Friday, March 28, 2025

03/28 Links Pt2: The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World; Erin Molan: I saw the truth, so I couldn’t stay silent on antisemitism

From Ian:

The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World
In November 2023, the Israeli army announced plans to root out Hamas operatives that it said were hiding in Al-Shifa Hospital, a major medical facility in Gaza City. A large contingent of Doctors Without Borders staff worked there, and its leaders took offense at the Israeli claim. The president of its Australian chapter, Katrina Penney, told a newspaper that she had “seen no evidence that the hospital buildings or the compounds are being used by Hamas as a military base.”

I asked two Doctors Without Borders employees who had worked in East Jerusalem and Gaza about such claims. These staffers frowned. The presence of Hamas gunmen in that hospital and in others was an open secret. “You knew Hamas was there; I went to meetings where this was made very clear,” the staffer, who asked for anonymity out of a desire to continue to work in the human-rights field, told me. “Doors were hidden. There were units you did not get into, that had armed guards at the door.”

Laws of war require soldiers to act with great care when fighting around hospitals, and none of this testimony would justify Israeli brutality. Likewise, however, humanitarian groups such as Doctors Without Borders claim to observe the principle of bearing witness to abuses—an obligation that includes challenging armed groups such as Hamas that risk civilian lives by using hospitals as bases and hiding spots.

Months after that Israeli operation at Al-Shifa, Hamas’s subterfuge was exposed—as was the willful ignorance of Doctors Without Borders. A New York Times investigation strongly suggested that Hamas used Al-Shifa for cover and to store weapons. U.S. spy agencies went further, saying that Hamas used Al-Shifa as a command center and that it held hostages there. That would be a war crime.

Last June, Doctors Without Borders accused Israel of killing one of its staff physiotherapists, Fadi Al-Wadiya, as he biked to work. Organization officials portrayed this as a war crime, an innocent family man slaughtered. An official statement said, “There is no justification for this; it is unacceptable.”

Doctors Without Borders posted a photo of Al-Wadiya’s fractured bicycle. Word circulated that he had been a fighter with Islamic Jihad, a radical group that allied with Hamas on October 7. The organization vigorously denied this. Then the Israeli army released photos of Al-Wadiya, who it said was a rocket specialist, wearing an Islamic Jihad uniform. Doctors Without Borders ultimately conceded that it was “deeply concerned by these allegations” and said it would “never knowingly employ” a fighter.

A staffer involved in hiring for Doctors Without Borders spoke of great organizational pressure to expand hiring in Gaza. “We were told not to check backgrounds,” this employee told me, adding that one office in Gaza had two known Hamas militants. “Our Arab staff was greatly concerned because to be in the same room with operatives put all at risk.”

This staffer paused. “Look, I’m truly not defending Israel; there is a lot in its actions to criticize,” this person said, adding that Doctors Without Borders had been “blindly pro-Palestinian to an extent that was destructive. And if you were Jewish and questioned it, you were just waved off.”

Amid the terrible losses and savage fighting that have marked the war in Gaza, human-rights groups have demonstrated far greater urgency in documenting and denouncing Israel’s conduct than that of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In December, Amnesty International released its much anticipated and publicized report accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. Amnesty, however, has yet to complete a long-promised report examining the Hamas-driven murder and rape of Israeli civilians on October 7. O’Brien said the staff is hard at work on this. “The documentation has been extraordinarily difficult,” he told me. “Investigating sexual violence in an ethical and sensitive manner can take many months.”

Amnesty has moved with far more dispatch to stamp out dissent within its ranks. Amnesty’s Israeli chapter is known for feisty independence, taking on Netanyahu’s government and at times its own international parent group. The Israeli branch has maintained that, although it was not downplaying “the many horrific atrocities made by Israel in Gaza, which, according to the information we have, seems, on the surface, to have crossed the threshold of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing,” it viewed Amnesty’s accusation of genocide as poorly reasoned. The genocide claim, the chapter argued, seemed designed to “support a popular narrative among Amnesty International’s target audience.” The Israeli branch, frustrated with the broader organization’s silence on such questions, also began what it called a “pro-human campaign” to condemn both what it saw as anti-Semitism in some worldwide protests and the Islamophobia inside Israel, and to point out that extremists on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict promote ideologies of annihilation.

The campaign announcement angered top Amnesty officials in the United States and Europe. Last May, Erika Guevara-Rosas, the senior director of global research, advocacy, policy, and campaigns, ordered the Israeli chapter to end its campaign. “Given the serious reputational and legitimacy risk, I am asking you to take this document down from all your platforms immediately,” she wrote in an email that I obtained.

The right-wing Israeli government and its supporters frequently clash with the country’s Amnesty chapter. For their part, Amnesty International leaders view the Israeli branch as rogue and disloyal, and in January, not long after the criticism of the genocide report, they suspended the chapter for two years. Amnesty emails suggest that this could turn into a full expulsion. Tiumalu Lauvale Peter Fa’afiu, the New Zealand–born chair of Amnesty’s international board, wrote to his team that it must decide “whether Amnesty International Israel has a future within the Amnesty Movement.”

These emails revealed that Amnesty leaders planned in advance to deflect the Israeli chapter’s criticism of their genocide report by accusing it of “endemic anti-Palestinian racism.” A Fa’afiu email underlined the real grievance: The Israeli branch had tried to “publicly discredit Amnesty’s human rights research and positions.”

After leaving Amnesty, Dan Balson has found himself adrift. He has begun, with reluctance and disappointment, to wonder about the assumptions of so many in the human-rights movement. “Within Amnesty, the phrase ‘Criticism of Israeli policy is not anti-Semitism’ has taken on a kind of mystical significance,” he told me. “It is repeated frequently and forcefully, in private and in public. Amnesty’s leadership appears to believe that, if said with the proper zeal and elocution, the phrase will magically ward off deeper scrutiny.”

Yellin, the left-wing Israeli activist who has collaborated with major international groups, is even more disillusioned. “They think if they just scream ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ maybe we will go back to Europe.” He exhaled. “Some days I feel like I’ve just been a useful idiot.”
Nicole Lampert: How secret recordings show chilling rise of anti-semitism after horrific October 7 massacre was 30 years in the making
Perhaps the documentary’s greatest revelation is how long the campaign has been planned.

The film includes a secret 1993 FBI recording of 25 Hamas leaders — many of them also students at US universities — at a Philadelphia hotel in which they talk of plans to “infiltrate American media outlets, universities and research centres”, their main aim being to present Hamas as “palatable”.

The recordings show in detail how they realised they could sway the American left by using the language of human rights.

Lorenzo Vidino, an extremism expert at George Washington University in Washington DC, who first told Wendy about the recordings, says of the Hamas planners: “They knew how to speak to Americans in a language they could understand.”

