Thursday, May 08, 2025

05/08 Links Pt2: A Pogrom Is Brewing in Canada; Pulitzer’s Ignoble Prize; The Campus Hamasniks Won’t Have It So Easy This Time; Israel warns travelers to Eurovision to not show Jewish, Israeli symbols

From Ian:

A Pogrom Is Brewing in Canada
What all of this has led to is the suppression of open Jewish life in Canada, the hiding of Jewish symbols, the need to host Jewish events in secret or with even more intense security, and even some people fleeing the country. Students at Toronto Metropolitan University who recently shared that they “can’t be openly Jewish” on campus aren’t the exception. They’ve become the norm. “I went in with people hating me right off the bat and me not being able to make any friends who are non-Jewish in my classes or in my program,” one student said.

What is unfolding in Canada is not a grassroots, spontaneous expression of solidarity for Palestinians, although the press covers it that way.

This is an orchestrated effort to normalize antisemitic incitement under the guise of political activism. The days of exclusionary signs at golf clubs have been replaced by open calls for jihad and terrorist cosplay—all animated by an obsession with intimidating Jews, including in their own neighborhoods.

Pogroms rarely begin with organized massacres; typically, they start with tolerated incitement, with mobs unpunished, and with authorities hesitant to act decisively for fear of political blowback.

And that is perhaps the most alarming thing of all happening right now in Canada.

On more than one occasion, protesters clad in keffiyehs, inciting violence, intimidating Jews and non-Jews alike, and calling for the erasure of Israel have been met with equivocation.

Too often, authorities have hesitated to enforce laws against harassment and incitement when masked by the rhetoric of “resistance.” Political leaders have downplayed the extremist nature of these rallies. Universities and unions have wavered in condemning overt Jew-hatred cloaked in the language of activism, righteousness, and progressivism.

On one occasion, for instance, police officers in Toronto handed out coffee and baked goods to protesters. On another occasion, they allegedly arrested a Jewish man, in a Jewish neighborhood this month, for confronting the terrorist supporters who have taken to the streets every weekend since October 7, 2023. For nearly 600 days, Jews in Canada have been asking themselves: Is the state still on our side? Is law enforcement willing to do what it takes to shut this down?

In this sense, Wilf was perhaps more right than she could have imagined.

Canada now faces a moral test. Our institutions—from police and prosecutors to politicians and civil society—must decide whether to confront antisemitic threats firmly or equivocate and excuse them as protest.

This is not a Jewish issue. It is a Canadian one. A society that allows a vulnerable minority to be openly menaced cannot claim to be safe or just for any of its citizens. Antisemitism is often the first sign of broader social decay. If mobs can intimidate Jewish schools and hospitals today, what do we expect they’ll do tomorrow?

Everyone with eyes is bracing for the explosion.
A New Approach to Dealing with Boycott Activities: Exacting a Price from the PA
For many years, Israel has been the subject of a widespread, coordinated attack to promote Boycotts, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS). The goal of the BDS movement is to undermine Israel's legitimacy as the nation-state of the Jewish people. It is impossible to ignore the fact that the Palestinian Authority (PA) stands at the forefront of this struggle, in breach of all the agreements it has signed. To date, the State of Israel and its representatives have focused their efforts on combating BDS activities in various ways, mainly in the international arena.

Against this background, and as a complementary activity, the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) has formulated a proposal for an alternative approach to this phenomenon.

The main thrust of the proposal is to exact a price from the PA for its activities to promote BDS by presenting and stressing the fact that BDS activities can be a two-way street.

Palestinian "exports" to Israel benefit the PA because they allow the employment of tens of thousands of Palestinians in various roles to produce the goods sold to Israel. The PA benefits from a situation where it acts simultaneously both to promote a boycott against Israel and to continue to profit from trade with it.

If Israel were not only to stop the entry of workers but also to expand the reduction of trade with PA territories to the point of a complete ban, the damage to the Palestinian economy could be enormous and would lead to an almost complete slowdown and even a rise in unemployment.
Seth Mandel: Columbia Exposes the ‘Academic Freedom’ Hypocrites
What these groups did yesterday at Columbia is, simply, what these groups do. There was no escalation, in other words. This is just what defenders of the tentifada groups have been defending all along.

Here is how new Columbia President Claire Shipman described the scene she witnessed:
“I spent the late afternoon and evening at Butler Library, as events were unfolding, to understand the situation on the ground and to be able to make the best decisions possible. I arrived to see one of our Public Safety officers wheeled out on a gurney and another getting bandaged. As I left hours later, I walked through the reading room, one of the many jewels of Butler Library, and I saw it defaced and damaged in disturbing ways and with disturbing slogans. Violence and vandalism, hijacking a library—none of that has any place on our campus.”

So that’s what’s new—the idea that now, finally, these are not Columbia values.

Shipman continued:
“I am particularly heartbroken, and incensed, that this disruption occurred when our students are intensely focused on critical academic work. At a moment when our community deserves calm and the opportunity to study, reflect, and complete the academic year successfully, these actions created unnecessary stress and danger. I have seen how much our community wants to take back our narrative, to do what they came to Columbia to do—learn, thrive, and grow—not take over a library.”

That part is still up in the air, is it not? Whether the Columbia “community” wants to learn, or at least to change the narrative. It does seem as though Shipman wants to change the narrative.

That narrative has been carefully crafted by the protesters over the past year and a half. They have not spent any energy disproving the allegations against them, and last night they were beyond parody. The main protest group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, put out a message in the middle of the standoff reiterating their cowardice and victim complex, whining that they “refuse to show our IDs under militarized arrest.”

The good news, I suppose, is that that statement proves that nobody in that group has ever been under actual militarized arrest.

Eighty of them were, however, eventually put under regular old arrest once the NYPD got involved. Before that, the school’s security team had done something remarkably wise: They refused to let protesters leave the “occupation” unless they showed their identification. Suddenly, the masks and keffiyehs were useless. These kids weren’t under some kind of Beijing-style surveillance state with facial recognition technology condemning them to a life of low social-credit scores. They were just dime-a-dozen thugs.

