Tuesday, April 29, 2025

04/29 Links Pt2: We Honor the Fallen with Unshakeable Determination; Fielder’s Choice; Never Again? For Nike, Apparently Just Another Marketing Slogan

From Ian:

JPost Editorial: We Honor the Fallen with Unshakeable Determination
This week, as sirens pierce the air, bringing an entire nation to a standstill, Israel stands united in grief on Remembrance Day - as we remember fallen soldiers and victims of terror. These sirens remind us with devastating clarity why Israel must remain resolute and strong in a region that has rarely allowed peace.

Critics fail to comprehend that Israel carries the sacred obligation to safeguard its people. International law does not demand suicidal generosity toward those who have written Israel's destruction into their founding charter. The same nations that condemn Israel would never allow aid to flow unchecked into territories controlled by forces planning their citizens' massacre.

Israelis remember the unbearable price paid - generation after generation - simply to have a state at all. Each name read aloud at memorial ceremonies tells the story of why Israel cannot bow to international pressure when it comes to the security of its people. Israelis stand at gravesides and reaffirm a painful truth learned through centuries of persecution: without strength, there is no Israel.

This Remembrance Day, Israelis honor their fallen not just with tears but with unshakable determination. They will continue to fight - with courage, with morality, and with unwavering strength - for their right to live freely in the only place they have ever truly called home.
Ben-Gurion diary entries on day of independence revealed: ‘I mourn among the joyful’
Two images of the handwritten diary of David Ben-Gurion from the evening of May 14, 1948 — the day the State of Israel’s establishment was proclaimed — were released Monday ahead of Israel’s Independence Day, revealing the first prime minister’s anxieties as the newly born country headed to war against invading Arab neighbors.

The original diary has not yet been located, the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute and the Ben-Gurion Archive said, as they revealed the image from the journal.

“At 4 p.m., Jewish independence was declared and the state was founded. Its fate is in the hands of the security forces,” he wrote.

He described the difficult situation on the ground as the armies of the Arab League invaded: “Harsh news about armored columns of the Legion… they bombed Tel Aviv last night.”

“Almost all [general] staff members opposed my view to attack with greater force and more stubborn energy to conquer the areas around the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway… I feel that they missed and are missing the conquest that will determine the fate of Jerusalem — and perhaps the fate of the entire campaign.”

In an earlier entry, he wrote, “We approved the text of the Declaration of Independence. Independence declared at 4 p.m. Across the land, there is joy and profound happiness, and again I mourn among the joyful, as on November 29” — the date of the 1947 UN General Assembly decision approving the partition of Mandatory Palestine. Ben-Gurion appeared to be referencing his fear that the war could lead to disaster.

The copy of the diary was found in the Ben-Gurion Archives as part of a collaboration between the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute and the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Eitan Donitz, CEO of the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute, called the findings “history incarnate.”

“While the country celebrates, he is dealing with the question of the existence of the young state and is very anxious about it,” he said.

Donitz said the diary reveals the dilemmas faced by the first prime minister, the “deep responsibility Ben-Gurion felt, and the leadership that chose not to celebrate, but to fight for the existence of the state.”
How ANZAC forces helped shape Jerusalem's fate, paved way for Israel’s independence
Friday April 25, was “ANZAC Day,” without which it is unlikely there would be an Independence Day to celebrate in Israel the following week.

During the First World War, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) helped fight alongside Britain against the Turks, who were allied with the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria in what was known as the Quadruple Alliance, in the battle that ultimately led to Jerusalem.

They later fought with the Brits again in the Second World War against the Nazis, playing a crucial part in the future existence of the Jewish state.

It was on April 25, 1915, that Australian and New Zealand troops first arrived in the Middle East, together with British troops at Gallipoli, Turkey. The ensuing eight-month campaign led to over 56,000 allied deaths, including over 8,700 from Australia and 2,720 from New Zealand, according to Australian government statistics.

They fought valiantly, but were not able to overcome the Turks in Gallipoli. However, that was just the beginning of their heroic battles. ANZAC soldiers fought battles not only in Turkey, but also in Egypt, and what is now Israel.

On Oct. 31, 1917, the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade famously charged and conquered the Ottoman forces who had fortified the city of Beersheva, changing history forever. It was the last such charge on horseback, and against all odds, they prevailed, opening the way to Jerusalem and to the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire that had ruled for 400 years.

The British, who had troops stationed in Egypt, had tried twice to attack the Turks at Gaza and so open the way into Israel. After two failed attempts, a new general was appointed – General Allenby.

He decided to trick the Turks into thinking that another attack was coming from the west. After being in the desert with no water for more than two days, the men and their horses were getting desperate. Their only chance was to reach the wells at Beersheva, which scouts had identified as having an unlimited water supply, but they managed to convince the Turks that they had decided an attack on Beersheva was impossible. And it almost was.

After receiving orders from Allenby, Australian General Chauvel ordered that Beersheva must be taken before nightfall if the wells were to be secured. Their daring battle plan was to charge on their unarmed horses over five kilometers of land, straight at the Turkish troops and their cannons.
Ancient stone capital with menorah to go on display ahead of Independence Day
A rare 1,500 year-old stone capital decorated with a menorah, that was discovered just outside of Jerusalem, will go on display this week ahead of Independence Day, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday.

The limestone capital, which is decorated with an eight-branched menorah, was unearthed five years ago during the construction of a new bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem in the bedroom community of Motza, the state-run archaeological body said.

Israeli researchers believe the capital stood atop a pillar in a Roman-period building or street.

“The stone capital from the Jerusalem hills, decorated with the eight-branched menorah design, is unique, and a rare kind of discovery,” said Yuval Baruch, deputy director of archaeology at the IAA.

He noted that a few decades after the Second Temple’s destruction, the menorah became the distinct symbol of the Jewish people, both in the Diaspora and in the Land of Israel.

However, historical texts supported by archaeological research indicate that the Jewish settlement in Judea—and especially in the Jerusalem hills, suffered greatly as a result of the failed Bar Kokhba revolt in the 2nd century C.E., to the point of being considered eliminated.

“Based on this reality, it is reasonable to surmise that this capital [stone] was brought from a destroyed site elsewhere merely to serve as useful building material here,” said Baruch.