They even had workshops to enable them to infiltrate both right- and left-leaning audiences, and in 2023 that coincided with a separate “woke” moment within the global left which divides the world into oppressor and oppressed and is obsessed with post-colonial theories.

The documentary examines how groups such as SJP were able to harness willing and naive students as well as some of their teachers to get involved in violent protests.

And SJP is now over here — including being involved in the action at King’s College two weeks ago.

They openly associate with home-grown Islamist groups such as Cage, which last year Michael Gove, the then Communities Secretary, said should be defined as extremist. It is clear that they and other groups at our universities are not only targeting Jews but also anyone deemed pro-Israel — even Muslims such as Faezeh.

Since October 7, 2023 research by charity the Community Security Trust has recorded a 117 per cent increase in anti-Semitic incidents on UK university campuses, with attacks ranging from hitting and spitting at Jews, tearing off their skull caps and Star of David necklaces, to taping bacon to their doors.

Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw funding from US universities which do not do more to stop anti-Semitism and to deport foreign nationals who have led the campus wars, while in the UK the problem very much continues.

Wendy said: “Groups such as Hamas have been playing the long game here, planting the seeds so that by October 8 they were ready to go.

“We know there is a problem. The question is, what are we going to do about it?”


Douglas Murray: Free speech lessons from jackass Jasmine Crockett and anti-Israel foreign students
As well as the case of Mahmoud Khalil, there is now also the case of Rumeysa Ozturk. Like Khalil, this person came into the US claiming to be a student. She came in on a student visa.

The Turkish-born student has now been detained. She seems — like Khalil — to have made a fundamental misunderstanding about what it means to come to the US as a student.

First of all she — like him — is not protected by the same laws that would protect an American citizen. She was not born in this country, is not a citizen of this country and was — in fact — a guest in this country.

But the left — and some on the right — are gearing up to make her their latest “free-speech martyr.” Yet even free speech for American citizens stop at the moment that you support the harassment of American students.

It stops at the moment that you encourage and engage in acts of vandalism and violence on American college campuses — among other places. And it stops when you support foreign and domestic terrorist movements.

As Marco Rubio said yesterday, there is no reason why any country in the world should invite people into it whose intent is to cause civil strife. What country would invite people in and then reward them for trying to cause trouble in their host country?

As Rubio said of the Ozturk case: “We gave you a visa to study and earn a degree — not to become a social activist tearing up our campuses. If you use your visa to do that, we’ll take it away. And I encourage every country to do the same.”

Senator Josh Hawley managed to hold the sane eminently sensible line yesterday when he berated people claiming that assaulting campus police and smashing up buildings is “protected speech.” It isn’t.

Words are not violence. Violence is violence. The woke left never liked to remember this. But conservatives shouldn’t forget it either.


Snubbing antisemitism conference is virtue-signalling gone mad
But so much for the criticisms – what positive angles emerged from the conference? I spoke with a British delegate, a non-Jew whose opinion on the geopolitics of Israel and its neighbours is respected.

Like a breath of fresh air, his view brought a moral clarity that his fellow countrymen would do well to heed. His position has “always been that anyone who wants to join us in the fight against antisemitism is welcome. Israeli political strategy is not my business, they can invite whoever they wish”.

He added “double standards in warfare is a pernicious form of antisemitism” – a critique of the UK Government’s posturing that put simply, supports Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, but at the same time insists that Israel fights its terrorist aggressors with one (or both!) arms tied behind its back. What a shame that Lord Mann, the UK Government’s independent advisor on antisemitism, was not present to hear such considered thought.

Speaking at the conference, Natan Sharansky, a man of whom it has been said “knows a thing or two about standing up for the Jewish people” urged people to understand that “we cannot defeat antisemitism unless those on the right call out antisemitism on the right, and those on the left do the same on the left.”

It is therefore with some sense of national shame that one must reflect that while some of those from Europe’s right were present to hear Sharansky’s plea, many of those from Britain’s left were absent.

Even Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice imbued his Jewish protagonist, hated and spat upon by antisemites, with the capacity for discussion with his enemies. As Shylock says to the non-Jew Bassanio in the play’s opening act, “I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you and so following, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you”.

Our biased, bigoted Brits could learn much from the bard.


WJC’s Sylvan Adams defiant at controversial Israeli conference on fighting antisemitism
Jews should not turn away friends who speak out against antisemitism, philanthropist and World Jewish Congress-Israel President Sylvan Adams said at the Israeli Diaspora Ministry’s International Conference on Combating Antisemitism on Thursday, which sparked controversy for including representatives of European nationalist parties.

Adams congratulated Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli for inviting “speakers from all political stripes” to Jerusalem.

“We Jews need friends, and if members of the right or left dissociate themselves from and call out the antisemites, then I am happy they have agreed to come to Israel to publicly express their views,” Adams said. “Some of these parties will win elections in their respective countries, and their support for us will be enormously important.”

Adams also noted that many Jews voted for parties and leaders that may be controversial with large Jewish organizations, naming President Donald Trump as an example. He said that Jews should “engage in debate, not boycott,” offering to facilitate such conversations.

The Canadian-Israeli philanthropist also specifically thanked Jordan Bardella, a leader of the French far-right party the National Rally. “If you and Marine Le Pen stand up to defend our basic rights and freedoms, I am with you,” he said.

The National Rally, currently the largest party in the French National Assembly, was formerly called the National Front. It was established by Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was repeatedly accused of Holocaust denial and racial incitement. His daughter, Marine Le Pen, took over in 2012, and began a process of moderation, though some Jewish community leaders remain skeptical that the party has substantively changed.

Bardella gave a speech at the conference in which he said he was grateful to be invited because he is “aware of the symbolic significance.”


Erin Molan: I saw the truth, so I couldn’t stay silent on antisemitism

PodCast: The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century: David Hirsh in conversation with Casey Babb
In this episode of The Promised Land, Senior Fellow Casey Babb sits down with David Hirsh, CEO of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, to explore the resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century. Together, they discuss the intersection of anti-Zionism and antisemitism, the impact of the October 7th attacks on Jewish communities worldwide, and the challenges of combating hate in an increasingly polarized world. With insights drawn from research, advocacy, and lived experience, this conversation highlights the urgent need for a coordinated response to antisemitism and the role of democratic resilience in countering intolerance.
Mexican economist, activist, and feminist: "I became a Jew on October 7th." | EP 34 Adina Chelminsky
In this powerful episode of Here I Am with Shai Davidai, Shai sits down with Adina Chelminsky, a Mexican-Jewish economist, activist, and feminist. Together, they explore the intersections of identity, activism, and the challenges of standing up for what’s right in today’s world.

💡 Key Highlights: Adina’s Multifaceted Identity: Adina shares her journey as a proud Mexican Jew, her experiences growing up in Mexico City, and the unique dynamics of the Mexican Jewish community.

October 7th and Its Impact: Adina reflects on how the events of October 7th transformed her sense of Jewish identity and commitment to activism.

