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• Caged like an animal: Witnesses confirmed that for months he was confined to a cramped cage, no larger than what would normally hold a stray dog.

• Targeted brutality: As an IDF soldier, he was singled out for merciless interrogations and torture, dragged from one hideout to another as Hamas shifted with every hint of approaching Israeli forces.

• Illness and neglect: Reports indicate Cohen now suffers from an untreated skin disease covering much of his body and a painful ear infection likely caused by the fetid, damp air inside Gaza’s terror tunnels.

Every detail paints a picture not only of human suffering but of Hamas’s calculated cruelty, designed to break both the hostage and the nation watching helplessly. TheJudean

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Goes ‘Gaza First’. "Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Bernie Sanders in urging US to end Gaza famine" August 25, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield.

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There’s a pretty straightforward ‘isolationist’ case against America being involved with anything that happens outside its borders. It’s happening out there. It doesn’t involve us. We shouldn’t pay attention to it. (The problem with that case is that some things happening out there, like Islamic terrorism, are a worldwide threat that does involve us.)

But as I previously pointed out, the folks trying to tilt MAGA against Israel so often sound like leftists. Instead of making an isolationist case, they insist on believing everything the media tells them, they bring on leftists to attack Israel and they make common cause with the Left.

Case in point.

'Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Bernie Sanders in urging US to end Gaza famine[sic]' – Guardian. 'Marjorie Taylor Greene is winning my respect' – Washington Post

What occasioned this outpouring of love from the media? Aside from accusing Republicans of sexism, Marjorie Taylor Greene began going on about “innocent people in Gaza” and claimed that they were suffering “genocide[sic]”.

This is on a level with Tucker Carlson bringing on George Stephanopoulos’s sister (without telling his audience that she was the sister of a top Clinton adviser and media figure) to claim that Hamas just wanted freedom.

Some people call this isolationism. It’s not isolationism. Isolationism would be not giving a damn about Gaza. Crying about the ‘suffering’ of the terrorists and repeating the same propaganda you get in the media for Islamic terrorists isn’t isolationism.

These same people throw around terms like “Israel Firsters”, but what they sound like is “Gaza Firsters”. FPM

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IDF Continues Fight Against Hamas, Despite International Outcry. Joel B. Pollak. 24 Aug 2025. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued attacking Hamas positions in northern Gaza this weekend, despite a growing international outcry claiming that Israel is committing [so-called] “genocide” by seeking military victory.

The IDF released video footage of operations by troops near the area of Jabaliya, near Gaza City, a key Hamas stronghold. The maneuvers intend to close in on the last area of Gaza largely untouched by the war thus far.

The IDF said in a statement:

'In recent days, troops of the 401st Brigade, under the command of the 162nd Division, have returned to combat in the Jabaliya area in the northern Gaza Strip. The troops are operating to further degrade the military capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization. The troops are dismantling terrorist infrastructure above and below ground, eliminating terrorists, and strengthening operational control in the area. The troops’ activity enables the expansion of combat into additional areas and prevents Hamas terrorists from returning to operate in these areas. So far, the troops have located an underground terror tunnel, eliminated terrorists, and dismantled a military structure that Hamas terrorists used to plan and carry out attacks against IDF troops. IDF troops under the command of the Southern Command will continue to operate against the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip in order to maintain the security of the State of Israel.'

The IDF has avoided key parts of Gaza City thus far out of concern for the fate of the last Israeli hostages, 50 of whom — possibly 20 living — are being held there. Breitbart

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WATCH: Terror Undercover Footage. WATCH: “Hamas Embodies Evil”: COGAT Exposes Shocking Gaza Footage. COGAT releases disturbing footage showing Hamas operatives using violence against Gaza civilians. Major General Alian exposes the terror group's brutal methods of control.

Lara Sukster Mosheyof. Aug 25, 2025.

([7]. Hamas terrorists in Gaza Hamas terrorists in Gaza . Photo: Ali Hassan/flash 90)

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Major General Ghassan Alian, published this Monday morning a series of disturbing videos and documentation highlighting violence by Hamas operatives across the Gaza Strip. The materials, circulated on social media in recent days, reportedly show armed Hamas members beating, abusing, and shooting local residents.

In a statement posted in English on X, Major General Alian described the footage as evidence of the terror group’s brutal methods:

“Hamas embodies the essence of evil. The shocking footage illustrates how Hamas oppresses the population, abuses civilians, and uses unrestrained violence against people in order to maintain its bloody rule and consolidate its power. Hamas once again proves that it does not represent the residents of Gaza, it rules over them with force, fear, and cruelty.”

According to COGAT, the documentation underscores the organization’s systematic use of terror and coercion to enforce control within the Strip. The agency emphasized that these acts target ordinary civilians, demonstrating a pattern of unbridled violence intended to intimidate and suppress the population.

The publication comes as part of Israel’s broader effort to document and expose Hamas’s internal repression, aiming to provide the international community with a clear picture of the organization’s governance methods in Gaza.

Warning: extreme graphic content. ... JFeed

Footage reveals: Hamas terrorists abuse, fire at, Gaza residents. COGAT publishes graphic footage of Hamas terrorists severely abusing and shooting at Gaza civilians. 'This is Hamas.' Israel National News. Aug 25, 2025, 10:44 AM (GMT+3) INN

Israeli military shows clip of Hamas torturing Palestinians | The Jerusalem Post. WATCH: COGAT releases shocking footage of Hamas brutality against Gazans. "The shocking footage illustrates how the terrorist organization Hamas oppresses the population, abuses civilians, and uses unrestrained violence against people."

By Yonah Jeremy Bob. August 25, 2025. The IDF's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) on Monday publicized a series of videos of what it said were "Hamas operatives abusing, assaulting, and shooting at Gaza residents."

COGAT put out the video as Israel and Hamas compete over the global narrative on Gaza, with the terror organization trying to emphasize food insecurity issues, convincing the UN to label them as "famine," and with Jerusalem trying to remind the world that many Gazans view themselves as prisoners under the authoritarian rule of Hamas.

Calling Hamas, “the embodiment of evil and unrestrained cruelty - to preserve its bloody rule,” the videos released by COGAT mostly showed extensive beatings of tied up men lying on the ground, some with their eyes blindfolded, crying out in pain from being struck with hard objects or from being kicked.

The grainy videos also show some gunshots toward the people being taped.

COGAT reveals video showing Hamas terrorist brutality beating Gazan, August 25, 2025. (credit: COGAT).

Major General Ghassan Alian, addressing the international community on COGAT's English X page, wrote, “Hamas embodies the essence of evil. The shocking footage illustrates how the terrorist organization Hamas oppresses the population, abuses civilians, and uses unrestrained violence against people in order to maintain its bloody rule and consolidate its power. Hamas once again proves that it does not represent the residents of Gaza - it rules over them with force, fear, and cruelty.” Top Stories

Hamas's brutality against Gazan civilians Hamas does not deny that it beats and kills Gazans, creating many of these kinds of videos and spreading them itself at times in order to spread fear among the population, especially fear of cooperating with Israel and any authority that is not Hamas.

Over the years, Hamas has frequently beaten and killed Gazans affiliated with the Palestinian Authority's Fatah movement, Hamas's rival, which governs the West Bank and governed Gaza until Hamas carried out a coup in 2007.

However, Hamas will usually try to portray those being beaten or killed as collaborators or traitors with Israel, trying to avoid drawing attention to its own focus on simply maintaining power.

Hamas is defined by most Western countries as a terror group, especially after October 7, but the sympathy of Western countries with the Gazan public's food insecurity issues, part of which has been brought on by Hamas, has led there to be far greater attention; lately to criticizing Israel's policies regarding managing the flow of humanitarian aid, and trying to cut Hamas out of the control of food aid. JPost

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IDF confirms strike near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. IDF acted to mitigate harm to uninvolved individuals, maintain safety of troops. Israel National News. Aug 25, 2025, 1:46 PM (GMT+3)

Earlier on Monday, IDF troops carried out a strike in the area of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the IDF confirmed.

The Chief of the General Staff instructed to conduct an initial inquiry as soon as possible.

"The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and does not target journalists as such," an IDF statement stressed. "The IDF acts to mitigate harm to uninvolved individuals as much as possible while maintaining the safety of IDF troops."

Earlier on Monday, foreign reports claimed that an Israeli airstrike hit the fourth floor of Nasser Hospital, killing at least 15 people. AFP reported that the dead included four journalists and one civil defense member.

It is not clear how many of the dead were Hamas terrorists.

However, in previous strikes, journalists and even doctors were found to be affiliated with the Hamas terror group, and in some cases even involved in the October 7th massacre, kidnapping or abusing Israeli hostages. INN

GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga @GAZAWOOD1: These are scenes filmed by the so-called "journalist" Mohammad Salama on October 7th, during the massacre of Jews. Aug 25, 2025 On X

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The politics of humanitarianism in Gaza and Sudan. In Gaza, they film; in Sudan, they die: The politics of humanitarianism - opinion. Why does Gaza dominate the global stage while famines such as the one unfolding now in Sudan barely register?

By Michael Ehrenstein. August 25, 2025 The UN-affiliated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has published a report claiming “mass famine” in Gaza. The announcement made instant headlines worldwide. But behind the drama was a quiet, extraordinary shift in methodology. Instead of the accepted global standards for measuring malnutrition, the IPC downgraded its criteria, relying on mid-arm circumference instead of weight-to-height and lowering the threshold for acute malnutrition from 30% to just 15%.

These drastic changes appeared only in a footnote. However, the global media treat them as hard facts, blasting headlines that Israel is responsible for “starving Gaza.” Amnesty International has gone even further, accusing Israel of running a “deliberate[sic] starvation[sic] project[sic]." JPost

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Why does Gaza have so many hospitals? Intel analyst, NEWSMAX commenter, author, and YouTuber Ryan McBeth uncovers the real reason Gaza has so many hospitals and how Hamas uses them for its propaganda war on Israel. Israel National News. Aug 25, 2025, 10:43 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Brazil rejects ambassador. Israel declares Lula persona non grata as Elad Benari. Aug 25, 2025, 11:41 PM INN

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Northern Israeli leaders blast proposal to scale back IDF in Lebanon: 'Don’t abandon us like on Oct. 7'. Yair Kraus|08.25.25 | YNet

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'He wanted to carry out an attack': Shin Bet investigating Nablus resident arrested in Tel Aviv over alleged terror plot Meir Turgeman|08.25.25| YNet

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EU Jews defend antisemitism czar from pro-Israel bias claims. European Parliament lawmakers accused Katharina von Schnurbein of abusing her post by arguing against imposing sanctions on the Jewish state. Canaan Lidor.

(Aug. 25, 2025 / JNS) Major Jewish groups in Europe and beyond on Monday publicly defended Katharina von Schnurbein—the point person representing the European Union for the fight against antisemitism—after lawmakers from the bloc’s legislative arm criticized her, allegedly for arguing against punishing Israel with sanctions.

It s “deeply troubling” to see Katharina von Schnurbein, the E.U.’s coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life, “accused of ‘bias’ simply because she refuses to trivialize or ignore threats against Jews,” wrote the European Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Conference of European Rabbis in a joint open letter they addressed to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. JNS

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New York is 'sublime spiritual experience' Government making efforts to allow thousands of draft dodgers to leave Israel for Rosh Hashanah experiences. Amir Ettinger|08.25.25 YNet

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Cotton calls on IRS to investigate Palestinian Youth Movement’s funding. “An organization that supports terrorism, breaks U.S. law and sows antisemitic discord should not receive any benefits from the American tax system,” the Arkansas senator stated.

(Aug. 25, 2025 / JNS) Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) sent a letter on Aug. 22 to Scott Bessent, acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, asking him to investigate the funding of the Palestinian Youth Movement to see if its 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt status should be revoked.

The senator described the Palestinian Youth Movement as “a youth activist organization known for its virulently antisemitic stances, public statements in support of terrorist groups, and activities and support for anti-Israel protests in America.”

He also noted that it receives funding from another 501(c)(3) organization, Honor the Earth.

As evidence, Cotton pointed to PYM organizing events with Samidoun, which the U.S. designated as a terror entity last year for being an alleged for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group.

He added that the Israeli government has claimed that PYM has “close ties” with PFLP affiliates and Students for Justice in Palestine, which the Israeli government said is “linked to Hamas.”

Cotton further pointed to the PYM signing onto a joint statement describing “Al-Aqsa Flood”—the name Hamas uses to describe its massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023—as being “an unprecedented liberation struggle” in response to “accelerating attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem and in the West Bank.”

PYM is also being listed as a defendant in a lawsuit over anti-Israel protesters blocking traffic in Washington, D.C., in February 2024, as examples of the organization’s “public support for terrorism,” he noted.

“An organization that supports terrorism, breaks U.S. law and sows antisemitic discord should not receive any benefits from the American tax system,” Cotton stated. JNS

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What would the ‘State of Palestine’ look like? “Palestine” would be a dictatorial, racist state that flouts basic human rights.

Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch Read Full BIO +

(Aug. 26, 2025 / Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) As the French, the British, the Canadians and the Australians rush to recognize the “State of Palestine,” the question that must be asked is: What would this entity look like?

Based on the experience to date and empty rhetoric aside, the “State of Palestine” would most likely be yet another dictatorship.

In the Oslo Accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization committed to establishing a liberal democracy. Elections for the position of the Palestinian Authority chairman and parliament were meant to take place every four years. In practice, in 30 years, the P.A. has only ever held two elections for the position of chairman (1996 and 2005) and two elections for the parliament (1996 and 2006).

Current P.A. Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who refers to himself as the president of the “State of Palestine,” was last elected in 2005 and is currently in the 21st year of his first four-year term.

Elections for the P.A. parliament last took place in 2006 and ended with a landslide victory for Hamas, the genocidal terrorist organization that planned and executed the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. JNS

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IDF’s Deadly Mistake: Tank Shells Hit Gaza Hospital in Unauthorized Error. The IDF is investigating an unauthorized tank shell attack near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis that killed civilians, including journalists, despite orders for precise strikes, labeling it a serious operational error. The probe aims to clarify command failures and maintain military accountability amid rising concerns over operational fatigue and civilian casualties.

Eliana Fleming. Aug 26, 2025 00:11 JFeed

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Kneecap's US tour canceled amid UK terrorism charges. Israel National News. Aug 26, 2025, 12:07 AM INN

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PA claims: Shofar blowing a 'dangerous tool' at Al-Aqsa. Dalit Halevi. Aug 26, 2025, 5:08 AM INN

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Iran nuclear talks resume amid sanctions threat. Elad Benari. Aug 26, 2025, 6:58 AM INN

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Trump administration backs envoy to France's antisemitism criticism. Diplomatic row between the US and France escalates after the Trump administration doubles down on Ambassador Charles Kushner's criticism of France's response to rising antisemitism. Israel National News. Published: Aug 26, 2025, 4:24 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Australia says Iran behind antisemitic attacks on its soil, will expel ambassador. Accused Tehran of executing two antisemitic attacks in the key cities of Sydney and Melbourne; Since Oct. 7 Australian homes, schools, synagogues and vehicles have been targeted in antisemitic vandalism and arson Reuters|08.26.25 06:57

Australia said on Tuesday it would expel Iran's ambassador to Canberra, as it accused Tehran of executing two antisemitic attacks in the key cities of Sydney and Melbourne.

Since the Israel-Gaza war began in October 2023, Australian homes, schools, synagogues and vehicles have been targeted in antisemitic vandalism and arson. YNet

Australia to expel Iranian envoy over antisemitic attacks. Australia's Prime Minister says Iran's government directed at least two attacks against the Australian Jewish community. Australia will expel Iran's ambassador and list the IRGC as a terror group. Israel National News. Aug 26, 2025, 6:39 AM INN

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The Gaza Famine Claim Was Timed for Gaza City Op. Propaganda is a weapon of war. August 24, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield 10 Comments.

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The false claim that Gaza is in a state of famine was only made possible by a UN linked group redefining the definition of famine. (If you’re confused why this is a big deal since famine claims have been made about Gaza for over a year, it’s because that was media hype and false claims from international groups but without any formal famine finding.)

The more significant point is that the famine claim was timed for a key event, in this case an Israeli operation in Gaza City, just like previous false famine claims were timed for particular events.

For example, the recent ‘sick kid’ photos that were falsely used to claim children were dying of malnutrition were timed for a key point in the negotiations with Hamas.

When you go back, time after time that there’s a major famine PR push, it coincides with some actual event happening in the war.

Are those coincidences? Not at all. It’s the event that generates the famine claim. Propaganda is a weapon of war. The false claims of famine have been far more effective weapons than any Hamas attack post Oct 7. FPM

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Font-Page NY Times Falsehood Charges ‘Most’ Food Blocked from Gaza. By Gilead Ini, CAMERA, August 25, 2025.

According to the first sentence on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times, Israel “has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip” during the war with Hamas.

The damning charge is repeated in a second Times story, published around the same time, which tells readers that “Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the enclave since the war began nearly two years ago,” on Oct. 7.

The statements, a clear message to readers that Israel has allowed only a trickle of food into Gaza, are categorical, sweeping, and definitive.

They are also false….

With OCHA explaining that its data after May 2024 is incomplete, we have to look elsewhere for a more up-to-date numbers. Fortunately, Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories has its own data portal that runs through August 2025. And per COGAT, 1.5 million tons of food aid has entered the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 massacre. That averages to 2,245 tons/day since the start of the war – significantly more than what entered prior to the war.

Between August 1, 2025 and August 22, the day the New York Times pieces were published, 3,886 tons of food per day crossed into Gaza. CAMERA

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Yet another new rule for Israel and Israel alone (courtesy @TheGuardian and @972mag [radicals]). Elder of Ziyon, August 25, 2025.

The Guardian, relying on a +972 Magazine investigation, claims that 83% of casualties in Gaza are civilians, based on a simplistic calculation. With a reported total death toll of 53,000 as of May 2025 and a classified Israeli military database listing 8,900 named Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighters as dead or probably dead, these “brain surgeons” conclude that everyone not on the list must be a civilian. This assumption defies logic. Critics have rightly pointed out its absurdity. Last January, Israel estimated over 20,000 terrorist deaths, far exceeding the 8,900 names in the database, which was never intended as a comprehensive tally but rather a partial intelligence record. Yet, an unspoken new rule has emerged, seemingly crafted exclusively for Israel: they must know and list the names of every person they kill.

Has any nation in the 4,000-year history of warfare been expected to know the names of all enemy dead? Let alone assume that everyone not named is a civilian? Consider these examples:

Ukraine claims to have killed or injured approximately 600,000 Russian troops by August 2025. If a list of named casualties exists, it likely includes only a few hundred at best. By The Guardian’s logic, 99% of Russians killed would be civilians—a patently absurd conclusion.

The U.S. estimated killing around 900,000 enemy combatants (primarily Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces) during the Vietnam War (1955–1975), but no detailed list of names was maintained. Applying The Guardian’s standard, nearly all would be classified as civilians, despite the military nature of the conflict.

Never before has a belligerent been held to such an unrealistic standard—until now, with Israel.

Somehow, Israel has set a record for the number of unprecedented demands placed upon it, demands never once imposed on any party in any war in history:

1. One party is expected to list the names of all enemy soldiers killed. 2. One party must provide aid to the enemy with the full knowledge that the aid is used by the enemy to strengthen itself economically. 3. Civilians are not allowed to leave the areas of fighting to go to other countries. 4. Israel is criticized for relocating Gazans within the Strip in order to prevent them from being endangered by the fighting. EoZ

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Introducing ‘Putin’s Philosopher’. Alexander Dugin, Conspiracy Theorist and Antisemite What is it about Russian despots - and the madmen some of them rely on? August 25, 2025 by Hugh Fitzgerald.

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What is it about Russian despots and the madmen some of them rely on? There was Rasputin, the mad monk who proved so difficult to kill, upon whom the Tsarina Alexandra came to rely. There was Joseph Stalin, who needed no other madman, for he was his own madman, indeed a full- blown homicidal maniac. And now there is Alexander Dugin, who has found favor with Vladimir Putin, offering a moral defense for the resurrection of a Russian Empire that would include all the former republics on the Soviet Union, buttressed by a theory he calls “Eurasianism,” a term he borrowed, and misapplied, from the early 19th century Russian thinker Pyotr Chaadayev. Elder of Ziyon gave us more information on Dugin a couple of months ago; with Putin in the news again after his summit with Trump, Elder of Ziyon’s post is worth revisiting: “‘Putin’s philosopher’ is an antisemite who thinks Israel will blow up Al Aqsa and blame Iran,” Elder of Ziyon, June 23, 2025:

Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian ultranationalist often dubbed “Putin’s philosopher,” is not just a dangerous ideologue. He is also a conspiracy-minded antisemite obsessed with Israel, and his ravings reflect a recurring truth: that Jews and the Jewish state are seen as existential threats to totalitarian ideologies – precisely because Jewish values stand in moral opposition to them.

The New York Times introduced its readers to Dugin in 2022, describing him as “Putin’s philosopher” who has been a leading advocate for conquest of Ukraine.

His thinking builds on ideas of “Eurasianism,” that Russia is a distinct civilization that should forge a continent-spanning state along the lines of its former empire but without the Communist ideology of the Soviet Union. Jane Burbank, an emeritus history professor at New York University, has written that in Mr. Dugin’s view, after the Soviet Union’s “sellout” to the West in the 1990s, “Russia could revive in the next phase of global combat and become a ‘world empire.’”

What Dugin considers to be the Soviet Union’s “sellout” to the West was simply the work of Gorbachev and then Yeltsin, in putting an end to Communist despotism, and giving the Soviet republics their independence, thereby greatly reducing the size, population, and resources of the successor state to the Soviet Union — the Russian Federation.

It turns out that “Putin’s philosopher” is an antisemite who seems obsessed with the idea that Israel is run by crazed messianic Jews who are hellbent on creating a Greater Israel.

Are Prime Minister Netanyahu, or President Isaac Herzog, or Foreign Secretary Gideon Sa’ar, or Defense Secretary Israel Katz, “crazed messianic Jews”? And as for that “Greater Israel” Dugin claims Israelis are determined to create, does he really believe that they want an Israel “from the Nile to the Euphrates”? If they do, then why did Israel hand back the entire Sinai to Egypt as part of the Camp David Accords in 1979? The only territory that Israel won in the Six-Day War that it is likely to insist on retaining (aside from the Golan Heights) is Judea and Samaria, which is where Jews have lived continuously for 3500 years, where so much of Jewish history was made, and where continued Israeli control is necessary for the Jewish state’s defense against possible invaders from the east. And remember, Judea and Samaria (which Jordan renamed in 1950 as the “West Bank”) were always intended by the League of Nations to be included in the territory of Mandatory Palestine — that is, the territory that would eventually become the Jewish state of Israel. None of that history means anything to Alexander Dugin.

In a recent podcast, he said, “Half of Israel is pure liberal trash. The other half are cheerful Zionists who want to blow up Al-Aqsa.”

His insistence that Israel will blow up Al Aqsa is a recurrent theme in his writings – see, for example, this article from December where he is certain that Ben Gvir will blow up the mosque to create a Greater Israel….

These are a madman’s ravings. Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s Minister of Security, wants to establish the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount — and surely it is long past time for Jews to enjoy the same right to pray on the Temple Mount, the most sacred spot in Judaism, as the Muslims have. But Ben Gvir but has never expressed a desire to “blow up” Al-Aqsa. He knows perfectly well that such an explosion would lead to anti-Israel hysteria among 1.5 billion Muslims that nothing could quell; the Jewish state’s very existence would be imperiled as never before.

Given that Dugin believes that the Russian Federation’s destiny is to become a holy empire along tsarist lines, he views Jews and Israel as implacable obstacles to the fulfillment of his dream….

Will this Russian Federation be able to reconquer and incorporate into a resurrected Holy Russia all the former territories of the Soviet Union? That attempt has started with Ukraine, but after three years, tens of billions of dollars spent on weapons, and one million Russian dead and wounded, Ukraine is still standing and still holding onto 80% of its prewar territory. And by what tortured logic does Dugin blame “the Jews” and Israel as obstacles to this geopolitical dream of a revived Russia ruling over all the former Soviet republics?

It used to be said, a quarter-century ago, when Putin first took power, that he was that remarkable thing, a Russian despot who was not an antisemite. It turned out that as a boy, he had lived in a communal apartment, where a family of Orthodox Jews also lived. They took the young Putin under their wing. Their solicitude, it was said, saved the young boy from becoming a “hooligan.” He has visited Israel three times, and each time he has gone, a yarmulke on his head, to the Western Wall. During his last visit, he commented on the deep Jewish connection to the holy site: “You can see how the Jewish past is engraved in the stones of Jerusalem.” He also sought out, and located, a Jewish lady, Mina Yuditskaya Berliner, who had been his beloved high school teacher of German. He showered her with gifts, and arranged for one of his friends, the oligarch Roman Abramovich, to buy her an apartment in Tel Aviv.

Now Putin has become much less favorable to Israel. He has formed a military alliance with Iran, receiving weapons from Tehran, including drones, to use against Ukraine, and diplomatically, he has taken Iran’s side at the UN. No doubt part of this change in Putin’s thinking can be attributed to the influence of Alexander Dugin. He’s not himself an antisemite, but Putin has been willing to give the antisemitic theorist a respectful hearing. For Israel, this is worrisome news. And there is no Prince Yusupoff on the horizon to rid both Putin, and Russia, of this dangerous man. FPM

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lelemSLP @lelemSLP: BREAKING: After investigating Nasser Hospital strike, the IDF found that at least six of those killed were terrorists, one of whom invaded Israel on Oct 7. So even if there were civilian casualties, who is to blame, if THE TERRORISTS ARE USING THE HOSPITAL AS THEIR BASE???????? [8]. Aug 26, 2025 On X

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Sick Terror Act. Teen Targets Baby in Stroller: Jerusalem’s Shocking Rock-Throwing Attack. A 17-year-old from Jerusalem’s Isawiya was arrested for throwing a rock at a six-month-old’s stroller in French Hill after verbally attacking the infant’s parents, prompting police action and public outcry. The incident, seen as part of rising violence in the area, raises fears of escalating threats from youth targeting civilians. Eliana Fleming. Aug 26, 2025

([9]. The Arab involved in the incident arrested by Police. Photo: Police Spokesperson).

On August 24, 2025, a 17-year-old resident of Jerusalem’s Isawiya neighbourhood was arrested for throwing a rock at a six-month-old baby’s stroller in the French Hill shopping center, following a verbal altercation with the infant’s parents. The incident, which police described as a deliberate act of violence, prompted swift action from the Shalem police station and Border Police, who used Jerusalem District command center surveillance to identify and locate the suspect at his home in Isawiya. The teenager reportedly cursed the baby’s parents before hurling the rock at the stroller and fleeing the scene. He was apprehended and taken for questioning at the Shalem station, with the Magistrate’s Court extending his detention until August 28, 2025, to allow further investigation.

Police stated, “The suspect cursed the baby’s parents at the shopping center, then hurled a rock at the stroller she sat in before fleeing the scene.” The incident, which caused no reported injuries, has heightened concerns about rising violence in Jerusalem’s mixed neighbourhoods. French Hill, a predominantly Jewish area adjacent to Isawiya, has seen similar incidents, including a 2016 attack on a woman and child and a 2021 rock-throwing assault injuring a seven-month-old. The arrest comes amid a broader wave of tensions, with over 1,000 rock-throwing incidents reported in Jerusalem since October 2023, per police data, often linked to Palestinian youth targeting Israeli civilians or vehicles.

The case has sparked outrage, with some labelling it an act of terror reflective of deep-seated hatred. Critics argue that such violence, especially targeting a defenseless infant, signals a dangerous trajectory for the suspect, who could pose a greater threat as he matures. The incident echoes past controversies, such as the 2014 detention of a minor from Isawiya for rock-throwing, deemed illegal due to the age of criminal responsibility. Community leaders urge stronger measures to curb such acts, fearing escalation from stones to more lethal attacks, a concern amplified by the region’s history of unrest. JFeed

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A Terrifying Reality. Jewish Patient Feared for Her Life After Surgeon Wore Palestinian Flag Badge A Jewish patient’s distress over a surgeon’s Palestinian flag badge at Royal Free Hospital has led to legal action accusing the NHS trust of fostering a hostile environment.

Eliana Fleming. Aug 27, 2025 00:32

A Jewish woman undergoing surgery at Royal Free Hospital in Belsize Park, London, on August 25, 2025, reported feeling “extremely distressed” after noticing her surgeon wearing a lanyard with a Palestinian flag badge, prompting legal action by UK Lawyers for Israel against the Royal Free London NHS Trust. The patient, fearing potential harm, told the legal group, “I found it extremely stressful to be treated by this doctor, given her blatant political views.”

The advocacy group accused the hospital of breaching Section 29(3) of the Equality Act 2010, arguing that such displays create “an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment” for Jewish patients. They further claimed the badge signaled “support for the Palestinian cause, and conversely, opposition to the State of Israel,” violating General Medical Council rules by prioritizing political views over patient care. “It is important that hospital staff abide by the principles of political neutrality, as not doing so can harm vulnerable patients. We hope that the hospital staff who break these rules and blatantly display their political affiliations will be appropriately disciplined,” the lawyers wrote in a letter to trust leaders.

David Crampsey, Royal Free’s chief executive, responded, “Concerns were being looked into, and the trust will consider any appropriate action having done so.” This incident follows similar controversies at other London hospitals, where pro-Palestinian symbols worn by staff led to distress among Jewish patients. Earlier in 2025, Health Secretary Wes Streeting banned such displays at five major NHS hospitals, St Bart’s, Mile End, Newham, Royal London, and Whipps Cross, after incidents like a Jewish woman encountering three staff members with pro-Palestinian badges during a caesarean at Whipps Cross and a receptionist at Royal London wearing a T-shirt depicting a keffiyeh over Israel’s map. With anti-Semitic incidents in the UK rising 68% since October 2023, per Community Security Trust data, these events highlight growing tensions over political expressions in healthcare settings, raising questions about neutrality and patient safety. JFeed

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Federal Lawmakers Launch Investigation Into Antisemitism at US Medical Schools. By Dion J. Pierre. August 26, 2025.

Campus antisemitism at US medical schools is next in line to be examined by the federal government following the announcement on Monday of a major probe to be conducted by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

US lawmakers announced an investigation into three institutions: the University of California, Los Angeles’ (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine, the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

“This investigation will aid the committee in considering whether potential legislative changes, including legislation to specifically address antisemitism discrimination, are needed, ” education committee chairman Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) wrote in a letter to Steven Dubinett, dean of UCLA’s Geffen School. “The committee has become aware that Jewish students and faculty have experienced hostility and fear at the hands of peers, colleagues, and administrators at UCLA Med, and it has not been demonstrated that the university has meaningfully responded to address and mitigate this problem.”

As previously reported by The Algemeiner, a Jewish faculty group at UCLA’s medical school, titled Jewish Faculty Resilience Group (JFrg), first sounded the alarm about antisemitism on the campus in February, issuing an open letter which called attention to a slew of indignities to which they have been subjected since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel.

The primary agent of anti-Jewish hatred identified by JFrg is the Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Muslim Racism (AAAR), a university-created body that has allegedly violated its mission to promote pluralism by lodging defaming accusations at the pro-Israel Jewish community in a series of reports, one of which contained what JFrg described as intolerable distortions of fact.

JFRG’s letter went on to enumerate a litany of falsehoods spread by AAAR, including that Jewish faculty have conspired to undermine academic freedom with “coordinated repression, involving university and non-university actors,” aligned itself with conservative groups, and harmed minority students by opposing “racial justice.” Algemeiner

Trump Admin Reviewing Visas of ‘Terrorist Sympathizers’ Set to Appear at Palestinian Conference in Detroit. By Corey Walker. August 26, 2025.

The Trump administration is reviewing and may block the visa applications of speakers scheduled to appear at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan later this week over links to terrorism, The Algemeiner has learned.

A spokesperson for the US State Department told The Algemeiner that officials have “noted” the gathering, set to take place from Aug. 29-31, and will closely monitor visa applications for invited international speakers, citing a preponderance of “terrorist sympathizers” on the program’s lineup. [10]

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UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian: Israel Wants to Conquer Mecca, Might Charge Admission Fee for Egypt’s Pyramids. The Algemeiner. August 26, 2025. By David Swindle.

A professor at the University of California, Berkeley who has also established himself as one of America’s most influential Islamist activists promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theory in a lecture earlier this month at a California mosque, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Hatem Bazian, a senior lecturer at UC Berkeley, co-founded Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that has become notorious for intimidating Jews on university campuses, as well as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a nonprofit he now chairs which has sponsored a series of anti-Israel protests following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described AMP as being “at the core of the anti-Israel and anti-Zionist movement in the United States.”

On Aug. 15, Bazian expressed the antisemitic conspiracism which has undergirded the Islamist movement since the 1928 founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailia, Egypt by schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, with a stated goal of implementing Islamic law around the world.

“He [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] wants to make Gaza the Riviera, with Mr. Trump – he’s not satisfied with that. He’s not satisfied with annexing the West Bank, which Trump and the US administration is already giving on. He’s not satisfied with the Golan Heights. He’s not satisfied that he has already taken the Sharm El-Sheikh area,” Bazian stated during a lecture at the Muslim Community of Folsom, California.

“Netanyahu says: ‘I want Jordan.’ He wants Greater Israel, he wants Jordan, he wants Lebanon, and he wants Egypt – the Pyramids – because he wants maybe, if tourists are coming, maybe he will charge people to go up to the Pyramids,” Bazian continued in remarks flagged by MEMRI.

Bazian claimed that Netanyahu “wants Egypt and he wants Saudi Arabia, because the Mecca and Medina area – he says it is part of Greater Israel. He said this on the news, in an interview.” The UC Berkeley professor then added, “Now, all of the Arabs who are committed to the Abraham Accords, who do tawaf in the White House – they were just like saying: ‘We thought we were partners.’ They didn’t know that they were on the menu.”

The Abraham Accords were a series of US-brokered peace agreements that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab countries.

The United Arab Emirates, a leading driver in the Abraham Accords, regards the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, designating it as such in November 2014, and named the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) as components within its global influence network.

The longtime organizer of anti-Israel activism also accused Jews of exploiting antisemitism to make money.

“The whole monetization and weaponization of antisemitism is no longer working,” Bazian said. “I do believe that Zionism no longer has a standing globally. Now, between the end of Zionism as an ideology and as a genocidal policy versus the liberation of Palestine – it might take a number of years.”

According to MEMRI, in a YouTube video published on May 9, 2024, Bazian expressed his belief that Israel is a colonial project.

“We are not the one that have committed pogroms against Jews. History of Muslim, Arab, Christian relations in the East with Jewish population is not European history. Is not the Balfour history. Is not the French history. Is not the German history,” Bazian said. “Zionism was born in Europe because Europe is racist, was racist, continues to be racist, and has not recovered from its racism.”

Bazian described how the Islamists’ battle “for a free Palestine” is at its core “a fight against racism, against Islamophobia, against antisemitism as it has been articulated, and not according to ADL, Netanyahu, Biden, European racism, or anything of that history. So, our change is a change of a different future, a different world. What [inaudible] said, end of colonialism, a dying colonialism. What we are seeing today is a dying colonialism.”

Bazian has previously made comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany and defended Hamas. In 2015, he wrote that Gaza was “an epistemic Warsaw Ghetto but only different Semites are locked up this time around” and that “the Europeans who fought Nazism with arms were labeled ‘terrorist’ by Hitler. Hamas is fighting against the occupation of Palestinian lands and is labeled ‘terrorist.'”

Despite Bazian’s prominent academic stature at UC Berkeley, his activist network has come under legal scrutiny.

On May 9, a circuit judge in Virgnia ordered that AMP disclose its funding sources, following investigative efforts by Virginia’s Attorney General Jason Miyares who said he “has a legal obligation to ensure that charitable organizations operating in Virginia are following the law.”

A second suit from earlier this year alleged that AMP constituted a rebranding of Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which had previously been found liable for $156 million due to its support for Hamas.

The suit stated that AMP comprised “largely the same core leadership as IAP/AMS” and that it “serves the same function and purpose; it holds nearly identical conventions and events with many of the same roster of speakers; it operates a similar ‘chapter’ structure in similar geographic locations; it continues to espouse Hamas’s ideology and political positions; and it continues to facilitate fundraising for groups that funnel money to Hamas.” Algemeiner

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Massachusetts town probes vandalism of Israeli flags as ‘possible hate’ crime. “We condemn these acts in the strongest possible terms,” the police department in Concord, Mass., stated.

(Aug. 26, 2025 / JNS) The Concord Police Department is investigating an Aug. 23 incident, in which someone vandalized Israeli flags, as a “possible hate incident.”

“An individual was seen on video intentionally kicking, stepping on and pulling up Israeli flags and two signs at a memorial display” for victims of the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the Boston-area department stated. JNS

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Jew-hatred as bad in US as ever, California Jewish politicians say. “In my lifetime, it’s never been tougher to be a Jew in America,” Rep. Brad Sherman told. JNS. Aaron Bandler. (Aug. 26, 2025 / JNS) As a student at Oak Park High School outside Los Angeles, Jesse Gabriel grew up with school holidays on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and he and his peers “took it for granted that we were safe in America and we’d be protected,” the California state representative told JNS.

“I used to tell people growing up that I thought antisemitism was something that happened in Berlin in 1939,” the Democrat, who co-chairs the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, said. “Unfortunately, our eyes are opening to the fact that the world is a difficult and complicated place and that there are real people out there that hate us and are ignorant.”

“That’s why we have to take measures to strengthen our community and protect ourselves,” Gabriel said. JNS

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Moscow pushes for six-month delay of sanctions on Iran, as JCPOA talks continue. Mike Wagenheim.

(Aug. 26, 2025 / JNS) Russia is circulating a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council that would tack a six-month extension onto the Iran nuclear accord, during which time no action could be taken related to the agreement.

Moscow’s goal is to give more space for negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the so-called E3 powers—the United Kingdom, France and Germany, all of which are signatories to the 2015 nuclear pact, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. JNS

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Washington rejects latest proposal to renew UNIFIL mandate. Israel and Lebanon losing trust completely “in this very sensitive transition period would be risky and would not really serve anybody’s interest,” a senior U.N. official told JNS. Mike Wagenheim. (Aug. 26, 2025 / JNS) Even after concessions from supporters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, the Trump administration declined to green-light a revised U.N. Security Council resolution to extend the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s mandate.

Israel has long criticized UNIFIL, whose mandate expires on Aug. 31, and accused it of failing to contain Hezbollah’s military capabilities in south Lebanon. The Trump administration called the U.N. force an “abject failure” and clawed back tens of millions of dollars in funding. JNS

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I’m ‘fighting Jews, not Zionism,’ Ahed Tamimi declares. The Palestinian activist expressed hope for a third world war involving nuclear arms. JNS Staff.

(Aug. 26, 2025 / JNS) Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi recently told an Arabic podcast that she was “fighting Jews, not Zionism,” speaking 20 months after being released from an Israeli prison as part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. JNS

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Notest part II: Aug 27-Sep 27, 2025

National Review’s Rich Lowry Ruthlessly Mocks Tucker Carlson for ‘Out-Tuckering Himself’ With Fresh Hitler Apologia. Story by Isaac Schorr. Aug 25th, 2025. National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry ruthlessly mocked Tucker Carlson for “out-Tuckering himself" in a new column.

Under the provocative headline, “Should We Have Allied with Hitler?” and scornful subheadline, “‘Just asking questions’ makes its dumbest query yet,” Lowry took Carlson to task over his recent interview with Cornell Professor Dave Collum.

During Carlson’s conversation with Collum, the latter stated, ” I think the story we got about World War II was all wrong,” causing Carlson to reply, “I think that’s right.”

“One can make the argument we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin. Patton said that,” continued Collum. “And maybe there wouldn’t have been a Holocaust, right? You know, but Stalin was awful by any metric and we weren’t his ally. The story is that there were a few missing American soldiers at the end of World War II in Russian territory. 15 to 20,000 were missing. And we left them there. And then you read about Pearl Harbor. We all sort of know the Pearl Harbor story is not what we were told, but I dug into that and you find out the Pearl Harbor. We knew to the morning that Pearl Harbor was going to get attacked. Stalin was going to be attacked.”

Lowry was unmoved by both Collum’s argument and Carlson’s passive acceptance of it.

“Carlson agrees with Collum’s contention that we have gotten World War II all wrong, and he lodges no objection when a guest to whom he’s very deferential says that we arguably should have allied with Hitler’s Germany in World War II to fight Stalin. In this, Tucker is really out-Tuckering himself,” he observed. “He has gone from nodding along with a guest who maintained that Hitler was misunderstood and killed millions of people as a function of unfortunate circumstances, to giving a fawning interview to someone who muses that we, literally, should have sided with the Nazis.”

The longtime conservative commentator went on to dissect Collum’s argument before facetiously asking, “Who can resist the emotional satisfaction of believing that malevolent forces are at work everywhere and that we, through doggedness, brilliant insight, and great personal courage, are onto them?”

“According to Carlson and his esteemed guests, those forces have misled us about the Nazis, who weren’t as bad as we’ve been told and shouldn’t have been resisted so strenuously — or, at all — by the West,” he concluded. “This is ignorance and perversity masquerading as brave truth-telling.”

The post National Review’s Rich Lowry Ruthlessly Mocks Tucker Carlson for ‘Out-Tuckering Himself’ With Fresh Hitler Apologia first appeared on Mediaite. Mediaite

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Alleged arsonist Younes Ali Younes named over Adass Israel fire. A second person charged over the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue has been named in court a day after ASIO revealed the attack was directed by Iran.

Liam Beatty. August 27, 2025 - 11:35AM news.com.au

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Dressed as customers: Terrorists arrested at bank in dramatic operation. Uzi Baruch. Aug 27, 2025, 12:45 PM INN

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IDF, WFP leaders discuss humanitarian efforts for Gaza Strip. Israel National News. Aug 27, 2025, 7:10 PM INN

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Foreign Ministry: Gross falsifications in report on hunger in Gaza. Israel National News. Aug 27, 2025, 7:22 PM INN

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IDF probe reveals: Terrorists in the hospital were the target, not just the camera. IDF troops targeted Hamas terrorists who operated a camera in Nasser Hospital. Strike timed for daylight to ensure precision, but troops fired unauthorized tank shells instead of the approved drone. Israel National News. Aug 27, 2025, 10:50 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Top Democrat Adam Smith Calls for ‘Leveraging’ Arms Sales to Israel. By Corey Walker. August 27, 2025. Algemeiner

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Jewish Teen Assaulted in Lyon as France Faces Growing International Scrutiny Over Rising Antisemitism. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. August 27, 2025 Algemeiner

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Iran’s Crypto Market Collapses. Israeli Hackers Crush Iran’s Crypto: $90M Vanishes in Bold Strike. Aug 27, 2025 21:34 JFeed

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How the UN’s Famine Authority Engaged in Data Fraud to Undermine U.S. Humanitarian Aid. A Famine of Facts: UN declaration distorts reality with bad science, analysis finds.

By Network Contagion Research Institute Aug 27, 2025 DailyWire.com

On August 22, the United Nations declared that famine was “currently occurring” in Gaza City. Within hours the claim drove headlines, advocacy, and legal filings.

All of it based on flawed science. A forensic review of the data by our team at the Network Contagion Research Institute found that the declaration leaned on flimsy modeling, and buried evidence. That matters because the declaration undercuts a U.S.-backed aid model that is actually delivering.

With confidence in international institutions eroding, the United States launched a new experiment in humanitarian aid. Working through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) with State Department support, this model represents the first serious alternative to the UN’s decades-old aid machinery. Early evidence suggested it was working: food reached people more reliably, nutrition outcomes improved, and distribution was more predictable.

That all changed when the UN’s famine authority, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), declared a famine in Gaza City. The announcement instantly shaped headlines, influencers, and legal forums. But behind the language of science was something else entirely: manipulated modeling, buried evidence, and a systematic effort to discredit the new, U.S.-led approach that was actually working.

This was not a mistake. It was a set of choices. And every choice cut in the same direction: toward alarmism, toward distortion, and away from the success of American leadership.

A Case Study in Statistical Malpractice The UN famine authority’s declaration rests most centrally on a claim that child malnutrition in Gaza was “increasing exponentially.”

This was not a side note. It was the foundation of the UN famine authority’s entire argument that famine was not only happening, but already locked into a death spiral. The projections of catastrophe — and the justification for the world’s response – hinged on that exponential model. But the model was a scatterplot of just six data points, with a trend line fit by an excel spreadsheet regression function. Any introductory statistics class warns against fitting exponentials to tiny samples. The first point sat out of line with the second in a way that can create the illusion of acceleration.

There is more. The UN-backed analysts did not tell readers that a plain linear model explained the same six points just as well. They did not share the fit statistics that would let others judge. They did not present alternative trend-lines. And they did not acknowledge that a larger, updated dataset of more than 15,000 children, available two weeks before publication, broke the exponential story entirely.

([11]. READ THE FULL REPORT: Starving for the Truth: Fraud, Famine and the Collapse of Rigor in IPC’s Gaza Declaration).

Not only this, but the fresh data disproved the UN famine authority’s central allegation. Their famine declaration rested on the claim that child malnutrition had surged beyond the 15 percent threshold required to trigger a famine classification. Yet the updated data set the rate at 13.5 percent. By the UN famine authority’s own standard, famine had not been reached. To repeat: the UN’s adopted famine threshold was not met, and their own data source proved it. DailyWire

Thursday, August 28, 2025. Part of the IPC's "famine" determination was based on the absurd idea that Hamas "undercounts" starvation deaths.

There have been a number of excellent detailed criticisms [12] of the IPC report that claimed that parts of Gaza are now officially in a state of famine. The NCRI released two [13] such reports [14], summarized here [15].

I found one major problem with the IPC report that I didn't see anyone else address.

The IPC made a remarkable claim: Gaza’s Ministry of Health (MoH) undercounts non-trauma deaths, especially those linked to hunger. This appears on pp. 22–23 of the IPC Famine Review Committee (FRC) report, and it serves as a crucial plank in their case that famine was already underway in Gaza Governorate.

The claim is not just weak. It is flatly contradicted by Hamas’ and the MoH's own behavior. EoZ

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Most Americans see famine in Gaza, blame Hamas; 18-24-year-olds back Hamas over Israel in war. Poll finds most Republicans hold terror group responsible for crisis, while Democrats are split; most American back offensive and defensive military assistance to Israel By Luke Tress. 27 Aug 2025. TOI

A “Genocide-Propaganda” Trap: The Question That’s Anything but Innocent.

[Re Quinnipiac University poll Aug/2025].

When you pose such an outrageously framed question as “Do you think Israel is committing genocide?”, it not only distorts the reality on the ground but also dangerously normalizes a baseless and inflammatory accusation. Framing the question this way lends unwarranted legitimacy to a narrative that ignores the complexities of the conflict, the defensive nature of Israel’s actions, and the efforts Israel makes to minimize civilian harm despite facing relentless attacks from terrorist organizations embedded within civilian populations.

Conclusion: Such questions aren’t asked in good faith—they’re rhetorical weapons designed to delegitimize Israel and inflame public opinion with emotionally charged, factually empty accusations. By repeating and entertaining the language of "genocide," critics shift the conversation away from accountability for terror groups like Hamas and instead vilify a democratic state defending its citizens. It's crucial to call out these tactics for what they are: propaganda tools masquerading as concern, aimed not at justice, but at demonization.

We often see opinion polls shaped by leading questions — questions designed not to reveal truth, but to direct respondents toward a preordained conclusion. Consider how a question like, “Do you think Black Americans commit more crimes?” or “Do you believe America is a racist country?” can be used not to gather insight, but to provoke or reinforce certain narratives. These are the kinds of questions that produce answers some may find uncomfortable — or deliberately misleading.

But let’s also talk about who is answering. Particularly, we should consider the 18–24 age group. This demographic is highly impressionable, deeply immersed in social media echo chambers, and often lacking historical or geopolitical context. In other words: easily led.

So what would a less biased, more globally aware poll look like? How about one that asks tough, consistent questions — not just about Israel, but about atrocities committed worldwide? Ask sbout biases too. Let’s try this:

A More Balanced and Honest Poll Might Ask:

1. Are Islamist groups committing genocide against non-Muslims in Africa? 2. Is the Chinese government committing genocide against the Uyghurs? 3. Is Russia committing genocide in Ukraine? 4. Are Arab militias committing genocide in Sudan? 5. Do you believe it’s objective for global media to focus more on Gaza than on regions with far higher civilian casualties? 6. Has the Iranian regime openly declared intentions to annihilate Israel? 7. Do Palestinian groups like Hamas hold genocidal intentions toward Israelis? 8. Does the Hamas regime deliberately place civilians in harm’s way to exploit their deaths for political leverage? 9. Is international media coverage systematically biased against Israel? 10. Are casualty figures from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry trustworthy and independently verified? 11. Is the accusation of “genocide” against Israel rooted in bias, misinformation, or both? 12. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you think media images of children—caused by pre-existing medical conditions—distort public perception of the conflict?

Conclusion:

If we’re going to ask difficult questions, let’s ask them across the board. Let’s examine global atrocities with equal scrutiny, and not selectively moralize based on prevailing ideological trends. Polls and media narratives must be held to the same standard — one rooted in consistency, facts, and genuine moral clarity.

Leading Questions, Misleading Narratives: What Biased Polls and Selective Outrage Reveal About Genocide Discourse.

1. Polls with an Agenda: How Selective Questions Shape the Genocide Narrative.

2. Truth or Trap? How Loaded Questions and Youthful Echo Chambers Skew Moral Clarity.

3. Selective Outrage: Why Honest Polling Must Look Beyond Israel.

4. Echo Chambers and Easy Answers: Why Genocide Accusations Demand Consistency. at JewishRefugees [16] [17]

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Most Trump Voters Agree: Hamas Is To Blame for Suffering in Gaza. Eighty-one percent of respondents also say the US should maintain strong support for Israel, a new poll found.

Jameson Mitrovich. August 28, 2025. President Donald Trump's voters overwhelmingly agree that Israel does not bear responsibility for any suffering in Gaza, according to a new poll from the Vandenberg Coalition and TargetPoint.

Fifty-six percent of those voters said that Hamas, after "launching a brutal attack on Israel, stealing international aid from the Palestinian people, and shielding itself behind civilians in Gaza," is to blame, while only 10 percent named Israel as the cause.

