Continued operations on Islamic Republic of Iran, proxies , May 4 2026+ Pt II

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• Sep 26, 2026:
  

IDF and Shin Bet announced that they had killed Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr, who was documented abducting Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or from the Nova festival on October 7. The IDF released close-up footage of the strike that killed the terrorist who abducted Noa Argamani and brought her to Gaza on October 7. Sakr was affiliated with global jihadist organizations and had supplied weapons to Hamas and advanced attacks against Israeli troops responsibility for October 7 because he was prime minister. He also called stories about warnings from Qatar and Egypt among the biggest operations after a fatal crash.

The IDF released footage showing a terrorist using a child to transfer weapons into a civilian home in central Gaza. The military said the child was being used as a human shield and stated that it refrained from striking after identifying the child's presence. Separately, the IDF and Shin Bet announced that they had killed Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr, who was documented abducting Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or from the Nova festival on October 7. Sakr was affiliated with global jihadist organizations and had supplied weapons to Hamas and advanced attacks against Israeli troops and civilians.

An open letter criticized the Irish football team for planning to wear black armbands during its match against Israel in Debrecen. The letter compared the team's actions with Ireland's historical interactions with Nazi Germany, highlighted the destruction of Debrecen's Jewish community during the Holocaust, and accused the team of ignoring the October 7 massacre and Israeli footballers who were killed. It characterized the planned protest as hypocritical and directed againstained from striking after identifying the child's presence.

Five men were arrested after three suspicious vans were seen heading toward RAF Fairford in Britain. Counter-terrorism police are investigating a possible Iranian-linked terrorist plot targeting the U.S. Air Force base.

A poll found that most Israelis support disqualifying Arab parties (following pro terror outbursts by some).

Netherlands, Maastricht University suspended am Arab Palestinian student after he pointed at Hamas terrorists and said that they represented him.

Israel revoked the diplomatic status of Dutch representatives in Ramallah and ordered them to return their diplomatic documentation. The action followed the Netherlands' ban on imports from Judea and Samaria.

The Netherlands began enforcing its ban on imports of goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israeli passengers reported thorough searches of their luggage at Dutch airports.

Netanyahu released an AI-edited video marking the second anniversary of Hassan Nasrallah's death. The video included pager-attack footage and F-15 strikes and displayed the phrase “Happy beeper day!”

Chagai Segal, the father of political analyst Amit Segal, said Netanyahu bears responsibility for October 7 because he was prime minister. He also called stories about warnings from Qatar and Egypt among the biggest fabrications in Israeli media history.

Israel is preparing an international legal case against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan focused on his treatment of the Kurds and his ties to Hamas.

Netanyahu secretly traveled to Abu Dhabi to meet UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed for talks. The Prime Minister's Office did not comment.

The IDF grounded all drone operations after a fatal crash.

Houthis blaming Saudi Arabia for a strike on a market in Taiz.

For security: Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank during Sukkot.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran is prepared for a “doomsday war” with the United States while remaining willing to pursue diplomacy.

• Sep 27, 2026:
  

Pro-Israel protesters gathered outside Lincoln Center during the North American premiere of the propaganda "documentary" “NAZA.” Israeli flags and pro-Israel signs were displayed while trucks with mobile LED screens showed footage from the October 7 Hamas attack, including raw videos captured by Hamas terrorists and the IDF. The screens also showed material challenging accusations against Israel made in the documentary. Protesters displayed images from the attack and messages urging people to learn the facts and know the truth. The rally was organized by the Israeli-American Council.

Israel’s newest and most advanced submarine, INS Drakon, weighs 3,000 tons and is presented as a warning to Iran and Turkey.

• Sep 28, 2026:
  

Israeli forces increased security along Gaza’s Yellow Line after intelligence indicated that Hamas might attempt to kidnap an Israeli soldier. Two Gaza divisions were placed on heightened alert, and senior commanders were instructed to remain in the area. The suspected objective was to create another Gilad Shalit before elections in Israel and the United States.

Israeli forces and the Shin Bet raised the alert level in Gaza after receiving intelligence about a possible kidnapping attempt. The territorial division and 99th Division were deployed in the Gaza Strip, and senior commanders were instructed not to leave the area.

Five British suspects connected to a foiled terror plot targeting RAF Fairford were released. Iran rejected speculation about the plot, while British police identified five suspects and continued pursuing leads.

A two-year-old racehorse won its debut in the United States but was ordered to change its name after the Jockey Club determined that “Austrian Painter” referred to Adolf Hitler. The horse’s owner said the name honored Gustav Klimt, but had previously proposed “My Struggle” and another name referring to Hitler’s birthplace. The horse’s sister, New Order, also lost her registered name.

A Palestinian security officer in Qalqilya is suspected of involvement in digging a 25-meter-deep shaft where weapons were found. A military court extended the detention of two suspects, including a suspected officer in the Palestinian Preventive Security force with a rank equivalent to chief superintendent in the Israel Police. Two other suspects also remained in custody. Police and the IDF disagreed over whether the shaft was part of a tunnel.

An Israeli civilian intelligence officer identified about 150 armed Hamas terrorists traveling in pickup trucks in southern Gaza shortly before a ceasefire. He passed their coordinates to Southern Command, but the strike came too late and the targets scattered.

Former hostage Noa Argamani announced that she had joined Israeli venture capital firm Vine Ventures. She expressed excitement and gratitude about continuing her life after her captivity by Hamas.

Debunking both Pallyeid buzzwords:

"Israel not conducting genocide, not guilty of apartheid, new academic study shows " A new academic study examines accusations that Israel is an apartheid state, a settler-colonial project, or guilty of genocide. It concludes that apartheid and genocide are not established and that settler colonialism is an inadequate overall classification.

The study was written by Philippe Karpe, a Senior Researcher and International Expert at CIRAD, and Gunther Jikeli, an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington. It focuses on legal and historical analysis of the three accusations.

Regarding the West Bank, the study identifies the prolonged occupation, settlements, and unequal administrative arrangements as the strongest basis for the apartheid accusation. It concludes that the evidence does not establish the required purpose or intent to maintain systematic racial domination and oppression.

The study explains that the West Bank’s administrative divisions originated in the Oslo Accords. Palestinian non-citizenship and Palestinian Authority jurisdiction provide a national-territorial explanation for some of the legal differences. Gaza’s separate internal governance and subsequent military actions are also distinguished from an institutionalized racial regime.

The study examines settler colonialism through pre-state settlement, the displacement surrounding the 1947 to 1949 period, and the post-1967 settlement enterprise in the West Bank.

The study finds that the settler-colonial framework helps explain aspects of land acquisition and settlement expansion but does not adequately account for Zionism’s national and refugee character, Jewish historical attachment, or the absence of a conventional or equivalent metropole.

Within the West Bank, different territorial strategies and negotiations over withdrawal make it difficult to characterize the process as one continuous project of permanent incorporation.

The survival and incorporation of approximately 160,000 Arabs who remained inside Israel after the 1948 war also complicate the idea that state formation was based on a comprehensive plan for Indigenous removal.

Regarding genocide, the study examines conditions in Gaza under Article II of the Genocide Convention, focusing on deliberately imposing conditions of life calculated to cause physical destruction and on measures intended to prevent births.

The study analyzes data from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories showing at least 1,341,904 tons of food associated with 63,191 truckloads entering through land and maritime routes. It concludes that this evidence weakens the inference that deprivation resulted from a policy designed to cause the physical destruction of the population.

The study examines the suspension of aid from March to May 2025 and concludes that the suspension itself does not establish an intent to physically destroy the population. The broader record supports the inference that the restrictions served military or operational purposes.

Regarding the destruction of the Al-Basma IVF clinic, the study notes that the strike involved a large-caliber projectile, most probably a shell fired from an Israeli security forces tank, and relied on the precision of the strike. It concludes that an intent to destroy a clinic or reproductive material does not by itself establish an intent to prevent births in a way that contributes to the physical or biological destruction of the protected group.

The researchers emphasize legal and historical precision in evaluating the three accusations.

The study also examines how the three accusations interact in public discourse. It concludes that expansive definitions and selective evidence can cause the accusations to reinforce one another, shift the burden of proof, and weaken the distinctions between them. In their broadest forms, the accusations become instruments for stigmatizing and delegitimizing Israel as a whole rather than descriptions of specific wrongdoing.

Karpe and Jikeli state that their analysis concerns legal and historical precision and the way the three accusations are combined in public discourse. Apartheid and genocide are legal classifications with specific elements, including requirements concerning purpose or intent. Settler colonialism is a historical-comparative framework. The study therefore evaluates each accusation separately rather than allowing the labels to reinforce one another.

The authors conclude that the evidence does not establish apartheid or genocide and that settler colonialism does not adequately classify Zionism and Israel as a whole. They also examine what happens when the categories are separated from their limiting criteria and presented as mutually reinforcing descriptions. In that form, the categories can stop distinguishing particular conduct, periods, and legal questions and become part of a broader account and how the claims interact in contemporary discourse rather than replace one narrative with another. They emphasize distinguishing legal findings from historical interpretation and distinguishing of Israel and the conflict.

The authors state that their broader concern is to examine the claims being made, the evidence supporting them, and how the claims interact in contemporary discourse rather than replace one narrative with another. They emphasize distinguishing legal findings from historical interpretation and distinguishing both from moral or political judgment in order to understand the issues without reducing them to competing labels.

“Eleven Ways NAZA Misleads Viewers” — Yair Miron:

The documentary conflates several distinct stages of the IDF targeting process: intelligence gathering, target validation, civilian-harm assessment, strike planning, approval, and execution. Identifying a person as a military target does not itself authorize an attack. Different personnel and review stages can alter or halt a proposed strike. The film also treats collateral-damage figures in ways that blur the distinction between estimates, ceilings, and actual casualties. A NAZA estimate is an advance assessment of potential civilian harm, while a collateral-damage ceiling represents an upper limit considered during the review of a proposed strike. Neither constitutes an actual death toll or automatic authorization to cause that level of harm. Further review can change the initial assessment. Three concepts are distinguished: **NAZA**, an advance estimate of potential civilian harm; **target validation**, the process of determining whether a person or location qualifies as a military target; and **battle damage assessment (BDA)**, the evaluation of the results and damage caused by a strike. The film's eleven disputed claims concern an alleged approval of a strike with an expected toll of 500 civilians, the movement of Palestinians southward, the assessment of casualties after strikes, attacks on buildings where civilians remained, the claimed accuracy of targeting systems, the meaning of “NAZA 20,” home-tracking technology, Hamas's use of civilian areas, internal scrutiny of strikes, the bombing of an entire neighborhood to target one person, and Unit 8200's role in identifying and authorizing targets. The piece also notes that some potentially relevant information remains classified and has therefore been excluded from the discussion.

“‘NAZA’ Documentary Fails to Show IDF Efforts to Prevent Civilian Casualties, former officer says”.

The documentary presents an incomplete picture of the procedures used to assess and reduce civilian harm during military strikes. Intelligence-based targets undergo evaluation according to their nature, the potential for collateral damage, and the appropriate level of command approval. Civilian-harm assessments take into account factors such as the size and characteristics of a building and the estimated number of people inside or nearby. When the potential harm is substantial, planners can consider different munitions, alternative methods, warnings, timing, and the personnel or circumstances involved in an attack. The assessment can also be conducted again after a decision to strike has been made. Civilian-warning procedures encompass determining what should be evacuated, how warnings should be communicated, when they should be issued, and whether people have actually moved out of the affected area. Methods can include leaflets, telephone messages, and social media. Population movements can also be monitored and information about conditions on the ground transmitted to command-and-control systems. Efforts to reduce civilian casualties involve multiple parts of the military structure, including intelligence, operational, artillery, and air-force personnel. Warning procedures were developed over time and applied in both Gaza and Lebanon.

“NAZA’s Claims About IDF Conduct in Gaza Are Grave. So Are the Film’s Journalistic Flaws”.

The documentary draws on interviews with 24 alleged whistleblowers while presenting a broader narrative that the Israeli military disregarded civilian deaths. The film's treatment of its sources and evidence, as well as the way different sequences are assembled, forms a significant part of the piece's criticism. The opening sections address the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, in which approximately 1,200 people were killed and 251 were abducted to Gaza. The film connects the Israeli public's experience of the attack with the subsequent war and with the spread of the belief that there were “no innocents in Gaza,” including within parts of the military. The documentary also portrays Intelligence Corps personnel in broad terms, depicting them as predominantly elite, left-wing figures while connecting them to alleged war crimes. A later section concerns a unit described as “Bibi's department” and its alleged efforts to pursue Palestinians who brought cases against Israel at The Hague. The film provides limited information about the unit's organizational status, structure, and role. The documentary also introduces historical material concerning colonialism, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and the displacement of Palestinians during Israel's 1948 War of Independence. Some present-day Gazans were displaced from the Tel Aviv area, while most originated from southern parts of Mandatory Palestine, according to UN documents. The connection between this historical material and the film's examination of civilian-casualty assessments in Gaza is not clearly established. Other sequences juxtapose ordinary life in Israel with destruction in Gaza. The film also invokes Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including a comparison between Israelis' ability to continue daily life after bombings and the ability of Germans to live with the consequences of their actions. It subsequently shows Israelis observing Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Regavim published a photography book featuring 100 privately owned Palestinian villas and estates across the West Bank. The properties include swimming pools, fountains, marble staircases and landscaped grounds. The book seeks to challenge selective portrayals of Palestinian life in the West Bank, and Regavim said its field coordinators photographed all the properties in a single day. [Apartheid-pallyweid].

More than 40 countries boycotted a United Nations event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Durban Conference, exceeding the previous boycott record. Israel’s Foreign Ministry led a diplomatic campaign encouraging countries to avoid the event. The 2001 Durban conference, held under U.N. auspices to address racism and related intolerance, drew criticism over anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric at a parallel nongovernmental forum. The United States withdrew, citing hateful language, the revival of the “Zionism equals racism” formulation, claims that Israel practiced apartheid, and the singling out of Israel for condemnation. B’nai B’rith International and the American Jewish Committee said the conference had turned the fight against racism into a platform for demonizing Israel and Jews and warned against repeating that legacy.

Two anti-Israel protesters accused of disrupting a public safety symposium at a Los Angeles synagogue were able to enter the event after registering without their surnames. Masked demonstrators blocked entrances, while others disrupted the event inside. One defendant smashed a glass vase and charged toward Israel’s consul general before security stopped him.

Infamous U.N. special rapporteur [la fascista] Francesca Albanese, decided, at last to apologize for saying that Jews in Nazi camps were called “Muslims.” She said she had misunderstood the term “Muselmann,” which referred to prisoners at the brink of death, and had wrongly concluded that “antisemitism” originally meant hatred of all Semitic peoples. She acknowledged that the term was specifically coined to mean hatred of Jews.

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband rants against Israel at the Labour conference and pledged sanctions targeting Israeli communities and services in Judea and Samaria.

Three Israeli airlines will begin direct flights to Morocco as ties between Israel and Morocco grow.

Israel summoned Spain’s chargé d’affaires to protest remarks by Spanish Minister of Youth and Children, liberal Sira Abed Rego (born in Valencia to a Spanish mother and a Palestinian father). The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Rego claimed that the Spanish public supports a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea,” a phrase long viewed by Israel as a call for Israel’s destruction.

CENTCOM rejected Iran’s claim that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz.

LA city Jewish librarian traumatized after hearing she’s named in lawsuit for helping cancel ‘Palestine week’. Tina Lerno, a librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library, learned about a lawsuit against the city over the cancellation of a “Read Palestine Week” event when a reporter contacted her for comment. She said the news triggered a panic attack, and she later sat at her desk crying.

Rabbis demand action, as families pull out of public schools in heavily Jewish Maryland county. Rabbis are demanding action as families withdraw from public schools in a heavily Jewish Maryland county. One signatory said Zionism is a sensitive issue but is also a fundamental part of Jewish identity, and that most Jews in Montgomery County and beyond consider Israel central to their Jewish identity.

Grim video shows [[Hamas using child as human shield to carry weapons into Gaza home. A video shows Hamas using a child as a human shield while carrying weapons into a home in Gaza.

• Sep 29, 2026:
  

Critical condition after terror attack. Neriya Leiter was critically wounded in the Route 443 ramming attack. His family is urgently asking the public to increase prayers and recitation of Tehillim for his recovery.

In the ICU: Neria Leiter's mother: 'A time of uncertainty' Neria Leiter remains in intensive care after being critically wounded by Arab terror attack last week, and his mother described the situation as a time of uncertainty.

Netanyahu condemns Shomron riots. Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemned violent clashes in Jalud after more than 100 rioters attacked IDF and Border Police forces attempting to restore a Palestinian family to its home. Three soldiers were lightly wounded.

The events in Binyamin: The settlers' version: We prevented a security danger with our bodies. Hundreds of residents from Gush Shiloh went to Givat Tzambarim near Esh Kodesh to prevent the return of an Arab family to a strategic dome overlooking the settlement. The residents said they physically blocked the move because they believed it posed an immediate security threat to homes in Esh Kodesh and that the site was a critical control point from which attacks had previously been carried out. The IDF said disturbances developed, including stone-throwing, and three Border Guard soldiers were injured. Netanyahu condemned the violence.

Rabbi Kenneth Brander: ‘There is nothing Jewish about terrorizing innocent people'. Settlers revered Rabbi Kenneth Brander condemned the attack on Jalud and called for those responsible to be investigated and held accountable. He said the incident was especially troubling because it occurred during Sukkot, whose traditions emphasize honoring other nations, welcoming guests, generosity, and responsibility toward others. He said terrorizing innocent people and taking the law into one’s own hands are not Jewish, and that extremism should not be answered with more extremism. Security, integrity, and the rule of law must apply to everyone.

Hamas official's arrest in Gaza gave Israel intelligence surge to kill top terrorists. The capture of senior Hamas security official Mu'in al-Arabid in Gaza provided Israel with a surge of intelligence. Three Hamas brigade commanders have been killed since the capture.

IDF will keep killing Hamas commanders as long as terror group keeps controlling Gaza. Hamas continues to control Gaza’s roughly two million civilians and does not need to recruit large numbers of people to maintain about 10,000 fighters. Israel needs to separate civilians from terrorists. The IDF has recently killed several Hamas commanders, including Izz al-Din Bik, commander of the Northern Gaza Brigade. Continued strikes on commanders indicate that Hamas is appointing replacements and rebuilding its forces. Most Hamas commanders who were alive on October 7, 2023, have been killed, while Hamas units that were previously declared defeated have continued to operate.

Netanyahu: Israel's enemies may attack in the run up to the election, 'don't mess with us'. Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel’s enemies could attack as the election approaches and said Israel would respond by reaching its enemies anywhere and at any time.

A discrimination lawsuit accuses Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop of widespread antisemitism and suppressing dissent over a boycott of Israel. The title highlights support for terror Hamas's Yahya al-Sinwar as an example of the conduct at issue.

Connecticut man sentenced to over seven-and-a-half years for trying to support ISIS. Ahmad Khalil Elshazly was sentenced to more than seven and a half years for attempting to support ISIS. His attorneys asked the court to treat him with compassion, saying this would show Muslims that the United States is not an enemy of Islam.

Racist Arab Suspect Arrested for Sukkah Arson in Jerusalem. A 52-year-old Jerusalem resident from the Old City was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a sukkah near Agrippas Street during Sukkos. Police said the attack was racially motivated and planned to seek an extension of his detention.

New film reveals previously undisclosed details of Mossad's Hezbollah pager operation. A new film, Paging Hezbollah, reveals previously undisclosed details of the Mossad operation involving explosive pagers used against Hezbollah in 2024. The operation killed or wounded about 3,500 Hezbollah operatives. Newly lifted censorship restrictions have allowed additional details of the covert mission to be published.

Attorney-General pushes for Israel's Supreme Court to ban leader of Arab party Balad from election. Israel’s Attorney-General is supporting a petition asking the Supreme Court to uphold the disqualification of Balad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh from the Knesset election. The Supreme Court is reviewing the Central Elections Committee’s decision to disqualify him.

Isr. AG and State Attorney back disqualification of Arab candidate. The Attorney-General and State Attorney support Sami Abu Shehadeh’s disqualification from the Knesset. They argued that he supported terrorism against Israel, including in connection with the October 7 massacre, and cited an article he published after the Hamas attack as evidence.

Labour? Friends of Israel? Burnham’s cabinet to skip pro-Israel reception. No members of Andy Burnham’s cabinet are expected to attend a Labour Friends of Israel reception. The absence comes shortly after Ed Miliband addressed a Palestinian event.

Clip: Police dog finds hidden gun near Arab city Police from the Um al-Fahm station used a police dog to locate a gun buried deep in the ground.

Clip: Thousands sing and dance in Hebron. About 10,000 worshipers led by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu prayed, sang, and danced at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

Didn't survive this time. Hamas Northern Gaza Brigade commander Izz al-Din Bik was killed in a targeted airstrike in western Gaza City. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed his elimination.

Defense Minister threatens Hamas leaders abroad. Israel Katz said Israel would continue pursuing Hamas’s senior leaders following the killing of the Northern Gaza Brigade commander. He warned Hamas leaders abroad that they would also be pursued. .

UK targets IDF: Blocks over 80 export licences. Britain has suspended or rejected more than 80 export licences for equipment that could potentially be used by the IDF in Gaza. About 30 licences were suspended under the original restrictions, and more than 50 later applications were rejected. Additional measures further restricted British arms exports to Israel and required applications to undergo review under two separate considerations.

Hamas’ enemy turns partner: Dahlan-Hamas rapprochement signals battle for post-Abbas era. A rapprochement between Mohammed Dahlan and Hamas signals a struggle over the political future of the Palestinian leadership after Mahmoud Abbas.

Bipartisan report calls for targeted responses to Jew-hatred while protecting free speech, academic freedom. A bipartisan report calls for targeted measures against antisemitism while protecting free speech and academic freedom. It emphasizes preserving the constitutional freedoms that are fundamental to educational institutions and democracy.

Dem, GOP senators demand answers from Meta on Jew-hating bot networks. Senators from both parties are demanding answers from Meta about networks of bots spreading antisemitic content. They said foreign agents and extremists are using American social media platforms to spread hate and create discord in the United States and around the world.

ADL blasts Mamdani's antisemitism plan. The Anti-Defamation League criticized New York City Mayor , Islamo-socialist Mamdani’s newly announced strategy for combating antisemitism. It cited the lack of a formal definition and accused him of prioritizing an anti-Israel agenda.

Article describes Arab-Palestinian TikTok influencer, Abu Wadee, who supported a militant group and called for the slaughter of Jewish people. After serving a jail sentence for illegally attempting to enter Britain, he cannot currently be deported to Gaza. He said he had been forced to speak against Jewish people while in Gaza.

Sweden, Germany, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Italy and France asked their citizens to leave Iran immediately

Ex-Haaretz journalist on his shift from left to right. Benny Tziper, a former senior Haaretz journalist, criticized the Israeli left for trying to distance the public from tradition and Jewish identity. He said the left remains attached to an outdated worldview and does not understand that Israeli demographics have changed and that society has returned to its traditional identity.

• Sep 30, 2026:
  

Flydubai Flight 1073 incident:

The Israeli assessment is that the Flydubai incident was a terror attack. The co-pilot is suspected of repeatedly stabbing the captain and trying to take control of the aircraft before passengers and crew intervened.

The co-pilot stabbed the captain on a flight bound for Israel, causing the aircraft to plunge about 18,000 feet. The incident was treated as an attempted hijacking and an attempt to crash the plane.

The Omani co-pilot is accused of stabbing the captain and attempting to crash the Flydubai aircraft carrying about 150 Israelis. The incident was compared to the September 11 attacks.

Israeli passengers helped crew members restrain the attacker after the pilot allegedly tried to hijack the aircraft. Passengers prayed while helping subdue him.

A Flydubai aircraft traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to Saudi Arabia after an altercation between the pilots. An Israeli official said a major disaster was narrowly avoided because additional crew members and Israeli passengers subdued the pilot and restored control of the aircraft.

Israel’s defense minister called the incident a jihadist terrorist attack attempt. The co-pilot stabbed the captain and attempted to crash the aircraft. Israeli passengers entered the cockpit, overpowered him, and helped another flight crew regain control.

Passengers who survived the attempted jihadist attack arrived at Ben Gurion Airport. The co-pilot had tried to crash the aircraft, and the passengers returned to Israel after the emergency landing.

Israeli passengers landed in Israel after the hijacking attempt and were welcomed with singing and applause.

Israel declared the Flydubai incident a jihadist terror attack. Early intelligence indicated that the co-pilot planned to crash the aircraft and kill everyone aboard.

Benjamin Netanyahu met Yaniv, an Israeli passenger who helped subdue the co-pilot. Yaniv said he helped pull the aircraft out of its dive after entering the cockpit.

Netanyahu met and praised the passenger who helped stop the hijacker. He also met the passenger’s family and praised his courage.

