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Wednesday, March 06, 2024

03/06 Links Pt2: The New Hamas Times; Douglas Murray on Why the West Won't Fight for Itself; A century without a caliph

From Ian:

Phyllis Chesler: The New Hamas Times
The New York Times simply cannot help themselves. Every time they write about Israel/Hamas/Gaza/Palestine they get it all wrong.

Their anti-Israel bias and their pro-Hamas bias is malicious. It also constitutes incitement to genocide since so many Westerners swear by what they read here.

I–and many others–have documented this pernicious bias hundreds of times and it has made no difference. The Times just digs its heels even harder. Why do I even bother? I just can’t help myself.

Someone has to speak truth to power. One must stand up to say that the Emperor is oh-so-very naked. As Edmund Burke said: “All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men (and women) to do nothing.”

Let’s look at the language the Times uses. The piece, by Farnaz Fassihi and Isabel Kershner, is titled, “Signs of Sexual Abuse in Several Locations in Hamas Attack.” “Signs?” Only “signs?” In “several locations?” Not in the south of Israel? Not at a music festival? Not as strategized and funded by Iran and launched by Hamas?

Online, the Times changed the title to “U.N. Team Finds Grounds to Support Reports of Sexual Violence in Hamas Attack.” Of course, they also discuss “reports of abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention.” Of course.

Here’s their language in a previous piece based on Gazan Health Ministry statistics.

On February 29th, 2024, the Times titled their article: “As Hungry Gazans Crowd in an Aid Convoy, a Crush of Bodies, Israeli Gunshots and a Deadly Toll.” The authors, Hiba Yazbek and Aaron Boxerman write:

“The Gazan Health Ministry said in a statement that Israeli forces had killed more than 100 people and injured 700 others in a ‘massacre’, as they waited for food from the convoy. The latest bloodshed came as Gaza’s health officials reported that the death toll from the war had risen above 30,000, a grim milestone that intensified pressure on Israel to end its military offensive.”

They do not write that Hamas “claims” that this number is accurate or that there are “signs” or “grounds” for believing these figures.

Why do they refuse to understand who Hamas officials really are–yes, including the Health Ministry? They are terrorists, not resistance fighters. Even President Biden “told reporters that he had ‘no confidence’ in how Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has calculated the mounting death toll.”
The Free Press in Israel: A Special Limited Series
“I don’t know if I should go,” I told my husband. It was a few days before I was supposed to fly from my home in Atlanta to Tel Aviv with Bari and a small team of Free Press producers to report on the war. I had the ticket. I am the executive producer of Honestly and I needed to be there. I just didn’t know if I could get on the plane.

There were the practical reasons holding me back: I have two small children and I had never been away from them for anything close to an entire week. There were the safety concerns that kept me up at night: I am the kind of person who does not like to shower when I am alone in my house. I bring pepper spray with me wherever I go.

But there were also intangible, existential things eating away at me.

The last time I had been to Israel was a decade ago, when I lived in Jerusalem after college. I was young and hungry, and I devoured the country.

I loved its motley cultures, the country’s ancient history, the way everyday people found a way to live inside one of the most contested pieces of land in the world. Israelis are often called sabras, after the thorny desert cactus: prickly, thick, harsh on the outside, but soft and sweet on the inside. I remember a man yelling at me on the bus one afternoon after I mistakenly took his seat. Minutes later, as my dates and grapes and tomatoes from the market spilled out of my bags, he helped pick them up. We happened to get off at the same stop, and he carried my heavy groceries for me all the way to my apartment.

I also felt safe there, both in a practical sense (I would walk the streets alone late at night without hesitation) and also in a deeply emotional sense. I was safe in Israel as a Jew. And as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors who once had no place to flee, I realized how precious and profound that feeling was.

Now, months after Hamas invaded the country, I knew that Israel was gone. What I would find in its place, I didn’t know.

But I went. I went because I wanted to know.

The sun was just beginning to rise as we flew over the Mediterranean Sea and past the city-side beaches of Tel Aviv, but you couldn’t tell because it was an overcast and foggy morning. I looked at the in-flight map in front of me and I thought of the two redheaded boys—ages 1 and 4, the same age as my own children back home—who are being held as hostages by Hamas in Gaza. I thought: if only we could fly just a few more minutes south, we could reach them. We walked down the long hallway from the gate to customs and saw those two redheaded boys—on posters lining the walkway—along with hundreds of others, some already confirmed dead.
Daniel Greenfield: Feminist Gender Theorist Explains Hamas Raping Jewish Women is “Resistance”
Judith Butler has always been ahead of her time.

She was ahead of her time in adopting pronouns and in promoting gender theory. And all the way back in 2006, the feminist gender theorist and UC Berkeley academic declared that Hamas was progressive.

“Yes, understanding Hamas, Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left, is extremely important.”

Like most fanatics, Oct 7 only made Judith Butler double down on her belief in the progressive qualities of Hamas.

“We can have different views about Hamas as a political party, we can have different views about armed resistance. But […] the uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance,” Butler recently declared.

Butler’s brand of gender theory had begun the deconstruction of the idea that women exist. A few years ago, Butler was claiming the “trans” brand and arguing that “the category of woman can and does change, and we need it to be that way.”

Feminist gender theorists begin by declaring that women don’t exist and then conclude by justifying their rape and murder.


Eylon Levy: Is Our Political System Selling Us Out? | Douglas Murray on Why the West Won't Fight for Itself [P1]
With a sharp tongue, sharper wit, and encyclopedic knowledge of history, Douglas Murray seems to relish in dismantling the politically correct hypocrisies of our era. Bestselling author, journalist and public intellectual, Douglas Murray is the West's the most insightful critic, and its fiercest defender.

In Part 1, he joins Eylon Levy in studio for an illuminating dissection of the motivations of Israel’s allies and enemies in the West; whether the West could and would fight for its very existence; the Islamist threat to democracy and free speech in the UK, and more.


Call Me Back PodCast: Israel’s Near Death Experience – with Micah Goodman
Hosted by Dan Senor
Micah Goodman is on the speed-dial of a number of Israeli political leaders – from right to left, but especially on the center-left and the center-right. He is a polymath, a podcaster and one of Israel’s most influential public intellectuals, having written books ranging from biblical lessons for the modern age to Israel’s geopolitics. One book in particular, had an outsized impact in terms of its framing of the conundrum that Israel has been in with the Palestinians since 1967. That book is called Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War, Not only have all of his books been bestsellers in Israel, he essentially created a new genre; books that bring core texts of Jewish thought to a general, secular audience. But Micah has a new book, which he wrote in a four-month sprint following October 7.

