Thursday, June 05, 2025

06/05 Links Pt2: Jewish supporters of the Palestinian cause have been played; Why Are We So Mean To Jew-Baiting Ignoramuses?; Douglas Murray: Can civilisation survive?

From Ian:

Jewish supporters of the Palestinian cause have been played
Terrible as it may seem, Jabotinsky’s doctrine of the Iron Wall, which stated that the Arabs would only come to accept Israel once it had proved it could not be defeated militarily, unfortunately has more than a ring of truth. The Abraham Accords, which have survived the current conflict, would appear to bear that out.

Arab governments are exasperated with Palestinian rejectionism but mindful of the support the cause still commands among the Street. They want Israel to get Hamas out of Gaza but are understandably unhappy at the daily cost in Gazan lives.

Israelis rightly fear that a premature end to the conflict just puts the whole process back on rinse and repeat. When it comes to Ukraine, the West has no problem agreeing with Zelensky that Russia will simply use a ceasefire to restock and regroup and come back again. Yet the West seems unable to comprehend Israel’s concerns about a ceasefire that enables Hamas to regroup and try again in a few years’ time. Then we will be back to Israel periodically “mowing the lawn” and still getting it in the neck.

It may be unrealistic, but what if this round of conflict might actually be the one opportunity to finally break free of the 100-year-old cycle of death and destruction that Israel and the Palestinians have never managed to escape?

Hamas will fight to the last Palestinian and want to take us all down with them. The scenes of dead and wounded coming out of Gaza are heartbreaking. I can understand completely why people simply want this madness to stop and why, to them, pressuring Israel seems like the quickest way to get it done.

But the clamour against Israel in the media and political circles in the West won’t change the calculus of Netanyahu’s government one jot. But what it will do is bolster Hamas’ conviction that they can hold out longer than either Israeli or Western public opinion. It will also prolong both the war and Palestinian suffering. We cannot allow ourselves to be mugs in that game.
Jonathan Tobin: Can Jews admit that Trump is right about woke antisemitism?
Calls for more efforts to harden Jewish targets to make them less vulnerable to antisemitic violence are all well and good. Still, more aid to help Jewish institutions afford the security that unfortunately they need isn’t enough.

The response to this crisis must involve a variety of common-sense measures.

That should include encouraging more American Jews to possess firearms and be trained in their safe use. Such a suggestion would likely horrify many liberal Jews, who see guns as inherently dangerous, if not immoral. However, if any gathering of Jews is now seen as fair game for violent harassment, if not domestic terrorism, it requires even those who are most reluctant to go down that path to realize that relying on the authorities to deter terrorism is unrealistic and self-defense is an unfortunate necessity.

A sane response to an epidemic of anti-Jewish violence also means an honest re-evaluation of the assumptions about American life that no longer make sense. And that involves supporting rather than opposing Trump’s campaign against the left in higher education, as well as taking action against the threat that unfettered and illegal immigration is increasingly posing for Jews today.

In a culture in which partisan politics plays the role that religion used to play in most people’s lives, it is second nature for liberal Jews and Democrats to oppose anything Trump does.

Yet no matter what you think about Trump, his flawed character or his stands on other issues, the policies he has proposed to deal with antisemitism in America are essential for the defense of the values that made this country a safe haven for Jews.

Only by rolling back the woke tide in the education system and establishing a zero-tolerance policy on foreign nationals engaging in advocacy for Jew-hatred and violence—both against Israel and here in the United States—can Jews be safe. If Trump fails, the real losers won’t be Republicans. It will be Jewish citizens who are acting, as they always do, as the canaries in the coal mine, indicating the imminent danger for the entire country if this leftist war on Western civilization succeeds. Should the so-called progressives continue indoctrinating a generation of young Americans who go on to run our government and media in “pro-Palestine” propaganda that fuels antisemitism, then the security of the Jews will not be the only value that will be sacrificed on the altar of woke ideology.
Why this Holocaust survivors son thanks President Trump
That’s where President Donald Trump enters my story. A man who, by all accounts, is chaotic, narcissistic, and divisive. But he did something no one else was willing to do: he stood at the gate and said, “Not here. Not now.”

And he didn’t do it quietly - he stormed in. He didn’t bring a fire extinguisher—he brought a tsunami. And it worked.

Now, I know some will respond: “But what about the deportations?” “What about his rhetoric?” “What about the impact on academic research?”

Here is my response.

If we could travel back in time to 1933—just as the Nazi movement began to take root—what arguments made then would you still defend now? What would be different in your argument? Would you defend the right of Nazi students to march in German universities? Would you insist on protecting the “academic freedom” of professors calling Jews parasites? Would we say it’s an “affront to liberty” to block early propaganda films from being shown to the youth?

If the answer today is “freedom of speech,” would it also have been in 1933 Berlin?

I ask because I know how this story ends. My parents taught me. And while I wasn’t there, I lived it through them.

So here’s my truth: President Donald Trump is not someone I admire in the conventional sense. But in this critical moment in history—when the smoke is rising again—he acted. He broke the rhythm of history and, in doing so, may have saved my children from reliving my grandparents’ fate.

If someone like him had stood at the gates of Europe in 1938, I might have grown up baking Challah with my grandmother, smelling the sweet smell during Kiddush on Friday night. But instead, I heard stories about my grandmother and many others being baked in ovens because of hatred and antisemitism.

I may be a bit twisted inside. I wrestle with the contradictions of Trump. But I also say it plainly and without apology.

Thank you, President Trump.

To those still arguing about the freedom to teach or march for hate—I respect your intellect. But I’ve lived too close to the edge of history’s knife to take comfort in philosophy alone.

We must recognize that some fires must be drowned and not reasoned with.

Some policies are shaped by history, while others become history shaped by policy. What side of the equation do you want to be on?
Why I’m ending my donations to US Jewish groups and seeking new leadership to protect US Jews
That kind of bold clarity has been missing from our own Jewish institutions.

When synagogues are attacked and Jewish students are hunted on campuses, Jewish groups call for more education and interfaith events.

Clearly, it ain’t working.

Instead of issuing statements and obsessing over right-wing social-media posts, Jewish organizations need to step up their game:
Provide more aggressive legal support and protection for Jewish students and faculty facing harassment.
Expose and blacklist corporate and academic enablers of antisemitic speech and violence.
Prioritize Jewish safety above partisan narratives.
Publicly shame political leaders on either side who excuse or enable Jew-hatred and downplay or excuse violence.
Launch high-profile campaigns to defeat antisemitic officials at the voting booth.