A doctor aboard the Flydubai flight treated the wounded captain during the attack. Yaniv pulled the assailant from the cockpit and secured the flight deck while the doctor worked to stop severe bleeding from the captain’s head and arms. The attack began when someone entered the cockpit and attacked the pilot, after which the aircraft began banking violently experienced hours of anxiety during the incident. Their account describes the passengers’ fear and the events they and pulled him from the cockpit. He then returned to the controls and pulled them back until another pilot took over. He said the attacker was trying to destroy the aircraft’s instruments and systems. Hayun believes the wounded captain and losing control.

A family with two children and a grandchild aboard the flight experienced hours of anxiety during the incident. Their account describes the passengers’ fear and the events they learned about after the plane landed.

Yaniv Hayun grabbed the suspected attacker, put him in a chokehold, and pulled him from the cockpit. He then returned to the controls and pulled them back until another pilot took over. He said the attacker was trying to destroy the aircraft’s instruments and systems. Hayun believes the wounded captain opened the cockpit door before collapsing, allowing passengers to enter.

Passengers rushed toward the cockpit after hearing screams. Dentist Shota Musaev helped restrain the suspect and then treated the badly bleeding captain. The suspect was tied at his hands and legs after continuing to struggle. The aircraft rapidly lost altitude before another flight crew regained control and diverted it to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. All 174 passengers, including 27 children, identified the attacker, and remained conscious long enough for passengers to intervene. Passengers, including dentist Shota Musayev, provided first aid restrained the suspect and operated the controls, Zvika Manes and Assaf Rajuan helped overpower him, and dentist Shota Musaev treated the wounded captain. Passengers believed Captain Smit Machchhar opened the cockpit door before cables from the flight’s multimedia headphones. He saw the aircraft plunge rapidly while passengers screamed. He said the co-pilot was trying to fly the aircraft toward the ground. his head and hands. Musaev stopped the bleeding and kept the captain stable until landing. The captain remained able to communicate and said he was 39 and had two children. Musaev said the suspect stopped the pilot from sending the Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX toward the ground. Other passengers joined him in subduing the co-pilot. The fight lasted at least 20 minutes, and the co-pilot was arrested for a suspected terrorist act. The incident came close to causing, 16, said the plane began moving violently and he heard that the captain had been stabbed. He saw the ground as the aircraft fell and prayed for forgiveness and heaven. Mothers tried passengers survived an attempt by the co-pilot to crash the aircraft after passengers and crew entered the cockpit and subdued him. Two off-duty Flydubai pilots happened to be aboard and took control of the plunging aircraft. The plane descended and spun out of control for about 17,000 feet and landed with part of its rudder missing. Saudi Arabia received the passengers, protected them, and helped said Iran was involved in the RAF Fairford incident. Andy Burnham said this was the first official British confirmation of Iranian involvement in what was described as an attack on British soil. Donald Trump criticized the decision Gaza entered southern Israeli communities and IDF bases, murdered civilians and soldiers, burned and looted homes, attacked women, children and elderly people, and kidnapped 251 people to Gaza. The two students addressed Gaza as, later returned to Israel on another Flydubai aircraft.

The co-pilot stabbed the captain aboard the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight. The captain fought back and alerted passengers and crew before collapsing. Passengers and crew overpowered the attacker while off-duty pilots took control. The aircraft diverted to Saudi Arabia and landed safely with both pilots injured. The co-pilot was arrested.

Captain Smit Machchhar underwent surgery after being stabbed in the cockpit and was in stable condition. Flydubai and Indian authorities remained in contact with his family.

The wounded captain unlocked the cockpit, identified the attacker, and remained conscious long enough for passengers to intervene. Passengers, including dentist Shota Musayev, provided first aid and kept him alive until he was hospitalized in Saudi Arabia.

The Omani co-pilot who attacked the captain and attempted to crash the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight became the focus of an investigation. Israel also began examining whether the use of crew members from countries without diplomatic relations with Israel violated the UAE-Israel aviation agreement.

An online post described the Muslim co-pilot as stabbing the pilot and trying to bring down the aircraft with about 180 passengers.

Israel’s foreign ministry briefed ambassadors and mission heads about the Flydubai attack. The briefing stressed that Israelis, the UAE, and the Abraham Accords were the targets.

The wounded Flydubai captain unlocked the cockpit door before losing consciousness. Yaniv Hayoun said the captain was close to the door, making it difficult to open, and that he appeared to have opened it for the passengers before collapsing.

Four Israeli passengers helped save the 174 people aboard the Flydubai flight. Yaniv Hayun restrained the suspect and operated the controls, Zvika Manes and Assaf Rajuan helped overpower him, and dentist Shota Musaev treated the wounded captain. Passengers believed Captain Smit Machchhar opened the cockpit door before collapsing.

Hayun said he found the Omani co-pilot inside the cockpit trying to destroy the aircraft’s instruments. He choked the attacker and pulled him from the cockpit, then returned to the controls and pulled them back until another pilot took over. Two pilots traveling as passengers then assumed control and landed the aircraft safely.

Rajuan heard screams near the restroom and realized something had gone wrong with the aircraft. He saw the cockpit filled with blood and joined other passengers in overpowering the attacker. Passengers and crew kept the attacker restrained for about 50 minutes until the aircraft landed in Saudi Arabia.

Manes rushed toward the cockpit and helped restrain the attacker with cables from the flight’s multimedia headphones. He saw the aircraft plunge rapidly while passengers screamed. He said the co-pilot was trying to fly the aircraft toward the ground. Passengers eventually tied him up while a doctor and nurse treated the wounded captain.

Musaev initially rushed forward to fight the attacker. After the suspect was restrained, he treated the captain, who had severe bleeding from his head and hands. Musaev stopped the bleeding and kept the captain stable until landing. The captain remained able to communicate and said he was 39 and had two children. Musaev said the suspect continued trying to break free until passengers tied his hands and legs several times.

Captain Smit Machchhar remained hospitalized in Saudi Arabia in serious condition but was out of immediate danger. He had not publicly given his account of the incident. Passengers believed that, despite being wounded, he left the cockpit accessible before collapsing, allowing them to enter, overpower the attacker, and make way for another flight crew to take control.

The actions of the crew and passengers prevented a 9/11-scale disaster on the Flydubai flight. Benjamin Netanyahu said an investigation would determine whether Iran was involved.

Yaniv Hayoun forced his way into the cockpit during the fight and stopped the pilot from sending the Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX toward the ground. Other passengers joined him in subduing the co-pilot. The fight lasted at least 20 minutes, and the co-pilot was arrested for a suspected terrorist act. The incident came close to causing a mass-casualty disaster involving 174 passengers and crew, most of them Jewish.

Children aboard the Flydubai flight described the terror caused by the aircraft’s sudden loss of altitude after the captain was stabbed. Omer Shalom’s father said a woman near the cockpit heard the captain screaming and alerted her husband, Yaniv Hayun, who rushed to the cockpit and helped overpower the attacker.

Peleg Itali, 16, said the plane began moving violently and he heard that the captain had been stabbed. He saw the ground as the aircraft fell and prayed for forgiveness and heaven. Mothers tried to calm frightened children as passengers heard screams without knowing what was happening.

Eight-year-old Omer said she was terrified because she thought the plane would crash. Her mother explained after the attacker was subdued that the aircraft was making an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The plane landed safely in Tabuk, where Saudi authorities received about 180 Israeli passengers, provided food and medical assistance, and helped arrange their return to Israel on a replacement Flydubai flight.

The Flydubai passengers survived an attempt by the co-pilot to crash the aircraft after passengers and crew entered the cockpit and subdued him. Two off-duty Flydubai pilots happened to be aboard and took control of the plunging aircraft. The plane descended and spun out of control for about 17,000 feet and landed with part of its rudder missing. Saudi Arabia received the passengers, protected them, and helped them board a replacement aircraft to Tel Aviv.

The United States offered investigative and intelligence assistance to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia if requested. The offer followed the thwarted hijacking, as intelligence agencies investigated the motives and possible state-backed terror networks connected to the Omani first officer’s assault.

U.S. special envoy thanked Saudi authorities for their rapid response in assisting the rescued Flydubai passengers. The cooperation between countries was presented as an example of countries working together to protect people.

Images of victims of October 7 were displayed in Times Square.

Britain said Iran was involved in the RAF Fairford incident. Andy Burnham said this was the first official British confirmation of Iranian involvement in what was described as an attack on British soil. Donald Trump criticized the decision to release suspects on bail.

Three years after the October 7 massacre, two Jerusalem students marked the occasion by speaking in Arabic directly to Gaza. On October 7, 2023, thousands of terrorists from Gaza entered southern Israeli communities and IDF bases, murdered civilians and soldiers, burned and looted homes, attacked women, children and elderly people, and kidnapped 251 people to Gaza. Donkeys are better than Sinwar, Deif, Nasrallah... The two students addressed Gaza as well as Lebanon, Iran, and others involved in the campaign against Israel.

A New York City Council member said a new City Hall plan addressing antisemitism does not address hateful rhetoric or violence against Jewish New Yorkers that she said was being fueled by the Islamo-socialist mayor and opposition from the Anti-Defamation League to the mayor’s plan.

Another report covered antisemitic graffiti at a Chicago city hall and playground.

Article argued that Democrats would use the issue of settler violence to portray Jews rather than the large Palestinian terrorists [causing fatalities].as aggressors in the territories and use that issue to weaken the U.S.-Israel alliance.

Abbas’ adviser Nabil al-Habbash described the October 7 war as legal resistance, jihad, and self-defense. He expressed no objection to the massacre, torture, rape, burning alive, and killing of more than 1,200 Israelis.

A House panel called for removing the tax exemption of a charity with alleged ties to Palestinian terrorism.

Pro terror violent Palestine Action US was founded in October 2023 by James Cox “Fergie” Chambers. A network established by Chambers helped fund and develop media outlets that promoted its messaging and extended into organizations connected to Iranian state media. Palestine Action was founded in the UK in 2020 and was proscribed there in 2025 after being designated a terrorist organization. Before its proscription, it carried out vandalism and destruction targeting defense factories, companies, and Israel-linked institutions. The U.S. branch describes itself as a direct-action network and has not been designated, while the UK organization was designated and sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in August 2026. Chambers faces extradition from Spain to the United States over Hamas financing and support. The network established by Chambers helped fund and develop media outlets that promoted its messaging and extended into organizations connected to Iranian state media. Palestine Action was founded in the UK in 2020 and was proscribed there in 2025 after being designated a terrorist organization. Before its proscription, it carried out vandalism and destruction targeting defense factories, companies, and Israel-linked institutions. The U.S. branch describes itself as a direct-action network and has not been designated, while the UK organization was designated and sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in August 2026. Chambers faces extradition

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Tens of thousands of worshippers attended the traditional Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall during Sukkot. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz led prayers of thanksgiving for the safe rescue of passengers from the Flydubai flight incident, while also calling for prayers for IDF and security forces and for Jewish unity and peace. Nearly one million people had visited the Western Wall Plaza during the holiday. The holiday's two Priestly Blessing ceremonies included former hostages and bereaved families. The traditional Hakafot Shniyot ceremony is scheduled for Saturday night, with music and prayers of thanksgiving dedicated to the miracles that occurred.

Thousands of Israelis gathered at Joseph's Tomb to offer prayers of thanksgiving for the safe return of everyone aboard the Flydubai flight.

Major international media outlets initially described the Flydubai incident as a "fight" or "altercation" between the pilots, prompting strong criticism. The co-pilot stabbed the captain, and the aircraft descended nearly 14,000 feet in 30 seconds. Passengers and crew members entered the cockpit, subdued the co-pilot, and enabled the aircraft to regain control before diverting to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. The Associated Press reported that the co-pilot appeared to be attempting to crash the plane, while Israeli authorities sent fighter jets because of fears of a hijacking. The BBC initially called the incident a physical altercation and later added details about the stabbing, passenger intervention, and apparent attempt to bring down the aircraft. The BBC also mistakenly referred to Ben Gurion Airport as “Ben Gvir Airport.” The New York Times described the diversion as following a confrontation between the pilot and co-pilot, while the Guardian called it an apparent brawl and said Israeli officials were investigating whether it was an attempted terror attack. The Guardian said it was publishing only verified information and updated its coverage as more details became available. Passengers described the aircraft plunging toward the ground, people being thrown around the cabin, and a desperate effort to reach the cockpit. The co-pilot's motive remains under investigation, but the incident involved a stabbing, a dramatic as an attempt to crash the aircraft. He said the co-pilot repeatedly stabbed the captain, attempted to take control of the aircraft, and tried to crash it. Passengers and a crew member broke into the cockpit and subdued him, while an off-duty pilot helped operate the aircraft and a doctor treated the wounded captain. Shapiro praised the captain for resisting the attacker and opening the cockpit door. He said the aircraft carried 174 people, including children, and that the presence of many Israeli passengers increased the likelihood that people with military experience and medical training could respond quickly. He said the passengers' actions prevented an international crisis involving Israel, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, India, and other countries in the region. He criticized descriptions of the incident as a cockpit scuffle and said the political motivation remained unknown, including whether there had been outside coordination. The aircraft landed safely in Tabuk, and the passengers later returned to Israel on another passenger broke into the cockpit and pulled him away, while crew members restrained him with headset cords and later plastic ties. The attacker shouted, “Kill me, kill me,” while restrained descent of an aircraft carrying 174 people, and passengers intervening to help regain control.

Ben Shapiro reviewed the Flydubai incident and praised the passengers and crew members who stopped what he described as an attempt to crash the aircraft. He said the co-pilot repeatedly stabbed the captain, attempted to take control of the aircraft, and tried to crash it. Passengers and a crew member broke into the cockpit and subdued him, while an off-duty pilot helped operate the aircraft and a doctor treated the wounded captain. Shapiro praised the captain for resisting the attacker and opening the cockpit door. He said the aircraft carried 174 people, including children, and that the presence of many Israeli passengers increased the likelihood that people with military experience and medical training could respond quickly. He said the passengers' actions prevented an international crisis involving Israel, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, India, and other countries in the region. He criticized descriptions of the incident as a cockpit scuffle and said the political motivation remained unknown, including whether there had been outside coordination. The aircraft landed safely in Tabuk, and the passengers later returned to Israel on another Flydubai aircraft.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Flydubai co-pilot had undergone radical Islamist indoctrination. He said the co-pilot left his seat, interfered with the aircraft's controls, and attempted to force the plane down. An Israeli passenger broke into the cockpit and pulled him away, while crew members restrained him with headset cords and later plastic ties. The attacker shouted, “Kill me, kill me,” while restrained. Netanyahu said early indications pointed to a prevented suicidal terror attack, and investigations were continuing.

Netanyahu said the Flydubai co-pilot had undergone Islamist radicalization. He said Israeli authorities expected to determine within days whether the co-pilot had connections to Iran. The flight was diverted to Saudi Arabia after the cockpit incident, both pilots were injured, and all passengers were safe.

The IDF rejected the propaganda film “Naza” (by Hamas' Euro-Med befriended Yuval Abraham since 2019) and said it presents a distorted and unrealistic account of how strikes in Gaza are planned, approved, and assessed. The IDF said its procedures distinguish between terrorists and civilians, prohibit attacks directed at civilians, and require commanders to minimize civilian casualties. It denied planning or conducting an attack in which 500 civilians or anything close to that number were expected to be killed. It also denied that artificial intelligence independently selects targets. Intelligence officers identify targets, professional bodies plan strikes, and operational commanders decide whether to carry them out. The IDF rejected the idea that predetermined civilian-casualty numbers automatically authorize strikes. It said Lavender assists intelligence researchers and is not a database of approved targets. Evacuation warnings do not authorize attacks on areas while disregarding civilians who remain there. The IDF said it examines strike results and unintended civilian harm, process involving operational planners, legal advisers, civilian-harm specialists, and commanders who approve or reject strikes. It said some interviewees presented assumptions without factual support and that the filmmakers omitted officials involved in reducing civilian harm and approving attacks. The IDF said the film also omitted the circumstances surrounding the war following the October 7 Hamas attack and what it described as Hamas's strategy of operating among civilians. It listed measures used to reduce civilian casualties, including warnings, weapon selection, changes to strike plans, humanitarian assistance, requests for civilian harm from an attack. Commanders use the assessment to determine whether a strike is lawful and whether additional precautions, changes, or cancellation are necessary. The IDF said the film portrayed these assessments as evidence of indifference to civilian life even though the assessments are required under international law. It acknowledged that soldiers and commanders face a significant moral burden when making decisions that could result in civilian deaths. It said this moral burden reflects the seriousness of those decisions rather than demonstrating that the decisions were unlawful or that discussion of civilian casualties requires an accurate account of how military decisions are made. It characterized the film as a simplistic manifesto driven by a clear agenda and said it used omissions, emotional manipulation, and dramatic effects to portray the IDF as inhumane. The IDF said it remains open to legitimate criticism, follows international humanitarian law, and uses procedures and dedicated mechanisms to reduce civilian harm. It acknowledged that mistakes and failures have occurred during the war and said suspected violations of international law or military orders are investigated and can result in disciplinary or criminal proceedings. The IDF also criticized the filmmakers for not submitting their material to the military for review before publication and for not providing the film afterward despite a request. The more limited legislation concerning Jewish and other religious observances. The criticism focused on what was characterized as unequal treatment of religious holidays and connected of miracles aided by divine assistance. Speaking at a Torah study session in the Knesset sukkah, he said the tradition of Jewish heroism tips the scales. The event included and that these assessments have led to hundreds of investigations and operational lessons.

The film omitted important parts of the targeting process. It said many interviewees discussed only preliminary intelligence stages rather than the broader process involving operational planners, legal advisers, civilian-harm specialists, and commanders who approve or reject strikes. It said some interviewees presented assumptions without factual support and that the filmmakers omitted officials involved in reducing civilian harm and approving attacks. The IDF said the film also omitted the circumstances surrounding the war following the October 7 Hamas attack and what it described as Hamas's strategy of operating among civilians. It listed measures used to reduce civilian casualties, including warnings, weapon selection, changes to strike plans, humanitarian assistance, requests for additional intelligence, cancellation of strikes, and abandonment of military opportunities when civilian danger was considered too high.

The IDF explained “collateral damage” refers to a legal assessment of expected civilian harm from an attack. Commanders use the assessment to determine whether a strike is lawful and whether additional precautions, changes, or cancellation are necessary. The IDF said the film portrayed these assessments as evidence of indifference to civilian life even though the assessments are required under international law. It acknowledged that soldiers and commanders face a significant moral burden when making decisions that could result in civilian deaths. It said this moral burden reflects the seriousness of those decisions rather than demonstrating that the decisions were unlawful or indifferent to civilian life.

The IDF reminded war's tragic consequences do not justify distorting facts and that discussion of civilian casualties requires an accurate account of how military decisions are made. It characterized the film as a simplistic manifesto driven by a clear agenda and said it used omissions, emotional manipulation, and dramatic effects to portray the IDF as inhumane. The IDF said it remains open to legitimate criticism, follows international humanitarian law, and uses procedures and dedicated mechanisms to reduce civilian harm. It acknowledged that mistakes and failures have occurred during the war and said suspected violations of international law or military orders are investigated and can result in disciplinary or criminal proceedings. The IDF also criticized the filmmakers for not submitting their material to the military for review before publication and for not providing the film afterward despite a request. The military therefore reviewed the film using information from a representative who attended a public screening and other publicly available descriptions.

One year after his release from Hamas captivity, Bar Kuperstein visited the sukkah of MK Yaakov Asher with his parents and spoke about the faith he discovered while held in the tunnels.

Sabine Taasa, whose family was killed by Hamas, disrupted the European premiere of “Naza” (propaganda film) in the Netherlands and confronted the filmmakers about their portrayal of the war. Audience members responded that they did not care.

Following a court proposal, Balad decided that Sami Abu Shehadeh (who expressed pro terrorism after Oct 7) would withdraw.

California Governor Gavin Newsom drew criticism for signing a broader Muslim holiday bill before more limited legislation concerning Jewish and other religious observances. The criticism focused on what was characterized as unequal treatment of religious holidays and connected the decision to Newsom's potential 2028 presidential ambitions.

Sadly: a federal judge dismissed a complaint against anti-Israel groups that had protested outside a synagogue in New Jersey.

[Pennsylvania]] state lawmakers held a hearing concerning Jew-hatred in public schools.

British police arrested a British-[Iran]]ian dual national in connection with an incident at RAF Fairford.

The Israeli military named 170 Palestinians it said were terrorists who had also posed as journalists during the war. The military said journalists are expected to report unbiased truth and that these individuals concealed their roles in terrorist organizations' military wings. International journalist organizations changed their figures concerning reporters they accused Israel of targeting after Palestinian terrorist organizations identified dozens of the reporters as martyrs who had belonged to Hamas and other groups. Israel denied targeting journalists.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the rescue of the Flydubai passengers as a chain of miracles aided by divine assistance. Speaking at a Torah study session in the Knesset sukkah, he said the tradition of Jewish heroism tips the scales. The event included Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, senior defense officials, wounded IDF soldiers, reservists' wives, and cadets from the Tavor Pre-Military Academy.

A review of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) list of journalists killed in Gaza left more than half of the listed names still connected to terrorist organizations. The organization spent months reviewing the list but made few substantial changes.

Netanyahu: Iran renewing progress on nuclear program.

The media coverage of the flydubai attack minimized or omitted key details of the incident. The copilot stabbed the pilot, who sent distress signals indicating a hijacking while the plane rapidly descended. Many Western outlets used terms such as “clash,” “altercation,” “cockpit incident,” “brawl,” or “fight,” while some omitted the stabbing entirely.

Abbas and Palestinian Authority television glorify Palestinian mass murderers and a terrorist plane hijacker. Palestinian terrorists normalized plane hijackings and remain heroes of the Palestinian Authority.

Revealed: Hamas commander held 15 Israeli hostages.

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Saudi Arabia helped receive and assist the Israeli passengers from the flydubai flight but did not fully cooperate with Israel during the attempted hijacking investigation.

The Omani copilot, al-Hammama, who stabbed the flydubai pilot had social media posts discussing killing Jews and showing signs of jihadist radicalization. He also asked Emirati crew members to kill him. Israeli officials believe he may have intended to crash the plane and said Israel would participate in the investigation while conducting its own security review.

Authorities were investigating the anti-Jewish [racist and jihadi] motives in connection with his terror act.

Attempted Palestinian abduction of Israeli in Samaria. 'Arab rioters attacked a Jewish teen with stones' Oct/1 'and tried to drag him into a house in the PA city of Yassuf.'

Article: 'Trump must close this Turkish loophole that allows Iran to skirt sanctions.' "TThe Venice film festival’s record-breaking standing ovation for NAZA propaganda became a ritual of political loyalty that reinforced the exclusion of Jews who do not conform to accepted expectations, reviving the image of the “bad Jew” being pushed back into the ghetto.

Regarding violating ban on Iran, "Turkey is among worst offenders."

Islamo-socialist Abdul El-Sayed charged county taxpayers $9,000 per month in consulting fees while running for the Senate.

Two Louisiana Arab brothers were arrested in connection with a scheme that raised money for Hamas while presenting it as "humanitarian aid" for Gaza. Abdel Adhami allegedly sent more than $83,000 to Hamas, while his brother Omar allegedly sent $6,000. Abdel also allegedly used Snapchat accounts to distribute Hamas propaganda and solicit funds.

U.S. authorities charged a Hamas operative in Gaza (Alzaq) and three Americans in a fundraising network that collected more than $1.7 million while presenting the campaigns as humanitarian aid for Palestinian families. At least $626,000 came from U.S. donors. The fundraising operated across the United States and France, with organizers allegedly concealing Hamas’s involvement and instructing donors not to use references to Hamas in payment messages.

Saleem Alzaq told an undercover NYPD officer that he relied on a network of young Palestinians in New York.

The United States imposed sanctions on a Hamas financial network involving a military operative, France-based fundraisers, and entities accused of transferring more than $2 million to Hamas.

The injured flydubai captain, Smit Machchhar, described fighting to open the cockpit door despite being stabbed. His actions allowed Israeli passengers to enter the cockpit and help stop the attack.

Passengers and crew members who stopped the attempted flydubai hijacking became widely celebrated in Israel. President Isaac Herzog planned to recommend Yaniv Hayun, Tzvika Manes, Asaf Rajuan, and dentist Shota Musayev for the Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism. Herzog also praised Tali Manes for first alerting the crew. A widely shared online joke depicted Israeli passengers as a premium security option.

Thousands of people, including bereaved families, survivors, and wounded soldiers, gathered at the Nova massacre site in Re’im for Hallel led by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu.

The Isr. Supreme Court ruled that Cassif, the Joint List, and Ra’am can participate in elections.

An Israeli Arab was arrested on suspicion of carrying out tasks for Iran.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Neriyah Leiter at Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Neriyah remained sedated and on a ventilator after being seriously wounded in a Palestinian car-ramming attack at the Maccabim checkpoint. His condition had stabilized, but he remained in serious danger after undergoing two brain surgeries. Ambassador Yechiel Leiter wrote an emotional message from the bedside of his critically wounded son, Neriyah, before Simchat Torah. He said the fight against the ideology of killing must continue.

