www.jns.org/bipartisan-senate-bill-could-lead-to-sanctions-on-houthis-in-yemen/ JNS]
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As Republicans soften on Muslim Brotherhood, Dems say terror sanctions must move forward.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) told JNS that the United States is behind Qatar’s neighbors in branding the Brotherhood a terror entity, “and it’s clearly because of lobbying influence by different targets.”
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Mike Wagenheim
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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Just weeks ago, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order triggering a review of chapters and offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood for potential terrorist designations. But critics and even some allies say the administration is too cozy with Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood hub, for the sanctions to work.
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And now, Republicans in Congress may be letting Qatar off the hook as well.
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[https://www.jns.org/as-republicans-soften-on-muslim-brotherhood-dems-say-terror-sanctions-must-move-forward/ JNS]
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Tucker Carlson and the Qatar First Republicans are sabotaging Trump.
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Americans fawned over the emirate at the Doha Forum love fest for the home office of Islamist terror. They’re setting the president up for a fall as well as fueling antisemitism.
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Jonathan S. Tobin.
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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Placed in the broad context of history, the Doha Forum held earlier this month by the Emirate of Qatar doesn’t matter much. It’s neither the first nor the last time that a tyrannical regime bent on exporting a vicious ideology aimed at destroying Western civilization put on a show for the world. But the Qataris had good reason to think that they scored yet another public relations triumph last week as the world flocked to the Persian Gulf state to fawn upon them at an event whose theme was not ironically titled “Justice in Action: Beyond Promises to Action.”
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That a vicious authoritarian regime whose long record of human-rights abuses and financial support for Islamist terrorism would have the chutzpah to put on an event about achieving international justice could be dismissed as something of a bad joke. But like so much of what passes for public affairs discourse at shindigs such as these, the ability of the hosts to pretend to be legitimate actors in international diplomacy and even human-rights advocacy is no joke.
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The most troubling aspect wasn’t just this latest success for Qatar’s massive investment in an information operation designed to launder their reputation and bolster an invidious effort to undermine the defense of the West. It’s the way that their efforts may be tilting the scales toward appeasement of Islamists inside a Trump administration that is debating whether or not to sanction the Muslim Brotherhood.
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A massive influence operation
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The Doha Forum is but a small part of the Qatari regime’s efforts to convince Americans to view them as valued allies, rather than the primary engine of the Islamist threat to the United States and its allies. It spends billions to influence politicians and even congressional staffers, as well as buy university Middle East studies programs. It also fosters strategic investment designed to make friends who become indebted to them. That’s done both by bailing out people like President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and pouring money into schemes floated by those close to the president, like his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his son, Donald Trump Jr.
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[https://www.jns.org/tucker-carlson-and-the-qatar-first-republicans-are-sabotaging-trump/ JNS]
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Islamism’s strategic scarcity: hoarded baby formula exposes the economy of martyrdom.
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Opinion: A viral video from Gaza exposes Hamas stockpiling baby formula and aid as civilians starve, shattering Western illusions and indicting an ideology that weaponizes suffering for global sympathy.
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Amine Ayoub|12.13.25
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There is a specific kind of evil that the Western mind cannot process. It is the evil that looks at a hungry child and sees not a tragedy to be solved, but a weapon to be loaded.
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A video from Gaza has been tearing across the internet. It was not filmed by the IDF. It was filmed by a courageous local, a man tired of the lies. It shows a Hamas-controlled warehouse in the Khan Younis area. Inside, it is not a war zone. It is a supermarket. Floor-to-ceiling stacks of baby formula, mountains of white flour, crates of medicine.
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Outside those steel doors, Palestinian mothers are weeping for the cameras, begging for milk. Inside, the "Mujahideen" sit on a stockpile that could feed the entire southern strip for weeks.
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This image—the starving child outside and the hoarded milk inside—is the perfect summary of this war. It is also the ultimate indictment of the Islamist ideology that has held Gaza hostage for two decades.
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Why does the world struggle to understand this? Because we project our own morality onto our enemies.
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In London, Paris and New York, we assume that a government’s first priority is the survival of its people. When we see starvation, we assume it is a failure of logistics or the result of a blockade. We cannot conceive of a regime that wants its own population to starve.
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But Islamism is not a normal political movement. It is a revolutionary theology that fetishizes death.
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Hamas did not hoard that formula to sell it. They didn't even hoard it to feed their fighters. They hoarded it specifically to ensure that the images of starving babies would continue to flow.
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They know that a photo of a gaunt infant is their air force. They know it neutralizes the Israeli military. They know it brings the United Nations to its knees.
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The baby formula was locked away because a fed baby is useless to the jihad. A fed baby doesn't make the front page of the New York Times. A fed baby doesn't inspire protests at Columbia University. To Hamas, that milk was dangerous contraband—because it had the power to solve the very crisis they needed to perpetuate.
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The West’s complicity.
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The horror is not that Hamas does this. The horror is that the West helps them.
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International media widely reported on the starvation and blamed Israel.
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For a year, the "civilized world" has played the role of the useful idiot. They sent the trucks. They paid the bills. The UN coordinated the delivery. And then, when the goods vanished into the terror tunnels, they turned around and blamed the only democracy in the region for "not doing enough."
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A perverse ecosystem was built where the West funds the bait (the aid), Hamas sets the trap (the starvation) and Israel gets blamed for the catch.
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This video strips away the excuses. You cannot say "Israel is blocking aid" when the warehouse is full. You cannot say "logistics are difficult" when the shelves are organized with military precision.
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A war of truth.
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This is why the war against Hamas is not just a territorial dispute. It is a civilizational struggle.
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On one side, you have a society that builds Iron Domes to protect its children. On the other, you have an ideology that builds cages for its children to starve in, so they can blame the other side.
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The sheer cynicism of hoarding baby formula while your people cry out for food reveals the terminal cancer of political Islam. It views human beings—even its own—as disposable props in a divine theater.
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If this video does not wake up the West, nothing will.
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The hunger in Gaza is real. But the key to the pantry isn't held by an Israeli soldier. It is held by a masked terrorist who would rather watch his own people die than lose his propaganda war.
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The "Starvation Libel" is over. We found the milk. And we found the monsters who hid it.
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Amine Ayoub, a Middle East Forum fellow, is a policy analyst and writer based in Morocco.
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[https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/rym142cmzg YNet]
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Dec. 11: Hamas Hid Baby Formula To Advance Child Starvation Propaganda Narrative.
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By Adam Lehrer. December 11, 2025
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The Big Story.
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After nearly a year of Israel being accused of “deliberately starving Gazan children,” new reports prove the crisis was, at least in large part, engineered by Hamas. According to Wednesday reports from the New York Post and others, the terror group hid massive stockpiles of baby formula and children’s nutritional shakes inside a Gaza warehouse, letting children starve to sabotage Israel’s credibility. Anti-Hamas Palestinian activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, who posted video evidence of the hoarded supplies to social media, said on X Tuesday that Hamas also intentionally withheld the aid to force the return of the United Nations’ distribution program and oust the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
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The discovery of the hidden formula appears to vindicate the explanation of Gaza’s food shortages outlined by Erez Winter and Gadi Taub in their August Tablet article “Feeding the Enemy”:[Gazan] pockets with shortage are the
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[https://www.tabletmag.com/the-scroll/articles/dec-11-hamas-hid-baby-formula-child-starvation-propaganda-narrative TabletMag]
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Feeding the Enemy.
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By abandoning its original plan and bending to international pressure, Israel handed Hamas control of aid, of the narrative, and of the war
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By Erez Winner and Gadi Taub
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([https://tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net/production/d7624b413bea09577709c55cf2ea91c95b849c40-1840x1400.png?w=1300&q=70&auto=format&dpr=1].
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Footage released by the IDF on July 23, 2025 shows Hamas operatives gleefully displaying provisions in an underground tunnel
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Israel is not starving Gaza. Any claim to the contrary is mendacious propaganda. That said, Israel did create the situation that gave rise to the current avoidable crisis, which it has badly mishandled, to boot. It is not too late, however, to course-correct and resume focus on the mission of defeating Hamas.
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Here are the facts: Enough food enters Gaza. Pockets with shortage are the result of two things: the United Nations not relinquishing control to the American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and Hamas’ war strategy of increasing its own population’s suffering to put international pressure on Israel—confident in the press’ willful cooperation.
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Israel’s original plan at the end of the long second cease-fire in March would have denied Hamas the ability to execute this strategy. The plan was to break Hamas’ control over Gaza’s population by breaking its control of the aid entering the strip. The IDF was to divide Gaza into discrete areas, isolating each one while providing it with a humanitarian corridor to enable civilians to leave combat zones and move south to temporary accommodation in safe sanctuaries, which is what the IDF had already done before the second cease-fire (during which many evacuated Gazans returned). Meanwhile, the American GHF was to distribute food in these sanctuaries. It would do so in family packages, rather than through wholesale supply, which invites middlemen. More than 100 million such meals were distributed by GHF in the past two months.
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After the evacuations, any remaining person in the combat zones would be considered a combatant. A siege would be applied until all combatants surrendered and gave up the hostages they held. It’s important to note that a siege is a legal means of war sanctioned by international law and authorized by the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual (2015), even when applied to a civilian population in certain cases. However, the IDF plan was to implement it only after civilians were safely evacuated.
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Implementing the original plan will surely result in opprobrium from a hypocritical international community, but at least it will succeed and end the war.
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But Israel did not execute this plan. Instead, it concentrated on the effort to reach a hostage deal while attempting to prove its morality to the world. Subjecting itself to standards far stricter than international law requires, the IDF opted for half measures and did not move the population to designated safe zones to supply them with food. Instead, fearing a humanitarian crisis, the IDF began sending aid to pockets where Hamas has been using the population and the hostages as human shields to create safe havens for itself. In so doing, Israel became the first country in the history of warfare to assume responsibility for feeding the enemy population. It thus relieved Hamas of responsibility instead of insisting that the group surrender and release the hostages. So far from scoring points for morality, Israel dug itself into a hole, and still it was blamed for the crisis that Hamas and the United Nations have manufactured.
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According to the United Nations’ data, almost 90 percent of aid trucks sent to Hamas-controlled areas are looted. Consequently, Hamas gets to control distribution and to sell food and other necessities at exorbitant prices. This allows it to continue feeding its men and their families and paying their salaries, which in turn perpetuates Hamas’ administrative grip on the population. For example, baby food enters the strip as free aid. It is then sold by private merchants for $70 per small package and $125 for larger ones. Hamas then takes its cut by collecting an exorbitant tax.
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At the same time, huge quantities of food are rotting in the sun in U.N. storage lots, because the United Nations would not relinquish its control over supplies to GHF. It has strong incentives to continue doing so: Many of the United Nations’ employees in Gaza are also Hamas members or are married to Hamas members. Moreover, if aid distribution is shifted away, the United Nations stands to lose funding, as major donors, including the United States, withhold funds or redirect them to alternative mechanisms.
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If Israel is to recover momentum and achieve its war aims—dismantling Hamas’ military and governing capabilities, returning the hostages, and ensuring Gaza does not pose a danger to Israel in the future—it must first gain control over the aid supply and ensure it flows only through GHF. This can be achieved, at a minimum, by expanding the GHF distribution mechanism to the full width of the strip, from Rafah up to the Netzarim Corridor, bringing aid directly to populations now receiving it from—or being deprived of it by—the United Nations and Hamas.
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But this is only a stopgap measure. In the long run, without evacuating the civilian population from combat zones and applying effective sieges to places where combatants are still able to hide, Israel will not fully achieve any of its aims. Implementing the original plan will surely result in opprobrium from a hypocritical international community, but at least it will succeed and end the war. In fact, the attempt to avoid criticism through half measures manages to achieve the worst of both worlds: It brings only an even worse cascade of international condemnation while prolonging the war. That could then lead to more needless suffering, potentially turning international pressure into a strategic danger. All this without accomplishing what Israel must accomplish if it is to survive: the utter and total destruction of the organization that perpetrated the horrors of Oct. 7 on the Jewish people.
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Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Winner is the former head of operational planning in the IDF’s Southern Command.
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Gadi Taub is an author, historian, and op-ed columnist. He is co-host of Tablet’s Israel Update podcast.
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[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/feeding-enemy-hamas-gaza  TabletMag])
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib:
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Hamas's chief legal officer & "human rights lawyer," Ramy Abdu, who was literally sent to Europe by the terror organization to create a fake organization (EuroMed Monitor) to launder propaganda, received instructions from his Hamas handlers to lie & clean up the mess my post has caused them!
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[https://twitter.com/afalkhatib/status/1999676198520058004 on X]
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Executed Iranian nuclear scientist confessed to aiding Israel after torture, threats against mother.
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Vahid Razavi, a member of the Vadi family, told the dissident media site that Rouzbeh Vadi was detained a year and a half ago after a dispute at work.
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Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters. December 13, 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-880226 JPost]
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Hamas terror group passes the buck.
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Hamas sources claim fallen Yasam officer Ran Gvili was buried in eastern Gaza but cannot be located due to the elimination of those involved.
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Orly Harari.
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Dec 13, 2025, 7:16 PM (GMT+2)
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Unusual ambush in Syria.
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US and Syrian soldiers injured after gunman opens fire near Palmyra, Syria; shooter eliminated.
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Israel National News
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Israel Defense Forces
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ELIMINATED: Ra’ad Sa’ad, Head of the Weapons Production Headquarters of Hamas’ Military Wing and One of the Architects of the Brutal October 7th Massacre.
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Sa’ad was one of the last remaining veteran senior militants in the Gaza Strip and a close associate of Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’ military wing. He held several senior positions and was a central figure within the organization’s military leadership.
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He was responsible for the deaths of many soldiers through explosive devices manufactured by Hamas’ weapons production units during the war.
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In recent months, Sa’ad played a leading role in Hamas’ military wing, including direct involvement in violating the ceasefire agreement. He also oversaw the continued production of weapons in the Gaza Strip during the ceasefire period.
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His elimination significantly degrades Hamas’ ability to reestablish its capabilities.
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[https://x.com/IDF/status/1999876225867579734 on X]
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IDF Eliminates Hamas #2 Raad Saad in Targeted Gaza City Airstrike | WATCHm
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The IDF confirms a precision drone strike in Gaza City killed Raad Saad, Hamas’s senior military commander and alleged second-in-command, in a targeted operation during the ongoing ceasefire. He had survived two assassination attempts.
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JFeed Staff. Dec 13, 2025.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Saturday that a precision drone airstrike in western Gaza City killed Raad Saad (also spelled Ra'ad Sa'ad or Raed Saad), a senior Hamas military commander widely regarded as the second-in-command of the group's armed wing, behind only Izz ad-Din al-Haddad.
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Netanyahu, Katz: Israel killed top Hamas official Sa'ad for rearming instead of demilitarizing
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Sa'ad was also one of the few remaining living Hamas officials directly involved in planning the October 7 invasion and slaughter of around 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians.
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Yonah Jeremy Bob. December 13, 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-880221 JPost]
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Disney+ Christmas Ad Sparks Controversy Over Pro-Palestinian Symbol | WATCH.
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Disney+ is facing a social-media firestorm after viewers spotted a watermelon symbol, widely linked to pro-Palestinian activism, in its 2025 Christmas ad, igniting accusations of hidden political messaging and reigniting the culture-war debate over wokeness in family entertainment.
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Gila Isaacson. Dec 13, 2025.
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Disney+ has faced backlash over its 2025 holiday advertisement, titled "A Lifetime of Stories," after viewers spotted a watermelon sticker on a teenage character's laptop. The watermelon, whose sliced colors (red, green, black, and white) match those of the Palestinian flag, has long been used as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity, dating back to the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel banned public displays of the flag in "occupied territories".
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[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/disney-watermelon-controversy JFeed]
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Propaganda for children?: Controversy over Disney+ holiday ad.
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Entertainment giant Disney is accused of embedding covert pro-Palestinian messages in a Christmas commercial by showing a watermelon, which has become a symbol associated with support for Palestinians.
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Nissan Tzur. Dec 13, 2025, 11:38 PM (GMT+2)
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419249 INN]
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Two IDF Reservists Wounded in Southern Gaza.
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Two reservist soldiers were lightly wounded earlier today when an explosive device detonated in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF said. According to the military, the explosion occurred while the troops were operating in the area as part of efforts to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure. The wounded soldiers received medical treatment, and their families have been notified. IDF forces continue operations in the sector.
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[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news?highlight=35841 JFeed]
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IDF warns Lebanon of impending strike.
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Earlier today, the IDF issued an evacuation warning in the Yanoch area of southern Lebanon ahead of a planned strike. Following the evacuation notice, the Lebanese Army contacted the mechanism to access the targeted site again and address the violation. The IDF decided to allow this, and as a result, the strike was postponed. The IDF continues to monitor the target closely and remains in communication with the mechanism. The IDF will not allow the Hezbollah terrorist organization to establish or rebuild its strength
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[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news?highlight=35843 JFeed]
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ISIS terrorist who killed two US troops was member of Syrian security forces, local officials say
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A Syrian interior ministry spokesperson told Syrian television channel Al-Ikhbariya that the attacker did not have a leadership role in the security forces.