Even the groups who are usually highly defensive of the tentifada movement popped up with milquetoast statements about the students having gone too far. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) quietly tsk-tsked the bad behavior. But it would have been nice had the “academic freedom” groups been leading the fight on campus to restore the academic freedom of the Jewish students under siege. Had they done so—had they cared enough about academic freedom to protect it from campus Hamasniks—they wouldn’t be fighting to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to Harvard and Columbia and the rest. Alas, here we are.
Abe Greenwald: The Campus Hamasniks Won’t Have It So Easy This Time
via Commentary Newsletter sign up here There is little room left for pretending that they’re just a bunch of idealistic kids who hate war. Whether Donald Trump wins his fight against university radicalism, the effort itself is serving to bring the woke jihad’s worst actors out of the shadows. The group responsible for yesterday’s occupation at Columbia is none other than Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the same organization in which pending deportee Mahmoud Khalil was a leader. Because of this case, we know that CUAD is on the record celebrating Hamas’s October 7 massacre, praising Yahya Sinwar, and mourning his death. In March, the families of hostages kidnapped by Hamas filed a lawsuit against CUAD and other activist groups for “aiding and abetting Hamas’ continuing acts of international terrorism.” That suit has brought to light what could turn out to be evidence of ties between foreign terrorists and American protesters.

It's all starting up again. Summer is coming, and that’s often protest season. Additionally, Israel is poised for a huge incursion into Gaza and protesters have now seized on their detained brothers and sisters as a further cause for violence and disruption.

I don’t think, however, we’re likely to see schools and law-enforcement react to these terrorist supporters as they did before Trump’s election. The difference is already noticeable. Thirty-one people were arrested for destruction at the University of Washington, and the school suspended and banned from campus 21 students. Columbia called in the NYPD, who arrested more than 80 people. They’re all going to be fingerprinted, and ICE is monitoring the results. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said State would be "reviewing the visa status of the trespassers and vandals who took over Columbia University’s library. Pro-Hamas thugs are no longer welcome in our great nation."

Whatever the ultimate extent of Trump’s success in breaking up the anti-Semitic pro-terrorist network and deporting the non-citizens involved, he’s already made an important difference. More Americans know who these people really are, and authorities are responding with more than words.


Seth Mandel: Pulitzer’s Ignoble Prize
Toha’s Pulitzer is reminiscent of some of the more egregious Nobel Peace Prize recipients, including but not limited to Yasser Arafat. When institutions honor those who promote the genocidal hatred of the Jews, they seed more of it. But a key difference between Arafat’s Nobel and Toha’s Pulitzer is that Arafat was given the award for signing a peace deal.

It’s true that Arafat had no intention of upholding that deal, and that he used his increased esteem as cover to ramp up his murderous war on the Jews. But a case can be made that giving a peace award to a bad man for at least going through the motions of conflict resolution is an attempt, if a feeble one, at incentivizing better behavior by monstrous criminals.

What the Pulitzer board has done here, by contrast, is reward some of the behavior that Arafat was ostensibly being coaxed away from. Toha is demonstrably dishonest, in addition to spreading vile Jew-hatred and incitement to violence. There is no justification, not even a weak one, for what Pulitzer has done. May shame torment its judges in perpetuity.
Pulitzer winner branded Israeli hostages ‘killers’ in social media tirades
A Palestinian writer, recently awarded a Pulitzer Prize, has sparked outrage for repeatedly describing former Israeli hostages as “killers” and pushing disproven Hamas claims about the 7 October attacks.

Mosab Abu Toha, honoured for his New Yorker essays on Gaza, used social media throughout 2025 to mock, vilify and question the suffering of those abducted by Hamas.

In several posts uncovered by watchdog Honest Reporting, the poet denied torture, labelled female hostages “killers”, and described forensic reports of murdered children as “propaganda”.

“How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” he posted on 24 January about Emily Damari, a 29-year-old dual UK-Israeli national. The soldier was kidnapped on 7 October from a Kibbutz Be’eri, shot in the hand, and held for 471 days. She lost two fingers and endured a festering wound treated by Hamas “like a pin cushion”, according to her mother.

In another post on 3 February, Toha dismissed Agam Berger, an Israeli violinist and former Gaza border scout, as a “killer” after she attended her sister’s Air Force graduation. Berger, 28, was also kidnapped on 7 October and held in darkness for 482 days, where she was reportedly forced to convert and stripped of basic dignity.

On 21 February, Toha appeared to cast doubt on Israeli assertion that Hamas terrorists murdered two red-haired siblings, nine-month-old Kfir and four-year-old Ariel Bibas, with “bare hands”.

“Shame on BBC, propaganda machine,” he wrote. “If you haven’t seen any evidence, why did you publish this? Well, that’s what you are, filthy people.” Mosab Abu Toha accuses BBC of spreading propaganda over report on Bibas children’s murder in February Instagram post. Instagram Screenshot

Footage from the day showed the boys and their mother dragged from Kibbutz Nir Oz. After months of confusion, their bodies were returned by Hamas in early 2025.

On another post – talking about released Gaza prisoners as “hostages” – Toha dismissed torture allegations: “When the Israeli hostages were released, did you see any torture signs? Even the soldiers among them?”

His remarks contrast sharply with survivor testimonies. Eli Sharabi, freed after 471 days, told the UN he was beaten, starved and kept in chains that tore his skin. “I weighed 44 kilos,” he said. “Half my body weight.”

A health ministry report also detailed how some teenage hostages were sexually abused.
Emily Damari denounces Pulitzer board for awarding journalist who ridiculed hostages
A former British-Israeli hostage who was held by Hamas in Gaza for 15 months spoke out against the Pulitzer Prize Board on Thursday for bestowing an award to a Palestinian poet who has disparaged victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and appeared to legitimize the abduction of hostages, among other comments that have stirred controversy.

Emily Damari, who in January was released from Hamas captivity after she was shot and taken from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel on Oct. 7, expressed outrage at the Pulitzer committee board over its decision to honor Mosab Abu Toha, a Gazan-born writer whose New Yorker essays on the war-torn enclave won the award for commentary on Monday.

In an anguished statement posted to social media, Damari, 28, voiced “shock and pain” that Abu Toha had won the prestigious award, citing his past remarks, uncovered earlier this week by the pro-Israel media watchdog HonestReporting, in which he denigrated Israeli captives abducted by Hamas and questioned their status as hostages, while also casting doubt on Israeli findings that a baby and a toddler kidnapped by the terror group were “deliberately” murdered in Gaza with “bare hands.”