Two Iranian nationals were charged in Britain with preparing or assisting a terrorist attack against Manchester’s Jewish community. Police said the men had been in contact with an overseas third party who might be in Iran.

U.S. Energy Department employee Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy was arrested on charges of trying to provide material support to the Houthis. He faces up to 20 years in prison. He allegedly used his specialized expertise overseas to assist the Iranian-backed group.

Israeli legal scholar Cochav Elkayam-Levy said the period surrounding the third anniversary of October 7 is highly triggering for survivors. She said documenting the crimes moved public discussion from whether the crimes occurred to their consequences.

President Donald Trump warned that Iran would face a very hard response if investigators determine that Tehran was responsible for the attempted crash of the Israel-bound flydubai flight.

The G7 agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel following pressure from Trump.

John Anthony Proia III was indicted on charges of cyberstalking a former Republican political adviser. He allegedly contacted her more than 40 times using multiple phone numbers and sent messages attacking her husband, whom he called a “Jewish Nazi” and “white supremacist.”

The European Jewish Congress commemorated the first anniversary of the Yom Kippur terrorist attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester. The attack killed Jewish worshipper Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby, who was fatally struck by police gunfire while helping barricade the synagogue doors.

Israeli security forces killed Hamas sniper Tamer Hamaida in Khan Yunis. He had advanced plans to carry out shooting and other attacks against Israeli troops and civilians.

UAE official Anwar Gargash called the flydubai incident a dangerous terrorist act and praised captain Smit Machchhar for fighting back against the attacking copilot and enabling passengers and crew to intervene. The aircraft landed safely in Saudi Arabia with its passengers and crew.

Australian aviation expert Byron Bailey was cut off during a News24 interview while discussing the Islamic religious motive for the flydubai attack.

Three Israeli filmmakers released 'NAZA: The Real Story' as a direct counter-documentary to NAZA propaganda (by Hamas' Euro-Med's buddy Yuval). The film uses declassified IDF recordings, combat footage, captured intelligence, and interviews with intelligence officers and military commanders to rebut accusations of systematic Israeli military misconduct in Gaza. Withbreal udentified witnesses (unlike NAZA propaganda). It focuses on Hamas’s use of civilian areas, the operational restrictions created by hostages, and security risks surrounding humanitarian aid.

Israeli officials were preparing to question the co-pilot Al-Hammami in the flydubai attack.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said the investigation was examining whether the Islamist-radicalized copilot acted on behalf of another party. He said whoever sent the terrorist would pay.

An imam in Dearborn, Michigan, Usama Abdulghani, said in a video that the September 11 attacks were fabricated and called them a “big lie.” He urged congregants to research the attacks rather than accept the official account and encouraged them to embrace the supremacy of Islam. The discussion also connects his remarks to broader political and religious controversies in Dearborn, including demonstrations involving Hamas and Hezbollah, anti-American and anti-Israel chants, criticism of Israel by Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, and a lawsuit accusing the mayor’s administration of promoting Islam while treating Christian and Jewish holidays differently.

Saudi Arabia planned an assault against the Houthis to break their control over the Red Sea.

"Palestinian" activist Riyad Albustanji, imprisoned in Italy on accusations of financing Hamas, delivered a sermon from his high-security prison cell in Sardinia praising Gaza fighters. His language resembled terminology used by terrorist groups.

The United States was deploying three carrier groups and 20,000 troops to the Middle East ahead of new strikes against Iran.

Flydubai copilot Hamam al-Hammami had previously worked for Oman Air and was removed from flight training because of concerns about his extremist views. He later worked for Royal Air Maroc before joining flydubai. His social media activity included material threatening death and mutilation, videos showing Israeli aircraft, images of al-Qaeda figures, and content expressing opposition to humiliation and fear of death.

Two posts appeared on a LinkedIn account bearing al-Hammami’s name shortly after the flydubai incident. One showed cockpit footage, including Israeli El Al aircraft, and ended with images of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who carried out a deadly suicide bombing against U.S. personnel. Another showed an AI-generated image connecting Islam’s three holiest sites and accompanied a poem about rejecting humiliation, accepting death, and defending dignity. The same videos appeared on an Instagram account with the same name before it was deleted.

Al-Hammami studied aviation management through a three-year distance-learning course at Buckinghamshire New University and graduated in 2023.

Nearly 3,000 deleted tweets from 2021 and 2022 were analyzed using an AI-powered semantic search system.

A Hamas-backing professor is scheduled to speak at a liberal UC Berkeley event organized with a pro-palestinian student group on the eve of the October 7 anniversary.

A Wikipedia bigoted editor added a description of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) to Robert Kraft’s biography calling it an organization that “denied Israel’s genocide[sic] in Gaza” and linked the phrase to a page about Gaza genocide denial. The wording closely followed an Intercept article discussing Kraft’s donations to organizations. The description was later removed and replaced with information about a CAMERA donation marked as supporting the fight against antisemitism. A separate characterization of CAMERA as “right-wing” was also removed after concerns about editorializing and reliance on the Intercept’s framing. CAMERA’s chair said the edits reflected an effort by anti-Israel activists to use Wikipedia to promote the false “genocide” accusation. Wikipedia co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger have criticized the neutrality of Wikipedia’s Gaza genocide coverage. University of Haifa researcher Shlomit Lir said the wording was biased because it treated genocide as established fact and characterized those disputing it as deniers, creating parallels with the moral implications of Holocaust denial. She said the episode showed how contested terminology in biographical entries can promote an ideological position and discredit people for their philanthropic choices. Writer raises alarm at the attempt of treating debunking the "genocude" opinion as trying to compare it to denying true genocide of the Holocaust.

UN admission on its "genocide" false accusation against Israel lacks supporting evidence.

A senior member of a United Nations investigative commission - Navi Pillay's COI, has exposed lack of evidence weaknesses in its conclusion that Israel committed supposed "genocide" in Gaza. The central issue is whether the commission adequately verified key facts and established the specific intent required for a genocide finding.

- Key admission about civilian casualties: Chris Sidoti, a member of the UN Commission of Inquiry, acknowledged that the commission did not independently verify a widely cited claim [invented by propagandist Yuval Abraham via +972mag/TheGuardian that 83% of Palestinians killed in Gaza were supposedly civilians [debunked]. He said the commission lacked the information to determine the breakdown between civilians and militants.

From the (JNS 10/16/26) report: "attendee noted that the U.N. panel claimed that 83% of Gazans killed in the war were civilians, which the commission took as evidence that Israel targets Palestinian civilians “deliberately.” The 83% statistic has been debunked widely. The audience member asked Sidoti whether the commission independently verified it. “No. We didn’t...” Sidoti said.'

- A serious legal distinction: Genocide requires more than showing that civilians have died or that extensive destruction has occurred; it requires specific intent to destroy a protected national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part. Sidoti acknowledged that proving this intent is an especially demanding legal test.

- The commission is not a court: Sidoti emphasized that the body is an investigative commission, not a court or prosecution service, and that its findings relied on a “reasonable grounds” standard. This raises the question how can its conclusions be treated as established legal facts [even per UN]?

- Israel's military objective remains relevant: Sidoti acknowledged that if Israel's objective was to destroy Hamas, that would not automatically rule out genocide—but neither does the possibility of genocidal intent establish that it existed. The distinction between fighting a terrorist organization and deliberately seeking to destroy a people is central to the case.

- Interpretation of international law: Report also challenges the claim that the International Court of Justice had declared genocide in Gaza “plausible.” It cites former ICJ president Joan Donoghue's comments that the court had not made that specific ruling. The court's provisional measures in South Africa's case against Israel were not a final determination that genocide had occurred.

Greece established a parliamentary caucus focused on Israel as relations and strategic cooperation among Israel, Greece and Cyprus continued to grow, particularly in energy integration, defense cooperation and regional security.

Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom expressed deep regret over the Palestinian Authority’s decision to delay elections and urged Mahmoud Abbas to reconsider.

Islamic editor inserts justifucation for Arab Palestinian genocidal Oct 7 attacks (2.22.26)

First line of Wikipedia Oct. 7 entry says Hamas terrorists came from ‘blockaded’ Gaza, seeming to justify attacks. (Islamic editor inserted it on Feb 22, 2026). “It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement told . The Wikipedia user who launched the formal discussion stated that “Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip is a defining feature of this topic and necessary context for a non-specialist reader” and that the highest-quality sources support using the word “blockaded” in a neutral voice in the opening sentence. The editor cited Rashid Khalidi, whom the editor called the “preeminent expert in modern Palestinian history,” to support using the term. Jonathan Schanzer, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has noted that Khalidi was a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization when the PLO was a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. Khalidi has denied that. The Wikipedia user compared saying Hamas came from a “blockaded” place to noting that the Warsaw Ghetto uprising opposed an oppressive regime. “We must not create an exception to obfuscate through omission here,” the person wrote.

Islamo-socialist Zohran Mamdani’s antisemitism plan is presented is in fact political warfare rather than Jewish protection. Concerns are raised about whether New York can protect Jews while maintaining their connection to Israel. Mamdani responded three times after Benjamin Netanyahu called him “the antisemitic mayor of New York” during a UN General Assembly speech.

Donald Trump mocked LGBTQ activists involved in the "pro-Palestinian" movement over the treatment of gay people in parts of the Middle East. At a campaign rally in Alabama, he referred to the movement as “Gays for Palestine,” said activists should be sent to negotiate in the region, and joked that they would not return because of what would happen to them.

Who checks the NGOs? Former Human Rights Watch senior editor Danielle Haas discusses how reports are produced inside the organization and the broader human rights NGO sector. She describes last-minute reviews, limited spot-checking, internal pressure to adopt positions, ideological influences, and a lack of external scrutiny over published claims. She argues for independent reporting channels for staff, an external review board, and measurable standards for published claims. The discussion also covers Amnesty International’s dispute with J.K. Rowling, the Antoinette Lattouf case, internal political dynamics, donor influence, social media..

Israeli authorities were investigating how the Omani citizen was permitted to serve on a flight to Tel Aviv despite Israel’s aviation security measures. The UAE attorney general said the copilot attacked the other pilot with a crash axe and tried to take control of the plane, calling it a terrorist act. UAE authorities have jurisdiction because the aircraft is registered there and UAE law applies to crimes committed aboard its aircraft. Netanyahu said the suspect was interrogated in Saudi Arabia and that Israel would participate in the investigation.

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The crew of the hijacked flydubai plane clashed with Israeli passengers who had subdued the co-pilot after he attacked the captain. Several crew members demanded that the restrained attacker be released, which made the Israeli passengers suspicious. The passengers refused, saying they wanted him alive so he could be investigated. They also gave him oxygen.

The Israeli passengers took control of the area around the cockpit, ordered the crew away from it, and had passengers escort crew members to seats farther back. Reserve pilots then took control of the aircraft. The crew subsequently cared for traumatized passengers by providing blankets and water. The crew was not accused of conspiring with the co-pilot.

The attack began when the co-pilot, an Omani national, attacked the Indian captain with a crash axe. The injured captain opened the cockpit door, allowing three Israeli passengers to overpower the attacker and restrain him. One of the passengers then stabilized the rapidly descending aircraft using techniques learned from a television program. The attacker cried for death after being restrained.

Passengers described the struggle as violent and chaotic. They fought the attacker while trying to determine whether he still had a weapon. They acted primarily to protect their families. One passenger said hearing his daughters crying that they did not want to die triggered him to fight.

The passengers experienced extreme physical and psychological stress during the incident. One described severe bruising and intense G-forces. Another believed he was going to die as the aircraft rapidly descended and thought about his family and the September 11 attacks. After landing safely in Saudi Arabia, passengers experienced panic attacks and emotional breakdowns. Some were unwilling to board another flydubai flight until they received confirmation that the pilots had been cleared.

The passengers viewed survival of everyone aboard as extraordinarily unlikely and attributed their survival to divine protection.

The flydubai co-pilot planned to kill the captain without attracting attention, continue along the scheduled route to Tel Aviv and crash the aircraft into skyscrapers. He attacked the captain with a crash axe, nearly severing his arm, manipulated the controls and cut both engines in an attempt to bring down the aircraft.

Israeli authorities considered the co-pilot a lone actor who attempted the attack on his own initiative rather than under orders from a terrorist organization. The plan was intended to happen quickly enough to prevent fighter jets from intervening. The captain ultimately opened the cockpit door, allowing passengers to restrain the attacker and take control of the aircraft.

The flydubai co-pilot intended to crash the aircraft in Israel. He had previously been flagged as a security risk.

Investigators found that the co-pilot underwent radicalization in Syria and posted extremist material online. During questioning, he admitted that he intended to crash the aircraft into a target in Israel, while investigators examined a possible to reach and open the cockpit door. Passengers immediately entered itself had suffered catastrophic damage. He then realized that the co-pilot was attacking him. Despite the co-pilot repeatedly trying to close the cockpit door, the captain managed to open it

The Indian captain told Netanyahu that the co-pilot asked to pray before striking him from behind. The captain suffered severe injuries and nearly lost his vision but fought to reach and open the cockpit door. Passengers immediately entered, subdued the attacker and took control of the aircraft.

The captain said he initially thought the aircraft itself had suffered catastrophic damage. He then realized that the co-pilot was attacking him. Despite the co-pilot repeatedly trying to close the cockpit door, the captain managed to open it and allow others to enter and take control.

Accused flydubai hijacker celebrated beating women, Sharia law in sickening social media posts: ‘Stomp on her head’ By Anthony Blair. Al-Hammami touted violence against women and expressed hate for Jews in sickening newly revealed social media posts he made while studying to be a pilot – before he went on to allegedly attack his captain with a crash axe and attempt to down a plane.

Donald Trump praised Yaniv Hayoun, the Israeli plumber who helped subdue the hijacker and stabilize the aircraft, saying that Yaniv saved the flight and did an amazing job.

Israeli forces targeted the home of Mohammed al-Amudi, who was believed to be a successor to Yahya Sinwar and a potential next Hamas leader in Gaza. Israeli forces also killed two senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza City.

Iranian diplomats were expelled from the United States after ignoring an order to leave.

The 1929 Hebron massacre involved more than 3,000 armed Muslim men attacking the Jewish community of Hebron under British rule. They killed 67 Jewish men, women and children, wounded dozens, and subjected survivors to severe physical and sexual violence. Many of the victims knew their attackers as friends, neighbors, coworkers or landlords. Jews made up about one-fifth of the population in Palestine at the time, and Jews and Muslims had lived together in Hebron for generations. The violence followed a disinformation campaign by Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al-H spread beyond Hebron. Hamas repeats the same accusation about Al-Aqsa and named its October 7 attack “The Al-Aqsa the attackers and suppression of the religious motivations behind the violence. The Arab press falsely said Jews had started the riots. The British later Jewish immigration and Jewish land purchases while imposing no equivalent limits on Arab immigration. Jewish land 1929 massacre challenges the view that the modern Israeli-Palestinian conflict was caused by the establishment of Israel. The history of religious dominationusseini, who accused Jews of plotting to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild the Jewish Temple. The violence spread beyond Hebron. Hamas repeats the same accusation about Al-Aqsa and named its October 7 attack “The Al-Aqsa Flood.” The aftermath of the 1929 massacre included denial of the atrocities, blaming Jewish victims, glorification of the attackers and suppression of the religious motivations behind the violence. The Arab press falsely said Jews had started the riots. The British later concluded that a peaceful Jewish demonstration at the Western Wall had helped spark the violence. The British responded by restricting Jewish immigration and Jewish land purchases while imposing no equivalent limits on Arab immigration. Jewish land purchases were made from Arab landowners who sold the property for high prices. The 1929 massacre challenges the view that the modern Israeli-Palestinian conflict was caused by the establishment of Israel. The history of religious domination, disinformation and historical amnesia is presented as essential to understanding the conflict.

Emily Damari released previously unpublished photographs from her captivity in Gaza. She said her survival was a miracle and recalled being held in Gaza after her abduction on October 7, 2023. The photographs included images from Shifa Hospital showing her untreated injuries and the conditions surrounding her captivity.

Israeli forces eliminated two senior Islamic Jihad members near Gaza City after they worked to rebuild the organization's military capabilities in violation of the ceasefire.

Anger: TikTok removed a promotional video for a Kan documentary about Soroka Hospital on October 7, citing its misinformation rules. Kan requested that TikTok review the decision.

London police asked organizers of a planned pro-Palestinian student march to change its date or location because holding it on October 7 could cause distress to members of the Jewish community and increase the risk of clashes. Police said they did not currently have authority to stop the demonstration.

Four protesters detained near Kfar Tapuach in Samaria were transferred to the Population and Immigration Authority for a hearing on possible expulsion from Israel. They were detained over suspected public-order violations and entering a closed military zone.

The Misgav Regional Council told Galilee residents to remain at home and avoid traveling on roads during planned demonstrations in Sakhnin, Arraba and Deir Hanna. The restrictions coincided with Simchat Torah celebrations and prompted protests from local residents.

Israel faced strong international condemnation after October 7, including a large number of delegates leaving Netanyahu's United Nations speech. Israel's supporters continued backing its policies toward Iran and Iranian-backed terrorist groups despite the diplomatic isolation.

Extremist bigot Tucker Carlson claimed Britain had no reason to enter World War II and said the idea that Hitler randomly invaded Poland was false. He emphasized Hitler's repeated statements that he did not want war with Britain. Article explained: it is an extension of his antisemitism.

Israel's Supreme Court overturned a decision to disqualify Arab political parties.

Balad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh, who had praised Hamas's October 7 attack, withdrew his candidacy for the upcoming election.

Confrontation between Irish soccer officials and Israeli journalists ended Ireland's pre-match press conference early. An Israeli journalist asked about accusations that racist Irish players had called Israeli players “monkeys” and raised the attempted hijacking of the flydubai aircraft. Why would he support such ideology willing to massacre 170.

An Irish press officer said questions on thosembands during its match against Ireland in memory of people murdered on October 7. The decision came amid severe tensions between the Israeli and Irish football associations.

(Historic IRA-PLO alliance plus deep antisemitism is at the root of Israelophobia in Ireland as a whole.

'IRA-PLO cooperation: A long, cozy relationship. The Jerusalem Post. Apr 7, 2009 — IRA-PLO cooperation: A long, cozy relationship Israel is continually delegitimized and demonized in Republican demonstrations and publications.' [1]

Typically antisemites at an Irish bar explained its Pro-Palestine because of Jew hatred:

'Watch: Anti-Semitic tirade at Irish bar. Israel National News. Apr 16, 2019 — An anti-Semitic tirade in a Northern Ireland bar filmed by Jewish director and author Tuvia Tenenbom is being investigated by police.' [2])

UEFA approved Israel's request for its national soccer team to wear black armbands during its match against Ireland in memory of people murdered on October 7. The decision came amid severe tensions between the Israeli and Irish football associations and calls from Irish sports figures to boycott the matches over the Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli troops detained 50 Arab Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria during counterterror operations. They also confiscated weapons, drones and other military equipment.

Avi Marciano released a recording of his daughter Noa Marciano from her captivity in Gaza. The recording was made four days after her abduction; Noa was later murdered in Gaza.

Yemeni forces aligned with the internationally recognized government carried out strikes against Houthi positions in Sanaa and other areas as the conflict intensified. The forces targeted what they called vital targets.

Israel's official list of security personnel killed since October 7 reached 1,318. The total includes members of the military, police, Shin Bet, Prison Service, Fire and Rescue Authority, civilian security coordinators and civilian rapid-response squads. Terror attacks also killed 1,029 civilians and wounded tens of thousands.

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The Flydubai hijacker planned to kill the pilot without attracting attention, continue toward Tel Aviv, and crash the aircraft into skyscrapers. The plan was intended to happen quickly enough to prevent fighter jets from intervening. He attacked the captain with an emergency crash axe and then tried to crash the plane by manipulating the controls and cutting both engines, but the captain and passengers overpowered him and secured the aircraft.

While studying aviation at Buckinghamshire New University, Hamam al-Hammami made social-media posts advocating violence against women and severe religious punishments. He said women should be “stomped on” and praised the idea of giving a woman a “pre-emptive slap.” He also appeared to praise Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Hammami studied aviation management remotely from Muscat and graduated in 2023. On the day of the Flydubai attack, the Home Office suspended the university’s licence to sponsor international students over concerns about its compliance with sponsorship duties.

Hammam al-Hammami expressed hatred toward Jews and gay people and promoted violence against women in social-media posts made while studying aviation management remotely at Buckinghamshire New University. One post threatened a woman with violence, including stomping on her head and using her as an example to others. The posts were identified through an examination of more than 2,000 posts from an account believed to belong to him.

An eastern Jerusalem Arab resident in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of killing a woman in a hit-and-run in Rehavia. The suspect allegedly struck the pedestrian with a truck and fled. Police quickly found the vehicle and detained him. Traffic investigators continued examining the circumstances, and the suspect was taken for questioning.

Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon’s Muslim social media campaign manager Sara Mahmoud had a social media history containing calls for “white Jews” to die. Her social media name included “intifada,” referring to a Muslim terrorist campaign, and her posts expressed homicidal hatred. The Democratic Socialists of America is normalizing calls for killing Jews

Israel’s public broadcaster Kan is producing a documentary about the Flydubai attack. Eyal Datz, who was a passenger on the flight with his father, is directing the film. It will include passenger testimony, previously unreleased footage from the aircraft and from the passengers’ time in Saudi Arabia, and new details about the incident.

UEFA approved the Israel Football Association’s request for the Israeli national team to wear black armbands during its match against Ireland to honor people killed in the October 7 massacre. The match ended in a 1–1 draw, with the Israeli players wearing the armbands.

Israeli police arrested the principal of a Palestinian school in al-Eizariya after finding materials that supported and glorified terrorism. Officers removed signs featuring Yasser Arafat and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, along with a map of Israel marked with areas identified as “occupation zones” and images of Israeli security forces. When asked who the people in the photographs were, the principal, a woman in her 50s, answered, “Heroes of Palestine.”

Police raided a school near Ma’ale Adumim after receiving intelligence about incitement materials. They found posters of Yahya Sinwar and Yasser Arafat alongside other materials promoting incitement. The principal told officers that Sinwar and Arafat were heroes of Palestine and was arrested at the scene.

German intelligence warned that Islamist and extremist groups were gaining influence within parts of the pro-Palestinian movement. The groups were using protests connected to Gaza to spread propaganda and expand their networks.

Rahm Emanuel said the Democratic Party needs a fundamental change in its policy toward Israel because the current approach is unsustainable. He said the United States should maintain its alliance with Israel while changing the dynamics and structure of the relationship. He opposed entering another war in the Middle East. On the question of whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute so-called genocide (peddled by el Sayed), he slamned the question by NBC's Kristen Welker:

"I happen to also know, to the core of your question, the question of genocide is a historic question, going all the way back to Professor Lemkin in 1942, all the way back to the Nuremberg Trials. If you're going to use that term, we have to have a conversation about Sudan. We have to have a conversation about Ukraine. We have to have a conversation about the Ukrainians and Cambodia. You are politicizing a term that has huge and historic moral obligations. I have no problem having that conversation, but the fact that a questioner ignores Sudan that's happening today, ignores Ukraine that's happening today, tells me more about the questioner than what the answer will reveal."

Passengers aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 experienced an approximately 16,000-foot plunge over about 30 seconds, producing intense physical forces comparable to a very steep roller coaster. The sudden dive created negative G-forces that could lift unrestrained passengers from their seats. The autopilot was disconnected and the aircraft rapidly accelerated before the plunge. Passengers overpowered the co-pilot after he attacked the captain, and reserve crew members aboard the aircraft leveled the plane and landed it safely. The aircraft endured forces far beyond its normal design expectations without suffering a catastrophic structural failure. Investigators are also examining Hammami’s background, including his aviation training in Morocco and his previous studies in Australia.

The Iranian Army is working to increase the range and speed of its missiles.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar congratulated Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs after Kulbergs’s United List won Latvia’s parliamentary election. Sa’ar said he looked forward to continued cooperation between Israel and Latvia.

An Israeli passenger named Tal reconstructed the Flydubai attack and the events that followed. During the incident, there was nobody in the cockpit, and Tal had to shake the pilots to wake them. After passengers regained control of the aircraft, they placed an Israeli guard with every crew member. Tal later reviewed footage from inside the aircraft while recounting the sequence of events.

Hammam al-Hammami researched airlines operating routes to Tel Aviv before choosing Flydubai for the planned attack. He said he had planned the operation before being hired by the airline and wanted to crash the aircraft into Ben-Gurion Airport. He had frequently visited Ben-Gurion Airport as part of his work as a pilot, including a visit around July that was used to gather information and prepare for the attack.