His new book is called ‘The Eighth Day’, in which Micah tries to understand the implications of the nation’s trauma and what it means for the other ‘day after’ (not the ‘day after’ in Gaza, but the ‘day after’ inside Israel). What does this moment mean for Israelis? How will 10/07 re-shape Israeli society…and its politics?This is the first interview Micah has done about his new book, which will be published (in Hebrew) at the end of March.

Micah Goodman’s books:
Catch-67 — https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/catch-67-micah-goodman/1128089735?ean=9780300248418
The Wondering Jew — https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wondering-jew-micah-goodman/1136574622?ean=9780300252248


Martin Kramer: A century without a caliph
Monday marked the 100th anniversary of the abolition of the Ottoman caliphate—the formal successor to the prophet Mohammad and the nominal leader of Islam—by the secular Turkish government. Martin Kramer reproduces some firsthand accounts of the event itself, and analyzes its consequences:

The last century has witnessed the occasional attempt to revive the caliphate. Indeed, it began as soon as Turkey abolished it. There was a pop-up caliphate in Arabia in 1924 (it didn’t last long), and a caliphate congress in Cairo in 1926 (it ended in an impasse). . . . So far, the fringe attempt to revive the caliphate has sputtered, and it seems doubtful that a caliphate could gain momentum in modern conditions. But its absence remains a cruel reminder to some Muslims of just how far they’ve fallen away from the unity and power they enjoyed in their golden age.

The late Bernard Lewis called the caliphate “a potent symbol of Muslim unity, even identity,” adding that since its abolition, “many Muslims are still painfully conscious of this void.” Just how many remains an open question.

Yet perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the end of the Ottomans, given their own history, was this: their passing didn’t exact even one drop of blood.
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron: Israel can’t have veto power on Palestinian statehood
The United Kingdom should recognize Palestinian statehood during a peace process toward a two-state solution but not at the start of one, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron told The House of Lords.

“Part of a two-state solution is the recognition of Palestine as a state,” Cameron said in a foreign policy speech on Tuesday.

“I don’t think that should happen at the start of the process because I think that takes all the pressure off the Palestinians to reform. But it shouldn’t have to wait till the end,” he continued, explaining that doing so leaves Israel as the gatekeeper for Palestinian statehood.

He therefore opposed the US position, which until now, has determined that Palestinian statehood recognition should occur only once a final arrangement is reached for a two-state solution.

“We shouldn’t give Israel a veto power, which is the effect of the American policy at the moment. And so I think that recognition can become part of the unstoppable momentum we need to see towards a two-state solution.

Hamas "cannot be part of day-after plans" - Cameron
Cameron also clarified that Hamas cannot be part of any day-after plans for Gaza or indeed part of any configuration for a two-state resolution to the conflict.

“You got to get the Hamas leadership out of Gaza. You’ve got to get rid of the terrorist infrastructure. You’ve got to have a new Palestinian government. You’ve got to have the horizon towards Palestinian statehood.

“These things are necessary to have a chance of a genuine peace process and outcome,” he said. “Israel’s security must be guaranteed for any two-state resolution to occur.”

Any such guarantee “won’t work if Hamas [is] still running Gaza and if there aren’t guarantees about how secure Israel would be living alongside a Palestinian state,” Cameron said.


David Cameron says patience ‘needs to run thin’ over Gaza aid
On the eve of a London visit by Israeli Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz today, Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said that “patience needs to run thin” with Israel over the supply of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

Speaking in the Lords on Wednesday night, he said that as the occupying power in Gaza Israel had a duty under international humanitarian law to provide more aid.

He said: “We’ve had a whole set of things we’ve asked the Israelis to do, but I have to report that the amount of aid they got in in February was about half what got in in January.

"So patience needs to run very thin, and a whole series of warnings need to be given starting with the meeting I have with Minister Gantz when he visits the UK tomorrow.”

Israel has accused humanitarian actors of not doing enough to distribute aid since the beginning of the war. Particular criticism has been directed at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which stands accused of failing to visit hostages held by Hamas and provide them with adequate assistance.

Israel has repeatedly said it is facilitating aid convoys and airdrops to Gaza.
Foreign Office holds seminar for staff teaching that Hamas are not terrorists
The Foreign Office held a seminar at which officials were told that calling Hamas terrorists was an “obstacle to peace” and it was suggested that Israel was a “white, settler colonialist nation”, the JC can reveal.

Four academics, led by Professor Jeroen Gunning from King’s College London, delivered the session to civil servants, including those specialising in the Middle East, at the British diplomatic service’s London headquarters last Wednesday.

Many of the claims made during the 75-minute meeting directly contradicted Britain’s foreign policy, with Professor Gunning claiming that there could be “no future without Hamas”.

A Foreign Office spokesman vowed to “review guidance on internal seminars to ensure speakers invited are appropriate.”

The lecturers had previously co-authored a paper arguing that Britain’s tough line on Hamas had contributed towards provoking the October 7 pogroms.

The seminar was attended by about a hundred government officials, most of them online via a Microsoft Teams network which is only accessible to security vetted Foreign Office staff, the JC understands.

The seminar, billed as a background briefing under the title “Israel/Gaza: What next for Hamas”, was organised by the Foreign Office’s top Middle East research analyst, Martin Hetherington.

Several of the speakers said that to apply the “terrorist label” to Hamas was “unhelpful” and an obstacle to peace. In their view, Hamas’s “political wing” was “moderate”, and there was therefore a need to “engage with them”.
Former French FM accuses ‘settlers’ of poisoning wells
Former France Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine employed an age-old antisemitic trope during an interview on Europe 1 CNews on Sunday, in which he accused Jewish “settlers” in Judea and Samaria of poisoning wells.

“The behavior of the most fanatical Israeli settlers is absolutely monstrous. In the West Bank, settlers uproot olive trees, poison wells, shoot kids,” the former Socialist politician declared on the weekly interview show “Le Grand Rendez-vous.” He was foreign minister from 1997 to 2002.

In Medieval Europe, Jews were accused of trying to kill Christians by poisoning their wells. When the Black Death raged through Europe in the 14th century, Jews were accused of intentionally spreading it through drinking water. Thousands of Jews were killed as a result of these accusations.

