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Italy turns on UN's Francesca Albanese for comments excusing violence against journalists and Israel.
Albanese, long criticized in Israel for inflammatory accusations, faces backlash at home after appearing to justify a pro-Palestinian mob’s attack on a major newsroom, prompting mayors to reconsider honors.
Daniel Bettini | published: 12.4.25 | 01:28
For years, her voice has been prominent on every platform critical of Israel, especially over the past two years during the war in Gaza. Francesca Albanese, the Italian special rapporteur for the UN Human Rights Council on the Palestinian territories, has become one of the most aggressive and visible faces of Italy’s anti-Israel left.
She rarely misses a chance to level harsh accusations at Israel and to encourage rhetoric that critics say borders on incitement. Israel and the United States, along with many figures in Italy’s Jewish community and politicians on the right, have accused her of antisemitism.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sj00bui61111g YNet]
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Israel’s defining year captured through the lens
'Local Testimony 2025,' Israel’s top. photojournalism exhibition, opens at the Eretz Israel Museum, showcasing powerful images from a year marked by war with Iran, hostage returns, civil unrest, and moments of resilience and humanity.
ynet|12.4.25 21:41
The year 2025 was one of the most turbulent and painful in Israel’s history. Hostages returned, war broke out with Iran, fires swept through the north, violence flared in the West Bank, and civil unrest shook major cities.
All of these shaped a reality marked by fear, resilience, and moments of human grace. Amid an overwhelming flow of information and images that sometimes blurred the truth, photojournalism offered clarity, a way to pause, to witness, and to remember.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/bkk5n8h11zx YNet]
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Culture Triumphs Over Hate.
Israel Confirmed for Eurovision 2026: Four Countries Immediately Quit Following the Historic Vote.
In a victory against cultural discrimination, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) decisively voted to allow Israel’s participation in Eurovision 2026, triggering an immediate and divisive withdrawal by several anti-Israel nations.
Eliana Fleming. Dec 4, 2025.
[https://www.jfeed.com/music/israel-eurovision-2026-participation JFeed]
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The Dual Message.
Direct Threat: Iran Launches Massive Naval Drill in Persian Gulf, Issues Warning to US Vessels
Iran's Revolutionary Guards commenced a large-scale naval exercise in the Persian Gulf, showcasing sophisticated air defense systems and delivering a "dual message" of regional friendship and stern deterrence to adversaries, primarily the United States.
Eliana Fleming.
Dec 4, 2025
[https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/iran-naval-drill-persian-gulf JFeed]
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High-Value Kill.
WATCH: Son of Senior Hamas Official Killed Alongside Top Rafah Terror Leaders While Fleeing Tunnel Complex.
A precise Israeli operation successfully neutralized the entire chain of command of Hamas’s East Rafah Battalion, including the commander and his deputy, after they were caught attempting a desperate escape from an underground tunnel network.
Eliana Fleming
Dec 4, 2025
[https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto/https://images.jfeed.com/2025/12/04/50c955d0-d156-11f0-abe5-f9350fd74ef2__h900_w1600.jpg]
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/hamas-rafah-battalion-commanders-eliminated JFeed]
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"Inevitable Destiny
Hamas Celebrates: Terror Group Gloats Over Death of Anti-Hamas Militia Leader Yasser Abu Shabib.
Hamas has openly celebrated the death of Yasser Abu Shabib, the leader of a local militia group in the Gaza Strip, calling his fate the "inevitable destiny" of those who betray their people and serve Israel.
Eliana Fleming
Dec 4, 2025
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/hamas-celebrates-death-yasser-abu-shabib JFeed]
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Hamas fears eliminations: Even air conditioners banned.
Israel National News.
Dec 5, 2025, 4:40 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418851 INN]
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Egypt opposes division of the Gaza Strip.
Dalit Halevi.
Dec 5, 2025, 4:23 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418850 INN]
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After long suspension.
easyJet to resume Israel flights in March 2026.
Israel National News.
Dec 5, 2025, 5:47 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418853 INN]
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JD Vance rejects claim that antisemitism is growing inside the GOP, breaking his silence on topic.
Vice President JD Vance dismissed warnings of rising antisemitism in GOP circles, pushing back on conservatives who cite growing influence from far Right figures.
By Asaf Elia-shalev/JTA.
December 5, 2025.
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that he does not believe antisemitism is surging inside the Republican Party, pushing back on prominent conservatives who have raised alarms about hostility toward Jews among young right-wing activists.
“I do think it’s important to call this stuff out when I see it. I also, when I talk to young conservatives, I don’t see some simmering antisemitism that’s exploding,” Vance told NBC News in an interview marking his first year in office.
Vance said antisemitism is wrong, stating that “judging anybody based on their skin color or immutable characteristics, I think, is fundamentally anti-American and anti-Christian.” (Vance himself is a convert to Catholicism who recently said he hopes his Hindu wife chooses to become a Christian in the future.)
Vance added, “In any bunch of apples, you have bad people. But my attitude on this is we should be firm in saying antisemitism and racism is wrong. … I think it’s kind of slanderous to say that the Republican Party, the conservative movement, is extremely antisemitic.”
These remarks amount to Vance’s most direct response to Sen. Ted Cruz and other prominent figures on the right who have, in recent weeks, warned of rising antisemitism among conservatives, especially after Tucker Carlson, a Vance ally, hosted Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast.
(Nick Fuentes sits down for an interview with Tucker Carlson, Oct. 28, 2025. credit: screenshot)
Vance’s comments land amid a larger, unresolved debate inside Republican circles over how seriously to treat the rise of explicitly antisemitic figures such as Fuentes, whose online “groyper” movement has attracted a following among young GOP staffers and activists. Jewish conservatives and other right-leaning commentators have expressed alarm at Fuentes’ influence, estimating that significant numbers of junior Republican staffers consume his content. Fuentes has described “organized Jewry” as a threat to American unity.
Vance’s silence on antisemitism was a prominent topic of conversation at a recent confab for Jewish conservatives, where speakers questioned his close association with Carlson.
President Donald Trump recently defended Carlson after the podcast host interviewed Fuentes, saying, “You can’t tell him who to interview."
Trump's alleged connections with far Right activists, including Fuentes, Kanye, Tucker Carlson.
Carlson campaigned for Trump in 2024 and remains influential within the administration. Trump himself met with Fuentes and Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, later claiming he did not know who Fuentes was.
Vance has taken a similarly restrained approach. He defended Carlson’s son, Buckley, from accusations of antisemitism without addressing Carlson’s interview with Fuentes. In October, he was criticized for responding to a college student’s question about Jews and Israel without acknowledging its antisemitic framing.
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-879300 JPost]
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'Nothing frees you from bringing a living hostage back dead,' IDF intelligence officer says.
A senior reserve IDF intelligence officer who spent 11 years with the Goldin and Shaul families breaks his silence on missed chances, the hunt for October 7 hostages and why he believes every captive can be brought home.
Eti Abramov|12.5.25
[https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/by3vgd611we YNet]
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