Friday, February 14, 2025

02/14 Links Pt2: A Jewish Moment Without Parallel; Erin Molan: Arnold Roth begs Trump: ‘Avenge my daughter’s death!’; Welcome to Hamassachusetts

From Ian:

Meir Y. Soloveichik: A Jewish Moment Without Parallel
In contrast, perhaps the most striking feature of Netanyahu’s trip to Washington is that it featured a meeting with major evangelical leaders, but not with Jewish ones, reflecting the fact that it is millions of non-Jewish Americans who make up the heart of the America-Israel alliance. And this, in turn, reveals a fact about our moment that has no parallel in the biblical past: For the first time since the emergence of Abraham’s covenant nation, there are, numerically, more Gentiles who care about the well-being of the Jewish people than there are Jewish people on this earth. We live, one might say, in unprecedented times.

Here, then, is where our moment becomes mysterious. Various aspects of Jewish existence at present seem less like the biblical description of what once was, and more like the biblical prediction of what will be. The Bible speaks of a city of Jerusalem that expands far beyond its walls, that will attract the admiration of nations. None of this is an excuse for Israel to rest on its laurels or ignore its daunting challenges. Scripture also stresses that other redemptive moments in the prophetic past have been squandered by mistakes made by Israel’s leaders, or its people, just as it predicts that Israel’s miraculous story will attract the ire of nations that will ally themselves against it. But it does mean that there may not be other examples of statesmanship in the past that speak precisely to our moment, and that much of our age is paralleled not in history, but in prophecy.

In his address to his son’s high school, Scalia described why the American Founders sought to learn from history, and he utilized the Bible in his explanation.

They knew they were facing great challenges in seeking to establish at one and the same time a federation and a democracy. But they did not think for a moment it was an unprecedented challenge. If you read the Federalist Papers, you will find they are full of examples to support particular dispositions in the Constitution—from Greece, from Rome, from medieval Italy, France, and Spain. So if you want to think yourselves educated, do not believe that you face unprecedented challenges. Much closer to the truth is a different platitude: There is nothing new under the sun.

The Bible does indeed say this, but it also predicts that radically new moments in the Jewish future are yet to come. We seem to be, in some respect, in such a time. Thus Jewish statesmen and leaders, in Israel and the Diaspora, will need, increasingly, to turn not to the tales of Greece and Rome, but to the Bible in order to search for instruction—to not only its description of past events, but also its vision for the Jewish future. This vision was presented thousands of years ago, but it seems increasingly relevant today. And this surely means that, especially in this trying period, we may hope for more surprises and wonders yet to come.
A Free Nation, in Our Own Land
On Oct. 7, 2023, the past became my present. Although San Francisco has been my home for 50 years, having grown up in a Jewish family in Tel Aviv before the creation of the State of Israel, that day was 1943 again and I was a 5-year-old child in a third-floor apartment on Montefiore Street.

Two British soldiers rang the bell and my mother, Lisa, opened the door. “This is a search.” My grandmother Baboo and I hovered behind my mother, knowing that the appearance of British soldiers at the door could spell trouble. Just the sight of British uniforms was scary enough. My mom spoke some English but we did not, adding to our bewilderment. My father, Boris, who was in the Haganah, the largest Jewish defense group at that time, was not at home.

Our apartment in Tel Aviv consisted of two rooms, a balcony, a kitchen, and a shared bath. The soldiers looked under the beds, pulled open the drawers of the big armoire in the bedroom, rifled through the contents, and shifted the hanging clothes from side to side while whispering to each other. Baboo and I watched the soldiers’ faces. Even as a 5-year-old, I sensed that the soldiers were nervous, too.

We didn’t know what they were looking for or what might happen to us if they found something incriminating. Meanwhile Lisa, as if a hostess at an elegant party, escorted the soldiers around the apartment, gesturing proudly and smiling an appeasing, coquettish smile.

Not finding anything suspicious under the beds, in the geranium planters on the balcony, or behind the small curtain under the sink in the kitchen, the men turned their attention to the large rectangular wooden boxes hanging above the windows. Accordion-like wooden shutters rolled up into these boxes during the day and rolled down at night.

Were any guns hidden there? Any Haganah documents? While they whispered, I heard my mother’s voice,

“Would you like a refreshing drink?”

“Yes, please.”

Lisa emerged from the kitchen with two glasses containing a green liquid and two small cloth napkins on a tray. You might have thought this was a garden party in a fancy house and the men were in military costumes just for fun. In those days, you couldn’t choose from 30-plus varieties of bottled beverages. A cool drink consisted of a spoonful of sweet purple, pink, or green syrup mixed with water.

“You first!” said one soldier, handing my mom the glass with the green drink.