Israeli officials said Hammami planned to strike the Ben-Gurion Airport terminal during landing and chose Flydubai because it operated flights to Tel Aviv. The planned attack raised questions about how many people could have been killed at the airport.

Green party UK.

After increasingly being impacted by Islamic bigots' influence post Oct 7: Green Party members in England and Wales passed a hardline “Zionism is racism[sic]” motion and rejected an amendment intended to protect Jewish members who attend Zionist synagogues and other organizations. The motion defines Zionism as support for an ethno-nationalist Jewish state and commits the party to a single democratic Palestinian state throughout historic Palestine. The amendment protecting Jewish members from accusations of racism was defeated. The decision shifts the party away from its previous position that Israelis and Palestinians should determine a peaceful solution themselves and establishes an explicitly anti-Zionist party position.

The Green Party faced an internal conflict over Zionism as members prepared to vote on defining Zionism as a racist[sic] ideology. Vivien Lichtenstein, chairman of the Jewish Greens, warned about anti-Zionist activists entering the party to influence its policies. Party members on opposing sides of the dispute expressed sharply different views, including calls for Zionists to change their positions or leave the party. Zack Polanski faced accusations of antisemitism within the party before the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

The UK Green Party adopted a motion defining Zionism as racism, becoming Europe’s first mainstream anti-Zionist party.

Outside the UK Parliament, World Zionist Organization delegation head Matan Bar Noy tore up the Green Party’s resolution defining Zionism as racism. He invoked Chaim Herzog’s 1975 protest against the United Nations resolution equating Zionism with racism.

A march commemorating the 1936 fight against fascists in Jewish east London was disrupted by antisemitic chants. Some protesters used slogans excluding Zionists and called for people to “go back home.” The march included the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Jewish groups sought to reclaim their place in the history being commemorated.

Nicole Lampert describes the Green Party’s adoption of the “Zionism is racism[sic]” motion as open antisemitism and hostility toward Jewish self-determination. She argues that the party’s support for a single Palestinian state amounts to opposition to Israel’s continued existence and says the party is applying people’s national liberation movement and the basis for their right to a state and national home in the Land of Israel. Other responses say British Jews should not have to reject Jewish self-determination to avoid being labeled racist and warn that the Green Party’s decision the Green Party as openly anti-Jewish because it adopted the “Zionism is racism[sic]” motion and formally embraced an anti-Zionist position.

Isaac Herzog says the “Zionism is racism[sic]” accusation is an antisemitic lie that endangers Jews and Israelis. He defines Zionism as the Jewish people’s national liberation movement and the basis for their right to a state and national home in the Land of Israel. Other responses say British Jews should not have to reject Jewish self-determination to avoid being labeled racist and warn that the Green Party’s decision threatens Jewish people and religious freedom. The Labour Against Antisemitism statements specifically criticize the rejection of protections for Jewish members who attend Zionist religious institutions.

Brendan O’Neill describes the Green Party as openly anti-Jewish because it adopted the “Zionism is racism[sic]” motion and formally embraced an anti-Zionist position. He focuses especially on the rejection of an amendment protecting Jewish Greens who attend Zionist synagogues and community institutions. He argues that the decision permits discrimination against Jewish members based on their religious affiliations and represents an unprecedented hostility toward Jewish national self-determination. He alobartes that it's not just against Israel.

Micha Danzig reminds that labeling Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide” carries serious consequences for Jews worldwide. He contrasts the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Khmer Rouge killings with Israel’s provision of vaccinations, food aid, evacuation corridors, leaflets, and warnings to civilians. Slamming Abdul El-Sayed’s statement (appearing as a vibe) that the power of the word genocide lies in naming it before the crime becomes that severe as treating the term as useful regardless of whether it is accurate. He also challenges the reported Gaza death toll by noting that Hamas’s Health Ministry does not distinguish combatants from civilians and has included natural deaths, and that demands to end the war rarely include Hamas surrendering and returning the hostages.

NBC's Kristen Welker repeatedly pressed Rahm Emanuel to endorse (Islamic bigot) Abdul El-Sayed after Emanuel discussed the meaning of genocide and distinguished Gaza from historical genocides. Emanuel initially said he was traveling to Michigan to support gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson rather than El-Sayed. After five rounds of questioning, he endorsed El-Sayed, citing the need to restore Democratic control of the Supreme Court. The exchange is presented as an example of elite media pressure to obtain political conformity during a pivotal election.

Honest Reporting says asking Mahmoud Khalel whether he condemns Hamas is not a trivial question and adds that refusing to condemn the October 7 massacre undermines confidence that his vision of a free Palestine includes peaceful coexistence between Jews and Palestinians.

A commentator criticizes musician Zach Bryan for wearing a “Free Palestine” shirt and portrays the slogan as support for an anti-Western movement. [[[TMZ]] explained on Oct 5, that Robert Kraft made a point specifically against Macklemore because ifvhis Abrusenituc history. That Kraft has been very active against antisemitism, with ADL etc.].

A social-media post accuses antisemitic Ana Kasparian of blaming Israel for Islamic riots in France. It says the rioters are predominantly North Africans and attributes the unrest to Muslims rather than the wars in the Middle East, while accusing Kasparian of directing attention toward Israel and away from Muslim responsibility.

Nirit Shalev-Khalifa and the Yad Ben-Zvi team are preserving thousands of objects from communities near Gaza that were devastated during the Hamas massacre. The objects are being preserved as historical testimony for future generations.

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The IDF says it killed Saqr Nabil Musa Qaisi, whom it identifies as a Hamas Nukhba Force terrorist who infiltrated Israel during the October 7 massacre. The IDF also identifies him as a director of the Turkish humanitarian organization Deniz Feneri and says he used his position to employ Hamas operatives and provide financial support to Hamas. The military says the organization maintains ties with senior Hamas figures.

Israel’s foreign minister says the Abraham Accords will not be damaged by the flydubai attack.

Israel lowered its flags to half-staff and began national commemorations honoring soldiers and civilians killed during the October 7, 2023 attack. The memorial observances mark the victims and the national trauma caused by the assault.

Israel’s foreign minister barred British Green Party leader radical Zack Polanski from entering Israel after the party adopted its anti-Zionist resolution.

Nigel Farage told Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar that a future Reform UK government would reverse measures taken by the Labour government. Sa’ar said this after speaking with Farage.

The Community Security Trust (CST) warned that British Jews continue to face terrorist threats after two men were charged over a plot targeting Manchester’s Jewish community.

Netanyahu ordered a security review of foreign flights to Israel. [Following the attempted jihadi terror on Flydubai Sep. 30].

Gideon Sa’ar congratulated Milorad Dodik, Željka Cvijanović, and the SNSD after the party’s strong showing in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s general election.

Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man who filmed himself dumping sewage into streams in Judea and Samaria and said he was doing so to harm Israeli residents and Israeli territory. Three Palestinian Arabs were arrested in related operations on suspicion of pollution, weapons possession, and terrorism offenses. The suspect also posted videos boasting about the sewage dumping and expressed pride in the actions.

Military Intelligence Directorate chief Shlomi Binder told the Cabinet that 4,000 of the 6,000 terrorists who participated in the [Oct 7 War|October 7]] massacre have been eliminated. The search for the remaining terrorists continues.

Former hostage Romi Gonen released footage showing her abduction and described the experience as remaining with her in her dreams, from waking in the morning through going to sleep at night.

Israel’s police chief mourned the 72 police officers killed since October 7.

Former senior Shin Bet official Micha Kobi discussed intelligence available before the Hamas attack and the decisions made within the security establishment. He said the Shin Bet knew about Hamas exercises involving the capture of military divisions and Israeli communities, including exercises using Hebrew signs. He described the intelligence as containing information about Hamas’s preparations, timing, and other details but dusnissed them in 'concepzia' (- a term which describes the before/after Oct 7 assumptions/conclusions). Kobi also criticized the failure to act decisively on the intelligence and recalled the brutality of the October 7 attack.

The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem brought Christian visitors to Judea and Samaria during Sukkot and promoted purchases from local businesses as part of a campaign opposing anti-Israel boycotts.

UK Jewish groups warned the Green Party’s “Zionism is racism[sic]” motion encourages hatred amid a series of attacks on the Jewish community. The British government and other political parties condemned the policy, while at least three of the Green Party’s five MPs opposed it. [Green Party also became heavily Muslim baked post Oct 7th].

An Arab-Palestinian terrorist set fire to a vehicle at Hananya Farm in the Binyamin region of Samaria and threatened residents with a knife. Police neutralized the attacker, and the incident ended without casualties. Video footage showed the attack and the subsequent pursuit.

Abdullah Albadri, a Kuwaiti Arab who attempted to breach the perimeter of Israel’s embassy in London while carrying two knives and a “martyrdom note,” received a life sentence.

Urban warfare expert John Spencer sharply criticized the propaganda NAZA, that it's worse than Hamas propaganda. He focused on its statement that Israel had killed more than 73,000 Palestinians in Gaza, reminding that the figure attributed every Gaza death since October 7 to Israel and exceeded the number provided by Hamas. In fact, Hamas has also killed Gazans, fighting has occurred between Hamas and anti-Hamas clans, and rockets fired from Gaza have fallen inside Gaza. Hamas reporting has included natural deaths and argued that it is false to attribute every death in Gaza to Israel. He said the casualty figure was one of numerous problems in the documentary and plans a more extensive analysis.

The IDF arrested a Palestinian weapons traffickers in Nablus and killed a would-be infiltrator in southern Syria. The military also announced an intelligence overhaul. Middle Eastern crude oil exports have exceeded prewar levels, while the United States withdrew all bombers from RAF Fairford after an alleged Iranian plot threatened the base.

A Jerusalem mural honors brothers Ori and Hersh (sports rivals and brothers in captivity), who were held captive.

Poland demands Tucker Carlson retracts pro Hitler lies

Poland’s chargé d’affaires demanded that extremist, bigoted Tucker Carlson retract and apologize for statements about the outbreak of World War II. He objected to Carlson’s statement that Hitler had justified Germany’s invasion of Poland by pointing to German territory and Germans in Poland, and to Carlson’s statement that Britain had nothing to do with the outbreak of the war. The letter states that Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland was a planned war of aggression aimed at destroying the Polish state and population and that Hitler and Stalin collaborated on the partition of Poland through the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It emphasizes the destruction caused by Nazi Germany and demands that Carlson retract what the letter calls false statements and apologize for insulting the victims of Nazism and those who fought against it.

New documentaries mourn all that was lost on October 7. The article highlights documentaries examining the October 7 attacks, focusing on victims, survivors, and the human loss experienced by Israelis.

Marking the third anniversary of October 7, 2023, remembering those killed and the hostages taken by Hamas. The post emphasizes remembrance of the victims and concludes with “Am Yisrael Chai” and the hashtag #UNFORGO7TEN.

The recent attempted hijacking [Flydubai, Sep/30) could have become another 9/11-style attack in Israel, with children and other passengers potentially carrying psychological trauma for years. It also says Jews and Israelis are being targeted for murder weekly and criticizes Have I Got News For You for its response.

Post highlights an article by Greg Sheridan in 'The Australian' addressing antisemitism, describing its central message as the idea that antisemitism represents a profound societal failure.

Following Chris Murphey's interview, post criticizes Qatar-linked programs and institutions at Georgetown and Northwestern, focusing on statements and events concerning antisemitism, October 7, Hamas, Zionism, and the Israel-Hamas war. It points to comments about antisemitism, the October 7 attack and sexual violence, criticism of Israeli policies, and the hosting of extremistbl Norman Finkelstein. The post concludes by characterizing these practices as contrary to American values and connecting them to the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar.

Post focuses on October 7 commemorations and campus activism. It says some pro-Palestinian groups use the date while presenting the events primarily through the subsequent Gaza war, with references to genocide, martyrs, and resistance rather than Hamas, the Israeli victims, or the hostages. It describes this as an effort to redefine the meaning of October 7 and says the Combat Antisemitism Movement is tracking related events and organizers.

NGOmonitor describes a fundraising setback for Palestine Action. It says the group previously raised more than £300,000 through CrowdJustice to challenge the UK's ban on it, while CrowdJustice subsequently declined to host another fundraiser after Stripe said it could not process donations benefiting the group.

A lawsuit involving a New York City teacher. The post says the lawsuit describes the teacher praising Yahya Sinwar in a Park Slope Food Coop group chat and quotes the phrase “Long live Yahya Al-Sinwar.”

HonestReporting — October 5, 2026. Criticizes a CNN Turkish affiliate report concerning student riots in France. The post says the broadcast attributed Israel's ability to influence events in France to “Jewish lobbies,” economic power, and intelligence capabilities, and argues that this framing presents a conspiracy theory about Jewish influence under the CNN brand.

Ed Miliband’s silence on the crimes of Palestinians speaks volumes. The article criticizes UK politician Ed Miliband is slammed for lack of acknowledgment of Palestinian crimes and attacks against Israelis.

Mosque praised by Andy Burnham held funeral for Taliban terrorist. The report examines a Manchester mosque's connection to the funeral of a Taliban figure and questions its previous public praise from Andy Burnham.

Mamdani’s plan to supposedly fight antisemitism includes increased funds for anti-Israel group. The New York Post reports on Zohran Mamdani’s proposed antisemitism initiative and controversy surrounding funding for an organization criticized for its anti-Israel positions.

Video shows Abdul El-Sayed stating he has dual citizenship in Egypt and US. The Free Beacon reports on video in which Abdul El-Sayed discusses holding Egyptian and U.S. citizenship, presenting the issue as relevant to his political background.

Sadly: Hundreds of anti-Israel protests planned around October 7 anniversary worldwide. The Times of Israel reports on demonstrations planned internationally around the October 7 anniversary, including protests critical of Israel.

Jewish Australians prepare to mark October 7 anniversary as pro-Palestinian vigils are planned. The article describes Jewish Australians preparing commemorations while pro-Palestinian events are planned for the same day, generating controversy and backlash.

ASA Chicago, Zionism, America, PFLP, ICE, Gaza and Palestinian terror. The article examines controversy surrounding an American Studies Association event involving anti-Israel activism and the terrorist PFLP.

Jewish kids fleeing public schools amid growing antisemitism. The New York Post reports on Jewish families moving children out of public schools because of concerns about antisemitism, including allegations involving a teacher sympathetic to Hamas.

Scottish teacher reported to police after appearing in video urging children to play ‘Zio’ game. The Jewish Chronicle reports on a Scottish teacher who allegedly appeared in a video encouraging children to play an antisemitic game, prompting a police report. "Zio" is known as a slur.

Nika Soon-Shiong and the LA Times Israeli advert controversy The article reports on Nika Soon-Shiong criticizing the Los Angeles Times --owned by father-- over an Israeli tourism advertisement and the controversy that followed.

Amb. Kaploun: More Latin American countries plan to adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism. Jewish Insider reports that additional Latin American countries are considering adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.

TMZ founder Harvey Levin explained that Robert Kraft opposed Macklemore’s antisemitic history, not expressions of support for (Arab) "Palestinians". Kraft has been involved in combating hate and supporting the Anti-Defamation League, and he took a stand against antisemitism.

The Gaza GenoLIE Tracker posts reminds that accusations of genocide against Israel are false and that reactions to the October 7 attacks reveal a double standard toward Jewish victims. They highlight the deaths of the Idan family’s parents, the abduction of their younger daughter, and the murder of Adi Vital-Kaplun in front of her children. They accuse Hamas supporters of spreading anti-Israel propaganda and portray Israelis as victims of antisemitism rather than perpetrators of genocide. It was a reply post to: 'We are children, both of our parents have just died'. Three years after Oct. 7, the Idan family releases the chilling call Michael, 9, and Amalia, 6, made to police after their parents were murdered in Kfar Aza. Their younger sister, Avigail, was abducted to Gaza.'

Selma Blair announced that she is making a documentary about antisemitism called “Hineni,” meaning “Here I am.” She said the film grew out of her experience of being erased and facing fallout in Hollywood after comments following the October 7 Hamas attacks. The documentary will examine antisemitism, Israel, and disagreements over the conflict, including perspectives that differ from Blair’s. It will include filming in Israel to show why the land is personally significant to Jewish people.

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Tucker Carlson’s outrageous utterness in interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg over World War II, Britain’s decision to fight Hitler, and whether Britain could have remained outside the war - continue to get backlash. Victor Davis Hanson: "Tucker Carlson’s Rewriting of WWII History Is Dangerous." And "Almost everything Carlson said in the interview was false."

New intelligence uncovered an Iranian plan to use drones to attack 12 B-1 bombers and hundreds of US personnel at RAF Fairford. The B-1 bombers were abruptly withdrawn from Britain and returned to the United States.

Bigoted SJP Students for Justice in Palestine at Columbia University is organizing a rally supporting Hamas to commemorate October 7. The event includes the Arabic phrases “Glory to the martyrs” and “resistance until victory.”

Students at Birzeit University in Ramallah held a rally after the IDF demolished a martyrs’ monument on campus. The students rebuilt the monument with a whiteboard and placed wreaths of flowers at the site.

Twelve tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz within a single week.

Article outlines internal opposition within the Biden administration to Israel’s military response after October 7, 2023. While Biden supported Israel with weapons and international backing, some administration officials wanted to restrict American arms supplies. The book by Islamist Pakistani A.S. Ahmed "Crossing the Red Line" presents a critical account of senior officials Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Brett McGurk, blaming them for destruction. The article criticizes the book as biased and politically motivated but argues that it reveals serious problems within the foreign policy bureaucracy. One example is a State Department human rights official who discouraged colleagues from attending an Israeli embassy screening of footage from the October 7 attacks, citing the risk of trauma and the absence of policy benefits.

Israel’s National Security Council issued a travel warning about an increased terror threat around the October 7 anniversary. Israelis in Israel and abroad were survivors continue to honor Capt. Elay Adany, a Maglan commander who gave his life while rescuing them during the October 7 Hamas massacre. His final actions remain central to the families of those was no concrete intelligence indicating that such an attack was being planned. Sources close to Katz said his position was based on an IDF presentation about preparing for extreme scenarios. Katz argued that October 7 itself was an extreme scenario and warned of a heightened risk of copycat attacks inspired by the massacre and urged to remain vigilant.

The National Security Council warned of an increased risk of attacks against Israelis and Jews abroad around the third anniversary of the massacre and called for heightened vigilance.

August Hanning, who headed Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service until 2005, is suspected of acting as an agent for a foreign intelligence service.

A Biden administration envoy said there was no warning before the October 7 massacre.

Hate crimes and Islamic mayor Mamdani: Jewish New Yorkers were the targets of 53% of hate crimes recorded in New York City so far that year. The NYPD chief called the figure deeply concerning.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that 4,000 of the 6,000 Gazans who entered Israel on October 7, 2023, had been eliminated. He vowed to eliminate the remaining 2,000.

Families of Kfar Aza survivors continue to honor Capt. Elay Adany, a Maglan commander who gave his life while rescuing them during the October 7 Hamas led massacre. His final actions remain central to the families of those he saved.

A seventh man was arrested in a British terrorism investigation involving an incident at an air force base.

TikTok removed 45,000 election-related videos because of an Iran-linked influence network.

Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, warned Israel against making a deal with the Syrian regime. He compared crimes committed by Damascus with the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023.

Paris banned an October 7 protest because of security concerns.

Biden aide Brett McGurk said Washington had received no warning before October 7\. He described how the war affected the White House and recounted a meeting with hostage families in which a woman learned during the meeting that her loved one had been confirmed dead.

Isr. Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened an all-out war against the Palestinian Authority based on the possibility that PA security forces could turn their weapons against Israel. IDF sources said there was no concrete intelligence indicating that such an attack was being planned. Sources close to Katz said his position was based on an IDF presentation about preparing for extreme scenarios. Katz argued that October 7 itself was an extreme scenario and that the military had previously failed to take such possibilities seriously enough.

European Parliament member Arab-Palestinian born Rima Hassan removed an Israeli flag from an exhibition commemorating the victims of October 7. The European Union flag attached to the same stand also fell when the stand became unbalanced. Hassan said neither flag was stepped on or damaged. She confronted Israeli artist Yaron Bob, accused the exhibition of presenting a one-sided account of the October 7 atrocities, and said officials, the Israeli foreign minister, and the European Jewish Congress also condemned the incident. Hassan defended removing the Israeli flag, objected to its presence in the EU Parliament loss of her daily allowance. She has repeatedly attracted controversy for anti-Israel activism and has faced investigations in France involving accusations of three years since October 7. Hundreds of participants, ambassadors, and senior diplomats attended. Eliya Cohen and Ziv Abud shared their experiences from the Nova music festival massacre. Cohen was abducted to Gaza and held captive by “Israel doesn’t exist” after he identified himself as Israeli.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola condemned Hassan’s actions and said the Parliament must be a safe place for Europe’s Jewish community. Other European officials, the Israeli foreign minister, and the European Jewish Congress also condemned the incident. Hassan defended removing the Israeli flag, objected to its presence in the EU Parliament, and compared it to displaying a Russian flag during Russia’s war against Ukraine. She accused Metsola of making factually false statements.

Hassan could face parliamentary disciplinary measures, including a reprimand, temporary suspension, or loss of her daily allowance. She has repeatedly attracted controversy for anti-Israel activism and has faced investigations in France involving accusations of promoting hateful speech and supporting terrorism. She was previously expelled from Israel after being arrested while attempting to reach Gaza aboard the vessel Madleen.

Hamas captivity survivor Avinatan Or revealed that a terrorist gave him a message shortly before his release promising another October 7. Or described the terrorist’s message and his own response.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered US and Texas flags lowered to half-staff to honor victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre.

Israel’s Mission to the United Nations held an event at UN headquarters in New York marking three years since October 7. Hundreds of participants, ambassadors, and senior diplomats attended. Eliya Cohen and Ziv Abud shared their experiences from the Nova music festival massacre. Cohen was abducted to Gaza and held captive by Hamas for 505 days, while Abud survived and worked to secure Cohen’s release. Cohen learned only after returning from captivity that Abud had survived.

One thousand Christian leaders arrived in Israel for the Friends of Zion summit.

US Central Command denied Iranian reports that a US Navy helicopter had been shot down in the Red Sea.

Satellite imagery showed increased activity at a secret Iranian nuclear site that Israel struck in March. The imagery showed increased traffic and continuing earthmoving activity at the facility.

Pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas, and “resistance” groups in the United States, Canada, and Australia planned events celebrating and commemorating the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks and honoring Hamas “martyrs.”

Haverford College president Lori Lowenthal Raymond expressed anger over antisemitism after associate professor Guangtian Ha was arrested for online harassment and intimidation of a Jewish Israeli professor. The arrest was described as connecting verbal harassment of Jews with actionable violence.

Italy expelled two [apparent Muslim] men accused of assaulting a rabbi in Milan. The men were accused of joining a third suspect in approaching and surrounding the rabbi at a bus stop, mocking him by taking his hat, and kicking him from behind after he began recording. Police identified all three suspects. One was arrested and ordered to report to authorities twice a week, and all three were barred from Milan for one year. The arrested suspect is due to face charges of propaganda and incitement to racial hatred.

The CIA gave Israel a list of five to ten senior Iranian officials who should not be targeted for assassination. Washington considers these officials potential key figures in a future Iranian government.

Brazil’s presidential election is heading to a runoff after Flavio Bolsonaro defeated Lula da Silva in the first round by several million votes. Bolsonaro’s victory places Brazil at the center of a broader political shift in Latin America that could strengthen ties with Israel.

PIJ Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhala said more than 2,000 Al-Quds Brigades operatives were killed during the war in Gaza, along with dozens in the West Bank and more than 80 in Lebanon and Syria while fighting alongside Hezbollah. Israeli strikes also targeted Islamic Jihad headquarters in Syria and Lebanon.

United Airlines Islamic bigot pilot Ibrahim Mossallam, who praised Hamas’s October 7 attack as "resistance" and said it was not unprovoked, continues flying for United Airlines. He was temporarily removed from flying duties after his statements caused outrage but later returned to the cockpit. The pilots’ union blocked his firing.

French President Emmanuel Macron commemorated the October 7 attacks, saying Hamas’s terrorist attacks killed more than 1,200 people, including 51 French citizens. He expressed solidarity with Israel and the bereaved families and said the victims’ names and faces would not be forgotten.

A ranch owner in Binyamin shot a jihadist and stopped an arson attack.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered U.S. and Texas flags lowered to half-staff to honor victims of the October 7 massacre.

A 20-year-old shepherd near Sebastia was struck in the head by an Arab'sconcrete block thrown near the Brit Avraham ranch and was hospitalized in moderate condition.

U.S. senators and state legislators from six states toured new settlements in the Shomron. They pledged legislation recognizing Judea and Samaria and opposing BDS. Yossi Dagan said support for the Shomron crosses party lines in America.

IDF forces from the Northern Brigade and Division 99 destroyed a 1.5-kilometer tunnel east of the expanded Yellow Line in Gaza.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog marked the third anniversary of the Hamas attack by lighting a memorial candle at 6:29 a.m., the time the terror invasion began.