Selective Feminism: A thought-provoking discussion on the silence of feminist movements regarding sexual violence during the October 7th attacks and the importance of universal advocacy for women’s rights.

Facing Antisemitism: Adina recounts her harrowing experience at the Guadalajara Book Festival, where she faced a mob protesting her participation in a panel discussion.

Advice for Young Activists: Practical tips for Jewish youth on balancing behind-the-scenes work with speaking out publicly, fostering unity within the Jewish community, and combating misinformation with education.

Adina’s courage, wit, and unwavering commitment to justice shine throughout this episode. Whether discussing her viral monologue on feminism and antisemitism or her podcast Laboratoria de Burra, Adina inspires listeners to embrace complexity, stand up for their values, and engage in meaningful dialogue.


Eric Weinstein: Humanity Needs a Plan B for Survival | JNS
Kol Yisrael and Tel Aviv Salon host mathematician & investor Eric Weinstein. He sits down with/ Fleur Hassan-Nahoum to discuss the complex interplay between conflict, identity, and leadership in shaping societies. The conversation also delves into the strategic threats facing Israel and the urgent need for a plan B of survival for humanity and Israel.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Speakers and Themes
03:50 Eric Weinstein's Return to Israel
06:47 Understanding Hybrid Warfare and Its Implications
18:43 The Role of Media and Narrative in Conflict
26:55 The Historical Context of Jewish Resentment
32:28 Israel's Leadership Role in the Middle East
35:36 Cultural Dynamics and Gender Roles in Society
45:01 The Role of Conflict in Vitality
47:04 Ethnic Identity and Historical Context
48:20 The Impact of Leadership on Global Dynamics
49:57 Understanding Iran's Strategic Position
51:09 Skilled vs. Unskilled Players in Conflict
52:54 The Dangers of Covert Operations
01:00:01 The Need for a Plan B for Humanity
01:02:12 Revitalizing Scientific Leadership
01:10:43 Navigating the Future of Society
01:20:06 Demographics and Cultural Identity


Newsweek editor sounds alarm over growing antisemitism w/Josh Hammer | Think Twice
The willingness to succumb to antisemitism is always a sign of a sick society, says JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin. The mainstreaming of Jew-hatred in the media, popular culture and political discourse since Oct. 7, 2023 has created a perilous moment for Jews but it is also a sign of just how lost so many Americans have become. He believes what’s needed now is a willingness to understand that it is Western civilization, which has its roots in Judaism, that is under attack as much as Israel.

He’s joined in this week’s episode of Think Twice by Newsweek senior editor-at-large and podcaster Josh Hammer, the author of the new book, Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West.

Hammer says he was inspired to write his book by the reaction to Oct. 7 in which so many Americans chose to side with the medieval Islamist death cult of Hamas. The surge in antisemitism, he argues, is a direct result of a far-reaching attack on Western civilization, which has its roots in Judaism. Hammer believes the answer to this should be a “biblical restoration” in which Jews and Christians work together to fight for Western values against the assault on it from the toxic ideas of the Marxist woke left. Those who want to get rid of the West and the idea of the nation-state, inevitably start with Israel and the Jewish tradition.

The author says the place to start is to embrace faith and to encourage Christians to do so as well as Jews, since that is the best antidote to what ails society, including antisemitism.

Hammer also advocates for a realist rather than a moralistic U.S. foreign policy, such as that prescribed by President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda, since that is the best guarantee of the alliance between America and Israel.

Both Tobin and Hammer agreed that the left is the primary engine of antisemitism today and that Trump’s efforts to defund schools that tolerate and encourage Jew-hatred and enforce toxic DEI policies is a good start towards defeating it. But they also noted the disturbing trend among a small group of right-wing podcasters like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson toward embracing anti-Israel and antisemitic positions. Hammer speculated that support for that position among some Christians is ignorance of the Jewish roots of their own faith.

Chapters
00:00 The Moral Dichotomy in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
02:48 Realism vs. Ideological Interventionism in Foreign Policy
06:13 The Trump Administration's Foreign Policy Approach
08:51 The Rise of Anti-Semitism and Its Roots
11:51 The Role of the Woke Left in Modern Anti-Semitism
14:56 Cultural and Political Power Dynamics
17:57 The Challenges of Classical Liberalism
21:01 Critique of Liberal Judaism and the Maccabean Imperative
23:51 The Future of American Jewry and Optimism for Change


Eylon Levy: The Lone Israeli Soldier in the Israel-Hamas 2023 Misinformation War
In the age of data and technology, wars are fought not just on the battlefield but also on various forms of media – using information or misinformation, as the case may be.

No one understands this better than Eylon Levy, former spokesperson for Israel, founder of the Israeli Citizen Spokespersons’ Office (ICSO) and host of the ‘State of a Nation’ podcast. A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, Levy finds himself wearing prized titles such as “Israel’s Defender: The Unstoppable Spokesperson”, “the voice of Israel”, described as “an eloquent, glib, and annoying know-it-all”, all at a young age of 33.

But his best description perhaps comes as a soldier for Israel, who could be found vehemently defending his country against onslaughts of misinformation and even slander in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war after the October 7th tragedy.

At one point, his unflinching refusal to bow down even cost him his job, when he was suspended by the Israeli government for responding to UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s post ‘urging Israel’ “to allow more [aid] trucks into Gaza”.

But just like the spirit of the country he stands for, this man remained resolute and unshakeable. Therefore, even after six months of defending Israel through the peak of the war on every possible TV channel, show and platform, when Levy was asked to leave he decided to found the Citizen Spokespersons’ Office, to ensure that the voice of Israel withstands the cacophonous flux in favour of Palestine that was coming from virtually all corners of the world, including the United Nations.
The Israeli woman who speaks to the Arab world
She may be little known within her native Israel, but to millions across the Arab world, Idit Bar is a familiar face and a formidable voice.

A scholar of Islam, fluent Arabic speaker, and unrelenting advocate for the Israeli narrative, Bar has emerged as a singular figure in the public diplomacy battlefield—appearing on hostile Arabic-language TV networks and social media platforms to challenge decades of entrenched hatred and misinformation about Israel.

“Without knowledge of Arabic, we’re like blind people in the dark,” Bar says. Since the October 7 massacre, she has been filling a glaring void in Israel’s public diplomacy. Appearing live on major Arab outlets—often facing former intelligence officials or leading editors—she articulates Israel’s case with clarity and conviction, fearlessly confronting narratives rooted in deep historical bias and modern-day incitement.

Bar does not enter these arenas unprepared. “They bring seasoned, sophisticated speakers with impressive credentials—former generals, diplomats. I come armed with facts,” she says. “Because I speak Arabic fluently, they can’t confuse me. I know their culture, their history and their references. That makes me more dangerous to them than an IDF soldier.” Idit Bar. Courtesy

On the frontlines of “hasbara”
Bar’s journey to the frontline of Israeli hasbara (public diplomacy) was not by design. “I’m a researcher of Muslim society and culture,” she explains. “I never imagined I’d be doing this. But as the saying goes, ‘Where there are no people, strive to be a person.’ Or in this case, a woman.”