“If you haven’t seen any evidence, why did you publish this,” Abu Toha said in a social media post in February, criticizing a BBC report on the murder of Kfir and Ariel Bibas, the young siblings who were abducted by Hamas. “Well, that’s what you are, filthy people.”

Elsewhere, Abu Toha, who is now a visiting scholar at Syracuse University, took aim directly at Damari, arguing that she could not be described as a hostage because, like most Israelis, she previously served as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.

“How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” he said in a social media post in January, when Tamari was among the first of three Israeli hostages to be freed amid a ceasefire deal that has since collapsed. “This soldier who was close to the border with a city that she and her country have been occupying is called a ‘hostage?’”


Tom Gross: What happened to Never Again? Irish paper and Pulitizer Prize mark VE Day by promoting Jew-haters



Jonathan Tobin: Media lies about fake martyrs and famines fuel antisemitism
The unprecedented surge of antisemitism throughout the United States since the Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has created a new reality for American Jews, especially Jewish students on college campuses. But perhaps the most sinister aspect of what has unfolded in the last 19 months is not just the way elite universities were transformed into hostile environments for Jews.

The scariest part of this tragic saga is the way that antisemitic organizations and activists, actively assisted by some of the most prestigious and powerful media outlets in the country, have been gaslighting Jews. They’ve been doing everything they can to convince the victims of this hateful campaign that the people who have been targeting them are actually against antisemitism while promoting propaganda aimed at depicting Israel and the Jews as evil oppressors.

While this has been the game plan all along for those cheering on Hamas terrorists since Oct. 7, it became even more obvious in the past week as the liberal press engaged in an effort to portray Mohsen Mahdawi, a leader of the mobs harassing Jews at Columbia University, as not only a martyr to free speech but someone who stands against antisemitism. These same outlets have been resurrecting an already debunked canard about Israel causing a famine in Gaza.

The press, led by legacy media companies like The New York Times, CBS News and the cable-news station MSNBC, has gone from tacit support for the post-Oct. 7 demonization of Israel and Jews to active participants. In doing so, they have demonstrated once again that they’ve discarded journalism and what was left of their credibility for left-wing activism.

The impact of their coverage of the agitation on college campuses and the war against Hamas in Gaza, which the groups behind the hate surge use as justification for their efforts, transcends the question of the decline of trust in the media. Their journalistic malpractice has become the primary engine driving the intimidation and vilification of Jews.

Lionizing a mob leader
Mahdawi became just the latest example of the liberal media’s infatuation with people arrested by the Trump administration. A Palestinian Arab who holds a green card, he was detained while undergoing an interview for his application for American citizenship as part of the government’s efforts to crack down on those foreign nationals involved in the pro-Hamas mobs targeting Jewish students at Columbia.

The U.S. Department of Justice informed the federal court in Vermont, where Mahdawi had been arrested, that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was revoking his green card because the “activities and presence of Mahdawi in the United States undermine U.S. policy to combat antisemitism.” It also noted that efforts to disrupt university life that Mahdawi led at Columbia “potentially undermine the peace process underway in the Middle East.” Both points are legitimate reasons to deport Mahdawi, but a sympathetic judge has released him pending further legal proceedings.

Since being freed, he has become the toast of the corporate media, authoring an op-ed in The New York Times and being the subject of a fawning profile on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program, in which he was allowed to pose as both a martyr to free speech and an advocate for peace. This narrative, depicting him as the subject of persecution by the administration, was further amplified by coverage in outlets such as NPR. That story actually claimed that he was the victim of ill treatment by supporters of Israel because they were chanting for the release of the abused hostages taken by Hamas while Mahdawi was ranting about Gaza with a bullhorn on campus. Mahdawi’s claims that he opposes antisemitism and wants peace went unchallenged. Meanwhile, other left-wing outlets like New York Magazine cheered him as a hero of the anti-Trump and anti-Israel “resistance.”

Contrary to the way that he has been portrayed in these accounts, Mahdawi is no advocate for peace. A leader of the pro-Hamas illegal encampments and building takeovers at Columbia, he supported the murderous Hamas assault on civilians in the Jewish state and repeatedly called for Israel’s destruction, an outcome that could only be obtained by the genocide of its population. As a more accurate article in The Free Press noted, he was personally involved in several incidents in which he harassed Jewish students, including one where he blared a siren at them. While Columbia gave Mahdawi a pass for his law-breaking activities, a Jewish student was subjected to disciplinary action for calling the terrorism backer a “Nazi.”

Moreover, he has a record of antisemitic utterances and support for terrorism going back to 2015, when he said, “I like to kill Jews,” as he was seeking to acquire a sniper rifle. Mahdawi has close family ties to convicted Palestinian terrorists he has praised as heroes and martyrs, rather than disassociating himself from their actions as someone who was a peace advocate would do.

As for his claim to be an advocate for peace, or, as he did in one video, argue that the genocidal chant of “from the river to the sea” doesn’t mean Jewish genocide, that is nothing but gaslighting. Suffice it to say that anyone who thinks the only way that peace can be achieved is the destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet, shouldn’t be taken seriously as anything but a rabid antisemite.
Why I Don’t Use the Word ‘Antisemitism’
On a normal day, I get about a dozen screeds like the one I’ve shared at the end of this essay.

I was asked recently — by someone less experienced than I in receiving blathering screeds — what the best response is to “antisemitism.” I won’t tell you everything I wrote to her, but I’ll start by reiterating my feelings about the word antisemitism. I try my best to use another term. It’s simple and far more direct: Jew-hater.

The term antisemitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to give the dislike of Jews a pseudoscientific gloss and to strip Jews of their unique identity — casting them instead as just another desert tribe. The man was not our friend.

Secondly, to call someone an antisemite these days is not only toothless — given the term’s ubiquity — but it’s also become a badge of honor for many. Yes, some might say we needn’t quibble over words, but words are how we communicate. Their misuse, their erosion, is not merely inconvenient — it is dangerous. Look at what’s happened to the word genocide. It has lost both its meaning and its moral force.

Third — and I’ve been harping on this for years — when our attention is drawn constantly to those who hate us, when it’s directed at our foes (yes, foes are fair game; lines have been drawn), rather than to the traditions, customs, and singular strengths of our peoplehood, our unity falters.

