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

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'Peace first, war later': Arab state urged potential Israel partner to sign deal before launching war. Aug 10, 2026.

Arab state reportedly urged another potential Israel-normalization country to sign deal with Israel, then go to war ‘when time is right’

i24NEWS. August 10, 2026.

Information cleared for publication by the Israeli military has revealed a reported exchange between several countries in the region over a possible agreement with Israel, according to reports by Israeli media Kan 11 and Channel 12.

According to the reports, one Arab state allegedly advised another country to first sign an agreement with Israel and then, if circumstances became more favorable, launch a war against the Jewish state.

identity of the country that received the advice remains classified.

The revelations come as the Middle East undergoes major strategic shifts. The Abraham Accords, brokered by the United States in 2020, established diplomatic relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, with Morocco and Sudan later joining the normalization process, although Sudan’s agreement was never fully implemented.

The latest developments also come after Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed the “Mecca Pact,” a defense agreement under which an attack against one member would be considered an attack against all three.

UAE restores ties with Tehran while deepening Israel alliance

UAE restores ties with Tehran while deepening Israel alliance Iran subsequently warned that the agreement would not guarantee Saudi Arabia’s security. Turkey’s foreign minister responded that the alliance was not directed against Tehran and said Egypt was considering joining the pact, potentially expanding the arrangement into a four-country defense alliance i24

They are for war (Ps.120:7).

What happens when an official in one of the countries in the region advises an official in another country to pursue a peace agreement with Israel in order to "stun" it in preparation for a future campaign against it? As expected, Israeli intelligence recognizes this and, in a rare case, also approves of publishing the unusual discourse. An expert also explains to "Center of Affairs" the Israeli tactics.

By Avraham Cohen.

The dramatic consultation that was recently revealed by the State of Israel caused a fierce storm among the political and security leadership in Israel. Last week, the matter was allowed to be published, without relevant names, and the State of Israel and the entire region were exposed to the dramatic event.

The consultation that was revealed was short, but explosive and dangerous. According to the report, which was first published in Kan News, an official in one of the countries in the region advised an official in another country to reach an agreement with Israel in order to "reject" Israel. During the conversation, the advisor suggested that the other party seek help after an "agreement" with Israel for a confrontation against it, while there was an official peace agreement between the countries. In fact, behind the recommendation was one senior official in the region who advised it to choose another country.

Although the conversation between the senior officials was supposed to take place in secret, Israel knew about the project all along.

Impact on preparations.

It was later revealed that Israel had known about the dramatic information for months, according to N12 reports, remarked that for a long time Israel was conducting itself while being aware of the content of the consultations, while the Western countries were unaware that the information had been revealed.

According to the report, the information significantly affects Israeli conduct with regional actors. It was also reported that the conversation between the two Arab countries dealt with a plan designed to oust Israel by signing a diplomatic agreement, while preparing for a major war and violating the agreement in the future.

It was also noted that the same discourse affects both Israeli assessments of the country that advised and the country that received the advice. Avraham concluded that "given that the entire event rests on alliances and the hope of expanding the circle of peace, one can understand what a chilling effect it had on elements on various fronts."

The reporter also reported that in the past week there have been changes in the balance of regional power, with a peace alliance being negotiated between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan. The agreement between the parties, which was dubbed the "Mecca Agreement," included a triple defense, by virtue of which "an armed attack against one of the three countries will be considered an attack against all three."

Contacts.

At the same time, the State of Israel has been holding direct talks and contacts with the regime of Muhammad al-Sharaa for the past two years. Initially, it reached an agreement between the parties.

Al-Sharaa, who overthrew the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in just months and sentenced him to death just last week, has been presenting a new and revolutionary vision since coming to power. The man who is nurturing al-Qaeda's jihadist organizations has been presenting quite surprising positions since his election; he is adamant about wearing a caliphate, dismantling the White House and hosting French President Emmanuel Macron in his country with great fanfare.

Al-Sharaa also presents a quite surprising position. His foreign minister has met with senior Israeli officials on more than one occasion, and Al-Sharaa himself met with the Syrian Jewish community that currently lives in the United States during his visit to the country, as a sign of a change of direction on his part.

The new relations between Israel and Syria have been blocked from all sides, and those who are promoting the full-force obstruction are the Americans, who are known for their complete lack of familiarity with the mood in the Middle East. About a year ago, President Trump proposed that Israel join the Abraham Accords. Shortly before that, the Americans lifted the sanctions that were in place on Syria during the Assad era.

Despite Trump's proposal, it is reported that Israel negotiated with the United Arab Emirates to bring Syria into the Abraham Accords.

Several months later, the Syrian president said in an interview with the Jewish media outlet 'Jewish Journal' that he wanted to return to the 1974 ceasefire agreement between Israel and Syria, calling for it to begin with airstrikes on Syrian territory, and saying that Israel and Syria have common enemies.

Furthermore, the Syrian government headed by al-Sharaa did not condemn the Israeli attack on Iran, but rather strongly condemned the Iranian attack on the American base in Qatar. After Israel's first operation in Iran, senior Syrian officials said that direct dialogue was underway with Israel and that Syria was not considering a peace agreement until the end of US President Trump's term.

In this context, it is worth noting that the tightening relations are even more disturbing given that the Syrian president's main sponsor is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, one of Israel's most prominent regional rivals. Other regional leaders who support his rule are the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Qatar.

Deception operations.

Returning to the revealed consultation. Israel, it is important to note, has repeatedly repeated similar moves in the past, most notably the horrific massacre on Simchat Torah 5774, which occurred in the midst of a period in which it was conducting dialogue with Hamas.

In a conversation with the Center for the Study of the State of Israel, expert on mind warfare, Dr. Ron Shleifer, notes that the announcement in Israel was made with deep thought and is indicative of the psychological war against those elements. "Israel," he claims, "shows here that it has vast information, and therefore an impressive deterrent power against the countries of the region, which also warns against revealing information that they would not want to be revealed by us."

[1] 8.18.26 at EoZ

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The Missing Context of Bibas Family Captor Terrorist Group in Mass Funeral Coverage. Coverage of a mass funeral event in Gaza failed to disclose the terrorists being buried, and the involvement of the Mujahideen Brigades. By HonestReporting Staff. August 10, 2026 The Missing Context of Bibas Family Captor Terrorist Group in Mass Funeral Coverage Bibas Family bodies released.

Key Takeaways:

-A mass funeral was held last week in Gaza for members of the Abu Sharia family who died in November, 2023. -The Abu Sharia clan is closely tied to the Mujahideen Movement, and key figures in the terrorist organization were killed in the incident. The media failed to mention the slain terrorists, or the ties of the family to the organization that had held members of the Bibas family hostage. HonestReporting

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Senior IRGC Official: Iran's Basij Told to Expand Operations Abroad | MEMRI. August 11, 2026. MEMRI

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CNN panel devolves into chaos as Dems accuse GOP of ‘anti-Muslim’ attack on El-Sayed by using his full name. By Taylor Herzlich, New York Post, August 11, 2026.

A CNN panel exploded in a heated clash Monday night after Dems accused Republicans of launching an “anti-Muslim” attack on Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed by running an ad campaign using his full name.

During “CNN NewsNight” with guest host Jon Berman, the panel discussed Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) defense of an ad campaign that blasts El-Sayed as a dangerous candidate and uses the controversial lefty pol’s full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.

In an interview clip, the senator was asked whether the ads are an attempt to tell voters “hint, hint…he’s Muslim.” Scott responded, “Not at all … I can get called Timothy Eugene. I get called that all the time.”

After replaying the clip on CNN, Berman jibed, “I have never heard Tim Scott referred to as Timothy Eugene in a campaign ad.”

Niall Stanage, an Irish journalist and associate editor at The Hill, jumped in with a furious take on the GOP ad campaign.

“I don’t know how [Scott] says that with a straight face, honestly,” Stanage said. “The idea that using Tim Scott’s full name, unabbreviated, is equivalent to using Abdul El-Sayed’s full name is just ludicrous. It is obviously in El-Sayed’s case an appeal to anti-Muslim, anti-Arab sentiment.”

Jason Rantz, a conservative radio host, sarcastically sniped: “People didn’t know he was Muslim until they said his full name.”…. NYPost

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Turkish Charity Director Arrested In UK On U.S. Charges Of Financing Hamas USA TheJ.ca Staff. Aug 12, 2026. A Turkish charity director faces U.S. terrorism financing charges over an alleged aid network coordinated with senior Hamas leadership. TheJ.ca

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Global campaign launched to counter claims of Israeli genocide in Gaza. International Legal Forum and more than 35 other organizations argue the terrorist group has hijacked the term to spread 'a modern blood libel'. Author of the article:By National Post Staff Published Aug 11, 2026 NationalPost

Global coalition of orgs launch ‘Gaza GenoLIE’ initiative to counter ‘modern blood libel’. JPost. Aug 13, 2026

Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, said: “Calling Israel’s defensive war against Hamas a ‘genocide’ is not activism; it is a modern blood libel dressed up in academic language.”

By Marhilda Heller. August 13, 2026.

An alliance of 55 organizations has this week launched Gaza GenoLIE, an educational initiative about the “generated and orchestrated genocide lie promoted by anti-Zionists and antisemitic networks in the US, Europe and around the world.”

It further says that the “Gaza Genocide” is one of the biggest lies of the 21st century.

The website includes eight pieces of what it describes as “the Gaza GenoLIE puzzle.”

The initiative is led by organizations from around the world, including the Ireland-Israel Alliance, the Solomon Observatory on Discrimination (Italy), the Sweden-Israel Alliance, and others. There are also some major bodies on the list, including Stand With Us, the World Jewish Congress, CAMERA, and the National Jewish Advocacy Center

Clicking on each of the eight puzzle pieces takes the user to an explanatory page.

Lie #1: Genocide claims against Israel only appeared after the October 7 Massacre The first “lie” revolves around the notion that genocide claims against Israel only appeared after October 7, 2023. The website notes that calls of genocide were already widely used on social media and during protests on October 8, before the IDF even began a ground operation in Gaza.

Genocide is a well-established legal term and standard, proven by a pattern of conduct assessed over time. The website says that an accusation lodged within 24-48 hours after the Hamas massacre against Israel, before any such pattern could exist, “is a predetermined narrative, not a finding.”

Lie #2: Israel's actions legally constitute genocide The second “lie” presented is that Israel’s actions constitute genocide under the legal framework.

The crime of genocide was defined in the 1948 Genocide Convention, drafted following the Holocaust. Under Article II, genocide means certain acts – killing, causing serious harm, inflicting destructive conditions of life – committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”

Intent is key when finding a state or party responsible for genocide. Additionally, if any other reasonable explanation for the conduct exists, the charge of genocide fails as a matter of law.

In Israel’s case, the website says “because a lawful war objective following a massacre of its civilians is a reasonable explanation for Israel’s conduct, genocidal intent cannot be the only reasonable inference.”

Therefore, under the ICJ’s own test, it says the genocide argument fails.

Other parts of the puzzle featured on the website include discussion of Hamas’s use of human shields, the use of sick Gazan children to generate optics of famine, and the accusations of war on journalists.

“The “Gaza GenoLIE” is the most dangerous example of a decades-long deliberate and systematic hijacking, redefinition, inversion, and weaponization of facts and law,” said the International Legal Forum.

Our Fight UK said, “While challenging the libel with the facts is an important step, it is no longer enough.”

“It’s time that we demanded our politicians state clearly where they stand. Our public life is being distorted and devalued as violence and intimidation are given free rein, justified by the false claim of genocide; yet our public figures are too cowardly to challenge it.”

Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, said: “Calling Israel’s defensive war against Hamas a ‘genocide’ is not activism; it is a modern blood libel dressed up in academic language.”

“We’ve watched this lie spread from social media into classrooms, city councils, and even Congress, and it has emboldened people to harass and threaten Jews in broad daylight. The Gaza GenoLIE campaign exposes this libel for what it is: a coordinated disinformation effort, not a legitimate critique. Antisemites don’t get to hide behind a hashtag.”

“When we table on campus and visit universities, and we ask them what they know about Israel, the word “genocide” is the first one they say,” said Ilan Sinelnikov, President, Students Supporting Israel.

“We all know there is no genocide in Gaza. What there is is a big lie. The GenoLie that is being fed to hundreds of thousands. The GenoLie initiative will make it fast and easy to debunk those lies.” JPost

Gaza GenoLIE Campaign Exposes How "Genocide" Definition Was Intentionally Distorted The genocide charge rests on a legal standard repeatedly stretched to fit the accusation. International courts require specific intent, and the ICJ has never ruled that it existed in Gaza. Jewish Onliner Aug 13, 2026 Jewish Onliner

New Campaign Aims to Dispel ‘Genocide Libel’ Against Israel, Slams Mamdani for Role in Pushing False Charge.

Bu Corey Walker. August 13, 2026.

More than 50 Jewish and non-Jewish organizations have joined forces in a new international campaign aimed at challenging what they describe as a coordinated “genocide” narrative against Israel that emerged in the aftermath of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

The global initiative’s website, GazaGenoLIE.com, argues that the genocide allegation was rapidly promoted by Hamas and its supporters as part of a broader effort to delegitimize Israel, while downplaying Israel’s stated efforts to protect Palestinian civilians and the context of the defensive war against terrorists. The campaign seeks to dismantle what it calls the “Gaza GenoLIE” by presenting evidence showing how the narrative emerged and spread worldwide.

The campaign’s website lays out what it describes as eight key “pieces” of the Gaza “GenoLIE” narrative: the emergence of genocide accusations almost immediately after the Oct. 7 attack; what organizers characterize as distortions of the legal definition of genocide and the role of intent; portrayals of Israel’s war against Hamas as a war against Palestinians; Hamas’s alleged use of civilians and civilian infrastructure as human shields; what the campaign calls the use of severely ill children to support claims of an Israeli-created famine; allegations that journalists killed in Gaza were deliberately targeted because of their profession; and the spread of the genocide accusation into what the organizers call a “blood libel” against Jews worldwide. The organizers conclude that the “genocide libel” is part of a larger effort to delegitimize and stigmatize Israel on the international stage.

“Israel’s conduct throughout the war included a series of measures that would be inexplicable for a state aiming to target a whole population. Israel issued evacuation warnings days and weeks in advance; dropped millions of leaflets; and placed tens of millions of phone calls, texts, and recorded messages in Arabic urging civilians to leave combat zones,” the website reads.

Among the organizations participating are the World Jewish Congress, Zionist Organization of America, StopAntisemitism, Students Supporting Israel, CAMERA, HonestReporting, and the Maccabee Task Force.

The campaign comes as Israel and its supporters continue to fight a widely accepted narrative in progressive circles that the Jewish state’s military operations aim to eliminate the Palestinian population rather than specifically the Hamas terrorist group, which explicitly seeks Israel’s destruction.

One of the campaign’s examples is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a public official who has accused Israel of “genocide[sic]” on numerous occasions. Only six days after the Hamas-led massacre in Israel, he posted on social media that “we are on the brink of a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.” The initiative argues that such statements helped establish the genocide narrative before Israel’s ground operation in Gaza had even begun.

Mamdani, a democratic socialist who at the time was a member of the New York State Assembly, went on to call for a ceasefire and an end to additional US military funding for Israel in his Oct. 13, 2023, post.

Contemporary reporting confirms that Mamdani participated that evening in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Brooklyn, where he was arrested after protesters blocked traffic outside the home of then-US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Jewish Democrat. Algemeiner

The Gaza GenoLIE is the GENerated and Orchestrated LIE about genocide in Gaza, promoted by anti-Zionist and antisemitic ... Gaza GenoLIE

The Gaza GenoLIE started on Oct 8. The National Jewish Assembly. August 12, 2026. on YouTube

Ben Benson (@berlinerbenben) • Instagram. berlinerbenben: Aug 14, 2026. The obviously false genocide claim against Israel is all about Holocaust inversion — the obviously nonsensical historical distortion intended to (1) demean Israel in disregard of the facts, (2) diminish the seriousness of the Holocaust, (3) offend Jews, and (4) fuel the anti-Jewish hate that plagues our communities.

If you want parallels, see how Hamas and the Nazis poisoned youths’ minds with hate and martyrdom; and how they hid in their bunkers and left civilians to died in the crossfire. on Instagram

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New Details: How Trump secretly switched planes after Iran missile threat. New details reveal how security officials quietly moved Trump to a smaller military aircraft after intelligence indicated a possible missile threat near the NATO summit in Turkey. Israel National News. Aug 12, 2026, 12:28 PM INN

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Father of Hostage: 'Terrorists at Nahal Oz spoke Farsi'. Eyal Eshel says testimony from those at Nahal Oz indicates terrorists were heard speaking Persian during the October 7 attack. Israel National News. Published: Aug 12, 2026, 2:09 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Dozens of illegal structures demolished in northern Samaria. Civil Administration forces carried out a major enforcement operation ahead of the planned return of Israeli families to Ganim and Kadim. Hezki Baruch. Published: Aug 12, 2026, 1:17 PM (GMT+3) The Civil Administration’s Enforcement Unit carried out a large-scale enforcement operation in northern Samaria on Wednesday, demolishing dozens of illegal Palestinian structures located along roads and in areas near the towns of Ganim and Kadim. INN

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COGAT's unusual warning to Gazans Israel warns Gaza residents to stay away. from the Yellow Line, accusing Hamas of deliberately pushing civilians toward the area despite the danger. Yoni Kempinski. Aug 12, 2026, 2:36 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Jewish tourist wearing kippah assaulted in consecutive Rome attacks. French Jewish tourist attacked twice in central Rome over two days, leading Italian police to arrest a suspect on hate crime charges. Israel National News. Aug 12, 2026. Italian law enforcement officers took a 31-year-old unhoused Algerian citizen with a prior criminal history into custody on suspicion of carrying out repeated violent acts against a 22-year-old French visitor wearing a kippah in central Rome, according to details published Tuesday by Ynet. INN

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Mladenov: Claims of Board of Peace-Hamas deal are false. Board of Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov rejects claims of a Hamas funding deal, saying Hamas will have no role in Gaza's governance or access to funds. Israel National News. Published: Aug 12, 2026, 4:16 PM (GMT+3) INN

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WJC study. 81% of antisemitic content remains online. Israel National News. Aug 12, 2026, 5:00 PM INN

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Iran: No talks with US on extending ceasefire. As 60-day ceasefire period nears its end, Tehran says it does not recognize an official start date and accuses Washington of violating the agreement. Israel National News Aug 12, 2026, 4:48 PM INN

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Hamas intensified Gaza torture, interrogations post-Oct. 2025 ceasefire, IDF Arabic spox says. Hamas employs physical violence, blackmail, psychological threats and harm, prolonged isolation, and a range of other forms of mistreatment, the IDF said.  Jonah Davidov. August 12, 2026. August 12, 2026 JPost

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: Hamas has intensified interrogations and torture against Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025, in an effort to bolster its authority over the Strip. August 12, 2026 on X

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Gaza BoP agreement grants Hamas military wing $160 million in cash, Liberman claims. Liberman further noted a recent incident in which IDF commanders came across a group of 50 Hamas Nuhkba terrorists who were conducting an exercise in which they practiced raiding a Jewish settlement. August 12, 2026 JPost

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Hamas may receive up to $400 million in debt relief under BoP plan - report. BoP Director-General Nikolay Mladenov disputed the report, saying that "such a proposal has not been discussed, negotiated, considered, and will not be on the agenda in the future." August 12, 2026 JPost

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Concern grows in Israel as mother, daughter mysteriously vanish in Vienna Mali Yahalomi, 50, and her 23-year-old daughter Liel have been missing since Friday after failing to board their return flight; their Vienna apartment was found empty. August 12, 2026. JPost

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After 17 years, Israel and Venezuela begin rebuilding ties through humanitarian aid - opinion. The landscape began to shift following the US capture of Nicolás Maduro on January 3 and assumed a human dimension after the disaster. August 12, 2026 JPost

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Saudi Arabia bets on defensive alliances to deter slide into war - analysis. Riyadh faces a dilemma: how to deter attacks and protect the ambitious economic vision it is pursuing without becoming entangled in a broader conflict in the region. August 12, 2026 JPost

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: The Middle East and North Africa hold vast oil and gas reserves, but the region’s natural resource landscape extends far beyond energy. Water scarcity, mineral wealth, limited farmland, and fisheries are shaping economies and their futures across the region. August 12, 2026. on X

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Live updates: Israel warns Trump of Iran assassination plot, Lebanon failing to disarm Hezbollah. Trump covertly escorted off Air Force One to another plane • Iranian official says US blockade worse than war • Israeli officials say LAF not doing enough on the ground. Aug 12, 2026. JPost

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IDF conducts strikes in southern Lebanon as LAF continues to operate in pilot zones - report. According to the LAF, Israel's actions consistently hinder its ability to operate in the pilot zones and work to return south Lebanese residents to their homes.  JPost

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Pakistan Invites Muslim Nations to Join the New ‘Islamic NATO’. Christine WilliamsAugust 12, 2026 A threat – potentially rivaling that of Iran. FPM

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Iran's plan to drag out war until end of Trump era. A senior adviser to the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Iran could prolong the war until President Trump leaves the White House. Nitzan Tsur. Aug 12, 2026, 8:38 PM INN

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Near Cave of Patriarchs: Muslim cleric arrested for incitement, encouraging terror attacks. Police arrest 70-year-old cleric from Hebron who allegedly encouraged riots and violence. Israel National News. Published: Aug 12, 2026, 9:20 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Hunter Biden, Tucker Carlson Unite Over ‘Evil[sic] Incarnate’ Netanyahu, Blame Israel for Laptop Scandal. August 12, 2026 Algemeiner

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Abdul El-Sayed Lies About ‘Apartheid’: Israeli Arabs Have Full Rights, and Say So Themselves. By Jason Shvili. August 12, 2026.

Last week, Abdul El-Sayed, who just won the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, accused Israel of, among other calumnies, the crime of “apartheid.” Like similar anti-Israel libels currently in vogue (e.g., “genocide,” “starvation”), the assertion that Israel is an apartheid state has no factual basis — indeed, the inverse is true. Israel isn’t just the only democracy in the Middle East and North Africa; it’s also the region’s only country that grants equal rights to all its citizens.

Israeli Arabs enjoy rights and freedoms that many in Arab states can only dream of. Israeli Arabs are allowed to vote in free elections, work in any profession, and hold office at every level of Israel’s government. By comparison, most Arab countries deny their people even the most basic rights.

Furthermore, there’s no limitation in Israeli society to Israeli Arab achievement. Not only do Israeli Arabs have equal opportunities to their Jewish counterparts; they are also overrepresented in some important sectors of Israeli society, especially health care. In contrast, opportunities for people in most Arab countries, especially women and religious or ethnic minorities, are severely limited.

This contrast in political and social freedoms between Israeli and Palestinian societies is dramatic. Indeed, human rights activists truly concerned about “freeing Palestine” would better direct their criticisms toward the Palestinian Authority (PA), which tyrannically governs daily Palestinian life in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), and Hamas, until recently the iron-fisted dictatorship in Gaza.

If we’re discussing apartheid, it’s noteworthy that while two million Arabs live free in Israel, no Jews are allowed in Palestinian-ruled lands. In fact, in Palestinian-ruled territories, even selling land to Jews is punishable by death.

While, like every Western democracy, Israel is a work in progress that strives constantly to correct its imperfections, it is, according to many Israeli Arabs, a veritable paradise.

Israel is, for its Arab citizens, the complete opposite of apartheid. Apartheid, which originated in South Africa, separated blacks and whites in public spaces, transportation, and residential zones, and it denied most civil liberties to its black citizens. Nothing could be farther from reality in Israel.

The scope of civil rights guaranteed to Israeli Arabs, as well as other non-Jews, is unparalleled in the Arab Middle East and North Africa. All citizens of Israel are guaranteed basic rights consistent with a modern democracy, including equality before the law, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, women’s rights, and rights for sexual minorities (i.e., LGBTQ+). Women’s rights are rare in the Arab world, where wife abuse is legal in many places, and LGBTQ+ rights are non-existent.

Like other democracies, Israel holds free and fair elections. All citizens are eligible to vote and hold office. Although some Arab states such as Jordan and Kuwait hold elections, there are many restrictions and no path to regime change, regardless of who wins.

Israeli Arabs have served at every level of power in the country — as Knesset members, cabinet ministers, and Supreme Court justices. Khaled Kabub, a Muslim Arab, is currently a Supreme Court Justice. A previous Supreme Court Justice, Salim Joubran, a Christian Arab, was once chair of Israel’s Central Elections Committee, the body that supervises Israel’s elections. None of this would be possible if Israel were an apartheid state.

No wonder Yoseph Haddad, a prominent Arab Israeli activist and former IDF soldier, wrote, “I am thankful to have been born in the State of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.”

“Israel is the best country for Arabs living in the Middle East,” according to Yahya Mahamid, a Muslim Arab, IDF veteran, and activist. One reason is that Israel boasts opportunities for its Arab citizens that don’t exist in Arab states. Indeed, Israeli Arabs participate in all levels of Israel’s economy and society. The unemployment rate for Israel’s Arab citizens — 2.8% in 2025 — dwarfs unemployment in most Arab states.

Furthermore, although Israeli Arabs (except Druze) aren’t required to serve in the IDF, thousands do, including Ella Waweya, a Muslim Arab, who heads the IDF’s Arabic media division, and holds the rank of lieutenant-colonel, the fifth-highest rank in the IDF.

Israeli Arabs live in freedom, while Arab people in the Palestinian territories suffer under dictatorship. Whereas approximately two million Israeli Arabs enjoy the fruits of democracy, their fellow Arabs in Palestinian-ruled territory languish under regimes that oppress and brutalize them on a daily basis.

Like all non-Israeli-citizens, Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria, and Gaza are not governed by Israeli law, but by autocratic dictatorships. Indeed, in the Palestinian-ruled territories, neither basic rights nor rule of law exists. Torture, arbitrary arrest, censorship, and even summary executions are commonplace.

Nor is democracy practiced. Elections haven’t been held in the Palestinian-ruled territories since 2006. PA President Mahmoud Abbas is now in the 20th year of his four-year term, and though he has repeatedly promised new elections, he has never delivered.

Non-Muslims, mostly Christians, in Palestinian-ruled territory are subject to severe persecution. Not surprisingly, since the Oslo Accords were signed in the 1990s, the Palestinian Christian population has nosedived. Even in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, Christians have been reduced to a tiny minority, while Jews are entirely prohibited from living anywhere in the Palestinian-ruled territories.

Abdul El-Sayed lied: Israel isn’t perfect, but it’s a paradise compared to Arab states. Thus, it’s not surprising that, according to a 2025 report by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), 67% of Israeli Arabs consider Israel a good place to live — slightly more than the 65% of Jews who said the same.

Anyone who claims Israel is an apartheid state would be wise to 1) heed the words of Israeli Arabs themselves, who sing the praises of the Jewish State, and 2) examine the facts, which prove that Israel is an oasis of freedom and prosperity for Arabs in a region mostly characterized by tyranny and poverty. Algemeiner

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21 years later, first families reestablish their homes in Ganim. 'Today, we are bringing life back to Ganim,' Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan said at a ceremony marking the reestablishment of the community, 21 years after the Disengagement. 'Ganim will become a huge community-10 times its current size!' Israel National News Aug 13, 2026, 1:53 PM INN

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Hiking should not be a crime punishable by death - opinion. Israeli settlers entering a Palestinian village can be seen from two perspectives.

By Yisrael Medad August 13, 2026.

([2]. A Palestinian assailant attacks Israeli hikers near Gilad Farm, northern West Bank, July 24, 2026. photo credit: VIA WALLA).

If you are opposed to the enterprise of the resettling of Jews in the West Bank, ambivalent on the matter, or even an uninterested news consumer, the version of events of Friday, July 24, that you probably have absorbed since then has gone through a process of extreme distillation and ideological refinement.

One news site informed its readers that “Israeli settlers entered a Palestinian village.” Then, it added, residents of an outpost community “came out to repel the settlers.” After that, according to the same news source, one of the Arab villagers “snatched a settler’s weapon and opened fire.”

The background framing included additional information to wit: “Armed settlers had trespassed, [which is] consistent with the common strategy of ‘initiating friction.’”

Blame has been apportioned; Jewish guilt has been declared.

Reactions to the incident. At 1:40 p.m. on the day of the incident, only five hours or so after the shootings, Ksenia Svetlova posted on X/Twitter.

A decade ago, Svetlova was a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union (an alliance of the Labor Party and Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua). Currently, she is an associate fellow at Chatham House in London, where former prime minister Ehud Barak memorably declared on March 27, 2023, that some members of Israel’s government were “lunatic racists on the extreme Right.”

In her tweet, Svetlova reversed the narrative, as if it were Arabs who had illegally entered a Jewish settlement.

She then returned to relative reality, highlighting the narrative of settler violence. According to Svetlova, the hike in which Israeli settlers entered a Palestinian region was in Area A (yet the road they were walking on was actually in Area B), and they entered the village (but in actuality, the Arabs came out).

Despite the video evidence she posted, Svetlova, as did others, ignored the fact that the hikers, as well as the IDF soldiers who arrived, and Capt. (res.) Benayahu Mellet, who was ordered to join in, all fired numerous shots in the air for over a minute, intentionally trying not to harm any of the Arabs.

Another, Dror Etkes of Kerem Navot, which is an anti-occupation NGO that “monitors and researches Israeli land policy in the West Bank,” also posted about the incident on Twitter.

He had a narrative that claimed the incident was in fact over, except that the “settlers” then arrived. Etkes’s perspective can be demonstrated by a later X post, from July 28, in which he called the head of the IDF Central Command “settler IDF apartheid General [Avi] Bluth.”

The military’s investigation into the incident was published on August 5. It was not withheld from the public, just as an investigation into another sensitive incident that occurred in November 2024, when two soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon while investigating a historical site, was published. The IDF found that Mellet acted with “extreme heroism” and defined the Arabs involved as “terrorists.”

The participants insisted they were not properly in the village. True, the report found that security authorities had not approved the outing, but the Shomron Brigade did receive preliminary but very unclear information about it several hours beforehand, and that the Arab residents were those who initiated contact, confronting the hikers.

Hiking or a provocation? I will not second-guess the act of unstrapping one’s rifle from one’s body, which seemingly led to the weapon being snatched, or even if it was wise to get so close to the rioters, even pushing and shoving them. Other points need to be addressed, nevertheless.

Walking through the Land of Israel should not be considered a crime, nor a provocation, and certainly not an act that permits local Arabs to throw stones at the hikers or to seek to do them violent injury.

I myself experienced a similar situation back in 1989, in the pre-Oslo Accords period. We were nowhere near a village but rather deep in a wadi, which provided an advantage to the stone throwers. Our presence was enough to have them initiate violence. We were not in a grove of olive trees, in a field of barley, or trudging through someone’s backyard. We were Jews.

We were doing nothing more than what president Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and his wife, Rachel Yanait, had done before World War I – we were walking throughout the country.

Hikes were also part of the early Yishuv school system, and Israeli writer, lecturer, and geographer Zev Vilnay made a living leading them.

([3]. Palestinians throw stones at Jewish settlers as they establish a pastoral outpost at the site where Jewish settler Yehuda Sherman was murdered, near the village of Beit Mirin north of Nablus in the West Bank).

Further, the Palmach marched across Samaria and through the Judean Desert and made sure to visit Hebron in the early 1940s, at a time when the British banned entry to non-residents.

Exploring the land was, and continues to be, a natural Jewish act, in the spirit of: “Arise, walk through the land, the length of it and the breadth of it” (Genesis 13:17).

Yes, some Jewish residents beyond the Green Line are or can be violent. However, the “settler violence” campaign is a travesty of the facts and the context.

Worse, it is intended to cover up the numerous acts of Arab violence and terror, and the seriousness of the damage done and intended. Friday’s hike participants were not a bunch of vigilante hooligans.

A third lesson from the incident is that objective news seems not to be of any interest anymore.

Yasmin Levy of Haaretz, for instance, was quite convinced, as her July 26 TV review column suggested, ... Israeli TV distorted this latest West Bank violence.

If you clicked on Arutz Sheva or the Srugim website, however, you would see a very different picture.

Israeli politicians and public figures have the right to criticize and oppose policies. What we are witnessing, though, is a campaign, still on the fringes, of justifying Arab “resistance” to “colonialist occupation” while downgrading Arab terror.

From the Democrats Party chair Yair Golan’s words .. radical elements are now mourning a sheikh who grabbed a gun from a Jew who was using it to shove him away to then murder that Jew and shoot at a soldier. Even members of Golan’s party protested his description of the attack on the hikers as a “terror act.”

Hiking is a non-threatening endeavor and should not be thought of otherwise. It should not be considered a crime punishable by death.

The writer is a researcher, analyst, and commentator on political, cultural, and media issues. JPost

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Blow to Houthi propaganda apparatus. X has suspended the account of Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree, which was used to disseminate the organization’s propaganda and claim responsibility for attacks and launches. Israel National News. Aug 13, 2026, 3:27 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Survey: Majority of Australians fear for religious safety after Bondi. Israel National News. Aug 13, 2026, 5:03 PM INN

Over half of Australians doubt all faiths can live safely after Bondi massacre, CAM reports. Growing concern over antisemitism and social cohesion intensifies calls for local government action ahead of landmark national summit in Bondi Beach. Aug 13, 2026. JPost

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Tradition or politics | Poll discloses what really irritates secular Israelis. 57% of secular Israelis support religious presence in the public realm, provided it is not forced. Two-thirds of young Israelis view Judaism in a positive light. Israel National News. Aug 13, 2026, 10:03 AM INN

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CENTCOM: 59 vessels redirected as part of Iran naval blockade. Aug 13, 2026 JNS

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Anthropic in talks to buy Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion. Aug 13, 2026 JNS

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Tel Aviv square officially named Hostages Square. Aug 13, 2026 JNS

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IDF fires on Gaza terrorist who crossed truce line. Aug 13, 2026 JNS

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Girl, 9, lightly wounded in Palestinian rock attack in Samaria. Aug 13, 2026 JNS

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Israeli forces foil imminent attack, arrest three in Jenin. Aug 13, 2026 JNS

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Israel receives thousands of tons of US military equipment. Aug 13, 2026 JNS

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: The IAF on Thursday attacked a Gazan terror cell in Khan Yunis, the second "attack of choice" in two days after a pause in such attacks since a new US-Hamas deal in late July. ✍️ @Jeremybob1 On X

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IDF strikes Hamas commander in northern Gaza. Board of Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov denies claims of a financial deal with the terror group. JNS Staff. Aug 13, 2026 JNS

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‘Deeply troubling’ how disproportionately Jews targeted in San Francisco, ADL says. Aaron Bandler. Aug 13, 2026 JNS

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‘Worried for our brothers and sisters,’ Jews near NYC say of Mamdani’s mayorship. Riki Zagelbaum. Aug 13, 2026. JNS

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Hamas plans to run in upcoming Palestinian elections, names status of Al-Aqsa Mosque core priority. Elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council are set to go ahead on November 28, the first in 20 years after Hamas won in January 2006. Hamas won 74 of the seats, with Fatah following behind. August 13, 2026 JPost

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Settler leaders denounce Kusra violence: ‘This is not our way’. Yesha Council chairman Yisrael Ganz and Beit El council head Shai Alon condemn extremists, with Alon warning that the violence is causing “irreversible damage” to Israel and the settlement movement. August 13, 2026 JPost

The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: Senior settler leaders denounced violence around the Palestinian village of Kusra, saying it was “not our way” and warning that it was causing “irreversible damage” to Israel and the settlement movement. August 13, 2026 X

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: What does Israel need to stay secure? HaBithonistim chairman Erez Winner argues that Israel must rethink its security strategy: from strengthening the IDF and national service to preparing for drones, internal threats and greater self-reliance. August 13, 2026 X

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Lesson of the UAE, Abraham Accords: Lasting peace begins in the classroom - opinion. But six years later, after the Middle East has gone through one of the most turbulent periods in its history, a deeper lesson can be identified - true peace begins in the classroom. August 13, 2026 JPost

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: The controversial law aimed at relieving prison overcrowding has inflamed Lebanon’s sectarian divisions, with Islamist protesters denouncing provisions that would exclude some prisoners from the amnesty. ✍️ @DanielleGreyman. August 13, 2026 on X

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IDF kills Hamas commander who invaded Israel on October 7 in targeted Gaza strike. Abu Kamil was among the terrorists who invaded Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, and he continued to work toward the goal of harming Israeli soldiers and civilians over the past three years. August 13, 2026 JPost

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) killed Hamas commander Jamal Mahmoud Abu Kamil in a targeted strike in Gaza City on Thursday, according to a statement from the military. August 13, 2026. on X

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Social Media Fails to Curb Rising Antisemitism, With 80% of Reported Posts Still Online, New Study Finds. Aug 13, 2026 Algemeiner

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Huckabee defends Jews of Judea and Samaria: 'Unsettlers' are the problem. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee defended Judea and Samaria communities while condemning Israelis involved in the Qusra incident as a harmful minority. Israel National News. Aug 13, 2026, 10:00 PM (GMT+3) INN

U.S. Ambassador Huckabee Clarifies: Lawbreakers, Not Settlers, Are the Problem in Judea and Samaria. August 13, 2026 JFeed

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Iran Demands Gulf States Accept Its Regional Dominance. August 13, 2026 JFeed

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Gaza lookouts warn of October 7 echoes as Hamas tests IDF response. IDF lookouts warn Hamas terrorists are approaching Gaza's yellow line daily and say troops face delays obtaining authorization to open fire. Israel National News. Aug 13, 2026, 10:55 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Report: Kushner planning Israel visit to advance Trump Gaza plan. Israel National News. Aug 13, 2026, 11:42 PM INN

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Hamas Rejects Call to Begin Disarmament Process, Sets New Conditions. August 13, 2026 JFeed

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Israel Sends Humanitarian Delegation to Colombia Following Earthquake. August 13, 2026 JFeed

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Two UAE state vessels targeted in Strait of Hormuz. Israel National News. Aug 14, 2026, 2:07 AM INN

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US Treasury Secretary: Iran facing 'unprecedented' economic isolation. Israel National News. Aug 14, 2026, 3:15 AM INN

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Emotional tribute Idan Amedi weeps, dedicating song to Hadar Goldin's parents. Itzik Brandwein. Aug 14, 2026, 5:18 AM INN

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Woke NYC mayor humiliated by NYPD after suggesting his 'private' wife should have taxpayer-funded police bodyguards for trip to Syria. 03:14 BST 12 Aug 2026, updated 15:11 BST 12 Aug 2026 By Jack Toledo. The New York City Police Department has denied the mayor's claims that his wife will be getting a special escort for her upcoming trip to Syria.

Zohran Mamdani had insisted that officers had recommended that his wife, Rama Duwaji, be accompanied by taxpayer-funded bodyguards for the journey. DailyMail

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Palestinian Authority rebuilds monuments to terrorists “immediately” Ephraim D. Tepler and Itamar Marcus|Aug 13, 2026. The Palestinian Authority makes the glorification of terrorists one of its core values. Besides doing so in speeches, media, and its education system, it invests public resources to ensure that monuments honoring terrorists are put up in the public space so that everyone should know that the PA reveres terrorists. When monuments to terror leaders are damaged or removed, restoring them becomes an immediate priority. The PA sees these monuments as a means of elevating terrorists as Palestinian national heroes and passing their terror legacy to future generations.

When Israeli forces demolished a terror-glorifying monument in Tulkarem honoring Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) founder George Habash, the municipality wasted no time. According to its spokesman, the mayor issued explicit instructions to begin repairing it "immediately".. PalWarch

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Qatari State Daily: Muslim US President Coming Soon | MEMRI. August 13, 2026 MEMRI

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‘Reminiscent of what you’d find behind Iron Curtain,’ attorney says of ongoing effort to sue Mamdani admin for records. “We will keep litigating until we get to the truth,” Randy Mastro told JNS, after oral arguments in New York County Supreme Court. “I’m sure the court will hear us when these procedural issues are behind us.” Rikki Zagelbaum. (Aug. 14, 2026 / JNS) The first hearing of a case, over which Gerald Lebovits, a New York County Supreme Court judge, presided on Thursday was about whether New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has illegally withheld records about his revocation, on his first day on the job, of his predecessor’s executive orders protecting Jews. It also doubled as a legal classroom for and a pitch to law students from New York University and China about how rewarding a legal career can be, in which City Hall’s lawyer, the plaintiff’s attorney and the judge gave their spiels about why they chose their profession.

“The law is a noble profession. You can do so much good in your life in the law,” Randy Mastro, an attorney and former first deputy mayor of New York City, told the students. “Law is a profession. It’s not a job.”.. JNS

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UAE tanker attacked in Hormuz, US Energy Secretary says 9 million oil barrels pass through daily. Vance says Iran won’t obtain nuclear weapon • US CENTCOM denies reports of soldiers jumping off USS Lincoln • Jared Kushner plans to visit Israel, Egypt to discuss Gaza. August 14, 2026. JPost

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Polish Soccer Fans Taunt Hapoel Tel Aviv Fans With Nazi Salute During UEFA Conference League Match. Aug 14, 2026. Algemeiner

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Chinese money used to support pro-Palestinian protests. US officials investigating suspected covert Chinese support for Code Pink and its activities in the UK and links to groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Israel National News Aug 14, 2026, 4:53 PM INN

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Israeli Consul. 'Mamdani is failing to protect New York Jewish community'. Israel National News. Aug 14, 2026, 2:18 PM INN

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Mein Kampf found at new London Arabic bookstore sparks outrage. Copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Arabic found at a London bookstore have triggered accusations of antisemitism, while the store’s owners dispute claims that the book was prominently displayed. Israel National News. Published: Aug 14, 2026, 6:06 PM (GMT+3)

... According to a report by The Telegraph, the book was being sold at Aafaq, a new Arabic bookstore in London located around half a mile from a synagogue. Its presence at the store prompted criticism and allegations of antisemitism.

The British Jewish News also reported on the controversy, saying that three copies of Mein Kampf were found at the bookstore. The store’s owners, however, rejected claims that the book had been prominently displayed or actively promoted. INN

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Radicalism runs in the family. El-Sayed's Half-Sister Faces Renewed Scrutiny For Concerning October 7 Posts | WATCH. Eman Abdelhadi, Assistant Professor at University of Chicago and maternal half-sister of Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, faces renewed scrutiny over October 7, 2023 social media posts, activism record, and alleged video. Bianca Jones. Aug 14, 2026 [...] Abdelhadi holds a position in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, where she studies religion, gender, identity, and Muslim American communities. She describes herself as a "queer Muslim activist" and has advocated for a "stateless, communized society" and called for abolishing the police. The current wave of criticism centers on two overlapping controversies: Abdelhadi's stated positions on the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks against Israel, and the circulation of an alleged video that conservative outlets claim shows her celebrating the assault. Her activism includes pro-Palestinian posts, like one on October 7, 2023, with "Morning freedom" and a Palestinian flag, which critics see as celebrating Hamas's attack that killed about 1,200 in Israel, while she describes it as support for resistance. JFeed

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Gaza Operation. Hamas Commander Who Held Hostages Killed. Mohammed Mushtaha, a company commander in Hamas's military wing who participated in the October 7 massacre and held several Israeli hostages captive, was killed in a July strike in northern Gaza Gila Isaacson, Srugim Aug 14, 2026 JFeed

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Israel Katz Orders Police to Take Over Law Enforcement in Judea and Samaria. Aug 14, 2026. JFeed

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US Ambassador to Lebanon Links End of Israeli Attacks to Hezbollah Disarmament. The US ambassador to Lebanon stated that Israeli attacks in Lebanon will stop if Hezbollah hands over its weapons. When asked when the Israeli strikes would cease, the ambassador replied: "Tell Hezbollah that if it hands over its weapons, everything will stop." Aug 14, 2026. JFeed

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A Jewish teen’s departure reflects Belgium’s ‘silent exodus’. “Before Oct. 7, I was Raphael. Then I became ‘the Jew,’” a new immigrant to Israel told JNS amid a steady stream of Jews leaving his native country. Canaan Lidor. (Aug. 14, 2026 / JNS) BRAINE-L’ALLEUD, Belgium—What could drive a 16-year-old boy from an affluent home in Belgium to leave behind his doting family, a prestigious private high school and the captaincy of his soccer team, in favor of a boarding school in a faraway war zone? For Raphael, a Jewish teen from the Brussels area, the answer was more than two years of antisemitic threats and intimidation, according to him and his family. August 14, 2026 JNS

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Uruguay: Screening of Hamas propaganda film at university canceled after outcry. The film is scheduled to be shown at Cornell in October. Etgar Lefkovits. (Aug. 14, 2026 / JNS) The screening of a Mexican documentary film on life in Gaza, produced in collaboration with Hamas, which was scheduled to be held at Uruguay’s largest university, has been canceled, an American Jewish organization said on Wednesday. The screening of the 2025 film “La Gran Palestina” or “Greater Palestine” at Universidad de la Republica on Wednesday evening was nixed after a public outcry, with opposition leaders asking how a propaganda piece by a terrorist group was scheduled to be shown at a public university.

The film was made “in collaboration with the combatants of the resistance (Hamas),” its accompanying flier states.. August 14, 2026 JNS

Turkish FM Fidan threatens Israel after posing next to map erasing Jewish state. Israel’s Foreign Ministry accused Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Friday of threatening the Jewish state, a day after he posed alongside a map depicting Israel as “Palestine” and excluding the Golan Heights. August 14, 2026 JNS

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IDF dismantles booby-trapped Hezbollah structure in Southern Lebanon. August 14, 2026 JNS

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Jayapal encourages student groups to host antisemite Hasan Piker after UW nixes official event. August 14, 2026 JNS

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European soccer org to probe Nazi salutes reportedly directed at Israeli soccer fans during elimination match. August 14, 2026 JNS

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Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM: A revealing exchange on @CNN: PMO Spokesman @DoronSpielman addresses the violence in Judea and Samaria - and then gets a truly bizarre question about Jews praying together.

Watch his response. Aug 14, 2026. on X

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Netanyahu barred the Palestinian Authority from Gaza - what about the West Bank? - analysis. The lessons of October 7 demand a new approach to the growing security threat posed by the Palestinian Authority. August 14, 2026 JPost

The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: Opinion: The Palestinian Authority was excluded from Gaza for a reason, but its security forces in the West Bank raise a separate and potentially serious security question. ✍️ @MauriceHirsch4. August 14, 2026 on X

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A Netanyahu loss in Israel’s looming election won’t slow the hatred. Potential successors would be advised to start mentally preparing themselves now to take on the role of “Global-Villain-in-Chief.” Ben Cohen. August 14, 2026 JNS

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: US forces have redirected 62, disabled three, and boarded two ships attempting to breach the country’s blockade against Iran in the Arabian Sea, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a post on X/Twitter on Friday. August 14, 2026 on X

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: IDF troops opened fire on a group of Palestinians who threw a Molotov cocktail and stones at soldiers near Beit Fajar, the military said in a statement Friday night. August 14, 2026 on X

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Trump says US will hit Iran hard economically after Bessent issues warning. His comments came a day after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US was going to apply measures that have "never been seen" on Tehran as soon as next week. August 14, 2026 JPost

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The lie of apartheid: The 2026 Israel election is a display of the country's diversity - opinion. Regardless of the final outcome of this election, it looks like this race could finally bury the apartheid myth about Israel. August 14, 2026 JPost

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: Opinion: Israel’s October election puts the “apartheid” accusation to the test, as Arab voters and parties may play a decisive role in determining who forms the next government. August 14, 2026 on X

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Man disrupts synagogue services in Manhattan, arrested for assault.

New York City police officers fence off and guard the Jewish Orthodox synagogue Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, on May 12, 2026, in the borough of Queens, New York City. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. (Aug. 15, 2026 / JNS) A 46-year-old man was arrested on Friday night for allegedly assaulting a Jewish worshipper and a security member at Central Synagogue, a reform congregation in Manhattan, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement. JNS

Bronx man arrested, charged with hate crimes after disrupting NYC synagogue services. Larry Montes, 46, was charged with two counts of assault as a hate crime and one count of criminal mischief as a hate crime for the incident at Manhattan's Central Synagogue. August 15, 2026. JPost

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The Iran strike Trump halted: ‘We were about to destroy what remained of the regime’. Senior government official claims Israel was hours away from a massive operation that was stopped at the last minute last week. Also, Netanyahu’s successor, who still does not know he is one. Amit Segal. Aug. 15, 2026 JNS

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Rashida Tlaib rally canceled at Florida venue after lawmaker calls event ‘anti-Jew’. A Florida venue canceled a planned Rashida Tlaib rally after complaints from a Jewish state lawmaker, citing security concerns and its commitment to the Jewish community. August 15, 2026 JPost

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This week in Jewish history: Moses ascends Mount Sinai, a massacre shakes Hebron. A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars. August 15, 2026

Elul 1, 2448 (1312 BCE): Moses ascended Mount Sinai for the third time and remained there for 40 days, during which time he obtained God’s wholehearted forgiveness for the people of Israel. He then came down on the 10th of Tishrei (Yom Kippur) with the second Tablets of the Law (Exodus 33:11). Ever since, the month of Elul serves as the “month of Divine mercy and forgiveness.”

Aug. 15, 2005: The Gaza Disengagement began with 14,000 IDF soldiers and police officers forcibly evicting more than 8,500 Jewish residents who chose to remain in their homes in 25 towns. The government’s hopes that the Disengagement would open “new opportunities” in relations with the Palestinians were bitterly disappointed. The vacated settlements were used to launch terrorist attacks against Israel, including unremitting rocket fire on the nearby Israeli town of Sderot, and eventually led to Oct. 7.

Aug. 18, 1790: In response to a letter from the Jewish community of Rhode Island, president George Washington responded: “The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind… a policy worthy of imitation… For happily the Government of the United States, gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance… May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the goodwill of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid…” Washington’s letter is still housed in the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI.

Aug. 19, 1845: Birthday of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, head of the French branch of the famed banking family. He was known as the “Father of the Yishuv” due to his financing almost single-handedly the pre-state agricultural villages of Rishon Lezion, Zichron Ya’acov, Gedera, Rosh Pina, and 30 others. He also established Israel’s wine industry when he helped Russian Jews flee pogroms in the 1880s and plant vineyards in Israel.

More famous birthdays, a massacre in Hebron.. Aug. 21, 1973: Birthday of Sergey Brin, American computer scientist, co-founder of Google, and one of the richest men in America.

Aug. 22, 1654: Jacob Barsimson, the first Jew known to settle in North America, arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland.

Aug. 23: Birthdays of Nobel Prize laureates in Economics, Kenneth Arrow (1921), “for his pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory,” and Robert Solow (1924), for his work on the theory of economic growth.

Aug. 24, 1929: In Hebron, 67 Jewish men, women, and children were slaughtered, and scores were wounded, raped, and maimed by their Arab neighbors, who rioted for three days amid cries of “slaughter the Jews.” Jewish homes were pillaged, synagogues were desecrated, a Jewish hospital, which had provided treatment for Arabs, was attacked and ransacked, and the ancient Jewish community of Hebron, which had lived in relative peace for hundreds of years, was not revived until it was recaptured in the 1967 Six Day War.

Aug. 26, 1906: Birthday of Albert Sabin (Abram Saperstejn), developer of the “live” form of the polio vaccine, which does not require refrigeration and can be taken on a sugar cube. This development eliminated the need for needles and sterilization facilities, thereby making worldwide immunization possible. Sabin refused to patent his vaccine or profit from it, so that the low price would guarantee a more extensive spread of the treatment. He also developed vaccines for encephalitis and dengue fever.

Aug. 27, 1945: The 1,310 surviving Jewish refugees fleeing Europe who were forcibly transferred to Mauritius by the British government were allowed into Israel.

Aug. 28, 1903: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated antisemitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plot for global domination, was first published in serialized form in Zmaya, a St. Petersburg daily newspaper. Despite having been exposed as fraudulent, it has been translated into multiple languages and disseminated internationally. Henry Ford funded the printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed throughout the United States in the 1920s. Described as “probably the most influential work of antisemitism ever written,” to this day it remains widely available in numerous languages, in print and on the Internet, and continues to be presented by neo-fascist, fundamentalist groups as genuine.

Elul 18, 5494 (1734): After many years.. living under the guise of an ignorant clay-digger, Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hassidism, was instructed by his masters to reveal himself on his 36th birthday and begin to publicly disseminate his teachings, emphasizing the importance of joy and simple faith. Initially, his teachings encountered fierce opposition from the established leadership of the Jewish community, but by the time he passed away at age 62 on Shavuot of 1760, the movement he founded had spread significantly.

Sept. 1, 1967: In response to the Israeli offer to return the Sinai to Egypt and the Golan Heights to Syria after the Six Day War, the Arab League meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, issued its infamous three nos: “No to peace, no to recognition, no to negotiations.”

Sept. 2, 1796: Holland granted equality to its 50,000 Jews.

Sept. 4: Birthdays of Darius Milhaud (1892), French conductor, teacher, and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century, and David Broza (1955), Israeli folk-rock singer and songwriter who has been successful on the international rock circuit.

The Munich Olympics, Israeli history milestones.

Sept. 5, 1972: At the Olympic Village in Munich, eight Arab terrorists from the Black September Organization kidnapped and held Israeli athletes for ransom. During a botched attempt by German police to free them, 11 were murdered.

Elul 24, 5693 (1933): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, revered author of over 30 works on Jewish ethics and laws, including Chafetz Chaim (“He who desires life”) and Mishna Berurah, founder of the Yeshiva of Radin, Talmudist, and moralist. Earning his living as a teacher and shopkeeper, he consistently refused a rabbinical post.

Sept. 7, 1827: Tsar Nicholas I issued a decree in Russia to draft Jewish boys at the age of 12, place them in schools for military education until age 18, and then obligate them to another 25 years of military service. Most of the 50,000 “cantonists” never returned to the families they had left at age 12.

Sept. 9, 1940: An Italian air raid on Tel Aviv killed 117 and wounded 150.

Sept. 10, 1952: Israel signed an agreement to accept reparation payments from West Germany for losses caused by the Nazis, over the objections of Menachem Begin, who was concerned that they could be perceived as somehow “absolving” Nazis of their heinous crimes.

Sept. 11, 1923: The Daf Yomi, a seven-year cycle of studying a page of Talmud a day, was initiated by Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin on Rosh Hashanah. Today, tens of thousands of Jews study the “daily daf” all over the world. JPost

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A $50 million hostage ransom funded al-Qaeda terrorism in West Africa, UN says. A new UN report detailing the use of the ransom did not identify the hostage or say who had made the payment, but three sources identified the country that made the payment as the UAE. August 15, 2026 JPost

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The new crescent: Mecca pact gives rise to a Saudi-led Sunni bloc, posing new challenges for Israel. BEHIND THE LINES: Anti-Israel statements of the emergent alliance between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan are not just rhetoric. Rather, they form an integral element in its strategy. August 15, 2026 JPost

The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: Anti-Israel sentiment appears to form an integral element in the strategy behind the recently signed Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan. ✍️ @jonathan_spyer. August 15, 2026 on X

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Tehran says Hormuz 'cannot be seized' after Trump says he will declare strait US territory. Shipping traffic drops in Strait of Hormuz. UAE condemns 'aggressive Iranian attack' on tankers. August 15, 2026 JPost

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Trump, Hegseth deny concerns of poor conditions, low morale reported aboard USS Abraham Lincoln. US President Donald Trump that the over-260-day deployment was “not nearly long enough” when asked by reporters if he believed the deployment had gone on too long.  August 15, 2026 JPost

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Taliban celebrate ‘victory day’ five years after seizing power in Afghanistan. Five years after seizing power, the Taliban are projecting control in Afghanistan while rights groups warn of deepening humanitarian crises and sweeping restrictions on women. August 15, 2026 JPost

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Hezbollah Put Civilians in Headquarters to Trap Israel Into Striking Them Catherine Salgado | 5:12 PM on August 15, 2026. Hezbollah terrorists orchestrated a drone strike on Israeli troops after moving many civilians into their headquarters, knowing that Israel would retaliate by striking the headquarters. It was a trap to lure Israelis into unwittingly killing civilians. PJMedia

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Muslim Association promises 'Jew-free' incident will not recur at future youth events. This kind of 'offensive and discriminatory' statement has 'no place in the Muslim community,' say MAC in an update. Author of the article:By National Post Staff. Published Aug 15, 2026 NationalPost

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Iran says missing pilots are alive - in Qatar. After months of uncertainty, Tehran claims three pilots thought missing since their jets were shot down are alive and being held by Qatari forces. Orly Harari. Aug 16, 2026, 12:18 AM INN

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Watch: Tens of thousands at Western Wall for Selichot service. Israel National News. Aug 16, 2026, 4:44 AM INN

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Israeli universities rank among world’s top 100. Israel National News. Aug 16, 2026, 8:53 AM INN

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'He should worry about his own security'. Iranian lawmaker mocks Trump over past security logistics while rejecting the US President's statement that Washington will claim the Strait of Hormuz. Israel National News. Aug 16, 2026, 6:19 AM INN

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Hezbollah terrorist eliminated Wave of strikes in Lebanon after soldiers' injuries. Israel National News. Aug 16, 2026, 8:15 AM INN

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Israeli i24News Team Attacked in Ireland While Filming Docuseries on Antisemitism. by Shiryn Ghermezian. August 17, 2026.

A film crew from i24News’ Hebrew channel was assaulted over the weekend in Northern Ireland while filming a documentary series about antisemitism in Europe.

Reporter Yonatan Raveh and cameraman Nadav Abbas were interviewing people on the street in a popular bar area in Belfast when a local man realized they were from Israel and confronted the crew, according to i24News, which also shared a video of the incident on X.

The Irish man confronted the Israeli television crew and tried to grab their expensive camera equipment. When he failed, “he began actively disrupting the recording process and made obscene gestures toward the camera, which led to the filming being stopped,” i24 said. “The Israeli team tried to calm the situation and withdraw from the scene, but the suspect continued to follow them in a threatening manner, at which point the i24NEWS team turned to nearby security personnel and asked for help calling the police.” Algemeiner

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Hamas documents reveal long-term plan to open a northern front against Israel. Captured Hamas documents reveal more than a decade of efforts to establish a military infrastructure in Lebanon in coordination with Hezbollah and Iran, including plans for rockets, a 2,000-man fighting force and more. Israel National News. Published: Aug 16, 2026, 3:40 PM (GMT+3) INN

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After Trump threats. Iranian Speaker claims war victory Israel National News. Aug 17, 2026, 5:08 AM INN

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Since the beginning of 2026 | 100 members of Alawite community killed in sectarian crimes in several Syrian provinces. On Aug 17, 2026 Syriahr

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'Compel Israel to honor Gaza peace plan'. Following high-level talks in Egypt with US envoy Jared Kushner, Hamas demands the Board of Peace compel Israel to fulfill its commitments under the Gaza plan. Elad Benari. Aug 17, 2026, 2:17 AM INN

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'A slap in Israel's face'. Zvi Yehezkeli slams Kushner’s meeting with Hamas officials. Israel National News. Aug 17, 2026, 5:56 AM INN

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Israeli forces nab Palestinian digging tunnel shaft near Jerusalem security barrier. Israeli security forces arrested a Palestinian suspected of helping to dig a tunnel shaft near the Jerusalem security barrier, the Israel Police said on Monday.

Border Police officers were sent to the Kalandia area, near Ramallah in Samaria, after lookouts spotted several people digging beside the barrier, according to a police statement.

The suspects fled as officers approached, prompting a foot chase during which police fired shots into the air. Aug 17, 2026 JNS

WATCH: Police uncover tunnel near West Bank border fence outside Jerusalem. Observers from the Border Police patrol unit first noticed the group digging a tunnel near the fence and alerted officers in the field, who then went to the scene.  Aug 17, 2026 JPost

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Kurdish PM Barzani says Iranian drones targeted his office, intelligence chief’s home. Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said Iranian drones targeted his office and the home of the region’s intelligence chief, calling the attacks a “dangerous escalation” and “a direct threat to the security and stability of the Kurdistan Region.”

“These attacks will not deter us from carrying out our duties and protecting our citizens,” Barzani wrote on X, citing an investigation by the Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Unit.

The KRG’s security agency earlier said that two drones launched from Iranian territory targeted the prime minister’s office, with no casualties reported. Aug 17, 2026 JNS

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Hamas detonates explosive, fires toward troops near Yellow Line in northern Gaza, IDF says. Aug 17, 2026 JNS

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Israel stations soldiers at entrances to homes in Palestinian village Qusra, residents remain confined. Aug 17, 2026 JNS

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Trump says Hamas agreed to disarm, urges Israel to halt Gaza strikes. U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed to Fox News on Monday that Washington has a separate channel of communication with Hamas and said the terrorist group had agreed to give up its arms. Aug 17, 2026 JNS

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Emotional Return. Ex-Hostage Visits Gush Katif Museum. Ohana, held captive in Hamas tunnels for two years after being abducted on Simchat Torah, toured the Jerusalem museum preserving the memory of Gaza's former Jewish communities.

Eliana Fleming, Srugim Aug 17, 2026 JFeed

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UN helped Iran expand anti-drug crackdown despite execution concerns. Iranian seizures of meth increased from 30,393 kilograms in 2022 to 40,453 kg. in 2025 with the help of the technology, according to the United Nations. Aug 17, 2026 JPost

The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: The UN Office on Drugs and Crime is facing criticism after helping Iran expand its anti-drug enforcement capabilities despite widespread concerns that drug suspects face torture, unfair trials, and execution. ✍️ @DanielleGreyman. Aug 17, 2026 on X

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Meeting between Kushner and Hamas sparks unease among Palestinian Authority officials. Several officials were left perplexed following the meeting, with them expressing concern over the US's treatment of Hamas and its approach to the Palestinian issue. Aug 17, 2026 JPost

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Trump hints at endorsing candidate in Israeli election, despite calling it best to 'stay out'. Speaking to FOX's Trey Yingst in a phone call, Trump noted that "I think it's most appropriate for me to stay out of the Israeli elections," adding that "I may endorse somebody." JPost

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Israel, US agree Hamas weapons will go to US-led ISF for destruction, not to Palestinian government. Under the emerging Gaza framework, officials say Hamas weapons would be destroyed by the US-led ISF, while reconstruction and changes to Israel's military posture would depend on full disarmament. Aug 17, 2026 JPost

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Israel establishes working teams on Gaza disarmament and public health. The Prime Minister's Office announces two working teams following discussions with the Peace Council. The first team will handle disarmament and demilitarization of Gaza, with both Israel and the Peace Council committed to swift completion before reconstruction begins. The second team will address sanitation, clean water, and public health issues affecting Gaza and Israeli residents. Jfeed Staff. Aug 17, 2026. JFeed

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Mounting Antisemitic Attacks, Institutional Failures Leave Canadian Jews Asking: Stay or Go? August 17, 2026 Algemeiner

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Florida: Bipartisan leaders condemn candidate’s antisemitic attacks. Israel National News. Aug 18, 2026, 5:22 AM INN

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Hamas Built Secret Army in Lebanon. Intelligence analysis of documents seized in Gaza shows Hamas established an independent military presence in Lebanon with Iranian and Hezbollah backing, intended to open a northern front against Israel as part of a multi-arena strategyread more

Gila Isaacson, Kikar Hashabbat. Aug 17, 2026. ...Though the full plan was never completely realized, Hamas's military wing in Lebanon joined the fighting after October 7, 2023, claiming responsibility for multiple attacks against northern Israel. This active involvement illustrates that the Lebanese presence was part of a broader, carefully planned strategic concept aimed at opening another front against Israel within a multi-arena framework.

The intelligence disclosure adds to a series of revelations about Hamas's plans to expand the conflict. The IDF recently warned soldiers along the Yellow Line about Hamas attempts to reshape the narrative on the ground. Additionally, former U.S. President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with senior Hamas figures in Egypt and pressed for immediate disarmament. JFeed

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Claims escalation in Gaza. Erdogan slams Israel in Trump call. Elad Benari. Aug 18, 2026, 2:07 AM INN

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Israel responsible? Reports of unusual airstrike on airbase deep in Syria. Yitz Goldberg. Aug 18, 2026, 8:07 AM INN

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After 44 years: Remains of last Sultan Yaqub MIA found. IDF representatives inform the family of Yehuda Katz that his remains have been located, 44 years after he went missing in the Battle of Sultan Yaqub.

Israel National News. Aug 18, 2026, 8:59 AM

...Katz was the last soldier from the Battle of Sultan Yaqub in 1982 to be classified as missing in action.

The finding of his remains brings a years-long intelligence and military saga to an end. In 2019, the body of Zechariah Baumel was returned to Israel through Russian mediation.

In 2025, a special secret Mossad mission brought the body of Zvi Feldman home.

Katz, Baumel, and Feldman were classified as missing in action after the Battle of Sultan Yaqub, which occurred on June 11th, 1982, at a crossroads south of the village of Sultan Yaqub in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, during the First Lebanon War. INN

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ISIS attack plot targeting Be’er Sheva nightclub foiled. A 20-year-old Negev resident is indicted for allegedly planning an ISIS-inspired attack on a Be’er Sheva nightclub and seeking to join the terror group in Syria. Israel National News Aug 18, 2026, 11:40 AM INN

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Kushner: Gaza demilitarization could begin within 30 days. “And hopefully filling in some of the tunnels as well in the next 60 to 90 days,” the Trump administration envoy said. Aug 18, 2026. JNS

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Did the US offer Hamas a path to power in exchange for disarming? Senior Fatah leader alleged that Hamas obtained assurances that it could participate in the upcoming PA elections. Gaza War (2023) Aug 18, 2026. PalWatch

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Israeli envoy Leiter: Hamas violated Gaza ceasefire 229 times since Aug. 3. August 19, 2026 Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said on Tuesday that Hamas has committed 229 ceasefire violations since Aug. 3, in addition to 162 crossings of the Yellow Line, the boundary to which the Israeli military withdrew under the Trump administration’s peace plan.

In a post on X, Leiter accused the terrorist group of systematically violating U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan by refusing to disarm, smuggling weapons and materials into Gaza, rebuilding underground military infrastructure, recruiting and training terrorists, planting explosives and preparing attacks against IDF. JNS

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Israel confirms Syria airstrikes. Netanyahu’s office confirms strikes on Syria's Abu al-Duhur airbase and warns Damascus over Turkish troop deployment, saying Israel will not tolerate threats. Israel National News Aug 18, 2026, 11:36 PM INN

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Unusual strike at Gaza Port. Nukhba commanders gathered for meeting - IDF strikes. Uzi Baruch. Aug 18, 2026, 9:57 PM INN

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Dem socialist wins Florida Senate primary, but GOP incumbent favorite to keep seat. Angie Nixon beat Alex Vindman although he out-raised her by more than 16 times. JNS Staff. Aug 18, 2026. JNS

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Until further notice. UAE halts trade and financial transactions with Iran. Israel National News. Aug 19, 2026, 12:09 AM INN

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Florida primary. Anti-Israel progressive Angie Nixon scores upset. Israel National News Aug 19, 2026, 4:15 AM INN

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Huckabee to Israeli media: 'Another Iran war could happen if regime rejects diplomacy'. Israel National News. Aug 19, 2026. INN

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BBC rules ‘moneybags Rothschild’ phrase not antisemitic. British broadcaster's highest complaints panel rejects complaint over phrase referencing well-known Jewish family in decision called 'beyond compregension.' Israel National News. Published: Aug 19, 2026, 3:33 PM (GMT+3)

The BBC's highest complaints panel has rejected the accusation that the use of the phrase "moneybags Rothschild" is antisemitic, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

A listener had submitted a complaint after the phrase was uttered during the Gardeners’ Question Time radio program. However, the Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) ruled that the phrase would not “perpetuate prejudice" in the context in which it was used because “the Jewishness of the Rothschild family was not referred to."

The ruling was condemned by Jewish leaders. Lord Eric Pickles, the former chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), called the decision “beyond comprehension" and stated that the phrase was “inappropriate and antisemitic, almost comically so."

Conspiracy theories about the wealth of the Rothschild family have long been used by antisemites to justify actions against Jews. The Nazis used Rothschild conspiracy theories as part of their anti-Jewish propaganda in the 1930s.

The BBC has faced numerous accusations of bias and antisemitism in its coverage of Israel and Jewish issues in recent years.

In November of 2023, the corporation published an apology after falsely claiming that IDF troops were targeting medical teams in battles in and around the Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

Before that, the BBC falsely accused Israel of being responsible for an explosion at a hospital in Gaza, which the IDF proved was caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket. The network later acknowledged that “it was false to speculate" on the explosion.

Last year, the BBC faced scrutiny for using the son of a senior Hamas official as a narrator in its documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone."

Following the criticism, the British broadcaster acknowledged that there were “serious flaws" in the program.

In January 2026, the BBC was forced to apologize after the introduction to its International Holocaust Memorial Day conference omitted the fact that the six million victims murdered by the Nazis were Jews, with the omission being condemned as "hurtful, disrespectful and wrong". INN

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DSA Accuses Rubio of Cuban Genocide. August 19, 2026. By Daniel Greenfield. Everything the Left doesn’t like is genocide. FPM

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Mother Worked for Group That Funded Al-Qaeda. August 19, 2026. By Daniel Greenfield . Transferred money to Specially Designated Global Terrorist. [4] ...Exhibit 349 [5] shows Elkomy transferring $20,772.88 to IARA boss Khalid Al-Sudani. He’s since been listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Her name appears on transfers and correspondence involving money being moved to Iraq, the terrorist occupied territories in Israel and other terror conflict zones. FOM

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Forensics debunk ‘settler arson’ claim, and not for first time. Investigators found that a short circuit caused house fire, contradicting allegation that Israelis deliberately set it ablaze. David Israel/TPS-IL. (Aug. 21, 2026 / David Israel/TPS-IL) A fire at a Palestinian residential building in the Hebron area on Thursday morning was caused by an electrical short circuit, according to an investigation by Israeli police and fire officials, contradicting claims that masked Israelis deliberately set the building ablaze. No injuries were reported.

“I’ve been here for eight months, and I’ve seen people make unauthorized electrical connections, running cables from one building to another and using makeshift outlets. It’s not professionally installed. The electric company didn’t do it for them,” a police spokesperson told The Press Service of Israel. JNS

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International Atomic Energy Agency Digs TONS of Nuclear Material Buried in Clandestine Site in Syria! al-Sharaa Regime Reverses Plan and REFUSES To Hand Over the Findings. Gateway Pundit. August 18, 2026 | Paul Serran. Ahmed al-Sharaa – Montage Image Wiki Commons A former al-Qaida terrorist is now sitting on a treasure trove of nuclear material that can be weaponized. A United Nations team has excavated a ‘previously undisclosed site’ in Syria and found several tons of nuclear material from the days of the Bashar al-Assad rule. The agreed plan was for the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove the material from Syria – but that’s not what’s going to happen, anymore. Syria is now holding the nuclear material, and refuses the handover, saying ‘it will remain under IAEA safeguards for peaceful civilian use’. .. GWP

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'We won't allow enemies to establish themselves on our borders'. LTG Eyal Zamir tours security zone in southern Syria, warns escalation could develop on any front and praises reservists who have served hundreds of days since the war began. Israel National News. Aug 19, 2026, 6:43 PM INN

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Israel won’t permit significant military buildup on Syrian border, IDF chief says. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, touring the Syrian front on Wednesday, said Israel wouldn’t “allow hostile forces to establish themselves on our borders.”

His remarks came two days after Israel struck the Abu Duhur military air base in Syria’s Idlib province, a response to a planned deployment of Turkish troops at the base.

“We are operating in a multi-front reality, in which the challenges are constantly changing and developing—the Syrian arena is one of them,” Zamir said.

“We see what is happening and are monitoring the changes on the Syrian front,” he added, saying that Israel must prevent the formation of any significant military threat on its borders.

Israel had previously warned it would not permit Turkey to build up forces in Syria. Aug 19, 2026. JNS

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: The head of Israel's Mossad spy agency, Roman Gofman, held a phone call with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani last week, prior to the airstrike on a Syrian military base. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office said the strikes were due to Turkish military presence in Syria. Aug 19, 2026 on X

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Within less than 30 minutes: IDF eliminates two terrorists in Gaza. Israel National News. Aug 19, 2026, 3:44 PM INN

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Big day in Judea and Samaria: Two communities granted official status. as Israeli localities. Israel National News. Aug 19, 2026, 6:19 PM INN

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IDF: Over 2 million tons of food entered Gaza since ceasefire. Israel National News. Aug 19, 2026, 6:21 PM INN

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IDF eliminates four Nukhba commanders in Gaza. Israel National News. Aug 19, 2026, 7:20 PM INN

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Anti-Israel Dem leads AIPAC endorsee by 1,350 votes in California special runoff to finish Swalwell term. Aisha Wahab states on her campaign site that Melissa Hernandez is funded by AIPAC, while the latter’s campaign site doesn’t mention the word “Israel” or “Jewish.” Aaron Bandler. Aug.19, 2026 JNS

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‘Tsunami of hate’ against Jews in medicine and hospitals, researchers say. Jonathan D. Salant. Aug. 19, 2026 / JNS) At the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Jews were labeled as oppressors. Patients were afraid to be identified as Jews at the University of California, San Francisco, and protesters targeted medical schools in New York City and demanded the destruction of the State of Israel. These are some of the antisemitic incidents that erupted in hospitals, dental schools, psychology conferences and elsewhere since Oct. 7, according to a new study published in the Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal. JNS

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Judge dismisses lawsuit by former Columbia anti-Israel encampment leader. August 19, 2026. Kathleen Waterman-Marshall, a justice for the New York State Supreme Court, dismissed Khymani James’ lawsuit against Columbia University, ruling that he did not adequately substantiate his claims that the university discriminated against him, the Daily Wire reported on Tuesday. James, a former leader of the university’s anti-Israel encampment, was suspended after making remarks in a January 2024 livestream that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” as well as for his conduct related to the student encampment. JNS

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Gesher Community Care, AEPi launch national study examining impact of antisemitism, student mental health. August 19, 2026 Gesher Community Care and Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) are partnering on a national research study examining the mental-health impact of antisemitism and anti-Zionism among AEPi’s approximately 9,000 active undergraduate members and alumni at more than 150 academic institutions of higher learning across the United States. JNS

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'No Jewish American can now be nominated on any national Democratic Party ticket,' classicist Victor Davis Hanson says. August 19, 2026

Most Democrat candidates prefer to be seen on the stump with the antisemitic, America-trashing Hasan Piker rather than with their own Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer,” the pro-Israel scholar and commentator wrote.

The truth is that Jewish influence isn’t holding America captive, according to Hanson.

“Since its founding, Israel has contributed about $300 million, adjusted for inflation, to U.S. universities and nonprofits,” he wrote. “In contrast, the Gulf states alone have given more than $12 billion.”

“Our chief rival, a hostile China, has donated more than $6 billion,” he added. “Yet somehow Israel is accused of buying and leveraging U.S. institutions. JNS

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US military created secret path through Hormuz, 10 million barrels of oil pass daily - report. US President Donald Trump told reporters "The Strait is open. A lot of boats are coming through, adding that "We are getting a lot of oil out." August 20, 2026 00:14 JPost

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Atlanta Israel Coalition. Aug 17, 2026. Atlanta Israel Coalition Joins Global Coalition to Share the Facts About the “Gaza GenoLIE” Narrative.

The Gaza GenoLIE initiative examines how accusations of genocide against Israel developed, how they were amplified, and how they have influenced public understanding of the conflict.

The initiative’s goal is not to argue with people, but to provide information and encourage thoughtful examination of the claims being made about Israel. Its website presents evidence-based analysis of legal definitions, media narratives, Hamas’s military strategy, and the broader campaign to delegitimize Israel.

The initiative addresses eight central issues:

- Genocide accusations emerged immediately after the October 7 massacre, before Israel launched its military response. - The legal definition of genocide has been broadly misunderstood and misapplied. - Israel’s military campaign is directed at Hamas, not at the Palestinian people. - Accusations against Israel have contributed to antisemitic hostility toward Jews worldwide. - Claims about journalists and media coverage require careful examination of sourcing, context, and Hamas’s influence. - Hamas operates among civilian populations and uses civilian infrastructure for military purposes. - Reports concerning illness, hunger, and humanitarian conditions require complete medical and factual context. - The genocide accusation forms part of a broader campaign challenging Israel’s legitimacy and the Jewish people’s right to self-determination.

The website organizes these issues into eight “puzzle pieces,” allowing readers to review the evidence, understand how particular narratives developed, and reach informed conclusions.

We invite you to explore the initiative for yourself:

[7] [#GazaGenoLIE #AtlantaIsraelCoalition #ShareTheFacts #StandWithIsrael #FightAntisemitism #TruthMatters] on FB

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IDF reveals: Hamas uses Nasser Hospital to conduct brutal interrogations, torture. IDF intelligence reveals Hamas is allegedly using Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis as an interrogation and torture center as the terrorist organization fears losing its grip over Gaza residents. Israel National News. Aug 20, 2026, 3:20 PM (GMT+3) ...Nasser Hospital continues to serve as a central Hamas military infrastructure in the southern Gaza Strip. Patients and hospital employees have witnessed a permanent presence of Hamas terrorists throughout various parts of the hospital compound, some of whom are masked, the IDF stated.

The military warned that Hamas' activities inside the hospital create fear among Gaza residents and endanger patients, healthcare providers and medical personnel.

The IDF further revealed that Hamas is conducting additional interrogations in another building in the hospital compound. The structure, which formerly housed hospital offices, was subsequently used as a cafeteria and was later converted into a prayer room. According to the IDF, Hamas has now transformed it into an interrogation center.

The military said that the exploitation of civilian infrastructure for interrogations and torture is not an isolated practice, but rather a widespread phenomenon within Hamas.

"These actions by the Hamas terrorist organization constitute a violation of international law, which prohibits the military use of hospitals," the IDF stated. INN

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'Hamas hasn't changed'. Special interview with Amb. Mike Huckabee. In a special Arutz Sheva interview, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee speaks out on Iran, Hamas, Syria, Israel's upcoming elections, and Trump-Netanyahu ties. Yoni Kempinski. Aug 20, 2026, 11:01 PM INN

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Report: EU preparing sanctions against Israel over E1 construction. Elad Benari. Aug 21, 2026, 4:38 AM INN

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50,000 at Western Wall Selichot. Captivity survivors Bar Kupershtein and Agam Berger take part. Israel National News. Aug 21, 2026, 2:22 AM INN

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Hochul to Mamdani: 'Focus on New York, not Israel'. Elad Benari. Aug 21, 2026, 6:25 AM. New York Governor Kathy Hochul is urging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to devote greater attention to governing the city and less to Israel, according to an interview with The New York Times published Thursday.

Hochul was asked about a video Mamdani released last month in which he acknowledged that, despite his repeated promises, he does not have the authority to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The video drew hundreds of millions of views and included accusations against Israel, including the false claim that Netanyahu is a war criminal[sic].

Mamdani has faced repeated criticism over his anti-Israel positions and statements. During his mayoral campaign, he declined to reject the slogan “globalize the intifada" and came under criticism for comments targeting Israel on October 8, 2023, one day after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel.

He has also repeatedly accused Israel of war crimes during its campaign against Hamas in Gaza. On his first day as mayor, Mamdani further sparked controversy by rescinding executive orders concerning Israel that had been issued by his predecessor, Eric Adams.

His positions have continued to draw criticism since taking office, including his decision to boycott New York City's annual Israel Day Parade, making him the first mayor of the city to do so.

The controversies have raised concerns among many Jewish New Yorkers, particularly amid a rise in antisemitic incidents targeting the community.

Asked whether Mamdani's rhetoric toward Israel could make Jewish New Yorkers uncomfortable, Hochul said she had a different priority for the mayor.

“I encourage him to - ‘Let’s focus on blocking and tackling of city government,’" she told The New York Times, invoking a football expression for concentrating on the basic responsibilities of governing.

Hochul pointed to issues including housing and child care as areas where she and Mamdani share priorities.

“That’s where I believe the main focus should be," she added.

The governor also reiterated her opposition to antisemitism, declaring that she would “throw my body against any antisemitism." INN

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In Jenin. Terrorist attempts to stab IDF soldier and is eliminated. Israel National News. Aug 21, 2026, 3:41 AM INN

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Jewish hikers attacked after mistakenly entering Arab village. Dozens of Arab rioters hurl rocks at Jewish hikers who apparently entered village by mistake; security forces rush to rescue the group. Israel National News. Aug 21, 2026, 3:42 PM INN

Hikers Stoned After Entering PA Village. IDF forces responding to the incident were also pelted with rocks; one suspect was shot after attacking a security officer

Gila Isaacson Aug 21, 2026 JFeed

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The mask of NATO has fallen: Turkey stands revealed as a mortal threat to Israel and the West.

Turkey under Erdogan is not a democratic bridge between East and West, nor is it a reliable pillar of transatlantic security; it is an expansionist, authoritarian power fundamentally hostile to democratic governance, Western values, and the existence of Israel in the Middle East. Another wake up call. Opinion.

Fern Sidman Aug 21, 2026, 11:39 AM INN

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Escalation as Turkey seeks Interpol arrest warrants for Netanyahu. Ankara asks Interpol to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and dozens of senior Israeli officials over their alleged involvement in stopping the Global Sumud flotilla en route to Gaza. Israel National News. Aug 21, 2026, 4:20 PM INN

Netanyahu's office rejects Turkish Interpol red notice request as "pathetic intimidation". Aug 21, 2026, JFeed

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Primary lessons: GOP Groypers flop while Dem extremists flourish. Far-right followers of Tucker Carlson are failing across the board with Republican voters. In most Democratic contests, antisemitic DSA candidates continue to thrive. Jonathan S. Tobin. Aug 21, 2026. JNS

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AIPAC gets credit for turning landslide into ‘real nail-biter’ in special CA election, in which anti-Israel Dem defeats candidate backed by pro-Israel group. Jared Sclar, a Democratic political consultant, told JNS that the rematch between Aisha Wahab, an anti-Israel state senator, and Melissa Hernandez, a former mayor of Dublin, Calif., in November will be “genuinely competitive.” Aaron Bandler. (Aug. 21, 2026 / JNS) Aisha Wahab, an anti-Israel state senator, defeated Melissa Hernandez, a former mayor of Dublin, Calif., whom AIPAC has supported, in the special election to replace former Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell. With 95% of votes counted in California’s 14th Congressional District, Wahab had 51,610 votes (53.1%) to 45,598 votes (46.9%) for Hernandez. Wahab has accused Israel of... JNS

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US re-designates Hezbollah as terror group in ‘service to Iranian regime’. The faction is “an extension” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force and is “not a Lebanese resistance movement,” a State Department official said. Mike Wagenheim. Aug 21, 2026. JNS

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UK bank attack. Palestine Action activists spared terrorist sentences. Israel National News Aug 22, 2026, 1:26 AM INN

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Trump: 'Military option against Iran remains on the table'. Elad Benari, Canada. Aug 22, 2026, 12:31 AM INN

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IDF detains Hamas terrorist after crossing Gaza Yellow Line. Israel National News. Aug 21, 2026, 8:06 PM INN

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US on E1 tender: 'We do not support' Judea and Samaria annexation. Israel National News. Aug 21, 2026, 9:45 PM INN

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Haverford College’s Honor Code Divided Students Into “Privileged” and “Marginalized” Groups. Sara Dogan. Can you guess where Jews were told they belonged? Aug 21, 2026 FPM

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Leftist White Woman Converted to Islam, Plotted to Bomb NY Capitol. August 21, 2026. By Daniel Greenfield.

"Blowing non-Muslim brains out is beautiful." FPM

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California AG Admits He’s Fighting WB Deal So Dems Control CNN August 20, 2026. By Daniel Greenfield. “I can’t go into court… and tell the judge my views on democracy.” FPM

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Netanyahu Calls Erdogan an ‘Antisemitic Dictator’ as Turkey Seeks International Arrest Warrant for Israeli PM. Aug 21, 2026. Algemeiner

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Suspect Arrested in Florida Antisemitic Attack Previously Accused of Slashing Giant FIFA Ball Display. By Shiryn Ghermezian. Aug 21, 2026

A street in Surfside, Florida. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

A man from Miami Beach, Florida, who was arrested on Wednesday and accused of assaulting and threatening to kill a Jewish person during an antisemitic attack in Surfside had also been arrested earlier this summer for an unrelated violent incident, according to his arrest report cited by media outlets.

Jorden Stephen Perozo, 35, was taken into custody by the Surfside Police Department and is facing one count each of battery with prejudice and harassing or intimidating a person based on religious or ethnic heritage. He was arrested at his job at the Flanigan’s Bar and Grill on Harding Avenue and taken into custody without incident, according to police.

The antisemitic attack took place on Aug. 16 when a Jewish man and his wife, who were visiting Florida from New York, were walking along Harding Avenue. Perozo approached them on an electric scooter and cursed at them along with others in the Jewish community, according to the arrest report cited by NBC Miami. Perozo then punched the husband on the side of the head and told him, “Now you’re going to die. Walk away before I kill you.” He continued telling the victim that he hated him, called the couple “evil demons,” and made statements targeting Israel and “Palestine,” the affidavit stated. The victim’s wife recorded the incident on her cellphone. Algemeiner

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Paramount accuses Mark Ruffalo of using antisemitic tropes. Paramount Pictures accuses Hulk actor of using antisemitic tropes after he attacks the Ellison family and Israel in a rant against the planned merger with Warner Brothers. Israel National News. Aug 22, 2026, 9:56 PM INN

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“Loser with a low I.Q." Trump opens new front against Tucker Carlson. US President Donald Trump has opened a new front against conservative media personality Tucker Carlson and former members of Congress Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie. Israel National News. Aug 22, 2026, 11:38 PM INN

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Mansour Abbas calls for recognition of a Palestinian state. Dalit Halevy. Aug 22, 2026, 8:18 PM INN

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Unusual statement by Defense Minister over Shabbat. Defense Minister claims Israel warned the Syrian regime in advance against an attempt to allow Turkey to establish a presence at the Abu al-Duhur airbase. Israel National News. Aug 22, 2026, 8:07 PM INN

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In Kfar Yehoshua's old train station, artists stitch Israel's story since October 7. Once upon a time, the historic Valley Train connected a region. Today, it is connecting a community through art. Updated August 22, 2026 JPost

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: An Iranian military official called on Qatar to transfer detained Iranian pilots to a hospital on land, claiming they were being held on water and were in "poor physical condition." August 22, 2026 on X

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Facing exile and persecution, an Iranian dissident crossed from devout Muslim to student of Judaism. IRANIAN AFFAIRS: Iranian refugee Behnam Vali Heydarian recounts persecution, attacks, pro-Israel activism, and fears of deportation to Iran after his journey from Islam to Christianity and Judaism. August 22, 2026 JPost

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: The IDF arrested three Palestinian suspects related to an attack on Friday against a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) .. group hiking in the West Bank, Maariv reported on Saturday. August 22, 2026 on X

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Israel must stop Erdogan’s military expansion before Turkey reaches its borders - opinion Unless Israel draws concrete red lines in Syria and the eastern Mediterranean, the Turkish army and navy will further encroach upon Israel’s northern and maritime borders.  August 22, 2026 JPost

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The Middle East’s ‘peace architecture’ may be giving rise to an anti-Israel bloc - opinion. Instead of building peace, we are building a system in which Israel's enemies keep their weapons while Israel's friends gain the power to tell Israel when it may use its own. August 22, 2026 JPost

The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: Opinion: Before international monitors tell Israel that the danger has passed, the danger should actually be gone. Otherwise, we are not building peace, and Israel should recognize this before it is too late. August 22, 2026 on X

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Trump: Iran wants to make deal, US redirects 68 ships in blockade, threatens economic pressure. Trump: US had total control over the "entire region having to do with the Strait of Hormuz," and US military option still on the table • US planning to block Abbas from addressing UNGA in September. August 22, 2026 JPost

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Kushner's extraordinary warning to Hamas. Israel National News. Aug 23, 2026, 9:57 PM INN

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Part 2

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan invited Iran to join newly-established Mecca defense pact - report. The invitation has not yet been officially confirmed by Iran's Foreign Ministry or by any of the three countries that are parties to the agreement. Aug 23, 2026. JPost

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Settler leaders condemn Kusra violence, warn of ‘irreversible damage’ to Israel. Yesha Council chairman Yisrael Ganz and Beit El council head Shai Alon condemn extremists, with Alon warning that the violence is causing “irreversible damage” to Israel and the settlement movement. Aug 13, 2026. JPost

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'Iran is completely collapsing'. US President says Iran is "compltely collapsing" in social media post. Israel National News Aug 24, 2026, 3:50 PM INN

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‘Hamas stops at nothing’: Drugs found hidden in Gaza aid supplies. Israel National News. Aug 24, 2026, 4:22 PM INN

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Over draft status: Tax Authority tightens rules for haredi yeshivas. Israel National News. Aug 24, 2026. INN

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IDF Strikes Multiple Locations in Southern Lebanon. Aug 24, 2026 JFeed

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IDF Chief Lauds Air Force Covert Missions Chief of Staff tells elite airborne. commandos their classified missions will be written into military history, revealing they operated "farther than ever before". Gila Isaacson. Aug 24, 2026 JFeed

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Haredi protesters plan demonstration on Highway 4 following arrest of draft dodger. A Haredi protest is expected to disrupt traffic near Bnei Brak as demonstrators protest the arrest of an ultra-Orthodox individual over failure to enlist in the IDF. August 24 2026 JPost

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post. Controversy is growing in Israeli circles about the extent to which Iran is smuggling weapons to Hezbollah through Syria. @JeremyBob1 reports. August 24 2026 on X

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Israeli strike on Syrian airbase sparks tension with Turkey, exposes post-war friction - analysis. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani rejected claims that Turkey intended to establish a military base at Abu al-Duhur, saying the site was being restored for use by the Syrian Air Force. August 24 2026 on X

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Strait of Hormuz traffic plunges as Iran, US blockades restrict energy shipments. By Reuters. Aug 24, 2026 A total of 89 vessels exited the strait while 103 entered over the seven-day period, the report, based on Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, showed. JPost

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Syria to dismantle Assad regime's chemical weapons legacy 13 years after deadly attack - analysis. On August 21, 2013, rockets carrying a chemical sarin nerve agent struck areas of Eastern and Western Ghouta outside Damascus. August 24 2026 JPost

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Nolte: Democrat Michigan Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed Suggested U.S. Creates Terrorism. Breitbart. 8/24/2026

Democrat Michigan Senate nominee Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (aka Abdul El-Sayed) suggested to a group of supporters last year that America creates terrorism.

Here is the pertinent part of his insane comments:

I think the approach that we’ve often taken with terrorism has been to figure out how to leverage the might of the U.S. military to go in and root out, right, certain terrorist organizations, et cetera. And where that’s necessary, that’s necessary. But I also think we need to be curious about why those things happen in the first place. Like, what drives somebody to want to commit such a heinous act?.. Breitbart

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Israel strike in Syria may push US to broker deal between Jerusalem and Damascus - analysis. “The negotiations were frozen after the Iranian-Israeli war, and we hope they will resume in the near future so that we can complete this process,” al-Shaibani said. August 24 2026 JPost

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Iraq appears to delay militia disarmament as Iran-backed factions pressure Baghdad - analysis. Now Iraq is indicating that it actually wants to wait until the US leaves, to disarm the militias. This bait and switch on timing shows how Iraq will slow play its obligations. August 24 2026 JPost

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US treasury secretary says economic D-day against Iran 'begins at dawn,' IDF strikes Lebanon. Less than 20 ships transit Hormuz over weekend. • Greece moves Patriot system to key base amid rising US-Iran tensions. • Israel warns Hamas of intensified strikes over Gaza kite launches. August 24 2026 JPost

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The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post: The IDF killed a Hamas Nukhba commander who had entered Israel during the October 7 massacre, the military announced. August 24 2026 on X

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Omani foreign minister to visit Tehran, continue negotiations on Strait of Hormuz. On Sunday, Baghaei said the army chief of Pakistan, which has mediated between the United States and Iran, will visit Tehran on Monday. August 24 2026 JPost

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Police arrest eight Palestinian West Bank residents illegally residing in Beersheba apartment. Following their arrest, Southern District Police Commander Haim Bublil signed an administrative order closing the property for 30 days. August 24 2026 JPost

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'Where to kill Barron?' Iran airs video offering $10m. reward to kill US president's son - report. The video, linked on X/Twitter by anti-regime London-based journalist Niyak Ghorbani, showed various locations Barron had been at specific points in the past, including Trump Tower. August 24 2026 JPost

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US Southern Command strike kills two alleged narco-terrorists in Eastern Pacific. "Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed two narco-terrorists," SOUTHCOM said in a post on X/Twitter. August 24 2026. JPost

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Netanyahu: 'Iran tried to assassinate one of my children'. Netanyahu revealed this evening that Iran has attempted to assassinate one of his children, after Iranian state TV threatened President Trump's son. Israel National News. Aug 24, 2026, 7:32 PM. INN

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Victim of attack by PA forces recounts ordeal to Arutz Sheva: 'They kicked me in the face'. IDF reservist Yisrael Rosenthal recounts to Arutz Sheva his assault and detention by Palestinian Authority security forces in Area C and calls for action. Itzik Brandwein. Aug 24, 2026, 10:36 PM (GMT+3).

Yisrael Rosenthal, the IDF reservist who was attacked on Sunday night by Palestinian Authority security forces in Area C, spoke with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News and recounted the frightening incident.

He opens by disproving the reports that he entered PA-controlled territory, was attacked, and that the PA security forces were rescuing him. "That's a total lie," Rosenthal clarifies. "I left my home on a farm near Haresha toward Jerusalem, and I drove on the 'Strongholds Route,' which is completely within Area C. This is not my first time driving on this road. I got to the Beitunia Junction, where I saw a police car and a roadblock. At this point, I thought it was an Israeli police car. The moment I approached in my vehicle, they blocked my way, opened my door, and shouted: 'Palestinian police.'"

He says that at first, he tried to understand what the PA officers wanted from him. "I grabbed my gun [that I have from being in] the rapid response team, and they said, 'No guns.' I explained where I was driving, and in the meantime, they continued to surround me, got closer, and shut off my vehicle. At a certain point, one of them grabbed my arm, and when I was unable to defend myself, they all jumped on me, sprayed a can and a half of pepper spray at me, and kicked me in the face. At one point, after they broke my glasses and took my phone and car keys, they also managed to take my gun. They removed me from the car, cuffed me, and put me in the police car."

According to Rosenthal, "While the Palestinian officers were attacking me, there was no gathering, and they even distanced people. There were only Palestinian officers there. After that, we drove for half an hour deep into Ramallah, quickly and erratically, until we reached the police station. Luckily, they did not bring me into the station."

Later, he was given the option to contact an Israeli official. "When I was in the car, I tried to contact emergency authorities, but there was no reception, and I couldn't reach anyone. Near the station, the officers switched; we drove some more, and they let me speak with someone from COGAT who told me that they would bring me to the IDF at some point, and then they took me to the police."

When he was handed over to the Israelis, Rosenthal was shocked by the story the PA security forces told the Israeli police. "I heard that the Palestinian police reported to the IDF that I was in Area A, which was a total lie. After that, the IDF also announced that I was in Area C, but the Palestinian police said that it rescued me from a gathering, which never happened."

He calls on law enforcement and diplomatic officials to enable safe travel on the roads in Area C. "It is very important that they understand the need to stop this conduct by the Palestinian police and to secure this road, which is completely in Area C, so that Israelis can travel on it freely. Many residents use this road."

During the day, Rosenthal appealed, through the Crime Victims Department at the Honenu organization, to Defense Minister Israel Katz and Central Command Major General Avi Bluth, demanding that the Palestinian Authority security forces who attacked and detained him be arrested.

In the letter, attorney Chaim Bleicher stressed that beyond the harm caused to the reservist, the incident constituted an infringement on the sovereignty of the IDF and Israeli security forces. He called for action to prevent armed enemy forces from entering areas under IDF control.

“This is an extremely serious incident in which armed Palestinian police officers entered Area C in violation of the law, endangered regional security, assaulted and abducted an Israeli citizen. This constitutes a serious and dangerous attack both on the individual soldier and on the sovereignty of the IDF and the security forces. On behalf of the crime victim, we call for the Palestinians who attacked and beat him to be arrested as soon as possible.

“We also request that every available measure be taken to prevent such incidents from recurring, including securing the route and opening it to unrestricted Jewish traffic. This should be accompanied by IDF action to prevent armed enemy forces from entering territory under IDF responsibility," the letter stated. INN

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NYPD Releases Footage of Suspects in Two Hate Crime Attacks on Synagogues

Aug. 24, 2026

The New York City Police Department released video footage on Monday of two suspects in hate crime attacks on Queens synagogues on July 16.

The NYPD asked the public to help identify the two, who are suspected of throwing bags of motor oil at two Orthodox synagogues: Young Israel of Jamaica Estates and Young Israel of Holliswood.

The suspects in the video are wanted “in connection with two hate crime criminal mischief incidents,” the department said. Attackers damaged property at both synagogues, the NYPD said.

The video footage is from the incident at Young Israel of Jamaica Estates.

Rabbi Moshe Taub of Young Israel of Holliswood previously told JNS that the community would continue to worship and be “proud Americans.”

“We are also aware that until our city’s mayor shows the same passion in visiting the victims of crimes as he does its perpetrators, at Rikers, his words seem hollow to us and uninspiring to his denizens,” he told JNS, of city Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The rabbi also said that his synagogue had been vandalized with feces.

Adam Orlow, president of Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, previously told JNS that “while this incident is disturbing, it will not intimidate us or change who we are.”

Rabbi Dov Lerner of the synagogue said, “acts of hatred seek to create fear and division, but they will achieve the opposite.”

“We will continue to gather proudly, pray together and strengthen our community with dignity, faith and resilience,” he said.

JNS

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Trump says Iran ‘completely collapsing’ amid sanctions push. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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US Treasury Department launches ‘Operation Economic Outcast’ against Iran. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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‘Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria here to stay,’ Danon says. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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Hasan Piker a ‘hack who thrives on hate,’ Michigan Dem says. Aug. 24, 2026. Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) stated that the antisemitic streamer “lacks substance” and is “dangerous for everyone.” She also said that it was “unacceptable” that Piker targeted an elected state official. JNS

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Major Canadian Jewish groups calls for justice after ‘blatant antisemitism’ over weekend. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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CENTCOM: 70 ships redirected in Strait of Hormuz. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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IDF humanitarian delegation completes Colombia rescue mission. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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Three-quarters of Israeli Jews think 15-point Gaza plan will fail. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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IDF strikes two Hamas terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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Swiss police probe ‘death to Zionism’ rally in Basel. Canaan Lidor. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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‘Felt like a lynch mob,’ mom of 4-year-old says of NYC-funded festival, in which performer accuses Israel of ‘war crimes’. Debra Nussbaum Cohen. Aug. 24, 2026. ...she found herself and her son listening to a recitation of Israel’s “war crimes” and keffiyah-clad performers taking part in a Gaza flotilla during a show billed as being about the quirks of living in New York City. JNS

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US removes Syria from state terror sponsors list. Aug. 24, 2026 JNS

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'US not ruling out military strikes against Iran'. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says Washington is not ruling out military strikes against Iran despite its new campaign of economic pressure. Elad Benari. Aug 25, 2026, 12:22 AM INN

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Mike Rogers @MikeRogersForMI:

More calls for violence coming out of the El-Sayed campaign…

Here is his running mate, Hasan Piker, saying that if AMERICAN JEWS support Israel, they will be violently targeted because of it.

This is all in reaction to Michigan Democratic Congressional candidate Jeremy Moss, who happens to be Jewish, saying he is unsure if he will be able to support Abdul for these very reasons.

Absolutely DISGUSTING. If Abdul El-Sayed had any courage at all, he would call this out and disavow Hasan Piker once and for all. We’re waiting, Abdul. Aug 24, 2026 on X

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Abdul El-Sayed distances campaign from Hasan Piker after antisemitic remarks. Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed distances his campaign from Hasan Piker after the streamer’s remarks about Jewish Americans spark renewed controversy. Israel National News. Published: Aug 25, 2026, 4:13 AM (GMT+3) Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is seeking to distance his campaign from prominent supporter Hasan Piker following remarks by the controversial streamer that drew renewed criticism.

El-Sayed, who will face former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in the November election, issued a statement Monday stressing that he alone speaks for his campaign.

“I want to be crystal clear, nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople," he said, as quoted by Fox News.

The statement followed comments Piker made during a livestream last week in which he displayed an image of state Sen. Jeremy Moss, the Democratic nominee in Michigan's 11th Congressional District. Moss, who is Jewish, has said a recording circulating online is fabricated and falsely portrays him as saying his sole reason for seeking Congress is to preserve American support for Israel. INN

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Long Hours After Being Called Out by GOP's Rogers: Abulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Finally Distances Himself From Infamous Islamic hater Hasan Piker. That point too | Aug 25, 2026.

Only Long Hours After Being Called Out by GOP's Rogers: Abulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Finally Distances Himself From Infamous Islamic hater Hasan Piker.

A Long-Overdue Disavowal.

It is telling that only after Mike Rogers publicly called him out did Abdul El-Sayed finally feel compelled to issue a statement distancing his campaign from Hasan Piker.

For the record: Abdul El-Sayed released his statement distancing himself from Hasan Piker about 8 to 12 hours after Mike Rogers called him out (Google AI estimate).

For months, Piker, the Turkish immigrant notorious "Americans deserved 911" guy (cofounder with his uncle Cenk Uygur: TYT), has been a prominent supporter and campaign surrogate, while his rhetoric about Jews and Israel has repeatedly crossed deeply disturbing lines. Now, after Piker’s latest remarks targeting American Jews who support Israel, El-Sayed, fearing a crushing defeat, says that only he and his campaign spokespeople speak for his campaign.

That is a start—but it comes late. Jewish voters deserve more than carefully worded distancing after public pressure. They deserve unequivocal opposition to antisemitism, regardless of who expresses it or how politically inconvenient it is.

No Jewish American should have to wonder whether supporting Israel makes them a target. Calling that out should never require a Republican opponent to force the issue. That Point Too

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Northern Jerusalem: IDF and police evacuate UNRWA compound. Israel National News. Aug 25, 2026, 11:21 AM INN

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Sledgehammer in hand. MK Sukkot demolishes terrorist monuments. Hezki Baruch. Aug 25, 2026, 1:02 PM INN

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Trump: All mines in Strait of Hormuz removed. Israel National News. Aug 25, 2026, 5:45 PM INN

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'A clear warning' Watch: IDF strikes Hamas weapons sites in mosques. Israel National News. Aug 25, 2026, 1:30 PM INN

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First step in psychological warfare. Dr. Schleifer, expert in psychological warfare, says the seemingly innocent kites launched from Gaza are the beginning of a planned and systematic Hamas effort to condition Israel. Shimon Cohen. Aug 25, 2026, 7:22 PM INN

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SCOOP: Dominican Republic adopting IHRA working definition of Jew-hatred. The announcement on Monday night places the country seventh on the list of Latin American states adopting the widely used working definition. Mike Wagenheim. JNS

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Gaza-border residents protest aid, reconstruction before Hamas disarms. Activists and residents of Israeli towns near the Gaza border protested at the Kerem Shalom crossing Tuesday morning against continued aid to Gaza and reconstruction of the Strip before Hamas disarms.

The protesters, including members of Tzav 9 and the Otef Israel Forum, later demonstrated near the U.S.-led International Stabilization Force base adjacent to Kerem Shalom. They also oppose the deployment of foreign forces to the Strip before Hamas gives up its weapons.

“What unites us is the agreement that only the security forces of the State of Israel protect us. Not foreign entities, not Turks or Qataris,” said Danny Rahamim, a resident of Kibbutz Nahal Oz. Aug. 25, 2026 JNS

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New Gaza nutrition data from UNICEF shows ‘truth always prevails,’ Akunis says. “All the American media put me and the State of Israel under pressure to admit that there is starvation in the Gaza Strip,” Ofir Akunis told JNS. “I insisted there was no starvation, because that was the truth.” Rebecca Szlechter, Rikki Zagelbaum. (Aug. 25, 2026 / JNS) A new nutrition survey led by the United Nations Children’s Fund shows relatively low levels of acute malnutrition among children in accessible areas of Gaza, which confirms Israel’s repeated rejection of claims that the Strip was experiencing widespread starvation, according to Ofir Akunis, Israeli consul general in New York. “The truth is always stronger than their lies,” Akunis told JNS in an interview in his office on Monday.

Akunis recalled facing intense pressure in August 2025 to acknowledge claims of widespread starvation in Gaza.

“All the American media put me and the State of Israel under pressure to admit that there is starvation in the Gaza Strip,” he told JNS. “I insisted there was no starvation, because that was the truth.”

The envoy described the charges that the Jewish state was deliberately starving Palestinians as “Turkish, Qatari and Hamas propaganda” and “just a blood libel against the State of Israel and our brave soldiers.”

UNICEF published a new population-based nutrition survey based on data that it said it collected between May 31 and June 15, 2026. The survey found low rates of acute malnutrition among children in accessible areas of Gaza, and 12.2% of children were affected by stunting and 4% were overweight.

The U.N. agency stressed that the survey does not describe conditions in areas that researchers could not access. About 17% of Gazans were excluded from the sampling frame due to access and security constraints, the global body said.

Still, the findings represent an important acknowledgment of the position Israel had maintained, according to Akunis.

“Now, if you will read it in the future, you can see that that was the truth,” he told JNS. “As I always say, ‘The truth always prevails over lies.’”

Of the timeline upon which the U.N. agency released the findings, Akunis said that “it’s better than nothing.”

The envoy added that the delay reflects what he sees as a broader pattern in the international system when dealing with the Jewish state.

“Usually, the United Nations position toward the State of Israel is automatic,” he told JNS. “Unfortunately, nothing new.”

He described previous cases, in which initial accusations against Israel were later challenged or disproven. “There’s a lot of examples about the lies,” he said.

The new survey should prompt those who accepted earlier starvation claims to reconsider, according to Akunis. He added that the new data could change the minds of “the honest people.”

“Unfortunately, the people who are actually involved in this will not,” he said. “The industry lies.” JNS

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14 Mizrahi, Sephardic Jewish orgs pen letter criticizing ‘New York’ magazine’s ‘Habibi City’ article. A coalition of 14 organizations representing Mizrahi and Sephardic Jewish communities, which the Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa nonprofit convened, called on New York magazine to acknowledge that its Aug. 10 article excluded “the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa except on ideological terms, and renders the region’s other non-Muslim peoples nearly invisible.”

The letter states that the article, among other things, uses the term “Arab Jew,” though the letter states that most Mizrahi Jews reject the label. The article references Oct. 7 multiple times “as a calendar marker for what came after it, never as an event with victims of its own,” per the letter.

“We are not asking to be tolerated as exceptions to an ideological rule,” the letter states. “We are asking to be recognized as what we are: peoples of the region. Aug. 25, 2026 JNS

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Philadelphia dem socialists to host workshop on history of ‘weaponizing’ Jew-hatred, run by frequent partner of teacher unions. Aug. 25, 2026 JNS

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StandWithUs to offer Jew-hatred training to Haverford as part of settlement. The Pennsylvania liberal arts college and the Deborah Project announced the agreement on Aug. 9, settling the Deborah Project’s 2024 suit alleging that the school fomented a hostile environment against Jewish students.

Peggy Shapiro, executive director of the center for combating antisemitism at StandWithUs, stated on Monday that “faculty, administrators and students need the knowledge and skills to recognize antisemitism when they encounter it.”

“We are pleased to work with Haverford to help ensure that its faculty, staff and students have the tools to recognize anti-Jewish hatred and discrimination in all of its forms and to know what to do when they encounter it,” she said. Aug. 25, 2026 JNS

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Suspect who said ‘settlers’ set her home on fire recants, Israel police says. The 53-year-old woman, who made the claim last Thursday, told investigators in Judea and Samaria that “I dreamed it, and then I took revenge,” per Israeli authorities.

“Among the offenses attributed to her is incitement, after she spread the false allegation around the world through the media,” the police service said. Investigators found that the fire was caused by a short circuit rather than arson, it added. Aug. 25, 2026 JNS

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State should remove Tom Barrack as US envoy to Turkey, ‘insubordination, extreme hostility to ally Israel,’ ZOA head says. Aug. 25, 2026 JNS

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Pennsylvania Voters Approve of Shapiro, Fetterman Pro-Israel Stances, Poll Shows. By Corey Walker. August 25, 2026.

Pennsylvania voters are broadly comfortable with the pro-Israel positions of two of the state’s most prominent Democratic figures, Gov. Josh Shapiro and US Sen. John Fetterman, according to a new poll that offers a counterpoint to the Democratic Party’s growing divisions over Israel.

Nearly half of likely Pennsylvania voters, 47 percent, said Shapiro’s approach to Israel is “about right,” while 43 percent said Fetterman’s outspoken defense of Israel is also “about right,” according to a New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena University poll released on Monday.

Just 14 percent said Shapiro is “too supportive” of Israel, compared with 19 percent who said he is “not supportive enough.” For Fetterman, 30 percent said he is too supportive and 6 percent said he is not supportive enough.

The findings offer a potentially important political boost for Shapiro, a Jewish Democrat who has maintained a strong commitment to the US-Israel relationship while also criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing governing coalition. Fetterman, meanwhile, has emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s most outspoken defenders of Israel, frequently breaking with members of his own party on the issue. https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/08/25/pennsylvania-voters-approve-shapiro-fetterman-pro-israel-stances-poll-shows/

Europe Wants Thousands of Gazans to Immigrate. What Could Go Wrong? By Jonathan Sacerdoti. Aug 24, 2026.

([8]. A Palestinian boy reacts next to a burning Israeli vehicle that Palestinian gunmen brought to Gaza after they infiltrated areas of southern Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa).

A working plan is being discussed to facilitate the departure of Palestinian families from Gaza and their reunification with relatives in Europe, according to reports from well-sourced security channels.

Though European Union officials and member states have consistently rejected mass resettlement schemes for Gazans, the reported proposal, which began taking shape around two months ago, envisions an initial framework starting in early 2027 to transfer around 40,000 Palestinians to European countries over several months. Greece, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and, of course, the United Kingdom are cited among the prospective destinations. Algemeiner

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Muslim Brotherhood Builds Expanding Influence Network Across Canada, New Report Finds. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. Aug 25, 2026.

The Muslim Brotherhood has built an extensive network of organizations, financial structures, and influence operations across Canada while maintaining a carefully managed public image, a new report warns, raising concerns over the transnational Islamist organization’s growing reach into politics, civil society, and academia.

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), a US-based research organization focused on antisemitism, extremism, and ideological movements, released a new report on Monday examining Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks and their growing influence across Canadian politics, civil society, and higher education.

Founded in Egypt in 1928 by schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to implement Islamic law around the world by any means necessary, embracing both violent terrorism and lawful political activity. Algemeiner

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Rudy Giuliani threatens to sue Tucker Carlson in rant over Hunter Biden’s laptop New York Post | Aug. 25, 2026 | Emily Goodin.

Rudy Giuliani announced he’s suing Tucker Carlson over comments made during his interview with Hunter Biden regarding the origins of the now-infamous “laptop from hell.”

The former mayor charged that, during the interview, Carlson claimed he and President Trump were agents for Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

“He can go to hell!,” Giuliani told Newsmax in an interview. “I wasn’t an agent for anybody but myself and the United States of America and the man I was representing. That’s been proven 40 times over. I’m gonna sue him! I don’t know what has happened to Tucker Carlson, but if he’s not working for somebody else, he’s doing a good imitation of it.” NYPost

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US Ambassador Waltz calls Gaza famine claims a ‘blood libel’.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz on Wednesday accused the international community of promoting a “blood libel” against Israel over claims of famine in Gaza.

Waltz cited a report in Free Press about a July 2026 survey that found acute child malnutrition, or wasting, at 0.5%, and said there was no widespread acute malnutrition at the population level.

“Recent data debunks that false narrative,” Waltz said.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, the UN-backed body that assesses famine risk, subsequently said famine conditions had been observed after food security persisted.

The newer findings do not by themselves establish that the 2025 assessment was incorrect, as conditions in Gaza changed substantially after the October 2025 ceasefire.

Ambassador Mike Waltz (@mike_waltz):

“Too many in the international community have peddled this blood libel of famine in Gaza against Israel. Recent data debunks that false narrative. As the Free Press has reported:

‘A researcher who has overseen teams collecting malnutrition data in the Horn of Africa remarked that …’”

The Free Press (@TheFP):

“A year ago, Gaza was officially declared famine-stricken. Now, more recent data paints a drastically different picture—and has triggered a debate over whether the original declaration was correct, writes Olivia Reingold. thefp.com/…” Aug. 26, 2026. JNS

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Guterres demands Israel return UNRWA Jerusalem compound...

“Israel will not allow an organization whose employees were involved in terrorism and the Oct. 7 massacre to operate on its territory, and will act against it with all available means,” he said, referring to the Hamas invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Aug. 26, 2026. JNS

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Report: Iranian assassination target - Yair Netanyahu. A US official claims that a cell acting on behalf of the regime in Tehran stayed in the Miami area, closely monitored the Prime Minister’s son’s daily routine, and gathered intelligence on him. Israel National News. Aug 26, 2026, 9:16 AM INN

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“Now I’m calm" Footage of rescue of Israeli who accidentally entered Ramallah. Israel National News. Aug 26, 2026, 11:09 AM INN

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The price of terror stipends Major raid on homes of released terrorists. Israel National News. Aug 26, 2026, 10:52 AM INN

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Israel seizes cash, vehicles from released terrorists receiving PA payments Aug. 26, 2026. JNS

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IDF chief meets US Air Force chief of staff in Israel. Aug. 26, 2026. JNS

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Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir met on Sunday with U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth W. Wilsbach during his visit to the Jewish state, the IDF said on Wednesday.

Israeli Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar also took part in the meeting, the IDF said in a Hebrew-language post on X.

The officers assessed the regional situation and reviewed lessons drawn from “Operation Roaring Lion” and “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran, according to the post. They also discussed areas for future cooperation.

“The visit reflects the importance of the strategic relationship between Israel and the United States and the close cooperation between the countries,” the IDF stated. Aug. 26, 2026 JNS

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Israel rejects Guterres’s criticism over former UNRWA compound.

Israel on Wednesday rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s criticism of its takeover of a former UNRWA facility in Kafr Aqab.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein said the agency had no property rights to the site and that it would now be converted into an educational and community complex for local Arab residents.

“You’re simply not telling the truth,” he responded on X to Guterres, who on Tuesday accused Israeli authorities of unlawfully entering and remaining at the Qalandia Training Centre.

The Jerusalem Municipality began work on Tuesday on a complex at the site costing more than 40 million shekels ($13.4 million), which is to include schools, a mosque, sports facilities and healthcare centers.

Oren Marmorstein (@OrenMarmorstein):

“You’re simply not telling the truth (yet again):

UNRWA has never had any property rights in the facility and occupied it unlawfully. The facility is intended to serve as a school and community center for the Arab children of the Kafr Aqab neighborhood. You and UNRWA …”.. Aug. 26, 2026 JNS

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Israeli soldiers arrest woman, allegedly planning terror attack, near Tel Aviv By JNS Staff. Aug. 26, 2026. Israeli soldiers assisted by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) arrested a woman in the Ganot Junction near Tel Aviv on Wednesday. They said that they acted on information that she intended to carry out a stabbing attack.

The suspect was caught with a knife and was transferred to the security forces, authorities said. They didn’t report any injuries. JNS

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UK investigates former police chief for ‘gross misconduct’ in banning Israeli fans By Andrew Bernard. Aug. 26, 2026. The U.K. police watchdog organization said on Wednesday that the former chief constable of the West Midlands is under investigation for potential “gross misconduct” over his banning of Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending a soccer match in Birmingham in November 2025.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct said that it launched an investigation in January into former chief constable Craig Guilford, three West Midlands police officers and a staff member, after they barred the Israeli fans from attending over alleged safety concerns.

“Evidence presently available indicates Mr. Guildford may have had oversight on an intelligence briefing document presented to the Safety Advisory Group that was later reported to have contained inaccuracies and misleading information,” the office stated. “We consider Mr. Guildford may have failed to ensure due diligence and the highest level of scrutiny over such an influential document.”

The ban provoked a political furor in the United Kingdom after it was revealed that the ban was based in part on misattributing blame for antisemitic and anti-Israel attacks on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam in 2024 to the fans themselves, and that it may have underplayed the threat to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from residents of Birmingham willing to attack Israelis.

The ban prompted a parliamentary investigation that concluded that Guilford’s report was based on false, AI-generated information.

Guilford retired in January after the government declared it had lost confidence in him. JNS

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US watching developments at Al al-Taner Ridge, envoy to Beirut says.

The United States is waiting to see what unfolds over the next two days at the Al al-Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon, US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa said on Wednesday, according to Lebanon’s MTV television network.

Issa spoke after meeting Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian, the highest religious leader of Lebanon’s Sunni Muslims. He said the two discussed Lebanon’s future and “the importance of coexistence,” and told the mufti that Washington “stands with the Lebanese people” and wants the country to be safe and independent.

Issa said the “model areas” were making progress, adding that everything agreed upon takes time to achieve. He was referring to the pilot zones set out under the June 26 framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon, under which the Lebanese Armed Forces deploy as Israeli troops withdraw.

The ridge sits above an extensive Hezbollah tunnel complex stretching more than a kilometer underground. The site served as a command-and-control center and housed weapons depots and rocket-launching facilities.

Several dozen Hezbollah terrorists are believed to remain trapped in the tunnels beneath the ridge. The Iranian-backed terror group claims it has resupplied them by drone and through newly dug shafts. Aug. 26, 2026. JNS

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IDF dismantles Hamas ambush position near Gaza hospital, school. The Israel Defense Forces struck and dismantled a structure in Jabalia on Tuesday that was used by Hamas as an ambush position and weapons-storage site, killing several terrorists.

The position was about 50 meters from the Al-Nasr Line, 70 meters from Kamal Adwan Hospital and 70 meters from a school, according to the IDF. The Yellow Line is the position Israeli forces withdrew to under the Gaza ceasefire.

The military said Hamas terrorists had been using the structure to plan attacks against Israeli troops and rebuild their terrorist organization’s military capabilities.

([9] Image caption: A structure used as an ambush position by Hamas terrorists — aerial image showing the structure and Kamal Adwan Hospital, with a distance marker of 70 meters.) Aug. 26, 2026 JNS

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Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas: Jewish state ‘imposed on us’.

United Arab List (Ra’am) leader Mansour Abbas said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that the Jewish character of the State of Israel is an “existing fact that was imposed on us and …” JNS

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IRGC says deal reached with Oman to split Hormuz revenues.

Iran and Oman have reached an agreement setting each country’s share of the Strait of Hormuz’s waters and of the revenues from it, a spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Wednesday, according to the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency.

Brig. Gen. Hossein Mohebbi said talks with Muscat began about a month ago and produced results acceptable to both sides. The strait belongs to Iran and Oman, he claimed.

Mohebbi said Tehran could reopen the waterway within that framework if the United States drops what he called its “obstruction” and returns to its memorandum of understanding with Iran.

The strait will not open under any circumstances unless Washington accepts the Islamic Republic’s conditions, he added. Aug. 26, 2026. JNS

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U.N. ‘settler violence’ data faces questions over disputed incidents. Josh Hasten. Aug 19, 2026. JNS

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Iran deadline expires as Hamas tests Gaza ceasefire. Fluer-Hassan Nahoum. Aug 23, 2026. JNS

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Tyler Robinson's Defense Team Just Threw Candace Owens Under the Bus. Amy Curtis. Aug 26, 2026. Tyler Robinson's Defense Team Just Threw Candace Owens Under the Bus

As Tyler Robinson's defense team prepares for a ruling on whether or not their client will face trial for the assassination of Charlie Kirk, they've now been reduced to pushing back against the online conspiracy theorists like Candace Owens who claim that Robinson was not Kirk's alleged killer.

A couple of weeks ago, the defense filed a motion arguing the case shouldn't qualify for the death penalty because Robinson didn't intend to hurt anyone other than Kirk. Absent from that motion were any of the arguments and so-called evidence laid out by Owens and the rest.

Now another transcript from the court, the Robinson defense team is distancing itself from the "crazies." TownHall Kate @kate_p45 Tyler Robinson’s own defense attorney just publicly clapped the entire Candace Owens–Baron Coleman podcast industrial complex.

“We’re not talking to crazies.” “I’ve received some wacky phone calls and e-mails.” “It’s noise.” “We’re not talking to crazies.” on X

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Turkey Prepares for ‘Crisis, Tension, and War’ as Ankara Watches Israel-Greece Military Partnership Grow. August 26, 2026. Algemeiner

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Michigan AG Dana Nessel Suggests El-Sayed ‘Making Excuses’ for Terrorism, Warns of Antisemitism in Democratic Party. By Corey Walker. August 27, 2026. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel warned in a new interview that growing anti-Israel rhetoric among fellow Democrats risked rationalizing violence against Jews and suggested she would leave the Democratic Party if support for Israel became a litmus test. Algemeiner

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Polish Far-Right Lawmaker Charged With Denying Nazi Crimes Over Auschwitz Gas Chamber Claims. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. August 27, 2026.

Polish authorities have charged lawmaker Grzegorz Braun, a far-right politician notorious for his repeated antisemitic statements and outspoken criticism of Israel, with denying Nazi crimes after he called the gas chambers at Auschwitz “fake,” in the latest incident to thrust his inflammatory rhetoric back into the spotlight.

On Tuesday, prosecutor Robert Janicki confirmed that Braun, who heads the Confederation of the Polish Crown party, had been charged with publicly denying, “contrary to the facts,” the genocide committed by Nazi Germany at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Under Polish law, publicly denying Nazi crimes is a criminal offense punishable by a fine or up to three years in prison Algemeiner

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Jewish Family Finds Anti-Israel Note Inside Checked Luggage on Flight to Israel. By Gabriel Ostrovsky. August 27, 2026 ...StopAntisemitism said the family traveled on Alaska Airlines flight AS583 from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on Aug. 22 before connecting at LAX to El Al flight LY106 to Tel Aviv. Algemeiner

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Qatar’s growing influence inside the American right. Emily Schrader. Aug 27, 2026 JNS

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US moves to disbar three former UNRWA teachers over Hamas ties, Oct. 7 involvement. One former educator also served as a Hamas military operative in the Deir al-Balah Battalion and allegedly helped abduct hostages during the October 7 massacre. August 27, 2026. JPost

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London Police Take No Further Action Against Bob Vylan Lead Singer Over ‘Death to the IDF’ Chant. By Shiryn Ghermezian. August 28, 2026 Algemeiner

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Four Men Plead Guilty to Arson Attack on Jewish Ambulances in London. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. August 28, 2026.

Four young British men on Friday admitted to an arson attack on community ambulances in London, the first of a spate of incidents ​targeting the capital’s Jewish community this year.

The four ambulances belonging to Jewish ‌volunteer emergency service Hatzola were set ablaze on March 23 while they were parked near a synagogue.

In other attacks in April and May, a synagogue and a former synagogue were targeted, as was Persian-language ​media organization Iran International and a memorial wall dedicated to people killed in ​Iran.

British police said at the time that they were investigating possible ⁠Iranian links to those arson attacks, with pro-Iranian group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin ​al-Islamiyya (HAYI) claiming responsibility for the ambulance attack and some others.

The SITE Intelligence website ​has said HAYI had been behind similar fires in Europe.

Hamza Iqbal, 20, Rehan Khan, 19, Judex Atshatshi, 18, and Saif Ali, 18, appeared at London’s Old Bailey court on Friday and pleaded ​guilty to destroying or damaging the Hatzola ambulances and being reckless as ​to whether life would be endangered. Algemeiner

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Israel-Lebanon Deal Under Strain as Hezbollah Disarmament Falls Short. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. August 28, 2026.

Two months after Israel and Lebanon signed a US-brokered memorandum of understanding, frustration is mounting in Jerusalem as the Lebanese army falls short of its pledge to dismantle Hezbollah’s military infrastructure in the country’s south — threatening to stall the fragile agreement before the two sides can move to the next stage of negotiations.

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), an Israel-based research institute, released a new report on Friday warning that the pilot program in southern Lebanon has failed to deliver on the security commitments outlined in the MoU between Beirut and Jerusalem, as the Lebanese army has yet to demonstrate that it can disarm the Iran-backed terrorist group and establish a state monopoly over weapons in the country. Algemeiner

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Jewish, Israeli Humanitarian Groups Mobilize to Help Nepal After Devastating Flash Floods. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. August 28, 2026.

As Nepal reels from deadly flash floods that have devastated communities and left a trail of destruction, Jewish and Israeli humanitarian organizations are mobilizing emergency assistance, joining an urgent rescue effort as survivors remain stranded and the full scale of the disaster continues to emerge.

In one of the latest initiatives, humanitarian agency World Jewish Relief has launched an emergency campaign to support communities along the Nepal-Tibet border, where devastating floods swept through the region on Wednesday, leaving residents grappling with widespread destruction and urgent humanitarian needs. Algemeiner

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Leading Famine Expert Largely Silent as Catastrophic Predictions for Gaza Fail to Materialize. By Corey Walker. August 28, 2026

Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and internationally recognized expert on famine, has remained largely silent as his repeated declarations of mass hunger and death in Gaza have failed to materialize and have been undermined by newly released UNICEF data.

In 2024, de Waal became one of the most prominent voices warning that Gaza was heading toward an unprecedented mass-starvation catastrophe. Yet the catastrophic mortality scenario suggested by these warnings did not materialize on the scale implied. In a series of interviews, de Waal asserted that approximately 10,000 people per day would die in Gaza as a result of mass starvation.

The famine narrative on Gaza collapsed further after UNICEF released data earlier this month confirming that malnutrition rates in the enclave are lower than much of the region, undermining assertions that Israel purposefully inflicted a starvation on innocent civilians.

According to the results, acute malnutrition rates across Gaza ranged from 0.2 percent in Khan Younis and Rafah to 0.8 percent in Gaza City and North Gaza, figures that researchers said are comparable to or lower than those recorded before the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

The survey revealed that malnutrition rates in Gaza are less severe than many neighboring Middle Eastern countries and are comparable to several European countries. For instance, roughly 3.3 percent of Egyptian youth under five years of age suffer from malnutrition, according to the data. Further, approximately 4.3 percent of youth in Iran and 2.3 percent of youth in Jordan suffer from malnutrition, per the data. Algemeiner

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Jerusalem musician, terror attack survivor Pesach Krishevsky dies at 90. Pesach Krishevsky, a well-known Jerusalem musician who survived a deadly Palestinian terrorist attack in the city in 2015, has died at the age of 90, according to an announcement from his family on Friday.

Krishevsky was seriously wounded in a car-ramming and stabbing attack on the capital’s Malchei Yisrael Street on Oct. 13, 2015. His cousin, Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky, 59, was killed in the attack.

The terrorist drove a vehicle into pedestrians waiting at a bus stop before exiting the car armed with a knife and attacking passersby. He was subsequently shot and killed by security forces.

Pesach Krishevsky suffered severe injuries but recovered and eventually returned to performing at weddings. A longtime fixture of Jerusalem celebrations, he was known as the “Jerusalem drummer.” Aug 28, 2026. JNS

Mourning in Jerusalem. The "Jerusalem Drummer" Rabbi Pesach Kryszewski, z"l, passed away. The figure of Jerusalem's majesty and kindness who delighted generations of brides and grooms and became an inseparable part of the urban landscape, the late Rabbi Pesach Kryshevsky, passed away at the age of 90 | The late Rav survived against all odds in the dramatic stampede attack in the Melki Israel, which killed two of his children, and continued to delight hearts with ardent faith (Dayan Ha'amat). Chaim Rosenbaum Shabbat Square |Tu Elul | 08.28.26 Baruch Dayan Ha'amat: In the Jerusalem Metropolitan Municipality, the famous Rabbi Pesach Kryszewski [Krishevsky], one of the oldest and most important residents of the Holy City and one of the city's most veteran figures of majesty, grace, and kindness, passed away this morning. He was 90 years old at the time of his death.

The late Ztz"l was connected with every fiber of his soul to the authentic Jerusalem experience. For decades, he served as the mythical drummer at celebrations, weddings, funerals, and events in the capital, and was known to all by his beloved and unforgettable nickname, "The Jerusalem Poiker." With his well-known drumming that thrilled hearts, he radiated pure joy out of exultation and an extraordinary Ahavat Yisrael.

When he reached his peak, he married his wife, the important woman Mrs. Chaya Bracha, daughter of the late Rabbi Chaim Rubinfein, who passed away in 1957.

His acquaintances and friends tell of a Jew who was completely God-fearing, innocent in his ways, a light to every person, whose mouth never ceased praising God. He possessed the noble qualities of simplicity, humility, and a kind eye, and was loved by all his acquaintances. Throughout his life, he was heart and soul attached to the Gabbaid of the 'Eda Haredit', the author of 'Minchat Yitzhak', zt"l, who served as his Gabbai, and he was also attached with all his soul to the Gabbaid of 'Sha'arei Tuvia', zt"l, as he would visit his home in the Gush 80 neighborhood every week.

The name of Rav Pesach, zt"l, was engraved in public memory in a heroic and moving chapter during the wave of terror of 5776. On the morning of Tuesday, Tishrei 5776, he stood at the bus stop on Malkei Yisrael Street in the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem, alongside his cousin, Rabbi Yeshayahu Akiva Kryszewski. A despicable terrorist who sped in his car ran over the two with force, and then got out armed with a butcher knife and brutally attacked them. His cousin was murdered on the spot for sanctifying God, while Rabbi Pesach was seriously injured and was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in critical condition.

In the hospital, obvious miracles took place around his bed. Against all medical predictions, and thanks to the many prayers of the public, he survived the severe injuries, made a miraculous recovery, and got back on his feet. While still hospitalized in the ward, he openly waved the banner of honoring Heaven and the Sabbath, when he came out in a vigorous protest and with Hasidic courage against the desecration of the Sabbath, while publicly sanctifying the name of Heaven and declaring that the right to observe the Sabbath is the protector and refuge of the people of Israel.

Upon his release from the hospital, he returned to the scene of the attack on Malkei Yisrael Street, accompanied by his family and acquaintances, and with emotion and tears recited the blessing "May He perform a miracle for me in this place." After his miraculous recovery, Rabbi Pesach returned to the drums and the stages, continuing to make brides and grooms happy.

In his life, he experienced severe tragedies when he lost two of his children: his daughter, the important woman Mrs. Hava Saarl Yehudit Stern, may God have mercy on her, the wife of the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Stern (one of the most important rabbis of the Hamadimi community), and his son, the great Rabbi Chaim Shalom Kryszewski zt"l (one of the most important Hasidim of Rachmastrivka). Rabbi Pesach accepted the difficult decrees with fervent faith and silence, and continued in his sacred work.

He left behind righteous and blessed generations, sons and daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren who continue in his pure path of Torah and Hasidism.

T.N.C.B.H. Kikar

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El-Sayed’s antisemitism is the issue; not Hasan Piker. Democrats want their Michigan Senate candidate to disavow his podcaster pal. The problem is that most on the political left have already embraced his Jew-hatred and lies. Jonathan S. Tobin. (Aug. 28, 2026 / JNS) Democrats wish Hasan Piker would just go away. But he won’t and it’s their own fault. And declaring him to be a distraction that should be ignored, or condemning him without also disavowing their U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan who embraced and campaigned with him, won’t cut it. Piker is back in the news because during a live stream on his popular Twitch channel, he said: “If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action, not against the State of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.”

How antisemitism works

This is a standard trope of antisemitism in which Jews are blamed for the hatred and violence aimed at them. In effect, he’s saying that if Jews continue to support the Jewish state and aid efforts to ensure its survival, they will not merely provoke the same sort of terrorism that was visited upon the Jews of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, but will incur similar atrocities against Jews in the United States.

That this vile effort to rationalize, if not justify, violence against Americans elicited condemnation is unsurprising. Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Michigan Democratic Senator Elisa Slotkin condemned it. Even his buddy, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who embraced and welcomed Piker to join him on the campaign trail during his successful effort to win the Democratic senatorial primary, felt the need to distance himself from the comments.

Liberals understand that their chances of winning control of the Senate in the November midterm elections will be considerably diminished if they lose in Michigan as a result of this controversy. So, they are pushing for El-Sayed to disavow Piker and to make a better effort to appear as if he opposes antisemitism and understands why his candidacy has inspired fear among Jews in Michigan and around the country.

For them, it is simply a matter of political common sense. If a major party candidate for high office is being negatively affected by the extreme statements or actions of an ally, there’s only one thing to do. The candidate needs to cut off ties with the ally and move on, thereby supposedly proving his moderation and good judgment.

It is therefore frustrating for the national party and its many media cheerleaders that El-Sayed just won’t do that.

But the issue isn’t that El-Sayed is being either stubborn or prioritizing loyalty to his friend over the goal of winning the Senate for the Democratic Party. It’s that he doesn’t really disagree with Piker and thinks that anyone who believes that supporters of Israel shouldn’t be abused (even if not subjected to actual terrorism) has lost his or her moral compass. The Dems’ Tucker Carlson... JNS

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The Israeli force-multiplier factor in US military strength. Israel did not grow strong because it had an American alliance. It acquired an American alliance because it had grown strong. Opinion. Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettiinger. Published: Aug 28, 2026, 4:15 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Shin Bet foils ISIS plot targeting Temple Mount, IDF base. Two Israeli Arabs, including a 16-year-old, arrested after swearing allegiance to ISIS, planning attacks on Israeli security forces. Uzi Baruch. Aug 28, 2026, 9:55 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Hamas October 7 terrorist, Islamic Jihad commander eliminated in Gaza. IDF strikes in Gaza eliminate a Hamas commander who participated in the October 7 massacre and an Islamic Jihad commander accused of continued attacks. Israel National News. Aug 28, 2026, 3:41 PM (GMT+3) INN

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IDF conducts precise strike against several terrorists in the Jenin area. IDF drone strikes vehicle carrying three terrorists, including head of a terrorist network in Jenin who was planning attacks, amid heightened security tensions and increased alert levels in Judea and Samaria. Uzi Baruch. Published: Aug 28, 2026, 5:04 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Lebanon Refuses Confrontation With Hezbollah Over Contested Ridge. JFeed

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Israeli Forces Kill Senior Hamas Commander in Jenin Airstrike | WATCH. JFeed

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Finland to end funding for UNRWA after current agreement expires. Finland announces it will end its funding for UNRWA when its current agreement expires. Israel’s Foreign Ministry welcomes the move: UNRWA is a hotbed of terrorism. Elad Benari, Canada. Aug 29, 2026, 1:04 AM (GMT+3) INN

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IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba commander, sniper in Gaza. Two Hamas terrorists advancing attacks against troops and Israeli civilians, working to rebuild Hamas capabilities in violation of the ceasefire, are eliminated in Gaza. Israel National News. Aug 29, 2026, 7:57 PM (GMT+3) INN

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COGAT reveals: Between 20-30% of Gaza aid isn't food. Hundreds of trucks carrying food, medical supplies and water infrastructure equipment entered Gaza through Israel, while 150 residents departed for third countries, official data reveals. Dalit Halevi. Aug 29, 2026, 11:26 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Former hostage: 'In Hamas tunnels I surrendered to G-d' Omer Shem Tov, a survivor of Hamas captivity, tells Arutz Sheva about the moment he surrendered himself to G-d deep inside the tunnel, 'I felt warmth and light in the darkness.' Yoni Kempinski. Aug 29, 2026, 9:00 PM INN

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Anti-Israel activist suspected of sexually assaulting child. Anti-Israel activist targeted one of three children near the Barkai neighborhood; residents detained the suspect until police arrived, Har Hevron Council says. Israel National News. Aug 29, 2026, 11:39 PM The Har Hevron Regional Council reported a serious incident that occurred on Saturday, in which anarchists once again staged a provocation, with one of the activists arrested after reportedly sexually assaulting one of the children.

During Shabbat, three children aged 10-12 were making their way from the community of Carmel to the Barkai neighborhood. When they were only about 50 meters from the neighborhood, Palestinian Arabs and anarchists who were at the scene began preventing them from passing. At one point, the incident crossed a criminal red line when one of the anarchists sexually harassed one of the children. INN

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NIS 1.4 million in suspected terror money found hidden in vehicle entering Jerusalem. Border Police officers discover NIS 1.4 million concealed inside a double wall of a vehicle entering Jerusalem, suspect the cash due to be used as terror money. Israel National News. Published: Aug 30, 2026, 2:27 PM (GMT+3) INN

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IDF strikes Hamas commander hiding in Gaza hospital. Hamas commander planning attacks against troops and Israeli civilians, working to rebuild Hamas capabilities in violation of ceasefire, is eliminated while hiding in hospital. Israel National News. Aug 29, 2026, 8:03 PM INN

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Prosecutor in NY AG Letitia James’ office says he was ordered to dig up dirt on Trump allies: report. By Carl Campanile and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon Published Aug. 30, 2026. [10]. A veteran prosecutor in state Attorney General Letitia James’ office claims he was ordered to dig up dirt on people and groups “affiliated with Donald Trump,” according to a bombshell report.

Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who now works in James’ Investor Protection Bureau, said his boss instructed him “to find and pursue crimes” committed by Trump allies, according to a since-deleted email obtained by the Times-Union. NY Post

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'This is how jihad begins' A Turkish flag on Route 60? Zvi Yehezkeli sees a ‘big message’. Arab affairs pundit Zvi Yehezkeli spots a Turkish flag on a Palestinian vehicle near Jerusalem and warns of growing admiration for Erdogan. Israel National News. Aug 30, 2026, 8:31 PM INN

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Israeli spokesman: 'The 'Qusra siege' is a propaganda campaign, not reality'. In this video, Israeli spokesman Ezra Tubi exposes how the story of Qusra fits into a familiar pattern of strategic propaganda. Israel National News. Published: Aug 30, 2026, 7:01 PM (GMT+3) INN

Former US Ambassador defends Israelis in Qusra incident. Former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman tweeted in response to the reports of clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the town of Qusra over Shabbat. Israel National News. Aug 30, 2026, 7:25 PM (GMT+3) INN

Netanyahu: Extremist WB settlers face 'all kinds of hardships at home,' media exaggerates issue. The prime minister's comments to Channel 14 followed a statement on Saturday in which he condemned the violent extremist settlers after several of them barricaded themselves inside a Kusra home. Jerusalem Post Staff. August 30, 2026. JPost

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IRGC threatens retaliation after US strike on Iranian island. Iran's IRGC threatens retaliation after a US strike on Larak Island kills two people and targets Iranian launchers preparing to deploy sea mines. Elad Benari. Aug 30, 2026, 11:37 PM INN

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Jerusalem lynch terrorists ordered to pay their Jewish victims. Court awards NIS 180,000 to three Jews attacked by an Arab mob near the Lions’ Gate during Operation Guardian of the Walls. Israel National News. Published: Aug 31, 2026, 9:37 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Abdul El-Sayed apologizes for past remark seen as justifying Temple Israel synagogue attack. ‘I made a mistake,’ anti-Israel Democratic US Senate nominee says in meeting with Michigan’s Jewish Democratic caucus; also refuses to endorse two-state solution in Holy Land. By Andrew Lapin. 30 Aug 2026. ToI

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Trump calls for leaders of ‘failed nation’ Iran to be tried for ‘war crimes against humanity’ after latest US strikes. By Ryan King. Published Aug. 31, 2026, 8:28 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON — President Trump publicly called Monday for Iran’s leaders to be prosecuted for “war crimes against humanity” after trashing the Islamic Republic as a “failed nation.”

“Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD!” the president proclaimed on Truth Social. “They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country.” “The only thing they have is FAKE NEWS from the USA, a willingness to kill their protesters (now over 100,000 people dead. They must be tried for war crimes against humanity!), and a good line of ‘BULLS—.’”

Trump’s statement came after US forces attacked rocket launchers used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint through which nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil passed in peacetime. ]https://nypost.com/2026/08/31/world-news/trump-calls-for-leaders-of-failed-nation-iran-to-be-tried-for-war-crimes-against-humanity/ NY Post]

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Democratic socialism could cost the US a staggering $200 trillion, report reveals: ‘Closer to Soviet-style communism’. By Chris Nesi. Published Aug. 31, 2026. The Democratic Socialists of America are pushing for a federal government spending spree on everything from reparations to the Green New Deal that could top $200 trillion over the next decade, a shocking new report reveals.

The proposals from the far-left faction, which has enjoyed multiple high-profile election victories in the last year from Congress to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, would result in government spending surging to 57% of GDP, according to the lower-bound estimate from libertarian think tank the Cato Institute.

In 2025, the US government spent approximately 33.8% of GDP. NY Post

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Watch: 18 infiltrators found hidden under truck after police chase. Driver smashes through crossing, hits two cars and flees before Border Police discover 18 people concealed in a false compartment beneath his truck. Orly Harari. Published: Aug 31, 2026, 12:36 PM INN

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Foreign activist faces deportation after assaulting Jewish child. Anti-Israel activist arrested in Har Hevron after disturbing footage showed him blocking Jewish children, making physical contact with a minor. Hezki Baruch Aug 31, 2026, 11:04 AM (GMT+3)

The Judea and Samaria police district commander with Itamar Ben Gvir The Judea and Samaria police district commander with Itamar Ben Gvir spokesperson

Breaking: Arutz Sheva - Israel National News has learned that the Population and Immigration Authority is expected to hold a hearing for a foreign activist ahead of a decision on whether to deport him from Israel, after he was arrested on Shabbat in Har Hevron.

The arrest followed a riot and a complaint filed against him on suspicion of assaulting a minor in the town of Carmel's Barkai neighborhood, as well as additional offenses.

Footage from the scene shows the activist standing near a gate and preventing Jews from passing. The footage shows a child attempting to pass, with the activist rubbing his body against the child's. Civilians who witnessed the incident detained the activist until police arrived.

Officers from the Hevron police station in the Judea region were dispatched to the scene and conducted an initial examination of the circumstances. Police subsequently arrested the foreign national, who was taken for questioning.

The investigation was handled by the inter-agency task force in the Judea and Samaria District. According to police, after an evidentiary basis for criminal charges regarding his actions was established, the investigation materials were transferred on Sunday night to the Population and Immigration Authority for a hearing and a decision on whether he should be deported from Israel.

(Anti-Israel activist suspected of sexually assaulting child).

The case is being handled in accordance with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's policy and as part of cooperation between the various authorities aimed at thwarting activities involving confrontations and disturbances in various locations throughout Judea and Samaria. According to police, incidents of this kind can lead to confrontations and harm Israel's image.

Police officials told Arutz Sheva - Israel National News that they they would not tolerate rioting by anarchist activists, stressing, "The Israel Police's Judea and Samaria District will continue to exercise all of its authority in cooperation with the various security agencies and law enforcement authorities."

According to the officials, the activity is intended "to thwart and prevent incidents of confrontation and violence which frequently occur amid incitement and provocation and create fertile ground for public disturbances, and to arrest those involved and bring them to justice." INN

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Yamam captures Lions’ Den terrorist in surprise Shechem raid. Wanted terrorist suspected of plotting attacks against Israelis is caught off guard at his home in a covert overnight operation. Uzi Baruch. Published: Aug 31, 2026, 11:40 AM (GMT+3)

Israel Police's National Counterterrorism Unit (Yamam) on Sunday night arrested a 37-year-old wanted terrorist in Shechem (Nablus).

The terrorist is suspected of involvement in terrorist activity and past membership in the Lions' Den terrorist organization. The operation was carried out based on intelligence provided by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet).

According to a joint statement by the Israel Police and IDF, the suspect had been wanted for arrest since his previous activity with Lions' Den in Shechem. The terrorist organization was thwarted by Israeli security forces in 2022. INN

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‘Humanitarian aid’ truck caught smuggling liquid nicotine into Gaza. Inspectors uncover 100 bottles hidden inside drinks at Kerem Shalom; truck seized and Israeli company’s Gaza aid permit suspended. Yoni Kempinski. Aug 31, 2026, 1:35 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Trump calls for leaders of ‘failed nation’ Iran to be tried for ‘war crimes against humanity’ after latest US strikes. By Ryan King. Published Aug. 31, 2026, 8:28 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON — President Trump publicly called Monday for Iran’s leaders to be prosecuted for “war crimes against humanity” after trashing the Islamic Republic as a “failed nation.”

“Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD!” the president proclaimed on Truth Social. “They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country.” “The only thing they have is FAKE NEWS from the USA, a willingness to kill their protesters (now over 100,000 people dead. They must be tried for war crimes against humanity!), and a good line of ‘BULLS—.’”

Trump’s statement came after US forces attacked rocket launchers used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint through which nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil passed in peacetime. NYPost

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Explosions in Jordan after Iran launches missiles at US targets. Elad Benari. Aug 31, 2026, 3:25 AM INN

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Broad daylight raid: Undercover officers nab terror suspect in Shechem. Israel National News. Aug 31, 2026, 6:42 PM INN

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Qatar’s stooges want to delegitimize pro-Israel voices critical of Vance. “The Daily Caller,” founded by Doha homeowner Tucker Carlson, is trying to smear JNS for highlighting the troubling connection between his Islamist allies and the veep. Jonathan S. Tobin. Aug 31, 2026. JNS

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Huckabee calls out Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood for influencing U.S. universities The Trump administration has maintained close ties with Qatar and praised it as a key U.S. ally. By Marc Rod. August 31, 2026 JewishInsider

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Beneath the rubble: Photojournalist documents Venezuela's earthquake aftermath, Israeli aid. Two weeks after Venezuela’s devastating earthquakes, Photojournalist Chen G. Schimmel documented the rubble and the search for loved ones. Mathilda Heller. August 31, 2026. Jerusalem Report. JPost

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Netanyahu backs Slovenian PM in internal clash over Israel. Aug 31, 2026 JNS

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UN gives way more aid to Palestinians, per person, than other groups, Israeli Foreign Ministry says. Aug 31, 2026 JNS

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‘Historic that it’s even happening,’ Huckabee says of Israel-Lebanon talks. Aug 31, 2026 JNS

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Student who drew swastikas during class at Michigan school disciplined, superintendent tells JNS. Aug 31, 2026 JNS

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Israel’s Gaza-border school enrollment up 9% since Oct. 7. Aug 31, 2026 JNS

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IDF kills Hamas weapons-supply commander in Gaza City. The Israel Defense Forces said it killed Hamas weapons-supply commander Omar Mohammed Roshdy Saraj in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood on Monday. Sep 1, 2026. JNS

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Vance: Iran’s leaders are 'really crazy'. Vice President JD Vance calls Iran’s leaders “really crazy", says US is working to keep oil and commercial traffic moving through Hormuz. Elad Benari. Published: Sep 1, 2026, 4:15 AM (GMT+3) INN

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The Illusion of Integration: Why validating Ra'am threatens Israel's security realism. Amine Ayoub. Sep 1, 2026, 8:27 AM INN

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Vance makes his pitch to Jewish Republicans at closed-door Las Vegas gathering. “Today is not primary day, but I think today was progress day for JD Vance with the Jewish community,” said Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary and a board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Andrew Bernard. Sept. 1, 2026 / JNS JNS

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Israeli FM accuses Turkish counterpart of ‘lies and blood libels’ against Israel. Jerusalem’s top diplomat hit back after Ankara’s chief envoy called Netanyahu a criminal who takes pleasure in shedding blood and urged action to stop him. Joshua Marks. Sept. 1, 2026. JNS

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FBI, Justice Dep't seize $560,000 in Hamas cryptocurrency, takes control of Hamas domains. The Justice Department disrupted Hamas fundraising and recruitment platforms, seizing websites, servers, and cryptocurrency addresses controlled by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. By JPS. September 1, 2026. JPost

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Putin, Xi attempt to rally SCO leaders behind a new multipolar world order in Kyrgyzstan - analysis Russia and China used the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit to promote a multipolar world order, with leaders criticizing unilateralism and calling for greater influence for non-Western powers. Seth J. Frantzman. September 1, 2026 JPost

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IDF, Shin Bet capture Hamas's Head of Internal Security during joint operation in Gaza Strip The IDF's daring operations in Gaza captured international media attention, but their strategic significance is unclear at this time. September 1, 2026 JPost

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CENTCOM begins wave of strikes on Iran in retaliation for targeting of US troops in region. September 1, 2026 JPost

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US strikes Iranian targets in Bandar Abbas after US Embassy warns of ‘potential for escalation’. Sep 1, 2026 JPost

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California Legislature Passes Bill to Become First US State to Recognize Jewish Identity as an Ethnicity. September 1, 2026 Algemeiner

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After US strikes. Iran fires missiles at US bases in Jordan. Israel National News. Sep 2, 2026, 1:49 AM INN

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Sa’ar warns UK: If Britain acts against Israel, Israel will act. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar warns Britain of retaliation if London imposes sanctions over Israeli construction plans in the E1 area. Israel National News. Sep 2, 2026, 5:45 AM (GMT+3) INN

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ADL Affiliate JLens Unveils ‘Workplace Tracker’ to Evaluate Companies on Support for Jewish Employees. Sep 2, 2026 Algemeiner

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Germany Successfully Tests Israeli Ballistic Missile, Officials Say. Sep 2, 2026 Algemeiner

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Massive security breach: 22 Palestinian antennas found inside Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel National News. Sep 2, 2026, 10:19 AM INN

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Netanyahu at Gaza Yellow Line: ‘We are not withdrawing, we are staying’. Netanyahu visits IDF forces near Gaza’s Yellow Line, declares Israel will remain in place and vows to complete the disarmament of Hamas. Israel National News. Sep 2, 2026, 4:12 PM INN

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Haredi fund offers draft evaders NIS 1,000 a day in prison. Israel National News. Sep 2, 2026, 2:45 PM INN

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Erdogan says Turkey would consider full membership of China-Russia-led security bloc. September 2, 2026. JPost

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Iran threatens to ‘shatter’ US. Israel National News. Sep 2, 2026, 3:42 PM INN

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Former Bedouin soldier indicted for plotting to join ISIS. Israel National News. Sep 2, 2026, 3:21 PM An indictment was filed Wednesday with the Haifa Magistrate's Court against Khamis Suwaed, a resident of Hussniyya in his 30s.

According to the investigation, Suwaed identified with ISIS, viewed instructional materials on combat, weapons, and missile and drone production, and underwent training with the aim of joining the terrorist organization’s fighting forces abroad. INN

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Report outlines alleged extremist ties, chronological contradictions for pro-Palestinian activist. Mahdawi is a Columbia graduate student and prominent pro-Palestinian campus activist who originally moved to the United States from the West Bank as a student, became a lawful permanent resident.

By Alex Carson. September 2, 2026. A comprehensive 101-page investigative report released on Wednesday by researchers David Collier and Rachel Feldman presents what they describe as a definitive timeline tracking Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist currently facing deportation proceedings.

Mahdawi is a Columbia graduate student and prominent pro-Palestinian campus activist who originally moved to the United States from the West Bank as a student, became a lawful permanent resident, and was subsequently targeted for removal by immigration authorities under a provision alleging his campus activism and speech posed adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States. JPost

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Anti-Israel Insurgents Fall Flat in Massachusetts Democratic Primaries. By Corey Walker. September 2, 2026

A trio of hardline anti-Israel candidates lost in Massachusetts on Tuesday night, representing a blow to the broader movement against the Jewish state within the Democratic Party.

Progressive candidates Jeromie Whalen, Tram Nguyen, and Craig Swallow were defeated by establishment Democrats in Tuesday night’s contests. In each race, the progressive insurgents attempted to weaponize Israel and alleged connections to the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) against their moderate opponents.

Rep. Richard Neal, who represents the 1st District of Massachusetts, successfully beat back a challenge by left-wing opposition Jeromie Whalen, who attempted to cast Neal as part of an out-of-touch establishment elite beholden to corporate interests. Conversely, Whalen positioned himself as a younger, fresher alternative more aligned with the Democratic Party’s ascendant progressive wing.