Lisa sipped from the glass daintily. No, not poison. And the soldiers drank. Then they opened all the shutter boxes and finding nothing, left the apartment bearing no contraband. We were safe for now.

At that time, we were under the British Mandate, which was created to bring order to the territory. The resident Arabs resented the mandate and became violent; the Jews responded in kind. To control the violence, the Brits imposed random lockdowns in the cities. Loud sirens pierced our ears day or night and loudspeakers boomed: “Everyone inside!”

Occasional half-hour respites would be blared out, allowing the residents to go out for food. When a break came, my mom grabbed a basket and we ran to line up at the nearby bakery for bread. She wore the new housedress she had bought for these occasions (a simple flowery, button-down cotton dress with pockets). She would look good while queuing up for bread and later, in the bomb shelter, during the War of Independence. Our Arab neighbors to the north, east, and south did not agree that this land of Israel is the home of the Jews.
Welcome to Hamassachusetts
Inside the Massachusetts statehouse on Monday, State Representative Simon Cataldo displayed the image of a dollar bill folded into a Star of David in front of a packed audience of teachers, activists, and staffers. They were there to attend a hearing on the state of antisemitism in Massachusetts public schools.

“You’d agree that this is antisemitic imagery, correct?” Cataldo, who co-chairs the state’s Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism, asked Max Page, the president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)—the largest union in New England, representing 117,000 members.

“I’m not gonna evaluate that,” Page responds calmly.

Cataldo pressed him. “Is it antisemitic?”

Page continued to sit stoically, before breaking into a smile. “You’re trying to get away from the central point,” Page said, “which is that we provide imagery, we provide resources for our members to consider, in their own intelligent, professional way.”

In fact, this image is referenced in materials recently made available to Massachusetts educators for teaching about the Middle East. Entitled “Resources on Israel and Occupied Palestine,” the union’s Training and Professional Learning Division developed the framework “for learning about the history and current events in Israel and Occupied Palestine, for MTA members to use with each other and their students.” Last December, the union published the resource document on a webpage accessible only to MTA members.

The person who created the document is Ricardo Rosa, an MTA director with a history of pushing anti-Israel rhetoric, including showing support for Leila Khaled, a terrorist who hijacked a plane headed to Israel in the 1960s. Two days after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Rosa posted “Free Palestine” on his Instagram account, The Daily Wire reported.

Page was asked by the Massachusetts commission about a series of posters contained in the MTA materials, which appear to display an anti-Israel bias. These materials include a poster of a militant wearing a keffiyeh and holding an assault rifle, that reads, “What was taken by force can only be returned by force.”

Another poster portrays George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist group designated by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization. It, too, depicts a militant with an assault rifle.

A third poster calls for a “day of rage” to “decolonize this place,” and a fourth tells “Zionists” to “fuck off.”

Another shows a picture of Joe Biden, labeled a “serial killer” for his support of Israel during his presidency. Yet another displays “Unity in Confronting Zionism” beneath a snake—another antisemitic trope once used in Nazi-era posters.


Erin Molan: Father begs Trump: ‘Avenge my daughter’s death!’ Hamas Hits Family TWICE!
Molan EXPOSES the shocking truth behind Jordan’s King protecting Hamas terrorist Ahlam Tamimi—the mastermind behind the horrific attack that took the life of Arnold Roth’s daughter, Malki Roth. Despite being one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists, Tamimi remains free in Jordan, shielded from extradition. In this eye-opening interview, Arnold Roth speaks out about his fight for justice, the brutal reality of Hamas terror, and why the Jordanian government continues to harbor a fugitive. Don’t miss this powerful and revealing conversation!


Deborah Lipstadt had concerns of a ‘double standard’ for Israel during the Biden administration
Deborah Lipstadt, former special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, raised concerns Tuesday about a “double standard” when it came to the State Department’s treatment of Israel under the Biden administration.

Lipstadt shared the anecdote during an interview with historian Niall Ferguson at the Hoover Institution. During her tenure at the State Department, she said, there was “consideration of sanctions on arms going to an unnamed country, which we can all figure out what.”

Lipstadt said her office “asked the question” of the State Department’s Office of Regional Security and Arms Transfers, “‘Is this [consideration of sanctions] a double standard? And what other countries have gotten these weapons from us?’”

There were six other countries receiving the weapons, Lipstadt said, asking, “How many of them are living up to the standards that are being imposed” on the one country being singled out?

The Biden administration in April paused sending some bombs and artillery shells to Israel, amid concerns that the IDF would launch a large-scale ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which the White House argued could lead to the deaths of Palestinian civilians. Despite Israel entering Rafah in May, by June, the U.S. agreed to resume sending 500-pound bombs but continued to withhold heavier, 2,000-pound ones.
A Coloring Book for Future Terrorists
When is a coloring book not just a coloring book? When its purpose is to incite children to hate Jews and glorify violence.