Seth Mandel: Fielder’s Choice
Nathan Fielder is a Canadian Jewish comic who has perfected an extremely difficult form of comedy—the spoof documentary that is only partially scripted. It’s awkward, it’s dry, and it’s not always clear what is real. When done right, it can be mesmerizing.

For this week’s episode of his show The Rehearsal, which airs on MAX (formerly HBO), Fielder wondered: What would happen if he took this already-combustible mix and added corporate brands and Nazis?

I have no idea what the offices of the MAX legal department were like when Fielder handed in his finished product, but I hope he delivered a nice bottle of wine along with the scripts and tapes.

The premise of The Rehearsal is simple: to practice, or to help others practice, for difficult conversations or confrontations they plan on having with people in their lives. This week’s show revisits a confrontation Fielder had with Paramount+, the network that hosted his previous show, Nathan For You.

Here’s what happened. In a Nathan For You episode in 2014, Fielder starts an apparel company to battle Holocaust denial and ends up going so far overboard with the marketing that the kiosk he designs is decked out in Nazi symbols. In 2023, Fielder discovered that Paramount had pulled the episode after the Oct. 7 attacks in a moment of corporate panic. Fielder regrets his muted objections at the time, which he blames on his own eagerness to avoid a fight with the network. So in this week’s The Rehearsal, he prepares a rehearsal for what he’d say and do if he got a second chance to challenge Paramount on its decision.

There’s an almost miraculously funny twist to the whole thing: The episode was pulled first in Germany, where the network feared airing Nazi imagery after Oct. 7. But soon, other national divisions of Paramount followed suit, until the episode became unavailable on the network’s streaming apps. (It is, however, available on MAX, which purchased the rights to air the Nathan For You back catalogue.)

The payoff is incredibly rewarding to watch. Fielder set up a fake Paramount+ Germany corporate office and hired an actor to play a German executive so he could practice sparring with the suits. The office looks like a Nazi HQ, the actor is clearly meant to mimic a cartoonish Nazi character, the Paramount logo appears on flags designed to evoke imperial grandiosity, and company employees are marching in uniform outside.
Call me Back Podcast - with Dan Senor: Israel’s Third Founding Moment - with Yonatan Adiri & Michal Lev-Ram
Today we have a special announcement: Ark Media, which we created as a home for Call Me Back, is launching its second podcast: What’s Your Number? - a weekly show focusing on Israel’s economy through a global lens.

Hosted by Michal Lev-Ram, an Israeli-born Silicon Valley-based tech journalist and contributing editor at Fortune, and Yonatan Adiri, an Israeli entrepreneur and former adviser to Shimon Peres, What’s Your Number? unpacks the latest developments in the Israeli economy. The podcast debuts this Thursday, May 1. Watch the trailer and subscribe here: https://lnk.to/3AQhX5

This episode of Call Me Back is something of a hybrid between our show and a preview for What’s Your Number? It was our pleasure to sit down with our new hosts, Yonatan Adiri & Michal Lev-Ram, to discuss the historic transformation Israel has been undergoing since October 7th, 2023.


Exclusive Interview: David Collier on Journalism's Collapse and the Fight for Truth
In an era of breaking news chaos, hyper-polarized narratives, and historic lows in media trust, genuine investigative journalism often feels like an endangered species. Few embody the spirit of tireless, fact-driven investigations better than David Collier, who has spent years documenting antisemitism, extremism, and systematic media failures in places most others overlook.

Collier's March 2025 exposé on the BBC's documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone revealed that the film's narrator, a 13-year-old boy, is the son of a senior Hamas official—a fact the BBC failed to disclose. Collier also found that other children featured in the documentary had familial ties to Hamas, and that the film's subtitles mistranslated or omitted terms like "Jews" and "jihad," replacing them with "Israelis" and "resistance," respectively. These revelations caused an uproar in the United Kingdom and globally, led to the documentary's removal from streaming platforms, and ignited widespread criticism of the broadcaster's editorial standards.

After his recent exposé on Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi—which revealed troubling facts about the alleged “peace advocate” that were ignored by legacy media outlets—Jewish Onliner reached out to Collier with a series of questions about his investigation, the state of journalism today, and the personal toll he has experienced by exposing uncomfortable yet necessary truths.

Jewish Onliner (JO): You’ve spent years documenting the quiet undercurrents of antisemitism, extremism, and media bias - often in spaces where others aren’t looking. In an age of social media saturation, AI-generated content, and polarized newsrooms, why do you believe the role of the investigative journalist still matters?

David Collier: I believe the role of the investigative journalist still matters because we do things others simply cannot. AI-generated content doesn't come into play when it comes to understanding what’s happening on social media. The role of someone like me—who goes beyond the noise and digs beneath the narrative being presented—is more important than ever. Rather than being replaced, I believe there should actually be more investigative journalists out there doing this work.

JO: Your investigation into Mohsen Mahdawi paints a far more complicated picture than the one embraced by many in the media and political class. Why do you think so many were quick to accept and promote the sanitized narrative? Is this just a symptom of pro-Palestinian bias, or is something deeper at play - perhaps ideological, psychological, or even generational?

David Collier: The issue with someone like Mohsen Mahdawi is complex. There are several reasons why people are so quick to accept and promote the sanitized narrative.

Firstly, there's the pro-Palestinian bias—obviously. Secondly, we live in a very lazy age. Most people have an attention span of about 280 characters, if that, or just one swipe of an image on Instagram. So actually countering the Palestinian narrative becomes a problem. They get to hold up an image of a dead baby—and that’s it. The message is loud and clear.

But for those of us on the other side, we have to provide context. We have to explain why that baby is dead. And that explanation takes far more than 280 characters.

Thirdly, there's reverse racism—the racism of low expectations. Palestinians are seen as having no agency. They can do no wrong. They’re the victims—every single time. But yeah, at the core of it, it’s mostly about antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.

Mahdawi can stand up and say whatever he likes. And the lies he’s pushed—nobody, not once, not ever, bothered to check them. Not a single mainstream media outlet said, “Hang on a minute, should we verify this story?”