She is the only Israeli woman who appears regularly on Arabic media platforms. “People say I’m brave. But what choice do I have? Should I sit back while they lie about us?”

She pays a price. Bar receives threats, especially from Egyptians and Jordanians. She recalls being recognized by local women in Morocco—TikTok viewers who had seen her interviews. “We ran. I’m not a celebrity, but my face is known. And that’s risky.”

Arabic: A weapon and a bridge
“Knowledge of Arabic is a kind of power—especially in times like these,” Bar says. It allows her not only to speak to Arabs on their terms but to understand their internal discourse. “When I give lectures, I can bring authentic materials—videos, blogs, sermons. It’s not second-hand knowledge.”

Bar emphasizes that understanding the enemy also allows Israelis to detect early warning signs—something tragically lacking before Oct. 7. “We weren’t ignorant because the signs weren’t there,” she says. “We were ignorant because we couldn’t read them.”

In addition to media appearances, Bar speaks at conferences, business forums, and schools, urging Israelis to recognize the cultural dynamics that shape Arab societies. Her messages are blunt. “If you’re doing business in the Gulf, never mock religion. Even if you’re secular, even if you don’t care, respect matters. An Arab who sees you disrespect your own culture will never trust you.”
Faeze Alavi: Bridging Israeli-Iranian relations against silencing - interview
Faezeh Alavi, an Iranian-born scholar and artist whose dialogue event at King’s College was canceled following protests from anti-Israel activists, remains optimistic about restoring Iranian-Israeli relations and rejects Western silencing techniques in academia that “remind her of home.”

“It’s ironic that I left a country with no freedom of expression – only to find myself being silenced in the West – and in an event promoting dialogue between Israelis and Iranians,” said Alavi.

Alavi, a 30-year-old scholar living in Scotland, referred to the canceling of an event she was invited to speak at, titled “From Conflict to Connection: Israelis and Iranians in Dialogue,” hosted at King’s College by the King’s Geopolitics Forum last month.

As the event began and as Alavi started to speak about the Islamic Republic regime’s changing of the traditional Iranian flag, students who were present at the lecture began shouting and screaming slogans, which led to the event being canceled altogether.

Alavi was born in Iran, a country she holds dear but felt she had to leave in search of greater opportunities and freedom of expression. Her experiences paint a vivid picture of life under the Islamic regime – a world of dual lives, where intellectual curiosity constantly battles against systemic oppression.

She recalled the challenging environment of Iranian universities, where anti-Israel and anti-American sentiments form the ideological bedrock of the Islamic Revolution.

Despite the pervasive propaganda, Alavi emphasized that most Iranians secretly desire change. She noted that even professors and teachers often subtly resist the regime’s narrative, finding creative ways to speak truth to power. “It’s very challenging,” she said, “but it’s possible to find a way to truth and common sense.”
Andrew Pessin: Protocols of the Elders of Anti-Zion, Part I
We’re all aware of the most influential antisemitic book in modern history, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Appearing in the early 1900s then adopted and disseminated by the A-Team of International Antisemites—Russia and the Soviet Union, the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and so on—this famous forgery purports to be the minutes of a secret meeting held by the “Elders of Zion” behind the scenes of the First Zionist Congress in 1897. Of course there are no such Elders and there was no such meeting, and large chunks of the text were directly plagiarized from an 1864 book sketching Machiavelli’s political philosophy, but those facts, though widely known from at least 1921 onward, didn’t stop the book from spreading around the world and directly inspiring Hitler’s genocidal Final Solution, Hamas’s jihadist Final Solution (they quote from the Protocols as if it were factual in their foundational charter), and the long, ongoing campaign of Russian-Soviet anti-Zionism. And what about this book inspires such deadly behavior? It’s that it reveals to the world the great conspiracy of the dastardly Jews plotting to control the world and subjugate or destroy all the non-Jews, explaining in detail exactly how they will do that (by controlling the banks, the media, governments, starting wars, etc.). When faced with that dastardly evil-doing, who wouldn’t respond by attempting to annihilate the threat?

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Of course it’s all delusional nonsense, demonstrably false nonsense, which is why all rational, clear-headed, decent people recognize in the Protocols not the documentation of a conspiracy but what is pejoratively referred to as a conspiracy theory—one deliberately designed to incentivize hate and violence against the Jews.

The irony, of course, is that all the attention paid to the Protocols—believed by tens of millions, to this very day, to be factual—obscures the increasingly apparent fact that there actually does exist a global conspiracy, a literal conspiracy, an actual conspiracy, albeit in precisely the opposite direction. Sometimes working together, sometimes working in parallel, sometimes centrally directed, sometimes dispersed, sometimes secretly, sometimes very much in the open, collectively there is an enormous body of individuals, organizations, and governments who have all been working toward the same inglorious end for well over a century now. It’s not, in other words, that the dastardly Jews are conspiring to subjugate or eliminate the peoples of the world. It’s that the peoples of the world (or at least enormously large constituents thereof) are actively conspiring to subjugate and (in too many cases) to outright eliminate the Jews.

Let’s examine their protocols.
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Ground Zero for this conspiracy is of course pre-Soviet Russia itself, whose rampant, pervasive, and often violent antisemitism produced the original conspiracy-theory Protocols in the first place, and in so doing launched the actual conspiracy against the Jews. We might call the mysterious unknown forgers of the Protocols the original Elders of Anti-Zion.

The degree to which the Protocols then influenced Hitler and the Nazis is well known. But Hannah Arendt suggests that the Protocols didn’t merely instill in them their genocidal hatred of the Jews for their alleged plot to subjugate the world, but in fact directly inspired them to launch their own plot to subjugate the world. She quotes Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels saying, “The nations that have been the first to see through the Jew and have been the first to fight him are going to take his place in the domination of the world,”[1] then adds her conclusion: “The delusion of an already existing Jewish world domination formed the basis for the illusion of future German world domination.” She continues: “This was what [head of the Nazi SS] Himmler had in mind when he stated that ‘we owe the art of government to the Jews,’ namely, to the Protocols which ‘the Führer [had] learned by heart’.” See the neat Nazi trick here: accuse the Jews of conspiring to world domination, which then justifies, in “self defense,” your attempts both to destroy the Jews and to dominate the world yourself. The entire Nazi machinery, then, from its massive propaganda operations through its killing fields and camps, was one large conspiracy to subjugate and eliminate the Jews.