The Israeli police this week arrested the proprietors of an Arab bookstore in Jerusalem that was selling books promoting hatred of Jews and glamorizing terrorists. One was a coloring book, a fact that prompted much mockery on social media. Big, strong Israel is afraid of a little children’s book!

The book is called From the River to the Sea, an old Palestinian Arab slogan calling for replacement of Israel with an Arab state of Palestine. Intended for six to ten year-olds, the book features color-by-number pages that demonize Israel and honor terrorists and terror-supporters.

There’s Ghassan Kanafani, senior official of the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, best known for its airplane hijackings in the 1970s, its murder of an Israeli cabinet minister in 2001, and its massacre of rabbis in a Jerusalem synagogue in 2014.

There’s Refaat Alareer, the “poet” who called the October 7 attack “legitimate and moral,” denied the Hamas gang-rapes, and joked on social media about whether baking powder was used in burning Israeli babies to death. In the coloring book, Alareer is flanked by a large flaming kite, the kind Hamas has used to torch countless acres of Israeli farmland.

There’s Ahed Tamimi, the teenager who rose to fame when she was arrested for assaulting Israelis, and then later arrested again for writing on social media following October 7: “Come on settlers, we’ll slaughter you. What Hitler did to you was a joke. We’ll drink your blood and eat your skulls.”

The coloring book also features a page devoted to the Intifadas, the waves of mass Palestinian Arab violence in which more than one thousand Israelis were murdered and thousands more were injured and maimed.
Ask Haviv Anything: Episode 0: History That Matters
"Ask Haviv Anything" is a podcast about history, a podcast you, dear listener, will help to shape and direct, focusing not just on what I want to talk about but on what you want to learn and discuss. Nothing is off limits. We're going to talk about big and painful things, and also beautiful and fascinating things, wars and identities and painful history. And also more light-hearted things. Humor matters, especially when facing tough subjects.


Ask Haviv Anything: Extra: How Hamas holds Gaza's future hostage
First reflections in response to Hamas's hostage release ceremony in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza on Saturday, when Israelis discovered the extent to which the hostages had been tormented and starved.


Ask Haviv Anything: Episode 1: The Untold Story of Herzl's Journey to Zionism
It’s hard for a modern Jew to grasp the depth of marginalization and ostracism that even the most assimilated of Austrian Jews experienced in the 1890s. Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, began his journey as a passionate assimilationist, a deep believer in European modernity and Germanic culture. It was only when these hopes were dashed that he turned, as a drowning man to a life raft, to political Zionism.

Here is the untold story of how Herzl found Zionism. (Spoiler: It wasn’t the Dreyfus Affair.)

Thank you to Joe and Shira Lieberman for sponsoring this episode in honor of those we lost on October 7th.


Drew Pavlou: It's A Chernobyl Event For Australian Multiculturalism
Let’s just be honest here: the Sydney nurses scandal is a Chernobyl moment for Australian multiculturalism.

A ‘‘Chernobyl moment’’ takes place when citizens can no longer reconcile official state-approved orthodoxy with actual reality.

The past couple Australian Prime Ministers have all claimed while in office that Australia is ‘‘the most successful multicultural society on Earth.’’

Now we have two Islamist healthcare officials in the employ of the Australian state recording themselves at work threatening to murder Jewish patients under their care.

The claim that we are the most successful multicultural society on Earth is utterly laughable now.

It’s simply impossible to reconcile with the reality of nightly Sydney and Melbourne firebombing attacks against Jewish synagogues, businesses and preschools.

The constant drumbeat of anti-Semitic terror attacks has occurred against the backdrop of weekly jihadist street marches calling for the destruction of Australia.

Only a few weeks ago Sydney police discovered a truck bombing plot designed to murder hundreds of Australian Jews.

Now we sit and contemplate a fresh outrage: extremist nurses threatening to kill Jews in Australian hospitals.

Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir only became a citizen in 2020. Somehow he felt confident enough to boast on camera: ‘‘You have no idea how many Zionist dogs came to this hospital, and I sent them to Hell. I literally sent them to Hell.”

He accompanied these lovely words with a throat slitting gesture to emphasise homicidal intent.

Ahmad only came to Australia as a 12 year old refugee from Afghanistan. The state broadcaster previously held him up as a multicultural success story, featuring him in an SBS News series on disadvantaged youth aspiring to become doctors. His story was said to have represented ‘’the power of hope, help, and love.’’

All this ‘‘hope, help and love’’ apparently culminated in arrogant, gleeful boasts to murder Jews.


The Failure To Combat Anti-Semitism In Australia | John Howard
John Howard discusses the current Labor government's approach to foreign policy in the Middle East and a two-state solution.