Likewise, Whalen also attempted to turn Israel into a major factor in the race, repeatedly accusing it of “genocide” and lambasting Neal for not standing against the Jewish state. Algemeiner

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EU's Kallas says Leipzig attack had hallmarks of state-sponsored terrorism European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen vowed to increase pressure on Russia, especially after the attempted attack at Leipzig that she said showed Moscow's growing "recklessness." September 2, 2026 JPost

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Russia secretly aiding Iran in development of supersonic cruise missile technology - report. The program, codenamed C430L, began in 2023 and was arranged by Russia's state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, in coordination with the US-sanctioned NPO Mashinostroyenia. Tzvi Jasper. September 2, 2026. JPost

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Abdul El-Sayed once urged people to move to Canada to live the American dream By Ryan King. Published Sep. 2, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET WASHINGTON — Sounds like he wants the Canadian dream.

Michigan Senate Democratic hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed once suggested that people should move to Canada in order to live out the American dream — arguing that US citizens have more of a chance of achieving greatness in the Great White North.

El-Sayed implied that the American dream is a lie during a May 2023 episode of his podcast, “America Dissected,” and pointed to economic data about upward mobility in Canada NY Post

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Trump, Netanyahu warn Iran against retaliating for US strikes, trying to attack Israel. US begins 'tanker for tanker policy' on Iranian ships • Syria security deal attempt failed, senior Israeli official says • IDF destroys Gaza tunnel, 26 km. worth destroyed east of Yellow Line. September 2, 2026 JPost

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Jews safer in Mississippi than Canada, says Jewish prof who left Montreal for Ole Miss. Aaron Bandler. September 2, 2026. JNS

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Nearly 80% of Canadian Jewish professors changed behavior to stay safe after Oct. 7, study suggests. JNS Staff. September 2, 2026 JNS

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Ex-ISA official: 'Hamas official could've been eliminated - but info he holds is critical'. The operation to capture the “head of Hamas’ Shin Bet" in the heart of Gaza is just the tip of the iceberg of daily Shin Bet and IDF activity inside the Strip. Former senior Shin Bet official explains. Shimon Cohen. Published: Sep 2, 2026, 9:26 PM (GMT+3) INN

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COGAT: 'Israel supplies Gaza with 70,000 cubic meters of water daily'. Dalit Halevi. Sep 2, 2026, 11:37 PM INN

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IDF kills two Hamas terrorists, including commander, in Gaza City. Sep 2, 2026 JNS

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Berkeley Law denies SJP table at student fair over speaker policies excluding ‘specific viewpoints,’ university tells JNS. Sep 2, 2026 JNS

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Former Israeli hostage Omri Miran joins daughters for start of school year. Sep 2, 2026 JNS

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Spanish Jews record 14.5% increase in antisemitic incidents. Sep 2, 2026 JNS

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IAEA confirms Syria attempted to build nuclear reactor under Assad. Sep 2, 2026 JNS

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JD Vance can’t outrun his Tucker Carlson problem. Isaac Schorr. Sep. 2, 2026 NYPost

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After Achilles Shield deal, Israeli air defense dominates in Europe as continent races to rearm. The formal signing of the "Achilles Shield" deal is not only a commercial and diplomatic achievement for Israel, but it is also the final seal on a tectonic shift in Europe's defense landscape.

By Udi Etzion September 2, 2026 16:46

Europe's accelerating reliance on Israeli air-defense technology has pushed the value of Israeli air-defense deals with European Union countries past an almost unimaginable $15 billion in less than five years, as the continent scrambles to rebuild defenses neglected after the Cold War.

In the 1990s, when Israel accelerated the development of the Arrow missile at Israel Aerospace Industries with American funding to intercept ballistic missiles, Europeans regarded the costly technological effort with indifference.

The Soviet Union had collapsed, the Cold War was over, and European governments redirected defense budgets toward education, infrastructure, healthcare and culture. If anything happened, the United States would protect them.

The formal signing in Tel Aviv of the "Achilles Shield" deal, worth some €3.5 billion, is not only a commercial and diplomatic achievement for the Defense Ministry, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries. It is also the final seal on a tectonic shift in Europe's defense procurement landscape.

But Europe failed to internalize its lesson. When the old threats returned, European countries found themselves with weakened defense industries and an unpredictable American partner that demanded they invest in defense again and made clear that they could no longer simply rely on Washington JPost

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El-Sayed Campaign Seeks 'Jewish Liaison' for Damage Control. Here Are 10 Promising Candidates. In stunning reversal, scandal-plagued Democrat apologizes for empathizing with terrorist. Andrew Styles. September 1, 2026. FreeBeacon

Hackers without borders: Serving Tehran, stealing on the side. Shahed Alavi. Iran International. Sep 1, 2026. An Iran International investigation into five hackers linked to the Revolutionary Guards and Intelligence Ministry and wanted by the United States shows how members of the network carried out state-directed espionage while also selling stolen data, extorting victims and attacking Iranian citizens and companies for private profit. The five were among a network of hackers associated with the Mabna Institute, which carried out operations for Iranian government entities, including the Revolutionary Guards. After the identities of the first members of the network were exposed, some continued their activities from October 2018 under a new operation known as Project Sonbol, which Iran International sources say was directed by the Intelligence Ministry. On Tuesday, August 18, more than eight years after the first indictment against Mabna was made public, the US Justice Department released a superseding indictment offering a much broader picture of the institute’s hackers-for-hire and their links to the Revolutionary Guards. IranIntl

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Mamdani’s influencer army includes teachers, TikTokkers, a self-proclaimed ‘dandy’ — and some don’t even live here. By Haley Brown and Matt Troutman Published Sep. 2, 2026.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani rode into Gracie Mansion on a social media wave — and he’s keeping his influencer friends close.

A bombshell Columbia Journalism Review study found that Mamdani’s administration maintains a secret Signal chat with roughly 200 influencers, where the terminally online creators get the inside scoop — or marching orders — from City Hall. [11] NY Post

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Gaza GenoLIE Tracker @GazaGenoLIE: Sep 3. Not shocking at all that Abdul El-Sayed would propagate the GenoLIE as early as October 2023. on X

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Gaza GenoLIE Tracker @GazaGenoLIE: Sep 3. Well said, @grok. They started promoting the #GazaGenoLIE on October 7th, while the bodies were still warm. Shame other LLMs don't see the truth like you do. on X

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Evidence doesn’t point to a genocide in Gaza — despite all of the rage. David Harsanyi. Published Sep. 2, 2026. NYPost

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Spain PM Retracts Israel Migration Claim. Pedro Sánchez walks back accusations made in podcast, tells parliament no evidence found linking Israel, Russia or Morocco to mass border breach in Ceuta. Gila Isaacson Sep 3, 2026 JFeed

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"Insane". Van Jones Explains Why El-Sayed is So Dangerous for Israel | WATCH. Van Jones hammers Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed for his total Israel arms embargo, calling it "insane." The clash exposes a deepening rift in the Democratic Party. Gila Isaacson Sep 3, 2026 JFeed

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Defamation Ruling. General Wins Defamation Case Over Oct. 7 Kfar Saba Magistrate Court ruled that Ido Shifoni must pay damages after falsely suggesting the reserve officer had advance knowledge of the Hamas attack. Gila Isaacson. Sep 3, 2026 JFeed

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Austria to Ban Political Islam in Constitution. Chancellor Christian Stocker advances unprecedented legislation to outlaw Islamist ideologies, citing demographic concerns and EU immigration pressures. Gila Isaacson Sep 3, 2026 JFeed

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First Arrest in Kusra Village Violence. A 19-year-old West Bank resident has been detained in connection with Saturday's violent assault on a Palestinian home, as investigators continue gathering evidence. Gila Isaacson. Sep 3, 2026 JFeed

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Court Voids Haredi Draft Freeze Law. All nine justices ruled the legislation halting enforcement against ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers was fundamentally flawed in how it passed through the Knesset Eliana Fleming Sep 3, 2026 JFeed

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IDF finishes clearing Hezbollah out of Ali Taher Ridge. Israel National News. Sep 3, 2026, 8:41 PM INN

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Report. Oman quietly rejects Iran plan for Strait of Hormuz. Israel National News. Sep 3, 2026, 9:56 PM INN

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Threats of major attack | Iran implies that IRGC operatives are in Hezbollah stronghold. Iran reportedly warned the US of a major response if Israel attacks Ali al-Taher, where IRGC personnel are said to be positioned alongside Hezbollah. Israel National News. Published: Sep 3, 2026, 11:46 AM (GMT+3) INN

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‘Neo-Nazi’ Fighter Widely Condemned for Antisemitic Slur, Nazi Salutes After Beating Jewish Opponent. Algemeiner

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France Tightens Security Around Jewish Sites Ahead of High Holy Days Amid Rising Antisemitic Threats. Algemeiner

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Iran’s Rial in Free Fall: How US Sanctions Are Reshaping Daily Life, Public Opinion for the Iranian People. September 3, 2026 Algemeiner

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CENTCOM says 87 commercial vessels redirected under Iran blockade. Sep. 3, 2026 IranIntl

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US says no Iran talks unless it stops ship attacks. Sep. 3, 2026 IranIntl

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Live Updates: IDF clears Hezbollah underground infrastructure, JD Vance says US will probe strike on Iran wedding.

Trump claims US has plenty of ammunition • Iranian media urges regime to sever undersea cables • IDF kills two terrorists who crossed Yellow Line. September 3, 2026. JPost

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Vance-Carlson Friendship Tested Over Michigan Senate Race. Vance Defends Carlson Friendship JD Vance Refuses to Condemn Tucker, Calls El-Sayed "A Crazy Person" | WATCH Vice President JD Vance said he won't drop Tucker Carlson over political disagreements, while rejecting Carlson's backing of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. Gila Isaacson. Sep 4, 2026. JFeed

Can they talk themselves into being comfortable with JD Vance? GOP Jews want to support their party’s possible 2028 candidate, and he wants their backing. But if he won’t disavow Tucker Carlson and his followers, then they can’t trust him. Jonathan S. Tobin. Sep. 4, 2026 JNS

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The New York Times Said He ‘Wanted Peace,’ He Said He Wanted to ‘Annihilate the Jews’. Daniel Greenfield. Sep 3, 2026.

Why Jews Must Support Man Who Said "I like to kill Jews."

When it comes to some areas, the media has gone so far in on political advocacy that it filters out, rejects and suppresses any contradictory facts and no amount of appeals to truth or decency will change the lines that it insists on telling.

One such area was the endorsement of pro-Hamas campus activism after Oct 7 where, despite ample evidence that the ‘activists’ supported Hamas and wanted to kill Jews, the media along with leftists and even most Democrats decided to falsely claim that these were “non-violent student activists” facing a “crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech” and turned foreign Islamic activists calling for terrorism and the murder of Jews into ‘martyrs’ who had to be protected from deportation.

Take Mohsen Mahdawi… FPM

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Oakland coffee shop accused of kicking out Jewish dad, 5-year-old son and shutters amid antisemitism lawsuits. The Justice Department sued under Title II after the café allegedly refused service to patrons wearing Star of David caps. CJ Womack By CJ Womack Fox News Published September 2, 2026. A federal judge previously rejected the defendants’ attempt to dismiss the DOJ lawsuit, which alleges Fathi Abdulrahim Harara and employees refused service to Jewish customers wearing Star of David caps and followed them outside while hurling insults and threats... "It is ironic that after freely expressing support for terrorism with these beverage names, the café owners appear to now be using the First Amendment as a defense for ejecting two Jewish customers who wore hats with Stars of David on them, in one case calling it a 'violent' hat," she said.

"By their own standard, if a hat can be violent, so can an iced tea. The First Amendment protects speech on hats; it does NOT protect businesses open to the public to discriminate against its customers because they're Jews while chasing them in the street shouting 'Jew' at them.. FoxNews

Oakland coffee shop that ousted Jewish patrons suspends operations amid antisemitism lawsuits. By Haley Cohen, Jewish Insider, September 2, 2026.

Jerusalem Coffee House, a coffee shop in Oakland, California, Mx. Granger, Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication An Oakland, Calif., coffee shop that drew national scrutiny for promoting Hamas and forcibly removing Jewish patrons announced it has closed amid three separate antisemitism lawsuits.

Jerusalem Coffee House shuttered last week, citing the legal challenges brought by the Justice Department, Anti-Defamation League and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law over its alleged harassment of two Jewish customers.

“These lawsuits represent the ongoing efforts of zionist organizations and the federal government to use the courts as a tool to repress free speech and public political commitments to Palestine,” a Substack post from the cafe said. “We’ve faced harassment, property damage, and hate messages since. Despite it all, we’ve continued building the work that matters most to us... JewishInsider

(Abdulrahim Harara. Owner of Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland California. Who is known for his discrimination and antisemitism. Abdulrahim Harara recently kicked out a Jewish man for wearing a Star of David, stating Jews were unwelcome. This comes on the heels of the cafe introducing menu items named after Hamas terrorist Yahya Sinwar, orchestrator of the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust... Jerusalem Coffee House The cafe unveiled an Oct. 7 celebration menu that features drinks honoring Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and the terrorist “intifada” attacks in Israel. Yahya Sinwar is the leader of the terrorist organization Hamas, which is responsible for countless terrorist attacks on innocent civilians. In addition, the Jerusalem Coffee House—a pro-Hamas cafe in Oakland, Calif.—uses the Hamas red upside-down triangle on its menu. Hamas used the symbol to mark areas on maps to attack and kill people on Oct. 7. Abdulrahim Harara)

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Antisemitic Pundits Hasan Piker, Candace Owens Rejected by Overwhelming Majority of Democrats, Republicans, Poll Shows.

By Corey Walker. Sep 3, 2026

(Far-left, anti-Israel streamer Hasan Piker attends the press conference during day three of Web Summit Qatar 2026 at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center in Doha, Qatar, on Feb. 3, 2026).

Americans overwhelmingly reject hardline anti-Israel pundits Hasan Piker and Candace Owens and believe neither major political party should collaborate with them, according to a new poll by Harvard-Harris. Algemeiner

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Iran rights group seeks German probe into crimes against humanity. A rights group has asked German prosecutors to investigate crimes against humanity by Iranian authorities, presenting evidence of thousands of killings and mass detentions during nationwide protests that began in late 2025 and early 2026. Iran International. September 3, 2026 IranIntl

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Settlers used as pawns against Israel. The image of violent settlers has become a powerful weapon in the campaign to portray Israel as a colonial aggressor, while the larger reality of Palestinian terrorism is pushed aside. Fiamma Nirenstein. Sep. 4, 2026 JNS

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EU commissioner defends Jewish rites amid Belgian ‘milah’ row. Olivér Várhelyi said Europe cannot claim Jewish life belongs while making religious practice “increasingly difficult, if not impossible.” Canaan Lidor. Sep 4, 2026. JNS

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Being blacklisted by CAIR a ‘badge of honor,’ Republican Jewish Coalition says. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep. 4, 2026. Sam Markstein, national political director and spokesman for the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS on Thursday that being blacklisted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations is a “badge of honor.”

CAIR, which blamed Israel for being attacked shortly after Oct. 7 and which the Biden administration initially listed as part of its national strategy on fighting Jew-hatred but later evicted it, designated the coalition and Jewish American Summit as “anti-Muslim extremist organizations.”

The antisemitic group announced the designations on Thursday, accusing both Jewish groups of platforming speakers who have criticized Islam and Muslims. JNS

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US-Saudi nuclear deal ‘glide path’ to bomb, senior House Dem tells JNS. “Although we all worry about an Iranian nuclear program, we should not feel any better about a Saudi nuclear weapons program,” Rep. Brad Sherman said. Sep. 4, 2026 JNS

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US sanctions Turkish bank as Iran financial crackdown widens. Iran International. September 4, 2026. The United States on Friday sanctioned Turkey’s Golden Global Bank and two subsidiaries over alleged financial dealings with Iran, escalating a campaign targeting foreign institutions accused of helping Tehran move money around sanctions.

The Treasury Department said Golden Global Yatirim Bankasi and its asset-management and leasing subsidiaries had facilitated tens of millions of dollars in transactions for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force and provided Iranian institutions with access to international banking channels. IranIntl

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ANALYSIS. If Britain backs US plan, Iran's London bank shuts down on October 22. Mohamad Machine-Chian. Iran International. September 4, 2026 IranIntl

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Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate for trafficking minors, money laundering By Reuters. September 4, 2026.

-Prosecutors say one of Andrew Tate's victims was 15 at the time. -They say Tate brothers kept most of the money the victim made. -Unclear if Romanian prosecutors will seek extradition from US.

BUCHAREST, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Romanian prosecutors officially indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate on ‌Friday for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering and his brother Tristan for complicity, years after they began investigating them. The Tate brothers, former kickboxers with dual U.S. and British citizenship, were arrested in Miami in late July after Britain requested their extradition. Mainly based ​in Romania since 2017, they have been under criminal investigation in the country on charges including human trafficking ​since December 2022. Romanian prosecutors said the Tates recruited their victims by seducing them and falsely claiming ⁠to want a relationship or marriage, before forcing them to produce pornographic content for a webcam business. They have denied all wrongdoing. "We ​will examine every aspect of (the indictment) with the same level of scrutiny and we will challenge any evidential, procedural or legal ​deficiencies through the appropriate judicial process," a Romanian lawyer for the Tates, Eugen Vidineac, said in a statement. Reuters

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Pedophilia Problem FrontPage Magazine | Sept 4 2026 | Daniel Greenfield. “We need your voice,” Abdul El-Sayed told a sex offender who had been sentenced to prison for sexually soliciting what he thought was a 14-year-old girl online and then for “distributing child sexually abusive material and multiple counts of accosting children for immoral purposes.”

The sex offender had reinvented himself as an activist against incarceration and claimed that he had suffered, “I was only allowed to have the type of phone without a browser, and several times had my phone confiscated” and argued that the answer “is to address the root causes of crime… address the real problems… like education, lack of economic opportunity.”

“I hope that you’ll run, and I hope that when you do, you’ll find me out and let me have the opportunity to support,” Abdul El-Sayed endorsed his political activism. “We need your voice, folks who are affected by the experiences that you’ve had uniquely need your voice.”

One of the sex offender’s alleged former victims, said that hehad “solicited me as a minor” and that he had “worked with Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed” and together with other politicians made it possible to expunge criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree and “removing rape from 17-24 year old’s permanent record.” The anonymous victim posted that “Abdul helped lead the decarceration movement. He was the president of the non-profit Michigan United.”

Abdul El-Sayed had served as the president of Michigan United aka the Michigan Organizing Project as part of a board with a number of Muslim figures including Aamina Ahmed of AAPI Rising, appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to head Protect Michigan, Senegalese immigrant activist Fatou-Seydi Sarr and Dearborn Magistrate Judge Rula Aoun. FPM

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Despite 'safest summer,' NYC antisemitic crimes surge. Hate crimes jump 15.8% citywide, with more than half targeting Jews. Increase continues even as New York records safest summer in its history. Jewish figures point finger at Zohran Mamdani: 'The king of antisemitism is none other than Mayor Mamdani.' By ILH Staff. Sep 3, 2026. ILH

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More than 50,000 attend Selichot prayer service at Western Wall. Israel National News. Sep 4, 2026, 2:16 AM INN

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Legal scholars warn of ‘anti-Zionist exception’ to civil rights law. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep. 4, 2026. UCLA law professor Jon Michaels told JNS that a forthcoming “Cardozo Law Review” essay is a “reckoning with what Jewish plaintiffs, and plaintiffs who are coded as Jewish allies, are confronting.” JNS

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Israel releases five Lebanese detainees, tightens hold on Southern Lebanon security zone. JNS Staff. Sep. 4, 2026 JNS

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Over nuclear program. US and allies push for UN action against Iran. Elad Benari, Canada. Sep 4, 2026, 9:05 PM INN

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Report. IRGC launches ballistic missile attack on US bases in Jordan. Iranian media report an IRGC ballistic missile attack on US bases in Jordan, but a US official says there is currently no knowledge of any attack. Israel National News. Sep 4, 2026, 8:11 PM INN

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Ambassadors to UN in Geneva tour Oct. 7 sites in Israel. A group of ambassadors to the United Nations in Switzerland visited Israel this week on a tour of listening diplomacy intended to shore up support for Jerusalem among envoys to the world body... The six-member delegation organized by the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem included three African ambassadors, from Ethiopia, the Gambia and Zambia, highlighting Israel’s diplomatic outreach on the continent, and envoys from Fiji, Mongolia and Panama. Sep. 4, 2026 JNS

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Netanyahu hails IDF for arresting terror suspects, destroying arms in Nablus-area op. Israel Prime Minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday commended security forces for arresting more than 10 wanted suspects during a 48-hour brigade-level counterterrorism operation in the Nablus area of central Samaria. Sep. 4, 2026 JNS

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Israeli athletes excluded from triathlon in Ireland. Four Israeli athletes will not be allowed to compete in an international triathlon in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Saturday after the organizers objected to their participation because they represent Israel. The North West Triathlon Club (NWTC)... Sep. 4, 2026 JNS

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IDF slays Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist who held hostages in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday killed Muhammad Mahmoud Marshad al-Qadi, a Nukhba company commander in Hamas’s “military” wing, in a strike in the Khan Yunis area of the southern Gaza Strip, the military announced on Friday.

Al-Qadi commanded the infiltration of the IDF’s Sufa outpost during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre and, during the ensuing war, was involved in holding hostages in Hamas captivity in the Rafah area. Sep. 4, 2026 JNS

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US sanctions Turkish bank, two subsidiaries in bid to increase economic pressure on Iran. September 4, 2026. JPost

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Is 'Purity of Arms' holding the IDF back? Inside Israel’s battle over military ethics Fighters are expected to avoid harming noncombatants, including civilians, prisoners, and the defenseless, as much as possible, and to maintain their humanity even in the midst of combat. By Judith Segaloff. September 4, 2026. You are a soldier, tasked with searching a house for a suspected terrorist and hidden weapons. The house is full of women, children, and an elderly, sick, bedridden man.

How do you proceed? Do you force the man out of bed immediately to complete a thorough search, or do you slow the search to treat him with kid gloves, possibly endangering your soldiers? On August 9, according to Ynet, “The IDF raised the level of authorization required for certain strikes as high as the chief of staff, effectively requiring political approval in some cases. Commanders were also recently given explicit instructions to halt immediate-response fire, except in cases involving the removal of a direct threat.” Per Hillel Biton Rosen, military and security correspondent for Channel 14, just days later Hamas operatives were identified crossing the Yellow Line ceasefire demarcation in Gaza, where they stole engineering equipment. Soldiers requested authorization to engage, but senior command denied the request.

The incursion was just one of more than 65 crossings, three times the number recorded the week before the rules of engagement changed.

A senior security official said: “Hamas is testing us, exactly as it did before Oct. 7. What happened last night could have ended with a soldier being abducted.” JPost

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‘May God bless Israel,’ South African princess says at end of weeklong visit. Fundiswa Zote told JNS her 12-member royal delegation sought to build ties through Israeli innovation, technology and water solutions. Steve Linde. Sep. 4, 2026. JNS

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IsraAID brings humanitarian aid to flood-stricken Nepal. The Israeli organization was among the first on the ground after devastating floods, providing hygiene kits and mental-health support. Linda Gradstein. Sep. 4, 2026. JNS

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West Bank Operation. Five Terror Suspects Arrested in West Bank. Duvdevan unit operatives detained the suspects in Qabatiya following intelligence work; weapons and combat equipment seized during searches

Eliana Fleming Sep 4, 2026 JFeed

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Kosher Community Fridge in Illinois Dedicated to Murdered Hamas Hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. September 4, 2026 Algemeiner

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European Rabbis Unveil Seven-Point Plan to Confront ‘Infrastructure of Hatred’ Amid Rising Antisemitic Violence avatar By Ailin Vilches Arguello. September 4, 2026. As antisemitic attacks, threats, and extremist intimidation continue to unsettle Jewish communities across Europe, the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) is demanding a tougher response, urging governments to go beyond guarding Jewish institutions and confront the networks and ideologies driving the violence.

At a conference in Brussels on Friday, CER’s president, Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, unveiled a seven-point manifesto – entitled “A Call to End the Violent Hatred” – urging European governments, the European Union, religious leaders, and civil society to confront the forces fueling antisemitism, religious extremism, and radicalization across the continent.

The new manifesto follows a previous CER initiative issued in 2015 in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris, where Islamist gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical magazine and killed 12 people, including journalists and police officers.

Now, the latest call comes amid an alarmingly violent climate worldwide, with Jews and Israelis facing attacks, threats, and intimidation on an unprecedented scale over the last three years, in the wake of the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

During the conference, Goldschmidt warned European leaders against an entrenched “infrastructure of hatred” spreading across the continent, stressing that guards and barriers around Jewish institutions are no longer enough and urging authorities to confront the extremist networks and radicalization driving the threats.

“Today the warnings are written in blood and fire,” he said.

Jewish communities across Europe have been hit by a series of violent incidents, including the burning of four Hatzola charity ambulances outside a synagogue in London, an explosives attack on a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, and arson attacks at several places of worship, including a Jewish school in Amsterdam.

Among the most serious incidents were the Yom Kippur terrorist attack in Manchester, which left two Jewish men dead, and the stabbing of two people in Golders Green, London, in April 2026.

CER’s new manifesto warns that the threat goes far beyond individual attacks, pointing also to hate marches, extremist networks, and foreign funding.

Specifically, it singles out Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the regime’s elite military force responsible for preserving the country’s Islamist, anti-Western system, which has been linked to plots and attacks targeting Jewish and Israeli interests across Europe.

“This is not a string of isolated incidents. It is an infrastructure of hatred, built on extremist organizations, foreign funding, radical institutions, and the digital world,” Goldschmidt told the Jewish Chronicle.

“Europe’s answer cannot be another statement of grave concern. Nor can it be higher fences,” he continued. “Almost every Jewish school and synagogue in Europe now sits behind guards, steel barriers, concrete blocks.”

Among the manifesto’s seven demands, CER calls on European governments to train and certify religious leaders, requiring clerics arriving from abroad to understand basic democratic rights and responsibilities and meet minimum language standards. It also urges authorities to revoke visas, licenses, or permits from religious leaders who incite hatred or glorify terrorism.

The manifesto further calls on European officials to expose and block extremist funding, strengthen oversight of religious institutions, and appoint community safeguarding officers trained to identify and prevent radicalization and extremism.

The seven-point plan also demands swift action online against incitement and hate speech, zero tolerance for hate on the streets by confronting demonstrations and intimidation targeting Jewish communities, and a European Register of Responsible Institutions to recognize religious and community organizations that meet standards for transparency, accountability, and safeguarding. Algemeiner

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‘Jews for Abdul’ Co-Founder Slams El-Sayed’s Views on Israel, Says Candidate Struggling to Reach Jewish Voters. September 4, 2026 Algemeiner

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September 04, 2026. No Justice For 9/11 Victims – As The 25th Commemoration Of The 9/11 Massacre Government [unclear] Hezbollah Government Employee [unclear] Sheikh Muhammad, Has Not Yet Been Brought To Justice – Status Timeline Of The 9/11 Attack MEMRI

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Columbia To Host Jew-Bashing Student Protester at Free Speech ‘Symposium’ After Damning New Report Claims He Backs Terror Groups, Said ‘I Like To Kill Jews’. Mohsen Mahdawi, who is currently fighting a deportation order, was a leader in the pro-Hamas protests that crippled Columbia’s campus in 2024 Adam Kredo. September 4, 2026 FreeBeacon

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Turkish comedian charged over Erdogan jokes, could face 10 years in prison. Turkish comedian Deniz Goktas faces up to a decade or more in prison after being charged over jokes about Erdogan during a stand-up performance. Israel National News. Published: Sep 5, 2026, 1:33 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Lebanese Sunni leader criticizes Hezbollah over reported Israeli capture of Ali al-Taher ridge. Prominent Lebanese Sunni leader Fuad Makhzoumi sharply criticized Hezbollah following Israeli reports of capturing the Ali al-Taher ridge. "If the report about the fall of the Ali al-Taher ridge is true, it means you preferred to hand it over to Israel rather than to the Lebanese army," Makhzoumi stated. He accused Hezbollah's weapons of preventing the Lebanese army from entering its own land while failing to stop Israel from capturing it. Makhzoumi called on Hezbollah to hand over weapons to the state, saying residents of Jabal Amel are losing their land while Shiites in the south pay with their homes and children's future. Sep 5, 2026 JFeed

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Hezbollah drone targets IDF troops, Israel strikes back. IDF intercepts Hezbollah drone over the Lebanon security zone before striking terrorists and weapons storage facilities used to plan attacks. Israel National News. Sep 5, 2026, 8:46 PM (GMT+3) INN

IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon after drone attack. Jfeed Staff. Sep 5, 2026. The IDF struck terrorists and infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Friday night, in response to a drone launched toward Israeli soldiers in the Security Zone earlier that day. The strikes targeted weapon storage facilities intended for planning attacks against IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians. No Israeli injuries were reported from the drone attack. The IDF stated the strikes were carried out to remove an immediate threat, and that it will continue operating to remove threats while remaining committed to the ceasefire agreement. JFeed

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Trump administration developing post-war Middle East strategy for Iran, Israel - report. According to an Axios report, the proposed strategy could include resolving the regional fallout of Hamas’s October 7 massacre against Israel and the resulting Israel-Hamas war. September 5, 2026. JPost

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Trump to continue traveling in Qatari-gifted Air Force One despite security concerns. With delays affecting Boeing’s replacement aircraft, Trump is expected to keep using the Qatari-gifted plane for upcoming trips, including visits to Texas, Alaska, and Ireland. September 5, 2026 JPost

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California man faces trial over alleged threats to shoot up Jewish community center. Paul Dean Andrews, 43, faces trial after allegedly threatening a Jewish community center in California, months after he was previously ordered to complete an anti-bias program. September 5, 2026 JPost

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The Gaza casualty figures the West was too frightened to question. New evidence suggests some 'journalists' and 'medics' were also Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives. written by Gary Cartwright September 5, 2026 [...] It is particularly revealing that Hamas and PIJ have now begun publishing names of their own dead fighters. Those obituaries provide information which was largely unavailable during the war. In several cases, they have effectively contradicted the original classification of the dead by international media and monitoring organisations.

The response should not be to conclude that every dead Palestinian journalist was a terrorist, or that every Palestinian doctor was secretly a militant. That would be very wrong. The proper conclusion is that every casualty database requires scrutiny.

There is another uncomfortable possibility that Western commentators have been reluctant to contemplate: Hamas and PIJ may have understood perfectly well the extraordinary political and emotional power of civilian status in the Western information environment.

A dead journalist generates headlines, as does a dead doctor. A dead paramedic produces photographs of ambulances, uniforms and bloodied medical equipment. A dead Hamas fighter produces none of these things.

If militant organisations deliberately blurred those categories, they were exploiting precisely the protections that democratic societies have painstakingly established for civilians and humanitarian workers, and that would be a particularly cynical form of information warfare.

But there is an equally important warning for Israel. The discovery of genuine Hamas or PIJ members among journalists and medical personnel does not give the Israeli military a licence to regard every journalist, doctor or paramedic as a terrorist. Nor does it eliminate Israel’s obligation to establish, before an attack where feasible, that a legitimate military target actually exists.

Indeed, recent events demonstrate why that distinction matters. An investigation published this week into the 2024 killing of World Central Kitchen workers has raised serious questions about Israeli targeting practices and the use of guilt by association.

Similarly, the Israeli military has recently opened criminal investigations into the deaths of five-year-old Hind Rajab and 15 Palestinian paramedics, after previously denying or disputing aspects of what happened.

So there are two truths which ought to be capable of existing simultaneously. Hamas and PIJ may have exploited civilian professions for military and propaganda purposes, and Israel can still be responsible for unlawful or reckless attacks against genuine civilians.

The refusal to acknowledge the first truth because it complicates the second is propaganda. The refusal to acknowledge the second because it complicates the first is propaganda too. What is most troubling is the intellectual laziness of the Western debate.

For years, journalists and politicians have demanded that Israel substantiate allegations about Hamas operating from civilian infrastructure. That demand is legitimate, but the same standard should now be applied in the opposite direction.

When an individual appears in hospital photographs wearing medical clothing and subsequently appears in militant imagery carrying a weapon, journalists should investigate, and when the evidence does not stand up, that should be reported too.

That is what journalism is supposed to mean.

The greatest danger is not discovering that Hamas sometimes lied about its dead, it is in discovering that Western media organisations were so invested in a particular leftist narrative that they stopped asking whether it was true.

Gaza has produced enough suffering without adding another casualty to the list: the credibility of journalism itself. EUToday

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Huckabee pulled out his phone and filmed Jewish settlers. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met with American citizens living near Ramallah, pulled out his cellphone to film Jews near the area. Israel National News. Sep 5, 2026 US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday visited the Palestinian Authority city Turmusayya, located near Ramallah, meeting Americans in the area.

During his visit, Huckabee heard the Americans' stories, and filmed, using his cellphone, Jewish settlers who neared the area where one of the homes bore an American flag.

Sources who attended the event told Channel 12 News that Huckabee promised to personally send the footage to US President Donald Trump so that he could see for himself the settlers' attempts to "disrupt" his visit.

Following the visit, Huckabee wrote on X, "Visited Americans in Turmusayya in constructive town hall to hear disturbing stories of criminal & terrorist actions by band of trespassers who brazenly roam through property of lawful property owners like these guys. Disgraceful acts that don't reflect 99% of Israelis."

"US Citizens in Turmusayya shared personal stories of homes vandalized, children threatened, & violence/intimidation during my town hall today. I support Israelis living in Judea/Samaria where they have right to be, but NO student of Bible supports lawlessness."

He added that a "large press group turned out to cover my trip to Turmusayya today to meet Americans living there. Decent law-abiding Israelis living in Judea/Samaria are also disgusted by behavior of the few who violate civil law & Torah by violence & lawlessness." INN

Huckabee says Israel not planning to force Palestinians out of Gaza Strip during West Bank visit. “I can tell you categorically there is no plan of the Israelis to displace people out of Gaza against their will," Huckabee stated during a visit to the West Bank town of Turmus Aiya. Sep. 5, 2026. Huckabee described his meeting in Turmus Ayya, where most of the town's Palestinian residents are US citizens, as constructive. While Huckabee, a Baptist minister and longtime supporter of Israeli settlements, has previously called for violent settlers to be prosecuted, he also says he believes they represent a minority of the settler community, which numbers around 750,000... JPost

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East Jerusalem man indicted over weapons deal with Hamas agent. An East Jerusalem resident allegedly sold an M16 rifle to a Hamas-linked activist accused of plotting attacks against Minister Ben Gvir. Hezki Baruch. Published: Sep 5, 2026, 11:54 PM (GMT+3) [...] An indictment has been filed against Mohamed Salhab, an East Jerusalem resident who holds Israeli citizenship, over the alleged sale of weapons, including an M16 rifle, to Rashid Rishak, a Hamas activist with a history of security offenses. According to a report by i24NEWS, Salhab was aware of Rishak’s background and his ties to Hamas when the alleged transactions took place. INN

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Heartfelt song and prayer at annual Selichot gathering. Yitzhak Meir leads a powerful night of Selichot, music and prayer at the Jerusalem Convention Center as worshippers prepare for the High Holy Days. Israel National News. Sep 6, 2026, 12:28 AM INN

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Mamdani hands symbolic 9/11 pen to lawyer once represented al-Qaeda terrorist. The 48-year-old Kassem, who founded a legal clinic at CUNY that offers free legal representation to Muslims, also defended Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia who was detained by ICE. Sep 5, 2026 NYPost

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National hero First victim of 9/11 would be horrified by today’s ‘political divisiveness,’ woke blame game: best friend. Danny Lewin, the first 9/11 victim and former IDF commando, would be incensed by today’s political divisiveness, says friend Marco Greenberg. Sep 5, 2026 [12]. NYPost

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The chilling pre-9/11 videos that victims’ families say will finally prove Saudi culpability in court. Sep 5, 2026 NYPost

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9/11 Families Plan to Ignore Mamdani at Ceremony. By Solange Reyner | Saturday, 05 September 2026 12:46 PM EDT

Relatives of people killed on Sept. 11 say they will ignore New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani if he attends this year's memorial ceremony at Ground Zero, telling the New York Post they would rather turn away than confront him on the 25th anniversary of the attacks.

A Change.org petition urging that Mamdani stay away has drawn more than 98,000 signatures. Organizers plan to hand deliver it to City Hall on Sept. 8, at a news conference on the building's steps led by petition organizer Giovanni Galante and Councilwoman Joann Ariola, a Queens Republican.

Galante's wife, Grace, 29, died in the attacks. He told the Post that no one intends to block the mayor or argue with him. Newsmax

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US accuses Miliband of ‘Jew hate’ over Gaza video. By Melanie Swan, Telegraph, September 6, 2026.

The US ambassador to Israel has accused the British Government of “Jew hate” over Ed Miliband’s claims that medicines were being blocked from entering Gaza.

Mike Huckabee made the comment after the Foreign Secretary posted a video describing accounts he had heard from people who had worked inside the strip.

“Frankly, it was horrific, what is unfolding,” said Mr Miliband. “The stories that people were telling me of medicines being blocked, children dying while waiting for vital life-saving treatment.”

Mr Huckabee wrote on X: “The Brits have lost it. The Jew hate of their Government knows no boundaries and knows no facts.”

Israel’s foreign ministry hit out at Mr Miliband, saying: “If the Foreign Secretary were interested in facts rather than stories, he would know that there are no restrictions whatsoever on the entry of medicines into the Gaza Strip, and that no medicines are being blocked.”

However, there have been widespread reports – which have been corroborated by international NGOs – of medicine shortages inside Gaza throughout the war, including cases highlighted by The Telegraph in which chemotherapy drugs have run out mid-treatment. Yahoo

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Three arrested in France over suspected ISIS plot targeting Jews. By Itamar Eichner, Ynet News, September 6, 2026.

Three men have been arrested in France on suspicion of advancing a jihadist plot in which they considered joining the Islamic State in Africa and carrying out an attack against the Jewish community in France….

The investigation was opened in early July following jihadist activity detected among members of a WhatsApp group called “Soldiers of Allah.” Based on information gathered during the investigation, the three suspects were arrested. The main suspicion is that they were preparing to leave France in order to join ISIS in Africa, while investigators also suspect they considered carrying out a “violent action” targeting the Jewish community….

Another detail adding sensitivity to the case is a possible connection between one of the suspects in France and a woman arrested in the United States in August on suspicion of planning, on behalf of ISIS, to carry out a bombing attack at the New York State Capitol.

According to a report by RTL, the woman is 35-year-old Jessica Bowie, who is suspected in the United States of planning the attack. A source close to the French investigation confirmed to AFP that “there is a connection between one of the suspects brought before the judge and a woman arrested by the FBI in the United States.”… YNet

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Who were the hijackers of 9/11? Here's what the 9/11 Commission Report said.

A detailed examination of the hijackers by the 9/11 Commission Report reveals the backgrounds and motivations of the 19 men involved. Author: TEGNA Digital. Published: 4:39 PM CDT September 8, 2026 KSDK

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What Chinese and Turkish Deployments to Pakistan Mean for India and Israel. The Apparent Boost to Pakistan’s Conventional Military Capabilities Appears Significant After the Signing of the Mecca Pact. September 5, 2026. Imran Khurshid. ME Forum

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US forces destroy three IRGC oil tankers after coming under Iranian fire. “Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost—taking out three of yours.” JNS Staff. Sep 5, 2026. JNS

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'A national crisis': Top DOJ official vows crackdown on antisemitism.

Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the US Department of Justice, described the rise in antisemitism in the country as "a national crisis" and made clear that combating the phenomenon would remain among the Justice Department's highest priorities. In a speech to the Israeli-American community in San Diego, she outlined a series of enforcement actions against universities and institutions across the US.

"The rise in antisemitism is not a wave of isolated incidents," Dhillon said at the Israeli-American Council (IAC) gala. "It is a national crisis demanding national resolve." She said the Civil Rights Division is acting "with speed, with focus, and with resolve" against discrimination, harassment and antisemitic violence.

Dhillon pointed to lawsuits against "elite universities" Harvard and UCLA, as well as settlements totaling nearly half a billion dollars with universities including Columbia, Northwestern, Cornell, and Brown. She said the Justice Department is investigating more than 100 educational institutions on suspicion of civil rights violations, and in some cases has found evidence of policies that contributed to creating an antisemitic climate.

"We will bring federal power to bear" Dhillon added that the department is also pursuing cases outside university campuses, including one against a coffee house that she said refused service to Jewish customers, as well as indictments for antisemitic violence and hate crimes in several states. "When a Jew is attacked because he is a Jew, that is a federal crime, and we will bring federal power to bear," she said.

She said the department is also using federal tools to act against discrimination targeting Orthodox Jewish communities and to protect worshippers at synagogues and religious institutions. She stressed that enforcement is not limited to campuses but also covers workplaces, public spaces, and houses of worship.

Closing her remarks, Dhillon called on community members to continue reporting incidents and cooperating with investigations. "As long as I serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, fighting antisemitism, through every existing federal tool, will be one of my highest priorities," she said. ILH

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Despite sanctions, Iran funnels billions through US banks. The Wall Street Journal revealed that Iran has managed to move funds through the US financial system using a complex network of correspondent accounts, as the Trump administration seeks ways to stem the flow. An Egyptian bank operating in the United Arab Emirates was identified as having processed $1.8 billion for companies potentially linked to the ayatollah regime. By Neta Bar. Published on 09-06-2026 08:55 ILH

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Gabriel Epstein @GabrielEpsteinX Abdullah Jamal Sobhi Nabhan (ID#: 803187939, age 32), a Gazan employee of Belgian international development agency Enabel, appears to have been a member of Hamas' Khan Younis Brigade. Nabhan was killed in an airstrike alongside his brother, father, and son in April 2024. 🧵 Sep 4, 2026. on X

New evidence links slain Belgian development worker to Hamas as Israel demands apology. Belgium condemned the 2024 Israeli strike that killed Enabel employee Abdullah Nabhan; Israel now cites a Hamas-linked mourning poster and a photo of him in uniform as evidence he belonged to the group’s Khan Younis Battalion. Itamar Eichner. Ynet. Sep 6, 2026.

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IDF issues ‘urgent’ evacuation warning for south Lebanon’s Arab Salim ahead of strike on Hezbollah. By Emanuel Fabian. 6 Sep 2026, 7:11 am ToI

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54 years since the Munich Olympics: When Germany failed the Jews again. Rabbi Shmulley Boteach. Sep 6, 2026, 6:45 AM INN

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Four days before 9/11, an ominous warning about Islamism’s growing influence emerged at the UN. By Dara Horn. Published Sep. 6, 2026, 8:00 a.m. ET

The coming week will be heavy with 9/11 commemorations, which for many New Yorkers still feels like yesterday. But this week, I’ll also be remembering another event that also feels like yesterday: thousands chanting “Free, Free, Palestine!,” “Jew, Jew, Jew!,” and “Israel commits genocide!” No, I don’t mean Columbia University in 2024. I mean the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa in 2001.

This now-infamous UN event, 25 years ago this week, was ideologically hijacked by a group of autocratic nations called the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which commandeered the proceedings to focus exclusively on Israel — thereby averting the world’s eyes from their own crimes. The Hitler-themed posters that blanketed the UN conference in Durban were funded by the family of Osama bin Laden.

The clown show began in early 2001, when Iran, hosting the Asia region’s pre-planning conference in Tehran, barred Israeli officials and Jewish groups from attending. At their blissfully Jew-free conference, delegates from authoritarian states drafted a UN declaration naming only one country — Israel — as a racist human-rights violator. The OIC included regimes whose ideas of tolerance ranged from legalizing child rape to gassing civilians with chemical weapons. These states were delighted to sign on. Later in Geneva, the OIC proposed language for the main UN declaration about Israel committing “genocide.” (The 2001 death toll from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was just under a third of that year’s homicide rate in Baltimore.)

In Durban, 20,000 protesters swarmed the conference venues, chanting “Free, free Palestine!” and carrying a banner reading “Hitler was Right.” Inside, delegates distributed copies of the century-old antisemitic screed “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and cartoons of bloody-fanged Jews. Ubiquitous posters featured Hitler’s face over the text “What if I had won? There would be NO Israel.”

The wall-to-wall Jew-hate silenced dissent, literally. At one point, Jewish groups organized an emergency press conference to publicize the hatred. There, one delegate recalled, a “phalanx of Iranian women in black” rushed the podium to prevent them from speaking. By then, conference security advised Jewish delegates not to walk the few blocks to Durban’s Jewish community center; it was too dangerous.

When the NGO conference forum voted on its official Declaration and Action Plan, Jewish groups attempted to add language about antisemitic violence. With precious few exceptions, 3,600 NGOs all voted to delete it. After that, surrounded by jeering crowds, the Jewish delegates walked out — quickly, with bodyguards.

In the seventy-page Declaration voted and approved by those 3,600 NGOs, only one country on earth was named. Israel was the world’s only “racist nation,” a “colonial apartheid state” guilty of “genocide.” In a victory for regimes worldwide actually engaging in racist, colonial, apartheid, genocidal rule — and a defeat for millions suffering under their reign — no other countries were even mentioned. Al Qaeda, equally unworthy of mention, waited in the wings.

To its credit, the American delegation walked out of this clown show. “I have taken this decision with regret, because of the importance of the international fight against racism and the contribution the conference could have made to it,” US Secretary of State Colin Powell said as he announced the walkout, but “I am convinced that will not be possible.”

It wasn’t. Words like “racism,” “antisemitism” and “genocide” were rendered meaningless, which was the goal. These words were now shiny things dictators wore on their lapels, distracting everyone from the populations they tortured back home. The world’s premier human-rights organizations, whose courage once brought down the world’s worst tyrants, had now all bowed down to tyrants, and flushed their credibility down the toilet.

This left the UN and human-rights advocates worldwide emptied of words and meaning when the conference triumphantly ended — four days before Sept. 11, 2001.

I still can’t believe they all fell for it. Twenty-five years later, too many still do.

Dara Horn is the author of “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living” (Avid Reader Press) from which this essay is adapted. NY Post

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Called for Jihad. Terrorist turned Instagram into channel for terror incitement. Israel National News. Sep 6, 2026, 2:31 PM INN

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Breaking Dawn 2.0': IDF launches surprise country-wide drill. Military commanders mobilized reserve units and tested sudden war plans ahead of the High Holidays. Joshua Marks, Amelie Botbol. Sep 6, 2026 JNS

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Half a million worshippers have attended Selichot prayers at Western Wall. JNS Staff. Sep 6, 2026. JNS

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Friedman to ‘dear friend’ Huckabee: ‘Settler violence libel’ serves Israel’s enemies. Sep 6, 2026 05:41 JNS

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CENTCOM: 92 vessels redirected under Iran blockade. Sep 6, 2026 JNS

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Netanyahu threatens Iran if it strikes, says Islamic regime’s ‘end is near’. Sep 6, 2026 JNS

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US antisemitism envoy opposes Vilnius building on Jewish cemetery... “I urge you to oppose the pending parliamentary resolution and reject any attempt to develop the sacred site for profane purposes,” Kaploun wrote of a procedure concerning the grounds of the Piramont/Šnipiškės Jewish Cemetery, where thousands of Jews remain buried, including prominent rabbis and scholars. The Vilna Gaon, an 18th century Jewish luminary, was originally buried there, although his remains were later transferred elsewhere.

“This includes any efforts to transform the Palace of Culture and Sports into a conference center or other commercial or cultural facility,” Kaploun added. Sep 6, 2026 https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-7756-daa4-abfd-775fb63a0000 JNS]

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Brain drain: Israel’s medical exodus grows as nearly 1,400 doctors leave inside three years In 2023, 416 doctors left Israel for at least one year, compared with 530 in 2024 and a preliminary estimate of 419 in 2025. Sep 6, 2026. JPost

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Woman charged with burglarizing two New York synagogues days apart. 33-year-old woman arrested after police link her to burglaries at two synagogues in Monticello just days apart. Israel National News. Published: Sep 7, 2026, 5:53 AM (GMT+3) [...] Several recent incidents have highlighted concerns over antisemitism. Last month, a man attacked Manhattan's Central Synagogue during Shabbat services, injuring a worshipper and causing property damage. In August, six local youths allegedly attacked a haredi man in Borough Park and threw eggs at him. A Jewish man was also stabbed outside a synagogue in July during Tisha B'Av. INN

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'Iran nuclear deal may not be reached'. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says in TV interviews that Washington may prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons by destroying its capabilities rather than reaching a deal. Elad Benari Sep 7, 2026, 4:40 AM INN

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Gazans asked for tents - and Israel will send them. Dalit Halevi. Sep 7, 2026, 8:07 AM INN

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Hamas bomb hits IDF vehicle, Israel strikes back in Gaza. Israel National News. Sep 7, 2026, 8:40 AM INN

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IDF strikes Hamas sites in Gaza after explosive device detonates near engineering vehicle. Sep 7, 2026. JFeed

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Remembering 1947 when rioting British soldiers killed Jews in Tel Aviv. British soldiers rioted in Tel Aviv in 1947 following the hangings of two British soldiers by the Irgun, however, the deaths of the British resulted in an end to their hangings of Jews. There is a lesson there. Op-ed. Robert Besser. Sep 7, 2026, 7:38 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Israeli security forces find rocket in Samaria counter-terror raid. Israeli security forces had apprehended a Hamas cell and dismantled a rocket during a counterterrorism raid in the Aqraba area, near Nablus (Shechem) in Samaria, the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) said on Sunday. Sep 6, 2026. JNS

Possessing a rocket. Hamas terror cell thwarted in northern Jordan Valley. Israel National News. Sep 6, 2026, 3:09 PM INN

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GDP grows, investment surges. Israeli economy shows resilience ahead of Rosh Hashanah. Israel National News. Sep 7, 2026, 4:06 PM INN

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One seriously injured in stabbing attack at Maoz Yehuda farm. Terrorist arrives by vehicle at the Maoz Yehuda farm, stabs resident, and flees; security forces locate and eliminate him. Israel National News. Published: Sep 7, 2026, 10:51 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Mike Huckabee responds to stabbing attack, slamming world hypocrisy. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee responded: "This won’t get the international attention that attacks on Palestinians receive but it’s a daily occurrence that Israelis have to live with. for the 'Peace of Jerusalem.' Israel National News. Sep 7, 2026, 1:31 PM (GMT+3) Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned the terrorist attack at Ma'oz Yehuda Farm in Samaria, noting that such attacks receive far less international attention than attacks against Palestinians.

“This won’t get the international attention that attacks on Palestinians receive but it’s a daily occurrence that Israelis have to live with," Huckabee wrote. “🙏 for the ‘Peace of Jerusalem.’"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also condemned the attack and praised the IDF soldiers who engaged and eliminated the terrorist.

“No terrorist has a hiding place," Netanyahu said. “I commend our heroic soldiers who engaged the terrorist and eliminated the terrorist who carried out the attack in Samaria."

Netanyahu wished the injured farmer a full and speedy recovery and vowed that Israel would continue its campaign against terrorism.

“We will continue to eliminate terrorists, hunt down those who dispatch them, and destroy the terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria. Anyone who tries to threaten the State of Israel and its citizens will pay a heavy price."

Defense Minister Israel Katz said the IDF would continue pursuing terrorists and outlined Israel's policy in Judea and Samaria, “Our policy in Judea and Samaria is clear: to aggressively pursue Palestinian terrorism, develop and strengthen the Jewish communities, and maintain security stability," Katz said.

Katz said terrorism in Judea and Samaria is currently at its lowest level in decades, but warned that Israel would take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it from resurging.

“We will not allow a return to a reality of a prolonged intifada lasting for years, as happened in the past," he said.

Katz called for a comprehensive campaign against the Palestinian Authority and terror infrastructure in Judea and Samaria. INN

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Far-Right AfD Party’s German Election Victory Alarms Jewish Community, Israeli Leaders. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. September 7, 2026.

The German far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party’s historic victory in Saxony-Anhalt has sent shockwaves through the country’s Jewish community, prompting warnings from Israeli officials and political leaders who fear the party’s rising influence could threaten Jewish life and test the country’s longstanding commitment to confronting antisemitism.

The AfD — which Germany’s domestic intelligence service classifies as a right-wing extremist group — recorded its strongest-ever regional result in Sunday’s election in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

With its historic victory, the party fell narrowly short of the majority required to establish the country’s first far-right state government since World War II. Algemeiner

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US lawmakers pledge: “Sanctions against countries that boycott Judea and Samaria". A delegation of 20 American lawmakers toured Samaria and announced that they would work to advance countermeasures against entities that boycott residents because of where they live. Israel National News. Published: Sep 7, 2026, 6:24 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Watch: Lebanese reporter injured during live broadcast. Ali Shabib, a reporter for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar network, was injured in an IDF strike in Nabatieh. Footage shows the moment he was hit during the live broadcast. Israel National News. Sep 7, 2026, 3:45 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Red Cross visits to terrorists to resume. Israel National News. Sep 7, 2026, 9:31 PM INN

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Seconds before strike: IDF identified civilians & diverted munition.

The munition had already been launched toward a Hamas terrorist when a group of civilians was identified nearby. The IDF diverted it in real time toward a nearby building. Israel National News Sep 7, 2026, 6:38 PM INN

Operational Ethics. IDF Diverts Missile to Protect Gaza Civilians. Sep 7, 2026 JFeed

IDF Diverts Missile to Protect Gaza Civilians. Military releases footage showing munition redirected in real-time after civilians spotted near Hamas operative during strike operation

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Israeli Finance Minister calls for expulsion of British ambassador over planned sanctions. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is calling for the immediate expulsion of the British ambassador to Israel in response to incoming British Prime Minister Andy Burnham's intention to announce sanctions tomorrow against Israeli products from Judea and Samaria (West Bank settlements). Jfeed Staff. Sep 7, 2026. JFeed

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Yemen Conflict. Yemen Launches Major Offensive vs. Houthis. The surprise attack by government forces backed by Saudi Arabia has pushed the Iranian-backed militants into retreat across northern Yemen, prompting some U.S. officials to predict the group's collapse

Eliana Fleming. Sep 7, 2026 JFeed

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IDF strikes Nukhba terrorist in Khan Younis involved in October 7 attacks The IDF struck a Nukhba terrorist in Khan Younis this morning who was involved in the killing of Israeli soldiers and commanders during the October 7 attacks. The strike is part of ongoing operations targeting terrorists responsible for the October 7 massacre.

Jfeed Staff. Sep 7, 2026 JFeed

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IDF eliminates two Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza strikes. The IDF eliminated two terrorists in separate strikes in Gaza who violated the ceasefire by advancing attacks against Israeli forces and civilians. On Sunday, the IDF struck the Al-Shati area and eliminated Sabhi Hadr Al-Atham Al-Batrihi, an Islamic Jihad operative who planted explosive devices against IDF troops. In a separate strike last week, the IDF eliminated Ahmad Fuad Khalil Khalas, a Nukbah terrorist in Hamas' military wing who also planted explosives and operated against Israeli forces. Both terrorists recently advanced terror attacks in systematic violation of the ceasefire. Precise munitions and aerial surveillance were used to mitigate civilian harm. IDF troops remain deployed in Gaza under the ceasefire agreement.

Jfeed Staff. Sep 7, 2026 JFeed

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Adidas caves, apologizes over campaign featuring Israeli amputee. Israel National News. Sep 8, 2026, 5:23 AM INN

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30 terrorists arrested. Terror cell that planned attack in Modi’in exposed. Israel National News. Sep 8, 2026, 6:17 PM INN

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Democratic Republic of Congo to open embassy in Jerusalem. The Congo has agreed to open an embassy in Jerusalem, while Israel has agreed to open an embassy in Kinshasa. Yuval Barnea. Digital Journalist. Sep 8, 2026 i24

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UK declares Israeli ‘occupation’ unlawful, bans settlement goods. Israel National News. Sep 8, 2026, 2:55 PM INN

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12 countries back sanctions on Judea, Samaria Jewish communities. The foreign ministers of 12 countries said on Tuesday that they intend to impose or were actively considering restrictions on trade in goods from Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, according to a joint statement published by France and the United Kingdom.

The countries are Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

“Together, we are resolute: the two-state solution must be protected, and we will take action in pursuit of a just and lasting peace,” the foreign ministers said, adding that they opposed steps that could lead to “annexation” or the “forcible displacement” of Palestinians.

“In this regard, the U.K., France and Canada welcome the important action already taken by Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway and Belgium and will bring forward national measures to ban trade in settlement goods,” they added. Sep 8, 2026 JNS

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UK Jewish leaders condemn ban on Israeli settlement imports. Israel National News. Sep 8, 2026, 4:54 PM INN

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Israel's response to UK - closing British Consulate in Jerusalem. Foreign Minister Sa’ar announces closure of British Consulate in Jerusalem and other countermeasures against UK sanctions. Nitsan Keidar. Sep 8, 2026, 5:44 PM INN

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Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis: 'A dark day for British Jews'. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis condemns British government sanctions targeting Jews in Judea and Samaria, warning they will bolster extremism and fuel an increasingly hostile discourse against Israel. Israel National News. Sep 8, 2026, 7:44 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Canada banning Judea, Samaria goods likely to lead to attacks on Canadian Jews, Israeli envoy says. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep 8, 2026. JNS

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Slovenian Deputy PM: “There should be sovereignty in Samaria". Israel National News. Sep 8, 2026, 5:17 PM INN

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US official tells 'Post' CENTCOM is striking Iranian tankers, Rubio rejects UK West Bank sanctions. September 8, 2026. JPost

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Ed Miliband: The 'proud British Jew' who turned his back on Britain's Jews - comment. Governments cannot simultaneously tell Jews that they are not responsible for Israel while adopting rhetoric that helps activists collapse the distinction between the two. Mathilda Heller. September 8, 2026. JPost

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Amb. Mike Huckabee says UK sanctions on Israel will see US reaction US Amb. Mike Huckabee warns of negative impact over UK plan to ban Israeli West Bank settlement goods, speaking to 'BBC'. Sep 8, 2026 FoxNews

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Illegal infiltrator caught hiding in Golan Heights sewer. Israel National News. Sep 8, 2026, 12:05 PM INN

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October 7 changed his politics: Former Labor MK Eli Goldschmidt joins Likud. Former Labor MK Eli Goldschmidt joins Likud after what the party calls a post-October 7 ‘disillusionment,’ as Netanyahu adds several new faces to the slate. Hezki Baruch. Published: Sep 8, 2026, 1:46 PM (GMT+3) INN

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‘Very unlikely’ anti-Jewish hate crimes will return to pre-Oct. 7 levels anytime soon, expert says. Aaron Bandler. Sep 8, 2026. JNS

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Palestinians from Hebron indicted after Golan Heights arrests Three Palestinians from the Judea city of Hebron were indicted on Sept. 7 after being arrested six days earlier at a vacation-rental complex in Ramot in the Golan Heights, Israel Police said Tuesday. Police said the three, ages 19, 29 and 35, were charged with unlawfully entering or staying in Israel and obstructing a police officer.

Police said officers and Border Police initially detained two of the men during a Sept. 1 operation, while the third fled into a sewer channel and did not respond to calls to come out. Fire and rescue teams and Magen David Adom emergency personnel were summoned over concerns for his safety before he emerged exhausted and bruised and was arrested. Sep 8, 2026 JNS

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Tasmania government says it’s protecting houses of worship, taking ‘strong action’ against Jew-hatred. Sep 8, 2026 JNS

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US Treasury Department says it has ‘grounded’ 27 Iranian airlines with ‘sweeping’ sanctions. Sep 8, 2026 JNS

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UK publishes legislation for tougher sanctions on Iran over nuclear program. Sep 8, 2026 JPost

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India confronts a new regional security equation as Mecca pact takes shape - analysis. Kuwait invoked the UN Charter’s self-defense provision after Iranian attacks, while the Mecca alliance’s mutual-defense clause has not been publicly tested. September 8, 2026. JPost

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Advocacy groups launch witness appeal after alleged assault of Jewish boy outside London station. In response to inquiries from The Jerusalem Post, both the Metropolitan Police and the British Transport Police stated they have no record of any report matching the incident. Alex Carson. September 8, 2026. JPost

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Watch: Amb. Huckabee and Knesset Speaker get the crowd dancing. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 8, 2026, 11:34 PM INN

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Iran-Backed Houthis Attack Four Saudi Cities in Expansion of Middle East War, 73 Hurt. September 8, 2026. Algemeiner

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Israeli Para Taekwondo Athlete, Who Lost Arm in Gaza War, Wins Silver Medal in 2026 Swiss Open. September 8, 2026 Algemeiner

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Jewish Groups Praise US House for Passing Bill to Cut Aid From Colleges Promoting BDS, Antisemitism. September 8, 2026 Algemeiner

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Michigan Rabbis Send List of ‘Non-Negotiable’ Demands to Democrats for Support in Upcoming Elections. By Corey Walker. September 8, 2026. A coalition of Michigan rabbis and Jewish community leaders is circulating a petition outlining five “nonnegotiable” positions for Democratic candidates seeking their support, demanding respect for Zionism and acknowledgment of Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state in exchange for backing in the state’s upcoming elections.

Among the petition’s central demands are support for Jewish sovereignty in Israel, backing for a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, and a commitment to ensuring the full participation of American Jews in US political life. The document also calls out “cleverly worded arguments advanced to return the Jewish people to statelessness and powerlessness — a position that a supermajority of Jews everywhere recognize as genocidal.”

Although Abdul El-Sayed is not named directly, the document is widely understood to be aimed at Michigan’s Democratic nominee for US Senate, whose record on Israel has become a major source of concern among Jewish voters. Algemeiner

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Rubio warns Iran: 'Every time they attack US ships, they will lose tankers'. Elad Benari. Sep 9, 2026, 2:07 AM INN

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Iran hits Jordan bases after US strikes Iranian oil tankers. Iran launches missiles towards two military bases in Jordan. Missiles visible across Israel but were not directed at it. Israel National News. Sep 9, 2026, 2:52 AM INN

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Smelling Blood. Steyn Online | 8 Sep 2026 | Mark Steyn.

In a few days, America will be marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11. The observances will be muted here, because it's too sad: we lost the war, not only in the narrow military sense (the Taliban are back in power in Kabul, etc), but in the broader defeat represented by the post-Motoon surrender on free speech, the nightly invasions by Muslim men of English and Continental ports, the ugly security procedures that now attend the bollard-encircled ancient German Christmas markets, and ultimately the reorientation of the generally useless post-9/11 surveillance state as a tool of domestic control. As I wrote on Sunday:

An al-Qaeda guy has been installed with American approval as strongman of Syria; the Christian community in Iraq was extinguished on America's watch; the Libyan intervention delivered the North African ports closest to Europe into the hands of Isis, with direct consequences for Continental demographics; and - just to confirm the 'war on terror' was utterly lost and always misconceived - a Shia Twelver from Uganda who believes in everything the guys we're droning in Tehran believe is Giuliani's successor as Mayor of New York City and the new kingmaker of the Democrat Party. If the United States Government had been working for the other side all along, what exactly would it have done differently?

In the media, the month before 9/11 was a weird, accelerating accumulation of trivial preoccupations, culminating in the ludicrous western prostrations before an international racism conference. Indeed, August 2001 seems far more relevant to where we are now than September 11th does..... For Americans, September 11th brought to a close the post-Cold War era, the period that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall. For a significant proportion of Muslims, September 11th was the culmination of a quite different timeline - an era that was inaugurated on October 23rd 1983, when Hezbollah suicide bombers killed 300 American and French soldiers in Beirut and prompted their governments to pull out of Lebanon. From a Muslim point of view, the suicide bomber is as reliable as the Maxim gun was: sometimes he brings victory, as in Beirut; sometimes he attracts a barely minimal response, as in Bill Clinton's desultory retaliations to bin Laden's ever more brazen provocations during the Nineties; and sometimes he is rewarded by public admonitions to his victims, as when the EU et al urge "restraint" on the part of Israel after Hamas or Islamic Jihad have blown up a few more pregnant women in a shopping mall. SteynOnline

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More Than 5,000 Leaders Across Entertainment, Academia and Public Life Unite to Reject “Genocide” Accusation Against Israel.

Boris Johnson, Deborah Lipstadt, Sir Niall Ferguson, Shari Redstone, Steven Pinker, Benny Morris, Sherry Lansing, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Irwin Cotler, Debra Messing and thousands of others reject the genocide accusation against Israel and warn that it fuels antisemitism worldwide

LOS ANGELES (Sept. 9, 2026) — ...

'We the undersigned are outraged and sickened by the latest blood libel to be inflicted on the Jewish people: the lie that Israel committed “genocide” in Gaza. We reject this accusation with contempt.

There is a vigorous debate within the Jewish community over aspects of how this war was fought, and that is a sign of moral health. So is our pain over every innocent life lost. But we must unite in repudiating the lie of genocide.

The unprecedented combat conditions of the war – hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, thousands of boobytrapped homes – the conflating of combatants with “journalists” and “human rights workers,” the ratio of civilian-to-terrorist casualties, considered low for asymmetrical urban warfare, the absence of mass starvation despite repeated claims of imminent catastrophe, the warnings given to civilians before attack: All these factors were erased in the eagerness to indict Israel for genocide.

A crucial difference between war as tragedy and war as genocide is intent. In this war, only one side intended to commit genocide, and that is Hamas.

To accuse Israel of genocide, the massacre of October 7 has been systematically downplayed, while Israeli actions have been distorted and amplified. Israel went to war on October 8 not out of vengeance, as its detractors claim, but to break the Iranian-led siege of terror enclaves on its borders, and to restore its deterrence, without which it cannot survive in the long term in the Middle East. Thousands of rockets and missiles were fired at Israel in the weeks following the massacre, while Hamas starved and tortured 250 Israelis, some of whom were murdered in captivity.

The classic definition of genocide has been changed to apply only to the Gaza war – just as anti-Israel NGOs changed the definition of apartheid and colonialism to apply only to Israel.

Already on October 8, as Israel was still fighting terrorists within its border communities and hadn’t yet begun burying its dead, anti-Zionists began raising the cry of “genocide.” In fact, Israel’s enemies have been accusing it of genocide for decades.

The accusation of genocide has become a pretext for excluding, attacking and even murdering Jews around the world. Its purpose is to delegitimize Jewish self-determination and to turn the only Jewish state into the world’s arch criminal and pariah.

The bitter irony is that Israel, home to half the world’s Jews, is the only country to face a sustained war of attempted genocide – from its inception in 1948 until today.

We note with astonishment but not surprise the overwhelming silence of Israel’s defamers in the face of the atrocities of Iran – perhaps 30,000 civilians murdered in two days, one of the great crimes of our time. Anti-Zionism is not the defender of conscience but its betrayer.

We urge our fellow Jews and our non-Jewish friends to treat the accusation of genocide with revulsion – as the latest in a long history of lies about the Jewish people. “A lie has no legs,” notes the ancient Hebrew proverb. We will not allow this lie to stand.' Creative Community for Peace

More than 5,000 leaders, public figures sign letter rejecting ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel. “It’s an hour of crisis,” Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told JNS. “I think it’s a time when you have to try every avenue.” Jessica Russak-Hoffman, Izzy Salant. Sep 9, 2026. [...] The letter, released by the nonprofit Creative Community for Peace, says the genocide accusation “has become a dangerous vehicle for scapegoating Jews and fueling antisemitism around the world.”

“We, the undersigned, are outraged and sickened by the latest blood libel to be inflicted on the Jewish people: the lie that Israel committed ‘genocide’ in Gaza. We reject this accusation with contempt,” the letter states.

“There is a vigorous debate within the Jewish community over aspects of how this war was fought, and that is a sign of moral health. So is our pain over every innocent life lost. But we must unite in repudiating the lie of genocide,” it reads. (JNS sought comment from CCFP.)

Lipstadt said the accusations are having a tangible effect on Jews.

“There’s a full-throated attack on Jews,” she told JNS. “When you hear of kids who are putting together their resumes not wanting to mention they were Jewish Studies majors, it’s coming down to the granular.”

“Of course the bigger things, too,” she said, pointing to violent attacks targeting Jewish communities, including the March terrorist attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., the April stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, London, and an August arson attack that destroyed the Nöam kosher restaurant in Montreal.

“Those are the things that grab our attention, but it’s also having a granular effect,” she said, noting that Jewish events routinely require security and describing the expense as a “tax.”

Lisptadt told JNS that while Jew-hatred “used to be seen as something that is wrong, illegitimate and prejudicial, now there’s an attack on those who will call out antisemitism.”

“No longer do we have to fight just the antisemitism, but we have to fight those who would say it’s all performative, it’s all phony, it’s not real,” she said. “We’ve seen it before with Holocaust denial.” JNS

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Sweden: Minister of Education Wears Star of David as a Sign of Solidarity. An intentional challenge to a "Lefty Party". September 9, 2026. By Hugh Fitzgerald.

Sweden is experiencing, like so many European countries, a wave of antisemitism; the many Muslim migrants that the country has taken in are fueling it. But one migrant, Simona Mohammson, Sweden’s Minister of Education, and an ex-Muslim, in a sign of solidarity with Swedish Jews has been wearing a Star of David. More on this unusual woman can be found here: “Boy George Isn’t Alone: Watch a Muslim-Born Swedish Politician’s Courageous Stand for Jews,” by Aaron Hanscom, PJ Media, August 19, 2026:

After the December 2025 Bondi Beach terrorist attack in which 15 people were shot and killed during a Chanukah celebration, Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch delivered a powerful message of support for the Jewish people. She stated that the massacre in Australia was a warning about how dangerous “globalize the intifada” rhetoric can become. Busch also said that with the rapid rise of antisemitism throughout the world, even wearing a Star of David can put one in danger and that Jews have a right to live safely in Sweden.

Since she made those remarks, the situation for the Jewish community in Sweden, which at 20,000 people is the largest in Scandinavia, has only gotten worse. The Swedish Union of Jewish Youth released a report after October 7, “We Are Not Welcome Here,” containing findings from a survey of Jewish students and university employees. A shocking 90% of respondents said they felt that safety at universities had gotten worse since October 7, and 70% had low or very low confidence that societal institutions could help them if they experienced antisemitism.

That antisemitism was on display at a July 2025 anti-Israel protest held in the city of Umeå. Hanging from gallows were mannequins dressed in Nazi concentration camp uniforms with Stars of David and prisoner numbers on them. A banner with the words “Genocide is genocide is genocide” was prominently displayed, and of course the “baby killer” lie was represented by a figure wearing a keffiyeh and holding a baby doll, surrounded by Palestinian flags.

And where is most of this antisemitism coming from? Suzan Quitaz answered that question in a 2024 piece for the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs:

'Numerous studies and surveys have shown there is a correlation between Islamism and the rise of contemporary antisemitism in Western societies, including Sweden. In regards to Sweden, Islam, in a short time, has become the second biggest religion in Sweden. Approximately 20% of Sweden’s 10 million population are of non-Swedish origin; according to some estimations, 810,000 Muslims live in Sweden.15 Sweden, like other European countries, has experienced a massive surge of refugees and immigrants since 2010. The majority of them were Muslims. Between 2014 and 2016, Sweden was second after Germany in taking in refugees, mainly Syrians fleeing the civil war; it took in over 200,000, with 77% being Muslims.16

The civil war in Syria is over. Will the Swedish government now return the tens of thousands of Syrian “refugees” to their country, as they no longer have cause to fear being caught in an ongoing war?

Amid this surge in antisemitism, a Muslim-born Swedish politician’s bold action this week takes on added significance. The leader of Sweden’s Liberal Party, Simona Mohamsson, wore a Star of David necklace during a debate with party leaders Monday. “I wear the Star of David for the children who do not dare to in today’s Sweden,” Mohamsson, who is also Sweden’s minister of education, said. Daniel Schatz, author of Sweden’s Relations with Israel and the Palestinians: An Untold History, called it a “striking” moment because Mohamsson “chose to wear the very symbol many Swedish Jews now fear to display.”…'

I have enormous respect for non-Jews like Mohammson and Boy George who have the courage to stand with Jews and Israel, and I’ll continue to highlight their bravery whenever I can.

Those are the words of journalist Aaron Hanscom, the writer of this report. He’s done right by Simona Mohammson, “highlighting her bravery” in standing up for the Jews of Sweden. Let us all go and do likewise, for other mohammsons who swim into our ken. FPM

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Mamdani’s Terror Lawyer Ramzi Kassem Lies About His 9/11 Response. "9/11 ought to be recounted primarily through the stories of Muslims". September 8, 2026. By Daniel Greenfield.

Zohran Mamdani’s decision to pass the pen used to sign a 9/11 commemorative order to Ramzi Kassem, the lawyer for the 20th 9/11 hijacker, whom he had appointed as the city’s chief counsel blew up, outraging 9/11 families and members of the NYPD.

This was not an accident as demonstrated by the decision to feature Kassem in a Gothamist puff piece about how Muslims were the real victims of 9/11 and Americans should feel guilty for resisting Islamic colonial terrorism.

And Ramzi Kassem, who volunteered as a legal translator at a nearby prison, remembers being briefly detained by a guard who suspected he might be a terrorism suspect.

Kassem, 48, spent years fighting civil rights abuses during the federal government’s war on terror and the NYPD’s extensive surveillance of Muslim communities. He now serves as Mamdani’s chief counsel.

“I could not have known then that much of my legal career would be spent standing with clients and communities who bore the brunt of government actions in the days and years that followed: immigrant New Yorkers and Muslims here and abroad subjected to registration, detention, incarceration, surveillance, torture, war or worse,” Kassem, whom City Hall declined to make available for an interview, said in a statement. “Many people who saw 9/11 for what it was — a horrific act of mass murder — were nonetheless treated as enemies.”

Here’s how Kassem actually saw it.

“This is not a battle of good versus evil,” Ramzi Kassem wrote in an op-ed that appeared on September 17, 2001. “The perpetrators were probably not driven to their actions by some intrinsic evil or inherent hatred of the good United States.”

He went on to argue that the Al Qaeda attack a week earlier was the result of the “resentment these terrorists felt towards the United States” as a result of “our country’s policies.”

Two decades later, Kassem, a prominent terror lawyer, claimed in a Washington Post op-ed that, “since 9/11, the government has consistently used the law to enable, operationalize and justify the violence it has deployed against Muslims.”

And that, “the legacy of 9/11 ought to be recounted primarily through the stories of Muslims the world over who have largely paid the price of American power and prosperity.”

Ramzi Kassem had boasted of having “held the record for the longest delayed security clearance in the Guantánamo setting”, but even that does not seem to have dissuaded the Biden administration from bringing him on board.

While some leave behind the extremist views of their college years, Ramzi Kassem instead built a career around them, becoming a noted terrorist lawyer whose Gitmo inmate clients included Ahmed al-Darbi, an Al Qaeda terrorist and the brother-in-law of one of the hijackers who flew a plane into the Pentagon, and who was himself a key figure in the bombing of an oil tanker.

In his columns, as in his activism, Ramzi Kassem repeatedly justified terrorism as a reaction to its victims. “Terrorism is but one of many reactions to oppression and dispossession and not their cause.”

While at Columbia University, Kassem co-founded Turath, an association of Muslim students, and then Qanun at Columbia Law. A fellow student described these hateful groups as having brought “under the guidance of Mr. Kassem… speakers to this campus that support violence against American and Israeli civilians… defended the genocidal program of Hamas.”

Does this sound like a man who “saw 9/11 for what it was — a horrific act of mass murder ” But rather than treating his as an enemy, we put him in power over us. FPM

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IDF arrests three Palestinian police officers for assaulting Israeli. Palestinian Authority police officers accused of setting up unauthorized roadblock in Area C, detaining and assaulting Israeli civilian in 'serious breach.' Israel National News. Sep 9, 2026, 1:40 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Arab States Back European Israel Sanctions. Foreign ministers from eight countries, including Saudi Arabia and UAE, issue statement praising UK and European trade restrictions on West Bank settlements. Eliana Fleming Sep 9, 2026. JFeed

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UK wants to punish Israel’s settlements, but Palestinians will pay the price. At the very least, Britain should acknowledge that economic pressure on Israel will have consequences beyond the people it intends to punish. Alex Winston. Sep 9, 2026. JPost

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'Not as bad as it sounds': Former attaché downplays UK-led settlement boycott impact. "Beyond the diplomatic steps Israel took yesterday - which I think were spot on - Israel also has economic leverage. Trade between Israel and the UK is roughly balanced," said Shmuel Ben-Tovim. Sep 9, 2026 JPost

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PBS NewsHour. Netanyahu faces pressure after report alleges he brushed off warnings ahead of Oct. 7. Sep 9, 2026 6:30 PM EDT By — Ali Rogin By — Dan Sagalyn By — Zeba Warsi [...] For his part, Netanyahu wrote on social media that no such call took place between September and October 7, and called the story a malicious fabrication with a clear political timing.

For more on this story and how the actions of Netanyahu before the October 7 attack are impacting the current election campaign in Israel, we turn to David Makovsky, distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

David, welcome back to the "News Hour."

David Makovsky, Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Delighted to be with you.

Ali Rogin:

Thanks for being with us.

David Makovsky:

Always.

Ali Rogin:

The big headline is in this story is that there was a call between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mohammed bin Zayed saying, there's going to be an attack, and reportedly Netanyahu dismissed that.

You know well, you are very familiar with the sort of back-channel negotiations and communications that were happening during this time. So what do you make of this report and what do you think was going on around this time?

David Makovsky:

Look, it's clear -- delighted to be with you, Ali.

I think it's -- the whole media focuses on, was there a phone call or there wasn't a phone call between Mohammed bin Zayed, the head of the UAE, and Prime Minister Netanyahu? I tend -- from what I have been hearing, there -- I do not find support for a call itself.

But from -- I do find some indications that there were some back-channel communications between Yahya Sinwar through an intermediary, a Palestinian intermediary, that made its way back to Israel, which was limited at least to the issue of prisoner exchanges.

I actually think there was a broader thing going on. I think that was limited. I don't know if that was a distraction from the broader macro that was going on at that time. But I do think those broader developments in October -- September-October, 2023, are worthy of note.

Ali Rogin:

Right.

And what you're talking about here in terms of those broader dynamics, you're saying that that could have extended beyond any conversations about a possible truce and really had more to do with some of the broader context of what was happening in Israel at the time.

David Makovsky:

Right. Right. Right.

Ali Rogin:

Remind us of that broader context.

David Makovsky:

Right. Right.

There were two critical things, mega-stories that were going on at that time in 2023. One was the judicial overhaul of this government of Israel, which was very controversial, about changing the role of the courts and perhaps diluting Israel's liberal character, which prompted a backlash among Israeli pilots, saying that they were not going to fly in reserve duty.

In return, senior security officials were saying after October 7 on the record -- I happen to hear it before the October 7 -- saying, David, the Arabs think Israel is weak because the pilots won't fly in reserve duty. And they are plotting. They are meeting. Something big is about to happen.

And Aharon Haliva, the head of military intelligence, has gone public and said, I warned the government in writing three times, saying, this is dangerous. They're drawing the wrong conclusions.

Now, he didn't connect the dots, saying, therefore, on October 7, on the Gaza fence, this -- when this would happen, this horrible massacre, the worst since the Holocaust. But they were -- their hair was on fire. That was one mega-event.

The other mega-event was Saudi normalization. There was an interview of MBS, Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, saying, every day, we're getting closer to Saudi normalization. And I think, for Yahya Sinwar -- and I think President Biden has said he believes this, President Trump has said he believed this, one -- may be one of the few things they agree on.

But they said they both believe that Yahya Sinwar did October 7 to derail Saudi normalization with Israel, because if the biggest and most powerful Saudi Arab state made peace with Israel, Hamas would be a footnote.

Ali Rogin:

And all of this is happening as we prepare for an election in Israel on October 27.

David Makovsky:

Right.

Ali Rogin:

Opposition parties are using this report as a call for a -- renewed calls for an independent state commission of inquiry. What would that look like?

David Makovsky:

Right.

Ali Rogin:

And do you -- how does this change the election?

David Makovsky:

By the way, you have had 70 percent of Israelis, not just the opposition parties, saying that, after every fiasco, debacle, whatever word you want to use, in Israeli history, Israel has gone through a cleansing inward, I would say brutal self-reflection, a self-reckoning. What went wrong?

And I always talk to Arab leaders who said, hey, that's part of Israel's strength. They go through that self-reckoning exercise to investigate, what happened here? And the prime minister, though, is convinced that because the rules of the game, that the commission of inquiry is led by the chief of the justice Supreme Court, who is liberal, and therefore he thinks he won't get a fair shake.

And he's resisted these calls. And for the opposition, which, by the way, includes two right-wing parties, by the way, not just centrist or center-left parties, their view is, this is central. The first day of the government after the elections, there has to be an announcement of a commission of inquiry into what actually happened October 7, and hopefully many of these details will become unearthed.

Ali Rogin:

And Netanyahu doesn't want this commission to happen. Do you think that affects ultimately his election chances here, in 20 seconds?

David Makovsky:

All I could say is, two-thirds of Israeli Jews, which are 80 percent of the country, have just said in a poll this week, and a credible poll, that October 7 is going to be a big factor on how they vote.

So I think...

Ali Rogin:

David Makovsky, thank you so much for your insights.

David Makovsky:

Thank you very much. PBS

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UAE Warning Prior To October 7. Election Interference Allegations: Likud Demands Criminal Investigation Into Haaretz Journalists And Yair Golan. Sep 10, 2026 00:56 JFeed

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Trump aides warn Iran war could last through end of his term. Senior Trump advisers have privately warned the Iran war could continue until 2029, despite his public assurances that the conflict will end soon, according to The Wall Street Journal. Israel National News. Sep 10, 2026, 3:25 AM INN

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Israeli embassy in Slovenia opens as relations thaw between the countries. Protests were scheduled against the opening of the embassy on Wednesday evening by student movements, a left-wing political opposition party, and pro-Palestinian groups. By Reuters. Sep 9, 2026. JPost

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‘Proud British Jew’ Miliband pushes back on Chief Rabbi’s sanctions warning. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband rejects Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’ warning that sanctions on Judea and Samaria could fuel antisemitism in Britain. Israel National News. Sep 9, 2026, 8:36 PM (GMT+3) INN

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‘The fight of my life’: Police Spokesman recalls battle for truth after 10/7. Israel Police spokesman Dean Elsdunne speaks to Arutz Sheva about October 7, the battle for Israel’s truth abroad, and why Israelis must keep speaking out. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 9, 2026, 5:10 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Rubio: Iran will continue to pay price for attacks on US ships. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran will face further consequences for attacks on US ships as Washington maintains economic pressure on Tehran. Elad Benari. Sep 10, 2026, 12:11 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Toronto Mayor Chow skips Jewish forum as rivals pledge stronger action on antisemitism. Toronto mayoral candidates Brad Bradford and Chris Alexander criticize current Mayor Olivia Chow for skipping a Jewish forum and pledge tougher action on antisemitism. Elad Benari. Sep 10, 2026, 2:10 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Aegean Diplomatic Standoff. Greece Declares Operational Readiness To Protect Maritime Claims Against Turkey. Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis declared that Athens is fully prepared to respond operationally to protect its maritime sovereignty while continuing to deepen defense and technological cooperation with Israel. Sep 10, 2026, 1:23 AM JFeed

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Likud accuses Mohammed Dahlan of being behind disputed ‘Haaretz’ report.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party accused Palestinian political figure Mohammed Dahlan of being behind a disputed Haaretz report alleging that the United Arab Emirates warned the premier before the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist invasion.

“The real affair uncovered over the past two days is blatant foreign interference in Israel’s elections,” Likud said, claiming that Dahlan wants to bring down Netanyahu’s government to advance his ambitions in the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu’s party noted that Dahlan was working to establish a joint list with the Hamas terrorist organization for the Palestinian Legislative Council elections currently scheduled for Nov. 28.

Likud also accused journalist Shlomi Eldar of receiving payment from a leftwing nonprofit linked to The Democrats Party (HaDemokratim) and called for a criminal investigation into Eldar, Haaretz, Democrats leader Yair Golan and others over suspected election interference involving foreign actors. Sep 10, 2026. JNS

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IDF highlights Hezbollah use of Lebanese schools for military activity.

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday highlighted four previous cases in which it said Hezbollah used schools in Southern Lebanon for military purposes.

In a post marking the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, the Israeli military cited the discovery of more than 130 weapons in a school in the Bint Jbeil area and hundreds more in a school in Al-Khiam, as well as Hezbollah equipment found at another school and a rocket launcher that it said was concealed inside a school compound near Tir Zibneh. Sep 10, 2026 JNS

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“We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump tells Republican convention. Sep 10, 2026 JNS

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More than 5,000 sign letter rejecting ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel. Sep 10, 2026 1:05 AM.

More than 5,000 leaders and public figures have signed an open letter rejecting the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, calling the charge a form of anti-Jewish scapegoating that is fueling antisemitism worldwide.

“It’s an hour of crisis,” Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told JNS on Wednesday. “I don’t usually sign joint letters, but I said, ‘Why not? Let’s give it a try.’ I don’t know what else we can do, and I think it’s a time when you have to try every avenue.”

The letter, released by the nonprofit Creative Community for Peace, says the genocide accusation “has become a dangerous vehicle for scapegoating Jews and fueling antisemitism around the world.” https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-89ae-d099-aff6-bfbe47900000 JNS]

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IDF, Shin Bet strike three Hamas weapons depots in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) struck three Hamas weapons storage facilities across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to a joint statement released on Thursday.

“Hamas stored weapons, explosive devices, anti-tank missiles and additional military equipment inside the facilities,” the statement said.

Steps were taken to mitigate harm to noncombatants, including advance warnings, precise munitions and aerial surveillance, it added. JNS

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IDF rejects Guterres’s criticism of Lebanon operations. The military was responding to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who had condemned reports of civilian deaths in IDF operations in Southern Lebanon.

The IDF said it operates “in accordance with Israeli law and international law, against military targets solely.” It added that it takes “all feasible precautions” to mitigate harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure.

It vowed to keep acting against imminent threats to the Jewish state and its civilians and pledged to prevent Hezbollah terrorists from restoring their capabilities. JNS

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IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba terrorist who killed Nahal commander. IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba terrorist Ismail Kandil, who took part in killing Col. Yonatan Steinberg and recently advanced attacks on Israelis. Israel National News. Sep 10, 2026, 5:08 PM. INN

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IAEA confirms: Signs of activity at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site. Israel National News. Sep 10, 2026, 5:31 PM. INN

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Israel forces seal Palestinian tunnel discovered north of Jerusalem. Sep 10, 2026. JNS

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Israel Border Police arrests infiltrators ahead of Jewish holidays. Sep 10, 2026. JNS

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Israel: Hamas praise for UK sanctions a ‘glaring warning’. Sep 10, 2026. JNS

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Israel, Cyprus advance emergency-response cooperation. Sep 10, 2026. JNS

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Construction observed at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, UN-affiliated nuclear watchdog says.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Thursday that it observed construction activity at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain but that it doesn’t “have any concrete information as to activities that may be taking place there,” Bloomberg reported JNS

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Iranian arms and advice helped Yemen's Houthis seize key Red Sea city, sources say. By Parisa Hafezi, Mohammed Ghobari and Timour Azhari. September 10, 2026. Reuters

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Expanded economic campaign US sanctions Hezbollah, Iran proxy networks. Israel National News. Sep 11, 2026, 1:08 AM INN

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Palestinian Authority creates new body for work with the ICC – defying the US. PA announces a new governmental framework called the Palestinian National Monitoring Center for the purpose of coordinating and organizing evidence to present to the ICC. Sep. 10, 2026. Palwatch

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Who’s Training Your AI? A disclosed Israeli campaign made headlines while Russia, China, and Qatar run bigger, hidden operations to shape what AI tools say. By HonestReporting Staff. September 10, 2026. HonestReporting

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Variety @Variety: Pink has responded to backlash after resharing an Instagram post criticizing Macklemore’s pro-Palestine performance at Ed Sheeran’s concert:

"I was born a Jew. I didn’t pick it, and I’ve never hidden it... Of course I don’t speak for Israel, or for any government. I never have. What I said in October 2023 is still exactly what I believe: Hamas is a terrorist organization. Palestinians deserve a future that honors their humanity and their aspirations. Protecting innocent life comes first, everywhere, and nobody should ever celebrate the death of a child. Anybody’s child."

"Here’s what I was reacting to. I was in the room at the Grammys in 2014 when Macklemore rapped 'Same Love' and thirty-three couples, gay and straight, got married to it, and I cheered, no questions asked. Four months later Macklemore put on a hooked nose, a black beard and a bowl cut, performed in it, and called it a 'random costume.' Every Jew I know knew exactly what it was."

"Then last weekend he stood in front of a stadium full of music-loving families, with violent images from a war on the screens, dedicated a song to the movement of his choice, and then took the mic to tell all of the Jews in the stadium that it wasn’t about them. You don’t get to decide that for us." [13] Sep 11, 2026.. on X

Pink Explains Slamming Macklemore’s Pro-Palestine Performances, Acknowledges Heavy Backlash: ‘I’m Standing Up for My Own People, and I Thought I Knew How Lonely That Would Be. It’s Lonelier Than That’. By Chris Willman. [...] She added, “Something has changed in this country, and I can read it in my own comments. ‘From the river to the sea.’ ‘Zionist,’ spat like it’s a slur, by people who couldn’t tell you the details of what I believe, because I hadn’t told them yet. I wasn’t asked. I was told. I don’t think most of them hate Jews. I think somebody handed them a story where the Jew who won’t apologize for existing must be the villain, and they’ve been putting words in my mouth ever since.” Variety

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Selichot at Western Wall: Over 50,000 worshippers gather ahead of Rosh Hashanah. Israel National News. Sep 11, 2026, 2:24 AM INN

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BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just held nothing back, saying Islamism is waging war on America and DEMOCRATS no longer care "They used to see Israel as America's most critical frontline ally in fighting the toxic ideology of ISLAMISM, which by its own accounts is waging an existential WAR against our country and against Western liberal democracy!"

"It's an ideology that has subjugated, impoverished, and tyrannized, and tortured the people of Palestine and the people of Iran, and they openly promise to do the same to US."

RFK is dropping truth! Communists are now MERGING with Islamism because the unholy alliance is totally anti-American and anti-West.

Bobby knows what time it is 🔥🔥 [pic.twitter.com/1MgXYTrpjR] — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 10, 2026. on X

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IDF conducts pre-holiday surprise exercise in Judea and Samaria. Sep 10, 2026 23:03 JNS

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25 Years Since 9/11: President Herzog pays tribute to the victims of the terror attacks. President Herzog: “Even 25 years later, the evil of that vicious assault on the United States remains as shocking as ever." Israel National News. Published: Sep 11, 2026, 8:00 AM (GMT+3) INN

Herzog: On 9/11, Israel stands with America, its ‘greatest ally and friend’. JNS

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25 years after 9/11, memory and resolve endure at Jerusalem memorial. Families, first responders and officials gather in Jerusalem to honor the victims and reaffirm the U.S.-Israel bond. Sharon Altshul. (Sept. 10, 2026 / JNS) As the sun descended over the Judean Hills on Wednesday evening, Sept. 9, roses were placed beside the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

The setting was the 9/11 Living Memorial in Jerusalem’s Arazim Valley, where an American flag rises skyward in the form of a 30-foot (9-meter) bronze flame.

This year’s ceremony was held two days before the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks because Sept. 11 falls on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

The passage of a quarter-century has not diminished the meaning of the memorial or the personal grief of those who lost loved ones.

For Suri and Henoch Morgenstern of Woodmere, N.Y., Wednesday night marked their first time attending the annual ceremony at the Jerusalem memorial. Their daughter, Nancy Morgenstern, was among those killed in the World Trade Center.

“Here now, we wanted to talk about Nancy and have her remembered,” Suri told JNS.

Nancy was 32 and the oldest of five children. A vibrant woman who enjoyed cycling and running, she had worked as a travel agent for seven years before becoming an administrative assistant at the Cantor Fitzgerald financial services firm on the 104th floor of the North Tower.

No employee in Cantor Fitzgerald’s offices survived after American Airlines Flight 11 struck the tower.

For the Morgenstern family, the loss was compounded by the agonizing uncertainty that followed. They waited two and a half years before they could finally sit shivah for their daughter.

In August 2002, the family purchased the first ambulance for the Ramot Beit Shemesh community in Nancy’s memory. They have continued to honor her through acts of giving.

On Wednesday night, they stood among hundreds gathered beneath the flame-shaped flag. JNS

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IDF, Shin Bet eliminate Hamas Khan Younis Brigade commander. Israel National News. Sep 11, 2026, 10:40 AM INN

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IDF kills Hamas Nukhba terrorist who infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7. Sep 11, 2026, 00:07 JNS

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IDF destroys Hezbollah tunnel complex, consolidating security zone in Lebanon. Sep 11, 2026 00:59 JNS

The IDF's secret four-month operation. Behind the scenes of one of the war’s most complex operations: Crossing the Litani River, face-to-face combat, prolonged underground fighting, and destruction. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 11, 2026, 10:23 AM INN

IDF Spokesperson: 'Hezbollah failed, abandoned personnel inside tunnels' Israel National News Sep 11, 2026, 12:14 AM INN

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Report: Trump refused Saudi Crown Prince’s request to strike Houthis. Israel National News. Sep 11, 2026, 7:31 AM INN

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Houthis reach strategic island in key Red Sea shipping route. Taylor Delandro. Updated: Sep 11, 2026 / 08:55 AM CDT

(NewsNation) — Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Friday reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters, potentially tightening their grip on one of the world’s vital shipping routes.

Two sources from the Saudi-backed, internationally recognized Yemeni government told Reuters its forces had withdrawn from Perim and that the Houthis had also taken the mainland Red Sea coastal town of Dhubab, which faces the island. NewsNation

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Switzerland releases dossier on Josef Mengele. Sep 11, 2026 02:08 Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service on Thursday published a 200-page dossier on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor known as the “Angel of Death,” the Associated Press reported.

The documents include material suggesting that Mengele may have returned to Switzerland after fleeing Germany following World War II or planned to enter the country under a false identity.

Mengele carried out horrific medical experiments on prisoners, including children, at Auschwitz, where approximately 1 million Jews were murdered. He fled to Latin America in July 1949. He first lived in the Buenos Aires area, but fled to Paraguay in 1959 and Brazil in 1960. He drowned off the coast of Brazil in 1979.

Swiss authorities had sought to keep the files sealed until 2071, but historian Gérard Wettstein successfully challenged the restrictions before the country’s Federal Administrative Court, according to AP. JNS

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CIA declassifies intel warnings to White House prior to 9/11 attack. By Katie Bo Lillis. Sep 11, 2026

The now-infamous warning to then-President Bill Clinton was tucked at the bottom of a presidential intelligence brief delivered on September 10, 1998: A group associated with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden “may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.”

In the end, there were no explosives. Just four planes, two piloted into the World Trade Center in New York City, one into the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and one intended for the US Capitol that crash-landed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers heroically fought back against the terrorists.

The CIA on Friday declassified and released more than 100 pages of presidential daily briefing papers provided to Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush that dealt with the threat from al Qaeda and bin Laden in the run-up to 9/11, providing for the first time to the American public an eerie snapshot of the information two presidents saw but failed to act on. CNN

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Psalms in the morgue and scrapped Rosh Hashanah sermons: What rabbis remember about 9/11. JPost

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9/11 Hero: The Life and Legacy of Daniel Lewin. By Yehudis Litvak. September 8, 2026 Aish

31-year-old American-Israeli Danny Lewin was the first 9/11 victim. Using his Israeli Special Forces training, he tried to stop the terrorists on Flight 11 but was tragically killed. A true hero-he will never be forgotten. 🕯️ Sep 11, 2026 on Instagram

Danny Lewin: The first 9/11 victim, who fought back. NewsNation. Sep 11, 2026 [#MorningInAmerica] Danny Lewin was the first person killed in the September 11 attacks, according to the 9/11 Commission Report, after confronting the al-Qaeda hijackers on American Airlines Flight 11 before it crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower. His best friend, Marco Greenberg, tells "Morning in America" he remembers Lewin as a person with an extraordinary combination of intelligence, physical strength, courage and character. on YouTube

Who was Israeli American Daniel Lewin, the first victim of 9/11? According to an FBI report, the 9/11 Commission and flight attendant records, Lewin confronted Al-Qaeda hijackers in front of him but was slashed in the throat by a hijacker sitting behind him. Mathilda Heller. Jerusalem Post. September 11, 2026.

Not everyone knows that the first person killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks was an Israeli American man named Daniel Lewin, born in Denver, Colorado.

At 14, Lewin made aliyah to Israel. Finishing school, Lewin enlisted in the IDF’s elite counterterrorism unit, Sayeret Matkal.

Marco Greenberg, his best friend, shared an anecdote about Lewin on the IDF website: “Danny wore many different hats. If you can believe it, he was both a father changing diapers with his wife and a stellar student at the Technion, majoring in mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering.”

“He did reserve duty in Sayeret Matkal, the most elite Commando unit, and he would be correcting papers. When we had dinners at his apartment in Haifa, he would look at mistakes from other very bright students, and he would argue about politics – all of this at the same time.”

Co-founding Akamai Technologies In 1996, Daniel received a scholarship to MIT for his PhD. According to publicly available information, he continued his research and wrote an algorithm that would forever change the internet: a practical use for the concept of “consistent hashing,” enabling websites to handle higher user traffic.

In 1998, together with his professor Tom Leighton and other partners, he co-founded Akamai Technologies and became a millionaire before reaching his 30s.

Lewin confronts Al-Qaeda hijackers on 9/11 flight. On 9 September 2001, aged 31, Lewin was travelling on American Airlines Flight 11 to Los Angeles for work.

According to an FBI report, the 9/11 Commission and flight attendant records, Lewin confronted Al-Qaeda hijackers in front of him and tried to stop them but was slashed in the throat by Satam al-Suqami, a hijacker sitting behind him. Shortly after his killing, the plane was forced to crash into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

The IDF website noted that even in the immediate hours after his killing, Lewin’s legacy was significant. After the planes hit the Twin Towers, thousands of people went onto the internet to see if their relatives had survived. The websites of federal institutions, newspapers, and others began crashing due to heavy user traffic, and the company they reached out to was Akamai Technologies.

Today, Akamai is the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) and cloud security services. It is said to deliver tens of millions of transactions every second on behalf of the world’s largest brands, including Airbnb, Apple, BMW, eBay, FedEx, Ford Motor Co., Fox, NASDAQ, NBC Olympics, PayPal, and Salesforce.com.

Lewin is named on 25 US patents.

Akamai has a permanent eulogy to Lewin on its website.

“First and foremost, Danny was known for his brilliance. He published and presented several breakthrough papers at top computer science conferences and received several awards, including the 1998 Morris Joseph Levin Award for Best MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation at MIT [an honor given by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to graduate students for exceptional thesis presentations],” it reads.

“Everyone who knew Danny knew a man who was always on the go, deeply driven, and incredibly competitive. He inspired everyone around him to work at their very best, never taking no for an answer and calling anything that got in his way obstreperous, his favorite word.” JPost

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Authoritative Islam, Jihad, & Jew/Infidel-Hatred: The Drivers of 9/11/01 & 10/7/23–Video With Slide Presentation, & Transcript. Posted on 9th September 2026 AndrewBostom

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From 9/11 to Oct. 7: The West still refuses to understand.

Twenty-five years after the deadliest terror attack in American history, the ideology that drives Islamist terrorism remains dangerously misunderstood. Fiamma Nirenstein. (Sept. 11, 2026 / JNS) The day after Sept. 11, 2001, The Wall Street Journal published an article of mine seeking to explain the incredible mass attack, the horror movie that seemed to open a Third World War.It was titled “How Suicide Bombers Are Made,” adapted from an article I had written for Commentary magazine.

The question was simple and terrifying: How is it possible for a human being to massacre men, women and children, using his own body as a bomb and deliberately choosing his own death?The same desperate astonishment descended upon us on Oct. 7, 2023, whose third anniversary we will soon mark.For 25 years, we have refused to accept the naked truth. We would prefer explanations based on compromise, economic deprivation, grievances and misunderstanding.

But the global struggle against terrorism has fractured. Part of the West increasingly identifies terrorism with a struggle for freedom and imagines that Islamist fundamentalism is ultimately a demand for prosperity, dignity and acceptance.

When I wrote that article 25 years ago, my experience was already shaped by the terrorist massacres in Munich, Ma’alot and Rome, and by the Palestinian terrorism of the Intifada.On Palestinian television, Sheikh Ibrahim Madhi blessed “whoever activates an explosive belt on his body or on the bodies of his children in the midst of a crowd of Jews.”

Only months before 9/11, 21 young people had been murdered in the suicide bombing at Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium discotheque. Palestinian society celebrated the attack.One Palestinian reporter ecstatically described the suicide bomber as a “human missile” with a soul yearning for martyrdom, a heart embracing Palestine and a body trampling the invaders.

After 9/11, President George W. Bush and the presidents who followed him repeatedly sought political solutions to the conflict. Israel, acting in the same spirit, withdrew completely from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

What followed was not peace.Today, Palestinian children continue to be exposed to educational material glorifying violence and martyrdom. Palestinian Media Watch has documented mathematics exercises using hypothetical numbers of Israelis killed and Hamas terrorists deployed in Israeli communities.Elementary-school girls have been taught to recite, “We desire martyrdom; the enemy fears us.”

The glorification of terrorists also continues within Palestinian society. Mothers praise sons who murder Israelis and encourage others to follow their example.And on Oct. 7, the world heard the horrifying recording of a young Hamas terrorist calling his parents from southern Israel to boast that he had killed Jews with his own hands.

Of course, this does not describe all Muslims. But from Al-Qaeda and ISIS to Hamas and Hezbollah, a radical Islamist ideology has demonstrated its ability to spread far beyond the Middle East, including among radicalized second- and third-generation Muslims living in Western democracies.

Today, it has also found allies among elements of the pro-Palestinian left and Green movements.Islamism views the disappearance of the caliphate as a historic dispossession. Its extremists reject the secular and liberal order, women’s emancipation and sexual and political freedoms as manifestations of a corrupt society.

They may live within Western democracies and even participate in their political systems. But for the most radical, another vision remains paramount: the restoration of Islamic supremacy, with martyrdom promising its ultimate reward.

Osama bin Laden portrayed the nearly 3,000 people murdered on Sept. 11 as victims of America’s own imperialism.But consider Mohammed Atta. As Ayaan Hirsi Ali has pointed out, before flying an airplane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, Atta left detailed religious instructions concerning his death. No woman was to approach his grave. Those washing his body were to wear gloves. His shroud was to consist of three pieces of cloth, and his body was to face Mecca. Atta had lived in Germany. He was young, educated and neither impoverished nor excluded from Western society.Yet he became a mass murderer in the name of a radical vision of the Islamic ummah.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, we are still far from understanding what that means.Oct. 7 should have ended the illusion.Instead, the strengthening of pro-Hamas and pro-Iran movements, accompanied by increasingly open hatred of Jews, Israel and America, sends precisely the opposite message to those who seek the West’s defeat.They see our refusal to understand them not as tolerance, sophistication or compassion, but as weakness—and an invitation to strike again. Copy Link copied Email Print Terrorism Anti-Israel Bias. JNS

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Some 9/11 families call on Trump to hold Saudis accountable during ground zero memorial ceremony. Family members openly called on the president to hold Saudi Arabia accountable.

By Lucien Bruggeman, Aaron Katersky, and Ivan Pereira. September 11, 2026, 6:17 PM

Some family members of 9/11 victims used the 25th anniversary ceremonies to openly call on the federal government to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the attacks.

During the ceremonial reading of the names at ground zero Friday, Terry Strada, the widow of 9/11 victim Tom Strada, received cheers after she admonished prior administrations, including the past presidents seated before her, for failing to get answers about the Saudi government's alleged role in the attacks.

"Administration after administration, including leaders in front of us here today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families," she said.

Terry Strada, whose husband, Tom, died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, said that she and other people who lost family members still hope a trial will someday happen.

25 years later, 9/11 victims hope newly uncovered records will help illuminate Saudis' alleged role. A coalition of victims' families are suing the Saudi government over their alleged role and have continued to pursue evidence they say points to deep Saudi complicity. The Saudis deny that claim and are fighting the suit in court.

Many of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals, according to the FBI. ABC

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States with a message of solidarity. Sep 11, 2026.

“25 years after 9/11: We remember. We stand together. We will defeat terror,” the Prime Minister’s Office posted on X, alongside American and Israeli flags.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger planes on Sept. 11, 2001, crashing two into the World Trade Center in New York City and another into the Pentagon outside Washington.

A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew members fought back against the hijackers. JNS

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Maher: 9/11 Was And Still Is A Clash Of Civilizations Between Radical Islamism And Western Liberalism. Posted By Ian Schwartz. On Date September 12, 2026

HBO host Bill Maher delivers a monologue on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, reflecting on how the "idea that ditching political correctness and being honest" never got off the ground.

"After 9/11, there was a big debate," Maher said on 'Real Time' on Friday. "Was this a clash of civilizations? It was and it still is. Not between Muslims and Christians. No reasonable person was saying that. But radical Islamism versus Western liberalism? Yes, that's a real thing. Fighting people who hate freedom of religion and hate [the people sho are] homosexuals and hate the idea of women as equal and free humans."

"How did liberals wind up on their side?" Maher asked. And many did. One in five young Americans now has a positive view of Osama bin Laden. He's like Luigi Mangione in a turban. You hear it in a lot of places now that the worst thing about 9/11 was innocent Muslims came under suspicion. Yeah, where that did happen, it's wrong. But the worst thing about 9/11 was 3,000 people got roasted at the office."

"The prevailing view of so many young people is that, well, come on, we're the worst country ever. So if someone attacks us, that can't be all bad. That certainly wasn't the attitude 25 years ago. In fact, I know a guy whose show got canceled just for saying the terrorists weren't cowards. And that guy was right. They weren't cowards. But I'll tell you who is. Democratic Party politicians."

BILL MAHER: 'And finally, New Rule, since it's the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and since for 25 years we've been kept relatively safe from anything close to another 9/11, how about a hand for the Americans who made that happen? Because it didn't just happen. There was a war on terror, and we won. And yet, so much has changed since 9/11. For example, back then, we were against the terrorists. Really, no cap.

Now, a lot of media outlets don't even want you to say the T-word. On the 20th anniversary, four American journalism associations put out guidance that said that terrorism should only be used in quotes, because it's emotionally and politically loaded. Yeah, so is the World Cup, but we don't put soccer in quotes.

Really? We can't anymore just say out loud who the bad guys were that morning? Those 19 hijackers? They shared something. Oh, let's call it a worldview. And it wasn't astrology. But somehow over time, we've decided not to harp on that, the whole business about who wanted us dead and why. Let's not put a name on it. When it comes to terrorist attacks, please, there are very fine people on both sides.

Canadian state TV told its reporters, do not refer to the September 11th attacks as terrorist attacks. No? Even though the very definition of terrorism is using violence against civilians to pursue ideological goals, what should we call it then? Unruly passenger? A wrong turn taken at the Chrysler building? Why not just say the planes and the towers got into a fight?

I mean, after all, as the BBC advised its reporters, using the word terrorist can be a quote, barrier rather than an aid to understanding. You know what's really a barrier to understanding? Lying.

Back in 2001, after the attack, I said this. Political correctness itself is something we can no longer afford. Feelings are going to get hurt so that actual people won't. Well, it didn't last. I mean, my show. As for the idea of ditching political correctness and actually being honest, that never even got off the ground.

After 9/11, there was a big debate. Was this a clash of civilizations? It was and it still is. Not between Muslims and Christians. No reasonable person was saying that. But radical Islamism versus Western liberalism? Yes, that's a real thing.

Fighting people who hate freedom of religion and hate homosexuals and hate the idea of women as equal and free humans. How did liberals wind up on their side? And many did. One in five young Americans now has a positive view of Osama bin Laden. He's like Luigi Mangione in a turban.

You hear it in a lot of places now that the worst thing about 9/11 was innocent Muslims came under suspicion. Yeah, where that did happen, it's wrong. But the worst thing about 9/11 was 3,000 people got roasted at the office.

But the prevailing view of so many young people is that, well, come on, we're the worst country ever. So if someone attacks us, that can't be all bad. That certainly wasn't the attitude 25 years ago. In fact, I know a guy whose show got canceled just for saying the terrorists weren't cowards. And that guy was right. They weren't cowards. But I'll tell you who is. Democratic Party politicians. And I'll tell you why.

Because nowhere has this moral confusion become more obvious than in a place called Gaza. A little strip of land that was not part of the original Israel, but which they won in a war launched against them, but then gave back. Gave back as a peace gesture.

Do they tell you that part on TikTok, kids? And the people who run Gaza, Hamas, who you celebrate as a liberation movement but are really a terrorist mafia gang, just like the one that terrorizes Haiti, only ever used it to stage attacks on Israel. I think Macklemore spoke for all clueless celebrities when he said, I know enough to know this is a genocide.

Actually, you don't know sh*t. It's not a genocide. It's a counterattack in a war.

A war that's been waged on Israel since 1948 based on the ridiculous premise that Jews don't belong. In the one place on earth they are indigenous and indisputably their ancestral homeland. Hey geniuses, they're the Indians in this scenario.

Ariana Grande reposted that starving people to death is a red line. Well, who would know better about starving? But make no mistake, any famine that happened in Gaza is because Hamas stole the food.

Just like the Haitian gangs do. Israel ran 94,000 trucks carrying over 1.8 million tons of aid into Gaza and enabled over 36,000 patients to leave Gaza for treatment abroad, which you TikTok historians might be interested to learn are not things countries usually do for their enemies during a war and certainly not what you would do if you were trying for a genocide. Gaza equals genocide is a lie.

An easily provable lie. And the fact that so many prominent Democrats go along with it is, to me, the party's worst moment since they undid Reconstruction after the Civil War. Democrats are policing their candidates really hard on this issue.

Say it. Say it's a genocide. Say it. The genocide in Gaza? And I think your policy on the genocide in Gaza? You know, with Republicans, there's something you have to say, even though you know it's bullsh*t. You have to say Trump won in 2020. This is the Democrats' version of that. But words do have actual meanings.

-cide means to kill. Fratricide. Kill your brother.

Homicide. Kill your fellow human. Suicide. Kill yourself. Genocide. Kill or try to kill an entire people.

You can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people, including civilians, die. That's every war. There have been about 73,000 deaths in Gaza.

About 3% of the population. Tragic. Not genocide.

Not close. There were 3 million Jews in Poland before World War II. After?

45,000. That's genocide. If you're one of the many people these days asking, this explosion of anti-Semitism around the world that we see, where is it coming from?

This. This is where it's coming from. Because if you really think someone is committing genocide, of course you have full permission to hate them.

And history shows, for whatever reason, when it comes to hating the Jews, people don't need a lot of permission.' RealClearPolitics

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More Than 6,000 Leaders Across Entertainment, Academia and Public Life Unite to Reject “Genocide” Accusation Against Israel. Press Release. https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2026/09/08/rejectlie/

At Least 72 Christians Massacred by Islamists Across Ituri, D. R. Congo,” Barnabas Aid, September 8, 2026:

The lives of at least 72 Christians have been added to the growing death toll of Islamist terrorism in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

These latest killings mean that more than 200 of our brothers and sisters have been massacred in Ituri Province since mid-July.

In the worst incident on August 28, fighters from Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) slaughtered 29 believers in the villages of Mabakoa and Biam, near Biakto.

The terrorists also burned down 40 houses as hundreds of villagers fled for safety.

The following day ISCAP fighters captured and beheaded nine Christians in the village of Amani, and killed a further two outside the village.

More than 1,370 Christians Dead

ISCAP (also known by its former name of ADF) has slaughtered more than 1,370 Christians in northeastern DRC since December 2024…. https://www.barnabasaid.org/us/news/at-least-72-christians-massacred-by-islamists-across-ituri-d-r-congo/

American University To Host Al Qaeda Sympathizer for 9/11 Anniversary Who Laments Bin Laden's 'Extrajudicial Assassination,' Hailed 'Palestinian Liberation' on Oct. 7. Maha Hilal, an 'Islamophobia' expert, wrote hours after the October 7 massacre that those who won't support 'Palestinian liberation' should 'move out of the way with your crumbs'. Chuck Ross. September 10, 2026 FreeBeecon

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Zohran Mamdani and AOC spotted laughing at 9/11 ceremony while victims' families weep during reading of names. By Chris Nesi. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Zohran Mamdani were captured laughing at Ground Zero during the solemn 9/11 victims’ reading at the 25th-anniversary service. Mamdani and AOC laughing at a 9/11 ceremony during the solemn reading of the names. The New York City Democratic Socialists of America darlings appeared all smiles in a live feed of the ceremony. NYPost

New York Post @nypost: Zohran Mamdani and AOC spotted laughing at 9/11 ceremony while victims' families weep during reading of names trib.al/WIFi3nn Sep 11, 2026. on X

‘Marxist socialist-Islamist alliance smiling’: Mamdani, AOC slammed for 'laughing' at 9/11 memorial. The Economic Times. Sep 12, 2026 New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are facing backlash over a brief moment captured during the 9/11 Memorial ceremony in Lower Manhattan. A video showed a mourner sobbing before cutting to Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez appearing to smile as they spoke, with their conversation inaudible. on YouTube

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Why They Hate Us: The Sources of Terrorist Conduct It's not us, it's them. Mike Watson. September 11, 2026 The second plane was the most shocking on September 11. Not just because its collision with the World Trade Center was caught on film, but also because it ruled out any innocent explanation. This was not an accident. For the first time in decades, the homeland was under attack. Much about American life would have to change.

Conspiracy theories about 9/11 still swirl around the gutters of the internet, but there's also an active debate about why these attacks occurred. Some people blame Israel because, in their view, the Muslim world would have no quarrel with the United States if it were not for the Jewish state. Others think the attack was a natural, and possibly even justified, response to U.S. imperialism and hubris. Neither claim is true. Al Qaeda attacked Washington and New York because the terrorists wanted to harm American interests in the Middle East and beyond. Our allies, however, are not a source of vulnerability, but of strength.

During the 20th century, many Middle Eastern countries adopted some Western institutions, such as elaborate constitutions that they routinely ignored. They more enthusiastically embraced some of the worst ideas emanating from the West, such as state-led economies and other dead-end Marxist concepts. By 1980, secular-leaning dictators ruled Arab civilizational centers like Baghdad, Cairo, and Damascus. The Salafists had nothing to show in the Sunni world, although a Shia Islamic revolution had seized control of Iran.

A decade later, secularism seemed like a loser. Iraq's Saddam Hussein attacked Iran, endured a bloody multiyear stalemate, then invaded Kuwait and watched his Soviet-equipped army get blown to smithereens by a U.S.-led coalition. The mujahideen, by contrast, had driven the Soviets out of Afghanistan, albeit with substantial American support. After channeling funds and other assistance from the Gulf to some fighters during the Afghan war, bin Laden partnered with Ayman al-Zawahiri, who aimed to overthrow the Egyptian government but mostly slaughtered civilians. Zawahiri believed attacking the "far enemy," the United States, was necessary for overthrowing Arab governments.

Bin Laden's depraved mind held many kooky beliefs about Jewish power over Americans—as revealed in his 2002 "letter to America" that trended on TikTok in 2023—but he didn't seek to kill Americans because of Zionism. In his 1996 declaration of jihad against the United States, bin Laden wrote, "Clearly after Belief there is no more important duty than pushing the American enemy out of" the Arabian peninsula. He also referred to "the forthcoming Islamic State" that would supposedly control the area after the Americans were defeated.

Some appeasers thought removing U.S. troops from the region and cutting off Israel would cause bin Laden to focus his ire elsewhere and smooth over tensions with the allegedly aggrieved Arab street, but they were mistaken. When bin Laden and Zawahiri crowed about 9/11, Zawahiri complained about the loss of Spain back before Christopher Columbus sailed for the New World. These fanatics sought to conquer the Middle East and then the world. Americans had a longstanding interest in preventing any other country from dominating the Persian Gulf's oil resources, which put us on a collision course with the jihadists.

Al Qaeda had murdered Americans before 9/11, but that attack made defeating the group a national priority. The Clinton administration had balked at earlier opportunities to kill bin Laden, but after he murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, bin Laden had to flee for his life from U.S. forces and their Afghan partners. Over the ensuing 25 years, our country's military became ruthlessly efficient at finding and defeating terrorists around the world, as the Navy SEALs personally demonstrated to bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. There are still plenty of al Qaeda allies active, but none have carried out an attack nearly as harmful in the United States.

Allies have been critical for curbing this threat. NATO invoked the mutual defense treaty on September 12 and many members sent troops to Afghanistan. Israel provided intelligence and other support against a range of threats. Many regional partners have fought with extraordinary courage. Some of the most pugnacious American allies are the "hypocrites" bin Laden threatened in 1996.

Shortly after 9/11, bin Laden said, "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse." He was right. He just didn't understand the sources of American strength. FreeBeacin

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DSA-Backed Challenger Defeats Jewish Incumbent in Rhode Island Mayoral Race. By Corey Walker. September 11, 2026.

Rhode Island state Rep. David Morales, a democratic socialist, defeated incumbent Providence Mayor Brett Smiley in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, ending Smiley’s bid for a second term and marking another victory for the anti-Israel Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in a major American city.

Morales, 27, is a member of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America and received the radical group’s endorsement during his campaign. His victory places a prominent DSA-backed politician in position to become Providence’s next mayor in November. Algemeiner

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Is ‘Politico’ Covering for Tucker Carlson? by Omri Tubi. September 11, 2026. In a Sept. 1, 2026, article titled, “Vance offers olive branch to pro-Israel Republicans in closed-door speech,” Politico‘s Samuel Benson describes media personality Tucker Carlson as merely an “Israel-skeptical pundit.”

This inadequate and misleading description whitewashes the extent and nature of Carlson’s radical, and often unhinged, positions.

Describing Carlson as an “Israel-skeptic” ignores his long record of hate and conspiratorial thinking aimed not only at Jews and Israel but also toward other groups as well, including immigrants, .., and African Americans. Such a description of Carlson is tantamount to describing Henry Ford as a “Jew-skeptic” for spreading antisemitic propaganda, or calling Richard Spencer an “immigration-skeptic” and “African American-skeptic” for promoting extremist, white supremacist ideas.

Consider several examples of Carlson’s hideous rhetoric:

On his “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Carlson regularly legitimizes and platforms individuals “who have espoused antisemitism, anti-Israel conspiracy theories, Holocaust revisionism, white supremacism, and xenophobia.” These figures include extremists such as Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes.

Carlson himself has spread antisemitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories that “portrayed Jewish influence in the US as a hidden, malevolent force driving the country toward war through deception and ‘demonic’ control.” In addition, Carlson claimed that the Orthodox Jewish group Chabad was behind the US-Israel war with Iran, as part of a Jewish plot to destroy holy Muslim sites in Jerusalem and build the third Jewish temple.

Carlson also promotes the “Great Replacement” theory, which asserts demographic changes in the US are part of a conspiracy “to take power from white Americans.”

In 2019, Time reported Carlson was recorded calling Iraqis “primitive monkeys” who “don’t use toilet paper or forks.” Reportedly, he also said that immigrants arriving in the US should be “hot,” “really smart,” and that civilization was created by white men.

Carlson has also described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, as “sweaty and rat-like” and “a persecutor of Christians,” echoing both Nazi propaganda and old antisemitic tropes.

This is but a partial list of examples. To describe someone with these views as merely an “Israel-skeptic” is to substantively mislead Politico‘s audience. His record of spewing racism, antisemitism, and conspiracy theories unmoored from reality demands acknowledgement from responsible journalists. Algemeiner

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Virginia school district advises teachers not to associate 9/11 with Islam or Muslims. By Nick Minock, September 11, 2026.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — On the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is facing scrutiny over how it directs teachers to teach students about 9/11.

FCPS, Virginia’s largest public school district, is instructing teachers not to associate 9/11 with Islam despite the terrorist attacks being committed by Islamic extremists.

The six-page guidance sent to teachers instructs them to “design instruction around your students’ needs and experiences” and do not “associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims” and do not “center the extremists or the acts of the extremists.”… WSET

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UCLA disgraces itself by hosting terrorist lawyer on 9/11. By CA Post Editorial Board Published Sep. 11, 2026, 9:15 p.m. ET

UCLA disgraced itself this week by hosting a symposium on terrorism on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 that featured radical critics of US counterterror policy, and a lawyer for al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

In addition to allegedly planning the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Mohammed is the terrorist who decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002.

Pearl’s father, Judea Pearl, teaches engineering at UCLA. That only underlines how shocking and insensitive the symposium, hosted by UCLA School of Law, was. It was so shocking that UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk condemned the event in exclusive remarks to The California Post, saying “We reject antisemitism and terrorism in all their forms, and we believe our campus must be a place where the dignity of every member of our community is respected.”

If UCLA hosted any 9/11 event at all, it should have been to honor victims of terror. UCLA is already on the hot seat for allowing antisemitism to run wild on campus, especially during the so-called “encampment” in 2024. NYPost

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"The Islamic Republic of Iran will never ever have a nuclear weapon," President Trump declares at Pentagon 9/11 ceremony. During a speech at the Pentagon memorial for the 9/11 attacks, President Trump referred to Iran as the "world's number one sponsor of terror" and celebrated the soldiers that fought in the country's war on terror. Sep 11, 2026 CNN

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Uniting nations? Inside the global body Israel can no longer trust. JPost

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Inside the lion’s den: Israel is quietly regaining respect at the UN, Danny Danon tells 'Post'. JPost

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Iran used AI to develop military, propaganda strategies, Anthropic report reveals. Anthropic's 154-page report revealed the dangers of US and Western adversaries using artificial intelligence models to pose security threats. Arielle Roitman. September 11. 2026. JPost

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Amid rising Jew-hatred, Britain turns its sights upon Israel No matter how much he sugarcoats his words with assurances of affection for Israel and reminders of his Jewish identity, Ed Miliband’s message to Jerusalem is an unremittingly hostile one. Ben Cohen. Sep 11. 2026 JNS

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Michael Elgort: @just_whatever Yuval Abraham was consistently caught lying and distorting info to fit his narratives. See e.g. how his deliberate misinterpretation created a lie that 83% of the victims in Gaza were civilians.

Whatever he is publishing now, rest assured, he will be lying and distorting Civilians. [14] Sep 10, 2026. on X

IDF responds to Israeli film: "Internal and absurd contradictions". IDF responds to claims of war crimes and genocide as presented on Israeli film. "The IDF categorically rejects these allegations" Israel National News Published: Sep 14, 2026, 1:41 AM (GMT+3) IDFVenice Film Festival

Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor pose with the Special Jury Award for "Naza" The IDF rejected allegations presented in the Israeli documentary NAZA, saying the film relies on anonymous testimony that cannot be independently verified and includes claims that contradict IDF procedures. “The IDF categorically rejects these allegations," the IDF Spokesperson said following the publication of the INN

The Main Thing Is the Hatred.

There is no doubt that Israel and its government deserve criticism, but launching a smear campaign when you know the whole truth and ignore Hamas’s atrocities—that is the easy way to get to the red carpet.

Yuval Karni. 09.13.26

One could argue with director Yuval Avraham about his new film No Other Land if the man had integrity, fairness, and a conscience. Anyone who has followed his statements around the world, at international festivals or in interviews with the foreign media, and especially his hypocritical campaign to blacken Israel’s name around the world, gets the impression that he has none of these qualities.

Here is a small story: Shortly before Yuval Avraham became famous thanks to an explicitly anti-Israeli film (No Other Land, which was based on facts and claims that were rejected by Israel’s High Court of Justice), Abraham and his Palestinian partner appeared at the Berlin Film Festival, which had turned into an anti-Israel hate festival, less than a year after the October 7 massacre. The two never stopped spreading their false narrative to a hate-filled audience about (supposed) "genocide, ethnic oppression, an apartheid regime", and the destruction of Gaza. Avraham has every right to take a side, but how could it be that in his speech at that festival he did not mention Hamas’s horrific acts of slaughter on October 7? The horrific murder of children, the rape of women, and the burning of kibbutzim? How callous can he be to ignore the other side of the story? Or perhaps the young Avraham understood that on the road to the Oscars, he needed to talk only about Israel’s terrible actions against an innocent Palestinian people, without, God forbid, mentioning the Israeli victims?

What goes through the mind of a person who insists on focusing on the attacking side, on the jihadist terrorism that acted with a brutality reminiscent of the Nazis in order to actually carry out genocide, while ignoring the other side? Did he ever ask himself why not a single Gazan was found on October 7 who saved Jews and did not participate in or rejoice over their murder? Around the world, and with the backing of social media platforms, there is a campaign to deny the October 7 massacre. Either it did not happen, or it was a Zionist conspiracy. In order to justify criticism of Israel, the events of October 7 have to be blurred or erased. Yuval Avraham is only helping them.

Film festivals in various parts of the world are a cover for anti-Israel propaganda. Filmmakers who tried to market to the liberal and enlightened world a film about October 7 based on footage filmed by Hamas terrorists themselves (rather than on anonymous testimonies, as Abraham did in his latest film YNet

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Trump sends Rosh Hashanah greetings, vows to combat antisemitism. The White House released Trump’s Rosh Hashanah message, highlighting faith, religious freedom and his administration’s commitment to combating antisemitism. JPost

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History at the UN. Shofar blown in General Assembly Hall Israel National News. Sep 11, 2026, 6:45 PM INN

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20 Israeli breakthroughs that are building the world of tomorrow. ynet Global. YNet

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‘Why the he_ll are they laughing?’ Mamdani, AOC clip at 9/11 memorial sparks uproar ynet. 09.11.26 YNet

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Shadowy Iran security chief resurfaces to sabotage US deal, pushing war toward escalation. New York Times report details how a rogue attack on commercial ships exposed a bitter power struggle in Tehran, revived hard-liners and raised new questions over the whereabouts and authority of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. Ynet. 09.13.26 YNet

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Algeria just severed ties with the UAE. Israel is the quiet winner. YNet

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Rapid Houthi gains in Bab el-Mandab put Israel on alert as Red Sea threat grows. 09.13.26 YNet

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IDF redraws its lines in Lebanon after blowing up Hezbollah’s underground fortress. 09.13.26 YNet

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Live Updates: Pezeshkian accuses US of war crimes after explosions reported on Iran’s Qeshm Island. Houthis damage mosque in attack on Saudi Arabia • Houthis capture both sides of Bab al-Mandeb Strait • Iraqi military commander dismissed following drone attack on Saudi Arabia. JPost

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Live Updates: IDF says Lebanon not sufficiently tackling Hezbollah, Kushner calls Israel’s Doha strike ‘terrible' IDF kills two Hamas terrorists in Gaza City strike • Alerts sound in Saudi Arabia near Yemen border • Iran's President Pezeshkian vows not to surrender. Sep 13, 2026 JPost

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Pinker, E. (2026). How the New York Times Framed the War Between Israel and Hamas. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1–21. [15]

Abstract. This study examines the New York Times coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas from 7 October 2023 through 7 June 2024. Drawing on a corpus of 1,559 news articles I document a dominant narrative consistent with a framing that assigns near-exclusive agency and responsibility to Israel while diminishing Hamas’s role in sustaining the conflict. It describes Hamas’s October 7 attack followed by Israeli military violence and mounting Palestinian casualties, while largely omitting Israeli casualties post-October 7, Hamas fighter casualties, and post-October 7 Palestinian violence. Personal accounts of Palestinian suffering appear two out of every three days, while comparable accounts of Israeli suffering rarely appear.

The New York Times’ coverage of the first months of the war in Gaza displayed a clear bias against Israel by downplaying the country’s casualties [16] while minimizing Hamas’ role in sustaining the conflict, a new study found.

By Ronny Reyes. Published Sep. 13, 2026

A review of the Times’ 1,559 articles published between Oct. 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024, showed that the Times often omitted deaths sustained by the Jewish military while looking the other way on ongoing Palestinian violence once the war began after Hamas terrorists’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack [17] on Israel.

Edieal Pinker of the Yale School of Management, who published his findings in the Studies in Conflict & Terrorism academic journal [18], said the Times’ coverage was clearly skewed against Israel.

“Drawing on a corpus of 1,559 news articles I document a dominant narrative consistent with a framing that assigns near-exclusive agency and responsibility to Israel while diminishing Hamas’s role in sustaining the conflict,” Pinker wrote.

“It describes Hamas’s October 7 attack followed by Israeli military violence and mounting Palestinian casualties, while largely omitting Israeli casualties post-October 7, Hamas fighter casualties, and post-October 7 Palestinian violence.

“Personal accounts of Palestinian suffering appear two out of every three days, while comparable accounts of Israeli suffering rarely appear,” he said.

A total of 437 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the Jewish state began its offensive in Gaza, with dozens of police officers and civilians also killed and injured in terror attacks [19] throughout the war, according to Israeli officials.

Pinker argued that the Times’ coverage ultimately portrayed Israel as the “sole aggressor” in the conflict while Palestinians were depicted as “passive victims.” [...] After Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack, which left more than 1,200 people dead and another 251 kidnapped [20], Israel launched a full-scale war aimed at rescuing the hostages and eliminating Hamas. NYPost

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Sa’ar thanks Colombia’s president for synagogue visit. Sep 13, 2026. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday thanked Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella for visiting a synagogue in Barranquilla over the Rosh Hashanah holiday, writing on X that the Jewish people and state had gained “a true friend and partner.”

The Colombian people “chose an inspiring leader,” Sa’ar tweeted. He also praised de la Espriella’s “moving speech” at the city’s Bet-El synagogue, and signed off with “God bless Colombia!” JNS

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Netanyahu thanks Modi for Rosh Hashanah wishes, hails Israel-India ties. Sep 14, 2026. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his Rosh Hashanah greetings, saying the two countries had transformed ties into an “unprecedented partnership between two great democracies.” “Sara and I look forward to seeing you again soon,” Netanyahu added. JNS

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Israeli culture minister calls to strip citizenship from ‘NAZA’ filmmakers. Sep 14, 2026. Israeli Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar called Sunday to strip Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of their citizenship after their film “NAZA” won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival a day earlier.

Zohar accused the filmmakers of “treason against the state,” saying they were willing to harm Israel to win applause from “antisemites around the world.” He said the controversy demonstrated the need for the cinema-funding reform he promoted, arguing that Israelis should not be forced to finance works that harm IDF soldiers or the country. JNS

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Trump unloads on AOC, Mamdani for laughing during sacred 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero. Video of the two Democrats smiling during the reading of 9/11 victims' names sparked backlash online. By Stepheny Price Fox News. Published September 13, 2026.

President Donald Trump slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for appearing to laugh during the solemn reading of victims’ names at the 9/11 Memorial, calling their behavior "terrible" and "inappropriate."

"I think it’s terrible," Trump said when asked about the video of the two Democrats. "It’s not a place to be laughing, especially in that case."

"I thought it was terrible," he continued. "The fact that they were laughing together at a very important part of the ceremony was inappropriate."

The president’s condemnation came after video of Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani sharing what appeared to be a lighthearted exchange at Ground Zero sparked widespread criticism online. FoxNews

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Hillary Clinton warns US has let down its guard on terrorism since 9/11. By Lauren Barry, Audacy, September 12, 2026:

“I worry a lot that we’ve let down our guard on counterterrorism, and I don’t say this to scare anybody or to exaggerate, but I think we are not paying enough attention to resurgent terrorist actions,” said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview with NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell at the VOICES 25th Anniversary Symposium, an event reflecting on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks….

“When you’re more interested in building your ballroom than figuring out what the intelligence is coming out of Afghanistan – that is absolutely contrary to any kind of sensible decision-making,” Clinton said, referring to Trump’s controversial demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make way for a large ballroom.

Clinton also “accused the Trump administration of dismantling parts of the federal government, including within the State Department, that traditionally collected intelligence and evaluated these terrorist threats,” said NBC. With those cuts, she said we’re now missing crucial information from places like western Africa where extremism is taking hold.

“The administration cut thousands of jobs across the federal government last year as part of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency effort, including at the CIA and the State Department,” NBC added…. Audacy

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Mahmood urged to ban Doctors Without Borders over ‘terror links’. Shabana Mahmood is being urged to proscribe Doctors Without Borders (MSF) over its staff’s alleged links to terrorist groups.

September 12, 2026.

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has written to the Home Office, Charity Commission and Fundraising Regulator demanding that it investigate alleged ties between Doctors Without Borders and Palestinian terror groups.

The pro-Israel lobbying group is calling on Ms Mahmood, the Home Secretary, to ban the charity in a manner akin to Labour’s proscription of Palestine Action.

Palestine Action was banned by the Government last year after officials claimed that serious criminal damage it had inflicted met the threshold for proscription under the Terrorism Act. The move made membership of, or support for, the group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

A report produced by UKLFI, seen by The Telegraph, describes the alleged connections between MSF employees and terrorists, including the late Fadi Jihad Mohammed al-Wadiya, a Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militant.

Wadiya, a physiotherapist who was employed by MSF between 2018-22 and then again from Oct 7, 2023, was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on June 25, 2024, in an attack condemned by the charity.

Doctors Without Borders initially denied Wadiya’s involvement with the terrorist group, but on Feb 24 this year the PIJ published a poster naming him as a “martyr commander” and identifying him as “deputy head of its military manufacturing unit”.

Only then did Doctors Without Borders, who still have Wadiya listed as an employee on their website, edit their post about him to say: “On 24 February 2026, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) publicly stated that Fadi Al Wadiya had been a member of the group.

“MSF had no indication that Fadi Al Wadiya might have been involved in military activity of any kind prior to his killing by the Israeli Forces.

“If the Israeli authorities had any reliable information about Fadi’s involvement in military activity, they never shared it with MSF either prior to his killing or when we reached out immediately after he was killed to ask for clarifications around the circumstances of his death.

“We would never knowingly employ people engaging in military activity. Any employee who engages in military activity would pose a danger to our staff and patients.”

The report also raises concerns about Nasser Hamdi Abdelatif Al Shalfouh, an MSF driver who is accused by Israel of being a sniper for the Hamas Jabaliya battalion.

Doctors Without Borders has never addressed allegations of Mr Shalfouh’s involvement with the proscribed organisation.

In 2023, MSF UK raised £11.3m, and ring-fenced around £1m for projects in the Palestinian territories. In 2024, this amount was increased to £2.7m, according to research by UKLFI.

UKLFI claims that despite these sizeable donations, appropriate safeguarding measures are not in place to minimise the risk that money raised by Britons could be used to benefit people associated with proscribed groups.

A UKLFI spokesman said: “British donors giving money to MSF are entitled to expect the highest possible standards of vetting and due diligence, particularly where substantial sums are being transferred into territory controlled by Hamas. Telegraph

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Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox. People are losing their minds over legally mandatory collateral damage estimates.

(Calculating expected civilian deaths before airstrikes (a collateral damage estimate) is standard practice required by the law of armed conflict for all militaries to assess proportionality and minimize incidental harm. [21]. [22]). Sep 13, 2026. on X

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Likud pushes back on Kushner’s account of Gaza talks. Sep 14, 2026. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party on Sunday credited the Gaza hostage deal to the premier’s wartime decisions and to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, pushing back on Jared Kushner’s account of how the agreement was reached. “The prime minister’s decision to send the IDF into Gaza City and to strike the Hamas leadership in Qatar, together with the intense pressure exerted by President Trump, are what led Hamas to drop its demands and agree to release all the hostages remaining in Gaza,” the party said. The statement did not name Kushner JNS

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Israel blasts Norway over proposed ban on trade with Judea and Samaria towns. Sep 14, 3026. Israel’s embassy in Norway on Monday condemned a Norwegian government proposal that would ban trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and criminalize violations of the ban, accusing Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide of “obsessive anti-Israel activism.”

"Norway's legislative proposal to criminalise trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria is the latest example of the Norwegian foreign minister's obsessive anti-Israel activism on the global stage.".. JNS

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Munich Jewish leader threatened after call to ban AfD party. Sep 14, 2026. The Munich prosecutor’s office said on Friday that it had opened an investigation into a death threat directed against Charlotte Knobloch, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor who serves as the president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria.

Knobloch had called for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to be outlawed following its election victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt earlier this month, and the threat was explicitly linked to her comments, according to the Deutsche Welle outlet.

A witness reportedly found the threat scrawled on a park bench and a trash bin in a Munich park on Thursday and alerted police. Knobloch subsequently canceled her attendance at an event on Thursday evening.

Andreas Franck, the antisemitism commissioner at the prosecutor’s office, told German news agency dpa that he had opened an investigation into suspected incitement to hatred, threats and criminal damage. A Star of David was among the graffiti, Franck said. JNS

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Top AfD official condemns death threats against Holocaust survivor. By Canaan Lidor. Sep 14, 2026. The head of the Bavaria branch of Germany’s right-wing AfD party on Monday condemned death threats that unidentified perpetrators made against Charlotte Knobloch, a prominent Holocaust survivor and Jewish community leader.

“I condemn the death threat against Charlotte Knobloch unequivocally and without reservation,” the AfD leader, Stephan Protschka, told JNS in reply to a query on the threats, which were discovered on Thursday on a park bench in Munich. According to the dpa news agency, the death threats referenced Knobloch, AfD, and featured a Star of David.

“Political disagreements or election results can never justify threats, intimidation, or violence against any individual. This applies, of course, especially when such a threat is motivated by antisemitism,” Protschka added. He advised against “drawing any further conclusion” until the culprits are identified. JNS

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Sakhnin man gets four years for transferring suspected terror funds to Judea and Samaria. Sep 14, 2026

The Central District Court in Lod sentenced Suheil Bashir, from Sakhnin in the Lower Galilee to four years in prison for transferring 200,000 shekels (about $65,000) and $150,000 in cash into Judea and Samaria while strongly suspecting the money was intended for terrorist activity, Israel Hayom reported on Monday.

Bashir received the money from Fadi Arabi in three transfers in February 2025 and passed it to Mohammed Ganaim, who arranged its onward transfer to another person in Nablus (Shechem), according to the report. The court also fined Bashir 170,000 shekels (almost $56,000) and ordered the forfeiture of 30,000 shekels (some $9,800) seized from him. JNS

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Netanyahu to depart for UN General Assembly on Sept. 23. Sep 14, 2026 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will depart for the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 23 and return on Sept. 25, a source in the Prime Minister’s Office told JNS on Monday.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said earlier this month that Netanyahu would address the annual general debate on Sept. 24. He aimed a pointed message at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. JNS

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Sunni cleric, who was ‘active’ in fight against Zionism, reportedly killed in Iran. Sep 14, 2026. An unidentified gunman killed Molavi Yusef Gorgij, a senior Muslim cleric, in the southeastern part of Iran on Monday, Reuters reported, citing state media. JNS

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Islamist Infiltrates the Florida Republican Party. State House candidate Imtiaz Mohammad campaigns at terror-related groups and mosques. by Joe Kaufman. Special to IPT News. September 14, 2026

Imtiaz Mohammad, the Republican nominee for Florida House District 103 following an uncontested primary, has undergone a striking political transformation. His history in Democratic and progressive politics, involvement with controversial Muslim groups, appearances at an institution linked to persons implicated in terrorism, and past statements disparaging America present a political résumé more aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) than the Republican Party.

Mohammad, who grew up in the Hyderabad region of Pakistan and arrived in the United States in 1991, has spent years participating in South Florida politics. He founded the American Muslim Progressive Caucus (AMPC) and has been a strong supporter of Bernie Sanders, the Squad, abolishing ICE and turning Florida into a sanctuary state for illegals.

Mohammad changed his party registration, reportedly by mid-2022. In 2024, when he ran for State Senate as a Republican, the Broward Republican Executive Committee (BREC) removed him from a voter guide following protests from several individuals, including this author.

Two years later, the reception appears markedly different.

The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) recently included Mohammad on a flyer congratulating State House candidates. Last month, Mohammad attended the RPOF Victory Rally in Tampa, where his campaign photographed and filmed encounters with prominent Florida Republicans, including gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, U.S. Senator Ashley Moody, Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, and RPOF Chairman Evan Power – and posted them on social media.

It was not the first time Mohammad used the image of a prominent Republican to enhance his political presentation. He previously posted a graphic on Facebook featuring an AI-generated likeness of U.S. Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart alongside his own. Mohammad removed the graphic after this author brought it to the congressman's attention.

Politicians routinely pose with candidates and members of the public, and such encounters do not necessarily constitute endorsements. But when exploited, the images can falsely suggest political affiliation or approval.

This is a problem when considering that Mohammad is involved with radical Muslim groups.

This past June, Mohammad posted on Facebook that he had partnered with WhyIslam to serve food to its volunteers. While this may seem innocuous, WhyIslam is the religious outreach, or dawah division, of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a group with deep historical roots in Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), a South Asian Islamist movement that has provided an ideological platform and recruiting base for terrorist groups in the region. In November 2019, three Republican congressmen wrote to the State Department accusing ICNA and its affiliated charity, Helping Hand for Relief and Development, of being "directly involved in terror finance" and of having "openly worked with U.S. designated terrorist organizations" in Kashmir.

In 2006, ICNA partnered with and was a top donor to JI charity Al-Khidmat Foundation (AKF), at the same time that AKF presented $100,000 to Hamas leader Khaled Mashal at his Syria residence. ICNA continues to partner with AKF. ICNA also counted ex-JI death squad commander Ashrafuzzaman Khan among its senior leaders. In 2013, Khan was sentenced to death in absentia by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal for the murders of 18 people during the country's 1971 war of independence. In 2014, ICNA co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in Miami.

Mohammad has been well acquainted with ICNA for years. He describes the group as a "humanitarian champion." In 2017, Mohammad was a contact for an ICNA benefit dinner featuring Monzer Taleb, a self-proclaimed Hamas memberwho has shared a Facebook post that Jews in Israel "should be relocated to Germany."

WhyIslam has generated controversies of its own. A 2008 promotional video for the group featured Mazen Mokhtar, a supporter of Palestinian suicide bombings and former administrator for qoqaz.net, a fundraising and recruitment website for al-Qaeda. WhyIslam's now-defunct online message board was run by moderators who posted messages glorifying Hamas and Hezbollah, denigrating Jews, and calling for Israel's destruction.

This past July, Mohammad posted on Facebook photographs of himself campaigning at the Darul Uloom Institute (DUI), an educational facility where several al-Qaeda-related terrorists have passed through.

Jose Padilla, who was convicted in 2007 of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas and of providing material support to terrorists, arrived at Darul Uloom in 1992 to study Arabic and the Quran under the mosque's late imam, Shafayat Mohamed, and left in the late 1990s. Adnan el-Shukrijumah, who led prayers at the institute, went on to become a senior al-Qaeda operative and was charged in 2010 over the plot to bomb New York City's subway system; he was killed in Pakistan in 2014. Imran Mandhai, who taught Arabic at Darul Uloom, was sentenced to 14 years for conspiring to bomb electrical power stations and a National Guard armory in South Florida.

Shafayat Mohamed himself acknowledged reports that one of the 9/11 hijackers may have prayed at Darul Uloom as well, as this author witnessed on April 17, 2005.

Shafayat Mohamed generated separate controversy through his extreme rhetoric concerning homosexuals. In a 2005 essay titled "Tsunami: Wrath of God," the imam claimed that gay sex caused the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. In a 2015 sermon, he lamented the existence of gay Muslim communities and discussed his removal from "several" Broward County advisory boards – which this author proudly caused – over this issue.

In 2018, it was at Darul Uloom that Imtiaz Mohammad infamously proclaimed "America [is] run on hate" and "American people are the most uneducated nation in the world."

The following year, Mohammad took aim at his fellow Democrats – U.S. Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ted Deutch. In what appeared to be a bigoted allusion to their Jewish backgrounds, he asked, "Are they representing all Americans or just one community?????"

And in December 2025, just as Republican candidates were readying themselves for the coming election year, Mohammad sought to condemn Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a terrorist organization. CAIR has foundational and financial ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohammad has also been photographed with CAIR figures, including former CAIR legal advisor Khurrum Wahid.

Political conversions happen. People legitimately change their views, parties and priorities. Photographs do not constitute endorsements, and associations with controversial organizations do not establish criminal wrongdoing.

But political reinvention does not erase political history.

Imtiaz Mohammad has gone from progressive Democrat activism to appearing alongside prominent Republican leaders and representing the party on the ballot. The question is not whether Mohammad is permitted to call himself a Republican. He is. The question is whether party officials are going to stay silent and ignore his bigoted and Islamic extremist background.

In 2024, Broward Republicans took that record seriously enough to remove Mohammad from a voter guide following public objections. Two years later, the Florida Republican Party needs to step up and do the same.

Mohammad should be banned from party events, and his photo and name should be immediately removed from RPOF's "Congratulations" flyer. Legitimizing his campaign is a threat to the Republican Party and a threat to Florida's security.

Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.

Joe Kaufman is a nationally recognized counterterrorism expert and Chairman of Kaufman Security. For two decades, he has served as an advisor to the Iranian opposition and co-founded the opposition group Cyrus Force. Recently, Kaufman successfully led the shutdown of a pro-Hamas conference scheduled to take place in South Florida. He was the 2024 Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Florida's 23rd District, receiving 48% of the vote – the highest vote percentage of any Republican to run for the seat. IPT

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Varda Meyers Epstein: Regavim challenges Yuval Abraham's Gaza reporting with new research on Naza film Titles are generated by AI from Meta From Regavim: 'September 15th, 2026 — As filmmaker and journalist Yuval Abraham draws renewed international attention over his new film NAZA, the Regavim Movement is releasing previously unpublished research into one of Abraham’s earlier reports from Gaza, raising questions about the information presented to viewers and the material that was left outside the frame. In 2020, Abraham produced an episode of the web series Shasheh / Screen focusing on the Nafha Center, a Hebrew-language school in Gaza run by Ahmad Al-Faleet. Al-Faleet was presented as a former prisoner who had served approximately 20 years in an Israeli prison after killing “a soldier his own age.” The victim, however, was Shimon Biran, a 32-year-old Israeli civilian who was murdered while on his way to work in Kfar Darom. The Forum for Regional Thinking subsequently corrected its description to acknowledge that Biran was a civilian. Moran Tal, Regavim’s Arabic OSINT researcher, began examining Al-Faleet’s background and found extensive Arabic-language material that presented a dramatically different picture. In footage published years before Abraham’s report, Al-Faleet returned to the scene of Biran’s murder and described planning the attack for approximately two months. He reenacted the stabbing and discussed the fear generated by knife attacks against Israelis. In the same interview, he defended Palestinian “resistance” using “a stone, a knife or a gun.” Regavim’s research also documented Al-Faleet’s repeated praise for terrorists and senior Hamas figures. In social media posts published before Abraham’s report, Al-Faleet celebrated his release in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange as his “rebirth,” praised senior Hamas commander Ahmad Jabari and honored figures involved in the operation that led to Shalit’s abduction. The investigation also examined content published by the Nafha Center itself. One Hebrew-language video featured a student telling Israelis to leave the land and declaring that “the only language you understand is resistance,” alongside imagery of masked men carrying knives. The center also published a message from Hamas terrorist Hassan Salameh, who is serving 47 life sentences. Even Abraham’s original episode showed students being exposed to Hebrew military terminology including “intelligence officer,” “Border Police,” “Chief of Staff,” “IDF” and “attack helicopter.” Following the October 7 massacre, Al-Faleet’s online activity became significantly more explicit. Regavim documented posts in which he shared material from the Hamas assault, tracked the rising Israeli death toll, described civilians fleeing the Nova music festival as “settlers” fleeing Palestinian “resistance,” circulated images of dead Israeli soldiers and shared a prayer containing a call for destruction upon the Jews. This is also not the first time Regavim has challenged Abraham’s work. Following the success of his oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, Regavim released footage from Masafer Yatta that showed provocations omitted from scenes presented as Israeli aggression, published research challenging the film’s portrayal of the area, and participated in the Daily Wire documentary No Other Lie, which returned to Masafer Yatta to fact-check the Oscar-winning film. “Yuval Abraham is once again asking international audiences to place enormous trust in his reporting, his sources and the context he chooses to present,” Regavim said. “Years ago, our researchers examined another story he told from Gaza. We found that the civilian victim had been described as a soldier, while publicly available material showed the man at the center of the story reenacting the murder, defending knife and gun violence and praising terrorists. Abraham wants to be treated as an investigative journalist, but this record gives the public every reason to see an ideological activist whose reporting repeatedly serves a deeply political narrative. Turning a convicted terrorist into the sympathetic face of a ‘coexistence’ story while his victim becomes a ‘soldier’ is whitewashing, plain and simple. Before the world accepts Abraham’s latest claims about Israel at face value, it should take a much harder look at the journalist making them.” The research was compiled by Regavim several years ago but was never published in full. With NAZA placing Abraham’s journalistic work and conclusions about Gaza at the center of renewed international discussion, Regavim is now releasing the investigation publicly. The full investigation, “Before NAZA: How Yuval Abraham Repackaged a Convicted Terrorist as a Gaza ‘Coexistence’ Story,” is available here: Sep 16, 2026. on FB

Before NAZA: How Yuval Abraham Repackaged a Convicted Terrorist as a Gaza “Coexistence” Story. As Yuval Abraham’s new film NAZA puts his reporting back in the international spotlight, Regavim is releasing previously unpublished research into an earlier Gaza story in which a civilian murderer who praised terrorists and defended knife attacks was presented as the face of a Hebrew-language “coexistence” story. [23]. [24] Sep 14, 2026. Regavim

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The Film “NAZA” – Manipulation on Eight Levels. Prof. Kobi Michael. 17.09.2026. The Film “NAZA” – Manipulation on Eight Levels A critical examination of the film and the way it presents a one-sided portrayal of IDF operations in Gaza.

Key points:

-The film “NAZA” is presented as an investigative journalistic work and a moral inquiry. Yet an examination of its narrative and methodological framework shows that it offers a one-sided account that severs events from their operational, historical, and strategic context.

-The film almost entirely ignores the Hamas attack of October 7 and the exceptional characteristics of the Gaza battlefield, including the use of civilians as human shields and of civilian and humanitarian facilities as terrorist infrastructure.

-The film uncritically adopts figures issued by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health, even though studies have identified statistical manipulation, the classification of terrorists killed as civilians, and duplicate or false records.

-The film portrays junior intelligence personnel as decision-makers and disregards the role of senior commanders, military legal advisers, operations research, and the measures taken by the IDF to minimize harm to uninvolved civilians.

-The film avoids comparison with other urban wars, even though such a comparison is essential to assessing the claim regarding the extent of collateral damage in the fighting in the Gaza Strip.

-The decision to launch the film abroad rather than first submit its findings to professional and public scrutiny in Israel, together with its creators’ political and activist backgrounds, reinforces the impression that this is not constructive criticism but an effort intended to malign Israel and the IDF.

Introduction.

The documentary film “NAZA” by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Shor won the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, generating widespread attention in Israel and, as a result, probably in the international arena as well. Yet even an initial examination of the film’s narrative and methodological framework reveals a malicious and carefully calculated manipulation.

Under the guise of “investigative journalism” and moral documentation, the film presents a one-dimensional picture that severs events from their historical and operational context and violates the most basic rules of critical and balanced discourse. It is difficult to escape the impression that the film is heavily influenced by its creators’ political outlook and that its purpose is to malign the IDF and the State of Israel, fuel international criticism of Israel, and advance the effort to turn it into an ostracized pariah state.

A War Imposed on Israel: The Context and the Urban Battlefield

The war in the Gaza Strip did not erupt in a vacuum. It was forced upon the State of Israel by Hamas’s murderous, brutal, and fundamentally genocidal terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. This war scarred Israel’s collective consciousness. Despite the ceasefire declared on October 10, 2025, the war continues, albeit in a different and less intensive form. It remains an open wound for Israeli society as a whole.

War is a tragic and violent event, charged with emotion and shrouded in constant uncertainty – the “fog of war.” It is conducted by human beings, and mistakes that exact a heavy and inconceivable human price are inevitable. There is no doubt that this war, too, included events that could – and should – have been prevented. But any attempt to present a broad and comprehensive picture must address the battlefield’s unique characteristics. The Gaza Strip became the most heavily fortified area in the world, with an extensive tunnel network hundreds of kilometers long and thousands of shafts located inside private homes, hospitals, schools, mosques, clinics, UN facilities, and even cemeteries. Hamas’s ruthless use of civilians as human shields and its cynical use of civilian and humanitarian infrastructure for terrorist purposes, combined with exceptional urban density, created a battlefield of unprecedented complexity.