French journalist Clément Weill-Raynal tweeted in response to the antisemitic post: “Hubert Védrine takes up the old medieval accusation of poisoning of wells by Jews. As for the rest, the number of Jewish victims of Palestinian terrorism in Judea and Samaria is much greater than that of Palestinians attacked by Jewish inhabitants.”
The rescue mission that tested burgeoning Israel-Indonesia relations
On Oct. 6, 2023, Abdillah “Bang” Onim, the Indonesian founder of Nusantara Palestina Center, an organization providing humanitarian aid, distributed new sneakers to boys and girls dressed in school uniforms in Gaza.

A day later, when Hamas invaded southern Israel, murdering 1,200 people and taking 240 hostages to Gaza, Onim turned to Instagram to fundraise, updating his over 1 million followers that the Gaza Health Ministry is asking locals to donate blood.

On Oct. 8, Onim posted a video of trucks funded by Indonesian donors delivering clean drinking water to Gazans on his YouTube channel with almost 2 million followers.

In a subsequent video, Onim published a selfie video from Gaza after an Israeli Air Force strike. “NEED ACCESS AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION!! HUMANITY APPEAL,” the video’s title states. Its description says: “Gaza no good. No [electricity]. No water. No medicine. No fuel. Border its close [sic] and bombarded. Severe war, tragic, tragedy, massacre, more tragic than the war in Afghanistan.”

Onim posted that video on Oct. 14, 2023 – one day after what had been the target date for Israel and Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, to announce diplomatic relations, in the form of exchanging trade offices.

Over several months, Jerusalem and Jakarta had been working on a normalization agreement, including meetings in third countries, culminating with a visit to Jerusalem by Andi Widjajanto, an adviser to Indonesia’s president. The sides drafted a memorandum of understanding on Sept. 21, obtained by Jewish Insider, to open trade offices and allow for more Israelis to get visas to visit the Southeast Asian state on business. A different aide to Indonesia’s president denied the report.

The back channel of communication between Widjajanto and then director-general of the Foreign Ministry, Ronen “Maoz” Levy, who played a key role in the Abraham Accords, was through New York-based businessman Joey Allaham.

Just over two weeks after the sides agreed on a text for the MOU, Israel-Indonesia normalization was shelved and that back channel was set to be used for a new purpose: to rescue Indonesians trapped in Gaza.
Seth Mandel: North Carolina GOP Nominee’s Loony Ideas About Jews
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson easily won the GOP nomination for governor. Robinson’s political outlook is a conspiracy addled rabbit hole of paranoia, a blackout cocktail of crazy statements about Jews, women, abortion, Muslims, Communism, Communism, and Communism.

The Marvel hero Black Panther, he once said, was “created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic Marxist” in order to “pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pockets.”

Apparent Jewish influence in Hollywood is a particular obsession of his. In a 2017 post on Facebook, where many of his controversial statements were posted, he wrote: “The 1977 version of ‘Roots’ is one of the most vile things EVER filmed. It is nothing but Hollywood trash that depicts the ignorance and brutality of the goyim, and the helplessness and weakness of the shvartze.”

He also agreed with a pastor who claimed the Rothschild family was one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. And he seemed to cast some doubt on aspects of the Holocaust by putting scare quotes around the numbers in one post: “There is a REASON the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about the NAZI and the ‘6 million Jews’ they murdered.”

Robinson has refused to disown the comments, or even to say he no longer believes them. “When I made those posts as a private citizen, I was speaking directly to issues that I’m passionate about,” he said after becoming lieutenant governor. “As a public servant, I have to put those opinions behind me and do what’s right for everyone in North Carolina. I’m grown enough to do that.”
Dem Rep. Manning: Uncommitted Voters Don’t ‘Understand that What’s Going on in Gaza Was Caused by Hamas’
During NewsNation’s election coverage on Tuesday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Vice Ranking Member Rep. Kathy Manning (D-NC) responded to voters who voted uncommitted in Democratic primaries to protest President Joe Biden’s policies by stating that “the vast majority of Americans support Israel and understand that what’s going on in Gaza was caused by Hamas, when Hamas went into Israel, invaded on October 7, killed more than 1,200 innocent people, slaughtered them, did incredibly horrendous things to people, and then, of course, are holding hostages.”

Host Elizabeth Vargas asked, “President Biden has taken a lot of hits from the progressive wing of his party and from protesters who feel they disagree with his policy toward Israel. We know that, on several ballots today, in these Super Tuesday states, there is an uncommitted or no preference option. Do you — how do you think he’s going to fare [with] that? It was a pretty strong showing in Michigan. I don’t know in the exit polling that we’re seeing a lot of Democratic voters, however, really, really are focused on this.”

Manning answered, “Michigan and North Carolina are very, very different states. I think that, if you look at the polls, the vast majority of Americans support Israel and understand that what’s going on in Gaza was caused by Hamas, when Hamas went into Israel, invaded on October 7, killed more than 1,200 innocent people, slaughtered them, did incredibly horrendous things to people, and then, of course, are holding hostages. They still have American hostages. I think the vast majority of Americans are with Israel and understand that President Biden will stand with our ally Israel, the only democratic country in the Middle East.”
Anti-Semitic Remarks Nearly Derailed US Ambassador to Brazil's Nomination. Now She's Silent as Brazil Compares Israel to Nazis.
The U.S. ambassador to Brazil—who once bemoaned "the influence of the Jewish lobby" in politics—will not publicly comment on a series of anti-Semitic remarks by far-left Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, raising concerns on Capitol Hill about the Biden appointee's stance on growing Jew-hatred across the globe.

Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley, whose 2022 nomination drew opposition from Republicans due to anti-Semitic statements in which she claimed the "Jewish lobby" exerts undue influence over the Democratic Party because of its "major money," has spent the past few weeks avoiding comment on Lula's accusations that Israel is behaving like the Nazis and waging a genocide on the Palestinian people.

The State Department declined to make Bagley available for an interview with the Washington Free Beacon on Lula's comments and would not issue a stance on them under Bagley's name. Bagley's reluctance to comment on Lula's anti-Semitic remarks is raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill ahead of a Thursday hearing on anti-Semitism across Latin America.

One senior congressional source who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon said the ambassador's "silence is deafening and impossible to ignore" in light of her own comments about Jews controlling politics through money.