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By Reuters, Danielle Greyman-kennard.
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December 13, 2025.
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Two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in an Islamic State attack on Saturday in Palmyra, Syria, where they were supporting counterterrorism operations, the Pentagon said.
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Three others were wounded, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the attacker was killed by partner forces.
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[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-880216 JPost]
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Trump on deadly ISIS ambush in Syria: We will retaliate.
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Trump vows “very serious” retaliation after two US troops and a civilian were killed in an ISIS ambush in Syria. CENTCOM confirmed the attacker was eliminated.
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Israel National News.
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Dec 14, 2025, 2:38 AM (GMT+2)
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419253 INN]
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Dr. Einat Wilf: 'We lied to ourselves about the Palestinians'.
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Wilf says her focus is to confront the “right of return” and UNRWA’s role in perpetuating conflict, arguing that state services should prioritize those who serve the state.
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By Sherry Makover-balikov
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December 13, 2025.
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Dr. Einat Wilf, a former Labor MK who says she underwent a political awakening, explains in a recent interview with Maariv why she views Mahmoud Abbas as an adversary and why she is forming a new party, Oz, to advance a program that ties peace to Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism.
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Wilf says her focus is to confront the “right of return” and UNRWA’s role in perpetuating conflict, arguing that state services should prioritize those who serve the state.
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Wilf frames her platform around three points: peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism, state services for those who serve the state, and a shift from a diasporic mindset to sovereign governance.
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‘After October 7, these issues are at the core’
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About a year ago, Wilf was invited to a filmed interview about Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians. The former Labor MK and left-wing figure, who experienced a political awakening, tried to explain why she sees Mahmoud Abbas as an enemy.
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“I spoke about his commitment to the Palestinian ethos that believes in the right of return and fights against the existence of a Jewish state for the Jewish people,” she recalls. “It was a long interview, and when I finished, studio staff, from the lighting tech to the director, came up to me and said, this is what we want to vote for. Why is there no one in Israeli politics who represents your ideas?”
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Were you surprised?
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“No. After October 7, everywhere I went, I saw that the issues I have worked on for 20 years are now at the center. So I decided to bring them to the forefront, and at this stage, the only way to express them clearly, without diluting them with political considerations, is to establish a party and lead it.”
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That is quite an ambition.
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“For years, people asked me, who in Israel even shares your ideas? I always said, either it is five people who are my best friends, or it is 70% of the Israeli public. There is an old joke about a shoe company that wanted to know whether there is a market in Africa...”
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What is your story?
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“To advance peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism, to ensure that state services reach those who serve the state, and to move from a diasporic mindset to sovereign conduct.”
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People dismissed these ideas until October 7
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Not everyone identified with these ideas. Until October 7 many saw them as marginal.
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“A few weeks before the massacre, I sat on a panel... a very senior left-wing journalist said to me, Einat, who cares about the Palestinians today, it is so passé.”
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“It was a closing remark, but it reflected a mindset. We had the Abraham Accords, and Hamas was supposedly deterred. Even Bennett said Palestinians are a splinter in the backside. I took my book The War of Return to security officials and ministers. I said our enemies, especially the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, still seek a reality where Jews have no state.”
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“We also dealt with the billions for Gaza... pouring money would not buy quiet because Gazans believe Gaza is a base to ‘liberate Palestine.’ We wrote that transferring billions to the Palestinians will not end well.”
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What did they answer you?
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“They said, give us a few weeks of quiet... why say no return, no UNRWA, no refugeehood. Once, in the Defense Ministry, we explained that someone who grows up believing he will take back his house in Israel will get up each morning and dig a tunnel to ‘liberate Palestine.’”
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“I said, listen to them. They say openly that they aim to destroy the Jewish state. The aide said, We need quiet until after the holidays... i left deeply shaken, seeing the addiction to quiet.”
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‘I was told I would ignite a third intifada’
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And before that?
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“As a Labor MK, I was called to a committee and accused of causing a third intifada because I dared touch the core Palestinian issue. I thought we were lying to ourselves.”
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Why because of you?
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“I tried to cut UNRWA funding. The Defense Ministry resisted. I agreed to expose that there are not really five million refugees, only tens of thousands, but without touching funding... The campaign succeeded. Congress required UNRWA to report actual numbers. Then the Defense Ministry told me, you will ignite a third intifada... It taught me that the lies are agreed upon.”
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What did you do with that realization? Did you stay silent?
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“No. I spoke and wrote in Israel and abroad... Then, on October 7, everyone understood. Editor Shmuel Rosner asked us to publish an updated book.”
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“We wrote Shiva be-Oktober in May, and last Saturday night Kan 11 aired a documentary based on the book. Most importantly, people now say we were right.”
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The UNRWA documentary and its reception
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The film UNRWA by Duki Dror, based on Wilf and Adi Schwartz’s book, shows how UNRWA maintains war by nurturing a violent ‘return’ and reinforcing generations of non-refugee ‘refugees.’ The film won a research prize at Haifa’s documentary festival and is available digitally.
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“After the Tel Aviv Cinematheque premiere, the director received many angry messages from friends," Wilf said.
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“They were angry that he presented a depressing work. But that is the point. After seeing the film, one cannot ignore how refugee and return ideas shape Palestinianism, or that a people next to us was formed around a destructive idea of negating Zionism. Beyond its educational role, the film confirms that my long engagement is central to Israel’s future and security.”
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From advocacy back to politics
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Since October 7 Wilf has become one of the most effective international voices for Israel, with lectures, podcasts, delegations and meetings filling her schedule. Beforehand, she was a Left-wing figure, a PhD and an MK, then crossed the aisle to focus on delegitimization as a strategic challenge.
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“I speak about what the conflict is, what we do and do not do, why anti-Zionism rises in the West, and what Israeli policy should be.” “Since October 7, people tell me they follow every lecture and read everything I write. Suddenly, my work is so relevant.”
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So you woke up one morning and started a party?
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“It is a process... Now it is not only telling the Israeli-Zionist story but knowing what to do for it. Because I worked on these issues, I knew what should be done in Gaza and could present a day-after policy. Through the party, I am testing whether my ideas can become policy.”
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You were already in politics. That chapter seemed closed.
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“True, but after October 7, I saw the gap between public and government, and that central issues are not addressed. If no one else advances them, I will, as a party leader.”
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Many new parties may split the bloc and lose votes.
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“Now is exactly the time for many parties and ideas. Close to the deadline will be the time for mergers to avoid lost votes. For now, I am checking if there is real demand for my ideas.”
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But you are not really doing politics. No consultants, polls, or HQ.
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“I do not use polls or consultants. Nothing replaces direct contact with the public... If there is no support, I will not run independently.”
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How does it feel to return?
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“I left not by choice after a Labor split. Today, it is jumping into the fire. I remind myself I do it because I believe in these ideas.”
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Where is your party on the map?
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“My ideas are not Left, Right, or Center... I will speak to those tired of politics and media wired around one person. Critics focused on the man, not processes.”
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But he [Netanyahu]  is the leader who drives the processes.
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“People did not say what should be done to drive processes. They said what was wrong and who was to blame.”
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Does The Democrats Party fit your ideas?
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“Everyone asked me to join. I told all that I must present my ideas to the public without diluting them. Joining a party silences you because the goal is to make the chair the prime minister. So I founded my own.”
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Where is the funding from?
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“Social media is free and is all the fuel. If ideas fit the moment, something good can happen. If not, money will not help. If they fit, donations come in by law.”
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Any lessons from your past?
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“Do not get excited by everything people say. Some bring ideas, others know the craft. It is rare to have both.”
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“I do not know how much political skill I have, but sometimes reality tears, and what worked no longer works. I am testing whether this is that moment.”
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Who is on your list, and how will it be set?
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“For now, there is no list. If momentum builds, I will submit a list mainly of women from the public sector who know how systems work. If a centrist Zionist government is formed, it will have months, maybe a year, to make dramatic changes. I need people who know budgets, laws, and systems.”
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Why ‘Oz’?
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“Because of the verse, ‘The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace,’ strength and peace, and because it echoes Nir Oz and Nahal Oz. I also like the name. Short and clear.”
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The party’s core ideas
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Wilf’s party proposes answers to security, policy, and public issues. The first is to advance peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism.
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“Leadership striving for peace, and understanding that peace and security are impossible while the Palestinian ideology that negates Zionism persists.”
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How can you strive for peace opposite an ideology that denies the Jewish people’s existence in its land?
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“The Palestinians are not ready for peace or any arrangement that includes a Jewish state. Still, Israel must say it strives for peace under conditions, not ‘no’ to every initiative. The Saudi crown prince said he would advance the Abraham Accords if a path to two states opens, and Israel said, ‘we do not agree.’”
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“If we were wiser, we would say, excellent. The path to peace is between two states, Jewish and Palestinian. For a hundred years, the Palestinians have said they are not ready for a neighboring Jewish state. The day they want to live beside us, not on our ruins, they will find we were never the problem.”
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“Return the ball to the crown prince. Ask him to help West Bank Arabs abandon the war. Tell the Palestinians, your war against Zionism is over. The Jews will have a state, and you can live beside them, not instead of them. That means you are not refugees and have no right of return, and in return, we will help with budgets and education.”
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Do Palestinians oppose two states for two peoples?
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“Yes. They say aloud that they want a state alongside Israel. Quietly, they talk about the right of return. Recently, the Palestinian beauty queen’s dress had a huge key. If you listen, they are clear. They meant an Arab state in Gaza and the West Bank, and another Arab state to replace Israel through return. They never compromised. They are consistent.”
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How do you bridge the desire for peace and the aspiration for two Palestinian states?
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“It will not happen tomorrow. It is a vision and a process. Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall must be upgraded. Enter their arena and say the truth: you do not really want a state, you do not want us here.”
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What is the practical meaning?
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“If we had acted correctly in Gaza, we would say the war does not end with disarming Hamas but when the ideology disintegrates and no one in Gaza is a refugee and nothing will be built or enter until everyone is removed from UNRWA’s refugee rolls.”
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“Unfortunately, we did not work with countries that fund UNRWA. We talked only about disarming Hamas, while its greatest weapons are ideology, refugeehood, right of return, and international legitimacy. We do nothing about that ideology, or worse, we fund it through UNRWA and Hamas.”
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If UNRWA ceases and Palestinians understand there is no right of return, will hostility disappear, and will we live in security?
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“We will get closer to security. Once Palestinians understand that ideology is dead and the Jews are here to stay, they can live alongside us, and a political arrangement will be possible.”
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Can an ideology be killed?
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“Yes. Ideologies die and are replaced. When people see their ideas have no market, they seek other worldviews. From ruin can come change, personally and collectively.”
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‘State services for state service’
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What stands behind the second idea?
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“Welfare rests on solidarity. We put Haredim and Arabs under the welfare umbrella without solidarity. Since October 7, solidarity means defending Israel. First, everyone is enlisted. Those who refuse lose benefits and services. No need for a culture war. If you will not defend Israel, we will not give rights.”
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Also for Arab citizens?
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“Israel did them no favor by exempting them. This is their state. They must defend it. Many security problems with Arab Israelis stem from putting them aside.”
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And moving from a diasporic mindset to sovereign conduct?
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“We behave as if still in the Diaspora. On the legal issue, both the government and the Supreme Court must return power to the Knesset, the sovereign.”
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What happens when the Knesset weakens compared to the government?
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“That is a problem. Strengthen oversight. Expand the Knesset. One committee per MK. Regular question hour. Increase the ability to summon ministers and officials.”
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Breaking with the Left
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Wilf began as part of the Peace Camp... believed that once Palestinians had a state, peace would come. All this changed when she encountered Jew-hatred and understood the link between Zionism and antisemitism. October 7 intensified this.
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“I wrote that in Palestinian eyes there is no difference between me and a hilltop youth. If I want a Jewish state and reject a right of return that ends it, they see me as seeking their harm. I even wrote that the Left needs a Palestinian defeat, because for them a Jewish state is a defeat.”
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Is there a Zionist Left today?
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“Labels hardened. The radical Left seeks one state and the end of Jewish sovereignty, represented by Hadash-Ta’al. Others think Israel is the refuser. There are a few. Some in Labor believe the PA is moderate. Also few.”
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Netanyahu says half the Knesset is Left.
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“Rhetoric. The real Left disappeared. Despite Israel’s attempts at arrangements, Palestinians made clear they do not want that. October 7 was the final nail in that belief.”
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‘Anti-Zionism in the West was built over years’
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How did anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian movements penetrate Western academia and politics?
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“The Soviets, Qatar, and Arab states have long worked in academia, NGOs, and UN bodies to legitimize anti-Zionism. Doctorates on Zionism as colonialism. Professorships for calling Israel apartheid. October 7 exposed what was built for years.”
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“It is a long process. We fell asleep. An Egyptian colleague said what happened in academia after October 7 was symbolic participation in a pogrom. Academia did not see Jews as victims because for it Zionism is the ultimate evil. I have heard for 15 years that a better world will come without Israel and Zionism. The Palestinians are heroes because they will erase the collective Jew.”
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What did you learn from public confrontations?
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“Sometimes I thought, there are billions. But with research and knowledg,e I am calm. Their ideology is clear. It is not about settlements or genocide in Gaza, but a belief that without Israel and Zionism the world will be better.”
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How can we deal with it?
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“We cannot be alone. We are small. We need allies. Anti-Zionism will not stop without enough Americans, Canadians, Britons, and French fighting it.”
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How do you recruit them? They are against us.
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“Every society that lets anti-Zionism take over is failing, and Jews leave it. The key message Jews must bring to the West is that anti-Zionism is not about Israel or the conflict. It attacks society as a whole.”
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-880225 JPost]
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Testimony from captivity: The terrorist and the propaganda.
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Eitan Mor, who returned from captivity in Gaza, reveals that a Hamas interrogator asked him for advice on how to draw more people to the Saturday night demonstrations at Hostages Square.
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Israel National News.
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ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24:
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Palestinian activist Malak Fadda, who collected thousands of dollars from Gulf donors under the pretext of funding her brother’s medical treatment, has reportedly fled Gaza and was seen in Qatar’s capital, Doha...
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Dec 13, 2025.
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[https://twitter.com/MiddleEast_24/status/1999751658813763727 on X]
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ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24:
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Yemen: Arab Media Reveal Secret Houthi Strategy Using Hostages
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According to reports published today by Arab newspapers, a leaked internal document shows Yemen’s Houthi militia deliberately using local detainees and foreign hostages as political leverage to pressure the United Nations...
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Dec 13, 3025.
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[https://twitter.com/MiddleEast_24/status/1999870375031603623 on X]
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Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig:
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Let me get this straight… They’re cancelling Taylor Swift for treating Israelis as human?
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The hashtag #TaylorSwiftisaZionist is trending (as if that’s a bad thing… it’s not) after her new documentary included a lovely interview of 3 girls saying they met Israelis at her London concert, and because a CNN news clip that appeared came from a Tel Aviv corespondent.
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Now, Free Palestine is accusing her of “specifically planting Jewish ppl... in an effort to humanize baby [here comes the slur] killers & [here comes the pallyweid] genociders[sic].”
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And towards Jewish Swifties? Supposedly “progressive” activists are calling them “Zios” — a white supremacist slur for Jews, popularized by the KKK’s David Duke.
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The mere reminder that Jews and Israelis are human beings shouldn’t enrage someone this much in 2025.
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But for Free Palestine, if they can’t dehumanize us, their entire world view collapses. Acknowledging that Jews are here to stay, that we have a homeland, that we live normal lives, that we love artists like Taylor Swift too, and that we exist like anyone else would force them to confront their own bigotry.
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Taylor, HaYarkon Park in Tel Aviv holds some 100,000 fans if you want to make history next tour!
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Dec 13, 2025
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[https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1999902635835404769 on X]
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In case you needed more proof that the pallyweid "genocide" lie machine is bigotry. See the latest (Dec 12, 2025) attacks on Taylor Swift and the Zio slur on anti Jewish fans. Not to mention that the one started this campaign "@Brooke_816" called (on 2 June 2025) the rapper Drake a 'zionist' because his mother is a Jew. She turned noble label 'zionist" into something "negative" and exposes her anti Jewish hatred.
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[http://disq.us/p/34m049p at EoZ]
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This is part 8 of primary sources for Swords of Iron" or use the Template:

Main article: Swords of Iron

Continuing from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.


Introduction

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


Notes part I: Nov-27, 2025+

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Ready to die for a livelihood"

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

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

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

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

Gila Isaacson. Nov 27, 2025 03:59

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Documented Sources & References:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Micha Danzig. November 27, 2025

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

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

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

He went further:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Projection Disguised as Principle

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

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

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

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

Manufactured Disloyalty.

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

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

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

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

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

No, Zionism Is Not Racism.

And Carlson’s Chosenness Smear Is Either Ignorant or Malicious

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why Carlson Needs Jews as the Villain

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

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

And Carlson is working to become its most effective megaphone.

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

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

The Real Threat to the West

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

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

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

The Real Threat to the West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gila Isaacson. Nov 28, 2025. JFeex

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But Israel still says YES. YES to peace. YES to coexistence. YES to the future we deserve. 🇮🇱✨ Last edited 10:52 AM · Nov 28, 2025 on FB on X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming. Nov 30, 2025.

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

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

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

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

([9]. A pole thrown at a vehicle on Highway 5 by a terrorist | Photo: Use under Section 27A of the Copyright Law).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Mathilda Heller. November 30, 2025.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

([11]. ([12]. Fake photos of athletes)

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

([13]. [14]. Fake photos of athletes)

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

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

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

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

[#Gazawin campaign].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming. Nov 30, 2025 14:56 JFeed

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

Eliana Fleming. Nov, 2025 16:51 JFeed

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

Eliana Fleming. Nov 30, 2025 13:42 JFeed

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

Eliana Fleming. Nov 30, 2025 18:07 JFeed

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

Eliana Fleming Nov 30, 2025 18:25 JFeed

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gila Isaacson. Dec 1, 2025. JFeed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 2, 2025 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alon Ohel's injured right eye.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming, Dec 1, 2025 15:04

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

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

The Massacre and The Bullet’s Impact.

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

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

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

Abused, Starved, and Chained.

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

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

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

The "Father's Hug" and The Music.

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

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

Sexual Harassment and The Final Moments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gila Isaacson Dec 2, 2025 04:52 JFeed

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

By Sam Halpern. December 2, 2025.

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

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

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

Gila Isaacson. Dec 2, 2025 00:44 JFeed

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

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

Eliana Fleming Dec 1, 2025 17:34 JFeed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

QUESTION: Do you —

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

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

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

By Idan Kweller. December 2, 2025.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unified messaging structure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Keshet Neev. December 2, 2025.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming Dec 2, 2025 16:47 JFeed

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

Eliana Fleming. Dec 2, 2025 18:00 JFeed

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

Eliana Fleming. Dec 2, 2025 18:00 JFeed

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

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

Eliana Fleming Dec 2, 2025 16:47 JFeed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Dec. 2, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is not an aberration.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Of course it’s a priority,” 

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

JNS

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming. Dec 3, 2025 14:33

Counter-Terror Operation Foils Planned Attack.

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

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

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

Switching Allegiance and Planning Explosives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming. Dec 4, 2025 JFeed

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

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"Inevitable Destiny

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

Eliana Fleming Dec 4, 2025 JFeed

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Dion J. Pierre. December 5, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 5, 2025 JPost

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming Dec 7, 2025. JFeed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dec 7, 2025 David Collier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fiamma Nirenstein. Dec 7, 2025.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gila Isaacson Dec 8, 2025 04:10

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hmmm, who could "they" be?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judah Pe'er. Dec 8, 2025. JFeed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judah Pe'er Dec 8, 2025. JFeed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming Dec 8, 2025.

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming. Dec 8, 2025. JFeed

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

Eliana Fleming Dec 8, 2025 17:46 JFeed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

Gila Isaacson. Dec 9, 2025. JFeed

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

Judah Pe'er. Dec 9, 2025. JFeed

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

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

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

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

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

Gila Isaacson. Dec 9, 2025 JFeed

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

December 9, 2025 by Hugh Fitzgerald.

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

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

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

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

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

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

December 10, 2025 by Hugh Fitzgerald.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eliana Fleming. Dec 9, 2025 JFeed

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

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

By Mathilda Heller. December 9, 2025.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The executive order is effective immediately.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Mossad names Aleph as next deputy head. Mossad chief Dedi Barnea appoints Aleph as deputy head, citing his two decades of operational experience. Appointment approved by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Nitsan Keidar. Published: Dec 10, 2025, 8:00 PM (GMT+2)

Mossad Director David Barnea announced his decision to appoint 'Aleph' as the next Deputy Director of the Mossad. The appointment was approved today by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. INN

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Rabbis from Israel joined rare visit to Aleppo synagogues. A Jewish delegation, including two rabbis from Israel, visited long-closed synagogues in Aleppo as SOHR reports rising Israeli activity in Syria and local concerns. Israel National News. Dec 10, 2025, 6:03 PM INN

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"Mic-drop" truth bomb. Israeli Ambassador Claps back at NBC Host: "Quoting Gaza Health Ministry is Like Quoting MS-13's Welfare Stats" | WATCH. An on-air clash goes viral as Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter slams NBC’s Kristen Welker for citing Gaza casualty figures, igniting a fierce debate over media bias, wartime propaganda, and the battle to control the narrative.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 10, 2025.