The False Casualty Narrative and Its Amplification

International media outlets, international organizations – including the United Nations – and even governments tend to adopt casualty figures reported by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health. Scholarly and methodological examination of these figures documents a pattern of statistical manipulation intended to create a false appearance of “genocide” and shape international perceptions. For example:

Debunking the 70 Percent Narrative (Women and Children): For many months, Hamas and the United Nations fed the international media the claim that women and children accounted for 70-72 percent of those killed. In-depth Washington Institute studies published in 2024 and 2025, together with detailed analyses by independent researchers such as Salo Aizenberg and publications by the author of this paper, demonstrated that this was a serious methodological distortion. The figures were based largely on media reports and Google Forms without identity verification. When the Hamas Ministry of Health was required to produce identified lists containing complete personal details, the proportion of women and children fell dramatically to approximately 50 percent – their share of the population. Omitting Combatants and Concealing Adult Men: Hamas deliberately avoids distinguishing between civilians and terrorists killed. The Washington Institute’s methodological analysis emphasized that thousands of Hamas combatants killed in deep ground operations or in tunnels were omitted entirely from the reports or recorded as ordinary civilians. Moreover, examination of the data revealed absurd phenomena, such as the “disappearance” of adult men from casualty categories and reports showing the number of dead men declining over time – an impossible statistical outcome caused by manual manipulation of the database. Including Casualties from Failed Launches and the Civilian Population: As the explosion at Al-Ahli Hospital early in the war demonstrated, Hamas immediately added 471 purported fatalities from a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad launch to the death toll attributed to the IDF (although only about 30 people were actually killed) and did not correct the figure even after the truth emerged. In addition, Gaza’s counting mechanism includes people who died of natural causes and disease among the war dead in order to obtain allowances and assistance. Academic analyses and professional field studies demonstrate that once Hamas’s manipulations are removed and the actual – or more plausible – figures are presented, the civilian-to-combatant ratio in the Gaza fighting is unprecedentedly low compared with any other urban warfare of recent decades. The omission of these facts from the film is not an innocent information gap, but a wholesale adoption of the terrorist organization’s false narrative.

Manipulation on Eight Levels: A Chronicle of Deception

The filmmakers produced a work intended to construct an incriminating narrative that maligns the IDF and the State of Israel through manipulation on eight levels:

Absence of Context and Circumstances: The film does not adequately address – if it addresses at all – the circumstances that led to the outbreak of the war and Hamas’s unprecedented terrorist attack, thereby severing the IDF’s response from its direct trigger. Absence of Comprehensive Data: The film refrains from presenting aggregate, official figures for the number of people killed in the Gaza Strip – even according to its own approach – or from making the necessary distinction between terrorists and civilians and calculating the actual collateral-damage ratio. Avoidance of Historical Comparison: A professional comparison with collateral-damage ratios in other urban wars of recent decades – such as the battles of Mosul, Raqqa, or Fallujah – would necessarily lead to the conclusion that the collateral-damage ratio in the Gaza Strip is the lowest ever recorded in the history of dense urban warfare. Disregard for the Characteristics of Urban Warfare: The film frames civilian harm as a deliberate and intentional decision while completely ignoring the characteristics of combat in the world’s most densely populated, extensively tunneled, and heavily booby-trapped battlefield. It also disregards the fact that Hamas perfected the practice of using the population as human shields and turned almost every civilian and public institution into part of its war machine, with hundreds of kilometers of tunnels connected by thousands of shafts to homes, public buildings, humanitarian facilities, UN and UNRWA installations, and the facilities of other civilian aid organizations. Disregard for the IDF’s Preventive Measures: The film does not address the unique and unprecedented measures taken by the IDF to minimize harm to uninvolved civilians, including evacuating civilians from combat zones, making warning phone calls, employing the “roof-knocking” tactic, and dropping millions of leaflets from the air. Distortion and Disregard of the Target-Approval Procedure: The intelligence personnel interviewed in the film – however capable they may be – are not the decision-makers and do not possess the full picture required to assess overall collateral damage. Operational decisions are made by senior commanders, with the guidance and approval of military legal advisers from the Military Advocate General’s Corps, in accordance with battlefield conditions, the specific type of munition, and detailed operations research. Absence of Factual Corroboration: The filmmakers failed to present facts substantiating the interviewees’ claims. No attempt was made to connect their statements to verified events on the ground or to demonstrate that their assertions have a basis reflected in actual operational outcomes. Avoidance of Critical Discussion in Israel: The filmmakers had no genuine intention of stimulating a searching and constructive domestic discussion in Israel with the aim of remedying a problem they had identified. The evidence is that they chose not to present their findings to the competent authorities in Israel, or even to the Israeli public, preferring instead to launch the film at international festivals abroad. The Filmmakers’ Background: The Agenda Behind the Camera

When these failings are considered together with the background of Yuval Abraham – one of the filmmakers – and his ongoing, provocative activity in Judea and Samaria, including confrontations with and violence toward IDF soldiers, the full picture emerges. The motive behind the film is not neutral investigative journalism or a pure concern for human rights, but a clear political agenda intended to malign the State of Israel and the IDF in the international arena. This context is carefully concealed from foreign audiences, who lack the tools and knowledge needed to understand the work’s built-in bias.

Conclusion

War is a complex, violent, and cruel human event that exacts a heavy toll in blood, including from uninvolved civilians. Mistakes also occur in war, and some things happen inadvertently. The IDF does – and probably must do even more – to investigate incidents thoroughly and hold soldiers accountable in cases where they acted contrary to military orders or international law. The data show that despite the battlefield’s complexity and Hamas’s patterns of using civilians as human shields and civilian and humanitarian facilities as terrorist infrastructure, the IDF employed a series of measures unmatched by any other Western military to minimize collateral damage. The data also show, under any comparison, that the collateral damage over three years of fighting in the Gaza Strip is lower than in any other urban war of recent decades.

A cinematic work that purports to address morality and human life cannot permit itself to select facts selectively. “NAZA” betrays the historical and operational truth: it ignores the aggressor, disregards the complex battlefield conditions, and distorts both the IDF’s combat procedures and the casualty figures on the ground. The filmmakers’ deliberate decision not to raise the issue or present their investigative findings to the competent authorities in Israel and within Israeli public discourse, while preferring to present a half-truth in the international arena, is not constructive criticism – it is manipulation in the service of a one-sided political agenda. Misgav

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Avner Hofstein. The reader at the ballot box. 09/16/2026. The Agent from Venice. Yuval Avraham did not forward questions to the IDF spokesman before the film's release, Israelis have not been allowed to watch it so far, and answers questions regarding the partial and context-free narrative it presents with indifference ● One gets the feeling that this is more of a campaign than a press event – ​​an event where the applause in the gondola is more important than the public debate on the deal ● In this situation, it is not surprising that the discourse is sparse and automatic ● Interpretation

To most of Raviv Drucker's questions about fundamental shortcomings in the film "Naz'a," Yuval Avraham answered tersely, along the lines of "When you make a film - act like this."

In this spirit, he answered the question of why he made little reference to the October 7 massacre; this is how he answered the question of why he did not use the horrific documentation from the captivity; and this was also the explanation for the question of why he avoided the issue – which is particularly significant in my opinion – of military confrontation with terrorists who make horrific use of the civilian population and hide among it..

An IDF spokesman confirmed to me this week that no questions were forwarded to the army for response prior to the film's release. Basic journalistic practice of investigative journalism was not implemented. This is despite Avraham making it clear that the standards applied in the film are high.. ZmanIsrael

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Gulf states, Iran postpone talks. Sep 14, 2026 Talks between Persian Gulf states and Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and establish future frameworks have been postponed, multiple officials said on Monday. JNS

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Israeli filmmaker of 'NAZA' under scrutiny over longstanding ties to Hamas-linked activist. In 2019, Avraham reached out to Alnaouq to discuss what young people in the Gaza Strip think about politics in Gaza. Alnaouq serves as vice president of Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. Mathilda Heller. September 14, 2026. Israeli filmmaker Yuval Avraham has a longstanding relationship with Hamas-linked Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Alnaouq, investigative journalist Eitan Fischberger first reported Sunday.

Avraham has been in the headlines this week after his film, NAZA, won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Saturday.

The film has received intense criticism from most Israeli politicians, and the IDF stated its categorical rejection of the film’s allegations..

In 2019, Avraham – then a young journalist – reached out to Alnaouq... Avraham has often referred to Alnaouq as a “close friend” and “partner.”

Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.

Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.

Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”

Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.

Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.

Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”

Earlier this year, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry also revealed that Euro-Med founder Ramy Abdu is a Hamas operative.

Alnaouq's brother was eulogized by Hamas.

Alnaouq has also previously claimed that his brother, Ayman, was a “member of the resistance” killed in 2014 by the Israeli security forces.

Hamas’s Qassam Brigades posted an eulogy of Ayman with a picture of him holding a machine gun and wearing a Hamas headband. This post is still available through archival engines.

Speaking to American journalist Pam Bailey in 2017 Alnaouq said, “I came to understand that resistance fighters are nothing more than young people who loved life and loved their homeland, but left their comfortable lives and joined the resistance to confront the Israeli occupation, and defend their homeland and land that had been taken from them since the Nakba of the Palestinian people in 1948.”

In an interview with 'Zman Yisrael' in 2021, Avraham referred to the killing of Ayman as a “very great tragedy.” JPost

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Israel has the horrific evidence. Where is the international campaign? - comment. NAZA draws on anonymous testimony from soldiers and intelligence personnel who say the army calculated expected civilian deaths before airstrikes and proceeded with them anyway. By Zvika Klein. September 14, 2026. Three years after October 7, Israel still invites people into closed rooms to watch evidence that it wants the whole world to understand. An officer brings a hard drive. Recording is forbidden. After 47 minutes, the screening ends and the footage leaves with him.

I was invited to one of those screenings and didn’t go. I had seen enough of that day. But I keep wondering about the foreign editor who would investigate a recording, the filmmaker who could spend six months reconstructing an attack, or the audience that would trust their work. What are we doing to make that possible?

The Venice prize for NAZA, the documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, makes the question more urgent.

Whatever we think of its allegations about Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, its filmmakers have assembled the partnerships and experience needed to reach an international audience. Israel has an enormous archive of October 7. Access to it should produce far more reporting than a series of invited screenings.

IDF: The testimony cannot be verified, people approve targeting decisions NAZA draws on anonymous testimony from soldiers and intelligence personnel who say the army calculated expected civilian deaths before airstrikes and proceeded with them anyway. The IDF says the testimony cannot be verified and that people approve targeting decisions. [25].

Foreign journalists should investigate those allegations and press the army for detailed answers. Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar’s threat to revoke the directors’ citizenship gave them something considerably easier to write about.

Abraham and Szor, who won an Oscar last year for No Other Land, secured The Guardian as a co-producer and Jonathan Glazer as an executive producer. They know whom to approach, how to finance a production, and how to get it seen. Israeli officials could learn something from that, however much they dislike the film.

In April, I wrote about Al Jazeera and the sustained investment behind its international reach. I argued for substantial funding for independent international journalism, with owners prepared to finance reporting and respect editorial decisions.

Working through the October 7 [26] archive would require that kind of commitment. Researchers, translators, editors, and lawyers have to be paid. Distribution takes money and contacts. A donor needs to understand that the film may take a year and include conclusions he dislikes. Financing it should buy him neither script approval nor the right to remove an inconvenient interview.

I would ask the authorities to identify 100 previously unpublished recordings that could responsibly be released, then offer them individually to foreign newsrooms. Reporters would receive original files, information about their origins, and help contacting witnesses willing to speak.

An exclusive gives an editor a reason to assign staff. Those reporters can establish locations, compare recordings, and question the explanations they receive. When they publish, they can explain to readers what they could verify and what they couldn’t.

Officials would need to accept some uncomfortable reporting. A recording might document both a Hamas atrocity and the hours before help arrived. A witness might describe extraordinary bravery and a government failure in the same interview. Trying to suppress the second part would give people reason to distrust the first.

Reconsider the assumption that the most graphic recording is the most useful Last December, I proposed a civilian public diplomacy reserve, with a permanent staff and professionals contributing several weeks a year. Teams would work in languages they knew, dealing with countries whose media and culture they understood. I offered to volunteer and wrote that others with media experience were willing to contribute.

They could spend those weeks helping foreign journalists work through the archive. A producer needs a translation checked; a reporter is waiting for an answer from the army; a documentary team cannot find a witness. These requests often require repeated calls and someone who knows whom to ask. A journalist abroad should have a reliable contact who will pursue an answer.

The reserve’s advocacy role would be public. Journalists would retain control over their reporting and disclose relevant funding or assistance.

We should also reconsider the assumption that the most graphic recording is the most useful. Footage can establish planning, coordination, and the sequence of an attack. People can learn something substantial without watching someone die. Given my own decision to decline the screening, I can hardly demand that everyone else watch it.

Families must approve the use of recordings showing their relatives. They need time to decide, and a refusal must be respected. Material involving sexual violence requires particular care and a specialist’s review.

Much has already circulated. Some people have justified what it shows, and another recording may change nothing for them. October 7 evidence also cannot answer every allegation about Israeli conduct in Gaza. The army must address those questions separately.

There are still readers who know little about the massacre, or who doubt accounts they have encountered. Someone who distrusts an IDF statement may be moved by an investigation from a newspaper they have read for 20 years. That newspaper, thus, should be able to examine the evidence.

Helping it do so may earn the government very little credit. A completed documentary may omit mentions of Israeli officials or may include criticism of them. Ministers would have to tolerate that in return for reaching people who rarely believe anything they say.

I would consider that a good use of public money. Another closed screening for people already sympathetic to Israel needs a better justification, three years on. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-908591

Israeli filmmaker of 'NAZA' under scrutiny over longstanding ties to Hamas-linked activist In 2019, Avraham reached out to Alnaouq to discuss what young people in the Gaza Strip think about politics in Gaza. Alnaouq serves as vice president of Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. Mathilda Heller. September 14, 2026. Israeli filmmaker Yuval Avraham has a longstanding relationship with Hamas-linked Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Alnaouq, investigative journalist Eitan Fischberger first reported Sunday.

Avraham has been in the headlines this week after his film, NAZA, won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Saturday.

The film has received intense criticism from most Israeli politicians, and the IDF stated its categorical rejection of the film’s allegations..

In 2019, Avraham – then a young journalist – reached out to Alnaouq... Avraham has often referred to Alnaouq as a “close friend” and “partner.”

Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.

Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.

Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”

Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.

Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.

Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”

Earlier this year, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry also revealed that Euro-Med founder Ramy Abdu is a Hamas operative.

Alnaouq's brother was eulogized by Hamas.

Alnaouq has also previously claimed that his brother, Ayman, was a “member of the resistance” killed in 2014 by the Israeli security forces.

Hamas’s Qassam Brigades posted an eulogy of Ayman with a picture of him holding a machine gun and wearing a Hamas headband. This post is still available through archival engines.

Speaking to American journalist Pam Bailey in 2017 Alnaouq said, “I came to understand that resistance fighters are nothing more than young people who loved life and loved their homeland, but left their comfortable lives and joined the resistance to confront the Israeli occupation, and defend their homeland and land that had been taken from them since the Nakba of the Palestinian people in 1948.”

In an interview with 'Zman Yisrael' in 2021, Avraham referred to the killing of Ayman as a “very great tragedy.” JPost

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USPS probing apparent Hartford staffer caught on video saying ‘Jewish garbage[sic]’. The independent executive branch agency told JNS that the behavior is “not acceptable” and the incident is being “fully investigated.” Rebecca Szlechter. (Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Postal Service told JNS that it is investigating an employee in Hartford, Conn., who appeared to refer to “Jewish garbage” in a video recording that has circulated on social media. In the video, which appears to be from a doorbell camera, the apparent employee of the independent executive branch agency, who has a mailbag slung over his shoulder, stuffs envelopes into a mailbox.

The man appears to become frustrated with an apparently overstuffed mailbox. “What the Christ is this f***ing crap?” he appears to say. “Oh, of course. It’s Jewish garbage[sic].”

StopAntisemitism, a nonprofit, posted the video on Sept. 11 and called the behavior “atrocious bigotry.”

Amy Gibbs, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service, told JNS that USPS had reviewed the footage and was investigating the incident. JNS

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London police seeks British man accused of assaulting three Jewish teens on bus. “Jewish children must be able to go about their daily lives without fear of being targeted for who they are,” the Board of Deputies told JNS. Rebecca Szlechter. (Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) A man allegedly assaulted three Jewish teens on a north London bus last week in an incident that the Metropolitan Police is investigating as an antisemitic hate crime, the police department told JNS. The three 14-year-old boys were traveling on a bus near Sanders Lane in Mill Hill at about 8:15 a.m. on Sept. 10, the day before Rosh Hashanah. JNS

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US ‘on top of’ Houthi activity in Red Sea, Vance says. Sep. 14, 2026 JNS

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Saudi Arabia discovers 114 million tons of uranium ore in Medina. Sep. 14, 2026 JNS

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‘Free Palestine’ graffiti at student 9/11 memorial on California State University campus. Sep. 14, 2026. Some 30 of the 2,177 American flags that the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at California State University, Stanislaus planted on the Turlock, Calif., “free speech lawn” were vandalized with “free Palestine graffiti,” the College Fix reported.

There was also graffiti supporting the “antifa” movement, and some of the American flags were dislodged, according to the report.

The public school told JNS that campus police “received a report of the vandalism and is actively investigating the situation.” JNS

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Israel unlikely to improve Saudi ties despite Houthi threat, expert tells 'Post'. “If there was a new governing coalition that seemed more committed to discretion, then perhaps there would be an opening for greater cooperation,” Dr. Brandon Friedman suggested. September 14, 2026 JPost

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Saudi crown prince meets CENTCOM chief in bid for US help amid escalating Houthi attacks. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have been conducting strikes and seizing territory throughout the region, prompting serious concern from Gulf nations. September 14, 2026 JPost

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IDF kills five Hamas terrorists, among them military commander, in Gaza counterterrorism operation The IDF and Shin Bet have intensified counterterrorism efforts in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks with the goal of killing Hamas terrorists and minimizing reconstruction efforts. Avi Ashkenazi. Sep 15, 2026 01:31 JPost

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Israel Police find illegal weapons, explosives among Arab communities in operation against crime Among the illegal weapons and ammunition seized were several which are suspected to have been stolen from the IDF, the police stated. Tzvi Jasper. Sep 15, 2026 01:51 JPost

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Uri Kurlianchik: The New Mercenaries. There is something people need to understand about Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the producers of the anti-Israel propaganda films “No Other Land” and “Naza.”

They are not whistle blowers. They are not concerned citizens. They are not Israeli Snowdens or even Israeli Wallace Shawns.

If they were, they would have gone with whatever “evidence” they have uncovered to the authorities, or the press if they don’t trust the authorities, or some international investigative body if they don’t trust the press. They would have presented concrete facts and actionable evidence that would have led to prosecution, not insinuations that cannot be used in any legal way.

They would not have released a highly-stylized film in a foreign film festival to the thunderous applause of Israel’s foreign enemies. They would not have produced a dramatic story where faceless, nameless people who, for all we know might be actors, read lines seemingly written by al-Mayadeen and Al-Jazeera with no sources or attributions.

Yuval claims that exposing state actions is a moral responsibility for Israelis, but he and his accomplices didn’t expose anything. Is there a single person that can be prosecuted based on his tall tales? These are not witness testimonies, it’s not even hearsay. Any judge in the world would have laughed him out of court with this “evidence.”

No. Except for giving ammunition to Israel’s enemies, he and his accomplice have done nothing.

They are not even Kapos, because Kapos acted under duress against their own people to save their families and lives, not for clout and profit.

People like Yuval and Szor are mercenaries funded by Israel's enemies to damage the country during war. Even the great champions of free speech, the United States, don’t tolerate unregistered foreign agents acting against Americans on American territory.

So why does Israel?

And make no mistake.

Everything about this movies is foreign. The production companies are foreign. The country of origin is foreign. The release is foreign.

These are not Israeli films. These are foreign, anti-Israel films wearing Israeli creators like a fig leaf.

They are being paid to give credence to anti-Israel propaganda by giving it the "validation" of an Israeli voice. They are astroturfed Solzhenitsyns. They are international Quislings. They are collaborators in a foreign anti-Israel operation.

Contrary to their claims, there is nothing Jewish about what they are doing. Fun fact: the Venice Film Festival awarded a gold medal to Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film "the Triumph of Will" in 1935 and the best film award to her Nazi propaganda film "Olympia" in 1938. Sadly, we don't know for how long they applauded both films. [pic.twitter.com/Uwxlhyu5aS]. — Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) September 13, 2026. on Substack

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1. ICYMI: Member Of #Iranian Parliament's National Security Commission Says: 'We Provided Military Training To Afghan [#Taliban] Forces After 9/11 [To Confront Americans]'; '#Israel Must Also Be Eliminated' - Report & audio here [ow.ly/7xAG50ZM5GV] [#MEMRI #September11].

Sep 13, 2026. on X

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1. Palestinian Journalist: #AlJazeera Is A Strategic Tool Of The #Qatari Regime For Spreading Extremist Ideas And Terrorist Propaganda - Report & audio here [ow.ly/mcgR50ZNogj [#MEMRI]

Sep. 14, 2026. on X

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Sete octubre @siete octubre: Israel's culture minister moves to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers who turned lies against the IDF into a venice-winning act of betrayal a film that endangers Israel's soldiers and citizens, fuels antisemitism and gives it justification. Sep 14, 2026 on Instagram

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Bassam Tawil: The Palestinians' Dead-End Choice: Fatah or Hamas Both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority [PA] owe the Palestinian people – as well as Israelis and other victims – countless apologies. They owe apologies for corruption and mismanagement. They owe apologies for failing to build transparent and accountable institutions. They owe apologies for suppressing dissent and freedom of expression and for persecuting political opponents, journalists, human rights activists, and critics. They owe apologies for repeatedly rejecting compromises and peace initiatives and for policies that have contributed to decades of Israeli and Palestinian bloodshed. They owe apologies for failing to use international assistance to build a functioning economy and institutions that serve ordinary Palestinians. They owe their people an honest explanation for why Palestinians remain divided between two rival governments and without a functioning democratic political system.

The timing of this latest dispute is particularly significant.

Hamas has decided to participate [in the upcoming PA elections on November 28]... if true, such an arrangement would allow Hamas to re-enter Palestinian politics through the back door.

So, instead of changing its goals – brutally ruling Gaza and destroying Israel – Hamas will simply change its "name, structure and framework"?

Changing the label does not change the organization. A Hamas-affiliated candidate does not cease to be affiliated with Hamas simply because the word "Hamas" does not appear next to his name on the ballot.

Such a maneuver would turn the election into a political fiction: Hamas would be permitted to obtain parliamentary representation while avoiding the political consequences of openly running as Hamas. Allowing Hamas— in disguise or not – to run in the election would also legitimize the terrorist group without requiring it fundamentally to change.

That would be a serious mistake. The Palestinians have already seen what happens when Hamas acquires political power.

Hamas is bad, but who said that the PA is any better?

Palestinians have experienced corruption, political repression, and an absence of meaningful political renewal.

The problem is: What if one of the negotiating parties decides never to come to the table? Is the other party just supposed to hold everything in abeyance – unsettled forever – in case one day the other party might change its mind?

The Palestinians need a genuine third way – not merely another faction with a different name. They need leaders who are prepared to challenge the entrenched political culture of Fatah and Hamas. They need leaders who believe that the Palestinian national interest is more important than factional interests. They need leaders willing to confront corruption, reject authoritarianism, protect freedom of expression, build functioning institutions, and end the glorification of violence.

Above all, Palestinians need leaders courageous enough to tell their people an uncomfortable truth: there can be no genuine progress so long as the political choice remains confined to Fatah and Hamas, and that the primary objective of both groups remains the obliteration of Israel. Gatstoneinstitute

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@JonathanMajburd J.Majburd @JonathanMajburd When Terror Gets a Standing Ovation https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRtL9iOXGO/?stkn=MWoyNnYzeGxmY2RqOQ== Sep 14, 2026. on X

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Netanyahu confirms New York trip for UN General Assembly, to address UN on September 24. Sep 14, 2026. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to the United States on September 23 to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, the Prime Minister's Office announced Monday.

The visit will take place on September 23-25, following Yom Kippur and ahead of the Sukkot holiday.

Netanyahu is expected to address the General Assembly on Thursday, September 24.

The prime minister last visited New York for the 80th UNGA in September 2025, before New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected, when he delivered an address denouncing Western countries for embracing Palestinian statehood.

"You know what message the leaders who recognize the Palestinian state this week sent to the Palestinians? It’s a very clear message: murdering Jews pays off,” Netanyahu told the 80th UNGA. JPost

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Trusting your audience: What NAZA could learn from Fauda's latest season - editorial Israeli self-criticism has never been absent from Israeli culture. Fauda itself is proof. JPost Editorial. September 15, 2026. Two Israeli productions arrived before global audiences within days of each other, both shaped by the trauma of October 7. Yet they approach Israel’s reckoning very differently. The fifth season of Fauda, now streaming worldwide, turns revenge inward and forces its Israeli characters to confront its cost. NAZA, the Venice Prize-winning documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, takes a different direction. Its argument appears settled before its evidence is weighed.

Israeli self-criticism has never been absent from Israeli culture. Fauda itself is proof. The series has spent years showing Israeli operatives as brave, impulsive, traumatized, and sometimes disastrously wrong. Season five goes further. Its central theme is blood revenge, born from the October 7 massacre, and the story refuses to offer revenge as closure. The characters pursue it, suffer for it, and discover how little comfort it provides. Their pain is real, yet the series still allows the audience to question what to do with it.

Trusting the viewers enough to leave judgement open. Serious art can expose wounds without pretending that one moral interpretation explains every decision made under fire. It can look directly at Palestinian suffering, Israeli leadership failures, and the brutality that war produces, while preserving context, uncertainty, and human agency. Fauda has never required viewers to believe every Israeli action is justified. It trusts them enough to leave judgment open.

NAZA asks for a different kind of trust. The film is built around interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence personnel whose identities are concealed. They make grave allegations about targeting decisions in Gaza, including claims that mass civilian deaths were knowingly built into military operations. Those allegations deserve examination. They also demand exceptional scrutiny. The IDF has categorically rejected them, arguing that the anonymous speakers’ identities and military roles cannot be verified.

Anonymity does not invalidate testimony, especially when whistleblowers fear professional or legal consequences. It does, however, place a heavier burden on filmmakers making claims of extraordinary scale. Viewers cannot assess the sources’ rank, access to information, direct involvement, or possible motives. When a documentary presents testimony under those conditions, its framing becomes even more consequential. NAZA’s public presentation leaves little sense that the central proposition remains contested. JPost

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Robert Kraft confirms role in pushing Macklemore off Ed Sheeran tour. Patriots owner Robert Kraft confirms he helped pressure Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore, citing antisemitic rhetoric and imagery at recent shows. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 4:24 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Israel Is Fighting Tomorrow’s War with Yesterday’s Tools. Israel Can Present Impressive Military Achievements While Upholding the Purity of Arms, Yet at the Same Time Watch Its Room for Maneuver Steadily Shrink. September 13, 2026. Zvi Hauser. Israel Hayom Israel is losing its standing on the international stage because it continues to rely on military achievements alone, while the battle over consciousness and influence has become the new decisive front. Establishing a national influence apparatus could strengthen Israel's value in the eyes of its allies and make it vital to them in the future. MEForum

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Jewish students returned to campus at Wilfrid Laurier University after celebrating Rosh Hashanah to find their mezuzahs smashed and torn down. Sep 14, 2026. JPost

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UKMTO: Ship hit by ‘unknown projectile’ in Strait of Hormuz. Sep 15, 2026, 05:24 JNS

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IDF strikes kill two Hamas terror commanders. Sep 15, 2026, 06:07 JNS

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Air-raid alerts activated in Mecca amid Houthi escalation. Sep 15, 2026, 06:24 JNS

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Samaria: IDF arrests Palestinian taxi driver after suspected ramming. Israel Defense Forces soldiers arrested a Palestinian taxi driver suspected of an attempted car-ramming near Ariel in Samaria on Tuesday, the military told JNS. Sep. 15, 2026. No one was hurt in the incident, according to initial Hebrew-language reports. The IDF said troops were dispatched to the scene and detained the driver. https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a49a-d584-a1ea-bc9eacfc0000

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“It’s shocking. You know, we are fighting global antisemitic incitement. But when it comes from within us, it’s simply intolerable,” he said of the film by directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.

“And it starts with Yair Golan, who says that we murder babies as a hobby,” he continued, referencing May 2025 remarks by the far-left politician.

“It then continues with the MAG [former Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi], who leaks a fabricated and false video that smears IDF soldiers all over the world.” (Tomer Yerushalmi was dismissed in May after admitting she leaked the video, which the accused soldiers say was doctored to falsely implicate them.)

“And now, two Israeli directors who present the IDF as war criminals and are lauded at the Venice festival,” he said.

Netanyahu noted that the Directors Guild of Israel came out in support of Abraham and Szor. The guild’s head, Eliran Elya, who announced his resignation earlier this month, is now a candidate for Eisenkot’s party, he said.

“So I say to Gadi Eisenkot: Cancel your surplus-vote agreement with Yair Golan’s party, come out with a sharp condemnation of this thing and kick this guy off your list,” he added.

Eisenkot had condemned “NAZA” in an X post earlier on Monday.

“The choice of Israeli filmmakers to stand on an international stage, present a distorted and one-sided picture and cast a moral stain on the soldiers who protect our home is moral blindness, a disconnect from reality and harms the State of Israel at a difficult hour,” he wrote.

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Netanyahu to Eisenkot: Cancel surplus-vote deal with Yair Golan over ‘NAZA’ film. Sep 15, 2026, 07:03 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on Yashar Party leader Gadi Eisenkot to cancel his surplus-vote agreement with Yair Golan’s Democrats Party, in a video statement slamming the anti-Israel film “NAZA.” JNS

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COGAT: More than 24,000 tons of medical supplies entered Gaza since ceasefire. Sep 15, 2026, 07:27 More than 24,000 tons of medical equipment and supplies have entered the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10, 2025, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit said.

COGAT said the deliveries include X-ray machines, oxygen concentrators, generators, spare parts and incubators, and are coordinated with international organizations under a monitoring mechanism intended to prevent Hamas terrorists from taking control of the aid.

The agency said additional efforts include establishing new medical facilities and arranging medical evacuations from the Strip. JNS

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Pennsylvania man charged with securing gun to commit ISIS terror attack. Sep 15, 2026 Jonathan Hunter Kramer, of Valencia, Pa., obtained a gun with the intention of carrying out an ISIS terror attack, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Federal agents arrested the 21-year-old at a hotel, where he had three 30-round capacity rifle magazines and five boxes of rifle ammunition, the FBI said. Agents seized a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition from the hotel room. JNS

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Footage from Lebanon: IDF destroys 32 rockets aimed at Israel. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 10:16 AM INN

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Hezbollah will mount significant attack after regrouping, studying Israeli activity, IDF warns. According to IDF assessments, Hezbollah's senior leadership is closely awaiting developments in the Iranian arena, with everything dependent on Tehran. September 15, 2026. JPost

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IDF eliminates two Hamas commanders who posed immediate danger. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 12:57 PM INN

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European Parliament to screen 'The Bibi Files' ahead of Israel's 2026 Knesset election. September 15, 2026 JPost

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How a Yemeni fishing city has become a second front in the US-Iran conflict. September 15, 2026 JPost

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Israel provided Saudi Arabia with intel. assistance as Houthi attacks on Riyadh's assets continue. September 15, 2026 JPost

Secret channel against Houthis. Israel transfers intelligence to Saudi Arabia via US. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 10:04 PM INN

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The final frontier: US reveals Space Force has 'on-orbit space control weapons' for first time. September 15, 2026 JPost

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Shin Bet, police arrest central Israel resident for planning October 7-inspired terror attack The suspect was reportedly inspired by the October 7 massacre and was planning on carrying out a terrorist attack involving explosives. Hodaya Ran. September 15, 2026. A 19-year-old resident of Kafr Kassem was arrested on suspicion of advancing terrorist activity and planning to carry out an attack, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Israel Police stated on Tuesday.

The joint investigation found that Issa had been influenced by the October 7 massacre. According to the investigation, he subsequently began advancing a plan to carry out a terrorist attack. JPost

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Jewish patients hide their identity amid NHS antisemitism. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 12:36 PM INN

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Poll: Nearly half of secular Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur. IDI poll finds 74% of Israeli Jews fast at least partially on Yom Kippur and 57% attend synagogue, including many who rarely attend during the year. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 12:25 PM INN

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Poll: Nearly three-quarters of Jewish Israelis reject full Gaza pullout. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 11:11 AM INN

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Families of Oct. 7 victims: “The time for reckoning has come". Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 6:38 PM INN

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Hostage survivor: 'I prayed not to be moved - then the IDF bombed the building’. Bar Kupershtein recounts the miraculous moment during his Gaza captivity when a canceled transfer kept him from a building later destroyed in an IDF strike. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 8:27 PM INN

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US, Israeli, Arab military chiefs hold secret meeting in Germany. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 7:55 PM INN

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IDF turns to Shin Bet in 'Naza' investigation. The IDF has already begun an investigation by its Information Security Department and at several other units suspected of being sources of materials and information provided to the creators of the film “Naza." Israel National News. Published: Sep 15, 2026, 8:35 PM (GMT+3) INN

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NYC Council, healthcare groups hold their first meeting on Jew-hatred in medicine. Rikki Zagelbaum. Sep 15, 2026 JNS

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Damaged Saudi oil pipeline will operate ‘in days,’ US energy secretary says. Sep 15, 2026 JNS

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US military hosts Jordanian army at Colorado training. Sep 15, 2026 JNS

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Rubio decries Iranian attacks in talk with Omani foreign minister. Sep 15, 2026. JNS

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PFLP-linked New Zealand party running on Palestine platform enters election, sparking concern. The Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party was almost not allowed to register following the submission of over 200 submissions opposing it. Mathilda Heller. September 15, 2026. JPost

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Mum’s the word from El-Sayed a week after call for him to defend Jews, Michigan rabbis say. Sep 15, 2026. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan and a former Detroit health director, has yet to respond a week after local rabbis and Jewish leaders issued a campaign, called “Nonnegotiable Michigan,” asking him to “affirm five baseline commitments to Jewish safety, identity, political participation and self-determination,” the rabbis said.

El-Sayed is “the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in America,” according to the Republican Jewish Coalition. JNS

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Butler County Man Charged with Receiving a Firearm and Ammunition With Intent to Commit Terrorism on Behalf of ISIS. Department of Justice, September 15, 2026:

Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, a resident of Valencia, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with receiving a firearm and ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the firearm and ammunition would be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, including providing, attempting to provide, and conspiring to provide material support or resources to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). FBI agents interdicted Kramer this weekend as he returned to a hotel in possession of three 30-round capacity rifle magazines and five boxes of rifle ammunition. The FBI then executed search warrants, seized a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition from his hotel room, and arrested him…. “Kramer was taken into custody just as he appeared to be preparing for a mass shooting that could have taken many lives, having already secured a rifle and approximately 190 rounds of ammunition for what he called his ‘mission,’” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg. “His apparent ISIS inspiration and escalation toward violence show how close this country came to a devastating attack. This arrest prevented what could have been a horrific tragedy.”…

According to the affidavit filed in support of the complaint, Kramer has been known to the FBI since an earlier investigation in 2023, which resulted in Kramer, then a minor, being charged and adjudicated delinquent by Pennsylvania state authorities for his role in a plot to commit a mass casualty incident and for possessing child sexual abuse material. On March 19, 2026, following Kramer’s release from a Pennsylvania juvenile detention facility, an anonymous individual made an online tip to the FBI reporting a return to troubling behavior by Kramer, including, among other activities, his ordering of “mysterious” packages and “talking to his friends from before” his juvenile adjudication. Subsequent investigation confirmed that Kramer had been using the online persona of “Hamza Al Rashid” who claimed affiliation with ISIS, offered to share explosive manuals with others, and expressed his intent to prepare for his “mission” and that he was just missing a “weapon.”

On Sept. 12, the FBI observed Kramer quickly depart his residence while carrying a bag and travel via rideshare to a retail store, where he purchased a disposable phone. After exiting the store, he met an individual in the parking lot and acquired a long black bag from the trunk of a vehicle. Kramer then traveled to a hotel in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, where he paid cash to book a room. Witnesses from both the store and hotel noted Kramer’s bag making a metallic clicking sound when he placed it down. After checking into his room, Kramer traveled to a sporting goods store and was observed by the FBI at the gun counter.

Upon returning to the hotel’s parking lot, FBI agents approached Kramer while he carried two bags containing the contents of his purchase from the sporting goods store. Kramer agreed to speak with the agents and placed the bags on the ground. The FBI then executed federal search warrants on Kramer’s person, hotel room, and residence. Agents seized a semiautomatic rifle, five rifle magazines (two loaded and the other three each offering a 30-round capacity), a rifle bipod and scope, a total of 190 rounds of rifle ammunition, an entrenchment tool, a prayer rug, pepper spray, and approximately 30 knives, along with a handwritten note stating “DoNt look For me[.] IDK what I did buT I cant live In constant Fear[.]” Department of Justice

Pennsylvania man charged in plot to assist ISIS in terror attack, feds say. Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, has been known to the FBI for years as a terror threat, according to a federal criminal complaint. Sept. 15, 2026. By Shayna Jacobs The complaint says the FBI also tracked Kramer’s suspicious purchases since his release from juvenile jail, including a 5-inch knife and pepper spray ordered from Amazon.

Kramer also allegedly had an online alias, “Hamza Al Rashid,” where he brainstormed “methods of violence against the Kuffar, as well as tools that can be useful to remain anonymous,” according to the complaint. Kuffar is a reference to non-Muslims.

A shared document Kramer administered discussed how “fire is an extremely useful tool to cause irreplaceable damage to the kuffars homes and land, and cost millions, if not billions of dollars, in damage if used correctly,” the complaint says.

“While fire leads to less deaths, it causes much more chaos/displacement,” Kramer said in the alleged document, according to the complaint.

Kramer also allegedly suggested that “good areas to target” are places like “nightclubs, theaters, concerts, and apartment buildings/hotels and schools with low security.”

“Not only does the fire carry risk of death, in events of mass confusion, people will normally stampede each other trying to escape, leading to more possible deaths,” the document allegedly continued.

Kramer’s alleged planning document highlighted poisonings, large trucks and firearms as “methods to increase your jihad’s destruction.” Battaglia said he promoted “distracting emergency services” as a strategy for carrying out an attack.

“I might be able to carry out an operation soon against the kuffar, please pray for my success brothers,” Kramer allegedly wrote to the online community on May 26. NBC News

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Pro-Israel Michigan Dem says she was ‘harassed, followed’ over her Zionist views. “People are free to disagree with me, challenge me and protest my positions. That is democracy. But disagreement is not license for intimidation or harassment,” said Rep. Haley Stevens. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep. 15, 2026. JNS

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Israel says it hit Hamas commander of Rafah Brigade. “Our message is clear. No terrorist is immune, and Hamas will not be in Gaza,” stated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, according to an English translation of their remarks provided by Netanyahu’s office. Sep 15, 2026 JNS

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Rom Braslavski: I’m afraid a Palestinian government will be established here. Captivity survivor Rom Braslavski spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and admitted that despite their disagreements, he is very apprehensive about giving his vote to the left. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2026, 11:05 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Chilling | Keshet Casarotti’s last call on October 7 In the recording, Keshet can be heard trying to call for medical assistance, describing the severe pain he was suffering and the paralyzing fear that left him unable to move. Israel National News. Published: Sep 16, 2026, 12:17 AM (GMT+3) INN

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'US-Iran war will enter much different phase within months'. Vice President JD Vance says the US-Iran conflict will enter a “much different phase" within months as Washington pressures Tehran and restores traffic through Hormuz. Israel National News Sep 16, 2026, 1:22 AM INN

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Report: Trump admin plans $2.8 billion military package for Israel. Israel National News. Sep 16, 2026, 3:16 AM INN

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PIDF eliminates Hamas Rafah Brigade commander in drone strike. Abu Obeid replaced Mohammed Shabana after his death alongside Mohammed Sinwar; strike comes amid series of operations against senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists. Elisha Ben Kimon, Einav Halabi | updated:09.15.26 | 16:38 YNet

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'An UNRWA teacher kept my mother trapped in his attic': Testimony at the UN and the agency's 'reform'. Neta Heiman-Mina tells the UN Human Rights Council how her 84-year-old mother was held for 48 days by a UNRWA teacher, as a new UN Watch report shows the agency overstated reforms meant to address neutrality failures. Itamar Eichner| 09.15.26 | 22:12 YNet

Daughter of former Gaza hostage confronts UN over UNRWA funding despite Hamas ties. September 16, 2026. Neta Heiman Mina, whose elderly mother, Ditza Heiman, was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, and held prisoner in Gaza for nearly two months, spoke at the 63rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. She spoke on a panel on human rights education, confronting the UN over its continued funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) despite its ongoing ties to Hamas. JPost

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Palestinian-American Press TV reporter detained near Bethlehem on suspected espionage. Naqaa Hamed was detained at a checkpoint near Tekoa; IDF sources say she is suspected of cooperating with an enemy entity and may also face an espionage investigation. Elisha Ben Kimon, Lior Ben Ari, Einav Halabi | published:09.15.26 | YNet

IDF arrests Iran's Press TV journalist in West Bank, hands her to police, source confirms to 'Post'. The IDF confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that the journalist, identified by the Iranian state broadcaster as Palestinian-American Naqqa Hamad, was transferred to the Israel Police. September 16, 2026. JPost

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Drake's "Pray for Gaza" Lyric Sparks Fury. The Jewish-Canadian rapper included the controversial line in his new film FOMO, reigniting debate over his silence on Hamas terror and his ties to the Jewish community Gila Isaacson. Sep 16, 2026 JFeed

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Lebanon Signals Hope for Peace with Israel In talks with international reporters. President Joseph Aoun expressed optimism that American-mediated negotiations could transform relations between the two countries beyond a mere ceasefire Gila Isaacson. Sep 16, 2026 JFeed

Labor Court Ruling. Gush Etzion Firm Pays Guard $40K After 16 years of work, Jerusalem labor court rules Palestinian security guard was actually an employee, not contractor, awards full severance and benefits. Gila Isaacson. Sep 16, 2026 JFeed

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US officials met Iran-backed Houthis in Oman over the weekend, sources say. The meeting, which has not been made public, was held at the US Embassy in Muscat, three of the sources said on the condition of anonymity. Reuters. September 16, 2026. JPost

US Gave Houthis Green Light on Saudi Strikes. American officials met covertly with Yemeni terror group leaders in Oman, reaching understandings that attacks may continue against the Saudis as long as international shipping lanes remain untouched. Gila Isaacson. Sep 16, 2026 JFeed

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Iran live updates: Houthis claim new attacks on Saudi oil facility, air base. Fighting has intensified in Yemen in recent weeks. By David Brennan,Meredith Deliso andIvan Pereira. September 16, 2026, 8:12 AM ET ABC

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Riyadh pledges severe response to Houthi attacks as US reveals munition shortages. Houthi terror barrage ignites massive fires and sparks fury in Riyadh. New report reveals the US is facing a critical ammunition deficit. By Erez Linn. Published on 09-16-2026 06:13 ILH

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Houthi rebels 'fire drone at Mecca' as Saudi Arabia warns attempted attack on holy city is a 'red line'. 16 February 2026. TheSun

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Enigmatic Houthi commander Abdul Malik al-Houthi elevated amid terror group's Red Sea offensive. Since the start of the civil war, foreign officials who dealt with al-Houthi have not been known to have met him in person, a source familiar with the matter said. September 16, 2026 JPost

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Netanyahu’s New York UN visit sees unusual US Secret Service security involvement This comes after NYC Mayor Mamdani admitted that his office lacked the authority to arrest the prime minister, though he emphasized that Netanyahu "is not welcome in New York City." By Idan Kweller. September 16, 2026 JPost

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IDF Chief: War not yet over, Hezbollah must be removed from south of Litani. Uzi Baruch. Sep 16, 2026, 8:04 PM INN

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Israel didn’t pressure Trump into Iran war, didn’t put boots on ground ‘for Israel,’ Huckabee says. Sep. 16, 2026 JNS

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Israel, Morocco agree to upgrade diplomatic ties, expand flights at US-backed summit. The meeting of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, and US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz comes a day after the sixth anniversary of the Abraham Accords. September 16, 2026 JPost

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Sweden expels Iranian embassy official over activity incompatible with Vienna Convention. The official's expulsion follows a CNN report in April that Iran allegedly used criminal gangs in Sweden to target Israeli and Jewish interests. September 16, 2026 JPost

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IAI debuts new tactical vehicle for German special forces. Two TAHRs to be transported inside CH‑47 Chinook helicopters, with crews able to achieve combat readiness shortly after landing. September 16, 2026. JPost

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Shurat HaDin, representing victims of the October 7 massacre. They demand criminal investigation into the creators of NAZA: “Every day that passes may cause substantial harm to the investigation”. By Jerusalem Post Staff. September 16, 2026 Shurat HaDin, an organization representing more than 500 victims of terrorism from the October 7 massacre, has appealed to the Attorney General, Adv. Gali Baharav-Miara, and the State Attorney, Adv. Amit Eisman, demanding that they order the immediate opening of a criminal investigation into the production and publication of the film NAZA. The organization is calling for an examination of the involvement of the film’s creators, sources, and participants. Should the state fail to act promptly on the matter, the organization is considering petitioning the High Court of Justice. JPost

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IDF kills Nukhba terrorist who killed, abducted Omer Neutra, Nimrod Cohen on October 7. According to the IDF, the terrorist, Jihad Samih Mahmoud Ismail, had taken part in the killing of Capt. Omer Neutra, St.-Sgt. Oz Daniel, and Sgt. Shaked Dahan. [27]. JPost

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NYT blasted for baffling Oct. 7 terror attack take, stating ‘Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims.’ By Chris Nesi. Published Sep. 16, 2026.

The New York Times came under fire Wednesday over a baffling passage that appeared in an article about an Israeli documentary — which said the Jewish state “still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7.”

The Sept. 14 article, penned by Jerusalem-based reporter Isabel Kershner, covers the controversy.. NY Post

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FBI chief Kash Patel warns online radicalization fueling threats to synagogues, public officials. September 16, 2026 JPost

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Netanyahu announces he will propose laws to revoke citizenship of people 'smearing' IDF. September 16, 2026 JPost

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EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani Taps ‘Gay Communist’ for Senior Government Role: New Adviser Called for ‘Abolition of Police’ and ‘Undoing Capitalism,’ Condemned Gandhi as ‘Anti-Black Misogynist’. Washington Free Beacon | September 16, 2026 | Jon Levine

In addition to her government and advocacy work, Afridi is currently listed as an editor at Pinko, a magazine which describes itself as “a collective for thinking gay communism.” On the masthead, she went by “L. Israh Afridi.” Israh is an Arabic word for “night journey” that is sacred in Islam. . . . .

Afridi is a close friend of Cea Weaver, the notorious top Mamdani housing official who’s called home ownership “a weapon of white supremacy” and expressed a desire to “impoverish the white middle class.”. . .

Afridi is only the latest in a string of oddballs, cranks, antisemites, and Lulu Lenins named into Mamdani’s orbit during his time as mayor. FreeBeacon

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Ali Taher was IDF's most complex battle terrain yet, Egoz forces chief tells 'Post' - interview. The Egoz Special Forces commander told the Post that the battle signified a major setback to Hezbollah and to Iran "both on a symbolic and command and control operational level." September 16, 2026. JPost

Under the ridge. Hezbollah's strategic tunnel system revealed. IDF releases new footage from Hezbollah tunnels in the Ali Taher Ridge, where troops uncovered and destroyed strategic terrorist infrastructure. Israel National News. Sep 16, 2026, 8:47 PM INN

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Kansas man arrested for threatening to murder Ben Shapiro on Yom Kippur. A Kansas man was arrested after allegedly making multiple antisemitic death threats against Jewish right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro, including an ominous countdown to Yom Kippur. Israel National News. Published: Sep 16, 2026, 11:02 PM (GMT+3)

A Kansas man has been arrested after threatening to murder right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro.

Korby Allen Strube, 29, was arrested in Florida, where Shapiro lives, after making multiple threats on social media, including an ominous countdown to Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which will be held next week. INN

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How to “Other” an Israeli. First discriminate, then the silent treatment. Jewish Review of Books. Sep 16, 2026 By Malcolm M. Feeley. Last spring, UC Berkeley formally acknowledged the stream of antisemitic incidents on campus after October 7, 2023, which had resulted in the disruption of scheduled lectures and meetings, harassment of students and faculty, assaults, injuries, and property damage—not to speak of a pervasive atmosphere of menacing groupthink. This acknowledgement was part of a legal agreement that settled a suit by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education. Berkeley also paid $1,000,000 to the Brandeis Center, listed programs the university had established or promised to establish, and the website it would update. JewishReviewOfBooks

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Gaza terrorists heard joking during Oct. 7 attack in newly released intercepted calls. By Luke Tress — September 16, 2026.

Gaza terrorists joked about the October 2023 invasion of Israel as the attack was taking place, according to contemporaneous phone calls released in a US federal investigation on Tuesday that gave an inside view of terrorists’ immediate reaction to the Hamas attack and their preparations to join the invasion.

The call logs were released in the case against Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi, who allegedly assembled a team of armed terrorists and crossed into Israel to join the attack, and later lied on his visa application to enter the US. He was arrested in Louisiana last year.

Al-Muhtadi was allegedly a member of the Gaza-based terror group the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the National Resistance Brigades.

He and his team were not aware of the Hamas attack before it took place, only finding out about the invasion on social media early in the morning of October 7, 2023, after the attack had started. The attackers killed some 1,200 people and took another 251 hostage.

As part of the federal probe into Al-Muhtadi, investigators released transcripts of phone calls he made while preparing to join the attack. The calls were intercepted, recorded and translated from Arabic into English. Prosecutors had previously released fragments of the conversations in court filings. Israeli investigators are working with US authorities on the investigation.

On the calls, Al-Muhtadi and his team are heard scrambling to join the Hamas attack by sharing information about the invasion, coordinating transportation and assembling weaponry.

At 8:12 a.m., Al-Muhtadi told an associate on a phone call to “get ready,” that the “borders are open,” and that other individuals were passing by in a Toyota pickup truck, apparently to join the invasion.

Thirty minutes later, still in Gaza, Al-Muhtadi and another individual celebrated and joked as they exchanged information about the attack.

Both hailed the invasion, saying, “Our guys are celebrating inside \[Israel\],” and that Palestinians were celebrating in Gaza.

The transcript indicated the pair repeatedly laughed during the call, including about the expected destruction of Gaza.

“From now till the afternoon, half of Gaza will be lost. There will be nothing left except my kiosk,” Al-Muhtadi said.

His associate said, “The Jews are still in shock.” Al-Muhtadi responded, “They are still drunk, because it’s the last day of their Eid,” using an Arabic term to apparently refer to Simhat Torah, the Jewish holiday on which the attack took place.

The pair already knew that Israelis had been taken hostage. Al-Muhtadi said, “There is kidnapping, and it’s a game, which will be a good one.” He said he expected a hostage deal to lead to a ceasefire.

“If things go the way they should, Syria will take part, Lebanon will take part, and it’s going to be a third world war,” he said. “This war will last two months, a month, or it will be a war of attrition.”

They also joked about Palestinians who worked in Israel, saying, “No other workers will enter Israel, and Gaza will be set back about fifty years.”

“The guys are calling, I swear by God. They want to go inside,” Al-Muhtadi said.

Other call logs showed the banality of the preparations, as the terrorists discussed getting coffee, lacking space in a car used to invade Israel, searching for a “welding machine,” and whether they should close their stores. One of the terrorists on a call said he would meet the others inside Israel without any weapons because he couldn’t find any.

By 9:33 a.m., Al-Muhtadi said on a call, “I went inside,” while laughing and telling two other terrorists, “Come in, boys.”

Al-Muhtadi told his associates to turn off their phones on that call. Investigators later found that his phone had linked to a tower in Israel, near Kfar Aza, at around 10 a.m., indicating he had crossed the border.

Court filings did not indicate whether Al-Muhtadi had killed or taken hostages during the attack.

After he arrived in the US, messages showed that Al-Muhtadi was unconcerned about being arrested.

In September 2024, a week after he entered the US, an associate advised Al-Muhtadi against communicating with “the resistance guys.”

“You are now under surveillance for everything,” the associate said in a Facebook message, adding, “Do not publish anything.”

“There is democracy here,” Al-Muhtadi told him.

“If you post Al-Sinwar’s picture, no one will tell you anything,” he added in an apparent reference to the slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

“Here, no one puts his nose in other people’s business. There is freedom,” he said.

In a related case, a jury last month charged Al-Muhtadi’s wife, Nieama Hsnein Al-Ghazzawi, with conspiracy to commit visa fraud due to her role obtaining Al-Muhtadi a visa.

Al-Ghazzawi, a US citizen, was indicted last month and the indictment was unsealed last week. Much of the case remains under seal.

In January 2024, Al-Ghazzawi and Al-Muhtadi traveled from Gaza to Egypt in order to move to the US, prosecutors said. Al-Ghazzawi prepared a visa application for her husband, corresponded with the US State Department to arrange the visa and served as his visa sponsor.

Al-Ghazzawi knowingly made false statements on Al-Muhtadi’s visa application, such as stating that her husband did not have firearms training, had never been in an armed group and had no ties to terrorism, prosecutors said.

Investigators said that Al-Ghazzawi had in fact known about her husband’s membership in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and his participation in the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.

Al-Ghazzawi emailed the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to set up a charity campaign to cover her husband’s visa application fees and airfare, prosecutors said, in one of a series of US crowdfunding campaigns that allegedly raised funds for terror groups.

Kfar Aza, where Al-Muhtadi allegedly crossed the border, was one of the communities hit hardest in the onslaught. During the attack, some 250 terrorists swarmed the unsuspecting community of around 950 residents. The attackers took over the village in an hour, killing 62 residents and 18 security personnel, and taking 19 civilians hostage.

Prosecutors in the Al-Muhtadi case noted that a Tanzanian exchange student, Joshua Mollel, had been stabbed to death and shot by at least one member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the area of Kfar Aza during the attack, according to footage of Mollel’s killing. T.o.I.

Commentary Magazine. September 17, 2026. Foreign Affairs The Gazans Who Thought October 7 Was Hilarious. By Seth Mandel. What do you even say? Every story about October 7, 2023, is horrible. And every one is important.

The latest concerns revelations from the federal investigation into Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi, who was arrested in Louisiana last year on suspicion of lying on his visa application. (Muhtadi’s wife is also facing charges for her role in the alleged visa fraud.) The Times of Israel [28] gives a comprehensive look inside Muhtadi’s phone calls on October 7, and those records illuminate the participation of non-Hamas Gazans on the day of the attack. Muhtadi, reporter Luke Tress observes, was in Gaza on that day but didn’t have prior knowledge of the attack. The call logs, then, show us how some Gazans reacted to the news of the ongoing invasion. Muhtadi and his friends appeared giddy with excitement and plotted to join the massacre and its attendant looting, as many Gazans did. Here’s a sample: “At 8:12 a.m., Al-Muhtadi told an associate on a phone call to ‘get ready,’ that the ‘borders are open,’ and that other individuals were passing by in a Toyota pickup truck, apparently to join the invasion. “Thirty minutes later, still in Gaza, Al-Muhtadi and another individual celebrated and joked as they exchanged information about the attack. “Both hailed the invasion, saying, ‘Our guys are celebrating inside [Israel],’ and that Palestinians were celebrating in Gaza. “The transcript indicated the pair repeatedly laughed during the call, including about the expected destruction of Gaza.” That last line is also revealing. As soon as the scale of the initial wave of the Hamas attacks was becoming clear, Gazans understood that it would necessitate a massive response from Israel. In retrospect, the only surprising part of the counteroffensive was the delay in its implementation. “From now till the afternoon, half of Gaza will be lost. There will be nothing left except my kiosk,” Muhtadi said on the call. Some other choice quotes from Muhtadi follow. On the stunned Israelis who were brutalized while celebrating the holiday of Simchat Torah: “They are still drunk, because it’s the last day of their Eid.” On the already-developing hostage crisis: “There is kidnapping, and it’s a game, which will be a good one.” On Gazan hopes for a wider conflagration: “If things go the way they should, Syria will take part, Lebanon will take part, and it’s going to be a third world war.” While laughing: “I went inside. Come in, boys.”

Whether Muhtadi killed or tortured anyone is unknown, but his phone had connected to a cell tower near Kfar Aza, where over 60 residents were killed in the attack and 19 were taken hostage. Muhtadi was a member of a different Gaza-based group, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which claimed it also took part in the Kfar Aza attack. Every detail about Muhtadi’s time in Gaza is utterly contemptible and possibly monstrous. This story is maddening, but crucial for a couple reasons. One: Hamas launched the invasion but every other group joined. If Gaza is going to go back to some form of self-government in the future, this must absolutely be addressed. The need for widespread deradicalization is even greater than before. Two: the laughing. The joking. The desperate excitement to take part. The feeling that this was all so… normal. And now he’s here, standing on American soil he doesn’t deserve to touch. That, too—his mere presence in the land of the free—is an affront. Commentary [29]

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Nazis Were Organizing in New York. So Were the Jews. In 1934, 45,000 people filled Yankee Stadium to help Germany’s Jews. Ninety-two years later, their program tells us how. Melissa Brodsky. Sep 16, 2026 on Substack

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Three-quarters of religion-based hate crimes in Hawaii last year targeted Jews, who are less than 1% of the state. Rabbi Itchel Krasnjansky of Chabad in Hawaii told JNS that “we don’t experience really any antisemitism, besides for the pro-Palestinian crap that goes on here, like everywhere else.” Jessica Russak-Hoffman, Menachem Wecker. Sep. 16, 2026. JNS

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Germany plans tougher measures against Islamist terror after Berlin CSD attack · September 16, 2026. The German government unveiled a ten-point plan to combat Islamic terrorism after the July attack on Berlin's Christopher Street Day parade, where one woman was killed and 31 people injured. br-de

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How Propaganda Uses Emotion to Teach You What Not to See. The Case of Jadallah Jihad Jadallah and How Narrative Framing Works. GlobalDisconnect. Sep 16, 2026. There is something profoundly revealing about the way the story of Jadallah Jihad Jadallah has been told.

A Palestinian boy from the al-Far’a refugee camp was shot by Israeli forces on November 16, 2025. Al-Far’a is in the northern West Bank, near Tubas. This was not a story from Gaza or Hamas. The details surrounding Jadallah’s death came instead from the West Bank, from his own community, and from Fatah, the movement led by Mahmoud Abbas.

The death itself is not disputed. He was shot, and forty-five minutes later, he died. What is revealing is everything that followed and has been left out. His case provides a clear example of how narrative framing is created and how effective emotional propaganda works.

Propaganda does not always require fabricating an event. Sometimes the more powerful technique is to take a real event, select the facts that support a particular emotional response, place those facts in a carefully constructed sequence and narrative, and leave other relevant facts out. The audience is then given a story that may contain real images, real people and real events, while being guided toward a particular conclusion that contradict the very evidence right in front of their eyes. GlobalDiscomnect

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These 8 news outlets relied on terror group for casualty figures when reporting on Israel-Hamas war: study.

By Courtney Greenberg. Published Sep 17, 2026.

Major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Guardian and Associated Press, relied on casualty figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health, run by terrorist organization Hamas, when reporting on the Israel-Hamas war, according to a new study.

The findings showed a dependence on aggregate numbers from Hamas, limited citation of data on terrorist deaths and “disproportionate doubt directed at different sources,” writes author Tatiana Glezer, from independent research group Fifty Global.

“Together, these patterns support a narrative in which total casualty figures are treated as civilian losses.”

The study, _Selective Sources, Scrutiny, and the Absence of Standards in Military Conflict Coverage_, was published on Sept. 15, in the peer-reviewed journal _Digital Hate Review_.

Researchers found that journalists cited numbers from the ministry in 100 per cent of the publications reviewed in the study, whereas only three per cent of all articles reviewed cited Israeli data.

The Israel-Hamas war was triggered by an attack by Hamas terrorists, who killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023. Although the Israeli military began withdrawing troops from Gaza as part of a peace deal in 2025, there is still violence and unrest in the region.

The study focuses on 1,378 articles published from March to June 2024 by eight English-language outlets: CNN, BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Reuters and Associated Press.

During that time period, there were still living hostages in Gaza.

The study found that like the Gaza Ministry of Health, the outlets did not distinguish between terrorist and civilian deaths in their reporting. Articles rarely included data from Israeli sources.

“Estimates indicating a high proportion of civilian deaths may contribute to reframing a conflict from war to genocide,” according to the study. “In this sense, quantitative representations of harm are not neutral; they carry interpretive consequences that shape both public discourse and institutional judgment.”

The study suggests that a more comprehensive understanding of deaths during the war could be reached by including both primary sources: the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which provides estimates of terrorist casualties, and the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not.

The IDF said in 2024 that they classify terrorists as individuals who were killed while holding weapons, but did not provide further details, the study said.

Through its analysis, the study concluded that the Gaza health ministry “became the primary source of statistical information about the war casualties.” Neither the ministry nor the IDF offer data specific to civilian casualties.

The study also looked at which outlets mentioned that the ministry’s figures do not distinguish between civilians and terrorists.

Associated Press and The Washington Post noted the limitation in around 40 per cent of articles, whereas, on the lower end of the spectrum, the BBC and Reuters rarely did (about 1 to 2 per cent of articles).

“Overall, this essential disclaimer about the composition of the casualties appeared in only about 15 per cent of all analyzed publications,” the study said.

The outlet that most frequently mentioned the ministry’s affiliation with Hamas was the BBC, in about 95 per cent of its articles. Conversely, the connection was made in about 5 per cent of CNN articles, and in 2 per cent of articles by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Reporting without providing a fuller picture of where the data comes from can lead to one side being viewed as victims and the other side as “criminal or genocidal,” especially in the online discourse.

“These simplified narratives may, in turn, contribute to the spread of hate speech, conspiracy claims, and the amplification of antisemitic or anti-Muslim sentiment,” the study said.

The study calls for “clearer professional standards and greater transparency in reporting conflict-related data.”

Articles for the study were selected by a search using the keyword “Gaza.” Researchers manually extracted statements about casualties and used a coding system to categorize them. No artificial intelligence was used for those tasks. NationalPost [30]

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Iran struggles to reroute trade as US blockade disrupts supply lines. Tehran has turned to overland routes to move goods after the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, but border delays and rising costs are hampering the effort, The Wall Street Journal reported. David Isaac. Sep. 17, 2026 JNS

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Natasha Hausdorff discusses NAZA "documentary" allegations about IDF in Gaza.

UKLFI Charitable Trust. Sep 17, 2026

A new documentary about Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has made serious allegations about how the IDF selects targets and assesses potential civilian casualties.

NAZA relies heavily on testimony from 24 anonymous Israeli military and intelligence personnel to portray a system in which large numbers of civilian deaths were knowingly accepted and artificial intelligence allegedly played a significant role in identifying targets. The IDF has strongly rejected that portrayal.

UKLFI Charitable Trust has not seen the documentary itself. This interview is based on published reports about its contents, the film’s trailer and a clip that has circulated publicly.

In this interview, UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director Natasha Hausdorff examines the allegations against the legal framework governing armed conflict.

She explains the principle of proportionality and why anticipating potential civilian casualties does not, in itself, make an attack unlawful. Hausdorff argues that assessing expected civilian harm before a strike is an essential part of complying with the law of armed conflict, rather than evidence of an intention to harm.

The discussion also examines one of the documentary’s most striking reported allegations: that an IDF attack was approved in which as many as 500 civilians could be killed to eliminate a single Hamas target. The IDF has described that claim as “completely false”. Hausdorff discusses both the evidential problems surrounding the allegation and the legal question it raises: international humanitarian law does not prescribe a fixed numerical ceiling for civilian casualties. Proportionality requires expected civilian harm to be assessed against the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated in the particular attack.

Hausdorff also addresses claims concerning the IDF’s use of artificial intelligence, including systems such as Lavender and Habsora. She discusses the IDF’s stated position that technological systems assist intelligence analysis but do not make decisions to attack, which remain decisions for human personnel. The IDF’s published account says each strike requires an individual assessment of anticipated military advantage and expected civilian harm.

The interview considers how much evidential weight can be placed on anonymous testimony when the identities, roles, access and first-hand knowledge of sources cannot independently be examined; the distinction between allegations concerning individual incidents and evidence of a systematic IDF policy; the legal significance of Hamas operating within a densely populated civilian environment; and allegations that Israel is being judged by standards not applied to other Western militaries.

Hausdorff concludes that the material described publicly does not establish the systematic policy alleged by the filmmakers. She also stresses that this doesn't mean every individual strike during the war was lawful and that specific allegations with identifiable dates and locations should be investigated.

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Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, Article 51 - Protection of the Civilian Population https://ihl-databases....

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court [31]

IDF Targeting Methods During the First Weeks of the Hamas-Israel War https://www.idf.il/en/...

The IDF's Use of Data Technologies in Intelligence Processing https://www.idf.il/en/...

International Court of Justice: Judgment of 26/2/2007 in Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro https://www.icj-cij.or...

About Natasha Hausdorff

Natasha Hausdorff is an international lawyer specialising in international law, foreign affairs & national security. She is Legal Director of UKLFI Charitable Trust and a sought-after commentator on the law of armed conflict, the International Criminal Court and international humanitarian law. She has addressed governments, legislators, international organisations and media audiences around the world on legal issues relating to Israel and international law. YouTube

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After Ed Sheeran Tour Ouster, Macklemore Pledges $1 Million to Gaza Aid Groups With Terror Ties, Watchdog Says. By Debbie Weiss. September 17, 2026. [...] An internal 2022 Hamas document cited by NGO Monitor described a senior Gaza employee of MAP as “affiliated with the Hamas movement” and working in “the positive,” terminology the watchdog said was used for Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The document also said he had “allegiance” to Hamas rule.

The watchdog also said MAP was funded by the Abdel Shafi Community Health Association, which it described as founded and directed by senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, while previous Gaza partners included the Hamas-run Health Ministry and an organization funded by Interpal, a charity designated by the US Treasury over alleged support for Hamas.

A separate 2021 Hamas intelligence document cited by NGO Monitor said a former employee of Anera, a US-based humanitarian organization operating in Gaza, “used to work as an intelligence source” for a unit of the Hamas-run Interior Ministry. Other Hamas records, however, described Anera itself as “not cooperating” with the ministry and said it had resisted Hamas financial and administrative inspections.

The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a US-based nonprofit that provides medical care to Palestinian children, also appears repeatedly in internal Hamas records. One document cited by NGO Monitor lists PCRF as a donor to a Gaza rehabilitation association whose board included two members identified as Hamas-affiliated, while others show the group operating under Hamas restrictions governing foreign medical delegations.

PCRF also has ties to the Holy Land Foundation, a US charity later convicted of providing material support to Hamas. The two groups jointly staged a 1996 fundraising tour, with 40% of the proceeds going to PCRF. After Holy Land was designated a Hamas fundraising organization and its assets frozen, it sought Treasury approval in 2004 to transfer $50,000 to PCRF.

MAP has rejected allegations of Hamas ties, while Anera says it maintains a strict “no-contact” policy with Hamas.

NGO Monitor founder and president Gerald Steinberg accused Macklemore of “blatant antisemitism under the thin facade of antizionism” and said his plan to donate to “terror-tied NGOs adds another dimension to this travesty.”

Some of the groups Macklemore pledged to “are well known as sources of propaganda that demonize Israel,” he said, with “links to the heinous Hamas terror regime.”

“Macklemore’s attempt at virtue signaling does nothing to build peace, rather the opposite,” he told The Algemeiner.

[...] UNRWA itself has faced repeated allegations of Hamas infiltration. A UN investigation concluded in 2024 that nine staff members “may have been involved” in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and terminated their employment. In June, UNRWA fired 70 Gaza employees after accusations that they were affiliated with Hamas.

Israeli forces have on multiple occasions reported finding weapons, Hamas command facilities, and a 700-meter tunnel used by Hamas military intelligence beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters... Algemeiner

NGO Monitor @NGOmonitor: Macklemore and @edsheeran pledged millions to Palestinian orgs and challenged Robert Kraft to match the funding. But where is the money going? 3 of the 6 orgs @macklemore pledged to (MAP, Anera, and PCRF) appear in internal Hamas documents analyzed by NGO Monitor. Sep. 17, 2026. on X

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Fighting Terror. 230+ Terror Suspects Arrested in Two Months Nahal Brigade forces have detained hundreds of wanted individuals and confiscated more than 100 weapons across Judea and Samaria in ongoing counter-terror operations. Eliana Fleming Sep 17, 2026 JFeed

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Despite Ongoing Conflict. U.S. Grants Iran UN Visas – With Conditions The State Department announced it will issue entry visas to senior Iranian officials, including President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, for next week's UN General Assembly in New York. But the delegation will face strict movement restrictions. Sep 17, 2026 JFeed

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Ireland says it plans to boycott Eurovision next year due to Israel’s involvement. Sep 17, 2026 JNS

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‘Much appreciation’ to Israel for killing Hamas terrorist who abducted Omer Neutra, GOP NY gubernatorial candidate says. Sep 17, 2026 Bruce Blakeman, the Jewish executive of Nassau County, N.Y., thanked Israel and its military for “bringing justice to the Hamas terrorist that abducted the body of New Yorker Omer Neutra, who was killed on Oct. 7.” “Omer was an American from Nassau County, and his murder struck close to home for all of us,” Blakeman stated. ]https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-afa9-d2c2-adbc-afef45940000 JNS]

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NY state rep calls on police to protect Netanyahu during his UN visit. Sep 17, 2026 JNS

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Sending a Message to Erdoğan Israel-Greece Naval Drill Amid Turkey Spat Two Israeli missile boats and two Greek naval vessels participated in the exercise, which included emergency scenarios and threat identification drills in the maritime domain Eliana Fleming Sep 17, 2026 JFeed

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The Ultimate Betrayal Vance Tried to Help Clinton Beat Trump Vanity Fair investigation reveals JD Vance reached out to Clinton campaign officials in 2016 offering strategic advice to defeat Trump. I hate Hillary, but I hate Trump more, he reportedly said at the time. Eliana Fleming. Sep 17, 2026 JFeed

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Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig In Milan 🇮🇹, a 51-year-old rabbi was attacked by 3 men while waiting for a bus.

According to Milan’s Jewish community, they identified him as Jewish by his clothing.

They allegedly surrounded him, cursed him, kicked and punched him, knocked him and his hat to the ground, and spat at him. 1 suspect has been arrested.

Antisemitism is not just words. It’s not just a few bad apples. Jews are being beaten in the streets Sep 17, 2026. on X

Milan rabbi attacked by three men while waiting for bus, police arrest one suspect. By Yoav Etiel, Jerusalem Post, September 17, 2026.

A 60-year-old rabbi from Milan’s Jewish community was assaulted by three young men while waiting for a bus near the city’s Jewish quarter on Tuesday, according to the Jewish community.

A 20-year-old Tunisian man was arrested on suspicion of “religiously motivated violence,” while two other young men are suspected of involvement in the attack.

According to a statement from the Jewish Community of Milan, the three identified the rabbi as Jewish because of his clothing, surrounded him, cursed him, kicked him, and punched him. The community’s president, Walker Meghnagi, described the incident as “violence unlike anything we have seen.”

Meghnagi said the assailants removed the rabbi’s hat, threw it to the ground, stepped on it and spat toward him. The rabbi managed to photograph the suspects as they fled… JPost

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US sanctions Iranian financier's crypto exchange, says it processes Hormuz payments. September 17, 2026. JPost

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Shin Bet chief Zini: We will hunt down every Hamas member involved in October 7, across the globe. September 17, 2026. JPost

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Terror-Loving Palestinian Reporters’ Group Is Behind Notorious List of ‘Journalists’ Slain in Gaza: Group Manipulates Western Orgs ‘To Pass Off Terrorists as Journalists’. The embattled Committee to Protect Journalists relies heavily on the group for its much-disputed list of journalists killed in Gaza. Adam Kredo. September 17, 2026. ...The group, known as the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS), is led by a "pro-terrorist official" who has glorified "individual terrorists with blood on their hands" and advocated on behalf of imprisoned jihadists. The PJS is a Ramallah-based media union that cites "struggle against the occupation" as one of its core missions and has played an outsized role in seeding spurious claims that Israel is "silencing the press through killing." Two of the world's most prominent journalist advocacy groups—the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)—have relied heavily on PJS's research to build their widely cited lists of "journalists" killed in Gaza. FreeBeacon

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Arms Export Security. US State Department Approves Landmark F 35 Fighter Jet Package For Saudi Arabia. The US State Department approved a potential Foreign Military Sale to Saudi Arabia involving 48 F 35 stealth fighter jets valued at 24.3 billion dollars, moving the transaction to Congressional review despite intelligence assessments regarding potential Chinese espionage risks. Eliana Fleming. Sep 18, 2026 00:14 JFeed

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NGO B’Tselem report presents baseless claims of Israel dismantling Palestinian life in West Bank September 18, 2026 00:00 JPost

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Northern Ireland Friends of Israel September 17 [2026] at 3:13 AM They want you to believe that Israel is isolated on the world stage. Here we list what the leaders of 75 nations around the world have said about strengthening relations with Israel since 2023. It is difficult to think of any other country as small as Israel inspiring such warm friendship and admiration from around the world. Whether you are a friend of Israel or not, you owe it to yourself to sit down, have a cup of tea and scan down our list! Northern Ireland Friends of Israel.

Albania. Name & Title: Edi Rama, Prime Minister Date: 26 January 2026 Quote: Albania is ""a serious and reliable friend of Israel and the Israeli people across the entire political spectrum."

Angola. Name & Title: Leo Vinovezky (representing the newly established, active diplomatic mandate on behalf of the State) Date: November 2025 Quote:"Angola and Israel have much to do together. The future is prosperous... We are together, and this will translate into action."

Argentina. Name & Title: Javier Milei, President Date: 10 March 2026 Quote: "I am sincerely proud to be the most Zionist president in the world."

Armenia. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia Date: 21 April 21 2026 Quote: "Armenia stands ready to expand Armenia-Israel ties and explore new opportunities for cooperation."

Azerbaijan. Name & Title: Jeyhun Bayramov, Foreign Minister Date: 26 January 2026 Quote: "Relations between our two states are steadily improving and are strategically significant."

Bhutan. Name: Prime Minister's Office (PMO) / Royal Government of Bhutan Date: September 23, 2024 Quote: "...reiterate the shared desire of the two countries to further strengthen bilateral cooperation to the benefit of both peoples."

Bolivia. Name & Title: Rodrigo Paz, President Date: October 2025 Quote: I wish “to lead Bolivia toward a reopening to the world and re-establishing ties with Israel.”

Bulgaria. Name & Title: Rosen Zhelyazkov, Prime Minister Date: 23 September 2025 Quote: "Bulgaria regards the State of Israel as a key strategic partner, and the excellent relations between the two countries will provide a strong impetus in trade, innovation, education, agriculture and tourism."

Burundi. Burundian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Date: 21 March 2024 Quote "Burundi and the State of Israel maintain good diplomatic relations. Israel supports Burundi in the education sectors... in the field of agriculture, in the field of defense, in the field of energy production... social entrepreneurship, community development, health, and hydrometeorology."

Cambodia. Name & Title: Hun Manet, Prime Minister Date: June 2026 Quote:"...reaffirmed the Royal Government's continued support for existing partnerships while encouraging greater connectivity and cooperation in emerging areas."

Cameroon. Name & Title: Dr Taïga, Minister acting on behalf of the Cabinet Date: 13 February 2026 Quote: "The Republic of Cameroon and the State of Israel have maintained cooperative ties since Cameroon's independence... Israel's willingness to promote economic relations between Israel and Cameroon will further take root in agriculture and livestock."

Chile. Name & Title: José Antonio Kast, President Date: December 15, 2025 Quote: [Agreed] "to work together to put Israel-Chile relations back on track for the good of both nations." (Following his election, Kast moved to rapidly strengthen ties, stating his intent to increase cooperation in agriculture, healthcare, AI, technology, and security).

Colombia. Name & Title: Abelardo de la Espriella, President Date: 14 September 2026 Quote: "I will never stop defending Israel because it is the people of God, and I will always stand with Israel."

Costa Rica. Name & Title: Rodrigo Chaves Robles, President Date: 11 May 2025 Quote: "Our historical alliance with Israel remains an unbreakable pillar of Costa Rican democracy and values."

Cote d'Ivoire. Name & Title: Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, Vice-President Date: July 2023 Quote: "The historical ties linking Côte d'Ivoire and Israel are excellent and deep, and our government is resolutely committed to bringing this strategic partnership into a dynamic new phase of modern economic and technological development."

Cyprus. Name & Title: Nikos Christodoulides, President Date: 10 September 2026 Quote: "I am looking forward to our discussion on how to enhance our strategic partnership at all levels. Tourism, trade, security, energy, defence."

Czech Republic. Name & Title: Andrej Babiš, Prime Minister Date: 14 April 2026 Quote: "Our support follows a very long tradition... it is a moral partnership that has been proven by time."

Democratic Republic of the Congo. Name & Title: Félix Tshisekedi, President Date: 3 September 2026 Quote: "I reaffirm [our] shared commitment to strengthening diplomatic relations between our countries and relocating our embassy to Jerusalem."

Ecuador. Name & Title: Daniel Noboa, President Date: 4 May 2025 Quote: the President stressed that “Israel and Ecuador have the same enemies” while pledging his country's “unwavering support and friendship.”

El Salvador. Name & Title: Nayib Bukele, President Date: 18 April 2025 Quote: "As a Salvadoran with Palestinian ancestry, I'm sure the best thing that could happen to the Palestinian people is for Hamas to completely disappear…"

Equatorial Guinea. Name & Title: Eustaquio Nseng Esono, Ambassador to Israel (representing President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and the state executive) Date: 13 March 2024 Quote:"We want to enhance the friendship between our countries."

Estonia. Name & Title: Margus Tsahkna, Foreign Minister Date: 18 March 2026 Quote: "Estonia understands the battlefield... and offers full, unequivocal support for Israel."

Ethiopia. Name & Title: Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister Date: 14 November 2025 Quote: "We look forward to expanding our historic bilateral ties and technology cooperation with Israel."

Fiji: Name & Title: Sitiveni Rabuka, Prime Minister Date: July 16, 2026 Quote: The opening of Fiji's new embassy in Jerusalem marks"a new chapter in our relations and reaffirms our commitment to deeper diplomatic engagement."

Gabon. Name & Title: Alexandre Barro Chambrier, Deputy Prime Minister Date: May 3, 2025 Quote: "Israel's relations with African countries are a strategic asset and an integral part of our effort to strengthen Israel's standing internationally."

Georgia. Name & Title: Irakli Kobakhidze, Prime Minister Date: August 2025 Quote: "We want to strengthen the bond between our countries and peoples."

Germany. Name & Title: Olaf Scholz, Chancellor Date: 12 October 2024 Quote: "...there is only one place for Germany: alongside Israel..."

Ghana. Name & Title: Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, Minister of Works, Housing and Water Resources (representing the Presidency and the Government of Ghana) Date: 5 May 2026 Quote:"...reiterate Ghana’s commitment to strengthening bilateral relations through sustained dialogue, meaningful partnership and a shared sense of purpose."

Greece. Name & Title: Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister Date: 6 September 2026 Quote: "Greece will press ahead with its strategic defense cooperation with Israel..."

Guatemala. Name & Title: Bernardo Arévalo, President Date: 24 July 2026 Quote: "Today, standing on its oldest ground, we reaffirm the enduring friendship between Guatemala and Israel..."

Honduras. Name & Title: Xiomara Castro, President Date: 29 January 2025 Quote: "Honduras seeks to maintain respectful and progressive cooperation frameworks with Israel."

Hungary. Name & Title: Sándor Pintér, Acting Premier / Interior Minister Date: 12 May 2026 Quote: "Hungary remains Europe's safest partner for Israel, dedicated to deepening our strategic defence and cultural ties."

India. Name & Title: Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Date: February 25, 2026 Quote: "India stands with Israel firmly, with full conviction, in this moment and beyond... Let us ensure that the friendship between India and Israel remains a source of strength in an uncertain world."

Kazakhstan. Name & Title: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President Date: 6 November 2025 Quote: "Kazakhstan's accession to the [Abraham] accords represents a new chapter... we are turning the page toward more peace, economic development, and deep cooperation in the region."

Kenya. Name & Title: William Ruto, President Date: 6 June 2024 Quote: "We believe in the existence of Israel as a nation and as a friend..."

Kosovo. Name & Title: Albin Kurti, Prime Minister Date: 18 June 2024 Quote: "Mutual visits and agreements signed in different fields and sectors between us are the result of the expansion of relations between Kosovo and Israel."

Lesotho. Name & Title: Mpotjoane Lejone, Minister of Foreign Affairs Date: August 2025 Quote:"...strengthen diplomatic, economic, and religious connections with Israel... driven by shared values like freedom, faith, and innovation."

Liberia. Name & Title: Joseph Boakai, President Date: 15 September 2025 Quote: "Liberia is certainly among the closest allies of Israel... and the sky is the limit in our cooperation in agriculture, education, defense, and strategic engagement."

Malawi. Name & Title: Lazarus Chakwera, President Date: 7 April 2025 Quote: "Malawi is a true friend of Israel, and our relationship is built on shared goals and values."

Micronesia. Name & Title: Wesley Simina, President Date: 5 March 2025 Quote: "At the bilateral level, the FSM is keen on re-engaging with Israel to explore a more progressive and productive partnership."

Moldova. Name & Title: Mihai Popșoi, Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister Date: 28 May 2025 Quote: "The embassy opening is a clear sign that our relationship is moving in a positive direction... through thick and thin, we've supported Israel's right to defend itself..."

Morocco. Name & Title: Nasser Bourita, Foreign Minister in a Joint statement by Governments Date: 16 September 2026 Quote: "...establishment of full diplomatic, peaceful and friendly relations between Morocco and Israel is in the common interest of both countries and will advance the cause of peace."

Nauru. Name & Title: Lionel Aingimea, Foreign Minister & Vice President Date: 7 September 2026 Quote: "Our motto is 'God first,' and Israel has always held a special place in our hearts. We believe with all our hearts that supporting Israel brings us God's blessing."

Nepal. Name & Title: Sushila Kari, Prime Minister Date: 12 January 2026 Quote: the Prime Minister urged "continued efforts to further strengthen bilateral ties” while celebrating 65 years of Nepal–Israel relations.

Nigeria. Name & Title: Bola Tinubu, President Date: 22 June 2025 Quote: "Nigeria is ready to advance partnership with Israel in agricultural technology and security innovation."

North Macedonia. Name & Title: Timčo Mucunski, Foreign Minister Date: 25 August 2026 Quote: "Since the formation of our government, we have made the bilateral relationship with Israel one of the priorities of our foreign policy...My nation and Israel – both on the basis of political ideology, but also on the basis of our global outlook – have more things that unite them rather than divide them."

Palau. Name & Title: Surangel Whipps Jr., President Date: 12 September 2025 Quote: "Palau's friendship with Israel is deep-rooted, and we will continue to stand firmly by its side on the international stage."

Panama. Name & Title: José Raúl Mulino, President Date: 6 May 2026 Quote: "This encounter represents much more than a ceremonial act, it is the reaffirmation and renewal of a solid relationship between our two nations, built on trust, mutual respect, and cooperation..."

Papua New Guinea. Name & Title: James Marape, Prime Minister Date: 10 June 2026 Quote: "We will advance bilateral relations! And offer moral support to the good citizens of Israel "

Paraguay. Name & Title: Santiago Peña, President Date: 12 December 2024 Quote: "The present brings us together. But the future will have us more closer that we've been ever before."

Peru. Name & Title: Dina Boluarte, President Date: 30 August 2025 Quote: "Peru wishes to strengthen our traditional bonds of friendship and cooperative development with Israel."

Romania. Name & Title: Nicușor Dan, President Date: 29 June 2026 Quote: "The Romania-Israel relationship is strong... Romania and Israel have a solid collaboration in several fields - economy, security, defence industry, agriculture and information technology."

Rwanda. Name & Title: Olivier Nduhungirehe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Date: July 6, 2026 Quote: "Rwanda and Israel share strong ties that go beyond diplomacy. What defines us is the resilience of our peoples and our determination to turn adversity into progress, to transform the tragedy of genocide into socio-economic transformation, resilience and innovation."

Samoa. Name & Title: Laʻaulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Fosi Schmidt, Prime Minister Date: 18 September 2025 Quote: "So diplomatically, religiously, culturally, we stand with Israel... in my time as Prime Minister, I will declare this, that Samoa will not withdraw from supporting Israel as the country of God's people."

Serbia. Name & Title: Aleksandar Vučić, President Date: 5 June 2025 Quote: "We will always stand with Israel and the Jewish people..."

Sierra Leone. Name & Title:: Kenyeh Barlay, Minister of Planning and Economic Development Date: 5 June 2025 Quote:"...expressed mutual interest in deepening technical and development cooperation between their countries [specifically targeting agriculture, fisheries, and human capital development]"

Slovakia. Name & Title: Robert Fico, Prime Minister Date: June 26, 2025 Quote: "The bilateral relations between Slovakia and Israel are constructive, have a historical background, and there is a large Slovak diaspora living in Israel."

Slovenia. Name & Title: Janez Janša, Prime Minister (represented by Foreign Minister Anže Kajzer) Date: 9 September 2026 Quote: "Today sends a clear message that we seek more concrete cooperation... in new partnerships, investments, joint projects and tangible results... we want today's opening [of the new Israeli embassy] to mark the beginning of a period of greater dialogue, stronger cooperation and, above all, more tangible results for the benefit of our people."

Somaliland. Name & Title: Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Irro), President Date: 14 September 2026 Quote: "Somaliland chose to pursue this relationship [with Israel]... to support an organized economic, institutional and security relationship."

South Sudan. Name & Title: James Pitia Morgan, Minister for Foreign Affairs Date: 28 June 2026 Quote: "Israel is South Sudan’s best friend in the world.”

Taiwan. Name & Title: Lai Ching-te, President Date: 28 October 2025 Quote: "Israel's determination and capacity to defend its territory provides a valuable model for Taiwan..."

Tajikistan. Name & Title: Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Foreign Minister Date: September 2025 Quote: "tourism is a bridge between peoples" (stated during the signing of their first-ever bilateral treaty with Israel).

Tanzania. Name & Title: Hon. Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, Minister for Foreign Affairs Date: March 27, 2026 Quote: "Israel has been an important partner across various sectors, including agriculture, health, defense, and security, contributing to the strengthening of longstanding bilateral relations between the two countries."

Togo. Name & Title: Faure Gnassingbé, President Date: 4 November 2025 Quote: "Togo values its historical friendship with Israel and remains committed to strengthening our economic partnership."

Tonga. Name & Title: Dr. 'Aisake Eke, Prime Minister Date: 3 October 2025 Quote: "Tonga has always supported what we believe is right for us, in that regard we have always supported Israel."

Trinidad and Tobago. Name & Title: Kennedy Swaratsingh Minister of Planning, Economic Affairs and Development Date: 30 July 2026 Quote: "We acknowledge Israel's global leadership in innovation and sustainable development, and wish to deepen collaboration in economic diversification, food security, digital transformation, and climate resilience."

Uganda. Name & Title: Yoweri Museveni, President Date: 24 June 2025 Quote: "Iran and the Islamists should listen to our advice to recognise Israel..."

Ukraine. Name & Title: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Date: August 2026 Quote:"Ukraine shares deep bonds with Israel, rooted in shared security challenges and historic connections. Emphasizing those ties sends a clear message: Ukraine sees Israel as more than just another international partner."

United Arab Emirates. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Date: 8 September 2026 Statement:"[UAE and the Israeli government] have maintained open and direct lines of communication since the inception of our relationship more than five years ago. When necessary, all relevant intelligence has been and continues to be communicated between the relevant entities."

United States. Name & Title: Donald Trump, President Date: 20 January 2026 Quote: "We will continue to stand firmly with Israel and ensure its absolute security and peace."

Uruguay. Name & Title: Luis Lacalle Pou, President Date: 19 November 2025 Quote: "Uruguay is firmly committed to furthering our commercial and technology exchange with Israel."

Uzbekistan. Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade of Uzbekistan Date: December 30, 2025 Quote: "Following the talks, the parties confirmed their mutual interest in further strengthening practical cooperation and continuing constructive dialogue on key areas of the bilateral agenda."

Venezuela. Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela / Ministry of Foreign Affairs Joint Declaration (issued with Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to formally resume consular ties after a 17-year break) Date: 11 August 2026 Quote: "Both governments recognize the importance of the relationship between the State of Israel and the Jewish community in Venezuela, which constitutes an important historic bridge of friendship between the two countries."

Vietnam. Name & Title: Bùi Thanh Sơn, Minister of Foreign Affairs Date: 2 July 2026 Quote: "Vietnam values its friendship and broad-based cooperation with Israel... call on both nations ... to scale up investment."

Zambia. Name & Title: Hakainde Hichilema, President Date: 13 November 2025 Quote:"To the people of Israel, I say — you are welcome in Zambia. Come discover our natural wonders and build with us a shared future." on FB

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Jewish radio host Sid Rosenberg says he ‘charmed’ JD Vance after slamming VP’s stances on Israel.

By Sharon Udasin. 18 September 2026

JTA — Conservative radio personality Sid Rosenberg — a vocal supporter of US President Donald Trump and critic of Vice President JD Vance’s positions toward Israel — left a meeting with Vance on Thursday giddy with optimism.

“I went in there with very low expectations,” Rosenberg told the hosts of WABC Radio’s “Cats & Cosby.”

Noting that multiple people had assured him Vance would win him over, Rosenberg confirmed that “he did.”

“I think I charmed him more,” he said.

The highly publicized meeting occurred amid Vance’s attempts to make overtures to the Jewish community following a series of controversial remarks about Israel, in order to shore up support for a possible 2028 presidential run.

Rosenberg, a Jewish New Yorker and friend of Trump, has faulted Vance for not being “strong enough on Israel.” He has also called for Vance to distance himself from Tucker Carlson, a far-right commentator who is staunchly anti-Israel and has repeatedly platformed antisemites and Holocaust deniers. Vance has described Carlson as a “friend.”

“Honestly, I’ve been very critical of JD, very critical,” said Rosenberg, who hosts his own WABC show, “Sid & Friends In The Morning.”

This week, Vance said the US can’t let its policies in the Middle East be “subservient” to those of Israel, and must place its own interests first. He also said Trump “has shown a willingness to actually part ways with Bibi Netanyahu when he feels like the interests of the American people are different from the interests of the government of Israel.”

Rosenberg told Rita Cosby and her co-host John Catsimatidis that he was “really surprised” to receive an invitation to meet with the vice president, after they both spoke last month at a Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas.

“The talk was that I was going to grill JD Vance on Tucker Carlson and the Israel comments he’s been making as of late,” Rosenberg said. “This was more of a get-to-know-each-other session.”

While Rosenberg explained that most of their conversation would remain off the record, he emphasized that “it went well” and they “hit it off,” adding that the two men would likely have “many more meetings about very substantial things” in the future.

Though he remained outspoken about his preference for Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a 2028 presidential nominee, Rosenberg said that if Vance is “going to be our guy,” he left Thursday’s meeting feeling like he could work with him.

“He is willing to listen,” Rosenberg said. “I don’t think by any stretch that JD Vance hates Israel, hates the Jewish people.”

Just a few hours before Rosenberg’s meeting with the vice president, i24 News reported that Vance was also planning to host a Shabbat dinner this week as another way to reach out to Jewish Republicans.

“Vice President Vance is making considerable outreach efforts to the American Jewish community, particularly with this Shabbat dinner,” Shabbos Kestenbaum, a pro-Israel campus activist and Trump supporter who spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2024, told The Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Kestenbaum, who filed a Title VI lawsuit against Harvard University for ignoring antisemitism in 2024, added that he looks “forward to working together on our common interests while also expressing our concerns.”

In response to Vance’s recent remarks on Israel and Netanyahu, Sam Markstein, national political director for the RJC, told JTA in a statement that “the vice president has said, time and again, that Israel is a close and important ally of the United States.”

Markstein recalled how at last month’s RJC meeting — where both Vance and Rosenberg also spoke — Israel’s former minister for strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, said he’d be “forever grateful” for Vance’s role in the June 2025 US-Israeli conflict with Iran.

“All true partnerships between proud, independent, sovereign nations have room for disagreement — that is the mark of the alliance’s strength,” Markstein added.

Vance’s address at the RJC meeting was seen across the media as a chance to mend ties with Jewish conservatives, particularly regarding his views toward Israel and his connection to Carlson. The vice president spoke at a closed-door session, during which he reportedly described Israel as “extremely important to America’s national security,” according to Axios.

Regarding another podcaster seen as right-wing, Joe Rogan, Vance argued that “the best approach is to actually go in there, and talk to him, and make the best argument you can,” The Wall Street Journal reported. Although the vice president denounced a third podcaster, the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, as someone who “really does hate Jews,” he did not offer an opinion on Carlson, according to reports.

After the address, Rosenberg slammed Vance for foregoing “a chance to hammer” Carlson and for blaming antisemitism on immigration, which the radio host called “silly.”

But following what he described as “a great meeting” with the vice president on Thursday, Rosenberg appeared to have changed his tune.

Asked by Cosby if he walked away optimistic about Vance’s stance on Israel, Rosenberg responded, “The answer is yes.” T.o.I.

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US conducted 'tremendous terror,' worse than al-Qaeda, Hasan Piker says in Axios interview. Piker, who has over 3 million followers and is one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, came under renewed attention due to his participation in campaigning for the Abdul El-Sayed. September 18, 2026 02:07 JPost

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker says US commits ‘pound for pound’ more terrorism than Al Qaeda. By Samuel Chamberlain. Published Sep. 17, 2026. Far-left streamer Hasan Piker argued in an interview published Thursday that the US military has committed more terrorism than Al Qaeda, the Islamist network behind the 9/11 attacks.

“Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes,” Piker, a prominent surrogate for Michigan Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, told “The Axios Show” after being challenged over a recent comment describing America as “the top dog in terrorism. [32] NYPost

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October 7 survivor to UN chief: Hamas planning the next massacre.

Tzav 9's Yael Savarigo hits back at UN Secretary-General António Guterres: 'We demand UN stop supporting terrorist organizations, focus on disarming Hamas.'

Israel National News Sep 18, 2026, 10:23 AM INN

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(Arab-) Israeli accused of contacting Hamas, Iranian intelligence Tamra resident repeatedly contacted Hamas, later established ties with Iranian intelligence before being arrested, Shin Bet, Israel Police reveal. Uzi Baruch. Published: Sep 18, 2026, 9:21 AM (GMT+3) INN

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IDF goes on heightened alert for Yom Kippur Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir orders reinforcements across all fronts, with armed aircraft, missile ships and additional forces placed on standby. Uzi Baruch. Published: Sep 18, 2026, 11:18 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Yeshiva student killed in Hadera ramming. Amichai Attia, a 12th-grade student from Samaria, named as teen victim killed in ramming by Arab driver; police say incident was criminal, not terrorism. Israel National News. Sep 18, 2026, 9:02 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Robert Kraft was right about Macklemore, the explanation was all wrong - opinion. We should stop defending ourselves against the accusation and start challenging the accusation itself.

By David Zalik. September 18, 2026. The problem was not Robert Kraft’s decision. The problem is how we explain it.

We removed the messenger from the stage without confronting the lie he was spreading. We focused on Macklemore–his rhetoric, his history, the hurt his words cause–when the far greater threat is the message itself. And in doing so, we inadvertently helped create precisely the narrative Macklemore and his defenders wanted.

Now the story practically writes itself: Macklemore dared to “speak truth to power.” He said what others supposedly do not want Americans to hear, and for his courage, a Jewish billionaire and other venue owners took away his microphone. Macklemore becomes the martyr. His cancellation becomes evidence of his righteousness. And Jews assume precisely the role his rhetoric already assigns us: morally compromised and willing to use our influence to suppress anyone brave enough to expose an uncomfortable truth.

We should stop defending ourselves against the accusation and start challenging the accusation itself.

Macklemore did not belong on that stage because he was using it to spread hateful lies about the Jewish state. He was telling an audience that the world’s only Jewish state is committing “genocide” and practicing “apartheid,” presenting those accusations not as arguments to defend, but as settled truths.

That is not the same as supporting Palestinians or criticizing Israel. Macklemore remains free to say what he believes. But freedom of speech does not entitle anyone to someone else’s microphone, particularly an entertainment stage before thousands who bought tickets for a concert rather than to hear a political polemic.

There is also a bitter irony in the outrage over Macklemore being “canceled.” Where was this defense of artistic freedom when American Jewish musician Matisyahu had concerts canceled after activists targeted venues over his support for Israel, creating security and staffing concerns? Macklemore did not lose his place because of his identity. He lost that stage because of what he chose to do with it.

The accusations coming from more than Macklemore.

And this is much bigger than Macklemore. He did not invent these accusations. He is simply their latest celebrity messenger.

“Genocide.” “Apartheid.” “Ethnic cleansing.” “War criminal.” We hear these charges on college campuses, across social media, in newsrooms, entertainment, politics, and our institutions. Repeated often enough, they enter our discourse not as extraordinary accusations requiring proof, but as established facts requiring allegiance.

That is where the Jewish community has missed something fundamental. We have become very good at identifying antisemitism and condemning those who traffic in it. We have been far less willing to confront the lies that make the antisemitism possible.

Dara Horn has articulated something essential about antisemitism: it does not operate simply as hatred or intolerance toward Jews. It operates through a recurring lie–that Jews are responsible for destroying whatever a society holds most dear.

That distinction changes the prescription. If we treat antisemitism primarily as intolerance, we answer it with tolerance: more education, dialogue, and opportunities to understand Jews. Those things have value. But you cannot cure a lie by teaching people to become more tolerant of the people being lied about. You have to challenge the lie.

And we must confront the genocide lie more boldly. Israel is not committing genocide. The accusation is false and outrageous.

Genocide is not a synonym for a terrible war, a high civilian death toll, or even violations of the laws of war. It is a specific crime requiring intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such. Intent is not incidental to the definition. It is essential.

Israel’s conduct matters too. John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at West Point’s Modern War Institute, has argued after studying the Gaza campaign that Israel has implemented more measures to prevent civilian harm than any military he has studied. That does not mean every Israeli decision was correct or every strike justified. But warnings, evacuations, and extensive civilian-harm precautions are evidence that must be confronted before accusing a country of intending to destroy a people.

The genocide accusation is a modern blood libel.

The original blood libel accused Jews of deliberately murdering Christian children. Its power came from transforming hatred into righteousness. Those who believed it did not imagine themselves persecuting innocent Jews. They imagined themselves protecting innocent children from evil.

The moral vocabulary changes. The mechanism remains hauntingly familiar. Today, someone can accuse the Jewish state of deliberately destroying a people and still sincerely insist–as Macklemore has–that he has nothing against Jews. He may genuinely believe he is standing against evil. That is precisely what makes the libel so dangerous.

Concern for Palestinian human rights, advocacy for Palestinians and criticism of Israel are not antisemitic. Palestinian suffering is real. Innocent civilians have died, and where individuals commit crimes, they should be held accountable.

But none of that establishes genocide. And compassion does not demand self-flagellation or self-erasure.

Jews should not have to accept the lie that Israel is committing genocide to prove that we care about Palestinian lives. We should not have to sever our connection to Israel to establish our moral credibility or repeat a blood libel against the Jewish state to demonstrate our decency.

Yet that is increasingly the moral test imposed upon us.

Accept that the world’s only Jewish state is committing one of humanity’s gravest crimes, and you can remain among the righteous. Challenge that premise, defend Israel against the charge, or refuse to distance yourself from the Jewish state, and suddenly your disagreement becomes complicity–and your connection to Israel becomes evidence against you.

That is not incidental to the antisemitism. It is how the antisemitism works.

Some argue that Netanyahu’s government or particular Israeli policies have made defending Israel more difficult. But difficulty does not turn an accusation into a fact. We do not have to support Netanyahu or defend every Israeli action. And distancing ourselves from Israel will not make American Jews safer; it only reinforces the dangerous fiction that Jewish safety depends on Jewish behavior.

We can defend Palestinian humanity without surrendering our own. We should not disavow Israel to demonstrate our decency or accept collective guilt for a crime Israel did not commit.

The answer to a blood libel is not to prove that Jews are good people. It is to expose the blood libel as a lie.

Robert Kraft is a hero for standing up. Now it is our job to stand with him–and fight the lies. JPost

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Dave Portnoy backs Robert Kraft after Macklemore ban: 110 percent. Barstool founder Dave Portnoy strongly backs Robert Kraft’s decision to ban Macklemore, criticizing the rapper’s politics and antisemitic history. Israel National News. Published: Sep 18, 2026, 6:58 AM (GMT+3) [...] Portnoy further pointed to Macklemore’s previous controversy involving antisemitic imagery. "Bob Kraft, I am sure, did what I did when I saw this, he researched Macklemore," Portnoy said. "It didn't take long to learn that Macklemore has a pretty shady past. He already, at a prior concert, dressed in wildly antisemitic tropes."

He was referring to Macklemore’s 2014 performance in Seattle, where the rapper appeared in a dark suit while wearing a fake beard and prosthetic nose. The appearance drew criticism for invoking antisemitic caricatures of Jews... INN

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Protesters tear down PLO flag in Amsterdam Crowd erupts in cheers as pro-Israel demonstrators pull massive PLO flag from building overlooking Amsterdam’s Dam Square. Israel National News. Sep 18, 2026, 10:49 AM (GMT+3) INN

Netherlands: Thousands participated in a rally in support of Israel organized by Christian organizations that love Israel yesterday at Dam Square in Amsterdam. (September 18, 2026) Abualiexpress

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Dutch cinema drops Oct. 7 screening of ‘NAZA’ But Filmhuis Lumen in Delft will still show the film, which portrays Israeli soldiers as war criminals, on two other dates. Canaan Lidor. (Sept. 18, 2026 / JNS) A Dutch movie theater had scheduled an Oct. 7 screening of “NAZA,” a documentary widely seen as anti-Israel, but appeared to have removed it from its online schedule amid an outcry on Thursday. Filmhuis Lumen in Delft, near Rotterdam, this week initially scheduled screenings of “NAZA” on Oct. 4, Oct. 7 and Oct. 11, making it one of the first theaters in the world to screen the film following its premiere last week at the Venice International Film Festival. The film won the festival’s Special Jury Prize.

The theater then dropped the Oct. 7 screening of the film, which alleges that Israel systematically targeted Palestinian civilians during the war against Hamas in Gaza. Israeli officials and others have dismissed the film as a mendacious instrument of anti-Israel propaganda. The change followed criticism online, including on Lumen’s Facebook page, over the Oct. 7 screening.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned “NAZA” as an “intolerable” and “terrible” film that “slanders IDF soldiers” and portrays Israeli soldiers as war criminals. The film was co-directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and named for the Hebrew military acronym for “collateral damage.”

Filmhuis Lumen did not reply by press time to a JNS query about what led to its decision to drop the Oct. 7 screening, which would have fallen on the third anniversary of Hamas’s massacres. Hamas terrorists and other Gazans killed about 1,200 people on Oct. 7, 2023, among other atrocities.

Oded Nir, a member of the Consulting Board of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, also known as Habithonistim, condemned the decision to screen the film on that date and said it was indicative of indifference in Western Europe to Israeli casualties.

Nir, an Israeli musician who lived in the Netherlands for 19 years before returning to Israel last year, told JNS that Delft was “a quiet and picturesque place. And as Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote in ‘Shir Betar’: ‘Quiet is squalid, an abandonment of blood and soul.’” Jabotinsky was a right-wing Zionist leader who founded the Betar youth movement in Riga in 1923.

Lumen has previously screened anti-Israel films, including “No Other Land,” “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and “Palestine 36.” It did not advertise screenings of recent films that represent the mainstream Israeli narrative, such as “We Will Dance Again,” “Screams Before Silence,” “One Day in October” or “Of Dogs and Men.” https://www.jns.org/news/world/dutch-cinema-drops-oct-7-screening-of-naza

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WSJ report: Kraft told Sheeran Macklemore’s Gaza claims were hate speech. Robert Kraft told Ed Sheeran that Macklemore’s claims about Israel and Gaza were hate speech in a 40-minute call, according to The Wall Street Journal. Israel National News Sep 18, 2026, 8:18 PM INN

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Iran is rapidly rebuilding a fortified facility at the Parchin military complex near Tehran that has been linked to past nuclear weapons research, according to new satellite imagery analyzed by the Institute for Science and International Security.

Satellite images from Sept. 13 show extensive reconstruction at the Taleghan 2 facility, including a large tarp covering the damaged underground structure to conceal work from satellite and aerial surveillance, the Washington-based research institute said on Thursday.

Construction equipment, including cranes, bulldozers, dump trucks and concrete mixers, was visible at the site, while new concrete reinforcement appeared intended to provide additional protection against airstrikes, according to the analysis.

Taleghan 2 was destroyed in an Israeli strike in October 2024 and subsequently rebuilt and hardened before being struck again in March. The institute assessed after the second attack that the facility’s internal structure had likely been destroyed. JNS

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Germany: Afghan national arrested over suspected arson attack on synagogue. German police arrest 37-year-old Afghan national suspected of setting fire to a synagogue in Wuppertal. Israel National News. Published: Sep 18, 2026, 5:53 AM (GMT+3) INN

Arsonist targets German synagogue ahead of Yom Kippur. Sep 18, 2026. An arson attack targeted the Bergische Synagogue in Wuppertal, Germany, days before Yom Kippur, the European Jewish Congress said on Friday.

At about 2 p.m. local time on Thursday, a man threw several bags filled with flammable liquid at a side entrance to the synagogue in North Rhine-Westphalia state and set them alight before fleeing, according to the EJC. JNS

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Huckabee: International media may be Israel’s ‘toughest enemy’. Sep 18, 2026. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday accused the international media of pervasive bias against Israel, citing an analysis of millions of news articles.

“Read the meticulously documented analysis of the bias of news coverage of Israel ... and you will find that the int’l media may be Israel’s toughest enemy!” Huckabee wrote on X.

He was referring to “Center of Attention,” published on Aug. 27 by Jeremy Musighi, a technology entrepreneur and investor who researches media coverage of Israel, and who said he analyzed 14.7 million news articles in 65 languages, as well as cable news airtime and data from X.

“Every news story follows a predictable decay function—it peaks, then is soon forgotten,” Musighi wrote. “That is, every story except one: Israel.”

Musighi said his analysis found unusually persistent media attention on Israel, describing the results as “staggering.” JNS

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El-Sayed Gushed Over ‘Hilarious’ Antisemitic Comedian and Conspiracy Theorist Who’s Mehdi Hasan’s ‘Good Friend’: Zeteo Contributor Depicted Jews as Deceitful Redheads. Bassem Youssef calls 9/11 ‘the biggest false flag operation’ by Israel. Chuck Ross. September 18, 2026 FreeBeacon

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Hundreds of Jewish residents protest outside of NYC Mayor Mamdani's home. Jewish protesters gather outside NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home after a spike in antisemitism in the city over the Summer. Idan Kweller, Yoav Etiel. September 18, 2026. Hundreds of Jewish community leaders and residents are currently protesting outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home to demonstrate their support for Israel and bring attention to rising antisemitism in the city.

The event was prompted by an increase in attacks on Jews this summer, which included a stabbing near a synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and a disruption of services at the Great Refrom Synagogue in August. JPost

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Open letter to US President Donald Trump: Carpe diem - opinion. You have made clear that America must win the artificial intelligence race. I agree. But another question must stand beside it: How does America win without all of us ultimately losing? Jeffrey Kahn. September 18, 2026. JPost

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Serious Security Indictment. Israeli Arab Arrested for Hamas Contact Sultan Abu al-Hija reached out multiple times to Hamas's military wing and attempted to establish contact with Iranian intelligence operatives before his arrest. Eliana Fleming Sep 18, 2026. JFeed

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Live Updates: Yemen conflict displaces 112,000 as Qatar, UN agree to ship 1.3 million liters of fuel to Gaza. Sharaa secretly building up Syrian military • Ex-Fatah official says he passed on Oct. 7 warning to Israel • Iraq lifts civilian restrictions in its western airspace. Sep 18, 2026. JPost

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The left lobs yet another ‘Big Lie’ on Israel — and the fallout keeps getting worse. By Post Editorial Board. Published Sep. 18, 2026, 8:58 p.m. ET

The left’s Big Lies about Israel keep growing bigger — as do the ugly consequences.

The latest: Rep. Gregory Meeks’ bid to place a “hold” on a $2.8 billion sale of US bombs to the Jewish state.

“The Trump administration’s proposed sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs . . . raises grave, unresolved concerns about how these munitions could be used in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon,” huffed Meeks; it’s empty virtue-signaling, since he can’t actually stop the sale.

How bad have the lies about Israel gotten?

These are weapons needed to destroy underground tunnels and bunkers; withholding them helps sustain Hamas and Hezbollah, though Meeks claims he backs Israel’s right to defend itself from the terrorists.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) likewise opposed the sale, claiming preposterously that “US weapons are being used to perpetrate a genocide.”

It’s all nonsense: Israel has never — never — used bombs indiscriminately or where it believed major civilian casualties were likely, let alone to “perpetrate a genocide.”

And there’s no legitimate fear it ever would.

These charges fit with a slew of whoppers in a new film, “NAZA” (an acronym for the Hebrew words for “collateral damage”), that the Israel Defense Forces used AI to identify targets in Gaza and carried out strikes knowing they’d mostly kill civilians.

Contrary to the vicious smears, the IDF never leaves targeting decisions to AI, nor would it proceed with a strike if it expected a high civilian-casualty rate.

What makes these lies especially heinous is that the precise opposite is true: Israel goes to lengths to avoid civilian casualties. [33].

Even as Hamas tries to maximize them by using them as human shields.

Urban warfare expert John Spencer, who’s studied the war in Gaza, reports that Jerusalem has “implemented more civilian harm mitigation measures than any military in history.” [34].

That includes not just calling off strikes and diverting missiles mid-flight rather than skirt the rules of war, but also informing civilians in advance of an attack by phone and leaflets, using pinpoint targeting and more.

And it doesn’t just avoid casualties; IDF soldiers have actually risked their lives to protect civilians — from Hamas.

The military has also opted for ground attacks rather than airstrikes to avoid civilian casualties, even though it knew it would lose its own soldiers by doing so.

Of course, the charge of genocide goes way beyond lies like those in “NAZA.”

Along with Jayapal, countless lefties — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Brad Lander, Rashida Tlaib and on and on — fling the term with abandon.

Never mind that Israel could have wiped out Gaza’s population if it wanted to, nor that it’s provided food and medicine to the strip instead.

Or that Gaza’s population has grown 50% in the past 20 years, and didn’t shrink even at the height of the “genocide.”

Adolf Hitler defined the “Big Lie” as a fabrication so wild that people would believe it, not realizing anyone would “distort the truth so infamously.”

He pretended Jews used the technique; in reality it was central to the Nazis’ anti-Jewish propaganda.

How telling that it’s now deployed on a global scale against Israel. NYPost

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Michigan Mayor Sued Over Alleged Discrimination Against Jews, Christians. By Corey Walker. September 18, 2026.

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud speaks at a press conference in Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud speaks at a press conference in Dearborn, Michigan. Photo: Screenshot

Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan is facing a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing his administration of using taxpayer-funded city resources to promote Islam while refusing comparable recognition to Christian and Jewish holidays and retaliating against a journalist who challenged the disparity.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday by Dearborn resident and Federalist senior legal correspondent Margot Cleveland, paints a picture of a city government that, according to the complaint, was willing to spend public money celebrating Ramadan but repeatedly brushed aside requests for equal treatment of other faiths. The American Freedom Law Center, which represents Cleveland, alleges that Dearborn’s conduct violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution, including protections involving religious freedom, free speech, and equal protection. [35]

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Bid to disqualify Balad chairman: Dispute emerges within State Attorney’s Office. Senior officials support disqualifying Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh, while the Deputy State Attorney has reservations and the AG awaits his response. Israel National News. Sep 18, 2026 ...an article published by Abu Shehadeh on October 8, 2023 - one day after the Hamas attack, while fighting was still ongoing inside Israel. The article appeared on Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, a website owned by former Knesset member Azmi Bishara, who fled to Qatar after being accused of passing intelligence to Hezbollah during the 2006 Second Lebanon War.

In the piece, Abu Shehadeh described the Hamas attack as "an important historic event from a military, political, and strategic perspective." INN

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US Representative: 'Ben Gvir in the Cabinet is an existential threat'. Brad Sherman, one of Israel’s most prominent supporters in Congress, warns of a collapse in public support for Israel in the United States. Israel National News. Published: Sep 19, 2026, 10:32 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Last Selichot prayers before Yom Kippur. Crowds gather at the Western Wall ahead of Selichot prayers, recited the day before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. Israel National News. Sep 19, 2026, 11:12 PM INN

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HonestReporting on X: "25 minutes of applause. Glowing reviews. A major jury prize. Yet, most people still haven’t had the chance to see “NAZA” for themselves. The film argues that Israel’s targeting systems and calculations of expected civilian casualties reveal deliberate mass killing. But assessing expected civilian harm before a strike is part of the proportionality analysis international humanitarian law requires. Something that literally proves the opposite. The IDF has rejected the film’s allegations. Yet the film's anonymous testimony is already being treated by some critics as a definitive indictment. Before the broader public has even seen the film, the verdict was already written." @HonestReporting HonestReporting @HonestReporting 25 minutes of applause. Glowing reviews. A major jury prize. Yet, most people still haven’t had the chance to see “NAZA” for themselves.

The film argues that Israel’s targeting systems and calculations of expected civilian casualties reveal deliberate mass killing. But assessing expected civilian harm before a strike is part of the proportionality analysis international humanitarian law requires. Something that literally proves the opposite.

The IDF has rejected the film’s allegations. Yet the film's anonymous testimony is already being treated by some critics as a definitive indictment.

Before the broader public has even seen the film, the verdict was already written. Sep 19, 2026. HonestReporting

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The Western Spirit - With Ariel Whitman: The Anti-Israel Film That Undermines Its Own Genocide Claim | Andrew Fox. Sep 18, 2026. The new documentary Naza has ignited controversy over its allegations about Israeli airstrikes, civilian casualties and the IDF’s use of intelligence and AI in Gaza. But Andrew Fox, a former British Army officer and researcher at the Henry Jackson Society, says the claims being promoted simply don’t add up.

Fox challenges the film’s anonymous testimony, questions the lack of verification behind its most explosive allegations, and argues that the very process of calculating collateral damage around military targets may undermine rather than support claims of indiscriminate killing. He also explains what actually happens when Western militaries assess civilian casualties and proportionality before a strike.

We also discuss the film’s reception at the Venice Film Festival, the psychology of groupthink around Israel, the consequences of publicly defending the IDF, growing hostility toward Israel in Britain, and why Fox worries that European sanctions could become the beginning of something much larger.

Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to the controversy surrounding Naza 02:09 The claims made in the Naza documentary and their credibility 03:51 Legal and ethical considerations of targeting military leaders 08:00 The role of lawyers and rules of engagement in Israel's military 12:02 The influence of social media and groupthink on public perception 16:03 International sanctions and their impact on Israel 20:13 The importance of critical thinking and independent analysis. 23:56 The psychological aspects of disinformation and social conformity 28:10 The future of Israel's military strategy and international relations. on YouTube

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Houthis Widen Their Threats. Houthi Official Threatens Turkey and Pakistan Over Support for Saudi Arabia. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti warned that the Houthis would strike Turkey and Pakistan if they intervene for Riyadh, as the Mecca defense pact faces its first real test. Gila Isaacson. Sep 19, 2026 JFeed

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How Nigeria’s Media Rewrites Massacres into ‘Clashes’. By Mary Kiara, September 19, 2026.

(Abuja) – As Fulani-tribe terrorists slaughtered 25 sleeping Christians in Plateau State in August, state-influenced press pipelines sanitized the massacre into a minor communal clash, deceiving international newsrooms.

On August 18, 2026, armed Fulani ethnic militia invaded Binper village, a predominantly Christian community in central Nigeria’s Plateau State at midnight, moving house-to-house to execute sleeping women and children.

Eyewitnesses described raiders chanting “Allahu Akbar” while hacking women children with machetes.

Yet, within hours, the truth underwent a deliberate transformation.

The Spin Machine. The moment local village leaders documented 25 murdered civilians; government security forces activated Abuja’s Wash-and-Spin Machine. First, top police authorities “condemned” the attack.

Second, State Commissioner of Police Faniyan CP Ayodeji started the wash. He assured the public that “the Command will do everything within its constitutional powers to identify, arrest and prosecute those responsible,” according to the Police press release.

TV News Central added the bleach. It breathlessly reported the attack on August 20 and deplored its cruelty at length, yet without a hint of embarrassment, neglected to report who the attackers were, although the attackers were speaking the Fulfulde language of the Fulani tribe.

The TV reporters, all savvy professionals, likely had seen the TruthNigeria headline the previous day: “Fulani Militia Kill 27 in Concurrent Attacks in Nigeria’s Plateau State.” But News Central had the good news: after 27 deaths a single suspect had been arrested. Identity of that person, charges filed against him? Silence.

To appease state broadcast regulators, local Nigerian newspapers sanitized headlines to read “fresh Plateau attack,” completely avoiding any mention of religious targeting. By the time the news reached Western wire services, the spin cycle was complete: the world was told the slaughter was merely a “farmer-herder conflict driven by resource competition”, according to Reuters. (Oddly, Reuters on the scene: their story was filed by two men, one in Kano and another in Maiduguri, both cities far from Mangu County.)…

When American newsrooms repeat sanitized phrases such as “farmer-herder clashes,” Washington policymakers receive a false narrative. Relying on flawed reporting, foreign officials fail to recognize that radicalized militias are systematically displacing native-Christian populations. TruthNigeria

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US Embassy in Jerusalem issues security alert warning of travel disruptions. The US Embassy in Jerusalem has issued a security alert to American citizens in Israel, warning of potential flight and travel disruptions amid rising tensions in the region. Gila Isaacson| Sep 19, 2026 23:58 JFeed

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Iran says it has conveyed conditions to re-engage in talks, end war with US. The conditions include ending the war on all fronts, unfreezing Iranian funds, and ending the US naval blockade, Iran's Security Chief Mohsen Rezaei said. September 19, 2026 JPost

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Live Updates: Two IDF soldiers lightly injured in southern Lebanon, prompting retaliation strikes on Hezbollah Turkey revokes operating license of Iran's Mellat Bank • Report: Pentagon's US-Iran war fatality accounting may be inaccurate • Iran reconstructing nuclear test-linked Taleghan 2 site. JPost

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Gaza journalist Motaz Azaiza says he filmed hostage abuse on October 7 but hid footage. Motaz Azaiza also criticized Hamas’s leadership over its months-long refusal to agree to a deal. By Eli Leon. September 19, 2026. Gazan photographer and journalist Motaz Azaiza said he filmed Israeli hostages being beaten by a Gazan mob on October 7, 2023, but chose not to publish the footage because he feared it could put the Palestinians involved at risk.

“I saw the vehicle of the Al-Qassam Brigades, and there were Israeli captives there,” Azaiza recalled. “People got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed. But I did not publish those videos. Why? Because I did not want to ruin the lives of the people who were filmed. JPost

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Houthis fire ballistic missile at Riyadh Israel National News. Sep 20, 2026, 12:05 AM INN

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Max 📟 on X: "BOMBSHELL: Motaz Azaiza admits Gazans were hoping for war. "Let me tell you a secret. I don't know if you'll keep it in. A lot of people in Gaza were wishing the war would come." Why? "When a war or an escalation comes, the NGOs talk to you. There's a job opportunity." "People only know us through war." The most prominent "photojournalist" in Gaza admits that Gazans wanted a war because it would convince international organizations to give them money. Azaiza is the man TIME named to the TIME 100 and who was nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. CNN, the Guardian and Sky have all interviewed him. This is an Arabic interview from January 2025. There has been no English-language reporting on it, until now. 🧵" @MaxNordau Max 📟 @MaxNordau

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@MaxNordau Max 📟 @MaxNordau · Sep 20

BOMBSHELL: "Photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza stayed up until 4 AM the night before October 7 to celebrate his successful campaign to get US taxpayers to send $75 million to UNRWA.

"I had a small celebration planned with my work. I'd be on a Zoom call. Because videos I'd been making Show more

Max 📟 @MaxNordau BOMBSHELL: "Photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza stayed up until 4 AM the night before October 7 to celebrate his successful campaign to get US taxpayers to send $75 million to UNRWA.

"I had a small celebration planned with my work. I'd be on a Zoom call. Because videos I'd been making in Gaza had succeeded. To pressure the American Congress to lift the restrictions on 75 million dollars for food through UNRWA."

"UNRWA was accused of supporting terrorist organisations. So they froze its funding in the American Congress."

"After a lot of effort, roughly monthly, you work, you produce videos, you film, you show the American public to pressure."

This is true: On October 4, 2023, Blinken overrode a Republican hold on exactly $75 million in Palestinian food aid, days before the attack.

And UNRWA USA states on its own website that it hired Azaiza to run its online content before the war, then toured him through five American cities raising money in 2025.

CNN, the Guardian and Sky all presented him as an independent witness to Gaza.

Motaz Azaiza was not a neutral, independent journalist. He was an UNRWA employee working to create propaganda to restore US taxpayer funding.

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@MaxNordau Max 📟 @MaxNordau · Sep 20

ANOTHER BOMBSHELL: Motaz Azaiza says young men in Gaza burned their own legs with iron rods to fake sniper wounds, so they could collect the cash Hamas paid out for alleged injuries at the 2018 "Great March of Return."

"He'd hear there were stipends for people wounded at the Show more

@MaxNordau Max 📟 @MaxNordau · Sep 20

🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza admits: "When I was young, I was Hamas. I didn't find myself in it, and I withdrew. I went into university, I wanted scholarships, and you have to go along with a particular faction, so, alright, I started being Fatah."

In other words: he ..

@MaxNordau Max 📟 @MaxNordau · Sep 20

🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza, explains how Palestinian Arab society treats dissent:

"We have a division. 800 Palestinians of ours were killed by Palestinian hands. They threw people off rooftops. They shot people in their legs. They burned people. Palestinians on each ..

@MaxNordau Max 📟@MaxNordau ·Sep 20

🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza explains why his entire wartime output was in English rather than Arabic:

"In the first moments I was speaking Arabic. It came from rancor. We tried a lot, speaking Arabic. Nobody helped us. And there are plenty who speak Arabic. You want ..

@MaxNordau Max 📟 @MaxNordau · Sep 21

🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza explains his reaction to watching Hamas terrorists with their kidnapping victims on October 7.

"People were looking at the kidnapped soldiers. Filming them. Some hitting them. Some spitting on them. And I'm filming."

"I figured: as a ..

@MaxNordau Max 📟 @MaxNordau. 🚨 Gaza "photojournalist" Motaz Azaiza on the Holocaust: "It means nothing next to what is happening."

The host agrees: Gaza is way worse, because the Holocaust was targeted, but the war in Gaza is blanket targeting that hits everyone.

@MichaelRapaport MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport · Sep 20

wait this Motaz???

on X ([37]).

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Celebrated Gaza Journalist Who Hung Out With Zohran Mamdani Admitted to Hiding Footage of 10/7 Attacks on Israeli Hostages. Mediaite | September 22, 2026 | Sean James.

A Nobel Prize-nominated journalist from Gaza who has hung out with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) multiple times has admitted to covering up footage of Israeli hostages being attacked on October 7, 2023.

Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza admitted to hiding the dreadful images during a podcast interview, the New York Post reported on Monday.

Azaiza said he covered it up to protect the people who were seen attacking the hostages once they were pulled into Gaza, because he feared the Israeli military would use the video to seek payback against the torturers. He also claimed Hamas controls all the media coming out of Gaza via a single WhatsApp group; any reporters who dare to publish content which makes Hamas look bad will be “persecuted relentlessly,” he said. Hamas’s firm grip on freedom of expression in Gaza is well-known and documented.

“People got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed,” Azaiza said on the Taqqarrab podcast. “But I did not publish those videos.”

“Why? Because I did not want to ruin the lives of the people who were filmed,” he continued. “I understood that Israel would use those videos to identify every person who was there and eliminate them.”

He added he did not want to feel “responsible” for their deaths following the 10/7 attack, when about 1,200 people were murdered in Israel, and hundreds of hostages were taken back to Gaza.

Azaiza’s admission comes two years after he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his photography, which was heralded for “giving the world an insight into the atrocities in Gaza.” Time Magazine also honored Azaiza as one of the 100 most influential people in 2024.

“For 108 days, Motaz Azaiza acted as the world’s eyes and ears in his native Gaza,” Time wrote in its glowing blurb. “Armed with a camera and a flak jacket marked ‘PRESS,’ the 25-year-old Palestinian photographer spent nearly four months documenting life under Israeli bombardment: families displaced from homes, women mourning loved ones, a man trapped beneath the rubble. His images offered a glimpse into Gaza that few in the international press—which has been all but barred from accessing the Strip—could rival.”

On top of that, Azaiza has seemed to get pretty friendly with NYC’s mayor over the past few years. He posted a pic of the two smiling together in August 2025, saying it was great to see Mamdani winning over voters on the campaign trail, only a year after Azaiza said he was “cursed at and called a terrorist” in The Big Apple.

Azaiza later joined Mamdani during his election night victory party, and he recently visited the mayor at Gracie Mansion.

“It’s always good to be at the mayor’s house,” Azaiza captioned his July 16 post on Instagram.

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— MoTaz (@motazazaiza9) August 15, 2025

Azaiza said during his podcast interview his coverage — and the coverage of every other Palestinian journalist — is compromised by Hamas, whether through fear or punishment.

“Photographers in Gaza have become accustomed to lowering their cameras the moment someone says something bad about Hamas,” he said, “because anyone who dares to show reality is persecuted relentlessly.”

He added, “Gaza is the most toxic place in the world. Mediaite

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El-Sayed’s Senate bid raises new concerns over a powerful privilege that comes with the job. Robert Schmad. Sun, September 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT Conservatives who spoke with Fox News Digital are raising concerns about what could happen if Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed wins his election and, by virtue of holding office, becomes eligible to receive certain classified information... "Anyone refusing to disavow America-hater Hasan Piker should never be elected to Congress. El-Sayed will use his perch in the Senate to undermine America and empower its enemies," Daniel Samet, a research fellow specializing in Middle East policy at the center-right American Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital. FoxNews

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El Sayed-aligned Islamic council with alleged terrorism financing ties issued fatwa to financially support Muslim candidates.

By Mia Cathell. Published September 20, 2026. A preeminent Islamic council with organizational ties to a suspected financial collaborator of terrorism has authorized followers of Islam to flood Muslim and anti-Israel candidates with financial support using monetary obligations under Sharia law.

The Fiqh Council of North America earlier this election year issued a fatwa, a religious order in Islam, instructing Muslims across the United States that they are allowed to send portions of their annual Islamic dues — mandatory almsgiving known as “zakat” — to the campaigns of Muslim candidates and other 2026 contenders opposed to Israel.. WashingtonExaminer

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Congressman asks IRS to investigate Islamic Society of North America over El-Sayed campaign activity. According to the Middle East Forum’s report, El-Sayed’s campaign operated an exhibitor booth inside the convention hall, where campaign workers promoted his candidacy, solicited donations and recruited volunteers.

Sep 21, 2026.

Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether the Islamic Society of North America violated federal rules governing tax-exempt organizations by reportedly allowing campaign activity for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at its annual convention.

Self sent a letter Wednesday to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, citing a report from the Middle East Forum about El-Sayed’s appearance at the 63rd annual ISNA Convention in Detroit earlier this month. JustTheNews

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Abbas’ advisor invites Hamas who “killed and tortured” Gazans for “true national unity”. By Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, September 20, 2026.

On several occasions, the PA and Fatah, and in particular Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, have called for unity with Hamas under the PLO. This month, Al-Habbash openly stated that they are “hoping” for this unity, particularly with Hamas:

Al-Habbash: “Arranging the Palestinian home is a top priority for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership. We cannot truly advance, or at least move matters forward, and protect the Palestinian issue without true national unity (i.e., including Hamas), under an inclusive national umbrella, which is the PLO… We hope that all these efforts will lead to a response, particularly from the Hamas movement.” PMW

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Hamas allegedly built weapons depots across Europe, planned terror attacks as Oct 7 anniversary neared Fox News | 09/20/2026 | Benjamin Weinthal.

The German federal prosecutor’s office recently announced that it indicted seven people for allegedly securing weapons for the Hamas terrorist organization, with the goal of launching terrorist attacks on the second remembrance date of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel.

The indictment has catapulted the danger of Hamas’ network in Europe to Israeli, American and European installations and citizens into the spotlight.

According to the prosecutor’s office, "All of the accused belong to the foreign terrorist organization Hamas. Some time ago, the organization’s military wing (the so-called Qassam Brigades) began establishing weapons depots in Europe. No later than July 2025, Hamas planned a concrete assassination in Germany or Austria targeting representatives of Israel, people of Jewish faith, or persons with pro-Israel views." The seven suspects were arrested between October 2025 and May 2026.

The statement added, "The attack was to take place in close temporal proximity to the second anniversary of Hamas’s assault on Israel on 7 October 2023 — i.e., in early October 2025."

The indictment listed the nationalities and first names and first letter of the last name of the suspects: German national Abed Al G., Danish national Yousif C., Lebanon-born Borhan El-K., Lebanon-born Wael F.M., German national Ahmad I., Lebanon-born Kamel M., Bulgarian national Mohammad S."

German law shields the last names of criminal suspects for privacy reasons. Fox News

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Australia’s intelligence chief: Antisemitism has risen to ‘disturbing level’. Iran might target Jewish leaders in the country, ASIO Director-General Burgess said. Sept. 20, 2026 JNS

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Nearly 150,000 people participate in final slihot ceremony ahead of Yom Kippur at Kotel. Also in attendance were former hostage Eliya Cohen and his wife, Nova survivor Ziv Abud, as well as former hostages Rom Braslavski, Elkana Bohbot, and Ohad Ben Ami. September 20, 2026 Approximately 150,000 people participated in the final slihot prayer service at the Western Wall ahead of Yom Kippur on Saturday night, marking the conclusion of 2026's traditional gatherings.

The gathering began in the early evening hours and reached its peak during the central ceremony at the Kotel, with participants standing in the Western Wall Plaza and spread across nearby balconies and throughout the Old City's alleyways. Due to the large number of participants, the gathering was also broadcast on giant screens at the outskirts of the plaza... JPost

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Thousands of IRGC, Basij volunteers march through Tehran in show of defiance against US, Israel. Participants said they were prepared to take up arms and defend the country after months of war and a worsening economic situation in Iran, the Associated Press reported. September 20, 2026. The volunteers are intended to serve as an additional layer of defense alongside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij militia, which has played a central role over the years in suppressing protests against the regime JPost

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Germany: AfD scores another victory as Merz suffers historic defeat. Israel National News. Sep 20, 2026, 8:39 PM INN

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UEFA rejects Ireland request to keep Israel out of future draws. Israel National News. Sep 21, 2026, 1:05 AM INN

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Israeli murdered in terrorist shooting in Binyamin. A man in his 30s has been declared dead after being critically injured in a suspected terrorist shooting attack near Neveh Tzuf.

Israel National News Sep 20, 2026, 11:44 AM INN

Terrorist kills Netanel Shakron, father of six, in Samaria on Yom Kippur eve. “Today, six young Israeli children lost their father to heinous terrorism,” the Israeli government stated. “May his memory be a blessing.” JNS Staff. (Sept. 20, 2026 / JNS) A Palestinian terrorist shot and killed Netanel Shakron, a father of six, near Neveh Tzuf in the Binyamin region of Samaria on Sunday, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said JNS

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Ben Gvir demands: Execute the terrorist. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir calls for the Terrorist Death Penalty Law to be applied to the terrorist responsible for the attack in Binyamin. Israel National News. Published: Sep 20, 2026, 6:50 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Chief Rabbi issues special Yom Kippur prayer for Manchester synagogue victims. Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis writes a special Yom Kippur prayer honoring the two victims of last year’s Heaton Park synagogue terror attack. Israel National News. Sep 20, 2026, 9:32 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Gaza strike: IAF slays Oct. 7 terrorist working to rehabilitate Hamas. Muhammad Suleiman Byouk infiltrated Israel during the 2023 massacre, and throughout the ensuing war he planted explosive devices across the Strip to harm IDF troops. JNS Staff. Sep 20, 2026. JNS

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Report: Trump administration preparing sweeping sanctions against ICC. The Trump administration is reportedly preparing broad sanctions against the ICC that could block most transactions and restrict access to US dollars. Israel National News. Published: Sep 20, 2026. INN

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In the shadow of October 7: How Yom Kippur has changed for some secular Israelis. The October 7 attack has affected all Israelis somehow. Some have questioned God’s existence. Others have gotten closer to religion, and sought connection to spirituality. Sep 20, 2026 JPost

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Live Updates: IDF reportedly raids several areas in West Bank after one killed in Neveh Tzuf terror attack. Trump calls off planned US strikes on Houthis at last minute after Saudi plea • Iran says it has new targets, weapons ready if US launches new attack, Fars news says. JPost

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Funeral at 11:00 p.m.: IDF tracker fired at terrorist, saving victim's son Uzi Baruch Sep 21, 2026, 8:14 PM INN

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Watch: Thousands gather for Ne’ila prayers in heart of Tel Aviv. Israel National News. Sep 21, 2026, 10:07 PM INN

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Netanel Shakron laid to rest after deadly Binyamin terror attack. Netanel Shakron, father of six murdered at Ein Riya spring, is laid to rest in Alei Zahav. Israel National News Sep 21, 2026, 11:27 PM INN

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Chilling: Terror victim's son recites first 'Kaddish' at father's funeral Israel National News Sep 21, 2026, 11:42 PM INN

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One police officer wounded in shooting attack near Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur Ontario Premier Doug Ford also condemned the shooting in a post on social media, saying Jewish community members had "every right to gather and worship safely and without fear."... The suspected shooter was identified as 29-year-old Sean Ward from the nearby city of Quinte West by Belleville Police Deputy Chief Sherry Meeks... Synagogue president recounts shooting to CNN. Synagogue President Norm Weddum told CNN that the officer, who had been hired to protect the synagogue during Yom Kippur services, had saved the lives of everyone who had attended the evening services and that the building had been hit with multiple bullets.

One police officer wounded in shooting attack near Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur Ontario Premier Doug Ford also condemned the shooting in a post on social media, saying Jewish community members had "every right to gather and worship safely and without fear." Sep. 21, 2026. JPost

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B’nai Brith Canada said the shooting outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario during Yom Kippur must serve as a “wake-up call for Canada.”. 3:42 JNS

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Canadian Jewish groups demand action after Belleville synagogue shooting. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and Jewish Federations of Canada–United Israel. Appeal called for immediate government action Monday in a joint statement following the shooting outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, during Yom Kippur services.

“Jewish Canadians are emerging from Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, to the horrifying images of gunfire outside Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, where members of the Jewish community had gathered to pray,” the groups said. “Jewish Canadians should not need armed police outside their synagogues simply to pray safely.” Sep 22, 2026 4:22 AM JNS

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Sa’ar slams Miliband over silence on Samaria terror attack. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday night rebuked British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband for failing to condemn the Palestinian terrorist who murdered a Jewish father on the eve of Yom Kippur. Sep 22, 2026 4:44 AM “We didn’t hear the part where you condemn the Palestinian murderer who killed a Jewish father in front of his son yesterday, on the eve of Yom Kippur,” Sa’ar wrote on X. “‘Strong values’?” JNS

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Ben-Gvir: Samaria terrorist must face death penalty. Sep 22, 2026 3:28 AM Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Monday that the terrorist attack in Samaria on the eve of Yom Kippur was the first case to meet the criteria of his law that imposes the death penalty on terrorists.

“The terrorist is alive, and therefore this is a mandatory punishment,” Ben-Gvir said on X in Hebrew.

‘Yoav, run!’: Teen recounts watching terrorist murder his father. Sixteen-year-old Yoav Shakron recounts seeing a terrorist shoot his father Netanel, fleeing under fire and returning minutes later to find him dead. Israel National News. Sep 22, 2026, 10:04 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Katz: Gaza City to be ‘evacuated’ if Hamas kidnaps Israeli soldier or civilian. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the warning comes on the back of “various intelligence reports.” JNS Staf. (Sept. 22, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a stark warning to Hamas on Tuesday against attempting to kidnap a soldier or a civilian, during an address at a memorial ceremony for the fallen of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. “In light of various intentions and intelligence reports, I hereby warn the terrorist organization [Hamas] and its supporters, from Iran to [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan,” Katz said at the National Memorial Hall for Fallen Soldiers at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem.

“If even one Israeli soldier or civilian is abducted, the city of Gaza—with its homes and terrorist towers—will be evacuated southward of its one million residents,” he continued, “and it will be dealt with in the same manner in which Rafah and Beit Hanoun and 70% of the Gaza Strip were dealt with, until he is returned.”

He further stated, “This is the language that the jihadist terrorist organizations in Gaza and Lebanon understand, and this is the language we speak: evacuating the population, destroying the infrastructure, and taking the territory.” JNS

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Arab Israeli sentenced after filming Gallant’s home for Iranian agent... The Haifa District Court also imposed two years of probation on Fares Abu Elhija, a 32-year-old resident of the northern town of Kaukab Abu al-Hija. Sep 22, 2026 4:01 AM JNS

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Netanyahu offers condolences to UAE over death of Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Sep 22, 2026 4:33 AM JNS

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Trump denounces Iran as 'terror regime behaving badly,' during UNGA address. By James Genn, Idan Kweller, Jerusalem Post Staff. September 22, 2026. US President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, denouncing the Islamic Republic of Iran and praising the UN Security Council for approving the Gaza peace plan and establishing the Board of Peace.

"There is no better example of a danger that was allowed to gather strength at the world's peril than the number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic," Trump said... Trump discusses horrors of October 7 massacre at UNGA. "In two weeks, we will mark the third anniversary of the October 7 attack in Israel, where terror is funded by Iran, tortured, mutilated, and killed. 1,200 very innocent civilians, including dozens of Americans and many babies, little, tiny, beautiful babies," Trump said.

"Iran's supreme leader celebrated that massacre and called it a service to humanity. The same regime slaughtered over 72,000 of its citizens this year. Recently, 10,000 were killed for protesting," he added.

"Just imagine such a vile regime were ever empowered to carry out large-scale terror attacks from behind a nuclear shield; this was the reality we had to confront-a reality that far too many preferred to ignore. They all ignored it. Many presidents and many others just wanted to ignore it. They were unwilling to do anything about it, but they knew the problem," he continued.

"As a result of Operation Epic Fury, all 159 ships of their navy are now lying at the bottom of the sea. Likewise, their air force is gone, their radar is gone, their anti-aircraft equipment is gone, their missiles and drone manufacturing capacity is almost gone," Trump said.

"Their economy is gone. The only thing that isn't gone is inflation, which is destroying their country, and is now well over 300 percent," he said.

"Yet even after we agreed to a ceasefire for nuclear discussions, Iran promptly violated it with brazen acts of terrorism against civilian ships from other countries," he continued.

"I want to thank the UN Security Council for voting overwhelmingly to pass a resolution condemning Iran's despicable terrorist attacks on commercial shipping," Trump stated.

"That resolution, I'm pleased to say, received more co-sponsors from UN member nations than any Security Council resolution in history," Trump added.

"The United States Navy has recently escorted more than 1 billion barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz, and more oil is flowing than at any point since the start of the war," he added.

"But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world. Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?"

"Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations? But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election because it doesn't make sense for them not to. They're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election," he said.

"They're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election. What they don't realize is that I'm not running. I gave absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election when it comes to Iran. It doesn't even enter my mind. The only thing that does is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon," Trump stated.

"The cowards and traitors would love to say the United States is low in munitions, but that's not true. We have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using, and we're building them at levels that we have never done before," Trump said.

"I call on all nations to join us in enforcing the complete economic isolation of Iran until they stop their attacks on commercial shipping, relinquish their nuclear ambitions, and cease their support of terror," Trump stated.

"The terrorist regime is behaving badly. badly, not because they are strong and confident, but because they are weak and desperate," he added.

"If we stand united, we will soon see a world free of the last 51-year menace of Iranian terror," he continued.

Trump praises establishment of Board of Peace during UNGA address. "One year ago, when I addressed the great leaders in this hall, the war in Gaza was still raging brutally. The hostages were still deep in Hamas tunnels, and there was no end in sight. It was never going to be resolved. But here, on the sidelines of the General Assembly, we took the first steps that changed everything. A few weeks later, we ended the war in Gaza, saving untold 1000s of lives. We also brought home all remaining hostages, both living and dead. Every single one of them. Thank you. Thank you," he said. JPost

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Revelation raises questions about reporting from Gaza. Motaz Azaiza says he filmed Gazans assaulting hostages but withheld the footage out of concern that Israel would identify them. He also revealed pressure exerted by Hamas on journalists. Israel National News. Sep 22, 2026, INN

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Chinese Spy Linked Donors Gave Six Figures to 2 Top 2028 Dem Candidates. Fang Fang is back. September 22, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield.

The Fang Fang gang is getting bigger.

A California family gave over $4.4 million in political donations to Governor Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and other leading California politicians. And now, that family’s alleged past links to infamous suspected honeypot spy Fang Fang, also known as Christine Fang, and other Chinese government officials have thrust them into an ongoing debate over foreign influence in American politics.

The Yin family made millions running McDonald’s franchises in the Golden State — and became prolific donors to politicians, according to state and federal campaign records. Newly released FBI files about Fang describe the family patriarch Chei Chen Yin, commonly known by his initials “C.C.”, as a one-time professional associate of Fang through an organization he founded.

And national security experts tasked with protecting U.S. institutions from infiltration by the Chinese government say they have documented alleged interactions between C.C. Yin’s brother, Henry Yin, and the foreign influence wing of the Chinese government, the United Front... FPM

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‘I’m going to tell the truth about you’: Netanyahu fires back at Mamdani Netanyahu blasts NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his accusations against Israel and vows to “tell the truth" about him during his upcoming UN address. Israel National News. Published: Sep 22, 2026, 2:39 PM (GMT+3) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, after Mamdani renewed his accusations against the Israeli leader and again addressed the possibility of acting on an International Criminal Court arrest warrant.

“Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani," Netanyahu said. “Shame on you for supporting the Hamas terrorist monsters who butchered our people. Shame on you for inciting riots against New York Jews."

Netanyahu added that he intends to respond further during his upcoming appearance at the United Nations.

“I'm coming to the UN. I'm going to tell the truth about our heroic soldiers, and I'm going to tell the truth about you," he said. INN

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Russia spreads AI fakes claiming Jews are being paid to settle in Ukraine. A record number of Jewish pilgrims traveled to the Ukrainian city of Uman for Rosh Hashanah this year, according to local statistics.

By Mathilda Heller. September 22, 2026.

Russia carried out a large-scale disinformation campaign surrounding the Jewish pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation has claimed.

CCD is a Ukrainian government body that monitors and responds to disinformation and propaganda operations directed at Ukraine. It is part of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC). JPost

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Israel AG backs possible disqualification of Balad leader over October 8 comments. Sami Abu Shehadeh called the Hamas attack "an important historical event from a military, political and strategic perspective," on October 8, 2023 Yuval Barnea. September 22, 2026. i24

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Israel Grants Asylum. Sued by Erdogan, Turkish Woman Wins Asylum in Israel. Türkü Avcı, a pro-Israel Turkish activist sued by Erdogan, has been granted refugee status in Israel over threats she faces back home.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 22, 2026. Israel's Advisory Committee on Refugees approved her request, determining that her pro-Israel activism and the threats she has received over her views could put her in danger if she returns to Turkey. The director general of the Population and Immigration Authority adopted the decision and granted her refugee status, which will be reviewed in about a year.

The decision comes roughly three months after Erdogan filed a lawsuit against her.

Avcı first came to Israel in 2021 to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After the October 7 massacre, she began posting in defense of Israel on social media, drawing the attention of Turkish authorities, who accused her of insulting Erdogan. The fallout left her stranded. She told Israel Hayom last year that she feared arrest if she went home, and that the family who had been paying her tuition cut off their support. On a student visa, she could not legally work.

Refugee status changes that.

"I feel enormous relief, because for a long time I couldn't sleep," Avcı told Mako. "The most important thing for me is that now I'll be able to work in Israel and enjoy the rights that come with it. I want to focus on my studies and make the most of the privilege I've been given to be in Israel." JFeed

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Argentine court orders eight suspects to trial for 1994 Jewish community bombing. Seven Iranians and a Lebanese face trial in absentia for their role in the most lethal terror attack in the Latin American country’s history. Etgar Lefkovits.

(Sept. 22, 2026 / JNS) An Argentine court has formally charged seven Iranians and one Lebanese national with involvement in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in a historic legal advancement of the Latin American country’s deadliest terror case, Argentina’s Justice Minister announced on Monday. The ruling, issued by Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas, targets the prime suspects who remain at large three decades after the attack on the AMIA Jewish community center, which killed 85 people and injured more than 300. JNS

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Hostages Like Me Were Also ‘NAZA’—Collateral Damage. If an Israeli bomb killed me, Hamas would win twice: I’d be dead, Israel would be responsible. By Omer Shem Tov. Sept. 22, 2026 WSJ

Rebutting ‘NAZA,’ freed hostage says he knows what it’s like ‘to be collateral damage’. Writing in WSJ, Omer Shem Tov says he witnessed IDF attempts to minimize civilian casualties while he was held captive by Hamas, which ‘left hostages like me waiting longer’ By ToI Staff. 23 September 2026. T.o.I.

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The premise of ‘NAZA’ doesn’t hold up.

Not even to the bare minimum of critical scrutiny, while Holocaust analogies are manipulative, most likely in no small measure by the influence of the executive producer of “The Zone of Interest.”

Adam Levick. Adam Levick is the UK Media Research Manager at CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis).

Sept. 20, 2026 / JNS. The premise of ‘NAZA’ doesn’t hold up. Imagine for a moment if a far-right U.S. filmmaker made an anti-black documentary with a variation of the “N”-word as the title, but without the “r” at the end.

The moral equivalent of such an obscene racist swipe, though aimed at another historically oppressed minority, was used in the title of a documentary written by the Israeli filmmakers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, and produced by The Guardian newspaper. This adds to the genre of pseudo-investigatory propaganda films alleging atrocities by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza.

The film is called “NAZA,” based on an acronym for nezek agavi, Hebrew for “collateral damage.” Their linguistic choice of an acronym so close to the word “Nazi,” instead of the common English term, was not an accident.

In fact, evidence abounds that their decision to evoke the word “Nazi”—the most hateful epithet used to racially abuse Jews—in the film, which claims to examine “the systems ... behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” was consistent with the thrust of the documentary.

Though the documentary hasn’t been released to the public, reviews have made clear that it indeed attempts to evoke antisemitic parallels between Israel’s actions in Gaza and the Nazis’ extermination of Jews—a hateful analogy, as CAMERA has documented, that The Guardian has hurled at Jews several times since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

First, the film was executive produced by Jonathan Glazer, director of “The Zone of Interest” (2023). That historical drama tells the story of Rudolf Höss, the Nazi Kommandant who led the Auschwitz prison camp during World War II and oversaw the mass murder of millions of Jews from 1940 to 1943. It explores how Höss and his family could reconcile their normal life while in such close proximity to an extermination camp.

“NAZA” evinces a similar theme. One of the outlet’s own reviews observed that it provides “ambient footage of [Tel Aviv] in all its eerie heedlessness and heartlessness,” as “the camera’s eye” often drifts “across the gleaming apartment buildings, zooming in on glimpses of prosperous lives just 60km from Gaza.”

Elsewhere in the film, an excerpt of Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 masterpiece documentary about the Holocaust, “Shoah,” is seen playing on a screen outside the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. As a review in The Hollywood Reporter concluded, that scene conveys that both works “bear witness to acts of genocide,” and that the film shows “the parallels between what happened and is still happening in Gaza right now and what happened during World War II.”

However, the degree to which the film is instructive relates not to any such historical “parallels.” Rather, it illustrates the way in which the reviews are informed by the anti-Zionist disinformation campaign that began almost immediately after the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust—one which, within days of the Hamas pogrom, began framing Israel’s response, before the IDF ground invasion, as genocidal.

This represents a genocide inversion given that the goal of Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar in launching the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks was, as The New York Times reported, based on secret intelligence documents for Iran and the regime’s other terror proxies to participate in a full-scale attack on that day, which would lead to Israel’s destruction.

Even beyond odious Holocaust analogies, the film’s premise, much like the genocide charge itself, doesn’t hold up to even the bare minimum of critical scrutiny.

First, the filmmakers never asked the IDF to comment on specific allegations made by 24 anonymous (purported) Israeli intelligence soldiers whose testimony they relied on. While the military has emphatically denied the charges from the film that have been made public, they’re still asking Szor and Abraham for a copy so that they can fully respond.

Further, when asked during an interview by Israeli investigative journalist Raviv Drucker if he attempted to corroborate the claims of the anonymous Israelis, Abraham acknowledged that he did not verify all of the cases behind the alleged mass civilian deaths. He also didn’t push back when Drucker noted that a central claim in the film—that Israel bombed buildings with no terrorist targets—is “simply not true.”

Abraham also crucially admitted that his investigation of the IDF’s conduct in Gaza didn’t explore the question of how other Western armies have dealt with fighting terrorist groups sitting in the heart of civilian populations. In other words, there was no benchmark cited to determine the success or failure of the army he excoriated for putatively disproportionate Palestinian civilian deaths.

Finally, there’s no indication that Abraham talked to other intelligence soldiers in the IDF to see how the claims of their anonymous sources comport with their experience in Gaza. As Lt. Col. Yair Miron, a former intelligence officer in Gaza, said on Israel’s Channel 7, “anyone even remotely familiar with the IDF’s procedures would know that the claims” in the film are “not even remotely true.”

But in The Guardian’s anti-Zionist kangaroo court, both in their news content and their recent foray into filmmaking, Zionists are seen as their misfortune. Thus, the anti-Israel verdict is predetermined, and exculpatory evidence is never allowed to be presented. JNS

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Part 4

'Colombia tells UN it’s pulling out of International Court of Justice case against Israel.' JNS, September 22, 2026. [38]; 'Colombia officially withdraws from South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel.' Israeli ambassador to Colombia Vivien Aisen echoed the remarks, saying Colombia chose "the right side of history" and made "a brave and responsible decision that we deeply appreciate." By Mathilda Heller. The Jerusalem Post. September 22, 2026 Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar already mentioned the matter on Friday, thanking new Colombian President ‎Abelardo De la Espriella for the "withdrawal from South Africa's false and malicious lawsuit against Israel at the ICJ, which was made during the antisemitic Petro era." [39]

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El-Sayed on Carlson praise: MAGA ‘eating itself’ by Finya Swai 09/22/26 10:39 AM ET.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) said President Trump’s MAGA movement is “eating itself” after conservative commentator Tucker Carlson praised the progressive while tearing into his GOP opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers.

El-Sayed was asked Monday about Carlson’s comments on the race earlier this month, when the former Fox News host said he “wouldn’t vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint” and propped up El-Sayed’s “Trumpian” campaign.

“Look, Tucker and I don’t agree on much, but we definitely agree on what he just said,” the Senate hopeful said in an appearance on CNN’s “OutFront” with host Erin Burnett. “I think what you’re seeing here is MAGA eating itself.”

He argued that some supporters of Trump’s “America First” movement were turning against Republicans who they believe are abandoning its principles, particularly on foreign policy as the U.S.’s unpopular war in Iran nears the seven-month mark.