"There were already concerns with her past anti-Semitic comments in the Senate. Now the Biden administration has embraced anti-Semitic leftwing populists across the Western Hemisphere, and it's becoming an issue," said the source, who was not authorized to speak on record. "Despite all of this, Bagley won't make even the most basic symbolic statements. People are justified asking what she really believes."
White House Scrambles To Save Anti-Israel Biden Judicial Nominee
The White House is in overdrive to save a Biden judicial nominee who has served on the boards of an anti-Israel think tank and a group that wants to free convicted cop-killers from prison.

White House chief of staff Jeff Zients and two other Biden administration officials are lobbying senators this week to confirm Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Politico reported Wednesday. White House counsel Ed Siskel and White House director of legislative affairs Shuwanza Goff are also working to save Mangi's nomination, which is in limbo over his board positions with several controversial left-wing groups.

Mangi served on the advisory board of the Rutgers Law School Center for Security, Race, and Rights, which has blamed Israel for last year's Hamas attack. The think tank hosted terrorism financier Sami al-Arian at a 20th anniversary event for the 9/11 attacks.

Mangi also serves on the advisory board of the Alliance of Families for Justice, a nonprofit that has called for the parole of six black nationalists serving prison time for the murder of police officers, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

The group referred to the killers—including left-wing cause célèbre Mumia Abu-Jamal—as "freedom fighters" unjustly targeted by the FBI. Kathy Boudin, a member of the terrorist group Weather Underground, was a founding board member of the Alliance of Families for Justice. Boudin, the mother of former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin (D.), was convicted of murdering two police officers during an armored truck robbery in 1981. Mangi, who works in private practice, was a director of the Legal Aid Society, which has called to defund police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a Free Beacon report.
Rabbis Blast 'Squad' Member Summer Lee Over Campaign Donations From Anti-Semites
Dozens of rabbis in the Pittsburgh metro area are calling on Rep. Summer Lee (D., Pa.) to return campaign contributions from the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other anti-Israel activists.

"You have accepted campaign contributions from people who have voiced virulently antisemitic sentiments," 41 rabbis and cantors wrote in a letter to Lee, according to Jewish Insider.

Lee, a member of the progressive "Squad," has faced scrutiny over her campaign donors in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report that CAIR executive director Nihad Awad gave $1,000 to her campaign on Dec. 29. Weeks earlier, the White House slammed Awad for stating he was "happy" that Hamas attacked Israel. A White House spokesman condemned Awad's "shocking, antisemitic statements in the strongest terms." Lee planned to speak last weekend at an annual fundraiser for CAIR's Philadelphia chapter but backed out of the event.

Lee also received donations from Osama Abuirshaid, the head of American Muslims for Palestine, and Zainab Billoo, the executive director of CAIR's San Francisco branch. Abuirshaid has a history of pro-Hamas statements and falsely claimed that most Israelis slaughtered during Hamas's October 7 attack "were killed by their own army." Billoo has referred to mainstream Jewish groups as "enemies" and has said she is more concerned about "racist Zionists who support apartheid Israel" than about ISIS.

Lee's Democratic primary opponent, Bhavini Patel, has already called on the congresswoman to return the donations. But the letter from nonpartisan Jewish leaders is likely to hold more political significance in the upcoming Democratic primary.

One signatory to the letter is Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, the head of the Tree of Life synagogue, the target of the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history. Lee's district includes Tree of Life and Squirrel Hill, a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh.
Meet the Summer Lee Staffer Who Turned 'Dear White Staffers' Into an Anti-Israel Cesspool
Publicly, Philip Bennett serves as operations director for Squad member Rep. Summer Lee (D., Pa.), a role in which he works closely with the congresswoman on scheduling and operation. Privately, however, Bennett moonlights as the hand behind "Dear White Staffers," a once-anonymous Instagram account originally intended to highlight the plight of minority staffers on Capitol Hill.

The account gained popularity in 2022 as an outlet for staffers to gripe about their bosses behind the veil of anonymity and to share "horror stories" from the halls of Congress. Following Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, Bennett has instead used the platform to accuse Israel of genocide. He has also argued that Israel is the hidden hand behind the allegedly inappropriate tactics employed by the Capitol Police and joined Hamas in lionizing Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. airman who lit himself on fire to protest Israel.

For months, Bennett sent those posts anonymously, even as his account amassed tens of thousands of followers and caught the attention of Capitol Hill bigwigs. He told Politico in a 2022 interview—speaking to the publication anonymously in a piece that said Bennett's account "blew up Capitol Hill"—that only his "partner" knew he was behind "Dear White Staffers." Over time, though, Bennett's control of the account became "an open secret among a growing number of Hill staff," according to a Jewish Insider report published Tuesday. While that report identified the account's operator as a Lee staffer who previously worked for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), it did not name Bennett explicitly.

Bennett was arrested in October during his participation in an anti-Israel protest on Capitol Hill, during which demonstrators occupied an office building to demand an immediate ceasefire. Bennett said he joined the protest spontaneously and thanked the organizers for helping him feel "seen, at peace, and validated."
Rantz: Noted feminist silent after horrific UN report showing rape of Jewish women
Noted feminist activist Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-Seattle) is silent after a United Nations (UN) report revealed shocking details of Hamas using sexual violence against Jewish women. Rather than acknowledge the report, Jayapal remains steadfast in her criticism of Israel and support of Hamas. Perhaps, she hopes Super Tuesday coverage will get in the way of anyone noticing her silence.

Antisemitic protesters and their allies in Congress have spent the last several months ignoring, downplaying, or denying that terrorists from Hamas used sexual violence against Jewish women on Oct. 7. Even as evidence mounted, activists denied the atrocities, just as Holocaust deniers have done. Now, a UN investigative team revealed even more evidence of rape and gang rape at three locations in Israel: The Nova music festival, the surrounding area (including Road 232) and Kibbutz Re’im.

“In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed, and at least two incidents relate to the rape of women’s corpses,” the report said.

The details of the UN report are horrific.

The team found “a pattern of victims, mostly women, found fully or partially naked, bound, and shot across multiple locations.” One Jewish woman was raped outside a bomb shelter in Kibbutz Re’im, corroborated by witness testimony and digital material, per The New York Times. Firsthand accounts from released hostages detailed the rape, sexualized torture and degrading treatment was used against some women and children while being held in Gaza. Many bodies from the terrorist attack were badly burned, making it difficult to collect evidence in some cases where rape was suspected.

Jayapal, who is incapable of criticizing Hamas unless pressed multiple times in live interviews, has stayed silent. In fact, requests to her office for a statement on the atrocities have been ignored.