Thirteen percent of respondents blamed the United Nations for not allowing enough aid into Gaza and letting Hamas steal aid from the Palestinian people, while another 13 percent said the United States bears responsibility over its support for Israel. Eight percent of those surveyed blamed Arab nations like Egypt and Jordan.

Eighty-one percent of respondents said they believe Israel has a right to defend itself and that the United States should maintain its strong support for the Jewish state. While support for Israel among Trump's voters has remained consistently high since the poll's first edition in June 2025 and has never fallen below 80 percent, this most recent poll indicates that Trump's voters are skeptical of the mainstream narrative surrounding aid in Gaza.

The poll results also fly in the face of recent statements from self-described "MAGA" voices like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) and Tucker Carlson. FreeBeacon

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Twin brothers arrested in France for cutting down a memorial tree honoring Ilan Halimi, a Jewish man tortured to death in 2006. The act sparked national outrage and renewed concerns over antisemitism. Israel National News. Published: Aug 28, 2025, 4:17 AM (GMT+3)

French prosecutors confirmed. Wednesday the arrest of twin brothers in connection with the desecration of a memorial olive tree planted in honor of Ilan Halimi, a young Jewish man brutally tortured and murdered in 2006, AFP reported.

The tree, planted in 2011 in the northern Paris suburb of Epinay-sur-Seine, was cut down earlier this month, sparking widespread outrage across France.

The suspects, whose names have not been released, are to face immediate trial under a fast-track procedure for the racially or religiously aggravated desecration of a monument, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Bobigny.

The office confirmed details first reported by French magazine Paris Match, which stated that the two men are of Tunisian nationality and lack permanent residence. Their identification reportedly came through DNA evidence.

The destruction of the memorial has drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum. French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the act and vowed that those responsible would be punished.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou condemned the “antisemitic hatred” behind the cutting down of the tree.

“No crime can eradicate memory. The never-ending fight against the deadly poison of hatred is our primary duty,” he wrote at the time.

In response to the vandalism, local officials have pledged to replant the olive tree “as soon as possible” to preserve Halimi’s memory and stand against hate.

Halimi, 23, was kidnapped in January 2006 by a gang of approximately 20 individuals and held in a low-income housing estate in Bagneux, a suburb of Paris. He was tortured over a period of three weeks and died en route to the hospital after being discovered.

The incident has reignited concerns over rising antisemitism in France, particularly amid heightened tensions following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli military response in Gaza.

France’s Jewish community - one of the largest in the world - has reported a sharp increase in antisemitic acts, with figures from the interior ministry showing a rise from 436 incidents in 2022 to 1,676 in 2023, and 1,570 last year. INN

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Trump hosts Gaza war strategy meeting with Blair and Kushner. Israel National News. Aug 28, 2025, 2:20 AM INN

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Satellite images reveal: Iran rapidly cleaning up Israeli-targeted nuclear site. Israel National News. Aug 28, 2025, 5:39 AM INN

Research group: Clean-up of Iran site likely to erase any evidence of nuclear work. Satellite images show Iran rapidly clearing debris at Tehran’s Mojdeh site, hit by Israeli strikes in June; researchers says demolition likely aims to erase evidence of past nuclear weapons work as IAEA presses to resume inspections, Europe readies UN sanctions Reuters|8.28.25 YNet

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Diplomacy in Washington. Israeli FM Sa’ar in Washington: “There Will Be No Palestinian State”. Aug 28, 2025 07:05 INN

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Muslim council employee spews antisemitism. Published 2 days ago on August 28, 2025. By Tali Feinberg. Sajr. “I always used to wonder what it was about Jews that made people throughout history despise them.” This introduction to a Facebook post justifying antisemitism wasn’t shared online by a fringe fanatic, but by Nabeweya Lukie, the head of media and communications at the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) of South Africa, in her personal capacity.

The MJC is the leading umbrella body of the Muslim community in South Africa and often takes part in interfaith forums. However, Lukie’s naked hatred for Jews brings into question if the MJC supports her views, and if it’s possible for Muslim and Jewish communities to continue to engage on interfaith platforms.

Lukie shares endless antisemitic content on her own Facebook page and on other forums on social media. She shared the post justifying antisemitism on 21 December 2023, quoting one Jayne Gardener: “I suddenly recognised that if Hitler had developed a Final Solution to the Jewish question, then there had to be a Jewish problem,” she quoted. It went on to say that “Jewish claims about the Holocaust were in fact fraudulent.”

Daniel Bloch, the executive director of the Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies, says, “We have written to the MJC recording our concerns, requesting a full investigation into Ms Lukie’s conduct, and we are awaiting its response. We are exploring all options to protect our rights as South Africans and as Jews. Hatred of this kind cannot be allowed to go unchecked.”

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Qatar Does Not Seem Interested in Any Deal that Ends the Rule of Hamas in the Gaza Strip: What Qatar Is Saying in Arabic. by Bassam Tawil. August 28, 2025 at 5:00 am

• As the US and other Western countries continue to rely on Qatar to broker a ceasefire-hostage deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip, senior Qatari journalists affiliated with the Qatar's state-run media continue to praise [18] the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas, and are even calling [19] for Hamas to kidnap more Israelis.

• Al-Jazeera has been broadcasting similar videos from Hamas since the beginning of the war.

• While the Qatari government claims to the Trump Administration that it is working to release the 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip, al-Harmi, closely associated with Qatar's leadership, is calling for kidnapping more Israelis – whom, by the way, he described as "rats."

• "If success is not achieved this time in capturing Zionist soldiers at the hands of the heroes of Hamas Brigades, then the second, third, and fourth attempts will succeed, God willing, by adding new rats to the tally held by the heroes of the [Hamas] Brigades." — Jaber al-Harmi, editor-in-chief of the Qatari government mouthpiece newspaper Al Sharq, X, August 26, 2025.

• "I swear, the Zionist entity will inevitably disappear.... Its end is near, very near." — Jaber al-Harmi, quoting a video by Al-Jazeera, X August 26, 2025.

• "Al-Harmi's views on Israel and the Jews are aligned with the extremist ideology of Hamas and reflect his unreserved support for this movement and for its terror against Israelis – support which is also expressed by the Qatari state."— Middle East Media Research Institute, April 15, 2025.

• If Qatar really wanted to end the war in the Gaza Strip, its representatives and propagandists would not be calling on Hamas to kidnap more Israelis.

• If Qatar really wanted to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, it could do so by threatening to arrest or deport the Hamas leaders living in Doha or by seizing their financial assets.

• It is time for world leaders to listen to what the Qataris are saying in Arabic, not to what they hear from them in closed-door meetings in English.

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Jake Sullivan: 'I am telling Dems. to vote against giving weapons to Israel'. Israel National News. Aug 28, 2025, 8:04 AM INN

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Beverly Hills: Schools to fly Israeli flag during Jewish Heritage Month Grace Gilson, JTA Aug 28, 2025, 9:37 AM INN

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Peacekeepers Step Out. End of UNIFIL: Lebanon Left to Face Hezbollah Alone. Aug 28, 2025 10:07 JFeed

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Hostage Crisis . Desperate Hostage Father Slams Government: ‘My Son Is Dying’. Aug 28, 2025 10:33 JFeed

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Commandos Descend on Syria. Israel launches surprise attack on Syria: New details revealed Aug 28, 2025 11:02 JFeed

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IDF in Khan Yunis: Hamas structures demolished, 'Magen Oz' road taken. IDF forces operating from southern Gaza to northern Gaza, eliminating terrorists and working to take control of key corridor. Israel National News. Aug 28, 2025, 11:22 AM INN

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Minnesota shooter wrote of killing ‘fil#hy Zionist Jews,’ ‘free Palestine’. Robin Westman, who was transgender, killed two children at a Catholic school. JNS Staff.

(Aug. 27, 2025 / JNS) Robin Westman, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot after killing two children at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minn., wrote of murdering “fil#hy Zionist Jews,” that “six million wasn’t enough” and “free Palestine,” the New York Post reported on Wednesday.

The Post said that it translated writings in the Cyrillic alphabet by the shooter, 32, who was transgender. “If I will carry out a racially motivated attack, it would be most likely against filthy Zionist jews,” the shooter reportedly wrote in a journal that the paper said was “full of antisemitic slurs.”

Westman also wrote of assassinating U.S. President Donald Trump, the Post reported. Minneapolis police stated that of 17 people injured, 14 are children. Two are in critical condition, police said. JNS

Fact Check: Disproving claim Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman was Jewish. Anna Rascouët-Paz Fri, August 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM GMT+3

Claim: Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman was Jewish[sic].

Rating: False The day after an Aug. 27, 2025, mass shooting that resulted in the deaths of two children in a Minneapolis church, a rumor spread online that the shooter, Robin Westman, was Jewish.

For example, a post by someone who described herself as a "Christian nationalist" on X said a "transgender Jewish[sic] man" had ended the lives of Christian children (archived):

(@LaurenWitzkeDE on X)

As of this writing, the post had gained more than 530,000 views and 8,000 likes. The claim appeared several times on X, including by an account that called itself "Six Million," presumably a reference to the 6 million Jews Germany's Nazis killed during World War II.

However, there was no proof of the claim. In fact, reports indicated that Westman's family and Westman had ties to the Catholic church in which the shooting took place. Further, an obituary and a 1985 news article showed that Westman's mother, Mary Grace Westman, née Heleringer, has Catholic heritage. According to Jewish law, a person is Jewish when their mother is Jewish or when they convert to Judaism. There was no evidence that Robin Westman had converted to Judaism.

Snopes identified Westman's maternal grandmother as Mary Lou Heleringer, née O'Donnell. According to her 2004 obituary, she received a Catholic education. Her family celebrated a funeral Mass for her and urged mourners to send gifts to the Dominican Renovation Project at St. Louis Bertrand Church, a Catholic church in Louisville, Kentucky, where she lived.

Westman's maternal uncle, named in Heleringer's obituary, is former Kentucky state Rep. Robert "Bob" Heleringer. A 1985 article in The (Louisville) Courier-Journal reported that he had graduated from a Catholic high school and university and that he was "chairman of a legislative committee of Catholic PTAs."

News reports indicated that Westman's mother, in keeping with her family's tradition, had worked as a secretary at the Catholic school Westman attacked. Further, CNN reported that according to a yearbook photo, Westman graduated from the Annunciation Catholic Church's school in 2017. ABC affiliate KSTP confirmed the story, showing the yearbook photo.

In addition, police were investigating videos supposedly posted by the shooter in which firearms appeared with names and slogans scribbled on them, including antisemitic ones. According to KSTP, the suspect had written "Robert Bowers" on one of the weapons, referring to the man who committed the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. The New York Post posted screen captures of videos it attributed to Westman on YouTube. On them, writing on weapons read "6 million wasn't enough" and "Jew gas" on a smoke canister.

Sources: ABC7. "Minneapolis Shooting Investigation Focusing on Video Suspect Robin Westman Posted Online." YouTube, 28 Aug. 2025, [youtube.com/watch?v=feR3Fh-OXNI]. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025. [20]

The Hatreds of Robin Westman, and the False Claim That He Was Jewish. Aug 30, 2025 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald.

Robin né Robert Westman, the demented man who shot into the Annunciation Catholic Church School in Minneapolis, killing an eight-year-old and a ten-year-old, and wounding seventeen others, both children and teachers, has been widely reported as being an equal-opportunity “hater.” As the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minneapolis put it, “There appears to be only one group that the shooter didn’t hate, one group of people who the shooter admired — the group were the school shooters and mass murderers that are notorious in this country.”

Westman wrote on his rifle’s gunstock and on a holster all sorts of messages against Christians, Hindus, LGBTQ individuals, women, and — oh yes — Jews. But what the news stories almost never made clear was the fact that he bore a special animus for Jews that was on a different level from the hatred he bore others. Among the messages he wrote on his weapons were “Burn Israel,” “6 million wasn’t enough,” and “Extra Thicc! [sic] Jew Gas.”

He had only one comment that was apparently about Muslims written on a gun: “Remove kebab.” Yet he also wrote “Mashallah” (what Allah wills) and “Atta” on other weapons. There is more here about his special hatred for Jews: “Trans Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman mused about slaughtering ‘filt#y Zionist Jews’ in sick journal before deadly Catholic school massacre,” by Diana Nerozzi and Anthony Blair, New York Post, August 27, 2025 [21]:

'Transgender Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman spoke of murdering “filthy Zionist Jews” and spewed other antisemitic bile in a twisted manifesto before he opened fire at a Catholic school Wednesday morning, killing two children. Westman, 23, also wrote slogans such as “Free Palestine” in a journal he wrote in the Cyrillic alphabet, which The Post translated, after YouTube clips showing the diary pages were posted online on his since-deleted channel. Robert Robin Westman has been identified as the shooter of the Annunciation Catholic School and Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota with at least a dozen victims and two casualties.Obtained by NY Post “If I will carry out a racially motivated attack, it would be most likely against filthy Zionist jews,” he wrote in one disgusting entry. “I hate those entitled, penny-sniffing k-kes,” he wrote elsewhere in the journal, which was full of antisemitic slurs. Westman also wrote “6 million wasn’t enough” — a reference to the number of Jewish Holocaust victims — on the side of ammunition magazines he filmed before the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School and Church in Minneapolis that also left 17 people wounded. Another message scrawled on one of his many magazines read “Destroy HIAS,” the Jewish refugee aid group, while one of his guns read “Israel must fall, release the files,” a possible reference to Jeffrey Epstein. The deranged gunman mused about assassinating President Trump and Jews — but ultimately decided that killing “children of innocent civilians” would bring him “the most joy,” the translated journal entries read….'

So here is my question: what prevented the BBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the rest of the Great and Good in our media universe (the New York Post is not part of that exalted company) from pointing out that “while Robin Westman expressed his dislike or hatred of many different groups, he had a special hatred not just for Jews, but also for the state of Israel. He also expressed support for a ‘free Palestine.'”

While Westman’s fanatical antisemitism has been depicted in the mainstream media as being just one more of his hatreds, rather than what it was — his supreme hatred, different in kind from all the others — antisemites had an initial field day insisting, falsely, that Westman was “Jewish,” as here.

For example, one Lauren Witzke, who ran for the Senate from Delaware in 2020, describes herself as a “Christian nationalist,” and is a believer in the QAnon conspiracy, wrote on X that a “transgender Jewish man” had “ended the lives of Christian children.” Her post on X gained more than 530,000 views and 8,000 likes within a day of being posted. The claim appeared several times on X, including a post by someone identifying as “Six Million,” who wrote that “Robert Westman is ashkenazi jew.” Why has that story, of how the antisemites have rushed to claim on social media that Westman was Jewish, been completely ignored? [22]

Exposing the Antisemitic Smear: Robin Westman Was Catholic-Bred. An Antisemite, Not Jewish. Of German origin just like racist Nazi like Lauren Witzke German roots.

In the wake of the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on August 27, 2025, where 23-year-old Robin Westman (formerly Robert) murdered two innocent children—an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old—and wounded 17 others before taking his own life, a vile wave of misinformation has surged online. Far-right extremists, white supremacists, and self-proclaimed "Christian nationalists" have peddled the baseless lie that Westman was Jewish, attempting to twist this tragedy into fuel for their antisemitic agendas. This claim is not just false—it's a deliberate distortion designed to deflect from Westman's own rabid hatred of Jews and to perpetuate Nazi-inspired tropes about "Jewish conspiracies." As we mourn the victims and condemn all forms of bigotry, let's dismantle this racist fabrication with facts, while shining a light on Westman's true motivations: a toxic brew of hatreds, with antisemitism at its core.

The False Claim: A Tool of Modern-Day Nazis.

Immediately after the shooting, accounts on X (formerly Twitter) began spreading the rumor that Westman was a "transgender Jewish man" responsible for killing "Christian children." One prominent example came from fascist Lauren Witzke, a failed Senate candidate from Delaware who identifies as a "Christian nationalist" and promotes QAnon conspiracies. Her post, which garnered over 530,000 views and 8,000 likes in a single day, exemplifies how antisemites exploit tragedies to stoke division. Other users, including one ironically named "Six Million" (a grotesque nod to the Holocaust's six million Jewish victims), echoed the claim, insisting Westman was "Ashkenazi[sic]Jewish[sic]." These assertions often hinged on misinterpretations of family names like "Heleringer," which Witzke falsely labeled as Jewish—ignoring its German origins, much like her own surname "Witzke."

But this is pure fiction, rooted in the same hateful ideology that fueled the Nazis' genocide. Fact-checkers, including Snopes, have thoroughly debunked it. There is zero evidence that Westman was Jewish by birth, conversion, or any other measure. Under Jewish law (halakha), Jewish identity is typically matrilineal—passed through the mother—or acquired via conversion. Westman's maternal lineage is unambiguously Catholic, with no Jewish ties whatsoever.

Westman's Deep Catholic Roots: Family Ties That Disprove the Lie.

Westman's family history paints a picture of generational Catholicism, not Judaism. His mother, Mary Grace Westman (née Heleringer), worked as a secretary at the very Catholic school he targeted, from 2016 to 2021. Westman himself graduated from Annunciation Catholic Church's school in 2017, as confirmed by yearbook photos reported by CNN and local ABC affiliate KSTP.

Digging deeper, Westman's maternal grandmother, Mary Lou Heleringer (née O'Donnell), was a devout Catholic who received a Catholic education. Her 2004 obituary described a funeral Mass and encouraged donations to the Dominican Renovation Project at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, Kentucky—a Catholic institution. Westman's maternal uncle, former Kentucky state Rep. Robert "Bob" Heleringer, graduated from Catholic high school and university, and served as chairman of a legislative committee for Catholic PTAs, as noted in a 1985 Courier-Journal article. In a 2016 opinion piece for the Courier-Journal, Heleringer himself affirmed his lifelong commitment to Catholicism, crediting his mother's daily rosary prayers, his education under Jesuit and diocesan priests, and his ongoing involvement with the Dominicans at St. Louis Bertrand Church. He emphasized enduring faith despite scandals, quoting scripture: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."

These details aren't obscure—they're public records that antisemites willfully ignore to push their narrative. Spreading such lies isn't harmless; it's a continuation of the blood libels and conspiracy theories that have justified violence against Jews for centuries. In a world still scarred by the Holocaust, where Nazis systematically murdered six million Jews, allowing these smears to fester is an affront to humanity.

Westman's Hatreds: Antisemitism as the Supreme Poison.

While Westman expressed disdain for multiple groups—Christians, Hindus, LGBTQ+ individuals, women, and even vague references to Muslims like "Remove kebab" (a far-right meme)—his vitriol toward Jews and Israel stood out as uniquely ferocious and obsessive. As U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota noted, Westman admired only one "group": infamous school shooters and mass murderers. But his writings reveal antisemitism as his crowning hatred, echoing the genocidal rhetoric of Nazis and modern white supremacists.

Videos attributed to Westman, posted on YouTube before being deleted, showed firearms inscribed with chilling messages: "6 million wasn't enough" (mocking Holocaust victims), "Jew gas" on a smoke canister, "Burn Israel," "Destroy HIAS" (targeting a Jewish refugee aid organization), and "Israel must fall, release the files" (possibly referencing Jeffrey Epstein). One weapon bore "Robert Bowers," honoring the perpetrator of the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, where 11 Jews were murdered.

Westman's journal, partially written in Cyrillic and translated by the New York Post, drips with unfiltered antisemitism. He mused: "If I will carry out a racially motivated attack, it would be most likely against filthy Zionist Jews," and spewed slurs like "I hate those entitled, penny-sniffing k-kes." He advocated for "Free Palestine" while rejecting other motivations, ultimately choosing to target "children of innocent civilians" for "the most joy." This wasn't equal-opportunity hate; it was a hierarchy with Jews at the bottom, intertwined with anti-Israel fervor that often masks deeper antisemitism.

Mainstream media outlets like the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post have reported on Westman's broad grievances but largely downplayed this antisemitic focus, treating it as just another hatred rather than the ideological driver it appears to be. Why the reluctance? In an era of rising hate crimes against Jews—fueled by both far-left and far-right extremists—failing to highlight this empowers bigots. Meanwhile, outlets like the New York Post and fact-checkers have called it out, but the silence from "the Great and Good" allows false narratives to thrive.

On X, the false Jewish claim persists in posts sharing articles, which correctly debunks it but is amplified by users blending it with conspiracy theories. One user falsely claimed Westman was "Jewish by [supposed] ethnicity, Jesuit by faith," tying it to baseless CIA and government conspiracies—a classic antisemitic trope.

A Call to Reject Hate: Anti-Racism as Our Shield.

This tragedy underscores the dangers of unchecked bigotry. Westman's actions were the product of a deranged mind steeped in online radicalization, where hatred of Jews, transphobia, and other prejudices intersect in deadly ways. But the real villains here include those who exploit the dead to spread racism—modern Nazis hiding behind keyboards, "Christian nationalists" who pervert faith into supremacy, and anyone who amplifies division.

We must stand unequivocally against racism, Nazism, and all forms of hate. Honor the victims—Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10—by fighting for a world free of such poison. Educate against misinformation, support Jewish communities facing rising threats, and demand better from our media. Antisemitism isn't just "one more hatred"—it's a cancer that has claimed millions of lives. Let's eradicate it, once and for all, in the name of humanity's shared dignity.

Notes:

• Disproving claim Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman was Jewish.

A 23-year-old, who killed an 8- and 10-year-old in a Catholic church, became the focus of many rumors. Anna Rascouët-Paz. Published Aug. 28, 2025 [23]

• Minnesota shooter wrote of killing ‘fil#hy Zionist Jews,’ ‘free Palestine’.

Robin Westman, who was transgender, killed two children at a Catholic school. JNS Staff. Aug 27, 2025. [24]

• Heleringer | Why I will always be Catholic. Bob Heleringer.

I dreaded my first weekend home from college. Apr 19, 2016. [25] (8.30.25). at EoZ

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MFA demands immediate retraction of IPC’s Gaza starvation report. Israel National News. Aug 28, 2025, 4:30 PM INN

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Caught in the Act. WATCH Gaza Mother’s Fake Injury Video: Shocking Anti-Israel Scam Exposed A Gaza mother’s Instagram Reel, using a filter to fake injuries on her children while begging for donations, has exposed tactics to spread anti-Israel propaganda. Eliana Fleming. Aug 28, 2025 17:52

([26]. Gazan mothers filtered instagram post. Photo: Screenshot from video)

A viral Instagram Reel posted by @VividProwess revealed a Gaza mother soliciting donations by displaying her children with apparent facial injuries, only for the wounds to vanish when a child raised his arm, exposing the use of a digital filter. The video, viewed over 1.2 million times, shows the mother pleading for aid while her children, seemingly bloodied and bruised with scratches on their faces, sit beside her. However, a glitch in the filter causes the injuries to disappear momentarily, revealing the children unharmed. This incident, widely discussed on platforms like X, underscores a troubling trend of exaggerated or fabricated claims of suffering in Gaza to push an anti-Israel narrative and solicit funds, many of which end up in Hamas' terrorists hands. JFeed

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Turkey Makes History: Cuts Israel Off Completely - No Trade, No Skies, No Way Back. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announces sweeping rupture amid fury over Gaza war and reports Israel dismantled Turkish spy devices in Syria. Yair Kleinbaum. Aug 29, 2025. JFeed

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Second woman alleges sexual misconduct by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan Former intern says Khan groped her, made ‘constant onslaught’ of advances while they worked from his apartment in 2009; ICC staffer has alleged similar actions by Khan in 2023-2024. By ToI Staff. 29 Aug 2025, 11:45 am TOI

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France’s moral collapse: Jared Kushner’s father was right to call out Macron on antisemitism. Opinion: France is outraged that Jared Kushner’s father had the guts to call out Macron’s failure to fight antisemitism, but the outrage is misdirected; from Dreyfus to Vichy, from Charlie Hebdo to Hypercacher, France has always betrayed its Jews—and history, not Macron, will deliver the verdict. Adam Scott Bellos|08.28.25 | 15:27 YNet

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The Houthis are Iran’s expanding terror force and a global threat. Opinion: International leaders face a clear choice: Act now or pay a much higher price later. It must recognize the Houthis for what they truly are—a terrorist arm of Iran Minister Moammar Al-Eryani/The Media Line|08.28.25 22:10

The recent statement by Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh, in which he admitted that Tehran has established military factories and infrastructure in other countries, is not a mere slip of the tongue—it is a grave confession. It reveals Iran’s persistent drive to export its military and ideological scheme through its network of sectarian militias, foremost among them the Houthi group in Yemen. Over the years, mounting evidence has shown that Iran has transferred components of its missile and drone programs to Houthi-controlled areas in Saada, Hajjah, and the outskirts of Sanaa. This trend has intensified following accurate strikes on Iran’s missile infrastructure and growing international pressure on its nuclear and ballistic programs. The Houthis, far from possessing indigenous military-manufacturing capabilities, serve merely as a local façade and a direct extension of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). YNet

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Israel to open two more humanitarian aid centers in Gaza Strip. Israel National News. Aug 28, 2025, 3:03 PM INN

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More Aid Centers. Gaza’s New Lifeline: Israel's Humanitarian Push to Feed Gaza. Israel is establishing two additional humanitarian aid centers in southern Gaza, increasing the total to five, to enhance food distribution while preventing Hamas from diverting resources.

Eliana Fleming. Aug 29, 2025 00:07 JFeed

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Sen. Graham: 'I blame Hamas for all the problems after October 7'. Israel National News. Aug 29, 2025, 12:13 AM INN

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Ambassador Leiter: My own son was killed because we do not kill innocent civilians. In an interview with CNN, Ambassador Yechiel Leiter says his son was killed in Gaza because Israel avoids harming civilians: “If we were doing what we're accused of, maybe he'd be alive today.” Israel National News. Published: Aug 29, 2025, 1:17 AM (GMT+3) Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, was interviewed by CNN’s Jake Tapper, underscoring the unprecedented challenges the IDF faces and the moral calculus guiding its operations.

“You got to ask yourself a question,” Leiter said. “A country that's capable of taking out the control of all of Iranian airspace in 72 hours, allowing for the B-2s of the United States to come in and obliterate the nuclear weapons operations in Iran, is not capable of ending this war sooner? Of course we are. But it's because we're taking precautions that no other country has ever taken, had to face a situation of 450 miles of terror tunnels under an area that's 24 miles long.” INN

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Father of hostage: 'The world must pressure Hamas, not Israel'. Hezki Baruch. Aug 29, 2025, 4:39 AM INN

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Dermer to White House: 'Israel wants out of Gaza - if conditions are met'. Israel National News. Aug 29, 2025, 5:45 AM INN

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Houthi-backed Prime Minister eliminated in IDF strike in Sanaa. Yemeni media report that Ahmed al-Rahawi, the Houthi-backed Prime Minister, was eliminated in an Israeli strike in Sanaa, along with several of his associates. Israel National News. Aug 29, 2025, 6:13 AM INN

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Hostage Families: ‘There Are Two Kinds of Human Rights: One for Everyone Else, and Another for the Jews’. Gabriel Colodro. 08/29/2025

Families marked Day 690 with strikes, marches and voices that refuse to be silenced.

On the 690th day since Oct. 7, Israel was transformed into a stage of defiance and mourning. From dawn until late evening, families of hostages and their supporters turned intersections into protest sites, Hostages Square into a hunger installation, and Tel Aviv’s streets into rivers of yellow ribbons and flags. The national strike called “Israel Stands Together” was more than a demonstration — it was a deliberate suspension of normal life, meant to remind the nation and its leaders that 50 hostages remain in Gaza and time has stretched into almost two years.

“There are two kinds of human rights: one for everyone else, and another for the Jews. It is time to expose this,” Itzik Horn, father of two sons — one freed from Hamas captivity and one still held in Gaza — told The Media Line. His words echoed through Hostages Square, setting the tone for a day of rallies, marches and anguish transformed into collective action.

From the earliest hours, symbolism defined the protest. At 6:29 a.m., giant flags were unfurled outside the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, marking the precise time when Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. “This is the time our lives changed,” the families said. “People of Israel, stand by our side today.” By midmorning, Hostages Square was already alive with mothers circling the hunger installation table with strollers, declaring in unison: “A mother will never give up.” TheMediaLine

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Dave Smith The Gentile. Dave Smith's Lies Exposed -He has been Pretending to be Jewish. What’s sick about it, is that unlike real self-hating jews like Chomsky, he’s only pretending to be a self-loathing one, which is somewhat hilarious. Like a genuine clown.

Yair Kleinbaum. Aug 29, 2025 08:52

Dave Smith has a Rachel Dolezal Problem.

But unlike Dolezal who at least tried to belefit blacks, Smith is pretending to be a Jew only so he can Hurt them.

So Newsflah - Dave is a gentile. And that's ok.

Isaac Newton, Mark Twain, Michaelangelo, Galileo, Napoleon, Donald Trump - many great gentiles out there...

Problem is, Smith is sadly not one of them.

And it is fortunate for him that he can lie about this to the whole world without being exposed. For if he really was a Jew, his hate would likely be met with divine retribution God only punishes Jews with - as he Says :"You [Jews] only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities." Hence, Dave should thank God he's only lying about being Jewish.

I personally believe the funniest thing Smith ever did is pretend to be Jewish.

Who the hell voluntarily pretends to be Jewish?! What goes on in this person's head?. That's honestly the sole bit of Larry David-like entertainment Smith ever provided.

As far as I know, Smith never told a funny joke (Again, he is not a jew), yet he can attribute his Rachel-Dolezal shtick actually working, to the fact that only in a country like the United States can someone claim this without being exposed. But thank God, Dr. Eli David has already revealed it.

In fact, the reason Smith, an Israel-hater and Iran supporter, can even pull off this pretense and fool search engines, journalists, Wikipedia, and millions of others exposed to him daily, is that in the United States alone, reformist movements ignore the question of “Who is a Jew” .

The interesting thing here, is the mind of Smith, his psychological makeup. Like with Dolezal, what goes through their mind as they carry these fakes identities? A man who is as Jewish as Lenin (who also had 1 Jewish grandfather), or David Beckham.

Smith cannot perform a Passover Seder, a circumcision, Join a Minyan (Jewish male prayer), or be buried in a Jewish cemetery. He is not a Jew. He may qualify for Aliyah status being one of his grandparents was Jewish (so he claims) and may qualify to sit around obese lesbian rabbis in a reform synagogue.

But that’s about that.

What’s sick about it, is that unlike real self-hating jews like Chomsky, he’s only pretending to be a self-loathing one, which is somewhat hilarious. Like a genuine clown.

The truth is, it’s hard to know what's in the mind of one who parades his way like this across the world. But one thing is certain: Smith is LARPing, and it gives him exposure.

It’s somewhat reminiscent of Messianic Jews, who mask their Christian beliefs with their Jewishness. Similarly, he’s a transparent fraud, who masks his views with Claiming to be something he is not.

There’s no doubt he needs to see a Jewish (authentic) psychologist. JFeed

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Watch: IDF takes out Hamas terrorist cell in northern Gaza. Israel National News. Aug 29, 2025, 11:15 AM INN

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'Dangerous combat zone'. IDF halts daily humanitarian tactical pauses in Gaza City. Israel National News. Aug 29, 2025, 11:40 AM INN

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Murdered Defending the Kibbutz BREAKING: Two Hostages’ Bodies Recovered - IDF’s Heroic Gaza Mission. The IDF and Shin Bet successfully recovered the body of Ilan Weiss, a heroic Kibbutz Be’eri resident killed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, along with remains of another unidentified hostage from Gaza. Eliana Fleming. Aug 29, 2025 13:40 JFeed

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IDF Confirms Attempt to Eliminate Houthi Leadership. Military sources confirm Israel attempted to strike Houthi Defense Minister and Chief of Staff in Sana’a yesterday. The attack was approved following real-time intelligence on a gathering of senior Houthi figures. Israel is now bracing for potential intensified missile fire in retaliation. Aug 29, 2025 JFeed

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Israel confirms ground raids in southern Syria: ‘Terrorists arrested, weapons seized’. Yisv Zitun|08.29.25 YNet

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Strike on Houthi leaders took advantage of ‘narrow intelligence window,' say IDF officials. IDF targeted senior Houthi leaders near Sanaa, including chief of staff Mohammed Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari and ministers; anti-Houthi sources reported prime minister Ahmed Galib al-Rahwi was killed, though the Houthis have not confirmed any deaths. Yoav Zitun|08.29.25 17:38 YNet

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US to block Abbas from attending UN General Assembly. In a historic decision, the Trump administration reaffirms commitment to not reward terrorism and revokes visas of Palestinian officials, preventing them from attending UNGA. Israel National News. Aug 29, 2025, 6:14 PM (GMT+3) INN

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IDF eliminates top ISIS leader in Gaza strike IDF confirms the elimination of ISIS Gaza chief Muhammad Abu Zubaida, who led terror operations across Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and Sinai. Israel National News. Published: Aug 29, 2025, 8:05 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Iran launched cyberattack on Gaza ceasefire talks, Israeli firm reports Dream Security reports that Iran is suspected of launching a cyberattack targeting Oman’s Foreign Ministry to spy on Egypt-hosted Gaza hostage talks, using malicious emails to infiltrate diplomats’ systems and monitor communications. Tal Shahaf|08.29.25 YNet

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Jewish woman stabbed at Ottawa supermarket. The suspect railed against Jews on social media. Canaan Lidor.

(Aug. 29, 2025 / JNS) Prosecutors in Canada on Thursday charged a 71-year-old man with stabbing and severely wounding a Jewish woman at a Loblaws supermarket in Ottawa that houses a well-known kosher section, in an assault that rights groups said was likely antisemitic.

The man, identified by B’nai Brith Canada as Joseph Rooke, was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a dangerous weapon, police said in a statement. The victim and defendant were not known to each before the incident, the police also said. The statement and media reports did not say how the defendant pleaded.

The man entered the store with another person, according to a CBC report on the incident. He allegedly stabbed the victim at the kosher section, according to the National Post, and was arrested in the store. The woman was taken to the hospital in critical but stable condition, the CBC reported. JNS

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Israel pulls out of major UK defense exhibition. The decision to leave DSEI follows restrictions that amount to "discrimination," the defense ministry in Jerusalem said. Canaan Lidor. (Aug. 29, 2025 / JNS) Israel has withdrawn from a major military exhibition in London after British government officials imposed restrictions on its participation, the Defense Ministry in Jerusalem said on Friday. JNS

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Ex-hostage thanks for recovering father’s body. Noga Weiss, abducted Oct. 7, thanks IDF for recovering father Ilan after 692 days; urges deal to free remaining hostages. Lihi Gordon|08.30.25. YNet

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IDF armored vehicle hits roadside explosive in Gaza, 7 soldiers wounded. Six soldiers lightly injured, one moderately, after an armored vehicle drove over an explosive in Gaza City’s Zeitoun. neighborhood; Amid warnings of a worsening humanitarian crisis, Israel urges evacuation as Hamas threatens residents. Einav Halabi|08.30.25. YNet

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Lebanon: IDF kills commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force Ahmad Naeem Maatouk was involved in planning and carrying out attacks against Israel during the war. JNS Staff Israeli Air Force fighter jets. Credit: Israeli Defense Ministry Spokesperson’s Office.Israeli Air Force fighter jets. Credit: Israeli Defense Ministry Spokesperson’s Office.

(Aug. 30, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces on Friday struck and killed Hezbollah terrorist Ahmad Naeem Maatouk, just north of the Litani River in the area of Sir El Gharbiyeh in Southern Lebanon.

Maatouk was a battalion staff commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force and was involved in planning and carrying out attacks against Israel during the current war, the IDF said.

“The terrorist’s actions constituted a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” according to the military.

Israeli Air Force craft struck several targets of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, including a rocket launcher, in Southern Lebanon on Thursday. Three days earlier, the IDF killed a Hezbollah terrorist in the area of Tebnine, east of Tyre in Southern Lebanon. According to the military, the slain operative had been working to rebuild Hezbollah infrastructure in the nearby border town of Beit Lif. JNS

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Year three of the siege on Jewish students begins. Blood libels against Israel may reignite campus antisemitism. Administrators who tolerate the targeting of Jews, however, will have to reckon with President Donald Trump. Jonathan S. Tobin.

(Aug. 29, 2025 / JNS) By the end of the second academic year since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab attack against southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, the unprecedented increase in antisemitism on American college campuses appeared to have abated. Some of the steam seemed to have gone out of the organized mobs of pro-Hamas demonstrators who took part in encampments and building takeovers while chanting for the destruction of Israel and Jewish genocide (“From the river to the sea”) and for terrorism against Jews wherever they lived (“Globalize the intifada”). JNS

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EU ministers split on Gaza, Israel at Copenhagen talks. Some EU foreign ministers pushed sanctions on Israel while others resisted, highlighting deep divisions over humanitarian and economic measures. Reuters|08.30.25. YNet

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Sa’ar slams Belgian support for PA: Serving ‘interests of terrorists’. Instead of criticizing Washington, you should focus on the P.A.’s “legal warfare against Israel,” said the Jewish state's foreign minister. JNS Staff.

(Aug. 30, 2025 / JNS) Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar rebuked on Saturday his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prévot over the latter’s support for the Palestinian Authority, saying that it “serves only the interests of the terrorists, not dialogue, not peace.”

The P.A. has never stopped compensating Palestinian terrorists and their families and inciting violence against the Jewish state, policies that stand in clear violation of its diplomatic commitments, Sa’ar tweeted.

“Therefore, your support for a Palestinian state is clearly a support of a terror state, a basis for further attacks on Israel and October 7-like atrocities,” Israel’s top diplomat continued, referring to the Hamas-led massacre in 2023.

Sa’ar said that instead of criticizing the United States over its decision to deny visas to Palestinian representatives ahead of the 80th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Belgium should focus on the P.A.’s “legal warfare against Israel.” JNS

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Houthis confirm prime minister killed in Israeli strike on Sanaa. Houthi leadership say Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahwi and several ministers died in a precision Israeli strike during government meeting; Israel says attack targeted top commanders as Yemeni rebels vow retaliation and launch missile toward Israel Lior Ben Ari|08.30.25 YNet

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Kash Patel's girlfriend sues podcaster for alleging she is a 'honeypot' Mossad agent. Former FBI agent and self-alleged whistleblower Kyle Seraphin called Patel's partner "an agent of a foreign government, assigned to manipulate and compromise the director of the FBI.

By Jerusalem Post Staff August 30, 2025. FBI Director Kash Patel's longtime girlfriend Alexis Wilkins is suing a former FBI agent and conservative podcast host for alleging that she is a Mossad agent sent to compromise her partner in a honeypot operation.

In the lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Texas, Wilkins sued podcaster Kyle Seraphin for $5 million for “falsely asserting that she, an American-born country singer, is an agent of a foreign government, assigned to manipulate and compromise the director of the FBI,” her attorney wrote. [...] Wilkins, a Christian country music singer and conservative political commentator on media platforms and organizations such as Rumble and PragerU, is notably not Jewish.

“Ms. Wilkins is not even Jewish, much less Israeli, and has never set foot in Israel ... The notion that her relationship with Dir. Patel is part of some plot against her country is vile and ridiculous," her lawyer wrote. JPost

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Target of Gaza strike: Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida. Uzi Baruch. Aug 30, 2025, 7:51 PM INN

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Seven soldiers injured in Zeitoun neighborhood. Israel National News. Aug 30, 2025, 8:05 PM INN

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900th fallen soldier: Sergeant First Class (Res.) Ariel Lubliner fell in battle in Gaza. Israel National News. Aug 30, 2025, 9:12 PM INN

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Heartbreaking loss. Idan Shtivi's Tragic Journey: From Nova to Gaza and Back Home at Last. The Israel Defense Forces recovered the body of 28-year-old Idan Shtivi, a hostage taken by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel. Shtivi, hailed as a hero for helping others escape, was killed during the assault. Gila Isaacson. Aug 30, 2025 22:53 JFeed

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Body of hostage Idan Shtivi returned to Israel. The body of Idan Shtivi was retrieved by the IDF together with that of Ilan Weiss. Israel National News. Aug 30, 2025, 11:14 PM INN

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FBI Helped Cover Up Saudi Role in 9/11 And it's not alone in the cover-up. August 29, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield.

As the anniversary of September 11 approaches, a lawsuit filed by the families of the victims of the Islamic terrorist attacks against the Saudis has been granted permission to move forward.

Saudi Arabia along with Qatar and Iran were the three Islamic terrorist states seen as most complicit in September 11.

One of the big missing pieces of the puzzle is the complicity of the FBI in covering up the role of Saudi Arabia.

During the trial, a video emerged that the FBI had spent a lot of time hiding of Omar Al-Bayoumi, a Saudi agent, filming key landmarks in D.C. with a view toward security arrangements and mentions of “the plan”.

FBI covered up the Saudi role in 9/11

Shortly after 9/11, the FBI received and suppressed this video of Omar Al-Bayoumi, a Saudi agent who knew the 9/11 hijackers filming in D.C. and talking about a “plan”

It only came out after 9/11 victims sued the Saudis /1 [pic.twitter.com/lFsGuFA9Il] — Daniel Greenfield – “Hang Together or Separately” (@Sultanknish) August 29, 2025

Al-Bayoumi had known two of the 9/11 hijackers. The video was an important piece of the puzzle as was the timing of it.

A voice on the video says in Arabic, “I am transmitting these scenes to you from the heart of the American capital, Washington.”

Bayoumi points out the Washington monument and says, “I will get over there,” and “report to you in detail what is there.”

Richard Lambert: What I see Bayoumi doing is going out and making a detailed video record of the Capitol from all its sides, and then conducting that 360 degree panoramic view.

Richard Lambert is a retired FBI supervisor who led the initial 9/11 investigation in San Diego, where Bayoumi and the two hijackers lived prior to the attacks. He’s now a consultant on the case filed by the 9/11 families.

Richard Lambert: If you’ve ever flown into Washington D.C., one of the first things you see on the horizon is the Washington Monument. So, if you know where your other targets are, it helps guide you to your intended target.

Richard Lambert: Well, that means it was taken within 90 days of the time when senior al Qaeda planners reached the decision that the Capitol would be a target of the 9/11 attacks.

That’s when Osama bin Laden decided to approve the so-called “planes operation” proposed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11.

During a raid on Bayoumi’s U.K. apartment about 10 days after the attacks, British police discovered the Capitol video, along with about 80 other tapes and a trove of documents now being used as evidence in the families’ lawsuit. This internal FBI report, dated Oct. 11, 2001, shows that “copies of all recovered exhibits” were “sent to FBI-New York via Federal Express,” but the Capitol video never made it to the San Diego field office.

Why was the video hidden anyway? The question is the answer.

From the Bush administration to the Obama administration, a concerted effort was made to protect the Saudis and Qataris and avoid any discussion of the Islamic angle.

The Saudis proved very able when it came to finding American useful idiots who would help cover up for them. There have been plenty of these people over the years whose mission was attacking the enemies of Islam under the guise of being ‘truth seekers’ or ‘patriots’, while shamelessly pandering to the Saudis and to the sponsors of Islamic terror.

Sometimes it’s not even subtle.

Tucker Carlson “doesn’t want to brag”, but he’s going to Saudi Arabia for their “Real Estate Forum”

“I’ve spent a lot of time in the Gulf I think it’s one of the most amazing places on planet Earth,” he gushes

Also he’s exonerating the Saudis for 9/11. Just asking questions pic.twitter.com/p7FXafOJTK — Daniel Greenfield – “Hang Together or Separately” (@Sultanknish) August 29, 2025

“I’ve spent a lot of time in the Gulf I think it’s one of the most amazing places on Planet Earth, but I’ve never been to the Saudi Kingdom, never been to Saudi Arabia and I can’t wait to go for a glimpse of what the future holds because that’s what you see when you go to the Gulf,” Tucker announces.

What kind of person thinks that a medieval kingdom where they have slaves is “what the future holds”?

The question, as always, is the answer. So of course Tucker Carlson is putting out a ‘documentary’ on 9/11 meant to direct your attention anywhere except the people who actually did it. So much of the so-called ‘Truther’ movement was always about diverting our attention from Islam and especially from the Saudis who helped up build up an enemy nation within our nation.

They always claim they’re asking questions, but what they’re really doing is making sure that we ask the wrong questions. That is also what the FBI was doing. They hid the truth about the Saudi role in 9/11. Why? Money. Power. And perhaps a belief that the Saudis are “what the future holds”. Certainly the 9/11 terrorists thought that the future held a Sharia kingdom ruling over non-Muslims. Now a lot of those covering up for them do too. FPM

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Boulder, Colorado: Run For Their Lives marches now secret due to threats, harassment. Grace Gilson, JTA. Aug 31, 2025, 4:41 PM INN

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Israel confirms: Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida eliminated. Uzi Baruch. Aug 31, 2025, 5:04 PM INN

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'Threat removed': After 5 years: IDF approves reopening of main access to Nahal Oz. IDF reopens Route 25 to Nahal Oz, removing antitank walls following elimination of threat from nearby hills. Israel National News Published: Aug 31, 2025, 4:01 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Likud MK pushes to define Qatar as an enemy state. Israel National News. Aug 31, 2025, 5:02 PM INN

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Chief of Staff: 'We'll reach the Hamas leaders abroad'. IDF Chief of Staff attends security assessment following elimination of Hamas military spox Abu Obaida, stressing IDF 'surprises' enemies, promising to reach every target in order to protect Israel's security. Yoni Kempinski. Aug 31, 2025, 6:01 PM INN

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Postwar Plan A Pipe Dream? Trump Eyes Gaza Hungrily: A 'Riviera' Reborn or Forced Relocation? Explore Trump’s controversial postwar Gaza plan, transforming the enclave into a “Riviera” with luxury resorts, high-tech hubs, and voluntary population relocation. Critics warn of legal, humanitarian, and historical risks amid reconstruction promises and international debate. Gila Isaacson. Aug 31, 2025 13:54 JFeed

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Qatar's Cultural Clash. Qatar owns Zohran's Mamdani's Mother. Here's why it's a problem. Qatar’s arts patronage meets U.S. politics: New revelations tie filmmaker Mira Nair’s projects to son Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign trail.

Gila Isaacson. Aug 31, 2025 16:44

In the glittering world of international cinema, where art meets diplomacy, a new investigation has uncovered a decade-long financial lifeline from Qatar to acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair, the mother of New York State Assemblyman and mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani. According to a New York Post exclusive published today (Sunday), the gas-rich Gulf state poured resources into Nair's projects through its cultural arms, raising eyebrows about foreign influence in American politics and culture. As Mamdani campaigns on progressive platforms like housing justice and police reform, the revelations spotlight uncomfortable ties to a nation criticized for bankrolling Hamas and human rights abuses. JFeed

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Following Yemen strike: Security for Israeli officials increased to unprecedented level. Israel National News. Aug 31, 2025, 9:23 PM INN

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Holocaust memorial in Lyon defaced with ‘Free Gaza’. The memorial was inaugurated in January to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. JNS Staff. (Aug. 31, 2025 / JNS) A Holocaust memorial in Lyon, France, was defaced with the words “Free Gaza,” local officials confirmed to AFP on Saturday. JNS

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Israeli-linked vessel targeted in Red Sea. Elad Benari. Sep 1, 2025, 12:08 AM INN

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Knife-wielding man arrested after threatening Jews near Paris synagogue. Man threatens Jews near a Paris synagogue before Shabbat and arrested by police. Authorities are probing antisemitic motives. Elad Benari. Published: Sep 1, 2025, 2:23 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Report. US blocks Palestinian Arab visas amid statehood push. The New York Times reports that the US has suspended most visas for Palestinian Arab passport holders, citing national security. Israel National News. Sep 1, 2025, 3:14 AM INN

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Sexual Jihad. Why Muslim Rape Gangs Thrive in Britain But not in Israel - And What the UK Must Do Now. Britain faces an epidemic it refuses to name, while Israel, with a larger Muslim minority, has kept it in check. The difference holds urgent lessons.

Yair Kleinbaum. Sep. 1, 2025 02:45 In the days before the establishment of Israel, when Arabs made up nearly 70 percent of the population and Jews were a minority suffering harsh pogroms, even rumors of sexual violence against a Jewish girl were met with the harshest retribution... JFeed

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Houthi terrorists raid UN premises in Yemen, detain at least 11 people, reports say. In recent days, Israel struck a group of top Houthi military officials in Sanaa who were watching the Houthi leader give a nationally televised speech. By Reuters, Jerusalem Post Staff, Aug 31, 2025 22:35 Updated: Sep 1, 2025 01:17 JPost

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'Shouts of joy’: Emily Damari reacts to death of former Gaza captor Hazem Naim Emily Damari expressed relief over the reported death of Hazem Naim, one of her former captors, and hopes for the return of the remaining hostages. By Jerusalem Post Staff, Avi Ashkenazi, Sep. 1, 2025 00:55 Freed Gaza hostage Emily Damari reacted to news that one of her former terrorist captors had reportedly been killed in an IDF airstrike on Sunday. JPost

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New study debunks Gaza genocide claims, finds flaws in UN, int'l reporting on war. Researchers also propose a new methodological framework to ensure crucial fact-finding missions in ongoing conflicts can continue their work while resisting political and media-driven narratives.

By Jacob Laznik September 3, 2025 13:30 Updated: September 3, 2025 20:12 Narratives about Israel committing genocide, war crimes, and a deliberate mass starvation in the ongoing war in Gaza have been challenged, and in some cases, debunked, in a comprehensive study published on Wednesday titled “Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War (2023-2025).” [27].

The study, published by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, engaged in a critical analysis to challenge the narrative of Israeli genocide during the conflict by analyzing humanitarian reporting and casualty data.

Spanning 311 pages, the study also used quantitative analysis and forensic documentation to examine and contest widely reported claims from international organizations and courts.

Led by Prof. Danny Orbach, the authors said that their objective was to provide a factual analysis rather than a legal or moral exoneration.

The publication of the study arrives at a crucial time, as the IDF is poised to begin the Gideon’s Chariots II invasion of Gaza City, and as the International Association of Genocide Scholars adopted a resolution on Monday, which says that Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal definition of genocide

Divided into eight chapters, each section of the study addressed specific allegations and themes related to the conflict and its reporting.

The overarching themes that emerged from the research were a critique of humanitarian reporting, a reevaluation of casualty data, and a call for a new methodological framework for analyzing conflicts.