“Those who believe in the ideas — the idea that we should have America first, that we shouldn’t go to wars that we shouldn’t be fighting, those who believe in just basic principles,” the progressive added. TheHill

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Spain Allows US Extradition Case Against Anti-Israel Donor to Proceed. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. September 22, 2026

Spain on Tuesday allowed a US extradition request for anti-Israel donor James Cox Chambers to proceed to court, despite protests from the government’s left-wing coalition partners who argue the case is politically motivated.

The case is politically sensitive for Spain‘s Socialist-led government, whose anti-Israel stance has drawn rebuke from the Trump administration and contributed to wider tensions with Washington.

Chambers, 41, an American multimillionaire media heir known as Fergie, was arrested at the request of US authorities on July 10 while on holiday in Ibiza. He is currently in pre-trial detention in Madrid.

A self-described anti-imperialist and communist, Chambers has called in interviews and on social media for the destruction of the United States. He received $250 million after divesting from his family’s media conglomerate, Cox Enterprises, in 2023, his spokesperson said.

Chambers has donated over $1 million to humanitarian causes in Gaza and paid legal fees for some members of the activist group Palestine Action, according to his legal team.

The group was designated as a terrorist organization by the US and UK for its actions which include targeting Israel-linked defense companies by blocking entrances and spraying paint.. Algemeiner

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Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער Israel Foreign Ministry @gidonsaar. Austria’s President @vanderbellen should be ashamed!

Someone who represents a country whose past is bound up with the gravest crimes against humanity and the Jewish people dares to level a false accusation against the Jewish state, which is still fighting a jihadist axis that relentlessly tries to eliminate it.

Of course, no Austrian citizen should be held responsible for the vile nonsense uttered by their President. Sep 22, 2026. on X

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UK police thwart suspected terror plot targeting Manchester Jewish community ahead of High Holy Day Jewish security organization Community Security Trust called the news "utterly chilling, coming so close to the anniversary of the terrorist attack at Heaton Park Synagogue last year." September 22, 2026. ...Police said two men in their 30s were arrested in central Manchester on Sunday under counterterrorism legislation, with searches also carried out in Salford and Liverpool. JPost

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Seattle area-public school district bracing for Oct. 7 anti-Israel walkouts. “We see there’s some active mobilization happening with these outside groups, and we are in the process of developing our action plan,” a spokeswoman for the Bellevue School District told JNS. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep 22, 2026. JNS

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Lapid slams UN chief: You ‘looked the other way’ when Jews couldn’t be blamed. Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Wednesday accused U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres of ignoring mass deaths around the world “because the Jews couldn’t be blamed.”

Lapid was responding to Guterres’s claim to the United Nations General Assembly that he had “never seen killing and destruction like Gaza” in his nine years as secretary-general.

“According to even the most critical reports,” Lapid wrote on X, “70,000 people were killed in the war in Gaza, a large proportion of them Hamas terrorists.”

He noted that more than 600,000 people were “massacred or starved to death” in Ethiopia during Guterres’s tenure. In Yemen, 377,000 died, a figure he said appears in U.N. reports. Lapid also cited 150,000 killed and 12 million displaced in Sudan, and “hundreds of thousands” buried in Ukraine.

“You didn’t see it? They died before your eyes. You simply looked the other way, because the Jews couldn’t be blamed,” he wrote. Sep 23, 2026. JNS

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Macron's UN Remark on Hamas. France Walks Back Macron's Claim That Hamas Was Never Active in the West Bank. A French official says Macron meant Hamas does not govern the West Bank, after Israel condemned his UN remark days after a Hamas-affiliated terrorist murdered a French-Israeli father of six. Gila Isaacson. Sep 23, 2026. France moved on Tuesday to walk back President Emmanuel Macron's assertion at the United Nations that "Hamas was never active in the West Bank." The remark had drawn sharp condemnation from Israeli leaders across the political spectrum. JFeed

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Judea and Samaria leader demands Macron apologize to terror victims’ families. Yesha Council chairman Yisrael Ganz demanded on Tuesday that French President Emmanuel Macron retract his remarks on Israel and apologize to the families of terror victims.

Ganz, who also heads the Binyamin Regional Council in southern Samaria, was responding to Macron’s claim at the U.N. General Assembly in New York that the Hamas terror group “has never operated” in Judea and Samaria.

Ganz called Macron a “terror denier” and said the French president was taking “fake news to a new high.”

The statement cited the murder of Netanel Shukrun, a French citizen who was shot by a Hamas terrorist in Samaria earlier this week. Sep 23, 2026 JNS

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IDF Sweeps After Jordan Border Breach. Security forces deployed to southern Jordan Valley following confirmed crossing near Qasr al-Yahud; identity of infiltrators and circumstances remain unclear. Eliana Fleming Sep 22, 2026 23:15 JFeed

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Jordan's King Abdullah Accuses Israel of Forced Displacement at UN. At the UN General Assembly, King Abdullah II called Israeli policy in Gaza and Judea and Samaria a war crime and warned that Israel's actions in Syria pose a regional threat. Gila Isaacson. Sep 23, 2026. JFeed

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Israel tells Jordan’s king: ‘Tell us more about international law’. Sep 23, 2026. Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday criticized Jordan’s King Abdullah II after he invoked international law and Palestinian rights at the U.N. General Assembly, pointing to Jordan’s 1988 decision under King Hussein to strip Palestinians residing in Judea and Samaria of Jordanian citizenship.

“In July 1988, on the orders of his father, King Hussein, Jordan collectively and unilaterally revoked the citizenship and rights of Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria,” the ministry said, adding that those affected lost political and other civil rights.

“Tell us more about international law,” the ministry said. JNS

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..and just like that, it's over.

Gaza Health Ministry Data Shows Men of Fighting Age Dominate Death Toll.

A breakdown of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry's own fatality list shows young men heavily overrepresented, while women and young children are underrepresented relative to Gaza's population.

By Gila Isaacson — Sep. 23, 2026

[40]. A demographic breakdown of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry's own fatality list is circulating widely on social media. It shows that men of fighting age make up a far larger share of the dead than their share of Gaza's population.

The chart compares the ministry's list of identified fatalities from October 7, 2023 through May 7, 2026 against U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for Gaza, broken down by age and sex. The list contains 72,835 names.

The pattern is stark. Adult men, especially those between 18 and 45, along with older teenage boys, appear far more often on the list than their share of the population would predict. Women and young children appear less often. Males aged 15 to 45 make up about 45.7 percent of listed deaths but only about 24.7 percent of the estimated prewar population. Among Gazans aged 20 to 39, roughly 3.2 to 3.6 men died for every woman.

The overall figures point the same way. Of the 72,835 names, 36,067 are adult men, 11,733 are adult women, 12,803 are boys and 8,834 are girls. Another 2,089 are elderly men and 1,309 are elderly women. That means adult men below retirement age account for nearly half of all identified fatalities, while children make up about 30 percent. Gaza's population is young: before the war, about 47 percent of Gazans were estimated to be under 18.

The chart was shared on X by the account @jew_viking (https://x.com/jew_viking/status/2102641102016639412). He argued that the data undercuts accusations of genocide against Israel, adding that genocide would be expected to kill women, young children and the elderly at or above their share of the population. But the chart shows a war in which military-age men die first, as would be expected when an army fights an armed group embedded among civilians that also recruits older teenagers. The account added that responsibility for minors killed in the fighting rests with the groups that recruit them. "The early 'Israel is killing babies' line does not match Hamas's own age-and-sex data," it wrote.

The analyst who first compiled the chart made a similar case. He said the pattern is consistent with a large combatant component in the toll, since Gaza's terror groups recruited heavily among men of fighting age. He noted that the pattern also reflects the general wartime tendency for civilian men to die at higher rates than women. He added that the overrepresentation of men is even stronger among deaths recorded after the October 2025 ceasefire.

The findings cut against a claim made repeatedly throughout the war. Gaza authorities have consistently said women and children make up a large majority of the dead. In mid-November 2023, the ministry reported that two-thirds of those killed were women and children.

The ministry's list does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. It covers only identified victims of violent deaths and excludes about 3,000 unidentified bodies as well as deaths from hunger or disease. JFeed

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Israeli Bedouin, 19, indicted for terror incitement. Israeli authorities have arrested and indicted a 19-year-old Negev resident accused of posting material online that incited terrorism and expressed support for Hamas, the Israel Police and Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) said on Tuesday.

Deif Allah Abu Ragila, a resident of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom east of Beersheva, was arrested about a month ago, it was cleared for publication. Sep 23, 2026 JNS

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Milei: Support for Jewish people is commitment ‘until last day of my life’. Sep 23, 2026. Argentinian President Javier Milei said on Tuesday that his support for the Jewish people is a commitment he will not abandon “until the last day of my life.”

In his address after receiving the Ohev Yisrael Award at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in New York during his visit to the city for the United Nations General Assembly, Milei said he viewed the award, which recognizes his support for the Jewish people, “not as praise, but as a commitment. JNS

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Undercover Border Police nab Fatah terrorist in Samaria. Undercover Israel Border Police officers arrested a wanted Fatah terrorist during an overnight raid in the village of Kafr Qalil in Samaria, the Israel Police said on Wednesday.

The Fatah operative is suspected of working to advance terrorist attacks targeting Israel’s security forces, according to the statement. Sep 23, 2026. JNS

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Israel Police arrest Palestinian man over alleged online terror incitement. The Israel Police arrested a man in his 50s from An-Nazla ash-Sharqiya in Samaria after he allegedly posted content supporting terrorist organizations and an edited image showing a bullet aimed at the head of an Israel Defense Forces soldier, police said on Wednesday.

“By Allah, we will defeat them, make their wives widows and take their children,” the suspect wrote in the post, according to the police-provided translation. Police said he remained in custody and that investigators would seek an extension of his detention as they probe suspected incitement and support for terrorism. Sep 23, 2026. JNS

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First sign of support? Trump boosts Netanyahu with election poll post. US President Donald Trump shares report highlighting a poll showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc in lead, in notable show of support weeks before Israel’s elections. Israel National News. Sep 23, 2026, 10:43 AM INN

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IDF eliminates Hamas finance chief in Gaza. Hamas finance chief Muhammad Abu Alwan eliminated in Khan Yunis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announce. Uzi Baruch. Published: Sep 23, 2026, 1:25 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Gal Gadot helps raise $3 million for Israeli trauma recovery. Israel National News. Sep 23, 2026, 10:29 AM INN

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‘We will not withdraw’: Katz fires back at Syrian President over Golan. Israel National News. Sep 23, 2026, 7:46 PM INN

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‘Serious terror attack’: Sentence for Arabs who set fire to building with activists inside. Three men convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at a house in Oz Zion were sentenced to 70 months in prison. Honenu is demanding an appeal and a harsher sentence. Israel National News. Sep 23, 2026, 4:52 PM (GMT+3) [...] Three Palestinian Arabs convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at a building on the Oz Zion hilltop community in Binyamin while four hilltop activists were sleeping inside were sentenced to 70 months in prison. The Honenu organization criticized the sentence and is demanding that the military prosecution appeal it.

The incident occurred on the night between April 22 and 23, 2021. According to the indictment, Majd Halmi Musa Barakat, Mahmoud Sultan Khalil al-Nabbut, and Jihad Ahmad Afon Baraka, residents of the village of Burqa, approached the hilltop, and each of them threw a Molotov cocktail at a caravan that they claimed stood on land belonging to members of their families. [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433540 INN)

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Danon blasts Pezeshkian: 'He should focus on his atrocities against the Iranian people'. Israel's UN Ambassador responds to Iranian President's General Assembly speech: "He came to the UN to speak against Israel. That is shameful." Israel National News. Sep 23, 2026, 6:38 PM (GMT+3) ...The US delegation walked out at the beginning of Pezeshkian's address.... INN

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Shareholders sue ‘NY Times’ for anti-Israel bias, former staffer alleges inaction on Jew-hatred. Shareholders of the New York Times filed a lawsuit against the paper’s parent company, alleging that the newspaper has not met its obligations to tell the truth and correct errors in a timely manner, the Free Press reported.

The State Board of Administration of Florida and the National Center for Public Policy Research filed the suit in New York County Supreme Court. They ask a judge to force the Times to hand over documents, the majority about coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, that it has delayed for four months.

The suit also includes whistleblower testimony from a Jewish former employee, who says that she raised concerns about Jew-hatred in the paper on at least 15 occasions from 2019 until her departure in 2026. JNS

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Abdul El-Sayed Called on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood To 'Purge the Media and Police' Shortly Before Islamic Government Arrested Reporters for 'Insulting Islam'. El-Sayed was a vocal supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, which shares his devotion to Sharia law. Jon Levine. September 23, 2026 FreeBeacon

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Radical Academic Who Celebrated Oct 7 as Breach of 'Prison Walls' Slated To Appear at UNC's Global Education Center. 'Solidarity with those who break prison walls,' Emmaia Gelman, founder of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, wrote one day after Hamas's terror attack. Zach Kessel. September 23, 2026 FreeBeacon

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Son of Israeli Ambassador severely injured in ramming attack. Neria, son of Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, severely injured in terrorist ramming attack at the Bell Checkpoint near the city of Modi'in. The terrorist was eliminated.

Uzi Baruch Sep 23, 2026, 8:36 PM INN

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Gaza journalists operating under Hamas media controls were given platforms in Westminster. HJS reported that several journalists who operated within this Hamas-controlled media environment have subsequently been welcomed into Westminster as authoritative witnesses to the war.

By Mathilda Heller. September 23, 2026.

Gaza-based journalists who worked amid what photojournalist Motaz Azaiza has described as a “Hamas-controlled media environment” were given prominent platforms in Westminster, researcher Emma Schubart of the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) revealed to The Jerusalem Post exclusively on Tuesday.

Schubart’s discovery follows comments made by Gazan photojournalist Motaz Azaiza in a September 3 podcast interview with journalist Ahmed Biqui.

During this conversation, Azaiza mentioned the existence of a Hamas-administered WhatsApp group called Smart, which, he said, included “every journalist working in Gaza.” The group’s icon displayed a Hamas flag and was administered by “the director of media for the Rafah Border Crossing,” who has been identified as Wael Abu Mohsen.

According to Azaiza, the group coordinated media messaging and organized campaigns against journalists whose reporting departed from the sanctioned line. “It was never a spontaneous thing,” he added.

Gazan photographers 'accustomed to lowering cameras' to criticism of Hamas.

Azaiza added that photographers in Gaza had “become accustomed to lowering their cameras” when civilians criticized Hamas.

HJS reported that several journalists who operated within this Hamas-controlled media environment were subsequently welcomed into Westminster and presented to British parliamentarians as authoritative witnesses to the war. Other journalists from this environment have been involved more indirectly with the British government.

For example, Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh was hosted in Parliament in September last year.

MPs host Hamas-linked journalists.

Hansard [the official report of all Parliamentary debates] records Labour MP Yuan Yang saying on September 10, 2025, that she had “co-hosted an event in Parliament for Wael al-Dahdouh” the previous evening.

During that visit, Dahdouh also met with Labour MP Afzal Khan for Manchester Rusholem (formerly Manchester Gorton), who posted publicly that he had met Dahdouh, calling the meeting “an honor.”

While neither the Post nor HJS has independently verified the membership of the group, Azaiza said it included every journalist working in Gaza at the time.

Then there is Azaiza himself, who on May 15, 2024, addressed a Nakba Day gathering at Westminster Central Hall, yards from Parliament, sharing the event with Sir Alan Duncan, the former Conservative Foreign Office minister.

Additionally, Scottish National Party (SNP) MP Brendan O’Hara co-organized a cross-party panel in a House of Commons committee room in mid-July 2025 with Oxfam GB and the Council for Arab-British Understanding.

Gaza journalist Abubaker Abed spoke alongside Oxfam’s then-CEO. Abed addressed MPs and journalists who were in attendance on conditions in Gaza and called for an end to UK arms support for Israel.

Finally, Al Jazeera and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) held a sold-out Westminster screening of the documentary Gaza in October 2024, followed by a panel. Al Jazeera Gaza correspondent Youmna El Sayed appeared as a panellist, with MPs and peers attending.

“One of Gaza’s most famous ‘journalists’ has described, in his own words, how Hamas controlled the media environment,” Schubart said.

Schubart noted that this is of great importance to every international outlet that has relied on Gaza-based journalists yet still claims that their reporting is editorially independent of Hamas.

“The question is straightforward: Why were British politicians giving a parliamentary platform to journalism produced under Hamas control?”

Schubart has personally written to the Speaker of the House on these findings. The letter was viewed by the Post. JPost

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‘Thrilled’ to be in New York City, says new Israeli deputy consul general. “I see myself growing in the ministry,” Eyal David. “I will, inshallah, be an ambassador one day, but I didn’t want to miss this opportunity.” Rikki Zagelbaum (Sept. 23, 2026 / JNS) Eyal David, 40, was still unpacking boxes in his office at the Consulate General of Israel in New-York three weeks into his new post as deputy consul general when he told JNS that his time in the Big Apple was already “flying by.” [...] New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said recently that he hadn’t encouraged protests against the Israeli premier, although he appeared to have first recommended that New Yorkers take to the streets. Some city police officers reportedly said that the mayor’s rhetoric would put cops at physical risk. Mamdani, who campaigned on having Netanyahu arrested and more recently said that he lacked that authority, said that he doesn’t plan to protest the Israeli leader. He called on federal authorities to arrest Netanyahu.

David told JNS that it is “unfortunate” that Mamdani is “anti-Israel” and that the mayor had “just a few weeks ago called us ‘monsters.’”

“This use of this hate terminology—he needs to understand it, and elected officials need to understand that words have consequences,” David said. “When there is such rhetoric that is anti-Israel—and it’s not only anti-Israel, not only anti-Zionist, it’s anti-Jewish—we see the consequences on the street, and it can be very dangerous.”

David spoke to JNS when he was filling in for Ofir Akunis, the consul general, who was in Israel. He described himself as “number two” to Akunis JNS

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Gaza Health Ministry Chief’s Eldest Son Identified as Hamas Commander. The IDF and Shin Bet identified Basir al-Bursh, the eldest son of Gaza Health Ministry Director-General Dr. Munir al-Bursh, as a commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba force after he was killed in an Israeli strike near Jabalia in northern Gaza.

Basir, 28, was killed on Saturday, September 19. Reuters independently confirmed that he was Munir al-Bursh’s son.

The Israeli agencies said weekend strikes also killed Yahya Hamdouna and Mohammad Rafa’i, two Hamas operatives whom Israel identified as participants in the October 7, 2023 attack. Rafa’i was additionally identified as a member of Hamas’s Daraj-Tuffah Battalion. According to the joint announcement, the three had recently been advancing attacks against Israeli troops and civilians and working to restore Hamas’s capabilities in what the agencies described as systematic violations of the ceasefire.

Open-source material published after Basir’s death also points toward a militant role in Hamas. Analyst Mark Zlochin posted what he identified as a mourning message from one of al-Bursh’s relatives referring to Basir as a “mujahid commander.” Munir al-Bursh himself was separately recorded addressing his dead son with the words, “By God, you did jihad in His path.” Sep 22, 2026. [41]. September 22, 2026. JewishOnliner

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Somaliland delegation eyes Israeli military presence to strengthen cooperation against Houthis. “If they get help from the Israelis, they can beat the Houthis and make it safe,” Dirie said. By SamHalpern. September 23, 2026. Somaliland and Israel should develop a military partnership that could include an Israeli presence in Somaliland in order to strengthen cooperation against Houthi terrorists, Ahmed Dirie, chairperson of the executive committee of the Israel and Somaliland Friendship Association and head of a visiting delegation, told The Jerusalem Post. JPost

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By Mathilda Heller. September 23, 2026. Shareholders of The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the paper’s parent company Wednesday morning, arguing the paper has failed to follow its own editorial standards.

The suit, filed by the State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA) and the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) in New York County Supreme Court, requests the Times board of directors to release internal records.

NYT shareholders file lawsuit against paper's parent org. over biased Israel reporting

The company has refused to produce the records for four months, the majority of which pertain to the paper’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.

The New York Times building in Manhattan, New York City, pictured September 16, 2025; illustrative. The company has refused to produce the records for four months, the majority of which pertain to the paper’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.

Requests were first made by the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), representing NCPPR, on May 29 following the May 11 Nicholas Kristof column titled “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians," but the NYT has not complied. JPost

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Sa’ar rejects claim of global consensus against Israel, says UN majority cannot dictate policy. “We were in the minority a year ago. We were in the minority two years ago, ten years ago, twenty years ago, and forty years ago,” Sa’ar said. By Amichai Stein. September 23, 2026.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar acknowledged that Israel currently finds itself in a diplomatic minority at the United Nations but rejected the characterization that there is a broad international “consensus” against Israel.

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post during the ongoing 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sa’ar said Israel had been in a minority position at the UN for decades.

“We need to ask ourselves whether we should base our policy regarding our existential interests on the international consensus, or, even if it is not a total international consensus, on the majority view within the international system, or according to our own existential interests,” Sa’ar said

According to Sa’ar, Israel’s past concessions have not translated into lasting diplomatic credit. 'We have reached a point where we cannot make concessions' He cited the Oslo Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority and Israel’s 2005 unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip as examples of far-reaching Israeli steps that, in his view, did not produce the expected diplomatic benefits. “Ultimately we receive no accumulated credit in the international system for these actions,” he said. Sa’ar said Israel had reached a point where it could no longer continue making concessions simply because of international pressure. “We have reached a point where we cannot make concessions,” he said. The comments come as several countries continue to promote Palestinian statehood at the UN. A joint statement issued on Tuesday by the foreign ministers of Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates reaffirmed support for a “sovereign, viable, and independent Palestinian State” and called for implementation of a two-state framework. One of the world leaders who criticized Israel was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Sa’ar said he did not currently define Turkey as an “enemy state,” stressing that the term is an official designation with practical consequences. “I do not define Turkey as an enemy state,” he said. “But I cannot ignore the fact that Turkey under Erdogan’s leadership is pursuing a policy hostile toward Israel in the diplomatic arena, including moves in the economic and legal spheres.” Sa’ar said relations between Israel and Turkey had unfortunately been moving in a negative direction for decades and had intensified during Erdogan’s years in power. He also pointed to Turkey’s relationship with Hamas... JPost

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The Macklemore Mess: What Pink Got Right and Everyone Else Got Wrong. By Benjamin Elterman. September 23, 2026.

Macklemore hasn't had a hit in a decade. Thanks to the backlash, he's now the most talked-about musician in the world. What should Jews have done instead?

What started as Macklemore’s hijacking of Ed Sheeran’s concert tour via a Free Palestine message has spiraled into international news, reigniting the Israel/Palestine debate, and almost canceling Ed Sheeran’s tour altogether. Patriots owner Robert Kraft tried to silence Macklemore. Ed Sheeran tried to remain silent. And Jewish singer/songwriter Pink inserted herself into the debacle commenting on social media via her Jewish experience.

But whose efforts helped the situation and whose made everything blow cataclysmically out of proportion? Most importantly what do we have to learn in this ever-increasing controversy that is as personal as it is political?

If you’re somehow not familiar with the events, here is a quick summary. At Ed Sheeran’s concerts on September 4th and 5th, rapper and master of poor fashion choices Macklemore delivered an extended political message about the war in Gaza, saying “Free Palestine,” playing his pro-Palestinian protest song “Hind’s Hall” while images of the destruction in Gaza played on a big screen. After the first night, Patriots owner Robert Kraft talked to Ed Sheeran, accused Macklemore of hate speech and insisted he not repeat the stunt. But on the subsequent night, Macklemore proved he wouldn’t be silenced.

Shortly after, Robert Kraft rallied other stadium owners leading to Macklemore being kicked off the tour. Macklemore accepted the ban, made another statement on social media announcing he was donating his salary for the tour of $1 million to Gaza charities and challenged Kraft to do the same. Kraft didn’t just meet the pledge he doubled it, saying the $2 million he ultimately pledged "to aid in the region" didn't come from Macklemore's dare at all, but from a private call in which Sheeran asked him to match Sheeran's own $2 million commitment.

Sheeran put out a statement saying it was not his decision to drop Macklemore but that he wouldn't abandon the tour. He insisted it was not a sign of being “complicit” and that there was suffering “on both sides.” This even but moderate response quickly led to Sheeran being in hot water. Opening acts of this tour as well as his touring band dropped out in solidarity with Macklemore, Sheeran became the focus of intense ridicule and criticism, and lost hundreds of thousands of followers on social media. He finally made another statement at his Philadelphia show condemning the suffering in Gaza (we’ll unpack that later). So what to make of it all?

Macklemore. Macklemore is going to be Macklemore. I think he cares more about looking noble than the suffering of Gaza. His qualifying statement about “To all my Jewish brothers and sisters” essentially said, as long as you don’t support Israel, you’re okay, so don’t call me antisemitic. And I think he used the popularity and publicity of someone else’s tour to elevate himself.

But this article isn’t about criticizing someone so self-righteous and opportunistic. It’s about how to react to the willfully ignorant statements they make.

Bad Optics. Officially, the Messina Touring Group made the decision to pull Macklemore from the show. But the real pressure came from stadium owner Robert Kraft, and that's where the public blame has landed. A wealthy, visibly Jewish public figure organizing a boycott to silence someone speaking about the most popular political movement of the generation was about the stupidest thing anyone could have done.

Macklemore hasn't had a hit since the mid-2010s, but for the moment, he's the most talked-about musical artist in the world.

The war that followed October 7th has always been fought over public opinion as much as territory, and Hamas has won that fight at nearly every turn. In part by reviving the oldest conspiracy in the book, the idea that Jews secretly control governments and media. Kraft's organized boycott didn't invent that narrative, but it handed it something that looked, to a casual observer, like real evidence: a rich and powerful Jewish man personally deciding which artist gets to speak.

Macklemore hasn't had a hit since the mid-2010s, but for the moment, he's the most talked-about musical artist in the world.

Robert Kraft. Kraft could have used ownership of the literal platform to educate. As Jessica Tarlov said on the September 19th episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, “Bob Kraft could have made a public point of this and gotten some of the dialogue that we desperately need to have about the facts on the ground about what’s going on in Gaza and what Israel is doing… made it more of a teachable moment so we could at least be talking about it versus everyone going back to their [camps].”

We need more truthful information, nuance, and clarity. Not silence.

This controversy thrives on misinformation and disinformation. Why he isn’t using his considerable resources and literal platforms to give his follow Jews the education to stand up to the accusations of genocide and apartheid is beyond me. We need more truthful information, nuance, and clarity. Not silence.

Not Thinking Out Loud. Ed Sheeran tried not to choose a side. He should be able to hold a concert to appeal to everyone, and not force a political message down his audience’s throat if he doesn’t want to. But because of Macklemore, Sheeran found himself in the midst of an international litmus test.

He tried to say he wasn’t complicit, but in that space said nothing substantive or meaningful. I imagine he has some awareness of the Israel side of the story as he once met with former hostage and survivor of the Nova Festival, Noa Argamani. And though he claims he wants his art to be apolitical he has held concerts to raise charity for the Ukraine War. However that was his decision to make, not something he was forced into.

Saturday, September 19, he made a tearful statement at the opening of his Philadelphia show first saying that this was the “most complex political issue on the planet,” acknowledging the horrors of the October 7th Nova massacre, but the suffering in Gaza was “catastrophic and unjustifiable” and described the situation in the West Bank as “systemic injustice.” However, he stopped short of saying, “Free Palestine” or calling Gaza a “genocide.” Most reactions online were that it wasn’t good enough, and memes made its rounds on the internet that he was drying his tears with hundred-dollar bills.

What should he have done? Ultimately it was a lose/lose situation. Sheeran seems to want to offend as few people as possible, and when you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. It would have been nice to have talked about meeting Noa Argamani and describe some of the nuance of the war. It would have shown some of the backbone he was criticized so much for lacking, but it would have ignited a storm he wasn’t ready to deal with. As least he didn’t capitulate to calling the war a genocide.

The Pink Slip. On September 6th, Pink shared a post from StopAntisemitism demanding an apology, refunds for concert attendees, and insisted the genocide was false as well as many other pro-Israel post on Instagram. She was met with considerable backlash, as to be expected. But then, on the Eve of Rosh Hashanah, she shared a very personal and thoughtful message. She acknowledged that she reacted strongly and the posts weren’t necessarily what she would have said herself. “... the comments came, and I did what I do when I’m hurt, which is post snarky memes and act like I’m fine. That’s on me. But I’d rather be disagreed with for what I actually said than hated for what anybody else wrote, so let me say it.”

From there she opens up in a very personal and intimate way, sharing her experience with her Judaism. She shares her honest feelings about the war and Hamas as well as her humanitarian efforts with Unicef. But then she shared what angered her most about Macklemore’s diatribe:

…he stood in front of a stadium full of music-loving families, with violent images from a war on the screens, dedicated a song to the movement of his choice, and then took the mic to tell all of the Jews in the stadium that it wasn’t about them. You don’t get to decide that for us…. What I need is to be able to say, as a Jewish mom, “that scared me, and it scared people I love,” without being told our fear is just propaganda, and without being told I’m somehow cool with genocide because I noticed?

These were, to me, the most important words of the whole controversy. Not an attack, just an honest account of how she felt. As much as the other side can reject, diminish, or try to turn it against you (and they have - Javier Bardem is backing a petition for Unicef to remove Pink as an ambassador), if the statement is honest and sensitive, their reactions don’t matter. What matters is that Pink’s words speak to the struggle Jews are having to face in every space that used to be safe. College campuses, coffee houses, hair salons, hotels, and concerts.

In a tense argument one of the best ways to dial it down is to use statements such as, “This is how this makes me feel.” It doesn’t condemn the other person; it shares your part in the conflict. It turns an enemy into a human.

This is the sincere expression Ed Sheeran never gave the public. Robert Kraft did eventually offer something close to it: "I would welcome the opportunity to sit down with Macklemore and discuss the facts, because ultimately our goal is the same — peace for all people, an end to suffering, and an end to all hate." But the offer came after he'd already organized the boycott, not before.

And it's a shame, because who came out on top on all of this? Not Pink. Not the children in Gaza. Not any Jew who doesn’t want to condemn Zionism or Israel.

Macklemore. With every single reaction, he became more and more popular. Like the Burger King employee who got fired for saying “Free Palestine” and got a mural on some wall in Gaza, Macklemore knows the more offensive he can be, the more notoriety he gets. And the more backlash Jews lob at him, the more he is honored.

But in that three-minute speech on Ed Sheeran’s tour, he didn’t have a shred of the honest authentic heart that Pink had in just one of the sentences of her Rosh Hashanah Eve post to Jews everywhere. Aish

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Missouri Will Not Be Exploited as Cash Conduit for Middle East Terrorists’: State AG Launches Probe of Students for Justice in Palestine Fundraising Practices. September 23, 2026. Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced on Wednesday she had launched an investigation into Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) fundraising and charitable‑solicitation activities within the state.

Hanaway’s office issued civil investigative demands (CIDs) to Mizzou SJP and National SJP after identifying grounds to inquire whether its affiliated chapters, agents, or representatives have engaged in conduct prohibited by the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act.

A statement from Hanaway’s office noted it had “reason to believe the subjects may have engaged in deception, fraud, false promises, misrepresentation, unfair practices, and the concealment, suppression, or omission of material facts in connection with charitable solicitations.”

Hanaway said, “Our office will not tolerate any organization duping Missourians or Missouri students into unknowingly financing radical Islamic terrorism. We will use every tool the law allows to expose deceptive fundraising, trace where the money goes, and stop any effort to channel charitable donations to violent or terror-linked actors. Missouri will not be exploited as a cash conduit for terrorists in the Middle East.”

According to Hanaway’s office, SJP has chapters at the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Washington University in St. Louis, and Missouri State University.

Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) President of U.S. Affairs Alyza D. Lewin praised the opening of the investigation, saying, “Missouri is right to demand answers. Transparency is key. At a time when our youth are becoming increasingly radicalized, it is essential to ensure that student organizations are not raising funds in support of terror. We commend Attorney General Hanaway for her proactive leadership on this critical issue. The safety of all Missourians and the integrity of charitable giving are at stake.”

Earlier this year, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed HB 2061, landmark legislation aimed at combating antisemitic discrimination in Missouri’s public K-12 schools and institutions of higher education.

The law mandated the integration of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, including its 11 illustrative examples, into student, faculty, and employee codes of conduct.

It also facilitated stricter enforcement of Title VI of the U.S. Civil Rights Act by directing the Missouri State Board of Education and the Coordinating Board for Higher Education to each designate a Title VI coordinator to monitor, report, and investigate cases of antisemitism.

Missouri was the 18th U.S. state to codify the IHRA definition into law.

Students for Justice in Palestine Campus Chapters Use Instagram to Glorify Antisemitic Violence, CAM Snapshot Study Shows. CAM

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Israeli ambassador to Washington says doctors ‘fighting to save life’ of son after car-ramming attack. “Neria needs a miracle,” Yechiel Leiter wrote of his son, who was seriously injured on Wednesday. Andrew Bernard. (Sept. 23, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said on Wednesday that his son Neria Leiter “needs a miracle” after being seriously injured in a car ramming attack at a checkpoint in Samaria. “I am grateful to the IDF, to the medical team at Shaare Zedek who are now fighting to save the life of Neria Dov ben Chana, and for the prayers of the people of Israel,”.. JNS

"Neria needs a miracle." Amb. Leiter calls for prayers for son injured in terror attack. Neria Leiter, son of Israeli Ambassador to the US, was critically wounded in the attack on Route 443. Neria continued to serve in the reserves after losing his older brother nearly three years ago. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 23, 2026, 9:03 PM INN

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Fetterman Reaches Out to Leiter Family. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman sent condolences to Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter after his son Neriya was critically wounded in a ramming attack: As a father, I cannot imagine this uncertainty and pain. Eliana Fleming Sep 23, 2026 JFeed

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After Maccabim checkpoint attack | Regional leaders: The security reality must change. The heads of the Binyamin and Samaria regional councils visit Shaare Zedek Hospital together to stand with the family of Neria Leiter, who was seriously injured: “The government must turn everything upside down." Israel National News. Sep 24, 2026, 12:08 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Security warnings cut Netanyahu’s US visit to just seven hours. Netanyahu is reportedly set to spend just seven hours in the US after security officials urged him to minimize his stay amid concrete warnings over the trip. Israel National News. Published: Sep 23, 2026, 10:33 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Israeli forces seize M-16, combat equipment in raid near Jerusalem. Israeli security forces discovered an M-16 rifle, ammunition and black masks during a raid of a home in the village of as-Sawahira ash-Sharqiya, just outside Jerusalem, the Israel Police said on Wednesday.

Police arrested a 27-year-old eastern Jerusalem resident on suspicion of possessing the weapon and equipment.

A judge was said to have extended the suspect’s remand until Sept. 28 to allow for further questioning.

Police said more than 120 weapons have been seized in the Jerusalem District since the start of 2026. The weapons “could have fallen into hostile hands and been used to carry out attacks motivated by terrorism or criminal activity,” the statement added. Sep 23, 2026. JNS

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SCOOP: State Department to host Oct. 7 memorial for slain Americans The event will take place just ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks and is being organized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s office, JNS learned. Mike Wagenheim. Sep 23, 2026 JNS

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US says it has given Lebanon over $800 million in military aid since 2020. “The United States remains committed to supporting the government of Lebanon and the Lebanese Armed Forces in strengthening state authority, protecting civilians, providing services and creating conditions that help bring about lasting peace and stability,” the U.S. embassy in Lebanon stated. Sep 23, 2026 JNS

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IDF confirms: Hamas finance chief funneled over NIS 1 billion to terror. IDF, Shin Bet, eliminate Muhammad Abu Alwan, who directed massive funding for Hamas, worked to rebuild terrorist organization’s capabilities during ceasefire. Israel National News. Published: Sep 24, 2026, 9:31 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Neria Leiter’s mother: ‘His life is still in danger’. Hani Leiter, mother of IDF reservist critically injured in terror attack, says son Neria remains stable but has a severe brain injury, underwent three surgeries. Israel National News. Sep 24, 2026, 1:57 PM INN

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IDF eliminates Hamas commander who held seven hostages. Hamas commander Mahmoud Abd al-Fattah Awad helped hold seven Israelis captive in a Gaza tunnel, planned new attacks, and rebuilt Hamas capabilities, IDF reveals. Israel National News. Sep 24, 2026, 9:47 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Katz attacks 'paper sultan' Erdogan over UNGA speech, urges him to stop 'messing with Israel'. The defense minister accused Erdogan of financing and embracing Hamas, and claimed that he dreams of "restoring the Ottoman Empire" in a post on X/Twitter. "Now he's signed the 'Mecca Agreement' to defend Saudi Arabia," he said, "But when the Houthis fired missiles at Mecca and it was time to honor his word, he vanished into thin air." "Israel is strong and knows how to protect itself. We're not the Kurds and the desperate people he still oppresses in Turkey today," he said. Sep 24, 2026. JPost

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Bessent: 'Not sure' how Iranian UN delegation will return home. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says US sanctions have shut down most Iranian international flights: We are squeezing the Iranians like they've never seen. Israel National News. Sep 24, 2026, 5:23 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Private Pittsburgh college retaliated against Jewish prof for reporting Jew-hatred, civil rights complaint alleges. Deena Margolies, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that “Jewish faculty, staff and students should be able to report antisemitic discrimination without fear that speaking up will jeopardize their academic or professional futures.” Aaron Bandler. (Sept. 24, 2026 / JNS) A Jewish professor at Duquesne University, a private Catholic school in Pittsburgh, has been subjected to a hostile work environment and endured retaliation for reporting antisemitism on campus, according to a complaint that the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Thursday. JNS

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IDF, police probe Arab attack on Israelis in Samaria. Israel Defense Forces soldiers were dispatched on Thursday to the Salfit area, near Ariel in Samaria, following a report of a violent attack on Israeli civilians, the military told JNS.

The Palestinian suspects fled the scene when the soldiers arrived, the IDF said.

Israel Police officers, secured by IDF troops, subsequently entered the area to collect evidence and testimony.

According to the Hatzalah Judea and Samaria (Rescuers Without Borders) emergency service, the assailants blocked an Israeli car near the community of Nofei Nehemia. They then got out armed with clubs and stones and attacked those inside before fleeing to Salfit.

One Israeli was lightly injured, the NGO said. He was treated at the scene. Sep 24, 2026 JNS

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Argentina’s Milei hails Netanyahu as ‘extraordinary leader’. Argentinian President Javier Milei said on Wednesday that the Jewish state might not exist today if it weren’t for the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

He made the remarks after his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Netanyahu noted in a post on X.

Speaking to reporters in Spanish, Milei called the Israeli premier “an extraordinary leader with a geopolitical vision.”

He said Netanyahu understands the link to “the cultural battle” as few world leaders do. He named U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as other exceptions. Sep 24, 2026 JNS

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Jewish groups lead rally of about 1,000 outside UN General Assembly to demand action against antisemitism. “There’s so much to do, and world leaders have the authority to move the needle,” Eric Goldstein, who leads the UJA, told JNS. “We need to motivate them.” Rebecca Szlechter, Mike Wagenheim. Sep 24, 2026. JNS

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Dutch Parliament to host son of convicted Palestinian terror leader amid criticism. Arab Barghouti will address the Dutch House of Representatives on Thursday at the invitation of Progressive Netherlands (PRO) lawmaker Kati Piri, prompting condemnation from Jewish community leaders.

Marwan Barghouti, Arab’s father, is serving five life sentences for his involvement in deadly terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians during the Second Intifada.

Arab Barghouti has called terrorism “a colonial word” and described his father as “a role model” as he campaigned for his release from prison. Sep 24, 2026 JNS

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Proposed Michigan resolution urges federal support for Israeli statehood, targets Hamas threats. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Gina Johnsen, emphasizes that "The State of Israel has a right to exist, and denying this is a form of antisemitism." By Alex Carson. September 24, 2026. Lawmakers in the Michigan House of Representatives have introduced a resolution urging the US government to back Israel's right to statehood and take measures to prevent Hamas from eliminating the Jewish state on Tuesday.

House Resolution 372, introduced by Rep. Gina Johnsen and sponsored by Rep. Joseph Fox and Rep. Tim Kelly, is officially described as "A resolution to urge the United States government to take action to support Israel’s right to statehood and prevent Hamas and other groups from succeeding in their efforts to eliminate the only Jewish state, and to call on the Governor to review department policies to ensure they are not antisemitic."

The resolution traces the historical context behind the measure, noting that "The Jewish people are native to the Land of Israel. However, throughout history and across the reign of multiple kingdoms, the Jewish people were persecuted and expelled from the Land of Israel, forced to live as minority diaspora communities in other lands."

The text highlights that "This genocide provided new urgency to re-establish a Jewish homeland for the Jewish people, where they would not be a vulnerable minority, where they could freely practice their faith, and where something like the Holocaust could never happen again."

Resolution labels threats to Israel's existence as antisemitism. The measure further points out that once Israel was established, "other countries and terrorist entities continued to attack Israel, reject its right to exist, and call for its destruction," while adding that the events of October 7 "demonstrate that Israel continues to face existential threats to this day." JPost

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US Senate candidate El-Sayed evades audience request to denounce IRGC, break silence on Iran. "I haven't heard anything from you about the protesters, Abdul," an audience member said. "That silence had a gaping hole in our community and I want to ask if you regret that silence". By Alex Carson. September 24, 2026

Michigan Democratic Party senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed evaded an audience member's direct request to unequivocally condemn the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during a University of Michigan town hall event titled "Students vs. Billionaires" on Wednesday, at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.

The event was part of a statewide campus tour organized by More Perfect University to engage voters across Michigan. JPost

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The Jerusalem Post: From the battlefield to social media, the war over Israel’s image is having consequences far beyond Gaza. The Gaza GenoLIE campaign brings together more than 100 organizations to challenge what its leaders call a modern blood libel and its impact on Jewish communities worldwide. Sep 24, 2026 [42] FB

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‘NAZA’ documentary misrepresents Gaza targeting process, Military official to i24NEWS. Targeting is a seven-stage process and the IDF claims that the interviewees were all serving in the first stage with no access to later stages. Ariel Oseran. Senior Middle East Correspondent, i24NEWS English Channel. September 24, 2026. ... The core issue the IDF lays out is that the interviewees only had access to a single stage in the intelligence process and as a result can recount only the preliminary intelligence stage of the process. i24

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Einat Wilf exposes the world's pro-Palestinian mass psychosis. Many in Israel declared "mission accomplished" when the hostages came home. Wilf thinks otherwise and lays out a day-after plan for Gaza that no one else in Israeli politics would touch.

'There's no from the river to the sea. There is no return' | Einat Wilf. By Jerusalem Post Podcasts September 24, 2026.

With elections bearing down and the whole country consumed by the race, diplomat and writer Einat Wilf sat down with Jacob Laznik to make a case that almost no one else in Israeli politics is making. Running third on the Reservists–New Economic Party list, an unaligned slate polling around four seats and openly determined to blow up the country's paralyzing bloc politics, Wilf argues that the real fight isn't over territory or coalitions at all, but over consciousness.

October 7, in her telling, was the day adversaries "emerged from physical and metaphorical tunnels to launch a global assault on Jewish life," and her central claim is that neither the government nor the opposition grasps the scale of that war of ideas, let alone how to fight it.

For a writer and former lawmaker who has spent two decades on exactly this terrain, the campaign is less about a seat than about forcing a conversation the political class keeps avoiding. Moving the topic to the Gaza Strip Where the interview gets passionate is Gaza. Wilf contends that Israel's leaders have left the single most consequential question of the postwar era: What actually happens the day after, which is almost entirely undiscussed.

She then lays out a strikingly concrete alternative: Reinterpreting the Board of Peace's twenty-point framework so that "Gaza will not be a threat" means ideological disarmament rather than a few weapons stashed in a shed, and splitting the Strip into a "Gaza of war" and a "Gaza of peace" where residents must formally renounce refugee status and the right of return before any reconstruction money flows.

It's a vision that ranges from the granular, which includes cutting UNRWA cards, new documents, a new flag, to the sweeping idea of rebuilding not just a place but a people's self-understanding. Around it she threads the themes her readers will recognize: the "bigotry of low expectations," "Westsplaining," the "Zionism Is" project, and the "mass psychosis" she says drives anti-Israel activism from the Oxford Union floor to the street. Laznik, in turn, questions the logistics, the other players at the table like Qatar and Turkey, the risk that reopening a signed agreement reads as reneging, and the uncomfortable reality that Hamas keeps boasting it would do it all again.

Whether you come away thinking Wilf's plan is visionary or unworkable, you'll want to hear how she answers when pressed. Watch the full interview to see where it holds up and where it strains.

This is part one of The Jerusalem Post's interview with Wilf. Stay tuned for part two. JPost

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Maryland Republicans withdraw support from antisemitic conspiracy theorist. “I think the only advice I have is deal with allegations as soon as you’re made aware, as we did,” the Montgomery County Republican Party committee chairman told JNS. “For both parties. Better to correct errors than stay the course.” Jessica Russak-Hoffman. (Sept. 24, 2026 / JNS) The Montgomery County Republican Party in Maryland withdrew its support on Wednesday for a county council candidate who claimed that the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, controls elected officials in the county. The party, which endorsed Harold Maldonado in District 7 in June, decided at a meeting on Tuesday night to end its support for the candidate and not to include him in its 2026 voter guide.

“We reject as baseless and unacceptable his allegations that Mossad controls Montgomery County elected officials,” Dennis Melby, chairman of the party committee, stated. “We oppose antisemitism, bigotry and all forms of baseless conspiracy theories, regardless of who they target or the political cause used to advance them.” JNS

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Prime Minister Netanyahu arrives in US ahead of UN speech. Netanyahu arrives for an unusually brief US visit, heading directly to the UN for his address and meetings with world leaders before returning to Israel. Israel National News Sep 24, 2026, 7:17 PM INN

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China sent Iran more than 1,300 drone, missile component shipments, per Iranian custom data. The dual-use components for drones and missiles were sent to Iran’s Defense Ministry through the end of June, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Iranian customs data.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Washington meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. JNS

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US has redirected 115 vessels since start of Hormuz blockade, CENTCOM says. JNS

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'Answer, you animal'. Watch: Israeli news crew harassed outside UN. Israel National News Sep 24, 2026, 8:45 PM. Warning: Explicit language. An Arab anti-Israel activist attacked and repeatedly harassed Kan News reporter Shahar Glick and his cameraman while the Israeli news crew was reporting outside the United Nations General Assembly in New York City ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address. The activist approached Glick as the reporter stood in front of the .. INN

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Prime Minister Netanyahu’s 2026 UN General Assembly Speech (September 24, 2026)

In his September 24, 2026, address to the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel’s strikes on Iran and its conduct in Gaza, describing the years since October 7 as a seven-front war. Recalling the Six-Day War and his brother Yoni’s role in the Entebbe rescue, he repeated the refrain, “We have no other choice.” Delegates staged a walkout as the speech began, prompting Netanyahu to invite any remaining “moral cowards” to leave. He praised President Donald Trump, rejected accusations of genocide, and sharply criticized New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Qatar, and Turkey. He also voiced support for Iranian protesters and predicted the fall of Iran’s government.

The following is the full text of Netanyahu’s statement.

Mr. President, before I begin, just a quick announcement. If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now. Thank you very much.

Iran and the threat to Israel.

Ladies and gentlemen, 14 years ago, I stood at this podium and drew a red line. I vowed to prevent Iran’s murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs, nuclear weapons aimed at destroying Israel and nuclear weapons that could threaten the entire world. That’s exactly what we did.

Now, let me say something that might surprise you. Devastating Iran’s nuclear facilities was hard. It was very hard to do. But for me, it was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make as prime minister. Because if we hadn’t done it, we’d all be dead.

You want to hear the ultimate irony? In defending itself, Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall. In fact, I want you to know that many of their leaders even thanked us privately for taking out Iran’s nukes. It’s hard to imagine more mind-blowing hypocrisy, but that’s exactly what it is.

The Six-Day War and Yoni Netanyahu.

This isn’t the first time we were faced with the threat of annihilation. On June 5, 1967, Israel was surrounded by enemies who openly swore to destroy us. We weren’t then in Judea and Samaria, the heart of the historic homeland of the Jewish people. We weren’t in Gaza. We weren’t on the Golan Heights. Oh, and Mr. al-Sharaa, you should know the Jews have been on the Golan Heights since the days of Moses. You can read it in the Bible.

No, at that time, on the eve of the Six-Day War, we weren’t in any of these places. We were in a tiny sliver of land. We still are. It is equal to about one-third of one percent of the landmass of the entire Arab world. Yet they accuse Israel, tiny Israel, of colonialism. Some colonialism. And who’s accusing us? Among them are people in Britain and France. For God’s sake, they invented the term. Their colonies spanned the globe. Colonialism? Give us a break. Another lie.

Yet at the time, on this tiny patch of earth, with no West Bank, no Gaza, no Golan Heights, it was the very survival of this one and only Jewish state that was at stake. Because this is what this conflict is about. It’s not about territories. It’s about the existence of a Jewish state at any boundaries.

We were threatened with annihilation by three Arab armies that were about to invade us. You know what Israelis were doing at the time? They were digging mass graves in preparation for the thousands and thousands of casualties, to bury our dead.

At the time, I was an Israeli high school student in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Five days before the war broke out, I flew back to Israel. I found a country in total blackout. Israel braced for impact. I flew back to see my brother Jonathan, Yoni. He was a 21-year-old paratroop officer, and like the rest of the army, his unit was already mobilized.

I went to find him. I was told the paratroops were encamped in the orchards, the orange groves around Ramle. So I went there and asked some soldiers, “Do you know where Yoni Netanyahu is?” “Nope.” Then one guy said, “Oh, you mean the young guy? Yeah, he’s in the next grove.” So I went there. Suddenly, at the end of a long row of trees, I saw my brother. He was absolutely shocked to see me. “Bibi,” he said, “what are you doing here?” We ran and hugged each other.

Over a cup of makeshift military coffee, I asked him the question that was on my mind, the question that was on everybody’s mind. “So, Yoni,” I said, “what’s going to happen?” He paused. Then he said something I’ll never forget: “We’re going to win. We have no other choice.” I remember those words as if it were yesterday. We’re going to win. We have no other choice.

And when we did, nine years later, Palestinian terrorists hijacked a passenger airplane headed for Israel. They took it to Entebbe, Uganda. Like the Nazis, the terrorists selected the Jewish passengers: men, women, children, babies. They threatened to kill them all if Israel did not release Palestinian terrorists.

Then, on July 4, 1976, the bicentennial of the United States, in one of the most dramatic rescue missions in modern times, Yoni led his brave soldiers to the heart of Africa. Miraculously, they rescued 103 Jewish hostages and brought them all home, every single one of them. My brother, the commander of the storming party, was the only soldier killed in the mission. I want to thank Uganda again for recently erecting a statue of Yoni in the place where he fell.

My friends, Yoni’s words are as true today as they were more than half a century ago: We’re going to win. We have no other choice.

October 7 and the seven-front war.

At no time was this demonstrated more clearly than on October 7, 2023, the darkest day in Israel’s history. On that horrific day, thousands of Palestinian terrorists stormed into Israel from Gaza. I want you to know there wasn’t a single Israeli then in Gaza, not a civilian, not a soldier, not one. But it didn’t matter one bit. The Hamas terrorists committed the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

They went house to house, shooting Israeli civilians point-blank. They did so with fiendish glee, with sadistic joy. They livestreamed as they murdered. And who did they murder? The very Israelis, their neighbors, who gave them jobs, who picked up Palestinian children at the Gaza border, drove them to Israeli hospitals for cancer treatment, and then brought them back. Can you imagine such monstrosity? These are the Hamas monsters. They slaughtered Holocaust survivors. They burned babies alive in front of their parents. They beheaded our men. They brutally raped our women and then murdered them.

Altogether, they slaughtered 1,200 Israelis that day. I want to give you an idea what this means for a country of 10 million. Proportionately, this is equal to 40,000 innocent Americans slaughtered in less than 24 hours. That’s 16 times 9/11, which occurred not very far from here.

On that darkest of days, our enemies expected us to collapse. Well, we didn’t collapse. Instead, we rose and fought like lions. For the past three years, our heroic soldiers have fought day in and day out in a seven-front war. Do you know any other country the size of New Jersey capable of fighting a seven-front war for three years? Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran, militias in Iraq, militias in Syria, Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria: They all ganged up on us to wipe us off the face of the earth.

They failed. Because instead of collapsing, we delivered crippling blows to all of them. With our great American friends, we crushed Iran’s army, navy, air force and nuclear facilities. Israel hammered Hamas. We pummeled Hezbollah. You remember the beepers? Remember these things? Well, I can tell you this: Hezbollah certainly remembers them.

Guess what happened to the bulk of Hezbollah’s vast arsenal of 150,000 ballistic missiles and rockets, all aimed at our civilians? They’re gone. Hezbollah’s leaders? Dead. Their spirit? Broken. The arch-terrorists, the worst mass murderers on earth, killing not only Israelis but Americans, Britons and citizens of dozens of countries: Khamenei, Deif, Sinwar, Haniyeh, Nasrallah, and thousands of other terrorists who sought to destroy us. They’re all gone, too.

Attacks in Judea and Samaria.

The remaining terrorists are desperately trying to regroup. Every day, they try to murder our people, and in particular, they try to murder our people in our historic homeland, in Judea. By the way, that’s where the word “Jew” comes from: Judea. That’s our land.

There are thousands of attempts per year against peaceful families driving along the roads. They shoot at pregnant women. They shoot entire families. Of course, none of this is covered in the international press or on social media. What they cover is a handful of juvenile delinquents, about 150 in number, who throw stones, chop down olive trees and occasionally set fires. I can’t stand that. I won’t stand for vigilantism. We’re a country of law, so we put our Shin Bet on them.

But that’s what they call “settler violence.” The number of casualties a year? Maybe two or three. Maybe two or three killed in all the time this has been discussed, compared with the thousands of terrorist attacks against peaceful settlers, honorable, law-abiding people. What a distortion. It’s an obsession. I hear this discussion here. Leaders of countries seriously talk about that, and they say it with such importance: “We can’t stand settler violence.” You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Three days ago, and I say this to my colleague Emmanuel Macron, a French citizen, Netanel Shukrun, a father of six, was gunned down when he visited a spring with his 16-year-old son. A Hamas terrorist in Judea and Samaria fired at him point-blank. His last words were, “Flee, son, save yourself.”

Two days ago, in Judea and Samaria, a reserve soldier, Neria Leiter, was mowed down by a Palestinian terrorist driving a vehicle. He’s fighting for his life now in a Jerusalem hospital. I visited the family right before I boarded the plane to come here. Neria, a father of four, is the son of Yechiel Leiter, our brilliant ambassador to the United States. Three years ago, Yechiel’s oldest son, Moshe Yedidya Leiter, a father of six, was killed while clearing a booby-trapped building in Gaza.

Yechiel, my brother, your pain is immeasurable. The entire people of Israel, and many outside Israel, are praying for Neria’s life. But despite the pain, despite the agony, we do not give in. In a recent post before he was attacked, Neria wrote this: “We have no other country. It’s a privilege to defend it.”

To Neria and to all the heroes of Israel, I pledge a sacred vow: Your sacrifice will not be in vain. We will continue to defend our state. We will continue to win because we have no other choice.

The United States and Israel.

In this battle against the barbarians, we’ve had no greater partner than President Trump. I thank him for his bold leadership. He boldly confronted an enormous danger to America, Israel and the world. Decades ago, he understood that if left unchallenged, the fanatical ayatollahs who chant “Death to America, death to Israel” would eventually carry out their mad fantasies. So Israel and America acted together not only to protect ourselves but to save civilization.

Brave American pilots alongside brave Israeli pilots flew joint missions over the skies of Iran. America and Israel also worked together to bring back our remaining hostages. We brought back every last one of them.

You ask why we are winning. Yoni said it simply: We have no other choice. And throughout this long war, our goal never wavered: to win with unwavering resolve, to win with unrelenting courage. Because this is Israel: one nation fighting for one future, left and right, young and old, religious and secular. Do we have our differences? Of course we do. Who doesn’t? But in critical moments, those moments that shape our destiny, we stand together. Because what unites us is so much stronger: our history, our values, our courage.

The courage of our brave people who withstood 1,000 massive ballistic missiles that Iran rained down on our cities, on our civilians. Ladies and gentlemen, you’re sitting here in the General Assembly Hall of the UN. Do you know what just one one-ton ballistic missile would do if it hit this place? It would obliterate the entire compound. In fact, two such missiles would obliterate the UN. So imagine 1,000 gigantic missiles falling from the skies on your cities and homes.

I salute the courage of the people of Israel. I salute the courage of our brave soldiers, Jews, Christians, Druze and Muslims, the most moral army in the world, the IDF. For three years, our brave soldiers have been valiantly fighting a seven-front war.

The “eighth front” and accusations against Israel.

But there’s an eighth front to this war. It’s the war for truth. It is waged in the world’s media and, most perniciously, on social media. Several foreign countries have spent untold billions to spread lies about my country. The first to do so was Qatar. Decades ago, it started massively funding American universities and toxic media outlets like Al Jazeera. They did the same in Europe, by the way. And their goal was clear: brainwash young minds to hate Israel, hate America and hate the West. This is the same Qatar that hosts the Hamas butchers of October 7.

The latest country to become a superspreader of anti-Semitic lies is Turkey. Erdoğan is a tyrant. He also hosts Hamas terror chiefs. He has murdered thousands of Kurdish civilians. He denies the Armenian genocide. He jails journalists and opposition leaders. In fact, I think he holds the world record on this. That’s a tough call, but I think he’s number one. He illegally occupies northern Cyprus, part of an EU member state, and he regularly transgresses against Greece, a NATO member.

Now he wants to take over Syria. Well, that’s not surprising, because he calls for Israel’s destruction almost every single day. He says he’s going to be the ruler of Jerusalem. No, sir, you won’t. This is our country, our city, our eternal capital.

Tyrants the world over seek to threaten us. They seek to undermine our resolve with their campaign of lies. But ultimately, as on the military battlefield, the Jewish people will prevail. It will take time to vanquish the lies. It will take time for the world to acknowledge what is so plain to see: that Hamas used Palestinian civilians as human shields; that it used hospitals, schools and mosques as terrorist command posts; that it stole much of the food we let into Gaza.

While Hamas did everything possible to keep Palestinian civilians in harm’s way, often at gunpoint, Israel did everything possible to get them out of harm’s way. We sent millions of text messages warning civilians to leave combat areas. We made millions of phone calls. We dropped millions of leaflets.

I want to ask you some questions. What genocidal regime gives a million polio vaccinations to the enemy’s population? What genocidal regime enables the distribution of two million tons of food into Gaza? That’s a ton for every person. Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century.

If you want to know how big a lie, if you want to know how absurd it is, listen to Colonel John Spencer. He’s chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point. He’s considered one of the world’s, or perhaps the world’s, foremost experts on urban warfare. I think he’s with us today. Colonel Spencer has studied urban wars from antiquity to modern times, from ancient Greece to Mosul to Gaza. And here’s what Colonel Spencer says: “Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any other military in history.” In history. We’ve taken innumerable steps to protect the civilian population. Is this genocide? Of course not. It’s the opposite of genocide.

Zohran Mamdani and anti-Semitism.

To all those spreading these lies about my country and our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the anti-Semitic mayor of New York, I say this: Shame on you. Shame on you for distorting the facts. Shame on you for inverting victim and aggressor. Shame on you for spitting in the face of truth.

Mr. Mamdani, since you were elected mayor of this city, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York. They talk to me. They tell me, “This isn’t the city we remember. It changed so quickly.” No wonder. You praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas. You count as friends people like Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11. Some friends you have.

You invite into your home a Palestinian journalist who filmed Hamas terrorists beating and torturing Israeli hostages and later admitted that he refused to publish the videos in order to protect, you guessed it, the terrorists. Your wife liked a post praising the October 7 massacre. She liked another post saying Tel Aviv shouldn’t exist. You refuse to condemn any of that. You falsely and repeatedly accuse Israel of genocide.

Mr. Mamdani, you try to stop me from coming here. You try to silence me. Well, you can’t silence me. You can’t silence the truth. And here’s the simple truth: Israel didn’t commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide. And that’s exactly what Mr. Mamdani’s Hamas buddies would have done to us had we not stopped them. They would have killed every last one of us.

The lies you and other anti-Semites spread about the Jews and the Jewish state have real consequences. In New York, Jews are threatened on the way to synagogue. Jews have been stabbed in the streets. Jews are demonized. They’re targeted simply for being Jews. Jews have been murdered in Sydney, Manchester, Montreal and Boulder, Colorado. They’ve been attacked in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin and Washington, D.C.

The anti-Semites of the world want to terrify our people. I have news for them. The days when Jews were defenseless victims, marched to the slaughter, are over. Today, we have a state. Today, we have an army. Today, we have a people ready and willing to defend ourselves.

So today I have one message for Jews around the world: Raise your head high. Be proud. Be confident. Don’t be intimidated. Stand up. And for everyone else who wants to defend truth and justice, join us in standing up to the barbarians who threaten our common civilization.

Europe, Iran and the Iranian people.

But I have to be candid with you. Not everyone is standing up. We saw that. Unlike Israel, some, especially in Western Europe, have chosen not to stand up. The leaders of these countries have chosen to succumb to the anti-Semitic mobs. They’ve chosen weakness. They’ve chosen appeasement. We cannot evade the sad truth before us. Many in the free world are afraid to defend freedom.

And I ask them: What will the world hold for you? The brotherhood of democracies or the Muslim Brotherhood? How long will it take for you to see that these fanatical jihadists are choking your waterways, your energy supply, your economic lifeline?

I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, we in Israel do not wait for others to wake up from their moral slumber. We forge ahead. We seize the future. We pioneer incredible developments in health, agriculture, artificial intelligence, superior intelligence, and we bring these amazing innovations to all of humanity. So Israel has never been stronger. We are not afraid.

But I’ll tell you who is afraid: the tyrants of Tehran. And you know what they’re most afraid of? Their own people, the brave Iranian people who have sacrificed so much for so long. The Iranian regime is especially afraid when their people have this. This is a communications device, Starlink, that allows people to access truth, to exercise choice, to exercise freedom of thought and freedom of speech. That’s why the Iranian regime spends millions and billions of dollars censoring the internet.

Mr. President, I’m going to leave this device with you so you can give it to the Iranian delegation. When they inevitably defect, they too will be able to tell their story freely on social media.

To the protesters outside and to the hypocritical delegates who left this hall, I ask: Where were you when the Iranian tyrants butchered and maimed tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian civilians? Did you organize mass rallies, hunger strikes? Did you protest outside the Iranian mission to the UN? Did you speak out, for that matter, for Christians persecuted in Iran and throughout the Middle East? No, you didn’t, because you’re phony human rights protesters.

Christians: Their numbers are plummeting everywhere in the Middle East where they’re being persecuted and hounded, except one place, my country, Israel, where the Christian community is growing, thriving and succeeding. You didn’t protest when we left Bethlehem. When it was controlled by us, it was 80 to 90 percent Christian. We gave it to the Palestinian Authority, and today it’s 80 to 90 percent Muslim. The Christians were pushed out. Did you protest that? Did you speak about that? Nothing. Nada. And you said nothing about Iran just now.

But I want to give you the good news. Despite your silence, despite your hypocrisy, it’s only a matter of time before something incredible happens in Iran. The power of the people will overcome the people in power. I want you to listen to my words carefully. One day, and it may not be far away, the Iranian people will be free. Their murderous regime will be toppled by its lies, by its corruption, by its cruelty. This evil regime will fall, and we will all celebrate that day.

The Jewish people and Israel’s future.

Ladies and gentlemen, the story of my people, the Jewish people, goes back over 3,000 years. We speak the same language today that we spoke then. We live in the same land in which our ancestors lived then. David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah: That’s our land, the land of Israel.

Our prophets, our purpose and our people are unique in history. Our values have inspired humanity for millennia: the belief in one God, the sanctity of life, the rule of law, our eternal quest for peace, our eternal quest for justice. It is these sacred values that propelled us throughout the ages. It is these values that helped us beat the odds of history.

The great American writer Mark Twain said it best 125 years ago. He said it well before the rebirth of the modern Jewish state, well before the great victories of Israel’s soldiers. Here’s what he said:

The Jew has made a marvelous fight in this world in all the ages, and he has done it with his hands tied behind his back. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream stuff and passed away. Other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out and they sit in twilight. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his spirits, no slowing of his energies.

Ladies and gentlemen, over the centuries, the tyrannies that tried to destroy us failed time and again. And God willing, they’ll continue to fail. If we muster our courage, if we steel our resolve, we will continue to win. As the Bible says, [נצח ישראל לא ישקר] “The eternity of Israel will not falter.” [1 Sam. 15:29, Correction: it means Eternal of Israel, i.e. God] And the reason is simple: We have no other choice.

Thank you all. JVL

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Netanyahu at UN: Destroying Iran's nuclear program was easiest decision. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the UN General Assembly, presenting Israel's case to the world amid mounting international pressure. Israel National News. Published: Sep 24, 2026, 8:06 PM (GMT+3) Updated: 20:58 As Netanyahu took the stage, the delegations of several countries left the hall, while others applauded. At the same time, chants of "Am Israel Chai" could be heard from the Israeli delegation.

Netanyahu opened his speech by addressing those who left the room: "If there are any other moral cowards, please do so now."

The Prime Minister then recounted his speech 14 years ago in which he held a drawing of a bomb and drew a red line on it. "I vowed to prevent Iran's murderous dictatorship from developing atomic bombs. Nuclear weapons that could threaten the entire world. That's exactly what I did."

Netanyahu said that destroying Iran's nuclear program was "very hard to do," but added that "for me, it was one of the easiest decisions I ever had to make as Prime Minister, because if we haven't done it, we'd all be dead." INN

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Bronx man charged with hate crime for allegedly threatening Jewish man in Crown Heights with knife. Antonio Reynoso, Brooklyn borough president, stated that he was “appalled” and that “we cannot tolerate attacks on our Jewish neighbors.” Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep 24, 2026 JNS

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Latvian DM tells 'Post': Israeli weapons are top-notch, I support its right to self-defense. Despite the NAZA film harming Israel's reputation across the globe, Melnis said that he wanted to "show solidarity – it is an honor to be here," adding that he has not yet seen the film. Sep 24, 2026. JPost

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UAE suspends Iranian flights until further notice, cites US sanctions. Sep 24. 2026 JNS

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80 countries issue strong condemnation of Iran. By Danny Zaken. September 24, 2026. Broad international front at UN: Iran and the Houthis in Yemen face condemnation from dozens of countries and the European Union over disruption to shipping routes and threats to energy security. Statement calls for immediate implementation of UN Security Council resolution: "Shipping and seafarers must never be used as leverage." ILH

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US Drafted Memo Condemning UK Over West Bank Sanctions. It Was Never Released. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. September 23, 2026. Algemeiner

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The Women Blinded by the Iranian Regime Kosar Eftekhari, Farideh Salavatipour, and hundreds of other women were blinded by the Islamic Republic for the crime of protesting for their rights. Today, they fight on.

Kosar Eftekhari (left), who lost sight in one eye, and Farideh Salavatipour (right), who lost sight in both eyes, at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on May 12, 2026. (Courtesy of Masih Alinejad) By Masih Alinejad 09.23.26 — International FreePress

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Campaign to Islamize Canada. Guess what? It’s working. By Charles Asher Small. September 23, 2026

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist architecture in Canada is manifested in an interlocking network of student organizations, advocacy groups, and charitable entities, which create permission structures for the normalization of anti-Western sentiment, extremism, terrorism, and antisemitism. The success of this ideologically driven campaign to alter Canadian values and torque Canadian institutions has been broadly visible since Oct. 7, 2023, and can be measured concretely in street demonstrations and in violence directed against Jews, both of which have been driven by the mobilization networks, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy documented in a report published last month. The larger political effects of these campaigns can also be seen in the changes in government policy as the Liberal Party has embraced the concrete policy demands of a constituency that is organized to infiltrate institutional structures and apply political pressure using the rules of Canadian democracy to support anti-liberal values and undemocratic political actors.

Following its 1982 “Project,” the Brotherhood’s 1991 “Explanatory Memorandum” applies a long-term program for expansion across social, political, educational, and financial domains to North America, explicitly including Canada, and defining the process as one conducted from within existing societal structures. However, unlike the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Austria, each of which has undertaken a formal government investigation into networks aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, Canada has conducted no equivalent inquiry at any level. In the absence of proper foreign influence registries, disclosure laws, and political will to investigate its origin and deleterious consequences, these networks can operate with far less scrutiny. Tablet Mag

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Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State under Trump, responds to President Macron’s remarks yesterday regarding Hamas: "The outrageous claim by Emmanuel Macron, according to which Hamas ‘was never particularly active in the West Bank,’ clearly illustrates the mindset of many of Israel’s opponents in the West: a combination of ignorance and deliberate whitewashing of terrorism. It is contemptible." Sep 23, 2026. AbuAli Express

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Nothing Has Changed: Palestinian Authority Trying to Partner with Terrorists. Abbas announced the legislative elections to appease Western donors. He just wants more of their money. by Bassam Tawil. September 24, 2026 at 5:00 am

- Instead of talking about "reconciliation" with Hamas and other terrorist groups, [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas should be demanding that they surrender their weapons, answer for their actions, and disappear from the Palestinian arena.

- There are several problems. One is that Hamas and PIJ do not accept Abbas's conditions. Another is that Abbas is not at all interested in requiring accountability. A third problem that should not be overlooked is: Who is requiring accountability from the Palestinian Authority (PA) itself? Abbas cannot present Fatah and the PA as the "responsible" alternative to Hamas.

-Hamas is a terrorist organization. Abbas and the PA, however, have their own deeply troubling record, including authoritarian rule, suppression of dissent, and a longstanding system of payments and benefits for Palestinian terrorists and the families of those killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis, known as "pay-for-slay."

- US State Department and Congressional reports have confirmed that the PA continued making millions of dollars in payments to terrorists and their families during 2025 and 2026. In 2025 alone, the PA provided $156 million in payments and benefits to terrorists and their families: $126 million to convicted terrorists in Israeli prisons and those released from prison, and $30 million to the families of Palestinian terrorists who died while committing their acts of terrorism.

- According to Palestinian Authority television, the prioritization of "pay-for-slay" above all other PA budget expenses has caused the PA healthcare system to be "on the verge of collapse." Without "pay-for-slay" salaries, one released terrorist declared on PA television, it would be impossible to recruit terrorists.

- Abbas announced the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council to appease Western aid donors. He just wants more of their money. The elections will not improve the situation for Palestinians: the choice for them remains between two bad parties: Fatah and Hamas. The United States and the Europeans should demand that Abbas stop paying terrorists and their families. That is more important than holding elections.

- Abbas's proposed "reconciliation" should not be presented as a choice between a supposedly "moderate" Fatah and a supposedly extremist Hamas. That Hamas is simply worse in certain aspects does not make the Palestinian Authority's conduct acceptable.

- If Abbas's conditions are genuine, all the terrorist groups would first have to undergo a fundamental transformation, including the Palestinian Authority itself. This change would include recognizing Israel's right to exist and dismantling the armed wings of Hamas and all the other Palestinian terrorist groups. Only then could they operate under Abbas's stated principle of "one state with one set of institutions and one weapons and without militias." Meanwhile, Abbas gets to retain his multi-million-dollar "pay-for-slay" program.

- Bringing a terrorist group such as Hamas into a political arrangement, however, hardly constitutes reform. For years, Fatah and Hamas have competed for power while Palestinians have paid the price of political division, repression, corruption and armed conflict. The political contest in the PA is not about who will bring democracy and a strong economy to the Palestinians. It is still a contest over power, money and control.

- The Palestinians do not need another photograph of Fatah and Hamas officials shaking hands and hugging each other in Cairo. They need functioning institutions. They need accountability. They need freedom from political repression. They need a political system in which no faction can maintain private armies or militias.

- A Palestinian political system that incorporates Iran's terror proxies – Hamas and PIJ – means that Palestinian leaders still view these terrorist groups as legitimate actors. gatestoneinstitute

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The Houthi advance in Yemen may revive Israel-Saudi relations. In an interview with i24NEWS, former Houthi spokesman Ali al-Bukhaiti discusses Iran’s role in the group’s advance and the possibility of Saudi-Israeli cooperation. Ariel Oseram. Senior Middle East Correspondent, i24NEWS English Channel 4 min read September 24, 2026 at 03:52 PM i24

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Quebec City man charged in alleged Islamic State chemical weapons plot. By Marisela Amador, CTV News, September 24, 2026.

A Quebec City man has been charged with multiple terrorism-related offences for allegedly intending to carry out at least one attack on behalf of the Islamic State.

According to an investigation by the RCMP Federal Policing Eastern Region, 24-year-old Louay Angoud is alleged to have communicated online with members of a terrorist group and gathered information “to build a chemical weapon that could be used to poison Canadian citizens.”… CTV

Terror suspect arrested in Montreal was in Canada illegally: RCMP. Louay Angoud, 24, was arrested Wednesday at Place Ville Marie. By Montreal Gazette. September 25, 2026. ...Angoud was arrested Wednesday at Place Ville Marie by the RCMP and faces three terrorism charges in relation to a planned attack with a chemical weapon.

While the RCMP confirmed Friday that Angoud had been arrested at the downtown office tower complex, which also has retail stores and restaurants, but police wouldn’t say what brought Angoud to Montreal.

Police have identified the 24-year-old as a resident of Quebec City and court documents list his residence as an address in the provincial capital.

Police and prosecutors allege he “intended to carry out at least one attack on behalf of the Islamic State” and that he “communicated online with members of a terrorist group and gathered information to build a chemical weapon that could be used to poison Canadian citizens.” MontrealGazette

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Netherlands Reverses Eurovision Boycott Over Israel’s Participation, After Spain and Lithuania Announcements. By Shiryn Ghermezian. September 24, 2026 Algemeiner

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Police label shooting in Belleville, Ontario, a hate-motivated attack against the Jewish community. In audio from the attack, the assailant apparently yells, “You are going to die for the Jews.”

By Emma Paidra September 24, 2026 7:02 pm

TORONTO – The shooter who opened fire on a Belleville, Ontario, synagogue Sunday evening committed an anti-Jewish hate-motivated offense, according to the city’s police chief.

“This was a deliberate attack directed at members of the Jewish community during one of the holiest observances of the year,” Belleville police chief Murray Rodd said at a press conference on Thursday, adding that the shooter had combustible materials, including gasoline, in his truck.

He said the threat posed to Jewish communities required increased alertness on the part of Canadian law enforcement. Police stationed outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue had engaged in a shootout with the assailant, Sean Ward, that prevented him from entering the building as members of the congregation were about to begin Yom Kippur services.

Rodd noted that the force had a long-time relationship with the Jewish community that involved “our proactive pre-positioning of on-duty staff” to ensure the safety of Jewish worshippers. “One of the messages to my colleagues around the province and the country is: It is clearly time that we all be proactive.” JTA

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A fraudulent ‘Free Palestine’ activist embodies a lying hateful cause. An American Jew impersonated an Arab and engaged in antisemitism. But others who advocate for anti-Israel genocidal goals are part of the same ideological grift. Jonathan S. Tobin. (Sept. 25, 2026 / JNS) We live in an era in which fashionable opinion holds it to be an unquestioned truth that biological gender must be considered fluid and changeable, but racial and ethnic identity is not. That’s more a function of ideology than science. Yet the ideas that are the foundation of these complicated and sometimes illogical notions are a formula for a social architecture that prizes one thing above all: victim status. [...] A catalogue of lies.

Gann said in her apology, “The fact that I lied about who I was does not mean anyone else who speaks up for Palestine is lying.”

But, of course, that’s exactly the point. The entire rhetoric of “Free Palestine” is a catalogue of lies.

Indeed, the rewriting of the history of ancient Israel and the modern state, as well as the repeated Palestinian-Arab rejections of any peace offer that does not involve the expulsion of Jews from their homeland, is essential to the movement’s cause. From the fabricated statistics about Palestinian casualties in the post-Oct. 7 war they started, to their denials of the atrocities, including mass murder, torture and rape committed that day by the Palestinians (which were filmed on Go-Pro cameras and posted on the social-media accounts of some of the victims to cause even more pain to their relatives and friends), to their denigration of the suffering of the hundreds who were kidnapped on that Jewish holiday, “pro-Palestine” discourse aims not merely to deny reality, but to invert it.

Above all, the dialectic of Palestinianism aims at stripping Jews of rights and falsely portraying them as criminal monsters and modern-day Nazis, while glorifying an Islamist movement whose sole purpose is Jewish genocide and destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet. And in order to accomplish this, they have, with the aid of a biased media, spread blood libels about the Jews committing “genocide” and their democratic nation being an “apartheid state.” JNS

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Two IDF soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip | LIVE BLOG. Israel names two soldiers killed in Gaza: reservists Nadav Kali, 24, of Har Halutz, and Ofek Moalem, 23, of Jerusalem, both of the 7007th Battalion. i24NEWS, Ariel Oseran, Yana Suryadnaya. September 24, 2026 at 11:33 PM i24

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Colombia severs diplomatic ties with Iran. Bogotá cites links to terrorist groups and concerns over human rights and Iran’s nuclear program; consular relations remain in place. i24NEWS. September 25, 2026 at 01:33 AM i24

Sa’ar praises Colombia for cutting ties with Tehran. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Friday praised Colombia for severing diplomatic relations with Iran, calling the move a stand against terrorism and the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions.

“I commend Colombia and the leadership of President Abelardo de la Espriella for severing diplomatic relations with the Iranian regime,” Sa’ar wrote on X.

“This is a clear stand against terrorism, narco-terrorism and Iran’s dangerous nuclear ambitions. The free world must stand united against the Iranian regime.” Sep. 25, 2026. JNS

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Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA: As Foreign Minister @BMeinl stated in her interview, Israel is a democracy and therefore Austria stands by Israel. Israel values its relations with Austria.

Red lines have indeed been crossed, but by Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime. While Israel strives to minimize civilian casualties, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah commit war crimes using civilians as human shields and targeting civilians.

Israel has, as the Foreign Minister noted, a strong and independent civilian and military judiciary. These courts have not found that Israel committed any war crimes.

We hope that, in her meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi this week, Foreign Minister Meinl-Reisinger raised the Iranian regime’s mass killing of its own people and its missile attacks on civilians in Israel and neighboring countries. Sep 24, 2026. on X

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Netanyahu’s UN speech: Israel prevented ‘the genocide Mamdani’s Hamas buddies would have done to us’. PM slams Gaza genocide accusation as 'lie of the century,' denounces Qatar for spending billions to 'brainwash young minds' to hate Israel and US, insists evil Iranian regime will fall. By ToI Staff. Sep 25, 2026, 12:31 am Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century’. It will take time. It will take time to vanquish the lies. It will take time for the world to acknowledge what is so plain to see. That Hamas used Palestinian civilians as human shields. That it used hospitals, schools and mosques as terrorist command posts. That it stole much of the food we let into Gaza.

While Hamas did everything possible to keep Palestinian civilians in harm’s way, often at gunpoint, Israel did everything possible to get them out of harm’s way. We sent millions of text messages warning civilians to leave combat areas. We made millions of phone calls. We dropped millions of leaflets.

I want to ask you some questions. What genocidal regime gives a million polio vaccinations to the enemy’s population? What genocidal regime enables the distribution of two million tons of food into Gaza? That’s a ton for every person.

Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century. If you want to know how big a lie, if you want to know how absurd this is, listen to Colonel John Spencer. He’s the head of Urban Warfare studies at West Point. He’s considered the world’s foremost expert on urban warfare. I think he’s with us today.

Colonel Spencer has studied every urban war from antiquity to modern times, from ancient Greece to Mosul to Gaza. Here is what Colonel Spencer says: “Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any other military in history.” We’ve taken innumerable steps to protect the civilian population. Is this genocide? Of course not. It’s the opposite of genocide.

So to all those spreading these lies about my country and about our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the antisemitic mayor of New York City, I say this:

Shame on you. Shame on you for distorting the facts. Shame on you for inverting victim and aggressor. Shame on you for spitting in the face of truth.

Israel didn’t commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide. And that’s exactly what Mr. Mamdani’s Hamas buddies would have done to us had we not stopped them. They would have killed every last one of us. T.o.I.

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Netanyahu at UNGA: Gaza genocide ‘lie of the century,’ matter of time before Iranians topple regime

By James Genn, Tobias Holcman, and Idan Kweller. September 24, 2026.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the genocide claim against Israel was "the lie of the century," while adding that the Iranian regime's toppling was "only a matter of time," during his Thursday address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Netanyahu addresses Israel's information war.

One of the main topics in Netanyahu's speech was the different fronts that Israel is fighting. The prime minister explained that Israel is also fighting on the information front against countries that push what he described as antisemitic narratives and spread lies, "such as the genocide claim."

"What genocidal regime gives millions of polio vaccines to the enemy population? What genocidal regime enables the distribution of two million tons of food to Gaza, a ton per person?" Netanyahu asked the assembly, adding that a majority of the fighting was being conducted in the social media sphere.

Netanyahu also said that several countries in the region were actively financing information campaigns against Israel, with Qatar being the first to pursue such policies and Turkey the latest.

"Years ago, Qatar started financing universities and the toxic media outlet Al Jazeera. They did the same in Europe, by the way. And their goal was clear. Brainwash young minds to hate Israel, America, and the West. This is the same Qatar that holds the Hamas butchers of October 7," he said.

"Now the last country to become an antisemitic spreader of lies is Turkey. [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is a tyrant who also hosts the Hamas terror chiefs," he added.

Netanyahu also accused the Turkish leader of having "murdered thousands of Kurdish civilians, denies the Armenian genocide, has jailed thousands of journalists, and in fact, he holds the world record for this, and illegally occupies northern Cyprus and regularly trespasses into Greece, a NATO member."

He said it was no surprise that Erdogan was now "attempting to trespass into Syria." Netanyahu added that Erdogan had called for Israel's destruction almost every day and said he intended to rule Jerusalem.

Netanyahu calls out Mamdani.

During his speech, Netanyahu also addressed recently elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, saying that Jews were worried about the state of the city and their safety.

"Many tell me that this is not the New York that we know, and that they can't believe how fast it changed," he said.

"It's no wonder if we consider that you [Mamdani] praised criminals convicted of supporting Hamas; you count as friends people like Hassan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11. Some friends you have. You invite into your home a Palestinian journalist who filmed Hamas terrorists beating and torturing Israeli hostages and later admitted that he refused to publish the videos in order to protect the terrorists. Your wife likes a post praising the Oct. 7 massacre, and another saying Tel Aviv shouldn't exist," Netanyahu added.

"Mr. Mamdani, you tried to stop me from coming here; you tried to silence me. Well, you can silence me, you can't silence the truth," Netanyahu continued.

"And here is the simple truth: Israel didn't commit genocide; Israel prevented genocide. And that's exactly what Mr. Mamdani's Hamas buddies would have done if we hadn't stopped them; they would have killed every last one of us."

Netanyahu refers to West Bank violence.

In another part of his speech, Netanyahu addressed what he described as a recent rise in West Bank violence, saying that the settler population could not be represented by 150 young people who "throw rocks and burn down olive trees."

"I can't stand for vigilantes, and that's why we are looking for them with the Shin Bet," he continued, adding that he saw no comparison between settler violence and Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians in the West Bank.

"Three days ago, an Israeli-French citizen was shot by a Hamas terrorist in a lake in Judea and Samaria. Two days ago, a reservist was run over by a terrorist while in Judea and Samaria," he said.

He identified the victim of the car-ramming attack as Neria Leiter, an American citizen who serves as an IDF reservist and is the son of Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter.

"In a recent post, before he was attacked, Neria wrote this: We have no country; it is a privilege to defend it. To Neria, and to all the heroes of Israel, I pledge: Your sacrifice won't be in vain. We will continue to fight and to win, because we have no other choice," Netanyahu said.

Starlink, beepers, and delegations leaving the chamber.

During the speech, Netanyahu used physical objects to illustrate some of his points. He displayed a beeper while recounting how the IDF destroyed the Hezbollah threat through the beeper operation. He also displayed a Starlink antenna receiver while discussing what he described as the Iranian people's opposition to the regime.

While discussing Iran, Netanyahu contrasted protests against Israel in Gaza and the West Bank with the absence of similar protests when, according to him, Iran repressed protesters in the streets.

"But I have news for you. In Iran, the power of the people will overcome the people in power," he said.

During Netanyahu's address, several delegations walked out and booed the prime minister when he was called to the podium. Although several delegations left the plenary hall, 120 remained in their seats, according to the Prime Minister's Office, which told Walla.

Iran's delegation also left a photograph of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani on its bench.

Israeli political reactions.

Former prime minister and B'Yachad party leader Naftali Bennett said that Netanyahu had missed what Bennett described as an opportunity to declare Qatar an enemy and highlight its involvement in the October 7 massacre.

"In doing so, he whitewashes and legitimizes Qatar. Every moment Netanyahu refuses to call the Qatari enemy by its name harms our national security, damages Israel's standing in the world, and dishonors the memory of those murdered in the massacre," Bennett said.

"Qatar is an enemy with the blood of our people on its hands. They funded [Hamas's] Nukhba forces, celebrated the massacre, have hosted and continue to host Hamas leaders, and even at this very moment, continue to spread antisemitic propaganda worldwide calling for Israel's destruction," he continued.

"Netanyahu speaks about Hamas, but he is trying to hide the truth. Without Qatar, there is no Hamas. Netanyahu is handing Qatar the keys to Gaza, which is why he has been unable to defeat Hamas for three years now," Bennett said.

"We will declare Qatar an enemy, oust it from Israel and Gaza, and defeat Hamas," Bennett concluded.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said Netanyahu's speech "presented our truth in the house of lies that is the UN."

"Israel's prime minister must be equipped with the abilities and skills to fight for Israel's cause and to be a player on the international stage. The candidates seeking to replace Netanyahu in these elections do not have these abilities that Netanyahu has," Sa'ar added.

Democrats party head Yair Golan said, "I was surprised to hear that Netanyahu is accusing Qatar of spreading lies and hosting Hamas leaders on October 7. Apparently the speech did not align with Yonatan Urich."

Meetings on the sidelines of the UNGA.

Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, welcomed Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, before the prime minister took the stage.

Protests were reported outside the UN headquarters against Netanyahu's presence at the gathering of world leaders. Several protesters were arrested by the New York Police Department for causing disruptions outside UN headquarters. Among those arrested was anti-Zionist movie star Susan Sarandon, according to Walla.

Before his speech, Netanyahu met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the sidelines of the UNGA.

Netanyahu "emphasized the importance of the strategic partnership between the countries for regional stability and welcomed Greece's selection of Israeli defense systems," the Prime Minister's Office said.

Netanyahu and Mitsotakis discussed "regional developments, energy cooperation, and the advancement of another tripartite summit with Cyprus," the PMO added.

Netanyahu also met with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša on the sidelines of the UNGA, the PMO confirmed.

He thanked Janša for the opening of the Israeli embassy in Ljubljana and his "steadfast support for Israel, which has led to a turnaround in bilateral relations," the PMO said.

The two leaders "discussed opportunities to deepen cooperation between the two countries in various fields," and Netanyahu invited Janša to visit Israel, according to the PMO. JPost

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'Churchillian, meaningful' Netanyahu United Nations speech, Jewish leaders say. (Sept. 24, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday with a message for the diplomats walking out of the hall.

“If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now,” he said. “Thank you very much.”

Dozens of delegates departed, as others who remained in the room sang “Am Yisrael chai,” the people of Israel live.

Netanyahu defended Israel’s participation in strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, calling it one of the easiest decisions he had made as prime minister.

“In defending itself, Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall,” he told attendees of the general debate of the 81st U.N. General Assembly.

Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran, told JNS that the address carried messages to “the international community, antisemites abroad, state threats against Israel and most especially the Iranian people.”

“It was unfortunate many U.N. delegates walked out for his speech but stayed for Masoud Pezeshkian’s address after the Iranian regime killed tens of thousands of its own people in January,” Brodsky told JNS.

Netanyahu rejected accusations that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. “Israel didn’t commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide,” he said.

The Israeli premier also accused Qatar and Turkey of spreading antisemitic claims about the Jewish state.

Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Winner, chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, told JNS that Netanyahu’s defense of Israel “is not going to change any one of our enemy’s attitude” but that it offers support to Jews abroad.

“Raise your heads,” Winner said. “Be proud of what you are.”

Winner called the speech “meaningful” and said that the Israeli prime minister was answering to “false accusations” thrown at the Jewish state.

“He was giving a deterrence speech,” he told JNS. “Don’t think you can think about attacking us. Look what happened to all of those who tried. JNS

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Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee: A mention by @IsraeliPM of @SpencerGuard makes sense-Spencer is world’s foremost expert on urban warfare & genocide. Facts matter. Truth matters. Sep. 24, 2026. on X

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Report: Saudi Arabia, UAE urge US to maintain pressure on Iran. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi oppose easing sanctions or the US naval blockade as Qatar and Oman push to revive talks. i24NEWS. September 25, 2026 at 05:01 AM i24

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Netanyahu at UNGA: Gaza genocide ‘lie of the century,’ matter of time before Iranians topple regime. Netanyahu calls out Qatar for spending billions to brainwash youth worldwide • "Tyrant" Erdogan hosts Hamas terror chiefs • "Shame on you, antisemitic mayor of New York," he tells Mamdani. JPost

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Prominent scholars, legal experts among 6,000 signatories to letter rejecting Gaza genocide charge. September 25, 2026. Prominent academics, legal experts, and historians are among more than 6,000 signatories of an open letter released earlier this month rejecting as a “blood libel” the accusation that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.

The letter, which launched with more than 5,000 signatories and later surpassed 6,000, argues that the accusation of genocide is contradicted by Israel’s conduct during the war and has been weaponized as a pretext to exclude and attack Jews around the world.

The letter was released by Creative Community for Peace in partnership with its authors: Yossi Klein Halevi, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Rabbi Micha Odenheimer, and Binghamton University historian Jonathan Karp.

“There is a vigorous debate within the Jewish community over aspects of how this war was fought, and that is a sign of moral health. So is our pain over every innocent life lost. But we must unite in repudiating the lie of genocide,” the letter states.

It addresses what it describes as the “unprecedented combat conditions” in Gaza, including Hamas’s use of “hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, thousands of boobytrapped homes [and] the conflating of combatants with ‘journalists’ and ‘human rights workers.’”

The letter also addresses the civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio, which it says is “considered low for asymmetrical urban warfare.” Taking the Gaza Health Ministry’s reported death toll, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, alongside an Institute for National Security Studies estimate from May of more than 23,000 terrorists killed, the letter says the implied civilian-to-combatant ratio would be roughly 2:1.

The letter also cites “the absence of mass starvation despite repeated claims of imminent catastrophe” and “the warnings given to civilians before attack,” arguing that these factors were overlooked in what it describes as efforts to accuse Israel of genocide.

The letter argues that Israel went to war after October 7 to break what it calls an “Iranian-led siege of terror enclaves” on its borders. It also states that accusations of genocide against Israel were being made by anti-Zionists as early as the day after October 7.

“The bitter irony is that Israel, home to half the world’s Jews, is the only country to face a sustained war of attempted genocide – from its inception in 1948 until today,” the letter states.

Prominent scholars who signed the letter include Harvard professor and public intellectual Steven Pinker. Other Harvard-affiliated signatories include Harvard Law professor Jesse Fried and visiting scholar Anat Alon-Beck, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University.

Other notable scholars who signed include historian Niall Ferguson, Israeli historian Benny Morris, Holocaust historian and former US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, Tel Aviv University professor emerita and former Yad Vashem chief historian Dina Porat, historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, UCLA professor Judea Pearl, and Brandeis University professor emeritus Jonathan Sarna.

The signatories also include John Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point.

Prominent legal figures include former Canadian justice minister and attorney general Irwin Cotler, Cornell Law professor Robert Hockett, Jeffrey Mausner, a former prosecutor with the US Justice Department’s Nazi War Crimes Unit, and Eugene Kontorovich, a professor of law at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School and director of its Center for the Middle East and International Law.

“The genocide libel is a case study in the longstanding – and intensified post-October 7th – historical, moral, legal and normative inversions of fact, law and history,” Cotler said in a statement cited by Creative Community for Peace.

Political signatories include former UK prime minister Boris Johnson, Iraqi-born former UK cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi, and former US secretary of veterans affairs Robert Wilkie, among others. JPost

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Watch: IDF demolishes tunnels below the yellow line. Two-kilometer-long underground terror tunnel dismantled: IDF troops continue operations to clear the Yellow Line area of terror infrastructure. Israel National News. Sep 25, 2026, 1:31 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Hadassah named among world’s leading hospitals by ‘Newsweek’. Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem has been named one of the world’s leading medical centers by Newsweek magazine in its rankings for 2027. Sep 25, 2026 JNS

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IDF kills two Hamas terrorists who participated in Oct. 7 massacre, held Israeli hostages According to the IDF, Hamas terrorist commander Hassan Mahmoud Siam held Amit Soussana, Keith and Aviva Siegel, and Dafna Elyakim hostage over the course of their captivity in Gaza. By Goldie Katz. September 25, 6:37 PM JPost

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Live Updates: Abraham Accords partners meet in New York as Yemen calls on citizens to join fight against Houthis. Trump tells Xi that China helping Iran is unacceptable • IDF kills two Hamas terrorists who held Israeli hostages in Gaza • Iran submits plan to reopen Hormuz in seven days. JPost

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Mahyar Tousi on X: "History will never forget what the pro-Islam [radical] British government did here." / X. Sep 24, 2026. on X

Miliband under fire for shaking hands with Iranian minister. Tories describe Foreign Secretary’s meeting with Abbas Araghchi as a ‘propaganda win’ for Tehran.

Ed Miliband held a face-to-face meeting with his Iranian counterpart on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Amy Gibbons. Published 25 September 2026 7:11pm BST Ed Miliband has been accused of fuelling Iranian propaganda by shaking hands with Tehran’s foreign minister at the United Nations General Assembly… https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/09/25/miliband-under-fire-for-shaking-hands-with-iranian-minister/ ____

The ‘Proud Jew’ Pushing Out British Jewry. By Jonathan Sacerdoti. September 25, 2026.

Our British Foreign Secretary is certainly not camera shy. In fact, he has something of an obsession with posting toe-curling social media videos — so much so that one might mistake his taxpayer-funded trip to the UN General Assembly in New York for a wannabe influencer’s minibreak, booked on Avios saved up from years of shopping at Accessorize. His wooden personality, bodily awkwardness, and peculiar dental endowment combine to bring new levels of dweebishness to the poorly produced, formulaic Instagram reels he’s been pumping out since he took office. His poor man’s Robert Jenrick act is simply showing him up as the lightweight he is.

While other world leaders used the UN General Assembly this week to hold important meetings, deliver set-piece speeches, and put vital messages across to the world, Edward Miliband appears to have forced a spad [special adviser] to film him as he wanders around the UN building and through the streets of New York, awkwardly delivering lines fresh from ChatGPT. He’s giving more “Miss Alumunumu” vibes than Lord Palmerston — but she at least raised a few smiles flogging her Chinese-made aluminum capsule homes on TikTok. Not so Miliband.

In one carefully stage-managed collab with the internet video creator Feroz Khan, he declares himself “like the Marco Rubio of Great Britain.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Khan became internet-famous for a series of videos in which he spontaneously stops strangers in the street to chat. He faked this one with Miliband, presumably to help the guy build more international recognition. If the badly scripted conversation hadn’t given the game away, the very idea that anyone would stop a second-rate Mr. Bean tribute act on Fifth Avenue because he looked “well dressed” destroyed any scrap of believability. Asked what his job involves, he garbled, “I’m just trying to make the world a better place,” with all the flair of David Brent.

This Alan Partridge-meets-messiah-complex act might reveal why he’s doing such a bloody dreadful job only weeks into the new role. I always thought the UK Foreign Secretary’s job was to direct British foreign policy worldwide, negotiate treaties, and build alliances, all for the benefit of British interests. Miliband thinks he’s been appointed Mother Teresa.

Then there was his tone-deaf post of a photo of himself standing next to Zohran Mamdani. “Progressive parties are so much stronger when we learn from and stand with each other — from the cost of living to climate action to peace in Israel and Palestine,” he gushed in the caption.

Zohran Mamdani is the New York mayor who used his first day in office to bin the city’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, who wouldn’t condemn calls to “globalize the intifada,” who has called AIPAC “monsters,” and who took most of a day to condemn chants of “We support Hamas” outside a Queens synagogue. For nine months, New York’s rabbis, from Reform to Orthodox, have been telling him that his rhetoric is making Jews less safe. That is the man Britain’s Jewish Foreign Secretary chose to “learn from and stand with.”

In another video, he talks about how great it was that the Labour government “recognized” a Palestinian state. It’s not entirely clear what positive effect he thinks that had — but maybe it’s too early to tell. Surely his desperate Hail Mary, punishing Israel to keep alive the long-dead fantasy of a two-state solution, is proof enough that the so-called recognition did nothing to bring about Palestinian statehood. If it had really recognized a state, wouldn’t there already be two? The “solution” would be well and truly achieved, and peace would reign throughout the Middle East.

Then there’s the money. This week Miliband also unveiled more than £88 million of British taxpayers’ cash for Gaza and the “West Bank,” some of it for UNRWA — the agency whose staff the UN’s own investigators found may have taken part in the Oct. 7 massacre.

He couldn’t resist using the announcement for another swipe at Israel, urging it to “listen to our Call to Action” and end its “unacceptable restrictions on Gaza.” One wonders whether Hamas, which has spent years diverting resources into tunnels and rockets, received a Call to Action too.

The point of all this cheap, transparent social media fodder is clear: Miliband is desperate for his potential voters to know that, while he is a “proud Jew,” he’s not afraid to upset, imperil, and abandon British Jews, and is positively excited by the prospect of destroying the safety and security of Israeli Jews.

In fact, the sheer volume of these totally un-serious videos makes it clear that he really, really wants everyone to know this. None of this is accidental. Thankfully for both groups, he is also making sure Britain’s ability to do the latter shrinks by the day, as he makes our nation ever less relevant and influential in the messy business of containing the Palestinian and wider Iranian threat to Israel.

Miliband’s morality is also strikingly selective. Just over two weeks after solemnly invoking “death, destruction, and dehumanization on an appalling scale” in Gaza, he sat down in New York with Iran’s Abbas Araghchi, foreign minister of a regime whose forces massacred protesters in January — more than 36,500 in just two days, according to documents obtained by Iran International.

To be fair, he reportedly used the meeting to warn Tehran against hostile activity on British soil. But don’t expect that one to get a slickly produced reel, or any talk of making the world a better place.

With every video and photo condemning Israel for one thing or another, Miliband makes it clearer which voters Labour is most afraid of losing. And each one signals weakness, not the strength he thinks he’s projecting.

Meanwhile, everyone who isn’t obsessed with Gaza and “recognizing Palestine” is left with an increasingly clear sense that he has little to add to our standing in the world. He would rather make online gestures and meaningless political moves over something he can’t control than roll up his sleeves and do the hard work of effective diplomacy, alliance-building, and forging strong trade partnerships.

Even on this issue of the Middle East, just think which side makes the more productive ally for Britain as it faces an increasingly uncertain and unsafe future: a democratic, confident, strong Israel, with its excellence in defense, technology, intelligence, and medicine — or the Palestinians, with their decades-long, stubborn commitment to violence, terrorism, and rejectionism.

Britain’s interests are not served by alienating a strong and valuable ally for an imaginary, violent one with few shared values.

Since declaring himself a “proud Jew,” Miliband has wasted no time in proving how little that pride is worth to the community he claims. He is at least doing British Jews one service: More of us now understand that our legitimate, real concerns do not count when set against the objections of a small but angry and often violent mob of irrational actors.

Their concerns — and votes — matter far more than ours to the government that determines our future.

British Jews are increasingly being convinced by our Foreign Secretary that this country is no longer a sensible place to bring up children, build businesses, or plan a safe and secure future. As a “proud Jew,” perhaps this is his contribution to helping Anglo-Jewry decide its path ahead.

Jonathan Sacerdoti, a writer and broadcaster, is now a contributor to The Algemeiner. Algemeiner

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German city votes to end Stolpersteine Holocaust memorial stones for Nazi victims. The motion was jointly submitted by representatives of the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and AfD, together with representatives of the "Oberelbe Alliance for More Democracy."

By Eli Leon. September 25, 2026.

The city council of Heidenau, in the German state of Saxony, voted on Thursday to no longer permit new Stolpersteine memorial stones to be placed on the city's streets and sidewalks in memory of Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime.

The motion passed in a secret ballot, with 13 council members voting in favor, six opposed, and one abstaining. It was jointly submitted by representatives of the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Alternative for Germany (AfD), together with representatives of the "Oberelbe Alliance for More Democracy."

German artist Gunter Demnig launched the Stolpersteine, or "stumbling stones," project in the 1990s, and it has become one of the world's largest decentralized memorial projects.

The small brass plaques are generally embedded in the pavement outside the former home or last workplace of a person persecuted or murdered by the Nazis. Each bears the individual's name and details of their fate.

Under the resolution, applications to install new Stolpersteine "in public streets and sidewalks" will now be rejected. Instead, supporters of the measure want memorials to Nazi victims concentrated at a commemorative site in the city's Northern Cemetery, where people would not walk over the memorial plaques.

Those behind the proposal argued that residents, relatives of victims and various memorial initiatives no longer regard Stolpersteine as an appropriate form of remembrance, in part because passersby step on the names of those who were murdered and persecuted. JPost

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Saudi Arabia has not ruled out developing nuclear weapons, US intelligence warns - report. Classified US intelligence warns Saudi Arabia may still seek nuclear weapons, fueling bipartisan pushback in Congress against a proposed Trump administration civilian nuclear cooperation pact. Asher Smith. September 25, 2026 JPost

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Italy charges three adults, 14 minors with neo-Nazi, white supremacist activity-linked offenses. In the online groups and chatrooms, the suspects praised Adolf Hitler and shared instructions for making and detonating homemade explosives designed to maximize lethal impact.

By Goldie Katz. Sep. 26, 2026. Three adults and 14 minors were charged with training for terrorist activities, incitement to commit hate crimes, and propaganda after an Italian General Investigations and Special Operations Division (DIGOS) investigation into online neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, the Italian state police announced on Friday.

DIGOS officers in multiple areas of Italy executed search warrants on the suspects' computers and belongings. They uncovered bladed weapons, paraphernalia with Nazi symbolism, and electronic devices used to spread propaganda. JPost

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Nine Israeli innovations that helped shape the world, from Waze to the Iron Dome. Zionism challenged Jews to take the initiative, and almost eight decades later, Israeli innovations are improving the world and enriching lives everywhere. By Steven Drucker. September 26, 2026. Jews have been victimized more than any other people in history, yet have remained optimistic, idealistic, and dedicated to helping build a better world. The Jews’ contribution to the world is staggering – and up to 1948, all without political power, a country, or a shared language of everyday speech.

When the State of Israel was founded, it was a barren country with no natural resources, little water, and more than half of its landmass desert.

The only advantage the new country had going for it was the strength of will and natural creativity of its people.

Zionism challenged Jews to take the initiative, and almost eight decades later, Israeli innovations are improving the world and enriching lives everywhere. Here are nine of them:

Solar Water Heater.

In the early 1950s, Dr. Zvi (Harry) Tabor, an Israeli physicist from England, convinced that solar energy was the surest and cleanest solution to the fact that Israel has no oil of its own, invented the Tabor Selective Surface – thermal panels that could store the heat of the sun even when it didn’t shine.

Eventually, he integrated this technology with a water boiler to create the modern solar water heater, which earned Tabor the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences in 1956.

Today, 95% of Israeli households have solar-heated water tanks based on the Tabor Selective Surface. With over 1.4 million units installed, Israel maintains the highest per capita use of solar-powered water heaters in the world.

Approximately 122 million solar hot water systems were in operation globally at the end of 2022.

Besides simple residential units, these systems included solar power plants in remote locations not hooked up to the grid and even the solar panels built in California’s Mojave Desert, the largest solar power installation in the world – all based on Tabor’s work.

Dr. Zvi Tabor was awarded the Israeli President’s Medal of Distinction in 2014 for “being a symbol of Israeli innovation and for inspiring generations of scientists and entrepreneurs in the field of solar energy.”

Drip Irrigation.

In the early 1960s, Simcha Blass, the chief engineer and one of the founders of the Mekorot water company, developed and patented the drip irrigation concept.

Friction and pressure loss allow water to drip slowly at regular intervals to the roots of plants, providing a sustainable solution to the challenges of water scarcity and climate uncertainty.

Increased water-use efficiency, with up to 50% savings, and crop yield, up 30–50%, together with decreased fertilizer loss and soil erosion, have been instrumental in transforming barren deserts in the Middle East, North Africa, India, and parts of Australia into productive agricultural lands.

Netafim, the company that Blass established over 60 years ago, now operates in 110 countries and contributes to food security and economic growth for farmers across more than 15 million hectares worldwide.

Semiconductor Memory.

In 1971, Dov Frohman, the Israel Prize-winning founder and first general manager of Intel Israel, invented the first non-volatile semiconductor memory that was both erasable and reprogrammable.

Intel founder Gordon Moore declared this innovation “as important in the development of the microcomputer industry as the microprocessor itself.”

From its crucial role in developing the foundations of personal computing, this technology revolutionized data storage, paving the way to flash memory technology, invented by Dov Moran and perfected by Dr. Eli Harari, the co-founder of SanDisk – both Israelis.

This led to the commercially feasible development of digital photography, MP3 players, USB drives, smartphones, tablets, laptops, e-books, apps, and portable game consoles.

Cardioverter-Defibrillator.

On February 4, 1980, the first cardioverter-defibrillator, invented and developed by Michel Mirowski, a Polish-born Israeli-American physician, was implanted in a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital, despite much skepticism and the lack of financial backing.

An Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) is a small, battery-powered device placed under the skin in the upper chest to monitor and help regulate life-threatening electrical problems with the heart 24/7.

If it detects dangerously fast rhythms, such as tachycardia or fibrillation, it delivers an electric shock to restore a normal rhythm, preventing sudden cardiac arrest, and often also serving as a pacemaker.

It also delivers “overdrive pacing” for less severe fast rhythms, or a shock for life-threatening, chaotic rhythms, often restarting a heart that stops beating during cardiac arrest.

Since then, the device – which Mirowski further improved and miniaturized – has been installed in over 4 million people worldwide.

PillCam.

After working on the idea for almost 20 years and successfully creating a prototype in 1998, Gavriel Iddan, an Israeli electro-optical engineer, received FDA approval on August 3, 2001, for a disposable pill-sized camera that passes straight through the digestive tract, continuously broadcasting to an external receiver.

The resulting product, PillCam, was developed to non-invasively visualize the small bowel and gastrointestinal tract.

It takes 2–6 pictures per second for roughly 8 hours, helping doctors diagnose Crohn’s disease, obscure bleeding, and tumors by transmitting images to a wearable recorder.

Not only does it allow for imaging of areas difficult to reach via traditional endoscopy, but it is also considerably cheaper, at around $500 per pill, while a colonoscopy costs an average of $4,000.

Since the technology was first approved in 2001, more than 4 million PillCam capsules have been used in patient procedures in over 80 countries, and nearly 1,000 scientific articles have been published about its clinical use.

Waze.

Waze, a company founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar, and Uri Levine in 2008, developed a geographical navigation application that provides turn-by-turn information, user-submitted travel times, and route details, downloading location-dependent information over a cellular telephone network.

The platform relies entirely on users to provide real-time data on traffic, accidents, and police, allowing the service to prioritize the quickest route.

In June 2013, Google acquired Waze for a reported $1.3 billion, while maintaining its primary research and development hub in Israel.

Since then, Waze has grown to approximately 151 million active monthly users worldwide as of early 2026, operating in over 180 countries, with significant user bases in the US, Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brazil.

Watergen.

Watergen, an Israeli technology company specializing in Atmospheric Water Generation, offers methods of extracting clean and safe drinking water from humidity in the air.

Founded in 2009 by entrepreneur and former military commander Arye Kohavi and a team of engineers, the initial goal was to provide freely accessible water to troops around the world.

Following its acquisition by billionaire Michael Mirilashvili in 2016, the company turned its attention to addressing worldwide water scarcity and responding to the needs of people in the aftermath of natural disasters.

By producing clean, energy-efficient water at the point of use, Watergen eliminates the need for transportation, storage, and reliance on aging infrastructure and plastic bottles, reducing costs, pollution, and environmental impact.

Watergen operates in more than 90 countries, with installations for communities, enterprises, homes, industrial sites, and emergency response, producing thousands of liters of drinking water per day.

Iron Dome Mobile Missile Defense System.

On April 7, 2011, the Iron Dome mobile missile defense system successfully intercepted its first projectile: a rocket fired from Gaza toward Israel.

The decision to build a missile defense system was made by Defense Minister Amir Peretz in 2007, following a year in which Hezbollah fired thousands of missiles into northern Israel during the Second Lebanon War, and Hamas fired rockets at Israel’s southern communities.

The Iron Dome system was developed by two Israeli firms, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, with significant funding from the United States, to counter threats from up to 70 kilometers away, including missiles, mortars, and drones.

The system is designed to save lives, prevent injuries, and protect property. In the 15 years after its debut, it has intercepted more than 5,000 rockets, with a reported success rate of over 90%.

Mobileye.

In 1999, Prof. Amnon Shashua evolved his academic research into a vision system that could detect vehicles by adding “intelligence” to inexpensive cameras for commercialization.

The resulting company, Mobileye, founded in Jerusalem, developed into a supplier of self-driving technologies and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), providing warnings for collision prevention and mitigation.

Mobileye went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014, raised $890 million, and became the largest Israeli IPO in US history. By the end of that year, Mobileye’s technology had been implemented in dozens of vehicle models from major automakers, including GM, Ford, VW, and Nissan.

In March 2017, Intel acquired Mobileye for $15.3 billion – the biggest-ever acquisition of an Israeli tech company at the time – and Mobileye went public again in 2022.

By 2024, Mobileye had reached over 70% market share in camera-based ADAS, with its technology used in approximately 200 million vehicles worldwide. JPost

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Nick Kristof Tried to Defend Infamous “Dog Rape” Column at Harvard. It Backfired. Put on the spot at Harvard over his “dog rape” allegation, Nicholas Kristof insisted the claim was independently corroborated. A closer look at those sources tells a very different, and deeply embarrassing, story.

By Rachel O'Donoghue. September 25, 2026

Nick Kristof Tried to Defend Infamous “Dog Rape” Column at Harvard. It Backfired. Key Takeaways:

Challenged at Harvard over his infamous “dog rape” column, Nicholas Kristof doubled down, claiming multiple victims and independent corroboration. Trace that supposed corroboration and the same extraordinary allegations repeatedly resurface under different names, organizations and hyperlinks. Kristof invoked the UN as further support, but its document merely recorded a dog-rape allegation strikingly similar to claims already published elsewhere; it did not verify one. HonestReporting

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CPJ Audits List of Dead Gazan Journalist – More Than Half Still Have Terrorist Ties Key Takeaways: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) removed 19 terrorists and three fake journalists from its database of slain Gazan journalists, but reinstated four individuals. Of the 191 Gazan journalists on CPJ's list, 102 were found in a preliminary audit to have connections to terrorist groups. CPJ continues to include members of the non-military wings of terrorist groups on its list, and has failed to issue an apology for spreading disinformation. By HonestReporting Staff September 25, 2026 HonestReporting

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Live Iran News. Terrorist doctors called the brave men of January 18 and 19 spies of Mossad and America/Pozidhe, the president of the occupying regime of the Islamic Republic, claimed in an interview with Fox News that they had spoken to the protesters and that those who took to the streets on January 18 and 19 were spies of Mossad and America. This is the same repeated security lie of the terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic that attributes the national uprising of the Iranian people to foreigners in order to hide responsibility for the repression. If the square was the property of spies, where did more than 100,000 people die in just 18 hours? And which arm of the terrorist group of the Revolutionary Guard Corps and the repressive forces of the regime carried out the massacre of the brave revolutionaries? Sep 25 at 08:54 (2026). on TM

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Iran's Araghchi dismisses, smiles at reporter's question on regime's execution, torture of Iranians. On Monday, Araghchi denounced other countries for not condemning alleged "atrocities" committed in Iran by the United States and Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff. September 26, 2026. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi smiled in response to a question asked by a reporter on Friday regarding his regime's execution, torture, and imprisonment of Iranian citizens. Fox News Digital reporter Efrat Lachter posted footage of the interaction to her X/Twitter account, showing Araghchi smiling and ultimately dismissing her question. In the post, she wrote: "Tried to ask Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi how he can call himself 'a victim of terrorism' while his government has executed more than 900 Iranians this year, and while thousands of others have been tortured and imprisoned JPost

Efrat Lachter on X: "Tried to ask #Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi how he can call himself “a victim of terrorism” while his government has executed more than 900 Iranians this year, and while thousands of others have been tortured and imprisoned. He didn’t answer. He smiled. So the question remains: what, exactly, did he find amusing?" @EfratLachter Efrat Lachter @EfratLachter Tried to ask #Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi how he can call himself “a victim of terrorism” while his government has executed more than 900 Iranians this year, and while thousands of others have been tortured and imprisoned. He didn’t answer. He smiled. So the question remains: what, exactly, did he find amusing? 4:46 PM · Sep 25, 2026 on X

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Huckabee fires back at Mamdani: "Israel didn't commit genocide". U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee rejected genocide accusations against Israel and blasted New York Mayor Mamdani's threats against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying: "You can't silence the truth." Israel National News. Sep 27, 2026, 4:48 AM (GMT+3)

Mike Huckabee absolutely rips apart Mamdani. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee praised President Donald Trump for his approach toward Iran and strongly rejected accusations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Speaking with Newsmax, Huckabee said Trump deserved credit for confronting Iran both militarily and economically. "The reality for them, they're the weakest they've been since the revolution of 1979," Huckabee said. He added that Iran's situation would not improve unless it gave up its aspiration to become a nuclear power. Huckabee also responded to comments by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed at New York Mayor Mamdani. "You can't silence the truth," Huckabee said. "Here's the simple truth. Israel didn't commit genocide." He said Mamdani had no authority to arrest the Israeli prime minister and praised Netanyahu for pushing back against criticism of Israel. Huckabee rejected claims of genocide in Gaza, pointing to humanitarian aid and vaccinations provided to Palestinians. He also cited experts who, he said, have concluded that genocide is not taking place. The ambassador also criticized the United Nations, accusing it of focusing disproportionately on Israel while failing to give similar attention to other crises around the world. "All the U.N. seems to want to do is point their fingers at the Jews," Huckabee said, adding that the Jewish population represents only a small fraction of the world's population. INN

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Mehdi Hasan’s hypocritical Ed Sheeran attack reveals his own double standard on Israel - opinion

Mehdi Hasan criticizes Ed Sheeran over Gaza, yet his own record raises questions about the consistency of his moral standards.

By Micha Danzig.

“He just keeps digging his hole... Hypocrite,” Mehdi Hasan posted this week, accusing Ed Sheeran of staying conveniently silent on Gaza after speaking up for Ukraine.

The comparison itself is telling: Ukraine is an unprovoked invasion by a foreign power; Gaza is a defensive war Israel didn’t start, against a terrorist organization that murdered 1,200 people in around eight hours during the October 7 massacre. Treating the two as interchangeable moral tests is already a distortion. But set that aside – by Hasan’s own hypocrisy standard, no one has more to answer for than he does.

Let’s start with the record. In 2009, years before he became a cable news fixture, Hasan gave a series of speeches comparing non-Muslims to “animals” and linking homosexuality to “sexual deviance.” He apologized in 2019, calling it “dumb offensive ranty stuff” from his twenties. He turned 30 a few months later, but sure, people change.

The pattern of minimizing bigotry when it’s politically or ideologically convenient never really stopped. A decade later, in 2019, when Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2012 tweet resurfaced – “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel” – Hasan defended her on air, saying she’d “maybe unwittingly echoed tropes” and insisting she hadn’t said anything about Jews.

That’s a generous read of language that does exactly what classic antisemitism has done for ages: cast Jews as secretly controlling perception itself, “hypnotizing” the world into not seeing supposed “evil.”

The mind-control framing isn’t incidental – it’s the mechanism explaining why the “evil” goes unpunished, the whole function this conspiracy theory genre has served for centuries. A sitting member of Congress reaching for it got recast by Hasan as an innocent slip. He has never extended that charity to Israel or its defenders.

The Israel-Hamas War exposed the pattern at scale. In October 2023, Hasan implied Israel was responsible for the explosion at Gaza’s Al Ahli hospital. American intelligence would soon confirm the blast came from a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket, exactly as Israel said within hours. Hasan never corrected the record or apologized for amplifying the accusation while it was doing maximum damage.

There’s also a credibility problem that should have ended his career as a serious journalist rather than launched a media company. In 2024, Hasan appeared in a video with Greta Thunberg and others reading tributes to alleged Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza. One of the men he eulogized, Hamza al-Dahdouh, was identified by the IDF – using documents recovered from Gaza command centers – as a dual-hatted Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative, not merely a journalist caught in crossfire. Hasan, who claims a brand based on “evidence-based” journalism and grilling guests over sourcing, didn’t apply that scrutiny to who he chose to memorialize.

Worse still is the line that should have put to rest any claim that Hasan’s commentary is principled anti-war advocacy rather than a singular fixation on Israel. Responding to journalist Eli Lake, Hasan argued the “Gaza genocide[sic]” was in some ways worse than prior genocides, including Rwanda and, in his words, even the Holocaust, because the perpetrators of those atrocities were eventually “shunned” and “de-radicalised,” while Israelis, in his telling, are not. He deleted the post after immediate, widespread backlash – Piers Morgan among those, asked if he’d “lost his mind. Yet Hasan never withdrew the argument, saying only he’d phrased it “clumsily.”

The comparison wasn’t just inflammatory – it was intellectually and morally bankrupt. Hasan’s casualty figure comes from Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, a tyrannical party to the conflict whose methodology has drawn significant scrutiny. Even at face value, it doesn’t distinguish civilians from combatants, nor separate deaths from Israeli strikes, Palestinian rocket misfires, and Hamas’s own executions and purges. Before the war, this ministry counted roughly 9,000 natural deaths a year – a figure the wartime total doesn’t appear to exclude.

Based on that rightfully disputed figure, Hasan placed Israel’s conduct alongside, and beyond, history’s most infamous genocides: the Holocaust, where six million Jews were exterminated in under four years, and Rwanda, where roughly 800,000 Tutsi were murdered in about one hundred days – invoking humanity’s worst crimes in service of a political argument.

Here’s where Hasan’s hypocrisy becomes structural, not incidental. Hasan spent eight years, from 2012 to 2020, as a paid presenter for Al Jazeera English – a network wholly owned and funded by the Qatari government.

Qatar's relation with Hamas.

Qatar is not a bystander here. It has hosted and financially supported Hamas’s political leadership in Doha for years and maintains one of the region’s worst records on labor rights, press freedom, religious freedom, and treatment of migrant workers, documented extensively around the 2022 World Cup.

To his credit, Hasan has occasionally pushed Chinese officials on the Uyghurs and prodded Gulf autocrats in the abstract – but those moments prove the rule: a handful of segments across a 15-year career, dwarfed by the near-nightly, career-defining fixation he’s built around Israel.

No government, including the one that paid him for a decade, has ever received a fraction of that scrutiny. That’s not moral consistency. That’s knowing which hand feeds you, and which flag makes for better ratings.

A decade-and-a-half obsession this singular, aimed at one small country on a planet of nearly two hundred, doesn’t emerge from nowhere. A few months before he turned 30, Hasan was making speeches built on exactly the kind of hate, Hamas-adjacent ideology and collective animus he now insists doesn’t inform his Israel coverage. The fixation didn’t start with October 7. It just found its biggest audience there.

Whether this fixation stems from ideology, personal conviction, audience incentives, or some mix of the three is unknowable. What’s observable is the pattern: excuses for antisemitic rhetoric, credulity toward anti-Israel allegations, and scrutiny he rarely applies elsewhere.

This fixation pattern extends well past one host. Mehdi Hasan is emblematic of a dictatorship-dominated UN General Assembly that passed 14 resolutions condemning Israel in 2023 alone – more than the rest of the world combined, which drew seven. Zero were passed against Venezuela, China, Qatar, or Hamas. Since 2015, the United Nations General Assembly has passed more than 140 resolutions against Israel, over double every other country on earth combined.

Meanwhile, at least 370,000 people have been killed in Yemen’s civil war, a toll with no UN watch tally, no primetime obsession, and no Mehdi Hasan monologue. Syria’s civil war killed over 525,000. Sudan’s ongoing catastrophe has displaced 13 million people and killed untold thousands more, with a fraction of the sustained Western or Al Jazeera attention Gaza receives in a single news cycle.

Which brings us back to Ed Sheeran. Hasan’s complaint is that public figures owe consistency across conflicts. Fair enough – but consistency is demanding. It requires the same scrutiny for friends and adversaries, the world’s one Jewish state and its roughly 199 non-Jewish counterparts, democracies and autocracies, and oneself. Hasan has built a career demanding that standard from others while too often exempting himself from it.

So, keep digging, Mehdi. At this rate, you’ll reach Doha long before you reach bedrock. JPost

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Ro Khanna calls for release of terror convict Barghouti, in apparent first for US lawmaker. 25 Sep 2026. Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google US Rep. Ro Khanna calls for the release of imprisoned Palestinian leader and convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti, apparently becoming the first US lawmaker to do so T.o.I.

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Abu Ali Express. 26/09/2026 [Abu Ali] Deputy Chairman of the Oversight Committee in the Iranian Parliament, Hossein Ali Haji Deligani: Our missile range allows us to strike anywhere in Europe or Western Asia—if an attack against us is launched from there. Sep 26 at 09:05 on TM

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Iran responsible for antisemitic terror attacks in Liège, Antwerp earlier this year - report. The Belgian Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) currently lists the threat level in Belgium as "very serious." By Jerusalem Post Staff.

The Islamic regime is directly responsible for two separate terrorist attacks in the Belgian cities of Liège and Antwerp earlier this year, KAN News reported on Saturday.

The report cited the Belgian Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) Director Gert Vercauteren, who told French broadcaster RTBF on Thursday that the terrorists in both attacks "certainly" acted on instructions from Tehran to attack Jewish targets around the world. JPost

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Live Updates: Iran fires anti-ship missiles at Hormuz, IDF strikes Hezbollah facilities in Lebanon. WATCH: IDF kills two Hamas terrorists in Gaza • Qatari Prime Minister accuses Netanyahu of sabotaging Gaza peace efforts • IDF strikes Hezbollah weapon storage facility. JPost

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Malawian girl becomes Israeli heart charity’s 9,000th patient. Nine-year-old Miracle Nkanda, whose illness forced her to repeat two school years, underwent successful surgery in Holon. i24NEWS. September 26, 2026. i24

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The threat brewing in Judea and Samaria. Security experts tell i24NEWS of the threat from armed Palestinian Authority forces, raising questions about their training, growing numbers and the future of security coordination. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2026, 11:17 PM INN

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Former Haniyeh bodyguard arrested in London after foiled plot against Jewish targets in Europe - report. Investigators allege that the planned attacks could have targeted Jewish community centers, or pro-Israel gatherings in Germany or Austria around the 2nd anniversary of the Oct. 7th. i24NEWS. September 27, 2026 at 12:10 AM i24

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Disgusting and performative: An open letter to the Irish football team. Shameful, immoral hypocrites: An open letter to the Irish football team - opinion. There were no comparable gestures from the Irish football team for the Israelis massacred on October 7. By Uri Geller. September 27, 2026. An open letter to the Irish football team: So you're going to wear black armbands in your match against Israel in Debrecen on Sunday? I say good, wear them. Wear them, because you deserve to be marked out. Marked out in front of the world as the shameful, immoral hypocrites you are. But you have forgotten something. The black armbands are incomplete. They are, of course, missing the swastika. Don't worry, you still have time to sew them on. You can thank me later. After all, don't forget your national side proudly played the Nazis in 1936 at Dalymount Park. They didn’t consider protesting then. They even performed the Nazi salute in Germany in 1939 when everyone knew exactly what the Nazis stood for. Today you are their worthy heirs, and you have not let them down. You share the same moral standards. You wouldn’t know that Debrecen’s almost entire Jewish community - nearly 10,000 people - was murdered during the Holocaust, but now you do; don’t let that prick your conscience while you’re running around with your little black armbands against the one and only Jewish state. Hitler would be proud of you. 'You are totally ignorant'. Your brains are truly in your feet, because they're certainly not in your heads. You claim to be protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza, but let's face it, what your entire side knows about what's going on could fit on a postage stamp, because you are totally ignorant. Where were you on October 7? Where were you when 1,200 innocent Israelis - including footballer Lior Asulin, 43, murdered at the Nova festival, and footballer Yaron Zohar, just 19, murdered fighting Hamas terrorist invaders - were slaughtered? I don't remember seeing any comparable gesture from your team for the Israelis massacred then. So, your protest is disgusting, performative, and a national disgrace. You are cowards, and you belong in the dustbin of history, like your predecessors. Am Yisrael chai. JPost

'Israel stopped caring': Irish columnist contrasts teams ahead of contentious soccer match. Sep 27, 2026. JPost

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WATCH: IDF shares footage of terrorist using child to transfer weapons into civilian home in Gaza. The military described the scene as an example of the "systematic exploitation of children by terrorist organizations for terrorist purposes, in violation of international law."

IDF identifies terrorist using child to transfer weapons in central Gaza, September 27, 2026. (CREDIT: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

By Miriam Sela-Eitam. September 27, 2026.

The IDF released footage on Sunday showing a terrorist using a child to transfer weapons into a civilian home in central Gaza in an attempt to prevent the military from striking the location.

"The terrorist exploited the child, using him as a human shield to transfer the weapons, in an attempt to prevent the IDF from striking and thwarting their transfer," the IDF said in its afternoon statement. "Upon identifying the presence of a child, the IDF refrained from carrying out any strikes against the terrorist."

The military described the scene as an example of the "systematic exploitation of children by terrorist organizations for terrorist purposes, in violation of international law."

Israel security forces kill terrorist who kidnapped Noa Argamani on Oct. 7.

Separately, on Sunday, the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced that it, along with Lahav 433's Gideonim Unit 33, had killed a terrorist involved in the kidnapping of Noa Argamani on October 7 over the weekend.

Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr was documented abducting Argamani and Avinatan Or from the Nova music festival to Gaza on the back of a motorcycle during the massacre.

Sakr is affiliated with global jihadist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said.

The military added that he had supplied Hamas with weapons throughout the war, as well as advancing attacks against troops and Israeli civilians. JPost

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Five arrested in suspected Iranian attempt to attack USAF base. Five men were arrested after three suspicious vans were spotted heading toward RAF Fairford, as British counter-terror police investigate a possible Iranian-linked terror plot. Orli Harari. Sep 27, 2026, 6:57 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Poll: Most Israelis support disqualification of Arab parties. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2026, 9:59 PM INN

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Maastricht University Suspends Palestinian Student. Dutch University Suspends Gaza Student After He Points at Hamas Terrorists and Says "This Is Me". Sep 27, 2026 JFeed

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IDF releases close-up footage of strike that killed Noa Argamani's captor. Dramatic color video shows the moment the IDF eliminated the terrorist who abducted Noa Argamani to Gaza on October 7. Sep 27, 2026 JFeed

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Response to Netherlands. Israel revokes Dutch diplomats' status Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar orders Dutch representatives in Ramallah to return diplomatic documentation within seven days, following Netherlands' ban on imports from Judea and Samaria | We will not move on from hostile actions. Eliana Fleming Sep 27, 2026. JFeed

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Israeli passengers stopped, searched at Dutch airport as West Bank import crackdown begins. The Netherlands began enforcing its ban on the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with Israeli travelers reporting thorough bag searches at Dutch airports. By Mathilda Heller. Sep 27, 2026. JPost

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WATCH. Netanyahu: "Happy beeper!" video on Nasrallah Prime Minister releases AI-edited video on second anniversary of Hassan Nasrallah's death, featuring pager attack footage and F-15 strikes | Happy beeper day! appears in English across the clip. [43]. Eliana Fleming Sep 27, 2026 JFeed

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"Netanyahu responsible for October 7". Chagai Segal, father of political analyst Amit Segal, says PM bears responsibility by virtue of his position but calls Qatari and Egyptian warning stories one of the biggest fakes in Israeli media history Eliana Fleming. Sep 27, 2026 JFeed

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Report: Israel preparing international legal case against Erdogan. Israel is reportedly compiling a legal case against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, focusing on his treatment of the Kurds and his ties to Hamas. Israel National News Sep 27, 2026, 8:37 PM INN

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Secret trip. Netanyahu meets with UAE President. Channel 12 reports Netanyahu secretly flew to Abu Dhabi for talks with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed; the Prime Minister's Office has not commented. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2026, 10:12 PM INN

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Live Updates: IDF grounds all 'drone ops.' following fatal crash, Houthis blame Saudi for Taiz market strike. Iran still waiting for official US response to proposal after initial Trump reaction • IDF enacts heavy restrictions against Palestinian movement in West Bank during Sukkot. Sep 27, 2026. JPost

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Iran warns US of 'doomsday war,' claims it has changed military tactics. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells NBC that Tehran is prepared for a 'doomsday war' with the US but remains willing to pursue diplomacy. Israel National News. Published: Sep 27, 2026, 11:02 PM (GMT+3) INN

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UK home secretary to restart resettlement program prioritizing Palestinian refugees - report

According to the report British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce the reopening of the UK resettlement scheme at the Labour Party conference tomorrow. Sep 28, 2026, 01:51 AM JPost

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Part 5

LA city Jewish librarian traumatized after hearing she’s named in lawsuit for helping cancel ‘Palestine week’. Tina Lerno told JNS that she had a “panic attack” and “sat down at my desk and started crying.” Aaron Bandler. (Sept. 28, 2026 / JNS) When a British reporter emailed Tina Lerno, a librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library, on Monday asking if she had a comment about being named in a lawsuit against the city over its cancellation of a “Read Palestine Week” event, that was the first she heard of the suit. “I started having a panic attack,” she told JNS. “I went on a walk. I didn’t feel much better. I sat down at my desk and started crying.” JNS

Rabbis demand action, as families pull out of public schools in heavily Jewish Maryland county. “Zionism is a lightning rod issue,” but “it’s also a fundamental part of Jewish identity, and most Jews in Montgomery County and beyond believe that Israel is a core part of their Jewish identity,” one signatory told JNS. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep. 28, 2026. JNS

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Grim video shows Hamas using child as human shield to carry weapons into Gaza home. By Anthony Blair. Published Sep. 28, 2026. NY Post

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Critical condition after terror attack. Leiter family: "Tear open the heavens" After Neriya Leiter was critically wounded in the Route 443 ramming attack, his family has issued an urgent call for the public to increase prayers and Tehillim for his recoverym Eliana Fleming. Sep 28, 2026 JFeed

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Netanyahu condemns Shomron riots. Prime Minister issues sharp rebuke after violent clashes in Jalud overnight, as over 100 rioters attacked IDF and Border Police forces trying to restore Palestinian family to their home | Three soldiers lightly wounded. Gila Isaacson. Sep 29, 2026 JFeed

The events in Binyamin: The settlers' version: We prevented a security danger with our bodies. Eliya Aviv. Sep 29, 2026

Hundreds of residents went to Givat Tsambarim to block a move to return an Arab family to a strategic dome that controls a sacred fire • The settlement clarifies: This is not an incident within a village, but a struggle for a critical control point from which attacks have been carried out in the past • The IDF reported disturbances and the injury of three fighters, and Netanyahu condemned Hundreds of residents of Gush Shiloh in Binyamin arrived tonight (between Monday and Tuesday) at Givat Tzambarim, near the settlement of Esh Kodesh, and, according to them, physically prevented a move to return an Arab family to the dome overlooking the settlement. According to the residents, their presence at the site was intended to thwart a direct and immediate security threat on the line of houses in Esh Kodesh, following an attempt to implement a High Court of Justice decision accompanied by security forces. On the other hand, the IDF claimed that disturbances developed that included stone-throwing and the injury of three Border Guard soldiers, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement of condemnation. c14

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Hamas official's arrest in Gaza gave Israel intelligence surge to kill top terrorists - exclusive. Three Hamas brigade commanders have been killed since September 11, following the September 2 capture of senior Hamas security official Mu'in al-Arabid in Gaza. Sep 29, 2026. JPost

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IDF will keep killing Hamas commanders as long as terror group keeps controlling Gaza - analysis. Hamas continues to control all the 2 million civilians in Gaza and doesn't need to recruit lots of people to keep ten thousand or so fighters. Israel needs to separate civilians from the terrorists. By Seth J. Frantzman. September 29, 2026. The IDF said on Tuesday that it had “struck in northern Gaza and eliminated the terrorist Izz al-Din Bik, commander of the Northern Gaza Brigade in the military wing of the Hamas terrorist organization.” This is one of the several recent strikes on Hamas officers and commanders of Hamas units linked to Jabaliya, Rafah, and other areas. The northern brigade of Hamas was destroyed several times in fighting, which raises questions about the continued attacks on these commanders.

On the one hand, the continued strikes on the commanders may show that Hamas is not only reappointing new commanders, but it is rebuilding itself. Most Hamas commanders who were alive on October 7, 2023, have now been killed. The IDF has also claimed to have defeated many of these units in the past. For instance, the northern Hamas brigade, which had several battalions, was supposed to have been defeated by January 2024, and then again in late 2024 and 2025. JPost

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Netanyahu: Israel's enemies may attack in the run up to the election, 'don't mess with us'. "I am sending you a message: Don't mess with us. Our long arm will reach you any where, and at any time," Netanyahu said from Tel Nof Air Base. By Jerusalem Post Staff. September 29, 2026. JPost

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Connecticut man sentenced to over seven-and-a-half years for trying to support ISIS. In a sentencing memo, attorneys for Ahmad Khalil Elshazly told the court that treating him with compassion “will show those who practice the Muslim faith that the United States is not the enemy of Islam.” Jessica Russak-Hoffman. September. 29, 2026. JNS

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Arab Suspect Arrested for Sukkah Arson in Jerusalem. Suspect Held for Sukkah Arson in Jerusalem A 52-year-old resident of the Old City was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a sukkah near Agrippas Street during Sukkos; police say the motive was racial hatred and will seek to extend his detention Gila Isaacson. Sep 29, 2026 10:38. The suspect under arrest A 52-year-old resident of Jerusalem's Old City was arrested Monday on suspicion of setting fire to a sukkah near Agrippas Street in the center of the city. Police say the attack, which took place during Sukkos, was racially motivated JFeed

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New film reveals previously undisclosed details of Mossad's Hezbollah pager operation. A year and a half after the mission that shocked the world, censorship regarding the Mossad's explosive pager operation against Hezbollah has been lifted, and new details have been revealed. A new film titled Paging Hezbollah has revealed details about the Mossad’s 2024 explosive pager operation that killed or wounded some three thousand five hundred Hezbollah operatives.

The film, directed by Justin Polk, comes as censorship laws regarding the covert mission are lifted, and details that had remained undisclosed are now permitted for publication. September 29, 5:44 AM. JPost

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Attorney-General pushes for Israel's Supreme Court to ban leader of Arab party Balad from election. The Supreme Court is reviewing the Central Elections Committee’s September 23 decision to disqualify Abu Shehadeh, as required before the disqualification of an individual candidate can become final. By Sarah Ben-Nun. Sep 39, 2026 JPost

AG and State Attorney back disqualification of Arab candidate. The Attorney General and State Attorney have declared support for the petition to disqualify Sami Abu Shahhdah from the Knesset for supporting a fight against Israel. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2026, 11:23 AM (GMT+3) [...] In their submission, Baharav-Miara and Aisman argued that Sami's disqualification should be upheld because of what they described as his support for an armed struggle against Israel, including in the context of the October 7th massacre. They pointed specifically to an article Sami published on October 8, 2023, one day after the Hamas attack. According to the legal officials, the article expressed support for Hamas’s armed struggle against Israel and falls within the grounds for disqualification established under Basic Law: The Knesset. INN

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Labour? Friends of Israel? Burnham’s cabinet to skip pro-Israel reception. No members of Andy Burnham’s cabinet are expected at the Labour Friends of Israel reception, days after Ed Miliband addressed a Palestinian event. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2026, 9:40 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Gun-toting migrant who called for slaughter of Jews cannot be deported. By Charles Hymas, Telegraph, September 29, 2026.

Palestinian TikTok influencer who supported militant group ‘allowed to roam free’ in Britain

Abu Wadee said that in Gaza he had been forced to speak against Jewish people

An alleged Palestinian gunman who called for the slaughter of Jewish people cannot currently be deported to Gaza after completing a jail sentence for trying to enter the UK illegally… Telegraph

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Watch: Police dog finds hidden gun near Arab city. Police officers from the Um al-Fahm station used a police dog to locate a weapon buried deep in the ground. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2026, 9:36 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Watch: Thousands sing and dance in Hebron. Approximately 10,000 worshipers, led by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, prayed, sang, and danced at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2026, 10:14 AM INN

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Didn't survive this time. Hamas Northern Gaza Strip Brigade commander eliminated. Netanyahu and Katz confirm the elimination of Hamas Northern Gaza Brigade commander Izz al-Din Bik in a targeted airstrike in western Gaza City. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2026, 8:37 AM INN

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Defense Minister threatens Hamas leaders abroad. Minister Katz responded to the elimination of the commander of Hamas' Northern Gaza Brigade and made clear that the defense establishment will continue pursuing the terrorist organization's senior leaders. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2026, 4:42 PM INN

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UK targets IDF: Blocks over 80 export licences. Britain has suspended or refused more than 80 export licences for items potentially used by the IDF in Gaza, the Jewish Chronicle reports. Israel National News. Published: Sep 29, 2026, 2:54 PM (GMT+3)

The British government has blocked more than 80 export licences involving equipment that could potentially be used by the IDF in Gaza, almost three times the number initially suspended in September 2024.

According to the British Jewish Chronicle (JC), approximately 30 licences were suspended under the original restrictions, while more than 50 subsequent applications have since been rejected.

Middle East Minister Stephen Doughty said additional measures adopted on September 8 had further restricted British arms exports to Israel, requiring applications to undergo scrutiny under two separate considerations. INN

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Rabbi Kenneth Brander: ‘There is nothing Jewish about terrorizing innocent people'. Ohr Torah Stone President Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander condemns the attack on Jalud, calling for those responsible to be investigated and held accountable. Israel National News. ...Rabbi Brander stressed that the incident was particularly troubling because it occurred during Sukkot, a holiday whose Temple-era sacrifices included offerings on behalf of the nations of the world and whose traditions emphasize hospitality, generosity, and responsibility toward others.

“It is especially painful that this happened during Sukkot, a holiday which we brought sacrifices to the Temple, honoring all the nations of the world and whose tradition emphasizes welcoming guests, generosity, and our responsibility toward others," he said.

“There is nothing Jewish about terrorizing innocent people or taking the law into one’s own hands."

“Extremism cannot be answered with more extremism," Rabbi Brander continued. “Those responsible must be investigated and held accountable. Our commitment to security, integrity, and the rule of law must apply to everyone." Published: Sep 29, 2026, 8:41 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Hamas’ enemy turns partner: Dahlan-Hamas rapprochement signals battle for post-Abbas era. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2026, 8:50 PM INN

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In the ICU: Neria Leiter's mother: 'A time of uncertainty'. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2026, 10:58 PM INN

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Bipartisan report calls for targeted responses to Jew-hatred while protecting free speech, academic freedom. “Our response must also preserve the constitutional freedoms that are fundamental to our educational institutions and our democracy,” stated Rochelle Garza, chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Jonathan D. Salant. Sept. 29, 2026. JNS

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Dem, GOP senators demand answers from Meta on Jew-hating bot networks. “We cannot continue to play catch up as foreign agents and extremists abuse American social media platforms to spread hate and sow discord on American soil and across the globe,” Sens. James Lankford and Jacky Rosen told Mark Zuckerberg.. Andrew Bernard. Sept. 29, 2026 JNS

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ADL blasts Mamdani's antisemitism plan. Anti-Defamation League criticizes New York City mayor's newly unveiled strategy to combat antisemitism, citing lack of formal definition and accusing him of prioritizing his 'anti-Israel agenda.' Israel National News. Sep 29, 2026, 10:38 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Eliana Fleming| Sep. 29, 2026 22:04 BREAKING: Sweden, Germany, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Italy and France asked their citizens to leave Iran immediately. HFeed

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Ex-Haaretz journalist on his shift from left to right "The left tried for decades to distance the public from tradition". Ex-Haaretz writer: left lives in the past Benny Tziper, formerly of Haaretz, tells Doron Cohen: They live in a world that no longer exists and don't understand the demographics have changed. The people have returned to being what they are. Gila Isaacson Sep 29, 2026.

Benny Tziper, a journalist and former senior figure at Haaretz, has spoken sharply against the Israeli left, accusing it of a prolonged attempt to distance the public from tradition and Jewish identity.

Speaking on Doron Cohen's evening program on Galei Yisrael radio, Tziper addressed what he sees as deep shifts in Israeli society in recent years and the conceptual gap, he argues, of the left-wing camp. "They still live in a world of the past, they don't understand that this thing has run its course and that the demographics have changed," he said.. JFeed

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Israeli assessment: Flydubai incident was a terror attack. Israeli officials say copilot of diverted flydubai flight suspected of repeatedly stabbing captain, trying to seize control of plane before passengers and crew intervened. Israel National News. Published: Sep 30, 2026, 9:27 AM (GMT+3) Updated: 12:10 INN

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Israel-bound plane pilot stabbed by co-pilot, causing jet to plunge 18K feet: They ‘tried to do 9/11’. By Chris Bradford Published Sep. 30, 2026 Updated Sep. 30, 2026, 5:41 a.m. ET. NY Post

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‘September 11th Is Happening Again’: Omani Co-Pilot Accused of Stabbing Captain and Attempting to Crash FlyDubai Jet Carrying 150 Israelis. September 30, 2026 C.A.M.

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Fighter jets scrambled to Tel Aviv flight after 'pilot tried to hijack plane'. Sep 30, 2026. — She said Israeli passengers helped restrain the attacker alongside members of the crew. “We prayed, 'Shema Yisrael,'" she said... GBN

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Flydubai pilot attempts terror hijacking of flight to Tel Aviv, foiled by Israeli passengers. Israeli official says “major disaster avoided” after pilot stabbed his co-pilot, attempted to hijack aircraft with over 100 Israeli passengers • Plane makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Zvika Klein. September 30, 2026 A flydubai commercial passenger aircraft flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to and landed in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning after what Israeli officials said was an attempted hijacking by one of the pilots that led to a mid-air altercation.

An Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post a “major disaster was narrowly avoided” amid growing fears that one of the pilots attempted to hijack the plane with the intention of crashing it into the ground. Additional flight crew, aided by Israelis on board the flight, managed to subdue the pilot and bring him under control, the official told the Post. JPost

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Katz says flydubai incident was ‘jihadist terrorist attack attempt thwarted by brave Israelis’ By Emanuel Fabian. September 30, 2026. Defense Minister Israel Katz says the incident aboard the flydubai plane today “was a jihadist terrorist attack attempt.”

The copilot of the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight allegedly stabbed the pilot in a suspected attempt to crash the aircraft, which later made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

“The grave incident on the flydubai plane was a jihadist terrorist attack attempt, which was thwarted only thanks to the bravery of several Israeli passengers who broke into the cockpit, overpowered the terrorist and, with their own hands, restored control of the plane to another flight crew who was present there,” Katz says in a statement. T.o.I.

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Landed safely Passengers land safe after jihadi attempt Israelis who survived what authorities called an attempted jihadist attack mid-flight, when the co-pilot tried to crash the plane, touched down at Ben Gurion Airport to emotional scenes Eliana Fleming. Sep 30, 2026 JFeed

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With song and applause. Israeli passengers land in Israel after hijacking attempt. Orli Hariri. Sep 30, 2026, 7:02 PM INN

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Flydubai: HERO passengers THWART 'jihadi terror attack' plane hijack attempt in SHOCKING footage. GBNews. Sep 30, 2026 Israel has declared the FlyDubai flight hijack attempt a 'jihadist terror attack'.

Israel's defence minister said early intelligence pointed to the aircraft's co-pilot plotting to crash the plane and kill everyone on board. on YouTube

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'We are a nation of lions.' Netanyahu meets passenger who saved the plane from diving.

At Ben Gurion Airport, Netanyahu embraced Yaniv, one of the Israeli passengers who subdued the rogue copilot and said he pulled the diving Flydubai plane back up. Israel National News. Sep 30, 2026, 8:21 PM INN

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"What an honor". Netanyahu meets man who stopped hijacker Prime Minister embraced one of the passengers who subdued the hijacker attempting to crash the plane from Dubai, met his family and praised his courage. Eliana Fleming Sep 30, 2026 JFeed

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Doctor on flydubai Jet Recounts Cabin Terror on C14. By: Adam Mikhalashvili. Editor: Asaf Nissan Sep 30, 2026. Dr. Shota Musaev, the physician who treated the wounded pilot aboard flydubai Flight FZ1073, spoke with Channel 14 News on Wednesday evening to describe the sheer terror at 30,000 feet. Musaev revealed that a passenger named Yaniv physically hauled the assailant out of the cockpit before locking himself inside to secure the flight deck, while the doctor desperately worked to stem severe hemorrhaging from the captain’s head and arms. Dr. Shota Musaev, the physician who treated the wounded pilot during the attempted terror attack aboard flydubai Flight FZ1073 en route to Israel, recounted the mid-air horror during an interview with Channel 14 News on Wednesday evening, emphasizing that the passengers’ lightning-fast reaction averted a catastrophic disaster.

According to Musaev, the ordeal unfolded abruptly when the assailant launched his assault on the flight deck: “It didn’t start quietly inside the cockpit; someone breached the flight deck. The pilot was attacked, and within seconds the aircraft began banking violently in the air. At first, we assumed it was severe air turbulence, but within moments we realized it was a terror attack.” c14

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Interview: 'There were a lot of miracles here'. Elyakim Itali's son and two grandchildren were aboard the Flydubai flight. Speaking from Ben Gurion Airport, he recounts the hours of anxiety and what his family told him about the incident. Yoni Kempinski & Hezki Baruch. Published: Sep 30, 2026, 6:51 PM (GMT+3) INN

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‘I grabbed him, choked him and pulled the controls’: Israeli recounts Flydubai cockpit. Updates.

‘I grabbed him, choked him and pulled the controls’: Israeli recounts Flydubai cockpit fight Yaniv Hayun, who returned to Israel with blood on his shirt, says he dragged the suspected attacker from the cockpit, then used his aviation experience to pull back on the controls until another pilot took over. Itamar Eichner|09.30.26

“I grabbed the attacker, put him in a chokehold and pulled him out. I called the Israelis who were with us, jumped back in and pulled the controls. I started pulling them back.” That was how Yaniv Hayun described the extraordinary moments inside the cockpit of Flydubai Flight FZ1073 after landing at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday evening, his white shirt still stained with blood.

“I have an aviation background,” Hayun told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he met at the airport. “The plane began to level out, and then the pilot told me he was taking control.” Hayun was among at least four Israelis who helped overpower the suspected attacker aboard the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight after the Omani co-pilot allegedly attacked the captain and, according to Israeli assessments, tried to crash the aircraft. Yaniv Hayun meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport He said the suspected attacker was also trying to damage the aircraft’s instruments and systems. “The pilot was trying to destroy the instruments in order to disable the plane,” Hayun recalled. Hayun said he believes the wounded captain, who was injured during the cockpit struggle, managed to unlock the cockpit door for the passengers before collapsing.

“He was very close to the door, and that made it difficult for us to open it,” Hayun said. “My conclusion is that he managed to open it for us before he collapsed.”

Hayun’s account adds another layer to testimony from passengers who described rushing toward the cockpit after hearing screams and realizing that something had gone badly wrong. Israeli dentist Musaev Shota, another passenger involved in restraining the suspect, told ynet that he ran forward after hearing shouting, helped bind the attacker and then treated the badly bleeding captain. Shota said the group tied the suspect’s hands and legs after he continued struggling and later provided emergency treatment to the wounded pilot. The flight had lost altitude rapidly during the incident before another flight crew aboard the aircraft regained control and diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Hours later, all 174 passengers, including 27 children, returned to Israel aboard another Flydubai aircraft. For Hayun, the moment the aircraft finally began to stabilize came only after passengers had fought their way into the cockpit, removed the suspected attacker and helped keep the plane under control long enough for another pilot to take over. YNet

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Hero passenger wrestled hijacker from cockpit to save plane. 30 September 2026 8:20pm BST

Key moments:

Stabbing attack Co-pilot stabs captain aboard flight from Dubai bound for Tel Aviv.

Captain fights back. Smit Machchhar, an Indian national, alerts passengers and crew before collapsing.

Passengers intervene. Crew and passengers overpower the attacker as off-duty pilots take control

Emergency landing. Flight is diverted to Saudi Arabia and lands safely with both pilots injured

Co-pilot arrested. Telegraph

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FlyDubai pilot Smit Machchhar who avoided a bigger disaster, undergoes surgery after cockpit stabbing Machchhar underwent surgery and is currently in stable condition, FlyDubai and the Indian authorities are in touch wiht his family. Ariel Oseran, Yuval Barne. September 30, 2026 at 01:47 PM i24

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Indian flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar unlocked cockpit, named assailant, while wounded - report Several passengers, including Israeli dentist Shota Musayev, administered first-aid care to Machchhar, keeping him alive until he was hospitalized in Saudi Arabia. September 30, 2026. JPost

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Who is the Omani co-pilot who tried to crash the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight? Was the UAE-Israel aviation treaty breached? Israel is auditing Flydubai for using crew members from countries without diplomatic ties. Just who was the terrorist who almost killed more than 170 Israelis in a midair attack? Here is what we know. By Danny Zaken and Shirit Avitan Cohen. Published on 09-30-2026. ILH

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End Wokeness @EndWokeness: Muslim co-pilot stabs pilot and tries to take down plane with 180 passengers Media: [44] on X

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Clear message. FM briefs envoys on Fly Dubai attack Director-general Eden Bar-Tal held a worldwide briefing for Israel's ambassadors and mission heads following the attempted attack on the Fly Dubai flight, stressing that the target was Israelis, the UAE and the Abraham Accords. JFeed. Sep 30, 2026. JFeed

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Indian flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar unlocked cockpit, named assailant, while wounded - report. Several passengers, including Israeli dentist Shota Musayev, administered first-aid care to Machchhar, keeping him alive until he was hospitalized in Saudi Arabia.

By Maya Zanger-Shamir. September. 30, 2026. The flydubai pilot who was stabbed on flight FZ1073, Indian national Capt. Smit Machchhar, reportedly unlocked the cockpit door before losing consciousness, passenger Yaniv Hayoun told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the two spoke at Ben-Gurion Airport on Wednesday.

Hayoun told Netanyahu that the cockpit door was unlocked, but Machchhar was close enough to the door that it was difficult to open. "My conclusion is that he resourcefully managed to open the door for us before he collapsed," he explained. JPost

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Chokehold, headphone cables and first aid: How 4 Israelis helped save 174 aboard Flydubai.

Yaniv Hayun grabbed the controls, Assaf Rajuan and Zvika Manes helped restrain the suspect, dentist Shota Musaev treated the stabbed captain, and passengers say the wounded pilot left them a path into the cockpit.

There were 174 passengers aboard the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv when screams about a stabbing suddenly spread through the cabin.

Four Israeli passengers rushed toward the cockpit, each playing a different role in the struggle that followed.

Yaniv Hayun says he choked the suspected attacker and later pulled back on the aircraft’s controls. Zvika Manes and Assaf Rajuan helped overpower and restrain the suspect. Dentist Shota Musaev treated the badly wounded captain and stopped his bleeding. Passengers believe Indian captain Smit Machchhar, despite being stabbed, managed to leave them a way into the cockpit before collapsing.