Galloway’s right-hand woman in ‘devil’ rant
George Ga lloway’s key lieutenant ranted at his victory bash that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s speech last week about the dangers of divisive extremism was the work of Satan.

Shanaz Saddique is a key figure in Galloway’s team and drove around Rochdale with a megaphone telling residents: “George Galloway: the only voice for Rochdale.”

At Galloway’s post-election party, Saddique launched a tirade about Sunak, suggesting that his impromptu address following the election of Galloway was the doing of “Shaitan” (the devil).

While she maintains that she had no official role in Galloway’s campaign, the JC has seen footage (below) of her urging the public to vote for Galloway.

On the evening of the new MP’s victory, Saddique said she had been “working throughout the day” and had not slept for days.

She appeared as Galloway’s right-hand woman at several of his major events, including during a recent speech when she stood between civil service Diversity Lead Mohammed Shafiq and the new MP. She has also sat on panels with Shafiq.

She fawned over Galloway on TikTok, saying: “Feeling great and looking even better”. In another post she wrote, “Israel is behaving like Nazi Germany.”
Revealed: Civil service ‘diversity tsar’ campaigned for Galloway
A civil service “Diversity Lead” campaigned for George Galloway at the Rochdale by-election, the JC can reveal.

Mohammed Shafiq, who is also on the national executive of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), stood alongside the firebrand politician before a sea of Palestinian flags and urged voters to “stand for humanity, stand for Palestine, stand for George Galloway”.

The Department for Work and Pensions, where Shafiq is a “Diversity and Inclusion Lead”, says it is investigating “urgently”.

The JC can also disclose that behind the two men was Shanaz Saddique, a key Galloway campaigner who was filmed describing Rishi Sunak’s speech on the dangers of extremism last week as the “doing of Satan”.

Writing for the JC, Andrew Percy MP said: “I struggle to comprehend how any Jewish [civil service] employee would approach any such individual for protection in the workplace.” Percy raised concerns about Shafiq with the civil service two weeks ago, the JC understands.

After Galloway’s by-election victory last week, the Board of Deputies described him as “a demagogue and conspiracy theorist, who has brought the politics of division and hate to every place he has ever stood for Parliament”.

Reacting to Shafiq’s support for Galloway, Lord Walney, the government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption, told the JC: “These actions seem shockingly at odds with the government’s aims on diversity and inclusion that the employee supposedly champions. I hope the department will urgently investigate.”

The JC has learned that two weeks ago Conservative MP Andrew Percy raised “at a senior level in the DWP” a possible contradiction between Shafiq’s role as Diversity and Inclusion Lead and his description of himself on social media as an “activist, journalist and campaigner” and “activist, humanitarian and campaigner”.


MIT Jewish Student Leader Will Attend State of the Union as Guest of Speaker Mike Johnson
MIT Israel Alliance president Talia Khan will attend the State of the Union as a guest of House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Louisiana Republican told the Washington Free Beacon.

"Talia Khan has courageously exposed the pain many Jewish students are experiencing as antisemites and Hamas sympathizers are supported by Democrat-backed university administrators," Johnson said in a statement. "I’m proud to have Talia join me as my guest for the State of the Union as House Republicans stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters against antisemitism."

Khan, a graduate student at MIT, spoke at a bipartisan House Education and Workforce Committee panel on Thursday, imploring federal lawmakers to hold universities accountable for the wave of campus anti-Semitism seen in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

At MIT, one particular student group—the Coalition Against Apartheid—has taken over campus buildings in unsanctioned protests that led to the group's suspension last month. Khan highlighted the group when she testified before Congress in December, saying the Coalition Against Apartheid's "antisemitic rhetoric has shifted the culture on campus to such an extreme of intolerance," one that prompted 70 percent of MIT's Jewish students to hide their identities, according to a poll.

Khan said she is "grateful to Speaker Johnson for standing by Jewish students and academics during this time" and urged Americans to "see support of Jewish students as a nonpartisan issue."

"The rampant antisemitism we are now seeing on campuses all across the country reflects a deep moral rot at the core of our nation's higher educational institutions," she said in a statement. "Those attacking Jewish students not only hold dangerous and unacceptable antisemitic views, but also harbor attitudes completely antithetical to American values."
Time's Up for Columbia: Disgraced Democratic Attorney Roberta Kaplan Reps Ivy League School in Anti-Semitism Suit After Stepping Down From Women's Rights Org
The Democratic superlawyer who resigned in disgrace from the #MeToo organization Time's Up after helping former New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) discredit his accusers is now defending Columbia University against a lawsuit alleging that it fosters a pervasive culture of anti-Semitism.

Roberta Kaplan filed notice last month to represent Columbia and its sister college, Barnard, against lawsuits that accuse school leaders of enabling an "antisemitic hostile educational environment" in the wake of Hamas's terrorist attack on Israel.

Students Against Antisemitism and a group of five Columbia students allege that school leaders have turned a blind eye as anti-Semitic activists have physically assaulted, "spat at," and threatened Jewish and Israeli students. Columbia student Mackenzie Forrest sued the school and its president, alleging she was forced out of the Columbia School of Social Work "simply because she is Jewish."

The lawsuit pits Kaplan, a longtime Democratic Party operative who has portrayed herself as a civil rights activist, against Jewish students on campus who say their civil rights have been violated.

Kaplan resigned from Time's Up in August 2021 after the New York attorney general's office revealed that she advised Cuomo on an op-ed that smeared a former employee, Lindsey Boylan, who accused Cuomo of sexual harassment. Time's Up staff members accused Kaplan and her cofounder, longtime Democratic operative Tina Tchen, of "failing" sexual abuse survivors.

Kaplan also represented Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa during the New York attorney general's probe into Cuomo's behavior. Investigators identified DeRosa as a mastermind behind the effort to smear Cuomo's accusers.


Smith College Condemns Islamophobia in Response to Antisemitic Graffiti, Says School Considering BDS Measure
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts responded to recent antisemitic incidents on campus by condemning “Islamophobia” and pledging to review an anti-Zionist group’s demand that the school adopt the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

Late last month, someone graffitied a swastika on campus and stole several mezuzahs, small parchment scrolls containing Hebrew verses from the Torah that members of the Jewish community fix to their doorposts. The Daily Wire first reported the story on X/Twitter.

The school’s president, Sarah Willie-LeBreton, addressed the incidents in a letter to the campus community last week. She proclaimed that there is “no place for antisemitism, Islamophobia, or any form of hate at Smith College,” continuing what experts have described as a reluctance on the part of university presidents to address antisemitism as a standalone problem.