Welker referenced the ministry's reported death toll while grilling Leiter on civilian casualties during Israel's operations in Gaza and Lebanon. Leiter fired back: "Kristen, you just quoted the Gaza Health Ministry. That’s like quoting MS-13 Social Welfare Ministry."

The analogy, equating the ministry to the brutal Salvadoran gang MS-13, quickly went viral via the Washington Free Beacon's X post.

Leiter's jab underscores Israel's longstanding critique of the ministry's data: Operated by Hamas since 2007, it has inflated civilian deaths, ignored combatant casualties, and served as a PR tool, manipulating the figures for narrative gain.

The full interview delved into ceasefire prospects, with Leiter, appointed ambassador in early 2025 by PM Netanyahu, insisting on Hamas's full disarmament: "We won't stop until the threat is neutralized."

Welker challenged on humanitarian aid blockages, but Leiter's zinger dominated headlines, fueling memes and op-eds on media bias in conflict reporting. JFeed

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025. Palestinian Sociological and Anthropological Association only exists to issue BDS statements The BDS Movement published a statement from the Palestinian Sociological and Anthropological Association insisting that the Israeli Sociological Society remain suspended by the International Sociological Association. EoZ

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Revealed: RCMP Insider Behind Push To Advance Palestinian Messaging In Federal Workforce Internal federal records show that an RCMP strategic policy analyst helped found a Palestinian-aligned advocacy group inside the national police force, prompting questions about political messaging and internal influence.

Ron East. December 10, 2025 RCMP civilian employeesm

OTTAWA – Newly disclosed federal records show that a strategic policy analyst within the RCMP helped found an internal advocacy network that circulated political materials promoting Palestinian perspectives across the federal public service. The revelation has raised concern over political influence within Canada’s national police force, according to details released through Access To Information requests and reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

An RCMP spokesperson confirmed that the force does not publicly disclose the identities of employees involved in internal advocacy organizations. However, an RCMP Facebook post and a 2024 internal newsletter identified civilian employee Leila El-Khatib as the founder of the Muslim Federal Employees Network. El-Khatib is employed within the RCMP’s federal policing branch.

The Network, created in 2021, is an unincorporated volunteer group with approximately 70 active members across federal departments. Although its external footprint is limited, internal communications show that it circulated materials advocating for what it described as a more robust representation of Palestinian perspectives within federal institutions. TheJ.ca

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Police raid Izz ad-Din al-Qassam grave complex. Law enforcement dismantled a tent that was placed over the terror figure's grave, removed illegally installed security cameras, and removed a propaganda sign designed to commemorate his legacy. Israel National News Dec 10, 2025, 10:08 PM. INN

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US press group memorializes Al Jazeera Hamas-linked reporters. The ceremony included a moment of silence for 10 Al Jazeera reporters killed in Gaza, with their photos displayed at a memorial table. The organization also awarded Al Jazeera a "press freedom grant." JNS Staff. (Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) The Association and Club of Foreign Press Correspondents USA honored several individuals later identified as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror operatives at its Dec. 4 gala in Washington, according to media watchdog HonestReporting.

The ceremony included a moment of silence for 10 Al Jazeera reporters killed in Gaza, with their photos displayed at a memorial table. The organization also awarded Al Jazeera a “press freedom grant.” JNS

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Berkeley denies liability, opts to pay $116,000 to settle lawsuit alleging anti-Israel bias The university “agreed to everything we were demanding,” Paul Eckles, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS. Aaron Bandler.

(Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) The Regents of the University of California, a 26-person body that governs the public school system, agreed on Wednesday to pay $116,000 to Yael Nativ, an Israeli dance instructor, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law to settle a lawsuit alleging anti-Israel bias.

The center and the professor alleged in the suit that the University of California, Berkeley rejected Nativ’s application to be a visiting professor in the 2024-25 academic year due to her Israeli nationality. She taught at the school in 2022. JNS

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"You Are Making Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Off My Family". ‘This Isn’t OK’: Erika Kirk Fires Back at Candace Owens Over Family Accusations. Erika Kirk directly addressed Candace Owens, accusing the commentator of making a substantial profit by spreading baseless claims about her family and loved ones, asserting, "No, this isn’t ok. This is a mind virus." Eliana Fleming Dec 10, 2025 JFeed

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Inside the Deception. Propaganda Exposed: Top Iranian Official Admits Regime Lied About Shooting Down Israeli F-35 The head of Iran's state media, Peyman Jebelli, confessed during a conversation with students that the regime lied about shooting down an Israeli F-35 fighter jet, admitting the propaganda severely damaged the state's credibility during the war. Eliana Fleming. Dec 10, 2025. JFeed

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Trump says Gaza Board of Peace lineup to be announced early next year, calls it ‘legendary’ US president says various leaders have expressed interest in joining the board, which was created as part of a Gaza plan establishing a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas Reuters|12.10.25 | 18:18 YNet

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Global Christian lawmakers gather in Washington to strengthen support for Israel. Lawmakers from more than 30 countries gather for the Israel Allies Foundation’s annual conference, aiming to deepen global legislative cooperation, confront rising antisemitism and bolster support for Israel amid regional and political challenges.

Maayan Hoffman|12.10.25 | 22:16

On the heels of a historic delegation of 1,000 U.S. Christian pastors who visited Israel last week in the largest evangelical mission since the country’s founding, and just three weeks after the launch of the first Judeo-Christian Zionist Congress in Washington, D.C., another group of Christian leaders and lawmakers is celebrating Israel and working to strengthen international legislative cooperation, defend Israel amid global challenges, and advance shared Judeo-Christian values. YNet

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New Front Lines. Iranian Blueprint: Militia Trucks With 10 Terrorists Each Prepare Mass Border Breach. Intelligence reveals an Iranian-backed militia preparing a war-style breach on the Syrian border using up to 40 armed trucks, while a local terror cell was caught manufacturing rockets near central Israel.

Eliana Fleming. Dec 10, 2025. JFeed

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Iraqi militias, Houthis threaten to reach Israel through Jordan as IDF reinforce the border. Once treated as a 'peaceful border,' Israel’s frontier with Jordan is now seen as an Iranian backed threat after the October 7 Hamas terror attack; the IDF is reoccupying old outposts, deploying forces and forming five volunteer reserve brigades of older Israelis to hold the line Ron Ben-Yishai|12.10.25 YNet

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Members of Congress mark 50 years of ‘Zionism is racism[sic]’ resolution. “This should be a time not to run and hide but to indeed prove that Zionism is not racism,” Rep. Joe Wilson told attendees. Andrew Bernard. ([19] Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, condemns the U.N. General Assembly vote to call Zionism "racism," Nov. 10, 1975). (Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) Members of Congress gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations resolution determining that Zionism is a form of racism[sic] and Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s denunciation of that “infamous act.” JNS

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Netanyahu and Modi talk renewed ties, said to be meeting ‘very soon’. Indian officials now openly refer to Hamas as a terrorist organization, a term they once avoided. Canaan Lidor.

(Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on Wednesday, when they discussed bilateral ties and agreed to meet very soon, according to Netanyahu’s office.

“At the end of the warm and friendly conversation, the two leaders agreed to meet very soon,” the Prime Minister’s Office in Israel said about the phone conversation. JNS

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Israeli lawmakers scrap Georgia trip after terror threat. "A conversation was held with lawmakers by the Knesset Guard," the parliament confirmed. JNS Staff (Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) Knesset lawmakers canceled their planned participation in an “Israeli Week” conference in Georgia after authorities received indications of a terrorist threat facing participants, Arutz 7 reported on Wednesday. JNS


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House passes $900 billion defense bill with ‘critical pro-Israel provisions’. "The bill critically prioritizes U.S.-Israeli defense cooperation to further enable both nations to counter missile, drone and emerging high-tech threats," AIPAC said. JNS Staff

(Dec. 10, 2025 / JNS) The U.S. House of Representatives voted 312-112 on Wednesday night to pass the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, with 18 Republicans and 94 Democrats voting against it.

The bill, which is now bound for the Senate and which authorizes more than $900 billion, includes “critical pro-Israel provisions,” according to AIPAC.

“The bill critically prioritizes U.S.-Israeli defense cooperation to further enable both nations to counter missile, drone and emerging high-tech threats,” the pro-Israel group said. “Importantly, the bipartisan defense measure authorizes $500 million in fiscal year 2026 for U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation.” JNS

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Shocking: Father of Noa Marciano reveals how she was murdered. Avi Marciano, the father of IDF lookout Noa Marciano, who was abducted from the shelter at the Nahal Oz outpost on October 7, recounts for the first time how his daughter was murdered in Hamas captivity. Israel National News. Dec 11, 2025, 12:07 AM (GMT+2)

Avi Marciano, the father of IDF lookout Noa Marciano, who was abducted from the shelter at the Nahal Oz outpost on October 7, appeared in a video posted on Instagram by pro-Israel activist Shai DeLuca, where he revealed for the first time how his daughter was murdered in Hamas captivity.

In a recording sent to him, Noa described the airstrikes in the area and pleaded for her distress to be conveyed: “They’re bombing us,” she said in the video. She made a desperate request: “Stop the bombings because you might hit us.”

Later, as IDF forces approached the area, Hamas terrorists attempted to move Noa into central Gaza City. On the way, the car she was in was struck, and Noa sustained injuries to her leg and head, though they were not life-threatening. She was evacuated to Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

Her father recounted that one of the medical staff at the hospital decided to murder her. “He injected air into her vein,” he said. Marciano received confirmation of Noa’s death through another video sent to him, in which his daughter is seen begging for her life. At the end of the footage, she appears to be sweating but lifeless.

Afterward, Hamas terrorists attempted to smuggle Noa’s body out of the hospital, but IDF forces prevented this. Ultimately, she was brought to Israel for burial.

“What I went through is the greatest nightmare I know,” Avi Marciano said tearfully. “Noa was my eldest daughter. She was so loved, and there isn’t a moment in the day when I don’t miss her INN

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Druze teen describes rape by Syrian Jihadists. Israel’s Druze leader urges global action after unveiling testimony of rape, torture and killings in Syria’s Sweida province. Lior Ben Ari|12.10.25 YNet

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Israel's Druze use AI to present to testimonies of 'sexual terrorism' against Syrian Druze women. Sheikh Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, also drew the diplomats’ attention to the crimes committed against Druze women in the attacks on Sweida and the nearby Druze villages.

By Danielle Greyman-kennard December 10, 2025. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) was presented with evidence that Syrian Druze women were sexually assaulted during the recent waves of attacks committed by Damascus-backed militia groups in southern Syria. JPost

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'One Ring' of pro-Palestine propaganda shaping the war on Zionism. Yisrael Medad, December 10, 2025. The results of an intriguing study on anti-Israel and anti-Zionist language usage were published on December 2. Veteran blogger Elder of Ziyon displayed a detailed table with results of a study that reviewed the terminology employed in academic papers going back from 2005 through 2024. His findings are that antisemitic and activist anti-Zionist language is used in thousands of academic papers, thus reinforcing a negative subjective narrative.

The phrases and terms used in these papers included “Jewish supremacism,” “Talmudic rituals,” “Israeli Occupation[sic] Forces,” Gaza as an “open air prison[sic],” and “Judaization[sic],” among others. Such language seeps from the academic world into mainstream media op-eds, and then back again. Students and university colleagues are regularized to express themselves by using the exclusionary language of castigation and of animosity regarding Jewish nationalism and Middle East politics.

What is at work here results not in detached independent scientific research, but rather, it eventually locks the public into an ideological entrenchment primed and positioned to disallow any refutation. Moreover, there is no possible defense by those targeted as “colonialists.” Even more dangerous, it is a rhetoric of volatility.

The articulation may seem to be lofty academic verbiage, but it is just a repeat of medieval theological cancellation as when Jews were forced to engage in demeaning, unfair disputations. Today’s anti-Zionist hordes – safe in their self-constructed castles of words that reinforce the visceral animosity they already have in place – always have the advantage.

Raef Zreik, an Israeli Arab who is a senior lecturer of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic College and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, wrote a 2023 article titled “Zionism and Political Theology.” It purports to “identify what is unique about the political theology of Zionism” and “explores what the consequences of this uniqueness might be.” JPost

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More than 2 years later: Amnesty concludes that Hamas committed crimes against humanity. INN. Dec 11, 2025. INN

Amnesty's Long-Overdue Reckoning: Hamas's October 7 Atrocities Finally Labeled Crimes Against Humanity—But Two Years Late Exposes Deep Bias.