Join John and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard as they discuss the issues that will determine the upcoming Australian election in 2025. Economic issues play a prominent role, with concerns over declining productivity and rising living costs. Energy policy especially features, where debates around nuclear power versus renewables highlight the need for reliable, affordable solutions. The former Prime Minister and former Deputy Prime Minister also discuss the need to bolster national security as traditional global powers weaken, leaving vulnerabilities in defence, supply chains and cyber security.

The conversation also examines the importance of maintaining social cohesion and a unified national identity in a rapidly diversifying society. It emphasises the need for Australia's leaders to have integrity and competence, urging Australians to prioritise these qualities when choosing to elect those who will steer the country through complex global and domestic challenges.




Avi Yemini: The FULL TRUTH about the chilling nurse video story
Everything we know so far, a day after two Bankstown Hospital nurses were exposed for bragging about 'killing' Israeli patients ... and some locals even share the same sick sentiment.




Strike Force Pearl Investigators reportedly raid home of Sydney nurse Ahmad Nadir as NSW Police continue probe into antisemitic video
Strike Force Pearl investigators reportedly raided the home of Sydney nurse Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir on Friday night as New South Wales Police continue their probe into the antisemitic video controversy.

Multiple outlets reported investigators executed search warrants at Mr Nadir’s Bankstown residence, but its unclear whether the stood-down nurse was home at the time.

It is also unclear whether search warrants have been executed regarding Sarah Abu Lebdeh, the other nurse involved.

When contacted for comment, NSW Police declined to provide confirmation of the raids.

A spokesperson told Skynews.com.au authorities "won’t be commenting on details of an ongoing investigation".


Trump Ed Department nominee calls for new panel to tackle Jew hate
Linda McMahon, a businesswoman U.S. President Donald Trump nominated to be U.S. education secretary, told a Senate committee on Thursday that she would support a commission to investigate how well colleges and universities are fighting the surge in Jew-hatred since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) told McMahon during the hearing that “antisemitism has become endemic in our universities” and asked the nominee if she would form a new panel to tackle Jew-hatred. “Yes, I would,” she said, inviting Marshall and perhaps other senators on the committee to work with her.

The increase in antisemitic incidents on college campuses came up repeatedly during McMahon’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

“We have seen the most unbelievable pro-terrorist propaganda, and again these universities taking federal money, getting federal funds, not protecting Jewish students, permitting encampments, permitting violence in some instances, attacks on students on their campuses,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). “Will you enforce the law to the hilt and will you make sure Jewish Americans are safe on our campuses are safe, for heaven sake?”

“Absolutely, or face defunding,” McMahon responded.
House Ed Committee Hammers Columbia's 'Continued Failure' To Protect Jews, Requests Fresh Disciplinary Docs
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce requested a fresh round of disciplinary documents related to recent anti-Semitic demonstrations at Columbia University. The committee's new chairman, Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.), hammered the Ivy League school for its "continued failure to address the pervasive antisemitism that persists on campus."

Walberg made the request in a February 13 letter to Columbia interim president Katrina Armstrong and Columbia board of trustees co-chairs David Greenwald and Claire Shipman. He instructed them to turn over a litany of internal records related to anti-Semitic incidents that unfolded during the ongoing fall semester.

On the first day of that semester, student radicals blocked the entrance to Columbia, vandalized a statue, and clashed with police. Months later, in January, they stormed an Israeli history class and targeted Jews with anti-Semitic flyers that glorified Hamas and promised violence. Most recently, Columbia's leading anti-Semitic student group clogged campus toilets with cement and soaked a business school building with red paint, tactics the student radicals learned months earlier at an anarchist training session held at the home of a Columbia literary society.

Those incidents, Walberg wrote, demonstrate that Columbia "has failed to uphold its commitments, both because the disciplinary process has failed and because the campus administration has refused to enforce its pre-existing rules." Walberg went on to note that Columbia "receives billions in federal funding." He gave Columbia two weeks to produce "all disciplinary records" related to the aforementioned incidents and a few others, including a September protest that saw students target a class taught by former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Walberg's letter shows that, while the education committee's leadership has changed, its focus on anti-Semitism in higher education remains. During the last Congress, the committee, then led by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), subpoenaed Columbia after the school failed to turn over documents related to anti-Semitism. Columbia could face a similar fate should it stonewall Walberg's request, though a representative for the school said it would cooperate.


Rising Antisemitism on Australian University Campuses Demands Real Action
Australia has achieved the ignominious reputation of being the country most reported on for the unleashing of antisemitism.

Last October, I warned that turning a blind eye to inflammatory speech—whether it is an imam referring to Jews as “sons of apes and pigs” or calls for a global intifada—would only embolden antisemites. I also expressed the fear that major communities around the world were concerned that a major casualty event was just around the corner.

