Wednesday, July 02, 2025

07/02 Links Pt2: Karen Diamond: killed by ‘anti-Zionism’; When endorsement becomes complicity; Claire Shipman’s Political Faceplant; Australia cancels Kanye West’s visa

From Ian:

Brendan O'Neill: Karen Diamond: killed by ‘anti-Zionism’
Soliman is reported to have yelled ‘Free Palestine’ as he set the Jews and their allies on fire. He said his desire was nothing less than to ‘kill all Zionist people’. It would appear that in his mind, the great crime of those who gathered in Boulder was to sympathise with the Jewish State. He seemed to view their weekly vigil for the Jews still held by Hamas as a Zionist outrage. These elderly folk had exposed themselves as ‘Zionist people’ and thus they had it coming. They deserved death. They deserved to feel the fire of his furious moral judgement.

Here’s the thing, the truly chilling thing: Soliman is not alone in viewing ‘Zionist people’ as the lowest form of human life. His suspected actions in Boulder may have been extreme, but his literally burning contempt for ‘Zionists’ is entirely mainstream. It chimes with the fanatical loathing for the ‘Zionist entity’ that seethes and courses in influencer circles. It echoes the zealous and myopic hatred for the Jewish nation that is rampant among the woke. He gave murderous expression to the key belief of polite society: that Zionism is the great cancer of our times and we all have a duty to cut it out.

Liberal commentators damn Zionists as ‘depraved monsters’. They brand the ‘Zionist entity’ a ‘uniquely murderous’ nation. They call for Zionism to be dismantled, destroyed, so that humankind might finally be free of its noxious, bloodletting ways. ‘Zionism is a cancer to this planet’, their placards say. ‘Death to Zionism’, they chant. ‘End Zionism’, said scrawled, makeshift banners on those deranged Zio-hating protests that swept Ivy League campuses last year.

Zionism must be excised from the Middle East – ‘from the river to the sea’ – and its army must be destroyed, they cry, violently if necessary. Indeed, how striking that in the same week we learn that an elderly lady perished upon the flames of a man’s frothing hatred for Zionism, the left in the UK are defending that sick chant that rang out at Glastonbury: ‘Death, death to the IDF.’ They won’t say the name Karen Diamond because they’re too busy saying the name Bob Vylan, the punk-rap duo that whipped up that anti-Zionist mania at Glasto. Just think about this: they ignore a Jew who fell victim to the fascistic loathing for Israel because they’re too busy engaging in such fascistic loathing themselves.

This is not about blaming anyone other than Soliman for what happened in Boulder four weeks ago. It’s about examining, with frankness, the consequences of the latest elite hysteria. When you call Zionism ‘evil’ and its supporters ‘monsters’, when you depict Zionism as the wickedest ideology of all time, you have no right whatsoever to feign alarm when Zionists – Jews – are subjected to violent retribution. You found them guilty of evil, so why should others not pass sentence on them?

A huge majority of the world’s Jews identify with Israel. They are Zionists. So when the influencer classes demonise Zionists, and rob them of their humanity, and damn their nation as a cesspit of sin, and chant for the death of their soldiers, and dream of the coming violent erasure of their homeland, they are hanging a target sign on the neck of Jews. They are inviting, wittingly or otherwise, racial hatred and even worse for the people most likely to be Zionists: the Jewish people. There’s no more avoiding it: the elite derangement of ‘anti-Zionism’ is fostering a mob loathing for our Jewish compatriots. And challenging it is the great anti-racist cause of our time.
How Anti-Zionism Became a Western Rite
The scapegoating of Jews in the West is part and parcel of a rebarbarized culture, one that endorses political violence. A recent Rutgers University poll found that “55 percent of all self-identifying ‘liberals’ believe killing is a justifiable means of pursuing their political goals”—and endows it with theological significance. If George Floyd’s death and subsequent canonization as a secular martyr justified the urban riots during which 2,000 police officers were injured, thousands of businesses and properties were looted and vandalized, and 17 people were killed, the sanctification of cold-blooded murder soon followed. After Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024, images appeared of Mangione with a halo, in a green mantle with a red sacred heart, under the title “Saint Luigi, Patron Saint of Healthcare Access for All.”

These developments underscore the global convergence of militant political and religious movements. Islamists have learned to speak the language of social justice activists, while far-left radicals have learned to frame ideological struggle as a holy war. Human life holds little value for either of them. The journey from self-immolation for Palestine to so-called self-martyrdom bombings is a short stop or two on a train that long ago left the station of peaceful politics.

The ultimate aim of those who have married Islamism and Marxism, as Columbia University Apartheid Divest (a group of more than 100 anti-Israel organizations) admitted, is “the total eradication of Western civilization.” That would mean a world without political and economic liberty, freedom of speech and opinion, equal rights for women and minorities, technological advancement, philosophy, science, art, literature, music, and the blessings of the Jewish and Christian traditions.