Two years, two months, and four days after Hamas's barbaric October 7, 2023, rampage through southern Israel—leaving 1,221 dead, including over 800 civilians slaughtered in their homes, at a music festival, and in bomb shelters—Amnesty International has finally mustered the courage (or the PR savvy) to classify it as what it always was: 'crimes against humanity' In a 173-page report released today, December 11, 2025, the self-proclaimed human rights watchdog details a litany of horrors orchestrated by Hamas and allied Palestinian armed groups, including murder, extermination, torture, enforced disappearance, rape, and other sexual violence. This isn't just "war crimes"—it's systematic extermination, with Hamas's leadership explicitly directing fighters to hunt civilians, abduct 251 hostages (mostly women, children, and the elderly), and even steal the bodies of the dead to torment families further.

The evidence is damning and irrefutable: verified survivor testimonies, forensic analysis of mutilated bodies, and hundreds of videos from the terrorists themselves showing gleeful executions in kibbutzim like Be’eri, Kfar Aza, and Nahal Oz. Over 3,000 Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades fighters, plus goons from Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, poured across the border in a premeditated orgy of violence. Even unaffiliated Gazan civilians joined the looting and lynchings, turning a terrorist assault into a pogrom. Hostages endured months of incommunicado hell in Gaza's tunnels—starved, beaten, sexually assaulted—while Hamas withheld even the corpses of 44 dead Israelis taken as "trophies." Amnesty slams this as "imprisonment" and "torture," noting it was all part of a blueprint from Hamas bosses to inflict maximum civilian suffering.

Why Did It Take So Damn Long? Amnesty's "Palestine" Blind Spot Is a Badge of Shame. Let's cut the crap: This report didn't emerge from some sudden epiphany of impartiality. It took 'over 26 months' for Amnesty to connect the dots that were glaring from day one—dots backed by Israeli investigations, UN reports, and even Hamas's own boasts. Why the glacial pace? Because Amnesty has spent those years laser-focused on one target: Israel. Just last December (2024), they recycled the Pallyweid "genocide" lie screed against Israel in Gaza, parroting Hamas-run health ministry death tolls that lump terrorists with civilians and ignore how Hamas embeds fighters in hospitals and schools to inflate "civilian" casualties. That report was shredded as propaganda by experts for cherry-picking evidence and ignoring Hamas's human shields. Israel called it "fabricated" and "false"—rightly so.

This Hamas report feels like damage control. After global backlash to their anti-Israel hit job— including from Jewish communities, legal scholars, and even some left-leaning outlets—Amnesty needed a fig leaf to pretend they're "balanced." As one X user bluntly put it: "Better two years late than ever," but let's be real—it's a half-hearted mea culpa that still tiptoes around full accountability. They criticize "investigative failures" by Palestinian authorities (read: Hamas cover-ups) and even nudge Israel on better forensics, as if the Jewish state hasn't already documented every atrocity while fighting a war on two fronts. And note: Amnesty couldn't fully assess sexual violence due to "access limits" in Gaza—code for Hamas stonewalling.

Hamas's response? Dismissal as "lies," of course—proving once again they're allergic to truth. On X, reactions range from sarcastic cheers ("Amnesty discovers Nuremberg trials!") to grim reminders that this "human rights" org has been MIA on Jewish suffering for decades.

The Bigger Picture: Hamas's Reign of TerrorDemands Justice, Not Amnesty's Timid Nod.

This report, for all its tardiness, is a crack in the facade. It confirms what Israel has screamed from the rooftops: October 7 wasn't "resistance"—it was extermination, a blueprint for genocide straight out of Hamas's charter. The last hostage body, that of soldier Ran Gvili, still rots in Gaza—Amnesty demands its return, as they should. But words aren't enough. The ICC must haul Hamas leaders before The Hague. The U.S. and allies should ramp up sanctions on Hamas funders—Qatar, Iran, anyone bankrolling this death cult.

Amnesty's bias isn't just inconvenient; it's complicit. By dragging their feet on Hamas while sprinting to demonize Israel, they've fueled the very propaganda that justifies more attacks. Too late for redemption? Maybe. But at least now, the world record shows: Hamas isn't "freedom fighters"—they're butchers of humanity. Israel will keep fighting for justice, with or without Amnesty's reluctant stamp of approval. The victims of October 7 deserve nothing less. --- Sources and Notes.

- Amnesty's disgraceful 'genocide' slander against Israel disqualifies the group. JNS. Dec 18, 2024. https://www.jns.org/amnestys-disgraceful-genocide-slander-against-israel-disqualifies-the-group/

- Amnesty Israel rejects Amnesty International's report accusing Israel of genocide. JPost. Dec 5, 2024 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-832119 -- - Amnesty accuses Hamas of committing crimes against humanity. JPost, Dec 11, 2025. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-879982

- More than 2 years later: Amnesty concludes that Hamas committed crimes against humanity. INN. Dec 11, 2025. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419161

- Additional coverage confirming the report's release and details: Reuters, The Times of Israel, Le Monde, and others (December 11, 2025). Just sayin' [20]

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Majority of young American adults 'active in Hamas resistance,' Khaled Mashaal claims. Mashaal praised the "resistance" of youth on university campuses, and rejected Hamas disarmament as tantamount to "taking away our souls," in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday. By James Genm. December 11 2025.

A slight majority, 51%, of Americans between the ages of 18-21 are not only involved in the Palestinian cause, but are active in Hamas "resistance," leader of the terror group Khaled Mashaal said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday.

"Can you imagine that the Palestinian case entered into the minds of young Americans and Europeans? This is a new division of resistance. In the street, the youth, university campuses, political parties, and countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia - there has been a great gain for the Palestinian cause," Mashaal claimed.

Israel's image has also been damaged during this period among that demographic, Mashaal stated. "What happened during the two years for the image of the Zionist entity before the world - this Israel which used to glorify how they are a democratic state and a pioneer for Western civilization in the Middle East reared its ugly head."

"You see it in the international area. [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has been issued an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Israel has become a target. It is a killer who committed the crime[sic] of a real[sic] Holocaust[sic] - the massacres," the terror leader accused.

Mashaal reaffirmed his rejection of disarming Hamas's weapons, emphasizing that disarmament is "rejected in the culture of the Palestinian people," because their weapons "represent the spirit of resistance and a means of protecting the people under occupation."

Disarming Palestinians would be tantamount to "taking out their souls," he added.

In addition, he alleged that the "real danger comes from the occupation forces [Israel] and not from Gaza."

He noted that Hamas is confident it can convince the Trump administration of its approach, and that mediators are discussing details with Washington.

Mashaal also commented that terrorist's "resistance" and international pressure is the reason that the Israel-Hamas War is ending.

Mashaal: International Stabilization Force must not impose peace The Al Jazeera interviewer asked Mashaal on his views towards the International Stabilization Force being proposed as part of Phase II of US President Donald Trump's peace plan. Advertisement

"There are documents talking about their role being to deal with people and remove weapons, in other words, impose peace. This is unacceptable," he stated.

"It's role should be to ensure that there are no clashes, to preserve peace - not impose it," he affirmed.

"As for the general feeling of having international forces within the Gaza Strip, this would result in an occupational power, according to Palestinian culture," he continued.

The only way the ISF could work, in Mashaal's view, is if "they preserve peace by keeping them [the IDF] on their borders so they don't enter Gaza. Entry into Gaza means a transformation of Israeli occupation."

He also discussed how Hamas, along with "our Egyptian brothers" settled on a group of technocrats who would be able to administer Gaza, including eight that are all "capable and represent the diversity of Gazan society," as well as able to receive support from Gazan police forces. "Israel can't achieve that - we have to stop it," he alleged...

"Did people not hate what happened in Egypt and Jordan? What did they get from normalizing. The general opinion is against normalization," he argued.

The Trump administration is trying to push for normalization through the Abraham Accords in order to "save Israel from itself," and "save its reputation," he alleged. JPost

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'Gazan doctors killed my daughter by injecting air into her veins,' father of murdered soldier says. Avi Marciano said that rather than treat his daughter Noa for her wounds, a doctor at al-Shifa hospital killed her. He was sent a video of her last moments.

By Danya Saperstein. December 11, 2025. Content warning: This article contains disturbing images including lethal injections, torture

Avi Marciano, the father of murdered IDF Cpl. Noa Marciano, described how he learned of his daughter’s death in Hamas captivity through a video of her last moments shared with him on Telegram in an Instagram video posted by Israel activist Shai Deluca on Wednesday.

He recounts how he saw footage of a medical professional lethally injecting air into her veins after she was taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza. JPost

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UK rock band under fire for swastika-Star of David imagery at London show. Jewish watchdog files police complaint after Primal Scream displays visuals linking Nazi symbols with Jewish iconography during anti-Israel performance; venue launches investigation amid accusations of antisemitism. ynet|12.11.25 21:42

British rock band Primal Scream is facing backlash after displaying edited images of the Star of David merged with swastikas during a Monday night concert in London.

The controversial visuals were projected on screen during the performance of the band’s 1999 song Swastika Eyes, a track originally written as a critique of U.S. foreign policy. During the performance, footage of Gaza was shown, followed by images of a Star of David containing a swastika. YNet

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Amid dispute over Hezbollah. Iranian FM accepts Beirut invite. Elad Benari. Dec 12, 2025, 5:07 AM INN

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House passes bill with $500 million for Israel missile defense. “We talked to the secretary of state directly and got guarantees that any NGOs that are funneling American tax dollars to the Taliban are officially going to be cut off,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said. Andrew Bernard. (Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Cabinet approves: 19 new communities in Judea and Samaria. Israel National News. Dec 12, 2025, 1:22 AM INN

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Pennsylvania, Utah governors decry political violence in joint appearance in DC. “We need to begin by saying that all leaders must condemn all political violence, not cherry-pick which violence to condemn and which violence to accept,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said. Jonathan D. Salant. (Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Speaker Johnson ‘The Bible is clear: Judea and Samaria are the Land of Israel’. “I do not understand why we debate this anew every single day,” Rep. Mike Johnson told Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan. JNS Staff.

(Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), speaker of the House of Representatives, told visiting Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan in Washington this week that “Judea and Samaria are the Land of Israel,” Dagan’s office stated on Thursday.

“I visited Samaria—both as a member of Congress before becoming speaker, and again last summer as speaker with a small group of colleagues,” Johnson told Dagan, according to a Hebrew readout the Samaria Regional Council provided to JNS on Thursday. JNS

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Trump: 'Mideast peace achieved after strikes on Iran’s nuclear program'. Israel National News. Dec 12, 2025, 3:21 AM INN

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'The Beautiful Six' Families of the six hostages reflect on Hanukkah captivity video Israel National News Dec 11, 2025, 11:23 PM INN


Chilling video: 6 hostages light Hanukkah candles in captivity. Newly published footage reveals the six hostages who were murdered in August 2024 lighting Hanukkah candles and singing in a captivity tunnel in Rafah. Israel National News Published: Dec 11, 2025, 5:50 PM (GMT+2) INN


Video shows hostages lighting candles for Chanukah in Gaza tunnel months before murders The footage shows six men and women reciting the blessings over the candles in Hebrew and singing the traditional holiday song “Ma'oz Tzur” (“Rock of Ages”). JNS Staff. (Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS) JNS


The full documentation: How the six hostages tried to hold on to hope. Additional footage found in the Gaza Strip shows the six hostages who were murdered in the tunnel, embracing, wishing each other a Happy New Year, playing games, cutting hair, and lighting Hanukkah candles. Israel National News. Dec 12, 2025, 12:18 AM INN

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Iran star may miss World Cup over US visa issue Taremi’s IRGC service, anti-Israel post may bar US entry; Iran warns more players, staff could face 2026 World Cup visa issues ynet|12.11.25 YNet

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Hezbollah terrorists increasingly approach northern border, soldiers critique IDF response. According to soldiers, Hezbollah members have been seen approaching IDF forces while carrying hoes or performing tasks in the fields. By Amir Bohbot. December 12, 2025. JPost

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No Mercy. Tzvi Yehezkeli Slams Gaza Flood Videos as Propaganda: "No Drop of Compassion for Staged Victimhood" | WATCH. Israeli analyst Tzvika Yehezkeli ignites controversy after dismissing Gaza flood videos as staged propaganda, accusing Hamas and Qatari-backed networks of pushing AI-generated victimhood clips, including a debunked “floating hand” video, as Storm Byron batters the region and intensifies an already polarized information war. JFeed Staff. Dec 12, 2025 05:17 JFeed

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Fierce Airstrikes. Israeli Airstrikes Target Hezbollah Positions in Southern Lebanon | WATCH. Israel will not sit back and watch Hezbollah rebuild and re-arm itself. And if these airstrikes do not manage to contain Hezbollah, a ground operation will likely follow in early 2026.