Israel marked the October 7 anniversary at the United Nations and emphasized that the events could never be erased.

Paris dedicated a path in Parc Monceau to Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir. The family was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz and the children were murdered in Hamas captivity. Shiri and her sons were commemorated in Paris three years after the October 7 massacre.

Anat Meir is raising her three-year-old son Shaked after the death of her husband David. She is building a life for herself and her son while living with the consequences of his death.

Three years after October 7, Israel is still dealing with the consequences of the massacre. The hostages are home and a ceasefire is in place, but the questions left by the massacre remain unresolved.

Israeli singer Mor Revivo honored her close friend and stylist Amit Buskila, who was murdered while fleeing the Nova festival and whose body was taken to Gaza.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee emphasized shared values between Israel and the United States in opposition to shared enemies.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged that Germany would stand firmly with Israel, defend its right to exist, and fight antisemitism.

London Islamic Mayor Sadiq Khan’s October 7 statement mourned the victims while criticizing Israel’s government.

Former hostage Yosef Haim Ohana, who spent 738 days in Gaza, released footage showing the first moments of his abduction and discussed his captivity, survival, and efforts to regain control of his life.

Yarden Bibas shared a message dedicated to his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir, who were abducted from Nir Oz.

Former Hamas hostage Luis Har was freed from Gaza captivity in an Israeli military operation 129 days after his abduction during the October 7 massacre. He said that being alive was the most important thing in the world.

Israel’s Compensation Fund processed 1.17 million claims totaling $12.5 billion for direct property damage and indirect business losses resulting from the war.

An Arab terror rock attack in Samaria left a 25-year-old man moderately injured and four others lightly injured.

Six heroes of a Dubai flight are set to receive a Presidential Award.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Iran is an untrustworthy negotiating partner and said some Iranians justify deceiving non-Muslims as part of their religion. [Taqiyya].

Flavio Bolsonaro pledged to restore Brazil’s ties with Israel, move the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem, and visit Israel early in his term if elected.

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Orphans of October 7 described recovery as a continuing process three years after the massacre.

Ordinary Israeli women faced extraordinary circumstances on October 7 as thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel from Gaza with the purpose of killing and kidnapping as many people as possible.

Jew-hating radicals are celebrating the horrors of October 7 and organizing parades celebrating the attacks. (Especially noticeable. SJP).

Gal-Hed is a project commemorating those killed in the Swords of Iron war. It allows people to learn about their personal stories, share them, and contribute their own memories.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio commemorated the October 7 massacre and reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to defending civilization.

House Speaker Mike Johnson commemorated October 7, described the attack as the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, and said Hamas terrorists funded by Iran raped, mutilated, and murdered more than 1,200 people and kidnapped 251.

Isaac Herzog met with more than 1,000 Christian leaders and influencers from 117 countries who came to Jerusalem for a Friends of Zion summit. He thanked them for their support of Israel.

The IDF chief said the military must always remain prepared for a surprise war.

Israeli, American, and Jewish officials condemned New York City Mayor, Islamic bigot Zohran Mamdani’s October 7 statement for turning the (genocidal Islamic) massacres into an attack on Israel.

Iran sent Hezbollah $200 million despite U.S. pressure.

B’nai Brith Canada called on government and college leaders to investigate groups promoting extremism on the October 7 anniversary.

Thousands demonstrated in London, and Israeli Arab activist Yoseph Haddad confronted the demonstrators.

San Diego adopted an official definition of Islamophobia --vlby Islamist lobby CAIR-- that raised concerns that criticism of terrorism could be treated as "Islamophobic."

More than 75 retired U.S. generals, admirals, and military lawyers rejected the "genocide" regarding Gaza. They said genocide requires intent to destroy a protected national, ethnic, racial, or religious group and that Israel neither intended to destroy Palestinians as a group nor did so. They said civilian deaths during combat do not by themselves establish genocidal intent.

The retired military leaders said Israeli forces used extensive measures to reduce civilian casualties, including warnings, evacuation instructions, protected corridors, tactical pauses, and legal review of targets. They also cited Israeli provision of food, medical supplies, baby food, desalinated water, vaccinations, and medical evacuations as evidence of efforts to protect civilians.

The signatories said inflammatory statements by Israeli political officials should be condemned but do not demonstrate the conduct of IDF operations when those officials are not involved in military decision-making. They warned that distorting the laws of war to make false genocide charges could affect the conditions under which American forces fight in the future.

Haverford College canceled a Young Democratic Socialists of America October 7 “art campaign in solidarity with Palestine” after a professor was arrested for antisemitic cyberstalking. The college president said the timing of the event caused serious concern among members of the community. Student organizers declined to move the event to another date.

London police arrested five masked anti-Israel protesters outside the Board of Deputies of British Jews for inciting racial hatred. The protesters chanted about “intifada” and harassed neighbors.

Rabbi Kalmanson recited Kaddish at an October 7 memorial for national unity.

Donald Trump marked the third anniversary of October 7 and said it would never be forgotten.

The FBI arrested 18-year-old Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud for plotting a mass shooting at the Mall of America in the name of ISIS. He obtained an AK-47, ammunition, and magazines from an undercover FBI agent and planned to kill 30 to 60 people at the mall. He was charged with knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition to commit an act of terrorism.

Mohamud discussed traveling overseas to fight for al-Shabaab and later said he wanted to join ISIS. He also expressed support for a terrorist who killed 14 people by driving a truck into a crowd in New Orleans. He planned the Mall of America attack for an event scheduled for October 24 and targeted the mall because he believed its owners were Jewish and wanted to kill non-Muslims.

Israel’s economy continues to grow despite three years of war and mounting international pressure.

The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation’s leader criticizes New York City Ialamic bigot Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s October 7 message, saying Jewish New Yorkers should be able to mourn the Hamas massacre without having their grief turned into an indictment of Israel.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, condemns Mamdani’s October 7 message, comparing it to turning September 11 into a day of mourning for al-Qaeda. He accuses the mayor of hijacking the anniversary of the Hamas attack to condemn Israel.

Zohran Mamdani faces bipartisan criticism over his social media message marking the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks. Elisha Wiesel, chairman of the Elie Wiesel Foundation, discusses the controversy and growing antisemitism with Fox News.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee expresses anger over Mamdani’s October 7 comments.

The Haverford case [of Islamic Chinese] exposes a pattern in which individuals use anti-Israel or anti-Zionist rhetoric, blame Israel for antisemitism, and promote Palestinian causes while concealing their identities behind anonymous accounts. The case involving religion professor Guangtian Ha highlights the transition from political rhetoric to explicit antisemitic threats, Nazi references, Holocaust rhetoric, and threats against a Jewish colleague and his family. Ha faces charges related to anonymous antisemitic threats and cyberstalking.

Arab led pro-Palestinian march in London resulted in five arrests for inciting racial hatred following an incident outside the Board of Deputies of British Jews office. Police imposed restrictions on the march, including a designated route, protest times and a ban on face coverings. Pro-Israel counter-protesters gathered near Russell Square, displaying Israeli flags and placards -- including 'Stop the GenoLIE' -- and shouting at the demonstrators.

Disgraceful: Hundreds of "pro-palestinian" demonstrators gather across New York City during the third anniversary of the atrocious October 7 Hamas attacks. Protesters at NYU and Columbia University chant slogans supporting the racist Arab "Palestinian" intifada, while demonstrations target Israel and demand university divestment. At Union Square, racist demonstrators surround an October 7 memorial vigil organized by Israelis for Peace, display images of genocidal Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and chant slogans supporting Hamas. A demonstrator, for example, tells organizers that they do not want peace with Israelis and refers to the October 7 attack.

NYU radical professor Andrew Ross justifies the October 7 attack and promotes a conspiracy theory that Israeli forces supposedly killed some Israeli citizens during the massacre.

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Signs displayed on buildings beside Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway target Zohran Mamdani with the message “Mamdani Go Back to Gaza.”

New York City’s consul general of Israel and U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee condemn Zohran Mamdani’s October 7 message, calling it antisemitic and accusing him of expressing sympathy for jihadist causes.

Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter condemns Mamdani’s October 7 statement as a series of lies and blood libels against Israel. Leiter accuses the mayor of defending Palestinian terrorism, promoting antisemitism, and advancing anti-Americanism. He criticizes Mamdani for attacking Israel with accusations and propaganda while marking the anniversary of the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

Pressure mounts to bring those responsible for the October 7 massacre to justice as legal proceedings continue to drag on three years after the attack.

New York City Councilman Jim Gennaro criticizes Mamdani’s October 7 statement for turning remembrance into an indictment of Israel. He says the message betrays the victims, harms New York’s Jewish community, and distorts the history of the massacre.

Hezbollah activity under civilian cover has been identified in Froun, Srifa, and Zotar al-Gharbiya, areas the Israeli military is expected to leave under a U.S.-brokered agreement with Lebanon. Control of these areas is then supposed to pass to the Lebanese army.

Yehuda Avidan, director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Religious Services, recounts the first hours after the Simchas Torah massacre. He describes taking command on the morning of the disaster, enduring sleepless nights, and confronting hundreds of burned bodies and horrific cases of abuse.

The U.S. Treasury sanctions 17 vessels and their owners under Operation Economic Outcast in an effort to dismantle Iran’s shadow fleet. The action effectively neutralizes most of the fleet that remains.

Hezbollah’s external operations unit recruits foreign nationals in Iran and uses safe houses in Qom and Tehran to train and shelter them. Recruitment began five years ago among foreign students at Al-Mustafa International University. Recruits receive training in weapons handling, sabotage, cyberattacks, and espionage. The operation coordinates with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and targets students at the state-run university, which was established on the orders of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and has branches in more than 60 countries.

Germany’s Left Party agrees to measures addressing antisemitic incidents, meeting a key condition for coalition talks in Berlin. The agreement revives the possibility of a three-party coalition between the Left, the Social Democrats, and the Greens after the Left emerged as the largest party in Berlin’s state election with 25.7% of the vote.

Israeli Channel 12 reports that the Pentagon has ordered U.S. Central Command to prepare for renewed large-scale military operations against Iran. Strikes could begin before Israeli and U.S. elections, but no final decision has been made and no date has been set.

Sick. Hamas celebrates October 7 as a "glorious" day while Gaza suffers extensive destruction from the war. Approximately 82% of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged, and residents face severe hardship. Popular protests in Gaza have grown but quickly subsided.

Nir Oz rebuilds three years after one-third of its residents were murdered or kidnapped during the October 7 attack. Around 120 people now sleep in the kibbutz each night, and more than 220 homes are planned. Burned houses, memorials, and painful debates over returning and preserving the community’s memory remain.

Israeli forces conduct an anti-terror raid in Nablus to prevent another massacre. Two reserve battalions and Nahal troops detain or question approximately 200 Hamas-linked suspects, seize weapons and terrorist funds, and demolish 14 memorials and signs honoring terrorists.

Former Gaza hostage Mia Schem recounts 55 days of brutal captivity, condemns rising antisemitism and pro-Palestinian supporters, and criticizes Drake over lyrics about Gaza. She continues to hope for marriage, children, and happiness.

SJP Students for Justice in Palestine chapters across North America commemorate October 7 by celebrating Hamas terrorists and others who invaded Israel to rape, torture, and murder civilians. The movement celebrates the attempt to destroy Israel and treats the deaths of Israelis as acceptable while presenting itself as a defender of Palestinians. These organizations support violence and war against Israel rather than peace, while Western media have portrayed them as peace protesters during university encampments.

Former hostage Itay Regev recounts being shot on October 7, making a farewell call to his father, and facing a terrorist who held a gun to his head. He recalls praying and feeling that God was listening.

Reservist Shlomo Efrati recounts identifying victims of the October 7 massacre and preparing fallen Israeli soldiers for burial. His diary describes mutilated bodies, traumatic memories, struggles with faith, and a terrorist’s body mistakenly delivered to his unit.

In Michigan, the central political issue is the exclusion of Jewish interests rather than simply the Jewish vote. Electing progressive candidates such as Islamic Abdul El-Sayed requires normalizing antisemitism and antisemitic candidates while silencing Jewish objections.

The United States warns Americans in Saudi Arabia about Houthi threats targeting airports.

The Israeli military kills two Hamas terrorists who left Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. One planted explosives that had been stored inside the hospital near the ceasefire line to target Israeli soldiers. The second, Muhammad Tammous, served as a Hamas sniper and also worked as a civil defense worker in Gaza.

Police arrest an Arab man suspected of setting fire to a sukkah in Jerusalem in a racially motivated attack during the Sukkot holiday. The suspect is a 52-year-old resident of the Old City, and police plan to request an extension of his detention.

A Bedouin man is indicted for supplying weapons used to kill a soldier.

Seventy-two people are arrested after Israel’s Shin Bet security agency exposes a terrorist network operating in southern Israel.

Israel receives its first U.S.-manufactured Iron Dome interceptor, marking a milestone in the defense system’s production.

President Isaac Herzog presents an award to rescuers aboard a Flydubai flight.

The Israeli military eliminates two Hamas terrorists in Gaza who participated in holding hostages and planning attacks against Israeli troops and civilians. Both violated the ceasefire. Muhammad Muhsen Nimr Yazji, a commander in Hamas’s Shati Battalion, participated in holding hostages including Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Matan Angrest. Muhammad Fawzi Muhammad Awad Gamal, a member of Hamas’s Daraj Tuffah Battalion, is also killed in a separate strike.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Paraguay’s vice president to discuss closer relations between the two countries.

Antisemitic hate crimes in England and Wales rise by 10%, with Jews experiencing the highest rate of targeting per capita.

Three people are indicted for selling a gun to the terrorist responsible for an attack at the Beersheva bus station.

Dutch Jewish author and journalist Jigal Krant says pro-Hamas demonstrators kicked and beat him until he bled at Utrecht Centraal, the Netherlands’ largest railway station. Krant says police left the demonstrators alone, roughly led him away, and demanded his personal details after he objected to the anti-Israel protest.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry reports continued Palestinian terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria after five Jewish shepherds are injured in a rock-throwing attack near Sebastia. Palestinians from Ramin attack Israelis in grazing areas. One 25-year-old man suffers moderate head injuries and is taken to hospital, while four others receive treatment for minor injuries at the scene.

Former hostage Noa Argamani returns to the Supernova music festival massacre site near Kibbutz Re’im for the first time since her abduction. She joins approximately 1,000 Christian leaders visiting the site and receives the Friends of Zion Hineni Award alongside former hostages Romi Gonen and Elkana Bohbot and Hila Abir, whose brother was murdered at the festival.

Pennsylvania’s Human Relations Commission condemns racist and antisemitic graffiti at a playground, saying it caused widespread alarm and distress in the community.

President Donald Trump endorses Mike Rodgers over Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, whom he calls a radical extremist and an unsuitable candidate for Michigan and the United States. The Republican Jewish Coalition calls El-Sayed the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in the country.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul condemns anti-Israel protesters who disrupt an October 7 memorial vigil at Manhattan’s Union Square, chant antisemitic slogans, and wave Hamas flags. She says Jewish New Yorkers deserve to mourn without hatred or intimidation.

The USS Abraham Lincoln returns from operations involving Iran following what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls a historic mission.

Report. Israel assassinated Iranian navy chief Alireza Tangsiri (3/26/36) because senior Israeli officials feared he could become head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and prove a more formidable adversary than Ahmad Vahidi, who eventually took the position.

Captain Eliav Haim Tzapalamus, 21, of Haifa, is killed during operational activity in southern Lebanon when the Humvee carrying him overturns. Three other soldiers sustain minor injuries.

Gunfire near the Arab village of Qaddum alarms residents of Kedumim. Local security forces and Israeli troops deploy to the area.

Police commander Amir Cohen retires after decades in uniform. On October 7, 2023, he recognized that the attack involved a large-scale terrorist infiltration rather than only rocket fire. At 6:41 a.m., he declared a “Philistine invasion” over police radio, triggering the mobilization of officers and the establishment of defensive lines that saved many lives. He fought terrorists at the Sderot police station, sustained shrapnel and gunshot wounds, refused evacuation, and continued commanding forces before handling events in Ofakim. He was later selected to light a torch at Israel’s Independence Day ceremony.

The United States upgrades Israel’s ranking in its human trafficking report after five years in Tier 2. Israel now ranks among the world’s leading countries in combating trafficking, with increased investigations, expanded victim services, and new legal protections introduced under Justice Minister Yariv Levin.

Israel introduces new screening rules for foreign airline crews from countries designated as high-risk. Crew members will undergo vetting 48 hours before flights to Israel. The plan also includes lists of travelers holding passports from countries without diplomatic relations with Israel.

October 7 exposed Israel’s vulnerability and the dangers of the complacency that preceded the massacre. Israel must not return to that complacency or become a fortress state. It must remain strong, united, and democratic while confronting continuing threats.

SJP etc. Columbia University faces backslash after its dining menu features an “October 7th Blush Sauce” as a pasta special on the third anniversary of the Hamas attacks. The name triggers outrage and accusations that the sauce’s color refers to the blood of massacre victims. Critics call the choice cruel, disturbing, and offensive.

The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office indicts Muhammad Shalabi, a 22-year-old Arab pharmacy student from Beit Hanina, for planning terrorist attacks against security forces and Jewish civilians using explosives and deadly poisons. He is accused of radicalization following October 7 and the ensuing war, consuming Hamas- and ISIS-related material, and planning to use his pharmaceutical knowledge and access to chemicals to carry out attacks. His first reported plot involved plans to plant an explosive device where enforcement officers regularly operated near a mosque after he became angry over parking tickets issued to worshippers.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee rejects a New York Times story about David Milstein, a senior policy adviser at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Huckabee calls the reporting factually baseless, disputes its proposed account, criticizes its reliance on anonymous sources, and warns of potential defamation litigation. R' Steven Burg also condemns the newspaper, defending Milstein’s integrity and accusing the publication of using anonymous accusations and damaging insinuations to advance an anti-Israel narrative. Burg compares the treatment of Milstein to the Dreyfus Affair and says the reporting threatens the reputation of a Jewish American serving his country.

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A Muslim Brotherhood-linked imam joins Pope Leo XIV’s interfaith meeting in France. Imam Makhlouf Mamèche, president of Musulmans de France and rector of the Grand Mosque of Lille, attended an interfaith meeting with Pope Leo XIV in Metz. Mamèche has called on followers to work undercover toward establishing a global Islamic state. He shared photographs of the event, which focused on Europe’s roots, peace, and unity.

From Moscow to Brighteon: The Greens revive the claim that Zionism is racism. The Green Party has officially declared Zionism racist and rejected protections for Jewish members who attend synagogues associated with Zionism. The slogan “Zionism is racism” originated as Soviet anti-Jewish propaganda and was incorporated into a United Nations resolution in 1975. The UN repealed the resolution in 1991, but its language and ideas continue to influence contemporary anti-Zionism.

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The documented crimes of October 7 and Hamas’s continued deception. Hamas filmed and broadcast its October 7, 2023, atrocities, including the killing, burning, and sexual assault of Israeli civilians. A parliamentary commission’s report and supporting evidence document the crimes in more than 300 pages. Within hours of the attacks, Hamas leaders denied targeting women and children and dismissed footage of terrified families as fabricated by Israel. Hamas leaders now involved in negotiations cannot be trusted to disarm based on assurances. Disarmament requires inspections of every weapons depot and tunnel, a published timetable, and consequences for missed deadlines. Hamas leaders have vowed to repeat October 7 until Israel is destroyed. Peace requires ensuring Hamas no longer has the means to attack Israel.

Article in NYT by B. Stephens.: When criticism of Israel goes off the rails. Criticism of Israel becomes unreasonable when it assigns blame for the Middle East’s crises entirely to Israel and dismisses the country’s security threats as imaginary or deserved. Israel was founded while its enemies openly sought its destruction, and those intentions remain. Israel’s withdrawals from southern Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005 brought neither international acceptance nor greater security. Instead, the territories became bases for attacks that culminated in the horrors of October 7. Many self-described humanitarians and advocates of justice celebrated, minimized, or denied those atrocities. Critics must recognize that Israel’s security concerns are real.

Weaponizing genocide accusations fuels dangerous antisemitism. Genocide is the intentional destruction of a group and is the gravest of crimes. Nazi Germany and its collaborators attempted to murder every Jew in Europe, killing six million, or two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population. The global Jewish population remains below its 1939 level. Although Holocaust survivors hoped antisemitism would decline after Nazi Germany’s defeat, the hatred persisted. Reactions to Hamas’s October 7 attack demonstrate that antisemitism has again become openly acceptable in many circles.

Hamas’s attack was intended to kill as many Jews as possible and became the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Israel has not committed genocide, consistent with the prevailing position of the U.S. government. The war has also caused horrific suffering among innocent Gazans, with tens of thousands killed, including many children. Hamas uses civilian endangerment as part of its strategy to demonize Israel, while Israel has taken steps to warn civilians, provide food and relief, and distribute vaccines.

Israel remains open to legitimate criticism, but people without sufficient knowledge of genocide law increasingly use the term to delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state. This fuels antisemitism and endangers Jews worldwide. Iran, Qatar, China, and Russia spread antisemitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial to incite hatred and destabilize democracies. Antisemitism and violent attacks against Jews have reached levels unseen since the Holocaust. Jews face deadly attacks at synagogues and other locations, alongside relentless harassment and threats in public, on campuses, and online.

Talk about genocide should begin with Israel’s murdered mothers and children. Pro-Palestinian students planning a march in London on the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre demonstrate grotesque insensitivity toward Jewish victims. The massacre included sexualized violence against young women at the Nova music festival, the murder of parents in front of their children, and the burning of families inside their homes. Twin ten-month-old boys, Guy and Roi, were left orphaned after their mother was killed and their father was shot. Terrorists used the babies as bait for hours to lure rescuers into an ambush.

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An entire family, brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. Siman Tov family before October 7. Johnny, his wife Tamar, and their children, 5 year old twins Shahar and Arbel and 2 year old Omer, were together in Kibbutz Nir Oz when Hamas terrorists set fire to their home, broke into their safe room and opened fire. None of them survived. We will never forget.

Three Years of War: Key Figures from the IDF’s Report.

Three years after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released figures covering military operations across multiple fronts, casualties, rocket and missile fire, reserve forces, and rehabilitation of wounded security personnel.

1. MILITARY OPERATIONS AND TERRITORIAL CONTROL

The IDF reported striking approximately 100,000 targets across all fronts:

- Gaza Strip: 65,000 targets. - Lebanon and Syria combined: 28,000 targets. - Iran: 4,500 targets. - Yemen: 80 targets.

In Gaza, Israel expanded its controlled territory from an initial 53% to approximately 63% during the ceasefire. The IDF maintains approximately 40 army outposts in the Israeli-held part of the Strip.

Gaza remains divided between Israeli- and Hamas-controlled areas. Negotiations over Hamas's disarmament and Gaza's reconstruction have made limited progress.

The IDF said Hamas is no longer the military and governing organization it was before the war, but continues trying to rebuild and rearm.

According to the IDF, its operations have killed:

- 4 leaders of Hamas's military wing. - 17 brigade commanders and commanders of equivalent rank. - Approximately 30 battalion commanders. - Approximately 300 company commanders.

The military also reported killing more than 24,000 combatants in Gaza and an estimated 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.

IDF officials estimating that two to three Gazan civilians were killed for every dead terror operative. Israel notes that Hamas has embedded its military infrastructure in civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, mosques and schools.

2. OCTOBER 7 ATTACK AND PALESTINIAN CASUALTIES

The war began when Hamas-led attackers invaded southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

- Approximately 1,200 people were killed in Israel, mostly civilians. - 251 people were abducted to Gaza.

The IDF considers the overall Gaza death toll largely accurate. Israeli military officials estimate that 2–3 civilians were killed for every dead terrorist operative. Israel says Hamas embeds military infrastructure in civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, mosques and schools.

In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority's health ministry reported that more than 1,100 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces or settlers since the war began. The IDF said the vast majority were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or terrorists carrying out attacks.

3. ROCKETS, MISSILES AND DRONES FIRED AT ISRAEL

The IDF reported that more than 31,500 rockets, missiles and drones had been launched at Israel from multiple fronts since October 7, 2023.

The reported breakdown was:

- Lebanon: 20,000 projectiles. - Gaza: 10,200 projectiles. - Iran: 1,200 projectiles. - Yemen: 90 projectiles. - Syria: approximately 50 projectiles.

At least 5,000 projectiles launched from Gaza were fired on October 7 alone.

The IDF did not provide a total for drones and missiles launched from Iraq.

The figures exclude rockets that misfired and landed in Gaza, Hezbollah rockets that fell short in Lebanon, and Iranian ballistic missiles that failed to reach Israel. Israel says the excluded projectiles numbered in the thousands at minimum in the relevant categories.

4. ISRAELI MILITARY CASUALTIES

The IDF reported the following losses since the beginning of the war:

- 970 soldiers, reservists and local security officers killed. - 6,424 wounded.