The hatred of Israel and the Jews is at bottom a nihilistic loathing of the free and flourishing life that the West has secured for billions of people. Israel epitomizes not only the abundant fruits of Western civilization but also the conditions for their existence: strong borders, national pride, and free markets; thick social bonds and vigorous common purpose. These conditions are much maligned (particularly in the case of the Jewish state) because they impede any sort of political or religious globalization, be it of socialism, Islamism, or elite technocratic rule. While there’s no changing the minds of hard-core antisemites, Westerners who subject Israel and its people to withering criticism because they are inclined to support one or more of these causes would do well to ponder this biblical instruction: “Life and death I set before you, the blessing and the curse, and you shall choose life so that you may live, you and your seed” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Gideon Falter: I am alive because my ancestors realised Jews were in danger. Britain is nearly there
The reason that I am alive today is that, for my ancestors, there was a moment that they realised that their country was falling apart and becoming unsafe for Jews. For me, that moment came as I saw the footage from Glastonbury.

As Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, I have had a front row seat as this country that sheltered my grandparents during the Second World War has become increasingly unrecognisable through hatred and extremism.

But Glastonbury was a pivotal moment for me, when some kind of ancestral sense was activated.

Tens of thousands of young humanitarians at the country’s premier music festival were chanting for “death”, in scenes reminiscent of mass rallies in Tehran or Sanaa, beamed into the homes of millions by the national broadcaster.

None of this should have come as a surprise. Bob Vylan has apparently engaged in this kind of behaviour before, and Glastonbury was already taking place under a cloud of controversy that it had courted by inviting soon-to-be-proscribed-as-terrorists Palestine Action to address the crowds and Kneecap to headline.

The Prime Minister had warned that the Kneecapper on trial for allegedly supporting terrorists “shouldn’t” be allowed to play, and the BBC – which had to pull a documentary after it emerged that a senior Hamas member’s family had been paid for assistance in its production – said it “probably” would not broadcast Kneecap’s performance.

But none of this prevented Bob Vylan’s rant about having to “work for Zionists”, chants for “death” and the obliteration of the entire Jewish state “from the River to the Sea” from appearing on screens in living rooms across the country, courtesy of the supposedly genteel and tolerant BBC.

Now of course, everyone is taken aback. Glastonbury’s managing dynasty, fronted by Emily Eavis, is “appalled” that the acts they chose so carefully behaved in this manner. The BBC says that the whole thing was “utterly unacceptable” and Ofcom is “very concerned”. Just another set of rapped knuckles and feigned surprise, but this is far bigger than that.


Columbia’s Rot Starts at the Top: “We need to get an Arab on our board. Quickly.”
It’s undeniable: Columbia University’s internal rot runs deep—ideological, personal, and discriminatory. Newly leaked messages from former board co‑chair and now–acting president Claire Shipman expose a calculated, deeply cynical campaign to exclude Jewish voices and appease campus radicals.

This wasn’t a lapse in judgment. It was a strategy.
“We need to get an Arab on our board. Quickly.”

On January 17, 2024, Shipman texted:
“We need to get somebody from the Middle East or who is Arab on our board… Quickly I think. Somehow.”

Not someone qualified. Not someone committed to campus safety. Just someone "Arab"—a textbook case of racial tokenism driven by identity optics. This came mere months after Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

A week later, Shipman set her sights on Shoshana Shendelman, one of the only trustees actively speaking out against antisemitism on campus.
“She’s been extraordinarily unhelpful,” Shipman wrote. “I just don’t think she should be on the board.”

That wasn’t a one-off remark. In subsequent exchanges, she and vice-chair Wanda Greene actively discussed isolating Shendelman from board decisions—especially around how to handle the growing anti-Israel encampments.
Greene: “Do you believe she is a mole? A Fox in the henhouse?”
Shipman: “I do.”

Let’s be clear: a Jewish trustee—whose family fled Iran during the Islamic Revolution—is now framed as a "mole" for advocating that the university take antisemitic violence seriously.

The internal logic is inverted: those enabling chaos are “brave,” while those urging accountability are threats. “She’s fishing for information...”

In April 2024, as anti-Israel protesters began escalating tactics—eventually occupying buildings and allegedly holding a janitor hostage—Shipman and Greene were strategizing in text about how to withhold information from Shendelman:
Shipman: “She’s fishing for information that could force our hand.”
Greene: “I agree.”
Shipman: “So we don’t share.”

This is not how fiduciaries operate. This is how ideological operators consolidate control. Trustees were being deceived. Campus safety was being compromised. And Columbia’s leadership was working overtime to avoid upsetting activists—even at the expense of safety.
Shipman: “Everyone’s freaked out about [calling the police]. But we can’t do it yet. The blowback would be catastrophic.”
Greene: “She’ll call us out.”
Shipman: “Exactly.”

These are not neutral administrators. They are political actors choosing ideological loyalty over campus security.