And you know what? His basic claim—the one where he said he saw his best friend, a child, killed when he was 10—took about four minutes to disprove. Four minutes to prove it was a lie. And that’s a disgrace.
Louis Theroux’s settler documentary shows only half the story
In his latest documentary, The Settlers, Louis Theroux meets Ari Abramowitz, an Israeli settler living in the West Bank.

Wide-eyed Theroux asks Abramowitz if he’s holding a gun “for effect”. “No”, Ari responds. “I wear it for protection.”

Israeli settlements, to clarify, are Jewish villages (mainly in the West Bank) that were set up beyond Israel’s internationally recognised borders following the Arab-Israeli war in 1967.

I was born and raised in one such village not far from where Abramowitz lives, called Kfar Adumim.

I lived with constant fear throughout my childhood, frightened that a terrorist might emerge from the valley below our home and slaughter my family in our sleep.

That fear was not a product of my imagination. When I was a teenager, Hagit, a 23-year-old woman from my village, was swimming in a natural pool in the nearby valley with her friend when the pair were stabbed to death by a Palestinian attacker.

Thousands of Israeli civilians like Hagit have lost their lives to similar attacks over the years: some blown up in buses, others shot and rammed by cars.

My mother — the daughter of a Jewish refugee family from Baghdad — always slept with a pistol under her pillow. It was not an act of bravado but a matter of keeping us safe. I wonder whether Theroux would think my mother did it just “for effect” too.

Journalists have a duty to gather evidence and share knowledge responsibly when the public relies on their reporting. But The Settlers fails on all counts. Let me explain why.

Firstly, Theroux says that violence committed by settlers is often framed by them as a reaction to Palestinian violence, which he claims is “much less frequent” than the former.

But this is false. Palestinian attacks against Israelis are far more common than the inverse.


Egypt’s Nasser said in 1970 he had ‘no interest’ in Palestinian cause, recording reveals
A 1970 recording of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser indicating a lack of interest in the Palestinian cause is causing a stir in Egypt, Hebrew media reported Tuesday.

“We have no interest in the Palestinian issue. We will only talk about Sinai. When [the Israelis] leave Sinai, there will be an agreement,” the president says to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in the audio clip.

The recordings contradict the public persona of Nasser, who repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel in his speeches, created the Palestine Liberation Organization, led the Arab side in the 1967 Six Day War against Israel, and imprisoned hundreds of Jews after Israel’s victory.

But in the August 1970 recording — aired on his son’s YouTube channel — he showed no interest in fighting Israel.”If someone wants to struggle — let them struggle, and if someone wants to fight — let them fight. But today the Iraqis are telling us — all of Palestine from the river to the sea, or nothing.”

“If we want to achieve our goals, we must be realistic,” he said to Gaddafi. “You are welcome to mobilize the forces, go to Baghdad, and try to fight against Israel. We will stay away from this operation, leave us alone — we will choose a non-violent and defeatist solution. I can live with that.”


Pakistan an ‘antisemitism factory,’ Indian researcher reveals amid tensions - interview
"Israelis must understand," says researcher Ratnadeep Chakraborty in an exclusive interview with Maariv, "that Pakistan is not just an antisemitic state — it is a factory exporting antisemitism to the entire world. This is a strategic threat that Israel cannot afford to keep ignoring."

His sharp remarks follow the publication of a new report from Tel Aviv University regarding global antisemitism in 2024. Chakraborty authored the chapter on Pakistan, where he details the depth of the country’s dissemination of Jew-hatred.

For context: Pakistan is a Muslim nuclear state with almost no active Jewish community. Nevertheless, according to Chakraborty, it has managed to become one of the primary sources of global antisemitism — primarily through the propagation of hate via its education system, media, religious institutions, and political bodies.

This takes on an even greater significance amid the rising security tensions in South Asia: The deadly attack in Pahalgam Valley, where 26 Indian civilians — mostly tourists — were murdered, ignited a new round of mutual threats between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed states.

Given the "Hamas-style" nature of the attack, it is impossible to ignore the connection between the glorification of terror and the spread of antisemitism.
Exclusive: Radlett Labour candidate shared posts calling Zionism a ‘white supremacist project’
A Labour candidate standing in a Jewish area reposted a series of controversial messages about Zionism, Israel and the West, the JC can reveal.

Labour’s candidate for the Watling ward in Radlett, Hertfordshire, in next week’s local elections Satvinder Juss promoted comments including claims that Zionism is a “white supremacist project”.

One post shared by Juss, who is also a professor of human rights law at King’s College London, stated: “Zionism began as a Christian (not Jewish), white supremacist, imperialist project and continues to function as such. An enemy can only be defeated if you know its origins and functions.”

Another alleged that Israeli influence had affected British foreign policy, saying: “Money, improper influence + promotion of Israeli interests above our own contributed to the destruction of UK’s independent foreign policy, undermined UNRWA, the UN + international law. All at expense of innocent Palestinians.”

Juss also reposted a claim on X that Zionists bombed Iraq to frighten Iraqi Jews into fleeing to Israel. In a video he shared, anti-Israel academic Professor Avi Shlaim said: “Israel claims to speak for all Jews around the world, but Zionism is an Ashkenazi thing, nothing to do with us.”

And in a fourth repost, Juss shared a view that “the collective West is psychologically unprepared for a world in which it is not dominant”.