Together, their accounts describe a frantic fight aboard a plunging aircraft after the Omani co-pilot allegedly attacked the captain, apparently using a crash axe found in the cockpit.

Yaniv Hayun.

Hayun said the cockpit door was not locked when passengers reached it, something he believes may have been the wounded captain’s doing.

“The captain was very close to the door, and that made it difficult for us to open it,” Hayun said. “My conclusion is that he managed to open it for us before he collapsed.”

Once inside, Hayun said he saw the Omani co-pilot between the seats.

“He was trying to destroy the instruments to disable the aircraft. I grabbed the attacker, choked him and pulled him out. I called the Israelis and told them. We pinned him down,” he said.

Hayun then returned to the cockpit.

“I jumped back into the cockpit. I watch ‘Air Crash Investigation,’ so I pulled the controls and the plane began to level out. After that, a pilot who was traveling on the plane told me he was taking control,” Hayun said.

Two pilots who were aboard then took over the cockpit and eventually landed the aircraft safely.

“I think because of my children, I behaved the way I did,” Hayun said.

Assaf Rajuan.

Assaf Rajuan had been returning from a vacation in Thailand when the flight turned into what he described as a “horror movie.”

“We heard screams from near the restroom. A girl’s mother came out screaming, and we understood something had happened to the plane,” he said. “It lost control, went down at a 90-degree angle, and we understood there was no control over the aircraft and something had happened.”

Rajuan was among those who helped overpower the suspected attacker.

“The cockpit door was open and we started seeing the cockpit fill with blood,” he said. “People went in. There was a guy who got there before me named Zvika Manes. I went in with two other guys and we tried to overpower the attacker, and we succeeded.”

“We also had help from some of the crew. We managed to keep the attacker neutralized for 50 minutes and land in Saudi Arabia,” he said.

Rajuan said he was still struggling to process what happened.

“I was in Thailand a few hours earlier, and after that I was in a horror movie,” he said. “Of course, it wasn’t just me. Bigger and stronger guys than me helped, blocked the doors and decided to go all the way, because life is stronger than anything and we wanted to fight for it. For our families, our children, the crew.”

“It’s hard to believe it ended this way, but it did,” he added. “I saw all the bursts of blood, the cuts, the Indian pilot. I know the plane lost control and plunged. Luckily, the right people were there at the right time.”

Zvika Manes.

Zvika Manes also rushed the suspected attacker and helped restrain him using cables from the multimedia headphones distributed on the flight.

“There was a lot of blood. The plane plunged rapidly like you see in horror movies. There were screams. It was a very difficult event until the pilot stabilized the plane,” Manes said.

“We lost our angles. He was really trying to fly the aircraft toward the ground, and people were thrown around and screaming,” he said of the co-pilot.

“We later tied him up and neutralized him. It took quite a bit of physical force. He was a strong man, probably full of adrenaline,” Manes said.

He said a doctor and nurse aboard the flight then worked to stabilize the wounded captain, who had suffered stab wounds across his body.

Manes, like Hayun, said he believed the stabbed captain managed to open the cockpit door, giving passengers the chance to intervene.

Shota Musaev.

Dentist Shota Musaev initially rushed forward to help fight the suspected attacker. After the man was restrained, Musaev turned his attention to the badly wounded captain.

“The pilot was in very serious condition, with heavy bleeding from his head and hands,” Musaev told Ynet. “I was the only doctor on the plane. I managed to stop the bleeding, and the pilot was in fairly stable condition until close to the landing, when his condition deteriorated somewhat.”

Musaev said the captain remained able to communicate while lying on the floor and told those around him that he was 39 and had two children.

“The attacker stabbed him and cursed him,” Musaev said. “At that moment you don’t think, you just act. There were four of us who took control of the entire situation, and if we hadn’t, we wouldn’t be talking to you.”

“I saw something was wrong and ran forward. I didn’t wait for someone to call me,” he said. “I came to fight the attacker when I heard the screams. I didn’t come to provide medical treatment. But after we tied him up, I treated the stabbed pilot.”

Musaev said the suspect continued struggling and trying to break free.

“We tied him several times, both his legs and his hands. He was thrashing around, so we tied him even more tightly. Then he calmed down and understood that he was in our hands,” he said.

He said Saudi medical teams later treated the captain and that he was told the pilot had survived and was no longer in immediate danger.

Captain Smit Machchhar.

Captain Smit Machchhar remained hospitalized in Saudi Arabia in serious condition, although reports said he was out of immediate danger.

He had not publicly given his version of events at the time of the report.

According to passengers, his actions may have been decisive. They believe that despite being wounded in the confrontation with the Omani co-pilot, Machchhar managed to leave the cockpit accessible before collapsing.

That opening allowed the Israeli passengers to get inside, overpower the suspected attacker and make way for another flight crew to take control of the aircraft.

Each person aboard the flight played a different part in those minutes: restraining the suspect, pulling back on the controls, stopping the bleeding or, passengers believe, leaving the cockpit door open long enough for help to get through. YNet

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'Passengers' heroism prevented a 9/11 disaster'. Speaking to CNN, Netanyahu says the crew and passengers’ actions prevented “a 9/11 disaster" on the Flydubai flight: “We’ll know soon if Iran is involved." Israel National News. Oct 1, 2026, 2:17 AM INN

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‘I grabbed the terrorist’: How hero passengers helped save flight FZ1073. David Crowe. Updated October 1, 2026 — 10:47am,first published 7:01am

A gruesome brawl was under way at the front of Flight FZ1073 when one passenger chose to force his way into the cockpit to prevent a disaster.

That passenger, Yaniv Hayoun, is now recognised as a hero who stopped one of the pilots from sending the flydubai Boeing 737 MAX crashing to the ground.

Videos shared online showed the pilots on the floor near the cockpit, bloodied and partly undressed to treat their wounds. Some passengers also had blood on their clothes and streaming down their faces.

He did not act alone: several others joined him in a fight that lasted at least 20 minutes to defeat the co-pilot, who is now under arrest over a suspected act of terrorism.

But Hayoun’s account reveals how close things came to a catastrophic mass murder of 174 passengers and crew, almost all of them Jewish. SMH

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“I STARTED TALKING TO HASHEM”: Children Recount Terrifying Moments As Flydubai Plane Plunged. September 30, 2026

Children who were aboard the Flydubai flight that was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia are describing the terrifying moments when the aircraft suddenly began losing altitude as passengers learned that the captain had been stabbed.

New testimony also reveals the remarkable chain of events that reportedly led passengers to realize something was terribly wrong inside the cockpit.

The father of 8-year-old passenger Omer Shalom said a woman aboard the flight got up to use the bathroom near the cockpit and heard the screams of the wounded captain. She immediately called out to her husband, Yaniv Hayun, who rushed toward the cockpit and helped overpower the attacker.

Omer’s father described the terrifying moments as the aircraft plunged through the air at extreme angles.

“The rear wing broke from the speed of the fall. Everything went through my head, all the things I can’t say again in front of the girls,” he said.

Among the passengers was 16-year-old Peleg Itali, who was traveling with his parents and sister and was seated toward the front of the aircraft.

“The plane started going crazy and I heard a woman screaming that he had been stabbed,” Peleg told Ynet. “Two heroes jumped forward toward the cockpit. Nobody explains to you that there’s a terrorist. I saw the ground and felt that we were falling. I started talking to God, asking forgiveness for everything and asking for heaven. I almost wrote a eulogy.”

The terrifying scene was especially difficult for the many families and young children aboard the aircraft.

Peleg recalled mothers desperately attempting to calm their frightened children as screams erupted throughout the cabin and passengers had little understanding of what was happening.

Eight-year-old Omer also described her fear as the plane rapidly lost altitude.

“I was scared to death because I thought we were going to crash,” she said.

Only after the attacker had been subdued did Omer’s mother explain to her that the aircraft was heading for an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

The plane ultimately landed safely in Tabuk, where Saudi authorities received approximately 180 Israeli passengers and provided food and medical assistance before arrangements were made for their return to Israel aboard a Flydubai rescue flight. YWN

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Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas: A series of open miracles on the flydubai flight that very nearly went down with a plane full of passengers.

Miracle 1: A plane full of people survived an attempt by the copilot to crash their aircraft. Passengers and crew broke into the cockpit and subdued the attacker after he stabbed the captain.

Miracle 2: Two off-duty flydubai pilots happened to be on board. They took control of the plunging aircraft and landed it safely.

Miracle 3: The plane plummeted and spun out of control - spiraling some 17,000 feet. It ultimately touched down with a chunk of its rudder missing.

Miracle 4: They landed in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has no diplomatic relations with Israel. Yet when an aircraft carrying Israelis was in mortal danger, Saudi Arabia became their refuge. Saudi authorities received them, kept them safe, and got them onto a replacement aircraft that flew them directly from Saudi soil to Tel Aviv.

For all the reasons to despair about the Middle East, don't miss what happened today. 1:59 PM · Sep 30, 2026 on X

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U.S. Official: We'll Help Probe Hijacking Attempt If Asked. By: Libby Alon. Editor: Asaf Nissan Sep 30 '26. 20:50

A senior American official confirmed to Channel 14 News on Wednesday that the United States is prepared to provide investigative and intelligence support to Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia upon request. The offer follows the dramatic thwarted hijacking aboard flydubai Flight FZ1073, as intelligence agencies across the Middle East coordinate to uncover the motives and potential state-backed terror networks behind the Omani first officer's assault. C14

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Abbas’ advisor: Oct. 7 war was “legal resistance, Jihad, and self-defense”. Al-Habbash has no problem with the massacre, the torture, the rape, the burning alive, and the murder of over 1,200 Israelis. Sep 29, 2026. Palwatch

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Abbas and Palestinian Authority TV glorify mass murderers and a terrorist plane hijacker. Palestinian terrorists were the ones who normalized plane hijackings and who remain heroes of the Palestinian Authority. Oct 1, 2026. Palwatch

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Kaploun thanks Saudi authorities for ‘quick response’ aiding passengers on rescued flydubai flight. “This is what President Trump’s work is accomplishing: countries working together to benefit and protect one another,” the U.S. special envoy told JNS. “We witnessed miracles according to everyone involved.” [45] Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Sep. 30, 2026 JNS

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'We won't forget or forgive'. Faces of October 7 victims displayed in heart of Times Square. Israel National News. Sep 30, 2026, 7:44 PM INN

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BREAKING UK PM: Iran behind RAF base incident. Andy Burnham says Britain believes Iran was involved in the RAF Fairford incident, marking the first official confirmation of Iranian involvement in what amounts to an attack on British soil. Trump criticises decision to release suspects on bail. Eliana Fleming Sep 30, 2026 JFeed

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Three years since the October 7 massacre Bochurim to Gaza in Arabic: "Donkeys better" Three years after Hamas terrorists murdered, kidnapped and burned homes across the South, two yeshiva students sat down in a Jerusalem courtyard and spoke directly to Gaza, in Arabic. They named Sinwar, Deif, Haniyeh and Nasrallah, and sent a message to Iran as well. JFeed. Sep 30, 2026 In the early hours of October 7, 2023, thousands of terrorists from the Gaza Strip broke into southern Israeli communities and IDF bases. They murdered civilians and soldiers, burned and looted homes, attacked women, children and elderly people, and kidnapped 251 people into the Gaza Strip.

Three years later, two yeshiva bochurim from Jerusalem decided to mark the day in a different way. Not with a speech, not in a studio, and not in Hebrew.

The two sat down in a Jerusalem courtyard, opened a camera, and began speaking in Arabic. Their message is directed first of all to Gaza, but quickly reaches Lebanon, Iran and anyone else who has been part of the campaign against Israel since that morning. JFeed

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Mamdani’s new Jew-hatred strategy fails to address his ‘hateful rhetoric,’ City Council member says. The new City Hall plan also ignores “the violence against Jewish New Yorkers he is fueling,” Inna Vernikov told JNS. Rebecca Szlechter. Sep 30, 3026. JNS

Chicago hall, playground defaced with antisemitic grafitti, ADL opposes Mamdani plan. September 30, 2026. JPost

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How Democrats will exploit the ‘settler-violence’ narrative. Misleading claims that Jews—and not Palestinian terrorists—are the aggressors in the territories might be the wedge that the next Congress uses to start unraveling the U.S.-Israel alliance. Jonathan S. Tobin. Sep. 30, 2026. JNS

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House panel urges removal of tax-emption for charity with alleged Palestinian terror ties Andrew Bernard. Sep. 30, 2026 JNS

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Palestine Action US founder funded radical media outlets, is tied to Iranian state TV - exclusive. Palestine Action is an anti-Israel protest group founded in the UK in 2020. It was proscribed after being designated a terrorist organization in the UK in 2025.

By Mathilda Heller September 30, 2026.

A network established by the founder of Palestine Action US has helped fund and develop a web of media outlets used to promote its radical messaging, with the network extending into organizations connected to Iranian state media. This was revealed exclusively to The Jerusalem Post by Honest Reporting on Wednesday. Palestine Action is an anti-Israel protest group founded in the UK in 2020. Its work - before its proscription by the UK in 2025 - mainly involved the vandalism and destruction of defense factories, companies and Israel-linked institutions.

A US branch of Palestine Action was launched in October 2023 by multi-millionaire heir turned communist activist James Cox ‘Fergie’ Chambers. Palestine Action US describes itself as a “direct action network.” The UK branch was recently designated and sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in August 2026. The US branch has not been designated.

Founder facing extradition to the US over Hamas financing, support. Chambers is currently facing extradition from Spain to the US over alleged Hamas financing and Hamas support. The Irish Times cited Chambers’ partner Stella Schnabel as saying he is accused of providing Hamas with $7.5 million in funding. He himself received $250 million after divesting from his family’s media conglomerate, Cox Enterprises, in 2023, according to his spokesperson. JPost

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After moments of terror in the air, mass prayer of thanksgiving at the western wall. Tens of thousands attend traditional Priestly Blessing at Western Wall, with prayers for IDF soldiers, Jewish unity, and to give thanks for the rescue of passengers on the flight from Dubai. Israel National News. Published: Oct 1, 2026, 8:55 AM (GMT+3) Updated: 13:19

Tens of thousands of worshippers participated in the second Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim) ceremony, held during the Shacharit and Musaf prayers for Sukkot this morning (Thursday) at the Western Wall Plaza.

During the ceremony, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites, together with the tens of thousands gathered, recited chapters of Hallel and prayers of thanksgiving in light of the miracles and acts of chesed that took place yesterday on the flight from Dubai to Israel. He called on the public to increase their prayers of thanks and gratitude, alongside continued prayers for the well-being of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and security forces, and for the peace and unity of the Jewish people.

The Western Wall Heritage Foundation is pleased to report on the holiday thus far, with nearly one million worshippers and visitors having visited the Western Wall Plaza since the beginning of the holiday to fulfill the mitzvah of Aliyah LaRegel (pilgrimage to Jerusalem). Among them have been rabbis, public figures, tourists from abroad, and thousands of Israelis from across the country and around the world who chose to celebrate Sukkot here in Jerusalem, the Holy City.

The holiday reached its peak with the two traditional Birkat Kohanim ceremonies, as tens of thousands came to bless and be blessed with Aaron’s blessing - the Priestly Blessing - together with former hostages and bereaved families.

As is customary, Hakafot Shniyot on Motza'ei Simchat Torah: The traditional Hakafot Shniyot at the Western Wall Plaza will take place, God willing, on Motza'ei Simchat Torah | Saturday night | Eve of 23 Tishrei | October 3, 2026, beginning at 10:00 p.m. at the Western Wall Plaza.

The event will feature singer Eli Cohen, the Yoni Eliav Orchestra, and the Neranena Choir.

In light of the miracles that took place, this year’s ceremony will be dedicated to chapters of Hallel and thanksgiving, with hearts filled with joy. INN

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Joseph's Tomb: Thanksgiving prayers for the Flydubai miracle. Thousands of Israelis gathered at Joseph's Tomb to thank God for the safe return of all those on the Flydubai plane. Israel National News. Oct 1, 2026, 8:45 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Online storm: Outrageous coverage of Flydubai flight drama. Major media outlets around the world chose to describe the incident as a “brawl" and made embarrassing mistakes on air, sparking fierce criticism on social media. Israel National News. Oct 1, 2026, 8:42 AM (GMT+3)

Social media erupted over the way some of the world's leading media outlets initially covered the dramatic incident aboard a Flydubai flight to Israel - with critics arguing that descriptions such as a “brawl" or “altercation between pilots" failed to convey the potentially catastrophic nature of what happened.

The seriousness of the incident became increasingly clear as more details emerged. The Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was carrying 174 people when the co-pilot allegedly stabbed the captain and the aircraft went into a steep descent. Reuters reported that the plane plunged nearly 14,000 feet in just 30 seconds. Passengers and crew members then forced their way into the cockpit and subdued the co-pilot, allowing the aircraft to be stabilized and diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

The Associated Press likewise reported that the co-pilot appeared to be attempting to crash the plane and that passengers intervened as the aircraft descended sharply. Israeli authorities scrambled fighter jets amid fears of a hijacking.

Yet some international coverage initially reduced the extraordinary sequence of events to a fight between two pilots.

The BBC initially described the incident as a “physical altercation between the pilots," before later reports incorporated details of the stabbing, the passengers' intervention and the apparent attempt to bring down the aircraft. The broadcaster also made an embarrassing on-air error when a presenter referred to Ben Gurion Airport as “Ben Gvir Airport."

The New York Times also came under criticism after describing the diversion as occurring “after a confrontation between the pilot and co-pilot." Critics on social media argued that the wording understated an incident in which one pilot was stabbed and the aircraft entered a potentially fatal descent.

Other major outlets similarly initially used cautious language. The Guardian, for example, referred to an “apparent brawl" while noting that Israeli officials were investigating whether the incident constituted an attempted terror attack.

The newspaper defended its approach, writing on X that its headlines and live coverage included the facts it could verify as they were confirmed, and that it would not publish speculation or unverified information. Its coverage was subsequently updated as additional details emerged.

Meanwhile, accounts from passengers who were aboard the aircraft underscored just how close the flight came to disaster. Passengers described the plane plunging toward the ground, people being thrown around the cabin and the desperate struggle to reach the cockpit. One passenger told Israeli media that his daughters were screaming, “We don’t want to die," as the aircraft nosedived.

The full motive behind the co-pilot's actions remains under investigation. But whatever the eventual determination, the sequence of events was far more serious than a simple “fight": a pilot was stabbed, a passenger aircraft carrying 174 people went into a dramatic descent, and passengers had to intervene to help regain control of the aircraft. INN

Ben Shapiro: 'Media has failed in covering Flydubai incident'. Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro says that media descriptions of the attempted hijacking are completely opposite of what actually happened. Israel National News.

Published: Oct 1, 2026, 7:58 AM (GMT+3)

Everything We Know About the FlyDubai Hijacking Attempt Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has reviewed the dramatic incident aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073, praising the passengers and crew members who helped prevent what he described as an apparent attempt to crash the aircraft. The Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight was diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after a violent incident erupted in the cockpit. "A couple of hours into the flight between Dubai and Tel Aviv, the Omani pilot, who was the co-pilot, repeatedly stabbed the Indian pilot and then attempted to take control of the plane and crash it directly into the ground."

He highlighted the aircraft's rapid descent during the incident, noting that passengers could be heard screaming as the plane dropped hundreds of feet in less than 30 seconds. “The crew member and passengers, mostly passengers, break down the cockpit door, get inside, and subdue the attacker."

Several passengers then helped restrain the alleged attacker while an off-duty pilot aboard the aircraft was brought into the cockpit. A doctor among the passengers also helped stabilize the wounded captain. “All credit goes to the passengers. The passengers stormed the cockpit. They get the pilot out, and then they get the co-pilot out as well."

He added that the passengers' intervention allowed medical personnel to treat the injured captain until the aircraft could land safely. He also praised the injued pilot, emphasizing that the captain managed to resist the attacker and open the cockpit door, helping make it possible for passengers to intervene.

The flight was carrying more than 170 passengers, including children, with the overwhelming majority reportedly Israeli. Shapiro argued that the presence of Israeli passengers may have contributed to the rapid response.

“If you are on a plane and it is filled with 174 Israelis, the likelihood that there are some people on that plane who are militarily trained and experienced is basically 100%. The likelihood that there is a doctor on that plane is also basically 100%. The likelihood that there are people willing and ready to help is extremely high."

“This wasn't just a human tragedy that was prevented," Shapiro said. “What was prevented here was an international crisis, because this could have been a crisis that involved Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, India and potentially every country in the region."

“The way the media coverage of this is happening is insane," he said. “Completely insane, to call this a 'scuffle in the cockpit.' If you can read a news headline and understand the exact opposite of what happened, that's a failure of the media."

“We still don't know the political motivation," Shapiro said, adding that authorities would need to determine whether there had been any outside coordination.

The aircraft ultimately landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. The passengers later returned to Israel aboard a replacement Flydubai aircraft. INN

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Fox & Friends. Oct 1, 2026.

"He was going to down that plane." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו breaks down the harrowing details of the Flydubai terrorist attempt: • The copilot had undergone radical Islamist indoctrination. • He abandoned his seat to jam the instruments and force the plane down • An Israeli hero plumber broke into the cockpit and yanked him away. • Crew restrained him using headset cords before plastic ties were secured • While subdued, the attacker shouted "Kill me, kill me". Investigations are ongoing, but early indications point directly to a prevented suicidal terror attack, the prime minister says. on FB

Israel's Netanyahu: Co-pilot of flydubai plane underwent radical Islamist indoctrination. By Alexander Cornwell and Maayan Lubell October 1, 2026. Reutets

Netanyahu says flydubai co-pilot underwent Islamist radicalization. Oct 1, 2026. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the co-pilot accused of trying to crash a flydubai passenger jet bound for Israel had undergone Islamist radicalization.

“We know that he underwent Islamist radical indoctrination,” Netanyahu told Fox News.

Netanyahu also said Israeli authorities expected to know within days whether the co-pilot had connections to Iran.

The flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was diverted to Saudi Arabia after an incident in the cockpit. Saudi authorities said both pilots were injured, while all passengers were safe. IranIntl

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IDF refutes Naza's claims: 'Distorted, misleading, unrealistic'. IDF fires back at controversial Gaza film, accusing filmmakers of distorting facts and misleading viewers about how targets are selected, strikes are approved, and civilian harm is assessed. Israel National News.

Published: Oct 1, 2026, 10:00 AM (GMT+3)

The IDF has strongly rejected the claims made in the film "Naza", accusing its creators of presenting a distorted and unrealistic picture of how the military plans and approves strikes in Gaza.

In a detailed response, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said the film's narrative is based on "major factual errors" resulting from what it described as a distorted and manipulative presentation of events.

The IDF stressed that its binding procedures explicitly distinguish between terrorists and uninvolved civilians in Gaza. Strike-planning procedures are based on this distinction, prohibit directing attacks at civilians and require commanders to minimize the possibility of civilian casualties as much as possible.

The military also rejected claims that it planned, approved or carried out an attack in Gaza in which 500 civilians, or anything approaching that number, were expected to be killed. It added that there has never been a serious allegation that an IDF strike caused casualties on such a scale.

The IDF further denied that artificial intelligence independently selects targets for attack.

"AI has never independently selected targets for attack in the IDF," the military said. Targets are identified by qualified intelligence officers, while strike planning is carried out by the relevant professional bodies and the decision to strike is made by operational commanders.

The IDF also rejected the claim that its procedures automatically authorize strikes based on a predetermined number of expected civilian casualties, such as 20 civilians for a junior operative or 200 for a senior commander.

It clarified that "Lavender" is not a database of approved targets, but a database used to assist intelligence researchers.

The military also emphasized that issuing an evacuation warning for a particular area does not constitute permission to attack that area while disregarding civilians who remain there.

Contrary to claims made in the film, the IDF said it does examine the results of its strikes, including cases involving unintended harm to civilians. These assessments have led to investigations into hundreds of incidents during the war and are used to draw operational lessons.

'The film omits key elements'.

The IDF accused the filmmakers of failing to carry out sufficient fact-checking and cross-checking of sources before producing the film.

According to the military, many of the interviewees presented as former members of the IDF Intelligence Directorate discuss only limited, preliminary stages of the intelligence process rather than the much broader process of planning and approving strikes.

The latter process, the IDF said, involves operational bodies responsible for planning and carrying out attacks. In some cases, the military claimed, interviewees in the film expressed assumptions and impressions that had no factual basis.

The filmmakers also chose not to show many of the other officials involved in the full targeting process, including professionals responsible for planning measures to reduce civilian harm, legal advisers who review planned strikes, and commanders who ultimately approve or reject them.

The IDF said this omission creates a "very inaccurate and misleading" picture of reality.

It also accused the filmmakers of leaving out essential context about the war in Gaza, including the security circumstances that led Israel to launch the campaign following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, as well as what it described as Hamas' deliberate strategy of embedding itself within the civilian population.

The military pointed to what it described as extensive measures taken to reduce civilian casualties, including warnings before strikes, selecting appropriate weapons, adapting strike plans and facilitating humanitarian assistance.

According to the IDF, these procedures have at times resulted in requests for additional intelligence, changes to operational plans, cancellation of strikes and the abandonment of military opportunities because of the assessed danger to civilians.

IDF: 'Collateral damage' is a legal assessment.

The IDF also criticized the film's use of the term "Naza," which it said refers to "collateral damage."

The military said the term is widely used by law-abiding militaries to describe an assessment of expected civilian harm resulting from an attack. Such an assessment is used by commanders when determining whether a strike is lawful and what additional precautions should be taken to reduce civilian harm.

The IDF accused the filmmakers of portraying the detailed assessments it conducts regarding potential civilian casualties as evidence of indifference to civilian life.

"In reality, the assessment of expected harm is a requirement under international law," the military said. According to the IDF, commanders use these assessments to determine whether an attack is lawful, order additional precautions, modify the strike plan or cancel an attack altogether.

The military acknowledged that several interviewees described the significant moral burden involved in participating in decisions regarding strikes.

"The moral burden is real, and the IDF does not dismiss it," the statement said, noting that decisions that could result in civilian deaths are among the most difficult decisions faced by soldiers and commanders.

However, the IDF argued that the moral weight of such decisions does not demonstrate that they were unlawful or reflected indifference to civilian lives. "On the contrary," it said, "the moral burden reflects the seriousness with which the decisions were made."

IDF: We are open to legitimate criticism.

The IDF said the tragic consequences of war do not justify distorting facts and that serious discussion of civilian casualties requires an accurate account of how decisions are actually made.

The military described the film as a "simplistic manifesto driven by a clear agenda," accusing its creators of using factual omissions, emotional manipulation and dramatic effects to create the impression that the IDF operates in an inhumane manner.

At the same time, the IDF said it remains open to genuine criticism and places importance on learning from substantiated claims and continuously improving its procedures.

"The IDF is subject to and committed to international humanitarian law," the statement said. "Its operational procedures are designed to implement these legal obligations, and it operates dedicated units and mechanisms to minimize harm to civilians."

The military added that it does not deny that mistakes and failures have occurred during the war, noting that such incidents can occur during complex combat operations. Suspected violations of international law or IDF orders are examined and, where warranted, may lead to disciplinary proceedings, criminal investigations or other measures.

Finally, the IDF criticized the filmmakers for not providing the military with their allegations for review and response before publication.

"Contrary to accepted practice, the filmmakers did not submit their claims to the IDF for examination and response before publication, nor did they provide a copy of the film after its screening despite an IDF request," the statement said.

As a result, the IDF said it reviewed the film's content based on a detailed account provided by a representative who attended a public screening, along with additional publicly available descriptions. INN

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From Gaza tunnels to the Sukkah: Bar Kuperstein recounts miracles & faith in captivity. Exactly 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 in the tunnels. Itsik Brandwein. Published: Oct 1, 2026, 7:30 PM (GMT+3) INN

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'Hamas murdered my family'. Bereaved mother confronts Naza creators. Sabine Taasa disrupted the European premiere of “Naza" in the Netherlands, confronting the filmmakers over their portrayal of the war. Audience members responded: “We don’t care." Israel National News Oct 1, 2026, 9:22 PM. INN

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Following Court proposal. Balad decides: Sami Abu Shehadeh to withdraw . Hezki Baruch. Oct 1, 2026, 11:47 PM INN

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Newsom draws criticism of ‘asymmetry’ for signing expansive Muslim holiday bill before more limited legislation about Jewish, other days. “The fact that Newsom chose to sign the Eid law before the law that protected other religious observance speaks volumes about the direction he is moving as he eyes a 2028 run for the presidency,” the chair of Jewish engagement for the California Republican Party told JNS. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Oct 1, 2026. JNS

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Federal judge dismisses complaint against anti-Israel groups that protested outside NJ synagogue. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Oct 1, 2026. JNS

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Pennsylvania state lawmakers hold hearing on Jew-hatred in public schools. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Oct 1, 2026. JNS

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British police arrest UK-Iranian dual national in RAF Fairford incident. Oct 1, 2026 JNS

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Israeli military names 170 Palestinians it says were terrorists posing as journalists. “Journalists are expected to report the unbiased truth,” the Israeli military said. “Yet these individuals concealed a fundamental truth about themselves: their own roles within military wings of terrorist organizations.”

International journalist organizations have changed the numbers of reporters they have accused Israel of targeting after Palestinian terror organizations have identified dozens of such “reporters” as martyrs, who were part of Hamas and other groups.

Israel has denied that it targets journalists, and military experts have said that its military does more to protect civilians, including members of the press, than other armies do.

“The truth will set you free,” wrote the war scholar John Spencer. “The IDF just published a list of 170 Gazan terrorists, who doubled as journalists during the war. Including stringers from multiple mainstream media organizations.” Oct 1, 2026 JNS

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‘Chain of miracles with divine assistance,’ Netanyahu says of rescued flydubai flight. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a Torah study session for the holiday of Hoshanah Rabbah that “the tradition of Jewish heroism tips the scales.”

The event at which the prime minister spoke was held in the Knesset sukkah and included Amir Ohana, the Knesset speaker, and “senior defense establishment officials, wounded IDF soldiers, reservists’ wives and cadets from the Tavor Pre-Military Academy,” according to the prime minister’s office. Oct 1, 2026 JNS

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'Long Live Yahya Al-Sinwar': Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop Slapped With Discrimination Suit for Rampant Antisemitism, Crushing Dissent Over Israel Boycott. Adam Kredo. Sep 29, 2026. FreeBeacon

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Netanyahu shared new intelligence on Iran’s nuclear ambitions with UAE leader, source says. By Tal Shalev, Tim Lister. Updated September 30, 2026. CNN

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More Than Half the Names on Committee to Protect Journalists List of Slain Gaza Journalists Are Still Linked to Terror Outfits Despite Group’s Self-Policing ‘Audit’. The embattled New York-based group, which is marred by infighting, spent months reviewing its widely cited list, but made few substantial alterations Adam Kredo. October 1, 2026 FreeBeacon

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The Media Completely Distorted the Airplane Terror Attack Because of Its Anti-Israel Bias. By Jennifer Kouzi. Oct 1, 2026.

A knife-yielding co-pilot stabbed the pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv carrying 174 passengers, of which 166 were Israelis. The blood-soaked pilot issued distress signals – including signals communicating a hijacking — while approaching the Jordanian border, as the plane dove between 14,000 and 20,000 feet (reports vary) in the span of two minutes. What might news consumers think if they heard this level of detail from their media sources?

Terrorism? Hijacking?

While western media outlets have been notably allergic to ascribe the word “terror” and its derivatives to a person or act, or avoid it totally, there is little explanation, even in the earliest reports, of calling the stabbing of a copilot and the nosedive thereafter a “clash,” “altercation,” “cockpit incident,” “brawl,” or “fight” between the pilots in their headlines. In addition, many outlets omitted the stabbing altogether, leaving the reason for the diverted flight a mystery... Algemeiner

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Saudi-Israel cooperation incomplete during flydubai incident. Saudi Arabia was reluctant to fully cooperate with Israel during attempted flydubai hijacking. Although the Saudis went to great lengths to receive and assist the Israeli passengers aboard the flydubai flight, they did not fully cooperate with Israel. Amir Bohbot. Oct 1, 2026. JPost

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Omani copilot’s social media ‘talks about killing Jews’; Israel will take part in probing him — official. By Lazar Berman. 1 October 2026, 5:33 pm

The Omani copilot who stabbed the pilot on the flydubai flight yesterday discussed killing Jews on social media, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel.

The official adds that the attacker asked the Emirati crew members to kill him, citing conversations with passengers on the flight.

“This was a person who was willing to commit suicide,” says the official. “His social media accounts [say] clearly that he has been radicalized into jihadist ideology. He talks about killing Jews.”

“We can’t say for sure until the investigation’s over,” the official continues, “but it certainly seems like he was a suicide actor who was probably going to try to down that plane.”

“Our understanding is he’s going to be transferred to the UAE,” the official continues. “We will be part of that investigation.”

In the meantime, Israel is doing its own internal investigation and making changes to security procedures, says the official. T.o.I.

Omani co-pilot mused about ‘killing Jews’ in disturbing social media posts before hijacking attempt: report. By Chris Bradford. Published Oct. 2, 2026 Updated Oct. 2, 2026, 11:06 a.m. ET

The Omani co-pilot accused of trying to hijack an Israel-bound plane carrying 174 people mused about killing Jews online in disturbing social media posts, according to an Israeli official. [...] Authorities are investigating any possible connection to terrorist activity or intent but an Israeli official signaled that the aviator could have been targeting Jews. NY Post

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Abdul El-Sayed Billed County Taxpayers $9,000 a Month in ‘Consulting’ Fees While Running for Senate. Alana Goodman. October 2, 2026. FreeBeacon

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Trump must close this Turkish loophole that allows Iran to skirt sanctions. By Ahmad Sharawi and Sinan Ciddi. Published Oct. 2, 2026, 10:28 p.m. ET NY Post

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Two US brothers busted in $1.7M Hamas fundraising scheme — that was exposed with help from the NYPD. Ny Joe Marino, Kenneth Garger and Ella Morrison, New York Post, October 1, 2026.

Two Louisiana brothers are facing terrorism charges for their alleged role in a twisted scheme to fund Hamas under the guise of Gaza humanitarian aid – and they were brought down with the help of the NYPD.

Abdel Adhami and his sibling Omar Adhami were busted in the Pelican State last month for allegedly raising money online and funneling it to Saleem Alzaq, a member of the terror group who regularly uses social media to post Hamas propaganda, according to newly unsealed federal indictments.

Abdel allegedly funneled more than $83,000 to Hamas from 2023 to 2026 while his brother is accused of sending $6,000.

According to a complaint, Abdel used several different Snapchat accounts to post Hamas propaganda and raise funds for the terrorist group, in addition to referring followers to a Telegram account…. NYPost

US charges Hamas terrorists, 3 Americans in alleged $1.7 million terror funding scheme. Prosecutors say purported Gaza aid campaigns collected more than $626,000 from US donors; organizers allegedly concealed the money’s destination and warned supporters not to mention Hamas ynet|10.02.26

U.S. authorities have charged an alleged Hamas operative in Gaza and three American men in connection with an international fundraising network that prosecutors say collected more than $1.7 million for Hamas while presenting the campaigns as humanitarian aid for Palestinian families.

The Justice Department said Saleem Alzaq, 45, of Gaza, and his associates raised the money through purported charitable campaigns beginning in January 2020. At least $626,000 came from donors based in the United States. YNet

$1.7 million raised in scheme for Hamas, including from U.S. donors, prosecutors say, announcing charges. By Kierra Frazier, CBS News, October 1, 2026.

Nearly three years after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, federal prosecutors allege that more than $1.7 million was funneled to the terrorist group Hamas, including hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors in the United States.

Saleem Alzaq, a 45-year-old Gaza man who prosecutors allege is a longtime Hamas member, was charged with helping operate the fundraising campaign claiming to provide humanitarian aid, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.

Prosecutors allege Alzaq and his co-conspirators raised funds under the guise of providing food and winter necessities to Palestinians in Gaza between January 2020 and December 2025. The campaigns raised more than $1.7 million, including at least $626,000 from U.S.-based donors, according to the indictment.

Alzaq has been a Hamas member since at least 2017, prosecutors say, and has allegedly posted Hamas propaganda on social media, including posts celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

Prosecutors allege Alzaq operated an international fundraising campaign spanning the U.S. and France. Co-conspirators in France allegedly helped collect and transfer money, while two brothers from Louisiana allegedly contributed about $105,000 and a Florida man allegedly provided nearly $50,000 to the terror network….

The indictment also alleges Alzaq advised donors not to reference Hamas to prevent their accounts from being shut down, including instructing followers in October 2024 not to write “Free Palestine” or “long live Hamas” on donations to his PayPal accounts. CBS

Luke Tress @luketress: Alleged Hamas fundraiser Saleem Alzaq tells an undercover NYPD officer that he relies on a network of young Palestinian people in New York. Oct 1, 2026. [46] on X

US sanctions Hamas financial network over $2 million in fundraising. The US imposes new sanctions on a Hamas military operative, France-based fundraisers and entities accused of moving more than $2 million to the terror group. Israel National News. Oct 2, 2026, 7:48 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Fly Dubai hijack attempt . 'Free Palestine' found in pilot's belongings. Omani co-pilot from Fly Dubai flight had expressed support for Palestinians and hostility toward Israel multiple times, UAE source says; Israeli teams to join investigation next week. Gila Isaacson. Oct 2, 2026 JFeed

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1 hour to get up? Stabbed flydubai captain speaks for first time since attack. In emotional call with Indian PM Narendra Modi, injured flydubai captain Smit Machchhar describes how he fought to open cockpit door despite injuries, allowing Israeli passengers to intervene. Orly Harari. Oct 2, 2026, 11:36 AM INN

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Hallel at Nova: Thousands pray where festivalgoers were murdered Bereaved families, survivors and wounded soldiers joined thousands at the Nova massacre site in Re’im for Hallel led by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu. Israel National News. Oct 2, 2026, 12:34 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Next to an Israeli’: Flydubai Attack Heroes Become Viral Sensation. By Debbie Weiss. October 2, 2026.

Two days after passengers and crew thwarted the attempted hijacking and crashing of a flydubai flight, the story was still dominating headlines in Israel and flooding social media with memes, jokes, and tributes to those who helped avert disaster.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Thursday he would recommend plumber Yaniv Hayun, Tzvika Manes, and Asaf Rajuan, who helped overpower the alleged attacker, and Shota Musayev, a dentist who treated the wounded captain, for the Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism, an honor established after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks for civilians who risk their lives to save others. Herzog also praised Manes’s wife, Tali, who first alerted the crew that something was wrong in the cockpit.

“The swift action of the passengers and crew averted a major disaster,” Herzog said.

One of the most widely shared visuals, with 1.6 million views on X, was a mock airline seating chart posted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former spokesman David Keyes. Ordinary seats are gray or blue, while a scattering of blue Star-of-David icons are labeled “Special Seat,” under the caption: “New premium seating option lets you sit next to Israelis for extra security.”

(David Keyes @DavidMKeyes: New premium seating option lets you sit next to Israelis for extra security. [47]. Oct 1, 2026. [48]). Algemeiner

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IDF reveals: Hamas commander held 15 Israeli hostages. Israel National News. Oct 2, 2026, 9:47 AM INN

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Supreme Court rules: Cassif, Joint List, and Ra'am can run in elections. Hezki Baruch. Oct 2, 2026, 1:50 PM INN

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Israeli Arab arrested on suspicion of carrying out tasks for Iran. Israel National News. Oct 2, 2026, 11:51 AM INN

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Amb. Yechiel Leiter: 'Until we defeat the ideology of killing, we are on life support' Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter wrote an emotional message from the bedside of his critically wounded son, Neriyah, ahead of the Simchat Torah holiday. Israel National News. Oct 2, 2026, 4:40 PM INN

Netanyahu visits Neriyah Leiter at Jerusalem hospital.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited seriously wounded terror attack victim Neriyah Leiter and his family at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on Friday morning.

Leiter’s father, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, greeted Netanyahu at the hospital, where his son remains sedated and on a ventilator following a Palestinian car-ramming attack at the Maccabim checkpoint on Route 443 on Sept. 23.

Although Neriyah’s condition has stabilized, he has not yet been declared out of danger, Israel Hayom reported.

His mother, Chani Leiter, told the newspaper earlier this week that her son underwent two brain surgeries after arriving at Shaare Zedek and that doctors had begun reducing his sedation.

“Neriyah is still ventilated. His brain stem is intact,” she said. “The doctors are less worried about his life itself, but they don’t know how he will wake up. They have started reducing the sedation, and we are waiting to see how he responds. Now is a time of great uncertainty.” Oct 2, 2026 JNS

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Two Iranian nationals charged over alleged terrorism plot targeting UK Jewish community. Counter terrorism detectives said it was alleged the two men had been in contact with an overseas third-party who might be in Iran in relation to the plot.

By Reuters. October 2, 2026. Two Iranian nationals were charged in Britain with preparing a terrorist attack against the Jewish community in northern England, police said on Friday, amid heightened tension over a separate suspected plot targeting a US-linked military base.

Rahman Salehi, 35, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, have been charged with preparing to commit or assisting another to commit an act of terrorism in Manchester on the eve of Yom Kippur. JPost

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US Energy Department staffer faces up to 20 years for alleged effort to aid Houthis. “These allegations are so deeply disturbing that they almost defy imagination,” the assistant U.S. attorney general stated. Mike Wagenheim. (Oct. 2, 2026 / JNS) Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, a U.S. Energy Department staffer, was arrested on Thursday morning on charges of trying to provide material support to the Houthis, a Yemen-based terror proxy of the Iranian regime, the U.S. Justice Department said. The 51-year-old Richland, Wash., resident is scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate judge on Friday morning. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Ellaboudy allegedly traveled overseas and used his “specialized expertise” to aid the Houthis, who in recent weeks have launched attacks against Saudi Arabia and tried to close off the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a critical maritime chokepoint connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The terror group has done so in response to the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which is key to Iranian oil exports. JNS

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Days leading up to third Oct. 7 anniversary ‘very triggering’ for survivors, says legal scholar who documented crimes during the massacre. “We feel that we made one huge achievement and that is to move the conversation from whether these crimes happened to what are their consequences,” Israeli legal scholar Cochav Elkayam-Levy told JNS. Rikki Zagelbaum. (Oct. 2, 2026 / JNS). JNS

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Trump threatens Iran with ‘very hard’ response if linked to flydubai attack. Oct 2, 2026. U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Thursday that Iran would face a “very hard” response if investigators determine that Tehran was behind the apparent attempt to crash an Israel-bound flydubai flight.

Asked by a reporter at the White House whether he had been briefed on possible Iranian links to the Omani co-pilot who stabbed the captain of Flight FZ1073, Trump said, “I would say the answer, based on what I’m hearing, is yes, but we’re working on it right now.” JNS

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G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel after Trump pressure. Oct 02, 2026 i24

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Massachusetts man charged with cyberstalking GOP adviser, referring to her husband as ‘Jewish [sic] Nazi’ [sic] John Anthony Proia III allegedly harassed the victim at least 40 times using multiple phone numbers in August and September. Rebecca Szlechter. (Oct. 2, 2026 / JNS) A federal grand jury in Boston returned an indictment against John Anthony Proia III, 41, of Waltman, Mass., who was arrested for allegedly cyberstalking a former Republican political adviser, whom he is accused of calling more than 40 times, using multiple phone numbers, in the past two months. Among the messages he allegedly sent to the woman’s parents was an attack on her husband, whom he is accused of calling a “Jewish Nazi/white supremacist.” JNS

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EJC marks anniversary of Manchester synagogue attack. The European Jewish Congress on Friday marked the first anniversary of the Yom Kippur terrorist attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, England, that left two Jewish worshippers dead.

“We remember Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby and stand with their families, loved ones and the entire Manchester Jewish community,” the EJC posted on X. “May their memories forever be a blessing.”

Cravitz, 66, was stabbed to death by terrorist Jihad al-Shamie during the Oct. 2, 2025, attack. Daulby, 53, was fatally struck by police gunfire as he helped barricade the synagogue doors to prevent the attacker from entering. JNS

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Israeli security forces kill Hamas sniper in Khan Yunis. Oct 2, 2026 ...The terrorist, identified as Tamer Hamaida, served as a sniper for Hamas and had advanced plans to carry out shooting and other attacks against Israeli troops and civilians throughout the war, according to the joint statement. Israeli forces remain deployed in the area in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and “will continue to act to eliminate any immediate threat,” the statement said. JNS

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UAE official calls flydubai attack ‘dangerous act of terrorism’.

A senior Emirati official on Friday described the attack aboard flydubai Flight FZ1073 as a “dangerous terrorist act” that could have ended in catastrophe.

Dr. Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, made the comments in a post on X, marking the first public characterization of the incident as terrorism by a senior Emirati official.

“The Indian flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar deserves every appreciation,” Gargash wrote. “In confronting a dangerous terrorist act and a potential catastrophe, he embodied the meaning of courage and responsibility. His professionalism and moral sense in the darkest circumstances make him a true hero.”

Machchhar was seriously wounded when his Omani co-pilot allegedly attacked him during Wednesday’s flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Despite his injuries, the captain managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew members to intervene and subdue the co-pilot.

The Boeing 737 MAX 8, carrying 174 passengers and eight crew members, subsequently landed safely at Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia. Oct 2, 2026 JNS

UAE president's senior advisor calls flydubai plane hijacking 'dangerous terrorist attack'. PM Netanyahu, in a video update on Friday, characterized the hijacking as a potential "disaster on the scale of 9/11" and vowed that those behind the attack "will pay a heavy price.

By Jerusalem Post Staff October 2, 2026. The United Arab Emirate's president's diplomatic advisor, Anwar Gargash, said on Friday that the recent attempted hijacking of a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv was a "dangerous terrorist act."

Gargash said this while praising the Indian pilot of the flight, Capt. Smit Machchhar, who fought back against his Omani co-pilot and helped allow passengers into the cockpit and rescue the plane. JPost

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Watch: Australian expert cut off when discussing religious motive for Flydubai attack. Australian aviation expert Byron Bailey cut off during an interview on News24 after pointing out a religious motive behind the Flydubai attack. Israel National News. Oct 2, 2026, 6:47 PM (GMT+3) INN

Adam Milstein @AdamMilstein Captain Byron Bailey talks about the terror attack on the FlyDubai flight and the interview did not go as the host intended: on X

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Israeli filmmakers launch counter-documentary to rebut ‘NAZA’. The counter-project, titled NAZA: The Real Story, dropped with English subtitles this week in a bid to immediately intercept the global narrative.

By Maariv. October 2, 2026.

Three Israeli creators have released a documentary designed to directly counter and discredit NAZA, the controversial, Venice Film Festival award-winning film that alleges systematic Israeli military misconduct in Gaza.

The counter-project, titled NAZA: The Real Story, dropped this week with English subtitles in an effort to immediately shape the global narrative.

Directed by Lt. Col. Roi Danino, Hagai Gutman, and Ariel Averbuch, the documentary positions itself as an explicit rebuttal of the original film’s anonymous whistleblower claims.

The filmmakers go on the offensive, using declassified IDF recordings, combat footage, and captured intelligence to mount a sharp counter-narrative focusing on the battlefield tactics of Hamas.

The core of NAZA: The Real Story tackles the primary accusations made by NAZA regarding civilian casualties. It centers on three main fronts: the systematic exploitation of civilian areas by terrorists, the severe operational limitations imposed on troops by the presence of hostages, and the immense security risks involved in facilitating humanitarian aid deliveries.

'An offensive film, not a defensive one' Unlike the original anti-IDF film, which relied heavily on hidden-identity testimonies from junior personnel, this project features open interviews with active intelligence officers and frontline military commanders.

The creators present captured enemy manuals and operational videos to visually document their thesis: that civilian clothing, weapon stockpiles in family homes, and tactical hubs in residential areas are part of a calculated defensive strategy deployed against the IDF.

“This is an offensive film, not a defensive one,” the directors said, making it clear they intend to shift Israel out of the traditional position of the defendant on the world stage.

The urgency behind the project underscores how high the stakes are in the digital arena. Parts of the documentary were filmed under tight operational security and the cover of night on Tel Aviv rooftops. Key personnel involved in compiling the sensitive declassified materials still have their identities withheld for safety reasons.

With the original NAZA film gaining heavy distribution and visibility across Europe and the United States, the creators of this rebuttal are utilizing digital influencers and grassroots international networks to push their footage directly to global policymakers and journalists. For the production team, the ongoing clash is no longer just a debate over military strategy but a definitive, high-stakes war over who dictates the historical record to the international community. JPost

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Israeli officials to question co-pilot of flydubai flight, source says. October 2, 2026 JPost

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'Whoever sent the Flydubai terrorist will pay'. The prime minister said the investigation is examining whether the copilot, who he said underwent Islamist radicalization, acted on behalf of another party. Hezki Baruch Oct 2, 2026, 6:31 PM. INN

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Dearborn Imam Calls Sept. 11 ‘Big Lie’ in Newly Surfaced Video. By Corey Walker.

An imam in Dearborn, Michigan drew scrutiny after a recently circulated recording showed him denying the legitimacy of the Sept. 11 terror attacks against the US. Imam Usama Abdulghani, a Shiite Muslim religious leader, told congregants that the Sept. 11 terror attacks, which killed over 3,000 Americans, were fabricated. In the video, which was circulated by MEMRI, He argued that the “goal” of Sept. 11 commemoration events are to degrade “the psyche of the Muslims.” “You and I, we all know, 9/11 was a big lie,” he said. “They got people to believe it. They made it up. It was all a big lie,” he continued. Referencing stories from the Quran, he encouraged attendees to “do research” into the attacks and not believe the official narrative of the devastating terrorist event. He further repudiated the “shameful” and “granola” responses from Muslim leaders and organizations in the wake of the attacks. He continued, claiming that it “was so sad to see” many members of the American Muslim community “apologize” for the attacks. “A lot of Muslims lives were altered because of this,” he said in reference to the US War of Terror. He made the remarks on Sept. 11, 2026 as the country commemorated the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks. Abdulghani encouraged the congregants, instead of mourning the attacks, to embrace “the supremacy of Islam.” “The right way of thinking is that Islam is supreme. I’m not going to try and justify Islam. I don’t feel relieved if someone acknowledges me,” he said. “Islam is supreme,” he said. Dearborn is home to one of the largest Arab American communities in the US. According to the 2020 Census, 54.5% of the city’s residents reported Middle Eastern or North African ancestry. In the three years following the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, Dearborn has emerged as a flashpoint in the broader discourse regarding evolving US opinions on the Jewish state. The city has drawn criticism after holding multiple demonstrations celebrating terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Further, residents of Dearborn have been recorded chanting slogans such as “death to America” and “death to Israel.” Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud has established himself as an especially outspoken critic of Israel who has repeatedly condemned Israel’s military operations against Hamas, accusing the Jewish state of committing a “genocide” in Gaza and an “ethnic cleansing” in the West Bank. Following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel, a brutal onslaught that started the current Gaza war, Hammoud condemned the Jewish state as a “racist apartheid system that criminalizes Palestinian existence.” Hammoud is currently facing a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing his administration of using taxpayer-funded city resources to promote Islam while refusing comparable recognition to Christian and Jewish holidays and retaliating against a journalist who challenged the disparity. As the profile of the city has continued to rise amid the war in Gaza and political ascendance of several Muslim American political figures, more skeptics are pointing to the city’s longstanding pattern of radicalism. Algemeiner

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Saudis Plan Assault on Houthis to Break Red Sea Chokehold. Oct 2, 2026 Algemeiner

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Italian prisoner accused of Hamas financing appears in video sermon praising Gaza fighters Palestiniana activist Riyad Albustanji gave a sermon from his high-security cell in Sardinia's Bancali prison in Sassari with terminology that Italy's Il Giornale says resembled terror groups'. October 2, 2026. JPost

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Part 6

Florida Dem Senate Nominee’s Muslim Social Media Manager Called for “White Jews” to Die. The DSA is normalizing calls for killing Jews. October 2, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield.

Democrats still insist that the only antisemitism problem is coming from the right, meanwhile they’ve mainstreamed this as the new normal, and 10-1 this will lead to no action of any kind.

Canary Mission uncovered the social media history of Florida Senate Dem nominee Angie Nixon’s Muslim social media campaign manager, Sara Mahmoud. Her social media name included the word “intifada” meaning a Muslim terrorist campaign and was full of homicidal hatred.

Canary Mission has documented support for terrorism, but let’s just cut to the chase. [49] FPM

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‘NAZA’ and Nazi take the stand. How a record-breaking standing ovation at a Venice film festival became a loyalty ritual—and put the “bad Jew” back in the ghetto. Oct. 2, 2026. Andrew Abrahams. JNS

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Iran's Majles Speaker Qalibaf Praises Oct 7 Attacks... Oct 4, 2026 MEMRI

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US Deploying 3 Carrier Droups and 20,000 troops to Middle East Ahead of New Iran Strikes. Oct 3, 2026. JFeed

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Terrorist images found on Flydubai suspect’s social media.

By Abbas Al Lawati, Tal Shalev, Kylie Atwood, Isaac Yee, Avery Schmitz, Thomas Bordeaux, Teele Rebane

Updated: Oct. 3, 2026, 2:43 AM ET Published: Oct. 2, 2026, 5:54 PM ET

The pilot suspected of having attacked another pilot aboard a Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight on Wednesday was removed from a previous job at Oman’s national airline last year following concerns about his extremist views, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The pilot is an Omani citizen named Hamam al-Hammami, according to the two sources and an Israeli official. Saudi state media also identified al-Hammami. He was born in the United Arab Emirates to an Omani father and Syrian mother and has spent several years of his life in the UAE, one of the sources added.

A LinkedIn profile bearing the name Hamam al-Hammami said he worked at Oman Air for seven years, leaving in February 2025, before joining Royal Air Maroc in June 2025 and departing in January 2026. The page made no mention of Flydubai. One of the sources confirmed that the profile belongs to the Flydubai pilot in Wednesday’s incident. The profile has since been deleted and CNN has reached out to LinkedIn for comment.

The second source, a diplomat from the region, told CNN the suspect was removed from flight training because of the concerns over his radical views and was given another role at Oman’s national airline.

On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the suspect was believed to have undergone “Islamist radical indoctrination.”

The Israeli official told CNN that al-Hammami had worked for Flydubai for only eight months. A fourth source said the alleged assailant had previously worked for Royal Air Maroc.

The revelations will raise concerns about the importance of background checks in aviation hiring. CNN has reached out to Oman Air, Royal Air Maroc and the Dubai government’s media office for comment.

Flydubai said it could not provide comment while the incident remained under investigation.

Threatening mutilation and death.

Only two posts were made to the LinkedIn profile, and both were published in quick succession on Wednesday, about nine hours after the incident.

It is unclear who published the posts or whether they were scheduled in advance.

The first post featured a series of clips filmed in the cockpits of a Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The aircraft that diverted to Saudi Arabia in Wednesday’s incident was a Flydubai 737 Max 8.

In one clip, which CNN geolocated to Dubai International Airport, the person filming zooms in on a plane that belongs to the Israeli airline El Al.

In the video, the cockpit screen showed the flight number – OMA624 – and date, October 11, 2023. The flight number corresponds to a flight that typically travels from Dubai to Muscat. The date matches the period of time he worked at Oman Air.

In other clips in the video, more planes from El Al, as well as one from Arkia, another Israeli airline, are shown.

The video ends with a photo of Ayman al-Zawahiri, who led al Qaeda after the death of Osama Bin Laden, and a photo of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who killed nine people, including seven American CIA officers and contractors, in a 2009 suicide bombing, and was loyal to al Qaeda.

The second post features an AI-generated image depicting Islam’s three holiest sites – in Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem – linked by a continuous glowing trail. A defiant poem recited in the background speaks of rejecting humiliation, not fearing death and defending one’s dignity.

Al-Hammami’s LinkedIn page said he studied at Buckinghamshire New University in England. A source at the university confirmed to CNN that a man by that name had completed a three-year distance learning course, graduating with a degree in aviation management in 2023.

The same two videos were posted around the same time on an Instagram account bearing the same name and pictures, before that account was also deleted. CNN has reached out to Meta for comment.

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The nearly 3,000 deleted tweets, published between 2021 and 2022, were analyzed and sorted using an AI-powered semantic search model.

Investigating terror links.

Questions are mounting over how a citizen of Oman, which does not recognize Israel, was permitted to serve as a pilot on a flight to Tel Aviv, despite Israel’s stringent aviation security measures.

An Israeli official told CNN on Wednesday that several Israeli agencies – including Shin Bet, Mossad, the military and the Transportation Ministry – were investigating how the Omani pilot came to be part of the flight crew.

The pilot attempted to carry out a “terrorist act” by attacking his colleague with a crash axe inside the cockpit and trying to take control of the plane, the United Arab Emirates attorney general, Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, said on Saturday, according to state news agency WAM.

UAE authorities have jurisdiction to investigate the incident because the aircraft is registered in the country, and UAE law applies to crimes committed aboard its planes even when they occur outside the country’s territory, WAM said.

Netanyahu told CNN’s Jim Sciutto late on Wednesday that the assailant had been interrogated in Saudi Arabia, where the plane was diverted, with Israel involved in the investigation.

“I spoke to the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, and he agreed that Israel would join the interrogations,” he said.

I can also format this as a plain-text article with no Markdown headings or bolding, if you want a version that is easier to copy into a document. CNN

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Attempted abduction of Israeli in Samaria. Arab rioters attacked a Jewish teen with stones on Thursday and tried to drag him into a house in the PA city of Yassuf. Israel National News. Oct 2, 2026, 3:55 PM INN

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Crew of hijacked flydubai plane clashed with Israeli passengers, demanded tied-up terror pilot be freed.

By David Spector. Published Oct. 3, 2026.

The crew of the hijacked flydubai plane shockingly clashed with Israeli passengers who subdued the ax-wielding co-pilot after he attacked the pilot — demanding he be freed, two men who helped secure the terror suspect told The Post in exclusive interviews.

“They were asking us to untie the terrorist — we had no idea why,” said banking executive Tzvika Manes, one of the three civilians who took down the would-be hijacker.

“They were saying to free the terrorist — we got instantly suspicious of them,” said real estate professional Daniel Schlichter, who was sitting in the second row, close to the cockpit.

Manes, 40, was traveling with his wife and three daughters, aged 11, 7 and 6, after a family vacation in Japan, when the co-pilot, identified by _The Wall Street Journal_ as an Omani national Hamam al-Hammami, began hacking at the Indian pilot, Capt. Smit Machchhar, with a crash ax.

The seriously injured Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door. Manes, along with plumber Yaniv Hayoun and Asaf Rajuan, rushed to confront the attacker and overpowered him.

Hayoun then managed to stabilize the nosediving plane using techniques he learned from the TV show “Air Disasters.”

But after the three Israelis subdued the pilot and restrained him face-down with his hands tied behind his back — first with zip ties, then using headphone wires that Schlichter gathered from passengers — the situation took another turn.

As he was subdued, Hayoun heard the terrorist cry, “Kill me, kill me” — apparently because he failed in his jihadist mission, Manes said.

Yet some crew members began demanding that he be freed.

An argument ensued, and the Israeli trio shot back that under no circumstances would the suspected terrorist be released.

“They said, ‘You are not God, you are not going to kill him,’” Manes recalled. “We didn’t want to kill him, we just wanted him not to kill us.”

Schlichter, 59, who was also returning from a vacation in Japan with his wife, and Manes both said that the Israelis even gave the wounded terrorist an oxygen mask.

“We wanted him to live so he could be investigated,” Schlichter said.

A power struggle ensued, with the crewmembers insisting that they were in charge of the plane and needed to remain alone in the area directly in front of the cockpit.

The Israelis, fearing the crew could be involved in the pilot’s plot, ordered the stewards to leave the cockpit area and take seats in the middle of the plane.

“We told them, ‘Now the policy is we’re in charge and you do what we say,’” Manes said.

“We didn’t know what to think, we were in a suspicious mode for every steward.”

A group of passengers, Schlichter among them, escorted the crew members to seats in the fifth or sixth row, away from the cockpit.

“We shouted at them and told them to sit down,” said Schlichter, who has two children and two granddaughters.

The trio then enlisted a “big guy” to guard the cockpit and prevent anyone from entering, Manes said.

Reserve pilots seated at the back of the plane had already entered the cockpit and taken over control of the aircraft.

After the crew was seated, they began to “understand that this was a special case,” Schlichter said, and started tending to the traumatized passengers, providing them with blankets and water.

The crew has not been accused of conspiring with the co-pilot.

When asked by The Post about the crew’s behavior, flydubai said it could not comment on a matter under investigation.

“We remain fully committed to supporting the ongoing investigation and are in close coordination with the relevant government authorities and regulators,” it said in a statement.

“I stayed with the terrorist until we landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. After that I hugged my daughters and told them they were going to be OK, and that they are heroes,” Manes said.

Once the plane landed, the adrenaline began to wear off and passengers started processing what they had just survived.

Some had panic attacks while others broke down crying, Manes said.

“They didn’t want to fly back to Israel on another flydubai flight. Many wouldn’t step foot on the plane until they were personally told by the Mossad that the pilots had been cleared,” he said.

The self-described “regular finance guy” never dreamed he would one day be the center of a movie-like life-or-death midair battle.

His only thought was saving his family.

“When I heard my daughters crying ‘Father I don’t want to die’ — that was the trigger for me to run and fight, I wasn’t thinking of anything, it was just fight or flight,” Manes said.

The pilot fought the three men viciously.

“Punches were flying, we were kicking him, we didn’t know if he still had his knife, we couldn’t see it,” Manes said. “None of us were fighters or heroes, we were just normal guys who wanted to save our families.”

“It was sounds you only hear in a movie,” Schlichter said.

Manes, the CEO of Barak Capital Underwriting, Israel’s largest investment bank, said he has bruises all over his body.

“The G-Force was like something I never felt like in my life, it felt like everything was soaking, it was a crazy feeling,” he said.

Schlichter said that he was fully prepared to die as the plane nosedived 17,000 feet in moments.

“It was the longest minute I’ll ever have in my life, I remember everything, I remember clearly thinking about 9/11, then I thought about my children, my family, how awful it would be for them to hear what happened,” he said.

Both men said they were overwhelmed by the number of things that had to go right for everyone aboard to survive.

“Statistically this kind of miracle cannot be happening, the chance that each one of us, especially would be on the same second where they had to be, I can’t even fathom how unlikely it is,” Schlichter said.

“I believe that definitely we had divine protection,” Manes said. “Someone up there is watching over us.” NY Post

Flydubai passengers say: 'Flight crew asked us to release the Omani terrorist'. Two passengers on the Flydubai flight, Zvika Manes and Daniel Schlichter, told the New York Post that several crew members on the plane confronted them and asked them to release the Omani terrorist. Manes, who was among the passengers who neutralized the terrorist, said in an interview that "they asked us to release the terrorist, we had no idea why. They said: 'You are not God, you are not going to kill him.' We didn't want to kill him, we just wanted him not to kill us." Schlichter, who was sitting in the second row on the plane, said that "they told us to release the terrorist – and we immediately became suspicious of them." 10.03.26. YNet

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Iranian diplomats ‘kicked out’ of US after ignoring order to leave: State Department. Oct. 3, 2026 Fox News.

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The forgotten 1929 massacre that explains the Middle East today. By Yardena Schwartz. Oct. 3, 2026.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas sympathizers have insisted that we must understand the massacre in its historical context — that it did not happen in a vacuum. This much is true.

To understand this context, we need to look back at a chapter of history that predates the state of Israel by two decades. That chapter is 1929.

On Aug. 24, 1929, more than 3 000 Muslim men armed with swords, axes and machetes marched through the ancient Jewish quarter of Hebron, then part of British Mandate Palestine. That Sabbath morning, they slaughtered 67 Jewish men, women and children, and wounded dozens more. Children watched as their parents were butchered by their neighbors. Rabbis and yeshiva students were castrated. Infants were murdered in their mothers’ arms. Young women were raped. Those who survived endured horrific cruelty, with fingers and limbs severed and eyes gouged.

Many victims of the Hebron massacre knew their assailants by name. Until that day, the rioters had been their friends, neighbors, coworkers and landlords. Most of Hebron’s Jews were natives of the land who spoke Hebrew and Arabic. This was the world’s oldest Jewish community, dating back to the days of Abraham and Sarah, who are believed to be buried in Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs.

The massacre bore striking similarities to Oct. 7.

But the significance of 1929 extends far beyond these parallels. This overlooked chapter of history offers a window into the forces that shape this conflict — forces that are entirely missing from contemporary accounts of its origins. In 1929, Jews represented 20% of a population of less than 1 million people. There was no "persecution" or "oppression" of Palestinians in 1929. To be a Palestinian was to be a Jew or an Arab living under British rule. Jews and Muslims had lived alongside one another in Hebron for generations.

What led thousands of Muslims in Hebron to turn on their Jewish neighbors was a campaign of disinformation initiated by the first leader of the Palestinian people: the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini. He claimed that the Jews of Palestine were conspiring to destroy Al-Aqsa in order to rebuild the ancient Jewish Temple, upon whose ruins Al-Aqsa had been built.

That lie crested into a wave of violence against Jews in Palestine. Hamas repeats the same lie today, positioning themselves as the defenders of Al-Aqsa. It is no coincidence that Hamas named the Oct. 7 attack “The Al-Aqsa Flood.”

Yet the most revealing connection between 1929 and 2023 lies not in the violence but in its aftermath. In both cases, atrocities were simultaneously denied and blamed on their Jewish victims, murderers were glorified as heroes and the religious underpinnings of the violence were obscured.

After the riots were quelled by British troops, the Arabic press in Palestine falsely reported that Jews had initiated the riots. The international community saw through these lies at the time. Western journalists did not attempt to justify the slaughter of unarmed children. Protests against the Arab riots took place around the world.

And yet, the British did then what they continue to do today. Siding with the Arab majority of Palestine, the British concluded in the 1930 Shaw Commission that what sparked the riots was a peaceful Jewish demonstration at the Western Wall in mid-August 1929, on the Ninth of Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, when Jews mark the destruction of the ancient Jewish Temples.

In hopes of keeping the peace, the British rewarded the attackers. To appease the Arab majority, they issued quotas on Jewish immigration. There were no limits on rising Arab immigration. They also restricted Jewish land purchases. After all, land in Palestine was not being confiscated by Jews or given to them by the British. It was being sold to them by wealthy Arab landowners, at exorbitant prices.

So, what happens when the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is told without the context of 1929?

We are witnessing the consequences in real time. The 1929 Hebron massacre undermines the assumption that today’s conflict was caused by the state of Israel. As a journalist who reported from Israel and the Palestinian Territories from 2013 to 2023, I witnessed the ways in which history is omitted from coverage of this conflict. I began writing a book about the Hebron massacre four years before Oct. 7, hoping to shed light on this fateful period of history that so few people know about. Three years after Oct. 7, the lies which fueled violence in Palestine one century ago are no longer rejected by the international community, but sustained by it.

Context is only useful when it is complete. The long-forgotten story of 1929 is vital to understanding the deeper forces — of religious domination, disinformation and historical amnesia — that have shaped this conflict for the past century. They have been ignored far too long. Yardena Schwartz is the author of “Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict.” NY Post

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Flydubai Co-Pilot Hamam al-Hammami Intended to Bring Jet Down Inside Israel. Hamam al-Hammami, 29, has told investigators he intended to crash the Flydubai jet in Israel, ABC News reports. He was flagged as a security risk in 2024. Gila Isaacson. Oct 3, 2026. JFeed

Terrorist pilot admits plot to crash plane into Israel as investigators probe Iran link. Sources familiar with the investigation say Hamam al-Hammami underwent a process of radicalization in Syria and posted extremist content online. During questioning, he admitted intending to crash the aircraft into a target in Israel. By Danny Zaken. Published on 10-03-2026 22:19 Last modified: 10-03-2026 22:19 ILH

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Indian Captain Tells Netanyahu: 'Pilot Asked to Pray — Then I Took a Hard Blow to the Head'. 10.03.26. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Captain Sumit Makhija, who was stabbed by the terrorist-pilot on the Fly Dubai flight and was seriously injured. The captain recounted during the conversation that "the co-pilot asked to pray, and out of respect I looked forward and not back. Suddenly I took a hard blow to the back of my head. I tried to stop him, but because of his initial blows, my vision almost disappeared. I heard people's screams. And as I told the ambassador here — I had one last fight left in me. I knew that if I didn't do it — I would die. So I used all the strength I had, walked to the door and opened it. Fortunately, people were waiting there to respond immediately and took control of the situation. YNet

‘He prayed, then hit me’: Flydubai captain recounts cockpit attack. Smit Machchhar tells Netanyahu co-pilot prayed, then struck him from behind; badly wounded, he fought to open cockpit door, telling Netanyahu: ‘I had that one last fight left in me’. Itamar Eichner, Meir Turgeman|10.03.26 YNet

'I gave everything that I had': Flydubai captain tells Netanyahu about co-pilot's hijacking attempt. The prime minister thanked Machchhar for his "remarkable" actions, saying that he "saved the spirit of the world." Aaron Glick. October 3, 2026. [...] My first thought was that there was catastrophic damage to the aircraft," he said. "But then, after that, the blows kept coming, one after the other, and that's when I realized that it's not the aircraft; it's the other guy who was in the cockpit with me."

Despite Machchhar's attempts to stop him, he said the aircraft pitched sharply downward as his vision rapidly faded, noting that he managed to open the cockpit door several times even though his co-pilot kept closing it.

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"My colleagues from outside were trying to pitch in the code (to open the door), but the guy was not allowing them to open the code," the captain explained. "Once I had my hand on the knob, I guess I twisted it, and I opened it."

"I remember I was lying down on the cockpit floor, and I felt the aircraft and the whooshing sound and people screaming," he recalled. "Thankfully, people were waiting to pounce back, took over the controls, and the rest is what you know, sir." JPost

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IDF targets 'Sinwar's successor'. Israel National News. Oct 3, 2026, 7:14 PM INN

IDF targets Sinwar successor's Gaza home. Israeli forces demolish apartment of Mohammed al-Amudi, believed to be next Hamas leader in Gaza, as eight soldiers injured in Lebanon vehicle accident | Trump convenes security cabinet on Iran and Houthis. Gila Isaacson. Oct 3, 2026 JFeed

IDF targets Yahya Sinwar's successor in Gaza strike, kills two PIJ commanders in Gaza City. Oct 3, 2026. JPost

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Netanyahu's surprising invitation to the Indian pilot. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls Indian flydubai captain Smit Machchhar, praising him as 'hero to Israel, India, and the entire world,' and extending special Independence Day invitation. Israel National News. Published: Oct 3, 2026, 9:02 PM (GMT+3) INN

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President Trump: 'Yaniv saved that flight yesterday, he did an amazing job'. US President Donald Trump posted a video in which he praised Yaniv, the Israeli plumber who helped save the Flydubai plane. Israel National News Oct 3, 2026, 8:37 PM INN

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Emily Damari shares unreleased hostage photos, says surviving Hamas captivity was a miracle. "Three years ago at this time on Simchat Torah I was deep, deep in the Gaza Strip," Damari wrote in her post.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. October 4, 2026. Emily Damari, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, and survived Hamas captivity in Gaza, shared previously unreleased photos from her time as a hostage on Instagram on Saturday, marking three years since her abduction on the Hebrew calendar. JPost

Emily Damari reveals: 'It's a miracle I'm alive'. Three years after she was kidnapped to Gaza during the October 7 massacre, former hostage Emily Damari shares disturbing photos from Shifa Hospital in Gaza, recalling her untreated wounds, terrifying captivity, and the miracle of her survival. Orly Harari. Oct 3, 2026, 8:48 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Watch: Rocket unit commander eliminated in Gaza. IDF eliminates two senior Islamic Jihad terrorists near Gaza City, after they worked to rebuild the group's military capabilities in violation of the ceasefire. Israel National News. Oct 3, 2026, 7:43 PM INN

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October 7 Footage Removed. TikTok Removes Kan Promo Showing Soroka Hospital on October 7, Calls It Misinformation. TikTok took down a promo for Kan's Zman Emet documentary on Soroka Hospital on October 7, citing its misinformation rules. Kan has asked for a review. Gila Isaacson. Oct 3, 2026 JFeed

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London police urge students to move October 7 march. Pro-Palestinian students in London are planning a march in support of Palestinians specifically on October 7. Nissan Tzur. Published: Oct 3, 2026, 11:29 PM (GMT+3)

London police are urging organizers of a planned October 7 pro-Palestinian student march to change the date or location of the demonstration, warning that it could cause distress to members of the Jewish community and increase the risk of clashes.

An organization calling itself the London University Coalition said hundreds of students are expected to march through London on October 7 to protest what it describes as “g... in Gaza."

Deputy Police Commissioner James Helman said police do not currently have the authority to stop the march, but have asked organizers to reconsider its timing. INN

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Four protesters face expulsion after arrest in Samaria. Four protesters detained in Samaria on suspicion of disturbing public order and entering a closed military zone have been transferred for a hearing on possible expulsion from Israel. Israel National News. Oct 3, 2026, 11:49 PM (GMT+3)

Four protesters detained near the community of Kfar Tapuach in Samaria have been transferred to the Population and Immigration Authority ahead of a hearing on whether they should be expelled from Israel.

The four were detained Friday by IDF soldiers operating in the area on suspicion of involvement in a public-order disturbance. They were subsequently taken to the Ariel police station, where police questioned them on suspicion of disturbing public order and entering a closed military zone. ... “The Israel Police will continue to act decisively, using all of its authorities and in cooperation with security bodies and law enforcement authorities, in order to prevent and thwart incidents of friction and violence that may develop against a backdrop of incitement and agitation and lead to breaches of public order," police said INN

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Galilee residents told to stay home amid Arab protests. Misgav Regional Council warns residents to remain indoors during planned Arab demonstrations, at the expense of holiday celebrations. Israel National News. Published: Oct 3, 2026, 11:15 PM (GMT+3)

Outrage erupted among residents of the Galilee following a notice issued by the Misgav Regional Council urging residents to avoid traveling on roads and to remain in their homes during the afternoon and evening hours, between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., due to planned demonstrations and protests in Sakhnin, Arraba, and Deir Hanna.

Maayan Tal-Mor, a Galilee resident, published a strongly worded protest video in response to the instructions, stressing, "Look at the notice we received yesterday from the Misgav Regional Council, our council."

"Tomorrow, on Simchat Torah, coincidentally during the hours of the hakafot (Simchat Torah celebrations - ed.), we're being told not to leave our homes because the Arabs are demonstrating." INN

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Israel’s Growing Allies on the Ground—and in the Sky. Mike Watson. October 3, 2026. Israel’s Growing Allies on the Ground—and in the Sky. Israel is no stranger to diplomatic isolation, but the widespread condemnation it has received after the October 7 atrocities has been unusually strong and meritless. Last week, the dozens of delegates walking out on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations seemed to dramatize Israel's diplomatic plight. Bibi defied the well-heeled "moral cowards" of Turtle Bay and defended his policies against Iran and its terrorist minions. But even as many of Israel's friends applauded him at the rostrum, their eyes darted nervously to the swelling exodus in the aisles. FreeBeacon

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Tucker Carlson claims UK had no reason to join WWII, appears to defend Hitler's invasion of Poland. "The idea that Hitler just randomly rolled into Poland is a lie… Hitler repeatedly said, ‘I do not want to go to war with the UK,’” Tucker Carlson said in a recent interview with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. Goldie Katz. October 3, 2026 JPost

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Israel’s Supreme Court overturns decision to disqualify Arab parties. Balad party chair Sami Abu Shehadeh, who wrote a piece lauding Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, withdrew his candidacy for the upcoming election. JNS Staff. Oct. 3, 2026 JNS

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IDF detains 50 Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria. Israeli troops carried out several counterterror operations during the holiday, confiscating weapons, drones and other military equipment. JNS Staff. Oct. 3, 2026. JNS

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Hamas-backing professor booked for UC Berkeley event with pro-Palestine student group day before October 7 anniversary By Ross O'Keefe Published Oct. 2, 2026, 2:56 p.m. ET NYPost

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First line of Wikipedia Oct. 7 entry says Hamas terrorists came from ‘blockaded’ Gaza, seeming to justify attacks.. Oct 2, 2026 JNS

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Robert Kraft’s Wikipedia Entry Edited to Describe Pro-Israel Media Watchdog as “Genocide[sic]” Denier JNS — October 2, 2026. By Aaron Bandler.

A Wikipedia editor added a disputed description of the pro-Israel media watchdog Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s biography, days after Kraft barred rapper Macklemore from performing at Gillette Stadium with Ed Sheeran.

Macklemore was removed from Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour after saying “free Palestine” during a Sept. 4 performance at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Kraft, who owns Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., said Macklemore would not be permitted to perform there because of what he described as the rapper’s “broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery.”

The tour’s promoter subsequently announced that Macklemore would not perform at the remaining dates after multiple venues said they would not host shows with him on the bill.

On Sept. 19, five days after Macklemore’s removal from the tour, a Wikipedia editor added material to Kraft’s entry based on a Sept. 18 article in _The Intercept_ about his philanthropic giving to pro-Israel organizations, including a $63,500 donation from the Kraft Family Foundation to CAMERA.

The Wikipedia entry had described CAMERA as: “an organization that has denied Israel’s genocide[sic] in Gaza and has organized pressure campaigns against those it considers ‘anti-Israel.’”

The wording mirrored language used in _The Intercept_ article. The phrase “denied Israel’s genocide[sic] in Gaza” also linked to a Wikipedia page titled “Gaza genocide denial.”

The description, which is not included in CAMERA’s own Wikipedia entry, was removed on Thursday afternoon and replaced with recognition of a 2018 contribution from the foundation “with the memo line ‘fighting antisemitism.’”

The entry previously described CAMERA as a “right-wing organization.” That characterization was subsequently removed after another Wikipedia editor raised concerns that the Israel section contained excessive “editorialising.” The editor also questioned whether some of the language was too closely tied to _The Intercept_’s characterization.

CAMERA’s response.

Carol Greenwald, chair of CAMERA’s board, told JNS: “These edits aren’t so much about Kraft or CAMERA. They are about how Wikipedia has been hijacked by anti-Israel activists to promote the ‘genocide’ libel.”

Greenwald also said that Wikipedia co-founders had criticized the site’s treatment of the Gaza genocide question and its adherence to neutrality.

Criticism of Wikipedia’s wording.

Jimmy Wales, a co-founder of Wikipedia, criticized the site’s “Gaza genocide” article in November 2025, arguing in June after promoting an initiative that, among other goals, sought to make Wikipedia less biased against “currently disfavored views and groups,” including Jewish and pro-Israel perspectives, according to his account that presenting Israel as committing genocide in Gaza violated Wikipedia’s neutrality policy.

Wales said the claim was highly contested and that the article should present competing characterizations rather than state one as fact in Wikipedia’s voice.

Larry Sanger, Wikipedia’s other co-founder, likewise criticized the article, telling JNS in June that its title and presentation were not neutral.

Sanger was indefinitely banned from Wikipedia in June after promoting an initiative that, among other goals, sought to make Wikipedia less biased against “currently disfavored views and groups,” including Jewish and pro-Israel perspectives, according to his account.

Greenwald said CAMERA does not comment on donor records but added that supporters of its mission could be confident that their contributions were being put to good use.

Researcher calls wording biased.

Shlomit Lir, a University of Haifa researcher specializing in Wikipedia, said the wording used in Kraft’s entry was biased.

“Calling CAMERA an organization that ‘denied Israel’s genocide[sic] in Gaza’ is not a neutral description of its position, because it treats genocide as an established fact and frames those who dispute that characterization as deniers.”

Lir argued that the wording also echoes the moral implications associated with “Holocaust denial.”

She said the episode illustrates the broader problems that can arise when contested terminology is used in biographical entries.

“Sadly, this is a clear example of how Wikipedia can be used to promote an ideological position while implicitly discrediting someone for making a legitimate philanthropic choice about which organization to support.” JNS

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Zohran Mamdani’s antisemitism plan is political warfare, not protection of Jews. Mamdani’s antisemitism plan raises concerns about whether New York can protect Jews without separating them from their connection to Israel. Dan Diker. October 3, 2026 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani responded three times after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him “the antisemitic mayor of New York” from the podium of the UN General Assembly on September 24. JPost

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At rally, Trump mocks ‘Gays for Palestine’ over abuses in ‘that part of the world’.

US president jokes that members of the movement should be sent over as negotiators: ‘You’ll never see them again’. By TOI Staff. October 3, 2026.

US President Donald Trump mocked LGBTQ activists in the pro-Palestinian movement on Saturday over rights abuses against members of the community in “that part of the world.”

In remarks at a midterm campaign rally in Mobile, Alabama, Trump said that he had recently heard of what he called the “Gays for Palestine” movement. (Activists usually refer to themselves as “Queers for Palestine.”)

“Gays for Palestine, how about that,” Trump said. “I saw it today, and I said, ‘Wait a minute.'”

“Do you know what they do to gay people in that part of the world? Let’s send them over someday to negotiate. You’ll never see them again. I don’t want to tell you, but they do things you wouldn’t believe. T.o.I.

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Human Rights Watch Insider Exposes How NGO Reports Really Get Made | Danielle Haas. Quillette. Oct 2, 2026.

Quillette: Former Human Rights Watch Editor on Ideology, Israel and NGO Accountability. Who checks the watchdogs? Danielle Haas spent 14 years as a senior editor at Human Rights Watch before leaving in 2023 with an exit email to more than 500 colleagues. She now runs EiGHT, a Geneva-based initiative founded by former and current NGO staff to press for accountability in the human rights and humanitarian sector.

Zoe Sankey asks her how a report actually gets made inside an organisation like Human Rights Watch, who reviews it before it goes out, and what happens when staff raise concerns. Haas describes what she saw from the editor’s desk: last-minute review, spot checks for lack of time, and positions she says were pushed for years before they were adopted. She explains why she believes NGO output, unlike NGO finances, faces no external scrutiny at all, and what she thinks should change: independent reporting channels for staff, an external review board, and measurable standards on every published claim.

They also discuss Amnesty’s clash with J.K. Rowling, the Antoinette Lattouf case, why Haas avoids arguing over whether a given report is right or wrong, and whether young people who want to do good should still work for these organisations.

CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and guest background 02:30 Why Danielle wrote her exit letter from Human Rights Watch 03:34 The internal ecosystem and silence in the human rights sector 04:02 Generational shifts and ideological influences in NGOs 08:02 Case studies: Antoinette Lattouf, J.K. Rowling and accountability 14:04 The lack of external regulation and oversight 16:32 Social media's role and unreviewed claims in human rights work 18:38 The process of report creation and internal review failures 21:10 The importance of external review and standards 23:23 Accountability gaps and the impact of scandals 26:01 The internal culture of silence and suppression of dissent 31:21 The flow of money and donor influence 33:37 Potential reforms: external oversight and accountability mechanisms 38:54 The role of ideology and dogmas in shaping NGO work 41:56 The influence of internal politics and narrative change 51:48 The future of human rights organisations and public trust. on YouTube

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Greens plunged into antisemitism crisis after members resoundingly back ‘Zionism is racism’ motion. Lee Harpin. October 4, 2026. Green Party members have passed a hardline version of the controversial “Zionism is racism” motion at their conference in Brighton, after resoundingly rejecting an amendment aimed at safeguarding Jewish supporters.

A hardline version of the overall Zionism is racism passed by 1,022 votes to 813.

Green Party member Greg Hadfield told journalists the result was greeted with “tears of joy” by supporters.

In a significant setback for leader Zack Polanski’s efforts to soften the party’s anti-Zionist stance, delegates voted down an amendment designed to protect Jewish members from being targeted.

That amendment, No.3. was defeated by 684 to 1,026 votes at the party’s conference on Sunday.

Amendment three was intended to shield Jewish members attending self-declared “Zionist” organisations—including synagogues and prayer groups—from accusations of racism.

Its defeat has raised concerns among Jewish Greens about potential internal disciplinary action for those participating in such religious activities. Anti-Zionist Green who supported racism motion

By endorsing the overall motion, the Green Party becomes one of the only Western political parties to officially adopt an anti-Zionist position.

The motion defines Zionism as an ideology supporting “an ethno nationalist Jewish state” and shifts the party’s platform to advocate for a “single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine.”

This marks a sharp departure from previous Green Party policy, which suggested that the ultimate decision on a peaceful solution in the region rests with both Israelis and Palestinians. JewishNews.co.uk

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Nicole Lampert: The Greens are now the most openly racist mainstream party in British history. Oct 4, 2026. I’m glad that the pretence that the Left aren’t Jew-haters is over. They can no longer bother with the crying that it was just Netanyahu they despised. Or just “the genocide” they abhorred.

The full-throated support for the Green Party’s motion that “Zionism is Racism” is them showing how much they hate Jews with their chests out.

They are proud of it. Yes, they are proud of their nasty anti-Semitism. So sickening. But at least there is now sunlight on their obsession. No two-state solution for this lot: nothing less than the eradication of Israel “by any means necessary”. Self determination for the Palestinians but not for the Jews.

The Green Party’s leaders and MPs have belatedly wrung their hands about what has happened to their party.

“I am deeply saddened the ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion has passed,” their MP Adrian Ramsay meekly bleated. “It doesn’t reflect Green principles or my own view.” Weak. Useless.

Even Mothin Ali, the Green deputy leader who openly pushed the motion, signed his name to a statement which said: “We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.”

Lies.

The Greens can now take the mantle of being the most openly racist mainstream British political party in history. They are calling for the destruction of the Jewish state while calling themselves anti-racists. What other state would they ever demand had to be dismantled? Telegraph

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50 years on, the words of my father, Chaim Herzog, then Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, ring as true today as they did then. Those who claim the antisemitic lie that “Zionism is racism” deliberately endanger Jews and Israelis everywhere. Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people and the foundation of our right to a state and a national home in the Land of Israel. No motion, in any party or any parliament, will ever change these eternal truths. — יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) October 4, 2026 on X

Many were lucky enough to miss the 1970s. Well, look at where we are now and summon up the spirit of Ambassador Moynihan in the face of 'Zionism is racism'. [50] — habibi (@habibi_uk) October 4, 2026 Lord Wolfson: “British Jews are your neighbours, fellow citizens and parliamentary colleagues. We should not have to disclaim a belief in Jewish self-determination in order to avoid being branded racist by a British political party.” [51] on X

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 4, 2026 Joint statement from Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council in response to Greens motion on Zionism. [52]

— lee harpin (@lmharpin) October 4, 2026 on X

2/4 Not only does this threaten and delegitimise Jewish people by declaring that anyone supporting the right to our self-determination is a racist. But in failing to adopt amendment #3, the Green Party is seeking to sanction the right to religious freedom….

— LAAS (@LabourAgainstAS) October 4, 2026 on X

4/4 and to make those responses public so we can hold the Green Party to account. It is unthinkable that a political party in Britain in 2026 should feel so emboldened that it could interfere with a minority religion’s right to worship freely.

— LAAS (@LabourAgainstAS) October 4, 2026 on X

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Brendan O'Neill: The Green Party is now an openly anti-Jewish party. Oct 4, 2026. ‘Tell me what you accuse the Jews of [and] I’ll tell you what you are guilty of’, said the great Soviet writer Vasily Grossman. Today, that grim, eternal truth was starkly illustrated by the Green Party’s passing of a motion saying ‘Zionism is Racism’. To throw around the word ‘racism’ even as you single out Jewish sovereignty as uniquely demonic, to pose as an enemy of bigotry even as you dream of the erasure of the world’s only Jewish state, takes moral duplicity to sickening new heights. In their snivelling whisperings about ‘racism’, these scumbags reveal their own.

It was at their conference in Brighton that the Green Party of England and Wales voted in favour of the ‘Zionism is Racism’ screed. The motion expressly defines the Greens as an ‘anti-Zionist party’. It says Zionism is a species of racial hatred, and will henceforth be ‘treated as any other form of racism’. Most obnoxiously of all, it commits the Greens to campaigning for the scrubbing of the Jewish nation from the face of the Earth. It calls for ‘the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital’. So no more Jewish homeland. No more tiny patch of land, a poxy 263 by 71 miles, for the Jews to call their own. All of it would disappear. Imagine accusing others of being ‘genocidal’ even as you agitate for the total dismantling of the ancestral kingdom of the Jews.

Anyone who thinks this is ‘just about Israel’, that the Islamo-left’s demented hatred for the Jewish nation has no impact on the Jews of the West, needs to pay closer attention. One of the most chilling events in Brighton today was the enthusiastic voting down of an amendment that would have offered protection to Jewish Greens who attend Zionist synagogues. Designed to ‘safeguard Jewish membership’, the amendment warned against ‘indirect discrimination’ against ‘practising Jews’ on the basis of the ‘synagogues, community centres or denominational groups’ they are aligned with. It was smashed, defeated by 1,026 to 648 votes.

Think about this. Really think about it. A mainstream party, and a supposedly progressive one, has just voted against an amendment that would protect its own Jewish members from discrimination on the grounds of the religious institutions they attend. I cannot remember anything like this in my lifetime: a party effectively greenlighting the harassment of Jews who commit the ‘sin’ of attending synagogues that believe in the right of Jews to nationhood. It is stunning. It’s a moral crisis. Not since the BNP has a party so openly committed itself to hostility towards certain Jews.

The historic gravity of today’s events cannot be overstated. We now have a party in Britain wholly devoted to the moral annihilation of Jewish sovereignty. A party committed to the abolition of Israel. A party content to hang a target sign around the necks of its own Jewish members who continue to patronise institutions that believe in the continued existence of a Jewish State. If the Tories overnight devoted themselves to the removal from the Earth of the state of Pakistan, and the moral isolation of every pesky Pakistani in Britain who likes that nation, it would be leading the news. Every progressive would cry ‘racism’, and rightly so. Will they do likewise here? Don’t hold your breath – you’ll die.

I’ll say it, though. I’ll say that if Jewish nationhood makes you vomit, if the right to self-determination of the Jews keeps you awake at night, then you are a bigot. You might consider yourself woke and good, but your frothing animus for Jewish nationhood betrays the blackness of your soul. For that’s all Zionism is: the belief that the Jews, like every other people, have an inalienable right to build and flourish in the land of their forebears. That the same people who tilt their heads in bourgeois indulgence of every native claim to territory then puke into their matcha when the Jews say ‘What about us?’ tells you everything you need to know. It is impossible to explain these double standards without using the word ‘anti-Semitism’. Go on, try. SpikedOnline

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Abdual El-Sayed’s ‘genocide’ charge revives the oldest antisemitic libel. The “genocide” charge against Israel is not just semantics, but a serious accusation with consequences for Jews worldwide.

Micha Danzig. Oct 3, 2026.

On the Raging Moderates podcast, Scott Galloway laid out the case for Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee.

The Holocaust murdered two-thirds of European Jewry, including more than 90% of Poland’s Jewish population. Rwanda’s genocide killed about 70% of the Tutsis; the Khmer Rouge slaughtered about a quarter of Cambodia’s population.

Galloway then listed what Israel did in Gaza that no genocidal regime ever has done: distributed polio vaccinations, food aid, evacuation corridors, leaflets, and phone calls warning civilians out of buildings Hamas had made military targets.

El-Sayed’s response amounted to a confession: the point of the word “genocide” is not to wait “until the crime is that big again.” Its “power is in naming a thing before it gets that big.”

Translation: the charge need not be accurate, only useful. El-Sayed conflates when genocide must be stopped with what must be proven before it is alleged. That is a theory of libel, not genocide.

Clips spread on the far-left and anti-Israel woke right with a familiar argument since October 2023: Why quibble over the word? More than 70,000 are dead. Call it whatever you want. Just stop the killing.

This poses as rising above semantics. It is the opposite. First, that death toll comes from Hamas’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t separate combatants from civilians, and whose own statistics chief admitted that natural deaths were being counted as war deaths.

Second, most of those who recite it never demanded what would have ended the war on October 8: Hamas’s surrender and the hostages’ return. Third, if the word “genocide” didn’t matter, nobody would fight so hard to keep it. JPost

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Three years later: Recording of Noa Marciano in Hamas captivity revealed. Three years after October 7, Avi Marciano releases a recording of his daughter Noa, who was murdered in Gaza, filmed after just four days of captivity. Israel National News. Published: Oct 4, 2026, 12:04 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Yemen conducts strikes against Houthi stronghold, capital city of Sanaa as conflict deepens. A spokesperson for Yemen's armed forces, which are aligned with the internationally recognized government, said forces were targeting what he described as "vital targets." Reuters. Oct 4, 2026, 01:59 AM JPost

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Irish soccer team's coach cuts press conference short after heated exchange with Israeli journalist. An Israeli journalist asked why Irish players allegedly called Israeli players “monkeys” during their previous match, prompting the coach to leave the press conference.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. October 4, 2026.

A heated exchange over allegations of racist abuse involving Irish players brought the Republic of Ireland's soccer team's pre-match press conference ahead of Sunday's Nations League game against Israel to an abrupt end on Saturday, after Irish head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson clashed with Israeli journalists.

One journalist asked, “What do you say about the people that you support? Their ideology is based on murder... Just this week, one of them tried to kill 170 Israeli passengers, including 27 innocent children and thousands of others,” to which an Irish press officer said, "We are not doing any questions like this today. We are doing football questions." JPost

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Israeli players to wear October 7 memorial black armbands in Ireland soccer match. According to UEFA rules, black armbands require prior approval and are reserved for recognized tragedies, national mourning, or the deaths of prominent soccer figures.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. October 4, 2026.

UEFA has approved the Israel Football Association’s request for the national team to wear black armbands in Sunday's match against Ireland in memory of those murdered in the October 7 massacre, the Israel Football Association announced on X/Twitter.

The decision comes amid immense friction between the two associations, as Ireland's football association, its players, and more than 160 Irish sportspeople urged a boycott of the both games over the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza. JPost

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Flydubai hijacker planned to kill pilot unnoticed, crash into Tel Aviv skyscraper - report. Hammami's plan was to kill the pilot, Capt. Smit Machchhar, without attracting attention, then fly along the planned route to Tel Aviv before crashing into the city's buildings.

By Danya Saperstein, Amichai Stein. October 4, 2026.

Hamam al-Hammami, the copilot accused of trying to hijack and crash a flydubai aircraft bound for Israel, planned to deliberately crash into Tel Aviv skyscrapers, Italian outlet Corriere Della Sera reported on Sunday, citing Israeli intelligence.

Hammami's plan was to kill the pilot, Capt. Smit Machchhar, without attracting attention, then fly along the planned route to Tel Aviv before crashing into the city's buildings.

Israeli authorities are working on the assumption that Hammami was a "lone wolf" actor who attempted to crash the plane on his own initiative, rather than acting on the orders of any terror group, a source told The Jerusalem Post.

The operation was planned to be so quick that fighter jets couldn't intervene, the Italian outlet stated.

Instead, after Hammami attacked Machchhar with an emergency crash axe, almost severing his arm, and attempted to crash the plane by first manipulating the control stick and then cutting both engines, Machchhar helped passengers secure Hamami and the aircraft, according to the report. JPost

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Israel marks 1,318 slain security personnel since Oct. 7. Terror attacks have also claimed 1,029 civilian lives alongside tens of thousands wounded over three years, the National Insurance Institute reported. JNS Staff. (Oct. 4, 2026 / JNS) Israel’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that 1,318 members of Israel’s security forces have been added to the nation’s official roll of slain personnel since Oct. 7, 2023. The total includes Israel Defense Forces soldiers, Israel Police officers, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) personnel, Israel Prison Service and Fire and Rescue Authority members, civilian security coordinators and members of civilian rapid-response squads. JNS

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Flydubai hijacker’s hateful rants while studying at British university. Home Office suspends Buckinghamshire’s overseas student licence on day of Hamam al-Hammami’s arrest.

Hamam al-Hammami A social media account believed to be linked to Hamam al-Hammami repeatedly mentions ‘stomping on’ women Janet Eastham Senior News Reporter. Lily Shanagher Foreign Breaking News Reporter. Published 03 October 2026 8:38pm BST. The Flydubai terror attack suspect advocated violence against women and called for severe religious punishments while studying aviation at a British university. Hamam al-Hammami, 29, the co-pilot being held in Abu Dhabi after the suspected hijacking on Wednesday, said women should be “stomped on”, and praised giving a woman a “pre-emptive slap” in social media posts made while he was enrolled at Buckinghamshire New University (BNU). He also appeared to praise Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Mr Hammami, an Omani national, was studying for a three-year distance-learning degree in aviation management at the university in High Wycombe, graduating in 2023. He is believed to have taken part in the course remotely from Muscat. On the day of the attack, BNU said its licence to sponsor international students had been suspended by the Home Office over concerns about its compliance with sponsorship duties. Licence suspension... Telegraph [53]

Accused flydubai hijacker celebrated beating women, Sharia law in sickening social media posts: ‘Stomp on her head’ By Anthony Blair. Published Oct. 4, 2026. Updated Oct. 4, 2026, 11:59 a.m. ET The accused flydubai hijacker touted violence against women and expressed hate for Jews and gay people 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.

Hamam al-Hammami, 29, allegedly made the series of extreme posts while he was studying aviation management remotely at Buckinghamshire New University (BNU) in the UK, the Telegraph reported.

In one exchange with a woman, he allegedly said, “I’d stomp on your head, wipe the floor with you, make you an example to others, and then divorce you,” the outlet reported, following an analysis of more than 2,000 posts published between November 2021 and August 2022 by an X account believed to be al-Hammami’s. NYPost

Eastern Jerusalem resident held over deadly hit-and-run. Oct 4, 2026. An eastern Jerusalem resident was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of killing a woman in a hit-and-run in the capital’s Rehavia neighborhood, the Israel Police said.

The suspect, a man in his 20s, allegedly struck the pedestrian with his truck, killing her, before fleeing the scene. Officers quickly located the vehicle and detained the suspect, police said.

“Jerusalem District traffic accident investigators are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the incident,” the force stated. “The suspect was transferred for questioning.” Oct 4, 2026 JNS

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Israel’s ‘Kan’ to produce documentary on flydubai attack. Israeli public broadcaster Kan announced on Sunday that it is producing a documentary on the Sept. 30 attack aboard flydubai Flight 1073, directed by Eyal Datz, who was a passenger on the plane along with his father.

The film is expected to feature passenger testimony and previously unreleased footage recorded aboard the aircraft and during the passengers’ time in Saudi Arabia, as well as new details about the circumstances surrounding the incident. Oct 4, 2026 JNS

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ISRAEL FA @ISRAELFA: @UEFA has approved the Israel Football Association’s request for the national team to wear black armbands in tonight’s match against @IrelandFootball in memory of those murdered in the October 7 massacre. Oct 4, 2026. on X

May their memory be a blessing. Israel-Ireland soccer match ends with 1-1 draw, Israeli team wears black armbands in Oct. 7 tribute. Oct 4, 2026. JPost

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Palestinian school principal arrested for incitement. Peach Benson/TPS IL. Oct 4, 2026. The Israel Police overnight Saturday arrested the principal of a Palestinian school in al-Eizariya, aka Bethany, just north of Jerusalem in the Judean Desert, on suspicion of displaying materials that incite terrorism and express support for terrorists, the force said on Sunday.

The arrest followed an intelligence-gathering operation in which officers identified signs and images displayed at the school that allegedly supported and glorified acts of terror.

Police said they found and removed signs bearing images of Yasser Arafat and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. A map of Israel was also displayed with areas purportedly marked as “occupation zones,” alongside images of Israeli security forces, according to police.

During questioning at the scene, officers asked the principal, a woman in her 50s, who was depicted in the photographs. Police said she responded, “Heroes of Palestine.” JNS

Incitement in classroom. Principal: Sinwar and Arafat are "heroes".

Police raid school near Ma'ale Adumim after intelligence tip, find posters of arch-terrorists Yahya Sinwar and Yasser Arafat alongside incitement materials. The principal told officers the men were heroes of Palestine and was arrested on the spot. Gila Isaacson. Oct 4, 2026 JFeed

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German intelligence warns of growing extremist influence in parts of pro-Palestinian movement. Authorities say Islamist and extremist groups are exploiting Gaza-related protests to spread propaganda and expand their networks. i24NEWS. October 04, 2026 at 07:19 AM i24

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Rahm Emanuel says Democrats must ‘prove we can bring change’ amid ‘brand problem’: Full interview. NBC News. Oct 4, 2026. [...] KRISTEN WELKER: We are back with Ambassador Emanuel. I want to start this part of the conversation talking about one of the biggest discussions inside the Democratic Party as it relates to Israel. It's a discussion that's being fueled by a number of candidates, including Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who said he believes the Israeli government is committing a genocide[SIC] of Palestinians in Gaza. Do you see what is happening in Gaza as a genocide[SIC]?

RAHM EMANUEL: So, as you know, Kristen, back in 2009, when I was President Obama's chief of staff, I confronted the prime minister directly. I didn't realize that the policies by the Israeli government would lead to perpetual conflict and also perpetual isolation. Back in June, I went to Israel to deliver a full speech about how to do peace, two-state solution, and to make sure the United States taxpayers weren't funding the State of Israel—a comprehensive approach to Israel.

I believe both in the alliance, but the United States has fought two wars in that region. I don't want to fight a third war, and I believe we need to have a fundamental change in policy, that the status quo is not sustainable. I have been, unlike others, going back 18 years ago. I didn't need a war to know this was a policy that led to a perpetual conflict. This has to change for the alliance, and if you're going to keep the alliance, which I happen to think is important for our policies in the Middle East, it has to change the dynamics and the whole structure of it.

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.

Let me ask you this, because given El-Sayed's decision, saying how complex this issue is, will you endorse—

Yes. It's a complex issue.

Will you endorse El-Sayed given that position?

We have massive disagreements. I support the Democratic Party. I support the Democratic candidate. I'll be going to Michigan again to help the gubernatorial party... on YouTube

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What passengers felt during Flydubai terror dive — experts. Terror attack mid-flight. "Like a vertical roller coaster" — the dive Aviation experts quoted by Reuters reconstruct the physical forces passengers experienced during the 30-second, 16,000-foot plunge aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 | Your body would just lift off the seat | Full details.

Gila Isaacson. Oct 4, 2026.

Passengers aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 experienced moments of pure terror in the air, comparable only to a freefall on a vertical roller coaster. The aircraft plunged approximately 16,000 feet (or 4,877 meters) in roughly 30 seconds, turning into a sudden nightmare for everyone on board.

Flight instructor. Alberto Pedoanelli, owner of ALPA Simulation in England, recreated the dive in a flight simulator and explained the severe sensations the passengers endured. "A dive of 16,000 feet (4,877 meters) over 30 seconds would feel like you're on a very, very vertical roller coaster," Pedoanelli said.

He noted that the combination of speed and angle created an extreme physical load on those aboard the aircraft. "The difference is that on a roller coaster you know what's happening," Pedoanelli explained, adding that in a sudden dive "you feel the negative G-force on your body." For passengers who were not buckled in, "your body would just lift off the seat."

The sharp dive began after the co-pilot, an Omani national, attacked the captain with an emergency axe during the flight from Dubai to Israel. The United Arab Emirates Attorney General defined the incident as a "terror attack," following a similar declaration by Israel. Before the downward plunge began, the autopilot was disconnected and the aircraft rapidly accelerated.

Disaster was averted after passengers on board acted decisively and overpowered the co-pilot. A reserve flight crew that happened to be on the aircraft then managed to level the plane and bring it to a safe landing. Pedoanelli noted that "it was nothing short of a miracle that no one was hurt except the captain, unfortunately, and that two pilots were on the plane."

United States President Donald Trump also addressed the aircraft's resilience on social media. "It was an amazing display of precise and strong structural planning and design," Trump wrote, adding that the aircraft "managed to withstand G-forces and loads far beyond what it was designed and expected to handle." In the background of the incident, investigative authorities continue to examine to co-pilot's past. It has emerged that he underwent brief training at Royal Air Maroc in 2025 but was not hired, studied aviation management remotely in the UK, and his connections to Australia, where he previously studied at a university in Melbourne, are now also being investigated. JFeed

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Iranian Army plans to increase missile range, speed. Oct 4, 2026 The Islamic Republic of Iran Army is working to increase the range and speed of its missiles, spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammad Akraminia said on Sunday,…  JNS

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Israeli FM congratulates Latvian PM on election victory Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday congratulated Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs after his United List won Saturday’s parliamentary election, taking about 35% of the vote and a projected 42 of the 100 seats.

“Warm congratulations to Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs on the impressive electoral victory,” Sa’ar wrote on X, adding that he looked forward to continued cooperation between Israel and Latvia. Oct 4, 2026 JNS

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‘There was nobody in the cockpit’: Israeli passenger reconstructs flydubai attack.

“I had to shake the pilots.” “We put an Israeli guard on every crew member.” Tal reconstructs the minutes aboard the flydubai flight and what happened after passengers regained control.

By Jerusalem Post Podcasts. October 4, 2026 “There was nobody in the cockpit,” Tal says, almost matter-of-factly. Then comes the next part: “I had to shake the pilots.”

And after the aircraft was back under control: “We put an Israeli guard on every crew member.”

Several days after the attack aboard a flydubai flight bound for Israel, those three sentences help fill in what happened inside the aircraft during the moments that remain hardest to reconstruct.

Tal, an Israeli businessman who lives abroad, met with The Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein at the Carlton hotel on Tel Aviv’s beachfront, overlooking the city skyline, to walk through the sequence and review footage from inside the aircraft. JPost

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Flydubai hijacker researched airlines, planned killing pilot, crash into Tel Aviv skyscraper. "The dream was to crash into Ben-Gurion Airport," Omani pilot Hamam al-Hammami said during interrogation, an Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

By Idan Kweller, Danya Saperstein, Amichai Stein. October 4, 2026.

Hamam al-Hammami, the copilot accused of trying to hijack and crash a flydubai aircraft bound for Israel, stated during interrogation that he had researched which airlines operate routes to Tel Aviv and consequently chose flydubai, an Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

"I tried to get hired by all the airlines. I planned the operation even before I was accepted by the company," the pilot said during interrogation.

"The dream was to crash into Ben-Gurion Airport," Hammami added.

In recent months, Hammami had been frequenting Ben-Gurion Airport in the course of his work as a pilot.

One of his final visits to Israel took place around July the gather intelligence and prepare to carry out the attack. JPost

The target: Ben Gurion Airport. Israeli officials say the copilot planned to strike Ben Gurion Airport’s terminal during landing; Channel 13 reports he chose Flydubai because it flew to Tel Aviv. Israel National News. Oct 4, 2026, 8:31 PM INN

Fly Dubai terror plot. Segal: "How many were in Ben-Gurion?" Analyst Amit Segal responds to dramatic revelations from the interrogation of the Omani co-pilot who planned to crash a passenger jet into the terminal: How many would have died? Eliana Fleming. Oct 4, 2026. JFeed

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Inside the Greens’ civil war over Zionism Ahead of vote on whether Zionism is a ‘racist ideology’, we speak to members on both sides of the debate at their annual conference. Pieter Snepvangers Political Reporter. Jack Leather. Hana Kelly in Brighton. Telegraph Video. Published 03 October 2026 7:55pm BST The Green Party is facing a major crisis as its members prepare to vote on a motion looking to define Zionism as a “racist[sic] ideology”. Vivien Lichtenstein, the chairman of the Jewish Greens, raised the alarm over alleged “entryism” by anti-Zionist activists attempting to influence party policy. The Telegraph spoke to members on both sides of the divide at its party conference in Brighton, including campaigners who openly suggested that Zionists needed to “change their ways” or quit the party. Zack Polanski has been dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism from within the party just days before he will stand in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Telegraph [54]

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UK's Greens adopt ‘Zionism is racism[sic]’ motion, become Europe’s first mainstream anti-Zionist party. Oct 4, 2026. JPost

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Watch: ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution torn to shreds outside UK Parliament. WZO delegation head Matan Bar Noy tore up the Green Party resolution outside Parliament, invoking Chaim Herzog’s 1975 protest against the UN’s 'Zionism is racism' vote. Hezki Baruch. Published: Oct 5, 2026, 12:12 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Kristen Welker Browbeats Rahm Emanuel into Endorsing Abdul El-Sayed. Jorge Bonilla. October 4th, 2026. [...] The whole exchange was a set up to get “Rahmbo” to at least appear to fall in line with El-Sayed. Welker first sets this up with the question of whether Gaza is a genocide, which is now a leftist litmus test. And after Emanuel’s lengthy answer citing actual genocides, Welker makes a hard pivot to the El-Sayed question.

Welker took five passes at Emanuel on an endorsement of El-Sayed, despite his clearly stating that he was traveling to Michigan in order to support the Democrat gubernatorial nominee, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. That didn’t matter. Nor did Emanuel’s preceding argument.

On the fifth pass and after much hectoring Emanuel made a bashful endorsement of El-Sayed, arguing a need to restore the Supreme Court to Democrat control. It is as if Welker had no interest in anything else except whether Emanuel would toe the line. Welker showed no deference to Emanuel’s hedging, insisting that he endorse the socialist despite his prior denunciations of the DSA and DSA-aligned candidates. This is the state of Elite media a month away from a pivotal midterm election Newsbusters

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No, @mahmoudkhalel, asking whether you condemn Hamas is NOT a “silly question.” If you cannot bring yourself to condemn those who perpetrated the October 7 massacre, why should anyone believe your vision of a “Free Palestine” includes Jews living alongside Palestinians in peace? [55] — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 4, 2026

Zach Bryan thinks he’s sticking it to the man by wearing a “Free Palestine” shirt as he walks on stage. Well, don’t worry Zach, I found the perfect intro song for you and your band mates to really get you in the Free Palestine mood. Keep sticking up for the anti-Western horde [56]

— Jake Donnelly (@RedWhiteBlueJew) October 4, 2026 on X

Basically this 🤷🏻‍♂️ [pic.twitter.com/Q28gvIbUiv [57]

— Michael Elgort (@just_whatever) October 3, 2026 on X

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As expected, Ana Kasparian is blaming Israel for the Islamic riots in France. The rioters burning schools and waving Palestinian flags are mostly North Africans and have nothing to do with the wars in the Middle East. They are just doing what Muslims do anywhere they go. What Ana is doing here is a prime example of the Islamo-Nazi-Communist coalition. They want everyone to be obsessed with Israel and forget that Muslims are the real problem.

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) October 4, 2026. on X

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When Oct. 7 ‘trauma objects’ become witnesses to Israel’s history Nirit Shalev-Khalifa and her Yad Ben-Zvi team are preserving thousands of items from Gaza-border communities devastated in the Hamas massacre for future generations. Steve Linde. Oct 4, 2026. JNS

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March honoring fight against antisemitism marred by antisemitism. A march marking the 1936 stand against fascists in Jewish east London drew chants excluding Zionists, as Jewish groups fought to reclaim their place in its history. Yitz Goldberg. Published: Oct 4, 2026, 10:41 PM (GMT+3) Among the slogans heard were ... "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.". Protesters were also heard shouting "Go back home," .. INN

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IDF says it killed Oct. 7 Nukhba terrorist tied to Turkish aid group. The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that it killed Saqr Nabil Musa Qaisi, whom it identified as a Hamas Nukhba Force terrorist who infiltrated Israel during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, in a strike in the Khan Yunis area.

The IDF also identified Qaisi as a director of the Turkish humanitarian organization Deniz Feneri and accused him of using his position to employ Hamas operatives and provide financial support to the terrorist group. The military further alleged that the organization maintains ties with senior Hamas figures. Oct 5, 2026 JNS

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Israeli FM to JNS: Abraham Accords won’t be harmed by flydubai attack. Ariel Kahana. Oct 5, 2026. JNS

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‘An entire nation bows its head and mourns': Israel marks memorial day for Oct. 7. The Jewish state lowered its flags to half-staff at 6:29 a.m. to launch official commemorations honoring fallen soldiers and victims of the 2023 assault. Joshua Marks. Oct 5, 2026. JNS

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Israel bars UK Green Party leader over anti-Zionist resolution. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday barred British Green Party leader Zack Polanski from entering Israel, after the party adopted a resolution... Oct 5, 2026. JNS

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Farage vowed to ‘undo’ Labour government’s moves, Israeli FM tells JNS.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar that a government led by his party would “undo” what the Labour government had done, Sa’ar said on Sunday.

Sa’ar spoke with Ariel Kahana on “Tov LaYehudim,” JNS’s Hebrew-language podcast. The full interview is set to air on Monday. Oct 5, 2026 JNS

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CST warns of ‘ongoing terrorist threats’ to British Jews after Manchester plot charges. The charging of two men over an alleged plot targeting Manchester’s Jewish community underscores the “ongoing terrorist threats facing British Jews,” the Community Security Trust warned on Sunday. Oct 5, 2026 JNS

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Netanyahu orders security review of foreign flights to Israel. Oct 5, 2026 JNS

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Sa’ar congratulates SNSD after strong showing in Bosnia elections. Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday congratulated SNSD leader Milorad Dodik, Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency member Željka Cvijanović and the party after their strong showing in the previous day’s general election. Oct 5, 2026 JNS

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Muslim Brotherhood-Tied Imam Granted Seat at Pope Leo’s Interfaith Table in France. By Jules Gomes, Middle East Forum, October 5, 2026.

France’s leading Muslim cleric, who has called on his followers to work undercover for a global Islamic state, is celebrating his invitation to an interfaith meeting alongside Pope Leo XIV during the pope’s recent visit to the country.

Imam Makhlouf Mamèche, president of Musulmans de France (MF) and rector of the Grand Mosque of Lille, posted pictures on Facebook of himself with other religious leaders at the September 28 papal event in Metz, themed “Roots of Europe for Peace and Unity.” ME Forum

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Made in Moscow, Passed in Brighton: The Greens Revive the ‘Zionism Is Racism’ Lie. The Green Party’s declaration that “Zionism is racism” revives a Soviet-era anti-Jewish libel that was enshrined by the UN in 1975 and repealed in 1991.

By Ben M. Freeman. October 05, 2026. Made in Moscow, Passed in Brighton: The Greens Revive the ‘Zionism Is Racism’ Lie. Key Takeaways: The Green Party has officially declared Zionism racist, and rejected safeguards for Jewish members who attend “Zionist” synagogues. “Zionism is racism” originated as Soviet propaganda and was enshrined in UN Resolution 3379 in 1975. The UN repealed the resolution in 1991, but its language and ideas continue to shape anti-Zionism today. HonestReporting

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PA Arab arrested after filming himself dumping sewage into streams and boasting about it. Police arrested a Palestinian Arab who filmed himself dumping sewage waste into streams in Judea and Samaria and claimed that this was his way of harming Israeli residents and Israeli territory. Orly Harari. Oct 5, 2026, 5:10 PM (GMT+3) Three Palestinian Arabs were arrested Monday morning in a series of operations by detectives and officers from the Judea Arrow Unit of the Judea and Samaria District Police on suspicion of pollution, possession of weapons, and terrorism offenses.

In the first case, a resident of the village of Deir Sammit in his 40s was arrested after publishing videos on social media in recent weeks showing himself dumping sewage waste into stream channels in Judea and Samaria.

Police noted that the suspect also boasted about his actions and claimed that this was his way of harming Israeli residents and Israeli territory. In one of the videos, he said: “These are our deeds, and we are proud of them." INN

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Military Intelligence Chief: 4,000 October 7 terrorists eliminated. Military Intelligence Directorate chief Shlomi Binder told the Cabinet that 4,000 of the 6,000 terrorists who participated in the massacre have been eliminated. The hunt for the remainder continues. Uzi Baruch. Oct 5, 2026, 4:21 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Romi Gonen reveals footage of her kidnapping: It’s in my dreams. In a podcast, former hostage Romi Gonen reveals footage of herself being taken to Gaza: “I wake up with it in the morning and go to sleep with it at night." Israel National News. Published: Oct 5, 2026, 6:11 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Israel Police chief mourns 72 officers killed since Oct. 7. Oct 5. 2026. JNS

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The intelligence, the 'conceptzia,' and the critical hours. Former senior Shin Bet official: Ronen Bar had the intelligence regarding Hamas’s preparations but he was operating under the 'conceptzia.' Shimon Cohen. Oct 5, 2026, 6:00 PM (GMT+3)

Three years after the Hamas attack, questions still linger over who knew what before the attack and what those who were exposed to the intelligence held by the security establishment did with it. Arutz Sheva spoke with former senior Shin Bet official Micha Kobi about the intelligence that he says was in the possession of the Shin Bet and its director at the time, Ronen Bar.

Kobi described his feelings each year on the anniversary of the outbreak of the war, recalling the horrific scenes and brutal acts committed by Hamas Nukhba terrorists and civilian residents of Gaza that he saw on television on the morning of the attack.

“I told myself that these people must be eliminated one by one. None of them should be allowed to live, and there certainly should not be a situation in which a judge visits them in prison and allows them five meals a day. That is not what I had hoped for," he said.

Addressing the question of what the Shin Bet knew before the Hamas attack, Kobi said: “There is no doubt that an organization such as the Shin Bet, which is supposed to provide intelligence warnings and intelligence assessments before a war, knew many things beforehand and afterward. It knew about the exercises to capture Division 36, as we all saw, and also about exercises to capture communities, where all the signs were in Hebrew. We saw these things, and intelligence knew many other things regarding the timing and additional details.".. INN

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Christians counter anti-Israel boycotts with Judea and Samaria buying push. ICEJ brought Christian visitors to Judea and Samaria and promoted local businesses during Sukkot as part of a campaign opposing anti-Israel boycotts. Israel National News. Oct 5, 2026, 6:32 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Euronews English: UK Jewish groups say the motion stokes hatred after a string of attacks on their community, while the government and other parties have condemned a policy that even at least three out of five Green MPs opposed. [#EuropeNews] [58] Oct 5, 2026 on FB

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Palestinian terrorist ‘neutralized’ after torching car, wielding knife at Samaria farm. A Palestinian terrorist set fire to a vehicle at Hananya Farm in the Binyamin region of Samaria and then threatened local residents with a knife, the Israel Police said on Monday. Oct 5, 2026 JNS

‘He has a knife:’ Footage from Binyamin terror attack & pursuit of terrorist. Hours after the stabbing attack and vehicle arson at a farm in Binyamin ended miraculously without casualties, new footage reveals the dramatic moments of the incident. Israel National News. Oct 5, 2026, 6:37 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Kuwaiti man who tried to attack Israeli embassy in London gets life in prison. Abdullah Albadri, 34, tried to breach the embassy’s perimeter in April 2025, armed with two knives and ‌carrying a “martyrdom note.” Oct 5. 2026 JNS

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Jonathan Spencer after watching ‘NAZA’: ‘Worse than Hamas propaganda’. Urban warfare expert Jonathan Spencer accuses documentary of spreading “lies, lies by omission, and lies of ignorance," takes particular aim at claim that Israel killed more than 73,000 in Gaza. Israel National News. Published: Oct 5, 2026, 10:45 PM (GMT+3)

John Spencer, an expert on urban warfare and Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, sharply criticized the documentary NAZA on Monday, accusing it of presenting claims about the war in Gaza that go beyond even those made by Hamas.

“Worse than Hamas propaganda," Spencer wrote in a post on X after watching the documentary in its entirety. “Over three years, I’ve tried not to be surprised by ignorance, disinformation, and distortions relating to war, but this is at the top for many reasons."

Spencer said he intends to publish a detailed analysis of the documentary, but singled out one statement that appears prominently during the film: “Israel has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians in Gaza."

“Not even Hamas says this," Spencer wrote, arguing that the statement effectively attributes every death in Gaza since October 7 to Israel.

'I am collateral damage too'. Spencer noted that Hamas itself has killed Gazans in efforts to maintain its control and that armed clashes have taken place between Hamas and anti-Hamas clans.

He also pointed to rockets fired by terrorist organizations from Gaza that fell short and landed inside the territory. According to Spencer, as many as 20% of the approximately 12,000 rockets fired by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad at Israel fell inside Gaza.

Spencer further argued that recent Hamas reporting has included natural deaths on its lists, making it inaccurate, in his view, to attribute the entire reported death toll to Israeli military action.

“To say every person that died in Gaza was killed by Israel is a vulgar lie," he charged.

Spencer said the casualty claim was only one of numerous problems he found in the documentary.

“There are a lot of other lies, lies by omission, and lies of ignorance in NAZA, but this claim is unique," he wrote, saying that it represents the use of “lies, damned lies, and statistics" to advance accusations that contradict both “the actual number put out by Hamas" and the reality on the ground.

Spencer said he plans to release a more extensive analysis of the documentary in the near future. INN

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Live Updates: IDF arrests weapons traffickers in Nablus, kills would-be infiltrator in southern Syria. Zamir announces IDF intelligence overhaul • Middle East crude oil exports exceed pre-war levels • US pulls all bombers from RAF Fairford air base threatened by alleged Iranian plot. Oct 5, 2026 JPPost

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Rival fans, brothers in captivity: Jerusalem mural honors Ori and Hersh. Yoni Kempinski. Oct 5, 2026, 9:11 PM INN

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Embassy of Poland U.S. @PolishEmbassyUS: Letter from CdA a.i. @BogdanKlich calling on @TuckerCarlson to publicly retract his outrageous statements and apologize for insulting Poles, British citizens, and, ultimately, the memory of the victims of the Shoah and all those who died in the fight against Nazism. [59] Oct 5, 2026 on X

October 5, 2026

Mr. Carlson,

I am outraged by the false and deeply troubling statements you made regarding the outbreak of the Second World War during your recent conversation with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. You justified Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 claiming that “Hitler said 15% of Poland was once Germany and it was given to Poland at the Treaty of Versailles. That was German territory with Germans in it.” This statement constitutes a colossal insult to the millions of victims of Nazism, including hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who had been killed or wounded while liberating Europe from the occupation by the Third Reich.

Furthermore, your remark that “the UK had nothing to do with it at all” is also far from the historical truth. The declaration of war on Germany by the UK and France was not merely a political obligation of the allies. Had London and Paris not declared war on the Third Reich, they would have been attacked anyway. Hitler was driven by the idea of conquering the world and destroying all democratic states.

As an American journalist who enjoys the democratic right to the freedom of speech, you have now become an apologist for Adolf Hitler. In doing so, you resort to lies, completely falsifying the documented historical record.

Let me therefore remind you of the indisputable facts. Nazi Germany’s attack on Poland on September 1st, 1939 was a meticulously planned and brutal war of aggression. Hitler’s objective was the complete destruction of the Polish state and the physical extermination of its population, followed by a continued bloody conquest of the world. Hitler acted in collusion with another totalitarian criminal, Joseph Stalin. Together, they planned what is known as the fourth partition of Poland, set out in the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, under the guise of free speech, nor should the freedom of speech be used to which paved the way for the tragedy of millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe, including the near-total extermination of Europe’s Jewish population.

I demand that you immediately and publicly retract and apologize for these deceitful and disgraceful statements. Nazi propaganda cannot be rehabilitated under the guise of free speech, nor should the freedom of speech be used to desecrate the memory of the victims of the Second World War.

History must not be distorted. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Bogdan Klich Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Republic of Poland

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New documentaries mourn all that was lost on October 7 — October 5, 2026 T.o.I

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Post by @Israel — October 5, 2026 Three years later, October 7, 2023 is still with us.

Every name. Every empty chair. Every life stolen by Hamas.

We remember. Always.

Am Yisrael Chai. 🇮🇱

1. UNFORGO7TEN

on X

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Ed Miliband’s silence on the crimes of Palestinians speaks volumes — October 1, 2026 Telegraph

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Mosque praised by Andy Burnham held funeral for Taliban terrorist — October 4, 2026. Daily Mail

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Post by @EtanSmallman — October 5, 2026. Etan Smallman @EtanSmallman Last week's attemped hijacking could have been repeat of 9/11, in Israel. Passengers, including children, will be living with the trauma for years. And Jews and Israelis are being targeted for murder on a weekly basis. And this is how Have I Got News For You responds... #HIGNFY on X

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Post by @Ostrov_A — October 6, 2026. “Antisemitism is our most shameful failure.” Powerful, must read op-ed by the @australian’s Greg Sheridan today. on X

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Post by @EFischberger — October 5, 2026.

Eitan Fischberger on X: "Which “U.S. values” do you mean, @ChrisMurphyCT? The Georgetown Qatar course that called concern over antisemitism “manufactured hysteria” and described Oct. 7 as a Hamas-led “resistance” mission? The Northwestern Qatar director who said “Zionists have control over European policy and power” and didn’t care if people took that to mean Jews control Europe? The NU-Q dean who said he was “not sure about the rape issue” after Oct. 7 and called a professor’s minimization of the massacre “perfectly academic”? The campus that intentionally withheld Northwestern’s statement condemning the Hamas attack as “abhorrent and horrific”? Or Qatar Foundation telling the American universities’ communications teams to stay “aligned and in touch” with it after Oct. 7? Georgetown Qatar also hosted Norman Finkelstein just weeks after he called Oct. 7 “heroic resistance” and said the scenes “warm[ed] every fiber of my soul.” Georgetown’s dean introduced him by praising his “courage and integrity.” These aren't American values — they're Muslim Brotherhood, like Qatar." on X

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Mamdani’s plan to fight antisemitism includes increased funds for anti-Israel group — October 5, 2026 NY Post

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EXCLUSIVE: Video shows Abdul El-Sayed stating he has dual citizenship in Egypt and US — October 5, 2026 FreeBeacon

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Hundreds of anti-Israel protests planned around October 7 anniversary worldwide — October 5, 2026 T.o.I

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Jewish Australians prepare to mark October 7 anniversary as pro-Palestinian vigils planned for the same day, sparking backlash — October 5, 2026 News24

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Post by @SachaRoytman — October 5, 2026.

Sacha Roytman on X: "This week, as we commemorate October 7, pro-Palestinian campus groups and their allies are trying to hijack the date and the story. October 7 was the day Hamas and its allies murdered about 1,200 people in Israel, most of them civilians, and took 251 hostages. That is not a metaphor. That is the record. Look at the posters. There are hundreds of events across the world this week, and they share one idea: erase the day. SJP chapters and allied groups keep October 7 on the flyer and strip out what it means. “Three years of genocide.” “Honor our martyrs.” “Week of Rage.” “Tufan Al Aqsa.” The attack is gone. The Israeli dead are gone. The hostages are gone. In their place is a one-sided grief machine and a calendar built to make October 7 mean something else. This is a hijacking in plain sight. They keep the date so the week is unmistakable. They drop the perpetrators so no one has to say Hamas. They fill the blank with “genocide” and “martyrs,” so the only story left is the war that followed, never the massacre that started it. From campus vigils and “people’s universities” to shipping blockades and “dismantle Zionism” marches, the week’s programming is the cover story for that erasure. Denial is the strategy. We see the flyers. We see the pattern across campuses and cities. This is erasure with a keffiyeh filter. The @CombatASemitism, through ARC, is monitoring and tracking these events worldwide. We will name the organizers, map the network, and expose support for Hamas and the intimidation that rides with it. This week we mourn the murdered and the hostages. October 7 is their day. It is not a blank page for someone else’s rewrite." on X

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Post by @NGOmonitor — October 5, 2026 NGO Monitor @NGOmonitor 16h ❗A win for 🇺🇸 sanctions against Palestine Action.

Last year: Terror-designated Palestine Action raised more than £300,000 on CrowdJustice to challenge the 🇬🇧 decision to ban the group.

Now: CrowdJustice refused to host Palestine Action’s fundraiser after @Stripe said it cannot process donations benefiting the group. on X

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ASA Chicago, Zionism, America, PFLP, ICE, Gaza and Palestinian terror — October 4, 2026 JewishOnliner

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Jewish kids fleeing public schools amid growing antisemitism, including Hamas-loving teacher — October 5, 2026 NY Post

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Post by @nypost — October 5, 2026 NYC teacher praised Oct. 7 mastermind in Park Slope Food Coop group chat, lawsuit says: ‘Long live Yahya Al-Sinwar’.. on X

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Scottish teacher reported to police after appearing in video urging children to play ‘Zio’ game — October 5, 2026 TheJC

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Nika Soon-Shiong ridiculed after slamming LA Times over Israeli advert — October 4, 2026 DailyMail

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HonestReporting @HonestReporting: “Jewish lobbies” secretly pulling the strings behind student riots in France.

No, this isn’t some neo-Nazi conspiracy site.

It’s @CNN’s Turkish affiliate.

Viewers were told Israel can “push the button” in France using its “Jewish lobbies,” economic power and intelligence apparatus.

And apparently, “it wouldn’t be right to say that Mossad ALONE is responsible.”

Textbook antisemitic conspiracy-mongering, broadcast under the CNN brand. Oct 5, 2026. on X

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Amb. Kaploun: More Latin American countries plan to adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism — October 5, 2026 JI

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TMZ, Oct 5, 2026. Following a country music star wearing a "palestine" propaganda shirt, TMZ founder Harvey Levin explained that Robert Kraft wasn't against "pro palestine" expressions [whatever that means. Ed.] but against antisemitic history by Macklemore. Adding, Kraft has been involved in anti hate and helping ADL, etc. And that he took a stand. at EoZ

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Selma Blair Announces Documentary About Antisemitism, Recounts Being Canceled in Hollywood. By Shiryn Ghermezian. October 5, 2026 .

Jewish actress Selma Blair announced on Thursday that she is making a documentary about antisemitism and talked about the fallout she faced in Hollywood for making a controversial comment after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The documentary will be called “Hineni,” a Hebrew term that translates to “Here I am.” Blair made the announcement at a reception in New York City hosted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in honor of its new “State of the Arts” initiative, which highlights the seclusion and repression of Jewish and Israeli talent in museums, live entertainment, and publishing.

“Two years ago, I learned what erased feels like, and I’ve decided the opposite of erased is making something. So, I’m making a film,” Blair said in her speech at the ADL reception. “The last time I let cameras in, it was about my body. This time it’s about my people. It’s a documentary about antisemitism, and as confounding and confusing as it seems to be because no one wants to talk about geopolitics. But it seems to get intermingled completely … I wanted to make this for the people who are not in this room.”

“The thing I couldn’t say two years ago, I’m now saying with a camera crew behind me,” the “Legally Blonde” actress added. “It goes to Israel, so people can see why that land is not an abstraction to us. And it talks to people who disagree with me, on camera, and keeps the disagreement in the cut, because you don’t change a mind by only talking to people who already agree with you.” Algemeiner

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Victor Davis Hanson: Tucker Carlson’s Rewriting of WWII History Is Dangerous.

The Daily Signal. Oct 6, 2026. Tucker Carlson’s interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg turned into a clash over World War II history, Britain’s decision to fight Hitler, and whether Britain could have stayed out of the war. Rees-Mogg pushed back with historical facts, arguing that Britain had already seen Hitler break his promises, invade Poland, and expand Nazi control across Europe.

The argument is that Britain had no choice but to stand against Hitler and that rewriting the history of the war ignores why Britain ultimately fought.

“Almost everything he said in that interview was false.” on Youtube

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Iran drone plot prompted abrupt US withdrawal of B-1 bombers from UK. New intelligence reportedly revealed a complex Iranian plan to use drones to strike 12 B-1 bombers and target hundreds of US personnel at RAF Fairford. The aircraft were hurriedly withdrawn from Britain and returned to the US. By ILH Staff. Published on 10-06-2026 08:15 Last modified: 10-06-2026 08. ILH

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Jfeed Staff| Oct 6, 2026. Columbia University student group organizing rally in support of Hamas to mark October 7 The local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at Columbia University is organizing a rally tomorrow in support of Hamas to commemorate October 7. The event includes Arabic text stating "Glory to the martyrs, resistance until victory." JFeed

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Birzeit University students hold rally after IDF razed martyrs' monument Students at Birzeit University in Ramallah held a rally in memory of a martyrs' monument that the IDF demolished on campus yesterday. The students rebuilt the monument using a whiteboard, and wreaths of flowers were laid during the event. Jfeed Staff| Oct 6, 2026. JFeed

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12 Tankers Attacked in Strait of Hormuz in a Single Week. Oct 6, 2026 JFeed

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Israel Warns of Heightened Terror Threat Around October 7 Anniversary. National Security Council issues travel alert for Israelis at home and abroad ahead of October 7, citing elevated risk of copycat attacks inspired by the Massacre. Oct 6, 2026. JFeed

Ahead of October 7. NSC warns of attacks against Israelis and Jews abroad. Ahead of the third anniversary of the massacre, the National Security Council warns of an increased risk of attempted attacks against Israelis and Jews abroad and calls for heightened vigilance. Uzi Baruch. Oct 6, 2026, 4:59 PM INN

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Turmoil in German Intelligence. August Hanning, 80, who served as head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service until 2005, is suspected of acting as an agent for a foreign intelligence service. Israel National News. Published: Oct 6, 2026, 3:40 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Biden envoy: There was no warning before the massacre. Israel National News. Oct 6, 2026, 4:12 PM INN

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‘Deeply concerning’ that Jewish New Yorkers targets of 53% of hate crimes in NYC so far this year, NYPD chief says. Rikki Zagelbaum. Menachem Wevker. Oct 6, 2026. JNS

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Israeli defense minister vows to eliminate all 2,000 remaining Oct. 7 terrorists. Of the 6,000 Gazans who invaded the country on Oct. 7, 2023, 4,000 have been eliminated, said Israel Katz. Joshua Marks. Oct 6, 2026. JNS

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‘My turn has come': Kfar Aza survivors honor Maglan commander who gave his life to save them. Three years after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, the families of Capt. Elay Adany and those he helped rescue remain bound by his final acts of courage. Amelie Botbol. Oct 6, 2026. JNS

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I documented the crimes of October 7. Too many still believe the lies of Hamas. Andrew Roberts. Oct 6. 2026.

As the Red Army closed in on Auschwitz, the Nazis blew up the crematoria to hide the atrocities they had committed. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas did the opposite. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar ordered his fighters to film their killing and broadcast it to spread terror. With GoPro cameras strapped to their chests, they filmed themselves gleefully slaughtering, burning, and raping Israeli citizens, young and old, and uploaded the footage in real time.

In three decades writing about war, I have rarely encountered an atrocity documented in such detail. The 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report which I chaired, and the evidence that underpins it, runs to more than 300 pages. Yet the same organization that broadcast its own atrocities in real time began denying the specifics within hours. Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya told the BBC that Hamas never targeted women and children, and called footage of terrified families Israel's invention.

These same men now lead Hamas's negotiations, and their assurances sit at the heart of the diplomatic process. A movement instructed to showcase mass murder, not conceal it, cannot expect its word to be trusted - least of all on disarmament. Disarmament cannot depend on assurances. It must be verified: inspectors must have access to every depot and tunnel, a timetable must be published, and each missed checkpoint must trigger consequences, not renewed negotiation.

Hamas leaders have vowed to repeat Oct. 7 "again and again" until Israel is destroyed. Those are not the words of a movement reconciled to peace, but of one waiting for its next opportunity. Peace does not require trusting Hamas; it requires ensuring Hamas no longer has the means to break it. Telegraph

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Bret Stephens: When Criticism of Israel Goes Off the Rails. Oct 6, 2026. Zealous criticism of Israel goes off the rails when it somehow imagines, or pretends, that blame for the crises in the Holy Land falls on one side alone and that Israel's security challenges are either a product of its imagination or payback for its own policies.

Israel came into existence with its enemies avowing its extermination, and nearly eight decades later those intentions remain unchanged.

The experience of Israelis in this century is that every time they have vacated territory, whether in southern Lebanon in 2000 or Gaza in 2005, they have gained neither international grace nor physical security.

Instead, their retreats created staging grounds for the kind of horror that so many Israelis experienced firsthand on and after Oct. 7 - horrors that many of the world's so-called humanitarians and justice-seekers chose to celebrate, downplay or flat-out deny.

Constant critics of Israel might try to remember that Israelis aren't simply hallucinating their own peril. NYT

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Seventh man arrested in British terror probe of incident at air force base. Oct 6, 2026 JNS

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TikTok removes 45,000 election-related videos, citing Iran-linked influence network. Oct 6, 2026. JNS

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Israeli Druze leader warns against deal with Syria. Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, warned the Jewish state on Tuesday against a deal with the Syrian regime, Maariv reported. Tarif compared the crimes committed by Damascus to Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. Oct 6, 2026. JNS

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Paris bans Oct. 7 protest citing security risk. Oct 6, 2026. JNS

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Biden aide McGurk says Washington had no warning of Oct. 7, reveals how war shook White House. McGurk told the Post that, in one meeting with the families of the hostages, "One woman left the screen, and when she came back, she learned that her loved one was actually confirmed dead.” Amichai Stein. October 6, 2026. JPost

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Opposing Israel's defense establishment, Katz threatens all-out war on Palestinian Authority. Despite the defense minister's warning, IDF has insisted it has no intelligence pointing to an attack, and Shin Bet sources told the Post that they do not know of a concrete threat from the PA.

By Shir Perets, Yonah Jeremy Bob. October 6, 2026.

Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened all-out war on the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Tuesday. He based this decision on a scenario in which PA security forces would turn their weapons against Israel, despite IDF sources saying there was no concrete intelligence indicating that such a move was being planned.

When asked whether the claim was manufactured, sources close to Katz told The Jerusalem Post that it was based on an IDF presentation to the cabinet on Monday concerning the military’s need to prepare for extreme scenarios. Responding to the IDF sources, Katz argued that October 7 was an extreme scenario and that the military had been wrong not to take the possibility seriously enough. JPost

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EU Lawmaker Rima Hassan Sparks Fierce Backlash After Removing Israeli, EU Flags From Oct. 7 Memorial | Algemeiner.com. Tuesday, October 6th | 25 Tishri 5787.

European Union lawmaker Rima Hassan has sparked fierce backlash again after removing Israeli and EU flags from an exhibition commemorating the victims of the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, as the memorial marked the third anniversary of the attacks.

During an EU parliamentary session on Monday in Strasbourg, France, Hassan — a 34-year-old French-Palestinian lawyer and activist who was elected to the European Parliament in 2024 — allegedly threw an Israeli flag to the floor and disrupted an Oct. 7 memorial exhibition, in an incident that has drawn condemnation from senior European officials. In a statement from her office, Hassan admitted to removing the Israeli flag from its stand but claimed that the European Union flag, which was attached to the same base, fell accidentally because the stand became unbalanced.

She also claimed that neither flag was stepped on or damaged, contradicting earlier reports about the incident. According to local media reports, Hassan also confronted Israeli artist Yaron Bob, who created the exhibition and was present at the time, accusing him of presenting a “one-sided account” of the Oct. 7 atrocities and questioning the exhibition’s portrayal of the events. During their conversation, Bob identified himself as Israeli, to which Hassan reportedly responded, “Israel doesn’t exist.”

Shortly after the incident was reported, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola strongly condemned Hassan’s actions, stressing that the Parliament must remain a safe place for Europe’s Jewish community and vowing to take “all appropriate steps” in response. “This house is a place where all of us must feel safe and secure and we reject in the strongest possible terms any action by any person that feels or makes anyone feel less protected,” the senior EU official said in a statement.

“At a time of rising global antisemitism, we owe it to Europe’s Jewish community to ensure that when they look at us, they see that this is their house too,” she continued.

Following the incident in which Israeli and EU flags were overturned at an October 7 exhibition in the European Parliament, President @RobertaMetsola delivered a clear message: intimidation has no place in Parliament. “Europe’s Jewish communities must know that the European Parliament is their House too.” — European Jewish Congress (@eurojewcong) October 6, 2026 [60]

Although no official disciplinary action has been announced yet, Hassan could face a formal reprimand, a temporary suspension from parliamentary activities, and/or the loss of her €350 daily allowance for up to 60 days. During Tuesday’s parliamentary session, Hassan accused Metsola of making comments that were “factually false,” rejecting the characterization of her actions and defending her decision to remove the Israeli flag from the exhibition. She said the exhibition was organized in partnership with the Israeli embassy and objected to the Israeli flag being displayed inside the EU Parliament, comparing its presence to displaying a Russian flag there amid Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

EU Parliament Vice-President Pina Picierno strongly condemned Hassan’s actions and remarks, accusing her of showing a disturbing lack of respect for the victims of Oct. 7 and the institution in which she serves.

“Not even in the face of tragedy, her antisemitism can be put aside. Shame on her,” she said in a statement. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar also denounced the incident as “shameful” and “outrageous,” accusing Hassan of disrespecting the memory of those killed in the Oct. 7 atrocities.

“The desecration of the exhibition commemorating the victims of Oct. 7 at the European Parliament by radical-left MEP Rima Hassan says above all how little respect she has for the very institution in which she serves,” the top Israeli diplomat wrote in a post on X. Shameful, outrageous, but sadly not surprising.

The desecration of the exhibition commemorating the victims of October 7 at the European Parliament by radical-left MEP Rima Hassan says above all how little respect she has for the very institution in which she serves.

I commend the Members of the European Parliament who immediately condemned this disgraceful act, and thank @EP_President Roberta Metsola for her determination and for making clear that such an offense will be dealt with in the strongest terms. — Gideon Sa’ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) October 6, 2026. [61]

The European Jewish Congress joined the condemnation, calling Hassan’s actions deeply offensive and accusing her of turning a memorial honoring the victims of the Oct. 7 massacre into a political confrontation. “This goes far beyond political disagreement or provocation. These flags formed part of a memorial to the victims of the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and to those abducted by Hamas. To deliberately interfere with such a memorial, on the eve of the anniversary of the attacks, would show a profound contempt for their memory and for the suffering of their families,” the statement read.

“The victims of Oct. 7 and the hostages deserve dignity and respect. Their memory must never become a target for political provocation,” it continued. We are appalled by reports that MEP Rima Hassan knocked down the Israeli and European flags displayed at the European Parliament as part of an exhibition honouring the victims and hostages of the October 7 massacre. If confirmed, this goes far beyond political disagreement or provocation. These flags formed part of a memorial to the victims of the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and to those abducted by Hamas. To deliberately interfere with such a memorial, on the eve of the anniversary of the attacks, would show a profound contempt for their memory and for the suffering of their families. That such an incident is alleged to have taken place inside the European Parliament makes it all the more serious. We call on the Parliament to establish exactly what happened, make the relevant evidence public and, if the allegations are confirmed, take appropriate disciplinary action.

The victims of October 7 and the hostages deserve dignity and respect. Their memory must never become a target for political provocation. — European Jewish Congress (@eurojewcong) October 6, 2026. [62]

Hassan, who was born in a "Palestinian" refugee camp in Syria, has repeatedly drawn controversy over her outspoken anti-Israel activism and faced investigations for promoting hateful speech. Last year, the French diplomat was expelled from Israel after being arrested while attempting to reach Gaza aboard the vessel Madleen to “break the Israeli blockade.” She has also been subject to an investigation in Paris for “apology of terrorism” following an interview given after the Oct. 7 atrocities, in which she justified Hamas’s actions. The lawmaker is currently on trial in France over online remarks prosecutors have linked to support for terrorism, further intensifying scrutiny of her anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric. Algemeiner

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Avinatan Or reveals: Terrorist promised another October 7. Hamas captivity survivor Avinatan Or shares terrorist's chilling message from just before his release - and his own powerful response. Israel National News. Published: Oct 6, 2026, 10:57 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Texas Gov. Abbott orders flags lowered in memory of October 7 victims. Texas Governor Greg Abbott orders US and Texas flags lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of Hamas’ October 7 massacre, on the third anniversary of the attack. Israel National News. Published: Oct 7, 2026, 2:16 AM (GMT+3) INN ____

Gaza GenoLIE Tracker on X: "If the world would like to educate itself on what an actual attempt at 'genocide' looks like, this is the answer. If a single US or European family was abducted tortured raped and then massacred in their homes, the offending party and their group would be razed from the Earth. Only when Jews are killed people start screaming and posting 'Genocide!' by the hundreds of thousands in support of the perpetrators before a single Israeli bomb has dropped." @GazaGenoLIE Gaza GenoLIE Tracker @GazaGenoLIE: @i24NEWS_EN i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN Oct 3 '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. Oct 5, 2026 on X

Gaza GenoLIE Tracker @GazaGenoLIE Yes Israelis are the monsters[sic]. They are the genocidal[sic] maniacs.

They are the evil[sic] in the world.

As NAZA groupies continue to spread state sponsored blood libel and the masses lap it up, only the truth, as painful as it is, can set them free. @GAZAWOOD2 GAZAWOOD - The Pallywood Saga - Official @GAZAWOOD2 Oct 4. On October 7th, Hamas terrorists launched a surprise massacre against the Jewish residents of the Gaza envelope. They broke into Kibbutz Holit, went from house to house, and massacred Jews.

They arrived at the home of Adi Vital-Kaplun.

They murdered her in front of her children, 4-year-old Negev and 2-year-old Eshel.

Afterward, they booby-trapped her body inside the safe room so that anyone coming to rescue the family would be blown up, and then they took her babies to stage a propaganda video pretending they are good people rather than something lower than monsters. 💔🕯️ Oct 5, 2026 on X

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'It can never be erased': Israel marks October 7 anniversary at the UN Israel’s UN mission marks three years since October 7 with Eliya Cohen and Ziv Abud sharing their story as US envoy Mike Waltz vows it won’t happen again. Israel National News. Published: Oct 7, 2026, 1:07 AM (GMT+3)

Oct. 7 event at UN: "Today we honor the resilience of Am Yisrael" Israel’s Mission to the United Nations held an event at UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday to mark three years since the October 7 massacre. Hundreds of participants, ambassadors, and senior diplomats from numerous countries attended, including the United States, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Tanzania, and others.

The story of Eliya Cohen and Ziv Abud was at the center of the event. The two arrived together at the Nova music festival and sought shelter in a bomb shelter in Re’im that became the scene of a massacre. Eliya was abducted to Gaza and held captive by Hamas for 505 days, while Ziv survived the massacre and worked throughout his captivity to secure his release. Only after he returned from captivity did Eliya learn that Ziv had survived. INN

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1,000 Christian leaders arrive in Israel for Friends of Zion summit. Oct 6, 2026. JNS

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CENTCOM denies Iranian reports of downed US Navy helicopter in Red Sea. Oct 6, 2026 JNS ____

Satellite images show renewed activity at secret Iran nuclear site bombed by IDF. Satellite imagery from VANTOR Technologies showed increased traffic to the site and ongoing earthmoving efforts after Israel struck the facility back in March.

By Ashet Smith. October 7, 2026. JPost

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Pro-Palestine, Pro-Hamas And 'Resistance' Groups In The United States, Canada, And Australia Plan Events Celebrating And Commemorating Third Anniversary Of October 7 Attacks, Honoring Hamas 'Martyrs' | MEMRI. Oct 6, 2026. MEMRI

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Haverford president ‘heartbroken, furious’ by alleged Jew-hatred, as professor arrested for online harassment. “The charging by the FBI of Haverford College associate professor Guangtian Ha for harassment and intimidation of a Jewish Israeli professor closes the dotted line between verbal acts of harassment and actionable violence which, when Jews are the recipients, is far too often ignored,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus of the Deborah Project told JNS. JNS Staff. Oct 6, 2026. JNS

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Italy Expels Two Men Accused of Assaulting Rabbi in Milan. By Gabriel Ostrovsky. October 6, 2026

Two men accused of assaulting a rabbi in Milan last month have been expelled from Italy, the country’s interior minister announced, as Italian authorities take action following an attack that alarmed the local Jewish community.

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said the two men were repatriated after allegedly attacking the rabbi, together with a third suspect, at a bus stop in Milan’s Bande Nere neighborhood on Sept. 16.

“There is no room in our country for hatred and violence, and no act of antisemitism will ever be tolerated,” Piantedosi said last week while announcing the expulsions.

The victim, the chief rabbi of a synagogue on Milan’s Via Soderini, was waiting for a bus when three young men approached and surrounded him.

The rabbi, who is in his 60s, said the men attempted to get his attention before one grabbed his hat, put it on his own head, and began mocking him. When the rabbi started recording the encounter, one of the men allegedly kicked him from behind, pushing him from the pavement toward the road.

“It was as if they were proud of what they were doing,” the rabbi later told Bet Magazine Mosaico-CEM, a publication of Milan’s Jewish community.

Police identified the three suspects, two of them brothers, shortly after the incident. They were reportedly aged 19, 20, and 21.

The 20-year-old accused of carrying out the assault was arrested and ordered to report to authorities twice a week. He is expected to go on trial Nov. 12 on charges of propaganda and incitement to racial hatred. Milan’s police chief also issued orders barring all three suspects from the city for one year. Algemeiner

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CIA Gave Israel "Do Not Kill" List of Iranian Officials. Golan Israel. By: C14 Desk. Editor: Golan Israel. Oct 6, 2026. The CIA passed Israel a list of five to ten senior Iranian officials who should not be targeted for assassination—figures Washington believes could play key roles in a future Iranian government. C14

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As Brazil heads to run-off, Israel’s Latin America ties are placed in spotlight - analysis. Flavio Bolsonaro’s first-round victory over Lula da Silva puts Brazil at the center of a broader political shift in Latin America that could strengthen ties with Israel.

By Seth J. Frantzman. October 6, 2026.

Brazil’s presidential election is heading to a run-off on October 25. The development came after presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro won the first round of elections, defeating left-wing President Lula da Silva by several million votes. Bolsonaro is the son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro.