Of these casualties:

- 472 were killed during the ground offensive in Gaza. - 3,004 were wounded during the ground offensive in Gaza. - 85 of the 970 deaths resulted from friendly fire or other military-related accidents.

The military reported that more than 70% of wounded soldiers returned to service.

5. WOUNDED PERSONNEL AND REHABILITATION

The Defense Ministry's Rehabilitation Department reported that more than 30,000 wounded soldiers and security personnel had sought treatment since the war began.

Approximately 63% are receiving care for psychological conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression and difficulties reintegrating into civilian life.

The department reported:

- 91,200 total wounded from all of Israel's wars under its care. - A projected total exceeding 100,000 by 2028. - Approximately half of the projected total are expected to be coping with psychological harm.

The Rehabilitation Department covers injured veterans from all Israeli security bodies, not just the IDF.

Among those wounded since October 7:

- 63 have disabilities classified above 100%, the most severe injury category. - 249 have severe head injuries. - 29 are blind. - 106 are amputees. - Women account for 8% of wounded security personnel. - Reservists account for 62%.

6. RESERVE FORCES AND MILITARY SERVICE

The IDF said its reserve army had expanded by approximately 36% since the war began.

Other figures included:

- Approximately 22,000 former soldiers returned to service despite previously receiving exemptions from reserve duty. - Hundreds of thousands of reservists have been called up during the war. - New reserve units were established, along with new standing army units intended to reduce pressure on reservists. - Combat reservists are expected to serve an average of 80–100 days in 2026, compared with the military's original estimate of 55 days per year.

The IDF attributed the increased reserve service to evolving operational needs.

7. WEST BANK ARRESTS AND SEIZURES

Since October 7, the IDF reported:

- More than 45,000 wanted Palestinians arrested for questioning, including people suspected of planning imminent attacks. - More than 3,800 weapons seized. - NIS 46 million, equivalent to approximately US$15.1 million, seized in cash that the military said was intended to finance terrorism.

8. HOW THE WAR DEVELOPED ACROSS MULTIPLE FRONTS

October 7, 2023: Hamas-led attackers killed approximately 1,200 people and abducted 251. Israel launched a military campaign aimed at removing Hamas from power, destroying its military capabilities and freeing the hostages.

October 8, 2023: Hezbollah began attacking Israel's northern border, saying it was acting in support of Gaza. The confrontation later escalated into an all-out war.

2025 and 2026: Israel fought several direct rounds of conflict with Iran, including a major 12-day war in 2025 and a 40-day war earlier in 2026. Iran-backed groups in Yemen and Iraq also attacked Israel.

October 2025: A ceasefire in Gaza took effect.

April 2026: A ceasefire in Iran took effect.

June 2026: A truce in Lebanon took effect.

By October 2026, fighting had largely subsided. However, Gaza remained divided, negotiations over disarmament and reconstruction had progressed only modestly, and the IDF said Hamas was still trying to rebuild its capabilities.

9. IDF CHIEF'S STATEMENT ON OCTOBER 7 INVESTIGATIONS

On the Sunday before the anniversary, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said the military was concluding its investigations into the October 7 attack.

He emphasized acknowledging the scale of the disaster while learning from it, implementing lessons and moving forward.

He identified the need to expand Israel's security margin and build a military force structure capable of addressing threats on multiple fronts. He described the size of the IDF as Israel's “strategic depth.”

OVERALL TAKEAWAY

The IDF's three-year figures describe a conflict that has involved approximately 100,000 targets struck, more than 31,500 projectiles launched at Israel, 970 Israeli military and local security personnel killed, and 6,424 wounded.

The report also highlights the conflict's long-term impact: a 36% expansion of the reserve army, longer-than-expected reserve service, extensive casualties across multiple fronts, and a growing burden of psychological and physical injuries.

Although ceasefires and truces have reduced fighting on several fronts, Gaza's territorial division, Hamas's attempts to rearm, and unresolved disarmament and reconstruction talks remain significant issues.

Three years after the massacre, Jews in Britain are fleeing or living in fear. Their children attend heavily fortified schools, and their synagogues require high security. Jews deserve and need a homeland. Supporting Israel’s existence and the Jewish people’s right to a homeland is Zionism, which is justified by the lessons of history. People should stand with Jewish communities on the anniversary of October 7 without qualifications or excuses.

Mamdani dines at a Palestinian restaurant criticized for its Genocidal menu on October 7’s anniversary . New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dined at Ayat Hinds Hall on the Upper West Side on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks. The restaurant belongs to a chain whose Brooklyn location drew criticism for a menu section titled “From the River to the Sea,” which critics characterized as openly genocidal toward Jews. The restaurant is named after Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian child killed by Israeli military forces in Gaza in January 2024. Its name also references Columbia University protesters who renamed Hamilton Hall “Hind’s Hall” during their occupation of the building.

Hamas generates millions daily in Gaza while rebuilding its military capabilities.

Hamas generates between $2 million and $5 million daily by taxing goods entering Gaza and exploiting humanitarian assistance. It confiscates some aid and sells goods at high prices on the black market. Through taxation, aid distribution, covert enforcement, and control over supplies, Hamas maintains effective control over Gaza’s population. It determines who receives goods and services, charges residents for services, and remains Gaza’s principal source of employment, creating economic dependence on the group.

Hamas is also rebuilding tunnels, accumulating weapons, and preparing for renewed fighting. Reported plans include attacks on Israeli military bases inside Gaza and attempts to abduct Israeli soldiers.

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• Oct 8, 2026:
  

French students play a rap song referencing jihadists during protests. Videos from student protests at a French high school and inside a church feature “MRH,” a rap song by BORO700 that references jihadists responsible for deadly attacks in France. The lyrics mention Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people, including a rabbi and three Jewish children, in 2012, and Salah Abdeslam, convicted for his role in the November 2015 Paris attacks, which included the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall. Students sang the song during a school blockade at François-Villon high school in Beaugency on October 1. The Orléans prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation into suspected public justification of terrorism, and three minors were taken into police custody. The investigation concerns the lyrics and does not establish the students’ intentions. The song also appeared in a separate video filmed inside Saint-Hilaire church in Soullans on October 4.

Islamic candidate Mohamed Abdul El-Sayed walks away when asked about the October 7 anniversary. El-Sayed walks away when asked about the anniversary of the October 7 attacks.

Mamdani faces criticism over his October 7 message. New York City Mayor, Islamo-socialist Zohran Mamdani faces criticism from Democrats and the pro-Palestinian left over his message marking October 7. The controversy centers on accusations of victim blaming and the expectation that the anniversary message should acknowledge the victims without excusing or minimizing the attacks.

European Parliament backs calls to designate Muslim Brotherhood entities as terrorist organizations The European Parliament approved a resolution calling on the European Union to add people and entities linked to the Muslim Brotherhood to its terrorist list. The resolution passed by 381 votes to 167, with 15 abstentions, and proceeds to the European Council. It calls for a joint strategy among member states to counter Islamist infiltration and Muslim Brotherhood networks.

The proposed strategy includes identifying double messaging, in which individuals express moderate views publicly while promoting more extreme positions in mosques or private settings. The resolution also urges stronger cooperation against extremist networks and support for Muslim intellectuals and activists who defend democracy, freedom of conscience, and the rule of law.

The United States targets Iran’s remaining shadow fleet network. The U.S. Treasury Department launched measures under Operation Economic Outcast targeting the remaining network of aging tankers Iran uses to transport billions of dollars in petroleum and petroleum products to foreign markets. The action effectively neutralizes most of Iran’s remaining shadow fleet network.

The operation aims to deprive the Iranian regime of revenue used to wage regional conflicts and expose those who facilitate its oil sales. Combined with a U.S. military blockade, declining oil shipments beyond the blockade, and economic pressure across multiple sectors, the measures leave Iran with fewer options to stabilize its failing economy.

Huckabee says Hamas has ignored disarmament demands. Mike Huckabee says Hamas has taken no steps to disarm despite President Trump bringing the group to the negotiating table. Hamas has ignored the demands presented to it.

Europe weakens its own defenses by targeting Israel. European efforts directed against Israel undermine Europe’s own security and defensive interests, creating a self-defeating conflict in which Europe damages its own position.

Jihadis murderer: Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad will be livestreamed The Pentagon confirmed that the military will livestream the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. The execution is scheduled to take place at Fort Hood, where Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in one of the deadliest shootings at a U.S. military installation. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said he wanted to make an example of Hasan and confirmed the planned execution in an interview aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Anti-Israel Jews Discover the Left Hates Them Too. Antisemitic movements reject Jews even when they oppose Israel. Anti-Israel Jews cannot oppose Israel enough to escape the hostility of a movement driven by antisemitism. [Proven against on Oct 7 as peace activists were disrupted by pro Hamas racists].

Article: Mamdani Spit on the Graves of October 7 Victims. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani minimized the October 7 massacre, rounded the death toll down to 1,100 rather than the actual 1,195, and quickly shifted attention to Palestinian suffering and criticism of Israel. He did not meaningfully condemn Hamas, recognize the victims’ humanity, or describe the atrocities, including mass killings, rapes, hostage abuse, and families burned alive. His message portrayed Israel as evil for responding to the massacre and seeking the return of 251 hostages. He devoted only 49 of 211 words to October 7 and did not mention the 49 Americans murdered that day. His refusal to recognize Jewish victims reflects an antisemitic worldview that treats Hamas as the victim and Israel as the aggressor. This attitude contributes to an environment in which Jewish New Yorkers face growing hostility and insecurity.

Fake Journalists, Real Headlines: How Russian and Iranian Influence Operations Used ChatGPT to Infiltrate the Media:

OpenAI banned two covert influence operations originating in Russia and Iran that used ChatGPT to support fake organizations and spread geopolitical and conflict-related messaging through real media outlets. The Russian operation received a Category 5 rating on the six-level influence operations scale, the highest rating OpenAI had assigned to an operation it disrupted. The Iranian operation received a Category 4 rating. Russia’s operation used a fake research platform and appeared to recruit unwitting Latin American employees, while Iran’s operation used seven fake journalist identities to publish nearly 100 articles in small and medium-sized outlets worldwide. OpenAI has disrupted 30 covert influence operations over two and a half years and identified the placement of content in legitimate media outlets as a major source of potential reach.

The Russian operation, called Dark Clark, used ChatGPT accounts connected through VPNs to coordinate influence campaigns across Latin America. The operators primarily wrote internal reports for an unknown superior covering efforts to discredit Ukraine, undermine recruitment for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, interfere in politics in Bolivia and Argentina, and manage a fake research platform called the Social Research Center (SRC). The operation used the fake identity Mia Clark to control the platform. Its activities included spreading false stories about Argentine President Javier Milei, sending fraudulent emails to schools in Peru and Ecuador, circulating fabricated audio and video targeting Ukrainian and Ecuadorian officials, and spreading false warnings about water shortages in Bolivia. Some of these campaigns generated media coverage, political reactions, official denials, and fact-checking reports. The operators also took credit for unrelated events, raising questions about their internal reporting and the accuracy of their claimed impact. OpenAI rated the operation Category 5 because it had prompted public comments from politicians in several countries and represented the most complex front identity the company had disrupted.

The Social Research Center operated as a front controlled by the Russian group. Internal reports discussed hiring and firing, salaries, staffing plans, and research projects, indicating direct control over the organization. The SRC’s website focused on the Indian diaspora in Latin America and relations between India and countries in the region. More than 60 articles appeared on its website, most apparently original. Available evidence indicated that employees working on the ground did not know they were working for a Russian group. The organization maintained social media and professional networking accounts with inconsistent location and staffing information. The operators also used ChatGPT to produce operational materials, including a letter falsely implicating Ukraine’s honorary consul in Panama in corruption, Spanish-language content targeting Ecuador’s president, and a fabricated contract intended to support claims about recruiting Ecuadorians to work in Ukraine. Images of the contract circulated on social media, and fact-checkers found that the named company did not appear in Ecuador’s official company registry.

The Iranian operation, called 'Bogus Bylines', used ChatGPT accounts connected through VPNs to generate Persian- and English-language content under seven fake Western journalist identities. The operators created biographies, drafted articles, refined submissions to match individual outlets’ requirements, and wrote pitch emails to editors. OpenAI identified nearly 100 articles published or syndicated across approximately a dozen small and medium-sized outlets covering international affairs, geopolitics, and the Middle East. The articles appeared between July 2025 and October 2026, with publication frequency increasing after the US-Iran conflict began. One outlet that published the articles had substantial followings across Facebook, X, and Instagram. The operation also produced social media comments portraying the United States as an aggressor, Israel as an unreliable ally, and Iran as a resilient victim. Other comments promoted the operation’s own articles. Engagement remained low, and some apparent support came from accounts connected to the operation itself. OpenAI rated the commenting activity Category 2 and the article-placement activity Category 4 because the articles consistently reached multiple media outlets. The operation appeared consistent with a commercial influence campaign conducted for a paying client, but OpenAI could not identify the actor responsible. The company shared information about the operation with relevant authorities and industry partners.

More about Bogus Bylines: Iranian influence operation called Bogus Bylines that used ChatGPT to create seven fake journalist identities and submit articles to online publications. Nearly 100 articles appeared under these identities across more than a dozen outlets between July 2025 and October 2026, with publication increasing after the US–Iran conflict began.

The seven fake journalists were Ervin B. Hoskins, Noah Lamington, Sophia Gonzalez, Michael Harrison, Ericka Feusier, Jenny Williams, and Alice Johnson. Their biographies presented them as Western journalists or analysts specialising in foreign policy, human rights, or the Middle East. Most claimed American identities, while Noah Lamington was presented as a New Zealand-based journalist.

The operators used ChatGPT to review English-language drafts against individual publications’ submission requirements, revise articles, and write pitch emails to editors. ChatGPT also generated Michael Harrison’s biography. Several fake journalist identities had supporting social media accounts.

A review traced matching article and author records across 17 publication and syndication websites: Middle East Monitor, CounterPunch, PeaceVoice, News-Register, ZNetwork, LA Progressive, Antiwar.com, Fair Observer, the Libertarian Institute, NationofChange, Black Star News, Emmitsburg.net, Foreign Policy in Focus, Eurasia Review, Modern Diplomacy, Asia Times, and International Policy Digest. These records establish where the fake journalist bylines appeared.

Caught on tape: Drone video debunks 'Palestinian' arson libel on "settlers" in Binyamin.

• Oct 9, 2026:
  

Shin Bet Busts Negev Arab Terror Cell Targeting Beersheba. '72 residents—67 of whom hold Israeli blue ID cards—have been arrested since the start of 2026. Among the thwarted conspiracies, authorities dismantled a five-man cell in Segev Shalom attempting to establish an armed militia modeled on West Bank terror battalions to attack the Beersheba central station and local police, while a separate ISIS-aligned Israeli citizen was charged with plotting a mass-casualty bombing at Beersheba's prominent Forum nightclub.'

Israel Blasts Decision to Award Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay. Israel’s Foreign Ministry condemned the decision to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay. It accused her of promoting lies, hatred, blood libels, and anti-Israel prejudice through her leadership of the United Nations commission that accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. The ministry called the award a grotesque misuse of the prize to legitimize hatred against Israel.

Israel Calls Navi Pillay’s Win a Grotesque Weaponization of Nobel Peace Prize. Israel’s Foreign Ministry condemned Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize, accusing her of politically motivated efforts to demonize Israel and promote false genocide accusations. It said the award legitimized anti-Israel hatred and prejudice rather than recognizing justice.

Goebbels Is Applauding: Anti-Israel South African Jurist Awarded Nobel Peace Prize. Israel condemned the Nobel Peace Prize decision, accusing Pillay of spreading anti-Israel hatred and false accusations of genocide. The award intensified criticism of the Nobel Committee for honoring a figure associated with allegations against Israel.

A Peace Prize for the Vilification of Israel. Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize highlights the moral failure of the United Nations and the Nobel Committee. As chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry that accused Israel of genocide in Gaza, Pillay helped promote a false narrative portraying Israel as uniquely depraved. Israel took extensive measures to reduce civilian casualties and deliver humanitarian aid, while Hamas stole supplies and restricted access to its tunnel network. Gaza’s population also grew during the war. Pillay’s commission promoted accusations that disregarded Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, including the murder of approximately 1,200 Israelis and the abduction of 251 people. The Nobel Peace Prize has repeatedly departed from its stated purpose of promoting peace and has instead become a platform for political ideology. Awarding Pillay shortly after the anniversary of October 7 further underscores the contradiction between the prize’s ideals and its recipient.

PBS NewsHour’s Sanitized Portrait of Bigoted Navi Pillay: The Record Nick Schifrin Left Out. PBS NewsHour presented Navi Pillay as an objective human rights judge without addressing major controversies surrounding her record. The interview omitted international criticism of her commission’s treatment of Israel, condemnation of UN investigator Miloon Kothari over remarks about Israel’s supporters and the Jewish community, and objections from the United States and other democracies to the commission’s handling of Israel and Hamas terrorism. It also omitted UN whistleblower Emma Reilly’s allegation that the UN human rights office under Pillay provided China with the names of Uyghur dissidents despite warnings that disclosure could endanger them and their families. These issues bear directly on Pillay’s impartiality, accountability, and institutional credibility. Presenting her as an impartial authority without examining these controversies prevented viewers from fully assessing her record.

Key Criticisms by NGO Monitor: NGO Monitor has criticized Navi Pillay for promoting anti-Israel bias within UN human rights institutions and associating with organizations supporting anti-Israel campaigns and boycott, divestment, and sanctions initiatives. It has challenged the methodology and sources used in her commission’s Gaza reports, arguing that they reflected a predetermined political agenda. NGO Monitor has also criticized Pillay for dismissing or inadequately addressing antisemitism allegations against commission members. During her tenure as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, she was criticized for disproportionately focusing on Israel while neglecting systematic human rights abuses by other regional governments.

Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 Awarded to Anti-Israel South African Judge. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, a South African jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights who also served as a judge at the International Criminal Court. Critics condemned the award as a political gesture against Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, citing Pillay’s genocide accusations against Israel and her failure to adequately address Hamas’s October 7 atrocities. Israel’s Foreign Ministry and Netanyahu’s office accused her of promoting false accusations that were used to build a politically motivated case against Israel involving former ICC prosecutor Karim Khan. UN Watch director Hillel Neuer criticized Pillay for accepting leadership of a commission investigating Israel after publicly advocating sanctions and punishment against the country. He also condemned her defense of fellow commissioner Miloon Kothari after his remarks about the Jewish lobby and Israel’s UN membership. Pillay previously worked as an anti-apartheid lawyer, became South Africa’s first non-white female judge on its highest court, led an international tribunal investigating the Rwandan genocide, and served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. Pillay defended her Gaza report as an impartial application of international law and criticized political attacks on international institutions, particularly the ICC. Nobel Peace Committee chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes said the award was intended to emphasize the importance of international law and did not represent a committee position on the Gaza genocide question.

UN Watch. Hillel Neuer condemned the Nobel Committee for awarding Pillay the Peace Prize despite her record on antisemitism and impartiality. He said she had prejudged Israel before accepting leadership of a UN commission investigating alleged Israeli crimes, citing her call for sanctions against Israel in 2020 and her 2021 letter urging President Joe Biden to punish Israel. Neuer also criticized Pillay for defending commissioner Miloon Kothari after he invoked the Jewish lobby and questioned Israel’s right to UN membership. Kothari’s remarks drew condemnation from democracies and senior UN officials, and Berlin’s mayor withdrew support for an event honoring Pillay in 2022. Neuer argued that honoring Pillay undermined universal human rights, institutional credibility, and equal standards of fairness by rewarding prejudice against Jews.

US Imposes Sanctions on International Criminal Court, Hours After Former Judge Wins Nobel. The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, escalating its confrontation with the tribunal and risking diplomatic tensions with European allies. The United States opposed the ICC’s arrest warrants for Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and its previous investigation into US soldiers’ conduct in Afghanistan. The sanctions could extend to companies providing services to the court. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the measures would restrict transactions, cut off resources, and undermine the ICC’s ability to operate against Americans. The ICC’s deputy prosecutor condemned the sanctions and said they would not stop the court’s work.

The International Criminal Court has become a tool for dictatorships and criminals, according to Middle East analyst David Wurmser. The US State Department imposed sanctions on the ICC after one of its former judges received the Nobel Peace Prize, announcing that it would prohibit transactions with the court, cut off its resources, and cripple its operations.

Islamic Abdul El-Sayed Sidesteps Question on Whether Iran or Israel Poses Bigger Threat to US. Abdul El-Sayed avoided directly answering whether Iran or Israel poses the greater threat to the United States.

IDF Kills Three Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Terrorists in Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces killed three Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza. The military said all three had recently advanced plans to attack Israeli soldiers and were working to restore their organizations’ control over the Gaza Strip.

Sa’ar Slams Abbas: Fooling the International Community With Election Delay. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas of repeatedly breaking promises to hold elections and implement reforms. Sa’ar said the Palestinian Authority faced no consequences for its actions and was misleading the international community through continued election delays.

Across the Gaza Strip: IDF Destroys Terrorist Weapons Storage Facilities. The Israel Defense Forces destroyed weapons storage facilities belonging to terrorist organizations across the Gaza Strip.

UAE says: the Flydubai co-pilot planned to crash a passenger aircraft into Ben Gurion Airport in a terrorist attack intended to cause mass casualties. The Omani Hamam al-Hammami, studied to fly for the purpose of his jihadist attack, prepared for the attack over several years and was inspired by the September 11 attacks in the United States. His radicalization began in Australia in 2017, where he encountered extremist literature and online propaganda promoting terrorist organizations and suicide attacks. He attended two flights to Tel Aviv to familiarize himself with the route and airport, undertook physical training, including boxing lessons for his jihadi purpose, and intensified his exposure to extremist propaganda. He worked for Oman Air, Royal Air Maroc and Flydubai after completing the required professional qualifications and security checks, which did not reveal his extremist beliefs or terrorist intentions. He also received flight training in the United Kingdom at L3 Airline Academy. In addition to his longtime plan, at least since 2019 taking flight lessons, he also told investigators that he acted in "revenge" for Gaza and wanted to die as a "martyr." Opportunistic added "motive?"

Al-Hammami's radicalization began while he was living and studying in Melbourne, Australia. He attended a mosque affiliated with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and met people associated with MyCentre, an Islamic center led by Samir Mohtadi, known as Abu Hamza. Mohtadi has promoted inflammatory anti-Zionist rhetoric, calling Zionists scavengers and bloodsuckers, not human, denying Israel's legitimacy and calling for Palestine to be cleansed of Zionists (which means he referred to all Israeli Jews). In sermons, he urged Allah to instill terror in Zionists, grant victory to Palestinian mujahideen and deprive Zionists of security. He also portrayed Australia's conflict with Islam as a war over people's minds and rejected the obligation to adopt Australian values. Mohtadi was pursuing plans for a multimillion-dollar Islamic complex through his registered charitable organization. The Islamic Information and Services Network of Australasia, which published his statements, remains a registered Australian charity and has received government support for community events and educational initiatives. UAE investigators determined that al-Hammami's extremist beliefs emerged in Australia and that he was influenced by material glorifying terrorism and suicide attacks. He confessed to acting alone, while authorities continued investigating his connections and possible accomplices. Investigators have not established that Mohtadi or MyCentre contributed to his radicalization or the planned attack.

Reform’s Suella Braverman: UK Antisemitism ‘Not Going to Get Better’ Amid Systemic Islamism Crisis. Former British home secretary Suella Braverman warned that antisemitism in the United Kingdom would worsen without political change. She accused British leaders of failing to confront Islamist extremism and said the country faced a systemic crisis involving Islamism.

‘Appreciate Everything’: Evyatar David on Hamas Captivity, Three Years After October 7. Former Hamas hostage Evyatar David reflected on his 738 days in captivity, the friends he lost at the Nova music festival, and the psychological torment of being told that nobody wanted him to return home. He also discussed the hope that sustained him throughout his captivity.

Trump Leaves Door Open to Iran Strike Before Midterms, Less Than a Day After Ruling It Out. Donald Trump said the United States might strike Iran before the midterm elections, reversing his position from less than a day earlier. He also discussed a Russian diesel fuel deal and the Fort Hood shooter.

Trump Says Russia to Immediately Supply 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to US and Global Markets. Donald Trump said Russia would immediately supply 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the United States and global markets.

• Oct 10, 2026:
  

Trump criticizes Nobel Peace Prize winner. He criticized the Nobel Peace Prize recipient as anti-Israel and largely unknown. He said he had stopped China and Taiwan from escalating their conflict but did not receive the prize, concluding that "something was wrong in Norway."

Hamas is celebrating the winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, despite Hamas having carried out the October 7 massacre. Israel has condemned the situation as a moral failure.

Pro Israel counter protesting against "pro palestine" agitators wave Israeli British and American flags behind police barriers with signs reading STOP THE GAZA GENOLIE and TWO TIER ENDS HERE.