JFeed Staff. Dec 12, 2025 03:36 JFeed

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Nvidia’s unwavering support for kidnapped employee shows true workplace family. Noa Argamani tells on X how during the two years her boyfriend Avinatan Or was held captive, Nvidia went beyond being a workplace, offering extraordinary support, demonstrating what true mutual responsibility looks like. Israel National News. Published: Dec 12, 2025, 3:17 PM (GMT+2) INN

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UN General Assembly backs ICJ call for Israel to work with UNRWA. UNGA votes 139-12 to back ICJ’s call for Israel to allow Gaza aid via UN agencies, including UNRWA. Israel denounces UNRWA as complicit in terror, rejecting the resolution as “morally distorted.” Elad Benari, Canada Dec 12, 2025, 8:15 PM INN

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Israel hands mediators names, maps to locate Ran Gvili. Israel gives mediators names of Islamic Jihad terrorists and maps to locate Ran Gvili, stressing no progress in talks or deal will occur until his return. Israel National News. Published: Dec 12, 2025. INN

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'Go to the gas chamber': Rabbi and children targeted in antisemitic verbal attack on Melbourne tram. The accused woman hid her face ... By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 12, 2025

"I was riding the tram home in St Kilda East, with my 8-year-old and 14-year-old daughter and this woman, with her Free Palestine kaffiyeh bag, tells us 'You should all go to the gas chambers!'" JPost

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US forces seize Chinese cargo ship delivering military equipment to Iran - WSJ. The ship was boarded on the Indian Ocean a month ago, with military equipment being seized, officials revealed to the Wall Street Journal.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 13, 2025.

Nashville Jewish community center sues Goyim Defense League over alleged campaign of intimidation Travis Garland, a Tennessee man affiliated with the Goyim Defense League, allegedly disguised himself as an Orthodox Jewish man and infiltrated the Jewish center’s secured campus.

(Neo-Nazi groups Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League hold a rally on September 2, 2023 in Orlando, Florida).

By Asaf Elia-Shalev/JTA December 13, 2025. JPost

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Israel hands mediators list of PIJ terrorists with knowledge of Ran Gvili’s location - report In addition to the names of terrorists, Israel reportedly handed over a map with locations relevant to the search for Gvili’s remains.

Posters of Ran Gvili, whose body is still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, seen at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. December 02, 2025. Posters of Ran Gvili, whose body is still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, seen at Hostage. Danielle Greyman-Kennard, December 13, 2025 00:45 JPost

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Scottish band Primal Scream draws backlash over backdrop of Israeli officials with swastika-eyes Primal Scream is also one of the most prominent acts to demand in recent months that its music not be available on the music platform Spotify to listeners in Israel.

By Grace Gilson/JTA December 13, 2025 02:46 JPost

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European Jewish Association initiates legal actions against Bob Vylan for 'death to the IDF' chants

The demand cites the show Robinson-Foster performed on December 2 at the Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, and argues that the singer "attacked every Jew and Israeli."

By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 13, 2025. The European Jewish Association (EJA) initiated legal proceedings on Thursday against Bob Vylan’s singer, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, after he chanted on repeated occasions “death to the IDF” during their performances across Europe.

The demand cites the show Robinson-Foster performed on December 2 at the Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, where he repeated the chant alongside other phrases, such as “everyone hates the police.” JPost

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Gaza hostage Eitan Mor electrocuted, starved in Hamas hands. The Jerusalem Post. December 13, 3025.

Hamas official told Eitan Mor he would be released two weeks after abduction, ex-hostage recounts. Eitan Mor described how he was starved, beaten, and electrocuted during his captivity.

Former hostage Eitan Mor said that he encountered Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the current leader of Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, while in Gaza in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon published on Friday.

Mor recalled the Hamas leader telling him in the early days of his captivity that he would be released within two weeks. However, he was released after two years in October 2025. JPost

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Trump admin discusses possibility of terror-related sanctions on UNRWA U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the longtime U.N. agency as a “subsidiary of Hamas.” Mike Wagenheim (Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS) Trump administration officials are currently in talks to impose terror-related sanctions on the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has long been accused of complicity with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and serving as cover for their terror activities, according to a Reuters report. (Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)

Trump administration officials are currently in talks to impose terror-related sanctions on the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has long been accused of complicity with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and serving as cover for their terror activities, according to a Reuters report. JNS

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House Ed committee requests information about continued hostility towards Jews at MIT. The committee previously sent the private university a letter addressing “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” in March 2024. (Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)

In a Dec. 12 letter sent to Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT, Walberg noted that while the committee had documented “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” at the private university in Cambridge, in March 2024, “this hostility appears to have continued throughout 2025.” JNS

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Bipartisan Senate bill could lead to sanctions on Houthis in Yemen. “The severity of the Houthi menace is magnified by their human rights abuses, antisemitism and their continued theft of international humanitarian aid,” wrote Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.). Mike Wagenheim. (Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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As Republicans soften on Muslim Brotherhood, Dems say terror sanctions must move forward. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) told JNS that the United States is behind Qatar’s neighbors in branding the Brotherhood a terror entity, “and it’s clearly because of lobbying influence by different targets.” Mike Wagenheim

(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS) Just weeks ago, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order triggering a review of chapters and offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood for potential terrorist designations. But critics and even some allies say the administration is too cozy with Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood hub, for the sanctions to work.

And now, Republicans in Congress may be letting Qatar off the hook as well. JNS

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Tucker Carlson and the Qatar First Republicans are sabotaging Trump. Americans fawned over the emirate at the Doha Forum love fest for the home office of Islamist terror. They’re setting the president up for a fall as well as fueling antisemitism.

Jonathan S. Tobin.

(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS) Placed in the broad context of history, the Doha Forum held earlier this month by the Emirate of Qatar doesn’t matter much. It’s neither the first nor the last time that a tyrannical regime bent on exporting a vicious ideology aimed at destroying Western civilization put on a show for the world. But the Qataris had good reason to think that they scored yet another public relations triumph last week as the world flocked to the Persian Gulf state to fawn upon them at an event whose theme was not ironically titled “Justice in Action: Beyond Promises to Action.”

That a vicious authoritarian regime whose long record of human-rights abuses and financial support for Islamist terrorism would have the chutzpah to put on an event about achieving international justice could be dismissed as something of a bad joke. But like so much of what passes for public affairs discourse at shindigs such as these, the ability of the hosts to pretend to be legitimate actors in international diplomacy and even human-rights advocacy is no joke.

The most troubling aspect wasn’t just this latest success for Qatar’s massive investment in an information operation designed to launder their reputation and bolster an invidious effort to undermine the defense of the West. It’s the way that their efforts may be tilting the scales toward appeasement of Islamists inside a Trump administration that is debating whether or not to sanction the Muslim Brotherhood.

A massive influence operation

The Doha Forum is but a small part of the Qatari regime’s efforts to convince Americans to view them as valued allies, rather than the primary engine of the Islamist threat to the United States and its allies. It spends billions to influence politicians and even congressional staffers, as well as buy university Middle East studies programs. It also fosters strategic investment designed to make friends who become indebted to them. That’s done both by bailing out people like President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and pouring money into schemes floated by those close to the president, like his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his son, Donald Trump Jr. JNS

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Islamism’s strategic scarcity: hoarded baby formula exposes the economy of martyrdom. Opinion: A viral video from Gaza exposes Hamas stockpiling baby formula and aid as civilians starve, shattering Western illusions and indicting an ideology that weaponizes suffering for global sympathy. Amine Ayoub|12.13.25

There is a specific kind of evil that the Western mind cannot process. It is the evil that looks at a hungry child and sees not a tragedy to be solved, but a weapon to be loaded.

A video from Gaza has been tearing across the internet. It was not filmed by the IDF. It was filmed by a courageous local, a man tired of the lies. It shows a Hamas-controlled warehouse in the Khan Younis area. Inside, it is not a war zone. It is a supermarket. Floor-to-ceiling stacks of baby formula, mountains of white flour, crates of medicine.

Outside those steel doors, Palestinian mothers are weeping for the cameras, begging for milk. Inside, the "Mujahideen" sit on a stockpile that could feed the entire southern strip for weeks.

This image—the starving child outside and the hoarded milk inside—is the perfect summary of this war. It is also the ultimate indictment of the Islamist ideology that has held Gaza hostage for two decades.

Why does the world struggle to understand this? Because we project our own morality onto our enemies. In London, Paris and New York, we assume that a government’s first priority is the survival of its people. When we see starvation, we assume it is a failure of logistics or the result of a blockade. We cannot conceive of a regime that wants its own population to starve.

But Islamism is not a normal political movement. It is a revolutionary theology that fetishizes death. Hamas did not hoard that formula to sell it. They didn't even hoard it to feed their fighters. They hoarded it specifically to ensure that the images of starving babies would continue to flow. They know that a photo of a gaunt infant is their air force. They know it neutralizes the Israeli military. They know it brings the United Nations to its knees.

The baby formula was locked away because a fed baby is useless to the jihad. A fed baby doesn't make the front page of the New York Times. A fed baby doesn't inspire protests at Columbia University. To Hamas, that milk was dangerous contraband—because it had the power to solve the very crisis they needed to perpetuate.

The West’s complicity. The horror is not that Hamas does this. The horror is that the West helps them.

International media widely reported on the starvation and blamed Israel.

For a year, the "civilized world" has played the role of the useful idiot. They sent the trucks. They paid the bills. The UN coordinated the delivery. And then, when the goods vanished into the terror tunnels, they turned around and blamed the only democracy in the region for "not doing enough."

A perverse ecosystem was built where the West funds the bait (the aid), Hamas sets the trap (the starvation) and Israel gets blamed for the catch. This video strips away the excuses. You cannot say "Israel is blocking aid" when the warehouse is full. You cannot say "logistics are difficult" when the shelves are organized with military precision.

A war of truth. This is why the war against Hamas is not just a territorial dispute. It is a civilizational struggle.

On one side, you have a society that builds Iron Domes to protect its children. On the other, you have an ideology that builds cages for its children to starve in, so they can blame the other side. The sheer cynicism of hoarding baby formula while your people cry out for food reveals the terminal cancer of political Islam. It views human beings—even its own—as disposable props in a divine theater.

If this video does not wake up the West, nothing will.

The hunger in Gaza is real. But the key to the pantry isn't held by an Israeli soldier. It is held by a masked terrorist who would rather watch his own people die than lose his propaganda war. The "Starvation Libel" is over. We found the milk. And we found the monsters who hid it. Amine Ayoub, a Middle East Forum fellow, is a policy analyst and writer based in Morocco. YNet

Dec. 11: Hamas Hid Baby Formula To Advance Child Starvation Propaganda Narrative. By Adam Lehrer. December 11, 2025

The Big Story. After nearly a year of Israel being accused of “deliberately starving Gazan children,” new reports prove the crisis was, at least in large part, engineered by Hamas. According to Wednesday reports from the New York Post and others, the terror group hid massive stockpiles of baby formula and children’s nutritional shakes inside a Gaza warehouse, letting children starve to sabotage Israel’s credibility. Anti-Hamas Palestinian activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, who posted video evidence of the hoarded supplies to social media, said on X Tuesday that Hamas also intentionally withheld the aid to force the return of the United Nations’ distribution program and oust the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

The discovery of the hidden formula appears to vindicate the explanation of Gaza’s food shortages outlined by Erez Winter and Gadi Taub in their August Tablet article “Feeding the Enemy”:[Gazan] pockets with shortage are the TabletMag

(Related: Feeding the Enemy. By abandoning its original plan and bending to international pressure, Israel handed Hamas control of aid, of the narrative, and of the war By Erez Winner and Gadi Taub August 06, 2025

([21]. Footage released by the IDF on July 23, 2025 shows Hamas operatives gleefully displaying provisions in an underground tunnel X/@ID)

Israel is not starving Gaza. Any claim to the contrary is mendacious propaganda. That said, Israel did create the situation that gave rise to the current avoidable crisis, which it has badly mishandled, to boot. It is not too late, however, to course-correct and resume focus on the mission of defeating Hamas.

Here are the facts: Enough food enters Gaza. Pockets with shortage are the result of two things: the United Nations not relinquishing control to the American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and Hamas’ war strategy of increasing its own population’s suffering to put international pressure on Israel—confident in the press’ willful cooperation.

Israel’s original plan at the end of the long second cease-fire in March would have denied Hamas the ability to execute this strategy. The plan was to break Hamas’ control over Gaza’s population by breaking its control of the aid entering the strip. The IDF was to divide Gaza into discrete areas, isolating each one while providing it with a humanitarian corridor to enable civilians to leave combat zones and move south to temporary accommodation in safe sanctuaries, which is what the IDF had already done before the second cease-fire (during which many evacuated Gazans returned). Meanwhile, the American GHF was to distribute food in these sanctuaries. It would do so in family packages, rather than through wholesale supply, which invites middlemen. More than 100 million such meals were distributed by GHF in the past two months.

After the evacuations, any remaining person in the combat zones would be considered a combatant. A siege would be applied until all combatants surrendered and gave up the hostages they held. It’s important to note that a siege is a legal means of war sanctioned by international law and authorized by the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual (2015), even when applied to a civilian population in certain cases. However, the IDF plan was to implement it only after civilians were safely evacuated.