Challenging the Starvation Narrative. Perhaps the study’s most controversial finding concerns food supply to Gaza. The researchers said that more food entered Gaza during the war than before October 7, 2023, a claim that starkly contradicts widespread reports of imminent famine and the deliberate starvation of the Gazan population on Israel’s part. According to the study, the frequently cited requirement of 500 aid trucks entering Gaza daily stems from what the authors called “a misrepresentation by UN bodies.” They point to pre-war UN records showing an average of only 73 food trucks per day in 2022.

The 500 figure has been regularly cited throughout the war by the UN, as well as international media outlets such as CNN, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.

Until January 17, 2025, COGAT (the Israeli Defense Ministry’s military body coordinating activities in the territories) recorded an average of 101 food trucks daily, while retroactively corrected but incomplete UNRWA data indicated 83 food trucks per day.

In a similar vein, the study said that food that entered Gaza during the ceasefire “should have sufficed until late July 2025 according to WFP [UN World Food Programme] projections.”

The researchers attributed the gap between projected sufficiency and reported shortages to “extensive looting by Hamas.”

They also disputed claims regarding Gaza’s agricultural self-sufficiency. Contrary to allegations that 44% of Gaza’s food comes from local agriculture, the study said, this figure was “baseless.” The academics calculated that Gaza’s agriculture likely accounted for no more than 12% of caloric consumption in 2005 and that even if all of Gaza’s 2011 crops were replaced, the number of trucks entering Gaza per capita throughout the war would still be 58% higher than in 2011.

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The authors also made a point to “strongly criticize the decision to stop aid to Gaza between March and May 2025,” acknowledging humanitarian concerns even while disputing the genocide narrative. Questioning Casualty Reporting Further, the study took direct aim at casualty figures reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry (GMoH), alleging systematic data manipulation. According to the researchers, the Health Ministry, “per Hamas directives, categorizes all deaths as civilian ones.” That, the analysts found, “significantly skewed international reporting,” for there are indications that the ministry’s lists include “age-related natural deaths, particularly of women,” while failing to indicate “combat-aged men.”

This selective reporting, they argued, artificially inflates civilian casualty figures and obscures the actual combatant-to-civilian death ratio. Case in point, the study’s analysis of GMoH reports revealed a fluctuating and often implausible distribution of the number of casualties.

As of March 2025, the GMoH had reported 50,021 combat-related casualties. The study noted that the number of reported widows, at 13,900, almost matched the official excess male mortality figure of 13,964 for ages 18-59, which it found to be “striking.”

MOREOVER, THE authors presented data suggesting that evacuation zones designated by the IDF were “significantly safer” than other areas. According to their partial data analysis, less than 4% of deaths occurred in the Humanitarian section of al-Mawasi and the other central camps, areas marked as evacuation safe zones.

They attributed higher casualties elsewhere to “the failure of the UN to cooperate with the establishment of such zones.”

Systematic Critique of International Reporting.

A substantial portion of the study focused on what the authors described as “systematic failures in UN and NGO reporting.” They identified patterns of “circular citation, opaque assessments, and unannounced retroactive corrections” that the researchers said have distorted the international understanding of the conflict.

(A graph depicting the descrepancy between UNRWA and COGAT reporting on aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip. [29])

One example they highlighted involves UNRWA’s truck count discrepancies. While UNRWA initially reported a 70% drop in aid after May 2024 and the Rafah operation, the agency “later retroactively corrected these reports.” Crucially, the authors noted, “this correction was effectively unannounced and hence the supposed aid drop continues to be broadly cited.” Separately, the study drew parallels to past conflicts, noting a precedent in flawed reporting from the 2008-2009 Gaza War. They cited former UN jurist Richard Goldstone, who led the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict and later expressed regret over some of his report’s conclusions.

In a 2011 Washington Post op-ed, Goldstone wrote: “If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.”

The study extended its analysis beyond Gaza as well, examining similar patterns in Iraq during the UN Security Council’s 1990s sanctions regime. Per the authors, claims of hundreds of thousands of child deaths due to sanctions, based on Iraqi government data, were “later revealed to be fabricated by the Iraqi authorities.”

Introducing "Humanitarian Bias". Introducing a new theoretical concept called “humanitarian bias,” the report used this term to characterize what the authors perceived as systematic errors in conflict reporting. They defined this as “a tendency among aid organizations to accept alarming claims from stakeholders in order to mobilize urgent action.”

Commensurate with the researchers, this is a bias that creates a feedback loop where “factual corrections are often met with hostility or ignored altogether, undermining accuracy in humanitarian reporting.”

They added that even when myths are definitively disproven, “corrections are rarely incorporated into public or academic understandings.”

An acute example of this theoretical concept, the study continued, can be seen when UN aid chief Tom Fletcher falsely stated in May 2025 that some 14,000 Gazan babies could die within the next 48 hours unless aid reached them.

“[Aid has] not reached the communities [it needs] to reach. This is baby food, baby nutrition. There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them,” Fletcher told the BBC.

When pressed on how he came to this figure, he assured the interviewer that the UN had strong teams on the ground formulating these assessments. Two days later, the UN retracted the statement, with officials downplaying the original time frame of the dire situation.

The study also mentioned that humanitarian bias can be particularly damaging when it prevents a realistic assessment of the root causes of conflict and humanitarian crises, such as the actions of non-state actors.

Military Conduct Assessment. While challenging genocide allegations, the study did not provide blanket exoneration of IDF conduct. The authors said that “isolated incidents may point to negligence or localized misconduct and suspicion of individual war crimes.” However, they maintained, “no evidence was found of overarching directives aimed at harming civilians.” The academics credited the IDF with implementing what they called “Unprecedented steps such as early warnings, precision targeting, and mission aborts to avoid civilian harm,” actions they noted were “costly to the IDF” but “reduced non-combatant casualties.”

A comparison of the IDF’s.

non-combatant-to-combatant casualty ratio to those of other Western armies fighting urban insurgencies was also provided in the study. Based on this, it was determined that the IDF’s ratio was relatively low.

Implications and Warnings. THE STUDY’S findings stand in stark contrast to various international assessments. The International Court of Justice has adopted provisional measures requiring Israel to prevent genocide, though it did not order an immediate cessation of military operations as South Africa had requested. Notably, these provisional measures are legally binding on Israel, and there is no right of appeal, though enforcement mechanisms remain limited.

Various UN bodies and humanitarian organizations have made, and continue to make, serious allegations about Israel’s conduct.

Reports have described the Jewish state as using starvation as a weapon of war, with the Gaza Government Media Office claiming that Israel blocked 3,800 aid trucks from entering the territory. Furthermore, UNRWA officials have said that Israel is “deliberately and unashamedly imposing inhumane conditions on civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”

In the study, Orbach warned of the broader implications for international humanitarian law, saying, “If every severe urban war were defined as genocide, it would ultimately dilute the legal and moral power of the term.”

To avoid humanitarian bias, the study proposed a framework that prioritizes cross-referencing multiple sources, systematic scrutiny, transparency, and resistance to political and media-driven narratives.

While “the suffering of civilians in Gaza is both tragic and undeniable,” the researchers said, humanitarian discourse must remain “anchored in verifiable facts” to prevent the risk of future atrocities being overlooked. JPost

Shocking report debunks Gaza genocide claims. Aylana Meisel. “Basic Law” with Aylana Meisel and guest Danny Orbach, Ep. 24 (Sept. 4, 2025 / JNS) Is Israel committing genocide, or is the entire narrative built on falsehoods?

Host Aylana Meisel, executive director of the Israel Law & Liberty Forum, sits down with Professor Danny Orbach, renowned military historian and co-author of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies report, “Debunking the Genocide Allegations.” Together, they unpack one of the most pressing legal and moral questions facing Israel: Are the allegations of genocide in Gaza based on real evidence or manipulated data, ideological bias and flawed methodology?

This conversation explores:

• How claims of mass starvation and famine in Gaza have been distorted through biased data sampling and unscientific U.N. reports.
• The myth of 500,000 Iraqi children dying from sanctions and how this falsehood shaped global narratives, including those now weaponized against Israel.
• Why casualty counts from Hamas-controlled sources cannot be taken at face value and how the lack of verified breakdowns feeds misinformation.
• Israel’s use of smart bombs, AI targeting and legal military restraint versus the global media’s claims of indiscriminate bombing.
• The complex reality of urban warfare in Gaza and Hamas’s strategy of embedding military assets in civilian areas to provoke civilian deaths.

JNS

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'Held like a dog': Or Levy’s testimony shakes South African Jews Or Levy, held by Hamas for 491 days, recounts starvation, shackles, and loss. His story, shared in South Africa, is a plea to remember the hostages and fight for their return. Israel National News. Sep 3, 2025, 5:54 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Israel successfully launches Ofek 19 satellite into space. Israel National News. Sep 3, 2025, 6:14 AM INN

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George Mason University faces backlash over SJP's 'From River to Sea' video. George Mason University’s SJP chapter posts a controversial video calling for Palestinian "liberation" and praising Hamas. The university, after suspending the group for radical actions, is now reviewing the video for possible legal violations. Elad Benari. Sep 3, 2025, 6:56 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Op-ed: Israel executes major decapitation strike on Houthi leadership. Steve Postal. Sep 3, 2025, 8:04 AM INN

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IDF & ISA announce: Terrorist who held Bibas family hostage eliminated. Israel National News. Sep 3, 2025, 8:08 AM INN

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IDF intercepts missile from Yemen. Israel National News. Sep 3, 2025, 9:43 AM INN

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Fiji to inaugurate Jerusalem embassy in two weeks. “I congratulate Fiji and its Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Friend of Israel Sitiveni Rabuka, on its decision to open an embassy in Israel, in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. Etgar Lefkovits

(Sept. 3, 2025 / JNS) Fiji is scheduled to inaugurate its embassy in Jerusalem later this month, becoming the seventh nation to have its official representation in Israel’s capital, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday. JNS

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Ilhan Omar found concealing millions of dollars of assets. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who is active against Israel, claimed to make only a few thousand dollars, when her financial disclosure lists her income at $30 million. Nissan Tzur. Sep 3, 2025, 10:16 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Gaza City resident to IDF officer: 'We want to move southwards, Hamas won't allow it'. Israel National News. Sep 3, 2025, 2:22 PM INN

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Drone attack on Minister Ben-Gvir foiled. A squad of Hamas operatives from Hebron. allegedly intended to use explosive drones to assassinate National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Uzi Baruch. Sep 3, 2025, 3:23 PM INN

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Hamas Faces Unseen Threat. IDF Suicide Drones Revolutionize Gaza Warfare: The Bat Drones Phenomena IDF revolutionizes warfare in Gaza with suicide drones becoming primary strike force. New Atalef drones enable ground units to operate independently with enhanced surveillance capabilities. Lara Sukster Mosheyof. Sep 3, 2025 12:11 JFeed

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UAE issues stark warning. A Shocking Ultimatum: UAE Threatens to Abandon Abraham Accords Over Judea and Samaria Sovereignty. The UAE has warned that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call to impose full sovereignty over Judea and Samaria crosses a “red line,” threatening the Abraham Accords and risking a major setback for regional normalization efforts. Gila Isaacson. Sep 3, 2025. JFeed

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The note found on the body of Yahya Sinwar. Following Yahya Sinwar’s elimination in Rafah, a note found in his pocket revealed a detailed sketch of the tunnel network beneath the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood. Israel National News. Published: Sep 4, 2025, 2:15 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Report: Netanyahu blocked Macron visit over Palestinian state recognition. Elad Benari Sep 4, 2025, 4:09 AM INN

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Israel says Hamas preventing Gaza City evacuation, but 70,000 have left anyway. By Stav Levaton, Agencies and TOI Staff. September 4, 2025. TOI

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Another Reason Not to Trust the ‘Experts’. The International Association of Genocide Scholars calls itself a body of experts, but joining requires only a form and a fee. Members include parody accounts like ‘Mo Cookie' and ‘Emperor Palpatine.’

By The Editors. 09.04.2025.

One of the great lessons of the past decade is that when you read a variation of “experts say” in a headline, you ought to think twice and for yourself.

This week, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) voted on a resolution that accused Israel of committing genocide[sic] in its war against Hamas. Like moths to a flame, the mainstream press ran wild with the story of the organization’s declaration.

“Israel Is Committing Genocide[sic] in Gaza, Leading[sic] Scholars’ Association Says,” ran the headline in The Washington Post.

The Guardian quoted the president of the association, Melanie O’Brien, declaring that the resolution represented “a definitive statement from experts in the field of genocide studies that what is going on on the ground in Gaza is genocide[sic].” In another interview with ABC News Australia, O’Brien boasted that the resolution passed with nearly 90 percent support.

The BBC’s headline read: “Israel Committing Genocide[sic] in Gaza, World’s Leading[sic] Experts Say.”

The problem for these publications is that if you kick the tires—even slightly—it becomes obvious that the resolution is a sham, top to bottom... TheFreePress

Pro-Israel activists join genocide scholars group, highlighting open entry for non-experts. After International Association of Genocide Scholars passes anti-Israel resolution, critics using names of ‘Adolf Hitler’ and Star Wars characters join ‘world’s leading experts’. By Luke Tress. Sep 4, 2025.

Pro-Israel activists on Wednesday joined the International Association of Genocide Scholars after the group accused Israel of genocide, highlighting the fact that non-scholars can join the group.

The association charged Israel with genocide on Monday, saying in a resolution that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide[SIC].”

The announcement garnered widespread media coverage that portrayed the group as a prestigious body of experts.

“Israel committing genocide[SIC] in Gaza, world’s leading experts say,” the BBC said in its headline. “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars’ association says,” The Washington Post reported.

The New York Times described the group as “a leading group of academic experts” and a spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres described the association as “a very prominent and serious organization.”

Pro-Israel activists later discovered that anyone can join the group by paying as little as $30, though. The group’s website says it is open to individuals including activists and artists, and scholars in unrelated fields, such as film and literature.

A number of pro-Israel activists said they had joined the group, while others set up prank accounts.

One activist signed up as “Adolf Hitler” and joined the association’s women’s caucus and indigenous caucus. Others signed up as the Star Wars character Emperor Palpatine, the Cookie Monster, or set up accounts for their pet dogs.

One of the pro-Israel commentators who joined the association, Elliot Malin, is actually a legal expert, but said the association revoked his membership without explanation.

Malin is an attorney and the chairperson of the Nevada Governor’s Advisory Council on Education Relating to the Holocaust.

The new member profiles were initially labeled as “active members,” but were later deactivated.

Asked about qualifications for joining and how many members were accredited scholars, a communications officer for the association told The Times of Israel on Monday, “Our organization has always been open to academics as well as civil society practitioners, policymakers, and all sorts of other people who are invested in the research and understanding and the prevention of genocide.”

Contacted for comment on Wednesday, the communications officer referred The Times of Israel to other association representatives, who did not respond to follow-up questions.

Media reports about the resolution did not note that there were no qualifications for membership in the association.

The association appeared to have deactivated its public members directory on its website and its profile on X on Wednesday.

Pro-Palestinian activists were already members of the group. Nidal Jboor, the founder of the activist group Doctors Against Genocide, is a member of the association who said at an anti-Israel conference over the weekend that the anti-Israel movement needed to “take out” and “neutralize” its “child murderer” opponents, and hailed the “freedom fighters” of Gaza as “heroes.”

Before the Israel genocide vote, the association had around 500 members, but only 129 voted on the resolution, an amount that the group said was typical. Of those who voted, 89% voted in favor of the resolution.

The association did not release specifics about the vote accusing Israel of genocide, so it was not clear how many accredited experts participated.

The leadership of the association is made up of scholars working in the field.

After the vote passed, a longtime member of the association, Sara Brown, said the association was initially been made up of mainly scholars, but had opened its membership to non-experts, including activists.

She said that the expanded membership can be a strength by bringing in a diversity of viewpoints, but also “opens the door for something like this to happen,” referring to the Gaza resolution.

Brown also said that the association’s leadership had declined to hold internal debates over the resolution.

Emails shared with The Times of Israel showed that the association’s leadership in late July said there would be a town hall meeting to discuss the Israel resolution, “as with previous resolutions,” but backtracked days later, citing a vote by the association’s executive board.

The association also did not allow dissenting opinions to be published on its list serve, saying the list serve was not a forum for such discussions, and declined to release the names of the members who drafted the resolution, the emails showed.

Screenshots shared with The Times of Israel on Wednesday showed that the list serve was largely inactive. A post reminding members about the Gaza resolution vote had only been viewed 14 times.

A communications officer for the association disputed Brown’s account, telling The Times of Israel that the group had carried out the vote in accordance with its standard procedures and bylaws.

A press release by the association announcing the resolution on Monday said that the measure went through a peer review process and adhered to the group’s resolution requirements and by-laws.

The association’s president, Melanie O’Brien, said in a Monday statement that the resolution confirmed “that the majority of experts in genocide studies and prevention practice agree that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza amount to genocide.”

The resolution noted that the October, 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel “constitutes international crimes.”

Brown said on Wednesday that the association had not made any statements to members about the controversy.

Critics pointed to other alleged flaws in the resolution.

The association’s resolution cited as evidence reports by groups like Amnesty International that have reinterpreted the international legal definition of genocide in accusations against Israel.

The resolution also cited UN special investigator for the Palestinians Francesca Albanese, who has a history of antisemitism and extremist rhetoric, such as denying Israel’s right to self defense.

The Gaza resolution said that the International Court of Justice had ruled that it was “plausible” that Israel was committing genocide, an interpretation of the court’s findings that the former president of the court, who presided over the hearings, has said is false. TOI

Controversy Shaking Genocide Studies. The World's "Top Genocide Scholars" Just Accused Israel of War Crimes. Here's Why They Are Being Mocked. A resolution from the International Association of Genocide Scholars, defining Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide, sparks global outrage. Critics mock the group's "pay-to-play" membership policy, questioning its credibility and accusing its members of political bias rather than scholarly rigor.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 4, 2025 10:33 JFeed

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To boost Cuomo. Report: Trump team mulls jobs for Adams, Sliwa. Israel National News. Sep 4, 2025, 4:44 AM INN

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Defense Minister: Houthis resumed firing, we'll complete the Ten Plagues. Israel National News. Sep 4, 2025, 9:25 AM INN

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IDF: This is how senior Hamas officials ate in the tunnels. The IDF has released images from Hamas tunnels in Rafah showing the group's commanders dining on lavish meals while the population went hungry. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 4, 2025, 2:31 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Brilliant Analysis. Ben Shapiro Slams Haaretz: The worst publication in the Western World | WATCH. In a scathing critique, Ben Shapiro argues that Israel's cautious approach to Western public opinion is a "biggest mistake." He singles out the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as a "terrible publication" that provides "sustenance" for enemies of Israel and Western civilization. Gila Isaacson. Sep 4, 2025 13:24 JFeed

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Tale of Two Gazas. The Real Face of Hamas: Photos Show Leaders Feasting in Tunnels While Civilians Starve. New images released by the IDF from an underground Hamas command center reveal a striking contrast between the group’s commanders feasting on elaborate meals and the dire humanitarian conditions faced by the Gazan population above ground. Eliana Fleming. Sep 4, 2025 22:15 JFeed

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Threat to US National Security. The Shocking F-35 "Supply Chain of Death" Plot Exposed by a U.S. Senator Could a pro-Palestine activist go to prison for her recent remarks? A new federal investigation request claims her calls to disrupt the F-35 jet program are an act of domestic sabotage.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 4, 2025 14:30 Yesterday (Wednesday), U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), who serves as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sent a formal letter to FBI Director Kash Patel requesting an immediate investigation into the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and one of its leaders, Aisha Nizar. Cotton described Nizar's recent public statements as "direct incitement of violence against U.S. national security interests" and a threat to the nation's defense capabilities. JFeed

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Rep. Buddy Carter Moves to Censure Rashida Tlaib Over “Vile, Blatantly Antisemitic” Remarks. September 4, 2025. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for remarks she made at a controversial pro-Palestinian conference in Detroit, escalating Republican efforts to hold the progressive Democrat accountable for extremist and antisemitic rhetoric.

Carter’s measure brands the People’s Conference for Palestine as “one of the most radical and antisemitic conferences in America” and denounces Tlaib for using the stage to attack members of both parties for supporting Israel.

“Outside of the decaying halls of the empire in Washington, D.C., we are winning,” Tlaib told attendees. She added that her colleagues in Congress “are scared” of mounting anti-Israel protests: “They send me videos and messages of people protesting in front of their district offices, people showing up at their town halls.”

In his resolution, Carter charged that Tlaib has “repeatedly displayed conduct entirely unbecoming of a member of the House of Representatives by calling for the destruction of the State of Israel and by dangerously promoting terrorism and extremism, while Israeli and American hostages remain in terrorist captivity.”

Carter, who is also campaigning for the Georgia Senate seat currently held by Democrat Jon Ossoff, called the measure a moral necessity. “Tlaib’s vile, blatant antisemitism is a scourge on this Congress, and she must be held accountable,” he said. “Her conduct is beneath that of a civilized person, let alone a member of Congress.”

Carter also cited other participants at the Detroit conference, including Aisha Nizar of the Palestinian Youth Movement, who urged activists to disrupt the U.S. F-35 fighter jet supply chain.

The censure resolution adds to the mounting political fallout from the Detroit event, which has triggered calls from Republicans for investigations and disciplinary action. It remains to be seen whether Carter’s resolution will advance in the House, where Tlaib has previously faced censure efforts but retained strong support among progressives. YWN

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US-backed Gaza aid group says it found boy alive; former contractor said Israeli troops killed him. “Our team set out to find this little boy,” stated Johnnie Moore, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation executive director. “These lies endangered his life.” Mike Wagenheim. [Abdul Rahim (“Abood”) Muhammad Hamden].

(Sept. 4, 2025 / JNS) A Gazan boy whom Tony Aguilar, a former contractor with UG Solutions, claimed was killed by Israeli troops has been found alive and well, according to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is funded by the U.S. government.

Aguilar stated that Israeli soldiers killed a boy, whom he identified as “Amir,” in a “wall of bullets” on May 28 at a foundation distribution site. The Daily Wire reported on Thursday that the boy—whose name is Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden, and who goes by Aboud—is fine. JNS

Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger Big breaking via @KassyAkiva: Con artist Tony Aguilar, who was repeatedly platformed by Tucker Carlson, Piers Morgan, and legacy media outlets across the US, has officially been exposed for what he is. [30] Frankly, @GHFUpdates should sue Tony for everything he's worth Sep 4, 2025 X

The revelation that the Gazan boy [Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden,] is alive, despite (exposed by GHF as a con artist [31]) Tony Aguilar, his baseless claim that he was 'killed' by the IDF, is yet another clear example of the blatant propaganda and lies this individual peddles. It's no surprise that the discredited "just asking questions" Tucker 'Qatarlson'—who's made a career out of pushing deceitful narratives—chose to give Aguilar a platform for this absurd 'interview.' Both are just perpetuating falsehoods to serve an agenda that seeks to undermine the truth. at MyRightWord

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NGO Nightmare. US Drops Bombshell Sanctions on Palestinian NGOs - Here’s What You Must Know. Washington sanctions Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, and PCHR for helping the ICC pursue Israeli officials—marking a new front in the global clash over sovereignty and justice.

Yair Kleinbaum. Sep 5, 2025 05:11 The U.S. government just delivered a sharp rebuke to three leading Palestinian civil-society organizations, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), by placing them under sweeping diplomatic and economic sanctions. JFeed

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Nazi descendants charged over hidden trove of looted Jewish art in Argentina. Nazi’s daughter and her husband charged in Argentina for hiding looted Jewish art, including 22 Matisse works and a long-lost Ghislandi painting stolen during WWII. Israel National News. Published: Sep 5, 2025, 5:22 AM (GMT+3) An Argentine court has charged Patricia Kadgien, daughter of Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien, and her husband with concealing stolen artwork looted from European Jews during the Holocaust, AFP reported on Thursday.

Among the recovered pieces are 22 works by French master Henri Matisse, discovered during police raids in the coastal city of Mar del Plata.

The investigation was sparked when “Portrait of a Lady,” an 18th-century painting by Italian Baroque artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, appeared in a local property listing. The painting, missing for 80 years, was part of the collection of Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who died while fleeing the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.. INN

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Sa’ar applauds Rubio’s sanctions on ICC-linked Palestinian NGOs. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar praises US Secretary of State for sanctioning Palestinian NGOs aiding the ICC’s “politicized crusade” against Israel, calling it a moral stand for international law and Israeli sovereignty. Elad Benari. Sep 5, 2025, 1:15 AM INN

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Northwestern President resigns amid antisemitism probe and funding freeze. Northwestern President Michael Schill resigns amid federal funding freeze and criticism over campus protests. He’ll stay on until an interim leader is named and help restore the university’s lost funding. Israel National News. Sep 5, 2025, 4:56 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Checkmate? Israeli Chess Players Forced to Ditch Their Flag in Spain - Or Leave the Tournament. Sep 5, 2025 00:48 JFeed

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Dollars, Danger, Death, Defeat. “Hamas’s Banker” Taken Out: IDF Eliminates Key Financier of Terrorist Operations IDF announces elimination of Hamas's key financial operative Nur al-Din Dabbaghsh, who managed millions in terror funds, as part of ongoing campaign to dismantle Hamas's infrastructure. Lara Sukster Mosheyof. Sep 5, 2025 01:30 JFeed

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Iran’s Alliances With China, Russia Falter as Regime Faces Growing Isolation, Study Finds. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. September 5, 2025 2:16 pm Algemeiner

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Alon Ohel’s family: 'Alon has lost sight in his right eye'. Israel National News. Sep 5, 2025, 8:43 PM INN

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Antisemites Target Synagogues in Spain, France Amid Surge in Jew Hatred Across Europe. By Ailin Vilches Arguello. September 5, 2025. Algemeiner

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Gaza City Heats Up. IDF bombs 14 story Hamas Tower in Gaza City | WATCH. Israeli warplanes have leveled a 14-story residential tower in Gaza City as part of a new offensive phase. The IDF claims the building was a Hamas hub, but the strike has infuriated the world, once again. Gila Isaacson. Sep 5, 2025 05:34 The Mushtaha Tower, a 14-story building, was reduced to rubble in a series of airstrikes around midday. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) described the building as a Hamas operational hub, including underground facilities, and said it issued evacuation warnings to minimize civilian harm. Videos circulating on social media showed missiles striking the tower, causing it to implode in a cloud of dust and debris, forcing nearby tent encampments of displaced families to flee once again. JFeed

IDF strikes Hamas infrastructure and high rise tower in Gaza, urges civilians to evacuate to Rafah.

IDF Arabic Spokesperson Avichay Adraee ordered civilians to evacuate a section of Gaza City, advising them to move southwards towards humanitarian zones in Khan Yunis and Al-Mawasi.

By Jerusalem Post Staff Sep 6, 2025.

The IDF struck a building with Hamas infrastructure and surveillance equipment, IDF spokesperson in Arabic Col. Avichay Adraee wrote on X/Twitter on Saturday.

Adraee ordered civilians to evacuate a section of Gaza City earlier on Saturday, advising them to move southwards towards humanitarian zones in Khan Yunis and Al-Mawasi. JPost

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Yehoram Gaon: ‘Hamas’ only weapon is its disregard for human life’. Israel Prize laureate singer Yehoram Gaon warns that while Israel has 'planes, tanks, brains, it lacks Hamas’ disregard for human life, 'the return of the hostages is vital for Israel’s moral strength.' Israel National News. Published: Sep 5, 2025, 5:33 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Trump warns Hamas: Release hostages or face 'nasty' consequences. Elad Benari, Canada. Sep 6, 2025, 12:16 AM INN

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Ohel family greenlights publication of Alon Ohel's image. The image shows Alon with Guy Gilboa Dalal, 701 days into captivity; family warns of severe eye injury and calls for international action. Israel National News. Sep 6, 2025, 7:54 PM INN

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Over 250 mayors gather in Australia to combat rising antisemitism. Israel National News. Sep 6, 2025, 7:47 PM INN

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Minister Ben-Gvir: 'Capture Gaza and encourage emigration'. Israel National News. Sep 6, 2025, 10:27 PM INN

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UK Police Arrest Dozens at Latest Protest for Banned Palestine Action. By Reuters and Algemeiner Staff. September 6, 2025. Algemeiner

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Hundreds arrested protesting British ban on Palestine Action. Israel National News. Sep 6, 2025, 11:12 PM INN

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IDF Orders Immediate Evacuation of Gaza City Blocks. Sep 7, 2025. The IDF has issued repeated warnings to residents of Gaza City living in blocks 726, 727, 784, and 786 to evacuate without delay. The military said the Al-Ru’ya building and nearby tents at Beirut Junction/Arab League Street are designated targets due to Hamas infrastructure in the area. Civilians have been instructed to move south toward Mawasi Khan Younis. JFeed

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IDF Destroys Hamas Command Center in Gaza’s Zeitoun Neighborhood. Sep 7, 2025. JFeed

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Huckabee: 'Disastrous consequences' from countries recognizing Palestine. Israel National News. Sep 7, 2025, 12:17 PM INN

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'This is my last warning.' President Trump's proposal for a comprehensive deal with Hamas. The proposal would see all 48 hostages released on the first day, along with terrorists and Palestinian Arab detainees. Israel National News. Sep 7, 2025, 9:40 PM INN

Trump's New Plan for a Hostage Deal Could End the War in a Single Day. Sep 7, 2025 JFeed

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Signs of stress? Hamas continues to ask for ceasefire. Dalit Halevi. Sep 7, 2025, 8:28 PM INN

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Terror in Jerusalem: Six dead in shooting attack at Ramot Junction. Two terrorists open fire at passersby at Ramot Junction in Jerusalem, murdering seven people; reports say terrorists boarded bus, shot at passengers' heads from close range using automatic weapons. Uzi Baruch. Published: Sep 8, 2025, 10:24 AM (GMT+3) Updated: 12:47 INN

Six murdered in Jerusalem shooting by ‘Palestinian resistance fighters’. Hamas is calling for Palestinians across Judea and Samaria to “escalate the confrontation,” stating that the intentional murder of civilians is “a natural response to the occupation's crimes[SIC].” (Sept. 8, 2025 / JNS) Six Israelis were murdered and a dozen more wounded in a mass-shooting attack by Palestinian terrorists in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on Monday morning.

The slain victims were identified as Yosef David, 43, from Jerusalem; Sarah Mendelson, 60, from Jerusalem; Israel Mentzer, 28, from Jerusalem; Levi Yitzhak Pash, 57, from Tel Zion; Yaakov Pinto, 25, from Jerusalem; and Mordechai Steintzeg, 79, from Jerusalem. JNS

Pres. Herzog visits wounded terror victims in Jerusalem: 'We saw absolute evil'. President Isaac Herzog this evening, Monday, visited wounded victims of this morning’s terror attack in the Ramot neighborhood, who are being treated at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre. Israel National News. Published: Sep 8, 2025, 8:46 PM (GMT+3) INN

A Timeline of Terror: What Happened in the Minutes After the Ramot Shooting "It Felt Like a Lifetime" A Timeline of Terror: What Happened in the Minutes After the Ramot Shooting The Jerusalem terror attack unfolded in a rapid sequence of events, from a bus driver's quick thinking to the heroic actions of an IDF soldier, as new details reveal how a tragedy was averted and a community was left in mourning. Eliana Fleming. Sep 8, 2025 11:06 JFeed

"I Felt Like I Was Going to Die" A Final Act of Kindness: Victim of Jerusalem Attack Gave Up His Seat to Save Another A heartbreaking detail has emerged from the Jerusalem terror attack: one of the victims, a devoted family man, was murdered just minutes after giving up his ride home to a stranger who needed urgent medical care.

Eliana Fleming Sep 8, 2025 11:26 JFeed

Islamo-Arab Racism Strikes Again.

The same old lies from the Arab apologists—claiming that Arab “Palestinian” massacres of Jews are some sort of “response” to provocations.

The reality, though, is far darker. Arab violence against Jews didn’t start yesterday. It didn’t even start in 1948. No, this racist hatred goes back to April 1920, with the Nebi Musa riots—where Arabs openly declared, “We will drink the blood of the Jews” and proudly proclaimed, “Muhammad’s religion was born with the sword.”

The genocidal ideology of “adbakh al yahud”—literally “slaughter the Jews”—was not invented by some fringe group, but was spearheaded by none other than Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Arab nationalist leader. He promoted it in the 1920s, long before he knocked on Nazi Germany's door in 1933 and in 1941 traveled to Nazi Germany to beg for an alliance with the very regime that sought to wipe out Jews.

So why, you might ask, target religious Jews—those who live modest lives, refuse to serve in the Israeli army? The answer is simple: Because they’re Jewish.

Let's take a look at the mounting list of terror attacks, targeting not soldiers, not government officials, but innocent, law-abiding Jews going about their daily lives. There have been numerous terror attacks specifically targeting ultra-Orthodox Jews; the following are just a few examples:

October 15, 2015: Rabbi Y. Krishevsky, a beloved member of his community, was brutally murdered in a ramming attack in Jerusalem.

February 10, 2023: Children at Ramot Junction, simply waiting atva bus stop, were targeted in yet another horrific ramming attack.

April 2021: Before Operation “Guardian of the Walls,” violent Arab-Muslims thugs—incited by the rising tide of anti-Jewish hate—began filming themselves beating Haredim in the streets of Jerusalem. This disgusting trend spread across the globe, with two racist Arab-Muslim "Palestinian" brothers in Belgium harassing non-Zionist religious Jews.

March 29, 2022: In Bnei Brak, a terror attack claimed the lives of innocent Jews. The attacker was later found to have drawings of Al-Aqsa mosque and a swastika in his workplace. Not a coincidence.

May 5, 2022: In Elad, an axe-wielding terrorist struck, murdering and injuring, leaving one victim’s skull mutilated in the shape of a swastika. This was no random act of violence—it was premeditated Jew-hatred, pure and simple.

September 8, 2025: In Ramot, Jerusalem, a terror attack at close range.

Every Arab knows the neighborhoods where the Haredim live. Shooting in close range. These attacks aren’t mistakes—they’re targeted. These are just a few examples of the constant, ongoing persecution that Jews, particularly religious Jews, face at the hands of racist Arab-Muslim terrorists.

Every single one of these attackers knew exactly who they were targeting. This isn’t about politics or land—it’s about hate. A hate that has been brewing for over a century, built on an ideology that dehumanizes Jews and seeks their annihilation. And no amount of "peace talks" or "concessions" will ever change that. It’s time the world stops pretending. It was always about hatred. [9.8.25]. JustSayin'

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Christian groups file defamation lawsuit against Francesca Albanese. The Christian Friends of Israeli Communities and Christians for Israel USA have launched a lawsuit against the UN Rapporteur for accusing them of enabling war crimes and genocide. Israel National News. Sep 8, 2025, 9:31 PM (GMT+3) INN

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IDF strikes another Hamas-used high-rise in Gaza. IDF strikes a Gaza high-rise used by Hamas for terror operations, including an underground hub. Precautions taken to minimize civilian harm, including warnings and precision targeting.

Israel National News. Sep 8, 2025, 11:52 PM INN

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Exclusive: Berlin’s mayor slams city’s university for hosting Francesca Albanese on Gaza ‘genocide[sic]’ panel. The UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories has previously been condemned by the French and German governments and sanctioned by the US

September 8, 2025. By Siam Goorwich.

The mayor of Berlin has condemned a Berlin university’s decision to host Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories saying the city should not tolerate “hate, or inflammatory rhetoric in his city.

The Free University of Berlin, the German capital’s second-largest university, has invited Albanese, despite backlash from city officials.

In a statement to the JC, Berlin’s mayor Kai Wegner, said: “Berlin’s universities are places for teaching and research, but they also impart values. We do not tolerate antisemitism on our university campuses.

“For this reason, an appearance there by the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, who has repeatedly displayed hatred of Israel and minimized the role of Hamas as a terrorist organisation, is out of the question. I expect the Freie Universität to send a clear message against antisemitism.”

Rich Goldberg, a senior advisor at The Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) who previously served on the White House National Security Council – has suggested the university could be violating US sanctions by hosting Albanese.

Speaking to the JC, he said: “Hopefully every party involved in this event has a very good sanctions lawyer because there are multiple ways in which they could tripping U.S. sanctions wires.

“Is she getting an honorarium? Is someone reimbursing her travel? Is there any other kind of transaction involved? If they aren’t careful, they'll be the next entities sanctioned for material support to a designated person.”

Albanese is due to speak on a panel titled Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide in a pre-conference workshop of the European Society of International Law’s (ESIL) annual conference, being held at the Free University from 10 – 13 September.

According to ESIL, “this workshop will examine the interplay between legal and forensic analysis of the crime of genocide in Gaza.

“It will explore how forensic investigations – including satellite imagery, open-source intelligence, digital modeling, and counter-mapping – reshape evidentiary practices and redefine accountability in international law.”

Since taking office in May 2022, Albanese has been criticised for a number of statements about alleged “Jewish power”, Israel and Hamas.

In 2014, Albanese said: “America and Europe, one of them subjugated by the Jewish lobby, and the other by the sense of guilt about the Holocaust.” When uncovered in 2022, US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt, called her statement “blatantly antisemitic.” Albanese has since said that she regrets this remark.

In June 2022, she said: “The Palestinians have no other room for dissent than violence,” a sentiment she echoed on October 7 when she wrote on X: “Today’s violence must be put in context.”

In February 2024, in response to French President Emmanuel Macron referring to the October 7 massacre as “the largest antisemitic massacre of our century,” Albanese wrote: “The greatest antisemitic massacre of our century? No, Emmanuel Macron. The victims of 7/10 were not killed because of their Judaism but in response to Israel’s oppression.” Six months later, she called Gaza a “concentration camp of the 21st century.”

Albanese’s stance has not gone unnoticed by the international community. Following her response to President Macron, the governments of France and Germany both condemned her statements.

Responding on X, the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs posted: “The October 7 massacre is the largest anti-Semitic massacre of the 21st century. To deny it is wrong. To seem to justify it, by bringing in the name of the United Nations, is a shame.”

The German foreign office were quick to lend their support, quote-tweeting France to say: “To justify the horrific terror attacks of 7/10 & deny their antisemitic nature is appalling. Making such statements in a UN capacity is a disgrace and goes against everything the United Nations stand for.”

Going a step further, in July this year, the United States imposed sanctions on her citing her “unabashed antisemitism”.

In a press statement, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained: “Albanese has directly engaged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute nationals of the United States or Israel, without the consent of those two countries. Neither the United States nor Israel is party to the Rome Statute, making this action a gross infringement on the sovereignty of both countries.”

He went on: “The United States has repeatedly condemned and objected to the biased and malicious activities of Albanese that have long made her unfit for service as a Special Rapporteur. Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West.”

This will be the second time this year that the Free University has hosted Albanese. Defending this decision, a spokesperson told the JC: “Science and research thrive off of debate and sharing ideas, and sometimes those ideas can be controversial. Universities have a duty to provide a space to discuss topics that demand articulate arguments and complex perspectives – a space for open dialogue and critical thinking.

“The principle of academic freedom is enshrined in Germany’s Basic Law under Article 5 Paragraph 3. This constitutional right covers the right of researchers to independently decide which topics, formats, or guests they wish to include when organizing academic events.”

Similarly, ESIL responded to inquiries, stating: “The European Society of International Law (ESIL) has an unwavering commitment to academic freedom and open scholarly debate. We are a learned society committed to the study of international law, and... our duty is to ensure and to safeguard a space to discuss topics that demand articulate arguments and complex perspectives – a space for open dialogue and critical thinking.”

They did not confirm whether they are funding her travel, accommodation, or paying her a speaker’s fee. TheJC

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Swords_of_Iron. UK government: Israel’s Gaza actions do not meet genocide definition. UK says Israel’s actions in Gaza do not constitute genocide, but urges Israel to reduce suffering of Gazans. Israel National News. Sep 9, 2025, 4:58 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Uri, Gadi, Amit, & Matan fell in Hamas guerrilla assault in Gaza. Staff Sergeant Uri Lamed, Sergeant Gadi Cotal, Sergeant Amit Arye Regev, and Lieutenant Matan Abramovitz, who all served in the 401st Brigade, fell in combat in northern Gaza. Israel National News. Sep 9, 2025, 7:08 AM INN

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These are the six victims of the terror attack in Jerusalem. Gunmen who opened fire at Ramot Junction bus stop claimed the lives of Torah scholars, a newly wed husband, a cardiologist-baker and the ‘mother’ of a religious youth group. By ToI Staff. 2025-09-08.

The victims of a deadly terror shooting in Jerusalem, on September 8, 2025: Top L-R: Levi Yitzhak Pash, Yisrael Matzner, 28; Rabbi Yosef David, 43; Bottom L-R: Rabbi Mordechai Steintzag, 79; Yaakov Pinto, 25; Sarah Mendelson, 60. TOI

Jerusalem terror attack victim pioneered healthy bakery in Israel. Rabbi Mordechai Steintzag – dual American and Israeli citizen, and a renowned cardiologist and pioneer of healthy baking – is mourned after being murdered in Jerusalem terror attack Tiki Golan|09.08.25 | 18:23

Rabbi Mordechai Steintzag, known as Dr. Mark, was among the six victims killed in the terror attack at Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction on Monday. The 79-year-old cardiologist, who made aliyah to Israel from Pennsylvania 40 years ago, was a trailblazer in healthy baking, founding Dr. Mark’s Bakery in Beit Shemesh in 1993. His breads, sold in major Israeli supermarkets, became a staple for health-conscious consumers. The bakery’s Instagram page mourned his loss: “For him, bread was not just food but a symbol of warmth, home, belonging and giving. Through bread, he connected people and offered comfort.” Ynet

Arab Criminals Who Celebrated Ramot Attack Transferred To Security Prison. September 9, 2025. YWN

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70,000 March Against Antisemitism in London as New Study Finds One-Fifth of British Population Is Antisemitic. By David Swindle September 8, 2025.

An estimated 70,000 people participated in Britain’s March Against Antisemitism in London on Sunday, while new research revealed a surge of antisemitic attitudes among the British population — particularly manifesting among those aged 18-24, 40 percent of whom embraced bigoted views against Jews.

The British charity Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) organized the demonstration in partnership with Jewish community groups and featured speeches from Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Deputy Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice, and journalist Jake Wallis Simons. The UK’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and CAA’s chief executive Gideon Falter also spoke. Algemeiner

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Spain Recalls Ambassador From Israel After Jerusalem Accuses Sánchez Government of Antisemitism. September 8, 2025. Algemeiner

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Gaza City is Going Down. Israel Orders Final Gaza City Evacuation; IDF Prepares To Crush Hamas Israel orders a full evacuation of Gaza City's one million residents ahead of an intensified ground assault. The IDF warns civilians to leave immediately or face “extreme danger.” Gila Isaacson. Sep 9, 2025 06:57 JFeed

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IDF confirms strike on Hamas senior leadership in Doha, Qatar | LIVE BLOG. Israel calls the operation in Doha "Summit of Fire" and accused the targeted Hamas members of orchestrating the October 7 attacks and Hamas ongoing operations i24NEWS. September 09, 2025. i24

Israel strikes Qatar in attempt to assassinate Hamas officials. Khalil al-Hayya, the leader of Hamas, was one of the targets of the operations.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob. Sep 9, 2025.

The IDF and the Shin Bet on Tuesday confirmed an attack on the Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar.

A statement said that the leaders targeted were responsible for the October 7, 2023, massacre of around 1,200 Israelis in the country's South, as well as managing the terror group's operations for years before that.

Khalil al-Hayya, the leader of Hamas, was one of the targets of the operations, an Israeli official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post. His death has not been confirmed.

Israeli officials told The Post that the US knew about the the attack beforehand and gave it the green light. The US Embassy in Doha has issued a shelter-in-place order for all US citizens.

"Hamas received the new proposal from the Qataris, which we [Israel] obtained from Witkoff last week in Paris. The prime minister met with the Hamas leadership yesterday, and they decided to meet again today to discuss the proposal, arriving from Turkey," a diplomatic source told the Post. JPost

BREAKING: Israel attacks Hamas leaders in Qatar | WATCH. Israel launches strike in Hamas HQ in Qatar. Once again, when Defense Minister Israel Katz threatens, it's best to listen, as the Houthis know only too well, and now Hamas does, too.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 9, 2025

In a joint statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet announced that the Israeli Air Force conducted a targeted airstrike earlier today against senior Hamas leadership in Qatar.

The operation focused on key figures who have led the terrorist organization for years and were directly responsible for orchestrating the brutal October 7, 2023, massacre and managing the ongoing war against Israel.

According to the statement, the IDF and Shin Bet took extensive measures to minimize harm to civilians, including the use of precision-guided munitions and additional intelligence to ensure accuracy. JFeed

These are the senior Hamas figures Israel targeted for assassination in Doha. Deputy of an Oct. 7 architect who has ties to Iran and took over after Sinwar's assassination, the former head of the political bureau who survived an Israeli assassination attempt, the "economic brain" of Hamas, the head of the Shura Council and the only senior official who "made Sinwar sweat": The senior officials who may have been eliminated in Operation Summit of Fire.

Einav Halabi|09.09.25. Members of Hamas’ leadership council live abroad. The council is composed of five senior officials in the terror group: Mohammed Darwish, who serves as head of Hamas’ Shura Council; Khalil al-Khayya, who leads Hamas in Gaza and heads the group’s negotiation team; Zaher Jabarin, who oversees Hamas’ activities in the West Bank; Nizar Awadallah, a senior figure in Gaza; and Khaled Mashal, who is considered Hamas’ leader abroad. Also included in Hamas’ overseas leadership are Razi Hammad, Izzat al-Risheq, Mousa Abu Marzouk and Hussam Badran. YNet

Israel Shocks The World. Confirmed: Israeli Airstrike in Doha Killed These Hamas Operatives. Israel carried out a precision airstrike in Doha, Qatar, targeting a residential compound of Hamas’s senior leadership. The operation, codenamed "Fire Summit," reportedly eliminated three key figures connected to Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, but the group’s top brass, including al-Hayya and Khaled Mashaal, claimed to have survived.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 9, 2025 13:50 JFeed

Breaking Point: Israel Reveals the Single Reason They Struck Hamas in Qatar. In a joint statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that the decision to strike the Hamas leadership in Doha was a direct response to the deadly terror attack in Jerusalem and Hamas's claim of responsibility for it.

Eliana Fleming. Sep 9, 2025. JFeed

Zamir's hint, Trump's 'final warning': The threats that preceded attack on Qatar. Just two days before Operation Summit of Fire, the American president issued a clear threat to Hamas officials - demanding that they accept his hostage deal outline: 'This is my last warning. There won't be another one'; The IDF Chief of Staff warned a week and a half ago: 'We will reach senior officials abroad' Ynet|09.09.25 11:48

Israeli defense officials increasingly believe that most of the senior Hamas leaders targeted Tuesday in Operation Summit of Fire — Israel’s first acknowledged strike on Qatari soil — were hit in the attack. Even before the strike, Hamas leaders had received direct threats from both U.S. President Donald Trump and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.

Just two days earlier, Trump presented a new hostage deal under which all 48 remaining hostages would be released on the first day in exchange for thousands of Palestinian prisoners, and Israel would cancel Operation Gideon’s Chariots II, its planned ground takeover of Gaza City. The plan called for U.S.-led negotiations to begin on ending the war, with Israel barred from resuming combat in Gaza as long as the talks continued. After details of the proposal were released, Trump issued a blunt warning to Hamas leaders, insisting that Israel had effectively agreed to his framework, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly stating he was still “considering” it. YNet

Hamas leaders will find no sanctuary, not even in Qatar, Israel strike signals - analysis. If Hamas is the octopus, then Qatar has been the reef where it camouflaged itself - hiding in plain sight while extending its reach. By Herb Keinon. Sep. 9, 2025. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Israel had accepted the terms of his new proposal and that Hamas should follow suit. “I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting,” he wrote. “This is my last warning. There will not be another.” Israel would not have carried out such a dramatic strike without a green light from Washington. Its planes could not have entered Doha’s airspace without US forces stationed there detecting them – which means this operation was very likely one of the consequences Trump had in mind when he issued that warning. JPost

A step forward in decapitating Hamas leadership | The meaning of the attack on Qatar. Analysis: Operation Summit of Fire, coordinated with US President Donald Trump, has two purposes: Sending message to terrorists, and removing extremists from negotiations; Hope is the new leader of talks to release hostages will be less rigid, and will be conducted directly with last senior official in Gaza Ron Ben-Yishai|09.09.25. YNet

The True Reason Behind Islamo-Arab Qatar's Outrage at Operation 'Summit of Fire' (Sept 9, 2025). Qatar’s vocal condemnation of Israel’s operation reveals a deeper, more troubling reality: the Arab-Islamic regime has been a key enabler of the genocidal Hamas leadership. By consistently supporting Hamas, both through direct funding and media manipulation, Qatar has played a dangerous role in perpetuating the cycle of violence.

Qatar’s state-backed media outlets, like 'Al Jazeera' and 'Middle East Eye', have been vocal in pushing narratives that fuel anti-Israel sentiment, much like the Turkish Islamist dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan uses 'Anadolu' and 'TRT' to spread Islamist propaganda. But it goes beyond mere media influence—Qatar has actively positioned itself as a “mediator” while ensuring that Hamas retains power, effectively prolonging the suffering of innocent Palestinians and destabilizing the region.

Operation 'Summit of Fire' has exposed Qatar's duplicitous role on the global stage. Qatar’s outrage is not born from concern for the Palestinian people, but from its vested interest in maintaining the Islamist regime that has brought suffering to both Israelis and Palestinians alike. JustSayin'

Hamas leaders will find no sanctuary, not even in Qatar, Israel strike signals - analysis. If Hamas is the octopus, then Qatar has been the reef where it camouflaged itself - hiding in plain sight while extending its reach.

By Herb Keinon. Sep. 9, 2025. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Israel had accepted the terms of his new proposal and that Hamas should follow suit. “I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting,” he wrote. “This is my last warning. There will not be another.” Israel would not have carried out such a dramatic strike without a green light from Washington. Its planes could not have entered Doha’s airspace without US forces stationed there detecting them – which means this operation was very likely one of the consequences Trump had in mind when he issued that warning. JPost

Israeli attack on Hamas ‘worthy goal’ but took place ‘very unfortunately’ in Doha, Trump says. “I believe this unfortunate incident could serve as an opportunity for peace,” the U.S. president stated. Mike Wagenheim. (Sep 9, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Al Arabiya: "Hamas Leader Khaled Mashal Confirmed Killed in Israeli Airstrike". Saudi network Al Arabiya reports Mashal was killed in an Israeli strike on Doha, while Hamas and Qatari outlets insist the leadership survived.