Paraguay:

Paraguay will maintain its alliance with Israel despite political costs. Paraguay’s Vice President Pedro Alliana reaffirmed his country’s commitment to maintaining and expanding its strategic alliance with Israel despite diplomatic and political costs. Paraguay supports Israel’s right to defend itself, shares democratic values with Israel, and is expanding cooperation in security, healthcare, technology, agriculture, and cybersecurity. The countries have strengthened diplomatic ties, reopened their embassies, and expanded intelligence cooperation. Alliana intends to preserve the relationship if he becomes president in 2028.

Paraguay’s historical suffering strengthens its bond with Israel.

Paraguay’s devastating War of the Triple Alliance left its population decimated, its economy shattered, and its national survival in jeopardy. The country’s collective memory of catastrophic loss and its determination to preserve independence resonate with Israel’s experience and commitment to survival. These historical parallels add significance to Paraguay’s support for Israel and its participation in Holocaust and October 7 commemorations.

Paraguay seeks to strengthen Israel’s ties with Latin America.

Paraguay is working to improve Israel’s diplomatic relations throughout Latin America by facilitating dialogue between Israeli and regional officials. It maintains relationships with Israel, the United States, and Taiwan based on its stated foreign policy principles. Paraguay also supports a democratic transition in Venezuela that protects human rights, releases political prisoners, and allows full electoral participation.

Paraguay takes a firm stance against Iran’s influence in Latin America.

Paraguay has designated Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist organizations. It is expanding intelligence sharing and security cooperation with Israel, the United States, and regional partners to counter terrorism, organized crime, and Iranian activities. Cooperation includes cybersecurity, military support, and counterterrorism operations. Paraguay and Israel are also expanding partnerships in water management, agriculture, healthcare, and technology. A new healthcare agreement provides for technology transfers and professional training, while Israeli development programs have trained nearly 400 Paraguayan professionals over two years. Bilateral beef exports to Israel have increased from $85 million to $300 million annually over three years. Paraguay also seeks a larger diplomatic role in regional peace efforts and intends to make its relationship with Israel a lasting part of its foreign policy.

United Airlines grounds pilot who praised October 7 massacre. United Airlines again removed Islamic bigot Captain Ibrahim R. Mossallam from service after earlier social media posts expressing support for Hamas’s October 7 massacre. The airline initially suspended him with pay in November 2023, but he reportedly returned to flying six months later. United confirmed that he was withheld from service pending an ongoing review but did not confirm whether he had resumed flying after the initial investigation.

Iran retains missile and drone production capabilities. Iran has preserved key weapons factories and retains the ability to replenish its missile arsenal despite months of US-Israeli strikes, according to Western intelligence assessments.

Israel sends emergency aid to Panama following earthquake.

Bereaved family demands removal of monument to terrorist. Yaakov Farag was killed while guarding Har Bracha in 1988. His widow is demanding that the IDF demolish a nearby monument commemorating the person who killed him.

US reportedly pressured Israel to strike Iran before elections. The Trump administration urged Israel to attack Iran because of concerns about Tehran’s military buildup. The United States asked Israel to take on the political risks ahead of elections.

Trump considers US strikes on Houthis after deadly attack on Saudi Arabia. Donald Trump is weighing US military strikes against the Houthis following the deadliest attack on Saudi Arabia in 11 years.

Economic collapse hits IRGC as hardliners consolidate power. Iran’s economic collapse has forced mid-level and senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers to take second jobs to support themselves. Hardline commanders Ahmad Vahidi and Hossein Taeb have consolidated control while sidelining civilian leaders. Factions within the military are pushing for a major regional escalation before the US midterm elections to drive up oil prices and pressure Donald Trump ahead of expected American strikes.

Again: Abbas delays Palestinian elections until 2027. Mahmoud Abbas has postponed Palestinian elections again, pushing the vote toBorder.

IDF strikes Iranian-directed operative near Lebanon border. The IDF targeted a Syrian operative directed by Iran near the Syria-Lebanon border. The military said the operative was planning drone and rocket attacks against Israeli troops stationed along the Syrian border.

Lebanese security forces seize truck carrying 800 kilograms of explosives. Lebanese security forces seized a truck transporting approximately 800 kilograms of explosives, nails, and metal balls from the Baalbek area toward Beirut. The two drivers, identified as Hezbollah members, said a senior Hezbollah figure named Sayed Sajad had instructed them to deliver the shipment to another senior official in Dahiyeh. Security forces are investigating other Hezbollah members connected to the shipment as negotiations continue.

Trump calls Michigan senator-elect Mohammed El-Sayed a radical jihadist. Donald Trump called Michigan senator-elect Mohammed El-Sayed a radical jihadist and said he did not want a jihadist representing Michigan in the Senate. Trump defended his right to use the label, citing his position as president.

IDF kills Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists and destroys weapons sites in Gaza.

A passenger who helped subdue the Flydubai co-pilot wants two flight attendants and two additional pilots investigated. Asaf Rajuan suspects the flight attendants assisted the attacker, citing confrontations with passengers, objections to filming, and apparent attempts to interfere with the attacker's restraints. He also wants investigators to question the additional pilots who landed the aircraft in Saudi Arabia. The experience left him paranoid about whether the danger had ended after the co-pilot was restrained.

The IDF killed Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists and destroyed weapons sites in Gaza. The operations followed intensified attacks by the terrorist groups against Israeli troops, which violated the ceasefire agreement.

• Oct 11, 2026:
  

A poll examined the proportion of secular Israelis who view the rescue of passengers aboard the Flydubai flight as divine providence. One-third of secular Israeli respondents expressed this view.

US Central Command struck a commercial vessel with a precision munition after the ship attempted to bypass a blockade.

The Federal Aviation Administration warned US airlines to exercise caution when flying over or operating in Saudi Arabia because of flight risks.

The Houthis claimed responsibility for strikes on Saudi airports and warned that the worst was yet to come. The attacks exposed vulnerabilities in Saudi Arabia's defenses as the kingdom continued its air campaign against the Houthis, who are fighting the Saudi-backed government in Yemen.

France urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to reverse the postponement of Palestinian elections.

An international coalition coordinated pro-Palestinian protests worldwide in advance, preparing campaign slogans, media messaging, and protest tactics. The London-based Global Alliance for Palestine, a coalition of approximately 200 organizations, distributed media toolkits and coordinated a Global Day of Action on October 10. Its materials called for protesters to shut down city squares, surround government buildings, blockade corporate hubs, and disrupt normal business activities through walkouts, sit-ins, and blockades. The coalition also organized pressure on legislators to demand arms embargoes against Israel, emergency parliamentary debates, suspended trade agreements, and binding human rights sanctions. Its communications guidelines encouraged disciplined, urgent messaging and promoted slogans accusing Israel of genocide and the media of justifying Israeli actions. The Jerusalem Post identified 181 participating organizations, including CodePink, the Freedom Flotilla, and regional BDS chapters. Israel's Foreign Ministry condemned the prewritten accusations, coordinated slogans, and planned disruptions as an effort to dominate public narratives and demonize Israel. The genoLIE vibe was all over.

A British activist group called Our Fight launched the campaign “Some people are Zionist! Get over it!” in Parliament Square, near the Winston Churchill statue. The initiative responded to the Green Party conference's October 4 vote, which passed a motion declaring Zionism racism by 1,022 votes to 813. Mainly non-Jewish activists wore campaign shirts, displayed signs proclaiming pride in Zionism, and carried Israeli and British flags. The group's founder, Mark Birbeck, defined Zionism as support for the right of Jews to have a homeland and for Israel's right to exist. Our Fight plans another public demonstration and is organizing a January 17 conference called “Be a #MENSCH” to encourage non-Jewish allies to demonstrate solidarity with Jewish communities amid rising antisemitism. The group says Green Party conference organizers removed Birbeck from the auditorium and confiscated his pass after he wore the campaign slogan during the conference.

A social media trend in which non-Jewish users publicly declare themselves Zionists spread rapidly on X. An analysis identified 613 matching posts from 549 accounts between October 4 and October 11. The posts followed a common format identifying the user as non-Jewish, stating a nationality or religious identity, and affirming Zionism. Activity surged on October 9, with 131 posts, followed by 270 on October 10 and 138 on October 11. Approximately 88 percent of the posts appeared from October 9 onward. Participants identified themselves as members of numerous nationalities and religious groups, including Christians, Catholics, atheists, Muslims, Hindus, and agnostics. Most accounts posted only once. The data demonstrated rapid spread of a shared message across hundreds of accounts but did not establish centralized coordination or an organized campaign. The trend gained visibility after the third anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks, with users expressing support for Israel and the Jewish people's right to self-determination.

On the Israelophobic Khazar propaganda which is contradicted by genetic evidence and is used to deny Jewish historical rights to Israel. The commentary highlights a contradiction in the position of Dr. Omar Al-Jayousi, a Palestine Scholars Association member and Al Jazeera contributor, who peddles the Khazar thing while also interprets Islamic texts about the Children of Israel as applying to modern Zionists. Al-Jayousi propagates, presenting modern Zionists as ideological successors to the ancient Israelites. Islamic texts that explicitly identify Jews and the Children of Israel, particularly a hadith in Sahih Muslim predicting that Muslims will kill Jews in the future. Of course, the further confusion: how could apply to people based on political ideology rather than Jewish identity and whether it would extend to Christian Zionists and other supporters of Israel. It criticizes Al-Jayousi for invoking human rights, international law, and anti-colonialism to reinterpret an Islamic idea explicitly calling for the killing of Jews. In conclusion, this Islamist argument treats ancestry as irrelevant when assigning guilt but decisive when denying Jewish historical rights - whatever can be adjusted for hatred. An accompanying comment compares this contradiction to neo-Nazi arguments and Tucker Carlson's promotion of neo Nazis, others advancing the discredited Khazar theory about Ashkenazi Jews while discussing Jesus's death at Roman hands.

New York City Democratic socialist congressional candidate, Islamist bigot Darializa Avila Chevalier said the violent criminal record of Oscar Belgal, an undocumented immigrant wounded by ICE agents in the Bronx, did not matter. She accused the NYPD of portraying him as a villain and defended his attempt to flee federal agents with his five-year-old son in the car.

Obama's Democratic commentator Van Jones criticized attacks on Abdul El-Sayed based on his Muslim faith while condemning his foreign policy positions. Jones called El-Sayed’s opposition to Israeli purchases of missile interceptors and support for a total arms embargo against Israel as dangerous policies [Amd putting Millions of Jews in danger]. Jones argued that political opponents should challenge these positions directly rather than attack El-Sayed’s religion, which risks rallying public support around him. Jones acknowledged that El-Sayed has some good ideas but considered his foreign policy views unacceptable.

• Oct 12, 2026:
  

Federal agents searched Democratic Representative Islamivlc bigot prpgracist Ilhan Omar's home in connection with a criminal investigation. Separate reporting characterized the search as part of an immigration fraud investigation.

(Related: In her April statement which she read out prepared by other people she first called WWII world war eleven).

Israel demanded that a Dutch city allow Hapoel Beersheva supporters to attend the club's Europa League match.

Israel will deport three foreign activists, including the president of an anti-Israel organization promoting BDS, after they filmed Israeli Defense Forces soldiers in Hebron. Authorities found photographs of soldiers from previous shifts.

Andrea Martin, a Jewish law professor appointed to Pennsylvania's human rights panel, expressed shock at the hostility Jews face in the United States. She said she had previously worried more about her sons' experiences as Black Jews than about antisemitism. She never expected that one of her sons would have to worry about someone pouring hot coffee on him in a college library.

Hamas terror "officials' publicly identified Mohammad Abu Jasser as the militant who murdered Israeli Staff Sergeant Barel Hadaria Shmueli in August 2021. Abu Jasser shot the soldier at point-blank range through an opening in the Gaza border fence. Hamas confirmed that Abu Jasser was killed on December 6, 2024. This was the first time the organization publicly disclosed his identity and role in the killing.

The United States and 28 other countries condemned Iran's campaign of attacks across Europe targeting Jewish communities, Iranian journalists, and US interests. Their joint statement followed British Prime Minister Andy Burnham's assessment that the IRGC Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps almost certainly directed a planned Septembe[A27 terrorist attack on the Royal Air Force base at Fairford. The 29 countries rejected attempts by Iran to threaten, silence, intimidate, harass, harm, or coerce people within their territories through proxies or other means.

Former US President Barack Obama endorsed Islamic Mohamed [[Abdul El-Sayed] in the Michigan Senate race.

Post asserts that prominent Arab and Muslim figures and organizations focus on accusing Israel with that Gaza GenoLIE, while neglecting mass killings and persecution of millions of their Muslim "brethren" in Syria, China, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, and Iran (- by its own government). It criticizes these groups for failing to condemn Hamas’s responsibility for civilian suffering in Gaza, including its military tactics and decisions. It names Naledi Pandor, Euro-Med, CAIR, USCMO, the OIC, SJP Students for Justice in Palestine, []Qatar]]i linked and Turkish media outlets, Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and Abdul El-Sayed as examples of individuals and organizations accused of promoting anti-Israel propaganda, excusing Hamas, promoting antisemitism, or at least hostility toward Israel. The text also criticizes their political associations, public statements, and treatment of Jewish people.

A discussion on Jesse Watters Primetime mocks progressive political activism and cancel culture. The speakers ridicule women posting revealing gym selfies to protest comedian Shane Gillis and argue that Democrats frequently turn themselves into the target of public ridicule by responding to jokes with outrage. They praise Gillis for challenging cancel culture and expose Hasan Piker who calls everyone else a "racist" but admitted he has zero black friend, and for propagating the [false-]genocide while wearing clothing associated with Mao Zedong. They also accuse Piker of hypocrisy over China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims and noted his admiration for a country where Twitch [Piker's platform] is banned.

• Oct 13, 2026:
  

Former Israeli hostage Segev Kalfon marked one year since his release after 738 days in captivity, reflecting on his ongoing recovery and efforts to learn how to live again.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon confronted UN representative Vanessa Frazier over a report on children in armed conflict that he said ignored Hamas’s crimes.

Jared Kushner marked the anniversary of the release of the last 20 living Israeli hostages from Gaza. He recalled the hostages’ reunions with their families as among the most meaningful moments of his life and praised the hostages and their families for their strength and resilience after two years of captivity.

Benjamin Netanyahu visited the seam line in Samaria with senior security officials and warned terrorists against testing Israel. He said the Israel Defense Forces was prepared for the possibility that Palestinian Authority security forces might turn their weapons against Israel.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir demanded the death penalty for the Atab "palestinisn" terrorist murderer of Netanel Shakron in Judea Samaria.

Donald Trump warned the Houthis following attacks on Saudi Arabia.

Jewish day schools in Florida and California evacuated after receiving bomb threats. Representative Jared Moskowitz condemned threats against children and said grievances never justify targeting schools.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case concerning the definition of material support for terrorism. The legal question centers on how much assistance must contribute to a terrorist organization’s ability to achieve its goals. A dissenting Fourth Circuit judge argued that selling a hot dog to a terrorist would not meet that threshold.

Jewish United Nations employees said little progress has been made in addressing antisemitism within the organization. One employee identified Palestinians, Europeans, leftists, and nongovernmental organizations as major sources of concern.

A Middle East news update covered a container ship struck in the Strait of Hormuz, exchanges of fire between Saudi forces and the Houthis, difficulties in US negotiations with Iran, Saudi Arabia’s destruction of three drones north of Riyadh, and Hezbollah’s plans to distribute up to $14,000 per family following its war with Israel.

Iran and the United Kingdom summoned each other’s ambassadors over a suspected terrorist attack near a British airbase.

Lawrence Deitch, a former University of Michigan regent and former Democratic Party treasurer, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers over Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. Deitch praised Rogers as an honorable man and accused El-Sayed of deliberately encouraging antisemitism. The Republican Jewish Coalition also characterized El-Sayed as the most antisemitic Senate candidate in the country.

Jordan, Kuwait, and Ireland were among 15 countries elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council for terms ending in 2029. Several of the newly elected countries have accused Israel of that gemoLIE. The other new members are Brazil, Burundi, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Ghana, Japan, Nepal, Nigeria, Moldova, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Zambia.

The Arab Joint List said it would not support the next Israeli government without progress toward establishing a Palestinian state. Party chairman Yousef Jabareen identified Palestinian statehood as the most important of four demands the party would present to potential partners following the Israeli election.

An 18-year-old suspected Arab ISIS supporter was arrested over an alleged plot to attack Israel Defense Forces soldiers in Jerusalem.

US Central Command rejected an Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval commander’s assertion that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and would sink approaching American warships. CENTCOM said the strait was controlled by US forces and regional partners and reported that American forces had helped Gulf partners transport more than 19 million barrels of crude oil through the waterway the previous day.

Metallica frontman James Hetfield said the band would not use its Las Vegas Sphere residency to promote political agendas. He thanked fans for traveling to attend the shows and said Metallica’s purpose was to help audiences forget outside distractions through love, energy, and heavy music. His remarks were a rebuke - amid controversy over musician Macklemore [with his antisenutic history], using performances shouting "free Palestine."

Islamist bigot Ilhan Omar's immigration history faces new scrutiny as federal investigators subpoena relatives.

Israel’s defense minister said Iran was attempting to influence Israeli elections.

Donald Trump questioned Representative Ilhan Omar’s finances after a report sharply revised estimates of her net worth from as much as $30 million to less than $100,000. He linked the discrepancy to a Minnesota fraud scandal and an FBI search of her home.

Islamic fascist Republic of Iran executed 21-year-old protester Alireza Raisi for participating in protests against the Iranian government. In his final phone call, Raisi comforted his crying father and promised to reunite with a cousin who had been killed in the same demonstrations.

A survey found that two-thirds of Lebanese Shia Muslims support disarming Hezbollah and that there is openness to peace with Israel.

NY GOP candidate Bruce Blakeman offered up some choice words for Hizzoner when he was mentioned near the end of the political match with Hochul. “Look, if you want to campaign with him, that’s fine,” Blakeman said, adding, “But I will tell you right now, I think Zohran Mamdani is an antisemite.”

• Oct 14, 2026:
  

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hezbollah against joining an Iranian attack on Israel. He said Israel would seize additional territory in southern Lebanon and strike Beirut’s Dahieh district if Hezbollah joined the attack.

More hatred in Ireland: A Dublin hotel canceled 70 rooms booked for delegates attending an international conference on combating antisemitism. The Herbert Park Hotel questioned whether the event was connected to the Israel Defense Forces, leaving conference participants without their reserved accommodation.

Former Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski began a new chapter as a television host after his release from Hamas captivity.

R' Shmuel Eliyahu visited students at Ma’alot religious high school who were mourning their 14-year-old classmate, Elazar Yair Vilensky, killed when unexploded ammunition detonated during a school trip in northern Israel. Eliyahu called Vilensky a casualty of war and urged the students to understand the tragedy as part of the wider conflict Israel faces.

Colombia became the tenth country to establish an embassy in Jerusalem. Israel’s foreign minister called the move a historic milestone in relations between the two countries and an important development for Jerusalem.

Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said [the cruel Islamic Palestine Gaza's leasership of] Hamas was demanding 10,000 shekels per humanitarian aid truck entering Gaza and threatening merchants who refused to pay. Private traders suspended shipments in response to the demands.

A Saudi Arab national employed as an engineer at OpenAI was arrested and charged with using or attempting to use an electronic or mechanical device to intercept oral communications. Abdulrahman Alfozan, who had worked at OpenAI since July 2025, was accused of secretly installing an audio recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco premises. OpenAI employees discovered the device, concealed in toilet paper and inserted into a USB port behind a television, on September 30. The device had reportedly been installed around September 28, and its contents were encrypted. US intelligence and law enforcement officials said the case highlighted the importance of protecting advanced artificial intelligence technology and American intellectual property from foreign threats.

Hamas generates millions of dollars daily from Gaza aid shipments.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry criticized Ireland after a Dublin hotel canceled 70 rooms reserved for delegates attending an international conference on combating antisemitism. The hotel questioned whether the event was connected to the Israel Defense Forces. Israel accused the Irish government of treating the fight against antisemitism as a public relations exercise while failing to address antisemitism at home.

Ilhan Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed, served as a colonel in Somalia’s military under Islamo-socialist dictator Siad Barre. The regime’s military carried out mass killings, torture and other atrocities against the Isaaq people - genocide of 200,000. Mohamed remained loyal to the regime until its collapse and arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1995. Questions have been raised about his military background, refugee eligibility and naturalization records, as well as whether Omar qualified for derivative citizenship through him. Federal investigators are examining immigration issues involving Omar and her family. A separate investigation concerns her financial disclosures, campaign spending and payments to her husband’s firm. The commentary also links Somali officials and former military commanders to alleged abuses and argues that US immigration and refugee procedures failed to prevent individuals connected to the former regime from entering the country.

Commentators criticized Ilhan Omar and Michigan political candidate Abdul El-Sayed over their connections to Somalia and Egypt, their positions on Israel and their associations with the Muslim Brotherhood. Omar prioritizes Somali interests over those of her US constituents and that El-Sayed’s family has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The discussion portrays the Muslim Brotherhood as an Islamist movement opposed to Western principles, including individual rights, free speech and the separation of religion and state, and identifies Hamas as an offshoot. It warns that progressive political movements are enabling Islamists to gain influence through democratic institutions.

A French technology executive argued that France’s extensive welfare programs, public spending, regulation and taxation have contributed to economic stagnation, the departure of skilled workers and declining public safety. The commentary uses France as a warning about progressive policies in the United States and argues that Islamist movements exploit progressive groups to advance their own objectives.

Commentators criticized a survey for leading respondents toward the desired results by presenting Sharia as a simple set of laws, thereby encouraging young people [Gen Z] to answer positively so as not to appear intolerant. The survey did not explain exactly what Sharia really is. Young people would reject these practices if they understood them, and the wording of opinion polls produces misleading answers.

The Trump administration is continuing the Biden administration’s prosecution of a journalist who exposed Kanye West’s antisemitism.

Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon and US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz met with Latin American envoys at the United Nations.

Colombia opened an embassy in Jerusalem, becoming the tenth country to establish an embassy in Israel’s capital. Israel also reinstated its free trade agreement with Colombia. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel had reversed most of the negative consequences of the Petro administration’s tenure within two months.

Funny how accountability only works one way.

A commentary criticized inconsistent accountability over the Strait of Hormuz and the Gaza war. Donald Trump is blamed when Iran closes the strait, while Hamas leaders are not held responsible for the October 7 attacks that triggered the war in Gaza. 'Funny how accountability only goes one way.'

US forces destroyed an Iranian surveillance vessel.

Donald Trump said Iran would use a nuclear weapon within 24 hours if it possessed one.

Israel blocked construction of a military outpost in Gaza intended for the international force associated with Board of Peace. The decision delayed the deployment of international troops and reconstruction efforts.

North Korea tested submarine-launched cruise missiles.

Sally Rooney’s books are set to be withdrawn from sale in the United Kingdom because of her support for terrorist 'Palestine Action.'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a memorial at the State Department for American victims of the October 7 attacks.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff marked the anniversary of the release of the last 20 living Israeli hostages from Gaza. The hostages reunited with their families after 738 days in captivity. Witkoff thanked Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner and mediators from Israel, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey for their roles in securing their release.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir proposed rewriting the Israel Defense Forces’ ethical code if he becomes defense minister. He wants to replace “purity of arms” with “righteousness of arms,” prioritize victory and the decisive defeat of Israel’s enemies, and base military ethics on Jewish morality, the Bible emphasized in the Talmud, Jewish law and Jewish tradition. His proposed changes would remove restrictions limiting force to what is necessary, protections explicitly barring harm to noncombatants and prisoners of war, and references to universal moral values.

The United Arab Emirates joined an international forum on combating antisemitism for the first time.

The United States agreed to sell Israel 12 Boeing-manufactured Apache attack helicopters, with deliveries scheduled to begin at the start of the next decade. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz thanked the US administration and Pentagon for their commitment to Israel’s security.

Colombia becomes the tenth country to open an embassy in Jerusalem. Israel’s foreign minister called the move a historic milestone in bilateral relations and an important day for Jerusalem.

Jewish leaders condemned New York City Comptroller Mamdani's fan Brad Lander's decision to end the city’s investments in Israel Bonds, calling the move indefensible.

Knesset speaker rejects genolie charges in speech to European parliamentary leaders. He accused world leaders of spreading falsehoods for political gain. He displayed a book containing the word “Jew” six million times to commemorate Holocaust victims, calling the Holocaust an example of real genocide. He characterized the Gaza war as a struggle between extremism and the forces of freedom and democracy, urging European parliamentary leaders to support Israel. His speech received applause. Israel maintains that it takes steps to protect civilians and accuses Hamas of operating within civilian infrastructure.

Muslim charities in Judea and Samaria exposed as terror Hamas fronts. Israeli forces raided two charity organizations in Ramallah and Yatta and arrested five operatives connected to Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Security officials identified the organizations as financial and operational arms of the groups operating under the guise of civilian charities. Some employees participated in the 2019 attack that killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb.