The latest shocking example of antisemitism in Australia occurred in February 2025, when two health care workers in a Sydney hospital were suspended for threatening, in a TikTok video, to kill Israeli patients, and saying that they had already done so. The incident, now under police investigation, was condemned by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as “driven by hate” and “disgusting.”

January saw a range of attacks, including an incident near a synagogue in Sydney where a child care center was targeted, homes and cars defaced with Jew-hating graffiti, and, most worryingly, the discovery of a caravan packed with explosives along with a list of targets in Sydney.

Following the firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in December, the government came under extreme pressure to go beyond issuing condescending platitudes condemning antisemitism. They have recently passed legislation allowing for minimum mandatory jail sentences for a limited range of hate crimes and terrorist offenses. In particular, Nazi symbols such as swastikas and Nazi-style salutes have been banned.

Has the government assuaged the fears of the Jewish community, demonstrating that they grasp the severity of the situation and have taken sufficient steps to contain the threats? The answer is a resounding no!

Despite Hamas and Hezbollah being designated as terrorist organizations and the display of their flags being banned, few arrests have been made.

If the government is truly serious about tackling antisemitism, it needs to address a major source: universities and higher education institutions.
Abhorrent abuse of Jewish kids at school favored by billionaires and political elite sees boy take his own life - with claims others are exposed to vile chants and degrading sex acts
An elite $46,000-a-year private school has come under fire for alleged rampant bullying and anti-Semitism and parents are now demanding change or else, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.

The Latin School of Chicago is a K-12 institution with a history of privileged graduates such as Nancy Reagan and the children of Illinois billionaire Governor J.B. Pritzker.

But the parents, after staying silent as problems spiraled out of control, say the bullying and anti-Semitism their children face has intensified to the point that they have hired a high-powered lawyer to force the 'vanity board' of trustees to act.

Matthew Schwartz, a former federal prosecutor who helped take down Ponzi fraudster Bernie Madoff, fired off a scathing 37-page letter demanding an independent investigation while threatening litigation.

The demand letter, obtained by DailyMail.com, cites an alarming litany of incidents. It says one 15-year-old committed suicide after alleged cyberbullying from classmates, a member of the cross-country team yelled at a teammate: 'Run, Jew, run, there's money at the end', and several middle schoolers performed a Nazi anthem in band class.

Schwartz accuses officials of failing to crack down on this behavior while keeping families and even some trustees in the dark.

Officials 'have persistently failed to discharge their fiduciary duties, resulting in serious physical and mental harm to students and causing possibly irreversible harm to the reputation and financial sustainability of this once highly-respected institution', the letter states.

A spokesperson for the parents described the board of trustees as part of the problem, acting as a 'rubber stamp' for the school, more interested in the prestige of serving at an elite institution than providing aggressive oversight.

As an example, he highlighted the spectacle last spring of students performing Horst-Wessel-Lied,' aka 'Raise the Flag', the now-banned anthem of Germany's Nazi party.

'In the Nazi anthem case, the instigator who is the nephew of the director of admissions and former head of DEI, was not only not disciplined, but allowed to speak at the commencement of the 8th grade graduation ceremony,' the spokesman told DailyMail.com.

The school's once stellar reputation, however, has deteriorated so badly that a 100-plus person text chain of mostly Jewish parents, called the Latin Jewish Affinity Group, formed to share their frustrations.


Teen Vogue’s Anti-Israel Narratives Amplify Hamas Talking Points
Once known as a publication offering beauty, fashion, and lifestyle advice to teenage girls, Teen Vogue has evolved into an outlet that frequently platforms one-sided narratives, featuring writers who have openly expressed their support for terrorism and anti-Israel rhetoric online.

Esraa Abo Qamar’s piece, “Scholasticide in Gaza Means There Are Almost No Schools or Colleges Left,” is just the latest to be published in Teen Vogue’s new anti-Israel mission.

The story of Esraa Abo Qamar — who goes by Esraa Sameer on social media — is undoubtedly emotional and likely resonates deeply with Teen Vogue’s target audience. As a student at the Islamic University of Gaza, Esraa had to halt her studies in October 2023 due to the outbreak of the war. Any student passionate about their education would be heartbroken to learn that a girl the same age would be forced to abandon their studies because of conflict.

Esraa frames Israel as the perpetrator in this story, leveraging her op-ed to falsely accuse Israel of not only committing genocide, but also “scholasticide,” whereby Israel is framed as deliberately destroying the education system in Gaza.

The term “scholasticide” was termed by none other than a former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) official,

Karma Nabulsi worked as an international spokesperson for the PLO from 1977-1990, when the organization was at its height of launching attacks against Israel. Using an emotionally charged and baseless term coined by a former member of a terrorist organization raises serious doubts about its credibility.