Thankfully, Jews are getting some key support, even beyond Trump.

Elected officials such as Florida Reps. Randy Fine (R), Jared Moskowitz (D) and Byron Donalds (R) and New York Reps. Ritchie Torres (D) and Elise Stefanik (R) have been standing tall.

We must support leaders like these at every level: school boards, city councils and state legislatures.

And we need an organizational structure to get it all done.

This new movement must be multi-generational but led by young adults — unapologetic Jewish leaders who speak boldly and act decisively.

The old guard that does little beyond begging for respect and protection from our enemies must be replaced.

Enough is enough. We cannot raise our children in a country where their Jewish identity is a liability.

We cannot fund organizations too cautious, political and sclerotic to defend us.

We cannot ignore the warning signs history has taught us to see.

To my fellow Jews who feel abandoned: You are not alone.

We are millions strong.

But now we must organize, speak with one voice and demand more.

A new Jewish movement is coming.

It will be unflinching, unapologetic and finally willing to do what others have failed to do: protect our people.

What do you think? Post a comment.

I, for one, am ready to stand up.

And I know I’m not alone.


Kassy Akiva: Veteran To Avoid Trial After Shooting Anti-Israel Attacker Who Tackled Him During Protest
Scott Hayes, 48, will likely avoid trial after shooting an anti-Israel man who tackled him last September during a protest in Newton, Massachusetts.

Hayes was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and released on a $5,000 bail last year after he shot Caleb Gannon, a man wearing a pro-Palestinian pin, who allegedly charged through traffic and attacked Hayes. Hayes pleaded not guilty and said shooting Gannon in the stomach was an act of self-defense.

A judge ordered that Hayes will not go to trial for the charges of assault and battery if he completes a probationary period that was agreed upon by Hayes’s lawyer and the district attorney’s office.

The conditions of the probationary period will remain in effect until September 13 — the day after the anniversary of the incident — and require Hayes to stay out of Newton, except for attending religious services, medical appointments, or passing through the city while traveling elsewhere. He is also prohibited from contacting Gannon, must complete an online course on civil discourse, and will have his license to carry a firearm suspended until that date.

Another condition requires Hayes to seek and apply for employment, including at least three job searches a week. After the incident, the Iraq War veteran lost his job conducting natural gas leak detection, surveys, and inspections for a company contracted by National Grid, one of Massachusetts’ largest utility providers.

If Hayes violates the conditions, he will go to trial.

In March, Hayes said the office of Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan backed out of finalizing a disposition to resolve the case outside of court after both sides disagreed on the terms of the pretrial probation. The main point of contention was whether Hayes should be barred from entering Newton — a city he has been free to visit since October, when a judge lifted his ankle monitor requirement and restrictions on entering the suburb where Gannon lives.

“Today’s agreement was the second best option,” Hayes told The Daily Wire. “The first would have been a full dismissal of the charges immediately but the DA played politics with my case instead of following the law. The Commonwealth brought a very weak case to the table that in most states wouldn’t have made it this far along the process.”

Hayes said that Ryan’s case relied on two of his social media posts from 6 months before the incident.

“I know what I did on 9/12/24 was right,” Hayes said. “I have no regrets for my actions that day as it saved my friends’ lives. My attacker was actively trying to take my firearm from me and I am sure he would have committed murder if he had succeeded.”
Douglas Murray: Can civilisation survive? | The Brendan O’Neill Show
Douglas Murray – author of On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Douglas and Brendan discuss how rising anti-Semitism speaks to our decaying civilisation, what the West can learn from Israel, and the pro-Hamas hysteria infecting the left, the right and the mainstream media.


The Danger of Attempting to Breach a Maritime Blockade
According to the Laws of War and the Laws of the Sea, any vessel that attempts to breach a legally imposed maritime blockade becomes a legitimate military target. The country that imposed the blockade is thus entitled, and possibly even required, to use all necessary force to prevent the intended breach.

So when climate activist Greta Thunberg and actor Liam Cunningham decided to board the latest terrorist-propaganda mission aboard the Madleen with the stated goal of breaking the maritime blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza, they and their fellows were knowingly taking their lives in their hands, and bear the sole responsibility for any outcome.

In modern warfare, maritime blockades were explicitly mentioned in the 1856 Declaration of Paris Respecting Maritime Law, with more detailed requirements set out in the 1909 London Declaration on Naval Warfare. If the party that implemented the blockade has reasonable grounds to believe that a merchant vessel intends to breach the blockade, it may act to capture the vessel or even, if the vessel refuses to heed the warning and desist from an attempt to breach the blockade, attack the vessel.

To act against a vessel that has the clear intention of breaching a blockade, the party that implemented the blockade does not have to wait until the blockade is actually breached. After Israel prevented the Mavi Marmara from attempting to breach the maritime blockade of Gaza in 2010, the UN Secretary-General appointed a Panel of Inquiry to examine the events. In its report, the Panel concluded "that Israel's naval blockade was legal." "There is no right...to breach a lawful blockade as a right of protest."

Thunberg, Cunningham, and their friends are nothing more than useful idiots promoting the alleged right of the terrorists to "resist" (including by massacring women, children, and the elderly), undermining Israel's right to self-defense and the right to protect its citizens against genocidal terrorists.
Sailing to Gaza: Greta Thunberg’s Latest Anti-Israel Publicity Stunt
Greta Thunberg is on her way to save the people of Gaza.

The 22-year-old Swedish climate crusader is one of 12 anti-Israel activists sailing to the Gaza Strip on the vessel Madleen, allegedly to bring aid to the embattled enclave and to challenge Israel’s naval blockade.

Even though the boat is still days away from reaching the coast, it is already making news due to the high-profile status of some of those onboard. Along with Thunberg are Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, French politician Rima Hassan, and Al Jazeera journalist Omar Faiad.

As social media becomes inundated with images of the activists galivanting on the high seas and mainstream media outlets like the Associated Press, ABC Australia, and CBS News are beginning to report on the vessel’s “humanitarian mission,” it is important that news consumers understand why there is a blockade of the Gaza Strip and are aware of the sordid history of past attempts to break the blockade.


Ben Shapiro: Greta Thunberg's Performative Activism Is Getting Old



Seth Mandel: Why Are We So Mean To Jew-Baiting Ignoramuses?
Something terrible happened to Piers Morgan yesterday. Triggered by a small piece of logic uttered by his guest, Natasha Hausdorff, Morgan completely lost his bearings.