On his Facebook profile, he shared a video and an image featuring a misleading map suggesting that Palestine was an independent state before the foundation of Israel.
Never Again? For Nike, Apparently Just Another Marketing Slogan
You don’t get to claim ignorance when you are a billion-dollar global brand with entire departments dedicated to “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
You don’t get to plead innocence after years of "Never Again" being synonymous with the Holocaust across every major educational curriculum, every commemoration, every remembrance event on the planet.
Nike knew.
They chose not to care.
Their cowardly non-response to the 2014 Star of David incident, their disgusting hijacking of Holocaust language in 2025, and their broader indifference toward Jewish suffering expose a rot that runs deeper than poor marketing decisions. It shows what Nike thinks they can get away with when it comes to Jews.
And frankly, it’s not hard to see why they think that.
Jews don’t burn cities down. We don’t loot stores. We don’t unleash PR firestorms.
We call, we write, we ask for dignity — and companies like Nike sneer back with contempt, knowing they won't pay a price for treating us like a disposable nuisance.
Never Again... Except When It Hurts Sales
Nike’s hypocrisy is staggering.
They drape themselves in causes when it’s trendy and profitable.
They plaster slogans about equality across their billion-dollar ad buys.
They love “Never Again” when it suits them — when it’s safe, diluted, and meaningless.
But when "Never Again" demands reverence, humility, or even the tiniest shred of respect?
Nike smashes it underfoot like just another mass-produced sneaker destined for a landfill.
It’s obscene.
It’s cowardly.
And it’s unforgivable.
I'm Done.
I’m done giving Nike the benefit of the doubt.
I’m done pretending they just “made a mistake.”
And I hope everyone who still has a shred of decency left in them — Jewish or not — is done too.
Because if “Never Again” means anything at all, it means refusing to let companies like Nike commodify our dead and mock our memory without consequences.
Never again?
Tell that to Nike’s marketing department.
Better yet, tell it to their bottom line.
Nike apologises for marathon ad using the Holocaust phrase ‘Never Again’
Sneaker maker Nike has apologised for using the phrase “Never Again” in a billboard placed along the route of Sunday’s London Marathon.

Critics of the billboard — featuring a red background and large black letters reading “Never Again. Until Next Year” — lambasted the company for using a phrase often used as a reminder to heed the lessons of the Holocaust.

“The idea that @Nike would make light of the holocaust using Hitler-red imagery in a post- 7 October world is stunning,” the activist Jewish investor Bill Ackman wrote on X.

“I don’t believe for a second there was any ill malice, but please understand the concern with using the words ‘Never Again,’ what they represent and why this was in poor taste,” tweeted Arsen Ostrovsky, an a lawyer and pro-Israel activist.

In its apology, obtained by the Forward, Nike said the temporary billboard was part of a campaign to “inspire runners and the copy was based on common phrases used by runners.” The phrase was meant to echo runners who often swear off long races immediately after completing one, only to return for another round later.

“We did not mean any harm and apologize for any we caused,” the company said.

Nike is not the first entity to court controversy for using an otherwise common term that at least since the 1960s has been associated with calls to prevent another Holocaust. In 2018, survivors of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, took the hashtag “#NeverAgain” to promote their national gun control campaign. The phrase has also been used in protests against Donald Trump’s Muslim ban during his first term, in remembrance of Japanese internment during World War II and recalling the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

In some of those cases, the adopters were at least directly or indirectly referencing the Holocaust and using “never again” as an injunction not to repeat the kinds of actions that lead to intolerance and genocide.

Writing in the conservative British magazine The Spectator, the columnist Jonathan Sacerdoti said he was stunned when he first saw the billboard in London.

“It would have taken just one set of discerning eyes, one solitary voice, one ‘sensitivity reader’ to raise a gentle objection,” wrote Sacerdoti, whose column last week focused on Holocaust remembrance. “Did not a single Jew suggest that it might be inappropriate? Did not a single non-Jew, with a grasp of history or an awareness of today’s climate, flag it? If not, why not? Was this ignorance, carelessness, or a chilling indifference? Either way, the result is insulting and profoundly distasteful.”
Just keep going: What Jewish campus professionals owe their students
On Oct. 8, 2023, I called my parents in tears, paralyzed by the horrors of Hamas’ massacre and dreading what I knew was to come. My parents sat on the phone with me and said, “Just keep going.” That is what I tell students I work with today.

We are facing challenges that echo those our ancestors endured — only today in the Diaspora, and especially in the United States, they are playing out most visibly on college campuses. Persistence must be part of the student response, but it cannot be their burden alone.

When students ask “Why should I bother showing up to the student government meeting? They won’t listen,” Jewish professionals must step up with clarity, encouragement and courage. Because we are in a war for public opinion — one we lose by default when we disengage or deflect.

Too often, well-intentioned professionals instruct students to dodge hard conversations about the conflict, opting for “safe” talking points. When preparing for debates about BDS, for instance, some choose to focus on how divestment would negatively impact university finances or create legal risks. While those points are sometimes relevant, they do not help us with the long-term fight for public opinion. When we refuse to argue the merits of the issue, we lose vital opportunities to educate about the moral depravity of BDS and other anti-Israel campaigns, which are built on lies, directly linked to terrorist groups including Hamas and will only cause more human suffering. Ultimately, this leaves a dangerous vacuum that our opponents are eager to fill with propaganda.

We need to model productive engagement and debate even when it’s hard, and even when we are likely to lose. Real education takes time, and every anti-Israel campaign is an opportunity to reach new audiences. If we lose a student government vote but educate one new person about Israel and the Jewish story, that is a win. And if we keep showing up for those small wins, they will turn into big ones. As the Jewish adage says, one person constitutes an entire world.

We have inherited a legacy of persistence. It is our privilege and responsibility to build on that — not just to protect our students, but to help them carry it forward. We have a powerful story to tell, rooted in facts, moral clarity and a genuine desire for peace. We should tell it with pride.

And to the students: When you get discouraged, or when it feels too big, give me a call. My colleagues and I are ready to “keep going” together. After all, with our track record, I would never bet against the Jewish people.
San Francisco State slammed for hosting Palestinian terrorists, named ‘most antisemitic’ university: report
San Francisco State University sponsors a program that has included Palestinian terrorists as guest speakers, The Post has learned.

The university’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) course also organized a student trip to Jordan to meet with a convicted Hamas financier and the first woman to hijack an airplane – in the name of Palestinian liberation – according to sources.

The controversial guests and other incidents have led to lawsuits being filed by Jewish students and the university being dubbed “the most antisemitic college campus in the country” in 2018 according to a study by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI).

The study comes amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on universities, threatening to cease billions federal funding from schools that do not comply with efforts to protect Jewish students.

Rabab Abdulhadi, a professor and the director of the AMED program, has close ties to pro-Hamas groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the People’s Forum, the report obtained by The Post says.

People’s Forum, which is financed partly by the Chinese Communist Party, organized many of the New York demonstrations in support of Hamas immediately following the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel that left 1,200 Israelis dead.