Nor may we overlook the essential role played in this conspiracy by the scholars, the intellectuals, the professors, the ones producing the relevant ideas and arguments that motivate the leaders and then become the propaganda that mobilizes the masses. Whether scholarship can ever be “purely objective” is a question for another time, but not relevant to the fact that “scholarship” can be intentionally weaponized to advance one’s political aims or, more modestly, can become corrupted by one’s ideological commitments. That’s a fancy way of remarking that Nazi “scholarship” was directly involved in advancing the conspiracy against the Jews. Perhaps nothing better documents that fact than Max Weinreich’s 1946 book Hitler’s Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany’s Crimes Against the Jewish People. Suffice merely to quote Hannah Arendt, again, in her review of the book: “Dr. Weinreich's main thesis is that ‘German scholarship provided the ideas and techniques that led to and justified unparalleled slaughter,’” ideas which included, of course, the “race science” that justified the alleged Aryan supremacy and Jewish degeneracy that in turn justify the Holocaust. Arendt then goes on to say, “It is also true, and Dr. Weinreich is right to insist thereon, that Hitler showed one of his crucial insights into the nature of modern propaganda when he asked for ‘scientific’ arguments and refused to use the standard crack-pot ones of traditional anti-Semitic propaganda.” The scare quotes around the word “scientific” are the key: it’s easy for decent people to reject obvious crude raw hatred, but dress it up in “science” and it goes down far more easily.

So what we have here, then, are the professors providing the intellectual ammunition in the conspiracy against the Jews.

Collectively, a large new cohort here of the Elders of Anti-Zion.
The protest British campuses cannot ignore
In the coming days, a groundbreaking protest will take place on a UK university campus—one that shatters the tired binaries and falsehoods dominating our national conversation around Israel and the Middle East.

For the first time, a delegation of 35 Arab Israeli citizens – Muslims, Christians, and Druze – will travel from Israel to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Jewish students and their allies in a powerful, unified stand against the escalating radicalisation and antisemitism infecting British universities.

At a moment when campus activism is increasingly defined by hostility, distortion, and division, these voices bring something rare: truth.

Led by Yoseph Haddad, an Arab Israeli, IDF veteran, and CEO of Together – Vouch For Each Other, the delegation includes figures who reflect the complexity and coexistence of Israeli society. Among them is Sabin Tasa, a survivor of the October 7 Hamas massacre, in which her husband and son were murdered. Her bravery in confronting the reality of terrorism and extremism brings a vital—and too often ignored—perspective to Britain’s deeply polarised discourse.

This protest isn’t just a show of support for Jewish students who feel increasingly abandoned on their own campuses. It is a direct intervention—an invitation to confront uncomfortable truths, to question dominant narratives, and to listen to those whose lived experiences defy the simplistic, slanderous accusation that Israel is an apartheid state.

The people best placed to debunk that lie are the Arab Israelis who live and thrive within Israel. And now they’re here to say so—loudly and publicly—for the first time on British soil.

It is no secret that British universities have become hotbeds of extreme rhetoric. What were once student-led political campaigns have mutated into spaces where glorification of terror, silencing tactics, and overt antisemitism go unchecked. Jewish students report being harassed, doxed, and threatened. Meanwhile, radicalised student groups and their supporters have created an atmosphere in which anyone who dissents—especially Arabs who don’t toe the anti-Israel line—is treated as a traitor or simply erased from view.

This protest, organised by Stop The Hate, Stop The Hate On Campus, and Together – Vouch For Each Other, is about more than solidarity. It’s about reality.
When education fails: The silent abandonment of Sweden's Jewish students
Jewish students in Sweden are hiding their identities. They walk to class in fear, avoid social media, and feel abandoned by their teachers and universities. This is not happening in some extremist environment. It’s happening in ordinary classrooms. And it must stop.

We often talk about the importance of a good education – how it shapes the future, builds society, and forms values and citizens. And that’s true.

But we speak far too rarely about what happens when education goes wrong. When it fails not only in knowledge but in morality. When the classroom, which should be a place of safety and learning, becomes a platform for ideological abuse and sometimes even antisemitism.

It’s easy – and right – to scrutinize religious schools, to question honor-based culture, gender roles, and religious influence, and we must continue to do that.

But the question is: Are we equally willing to look critically at our own public schools? At respected high schools? At Swedish universities?
What the Trump Administration Should Do With Columbia’s $430 Million
Was Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong lying when she committed to a series of "decisive actions" to combat anti-Semitism on campus, including "immediately strengthening our processes for enforcement of rules on demonstrations, identification and masking"?

Or was she lying when she told Columbia faculty members, behind closed doors, that "there is no change to masking and protests … no change."

A spokeswoman for Columbia University declined to address our questions about whether there has, in fact, been a change to masking policy and it’s too early to tell whether Columbia is committed to the reforms it announced last week as a result of the financial pressure applied by the Trump administration, which has revoked $430 million in federal grant money from the school.

Armstrong’s doublespeak doesn’t bode well, and in the case of the academy, the administration should modify Reagan’s dictum before turning the spigot of taxpayer dollars back on: distrust and verify.

In the meantime, there are plenty of more worthy recipients of Columbia’s federal largesse. There is something rotten in American higher education, but the rot is far more severe at America’s most elite private institutions than at their public counterparts. State schools across the country are educating many more students at much lower cost and with a far less politicized approach.

What could $430 million do if spread across the SEC to fund programs teaching American kids how to build drones or to build anything of use? How about $400 million for vocational training for kids who aren’t going to college—building roads and bridges and anything else that requires heavy equipment and hard work and the skills that will be necessary if the worst comes to pass in a confrontation with China?
‘Blind Spot’ documentary on campus antisemitism premieres on JBS, March 30
In a timely and urgent cinematic release, the Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) will host the exclusive television premiere of “Blind Spot” a searing new documentary that confronts one of the most troubling phenomena in modern American academic life: the explosion of antisemitism on college campuses. The broadcast premiere is scheduled for March 30, at 7 pm EDT, and will be followed by an in-depth interview with executive producer Leonard Gold on a special edition of “A Special Look” with Teisha Bader at 8:35 pm EDT.

The film—produced by Ironbound Films, known for such acclaimed works as “Israel Swings for Gold and Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel”—is also available on streaming platforms and will air with closed captioning. Additional encore showings will follow at 11 pm EDT that same evening and throughout the week.

As reported by JBS, “Blind Spot” is the first and only film to examine the trajectory of antisemitism on U.S. campuses both before and after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, an event that served as a cultural and ideological flashpoint, unleashing a tidal wave of anti-Jewish sentiment in institutions of higher learning across America.

Told through the firsthand accounts of more than two dozen Jewish students from over a dozen universities, the film paints a disturbing picture of how normalized anti-Israel hostility has metastasized into open antisemitism, often escalating into verbal harassment, physical threats, and academic discrimination.

These students are not political activists or public figures. They are ordinary undergraduates and graduate students—many of whom, until recently, considered their Jewish identity to be a quiet, private part of who they are. What “Blind Spot” makes abundantly clear is that this is no longer an option. In today’s academic climate, Jewish students are being forced to choose between silence and self-respect, between social comfort and spiritual truth.