That’s not the terrible thing that happened to Piers, though. The terrible thing that happened was a lot of people who viewed Morgan’s spectacular public meltdown commented that Morgan was behaving inappropriately and that he should grow up. Morgan was aghast at this “concerted effort to silence me.” Poor Piers.

Of all the bandwagoners capitalizing on the monetary value of yelling at Jews on TV, Piers at least occasionally abuses anti-Semites on his show, too. He’s the host of a Yelling Show, and that’s what Yelling Show hosts do. Piers Morgan understands the assignment, even if that’s the only thing he understands.

He doesn’t, for example, understand what “concerted” means nor does he know what it is to be “silenced.” According to Social Blade, Piers has averaged a gain of several thousand YouTube subscribers a day over the past month, a healthy rate of addition for someone who already gets millions of eyeballs on his content. And yet, he tells his 8 million X followers that no one can hear him scream.

The beauty of free speech is that Piers Morgan has every right to banshee at Jewish women and the rest of us have every right to say “boy, that was weird.” What Piers wants you to believe is that Mossad agents are hiding under his bed and stealing one sock out of every pair he puts in the laundry.
Ami’s House: We've Entered a 3rd Phase of Israel/Gaza PR War. PLUS: Reactions to Natasha Hausdorff on Piers
We discuss Natasha Hausdorff’s recent appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, where she and Dave Smith ALMOST debated key aspects of international law, civilian impact, and media coverage of the Israel–Gaza conflict, until they both bullied Natasha into silence.

Whether you watched that Piers Morgan segment or are hearing about it for the first time, this episode clarifies what went unsaid.

We also cover Dave Portnoy's viral reaction on the pizza review, and what other approach he could have taken.

00:00 – Reactions: Natasha Hausdorff on Piers Morgan
13:15 – Zionist Confusion & Eroding Support
15:04 – Prioritizing Victory Over Approval
17:48 – D.C. Shootings and Boulder Terrorist Attack
20:26 – Third Phase: Diaspora Isolation & Security Concerns
23:01 – Ben Shapiro’s IMPORTANT Take on Anti-Semitism
32:23 – The Need for Unapologetic Pro-Israel Messaging
36:27 – Dave Portnoy’s Viral Reaction to “F**k the Jews”
41:11 – Free Speech vs. Hate Speech Debate
43:05 – Closing Thoughts
45:31 – Building the Ami's House Community




Trump Picks Lawyer Who Called Oct. 7 Attack a ‘Psyop’ to Lead Federal Watchdog Agency
Paul Ingrassia, a 29-year-old lawyer who was recently nominated by US President Donald Trump to lead a federal agency dedicated to combating corruption and protecting whistleblowers, seemingly dismissed the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel as a “psyop,” or psychological operation, in resurfaced social media posts.

“This ‘war’ is yet another psyop to distract Americans from celebrating Columbus Day,” Ingrassia wrote on X/Twitter on Oct. 8, 2023.

“I think we could all admit at this stage that Israel/Palestine, much like Ukraine before it, and BLM before that, and covid/vaccine before that, was another psyop,” he posted a week later. “But sadly, people fell for it. And they’ll fall for the next one too.”

On the actual day of the Oct. 7 massacre, Ingrassia compared illegal immigration into the US to the Hamas-led onslaught.

“The amount of energy everyone has put into condemning Hamas (and prior to that, the Ukraine conflict) over the past 24 hours should be the same amount of energy we put into condemning our wide open border, which is a war comparable to the attack on Israel in terms of bloodshed — but made worse by the fact that it’s occurring in our very own backyard,” he posted. “We shouldn’t be beating the war drum, however tragic the events may be overseas, until we resolve our domestic problems first.”

Trump announced last week that he picked Ingrassia to serve as head of the US Office of Special Counsel, a position that requires confirmation by the Senate.

The Office of Special Counsel is an independent federal ethics agency that works to ensure fairness and accountability within the government. Ingrassia’s role, if he is confirmed, would involve investigating claims of wrongdoing, such as retaliation against whistleblowers or improper political activity in the workplace. The official can recommend disciplinary action and reports serious findings to Congress, helping to protect federal employees and uphold the integrity of the civil service system.

Ingrassia also maintains a relationship with and defends alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate, who has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media. Tate wrote on X/Twitter that he refuses to “listen to women, Mexicans, or Jews” and that Jewish people are “subverting Western populations into mass genetic suicide” by advancing what he described as misguided immigration policy. Tate has also accused Israel of committing a “genocide” in Gaza against Palestinians and engaged in Holocaust denialism.

The furor surrounding Ingrassia is the latest dustup the Trump administration has had regarding controversial personnel and antisemitism.
Senate Republicans say they plan to scrutinize Ingrassia nomination
Multiple Senate Republicans said Wednesday that they plan to scrutinize President Donald Trump’s nomination of Paul Ingrassia, a far-right figure picked last week to lead the Office of Special Counsel, charged with fighting corruption and fighting federal whistleblowers.

Ingrassia has trafficked in conspiracy theories, including, as early as Oct. 8, 2023, describing the Hamas attack and ensuing war as a “psyop,” as well as defending prominent antisemites including Kanye West, Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes.

Several Republican members said they were not deeply familiar with Ingrassia’s record but planned to dig into it further before his nomination hearing.

“We just got news of the nom[ination] coming forward. Those [comments] are obviously concerning and we’ll have our staff doing a full background check, but those are, on their face, concerning,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told Jewish Insider.

Tillis was a vocal opponent of Ed Martin, previously Trump’s nominee to be U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., over his defense of those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including a known Nazi sympathizer. Amid that opposition, Trump withdrew the nomination.


Another Koch-funded think tank affiliate on track for top Defense job
Justin Overbaugh is set to be the latest affiliate of the Koch-backed Defense Priorities think tank placed in a top post at the Defense Department, approaching confirmation as the deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence and security.

Numerous others affiliates of the isolationist think tank have been picked for top roles in the Defense Department and the Trump administration, including Michael DiMino, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East; William Ruger, the deputy director of national intelligence for mission integration; Dan Caldwell, a senior advisor at the Pentagon who has since been fired; and Daniel Davis, who was initially picked for the deputy director of national intelligence role but had his job offer rescinded amid public scrutiny.