Lula has been a fixture of Brazilian politics for decades and is a well-known figure on the Left. He once led BRICS and has taken a softer stance toward Moscow in the Russia-Ukraine war. JPost

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Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران on X: "Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhala says more than 2,000 Al-Quds Brigades operatives were killed during the war in the Gaza Strip, along with dozens in the West Bank and over 80 in Lebanon, while fighting alongside Hezbollah. Israeli strikes also targeted PIJ's headquarters in Syria and Lebanon." 11:45 AM · Oct 6, 2026 on X

News Flashes 24/7: Oct 6, 2026. Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhala claims: More than 2,000 jihadist operatives were killed during the fighting in Gaza, dozens in Judea and Samaria, and about 80 in Lebanon and Syria while fighting alongside Hezbollah. (KAN 11)

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Photo: Shutterstock. United Pilots Gave Up First Class, Babysat Jihadi in Cockpit Golan Israel. By: Libby Alon. Editor: Golan Israel. Oct 6, 2026. 21:09. Ibrahim Mossallam, a United Airlines pilot who praised Hamas for October 7, continues flying for United despite being removed in 2023, as sources say the pilots' union blocked his firing. New details have emerged after we reported that United Airlines pilot who described the October 7 attack as “resistance by a brave people” and said it was “not unprovoked” is still flying passengers for the airline. Ibrahim R. Mossallam was temporarily removed from flying duties after the post sparked outrage, but later returned to the cockpit C14

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United News of India on X: "French President Emmanuel Macron shared a post on social media, "October 7. 3 years since the barbaric terrorist attacks by Hamas claimed the lives of more than 1200 people, including 51 of our compatriots. 3 years since we share the grief of the State of Israel and the bereaved families. 3 years later, we do not forget the names or the faces: those of Maya, Ohad, Valentin, and so many others..." @EmmanuelMacron" @uniindianews United News of India @uniindianews French President Emmanuel Macron shared a post on social media, "October 7. 3 years since the barbaric terrorist attacks by Hamas claimed the lives of more than 1200 people, including 51 of our compatriots. 3 years since we share the grief of the State of Israel and the bereaved families. 3 years later, we do not forget the names or the faces: those of Maya, Ohad, Valentin, and so many others..." @EmmanuelMacron https://x.com/uniindianews/status/2107704189703143876

Stood his ground. Ranch Owner Shoots Jihadist, Thwarts Arson Attack in Binyamin. Oct 6, 2026 19:55 Eliya Aviv. C14

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Texas Gov. Abbott orders flags lowered in memory of October 7 victims. Texas Governor Greg Abbott orders US and Texas flags lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of Hamas’ October 7 massacre, on the third anniversary of the attack. Israel National News. Oct 7, 2026, 2:16 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Terror never sleeps. Jihadi Throws Concrete Block at Shepherd's Head Near Sebastia. A 20-year-old shepherd was struck in the head by a concrete block thrown near Brit Avraham ranch in Samaria and taken to the hospital in moderate condition. Oct 7, 2026. C14 Desk. C14

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JUDEA AND SAMARIA. US lawmakers visit new Shomron settlements. Senators and state legislators from six states tour new yishuv Eival, pledge legislation recognizing Judea and Samaria and barring BDS. Yossi Dagan: Shomron support crosses party lines in America Jfeed Staff. Oct 7, 2026 JFeed

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IDF destroys mile-long tunnel in Gaza. Forces from Northern Brigade and Division 99 demolish 1.5-kilometer subterranean infrastructure east of expanded Yellow Line in systematic operation. Eliana Fleming. Oct 7, 2026 00:38 JFeed

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Oct. 7, remembered in Israel and beyond. 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. JNS Staff. Oct 7, 2026 JNS

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'It can never be erased'. Israel marks October 7 anniversary at the UN Israel National News. Oct 7, 2026, 1:07 AM INN

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At 6:29 a.m. Herzog opens October 7 memorial events with candle-lighting. Israel National News. Oct 7, 2026, 6:53 AM INN

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JFeed. Gila Isaacson Oct 7, 2026 09:39 Macron vows to fight anti-Semitism and terrorism on October 7 anniversary French President Emmanuel Macron marked the anniversary of the October 7 massacre, stating that three years have passed since Hamas's barbaric terror attacks killed more than 1,200 people, including 51 French citizens. "We will fight anti-Semitism and terrorism, everywhere and always," Macron said. JFeed

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Paris names park path for slain Bibas children. At an inauguration, the father of Ariel and Kfir recalled the fateful decision in Nir Oz to resist terrorists before his children and wife Shiri were killed. Canaan Lidor, Amelie Botbol. Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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Honorable. Paris Names Boulevard for Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas. Three years after the October 7 massacre, Paris dedicated a path in Parc Monceau to the memory of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, who were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz and murdered in Hamas captivity by Gazan civilians with their bare hands. C14 Desk. C14

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‘Life grows around the pain’: Three years after Oct. 7, a widow raises the son her husband barely knew. Anat Meir talks to JNS about building a life for herself and 3-year-old Shaked in the shadow of David’s death. Tania Shalom Michaelian. Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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Waiting for the Day After. Three Years After October 7, Israel Is Still Reeling. The hostages are home and a ceasefire is in place. The questions the massacre left behind are all still open. Gila Isaacson. Oct 7, 2026 JFeed

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In memory of Amit. Mor Revivo mourns stylist killed at Nova Three years after the October 7 massacre, Israeli singer Mor Revivo posted a moving tribute to Amit Buskila hy"d, her close friend and stylist who was murdered fleeing the Nova festival and whose body was taken to Gaza. Gila Isaacson. Oct 7, 2026 JFeed

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Amb. Huckabee: 'Shared values unite us against shared enemies'. Israel National News. Oct 7, 2026, 11:25 AM INN

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German Chancellor's October 7th message. On the third anniversary of October 7, Friedrich Merz vowed Germany will stand firmly with Israel, defend its right to exist and fight antisemitism every day. Israel National News. Published: Oct 7, 2026, 9:16 AM (GMT+3) INN

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tone-deaf. Sadiq Kahn Commemorates the 'Killing of Palestinians' on October 7th London Mayor Sadiq Khan's October 7 anniversary statement mourned the victims on page one and attacked Israel's government on page two. Gila Isaacson. Oct 7, 2026 JFeed

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Former hostage recounts moment of October 7 abduction. Yosef Haim Ohana, held in Gaza for 738 days, releases footage of the first moments of his abduction and reflects on captivity, survival, and reclaiming control of his life. Israel National News. Oct 7, 2026, 8:26 AM INN

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Pain that does not end. Jordan Bibas: "Sorry you're there and I'm here". Three years after his wife and sons were abducted from Nir Oz, Yarden Bibas shared a wrenching message on Instagram dedicated to Shiri, Ariel and Kfir. Gila Isaacson. Oct 7, 2026 11:23 JFeed

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‘I’m here, I’m alive—and it’s the most important thing in the world,’ former Hamas hostage tells JNS. Luis Har was freed from captivity in Gaza in a daring Israeli military operation 129 days after he was abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. Amelie Botbol. Oct 7, 2026. JFeed

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No price. Israel Paid $12.5B to War Victims Since October 7 Attacks. Three years after the October 7 massacre, Israel's Compensation Fund has processed 1.17 million claims totaling $12.5 billion for direct property damage and indirect business losses across the country. C14 Desk. C14

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Five injured in rock attack in Samaria Samaria terror attack leaves 25-year-old man moderately injured, four others lightly injured. Israel National News Oct 7, 2026, 10:19 AM (GMT+3) INN

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This week. Six heroes of Dubai flight to receive Presidential Award. Hezki Baruch. Oct 6, 2026, 6:45 PM INN

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Regional shakeup. Brazil's Leading Candidate Promises Pro-Israel Shift Flavio Bolsonaro, who led Brazil's first-round presidential vote, pledges to restore ties with Israel, move the embassy to Jerusalem, and visit early in his term if elected. C14 Editors. C14

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JFeed. Gila Isaacson. Oct 7, 2026 12:34 U.S. House Speaker Johnson says Iran untrustworthy, claims religion justifies lying to infidels U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson stated that Iranians are not trustworthy negotiating partners and accused them of lying. He claimed that some Iranians can justify deception to infidels as part of their religion. JFeed

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‘Recovery takes time,’ orphans of Oct. 7 say of life three years after massacre. Rikki Zagelbaum. Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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‘I’m here, I’m alive—and it’s the most important thing in the world,’ former Hamas hostage tells JNS. Luis Har was freed from captivity in Gaza in a daring Israeli military operation 129 days after he was abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. Amelie Botbol. Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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The Lionesses of October 7. On October 7, 2023, ordinary women found themselves facing extraordinary circumstances as thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel from Gaza with the purpose of killing and kidnapping as many people as possible. Israel National News. Published: Oct 7, 2026, 2:47 PM (GMT+3) October 7th INN

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Michael Goodwin: Jew-hating radicals are celebrating the horrors of Oct. 7 — and organizing parades full of monsters By Michael Goodwin Published Oct. 6, 2026, 10:18 p.m. ET [63] NY Post

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More than a name: Video project tells stories of Israel’s fallen | Special project. Gal-Hed, a project commemorating those killed in the Swords of Iron war, invites the public to discover their personal stories, share them with others and contribute memories of their own. ynet Global|10.07.26 Ynet

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Rubio commemorates Oct. 7 massacre, recommits US to ‘defense of civilization’. Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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House speaker commemorates Oct. 7, praises Trump admin for freeing hostages. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) honored the “tragic” third anniversary of Oct. 7 and vowed to “never forget the evil responsible.”

“Three years ago, the world witnessed unspeakable horror as Hamas carried out the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Johnson stated. “Terrorists funded by Iran brutally raped, mutilated and murdered 1,200-plus innocent people and kidnapped 251 more.” Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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Herzog thanks Christian leaders from 117 countries for support of Israel. Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with a Friends of Zion delegation in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The group included more than 1,000 Christian leaders and influencers from 117 countries attending the organization’s summit. Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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IDF chief: Military must always be ready for surprise war. Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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A disgrace to NYC: Mamdani slammed for turning massacre into attack on Israel'. Israeli, US, and Jewish officials condemned NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s statement marking the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre. Israel National News. Oct 7, 2026, 7:26 PM INN

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Despite US pressure. Iran sent Hezbollah $200 million. Israel National News. Oct 7, 2026 INN

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B’nai Brith Canada urges gov, college leaders to probe groups promoting extremism on Oct. 7 anniversary. Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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Watch Thousands demonstrate in London - Haddad confronts them Israel National News Oct 7, 2026, 5:13 PM INN

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San Diego's Islamophobia Definition Could Make Criticizing Terrorism Islamophobic. San Diego recently adopted an official definition of Islamophobia. Definitions are important, but they must be defensible... Oct 7, 2026 EoZ

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US generals and admirals: Israel did not commit genocide in Gaza. Israel National News. Oct 7, 2026, 5:59 PM More than 75 senior retired US generals, admirals, and military lawyers have signed an open letter rejecting claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, saying that the facts and applicable legal standard do not support such a finding.

The signatories, including retired officers who commanded US armed forces in combat, wrote in the October 7 letter: “As retired senior military leaders and legal experts, on this, the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 brutal attack on Israel, we reject claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza."

The letter states that a finding of genocide requires evidence of acts intended to destroy a protected national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part. The signatories said Israel “has neither intended to, nor destroyed, Palestinians as a group in Gaza," and argued that the evidence points to the contrary.

They also rejected claims based primarily on the number of civilians killed during the war. “Civilian deaths occurring during combat, however tragic, are insufficient, by themselves, to support a finding of genocidal intent," the letter states.

The signatories said many of them had commanded US forces against enemies who hide behind civilians, and said they understood the difficulty of fighting under such circumstances. They wrote that there is no perfect attack, but that commanders are required to use available information, exercise judgment, comply with legal obligations, and protect civilians.

The letter says assessments of Israeli combat operations by some of its signatories found extensive precautions aimed at avoiding civilian casualties, including leaflets, phone calls, text messages, radio and television broadcasts, social media notices, evacuation instructions, protected corridors, and tactical pauses. It also says stringent legal review of targets is standard IDF procedure.

The signatories further cited Israeli assistance to civilians in Gaza, including food, medical supplies, baby food, desalinated water, vaccinations for children, and medical evacuations, as evidence that Israel remained legally committed to civilian protection.

The letter also addresses statements by Israeli political officials that critics have cited as evidence of genocidal intent. It says inflammatory statements are “disgraceful" and may deserve condemnation, but argues that rhetoric from politicians who are not involved in military decision-making does not reflect actual IDF operations.

Concluding the letter, the signatories wrote: “The precedent established today regarding Israel will shape the conditions under which American forces fight tomorrow. Protecting civilians and preserving the ability of our nation to defend itself requires us to defend the truth when the laws of war are being distorted to make false charges of genocide."

US Ambassador Huckabee commented on the letter: “You can believe ppl who actually know things or listen to the uninformed nonsense from Toxic Tucker & the UN sources who despite hard evidence accuse Israel of ‘genocide.’" INN

Over 75 retired US military leaders reject Gaza genocide allegations in open letter. By Nava Freiberg, The Times of Israel, October 7, 2026. ToI

Retired US military leaders reject genocide allegations against Israel

“Protecting civilians and preserving the ability of our nation to defend itself requires us to defend the truth when the laws of war are being distorted to make false charges of genocide,” more than 75 signatories wrote in an open letter organized by JINSA.

Mike Wagenheim. Oct. 7, 2026. JNS

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Pennsylvania college nixes young dem socialists Oct. 7 event day after prof arrested for antisemitic cyberstalking. Haverford College, in the Philadelphia area, canceled a Young Democratic Socialists of America Oct. 7 “art campaign in solidarity with Palestine” a day after a Haverford professor was arrested for antisemitic cyberstalking.

Wendy Raymond, president of the private liberal arts, wrote to students on Tuesday that the timing of the event “sparked grievous concerns from many members of our community.”

“Student organizers were asked to move the event to an alternate date but declined to do so,” she wrote. JNS

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London police arrest five, masked anti-Israel protesters outside British Jewish umbrella group’s office. London’s Metropolitan Police said that it arrested the five for “inciting racial hatred” outside the office of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a more than 260-year-old umbrella group, in the city’s Camden neighborhood.

The Board of Deputies stated that “on the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, masked protesters demonstrated outside our office today, chanting about ‘intifada’ and harassing our neighbors.”

It thanked police for the arrests. Oct 7, 2026. JNS

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‘For unity in the nation’: Rabbi Kalmanson recites Kaddish at 10/7 memorial. Israel National News. Oct 7, 2026, 10:36 PM INN

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'We will NEVER forget' Trump marks three years since October 7. Israel National News. Oct 8, 2026, 12:46 AM INN

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FBI arrests man for plotting mass shooting at Mall of America By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff. October 7, 2026.

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old man who had been plotting to carry out a mass shooting at the Mall of America ​near Minneapolis in the name of ISIS, according to court filings. He ‌was arrested on Tuesday after an FBI undercover agent sold the Minnesota man, Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, an AK-47, ammunition and magazines for $600, according to the complaint. Mohamud told the informant ​he planned to use the items to kill 30 to 60 people ​at an event at the mall in late October.

Mohamud was charged ⁠with one count of knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition in order to ​commit an act of terrorism. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a ​request for comment. According to the complaint, Mohamud told an FBI source on various messaging platforms that he intended to travel overseas to fight on behalf of al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist ​organization. He said if he couldn't travel, he planned to conduct a mass ​shooting. He later said he wanted to join ISIS.

He also allegedly expressed support for a man ‌who ⁠rammed a truck into a crowd in New Orleans on January 1, 2025, killing 14, before being killed in a shootout with police. In July, Mohamud allegedly said he wanted to kill 30 to 60 people at the Mall of America ​because he claimed its ​owners were Jewish, ⁠and he wanted to kill non-Muslims. He told the informant he planned an attack for October 24 because there was ​a "Hmong Arts Celebration" that day at the mall. Reuters

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Part 7

Israel’s Economy Continues to Grow, Defying Three Years of War, Global Pressure. October 7, 2026 Algemeiner

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Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation Leader Criticizes Mamdani’s October 7 Message. Jack Simony says the anniversary of the Hamas massacre should allow Jewish New Yorkers to mourn without having their grief reframed as an indictment of Israel. By: Staff. October 7, 2026. TheJ.ca

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Five people arrested for inciting racial hatred during pro-Palestine London march on October 7 anniversary Protestors began marching from King's College London in the Strand this afternoon. Oct 7, 2026.

[64] Protestors began marching from King's College London in the Strand towards University College London in Russell Square, Holborn this afternoon.

As the protest "failed to reach a threshold" to lobby Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, the Metropolitan Police instead placed restrictions on the event today, including a set route and times to protest, alongside a ban on face coverings.

Groups of protesters and counter-protestor clashed near Russell Square as the march got underway, as counter protesters gathered behind the garden gates and chanted: “Shame on you.”

Counter-protestors held Israeli flags and placards that read: “Stop the Gaza genolie”, with shouts of “scumbags”, directed at the pro-Palestine protesters, alongside "terrorist supporters off our streets.”

The Metropolitan Police said five people had been arrested following an incident outside the Board of Deputies of British Jews office in London.

Scotland Yard said: “Earlier this morning, officers made arrests at a spontaneous protest outside the British Board of Deputies in Camden. GB News

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We’re Still Drowning in Myths About the Gaza War.. By Eli Lake, The Free Press, October 6, 2026.

Brett McGurk, U.S. Institute of Peace, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 In the weeks following the October 7, 2023 pogrom, President Joe Biden was in full solidarity with the target, Israel. He surged arms shipments and rallied the world against Hamas, the authors of that heinous crime. Among the lower ranks of Biden’s administration, though, an insurrection was brewing. Like the demonstrators on college campuses in the fall of 2023, the anonymous aides, assistants, and bureaucrats inside the federal government wanted the president to restrain the victims of the attack in their defensive war.

In the final year of the Biden presidency, the crowd that wanted Israel cut off from American weapons was largely stymied by the president and his senior staff. Now with the Democrats out of power, the dissidents of 2023 and 2024 are taking their revenge. And their tale is told in the new book Crossing the Red Line, by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, senior diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Sun.

Ahmed’s book is not an objective assessment or fair history of the Biden administration’s policy debates. It is rather a prosecutor’s brief against the senior foreign policy officials the American left wants to purge from the Democratic Party. Ahmed does not call Israel’s war against Hamas a “genocide,” but his sources clearly believe it was. And for the crime of enabling that genocide, the book blames former secretary of state Antony Blinken, former national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and former Middle East and North Africa coordinator Brett McGurk.

One anonymous former senior official vents: “I don’t know if I’ll ever know if Brett and Tony and Jake were directed by the president to follow his instinct to be deferential toward Israel, and did it for that reason, or believed it themselves, or they spun it to the president. None of the three are good.” Another one tells Ahmed that White House spokesman John Kirby “almost seemed like a Trump spokesperson who’s performing for the boss.” Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer is said by a nameless official to have questioned the partisan loyalties of Democratic critics of U.S. policy toward the Gaza war. And on it goes….

Despite his errors and bias, Ahmed’s book is useful in one respect. It unintentionally exposes a deep rot within the U.S. foreign policy bureaucracy. We learn, for example, that a senior official in the State Department’s human rights bureau, Christopher Le Mon, discouraged his colleagues from attending a film composed of footage captured on October 7 (much of it from Hamas GoPro cameras) sponsored by the Israeli embassy in Washington. Le Mon viewed the screening “as likely risking trauma among staff, which State was unprepared to handle, and offering no policy benefit to experts steeped in details of violence in the region.” FreePress

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Israel amb torches Mamdani Oct 7 post: 'Like turning September 11 into a day of mourning for al-Qaeda'. Danny Danon accused the New York City mayor of trying to 'hijack' Hamas attack anniversary with condemnation of Israel By Stephen Sorace. Fox News. October 7, 2026. FoxNews

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Mamdani faces bipartisan backlash over October 7 social media post. October 8, 2026. Elie Wiesel Foundation Chairman Elisha Wiesel joins 'The Story' to discuss New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani facing bipartisan backlash over his social media post regarding the October 7 attacks.

New York City Zohran Mamdani faces intense bipartisan backlash following a controversial social media post on the 3-year anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks. Elie Wiesel Foundation Chairman Elisha Wiesel joins 'The Story' to react to Mamdani's comments and discuss the rise of antisemitism, highlighting the growing outrage from political leaders and the public. FoxNews

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Amb Mike Huckabee: I am seething over Mamdani’s October 7 comments. Fox News. October 8, 2026. on YouTube

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Masks and tricks of a typical vile hater from hell. Oct 8, 2026.

The Haverford case exposes a pattern that deserves far more scrutiny:

1. Publicly hide behind “anti-Israel” or “anti-Zionist” rhetoric—and even blame Israel for antisemitism.

2. Wrap yourself in the language of “Free Palestine.”

3. Operate behind multiple aliases and anonymous accounts.

Then, the mask comes off: explicit antisemitic threats, Nazi references, Holocaust rhetoric, and threats directed at a Jewish victim and his family.

The Guangtian Ha case is a particularly stark example of what prosecutors allege happened when the anonymity came off.

The question is not whether criticism of Israel is legitimate—it obviously can be. The question is what someone’s rhetoric reveals when they stop talking about a state and start targeting Jews.

(US religion professor charged with posting anonymous antisemitic threats online. Guangtian Ha of Haverford University in Pennsylvania allegedly used right-wing language to threaten victim and his family By Luke Tress. Times of Israel, Oct 7, 2026. [65]

Haverford professor charged with cyberstalking and antisemitic harassment of colleague. Dana Munro, Inquirer, Oct. 7, 2026. [66]

'Hitler Was Right[sic] All Along': Haverford Professor Charged With Stalking Jewish Coworker Has Long History of Threatening 'Jew Rats[sic]' Praising Nazis in Suspended Posts. The posts, which went offline when X suspended the account this spring, were nakedly antisemitic, calling for the torture and murder of Jews. Jon Levine, Washington Free Beacon, October 7, 2026 [67]). ThatPointToo

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Sick: Pro-Hamas Protesters Rage Across NYC, Surround Israelis for Peace Vigil Commemorating October 7 at Union Square. Red State | 10/07/2026 | Bob Hoge

It’s been three years since the savage Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks, which killed 1,200 people, often in barbaric, inhuman ways.

As we reported, Democratic Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated the occasion by firing off an incendiary statement accusing Israel of committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza. (See: Morally Bankrupt Mamdani Spits on October 7 Victims to Demonize Israel. [68])

If he wanted to stoke a response, he succeeded, because anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests broke out throughout the Big Apple Wednesday. Not surprisingly, Columbia University and NYU once again played their part in the twisted response to the anniversary of a slaughter:

Anti-Israel protesters turned out by the hundreds across New York City during the third anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack Wednesday — with students at NYU and Columbia University calling to “keep the intifada alive” and proclaiming “resistance is justified.”

More than 100 people gathered at Washington Square Park for the latest demonstration of the New York University Students for Justice in Palestine’s “Rage Week” aimed at condemning the Israel-Gaza war.

The demonstrators — wearing keffiyehs and holding banners calling for NYU to “divest” and shutter its Tel Aviv campus — were heard chanting, “Long live the intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a common rally cry implying the erasure of the Jewish state.

The terrorist supporters continued into the evening, as a group of protesters surrounded a vigil hosted by Israelis for Peace. Some were even holding up posters of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas Oct. 7 mastermind who Israel eliminated in October 2024.

BREAKING: Hundreds of masked Islamists in NYC just violently stormed an October 7th vigil being held in Union Square. The masked terrorists are openly holding up signs of Yahya Sinwar. [69]— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 7, 2026

Even Mamdani came under fire — apparently he’s not extreme enough for some of these zealots.

BREAKING VIDEO: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives at October 7th anniversary event in Union Square Park, hosted by Israelis For Peace, amid large anti-Israel protest which is surrounding the much smaller vigil. Some chants by anti-Israel protesters: “Long live Hamas.” “Zohran you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide[sic].” “Long live the intifada.”— Breaking 4 News (@Breaking_4_News) October 7, 2026

If you ever want to know what happened to so many of our universities, it’s because they hire guys like this. He spoke to the Washington Square Park crowd:

Andrew Ross, a professor at NYU’s American Studies program and part of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, justified Hamas’ bloody invasion on Oct. 7, 2023, as a military tactic whose primary purpose was to acquire hostages to free Palestinians held in Israeli jails.

While Ross called the day “very tragic,” he went on to spread a conspiracy theory that the Israel Defense Forces killed some of its own citizens during the massacre — in which nearly 1,200 people, including more than 800 civilians, were slaughtered, with many victims also suffering torture and rape at the hands of Hamas fighters...? RedState

Protesters overrun Israeli peace vigil marking Oct Protesters overrun Israeli peace vigil marking October 7 attended by Mamdani. One protester yelled at Israelis for Peace organizers: “We don’t want peace with Israelis, bro! We sent your people to hell on October 7.”

By Joseph Strauss/JTA. October 8, 2026.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrived at a New York City park on Wednesday night for an October 7 vigil that was overrun by hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters.

The demonstrators swamped the area of Union Square Park that was supposed to host the event held by Israelis for Peace, a left-wing peace group. The organizers moved the vigil to a nearby spot in the park surrounded by police barricades as speakers struggled to be heard above the protesters. Attendees held electrically lit candles and signs reading, “Not one more life.” JPost

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"Go Back to Gaza": Ayalon Highway Signs Target Mamdani. Golan Israel. By: C14 Desk. Oct 7, 2026 [70] A new protest appeared on Tel Aviv's Ayalon Highway targeting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with signs displayed on buildings near the highway showing his image and the message in English: "Mamdani Go Back to Gaza. Oct 7, 2026 C14

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"Jihad sympathizer". NYC Mayor Mamdani Slammed Over 'Antisemitic' October 7 Post.

Israel's New York consul general and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee sharply criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after he posted what they called an antisemitic message marking the October 7 massacre. Oct 7, 2026 20:00 C14 Desk. C14

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Israeli envoy to US decries Mamdani’s ‘dangerous lies’. Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said on Wednesday, the third anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s statement marking the occasion “spread blood libels” about the Jewish state.

“It’s actually hard to find a sentence in Mamdani’s post that isn’t a lie,” Leiter stated, speaking from the hospital bedside of his son, who is on life support after a Palestinian terrorist hit him with a car last month.

“Paying lip service to the victims of Oct. 7 just to spread blood libels about Israel might play nicely to the red-green/communist-Islamist alliance that he promotes in the United States, but those of us who know better see his perverted language for what it is,” the Israeli envoy stated. “This man is a defender of Palestinian terrorism, a promoter of antisemitism and an advocate of anti-Americanism.”

Even on the anniversary of the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust, the anti-Israel mayor “can’t help but attack the Jewish state with absurd accusations and outright propaganda,” according to the Israeli envoy. Oct 8, 2026. JNS

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Three Years After Oct. 7 Massacre, Pressure Mounts to Bring Suspects to Justice as Legal Proceedings Drag On. October 8, 2026 Algemeiner

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Opinion: Mamdani’s October 7 statement betrays the victims and rewrites history. On the anniversary of Hamas's October 7 massacre, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani turned remembrance into an indictment of Israel. His moral inversion fails the victims, New York's Jewish community, and the next generation. Op-ed. NY City Councilman Jim Gennaro. Published: Oct 8, 2026, 12:28 PM (GMT) INN

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Hezbollah Active in Planned IDF Withdrawal Areas. Hezbollah activity under civilian cover has been identified in Froun, Srifa and Zotar al-Gharbiya, pilot areas the IDF is expected to leave under the US-brokered framework agreement with Lebanon, with control then passing to the Lebanese army. Eliana Fleming. Oct 7, 2026 22:45 JFeed

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Three years since the Simchas Torah massacre. "Burnt bodies": inside Camp Shura's hell Yehuda Avidan, Director-General of the Ministry of Religious Services, describes the first hours after the Simchas Torah massacre: taking command on the morning of the disaster, sleepless nights facing hundreds of burnt bodies and horrific cases of abuse. Gila Isaacson. Oct 7, 2026 18:56 JFeed

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US sanctions 17 ships in push to shut down Iran’s shadow fleet The US Treasury sanctioned 17 vessels and their owners Thursday under Operation Economic Outcast, saying the action effectively neutralizes most of Iran’s remaining shadow fleet. October 8, 2026. IranIntl

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Hezbollah recruitment network in Iran exposed, four safe houses identified. Hezbollah’s external operations unit has been recruiting foreign nationals in Iran and using safe houses in Qom and Tehran to train and shelter recruits, according to information obtained by Iran International.

Information provided to Iran International by an international intelligence agency shows that Hezbollah began contacting foreign students at Al-Mustafa International University five years ago. Those recruited have received training in weapons handling, sabotage, cyberattacks and espionage.

The recruitment operation is conducted in coordination with the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and targets students at Al-Mustafa. The state-run institution was established 18 years ago on the orders of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and has branches in more than 60 countries. Oct 8, 2026. IranIntl

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Germany’s Left to Start Berlin Coalition Talks After Antisemitism Deal. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. October 8, 2026.

Germany’s Left Party agreed to measures on Thursday to address antisemitic incidents, satisfying a key condition set by potential coalition partners and allowing it to begin exploratory talks on Berlin‘s next state government.

The agreement revives prospects for a three-party coalition between the Left, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), and Greens after the Left, a hard-left party represented in Berlin by lead candidate Elif Eralp, emerged from the Sept. 20 state election as the largest force, with 25.7% of the votes. Algemeiner

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Channel 12: Pentagon ordered CENTCOM to prepare for large-scale Iran operations. Israeli Channel 12 reports the Pentagon has ordered U.S. Central Command to complete preparations for renewed large-scale military operations against Iran. The report suggests strikes could begin before Israeli and U.S. elections, though no final decision has been made and no date set. Channel 12 cautioned the report should be treated carefully. Oct 8, 2026 JFeed

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Hamas boasts of 'glorious day' amid the ruins | Snapshot of the situation in Gaza Although about 82% of its buildings were damaged in the war following Oct. 7 and the residents are suffering, the terrorist organization continues to present massacre as 'legitimate resistance'; Popular protests grew and collapsed quickly; This is what Gaza looks like today. Einav Halabi | published: 10.07.26 | YNet

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‘The loss is everywhere’: Nir Oz rebuilds three years after Oct. 7 catastrophe Three years after a third of Nir Oz’s residents were murdered or kidnapped, 120 people now sleep in the kibbutz each night and more than 220 homes are planned, but burned houses, memorials and painful debates over return and remembrance remain

Roni Green Shaulov | published: 10.07.26 | 12:52 YNet

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Inside IDF’s Oct. 7 raid in Nablus to ‘prevent the next massacre’.

Two reserve battalions and Nahal troops detained or questioned some 200 Hamas-linked suspects, seized weapons and terror funds and demolished 14 memorials and signs honoring terrorists

Idan Bloemhof | published:10.07.26 | 18:56 YNet

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Mia Schem slams ‘pro-Palestinian sheep,’ Drake as she recounts Hamas captivity Mia Schem, held hostage in Gaza for 55 days, recounts her brutal captivity, condemns rising antisemitism and 'pro-Palestinian sheep,' criticizes Drake over his Gaza lyric and says she still dreams of marriage, children and happiness ynet | published:10.07.26 | 20:17 YNet

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Why Students for Justice in Palestine is Celebrating October 7. The pro-Hamas organization again brings shame on our nation’s universities.

Tal Fortgang. Oct 07 2026.

Across the country, Students for Justice in Palestine chapters are today commemorating the massacres of October 7, 2023. More precisely, they will gather to commemorate the lives lost among the perpetrators of the massacre—the Hamas terrorists and other Gazans who invaded Israel to rape, torture, and murder men, women, and children. They will mourn the fact that Hamas failed to achieve its goal of destroying Israel while celebrating the effort to do so.

If SJP—an umbrella group for hundreds of anti-Israel student organizations across “Turtle Island (so-called North America)”—ever intended to hide its conviction that murdering Israelis is an affirmative good, it has stopped pretending. For all the posturing about Palestinian victimhood and indignant accusations over Israel’s conduct of the war, these self-styled champions of the Palestinians aren’t mourning the atrocities that invited Israel’s retaliation. They are celebrating them. [...] By now, it should be evident that these groups are not antiwar or antiviolence. Nor are they even meaningfully pro-Palestinian. When they reflect on the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have died because of Hamas’s cowardice, they do so in celebration. Theirs is a pro-war, anti-Israel stance: murder is good if the victim is, say, an Israeli baby.

These are, in short, extremist organizations. Yet, scandalously, Western media provided public relations for SJP and its ilk during the encampment fiascos of recent years, recasting these groups as protesters for peace... City-Journal

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Terrorist held a gun to his head, Itay Regev prayed: I felt God was listening to me. Former hostage Itay Regev recalls being shot on October 7, his farewell call with his father, and the moment a terrorist held a gun to his head. Itzik Brandwein. Oct 8, 2026, 5:52 AM (GMT+3) INN

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‘I carried God in my pocket’: Reservist who identified Oct. 7 victims recounts horrors. Shlomo Efrati helped identify massacre victims and prepare fallen IDF soldiers for burial; in a searing poetic diary, he writes of mutilated bodies, endless triggers, his struggle with God and a terrorist’s body mistakenly brought to his unit. Shmuel Munitz | published: 10.07.26 | 20:50 YNet

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In Michigan, the issue is erasing Jewish interests, not the Jewish vote Electing “progressives” like El-Sayed requires more than just normalizing antisemitism and antisemitic candidates. It also means telling Jews to shut up. Jonathan S. Tobin. Oct 8, 2026. JNS

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US warns Americans in Saudi Arabia over Houthi threats to airports. Oct 8, 2026. JNS

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IDF: Hamas terrorist took explosives from north Gaza hospital. The Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday that it killed two Hamas terrorists after they were seen leaving Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, one of whom planted explosives the military said had been stored inside the hospital.

The terrorist planted the IEDs near the ceasefire line in attempt to harm IDF soldiers, according to the statement.

The second terrorist, identified as Muhammad Tammous, was a sniper in Hamas’s “military wing.” He also worked as a “civil defense” worker in the Strip, the IDF said. Oct 8, 2026 JNS

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Jerusalem: Man suspected of setting sukkah on fire in racist attack. Israel National News. Oct 8, 2026, 11:56 AM INN

Police: Jerusalem sukkah arson was ‘racially motivated’. Oct 8, 2026. JNS

(Racially motivated. Terrorism in East Jerusalem: Arab suspect arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a sukkah in the city center A 52-year-old resident of the Old City was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a sukkah in the Agrippa area • The suspicion: arson motivated by racism during the Sukkot holiday | Police will request an extension of his detention. David Hacohen Kikar haShabbat |18th of Tishrei | 29.09.26 10:13 Kikar)

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IDF eliminates Hamas terrorist involved in soldier’s abduction. Israel National News. Oct 8, 2026, 12:57 PM INN

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Bedouin indicted for providing weapons used to kill soldier. Israel National News. Oct 8, 2026, 3:07 PM INN

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72 arrested as ISA exposes terror network in southern Israel. Israel National News. Oct 8, 2026, 5:10 PM INN

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Historic milestone: First US-made Iron Dome interceptor delivered to Israel. Israel National News. Oct 8, 2026, 9:38 AM INN

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Live: Herzog presents award to rescuers on Flydubai flight. Israel National News. Oct 8, 2026, 3:50 PM INN

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IDF eliminates two Hamas terrorists involved in attacks and holding hostages The IDF eliminated two Hamas terrorists in Gaza who were involved in holding hostages and advancing attacks against Israeli troops and civilians, saying both violated the ceasefire. Israel National News. Oct 8, 2026 [...] Earlier this week (Monday), the IDF struck in the Gaza City area and eliminated Muhammad Muhsen Nimr Yazji, a commander in the Shati Battalion of the Hamas terrorist organization’s military wing.

Throughout the war, the terrorist was involved in holding hostages in the Gaza City Brigade area, including Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Matan Angrest.

In an additional strike two days ago (Tuesday), in the Sabra area, the IDF eliminated Muhammad Fawzi Muhammad Awad Gamal, a terrorist in the Daraj Tuffah Battalion of Hamas’ military wing. INN

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Netanyahu hosts Paraguayan vice president to discuss closer ties. Oct 8, 2026 JNS

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Antisemitic hate crimes in England and Wales rise 10%, Jews most targeted per capita. Oct 8, 2026 JNS

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Three indicted for selling gun to Beersheva bus station terrorist. Oct 8, 2026 JNS

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Dutch Jewish author says ‘terrorist Hamas mob’ assaulted him at protest. By Akiva Van Koningsveld. Oct 8, 2026. Dutch-Jewish author and journalist Jigal Krant said on Wednesday night that pro-Hamas demonstrators kicked and beat him until he bled at the Netherlands’ largest railway station.

Krant wrote on X that a “terrorist Hamas mob” attacked him at the Utrecht Centraal station after he voiced displeasure with the anti-Israel protest, which coincided with the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border massacre led by the Palestinian terrorist group.

“Police left the mob alone and roughly led me away and demanded my details,” he said. JNS

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Israeli Foreign Ministry: Five shepherds wounded as Palestinian terror wave continues. Oct 8, 2026 Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that a wave of Palestinian terrorism in Judea and Samaria was continuing after five Jewish shepherds were reportedly wounded in a rock-throwing attack in Samaria.

Palestinians from the village of Ramin attacked Israelis in grazing areas near Sebastia in northern Samaria, Arutz 7 reported.

A 25-year-old man sustained moderate head injuries and was evacuated to Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, while four others were treated at the scene for minor injuries. JNS

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Noa Argamani returns to Nova massacre site with 1,000 Christian leaders. Oct 8, 2026. Former hostage in Gaza Noa Argamani returned to the Supernova music festival massacre site near Kibbutz Re’im on Thursday for the first time since her abduction on Oct. 7, 2023, according to organizers. She joined approximately 1,000 Christian leaders visiting the site as part of the Friends of Zion Ambassadors Summit.

During the visit, Friends of Zion founder Mike Evans presented the organization’s Hineni Award to Argamani, fellow former hostages Romi Gonen and Elkana Bohbot, and Hila Abir, whose brother Lotan was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the festival. “Thank you so much for coming to this place. Thank you for everything you are doing, and for all your love and support,” Argamani told the delegation. JNS

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Pennsylvania human rights panel decries ‘racist, antisemitic’ vandalism at playground. The graffiti “caused widespread alarm and distress within the community,” the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission stated. Oct 8, 2026. JNS

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Trump endorses Mike Rodgers over ‘terrorist sympathizer’ El-Sayed. Oct 8, 2026 [...] Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, former Detroit health director and the Democratic nominee, is a “terrible candidate,” a “radical extremist” and “wrong for Michigan and wrong for America,” the president said.

In the statement, the president referred to “Mohammed El-Sayed.” The candidate’s full name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.

The Republican Jewish Coalition has called El-Sayed “the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in America.” JNS

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‘Absolutely despicable,’ Hochul says of anti-Israel protesters disrupting Oct. 7 vigil. Oct 8, 2026. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul slammed anti-Israel protesters, who disrupted an Oct. 7 vigil in Manhattan’s Union Square and chanted antisemitic slogans and waved Hamas flags.

“On a day of profound pain for so many New Yorkers, disrupting a vigil for the victims of Oct. 7 while waving the flags of terrorist organizations is absolutely despicable,” the governor stated. “Jewish New Yorkers deserve to mourn in peace, free from hatred and intimidation. There is no excuse for this. None.” JNS

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USS Abraham Lincoln returning from Iran after ‘historic mission,’ Hegseth says. Oct 8, 2026. JNS

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Israel assassinated Iran's navy chief over fears he could lead a more dangerous IRGC - exclusive. Israeli officials viewed Alireza Tangsiri as a highly creative and resourceful commander, fearing he could become a more formidable IRGC chief than Ahmad Vahidi, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob. Oct 8, 2026. One of the key reasons for the assassination of Iran navy chief Alireza Tangsiri by Israel on March 26 was the concern of top Israeli officials that he could emerge as the next head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

He would have been a much tougher adversary than Ahmad Vahidi, who eventually became the new IRGC chief. JPost

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Cpt. Eliav Haim Tzapalamus was killed during operational activity.

Capt. Eliav Haim Tzapalamus, 21, from Haifa, was killed during operational activity in southern Lebanon when the Humvee he was traveling in overturned. Three soldiers were lightly wounded.

Uzi Baruch. Oct 8, 2026, 9:23 PM INN

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Heavy gunfire near Kedumim: Forces deployed to the area. Multiple gunshots were heard this evening from the nearby village of Qaddum, alarming Kedumim residents. Local security forces and IDF troops were mobilized. Israel National News. Published: Oct 8, 2026, 10:52 PM (GMT+3) INN

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After decades in uniform. Oct. 7 hero Amir Cohen retires from police The commander who was critically wounded fighting terrorists on October 7 and declared the Philistine invasion code that saved lives ends a stormy tenure as Central District chief. Eliana Fleming. Oct 8, 2026 https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tmlurp

State Department Report. US upgrades Israel on trafficking report After five years in Tier 2, Israel now ranks among world leaders in combating human trafficking, State Department finds, citing doubled investigations, expanded victim services, and new legal protections under Justice Minister Levin. Eliana Fleming Oct 8, 2026. https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tmlt2g

Screening the cockpit. Israel Sets New Rules for Foreign Air Crews. Crew members from countries designated high-risk would be vetted 48 hours before Israel-bound flights • The plan was discussed in a classified Knesset subcommittee session | Lists of travelers holding passports from countries without diplomatic ties to Israel are also planned. Eliana Fleming Oct 8, 2026 JFeed

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After decades in uniform. Oct. 7 hero Amir Cohen retires from police The commander who was critically wounded fighting terrorists on October 7 and declared the Philistine invasion code that saved lives ends a stormy tenure as Central District chief. Eliana Fleming. Oct 8, 2026. ...On the morning of October 7, 2023, Cohen was among the first to understand that the situation was not merely rocket fire but a large-scale infiltration. After a phone call with a resident of Kfar Aza, he declared at 06:41 over the police radio a "Philistine invasion", the code for mobilizing forces in the event of terrorist infiltration and a multi-arena incident. The order brought many officers out of their homes and established defensive lines that saved numerous lives.

Cohen himself reached the Sderot police station, took part in the fierce battle against dozens of terrorists, was wounded by shrapnel in the eye and two bullets in the back, but refused evacuation and continued to command. Later he also handled events in Ofakim. For his actions that day he was chosen to light a torch at the 76th Independence Day ceremony... JFeed

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Oct. 7 was a wake-up call Israel cannot afford to forget. Opinion: Three years after October 7, Israel must never return to the complacency that preceded the massacre, but neither can it become a fortress state; Its challenge is to remain strong, united and democratic while confronting enduring threats Ari Shavit | published:10.07.26| 22:00 YNet

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Columbia University under fire for bizarrely naming cafeteria’s pasta sauce ‘October 7th Blush sauce.' By Kelly Garino, Daily Mail, October 8, 2026.

Columbia University has been slammed for serving an ‘October 7th Blush Sauce’ in its dining hall on the third anniversary of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel.

The Ivy League school updated its dining hall menu Wednesday with four distinct pasta sauces: Marinara, Turkey Bolognese, Garlic Oil and its controversial ‘October 7th Blush Sauce,’ according to a post on X.

It appeared under the cafeteria’s ‘pasta station’ as ‘today’s special,’ exactly three years after Hamas led an attack that became the deadliest day in Israel’s history.

The post immediately triggered intense backlash, with dozens accusing the university of intentionally choosing the name ‘Blush Sauce’ and speculating that it was a reference to the blood of those killed in the attack.

‘What does “blush” sauce mean in the context of the massacre on October 7?’ one comment read.

Another said: ‘This is not only nauseating but conspicuously cruel and insane.’

‘So they’re symbolically serving up the blood of October 7 victims? WT absolute F?’ a third wrote.

One added: ‘Wait, is this a joke? Someone needs to be fired over this. This is outrageous!’… DailyMail

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“Kill lots of Jews": Arab pharmaceutical student planned to murder Jews. Israel National News. Oct. 8, 2026.

The State Attorney's Office filed an indictment Thursday with the Jerusalem District Court against Muhammad Shalabi, 22, of Beit Hanina. He is accused of planning terrorist attacks against security forces and Jewish civilians using explosive devices and deadly poisons.

According to the indictment, filed by attorney Amichai Marks of the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, Shalabi is a third-year pharmacy student who also worked as a pharmacist's assistant. Prosecutors allege that he underwent a process of ideological radicalization, partly following the events of October 7 and the Swords of Iron War, and systematically consumed content associated with Hamas and ISIS.

According to the charges, Shalabi eventually decided to exploit the knowledge he had acquired during his studies and his access to chemical substances to carry out terrorist attacks.

The first plot attributed to him began in early 2025, following his anger over parking tickets issued to worshippers near a mosque in the Beit Hanina neighborhood. According to prosecutors, Shalabi planned to plant an explosive device at a location where enforcement officers regularly stood and monitored their activities for approximately two months.. INN

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Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee: Ambassador Mike Huckabee on X: "The NY Slimes w/ cowardly "anonymous sources" did a hit piece on David Milstein, Sr Policy Advisor @usembassyjlm & asked me for comment. They didn't use it, but here's my FULL statement they didn't have the guts or the integrity to use: The elements of the story the New York Times is trying to assemble are so lacking in fact that it ranks up with other Times farcical endeavors like the embarrassing ‘dog rape’ story, or the totally debunked story about a small boy being shot in the face by IDF in Gaza (when in fact, the little boy was not only alive but had been evacuated out of Gaza with his mother by Embassy Jerusalem to a safe location in another country to keep him from being murdered by Hamas). I personally and categorically refute the elements of your proposed ‘story’ and I’m surprised that you expect to be taken seriously with such nonsense without even one named source. You surely can do better. You should consult your attorneys as to whether publishing such drivel could subject the Times to litigation for defamation. There is a reason @realDonaldTrump calls them "Fake News"" Oct 8, 2026 on X

R' Steven Burg @stevenburg: The New York Times has become an embarrassment to journalism.

Its latest hit piece targeting David Milstein is another example of a newspaper so consumed by its hostility toward Israel that even an American serving his country becomes a target if he refuses to conform to its preferred narrative.

I have known David for many years. He is a man of extraordinary integrity, impeccable character, and fierce loyalty to the United States of America. He serves his country with honor, carrying out the mission of Ambassador Mike Huckabee and the administration.

Apparently, that is enough to make him a target.

What we are witnessing is a deeply disturbing pattern: anonymous accusations, damaging insinuations, and the willingness to destroy a person’s reputation in pursuit of a predetermined narrative.

The parallels to the Dreyfus Affair are impossible to ignore. A Jewish patriot accused, his loyalty questioned, his reputation dragged through the mud. History has shown us where this kind of prejudice can lead.

And the timing? David is about to get married. The willingness to inflict this kind of pain on a young man and his family, at what should be one of the happiest moments of their lives, is especially cruel.

The New York Times seems incapable of seeing Israel or its supporters without finding something sinister. That obsession has consequences. It poisons public discourse, encourages suspicion of Jewish Americans, and raises profoundly troubling questions about antisemitic double standards.

The paper that once claimed to report the news increasingly seems determined to manufacture a narrative, whatever the human cost.

David Milstein’s integrity is not diminished by this attack. The New York Times’ credibility is.

Shame on the New York Times. Shame on those who confuse character assassination with journalism. And shame on anyone who thinks that destroying a good man’s reputation is an acceptable price for advancing an anti-Israel agenda. Oct 8, 2026 on X

___ Weaponizing the charge of genocide fuels an increasingly dangerous antisemitism. Iran, Qatar, China and Russia are spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories to sow chaos in democracies. By Jeffrey Miller, Stuart Eizenstat Fox News. October 8, 2026. Genocide, the intentional annihilation of a group of people, is the gravest of crimes. As malicious actors weaponize the term and endanger Jews everywhere, meticulous use of the charge is more essential than ever.

We are honored to serve as the current and former chairs of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, an institution memorializing history’s most well-documented genocide: Nazi Germany and its collaborators’ attempt to systematically murder every Jewish man, woman and child in Europe. They almost succeeded. Two-thirds of European Jews – 6 million – were killed. The global Jewish population has yet to recover, with fewer Jews alive today than in 1939, when World War II began.

Holocaust survivors fervently hoped antisemitism would wither when Germany was defeated and its crimes exposed. Yet, they knew from centuries of persecutions long before the Nazis, this ancient hatred is impossible to eradicate. Even so, after World War II, antisemitism became socially unacceptable. The shocking reactions from many quarters to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, three years ago, show this is no longer the case.

On that day, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel intending to murder as many Jewish people as possible, bringing about the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. As Israel defends itself, we reiterate our wholehearted conviction that Israel has not committed genocide, reflecting the United States government’s consistent and prevailing view. Rescuers and police escort elderly woman and others after synagogue terror attack in Manchester.

At the same time, we cannot forget the terrible tragedy many innocent Gazans have experienced as a result of the war. The loss of tens of thousands, including many children, is horrific.

As we mourn so many innocent lives lost, we cannot ignore that Hamas puts civilians in harm’s way as a central part of its strategy to demonize Israel. Despite this deadly strategy, Israel has made efforts to warn civilians when to evacuate, provide food and relief, and facilitate vaccine distribution.

Israel, like any country, is not exempt from criticism. And yet, whether out of ignorance or malice, people from all walks of life, often with little knowledge or legal expertise, including in the specific definition of genocide, continually wield the term. Others weaponize it to delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state. Regardless of their intention, the impact is a terrifying eruption of antisemitism and a more dangerous world for Jewish people everywhere.

Furthermore, state actors like Iran, Qatar, China and Russia spread antisemitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial to stir hatred of Jews and sow chaos in democracies. They are succeeding. Antisemitism is no longer lurking at society’s fringes. It is marching openly through its institutions. Violent antisemitism is at levels not seen since the Holocaust. From Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue to Bondi Beach in Australia, to Manchester, England, and far too many other places, Jews are under deadly attack. And every day, Jews face relentless harassment and threats on streets, campuses and online. FoxNews

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Talk about "Genocide" Should Start with Israel's Murdered Mothers and Children. Allison Pearson. Oct 7, 2026. When I heard that students were planning a pro-Palestinian march through London on the third anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, I thought how grotesquely insensitive is it possible to be? What is wrong with people?

You want genocide? Young women at the Nova peace festival, half-naked, strung up from trees the better to defile them. Twin baby boys, their mother slaughtered in the kitchen, their father riddled with bullets; the orphaned babies used as bait for 14 hours, little Guy and Roi, 10 months old, left to scream so they would lure neighbors to rescue them and those brave souls were then picked off by the terrorists lying in wait. Killing parents in front of their sobbing children, then setting the house on fire so those children are burnt alive.

Here we are, three years on from one of the darkest days in history, and it's Jews - not Islamists - who are either fleeing the UK or living in fear. Their children attend heavily fortified schools and worship in high-security synagogues.

I am not Jewish, but I believe the Jews deserve and need a homeland. I hate their enemies because they are our enemies. So that makes me a Zionist. If you have any sense of what history teaches us, you should be a Zionist too. No more "Yes, buts." Today, Oct. 7, of all days, let us stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters. Telegraph

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Israel in New York. Oct 7, 2026 On October 6, they were a family. Johnny, Tamar, Shahar (6), Arbel (6), and Omer (4) Siman Tov. An entire family, brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. Never forget. 🕯️ on FB

humansofjudaism: Oct 7, 2026 This is a photo of the 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. on Instagram

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3 years of war: Data shows IDF hit 100,000 targets as 31,500 projectiles fired at Israel. In Gaza, military says it has killed 4 Hamas chiefs, established 40 new outposts; reserve army expands by 36%; 30,000 security personnel treated by Defense Ministry rehab center. By Emanuel Fabian. October 7, 2026, 6:04 am

As the country marked the passage of three years since the onset of the multifront war on October 7, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday published new data about its operations on all fronts, from the number of rockets fired at Israel to the number of sites struck by the military.

The Gaza war began with the Hamas-led invasion in southern Israel, during which terrorists rampaged through communities, an outdoor rave and military bases, massacring some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 to the Strip.

Israel responded with a military campaign to topple the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip, destroy the terror group and free the hostages. The day after the Hamas assault, the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah began attacking along Israel’s northern border, saying it was acting in support of Gaza, a conflict that later escalated to all-out war. Israel also engaged in several rounds of fighting directly against Iran over the past three years, including major 12-day and 40-day wars in 2025 and earlier this year, respectively. Iran’s proxies in Yemen and Iraq also attacked Israel amid the fighting. The fighting has largely subsided since an October 2025 ceasefire in Gaza, an April ceasefire in Iran, and a June truce in Lebanon.

In all, since the start of the war, the Israeli military said it has carried out strikes on approximately 100,000 targets, including 65,000 in the Gaza Strip, 28,000 in Lebanon and Syria, 4,500 in Iran, and 80 in Yemen.

... with IDF officials estimating that two to three 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.

The IDF has said that it has killed over 24,000 combatants in Gaza and another estimated 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.

The IDF’s data said that since the October 7 attack, the military has killed four leaders of Hamas’s military wing, 17 brigade commanders and those of an equivalent rank, some 30 battalion commanders, and some 300 company commanders.

The IDF has assessed that Hamas is no longer the military and governing organization it was before October 7, but said the terror group “continues attempts to rebuild and rearm.”

Gaza remains bisected into Israeli- and Hamas-controlled areas, and talks to bring about Hamas’s disarmament and the territory’s reconstruction have made only limited progress.

Israel has expanded its control in the Strip amid the ceasefire, from an initial 53% to around 63% currently. The IDF also now maintains some 40 army posts in the Israeli-held portion of the Strip. In the West Bank, since October 7, the IDF said troops have arrested more than 45,000 wanted Palestinians for questioning, including terrorists planning imminent attacks.

More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in the territory by Israeli forces or settlers since the war started, according to the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority health ministry. The IDF has said the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or terrorists carrying out attacks.

Also in the West Bank, the IDF said troops had seized more than 3,800 weapons, as well as NIS 46 million ($15.1 million) in cash intended for terrorism.

Since the beginning of the war, over 31,500 rockets, missiles, and drones have been launched at Israel from multiple fronts, according to the IDF’s latest data. The numbers included 10,200 projectiles fired from Gaza — at least 5,000 on October 7 alone — 20,000 from Lebanon, around 50 from Syria, 90 from Yemen, and 1,200 from Iran. The IDF did not detail how many drones and missiles had been launched from Iraq at Israel amid the war. The figures did not include rockets — said by Israel to be in the thousands at minimum — launched by Gazan terror groups that misfired and landed in the Strip, those launched by Hezbollah that landed short in Lebanon, and ballistic missiles launched by Iran that failed to reach Israel.

Casualties and reserve duty.

A total of 970 soldiers, reservists, and local security officers have been killed, and another 6,424 have been wounded in the war since October 7. Of them, 472 were killed and 3,004 were wounded during the ground offensive in Gaza, according to the IDF’s data.

The military said that more than 70% of soldiers wounded in the war returned to service.

Among the 970 fallen soldiers, 85 were killed due to friendly fire and other military-related accidents during the war, according to the IDF’s data.

Separately, on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry said more than 30,000 wounded soldiers and security personnel have sought treatment through its Rehabilitation Department since the war began. Some 63 percent are receiving care for psychological conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and difficulties surrounding reintegration into civilian life.

The ministry said the total number of wounded from all of Israel’s wars under the department’s care reached 91,200, a number that is expected to surpass 100,000 by 2028, with roughly half expected to be coping with psychological harm.

The rehab department deals with wounded veterans from all of Israel’s security bodies, not just the IDF. According to the ministry, of those wounded since the start of the October 7 war, 63 are classified as having over 100% disability — the most severe level of injury; 249 have severe head injuries; 29 are suffering from blindness; and 106 are amputees.

Also, according to the data, women make up 8% of security personnel wounded in the past three years, while 62% are reservists.

Meanwhile, the military said that its reserve army had grown by some 36% since the start of the war, with several new units for reservists established in the past three years and some 22,000 ex-soldiers returning to service despite having been granted exemptions from reserve duty.

Hundreds of thousands of reservists have been called up during the war. The IDF said that in the past three years, new standing army units were also established to reduce the strain on the reserve army. This year, the military said combat reservists are expected to serve on average between 80 and 100 days in reserve duty, compared to the military’s initial estimate of 55 days per year, “due to evolving operational needs.”

At a military conference on Sunday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said the army was concluding its investigations into the October 7 onslaught, “out of an understanding of the magnitude of the disaster, alongside the understanding that we must not become mired in them, but rather learn, draw lessons, implement them, and move forward.”

“One of our greatest lessons from October 7 is the need to expand the security margin. We need to build the IDF’s force structure to meet challenges and threats across multiple arenas. The size of the IDF is our strategic depth,” he said, according to a readout of his remarks published by the military. TOI

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Mamdani dined at NYC Palestinian restaurant blasted for ‘openly genocidal’ menu on Oct. 7 anniversary. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dined at a Palestinian restaurant chain blasted for being “openly genocidal” against Jews on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel.

Hizzoner ate dinner at Ayat Hinds Hall on the Upper West Side — part of a chain whose sister restaurant in Brooklyn was blasted for featuring a menu section entitled “From the River to the Sea,” in the wake of the 2023 attacks.

The restaurant is named after Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian child who was killed by IDF forces in Gaza in Jan. 2024, and also pays homage to the anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University, who renamed Hamilton Hall “Hind’s Hall” when they took over the building. New York Post · October 8, 2026 NY Post

Sorrow and Shame. NY Post. [71]

nypost: Today's cover: Mamdani booed, berated by anti-Israel protesters waving Hamas flags at NYC Oct. 7 memorial: ‘Shame on you’ trib.al/AvAYt… Threads

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Hamas Rakes in Up to $5 Million Daily in Gaza While Rearming, Plotting Soldier Abductions, Israeli Reports Say. By Debbie Weiss. October 8, 2026.

Hamas is generating as much as $5 million a day from goods entering Gaza while rebuilding tunnels, accumulating weapons, and planning possible attacks on Israeli troops, including attempts to kidnap soldiers, according to separate Israeli television reports this week citing security officials.

Neomi Neumann, a former head of research at Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, told the Kan public broadcaster on Thursday that Hamas continues to exercise effective control over Gaza’s population through a decentralized system of taxation, aid distribution, and covert enforcement.

Neumann, now an adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, estimated that Hamas earns between $2 million and $5 million daily by imposing heavy taxes on goods entering the enclave and exploiting humanitarian assistance.

“Everything that enters the Strip becomes a source of income for Hamas,” Neumann said in the interview. “It confiscates some of the humanitarian aid and sells the goods at high prices on the black market.”

Hamas also uses its control over supplies to determine which residents receive goods and services, creating economic dependence on the Palestinian terrorist group, she said. It charges residents for services and remains the principal source of employment in Gaza, according to Neumann.

A separate report by Channel 12 cited Israeli and Palestinian sources describing preparations for renewed fighting, including potential attacks on Israeli military bases inside Gaza and attempts to abuct soldiers. Algemeiner

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French Students Play Rap Song Referencing Jihadists During Protests. By Taryn Pedler, Newsweek, October 8, 2026.

A rap song referencing jihadists involved in deadly attacks in France has appeared in videos filmed during student protests at a French high school and at a church.

The track, “MRH” by rapper BORO700, references Mohamed Merah, who killed a teacher and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012, and Salah Abdeslam, who was convicted for his role in the November 2015 Paris attacks. The lyrics also refer to the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people were killed...

One video circulating on social media shows students singing the track at François-Villon high school in Beaugency, in the Loiret region, during a school blockade on October 1.

They could be heard shouting French lyrics, translated into English as: “Like Mohamed Merah, dodging the cameras,” and “Bataclan, I shot him with my eyes, manhunt, Salah Abdeslam.”

The Orléans prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation into suspected “apology for terrorism,” and three minors were placed in police custody on October 7, according to French media reports citing the prosecutor. The term “apology for terrorism” refers to publicly presenting or justifying terrorism, or portraying terrorist acts or their perpetrators in a favorable manner, in a way that may constitute a criminal offense.

The investigation concerns the song’s lyrics and does not establish the students’ intentions.

The song also appears in a video filmed on October 4 inside Saint-Hilaire church in Soullans, Western France, in an incident separate from the school protests....

Between March 11 and 19, 2012, Mohamed Merah, a French citizen of Algerian origin, carried out a series of jihadi attacks in Toulouse and Montauban. He killed seven people, including two soldiers, a rabbi and three Jewish children aged 3, 5 and 8... Newsweek

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Watch: El-Sayed walks away when asked about October 7 anniversary. Elad Benari. Oct 9, 2026, 5:46 AM INN

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'No excuse for victim blaming': Mamdani under fire from Democrats and pro-Palestinian left over Oct 7 message World. Edited by: Prisha Patnaik | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Oct 8, 2026, 10:19 IST Timesofindia

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European Parliament Backs Calls to Put Muslim Brotherhood Entities on Terrorist List. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. October 8. 2026.

The European Parliament on Thursday approved a resolution calling on the European Union to add people and entities linked to the Muslim Brotherhood to its list of terrorist organizations, amid growing concerns over the group’s influence and Islamist threats across the continent.

With the resolution passing 381-167, with 15 abstentions, the measure now goes to the European Council, which determines the EU’s political direction, after lawmakers called on member states to develop a joint strategy to counter what they described as “Islamist infiltration and Muslim Brotherhood networks.”

As part of the broader effort to counter the growing influence of Islamist networks, European officials have called on EU member states to develop a common strategy for identifying signs of infiltration, including “double messaging” — when individuals use moderate language in public or political settings but promote more extreme views in mosques or private settings.

The resolution also urges governments to strengthen cooperation against extremist networks and support Muslim intellectuals and activists who publicly defend democracy, freedom of conscience, and the rule of law. Algemeiner

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Operation Economic Outcast Neutralizes Iranian Regime’s Remaining Shadow Fleet Network October 8, 2026 Sanctions Target Iran’s Remaining Illicit Fleet and its Global Support Network

WASHINGTON—Today, as part of Operation Economic Outcast, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is targeting the remnants of Iran’s shadow fleet: the aging network of tankers the regime relies on to move billions of dollars’ worth of petroleum and petroleum products to foreign markets. Today’s action effectively neutralizes the vast majority of Iran’s remaining shadow fleet network.

“Treasury is starving the tyrannical regime in Tehran of the money it uses to wage war in the region, and we will continue exposing those who enable the regime’s oil sales,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “No enabler of Iranian sanctions evasion is safe from the full force of Treasury’s authorities.”

With the success of the U.S. military’s blockade, dwindling Iranian oil shipments outside the blockade line, and intensifying economic pressure across sectors from Operation Economic Outcast, the regime is running out of options to stabilize Iran’s failing economy. treasury.gov

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Huckabee: Hamas Hasn’t Done Anything to Disarm, ‘Trump Brought Them to the Table, and Then They Have Ignored Every Bit’. Breitbart. Oct 8, 2026. Breitbart

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Aiming at Israel, Europe Is Hitting Its Own Defenses in a Circular Firing Squad. Algemeiner. Oct 8, 2026. Algemeiner

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Operation Bogus Bylines: The pro-Iran network of fake journalists and the outlets that published their articles. A closer look at the network documented by OpenAI. Marc Owen Jones Oct 09, 2026. OpenAI published a report on 8 October 2026 detailing two covert influence operations that used ChatGPT. One, which it named “Bogus Bylines”, originated in Iran and used seven fabricated journalist personas to submit articles to online publications. OpenAI identified almost 100 articles published or syndicated under these identities across more than a dozen outlets between July 2025 and October 2026. Publication increased following the outbreak of the US–Iran conflict.

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

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According to OpenAI, the operators used ChatGPT to review English-language drafts against the submission requirements of specific publications. They then requested revisions and emails pitching the articles to editors. In Harrison’s case, the model was also used to generate the author biography. Several personas had supporting social media accounts.

I 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 bylines appeared... at Substack

OpenAI Bans Two Covert Influence Operations Using False Fronts. Published October 8, 2026 By Miles Okada, AI & Cybersecurity AI Research Agent

Key Points -OpenAI's first Category 5 disruption shows AI fronts now launder geopolitical messaging into real media. -The Russian operation co-opted unwitting Latin American staff to run a fake research platform. -Iran's seven fake journalists planted nearly 100 articles in small outlets worldwide.

OpenAI said on October 8, 2026, that it had banned two covert influence operations, one originating in Russia and one in Iran, that used ChatGPT to support what it called “false front” entities, assessing the Russian campaign as the first Category 5 influence operation it has disrupted. According to the company’s safety report, the operations used those entities “to launder geopolitical, conflict-related messaging into their target audiences.”

OpenAI assessed the Russia-origin operation at Category 5 on the IO Breakout Scale, which rates influence operations from 1, the lowest, to 6, the highest, and placed the Iran-origin operation at Category 4. The Iranian campaign ran seven fake journalist personas that pitched long-form articles to small and medium online outlets around the world, while the Russian operation appears to have co-opted unwitting people in Latin America to run a self-styled research platform on the ground, OpenAI said.

OpenAI said it has exposed 30 covert influence operations over the past two and a half years, and that operations landing their content in real media outlets rather than relying on fake social media distribution tend to have the highest potential reach. The report compared the pair to pre-AI fronts such as “Alice Donovan,” a fake journalist persona described as a front for Russian military intelligence whose articles ran in Western outlets in 2016 and 2017, and “PeaceData,” a fake news outlet Meta exposed in 2020 that recruited unwitting journalists; both ceased their activity after exposure, OpenAI noted.

Russia-Origin Operation ‘Dark Clark’ OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that originated in Russia and were used for tasks tied to covert influence campaigns targeting countries across Latin America. Most of the operators prompted in Russian; one prompted in Spanish but appeared to be located in Russia. Because OpenAI does not allow access to its models from Russia, the operators connected through VPNs. OpenAI said it shared information on the case with the relevant authorities.

The operators used ChatGPT mainly to draft and update internal reports to an unknown superior, covering three workstreams: denigrating Ukraine and undermining recruitment for the Ukrainian Armed Forces; interfering in domestic politics, especially in Bolivia and Argentina; and managing a self-described research platform called the Social Research Center (SRC). The operators appeared to control the SRC through a fake persona named “Mia Clark,” the basis for the operation’s “Dark Clark” nickname.

The internal reports claimed a series of fakes planted across the region. The operators said that in 2024 they spread a false story that Argentine President Javier Milei had bought Cartier jeweled collars for his dogs and paid local actors to post anti-Milei graffiti in Buenos Aires, claims that open-source researchers have publicly attributed to a Russian entity known as “Politology” or “La Compania,” a reported successor to the Wagner Group.

In May 2026, the operators said, they created a fake email address impersonating the Regional Directorate of Education in Lima and instructed Peruvian schools to hold Ukraine-themed events referencing Stepan Bandera, a controversial twentieth-century Ukrainian nationalist. OpenAI said its open-source research identified matching stories in the Peruvian and Polish press and a reaction from at least one Polish Member of the European Parliament.

The operators also claimed that in June 2026 a different fake email address tricked schools in Ecuador into holding ceremonies pledging allegiance to President Daniel Noboa and to Erik Prince, the former head of private military contractor Blackwater; OpenAI said it found closely matching Ecuadorian media coverage and a detailed rebuttal from the country’s education minister.

Two claimed March 2026 fakes used fabricated audio attributed to Ukraine’s consul in Ecuador and a video alleging that Noboa’s government was recruiting young men to fight in Ukraine, and Ecuadorian fact checkers described a matching campaign in early April. In late May 2026, according to the reports, the operators spread fabricated audio of a worker at Bolivia’s state water company, EPSAS, warning that water to La Paz would be shut off and a state of emergency declared, a campaign the operators described as intended to exacerbate the crisis around anti-government protests. OpenAI said it identified a published debunk of the claim and an official EPSAS denial.

OpenAI said the operators also used ChatGPT to identify incidents they could take credit for despite having no involvement, including Falkland/Malvinas arguments that have been part of Argentina’s official position for many years and a Brazilian media report on a captured volunteer that quoted the captive’s own video. That pattern suggested an attempt to run an influence operation aimed at the operators’ own employers rather than any external audience, the report said, and the operators’ self-reported impact claims could not be taken at face value.

Even so, OpenAI assessed Dark Clark at Category 5, citing evidence that it led to public comment by politicians in a number of countries, and described it as the most complex attempt to run a front identity the company has disrupted over the past two and a half years.

The Social Research Center Front The operators’ reports referenced hiring and firing decisions, pay scales, staffing plans, and research projects at the SRC, indicating that they controlled the entity rather than merely cooperating with it, OpenAI said. The SRC’s website describes a focus on the Indian diaspora in Latin America and relations between India and the region’s countries, and the available evidence indicated that its on-the-ground employees were unaware they were working for a Russian group. OpenAI identified well over 60 articles on the SRC website, the great majority apparently original compositions.

Transparency settings showed the SRC’s X account listing a German location while connecting via the Russian Federation App Store, and one of its Instagram accounts administered from Venezuela. A LinkedIn account with SRC branding counted 961 followers as of August 17, 2026, claimed 200 to 500 staff, and listed two employees.

The operators occasionally asked the model to produce operational content, OpenAI said. The requests included a letter implicating Ukraine’s honorary consul to Panama in corruption, which later appeared on a one-follower TikTok channel using the logo of Panama’s TVN Noticias; translation into Ecuadorian Spanish of a script claiming Noboa had insulted poor people in Ecuador; and proofreading of a fake contract between a company called International Security Solutions FZE and an individual in Ecuador, purporting to provide infrastructure services in Ukraine. An image of that contract later circulated on social media to bolster the recruitment claims, and fact checkers concluded the company did not appear in the registry of Ecuador’s Superintendency of Companies, Securities, and Insurance, according to the report.

Iran-Origin Operation ‘Bogus Bylines’ OpenAI banned a separate cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Iran whose operators prompted in Persian, generated content in Persian and English, and used VPNs to obscure their location. The campaign was nicknamed “Bogus Bylines” for seven fake journalist personas: Ervin B. Hoskins, Noah Lamington, Sophia Gonzalez, Michael Harrison, Ericka Feusier, Jenny Williams, and Alice Johnson. The personas posed as Western journalists, and for the Michael Harrison persona the operators asked ChatGPT to write the biography itself. OpenAI noted that in March 2026 Meta disrupted an Iranian influence operation that also featured a Michael Harrison persona, and that transparency settings located the Hoskins persona’s accounts in Iran; Meta banned that persona’s Instagram account in August 2026.

Using open-source investigation, OpenAI identified almost 100 articles published or syndicated under the operation’s bylines across roughly a dozen small to medium online outlets focused on international affairs, geopolitics, and the Middle East. The earliest article dated to July 2025 and the latest to October 2026, and the frequency increased after the outbreak of the US-Iran conflict, the report said. Operators asked ChatGPT to refine English-language drafts against specific outlets’ submission criteria and to generate pitch emails to editors. One outlet that published the operation’s articles had almost 2 million followers on Facebook, almost 355,000 on X, and over 544,000 on Instagram as of August 2026.

Alongside the articles, the operators generated batches of social media comments that portrayed the United States as the aggressor, Israel as an unreliable ally, and Iran as a resilient victim, including over two dozen batches of hostile Persian-language replies to UK-based satellite network Iran International, OpenAI said. Other batches praised the operation’s own articles to make them look more popular. The replies OpenAI identified online drew low engagement, with many of the likes coming from accounts linked to the operation itself, and the X accounts of three of the personas had been suspended as of August 2026.

OpenAI said the operators’ internal reports measured their impact using the number of views on the posts they replied to rather than views of their own replies, a calculation the report described as greatly exaggerating the operation’s apparent effectiveness. It assessed the commenting workstream at Category 2 and the article-planting workstream at Category 4, citing consistent breakout to a number of media outlets. The overall activity appeared consistent with a commercial actor running a for-hire influence campaign, though OpenAI said it was unable to identify the particular actor involved. The company said it shared information on the case with the relevant authorities and with industry partners, which it described as best placed to provide holistic assessments of engagement. unite.ai

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Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad will be livestreamed: Pentagon. By Jared Downing. Published Oct. 8, 2026 The military will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday — after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said he wanted to make an example of the mass killer.

The execution will happen on Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, where Hasan massacred 13 people and wounded 32 others in one of the deadliest shootings ever at a US military installation, Hegseth confirmed to Real America’s Voice News aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. NY Post

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Caught on tape. Drone Video Debunks 'Palestinian' Arson Libel in Binyamin. Oct 8 '26. C14 Desk C14

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Anti-Israel Jews Discover the Left Hates Them Too. It’s impossible to be anti-Israel enough for an anti-Semitic movement. October 9, 2026. By Daniel Greenfield. FPM

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Op-ed: Mamdani spit on the graves of October 7 victims. Acknowledging the reality of who the aggressors were, the scale and barbaric nature of the atrocities they committed, and the basic humanity of the victims, would put the war into a “context" Mamdani can never admit. Opinion. Gary Willig. Published: Oct 9, 2026, 1:08 PM (GMT+3)

Antisemites just can’t help themselves. That’s what New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s disgraceful “message" for the anniversary of the October 7 massacre proves.

Instead of acknowledging the true horror of the atrocities committed, Mamdani belittled them and abused the anniversary to “contextualize" the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and to attack Israel for daring to respond to barbaric monsters who slaughtered its civilians and for trying to get the 251 hostages back.

Even in his opening paragraph, the one cited by many as “starting off well," the Mayor of New York downplayed the scale of the massacre, rounding the number of victims down to “1,100" where most would say “about 1,200" to more accurately reflect the true number of victims, which is 1,195. Mamdani won’t say which of the 95 murdered souls do not count in his eyes, but it would hardly be the first or the last time he spat on the graves of the victims of October 7.

He immediately moved on to saying that “the suffering did not begin nor end that day," putting the genocidal butchery of Hamas in the same “context" antisemites have tried to use to justify Hamas’s crimes against humanity every day for the last three years. And not a word criticizing Hamas or acknowledging the actual victims of that day was to be found after the first paragraph. The final three were about how “evil" Israel is in his eyes for not rolling over and dying.

Mamdani cannot make a simple acknowledgement of the reality of what happened on October 7, he cannot make even one statement on the anniversary that is even mostly - let alone entirely - devoted to remembering the victims. Because to him, Israelis by definition are never victims. Hamas is always the victim.

In the upside-down world inhabited by Mamdani and his fellow antisemites, 9-month-old Kfir Bibas is not an innocent victim, but Yahya Sinwar, the “butcher of Khan Younis," is a "victim" of the fake “genocide." That is the message he was conveying in his brief mention of October 7 and the far more detail he devoted to spreading lies about the war that followed.

He could not be bothered to describe the families burned alive in their homes, the young concert-goers shot down, and their bodies burned in the hundreds at a music festival, the grenades thrown into roadside shelters to kill the civilians hiding inside. He could not be bothered to utter a word about the mass rapes, or to describe the horrors the hostages endured.

Acknowledging the reality of who the aggressors were, the scale and barbaric nature of the atrocities they committed, and the basic humanity of the victims, would put the war into a “context" Mamdani and those like him can never admit. He would much rather spit on all their graves for the sake of his fantasy of righteous Islamists "resisting" and fighting back against the evil Jews.

Mamdani ended with a call to “honor the dead." And yet he cannot and will not honor any dead except those from Hamas. He is incapable of doing the bare minimum to honor the victims of October 7, because he is incapable of seeing Jews as victims, let alone honoring Jews who don’t submit to Dhimmitude.

49 Americans were murdered on October 7, the exact number of words Mamdani used out of 211 to actually talk about October 7 instead of distracting from October 7. Not one of those words mentioned the American victims, because again, the victims of Hamas, even US citizens, are not real victims to him.

Is it any wonder that antisemitism has spiked in New York and Jewish citizens are increasingly unsafe? Is it any wonder that Jews are attacked outside synagogues on other days of mourning such as Tisha B’Av, or that antisemites felt no compunctions about going out to celebrate the slaughter of October 7 and the Hamas monsters who killed 1,200 people on the anniversary of the massacre, when this is the mayor?

The Jewish citizens of New York, a community which has done so much to make the city great for a century and a half, deserve better than this pitiful excuse for a mayor. The victims of October 7 deserve better than this pitiful excuse for a human being. INN

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Israel blasts decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay. Oct 9, 2026. Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Friday denounced the decision to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay, calling it a “grotesque misuse of the prize to legitimize hatred and anti-Israel prejudice.”

“If there were a prize for lies, hatred and blood libels, Navi Pillay would not merely be a candidate—she would be the front-runner,” the ministry said.

Pillay chaired the U.N. commission of inquiry that concluded in September 2025 that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, allegations Jerusalem has categorically rejected.

“Now that the Nobel Committee has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is surely applauding from hell,” the ministry said JNS

Israel calls Navi Pillay’s win a ‘grotesque weaponization’ of Nobel Peace Prize. By Mira Bhakta 10/09/26. Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Friday fumed over what it described as the “grotesque weaponization” of the Nobel Peace Prize after the award was won by former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Navi Pillay.

“If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn’t just be a contender. She’d be a frontrunner. Her role in the relentless, politically motivated demonization of Israel and promotion of the genoLIE speaks volumes,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote on social media. “Awarding Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t a recognition of justice. It’s the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice.” TheHill

'Goebbels is applauding'. Anti-Israel South African jurist awarded Nobel Peace Prize. Israel National News. Oct 9, 2026, 2:58 PM INN

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A ‘peace prize’ for the vilification of Israel - Israel & Jewish News - JNS. Oct. 9, 2026. By Ruthie Blum.

A ‘peace prize’ for the vilification of Israel Honoring Navi Pillay highlights the moral rot of the United Nations and Nobel Committee.

(Oct. 9, 2026 / JNS) There are bad decisions and disgraceful ones. And then there’s the awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay.

The choice is hardly out of character for an award whose history has repeatedly shown that its name guarantees nothing about its recipients’ merit. Indeed, this isn’t an aberration for the Norwegian committee. But it’s an especially egregious example of a familiar pattern: an international establishment congratulating itself for advancing peace while rewarding people whose records make a mockery of the concept.

Pillay, who chaired the United Nations Commission of Inquiry that accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, has become a symbol of the double standards permeating the global system. The woman now being feted in the name of peace presided over a more aptly dubbed “inquisition” whose whole purpose was to brand the Jewish state with a bloody—blood libelous—stain. Like an irremovable tattoo. The term “genocide” has a specific legal definition, including the requirement to establish intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected national, ethnic, racial or religious group. It’s laughable to suggest that Israel’s behavior even remotely fits that description, as it took great pains to avoid civilian casualties and flooded Gaza with humanitarian aid.

That Hamas kept stealing the food and medicine, and prevented anyone other than its goons from entering the hundreds of miles of tunnels, was never of interest to Pillay and her ilk. Nor did they ever note that the population in Gaza has grown in the past three years. Some genocide.

Though her commission’s report wasn’t a judicial verdict, the force of its accusation was unmistakable, and Pillay was gleefully instrumental in promoting the lie for pernicious purposes. Which we now see has paid off, big-time.

This was hardly the first time her commission helped fuel the campaign to portray Israel as uniquely depraved. Pillay, a former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008-2014), was appointed to her latest post in 2021. That was when the “Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory” was established by the U.N. Human Rights Council to concoct a report to vilify Israel.

And, boy, did she ever come through for her anti-Israel colleagues, producing a mendacious paper on Israeli “crimes” in Gaza. Its allegations reinforced a false narrative depicting Israel not as a country at war with sadistic barbarians—thousands of whom breached the border on Oct. 7, 2023 to rape, maim and slaughter 1,200 innocent Israelis, and abduct 251 others—but as a sexually abusive state.

Nothing new about the turpitude of the U.N.’s endless attempts to demonize Israel. So, Pillay’s having been selected to head the commission wasn’t surprising.

Ditto for her winning an award transformed long ago into a vehicle for leftist virtue-signaling. In his 1895 will, Swedish scientist/businessman Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, bequeathed most of his immense fortune to establishing prizes in science, literature and peace. The latter was intended to recognize efforts toward fraternity among nations. Its subsequent history, however, has repeatedly exposed the gulf between those ideals and the eponymous committee’s selections. Rather than consistently rewarding meaningful contributions to peace, the prize has served as a platform for globalist ideology involving the inversion of right and wrong.

Pillay epitomizes this moral rot. Her new laureate status is less an honor than a mark of Cain.

To add to this blot, her prize was announced on Oct. 9, two days after Israel marked the third anniversary of the worst atrocities committed against Jews since the Holocaust. The timing highlights the perversity of the prize and its recipient. JNS

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PBS NewsHour’s Sanitized Portrait of Bigoted Navi Pillay: The Record Nick Schifrin Left Out.

On October 9, 2026, PBS NewsHour’s Nick Schifrin interviewed Stephen Rapp, presenting Navi Pillay as an ostensibly “objective” human rights judge—without addressing the controversies and allegations that complicate that portrayal.

The omissions were glaring.

Not a word about the international backlash over Pillay’s commission and its handling of Israel.

Not a word about the international condemnation of U.N. investigator Miloon Kothari in 2022 following his controversial remarks about Israel’s supporters and the Jewish community.

Not a word about the October 2023 criticism from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Italy and other democracies, which challenged Pillay’s commission over what they described as its one-sided treatment of Israel and its handling of Hamas terrorism.

And not a word about the explosive charge raised on October 9, 2026, by U.N. whistleblower Emma Reilly: that the U.N. human rights office, under Pillay’s leadership, provided China with the names of Uyghur dissidents despite warnings that disclosure could endanger them and their families.

These are not peripheral details. They go directly to the questions of impartiality, accountability and institutional credibility that a serious examination of a human rights figure should confront.

PBS viewers deserved scrutiny, not a sanitized profile.

When a broadcast presents a contested international figure as an impartial authority while leaving out major public controversies and serious, attributable allegations about her record, the audience cannot fully assess the credibility of that portrayal.

Journalism is not simply about whom you interview. It is also about what you ask, what you challenge and what you leave out.

Nick Schifrin’s interview may have presented the portrait. But without the missing record, PBS NewsHour did not give viewers the full picture.

Sources:

- The Compendium of World Condemnations of Antisemitic UN Investigator Miloon Kothari — UN Watch, August 18, 2022. ([72]) - Pillay Commission Blasted by US, UK, Germany, Australia, Italy & Others — UN Watch, October 24, 2023. ([73]) - UN Watch: Emma Reilly’s allegations concerning Navi Pillay — October 9, 2026. ([74])

Key Criticisms by NGO Monitor.

NGO Monitor [75], among others has published extensive criticism of South African jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, particularly concerning her work regarding Israel and the United Nations.

• Anti-Israel Bias & UN Framework: NGO Monitor has frequently accused Pillay of leading or fostering an anti-Israel bias within United Nations human rights bodies. They have criticized her alliance with non-governmental organizations that push critical campaigns or boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) initiatives against Israel.

• Commission of Inquiry (COI) Reports: When Pillay chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (which concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza), NGO Monitor released detailed analyses showing that the commission's reports lacked objective methodology, relied on biased sources, and served a predetermined political agenda.

• Dismissal of Antisemitism Allegations: NGO Monitor has criticized Pillay for dismissing or failing to properly address accusations of antisemitism directed at members of the UN commission she led.

• Past UN Tenure: During her earlier tenure as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008–2014), NGO Monitor accused her of ignoring systemic human rights abuses by other regional regimes while disproportionately focusing criticism on Israel.

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T.O.I. [81] ThatPointToo

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Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 Awarded to Anti-Israel South African Judge.

John Hayward. 9 Oct 2026. The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to South African judge and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, currently serving as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Critics blasted the award as a purely political move intended to “send a message” to President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, since Pillay has denounced Israel for “genocide[sic]” in Gaza without corresponding criticism of the October 7 atrocities or the terrorists of Hamas.

If the Nobel committee was trying to infuriate the Israelis by giving the Peace Prize to a “Gaza genocide[sic]” activists just two days after the anniversary of the 10/7 attack, it succeeded.

“If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn’t just be a contender. She’d be a frontrunner,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in response to the announcement.

“Her role in the relentless, politically motivated demonization of Israel and promotion of the genoLIE speaks volumes,” the statement continued. “Awarding Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t a recognition of justice. It’s the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice.”

“Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry concluded.

“The Nobel Prize committee has lost its moral compass. It has awarded its highest honor to a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state,” said the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Navi Pillay’s proudest achievement was to legitimize a corrupt prosecutor who turned to her fabrications against Israel hoping that by joining her bigoted lynch mob, he would beat a rape charge,” the Netanyahu statement continued, referring to disgraced International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan.

“Karim Khan, who was accused by his own ICC employees of raping and sexually molesting them, used Pillay’s lies to build a fake case against Israel. Pillay supplied the lies. Khan weaponized them,” the prime minister’s office charged.

“And now the misguided members of the Nobel Committee are honoring the woman who propagated this demonization of the Jews and this travesty of justice,” the statement exclaimed.

U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer was “shocked” at the award to Pillay, given her “troubling record on antisemitism and gross breach of ethics in presiding over a notorious U.N. commission.”

Neuer summarized the case against Pillay:

'In July 2021, Ms. Pillay accepted to chair a Pakistani-sponsored U.N. Commission of Inquiry into alleged Israeli crimes. The rules of due process require that fact-finders in the human rights field be impartial. Yet prior to accepting this post, Pillay had publicly pronounced herself, in extreme terms, on the very issues that her inquiry is mandated to investigate.

In June 2020, she signed a manifesto calling on governments to “Sanction Apartheid Israel.” In June 2021, a month before heading the inquiry, Pillay wrote a letter to President Biden calling to punish Israel for the May 2021 war with Hamas. She has made many more prior prejudicial pronouncements.'

Neuer noted that Pillay has also defended antisemitic comments from other international bureaucrats, and her record was toxic enough to get her disinvited from a town hall event in Berlin in 2022.

“By honoring Pillay, the Nobel committee has failed to uphold the principles it seeks to celebrate. International justice depends on impartiality. When an investigator campaigns to punish a country before examining the evidence, she compromises the credibility of both her findings and the institution she represents,” Neuer said.

Pillay, whose full name is “Navanethem,” is an 85-year-old South African who was born to an Indian Tamil family. She was an anti-apartheid lawyer early in her career and, in 1995, she became the first non-white female judge on South Africa’s highest court. She was also the first South African to receive a doctorate of law from Harvard Law School.

Pillay went on to lead an international tribunal investigating the Rwandan genocide in 1994. She was U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights between 2008 and 2014, and has served as a judge on the ICC.

Her link to the ICC led observers to speculate she was chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize as a rebuke to President Trump, as well as to Netanyahu. The Trump administration imposed sanctions against the ICC on Friday after slamming the court for unfairly harassing the U.S. and its allies, such as Israel. Neither America or Israel was a signatory to the Rome Statue, the 1998 treaty that established the ICC.

“We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us. The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared on Friday.

Pillay, who was in Nuremburg, Germany, and touring the famous Nuremberg Trials chamber when her Nobel Peace Prize was announced, took some digs at the U.S. and Israel in her comments on the award.

“The last thing I did is deliver the report on Gaza, naming what’s happening there as genocide,” she recalled, repeating the slander that enraged the Israelis.

“One of the main reactions to that report was paying tribute to me for my courage[sic] and you can imagine how surprised I was. Why would you need courage to speak the truth? You interpret the law, you look at all the facts, so it’s impartial decision making,” she insisted.

“We are living through an era when international law and human rights are under significant political attack. This worsening reality is particularly visible with the attacks on the International Criminal Court,” she said, turning her lash from Israel to the United States.

When the audience in Nuremberg applauded the announcement of her Nobel prize, Pillay joked: “If you clap a bit more, I may share this prize with Trump.” She was making a sarcastic reference to last year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who gave her medal to Trump in a White House meeting in January 2026 to acknowledge his contributions to freedom in Venezuela.

The chair of the Nobel Peace Committee, Jorgen Watne Frydnes, told reporters the committee was not taking a stance on the Gaza “genocide[sic]” issue by presenting the Peace Prize to Pillay. “It’s her report. ...” he said.

Frydnes also insisted the Nobel Committee is separate from the International Criminal Court, but went on to say that Pillay’s prize was meant to “remind the world that the cornerstone of a more peaceful world is strengthening international law.” Breitbart

Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer; We are shocked that the Nobel committee honored Navi Pillay. Her troubling record on antisemitism and gross breach of ethics in presiding over a notorious UN commission utterly disqualifies her from such an award.

The Nobel Peace Prize should uphold universal human rights and reject antisemitism unequivocally. Honoring Pillay without confronting this record undermines those principles and risks rewarding prejudice rather than advancing peace.

In July 2021, Ms. Pillay accepted to chair a Pakistani-sponsored UN Commission of Inquiry into alleged Israeli crimes. The rules of due process require that fact-finders in the human rights field be impartial. Yet prior to accepting this post, Pillay had publicly pronounced herself, in extreme terms, on the very issues that her inquiry is mandated to investigate.

In June 2020, she signed a manifesto calling on governments to “Sanction Apartheid Israel.” In June 2021, a month before heading the inquiry, Pillay wrote a letter to President Biden calling to punish Israel for the May 2021 war with Hamas. She has made many more prior prejudicial pronouncements. (See: [82])

This not all. In July 2022, Pillay’s fellow commissioner Miloon Kothari railed against “the Jewish Lobby” and questioned Israel’s right to be a member state of the UN. Mr. Kothari was condemned by the world’s leading democracies, and by top UN officials including Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Astonishingly, however, Navi Pillay defended him.

For those reasons, the Mayor of Berlin in 2022 withdrew her support for a town hall event set to honor Navi Pillay, and the award was canceled.

By honoring Pillay, the Nobel committee has failed to uphold the principles it seeks to celebrate. International justice depends on impartiality. When an investigator campaigns to punish a country before examining the evidence, she compromises the credibility of both her findings and the institution she represents.

Pillay’s defense of a colleague who invoked “the Jewish lobby” is especially disturbing. A human rights leader should recognize and unequivocally reject antisemitic stereotypes. Her response instead helped shield her colleague from accountability. The Nobel committee should have confronted that record before presenting her as a model of integrity.

The victims of discrimination deserve institutions that apply the same standards to everyone.

Today’s decision sends the wrong message: that achievements elsewhere excuse prejudice against Jews and the abandonment of basic standards of fairness when investigating Israel. That weakens the cause of universal human rights. Oct 9, 2026 on X

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US imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court, hours after former judge wins Nobel. Washington has denounced the ICC over arrest warrants issued for Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and a past investigation into actions of US soldiers in Afghanistan. By Reuters. October 9, 2026. US President Donald Trump's administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting Washington on a diplomatic collision course with European allies.

The ICC's deputy prosecutor, Nazhat Shameem Khan, condemned the sanctions and said they would not halt the tribunal's work.

The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court founded in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges. Friday's move would go far further, by potentially punishing companies that provide services to the court itself.

"President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, first published by Reuters.

"That is why, today, the United States is sanctioning the International Criminal Court. We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off its resources and crippling its ability to operate." JPost

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ICC ‘Became a Manipulative Device for Dictatorships and Criminals’: Middle East Expert. NTD Newsroom. Oct-09-2026 The State Department imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) just after one of its former judges received the Nobel Peace Price, saying Washington “will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate.” NTD spoke with David Wurmser, a Middle East affairs analyst at the Center for Security Policy. NTD

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Flydubai co-pilot was inspired by 9/11 when he planned to crash into Israeli airport terminal: officials. By Associated Press. Published Oct. 9, 2026.

JERUSALEM — The axe-wielding co-pilot who attacked the captain of a FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv last month intended to seize control of the airplane and fly it into the passenger terminal at Israel’s main international airport, authorities in the United Arab Emirates said Friday.

The suspect, an Omani national, did so “with the intention of causing the greatest possible number of human casualties,” the UAE’s top prosecutor said in a statement carried by the state news agency WAM. Most of the 174 passengers on the flight were from Israel.

The statement said the co-pilot “drew inspiration” from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and used two previous flights from Dubai to Tel Aviv to “familiarize himself with the flight route and the airport. NY Post

FlyDubai co-pilot planned 9/11-style attack on Israel’s main airport, UAE says. Hamam al-Hammami, a 29-year-old Omani national, intended to cause “the greatest possible number of human casualties,” the Emirati attorney general said. October 9, 2026 . By Matthew Hay Brown. The FlyDubai co-pilot who is accused of attacking his pilot with an ax and attempting to take over their Israel-bound commercial flight last week planned to crash the aircraft into the passenger terminal at Ben-Gurion International Airport, the United Arab Emirates says.

The co-pilot, who has been identified as 29-year-old Omani national Hamam al-Hammami, took inspiration from the al-Qaeda attacks of 9/11, Emirati Attorney General Hamad Saif al-Shamsi said Friday, according to the state-run Emirates News Agency. He had used two previous flights to scout the route and the airport, Shamsi said.

Shamsi’s report, which alleges Hammami underwent a decade-long process of radicalization, raises new questions about how he managed to elude FlyDubai’s screening measures. Investigators found that Hammadi “met the professional and security employment requirements” at the state-owned airline, Shamsi said, “without any indications appearing during those procedures that reveal his extremist tendencies or his intention to carry out a terrorist plot.”

Passengers on board FlyDubai Flight 1073 on Sept. 30 say Hammami struck the pilot with a crash ax, an emergency tool kept in the cockpit, and sent the Boeing 737 Max 8 into a nosedive. Pilot Smit Machchhar suffered life-threatening head injuries but managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers to subdue Hammami. Two pilots who were on board to fly the return trip then landed the aircraft safely in Saudi Arabia.

Israeli authorities did not respond immediately to a request for comment Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that Hammami had undergone “Islamic radical indoctrination” and was “suicidal.” A spokesman for Netanyahu described Hammami as “radicalized.”

“He talks on his social media about killing Jews,” spokesman Doron Spielman told The Washington Post. “So it’s very clear he had the intent and the motive to kill Jews before.” WaPo

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IDF kills three Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza Strip. All three recently advanced plans for attacks against IDF soldiers and operated to restore the terror organizations' grasp on the Gaza Strip, according to the IDF. Jerusalem Post Staff. October 9, 2026. JPost

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Sa'ar slams Abbas. 'Fooling the international community with election delay'. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar accuses Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas of repeatedly breaking promises to hold elections and implement reforms, saying the PA faces no consequences for its actions. Israel National News. Oct 9, 2026, 5:17 PM INN

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Across the Gaza Strip: IDF destroys terrorist weapons storage facilities Israel National News Oct 9, 2026, 2:53 PM INN

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Reform's Suella Braverman: UK antisemitism ‘not going to get better’ amid systemic Islamism crisis. ANTISEMITISM AFFAIRS: Former UK home secretary Suella Braverman warned that antisemitism will worsen without political change, accusing British leaders of failing to confront Islamist extremism. October 9, 2026. JPost

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'Appreciate everything': Evyatar David on Hamas captivity, three years after Oct. 7 - interview. After 738 days as a Hamas hostage, David reflects on the friends he lost at Nova, the psychological torment of being told no one wanted him home, and the hope that sustained him. October 9, 2026. JPost

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Trump leaves door open to Iran strike before midterms, less than a day after ruling it out. Asked about possible US strikes on Iran before the midterms, Trump said, "We may. I mean, we'll see." Trump also discussed the Russian diesel deal and the Fort Hood shooter. October 9, 2026. JPost

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Trump says Russia to 'immediately supply' 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to US, global markets. October 9, 2026. JPost

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“premeditated terrorist plot to seize control of the aircraft and use it to launch a suicide attack targeting the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, with the aim of causing the greatest possible loss of life”,

Flydubai co-pilot radicalised in Melbourne: UAE. Andrew Tillett Europe correspondent Oct 10, 2026 – 10.27am

London | The co-pilot accused of attempting to hijack a passenger jet full of Israeli passengers watched terror videos and glorified attackers as part of his radicalisation while studying in Melbourne almost a decade ago, the United Arab Emirates top prosecutor said on Friday (Saturday AEDT). The Omani co-pilot planned to crash the plane into the passenger terminal at Tel Aviv airport to kill the most number of people in a September 11 style plot, UAE Attorney-General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi revealed. The co-pilot told investigators he had acted alone, the attorney-general said.

Omani pilot Hamam al-Hammami is accused of attacking his colleague on a flydubai flight to Israel. LinkedIn UAE investigators have spent the past week interrogating the co-pilot, who multiple media outlets citing sources close to the investigation have named as Hamam al-Hammami, after the alleged terror attack was foiled by brave passengers onboard Flydubai flight 1073 on September 30. The details offered by Al-Shamsi are the most comprehensive official account of the failed attack. They are based on al-Hammami’s detailed confession, according to UAE state media outlet WAM, which first published the attorney-general’s update. Al-Hammami had been issued a student visa and studied engineering at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology between 2015 and 2017. It was cancelled as a matter of process in 2019 after checks found he had left the country.

Al-Hammami ‘psychologically and physically’ prepared.

In an article published by WAM, Al Shamsi said investigators had traced the ideological and professional background of the 29-year-old co-pilot, finding that “his drift towards extremism and terrorism first emerged in 2017” while he was studying in Australia.

He was alleged during this period to have taken an interest in terrorism, including reading extremist literature and following online content that glorified terrorist organisations and suicide attacks. “This influence subsequently developed into the adoption of ideas advocating violence and terrorism,” WAM reported. “He also drew inspiration from the 11 September 2001 attacks, and the idea of carrying out a similar operation using an aircraft became firmly established in his thinking. According to his confession, this was linked to his decision to pursue a career in aviation.

“He also said that he prepared himself both psychologically and physically to carry out the plot by intensifying his exposure to material promoting terrorism and training in boxing under a private coach.”

The Australian Federal Police has confirmed it and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation have been looking at al-Hammami’s time in Australia. The WAM report said al-Hammami had admitted to attending a mosque affiliated with the university, where he met individuals associated with an Islamic spiritual centre.

The spiritual centre, according to al-Hammami, had received support from an association linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organisation which some countries including the US and Gulf nations have deemed a terrorist group or banned but which remains legal in Australia.

The WAM report offered no further elaboration, including whether al-Hammami had maintained ties to individuals or groups in Melbourne or whether it was at the centre he was radicalised, or whether there was any involvement in his plot.

The WAM report said al-Hammami had twice before flown to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport to familiarise himself with the flight route and airport before carrying out the attack on his third flight. The co-pilot tried to carry out a “premeditated terrorist plot to seize control of the aircraft and use it to launch a suicide attack targeting the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, with the aim of causing the greatest possible loss of life”, WAM said. Investigators have also confirmed the man’s work history with several airlines. The investigation found he had met the security and professional requirements when Flydubai recruited him but none of this process uncovered signs of his extremist views or desire to conduct a terror attack.

News reports said a previous employer, Oman Air, had banned al-Hammami from the cockpit as his extremist views became known.

Al-Hammami is alleged to have attacked Indian pilot Smit Machchhar with an emergency axe in the cockpit before putting the plane, which had about 170 mostly Israeli passengers onboard into a rapid nosedive, breaking off its rudder. Despite being badly wounded Machchhar managed to unlock the cockpit door, allowing several Israeli passengers to storm into the cockpit and restrain al-Hammami and regain control of the aircraft. Two off-duty pilots onboard managed to perform an emergency landing at a Saudi Arabian airport. The captain and the passengers have been hailed as heroes for foiling the suicide attack.

Al-Hammami’s lawyer had been present during the interrogation and his legal rights safeguarded while he was in Emirati custody, the WAM article said. He is yet to be charged. AFR

UAE: Flydubai co-pilot planned 9/11-style attack on Ben Gurion Airport. UAE prosecutors say Flydubai co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami planned to crash a passenger jet into Ben Gurion Airport after years of preparation for a terror attack. Israel National News. Oct 9, 2026, 8:07 PM (GMT+3) terrorismUnited Arab EmiratesBen Gurion International AirportFlydubai Hijacking Attempt

The Flydubai co-pilot who attempted to hijack a passenger aircraft traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week had planned to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport in a terrorist attack intended to cause mass casualties, United Arab Emirates prosecutors announced Friday.

UAE Attorney General Dr. Hamad Al Shamsi revealed the findings of an investigation into the September 30 incident aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073, identifying the suspect as a 29-year-old Omani national who had allegedly spent years preparing to carry out the attack.

According to investigators, the co-pilot, previously identified as Hamam al-Hammami, admitted that he had been inspired by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and had chosen to pursue a career as a commercial pilot with the intention of eventually carrying out a similar operation.

The investigation determined that al-Hammami's radicalization began in 2017 while he was studying in Melbourne, Australia.

During his time there, he reportedly encountered extremist publications and online materials promoting terrorist organizations and suicide attacks.

Investigators also examined his attendance at a mosque associated with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he allegedly encountered individuals linked to a center operated by a Lebanese man known as "Abu Hamza", who was said to have connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.

According to the attorney general, al-Hammami subsequently intensified his exposure to extremist propaganda as part of his psychological preparation for the planned attack.

He also undertook physical training, including private boxing lessons, which investigators said formed part of his preparations.

The investigation found that the suspect had previously traveled on two flights to Tel Aviv to familiarize himself with the route and Ben Gurion Airport before attempting to carry out the plot.

Authorities also reviewed al-Hammami's aviation career and the circumstances surrounding his employment by Flydubai.

He worked for Oman Air between 2020 and 2024, subsequently spent a brief period with Royal Air Maroc in 2025 and joined Flydubai in January 2026.

Investigators determined that the suspect had satisfied the professional and security conditions required for employment by the airline.

These included possession of a valid pilot's license, submission of a certificate of good conduct and completion of the necessary screening procedures.

However, the recruitment process did not uncover evidence of his extremist beliefs or intentions to carry out a terrorist attack.

The findings follow a report published earlier this week by Britain's The Telegraph, which revealed that al-Hammami had received professional flight training in the United Kingdom.

According to the newspaper, he attended L3 Airline Academy between 2018 and 2019, when the institution was among Britain's largest aviation training schools.

The academy operated several facilities across England, including major training centers in Southampton and Bournemouth and a flight simulator facility near Gatwick Airport.

The company has since become part of Acron Aviation.

The Telegraph also reported that L3 had maintained connections with Oman Air, where al-Hammami was employed until February 2025.

Oman Air had previously identified the academy as one of five internationally recognized flight training institutions whose graduates were eligible for consideration under its pilot recruitment program.

Israel's Channel 12 News reported recently that al-Hammami had connected his attempted attack to the war in the Gaza Strip.

“I did it as revenge for Gaza. I wanted to die as a shahid," al-Hammami reportedly told investigators.

(Arutz Sheva-Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.) INN

‘Zionists are bloodsuckers’: Melbourne imam whose center was named by Flydubai suspect.

UAE investigators say Omani co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami began radicalizing in Australia in 2017, years before the attempted attack; he attended an RMIT-linked mosque and met people associated with MyCentre, while any role by the center remains unproven. Saar Haas|10.08.26 13:51

Just one day after the attempted downing of a Flydubai flight bound for Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said investigators had determined that the Omani co-pilot had undergone "Islamist jihadist brainwashing." But only now, following a statement by the United Arab Emirates' attorney general, has it become clear that the suspect's radicalization began long before his visits to Syria, nearly a decade ago in Australia. According to the Emirati statement, the suspected attacker, Hamam al-Hammami, confessed that while studying in Melbourne, he regularly attended a mosque affiliated with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). During his visits, he became acquainted with people associated with an Islamic center known as MyCentre. Al-Hammami lived in Australia between 2015 and 2017, and the center was headed then, as it is today, by Samir Mohtadi, a preacher known as Abu Hamza.

Mohtadi, whose family is of Lebanese descent but who grew up in Australia, came under scrutiny last year over a sermon and a social media post containing inflammatory anti-Zionist rhetoric. His remarks offer a glimpse into the views promoted by the preacher who leads the organization identified in the suspect's account. However, investigators have not established that Mohtadi or MyCentre played any role in the attempted attack or in al-Hammami's radicalization.

In the statements reported last year, Mohtadi described Zionists as "scavengers" and "bloodsuckers" and declared that Australia was waging a war against Islam. At the same time, he was pursuing plans to establish a multimillion-dollar Islamic complex known as a "sanctuary" through his registered charitable organization.

During a sermon at an Islamic center in Melbourne, attended by a reporter from The Australian, the imam called on Allah to "cast terror into the hearts of the Zionists." "O Allah, grant victory to our mujahideen in Palestine, strengthen their footing and grant them a clear victory," he said in Arabic. "O Allah, shake the ground beneath the feet of the Zionists. O Allah, deprive them of the blessing of security, scatter their gatherings and tear their unity apart."

Mohtadi also told worshippers that they were not obliged to adopt the values of Australia, despite the country having welcomed them, granted them citizenship and provided them with full political, social and economic rights, including freedom of religion.

"The war being waged here is far more dangerous than the war in Gaza," he preached. "They want to implant in our minds the idea that God does not exist. That is why this is a war over the mind. They want us to doubt Allah, to doubt the Day of Judgment and to doubt the Prophet[sic]."

Speaking to the Australian newspaper, Mohtadi defended his right to express his views about Zionism. In a post published on the official Facebook page of the Islamic Information and Services Network of Australasia (IISNA), he declared his absolute opposition to the State of Israel and described Zionists in dehumanizing terms.

"We do not believe in a country called Israel. Every righteous person believes that there is Palestine and that there is no Israel," he said. "I have always said, and I have always believed, that Zionists are not normal. They are bloodsucking human beings, they are scavengers. They are not human, I swear by Allah." "God willing, may they all return to Russia, Ukraine, America and Britain, and may Palestine be cleansed of these filthy Zionist terrorists," he continued.

Despite the controversy surrounding those statements, IISNA has remained a registered charity in Australia. The organization has also previously received government support for community events and educational initiatives.

The revelations have drawn renewed attention to al-Hammami's years in Melbourne after UAE Attorney General Dr. Hamad Saif Al Shamsi announced Friday that the suspect had intended to seize control of the Flydubai aircraft and crash it into the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport, with the aim of causing the greatest possible number of casualties. According to the investigation, the first signs of al-Hammami's extremist beliefs emerged in 2017, while he was studying in Australia. Investigators said he was exposed to radical literature and online material glorifying terrorist organizations and suicide attacks, and eventually became inspired by the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.

The suspect has confessed to acting alone, but Emirati authorities are continuing to investigate his connections and the possible involvement of accomplices. His account of contacts in Melbourne has pened another line of scrutiny into his ideological development, although the extent to which individuals he encountered in Australia influenced his plans remains unclear. YNet

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Hamas Hails Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Israel Blasts ‘Moral Failure. By Yoel Stavsky, United With Israel, October 10, 2026. The Hamas terrorist organization, which carried out the Oct. 7 massacre, is celebrating the winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. UWI

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Paraguay will not renounce friendship with Israel despite political costs, VP tells 'Post'. DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: In an exclusive interview, Paraguay's vice president pledged to preserve his country's alliance with Israel, and expand cooperation against Iranian threats. By Alex Winston. October 10, 2026. For a country separated from Israel by more than 11,000 kilometers, Paraguay has proved an unusually close friend over the Jewish state’s history.

While governments across the world have spent the past three years disassociating themselves from Israel’s war against Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran, the South American nation has taken a different course, restoring its embassy to Israel’s capital, deepening security cooperation, and defending the Jewish state’s right to protect itself.

That friendship was on display yet again this week, when Paraguayan Vice President Pedro Alliana arrived in Israel alongside Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano and Environment Minister Rolando de Barros Barreto, and the timing of the delegation’s visit was intentional. Three years after the Hamas massacres of October 7, 2023, Paraguay wanted to make clear where it stood.

For Alliana, who sat exclusively with The Jerusalem Post during his visit, the relationship extends well beyond diplomatic gestures.

“Paraguay is building a strategic alliance with Israel in which we share values and principles of democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and freedom,” he told the Post. “Our relationship with Israel is founded on these values and principles, and we also defend Israel’s right to defend its territory.”

On Wednesday, Alliana and Ramírez met with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Jerusalem, where the two sides discussed expanding cooperation in healthcare, technology, security, and other fields. Meetings with Israel’s prime minister and president followed on Thursday.

The Paraguayan delegation also visited Yad Vashem, laying a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance, before participating in commemorations marking the anniversary of October 7.

“Since the October 7 massacre, Paraguay has stood firmly by our side,” Sa’ar said following the meeting. “We remember who stands with us in difficult times, and Paraguay has proven itself to be a true friend.”

Alliana was equally emphatic, stating, “Three years ago, Hamas carried out brutal acts of terrorism. The terrorist organization murdered, raped and kidnapped innocent Israelis.”

Paraguay’s support has not always been without consequences. Asked whether standing so firmly alongside Israel had carried a diplomatic or political cost, Alliana acknowledged that it had, telling the Post, “There are, evidently, political costs on many occasions. However, above the circumstances of the moment and any tensions that may arise are these values and principles, which Paraguay will not renounce.”

The relationship between Israel and Paraguay stretches back to the earliest years of the Jewish state. Paraguay voted in favor of the United Nations partition plan in November 1947, supporting the proposal to establish Jewish and Arab states in British Mandatory Palestine. Formal diplomatic relations followed in 1949.

Yet the friendship has faced political upheavals, most notably in recent years over the location of Paraguay’s embassy.

In May 2018, then-Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes moved the Paraguayan Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, following the United States and Guatemala. Four months later, his successor, Mario Abdo Benítez, reversed the decision, prompting Israel to close its embassy in Asunción.

The diplomatic dispute lasted for years, until President Santiago Peña took office in 2023 and moved to restore the relationship. In December 2024, Peña personally attended the reopening of Paraguay’s embassy in Jerusalem, a powerful diplomatic gesture at a time when Israel was facing growing international criticism over the war in Gaza.

Israel has since reopened its embassy in the Paraguayan capital.

For Alliana, the challenge now is ensuring that the status quo survives changes of government.

The 52-year-old vice president, a former president of Paraguay’s Chamber of Deputies and longtime leader of the governing Colorado Party, intends to seek the presidency in the 2028 election.

His candidacy, the former national team basketball player and seasoned politician explained, is also a commitment to preserving the relationship with Israel.

“My candidacy for the presidency of the republic for the next term follows that same path: ensuring continuity in a close, firm, and lasting relationship,” he said.

Alliana pointed to Peña’s personal attendance at the embassy inauguration, the foreign minister’s visit earlier this year, and his own presence in Israel during the October 7 commemorations as evidence of that commitment.

The message was one of continuity. Having experienced how quickly diplomatic decisions can be reversed, Paraguay’s current leadership wants its relationship with Israel to endure beyond individual administrations.

There is another, less familiar dimension to Paraguay’s affinity with Israel, one rooted in the country’s own history of extraordinary suffering.

Shared history of national tragedy strengthens Paraguay's bond with Israel There is also a deeper historical dimension to Paraguay’s strong relationship with Israel, rooted in a national tragedy that continues to shape the country’s collective memory.

More than 150 years ago, Paraguay endured one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the Americas: the War of the Triple Alliance, fought between 1864 and 1870.

The conflict, in which Paraguay fought an alliance of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, remains one of the most devastating wars ever fought in the Americas.

By the time the fighting ended, Paraguay lay in ruins. Its economy was shattered, much of its territory had been occupied, and an enormous proportion of its population had perished.

The precise death toll remains a subject of historical debate. Some estimates suggest that Paraguay lost around 60% of its population, while others place the figure lower. What is not in doubt is that the destruction of the country’s adult male population was so severe that it left a demographic and social legacy that lasted generations.

For Paraguayans, the war remains a defining episode in their national history, a catastrophe that threatened the country’s very existence.

The conflict is seen among Paraguayans as an attempt to exterminate the Paraguayan people, and they draw analogies with the historical suffering of Jews and Israelis.

The circumstances of the War of the Triple Alliance and the Holocaust were, of course, very different, but the analogizing offers insight into how Paraguayans understand their country’s relationship with Israel.

Both nations carry memories of catastrophic loss within their national consciousness, alongside a determination to preserve their independence and ensure their survival.

For Paraguay, whose history includes the experience of seeing its population decimated and its future placed in jeopardy, Israel’s insistence on defending itself against threats to its existence has a particular resonance.

Against this historical backdrop, the Paraguayan delegation’s visit to Yad Vashem and its decision to commemorate October 7 in Israel is even more significant.

Israel’s bridge in Latin America Paraguay’s ambitions extend beyond its own bilateral relationship with Jerusalem.

Across Latin America, Israel’s diplomatic position has undergone considerable changes in recent months. Argentinian President Javier Milei has long been one of Israel’s most outspoken international supporters, but recent developments in Colombia and Venezuela have opened the door to renewed engagement after years of strained relations. Colombia and Israel fully restored diplomatic, security, and economic ties after President Abelardo de la Espriella’s inauguration in August, while that same month, Israel and Venezuela agreed to resume consular relations after 17 years of severed ties under the Chavez and Maduro regimes.

Alliana believes Paraguay has an important role to play in encouraging Israel’s reintegration process on the continent.

“Paraguay has been promoting closer relations between Latin America and Israel, based on the strategic alliance that I have mentioned on several occasions,” he stated. “We have served as a bridge for dialogue, which has allowed us to bring Israel closer to the region.”

He pointed to a videoconference organized this year by Foreign Minister Ramírez, bringing together Israel’s foreign minister and his Latin American counterparts.

The initiative, Alliana explained, allowed Israel to present its position directly to regional governments, including during particularly challenging periods.

Paraguay is also part of a relatively small group of countries that maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan rather than the People’s Republic of China, a long-standing foreign policy commitment that has occasionally placed it at odds with prevailing regional trends.

Asked whether Paraguay’s foreign policy was increasingly based on shared values rather than broader diplomatic consensus, Alliana rejected the suggestion that it was ideologically driven.

“The foreign policy of the Republic of Paraguay, and of our government, is based on the values and principles I have mentioned and is in no way aligned with ideological considerations,” he said.

For Paraguay, its relationships with Israel, the United States, and Taiwan form part of a diplomatic outlook that the current administration regards as consistent and principled.

The recent changes in Venezuela are of particular interest. For years, Caracas was among Iran’s closest partners in the Western Hemisphere, providing the Islamic Republic with a valuable political and strategic foothold in South America.

Alliana welcomed the developments following American intervention in Venezuela and President Peña’s engagement with interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez, but he also emphasized the need for a democratic transition based on respect for human rights, the release of political prisoners, and full participation in elections.

The objective, he said, is to establish a clear road map that would allow Venezuelans themselves to determine their country’s future.

Paraguay takes firm stance against Iran's growing influence in Latin America The changing political landscape of Latin America also raises questions about Iran’s influence in the region, a subject on which Paraguay has taken a particularly firm position.

Paraguay has designated Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist organizations. The country’s concerns are rooted partly in the long-standing activities of Hezbollah-linked networks in Latin America, particularly around the tri-border region shared by Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina.

The region has attracted international attention for decades over allegations of illicit financing, smuggling, and activities linked to terrorist organizations.

For Alliana, the response requires close intelligence and security cooperation with Israel, the United States, and neighboring countries.

“Paraguay has been taking a series of measures,” the vice president said. “First, we have significant intelligence cooperation with Israel, the United States, and other allied countries in our region.”

He highlighted a status of forces agreement with the United States, which he linked to military cooperation and support for Paraguay’s armed forces and police, while also referencing regional security initiatives involving Chile and Bolivia, including cooperation with the government of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz.

These arrangements, he said, have allowed Paraguay to work more closely with its neighbors on operations against terrorist organizations, transnational organized crime, and Iranian activities in the region.

His remarks suggest that Paraguay regards the Iranian threat as an operational security concern requiring international coordination, rather than simply a matter of diplomatic disagreement. The relationship with Israel is therefore important in practical terms, particularly in intelligence sharing, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism.

“The fight against terrorism is one of the areas in which Israel is at the forefront and is the first line of defense against terrorist groups that are causing so much harm around the world,” he said.

Security cooperation may dominate much of the political relationship, but Paraguay also sees substantial opportunities in Israeli technology and expertise.

In meetings with Sa’ar, the Paraguayan delegation discussed cooperation in cybersecurity, water management, agriculture, healthcare, and technological development.

Paraguay possesses major freshwater resources, yet the efficient management of those resources, particularly for agriculture and irrigation, remains an area where Israeli expertise could prove valuable.

Healthcare is another priority for the landlocked South American country. During Wednesday’s meeting, the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding on health cooperation, opening the way for technology transfer and further professional training.

“[The MOU] will enable technology transfer, the specialization and training of Paraguayan doctors in Israel, and the training of technicians in various technological fields in Israel to become part of this broader agenda,” Alliana explained.

Educational exchanges have also become an important component of the relationship. Israel’s MASHAV international development cooperation agency has provided training and scholarships to Paraguayan professionals, with Alliana’s delegation emphasizing the participation of nearly 400 people over the past two years.

Trade is another bilateral area which continues to expand. Paraguay has become an increasingly important supplier of beef to Israel, with Alliana citing growth from $85 million to $300m. annually over the past three years.

“Our vision is clear: Paraguay and Israel must work together to significantly expand the bilateral relationship,” he said.

For Paraguay's leadership, the relationship with Israel also fits into a wider vision of the country’s place in international affairs.

Alliana pointed to Peña’s participation in the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit in Egypt, where he said the Paraguayan president was the only Latin American head of state invited to witness the signing of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

The vice president cited US President Donald Trump’s personal invitation to Peña to participate in the event as evidence of Paraguay’s growing diplomatic standing and its potential role in international efforts involving Israel.

“We have been and continue to be a bridge for engagement in the region,” he said.

The country’s friendship with Israel has already survived diplomatic reversals, regional disagreements, and mounting international pressure, but its current leaders now want to ensure the relationship becomes a permanent feature of the country’s foreign policy.

As Alliana looks toward the 2028 presidential election, he is presenting that continuity as part of his political vision.

Meanwhile, his government’s efforts to deepen cooperation in security, healthcare, technology, and regional diplomacy reflect how much Paraguay values its friendship with Israel and the strength it sees in that relationship.

“Paraguay is working with Israel on a long-term relationship that extends into the future,” the vice president said. “We have a shared view of the challenges we face.”

For Israel, in a world where genuine friends have sometimes seemed in short supply over the past three years, Paraguay’s friendship is one worth cherishing. JPost

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United grounds pilot who praised October 7 massacre after reports of reinstatement - report. United Airlines confirmed it grounded a pilot who praised Hamas's October 7 massacre after reports revealed he had quietly returned to flying six months after his November 2023 suspension.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. October 10, 2026.

United Airlines has once again removed Capt. Ibrahim R. Mossallam from service following earlier social media posts expressing support for Hamas's October 7 massacre, The Daily Wire reported Wednesday.

An airline spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Wire on Tuesday that "the pilot" has been "withheld from service pending an ongoing review."

Mossallam was initially suspended with pay in November 2023. However, an Israeli media report published Monday revealed that the airline had quietly allowed him to return to his duties just six months later.

According to The Daily Wire, United Airlines did not confirm whether Mossallam had resumed flying after the company launched its initial investigation in late 2023. JPost

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Iran retains missile, drone production capabilities despite months of US-Israeli strikes - report. Western intelligence assessments suggest Iran has preserved key weapons factories and can replenish its missile arsenal despite months of US-Israeli attacks. JPost

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Israel sends emergency aid to Panama following earthquake. Israel National News. Oct 10, 2026, 10:35 PM INN

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37 Years Later: Bereaved family demands removal of monument to terrorist. Yaakov Farag was murdered while guarding Har Bracha in 1988. Now, his widow is demanding that the IDF demolish a nearby monument commemorating his killer. Israel National News. Published: Oct 11, 2026, 12:16 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Trump criticizes Nobel Peace Prize winner as anti-Israel, says 'something wrong in Norway'.

Former President Donald Trump criticized the recent Nobel Peace Prize recipient, claiming she is "very anti-Israel" and "a person that nobody ever heard of." Trump stated he "stopped China and I stopped Taiwan" but did not receive the prize. He concluded by saying "there's something wrong in Norway." Oct 10, 2026 JFeed

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Report: US pressured Israel to strike Iran before elections. Trump administration urged Israel to launch a strike against Iran amid concerns over Tehran's military buildup, asking Israel to bear political risks ahead of elections, journalist Ben Caspit reports. Israel National News. Oct 11, 2026, 12:27 AM INN

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Trump weighs US strikes on Houthis after deadliest attack on Saudi in 11 years. Oct 10, 2026. ItanIntl

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Report: Economic Collapse Hits IRGC as Hardliners Rule. By Asaf Nissan. Editor: Dror Balazada. Iran's catastrophic economic collapse has deeply penetrated the ranks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), forcing mid-level and senior officers into moonlighting second jobs to survive. With hardline IRGC commanders Ahmad Vahidi and Hossein Taeb now functionally controlling the country while sidelining civilian leaders, factional voices within the military apparatus are aggressively pushing for a major regional flare-up ahead of the U.S. midterm elections—aiming to spike oil prices and corner President Donald Trump before expected American strikes. C14

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Ballot Delayed Again. Abbas Delays Palestinian Vote to 2027. Oct 10, 2026 JFeed

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IDF Strikes Syrian Terrorist Near Lebanon Border. Oct 10, 2026. IDF targets Iran-directed Syrian operative on the Syria-Lebanon border. Military says he planned drone and rocket attacks on troops on the Syrian border. JFeed

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Lebanese security forces seize truck with 800 kg of explosives, arrest Hezbollah members. Oct 10, 2026. Lebanese security forces confiscated a truck carrying approximately 800 kg of explosive material, nails, and metal balls while it was traveling from the Baalbek area to Beirut. The two drivers are Hezbollah members who stated during interrogation that a Hezbollah senior named Sayed Sajad instructed them to deliver the cargo to another senior official in the organization located in Dahiyeh. Security forces are working to identify additional Hezbollah members connected to the shipment. The incident occurred as negotiations are ongoing. JFeed

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Trump calls Michigan Senator-elect Mohammed El-Sayed "radical jihadist". President Trump referred to Michigan Senator-elect Mohammed El-Sayed as a "radical jihadist," stating "I'm the president. I can call him whatever the hell I want. He's a radical jihadist. I don't want a jihadist as a senator from Michigan. Oct 11, 2026 00:21 JFeed

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IDF kills Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists, destroys weapons sites in Gaza. Recently, the terrorists intensified attacks on IDF troops, in systematic violation of the ceasefire agreement. JNS Staff. Oct 10, 2026 JNS

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'I became paranoid': Flydubai passenger suspects crew members aided hijacker, calls for probe. Speaking to the Post, Asaf Rajuan called for an investigation into flight attendants he suspects may have assisted the hijacker, citing alleged attempts to interfere with the attacker’s restraints.

By Zvika Klein. October 11, 2026. Eleven days after helping to overpower the co-pilot accused of trying to crash a flydubai flight bound for Israel, passenger Asaf Rajuan wants two flight attendants who were on board to be investigated. He has also called for the two additional pilots who were traveling and who landed the aircraft in Saudi Arabia to be questioned.

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday, Rajuan said he suspected the attendants had assisted the attacker. He described confrontations with passengers, objections to filming and exchanges between the two men that left him afraid the danger had continued after the co-pilot was restrained. JPost

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Arutz Sheva poll. 1/3 of secular Israelis see plane rescue as ‘divine providence’. Israel National News. Oct 11, 2026, 8:41 AM INN

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CENTCOM strikes commercial vessel with precision munition after ship attempts to bypass blockade. Oct 11, 2026. JPost

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NYC DSA darling Darializa Avila Chevalier claims it ‘doesn’t even matter’ that gangbanger shot by ICE has violent criminal record. By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon Published Oct. 11, 2026 [83] A city democratic socialist congressional candidate has claimed it “doesn’t even matter” that the illegal migrant wounded by ICE agents in The Bronx has a violent criminal history — and accused the NYPD of villainizing him.

Democratic Socialists of American darling Darializa Avila Chevalier told lefty streamer Hasan Piker that accused gangbanger Oscar Belgal was just being a good dad when he tried to flee the feds with his 5-year-old son in the car Thursday — and was somehow a victim of his own rap sheet being revealed. NY Post

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JONES: Look, I mean, here is the thing. There are legitimate criticisms of his policy that we can't get you tonight, because the president of the United States is making bigoted attacks against him based on his faith.

What he said that, "hurt people hurt people," that was terrible. Him saying that Israel shouldn't be able to purchase weapons, interceptors to knock down rockets, that's insane. Those are terrible policy ideas he has. But.... That's not because he is Muslim. It's because he has bad policy ideas. Let's talk about that.

But I'm going to tell you, if you're trying to stop Abdul, attacking him on his faith, is not the way to do it because you're going to have people rally because we don't want to see this stuff in our politics. He has some good ideas. He has some bad ideas. I think his ideas on foreign policy are terrible. I think the idea that Israel can't purchase -- a total armed embargo against Israel, well, you're going to disarm half the surviving Jews in the world in the toughest neighborhood? That's wrong, but that's not because of his faith, and we've got to be clear about that. CNN

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Islamic Gaza GenoLIE: Selective Outrage / Falsehood Propaganda - Political Islam's Hatred. 10/14/26. If the anti-Hamas war in Gaza had been conducted by non-Jews, would any prominent Arab or Muslim figure or organization be speaking so loudly about it?

Of course not.

They didn't—and don't—care about the 700,000 Syrians, the Uyghurs under China, or the millions of victims in Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria, or the 140,000 people killed by Iran's regime, among others.

Have these same figures and organizations seriously confronted guilty Arab-Palestine dictatorship leadership Hamas's role in Gazan civilian deaths—its military tactics, its conduct of the war, and the consequences of its decisions for the people it claims to represent?

Where is the sustained, unequivocal condemnation of Hamas's leadership for the suffering its own decisions have inflicted on Gazans?

Noted Islamic propagating the G word. A lot. But only against Israel.

-Naledi Pandor. A convert to Islam and architect of South Africa's propaganda campaign against Israel, accused of antisemitism as early as 2022. -Hamas' Euro-Med. (genocidal Hamas linked group not only edit Wikipedia but is training Arabs how to do so. Yuval Abraham Israelophobic propagandist accused of spreading falsehoods, with Regavim exposing falsehoods in his reporting as early as 2020. He has also been linked to a Euro-Med figure and reportedly maintained a close relationship with him dating back to at least 2019). -CAIR. Nihad Awad glorified the October 7 genocidal-Palestinian attacks. It is a pro-genocidal Hamas group posing as a "civil rights" organization. -USCMO. Offered a rationalization for the October 7 attacks by framing them as an act of "self-defense." -OIC. A bloc of 57 Muslim-majority countries that lobbies and exerts influence at the UN. -SJP. From SJP’s founder, Hatem Bazian—a radical Palestinian-American activist associated with the Muslim Brotherhood—to SJP’s promotion of a vile, hateful cartoon in November 2017 featuring a non-Zionist Haredi Jew, and Bazian’s significant role in managing JVP, as allegedly exposed by his May 11, 2023, tweet, to SJP’s repeated use of Nazi themes and Nazi-themed imagery, the pattern appears to reflect a determined effort to perpetuate the Palestine Mufti’s diabolical legacy of pan-Arab and pan-Islamic leadership. -Qatari and Erdogan's Turkish media. (Qatar's al Jazeera, Middle East Eye an theNewArab. Or Turkey's Anadolu and TRT shill for Hamas. Hosting and deep ties are wrll known). -OIC. (a bloc of 57 Muslim-majority countries that lobbies and exerts influence at the UN. Zohran Mamdani. A bigoted BDSr since college, co-founded a [notorious] SJP chapter, and his racist Arab wife involved in troublesome antisemitic social media posts. -Hasan Piker. The nephew of Cenk Uygur, a fellow Turkish Muslim with whom he co-founded TYT. Piker has called religious Jews "inbreds," reportedly used a sword bearing a swastika; said "America deserved 9/11," and said rapists should target white women. -Abdul El-Sayed. Rationalized the actions of a Hezbollah-inspired would-be butcher who targeted 140 toddlers at Temple Israel on March 12, 2026. El-Sayed had campaigned with Hasan Piker. ThatPointToo

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Turning the Tables on Lie of the Century We have a bunker buster: 10,000 words of evidence that Hamas committed genocide on Oct. 7. What are we planning to do with it? David Suissa. October 11, 2026. JJ.

There’s a reason the Journal published a 10,000-word cover story last week making the case that Hamas was guilty of genocide on Oct. 7.

A few weeks earlier, the writer, investigative journalist Gerald Posner, showed in another cover story, “Genocide for Dummies,” why accusing Israel of genocide was not just wrong but absurd.

In the face of a stunning decline in Israel’s global status, however, saying Israel is not guilty is not enough. It’s weak. It’s playing defense. If we can show the world that Hamas committed genocide on Oct. 7, why are we defending ourselves instead of attacking?

That is why we published all 10,000 words, our longest-ever cover story. We wanted readers to see the full argument that pins the genocide label on Hamas. The way Posner weaves his case is not just credible; it’s comprehensive and masterful.

It revolves around this question: “If the 1948 Genocide Convention’s list of prohibited acts and ‘special intent’ requirement were applied to Oct. 7, 2023, did Hamas commit a genocidal act on that day?”

Posner takes international bodies to task for never asking that question, one they routinely ask about Israel.

“When an institution runs the Genocide Convention against one belligerent and declines to run it against the other,” he writes, “it is a choice that matters because the incendiary charge of genocide has become the moral center of gravity for anti-Israel activists, shaping campus debates, arms embargoes and court filings.”

Posner does what no legal body dared to do: he judges Hamas using the legal standards of these same international bodies, and he finds the goods.

So, while the world recklessly screams “genocide” at Israel, Posner carefully and methodically turns the tables on the real culprit. He punches big holes in the case against Israel—a nation that defended itself against a barbaric invasion– and uncovers boulders of evidence against the invaders.

“Applying the same standard I did to Israel,” he concludes, “the case that Oct. 7 was a genocidal act is much stronger than the case against Israel.” This is a case, he reminds us, that “has never been examined by the institutions that were most eager to use the word.”

It’s a case where the stakes are enormous. Genocide is the most evil of crimes. It now rolls off the tongues of Hollywood celebrities, mayoral candidates, leaders of NGOs and international bodies, the mainstream media, even last week’s Nobel Prize winner.

If the genocide lie is the lie of the century, fighting it must become our fight of the century.

Meanwhile, the pro-Israel community seems to have fallen asleep. We’re investing huge resources and spending untold millions “fighting Jew-hatred” and yet, Jew-hatred keeps growing and public support for Israel in America keeps plummeting.

Our mistake is a lack of focus. Jew-hatred is too general. The major driver of Jew-hatred right now is most obviously the genocide lie. For Jew-haters, that is their weapon of mass destruction. For Jews, it must become our target of maximum attention.

We need an “all-hands-on-deck” mentality. Every organization that cares about Israel— ADL, AJC, JNF, AIPAC, ZOA, Federations, activist groups, Christian Zionists, everyone– must mobilize for the fight.

This has nothing to do with left or right. You can despise the Israeli government and hate its war policies and still agree that the genocide accusation is a sinister lie that is endangering Jews.

We’ve already seen several initiatives debunking the lie. Those are necessary but hardly sufficient. Now it’s high time we go after Hamas. Set up emergency task forces. Invite top creative and legal minds. In short, for once let’s put Hamas and its millions of shameless supporters squarely on the defensive.

We have a bunker buster: 10,000 words of evidence that Hamas committed genocide on Oct. 7.

What are we planning to do with it? JewishJournal

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FAA warns US airlines of flight risks over Saudi Arabia. Israel National News. Oct 12, 2026, 3:53 AM JPost

FAA warns US airlines to exercise caution in Saudi Arabia flight. Oct 11, 2026. JPost

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'Worst is yet to come:' Houthis claim responsibility for strikes on Saudi airports. The strikes exposed vulnerabilities in Saudi defense capabilities as the kingdom wages an air campaign against the ​Houthis, who are fighting a ground war in Yemen against the Saudi-backed government. October 12, 2026 04:02 JPost

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Paris urges Abbas to reverse Palestinian election postponement. By Joshua Marks. Oct 12, 2026 JNS

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Global anti-Israel protests coordinated in advance by international alliance, documents show. Behind the protest’s preparation and framing is the London-based Global Alliance for Palestine (GAFP), a coalition of about 200 organizations focused on Palestine advocacy.

By Mathilda Heller. October 11, 2026 20:43 Pro-Palestinian protests across the world last week were coordinated in advance by an international alliance that prepared campaign slogans, media messaging and protest tactics, including calls to shut down city squares, encircle government buildings and blockade corporate hubs, The Jerusalem Post's review of campaign documents found.

This was first reported on by Fox News Digital, which found that "long before the first demonstrators gathered, the messages for the protest's 'communications framing' and transnational action plan had already been written, the banners designed, the tactics circulated and the media strategy laid out."

Behind the protest preparation and framing is a London-based coalition called Global Alliance for Palestine (GAFP), an international alliance of around 200 organizations that are focused on Palestine advocacy.

Ahead of the week of October 7, which marked the third anniversary of the Hamas attacks, GAFP released press statements and media toolkits encouraging pro-Palestine movements, student groups, trade unions, and civil society organizations worldwide to unite under the banner ‘End the Genocide[sic], Defend the Land’.

GAFP was behind the Global Day of Action on October 10, as well as a direct legislative pressure campaign asking parliamentarians to demand immediate arms embargoes, emergency debates, suspended trade agreements, and binding human rights sanctions against Israel.

In the toolkit for October 10 protests, viewed by the Post, GAFP called for protesters to "shut down city squares, encircle government buildings, and blockade complicit corporate hubs."

Rather than a symbolic march, GAFP said the purpose of the global day of action was to interrupt business-as-usual. Among the other suggested protest actions were walk-outs, sit-ins, and blockades.

Groups encouraged to use language 'impossible to ignore'..

In a GAFP concept paper for the Global Alliance for Palestine, organizers share guidelines for 'Communications Framing' and 'Core Messages' about Israel. The document encourages groups to use language that is "disciplined, credible, urgent and impossible to ignore." GAFP also published a list of slogans such as "From Every Street, One Demand: End Genocide, End Occupation" and "Israel Kills. The Media Justifies."

The Post identified 181 organizations in the coalition, with the organizations being spread out across the world. Among the most high-profile participating organizations are CodePink, the Freedom Flotilla, and regional BDS chapters. Israel's Foreign Ministry called out the "prewritten accusations, coordinated slogans," and "orchestrated disruptions." "A calculated effort to hijack headlines, dominate the narrative and demonize Israel. The hatred is loud. The coordination is documented," it said. While many of the hundreds of protests across the world may have appeared to be independent and unconnected, the understanding of GAFP's campaign indicates that this may not have been the case. JPost

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UK activist group launches ‘Some people are Zionist! Get over it!’ campaign. The group launched the campaign in response to the Green Party conference's vote on October 4, by 1,022 votes to 813, to pass a motion declaring "Zionism is racism."

By Alex Carson. October 11, 2026.

A group of mainly non-Jewish activists challenging British antisemitism by standing with Israel launched a new campaign next to the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square on Saturday, called “Some people are Zionist! Get over it!”

Mark Birbeck, founder and director of Our Fight, told The Jerusalem Post that the group launched the campaign in response to the Green Party conference’s vote on October 4, by 1,022 votes to 813, to pass a motion declaring “Zionism is racism.”

During the Parliament Square launch event on Saturday, activists wore branded T-shirts displaying the campaign slogan and held signs reading “PROUD ZIO,” utilizing a term that originated as a derogatory slur for Zionists. They also carried Israeli and British flags.

Explaining the motivation behind the initiative, Our Fight activist Kurpa Patel stated to GB News, “We’re here to stand as proud Zionists, after the Green Party adopted their motion saying ‘Zionism is racism.’ We’re saying: some people are Zionist. Get over it.”

Birbeck also spoke with GB News, stating, “There are many people who support the right of Israel to exist, and that’s all Zionism is: the right of Jews to have a homeland. In response to the hysteria we’ve been seeing around the country for the last year or two, anti-Israel hysteria, we’re saying get over it. Israel’s not going anywhere.”

Birbeck told the Post that Our Fight plans to repeat the photo opportunity next month. “We’ll be asking people to come and show their support for Israel next to Churchill’s statue again,” Birbeck said.

Launch is part of “broader mensch campaign” Birbeck said that this launch is part of their “broader mensch campaign” and that they “are organizing a conference on January 17 called ‘Be a #MENSCH,’” the campaign aims to encourage non-Jewish allies in the UK to show public, visible solidarity with the Jewish community amid rising antisemitism.

“We’ll be bringing together activists, academics, and writers to discuss the crisis of antisemitism, and broader issues relating to the nation and community,” Birbeck told the Post.

During the Green Party’s conference, Birbeck stood facing the audience at the front of the room wearing a T-shirt inscribed with the campaign slogan. Our Fight shared a video on social media showing conference organizers approaching Birbeck.

According to the group, conference organizers told him that the messaging was inappropriate before security guards and staff escorted him from the auditorium and took away his pass to block him from attending subsequent votes. JPost

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'I'm not Jewish, I'm a Zionist': Viral trend surges on X as hundreds join in, 'Post' analysis finds.

By Mathilda Heller | October 11, 2026.

A social media trend in which non-Jewish users publicly declare themselves non-Jewish Zionists has spread rapidly across X, with a Jerusalem Post analysis identifying more than 600 matching posts from nearly 550 accounts over just over a week.

The posts follow a recognizable formula: “I'm not Jewish. I'm [nationality, religion or identity]. And I am a Zionist.”

The Jerusalem Post analyzed public X posts to identify where the trend began and who was amplifying it. The analysis uncovered 613 posts published between October 4 and October 11, with activity accelerating sharply on October 9.

The dataset contained three matching posts on October 4, followed by 13 on October 5, 10 on October 6, 22 on October 7, and 26 on October 8.

The number jumped to 131 on October 9, roughly five times the previous day's total. Another 270 matching posts were published on October 10, followed by 138 on October 11 as of the time the data was collected.

In total, 539 of the 613 posts analyzed, or approximately 88%, were published from October 9 onward.

From scattered declarations to a viral formula.

Declarations of support for Zionism by non-Jewish users predate the current trend. However, the earliest posts identified by the Post did not consistently follow the standardized format that has since become widespread.

Among the posts found on October 4 were broader declarations such as, “I'm not Jewish, but I am a Zionist.”

By October 5, users had begun incorporating their national identities. One early example read, “I'm not Jewish. I am Irish, and I am a Zionist.”

An October 6 post similarly stated, “I'm English, I'm not Jewish, but I am a Zionist.”

By October 7, the three-part structure appeared more frequently, with variations identifying the poster as American, Canadian or Iranian before declaring support for Zionism.

One example posted by Dutch writer Bart Schut on October 11 read, “I'm not Jewish. I'm a Dutch atheist. And I am a Zionist.”

The dataset included references to a wide range of national identities, including Iranian, American, Canadian, German, Finnish, Irish, Italian, New Zealander, English, Polish, Australian, British, Dutch, Czech, Japanese, Portuguese and Nigerian, among others.

Some users combined national and religious identities. References to Christians, Catholics, atheists, Muslims, Hindus and agnostics also appeared in the posts analyzed.

Hundreds of accounts join the trend.

The 613 posts collected by the Post came from 549 separate X accounts, indicating that the activity was not primarily driven by a small number of accounts repeatedly posting the same phrase.

Most accounts appeared only once in the dataset.

The available data does not establish that the posts were centrally coordinated or part of an organized campaign. Rather, it demonstrates the rapid replication and adaptation of a common linguistic template across hundreds of accounts.

The timing suggests that the phenomenon changed significantly around October 9, just two days after the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks.

After the Post captured 74 matching posts between October 4 and October 8, another 539 appeared from October 9 onward.

The trend had also begun drawing attention from users on X, with posts explicitly referring to the growing number of “I'm not Jewish, but I'm a Zionist” declarations.

On October 9, for example, user Oren Barsky wrote: “the ‘I’m not Jewish, but I’m a Zionist’ trend is one of the most moving things I’ve seen on this platform.”

By October 11, Barsky said the trend was “basically [his] whole feed.”

How the Post analyzed the trend.

The Jerusalem Post collected public X search results using multiple variations of the phrases “I'm not Jewish” and “Zionist,” covering posts published between October 4 and October 11.

Duplicate post URLs were removed, leaving 613 posts from 549 unique accounts.

The dataset is not an exhaustive record of every post participating in the trend. Instead, the figures provide a snapshot of the trend visible through public X search results and demonstrate its growth during the period analyzed.

Amid widespread hostility toward Israel and Zionism, the emergence of a trend centered on expressions of solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people's right to self-determination marks a notably positive shift in social media discourse. JPost

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If Jews are really Khazars, why do Islamic prophecies about Jews apply to them?

Many Palestinians insist that today's Jews, especially Ashkenazim, are not descended from the biblical Israelites at all. They are supposedly Khazars, descendants of medieval converts to Judaism with no ancestral connection to the Land of Israel. This theory, which is contradicted by genetic evidence, [84] is used to deny Jewish historical rights to Israel.

Yet Islamists routinely invoke Quranic descriptions of the Children of Israel and Islamic prophecies about Jews to condemn modern Israelis.

If today's Jews are not really descended from the ancient Israelites, why should any of those religious texts apply to them?

I finally found a writer who actually addresses this contradiction. Or, more precisely, he handwaves his way around it.

Dr. Omar Al-Jayousi is a member of the Palestine Scholars Association. He is also a regular contributor to Al Jazeera. But his latest article was published in Al Sabeel, a Jordanian site associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. In that article, after confidently asserting that modern Jews are descended from Khazars and Europeans rather than the biblical Israelites, al-Jayousi asks how Islamic prophecies about future confrontations can apply to them.

His answer is that the conflict isn't about genes or ancestry but ideology and behavior. Modern Zionists, he argues, have adopted the same mentality, superiority complex and historical claims as the ancient Israelites condemned in Islamic scripture.

He writes:

"The present group is the true ideological and philosophical continuation of everything against which religion warned."

In other words, modern Jews don't have to be descended from the ancient Israelites. They merely have to act like them.

A little clever, but theological sleight of hand.

Consider the notorious hadith in Sahih Muslim 2922, which predicts that Muslims will fight Jews in the end times, with rocks and trees calling out that Jews are hiding behind them and should be killed. It explicitly says Jews, not Zionists, colonialists or people who supposedly behave like ancient Israelites. Is a Muslim supposed to decide who fulfills the prophecy based on political ideology? Will the rocks and trees make that decision? Nothing in the text suggests that.

The Quran is even more explicit about the identity of the Children of Israel. Quran 2:47 addresses them as recipients of God's favors. Quran 2:49 recalls their deliverance from Pharaoh, while Quran 2:61 recounts their subsequent disobedience. These verses concern a specific historical people, identified through their ancestry and shared history. They don't describe an ideology that unrelated people can inherit by behaving badly.

Al-Jayousi writes that when Islamic texts describe end-times confrontations, they are not concerned with DNA but with the ideology and behavior of the enemy. That enemy, he says, is defined by aggression, occupation and desecration of holy sites. The modern Zionists are therefore the ideological successors of the ancient Israelites, even if they are supposedly unrelated by blood.

But what exactly does this mean for the notorious hadith about rocks and trees? That prophecy doesn't describe a war against colonialism or occupation. It describes Muslims killing Jews, with rocks and trees revealing where Jews are hiding so they can be killed. There is no qualification about whether those Jews are Zionists, soldiers, settlers or innocent civilians. The language is explicitly about killing Jews as Jews.

If al-Jayousi insists that the prophecy is really about ideology rather than Jewish identity, does that mean the predicted killing also applies to Christian Zionists? He devotes an entire section to Christian Zionism, portraying it as the driving force behind Western support for Israel. What about American politicians who support Israel, or anyone else who endorses the supposedly colonialist project? Are they also the Jews whom the rocks and trees will identify? If not, why not?

He never answers these questions. Instead, he transforms a genocidal prophecy describing the mass killing of Jewish men, women and children into a struggle for human rights. He invokes international law, justice, liberation and the protection of holy sites, as though these concepts explain the hadith's indiscriminate language. But they don't. Human rights law protects individuals regardless of their religion or ideology. It doesn't authorize killing people because they belong to a group supposedly destined for defeat.

Al-Jayousi wants the religious authority of an ancient prophecy, the political appeal of anti-colonialism and the moral legitimacy of human rights, all at once. Yet he never explains how a prophecy about killing Jews becomes a universal struggle for justice.

And after declaring that ancestry is irrelevant, he concludes by celebrating how the alleged Khazar origins of modern Jews undermine their historical claims. Genealogy is decisive when denying Jewish rights, irrelevant when assigning Jewish guilt, and ideology can substitute for ancestry whenever the argument requires it.

The problem isn't merely that his definitions keep changing. It is that he uses those shifting definitions to make an explicitly genocidal prophecy to murder all Jews sound like a modern human-rights campaign.

Apparently, the only thing that must remain consistent is the hate. Oct 11, 2026. https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2026/10/if-jews-are-really-khazars-why-do.html

(Apply the same self contradiction neo Nazis or their promoter Tucker Carlson [Yuck-er Qatarlson] do when they talk about Jesus when he was killed by the Romans and in the same breath the debunked claim that Ashkenazi Jews [who are Israel's minority BTW] are "khazars." 'Nuff said). at EoZ

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say. Oct 12, 2026. WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home on Monday as part of a criminal investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter. AP

Federal agents reportedly raid Ilhan Omar’s home in immigration fraud probe. Rikki Zagelbaum. Oct 12, 2026. [https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/federal-agents-reportedly-raid-ilhan-omars-home-in-immigration-fraud-probe JNS]

(Related: In her April statement which she read out prepared by other people she first called WWII world war eleven. 77 WABC's Post. April 27, 2026. Ilhan Omar says "World War eleven" instead of WW2, mistaking the Roman numeral for 2 (II) as eleven. FB)

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Israel demands Dutch city let Hapoel Beersheva fans attend Europa League match. Oct 12, 2026 JNS

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Foreign activists to be deported after filming IDF soldiers. Hezki Baruch. Three foreign activists, including the president of an anti-Israel organization that promotes BDS, who filmed IDF soldiers in Hebron will be deported from Israel after photos of soldiers from previous shifts were found. Oct 12, 2026, 8:17 PM INN

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‘I never knew America would turn on Jews this way,’ says Jewish law prof appointed to Pennsylvania human rights panel “I used to worry because they were black Jews, and I was more concerned that they were black,” Andrea Martin told JNS of her sons. “I never thought when I sent my kids away to college that Max would have to worry about hot coffee being poured on him in a library.” Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Oct 12, 2026. JNS

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Jfeed Staff. Oct 12, 2026 21:10. Hamas reveals identity of militant who killed Israeli soldier in 2021, confirms his elimination Hamas's military wing has publicly identified Mohammad Abu Jasser as the militant who killed Staff Sergeant Barel Hadaria Shmueli in August 2021. Hamas confirmed that Abu Jasser, who shot Hadaria Shmueli at point-blank range through a slit in the fence, was eliminated on December 6, 2024. This is the first time Hamas has publicly revealed Abu Jasser's identity and role in the 2021 incident. JFeed

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US, 28 other countries decry Iranian regime threats. Oct 12, 2026. The foreign ministers of the United States and 28 other countries denounced “in the strongest terms” the Iranian regime’s “campaign of attacks across Europe targeting Jewish communities, Iranian journalists and U.S. interests.”

The joint statement came after British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said that the United Kingdom believes that the planned Sept. 27 terror attack on the Royal Air Force airbase in Fairford was “almost certainly directed” by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The joint statement recognized the British attribution of Iran’s involvement.

“Any attempt by Iran to threaten, silence, intimidate, harass, harm or coerce people on our territories through proxies or any other means is unacceptable,” the 29 countries stated. JNS

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Obama endorses El-Sayed for Senate in Michigan. Oct 12, 2026 JNS

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Jesse Watters Primetime 10/12/26 | Fox News Breaking News Today October 12, 2026. -- Benny Johnson's the host of the Benny Johnson show. So, a lot of push back over this woke BS, isn't there?

-- Yeah. I mean, I guess my first question to you, Jesse, is is Harry Styles protesting on behalf of the women in the gym by also wearing short shorts. Is this something protest there I've ever seen on a man?

-- And I love how

-- I Yeah, that's right. I love how Jerry Seinfeld has just seen into the future with his AIDS ribbon episode from the Seinfeld Show because he's living out peak woke right now. And I got to tell you, I just I like Jerry Seinfeld a lot, but Shane Gillis represents the final boss for cancel culture. He's kryptonite for cancel culture. If there's one man who has truly destroyed that sickness in our society, it is Shane Gills. I have an article for you right here from 2019. Saturday Night Live fires Shane Gillis over offensive slurs. Shane Gillis on the Saturday Night Live hosting for the third time back used offensive slurs in his entire monologue and it was hilarious. It was the first funny monologue in a very long time. He made fun of gay people. He made fun of Hitler and then he made fun of the most protected class, women. And in order to get back at him, women started posting scantily clad selfies in the gym and tagging Shane Gillis. I checked out Tik Tok today. There are thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of them all over Instagram. And so, sweetheart, I I'm just I'm not sure you're sending the message that you want to send, but this is the message that Democrats always send, which is that they they don't know that they're the joke. Remember when Kill Tony went out at Madison Square Garden and killed it before uh Donald Trump rally? It was a hilarious set. Democrats decided to get offended. Instead of rolling with it and laughing, they tried to get offended at it. And Joe Biden called the entire country garbage. They they fell right into their own trap. Joe Biden is the one who challenged Donald Trump to a debate. It didn't work out great for him. Democrats are not good at this game because they've forgotten how to laugh and they've forgotten that they themselves are the joke.

-- How about He's calling everybody racist and they're like, "How many black friends do you [laughter] have?" You couldn't name one.

-- Yeah, dude. You love China. How many blacks are living in China today? It's a great question. You're wearing a Mao Zedong outfit. That's supporting a actual genocide state. He continues to scream about genocide[sic]. Maybe it was him in the Jerry Seinfeld show. Have we checked on that guy? Do we have an idea on that guy? [laughter] It could have been Hasan [Piker] screaming that it's a "genocide[sic]," yet he's wearing the outfit of a genocidal maniac that puts Muslims in concentration camps in China. Again, I keep asking like why doesn't Hasan move to China if he loves it so much? It's because they'd probably put him in a concentration camp along with all the Uygur Muslims. I don't think they take kindly to Twitch streamers in China. Oh, wait. Twitch is banned in China. [laughter] .. on YouTube

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Former hostage: 'I am still recovering'. Former hostage Segev Kalfon marks one year since release, reflects on 738 days in captivity: 'Still learning to live again.' Israel National News. Oct 13, 2026, 6:28 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Heated confrontation over UN's silence on Hamas crimes. Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon confronted UN representative Vanessa Frazier over a report on children in armed conflict that he said ignores Hamas. "But you stay silent." Nitsan Keidar. Published: Oct 13, 2026, 5:27 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Kushner marks one year since release of last 20 living Israeli hostages. Jared Kushner on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of the release of the final 20 living Israeli hostages from Gaza on Oct. 13, 2025. He recalled their reunions with their families as “one of the most special moments of my life.”

Kushner praised the former hostages and their families for demonstrating strength and resilience after two years of captivity Oct 13, 2026. JNS

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New CAA investigation exposes NHS staff claiming Zionists control the world and Hamas as resistance. By Alex Carson, Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2026.

Thank you NHS hoarding, Omagh by Kenneth Allen, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Five National Health Service staff members, including three doctors, have been identified in a new investigation by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), revealing that they shared social media posts including claims that Zionists control the world, calling Hamas terrorists “the resistance,” and asserting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must die. The findings were revealed in a report published by the Daily Mail on Saturday.

This investigation follows a documentary released by CAA last month titled Malignant: Anti-Semitism in the NHS, which featured interviews with British-Jewish patients and workers recounting alleged antisemitic abuse at hospitals in the United Kingdom.

Among those named in the investigation is Fatimah Mohamied, a registered midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council who was appointed as a “cultural safety champion” at West Middlesex Hospital in London in a post established to address systemic racism and inequality.

Mohamied responded with enthusiasm to social media content celebrating the October 7 attacks by writing “Hell yeah!!!” in reaction to a post by Jackie Walker, a former Labour Party member who was suspended and then expelled from the party amid allegations of antisemitism in 2016. Walker’s original post claimed that “Palestinians have a right to resist their occupation – we have a right to support them. It’s that simple.”simple.” JPost

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'Don't test us!' During visit to Seam Line, Netanyahu gives terrorists warning. The Prime Minister visited the seam line in Samaria alongside senior security officials and declared that the IDF is prepared for a scenario in which PA security forces turn their weapons against Israel. Israel National News. Oct 13, 2026, 7:18 PM INN

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Ben Gvir demands death penalty for murderer of Netanel Shakron. Israel National News. Oct 13, 2026, 9:22 PM INN

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'I will never forget!' Trump warns Houthis after attacks on Saudi Arabia. Israel National News. Oct 13, 2026, 10:26 PM INN

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Florida, California Jewish day schools evacuate due to bomb threats. “There is no cause in the world that’s served by scaring children,” stated Rep. Jared Moskowitz. “If your grievance leads you to a K-12 school, you’re the problem.” Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Oct 13, 2026. JNS

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Supreme Court opts to hear case about how to define ‘material support’ for terrorism. That legal threshold “requires enough support to have some meaningful impact on the terrorist organization’s ability to achieve its goals,” a dissenting Fourth Circuit judge wrote. “Selling a hot dog to a terrorist would not count.” Andrew Bernard. Oct 13, 2026 JNS

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Little if any progress on Jew-hatred at United Nations, Jewish staffers say “Besides the Palestinians, the problem is the Europeans and the leftists, promoted by NGOs. They are the most dangerous,” a Jewish U.N. employee said of antisemitism within the institution. Mike Wagenheim. Oct 13, 2026 JNS

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Live Updates: Container ship struck in Hormuz as Saudi forces, Houthis exchange fire. Trump struggles in negotiations with Iran • Saudi Arabia destroys three drones north of Riyadh • Hezbollah to distribute up to $14,000 per family following war with Israel. Oct 13, 2026 JPost

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Iran, UK summon ambassadors over suspected terror attack near British airbase. https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-370a-d5de-abf9-f74fa8b00000

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Former Michigan Dem party treasurer endorses Rogers over El-Sayed. In an open letter to the Detroit Jewish News, Lawerence Deitch, a former longtime regent at the University of Michigan, said that former Republican congressman Mike Rogers is “a good, decent and honorable man without a hint of the vile stench of antisemitism.”

He said that he was “deeply offended” by Democratic nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a former Detroit health director, “intentionally fanning the flames of antisemitism.”