Implementing the original plan will surely result in opprobrium from a hypocritical international community, but at least it will succeed and end the war.

But Israel did not execute this plan. Instead, it concentrated on the effort to reach a hostage deal while attempting to prove its morality to the world. Subjecting itself to standards far stricter than international law requires, the IDF opted for half measures and did not move the population to designated safe zones to supply them with food. Instead, fearing a humanitarian crisis, the IDF began sending aid to pockets where Hamas has been using the population and the hostages as human shields to create safe havens for itself. In so doing, Israel became the first country in the history of warfare to assume responsibility for feeding the enemy population. It thus relieved Hamas of responsibility instead of insisting that the group surrender and release the hostages. So far from scoring points for morality, Israel dug itself into a hole, and still it was blamed for the crisis that Hamas and the United Nations have manufactured.

According to the United Nations’ data, almost 90 percent of aid trucks sent to Hamas-controlled areas are looted. Consequently, Hamas gets to control distribution and to sell food and other necessities at exorbitant prices. This allows it to continue feeding its men and their families and paying their salaries, which in turn perpetuates Hamas’ administrative grip on the population. For example, baby food enters the strip as free aid. It is then sold by private merchants for $70 per small package and $125 for larger ones. Hamas then takes its cut by collecting an exorbitant tax.

At the same time, huge quantities of food are rotting in the sun in U.N. storage lots, because the United Nations would not relinquish its control over supplies to GHF. It has strong incentives to continue doing so: Many of the United Nations’ employees in Gaza are also Hamas members or are married to Hamas members. Moreover, if aid distribution is shifted away, the United Nations stands to lose funding, as major donors, including the United States, withhold funds or redirect them to alternative mechanisms.

If Israel is to recover momentum and achieve its war aims—dismantling Hamas’ military and governing capabilities, returning the hostages, and ensuring Gaza does not pose a danger to Israel in the future—it must first gain control over the aid supply and ensure it flows only through GHF. This can be achieved, at a minimum, by expanding the GHF distribution mechanism to the full width of the strip, from Rafah up to the Netzarim Corridor, bringing aid directly to populations now receiving it from—or being deprived of it by—the United Nations and Hamas.

But this is only a stopgap measure. In the long run, without evacuating the civilian population from combat zones and applying effective sieges to places where combatants are still able to hide, Israel will not fully achieve any of its aims. Implementing the original plan will surely result in opprobrium from a hypocritical international community, but at least it will succeed and end the war. In fact, the attempt to avoid criticism through half measures manages to achieve the worst of both worlds: It brings only an even worse cascade of international condemnation while prolonging the war. That could then lead to more needless suffering, potentially turning international pressure into a strategic danger. All this without accomplishing what Israel must accomplish if it is to survive: the utter and total destruction of the organization that perpetrated the horrors of Oct. 7 on the Jewish people.

Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Winner is the former head of operational planning in the IDF’s Southern Command. Gadi Taub is an author, historian, and op-ed columnist. He is co-host of Tablet’s Israel Update podcast. TabletMag)

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib: Hamas's chief legal officer & "human rights lawyer," Ramy Abdu, who was literally sent to Europe by the terror organization to create a fake organization (EuroMed Monitor) to launder propaganda, received instructions from his Hamas handlers to lie & clean up the mess my post has caused them!

10:02 PM · Dec 12, 2025 on X

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Executed Iranian nuclear scientist confessed to aiding Israel after torture, threats against mother. Vahid Razavi, a member of the Vadi family, told the dissident media site that Rouzbeh Vadi was detained a year and a half ago after a dispute at work. Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters. December 13, 2025. JPost

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Hamas terror group passes the buck. Hamas sources claim fallen Yasam officer Ran Gvili was buried in eastern Gaza but cannot be located due to the elimination of those involved. Orly Harari. Dec 13, 2025, 7:16 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Unusual ambush in Syria. US and Syrian soldiers injured after gunman opens fire near Palmyra, Syria; shooter eliminated. Israel National News Published: Dec 13, 2025, 6:31 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Israel Defense Forces @IDF: ELIMINATED: Ra’ad Sa’ad, Head of the Weapons Production Headquarters of Hamas’ Military Wing and One of the Architects of the Brutal October 7th Massacre.

Sa’ad was one of the last remaining veteran senior militants in the Gaza Strip and a close associate of Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’ military wing. He held several senior positions and was a central figure within the organization’s military leadership.

He was responsible for the deaths of many soldiers through explosive devices manufactured by Hamas’ weapons production units during the war.

In recent months, Sa’ad played a leading role in Hamas’ military wing, including direct involvement in violating the ceasefire agreement. He also oversaw the continued production of weapons in the Gaza Strip during the ceasefire period.

His elimination significantly degrades Hamas’ ability to reestablish its capabilities. Dec 13, 2025 on X

IDF Eliminates Hamas #2 Raad Saad in Targeted Gaza City Airstrike | WATCHm

The IDF confirms a precision drone strike in Gaza City killed Raad Saad, Hamas’s senior military commander and alleged second-in-command, in a targeted operation during the ongoing ceasefire. He had survived two assassination attempts.

JFeed Staff. Dec 13, 2025.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Saturday that a precision drone airstrike in western Gaza City killed Raad Saad (also spelled Ra'ad Sa'ad or Raed Saad), a senior Hamas military commander widely regarded as the second-in-command of the group's armed wing, behind only Izz ad-Din al-Haddad. JFeed

Netanyahu, Katz: Israel killed top Hamas official Sa'ad for rearming instead of demilitarizing Sa'ad was also one of the few remaining living Hamas officials directly involved in planning the October 7 invasion and slaughter of around 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians.

Yonah Jeremy Bob. December 13, 2025. JPost

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Disney+ Christmas Ad Sparks Controversy Over Pro-Palestinian Symbol | WATCH. Disney+ is facing a social-media firestorm after viewers spotted a watermelon symbol, widely linked to pro-Palestinian activism, in its 2025 Christmas ad, igniting accusations of hidden political messaging and reigniting the culture-war debate over wokeness in family entertainment.

Gila Isaacson. Dec 13, 2025.

Disney+ has faced backlash over its 2025 holiday advertisement, titled "A Lifetime of Stories," after viewers spotted a watermelon sticker on a teenage character's laptop. The watermelon, whose sliced colors (red, green, black, and white) match those of the Palestinian flag, has long been used as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity, dating back to the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel banned public displays of the flag in "occupied territories". JFeed

Propaganda for children?: Controversy over Disney+ holiday ad. Entertainment giant Disney is accused of embedding covert pro-Palestinian messages in a Christmas commercial by showing a watermelon, which has become a symbol associated with support for Palestinians. Nissan Tzur. Dec 13, 2025, 11:38 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Two IDF Reservists Wounded in Southern Gaza. Dec 13, 2025 Two reservist soldiers were lightly wounded earlier today when an explosive device detonated in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF said. According to the military, the explosion occurred while the troops were operating in the area as part of efforts to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure. The wounded soldiers received medical treatment, and their families have been notified. IDF forces continue operations in the sector. JFeed

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IDF warns Lebanon of impending strike. Dec 13, 2025 Earlier today, the IDF issued an evacuation warning in the Yanoch area of southern Lebanon ahead of a planned strike. Following the evacuation notice, the Lebanese Army contacted the mechanism to access the targeted site again and address the violation. The IDF decided to allow this, and as a result, the strike was postponed. The IDF continues to monitor the target closely and remains in communication with the mechanism. The IDF will not allow the Hezbollah terrorist organization to establish or rebuild its strength JFeed

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ISIS terrorist who killed two US troops was member of Syrian security forces, local officials say A Syrian interior ministry spokesperson told Syrian television channel Al-Ikhbariya that the attacker did not have a leadership role in the security forces.

By Reuters, Danielle Greyman-kennard. December 13, 2025.

Two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in an Islamic State attack on Saturday in Palmyra, Syria, where they were supporting counterterrorism operations, the Pentagon said.

Three others were wounded, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the attacker was killed by partner forces. JPost

Trump on deadly ISIS ambush in Syria: We will retaliate. Trump vows “very serious” retaliation after two US troops and a civilian were killed in an ISIS ambush in Syria. CENTCOM confirmed the attacker was eliminated. Israel National News. Dec 14, 2025, 2:38 AM (GMT+2) INN


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Dr. Einat Wilf: 'We lied to ourselves about the Palestinians'. Wilf says her focus is to confront the “right of return” and UNRWA’s role in perpetuating conflict, arguing that state services should prioritize those who serve the state.

By Sherry Makover-balikov December 13, 2025.

Dr. Einat Wilf, a former Labor MK who says she underwent a political awakening, explains in a recent interview with Maariv why she views Mahmoud Abbas as an adversary and why she is forming a new party, Oz, to advance a program that ties peace to Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism. Wilf says her focus is to confront the “right of return” and UNRWA’s role in perpetuating conflict, arguing that state services should prioritize those who serve the state.   Wilf frames her platform around three points: peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism, state services for those who serve the state, and a shift from a diasporic mindset to sovereign governance. ‘After October 7, these issues are at the core’ About a year ago, Wilf was invited to a filmed interview about Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians. The former Labor MK and left-wing figure, who experienced a political awakening, tried to explain why she sees Mahmoud Abbas as an enemy.

“I spoke about his commitment to the Palestinian ethos that believes in the right of return and fights against the existence of a Jewish state for the Jewish people,” she recalls. “It was a long interview, and when I finished, studio staff, from the lighting tech to the director, came up to me and said, this is what we want to vote for. Why is there no one in Israeli politics who represents your ideas?”

Were you surprised?

“No. After October 7, everywhere I went, I saw that the issues I have worked on for 20 years are now at the center. So I decided to bring them to the forefront, and at this stage, the only way to express them clearly, without diluting them with political considerations, is to establish a party and lead it.”

That is quite an ambition.

“For years, people asked me, who in Israel even shares your ideas? I always said, either it is five people who are my best friends, or it is 70% of the Israeli public. There is an old joke about a shoe company that wanted to know whether there is a market in Africa...”

What is your story?

“To advance peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism, to ensure that state services reach those who serve the state, and to move from a diasporic mindset to sovereign conduct.”

People dismissed these ideas until October 7 Not everyone identified with these ideas. Until October 7 many saw them as marginal. “A few weeks before the massacre, I sat on a panel... a very senior left-wing journalist said to me, Einat, who cares about the Palestinians today, it is so passé.” “It was a closing remark, but it reflected a mindset. We had the Abraham Accords, and Hamas was supposedly deterred. Even Bennett said Palestinians are a splinter in the backside. I took my book The War of Return to security officials and ministers. I said our enemies, especially the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, still seek a reality where Jews have no state.” “We also dealt with the billions for Gaza... pouring money would not buy quiet because Gazans believe Gaza is a base to ‘liberate Palestine.’ We wrote that transferring billions to the Palestinians will not end well.” What did they answer you? “They said, give us a few weeks of quiet... why say no return, no UNRWA, no refugeehood. Once, in the Defense Ministry, we explained that someone who grows up believing he will take back his house in Israel will get up each morning and dig a tunnel to ‘liberate Palestine.’” “I said, listen to them. They say openly that they aim to destroy the Jewish state. The aide said, We need quiet until after the holidays... i left deeply shaken, seeing the addiction to quiet.” ‘I was told I would ignite a third intifada’ And before that? “As a Labor MK, I was called to a committee and accused of causing a third intifada because I dared touch the core Palestinian issue. I thought we were lying to ourselves.” Why because of you? “I tried to cut UNRWA funding. The Defense Ministry resisted. I agreed to expose that there are not really five million refugees, only tens of thousands, but without touching funding... The campaign succeeded. Congress required UNRWA to report actual numbers. Then the Defense Ministry told me, you will ignite a third intifada... It taught me that the lies are agreed upon.”

What did you do with that realization? Did you stay silent?