A number of the Defense Priorities alumni throughout the administration have taken vocal positions opposing action against Iran and arguing the U.S. should pull back from the Middle East. Overbaugh, by contrast, lacks the extensive public record of those other officials — though he has also broadly called for a more restrained U.S. role in the world — and his nomination has attracted little public attention or controversy.

Overbaugh spent 25 years in the Army, retiring as a colonel, and focused on intelligence and global counterintelligence operations.

“I hope to lead the enterprise in strategic assessments that shape defense requirements, ensuring they are data-driven, actionable, and aligned with national security priorities,” Overbaugh said in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee. “I believe that we do not have the resources to cover all threats simultaneously, therefore we must be deliberate and discerning about the capabilities we pursue to defend our Nation and deter, or if necessary, defeat, our adversaries.”
Private prosecution launched against Press TV presenter
Campaign Against Antisemitism has announced that it is bringing a private prosecution against the former Bristol University lecturer, Dr David Miller, over posts he is alleged to have made on the social media platform Twitter/X.

Now a presenter on the Iranian-backed channel Press TV, Miller is alleged to have published material of “a menacing character”, contrary to provisions in the 2003 Communications Act.

Each of three messages allegedly posted by Miller, from November 2024 onwards, concludes with the hashtag “Dismantle Zionism”. In one post, readers are told that “every Zionist Jew must be held accountable and de-Zionised”, while in another, posted in March this year, the writer says: “the entire Zionist movement globally must live in fear of accountability until it is dismantled and its ideology eradicated. And let’s be clear, there are Zionists everywhere, in every town and city. Find out where they are.”

CAA says that its application for a criminal summons to be issued against Miller has been granted by Westminster Magistrates’ Court, with an initial hearing set down for 2 July.
Trump Administration Threatens Columbia's Accreditation For Violating Jewish Students' Civil Rights
The Trump administration told Columbia University’s accreditor on Wednesday that the Ivy League school violated civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish students, putting its status at risk.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights notified the Middle States Commission on Higher Education that Columbia was "in violation of federal antidiscrimination laws and therefore fails to meet the standards for accreditation set by the Commission," the agency announced. It pointed to the commission’s policies stating that accredited schools must be in "compliance with all applicable government laws and regulations."

The departments of Education and Health and Human Services determined on May 22 that Columbia "acted with deliberate indifference towards discriminatory harassment against Jewish students." That puts the university in violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which protects students based on national origin, including shared ancestry.

Without accreditation, colleges and universities are not eligible for federal financial aid, including student loans, and employers are less likely to see a degree from an unaccredited institution as legitimate. While university accreditation is meant to hinge on a school’s education quality, accreditors—who are overseen by the Education Department—have increasingly considered other factors, like DEI policies.

While universities rarely lose accreditation, President Donald Trump has taken steps to overhaul the process in an effort to fight left-wing "overreach" on campus. On April 23, Trump signed an executive order that makes it easier for universities to change accreditors and for new accreditors to gain federal recognition.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said Columbia’s "deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students" is "not only immoral, but also unlawful."

"Accreditors have an enormous public responsibility as gatekeepers of federal student aid. They determine which institutions are eligible for federal student loans and Pell Grants," she said. "Just as the Department of Education has an obligation to uphold federal antidiscrimination law, university accreditors have an obligation to ensure member institutions abide by their standards."
Carville accuses Jewish donors of abandoning Democrats for GOP because they just want their ‘f—–g tax cut’
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said on Wednesday he doesn’t believe it when wealthy Jewish donors tell him they’re ditching the Democratic Party because of antisemitism among its members. He says they’re doing it for a “f—— tax cut.”

During the latest episode of his “Politics War Room” podcast, the former Bill Clinton advisor said these donors’ concerns that the Democratic Party has encouraged antisemitism on college campuses are an excuse so they can vote for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts.

“No, you just want your f—— tax cut,” he declared.

The topic came up with co-host Al Hunt ripping Trump for billing himself an ally for Jewish people. “Trump fighting antisemitism is a joke,” he said, referencing a recent New York Times article accusing the president of fanning the “flames” of antisemitism in America.

Carville replied by calling Trump a “complete fraud,” but added that the group really exposed by the article are the wealthy Jewish people who stopped giving to the Democratic Party and supported Trump in 2024.

“I tell you who this exposes in a more profound way. And I hear this all the time… a lot of really wealthy Jewish fundraisers – And they say, ‘Look James, I’m a Democrat, but I can’t be a part of the party because of what happened at Columbia.’”

“What the f— did the Democrats have to do with what happened in Columbia?” Carville demanded.


Intellectuals Love Hamas
Since the October 7th massacre it's become obvious that far too many intellectuals LOVE Hamas.

But why?


University of Sydney failed to protect Jews from antisemitism
SafeWork NSW has found the University of Sydney (USYD) failed to protect Jewish workers and students from antisemitism for 11 months, creating a workplace of “fear” and “anxiousness”, but has declined to pursue a full investigation.

A SafeWork inspector’s report, released under freedom of information laws, concluded the university “failed to take reasonable actions to manage, reduce and eliminate active antisemitic conduct on campus” despite having the authority to do so.

The report found Jewish workers and students “experienced antisemitism daily whilst on campus” and that the university’s failures “placed at risk the psychosocial health and safety of Jewish workers and students”.

Twenty-three Jewish employees and staff filed a workplace claim against university management for “psychosocial harm” in September last year.

The SafeWork inspector visited the campus twice and found “antisemitic campus rallies, demonstrations, meetings, graffiti, flyers, social media and Palestinian encampment continued unabated” until adverse media scrutiny emerged in June 2024.

The report stated the university “repeatedly failed to act in response to incident reports about antisemitism on campus” and “did not adequately respond to complaints and concerns from Jewish workers and students”.
Princeton Fails To Enforce Its Rules on Free Speech, Antisemitism
Princeton’s President Christopher Eisgruber has positioned himself as perhaps the leading academic defender against the Trump administration’s crackdown on universities, citing the importance of universities and academic freedom, as well as his belief that the administration has greatly overreached in its attacks, especially against Harvard.

Yet his ability to lead credibly this defense was challenged in April by an event at Princeton featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who is considered one of the favorites to succeed Benjamin Netanyahu next year. Demonstrators inside McCosh Hall shouted Bennett down and a fire alarm was pulled, apparently by a protester, ending the event. Outside, Jewish attendees were called “inbred swine,” among other slurs, and told to “go back to Europe.” President Eisgruber apologized to Bennett and university officials promised a serious investigation. A number of observers noted the importance of Princeton enforcing its rules in this situation. I attended the April 7 event, and I volunteered to speak as a witness to university investigators, with whom I met twice for over two hours.