It’s a simple fact of life: if we’re constantly alert to the negatives in our lives, we will be riven through with cortisol, unable to think, to love, to nurture, or to evince our humanity. Our task, among other things, is not to obsess over those who wish to destroy us, but to become more Jewish — to observe Shabbat and other traditions, to study from the vast, timeless treasury of wisdom passed down by our forefathers and foremothers.

Okay, I get it. You’re not religious. You’re a modern person, fully adapted to modernity, and you feel that ancient rites — and the generations upon generations of Einsteins — have nothing to teach you. But this is who you are. This is who your grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents were — going back 3,000 years. And these very things — Shabbat, Torah, prayer — are what they hoped for, prayed for, died for. They expected that you would care deeply about them, and pass them on to your children, and your children’s children.
Yisrael Medad: Jewish anti-Zionists are a tyranny of the minority
Jews immigrating to Israel is a principled characteristic of the national identity of the Jewish nation. Jews living there are engaged in religious and cultural Jewish and Hebraic activities, in addition to the normal economic, commercial and artistic undertakings that are the most elementary examples of a people.

The Jews desired to go to fulfill the commandments contained in the Torah and explained by the Talmud, and did so throughout the period of exile. As much as permitted by the foreign occupiers, they built houses, purchased land, planted crops, formed a business enterprise, copied religious scrolls, sat and learned the holy writs, and communicated with their fellow Jews in Europe, Asia, Africa and other far-flung locations.

Their identity as Jews centered on the accomplishments of their peoplehood generated by their beliefs, language, literature and acknowledgement that their homeland is Eretz Yisrael. Their rabbinic literature never ignored the commandments connected to the land, as well as the obligation to ascend to it and live in it. The land was at the Jews’ core, and Jews knew that they would return. It was all a question of how—by Messiah or by human effort, by a Shabtai Zvi in Turkey in 1648 or a Menachem Mendel in Vitebsk in 1777.

With the development of the idea of secularism among Jews, the Return to Zion became an undesired goal. The Enlightenment further eroded the national underpinnings of the Jews’ identity. The appearance of Reform Judaism further denied Judaism’s national element as in 1869, when Chicago Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal protested schemes to resettle the Land of Israel and supported the resolution of the Philadelphia Conference of Reform Rabbis, which declared: “The Messianic goal of Israel is not the restoration of the old Jewish state under a descendant of David, involving a second separation from the nations of the earth, but the union of all men as the children of God.”

Not unremarkably (as we are dealing with Jews), in 1907, that same Rabbi Felsenthal expressed his conviction that “Zionism alone will be the savior of our nation and its religion, and save it from death and disappearance.” At that same time, prominent Chassidic rebbes and other traditionalists saw in the recently established Zionist organization a threat to the spiritual and religious aspects of Judaism, leading to what could be referred to as the Satmar/Neturei Karta version of anti-Zionism. Even the American Council for Judaism is making a comeback, as is the Bundist version.

Despite the prominence they receive—whether on the opinion pages of The New York Times, electronic and digital-media platforms, or the assistance they receive from Hollywood stars and academic self-professed experts—they are a minority among the Jewish people. Unfortunately, their behavior is tyrannical. But like others before them, their influence will wane, and they will fade away.
Israel warns travelers to Eurovision to avoid protests, not show Jewish, Israeli symbols
Days before the Eurovision kicks off in Switzerland, Israel’s National Security Council released a travel advisory for Israelis traveling to Basel for the annual song contest.

The NSC noted on Thursday that some 360 anti-Israel protests have taken place across Switzerland in the past year, and more are set to take place during the contest, led by those angry by the presence of Israeli representative Yuval Raphael.

“It is recommended to stay away from these centers of friction and demonstrations, which may escalate into violence,” the NSC said. It also warned that some individuals might use the protests as cover to carry out attacks on Israelis.

The NSC called on Israelis to not display Jewish or Israeli symbols in public spaces; avoid posting on social media; refrain from discussing military service or the war against Hamas; avoid demonstrations; and avoid gatherings associated with Israel.

The first semifinal of the contest will be held this Tuesday, while Raphael will appear at the second semifinal of the competition next Thursday, performing the power ballad “New Day Will Rise.”

She is considered a shoo-in to advance to the grand final scheduled for Saturday evening, May 17. Protests are expected to coincide with the second semifinal and the grand final, when Israel is slated to appear.
Leo XIV, first American pope, studied under pioneer in Jewish-Catholic relations
Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was elected as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, studied under a pioneer in Jewish-Catholic relations when he attended seminary in Chicago.

Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, who taught for nearly half a century at the Catholic Theological Union until his retirement in 2017, served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also served four terms on the board of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

More than 40 years after Leo’s ordination as a priest, Pawlikowski remembers the new pope as a good student with an open mind.

“I do remember him as a pretty bright student,” Pawlikowski said in an interview shortly after his former student was introduced to the world as the sitting bishop of Rome.

Pawlikowski added later, “My experience of him was he’s a very open-minded person who’s very much in the context of Vatican II.”

Vatican II, or the Second Vatican Council, inaugurated a new era in Jewish-Catholic relations in 1965 when it issued a document, Nostra Aetate, repudiating antisemitism and stating that the Jewish people were not responsible for Jesus’ death. Ties between the two religious communities were blossoming at the time when Leo was studying for the priesthood in the late 1970s and early ‘80s.

Under Pawlikowski, Leo studied Catholic social teaching, which focuses on social and economic issues. Pawlikowski says relations with Jews are relevant to that field. CTU has also had a commitment to Catholic-Jewish relations since its founding and launched its formal program in the field in 1968.


Wikipedia’s Supreme Court Bans Two Editors for Offsite Misconduct in Israel-Palestine Topic Area
Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee (ArbCom), the site’s version of a Supreme Court, announced on April 25 that two editors have been banned from the site entirely for “off-wiki misconduct” in the Palestine-Israel articles (PIA) topic area.

In their announcement, the committee said it had reviewed a 244-page dossier that The Journal published in the “Gaming the Wiki System” cover story chronicling the purported activities of the Wikipedia channel in the Tech for Palestine Discord server.

“The Arbitration Committee has reviewed a dossier of ‘Tech4Palestine’ Discord server related evidence and has determined that, as of this time, the concerns raised have been adequately addressed,” the committee wrote. “The evidence has been retained by the Committee to be used, if necessary, to corroborate additional evidence received.”