Yair Kleinbaum. Sep 9, 2025 23:34 JFeed

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Trump says Elizabeth Tsurkov, held hostage in Iraq for two years, is free The 38-year-old Jewish woman was kidnapped while studying for her Ph.D. dissertation. ([32]. Dual Israeli-Russian citizen Elizabeth Tsurkov is being held hostage in Iraq by the Kata'ib Hezbollah militia).

(Sept. 9, 2025 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov, 38, an Israeli born to Russian parents who was taken from Baghdad two years ago, has been freed.

“I am pleased to report that Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton student, whose sister is an American citizen, was just released by Kata’ib Hezbollah” and is now “safely in the American embassy in Iraq after being tortured for many months,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

He also called on Hamas to release the 50 hostages, both alive and dead, who have been held in captivity in Gaza since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks that killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. JNS

Researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov released from captivity, at US embassy in Iraq, Trump says. The US president announced Tuesday evening on his Truth Social platform that the Israeli-Russian researcher who was held by the Shiite militia Kataib Hezbollah has been "tortured" for many months Lior Ben Ari, Daniel Edelson, New York|09.09.25. Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped in Baghdad in 2023 by the Shiite militia Kataib Hezbollah, has been released and is at the American Embassy in Iraq, US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening on his Truth Social platform. He also said that she has been "tortured" for many months and called on Hamas to release its Israeli hostages. YNet ____

IDF destroys homes of two terrorists who murdered Yehonatan Deutsch. IDF forces map homes of two terrorists who carried out a shooting attack at the Mehola Junction, murdering Yehonatan Deutsch and moderately injuring an additional victim. Israel National News. Published: Sep 10, 2025, 8:37 AM (GMT+3) INN

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In a chilling display of moral bankruptcy, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, blatantly refused to condemn the October 7 Hamas attacks—an atrocity in which over a thousand innocent Israeli civilians, including women and children, were slaughtered, [close range shootings, suffocating families in shelters, burning people alive, mass rape, etc]. When asked directly if he would denounce the massacre, Zomlot coldly replied, “I reject the question.”

Even more telling was his justification: “Hamas is part of the Palestinian social fabric.” By embracing the terrorist group responsible for murder, rape, and kidnapping, Zomlot did more than dodge accountability—he exposed the deep-rooted extremism within Arab-Palestinian political discourse.

But his response also lays bare a more sinister truth: racism. By refusing to condemn mass murder simply because the victims were Israeli—overwhelmingly Jewish—Zomlot revealed a moral double standard that dehumanizes Israeli lives. This is not political nuance; it is open, unrepentant hatred.

The mask slipped further on January 22, 2025, when Zomlot appeared on Amanpour—all smiles—as he basked in the success of the so-called “genocide” narrative. The word has been weaponized to demonize Israel and erase the reality of Hamas’s terror, and Zomlot’s smugness in that moment revealed just how central propaganda has become to the Palestinian strategy.

While Israel continues to fight for its survival and mourn its dead, Zomlot and others like him celebrate the power of lies and the silence of the world in the face of terror. Peace is impossible when terror is not only excused, but glorified.

(Palestinian Ambassador To UK Husam Zomlot When Asked If He Condemns October 7 Attacks: I Reject The Question... Hamas Is Part Of The Palestinian Social Fabric. [33]). 9.10.25. JustSayin'

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Rothman accuses Israeli civil-rights group of supporting terror. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said it "stands in solidarity" with Al-Haq, which Israel proscribed in 2021 and the U.S. has sanctioned. Canaan Lidor. (Sept. 9, 2025 / JNS) Israel’s foremost civil rights group publicly and illegally expressed support for a Palestinian terrorist organization that’s under U.S. sanctions for anti-Israel lawfare, Simcha Rothman, chair of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, told police on Sunday.

Rothman’s letter to the Police Investigations and Intelligence Division concerned the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), which he said should be the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly breaking anti-terrorism laws by supporting Al-Haq, a Palestinian group Israel designated as a terror group in 2021. JNS

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9/11 families celebrate 'historic, landmark decision' in long-running Saudi Arabia lawsuit. Federal judge allows case to move forward based on evidence linking Saudi officials to hijackers. By Ashley Oliver. Fox News. Published September 10, 2025.

Family members of 9/11 victims celebrated on Wednesday a court victory they said brings them one step closer to holding Saudi Arabia accountable for its alleged role in the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Brett Eagleson, whose father, John, was killed in the attacks, said during a press conference in New York City the judge’s "historic, landmark decision," issued two weeks ago, to move forward with a long-running lawsuit against the Saudi Arabian government was based on "indefensible evidence."

"There were at least 13 Saudi government officials connected to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. They were working and operating in and out of the Saudi consulates and the Saudi embassies," Eagleson said. "There were funneling support from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Washington, D.C., to their embassies in San Diego, to the hijackers’ handlers, right down to the hijackers themselves." FoxNews

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Zohran Mamdani slammed by 9/11 family after his association with pro-terror voice Hasan Piker surfaces. A New York City 9/11 family condemned Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani for his ties to Hasan Piker, who once said “America deserved 9/11.” Wendi and Sal Turturici, both EMTs connected to the attacks, called Mamdani “unfit for mayor” and endorsed ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo instead. Written By Ravi Hari. Published 10 Sep 2025.

New York City 9/11 family on Tuesday (September 9) criticiaed Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani for his association with Hasan Piker, who once infamously declared that “America deserved” the September 11 attacks. LiveMint

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Mastermind, accomplice charged for antisemitic attacks across Sydney, may link to wider network. Other suspects were arrested in relation to the Mount Sinai College incident, and were allegedly part of a criminal network orchestrating a series of antisemitic incidents across the state.

By Michael Starr. September 10, 2025. The alleged mastermind behind several antisemitic attacks across Sydney and his alleged accomplice in the defacement of a synagogue in Allawah were charged following an investigation by the Strike Force Pearl antisemitism task force, the New South Wales Police Force announced on Wednesday.

Tarek Zahabe, 27, identified by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), was charged on July 17 for participating in a criminal group to engage in unlawful activity after allegedly directing Kye Pickering, 26, to vandalize the Southern Sydney Synagogue on January 10.

The early morning incident, which drew outrage from the Jewish community and Australian political leaders such as NSW Premier Chris Minns, saw several swastikas and slogans spray-painted onto the house of worship.

“Hitler on top” and “Free Palestine” were written on the synagogue’s facade, as well as a mention of “Allah.” Pickering was charged on June 26 for property damage greater than $2,000, the public display of a Nazi symbol, and participation in an unlawful group crime.

Zahabe has also been charged with two more accounts of crimes as part of an unlawful group, as well as directing a criminal group, in relation to the January 17 Dover Heights incident involving the former home of a Jewish leader, the January 20 arson and vandalization of a Maroubra kindergarten, and the January 29 vandalization of the Maroubra Mount Sinai College Jewish school. JPost

Australian police arrest alleged mastermind of string of antisemitic attacks. 27-year-old Tarek Zahabe is charged with directing at least four incidents in January, including vandalism and arson on Jewish schools and the home of a Jewish leader. By Zev Stub. 11 September 2025. Australia’s New South Wales police said Wednesday they charged the alleged ringleader of a string of antisemitic attacks that shook Sydney’s Jewish community earlier this year, including attacks on Jewish schools and the privately-owned home of a Jewish leader. TOI

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In Their Own Words: Hamas Turns Hospitals into Military Assets with NGO Compliance. NGO Monitor, September 10, 2025.

Summary:

• For years, claims that Hamas used hospitals to shield its leadership and fighters have been met by skepticism and disregarded by the international community and media. Newly-revealed internal Hamas documents prove that the terror group’s exploitation of medical facilities in Gaza has been systematic.

• Hamas ministry documents, dated February and March 2020, detail Hamas’ strategy of embedding its military infrastructure, fighters, and leadership within hospitals and medical facilities in Gaza, blatantly violating international law and endangering civilian lives. As with all such installations and services in Gaza, Hamas cynically exploits the healthcare system to provide cover for and expand its terror operations.

• Hamas explicitly states that health facilities in Gaza are not neutral spaces, but instead play a critical role in Hamas’ terror network. Hamas officials expressed alarm at the prospect of “hostile parties” gathering intelligence on medical facilities, since these “serve as places that the wounded” – who “hold sensitive positions in the resistance” – “are gathered in during times of escalation.” In addition, they described medical facilities as places of “gathering for many commanders of the movement [i.e. Hamas] and the government in times of escalation”.

• Hamas also deliberately maintains a physical presence within hospital buildings. For example, Hamas officials note that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) “has chosen [to operate] in a wing inside Al-Shifa Hospital that is adjacent to the [Hamas] movement’s offices”.

• Despite being aware of Hamas’ control and exploitation of medical spaces, NGOs and UN agencies with a medical and humanitarian focus continued to operate under Hamas-imposed restrictions. They accepted Hamas’s surveillance, movement limitations, vetting of their teams, and were exposed to pressures and directives from Hamas security personnel.

• The NGOs also refuse to publicly admit their knowledge of Hamas’ use of medical spaces for military purposes, while simultaneously and hypocritically condemning Israeli attacks on terror targets in the vicinity of hospitals and medical centers. This selective reporting distorts reality, prevents the international community from obtaining reliable information from the field, encourages terror groups to continue exploiting areas that ought to be neutral, undermines humanitarian efforts in Gaza, and contributes to the demonization of Israel….

NGO-Monitor

Internal Hamas documents show terrorists operating from hospitals and monitoring NGOs. The memos were reportedly discovered in Gaza by the IDF after being written by Gaza’s Ministry of Interior and National Security

September 11, 2025. JC Reporter.

A pair of internal Hamas documents retrieved by Israeli forces in Gaza have reportedly confirmed that the terror group has a policy of operating from within the Strip’s hospitals.

The memos, which date from February and March 2020, were among a cache of files declassified by the IDF. NGO Monitor translated then the Arabic-language papers into English and released them to the public.

"These health facilities are a place of gathering for numerous leaders of the [Hamas] movement and the government during times of escalation,” read one passage.

Another stated: “When designating a place for these associations [i.e. NGOs], it must be outside the main building of the clinic or hospital and far away from the [Hamas] movement’s locations and [only] following security approval.” TheJC

Memos point to Red Cross knowledge of Hamas presence in Gaza hospitals The International Committee of the Red Cross chose a wing in Al-Shifa hospital "adjacent to the [Hamas] movement offices,” according to documents found by the IDF in Gaza and recently declassified. David Isaac. (Sept. 11, 2025 / JNS) Two Hamas documents found by Israeli forces in Gaza indicate that international organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders are well aware of the presence of Hamas in the Gaza Strip’s medical facilities despite obfuscating or outright denying it publicly, NGO Monitor revealed on Wednesday.

The internal Hamas memos were among a cache of documents declassified by the Israel Defense Forces. NGO Monitor translated the Arabic-language documents into English and released them to the public.

“While repeatedly echoing Hamas allegations and condemning Israel’s operations to end the exploitation of hospitals for terror, these groups clearly knew that Hamas exploited these facilities and chose to remain silent,” said Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor. JNS

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Jerry Seinfeld compares 'Free Palestine' movement to Ku Klux Klan in surprise university speech. The famed comedian made the speech before introducing former Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov.

By Jerusalem Post Staff September 11, 2025 04:02

Jerry Seinfeld compared the “Free Palestine” movement to the Ku Klux Klan in a speech on Wednesday, likening the former’s rhetoric to the KKK based on its antisemitism.

“Free Palestine is, to me, just, you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews,” the university’s student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle, quoted him as saying.

“By saying Free Palestine, you’re not admitting what you really think,” he continued. “So, it’s actually, compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like blacks; we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest.”

The student newspaper cited an email sent by the university spokesperson that Duke doesn’t preview the remarks of speakers and that the institution doesn’t endorse the remarks of those invited to speak. The spokesperson added that the university’s Chabad organized Seinfeld’s arrival at the event, alongside other student groups and the university. JPost

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‘700 days in hell,’ Israeli consulate campaign in Times Square says. "The return of the 48 hostages and the complete removal of Hamas from Gaza are the necessary conditions for ending this war," stated Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York.

(Sept. 10, 2025 / JNS) A weeklong, Israeli Consulate in New York digital billboard campaign displayed in Times Square tells of “700 days of hell” for hostages whom Hamas has held hostage in Gaza since Oct. 7.

“This attack, that was perpetrated by Hamas, was one of the most heinous acts of evil in human history since the Holocaust,” stated Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York.

“No human being with a conscience can remain unmoved in the face of such atrocities that took place that day,” he stated. “The slaughter of innocents, the burning of entire families alive, acts of sexual violence, the brutal beheadings and mutilations and the kidnapping of hundreds of innocent people were carried out by the terrorists who infiltrated Israel from Gaza 700 days ago.” JNS

stop_the_hate_uk: Sep 5, 2025. 700 Days. Let Them Go. Bring Them Home. Free The Hostages Now! 🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️ on Instagram

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Algeria legitimizing Hamas at UN council, Danon says. The country, which represents the Arab states, called an urgent session of the Security Council after Israel's strike in Doha.

(Sept. 10, 2025 / JNS) Algeria is legitimizing Hamas by calling for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council, scheduled for 3 p.m. on Sept. 11, after Israel’s strike in Doha, according to the Israeli mission to the global body in New York. Algeria represents the Arab states at the council. JNS

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Panic In The Ranks. Caught on Camera: The "Martyr" Slip That Exposes Hamas Panic. Hamas bureau member accidentally refers to Khalil al-Hayya as "martyr" during Al Jazeera interview, potentially revealing fate of senior leader targeted in Israeli strike in Qatar.

Lara Sukster Mosheyof. Sep 10, 2025 08:24 JFeed

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IDF reservist files defamation suit against DAWN. US citizen Levi Isaac Pilant files lawsuit against anti-Israel group that accused him of 'human rights violations' during his IDF service and sought to have the US impose sanctions on him. Israel National News. Published: Sep 10, 2025, 7:27 PM (GMT+3)

An Israeli reserve officer and American-Israeli citizen from the Yitzhar settlement is pursuing an unprecedented legal action in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the American organization "Democracy for the Arab World Now" (DAWN) for spreading "defamation" against him... INN

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Houthis Under Attack. Israel pounds Yemen's Houthis | WATCH The Israeli military has launched a series of retaliatory airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. The strikes, which witnesses reported created a large mushroom cloud over a target, were in response to Houthi missile and drone attacks on Israel.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 10, 2025 10:37 JFeed

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Another Tower Down. Over 360 Targets Hit: The Massive IDF Offensive Now Underway in Gaza City | WATCH. The IDF has launched the next phase of its "Gideon's Chariots B" operation, conducting over 360 strikes on terror infrastructure in Gaza City, including the targeted collapse of a high-rise building used by Hamas.

Eliana Fleming. Sep 10, 2025 12:41 JFeed

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Turkish News Outlet Promotes Hezbollah’s “Target List” of Sensitive Israeli Sites. An unprecedented act of psychological warfare is unfolding as a Turkish news outlet linked to President Erdogan openly promotes a Hezbollah video identifying and animating strikes on critical Israeli infrastructure. Gila Isaacson. Sep 10, 2025. A Turkish news outlet, GZT, linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has drawn attention for promoting a Hezbollah video.. JFeed

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Dramatic development in investigation of Ramla murder of hasid. Police arrested an Arab criminal from Ramla on suspicion of murdering Jewish neighbor following a new forensic report. Israel National News. Published: Sep 11, 2025, 6:59 PM (GMT+3) INN

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PMO: Spanish PM's lament that he doesn't have nukes a blatant genocidal threat. The Prime Minister Office says the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews of Spain and the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust, is not enough for Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez, who wished for nuclear weapons to threaten Israel with. Israel National News. Sep 11, 2025, 7:13 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Charlie Kirk: A Pro-Israel Conservative Voice in American Politics. September 10, 2025. By Joseph Feldman.

([34]. Turning Point USA’s Charlie Bar speaks at an event hosted by Im Tirtzu at a bar in Jerusalem. Photo by Josh Hasten).

Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was a prominent conservative activist known for his staunch support of Israel. His advocacy for the Jewish state was a cornerstone of his political ideology, influencing his public statements, organizational initiatives, and international engagements... VINN

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Israel Grieves. Netanyahu: "Charlie Kirk was a warrior with the heart of a lion"]. Leaders across Israel mourn U.S. icon and outspoken ally of the Jewish state. Yair Kleinbaum. Sep 10, 2025.

The Prime Minister, leaders of the major parties from both the right and the left, news outlets, and social media are mourning the death of Israel’s great friend, Charlie Kirk, who stood by the Jewish state in its most difficult times... Prime Minister Netanyahu called him “a warrior with the heart of a lion for the Judeo-Christian civilization.” The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, wrote: “Kirk warned about the danger of the alliance between the global left and radical Islam, and he sounded the alarm, but the vile murderer’s bullets struck him. May you rest in peace dear friend.”

Opposition Leader Benny Ganz wrote: "The vile and despicable shooting of Charlie Kirk, unwavering friend of Israel, in Utah is a harrowing reminder of how violence threatens democracies. Praying for him and thinking of his family".

Many on social media called Kirk a Righteous Among the Nations, a lover of Israel and a friend of the Jewish people. Kirk was shot in the very place where God had granted him strength, his throat. The attempt to silence him was an attempt to silence a generational movement in America. JFeed

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Evil Mockery. Sick: Palestinians Celebrate the Death of Charlie Kirk. As Israel mourns the loss of America’s young conservative leader, Palestinians mock and celebrate online, echoing past scenes of joy after U.S. tragedies.

Yair Kleinbaum Sep 10, 2025 19:57

As the people of Israel, and all other civilized westerners, are mourning the passing of Charlie Kirk, thousands of Palestinians are responding to posts by Israeli influencers mourning his death with laughing emojis and mocking comments.

On the Facebook page of one of Israel’s largest influencers, the Israeli rapper “The Shadow,” where Kirk was eulogized, hundreds of Arabs, including Arabs who enjoy the rights of every Israeli citizen, i.e Israeli-Arabs, published derisive comments rejoicing at his murder.

Even on the official page of Israel’s largest newspaper, 'Israel Hayom', the same mocking and laughing reactions could be seen, posted by users writing in Arabic script, while hundreds of other comments expressed shock and sorrow over the tragic loss.

This is not the first time Palestinians and their supporters have celebrated the killings of American figures, or rejoiced at attacks on U.S. soil.

After September 11th, the broadcast images from the streets of Ramallah, Nablus, and other cities in the Palestinian Authority are remembered, where Arabs handed out sweets and candy, dancing and honking car horns in joy over the murder of more than 3,000 Americans. [#Palestinians] [#Charlie Kirk] JFeed

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Segal on Kirk: A supporter of Israel in a generation that is moving away from it. Israel National News. Sep 11, 2025, 8:23 PM INN

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Qatar’s Genocidal Guests — and CNN’s Nada Bashir Shameful Spin.

On the anniversary of 9/11, CNN’s Islamic journalist Nada Bashir shamelessly echoed one of the most cynical lies in Middle Eastern politics — the claim that Qatar hosts Hamas merely to facilitate “negotiations.”

This narrative, long pushed by Doha and its Western apologists, is a grotesque distortion of the truth. For years, Qatar has openly provided sanctuary, funding, and political legitimacy to Hamas’s top leadership — the same genocidal Islamofascist Hamas responsible for countless terrorist attacks, including the October 7 massacre in Israel. These are not diplomats seeking peace; they are genocidal jihadists who glorify martyrdom, indoctrinate children, and call for the annihilation of Jews.

To suggest that Qatar’s relationship with Hamas is diplomatic in nature is not just naïve — it’s willfully dishonest. Qatar has made itself the luxury base of operations for the world’s most virulent Islamist movements, all while maintaining the illusion of being a Western ally.

On a day that should remind the world of the cost of ignoring jihadist threats, CNN chose instead to launder Qatari propaganda. It’s disgraceful — and dangerous. at EoZ

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GHF warns of rising Hamas disruption at Gaza distribution centers. Israel National News. Sep 11, 2025, 9:24 PM INN

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Stop Hosting Hamas Leaders in Doha Hillel Neuer at UN Slams Qatar: “If You Don’t Want Bombings, Don’t Harbor Terrorists”. In a pointed address at the UN, Hillel Neuer of UN Watch questioned the hypocrisy of nations condemning Israel's strike on Hamas leaders, directly challenging Qatar to explain why it harbors terrorists in its capital. Eliana Fleming Sep 11, 2025 17:35 JFeed

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Israel offers Syria channel to send aid to Gaza in closed-door meetings. At one point, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa even raised the issue of the Abraham Accords, giving a sense of rapprochement to all sides involved. By Amichai Stein September 11, 2025 20:20 Israel has offered Syria the opportunity to transfer humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, a source familiar with the talks told The Jerusalem Post.

The proposal was raised during meetings between Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, other senior Israeli officials, and top members of the al-Shaara regime.

The offer to Syria comes against the backdrop of some progress in JPost

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Netanyahu likens Israel’s strike in Qatar to US response after 9/11. “We also have a September 11. We remember October 7. On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.” Amelie Botbol. (Sept. 11, 2025 / JNS) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday invoked the memory of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States as he defended Israel’s strike in Qatar targeting Hamas leaders behind the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. jns

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Georgia attorney general joins effort to help US victims of Oct. 7 sue Hamas supporters. “Those who provide support to violent terrorist organizations must be held accountable,” Chris Carr stated.

(Sept. 11, 2025 / JNS) Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr joined an amicus brief to support the rights of victims of the Hamas-led terrorist Oct. 7 attacks and their families sue Americans and U.S. organizations accused of providing material support to Hamas.

The state attorney general’s office said on Wednesday that anti-Israel groups Students for Justice in Palestine, Within Our Lifetime and “other affiliated organizations that are alleged to have served as the Hamas propaganda division” have recruited foot soldiers for direct acts of violence, property destruction and campus disruptions on behalf of the terrorist group.

“Those who provide support to violent terrorist organizations must be held accountable,” Carr stated. “We’re proud to support the victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks and the families of those brutally murdered by Hamas, and we will continue to stand against antisemitism in all its forms.” JNS

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Tucker Carlson ‘turning into Ilhan Omar,’ Cruz says in Heritage talk. The Texas Republican talked about his efforts to have the Muslim Brotherhood recognized as a foreign terror organization. Jonathan D. Salant. (Sept. 11, 2025 / JNS) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) thinks that right-wing firebrand Tucker Carlson is “turning into Ilhan Omar,” as the senator expressed concern that the broadcaster is influencing a generation of young conservatives with his anti-Israel rhetoric.

“I will say I am concerned about rising antisemitism on the right,” Cruz said on Wednesday at a program at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. “In the last six months, what we’ve seen on the right has been deeply disturbing.” JNS

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Netanyahu compares Charlie Kirk to brother Yoni: 'Once in a generation' Netanyahu compares Charlie Kirk to brother Yoni: 'Once in a generation' Prime Minister Netanyahu paid tribute on Fox News to slain activist Charlie Kirk, recalling his support for Israel, defense of free speech, and legacy of Judeo-Christian values. Israel National News. Sep 11, 2025, 10:22 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Against ignorance for Israel. Watch Charlie Kirk fight on the frontlines of advocacy. Charlie Kirk would stand with a microphone in front of students, allowing them to ask any question and present any claim, including on Israel. He responded with calm and simplicity. Israel National News Sep 12, 2025, 8:45 AM INN

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Germany to back UN two-state resolution while opposing 'Palestine'. Germany's government says it will back a UN resolution for a two-state solution but says the time isn't right to recognize a Palestinian state. Elad Benari. Published: Sep 12, 2025, 6:49 AM (GMT+3) INN

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‘No Palestinian state,’ says Netanyahu at celebratory signing of key E1 initiative. Various obstacles, chief among them international pressure, has kept E1, a 4.6-square-mile area in the Judean Hills, virtually untouched for decades. David Isaac. (Sept. 12, 2025 / JNS) “We said there will be no Palestinian state—indeed there will be no Palestinian state. This place is ours,” declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rousing applause at the festive signing of an “umbrella agreement” between the government and Ma’ale Adumim at the Judean city’s Cultural Center on Thursday evening. JNS

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Arab stabs 2 Israelis at Kibbutz Tzuba, one is seriously wounded. Assailant Was Hotel Employee Arab stabs 2 Israelis at Kibbutz Tzuba, one is seriously wounded An off-duty police officer stopped a stabbing attack at a hotel near Jerusalem, where a hotel employee from the Shuafat refugee camp wounded two guests. Authorities are on the scene.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 12, 2025 06:56 A suspected stabbing attack at a hotel near Jerusalem left two people wounded, a 50 year old man moderately-to-severely and a 23 year old who was lightly wounded, according to initial reports. Police say the assailant, a resident of the Shuafat refugee camp, was an employee at the hotel. JFeed

Two wounded in terrorist stabbing at Kibbutz Tzuba hotel. Two victims said to be in serious and moderate condition; off-duty police officer subdued and arrested Arab assailant. Steve Linde.

(Sept. 12, 2025 / JNS) Two men were wounded in a terrorist stabbing at a hotel in Kibbutz Tzuba in the Judean Hills west of Jerusalem on Friday, police and first responders said. Both victims were guests of the hotel. JNS

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Hamas Instructs Officials to Switch Off Phones. Hamas sources told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk that directives were recently issued to all members of the group’s leadership and employees of its branches in several countries. The instructions called on them to switch off their mobile phones and leave them far from their residences, while adopting strict security measures. The move comes amid growing concerns within Hamas over possible new Israeli operations. Sep 12, 2025. JFeed

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UN overwhelmingly approves irreversible path to Palestinian state, 142 countries in favor, 10 against. The UN General Assembly passed the 'New York Declaration,' backed by France and Saudi Arabia, supporting a two-state solution while condemning Hamas and criticizing Israel; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Israel to clarify shared goals. Itamar Eichner, Lihi Gordon|09.12.25 11:46

The UN General Assembly on Friday approved the declaration initiated by France and Saudi Arabia, calling for support of a two-state solution, with 142 countries voting in favor, 10 against, and 12 abstaining. The “New York Declaration,” discussed at a July conference in New York, aims, according to its sponsors, to outline an “irreversible” path toward establishing a Palestinian state. Countries that voted against the measure were Israel, the United States, Argentina, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, and Tonga. Those that abstained included Albania, Cameroon, the Czech Republic, Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guatemala, North Macedonia, Moldova, Samoa, and South Sudan. YNet

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Israel's strike on Hamas in Doha reveals Qatar's duplicity.

Striking Hamas in Doha: Qatar's duplicity, the Gulf's ambivalence, and Israel's evolving doctrine. NATIONAL AFFAIRS: By striking Hamas leaders in Qatar, Israel challenged global hypocrisy, shattered Doha's mediator facade, and opened a new front in its fight against Hamas.

By Herb Keinon. September 12, 2025. By striking Hamas leaders in Qatar, Israel challenged global hypocrisy, shattered Doha’s mediator facade, and opened a new front in its fight against Hamas

Israel did something unprecedented on Tuesday: it struck Hamas leaders meeting in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf emirate better known for gleaming skyscrapers, soccer stadiums, and hosting international conferences than for being a battlefield.

Within minutes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement in English claiming full responsibility. This time, there was no wink-wink, no ambiguity, no “foreign reports” about an unexplained explosion in a faraway place. Israel owned this one – loudly.

Even though the results remain murky – it was still unclear Thursday afternoon who was killed and whether Hamas’s leadership managed to escape – the strike was extraordinary for its location, its timing, and its message. JPost

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The Enemy of My Enemy. After Doha Strikes, Iran and Qatar Unite Against Israel. An emergency summit in Doha, convened to condemn a recent Israeli strike, will be used by Qatar and Iran to forge a new anti-Israel axis. Gila Isaacson. Sep 13, 2025 13:26 JFeed

Iran warns: Israel will attack again. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to attend Doha summit, Iranian official warns Arab countries not to cooperate with Israel. Dalit Halevi. Sep 14, 2025, 12:03 AM INN

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Jerry Seinfeld is right about the meaning of ‘Free Palestine’. The comedian is being bashed for comparing those who wish to erase Israel to the Ku Klux Klan. Jonathan S. Tobin. (Sept. 12, 2025 / JNS) What Jerry Seinfeld said was considered so bad that The Hollywood Reporter compared it to his awful Netflix comedy movie “Frosted.” JNS

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Ireland, Netherlands to pull out of Eurovision if Israel competes. JNS Staff. (Sept. 13, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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IAF downs Houthi missile from Yemen There were no reports of injuries or damage. JNS Staff. (Sept. 13, 2025 / JNS) The Israeli Air Force intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Houthi terrorists in Yemen early on Saturday. JNS

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London police make arrest in ‘series of appalling antisemitic offenses’. Excrement was smeared earlier in September on the entrance and walls of a synagogue in the Borough of Barnet. JNS Staff.

(Sept. 13, 2025 / JNS) London’s Metropolitan Police have made an arrest with regard to a series of antisemitic incidents, the police’s North West BCU (Basic Command Unit) in the Borough of Barnet said on Friday, without providing details.

“Officers investigating a series of appalling antisemitic offences in Barnet have made an arrest. We continue to have an increased police presence in the area and have been supporting our local Jewish community who are understandably very distressed by the incidents,” the police tweeted. JNS

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California state K-12 Jew-hatred bill advances to Senate floor The bill’s co-author told JNS that classrooms must be “welcoming, affirming, safe and supportive.” Aaron Bandler. (Sept. 12, 2025 / JNS) To meet a legislative deadline on Saturday, a California state bill addressing Jew-hatred in K-12 schools that passed two committee votes this week will need to get through two more.

AB 715, which would bar discriminatory teaching materials and create a state civil rights office with a coordinator focused on Jew-hatred, passed the state Senate’s Education Committee (6-0) on Wednesday night and its Appropriations Committee (4-1) on Thursday. JNS

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New Mexico teen charged with mass murder threats against Jews, minorities, wanted to cause civil war. The Justice Department said that Jace Allen told the FBI that he is "a Neo-Nazi who hates Jews and minorities" and wants "to help spark a civil war by terrorizing people online."

(Sept. 12, 2025 / JNS) The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico charged Jace Allen, 19, with making online threats to murder Jews and minorities after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA.

The New Mexico teen is accused of posting “a series of violent and racist threats” on a social media account on Sept. 11, the day after Kirk was killed on a Utah campus. “Among the threats, Allen wrote that he planned to commit mass murder, target minorities and Jews and shoot up unspecified locations,” the Justice Department said. JNS

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Syria says talks on with Israel in hopes of IDF withdrawal. President Ahmed al-Sharaa said negotiations are taking place aimed at renewing the 1974 ceasefire agreement. Shachar Kleiman.

(Sept. 13, 2025 / Israel Hayom) Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said Friday that negotiations are taking place between Damascus and Israel with the aim of renewing the 1974 ceasefire agreement. For Syria, this would mean an Israeli withdrawal from territory it has captured over the past year, including the peak of Mount Hermon. JNS

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IDF hits 500 Hamas targets amid push into Gaza City. The military destroyed observation and sniper posts, buildings containing tunnel shafts, weapons depots and other terror infrastructure. JNS Staff. (Sept. 13, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces is continuing widescale strikes on Hamas terrorist infrastructure across the Gaza Strip, hitting around 500 targets as part of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots II” amid a ground offensive into Gaza City.

This week, the IDF carried out five waves of strikes in Gaza City, with the first three concentrated on the Daraj Tuffah and al-Furqan neighborhoods, and the last two expanding to al-Shati and deeper into al-Furqan. JNS

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New Zealand Jews ‘concerned’ as thousands march for Hamas-ruled Gaza. A counter-protest led by the Destiny Church movement was diverted by police to Auckland's Victoria Street, JNS Staff. (Sept. 13, 2025 / JNS) About 20,000 people marched through New Zealand’s biggest city on Saturday, calling on their government to impose sanctions on Israel. JNS

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Netanyahu hints: Attempt on Hamas leaders in Doha failed. Following strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hints at strike's failure, writing that 'getting rid of' Hamas leaders will remove 'main obstacle' to ending war, freeing hostages. Hezki Baruch Sep 13, 2025, 9:19 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Watch: IDF seals homes of Ramot Junction terrorists. IDF soldiers seize, seal, homes of terrorists who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Ramot, murdering six and injuring twelve others. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 13, 2025, 9:06 PM (GMT+3) INN

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'Hitler was right[sic]': Turkish hackers threaten ministers after phone numbers leaked online. Transport Minister Regev’s phone among 11 ministers’ numbers leaked by Turkish hackers, receiving death threats and abuse; 'I will send you to hell,' one threatens. Itamar Eichner|09.13.25 YNet

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'Determined to defeat Hamas': A quarter million flee Gaza City as IDF expands strikes. Ynet|09.13.25 YNet

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How Israel’s mysterious air-launched ballistic missile reached Qatar via space. Ynet|09.13.25 YNet

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Israel expands Gaza City strikes, issues expanded evacuation map as towers hit | Watch. Einav Halaby|09.13.25 YNet

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Over 100,000 march in London anti-immigration rally with Israeli flags and Charlie Kirk tributes. More than 110,000 protesters rally in London against immigration, waving British, Israeli and US flags, chanting 'Send them home,' and holding signs honoring slain US activist; police deploy 1,000 officers to keep order. Ynet, news agencies|09.13.25

More than 100,000 demonstrators rallied Saturday in central London at a mass protest against immigration, organized under the banner “Unite the Kingdom.” The event was spearheaded by anti-Muslim campaigner and self-described Zionist Tommy Robinson. Waving British and English flags, the crowd marched along Whitehall toward Parliament, chanting slogans such as “Send them home,” “Stop the boats” and “Save our children.” Some participants carried Israeli and U.S. flags, as well as red MAGA hats associated with U.S. President Donald Trump. Placards honoring Charlie Kirk, the pro-Israel American conservative activist who was shot dead on Wednesday in Utah. YNet

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Netanyahu blames Hamas leaders in Qatar for blocking hostage deal and Gaza ceasefire. Prime minister says removing exiled Hamas chiefs key to ending war; Energy Minister Eli Cohen warns Hamas officials unsafe anywhere, including Istanbul Lior Ben Ari, Itamar Eichner|09.14.25 YNet

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LAF begins new stage of Palestinian disarmament, diverts five trucks of weapons – report. Jerusalem Post, September 13, 2025. The Lebanese army is set to carry out the fourth stage of disarming Palestinian camps in the country on Saturday, according to Asharq Al-Awsat. JPost

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Charlie Kirk: Yossi Dagan: 'We will commemorate Charlie Kirk in Samaria'. Israel National News. Sep 14, 2025, 10:13 AM INN

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Idan Raichel: 'The baby I saved became a terrorist in Gaza' Idan Raichel: 'The baby I saved became a terrorist in Gaza' Singer and songwriter Idan Raichel discloses that a sick baby in Gaza he helped save became a martyred terrorist seventeen years later. Israel National News. Sep 14, 2025, 10:52 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Rubio at Western Wall: 'May peace reign upon this Holy Land and the world'. Israel National News. Sep 14, 2025, 4:47 PM INN

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Bob Vylan frontman celebrates Charlie Kirk's killing. Israel National News. Sep 14, 2025, 6:29 PM INN

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Once pulled, now praised: October 7th film takes TIFF award. After weeks of controversy, Barry Avrich’s film about an Israeli general’s daring Oct. 7 rescue wins TIFF’s People’s Choice Award and prepares for wide release. Israel National News. Published: Sep 14, 2025, 11:06 PM (GMT+) INN

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IDF kills Palestinian who led Oct. 7 assault on Kibbutz Alumim. Yousef Mahmoud Muhammad Juma’a was responsible for planning and executing attacks against Israel and IDF troops during the conflict. JNS Staff.

(Sept. 14, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces over the past month eliminated more than 20 terrorists in Gaza, including those involved in the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, the military announced on Sunday. JNS

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Hamas hypocrisy: COGAT shames Hamas officials who asked to leave Gaza While the organization works to prevent Gazans from leaving Gaza City, its leaders try to work with Israel to secure an evacuation for themselves. [35] Yoni Kempinski. Sep 14, 2025, 7:08 PM (GMT+3) INN

The Three G's: Gaza, Genocide, Government – Unmasking Hamas Hypocrisy.

In recent weeks, the world has been confronted with images and reports from Gaza that raise troubling questions about the true nature of the ongoing conflict. As Israel’s anti-terror operation continues to dismantle Hamas infrastructure in Gaza, the group’s actions are revealing the depth of its hypocrisy and disregard for the well-being of its own people.

Hamas, which has long used the civilian population of Gaza as human shields, has now shown an alarming double standard as its leaders desperately try to secure their own escape while preventing their people from fleeing the violence they helped instigate. This exposes the cynical manipulation Hamas has used to further its political agenda — and underscores the fundamental injustice facing Gaza’s population.

Hamas: Masters of Propaganda and Human Suffering.

The reality on the ground in Gaza has been distorted by a constant stream of propaganda, often portraying Israel as the sole aggressor. While Israel takes steps to protect its civilians from terrorist attacks and dismantle Hamas’s military infrastructure, the terrorist organization has repeatedly used its own population as cannon fodder. By storing weapons in civilian areas, placing rocket launchers near schools and hospitals, and launching attacks from densely populated neighborhoods, Hamas ensures that its people are trapped in the crossfire of its conflict with Israel.

But beyond the immediate devastation, Hamas has also used the deaths of its own people as a tool for propaganda. Images of casualties in Gaza are often broadcasted globally, portraying the group as victims of Israeli "genocide." However, this narrative intentionally overlooks the responsibility Hamas bears in putting their own civilians in harm’s way.

Hamas’s Hypocrisy: Leaders Flee While Civilians Suffer.

In an ironic twist, the hypocrisy of Hamas leadership has been brought into the spotlight in recent weeks. While the organization continues to block efforts for its people to leave Gaza City and find safety, Hamas officials themselves have reportedly sought to escape the enclave, even reaching out to Israel through the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) to facilitate their own evacuation.

This stark contrast in priorities is not just a moral failure but a betrayal of the very people Hamas claims to represent. Hamas’s insistence that no one should leave Gaza in the face of an Israeli anti-terror operation shows its utter indifference to the lives of Gaza’s civilians. Yet, when the threat is too great, Hamas leaders attempt to flee to safety, abandoning the people they have manipulated for years.

A Call for Accountability.

While Hamas continues to manipulate its own people and twist the narrative for political gain, it is crucial for the international community to recognize this hypocrisy and hold the group accountable. The suffering of Gaza’s civilians is tragic, but it is Hamas’s policies and actions — not Israel’s defense operations — that are responsible for the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

As Israel works to dismantle the terror infrastructure that has long plagued the region, it must continue to expose Hamas for what it truly is: a group that values power, propaganda, and violence over the lives of the people it claims to represent. The world should no longer be fooled by the false narrative of "genocide" and instead recognize Hamas for its role in creating this tragedy. JustSayin'

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Watch: IDF continues to topple Hamas terror towers in Gaza City Israel National News. Sep 14, 2025, 9:39 PM INN

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Summit Of Fire: Hamas official targeted gives first interview since attack. Israel National News. Sep 14, 2025, 10:24 PM INN

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IDF prepares for Gaza City offensive, Hamas officials flee. IDF says it has killed over 20 terrorists in past month in Gaza • IDF strikes another Gaza City high-rise • Israelis oppose West Bank annexation, prioritize ties with Arab countries, survey reveals.

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Spanish PM ‘politicized’ La Vuelta cycling race 'to hide scandals,' Jewish leader tells 'Post'. Police repeatedly clashed with protesters along the capital’s Gran Vía on Sunday; organizers cancelled the podium ceremony and declared Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard the overall winner. JPost

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IDF: These 21 Islamic Jihad Terrorists Were Eliminated in Gaza. The IDF and Shin Bet (ISA) have confirmed that 21 key commanders and operatives from the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization have been eliminated over the past six months as part of ongoing operations in the Gaza Strip. Eliana Fleming. Sep 15, 2025 13:39 JFeed

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Report. IDF conducts intensive strikes in Gaza City. Israel National News. Sep 15, 2025, 10:07 PM INN

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The Chief Rabbi's letter to Charlie Kirk's family. Rabbi David Yosef says in condolence letter to the family of Charlie Kirk that he regrets never having met Kirk, praises the right-wing activist's 'great deeds and noble character.' Israel National News. Sep 15, 2025, 8:09 PM INN

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UK MP under fire for antisemitic remark in Parliament. British lawmaker Shockat Adam decried for speech invoking the Israeli army’s ‘blood-soaked[SIC] tentacles.’ Grace Gilson, JTA. Sep 15, 2025, 12:45 PM (GMT+3)

A British lawmaker, Shockat Adam, is drawing outcry after he referred to the Israeli army’s “blood-soaked tentacles” during an address in Parliament on Wednesday.

The comment by Adam, a Malawi-born businessman and optometrist who is an independent, came as the British Parliament discussed Israel’s strikes on Hamas leadership in the Qatari capital of Doha and as Prime Minister Keir Starmer prepared to host the Israeli INN

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‘Washington Post’ fires anti-Israel opinion writer after posts about Kirk. The paper called a series of Karen Attiah’s social media posts after the killing of the conservative activist “unacceptable” and “gross misconduct.” Andrew Bernard. (Sept. 15, 2025 / JNS) One of the Washington Post’s most vehemently anti-Israel writers revealed on Monday that she has been fired after posting an incorrect quote and making incendiary statements about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Karen Attiah, a columnist and former global opinions editor at the Post, claimed in a Substack post that she was fired the previous week for “speaking out against political violence, racial double standards and America’s apathy toward guns.”

According to Attiah, the Post said that a series of posts she made in the wake of the Sept. 10 killing of Kirk were “unacceptable” and “gross misconduct” and constituted “endangering the physical safety of colleagues.”

Attiah, who is black, wrote that her removal was “part of a broader purge of black voices from academia, business, government and media,” citing one of her own columns.

She also claimed that her only direct reference to Kirk was from “his own words on record,” but she incorrectly quoted him as disparaging “black women,” a phrase that Kirk did not use in the underlying quote.

A Washington Post spokesperson told JNS that the paper would not comment on personnel matters.

During her tenure as a writer and editor at the Post, Attiah was one of the most prominent anti-Israel voices at the paper.

On Oct. 7, 2023, while the Hamas attacks in southern Israel were still ongoing, she reposted a tweet asking about the terrorist massacre: “What did y’all think decolonization meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? losers.”

About one-third of her columns since Oct. 7 have been about the war against Hamas, with headlines that include “We cannot stand by and watch Israel commit atrocities”—published six days after the attack—and “destroying Gaza’s cultural heritage is a crime against humanity.”

She also frequently attempted to connect American racial politics to claims about Israeli “colonialism” and “oppression” of Palestinians.

“It should be no surprise that there are black solidarities with the Palestinian plight,” she wrote in an October 2023 column. “Many of us remember when, in 2014, Palestinians gave protesters of U.S. police brutality advice on how to deal with tear gas. After all, police in the United States were using the same tactics and equipment against protesters that the Israeli security forces were using.” JNS

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Jewish tourist couple are beaten up by ‘ten migrants’ who set a rottweiler on them while chanting ‘Free Palestine’ in Venice anti-Semitic attack. Olivia Allhusen, Daily Mail, September 12, 2025. DailyMail

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Unmasking Candace Owens’ Vicious Antisemitic Crusade: Safeguarding Jewish Resilience and Holocaust Truth.

Candace Owens has persistently spread harmful falsehoods designed to incite fear and hatred, particularly targeting Jewish communities with dangerous antisemitic tropes.

Her recent baseless claim—that Charlie Kirk, a committed supporter of Israel, who was killed by Tyler Robinson (reportedly influenced by her associate, known antisemite Nick Fuentes) was supposedly part of some Z "conspiracy” (a fabrication initially propagated by Arab supremacist Naram Susli)—is only the latest in her ongoing campaign to vilify Jews.

In a 2024 livestream viewed by over a million people, Owens escalated her attacks by falsely accusing a respected Jewish rabbi of orchestrating a murderous “Zionist plot” against her. These lies not only endanger individual lives but also perpetuate vicious stereotypes that paint Jewish people as sinister conspirators, threatening the safety and dignity of our communities.

Adding to her egregious rhetoric, Owens has also embarked on a campaign to whitewash the atrocities of Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi “Dr. Death” whose horrific experiments on Jewish prisoners, among others, during the Holocaust represent some of the darkest crimes in history. By attempting to sanitize Mengele’s legacy, Owens not only distorts the truth but also inflicts profound pain on Jewish survivors and their descendants, undermining the memory of millions who suffered under Nazi persecution.

In a formal letter to the FBI, a concerned advocate underscored the gravity of her actions: “Candace Owens’ massive platform amplifies her toxic falsehoods. By falsely accusing a Jewish rabbi of plotting her murder as part of an alleged Zionist scheme and attempting to whitewash the crimes of Josef Mengele, she revives the blood libel—a centuries-old antisemitic lie that has fueled pogroms and violence against Jews—and desecrates the memory of Holocaust victims. Her rhetoric is a deliberate attempt to incite hatred and harm, endangering Jewish communities who have long contributed to the cultural, intellectual, and moral fabric of society.”

Owens’ obsession with demonizing Jews predates her recent fabrications. Months earlier, she concocted a baseless narrative linking a Jewish individual to Michael Jackson’s death, alleging their involvement in a fictitious Jewish conspiracy to destroy him. More recently, she claimed Jackson had named this individual among Jews targeting him, further inflaming her followers’ paranoia with these malicious delusions. She accuses Jewish individuals and their families of “lying” and “smearing” her, while she herself spreads dangerous falsehoods that jeopardize Jewish lives and undermine the values of truth, justice, and compassion that Jewish communities have championed for generations.

Her rhetoric is not mere provocation—it is a calculated effort to dehumanize Jews, portraying us as threats who deserve retribution. By invoking conspiracies of murder and control and attempting to rewrite the horrors of the Holocaust, Owens exploits the darkest antisemitic tropes, giving her followers a false justification to act on hateful impulses. This is not free speech; it is dangerous incitement cloaked in lies, threatening the safety of Jewish families, synagogues, and institutions that have long been pillars of scholarship, charity, and community.

For the sake of Jewish communities—who have endured centuries of persecution, including the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust, yet continue to contribute profoundly to global progress—and for all who stand against hate, we must confront Candace Owens for what she is: a propagandist using her platform to spread antisemitic venom. Her deadly lies, fueled by a reckless obsession with fearmongering and historical revisionism, have real-world consequences, from synagogue vandalism to physical attacks on Jews. We must demand accountability to protect our communities, honor the resilience and contributions of Jewish people, and ensure that truth, memory, and unity prevail over hatred and division. [9.16.25] at Eoz

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Monday, September 15, 2025. Jordan tells Palestinians to die, in the name of being "pro-Palestinian". ... reported last week: Palestinians from Gaza being treated in Jordanian hospitals said they have been told they will be sent back to Gaza, sparking alarm and fear among families who now face a forced return to Gaza's collapsing healthcare system, as Israel intensifies its strikes on Gaza City and pushes residents south... EoZ

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Monday, September 15, 2025. Haaretz calls teaching Jewish heritage "racist" and "messianic". EoZ

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A transgender Palestinian immigrant leads an LGBT terrorist group in Utah, USA. The organization, which promotes the use of weapons, is composed of far-left LGBT individuals. 15/09/2025 by Editorial Team.

A Palestinian and transgender immigrant, Ermiya Fanaeian, leads a far-left terrorist movement and LGBT in the United States, Utah, the state where right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was murdered.

Fanaeian leads the organization called "Armed Queers Salt Lake City" (AQSLC), a group that combines armed self-defense with LGBT activism and communist militancy, with the goal of "promoting a broader struggle against capitalism and state violence," according to a publication by the organization.

A concerning piece of news is that this movement had as its Facebook cover the phrase "Ben Shapiro should be the next one killed," which reflects the hatred and left-wing extremism of its members. For this reason, AQSLC ended up deleting its account after the controversy that arose.

Armed Queers Salt Lake City stated that it abides by "six principles," according to a document related to the application for joining the collective. The first of these sets forth the "armed and combative defense of queer and trans communities."

Screenshot showing the Instagram profile of Armed Queers Salt Lake City with its information and posts, alongside a message indicating that the profile you’re looking for doesn’t exist. Armed Queers Salt Lake City closed its account | La Derecha Diario In addition, the group aims to achieve the "end of capitalist oppression and exploitation," the "construction of a socialist society," "trans liberation," and the "elimination of prisons and police forces," as stated in its guidelines.

The group defines itself as an openly communist organization. During a meeting held in July, one of its leaders stated: "We are a Marxist-Leninist organization led by queer and trans people."

The trans issue. The murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk caused shock in the United States and reignited the debate about the increase in political violence and armed attacks perpetrated by transgender individuals or those linked to progressive movements.

Smiling man in a black jersey that says America holds two caps while a crowd and several photographers surround him at an outdoor event. Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist who was killed | La Derecha Diario Kirk was murdered last Wednesday after a verbal exchange with Hunter Kozak, a left-wing activist known on social media. According to witnesses, the discussion revolved around shootings committed by trans people.

Shortly afterward, Kirk was shot. Kozak, who was present, was not identified as the shooter, but posted a video the next day expressing sadness over what happened and sending condolences to Kirk's family.

The person responsible for the crime is Tyler Robinson, a far-left murderer who lived with a transgender partner in the "transition process" from male to female. During the investigations, authorities revealed that the ammunition used by the suspect had pro-LGBT slogans written on it.