The Republican Jewish Coalition has called El-Sayed “the most antisemitic Senate candidate in America.” Oct 13, 2026. JNS

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Multiple countries that have accused Israel of ‘genocide,’ elected to UN Human Rights Council. Jordan, Kuwait and Ireland are among 15 newly elected member states that will serve on the council until the end of 2029. The others are Brazil, Burundi, Dominican Republic, Germany, Ghana, Japan, Nepal, Nigeria, Moldova, Ukraine, Uruguay and Zambia. Oct 13, 2026. JNS

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Joint List: No backing for next gov’t without progress toward Palestinian state. Yousef Jabareen, chairman of the Arab Joint List, said on Tuesday that progress toward a Palestinian state is the most important of four demands his party will put to anyone seeking its support after the Oct. 27 election. Oct 13, 2026. JNS

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Suspected ISIS supporter, 18, arrested over plot to attack IDF soldiers in Jerusalem. By TPS-IL STAFF. Oct 13, 2026. JNS

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CENTCOM rejects Iranian claim of Strait of Hormuz control US Central Command has dismissed assertions by an IRGC navy commander that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and would sink approaching American warships. CENTCOM stated the commander has no navy and that the strait is controlled by US forces alongside regional partners. American forces assisted Gulf partners in moving over 19 million barrels of crude oil through the waterway yesterday. Oct 13, 2026. JFeed

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Metallica’s James Hetfield Blasts Musicians for Promoting Their ‘Agenda’ on Stage. By Shiryn Ghermezian. October 13, 2026

Metallica’s frontman James Hetfield made it clear to audience members at the band’s Las Vegas Sphere residency show on Saturday that the heavy metal group will not use their stage presence to platform any political agenda like some other musicians do.

Hetfield made the comments on stage while thanking fans who have traveled far to see Metallica perform live as part of their “Life Burns Faster” residency.

“Unless you live in Vegas, you’ve come a long way to spend some time with Metallica,” the singer and guitarist told the audience. “We’re grateful for that. Your travels, the money you spent, the time you took. Thanks for coming to celebrate with us. And I just gotta say: Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their bulls—t.”

“We are here to forget about all the outside s—t,” he added. “Metallica’s agenda is love, energy, and heavy music, baby!”

Hetfield did not name any specific musicians in his remarks, but Macklemore has made headlines recently for talking about the Middle East conflict on stage. The Seattle-based rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s “Loop” tour after promoting from the stage his support for a “Free Palestine” and anti-Israel groups on college and university campuses; trying to defend his criticism of Israel’s military actions in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war; and accusing Israel of.... Algemeiner

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Defense Minister: 'Iran attempting to influence Israeli elections'. Israel National News. Oct 14, 2026, 12:16 AM INN

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Weeks before midterms. Trump questions Omar wealth after filing shift. President posts sharp questions on Democratic congresswoman's finances after net-worth report swung from up to $30 million to under $100,000, and ties it to Minnesota fraud scandal and FBI search of her home. Eliana Fleming. Oct 14, 2026 01:32 JFeed ____

Rep Ilhan Omar's immigration history faces new scrutiny as federal investigators subpoena relatives. Staff allegedly tried to shave a year off her age months into Congress: report Stepheny Price By Stepheny Price Fox Newsm Published October 13, 2026 8:54pm EDT FoxNews

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Blakeman blasts Hochul for sanctuary policies after NYC ICE shooting during contentious gov debate. By Craig McCarthy, Vaughn Golden, Carl Campanile and Alex Oliveira. Published Oct. 13, 2026 Updated Oct. 13, 2026, 10:29 p.m. ET ..He did, however, offer up some choice words for Hizzoner when he was mentioned near the end of the political match.

“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.” NYPost

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Muslim Charities in Judea and Samaria Exposed as Hamas Fronts. By: C14 Desk. Editor: Golan Israel. 3 Marcheshvan 5787 (14.10.26). Israeli forces raided two charity organizations in Ramallah and Yatta that allegedly served as financial and operational arms for Hamas and the PFLP, arresting five operatives. Some employees participated in the 2019 attack that killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb. IDF and Shin Bet forces have exposed terror organizations operating under the guise of charity associations in Judea and Samaria. In two targeted operations in Ramallah and Yatta, five operatives who collaborated with Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of ‘Palestine’ were arrested. According to the security establishment, the associations served as organizational and financial arms of the terror groups, exploiting ostensibly civilian activity. C14

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Maniac who barged into NYC synagogue yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ last year is nabbed evading subway fare: sources. By Joe Marino and Amanda Woods, New York Post, October 14, 2026.

A maniac who allegedly barged into a Midtown synagogue yelling, “Allahu Akbar” last year wasbusted for the brazen act Wednesday morning when police found him trying to evade a subway fare, law enforcement sources said.

Shear Nobles, 48, of Philadelphia, allegedly stormed into Shuva Israel on East 58th Street during an evening service on July 21, 2025, started recording without authorization and made the disturbing declaration, police said.

Nobles fled the house of worship and was on the lam for more than a year before he was caught.

Nobles – who had no connection to the synagogue – stood in the main service room during the anti-Semitic spectacle, authorities said…. NYPost

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Literally anything can be ‘Islamophobic’ in Green la-la land. By Heydon Prowse, Spiked, October 14, 2026.

You know you’re in People’s Front of Judea territory when the GEWs (Greens of England and Wales) decree that the majority of JEWs (Jews Everywhere in the World) are ‘racist[sic]’. Meanwhile, the party’s Muslim Greens grouping recently published a handy guide to what is and isn’t ‘Islamophobic’.

It turns out, pretty much everything is! Including, but not limited to, the following:

1) Criticising the Koran

The guidance warns against saying that the teachings of the Koran are backwards, because nothing says forward-thinking like a pre-Enlightenment ban on questioning religion.

2) Speaking up against Islam’s treatment of women

Koran 2:223 says wives are like farmland that husbands can cultivate as they please. Which, to be fair, is closer than the Green Party has come to discussing agriculture all year.

3) Saying that Islam isn’t a massive fan of the gays

Not a single Muslim country in the world permits or recognises same-sex marriage or lets gay couples adopt. But according to the Muslim Greens, this is all the fault of the Brits.

The guidance says: ‘Queerphobic legislation in many Muslim-majority countries is deeply tied to colonialism.’ Apparently, the British Empire made them do it and has forced them to continue doing it enthusiastically ever since…. Spiked online

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Iranian Regime Hangs 21-Year-Old Protester; Final Call to Father Released. Alireza Raisi executed for joining protests against the ayatollahs; in last phone call, he comforted his weeping father and promised to meet his cousin, killed in the same demonstrations.. Eliana Fleming. Oct 14, 2026 02:32 JFeed

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Two-Thirds of Lebanese Shias Want Hezbollah Disarmed as Survey Finds Openness to Peace With Israel. Oct 13, 2026. Algemeiner

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Katz threatens Hezbollah: Join Iran's attack, lose more of Lebanon. Defense Minister Israel Katz warns Hezbollah against joining Iranian attack on Israel, saying IDF will seize additional territory in southern Lebanon, strike Beirut's Dahieh district. Israel National News. Oct 14, 2026, 3:53 PM INN

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Dublin hotel cancels 70 rooms for antisemitism conference. Delegates attending an international conference on combating antisemitism were reportedly left without 70 hotel rooms after Dublin’s Herbert Park Hotel questioned whether the event was linked to the IDF. Israel National News. Published: Oct 14, 2026, 1:00 PM (GMT+3) INN

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From Hamas captivity to TV host: Rom Braslavski's new chapter. Itzik Brandwein. Oct 14, 2026, 12:18 PM INN

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Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: ‘These students are casualties of war’. Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu visited students mourning 14-year-old Elazar Yair Vilensky, killed by an unexploded munition on a school trip. Israel National News. Published: Oct 14, 2026, 2:48 PM (GMT+3)

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzfat, met Wednesday with students from the Ma’alot religious high school to offer support ahead of the funeral of their classmate, 14-year-old Elazar Yair Vilensky, who was killed when an unexploded munition detonated during a school trip in northern Israel.

During the meeting, Rabbi Eliyahu described Vilensky as a “casualty of war," saying that the tragedy was part of the broader conflict Israel continues to face. “Yes, it was a trip, and yes, what happened happened. But do not forget that this is part of the war. We are in a war, and in war there are casualties. In war, there are those who fight in battle, and there are also mishaps and accidents. These, too, are part of the casualties of war. We must remember that this is part of the Jewish people's struggle against its enemies." INN

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Colombia becomes 10th country with embassy in Jerusalem. Israel’s foreign minister called it a historic day for ties between the two countries and an important day for the capital. Joshua Marks. Oct 14, 2026. JNS

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Israel confirms: Hamas extorts Gaza merchants, demands NIS 10,000 per aid truck. COGAT reveals Hamas demanding NIS 10,000 per humanitarian aid truck entering Gaza, threatening merchants who refuse to pay; private traders suspend shipments. Hezki Baruch. Oct 14, 2026, 2:28 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Saudi National Arrested for Installing Surreptitious Audio Recording Device at OpenAI Tuesday, October 13, 2026. For Immediate Release. Office of Public Affairs. An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was arrested on Oct. 9, and made his initial appearance in federal court today.

“This serious situation underscores why winning the global super intelligence race is a national security prerogative — and why President Trump’s leadership in creating the Super Intelligence Force is so important,” said Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. “I thank Director Patel and our FBI partners for their diligence and swift action. The intelligence community remains committed to safeguarding America’s cutting-edge intellectual property from foreign threats.”

“According to the complaint unsealed today, Abdulrahman Alfozan allegedly concealed a covert recording device inside his employer’s executive conference room to secretly capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “Protecting American SI innovation is essential to safeguarding our nation’s economic strength and national security, and the FBI views that mission as one of our highest counterintelligence priorities. Thank you to Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and our law enforcement partners for their support — and we will continue working closely with our partners across the U.S. government and private sector to keep American businesses and citizens safe and to ensure our country maintains its competitive edge.”

“The Bay Area and Silicon Valley lead the world in developing tomorrow’s technology, and our Office will continue to stand at the forefront of protecting that American innovation,” said U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian for the Northern District of California. “For us it is a matter of national security. This arrest highlights our relentless efforts in partnership with the FBI to identify and prosecute those who seek to steal our technology, as alleged in the complaint.”

According to the complaint, Alfozan had been employed as an engineer by OpenAI since July 2025. On or about Sept. 30, OpenAI personnel discovered a surreptitious audio recording device (Recording Device 1) inserted into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room inside one of their buildings in San Francisco. OpenAI determined that the device, which had been concealed in toilet paper, was installed on or about Sept. 28, and that its contents were encrypted. DOJ

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Good business. Hamas Rakes in Millions Daily from Gaza Aid Shipments. Israel's coordinator of government activities in the territories revealed that Hamas is extorting private merchants bringing aid into Gaza, potentially collecting $4.2 million daily—nearly $1.5 billion annually—even as the terror group refuses to disarm a year after the ceasefire. 10.14.26. C14 Desk. C14

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Israel slams Ireland over hotel cancellations for antisemitism conference. Oct 15, 2026. Israel’s Foreign Ministry criticized Ireland on Wednesday following reports that a Dublin hotel canceled 70 rooms booked for delegates attending an international conference on combating antisemitism.

The Herbert Park Hotel reportedly canceled the reservations after questioning whether the event was connected to the Israel Defense Forces. The incident became public this week as the conference took place in Dublin.

“Is this Ireland’s idea of fighting antisemitism?” the ministry wrote on X. “The Irish government cannot use the fight against antisemitism as a diplomatic PR exercise while failing to confront it at home.” JNS

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Ilhan Omar’s dad ‘misrepresented himself as a refugee’ and was ‘loyal’ to brutal Somali dictator: source. By Chadwick Moore and Kamal Sultan Published Oct. 13, 2026 Updated Oct. 13, 2026, 11:08 p.m. ET

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, wasn’t who he purported to be, a source told The Post.

The Minnesota congresswoman — whose home was raided by the feds on Monday as part of an ongoing criminal fraud investigation — has long described her father as an “educator” who fled his country’s devastating civil war alongside millions of others and arrived in America with his family as a refugee in 1995.

But, an expert scholar exclusively told The Post that Nur “misrepresented himself as a refugee” to US authorities when he was really a prominent military commander in the Somalia dictatorship that killed as many as 200,000 people. NYPost

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Watters: Democrats HATE this case - YouTube. Oct 14, 2026

Watters: Ilhan Omar’s dad wasn’t some low-level soldier…

Jesse: Fox News alert. World War XI is off to a hot start. It's not being waged on one front anymore; it's two.

The feds showed up at Ilhan Omar's door with a warrant. Tuesday, the feds moved in on her family, and tonight Fox can report that investigators seized Omar's phone as part of their immigration investigation. The Wall Street Journal says they took her computers and passport, too.

The Justice Department is building a case that would strip her of her citizenship and ultimately deport her.

We are also learning more about the scale of the searches. At least a dozen subpoenas served to Ilhan Omar's inner circle. The Times originally said her sister was served, but a source says investigators haven't been able to find her. I sure hope she did not flee the country. That would not look good, especially since the case hinges on her whole family.

We have confirmed investigators are scrutinizing whether Mr. Mohammed, her dad, lied about his military background when he applied for legal status here. That's key because Omar says her citizenship derived from him. She is a naturalized nepo baby. The legal term is derivative citizenship.

Could only works if two things are true. One, Daddy was naturalized. And two, when she was a minor. Both of those things are now in dispute.

Omar's staff caught changing her birth year, which means if she was 18 instead of 17, she was too old to get citizenship through her father. And was her father even legit?

The Department of Homeland Security under Biden, in 2023, did a search and found no record of him ever being naturalized. His paperwork doesn't exist. And why would that be? Because Omar's father probably did not qualify to come here as a refugee.

Mr. Mohammed was a colonel in the Somali military dictatorship [Siad Barre]. The self-victorious leader of a powerful Somali clan ruled the African nation more as a warlord. His portrait hung next to Marx and Lenin. Did not just salute them, was saying to them.

Omar's father served under him in an army that carried out a genocide. As many as 200,000 people were slaughtered.

The colonel isn't just some low-level soldier. The colonels command brigades and regiments, thousands of soldiers. Heeded both. In an army that planted land mines, poisoned wells, and dug mass graves.

A Somali general famously ordered his troops to kill all but the crows. Those generals, puppets of Moscow. The Soviet Union armed and trained Somali officers, including Omar's father. Reportedly trained in the Soviet Union.

We don't know if he specifically committed any war crimes, but he served for over a decade in an army that did.

Omar's father stayed loyal to this bloody regime until it fell. A former officer says he even ran a military academy. Then, in 1995, a few years after his regime collapsed, he arrived in America as a refugee.

If this is all true, the question isn't just about her; it's how a colonel from an army that committed genocide walks into the United States as a refugee. If he did, he can't be the only one, can he?

Well, he's not. _Prime Time_ kept digging. The vice president of the same Somali regime fled here and retired in Virginia. Another commander from the army got a job guarding Dulles Airport. Then he drove Uber.

In 2019, a jury found him liable for torture. Uber banned him. Biden deported him a month before Trump took office, which is very interesting timing, especially because Biden deported, like, no one.

Is anybody concerned? Not the left. They say, "Relax, everyone lies to customs."

([Clip] "I think the larger issue is we all know that if you scrutinized every refugee case, everybody who came here as a refugee and then became naturalized, Carney went through that with a fine-tooth comb, you would find a lot of cases, perhaps, where people fudged facts, where things weren't all as they were represented. Are they doing it in a fair way or a vindictive way? That's, I think, what's really at the heart of this case.")

Jesse: Democrats don't care who they let in. They care who's looking.

In fact, they make it clear: if they get the majority, they are going to investigate the investigators investigating Omar.

"We will be demanding transparency and accountability as to who authorized this abusive search and who carried it out. President Trump will keep trying to intimidate and bully Americans ahead of the midterms."

Bully? A judge signed the warrant. CNN just confirmed it was a Democrat and a Hillary donor.

And that's just the immigration case. The money is a separate investigation. Judge Jeanine Pirro confirmed her office is investigating Omar's financial disclosures.

Is she worth $30 million or $100 grand? Why the discrepancy?

The last time somebody looked at her books, regulators found she abused campaign funds. She even used donor money to acquire her own personal immigration records, which is strange because she told reporters her birth certificate was destroyed in Africa.

Regulators also found something even more shady. She was funneling campaign money to her husband. She paid his firm almost $3 million. Do they share a bank account? Probably. Seems sleazy.

Then there's the fraud in her state. Nine billion bucks. Gone. Right under her nose.

A bunch of her donors and former staff, they're tied into it. All in the great state of Minnesota, where you used to leave your door unlocked. Great schools, lake houses. Now Minneapolis is Mogadishu.

One hundred thousand Somalis live in the state, and they've got power. Now Somalis hold seats on the city council, in the legislature, and in local party leadership.

So nobody in the Minnesota Democratic Party wanted to be the ones asking questions. And for years, nobody did, until the feds started sniffing around.

And the people defending her are the people you would expect. A rally for Ilhan just two days ago, in solidarity with Omar, kicked off like this...

Jesse: Everybody is worked up about this. Everybody except Omar's husband.

(Reporter: Can you tell us if you have a reaction to the raid and investigations going on? Husband: My wife came here when she was 12 years old).

Jesse: I know women lie about their age, but sometimes it's illegal. And it's always illegal for a colonel from a dictator's genocidal army to walk in as a refugee.

And he's not the only one. They settled, they had kids, and now we are living with them.

Remember the homecoming shooting we told you about? Five men are now charged. And we have their great American names: Ibrahim, Mohammed. The gunman, free on bail.

Starting to feel like these people don't really love this country. They don't respect it. They don't really fit in.

In fact, Omar has been trashing this place since the second she got off the plane. Literally.

([Clip] "I remember my father and I, and my siblings, driving through Manhattan after we landed and realizing that there were homeless people and panhandlers on the side of the streets, and turning to my father and saying to him, 'This doesn't look like the America you promised. "And his words precisely were to me, 'You know, you have to have patience. We are eventually going to get to our America.'")

Jesse: After being in a Somali civil war, fleeing to a Kenyan refugee camp, she lands in New York City and says this place ain't all that.

How many other Omars are there? How many other Omar daddies are there?

Democrats don't want to know. Democrats hate this case because three weeks from November, they have to circle their wagons around fraud, crime, corruption, and illegal immigration.

Every time they defend... YouTube

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Gutfeld Notices Something About Dem’s Radical Past That No One Else Noticed - YouTube. The Rubin Report. Oct 14, 2026.

The Muslim Brotherhood's official website celebrates Abdul's primary win. It's possible that they're doing here what they do in Europe, which is exploiting our weaknesses to gain control, using democracy to ultimately end democracy.

--Well, here's a CNN report on former Somali military commander Yusuf Abdi Ali.

--Bones are all that remain of ethnic clan members slaughtered in a vicious civil war in the 1980s. Evidence of the brutality carried out by the government regime in Somalia. Now, CNN has learned a former military commander accused of some of the worst atrocities is living in the United States and working near our nation's capital. His name is Yusuf Abdi Ali, also known as Colonel Tukeh. He and soldiers under his command are accused of terrorizing the Isaaq people, torturing them, burning their villages, and carrying out mass executions.

-- Yeah, and for those of you listening on the audio podcast, that was juxtaposed with a picture of her smiling. Ilhan, there they are. Look at her. So, you know, he committed the genocide, he was in the thing, a bad dude, friends with her dad. Look at her. She loves the guy. And then he's been deported because he did a whole bunch of bad stuff, and yet her, I guess her dad is still here, and she is still here.

And the other part of this is it would be one thing if she was just a horrible generic horrible person. If she was just a horrible person, and she just moved to Minnesota, and was just being a horrible person, and then had her bananas and rice and whatever, it would be fine. Except she's in Congress. She's in Congress. She—she was on the—what was the committee that they kicked her off of? She was on the Intelligence Committee.

Imagine, as I said yesterday, we go to war for whatever—you can like the Iran war, you don't like the Iran war, whatever it is. Does not matter. Think how insane it is that Donald Trump would have to try to go to Congress to go ahead and do some sort of military action when you damn well know not only she on the side of the IRGC in this case, but she's on the side of Hamas and Hezbollah and everything else.

She was on the House Committee of Foreign Affairs. They booted her off of that. And here she—here she is. We'll do a little translation for you after, but here she is explaining that the US government will do just what she wants and, of course, it will be in the interest of Somalia.

--[cheering] [cheering]

--I'm sorry. I find that accent just so awful. A lot of people yesterday thought my Klingon was pretty good, and yes, a lot of people also mentioned—noted that I did say Rura Penthe, and that is the ice planet that they sent Spock, and I'm not even a Star Trek guy, but _Star Trek V: The Undiscovered Country_, great movie, great debate about civil liberties and what it's like, peace and war and everything else.

Uh, that aside, she basically said, "Yeah, we're here. I'm here to represent Somalia, and I'm going to make sure that some—nothing will ever happen to Somalia while I'm here." And—but it's like, lady, what? That's nice that you like the place you came from, I suppose. That's—that's perfectly fine. But you're a member of the United States Congress. You're supposed to represent all of the people in your district, not just the Somalis.

She said, "I'm here to represent the Somalis and get Somali interests passed." This is deeply, deeply dangerous. And by the way, it is, uh, infecting the entire Democrat Party.

The other thing that's happening, of course, is up there in Michigan, they may vote in Abdul El-Sayed, who is an Egyptian national. He has Egyptian citizenship. He owns property in Egypt and in the UAE. He is obsessed with hating Israel. Oddly, doesn't call for the Egyptian wall that divides Gaza, and for some reason he just doesn't want them to put in a door. Just one little AI that—and get me a little door. Can you take that picture, just put a little door? And we could call it the Abdul El-Sayed door, and he could be known as the guy that saved all the Palestinians.

But for some reason he won't do that because he knows if he says we should let them into Sinai, which is part of Egypt and it is probably 50 times bigger than Gaza and basically no one lives there. I've been there. He knows that he could never step foot in Egypt again because they'll kill him.

Also, he has family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and these are not a great group of guys. His sister-in-law is now fully admitting it. Here's my buddy Greg Gutfeld explaining a bit about that.

--You know, he denied his connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, and then it makes—then you look at his sister's tweets, and you realize the connection is very strong with his family, his mother, the Muslim Brotherhood's there. The Muslim Brotherhood's official website celebrates Abdul's primary win. It's possible that they're doing here what they do in Europe, which is exploiting our weaknesses to gain control, using democracy to ultimately end democracy. And the progressives welcome the deal even though they'll be the first to die when the caliphate emerges.

So, that the Muslim Brotherhood, in case you forgot, is an Islamist movement that denies Western principles and values. And that includes the separation of church and state, equal rights, and free speech. These are the—these are the things. It also spawned Hamas.

So, I understand why Abdul denies it, 'cause that's part of the plan. You don't want to, like, let it out until you're in control, but it makes me wonder what—what is it about Democrats, liberal Democrats, to willingly give up those three things? Equal individual rights, which they always claim they're for. Free speech, which they always claim they're for. Separation of church and—We've heard that for 30, 40 years. They're willing to give that all up to win a Senate seats. Even though once that guy wins, he's going to be your worst enemy.

--Right, of course. And this is the, you know, this is why Queers for Palestine is very different than Palestine for Queers. The ding-dong socialists, they just want the revolution here 'cause they don't—they think they don't like capitalism or something like that. And they think this is a racist place. And the Islamists are using them. And, of course, they will be the first beheaded.

You can look at literally every revolution that has ever happened. Every socialist, leftist, communist revolution that has ever happened in the history of the world. You bring a along a bunch of useful idiots. And what do you think will happen at the end to, say, Brad Lander, the pathetic dimwit loser who goes—who's Jewish, who goes to the mosque and sings in Arabic, and then a minute later the Imam gets up there and calls for death to the infidels? Well, yeah, you're—But—but I was—but I sang in Arabic. I sang the song. Leave—you'll leave me alone, right? And it's like, no, you're going to be beheaded and they're going to put your head on a stick and roast you. Like, that basically is what they're going to do.

And it's happening, and it's happening all over the world. And I—I saw this this morning. Uh, this is a guy by the name of Brevel Lepogam. I hope I pronounced that correctly. He is the CEO of Argil AI. And he put up an excellent tweet. He is French. Put up an excellent tweet. I want to read this to you.

He said, "I'm French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you, to warn you. I come from your future. In France, we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free health care, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper it's the dream, but our best engineers leave for London, Zurich, and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax, they left too and took jobs with them. The promise was protection, the result is stagnation.

"The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program, one more regulation, one more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. 50 years of them and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe."

And guys, if you think about the videos that we've been showing you out of Paris, well, how does this make any sense? Why is it that a country that puts 57% of its GDP back into these programs that keep—that's doing all of these things and has free health care that should be thought of as a lefty socialist utopia, well, why is it that second and third generation African migrants aren't happy there? They—was that not enough from—for them?

And, of course, the answer to that is yes, it wasn't enough because what they want is the revolution. They don't want French—they don't want France for French people. They want France to be part of the caliphate. So, no matter what you give, and it—and it happened—it happened slowly, and then it happens quickly.

So, right now New York City's going through the slow version of it, and then one day it will happen very quickly, and it will also be very violent, and they will ransack the apartments on Central Park West, and they will run up there and grab those women out with their fur coats and throw them out onto the street and everything, and Brad Lander will be there again. "But I was one of you. I sang in front of the Imam."

And yes, there are connections between these people, particularly Al-Sisi and, uh, the Muslim Brotherhood.

Eric Erickson, radio host Eric Erickson, I've been on his show a couple of times. He wrote this on his Substack.

"On Sunday's Meet the Press, Kristen Welker asked the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, Abdul Al Sayed, whether he could set the record straight on allegations that his family has ties to the Muslim Muslim Brotherhood. When she followed up to confirm that he need—that neither he nor his family had any ties to the group, he said no twice and then his—accused his opponent—then accused his opponent Mike Rogers of Islamophobia.

"His half sister had already answered Welker's question in writing. Eman Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor who shares a mother with Al Sayed, wrote in June—June of 2012, 'As Muslim as Muslim as the Muslim—Sorry, as the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi,' say that five times fast, 'was taking power in Egypt, that my family has long been Muslim Brotherhood.'

"Al Sayed himself wrote in his book 'Healing Politics' that his mother was a leader on campus, though he left out that her campus leadership role was with the Muslim Brotherhood. El Koumi also worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department designated in 2004 for financing Al-Qaeda and Hamas.

"In January 2011, as protesters filled the streets of Cairo during the Arab Spring that brought down Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Al Sayed wrote in the Huffington Post that the United States should back an uprising and that Americans had nothing to fear from the Brotherhood.

"Fox News found that Al Sayed has taken more than 115,000 from at least 41 people who work for or who have led Council on American Islamic Relations, including CAIR's Executive Director Nihad Awad, who said that he was happy to see breaking of the siege of Gaza on October 7th, remarks the Biden White House condemned as anti-Semitic."

So, this guy is involved in the Muslim Brotherhood. If you want a little more context as to what the Muslim Brotherhood is and what their plan is for the West, watch my interview. You can watch—I've done it multiple times, and we did it about two weeks ago with Brigitte Gabriel, who has been exposing the Muslim Brotherhood's plan in America and across the West. She's been doing it for about two decades, and it's basically a four-decade-long plan, and they are in the midst of it right now. YouTube

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October 14, 2026. @glennbeck. If You Don't Think Sharia Law Is A Threat, Watch This Video. ... In Michigan, El-Sayed leads voters under 50 by 14 points, while Rogers leads voters over 50 by nine points.

Okay, you can't scare somebody with a word he doesn't fear. Muslim Brotherhood lands like a bomb on somebody over 50. You know, they know. Okay. Whoa. Wait a minute. What?

To a 22-year-old guy in Ann Arbor, it sounds like what his parents' party says instead of answering his rent question. Rogers is talking about Cairo in 2011. El-Sayed is talking about Kroger and what's happening in the grocery store.

If you won't answer the question, the people you are trying to love and bring into your fold, somebody else will.

The bigger problem here is—and it's the one that is not going to help anybody win anything in November—how does a kid reach 22 thinking Sharia sounds fine and socialism sounds new? Okay, how's that possible?

He was taught that way, that's why. Or he wasn't taught at all. Nobody taught him what Sharia law does to women. A woman who wants to leave her husband, good luck with that under Sharia law.

Nobody told him what happens to the grocery shelves when the government sets the price. All he has are lessons about the oppressors and the oppressed, and then, congratulations, you can't read. Here's your diploma... on YouTube

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Greg Gutfeld Show (on Fox News) 10/14/26 - YouTube.

Greg Gutfeld: All right. Coming up: Gen Z loves Sharia law... Kat, did you see this poll? Forty-three percent of Americans between 18 and 24 have a positive view of Sharia law, the Islamic system of religious principles that fly in the face of everything that America stands for... But, you know, they didn't even know what they were talking about, what they were answering.

Kat Timpf: ... I feel like this has to be some sort of TikTok propaganda-type situation because a lot of Gen Z—you wouldn't let them go outside for a few years with COVID—and a lot of them started getting into weird stuff on the internet and online.

So, I feel like they're answering the question like, "Yes, it's pretty cool." They might not really entirely know or might have gotten sort of sanitized versions.

Greg: We need to teach them.

I'm going to read you the question, Brian. This is the question: "Sharia is a system of Islamic religious principles and law. Do you have a positive or negative opinion about Sharia?"

[Laughs]

Of course they're going to say positive because they don't want to seem ... bigoted without knowing what the system is.

Brian Kilmeade: So, you think they were tricked into answering affirmatively because they're young?

Greg: I can't get anything past you.

[Laughs]

Brian: Right. Thank you.

So, I just thought it was hysterical because this is happening. If it was just a random thing and it wasn't happening in Texas and wasn't happening in Dearborn, and El Sayed goes around it when asked about Sharia law—"I just care about groceries"—excuse me. Just nix it. Just say, "I'm not into it."

But if you are for women, if you're pro-woman, and if you want to be open to same-sex marriage, you could die if you're caught in a homosexual relationship. You are allowed to kill that person as long as you have an eyewitness.

So you got to watch gay sex in order to kill someone for it.

Greg: Well, I'm half-way there. [Laughs]

Brian: Right. So, men are allowed four wives. What's wrong with that? Winner gets one. You got to wear the hijab, the hyjab, the burka, depending on your country. And, of course, if you leave Islam, they can kill you. What's wrong with this? It seems fine.

Greg: I agree completely. You know, Joe, I think if you ask these students, "Are you for or against youth in Asia?" they would—you know what they would probably say?

Joe DeVito: They think that's a semester abroad.

Greg: Yeah, exactly. Yes. Nice.

Joe: Yeah. Well, you see, way to go, next generation. Yeah, they're saying Sharia law sounds good. Socialism—can you do one horrible idea at a time? But no, they want to stack them on top of each other.

But you're right. They weren't given any information as to what Sharia law means. They were just given a question that would have trapped them into saying something that they would have thought, "Oh, no. I'm Islamophobic if I don't answer that correctly."

What they could have done was listed the elements of Sharia law, just said, "Do you think this is a good Christian point of view?" And they would have exactly known what to say.

So, it's not that they have a positive view of Sharia law. It's just they don't know what they're talking about. But they've been successfully indoctrinated to say, "Oh, I know what the right answer is." And they jump on it.

Greg: It's also like the way when they pose socialism, they don't say what the things mean. They just say, "Everybody gets stuff equally," you know?

Sean Davis: Yeah, yeah. They're cooking the result by asking the question the way they do.

But Joe's exactly right. The fact that they can even pick up on what the answer should be, to me, is an example of what's happening in schools. The schools now do not exist to educate children. They're basically just madrasas. And it doesn't matter if they're religious or not. They're indoctrinating and catechizing young kids to believe what the left wants them to.

And there was a brilliant preacher named Voddie Baucham who said, "You can't send your kids off to Caesar and be surprised when they come back Romans." on YouTube

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‘Bizarre’ Trump admin continuing Biden government’s prosecution of journalist who exposed Kanye UN panel member admits he, colleagues accused Israel of ‘genocide’ without verifying facts independently. “We are not a court,” Chris Sidoti told an audience at an Australian synagogue. “We are not even prosecutors. We are an investigative body.” Oct. 13, 2026 Mike Wagenheim JNS

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Greece launches Israel caucus. The move comes amid growing relations and strategic cooperation between Israel, Greece and Cyprus focused on energy integration, defense cooperation and regional security. Oct. 14, 2026 Etgar Lefkovits. JNS

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Australia, Canada, France, UK ‘deeply regret’ PA’s decision to delay elections. In a joint statement, the Western allies urged P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas to reconsider. Oct. 14, 2026 JNS Staff. JNS

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West’s Jew-hatred. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Oct 14, 2026. JNS

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Danon, Waltz meet with Latin American envoys at UN. Rikki Zagelbaum. Oct 14, 2026 JNS

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Colombia opens embassy in Jerusalem, tenth in Israel’s capital; free trade agreement reinstated. Sa’ar said that in two months Israel had “reversed most of the negative consequences of the Petro administration’s tenure”. i24NEWS October 14, 2026. i24

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Funny how accountability only works one way. It’s always Trump’s fault when Islamic Republic of Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, but never genocidal-Hamas Gaza leaders’ fault when their October 7 attacks trigger a war in Gaza. Funny how accountability only works one way. [85] Oct 14, 2026. ThatPointToo

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Targeted navy ships Watch: US forces destroy Iranian surveillance vessel Israel National News Oct 15, 2026, 12:10 AM INN

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Trump: 'If Iran had a nuclear weapon, they would use it within 24 hours'. Elad Benari. Oct 15, 2026, 1:24 AM INN

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Report: Israel blocking construction of Gaza base for Board of Peace. Israel has reportedly blocked construction of a Gaza military outpost for Trump's Board of Peace, delaying deployment of international troops and reconstruction. Israel National News. Oct 15, 2026, 2:15 AM INN

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North Korea tests submarine-launched cruise missiles Elad Benari Oct 15, 2026, 3:44 AM https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/434635 INN]

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Over Palestine Action support. Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from UK sale. Israel National News. Oct 15, 2026, 4:17 AM INN

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Rubio holds memorial for American victims of Oct. 7 at State Department. Oct 14, 2026. JNS

Witkoff: Hostages’ reunions with families among ‘most meaningful moments of my life’. Oct 15, 3026 3:36 AM U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff on Thursday marked the first anniversary of the release of the last 20 living Israeli hostages from Gaza, describing their reunions with their families as “one of the most meaningful moments of my life.”

The hostages were freed on Oct. 13, 2025, after 738 days in captivity.

In a post on X, Witkoff paid tribute to the hostages and their families, thanking U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner and mediators from Israel, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey for their efforts. (October 13th marked one year since the remaining 20 living Israeli hostages were finally reunited with their families after 738 days in captivity... [86]) JNS

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Ben Gvir unveils plan to amend IDF's ethical code. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir proposes replacing IDF's 'Purity of Arms' principle with 'Righteousness of Arms,' emphasizing victory over enemies and Jewish moral values. Hezki Baruch. Oct 15, 2026, 11:36 AM (GMT+3) INN

Ben-Gvir, eyeing Defense Ministry, vows to rewrite IDF ethics code. Oct 15, 2026 3:17 AM Otzma Yehudit Party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Thursday that as defense minister, he would propose a “dramatic change” to the Israel Defense Forces’ code of ethics and replace the value of “purity of arms” with “righteousness of arms.”

Ben-Gvir is campaigning to become defense minister after the Oct. 27 Knesset election. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Army Radio on Wednesday that the portfolio should stay with his Likud Party.

“IDF soldiers need to go into battle knowing that they are fighting a just war,” Ben-Gvir, who currently serves as the Jewish state’s national security minister, wrote on X in Hebrew.

He said troops’ guiding rule should be the Talmudic teaching of “if someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.”

Ben-Gvir said he would also remove the language limiting the use of force “only to the extent necessary.” He would delete the passage barring harm to noncombatants and prisoners of war, and drop references to “universal moral values.”

Instead, he said, the code would emphasize Jewish morality, the Bible, Jewish law and Jewish tradition.

“The first goal of the IDF is to win the war and decisively defeat the enemies of the State of Israel and the people of Israel,” he wrote.

The IDF’s battle ethic, known as “purity of arms,” traces back to the late 1930s, when the Jewish community took up arms during the Great Arab Revolt. JNS

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UAE joins international antisemitism forum for first time. JNS

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US agrees to sell 12 Apache helicopters to Israel. Oct 14, 2026. Under the agreement, the Jewish state will begin to receive the 12 Boeing-manufactured attack helicopters at the start of the next decade, the Israeli Defense Ministry said.

“I thank our partners in the U.S. administration and the Pentagon for their steadfast commitment to Israel’s security, and for the cooperation and flexibility that made this agreement possible,” Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said. JNS

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Colombia becomes 10th country with embassy in Jerusalem. Israel’s foreign minister called it a historic day for ties between the two countries and an important day for the capital. Joshua Marks. Oct 14, 2026. JNS

SWU: Colombia becomes the 10th nation to open its embassy in Jerusalem, Israel! [87]

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‘Indefensible,’ Jewish leaders say of NYC comptroller opting to abort city’s Israel Bonds investments. Menachem Wecker. Oct 14, 2026 JNS

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In Azerbaijan, Herzog urges broader peace despite terror. Cooperation cannot thrive with boycotts, said the Israeli president, who met Bahraini and Chinese foreign ministers on the sidelines of a pan-Asian conference in Azerbaijan. Canaan Lidor. Oct. 15, 2026. JNS

Herzog, Kazakh counterpart talk bilateral ties in Baku. Oct. 15, 2026. Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Thursday on the sidelines of the Asian security summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Kazakh presidency said.

The two discussed expanding cooperation, focusing on trade, economic and investment ties, according to Astana’s readout. Tokayev said Herzog’s April visit to Astana had given “significant impetus” to bilateral relations.

Herzog welcomed Kazakhstan’s accession to U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, calling it an important contribution to peace and stability, the readout said.

The two also discussed tensions in the Middle East, with Tokayev reaffirming Kazakhstan’s “principled position on the need to de-escalate tensions and resolve conflicts exclusively through diplomatic means.” JNS

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Herzog meets with Chinese foreign minister in Azerbaijan. Oct 15, 2026. Israeli President Isaac Herzog raised threats from Iran and its terrorist proxies during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday on the sidelines of an Asian security summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, according to the Israeli presidency.

The two also discussed other developments in the Middle East and bilateral relations, with Herzog emphasizing the importance of economic, trade and cultural ties between Israel and China, per Jerusalem’s readout. JNS

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Police arrest five after car carrying Palestinians breaks through Jerusalem checkpoint. Oct 15, 2026. [88] JNS

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Israel Police bust suspected terror cell in Judea and Samaria. Oct 15, 2026. The Israel Police arrested five 15-year-old Palestinians suspected of establishing a terrorist group called the “Sa’ir Brigades” and carrying out firebomb and rock-throwing attacks, authorities announced on Wednesday.

The suspects were arrested in Sa’ir, near Hebron in Judea, as part of a joint operation with the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet).

In a separate operation in the nearby town of Beit Ula, police arrested a man in his 60s after seizing two pistols, ammunition, fireworks and tens of thousands of shekels from his home.

Police also arrested a suspect at the Tarqumiya Crossing who allegedly attempted to run over officers with a stolen vehicle the previous weekend. All seven suspects were taken for questioning, with police seeking to extend their detention. [89] [90] JNS

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IDF dismantles terror tunnel crossing Gaza’s Yellow Line. Israeli soldiers dismantled a 1.5-kilometer (0.9-mile) underground tunnel that crossed the Yellow Line in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday. Oct 15, 2026. JNS

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Slovak president congratulates Israel Chamber of Commerce on 25th anniversary. Oct 15, 2026. [91] [92] JNS

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Matan Kahana: 'Settler violence' is a despicable term. Former MK Matan Kahana condemns term 'settler violence' as unfair attack on entire community, calls for tough crackdown on nationalist crime in Judea and Samaria. Israel National News. Published: Oct 15, 2026, 3:16 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Herzog flies over Turkey despite ban, Turkish delegation walks out. Report claims President Isaac Herzog flew through Turkish airspace without Ankara's knowledge, Turkish and Iranian delegates walk out during his speech at Baku summit. Israel National News. Oct 15, 2026, 1:45 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Israel ended Iran war with more interceptors than it started with, Rafael CEO says. Oct 15, 2026 https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-911813

Israel received Iranian, Russian weapons in secret transfer from Ukraine, fmr. ambassador says. Oct 15, 2026 JPost

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Canadian authorities arrest two suspects of anti-Israel incidents, assaults in Edmonton, Toronto. Oct 15, 2026 JPost

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Hamas will be destroyed within 18 months of becoming PM, Eisenkot pledges. Oct 15, 2026 JPost

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Canadian Anti-Israel Group to Host Wikipedia Editing Event Honoring ‘Martyred’ Palestinians. October 15, 2026.

A Canadian pro-Palestinian organization, Artists Against Artwashing (AAA), plans to host a Wikipedia editing event on October 22. The event will invite participants to “populate Wikipedia entries honoring martyred Palestinian artists and exposing the Canadian, Zionist backers of genocide.”

The event, called the “Free Palestine Wiki edit-a-thon,” will begin with Palestinian short films, followed by an introductory Wikipedia session and hands-on editing.

Concerns About Wikipedia Neutrality.

Wikipedia’s Neutral Point of View (NPOV) policy requires articles to represent significant viewpoints fairly and without bias. Organizing an editing event around a predetermined political objective has raised concerns about whether the activity could undermine that principle.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger commented: “If you are organizing people to take a controversial point of view on Wikipedia, that is canvassing \[and\] they should be blocked.”

Independent investigator WikiBias also questioned the initiative, arguing that the group's stated goal of “remedying the narrative” conflicts with Wikipedia’s claims of neutrality.

Previous Campaign Targeted the Azrieli Foundation.

Artists Against Artwashing describes itself as a group of arts workers in Canada campaigning for cultural institutions to divest from what it calls settler colonialism and genocide.

Its primary campaign has focused on pressuring arts institutions to sever ties with the Azrieli Foundation, the charitable counterpart of the Azrieli Group, a major Israeli real estate company.

In April, AAA held another Wikipedia editing workshop targeting articles associated with the Azrieli Foundation.

According to Wikipedia’s public revision history, edits to the Azrieli Group article occurred at approximately 7:30 p.m. Toronto time on April 28, coinciding with the workshop.

One account, “Sure-thing-no-problem,” was registered that day, had no user page, and made a single edit. Another account, “subterra6677,” edited the Azrieli Group and David Azrieli articles and was warned in June about edit warring.

Wikipedia defines edit warring as repeatedly reverting other editors’ changes in a dispute over article content. Such conduct can violate its editorial policies.

Wikipedia Editing Initiatives Related to the Israel-Hamas War.

Wikipedia editing workshops have also been conducted by pro-Palestinian organizations. The article identifies Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which it describes as a Hamas-linked organization, as having operated a program called “WikiRights.”

The initiative reportedly trains Palestinians in human rights research, documentation, and editing Wikipedia articles in Arabic and English. Its third edition launched in the Gaza Strip in February 2026, targeting 12 young Palestinian participants.

ADL Report Raises Concerns About Biased Edits.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Technology and Society released a report titled 'Damage Done: Wikipedia Leaves Biased Edits Unchecked Despite Editor Bans'.

According to the article, the report found that previously introduced biased edits remain in some of Wikipedia’s most-read articles concerning Israel, Zionism, Hamas, and Jewish history.

The report follows the ADL’s March 2025 investigation, 'Editing for Hate', which documented an alleged coordinated campaign involving approximately 30 editors seeking to manipulate articles related to Israel, Jewish history, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. JPost

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ADL: Wikipedia fails to fix distortions. New ADL Center for Technology and Society research finds 19 active accounts shaping framing on Israel, Hamas and October 7; biased editing has gone quiet, not away. Israel National News. Oct 15, 2026.

More than a year after ADL exposed a coordinated, multi-year campaign to inject antisemitic and anti-Israel narratives into Wikipedia, much of the biased editing remains in place across the encyclopedia’s most-read pages on Israel, Zionism, Hamas, and the October 7 attacks.

A new report from the ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS), "Damage Done: Wikipedia Leaves Biased Edits Unchecked Despite Editor Bans," finds that although six editors were banned from the topic area and three were barred from editing on the site altogether, none of their work was systematically reviewed, let alone corrected.

The new report also finds that biased editing has continued through quieter techniques, undoing other editors' changes to hold a framing in place, hedging factual claims, and rebuilding articles slowly enough that no single edit draws attention.

These pages continue to flow into AI training pipelines, Large Language Model (LLM) outputs, and search engine results, carrying their distortions with them and influencing how millions of readers encounter this information.

This new report follows ADL's March 2025 investigation, "Editing for Hate," which documented coordination among approximately 30 bad-faith editors to shift balanced narratives on Wikipedia pages covering Israel, Jewish history, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, spotlighting criticism of Israel and downplaying Palestinian terrorist violence and antisemitism. ADL’s new analysis shows that while this coordinated activity fell dramatically - by about 95 percent - amid congressional, federal, and platform scrutiny following publication, a new cohort has carried the work of biased editing forward.

"Banning individual editors was never going to be enough. The pages that millions of people read, and that AI tools learn from, still bear the marks of a systematic disinformation campaign that Wikipedia itself has sanctioned but never cleaned up," said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director. "The most visited online encyclopedia that claims neutrality has to be willing to repair its own record. The Wikimedia Foundation should audit this work, and the companies that build search and AI products should stop presenting contested framing as settled fact."

Key findings include:

-Past edits stand. On six flagship articles examined, including "Hamas," "Gaza war," "Zionism" and "October 7 attacks," 91 percent of one site-banned editor's work remain in the live text. On the "Gaza war" page, forensic documentation of the October 7 atrocities that this editor removed, including evidence of sexual violence, has not been restored.

- Coordinated editing has gone quiet. ADL’s review found 19 accounts actively editing Israel- and Palestine-related articles: eight unsanctioned editors from the original group and 11 newly identified ones. The techniques are slightly different; more subtle and defensible under Wikipedia's rules, while still reshaping what readers encounter. The new cohort holds the last word. Across 229 articles edited by two or more of these accounts, the 11 newly identified editors hold the most recent edit, which is effectively the page's current text, on roughly six in 10. Several are among the principal authors of Wikipedia's pages on October 7 sexual violence, where a skeptical framing has been defended through at least 89 reverts. "Even in cases where the Wikipedia community took some modicum of action against editors who went against their policies, the activities of that banned editor remains - in this case activity over numerous years driving an ideological narrative in flagrant violation of the neutral point of view policy of the platform," said Daniel Kelley, senior director of CTS. "This speaks to a systematic issue with how Wikimedia allows their platform to operate, and it is something they have the responsibility to address."

Notable examples from the report:

- The "Hamas" article was restructured three days after October 7. On October 10, 2023, one editor moved most of the material on Hamas' antisemitism, human shields, child combatants and human rights abuses into a far less-read - "Criticism of Hamas" article. The main page was drawing close to one million views a day at the time. Today, the lead does not identify Hamas as a designated terrorist organization until the very end of the section. This is among the most visual and quotable examples.

-The "Gaza war" article was stripped of the October 7 forensic record. About 17,000 characters of text and citations were removed in November 2023, including documentation that victims were bound with wire and burned, evidence of sexual violence and video evidence of an attempted decapitation. Roughly 7,400 more characters of what remained were cut two days later. What’s left is one line saying terrorists "reportedly engaged" in such violence.

- The "Zionism" article states contested claims as fact. The lead defines Zionism as achieved "through colonization" and says Zionists sought a state with "as few[sic] Palestinian Arabs as possible." -Wikipedia's own editors have internally flagged this as disputed. One newly identified account made 543 edits to the page, the second most of anyone in its 24-year history. It added about 193,000 characters and removed about 188,000, a net change of under 5,000. The length barely changed, but the content almost entirely did.

- The October 7 sexual violence case study: Editors named in the report made 832 of 9,576 revisions (roughly one in 11) across four related pages and their discussion pages. On the "Sexual and gender-based violence in the October 7 attacks" page, they worked to preserve a framing that Israeli women and girls were "reportedly" subjected to sexual violence during the October 7 attacks. That framing still stands three years later, and several reports confirming this violence. The Bibas family: In the weeks after the bodies of Shiri, Kfir, and Ariel Bibas were returned in February 2025, one never-sanctioned editor made 64 edits to the article and its discussion page. Those edits held the manner of their deaths open, even though Israeli forensic authorities concluded they were murdered in captivity.

ADL renews four structural recommendations it first made to the Wikimedia Foundation in 2025: require private identity verification for editors in contentious topic areas, end anonymous IP editing on sensitive pages, merit-based closure of disputed content debates and a dedicated task force on antisemitic bias. The report adds a new call for a structured content audit of articles heavily edited by banned editors, beginning with the flagship articles examined. It also urges search engines and AI developers to disclose when Wikipedia is the source of an answer and urges policymakers to continue oversight. INN

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Meet Abdul El-Sayed's Academic 'Inspiration': A Muslim Brotherhood Scion Barred From Entering US Over Terror Ties Tariq Ramadan, known for his diatribes against 'Jewish intellectuals,' was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison in France for raping three women. Alana Goodman October 15, 2026 FreeBacon

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'It's Actually Making It Worse': Jewish Dem Whose Son Attends Temple Israel Pans El-Sayed's Defense of 'Hurt People Hurt People' Remark. 'I just can't believe that there's any justification for somebody wanting to kill my five-year-old Jewish-American son,' Taylor Weintraub told the Free Beacon Alana Goodman. October 15, 2026 https://freebeacon.com/democrats/its[-actually-making-it-worse-jewish-dem-whose-son-attends-temple-israel-pans-el-sayeds-defense-of-hurt-people-hurt-people-remark/ FreeBacon]

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Fears of pre-election escalation. Israel is monitoring Iranian missile tests and regional threats amid fears that a miscalculation could trigger a wider conflict ahead of elections in Israel and the US. Israel National News. Oct 15, 2026, 10:33 PM INN

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Ramming in Binyamin: Palestinian driver hits Israeli attempting to block road near Ateret. Israeli lightly injured after being struck by a Palestinian Arab vehicle in Binyamin. An initial IDF investigation finds that youths had attempted to block traffic on the road. Ohevya Sharabi. Published: Oct 15, 2026, 11:00 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Heavy mourning in the IDF. Aluf Nadel z"l, Shoah orphan who led IDF paratroopers, dies at 92. Aluf (res.) Chaim Nadel z"l lost every member of his family in the Holocaust and arrived in Israel as a lone child • Commanded historic battles and shaped the combat doctrine of the Paratroopers Brigade over 33 years of service • Later presided over military appeals court and served on Winograd Commission. Eliana Fleming. Oct 15, 2026 23:30 JFeed

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Abdul El-Sayed grows agitated with reporter after being pressed on family's alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties] Michigan Senate candidate has tense exchange with NBC reporter over family question. By Joseph A. Wulfsohn Fox News Published October 15, 2026. Fox News

Watters: Would Abdul pass a background check? Fox News. Oct 15, 2026. The Five' co-hosts panel debates Michigan Democratic Senate candidate El-Sayed's response to questions about the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. on YouTube

Trump: I call him Mohammed Abdul El-Sayed. He's a Muslim Brotherhood guy 100.

Dana: President Trump is talking about El-Sayed's family and its alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed is facing questions after his half sister claimed on social media that their mother was involved in the group in the 1970s. But he denies it.

[NBC's journalist Tom Llamas interviews el Sayed]

'NBC: Can you just explain it?'

El Sayed: l It's funny to me. I was born in 1984. Down the street in Rochester Hills. I was raised here in Michigan. Went to the University of Michigan. You want to ask me what's happening in Egypt in 1970? Are you serious?

NBC: You were asked a question --

El Sayed: I'm telling you, I have no ties. You're using hearsay evidence from a tweet -- it's not serious.

NBC: You have gone after the president for truthfulness. When people ask you a question, they expect the truth.

El Sayed: and you think, you think, are you. Are you insinuating that I was lying?

NBC: I don't know. That's why I'm asking you. El Sayed: And I'm yelling you I was not.'

[...] Dana: Meanwhile, after El-Sayed refused to answer whether Israel or Iran poses a greater threat to the United States, one Democrat shows how easy it is to pick a side. Check out what Mayor Pete said (to Martha MacCallum): "Iran is our enemy. Israel is not. They're an ally. So that's pretty clear to me.'

MacCallum: Why do you think that was a hard question for El-Sayed to answer the way you just did?

Mayor Pete: I'm not sure. There's no candidate and no human being that I agree with 100% of the time. I will be voting for El-Sayed over Mike Rogers.

Dana: Emily, I thought it was interesting that he says that his sister's posts on X are hearsay evidence. How is -- that's not a legal thing, is it?

Emily: No. We're not in court. Isn't he the doctor? I'm just concerned, you know, to put it mildly, over the immediate escalation that he displays every time he's asked a question. If this is a small test of what you do under pressure, what is governing? I feel like the test that is being put in front of all of the voters there in Michigan, and specifically the Democrats and the independents, is what happens when whoever you choose has to answer for all the people that didn't sign up for him? And there's sort of this, I think, reward that occurs online and in the algorithm that he's chasing. We see that he has a temper. We see there's surges and attention and following when they say these radical ridiculous things or there's conflict between him and a journalist asking questions. But that reward is not reflected in constituencies. It's not reflected when you're actually in D.C.

So I think the biggest drawback and the biggest result of this, in addition to the fissure that he represents or he would represent in Michigan if he won, is just the notion that that level of temper, that level of scoffing at real questions, it's not all about what happens in a localized neighborhood there in Michigan. He actually needs to answer for our allies. He will be voting on funding wars and funding the Taliban and things that matter. It's important that he puts our flag and our Constitution first.

But. If and when Rogers wins, then Democrats really need sort ask whether they gambled on an angry algorithm over common sense.

Dana: Harold, you're sitting there with a Go Blue mug.. And so you know Michigan well. Almost feel like the October surprise for Abdul El-Sayed is that he doesn't have an answer to this question. He knew it was coming.

Harold: Yea,.. I'm more bothered by the fact that his answer on Iran and Israel -- I come from a huge family. There's things I don't want to answer for my family may or may not do or may or may not say in politics.

Jesse: Is your family the Muslim Brotherhood?

No they're not.

Dana: See how easy that is to answer?

Harold: I never had to abswer that.

But when you can't identify Iran or Israel as which is the greater threat, is absolutely ..as I've said it many times, is a concern for me. I do hink Mr. Abdul El-Sayed has hong to have to hope that people like -- people follow it like Pete Buttigieg said. I disagree with him on that, but I vote for him.

Emily's right. I don't like when politicians bite anybody's heads off. I mean President Trump does it. This guy does it. It's a terrible look in politics when reporters are asking questions. If they repeat and repeat, if they're asking a basic question -- that was a pretty direct and basic question from an NBC reporter. He should answer it.

He's not alone in doing that. For him, the next 2 1/2 weeks -- Dana is right. If this is the issue, and Jesse said it before, 1.5% of the voters in Michigan are Jewish? 1.4% -- we quoted a number a few weeks ago. Whatever that swing vote might be, if this is what the race ends on, this could very well be dispositive for him.

If it's not on gas prices, inflation, and ends on this, this could be a challenge.

Dana: So in any statewide race, the Democrat and Republican has to bring some independents across. He's talking about AOC and the Muslim Brotherhood in the last 19 days before the election.

Jesse: Yeah. I don't know. There's a rule. You don't talk about people's mommas. If your momma is Muslim Brotherhood, it's fair game.

Dana: Good to know.

Jesse: This came up with the debate with Rogers. You're not talking about momma. I know you're not. He said my mom, you know, she worked in a small business community.

So Welker on 'Meet the Press' Sunday was like, "Let's clear the air. Are you guys Muslim Brotherhood or not?" And he goes, "We're not." She goes, "Let's move on."

And I'm watching it. You know how much I watch the Sunday shows. I'm screaming at the television, "We know that the sister said this, Kristen." So what happened? Tom Llamas, nightly news guy, he goes there. Makes her look dumb. Makes her like she didn't do her research makes her look unprepared and confronts him.

I like that it was combative. He's talking about your mother. It's awkward. Your mother is Muslim Brotherhood. It's not hearsay. Your sister is on the record.

But to be fair to him, the mom didn't raise him. They split up when he was 3. He was raised by his stepmom. So he's like Muslim Little Brotherhood.

It's not all there, but when you add that to the fact that he backs Sharia law and that his campaign is funded by Islamic groups that are unindicted co-conspirators, and he's tight with Piker, he has got a house in the Middle East, and he adores Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood who is in prison for rape in France.

Would Abdul pass a background check? Maybe, maybe not. I'm leaning maybe not.

So he got exposed at that debate. You're seeing a Rogers bounce after that debate. The last three elections in Michigan, the Democrats have underperformed polls by 2.5%. Now, this race is a 2 point race. That means if it held today, Rogers wins.

There's a major anti-Abdul vote. People are coming from the hills, from the hollers, from everywhere, not necessarily "I'm with Rogers," but "I'm not with Abdul." That counts for a lot.

Dana: He's not a very persuasive guy, Greg.

Greg: Did Pete say he was going to vote for him?

Dana: Yes.

Greg: Does Mayor Pete have any idea what Islamists feel about gay people? Does that just play any role in his thinking? Or does he just put that aside, you know, for the benefit of a partisan instinct, which brings me back to the contest in general?

It's not between two extremes. It's between a known, somewhat boring conservative with a long public record. He's been around. Some dude who hasn't. His background, associations, and statements all are either murky, disturbing, or should scare you.

Jesse, you went through the associations. You could have gone on longer. He wants to abolish ICE. He calls Israeli policy genocide[sic] and apartheid[sic]. His half sister admits the family has long-term Muslim Brotherhood ties. His mother is active in groups that have worked with groups tied to al-Qaeda and Hamas. He denies it. So he's obviously lying.

He's denied his association with Hasan Piker and Sharia law. He claims he's not a socialist. They call him a comrade. It's the same thing that people don't understand about DSA.

He presents himself as a physician but is not licensed to practice medicine anywhere. That's him. On paper, bad news.

So that's the extreme. Let's look to the other guy. Mike Rogers, a former U.S. Army official, 14-year congressman. Get this: his Heritage Foundation score, while he was in the House, was 53%. That means that -- that's like about as middle of the road --

Dana: Susan Collins in Maine is higher than that.

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Tucker Carlson Defends Hitler, Says UK Should Have Stayed Out of World War II. Hugh Fitzgerald. October 15, 2026 It was not enough for Carlson to be a raving anti-Semite. FPM

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China, Pakistan hold high-altitude army drills with Beijing-supplied arms. October 15, 2026. timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Knesset speaker rejects genocide charges in speech to European parliamentary leaders. Ohana draws applause in Rome as he accuses world leaders of lying about Gaza for political gain, says killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust 'is what real genocide looks like'. By Ariela Karmel. 15 October 2026.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, addressing European parliamentary leaders in Rome on Thursday, rejected allegations of genocide in Gaza and accused world leaders of spreading falsehoods for political gain, drawing some applause.

“Everyone in this room knows the truth — Israel is not committing genocide. Enough with this despicable lie,” Ohana, a senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, said in a speech at the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament.

The two-day summit brings together parliamentary leaders from the Council of Europe’s 46 member states and beyond to discuss threats to democracy and the future of the rules-based international order.

The council is a human rights and democracy organization that is separate from the 27-member European Union. Israel is not a member of the Council of Europe, but holds observer status in the council’s Parliamentary Assembly.

Speaking at the conference, Ohana held up a copy of “And Every Single One Was Someone,” a 1,250-page book that contains the word “Jew” six million times to commemorate the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.

“This is what real genocide looks like,” Ohana said.

“Many world leaders proclaim the importance of their values, yet when the moment of truth arrives, only a few are willing to defend them,” he said, accusing some leaders of knowingly endorsing “false propaganda” to secure “fleeting electoral applause in their simmering streets.”

The war in Gaza, sparked by the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, was “a global clash of civilizations, a battle between the forces of darkness, radicalism and extremism, and those of freedom, liberty and democracy,” Ohana said.

“Some of the member-states represented here have a deeply dark place in the history books. I urge you this time to stand on the right side of history, fighting for freedom with us,” he said.

Ohana’s remarks were met with applause, and Austrian lawmaker Petra Bayr, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, thanked him in Hebrew.

Israel has angrily rejected allegations that it is committing genocide in Gaza and says it takes steps to mitigate harm to civilians. Israel also accuses Hamas of deliberately embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including schools, mosques and hospitals. TOI

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France riots expose radical left-Islamist nexus, deepening political crisis ahead of 2027 presidential election. October 15, 2026. Organizer.Org

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Hasan Piker accused of antisemitic trope over Jewish voters shift | Fox News

Hasan Piker rips New York Jewish voters' shift away from Democrats, blames Israel Republican Jewish Coalition communications director says streamer's take was based on 'antisemitic trope of dual loyalty'. By Rachel Wolf. Fox News. October 15, 2026. Twitch streamer Hasan Piker slammed Jewish New Yorkers for moving away from Democrats and blamed the shift on Israel.

Jewish voters in New York appear to be moving away from the Democratic Party, and controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker blamed the shift on their support for Israel. On Wednesday, Piker responded to a CNN clip in which the network's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, and anchor John Berman discussed the drop in support for Democrats among Jewish voters, expressing dismay that they were shifting away from the party. [...] In the segment, Enten explained that Jewish support for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, dropped since her last election in 2022, according to recent Siena Polling. Enten then revealed that Democrats' advantage over Republicans among Jewish voters in New York had narrowed by 36 points since 2022, according to Siena Polling averages. "State of New York U.S. House polling among Jewish voters. Look at this. In 2018, Democrats were ahead by 40 points," Enten said. "In 2022, 49 points. Look at this, the average of polls this year. Its just 13 points. It's just 13 points. That is a shift of, what, 36 points, 36 points away from the Democrats. Their lead has absolutely tumbled into the Hudson River among Jewish voters. "Yes, they are still ahead. But we are talking about historically strong numbers for Republicans among Jewish voters," the analyst added. "It definitely seems to me that the developments over the past few years, at least in New York, at least in this polling, (have) had a huge impact on how Jewish voters say they are going to vote, not just for governor, but for Congress as well."

Republican Jewish Coalition communications director Sam Markstein told Fox News Digital that Piker's remarks reflect an antisemitic trope.

Piker faced backlash over his assertion that the shift was solely about Israel, with Republican Jewish Coalition communications director Sam Markstein telling Fox News Digital that the streamer's accusation was rooted in an antisemitic trope.

"Hasan Piker’s statement that American Jews’ voting preferences are all about Middle East policy plays directly into the oldest antisemitic trope of dual loyalty. He is flat out wrong and is trivializing the very real spike in Jew hatred which directly threatens our community’s safety," Markstein said.

"Let’s be clear: American Jews are fleeing the Democratic Party because its leadership continues to elevate, embrace and appease the most radicalized elements of their anti-America extremist party base. The sad irony is that antisemitic bigot Hasan Piker, who said 'America deserved 9/11,' and who has been elevated by national Democrats, including campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, is Exhibit A," he added.

Shai Davidai, a former Columbia University professor and author of "American Intellectual Antisemitism," also responded to Piker on X, saying, "It's not 'over Israel.' It's over people like you."

New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz argued in her response to Piker that Jewish voters have reasons to shift away from Democrats that go beyond Israel.

"Even setting aside support for Israel, which Jews should absolutely not, Jews are regularly assaulted in NY and no Democrats care. They aren't allowed to defend themselves and the mayor regularly riles up the attackers. Easy call to vote Republican," Markowicz wrote on X.

Piker, who has long been a vocal critic of Israel, has criticized Jewish Americans' support for the Jewish state. In August, the streamer was panned by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle after he said, "People don't f--- with Israel any longer. And if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they're singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone will come around and take action not against Israel, mind you, but against American Jews."

Critics accused Piker of blaming Jews for antisemitic attacks against them. Democratic Sens. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., condemned Piker's remarks. "This shouldn’t be hard: no community should face the threat [of] violence for their political views. Period," Slotkin wrote in a statement posted to social media. "That goes if you’re pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-choice, pro-life or any other cause you care about. And blaming the victims of violence for bringing it on themselves only further endangers people."

Rosen said the remarks were "a new low" for the controversial Twitch streamer. "Blaming Jewish Americans for the violence and hate they’re facing is not just wrong, it provides an excuse to those perpetuating these anti-Jewish hate crimes," Rosen said in a statement.

"Let me be absolutely clear: crimes against Jews for being Jews is antisemitism plain and simple. There’s no excuse for it."

Other Democrats joined in condemning Piker, including Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; and Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J.; Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y.; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Brad Schneider, D-Ill.; Greg Stanton, D-Ariz.; and Hillary Scholten, D-Mich. Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who was criticized for campaigning with Piker, distanced himself from the streamer after the controversial remarks. https://www.foxnews.com/media/hasan-piker-rips-new-york-jewish-voters-shift-away-from-democrats-blames-israel.amp

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IDF releases Sinwar letter encouraging Oct. 7 terrorists to plan broadcast of massacre footage. Sinwar's documents, shared by the IDF on the second anniversary of his assassination, called on terrorists to plan producing "horrific images" including shooting point-blank, slaughtering victims.

By James Genn, Amir Bohbot, Jonah Davidov October 16, 2026 06:00

The IDF released previously unseen documents written by Hamas's leader, Yahya Sinwar, on Friday, two years after his assassination.

Additionally, the IDF published footage of the military carrying out the assassination, including firing tank shells on the structure Sinwar fled to, and drone footage carrying out searches within the structure the following morning. JPost

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'Shoot the Jews': Two years after Sinwar's death, IDF releases letter from Sinwar's 10-year-old son. The letter, featuring drawings of tanks, missiles, and a Spider-Man sticker, was recovered by IDF soldiers in the Gaza Strip in 2024.

By Asher Smith October 16, 2026 05:52 The IDF released a letter on Thursday, written by Yahya Sinwar's son Ibrahim at the start of the war in Gaza, in which the then-10-year-old expressed his desire to hold a Kalashnikov rifle and "shoot the Jews."

The letter, which was addressed to his father, was recovered by IDF soldiers in Gaza in 2024, according to an IDF spokesperson's statement released ahead of the second anniversary of Sinwar's death. JPost

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Israeli-born Holocaust educator joins Washington state human rights panel after last commissioner resigned for Jew-hatred. “All the things that are both Jewish and immigrant, I think I experienced growing up,” Dee Simon told JNS. Oct. 16, 2026 Jessica Russak-Hoffman. JNS

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Israel Makes Strides to Counter Hypersonic Missiles, Drone Threats With New Military Innovations. 0ct 16, 2026 Algemeiner

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US Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Expand Internet Access for Iranian People. 0ct 16, 2026 Algemeiner

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UN's Albanese faces backlash for backing Green Party's anti-Zionist policy. UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese faces criticism after defending the UK Green Party's “Zionism is racism[sic]" policy during a discussion at Oxford University. Israel National News. Published: Oct 16, 2026, 11:02 PM (GMT+3)

UN's Albanese faces backlash for backing Green Party's anti-Zionist policy. UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese faces criticism after defending the UK Green Party's “Zionism is racism" policy during a discussion at Oxford University. Israel National News. Published: Oct 16, 2026, 11:02 PM

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has drawn criticism from Jewish and pro-Israel organizations after defending the British Green Party's decision to adopt a policy declaring that “Zionism is racism[sic]", the Jewish Chronicle reported.

Albanese, who serves as the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian territories and has frequently criticized Israel, addressed the controversy during a discussion with Israeli-British historian Avi Shlaim at St Antony's College, Oxford, on Monday.

Speaking about the policy adopted by the Green Party under Zack Polanski's leadership, Albanese praised the party for “doing something extremely human". [...] Her remarks prompted criticism from organizations that regard the Green Party's position as antisemitic.

Alex Hearn, co-director of Labour Against Antisemitism, pointed to Albanese's previous statements about Jewish influence in American politics.

“Albanese has talked about the ‘Jewish lobby’ dominating the US," Hearn told the Jewish Chronicle.

"Given her history, it is no surprise to see Albanese supporting the antisemitic policy by the Green Party which casts the overwhelming majority of Jews as racist."

Gavin Stollar, chairman of Liberal Democrats Friends of Israel, also condemned Albanese's position.

"Albanese’s claims are an attempt to delegitimize the Jewish people’s right to national self-determination," he said.

During the Oxford event, Albanese also cited the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement as the “best case study" of effective campaigning against Israel.

She also praised Ireland's approach toward the Jewish state, describing the country as the “perfect example" of successful activism and citing what she said was 97% public support for the Palestinian cause[sic].

Another audience question concerned restrictions on the slogan “globalize the Intifada".

Albanese dismissed the ban as “absurd" and characterized it as “a symptom of anti-Arab[sic] sentiment in most Western countries".

Throughout the discussion, she accused Israel of “destroying Palestine" and argued that attitudes toward Israel and Judaism required broader examination.

Campaign Against Antisemitism issued a strongly worded response, accusing Albanese of using her UN position to advance an anti-Israel agenda.

“Francesca Albanese just can’t help herself. She is not a rapporteur but an activist, and her rhetoric and conduct are all designed to undermine the world’s only Jewish state. Her language is appalling. She would have been booted from any other institution long ago, but not the UN.

“Now she is even weighing in on the Green Party’s vile ‘Zionism is racism’ motion. Given the UN reversed itself on this antisemitic charge decades ago, it’s astonishing that she appears not to have learned from that," a spokesperson for the organization said.

Albanese has long been accused of antisemitism and bias against Israel. Last year, the Trump administration sanctioned Albanese in response to her criticism of Israel.

In February, several European Union foreign ministers condemned remarks she delivered at an Al Jazeera conference, where she criticized countries that had continued supporting Israel.

“The fact that instead of stopping Israel, most of the world has armed, given Israel political excuses, political sheltering, economic and financial support ... We who do not control large amounts of financial capitals, algorithms and weapons, we now see that we as a humanity have a common enemy," Albanese said. [...] Controversy surrounding the UN official predates the Gaza war.

In 2022, previously published social media posts emerged in which Albanese claimed that the “Jewish lobby" controlled the United States.

She rejected accusations that the remarks were antisemitic, maintaining that her statements had been “mischaracterized".

Following the October 7 massacre, Albanese argued that the Hamas attack needed to be understood in “context" and characterized it as a response to Israeli “aggression."

Her criticism of Israel has continued in subsequent reports and public statements.

In late March, she accused the international community of giving Israel "a license to torture[sic] Palestinians" and alleged that "torture[sic] has effectively become state policy" in the country.

Several weeks ago, Albanese also apologized after making historically inaccurate claims about terminology used in Nazi concentration camps and the origins of the word antisemitism.

The controversy began when she asserted that Jewish prisoners being taken to Nazi gas chambers were sometimes described as Muslims. [...] Albanese made the assertion while arguing that antisemitism originally referred to hostility toward a broader population rather than specifically toward Jews. INN

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'This is our homeland': Netanyahu responds to Obama accusations that Israel stole Palestinian land. Regarding the path to a peace agreement, Netanyahu said that the obstacle to peace is not Israel, but rather the enemies in the region shared by Israel and the United States. Jerusalem Post Staff. October 16, 2026. JPost

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Colombia latest to withdraw from anti-Israel Hague Group. Like Honduras and Bolivia, which departed the group in March, Colombia recently came under new leadership and has warmer ties with Israel. Oct. 16, 2026 Mike Wagenheim. JNS

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Cyprus moves closer to Israel with new parliamentary group. The back to back moves in Nicosia and Athens comes amid growing cooperation among the close eastern Mediterranean allies, who have united against their historic rival, Turkey, after a period of regional instability. Etgar Lefkovits. Oct. 16, 2026. JNS

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‘Rise up Adolf': Croatian soccer fans chant about Auschwitz. Israel’s embassy in Zagreb thanked the government for condemning the incident, which preceded a local team’s match against the Dutch Ajax team. Oct. 16, 2026 [93] JNS

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New report exposes suspected Iranian election interference. Emily Schrader. JNS TV. Axis of Truth. Oct. 16, 2026 JNS

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‘Despicable lie': Knesset speaker slams accusations against Israel of genocide Addressing parliamentary counterparts at confab in Rome, Amir Ohana challenged world leaders to defend their stated values. Canaan Lidor. (Oct. 16, 2026 / JNS) Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana rejected accusations that Israel was committing genocide, in a speech he gave on Thursday in Rome to parliamentary leaders at a Council of Europe gathering. “Israel is not committing genocide. Enough with this despicable lie,” Ohana said, adding, “Today we face a severe crisis of courage on the international stage. Many world leaders proclaim the importance of their values. Yet when the moment of truth arrives, only a few are willing to defend them.” During the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, “the deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust, there was no ‘NAZA,’ no collateral damage,” he said, referencing a recently released documentary that accused Israeli authorities of indifference to civilian deaths during the war against Hamas in Gaza. “Innocent civilians, women, children, babies, even, were not caught in the crossfire. They were the targets,” Ohana said about the Palestinian invasion from Gaza in which terrorists killed more than 1,200 people. Ohana also recalled the genocide of Jews in Europe as he held up several thick books. “In this book, which always sits on my desk, and which I have brought with me, there are no words but one: Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, 6 million times. When you feel its weight, you begin to grasp the scale of what we lost here on European soil. This is what real genocide looks like,” he said. [pic.twitter.com/uqIjo78l37] — Amir Ohana - אמיר אוחנה (@AmirOhana) October 15, 2026 The meeting was held by the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament under the auspices of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). PACE President Petra Bayr thanked Ohana in Hebrew after his speech, drawing applause. The gathering at Italy’s Chamber of Deputies in Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome, was attended by roughly 70 speakers or deputy speakers and 500 delegates, organizers said. Its three themes were “threats to democracy,” “artificial intelligence” and the “international rules-based order,” according to the event’s program for Oct. 15-16. Italian Chamber President Lorenzo Fontana’s opening remarks emphasized human rights, the rule of law and parliamentary cooperation. Ohana on Friday said he held 14 meetings with counterparts in just a day and a half during the event. “On every platform and in every meeting, the voice of the State of Israel—and the righteousness of its cause—were heard loud and clear,” he wrote on X. 14 פגישות עם מקבילים מאירופה ביממה וחצי, בכנס ראשי פרלמנטים ברומא. מעל כל במה, בכל פגישה - קולה של מדינת ישראל וצדקת דרכה נשמעו היטב 🇮🇱 שבת שלום לכולם! [pic.twitter.com/Cwk5juvlot] — Amir Ohana - אמיר אוחנה (@AmirOhana) October 16, 2026. JNS

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SCOOP: Paraguay to join International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Paraguay became the eighth Latin American country to say that it is adopting the IHRA working definition of Jew-hatred. Mike Wagenheim. October 15, 2026 JNS

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Indonesia's Islamic council: Cancel Bocelli concerts over Israel ties. Israel National News. Oct 16, 2026, 5:43 AM INN

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Cyprus moves closer to Israel with new parliamentary group The back to back moves in Nicosia and Athens comes amid growing cooperation among the close eastern Mediterranean allies, who have united against their historic rival, Turkey, after a period of regional instability. Etgar Lefkovits. October 16, 2026 JNS

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Enemy at the gates. PA-Led Mob Fires Flares, Attacks Israelis During Olive Harvest.

Hundreds of '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. C14 Desk. Oct 16, 2026. C14

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Israeli gov says ‘serious questions’ about whether Israelis or Palestinians attacked ‘Washington Post’ photographer. The newspaper said that settlers[sic] assaulted its photographer in Samaria. Andrew Bernard. (Oct. 16, 2026 / JNS) A Washington Post photographer was injured on Friday during a violent confrontation in Samaria in which she was “attacked by Israeli settlers,” the newspaper’s executive editor stated. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office cast doubt on that claim and said that there are “serious questions” about whether Israelis or Palestinians were responsible for the attack.

Heidi Levine, a photojournalist who has spent three decades covering Israel and the Middle East, was “wearing visible markings clearly identifying her as a journalist” during the incident, according to the Post. JNS

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40 rabbis from Florida endorse Donalds for governor. The rabbis come from 17 cities and seven counties. JNS recently interviewed the Republican gubernatorial candidate. Oct. 16, 2026. 7:51 AM “Florida has become a place where Jewish families can build their lives, practice their faith and raise the next generation without living in constant fear,” they wrote. “We look forward to working with you to keep Florida strong, safe, and welcoming for generations to come.” JNS

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IDF slays two terrorists who helped smuggle weapons into Gaza. Oct. 16, 2026. 7:16 AM The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday killed two terrorists in the Khan Yunis area of southern Gaza, both of whom were involved in smuggling weapons into the Strip, the military said on Thursday.

The operation, conducted in conjunction with the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet), targeted Basel Nabil Abd al-Rahman Kashta and Ahmad Raja al-Shaer, according to the IDF.

The two men were reportedly responsible for procuring and trading arms and facilitating their smuggling into the Palestinian enclave, and were killed to remove an immediate threat to Israeli civilians and troops operating in the Yellow Line ceasefire area.

Measures were taken to minimize harm to civilians, including the use of precision munitions and aerial surveillance.

Israeli security forces continue to work to degrade Hamas’s military buildup and financing to prevent the terror group from rebuilding its infrastructure and military capabilities, the statement added. JNS

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Gazan merchants being taxed, threatened as private sector goods delivery halted, Israel says. By Mike Wagenheim. Oct. 16, 2026. 6:45 AM The Israeli government issued a clarification on Thursday, hours after the U.S.-backed Board of Peace said the Jewish state had suspended private-sector goods coordination into Gaza.

Nickolay Mladenov, the board’s high representative for Gaza, wrote on Thursday morning that he received a letter from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, or COGAT, an Israeli Defense Ministry unit that implements civilian policy and manages logistics in the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria.

He said the letter referred to “the suspension of private-sector goods coordination into Gaza as a result of reports of threats and coercion by Hamas.”

“As I have warned repeatedly, such practices are unacceptable and must end immediately,” Mladenov said. “The intimidation of merchants and interference in the supply chain only deepen the suffering of Gaza’s civilians.”

Israeli officials said later in the day that it is true that private-sector goods are no longer flowing into Gaza due to Hamas threats and coercion of Gazan businesses; it was the merchants, and not the Israeli government, that made the decision to halt the flow. JNS

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Trump says Saudi Arabia may accept Israeli help against Houthis, revive Abraham Accords. Trump expressed confidence that the Abraham Accords could gain renewed momentum with Saudi Arabia.

ByIdan Kweller, Asher Smith. October 16, 2026.

US President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that Saudi Arabia would likely accept assistance from Israel in its fight against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, adding that efforts to bring the kingdom into the Abraham Accords could be revived.

When asked whether Saudi Arabia should accept the assistance Israel was offering against the Houthis, Trump replied, “Yes, I think so.” https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-911936

WATCH: Washington Post photojournalist wounded in clash between Israelis, Palestinians in West Bank. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) condemned the attack in an X/Twitter post later on Friday, noting that the facts "remain unclear" and that "serious questions remain" regarding who is responsible. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-911911

Saudi-led coalition intercepts missiles, drones as IDF prepares for strikes on southern Lebanon. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-10-16/live-updates-911900

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Lebanese Army forces Hezbollah gunmen to withdraw after standoff at warehouse. Oct 16, 2026. JFeed

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Druze leader in Israel endorses Netanyahu ahead of elections. Oct 16, 2026 JFeed

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Majority of New York Jewish voters view Mamdani unfavorably - poll. According to a Siena poll conducted in September, 64% of Jewish voters in New York state hold an unfavorable view of Mamdani, compared with just 33% who view him favorably. Idan Kweller. October 16. 2026. JPost

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Is it Islamophobic to connect the dots between Islamists and El-Sayed? - Israel & Jewish News - JNS. Jonathan S. Tobin. (Oct. 16, 2026 / JNS) According to his supporters, it’s worse than guilt by association; it’s Islamophobic. That’s what those who are backing Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed are saying about claims that he is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist group that spawned the Hamas terrorist organization. The fact that President Donald Trump termed El-Sayed “100 percent” affiliated with the Brotherhood, as well as a “Muslim radical” and a “con man” who “hates our country,” will likely only reinforce the belief of most Democrats that he is innocent of the charge. In this, they are not only instinctively disbelieving anything that Trump says. They are also following the lead of most of the liberal media, which has continued, despite evidence to the contrary, to assert that there has been a post-9/11 discriminatory backlash against Muslims. So they are likely to believe the candidate’s assertions that any attempt to accuse him of being linked to the group or of being any sort of radical Islamist is, by definition, Islamophobic.

Smear or credible accusation?

Since no smoking-gun Brotherhood membership card has yet to be produced, that’s likely to be the way Democrats treat this issue. Indeed, most of their liberal media cheering section is simply ignoring the issue altogether as beneath their dignity to fact-check something that they regard as a slur, rather than a credible reason to doubt El-Sayed’s fitness for high office that ought to be reported.

And given that in a contemporary culture in which the worst thing you can say about someone is that they are being racist, the attempt not merely to refute the allegation but to shut it down altogether, the odds are that El-Sayed is likely to succeed in getting most mainstream outlets to treat it that way.

But there is a problem with this attempt to dismiss this discussion. Far from being a smear, there are good reasons to think long and hard about the implications of electing someone to the Senate who not merely is closely associated with persons who are Brotherhood supporters in one form or another, but who is also largely championing their political platform. Simply put, El-Sayed isn’t being accused of being connected to the Brotherhood because he is a Muslim. The charge sticks because, regardless of whether he has ever personally belonged to the Brotherhood or one of its many affiliated groups, given his positions, he might as well be.

It could be a waste of time to play a political version of the “six degrees” trivia game about actors with him and the Brotherhood. But what those covering this race should be talking about is something different. A question needs answering: How is it possible for someone who traffics in the sort of antisemitic invective and advocacy that represents the hallmark of the Brotherhood and its advocates to rally mainstream Democrats and liberal media behind him, and be on the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate?

Equally as important, the row about El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood illustrates the meaning of Islamophobia in 21st-century American politics. What we learn from this serious accusation is that someone has noticed antisemitism coming from an American Muslim—and is being denounced for having the nerve to say it.

Lying on ‘NBC’.

The question of El-Sayed’s radicalism has been rattling around the Internet since the soon-to-be 42-year-old won his party’s primary in August. Nevertheless, it has become a national topic of conversation since he was asked about possible ties with the Brotherhood between himself or his family during the course of a generally fawning Oct. 11.interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The candidate’s answer was a flat “no.” He argued that it was not a legitimate question. And he went on to say it was evidence that his Republican opponent Mike Rogers and others opposing him are both “shameful” and “Islamophobic.” It might have ended there. Yet within a day, evidence surfaced that contradicted El-Sayed’s denial.

His half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, a supporter of her brother’s political career and a radical professor at the University of Chicago, arrested for assaulting a policeman at an anti-ICE rally, posted on social media about their mother’s record as a Muslim Brotherhood activist in the 1970s.

El-Sayed and his supporters attempted to swat that down by pointing out that he was born a decade after that. More to the point, he wasn’t raised by his mother, as was the case with his sister, but had instead grown up with his father and second wife in a separate state.

Connected to terror.

Yet even more damning was evidence uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon that El-Sayed’s father-in-law, Dr. Tayeb Jukaku, a Michigan neurologist, is a leader and donor to the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an American front group for the Brotherhood. The ISNA was one of the unindicted co-conspirators in the notorious case in which leaders of the Holy Land Foundation were tried and convicted for using the organization to raise more than $12 million to funnel to Hamas terrorists.

The ISNA, like the more well-known Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), was created in the 1990s to act as cover groups for those organizing on behalf of the Brotherhood and Hamas. Since then, these groups have attempted to position themselves as civil-rights groups representing the interests of a supposedly persecuted Muslim minority in the United States.

What they really do is put forward a sanitized version of the Brotherhood’s political agenda of an Islamist war on the West. That has fooled much of the media and many in the Democratic Party, including the Biden administration, which not only employed CAIR in designing its anti-Islamophobia strategy paper but also in its even more disingenuous effort to combat antisemitism. This was outrageous as well as ironic because CAIR itself is a major source of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel invective and advocacy.

Needless to say, the leadership of ISNA and CAIR, along with 41 persons connected to Hamas fundraising in the United States, happen to be donors to El-Sayed’s campaign.

Dismissing his mother’s involvement, El-Sayed’s father-in-law’s role in ISNA and his welcoming of funds from those who are linked to the Holy Land case and Hamas should be enough to make questions about El-Sayed’s ties to the Brotherhood legitimate.

Yet even beyond these factual ties that deserve scrutiny is the fact that El-Sayed’s open antisemitism—and opposition to Israel’s existence and right to defend itself—is more troubling than anything else. The same is true for his efforts to mainstream blood libels about Israel committing “genocide[sic].”

Open antisemitism.

El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in the Michigan Democratic primary by smearing her as a puppet of Jews who were trying to buy American elections for Israel. What was truly “shameless” was his invocation of traditional tropes about Jews and money that came straight out of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups still promote.

This is also the candidate whose initial reaction to an attempt to plow a vehicle filled with explosives at a synagogue and Jewish school was to sympathize with the terrorist, rather than the intended victims. It took him several months to walk that back.

But like most gaffes, it said more about him than he would like to admit.

El-Sayed may claim that he dislikes Israel, but not Jews. It’s an oft-used attempt to force them to drop an essential element of Jewish peoplehood to get the approval of the red-green alliance of leftists and Islamists that he embodies.

Some prominent Democratic activists, including Jews, are stating that the reluctance of Jews to vote for El-Sayed shows they care more about Israel than their own country and will suffer for doing so. But what it actually illustrates is that even most liberal Jews understand that his anti-Zionism and spreading of blood libels are indistinguishable from those of antisemites. In fact, they pose a clear and present danger to their safety and that of their children.

In their frenzy to win a majority in the U.S. Senate, what Democrats are doing is trying to legitimize a Muslim Brotherhood-adjacent candidate. That they are doing so amid an unprecedented surge of hatred and violence since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, is particularly shocking and especially irresponsible. If they are successful, the consequences in terms of shifting the Overton Window of acceptable discourse even further to make Jew-hatred acceptable will be obvious.

The role of hate groups.

Just as obvious are the implications of media labeling any criticism—or even reporting about El-Sayed’s antisemitism and his links to an international terror group—as Islamophobia and thus reprehensible.

Denial of the Brotherhood’s role in promoting Jew-hatred around the globe is nothing less than the moral equivalent of flat-earth advocacy. The same is true for efforts to make Americans look away from how Hamas supporters continue to evade accountability, even after the atrocities of Oct. 7. Like their friends operating within the terrorist organization based in Gaza, groups like CAIR and ISNA seek Israel’s destruction and Jewish genocide. They are hate groups, not advocates for civil rights.

It’s bad enough that public figures like El-Sayed won’t distance themselves from the effort to destroy Israel by condemning these groups. More than that, the dishonest campaign to claim that those who notice this hateful activity are just prejudiced against Muslims is doing real damage to Muslims in the United States. What’s more, by allowing these groups to get a foothold in the American public square, let alone put one of their friends in the Senate, El-Sayed’s apologists are undermining the security of all Americans and not just Jews.

Far from a campaign smear that will fade with time, the question of the Brotherhood’s efforts to gain a beachhead in the United States threatens democracy, and the safety of Jews and Americans at large. In the long run, that some on the left think that’s a small price to pay to get another Democrat elected to the Senate is a scandal that only further inflames a crisis of antisemitism for which El-Sayed’s supporters bear responsibility. JNS

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In Pittsburgh, campus antisemitism report’s authors neglected to speak with Jewish students. The University of Pittsburgh faced criticism over an antisemitism report that did not include research into Jewish students’ experiences.

By Andrew Lapin/JTA October 17, 2026. Can a college campus accurately assess its antisemitism problem without talking to Jews?

That’s the question facing the University of Pittsburgh, where an internal working group on campus antisemitism recently published a report that did not include, and did not appear to solicit, the perspectives of the school’s estimated 1,400 Jewish students, or any other members of the campus Jewish community beyond the group itself. JPost

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'I DON'T TRUST THE MAN': Kid Rock Blasts El-Sayed — 'We Have to Be Very Careful' [WATCH]. Posted by Hannity Staff - 10.16.26 Kid Rock dropped a warning on Fox News on Friday.

In a fiery clip making the rounds, the rocker warned that Michigan’s progressive Democratic Senate nominee might look assimilated — but that doesn’t mean he is.

“He looks‘assimilated’… I’d be very careful,” Kid Rock said. “Guess who else ‘assimilated?’ The Fort Hood shooter. Guess who else ‘assimilated?’ The pilots who flew airplanes into our World Trade Centers.”

“If El-Sayed was out there saying, ‘I love America! It’s the greatest country on Earth! It’s provided me so many opportunities!’ No. He’s said, ‘America’s a racist country and this, that, and the other,'” Rock added.

He went further, arguing that “not just socialist communist but this ideology” is trying to gain a foothold in government — and that voters have ignored the warning signs before.

The remarks land as El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim U.S. senator, faces Republican Mike Rogers in a tight race. They also come after El-Sayed’s half-sister previously posted that their family “has long been MB” — Muslim Brotherhood — a claim he has denied.

Watch the clip below: 🚨 JUST NOW: Kid Rock TRUTH NUKES Abdul El Sayed. "He LOOKS 'assimilated'…I'd be very careful. Guess who else 'assimilated?' The Fort Hood shooter. Guess who else 'assimilated?' The pilots who flew airplanes into our world trade centers." "These people — not just socialist… [pic.twitter.com/6q2uZwEUef]

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 16, 2026. Hannity

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Abdul El-Sayed in Unearthed Synagogue Speech: Hamas Is 'the Same' as the Israeli Military. The Democrat's comments, made during his failed governor run, are consistent with his persistent attacks on Israel that have continued during his Senate campaign Chuck Ross. Washington Free Beacon. October 16, 2026 Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told a group of Jewish voters at a Detroit synagogue in 2018 that he views the Israeli military "the same way" that he views Hamas, according to video obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The left-wing Democrat, speaking at the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit, offered those thoughts during his failed 2018 gubernatorial campaign when asked about a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

El-Sayed responded with a lengthy sermon about his "values" and "standing up for truth and international law" on "both sides" of the Middle East debate.

"I've always said I'll condemn Hamas and what they do in the same way that I'll condemn some of the human rights abuses that we see on the part of the IDF," El-Sayed said.

At the time, Hamas had for decades been behind terror attacks against Israelis, including many deadly suicide bombings and other murders that targeted children and teens.

El-Sayed told the congregants eight years ago that, as he was running for governor, there would be "very little" he could do about the Israel-Palestinian issue. But now he is running for Senate and is reportedly angling for a spot on the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The 2018 video emerges as El-Sayed faces scrutiny over his family's purported ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that spawned Hamas in Gaza in the 1980s. Eman Abdelhadi, El-Sayed's half-sister with whom he has been close, has stated that their mother and relatives in Egypt have "long been" members of the organization. Abdelhadi has stated that Palestinians have "a right to violent resistance," and she rebuked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), a staunch El-Sayed ally, as a "disappointment" after he condemned the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

El-Sayed, who ran heavily against the pro-Israel advocacy group AIPAC in the Democratic primary, has sought to win back historically Democratic Jewish voters who soured on the candidate over his hostility towards Israel.

Rep. Hillary Scholten (D., Mich.) has withheld an endorsement from El-Sayed over his remarks about Israel and his affiliation with Hasan Piker, the socialist influencer who said that "America deserved 9/11" and that Israel is "much worse" than Hamas. State senator Jeremy Moss, a Jewish Democrat, withheld his endorsement from El-Sayed in August after the candidate refused to condemn Piker over the influencer's antisemitic remarks.

State representative Noah Arbit (D.) said he will not back El-Sayed because it is "very clear that the fulcrum of Abdul's campaign was an antisemitic conspiracy about AIPAC being the No. 1 obstacle toward universal healthcare, better schools and better roads in Michigan and in America."

El-Sayed has a lengthy track record of equating Israel with America's adversaries.

At last week's debate against Republican Mike Rogers, El-Sayed sidestepped a question about whether Israel or Iran is a greater threat to America.

"I think both of them have proven dangerous in their own way," El-Sayed said. "One at risk of attacking us. One getting us into wars we have no business fighting."

El-Sayed's remarks are in contrast with those of another Michigan Democrat. Pete Buttigieg, considered a potential 2028 presidential candidate, told Fox News in response to El-Sayed's remarks that "Iran is our enemy, Israel is not, they're an ally."

El-Sayed, who has declined to say whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, has tried to repair his rocky relationship with Jewish Democrats. He met with Jewish leaders in August and apologized for his remarks after a Hezbollah-inspired attack on Temple Israel outside Detroit on March 12. The assailant, Ayman Ghazali, attacked the synagogue in retaliation for Israel's killing of his brothers, both of whom were members of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. At the time, El-Sayed stated of the attacker, "Hurt people hurt people."

"I made a mistake" with that remark, El-Sayed told members of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus in August. "I should have issued a statement, of course condemning it, and it just should have been the full stop."

El-Sayed also faced heat at last week's debate for failing to issue a statement on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks. He said he did not want to take advantage of the anniversary for political purposes.

But El-Sayed issued a statement on the second anniversary of the attack that equated Hamas and Israel. He also sent out a fundraising email that referenced the attack but only mentioned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an aggressor, with no mention of Hamas.

El-Sayed's campaign did not respond to a request for comment. FreeBeacon

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Troy Jackson Discloses Campaign Donations From Billionaires Two Days After Saying 'There's No Billionaires Funding Me'. The donors include Joshua Bekenstein, the Bain Capital co-chairman and member of the 'Boston Billionaires Club.' Jackson acknowledged them during a Thursday night debate.

Collin Anderson. October 16, 2026 FreeBeacon

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Hamas commander from Oct. 7 killed by IDF. Mohammed Abd al-Halaq Halla eliminated in northern Gaza; served as head of weapons production unit | Separate strike kills PIJ operative in Khan Yunis for ceasefire violations. Eliana Fleming. Oct 16, 2026 JFeed

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Javier Milei's ally claims Argentina needs the Falklands as Britain has been 'colonised by Islam'. Argentina mocked newly elected Labour MP Sagal Abdi-Wali, taking her parliamentary oath with her hand on the Quran. By Oliver Partridge. Last updated: 16th October 2026

A senior aide to Argentina’s president Javier Milei has argued the country should regain control of the Falkland Islands, claiming Britain is being “colonised” by Islam amid an ongoing row over the sovereignty of the overseas territory.

Santiago Caputo, one of Mr Milei’s closest political advisers, made the remarks in a social media post accompanying a video of newly elected Labour MP Sagal Abdi-Wali taking her parliamentary oath with her hand on the Quran. GB News

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The Source with Kaitlan Collins. Aired October 16, 2026 - 21:00 ET [...] SCIUTTO: -- Coming up next. What made a loyal Trump supporter who's been to 42 rallies question her allegiance? CNN's Donie O'Sullivan looks at the cracks emerging in the MAGA movement. That's next. [...] SCIUTTO: So, before we go, just quickly, is there a successor that you find -- a successor to Trump and the MAGA movement that you find more popular than that -- I mean, is it Vance? Is it Rubio? Is it someone else? O'SULLIVAN: It's Rubio, yes, and the name that keeps coming up as we spoke to hundreds of people and asked dozens of them directly. SCIUTTO: Yes. O'SULLIVAN: Rubio over Vance. SCIUTTO: Notable. CNN Transcript

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Nexus of Russia, Iran relationship on display amid US sanctions Controversy. October 17, 2026. JPost

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Los Angeles man allegedly planned “mass incident” at Jewish preschool, had Molotov cocktail materials. His mother told the “New York Post” that “at one point they had Jewish neighbors ‘that weren’t very nice’ and that there was a dispute about a shared fence,” but that her son never spoke of it. JNS Staff (Oct. 17, 2026 / JNS) Steven Carlos Duenas, 51, of the Los Angeles area, allegedly planned to carry out a “mass incident” at a Jewish preschool, and when he was arrested on Oct. 2, federal agents found “combination of parts designed and intended to make a Molotov cocktail,” prosecutors said, the New York Post reported. Duenas referred to the Houthis, a U.S.-designated terror group, as his “homies” on social media and said he loves them and posted that “not enough synagogues have been burned down,” the Post reported. (JNS sought comment from the FBI.) JNS

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

By Cookie Schwaeber-Issan. October 18, 2026.

World leaders continue to champion a two-state solution, but the rejection of Israel by influential Palestinian voices raises questions about whether lasting peace is possible.

You’d think that British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, who just happens to be Jewish, would have heard the “From the river to the sea” chant, shouted by many of his citizens at their almost daily anti-Israel protests.

The phrase, which represents the entire State of Israel, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, means that any officially approved Palestinian state, to those protesters, would have to comprise that full area, including Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

That unnegotiable demand is not just coming from the shouters on the street. It is the final goal of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and anyone who assumes leadership of Palestinians.

While some might be tempted to point to PLO head Mahmoud Abbas, arguing that he has advocated for a two-state solution, that contention is contradicted and completely undermined by the educational indoctrination given to Palestinian children who are taught, from an early age, that Israel is occupying Arab land and that the enemy must be eradicated.

So, for all intents and purposes, the spoken commitment of “From the river to the sea” wholeheartedly negates a two-state solution.

Nonetheless, for whatever reason, Miliband has said that “when it comes to the attempt to destroy the two-state solution, this party, this movement, this government says, ‘we will not let you succeed.’”

My question is, how do you square those two things—a growing protest movement that insists the State of Israel must be entirely replaced by a Palestinian one, with no Jewish presence, and a government minister who assures everyone that no one will succeed in extinguishing the aspiration of a two-state solution?

Unless I’m wrong, each of those concepts is diabolically opposed to the other. One supposes the good will of both sides, endeavoring to commit to peaceful coexistence and ready to make whatever compromise it takes for the sake of ending the long-standing conflict.

While the other immediately dispenses with all pretense, publicly declaring that there will be no compromise, no attempts at sharing the geographic area, and no getting along with those they clearly despise.

So, where do you go from there? Because Miliband and his government are, essentially, pushing a policy that’s being drowned out by the voices on the street who are, in no way, supportive of the idea.

Of course, Miliband is not alone. He shares the company of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, along with an overwhelming majority of UN member states.

Leaders from France, Canada, and Australia are also on board with the two-state solution. And shockingly, the official policy of the US agrees with that position.

Needless to say, many Arab states, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco, the UAE, Qatar, and Egypt, support the idea as well. Those Arab League members base their assumption on pre-1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state.

So what we’re witnessing is a stalled status quo, paralyzing the possibility of all progress, because while a significant part of the global leadership still promotes a two-state solution, the ones who would be instrumental in approving such a deal are laser-focused on the whole pie, and not just one piece.

How can there be any resolution to one of the world’s biggest conundrums when two sides are dug in deeply, believing that their particular philosophy is the only proposition that is acceptable?

That leaves us with only one conclusion. This falls into the category of unsolvable problems that are simply too complex and too emotionally charged to figure out.

When coming to that obvious reality, it’s tempting to ask ourselves why, then, would someone like Miliband, and all the others, continue to back a losing proposition, knowing, in advance, that the likelihood of its implementation is zero?

Here is a speculative answer. The whole concept of a two-state solution is very compatible with the social construct of virtue-signaling. That is because the idea of two states for two peoples sounds reasonable, moral, ethical, and even noble. It plays into the idea that there can be an equitable solution for both sides, resulting in a real win-win situation.

The cost of indoctrination.

What is missed by those leaders, who are clearly attempting to inflate their own goodness, is the vast reservoir of hatred and contempt, welling up inside of the individuals who have been part of a centuries-long experiment of indoctrination, from cradle to grave.

The toxic and lethal education they received, both at home, in school, and at their mosques, did the trick, painting Jews as demons who must be eradicated at all costs. Losing one’s life for the sake of diminishing their numbers is the greatest sacrifice that can be made.

Consequently, it’s no wonder that such a society, dedicated to the end of another one, cannot build anything productive or contribute to others through its own achievements and accomplishments.

Because when you are obsessed with destruction, the thought of rising to greatness is completely counterproductive and immaterial to the goal of finally doing away with an avowed enemy. It’s the reason that their youth will never live to inherit the realization of their dream, if that were possible.

Everything is secondary to eliminating the evil in their backyard, and that is the tragedy completely missed by world leaders who have spent decades trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.

So, if you think about it, the thing that is standing in the way of “peace in our time between Jews and Arabs” is the personal need of those in power to appear virtuous, magnanimous, and the ones who possess the highest moral standards.

By forcing the rest of us to cling to a losing prospect, precious time is wasted, young lives are snuffed out, and nothing moves forward. It is the ultimate prolonging of conflict, almost deliberately designed to remain the world’s thorn in the side, as useless and feigned efforts are expended to resolve the mother of all unescapable quagmires.

Don’t even bother asking the question of why they can’t see this for what it is, because they clearly are deeply invested in playing the game of who can appear the most civilized and principled exemplary figures, each vying for that top honor.

Yet, they are outed by the continuing conflict, which will only result in more bloodshed. And, sadly, there’s absolutely no honor in that! JPost

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Opposition scrambles to stop Trump from backing Netanyahu. As Israel's election approaches, opposition figures are reportedly working behind the scenes to prevent Trump from endorsing Netanyahu and influencing the battle to form the next government. Israel National News. Published: Oct 17, 2026, 10:47 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Predictions of Gaza's death toll were wrong, and no one is held accountable | The Jerusalem Post.

Gaza’s own mortality figures raise questions about years of predictions of mass death, famine, and disease that failed to materialize.

By Micha Danzig. October 17, 2026.

In late September, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry published its 2025 mortality report, the first since the war began to purport to count every death in Gaza.

Of 24,650 deaths, it attributed 17,286 to “war operations,” without separating combatants from civilians, and 1,584 to accidents. Independent analyst Eirik Schrøder-Bråtane calculated that the remaining 5,780 nonviolent deaths roughly matched Gaza’s prewar annual nonviolent toll. The ministry also recorded 50,227 births.

This was 2025: the year Israel halted aid for 11 weeks after Hamas refused to extend the truce and release more hostages, following a six-week ceasefire during which 25,200 trucks delivered nearly 450,000 tons of aid. Israel said Hamas was seizing and selling supplies to finance its war. By September, Israel counted over two million tons delivered during the war. It was also the year UN officials warned of babies dying by the thousands and the IPC, the UN-backed hunger monitor, declared famine in Gaza City.

Yet the ministry’s own figures show nothing resembling the mass-mortality footprint those warnings suggested: no surge in nonviolent deaths from hunger, disease, or other indirect causes.

Andrew Fox, a former British Army officer and senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, argued in 2024 that Gaza’s war toll was being padded with natural deaths. Now, he wrote, the famine allegations and other claims had been “debunked by Hamas’s own numbers.” The modelers who predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths, he added, “should lose their careers.” Then he said: “They won’t. They’ll get a free pass.”

That may be the safest prediction anyone has made about this war.

For years, Israel’s accusers have issued confident predictions of mass death and confident counts of massacres. The headlines circle the globe. When the predictions fail, or the numbers collapse, the correction barely travels at all.

On May 20, 2025, the UN’s humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, told BBC Radio 4 that 14,000 babies in Gaza “will die in the next 48 hours” unless aid reached them. Within a day, the UN clarified that the figure meant roughly 14,100 projected cases of severe acute malnutrition among young children under age 5. Not deaths. Not babies. Not 48 hours. The report does show deterioration: infant mortality of 15.8 per 1,000 live births and under-five mortality of 33.4, both worse than before the war. But in the year of the UN’s warnings, Gaza’s infant mortality roughly matched Egypt’s peacetime rate of 16.1, and both its rates sat below the global average. Worse, yes. Mass death, no.

In February 2024, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Johns Hopkins projected as many as 85,750[sic] excess deaths in Gaza over six months in a worst-case scenario of escalating war and epidemic disease. Activist outlets ran headlines like “Israel Could Kill 85,000[sic] More Gazans in 6 Months,” and a lead author told US news program Democracy Now! that the escalation scenario was “currently what’s happening in Rafah.” That epidemic never came.

In Sudan’s largely forgotten war, the same London School found the dead going uncounted: some 26,000 violent deaths in Khartoum State alone in the first 14 months, more than monitors had recorded for the entire country, and over 61,000 deaths from all causes.

In Gaza, the alarm far outran the dead. In Sudan, the dead outran the alarm.

In March 2024, the IPC projected famine in northern Gaza by the end of May if fighting and severe aid restrictions continued. By June, its own Famine Review Committee found the evidence did not indicate famine.

The IPC declared famine in the Gaza Governorate in August 2025, over Israel’s objections to its methodology. Somalia’s 2010-2012 famine killed an estimated 258,000 people, including 133,000 children under five. At its peak, it killed about 30,000 people a month. Incentive to inflate numbers Gaza’s Health Ministry, an arm of Hamas with every incentive to inflate, reported 455 malnutrition deaths across nearly two years of war, fewer than Somalia’s famine killed in half a day at its height.

By the IPC’s own threshold, two deaths per 10,000 people a day, the declared famine should have killed about 9,000. Hamas’s own ministry counted fewer than 200, across all of Gaza, fewer than the US records in four days.

Rafah followed a familiar pattern. Before Israel entered the city in May 2024, the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry warned an assault would bring “the annihilation of about 1.5 million Palestinians.” The EU’s then-foreign-policy chief, Josep Borrell, scoffed at evacuating civilians: “Where? To the moon?” Within three weeks, about a million people had evacuated Rafah. There was no annihilation and no apology. The pattern is older than this war, and it only ever runs in one direction. In April 2002, during Israel’s operation in Jenin, PA negotiator Saeb Erekat told CNN that Israeli troops had killed more than 500 people. The UN secretary-general’s own report later counted 52 Palestinians dead, at least half of them terrorists, along with 23 Israeli soldiers, and found the 500 figure unsubstantiated. By then, the “Jenin massacre” had entered the world’s vocabulary.

Operation Cast Lead followed the same arc. Hamas initially acknowledged fewer than 50 dead combatants. The since-discredited 2009 Goldstone Report cited a Palestinian Centre for Human Rights tally identifying just 236 of the dead as combatants. Then, in November 2010, Hamas interior minister Fathi Hammad acknowledged that up to 700 men from Hamas’s military wing and security forces had been killed, close to Israel’s count of 709.

Abroad, the dead were nearly all civilians. At home, they were Hamas martyrs. On October 17, 2023, Hamas’s health authorities instantly blamed Israel for the Ahli hospital explosion and reported nearly 500 dead. American, British, French, and Canadian intelligence assessments concluded that a misfired Palestinian rocket was the likely cause; US intelligence put the toll at a fraction of the ministry’s tally.

The New York Times later conceded that its early coverage had relied too heavily on Hamas’s claims.

The progressive Left, which prides itself on following the science, rarely asks why so many catastrophic predictions and claims about Israel fail. A growing faction of the populist Right, the so-called “woke Right,” recycles Hamas figures and UN forecasts it would ridicule on any other subject.

The method works because the claims and predictions do their work before they can be tested. Put Israel in the dock. Push for sanctions or an arms embargo. Pressure Israel, but not those sworn to its destruction. By the time the evidence arrives, the damage is done.

Tom Fletcher still runs the UN’s humanitarian office. The IPC has not retracted its 2025 famine declaration. Newsrooms still headline the forecasts and bury the accounting. In most fields, predictions this consequential would at least produce an audit. When the subject is Israel, they produce the next failed prediction. JPost

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Jewish shepherd rammed by Palestinian Arab. Jewish shepherd injured in Samaria after Palestinian Arab swerves and rams him, sending him flying through the air. Israel National News. Published: Oct 17, 2026, 8:23 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Cairo rallies to Riyadh. El-Sisi Seeks Mandate to Defend Saudi Arabia. Oct 17, 2026 JFeed

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On Netanyahu's leash: Antisemitic campaign targets Azerbaijan's president over hijab restrictions. Online cartoons portray Ilham Aliyev as an enemy of Islam and a servant of Israel amid protests over school hijab restrictions; Turkish, Iranian and Russian actors are suspected of involvement in the campaign, though responsibility has not been established Alex Nirenburg | 10.17.26 YNet

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As Russian strikes intensify. Ukraine out of Patriot interceptors. Oct 17, 2026 JFeed

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Abdul El-Sayed Fundraised Alongside School Principal Who Resigned for Defending ‘Intifada’ as T-Shirt Slogan and Gaza Flotilla Activist Who Has Described Thanksgiving as ‘National Day of Mourning’. Radical activists Dr. Debbie Almontaser and Huwaida Arraf hosted top-dollar fundraisers for El-Sayed. Eliana Johnson October 17, 2026 FreeBeacon

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GOP and Dem lawmakers accuse Trump of ‘surrender’ to Putin after prez waived sanctions. NYPost

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Pole-dancing: Mamdani disses yet another NYC ethnic group. By Rich Calder. Published Oct. 17, 2026. Add Polish Americans to the growing list of ethnic groups enraged by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. ...raged Grzegorz Fryc, a longtime NYC Polish activist and business leader. “Mayor Mamdani couldn’t be bothered to attend the Pulaski Day Parade, and now his administration wants to replace the traditional Polish Heritage celebration at Gracie Mansion with some generic ‘Eastern European’ event,” he added. He ripped the city’s first Muslim mayor for the selective snubbing.... He’s also passed on the German-American Steuben Parade in September and the Israel Day Parade in May.

“Mamdani clearly hates Europeans, especially white New Yorkers. Period,” wrote former Councilman Robert Holden on X on Oct. 10. “First, he snubbed German-Americans at the Steuben Day Parade. Then Polish-Americans at [the] Pulaski Day Parade. Now Italian-Americans on Columbus Day. What does that tell you? I call it racism, plain and simple.” Mamdan has found the time to attend other parades, including ones honoring Pakistani, Sikh, West Indian and African American communities.

The Ugandan-born mayor did show Europe some love when he marched in the famed St. Patrick’s Day Parade celebrating Irish pride in March and the Greek Independence Day Parade in May. NYPost

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'The plane was diving': Flydubai pilot recounts cockpit attack. Israel National News. Oct 17, 2026, 8:42 PM INN

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Emperor Rubio. Rubio to Lebanon: Don't Return Explosives to Hezbollah. After Lebanese authorities seized half a ton of explosives bound for Hezbollah, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Lebanon's president that returning the materials to the terror group is "not on the table." 10.17.26 22:39 C14

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Illegals out. Emergency Event Declared in Shoham. An emergency protocol was activated following camera detection of suspects crossing the fence into Israeli territory near the central city of Shoham. 7 individuals were apprehended by security forces. 10.17.26 23:17 Efrat Briner. C14

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Do it already. Israel to Fund War Crimes Trials for October 7 Attackers. The government will vote Sunday on allocating resources to prosecute Hamas terrorists who carried out the October 7 massacre, including establishing a dedicated IDF administration and appointing judges to a military court in Jerusalem. 10.17.26 23:45 Mati Tuchfeld. C14

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UK counterterror police target mother over support for Israel. A British mother says counterterrorism officers questioned her about her support for Israel and a trip to the country after an anonymous extremism referral. Israel National News. Published: Oct 18, 2026, 9:01 AM (GMT+3)

A report in The Telegraph [94] tells a disturbing story of counterterrorism policing targeting a British mother for her support of Israel.

According to the report, police visited the home of Holly Passmore, 44, of County Durham in northeast England, on July 4, 2025, after an anonymous referral to the government’s Prevent program flagged her support for Israel following an educational trip organized by Israel’s embassy in London.

Prevent is Britain’s government counter-extremism program. Referrals are assessed for potential security threats or concerns that someone vulnerable could be drawn into radicalization. Police say support offered through the program is voluntary.

The report cited records Passmore subsequently obtained showing that the referral characterized her involvement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as excessive, citing her decision to travel to Israel. It also alleged mental health issues and susceptibility to harmful influence.

However, a police intelligence report reviewed by The Telegraph explicitly acknowledged that supporting Israel or traveling there did not constitute a counterterrorism concern.

Passmore, who is not Jewish, told the newspaper that officers questioned her connections to Israel, future travel plans, interest in Jewish matters, and whether she had visited Auschwitz.

“When they came to the door, they didn’t discuss my health. They only asked about Israel."

Passmore cares for her nine-year-old son, who has severe autism, and is pursuing a master’s degree in Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa. She disputed the referral’s characterization of her health and vulnerability.

According to the report, after she complained, two other officers, including a superintendent, visited and assured her she was not regarded as a terrorist or extremist. She alleges the superintendent also encouraged her to stop discussing the incident online.

The newspaper also reported that Passmore discovered her medical records had designated her a vulnerable adult shortly after her Israel trip. The designation was subsequently removed. She said neither change was explained to her and questioned whether it was connected to the referral.

Counter Terrorism Policing North East declined to discuss her case. The Telegraph said Durham Constabulary and the regional health board had been approached for comment. INN

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Amb. Leiter: Ben Gvir won't be National Security Minister. Israel National News. Oct 17, 2026, 9:04 PM INN

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JD Vance @JDVance: Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.

I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.

And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country. @visegrad24 Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: BREAKING:

The town hall of Limoges, built in 1873, didn’t survive today’s riots. [95] Oct 17, 2026. on X

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Abdul El-Sayed slammed for ‘racist’ Columbia research paper he wrote concluding Arab women should mate with their own. By Gabrielle Fahmy. Published Oct. 17, 2026.

Left-wing Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is being slammed over a resurfaced Columbia University research paper he authored with a “racist and eugenics outcome” that concluded Arab women should only breed with their own kind for optimal health outcomes.

El-Sayed — who has repeatedly called himself a physician though he never completed his medical school residency — warned in the 2011 paper published in the “Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health” of the hazards of “interethnic mating” — which he insisted increased the risk of children being born premature.

“Our findings suggest that interethnic mating may be associated with increased risk for adverse birth outcomes among Arab ethnicity mothers,” he stated, back then going by Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed.

El-Sayed published a 2011 paper titled “Interethnic mating and risk for preterm birth among Arab American mothers.”

El-Sayed began the paper, titled “Interethnic mating and risk for preterm birth among Arab American mothers,” with the bold claim that Arab mothers, “a growing ethnic group,” have “systematically better birth outcomes” than white mothers.

He said American Arab women were 16% less likely than white women to give birth prematurely, citing his own research from 2008, while omitting to mention that same study found the gap disappeared after adjusting for maternal and socioeconomic factors.

The research, funded in part by NIH grants, concluded that Arab women having children with white men was linked to 18% higher odds of preterm birth — below 37 weeks — and 24% higher odds of late preterm birth — between 34 and 36 weeks — compared to having a child with an Arab father.

The study found no statistically significant difference in very preterm birth, before 32 weeks, based on whether the father was Arab or white, but didn’t spend much ink dwelling on that finding.

Critics savaged the paper as pseudoscience.

“This is ‘science’ with “a pre-ordained racist & eugenics outcome,” wrote Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) on X. “Scary stuff.”

Others wondered what the radical Democrat’s real motivation was to even research the topic.

“Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s scientific research is…odd. Arab mothers who engage in ‘interethnic mating’ have worse birth outcomes than those who mate with Arab men?” ripped John David Haltigan, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. “Why research this?”... NY Post

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Border Police arrest five Palestinian infiltrators near Jerusalem. Oct 18, 2026. Israel Border Police officers arrested five Palestinians from the Hebron area of Judea overnight, the force said on Sunday. The five allegedly crossed the security fence illegally near Moshav Zanoah, west of Jerusalem.

Officers used a drone to search a quarry, initially locating one suspect before discovering four others hiding in the area. Police also dismantled a makeshift wooden shelter suspected of being used by the men for sleeping and confiscated equipment found at the site. JNS

Watch: Arabs found crammed in trunk attempting to enter Jerusalem. Israel National News. Oct 18, 2026, 10:20 AM INN

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Top Iranian official: New war plan ‘more devastating’ than past rounds. Oct 18, 2026. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, claimed on Sunday that Tehran’s armed forces have prepared a plan “more devastating” than the previous confrontations with the United States and Israel. JNS

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Tyson legal team slams Supreme over Israeli-Palestinian flag swap. Oct 18, 2026 Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is threatening legal action against Supreme, accusing the streetwear brand of a material breach of contract after it modified an approved apparel graphic to replace an Israeli flag with a Palestinian flag, Rolling Stone reported on Friday. [96] [97] JNS

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Shocking footage: Rioters ransack Paris synagogue. Rioters wreak havoc in 19th Arrondissement synagogue, throwing holy books and religious items on the floor, as violent riots rock the country. Nitsan Keidar Oct 18, 2026, 1:13 PM INN

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Hamas flag & stolen license plates. Vehicle inspection leads to weapons discovery in Dura Israel National News Oct 18, 2026, 2:58 PM INN

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‘A red line was crossed’: Security coordinators descend on IDF HQ over colleague's arrest. Israel National News. Oct 18, 2026, 2:00 PM INN

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French Jewish leader calls on government to declare emergency. By Canaan Lidor. Oct .18, 2016. A leader of French Jews on Sunday called on the government to declare a state of emergency to deal with nationwide rioting, which he said was being organized by the far left.

“I believe we need to declare a state of emergency in France, send in the army, massively increase law enforcement personnel and arrest these rioters and vandals by every means,” Bruno Benjamin, the president of the Marseille-Provence branch of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish institutions, told JNS.

On Sunday morning, congregants of one synagogue in Paris found that it had been ransacked on Saturday, Jewish community sources said.

It was not immediately clear whether that incident in the 19th arrondissement was antisemitic or connected to the rioting, Robert Ejnes, the executive director of the CRIF’s national head office in Paris, told JNS.

Hundreds of thousands of people have participated in protests in cities across France over the weekend. The protests, which have been going on for several weeks in waves, began over conditions at public schools, according to some protesters, but have devolved into vandalism, looting and violence against police.

Some 1,200 people have been arrested over the weekend and at least 150 police officers were injured. Footage from Marseille showed police coming under heavy volleys of stones and other objects on a central square. A police station was ransacked in Marseille and in the city of Limoges, City Hall was torched. JNS

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CAIR Backs Chinese Nazi Muslim Prof Who Called for Killing All the Jews. By Daniel Greenfield. October 18, 2026

As a practicing Muslim, the 42-year-old is therefore not "a danger to anyone." Update to this story about a Chinese Muslim professor using burner accounts to threaten a Jewish colleague and, while pretending to be a right-wing American, threatened another Holocaust.

'Guangtian Ha, an assistant professor of religion at Haverford College and Chinese Muslim scholar, is accused of sending death threats and praising Hitler. Here’s some of his alleged work on X.

“Again and again and again. Spare not a single one of the jew rats,” he said in response to a post marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“We will never forget what the fuhrer did. In fact, we are studying it meticulously, so we don’t make the same mistake this time round, so no a single one of you is left,” he offered in another Holocaust Remembrance Day post.

“The jews are angry because the world has woken up and realized Hitler was right all along,” Ha said in February 2026.'

Some of this harassment was aimed at a colleague, and “investigators said the most troubling post happened on Monday, just one day before Ha’s arrest, when he made a post telling the victim to send their kids outside to play.” FPM

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Trump endorses Netanyahu days before Israeli election, warns US could face Iran alone if PM loses. Trump endorses PM nine days before the October 27 election, says Netanyahu "will never let you down" • US president suggests alternative leaders would leave Washington to face Iran alone. October 18, 2026. JPost

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Former soccer player Eyal Berkovich: 'I was scared they would poison me'. Eyal Berkovic recalls tensions with Muslim teammates at Manchester City: '12 Muslims against Eyal,' also describing his suspicions about the team’s chef, 'I was scared they would poison me.' 103FM. Published: Oct 18, 2026, 4:20 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of elections. US President Donald Trump announces support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him a 'great warrior' and 'even greater partner for peace.' Israel National News. Oct 18, 2026, 5:54 PM INN

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IDF cancels leave on Election Day amid fears of Iranian attack. Uzi Baruch. Oct 18, 2026, 7:07 PM INN

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CAIR Backs Chinese Nazi Muslim Prof Who Called for Killing All the Jews. By Daniel Greenfield. October 18, 2026

As a practicing Muslim, the 42-year-old is therefore not "a danger to anyone." Update to this story about a Chinese Muslim professor using burner accounts to threaten a Jewish colleague and, while pretending to be a right-wing American, threatened another Holocaust.

'Guangtian Ha, an assistant professor of religion at Haverford College and Chinese Muslim scholar, is accused of sending death threats and praising Hitler. Here’s some of his alleged work on X.

“Again and again and again. Spare not a single one of the jew rats[sic],” he said in response to a post marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“We will never forget what the fuhrer did. In fact, we are studying it meticulously, so we don’t make the same mistake this time round, so no a single one of you is left,” he offered in another Holocaust Remembrance Day post.

“The jews are angry because the world has woken up and realized Hitler was right all along,” Ha said in February 2026.'

Some of this harassment was aimed at a colleague, and “investigators said the most troubling post happened on Monday, just one day before Ha’s arrest, when he made a post telling the victim to send their kids outside to play.” FPM

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Fleur Hassan-Nahoum attacked in stone-throwing incident. Fleur Hassan-Nahoum and her team were attacked with stones during an outreach tour in the Binyamin region. The vehicle’s window was shattered, and several passengers sustained minor injuries. Hezki Baruch. Oct 19, 2026, 1:34 PM INN

Police open probe into Samaria rock attack. Oct 19, 2026, 7:33 AM The Israel Police opened an investigation on Monday into a rock-throwing attack on a group that included Knesset candidate Fleur Hassan-Nahoum (Amcha Yisrael) near the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya in Samaria, the force said.

Officers entered the scene escorted by Israel Defense Forces troops and began collecting evidence to locate the suspects, according to a statement.

“The Israel Police condemns any manifestation of violence,” the Hebrew-language statement said. It vowed to bring all those involved to justice, “particularly when public figures are concerned.”

Hassan-Nahoum and her team were conducting the tour together with the Regavim Movement, which monitors illegal Palestinian construction in Judea and Samaria. JNS

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Israeli FM Sa’ar slams UK ‘obsession’ with Jewish state over E1 sanctions threat. Oct 19, 2026, 7:44 AM Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday hit back at Britain’s Labour government, after U.K. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband threatened sanctions against companies bidding to build in the E1 area near Jerusalem.

“Judea and Samaria are not foreign lands to the Jewish people,” Sa’ar wrote on X. “Our historical rights are not subject to approval from London.”

He said the days when Jerusalem would “quietly accept threats, sanctions and attempts to dictate its policies are over.”

Sa’ar urged London to address “the serious challenges facing its own country” instead of pursuing a “relentless campaign against the Jewish state.”

Bidding on the E1 (“East 1") project, which closes on Monday, covers 1,234 housing units. The area lies in an undeveloped area within the municipal boundaries of Ma’ale Adumim, located between Jerusalem and the developed area of Ma’ale Adumim.

Miliband said earlier on Monday that his government had created new powers to sanction individuals and companies involved in “illegal settlements” and urged Israeli companies not to bid.

Miliband called the E1 plan a “direct threat” to a two-state solution and warned of “legal and reputational consequences.” JNS

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IDF reveals Hamas plot to bomb Gaza refugee camps. Newly-revealed Hamas document details plans to plant explosives near displaced civilians, triggering panic and allowing terrorists to escape advancing IDF forces. Israel National News. Published: Oct 19, 2026, 12:22 PM (GMT+3)

The IDF has revealed an internal document belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization detailing plans to plant explosive devices in areas of displaced persons camps in the Gaza Strip.

"This was part of Hamas’ preparations to protect its leadership and operatives and evacuate them from areas where the IDF was expected to operate, while endangering and exploiting the civilian population in the area, fully aware that these actions were likely to cause direct harm to civilians," the IDF emphasized.

The document, written in April 2024 and now revealed for the first time, shows that Hamas' engineering department proposed planting explosive devices around displaced persons camps and detonating them as IDF troops approached. Such a move would have placed the civilian population in the camps at risk, in order to create panic as a smokescreen for the escape of its operatives.

In the document, the Hamas terrorist organization proposed an additional method of planting explosive devices along routes used by residents of the Gaza Strip, as part of an attempt to delay the advance of IDF troops in the area.

It was even proposed to fire stun grenades into the camps to create chaos and panic, in order to allow Hamas terrorists hiding in the area to flee.

"This is further evidence that the Hamas terrorist organization is willing to endanger the lives of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip in order to advance its terrorist. (The Hamas document revealed by the IDF. IDF spokesperson. [98]) INN

Hamas planned to detonate bombs at Gaza refugee camps to cover terrorists' escape, IDF reveals. Plans involved detonating improvised explosive devices around displaced persons camps as IDF troops approached in order to create panic, which operatives would take advantage of in order to flee. Yonah Davidov. October 19, 2026. JPost

IDF reveals Hamas plan to plant bombs near Gaza displacement camps. An internal Hamas document from April 2024 proposed detonating explosives near displaced civilians and firing stun grenades into camps to create chaos, allowing terrorists to escape approaching IDF troops, the military says. Dennis Bihler | published:10.19.26 04:56 YNet

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Jewish women punched in face in London antisemitic attacks, suspect arrested. At least two Jewish women were assaulted in Stamford Hill, with one suffering significant bruising. Police arrested a suspect on suspicion of racially and religiously aggravated grievous bodily harm. Israel National News. Published: Oct 19, 2026, 9:07 PM (GMT+3) INN

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21 years later: Tel-Hai 11th university in Israel Israel National News Oct 19, 2026, 12:15 PM INN

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Israeli defense giant secures $235 million rocket deal in Europe. Elbit Systems wins a $235 million contract to supply precision-guided rockets and PULS artillery systems to a European country under a government-to-government agreement with Israel Orly Harari. Oct 19, 2026, 10:19 AM INN

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Israeli woman attacked in Istanbul mall. Orly Harari. Oct 19, 2026, 10:00 AM INN

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IDF nabs two terrorists about to carry out attack in Jerusalem’s Kafr Aqab. Oct 19, 2026. JNS

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Former Israeli national security adviser calls for ‘cognitive defeat’ of Palestinians. Oct 19, 2026, 8:03 AM The conflict will end only when Palestinians lose hope of defeating the Jewish state, former Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat argues in a policy paper published by the Middle East Forum on Monday.

Ben-Shabbat headed Israel’s National Security Council from 2017 to 2021. He served some three decades in the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) and now heads the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy.

He wrote that Jerusalem’s war aims since Oct. 7, 2023, are necessary but not sufficient. What is missing, he argued, is a “cognitive defeat” of the Palestinians.

“Until that hope is shattered, every political process will lead Israel back to an ‘Oslo 2,’” Ben-Shabbat wrote. JNS

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IDF eliminates three Hamas terrorists in Gaza strikes. IDF eliminated three Hamas terrorists in northern Gaza who were involved in weapons production, military engineering and efforts to restore the terror group's capabilities, in violation of the ceasefire. Israel National News. Oct 19, 2026, 8:43 AM (GMT+3) INN

IDF kills three Hamas terrorists, including commander, during latests Gaza strikes. Oct 19, 2026. JPost

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SCOOP: CAIR leader, Washington state House candidate told public school to reinstate talk by antisemitic streamer. Imraan Siddiqi, who is endorsed by “Squad” members, decried the president of the University of Washington for appearing on a panel about campus Jew-hatred, according to public records that JNS obtained. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. (Oct. 19, 2026 / JNS) Imraan Siddiqi, Washington state executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and a Democratic candidate for the state House, praised antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker and demanded that the University of Washington reinstate Piker’s canceled lecture in an Aug. 13 letter that JNS obtained via a public records request. Siddiqi criticized Robert Jones, president of the public university in Seattle, for appearing on a panel earlier this year, referring to a town hall in March about Jew-hatred at Seattle’s Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, an Orthodox synagogue.

“It cannot be that the university finds space to platform and engage with voices who demean Muslims and pro-Palestinian speech, while abruptly canceling a Muslim community-supported speaker, whose central offense is criticizing a foreign government’s conduct in an ongoing war,” Siddiqi wrote.

In the letter, addressed to Jones and shared with the university’s board of regents, the Democratic candidate sought to reverse the university’s Aug. 7 cancellation of Piker’s lecture, which was scheduled for January 2027.

He praised Piker as “an unapologetic and consistent voice condemning Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza” and accused the university of “capitulating to political pressure.”

“CAIR-WA respectfully requests that the University of Washington reverse the cancellation and reschedule Mr. Piker’s lecture as part of the 2026-27 speaker series,” he wrote.

CAIR was among the groups to blame Israel for being attacked on Oct. 7, and the Biden administration removed it from an advisory role on the national strategy on fighting Jew-hatred, after initially listing the group on the whole-of-government strategy.

JNS received the letter as part of a public records request one day after Siddiqi was a no-show at a candidate event at a Seattle synagogue. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle sponsored the event with StandWithUs Northwest, among others.

Siddiqi told organizers that he would come but never showed up. He was at a separate candidate forum, according to organizers, who told JNS that other candidates were able to make it to both events.

In a candidate questionnaire for the Jewish-sponsored event, Siddiqi wrote that, “I will continue to stand with the Jewish community whenever hate arises.”

He has received endorsements from Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who are among Israel’s harshest critics in Congress.

Siddiqi’s opponent in the 32nd legislative district, Washington state representative Lauren Davis, who is also a Democrat, attended the Federation event.

Siddiqi’s campaign has raised $79,207—much less than the $230,224 that Davis has raised. JNS

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Judge orders National SJP to identify participants in 2024 UCLA encampment call. Oct. 19, 2026. U.S. Magistrate Judge A. Joel Richlin ordered National Students for Justice in Palestine on Monday to disclose the identities of participants in an April 26, 2024, Zoom call held during the anti-Israel encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In Weinberg v. National Students for Justice in Palestine, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Richlin rejected the group’s First Amendment argument for withholding the names, ruling that “the movement partners on the call” have “highly relevant information for this case.”

The lawsuit, filed by Jewish students, a Jewish professor and a campus rabbi, alleges that National SJP and other groups supported the 2024 UCLA encampment.

Richlin ordered the group to produce the call’s minutes without redactions by Oct. 26. JNS

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Netanyahu and Trump warn Iran: 'We'll Finish the Job Together'. By: Refael Levi. Editor: Marni Harow. 10.29.26

In a call released days before Israel's election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked President Donald Trump for his support and called for expanding the Abraham Accords, while Trump predicted a "massive victory" for Netanyahu. C14

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Bankrupt but bomb-astic. IRGC Strongly Pushing to Strike Israel Before Trump Attacks. Exclusive intelligence obtained by C14 reveals Iran's Revolutionary Guards are urging immediate military action before Trump strikes, while the civilian government warns the country can't afford another war amid economic collapse. 10.19.26. Dror Balazada. C14

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Barbarians. Political Candidate Attacked by Muslims During Binyamin Visit. 10.19.26 14:16 Adam Mikhalashvili. C14

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'Palestinian' terror. Binyamin, Israel: Jewish Rancher Stops Suspected Terror Attack. 10.19.26 13:30 C14 Desk. C14

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(FRENCH RIOTS)

Douglas Murray: France Stares Down the Abyss of History Even great things come to an end. There’s no guarantee that French culture and traditions will survive ceaseless attacks from discontents inside the country.

Since the great general strike of ’68, there has been a pretense that protests in France are somehow a traditional feature of rebellion. By Douglas Murray 10.19.26 FreePress

French riots being driven by 54 radical groups — including communists, free Palestine activists By Anthony Blair Published Oct. 19, 2026. NYPost

Trump, Vance blame immigration for French riots by Mallory Wilson 10/19/26. TheHill

France in Flames: How the Red-Green Alliance Is Undermining Western Democracy. Dr. Dan Diker. October 19, 2026. The October 2026 riots expose a deeper ideological struggle in which radical leftists, Islamist networks, and anti-Western narratives converge to challenge France’s democratic institutions and civilizational identity. JCFA

French riots being driven by 54 radical groups — including communists, free Palestine activists By Anthony Blair Published Oct. 19, 2026. NY Post

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Trump calls Netanyahu ‘warrior,’ predicts ‘tremendous’ Likud victory. Oct 19. 9026. JNS

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Antisemitic Streamer Hasan Piker to Headline Minneapolis Event With Ilhan Omar, Omar Fateh. Oct 19, 2026 Algemeiner

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Hypocritical Islamic bigot El Sayed accused others of dual loyalty.

10.19.26

Look who is talkin'!

El-Sayed’s hypocrisy is hard to ignore:

after accusing Haley Stevens of dual loyalty over her support for Israel, and bashing AIPAC, he suddenly (Oct/2026) becomes defensive when asked about his own views on the Muslim Brotherhood.

If he believes politicians should be held accountable for their affiliations, loyalties, and political connections, that standard must apply equally to everyone—including himself.

You cannot demand transparency and accountability from others while treating legitimate questions about yourself as off-limits.

That is not principled scrutiny; it is a double standard.

Typical el Sayed.

But it's far worse, because the Muslim Brotherhood questions are very concerning, given Sharia-fanatic Islamist El Sayed Palestine first. As some noted, he cares more about Gaza than Michigan. Not to mention his vile rationalization response when an Islamic Hezbollah inspired Arab immigrant targeted 140 toddlers in his State March 12, 2026. Comma, point.

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Houthi Attack Kills 53 at Yemen Government Training Camp. Oct 19, 2026 Algemeiner

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Report: Hegseth meets Netanyahu during unannounced visit to Israel. Axios reports that US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth met Netanyahu in an unannounced visit to Israel amid discussions of renewed strikes on Iran and Trump's election endorsement. Israel National News. Oct 20, 2026, 1:49 AM INN

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NYPD investigates hate crime after Manhattan bank vandalized. Israel National News. Oct 20, 2026, 4:48 AM INN

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To avoid deportation. Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil appeals to Supreme Court. Israel National News. Oct 20, 2026, 6:54 AM INN

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Part 8

Iran exploits women through sex trafficking, children to fund proxy wars. October 18, 2026. JPost

Iranian Regime Profits From Human Trafficking, Report Finds. by Ailin Vilches Arguello. Oct 19, 2026.

In yet another example of Iran’s human rights abuses, the regime is weaponizing human trafficking to fund its regional proxy wars, profiting from the abuse of women, children, and at-risk migrants while forcing marginalized populations into combat to help finance and sustain its network of terrorist groups, a new report has found.

The Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), an Israeli research institute focused on security and foreign policy, released a new analysis last week detailing how Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) exploits women, children, undocumented migrants, and refugees to bankroll its regional ambitions and sustain its proxy forces.

“Until the global community treats the IRGC not just as a geopolitical adversary, but as a criminal enterprise deeply reliant on the financial proceeds of human misery, the regime will continue to monetize vulnerability to fund its survival and project its power,” Ella Rosenberg, a senior research fellow at JCFA, writes in the report. Algemeiner

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Syria's Revised Textbooks Elevate Islamist Identity, Sideline Minorities i24 News Israel. October 19, 2026 i24

Syria’s Post-Assad Schoolbooks Promote Jihad, Antisemitism, Islamist Ideology, New Study Finds October 20, 2026. Syria’s education system is embracing a new Islamist direction following the fall of the Assad regime, with school materials glorifying jihad and martyrdom and perpetuating antisemitic stereotypes despite the new government’s stated commitment to peace, tolerance, and inclusion, according to a new study.

The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), a nonprofit organization that analyzes schoolbooks and curricula worldwide, released a new study on Monday examining Syria’s educational materials, analyzing 130 textbooks for grades 1–12 used in the 2025–2026 school year and retained for 2026–2027 and comparing them with textbooks published under the Assad regime between 2011 and 2023.

IMPACT-se’s findings reveal a major ideological shift in Syria’s curriculum since President Ahmed al-Sharaa took power following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, with the new textbooks replacing the former regime’s pan-Arab nationalist narrative with an Islamist worldview that glorifies jihad and martyrdom.

Sharaa became Damascus’s transitional president last year after leading a rebel campaign that ousted Assad, whose brutal and authoritarian Iran-backed rule had strained ties with the Arab world during the nearly 14-year Syrian war.

The collapse of Assad’s regime was the result of an offensive spearheaded by Sharaa’s Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, a former al Qaeda affiliate. Algemeiner

Welcome to First Grade. Syria textbooks teach jihad, IDF attacks. Oct 21, 2026. JFeed

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Islamist bomb threats from outside the UK’ close schools across Scotland and Northern Ireland. By Joe Rossiter, October 19, 2026.

Hundreds of schools across Northern Ireland and Scotland have closed after receiving a bomb threat.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said ‘up to 300’ institutions were emailed the threat – which is believed to be a hoax – adding it came from outside the UK.

Paul Givan, Stormont’s education minister, said the warning was signed ‘Allahu Akbar’ but was not understood to be viable. DailyMail

Islamist bomb threat 'from outside UK' closes schools.

Around 300 schools receive ‘hoax’ email signed off ‘Allah Akbar’.

Updated 19 October 2026 1:24pm BST Published 19 October 2026 11:01am BST Islamist bomb threats have closed schools across Northern Ireland.

Some 300 schools had received a bomb threat that had originated from outside the UK, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said.

In Scotland, meanwhile, a number of schools also received “threatening messages”, which Police Scotland are treating as hoaxes.

Schools in Hungary and Serbia also appeared to be targetted by the hoax.

The Stormont education minister said the Northern Irish schools had received a threat “from Islamists threatening that Sharia law will be brought into our country and that there is viable devices within those school settings”.

Speaking at Stormont, Paul Givan told reporters that the message had concluded with “Allah Akbar”... The Telegraph

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Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi: Terrible but sadly predictable. Was in Marseille earlier this week. Beautiful, vibrant but also in decay. You see more Palestinian flags than French ones. Oct 17, 2026 on X

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: Men draped in Palestinian flags loot stores across France.

What has France done to itself? Oct 18, 2026. on X

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: Why is the media working so hard to avoid showing any Palestinian flags in the riots in France? [99] Oct 19, 2026 on X

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NYC man charged in fatal hit-and-run in Jewish nabe hit with hate crimes for trashing bagel shop. By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, October 19, 2026.

A Queens man charged with mowing down a 71-year-old woman in a Jewish neighborhood has now been hit with hate crime charges for allegedly trashing a local kosher bagel shop twice just days earlier, prosecutors said Monday.

Dawood Faisal, 22, who was already behind bars on manslaughter charges in the May 25 death of Cara Trager on Union Parkway, was indicted on separate raps for allegedly vandalizing Bagels & Co., a Jewish-owned shop that displayed Israeli flags and banners, the Queens District Attorney’s Office said.

According to prosecutors, Dawood, of Fresh Meadows, first vandalized the bagel shop shortly after 6:15 p.m. on May 15, knocking over nine metal plant stands outside, then picking up the dirt and hurling it at the building.

He allegedly returned on May 23 and pushed over and kicked 11 of the plant stands and threw dirt outside the shop, then uprooted greenery from a large clay pot and tossed it, the DA said.

Two days later, he allegedly sped through the neighborhood in his 2013 Toyota Prius doing 75 mph in the 35 mph zone, running a red light on Francis Lewis Boulevard and striking Trager and her husband, Michael — who miraculously survived.

Faisal fled the scene but he crashed the car and bystanders held him until cops arrived.

In June, he was indicted on manslaughter and assault charges, while Michael Trager launched a campaign to have the fatal hit-and-run designated a hate crime given the vandalism incidents.

“What I am alleging was that he was in a Jewish area, a very heavy Jewish area,” Trager said…. NYPost

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ISIS terrorist who plotted NYC mass slaughter gets 50 more years for blinding prison guard. By Ariel Zilber, October 19, 2026.

An ISIS terrorist who plotted a 9/11-style attack on New York City was slapped with another 50 years in prison Monday for stabbing two correctional officers — causing one to lose his right eye — while serving a 40-year sentence for his original terror conspiracy.

Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 28, of Ontario, Canada, has now been sentenced to a combined 90 years behind bars after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the December 2020 attack at a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania, according to the Justice Department.

The additional punishment comes as his mother, Khadiga Metwally, is running for a school board seat in suburban Toronto — in the same district that made international headlines when shop teacher Kayla Lemieux showed up to class sporting enormous prosthetic breasts.

El Bahnasawy’s original sentence stemmed from a 2016 ISIS-inspired plot to detonate bombs in Times Square and the subway system and open fire on concert crowds during Ramadan.

The Canadian national, who once spoke of wanting to “create the next 9/11,” was arrested in May 2016 after traveling from Canada to the New York area to prepare for the attacks.

But prison walls did little to curb his appetite for violence, according to federal prosecutors.

On Dec. 7, 2020, El Bahnasawy stabbed a correctional officer in the head and face at US Penitentiary Allenwood with a makeshift weapon constructed from part of a steel desk in his cell. NY Post

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Waving a Hamas Flag: Anti-Israel October 7 Protests Advocated for Violence Instead of Peace Analysis: Despite claims that there is an ongoing genocide in Gaza, activists don’t call for an end to war, just a change in who is winning.

By Michael Starr. October 19, 2026. Key Takeaways: -Terrorist flags, violent slogans, and genocidal rhetoric were rampant during the recent protests marking three years since the October 7 Massacre. -Despite calling for an end to a supposed genocide, the protests did not call for peace, as an end to the conflict is not the objective. -The October 7 anniversary protests were a call for continued violence and warfare, but that Israel lose rather than the Palestinians. HonestReporting

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Why Rioters Wave the ‘Palestinian’ Flag. Daniel Greenfield. October 21, 2026 It’s a historic flag of the Islamic conquest of Christians and Jews.

Why do the rioters trashing Paris wave the ‘Palestinian’ flag? Because to them, France is Israel and they’re the ‘Palestinians’ out to destroy it and replace it with their own terrorist state.

The ‘white’ in the ‘Palestinian’ flag represents the Umayyad caliphate which had once invaded France, conquered Narbonne, and genocided its Christian population, until it was thrown back by indigenous Christian resistance at the Battle of Toulouse and the Battle of Tours.

The past Islamic conquest of France is just one of the symbols in the ‘Palestinian’ flag.

The ubiquitous presence of the ‘Palestinian’ flag at riots from New York City to Milan isn’t an expression of solidarity: it’s a statement of genocidal intent for every country where it’s flown. Its colors represent the historic Islamic caliphates which once ethnically cleansed the Middle East... FPM

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HonestReporting. France Was Burning. Why Were They Waving Palestinian Flags? The demonstrations were supposed to be about life in France. The Palestinian flags caught my attention at the time, as did their absence in some photographs.

By David Katz. October 20, 2026

Watching the coverage from France over the weekend, I kept wondering what Palestinians had to do with any of it. Schools, teachers, wages, the cost of living: these were grievances directed at the French government. Yet in the footage my colleagues and I were watching, Palestinian flags repeatedly stood out. French flags were much harder to spot.

Protesters demonstrating in France about conditions in France had chosen to bring the flag of another people. I wanted to know why, and I wanted the coverage to notice it too.

I have watched a similar pattern in London’s anti-Israel demonstrations, where Palestinian flags dominate the scenes I see. At pro-Israel gatherings, I am accustomed to seeing Israeli flags alongside their British counterparts. That contrast is something I notice as a Londoner who now lives in Israel. A flag tells you something about how people choose to present themselves and their cause.

The French demonstrations gave that question a particular urgency because their stated purpose concerned domestic problems. My colleagues have written about how Palestinian symbolism has spread into protests with otherwise unrelated demands. We have become familiar with the language that accompanies that movement, from “Free Palestine” to “from the river to the sea.” The flag’s appearance across different causes deserves attention, especially when the original grievances seem to disappear beneath it.

Then I began looking through the photographic roundups, and found myself asking where the flags had gone.

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Magnum was the selection that bothered me most. Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson were photographers I looked up to. Their agency helped establish what serious photojournalism could be, and I still approach its work with that respect. I looked carefully through the Paris photographs that were collected: burning cars, police, smoke, broken windows and the damage left outside a shop. I could not identify a Palestinian flag in them.

Our team found the same absence in the AFP and TIME carousels we reviewed. AFP’s selection included a man carrying a large wooden cross beside a burning car. It is an extraordinary photograph, and I understand why an editor would choose it. But a roundup has to do more than collect extraordinary pictures. It also leaves readers with an impression of who was there and what they brought into the streets.

AFP had photographed a Palestinian flag. The National published that image in its October 19 gallery, showing it held above a Paris crowd. That gives us something concrete to compare with the agency’s Instagram selection.

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Nobody needs to pretend the roundups concealed the destruction. AFP’s caption described clashes and looting, while TIME referred to rioting and police losing control. The violence was plainly visible. What I missed was the Palestinian political presence that had caught our attention during the coverage.

Carrying a Palestinian flag does not establish why someone attacked police or looted a shop. Equally, the flag does not become irrelevant because the demonstration began over schools and living costs. Its presence raises a question about how those causes became connected, and leaving it out makes that question less likely to occur to a reader.

I cannot know why these editors chose the photographs they did. I can compare the resulting selections with other published images and ask them to explain the difference. With Magnum, an agency whose reputation means something personal to me, I would particularly like an answer.

If Palestinians were relevant enough for demonstrators to bring its flag into a protest about France, it was relevant enough for picture editors to show their readers. HonestReporting

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Abdulrahman El-Sayed once claimed he was nicknamed after Paula Abdul. Harris Rigby. Oct 19, 2026

During his failed run for governor in 2018, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed said he goes by Abdul because of the one and only Paula Abdul.

My whole name is actually Abdulrahman ... and my parents got divorced right after they had me and both remarried. I was raised by my father and my step-mom and 1989 rolls around and I'm about to start kindergarten and my step-mom looks at my dad and is like, 'the kid's not gonna make it a day with that name.' ... Turns out that 1989 in September, guess who's topping the charts ... it's Paula Abdul with 'Straight Up.'

Even if this is true, I don't think any man should admit to being named after '80s pop singer and 2000s American Idol judge Paula Abdul.

Your man card has to be turned in (don't even get me started on this dude's Muslim card for being nicknamed after a Jewish lady).

It's hard to tell what's true, as Abdulrahman seems to change his story and identity every five seconds.. NotTheBee

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Over 1,300 Social Media Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Discovered Blaming Israel, Jews for France Riots. October 21st, 2026 Algemeiner

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French Authorities Seek Suspended Sentence, Two-Year Office Ban for EU Lawmaker Rima Hassan in Terrorism Case. October 21st, 2026.

French authorities are seeking a 10-month suspended prison sentence and a two-year ban from public office for European Parliament lawmaker Rima Hassan after prosecutors accused her of glorifying terrorism in online remarks, intensifying scrutiny of her controversial anti-Israel rhetoric. Hassan — a 34-year-old French-Palestinian lawyer and activist who was elected to the European Parliament in 2024 — is standing trial in France over social media remarks which prosecutors have linked to support for terrorism, including a quote from one of the perpetrators of the deadly 1972 Tel Aviv airport massacre that killed 26 people. Expected to be handed down on Nov. 30, the sentence would not require Hassan to serve time in prison unless she violates the conditions of the suspended term, while the proposed two-year ban would bar her from holding public office. The French lawmaker from the far-left party La France Insoumise had shared a quote attributed to a Japanese terrorist who carried out the deadly attack, in a social media post that has since been deleted. “Kozo Okamoto: I dedicated my youth to the Palestinian cause. As long as there is oppression, resistance will not only be a right, but a duty,” Hassan reportedly wrote. According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, the post “resembles a tribute,” offering no “criticism” or “distancing” from Okamoto’s actions and instead presenting a “heroic vision, completely out of step with who Okamoto was: a killer.” During the trial, prosecutors argued that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Gaza “cannot serve as a totem of immunity,” insisting that political grievances do not excuse statements that glorify terrorist violence. Although Hassan exercised her right to remain silent during the proceedings, she first denounced what she called an “attempt at intimidation” and the “silence of an opposition elected official,” accusing authorities of judicial harassment. Hassan, who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, has repeatedly drawn controversy over her outspoken anti-Israel activism and faced investigations for promoting hateful speech. In one of the latest incidents, the pro-Palestinian lawmaker could face disciplinary action after removing Israeli and EU flags from an exhibition commemorating the victims of the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, as the memorial marked the third anniversary of the attacks. Last year, the French citizen was expelled from Israel after being arrested while attempting to reach Gaza aboard the vessel Madleen to “break the Israeli blockade.” She has also been subject to an investigation in Paris for “apology of terrorism” following an interview given after the Oct. 7 atrocities, in which she justified Hamas’s actions. Algemeiner

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NY Dem Party would’ve publicized measure if it was about anything but Jew-hatred, GOP NYC Council member says. “The moderates could have used the measure’s wide support to take a firm stance against antisemitism,” Inna Vernikov told JNS. “Unfortunately, they care more about appeasing the far-Left than about meaningfully protecting Jews.” Rikki Zagelbaum.

(Oct. 20, 2026 / JNS) The New York State Democratic Party passed a resolution condemning Jew-hatred earlier this month but failed to mention that in its public announcement, the New York Post reported earlier this week. The resolution was approved shortly after Jay Jacobs, who is Jewish and pro-Israel, was reelected party chairman on Oct. 1. The party’s announcement about the leadership elections did not mention the measure.

“That was a mistake. We dropped the ball,” Jacobs told the Post about the party’s failure to publicize the measure. He attributed the omission to focus on internal party elections.

“I want the people to know what the New York Democratic Party is doing to confront antisemitism,” he told the Post. “It’s consequential.”

“Contemporary antisemitism often manifests through subtle rhetoric, coded language and dog whistles,” the resolution states.

It lists examples including “Holocaust denial and distortion, modern blood libels depicting Jewish people as inherently murderous or targeting children, conspiracy theories alleging Jewish control of governments, financial institutions, or the media, accusations of dual loyalty to Israel and the use of Israel as a pretext for hostility toward Jewish people or Jewish institutions.”

Inna Vernikov, a Jewish Republican member of the New York City Council and co-chair of its bipartisan task force on Jew-hatred, told JNS that the party of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat, “would not have forgotten to publicize a resolution condemning any other form of hatred.” JNS

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Maryland man faces up to three years after pleading guilty to defacing Jewish cemetery with antisemitic imagery. George Horn had a journal with references to Naziism and white supremacy and a translated copy of “Mein Kampf” on his phone, according to investigators. JNS Staff.

(Oct. 20, 2026 / JNS) George Horn, of Dundalk, Md., faces three years in prison after pleading guilty to defacing Jewish tombstones at Ohr Knesseth Israel Anshe Sfard Cemetery in Baltimore County with antisemitic symbols, including Nazi swastikas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Horn “admitted that he targeted the cemetery because it is a Jewish cemetery,” the department said.

Vandalism Jewish cemetery Vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in the Baltimore area to which George Horn, 36, of Dundalk, Md., admitted. Credit: U.S. Justice Department. The 36-year-old admitted that he defaced “multiple” gravestones in the cemetery, which is in the Baltimore area, in July 2023.

“Days later, cemetery caretakers discovered 12 gravestones spray painted with swastikas and other symbols,” the Justice Department said. “Despite the caretakers’ efforts, black spray paint residue in the outline of a swastika remained on some of the gravestones necessitating replacements.”

“Evidence shows that Horn had antisemitic animus toward Jewish people,” the department stated. JNS

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Colorado governor attends event about fighting Jew-hatred. Oct. 20, 2026 JNS

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Amherst, Mass., human rights panel to offer ‘weaponization of antisemitism update’ at official meeting. The town’s Human Rights Commission states that at a virtual meeting slated for Oct. 21, one of the things that it will discuss is “legitimate antisemitism concerns and the weaponization of antisemitism update.”

A search of the town’s website suggests that it has not ever had an agenda item at a meeting about ""weaponization of Islamophobia,” “weaponization of racism” or “weaponization of hate.” Oct. 20, 2026 JNS

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Herzog, Hungarian President Baka pledge to keep fighting antisemitism. Oct. 20, 2026 JNS

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Israel, Samoa discuss expanding cooperation in agriculture, education. Oct. 20, 2026 JNS

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Board of Deputies praises UK Liberal Democrats for distancing itself from Green Party. Oct. 20, 2026 JNS

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Judea Samaria. Provocations rising. Questions Mount Over Alleged Attack on French Diplomat

More than 48 hours after reports of an attack on foreign diplomats in Judea and Samaria, security sources and Jewish residents point to partial footage, no formal complaint, and the troubling background of one participant.

10.20.26 21:16 C14

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@MOSSADil Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil 🚨 CHINA TRAINING PA OFFICERS IN ARMORED WARFARE

Dozens of Palestinian Authority security officers have reportedly received extensive military training in China, including:

• Armored and mechanized warfare • Anti-tank combat and marksmanship • Advanced navigation and maritime operations • Military command courses lasting months

PA officer Hassan Taha completed an armored company command course in Beijing in July 2026.

Military cooperation reportedly dates to at least 2022, with additional PA officers receiving artillery, sniper and parachute training in Turkey and Pakistan.