It then listed all of the editors mentioned in the dossier. Several of them only made a handful of edits and haven’t been active in a while; thus the committee concluded that there’s “no action necessary, can be addressed if they return.” But the committee did site-ban one editor mentioned in the report, “Isoceles-sai,” which the committee said was the result of obtaining “additional evidence of off-wiki coordination independent of the Tech4Palestine Discord server.” The committee concluded that Isoceles-sai had violated Wikipedia policies on offsite coordination and canvassing, which is defined as notifying editors “with the intention of influencing the outcome of a discussion in a particular way.”

Another editor, “GeoColdWater,” was also site-banned for violating those policies based on the “additional evidence of off-wiki coordination independent of the Tech4Palestine Discord server” that ArbCom received. GeoColdWater is not mentioned in the dossier and there is no established link between the editor and the Discord channel as of publication time.

A sockpuppet investigation (Wikipedia defines sockpuppetry as misusing multiple accounts) was filed on April 11 against GeoColdWater, Isoceles-sai and two other editors. The editor who filed the report, “Chess,” alleged that the four editors were meatpuppets of each other, which Wikipedia defines as individuals promoting “their causes by bringing like-minded editors into the dispute, including enlisting assistance off-wiki.” Ultimately the case was closed with no action.
Nicole Lampert: Pro-Palestinian activists’ cultural vandalism is making our society poorer
This new type of tyranny affects us all. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen our cultural and sporting life attacked by frothing extremists whose violent threats have been indulged for far too long.

Last month, an under-21s netball competition in Cardiff was cancelled because of threats resulting from the inclusion of an Israeli team. Europe Netball said it had been forced to cancel for the “safety and well-being” of everyone involved.

A few days later, the World Bowls Tour in Aberdeen – with bolstered security after it had been previously cancelled because of the inclusion of Israelis – was attacked when protesters took over the venue with Palestinian flags and released cockroaches into the area of play.

Israeli supermodel and actress Gal Gadot, meanwhile, had to stop filming in London last week as she was dogged by protesters shouting through loudspeakers and banging drums like naughty toddlers desperate to get their way.

There doesn’t even have to be Israelis or British Jews involved. These cosplaying revolutionaries, with their masks and their red paint, almost held up the London Marathon’s elite runners by dropping paint over Tower Bridge. They’ve hijacked degree award ceremonies, attacked art venues, theatres and – of course – there are the regular demonstrations which take over central London.

“Intimidating venues into pulling our shows won’t achieve the peace and justice everyone in the Middle East deserves”, said Greenwood and Dudu about their cancellation, adding it would be “hailed as a victory by the campaigners, but we [...] don’t find that anything positive has been achieved”.

The failure of our authorities to stand up to these people diminishes us as a nation – and it will slowly eke away at our culture and freedoms.

There’s a grim irony that the very week we remember those who fought the Nazis and secured our liberty from tyranny 80 years ago, we appear to be caving in to the people that want to take it away.
NGO Monitor: Advocacy NGOs in Academic Frameworks: Harvard University Case Study
Executive Summary
In this research paper, NGO Monitor documents and analyzes the extensive links between a number of Harvard University frameworks and central non-governmental organizations (NGOs) exploiting human rights to demonize Israel. This dimension has contributed centrally to the toxic atmosphere, violence and intimidation following October 7, 2023 (the Hamas-led attack and atrocities).

This case study is focused on a number of programs and academic personnel in different units of Harvard University – specifically (1) the Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights in the School of Public Health; (2) the Harvard Law School (HLS), which hosts the Human Rights Program (HRP), the Human Rights Journal, and the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC); and (3) the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. The frameworks in the School of Public Health and Law School are also cited as central examples in the report of the Harvard Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias, published on April 29, 2025.

This analysis highlights the degree to which anti-Israel activists associated with biased political NGOs have infiltrated Havard’s ostensibly academic frameworks, which supposedly emphasize the advancement of knowledge, critical thought, and teaching of students based on empirical research, unfettered by ideological and political barriers. The result is reflected in pseudo-academic courses, indoctrination of students, publications, social media campaigns under the Harvard brand that single out and apply double standards in order to isolate and demonize Israel.

The NGOs discussed in this report based on their links to Harvard University programs and staff members cover a wide spectrum, including “superpowers” with wide international agendas, such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International; powerful specialized groups such as Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Save the Children, and the Norwegian Refugee Council; as well as groups focusing narrowly on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone. Among the latter, a network of NGOs, including Al-Haq and Addameer, have been designated by Israel as fronts operated by the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization, as noted in the Appendix to this report.
Haverford College president repeatedly dodges questions at antisemitism hearing
Haverford College President Wendy Raymond took the brunt of congressional questioning and criticism at a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing on Wednesday on campus antisemitism, repeatedly dodging questions from committee members.

Pressed at various points in the hearing, Raymond offered broad condemnations of antisemitism and expressed support for Zionist students at Haverford, but largely declined to discuss specific incidents, examples of unacceptable rhetoric or disciplinary action against or investigations of any particular individuals.

At one point, under questioning from Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), she condemned discrimination and said she would not defend statements made by a Haverford professor who said that people should stop talking to Zionists. But she also said that the faculty member has not been fired.

“I’m very sorry that someone on the faculty would espouse those kinds of views,” Raymond said.

“So you can go back and you can fire him,” Fine shot back. Fine added that his son had urged him to wear a kippah to the hearing to represent students who don’t feel safe doing so themselves, and said he’s thinking about doing so more often.

“You still don’t get it. Haverford still doesn’t get it. It’s a very different testimony than the other presidents who are here today, who are coming with specifics,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) told Raymond. “This is completely unacceptable and it’s why this committee has stepped in.”


Haverford President Needs Giant Notecards To Remind Her Killing Jews Is Bad
Dr. Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, turned up to a congressional hearing on campus anti-Semitism lugging giant notecards reminding her to "think," "breathe," and "remember body posture," but also to not equivocate on the question of whether it's bad to call for the extermination of Jews. It was the sort of visual aide former president Joe Biden might have carried (and probably still does) to help him find and use the bathroom.

"Calls for genocide. Yes, abhorrent, violates our policies," Raymond's notes read, according to a photo snapped by an attendee at Wednesday's hearing. The notecard went on explain that "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," a popular rallying cry among pro-Hamas protesters that implies the elimination of Jews and the state of Israel, was also a violation of Haverford's policy because it had "become a dog whistle" used to "intimidate or harass" Jewish students. In response to questions about foreign policy, Raymond was instructed to say she would "leave that to the experts" because she was "focused on making Haverford the best College I can."