Robinson adopted increasingly leftist ideologies after entering university, and became close to terrorist groups such as Antifa, possibly influenced by his life in St. George, where he lived openly as a gay man with a transgender partner. DerechaDiario

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025. Elder of Ziyon. Respected Middle East academic journal @mideastcritique has been taken over by pro-Iran propagandists @WeAreTandF. EoZ

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Nick Spreads More Poison. Did Nick Fuentes Radicalize Charlie Kirk's Murderer? Far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes has become a top trend on X following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Authorities are investigating the suspect's motive, and critics are pointing to Fuentes' history of inflammatory rhetoric as a potential source of Tyler Robinson's radicalization. Bianca Jones. Seo 16, 2025. JFeed

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UN Watch Rebuttal: Legal Analysis of Pillay Commission’s September 2025 Report to Human Rights Council. September 16, 2025 United Nations. Pillay Commission, pinned On September 16, 2025, the Pillay Commission submitted to the UN Human Rights Council a 72-page conference room paper titled Legal analysis of the conduct of Israel in Gaza pursuant to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The paper makes extreme and unfounded accusations against the State of Israel, relying on a one-sided record that disregards facts that contradict its predetermined conclusions. The Pillay Commission, mandated to be an independent fact-finding body, produced a report that is nothing more than pro-Hamas propaganda cloaked in legal language. The report severely undermines international fact-finding, international law, and the UN system as a whole. A summary of UN Watch’s detailed legal rebuttal is below. By Salo Aizenberg.

Accusations of genocide are among the most serious charges that can be made against a state. They evoke the darkest episodes of modern history, such as the Holocaust, Rwanda, and Srebrenica, and they carry immense legal consequences as well as profound moral weight. For this reason, the Genocide Convention of 1948 sets a deliberately high bar: genocide requires specific intent (dolus specialis) to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group “as such.”[1] Genocidal intent is established only when there is no other reasonable inference. Evidence of widespread civilian casualties, extensive destruction, or inflammatory rhetoric does not suffice; what is required is proof that deaths and suffering were the result of a deliberate policy to exterminate a people. Establishing such intent is among the most difficult elements in international law, and the genocide allegation against Israel fails at this threshold even before considering the Report’s distortions of its conduct in Gaza.

The UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry’s report is fatally deficient: its reasoning is deeply flawed, its evidentiary base unreliable, and its methodology unsound. It selectively misinterprets statements by Israeli leaders, accepts unverified Hamas casualty figures, disregards Hamas’s systematic use of human shields, relies on unverified media reports (such as by Al-Jazeera), and assumes that civilian deaths in Gaza are only the result of deliberate targeting by Israel. Its omissions are equally striking. The report erases Hamas as an active belligerent; across its 72 pages, it never acknowledges that the IDF is engaged with a 30,000-strong fighting force that constructed a battlefield fortified with 500 kilometers of tunnels. Such deficiencies strip the document of legal credibility and render it indistinguishable from propaganda dressed in legal language.

This rebuttal examines the central defects of the UN report (the “Report”) issued by the Commission of Inquiry (the “Commission”). It shows why the evidence presented cannot sustain a finding of genocide under international law. A summary of its main deficiencies are as follows:

1. Failure to prove dolus specialis: The specific intent to destroy a protected group is the central and extremely high bar in any genocide case. The Commission’s claim of genocidal intent fails on this threshold alone, relying on tortured parsing of statements, selective quotations, and conjecture rather than unambiguous evidence.

2. Erasure of Hamas as a belligerent: The report never acknowledges that the IDF is engaged in combat with an estimated 30,000-strong Hamas force in Gaza as well as thousands of fighters from other militant groups. A reader would come away believing the war has the IDF deployed against only women and children, with Hamas erased from the narrative. The Commission makes no attempt to analyze the war itself, because in its alternative version of reality, there is none.

3. Silence on Hamas’s military infrastructure: There is no mention of Hamas’s 17-year military buildup in Gaza, including its vast tunnel network, booby-trapped buildings, and massive arms buildup. By ignoring this reality, the report strips the conflict of its military context and recasts lawful military targets as evidence of genocide.

4. Erasure of Hamas’s use of civilian infrastructure: The Commission ignores Hamas’s openly acknowledged human shield strategy,[2] including its use of mosques, schools, residential buildings, and hospitals to conceal tunnels and weapons. Instead, damage to these sites is consistently portrayed as deliberate targeting of civilians by Israel.

5. No recognition of the hostage crisis: The report omits the fact that Hamas took Israeli hostages and continues to hold them, starve them,[3] and rape them.[4] This omission is consistent with the broader erasure of Hamas as an active actor in Gaza, removing essential context from the Commission’s narrative.

6. Reliance on Hamas-supplied fatality data: Despite Hamas’s long record of exaggerating civilian deaths and its status as a US and EU-designated terrorist organization, its figures are treated as fact while IDF data on combatants killed is ignored.

7. Civilian deaths distorted as evidence of genocide: The report presents civilian casualties as prima facie proof of genocidal intent rather than as tragic and unavoidable consequences of urban warfare, exacerbated by Hamas’s human shield strategy. The Report cites numerous incidents where civilians were killed as intentional and targeted acts by Israel without evidence.

8. Normal wartime consequences treated as crimes: Regular and expected wartime impacts on civilians, such as mental health impacts, difficulty accessing medical care and displacement, are depicted as evidence of genocide rather than inevitable outcomes of urban conflict.

9. Urban devastation portrayed as extermination: Large-scale damage is cited as proof of genocide, ignoring that urban combat inherently produces extensive destruction, particularly when military forces are embedded within civilian areas.

The Commission also ignores the obvious: the suffering of Gazans could be significantly reduced or even ended if Hamas released all hostages and relinquished control of Gaza. The idea that the population experiencing the claimed genocide has the power to stop it but refuses to is unprecedented in the history of actual genocides and exposes a deliberate blind spot in the Report. This omission mirrors the Commission’s broader erasure of Hamas as an active party in the conflict, a group with agency and responsibility, leaving readers with the false impression that all suffering in Gaza is solely Israel’s responsibility.

The Report is riddled with factual errors and assertions made with no credible evidence. A complete catalog of these mistakes and their corrections would be longer than the Report itself. This rebuttal highlights key factual errors and significant omissions that the Commission relies on to underpin its thesis of genocide.

[1] Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 78 U.N.T.S. 277 (adopted December 9, 1948, entered into force January 12, 1951), [36].

[2] How Hamas is fighting in Gaza: tunnels, traps and ambushes, NYT (July 13, 2024), [37].

[3] World leaders condemn videos of emaciated Israeli hostages in Gaza as Red Cross calls for access, BBC (August 4, 2025), [38].

[4] Hostages released from Gaza detail sexual violence as Israeli report concludes Hamas used it as ‘weapon of war’ on October 7, CNN (July 8, 2025), [39]; A Quest for Justice: October 7 and Beyond, The Dinah Project (June 2025), [40]; Mission report Official visit of the Office of the SRSG-SVC to Israel and the occupied West Bank 29 January – 14 February 2024, UN (March 4, 2024), [41]. UNWatch

The new UNHRC "genocide" report: anti-Israel propaganda disguised as legal analysis. September 16, 2025.

In today’s New York Times, Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Gaza, announced what she calls a stark truth: Israel is committing genocide.

When we look closely at the evidence her Commission cites, and compare it to independent assessments like the BESA Center’s September 2025 study Debunking the Genocide Allegations, a more troubling picture emerges—not of Israel’s intent, but of the Commission’s method.

Starvation as a Weapon—or a Narrative? Pillay claims that Israel has “used starvation as a weapon of war,” pointing to trucks of aid blocked at the border and shortages of infant formula. The Commission’s report went further, calling denial of baby milk “powerful evidence” of genocidal intent. Yet the footnotes don’t show an Israeli ban on formula. They cite UNICEF on malnutrition and a doctor who said unsafe water made formula impossible to prepare. These are tragic effects, but they are not proof of deliberate denial.

On aid flows, the Commission’s baseline is 500 trucks a day. BESA shows this is misleading: prewar, only about 73 of those trucks carried food, and that number was based on working days. By early 2025, food inflows often matched or exceeded that baseline. UNRWA eventually corrected its own earlier “collapse” claims. Pillay does not mention these corrections.

But the UN report also engages in false claims that it launders through footnotes. It admits that some food is stolen in Gaza (in fact virtually all food aid is stolen), but then claims that Israel is still heavily restricting aid:

By 22 June 2025, OCHA reported that nearly 9,000 metric tonnes of wheat flour were brought into Gaza since 19 May, most of it was taken by people in need of aid en-route, and in some cases by armed elements, before reaching its final destinations. (430) Since then, humanitarian aid has been extremely restricted by Israeli authorities and requests for humanitarian access have been repeatedly denied.(431)

Footnote 431 is an IPC report that says: Humanitarian aid remains extremely restricted due to requests for humanitarian access being repeatedly denied and frequent security incidents.(6) In turn, that footnote 6 refers to an OCHA report from July 23 - which does not say at all that Israel is denying aid.

Its July 16 report is the most specific: "Between 9 and 15 July, out of 66 attempts to coordinate planned aid movements across the Gaza Strip, nearly 17 per cent were denied by Israeli authorities. "

A 17% denial rate is not evidence of an Israeli policy to deny aid. It means that specific requests would be in danger from IDF activities, and most of them are approved. Framing this as "repeated denials" is knowingly deceptive. The truth is the opposite from how the UNHRC portrays it. Moreover, even when other UN agencies do give Israel's reasons for denials of some shipments, the UNHRC report treats all of those collectively as proof of a policy to starve Gazans and assume Israel's explanations are all lies.

Safe Zones, Hamas, and Civilian Harm The op-ed treats Israel’s evacuation orders and designated safe zones as a sham, citing civilians killed even there. But data show fatalities in these areas were a small fraction—around 2 to 3.5 percent—of the total. That doesn’t make them safe in absolute terms, but it suggests they were safer than surrounding areas.

What Pillay does not acknowledge is evidence that Hamas itself operated inside or alongside some of these zones, exploiting them as cover. That matters legally: if militants were using evacuation corridors, civilian deaths there may point less to genocidal design than to Hamas’s tactics combined with the fog of war.

Intent: Words vs. Deeds. Pillay rests much of the Commission’s case for genocidal intent on rhetoric. Gallant’s “human animals” remark, Herzog’s statement that the “entire nation” was responsible, Netanyahu’s reference to Amalek—all of these are cited as direct evidence of dolus specialis, the specific intent to destroy a people.

But the Commission discounts Israel’s actions that cut against this narrative. Warnings issued, corridors opened, and aid allowed through are reinterpreted as sinister: proof of knowledge rather than mitigation, a façade rather than an attempt to minimize harm. This asymmetry is striking: harsh words are taken literally, while deeds that contradict the genocide charge are explained away as window dressing.

In other words, the only Israeli statements or actions that are considered evidence are the ones that fit with the report's pre-determined conclusions.

The Problem of “Only Reasonable Inference”. In her op-ed, Pillay insists that genocide is not just one inference but the only reasonable one. Yet that is exactly what is in dispute. BESA shows how famine projections failed to materialize, how UNRWA itself corrected undercounts, how safe zones did save lives at scale, and how infant formula shortages are not the same as a deliberate ban. These facts show that alternatives to the genocide narrative - legitimate military objectives, Hamas’s embedding, and real mistakes of war reinterpreted as policy - remain very much on the table.

When genocide is declared the only explanation, despite contested evidence, the "law" becomes advocacy.

Conclusion: A Higher Standard Navi Pillay’s experience as a judge in Rwanda gives her words moral weight. But invoking Rwanda is not a substitute for evidence that meets the same standard. In Rwanda, génocidaires were convicted on proof of intent beyond reasonable doubt. In Gaza, the UN Commission uses a lower bar—“reasonable grounds”—and then extrapolates the gravest charge from sources that are themselves disputed, corrected or falsified.

That does not mean Gaza’s suffering is imagined. It does mean the genocide finding, as presented, is not the impartial legal conclusion it is claimed to be. It is a narrative, built on selective sourcing and asymmetrical treatment of evidence.

Worse, the report is guilty of what it accuses Israel of: it claims that Israeli actions that contradict the genocide narrative are public relations moves and not real, but in reality its own cherry picking of evidence are the PR to reach its own foregone conclusion.

In the end, the report reads less like a balanced forensic audit and more like a prosecutorial brief. That matters. Because if genocide is to remain a legal concept rather than a political weapon, its proof must rest on evidence weighed fairly, not selectively. Otherwise, the law itself risks being seen as advocacy in disguise. EoZ

The only thing being genocided in Gaza is truth itself. We are living through the largest propaganda assault in modern history. Opinion. Andrew Fox. Published: Sep 16, 2025, 1:04 PM (GMT+3)

Andrew Fox is a former British Army officer and current think tank research fellow focusing on defense, the Middle East, and disinformation.

When a state is singled out, demonised, and judged by standards applied to no one else, we have entered the realm of pathology.

“Israel Derangement Syndrome” is a real, spreading sickness, and it is fully metastasised across the West.

Some truly telling examples: Ireland and others threaten to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest if Israel performs. Spain’s prime minister casually comments that his country should have nuclear weapons to launch at Israel. The Netherlands descends into parliamentary chaos over Gaza. Flouncing Hollywood stars performatively announce that their virtue will not allow them to work with Israeli companies.

Cycling team Israel-Premier Tech was forced to abbreviate its name to IPT for races in Canada in attempt to avoid incidents caused by protestors. Seven Israeli chess players registered for a Spanish tournament have all withdrawn from the event because the players were told they could not compete under their national flag.

At first glance, these stories seem trivial, almost absurd, laughable. Eurovision tantrums, political posturing, virtue-signalling, and the Western obsession with grandstanding over the Middle East.

However, none of this is random. Each reflects deep domestic histories of terrorism, antisemitism, and postcolonial guilt that are now exploited by Hamas propaganda and rechannelled against the Jewish state.

It’s not funny.

Ireland’s Eurovision stance is wrapped in the language of moral conscience. However, Ireland’s domestic history with terrorism, particularly the Irish Republican Army and the long-standing sympathy with insurgency, has fostered a political culture sympathetic to violent “resistance” movements abroad. Hamas resonates instinctively within the Irish imagination. The response is not solidarity with Israeli civilians under attack, but with those who committed murderous rape and slaughter, and who have declined multiple offers of statehood.

Meanwhile, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wishing his country had nuclear weapons to use against Israel, sounds utterly unhinged. Yet Spain possesses one of Europe’s longest and ugliest traditions of antisemitism. From the Inquisition to Francisco Franco, Jews were expelled, silenced, and erased. Israel’s existence today reawakens a latent national pathology: a state that is Jewish, sovereign, and unbowed — precisely what Spain tried to erase.

Of course, alongside state-based antisemitism, there is lawfare on the global stage: the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and endless “commissions of inquiry.” The Hague has become a theatre for persecution. False charges of genocide are hurled at Israel even as Hamas openly declares its intention to wipe Jews “from the River to the Sea.”

It does not end there. The Hind Rajab Foundation now hunts Israeli social media, tracking down IDF soldiers abroad in an attempt to expose, harass, and destroy their lives. Online mobs sift through LinkedIn and Instagram to find young Israelis on gap years, students in Europe, or businesspeople in America. The goal: to make being Israeli a global liability.

None of this is solidarity with Gaza. It is the persecution of Jews.

The most dangerous front in this war is not in Gaza, but in Washington, D.C. A Gallup poll earlier this year found that Israel’s support among Democrats has collapsed to just 7 percent. That is a political earthquake. If bipartisan backing for Israel dies in the United States, Israel’s strategic environment changes overnight. Its enemies know this, and Hamas, Qatar, Iran, and Russia all target American opinion just as much as Israeli soldiers. Every viral video of rubble, every tear-jerking TikTok about “starving children,” every doctored United Nations statistic is aimed less at Jerusalem and more at Western university campuses and Left-wing party caucuses.

The plan is working.

It must be stated: Israel has done very little legally wrong in Gaza. That statement will make the usual candidates foam at the mouth, but it is the truth. The IDF has undertaken unprecedented measures to protect civilians: warning leaflets, phone calls, text messages, humanitarian corridors, and pauses in fighting. There is no precedent in modern warfare for this level of effort, especially in a combat environment like Gaza, where the civilians cannot flee and Hamas aims to cynically maximise the numbers killed.

Not in Iraq, not in Afghanistan, not in Syria, not in Ukraine, and yet Israel is the one accused of genocide.

The starvation narrative is the most grotesque example. UN officials claim a famine stalks Gaza, yet food aid continues to flow in daily. There is substantial evidence showing markets are still operating. Hamas and others have repeatedly stolen, hoarded, and resold aid. The accusation of “deliberate starvation” is a weaponised lie, not an empirical assessment.

Where Israeli soldiers have committed crimes, they are sporadic rather than systemic. Every army has bad actors. The difference is that Israel investigates and prosecutes its own. Hamas, by contrast, builds tunnels under hospitals, fires rockets from schools, and films its own war crimes for propaganda.

The double standard is staggering.

Hamas understands the West better than the West understands itself. Its strategy is not primarily military. It knows it cannot defeat the IDF head-on. Its approach is psychological and driven by storytelling: exploiting Palestinian suffering as a weapon, flooding the media with fake visuals, and distorting reality until Israel is portrayed as the aggressor and Hamas as the victim.

The method is brutally effective. One child’s body on camera outweighs a hundred Hamas fighters off-screen. Every explosion becomes content. Every funeral is theatre. Hamas has turned death into PR, and the world swallows it whole.

What we are seeing is not “criticism of Israel.” It is a new, globalised antisemitism. When Israeli athletes are shunned, when Jewish students are harassed on campus, when faeces are smeared on London synagogues, when kosher restaurants are vandalised in Paris, Berlin, New York — it is not about Gaza. It is about Jews.

BDS was always about this. Its founders admitted openly that their goal was not two states, but the erasure of Israel altogether. Now, through lawfare, media manipulation, and social media swarming, they have normalised antisemitism as “progressive” chic.

This is why the language of “genocide” is so dangerous. It is not simply inaccurate; it is incitement. It primes populations to view Israel (and by extension Jews everywhere) as perpetrators of the greatest crime imaginable. That narrative does not just delegitimise Israel; it endangers Jewish communities worldwide.

The only thing being genocided in this conflict is the truth itself.

The fact is that Israel did not initiate this war. Hamas did, with the most brutal massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The fact is that Israel has gone to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties in a conflict that Hamas deliberately embeds within civilian populations. The fact is that the international system, from The Hague to the UN, has been weaponised to persecute one state, and one state only, because it is Jewish.

Israel is not perfect. No state at war is. However, to pretend that it is guilty of genocide while Hamas openly proclaims its genocidal intent is to invert reality itself. This inversion is the sickness of our age. It is Israel Derangement Syndrome, and it is spreading fast.

Some might say: So what if Europeans complain about Eurovision? So what if campus radicals shout about genocide? Israel remains strong, armed, and resilient.

My reply is that history shows us to take such disturbances seriously. Demonisation always comes before violence. Look at the United States, where political violence is becoming normalised. Lies always lead to persecution, and when Israel loses bipartisan support in the United States, when antisemitism becomes mainstreamed in global institutions, when Jewish life is once again made fragile in Europe and America, the consequences will not be minor.

This is not about Gaza; it is about the future of the Jewish People.

We are living through the largest propaganda assault in modern history. Hamas’ October 7th massacre was designed not only to kill Israelis, but to unleash a narrative war that would isolate Israel, fracture its alliances, and inflame antisemitism worldwide. It has succeeded far beyond Hamas’ wildest dreams.

The danger extends beyond Israel. It threatens the very integrity of truth. If lies can be weaponised to label the most targeted, scrutinised, and restrained military campaign in modern warfare as “genocide,” then words mean nothing, facts mean nothing, and law itself becomes a pogrom.

That is the world Hamas wants. That is the world antisemitism demands. Unless the sickness of Israel Derangement Syndrome is confronted head-on, that is the world we will all be forced to live in. INN

The so-called "independent" Pillay Commission is a complete oxymoron, especially given the long-standing anti-Israel bias of its chair, Navi Pillay. Her previous track record, including her actions as head of the 2021 Commission, shows a consistent pattern of skewed narratives that serve political agendas rather than objective fact-finding. It's no surprise that she would align herself with figures like Francesca Albanese, notorious for spreading baseless "genocide" accusations against Israel since 2014—well before she was unjustly given a UN position. This entire Commission's supposed neutrality is nothing more than a facade, built on a foundation of pre-existing anti-Israel rhetoric. [9.16.25] at EoZ

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Still criticizes Israel. UN chief stops short of genocide claim. Elad Benari. Sep 17, 2025, 6:21 AM INN

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Ilham Omar facing MAJOR repercussions over insensitive Kirk comments. Fox News. Sep 16, 2025. The 'Outnumbered' panelists discussed the fallout from Ilhan Omar's insensitive comments on Charlie Kirk after his assassination and how she could face notable consequences on Capitol Hill on YouTube

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'The three are in the truck' Watch: Two terrorists eliminated in Qalqilya. Israel National News. Sep 16, 2025, 2:58 PM INN

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Netanyahu in the Kirya. 'We struck the Houthi port, operations ongoing in Gaza'. Israel National News. Sep 16, 2025, 6:17 PM INN

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IDF Spokesperson. 'Hamas turned Gaza City into the largest human shield in history'. Israel National News. Sep 16, 2025, 6:49 PM INN

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Utah DA: Suspect's mother said son had 'moved to the left' in past year. Fox News. Sep 17, 2025 Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray announces charges against the accused killer of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and reads his recorded texts with his roommate on 'America Reports.' on YouTube

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Wisconsin considers adopting IHRA antisemitism definition. Israel National News. Sep 17, 2025, 6:55 AM INN

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Spain joins Eurovision boycott against Israel. Elad Benari. Sep 17, 2025, 5:08 AM INN

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Battle against illegal construction: Bedouin set fire to homes, protesting demolitions Israel National News. Sep 17, 2025, 9:31 AM INN

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Charlie Kirk murder suspect confessed on Discord. Lance Twigs, accomplice of the suspect Taylor Robinson, revealed messages in which Robinson admits to the murder of pro‑Israel right‑wing activist Charlie Kirk. Nitzan Kedar. Sep 17, 2025, 8:45 AM INN

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StandWithUs | We are deeply grateful that Charlie Kirk made a point to call out far right hatred of Jews, including efforts to poison the minds of young... | there is a corner of the internet of people that want to point and blame the Jews for all their problems. Everybody, this is demonic and it's from the pit of hell and it should not be tolerated. Period Instagram

StandWithUs . Sep 12, 2025. We are deeply grateful that Charlie Kirk made a point to call out far right hatred of Jews, including efforts to poison the minds of young men online. In this time of deep divisions, we hope more public figures follow Charlie's example by fighting antisemitism within their own political camp. May Charlie Kirk's memory forever be a blessing. on FB

Jewish Insider. Sep 11, 2025. — “There is a corner of the internet, of people that want to point and blame the Jews for all their problems,” he said at a recent event.. JewishInsider

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The MAGA Youth Are Still Pro-Israel, Free Beacon-Echelon Insights Poll Shows. They may be listening to anti-Israel influencers, but they are mostly unpersuaded.

Eliana Johnson. September 16, 2025 Young conservatives and Trump voters have a largely positive view of Israel and strongly approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling the U.S.-Israel relationship, a Washington Free Beacon poll found. That’s true even for those who tune in to or get their news from anti-Israel podcasters like Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens.

The poll, conducted in late August, surveyed over 1,000 young conservatives between the ages of 18 and 34. These young people support Trump’s handling of America’s relationship with the Jewish state by a whopping 43-point margin and a majority believe that the United States should support Israel as an ally. The president has been overwhelmingly supportive of Israel in its war against Hamas and continued to demand the release of Israeli hostages held by the terrorist group.

The polling comes at a time when anti-Israel influencers on the far right like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes are drawing eyeballs and the notion that young conservatives are increasingly hostile to the Jewish state is gaining traction. A New York Times profile of Fuentes, for example, noted that "his anti-Israel, anti-immigrant, anti-transgender and anti-civil-rights views seem to have gained new currency during the second Trump administration." JFeed

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US judge orders deportation of Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader Khalil. Times of Israel. 09/17/2025.

A US immigration judge orders the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-Israel protest leader at Columbia University in New York City.

Khalil became a high-profile figure after his arrest by the Trump administration in March. He has waged a legal battle against deportation since then.

The immigration judge in one of his case, Jamee Comans, orders Khalil be deported to Algeria or Syria. TOI

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The U.N. Genocide Report Against Israel Is an Assault on Critical Thinking.

John Spencer. September 17, 2025 The U.N. Genocide Report Against Israel Is an Assault on Critical Thinking The United Nations Human Rights Council’s latest report on Gaza, which concludes Israel is committing a genocide, is a case study in how international bodies can dress propaganda in the language of law. Presented as a “legal analysis” from a trio led by Navi Pillay, the former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, anyone who reads the text with even a modest degree of critical thinking will see that it is not an impartial investigation. It is an advocacy document that begins with a verdict and works backward, collecting fragments of information that support its claim while excluding anything that would complicate or contradict it. The most surprising aspect of the report is not what it claims, but what it omits. FreeBeacon

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US judge orders deportation of Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader Khalil Times of Israel. September 17, 2025. Luke Tress.

A US immigration judge orders the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-Israel protest leader at Columbia University in New York City.

Khalil became a high-profile figure after his arrest by the Trump administration in March. He has waged a legal battle against deportation since then.

The immigration judge in one of his case, Jamee Comans, orders Khalil be deported to Algeria or Syria. TOI

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Canary Mission @canarymission: Zohran Mamdani was arrested protesting outside Senator Chuck Schumer’s home just days after Hamas's October 7th massacre. He’s part of the DSA — an extremist group openly committed to replacing mainstream Democrats and destroying America as we know it. [42]. Sep 17, 2025 on X

Zohran Mamdani would like people to believe he’s the Democrat candidate in the upcoming NYC Mayoral election. But he is a member of the DSA, first and foremost — a group that is using the Democrat party to run in mainstream elections in Democratic strongholds, win them as the Democratic candidate, and then institute far-left, fringe, dangerous plans for their constituencies.

Before he was courting endorsements from Democrats in NY, Zohran spent the week after October 7 harassing Sen Chuck Schumer AT HIS HOME and GETTING ARRESTED FOR IT.

Mamdani is not a Democrat, he is a member of DSA using the party to get elected as a socialist mayor of NYC. Don’t let him. on Instagram

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Pretending that Hamas does not exist. To the UN, Hamas’s attempts at genocide are completely justified, while Israelis commit genocide just by living. Opinion. Gary Willig. Sep 18, 2025, 5:49 PM (GMT+3) The United Nations Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry released its report accusing Israel of genocide this week. The result is entirely expected, as the COI’S now-former leaders responsible for the report, Navi Pillay, Chris Sidoti, and Miloon Kothari, would find a way to declare Israel guilty even if it had done nothing and allowed Hamas to carry out its threats to commit more massacres on the scale of the October 7 slaughter.

They accomplish this by pretending that Hamas does not exist.

In 72 pages, the terrorist organization responsible for launching the war and for its continuation almost two years later is mentioned just 42 times, often as part of footnotes, and the terrorist, organization is never so much as mildly criticized, let alone condemned. The authors claim that since Israel has only identified 8,900 slain Hamas and Islamic fighters by name, the remaining 83% of the reported casualties in Gaza must be civilians, pretending that every combatant whose name is not known to Israel is an innocent civilian, when in reality, over 20,000 Hamas and Islamic Jihad combatants have been killed.

The words “human shield” never appear in any of the 72 pages, erasing Hamas’s war crimes against its own people. Hamas’s violence against its own people who try to evacuate or to receive food from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is treated as if it does not exist, as is the widespread theft and looting of humanitarian aid by Hamas, which the UN itself acknowledges outside of the report to result in over 95% of the aid never reaching its intended destination.

Most shockingly and damningly, the report treats the massacre of 1,200 people, the mass rapes, the burning of babies, the beheadings, and the slaughter of October 7 as if they never happened. Its “summary of factual findings” begins: “On 7 October 2023, Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza, which included airstrikes and ground operations.”

Why did Israel engage in military action? That part is left out. The fact that Hamas is the party that launched the “military offensive” is completely ignored in favor of the narrative that blames Israel. “Factual findings” only “find” the “facts” the authors want to find. The fact that a massacre was committed against Israelis is only acknowledged in the form of quotes and paraphrases of Israeli officials, which are always used to condemn Israel, not Hamas.

Likewise, the report erases the 250 hostages who were kidnapped on October 7 and the 48 who are still held captive in Gaza today. Israel is accused of holding Gazans hostage, but the existence of the Israeli hostages is again only acknowledged when quoting or paraphrasing Israeli officials to attack Israel.

For the likes of Navi Pillay, Chris Sidoti, and Miloon Kothari, the facts of Hamas’s crimes do not matter at all. All of Israel’s efforts to minimize civilian casualties do not matter. They had their narrative set before the blood of the victims of October 7 had a chance to begin to dry. To them, Hamas’s attempts at genocide are completely justified, while Israelis commit genocide just by living.

These are people who have denied Israel’s right to defend its citizens’ lives after October 7. In October 2023, just weeks after the massacre, Sidoti claimed that since Isral does not recognize Hamas as a state, “the State of Israel cannot claim to act under Article 51 when it is being attacked not by a state, but by a non-state actor,” erasing its right to engage in any act to stop Hamas from murdering Jewish babies. Pillay likewise claimed that "there is no direct threat to individuals from Israel" from Hamas after October 7, so Israel had no right to engage militarily in Gaza after the massacre had ended.

This is the line of thinking that permeates every page of their report. Israel has no right to fight back against Hamas - therefore by fighting at all it is guilty of genocide. All of Hamas’s crimes must be covered up to maintain the charade, because any acknowledgement of the reality or the evil Israel is fighting against would shatter the entire edifice of lies they stand on.

If the COI was serious about stopping genocide, it would condemn Hamas at least as much as it condemns Israel instead of covering for an organization whose entire raison d'etre is to commit genocide. It would condemn the genocidal crimes committed on October 7 and the constant genocidal rhetoric of Hamas’s leaders and members. But to them, genocide is not about action or intent. It is about identity. The Jews are guilty of genocide by virtue of having been born. Hamas is innocent despite its entire existence being based on committing genocide, because to the likes of Navi Pillay, it isn’t genocide when it is done against Jews.

The three people behind this report resigned in July, likely to save themselves from the justified consequences of their attempt to erase Hamas’s crimes from the world’s memory after the US imposed sanctions on the UN’s chief antisemite Francesca Albanese. The report is their parting shot at influencing humanity, their attempt to create a world where it is once again safe to murder Jews without consequence and deadly to be born to Jewish parents.

Unfortunately, the resignation of three Hamas defenders will do little to affect the UN’s continued efforts to ensure Israel’s enemies can fulfill their genocidal ambitions. Next week, France will lead a festival of lies at the UN General Assembly where it and many other nations will recognize the fictitious state of “Palestine,” all while continuing to pretend that Hamas and the hostages do not exist.

No moral person, no decent human being, would dream of doing what Emmanuel Macron is doing, giving genocidal Islamists a state in reward for massacring innocent people and continuing to hold 48 hostages. Like the Human Rights Council’s genocide supporters, Macron and all the leaders who insist on giving Hamas a state must live in the world of make-believe to maintain the illusion that they do not support evil and are not aiding the Hitlers of today. But they are. INN

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Amb. Huckabee. Blaming Israel for Charlie Kirk's death is 'absurd blood libel'. Israel National News. Sep 19, 2025, 12:02 AM INN

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Humanitarian aid truck driver murders two IDF soldiers at Allenby Crossing. Terrorist crossed from the Jordanian side of the border in a humanitarian aid truck and murdered two Israelis. Israel National News. Published: Sep 18, 2025, 2:53 PM (GMT+3) Updated: 21:15 INN

Herzog on border crossing attack: Terrorists want to derail our relations with Jordan. Israel National News. Sep 18, 2025, 6:20 PM INN

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IDF strikes Radwan Force weapons storage facilities in Lebanon. Israel National News. Sep 18, 2025, 8:59 PM INN

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Courage and bravery: 910 soldiers have fallen since October 7th, 2023. Israel National News. Sep 18, 2025, 9:56 PM INN

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Tommy Robinson asks: ’55 Muslim states – but no room for Israel?' Yuval Barnea and Shifra Jacobs, Jerusalem Post, September 18, 2025.

Tommy Robinson has been a deeply divisive figure in British politics since the rise of the English Defense League in the early 2010s. His detractors have labeled him a “white supremacist” and an “Islamophobe,” while his supporters have hailed him as the only person speaking truth to power over mass migration and radical Islam.

This division has, naturally, stretched into the British Jewish community. Yet as the crisis of security for the British Jewish community has worsened, in particular since October 7, when antisemitism exploded across the UK, more and more British Jews have warmed to the formerly untouchable Tommy Robinson.

The Jerusalem Post sat down with Robinson following the Unite the Kingdom rally, which drew unprecedented crowds. The rally, which saw attendees march the streets of London holding the Union Jack, occurred during a period in which deep controversy had been sparked over the lack of prominence for the British and English flags, while Palestinian flags are present in many areas.

The rally saw marchers carry not only the Union Jack but also the national flags of England, Scotland, and Wales. However, one non-British flag was prominent: the Israeli flag could be spotted regularly throughout the march, carried both by Jew and gentile alike, with some carrying the flag in support of Israel and the hostages, while others said they had had enough of the constant pro-Palestine protests and wanted to show there was opposition to them.

Despite the accusations of white supremacism, Robinson expressed his support not only for the Jewish community but also for Israel, saying, “There are 55 Muslim states, why can’t the Jews have one?”… JPost

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Rebutted: UN Inquiry Report Falsely Accuses Israel of “Genocide” GuestPost September 17, 2025

Key takeaways:

A UN Commission of Inquiry report makes extreme and unfounded accusations against the State of Israel, relying on a one-sided record that disregards facts that contradict its predetermined conclusions. International media rushed to publicize this pro-Hamas propaganda cloaked in legal language without examining the agenda behind the COI or the characters leading it. The report is riddled with factual errors and assertions made with no credible evidence. UN Watch’s rebuttal, published below, highlights key factual errors and significant omissions that the Commission relies on to underpin its thesis of genocide.

The publication of a United Nations Commission of Inquiry report charging Israel with “genocide” has, predictably, generated global headlines, and the potential consequences are serious.

But what is the Pillay Commission? And who are the figures behind it? While the media focused on giving these genocide accusations the credibility that is automatically bestowed upon the UN and too many other international organizations, they failed to note the real agenda behind the report.

As UN Watch explains, in May 2021, Pakistan and the PLO convened an urgent session that resulted in an unprecedented Commission of Inquiry targeting Israel, tasked with investigating “root causes” of the conflict and “systematic discrimination.”

Unlike all previous inquiries, this one has an open-ended mandate to examine any subject, any time period, and has no end date.

It’s a perpetual investigation of the Jewish state, with the guilty verdict fixed in advance. In the words of Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae, it’s a modern-day Inquisition.

In case there was any doubt, the UN made their intentions crystal clear when they appointed Navi Pillay — who has lobbied governments to “Sanction Apartheid Israel!” — as Chair of the inquiry.

Her two colleagues are no better. Commissioner Miloon Kothari sparked global outrage when, in an interview, he ranted about “the Jewish lobby” and questioned Israel’s right to be a member of the United Nations. Kothari was called out for antisemitism by 20 governments, and even by the UN Secretary General.

Chris Sidoti, the third commissioner, is affiliated with a group that calls for boycotting Israel. In July 2022, he told the council that some Jews were “throwing around accusations of antisemitism like rice at a wedding.”

In breach of UN requirements of impartiality, all three commissioners were appointed for one reason: to ensure a guilty verdict against Israel, and to label it an “apartheid state” with the UN’s imprimatur.

The three commissioners resigned their posts in July 2025 following pressure from the US administration, but they left one final parting gift with this latest report.

A cursory look reveals, for example, how the report reached its genocide conclusion based on fake news published by media outlets such as The Guardian, demonstrating the sometimes insidious symbiotic relationship between media and so-called human rights bodies when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Here, we crosspost UN Watch’s legal rebuttal of the COI’s report written by HonestReporting board member Salo Aizenberg:

UN Watch Rebuttal: Legal Analysis of Pillay Commission’s September 2025 Report to Human Rights Council On September 16, 2025, the Pillay Commission submitted to the UN Human Rights Council a 72-page conference room paper titled Legal analysis of the conduct of Israel in Gaza pursuant to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The paper makes extreme and unfounded accusations against the State of Israel, relying on a one-sided record that disregards facts that contradict its predetermined conclusions. The Pillay Commission, mandated to be an independent fact-finding body, produced a report that is nothing more than pro-Hamas propaganda cloaked in legal language. The report severely undermines international fact-finding, international law, and the UN system as a whole. A summary of UN Watch’s detailed legal rebuttal is below.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL LEGAL REBUTTAL

By Salo Aizenberg

Accusations of genocide are among the most serious charges that can be made against a state. They evoke the darkest episodes of modern history, such as the Holocaust, Rwanda, and Srebrenica, and they carry immense legal consequences as well as profound moral weight. For this reason, the Genocide Convention of 1948 sets a deliberately high bar: genocide requires specific intent (dolus specialis) to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group “as such.”[1] Genocidal intent is established only when there is no other reasonable inference. Evidence of widespread civilian casualties, extensive destruction, or inflammatory rhetoric does not suffice; what is required is proof that deaths and suffering were the result of a deliberate policy to exterminate a people. Establishing such intent is among the most difficult elements in international law, and the genocide allegation against Israel fails at this threshold even before considering the Report’s distortions of its conduct in Gaza.

The UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry’s report is fatally deficient: its reasoning is deeply flawed, its evidentiary base unreliable, and its methodology unsound. It selectively misinterprets statements by Israeli leaders, accepts unverified Hamas casualty figures, disregards Hamas’s systematic use of human shields, relies on unverified media reports (such as by Al-Jazeera), and assumes that civilian deaths in Gaza are only the result of deliberate targeting by Israel. Its omissions are equally striking. The report erases Hamas as an active belligerent; across its 72 pages, it never acknowledges that the IDF is engaged with a 30,000-strong fighting force that constructed a battlefield fortified with 500 kilometers of tunnels. Such deficiencies strip the document of legal credibility and render it indistinguishable from propaganda dressed in legal language.

This rebuttal examines the central defects of the UN report (the “Report”) issued by the Commission of Inquiry (the “Commission”). It shows why the evidence presented cannot sustain a finding of genocide under international law. A summary of its main deficiencies is as follows:

Failure to prove dolus specialis: The specific intent to destroy a protected group is the central and extremely high bar in any genocide case. The Commission’s claim of genocidal intent fails on this threshold alone, relying on tortured parsing of statements, selective quotations, and conjecture rather than unambiguous evidence. Erasure of Hamas as a belligerent: The report never acknowledges that the IDF is engaged in combat with an estimated 30,000-strong Hamas force in Gaza as well as thousands of fighters from other militant groups. A reader would come away believing the war has the IDF deployed against only women and children, with Hamas erased from the narrative. The Commission makes no attempt to analyze the war itself, because in its alternative version of reality, there is none. Silence on Hamas’s military infrastructure: There is no mention of Hamas’s 17-year military buildup in Gaza, including its vast tunnel network, booby-trapped buildings, and massive arms buildup. By ignoring this reality, the report strips the conflict of its military context and recasts lawful military targets as evidence of genocide. Erasure of Hamas’s use of civilian infrastructure: The Commission ignores Hamas’s openly acknowledged human shield strategy,[2] including its use of mosques, schools, residential buildings, and hospitals to conceal tunnels and weapons. Instead, damage to these sites is consistently portrayed as deliberate targeting of civilians by Israel. No recognition of the hostage crisis: The report omits the fact that Hamas took Israeli hostages and continues to hold them, starve them,[3] and rape them.[4] This omission is consistent with the broader erasure of Hamas as an active actor in Gaza, removing essential context from the Commission’s narrative. Reliance on Hamas-supplied fatality data: Despite Hamas’s long record of exaggerating civilian deaths and its status as a US and EU-designated terrorist organization, its figures are treated as fact while IDF data on combatants killed is ignored. Civilian deaths distorted as evidence of genocide: The report presents civilian casualties as prima facie proof of genocidal intent rather than as tragic and unavoidable consequences of urban warfare, exacerbated by Hamas’s human shield strategy. The Report cites numerous incidents where civilians were killed as intentional and targeted acts by Israel without evidence. Normal wartime consequences treated as crimes: Regular and expected wartime impacts on civilians, such as mental health impacts, difficulty accessing medical care and displacement, are depicted as evidence of genocide rather than inevitable outcomes of urban conflict. Urban devastation portrayed as extermination: Large-scale damage is cited as proof of genocide, ignoring that urban combat inherently produces extensive destruction, particularly when military forces are embedded within civilian areas.

The Commission also ignores the obvious: the suffering of Gazans could be significantly reduced or even ended if Hamas released all hostages and relinquished control of Gaza. The idea that the population experiencing the claimed genocide has the power to stop it but refuses to is unprecedented in the history of actual genocides and exposes a deliberate blind spot in the Report. This omission mirrors the Commission’s broader erasure of Hamas as an active party in the conflict, a group with agency and responsibility, leaving readers with the false impression that all suffering in Gaza is solely Israel’s responsibility.

The Report is riddled with factual errors and assertions made with no credible evidence. A complete catalog of these mistakes and their corrections would be longer than the Report itself. This rebuttal highlights key factual errors and significant omissions that the Commission relies on to underpin its thesis of genocide.

[1] Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 78 U.N.T.S. 277 (adopted December 9, 1948, entered into force January 12, 1951)

[2] How Hamas is fighting in Gaza: tunnels, traps and ambushes, NYT (July 13, 2024)

[3] World leaders condemn videos of emaciated Israeli hostages in Gaza as Red Cross calls for access, BBC (August 4, 2025)

[4] Hostages released from Gaza detail sexual violence as Israeli report concludes Hamas used it as ‘weapon of war’ on October 7, CNN (July 8, 2025); A Quest for Justice: October 7 and Beyond, The Dinah Project (June 2025); Mission report Official visit of the Office of the SRSG-SVC to Israel and the occupied West Bank 29 January – 14 February 2024, UN (March 4, 2024) HonestReporting

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The UN Didn’t Just Fail, It Became Hamas’s Loudspeaker. Jay Engelmayer Featured Editorials 17 September 2025. The UN’s Commission of Inquiry: A Pattern of Cover for Hamas. In the annals of international hypocrisy, few bodies rival the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry on Israel and the Palestinian territories. Chaired by South African jurist Navi Pillay, the Commission was created with an open-ended mandate, a permanent inquisition into Israel dressed up as “fact-finding.” Over the past two years, it has proven itself not as a neutral investigator, but as a political weapon: a propaganda arm for Hamas, providing cover for atrocities and peddling lawfare to smear Israel’s standing in the world.

The pattern is undeniable.

October 2023: Armed Resistance, Not Massacre. On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed across the border in an orgy of bloodlust, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. More than 1,200 men, women, and children were butchered in their homes, shot point-blank at a music festival, raped, burned alive, mutilated, and dragged into Gaza as hostages. The savagery defied comprehension.

And yet, just eleven days later, on October 18, the UN’s Commission of Inquiry published its annual report (A/78/198). Though submitted before October 7, there was ample opportunity to amend the text before publication. Instead, the Commission retained language that framed Palestinian violence not as terrorism, but as “armed resistance”:

“The increasing use of force in Israeli security forces operations… trigger protests, encourage greater armed resistance and lead to further attacks by Palestinian armed groups against Israelis.”

The timing was grotesque. Days after Hamas filmed the executions of Jewish families, the UN released a report suggesting such violence was the predictable result of Israeli actions. The euphemism “armed resistance” became a cloak of legitimacy for atrocities that included beheadings, gang-rapes, grenades thrown into shelters, and children murdered in front of their parents. Instead of condemning terrorism, the UN reduced the pogrom to a political cause-and-effect chain, effectively laundering barbarism into “resistance.”

September 2025: From Resistance to Genocide. Fast forward two years. Hamas, battered and cornered in Gaza City, faces existential collapse under Israel’s ongoing military campaign. Then, on September 16, 2025, the Commission of Inquiry published its most explosive report yet: accusing Israel itself of committing genocide in Gaza.

The timing was once again uncanny. At the very moment Hamas needed international pressure to halt Israel’s advance, the UN produced headlines declaring Israel guilty of humanity’s gravest crime. This was no accident. The Commission applied its subjective evidentiary standard, “reasonable grounds to believe”, rather than the far stricter threshold required by international courts. It strung together battlefield deaths, dehumanizing rhetoric, and siege conditions into a genocide narrative, while barely acknowledging Hamas’s genocidal charter, its October 7 atrocities, or its continued rocket fire at Israeli civilians.

Once again, the result was not impartial inquiry but propaganda. By branding Israel as a perpetrator of genocide, the Commission gifted Hamas the diplomatic shield it could never earn on the battlefield.

The ICJ Connection. To make matters worse, the Commission’s reports are now echoing into the courtroom. South Africa, which brought its genocide claim against Israel before the International Court of Justice, has relied heavily on the COI’s framing. Its appointed Judge ad hoc at the ICJ is Dikgang Moseneke, former Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa.

While Moseneke sits at The Hague, it is Navi Pillay’s Commission that has been laying the rhetorical groundwork, feeding the narrative of Israeli “genocide” directly into the international legal process. This isn’t justice. It’s lawfare by coordination: the UN writes the script, South Africa delivers it in court.

A Weapon of Lawfare. This is the essence of weaponized lawfare. The Commission wields the credibility of the UN to inject Hamas’s talking points into the bloodstream of international diplomacy. It releases reports at moments of strategic significance, providing political cover for terrorism while shifting blame squarely onto Israel. It does so not with evidence that would withstand scrutiny in a court of law, but with narrative language crafted to sway public opinion and pressure governments.

Israel is fighting a war of survival against a genocidal enemy. Hamas wages that war not only with rockets and rifles, but with propaganda, exploiting international institutions to delegitimize Israel’s right to self-defense. The Commission of Inquiry, under Navi Pillay, has become one of Hamas’s most effective tools.

Conclusion. The record is clear: the UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry has established a pattern of providing political cover for Hamas while vilifying Israel. In 2023, it cloaked terrorism as “armed resistance.” In 2025, it elevated propaganda to its peak, declaring Israel guilty of genocide. Under Pillay’s stewardship, the Commission is not investigating crimes, it is manufacturing narratives.

And the danger is profound: when the world’s premier international institutions are weaponized to excuse terror and condemn self-defense, they don’t bring us closer to justice or peace. They embolden murderers, undermine truth, and corrode the very idea of international law.

17 September 2025. TheJudean

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LDC News International Agency reposted LDC News International Agency @LDCNewsagency. 🔴🇪🇸 Anti-Jewish Nazi tract at the University of Madrid. Jewish students from the Madrid Faculty of Dentistry discovered an ignoble leaflet posted on their premises. On the leaflet: A Palestinian flag with the inscription "Ratas[sic] judías" (Jewish rats[sic]). The slogan "Palestine vencerá! (Palestine will win). And at the bottom... a Nazi flag with a swastika The convergence between Islamic-ultra left , anti-Semitism and Nazi imagery is no longer a slippage, it is an assumed ideology. And it is now spreading in European universities. @JLMelenchon @FranceInsoumise @partisocialiste @PCF @NPA_officiel Sep 18, 2025 on X Arch.

'Jewish rats[SIC]': Threatening letters bearing swastikas sent to Jewish students in Madrid. The letters, which incorporate anti-Israeli slogans and Nazi images, have sparked panic in Spain's Jewish community, which is reporting a sharp increase of hundreds of percent in anti-Semitic incidents since October 2023. Itamar Eichner | Ynetnews: 09.25.25 | Jewish students living in a suburb of Madrid received anonymous letters bearing the message "Jewish rats. Palestine will win!" The letters also included Nazi imagery and anti-Israel slogans—a combination that, according to Jewish community leaders, underscores the link between classic antisemitism and contemporary anti-Israel incitement. The incident, currently under investigation by Spanish authorities, has heightened fears among the country’s Jewish community amid a sharp rise in antisemitic threats and violence following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. Ynet

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Ban on Jews entering Flensburg shop recalls Germany's darkest days and sparks nationwide outrage. By Sonja Issel. Published on 18/09/2025 . Many called for boycotts, others wanted to know which shop was involved. In some cases, there were even calls to "smear" the shop or set it on fire. On Thursday morning, the shop's window was already smeared with slogans such as "Nazis out." "Reminder of the darkest chapters of history"... EuroNews

Prosecutors investigate German shop with 'Jews are banned' sign. The shop owner had made the poster in response to Israeli military operations in Gaza, as he couldn't distinguish which Jews supported the campaign and which didn't. By Michael Starr. September 25, 2025. JPost

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Ahead of holidays: IDF operating to thwart terror across Judea and Samaria. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 19, 2025, 9:41 AM INN

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ADL files lawsuit against 8 terror groups tied to Oct. 7 attacks. Grace Gilson, JTA. Sep 19, 2025, 9:13 AM INN

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She Married Her Brother? Trump Unleashes on Ilhan Omar, Resurfacing Marriage and Corruption Allegations. In a pointed social media post, Donald Trump sharply criticized Representative Ilhan Omar's political stance by highlighting her native country's challenges and reviving long-standing claims of marriage fraud.

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A Fiery Clash in the Conservative Culture Wars. Radio Icon Michael Savage Erupts: "Candace Owens Is Going to Get Jews Killed" | WATCH.

It's a stark pivot for Savage, a onetime Trump ally who's long championed unapologetic patriotism but now sees the MAGA right fracturing along fault lines of foreign policy and faith.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 18, 2025 13:55

In a blistering radio rant that's sending shockwaves through right-wing media, legendary conservative host Michael Savage unleashed a torrent of fury against Candace Owens, branding her a modern-day Louis Farrakhan whose inflammatory rhetoric could spark deadly violence against Jews. The 82-year-old Savage, a Jewish immigrant's son who's built a decades-long empire railing against the left, didn't mince words: "You're going to get Jews killed!" he bellowed, his voice cracking with raw emotion during Wednesday's episode of The Savage Nation.

Savage, whose show has been a syndicated staple since the 1990s and boasts millions of listeners, turned his trademark unfiltered ire on Owens, the firebrand podcaster ousted from The Daily Wire amid antisemitism accusations. But this wasn't just another takedown; it was personal. Drawing parallels to the Nation of Islam's notorious leader, Savage accused Owens of peddling conspiracies that echo Farrakhan's hate-filled sermons, luring in a toxic underbelly of followers desperate for scapegoats. "Candace is attracting 'unwashed' losers who are seeking to blame Jews for every problem in their life," he thundered, painting her as a magnet for the fringes who've turned her platform into a breeding ground for bigotry.