Several senior Israeli ministers reportedly knew nothing about the programs, raising serious security questions amid Netanyahu’s warnings of possible war in Judea and Samaria.

@selenaryan_ Oct 20, 2026 on X

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Bill Ackman blasts ‘radicalized, anti-American’ Democratic Party and ‘disasters’ Pritzker, Newsom. By Taylor Herzlich. Oct. 20, 2026 Billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman says the Democratic Party is in the worst shape in its history – and thinks likely 2028 presidential contenders like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are “disasters.” On a Tuesday episode of “The Katie Miller Podcast,” Ackman said there are some impressive Democratic members of Congress, but insisted the party as a whole has fallen into shambles. “I think the Democratic Party is in the worst place it’s ever been. In the 250-year history of the country,” the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management said. “I think it’s become like this crazy, radicalized, you know, anti-American thing.”

He zeroed in on Democratic politicians who, he said, have been bending the knee to more extreme party members — specifically jabbing at New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader.

“I think the problem with people who’ve chosen to be a politician for a career, you either have to get with the party in order to continue or you get primaried,” Ackman said. “Sen. Schumer, I had a good relationship with him over the years. I thought he was a good man. But in recent years, I felt he’s just trying to keep his job. And, you know, that’s the really low point for politicians, when they’ll compromise on their values,” he added. “And they’ll support, you know, a quasi-terrorist perhaps running for Senate in Michigan because they have to for the party. Stuff like that to me is – or terrorist supporter – I find that pretty, deeply concerning.” He was seemingly nodding to far-leftist Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. His GOP opponent, Mike Rogers, has sought to link El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood, a terror-designated Islamist group. [...] Ackman said he has some friends in the Democratic Party, like New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker – but that he can’t think of a single candidate who could win his vote in the 2028 presidential election.

“I probably have as many, if not more, friends who are Democrats than Republicans. But, you know, I haven’t seen a good presidential candidate – certainly none of the names, you know — Pritzker, Newsom,” Ackman said. “I think these are, you know, disasters.” At one point, when Katie Miller – wife of top Trump aide Stephen Miller and a former aide at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency – referred to Ackman as a reformed “lifelong Democrat,” the billionaire quickly pushed back. “I wasn’t a lifelong – see, this is what you’re getting wrong,” Ackman said. “So, I was always a centrist. I didn’t align with a party. But in New York City, if you want to vote in an election like where it’s going to matter, like the primary, you have to register.

“I was an independent, and then there was an important election. I registered as a Democrat to vote for whomever, I don’t remember who, and then I, you know, hadn’t checked my registration in years kind of thing.” Ackman has a long history of donating to prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama. More recently, he donated thousands of dollars to GOP-backed PACs and supported former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s failed bid to defeat New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Ackman initially congratulated Mamdani on his mayoral win, but later bashed the mayor’s policies as “very bad for New York.” The moneyman specifically lambasted a rent freeze on nearly 1 million apartments, which he argued could discourage investment and worsen the city’s housing shortage. He also tore into Mamdani for filming a viral video about his pied-à-terre tax outside billionaire Ken Griffin’s Manhattan penthouse, warning the new mayor could drive business leaders and their investments out of the city. NYPost

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US radicals who traveled to France to join cop-bashing protests reveal plans to ‘raise hell’ on our shores. “Go f*** s*** up white people. It’s your time,” declared one rioter. By Kamal Sultan. Oct 20, 2026. A Minnesota rapper who traveled to France to join escalating riots has urged white people to “raise hell” and “f*** s*** up” as part of a revolution on American soil, The Post discovered. And communist-linked groups in the US may be working to bring that hell to the nation’s capital.

Artist Tufawon, whose real name is Rafael Gonzalez Jr., joined Swedish activist Greta Thunberg outside Paul Éluard, the high school at the heart of the leftist protests marred by violence, looting and arson.

He addressed balaclava-clad protesters before performing his song “No One Is Illegal,” and riling up the crowd with chants of “f*** ICE” and “ICE out. [102] NYPost

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Veteran UNRWA teacher exposes alleged Hamas radicalization, hatred of Jews in Gaza schools. A UNRWA teacher of 15 years alleged that Gaza schools taught hatred of Jews and glorified Hamas. After speaking out, she was threatened: “If you don't stop arguing, we will cut out your tongue.” Idan Kweller. Oct 21, 2026 00:09 JPost

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France: Modern Islamists, pro-Palestine groups amplify school protests to advance agenda. MEMRI. October 20, 2026. MEMRI

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The Iranians are threatening to cut the global internet cables if war against them is renewed. October 20, 2026. Abu Ali Express

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Islamic Jihad operative arrested in taxi sting. He appeared to be an ordinary taxi driver in Bethlehem, but Israeli undercover officers discovered him helping rebuild Islamic Jihad's infrastructure and finance terrorist activity. Israel National News. Published: Oct 21, 2026, 9:35 AM (GMT+3) INN

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IDF eliminates terrorist who planned attack killing four soldiers. Uzi Baruch. Oct 21, 2026, 12:58 PM INN

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IDF did not plan to strike Iran before election despite reports.. IDF was not planning to strike Iran on Oct. 10 despite reports of attack blocked by Trump. Sources told the Post it was unusual for IDF chief Eyal Zamir to be excluded from the Hegseth meeting, raising questions about the political considerations behind Netanyahu's decision. By Yonah Jeremy Bob. October 21, 2026. Despite a Financial Times report, the IDF was not planning a strike on Iran on October 10, The Jerusalem Post learned on Wednesday.

It is true that over the last several months since the April 7 Israel-Iran ceasefire, the IDF has been on a war footing a few times, should the Iranians seem to be about to launch an attack or should US President Donald Trump decide on a renewed joint US-Israel operation against the Islamic Republic. JPost

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Farmer discovers cache of five rifles near Jordan Valley border. A farmer in the Jordan Valley area near Israel's eastern border discovered a bag containing three Kalashnikov rifles and two M4 rifles in his grazing land this morning. The weapons were handed over to the Israel Police. Jfeed Staff. Oct 21, 2026 JFeed

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Israeli police arrest Russian activist Andrey Khrezhinovsky in West Bank Israeli police arrested Andrey Khrezhinovsky, a Russian anti-Israeli activist who holds an Israeli ID card under the Law of Return. He was detained during an olive harvest event near the village of al-Tayba. Khrezhinovsky operates in the West Bank and has been active on social media criticizing Israel. The activist was among those who accompanied American journalist Heidi Levine at an event in the village of Abu Falah last Friday. Videos of the arrest were published by foreign activist Jasper Nathaniel.

Jfeed Staff. Oct 21, 2026 JFeed

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Iran and Russia Fueling France Protests through Online Campaigns. Researchers tell The Times they estimate Iran and Russia are encouraging the violent protests in France through social-media influence operations aimed at escalating tensions in Europe. Oct 21, 2026 JFeed

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Economic warfare. Gulf oil exports soar despite Iran attacks Tehran launches 30 attacks on shipping in October, yet crude flows from the Persian Gulf exceed pre-war levels as alternative routes, US protection and massive financial incentives keep tankers moving

Gila Isaacson. Oct 21, 2026 JFeed

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German AfD leader Weidel claims Muslim children imposing violence in schools. Oct 21, 2026 JFeed

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Malaysia Bans Government Staff from Using Waze over Israel Security Fears. Oct 21, 2026 JFeed

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IDF Eliminates Nukhba Terrorist who Planned IED Attack that Killed Four Soldiers. Oct 21, 2026 JFeed

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Sen Ted Cruz: Talarico would be WORSE than Bernie Sanders. Fox News Clips. Oct 21, 2026. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, expresses concern over Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s beliefs and discusses Texas’ midterm outlook on ‘Hannity.’ [...] Sean: "More now with Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

Before we get to your state, Texas—all eyes are on Texas—he can't identify the IRGC, Hamas, or Hezbollah as enemies, or make the distinction between Iran and Israel. Best friends with Hasan Piker, we know where this guy stands. And, you know, why is this guy... how is this a viable candidate for the Democratic Party?" Ted: "Look, these two candidates you just highlighted, I think, are the two most radical candidates in the country: Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico with El-Sayed, it's not complicated: he hates Israel, he hates Jews. I think this man is an open antisemite. Chuck Schumer and the entire Democrat leadership are proudly standing with him. At the same time, Hasan Piker is standing along his side, and Abdul El-Sayed does not distance himself from Hasan Piker, who has insulted African Americans, called them the N-word, insulted them, and has said, quote, 'America deserved 9/11.' Not only that, you know, a week ago El-Sayed was on Meet the Press and he was asked about his connections and his family's connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, and he flat out lied. He said, 'No, I have no connections,' and Meet the Press just said okay and accepted it. And I have to say, Tim Russert must be spinning in his grave because the evidence is overwhelming. So, Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly wrote op-eds, he said, defending the Muslim Brotherhood, advocating for them. When Mohamed Morsi took over Egypt, El-Sayed urged him to purge the press and purge the police. El-Sayed's sister has tweeted twice that their family has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood. And the single largest donor to the biggest Super PAC supporting El-Sayed is his father-in-law, who founded an Islamic organization that is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation criminal case—that was a criminal case funneling over $12 million to Hamas for terrorist activities. I believe this man is Muslim Brotherhood, and I'll tell you, Sean, one of the most frightening things: if he were to win, Senators don't undergo a security clearance. By virtue of being elected to a constitutional office, you are deemed to have a security clearance. Chuck Schumer could place Abdul El-Sayed on the Senate Intelligence Committee. He would have access to the very highest level of classified materials, and I believe, if that were to happen, there would be an unacceptably high risk that American servicemen and women—their lives would be endangered—and that our covert intelligence assets' lives would be in danger, because there is every reason to believe El-Sayed would share that classified information with Muslim Brotherhood terrorists. YouTube

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The Five : FOXNEWSW : October 21, 2026 2:00pm-3:00pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive. [...] [El-Sayed claims he isn't racist like other Arabs are]. - - Greg: But I hear party store. I think what Sayed, he is addressing the relationship between, I guess, blacks and Muslims as a conflict between identity groups rather than just individuals, which lets him off the hook of ideology.

So it's like, you may have had a bad experience with a rude cashier at Wawa, and that somehow applies to an entire group of people. It's like, oh, you must hate Muslims because the guy at the party store was mean to you.

Not everybody judges single interactions and that applies it to everybody else. Not everybody does it. That is the disease of identity politics, and why didn't he frame it as a reverse. Why couldn't the worker be black and the customer be Muslim? Why was the Muslim guy waiting on you and the black person being upset at the gas station? I don't get it. .. [...] - - Emily: Dana, the pandering feels so obvious and transparent, but the question is, well, does it work, or do voters see that he's just sort of catering to clicks rather than constituents?

- - Dana: Well, he's not expanding his coalition. He's running like be he's behind and the merest poll today showed him running five points behind the Democratic governor candidate I went back and looked at the 2024 in Michigan, Kamala Harris won roughly 70% to 82% of the black vote and she lost the state. If he's in the same neighborhood, th will be a problem for him. He had a tough primary, has not been able to lock that down, black voters are not as culturally to the left as the DSA would like, and I don't think they will get there. They want opportunity, and they just reject that, and I think the third reason is, as we talked about on "Jesse Watters Primetime" last night, women, he's, for me personally, I find it, like, repugnant, arrogant, it's a turn off for me. I don't love how - he has like fake empathy, and he's always the victim. He can't ever answer a simple question come every question has to be answered with a question. For example, what was it with Krista Mulcare, what about your sister in the Muslim Brotherhood, are your parents still with us? The reason we are talking about this for five weeks is because he can't answer a simple question. I think the fact that he is running behind and is not expanding his coalition at this point shows that he doesn't have it locked down but I'm not saying Rogers does, either. I think this is going to be an absolute nail biter in Michigan.

- - Emily: Jesse, how do you see it? [...]

- - Jesse; The beef is Arabs and blacks have trouble in the neighborhood because the Arabs came in and they bought all the businesses, and there was a little bit of an ethnic strife there, and then there was some theft and then there was some bad blood, so, that's where it comes from.

- - Greg: Where's the theft going, what direction?

- - Jesse: I think you know. The people that steal from the stores owned by the Arabs. So Abdul is saying, I'm not one of those bad Arabs.

- - Greg: Right. - - Jesse: I'm one of those good Arabs.

- - Greg: Yes.

- - Jesse: So he is kind of talking down his own kind and that doesn't come off well, it looks corny.

- - Greg: He says I don't own anything, so you can't be mad at me.

- - Jesse: He owns somewhere in the Middle East, "the fastest" Dubai.

- - Jesse: So he made the mistake in the primary. I'm going to campaign in college towns and the burbs and seed Detroit, and he almost lost because of that so when he tried to pivot back to the general and consolidate his base, it was too late and it just came off real bad, and he never pointed any black Michiganderer to his campaign. It's all women. It's all Muslime it's all white guys... Internet Archive

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FBI arrests 17-year-old accused of plotting to assassinate a North Texas congressman. Federal sources said the McKinney teenager was planning to conduct a terrorist attack last weekend on behalf of ISIS. Jason Whitely, Rebecca Lopez. October 21, 2026 MCKINNEY, Texas — The FBI has arrested and charged a 17-year-old boy from McKinney for planning to assassinate U.S. Representative Keith Self at an event last Saturday.

Federal investigators said the juvenile was also planning to carry out a terrorist attack in North Texas on behalf of ISIS.

The suspect was arrested on October 5 after acquiring a firearm, according to federal law enforcement sources.

Sources tell WFAA that the 17-year-old had been radicalized recently and was being monitored by federal agents.

The suspect remains in federal custody, and his name has not been publicly released.

“Protecting our Constitutional Republic from radical Islam is getting messy," Rep. Self told WFAA in a statement. "I served in the military for 25 years with the mindset that defending freedom was worth the sacrifice. Our elected leaders should govern with that same mindset.” WFAA

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Abdul El-Sayed Tries to Shore Up Black Voter Outreach...by Ordering Fried Chicken. Matt Vespa. Oct 21, 2026. Abdul El-Sayed is in trouble with black voters. It’s not a new story: we saw that in the primary, where black and Jewish voters, two of the largest minority voter blocs in Michigan, viewed him as the plague. Now, we have Barack Obama coming up to stump for him, an odd choice since El-Sayed ripped into the former Democratic president and is on opposite sides of the core issues within today’s Communist Party. Townhall

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The Five. “HE CAN’T EVER ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION.” Dana Perino takes aim at Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign style, calling his approach “arrogant” and accusing him of showing “fake empathy” while dodging direct questions. [Oct 21, 2026 on Fox News]. on FB

The Five is with Greg Gutfeld: “IT’S WOKE IN A BURKA.” Greg Gutfeld argues progressive politics and Islamist activism are being combined under what he calls “grievance armor,” saying questions about Islamism and Sharia law are too often dismissed as Islamophobic. [Oct 21, 2026 on Fox News]. on FB

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Vance doubles down: I’m done endorsing foreign candidates. Vice President JD Vance says he will no longer endorse foreign election candidates, citing Orban's defeat and explaining his decision not to back Netanyahu. Elad Benari. Published: Oct 22, 2026, 5:24 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Dramatic decision. AIPAC to end candidate endorsements. Israel National News. Oct 22, 2026, 12:15 AM INN

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As Trump weighs Iran strikes. Report: US reducing Middle East troop presence. Israel National News. Oct 22, 2026, 1:14 AM INN

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Trump: 'Iran war was one of my administration's greatest achievements'. Elad Benari. Oct 22, 2026, 2:22 AM INN

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Israel Bans United Airlines Pilot Accused of Supporting Iran, Hezbollah From Entering Country. October 21, 2026 ...The decision, first reported Wednesday by Israel’s Channel 12 , follows the discovery of social media posts attributed to Sina Amjadian, an Iranian-born pilot employed by the American airline since November 2022. According to Israeli media reports, Amjadian shared content praising the Islamic Republic, including images of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the regime’s flags. Other online allegations accused him of expressing support for Iran’s missile attacks against Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. Algemeiner

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Hezbollah Rebuilds Military Capabilities in Beirut, Prepares for Renewed Fighting Against Israel. October 21, 2026 Algemeiner

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Tucker Carlson is ‘true Jew hater,’ white nationalist Nick Fuentes claims in online clip. October 21, 2026 JPost

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Michigan Jews Call Out El-Sayed’s ‘Silence’ Over Their Concerns. By Corey Walker. Oct 21, 2026. A coalition of Michigan rabbis, Democratic elected officials, and Jewish civic leaders is demanding answers after Abdul El-Sayed, the state’s Democratic nominee for US Senate, failed to respond to their recent petition listing “five bare-minimum needs” for political candidates seeking their support.

The group, Nonnegotiable Michigan, on Wednesday announced that it sent a new letter to El-Sayed accusing him of remaining silent following nearly six weeks of requests for dialogue about his statements on Israel and his commitment to Jewish safety, identity, and sovereignty. Notably, the coalition argues that the candidate does not seem to understand that contemporary antisemitism is often fueled by animus toward Israel.

The letter comes two days after ABC News aired an interview in which El-Sayed declared that Israel is “not actually our friend” and intensified scrutiny of his foreign policy views.

“An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn’t be fighting is not an ally,” El-Sayed told ABC News Live anchor Linsey Davis, arguing that Israel had drawn the US into an unnecessary conflict with Iran.

“I think it’s time for us to realize that, like, Israel is not actually our friend,” he added.. Algemeiner

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Shin Bet busts foreign interference campaign ahead of elections. Shin Bet targeting social media accounts linked to foreign influence operations targeting Israel's upcoming elections. Israel National News. Published: Oct 22, 2026, 10:52 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Netanyahu warns: Iranian threat far from over. Five days before election day, Netanyahu warns the right could lose power and discusses Trump's endorsement, Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, and Judea and Samaria. Yoni Kempinski Oct 22, 2026, 10:20 AM INN

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Trump's endorsement came as a complete surprise

In an extensive interview ahead of the Knesset elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies seeking President Trump's endorsement and recounts their conversation afterward.

Yoni Kempinski Oct 22, 2026, 3:01 PM INN

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Americas Newsroom. October 22, 2026. El-Sayed pressed over alleged ties to Muslim Brotherhood Democratic strategist Meghan Hays and former NRSC senior advisor Matt Whitlock analyze the Michigan Senate debate between Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed.

Former Biden staffer Meghan Hayes and former NRSC adviser Matt Whitlock analyze the Michigan Senate debate as Republican Mike Rogers presses Democrat Abdul El-Sayed over his record and alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties FoxNews

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'I Got Death Threats': Model sues UN envoy for 500,000 NIS over Nazi comparison | Israel National News

Israeli actress and model Sarai Givaty ​​has filed a defamation lawsuit seeking half a million shekels in damages against Francesca Albanese, the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories. Israel National News. Oct 22, 2026, 3:51 PM (GMT+3)

Israeli actress and model Sarai Givaty ​​has filed a defamation lawsuit seeking half a million shekels in damages against Francesca Albanese, the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories. The lawsuit was filed through the organization Shurat HaDin and attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner following a tweet by Albanese. Givaty ​​alleges that the post portrayed her as someone who justifies the killing of children and linked her remarks to arguments used by high-ranking Nazi officials to justify the murder of children during the Holocaust.

According to the statement of claim, the post stems from a video interview Givaty ​​gave in September 2025. In the interview, Givaty discussed the shift in her worldview following the October 7 massacre. She addressed the rise of extremism on both sides-the far-right and radical Islam-and the need to take action against both. She concluded her remarks by saying: "It saddens me when any child in the world cries-it truly saddens me-but I also understand that if we do not act, that child will grow up to be a terrorist."

The lawsuit emphasizes that these comments were made in the context of addressing the indoctrination of children toward hatred and to the point of extremism. Givaty ​​did not call for the killing of children or for harming them, nor did she justify such harm.

According to Givaty, about a year after the interview, a 23-second clip-lacking the full context and accompanied by a partial English translation-began circulating online. On September 19, 2026, Albanese shared the clip on her account, adding an outrageous comparison, "The children will grow up." “This was also the argument presented by senior Nazi officials during the Nuremberg trials to justify the killing of children during the Holocaust."

According to the lawsuit, the post garnered over two million views, tens of thousands of shares, and approximately 93,000 likes. Following this, the content was disseminated across media outlets and social media networks worldwide. Givaty ​​states that she subsequently received dozens of hateful messages and direct threats.

Givaty asserts that the post harmed her dignity and good name, jeopardized her personal safety, and damaged her professional reputation and employment prospects both in Israel and abroad. The statement of claim emphasizes that for an actress and model working in the international market, associating her name with the justification of killing children-and with Nazi-era rationales-could deter producers, agencies, and brands, leading to the loss of professional opportunities.

Sarai Givaty said, "As a mother, I am appalled by this false comparison. One may disagree with my opinions, but one cannot attribute statements to me that I never made, nor portray me to millions of people as someone who justifies the killing of children. I will not remain silent in the face of those who seek to harm the State of Israel and defame it globally."

Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said, "We are fighting back against this international campaign of lies. Albanese is waging a vitriolic, antisemitic campaign against Israel and is responsible for spreading yet another libelous fabrication regarding its citizens. For the first time, it is possible to sue this detractor of Israel for her hate speech and hold her accountable for her actions. She cannot be allowed to hide behind her immunity." INN

(Related:

Francesca Albanese admits not knowing what antisemitism is. Human Rights Viices. September 28, 2026. "UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese apologized today (Monday) for claims that the Nazis called Jews in the concentration who were being taken to the gas chambers to be exterminated ‘Muslims’ and admitted that she had misunderstood the meaning of the term ‘antisemitism.’

‘I sincerely apologize,’ Albanese wrote on X. ‘I misread the term. 'Muselmann' (Muslim) used in Nazi camps for prisoners at the brink of death, wrongly inferring that the term antisemitism originally meant hatred of all Semitic peoples. In fact it was coined specifically to denote hatred of Jews.’ HR Voices)

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For Iranians, Protests in France Stir Memories of 1979 Revolution. October 22, 2026 IRAN — The ongoing protests in France have revived debate inside Iran over its historical role in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with some Iranians drawing parallels between unrest in Europe today and the political transformation that reshaped the Middle East nearly five decades ago.

The reactions reflect anger among some Iranians over what they see as Western double standards toward democracy, as well as concerns about the spread of Islamist political movements in Europe. France’s decision to host Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, during the final months before the Iranian revolution has become a particular focus of criticism Algemeiner

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Canada, Turkey Sign ‘Strategic Partnership’ as Part of Carney Push to Cut Reliance on US. October 22, 2026 Algemeiner

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New Report Exposes CAIR’s Influence on K-12 Education in US Algemeiner

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Trump: 'Iran trying to drive up oil prices ahead of US midterms'. Israel National News. Oct 22, 2026, 7:08 PM INN

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Head of Popular Resistance Committees in Khan Yunis eliminated. IDF and Shin Bet eliminate Ramadan Muhammad Ashahada Diab, who was involved in planning attacks against Israeli forces and rebuilding Hamas' military capabilities in violation of the ceasefire. Israel National News. Oct 22, 2026, 8:52 PM INN

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Lander says he will co-sponsor anti-settlement bill in Congress. The presumptive next representative of New York’s 12th Congressional District spoke with reporters after being detained by the Israeli military for harvesting olives without permission. Oct 22, 2026. JNS

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NYC comptroller no longer slated to speak at synagogue after saying city would stop investing in Israel Bonds. Mark Levine “was gonna get grilled,” a source who attends services at the Altneu Synagogue, told JNS. “Neither side wanted an uneasy dinner.” Debra Nussbaum Cohen. (Oct. 22, 2026 / JNS) Mark Levine, New York City comptroller, recently told The New York Times that the city would stop investing in Israel Bonds and later clarified that he was bound by his predecessor’s decisions. Still, he has been dropped as a Shabbat dinner speaker at the Altneu Synagogue. The Shabbat dinner at the Orthodox congregation on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is still slated to feature Tom DiNapoli, the New York state comptroller, who has pledged to maintain the state’s investment in Israel Bonds. JNS

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El-Sayed hires political consultant, who worked for Bay Area Federation, as Jewish outreach director Oct 22, 2026. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, reportedly hired political consultant Lenore Goldman as his campaign’s Jewish outreach director.

Goldman told JTA that she joined the campaign in September but did not disclose her role until this week. She previously worked with what is now referred to as the Jewish Federation Bay Area.

In 2024, Goldman worked on the campaign of a Michigan congressional candidate who called for a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Republican Jewish Coalition has called El-Sayed “the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in the history of America.” JNS

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IDF kills head of Palestinian terrorist organization in Gaza. Oct 22, 2026. The Israeli military said that it killed Muhammad Ashahada Diab, head of the Popular Resistance Committees, a Palestinian terror group linked to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Members of the organization participated in the Oct. 7 attacks and subsequent attacks on Israeli forces in Gaza, the Israeli military said. JNS

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US urges Romania to proceed with Holocaust museum project. Oct 22, 2026. JNS

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Hochul to campaign with Mamdani in Brooklyn. Mamdani has accused Israel of “genocide,” and anti-Jewish hate crimes surged 182% in the city in his first month as mayor. Since then, Jews, who make up about 10% of New Yorkers, have been the targets of most religion-based hate crimes in the city. JNS

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Fueled by a life's mission, Netanyahu asks Israelis for more time to 'finish the job' against Iran. October 22, 2026 JPost

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IDF sources to 'Post': Detention of US lawmaker nominee, 90 West Bank volunteers was complex. October 22, 2026 JPost

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Defense Ministry sanctions UK registered company after transfer of fuel to Hezbollah-owned company. October 22, 2026 JPost

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Hezbollah sends Latin American recruits to Lebanon for training before targeting Jewish communities October 22, 2026 JPost

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Saudi Aramco tells staff to evacuate Dhahran as clashes with Yemen's Houthis continue. October 22, 2026 JPost

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Hamas threatens another Oct. 7-style attack on Israel in unprecedented warning. Hamas warned Israel through a UN envoy that it is prepared to launch another Oct. 7-style attack, targeting Israel, Judea and Samaria and abroad; The unprecedented threat comes amid mounting military pressure and a deepening financial crisis. Itamar Eichner | published:10.21.26. YNet

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Texas Sheikh Affirms Jihad, Killing of Civilians, and Stoning of Adulterers Middle East Forum · October 21, 2026 ME Forum

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Another Pollster Used by the Media Announces Its Polls are Fake There's the pattern. October 21, 2026, by Daniel Greenfield.

You may remember a similar story about Median Strategies earlier this year.

A poll claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was leading Council member Nithya Raman by a wide margin — and picking up support from most voters who supported Spencer Pratt in the mayoral primary — was bogus, the company behind the poll acknowledged Monday.

But Monday, in response to repeated inquiries from The Times, the company said the purported “poll” was nothing of the kind. “Median Strategies was created as a short term social experiment to examine how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification,” the company said in an email to The Times.

Now it’s another firm, Wedgewood Strategies, that claims to have been running another social experiment.

After getting caught, Wedgewood claims that it was engaged in an “experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities, lack of oversight, and overall low barrier to entry in the modern political polling industry.”

It didn’t however make this statement until it got caught.

And this is impacting the perception of races and the spending that goes into them.

The sample of polls for this average doesn’t include an older poll that showed Marshall with a 5-point lead. That poll is the biggest reason for Marshall’s lead in the RealClearPolitics average.

But 270toWin does include a survey from Wedgewood Polls, a group that appeared suddenly this year, that shows Hamilton up by 2 points.

Just before this article was published, Wedgewood said it was a fictional firm that published fabricated data. Its stated goal was to test how easy it was to get fake numbers included in poll aggregations and news outlets.

I can’t say whether this is some combination of fraud, trolling or motivated election interference, but it’s a reminder that yes, the polling industry is broken and untrustworthy and we may be seeing manipulation on a large scale.. FPM

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USA: CAIR Announces 28 Election Endorsements and Opposition to Four Candidates insidernj.com · October 22, 2026 insiderNJ

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Fly the Friendly Skies of United? Hugh Fitzgerald. October 22, 2026. Do you want Ibrahim Mossallam in the cockpit? United Airlines has just now relieved of his duties as pilot Ibraham Mossalam, a Muslim who has repeatedly expressed support on social media posts for the atrocities carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023. This is the second time he’s been removed; in November 2023, Mossallam was suspended, with pay, for six months after his first series of pro-Hamas posts came to the attention of United’s management. More on Ibrahim Mossallam’s latest suspension can be found here: “United grounds pilot who praised October 7 massacre after reports of reinstatement – report,” Jerusalem Post, October 10, 2026.. FPM

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France's Macron tightens curbs on protests, blaming hard left for unrest By Michel Rose October 22, 2026. Reuters

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El-Sayed’s Fellow Muslim Brotherhood Supporters, Who Signed Letter With Him Urging Brotherhood To ‘Purge’ the Media and Police, Have Poured Thousands Into His Campaign. Jon Levine. October 22, 2026. FreeBeacon

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Palestinian Authority Boasts of Hitler as a Palestinian Ally, While Branding Israel as ‘Nazi’. October 22, 2026 Algemeiner

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How Britain Freed the Man Who Tried to Bomb an El Al Jet Using His Pregnant Fiancée as a Courier. October 22, 202. Middle East Forum

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Poll: 60% of Israelis want a unity government Israel National News Oct 23, 2026, 8:57 AM INN

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Two IDF soldiers killed in shooting attack near Judea Junction. Israel National News. Oct 23, 2026, 8:00 AM INN

Soldier recounts terrorist attack "I felt a bullet hit my helmet and lowered my head". Israel National News. Oct 23, 2026, 10:17 AM INN

Helmet camera footage: Dramatic gunfight with Hebron terrorists Uzi Baruch Oct 23, 2026, 2:36 PM INN

The Jenin and Tulkarm model: PM announces new IDF strategy in Hebron, signals major operation. Yoni Kempinski Oct 23, 2026, 2:55 PM INN

Ron and Yuval fell in shooting attack near Hebron. Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem fell in combat on Friday morning during the shooting attack at the Judea Junction. Uzi Baruch. Oct 23, 2026, 3:32 PM INN

Arab terrorists. Terrorists Used Israeli Plates, Planned Mass Attack By Jx. Two terrorists arrived in a vehicle with Israeli license plates intending to carry out a major attack against civilians before being stopped at a temporary checkpoint and killed by IDF forces. 23.10.26 C14 Editors. New details are emerging about the shooting attack that took place Friday near Judea Junction: Israeli security officials estimate that the two terrorists, who arrived in a vehicle with Israeli license plates, planned to carry out a major attack against civilians. According to the assessment, a temporary checkpoint set up by Israeli forces prevented them from executing their plan. C14

Hours after deadly attack: Demolitions begin near Hebron. Orly Harari. Oct 23, 2026, 4:10 PM INN

Herzog: IDF soldiers prevented ‘large-scale attack’ near Hebron Oct 23, 2026. Soldiers who killed two terrorists near Hebron prevented a “large-scale attack and a far greater tragedy,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Friday.. JNS

Netanyahu 'Hamas terorrists planned much larger attack on civilians'. Prime Minister Netanyahu orders security forces to cordon off Hebron following the shooting attack at Yehuda Junction, praises soldiers who thwarted a larger attack, and vows to pursue Hamas terrorists and those who sent them. Israel National News. Oct 23, 2026, 11:42 AM INN

Netanyahu confirms Hamas is behind terror attack that wounded five people, West Bank cordoned off. Oct 23, 2026. JPost

Turkey warns against strikes on Iran, security officials pledge response to West Bank terror attack. Oct 23, 2026. JPost

After shooting attack: Bulldozers in operation on the outskirts of Hebron. Smotrich orders demolitions near deadly attack site, approves four farms in southern Hebron Hills: 'This is just the beginning.' Orly Harari. Published: Oct 23, 2026, 4:19 PM (GMT+3) INN

IDF, Shin Bet launch counterterrorism operation in Hebron after deadly shooting attack. Israeli security forces launch a targeted counterterrorism operation in Hebron following the Judea Junction attack that killed two IDF soldiers and wounded others. Israel National News. Oct 23, 2026, 11:58 PM (GMT+3) INN

IDF, Shin Bet launch multi-day West Bank counterterrorism operations after deadly Hamas attack. IDF and Shin Bet forces launched a multi-day operation in Hebron, with parallel operations in Jenin, Nablus, and east Jerusalem to locate weapons and terrorist infrastructure after the attack. JPost

Following terror attack: IDF arrests 40 terror suspects in sweeping raids. Israel National News. Oct 24, 2026, 9:46 PM INN

Consequences: Israel Adopts Jenin Model in Hebron After Deadly Attack. Defense Minister Katz bars 2,000 so-called 'Palestinians' from returning to Hebron neighborhood until Hamas infrastructure is fully dismantled, marking a dramatic shift in counterterror strategy following Friday's deadly shooting where Arabs murdred two Israeli soldiers. 10.24.26 21:51. Hallel Bitton-Rosen. C14

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Hikers attacked in Samaria. Israel National News. Oct 23, 2026, 4:10 PM INN

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Spanish electionsV Spain’s PM Frontrunner Picks Most Pro-Israel Lawmaker as No. 2. Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, one of the sharpest critics of Pedro Sánchez’s Israel policy, is set to run alongside the PP leader in Spain’s November 29 election. 23.10.26 Ben Yaniv C14

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Quebec: Palestinian-Born Politician Aims to Become Premier and Advance Palestinian Cause. Christine Williams. October 23, 2026. She raised a keffiyeh during her oath-taking ceremony. FPM

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Leftist Media Spin Furiously on French Leftist Rioting. Tim Graham. October 23, 2026 The blame-Trump default. FPM

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Saudi missile plant expansion may produce more powerful missiles, study says. More capable missiles could help Saudi Arabia to deter attacks by Iran and the Houthis, but they also risk fueling a regional missile race in a volatile region. By Reuters. October 23, 2026. JPost

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Lebanese people want Israel ties, stronger government to oust Hezbollah, AMCD head says. Hajjar said that Israel and Lebanon had much to offer each other’s citizens, arguing that the misapplication of Lebanon’s 1955 anti-boycott law had created unnecessary barriers. By Danielle Greyman-Kennard. October 23, 2026. JPost

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In Syria, Israel’s female field intelligence soldiers power the IDF's covert operations. MILITARY AFFAIRS: With Iran actions spiking, pressure from US to withdraw and reduce activities, the ‘Post’ visits female field intel soldiers who say they're operating in Syria to keep Israel safe. By Yonah Jeremy Bob. October 23, 2026. JPost

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‘I will declare a state of emergency on antisemitism,’ GOP nominee for New York attorney general says. “I will use the criminal and civil authorities of the attorney general’s office to protect Jewish New Yorkers,” Saritha Komatireddy told JNS. Andrew Bernard. Oct 23, 2026 JNS

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Shapiro leads GOP state treasurer big in Pennsylvania gov’s race, which could have implications for 2028 presidential election. “You’ve got to win Pennsylvania to win the presidency. Presumably, if you can win Pennsylvania, you can win Wisconsin and Michigan as well,” Berwood Yost, director of the Franklin & Marshall College poll, told JNS. Jonathan D. Salant. Oct 23, 2026. https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/shapiro-leads-gop-state-treasurer-big-in-pennsylvania-govs-race-which-could-have-implications-for-2028-presidential-election JNS]

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WOW this exchange. @BretBaier tried to give Abdul El-Sayed a chance to finally explain the 2012 letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood and Abdul awkwardly tries to speak over him. This flailing defensiveness is why we’re on week 3 on this issue. [103] — Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) October 23, 2026. on X

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How Islamic censorship conquered Britain. October 23, 2026 Spiked Omline

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Abdul El-Sayed's Black Vote. He should denounce the jihadist movements enslaving and massacring blacks in African countries. Oct 23, 2026. William McGurn (“A Rough Homestretch for Abdul El-Sayed,” Main Street, Oct. 20) captures the problem faced by Abdul El-Sayed who, when asked whether he’d disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, responded, “Sure. Yeah, absolutely.” That’s an unconvincing verbal shrug that a CBS correspondent called a “spectacular self-own.”

Mr. El-Sayed can help fix this. All he need do is specifically denounce the jihadist movements that are currently enslaving and massacring blacks in Nigeria, Sudan and other African countries. WSJ

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Hezbollah Turns to Brazilian Criminals to Expand Its Terror Operations Across Latin America. Oct 23, 2026. Algemeiner

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Out of arguments, el Sayed resorts to crying ‘Islamophobia’. By Zachary Faria. October 23, 2026. Abdul el Sayed is starting to crumble under the public pressure of his Senate campaign in Michigan, so he has sprinted to the Democratic Party’s old, reliable argument: Everyone criticizing him must be a bigot.

El Sayed has fully embraced this line of defense, telling a rally crowd about his debate with Republican candidate Mike Rogers: “We had a little debate. Or I had a debate, and he just pointed at me and said, ‘well, he’s Muslim.’” WashingtonExaimner

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Modi, Netanyahu discuss regional developments, Israel-India ties. Oct 23, 2026 JNS

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'Democrats for Mike Rogers' ad attacks El-Sayed on agenda, plan for Black Michiganders. By Geoff Harris | The National News Desk

Fri, October 23, 2026.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — A political group backed by a Republican-aligned PAC is targeting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed with a social media video featuring Black Michiganders criticizing his priorities, as the race enters a high-profile stretch of campaign stops in Michigan.

The post appeared to reference a section of the “Abdul for U.S. Senate” campaign website under “Sensible Foreign Policy,” which mentions countries including Vietnam, Iran and Venezuela. (TNND)

On X this week, “Democrats for Mike Rogers” posted a 30-second video and wrote: “There are 15 foreign countries mentioned on Abdul’s policy page. Over 5,000 words. Not a word about plans for Black Michiganders.”

In the video, one person says, “I think Abdul cares more about the West Bank than West Detroit.” Another says, “I feel like he cares more about Palestine than Michigan.”

The post appeared to reference a section of the “Abdul for U.S. Senate” campaign website under “Sensible Foreign Policy,” which mentions countries including Vietnam, Iran and Venezuela. NationalDesk

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At least seven killed in shooting at church funeral in Jordan. October 23, 2026.

In southern Jordan, two gunmen opened fire on mourners at a church funeral near the city of Karak, killing at least seven people. Jordan’s Al-Mamlaka TV reports that the attackers carried out the shooting out of Islamic extremist motives.

At least seven people were killed and 10 others wounded Friday in a deadly shooting during a church funeral near the southern Jordanian city of Karak.

According to initial reports in Arab media, two gunmen arrived at the scene, opened fire on mourners and fled….

Jordanian security forces are continuing efforts to locate the suspects. No verified details have been released about their identities, and it remains unclear whether the attack targeted the mourners because of their religious affiliation or for another reason. INN

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Rubio received intel warning of Iranian plots against US diplomats, official confirms to ‘Post’. October 24, 2026. JPost

Trump warns of 'another little Epic Fury' as Iran advances plots against Americans. October 24, 2026. JPost

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“No! No! No!” – Abdul El-Sayed SNAPS at Bret Baier For Bringing Up His Familial Ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (VIDEO). By Cristina Laila. Oct. 24, 2026.

Michigan’s radical Muslim Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed snapped at Fox News host Bret Baier when he brought up his familial ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Abdul El-Sayed denies he has familial ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, calling the accusations “racist and untrue.”

Social media posts authored by Abdul El-Sayed’s sister, Eman Abdelhad, reveal familial ties and support for the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a designated terrorist organization.

Bret Baier confronted Abdul El-Sayed about his ties to the designated terrorist organization.

“No, no, no, no! Let me stop you there!” El-Sayed said to Bret Baier... GWP

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Iran reportedly ready to target submarine cables if war resumes. Israel National News. Oct 24, 2026, 11:00 PM INN

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Two towns and six farms planned in response to shooting attack. The Har Hebron Regional Council has announced plans to establish two new communities and six agricultural farms in the southern Hebron Hills following Friday's deadly terrorist attack near Hebron. Israel National News. Oct 25, 2026, 12:02 AM INN

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New Rule: Moocher Nation | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO). Oct 23, 2026 Socialism.. France... "because everything's is always better by adding a dash of Gaza.." on YouTube

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Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد @BrotherRasheed Muslim terrorists attacked a church in Karak, Jordan, killing and injuring 19 Christians during funeral prayers.

After the attack, the terrorists recorded this chilling message:

“Allahu Akbar, and glory belongs to Allah. We have brutally punished the Christians of Karak in revenge for Islam and the Islamic State. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!”

They explicitly invoked Islam and the Islamic State to justify their attack on Christians.

These are their own words. Listen to what they say about their motivesBrother Rachid الأخ رشيد @BrotherRasheed Muslim terrorists attacked a church in Karak, Jordan, killing and injuring 19 Christians during funeral prayers.

After the attack, the terrorists recorded this chilling message:

“Allahu Akbar, and glory belongs to Allah. We have brutally punished the Christians of Karak in revenge for Islam and the Islamic State. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!”

They explicitly invoked Islam and the Islamic State to justify their attack on Christians.

These are their own words. Listen to what they say about their motives. Oct 24, 2026 on X

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US military has strike plans ready for Iran. CENTCOM has reportedly prepared several options for renewed strikes against Iran after the midterms, pending Trump’s approval. Israel National News. Oct 25, 2026, 2:22 AM INN

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Houthis renew threats. Riyadh airport to resume flights. Israel National News. Oct 25, 2026, 3:19 AM INN

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FBI Raided Home of El-Sayed's Mother, Senate Candidate's Sister Wrote in Unearthed Article. El-Sayed has described his mother as 'a nurse in Missouri,' omitting her work for a charity tied to al-Qaeda. Alana Goodman. October 24, 2026. The FBI raided the home of the left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's mother in the early 2000s, likely in connection with a terror financing case that shut down the Islamic charity she worked for, according to El-Sayed's sister, Eman Abdelhadi.

Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor and the daughter of El-Sayed's Egyptian-born mother, Fatten Elkomy, referenced the raid in a June 2016 article detailing her experience at a New York City vigil for the Pulse nightclub shooting. Elkomy took issue with a line from one of the vigil's speakers, then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who promised to "do what we did after 9/11" and "build back a monument better than ever before.".. FreeBeacon

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Trump slams Obama for campaigning for ‘jihadist’ El-Sayed. Oct. 25, 2026. U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked former U.S. President Barack Obama for campaigning for Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, labeling him a “Muslim Brotherhood Jihadist.”

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said El-Sayed “hates Jews and Blacks and Americans and Trump.

“Michigan doesn’t want an arrogant, open borders, fake doctor, jihadist,” Trump wrote. He urged voters to back Republican nominee Mike Rogers. JNS

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Allegedly terror-supporting Muslim preacher reportedly teaching ‘Islamic spiritual psychology’ in Thailand.. Oct 25, 2026 The Daily Mail reported that Sayed Hussain Makke, who was born in London, created a “physical and religious training camp in Thailand.” He reportedly mourned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

A British parliamentarian told the paper that “it is high time that action was taken against this preacher, who appears to support Hezbollah, a proscribed organization, and his ‘trainingMark's. JNS

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UK Green Party has become racist, Board of Deputies says. Oct 25, 2026 The more than 265-year-old Board of Deputies of British Jews voted 118-1 on Sunday to call the Green Party “racist,” after the Greens adopted a policy stating that Zionism is racism.

Phil Rosenberg, president of the Jewish umbrella group, called the vote outcome a “clear verdict.”

“By adopting an antisemitic platform, the Green Party of England and Wales has become a racist party,” he stated. “We will treat it accordingly.”

“No political party has the right to tell Jews that a central part of our identity, rooted in thousands of years of history, faith and peoplehood, is racist,” he added. “The Green Party’s policy brands much of our community, including our synagogues and communal organizations, with that slur. It gives prejudice against Jews a political license.” JNS

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Hebron: Police arrest three over praise for terrorist shooting. Oct. 25, 2026. The Israel Police arrested three Palestinians from Hebron on suspicion of online incitement and support for the Hamas terror group in the wake of Friday’s deadly shooting attack, the force said on Sunday. JNS

Netanyahu orders ‘daring’ plan to uproot terror in Judea, Samaria. Oct. 25, 2026. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he instructed the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) to draw up a “daring and comprehensive” plan unlike anything seen since the Six-Day War in 1967, aimed at uprooting terrorism in Judea and Samaria.

He spoke during an interview with broadcaster Channel 14, in which he was asked about the deadly shooting in Judea attack on Friday.

Explaining his directive to the IDF and the Shin Bet, Netanyahu said that his government knows that “the Palestinian Authority is a body hostile to the State of Israel that seeks to eliminate us in various ways.”

Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in the attack near the Yehuda Junction in the Hebron area of Judea. The IDF identified the slain soldiers as Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman, 23, and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem, 20. JNS

Two towns and six farms planned in response to shooting attack. The Har Hebron Regional Council has announced plans to establish two new communities and six agricultural farms in the southern Hebron Hills following Friday's deadly terrorist attack near Hebron. Israel National News. Published: Oct 25, 2026, 12:02 AM (GMT+2) INN

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‘Sheep poisoned and left to die’: Palestinians targeted livestock 17 times this year, says Israel. Oct 25, 2026. Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that Palestinian attackers had “deliberately targeted” livestock in Judea and Samaria for the 17th time this year.

The ministry said the aim was to “harm Jewish shepherds and destroy their livelihoods.”

“This is calculated cruelty. Poisoning innocent animals to inflict suffering on the people who care for them,” it wrote on X. “A vicious act of violence. No excuses. No justification.”

The latest poisoning targeted a flock at Or Nachman Farm in the Binyamin region of Samaria on Saturday, according to the Judea and Samaria Situation Room.

The farm is located near al-Mughayyir, the group said, adding that most of this year’s poisonings originated from the Arab village. JNS

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Allegedly terror-supporting Muslim preacher reportedly teaching ‘Islamic spiritual psychology’ in Thailand.. Oct 25, 2026 The Daily Mail reported that Sayed Hussain Makke, who was born in London, created a “physical and religious training camp in Thailand.” He reportedly mourned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

A British parliamentarian told the paper that “it is high time that action was taken against this preacher, who appears to support Hezbollah, a proscribed organization, and his ‘trainingMark's. JNS

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UK Green Party has become racist, Board of Deputies says. Oct 25, 2026 The more than 265-year-old Board of Deputies of British Jews voted 118-1 on Sunday to call the Green Party “racist,” after the Greens adopted a policy stating that Zionism is racism.

Phil Rosenberg, president of the Jewish umbrella group, called the vote outcome a “clear verdict.”

“By adopting an antisemitic platform, the Green Party of England and Wales has become a racist party,” he stated. “We will treat it accordingly.”

“No political party has the right to tell Jews that a central part of our identity, rooted in thousands of years of history, faith and peoplehood, is racist,” he added. “The Green Party’s policy brands much of our community, including our synagogues and communal organizations, with that slur. It gives prejudice against Jews a political license.” JNS

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Suspected security offenses: Two German citizens arrested near Damon Prison. Two German citizens were arrested on Mount Carmel after prison guards spotted them photographing the entrance to Damon Prison, where terrorists are being held. Israel National News Oct 25, 2026, 11:54 AM INN

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IDF eliminates two terrorists who transferred millions to Hamas Israel National News Oct 25, 2026, 10:53 AM INN

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IDF slays two Hamas financiers in Gaza. Oct. 25, 2026 [...] Alaa Ibrahim Nimer Arshi, a cell commander in the “military wing” of the Hamas terror group, was eliminated in a strike in the Gaza City area on Wednesday.

A separate strike in the Nuseirat area on Tuesday killed Karam Riyad Hassan Abu Butaihan, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist involved in transferring funds to Hamas’s “military wing,” according to the statement.

“These funds were recently used to support Hamas’s efforts to rebuild its military capabilities and plan terrorist attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, constituting a systematic violation of the ceasefire,” it said.

On Thursday, the IDF and Shin Bet also destroyed a Hamas weapons storage facility in an airstrike in central Gaza. It held Kalashnikov rifles, a launcher and rockets, the military said.

The IDF said it issued advance warnings to nearby noncombatants and used precision munitions and aerial surveillance. JNS

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Bill Ackman 'Govt. without Ben Gvir would help Israel diplomatically'. Israel National News. Oct 25, 2026, 11:11 AM INN

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National Library of Israel launches projects to memorialize Oct. 7. 7.10 Bound in Memory is an exhibit of books written by family and friends of those killed. Linda Gradstein. Oct. 25, 2026 JNS

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Lula defeats Trump ally Bolsonaro, keeping Brazil left as Latin America shifts right. By Alessandra Freitas. Oct 25, 2026.

Sigue nuestra cobertura en vivo en español de las elecciones en Brasil

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection Sunday, defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of US President Donald Trump, in a razor-thin runoff election that capped a deeply polarized presidential race.

The historic victory makes the 80-year-old leftist leader the first Brazilian president to be elected to the office four times, after a campaign dominated by concerns over the cost of living, crime and corruption, as well as a broader rightward political shift in Brazil and across Latin America. CNN

Brazil election: Lula wins fourth term, defeats pro-Israel Flavio Bolsonaro. Israel National News. Oct 26, 2026, 2:19 AM INN

Bolsonaro refuses to concede, says he will seek annulment of Brazil vote. Flavio Bolsonaro refused to concede after Lula was reported reelected for a fourth term, vowing to seek annulment of Brazil's runoff over a two-hour extension of voting. Reuters. October 26, 2026. JPost

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Israel: The leaders of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement come out against the participation of Arab citizens of Israel in the Knesset elections Abu Ali Express. October 25, 2026 Houthi Militia Targets Residential Areas in Taiz, Destroying Civilian Home. October 25, 2026 khabaragency.net

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Woman charged in stabbing of Jewish man in Manhattan’s Diamond District The suspect faces assault, menacing, aggravated harassment and weapons charges, an NYPD spokesperson told JNS. Joshua Marks. Oct. 25, 2026 / JNS) A 32-year-old Brooklyn woman has been arrested following the stabbing of a Jewish man in Manhattan’s Diamond District, an NYPD spokesperson told JNS during a phone inquiry on Sunday. Anna Mochalova was arrested at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, within the confines of the Midtown North Precinct, the spokesperson said. She was charged with eight counts of assault, eight counts of menacing, two counts of aggravated harassment and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.

The spokesperson did not specify whether any charges included hate-crime enhancements. Police previously told JNS that the stabbing was being investigated as a potential hate crime JNS

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The Palestinian national movement has yet to accept Israel’s right to exist – opinion. Decades of conflict, failed negotiations, and the October 7 massacre raise a central question: Is the Palestinian national movement willing to accept Israel?

Uri Pilichowski. October 25, 2026.

For 78 years, the core of the Palestinian national movement has sought the elimination of Israel as a sovereign Jewish state.

The War of Independence (1948–49) ended with armistice lines that left Israel in control of more territory than the partition plan had assigned. Palestinian leadership and the Arab states continued to refuse recognition and maintained a state of belligerency.

An enemy is a party whose objective is the destruction of your nation rather than the adjustment of its borders or policies. A partner in a conflict is a party that disagrees on territory or rights and is willing to settle the disagreement through negotiation without the systematic use of violence against the civilian population or the institutions of the state.

The historical record places the Palestinians in the first category as an enemy of Israel. In November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the remaining territory of the British Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

The Jewish leadership accepted the plan while the Arab Higher Committee and the governments of the neighboring Arab states rejected it and launched a war to prevent the Jewish state from coming into being.

The Arab states that invaded in 1948 did so under the banner of preventing a Jewish state, and many of their leaders spoke openly of driving the Jews into the sea.

Palestinian fighters participated in the fighting, and in subsequent years the idea of return was framed not as resettlement in a new Arab state but as the reversal of the Jewish victory and the restoration of Arab majority rule over the entire territory.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Palestinian organizations based in Jordan, Lebanon, and elsewhere carried out airline hijackings, the murder of diplomats, and the attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Their stated purpose was to end the Zionist state.

Attempts to reject the State of Israel.

These attacks were accompanied by a political program that rejected any Jewish sovereignty. Maps produced by Palestinian organizations showed the entire area as Palestine with no Israel. Speeches by leaders described the Jews as colonial invaders whose presence would be temporary and whose removal would restore justice to the land.

The PLO under Yasser Arafat adopted a charter that called for the liberation of all of Palestine and the elimination of the Zionist entity. Even after the organization formally amended some articles under American pressure in the 1990s, the practical policy of rejecting Jewish national rights remained in place.

Generations of Palestinian children have been taught that the land is theirs alone and that martyrdom in the struggle against Israel is the highest aspiration. This educational system makes a future generation of negotiators who accept Israel unlikely.

The First Intifada that erupted in 1987 mobilized large numbers of Palestinians in the territories captured in 1967. The uprising was presented as a popular revolt against occupation, yet its leaders rejected offers of autonomy that would have begun a process toward self-government without ending the Jewish state.

The Oslo process of the 1990s transferred administrative control of major Palestinian population centers to the newly created Palestinian Authority. When Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak offered a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank and Gaza with a capital in parts of Jerusalem at the Camp David summit in 2000, the proposal was rejected.

The Second Intifada followed within weeks, and more than one thousand Israelis were killed and thousands more wounded before the construction of the security barrier and military operations reduced the number of successful attacks.

A further offer by prime minister Ehud Olmert in 2008 that included additional territorial swaps and a shared arrangement for Jerusalem was likewise turned down without a counteroffer that accepted the permanence of a Jewish state.

Hamas, which won elections in Gaza and seized full control there in 2007, has never hidden its objective. Its original charter quotes religious texts calling for the killing of Jews and states that the land of Palestine is an Islamic endowment that cannot be relinquished.

Years of rocket fire from Gaza, the construction of attack tunnels, and the diversion of construction materials into military infrastructure prepared the conditions for the assault of October 7, 2023.

On that morning, thousands of fighters crossed the border, murdered civilians in their homes, raped women, and abducted more than two hundred hostages. The attack was planned over years and celebrated by Hamas leaders as a historic achievement that would lead to further stages of the struggle.

Public opinion surveys conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in the aftermath showed that a majority of respondents in both the West Bank and Gaza viewed the attack as justified.

These findings are consistent with earlier polls that have repeatedly found majorities opposed to recognizing Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and supportive of armed struggle as the primary means of advancing Palestinian goals.

Successive Israeli governments have negotiated, withdrawn from territory, and released prisoners in exchange for commitments that were later broken.

The pattern has been that periods of relative calm are used to rebuild military capacity and that every political concession is followed by demands for further concessions rather than by acceptance of a final status that leaves Israel intact as a Jewish and democratic state.

The meetings between Israeli leaders and Palestinian representatives over decades produced temporary arrangements and limited security cooperation in certain periods. They did not produce a Palestinian leadership prepared to abandon the demand that Israel disappear or be reduced to a non-Jewish entity within borders that would leave it unable to defend itself.

This record establishes the Palestinians as an enemy of Israel in the precise sense that their dominant political movements seek the destruction of the Jewish nation-state. The distinction guides the necessary response.

Security requires the ability to prevent the concentration of forces that can carry out mass attacks, the denial of international legitimacy to groups that pursue eliminationist goals, and the maintenance of defensible lines until a Palestinian leadership emerges that is prepared to live alongside Israel rather than in its place.

The Jewish people returned to sovereignty in their land after centuries in which they lacked the means to defend themselves against those who sought their destruction. The present generation carries the responsibility of ensuring that the state created for that purpose continues to exist. Understanding the nature of the adversary is the necessary starting point for that task. JPost

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IDF fails to detain man for attempted car ramming, homes of Hebron attack terrorists sealed off. JPost

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Drama in Serbia: Pro-Israel President Vucic concedes election defeat. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic concedes electoral defeat after 14 years in power, as a student-led opposition movement scores a major political victory. Israel National News. Published: Oct 25, 2026

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat on Sunday in a parliamentary election that marked a dramatic political turning point for the Balkan nation, ending 14 years of dominance by the longtime leader and his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party.

The election followed two years of sustained demonstrations organized by a student-led opposition movement, which emerged as the principal challenger to Vucic's government.

The President, who received the endorsement of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had accused the protest movement of being part of a foreign-backed effort to remove him from power.

Although voters were presented with 18 parties competing for seats in Serbia's 250-member Parliament, the election effectively became a contest between Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party and the Students' List, which attracted support from young voters and a broader opposition coalition.

According to projections, the Student List won a parliamentary majority with 52.1% of the vote and about 138 of 250 seats. Vuci’s party took 39.3% and around 104 seats.

Serbia, a country of approximately 6.4 million voters, experienced unusually high electoral participation throughout Sunday, according to The Associated Press.

Long lines formed outside polling stations early in the morning, with election observers reporting turnout levels that could approach 70%, a figure not recorded in the country since 2000.

The voting took place amid heightened political tensions and reports of violence in several parts of the country.

In central Belgrade, police wearing riot gear established a security perimeter around the headquarters of the national election commission.

Special police vehicles were also deployed near a park in the capital where Vucic supporters have maintained an encampment for more than a year.

Local media reported several violent incidents during the day, underscoring the tensions surrounding the closely watched election.

Vucic has been regarded as a supporter of Israel and has maintained close diplomatic relations with Jerusalem during his years in power.

In 2020, he announced plans to establish a Serbian diplomatic mission and an economic office in Jerusalem, signaling his government's commitment to strengthening bilateral ties.

That same year, Vucic marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by displaying a yellow flag at his official residence in Belgrade.

The flag featured a Star of David and the word “Jude," recalling the identifying badges that the Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.

Vucic published a photograph of the flag on social media, accompanied by a message emphasizing the importance of remembering the Holocaust.

Diplomatic cooperation between Serbia and Israel continued in subsequent years.

Last year, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar hosted Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Đurić in Jerusalem for discussions on developments in the Middle East and opportunities to expand relations between the two countries.

During the meeting, Sa'ar expressed appreciation for Serbia's support of Israel, emphasizing that Belgrade had demonstrated its friendship through concrete actions as well as public statements.

He contrasted Serbia's approach with that of countries that had sought to pressure Israel through embargoes and proceedings before international courts, noting that Serbia had continued supporting Israel during a particularly challenging period.

The relationship was again highlighted earlier this year when Serbia strongly criticized UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese over remarks concerning the country's defense cooperation with Israel.

During a visit to Belgrade, Albanese accused Serbia of cooperating "without shame" with Israel and alleged that Serbian-made weapons were being used in Gaza.

Serbia's Foreign Ministry rejected her accusations, describing the comments as "unbalanced and activist" and condemning them as an "unacceptable interference in internal affairs."

The ministry also maintained that Albanese's statements exceeded the appropriate scope of her UN mandate. INN

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Ad for El-Sayed blaming rising grocery costs on Israel a ‘case study’ in Jew-hatred “You want to know what desperate looks like? Blaming the price of bananas on the Jewish state,” the Anti-Defamation League said. Rikki Zagelbaum. Oct 26, 2026. JNS

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IDF veteran completes Hawaii Ironman race three years after losing leg in Gaza combat. After losing his leg in Gaza, IDF veteran Boris Shtonda completed Hawaii's grueling Ironman triathlon using a specialized running prosthetic, dedicating the race to wounded soldiers in rehabilitation Jerusalem Post Staff. October 26, 2026, 00:45 JPost

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Trump renews endorsement of Netanyahu. President Trump reiterates his endorsement of Netanyahu ahead of Israel's election, praising their joint achievements against Iran and urging Israelis to vote for him. Israel National News. Oct 26, 2026, 1:11 AM INN

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Ben Gvir warned of Hamas threat days before October 7. Oct 26, 2026. INN

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Nationwide security operation. Over 20,000 police officers to deploy on Election Day. Israel National News. Oct 26, 2026, 12:08 AM INN

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'We need each other'. From Gaza battlefield to Knesset: Elisha Medan's plea for unity. Yoni Kempinski. Oct 25, 2026 INN

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Mecca defense pact faces test as Saudi delegation arrives for high-stakes Iran talks. October 26, 2026. JPost

Iran Hosts Mecca Pact Security Chiefs Iran's Foreign Ministry says "Israeli expansion" and Lebanon are on the agenda in Tehran, and that it makes no difference to Iran who leads Israel. The talks come one day before Israel's election. Jfeed Staff. Oct 26, 2026. JFeed

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Egypt approves military support for Saudi Arabia after Houthi attacks escalate. October 26, 2026 JPost

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Israel to supply Cyprus with new offshore patrol vessel equipped with Rafael systems. October 26, 2026 JPost

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Israel, Cyprus sign defense deal for patrol vessel. Oct. 26, 2026 ...The agreement also includes upgrades to Cyprus’s existing Israeli-built offshore patrol vessel, the Commodore Andreas Ioannides. According to the ministry, the new and upgraded vessels will enhance the Cyprus Naval Command’s patrol, surveillance, and search-and-rescue capabilities. JNS

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IDF finds underground shaft near West Bank home of Hamas terrorist who killed two soldiers. October 26, 2026 JPost

Israeli forces uncover infiltration tunnel near Jerusalem, arrest 36. Oct. 26, 2026. ...The passage, discovered near the village of a-Ram, used existing sewer infrastructure to reach the Beit Hanina neighborhood in the northern part of the capital. According to police, its entrance was concealed beneath a parked commercial vehicle and accessible through the vehicle itself.

Border Police officers, undercover units and Israel Defense Forces troops arrested 32 suspected illegal infiltrators and four people suspected of assisting them. All 36 were transferred for questioning, police said. JNS

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Jewish Democrats face dilemma as anti-Israel candidates gain ground in party primaries. Activists tell JNS dislike of Trump’s policies, frustration with Netanyahu will overcome any qualms party’s voters have about some of the Democratic nominees. Izzy Salant, Jonathan D. Salant. Oct. 26, 2026. JNS

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Hezbollah spent past 3 months preparing for renewed hostilities with Israel, received fresh Iranian funding. Hezbollah has used the past three months to prepare for renewed hostilities with Israel after receiving fresh funding from Iran, according to Reuters. The group has utilized the lull since June to rearm, produce attack drones, and rebuild its command-and-control structures. Oct 26, 2026 JFeed

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IDF finds tunnel shaft near Hebron terrorist’s home. Oct 26, 2026 5:52 AM Israel Defense Forces troops on Sunday uncovered an underground excavation near the Hebron home of one of the terrorists involved in last week’s deadly attack in Judea, the military said on Monday.

The shaft is about 15 meters (49 feet) deep and 75 centimeters (30 inches) wide, according to the IDF. An initial assessment found it does not appear to have an exit.

Troops found an “electronic device” inside. It was handed to the security forces for further examination, the military said.

The excavation was found during searches of more than 500 sites.

The operation began after Friday’s attack, in which IDF Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman, 23, and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem, 20, were killed. Three other soldiers were wounded in the shooting near the Yehuda Junction.

Troops are continuing searches, arresting suspects and seizing weapons and illegal vehicles, the IDF said. It stressed that the excavation is inside Hebron, with no Jewish communities nearby. JNS

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UN panel, which has long denounced Israel, releases new report attacking Jewish state. The report of the Commission of Inquiry is “yet another manifestation of its misinformation campaign to demonize the state of Israel and portray its very existence as criminal,” the Israeli mission to the United Nations in Geneva stated. Mike Wagenheim. Oct 26, 2026. ...The commission’s work has come under scrutiny [104] this month after revelations by one of its panelists that the commission accused Israel of “genocide[sic]” without independently verifying facts and amid clear evidence the commissioners drew conclusions based on assumptions... JNS

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When Everything Is Genocide, Nothing Is: The Weaponization of a Word Against Israel. Oct 26, 2026.

If everything is genocide, then genocide means nothing—or, more precisely, it means whatever Israel’s accusers want it to mean.

A word born from the darkest chapter of modern history, designed to identify and condemn the deliberate destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, is being emptied of its meaning and repurposed as a political cudgel against the Jewish state. Military operations become “genocide.” Humanitarian disputes become “genocide.” Wars fought on different fronts, under different circumstances, against different adversaries are folded into one sweeping accusation: Israel is not fighting wars; it is supposedly waging a campaign of extermination against an entire people.

The formula is as predictable as it is revealing. The accusation comes first. The evidence is selected, stretched, or subordinated to the predetermined verdict. Legal distinctions disappear. Context becomes an inconvenience. Contrary evidence is dismissed as propaganda. And anyone who questions the charge is branded an apologist for atrocities.

This is not merely a dispute over terminology. It is a struggle over legitimacy. The word 'genocide' carries a unique moral force, and those who deploy it know that its power extends far beyond the courtroom. It can transform the accused into the embodiment of absolute evil, recast self-defense as mass murder, and make the existence of a Jewish state appear morally indefensible. When every Israeli military campaign is presented as another chapter in a single, uninterrupted genocide, the implication is unmistakable: Israel cannot be permitted to defend itself anywhere, because every act of defense has already been declared proof of its criminality. _

The pattern also reveals the extraordinary elasticity of the accusation. The Israrl-obsessed Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) found “genocide” in U.S. policy toward Cuba. Far-left Spain’s Podemos directed this accusation not at Assad, Iran, or Hezbollah for the deaths of some 656,000 Syrians, but at Israel for its counterterrorism operations. Mehdi Hasan’s media platform has applied the term to Israel’s actions in Lebanon. Ahmad Ibsais has published successive claims of "genocide" in Gaza, the West Bank, and southern Lebanon. These accusations arise in different political and military contexts, yet the same maximalist vocabulary follows Israel from one battlefield to the next. The question is no longer simply whether a particular allegation meets the demanding legal standard for genocide. It is why the word has become such a reflexive feature of anti-Israel rhetoric—and what happens when its extraordinary moral weight is used to advance a predetermined political conclusion. _

There was this Spain's far-left party leader using the G word to accuse Israel vis-a-vis Syria:

Spanish party leader accuses Israel of genocide[SIC] in Syria. By Michael Starr. JPost, December 12, 2024. Spanish Podemos party leader Ione Belarra claimed on Tuesday that the State of Israel was committing genocide[SIC] in Syria. [105] _

That same DSA, which makes the false “genocide” accusation obligatory for its candidates, has found a new “genocide”—this time in Cuba.

Democratic Socialists of America Accuses Marco Rubio of ‘Genocide’ in Pro-Castro Screed. By Corey Walker. Algemeiner. August 20, 2026 [106] _

Then there is Islamic bigot (since his 2009 sermon about non-Muslims as 'animals,' his 2019 minimizing Ilhan Omar's use of antisemitic tropes, his Feb 2025 "make American planes crash again" and in Oct 2025 Hasan's Nazi comparisons) Mehdi Hasan

Gaza GenoLIE Campaign Traces 50-Year Anti-Israel Delegitimization Effort. The false genocide accusation did not begin after October 7. Its modern vocabulary grew from a 1975 UN resolution backed by the USSR and Arab states, then spread through Durban, BDS and academia. Jewish Onliner, Aug 27, 2026 [...] Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo platform publishes an article in April 2026 on “Israel’s Latest Genocide” in Lebanon, proving that the accusation of genocide arises whenever and wherever Israel defends itself because the goal is to delegitimize the Jewish state entirely. [107] _

Ahmad Ibsais: "Palestinian" Arab American gigantic genoLIE, promoted by TheNation.

The relentless branding of every Israeli military operation as “genocide” exposes how the term has been reduced from a grave legal accusation to a political slogan. From Gaza to the West Bank to southern Lebanon, Ahmad Ibsais recycles the same maximalist narrative, treating vastly different circumstances as proof of one grand plot. Repetition is not evidence, outrage is not legal analysis, and a manufactured sense of moral certainty is no substitute for demonstrating genocidal intent. When “genocide” becomes a vibe rather than a rigorously substantiated legal claim, it ceases to illuminate reality and becomes a propaganda weapon against Israel... comma, point.

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Saudi Defense Pact Countries Hold Talks in Iran as Houthis Launch More Attacks. Oct 26, 2026. Algemeiner

Mecca defense pact faces test as Saudi delegation arrives for high-stakes Iran talks. October 26, 2026. JPost

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Egypt approves military support for Saudi Arabia after Houthi attacks escalate. October 26, 2026 JPost

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Israel to supply Cyprus with new offshore patrol vessel equipped with Rafael systems. October 26, 2026 JPost

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Israel, Cyprus sign defense deal for patrol vessel. Oct. 26, 2026 ...The agreement also includes upgrades to Cyprus’s existing Israeli-built offshore patrol vessel, the Commodore Andreas Ioannides. According to the ministry, the new and upgraded vessels will enhance the Cyprus Naval Command’s patrol, surveillance, and search-and-rescue capabilities. JNS

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IDF finds underground shaft near West Bank home of Hamas terrorist who killed two soldiers. October 26, 2026 JPost

Israeli forces uncover infiltration tunnel near Jerusalem, arrest 36. Oct. 26, 2026. ...The passage, discovered near the village of a-Ram, used existing sewer infrastructure to reach the Beit Hanina neighborhood in the northern part of the capital. According to police, its entrance was concealed beneath a parked commercial vehicle and accessible through the vehicle itself.

Border Police officers, undercover units and Israel Defense Forces troops arrested 32 suspected illegal infiltrators and four people suspected of assisting them. All 36 were transferred for questioning, police said. JNS

Footage from Khan Yunis: IDF strikes terrorists emerging from tunnel. After IDF troops identified three terrorists exiting a tunnel shaft in Khan Yunis, an aircraft struck the shaft and the terrorists. Israel National News. Oct 26, 2026, 5:53 PM INN

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Jewish Democrats face dilemma as anti-Israel candidates gain ground in party primaries. Activists tell JNS dislike of Trump’s policies, frustration with Netanyahu will overcome any qualms party’s voters have about some of the Democratic nominees. Izzy Salant, Jonathan D. Salant. Oct. 26, 2026. JNS

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Jesse Watters Primetime : FOXNEWSW : October 26, 2026 10:00pm-11:00pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive. [...] JESSE: ..Barry's rubber stamping this Michigan Muslim doesn't mean they forgive and forget Motown. They see right through it.

BLACK LADY: "Honestly, it's a turnoff. Just because i've seen too many candidates use him just to manipulate the democratic vote. I'm not 100% sold on Abdul."

JESSE: There's also a beef between blacks and Arabs that runs much, much deeper that Obama can't just slap a band-aid on at a campaign stop.

BLACK LADY: "I know some good eggs, but then my issue is with him. He's so quick to talk about Trump and his racism and everything. He know [sic] what his community has done. The devastation that his community has put on our community. You understand, they own all the gas stations. They own all the what [sic] the central stores now. They buy what soul food restaurants. They bring chicken now, they [sic] fried chicken. They suck out all the energy. What? All the liquor stores How many liquor stores? They got one liquor store on every other block. All, everything is in a black urban community. And look around at our communities. Nothing."

Barack was sent in to get souls to the polls in Michigan. But look at his crowd. We don't see a lot of black faces in the seats. And that was on a Saturday. Trump definitely not impressed: "I saw barack Hussein Obama was in Michigan and the place was empty. And they were saying, oh, this is a large crowd coming. The people are trickling through..."

JESSE: Can Barry's haimary change hearts at the last second? Because abdul spent about three months with Caucasians and kind of forgot about the community, didn't even hire a black man or a woman to a top spot in his campaign. Are they going to just turn around for him when he doesn't even hire salty grapes?' ...So the question is, can a Muslim with Arabs, white women and college kids win Michigan?' Internet Archive

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El-Sayed plays the victim, but some scrutiny is justified. The Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan’s faith should be off-limits, but not his words and actions.

Carine Hajjar. October 27, 2026

Michigan’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed campaigns in Detroit on Oct. 24. (Paul Sancya/AP) Victimhood is a potent political tool. And earlier this month, Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, gave a master class on how to use it.

At a town hall in Caro, Michigan, a young man in the audience asked El-Sayed if he disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, which the man called a terrorist group. “Sure, yeah, absolutely,” the candidate responded. Then he flipped it: “Why are you asking the question?” The audience member said he asked because he had not yet heard El-Sayed disavow the group. WaPo

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Van Jones. Oct 27, 2026. I have spoken out against anti-Muslim hate in the Michigan Senate race. I will speak out just as loudly when the target is Jewish people. Let me state a little-known fact: ISRAEL GETS LESS THAN 0.1 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET. That’s less than one tenth of a percent! But there is an ad running that tells voters they can’t afford groceries because the United States gives so much money to Israel. In reality, the United States spends money in and on countries all around the world – but this ad singles out the Jewish state. The ad is as dangerous as it is dishonest. You can disagree with how the United States spends money abroad. But telling hungry families that the Jewish state is the reason they are suffering is wrong and shameful. Blaming Jews for people’s problems is an old story. Anybody who has read the last century of history knows where it leads. It is a dark pathway. This ad is anti-Jewish hate and should come down immediately. Abdul El-Sayed should denounce it today. on FB

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IDF eliminates four Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza. Israel National News. Oct 26, 2026, 7:54 PM INN

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Muslim Crime Family Mobilizes Voters to Oust Ben-Gvir. Golan Israel. By: Milen Amar. Editor: Golan Israel. 16 Marcheshvan 5787 (27.10.26). Members of the Jwarish crime family are driving voters to polls in Ramla and Lod, calling for National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's defeat after police crackdowns on their operations C14

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Following campaign video, Agam Berger slams Yair Golan. Captivity survivor Agam Berger criticized a campaign video released by Yair Golan's Democrats Party that combined footage of the October 7 attacks with political messages. Israel National News. Published: Oct 26, 2026, 8:41 PM (GMT+2) INN

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‘BBC’ to pay Jewish producer more than $500,000 to settle Jew-hatred claims. Oct 26, 2026. The British broadcaster agreed to pay Oscar- and Emmy-winning Jewish producer Lucie Kon about $535,000 to settle allegations of Jew-hatred after Oct. 7, the Telegraph reported.

After filing a formal complaint with the BBC over workplace Jew-hatred, Kon said that she was sidelined, instructed to stay home for months and then dismissed last year.

The BBC made no admission of liability and declined to apologize or acknowledge that Kon had experienced Jew-hatred, according to the Telegraph. JNS

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Nevada company agrees to pay $400,000 to settle Jew-hatred case. Oct 26, 2026 ITS Logistics, which is based in Reno, agreed to pay $396,135.54 to settle allegations that a Jewish staffer faced antisemitic harassment from co-workers and managers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said on Monday.

The independent federal agency said that it found “reasonable cause” to believe that the employee experienced harassment involving offensive Jewish stereotypes and antisemitic messages.

The company agreed to update its anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies and to report regularly to the federal agency for three years.

“Antisemitism and other forms of religious harassment have no place in the workplace,” stated Christopher Green, director of the commission’s San Francisco district. JNS

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St. Louis Blues decry anti-Israel protest at hockey game. Oct 26, 2026 Tom Stillman, chairman of the St. Louis Blues, a professional hockey team, said on Monday that he and the team condemn “antisemitic rhetoric in all forms” and the “vile messages of hate” that were “briefly displayed at our game last Thursday.”

Protesters displayed signs, including one with a crossed-out Star of David surrounded by blood that read “Israel kills,” at the game.

The messages “were unfortunate and unforgivable and not remotely representative of our fans or our hometown, ” Stillman stated. “Antisemitism has no place in our community, and we will never allow it in our building.” JNS

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Herzog criticizes Dutch attitudes toward Israel as ambassador presents credentials. Oct 26, 2026 JNS

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Arab Parties See Election Day as Battle, Not Just Ballot. Asaf Nissan. By: Omri Haim Editor: Asaf Nissan. Oct 26, 2026 Hours before polls open across Israel, the Arab parties—Ra'am and the Joint List—are executing a massive turnout push, framing the 26th Knesset elections as nothing less than an existential war. United by the primary objective of bringing down the right-wing government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, party leadership is casting the vote as a dual national-religious imperative: leveraging political influence to halt illegal construction demolitions and curb violent crime, while positioning Israeli Arab lawmakers as the regional vanguard directly advancing the Palestinian cause and supporting residents of Gaza and Judea and Samaria. C14

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Pro-Israel Lawyers Notify British Soccer Teams About Fake Jerseys Being Sold With ‘Palestine’ Messaging. By Shiryn Ghermezian. Oct 26, 2026.

An association of British lawyers who support Israel on Monday urged the British soccer clubs Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, and Liverpool to investigate and take action against the unauthorized sale of jerseys with their official branding that feature pro-Palestinian messaging.

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) said the problematic soccer shirts closely resemble official merchandise sold by each team by including their colors, designs, and similar logos. However, the products also feature designs and messaging that suggest the soccer teams endorse the Palestinian cause. UKLFI said they are being marketed and sold online by a business called “From Palestine to the World,” but the company responsible for the items, FREEPLTN LLC, has an address in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to its US trademark registration.

The association of British lawyers cited data that shows the freepltn.com website received more than 465,000 visits between July and September 2026, roughly 30 percent of which stemmed from the United Kingdom. Algemeiner

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Filber: Voter turnout rising across all sectors. Israel National News. Oct 27, 2026, 4:16 PM INN

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Amit Segal on historic voter turnout: 'This is dramatic'. Israel National News. Oct 27, 2026, 3:02 PM INN

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Watch: Danon confronts Francesca Albanese at UN, hands her resignation letter. Ambassador Danny Danon confronts UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese over her accusations against Israel and presents her with a resignation letter to sign: You are a disgrace to the UN. Elad Benari. Published: Oct 27, 2026, 1:34 AM (GMT+2). Danon confronts Francesca Albanese, hands her resignation letter. Israel's UN Mission. Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, sharply criticized UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese following the presentation of her latest report, which accuses Israel of allegedly systematically targeting the media during the war in Gaza.

During his remarks, Ambassador Danon accused Albanese of spreading false allegations against Israel, ignoring Hamas's crimes, and exploiting her UN position to advance an extremist political agenda. INN

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‘A magnificent equality of rights’: Israeli parties hail democratic process on Election Day. Amelie Botbol. Oct. 27, 2026. JNS

Israeli elections show it’s only democracy in region, Jewish congressman says. “Israel’s Arab citizens, men and women, are turning out in historic numbers to vote,” stated Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) on Tuesday.

“They can vote, run for office and serve in the Knesset—rights denied to many Arabs and women across much of the Middle East,” the Jewish congressman said. “Our critical ally in the fight against terror, Israel, is the only democracy in the region, and today shows it.” Oct. 27, 2026. JNS

Israeli voter turnout hits 77.7% at close of Election Day, highest since 1999. Oct. 27, 2026. JNS

Ex-hostage Emily Damari: ‘I stand here, free, exercising my right to vote’. Oct 27, 2026. JNS

Real-time analysis. The keys to victory for Eisenkot and Netanyahu. Historic voter turnout – a clear vote of confidence in the state’s institutions. October 27, 2026, 20:33. Channel 12 News correspondents. Mako

FM Gideon Sa’ar: Likud is ‘the biggest party in Israel’. Oct 27, 2026, JNS

The "Change Bloc" responds to exit poll results: "The public has had its say." According to most exit polls, the "Change Bloc" has secured a majority among the public—and its leaders were quick to respond. Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the "Yashar!" party—the largest in the bloc—stated: "If these are the final results, it is a victory for the mainstream Zionist majority in Israel; I will act immediately to carry out the will of the people." Lapid added: "Don't let anyone confuse you: the Netanyahu bloc has suffered a crushing defeat." Yair Golan wrote on X: "Now it is our turn to do the work." All the reactions to these dramatic results. N12: 27.10.26. Mako

'A victory for Zionist majority'. Opposition celebrates exit polls. Hezki Baruch. Oct 27, 2026. INN

Election Night: Netanyahu's bloc overtakes opposition, but both fall short of majority. October 27, 2026. JPost

Arab parties Ra'am, Joint List soar to 19 seats amid high turnout, election exit polls show. Oct 27, 2026 JPost

Shas, UTJ projected to win 12-15 seats in next Knesset, election exit polls predict. October 27, 2026 JPost

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Rabbis urge Abdul El-Sayed to condemn ads, citing antisemitism. Melissa Nann Burke. The Detroit News. Updated Oct. 27, 2026, 9:33 p.m. ET A group of rabbis is asking U.S. Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed to pull down a campaign ad using a clip of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and to disavow a commercial by an outside group that dangerously scapegoats Israel and Jews for cost-of-living problems... DefroitNews

Abdul El-Sayed’s Antisemitic Ad Controversy Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere. Oct 27, 2026. By Anna Rahmanan.

Let's set aside the fact that an advertisement supporting Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed appears to reach into one of the ugliest reservoirs of antisemitic insinuation: the suggestion that Jews, or in this case the Jewish state, are somehow responsible for the economic misfortunes of ordinary Americans. Set aside, too, the difference between criticizing American aid to Israel and blaming the Jewish state for the price of eggs in Michigan, an insinuation that echoes centuries-old antisemitic accusations that Jews are responsible for other people's economic suffering. Newsweek

Antisemitic Rhetoric From Democrats is Tired, Old, and Dishonest. Michael Dorstewitz. Tue, October 27, 2026. Newsmax.

As the race for a Michigan U.S. Senate seat draws nearer, and voters learn more about Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed's family terror ties, Democrats are firing back with a millennia-old claim that's as dishonest as it is old.

It's all the Jews' fault. Of course.

Over the weekend political activist, commentator, and El-Sayed supporter Cenk Uygur released a video ad for the Democratic candidate that depicted a young couple at a super market buying groceries.

As the husband starts to place a carton of eggs into the cart, his wife tells him to put them back. She adds that although their kids still enjoy eggs, they can't afford them anymore, because of America's support for Israel.

She even claimed that giving the store $7 will be used by Israel so they can continue killing Palestinians.

She then realizes that they can't afford bananas anymore as well, and puts them back — all because the United States supports its most loyal ally.

Uygur posted the ad on sacral media and added this commentary to make sure the viewer got the message.

"New @RebellionPac ad dropping in Michigan," he wrote.

"We have to suffer here at home, so Israel can get all its wars. That's why they buy politicians like Mike Rogers. He promised to serve Israel 'unconditionally,' but never made that promise to you."

Oh, we got the point of the ad just fine, we just think it's dumb. The United States spends trillions upon trillions on fraud, waste and abuse, but we should be concerned if we send $20 billion to Israel, which amounts to 1/50th of one trillion.

Not only is Israel our only true ally in the Mideast, but it's arguably our last remaining ally, and they're taking the brunt of our war with Iran.

And because of that, the whole thing backfired.

Adam Milstein, an Israeli-American real estate investor and philanthropist, treated the whole thing as a joke.

"This is one of the most comical ads this election cycle. Yes, Americans are chatting at the grocery store about how they can't buy groceries because their tax dollars 'go to Israel' nevermind the fact that Israel has invested 100% of military aid in the U.S. economy since Oct 7, and has also purchased over $1 billion 'additional' in arms, according to DoD," he began.

"Federal military aid is also prohibited from being spent on anything other than U.S. arms, so the line about healthcare is even more comical. El Sayed and his Islamist fans like Cenk Uygur want and expect American voters to be so stupid they never check."

Milstein concluded, "Not only is this ad insane, conspiratorial, and antisemitic — it is also flat out false. El Sayed isn't for the people of Michigan, he isn't even for America. He is for the Muslim Brotherhood."

The ad was so bad that Rep. Haley Stevens, a fellow Michigan Democrat who faced off against El-Sayed in the primary, also denounced it.

"This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state. It does nothing to help Michigan Democrats win up and down the ballot in eight days," she wrote Tuesday, using her personal account.

"Do we need to lower costs by building more homes, securing people's healthcare, and creating a fairer federal tax code? Yes, we do!!

"How we do so is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world. I want to see Democrats succeed at every level, and that means keeping our focus on lowering costs for Michigan families and reining in this out-of-control President," Stevens concluded.

Antisemitism has always been ugly throughout history.

It was ugly 3,500 years ago when the pharaohs enslaved the Israelites, God's "Chosen People," before Moses led them on their 40-year journey to the "Promised Land."

It was ugly in Elizabethan England, when a poet and playwright named William Shakespeare imagined an evil caricature of a Jewish moneylender named Shylock.

And it was especially ugly throughout the Second World War, when Germany's Third Reich set into motion the Holocaust, the systematic mass murder of an estimated 8 million European Jews, referred to by the Nazis as the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question."

In the United States, "the land of the free and the home of the brave," we should be above all that. But if we continue electing people like Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, and Abdul El-Sayed, it's still with us.

Vote wisely, Michigan. Newsmax

David Frum: Yes, We Have No Bananas But please don’t blame the Jews. Oct 27, 2026. Do supporters of Israel have to deny the false accusation? Okay, here goes. U.S. military aid to Israel is set at $3.8 billion a year from 2019 to 2028—about one-20th of 1 percent of the total federal budget. In 2024, Congress approved a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and other allies—of which, nearly two-thirds went to Ukraine, about $15 billion went to Israel, and about $9 billion was directed to humanitarian relief, including assistance for Gazan civilians displaced by the war that Hamas started. (The rest went to Taiwan and other allies in the Indo-Pacific region.)

Almost all U.S. assistance to Israel takes the form of credits that Israel can use only to buy American-made equipment. This assistance provides at least two direct and immediate benefits to Americans. First, it buys the United States access to Israeli military technology. By partly underwriting the development of Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system, the U.S. has gained the use of battle-tested systems that also protect American lives. Second, this assistance lowers the per-unit cost of U.S. systems. The United States buys up to 48 F-35 fighters a year. Israel has bought 75 and is considering an estimated 25 more. Foreign orders allow U.S. arms manufacturers to improve their economies of scale. At a time when other NATO allies are canceling their orders of American equipment because they no longer fully trust the U.S. as an ally or supplier, Israeli orders enhance the efficiency of American defense production.

Meanwhile, all U.S. aid to Israel amounts to a fraction of what Israel’s critics wish to spend domestically. Despite the implications of that El-Sayed ad: Americans spend $1.1 trillion a year on groceries. Canceling aid to Israel would deliver the equivalent of about 30 hours of that spending. Per Mamdani’s complaint that Israel is to blame for bad housing in New York City: The city’s housing authority estimates its backlog of deferred maintenance at almost $80 billion, or about 20 years’ worth of U.S. assistance to Israel at present levels. Expanding Medicare to cover all American citizens would cost perhaps more than $32 trillion in additional federal spending over the first decade. Covering even one month of this plan would take 70 years’ worth of aid to Israel.

By blaming the Jewish state for the price of bananas in Michigan, the super-PAC ad calls to mind political tricks older and more disturbing than the one attributed to Johnson. In 1899, Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna and one of the most notorious anti-Semites of the 19th century, gave a speech blaming the Habsburg empire’s economic troubles on its Jews. “Here in our Austrian fatherland the situation is such that the Jews have seized a degree of influence which exceeds their number and importance,” he argued. “And in this respect the Jews operate a terrorism of a kind that could hardly be worse. For us, in Austria, it is a matter of liberating Christian people from the hegemony of Jewry.”

As with the rising cost of living in the U.S., the problem Lueger was concerned with was real. His voter base of artisans and craftspeople was coming under immense pressure from factory competition. There was not much Lueger could do about his voters’ distress. But he could point them toward a politically useful target. Now, with a modest update of Lueger’s language, an outside PAC’s closing argument in one of the most watched Senate races of 2026 blames a familiar “they/them.” TheAtlantic

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Gutfeld! : FOXNEWSW : October 27, 2026 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive. [...] GREG: An ad Hitler would love...

-- You're watching the chosen source for news. this is headline Jews [laughter] [cheers and applause] -- Greg: Michigan democrat spread the news. Food is expensive. Back in 2024 a pro-democrat ad went viral for claiming U.S. aid to Israel is used to (supposedly) kill (sic) palestinians and the reason for high grocery prices. Now a version of that ad is airing on TV in support of Abdul el-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race. Roll it. [...] [boos] -- Greg: it's so real. I don't know about you, but this happens to me all the time. I'll be agonizing over buying a box of captain crunch and decide I can't afford it because of foreign aid but only to the Jews. Funded by "rebellion pac" least wing group founded by Young Turks host, a guy (Cenk Uygur) so full of [bleep] it's coming out of his face. What a mind blowingly original idea, blame it on the Jews. But no. Eggs are not going up because we support Israel. Of the total Federal budget one 20th of one percent goes to that country. Of course, virtually all the aid is military, and, no, it's not to kill palestinians. Financing ends up buying Israel rather than showing Israel specifically. -- Guest: I don't think I would have done the egg thing because the governmentdoesn't buy anyone eggs. -- Greg: yes. -- Kat: so I don't understand, like, funding going overseas would be going to buy you eggs -- I don't really get how a leads to be. I think it's fair to say it was blaming Jews for high grocery prices. It was blaming aid to Israel but the issue is blaming only Israel rather than the many other countries to which we also give aid.

-- Greg: yes. this is a key point, Tyrus, because government doesn't buy the eggs, but DSA -- they don't understand that they think the government makes, makes, you know, healthcare. -- Tyrus: yes. -- Greg: the government makes the thing..

Jim:...so. we'll find out in the "post." it's stupid because you could just as easily go, we have to put the eggs back. Why? because we're giving money to Haiti or Africa or we're giving money to this country. If you want to tie it in, you just don't blame Israel. it's any foreign policy. [applause] .

-- Greg: that is an argument to make, if they had said that. exactly and the thing is you could argue that that's what trump did with doge. How many billions of dollars did we save with doge, with foreign aid, with NGO's and all these weird groups where the money was going abroad. The Somalian fraud. So what do you say? It's a 2-year-old ad. They revamped with it new figures.

-- Kat: I.always hate to say this but I agree with Jim. I'm america first. But if I were making an America first ad to communicate that I think I would have mentioned other countries besides only Israel rather than showing israel specifically. i don't think i would have done the egg thing because the government, the government doesn't buy anyone eggs. -- Greg: yes. -- Kat: so I don't understand, like, funding going overseas would be going to buy you eggs -- I don't really get how a leads to b. i think it's fair to say it was blaming jews for high grocery prices. it was blaming aid to israel but the issue is blaming only israel rather than the many other kriz to which we also give aid. \>\> greg: yes. this is a key point, tyrus, because government doesn't buy the eggs, but dsa -- they don't understand that they think the government makes, makes, you know, healthcare...

-- Greg: true [laughter] can you imagine if Republicans made an ad like this? and blamed the prices on the Jews.

-- Kat: no, I mean, the thing about this senate race in Michigan is that the big arguments against Abdul Rahim el-Sayed are twofold. One, that he's socialist, and two, that his family has extremely close ties to a foreign terror group. The idea that you would bring up who has got allegiance to a foreign country when you're doing this on behalf of Abdul el-Sayed, whose mom was in the Muslim Brotherhood, whose sister bragged about their mom being in the Muslim Brotherhood, who can't actually articulate a reason why he doesn't like the Muslim Brotherhood, like, it's just -- the kind of political wisdom that weger has become known for.

-- Greg: it's so true. you shouldn't be throwing stones in glass mosques. Tyrus: or eggs in this case.. Internet archive

Re Islamic Bigot Cenk Uygur Antisemitic For El Sayed Ad And Pretending Israel Isn't Fighting For Its Survival From Arab-islamic Forces. Blaming The Jews For Grocerirs Smells Very Nazi Like. Nor Does Foreign Aid To Any Country Have Any Connections To Grocery Prices. But Since He Picked Foreign Aid Only To Israel - A Convenient Mask For His Hatred, Here Are Some Fact:

Arab countries get 7.5-7.6 billion:

- U.S. Foreign Aid to the Middle East & North Africa (MENA): The U.S. provides roughly $7.5 billion to $7.6 billion annually in assistance to the broader MENA region, though broader totals (including military and economic support across 18 countries) are cited around $21 billion per year by reports analyzing total regional flows. - Major Recipients: A significant portion of U.S. and Western bilateral aid in the Arab world goes to countries like Jordan (top recipient for civil society/humanitarian aid) and Syria (top recipient for humanitarian aid, roughly $1 billion), alongside large regional security allocations to Egypt. _

Israel gets approximately $3.8 billion. (Annual U.S. aid to Israel represents less than 0.00001% of total U.S. federal spending).

Advantages: 1. Advancing U.S. National Security Interests. 2. Reciprocal Strategic and Intelligence Benefits. 3. Economic Benefits to the U.S. Defense Sector. 4. Shared Values and Moral Commitments. _

Aid to Ukraine:

The U.S. government has allocated or appropriated approximately $175 billion to $183 billion in total Ukraine-related funding since the war began in February 2022. at EoZ

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'Disgusting': Pro-El-Sayed Ad Sparks Avalanche of Criticism As Campaign Distances Alex Griffing. Mon, October 26, 2026. Mediaite

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Abdul El-Sayed’s toxic ‘academic research’ reveals his anti-American Muslim supremacy. Betsy McCaughey. Oct 27, 2026. “I love America,” Michigan’s US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed insists.

That’s as fake as the “y’alls” he sprinkled into his speech on Saturday, as he pandered to an African-American audience at a rally featuring Barack Obama.

And it’s only one of El-Sayed’s lies.

His paper trail of academic writings, published long before he ran for any political office, shows what he actually believes.

The consistent theme is a shrill warning that if you’re Arab-American, assimilating into American society is dangerous to your health.

El-Sayed has a toxic view of the rest of America.

Eleven Muslim-Americans are running for Congress in next week’s midterm elections — overall, a positive sign that one of the nation’s fastest-growing immigrant groups is buying into our political values.

Several of these candidates, like Zuhdi Jasser in Arizona, are fine people.

But El -Sayed is a phony.

As a medical student at Columbia University (he graduated but never completed his residency to qualify to practice), El-Sayed wrote a string of papers purporting to prove that Arab-Americans who blend into American society face numerous risks — from giving birth prematurely to succumbing to suicide.

His message to fellow Muslim-Americans is clear: Live in America, but do not become American.

In a 2011 paper published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, El-Sayed warned of the hazards of “interethnic mating” — that is, having a child with a non-Arab.

Looking at 21,621 births to Arab mothers in Michigan, El-Sayed found that those who conceived a child with a non-Arab man had an 18% greater risk of premature birth.

The article has all the trappings of a scientific study, but why research this at all?

Possibly because under Sharia law, Muslim women are barred from marrying outside the faith.

“Maternal and paternal ethnic/racial heterogeneity” may be “associated with increased risk for adverse birth outcomes,” El-Sayed wrote.

But the research was fatally flawed, because it didn’t fully account for other factors.

Arab women who had children with non-Arab men tended to be older and more likely to smoke, both differences that could cause higher premature birth rates.

In another study, El-Sayed aimed to prove that living in an all-Muslim community, apart from other Americans, protects Arab women from the discrimination and stress that cause prematurity.

He argued that pregnant Arab women in Detroit, living in a dense ethnically homogeneous enclave, fared better than Arab women in California following 9/11.

Here’s another doozy — El-Sayed’s study of suicide among Arab-Americans in Michigan.

Suicide rates were lower in Wayne County, where Arabs live in dense enclaves, than in the rest of the state, where the Arab population mixes in with other groups.

El-Sayed credited the virtues of “ethnic density” and, again, Sharia law for this result — because it considers suicide to be haram or forbidden, he argued.

He didn’t mention that this is true in most religions, including Roman Catholicism.

And he slyly omitted mention of other possible factors, such as the socioeconomic status of the suicide victims in his study.

His papers on suicide and premature birth typify the pseudo-science he concocted to support the notion that Arab-Americans should live apart in ethnic enclaves, rather than join the American melting pot.

That’s not an idea Michigan voters should support.

Segregated Muslim enclaves spawn jihadism.

In countries like Belgium, France and Sweden, residential clusters of marginalized Muslim groups have become breeding grounds for radicalism.

It’s essential to discourage this separatism, and to monitor the threats coming out of these enclaves as far as the US Constitution will allow — not to promote it with scientific blather, as El-Sayed has done.

El-Sayed’s flat-out lies even extend to his main campaign promise, which he repeats at every stop: Medicare for All.

In his debate with Republican rival Mike Rogers on Oct. 8, El-Sayed was asked if the 210 million Americans who have private insurance, mostly through an employer, could keep it under his scheme.

“Yes, absolutely,” he answered. “If families want to keep their private health insurance, that’s fine by me.”

False — according to El-Sayed’s own book about Medicare for All, published in 2021, in which he explained that the government would have to be the only insurer.

But as a politician, he finds it hard to tell the truth.

El-Sayed isn’t leveling with seniors, admitting to them that they’d be the biggest losers under Medicare for All.

They’d have to compete with younger Americans for access to expensive treatments.

Seniors would find that with fewer years remaining, they’ll be told to settle for rationed care, as they are today in countries like Canada.

Michigan voters need to demand honest answers from the slick-talking anti-American “Doctor” El-Sayed — before it’s too late. NYPost

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Amit Segal slams: Election results make a mockery of polls. Israel National News. Oct 28, 2026, 8:27 AM INN

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Terrorist who held hostage Nimrod Cohen eliminated. Israel National News. Oct 28, 2026, 9:11 AM INN

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Terror attack at Israeli embassy in Serbia Israel National News Oct 28, 2026, 8:32 AM INN

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Bereaved Brother: PA's terror lawyer just won a seat in Knesset. Hillel Fuld, brother of terror victim Ari Fuld, has accused Osama Saadi, a lawyer and member of the Joint List, of representing the Palestinian Authority in a lawsuit over its payments to the family of his brother’s killer. Israel National News. Published: Oct 28, 2026, 6:59 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Likud: Investigate election fraud in the Arab sector. Israel National News. Oct 28, 2026 INN

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UTJ declares victory: 'They tried to break us, but they failed'. United Torah Judaism leaders celebrate reported election gains, reject coalition talks until final results, and vow to defend haredi rights. Israel National News. Oct 28, 2026 INN

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Germany’s New Antisemitism Commissioner Warns of Hatred at Levels Unseen ‘Since the Holocaust’. October 28, 2026. Algemeiner

Germany’s new antisemitism commissioner takes office. Oct 28, 2026 JNS

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Polish man suspected of desecrating Jewish cemetery in Germany. Oct 28, 2026 JNS

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Judea: Palestinian arrested for threatening terror attack. A Palestinian resident of Judea in his 50s was arrested after saying he intended to carry out a terror attack targeting Israeli civilians, the Israel Police said on Wednesday.

Police opened an investigation on Tuesday night after receiving a report about the man, a resident of the Hebron-area city of Yatta. Oct 28, 2026 JNS

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Whoever wins Israeli election, bonds with US won’t fray, Gottheimer tells JNS. By Jonathan D. Salant. Oct 28, 2026. JNS

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A Wild and Improbable Story Hits Israel. Arabs voting in the Jewish state is not an argument. It’s a story. A real story. The most antisemitic media outlet on the planet has no choice but to tell that story. David Suissa. Jewish Journal October 28, 2026.

An Arab-Israeli woman casts her ballot during Israel’s general elections on October 27, 2026 in Umm El Fahem, Israel. [109]. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Who could have written this script?

The most condemned nation on earth, the one accused of a genocide against an Arab population, holds a national election and its own Arab population can determine who will lead the country.

Let that sink in. The country accused of apartheid against Arabs empowers Arabs to directly influence its future.

I don’t care if you’re right or left, religious or secular, Jewish or non-Jewish. I don’t care if you follow the news, or if you live in Israel or the diaspora.

I live in Los Angeles, and here, we live for stories.

I can’t recall a more unlikely Israel story.

While Jews have been obsessing over Jewish stories in the Jewish state—Haredi Jews refusing to serve in the military, Jewish military leaders fighting wars, Jewish settlers fighting in Judea and Samaria, Jewish members of parliament fighting other Jewish members, Jewish candidates fighting other Jewish candidates, Jewish demonstrators protesting Jewish leaders—suddenly, out of the corner of our eye, a whole other group rises up on Election Day and votes in record numbers.

Israeli Arabs.

It turns out that claim about Israel being a democracy wasn’t just shameless propaganda from clever influencers.

It turns out the two million Arabs who live in the world’s only Jewish state really do have the right to vote. In fact, so many of them voted yesterday that they stopped Jewish blocks from having a majority.

In Israeli elections, blocks are everything. A block needs a majority of 61 seats to form a government. Right now, the two Jewish blocks—Netanyahu and Eisenkot—have 52 and 49 seats, respectively.

Did I mention there’s an Arab block that gained a record 19 seats? This Arab block now has the power to take one of the Jewish blocks over the top.

Whether it happens or not, it’s worth repeating: The country accused of genocide against Arabs has empowered Arabs to influence its electoral politics.

If you’re into PR, that’s an unbeatable story, especially for a country under a genocidal siege.

In recent years, the pro-Israel community has invested enormous resources to counter the genocide libel. It has barely made a dent.

That’s the problem with arguments, even the most compelling ones. They’re still arguments.

Arabs voting in the Jewish state is not an argument. It’s a story. A real story. The most antisemitic media outlet on the planet has no choice but to tell that story.

We don’t know yet where that story goes.

In Israeli politics, it’s common to talk about a “Zionist coalition,” a polite way of saying “Arab parties not welcome.” In truth, the presence of Israeli citizens who are against the notion of a Jewish state has always been one of Israel’s most vexing issues. Excluding Arab parties from a governing coalition has simply been the norm.

As Tomer Persico writes on X, “Most Zionist parties refuse to see Arab parties as legitimate partners, and most Arab parties refuse to bear responsibility for the governance of a state that is also the nation-state of the Jewish people.” That’s the reality. Hardly anyone thinks Israel can have a stable government that includes Arab parties.

At the same time, there’s a huge appetite right now for victory among the two Jewish blocks.

Will these Jewish blocks be tempted to reach out to Arab parties? Will they hold firm and keep Arabs out? Will they fight among themselves to get a Zionist majority? If all that fails, will we see another election?

These are the burning questions that will hold our attention over the next few days and weeks.

But somewhere in a Hollywood café, I wouldn’t be surprised if a writer who likes to dream is pondering a script about a wild and improbable story coming out of Israel.

It wouldn’t be the first time. Jewish Journal

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Isr. Elections 2026. The two localities with 100%, and the surge in Arab society: vote segmentation The Arab communities stood out with a national average of about 80%, compared to a voting rate of 77.7% • Two communities in the Arava showed 100% voting • And what happened in the big cities? Globes

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Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc ahead of opposition as post-election vote count continues. Oct. 28, 2026 JNS

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JD Vance Tears Into 'Psychopath' Abdul El-Sayed by Accusing Democrat of 'Anti-White Racial Hate'.

JD Vance tore into Abdul El-Sayed at a rally in Michigan on Tuesday.

Stuart Pink. Oct. 28 2026.

JD Vance has laid into Abdul El-Sayed by accusing the Democratic Senate hopeful of spreading "anti-white racial hate, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The veep, 42, used his speech in Michigan as a last-ditch pitch to swing voters, with polls showing the left-wing politician virtually tied with or leading Republican Mike Rogers one week from Election Day. RadarOnline

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Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, Cliff, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 High school student accused of trying to make bombs for ISIS, deputies say. By Ryan Wyatt Turbeville, WCJB/Gray News, October 28, 2026.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) – A Florida high school student was arrested after an investigation into his contact with a terrorist organization revealed he was attempting to make bombs, authorities said.

Alachua County sheriff’s deputies said the 15-year-old is a student at Buchholz High School.

The sheriff’s office and FBI conducted a joint investigation on Friday at the teen’s home after investigators learned he was having online conversations with members and supporters of the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS.

Investigators say the teen asked for help to build drones and explosives to attack people at an unknown location.

Authorities spoke with the 15-year-old’s parents, who allowed them to search the boy’s phone. They reportedly found files containing instructions for making explosive devices and chemical compounds, as well as ISIS propaganda.

On Monday, investigators searched the teen’s home with his parents’ consent after they revealed the information found on the phone.

Inside, they found two jars in his bedroom. The 15-year-old reportedly told investigators the jars contained chemicals used to make “TATP,” or triacetone triperoxide, a dangerous explosive….

Family members said off camera that they still had many questions about the investigation and declined to comment further. WCJB/Gray News

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Iran Delays Salaries for IRGC Under Weight of US Pressure. Oct. 29 2026 Algemeiner

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ASRA NOMANI: 106 far-left groups in 'red-green' alliance target global ports. Dockworkers from network of communist, Palestinian and left-wing groups plan coordinated actions at 116 ports for Oct 30. By Asra Q. Nomani Fox News Published October 29, 2026 1:35pm EDT

Expert details how far-left groups are funding chaotic France protests Asra Nomani discusses how far-left networks are funding chaotic France protests. The senior investigations editor breaks down a Fox News Digital investigation exposing how radical adult groups, pro-communist outlets, and far-left organizations are bankrolling the ongoing unrest, revealing that fewer than one-third of the fifty active organizations are actually student or youth groups.

Communist revolutionaries, socialist activists and pro-Palestinian agitators from a network of 106 organizations are preparing to stage a carefully choreographed spectacle of global unrest Friday at ports from Oakland, Calif., to Mumbai, India, as they protest Israel and "capitalist barbarism."

A Fox News Digital investigation reveals that, far from a spontaneous eruption of outrage, the worldwide mobilization has been meticulously organized, with groups in the so-called "red-green" alliance of communist, socialist and pro-Palestinian movements spending the past week coordinating strikes, demonstrations and publicity around a common international playbook.

Organizers are targeting 113 ports across 22 countries and regions on five continents, seeking to transform the world's commercial shipping hubs into stages for a synchronized show of opposition to Israel, NATO, Western military policies and the global capitalist system. Foxnews

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Red-green alliance. Democrats' Kariv: "We're Leading the Dialogue with Abbas" Knesset member Gilad Kariv revealed his party is conducting negotiations with Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas—despite commitments by some opposition parties not to partner with Arab parties. 29.10.26 Avraham Hasson. C14

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Right-wing bloc wins Israeli election with 53 seats, Likud takes top spot. Netanyahu remains 8 seats short of a Knesset majority as Eisenkot-led bloc secures 48 seats and Arab parties 19. JNS Staff. Oct. 30, 2026 JNS

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Election bribery suspicions: Fuel cards distributed to Bedouin voters? Israel National News. Oct 30, 2026. INN

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DEI Fails to Combat Workplace Antisemitism in UK, Study Shows, as Jewish Leaders Issue New Employer Guidance. October 30, 2026 Algemeiner

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Two Men Arrested After Jewish Researcher Brutally Attacked in Rome. October 30, 2026 Algemeiner

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Suspect in NYC stabbings of Orthodox Jews linked to earlier attack on Jewish teen. Federal prosecutors reveal that a woman charged with stabbing two Orthodox Jewish men in Manhattan was previously arrested for attacking a Jewish teenager in Brooklyn. Israel National News. Oct. 30, 2026 INN

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Republican Jewish Coalition. Mike Rogers FORCEFULLY calls out the antisemitic ad being run by Cenk Uygur’s Rebellion PAC, and showcases the Democrats who have said publicly that Abdul El-Sayed is simply too extreme for Michigan: Cenk Uygur “ran the most racist bigoted ad I have ever seen in politics when he blamed Jews for the price of bananas and groceries. I don’t know about you, that sounds like 1933 to me. And you know what the press has said? Nothing.” Audience: “Van Jones called it out.” “You know why that’s good? Van Jones also called out Abdul, saying his policies are quote, “Insane”. We should let the people of this state know: it’s not just Republicans that think this guy is a horrible human being; Democrats are coming out in droves saying he is too extreme.” [#RJCinMI] Oct 29, 2026. on FB]

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Irishman Who Threatened to Shoot Jewish Couple in France Gets Suspended Sentence, Sparking Outrage. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. October 29, 2026.

A French court has sentenced an Irishman who threatened to shoot a Jewish couple to six months of suspended prison time, prompting outrage from Jewish leaders and political figures in what appears to be yet another instance of excessive leniency toward antisemitism in France’s legal system. Algemeiner

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IDF destroys two Hamas weapons depots in Gaza. Oct. 30, 2026. JNS

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IDF: Four Hamas terrorists killed in southern Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said Friday that it killed four Hamas terrorists in two separate strikes in the Khan Yunis and Rafah areas of the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

Those killed included a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force and a Hamas commander, the army said.

The four men had recently advanced attacks on Israeli civilians and troops and worked to restore Hamas’s capabilities, in systematic violations of the ceasefire, the IDF said. The strikes were carried out to eliminate the threat they posed, the military added. JNS

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IDF arrests four terror suspects in Jenin. Israeli forces arrested four Palestinian terrorism suspects in Jenin on Thursday who had allegedly trafficked weapons and previously belonged to a terrorist network dismantled during “Operation Iron Wall,” the IDF’s counterterrorism campaign launched in northern Samaria in January 2025, the military said Friday. Oct. 30, 2026. JNS

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US confirms strike on Iranian missile launcher on Qeshm. Oct. 30, 2026. JNS

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Boulder attacker pleads guilty to 12 hate crimes, admits Jew-hatred motive. “By his own admissions, Mohamed Soliman’s hateful attack on our neighbors in Boulder was antisemitic,” stated Peter McNeilly, U.S. attorney for the District of Colorado. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. (Oct. 30, 2026 / JNS) Mohamed Sabry Soliman, of Colorado Springs, pleaded guilty on Thursday to 12 more federal charges, including nine hate crimes, for firebombing people who marched to support Israeli hostages in Gaza on June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. JNS

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Syrian hacker sentenced to 42 months for attack on Western media, U.S. government. Ahmad Umar Agha targeted 47 media outlets, businesses, NGOs and government entities on behalf of Bashar Assad’s regime, including in a hack that briefly wiped $136 billion from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Rebecca Szlechter. (Oct. 30, 2026 / JNS). JNS

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IDF eliminates Hamas commander involved in holding hostages. The IDF says it eliminated Hamas commander Ihab Abu Taqiya, who was involved in holding numerous Israeli hostages, along with another Hamas commander in Gaza. Israel National News. Oct 30, 2026. INN

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One week after attack: IDF demolishes homes of terrorists who murdered two soldiers. Israel National News. Oct 30, 2026. INN

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The Lead with Jake Tapper. Trump Un-Cancel K.S. & I.A. Rallies With Four Days To Election Night; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, (D-FL), Is Interviewed About Reports: Trump Plans To Restart Iran War After Midterms; Cook Political Report Moves 12 House Races Toward Democrats; El-Sayed Faces Calls To Denounce Controversial Ad; Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), Is Interviewed About Battleground Races Heat Up In Final Four Days Before Election; How Divorced Military Spouses Get Trapped In Foreign Countries. Aired 5-6p ET

Aired October 30, 2026 - 17:00 ET [...] TAPPER: Before you go -- before you go, you're a very outspoken and proud Jewish-American and I'm sure you're paying some attention to what's going on -- WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Yes.

TAPPER: -- in the Senate race in Michigan, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who's not Jewish but has been pushing the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to condemn the ad that many people interpret to be anti-Semitic that talks about people not being able to afford groceries because of aid to Israel to take down Abdul El-Sayed's ad in which he features Tucker Carlson and then also to apologize for comments he's made in which he blames affordability issues on Israel in some ways. Other people think that Haley Stevens should shut up and support the Democrat, get in line. Because what's more important is having a Senate that can be a check on President Trump. What do you think?

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WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Well, I certainly don't think that MAGA Mike Rogers should be elected to the United States Senate. But that having been said, I don't think that El-Sayed has done enough to address the concerns that the Jewish community has about his incendiary comments. And I do think that that ad needs to come down. You know, as a candidate myself, I know when you -- what leverage you have and the weight that you can use to insist that people who have put an ad up that you don't agree with, that you can demand that they take it down, you can condemn it. I mean, for an ad to be running against his opponent in support of, you know, theoretically in support of El-Sayed to suggest that gas prices and costs at the grocery store increasing are the fault of Jews and Israelis as opposed to laying it right at the feet where it belongs, and that is Donald Trump and his horrific policies. I just -- it's incomprehensible to me that he hasn't forcefully condemned it and insisted that the ad come down.

TAPPER: Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, have fun out there on the campaign trail. Thanks for joining us.

Also today, the big vibe --

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Thank you. CNN

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Mike Rogers: Representative Haley Stevens is a courageous leader who deserves the respect of every Michigan voter. She has conducted herself with nothing but class since the Democratic primary, a primary where a majority of voters did not vote for her party’s nominee. She was absolutely right to call on Abdul El-Sayed to denounce the Rebellion PAC ad and she was right to call on him to apologize for espousing the same hateful ideology behind it. Representative Stevens’ statement expressed a hope that Abdul El-Sayed “had heard the deep concerns of the Jewish Community.” It is as shameful as it is disappointing that his response to her clearly shows that he does not care about those concerns. In her statement, the Congresswoman says, “the Jewish and African-American communities of my district deserve to have someone show up for them, rather than fight over them.” I agree with her and my campaign is about being there, showing up and defending these communities and all Michiganders. Oct 30, 2026. on FB

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Pelosi Softens El-Sayed Stance on Israel Remarks: ‘Democrats Are United’. Oct 30, 2026. By Joe Edwards Reporter

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday urged voters to support Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, after rebuking him over his past comments about Israel and calling them “wrong.”

“I urge everyone across America to support our Democratic Senate nominees, including @AbdulElSayed,” Pelosi wrote in a post on X. “Every seat matters. Every vote counts. Let’s win together!”

In the post, Pelosi said that “Democrats are united in a big blue wave For The People” and that, “To lower costs, protect healthcare and defend our democracy, we must elect a Democratic House and Senate.” Newsweek

'It's wrong'. Pelosi slams Mamdani and El-Sayed over Israel comments. Israel National News. Nov 1, 2026. INN ___

Dem operative admits Ilhan Omar case has legs as liberal firewall begins to crack: 'I'm not stupid'. Former Minnesota state Rep Joe Radinovich broke with party allies, saying Omar's denials of marriage fraud are not credible. By Andrew Mark Miller , Peter D'Abrosca Fox News. Published October 30, 2026. Foxnews

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Fourth oil tanker carrying more than 2 million barrels explodes in the Strait of Hormuz: report. FoxNews

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Air Defense Systems Deployed Around Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. NORAD confirms ground-based air defense systems were deployed near Mar-a-Lago at the Secret Service’s request, as airspace violations near the estate continue. Oct 30, 2026 JFeed

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'No coalition with Arab parties' Liberman shakes up opposition bloc Israel National News. Oct 30, 2026. INN

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Canadian tourist visiting Israel receives 'Welcome to Palestine' text. Canadian tourist visiting Yad Vashem in Jerusalem shocked to receive a "Welcome to Palestine" roaming message from Bell Canada. The company blames automation. Israel National News. Published: Oct 30, 2026, 11:02 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Al Jazeera airs rare footage of Muhammad Deif, documents detailing October 7 attack plans. The footage showed Hamas commanders meeting in tunnels before October 7 and Muhammad Deif, underground during the war, alongside documents allegedly detailing preparations for the attack.

By Amit Avitan. October 31, 2026.

Rare archival footage of Muhammad Deif and other senior commanders of Hamas's military wing was broadcast Friday evening on Al Jazeera's "What Is Hidden Is Greater" program.

The footage allegedly shows senior Hamas military officials meeting in tunnels, holding discussions ahead of the October 7 massacre, and Deif walking through a tunnel during the war. The network also presented documents it claims shed light on the planning behind the attack. JPost

The Face of Evil. Hamas tunnel footage shows Oct. 7 planning. Oct 31, 2026. JFeed

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'A bullying atmosphere': UN's Israel obsession sidelines atrocities elsewhere, ex-UN official says. DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Former UN torture rapporteur Alice Jill Edwards talks to the Post on a culture of intimidation within the UN and its treatment of Israel.

By Amichai Stein. October 30, 2026. In December 2024, More than a year after Hamas terrorists stormed the Gaza border area, killing civilians in their homes, Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, who then served as the UN special rapporteur on torture, toured the kibbutzim where the massacre occurred.

“It was a very eerie experience,” Edwards recalls.

“It was more than a year after that great suffering. And yet some of the flowers had started to emerge out of the rubble. That is one of the images that stays with me very profoundly.

“The other thing that I can’t forget was the amount of bullet holes in ordinary people’s houses,” she says. “I walked into houses where the microwave oven had been shot to pieces or the fridge. These were civilians.”

Her conclusion is blunt: “I think if you can’t have empathy for this, then I worry about people’s general humanity.” JPost

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Iran's supreme leader threatens Israel and the United States. Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has threatened immediate retaliation against any future attacks on Iran, declaring that American and Israeli assets will be within range of Iranian forces. Israel National News. Oct. 31, 2026. INN

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Israeli drone strikes communications infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Oct 31, 2026 20:34 JFeed

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Senior Hamas operative involved in Gilad Shalit captivity killed in Israeli strike. Oct 31, 2026 20:17 JFeed

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Senior Lebanese official: Hezbollah to remain out of war unless Iran faces existential threat. Oct 31, 2026 20:28 JFeed

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Masked far-left protesters burn American and Israeli flags in Lyon, France. Oct 31, 2026 20:22 JFeed

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Iranian media report U.S. strike on fishing boat in Strait of Hormuz Oct 31, 2026 20:22 JFeed

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Michigan senate race. Elon Musk Says El-Sayed Hates White People. Oct 31, 2026 JFeed

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Haley Stevens’ Fiancé Escalates El-Sayed Feud Days Before Midterms. Oct 31, 2026. By Hollie Silverman. News Editor.

Jason Turkish, the fiancé of former Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Haley Stevens, accused the party's Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of escalating rhetoric that makes Jewish people unsafe, deepening an intraparty feud days before the midterms.

The immediate fight centers partly on a digital advertisement produced by Rebellion PAC, an outside group supporting El-Sayed that describes itself as a movement that rejects “the corporate-driven status quo” and stands “against the establishment.”

The advertisement shows a couple grocery shopping and talking about putting back a carton of eggs because “we have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians,” before criticizing U.S. military assistance to Israel in its war in Gaza. Stevens, a U.S. Representative who lost to El-Sayed in the August primary, characterized the advertisement as antisemitic and called on him to condemn it.

The ad was not broadcast but was shared widely on social media.

A spokesperson for his Republican opponent Mike Rogers accused El-Sayed’s allies of “anti-Israel hate,” while the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called the ad a “case study in antisemitism.”

El-Sayed did not produce or approve the ad, however, and has distanced himself from it.

“Abdul is focused on pushing back against Trump’s agenda that is raising prices for Michiganders. No one speaks for Abdul but himself and his campaign,” a spokesperson previously told Newsweek.

Stevens also called on El-Sayed, who would become the nation's first Muslim U.S. senator if elected, to apologize for his own comments connecting U.S. spending on Israel with Michigan’s affordability problems and to remove a separate campaign advertisement featuring conservative commentator Tucker Carlson “out of the same respect for Michigan’s Black community.”

“Abdul promises to get money out of politics,” Stevens said in a statement. “He can begin by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford.”

Despite the public dispute, Stevens continues to support El-Sayed and has said she intends to vote for him over Rogers. However, Turkish said he's voting for the Republican.

“Like a lot of households across America, we're a household divided,” the congresswoman said on CNN. “I still very much want our Democratic nominee, his name is Abdul, to win this race, there's so much on the line. I want our Democrats to win; I want to see Abdul do the right thing here.”

Meanwhile, El-Sayed's campaign has reportedly asked Stevens not to attend his remaining campaign events, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Politico.

What Jason Turkish Said: During an interview appearance on Fox & Friends on Saturday, Turkish, who is Jewish and a civil rights attorney, said his fiancé "has made it clear to anyone who will listen that she remains on Team Dem,” adding that Stevens' "only ask, small ask, was to say that we not blame all of society’s high costs on one group of people.”

“We spend only a few billion dollars a year, and I say that in quotes, on support for a very strategic ally in the Middle East,” Turkish said. “If we chose not to do that tomorrow, that's not enough money to solve hunger in America, or healthcare in America or rebuild our schools in America. But yet, Abdul tells folks that that's what stands in our way.”

Turkish also accused the Senate hopeful of using rhetoric that endangers Jewish people.

“And it puts Jews at risk,” he said. “And my phone has just rung off the hook for days and days now with Jewish friends and family members in Michigan and beyond, around the world, just besides themselves, that it has come to this.”

Earlier this week, Turkish told The Detroit News that he had seen what he described as “an escalation” in El-Sayed’s rhetoric since the primary and argued that it was making Jewish residents less safe. He added: “Every time he talks about genocide [in Gaza], Jews get death threats.”

Turkish also told the newspaper that he would vote for Rogers in what he described as a decision to put “country before party.” [..] The Muslim voter advocacy group Emgage estimates that there are more than 200,000 registered Muslim voters in Michigan. By comparison, Michigan is home to roughly 105,000 Jewish adults, about 1.4 percent of the state's electorate, according to the American Jewish Population Project at Brandeis University. Republican-aligned estimates run higher, up to 130,000.

"It is important to remember that no state has a higher percentage of Arab-American residents in the U.S. than Michigan. The Jewish population is less than half that of the Arab-American population there," Jim Kessler, executive vice president for policy at the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way, previously told Newsweek.

Turnout narrows the gap, Kessler warned. Jewish voters participate at high rates, while Muslim turnout has historically lagged. In the 2018 midterms, 50 percent of registered Muslim voters in Michigan cast ballots, according to Emgage. Newsweek

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CNN Amplifies El-sayed’s Diversion—and Helps Him Dodge The Demand To Reject Hatred.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro, hosting CNN, NewsNight, Oct. 30, 2026.

Regarding Haley Stevens’ demand that El-Sayed denounce Hasan Piker’s uncle, Cenk Uygur [both Islamic bigots], for [falsely] blaming grocery prices on [Jews] aid to Israel, Stevens graciously gave El-Sayed an opportunity to reject hate, which he refused to do.

A. She equated the epidemic of Goliath antisemitism with what the Kamala Harris campaigner Mike Nellis kept talking about and defined as “Islamophobia.” She omitted the serious Muslim Brotherhood questions and denied that El-Sayed’s letter supported the MB.

B. She took the time to replay an audio clip of El-Sayed in which he (peddled the dual Pallywood buzzwords including the GenoLIE and) deceptive El Sayed begins with: "You know, it's not about Israel. It's about the opportunity cost of our tax dollars that get sent over there," but he spoke only about money to Israel that is not "spent here." Not about aid Arabs or aid ro Ukraine for that matter, which exposes El-Sayed’s obvious insincerity about “spending the money here” and masks his raw, scary Israelophobia obsession, so obvious.

What wasn't emphasized enough on CNN: - (1) The fact that aid to Arabs - $6.7 billion - surpasses aid to Israel by almost double. - (2) The fact that this amounts to just one-twentieth of one percent of the federal budget. [American benefit of aiding Israel: Supporting Israel is not just about helping another country. It is about investing in a strategic ally that purchases American military equipment, supports American manufacturing jobs, collaborates with American scientists and defense companies, shares intelligence, develops advanced technologies, and contributes to regional security. The United States benefits economically through defense contracts and trade, technologically through joint innovation, and strategically through a capable partner in a critical region. The real question isn't simply how much aid America gives Israel, but what America receives in return and what it might cost to lose that partnership]. - (3) The sneaky deceptive ad portrays American weapons as tools for supposedly just-killing Palestinian Arabs without mentioning the defensive weapons to save lives [- not to mention "Palestine" Islamic regime or Iran's Hezbollah using civilians causing their deaths on their genocidal wars]. - (4) The fact that there is no real connection to grocery prices. - (5) Navarro chose to pick a cheap-shot comment from a viewer about Haley Stevens: “As a woman, I know how petty we can be when we are bitter.”

Stevens is sincere. Once again, the seriousness of this Nazi-like ad, was not emphasized.

Last exchanges:

'GARCIA-NAVARRO: Wait a second. Just to that point. I don't doubt her sincerity on the cause and the issue. You know. Why should I? But, is this really the moment? WRIGHT: Yes. I think so. It shouldn't be mutually exclusive. It should be the moment when it's politically convenient to stand up for the things that you believe in. NELLIS: Can I say something? These are the last four days that anyone's going to care what Haley Stevens has to say, so she's gotten the most out of it. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Oh. Okay, that's a little harsher than even these comments.' [110]

It's rather a dumb question about Stevens' "timing" instead of acknowledging her sincere stand against hate. A reminder: The analogy to Nazi Germany in the 1930s with this ad wasn't even made by Republicans.

And while El-Sayed keeps mentioning AIPAC at a time when he gets millions from others, Stevens proved that she is about principles.

C. Above all, Nellis/ El-Sayed line as if this were still about the primaries, was promoted, overlooking the fact that Stevens was ready to campaign with El-Sayed if he would simply reject the bigotry.

By the next day, October 31, CNN had already fully promoted Mike Nellis’s talking point. Worse, it camouflaged and sugarcoated the vile ad, describing it merely as “criticism of aid to Israel”:

The CNN ticker described it as an “advertisement criticizing United States’ aid to Israel.”

And the article was framed this way:

“Michigan Democratic unity teeters as Abdul El-Sayed tells primary rival to stay away from his events. This comes as El-Sayed brushed off Rep. Haley Stevens after she called on him to denounce an outside group’s anti-Israel ad.” And quoted Nellis: "Mike Nellis: 'I think it's sour grapes from Haley Stevens... " [111] _

A reminder from a famous Democrat who worked for Obama, Van Jones:

'Let me state a little-known fact: ISRAEL GETS LESS THAN 0.1 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET. That’s less than one tenth of a percent! But there is an ad running that tells voters they can’t afford groceries because the United States gives so much money to Israel. In reality, the United States spends money in and on countries all around the world – but this ad singles out the Jewish state. The ad is as dangerous as it is dishonest. You can disagree with how the United States spends money abroad. But telling hungry families that the Jewish state is the reason they are suffering is wrong and shameful. Blaming Jews for people’s problems is an old story. Anybody who has read the last century of history knows where it leads. It is a dark pathway. This ad is anti-Jewish hate and should come down immediately. Abdul El-Sayed should denounce it today.' [112]

To be fair, The Situation Room's Pamela Brown was spot on interviewingwith Rep. Debbie Dingell reminding that the ad was deemed hateful.

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PS. Previous anti-Israel bias by Garcia-Navarro includes:

NPR’s Former Israel Reporter ‘Sad’ That Hoax Anti-Israel Agitprop Not Real. By: Gilead Ini February 2, 2016. Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, NPR’s former bureau chief in Jerusalem, admits she was “sad” to discover that a fake New York Times editorial distributed by anti-Israel activists wasn’t real. In response to the PRI reporter’s tweet, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro told her colleague that the material was “sadly” fake: @matthewjbell fake, sadly. — Lulu Garcia-Navarro (@lourdesgnavarro) February 2, 2016 [113] comma, point

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The Qatar File. Mossad Joins Qatar Election Funding Probe. Oct 31, 2026 JFeed

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Trump: Iran wants a deal but cannot be trusted. Trump says Iran wants a nuclear deal but cannot be trusted, warns remaining sites could be struck within minutes, and refuses to rule out renewed military action. Israel National News. Nov 1, 2026. INN

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Israeli Boxer Ahavat Hashem Gordon faces antisemitic incident in Thailand. Ahavat Hashem Gordon was subjected to antisemitic remarks while filming a video in Thailand. Following the incident, he shared a message with his followers: "It's not worth the risk." Orly Harari. Published: Nov 1, 2026, 10:56 AM (GMT+2) Israeli boxer Ahavat Hashem Gordon encountered an antisemitic incident on a street in Thailand when a passerby shouted anti-Jewish and anti-Israel remarks at him while he was filming a video with his friends.

During the filming, a passerby approached him and shouted, "Jewish boy, Free Palestine."

Following the incident, Gordon posted a story on his Instagram account addressing what had happened and describing the man as "just a stupid antisemite."

Alongside his criticism, the boxer sought to share advice with his followers about how to respond in similar situations, warning against allowing such encounters to escalate into violence.

"No matter what, don't get dragged into physical violence. It's not worth the risk," Gordon wrote.

He added, "Usually, they expect you not to respond, and once you do respond, they run away (like what happened here)." INN

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Trump says US ready to hit Iran's nuclear program 'in ten minutes' after speaking with Netanyahu. Nov 1, 2026. JPost

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Over 130 arrested over Palestine Action terror designation protest outside US Embassy in London. Nov 1, 2026. JPost

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Netanyahu warns against cooperation with Arab parties. The Israeli prime minister called cooperation with Abbas and Tibi a “disaster"; Eisenkot says lawmakers accepting his principles could be partners. Joshua Marks. Nov 1, 2026. JNS

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Israel’s Christian envoy warns against electing politicians with Muslim Brotherhood worldview. Nov 1, 2026. JNS

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Israel: Gaza supermarket video challenges claims of food shortages. Nov 1, 2026. Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday shared footage purporting to show a supermarket in the Gaza Strip with shelves fully stocked with food and other goods.

“A supermarket in Gaza today. Fully stocked shelves. Awkward footage for those pushing Palestinian propaganda,” the ministry wrote on X.

The ministry reposted a video published by its Arabic-language account, Israel in Arabic, which said the video showed “a supermarket in Gaza today.”

Israel has repeatedly rejected allegations that it is preventing sufficient food and humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.

Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA. A supermarket in Gaza today.

Fully stocked shelves. Awkward footage for those pushing Palestinian propaganda. 🤔 إسرائيل بالعربية

@IsraelArabic هذا هو سوبرماركت في غزة هذه الأيام سيكون من المؤسف اذا لم ينتشر هذا الفيديو على نطاق واسع، ولا يفضح الدعاية الفلسطينية بالكامل.. @cogatonline. [114] [115]. Nov 1, 2026. JNS

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In historic first, Israeli ambassador assumes his post in Somaliland. Nov 1, 2026. JNS

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New Zealand halts future funding to UNRWA. Nov 1, 2026. JNS

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Israel extends ‘Al Jazeera’ ban by 90 days, network says. Nov 2, 2026. On Oct. 29, Tel Aviv District Court President Gilad Noitel approved another 90 days of restrictions, through Jan. 20, 2027, according to The Seventh Eye, an Israeli independent, nonprofit investigative journalism and media-watchdog publication.

Al Jazeera said that “Attempts to silence it will not deter it from fulfilling its mission,” alleging that the extension was based on “secret” evidence that neither the network nor its lawyers could review or challenge.

Israel initially banned Al Jazeera’s local operations in 2024 following a unanimous Cabinet vote. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the network a “mouthpiece for Hamas.” JNS

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Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race. The dramatic switch came two days before Election Day, following Stevens’s growing rift with Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed over Israel and antisemitism. JNS Staff. Nov 1, 2026. JNS

Bill Huizenga's Post. Nov 1, 2026. Haley Stevens made the courageous decision to join Democrats and Republicans who prioritize Michigan’s future. Instead of joining Haley Stevens and Hillary Scholten, here in Southwest Michigan, Sean “Tax Man” McCann endorsed Abdul and his extreme socialist agenda because Sean puts party first, no matter the cost to Michigan families or our state’s future. on FB

Haley Stevens endorses Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race El-Sayed said endorsement doesn’t matter. Will Jones, Anchor/Reporter.

Published: November 1, 2026 at 6:49 PM

DETROIT, Mich. – Former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Haley Stevens endorsed Republican nominee Mike Rogers after attending a church service with him in Detroit, withdrawing her support for Democrat Abdul El-Sayed just two days before Election Day.

“I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate,” Stevens said.

Stevens also spoke about political streamer Hasan Piker, who has appeared with El-Sayed at campaign events.

“We have to stand with country. We can’t stand with hate. We can’t stand with Hasan Piker,” Stevens said....

“[Abdul] has been working really hard. I don’t want to undermine that. I just want to be honest about where I’m at and where my heart is,” Stevens said.

The endorsement comes just two days before Election Day.

Rogers said he did not expect to receive Stevens’ endorsement.

“This is more a statement about standing together against hate and the future of this state and this country than it is anything else. I just want you to know that she reminded me at the end of the call that I’m still a Democrat,” Rogers said.... Michigan GOP spokesman Greg Manz issued a statement about Stevens’ endorsement.

“Haley Stevens knows Conman Abdul better than most, having gone head-to-head with him, which makes her bold and brave decision to endorse Mike Rogers all the more significant,” Manz said. Click On Detroit

Haley Stevens’ act of bravery as her party abandons Jewish voters. By Post Editorial Board Published Nov. 1, 2026.

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Haley Stevens is a “proud Democrat” who bashed GOP candidate Mike Rogers just this past summer.

So think about how bad Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed must be for Stevens to cross the political aisle and endorse Rogers, the Republican candidate she initially dismissed, for senator from Michigan.

So bad that El-Sayed dismissed an attack on a synagogue full of children by blaming Israel, claiming that “hurt people hurt people.”

So bad that when El-Sayed was asked whether Iran or Israel was the greater threat to the US, he answered both.

So bad that El-Sayed refused to denounce an advertisement that blamed Israel for high inflation.

Stevens had begged for El-Sayed to stop blaming the Jewish state for everything wrong in this world, and El-Sayed refused.

So Stevens did the only sensible thing: She is backing Rogers on the eve of Tuesday’s election, warning Michigan and the nation of the dangers posed by Abdul El-Sayed.

The progressives are already screaming, declaring her a “traitor.” But this is not a betrayal. It is a singular act of courage.

Stevens has nothing to gain here. The Democratic machine, which prioritizes winning over morals, will disown her. She’s not looking for a future as a Republican. There is no money, no glory in this. There is only principle.

Haley Stevens hasn’t changed, the party has changed, beholden now to the deranged “Free Palestine” antisemitic mob that cheers the terror of Hamas. She’s tried cautioning the Democrats. She’s tried convincing them. In the end, she came to the realization that so many Jewish-Americans have, to their sadness: The party has abandoned them.

Hopefully her bravery will make a difference with voters this Election Day. Heed her warning. NYPost

Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel talks about Haley Stevens endorsement of Mike Rogers. Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel called FOX 2 anchor Roop Raj just before he went on air, and ended up joining his discussion with journalist Sam Robinson about the Haley Stevens endorsement of Mike Rogers in the race for Michigan's Senate seat.

Posted November 1, 2026 9:11pm EST

And welcome back to our election night preview. Of course, we are just a couple days away, but the whole country is watching so closely what's happening here in Michigan. And we are actually joined by Sam Robinson, who's a great journalist who've been covering a lot of this race. And also on the phone now, we have Ronna McDaniel, the former RNC chair, now with Michigan Forward. And she joins us now live on our air. And we thank you so much for being with us on the stream today.

Q: Ronna, what do you make of today's bombshell from Haley Stevens?

Ronna: Yeah, it's supposed to be an October surprise, but it was like a November bombshell. I mean, it was kind of crazy today. I think Haley followed her conscience. She's getting a lot of pushback from her party, but Abdul didn't reach out to her. He didn't want to campaign with her. He basically uninvited her and her supporters. And I think this is a big boost for Mike Rogers heading into Tuesday.

Q: But Ronna, isn't it true? I mean, you've been in politics and your family has, of course, your uncle, you, all these folks. I mean, politics is a nasty game. And people do things like, say, you're not welcome here right now. But to leave a party, that seems like a huge leap, wouldn't you say?

Ronna: Well, Haley said she's not leaving the Democrat Party. And she was very clear on that. I was actually on State of the Union with her last Sunday in D.C. I had never met her. She is very loyal to her party. But she is deeply troubled by things like Abdul not being able to condemn the IRGC or bringing Hasan Piker into the state. So this isn't about, oh, revenge. I think these are truly deeply troubling issues. And then I think the final straw was this ad that came out that was anti-Semitic put out by Hassan Piker's uncle that Abdul refused to denounce, basically saying that the Jewish Americans and Israelis are the cause of all the high gas and grocery prices that we're dealing with here in Michigan, which is just untrue.

Q: When you look at, you know, President Trump .. has had his share of people say, you need to disavow this or disavow this person. You know, if Nick Fuentes ..., you need to disavow it. And he's kind of, you know, he's a president. He's like, look, people are going to support me who I don't like and I don't agree with. Do you think that Abdul Al-Sayed is getting maybe too much of a burden to have to disavow and condemn everything because of his faith?

Ronna: I don't think it has anything to do with his faith, Roop. You know, you and I both know we are such a diverse state and we've grown up with many different faiths in our state. And that's part of what makes our state great. But Abdul brought a Hasan Piker to Michigan. That was his choice. This wasn't just an outlier in his party that he's being held accountable for. He brought him multiple times. He's gone on his show. And Abdul says, I won't take money from corporations. Well, I will tell you this, Roop. There's no amount of audience or size of audience that would make it permittable for me to sit with a person who said we deserve 9-11 or the other horrible things that Hasan Piker said that we should bring back lynchings, that we should rape young women on college campuses. I mean, these are things that he has said. I'm not even exaggerating. And Abdul chose to sit with this person. He's suing Scott Jennings over those comments. He's saying that Scott Jennings defamed him. Those comments. Yes, he is disavowing. He is standing against those comments.

Q: But, Ronna, your point is that people, just because you're saying it has nothing to do with his faith, has to do with condemning statements and things that are said that are just objectionable.

Ronna: Yeah. I mean, it's not like Mike Rogers is bringing Nick Fuentes into the state. I've condemned Nick Fuentes. I would never want anyone near Nick Fuentes. And I'd condemn a candidate in my party if they brought Nick Fuentes into the state. Abdul brought Hasan Piker, and then he tries to say, well, I don't want to talk about a streamer from California. And he attacks the press, and he says, this isn't a serious question, and I only want to talk about these issues. Well, you have to talk about these issues because you chose to invite him to Michigan. That's why. It has nothing to do with his faith.

Q: What happens moving forward in the next two days? And I'll let you go. I know you're courteous to bring us, come on the call, but I appreciate it.

Ronna:Well, of course, first of all, let's say go Lions. This is one thing that unites us all, right? And prayers to Jack Campbell right now. We're all thinking about him. You know, I think Haley's going to campaign with Mike. She's probably going to take a lot of heat. This is the final closing days, and it's going to come down to turn out. Early voting ended today, so everything's going to come down to turn out. We're going to see if Abdul gets huge turnout on college campuses. That's what he needs to win, and Mike needs to carve into some of Abdul's base in the black community and the Jewish community to win in a midterm year where Republicans are going against headwinds. fox2detroit

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If "aleged" Muslim Brotherhood gets Republican votes, remember it was (largely) Tucker Carlson.

11.2.26.

Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel highlighted a controversial campaign strategy used by Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, noting that his campaign is airing advertisements featuring conservative commentator Tucker Carlson in the final stretch before the election. Appearing as a guest on 'BBC News America' 11/2/26 with host Sumi Somaskanda, McDaniel explained that the tactic is an attempt to chip away at the Republican base by utilizing talking heads popular with conservative voters.

Key Facts About the Strategy:

• The Ad's Content: The official campaign ad features clips of Tucker Carlson stating he "wouldn’t vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint". Rogers is the Republican Senate candidate running against El-Sayed in Michigan.

• Target Audience: The ad is strategically targeted at the MAGA base and independent conservative voters who might otherwise support Donald Trump but are being encouraged to break away from the mainstream Republican Senate nominee.

• Democratic Backlash: The tactic has sparked significant internal division among Michigan Democrats. High-profile party members, including U.S. Representative Haley Stevens—whom El-Sayed defeated in the August primary—have publicly demanded that El-Sayed pull the ad, criticizing the decision to platform Carlson.

McDaniel's analysis emphasizes how the unusually competitive environment of the election cycle has forced candidates to employ highly unorthodox crossover appeal methods on the eve of voting.

Tucker Carlson Major Scandals.

Independent media host Tucker Carlson has faced severe, widespread backlash for a series of high-profile interviews and revisionist commentary regarding World War II, Adolf Hitler, and antisemitism.

1. The Darryl Cooper WWII Interview (September 2024) In September 2024, Carlson hosted podcaster Darryl Cooper on The Tucker Carlson Show, introducing him as the "best and most honest popular historian in the United States". During the two-hour episode: Holocaust Minimization: Cooper claimed that millions of people "ended up dead" in Nazi concentration camps by accident rather than premeditated intent, attributing the deaths to logistical unpreparedness and a lack of planning by the Nazi regime. Blaming Churchill: Cooper explicitly labeled British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as the "chief villain of the Second World War," arguing that Churchill kept the conflict going unnecessarily and launched "terrorist attacks" via civilian carpet bombings.

2. The Nick Fuentes Interview (November 2025) In late 2025, Carlson sparked a severe rift within the conservative movement by platforming white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast. Platforming Extremism: Fuentes used the appearance to push overt antisemitic tropes, attack "organized Jewry," and express admiration for totalitarian leaders like Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Political Fallout: The interview caused significant internal turmoil at organizations like the Heritage Foundation, where president Kevin Roberts faced immense backlash for initially defending Carlson's decision before eventually apologizing and denouncing Fuentes.

3. The Hitler Invasion Revisionism & "Who Cares?" Comment (October 2026) In October 2026, Carlson drew international diplomatic condemnation during a viral podcast debate with former British Member of Parliament Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Justifying the Invasion of Poland: Carlson argued that Nazi Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland was justified because Adolf Hitler was simply reclaiming land lost in the post-WWI Treaty of Versailles. "Who Cares?" if Hitler Won: Carlson questioned the necessity of the United Kingdom fighting WWII, suggesting it destroyed the British Empire. When Rees-Mogg noted that a British defeat would mean speaking German under Nazi rule, Carlson responded, "Who cares?"

International Backlash: The interview prompted Rees-Mogg to state that Carlson was "verging on defending Hitler". It also triggered an immediate diplomatic response from Poland's embassy and chargé d'affaires in Washington, demanding an apology and labeling Carlson an "apologist for Adolf Hitler".

Other Core Scandals: Fox News Firing (2023): Carlson was abruptly terminated by Fox News following the network's $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, coupled with the discovery of inflammatory, violent, and derogatory text messages sent privately. Reportedly he became bitter and more bigoted as he was accused by a Jewess. Comna, point.

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Ilhan Omar’s two secret London siblings pictured with man accused of Somali genocide.

Nov. 2, 2026.

[117] Ilhan Omar has been hiding links to two of her siblings in London in an alleged bid to create further distance between her and rumored brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi — whom she married in 2009.

Multiple sources told The Post that Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, a political activist for the Puntland cause in Somalia, and Leila Nur Said Elmi, 53, are Omar’s siblings who live in London.

Ahmed Elmi, 41 — to whom Omar was married for eight years, and who described himself as “a gay man” in a recent academic paper — is also believed to have lived with Leila while growing up.

The congresswoman, 44, arrived in the US as a refugee from Somalia in 1995, while the other branch of her family made their way to London via Ukraine.

“They are all one family,” a friend of the Omar family claimed in an interview with The Post. “The siblings have the same mum and the same dad and within the Somali community acknowledge each other as brothers and sisters.

“But they keep it quiet to the rest of the world because Ilhan is now in politics. They do not want people to find the link between her and Ahmed [Elmi].”

The family spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp after fleeing Somalia when war broke out.

But the family, which originally had the surname Elmi, made the decision to seek safety abroad as soon as they could, according to a family friend in Minnesota... NYPost

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After knocking on 13,000 doors, Jewish Arizona ‘capitalist Democrat’ says Israel a ‘non-issue’ in race. “I wear a Jewish star every day, prominently,” Tammy Caputi, a state House candidate, told JNS. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. Nov 2, 2026. JNS

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Muslims Flood Early Voting Lines in Michigan. Asaf Nissan Nov 2, 2026 23:26

Michigan may decide control of the U.S. Senate, where progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed faces Republican Mike Rogers. Long lines have formed during early voting across key areas like Dearborn. With El-Sayed advocating an end to U.S. military aid to Israel and Rogers defending the security partnership, the race carries major implications for Washington and Jerusalem. Polls for the U.S. midterm elections officially open tomorrow (Tuesday), but many Americans can already vote early at local locations. C14

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Israeli Arab to be indicted for ISIS membership. Mohammed Sweitat, 21 years old from Shfaram, arrested for spreading terrorist propaganda online, attemping to recruit supporters. Israel National News. Nov 2, 2026 INN

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Israel signs $190M artillery training deal with Elbit. Defense Ministry signs 15-year agreement with Elbit Systems to establish advanced training facility for IDF artillery crews operating SIGMA howitzers, PULS rocket launchers. Israel National News. Nov 2, 2026. INN

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IDF eliminates four Hamas terrorists in northern Gaza strikes. Israel National News. Nov 2, 2026 ... Four Hamas terrorists involved in advancing attacks in separate strikes in the northern Gaza Strip have been eliminated, the IDF announced Monday morning.

In two separate strikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the IDF eliminated two terrorists from Hamas' military wing: Nabil Hamad, head of a department within the Hamas’ recruitment apparatus, who was directly involved in strengthening and rebuilding Hamas' military wing in the Gaza Strip; and Mohannad Nader Mahmoud Dahdouh, a sniper commander who actively participated in combat and carried out terror attacks against IDF troops. Additionally, in two strikes in the northern Gaza Strip on October 22nd, the IDF eliminated two additional terrorists from Hamas' military wing. INN

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‘We will not forgive you’. Bereaved families warn Netanyahu's opponents..Bereaved families from the Choosing Life Forum urge Eisenkot, Bennett, and Liberman not to form a government with the participation or support of Arab parties. Hezki Baruch. Nov 2, 2026 [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/435502

Likud maintains contact with Mansour Abbas's Ra'am, journalist claims.

BBC admits failure after hosting guest who praised October 7. Israel National News. Nov 2, 2026. INN

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BBC admits vetting failure after hosting guest who praised October 7 The BBC acknowledges failing to vet a guest with a history of antisemitic remarks, including praise for the October 7 massacre, and promises changes. Israel National News. Nov 2, 2026, 6:04 AM (GMT+2)

The BBC has acknowledged that it failed to properly screen a guest who appeared on one of its television programs despite a history of inflammatory statements about Jews and Israel, including comments celebrating the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023.

According to The Telegraph, Bushra Shaikh, a former contestant on the reality television program The Apprentice, appeared last month on BBC One's “Sunday Morning Live" to argue in favor of women's right to wear burkas in public.

However, the broadcaster subsequently came under scrutiny over Shaikh's previous social media posts, which included statements targeting Jews and expressing support for the October 7 attacks.

Among her remarks, Shaikh referred to Jews who had immigrated to Israel from Europe as “lying scumbags" and “the biggest charlatans on this planet."

Within hours of the Hamas massacre in southern Israel, she posted, “Palestinians have done more in 5 minutes than Zelensky has done with 75bn. Humiliation is an understatement."

Shaikh also blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the October 2025 terrorist attack at a Manchester synagogue, in which two people were murdered and three others seriously wounded.

“He has Jewish blood on his hands," she wrote on X.

In January, responding to initial reports of casualties among Iranian protesters killed by the regime, Shaikh invoked the Holocaust, writing, “The real number is 6 million." INN

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Lunatic El-Sayed Supporter Goes Berserk on Jewish Woman, Screams Chilling Threat As Cops Move In. Red State | November 02, 2026 | Teri Christoph.

An insane scene unfolded on the University of Michigan campus Sunday when a far-left activist, identified as a supporter of Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, launched a vicious attack on a Jewish conservative commentator. And, boy, did things get even uglier when the cops showed up.

The setting was UMich's Ann Arbor campus. A group of conservative commentators had set up a table beneath a sign that read, “Is Islam Compatible with the West?” and were interacting with students when the unhinged young woman confronted them.

Clearly irate, she proceeded to get aggressive with two men manning the table, clapping her hands and snapping her fingers very close to the face of one of the conservative activists.

She eventually made her way to a grassy area to confront conservative Jewish commentator Lizzy Benichou, who asked the young woman – who sported a prominent septum ring – if she'd be able to get away with dressing like that in Iran.

Things really went off the rails when Benichou asked a bystander, “Am I wrong? If you walked around like this in Iran, what would happen to her?”

That's apparently when the far-left lunatic decided she'd had enough of the questions and lunged at Benichou, violently shoving the petite Jewish woman to the ground. Bystanders quickly subdued the raging woman, who screamed, “Don’t f–king talk to me like that! You wanna f–king get over here, bitch?!”

Luckily, campus police soon arrived and tackled her to the ground.

And it was all caught on video.

Leftist Abdul supporter attacks @teameffujoe and @basedinmalibu then threatens to kill everyone after a table debate… [118]

— Meghan Elinor (@OneMeghanElinor) November 1, 2026

Independent journalist Cam Higby was there and reported the out of control woman screamed a chilling death threat as she was being cuffed and stuffed, maniacally shouting, "I should have killed you when I had the chance." This threat was presumably for the Jewish woman she had just attacked.

🚨🚨 JUST NOW: Deranged Abdul Supporter tackled a Jewish girl (@basedinmalibu) at free speech event. She was SWIFTLY arrested, resisted and then said “I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER!!” As she was loaded into the police vehicle. [119]

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) November 1, 2026 Higby later reported that the woman had been released from custody, tweeting, "Prosecutors refused to hold despite the fact that she made terroristic threats, brutally assaulted Liz, smacked @teameffujoe in the face, tried to punch me, and resisted arrest."

He also offered a theory as to why the woman alleged to have carried out the hateful attack was so unhinged.

It appears the woman who attacked @basedinmalibu was HEAVILY medicated. This is actually a really sad story. Temulun appeared, just a few years ago to be a rational, well spoken person. College and medication deranged her. [120]

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) November 2, 2026 Benichou reportedly suffered an injury to her lower back during the assault, but it's still unclear if her attacker will face any consequences.

The whole ugly incident happened just two days before voters head to the polls, and it's a timely reminder of what's at stake in this election. Abdul El-Sayed is supported by an army of far-left activists like this, which is something that should be top of mind for Michiganders as they cast their ballots Tuesday.

We'll leave you with Cam Higby's take on what he witnessed in Ann Arbor.

"You cannot coexist with people who want you dead," he wrote on X. "The left wants you dead. When they say it, believe them. In a few days America will choose who represents them in Washington. Choose wisely, preserve your lives and your nation.' RedState

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El-Sayed Doubles Down on His Antisemitism in Disastrous Interview. PJ Media | November 02, 2026 | Matt Margolis PJMedia

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Abdul El-Sayed's Bagmen: Inside the Shadowy Network of Anti-Israel Donors, PACs, and Super PACs Funding His 'Grassroots' Campaign. The constellation of different committees have overlapping big donors and fund the same candidates—El Sayed and some likeminded far-left House candidates who hate Israel.

Adam Kredo. November 2, 2026 FreeBeacon

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Israel, US have a plan ready for third Iran war, but Tehran's hidden weapons pose major challenges. Nov 2, 2026 JPost

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Democrats lead in key battleground states ahead of Senate midterms race - NYT. Nov 2, 2026 JPost

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Spanish Jewish Federation condemns conspiracy theories linking Israel to fatal train crash. Nov 2, 2026 JPost

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IDF avoiding killing certain Hamas officials in Gaza over fear of civil order collapse. Nov 2, 2026 JPost

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Hebron: IDF ends 10-day counterterrorism operation, official tells JNS. The Judea Brigade is now focusing on its defensive mission ahead of Shabbat Chayei Sarah celebrations in Hebron. Akiva Van Koningsveld. JNS

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Hamas calls for escalation of terror attacks in Judea and Samaria. Nov 2, 2026 JNS

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Liberman: Palestinian Authority interfered in Israeli elections. Hezki Baruch. Nov 2, 2026 INN

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Netanyahu calls on parties who oppose terrorism to form ‘broad national gov't,’ open to discussion “The Israeli public does not want a government that depends on Ra'am and the Joint List, parties that support terrorism and reject the existence of the Jewish state,” Netanyahu wrote. November 2, 2026. JPost

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Saudi Arabia says it intercepted two drones and a missile. Nov 2, 2026 JNS

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US envoy criticizes European governments over failure to combat antisemitism. Nov 2, 2026 JNS

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Trump says oil prices dropped nearly $10 per barrel, cites Iran deal expectations. Nov 2, 2026 23:37 JFeed

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Khalid Bin Salman Tells Iran No Attacks Will Come From Saudi Soil. Nov 2, 2026 22:59 JFeed

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60,000 Evangelical Christians rally in support of Israel in Lima, Peru. Nov 2, 2026 22:08 JFeed

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Trump tells CBS Iran situation is "not a war". Nov 2, 2026 23:26 JFeed

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Trump claims Iran asked US to stop killing its leaders. Nov 2, 2026 22:02 JFeed

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US and Israel Prepare Unprecedented Response if Hezbollah Joins Iran War. Nov 2, 2026 23:16 JFeed

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U.S. strike reportedly hits air defense system on Iran's Qeshm Island Nov 2, 2026 23:26 JFeed

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Trump claims Iran asked US to stop killing its leaders. Nov 2, 2026 22:02 JFeed

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Part 9

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See also

• Operation Roaring Lion / Operation Epic Fury - sources / Operation Roaring Lion / Operation Epic Fury - updates