These messages didn’t leak—they were uncovered as part of an official House investigation into antisemitism at Columbia.
Claire Shipman’s Political Faceplant
She celebrates a New York Times piece about former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik’s sagacity in avoiding the infamous hearing that led to regime change at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, describing it as "pretty amazing given the moment." Shafik, of course, did not avoid offering her testimony, and resigned months after Shipman prematurely spiked the football in the endzone. In fact, the Washington Free Beacon can report that this same New York Times article all but put a bullseye on Shafik. Oops!

But wait. Shipman had more wisdom to offer. Having avoided those pesky lawmakers, this was the time—December 2023, two months after the Oct. 7 attacks—to "unsuspend the [student] groups before the semester starts" and to "do some things with Rashid. Events."

The "groups" to which Shipman referred were the Columbia chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. They were suspended in November 2023 after they "repeatedly violated University policies related to holding campus events," the school said at the time, and they would go on, in the spring of 2024, to lead the student encampment and occupation of a university building.

Rashid, of course, is Rashid Khalidi, the former Palestine Liberation Organization flack and longtime Edward Said professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia who sagely predicted, a week after Oct. 7, that too much American support for Israel would trigger "a much wider regional conflagration." Yes, more events with this man!

We wonder how eager the Trump administration will be to sign a deal with the former NBC News White House correspondent and Team Obama WAG whose first response to Oct. 7 and the campus crisis it spawned was to push an outspoken Jew off the Columbia board and fill the spot with an Arab—and any Arab would do. Columbia trustees might wonder whether they’d get a better deal under new leadership.
Columbia President Claire Shipman Issues Internal Apology Over Messages School Said Lacked 'Context'
Columbia University acting president Claire Shipman privately apologized to a small group of colleagues and donors over leaked text messages, first reported in the Washington Free Beacon, in which she argued that the school needed to get an "Arab on our board" and suggested that a Jewish trustee, Shoshana Shendelman, should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy.

Shipman sent her apology note, which the Free Beacon obtained, to roughly a dozen people, at least four of whom are Jewish, according to a source familiar. Shipman opened the message by referencing "news reports containing some of my personal messages from 2023 and 2024." Those messages "were wrong," she said.

"Let me be clear: The things I said in a moment of frustration and stress were wrong," Shipman wrote. "They do not reflect how I feel. I have apologized directly to the person named in my texts, and I am apologizing now to you.

"I have tremendous respect and appreciation for that board member, whose voice on behalf of Columbia’s Jewish community is critically important," she continued. "I should not have written those things, and I am sorry. It was a moment of immense pressure, over a year and a half ago, as we navigated some deeply turbulent times. But that doesn’t change the fact that I made a mistake. I promise to do better."

Shipman said the "conclusions drawn in headlines" about her messages were "off base and misleading." She did not, however, argue that the messages were "published out of context," a charge Columbia leveled in a statement sent to the Free Beacon on Tuesday.

Ari Shrage, founder of the Columbia Jewish Alumni Association, said Shipman should resign.

"Interim president Shipman's statements are extremely offensive and unacceptable," he told the Free Beacon. "Her lack of empathy and disregard for a board member concerned with student safety ... makes her not fit to serve in the office of the president of Columbia University. We believe that the interim president should step down immediately."


Diaspora Affairs Ministry recommends barring five NGOs, 50 individuals from entry to Israel
The Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism recommended last week barring five groups from entering the Jewish State due to their lawfare efforts against Israeli citizens.

The five groups are the Hind Rajab Foundation, Al-Haq Europe, Law for Palestine, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights.

“The organizations and individuals appearing in this document meet the conditions set forth in the Law for the Prevention of Entry,” the Diaspora Ministry said in a June 29 statement on its website.

The Diaspora Ministry highlighted one in particular relevant to its recommendation: “Posting statements in support of the prosecution of Israeli citizens abroad before international courts for their activities in the conduct of their roles in the IDF or in the security forces.”

The list (dated June 25), which also includes 50 individuals belonging to these groups, has been submitted to Israel’s Interior Ministry, which holds the authority to ban individuals from entering Israel.

The 50 activists on the list “operate under the guise of ‘humanitarian’ activity, but in practice promote and encourage the delegitimization of the State of Israel, its citizens and its institutions,” Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli told JNS.

“We will make sure they do not set foot in the State of Israel and cannot operate here in any way—just like many others who try to deny the existence of the Jewish state and challenge the morality of IDF soldiers,” he said.

The five groups engage, bring, or support cases against Israel in international courts, claiming Israel carries out “genocide” and other “war crimes.” They single out senior Israeli security establishment and political figures. Recently, regular Israeli soldiers have been targeted.
Australia cancels Kanye West’s visa over ‘Heil Hitler’ song release
Australia canceled a visa for American rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye, after he released “Heil Hitler,” a song promoting Nazism, the country’s home affairs minister said Wednesday.

The song, released in May, came a few months after West made a string of antisemitic posts on X, which included comments such as “I love Hitler” and “I’m a Nazi.”