Not once does Esraa mention the real culprit of the destruction of Gaza’s educational system — Hamas. Esraa fails to acknowledge that Hamas has hijacked the education system in Gaza to promote its own extremist agenda that prioritizes the destruction of the State of Israel over providing youth with a meaningful education.


Home Office set to block extremist preacher from entering UK for mosque talk
The Home Office is set to block an extremist preacher who has previously expressed support for Hamas from entering the UK to speak at a mosque in Middlesbrough, Jewish News understands.

Lebanese born preacher Mohamed Hoblos was due to appear on February 23 in Middlesbrough to give a talk at a new mosque.

Labour MP Luke Myer urged Security Minister Dan Jarvis to look into the preacher’s previous record of inflammatory statements in the Commons on Wednesday.

Sources told Jewish News on Thursday that the Home Office were “ready to block” Hoblos from entering the UK on the grounds that his presence was “not conducive to the public good.”

Hoblos has already been banned from Germany and the Netherlands after his record of making hugely inflammatory comments was raised, including claims that last November in a speech at a rally in Sydney, Australia he ridiculed those who call on Muslims to condemn Hamas terror and the massacre of Israelis, stating, “Don’t forget that Israel is the oppressor.”

In a further rant in praise of the people of Gaza, he suggested Palestinian deaths were honorable while Israel victims were sent to “hellfire”.

The preacher, who lives in Australia has also faced claims he has suggested non-practicing Muslims should be punished.


How China Is Helping the Houthis
On Tuesday, the leader of the Houthi regime in western Yemen threatened to resume attacks on Israel if the cease-fire with Hamas breaks down. Yesterday, he gave another televised speech promising the same if there is any attempt to displace Gazans. The Iran-backed terrorist group has proved itself to be both powerful and able to withstand Israeli and American attacks over the past year. It owes some its success to Chinese assistance, explain Tuvia Gering and Jason M. Brodsky.

How does China support the Houthis? To begin with, it does so by purchasing large quantities of Iranian oil. . . . Over the past four years, Iran exported a total of nearly 1.98 billion barrels of oil, and its annual oil exports have quadrupled during the Biden administration. China is Iran’s biggest customer, with more than 90 percent of Iran’s exports going to China in 2024.

China appears to be supporting the Houthis beyond Iranian oil revenue, too. U.S. intelligence sources recently told Israeli media that since November 2023, the Houthis have used Chinese-made components to target Red Sea vessels in exchange for immunity for Chinese-flagged ships. This comes after multiple U.S. Treasury announcements in 2024, which added a dozen Chinese, Iranian, and Houthi entities to the U.S. sanctioned lists for acquiring, funding, smuggling, and providing dual-use and military-grade materials to the Houthis.

Beijing [also] maintains unofficial ties with the Houthis. Since 2015, it has taken part in United Nations-sponsored peace talks, and it hosted a Houthi delegation in 2016. In 2023, the Houthis signed an economic agreement with China’s Anton Oilfield Group, which was terminated shortly thereafter.
How Ukraine Can Help the U.S. and Israel
As America takes steps to try to mediate the Russia-Ukraine war, Kyiv has an opportunity to show its usefulness to the U.S. (and to Israel) in the Middle East, both by combating Russian influence and assisting in containing Iran. Anna Borshchevskaya writes:

Until recently, Russia was the largest supplier of wheat to Syria—grain largely stolen from Ukraine. However, with the fall of Assad’s regime, these shipments have been suspended, creating an ideal opening for Kyiv. Wheat could serve as a starting point for expanded trade, alongside the development of diplomatic, cultural, and potentially military ties between the two nations; a strengthened Ukrainian presence there could limit Russia’s options beyond its military bases, should it manage to retain them.

Ukraine can [also] share its experience with Iran as part of its increased engagement with the Middle East, assisting Arab partners (and Israel) in countering Iranian influence. After Russia’s use of Iranian drones in Ukraine and Iran’s supply of short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, Ukraine has gained valuable insights into dealing with Iran. These lessons could benefit audiences in the region.
Iran, Facing Threats From Trump To Roll Back Nuclear Weapons Program, Parades Ballistic Missiles Across Tehran
Iran paraded a cache of highly advanced ballistic missiles across Tehran following a series of threats by President Donald Trump to "bomb the hell" out of the country if it doesn’t roll back its atomic weapons program. As the hardline regime worked to prove its military might, a senior Iranian military commander dared Trump to strike, saying he "does not have the courage to attack Iran."

The charged rhetoric signals that Tehran is choosing confrontation with the United States after Trump reimposed his "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign on the country, which specifically aims to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and deny it intercontinental ballistic missiles—the same ones used to attack Israel twice last year.