I was therefore shocked when on May 19 I received the results of that investigation in a letter from a university official: No students would be disciplined for their premeditated disruption and blatant antisemitism. As a result, seniors who participated in breaking the rules have now graduated without consequence. What’s more, no meaningful actions would be taken to preclude the same type of disruption and antisemitism from occurring in the future. For all his public statements about how good things are at Princeton, Eisgruber’s system failed its first test.

In a written report sent to me and signed by Michele Minter, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity, the university admitted that the protestors “created a hostile environment that unreasonably interfered with [my] educational experience [as an attendee] relating to the April 7th event in violation of [Princeton’s] Policy on Discrimination and/or Harassment.” Yet my personal experience is not the real point. The real point is that Princeton allowed a visiting speaker, a high-ranking Jewish leader, to be shut down, and allowed masked protesters to shout antisemitic slurs at Jewish students with complete impunity.
Harvard Hires ‘Counter-Zionist’ Professor in Effort To Fight ‘Anti-Israeli Bias’ in Classrooms
Harvard Divinity School (HDS) appointed Shaul Magid, a leftist Jewish philosopher who describes himself as a "counter-Zionist," to a new position the university says it created as a way to combat "anti-Israeli bias."

Magid, who has described the Jewish state as "illiberal" and "chauvinist," will be the university’s inaugural Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence. Harvard says the new position is part of its effort to stem the tide of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel ideology in its classrooms after its anti-Semitism task force found that "politicized instruction" in four of its schools "mainstreamed and normalized what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism."

The report’s authors said Jewish students were unable to "engage fully in academic and co-curricular life at Harvard" due to attacks from anti-Israel peers. They also warned about the "ease with which ‘anti-Zionism’ slips into what is effectively antisemitism," citing an anti-Semitic cartoon students and faculty shared on social media.

The "politicized instruction" at the Divinity School, the report noted, includes subjecting Jewish students to "the embrace of a pedagogy of ‘de-zionization’" in which professors "attribute to Jews two great sins: first, in the Levant, the establishment of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba; and second, in the United States, participation in White supremacy."

In Magid’s November 2023 book, The Necessity of Exile, he argued in favor of a one-state solution that would have Israel become "both Jewish and Palestinian" in character without being "structured on the notion that this land ‘belongs’ to anyone."

"Zionism had its time; it did its work; now it can be set aside, along with Manifest Destiny, colonialism, and any number of other chauvinistic and ethnocentric ideologies of the past," Magid wrote.


University lecturer ‘proud’ to support legal bid to lift UK ban on Hamas
A senior lecturer at one of Britain’s top universities has publicly backed efforts to de-proscribe Hamas as a terrorist organisation in the UK and previously written that “our work isn’t done until all Zionists are removed from our institutions and shamed, alongside all racists, into nothingness”.

Dr Tarek Younis, an academic at Middlesex University in Hendon since 2019, made the admission on social media, where he said he was “proud to have contributed” to a legal application submitted by London law firm Riverway to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of banned terrorist groups under the Terrorism Act 2000.

The firm behind the application argues that the ban “breaches the European Convention on Human Rights”.

The post, made on 9 April on X (formerly Twitter), is the latest in a series of interventions by Dr Younis, who has long platformed extreme anti-Zionist and anti-Israel views.

He previously claimed that Labour Friends of Israel was “involved in the blatantly racist suppression of Palestinian solidarity”.


How the BBC (and others) fell for yet another Hamas narrative
Despite that statement from the IDF and the information released earlier by the GHF, the BBC continued to promote a “he said-she said” account of the story.

While there are still questions over the incident on Sunday, as well as other alleged casualties at Gaza aid distribution centres which were reported over the next two days, the willingness of BBC reporters and editors to promote largely unevidenced claims by Hamas or Hamas-related officials is extremely troubling, and, in fact, isn't exclusive to the BBC.

For its part, Sky News placed their coverage of the aid distribution incident as one of the top stories on their website’s homepage, with a headline which includes the words "Death traps and bloodbaths”, incendiary language culled from a Hamas press release conspiratorially accusing Israel of luring starving Palestinian children to the aid centres in order to kill them.

On the other side of the pond, the Washington Post ran the unverified, Hamas-based narrative of an Israeli attack on civilians queuing for aid in Gaza before finally, three days later, and after the original false story had already been widely circulated, admitting that the attack "couldn't be verified".

The far more influential New York Times also promoted the proscribed terror group's unsubstantiated claims about a “massacre” at the Gaza aid centre. However, unlike the Washington Post, the US “paper of record” has published no such mea culpa. In fact, as our CAMERA colleague showed, their reports not only failed to walk back their initial coverage, but actually concealed and muddled the Israeli denial in a word salad positioning the IDF statements as a potential confirmation of sorts.

For its part, CNN, in its initial reporting of the incident, didn't even temper their blaming of Israel with qualifying language acknowledging that the IDF was only being accused of carrying out attacks on hungry civilians. The network failed to acknowledge in their June 1st story that the allegations came from Hamas-controlled entities in Gaza.

Most remarkably, none of the outlets we mentioned saw fit to report on an IDF video posted on X on Sunday evening appearing to show Palestinian gunmen in Gaza shooting at civilians reportedly going to collect aid, which is illustrative of the fact that reporters in the UK and US ignored or significantly downplayed the possibility that Hamas or other Palestinian gunmen could have been responsible for the shooting of civilians queuing in line for food.

Given that Hamas had, several days before the Sunday incident, denounced the new US-Israeli-backed aid distribution system as an “agent of the occupation”, warning Palestinian civilians who accept its assistance that they “will pay the price, and we will take the necessary measures", one would have expected Western journalists to give at least equal weight to the possibility that the terror group – and not Israel – was the party responsible for the alleged massacre.

Western media coverage of the Gaza aid shootings once again shows that far too many journalists adopt the default position of believing the worst about Israel even when unverified claims come from dubious and/or politically motivated sources – including “local journalists” – and serve Hamas’ propaganda agenda.


BBC NEWS AGAIN PLATFORMS TOM FLETCHER’S DISINFORMATION AND SMEARS
Previously we discussed the BBC’s May 20th platforming of UN OCHA’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher and its failure not only to challenge the gross disinformation he promoted at the time but also to add explanatory notes to content which further amplified that disinformation for a whole week after the interview.