Willie-LeBreton continued, listing actions the college is taking in response to the incidents, including “considering a divestment request” which was proposed by the anti-Zionist campus club Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). According to SJP, the school has already acceded to their demand that products sold by Sabra Dipping Company, LLC, owned by PepsiCo and the Israeli food manufacturer Strauss Group Ltd., be banned from campus. The group has repeatedly vowed to target Smith’s endowment, hoping to force the school to divest from companies that conduct business in or with Israel.


Jewish students targeted by violent messages, death threats at Ontario arts university
In another example of Jews being targeted on Canadian university campuses, an Ontario art student said her campus has become a hotbed of antisemitism, including a graffiti wall being used for death threats and promoting violence against Jews, with administrators slow to react.

Samantha Kline, 22, a fifth-year student at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD), said that after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks against Israel antisemitic graffiti began appearing in the school’s “yellow staircase” an open space for students to doodle and express themselves.

“It was supposed to be a peaceful place to draw and write whatever you want, but it’s just turned into a cesspool of hate directed at Jews,” said Kline, who is Jewish.

“I would walk in every single day and I would see ‘f–k you Jews,’ ‘you are not welcome here,’ ‘we hate Zionists,’ and ‘kill yourself.'”

Jay Solomon of Hillel Canada, a network of Jewish university students, said Jewish students across Canada are subject to increasing unprecedented levels of antisemitism..

“The appalling way in which Samantha was targeted at OCAD, unfortunately, follows an alarming and unacceptable pattern that Hillel is tracking across Ontario campuses whereby Jewish students are singled out and demonized for simply being Jewish,” he said.

Six prominent Canadian universities, and several student unions, are currently facing class-action lawsuits from students claiming they have allowed an environment hostile to Jews to flourish on campus.
Jewish teachers at troubled NYC high school receive threatening antisemitic email
Teachers at a Brooklyn high school were victims of another troubling antisemitic act Tuesday when they received a disturbing email calling for the extermination of Jewish people.

The threatening message was sent from an address called “killalljewsnow” to history teacher Danielle Kaminsky and another colleague at Origins HS in Sheepshead Bay — which, as exposed by The Post, has been plagued by shocking displays of antisemitism carried out by students.

“All Jews need to be exterminated. Their doors kicked in in the middle of the night. A bullet put in each of their heads,” read part of the email, which was obtained by The Post.

“Jews deserve no sympathy. They are the enemy of all mankind and there is no reconciling that,” it concluded.

Kaminsky — who’s been the target of antisemitic threats in the past — was called out by name in the sickening email.

The history teacher told The Post she contacted police in Nassau County, where she and her husband live, after receiving the encrypted email.

“I am very fearful,” she said, adding that police are taking the incident “very seriously.”

“I have security now 24/7 because of online threats and antisemitic comments,” she said.

The security firm she hired is monitoring social media and comments on articles mentioning Origin HS, she said.

“A lot of people are refusing to speak up,” she continued. “I have to live in fear for reporting the truth.”


Channel 4 News ignores UN report on Hamas rape - attacks Israel instead
Interestingly, while reporting on a different topic, Channel 4 News presenter Matt Frei was challenged by an Israeli guest, former MP Ruth Wasserman Lande, on this very fact: that the network reported on the alleged abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, but didn’t say a word about the UN report documenting the sexual abuse of Israeli women and girls.

Channel 4 News’s failure to report on Hamas’s sadistic behavior represents a pattern of bias at the outlet, whose egregiously pro-Palestinian coverage, we’ve observed, renders it akin to the broadcast arm of the Guardian.

For instance, a March 3 segment allowed clearly false information by a guest, claiming that the IDF has killed half of all the hostages held in Gaza, to go unchallenged.

Additionally, as we noted in a post, during a four minute Feb. 29 broadcast by their international editor Lindsey Hilsum, viewers were twice told, as if it were a fact, that Israeli soldiers fired on Palestinians who swarmed an aid truck in Gaza City on Feb. 29, while failing to note the IDF’s emphatic denials of those accusations, which were leveled by the Hamas-run health ministry without evidence.

We also complained to Ofcom – the UK’s broadcast regulator – about a Feb. 20 report by another Channel 4 News presenter who erroneously stated that all the 29,000 Palestinians who Hamas claim have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7 have been civilians. As we noted in a post about that claim, not even the terror group alleges that all of those killed have been non-combatants.
Systemic Bias? Top Reuters Editors Share Disturbing Content Online
Two top news editors at Reuters have shared unsettling social media posts throughout the Israel-Hamas war, HonestReporting revealed this week, casting doubt on their adherence to journalistic impartiality.

The revelation, which comes after a series of exposés by HonestReporting of the news agency’s Gaza-based photojournalists who had either infiltrated into Israel with Hamas on October 7 or praised its terrorists, raises concerns that anti-Israel bias in the wire service hasn’t plagued only its bottom ranks.

The online posts, by Reuters Executive Editor Simon Robinson and Global Foreign Policy Editor Samia Nakhoul, have been visible to many Reuters journalists who follow the two senior editors on LinkedIn and social media platform X. Yet the message of these posts is not a call for fair and balanced reporting on Israel, nor is it a demand for journalists’ objectivity.

On March 3, Robinson posted on his LinkedIn a 7,500-word anti-Israel essay from the London Review of Books that includes criticism of Western media coverage of the Jewish state.

Titled “The Shoah after Gaza,” the essay by Indian author Pankaj Mishra asks questions like: “How can the Western political and journalistic mainstream ignore, even justify, its [Israel’s] clearly systematic cruelties and injustices?”

It also includes claims such as: “The liquidation of Gaza… is daily obfuscated, if not denied, by the instruments of the West’s military & cultural hegemony,” including “prestigious news outlets deploying the passive voice while relating the massacres carried out in Gaza.”

Another paragraph reads: “Why have Western politicians and journalists kept presenting tens of thousands of dead and maimed Palestinians as collateral damage, in a war of self-defence forced on the world’s most moral army, as the IDF claims to be?”

And there’s also, as the title suggests, an inevitable shoehorning of the Holocaust: “A strenuously willed affiliation with the Shoah has also marked and diminished much American journalism about Israel.”
Globe & Mail Commentator Whitewashes Hamas Guilt
Sheema Khan, in her March 2 opinion column for The Globe and Mail entitled: “This Ramadan will be simbre as Canadian Muslims reflect on Gaza,” wrote lyrically of the sadness Muslims experience this Ramadan due to their spiritual brotherhood with residents of the Gaza Strip. Cleverly evocative, she ignores any context and paints the Hamas-Israel war as only having Gazan casualties, with a clear finger pointing to Israel as the aggressor.