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said that while previous offensive comments made by West had not affected his visa status, officials “looked at it again” after the song’s release.

“It was a lower level [visa] and the officials still looked at the law and said you’re going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism, we don’t need that in Australia,” he told national broadcaster ABC.

“We have enough problems in this country already without deliberately importing bigotry,” he said.

Burke noted that West, married to Australian architect Bianca Censori, has been traveling for years to Australia. Censori’s family lives in Melbourne.
Love Island USA: does Gen Z have an anti-Semitism problem?
It’s an indictment of our times that Bibas’s entrance sparked an almost entirely predictable wave of anti-Semitism, mainly on TikTok. Although his own social media contains no trace of politics, that didn’t stop some from sifting through years of content to find a supposedly incriminating Instagram post from 2022, showing him on a ‘Birthright’ trip to Israel, which all young adults of Jewish heritage are entitled to. Much has also been made of him following StandWithUs, a non-partisan American charity aimed at combating anti-Semitism.

Things got particularly ugly over the weekend, when Bibas committed the sin of kissing Huda Mustafa, a Palestinian American. Mustafa was challenged to name who she thought were likely to be the two best kissers in Casa Amor. Her first selection was Bibas. The pair duly shared a long, passionate kiss.

Sickeningly, even this display of affection was met with blind hatred. The comment sections of all Bibas’s videos, most of which are of motivational videos or showcases of his style, have since been flooded with emojis of the Palestinian flag. He has been labelled an IDF soldier and ‘Israel apologist’ – both supposedly deplorable things in the eyes of Gen Z TikTokers.

The connection between Israelophobia and anti-Semitism is now impossible to ignore. There was no shortage of people who, as soon as the young man from Montreal stepped foot on the island, went digging for evidence that he had visited Israel. Once they found this, it legitimised their desire to target him. You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief: here was a green light to villainise the Jew.

The demonisation of Bibas is a bleak window to the future. An entire generation associate now Israel with one thing: genocide. For Jews, there is clearly no escape from this pernicious falsehood.

Love Island USA is a dating show. Elan Bibas joined it looking for love. Instead, all he has received is hate.
Trump pick to run federal watchdog: A 30-year-old who once shared a 9/11 conspiracy video and has ties to a Holocaust denier
Speaking before Fuentes went on an anti-Israel rant, Ingrassia attacked the conservative organization Turning Point USA, which itself is a frequent target of criticism from Fuentes and his organization, the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), for being what they called too pro-Israel and insufficiently pro-White.

In June 2024, Ingrassia was photographed in attendance at a rally in support of Fuentes in Detroit by The Intercept’s Amanda Moore, who tracks the far-right via her Substack “The Turtle Diaries.”

Fuentes was in Detroit for the annual America First Political Action Conference, which holds its conference at the same time as Turning Point USA’s conference, which Ingrassia’s Twitter feed shows he attended.

Ingrassia disputed to The Intercept and NPR in May that his attendance at the rally was intentional. “I had no knowledge of who organized the event, observed for 5-10 minutes, then left,” he told NPR.

Footage reviewed and obtained by CNN shows he was there listening to speakers ahead of Fuentes’ arrival and shows him moving to the front to see Fuentes as he enters, appearing to smile. Ingrassia later can be seen leaving the rally with a woman after several minutes.

And less than a day earlier, Ingrassia was defending Fuentes on his public X account after the White nationalist was denied entry to TPUSA’s conference –- calling Fuentes being kicked out of the event “not good” and an “awful decision” in tweets.

There is also evidence that Ingrassia agreed with some of the critiques of Turning Point USA and possibly the group’s support of Israel.

In the April 2023 Twitter Space that advertised the interview with Fuentes, Ingrassia criticized TPUSA for not being “based” enough –- a slang term often used to signal agreement or approval for right-wing ideas – and claimed the organization was ineffective at winning elections.

There is also a history of anti-Israel sentiment in posts from Ingrassia’s podcast, “Right on Point,” that mirrored anti-Israel rhetoric on the far-right.

On December 22, 2020, the podcast’s now-deleted Twitter account posted, “Stop shilling for Israel, @GOP,” and criticized US foreign aid with a tweet falsely stating, “The $500 trillion to Israel adds salt to the wound,” according to a review of deleted tweets obtained by CNN.


When endorsement becomes complicity: Nadler, Schumer and the moral abdication on Jew-hatred
In 2021, Schumer stood on the Senate floor and denounced antisemitic attacks in the streets of New York. He declared: “When Jewish Americans are targeted because of their support for Israel, that is antisemitism, plain and simple.”

Where is that clarity now?

Nadler, who represents Manhattan’s heavily Jewish Upper West Side and serves as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has condemned antisemitism in the abstract and now publicly endorsed Mamdani—a fellow Democrat operating in his backyard, whose rhetoric and alliances embolden hostility against Jews on campuses and in public spaces across the city.