For Gold, a lawyer by training and a father moved by personal experience, this documentary is deeply personal. Gold was first awakened to the problem of school-based antisemitism in 2009 when one of his sons endured virulent anti-Jewish hostility at a prestigious private school in New York City. What began as a personal struggle evolved into a broader mission: to expose the ideological rot permeating American campuses and to empower students to stand up for themselves and their people.

“‘Blind Spot” is not just a film,” Gold explains in his upcoming JBS interview. “It’s a call to action—a refusal to look away from what’s happening to our kids in institutions we thought would help shape them, not break them.”
The exploitation of academic discourse: A gateway to the spread of extremism
Extremist groups use student gatherings and cultural clubs as fronts for their ideas. Groups such as Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP) or CUAD operate under humanitarian pretexts but often spread antisemitic and pro-terrorism rhetoric.

In 2023, a UC Berkeley student group sparked controversy with a seminar titled “Resisting Occupation,” glorifying Hamas attacks against Israeli civilians. In 2024, they announced a course describing Hamas as a “revolutionary resistance force fighting settler colonialism” for spring 2025, though they later removed this description.

The university faced two lawsuits alleging campus antisemitism, including one filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law in November 2023, claiming that officials ignored antisemitism.

Such seminars clearly go beyond academic discussion, forming part of a broader strategy to spread extremist ideologies on campus.

While this might seem natural in a democracy valuing free speech, deeper examination reveals blatant foreign interference. Countries like Iran have supported this movement in the United States. Iran, among Hamas’s largest benefactors, channels funds through American charities to support the movement.

In 2012, a US Treasury Department investigation exposed a funding network supporting Hamas through American charities. This network helped expand Hamas's influence within universities by exploiting Palestinian and foreign students to spread their ideology.

If charities represent traditional tools for terrorism financing, universities have become strategic platforms for extremist groups to spread ideas and recruit supporters. This exploitation transcends financial support, aiming to influence young minds and create activists who may unknowingly carry extremist ideas.

Some rogue states and extremist groups also exploit academic discourse to justify their activities. Through human rights seminars and discussions, they present radical ideologies as just causes. This manipulation blurs the line between legitimate criticism of international policies and incitement to violence.

The exploitation of universities as platforms for extremism is not new but has grown more complex with globalization and increased mobility. This raises questions about whether American universities will reconsider policies on foreign funding and evaluate foreign students’ political activities on campus. Will mechanisms be established to monitor activities that exceed free speech boundaries and serve extremist ideologies?
Shame on Princeton: The libel of anti-Zionism and the normalization of hate
There was a time, not so long ago, when universities were cathedrals of reason. Today, too many have become temples of ideological purification, where hatred is sanctified through jargon, and ancient bigotries are reborn as progressive orthodoxy.

Now, in an act as cynical as it is corrosive, Princeton University has announced plans to host a panel titled “The Anti-Zionist Idea” – a title that belongs not on a syllabus but in the footnotes of modern antisemitic propaganda.

This event has not yet taken place, but the very fact that it is scheduled, endorsed, and institutionally sanctioned speaks volumes. It is why We Believe in Israel, a British-based pro-Israel advocacy group, has launched a public petition demanding its cancellation. And rightly so. For this is not about academic freedom; it is about the mainstreaming of a libel – an old hatred reborn in the sanitized prose of scholarship.

Let us be clear from the outset: Anti-Zionism is not nuanced critique. It is not dissent. It is not peace. It is hate – Israel hate.

That is the core of anti-Zionism. Strip away the footnotes, the faculty credentials, and the carefully choreographed post-colonial lexicon, and you are left with one chilling proposition: The Jewish state must not exist.

And this, we are told, is a subject worthy of “discussion.”

Would Princeton ever dream of hosting a panel titled “The Anti-Palestinian Idea”? “The Anti-Black Nationalist Idea”? “The Anti-Kurdish Idea”? The very suggestion would be rightly met with moral outrage. And yet, when the subject is Jewish nationhood, when it is Zionism on the chopping block, the gates are flung open, and the event is dignified with academic imprimatur.

This is the hypocrisy of our age. And it is soaked in exceptionalism – the kind that only applies to Jews.
At Hamas's Encouragement, Students for Justice in Palestine Sponsors March Commemorating Iran-Established 'Al Quds Day'
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the pro-Hamas campus group, is sponsoring a mass protest in New York City to honor Iran's International Quds Day—the sort of demonstration that Hamas itself encouraged its international supporters to organize in opposition to Israel.

SJP's national affiliate and a host of other prominent anti-Israel groups—including the Muslim Action Committee, Code Pink, and Medical Students for Justice in Palestine—will assemble Friday in Times Square "in support of Palestine" and "against Zionism," according to promotional materials posted online.

In doing so, SJP and its American allies are heeding calls from Iran and Hamas. In a Thursday message published by Tehran's state-controlled media, Hamas urged its global supporters "to mobilize on the upcoming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to defend Gaza, al-Quds, and Al-Aqsa, support our people's resilience, reject the occupation's crimes … and to condemn the U.S. support for these atrocities."

SJP and its American backers are doing just that. The rally in New York City, they say, "demonstrates the unity, will, and power of those seeking justice in the face of arrogant imperialist powers today." Quds Day is traditionally celebrated each year by Iran and its terror allies in the Middle East, which use the so-called holiday as a vehicle to export their extremist ideology across the globe.

SJP's central role in organizing Quds Day activities domestically reflects the group's continued reliance on Hamas for guidance.

Since Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror spree, SJP has served as Hamas's "U.S.-based in-house public relations firm," according to a lawsuit filed earlier this week by American and Israeli terror victims. U.S. intelligence has long indicated that Hamas's patrons in Iran encouraged and funded anti-Israel campus protests in America.

In Tehran, Quds Day activities will kick off Friday morning, when hoards of Iranians will take to the streets to burn the American flag, chant anti-Israel slogans, and pray for Israel's destruction.

In the United States, the demonstrations are likely to look similar, with SJP bringing its signature brand of anti-Semitic agitation to Manhattan's streets. The campus group's role in Quds Day protests is raising fresh calls for universities across the country to ban it from operating.

United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI), a national advocacy group, described SJP as a direct "threat to U.S. national security."
As Antisemitism Lawsuit Drags On, Harvard Demands Kestenbaum’s Messages With Politicians
Harvard filed a motion on Friday to compel Harvard Divinity School graduate Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum, the lead plaintiff in an ongoing Title VI lawsuit, to turn over extensive documentation of his campaign against Harvard — including communication with politicians and messages from the “Harvard Pro-Israel WhatsApp group.”

In the filing, the University accused Kestenbaum of dragging his feet by not sending Harvard the materials it had requested in the case. An attorney for Harvard wrote that Kestenbaum had not responded to Harvard’s requests for information during discovery, and had not indicated he would respond.