Nothing could be further from the truth. On October 7, 2023, Hamas, a genocidal Islamic terrorist organization elected to rule the Gaza Strip in 2006 and which enjoys widespread support in the territory, invaded southern Israel unprovoked, and murdered babies, raped women, dismembered residents and massacred whole families, totaling 1,200 innocent people. They also took 253 hostages, including women and children, and continue to hold 136, including baby Kfir Bibas, who ‘celebrated’ his first birthday in captivity. Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s leader, called the massacre “a rehearsal” and lest there was any doubt about Hamas’ ideology, the group’s own charter continues to call for the destruction of Israel and its inhabitants.

In Khan’s lengthy portrayal of her Islamic faith as a relatable, moderate and spiritual religion, when talking about the fast of Ramadan, she stated: “I went three consecutive years without fasting when my children were born 13 months apart, and I nursed for a year. I felt a special agency to have the choice not to fast, in order to nourish myself and the growing life inside my womb, or rahm, which in Arabic connotes mercy and compassion.”


Hinge and Tinder are swamped with anti-Zionism, say Jewish singles
Meet 26-year-old Amy. She’s single, likes puppies and is looking for a date on Hinge. But it’s not just good-looking men she’s after; she “goes crazy for a free Palestine” – at least that’s what her dating profile says.

Felicity tells singles on Hinge: “The way to win me over is: Having higher emotional intelligence than a turtle, loving spicy food and being pro-Palestine.”

Yosef says the “dorkiest thing about me is I write poems in my spare time”. Underneath these words is a photograph of him waving a Palestinian flag.

Lauren cuts to the chase by simply saying: “No Zionists”.

Lee wants to “make sure we’re on the same page about free Palestine”. So does Savanah. And Boris. And Michaela.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that, like everything else in the world since October, dating has become an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish minefield.

But although there are some pro-Israel profiles, most of the messages flow in one direction: Jewish singles on Hinge tell the JC that between one in ten and one in three of their matches have something anti-Israel on their profile.

What’s more, while app algorithms are challenging to pin down, Jewish daters say that their matches have gone down since the war started and they think it’s got something to do with the “Jew” stamp on their profile.
Disgruntled Palestinian Laborers Turn Against Hamas
Public opinion polls may indicate an increase in Hamas' popularity among Palestinians in the West Bank after the October 7, 2023, massacre, but a growing number of Palestinians living there have begun speaking out against the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group. Most of those are Palestinian laborers who used to work inside Israel before the carnage.

More than 140,000 Palestinians from the West Bank used to cross into Israel every day to work in a variety of jobs, including construction and agriculture. They have not been able to return to their workplaces since the Hamas attack. Many fear they may never return to work in Israel and that they will be replaced with foreign workers. A Palestinian earns much more in Israel than with Palestinian employers in the West Bank.

Four months after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, most of the laborers remain unemployed. The PA is not able to provide them with work, and they are beginning to vent their anger and frustration at both the PA and Hamas.

"Many laborers have been forced to work as vendors in their cities and villages," said a construction worker from Nablus. "Some sell vegetables and fruit, while others sell clothes and sandwiches....They used to make a lot of money working in Israel. Some built themselves new houses with the money they made in Israel, while others bought new cars. Now, these laborers are complaining that they can't feed their children."

A shopkeeper from Tulkarem, whose son also used to work in Israel before Oct. 7, said even people who were previously known as Hamas sympathizers have begun criticizing the group. "I meet many people every day who are complaining that Hamas has brought a new nakba (catastrophe) on the Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank," he said.


PreOccupiedTerritory: There Will Be No ‘Day After Hamas’ Because We Still Live In The Seventh Century by Ismail Haniyeh, Chairman, Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement (satire)
Doha, March 6 – So much of the rhetoric surrounding the ongoing war against the Zionists in the Gaza Strip focuses on what happens once the Occupation achieves “victory” over the Resistance, as if such a notion can even be entertained, but aside from the delusion inherent in the discussion, it misses one crucial ontological point: there cannot exist a post-Hamas reality, because Hamas embeds itself in the formative years of the Islamic conquest, the “post” of which is… fourteen centuries and counting of Islamic rule.

Talking about “the day after Hamas” reflects an inability to grasp basic reality and the meaning of words. There will be no “day after Hamas” for the simple reason that the “day after” is yesterday. We live in the distant past, in the mythic time when Islam proved ascendant and indomitable. To reference “the day after” still places us in the glory days of the Caliph Umar and his ilk.

You will notice that the vastly superior Zionist arsenal has not diminished our will to fight! We have a secret weapon: we do not care what dire conditions of deprivation we face; we can subsist and persist in the most primitive circumstances. Bomb us back to the stone age? You’re bombing us forward to the stone age!
MEMRI: Iranian President Raisi On Occasion Of Iran's Revolution Day: 'The Revolution Is Advancing And Knows No Obstacles'; 'The Way To Eliminate The Zionist Regime And Prevent Its Crimes Is To Sever All Economic Relations With It'
On two speeches on the occasion of Iran's Islamic Revolution Day, which marks the establishment of the Islamic Republic regime, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi outlined the vision of the Iranian regime and reviewed the achievements of the Islamic Revolution. The speeches were delivered on February 11, 2024 before the public in Tehran's Azadi Square and on February 7, 2024 at a reception for foreign ambassadors. As part of the Iranian regime's dichotomous perception of reality as a struggle between good and evil, Raisi stressed the essential enmity of Islamic Iran towards the U.S. and its allies in the West and in the region, especially Israel, and the need to confront them on every level, political, military and cultural. He reiterated the regime's stance that its enemies – the West and especially the U.S. – seek to overthrow it and are waging a combined military, economic, media and psychological war against it. He also repeated the message of the Islamic Revolution to the nations regarding the need to oppose the Western world order, expressed by the slogan "Liberation, Independence, Resistance and Steadfastness in the Face of the Enemies."

Devoting a considerable part of his remarks to the war in Gaza, Raisi declared proudly that "the Palestinian cause has now become the foremost issue on mankind's [agenda], and that is thanks to the efforts of the Iranian nation." He echoed the call of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for countries to sever their political and economic ties with Israel and expel it from the UN because of the war in Gaza, as a preliminary step towards achieving the goal of the Islamic Revolution regime, namely the elimination of the state of Israel.