Three days after the Hamas terror attacks, AMED posted on its official Facebook page honoring “all resistance fighters from Geronimo to #Gaza, Huwarra and Al Aqsa.” Geronimo refers to a 19th century Native American resistance fighter; Huwarra is the name of a Palestinian town located in the West Bank and Al Aqsa is a network of Palestinian militias, named for the holiest site in Jerusalem.


Hey, Harvard. Woke will make you broke!
No Ivy League official condemned the massacre on Oct. 7. No one called for the return of the hostages. Most shocking of all, Hamas was treated like a campus mascot. No one highlighted that Hamas is a genocidal death cult that is as much an enemy to Palestinians—most especially, women and homosexuals—as it is to Jews.

Universities demand free speech and academic freedom, but only if it is approved speech and the freedom to spread lies and distort history. To this day, each of these institutions believes that threatening Jews is justifiable so long as it is ancillary to supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel. Talk about shapeshifting, disingenuous nonsense.

Really? You mean if I happen to oppose racial equity, I can shove an African-American on campus and shout, “Lynch Blacks!”? Does academic freedom mean that the Harvard History Department, if it so chooses, can teach only one perspective on the Civil War—the one espoused by the Confederate Army and plantation owners—with each course concluding that Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was presidential overreach?

Universities have surrendered critical thinking to groupthink, replaced free speech with selective censorship, and categorically forbidden viewpoint diversity, especially if it involves seeing Israel as anything other than a settler-colonial, apartheid regime.

Punitive measures were necessary and most definitely deserved. They had well over a year and a half to properly respond to the antisemitism that had overtaken their campuses. Instead comes academic jargon and lip service.

At the first, infamous congressional hearing, three presidents of elite schools refused to concede that calling for the genocide of Jews violates their Codes of Conduct. (It’s not protected under the First Amendment, either.) They dissembled, appearing contemptuous, all the while fearing how their testimony would play at home.

The natives on campus were restless, after all. The joke was on Congress. The gods of DEI were running these elite, out-of-touch, self-indulgent academies. Neither the safety of Jews nor the obligations of open inquiry were going to get in the way. Is it any wonder Jewish enrollment at these schools has been declining?

Some things, of course, never change. Many of the Jewish legacy organizations, and the Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements, signed a letter opposing the deportation of pro-Hamas foreign students and the denial of federal funds to these universities.

Black Lives Matter déjà vu, anyone? Jews are always pumping their fists at the front of the line, loudly proclaiming their tikkun olam bona fides, only to end up standing alone in other lines, destinations unknown, wondering what went wrong.
Under fire, Harvard releases reports on antisemitism, Islamophobia on campus
Harvard University’s long-awaited dual reports on antisemitism and Islamophobia, released on Tuesday, reveal a campus beset by tension and simmering distrust — as well as a university struggling to handle competing claims of discrimination, animosity and exclusion made by Jewish and Muslim students.

In the 300-page antisemitism report, which was made public amid alumni frustration and pressure from the Trump administration, Harvard commits to partner with an Israeli university; provide additional resources for the study of Hebrew and Judaic studies; host an annual academic symposium on antisemitism; ask the leadership of Sidechat, a social media app that allows college students to post anonymously, to enforce its content moderation policies; and launch a pilot program in the business school addressing contemporary antisemitism.

The authors of the antisemitism report described “severe problems” that Jewish students have faced in the classroom, on social media and through campus protests. The report announced the hiring of an Office for Community Conduct staff member expected to consult on all complaints relating to antisemitism, as well as the release of an annual report on the university’s response to discrimination or harassment based on the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

In a letter publicizing the reports, Harvard President Alan Garber called the 2023-2024 academic year, following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, “disappointing and painful,” and said the reports “reveal aspects of a charged period in our recent history.” He condemned both antisemitism and Islamophobia, and pledged that the university will take action to counter both forms of hatred.

Many of the recommendations in both the antisemitism and Islamophobia reports are the same: working to create a pluralistic campus environment where differing opinions are respected, committing additional resources to the university’s Title VI office, providing greater halal and kosher food options and shoring up university policy around protests and activism.

But the instances of hate or discrimination that were described by Jewish and Muslim students differ. Often, what one group views as bigotry, the other views as acceptable behavior, or an expression of their freedom of speech.
Harvard Students Ordered To Enter Pretrial Diversion Program Over Assault of Israeli Classmate
The two Harvard University students who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel "die-in" protest will take an in-person anger management class and perform 80 hours of community service as part of a pretrial diversion program, court filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

The two students, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo and Ibrahim Bharmal, sought the program, and a Suffolk County judge approved it during a Monday hearing. Their attorneys requested only 40 hours of community service, but the judge sided with the prosecutor Ursula Knight's call for 80 hours. Knight also called for the anger management class as well as a statement from Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal admitting fault. The judge did not include the latter request in his order.

The development means that the long-running ordeal will soon come to an end, with Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal scheduled to appear in court for a "Pretrial diversion completion" hearing on July 25, according to court filings. That hearing will take place nearly two years after Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal were shown shoving and accosting an Israeli student at Harvard Business school in a video first reported by the Free Beacon. The Israeli student was attempting to walk through an Oct. 18, 2023, "die-in" protest assailing Israel's retaliatory attacks on Hamas when keffiyeh-clad individuals surrounded him, shouting, "SHAME!"

The video prompted criticism from prominent Harvard Business School alumni, including former Utah senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) and billionaire investor Seth Klarman, who cited the incident in a 2023 letter that accused Harvard of failing to protect its Jewish students. Harvard, however, remained quiet about the case, even as Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal faced charges last May. Both students remained in good standing with the school in the wake of the die-in, and both were expected to graduate in May 2025, Bharmal from the law school and Tettey-Tamaklo from the divinity school.

As their assault case progressed, Harvard did not say whether it would award Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal degrees if the proceedings were ongoing or if they were convicted. The school did not immediately respond to a request for comment. If Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal complete the pretrial diversion program, their records will not contain criminal convictions.

Bharmal, a former Harvard Law Review editor, received support from both Harvard Law School and the left-wing legal community as the case unfolded. Last June, around the same time he was charged, Bharmal worked as an immigration law clerk in the Washington, D.C.'s public defender's office, the Free Beacon reported. Then, in April, Harvard Law School published a blog post in which Bharmal fondly reminisced on his time at the "Crimmigration Clinic," a law school course in which students work on federal immigration cases.