In light of the controversy created by that interview and the opportunistic repetition of Fletcher’s disinformation, one might have expected the BBC to be rather cautious about platforming him once again.

Instead, the BBC brought in a journalist with one of the worst records of impartiality as far as reporting on the current conflict is concerned – Fergal Keane – to conduct a long face-to-face interview with Fletcher.

On the same day, the BBC News website also published a written report by Keane headlined “Gaza subjected to forced starvation, top UN official tells BBC” which features that filmed report and includes a footnote stating that the full 26-minute interview would be aired on BBC television on May 31st.

“Mr Fletcher’s full interview will be broadcast on the BBC News Channel at 00:30BST and 16:30BST on Saturday.”

The 4:41minute-long edited version of that interview appearing on the BBC News website is remarkable for Keane’s promotion of slogans such as “ethnic cleansing” and “war crimes” which were also aired in the lead item of the May 30th edition of the BBC World Service’s ‘Global News Podcast’. The interview opens in Keane’s typically emotional and dramatic style. [emphasis in italics in the original, emphasis in bold added]

Keane: “The chaos and the pity. The desperation that is the legacy when aid is blocked. Today the UN’s chief of humanitarian affairs – a former British diplomat – told me Israel had forcibly starved Gaza.”

Like his colleagues at BBC Verify only days earlier, Keane of course had nothing to tell his viewers about the augmented amounts of humanitarian aid – mostly food – which entered the Gaza Strip in 25,200 trucks between January 19th and March 2nd 2025. Neither did he bother to inform BBC audiences that since the beginning of the war, nearly 1.8 million tons of aid have been delivered.

Fletcher then passes off statements made by a minority of ministers in Israel’s current government as though they are official government policy and without clarifying that no such ‘forced removal’ outside the Gaza Strip has taken place.
THE WASHINGTON POST CAN’T QUIT ITS HAMAS HABIT
Antisemitism, the late scholar Robert Wistrich observed, is a lethal obsession. And events in recent months and weeks prove as much.

On June 1, 2025, an Egyptian illegal immigrant threw Molotov cocktails at Jews in Boulder, Colorado, severely maiming several, including a Holocaust survivor. A little more than a week prior, on May 22, a Chicago man named Elias Rodriguez flew to Washington D.C. and murdered a young couple, Zionists on the verge of being married, at an American Jewish Committee (AJC) event. The previous month a part of the Pennsylvania Governor’s residence was set on fire and a suspect, Cody Allen Balmer, charged with arson.

All of these crimes—terrorist attacks—were motivated by antisemitism. And dishonest media coverage has been fueling the fire. The Washington Post is among the worst offenders.

As CAMERA has documented, the Washington Post treats Hamas not as a genocidal terrorist group, but as a trusted source. Time and again, the Post regurgitates casualty claims made by the “Gaza Health Ministry”—an entity that is wholesale controlled by Hamas, which has a clear interest in inflating casualty statistics and a demonstrated track record of doing precisely that. As CAMERA noted in a recent Washington Times podcast (“Politically Unstable,” June 2), former U.S. administration officials as well as journalists themselves, have been warned not to treat terror propaganda as truth.

Time and again, the Post has done just that. And as CAMERA told the Washington Times’s Kelly Sadler, the Post knows better; mere months before the October 7 massacre the newspaper published a warning from CAMERA that “trusting a Hamas-run ‘ministry’ to provide reliable casualty counts is like trusting a fox to guard a henhouse.” While some outlets, like the Washington Times, decry the mainstreaming of Hamas propaganda, too many do otherwise.

Indeed, the Washington Post itself is unbowed. All of the aforementioned terrorist attacks were committed by suspects who repeated the media’s Hamas talking points. This should be cause for reflection, but a recent Washington Post news report shows that the newspaper isn’t interested in learning.
OMISSIONS AND ERRORS IN BBC NEWS WEBSITE REPORT ON SYRIA
That post took members of the public to a report carrying the similarly context-free headline “Israel launches strikes on weapons in Syria” which is credited to a relatively new BBC employee called James Chater located some 14,000 kilometres away from the story in Sydney, Australia.

As is so often the case in BBC reporting, that article adopted the ‘last-first’ approach, with its opening paragraph mentioning the last in a chain of events before explaining what came before.
“Israel said it had launched strikes on weapons belonging to Syria, hours after reports that two projectiles had been fired from Syria into Israel on Tuesday.”

The words “reports that” are of course completely superfluous as two rockets were indeed launched from Syria to the Golan Heights shortly before 10 p.m. on the evening of June 3rd.

Eight paragraphs later, Chater provided some additional – if economical – reporting on that incident:
“Israel said the strikes came after two projectiles launched from Syria landed in open areas of the country, causing no injuries.

Israeli media reported that the strikes were the first launched from Syria since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.

It was not immediately clear who fired the projectiles.

“We consider the president of Syria directly responsible for any threat and fire toward the State of Israel,” Katz said.

Syria’s foreign ministry said reports of the launches from inside Syria “have not been verified yet”.”

Readers were not informed that the residents of two communities – Hispin and Ramat Magshimim – had to rush for shelter during those attacks or that the “open areas” concerned were near to the latter village. Neither does Chater tell BBC audiences that, as reported by the Times of Israel:
THE TIMES CORRECTS ARTICLE ON GAZA AID INCIDENT
Earlier today, we contacted Times editors over an article by Gabrielle Weiniger (“Bodies of Israeli hostage couple recovered from Gaza”, June 5) which included the following sentence, referring to Hamas accusations that the IDF has killed dozens of Palestinians waiting in line for food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites.

We noted that the sentence frames it as a fact that Israeli troops opened fire on innocent Palestinians, while their own previous coverage makes it clear that it’s only an accusation from the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.


Jordan’s ban on Muslim Brotherhood signals a shift to Gulf-style pragmatism
In a region where symbols often speak louder than words, Jordan’s recent move to ban the Muslim Brotherhood might be more than just a legal decision—it could be a message to the region and the world at a consequential moment in Middle Eastern politics.

For years, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has walked a tightrope. With limited resources, a diverse population, and a long-standing peace treaty with Israel, Amman has played the role of a regional stabiliser. Yet within its borders, the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood—a political Islamist movement with deep ideological roots—has been both tolerated and regulated. That balance now appears to have tipped.

Why Now?