It's unclear why Raymond required notes to prevent her from humiliating herself in the manner of Claudine Gay and Liz Magill, the former presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania who lost their jobs after appearing at a similar hearing in December 2023. Under questioning from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) about whether it would violate university rules to call for the genocide of Jews, both leaders had dodged by arguing it would depend on the "context."

The hearing on Wednesday was intended to highlight the problem of campus anti-Semitism beyond the Ivy League. Haverford and the other schools represented, DePaul University in Chicago and California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, had received failing grades from the Anti-Defamation League for their efforts (or lack thereof) to combat anti-Semitism on campus.

Raymond's prepared notes, which may or may not have been created with the help of ChatGPT, did not prevent her from struggling through a series of questions from Stefanik, who asked what disciplinary actions had been taken against a Haverford student group that called for the "complete dismantling of the apartheid settler colonial state of Israel by all means necessary." Raymond said the statement was "repugnant because of what it can mean," stressing the word "can" as though to suggest its repugnancy was context-dependent. When pressed, Raymond repeatedly declined to say whether the students involved were subject to any disciplinary actions beyond a vague and passive assertion that "there have been soon" actions taken.


Columbia Radicals Take Over Campus Library, Forcing Out Students Studying for Finals
A mob of Columbia University radicals stormed a campus library Wednesday afternoon, forcing out dozens of students studying for their final exams. Police were called after about four hours, resulting in roughly 80 arrests.

Video footage shows around 100 masked radicals in dark clothing storming Butler Library around 3 p.m., pushing their way past a campus security guard at the building's entrance. Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD)—the Ivy League institution’s most anti-Semitic student group—took credit on social media.

Once inside, the agitators passed out pamphlets that endorsed Hamas’s violence and chanted "There is only one solution, intifada revolution," "We want divestment now," and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," using megaphones and banging on drums. They renamed the library after Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian terrorist killed in a 2017 shootout with the Israel Defense Forces.

The radicals also hung banners from bookshelves, one of which read "Glory to our Martyrs," and vandalized bookshelves and desks with red graffiti reading "Free Palestine." They littered the library with stickers that read "Release Mahmoud Khalil Now" as well as one of an upside-down triangle, which Hamas uses to denote military targets.

"COLUMBIA WILL BURN 4 THE MARTYRS," read a vandalized library cabinet.

The radical activists also displayed a banner featuring a map of Israel, inscribed with the message "There is only one state: Palestine ‘48."

CUAD posted its demands on X, which included Columbia’s "full financial divestment from zionist occupation, apartheid, and genocide," an "academic boycott of all complicit institutions, including the cancellation of the Tel Aviv Global Center," "cops and ICE off our campus," and "amnesty for all students, staff, faculty, and workers targeted by Columbia University’s discipline."


Documentary claims to ID soldier behind 2022 killing of Al Jazeera journalist Abu Akleh
A new documentary has claimed to identify the Israeli soldier who opened fire and killed veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank three years ago.

Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American correspondent, was wearing a vest marked “Press” and a helmet when she was killed while covering clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen in the Jenin refugee camp on May 11, 2022. The killing drew widespread condemnation around the world, with Israel, under heavy US pressure to investigate, eventually concluding that a single soldier shot her by mistake.

According to the documentary by Zeteo News, a left-wing news outlet founded by Israel critic Mehdi Hassan, Cpt. Alon Scagio, then a 20-year-old sharpshooter in the Duvdevan commando unit, was behind the deadly shooting. Scagio was killed by a roadside bomb in Jenin last year at the age of 22. (The Israel Defense Forces had previously spelled his name as Sacgiu).

Following the killing of Abu Akleh, the IDF initially blamed Palestinian gunmen but later acknowledged that she could have also been killed by Israeli soldiers.

In September 2022, the IDF concluded “with very high likelihood” that a single soldier shot the journalist after “misidentifying her.”

“He misidentified her. His reports in real-time point to a misidentification,” an officer said at the time on condition of anonymity.

According to a team of investigative journalists commissioned by Zeteo to look into the killing — including former Wall Street Journal correspondent Dion Nissenbaum and Fatima AbdulKarim, a New York Times contributor — two other soldiers serving in the Duvdevan squad at the time of the incident named Scagio as the shooter.


80 years after Nazi Germany’s surrender, antisemitism is rising worldwide, report finds
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the official end of the Second World War in Europe, antisemitism has continued to skyrocket since Hamas launched its war against Israel on October 7, 2023, according to a report published Wednesday by the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism.

J7 is a partnership between Jewish organizations from the seven countries with the largest Jewish populations outside of Israel: Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The report, presented in Berlin on the eve of Victory in Europe (V-E) Day, when Nazi Germany formally surrendered to Allied forces on May 8, provides details of rising anti-Jewish hate in each country and calls for action from governments and societies worldwide.

The data overwhelmingly shows that “existing policies against antisemitism, and how they have been implemented, have failed to mitigate the tsunami of hate targeting Jewish individuals, communities, and institutions in the aftermath of October 7,” the report said.
'Hate has no place': Oklahoma signs IHRA definition of antisemitism into state law
The state of Oklahoma has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition into its state law, with Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signing two related bills on Tuesday.

The first bill – SB 942 – defines antisemitism according to the IHRA definition, including all 11 modern examples, as well as mandating the definition’s incorporation into student, faculty, and employee codes of conduct.

This bill also intersects with the implementation of Title VI of the US Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.

As such, Oklahoma’s Education Department and its Higher Education bodies will now need to designate a Title VI coordinator to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment and investigate all submitted complaints, according to the wording of the bill.

As a result, any school that fails to address complaints of antisemitism after receiving a written notice will have the case reported to the US Justice and Education departments.

The second bill – SB 991 – adopts the IHRA definition into state law, making Oklahoma the 37th state to have either adopted or endorsed the definition, according to the Combat Antisemitism Movement.

According to the bill, the definition is to be used as a guide for “training, education, and recognizing and combating antisemitic hate crimes.”
NY man charged with hate crimes for assaulting Jews has phone ‘littered’ with pro-Hamas material
Tarek Bazrouk, 20, of New York City, was charged with three hate crimes for “repeated assaults” on Jews in the city in 2024 and 2025, per an indictment unsealed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Bazrouk faces up to 30 years in prison for the three charges, per the Justice Department.