Leadership is not measured by how loudly one speaks when it is safe, but how firmly one stands when it is uncomfortable. Mamdani represents the very strand of antisemitism that cloaks itself in the language of social justice—the kind that insists it is merely “anti-Zionist,” while tolerating or defending the targeting of Jews who support Israel’s existence. It is a moral inversion, and it must be called out; the endorsement assails those who Nadler and Schumer claim to represent. This is not a policy dispute it is an existential crisis of survival for Jews. The endorsement of an antisemite is to be a Kapo.

To be a Kapo is an abdication of their offices. When prominent Jewish leaders like Nadler and Schumer refuse to not only confront antisemitism but endorse the speaker from within their own political coalition, they leave Jewish communities vulnerable and send a message that some hate is tolerable, if it comes from the “right” side.

There was a time when both men understood the stakes. Schumer has visited Auschwitz.

Nadler has spoken of his father’s escape from Nazi Europe. They know the playbook: dehumanize, isolate and attack. They have seen how anti-Jewish hate adapts to the language of the day—from racial purity to anti-imperialism—and how it finds enablers not only among the fanatics, but among the silent.

They could have drawn the line between protest and propaganda, between justice and Jew- hatred. But today they endorsed the most visible pro-BDS and antisemitic person seeking office in the most Jewish city in America.

Antisemitism is not only about swastikas on synagogues or slurs hurled on the street. It is also about who gets protected and who gets left to fend for themselves. The Jewish people have a long memory. We remember those who stood with us—and those who looked away.

Nadler and Schumer have made a dangerous choice. They could have spoken with the clarity their offices demand and their constituents deserve. Instead, they chose party and power. Let history record their complicity.
Behind Zohran Mamdani, an Experienced Soros-Obama Operative
Gaspard surfaced in New York Times coverage of the campaign but was identified as a neutral party. A June 10 Times article reported that Mamdani “has also quietly met with former officials for advice, including…Patrick Gaspard, an adviser to mayors and presidents,” but noted that Gaspard was “also speaking with other candidates.” A June 13 Times article quoted “Patrick Gaspard, a top adviser to Democratic mayors and presidents who has not taken sides in the race.”

Yet in a July 1 piece, “How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor,” the Times offers a new and different account of Gaspard’s role. Now the Times says Gaspard “quietly helped guide Mr. Mamdani” and says Gaspard participated with Mamdani in a dinner with New York Comptroller Brad Lander in which the two agreed to cross-endorse in the mayoral race. The Times reports, “The day before the final debate, Mr. Lander and Mr. Mamdani sat down at Yara, a Lebanese restaurant in Midtown, with campaign aides and Mr. Gaspard. Over plates of fattoush, hummus and eggplant, the two candidates decided they would cross-endorse each other to defeat Mr. Cuomo.”

The Times describes Gaspard as “adviser to mayors and presidents,” but the more relevant information is that he is a Soros person. Don’t just take it from me: his bio on X says, “Forever @OpenSociety.” Open Society’s tax filings indicate the $5.9 billion foundation paid Gaspard, identified as its former president, $2.2 million in 2021.

Ideologically, he is in league with Israel’s worst enemies, stoking opposition to the Trump administration’s strike against Iranian nuclear weapons-related sites:
- On June 21, Gaspard posted, “This launch into Netanyahu’s war is reckless and should be fiercely opposed. Trust that Trump has no strategy. Trust Netanyahu will yank him up the ladder of escalation. There will be early declarations of victory followed by the reality that Americans are now less safe for it.”
- On June 18 he posted, “Good morning Democrats - if you’re not starting the day with full throated opposition to any U.S. military support for Israel’s attack on Iran - which is aimed at regime change - you’re doing it all wrong. This should be a layup for Democrats. No one wants this war. Lock arms.”
- On June 17 he posted, “As we debate danger of WMD’s in hands of rogue states, note that Israel assisted apartheid South Africa in building a nuclear arsenal while SA was under global sanctions.” - On June 12 he posted, “With this insane attack tonight, Netanyahu has checked every single box easily predicted when the Biden team gave him a blank check and air cover with use of U.S. weapons with no regard to his war crimes and his obvious need to use the moment for his own political survival.”

In other words, the guy the Times describes as “a top adviser to Democratic mayors and presidents” is really just an anti-Israel fanatic. Before the election, the Times claimed Gaspard hadn’t “taken sides.” Now that the primary is over, the Times says Gaspard “quietly helped guide” Mamdani.


Dylan vs Vylan – the bitter irony of anti-Israel rage at Glastonbury
Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman, is not just a cultural icon, he is a proud Jew, unafraid to stand up for Israel when it was unpopular to do so. His 1983 song Neighbourhood Bully is a scorching response to those who cast Israel as an aggressor while ignoring the threats and violence it faces daily.

“The neighbourhood bully just lives to survive / He’s criticized and condemned for being alive.”

The song wasn’t subtle, and Dylan didn’t want it to be. At a time when other artists dodged political landmines, Dylan walked straight into the fray. He saw through the hypocrisy of global criticism how Israel was maligned not for its actions, but for daring to exist as a Jewish state that fought back.