The outburst, captured in a now-deleted YouTube clip that's already circulating wildly on X, quickly escalated into a broader broadside against the conservative movement's isolationist darlings. Savage didn't spare Tucker Carlson, the ex-Fox News titan whose post-network pivot has included cozy chats with Vladimir Putin and defenses of Owens' edgiest takes. "You're going to get Jews killed outside of synagogues. F*** all you antisemitic bastards," Savage spat at Carlson, his words hanging like a thunderclap in the studio.

Roots of the Rage: Owens' Israel Obsession and Kirk's Shadow.

This isn't Savage's first rodeo with Owens, he's swatted at her before for what he calls "psychological warfare" on conservatives. But the timing feels explosive, coming just days after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10, a tragedy that's supercharged conspiracy mills on the right. Owens has been front and center in the fallout, floating wild theories on her podcast that Israel, via Mossad ties to Jeffrey Epstein and even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, orchestrated Kirk's death as payback for his "mild" criticisms of the Jewish state. Netanyahu's quick tweet mourning Kirk, she claimed, was a dead giveaway of foreknowledge.

Savage, whose own family fled pogroms in Eastern Europe, sees red flags everywhere in this narrative. "Her rhetoric and conspiracies are going to get Jews killed," he warned, invoking the ghosts of history where words turned to window-smashing and worse. It's a charge that's resonated in Jewish conservative circles, where Owens' post-Daily Wire era, marked by rants on "blood libels," gangster rap as a "Fed psyop," and shoutouts to white nationalist Nick Fuentes, has alienated even former fans. John Hawkins, founder of Right Wing News, echoed the sentiment earlier this week, wondering aloud who's bankrolling her "nonsense" to divide the right.

Backlash and Brotherhood: Reactions Pour In.

The clip's viral spread on X has turned Savage into an unlikely hero for some and a pariah for others. Journalist Yashar Ali amplified it to 26,000 views in hours, framing it as a "goes off" moment that exposes the rot in MAGA's underbelly. "Savage, who is Jewish, says that Candace is attracting 'unwashed' losers," Ali posted, sparking a thread of grim nods from users weary of the movement's flirtation with the far-right. One reply: "This is what real conservatism sounds like, calling out the poison before it spreads."

But Owens' die-hards fired back, dismissing Savage as a "neocon has-been" out of touch with "America First" purity. Tucker Carlson's orbit, meanwhile, has gone radio silent, though insiders whisper it's another nail in the coffin of his uneasy alliance with the pro-Israel old guard. Even Nick Fuentes, the alt-right provocateur who's clashed with everyone involved, distanced himself from Owens' Israel-Kirk theory last week, calling it "ridiculous" and urging his followers to sheath their pitchforks.

For Savage, a survivor of academia's ivory towers (he holds a PhD in ethnomedicine) and the airwaves' brutal battles, this feels like a last stand. Syndicated on over 400 stations and author of bestsellers like *Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder*, he's no stranger to cancellation threats, remember his 2008 UK "hate speech" ban? Yet here he is, at an age when most retire, drawing a line in the sand: No more coddling the conspiracists, no matter how many downloads they rake in.

A Movement at the Brink?

As the dust settles (or ignites), Savage's salvo underscores a deeper schism: Can the right reconcile its Trump-era populism with the demons it's unleashed? With midterms looming and global tensions boiling over Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine, his warning rings like a siren's call. "I no longer want anything to do with them," Savage declared of Owens and Carlson, his voice a gravelly plea for sanity. In a world where radio rants can rally armies or light fuses, one thing's clear: Michael Savage isn't done fighting and neither is the war for the soul of conservatism. JFeed

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Merz: Germany still to decide whether to back sanctions on Israel. Merz said Israel's actions in Gaza were not proportional to its stated goals, but said Germany did not share the view that the actions amounted to genocide.

By Reuters, Jerusalem Post Staff September 18, 2025. JPost

German Chancellor: Israel’s actions in Gaza do not amount to genocide. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany will decide on its stance on EU sanctions against Israel before an October meeting. Elad Benari. Sep 19, 2025, 1:08 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Trump: "I Saw Babies Chopped Up - People Forget October 7th! - I Don't Forget". Trump Backs Israel. Trump: "I Saw Babies Chopped Up - People Forget October 7th! - I Don't Forget" In the face of anti-Israel and hostile British leftist media, the American president stood by his ally.

Yair Kleinbaum Sep 19, 2025 02:02

During a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, President Donald Trump delivered a stark reminder of the atrocities committed during the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel. The event, part of Trump's second state visit to the UK, saw the President recounting the disturbing details he witnessed in videos of the attack.

Pensioners born before 1964 are now eligible for new hearing aids (Read More) Hidden Hearing "I saw the tapes. Babies just four months old, chopped into pieces," Trump stated, emphasizing the severity of the violence.

Trump was asked - "You have the power to persuade prime minister Netanyahu... to stop the starvation... to stop demolition... When if not now?".

"You do understand about October 7th one of the worse day in the history of humanity. what happen i saw the tapes. Babies that are 4 month old, chopped up to pieces. You seen the tapes and I have seen them. and people forget about October 7th I cant forget about it. i want it to end. but i want the hostages back"

The United States and the United Kingdom are significantly divided on the Israeli issue and the situation in Gaza, while the UK has adopted a European left-wing policy, the United States continues to stand by its most significant regional military ally. JFeed

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Rocket terror cell captured in Ramallah. Security forces conduct Ramallah-area raid, arresting terror cell which produced rockets intended for use against Judea and Samaria communities. Hezki Baruch. Sep 19, 2025, 10:52 AM INN

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Trump moves to arm Israel with $6 billion in weapons. Israel National News. Sep 19, 2025, 10:01 PM INN

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Sa'ar welcomes. UN backs reimposition of sanctions on Iran Elad Benari, Canada. Sep 19, 2025, 10:59 PM INN

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California gubernatorial candidates express support for bill combating K-12 Jew-hatred. The six candidates for California governor, out of nine, who responded to questions from JNS said they agree with the bill. Aaron Bandler. (Sept. 19, 2025 / JNS) Several candidates in the California gubernatorial race told JNS that they support the bill that addresses Jew-hatred in K-12 schools that passed the state legislature over the weekend JNS

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'What happened on October 7th was genocide at the highest level’. Trump calls October 7th “genocide at the highest level” after UN accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza. On the hostages who are still being held by Hamas: We have probably 20 that are living. It's a nasty situation. Elad Benari, Canada Sep 20, 2025, 12:44 AM INN

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US troops eliminate senior ISIS leader in Syria raid. Israel National News. Sep 20, 2025, 1:05 AM INN

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Ending nine-month vacancy Mike Waltz confirmed as US Ambassador to UN Elad Benari, Canada Sep 20, 2025, 12:22 AM INN

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IDF expands ground operations in Gaza City. Soldiers located numerous weapons, including rifles and grenades, and also discovered an explosive device hidden among the rubble by Hamas terrorists. JNS Staff. (Sept. 20, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces on Friday expanded operations in Gaza City, eliminating terrorists using tank fire, armed UAVs and airstrikes, while dismantling terrorist infrastructure and locating weapons in the area. JNS

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Terrorists loot aid trucks of baby formula in Gaza City, UNICEF and COGAT confirm. While UNICEF named the parties only as “armed individuals,” COGAT announced that Hamas had robbed the aid trucks.

By Jerusalem Post Staff September 20, 2025 Humanitarian aid trucks carrying baby formula through the Gaza Strip were robbed by armed terrorists, both UNICEF and Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) confirmed on Friday.

While UNICEF named the parties only as “armed individuals,” COGAT announced that Hamas had robbed the aid trucks.

Robbing aid drivers at gunpoint. “Yesterday, armed individuals approached four trucks outside our compound in Gaza City that were getting ready to transport desperately needed Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for malnourished children enduring famine,” UNICEF shared in a Friday statement. “The individuals commandeered the drivers at gunpoint and diverted the RUTF before releasing the drivers and trucks. “This theft has denied at least 2,700 severely and acutely malnourished children of life-saving RUTF – vital supplies at a time when famine has been declared in the north of Gaza and the ongoing military operation is creating further displacement and adding to the devastating impact on children. JPost

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Missiles, mystery, and menace. Iran Confirms First-Ever Test of Intercontinental Missile. Iran has confirmed for the first time that it tested an intercontinental missile, a move that underscores rising tensions with Israel and the West. The launch comes amid unexplained explosions and fires inside the country, fueling speculation and opposition claims of instability.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 20, 2025 JFeed

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Qatar Drops a Bombshell of its own. Qatar Demands: Israel Must Apologize for Doha Strike, or Else. Although Qatar may be a small state, its leverage is anything but minor. Whether Netanyahu bends to its demand may determine not only the fate of the hostages, but also the trajectory of the war itself. Gila Isaacson. Sep 20, 2025. JFeed

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Ironic Much? Hamas attacks UN workers, then cries about Israel blowing up APC's in Gaza. Hamas gunmen allegedly opened fire on UN aid teams in southern Gaza, seizing vehicles and blocking a new aid corridor, as the group simultaneously accused Israel of deploying explosive APCs. Gila Isaacson. Sep 20, 2025. JFeed

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Jerusalem Warns: Palestinian recognition fuels Hamas, blocks peace. Israel National News. Sep 21, 2025, 6:33 PM INN

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'G-d always loves me' Lyrics of faith top Israel’s 5785 song chart. Sasson Shaulov’s rendition of ElaytZur’s ‘Tamid Ohev Oti,’ with its chorus declaring ‘The blessed G-d always loves me,’ was voted Israel’s 5785 Song of the Year. Israel National News. Sep 21, 2025, 6:54 PM INN

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Home in Hebron returned to Jewish ownership. Israel National News. Sep 21, 2025, 9:20 PM INN

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New Jewish community in response to 'Palestine' recognition. Israel National News. Sep 21, 2025, 11:39 PM INN

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71% of French, 87% of UK public against Palestinian state recognition without Hamas conditions. Many fear granting a Palestinian state without conditions would legitimize the terror group's actions. Michael Starr. September 21, 2025. JPost

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Wedding Celebration Shattered by Pro-Palestinian. Father Dies Protecting Family from 'Free Palestine' Gunman. A joyous celebration was shattered by an act of senseless violence. Amidst the chaos, a father's selfless sacrifice became a beacon of courage.

Eliana Fleming. Sep 21, 2025. JFeed

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Off The Rails. Tucker Goes Officially Insane: Blames Jews For The Murder Of Charlie Kirk at his Memorial. Controversy Erupts Over Tucker Carlson's Anti-Jewish Remarks at Charlie Kirk Memorial. Yair Kleinbaum Sep 21, 2025. JFeed

Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13: 🚨Qatralson blames the Jews for killing Jesus during Charlie Kirk's memorial, equating it to Charlie's murder:"I can picture the scene… a bunch of guys eating hummus, thinking, “What do we do about this guy telling the truth about us?”

From : Emily Jacobs. Sep 21, 2025 X

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Haunting Footage. The Shocking Confession: He Filmed the Murder of Israelis in an "Act for Palestine". A gunman's premeditated plot to record a double murder is revealed as prosecutors disclose new, disturbing details in the case. The killer filmed the entire attack on a body camera before walking into a museum where he confessed to police.

Eliana Fleming. Sep 21, 2025.

(Elias Rodriguez, the terrorist who murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim) An attack that claimed the lives of two young Israeli Embassy staff members has been revealed to be a premeditated act, with new court filings showing the gunman, Elias Rodriguez, wore a body camera to record the murder. JFeed

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Ahead of Rosh Hashanah: Azerbaijan President sends warm greeting to Jewish community. Israel National News. Sep 22, 2025, 8:59 AM INN

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Watch: 50,000 participate in Selichot prayers at Western Wall. Israel National News. Sep 22, 2025, 7:48 AM INN

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Michal Cotler-Wunsh @CotlerWunsh: Holocaust denier Abbas who indoctrinates kids with lethal antisemitism; peddles ancient-modern blood libel; pays to slay Jews;…again dons “key” in UN - intent to erase Israel with ‘right of return’ for singled out ‘forever refugees’, preserved by int’l funded born-in-sin UNRWA. #LetOurPeopleGo #NeverAgainIsNow Quote: Michal Cotler-Wunsh @CotlerWunsh · Sep 22, 2023. Key on lapel symbolizing rejection of 🇮🇱- anywhere - Haifa, Lod, Acre, Jerusalem…Abbas uses UN podium to deny Jewish identity, indigeneity & right to self-determination; peddle & mainstream #antisemitic hate & terror to eliminate 🇮🇱; to sounds of int’l silence/impunity/support. Sep 25, 2025 X

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The "Key" to Genocide: What Abbas Really Said at the UN. September 22, 2025. Abbas at the UN: The Key That Unlocks Israel’s Destruction At the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas. TheJudean

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Macron: No embassy in 'Palestine' until hostages freed. Elad Benari. Sep 22, 2025, 3:21 AM INN

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Public spectacle in Gaza. Hamas executes three 'collaborators'. Elad Benari. Sep 22, 2025, 5:23 AM INN

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Israel and Tajikistan sign tourism agreement in landmark visit. Tourism Minister Haim Katz makes first official visit by an Israeli Cabinet member to the Muslim country. Etgar Lefkovits.

(Sept. 22, 2025 / JNS) Israel and the Central Asian country of Tajikistan have signed their first bilateral agreement in the field of tourism, during a landmark visit by an Israeli minister to the Muslim nation. JNS

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‘Eternal shame’ on countries that recognized ‘Palestine,’ says Israeli FM Israel lambasted Britain, Canada and Australia for “rewarding terrorism” while it was conducting a military campaign against Hamas in Gaza. JNS Staff.

(Sept. 22, 2025 / JNS) The countries that recognized a Palestinian state after the Hamas-led massacre in Israel’s south on Oct. 7, 2023, “will be remembered with eternal shame,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Sunday.

“Most countries in the world have already recognized a ‘Palestinian state’ in the past. It was wrong in the past, too. But those governments that decided to join the recognition precisely now are also doing an immoral, outrageous, and especially ugly action,” Sa’ar tweeted.

He went on to say that Sunday’s declarations by the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia were “a prize for Hamas and a reward for terrorism,” as well as an “unjustified reward for the Palestinian Authority.” JNS

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GOP leaders, Jewish orgs decry states recognizing ‘Palestine’. The House House Foreign Affairs Committee chair said that it is "empty virtue signaling" that rewards "Hamas butchers and rapists."

(Sept. 21, 2025 / JNS) Republican leaders in Congress and Jewish groups denounced Australia’s, Canada’s and the United Kingdom’s decision to recognize an independent state of “Palestine” and said that the decision rewards Hamas for terror attacks, including on Oct. 7.

Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued an 18-word statement. “Recognition of a ‘State of Palestine’ is empty virtue signaling that only rewards the Hamas butchers and rapists,” he said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stated that “80 years after the end of World War II, where over 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis for simply being Jewish, the so-called civilized world is rewarding modern-day religious Nazis with an arbitrary Palestinian state designation.” JNS

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Palestinian Statehood Momentum What the Two-State Summit Could Mean for Israel and Palestine. Major world powers gather in New York for a summit on Palestinian statehood, as multiple countries announce recognition plans despite opposition from Israel and the US. Lara Sukster Mosheyof. Sep 22, 2025. JFeed

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IDF Strikes Hamas Leadership: Deputy Naval Commander's Death in Gaza Airstrike. IDF confirms elimination of Hamas naval police deputy commander Iyad Abu Yousef in central Gaza airstrike. Target was involved in October 7 attacks and anti-IDF operations. Lara Sukster Mosheyof. Sep 22, 2025 JFeed

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Watch: IDF soldiers neutralize terrorist in Gaza Israel National News. Sep 22, 2025, 7:19 PM INN

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Rubio appears to back Israel’s war approach, insists peace not possible while Hamas exists. By Jacob Magid. 23 September 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues to echo Israel’s approach to the war in Gaza, apparently providing the backing for Jerusalem to continue the war until Hamas has been defeated — something it has yet to accomplish after nearly two years.

“The goal is not to end the war. The goal is to have peace,” Rubio tells NBC’s ‘The Today Show.’

“You can’t have peace as long as Hamas exists. This is a group dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state. They’ve said it, and repeatedly, and that’s what they’ve demonstrated throughout their existence.”

Rubio reiterates his call for the immediate release of all remaining hostages.

“If there is no more Hamas, then I think the people of Gaza have a chance.. Many countries around the world, including the United States, will [help] rebuild [Gaza] into a place where people can live again,” he says.

“We have a very narrow window of time now to achieve that before this escalates further,” Rubio adds.

Asked about this week’s recognitions of Palestine by a slew of Western states, Rubio again downplays the move, arguing that those who took the step don’t “play much of a role in bringing about the end of this conflict in Gaza.”

He again claims that the recognitions were motivated by domestic politics and serve as a reward to Hamas.

“Any future resolution of this matter with Israel is going to have to be negotiated. It isn’t going to be up to France or the UK or any other country,” Rubio says. TOI

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IDF footage shows terrorists firing from hospital in Gaza City. This is “further proof of Hamas’s cynical and systematic modus operandi of exploiting civilian infrastructure as manned terror command posts.” JNS Staff. (Sept. 24, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Terrorists open fire from Shifa hospital IDF troops continue to engage Hamas terrorists in Gaza City, dismantling terror infrastructure. Israel National News. Sep 24, 2025, 9:11 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Report: Trump to unveil Gaza ceasefire outline with Arab leaders. President Trump introduced Arab and Muslim leaders to a Gaza ceasefire and post-Hamas governance outline, with reports of initial Arab support, but Hamas yet to respond. Israel National News. 1 minutes Published: Sep 24, 2025, 9:27 PM (GMT+3) INN

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‘Deeply regrettable’ UN held briefing on Rosh Hashanah, US envoy says. The official social media handles of the United Nations and its secretary-general again did not note the Jewish holidays, though they mark holidays of other faiths. JNS Staff.

(Sept. 24, 2025 / JNS) Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said at a U.N. Security Council briefing on the Middle East on Tuesday that it is “deeply regrettable” that the council decided to hold the high-level “briefing on Gaza on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, knowing full well that that decision excludes Israel.”

“Frankly, colleagues, it’s a testament to how this council has prioritized a lot of performance over serious efforts to actually advance peace,” Waltz told the council.

He said that U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the latter’s team, “and partners like Egypt and Qatar” are engaged in those efforts “right now as we speak, to end this horrific war.”

The main outcome of the more than 80 meetings that the Security Council has held on the subject since Oct. 7 “unfortunately has been to embolden Hamas, to undermine and disrupt negotiations that are aimed at freeing all of the hostages and ending the war and ending the suffering that we all want to end,” Waltz said. JNS

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Trump slams Palestinian state recognitions, calls to ‘release the hostages now’. “Hamas has repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace, and we can’t forget October 7,” the U.S. president told the U.N. General Assembly. JNS Staff. (Sept. 24, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Syracuse U: Pork thrown into Jewish frat on Rosh Hashanah. Israel National News. Sep 25, 2025, 6:52 AM INN

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Gantz: 'Unilateral Palestinian statehood is a reward for terror'. Israel National News. Sep 25, 2025, 3:17 AM INN

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Netanyahu departs for US: 'I will speak truth, I will condemn those who support terrorists'. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 25, 2025, 5:16 AM INN

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Staff Sergeant Chalachew Shimon Demalash fell in Gaza. Staff Sergeant Chalachew Shimon Demalash, 21, from Be'er Sheva, shot by sniper in northern Gaza City. The number of fallen soldiers since the start of the war stands at 912. Uzi Baruch. Sep 25, 2025, 6:08 AM INN

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Soldier KIA in Gaza, bringing IDF wartime toll to 912 The slain soldier was identified as Staff Sgt. Chalachew Shimon Demalash, 21. JNS Staff. (Sept. 25, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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22 wounded as Houthi drone from Yemen hits Eilat. Magen David Adom medics treated victims at the scene and evacuated them, including two in serious condition, to Yoseftal Medical Center. Charles Bybelezer.

(Sept. 24, 2025 / JNS) Twenty-two people were injured on Wednesday evening when a drone launched by Houthi terrorists in Yemen struck the southern Israeli city of Eilat. JNS

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The fantasy state of ‘Palestine’. It’s time for the United States and the Jewish world to start holding their supposed champions’ feet to the fire. Melanie Phillips. (Sept. 25, 2025 / JNS) In his barnstorming speech this week at the United Nations General Assembly, in which he lobbed one uncomfortable home truth after another at member states, U.S. President Donald Trump told the world body itself that it was useless. Instead of stopping wars and saving lives, he said, it produced only empty words.

The problem with the United Nations is rather more acute than that. Supposedly the guardian of peace and justice in the world, it has become instead an avatar of evil.

Institutionally programmed to single out the State of Israel for systematic defamation, delegitimization and destruction, it has been captured by an agenda to destroy Israel because it represents the world. Most of the world is run by liberal universalists, Marxist dictatorships or Muslim regimes, which in various combinations hate Israel, the Jews and the West. JNS

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Targeted "Erasure of Art" . 1,200 of Hollywood’s Biggest Names Sign Blistering Letter Against Israeli Film Boycott. A powerful coalition of over 1,200 celebrities and industry leaders has issued a scathing open letter rejecting the anti-Israel film boycott as a dangerous act of censorship and the erasure of art. The letter warns that the blacklisting campaign is promoting anti-Semitic propaganda under the guise of justice. Eliana Fleming Sep 25, 2025. ....The signatories, a who’s who of the entertainment world including actors Liev Schreiber, Debra Messing, Mayim Bialik, producers like Greg Berlanti, and musicians such as Gene Simmons, signed the letter on Thursday. They directly challenged a prior pledge by over 1,300 artists, including Oscar winners Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon, and Javier Bardem, who committed to refusing work with Israeli festivals, cinemas, broadcasters, and production companies they allege are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” JFeed

Hollywood pro-Israel artist response to boycotters surprisingly blunt: "antisemitic".

When I first read the headline that a lot of Hollywood stars responded to the pledge by their fellow artists to boycott Israel with an open letter, I assumed it would be a fairly restrained response about how Israeli filmmakers are pluralistic and support Palestinian films and have nothing to do with the Israeli government.

I was pleasantly surprised that this letter, signed by 1,200 artists, went beyond that and called the pledge antisemitic and contrary to all supposed principles of free speech. It did not pull punches... EoZ

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Trump To Macron: 'I've always been on Israel's side'. Presidents Trump and Macron held a joint press conference where they clashed over the French initiative to declare a Palestinian state. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 25, 2025, 10:24 AM (GMT+3)

At a joint press conference, U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron offered contrasting views on recent moves by several countries to recognize a Palestinian state.

Asked if such recognition was “a gift to Hamas,” Trump replied:

“Well, I think it honors Hamas and you can’t do that because of October 7th. You just can’t do that. But we want our hostages back and we don’t want them back in, you know, ones and twos and take the next two years to do it. We were the ones that got the hostages back. And I always said, I told Steve, I told Marco, I was always saying the last hostages are going to be the toughest ones. But you can’t honor them by doing anything like you suggest. All you can do is say we want our hostages back and we want we want the war to end. We’re going to want it to end."

"You always have to remember people forget October 7th was one of the most savage days in the history of the world. There’s never been anything like that. We’re talking about babies being sliced in half. You’re talking about young children having their heads chopped off. You can’t forget that.”

Macron acknowledged Trump’s point but defended the recognition decisions by other governments... INN

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Gen Z’s casual antisemitism is growing — seeded by influencers like Tucker Carlson. By David Harsanyi. Published Sep. 25, 2025, 8:02 p.m. ET

On Wednesday night, a Turning Point USA event at Virginia Tech honoring the late Charlie Kirk took an ugly turn.

A male student stood up to ask popular podcaster Megyn Kelly if she was concerned about the growing, unseemly influence of “rich billionaire Jews” on American politics.

“Did you say, ‘rich billionaire Jews’?” Kelly incredulously responded.

“Yes,” the questioner said, as if this was a completely normal topic to bring up.

It’s just one more example of the abnormal fixation younger Americans have on Israel and Jews.

The young man seemed to be allied with the progressive left, which has long flirted with this kind of rhetoric.

But similar comments are increasingly spreading on the right, as well — even in the glare of the public spotlight.

Just the other day, disgraced former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has developed a creepy monomaniacal obsession with Jews, used Kirk’s otherwise inspiring memorial in Arizona to suggest that “a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus” in Jerusalem had something to do with silencing the late TPUSA leader.

The statement seemed tailor-made to create division between Jews and Christians.

Yet no one who participated in Kirk’s funeral tribute condemned our modern-day Charles Coughlin — and the popular Carlson will be headlining future events for TPUSA.

Though facts rarely dissuade conspiracy theorists, it’s objectively false to contend that Jewish people have an outsized influence on the Trump administration.

Here’s the list of President Donald Trump’s top 12 donors in 2024, according to Forbes : Timothy Mellon, Linda McMahon, Diane Hendricks, Miriam Adelson, Kelcy Warren, Timothy Dunn, Richard Uihlein, Jeff Sprecher and Kelly Loeffler, Phil Ruffin, Jimmy John Liautaud, Antonio Gracias, and Douglas Leone.

Only one of those billionaire donors is Jewish. There were, as far as I can tell, four other Jewish donors in the top 25.

Yet you may notice that paranoid Israel-haters on the right are fixated on billionaires like Larry Ellison and Bill Ackman, a longtime Democrat who defected to Republicans in part because of the left’s embrace of Hamas apologists — and not Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy or Peter Thiel or many others.

Carlson, for instance, blamed Fox News personality and radio host Mark Levin for convincing Trump to bomb Iranian nuclear sites.

Indeed, the podcaster assured his credulous audience that Levin was leading the United States into World War III at the behest of foreigners.

We expect this kind of aspersion from the progressive left, not alleged conservatives.

One can say many things about Donald Trump, but the notion that his positions can be bought by campaign funds stretches credulity.

Besides, no one needs to buy Trump’s support for Israel, considering he’s been an on-the-record vocal champion of the Jewish state for nearly 40 years.

When Trump this week met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly with French president Emmanuel Macron — who had just rewarded Hamas with unilateral recognition of an imaginary Palestinian state — he made his position known.

“Well, I have to say that I’m on the side of Israel,” Trump said. “I’ve been on the side of Israel really my whole life.”

It is difficult to argue that any president has been a better friend.

Trump was offering pro-Israel statements years before he was in political office; years before he had any donors; and years before Benjamin Netanyahu, the boogeyman of Jew-baiters, was Israel’s prime minister.

It is also objectively false that American Jews are an ideological monolith.

I’ve spent 20 years publicly disagreeing with numerous Jewish American organizations and individuals, and I can assure you we don’t have secret meetings to plot control of the world.

I’ve never met a Jewish billionaire.

Jews, though, are the only ethnic group that is collectively smeared as Fifth Columnists for advocating for causes they believe in.

One of the popular issues among many American Jews is championing the long-standing US allyship with Israel — a wholly moral, constructive and defensible position that many individuals and groups openly advocate.

The insinuation that it’s nefarious to do so is only peddled by bigots unwilling or unable to debate the issue in good faith.

It’s clear that the stigma associated with spreading ugly tropes about Jews is disappearing. It’s been that way in the conspiratorial swamp of social media and podcasting for a while.

Now it is being normalized in the real world. NYPost

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Day after UAV strike in Eilat: Dozens of Houthi terrorists estimated dead in strikes on Yemen. Israel National News. Sep 25, 2025, 5:25 PM INN

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Trump: 'I will not allow Israel to annex Judea and Samaria'. Elad Benari. Sep 26, 2025, 12:03 AM INN

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Suspected Iranian spy who followed Ben Gvir indicted. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2025, 9:50 AM INN

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Nearly 70 Companies Targeted. UN expands anti-Israel blacklist. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2025, 3:48 PM INN

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Iran built underground missile factories in Yemen. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2025, 10:31 AM According to a report in Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s security services have detected significant advances in the Houthi militia’s capabilities in recent months. INN

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IAF hits over 140 terror targets amid advance into Gaza City. “We are intensifying pressure on the Hamas terrorist organization and advancing according to a structured and systematic plan,” said IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin. JNS Staff (Sept. 26, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Turkey calls on FIFA, UEFA to ban Israel. UEFA prepares for an emergency vote next week on whether to suspend Israel from its tournaments. Reuters|09.26.25 YNet

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Trump moves to block World Cup ban on Israel. The United States vows to stop efforts to expel the Jewish state from international soccer. Joshua Marks. (Sept. 26, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Netanyahu meets world leaders in NY ahead of UN address. The prime minister thanked Argentina's Javier Milei, Paraguay's Santiago Peña and Serbia's Aleksandar Vučić for their support for the Jewish state. Steve Linde. (Sept. 26, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Ahead of meeting with Netanyahu, Trump says Gaza deal near, hostages could soon be freed. Reuters|09.26.25 YNet

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Fox And Friends. September 26, 2025. CLIP Jack Keane touts Netanyahu's 'absolute resolve and determination' ahead of UN speech Senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) weighs in after President Donald Trump said he wouldn't allow Israel to annex the West Bank and called Russia a 'paper tiger.' FoxNews

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UN delegates walk out of Netanyahu address after cheering Palestinian leader day before. The walkout was not unexpected, but stood in stark contrast to the delegates' applause for Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. By Rachel Wolf. Fox News. Published September 26, 2025 9:42am ED FoxNews

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Americas Newsroom. September 26, 2025. CLIP. Netanyahu speaks directly to hostages: 'We have not forgotten you'. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a message to the remaining Israelis being held hostage by Hamas. FoxNews

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Netanyahu at UN General Assembly: 'A Palestinian state? Madness'.

Netanyahu addressed the hostages in Hebrew via loudspeakers set up in Gaza, 'Our heroic brothers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is speaking, we have not forgotten you. The entire nation is with you. And we will not be silent until we bring you all home,' adding 'Giving the Palestinians a state adjacent to Jerusalem is like giving al-Qaeda a state adjacent to New York.' Israel National News. Sep 26, 2025, 4:52 PM INN

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Netanyahu is an amazing spokesman Live: PM Netanyahu Addresses UN General Assembly | WATCH. Israeli PM Netanyahu addresses the UN amid the Gaza war and rising global pressure. He sends a direct message to Hamas, defends against genocide claims, rebukes recognition of a Palestinian state, and reaffirms threats from Iran.

Gila Isaacson. Sep 26, 2025.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address to the United Nations General Assembly today, focusing on Israel's ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and mounting international pressure, including a wave of Western nations recognizing a Palestinian state.

Key Moments from the Speech.

Direct Message to Gaza and Hamas (16:21): In an extraordinary move, the Prime Minister announced that the IDF had hijacked the mobile phones of Gaza residents and Hamas operatives. His speech was being broadcast live through those devices, as well as via giant loudspeakers placed along the Gaza border.

To Hamas Leaders: "Lay down your weapons, release the hostages. If you do so, you will live; if not, we will hunt you down."

To Gaza Residents: The war can end immediately with the release of all hostages and the disarmament and demilitarization of Hamas.

Plea to Hostages (16:18): Netanyahu read the names of the hostages held by Hamas, addressing them in Hebrew from the UN podium. "Our brave brothers and sisters, this is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking. I am addressing you from the UN platform. We have not forgotten you for even a second. The entire nation is with you. We will not rest or relent until we bring you all home, the living and the fallen alike."

Confronting Critics on "Genocide" Claims (16:30): Netanyahu called claims that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza "ridiculous." He emphasized: "We evacuate civilians to safe zones. What country committing genocide evacuates its civilians?"

Rebuke on Palestinian State Recognition (16:27): The Prime Minister strongly condemned countries recognizing a Palestinian state under current conditions, stating that "weak world leaders are folding under pressure." He challenged them: "You are not indicting us, but yourselves. We fought your enemies, barbaric enemies, on seven fronts, and you fold under pressure and fight against us. When will you learn that you cannot talk your way out against Jihad?"

The Iran Threat (16:14): Netanyahu reiterated his commitment, alongside U.S. President Donald Trump, to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. "We must not allow Iran to reestablish its nuclear capabilities. Iran's stockpiles must be destroyed, and sanctions must be reimposed."

Visual Evidence and War Aims (16:17, 16:15): The Prime Minister wore a special hostage pin featuring a QR code linking to a site detailing the atrocities of October 7th. He urged the audience to zoom in on the barcode to understand "why we must win." He added that the mission is not over, as "remnants of Hamas are still in Gaza City," and Israel "must finish the job."

The link to view the content is available everywhere in the world except for Israel. The reason for this is to stop the atrocities from being shared with sensitive viewers, like children, here in Israel.

Military Successes (16:10): Netanyahu presented a map detailing Israeli strikes over the past year. He claimed: "We struck the Houthis, destroyed most of Hamas's capabilities, killed Nasrallah, sent pagers to Hezbollah, demolished the Assad army, and destroyed Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities."

Reception and Pre-Speech Events.

Walkout and Applause (16:05): Upon the Prime Minister's arrival, hundreds of Arab diplomats demonstratively walked out of the hall in protest, while others remained and greeted Netanyahu with applause.

Trump Meeting: Following the address, the Prime Minister is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. JFeed

Netanyahu at UN: Israel ‘must finish the job’ in Gaza, rules out Palestinian state. Scores of delegates walked out as PM invoked horrors of Oct. 7, addressed hostages directly, faced genocide accusations, denounced Western powers Itamar Eichner, New York, News Agencies|09.26.25. [43]. YNet

Israeli attack on Iran nuke program ‘will go down in annals of military history,’ Netanyahu tells UN. JNS Staff. (Sept. 26, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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UNRWA ignored Hamas ties in schools, fostering terrorism – UN Watch report. Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, September 22, 2025:

UNRWA turned a blind eye as Hamas terror chiefs held top positions within the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) educational system and promoted terrorism and radicalization, a scathing new report by the watchdog UN Watch has revealed.

UNRWA raises over $1 billion annually from Western states under the stated aim of educating Palestinian children with values such as peace, tolerance, and universal human rights. However, the report argued that “by knowingly employing Hamas terrorist leaders as school principals and teachers, and by allowing terror chiefs to head the unions that oversee thousands of their teachers, UNRWA didn’t just tolerate extremism, the Western-funded UN agency institutionalized it, turning classrooms into incubators of hate.”

Despite seemingly being led by an international team under Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, UN Watch found that the majority of UNRWA’s operations on the ground are led by local leaders, who, especially in Gaza and Lebanon, are Hamas members or leaders. In fact, over 99% of UNRWA’s 30,000 employees are area staff. Only 120 employees at the agency are international staff, funded by the United Nations in New York.

Of the local staff, support for Hamas is rampant. UN Watch previously revealed that a 3,000-member UNRWA staff Telegram chat group cheered the October 7 atrocities. Prior to October 7, UNRWA school principal and UNRWA Gaza Staff Union head Suhail Al-Hindi was publicly revealed to be involved with Hamas terror chiefs, but was not fired.

Similarly, in Lebanon, UNRWA management failed to fire Fateh Sharif, who had served for years simultaneously as the head of the UNRWA Lebanon Teachers’ Union and as a senior leader of Hamas in Lebanon.

As such, UN Watch claims that Hamas has “hijacked UNRWA’s education through its domination of the local UNRWA staff unions, particularly the teachers’ sectors of the unions, enabling Hamas to control UNRWA schools.” Methods of control include, it argues, preventing the agency from de-radicalizing the curriculum, blocking efforts by UNRWA to discipline staff for inciting antisemitism and jihadi terrorism, and placing Hamas operatives in senior educator positions in schools.

Suhail Al-Hindi and UNRWA Gaza As mentioned, Suhail al-Hindi was both a leader in Hamas and a prominent figure in UNRWA, overseeing approximately 8,000 teachers and 220,000 students.

When Al-Hindi was elected to the Hamas politburo in 2017, he was forced to resign from UNRWA. He went on to lead the Hamas “March of Return” committee, billed as “peaceful protests,” but which in fact was designed to test and study Israeli defenses in preparation for the Hamas invasion, which eventually took place on October 7.

Al-Hindi lauded October 7 as an achievement and has since served as a key Hamas spokesperson and member of the Hamas ceasefire negotiating team.

However, UN Watch notes that UNRWA had been aware of Al-Hindi’s long-standing Hamas involvement for many years prior to his eventual. JPost

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Dearborn mayor refuses to apologize for telling Christian minister he was 'not welcome here.' Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, September 24, 2025.

At Dearborn, Michigan’s first city council meeting since his clash with a local Christian minister went viral after a heated exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud declined to apologize for his saying the minister was “not welcome here” and that he would “launch a parade” when he left town.

Ted Barham, the same Christian minister, opened his remarks at Tuesday’s meeting by repeating the words that went viral at the previous one on Sept. 9.

“The mayor, in a way, cursed me, as was seen around the world. And I would like to repeat what I said that day to you, Mr. Mayor: ‘God bless you,’” Barham said.

Barham said he had no plans to file a lawsuit despite pressure from supporters.

“People have been saying I should do that all over the world. I have no intention of doing that,” Barham said.

Instead, he urged the council to consider his larger message: “Bless those who curse you… love your haters. And I would say that in regard to Hezbollah as well. I would [say] that in regard to Mr. Siblani and I would [say] to Israel, too. ‘Love your haters.’”

He then made a new appeal.

“Would it be possible for you, Mayor Hammoud, in front of the world and council members to join me in saying we would like to put out a Christian call to prayer and a Christian call to faith in all the countries around the world where an Islamic call to prayer goes out?”… Fox News

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IAF hits 170 Hamas targets across Gaza, eliminates terrorists in Gaza Cit. Jerusalem Post. September 25, 2025. JPost

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While the UN talks two states, the Palestinian Authority talks erasing Israel By Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, September 25, 2025.

Heads of state and policy makers in the EU and around the world support the establishment of a “Palestinian state” but completely ignore the state that Palestinian Authority leaders are seeking. They refuse to acknowledge the deceitful statements by the PA top, which Palestinian Media Watch has exposed for decades, because these statements reveal the inconvenient truth—PA leaders see a Palestinian state as part of the stages plan to weaken and eventually destroy Israel and create “Palestine” “from the River to the Sea.”

The following are recent examples of this inconvenient truth, which, if not taken seriously, threatens the very existence of the State of Israel:

Fatah official’s goal to destroy Israel: “We’ll return to all of occupied Palestine” of “27,000 sq. km”

Fatah official and Deputy Chairman of the Jenin refugee camp popular committee Fida Turkeman: “We the [PLO-affiliated] popular committee for refugees, the Insan Association, and the institutions of the national coalition distributed a map of Palestine (i.e., that includes Israel)… to emphasize the legal and historical right to the land of the forefathers, to emphasize that the [refugees’] right of return is a private and public right not subject to a statute of limitations, to emphasize the return to 27,000 sq. km., the area of all of occupied Palestine (i.e., all of Israel without the Golan Heights), and we won’t settle for less. We the refugees continue to hold the key of return that we inherited from our ancestors 77 years ago to emphasize the return and our historical right to the land of the forefathers. Allah willing, we’ll return to all occupied Palestine and won’t leave.” [Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, June 23, 2025]

PA Shari’ah Judge in sermon: Allah’s decree will hit the Jews, “We are the owners of this land”

PA Shari’ah Judge Abdallah Harb: “While [the Jews of] Banu Nadir thought like those who [today] think about absolute and fateful victory – about them it was said: ‘They thought that their fortresses would protect them from Allah… but Allah came upon them from where they had not expected… [Quran 59:2]… We are the owners of this land.This land is part of our faith and religion. We stand on it and will not leave it. They [the Jews] are the transient ones, and we are the owners of this land.” [Official PA TV, May 30, 2025]

Children in summer camps taught goal is “a free Arab Palestinian land from the River to the [Sea]” – Fatah official

Fatah Nablus Coordinator of Fatah’s Cubs and Flowers Movement Hukm al-Baghdadi: “These children and campers are our hope, our hope that there will be a free Arab Palestinian land from the [Jordan] River to the river (sic., Mediterranean Sea).”

Posted text: “The conclusion of the ‘Flowers of Hope and Cubs of Freedom’ [summer] camp at the [Fatah] Nablus Branch.”

[Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch, Facebook page, Aug. 23, 2025]

“Flowers and Cubs” refer to boys and girls in Fatah’s Lion Cubs and Flowers children’s movement.

Abbas’ advisor’s goal is to “liberate Palestine from the River to the Sea”

Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor : “Everyone knows the balance in the region… What weapons [will be useful] in a world where Israel enjoys full support? Not only from the US, but from the entire Western world. Entering an armed and unlimited confrontation with Israel is doomed to failure from the first moment. Indeed, such a war and such an armed confrontation can affect Israel, but will it destroy Israel? Will Palestine be liberated from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River?” [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, YouTube channel, Aug. 2, 2025]

“We own the place,” Israel “will come to an end” – PA TV filler

Palestinian children with Palestinian flags confront and provoke Israeli police officers at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.

Official PA TV narrator: “Here we have our say. Here we own the time, the place, the land, and the identity, while the occupation (i.e., Israel) will come to an end. We will never leave!” [Official PA TV, May 19, 2025]… PalWatch

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Lawyer says he had to resign Boston University role for protesting Jew-hatred. “Why would BU, which has an honorable reputation otherwise, allow someone who publishes violent social media posts about Jews to be held out as an anti-bigotry fellow,” Douglas Hauer-Gilad told JNS. Aaron Bandler.

(Sept. 25, 2025 / JNS) Even after Douglas Hauer-Gilad had resigned from his adjunct law professorship at Boston University, the private school told him in January that it still intended to launch an investigation against him for allegedly cyberstalking a professor, who he says has no current ties to the school and whom he accused of making antisemitic statements.

The retired lawyer, who is Israeli and is studying to become a rabbi, said that he resigned from the school in January after more than seven years of teaching because he was afraid to show up on campus.

“You had high-level university officials finagling a process to overcharge somebody who’s Jewish and Israeli for protesting antisemitism,” he told JNS.

The episode began, as Hauer-Gilad tells it, when he saw anti-Israel social media posts by Sahar Aziz, distinguished [SIC] law professor and chancellor’s social justice scholar at Rutgers Law School and a former BU visiting fellow. Shortly after Oct. 7, Aziz retweeted a post from a Gazan writer stating that “there were no rapes or ‘beheaded babies,’” a screenshot, which JNS viewed, suggested.

On Jan. 18, 2024, she wrote that three Palestinian American college students were shot in Vermont, “because Zionists are inflaming Islamophobia by accusing Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians of supporting terrorism. Blood is on their hands.” (The shooter was later determined not to have targeted them as Palestinians.)

Hauer-Gilad told JNS that he felt he had to speak out after seeing Aziz’s posts, since Boston University listed her as an “anti-bigotry fellow” on its website and that she had been a visiting fellow at BU’s now-defunct antiracist research center from 2021 to 2022.

“That perplexed me,” he said. “Why would BU, which has an honorable reputation otherwise, allow someone who publishes violent social media posts about Jews to be held out as an anti-bigotry fellow?” (JNS sought comment from Aziz.)

Hauer-Gilad asked university leadership why Aziz was being held as an anti-bigotry fellow on BU’s website, given her social media posts and her lack of current connection to the school.

“I firmly believe that people can have different views on Gaza. I’m friends with people who claim that Israel is committing genocide,” Hauer-Gilad told JNS. “What stood out here was a visible disconnect with BU holding somebody as an anti-bigotry fellow who is pushing out social media that had gone from the political to the violent.” (The Jewish state and Trump administration insist that Israel is not committing “genocide,” and U.S. and Israeli officials have said that charge is a blood libel.)

Colin Riley, executive director of media relations at Boston University, told JNS that the school “has a foundational commitment to nurture individuals from all backgrounds and create a place where they can fully engage and thrive in our community.” He added that “the university followed its processes for responding to the issues raised between Ms. Aziz and Mr. Hauer.”

Hauer-Gilad shared emails that he wrote to Aziz, copying others, in 2024 with JNS. In one, he asked her to stop denying Hamas rapes, noting that she holds “a very high level of authority as a scholar and thought leader.” He told JNS that he also sent Aziz’s social media posts to schools at which she was scheduled to speak about Gaza.

In one email, Hauer-Gilad asked Brian Ballentine, senior vice president for strategy at Rutgers and chief of staff to the public university’s president, what Rutgers is doing to encourage “Aziz to conduct herself in a civil and professional manner.” In another email, he wrote to the Rutgers Law School dean, copying Aziz and accusing her of being a “bigot and antisemite” and stating that he intended to file a bar complaint against her.

In December 2024, he wrote to two professors at Boston College, copying Aziz, telling them that it was a “serious lapse of judgment” for their department to host Aziz the prior month and that he would mention it to the college’s board and president.

That same month, he was informed that Boston University’s equal opportunity office and police department had received a complaint accusing him of cyberstalking.

Hauer-Gilad told JNS that Victoria Sahani, a law professor and then associate provost for community and inclusion at Boston University, sent the complaint. He added that Sahani is “good friends” with Aziz. (JNS sought comment from Sahani.)

Boston University’s police department did not find evidence to open an official police report, according to Hauer-Gilad, but the school intended to open a Title IX investigation of him. (JNS sought comment from the Boston University police.)

Under Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments, a federal law, schools that receive federal funding are barred from engaging in sex-based discrimination, which includes sexual harassment and sexual violence, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Stalking is the most severe form of sexual or gender-based misconduct under Boston University’s Title IX policy, Hauer-Gilad said.

In a December 2024 email, which Sahani sent to the Boston University equal opportunity office, Title IX coordinator Jean Estevez, university police chief Robert Lowe and Kelly Nee, vice president for safety, security and preparedness, she wrote that she was filing a report sent to her “about actions committed by a BU law lecturer against a visiting law professor.”

In the email, Sahani wrote that the complainant was Aziz, whom she identified as a Rutgers law professor who had served as a visiting law professor at Boston University in 2021. She wrote in the subject line that the complainant was “a non-BU faculty member.”

In the complaint, Aziz accused Hauer-Gilad of “electronically stalking me for over a year” and having “defamed me in public” and “sent emails to the Rutgers president and law school demanding that Rutgers fire me.”

Aziz added in the note, which JNS viewed, that Hauer-Gilad “has made me feel unsafe.”

“I believe his motivations are hate toward me and a desire to hurt me as a Muslim and Arab woman,” she wrote.

Hauer-Gilad told JNS that Sahani knew that she could “push through” a “confusingly worded report” as a Title IX complaint. He maintains that his emails to Aziz were respectful.

‘Shook to the core’.

On Jan. 5, Hauer-Gilad resigned from Boston University because he thought that he would be “in a position where I’d have to step out of class, because I would be told that I would be under investigation,” he told JNS. “If I’m under investigation for something as severe as stalking, then I can’t be in class.”

On Jan. 8, he had a Zoom call with two members of the Title IX office about his case, and told them that Aziz did not have standing in the complaint. He called the university’s Title IX office two days later, while he was driving in Florida, to ask if it had been dismissed. Hauer-Gilad was told that an investigation was going to be opened against him because Aziz is a member of the BU community.

“Imagine my utter shock and horror,” Hauer-Gilad told JNS. “It shook me to the core.”

The “whole purpose” of the Title IX complaint was to shut him down, according to Hauer-Gilad. “It was to get me out of BU, intimidate me,” he said.

Howard Cooper, an attorney for Hauer-Gilad, shared a January 2025 letter that he sent to Boston University asking it to confirm that it dismissed the complaint and retracted the “false police report” against his client.

Cooper told the school that there was no standing to open the Title IX complaint, since Aziz wasn’t a current BU professor. He noted that Boston University officials continued to refer to Aziz as “affiliated faculty,” although her website and resume do not state that she has any current affiliation with BU.

In his communication with Boston University, Cooper also stated that there were concerns that Sahani is biased, citing a letter she signed.

Cooper referenced a letter Sahani signed in March 2024 opposing the House Education and Workforce Committee’s probe of antisemitism at the Rutgers center for security, race and rights, and, she and colleagues said, targeting of Aziz. Sahani and other signatories said that House Republicans were engaged in “politically motivated and viewpoint-based attack on the center and a tenured university professor.”

Cooper also told BU that Sahani and Aziz serve together on the international law committee of the Association of American Law Schools and that if Sahani failed to disclose her relationship with Aziz when filing the complaint, that is “deeply concerning and profoundly unfair.”

Hauer-Gilad subsequently told Angela Onwuachi-Willig, dean of the Boston University School of Law, that he would cease communicating with Aziz and asked her to convey that to Aziz. After he threatened to share his story with reporters, Hauer-Gilad told JNS that Erika Geetter, BU’s senior vice president and general counsel, took a “deep dive” into the case and told him that it was dismissed and offered him a “soft apology.” (JNS sought comment from Geetter.)

Yet Boston University didn’t address the contents of Cooper’s letter, according to Hauer-Gilad. JNS saw an email in which Geetter told him that Boston University did not receive an official Title IX complaint—only an email from Sahani. The university did not have jurisdiction to move forward with his case, she stated.

Hauer-Gilad told JNS that Boston University expels students who make false statements in the form of plagiarism. “It was incomprehensible that I would stand by and not speak up, and not raise to public awareness the fact that one of the most senior members at BU would be deceptive with respect to a Title IX complaint to help a friend,” he said. “That should never happen at a university.”

Title IX “is not a political weapon that, as a senior university administrator, you use for a friend,” he added.

Hauer-Gilad told JNS that he filed a complaint with the Department of Education under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act but opted to withdraw it for safety reasons.

He told JNS that he worried about “political exposure for work I’ve done in Ukraine, for human rights work I’ve done in other countries, including Malaysia and Pakistan, and for me to be potentially under more scrutiny by people who might threaten me because I am held out as responsible for bringing Donald Trump to BU.”

“I did not want to take that risk on,” he told JNS.

He thinks that Boston University leaders have acted in a “deplorable” way by declining to share “core documents” about the Title IX case with him.

Hauer-Gilad told JNS he is weighing suing Boston University and plans to file a defamation suit against Sahani and an ethics complaint against her with the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. (According to Sahani’s bio, she is “an active member of the bar in New York and the District of Columbia.”)

He also plans to meet with the Massachusetts attorney general to explore possible options against the university, he said, although he would drop the matter if Boston University issues a written apology to him.

“It makes me very sad,” he said. “I’m going to tell my story, because I think BU can do better and be better, and if I don’t tell my story, if I’m quiet, that’s exactly what BU wants.”

“They’re hoping that I get exhausted and go away,” he added. “That’s not my personality at all.” JNS

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It’s not Israel that should be charged with a campaign of genocide. The dilution of the core meaning of word is an affront to both history and the true victims of this heinous crime.