Man arrested after entering a New York synagogue shouting “Allahu Akbar”. Shear Nobles, 48, was arrested after police found him attempting to evade a subway fare. He had entered Shuva Israel, a Midtown Manhattan synagogue, during an evening service in July 2025, recorded without authorization, and shouted “Allahu Akbar.” He fled the synagogue and remained at large for more than a year. He had no connection to the congregation.

More on Islamicized UK Green Party with its demonizing Zionism. Literally anything can be Islamophobic in Green la-la land. The article criticizes the Green Party of England and Wales for guidance that classifies various forms of criticism of Islam as Islamophobic. Examples include criticizing the Quran’s teachings, speaking against Islam’s treatment of women, and pointing out that Muslim-majority countries do not permit same-sex marriage or adoption by same-sex couples. The article rejects the explanation that colonialism accounts for anti-LGBTQ laws in those countries and portrays the guidance as restricting legitimate criticism of religion.

• Oct 15, 2026:
  

Israeli President Isaac Herzog urged broader regional peace and cooperation during a visit to Azerbaijan. He met with Bahraini and Chinese foreign ministers during an Asian security conference and emphasized that cooperation cannot thrive alongside boycotts.

Herzog met with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Baku to discuss expanding trade, economic, and investment ties. Herzog welcomed Kazakhstan’s participation in U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. Tokayev reaffirmed Kazakhstan’s support for reducing regional tensions and resolving conflicts through diplomacy.

Herzog met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Azerbaijan and raised threats from Iran and its terrorist proxies. They also discussed Middle Eastern developments and Israeli-Chinese economic, trade, and cultural relations.

Israeli police arrested five people after a vehicle carrying Palestinians broke through a Jerusalem checkpoint.

Israel Police arrested five 15-year-old Arab-Palestinians in Sa’ir near Hebron on suspicion of establishing a terrorist group called the Sa’ir Brigades and carrying out firebomb and rock-throwing attacks. In a separate operation in Beit Ula, police arrested a man in his 60s and seized two pistols, ammunition, fireworks, and tens of thousands of shekels from his home. Police also arrested a suspect at the Tarqumiya Crossing who attempted to run over officers with a stolen vehicle the previous weekend. All seven suspects were taken for questioning, and police sought to extend their detention.

The IDF dismantled an underground terror tunnel measuring 1.5 kilometers in southern Gaza. The tunnel crossed the Yellow Line.

Slovak President Peter Pellegrini congratulated the Israel Chamber of Commerce on its 25th anniversary.

Former Knesset member Matan Kahana condemned the term “settler violence” as an unfair attack on an entire community. He called for a forceful crackdown on nationalist crime in Judea and Samaria.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog flew through Turkish airspace despite Ankara’s ban, and Turkish and Iranian delegates walked out during his speech at the Baku summit. The report said the flight occurred without Turkey’s knowledge.

Israel ended its war with Iran with more interceptor missiles than it had at the start, according to Rafael’s CEO.

A former Israeli ambassador said Israel secretly received Iranian and Russian weapons from Ukraine.

Canadian authorities arrested two suspects connected to anti-Israel incidents and assaults in Edmonton and Toronto.

Gadi Eisenkot pledged to destroy Hamas within 18 months of becoming prime minister.

China and Pakistan conducted military exercises at high altitudes using weapons supplied by Beijing.

France riots expose radical left-Islamist alliance. The article links riots in France to cooperation between radical left-wing and Islamist groups. It presents the unrest as deepening France’s political crisis ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

Islamo socialist bigot Hasan Piker slammed for bashing Jewish voters moving away from Democrats. He blames Israel. Critics said Piker’s explanation invoked the antisemitic dual-loyalty stereotype and ignored other reasons Jewish voters might leave the party, including concerns about antisemitism and public safety. Republican Jewish Coalition communications director Sam Markstein accused Piker of trivializing antisemitism. Jewish commentators and Democratic lawmakers also condemned his remarks, particularly his suggestion that Jewish Americans’ public support for Israel could provoke violence against them. Piker has faced further criticism for saying that America deserved the September 11 attacks.

Majority of New York Jewish voters view Mamdani unfavorably. A September Siena poll found that 64% of Jewish voters in New York State viewed Zohran Mamdani unfavorably, while 33% viewed him favorably. [It's safe to assume that the results included mostly left wingers. Which means it didn't even include conservative Jews, as conservatives, as a whole, mostly ignore survey questions (Watters, 10/15/26)].

Is it "Islamophobic" to connect Islamists and El-Sayed? The article states that concerns about Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhood should not be dismissed as Islamophobia. It points to his mother’s involvement in the organization, his father-in-law’s leadership and donations to the Islamic Society of North America, and campaign donations from people connected to organizations associated with Hamas fundraising. It also highlights El-Sayed’s refusal to condemn Pijer's hateful rhetoric, his comparisons between Israel and Hamas, his attacks on pro-Israel advocacy, and his handling of a Temple attack.

The article asserts that El-Sayed’s political positions and associations warrant scrutiny regardless of whether he personally belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood. It criticizes Democratic politicians and liberal media outlets for dismissing the issue and argues that labeling scrutiny of Islamist organizations as Islamophobia shields antisemitism and threatens Jewish and American security.

University of Pittsburgh antisemitism report omitted Jewish students’ perspectives. The University of Pittsburgh faced criticism after an internal working group published a report on campus antisemitism without including or apparently soliciting the perspectives of the university’s approximately 1,400 Jewish students or other members of the campus Jewish community outside the working group.

Organized falsified editing on Wikipedia.

A Canadian Arab led pro-Palestinian organization, Artists Against Artwashing, plans to hold a Wikipedia editing event to honor Palestinian artists it calls martyrs and highlight Canadian and Zionist supporters it accuses of backing genocide. The event will include Palestinian short films, an introductory Wikipedia session, and hands-on editing. The initiative has raised concerns about Wikipedia’s neutrality because it organizes contributors around a predetermined political objective. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger said coordinated editing to advance a controversial viewpoint constitutes canvassing and should result in blocks. WikiBias also questioned the initiative’s stated goal of changing the narrative.

Artists Against Artwashing campaigns for cultural institutions to divest from what it calls settler colonialism and genocide. Its main campaign targets the Azrieli Foundation, the charitable counterpart of the Israeli real estate company Azrieli Group. The organization previously held a Wikipedia editing workshop focused on articles associated with the foundation. Edits to the Azrieli Group article coincided with the workshop in April. One newly registered account made a single edit, while another edited the Azrieli Group and David Azrieli articles and later received a warning for edit warring.

Arab led Pro-Palestinian organizations have also organized Wikipedia editing workshops related to the Israel-Hamas war. Hamas linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor operates a program called WikiRights that trains Palestinians in human rights research, documentation, and Wikipedia editing in Arabic and English. Its third edition began in Gaza in February, targeting 12 young Palestinian participants.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Technology and Society released a report finding that biased edits remain in major Wikipedia articles about Israel, Zionism, Hamas, and Jewish history. The report follows an investigation that documented a coordinated campaign involving approximately 30 editors who sought to influence articles about Israel, Jewish history, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The ADL found that biased edits remain in Wikipedia articles despite bans against several editors. On six major articles, 91 percent of one banned editor’s contributions remain in the live text. Documentation of the October 7 attacks, including evidence of sexual violence, has not been restored to the Gaza war article.

The report identified 19 active accounts editing Israel- and Palestine-related articles, including eight previously identified editors who had not been sanctioned and 11 newly identified editors. Their methods have become more subtle, allowing them to maintain preferred narratives through reversions, qualified factual statements, and gradual changes. Across 229 articles edited by multiple accounts, the 11 newly identified editors made the most recent edits to roughly 60 percent of the pages.

The Hamas article was restructured shortly after October 7, 2023, moving material about antisemitism, human shields, child combatants, and human rights abuses to a less-read article. The main article’s introduction now identifies Hamas as a designated terrorist organization only near the end of the section.

The Gaza war article lost approximately 17,000 characters of text and citations documenting October 7 atrocities, including evidence of sexual violence, victims bound with wire and burned, and video evidence of an attempted decapitation. Another 7,400 characters were removed two days later, leaving a brief reference to terrorists who “reportedly engaged” in such violence.

The Zionism article defines Zionism through colonization and states that Zionists sought a state with as few[sic] Palestinian Arabs as possible. Wikipedia editors have flagged the wording as disputed. One account made 543 edits, adding approximately 193,000 characters and removing about 188,000, substantially changing the article despite a small net change in length.

The report found that editors named in its investigation made 832 of 9,576 revisions across four pages and their discussion pages concerning sexual violence during the October 7 attacks. The article on sexual and gender-based violence continues to frame the violence against Israeli women and girls as something that was “reportedly” inflicted, despite multiple reports confirming it.

After the Bibas family’s bodies were returned in February 2025, an editor who had not been sanctioned made 64 edits to the family’s article and discussion page, keeping the circumstances of their deaths open to dispute despite Israeli forensic authorities’ conclusion that they were murdered in captivity.

The ADL renewed recommendations for private identity verification in contentious topic areas, ending anonymous IP editing on sensitive pages, resolving content disputes on merit, and creating a dedicated task force on antisemitic bias. It also called for a structured audit of articles heavily edited by banned contributors and urged search engines and AI developers to disclose when their answers rely on Wikipedia. The ADL called on policymakers to continue oversight.

Abdul El-Sayed’s academic inspiration, Tariq Ramadan, is a Muslim Brotherhood descendant who was barred from entering the United States over terrorism ties. Ramadan, known for attacks on Jewish intellectuals, was sentenced in France to 18 years in prison for raping three women.

Jewish Democrat Taylor Weintraub criticized Abdul El-Sayed’s defense of the remark “hurt people hurt people” (- on Hezbollah inspired Arab attempting to massacre 140 toddlers in March 2026, Temple Israel). Weintraub said there was no justification for anyone wanting to kill his five-year-old Jewish-American son.

Israel is monitoring Iranian missile tests and regional threats amid concerns that a miscalculation could trigger a wider conflict before elections in Israel and the United States.

An Arab Palestinian driver struck an Israeli who was attempting to block a road near Ateret in the Binyamin region, lightly injuring him. An initial IDF investigation found that youths had attempted to block traffic.

Chaim Nadel, a Holocaust orphan who commanded IDF paratroopers, died at 92. He lost his entire family in the Holocaust and arrived in Israel alone as a child. During 33 years of military service, he commanded historic battles and helped shape the Paratroopers Brigade’s combat doctrine. He later presided over the military appeals court and served on the Winograd Commission.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed had a tense exchange with NBC journalist Tom Llamas over questions about his family’s Muslim Brotherhood ties (his mother was a MB member the 1970s). El-Sayed visibly angry first avoiding a straight reply, scuffing, then denied having any connection to the organization and rejected the questions as based on hearsay. The questions followed his half-sister’s social media statements that their mother had been involved with the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s.

The discussion also focused on El-Sayed’s refusal to identify whether Israel or Iran posed the greater threat to the United States. Pete Buttigieg said Iran was an enemy and Israel was an ally, but confirmed he would vote for El-Sayed over Republican candidate Mike Rogers. Panelists slammed El-Sayed’s confrontational responses to journalists and questioned how he would handle pressure and national security responsibilities as a senator.

The panel discussed the potential electoral consequences of the controversy in Michigan, including the state’s Jewish vote and the need for candidates to attract independents. Some panelists argued that El-Sayed’s response to questions about his family and his position on Israel and Iran could hurt his campaign. They also discussed his support for abolishing ICE, demonizing Israel, connections between his family and Islamist organizations, financing by Islamists and his adoration of Muslim Brotherhood founder's grandson Tariq Ramadan in jail for rape. and his backing Sharia law.

The panel contrasted El-Sayed with Mike Rogers, a former U.S. Army official who served 14 years in Congress. Rogers’s Heritage Foundation score during his congressional tenure was 53 percent, placing him near the political center by the panel’s assessment.

The IDF released two sets of documents connected to the arch terror leader architect of Oct 7 Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s former leader, ahead of the second anniversary of his death:

- Sinwar’s letter: He urged Hamas terrorists to document the October 7, 2023, massacre, including graphic footage of point-blank shootings and the killing of victims, to create “horrific images.”

The IDF also released footage of the operation that eliminated him.

- His son’s letter: Ibrahim Sinwar, then 10 years old, wrote to his father expressing a desire to hold a Kalashnikov rifle and “shoot the Jews.” The letter, decorated with drawings of tanks and missiles and a Spider-Man sticker, was recovered by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in 2024.

• Oct 16, 2026:
  

Israeli-born Holocaust educator Dee Simon joined Washington state’s human rights commission after the previous commissioner resigned over antisemitism. Simon said her upbringing included experiences associated with both Jewish identity and immigrant life.

Israel is advancing military technologies to counter hypersonic missiles and drone threats.

US lawmakers introduced legislation to expand internet access for the Iranian people.

UN Special "Rapporteur" [la Fascista] Francesca Albanese faced criticism from after defending the British Green Party’s policy declaring that Zionism is racism[sic]. At an Oxford University discussion, she praised the policy, cited the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement as an effective campaign against Israel, and praised Ireland’s anti Israel. She called restrictions on the slogan “globalize the Intifada” absurd. She also called for broader examination of attitudes toward Israel and Judaism.

Labour Against Antisemitism, Liberal Democrats Friends of Israel and Campaign Against Antisemitism condemned Albanese’s position, arguing that it delegitimizes Jewish national self-determination and promotes antisemitism. Critics also pointed to her [pre UN job] previous hate statements about Jewish influence in American politics, her response to the October 7 Hamas attack, and her criticism of international support for Israel. Albanese has faced repeated accusations of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias, including controversy over her false statements concerning Nazi concentration camps and the origins of the term antisemitism.

Benjamin Netanyahu responded to Barack Obama’s accusations that Israel supposedly "stole" Palestinian land by asserting that Israel’s land is its homeland. Netanyahu said the obstacle to peace is not Israel but the enemies shared by Israel and the United States in the region.

Colombia withdrew from the Hague Group, an organization opposed to Israel. Honduras and Bolivia had also left the group in March. Colombia’s new leadership has warmer relations with Israel.

Cyprus established a parliamentary group focused on Israel, following a similar move in Greece. The initiatives reflect growing cooperation among the eastern Mediterranean allies amid regional instability and tensions with Turkey.

Croatian soccer fans chanted “Rise up Adolf” and referenced Auschwitz before a local team played Dutch club Ajax. [Reviving memories of Nazi era fascists there] Israel’s embassy in Zagreb thanked the Croatian government for condemning the incident.

A new report examines suspected Iranian interference in Israeli elections.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana rejected the genolie, calling it 'a despicable lie' during a speech to parliamentary leaders in Rome. He contrasted the October 7 Hamas massacre, in which more than 1,200 people were killed, with the Holocaust, emphasizing that Jews were deliberately targeted during the massacre. Holding books representing the six million Jewish Holocaust victims, he stressed the scale and meaning of the genocide of European Jewry. His speech received applause and thanks from Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe President Petra Bayr. Ohana also held 14 meetings with European parliamentary counterparts during the gathering and said Israel’s position and cause had been clearly presented.

Paraguay announced that it would join the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), becoming the eighth Latin American country to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism.

Indonesia’s Islamic council called for the cancellation of Andrea Bocelli’s concerts because of his ties to Israel.

Hundreds of Arab Palestinians led by the Palestinian Authority attacked Israelis near Abu Falah in the Benjamin region during the olive harvest. They fired flares directly at civilians and threw rocks.

The Israeli government questioned who was responsible for an attack that injured Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine in Samaria. The newspaper’s executive editor said Israeli settlers attacked her while she was visibly identified as a journalist. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said serious questions remained about whether Israelis or Palestinians carried out the attack.

Forty rabbis from 17 Florida cities and seven counties endorsed Donalds for governor. They praised Florida as a place where Jewish families can practice their faith and raise children without constant fear and expressed support for keeping the state safe and welcoming.

The IDF killed two terrorists, Basel Nabil Abd al-Rahman Kashta and Ahmad Raja al-Shaer, in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. The two men were involved in procuring, trading and smuggling weapons into Gaza. The operation, conducted with the Shin Bet, aimed to eliminate an immediate threat to Israeli civilians and troops near the Yellow Line ceasefire area. Israeli forces used precision munitions and aerial surveillance to minimize civilian harm. The military continues efforts to weaken Hamas’s military buildup and financing and prevent the group from rebuilding its capabilities.

Private-sector goods deliveries into Gaza stopped after Hamas threatened and coerced local businesses. Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace’s high representative for Gaza, said the intimidation of merchants and interference with supply chains worsened civilian suffering and must end. Israeli officials clarified that the merchants, rather than the Israeli government, decided to halt the deliveries because of Hamas’s threats.

Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia would likely accept Israeli assistance against Houthi rebels in Yemen. He also expressed confidence that efforts to bring Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords could regain momentum.

Hundreds of Arab 'Palestinians' led by the 'Palestinian' Authority attacked with Israelis near Abu Falah in the Benjamin region Friday, firing flares directly at civilians and hurling rocks—all under cover of the olive harvest season.

A Washington Post photojournalist was wounded during a confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office condemned the attack while stating that the facts remained unclear and serious questions persisted about who was responsible.

A Saudi-led coalition intercepted Houthi missiles and drones.

The IDF prepared for possible strikes in southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese army forced [[Hezbollah)] gunmen to withdraw following a standoff at a warehouse.

Israeli Druze leader endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the elections.

Kid Rock warns voters about Abdul El-Sayed. Kid Rock warned voters against trusting Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, that an apparently assimilated public image does not establish loyalty to the United States. He compared El-Sayed’s appearance to that of the Fort Hood shooter and the September 11 hijackers, as he criticized his statements about America, and warned that his political ideology could gain influence in government. The remarks came amid scrutiny of El-Sayed’s family’s Muslim Brotherhood connections, which he has denied.

Abdul El-Sayed equated Hamas with the Israeli military in a synagogue speech. A recording from 2018 shows Abdul El-Sayed telling Jewish voters at a Detroit synagogue that he would condemn Hamas and Israeli military human rights abuses in the same way. The remarks have renewed scrutiny of his views on Israel as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate. El-Sayed has faced criticism from Jewish Democrats and other politicians for his anti-Israel positions, his refusal to say whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, and his associations with Hasan Piker. He kind of "apologized" for his rationalized response to 'Temple Israel' full of toddlers Hezbollah inspired attack in Michigan, saying he should have issued an unequivocal condemnation. He also faced criticism for his statements about the October 7 attacks and for campaign messaging that singled out Israel’s prime minister without mentioning Hamas.

Socialist radical Troy Jackson discloses campaign donations from billionaires. Troy Jackson disclosed campaign contributions from billionaires two days after saying that billionaires were not funding his campaign. One of the donors was Joshua Bekenstein, co-chairman of Bain Capital and a member of the Boston Billionaires Club.

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Hamas commander involved in October 7 eliminated by the IDF. The Israeli military killed Mohammed Abd al-Halaq Halla, who headed a weapons production unit, in northern Gaza. A separate strike killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative in Khan Yunis in connection with ceasefire violations.

Javier Milei ally says Britain has been colonized by ((Islam]]. Santiago Caputo, a senior adviser to Argentine President Javier Milei, argued that Argentina should regain control of the Falkland Islands. He linked his position to claims that Britain was being colonized by Islam, referencing newly electedLabour MP Sagal Abdi-Wali taking her parliamentary oath with her hand on the Quran.

CNN discusses possible successors to Trump in the MAGA movement. CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan said Marco Rubio was more frequently favored than JD Vance as a potential successor to Donald Trump among the people he interviewed about the future of the MAGA movement.

Russia-Iran relationship draws attention amid U.S. sanctions controversy

Los Angeles man planned an attack on a Jewish preschool. Federal agents arrested Steven Carlos Duenas, 51, of the Los Angeles area, after finding materials intended for making a Molotov cocktail. Prosecutors said he had planned a mass-casualty incident at a Jewish preschool. His social media posts praised the Houthis and expressed support for burning synagogues.

Western leaders back a two-state solution, but do Palestinians want one?

The article reminds that the goal of a two-state solution conflicts with calls to replace Israel with a Palestinian state throughout the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. In fact, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and influential "Palestinian" voices reject territorial compromise, while Palestinian education reinforces hostility toward Israel and Jews. It criticizes Western governments, the United Nations, and Arab states for continuing to support a two-state solution despite this opposition.

The article attributes the persistence of the policy to leaders’ desire to appear moral and reasonable. Ideological indoctrination and the rejection of Israel prevent peaceful coexistence, making the two-state solution unworkable and prolonging the conflict.

Israeli opposition seeks to prevent Trump from endorsing Netanyahu. Israeli opposition figures are working behind the scenes to stop Donald Trump from endorsing Benjamin Netanyahu before Israel’s next election. They fear that Trump’s support could influence the political contest and the formation of the next government.

Predictions of Gaza’s death toll were wrong, and no one is held accountable. The article reminds that predictions of mass death, famine, and disease in Gaza repeatedly exceeded the outcomes reflected in available mortality figures. It cites Gaza’s 2025 mortality report, which recorded 24,650 deaths, including 17,286 attributed to military operations, 1,584 accidental deaths, and 5,780 other deaths. An independent analysis found that the nonviolent death toll was broadly consistent with prewar levels. The report also recorded 50,227 births.

It recalls earlier warnings about imminent mass deaths among infants, an epidemic, and famine. It notes that a United Nations warning by Fletcher about 14,000 babies dying within 48 hours was later clarified to refer to projected cases of severe acute malnutrition, not deaths. It also cites a projected worst-case scenario of 85,750 excess deaths that did not materialize and an initial famine projection that was later rejected by an international review committee. In short: the figures did not support predictions of mass mortality on the scale forecast.

The article compares the Gaza figures with famine mortality in Somalia and highlights discrepancies between famine thresholds and the number of malnutrition deaths recorded by Gaza’s Health Ministry. It also recounts earlier debunked casualty figures from Jenin [2002], Operation Cast Lead [2014], and the explosion at Al-Ahli hospital. In each case, initial reports overstated deaths or misidentified responsibility, while later corrections received less attention.

The article accuses international organizations, media outlets, and political activists of circulating catastrophic predictions about Israel before the evidence could be assessed. These predictions generate pressure for sanctions and arms restrictions, while failures to meet the forecasts rarely lead to accountability or formal corrections.

Jewish shepherd rammed by racist Palestinian Arab. A Jewish shepherd was injured in Samaria after a Palestinian Arab swerved into him with a vehicle, sending him flying through the air.

Egypt seeks mandate to defend Saudi Arabia. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is seeking parliamentary authorization to defend Saudi Arabia amid regional security concerns.

Antisemitic campaign targets Azerbaijan’s president over hijab restrictions. Online cartoons by Muslim biguts portray Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev as an enemy of Islam and a servant of Israel following protests over school hijab restrictions. Turkish, Iranian, and Russian actors are suspected of involvement, but responsibility for the campaign has not been established.

Ukraine has run out of Patriot air-defense interceptors as Russian attacks intensify.

Lawmakers accuse Trump of surrendering to Putin after sanctions waiver. Republican and Democratic lawmakers criticized Donald Trump for waiving sanctions on Russia, describing the decision as a surrender to Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the pause as Russian forces attacked power plants.

Mohamed Abdul El-Sayed held high-dollar fundraisers hosted by Debbie Almontaser, an Islamic school principal who resigned after defending “intifada” as a T-shirt slogan, and Huwaida Arraf, a Gaza flotilla activist who has called Thanksgiving a national day of mourning.

Islamo-socialist Mamdani criticized for skipping Polish-American heritage events. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced criticism from Polish-American leaders for missing the Pulaski Day Parade and proposing to replace a traditional Polish Heritage celebration at Gracie Mansion with a broader Eastern European event. Critics, (accuse him of anti-white racism) also pointed to his absence from German-American and Israel Day parades, as well as the Columbus Day celebration. They accused him of selectively honoring ethnic communities, although he attended events celebrating Pakistani, Sikh, West Indian, African American, Irish, and Greek communities.

Flydubai pilot recounts cockpit attack. A Flydubai pilot recounted an attack in the cockpit during which the plane was diving.

Marco Rubio tells Lebanon not to return explosives to Hezbollah. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Lebanon’s president that returning explosives seized by Lebanese authorities to Hezbollah was not an option. Lebanese authorities had intercepted half a ton of explosives destined for the organization.

Emergency declared in Shoham after suspected border crossing. Israeli authorities activated an emergency protocol after surveillance cameras detected illegal Arabs crossing a fence into Israeli territory near Shoham. Security forces apprehended seven individuals.

Israel plans war-crimes trials for October 7 attackers. The Israeli government plans to vote on allocating resources to prosecute Hamas members who carried out the October 7 massacre. The proposal includes establishing a dedicated military administration and appointing judges to a military court in Jerusalem.

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