If approved by a judge, the motion would force Kestenbaum to produce the requested material.

“The time has passed for Mr. Kestenbaum to boast about his lawsuit while refusing to engage in his responsibilities as a litigant,” the Harvard lawyer wrote. “Having risen to fame as an ‘American suing Harvard,’ he must now decide if he is actually willing to engage in the litigation that launched his public persona.”

The list of materials requested by Harvard — which, according to the filings, the University initially asked for on Dec. 27 — has not been previously reported. It illustrates an apparent strategy by Harvard to investigate how Kestenbaum, who has emerged as a leading public voice accusing Harvard of antisemitism, has amplified his allegations.

The materials, if handed over, would give the University’s lawyers a window into Kestenbaum’s relationship with politicians who have hounded Harvard with investigations and threats — putting administrators on the defensive as they try to salvage the school’s public image and federal funding.

Kestenbaum’s lawyers did not respond to a request for comment for this article.


Columbia Student Expelled for Storming Hamilton Hall Accesses Campus To Deliver Speech to Anti-Israel Protesters
Grant Miner, a Columbia University graduate student who was expelled earlier this month for overtaking Hamilton Hall, gave a speech on campus on Thursday, telling anti-Israel protesters they had to "fight back."

Miner, the president of Columbia's graduate student union, Student Workers of Columbia, led a chant before giving the speech on the steps of Low Library, an administrative building. The union organized the protest, demanding "No research cuts. No ICE. No censorship. No layoffs."

"Our workers, our students, our community members both in the campus and outside the campus are under attack, and we need to build a movement to fight back," Miner said through a megaphone to a crowd of roughly 120 people. "Are you going to help me do that?"

He argued that "due process is something which is increasingly in short supply in this country" but said he was allowed on campus because his appeal is pending.

Still, Miner's presence on campus comes amid questions over whether Columbia is enforcing the policies it told the Trump administration it implemented in a bid to restore more than $430 million in federal funds. Columbia interim president Katrina Armstrong, however, downplayed and denied that change was underway during a private Zoom call on Saturday with approximately 75 faculty members.

"Earlier this afternoon, the Students Workers of Columbia (SWC) held a rally on Columbia's campus," a university spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon. "Approximately 120 members of the community gathered. Our Public Safety and University Delegates carefully monitored the activity for violations of University rules and policies. All University activities today proceeded as normal, and our rules and policies were maintained."

"Under University rules and procedures, students facing disciplinary sanctions have a right of appeal," she added. "Student status remains unchanged while the appeal process is underway. The appellate process is underway; appeals will be considered by a panel of deans and will be completed by mid-April."


Georgetown University under the microscope as White House scrutinizes campus antisemitism
At a time when some elite universities are acquiescing to the Trump administration’s demands to crack down on antisemitic activity on campus, Georgetown University is pushing back by issuing statements supportive of a university professor and postdoctoral scholar who was detained by federal authorities last week for his reported affiliations with Hamas.

Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national who was studying and teaching as a postdoctoral fellow at the university on a student visa, was detained by federal immigration authorities outside of his home in Virginia last Wednesday. The Department of Homeland Security alleges he was “spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media” and “has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas,” according to a statement from Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at DHS.

Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, antisemitic demonstrations and graffiti incidents have roiled Georgetown’s campus. Weeks after Oct. 7, a Georgetown faculty statement condemning the war in Gaza failed to mention the Jewish connection to Israel or Hamas’ massacre committed against Israelis.

Among Georgetown’s faculty, Jonathan Brown, chair of the university’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and son-in-law of convicted terror supporter Sami Al-Arian, has gone on several X tirades since Oct. 7 slamming Israel.

Shortly after the attacks in November 2023, Brown tweeted, “Israel has been engaged in a genocidal project for decades. I’m a full professor.”

“Israeli security forces are lunatics. Israel is insanely racist,” Brown, who serves as the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, tweeted in March 2024.


KCL Students’ Union victim-blames hosts for disrupted speaking event instead of anti-Israel protesters responsible for sabotage
In a staggering decision, the King’s College London (KCL) Students’ Union has apparently issued a “formal warning” against a student society that hosted a speaking event which was disrupted by anti-Israel activists with chants of “From the River to the Sea” rather than the protesters themselves.

The genocidal chant ‘From the River to the Sea’, which is regularly heard at anti-Israel protests, refers to the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, and, whether intended or not, is widely understood to represent a call for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state — and its replacement with a Palestinian state. It is reasonably interpreted to be a call for the annihilation of half the world’s Jews, who live in Israel.

The event, which took place on 27th February, was titled ‘From Conflict to Connection: Israelis & Iranians in Dialogue’, and featured guest speaker Faezeh Alavi, an Iranian researcher and artist, speaking sympathetically about the future of Israel and Iran. The chanting came as part of a barrage of intimidation tactics targeting Ms Alavi and the organiser of the event. Security was forced to escort Ms Alavi out of the lecture theatre, and the event was swiftly and abruptly terminated. Students then continued their abuse and disruption outside the lecture theatre and throughout the corridors of the building.

Following the incident, we wrote to the University calling on the administration to take action and we have been supporting the Jewish KCL student who moderated the event.

Speaking to Campaign Against Antisemitism, the student said that prior to the event taking place, their day started normally. However, as the day progressed, they became “acutely aware that the event may cause some unnecessary commotion and welcome some unreceptive audience members” owing to spurious information appearing on the event’s sign-up sheet.

As the event started, the organiser noticed a senior member of the group KCL Students For Justice For Palestine (KCL SJP) – an official society at the University – sitting near the front. Approximately fifteen minutes into the event, a “pre-planned” and “premeditated” outburst occurred, the student told Campaign Against Antisemitism. The student said that Ms Alavi “was alarmed at the levels of anger and abuse hurled at her during the disruption.”


Lord Pickles: It would be ‘quite wrong’ for Holocaust Memorial to deal with other genocides
Lord Pickles has suggested it would be “quite wrong” for a future Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre built near to Parliament to focus on other genocides aside from the Shoah during the latest debate on the project.

Addressing suggestions that the long-awaited project could see genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia and Darfur also addressed, Pickles told the Lords Grand Committee:”I take exception to the idea that somehow the memorial is going to deal with anything other than the Shoah.

“That is quite wrong. There is not going to be a room on Rwanda or anything else.”

The Tory peer, who announced this week he was standing down from his role as UK envoy on post-Holocaust affairs to concentrate on his efforts, alongside Ed Balls, to get the Holocaust Memorial built in Victoria Tower Gardens, added:” This will be an important institution in the fight against antisemitism; it will be part of an international body that will fight antisemitism.

“It is likely to be the most visited museum anywhere in the world. It will act as a way of meeting new technologies and artificial intelligence and of finding roles that we actively take on; it will not be a passive museum.