At the same time, Trump has expressed a willingness to pursue diplomacy with Iran, saying he favors that approach over conflict. But the military demonstrations across Tehran this week, held to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the regime’s "Islamic revolution," indicate the president is facing an uphill battle.

"Trump does not have the courage to attack Iran," General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, said on the sidelines of Monday’s military display. "Iran, as a powerful nation, does not bow to coercion."

Iran unveiled two types of ballistic missiles, the Khorramshahr and Hajj Qassem, as well as a satellite carrier dubbed the "Omid." The towering ballistic missiles can travel around 1,800 to 2,000 kilometers, putting them well within reach of not only Israel but U.S. military outposts across the region. The Khorramshahr "can carry multiple warheads," while the Hajj Qassem is a "precision strike missile" that can penetrate enemy air defense systems, much like those Israel used last year to fend off a swarm of Iranian missiles, according to the Iran’s state-controlled media.

Other missiles in Tehran’s arsenal are nuclear-capable and based on North Korean technology. Iran emphasized that it can now build much of this equipment on its own, without help from allies like Russia and China.

For regional observers, Tehran’s military posturing is part of a bid to restore its image in the wake of Israel’s devastating October strike on the country’s air defense systems and key military installations.


Granddaughter of Holocaust survivor terrorized with rape, death threats at German university
Pia Bernstein, 27, has received death and rape threats and has been a victim of a social media hate campaign on her German university campus, according to a BILD interview with the Jewish student published on Friday.

During a discussion on antisemitism at her university, Goethe University in Frankfurt, she alleged she was pushed against the wall of her lecture hall - in an attack which left her shoulder injured.

The young student also said she received messages from anonymous individuals threatening to behead and or rape her.

"When I leave the lecture hall, I am always stalked. I am also filmed. Everything to intimidate me,” she told the German paper.

Bernstein’s photograph has been shared on social media, according to screenshots shared by the German newspaper. In one such image, the text “This person thinks it’s perfectly fine to kill Palestinian babies because their grandparents survived the Holocaust. What do we think?” was edited above her head.

Bernstein condemned the post as “sick” asserting that she had Palestinian friends.

In one of the many hateful messages shared by Bernstein, an anonymously sent message read “Inshallah, you will be shot…You should die…Your whole f***ing Israel…”
A tip from the Anti-Defamation League in the U.S. led to hate-crime charges over a Canadian’s antisemitic postings
A man whose antisemitic social media posts targeting Jews triggered an international alert and also prompted the Ontario attorney general’s office to approve charging him with rarely-used hate crimes offences, is set to make a court appearance on Feb. 5.

Hamilton police announced on Jan. 31 they had charged a local man with three counts including advocating genocide, wilful promotion of hatred, and wilful promotion of antisemitism, under Sections 318 and 319 of the Criminal Code, which usually involve threats to murder Jews, and denial or distorting of the Holocaust.

Officials said these charges date back to Sept. 27, 2024, when the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) noticed the disturbing posts on X, made by a man living in the Canadian city.

The ADL soon notified Hamilton’s Jewish Federation, as well as the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. That’s when Hamilton police were called in, and conducted a joint investigation with the RCMP and Interpol, according to Jazmin Rymberg, a spokesperson for the Hamilton Jewish community.

Police arrested the suspect three days later, on Oct. 1, 2024. He was originally charged with uttering death threats, and breaking probation.

But police felt the online posts were disturbing enough to ask the province to approve adding hate crime charges. That authorization came through nearly four months later, on Jan. 30, 2025.

Harley Mitchell, 32, will appear by virtual link at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 5 at the Ontario Court of Justice on Main Street. He has remained in custody, police said.

While the social media posts were made in Hamilton, federation officials tell The CJN the target was not anyone in the Hamilton Jewish community, nor in Canada, for that matter.


In act of defiance, Jews produce T-shirts responding to Kanye’s antisemitic merch
Kanye West’s swastika shirt is no longer for sale, after the e-commerce platform Shopify said earlier this week, amid an outcry, that he had violated its terms of service.

But a wide array of shirts responding to the musician’s antisemitic merchandise are now available — and being offered to Jews who want to wear a riff on West’s design as an act of defiance.

Alongside the slogan “Hate is Out of Fashion,” The Israeli American Council is selling a version with the swastika replaced by a simple black Star of David, undercutting Yeezy’s price of $20 by two dollars to land on the Jewishly meaningful price of $18.

“In response to Kanye West’s despicable attempt to capitalize on his hatred, our creative campaign mirrors his twisted fashion but instead promotes a positive message of pride, philosemitism, and American values,” the group’s CEO, Elan Carr, a former US special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, said in a statement.

The group did not immediately respond to a question about how many shirts it had sold.