The case may have concluded sooner if not for Harvard, which refused to cooperate with the Suffolk County District Attorney's probe into the "die-in," according to the DA's office. The office requested Harvard's police department conduct a "follow up investigation" aimed at identifying "any additional perpetrators" as well as "inculpatory/exculpatory evidence." Harvard declined, the DA's office told the Free Beacon last year, prompting county prosecutor Knight to admonish the school in court.


House Ed Committee Demands Interview With Northwestern President Over Campus Anti-Semitism
The House Committee on Education and Workforce is turning up the heat on Northwestern University president Michael Schill, demanding he sit down for a transcribed interview to discuss what the school has—or hasn’t—done to address campus anti-Semitism.

In an April 28 letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, committee chairman Rep. Tim Walberg accused Schill of failing to fulfill promises he made during a congressional hearing last year to combat anti-Semitism with tougher discipline, enhanced security, and a revised student code of conduct. The Michigan Republican flagged incidents discussed at the time as well as more recent examples of anti-Semitism at Northwestern.

"The Committee seeks to understand both this disturbing climate of antisemitism at Northwestern as well as the University’s apparent failure to protect Jewish students, and therefore seeks to conduct a transcribed interview with you," Walberg wrote. "Since your testimony at the Committee’s May 23, 2024 hearing, despite Northwestern’s claims to the contrary, the Committee has not seen your commitments to discipline, enforcement, and security come to satisfactory fruition."

Walberg pointed to a number of incidents discussed during the hearing, such as one Jewish student getting spat on while wearing a yarmulke and another being told, "Go back to Germany and get gassed." Schill admitted at the time that no students had been expelled or suspended for anti-Semitic conduct since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Walberg said his committee hasn’t seen evidence that Northwestern has strengthened its disciplinary policies.

"It remains unclear whether any students or faculty have been meaningfully disciplined," he wrote.

Testimony from Schill during an interview "regarding antisemitism at Northwestern, and the steps that the university has and has not taken to address antisemitism, will assist the Committee in determining both whether there is a need for legislative reforms to combat antisemitic discrimination and harassment and what shape such potential reforms should take," Walberg wrote.

The letter comes at a precarious time for Northwestern. Earlier this month, the Trump administration froze $790 million in federal funding to the university amid a civil rights investigation into alleged anti-Semitism and racial discrimination on campus. Like Harvard, which saw $2.2 billion frozen on April 14, Northwestern retained a high-profile, MAGA-linked lobbying firm to navigate the scrutiny.
Northwestern Tells JVP: Change Your Constitution or Risk Discipline Under New Anti-Discrimination Policy
Northwestern University warned its Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter that its constitution, which bars Zionist Jews from joining, violates the school’s new anti-discrimination policy, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

The constitution for the anti-Israel student group states that "members are expected to be anti-Zionist and identify with Judaism" and requires a faculty adviser to be a "Jewish anti-Zionist or support anti-Zionist philosophies." According to its mission statement, JVP aims to build an "anti-Zionist Jewish community on campus."

The group seems committed to that goal, playing a significant role in anti-Israel campus activity with an adviser, Sarah Schulman, who has repeatedly blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. But JVP's constitution doesn't square with Northwestern’s updated non-discrimination policies, which incorporated the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. That definition states that "denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor," is a form of anti-Semitism.

A Northwestern spokeswoman told the Free Beacon that the university is making Northwestern's JVP branch, a recognized student group that formed after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, change its rules.

"As a registered student organization, Jewish Voice for Peace is required to comply with Northwestern’s anti-discrimination policies. The appropriate steps are in progress to revise the organization’s constitution and membership policies," she said.

The move comes as Northwestern faces pressure to rein in campus anti-Semitism. Earlier this month, the Trump administration froze $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern amid a civil rights investigation into alleged anti-Semitism and racial discrimination on campus. The House Committee on Education and Workforce, meanwhile, is demanding a meeting on anti-Semitism with Northwestern’s president, the Free Beacon reported.

Like Harvard, which saw $2.2 billion frozen on April 14, Northwestern retained a high-profile, MAGA-linked lobbying firm to navigate the scrutiny.

Wendy Khabie, the mother of a Northwestern student and national co-chair of the Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern (CAAN), told the Free Beacon that student organizations should be stripped of their rights if they don't update their policies.

"We expect that any and every registered student group affiliated with the University would be held responsible for meeting all of the requirements established by the code of conduct and student handbook. That includes any updates or revisions recently made, with specific regard to the University’s adoption of IHRA," Khabie said. "It would be concerning if the University afforded rights and privileges to groups that are not in full compliance with established guidelines."
Philadelphia educator sues school district for harassment after Oct. 7
Philadelphia educator Heather Mizrachi walked into her city school district office following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, only to be greeted by a poster with the slogan, “Free Palestine.”

For Mizrachi, who is Jewish and the daughter of an Israeli, the image was jarring, to say the least. She continued to see the poster daily in her job in the central office as a curriculum specialist for middle-school students. Her complaints were ignored, she said.

“Each of those encounters left me in tears, in complete despair, and left me feeling dehumanized and undermined because of my religion and shared national origin,” the New Jersey resident told JNS via Microsoft Teams.

She added that there had always been a few postings from a few people, but after Oct. 7, “it was a flooding of the gates kind of situation.”

Citing the poster and other acts of harassment post-Oct. 7, including social-media posts from fellow school district employees. Mizrachi, who had worked for the Philadelphia city school system since 2017, went to court.

Her lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania, says she “has been forced to endure conditions that, by any objective measure, are grossly offensive, severe, and pervasive, including, among many other things, being forced to look at images that advocate for the violent destruction of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.”

“It made it nearly impossible not to pursue this path,” she said about the lawsuit. She said she felt that her colleagues had a “sense of permission to post these kinds of things. That’s been very troubling for me.”

The school district had no comment. It does not comment on pending litigation,” spokeswoman Christina Clark told JNS in a statement.

The aforementioned poster also included a Palestinian flag and the slogan, “From the river to the sea,” which the Anti-Defamation League says has been used by supporters of Hamas and other terrorist organizations and “is an antisemitic charge denying the Jewish right to self-determination, including through the removal of Jews from their ancestral homeland.”