The department’s civil rights division “will continue to relentlessly pursue allegations of antisemitic violence and will not stop until justice is served for the victims and their families,” stated Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Kash Patel, the FBI director, stated that FBI agents and partners arrested Bazrouk on Wednesday morning. “The subject had allegedly targeted Jewish citizens during multiple protests of the Israel-Gaza war on three separate occasions over nine months,” Patel said. “Based on the allegations, the subject will be charged with hate crimes.”

“The recent spike in violent crime against Jewish citizens is deeply disturbing and this FBI will continue to pursue those responsible,” the FBI director added.

Bazrouk was arrested after each incident, but he “allegedly remained undeterred and quickly returned to using violence to target Jews in New York City,” stated Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

According to court documents, Bazrouk allegedly wore a “green headband typically worn by Hamas terrorists” while attending an anti-Israel protest outside the New York Stock Exchange on April 15, 2024. New York City Police Department officers arrested him for “lunging at a group of pro-Israel protestors,” the Justice Department stated.

“As Bazrouk was being escorted to an NYPD vehicle, Bazrouk kicked a different individual—Victim-1, a Jewish college student—in the stomach,” per the department. “At the time of the assault, Victim-1 was standing near other Jewish protesters, who were wearing kippahs (that is, brimless skullcaps traditionally worn by Jewish men), carrying Israeli flags and singing Jewish songs.”
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s goes on Tucker Carlson and says, ‘I love Jesus Christ’
Four years ago, when the founders of Ben & Jerry’s took to The New York Times to defend their creamery’s West Bank settlement boycott, the opening of their op-ed read, “We are the founders of Ben & Jerry’s. We are also proud Jews.”

For at least one of them, that may have changed.

Ben Cohen, the Ben of the pair, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s talk show this week, mostly to discuss his opposition to US involvement in the Ukraine war and the Pentagon’s sprawling budget, issues where his long-touted progressive ideals can overlap with Carlson’s far-right ones.

Then, at the end of the hour-long show, Carlson asked Cohen about his “spiritual beliefs.”

“In terms of a spiritual belief, I mean, I don’t practice a religion,” Cohen responded. “I was born a Jew. I love Jesus Christ. I think the words that he said are wonderful, are amazing. And, you know, I’m kind of distressed that a lot of organized Christian religions are not really, I don’t know, abiding by the words of Jesus Christ.”

He added, “I think if we could follow the words of Jesus Christ and think about the Sermon on the Mount and, you know, take his words seriously, we wouldn’t be doing the stuff we’re currently doing.”

The Sermon on the Mount, in the New Testament Gospel of Matthew, is a series of widely known sayings in which Jesus outlines his moral vision.

Cohen’s religious inclinations are significant because Carlson is known for inviting antisemites, including a Holocaust revisionist, onto his show in the past. They are also important because Cohen and his co-founder Jerry Greenfield publicly marshaled their Judaism in defense of their company’s 2021 boycott.
Kanye West releases 'Heil Hitler' song featuring audio clip of Nazi leader's speech
Controversial rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye, has released a new song called 'Heil Hitler,' alongside a militant-style musical video.

The music video for Heil Hitler depicts a group of black men in formation singing 'Ni**a Heil Hitler' multiple times. The men are wearing animal skins and heads.

West also sings "I became a Nazi, I'm the villain."

At the end of the song, West includes an audio clip of Adolf Hitler giving a speech. The Jerusalem Post identified the clip as taken from Hitler's 1935 speech at Krupp Factory in Germany. Here, he can be heard saying "[If] you think my work is right, whether you think I have been diligent, that I have worked, that I have dedicated myself to you over the years, that I have used my time decently in the service of my people. Cast your vote now. If "YES," then stand up for me, just as I stood up for you!"

There are also several references to his children in the song, including lyrics such as "these people take my kids from me, then they close my bank account, I got so much anger in me, got no way to take it out."

The release date of the song on Thursday May 8 has received a lot of criticism, given it coincides with VE day which honors the Allied victory over the Nazis. 'Blatant antisemitism'

American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO Ted Deutch called the song "blatant antisemitism."

"Ye is profiting off of Jew-hatred, and the music industry needs to step up and speak out against this obscenity."

Just a day earlier, West published a tweet on X saying, "I love Hitler." This joins a long line of antisemitic rants and actions by the US-based rapper.

In March, he attacked Jews for supposedly controlling banks, the media, and minds, saying “Antisemitism is the only path to freedom." The month before, he began selling a T-shirt with a Nazi swastika on his clothing brand Yeezy.


Newly elected Reform UK councillors shared Hitler memes and re-posted articles from neo-Nazi group
One of the newly elected Reform UK councillors who was successful in last week’s local elections previously shared a meme on Facebook praising Hitler.

Other newly elected representatives from Nigel Farage’s party have re-posted material from a neo-Nazi group and pushed conspiracies about the Rothschilds and other Jewish banking families.

Ahead of the local elections on May 1, anti-racist watchdog Hope Not Hate shared information about the social media history of seven prospective Reform UK candidates running in Doncaster.

Six out of seven of the candidates flagged by the campaign group were successful in the elections - which saw Farage’s right-wing populist party surge to an overall majority on the City of Doncaster Council, gaining 37 seats compared to Labour's 12 and the Conservatives' six.

Thursday was defined by sweeping gains for Reform UK, which ultimately gained control of 10 councils, two mayoralties, and won 677 seats. Farage’s party also won the Westminster by-election for Runcorn and Helsby – one of Labour’s safest seats.

Mark Broadhurst, who was elected as a councillor in the Hatfield ward of Doncaster, reposted an image of Hitler with the caption: “For f*** sake, if I had chosen Muslims I would have been a f***ing legend [sic].”


The numbers don’t lie: Jews made a giant contribution to Britain’s WW2 fightback
British Jewry has never been more than about one half of 1 per cent of the general population, yet the figures show that our fighting contribution always has been way out of proportion to our numbers, both in frontline units and in the receiving of awards for courage.

As an illustration, at Arnhem for example, Jewish Paras were 2 per cent of the strength (four times our numbers), and as aircrew in the Battle of Britain, 1.2 per cent (over twice). If British Jewry numbered at the time, as a guestimate, 300,000 to 350,000, and we know that we had 60,000 to 70,000 in the Forces, then Jewish participation can be modestly assessed at least at 20 per cent of our Jewish population, a truly astonishing figure.