“He’s the neighbourhood bully.”

“He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.”

Neighbourhood Bully was a protest song of a different kind – not against power, but against the selective outrage that let others punch down with impunity. Dylan paints a picture of a nation surrounded, demonized, and forced to defend itself, while the world demands it show restraint. Sound familiar?

“Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized / Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.”

Fast forward forty years, and the stages have flipped. Now it’s open season on Israel in Western pop culture. Artists like Bob Vylan, who named themselves after the very man who stood up for Zionism feel emboldened not just to criticize, but to dehumanize. “F*** the IDF” isn’t a political critique; it’s a slogan of erasure. It doesn’t ask for nuance, accountability, or peace. It simply demands that the Jewish state have no right to defend itself.

“He’s always on trial for just being born.”

What’s more disturbing is the crowd’s response, not just applause, but celebration. The normalization of this language, especially in progressive artistic spaces, is becoming more pervasive by the day. The nuance is gone. The context is gone. The history is gone. And the original Dylan – the one who sang of exiles and pogroms, of a nation surrounded and condemned – has been replaced with a new, performative kind of righteousness, loud and unthinking. Vylan seems to have learned little from Dylan

“He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin / He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.”

Of course, Bob Dylan himself has been no stranger to protest. He marched with Martin Luther King Jr. He called out injustice wherever he saw it. But he never needed to erase a people to express his truth. And he understood, deeply, that the Jewish story and Israel’s place in it could not be separated from centuries of persecution and struggle.

“He got no allies to really speak of / What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love.”

To name your band after Bob Dylan and then shout “F*** the IDF” is more than ironic. It’s a hijacking of legacy. A warping of values. It’s a reminder of how easily the names and symbols of Jewish resilience can be repurposed by those who know little of the pain behind them.
‘I’m not going back’: What it was like to be Jewish at Glastonbury
“A friend had seen Kneecap play at Coachella [the music festival held in California in April] and told me not to go to Glastonbury,” says Suzi Sendama. “He said he thought it would be more difficult for me than I thought it would be. I didn’t grasp what he meant at the time.”

After spending the weekend at the festival in Somerset, she now understands what her friend meant. A lawyer by day, Sendama, 42, has been going to Glastonbury for over 20 years. This was the first time she felt uncomfortable.

“What I’ve always loved about festivals is the ability to leave your life at the gate and enter a complete world of escapism, where it’s just silly and fun and full of love and everybody supports each other, and you don’t have to think about the horrific outside world,” she says.

“There’s always awful things going on in the outside world to escape from. At the start of Ezra Collective’s performance they said ‘we want everyone to make friends’. Festivals are about those moments of love and unity. The rest of the weekend was not like that.

“I know that I’m part of an ethnic minority but you don’t feel the hate every day. This weekend was pretty tough. It felt like a massive wake-up call as to the number of people who really do want to dismantle the state of Israel and that scares me. On Sunday, I had to take myself out of the event because I was so upset. People say ‘you shouldn’t feel threatened, it’s not anti-Semitic,’ but they would never dare tell a black person what is or isn’t an anti-black racist statement.’”

Sendama is not alone. Other Jewish attendees have been writing about the discomfort they felt over the weekend. In The Jewish Chronicle, Elisa Bray wrote that the “stardust” of Glastonbury “was lost this weekend.”
The virus of antisemitism was all over Glastonbury. Where is the Church?
And What of the Church?
Each week we Christians open a Jewish book, worship a Jewish Messiah, and read letters written by Jewish apostles. And yet, many churches and most believers remain passive—or worse, complicit—in the face of rising antisemitism.

In Romans 11, Paul warns Gentile believers not to become arrogant towards the Jews, but to remember they are grafted in. He calls on the Church to recognise its debt to all Jewish people, believers or not, and to stand in solidarity with Jewish believers in Jerusalem. And yet today, many churches ignore these scriptures.

The Church has a long, painful history with the Jewish people. We cannot undo the history which culminated in the Holocaust. But we can choose not to repeat it. That is what repentance actually means, not just saying sorry for the past but choosing a different path.

What It Means to Bless
God makes a promise in Genesis 12. He says whoever blesses Abraham’s descendants will be blessed, and whoever curses them will be cursed.

I, like many Christians, understand this to mean we are to bless Israel and the Jewish people today. (And there are many other verses one could point to).

Blessing Israel does not mean we ignore Palestinian suffering. It also does not mean we uncritically endorse every Israeli policy. Israelis themselves don’t do that—debate is their national sport.

So what does it mean? It means we start where God starts. We affirm the right of the Jewish people to exist as a people and a nation. We recognise the unique spiritual battle they face. And we stand against the old hatred rebranded falsely as justice.