BBC review finds Jewish staff fear career damage for raising concerns
BBC employees and freelancers, including Jewish and Muslim staff, fear that raising concerns could damage their careers, a major independent workplace culture review has found.

The 2025 review, commissioned by the BBC Board, revealed that both Jewish and Muslim staff had expressed fear about “speaking up, raising issues and being themselves at work”, concerns that have intensified since the conflict in the Middle East reignited last October.

The report states that Jewish and Muslim networks “felt concerns have not been heard or acted on”, and that a plan of action has been shared with the BBC Executive Committee.

Separately, the review found broader fear among freelancers creating BBC content, regardless of background, that raising complaints could be “career-limiting”. Many feared being seen as “difficult” or risking future work by speaking up.

Despite the BBC having more channels for complaints than in 2013, including anonymous whistleblowing options, many staff remain unclear on how to access them.

A survey of nearly 900 freelancers found that while most said BBC teams behaved in line with corporate values, almost half said they did not feel safe speaking out about inappropriate behaviour. Just 42 percent believed the BBC holds people accountable for misconduct.

The review warns that “speaking up is especially seen as pointless” when concerns involve “presenters, high-profile seniors and favourites”, with some Jewish staff describing a culture where influence shields certain individuals from scrutiny.

The BBC Board has accepted the report’s recommendations, which include resetting behavioural standards, improving informal resolution processes, and greater transparency on outcomes when issues are raised.

In a statement, the BBC said, “The BBC has said it will take immediate action to improve workplace culture, after publishing a comprehensive independent report.

“The BBC Board has fully accepted the report and its findings, as has BBC management. Both view it as a catalyst for meaningful change – to reinforce expectations around behaviour and act more decisively when standards are not met.”
Definition of ‘hostage’ is ‘subjective’, says press regulator
Describing Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel as “hostages” is not a breach of the Independent Press Standards Organisation’s (Ipso) accuracy clause, the UK press regulator has said.

A complaint was sent to IPSO after a Scottish daily newspaper, The National, owned by Newsquest, published an article on February 15, 2025, headlined: “Hundreds of Palestinian hostages released by Israel.”

From its headline, the story seemed to refer to the release of 369 Palestinian prisoners that Saturday in exchange for the return of three Israeli hostages: Alexander Troufanov, 29, Yair Horn, 46, and Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36.

The exchange occurred during the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, which came into effect on January 19, although fighting resumed on March 18.

Writing to Ipso, the UK co-editor of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting (CAMERA), Adam Levick, filed a complaint about the headline.

He said that the description of Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli prisons as “hostages” was a “gross misrepresentation” and breached the accuracy clause – the first clause out of 16 – in the Editors’ Code of Practice.

After reviewing the complaint, Ipso wrote back to Levick to say that the Complaints Team decided the headline did “not raise a possible breach of the Editors’ Code”.

After Levick appealed the decision, Ipso’s Complaints Committee declined to re-open the complaint following a review.

In Levick’s complaint, he said the headline was inaccurate because “it puts on equal moral footing” Israeli civilians kidnapped during Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023, and Palestinian prisoners, “most of whom were members of a proscribed terrorist group and were convicted of violent offences”.

But Ipso, in its response to Levick, contested this characterisation of the Palestinian prisoners, citing a BBC article from February 15, 2025, which reported that out of the 369 Palestinians released that day, 36 of them had been serving life sentences, and 333 were detained without charge since the October 7 attacks.


Second Israeli national murdered in Los Angeles within 24 hours, LAPD probes potential links
A second Israeli national has been found dead in Los Angeles within a 24-hour period, raising concerns within the local Israeli community and prompting authorities to investigate potential connections between the two incidents.

Meni Khidra, an Israeli businessman and brother of Deputy Commissioner Moshe Khidra, who oversees the Nitzan Detention Center in Israel, was discovered deceased in his apartment in the Valley Village neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's Van Nuys division responded to a call after family members reported being unable to contact him. Emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. The LAPD has initiated a homicide investigation, though no suspects have been arrested, and the cause of death has not been disclosed.

This incident follows the killing of Alexander Modvadze, a 47-year-old Israeli-American businessman, who was found dead in his Woodland Hills home early Saturday morning.

According to police reports, three Georgian nationals—Pata Kuchiyashvili (38), Zaza Otarashvili (46), and Besiki Khutsishvili (52)—allegedly broke into Modvadze's home, held him captive, and fatally assaulted him. The suspects were apprehended within hours with assistance from the FBI and are being held on $2 million bail each.
NHS manager keeps job after appearing on work call with Nazi flag and photo of Hitler
An NHS manager at South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) kept his job after joining a work video call with a swastika flag, Nazi armband and a framed photo of Adolf Hitler clearly visible in the background.

The incident took place during a virtual meeting about staffing. An anonymous colleague told Sky News she was stunned by what she saw in the manager’s home office: “I kept looking around the room thinking, ‘Why is no one saying anything?’”

A recording of the call showed a large Nazi flag leaning against the wall, a red swastika armband displayed on a bookshelf and an A4 portrait of Hitler.

“When I spoke to people afterwards, they said, ‘Oh yeah… he’s always been into Nazi stuff,” the worker said.

She initially reported the display anonymously but was told she would need to name herself and file a formal grievance. When she did, she says colleagues turned on her.

“It killed my career,” she said. “They’ve not supported me at all. Whenever I heard sirens, I got palpitations. I was terrified of who would be in that ambulance.”


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Rachel Riley pens foreword to translation of Warsaw Ghetto uprising eyewitness account
A powerful account of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising has been translated from Yiddish into English for the first time.

The new edition of ‘The Jewish Revolt’, written by Holocaust survivor, writer and historian Rachel Auerbach, was launched last week at a Yom Hashoah event at JW3 commemorating Jewish resistance and the importance of preserving Yiddish language.

With a moving foreword by TV personality and campaigner against antisemitism Rachel Riley, it documents the 1943 uprising by Jewish insurgents inside the Polish ghetto against the Nazis.

The book includes rare photographs, the photo essay Yellow Star, and Auerbach’s haunting reflections “Yisker” and “A Grave Marker”. New technology has helped identify faces in the images, restoring names to history.