“I understand and regret the disruption, but do not pretend that this is not focused on the Shoah, because it almost certainly is.”

Pickles also raised concerns about continued attempts to “use the Holocaust as a way of rinsing history.”

“The house of faiths in Hungary attempted to show Hungary being a victim of the Nazis, when in fact it was fully co-operative and collaborate,” said the peer, during Thursday’s Grand Committee debate.

” Look at the defamation laws in Poland, where it is a criminal offence to suggest that Poles were involved in the persecution of Jews.

“All these countries are really in favour of celebrating the blessed among the nations; they will talk forever about the people who saved Jews, and we should remember them and regard them with honour.

“But we should understand that those people were great exceptions to the rule.

“The majority of the population did nothing—they either collaborated or just looked the other way. Austria can no longer call itself the first victim of the Nazis. France has now admitted its culpability. Italy has admitted its culpability in the Holocaust.”
Chicago PD Concludes Investigation Into Cop Who Pled Guilty To Vandalizing Rabbi’s Car
After nearly a year-long investigation, the Chicago Police Department said the misconduct of one of its officers has been proven after he pleaded guilty to vandalizing an elderly rabbi’s car.

The news comes just days after The Daily Wire first reported that Mohammed Khan, 35, was arrested last March after he broke the side mirrors off of the vehicle of 77-year-old Rabbi Abraham Wineberg who was visiting his granddaughter and great-grandchildren in Chicago’s West Rogers Park Neighborhood. His family believes the car was targeted because it belonged to a Jew.

“It’s quite interesting that just days after The Daily Wire published on Officer Khan’s vandalism, the Chicago Police finally took action,” Wineberg’s granddaughter’s husband, Yisroel Wolf said. “They have not been forthcoming with information over the past year, so I do not think this is a coincidence.”

Weinberg’s family received an email every few months from the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs telling him that their investigation into his complaint about Khan was still ongoing. But on Tuesday they were notified the investigation was complete, and that Khan’s misconduct had been proven.

Wolf said he called the police after receiving the email, who told him Khan had been temporarily stripped of his policing duties and will undergo an internal process to determine what action to take.

“There is an internal investigation into this, and the process remains ongoing,” a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department told The Daily Wire. The spokesperson did not immediately give a clarification after being presented with the email sent to Wolf.
New Reform UK councillor said she was ‘proud’ of association with disgraced Chris Williamson
Nigel Farage issued a personal welcome to a former member of the far-left Socialist Labour Party who has defected to Reform UK.

But Jewish News has been alerted to a social media post in which Mandy Clare previously said she was “proud” to be associated with disgraced anti-Zionist ex-MP Chris Williamson.

Mandy Clare was among 29 councillors unveiled by Reform UK as recruits to the party in recent weeks.

Cllr Clare was a member of the Labour Party when first elected in Chester’s Winsford Dene ward in 2019, but had left in March 2022 to join the far-left Socialist Labour Party.

She was then a member of the Party of Women and the hyper-local Winsford Salt of the Earth Party, before settling as an independent in July 2024.

Following her defection, she has become a Reform UK Cheshire West and Chester Borough councillor.

Social media posts shown to Jewish News confirm that Clare had previously posted of disgust at “smears” that former Labour MP Williamson had faced claims over antisemitism.

Earlier this month at a press conference held to welcome her and 28 others to Reform UK, Farage said: “Mandy Clare is an ex-Labour councillor who led a campaign against transgender ideology eroding women’s rights, and she joins us on Cheshire West and Chester Council.

“She is very welcome.”
Toronto-area man found guilty of assault for spitting on Jewish couple
A Vaughan, Ontario, man was found guilty of two counts of assault for spitting on a Jewish couple leaving a Toronto-area synagogue after Saturday morning services, the National Post reported on March 25.

On Jan. 6, 2024, Tilda Roll, her husband Malcolm and two other congregants left their synagogue to return home and encountered Kenneth Jeewan Gobin, 35, as he rode at them on his electric bicycle. After one of the men in the group shouted at him for driving erratically, Gobin yelled, “Hitler should have killed you all,” and “you should have died in the Holocaust.”

Gobin then spit on Roll as her husband tried to shield her.

“The proximity has shattered the illusion that you’re safe in your home, you’re safe in your neighborhood, you’re safe on Shabbat,” Roll told the National Post. “It’s shattered and destroyed.”

Another witness of the altercation told police that Gobin, who was on probation at the time for a 2007 carjacking, made a gesture reminiscent of a Nazi salute.

“This recent incident in Vaughan is part of a deeply concerning trend we’ve seen over the past 18 months, with hate crimes and antisemitism rising across Ontario and Canada,” Richard Marceau, vice president of external affairs and general counsel for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, told JNS.

“We urge the court to consider the hate-motivated nature of this crime,” Marceau said. “The sentence must act as both a specific deterrent for the individual and a broader deterrent for the public, sending a clear message that this behavior is unacceptable and has serious consequences.”


Rafael reports record growth as Iron Beam nears deployment
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems concluded 2024 with record-breaking sales and a significant milestone: the impending operational deployment of its Iron Beam laser defense system.

Iron Beam has a range of up to 10 km. (6.2 mi), complementing the Iron Dome system, which intercepts projectiles fired from a greater distance.

The Haifa-based company reported a 27% increase in sales, reaching 17.8 billion shekels ($4.8 billion), and a 24% rise in its order backlog to 64.7 billion shekels ($17.5 billion), equivalent to more than three-and-a-half-year’s work. Net profit surged 64% to 950 million shekels ($257 million), driven by a strong fourth quarter in which sales hit 5.4 billion shekels ($1.46 billion)—a 20% year-on-year increase.

Despite challenges including employee military call-ups and supply chain disruptions, Rafael CEO Yoav Turgeman emphasized the company’s resilience. “We continued supplying defense products as expected and introduced new innovations. Our order backlog could have been even higher had we finalized additional contracts, which will be completed soon.”

Iron Beam: The future of missile defense
Looking ahead to 2025, Rafael’s primary focus is finalizing the Iron Beam system, the world’s first operational high-energy laser interceptor. According to Turgeman, Rafael is on track to meet its commitment to delivering the system by year’s end. “We are the first company in the world to bring such an advanced laser defense system to operational status. Despite all [the] challenges, we remain committed to our promise—this is a major global achievement.”

Iron Beam is set to revolutionize missile defense economics by significantly reducing interception costs. Currently, a single Tamir interceptor used by Iron Dome costs around $50,000 per launch. In contrast, terrorist organizations in Gaza, such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have spent as little as $500 to $1,000 per rocket, often funded by Iran. This economic asymmetry has long posed a challenge for Israel—until now.

The system is designed to complement Iron Dome, intercepting short-range threats at lightning speed and conserving missile stockpiles. “It allows us to neutralize threats at near-zero cost, forcing adversaries to spend significantly more to launch attacks than we do to stop them,” an official from the company said.




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