Time to Wake Up
On a plane coming back from holiday a few months back, I sat next to a young man in his 20s who was a very thoughtful, kind, and artistic soul. He wanted to make films he said, but he also did music. We chatted for the whole flight, and as a singer-songwriter myself we had lots to talk about. He told me he was working with a band, helping them with backstage stuff. He was looking forward to the fact that they were playing at Glastonbury this summer. “Oh wow!” I said. “What’s their name?” “Bob Vylan”, he replied. “They’re cool but they do have some funny ideas..”

Guess I know what he meant now.

I hope he has distanced himself. But I worry for the Church. Too often, we stand by awkwardly—maybe not chanting, but not standing up either.

Bonhoeffer said: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” If chanting for the death of hundreds of thousands of people isn’t evil, what is?

And if the Church - a group of people who say they follow a Jewish Messiah - will not stand up against this rising antisemitism then who will?
Uri Kurlianchik: Glastonbury Festival: You're Right to be Concerned, but You're Concerned About the Wrong Thing
I’m talking about the British people themselves. I’m talking about the people of Europe, the people of Western civilization. Why can you safely spit in their faces without so much as getting a “boo!” in return, while you can’t do it anywhere else in the world? Why do they tolerate it? Why do you tolerate it?

They’re waging a war against you with the support of your government and imprison you for speaking about it. You should be angry. Far angrier than you are. In the very least, you should make the enemy feel unwelcome. The time for debate is long over.

The answer to what’s going on isn’t more laws regulating speech or replacing one treasonous weasel in the some broadcasting corporation with another. What is the value of such laws if a young mother gets imprisoned for years for posting on Facebook she’s tired of foreigners raping English girls while a foreigner who openly calls to murder English and Jewish people is ignored. These laws exist to oppress you, not defend you.

What you need is hate. Find your hate. Embrace your hate.

It’s a spiritual war and you cannot win it without spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can save the West now. And, as it turns out, your Saturday cartoons have lied to you. Hate it not bad. Just like love, just like disgust, just like sadness, just like any other emotion. It’s part of what makes you human. Without it, you’re broken.

That’s what I found the most appalling about this festival. “You want your country back? Fuck you!”

Antisemitism is par for the course at this point but the fact a group of barbarians can declare their intention to destroy a nation to its face without consequences turns my stomach.

No one even booed them.

People spoke against the incitement against Jews there—God bless those people, God bless the U.S. government for closing the gates on these barbarians—but no one spoke against the incitement against the English, against the peoples of Europe. There are no laws in England to defend the dignity of the English people. This isn’t even part of the discourse.

How is it possible?

How is it normal?

So again, I ask you.

When will you rage?


Winston Marshall: What’s Changed Since I Last Played Glastonbury in 2013
Glastonbury didn’t just make headlines for its music—it made headlines for its politics. In this clip from my appearance on Outpost, I unpack what really went down at the UK’s biggest music festival.

As someone who’s played the Pyramid Stage and attended Glastonbury religiously for years, what I saw this time—albeit from afar—was unrecognisable.

A festival that once celebrated music has been hijacked by extreme political posturing: chants of “Death to the IDF,” anti-British rhetoric, glorification of Hamas and Hezbollah, and little to no space for dissenting views.




Bob Vylan called for ‘death to IDF’ at gig a month before Glastonbury
Punk vocalist Bobby Vylan called for “death to every single IDF soldier out there” while on stage ONE MONTH before last weekend’s foul-mouthed Glastonbury Festival appearance.

Footage of the duo’s May 28th performance at Alexander Palace, where they supported US rock legend Iggy Pop, shows Vylan, real name Pascal Robinson-Foster, 34, on stage shouting: “Death to every single IDF soldier out there, as an agent of terror for Israel. Death To The IDF.”

Last Saturday the band took to the stage at the Glastonbury Festival and again led controversial chants such as “Death, death to the IDF” and “From the river to the sea… Palestine will be free, Inshallah” during a performance that was aired by the BBC.

Avon and Somerset Police has said it has launched a criminal investigation into performances by Bob Vylan and by Kneecap at Glastonbury.

A police spokersperson now confirms:”Officers are investigating comments allegedly made during a concert at Alexandra Palace earlier this year.

“The decision to investigate follows the emergence of footage which appears to have been filmed at the venue on 28 May 2025”.


Brewery apologises for its owner CONDEMNING ‘death to the IDF’ chants
A brewery in Bristol has publicly apologised for comments by its owner which condemned the “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury, after being threatened by a local boycott.

In a Facebook post, Justin Hawke, founder of the Moor Beer company, condemned those who joined punk/hip hop performer Bob Vylan during his incendiary performance at Glastonbury.

“Thanks to the IDF and soldiers of all western nations who defend our way of life and protect the privileges we enjoy”, Mr Hawke wrote.

“The hypocrisy of any music fan or festival goer never ceases to perplex me. You should have been there on 7 October. Or perhaps we should have let Hamas repeat at Glastonbury? Then you’d be begging the IDF to save you.”