Those stark images were showcased against the backdrop of poetry by Warsaw-born Yiddish poet Binem Heller and live music originally composed within the ghetto by child prodigy Josima Feldschuh, who died on Wednesday, 21 April 1943, on the second day of Pesach and the third day of the uprising.

It was followed by a panel discussion on the Holocaust with Professor Antony Polonsky and Maor Ashkar, alongside video messages from Sir Stephen Fry & Rabbi Harvey Belovski.

Addressing the assembled guests at JW3, Rachel Riley described the book as “a staggeringly tender portrait of a lost tribe”, adding that Auerbach was “determined to try and remember each of them as they were, as they were marched out of the ghetto into deportations to what she would later discover, the gas chambers, from the beggars to the babies, the musicians to the bakers, the professors to the thieves, she wants to memorialise them.”
October 7 survivors to accompany Yuval Raphael to Eurovision
Survivors of the October 7 massacre will travel with Israel's Eurovision contestant, Yuval Raphael, to the 2025 competition in Switzerland, Walla reported this week.

The survivors accompanying Raphael are afraid to reveal their names for safety and security reasons. It should be noted that the survivors are not an official part of the delegation, but are accompanying it.

One of the survivors who will join Raphael told Walla: "I am very excited to be with Yuval and represent Israel. I wish her the best of luck, and I know it will be very exciting."

Who is Raphael?
On October 7, 2023, Raphael arrived with some friends to celebrate at the Nova festival. After Hamas invaded, she and her friends attempted to flee by car but were unable to. Instead, they chose to hide inside a tiny roadside bomb shelter.

At least 40 people crammed into the small concrete structure to shelter from both rockets and bullets. But Hamas fighters found them within minutes and fired at the people inside.

For seven hours, Raphael lay buried under the bodies of her murdered friends, pretending to be dead as Hamas terrorists stormed in, sprayed bullets, and threw grenades at the dozens of festivalgoers hiding inside.

"I could feel the heat of the explosions, feel my body being crushed under the weight of the dead," she later told Channel 12. "I kept repeating to myself, ‘Don’t breathe. Don’t move. Stay dead.'"
Remembering the fallen: Israel marks Yom Hazikaron
Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism begins on Tuesday evening and continues through Wednesday until the closing ceremony. The day honors those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country’s existence and security.

Independence Day will begin on Wednesday evening (Iyar 5, 5785), immediately following Memorial Day ceremonies, and continue until Thursday. The transition from Memorial Day to Independence Day symbolizes the deep connection between remembering the fallen and the establishment of the state, including the traditional torch-lighting ceremony at Mount Herzl.

When are the sirens?

The first siren will sound nationwide at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. The second will sound nationwide at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

Why was the Hebrew date of Memorial Day and Independence Day moved up this year?

According to a government decision and the Independence Day Law (1949), when Independence Day (fifth of Iyar) falls on Friday or Saturday, the holiday is postponed or moved up to prevent Sabbath desecration due to rehearsals, security drills, state ceremonies, etc.

Since the fifth of Iyar 5785 (the historical date of the Declaration of Independence) falls this year on Saturday (May 3), it was decided to move Memorial Day and Independence Day forward to days that would not cause Sabbath desecration or harm the honor of the fallen.
IDF chief honors the fallen, vows to strengthen Israel’s security
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Monday issued a stirring address marking Israel’s 2025 Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel’s Wars and Victims of Terrorism, which begins on Tuesday evening.

“As we lift our eyes to the flag, now lowered to half-mast, we pledge to rise from every fracture, to thrive, to rebuild and to continue strengthening the security of the State of Israel,” said Zamir.

He reflected on the historical roots of Jewish resilience across millennia of exile and return, emphasizing that remembrance is a central pillar of national identity. He paid tribute to the sacrifices of Israel’s defenders from the pre-state pioneers and Holocaust survivors to today’s soldiers battling terrorism across all fronts, including Gaza, Judea and Samaria and Lebanon.

This year’s memorial observance comes in the shadow of the devastating events of Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists launched a brutal attack on Israeli communities, resulting in profound national trauma and renewed security challenges. Zamir noted that “many new names” had been added to Israel’s memorial walls in the past 18 months.

“We uphold our moral duty to remember the past, work for a present of prosperity and growth, and secure the future entrusted to us,” he said. He pledged the military’s unwavering commitment to rescue Israeli hostages still held by enemy forces and to restore a sense of safety for every citizen.

As Israel prepares to transition from mourning to celebration with its 77th Independence Day, Zamir urged the nation to honor the legacy of the fallen by embodying strength, unity and vigilance.

“Only then shall we be worthy of the legacy of the fallen. Only then can we promise to stand guard, ready and resolute for generations to come,” he concluded.
New memorial wall unveiled honoring 466 fallen kibbutz members
A new memorial wall bearing the names of 466 fallen kibbutz members was unveiled this week at the Memorial to Fallen Kibbutz Members in Mishmar HaEmek.

The site, located in the Megiddo Regional Council, has long served as a national tribute to kibbutz members who died in Israel’s wars and acts of terror. Until now, it featured four stone walls engraved with the names of 3,067 individuals. The addition of a fifth wall marks one of the most significant updates to the memorial since its establishment.

The new wall includes the names of 391 kibbutz members who were killed during the October 7 attacks, as well as 75 who have fallen since in the ongoing Israel-Hamas War.

The construction and funding of the new section were made possible through the Kibbutz Movement Rehabilitation Fund, which has been active in supporting bereaved families and rebuilding efforts since the attacks.

Although the wall was unveiled ahead of Israel’s national Remembrance Day, it will be formally inaugurated during the Kibbutz Movement’s own memorial ceremony next month.

Alongside the new wall, a monument was also introduced to mark the fact that, on the eve of October 7, kibbutzim from the historic "11 Points" were celebrating the anniversary of the kibbutz movement’s founding.

"As many communities continue to grieve their losses and kibbutzim work to rebuild their homes, it is crucial to pause and honor their memory," Neri Shotan, CEO of the Kibbutz Movement Rehabilitation Fund, said in a statement. "The work of rehabilitation continues amidst great uncertainty, and we stand with them in remembrance and solidarity."




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