The timing of this decision is crucial. The Middle East is not what it was a decade ago. In the wake of the Abraham Accords, a new bloc of pragmatic states is emerging—nations like the UAE, Bahrain, and increasingly Saudi Arabia—that prioritise stability, economic modernisation, and regional cooperation over ideological entanglements. By banning the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan seems to be signalling its alignment with this evolving reality.

Let’s be clear: this is not merely a domestic policy decision. It’s a recalibration of Jordan’s identity in the regional order. The Brotherhood, often viewed by Gulf monarchies and Egypt as a threat to political stability, has long been under pressure. In Egypt, they were outlawed after the fall of Morsi. In the UAE and Saudi Arabia, they are seen as a dangerous ideological export. By taking this step, Jordan may be seeking deeper strategic integration with these countries—politically, economically, and perhaps even in matters of security.


Former Iranian Hostages Speak Out: No Deal With the Ayatollah
Several Americans who spent more than a year as hostages of the Iranian regime beginning in 1979 reacted with ambivalence—or outright dismay—at the prospect of President Donald Trump cutting a deal with the Islamic Republic.

"I don't think they're honorable," Clair Cortland Barnes, now 80, told the Washington Free Beacon from his home in Leland, N.C., referring to the Iranian government. "I think that whatever deal you make with them, they're going to break as soon as they can."

Barnes, a former U.S. government communications specialist, spent 444 days in captivity at the U.S. embassy in Iran after it was overrun by radical Islamist followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. During his time in captivity, Barnes personally witnessed Iranians beating prisoners who attempted to escape.

A Trump voter, Barnes was an outspoken critic of former president Barack Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and warned Trump that the Iranians are "liars" and that any agreement would only be "a paper deal."

"I kind of consider the Iranians and Putin to be in the same boat," Barnes said.

William Gallegos, a 21-year-old Marine Corps guard when he was taken hostage by the Iranian radicals, said he was "ambivalent" about a deal with his former captors.

"Even though President Trump is a great negotiator, you know Iran; even if they make a deal, whatever happens once Iran gets what they want?" Gallegos asked. "Then they screw everybody else over, and then it's done, and then it starts all over again. And that's the way it's been for, what, 40-something years now."

Gallegos, like Barnes, voted for Trump. After a career with the Marines, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the Denver Police Department as a detective, he retired in 2019. In a 2009 oral history of the hostage crisis, he recalled the Iranians tying him up and blindfolding him.

"It's just, just the way Iran is," Gallegos told the Free Beacon. "It's always been that way. You know, Iran doesn't care about anybody else. They never have, you know, since our situation, and it's, you know, it's like I say, once a deal is made, Iran always manages to break it, so it doesn't matter."
The Iranian refugees spying on Britain Tehran is blackmailing its citizens
Over the past three years, at least 20 Iranian terrorist plots have been detected on British soil. Some have involved members of organised criminal gangs, and targeted both prominent Jews and Iranian opposition journalists. All these plots depend on networks of spies, who conduct surveillance on behalf of the regime.

Until now, little has been known about how or where these agents are recruited. But UnHerd can now reveal an extraordinary security loophole — one increasingly exploited by the Iranian state. Its London embassy is routinely enabling Iranian refugees to break UK immigration rules and secretly visit their homeland. These operations are so routine, that the embassy even has a form it issues to refugees wishing to illicitly return to Iran.

But this assistance comes with a price: the embassy then blackmails the refugees into becoming intelligence service informants, with potentially dire consequences for British security.

Since 2010, about 1,300 Iranians have been granted full refugee status every year in Britain. In the year to March 2024, over 8,000 Iranians applied for asylum here, and since 2018 they have consistently been among the top three nationalities arriving in small boats.

It’s impossible to know how many have been encouraged by the Iranian government to visit the country they supposedly fled. But it’s nonetheless clear that the system is a well-oiled machine — as one 34-year-old discovered.
Trump’s realists vs. isolationists: Who will win on Iran? | Israel Undiplomatic
Will negotiations win the day or will Israel be forced into military action against Iran?

Senior JNS contributing editor Ruthie Blum and former Israeli ambassador to the UK Mark Regev—both former advisers in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office—unpack the escalating nuclear crisis with Iran and the deepening tug-of-war within the Trump administration.

At the center of the discussion is the fierce internal divide between isolationist voices in Trump’s circle pushing for restraint and realist factions warning that military action may soon be Israel’s only option. With Iran already possessing enough enriched uranium for ten bombs, and its proxies in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza significantly degraded, the window for Israeli military action may be closing fast. But Trump’s reported request for Israel to hold off raises complex strategic and diplomatic questions.

Regev and Blum examine conflicting U.S. reports around nuclear enrichment, the possibility of a “temporary deal” with Tehran and whether Israel should act unilaterally if pressured to stand down. The hosts also expose the duplicitous messaging of Abraham Accords nations, who denounce Israeli strikes publicly while quietly relying on them to counter Iran’s regional dominance.

The second half of the episode turns to global media manipulation, where Hamas lies—spread by outlets like the BBC and The New York Times—are linked to surging antisemitism and terror attacks in the West. The hosts condemn former Israeli officials for fueling genocide slanders, and emphasize: Israel must prioritize victory in Gaza—even if it means bad PR abroad.

Chapters
00:00 Iran's Nuclear Enrichment and Israel's Concerns
18:58 Media Narratives and Hamas Propaganda


Iran’s 10% Ruling Over 90%: Could the regime finally break? w/Banafsheh Zand | TALX
How does the Iranian regime maintain its control over the majority and what are the chances it falls? Are there realistic ways the West can help that happen?

JNS CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman sits down with Iranian-born journalist, analyst and author Banafsheh Zand for an inside look at the true nature of the Islamic Republic and the global stakes of its survival.

The episode explores the origins of Iran’s theocratic regime, its use of violence and lies to suppress dissent and its decades-long manipulation of Western leaders. Zand exposes the inner workings of the regime, the complicity of Western governments and media and how oil wealth continues to bankroll terror across the region—from Hezbollah to Hamas.

Zand also explains the Iranian people’s quiet resistance, the enduring trauma of political repression and the growing possibility of regime change as the mullahs lose control of their foreign terror proxies. She offers unique insight into the 2009 Green Revolution, the ongoing civil protests and the grassroots infrastructure already in place to rebuild a free Iran—highlighting a stark contrast with failed nation-building attempts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The discussion turns critical as Traiman questions whether U.S. policies, especially under the Obama and Biden administrations, have actively empowered Tehran. Zand warns that appeasement has confused the Iranian public and delayed real change. The episode ends with a sobering look at Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the global risks of continuing to legitimize a regime bent on religious domination and destruction.