David Parsons. (Sept. 25, 2025 / JNS) Throughout Israel’s long two-year war with Hamas, accusations of “genocide” have been loosely tossed at Israel from many sources, including by U.N. officials and prominent world leaders. One recent example was the resolution of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), which turned out to be a shameful, secretive attempt by a small clique of antisemites within the organization to dupe the world on false academic pretenses. This carefree use of the charge of genocide against the Jewish state threatens to undermine the valued safeguards established in international law against this greatest of crimes. It also reveals the duplicitous motives of those who seek to malign Israel.

Genocide is rightly called the “crime of crimes.”

It is defined in the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as acts committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” The central requirement is specific intent (dolus specialis) to eradicate a protected group simply for who they are.

This definition was formulated in the aftermath of the Holocaust, when the Nazi regime sought the systematic extermination of the Jewish people in Europe. Since then, it has been legally applied to such horrific tragedies as the widespread massacres in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. Thus, the legal concept of genocide is deliberately defined in precise, narrow terms to shield it from frivolous or politicized abuse.

Yet in our day, we increasingly see “genocide” charges routinely brandished as a rhetorical weapon in global discourse, especially against Israel. This dilution of the core meaning of genocide is an affront to both history and the true victims of this heinous crime.

For the Jewish people, accusations of genocide against Israel carry an even deeper, double meaning. These charges are not only patently false; they are a painful inversion of Jewish suffering in the Holocaust, trivializing that immense catastrophe while, in the same breath, turning Israelis into the Nazis.

For the following reasons, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) has concluded that the charge of genocide in Gaza does not apply to Israel:

1. Absence of specific genocidal intent: The Genocide Convention of 1948 requires clear intent to destroy a people. There is no credible evidence demonstrating that Israel seeks to eradicate all Gazans; rather, its intent is to defeat the banned terror militia Hamas, which ignited the current conflict by carrying out the widespread massacre of Israelis and abducting hostages on Oct. 7, 2023.

2. The war stops when the hostages are released: Israel has made it clear that the war could end tomorrow if Hamas releases the remaining Israeli hostages, agrees to disarm and relinquishes control of Gaza. Genocides do not end with such overtures for peace.

3. IDF warns civilians before strikes and facilitates evacuations: The Israeli military has consistently issued warning messages before targeted airstrikes, such as through SMS texts, phone calls, air-dropped fliers and online social-media platforms, and has facilitated civilian evacuations. This is incompatible with a genocide campaign.

4. Role of the international community in confining Gazans to the battlefield: The rising death toll in Gaza is troubling to everyone, but it cannot all be laid at the feet of Israel. The international community bears some responsibility for this situation by overwhelmingly insisting that Palestinian civilians in Gaza had to remain on the battlefield, rather than being allowed to evacuate to safety. This was an unprecedented act in the history of modern warfare, and only complicated Israel’s efforts to confront and defeat Hamas, whose own deliberate strategy is to exploit the population of Gaza as human shields.

5. Medical aid and child evacuations abroad: Israel has coordinated the evacuation of hundreds of Palestinian children with severe illnesses to receive treatment in Abu Dhabi, Italy and elsewhere. That is evidence of humanitarian concern, not destruction.

6. Scale and methodology not indicative of destruction objectives: Civilian casualties are tragic, but Israel’s methods—precision strikes, advance warnings—stand in stark contrast to the indiscriminate extermination that defines genocide.

7. Complex legal status and pending case at the International Court of Justice: The International Court of Justice is currently deliberating the charge of genocide against Israel, and so far has only ordered Israel to prevent the possibility of genocide as a provisional measure. This was not a final ruling; the case is still pending.

8. Key government findings and emerging scholarly rebuttals: Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, have carefully weighed the evidence and reached the conclusion that Israel is not committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Further, independent studies dispute the genocide charges by exposing flawed casualty data and a lack of evidence for systematic targeting policies.

9. Israel facilitates food and aid deliveries: Far from starving Gazans, Israel has been coordinating massive flows of relief. Since Oct. 7, an average of 300 to 320 aid trucks per day have entered Gaza via Israeli crossings—carrying food, medicine and supplies. More recently, the Israeli-American-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been distributing 1.2 million meals daily. Israel has also enabled water and power connections for Gaza’s main water desalination plant. Such actions, again, are incompatible with genocidal intent.

10. The population in Gaza is not shrinking: Despite thousands of deaths in this war, the overall population of the Strip has not decreased in the past two years, with tens of thousands of children born. This demographic reality contradicts claims of an extermination campaign.

By contrast, Hamas not only exhibits genocidal behavior but openly proclaims its genocidal intent. The Hamas Charter accuses the Jewish people of seeking to control the world, which they see as the rightful destiny of Muslims. Jews, therefore, are viewed as an implacable enemy.

The Hamas Charter also still affirms in its Arabic version that it is their religious duty to destroy the Jewish people due to the perpetual war which exists between Muslims and Jews until Judgment Day. In fact, the charter expressly recites the early Islamic hadith (“tradition”) declaring this vanquishing of the Jews as a prerequisite for the end of days. Hamas actually views the Oct. 7 massacres as a partial fulfilment of this hadith. Therefore, Hamas officials have vowed to repeat these attacks over and over again—a threat that must be seen in light of this dark apocalyptic vision.

The atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, including rapes, murders, torture and abductions, flow from a genocidal ideology. In addition, their strategy of using Palestinian civilians as human shields reveals how deeply Hamas has embraced a culture of death, even sacrificing their own people to advance their diabolical cause.

The chorus of charges that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza collapses under careful, objective scrutiny. In truth, this is but another in the long litany of blood libels against the Jewish state and people. The war in Gaza is intense, complicated and stressful for everyone involved, especially with the presence of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in a vast terror tunnel network.

But by issuing warnings before strikes, facilitating humanitarian aid and offering peace in exchange for the release of hostages, Israel’s conduct is incompatible with genocidal intent. These facts stand in stark contrast to Hamas, whose founding charter, rhetoric and actions openly aim for the annihilation of the Jewish people.

The global community must acknowledge this stark reality, rather than confuse the victims with the aggressors. And it must also confront the deliberate genocide campaign instigated by Hamas. JNS

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25 Sep 2025. ‘There is no genocide’ in Gaza says US ambassador to Israel Matt Frei Europe Editor and Presenter [...] Mike Huckabee: There’s no genocide for the simple reason that if it were genocide, Israel could have accomplished that in about two and a half hours. What they don’t get credit for is that when they are going into targets, they announce what those targets are going to be. They instruct by way of leaflets and cell phone messages and broadcast messages.

Now the fact that Hamas amasses their civilians into that area that is going to be hit.

Matt Frei: Well, there’s just no evidence of that, is there?

Mike Huckabee: Yes there is, there’s quite a bit of evidence of it. I’ve talked to people in Gaza and I’m telling you, what they tell me is that every one of them – that I talked to – had a family member murdered by someone from Hamas. Channel 4

Channel 4 News @Channel4News: ‘There is no genocide’ in Gaza says US ambassador to Israel From channel4.com Sep 25, 2025 on X

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Hamas Leader: UN Action on Israel a “Benefit” of Oct 7. ”Why are all these countries recognizing Palestine now?" September 26, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield. [44].

PM Keir Starmer in the UK, Macron in France and other Western leaders who decided to recognize an Islamic terrorist state inside Israel have tried to pretend that they aren’t recognizing Hamas or helping Hamas.

However, Hamas leaders have made it clear again and again that they are and that it’s the result of Oct 7.

“The powerful blow that was delivered to Israel on October 7 has yielded three very important historic achievements. First of all, it brought the Palestinian cause back [to center stage]. Why are all these countries recognizing Palestine now? Had any country dared to recognize the state of Palestine, prior to October 7? The overall outcome of October 7 forced the world to open its eyes to the Palestinian cause,” Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad bragged in August.

View this post on Instagram [45]. A post shared by Embassy of Israel (@israelinusa).

Now in the wake of the UN Jihad recognition event, Hamad is speaking out again and linking it directly to Oct 7.

”What is the benefit of October 7th? If you look at the UN General Assembly yesterday… they condemned Israel,” Hamad said. [46]

It’s hard to argue with that? What other possible basis was there for the recognition of an Islamic terror state except Oct 7 and everything that followed?

Ghazi Hamad had already vowed to repeat Oct 7 again and again.

The UN, the UK, France and other countries recognizing a terrorist stare are also recognizing mass murder as a political strategy which means that more of it will come. FPM

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Islamic-lobby OIC’s UN Walkout: A Betrayal of Diplomacy and Truth.

The OIC-led walkout during Prime Minister Netanyahu’s UN address is a damning indictment of the United Nations’ surrender to the Islamic bloc’s agenda. Far from a principled stand, this coordinated exit by Muslim-majority nations was a cowardly evasion of Israel’s call for peace and truth. It exposed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) stranglehold over international forums, where anti-Israel bias consistently drowns out reason and diplomacy. By refusing to engage with Netanyahu’s message—a message rooted in Israel’s right to exist and defend itself—these nations betrayed the UN’s founding ideals of dialogue and cooperation. This shameful display underscores a broader truth: the OIC’s obsession with demonizing Israel undermines any hope for genuine peace, revealing their walkout as not just anti-Israel, but anti-progress. at NER

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UN Security Council rejects bid by Russia, China to delay sanctions on Iran. Associated Press|09.26.25 YNet

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Moment police arrest autistic man in middle of the night for posting ‘f*** Hamas, f*** Islam’ on social media,” by Lettice Bromovsky, September 26, 2025. Daily Mail

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Douglas Murray: “The World’s Obsession With Palestine ISN'T About Palestine..” Stand Tall Israel. Sep 26, 2025. Douglas Murray: Stand Tall Israel Collection.

In this powerful interview on Israel’s i24 News channel, best-selling author and commentator Douglas Murray reveals why the world’s obsession with Palestine isn’t really about Palestine at all.

Speaking in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas massacre, Murray exposes how the global media, political leaders, and activist movements turned Israel — the victim of one of the worst terrorist atrocities in modern history — into the villain almost overnight. He explains why this pattern of victim-blaming, the rise of antisemitism, and the dangerous new ideology of what he calls “Palestinianism” threaten not only Israel but the entire Western world.

Murray does not hold back as he addresses:

• Why Israel’s war is not only for its own survival but also for the survival of Western civilization

• The disturbing media shift from covering October 7 to focusing on “Israel’s revenge” within 24 hours

• How Israel is uniquely treated as the only nation where victims of terror are blamed for the violence against them

• Why the recognition of a Palestinian state by Western governments is nothing more than gesture politics

• The hypocrisy of ignoring stateless peoples like the Kurds while obsessing over Palestine

• The rise of the “death cult vs. life cult” narrative — and why Israel represents the side of life

• How anti-Israel activism in the West often masks deep-rooted antisemitism

• Why appeasing radicals is like “feeding the crocodile” — it will eat you next

• His defiant closing declaration: “They may come for the Zionists. Very well, I am a Zionist. They may come for the Jews. Very well, I am a Jew. Am Yisrael Chai.”

in YouTube

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Man who threatened Jewish families sentenced after trying to illegally buy guns for 'God's wrath'. Hassan Chokr had pleaded guilty to illegal possession of multiple firearms on May 28, after originally being charged in 2022 with ethnic intimidation and for lying on federal firearms forms. By Michael Starr. September 26, 2025. JPost

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‘Deranged Leftist’ Allegedly Assaulted Trump Admin Official At UN. ["free palestine" thug followed her in the restroom]

Timothy Sekerak. Contributor. September 27, 2025

An official working in President Donald Trump’s administration was physically assaulted by a “deranged leftist” during a United Nations (U.N.) gathering on Thursday, according to sources.

The official — who works in international relations for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — was acting in a support role for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy during the General Assembly when the assault occurred, according to Fox News Digital.

“An HHS official was followed into a bathroom, recorded, physically assaulted and verbally accosted by a deranged leftist at the U.N. who somehow entered the venue past multiple layers of security,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told the outlet.

“Thankfully, the official is safe, and the lunatic was arrested, but this is part of a disturbing and dangerous set of failures by the U.N. after their sabotage of President Trump ahead of and during his speech.”

The official explained what happened in a statement to the outlet. She said she was walking down a hallway when the individual began beating her and shining a light in her face.

“Once I took a step back and regained my footing, it didn’t stop. I realized what was happening. I realized I was being yelled at and that the light was also a recording device,” the official said.

The individual was allegedly screaming pro-Palestinian comments and calling the official a “Nazi” and a “fascist.”

The official claimed she tried to escape into a bathroom stall, but the individual followed her and put a camera over the door to continue filming the official and screaming at her.

The official was eventually able to get away after 10 minutes of the assault, according to the outlet.

The United States Secret Service will look into the incident to determine how the individual was allowed access into such a high-profile event, Kelly told the outlet.

The outlet also learned that the individual was released from custody on Friday night. The person, however, was charged with assault, aggravated harassment, attempted assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. That person is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 13.

A U.N. spokesperson addressed the situation in a statement to the outlet, expressing outrage and asking how the U.N. can continue to position itself as the world’s diplomatic center when incidents like this occur at its own events.

“We are outraged that a member of the U.S. delegation was physically assaulted inside of U.N. Headquarters the afternoon of September 25,” the spokesperson said. “This attack must be addressed swiftly, and consequences must be felt.”

“If you can’t keep people safe in your own building, how can you claim to be the world’s diplomatic center?” the spokesperson asked.

The spokesperson also addressed the need for upgraded security measures.

“We know the U.N. needs dramatic reform and now must also immediately implement a thorough review of the U.N. ‘s security operations,” the spokesperson said. “The U.N.’s failures are evident worldwide, and now in its own halls.”

The official who was assaulted told the outlet that the assault was political in nature but that the HHS team feels empowered by their leadership.

“Secretary Kennedy gets a tremendous number of bows and arrows and threats that he deals with, but it seems that it’s not enough, and it is trickling down,” the official said. “That’s a scary thing for the team. But we’re more empowered, and we have amazing leadership.” DailyCaller

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Notest part III: Sep 27 - Oct 7, 2025+

Hamas official: Oct. 7 created ‘a golden moment’ for Palestinians. Ghazi Hamad told “CNN” that the massacre created “a golden moment.” JNS Staff.

(Sept. 27, 2025 / JNS). Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, has defended the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, telling CNN that they created a “golden moment” for the Palestinian cause despite the tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza.

In an interview with the American network in Doha, two weeks after apparently surviving an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas compound in the Qatari capital, Hamad highlighted the growing international condemnation of Israel’s offensive in Gaza and the spate of countries that have recognized Palestinian statehood.

According to CNN, he was “unapologetic” about the consequences for Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

“You know what is the benefit of Oct. 7 now?” he asked. “If you look to the [United Nations] General Assembly yesterday, when about 194 people opened their eyes and looked to the atrocity, to [the] brutality of Israel and all of them, they condemned Israel. We waited for this moment for 77 years.

“I think this is a golden moment for the world to change history,” he added.

CNN noted that his comments came on the same day as Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas condemned the Oct. 7 attack in a speech to the United Nations, saying that Hamas would have no role to play in a Palestinian state, and a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to address the assembly. JNS

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Trump’s Gaza peace plan: No role for Hamas, no timeline for IDF exit. CNN report sheds more light on Trump’s 21-point Gaza peace plan, says it calls for hostage release in 48 hours for phased IDF pullout. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2025, 10:38 PM INN

Report: Israel considers immunity for Hamas leaders in Trump plan. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2025, 9:39 PM INN

All hostages for '100-200 terrorists serving life': New details on Trump's 21-point Gaza peace plan. Ynet Global|09.27.25 YNet

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Heated Gaza Debate. Mike Huckabee Tackles Piers Morgan: "Insult Israel, Insult America" | WATCH. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee sparked controversy on Piers Morgan Uncensored, defending Israel’s Gaza actions, criticizing Western recognition of Palestine, and accusing Hamas of blocking aid, igniting a heated debate with Palestinian Ambassador Husam Zomlot ahead of UN General Assembly discussions. Gila Isaacson. Sep 27, 2025. JFeed

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Albanese and Wong Have Encouraged Further Hamas Brutality. By Cliff Reece, September 27, 2025.

What Prime Minister Albanese, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and other like-minded politicians in Europe and Canada don’t seem to understand is that by recognising a non-existent Palestinian State they have encouraged even more brutality from Hamas and other terrorist groups.

Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a co-founder of Hamas, stated: “We welcome Australia’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine.” He then claimed that the brutal attack on Israel on 7th October, 2023 was now seen by them to be fully justified as it has achieved this outcome.

As an example of their arrogance when dealing with naïve western politicians, three Palestinians accused of “collaborating” with Israel were executed by masked Hamas terrorists in front of a cheering crowd in Gaza last Sunday.

And Hamas was quite happy to have this visually broadcast around the world.

Ghastly footage of the killings, originally posted on a Hamas-affiliated Telegram group, shows the three doomed blindfolded men kneeling on the ground in front of a trio of Hamas gunmen holding automatic weapons

The crowd can be heard chanting “Allahu Akbar!” — a Muslim prayer meaning “God is most great” — clearly cheering on the brutal executions.

All three men were then shot in their heads and upper bodies, with the terrorists placing notes on their corpses reading, “Your betrayal will not pass without punishment. A harsh punishment awaits” in handwritten Arabic, the outlet said.

Hamas’ Ministry of the Interior called the men a “group of outlaws” who had collaborated with the Jewish state…. Richardson Post

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Israel-Hamas war. Some 800,000 Palestinians evacuate from Gaza City as Israeli defense minister says operation to ramp up. Sep 27, 2025. i24

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UNGA: German FM reasserts national commitment to Israeli security. "The existence and the security of Israel will always be part of our raison d'état," said Johann Wadephul, as Berlin did not join push for Palestinian statehood. i24NEWS. September 27, 2025. i24

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'Too many questions remain': New Zealand says it will not recognise Palestinian state for now. Reuters|09.27.25 YNet

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UN sanctions on Iran set to return Saturday after Security Council votes down delay bid. Reuters|09.27.25 YNet

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'Jewish supremacy'(sic) doctor cleared, UK health chief says statement mirrors Nazi values. Wes Streeting publicly expressed his loss of faith in the UK's health system after an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas physician was allowed to resume practicing following an investigation.

By Jerusalem Post Staff, September 27, 2025.

Wes Streeting, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, stated that he has “no confidence” in the regulatory abilities of the UK’s health system after Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, a physician notorious for perpetuating antisemitic conspiracies, including accusations of "Jewish supremacy," was cleared to continue practicing medicine.

"The racist language of ‘Jewish supremacy’ reflects the values of Nazis, not the NHS," Streeting stated in a Friday post to X/Twitter. "I fail to see how medics using such language with impunity doesn’t undermine confidence in the medical profession. I have no confidence in the our regulation system." JPost

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Nearly half of Netanyahu voters support Trump’s 21-point Gaza plan The poll marks the first time since the war began that support among Netanyahu voters for the plan exceeds opposition to it. By Maariv, September 27, 2025. JPost

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Eric Adams stands with Israel after meeting with Netanyahu. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2025, 12:22 AM INN

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Watch: Terrorists planting explosives are eliminated by the IAF. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2025, 7:19 PM INN

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Ground operation in Gaza gains force Israel National News. Sep 27, 2025, 7:26 PM INN

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Nasrallah didn't realize he was the next target for elimination. IDF's Intelligence Directorate reveals that in the days leading up to his elimination, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah chose to remain in place and plan counterattacks, each of which was quickly thwarted. Israel National News Sep 27, 2025, 8:01 PM INN

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CAIR Attorney Ramsey Judah At Long Beach, California Mosque: Do Not Cooperate With ICE; Everybody Is At Risk Of Being Taken; Lock The Mosque Doors, Do Not Let Them In Your Home, Pretend Everyone Is Sleeping, Don't Sign Anything. Sep 27, 2025. MEMRI

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Activist sentenced to 19 years for Berkeley firebomb attacks. Andrew Lapin, JTA Sep 27, 2025, 9:24 PM .. A pro-Palestinian activist who pleaded guilty to firebombing a police vehicle in Berkeley, California, last year, was sentenced this week to 19 years in federal prison. Casey Goonan, 35, also admitted to targeting other sites, including the University of California, Berkeley and a federal building in Oakland, with fires and Molotov cocktails in the name of Palestinian liberation. No one was injured in the June 2024 incidents. INN

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Security forces demolish home of Ramot Junction terrorist. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2025, 12:25 AM INN

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Two IDF soldiers moderately injured in Gaza. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2025, 10:58 PM INN

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Jewish man wearing Star of David necklace attacked in Germany. Erfurt police are searching for the suspect who attacked a Jewish man on one of the city's streetcars. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2025, 10:40 PM ...Only last month, a troubling report from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) was published showing that between January and March, there were 1,047 antisemitic crimes and incidents in Germany, including 27 cases of violence and 422 cases of incitement to hatred. INN

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IDF issues demolition orders for two terrorists' homes. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2025, 10:35 PM INN

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IDF eliminates terrorist who killed Yamam commander. Hamas terrorist behind Arnon Zamora’s killing eliminated in IDF-Shin Bet operation. Uzi Baruch. Sep 27, 2025, 11:47 PM INN

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At the Western Wall. President Herzog participates in Selichot prayers. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2025, 4:11 AM INN

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Trump plan calls for destruction of Hamas’s offensive weaponry. The Washington Post reports that Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan calls for the destruction of Hamas’s offensive weaponry and offers amnesty to group members who “commit to peaceful co-existence.” Israel National News. Sep 28, 2025, 5:30 AM INN

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Court sentences seven men in 2021 lynching of Lod resident Yigal Yehoshua. Shilo Freid|09.28.25. YNet

Guardian of the Walls in Lod: Terrorists sentenced for attack that killed Yigal Yehoshua. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2025, 11:42 AM INN

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Tzuba hotel attacker: 'I stabbed them because they are Jews'. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2025 A prosecutor's statement was filed this morning against the terrorist who carried out the stabbing attack at the hotel in Kibbutz Tsuba. One of his victims was seriously injured and the other moderately injured. During his interrogation, he admitted that he stabbed them "because they were Jews. INN

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Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill approved in first reading. The National Security Committee met this morning to discuss the bill imposing the death penalty for terrorists. The Coordinator of Prisoners and Missing Persons, Gal Hirsch, came to the debate and expressed opposition to the law's promotion now. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2025, 12:51 PM INN

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KLM resumes flights to Israel. JNS Sraff. (Sept. 28, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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San Marino recognizes ‘Palestine’ at UN General Assembly. JNS Sraff. (Sept. 28, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Editor of state-linked Qatari daily shares video praising Hamas, casting Trump, Netanyahu as devils. JNS Sraff. (Sept. 28, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Hungarian FM: EU should be smarter than to sanction Israel. Mike Wagenheim. (Sept. 28, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Shin Bet probes failures in Qatar strike. Probe reportedly focuses on intel regarding location of Hamas leaders and decision to use precision munitions. Yoav Zitun|09.28.25. YNet

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Evangelical leader brings influencers to Israel to counter ‘propaganda war’ after Oct. 7 Bishop Robert Stearns, who has brought 35,000 evangelicals to Israel since 1992, is leading influencers with 300M followers on solidarity missions, warning of eroding US support and urging Israel to fight the 'propaganda war'. Alexandra Lukash|09.28.25. YNet

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Mike Johnson: 'Judea and Samaria belong to Israel, geopolitical forces at play'. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2025, 12:28 PM INN

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Maher Calls Out Gaza Obsession. WATCH: Bill Maher Exposes Western Media Hypocrisy - Nigeria's Christian Genocide Ignored Because 'The Jews Aren't Involved'. Bill Maher rips into media silence on Nigeria's Christian killings, calling out the blatant double standard that ignores jihadist horrors unless Jews are in the crosshairs. Eliana Fleming Sep 28, 2025. JFeed

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SSGT Inbar Avraham Kav killed in Samaria ramming attack. Staff Sergeant Inbar Avraham Kav, a soldier in the 890th Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade, was killed in a terrorist ramming attack at the Jit Junction. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2025, 10:58 PM INN

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Eric Adams withdraws from NYC Mayoral race. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2025, 8:38 PM INN

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Watch: Captivity survivor sings Psalm 121. Shortly after the terrorist who commanded the attack on the shelter from which he was abducted was eliminated, Eliya Cohen sang the moving Psalm with Israeli singer Yonatan Razel. Hezki Baruch. Sep 28, 2025, 9:21 PM INN

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Sirens in central Israel, Judea. Missile from Yemen intercepted. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2025, 1:08 AM INN

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Report: Syrian President meets WJC President in New York. Elad Benari. Sep 29, 2025, 4:08 AM INN

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Genocide? Starvation? No, IPhone17. War Zone Luxury: How Gaza's Elite Got the iPhone 17 Before it Arrives in Israel. How new iPhone models reach Gaza through sophisticated smuggling networks, bypassing official blockades and appearing before their official release in Israel, despite restrictions. Lara Sukster Mosheyof Sep 29, 2025 06:23 JFeed

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How Tucker Became Qatarlson Tucker Carlson has lost his way, big time! Tucker Carlson's Descent: From Conservative Firebrand to Conspiracy Peddler? What went wrong?

Gila Isaacson. Sep 29, 2025 06:54 Tucker Carlson, once a sharp-elbowed staple of Fox News conservatism, known for his populist rants against "elites," immigration, and endless wars, has undergone a stark transformation since his 2023 ouster from the network. By September 2025, he's morphed into a figurehead for the far-right's isolationist, anti-interventionist wing, but at a cost: his rhetoric has veered into overt antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and alliances with fringe voices that echo historical blood libels.

Carlson's pivot against Israel intensified post-October 7, 2023, aligning with his "America First" isolationism. He frames U.S. support for Israel as a humiliating drain on American resources, accusing the country of "controlling" U.S. policy and dragging America into endless Middle East conflicts. In a June 2025 interview with Ted Cruz, he grilled the senator on U.S. aid to Israel, calling it a betrayal of domestic priorities like border security, echoing left-wing critiques but laced with "woke right" populism that resents perceived foreign lobbies. By July, he escalated, calling for revoking U.S. citizenship from Americans who've served in the IDF over "dual loyalty" concerns, while slamming the Trump administration's deportations of pro-Palestinian students as hypocritical.

On X, Carlson's posts amplify this:

• June 2025, he blasted "warmongers" like Sean Hannity and Mark Levin for pushing Trump toward direct U.S. strikes on Iran, naming pro-Israel donors like Miriam Adelson as culprits.
• In February, he interviewed Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who praised X's dominance while Carlson nodded along to critiques of U.S. "imperialism" in the region. Critics, including Haaretz and Ynet, call it "country club antisemitism," polished disdain for Jewish sovereignty, masked as anti-war patriotism.
• Trump himself swiped back in June, dismissing Carlson's Iran warnings as irrelevant blather from a has-been.
• By September, Carlson's rants had alienated even MAGA stalwarts, with outlets like Mediaite labeling them "humiliating" attacks on Trump and Netanyahu.

This isn't subtle critique; it's an obsession.

Cozying Up to Nuns: Platforming Anti-Israel Propaganda.

On August 11, he interviewed Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos, a U.S.-born Russian Orthodox nun who's lived in the Holy Land. Titled "Here’s What It’s Really Like to Live as a Christian in the Holy Land," the 90-minute episode was a one-sided takedown of Israel, with Carlson nodding along as Stephanopoulos claimed Israeli "apartheid" persecutes Christians, steals land, and bombs churches "on purpose."

She alleged Israel plans to "blow up" Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount to rebuild a Jewish temple, and defended Hamas as desperate resisters in an "open-air prison." Carlson promoted it heavily on X, urging "evangelicals" like Ted Cruz to listen, framing it as exposing Christian suffering ignored by pro-Israel conservatives.

The backlash was swift: CAMERA and Aish accused Carlson of letting her "bear false witness," omitting context like Hamas terrorists holding 40 clergy hostage in the Church of the Nativity during the 2002 siege she referenced. For Carlson, it was red meat for his audience, cozying up to a nun lent "moral" cover to his Israel-bashing and ignored data showing Israel's Christian population stable or growing under its governance.

Hinting Israel Killed Charlie Kirk: The Funeral Blood Libel.

And just as we thought Tucker was as deep down the rabbit hold as he could go, at Charlie Kirk's memorial in Arizona's State Farm, Carlson likened Kirk to Jesus: an "evangelist" murdered by powerful forces in a "lamp-lit room with men eating hummus" in Jerusalem, plotting to silence him for "telling the truth." He added Kirk "did not like Bibi Netanyahu" and was "appalled" by Gaza, implying his death silenced a growing critic. No explicit accusation, but the dogwhistle was deafening: Pharisees plotting Jesus's death (a medieval "deicide" libel blaming Jews), plus "hummus" as a modern Israeli nod.

The fallout was explosive. The ADL called it a "blood libel"; pro-Israel voices like Mark Dubowitz and Eylon Levy decried Carlson desecrating Kirk's memory, a "passionate friend of Israel." Arizona rabbis and Jewish groups condemned it as reinforcing myths that "Jews killed Jesus," linking to centuries of expulsions and murders. Netanyahu denied involvement twice—once on NewsMax, once in a video, calling it "absurd." X lit up with clips, from Quds News Network amplifying it as "Israeli involvement" to far-right users like Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes cheering. MSNBC and The Times of Israel saw it as exposing MAGA's Israel rift: pro-Israel hawks vs. antisemitic isolationists. Even Antonio Brown piled on, tying it to Carlson's 9/11 docuseries as "next ****** level."

What Happened to Him? A Perfect Storm of Grift, Grievance, and the Far-Right Gutter

Carlson's arc isn't mysterious, it's predictable for a media survivor chasing relevance post-Fox. Fired amid a Dominion lawsuit exposing his private texts mocking MAGA (e.g., calling Jan. 6 a "badly organized" riot), he launched Tucker Carlson Network, thriving on X and podcasts with 10M+ views per episode.

Unshackled, his "bowtie conservative" facade cracked: He dined with Putin in 2024, hosted Holocaust deniers, and amplified white nationalist tropes. The Israel turn? Post-Trump's 2025 reelection, as U.S. aid flowed unabated, Carlson tapped paleoconservative veins (Pat Buchanan-style) to court the "groyper" crowd, young, online radicals like Fuentes who blend isolationism with Jew-baiting.

Psychologically, it's grievance: Carlson resents "neocons" (many Jewish) for past snubs and sees Israel as a symbol of elite overreach. Financially, it's gold, his nun interview racked up millions of views, blending piety with propaganda. Politically, it's fracturing MAGA: Kirk's death exposed the divide, with Carlson siding against pro-Israel donors like Bill Ackman, who allegedly pressured TPUSA over hosting him. As MSNBC's Emily Tamkin put it, once you flirt with antisemitism, "you do not get to decide how much prejudice is acceptable."

Once a voice against coastal snobs, Carlson's now a vector for the worst tropes, deicide myths, Mossad whispers (he tied Epstein to Israeli intel in July). It's not intelligence; it's idiocy wrapped in contrarianism. If he was ever the "smart conservative," that ship's sailed, replaced by a man chasing shadows in a hummus-scented room. JFeed

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Argentina's Antisemitic Outrage. "Today We Burn the Jews": Milei Condemns Antisemitic Chant by Argentine Students. Argentine President Milei condemns high school students' antisemitic chant referencing Holocaust, reinforcing his zero-tolerance stance against hate speech and support for Jewish community. Lara Sukster Mosheyof Sep 29, 2025 08:44

Argentine President Javier Milei has forcefully condemned a circulating video showing high school students on a school trip chanting the abhorrent phrase, "Hoy quemamos a los judíos" (Today we burn the Jews). The explicit reference to the Holocaust by the students has triggered immediate national outrage and reinforced the President’s vocal anti-antisemitism campaign.

The video, which appeared on social media, reportedly shows a group of students from a private high school singing the hateful lyric, underscoring persistent concerns about antisemitism and Holocaust awareness among young people in the country.

The Argentine school, "Escuela Humanos" (Humans' School), presents itself as a global embassador for peace. In their Instagram Bio, it's written: "20 años construyendo personas más humanas" (20 years building more human people). But it seems like this message got lost into antisemitism. JFeed

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Shiite Militia Claims Responsibility for Explosive Device That Severely Wounds IDF Reserve Officer. A militia affiliated with the Iranian-backed Shiite axis has claimed responsibility for planting an explosive device near a new Israeli military outpost in the Quneitra region, which detonated and critically injured an IDF reserve officer on Monday, according to statements from the group and Israeli military sources. Sep 29, 2025. JFeed

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Ben Gvir's demand to PM 'Hamas defeat and full control over Gaza'. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2025, 3:44 PM INN

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Trump is talking with the Qatari Emir before he meet Netanyahu. Sep 29, 2025 JFeed

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Netanyahu apologizes to Qatari PM for strike on Hamas leaders. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2025, 7:51 PM INN

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Lindsey Graham: Israel must be allowed to finish the job. Sep 29, 2025 JFeed

Sen. Lindsey Graham. 'I don't support ending war if it means Hamas is not defeated'. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2025, 6:09 PM INN

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House ed panel demands answers from Harvard on campus Jew-hatred. “Harvard does not appear to have disciplined, and instead has rewarded, two students who assaulted an Israeli Jewish student,” Reps. Tim Walberg and Elise Stefanik stated.

(Sept. 29, 2025 / JNS) Republicans on the Committee on Education and Workforce demanded answers from Harvard University on Monday about whether the school has created a hostile environment for Jews.

Reps. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), chair of the committee, and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), chair of the House Republican Leadership, wrote to Harvard president Alan Garber about potential violations of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discriminating on the basis of race, color and national origin. JNS

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Suit alleging Bay Area district teaches Jew-hatred can proceed, California judge rules. “Parents are entitled to see what their children are being taught,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Deborah Project, told JNS. Aaron Bandler. (Sept. 29, 2025 / JNS) Han Tran, a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court in California, ruled earlier this month that a lawsuit alleging the Berkeley Unified School District uses anti-Israel curricula can proceed.

The district educates some 9,400 students in 11 public elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools and also runs three preschools and an adult school serving “several thousand” students annually, according to its site.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director of the Deborah Project, which filed the suit in October, told JNS that the judge’s decision is “huge.”

“We haven’t had that,” she said. JNS

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‘Don’t confuse me with facts’ view, B’nai B’rith says of meeting European diplomats at UN. “Nobody gave a cogent, persuasive answer, because there is no cogent, persuasive answer,” Daniel S. Mariaschin, the nonprofit’s CEO, told JNS. Mike Wagenheim. (Sept. 29, 2025 / JNS) Meeting with European diplomats on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly went as one would expect of representatives of countries that have been recognizing a state of “Palestine,” which the Jewish state and others say rewards Hamas, according to Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International.

“What we have here on an international level is a ‘don’t confuse me with the facts’ worldview,” Mariaschin told JNS. “All of these arguments, which we feel are well grounded, are clearly not getting through in terms of persuading, because minds were made up 12 months ago and 18 months ago.” JNS

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'Greatest day in civilization': Netanyahu and Trump address the press on Gaza peace plan. US President Donald Trump meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, shares new proposal for ending the Israel-Hamas war. Israel National News. Published: Sep 29, 2025, 5:59 PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House on Monday ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump.

Following their bilateral meeting and lunch, the two leaders addressed the press.

Trump opened the press conference by calling the day "one of the greatest days ever in civilization." He thanked Prime Minister Netanyahu for "getting in there and getting a job. We really work well together."

He noted that he and the Prime Minister discussed Iran, trade, the expansion of the Abraham Accords, and "most importantly, we discussed how to end the war in Gaza," which, according to him, is just a part of "eternal peace in the Middle East."

The President announced that following extensive consultation with Middle Eastern states, he is formally releasing the "Principles for Peace." He noted that the plan was formulated while working with the nations involved.

Trump thanked Prime Minister Netanyahu for agreeing to the plan and "for trusting that if we work together, we can bring an end to the death and destruction that we've seen for so many years, decades, even centuries, and begin a new chapter of security, peace, and prosperity for the entire region."

He also praised the Arab leaders for agreeing with the plan and contributing to it, and revealed that the Prime Minister and Field Marshal of Pakistan openly backed the plan.

Delving into the plan, he stated that it stipulates that Hamas must return the hostages immediately, but in no case more than 72 hours.

According to Trump, the plan would end the war with Arab and Muslim countries, committing to demilitarize Gaza quickly and decommission the military capabilities of Hamas and other terror organizations.

"I'm hearing Hamas wants to get this done too; that's a good thing," the President added.

The plan will see all parties agreeing on a timeline for Israeli forces to withdraw in phases.

Trump implied that the Arab countries already have an agreement with Hamas for it to agree to the plan, but warned that if Hamas does not accept it, "Israel will have the absolute right and our full backing to do what they have to do."

The President stated that at the request of other countries, he will lead the "Board of Peace" that will oversee peace efforts. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will also be on the board. “The leaders of the Arab world and Israel and everybody involved asked me to do this,” he explained.

He noted that in the meeting, Prime Minister Netanyahu was "very clear about his opposition to a Palestinian state and he mentioned October 7th, and I understand that. I understand and respect his position on many things, but what he's doing today is so good for Israel."

Trump also mentioned the anti-war protesters in Israel who often hold signs with his name, quipping: "They like me, for whatever reason, Bibi, I don't know."

He complimented the Prime Minister, calling him "a warrior" and saying that "Israel is lucky to have him."

The President also criticized the countries that "foolishly" recognized a Palestinian state, but explained that they did so because "they're tired of what's been going on for so many decades. The Presidents and Prime Ministers, when they deal with the Middle East, talk about the same thing over and over."

Reviewing the history leading up to the war, he recounted: "The Palestinians elected Hamas. Israel withdrew from Gaza, thinking they would live in peace, remember that? But that didn't work out; there was the opposite of peace. I never forgot that, because I said, 'That doesn't sound like a good deal to me, as a real estate person, they gave up the ocean.' They gave up the most magnificent piece of land in the Middle East and said all we want to do now is have peace, and that request was not honored."

"Instead of a better life for the Palestinians, Hamas diverted resources to build over 400 miles of tunnels and terror infrastructure, rocket production facilities, and hid military command posts and launch sites in hospitals, schools, and mosques, so if you went after them, you'd end up knocking out a hospital, school, or a mosque.

"I challenge the Palestinians to take responsibility for their destiny."

Trump warned that if the Palestinian Authority does not complete the reforms he laid out in 2020, "They'll have only themselves to blame. We're giving them an amazing footprint, and they have amazing support from the leaders of the Arab world."

He claimed that Israel gained respect in the Middle East by the way it fought the war.

The President also referred to the phone call between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed al-Thani during which, according to him, the two had a "heart-to-heart conversation."

Prime Minister Netanyahu responded by thanking the President for his hospitality and for his friendship and leadership, "From Jerusalem to Tehran, from the Golan Heights to Gaza, you have proven time and again, what I've said many times: you are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House."

Netanyahu declared that "I support your plan to end the war in Gaza, which achieves our war aims. It will bring back to Israel all our hostages, dismantle Hamas's military capabilities and its political rule, and ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel."

"We would not have achieved this turning point without the courage and sacrifice of our incredibly brave soldiers. They fight like lions to defend the people of Israel, and they serve on the front line of the war between civilization and barbarism," he added.

Citing the American and Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear weapons program in June, Netanyahu proclaimed that when the US and Israel "stand together, we achieve the impossible."

Regarding Hamas accepting the plan, he warned: "If Hamas rejects your plan, or if they supposedly accept it and then do everything to counter it, then Israel will finish the job by itself," adding that Israel did not fight this "horrible" war so that Hamas would stay in power in Gaza and "threaten us again and again and again with these horrific massacres."

The Prime Minister thanked the President for standing strong in the UN against the recognition of a Palestinian state, which "would be an outcome that, after October 7th, would reward terror, undermine security, and endanger Israel's very existence."

Netanyahu further praised the Trump Administration's plan for Gaza as "realistic" instead of insisting that an unreformed Palestinian Authority govern the enclave.

“I appreciate your firm position that the PA could have no role whatsoever in Gaza without undergoing a radical and genuine transformation,” Netanyahu said. “It won’t come as a surprise to you that the vast majority of Israelis have no faith that the PA leopard will change its spots. But rather than wait for this miraculous transformation, your plan provides a practical and realistic path forward for Gaza in the coming years, in which Gaza will be administered - neither by Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority - but by those committed to a genuine peace with Israel.”

As he welcomed Netanyahu to the White House, Trump was asked if he was confident that the deal would go through, to which he answered in the affirmative.

At the same time, a senior Qatari delegation arrived at the White House to discuss and advance a hostage deal that could bring an end to the war. Axios reporter Barak Ravid reported that Netanyahu even spoke to the Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman, and apologized for the strike on Hamas officials in Doha.

Just minutes before Netanyahu’s arrival, President Trump spoke with the Emir of Qatar as part of efforts to push the framework forward.

According to Axios, the “21-point plan” includes the release of all remaining hostages, a permanent ceasefire, a gradual Israeli withdrawal from all of Gaza, and a post-war governing mechanism for the Strip without Hamas, secured by a force comprising Palestinians alongside soldiers from Arab and Muslim countries.

Arab and Muslim states would fund Gaza’s new administration and reconstruction, with some involvement of the Palestinian Authority. INN

Trump calls on Hamas to accept 'extremely fair deal', says it is Netanyahu's 'crowning achievement'. No PA involvement in Gaza after Hamas, Trump, Netanyahu say • Trump releases 21-point plan • Trump sais that under his plan, Arab and Muslim countries would demilitarize Gaza.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give thumbs-up at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 29, 2025. Trump, Netanyahu say no PA involvement in Gaza after Hamas. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump said that there would be no role for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza until it underwent major transformations.

“I appreciate your firm position that the PA could have no role whatsoever in Gaza without undergoing a radical and genuine transformation,” Netanyahu told Trump. “It won’t come as a surprise to you that the vast majority of Israelis have no faith that the PA leopard will change its spots."

“But rather than wait for this miraculous transformation, your plan provides a practical and realistic path forward for Gaza in the coming years, in which Gaza will be administered – neither by Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority – but by those committed to a genuine peace with Israel.” [September 30, 2025]. JPost

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IDF And Shin Bet Eliminate Hamas Commander Who Led Hamas Hostage Release Propaganda Spectacles. September 29, 2025.

The IDF and Shin Bet announced Monday that they eliminated Musa Shaldan, the deputy commander of Hamas’ Zeitun Battalion, in a targeted strike in Gaza City last week.

Shaldan, a veteran operative within Hamas, played a central role in orchestrating both combat operations against Israeli forces and propaganda spectacles tied to the release of Israeli hostages. According to the joint IDF-ISA statement, he was killed in a strike on Wednesday.

Shaldan rose through the ranks of Hamas’ Zeitun Battalion, serving as both intelligence officer and deputy company commander before assuming his role as deputy battalion commander. He commanded forces during the October 7th massacre in southern Israel. YWN

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Charlie Kirk wrote of his ‘deep love’ for Israel in letter to Netanyahu about how to counter rising opposition to the Jewish state in the US. By Josh Christenson and David Propper Published Sep. 29, 2025, 3:54 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk advised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu how to counter “anti-Israel sentiment” among Gen Z and win the “information war” being waged against the Jewish state, according to a letter obtained by The Post.

Kirk wrote to Netanyahu in the May 2 missive that he was alarmed by “anti-Israel and anti-Semitic trends” hitting “record levels on social media” since one of his “greatest joys as a Christian is advocating for Israel and forming alliances with Jews in the fight to protect Judeo-Christian civilization.”

“My team and I have spent months analyzing these trends and debating ideas that could help you and your country pushback [sic] against these disturbing developments,” he said in the letter, reproduced in full below for the first time. “Anti-Israel sentiment can undermine American support for Israel..." NYPost

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Live. Main Selichot prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. Israel National News. Sep 29, 2025, 10:37 PM INN

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A mix of Israeli skepticism and support greet Trump plan for Gaza. According to the plan, Hamas will disarm, and the Gaza Strip will become a “deradicalized terror-free zone” governed by a “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee.” David Isaac. (Sept. 29, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Two wounded in Gush Etzion terror attack. A 15-year-old boy was moderately to seriously injured in the attack. JNS Staff.

(Sept. 30, 2025 / JNS) Two Israeli teens were injured, including one moderately to seriously, in a terrorist attack on the Route 60 highway in the Gush Etzion region of Judea on Tuesday afternoon. JNS

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Poll: Netanyahu's coalition stands at 63 seats Israel National News. Sep 30, 2025, 9:25 PM INN

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Dearborn Islamic Center Holds Memorial Mourning a Year After Hezbollah Chief Nasrallah’s ‘Martyrdom. By Joshua Klein, September 30, 2025.

A Dearborn, Michigan, Islamic institute hosted a memorial marking one year since Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s death, praising the U.S.-designated terror leader’s “bravery,” featuring tributes to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and telling attendees the Iranian ruler is “our leader.”

Held this past Friday at the Hadi Youth Community Center, the event marked the one-year anniversary of what organizers called Nasrallah’s “martyrdom” and drew attendees, including parents with young children. Hezbollah is designated by the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Usama Abdulghani, described by the group as the Hadi Institute’s “spiritual leader” and linked to the affiliated K-5 Hadi Montessori School, addressed the audience beside a framed portrait of Nasrallah during a livestreamed program. “This is an occasion that many of us probably never thought we would live to see,” he said, repeatedly using the honorific “Seyyed.” “We never imagined that our Seyyed would be martyred in our lifetime, and that one year would have passed since his martyrdom.”

Abdulghani told attendees they had been “blessed to be in the presence of one of the greatest allies of Allah,” and lingered on what he called Nasrallah’s virtues. “We miss his smile … his love for humanity … how he would tell us our responsibility … we miss his bravery,” he said. Pivoting to Tehran, he placed the movement under Iran’s ruler: “This camp, the camp of divine resistance, the camp of Hussein, is now led by our leader Imam Khamenei.” He urged the crowd to treat Nasrallah’s death as a call to action: “Hopefully, the martyrdom of Seyyed [Nasrallah] will inspire us to be like the Seyyed.”… Breitbart

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Trump. 'Hamas has 3-4 days to respond to peace plan'. Israel National News. Sep 30, 2025, 4:22 PM INN

Trump will give Hamas ‘three or four days’ to respond to Gaza plan. By Christian Datoc. September 30, 2025. President Donald Trump said he plans to give Hamas the remainder of the week to respond to his 20-point proposal for peace in Gaza.

Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s support for the plan, along with buy-in from a number of Arab nations, at the White House on Monday. The framework calls for the release of hostages, dead or alive, within 72 hours, the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the creation of a new international body overseeing the day-to-day cleanup effort, and the phased withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces.

Trump delivered remarks to military leaders in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday morning, and before departing the White House, he fielded multiple questions on the topic from reporters.

“We’re going to do about three or four days. We’ll see how it is. All of the Arab countries are signed up,” Trump said when asked how long he would give Hamas to accept the plan. “The Muslim countries are all signed up. Israel is all signed up. We’re just waiting for Hamas, and Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it’s not, it’s going to be a very sad end.”

The president didn’t directly answer a question about any negotiating wiggle room for the terrorist group, simply stating that “we want it very simple.”

“We want the hostages back immediately, and we want some good behavior. And, you know, pretty, pretty simple. You don’t get simpler,” Trump continued. “Think of it. We’ve signed every country in the Middle East. This is like an impossible thing. It’s never been done before. This is more than Gaza. Gaza is mixed up, but this is — Gaza is a piece of it.”

Trump also reiterated that, should Hamas reject the deal, he “would let [Israel] go and do what they have to do.”

TRUMP TOUTS GAZA PLEACE PLAN AS NETANYAHU WARNS HAMAS IT CAN BE DONE THE ‘EASY’ OR ‘HARD’ WAY.

“We’ve killed about 25,000 Hamas. So, certainly, they paid a big price for Oct. 7. And this is a whole new group. You know, they come in, and they come in, and they keep coming. But this is a whole different group, and their leadership has been killed three different times, so they paid a big price,” he concluded. “We hope that they’re going to have a nice, calm life. Maybe it won’t happen, but if it does, it’ll be one of the greatest things ever to happen. We’ll have actual peace in the Middle East.” Washington Examiner

Trump says Hamas has 3 or 4 days to agree to ceasefire deal. By Mallory Wilson. The Washington Times. Tuesday, September 30, 2025 [...] The president said he would let Israel “go and do what they have to do” if Hamas rejects the latest deal.

“We’ve killed about 25,000 Hamas,” he said. “So certainly they paid a big price for Oct. 7. And this is a whole new group. … We hope that they’re going to have a nice, calm life. Maybe it won’t happen, but if it does, it’ll be one of the greatest things ever to happen. We’ll have actual peace in the Middle East.” WashingtonTimes [47]

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Edan Alexander Street. Emotional Tribute to Freed Hostage Edan Alexander: Tenafly Names Street in His Honor. After surviving 584 gruelling days in captivity by the Hamas terror organization, the young soldier was celebrated in his hometown before re-joining his military unit to defend Israel. Eliana Fleming. Sep 30, 2025 JFeed

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Mediation Crisis: Key Ally Undermines Gaza Plan. Qatari PM Demands Changes to Trump's Gaza Plan, Calling It Only an 'Initial Document'. The key mediator distanced his nation from full support of the proposal, complicating the diplomatic process just as President Trump issued a strict deadline for the terror organization's response. Eliana Fleming. Sep 30, 2025 JFeed

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Palestinian men, UNRWA workers using aid to sexually exploit Gazan women - AP. One woman said she was given a six month contract with UNRWA after being pressured to sleep with an aid worker.

By Danielle Greyman-Kennard, September 30, 2025. Some Palestinian men have been exploiting the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, using resources as a way to pressure women into sexual interactions they would not have otherwise consented to, six local women told the Associated Press on Tuesday.

The women, who remained anonymous due to fears of retribution from the men or their own families, told AP that some of the men were associated with humanitarian aid groups, such as UNRWA.

A 35-year-old widow reported giving her number to a worker while receiving aid from UNRWA, which resulted in her receiving late-night phone calls. While the conversation began as harmless, she described how it quickly devolved into him questioning her on the color of her underwear and whether her husband had satisfied her. He asked her to come to him for sex, which she refused, and she said she never received any humanitarian aid.