"Raisi, like other regime spokespersons, claims that the Islamic Revolution guarantees freedom and democracy for the Iranian people. Ignoring the regime's consistent policy of disqualifying all candidates who deviate from the line it dictates, as well as the fact that elections are a formal, rather than essential, feature of democracy, Raisi expressed special pride in the regime's practice of holding elections every year, presenting this as proof of Iran's status as a democracy. Only a year after the violent suppression of the widespread public protests by women and young people against the regime, and ignoring the fact that political party pluralism, free media and freedom of assembly do not exist in Iran, Raisi did not hesitate to claim that "freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of writing and other [freedoms] are now guaranteed in Iran. The days [of the Shah regime] when people were tortured for weeks to [extract a particular] statement are gone..."
Iran has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles, UK defense chief suggests
The U.K. believes Iran has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles, Defense Secretary Grant Shapps indicated.

In an interview with the House Magazine, the senior minister confirmed that Britain has information on the reported provision of surface-to-surface missiles from Iran to Russia — but declined to get into the details.

The Reuters news agency reported in February that the Iranian regime had supplied Russia with a large number of ballistic missiles — a report that sparked a swift warning from the U.S. that, if true, Iran would be greeted with a "severe" response from the international community. Advertisement

Iran publicly denied supplying Russia with the missiles. Speaking this week, Shapps suggested Britain has intelligence backing up the claim.

"I do. I can't go into it," Shapps told the House Magazine when asked if he had any information on Iran's provision of ballistic missiles to Russia.

"But whether it's ballistic missiles, or the Shahed drones that they supplied Russia with, we've seen that if there's struggle in the world, often Iran are egging it on, or helping to supply the food chain in this case," he said.
Illicit Iranian Oil Sales Total $90 Billion in Past Three Years, Fueling Tehran's Terror Proxies
"Iran has managed to sell $90 billion worth of U.S.-sanctioned oil [over the past three years], setting new export records in the process," according to the latest figures published by United Against a Nuclear Iran.

Iran's fleet of illegal oil tankers have delivered the country's heavily sanctioned crude to China, Syria, Venezuela, and other nations.

"For January 2024, Iranian exports to China hit 1 million barrels per day. The revenue from these sales is fundamental not only for the regime's survival but also as a critical source of funds disbursed to its terror proxies, including the Houthi movement in Yemen," UANI reported.

In 2020, 70 ships were suspected of transferring Iranian crude products across the globe. Just three years later, that fleet has grown to at least 395, according to UANI.


Unpacked: Could the Mossad Have Stopped Iran?
In the 1970s, the Mossad made the big mistake of not assassinating Ayatollah Khamenei prior to his assumption of power during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. This mistake ultimately led to the creation of Hezbollah, worldwide acts of terror, and the Iranian nuclear program.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:38 The Shah's reign over Iran
02:41 Opposition to the Shah and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini
03:56 The PM's request to the Mossad
04:50 The Iranian Revolution
05:25 The Iran hostage crisis
06:15 Iranian-funded terrorism: Hezbollah
09:13 Other Iranian-funded terrorism
09:49 Iranian support for attacks on Israel
10:43 Iranian-funded terrorism: Houthis
11:25 Iranian nuclear program
12:35 Gulf normalization with Israel
12:45 Saudi normalization with Israel
12:59 Popular dissent in Iran
14:49 Iranian expat support for Israel
15:27 What would have happened if the Mossad had assassinated Khomeini?


Antisemitism isn't an abstract issue, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt says in 'State of Hate' speech
The perpetrators of the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust are not only not condemned, but celebrated, in a post-October 7 world, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt charged in his “State of Hate” address Wednesday, at the organization’s two-day “Never is Now” summit in New York, where thousands gathered for the world’s largest conference on antisemitism.

Greenblatt framed his remarks around what the Jewish community looks like in an October 8th world.

“We now live in an October 8 world where we’ve endured the pain of the distressing and horrifying events over the past 151 days,” Greenblatt said.

“The world of October 8th is one in which the perpetrators of the worst antisemitic massacres since the Holocaust are celebrated as heroes, not just in Ramallah, or Beirut, but in London, and New York and on campuses like Harvard and Columbia,” Greenblatt said.

Greenblatt said an October 8 world is one in which prayers for the safety of hostages – men, women and children, and the elderly – are met with vile hate speech and moral confusion.
ADL's 'Never is Now' summit combats surge in antisemitism since Oct 7
'At the ADL, we choose to fight'

The ‘Never is Now’ conference brings together prominent figures to combat the 'unprecedented' antisemitism that’s been running rampant since October 7

'We will not be silenced, and we will not be silent,' says director Jonathan Greenblatt


French Cops Arrest Assailant Who Beat, Abused Jewish Man as He Left Paris Synagogue
French police on Wednesday announced the arrest of a man alleged to have carried out a brutal antisemitic assault against a Jewish man as he left Friday night services at a Paris synagogue.

The unnamed assailant is reported to have a prior history of antisemitic acts, police sources told the news outlet Le Point. No further details have yet been released.

The 61-year-old victim, who wears a kippah, had just left the Beth Loubavitch synagogue on rue des Orteaux in the 20th arrondissement of the French capital last Friday evening when he was approached by the assailant. Speaking to broadcaster BFMTV, the victim recalled that the man had insulted him as a “dirty Jew,” before adding: “You kill people in Gaza.” The victim said he replied, “Me? I haven’t killed anyone.”

The assailant then attacked the victim, raining down a series of punches and kicks before fleeing the scene on foot. The victim briefly lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital with a broken nose, cuts to his face, and severe pain in his jaw.

The victim emphasized that the feeling of being “belittled and humiliated” was worse than the physical pain he endured. “It reminds me of World War II, a return of Nazism — a new Nazism,” he said.
Israel Raises $8 Billion in Overseas Bonds, Sees Record Demand
For the first time since Oct. 7, Israel has completed raising dollar bonds in international markets totaling $8 billion.

Demand for the offering reached $38 billion - 4.75 times the amount of the bonds being issued - and the highest ever for a State of Israel international bond issue.

Demand for the issue was led by strategic investors such as pension funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, and institutions that have been holding Israeli securities for many years.

400 investors from 36 countries took part in the debt issue.

The offering's underwriters were Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs.




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