Chapters
00:00 The Rise of the Islamic Republic
03:05 Goals and Ideology of the Regime
06:04 Economic Challenges and Funding Terrorism
08:46 Public Sentiment and Dissent in Iran
12:02 The Role of International Relations
15:11 The Nuclear Program and Global Implications
17:51 Protests and the Future of Iran
20:52 The Potential for Regime Change
24:09 Comparing Iran to Iraq and Afghanistan
26:55 The Health of Khamenei and Succession Planning




First Successful Artificial Heart Transplant in Israel
For the first time in Israel, the successful transplant of a completely artificial heart was performed at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem in a 63-year-old patient who would have otherwise died.

The patient’s heart was removed from his body and replaced with a special artificial heart made of titanium combined with biological animal tissues and advanced sensors. The seven-hour-long operation – called Total Artificial Heart Therapy Implantation of a Total Artificial Heart (TAH) – was led by an extensive medical team that included cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, intensive care specialists, operating room nurses, and heart-lung machine technicians.

TAH is a treatment option for patients with end-stage biventricular failure, a severe stage of heart failure where both the left and right ventricles of the heart are unable to pump blood effectively, leading to a variety of symptoms and potentially life-threatening complications.

Left and right ventricles are the lower chambers of the heart that pump blood to the lungs and the rest of the body. It is characterized by the heart’s inability to meet the body’s need for blood flow, often requiring advanced therapies like heart transplantation or artificial hearts. It can lead to severe symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, swelling in the legs and ankles, and abdominal pain.

The complex operation, which required thorough preparation, was made possible after a team from Hadassah went to France for training on the subject, accompanied by local cardiac surgeons and representatives of the French company CARMAT. There, the team learned the transplantation method on its own and even trained the other members of the medical team upon its return home.
Golani commando pulled from Gaza to save girl’s life at Hadassah
A 21-year-old Israel Defense Forces commando left the front line in Gaza to donate life-saving bone marrow to a 5-year-old girl battling leukemia.

The soldier, identified as A., a resident of Kfar Tavor near Mount Tabor in the eastern Lower Galilee serving in the Golani Commando Unit (formerly known as the Golani Reconnaissance Battalion), was contacted by Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem as he was about to leave the combat zone, Israeli outlet Channel 12 News reported on Thursday.

Years earlier, as he joined the army at the IDF’s induction center, he had submitted a saliva sample to Hadassah’s volunteer bone marrow donor registry. That sample led to his identification as a perfect genetic match for a young patient in need.

“I was sitting on the truck, packed and ready to head out of Gaza, when I got the call,” A. recalled. “The coordinator told me I could save a life. At first, I didn’t realize how big of a privilege this was.”

Though the process was initially delayed due to the recipient’s medical condition, A. was eventually located again—this time during another deployment in Gaza—after Hadassah staff tracked him down through his commanding officer. With permission from his battalion commander, he was pulled from the field and proceeded with the procedure in Jerusalem.
Public Figures in Italy Join in Support of Israel
Over a thousand intellectuals, journalists, former politicians, and public figures have signed a petition condemning the wave of antisemitic and anti-Israel protests in Italy, marking a powerful and meaningful show of support for Israel.

The petition warns that these protests are "organized and promoted by those who do not understand or refuse to understand what happened and what October 7, 2023, means," the day when "5,000 Palestinian terrorists invaded Israel and showed the world that the mass murder of Jews is once again possible."

These atrocities "came from the murderous, antisemitic ambitions of Iran, which for decades has armed and funded Hamas, Hizbullah, and the Houthis in a campaign to surround and annihilate the 'Zionist state.'"

The initiative was launched by a group of journalists and intellectuals led by Jewish Israeli author and journalist Fiamma Nirenstein.
Major pro-Israel summit in Dallas canceled due to security threats
A major pro-Israel conference slated to begin in four days in Dallas that had 1,000 committed attendees postponed the event “indefinitely,” citing “escalating terror threats.”

The decision came after organizers had already changed venues for the Israel Summit, which draws major Christian and Jewish pro-Israel speakers, because of security concerns. It was set to take place from June 9-11.

“This is America in 2025. A pro-Israel conference scheduled for Dallas this week, where I was scheduled to speak, which sold over 1,000 tickets, was forced to cancel because of threats from violent Jihadists,” stated David Friedman, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel.

“Law enforcement was completely cooperative, but the threats were of a nature that required cancellation,” Friedman said. “When the president says we need to take our country back, this is a good example of what he means.”

Josiah Hilton, show host for the Israel Guys, which was to co-host the event with HaYovel, stated that just 10 days before this year’s event, local police and intelligence officials in Dallas notified organizers that it had been elevated to a “high-threat event.”

That meant that they would have to develop “a mandatory security plan with a substantial budget estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,” and their original venue was no longer feasible, according to Hilton.

At the time, organizers believed that security concerns were due to the recent murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington.

The organizers were able to quickly secure what Hilton called a “new and significantly safer location just north of Dallas.” At the new site, there was to be “top-tier private security, with additional support from local law enforcement and coordination with the Texas governor’s office.” (JNS sought comment from the governor’s office, from the FBI, and from Dallas and Arlington police.)

Organizers announced on Thursday that the new venue, which they didn’t name, was also forced to withdraw, “citing escalating safety concerns and mounting external pressure.”


Dead Sea Scrolls much older than previously thought, AI-based study finds
Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, a new study claims.

Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands utilized artificial intelligence to examine the handwriting of the ancient fragments and claim they derived more accurate dates for some writings, including the Book of Daniel, according to a paper published in Plos One.

The aptly named AI program “Enoch” was fed a plethora of already dated ancient texts from modern-day Israel and the West Bank that also had radiocarbon dates — then used machine learning to study the handwriting progressions of 135 Dead Sea Scroll fragments.

The study claimed that the fragment of the Book of Daniel 8-11, which was thought to be dated to the 160s BC, could be as old as 230 BC, which overlaps with the period in which the biblical book was authored.

“With the Enoch tool we have opened a new door into the ancient world, like a time machine, that allows us to study the hands that wrote the Bible,” the study’s authors wrote in a statement, Eureka Alert reported.

“Especially now that we have established, for the first time, that two biblical scroll fragments come from the time of their presumed authors,” the statement continued.




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