Our British Jewish dead, together with Jews from Israel, numbered almost 4,000, 1 per cent of our tiny population, which represents in real terms a huge sacrifice from a small community.

In addition there was a huge part played by Palestinian Jewish volunteers from Israel in the “good fight”. As part of the British Empire and Commonwealth Forces, 130,000 of them registered to serve and 60,000 of them volunteered – virtually every able-bodied Jewish man and woman from the relatively small Jewish population – and 30,000 were finally accepted; almost 700 were killed and hundreds were decorated for valour; they served in every branch and theatre of war, many in special forces. Seven were even held as prisoners of war by the Japanese in the Far East.

Sadly, the part played by Palestinian Jewry from Eretz Yisrael, the Yishuv of Israel, nation-in-waiting, has been deliberately erased from the memory of those who are keepers of the British war remembrance communities, by those who should know better. They never appear in British tributes to the Commonwealth/Empire Forces who served, be it at historical exhibitions or commemorations, or on any memorial in Britain, while those of many other ethnic groups are well represented.

Most disgracefully, Israel is never invited to attend at the Cenotaph in Whitehall each Remembrance Sunday, to lay a wreath for their war dead who, although they lie under Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstones around the world, are clearly not considered worthy. The Palestinian Jewish/Israeli proportionately huge contribution has been made totally invisible.

Meanwhile, and in stark contrast, it is well recorded how the Arab world at best remained indifferent to the struggle against the Nazis and at worst openly collaborated. Few Palestinian Arabs volunteered and a diplomatic attempt to keep the numbers of Palestinian Jews and Arabs at even recruitment in the British Forces, for example with the forming of the Palestine Regiment in 1942, was embarrassingly abandoned by the British authorities as the Jews came forward in droves to fight, in stark comparison to the Arab population. It is well documented that the Palestinian Arab leader, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin El Husseini, was wanted by the British for treachery and fled to Berlin in 1939 where he planned with Hitler to construct gas chambers outside Nablus on the present West Bank to exterminate the Jews of the Middle East; that hundreds of Arabs and Muslims served in the SS battalions in the Balkans and took part in atrocities there, and hundreds belonged to the notorious “Freies Arabien” (Arab volunteers serving in SS units of the German army).
The forgotten story of Jewish refugees who fought to beat the Nazis
As we celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, it is crucial to remember the central role that Jewish soldiers played in the defeat of the Nazis.

A little-known history is the story of the British commando unit X Troop, which was comprised mostly of Jews who carried out some of the most daring and important missions of the war.

The story of X Troop began in June 1942 when the German war machine seemed unstoppable.

Desperate to change the course of the war, Winston Churchill and his chief of combined operations, Lord Mountbatten, created a commando unit of German speakers that would end up being almost entirely composed of Jewish refugees.

Most had arrived in the UK as teenagers on transit visas or Kindertransport from Germany and Austria.

When the war broke out, they were interned as enemy aliens, often in horrific conditions in Australia and Canada.

After being released, they volunteered for this new hazardous duty. Brought to London and interviewed by MI5, the nascent X Troopers were told that they would be taking the fight directly to the Nazis, and that their work would be extremely dangerous. They understood the risks but felt that they had nothing more to lose.

In order to operate behind enemy lines, the X Troopers had to shed their previous lives and pretend that they were British through and through.

This was necessary because as Jews they would be killed instantly if captured. Once accepted into X Troop, each man was given a few minutes to pick a new, British-sounding name. Next, they had to destroy any connection to their old selves and create a cover story of their British origins. For those killed in battle, this change would often remain permanent: since these Jewish refugees now had fake British names with dog tags that listed the Church of England, many would be buried beneath crosses. Over recent years the Jewish British Ajex archivist Martin Sugarman has worked hard to have X-Troopers that were buried under crosses re-interred under Magen Davids – sadly, with no success.


Mayim Bialik on Being Too Jewish for Hollywood — and Too Hollywood for Everyone Else
She’s been on Big Bang Theory, hosted Jeopardy!, holds a PhD in neuroscience—and still, Mayim Bialik hears she’s 'too Jewish.'

In this powerful episode of And They’re Jewish, Mayim sits down with Hen Mazzig to talk about the pressure to tone it down, the pain of being misunderstood, and the pride of holding her ground. She opens up about:
✨ Being a Jewish woman in Hollywood
🧠 Fighting stigma around mental health
👩‍🔬 Smashing stereotypes in science
✡️ And why she refuses to hide her identity

This isn’t just about Mayim. It’s about what it means to be unapologetically you in a world that wants you smaller.


Financial experts say Israeli market is flourishing despite year and a half of war
Financial experts and regulators touted the strength of the Israeli economy, tech sector and stock exchange after a year and a half of war during a panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, saying that “resilience” is a “very core characteristic of the Israeli market.”

The panel, titled “Time to Build: Accelerating and De-risking Israel’s Economic Growth and Recovery,” featured Seffy Zinger, chairman of the Israel Securities Authority; Eugene Kandel, chairman of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange; Tilli Kalisky-Bannett; managing partner at Pinegrove Venture Partners; and Michael Kashani, head of sustainable credit and platforms at Apollo Global Management.

Zinger admitted that after Oct. 7, “we as financial regulators were preparing ourselves again and again to collapse in the markets,” but “again and again, we found ourselves wrong.”

He told the story of the night of April 13, 2024, when Iran shot hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel, and as Israelis waited for the missiles to reach them, he received “dozens of calls and WhatsApps and text messages — all warned me that tomorrow we will see a bloodbath in the markets. Some of them urged me not to open the stock exchange.” To his surprise, though, “the day after came … and what we saw in the end of that day in the [Tel Aviv Stock Exchange] screen was green.”

Likewise, Zinger said, after President Donald Trump announced his tariff plan last month, the Israeli market saw only modest declines “comparing to what we saw in the world, compared to what we saw in New York.”

In 2024, he remarked, the Israeli stock exchange did better than the S&P 500: “You compare Israel, which was [in] a year of one of its worst wars in the last 30 or 40 years, comparing to the United States in one of its best years. And still, the Israeli market did better.” Zinger said that “reflects something, [a] very core characteristic of the Israeli market, which is its resilience.”




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