Meanwhile, Melissa Felderman, a Colorado artist who sells ceramics including Judaica under the brand Feldi Studios, is offering a $30 shirt featuring the black-and-white logo of the Orthodox Union, which is also the most widespread kosher certification.

“I can make a shirt too,” Felderman wrote on Instagram, announcing the shirt and her intention to donate 10 percent of proceeds to charities fighting antisemitism.


Trump unveils historic trade corridor linking India, Israel, Italy, US
President Donald Trump has announced a major trade corridor connecting India, Israel, Italy and the United States.

This ambitious project aims to reshape global trade with extensive investments in ports, railways and undersea cables.

The announcement came during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on Thursday.

“We agreed to work together to help build one of the greatest trade routes in all of history. It will run from India to Israel to Italy and onward to the United States, connecting our partners by ports, railways and undersea cables. Many, many undersea cables. It’s a big development. It’s a lot of money going to be spent and we’ve already spent some, but we’re going to spending a lot more,” Trump said.
‘Where are the people who speak for dead Jews when it comes to protecting the living?’ asks Tory peer
Conservative peer Lord Wolfson has delivered a powerful speech on Holocaust commemoration, warning “there are too many people who are only too willing to attend and speak at events commemorating dead Jews but who are nowhere to be seen when it comes to protecting living Jews.”

The shadow attorney general wound up Thursday’s Lord debate noting Holocaust Memorial Day by making three points about annual commemoration, which took place last month.

“First, let us be clear about the unambiguous aim of the Holocaust,” he said. “It was the systematic and industrial murder of Jews with the aim that there would be no Jews left in the world.

“The Holocaust was put into effect by means of laws which explicitly referenced Jews and made special provision for them.

“The Nazis had no trouble using the word Jews. They knew who their victims were and, just as importantly, why they were the victims. The Jews were to be murdered simply and only because they were Jews. ”

The former justice minister continued:”Secondly, let us be clear about the uniqueness of the Holocaust. Just as we do not remember the victims by denying why they were victims, we do not commemorate the victims by lumping the Holocaust together with other genocides and tragedies. We must not globalise the Holocaust..”

Then using the recent speech by the President of Ireland at a national Holocaust commemoration event, who referred to the Shoah as an “attempted genocide”, Wolfson said:”Thirdly, we certainly do not remember the victims by denying that there was a genocide at all or by using the murdered Jews of the Holocaust in some perverted form of inverted history to attack living Jews. ”

Returning to the Irish president, and his reference to Israel and Gaza in his controversial speech the KC added:” I will not trouble the House with what he said, as it does not merit repetition in Hansard—or, frankly, anywhere else.

“His words were so incendiary that Irish Jews who protested the president’s use—or, I should say, misuse—of that sacred platform were forcibly removed from the venue.


ABC partners MHM in new Holocaust resource for students and teachers
ABC Education and the Melbourne Holocaust Museum have partnered together to develop and launch a great new Holocaust education resource for all Australian students and teachers: Journeys of Hope.

Kim William ABC, Peter Gaspar, Nina Bassat, Annabel Astbury ABC, Eve Graham, Charles German, and André Dubrowin

The Journeys of Hope resource consists of five short video interviews with Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Australia as children. The selected interviewees are Nina Bassat, Peter Gaspar, Eve Graham, André Dubrowin and Charles German.

In the films, they share their immigration stories and everyday life experiences in their new country. From the ship journey from war-ravaged Europe to first days at school in Australia, each interviewee shares candid and poignant reflections on their lives so far in Australia. Each interviewee ends with their own message of hope for young people and their futures.

More than 27,000 survivors migrated to Australia after the Holocaust. They were seeking safety, security, and a new place to call home.

The short films are accompanied by a set of classroom activities mapped to the Australian Curriculum and bonus video material that examines objects from the Melbourne Holocaust Museum’s collection.

Journeys of Hope is an important resource for every Australian classroom. It explores part of the country’s rich migrant history, the struggles of adjusting to life in a new country, and the triumphs and successes of building a new future in Australia.

ABC Chair Kim Williams spoke at the joint launch yesterday and said, “Tonight, we launch an important project, the result of a strong creative partnership between ABC Education and the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.”

“The education resource we officially launch tonight – Journeys of Hope – provides a valuable tool for students and teachers in learning about the heroic survivors of the Holocaust who settled in Australia, invariably as refugees.”

“The testimonies here are a vital link to those historical events, and we are fortunate to have such a durable resource available.”

“As so many here tonight know all too well, the Holocaust teaches us not only about the evil which populated Europe at that time, but also of the dangers in taking the institutions that protect us, for granted. It reminds us that democracy itself is forever fragile and that catastrophic results can follow if we do not protect and defend it.”

“I cannot help but feel presently we all would benefit from visiting this Museum and the history and wisdom it provides.”




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