“No. I spoke and wrote in Israel and abroad... Then, on October 7, everyone understood. Editor Shmuel Rosner asked us to publish an updated book.” “We wrote Shiva be-Oktober in May, and last Saturday night Kan 11 aired a documentary based on the book. Most importantly, people now say we were right.” The UNRWA documentary and its reception The film UNRWA by Duki Dror, based on Wilf and Adi Schwartz’s book, shows how UNRWA maintains war by nurturing a violent ‘return’ and reinforcing generations of non-refugee ‘refugees.’ The film won a research prize at Haifa’s documentary festival and is available digitally. “After the Tel Aviv Cinematheque premiere, the director received many angry messages from friends," Wilf said. “They were angry that he presented a depressing work. But that is the point. After seeing the film, one cannot ignore how refugee and return ideas shape Palestinianism, or that a people next to us was formed around a destructive idea of negating Zionism. Beyond its educational role, the film confirms that my long engagement is central to Israel’s future and security.” From advocacy back to politics Since October 7 Wilf has become one of the most effective international voices for Israel, with lectures, podcasts, delegations and meetings filling her schedule. Beforehand, she was a Left-wing figure, a PhD and an MK, then crossed the aisle to focus on delegitimization as a strategic challenge. “I speak about what the conflict is, what we do and do not do, why anti-Zionism rises in the West, and what Israeli policy should be.” “Since October 7, people tell me they follow every lecture and read everything I write. Suddenly, my work is so relevant.” So you woke up one morning and started a party? “It is a process... Now it is not only telling the Israeli-Zionist story but knowing what to do for it. Because I worked on these issues, I knew what should be done in Gaza and could present a day-after policy. Through the party, I am testing whether my ideas can become policy.” You were already in politics. That chapter seemed closed. “True, but after October 7, I saw the gap between public and government, and that central issues are not addressed. If no one else advances them, I will, as a party leader.” Many new parties may split the bloc and lose votes. “Now is exactly the time for many parties and ideas. Close to the deadline will be the time for mergers to avoid lost votes. For now, I am checking if there is real demand for my ideas.” But you are not really doing politics. No consultants, polls, or HQ. “I do not use polls or consultants. Nothing replaces direct contact with the public... If there is no support, I will not run independently.” How does it feel to return? “I left not by choice after a Labor split. Today, it is jumping into the fire. I remind myself I do it because I believe in these ideas.” Where is your party on the map? “My ideas are not Left, Right, or Center... I will speak to those tired of politics and media wired around one person. Critics focused on the man, not processes.” But he [Netanyahu] is the leader who drives the processes. “People did not say what should be done to drive processes. They said what was wrong and who was to blame.” Does The Democrats Party fit your ideas? “Everyone asked me to join. I told all that I must present my ideas to the public without diluting them. Joining a party silences you because the goal is to make the chair the prime minister. So I founded my own.” Where is the funding from? “Social media is free and is all the fuel. If ideas fit the moment, something good can happen. If not, money will not help. If they fit, donations come in by law.” Any lessons from your past? “Do not get excited by everything people say. Some bring ideas, others know the craft. It is rare to have both.” “I do not know how much political skill I have, but sometimes reality tears, and what worked no longer works. I am testing whether this is that moment.” Who is on your list, and how will it be set? “For now, there is no list. If momentum builds, I will submit a list mainly of women from the public sector who know how systems work. If a centrist Zionist government is formed, it will have months, maybe a year, to make dramatic changes. I need people who know budgets, laws, and systems.” Why ‘Oz’? “Because of the verse, ‘The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace,’ strength and peace, and because it echoes Nir Oz and Nahal Oz. I also like the name. Short and clear.” The party’s core ideas Wilf’s party proposes answers to security, policy, and public issues. The first is to advance peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism. “Leadership striving for peace, and understanding that peace and security are impossible while the Palestinian ideology that negates Zionism persists.” How can you strive for peace opposite an ideology that denies the Jewish people’s existence in its land? “The Palestinians are not ready for peace or any arrangement that includes a Jewish state. Still, Israel must say it strives for peace under conditions, not ‘no’ to every initiative. The Saudi crown prince said he would advance the Abraham Accords if a path to two states opens, and Israel said, ‘we do not agree.’” “If we were wiser, we would say, excellent. The path to peace is between two states, Jewish and Palestinian. For a hundred years, the Palestinians have said they are not ready for a neighboring Jewish state. The day they want to live beside us, not on our ruins, they will find we were never the problem.” “Return the ball to the crown prince. Ask him to help West Bank Arabs abandon the war. Tell the Palestinians, your war against Zionism is over. The Jews will have a state, and you can live beside them, not instead of them. That means you are not refugees and have no right of return, and in return, we will help with budgets and education.” Do Palestinians oppose two states for two peoples? “Yes. They say aloud that they want a state alongside Israel. Quietly, they talk about the right of return. Recently, the Palestinian beauty queen’s dress had a huge key. If you listen, they are clear. They meant an Arab state in Gaza and the West Bank, and another Arab state to replace Israel through return. They never compromised. They are consistent.” How do you bridge the desire for peace and the aspiration for two Palestinian states? “It will not happen tomorrow. It is a vision and a process. Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall must be upgraded. Enter their arena and say the truth: you do not really want a state, you do not want us here.” What is the practical meaning? “If we had acted correctly in Gaza, we would say the war does not end with disarming Hamas but when the ideology disintegrates and no one in Gaza is a refugee and nothing will be built or enter until everyone is removed from UNRWA’s refugee rolls.” “Unfortunately, we did not work with countries that fund UNRWA. We talked only about disarming Hamas, while its greatest weapons are ideology, refugeehood, right of return, and international legitimacy. We do nothing about that ideology, or worse, we fund it through UNRWA and Hamas.” If UNRWA ceases and Palestinians understand there is no right of return, will hostility disappear, and will we live in security? “We will get closer to security. Once Palestinians understand that ideology is dead and the Jews are here to stay, they can live alongside us, and a political arrangement will be possible.” Can an ideology be killed? “Yes. Ideologies die and are replaced. When people see their ideas have no market, they seek other worldviews. From ruin can come change, personally and collectively.” ‘State services for state service’ What stands behind the second idea? “Welfare rests on solidarity. We put Haredim and Arabs under the welfare umbrella without solidarity. Since October 7, solidarity means defending Israel. First, everyone is enlisted. Those who refuse lose benefits and services. No need for a culture war. If you will not defend Israel, we will not give rights.” Also for Arab citizens? “Israel did them no favor by exempting them. This is their state. They must defend it. Many security problems with Arab Israelis stem from putting them aside.” And moving from a diasporic mindset to sovereign conduct? “We behave as if still in the Diaspora. On the legal issue, both the government and the Supreme Court must return power to the Knesset, the sovereign.” What happens when the Knesset weakens compared to the government? “That is a problem. Strengthen oversight. Expand the Knesset. One committee per MK. Regular question hour. Increase the ability to summon ministers and officials.” Breaking with the Left Wilf began as part of the Peace Camp... believed that once Palestinians had a state, peace would come. All this changed when she encountered Jew-hatred and understood the link between Zionism and antisemitism. October 7 intensified this. “I wrote that in Palestinian eyes there is no difference between me and a hilltop youth. If I want a Jewish state and reject a right of return that ends it, they see me as seeking their harm. I even wrote that the Left needs a Palestinian defeat, because for them a Jewish state is a defeat.” Is there a Zionist Left today? “Labels hardened. The radical Left seeks one state and the end of Jewish sovereignty, represented by Hadash-Ta’al. Others think Israel is the refuser. There are a few. Some in Labor believe the PA is moderate. Also few.” Netanyahu says half the Knesset is Left. “Rhetoric. The real Left disappeared. Despite Israel’s attempts at arrangements, Palestinians made clear they do not want that. October 7 was the final nail in that belief.” ‘Anti-Zionism in the West was built over years’ How did anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian movements penetrate Western academia and politics? “The Soviets, Qatar, and Arab states have long worked in academia, NGOs, and UN bodies to legitimize anti-Zionism. Doctorates on Zionism as colonialism. Professorships for calling Israel apartheid. October 7 exposed what was built for years.” “It is a long process. We fell asleep. An Egyptian colleague said what happened in academia after October 7 was symbolic participation in a pogrom. Academia did not see Jews as victims because for it Zionism is the ultimate evil. I have heard for 15 years that a better world will come without Israel and Zionism. The Palestinians are heroes because they will erase the collective Jew.” What did you learn from public confrontations? “Sometimes I thought, there are billions. But with research and knowledg,e I am calm. Their ideology is clear. It is not about settlements or genocide in Gaza, but a belief that without Israel and Zionism the world will be better.” How can we deal with it? “We cannot be alone. We are small. We need allies. Anti-Zionism will not stop without enough Americans, Canadians, Britons, and French fighting it.” How do you recruit them? They are against us. “Every society that lets anti-Zionism take over is failing, and Jews leave it. The key message Jews must bring to the West is that anti-Zionism is not about Israel or the conflict. It attacks society as a whole.” JPost

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Testimony from captivity: The terrorist and the propaganda.

Eitan Mor, who returned from captivity in Gaza, reveals that a Hamas interrogator asked him for advice on how to draw more people to the Saturday night demonstrations at Hostages Square. Israel National News. Published: Dec 14, 2025, 1:15 AM (GMT+2) INN

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ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24: Palestinian activist Malak Fadda, who collected thousands of dollars from Gulf donors under the pretext of funding her brother’s medical treatment, has reportedly fled Gaza and was seen in Qatar’s capital, Doha... Dec 13, 2025. on X

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ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24: Yemen: Arab Media Reveal Secret Houthi Strategy Using Hostages

According to reports published today by Arab newspapers, a leaked internal document shows Yemen’s Houthi militia deliberately using local detainees and foreign hostages as political leverage to pressure the United Nations... Dec 13, 3025. on X

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Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig: Let me get this straight… They’re cancelling Taylor Swift for treating Israelis as human?

The hashtag #TaylorSwiftisaZionist is trending (as if that’s a bad thing… it’s not) after her new documentary included a lovely interview of 3 girls saying they met Israelis at her London concert, and because a CNN news clip that appeared came from a Tel Aviv corespondent.

Now, Free Palestine is accusing her of “specifically planting Jewish ppl... in an effort to humanize baby [here comes the slur] killers & [here comes the pallyweid] genociders[sic].”

And towards Jewish Swifties? Supposedly “progressive” activists are calling them “Zios” — a white supremacist slur for Jews, popularized by the KKK’s David Duke.

The mere reminder that Jews and Israelis are human beings shouldn’t enrage someone this much in 2025.

But for Free Palestine, if they can’t dehumanize us, their entire world view collapses. Acknowledging that Jews are here to stay, that we have a homeland, that we live normal lives, that we love artists like Taylor Swift too, and that we exist like anyone else would force them to confront their own bigotry.

Taylor, HaYarkon Park in Tel Aviv holds some 100,000 fans if you want to make history next tour! Dec 13, 2025 on X

In case you needed more proof that the pallyweid "genocide" lie machine is bigotry. See the latest (Dec 12, 2025) attacks on Taylor Swift and the Zio slur on anti Jewish fans. Not to mention that the one started this campaign "@Brooke_816" called (on 2 June 2025) the rapper Drake a 'zionist' because his mother is a Jew. She turned noble label 'zionist" into something "negative" and exposes her anti Jewish hatred. Dec 13, 2025 at EoZ

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Achille Lauro hijacking murder of Leon Klinghoffer • Akram Zuaiter • Anti-Zionist Conspiracy Theories • Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" regime mistreatment of its hostages • Arab-Israeli conflict • Arson terror • BDS • Bir Hadaj Arab-Islamic racist rape of 10-years-old girl • Operation Breaking Dawn • B'tselem • Camp David Accords • Celebrating evil: Reactions to the Islamic Palestinian October 7 Attacks • Criticism of preferential treatment for Israeli Arabs over Jews • Darwish Al-Miqdadi • Dogs of Hamas • Dome of the Rock • Falastin • Faruq al-Qaddumi • Fawzi al-Qawuqji • Fuad Shukr • Gilad Shalit • Guardian of Walls • Haj Amin al-Husseini • Haaretz • Intifada • Itamar massacre (the murder of the Fogel family) • Ax Massacre in Elad • Introduction • Israel • Israel Defense Forces • Israel Apartheid slur • Issa Nakhleh • Kamal Adwan Hospital • Kidnapping of the Bibas family • Left-wing Anti-Semitism • Ludmila Lipovsky • Ma'alot massacre • Mohamed Ali Eltaher • Mohamed Anwar Hadid • Muhammad 'Izzat Darwazeh • Mahmoud Afana: "I Killed Ten Jews" • M. T. Mehdi • Munich massacre • Nazih Khatatba • Nazism at Arab Palestinians Pt 2 • No Jews, No News • Operation Atlas • Operation Home and Garden • Oslo Accords • Palestinian • Palestinian child soldiers • Palestinian themed violence under the Biden junta • Palestnianism • Pallywood • Raid on Entebbe • Ramallah lynch • Ramming attack (Jerusalem February 2023) • Ramot Junction Shooting Massacre (2025) • Sbarro restaurant massacre • Shield and arrow • Six-Day War • Suez Crisis • Suicide Bombing • Operation Summit Of Fire • Swords of Iron • Thinc. • Tiberias massacre (1938) • UNRWA’s Role in Terrorism and Incitement of Hatred • Use of human shields by terrorists • West Bank • Two-state solution • Yom Kippur War • 1929 Hebron massacre • 1939 White Paper • 1920 Nebi Musa riots • 1948 Israeli War for Independence • 1978-2000 South Lebanon conflict • 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict • 2014 Murder of the Three Israeli Teenagers • 2023 Sabbath Jerusalem Synagogue Massacre
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"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."
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