While the woman submitted a complaint to the UN agency, she stated that she was informed she needed to have a recording of the call to have it further investigated - a requirement that was not possible with her older phone model and contradicted the agency's own policy. JPost

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Explosives cache discovered near Lebanon border from pre-Second Lebanon War period. During civil works in the area of Ghajar, a pit filled with explosives was discovered. The IDF notes that the infrastructure was buried before the Second Lebanon War. Israel National News. Published: Sep 30, 2025, 10:45 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Gottheimer bill seeks to speed up transfer process of confiscated Iranian weapons to U.S. partners. “Iran, the world’s largest state-sponsor of terror, continues to arm terror proxies that threaten American troops, our bases and our allies,” the New Jersey Democrat stated.

(Sept. 30, 2025 / JNS) Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) introduced a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to speed up the process by which confiscated Iranian weapons are transferred to U.S. partners and allies. JNS

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‘Not far-off threats,’ Israeli ambassador to the United Nations says of Hamas capacity in Judea, Samaria. Mike Wagenheim. (Sept. 30, 2025 / JNS) JNS

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Terrorist posed as hostage to lure IDF soldiers. IDF forces in Gaza identified an individual with a white flag calling for help and halted their operations out of concern that he might be a kidnapped Israeli. After extensive searches, it was revealed that the individual was not a hostage Israeli, but a terrorist. Israel National News. Sep 30, 2025, 10:55 PM INN

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"Islamic Takeover?" Muslim Candidate's Georgia Governor Bid Ignites Firestorm Palestinian Governor? "Islamic Takeover?" Muslim Candidate's Georgia Governor Bid Ignites Firestorm Viral Campaign Video Ignites National Debate on Islamic Influence in Georgia Politics. Yair Kleinbaum. Sep 30, 2025.

Georgia State Representative Ruwa Romman, a Muslim and Palestinian American, has launched her 2026 gubernatorial campaign, igniting fears among some residents of an Islamic cultural shift. Her viral video frames her as a civil rights activist turned politician, but critics see it as a strategic move to advance Muslim influence in the Peach State. JFeed

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A Battle for Life. The Battle for Nir Am: Deadly Clashes, Heroic Defense. Detailed operational review reveals how Israeli forces defended Kibbutz Nir Am during Hamas assault, highlighting crucial decisions and acts of heroism that prevented a larger catastrophe.

Lara Sukster Mosheyof. Oct 1, 2025 05:18 JFeed

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Antisemitism Challanged in the US. Trump Launches Major Antisemitism Probe Into University of Nevada. DOJ initiates civil rights investigation into UNLV's handling of antisemitic incidents following Hamas attacks. University pledges cooperation amid growing campus tensions. Lara Sukster Mosheyof Oct 1, 2025 04:02 JFeed

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Watch: Green Prince's counter-flotilla initiative. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a founding member of Hamas, talks about his initiative against Hamas supporters and the flotilla that is on its way to the coast of Gaza. i24NEWS. Oct 1, 2025, 9:58 AM INN

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Watch: Two terrorists arrested in Balata camp and Nablus. Shin Bet intelligence and IDF assistance led Border Police undercover forces to capture wanted suspects; firearm seized during operation. Israel National News. Oct 1, 2025, 9:33 AM INN

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Warns of risk to Trump plan. Meloni urges Gaza flotilla to halt Elad Benari. Oct 1, 2025, 12:12 AM INN

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Watch: Israeli commandos seize a large Hamas supply cache. Commando Brigade troops have been operating in recent days in the heart of Gaza City, locating large quantities of combat equipment and continuing to kill Hamas forces. Yoni Kempinski. Oct 1, 2025, 12:18 PM INN

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IDF commanders warn: 'Do not withdraw from Gaza'. During a tour of the Gaza Division, IDF commanders opposed a military withdrawal from Gaza, as part of the Trump plan, and warned of a threat to the surrounding communities. Israel National News.

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Complaint to ICC seeks Oct. 7 genocide charges against Iran. The complaint, filed by a relative of slain Hamas hostage Shiri Bibas, charges the Islamic Republic with crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. JNS Staff. (Oct. 1, 2025 / JNS) A complaint filed this month to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands on behalf of a bereaved Israeli family charges Iran with genocide and other egregious crimes for its involvement in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel. JNS

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Greece, Italy urge Gaza flotilla to halt. Israel National News. Oct 1, 2025, 5:06 PM INN

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Trump signed historic security guarantee for Qatar. Trump granted Qatar an unprecedented U.S. security guarantee, including a military response in the event of an attack. Israel National News. Oct 1, 2025, 3:02 PM INN

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Harvard agreed to deal to restore federal funds, Trump says. “They’ll be paying about $500 million, and they’ll be operating trade schools,” the president said. “Then their sins are forgiven.” Andrew Bernard. (Sept. 30, 2025 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Harvard University has agreed to a deal to restore billions of dollars in federal funds that were frozen after the administration accused the Ivy League school of discriminating against Jews. JNS

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Gmar Chatima Tova from Israel! Updates continue from North America. Yom Kippur about to begin in Israel. INN's North America desk will continue to update the site until Yom Kippur begins in New York. Israel National News. Published: Oct 1, 2025, 6:00 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Germany arrests Hamas cell plotting attacks on Jews. Elad Benari, Canada. Oct 1, 2025, 6:29 PM INN

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Rocket fire disrupts Yom Kippur silence in Ashdod. Israel National News Oct 1, 2025, 9:02 PM INN

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Israeli Navy intercepts Gaza flotilla, arrests activists. Israeli Navy begins intercepting the Global Sumud flotilla near Gaza after issuing a final warning. Footage shows IDF vessels nearby; arrests reportedly underway. Israel National News. Oct 1, 2025, 11:26 PM INN

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DHS: Federal judge stokes ‘embers of hatred’ by ruling against deportation of anti-Israel protesters. “We will continue to revoke the visas of those who put the safety of our citizens at risk,” a U.S. State Department spokesman told JNS. Aaron Bandler. (Oct. 1, 2025 / JNS) William Young, a senior judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled on Tuesday th JNS

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Jewish House Democrat endorses Trump Middle East peace plan. “I welcome the president’s proposal to finally bring this war to an end,” Rep. Lois Frankel said.

(Oct. 1, 2025 / JNS) Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) crossed party lines on Tuesday and endorsed U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas. JNS

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After attack on Dutch ship. Netherlands demands EU sanctions on Houthis Israel National News Oct 2, 2025, 12:07 AM INN

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‘While you perform, I will pray,’ Danon tells UN General Assembly On the eve of Yom Kippur, the Israeli envoy decried the “great shows of theater, long speeches and grand declarations” of the global body. Mike Wagenheim Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the 15th plenary meeting of the General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City, on Oct. 1, 2025. Credit: Rick Bajornas/U.N. Photo.Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the 15th plenary meeting of the General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City, on Oct. 1, 2025. Credit: Rick Bajornas/U.N. Photo.

(Oct. 1, 2025 / JNS) Hours before one of the holiest days on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, offered a prayer for the hostages in Gaza during a U.N. General Assembly session.

The envoy offered the prayer during a meeting on Wednesday to discuss Washington’s recent veto of a Security Council resolution demanding an Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

“Speech does not free hostages, and words do not stop terror,” Danon told the diplomats, accusing the global body of spending “time on empty gestures.” JNS

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Navy's Night Raid. Israeli Navy Intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla on Yom Kippur, Detains 425 Activists Including Greta Thunberg Israeli forces seize the Pro-Palestinian Global Sumud Flotilla on Yom Kippur eve, detaining Thunberg and 425 others for deportation amid cries of 'illegal piracy.'

Eliana Fleming Oct 2, 2025. JFeed

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Terrorist kills two in Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. The attacker targeted worshippers at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in northern England. Charles Bybelezer. (Oct. 2, 2025 / JNS) Two people were killed on Thursday in a terrorist attack at an Orthodox synagogue in Manchester, England.

The terrorist rammed his car into worshippers outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation on Middleton Road before exiting the vehicle and stabbing others on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day. The attack took place at around 9:30 a.m. local time.

Three additional people were seriously wounded.

Greater Manchester Police declared “Operation Plato,” the national protocol for responding to a “marauding terror attack.”

Warning: distressing footage. 'Get back… he has a bomb, go away.' Watch the moment armed officers attempt to get members of the public away from the suspect involved in the Manchester Synagogue attack. [pic.twitter.com/Y8gj0rUJSU] — GB News (@GBNEWS) October 2, 2025.

Video circulating online shows two armed police officers shouting at the suspect as he lay on the ground outside the shul after being shot. The officers are then heard warning bystanders to leave the area, saying the attacker “has a bomb.”

Police later confirmed that the terrorist had been killed, although it remains unclear whether he was carrying an explosive device. Authorities said there was no ongoing risk to the public.

Assistant Commissioner for counter-terrorism Laurence Taylor said on Thursday that police believe they know the identity of the terrorist. He confirmed that two additional suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack.

BREAKING: The alleged photo of the Manchester synagogue terrorist.

The Manchester mayor says the suspect is believed to be dead, but his condition hasn't yet been confirmed. Today is Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. [pic.twitter.com/eKkn0HpkhW] — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 2, 2025

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the development “absolutely shocking.” He cut short a trip to Denmark to convene an emergency COBRA meeting, a ministerial-level committee assembled in response to a crisis, saying additional police assets were being deployed to synagogues across the country.

“We will do everything to keep our Jewish community safe,” Starmer said.

The British premier last month recognized a Palestinian state, a move that Jerusalem condemned as rewarding terrorism in the aftermath of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

This morning's attack is absolutely shocking.

I’m on my way back to London to chair an emergency meeting, and additional police assets are being deployed to synagogues across the country.

We will do everything we can to keep our Jewish community safe. [pic.twitter.com/bNUfGbWwfq] — Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) October 2, 2025.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch on Thursday expressed shock over “Jews murdered simply for being Jews. That should not be the U.K. of 2025. But it is.

“On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, Jews take time for introspection. To ask themselves—where have we gone wrong in the past, and what do we need to do to be better in the future. These are questions we urgently need to ask ourselves as a nation,” Badenoch continued. “Today’s murders raise new questions. And they will require new answers.”

King Charles said he was “deeply shocked and saddened” by the synagogue attack, “especially on such a significant day for the Jewish community.”

These attacks on Yom Kippur are horrifying.

The Jewish community should never have to live in fear.

Britain must remain a safe home for Jews: free from hatred, intimidation or violence. [pic.twitter.com/C1xFjhHT1X] — Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) October 2, 2025.

The Israeli embassy called the killings “abhorrent and deeply distressing,” adding that its officials were in close contact with the Manchester Jewish community, British authorities and the Community Security Trust to monitor developments and ensure support was provided.

“We thank the Greater Manchester Police for their swift response. The safety and security of Jewish communities in the United Kingdom must be guaranteed,” the embassy statement continued. “The thoughts and prayers of the people of Israel are with the victims, their families and the entire Jewish community at this difficult time.” JNS

UK terror suspect who killed 2 at Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur ID’d By Shane Galvin Published Oct. 2, 2025 NYPost

After Manchester synagogue terrorist IDed, British Jews recall 'tsunami of Jew-hatred'. Synagogue terrorist Jihad al-Shami, 35, a Syrian who immigrated to Britain as a child, was eliminated after a 6-minute rampage and stabbing spree, and was wearing fake explosive belt; 3 suspects also arrested; 'Everyone knew this day would come'; Vehicles flying Palestinian flags taunted the victims near the scene. Ynet, News Agencies|10.03.25. YNet

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Report. Hamas Gaza leader opposes Trump peace plan. Israel National News. Oct 2, 2025, 9:12 PM INN

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Documents Reveal How Iran Faked Case Against Executed Database Specialist. October 2, 2025. Aida Ghajar. When Bahram Choobi Asl was executed this week on espionage charges, Iranian state media portrayed him as a spy who had betrayed his country to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.

But documents obtained by IranWire tell a more complicated story - one involving a female intelligence agent, sanctioned government contacts, and what a legal expert describes as “exaggerated” charges. Iranwire

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Ben-Gvir blasts Greta and her flotilla friends as ‘terror supporters’

After the latest activists are deported, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition says another flotilla is on its way to Gaza. Steve Linde.

(Oct. 3, 2025 / JNS) Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Friday lambasted Swedish climate activist “Greta Thunberg and her pro-Hamas friends” on board the “Global Sumud Flotilla” intercepted by Israel en route to Gaza this week.

“You are all terrorists,” Ben-Gvir said. “You are supporting murderers, supporting Gaza, supporting terrorists. You are terror supporters. There is no humanitarian aid here.” JNS

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VIDEO: Keir Starmer addresses 'terrorist' attack at a synagogue in Manchester. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the man who attacked a synagogue in Manchester was a "vile individual who wanted to attack Jews because they are Jews". abc.net.au, Oct 3, 2025 ABC au

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‘Shocks me to core,’ head of England, Wales Catholic bishops group says of Yom Kippur shul attack. The attacks expresses "utter hatred that must not be tolerated in this land," stated Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.

(Oct. 3, 2025 / JNS) A terror attack outside an Orthodox synagogue in Manchester, in the United Kingdom, on Yom Kippur, in which two Jewish worshippers were killed and others wounded, is an expression “of utter hatred that must not be tolerated in this land,” according to Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. JNS

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Hero Rabbi in Manchester: 'I met evil face to face'. Rabbi Daniel Walker, rabbi of the Manchester synagogue, where two Jews were murdered in a Yom Kippur attack, relives the moments of horror. Yoni Kempinski. Published: Oct 3, 2025, 5:21 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Within hours of the attack, the streets of Manchester were filled with pro-Palestinians. No wonder Jews live in fear, says PATRICK CHRISTYS. 20:33 EDT 02 Oct 2025, updated 02:53 EDT 03 Oct 2025 By PATRICK CHRISTYS

Terrorism has come to my home city – again. This time with the attempted mass slaughter of Jews at a place of worship on the holiest day in their calendar.

I am horrified. But as a Mancunian, I must also tell you I’m not surprised at what is happening here in Manchester.

We’ve watched this outrage building, inexorably. Just as we’ve watched the old Manchester slip away and a new, divided and more radical city take its place.

Sure, like much of the North West, Manchester has a long tradition of being culturally mixed.

Even in the 2000s, the streets around my secondary school, Manchester Grammar, were filled with the sights and sounds of life in faraway places, the Middle East and Pakistan in particular.

The city’s varied make-up included then – as now – the largest Jewish community outside London, with a population today of 30,000 or more.

Yet in a few short decades I’ve seen a startling change. There has been little short of a demographic revolution in Manchester. Small enclaves have become whole districts where you might not hear English spoken.

People from the Middle East and South Asia abound. Major roads are closed for Pakistan Independence Day – which would have been unthinkable when I was at school. My Jewish friends tell me such celebrations are a no-go zone.

Some 22.3 per cent of the city’s population were Muslim according to the 2021 census – which is to say more than 120,000 in a population of 550,000. And the numbers have grown since then. Manchester is still majority white, but at 57 per cent, only just.

The change in mood is palpable, too.The famous Christmas markets are patrolled by armed police. There are bollards to prevent Islamists, or other terrorists, driving cars into crowds of people. Greater Manchester Police issues statements telling people to ‘be vigilant’ as they do their shopping.

And it is Manchester’s Jews in particular who live under a spectre of fear. And no wonder. Just hours after the killing, apparently heedless of Manchester’s suffering, a group of pro-Palestine protesters descended on the city centre, chanting and carrying banners attacking Israel.

Events at my old school are telling. Manchester Grammar, just a few miles from yesterday’s attack, has always had a large contingent of Jewish pupils. DaikyMail

UK Antisemitic Wave. Unbelievable Timing: Protests Erupt Against Israel in UK Right After Manchester Terror Attack. Tensions rise in UK as protests against Israel's naval interception of Gaza flotilla overlap with deadly antisemitic terror attack in Manchester during Yom Kippur.

Lara Sukster Mosheyof Oct 3, 2025 04:57

The United Kingdom is reeling from a shocking convergence of crises: mass protests condemning Israel’s naval interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla erupted almost simultaneously with the fallout from an antisemitic terror attack that killed two worshippers outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur JFeed

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DOJ uses FACE Act for ‘first time’ to pursue synagogue harassment case. By Kaelan Deese. September 29, 2025 1:41 pm The Justice Department on Monday filed a civil complaint under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act against pro-Palestinian demonstrators accused of violently disrupting a Jewish memorial service in New Jersey last year, marking what officials say is the first time the statute has been used to protect a house of worship.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced the case Monday, stating prior department leaders, including some within the Biden administration, had failed to apply the law evenly, as Congress intended. WashingtonExaminer

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VIDEO: Keir Starmer addresses 'terrorist' attack at a synagogue in Manchester. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the man who attacked a synagogue in Manchester was a "vile individual who wanted to attack Jews because they are Jews". Oct 3, 2025. ABC.net.au

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"UK Makes Muslim Incest Great Again.. But Israel Is The Problem?" [On OAN] Sep 30, 2025. on Instagram

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No one is surprised. Bombshell report: No aid on the biggest yacht in Greta's Flotilla. Greta's Grand Flotilla Fiasco: Nothing More Than A Sham on the High Seas. Gila Isaacson. Oct 3, 2025 02:39 JFeed

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IDF: Palestinian rocket fire targets GHF aid site in Rafah. The projectiles landed in the area of a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site, adjacent to the Morag Corridor. JNS Staff. (Oct. 3, 2025 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday night confirmed that several projectiles were launched from the Khan Yunis area in the southern Gaza Strip toward an aid distribution site in Rafah JNS

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Trump gives Hamas a "Last Chance".

US President Donald Trump on Truth Social: "An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time". Israel National News. Oct 3, 2025, 5:36 PM INN

Trump issues final warning to Hamas: release hostages or face obliteration. Trump warned that Hamas fighters are surrounded and facing annihilation if hostages are not released by Sunday, vowing either a historic peace deal backed by Israel, the U.S. and Arab states, or an unprecedented military assault. Ynet Global|10.03.25. YNet

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US judge rejects $1 billion lawsuit accusing UNRWA of complicity in Oct 7 attack. All Israel News Staff | Published: October 3, 2025

Federal U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in the Southern District of New York has rejected a lawsuit that accuses the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) of assisting the Hamas terrorist organization during the Oct. 7 terror attack in southern Israel, The New York Times reported on Friday. Hamas terrorists massacred 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 251 into Gaza during the attack.

“The findings in this lawsuit demonstrate that UNRWA was aware of and actively participated in the diversion of funds earmarked to support the people of Gaza into channels that ensured those funds were used for terrorism and in violation of international law,” argued Bijan Amini, one of the leading attorneys in the lawsuit.

However, Judge Torres ruled that UNRWA is immune from prosecution as a subsidiary organ of the United Nations.

“Because UNRWA is a subsidiary organ of the United Nations and has not waived its immunity,” Torres responded, “this court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over Plaintiffs’ claims. Defendants’ motion to dismiss is granted, and the complaint dismissed.” allIsrael

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Britain has abandoned Jews to this savagery. The writing was on the wall long before the horror in Manchester.

Tom Slater. 2nd October 2025.

Six minutes. That is all it took for Britain to descend to a new low of infamy, in which Jews are slaughtered at synagogues. A nation whose entire postwar sense of self is bound up with the fight against the Nazis – against militarised anti-Semitism – is now a place where Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, has become stained in the blood of British Jews, brutally murdered by an assailant dressed all in black. SpikedOnline

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STEPHEN POLLARD: After 23 months of anti-Israel hate marches - and Starmer's backing for Palestine - we Jews knew this was coming... 07:19 EDT 02 Oct 2025, updated 08:24 EDT 02 Oct 2025. By STEPHEN POLLARD.

Today is Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Synagogues zare full to bursting as Jews repent their sins and reflect on the previous year.. DailyMail

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British Deputy Prime Minister booed at Manchester synagogue vigil. Deputy British PM David Lammy heckled at a Manchester vigil after the deadly Yom Kippur attack, with mourners accusing the UK Government of enabling antisemitism and demanding an end to anti-Israel marches. Israel National News Published: Oct 3, 2025, 10:17 PM (GMT+3)

Deputy British Prime Minister David Lammy faced a storm of boos and heckles on Friday afternoon as he addressed a vigil near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester, where a worshipper was killed and several others injured during a Yom Kippur terror attack a day earlier, the Independent reported.

The crowd, gathered in pouring rain, accused Lammy and the Government of enabling antisemitism across the UK, particularly on university campuses, and demanded an end to weekly anti-Israel marches. Tensions also flared over the Government’s recent decision to recognize a Palestinian state.

Calls of “go to Palestine, leave us alone” and “shame on you” echoed as Lammy, also Justice Secretary, attempted to deliver a message of unity. One man shouted, “You are all guilty. You have allowed Jew hatred in Manchester, on the streets. We do not want you speaking here today.” Another added, “Empty words. We want action.”

Lammy’s speech was repeatedly interrupted. Scoffs met his opening word “friends,” and cries of “stop the marches” and “you have blood on your hands” forced him to pause multiple times.

“We stand in solidarity with the Jewish people,” Lammy said. “Jewish people… are terrified by the events of yesterday - of becoming targets, victims of antisemitic hate, simply for who they are.”

He praised the Jewish community’s strength and resilience, declaring, “You will never be cowed.” But as he spoke of defying terrorists, one man shouted, “You enabled it, every Saturday,” referencing the anti-Israel demonstrations.

Lammy urged those planning Gaza-related marches to “reflect with all human dignity, grace and understanding” and to “stop and stand back.” INN

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Israel: Flotilla a Hamas provocation, 137 deported. Israel’s Foreign Ministry said flotilla activists rejected peaceful aid routes and staged a Hamas-backed stunt Itamar Eichner|10.03.25 YNet

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On Yom Kippur. University of Maryland's BDS resolution sparks outrage. Israel National News. Oct 4, 2025, 12:57 AM INN

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Trump plan: Hamas willing to free hostages, but seeks talks on the rest. Israel National News. Oct 3, 2025, 11:36 PM INN

'Hamas is ready for peace, Israel must stop bombing Gaza'. Trump says Hamas is ready for peace, urges Israel to halt Gaza strikes to enable safe hostage release and begin broader Middle East negotiations. Senator Graham: Hamas response is a classic 'yes, but.' Israel National News. Oct 4, 2025, 12:21 AM INN

Hamas Crumbles Under Trump's Pro-Israel Ultimatum, Exposes Qatar's Puppet Strings

In a bold and unyielding stand for Israel's security, President Trump's decisive ultimatum to the terrorist Hamas regime has exposed the group's true colors once again. While feigning a token concession by agreeing to release the innocent hostages they've barbarically held captive—brave souls kidnapped in their vicious October 7 massacre—Hamas shamelessly spurns the core pillars of Trump's ironclad peace blueprint: total disarmament to neuter their arsenal of death, and the deployment of a robust international force (clearly excluding Palestinian interlopers who might sympathize with jihadists) to safeguard Israel's sovereignty and prevent future atrocities.

This cynical dodge reeks of Qatar's insidious meddling—the gas-rich enablers who've long bankrolled and harbored Hamas's bloodthirsty leadership in Doha's lavish shadows. It's a desperate ploy to cling to power, but Israel's unbreakable resolve, backed by Trump's unwavering alliance, will crush these illusions. Victory for the Jewish state—and justice for its people—is not negotiable. JustSayin'

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Israel calls Gaza flotilla ‘a Hamas provocation’ as 137 activists deported to Turkey. Israel’s Foreign Ministry accused flotilla activists of rejecting peaceful aid routes and staging a 'publicity stunt' to support Hamas..

Itamar Eichner|10.04 25

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the activists aboard the Gaza aid flotilla “arrived under the guise of humanitarian assistance,” but their actions showed otherwise. “Their conduct, refusal of Israel’s, Italy’s, and Greece’s offers to deliver aid peacefully, and the small amount of aid they actually carried, prove their true goal was provocation in service of Hamas—not humanitarian aid,” the ministry said in a statement. YNet

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London police intervene as Palestine Action protesters rally despite synagogue terror attack. Six arrested as London police break up a banned pro-Palestinian protest held despite pleas to cancel after a deadly Manchester synagogue attack; PM Starmer urges calm as tensions rise between Jewish and Muslim communities Reuters|10.04.25

London police arrested six people who showed support for a banned pro-Palestinian group on Saturday and removed demonstrators who gathered despite calls to cancel the protest following a deadly terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester. Two people were killed in Thursday’s terror attack in the northwestern city. Police shot dead the assailant, Jihad al-Shamie, a British man of Syrian descent, whom counterterrorism officials said may have been inspired by extremist Islamist ideology. YNet

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Britain must wake up to the reality of Islamist terror in its midst. By Post Editorial Board. Published Oct. 3, 2025, 10:13 p.m. ET

The vile attack on a Manchester synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar should be a blaring wake-up call to the United Kingdom that Islamist extremism is out of hand.

Antizionists screaming “Globalize the Intifada!” have spent the last two years insisting that their fervid calls for the elimination of Israel have nothing to do with antisemitism — indeed, that it’s offensive to suggest otherwise.

Their protests, you see, are motivated solely by humanitarian concerns. NYPost

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Senior Israeli official: 'Israel will negotiate from inside Gaza, ready if Hamas resists'. Official says the IDF will remain in Gaza, with any pullback only to the 'yellow line' around Gaza City; Talks with Hamas are expected in Cairo within days, as Israel prepares for possible resistance from the terror group. Itamar Eichner|10.04.25. YNet

IDF shifts to defensive-only activities in Gaza. Following directive from political echelon, IDF ceases offensive attacks throughout Gaza, focusing only on protecting troops stationed in the area. Israel National News. Oct 4, 2025, 7:56 PM (GMT+3) INN

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The Trump plan may end Gaza war — but the pain of the massacre that sparked it will live on. By Post Editorial Board Published Oct. 4, 2025, 9:29 a.m. ET

Mourners attend the reburial ceremony of Israeli soldier Yam Goldstein and her father Nadav, who were killed by Hamas militants during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Their remains were transferred from Kibbutz Shefayim where they were initially buried to their home in southern Israel, Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025. Jewish pain from the horrific Oct. 7 massacre that ignited the war, and from the antisemitism it unleashed, will long endure, writes the Post Editorial Board. AP Hamas’ signaling Friday that it will accept the peace plan President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rolled out last week has raised hopes for an end, once and for all, to the ugly war the terrorist group sparked two years ago Tuesday.

And that, indeed, it will lead to a permanent peace not just in Gaza but across the Middle East: an end to the nearly 80-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict.

Yet even if it does, Jewish pain from the horrific Oct. 7 massacre that ignited the war, and from the antisemitism it unleashed, will long endure. NYPost

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Israel agrees to ‘initial withdrawal line’ in Gaza, hostage release to begin when Hamas confirms deal: Trump By Ariel Zilber Published Oct. 4, 2025, 4:36 p.m. NYPost

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'Hamas must move quickly'. The US President commended Israel for halting offensive operations, and warned that if Hamas did not work quickly, 'All bets will be off.' Israel National News. Oct 4, 2025, 7:24 PM INN

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Revealed: Hamas weapons tunnel beneath hospital complex in Gaza City. Israel National News. Oct 4, 2025, 7:45 PM INN

Shocking Discovery: Hamas Built Secret Weapons Factory Beneath Gaza Hospital | WATCH. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet revealed that Hamas had constructed an underground tunnel network near the Jordanian Hospital in Gaza City. The tunnel contains a workshop used for the production of weapons. Gila Isaacson, Oct 4, 2025. JFeed

IDF, ISA reveal underground weapons workshop adjacent to Gaza City hospital According to the IDF, the Hamas terrorist activity that occurred near the hospital happened without the involvement or knowledge of the Jordanians who run the hospital. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Oct 4, 2025. The IDF revealed on Saturday a tunnel shaft leading to an underground workshop used for manufacturing weapons that was found adjacent to the Jordanian Hospital in southern Gaza City. JPost

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Israel to host British activist Tommy Robinson. British activist Tommy Robinson will visit Israel following his October 13 trial, after receiving an official invitation from Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli. Israel National News. Published: Oct 4, 2025, 11:40 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Arab mob assaults Jews in Southern Hebron Hills. Hezki Baruch. Oct 4, 2025, 8:44 PM INN

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Texas school district removes Holocaust novel under new DEI ban. Andrew Lapin, JTA. Oct 4, 2025, 8:37 PM INN

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Report: IDF to remain in key locations even after war's end. Israel National News. Oct 4, 2025, 9:49 PM INN

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Trump: Israel agreed to initial withdrawal line. US President Donald Trump says Israel agreed to initial withdrawal line for peace agreement, ceasefire will take effect immediately following confirmation from Hamas. Israel National News. Oct 4, 2025, 11:16 PM INN

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Barrister is reported to Bar Council over video claiming Israeli government was behind Manchester synagogue attack - and that they are plotting to assassinate King Charles. 11:55 EDT 04 Oct 2025, updated 13:12 EDT 04 Oct 2025 By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

A practising barrister has claimed the Israeli government 'orchestrated' an Islamist terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester - and that it is now 'plotting to assassinate' King Charles - provoking widespread outrage.

Sham Uddin, who describes himself on LinkedIn as 'a barrister-at-law, accredited mediator, writer, and philosopher', posted a video making the claims to his social media accounts just 24 hours after Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, targeted Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on Thursday.

Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, both members of Manchester's Jewish community, were killed during the murderous rampage, which coincided with Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Another three people remain in hospital.

In his video, Uddin - who has 24,000 followers on TikTok and 30,000 on Facebook - said: 'Breaking news - it is rumoured[sic] that the Israeli government orchestrated[sic] the attack in the synagogue in Manchester yesterday, October 2, 2025. DailyMail

Sham Uddin: An Islamic Version of Candace Owens Spewing Vile Conspiracies| 10.04.25 Just sayin'

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Watch: The Israeli flag held up in the middle of a London anti-Israel march. Israeli-American journalist Emily Schrader held up an Israeli flag in the middle of an anti-Israel protest in London. Israel National News. Oct 5, 2025, 8:45 AM (GMT+3)

Israeli-American journalist Emily Schrader held up an Israeli flag in the middle of an anti-Israel protest in London.

Schrader was filmed standing in the middle of the demonstration, surrounded by mask-wearing protesters as she held up the small Israeli flag. INN

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Two years after 10/7: Hamas cluster grenade found in Kibbutz Be'eri. Israel National News. Oct 5, 2025, 11:56 AM INN

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During talks with Hamas. Netanyahu's commitment to bereaved families on the war. Hezki Baruch. Oct 5, 2025, 1:47 PM INN

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Israel Allies Foundation unveils top 50 Christian allies of 2025. Pastor Paula White-Cain takes top spot for second time in five years, while Charlie Kirk receives posthumous honors. Israel National News. Published: Oct 5, 2025, 2:40 PM (GMT+3) ..."This year’s list reflects the extraordinary commitment of Christian leaders who have stood with Israel, particularly during the challenges of the past two years,” said Josh Reinstein, President of the Israel Allies Foundation. “Their support is a testament to the enduring bond between the Christian and Jewish communities, rooted in shared Judeo-Christian values.” INN

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The Six Arch Terrorists Hamas Will Demand for Trump's Big Hostage Deal. Major Prisoner Release Expected The Six Arch Terrorists Hamas Will Demand for Trump's Big Hostage Deal If the hostage deal goes through, Israel is expected to release 250 life-sentence prisoners convicted of deadly attacks and over 1,700 Gazans detained since October 7th. From the "Hamas engineer" to the most dangerous prisoner currently incarcerated, these are the names on the table. Gila Isaacson. Oct 5, 2025. They orchestrated the deadliest terror attacks of the 1990s and the Second Intifada, and now, their names are once again expected to surface. If the hostage deal proceeds, 250 life-sentence prisoners with blood on their hands and over 1,700 Gazans detained since October 7th will be released from Israeli prisons. Hamas is expected to demand the release of "heavyweight" terrorists who were sentenced to dozens of life sentences and are considered extremely dangerous, per Channel 12. JFeed

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Manchester shul attacker’s father praised Hamas terrorists. He hailed the Oct. 7 perpetrators as “God’s men on earth” and called the massacre in southern Israel a “miracle by all standards.” Joshua Marks.

(Oct. 4, 2025 / JNS) Dr. Faraj al-Shamie, the father of the Manchester synagogue attacker, praised Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorists as “God’s men on earth” in social media posts shortly after the mass attack on Israel. JNS

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Fear in Manchester 'like during the Holocaust'. Shimon Cohen. Oct 5, 2025, 4:44 PM INN

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Following security breach: IDF to beef up security around infiltrated Jewish village. Israel National News. Oct 5, 2025, 5:35 PM INN

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Bereaved father memorializes son in Sukkah decorations. Yoni Kempinski. Oct 5, 2025, 5:55 PM INN

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Rubio: Hostage deal, Gaza leadership not ready yet. US Secretary of State Rubio says Gaza peace talks show progress, but warns forming a new Palestinian leadership and securing hostage releases will take more time. Israel National News. Published: Oct 5, 2025, 4:52 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Trump: Hamas faces 'complete obliteration' if ceasefire plan rejected. As ceasefire talks progress, Trump warns of severe consequences for Hamas while US Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlines complex post-conflict challenges. Israel National News Oct 5, 2025, 4:24 PM INN

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BBC documentary ‘ignored evidence Hamas killed Gazans in aid queues’. Panorama attributed majority of 1,300 Palestinian deaths outside Gaza Humanitarian Foundation centres to IDF

Patrick Sawer. Senior News Reporter. 04 October 2025. A BBC documentary on the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians queueing for food aid in Gaza has been accused of ignoring a report claiming that some had been killed by Hamas.

The Panorama documentary, called Gaza: Dying for Food, reported that more than 1,300 Palestinians had been killed while queueing outside aid centres.

It told viewers that most of those who died outside the centres between May and Sept 12 were killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), according to a report it used to inform its own despatch.

But it has now been claimed that the documentary, broadcast on Sept 22, ignored evidence in the report that Hamas fighters were responsible for some of the deaths.

The report, by the US-based research group Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), was written in the wake of the deaths outside and near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres.

Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international editor, told viewers: “Since the GHF began its operations, at least 1,300 Palestinians have been killed at or around its sites. Mostly, according to ACLED data, by IDF fire.”

Jeremy Bowen stated that at least 1,300 Palestinians had been killed near GHF sites, 'mostly by IDF fire' Jeremy Bowen stated that at least 1,300 Palestinians had been killed near GHF sites, ‘mostly by IDF fire’ Credit: BBC The research group’s own report, released on Sept 17, had made a similar claim. However, it also listed three other categories of “armed actor involved” besides the IDF, describing them as “unidentified Palestinian gunmen”, “Hamas” and “contested actor”.

In contrast to what Bowen said, the report described the presence of Hamas gunmen outside the GHF aid distribution centres, stating: “Eyewitnesses on the ground report that individual Hamas members may also have been among those collecting aid for their families.”

The research group quoted Anas Baba, a Gaza-based producer for the American National Public Radio (NPR) news website, who said: “At the GHF site, I saw people I am certain were Hamas members, based on their dress, taking food for their families.”

A satellite image of masses of people gathering around and on top of aid trucks near a GHF site in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip A satellite image of masses of people gathering around and on top of aid trucks near a GHF site in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip Credit: Planet Labs/AFP via Getty Images Mr Baba went on to note the foundation’s own claims that its Palestinian aid workers had been killed and injured by Hamas, adding: “GHF went on to say that Hamas militants have killed and threatened Palestinians working with the group.

“Hamas militants have also killed and wounded Palestinians en route to get food at their sites, GHF said in the email to NPR.

“GHF says two private US contractors working at another one of its food distribution sites were injured Saturday when two people threw grenades at them. [...]

“Leaving the site, we were walking in the street when we were stopped by four masked thieves holding big knives. They told us we had two options: give them half of our loot, or we would be harmed.”

The Panorama programme Gaza: Dying for Food examined the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians who had been queueing for food aid The Panorama programme Gaza: Dying for Food examined the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians who had been queueing for food aid Credit: BBC Critics accused Bowen and Panorama of selective reporting of the GHF deaths, claiming that none of the aspects of the research group’s report blaming Hamas appeared to be included in the documentary.

They also questioned what they called Panorama’s uncritical acceptance of ACLED’s figure of 1,300 deaths, saying it appeared to be based largely on statistics from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.

The statistics do not distinguish between civilians and combatants and include deaths from causes not related to the war.

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysi claimed: “Jeremy Bowen has nothing to tell BBC audiences about incidents involving Hamas or other parties.

“Neither does he clarify that the ACLED data includes incidents that did not take place at the GHF sites themselves, but also on the routes leading to them or at other locations.

“The provision of accurate and impartial news is clearly nowhere near the top of the BBC international editor’s list of priorities.”

A donkey cart transports the body of a person who was reportedly killed as people gathered to collect humanitarian aid at a GHF distribution centre last month A donkey cart transports the body of a person who was reportedly killed as people gathered to collect humanitarian aid at a GHF distribution centre last month Credit: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images A spokesman for the research group said: “ACLED data attributed 95 per cent of deaths at or around GHF sites to the IDF. The deaths of 65 Palestinian aid seekers were attributed by ACLED to unidentified Palestinian gunmen.

“We are an independent, impartial global conflict and protest monitor. As such, we worked closely with Panorama and the programme cited ACLED figures as published with our data on deaths of Palestinian Aid seekers at and around GHF aid distribution centres and routes.”

The IDF told the BBC that “it does not fire at innocent civilians” and said the research group’s figures were “inflated and false”. GHF also denied that its security contractors fired at civilians and said that no one had been shot near or at their sites.

A BBC spokesman said: “BBC News, along with other international journalists, is denied independent access to Gaza to report on the situation on the ground. In these circumstances we use the best available sources, with careful attribution and verification.

“We stand by our journalism. Of course, it is open to anyone to make a complaint, which will be carefully considered.”

A BBC source said: “The BBC stands by the way that ACLED data was used in the programme. Panorama took a cautious approach to the ACLED data, excluding deaths where it was unclear if those killed were GHF aid seekers.

“We also carefully reviewed ACLED’s report which does not say that there are Hamas gunmen outside distribution points or that there is any evidence of Hamas’ systematic involvement in the looting of aid.” DailyTelegraph

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Compare Amnesty-UK's messages after synagogue and mosque attacks. In both cases, Muslims are the ones that must be protected. Monday, October 06, 2025 EoZ

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After Yom Kippur murders: Psalms said in central Manchester. Thousands gathered in Manchester city center for a rally in memory of the victims of the Yom Kippur murder and in support of the Jewish community and recited a chapter of Psalms together. Israel National News. Oct 5, 2025, 2:29 PM (GMT+3) INN

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UK Jewish leadership criticizes Chikli: Inviting a bully representing the worst in Britain. Board of Deputies of British Jews responds to the Diaspora Minister's statement that he intends to host right-wing activist Tommy Robinson in Israel. According to the Board, "Robinson is a bully who represents the worst of Britain." Israel National News. Published: Oct 5, 2025, 11:19 AM (GMT+3) INN

Min. Chikli: We need friends like Tommy, even if his résumé is messed up. Diaspora Affairs Minister defends decision to invite British activist Tommy Robinson for an official visit to Israel, despite objections by British Jewish establishment. Minister Amichai Chikli. Oct 5, 2025, 9:23 PM Tommy Robinson grew up in the "wrong places" - he grew up on the streets. He doesn’t come with the résumé that opens doors to elite careers.

And yet, he stands as one of the most prominent leaders in the global fight against radical Islam. And he is one of the most prominent voices in support of Israel’s fight against Islamic terrorism.

He possesses a natural gift of leadership that has inspired millions of Britons to take to the streets, becoming the nightmare of the fools of political correctness and multicultural dogma - those who may have studied at the finest colleges, yet understand nothing about the college of reality.

We need friends and partners like Tommy by our side, even if we don’t agree on everything, and even if his résumé is pretty messed up.

As Leonard Cohen once said: "There is a crack in everything - that’s how the light gets in." INN

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Hamas’s Survival Crisis. A Way Out? Proposal to Extract Hamas Commander from Tunnels to Secure Hostage Deal. A new analysis suggests the only path to a successful agreement is for Egyptian intelligence to safely extract Hamas's paranoid field commander from the tunnels to personally explain the deal's guarantees and the consequences of refusal.

Eliana Fleming. Oct 5, 2025 14:37 JFeed

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Qatar deepens its foothold in Lebanon, raising strategic questions for Israel. Analysis: Qatar, Washington’s close ally yet Hamas’s backer, is expanding its aid presence in Lebanon; by supporting President Aoun and bolstering Lebanon’s army over Hezbollah, it grows its sway — but what happens if its 'military arm' on Israel’s border grows too strong?

Lior Ben Ari |10.05.25 Ynet

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The Unholy Iranian-Turkish Alliance A disturbing ‘security partnership' forming. October 6, 2025 by Christine Williams.

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

Turkey’s NATO membership serves the interests of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he pursues his expressed vision of a revived Ottoman Empire with himself as caliph, particularly now that the EU and America are arming him. Years ago, Erdogan declared that NATO members weren’t “strong enough” and did “not have the cheek” to stand up to Turkey. He’s proving to be right. Yet, given the strength of Donald Trump, Erdogan will not risk alienating him. Turkey froze “assets of Iranian entities tied to Tehran’s nuclear program, aligning with UN sanctions and Western efforts to curb proliferation and increase pressure.” The Kaama Press News Agency in Afghanistan reported: FPM

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South Florida’s Hamas Propagandist Sofian Zakkout Continues Promoting Terror. Decades of glorifying violence and antisemitism. October 6, 2025 by Joe Kaufman.

Last month, Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout – founder and President of the Miami-based American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA) – once again showed his undying loyalty to Hamas. On his social media, Zakkout posted videos glorifying several of Hamas’s most notorious figures. They include the recently neutralized: Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7 massacre; Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida; and longtime Hamas Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in a precision Israeli strike on a guesthouse in Tehran, Iran, on July 31, 2024.

Zakkout’s tributes were not simply memorials – they were endorsements of terrorists who led and celebrated mass murder. They are the latest example in a long history of posts and statements that openly champion Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.

A Long History of Extremism. Zakkout’s record of extremism stretches.. FPM

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Washington Post Pushes Fake Anti-Israel Poll by Fake Jews. People who don't think being Jewish is at all important don't like Israel. October 5, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield.

In August, the New York Times interviewed 5 people and claimed that “Many Jews Support Mamdani”.

The Washington Post worked slightly harder than that for its headline “Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds”. FPM

Sunday, October 05, 2025 82% of American Jews do not feel entirely safe. The @WashingtonPost didn't think it was worth mentioning. EoZ

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CAIR Says Muslims Have Right to Vandalize Christian Churches. Should Muslims have the right to vandalize churches? October 3, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield.

Muslims vandalized the Uncommon Church in Euless TX with obscene anti-Israel graffiti. Leftists and the Islamist group CAIR quickly came to their defense, complaining that vandalizing churches is really protected by the First Amendment.

After Raunaq Alam, Afsheen Khan and Julia Venzor vandalized the church, the Dallas Observer claimed that prosecuting them “erodes the First Amendment rights of protesters and critics of the nation of Israel.”

The First Amendment protects the rights of people to express their opinion, not to vandalize a church.

The Uncommon Church had put up a flag in solidarity with Israel after Oct 7 as part of its Christian beliefs. Targeting the church over its beliefs is correctly, an anti-religious hate crime. FPM

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Unbelievable Attack: Flotilla Activist Arrested After Biting Female Guard at Israeli Prison. A pro-Palestinian activist detained during the Gaza flotilla interception was arrested and sent for questioning after assaulting a prison guard just hours before her scheduled deportation. Eliana Fleming Oct 5, 2025 JFeed

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Land for hostages? Trump’s Gaza plan redraws the map and revives far-right settlement dream. Proposed 'yellow line' map outlines deeper Israeli buffer zone, possibly as leverage for Hamas to demand concessions in exchange for hostage releases; most Gazan cities would revert to Hamas if talks collapse, while Israel’s right hails settlement hopes. Yoav Zitun|10.05.25 12:43 YNet

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Drone intercepted over Eilat after multiple air raid sirens sound. Multiple sirens sounded in Eilat after drones launched by Yemen’s Houthis approached Israeli airspace; IDF said the aircraft was intercepted, with no injuries or damage reported as police teams examined falling interceptor fragments Ynet Global|10.05.25 11:38 YNet

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Keith Siegel in New York: 'Images of medieval torture, echoes of suffering still haunt me'. Israel National News. Oct 5, 2025, 8:07 PM INN

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Part of Hamas Propaganda. Life-Threatening Risk: Israel Warns Red Cross Against Overfeeding Hostages Before Release. Israel has sent a formal request and a medical protocol to the International Red Cross, asking them to instruct Hamas not to give the starving hostages excessive food, a move that could lead to deadly refeeding syndrome.

Eliana Fleming. Oct 5, 2025. JFeed

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The Hidden Weapon. Israel’s Ultimate Demand: Will Trump Force Qatar and Turkey to Expel Hamas Leaders? As high-stakes negotiations begin, senior Israeli officials believe the only guarantee for a successful deal is a commitment from the US to pressure Qatar and Turkey to expel Hamas leadership if the terror group breaches the agreement.

Eliana Fleming. Oct 5, 2025 17:12 JFeed

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Trump’s Gaza plan: corner Hamas and Netanyahu, tempt Erdogan, use Kushner. Trump replaces failed Witkoff outline with sweeping new plan that upends game, dictating terms on the ground to pressure both Hamas and Netanyahu. Itamar Eichner|10.06.25. YNet

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Hero Neighbors Subdue Assailant Disgraceful: Rabbi Attacked While Building Sukkah. A Teaneck rabbi was violently attacked outside his Bergenfield home while preparing for the Sukkot holiday, but was saved when two residents subdued the assailant before police arrived.

Eliana Fleming. Oct 5, 2025.

A rabbi from Teaneck was assaulted Sunday afternoon in Bergenfield, New Jersey, while he was building a sukkah, the temporary structure used to celebrate the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The victim was identified as Rabbi Avraham Wein, an assistant rabbi at Congregation Keter Torah in neighboring Teaneck. JFeed

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It's Still October 7th. Two Years On: On The Verge Of Possible Hostage Release, We Remember October 7. Two years after Hamas's devastating attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and led to mass hostage-taking, the nation grapples with ongoing conflict and possible hostage release. Lara Sukster Mosheyof Oct 6, 2025.

The date October 7, 2023, remains a profound wound on the collective consciousness of Israel. As the nation observes the two-year anniversary of the devastating Hamas-led invasion, the memory of the approximately 1,200 people, mostly civilians, slaughtered that day continues to define the nation’s political, social, and security reality. The Unforgettable Morning of Carnage The invasion began with a massive rocket barrage that masked the ground breach. Thousands of Hamas operatives poured across the Gaza border, easily overwhelming initial defenses and targeting peaceful civilian communities, or kibbutzim, and a massive outdoor music festival.

The attacks were marked by extreme brutality, including mass executions, sexual violence, and the burning of homes. Key sites of the massacre include:

-Kibbutz Be'eri and Kfar Aza: Scores of residents were killed in their homes, leaving behind scenes of unimaginable devastation. -The Nova Music Festival: Hundreds of young people were hunted and systematically murdered in the surrounding fields, cementing the event as the single deadliest civilian massacre in the country’s history.

The failure of the Israeli military and intelligence apparatus to anticipate and repel the attack for hours remains a source of deep national inquiry and public anger.

The Lingering Shadow of the Hostage Crisis.

A central feature of the day was the mass abduction, with 251 people dragged back into Gaza as hostages. Two years later, the crisis is far from over.

While diplomatic deals have secured the release of some hostages, 48 (including slain hostages) still remain in the hands of Hamas. The families of those still captive have transformed their personal tragedy into a relentless national campaign, using symbols like Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square to pressure the government to prioritize the return of every individual.

The hostages remain the central moral and strategic imperative for the Israeli leadership as the conflict enters its third year.

A Nation Reshaped, A Reckoning Ahead.

The October 7 attack and the subsequent "Swords of Iron" War have fundamentally reshaped Israeli identity. While the initial trauma spurred an unprecedented wave of volunteerism and national unity, that solidarity is now strained by the demands of the long war, the economic toll, and deep internal divisions over governance and security preparedness.

The two-year anniversary is a moment not only for mourning but for sober reflection on the challenges that lie ahead: securing the complete release of the remaining hostages, achieving strategic military goals against Hamas, and addressing the systemic intelligence and leadership failures of the period leading up to that calamitous morning. The long-term reckoning for the events of October 7 is only just beginning. JFeed

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Guterres names Maltese envoy to UN post with power to blacklist Jerusalem. The United Nations secretary-general appointed Vanessa Frazier special representative for children and armed conflict, a role that has placed Israel on its “list of shame” two years in a row. Mike Wagenheim. (Oct. 6, 2025 / JNS) António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, named a Maltese diplomat, who led U.N. Security Council efforts to pressure Israel into a ceasefire, as his special representative for children and armed conflict.

In that role, Vanessa Frazier replaces Virginia Gamba, of Argentina, who served in the position for eight years and was viewed largely by Israeli officials in that area as meticulous, understanding and critical in publicly highlighting flaws in her U.N. mandate, which could skew the global body’s data. JNS

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1.5 Million Israeli flags planted for 10/7. International Fellowship of Christians and Jews ‘Flags of Fellowship’ campaign reaches over 1 million congregants in churches, synagogues and universities. Israel National News. Oct 6, 2025, 3:05 PM INN

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IDF thwarts weapons smuggling attempt from Syrian territory. Israel National News. Oct 6, 2025, 6:31 PM INN

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IDF on highest alert ahead of Sukkot holiday. Israel National News. Oct 6, 2025, 6:09 PM INN

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Netanyahu orders firm line in Egypt talks with Hamas. Israel has reportedly allocated several days for talks with Hamas in Egypt, with fighting set to resume if no deal is reached. Netanyahu urges adherence to Trump’s plan; Hamas seeks guarantees tied to hostage release. Israel National News. Oct 6, 2025, 10:30 PM INN

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IDF on highest alert ahead of Oct. 7 anniversary. As Israel-Hamas talks continue in Sharm el-Sheikh, IDF Chief raised the army’s alert to its highest level. Yoav Zitun|10.06.25 Ynet

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Israel sets timeline for Gaza talks as Netanyahu orders team to hold firm on Trump plan. As Gaza talks begin in Sharm el-Sheikh, Netanyahu instructed Israel’s team not to let Hamas deviate from Trump’s plan; U.S. envoys Kushner and Witkoff may join Wednesday as the White House urges rapid progress. Itamar Eichner|10.06.25 Ynet

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Notest part III: Sep 27 - Oct 7, 2025