The Bristol Post reported that in response to Mr Hawke’s post, a number of Bristol venues, including Exchange Bristol, pledged to stop stocking Moor Beer and said they would donate £1 from every pint of the remaining stock to the Medical Aid for Palestinians charity. The paper also said that some bands who had been due to perform at the Moor Beer brewery venue had withdrawn, changing the location for their performances.

On Monday, the brewery published a statement distancing itself from Hawke’s comments.

“To be clear, Moor Beer were shocked to see Justin’s post yesterday, which he deeply regrets”, it read.

“As a small, employee-owned company, everyone, including Justin, want there to be no doubt that we do not support genocide or the atrocities taking place in the Middle East, and are deeply sorry for any offense caused.”


Trump Admin Launches Anti-Semitism Probe Into George Mason University
The Trump administration is investigating George Mason University over allegations that Jewish students and faculty have faced a hostile environment on campus, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights launched the investigation on Tuesday in response to a civil rights complaint alleging that George Mason "discriminated on the basis of national origin (shared Jewish ancestry) by failing to respond effectively to a pervasive hostile environment for Jewish students and faculty at the University from October 2023 through the 2024-2025 academic year," according to the letter.

The probe marks the Trump administration’s latest move to crack down on campus anti-Semitism and racial discrimination. The federal government has frozen nearly $3 billion in federal funding from Harvard University and revoked the school’s authorization to host international students, and slashed over $430 million from Columbia University and threatened the school’s accreditation. The administration has also frozen roughly $790 million to Northwestern University and more than $1 billion to Cornell University.

George Mason has grappled with a number of high-profile incidents involving anti-Israel and even pro-terror radicalism since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.

Under suspicion of defacing George Mason’s student center, police searched the home of two Students for Justice in Palestine leaders, sisters Jena and Noor Chanaa, in November. The raid turned up firearms, scores of ammunition, Hamas and Hezbollah flags, and signs that read "death to America" and "death to Jews," the Free Beacon reported.

Shortly thereafter, in mid-December, the FBI arrested a George Mason freshman, Egyptian citizen Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, accusing him of plotting a terror attack on the Israeli consulate building in Manhattan.
I was chased out of MIT — and it was all because I’m Jewish
Before Oct. 7, 2023, I was the literal poster boy for a PhD student at MIT. I was featured in a July 2023 profile in MIT News, which relayed my background and aspirations.

“Although he has just two years of graduate school under his belt,” it said, “Sussman is considering a career in academia.”

That career is no longer available to me. In January, I left MIT because of the antisemitism I experienced on campus. Now I’m suing the university.

The antisemitism didn’t start on Oct. 7. I joined the board of MIT Grad Hillel during my first year on campus because, as I told MIT News, “I think it’s important to demonstrate Jewish culture at a time when antisemitism is on the rise.”

Three months after the profile was published, Hamas terrorists waged the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — and my fellow students at MIT celebrated, posting, “Victory is ours.”

Chanting for violence
As president of Grad Hillel, I had to cope not only with my own grief but also with that of my community members who sought support in the face of antisemitism that they encountered on campus. We witnessed our peers chant for violence against Jews, take over buildings, interrupt classes with antisemitic rants, and harass, intimidate and bully Jews for being Jewish.

This hostile environment was exposed to the world in December 2023 when MIT’s president, Sally Kornbluth, was called to Congress alongside the presidents of Harvard and Penn, to answer for the antisemitism on her campus.

She testified, now infamously, that calls for the elimination of the Jewish people can be antisemitic “depending on the context.” After that day, calls for the genocide of Jews continued, and the climate of terror on campus intensified.

It became increasingly difficult to focus on my computer science research. Students were arrested for unruly protest both inside and outside my office building. A man urinated on the window of the MIT Hillel Center. When demonstrators erected an encampment in the middle of campus, MIT Hillel was forced to move and postpone its long-planned annual celebration of Israel’s Independence Day.
Ford Foundation Taps Scandal-Plagued Yale Law School Dean as Next President
Gerken also came under fire for her handling of campus anti-Semitism. In 2021, for example, Yale Law school retained a diversity trainer who has argued that the FBI intentionally inflates the number of anti-Semitic hate crimes to conduct a mandatory "antiracism workshop." Roughly two years later, in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, Gerken rebuffed Jewish students who urged her to take a more forceful stance against anti-Semitism, instead referring them to counseling services to get through the "deeply challenging times."

Gerken led the law school, meanwhile, as it brought on Iranian national Helyeh Doutaghi to serve as deputy director of its Law and Political Economy Project. The school fired Doutaghi in March after reporting revealed that she is a member of Samidoun, the "sham charity" that the U.S. government sanctioned in October for serving as a "front organization" for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group.

In this regard, Gerken appears to be a good fit for the Ford Foundation, which has faced anti-Semitism scandals of its own.

Under Walker, the foundation sent millions of dollars to foreign organizations whose employees, events, and projects celebrated Oct. 7 and decried the "Zionist entity," a Free Beacon review found. The executive director of one grantee, the Jordan-based Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development, has expressed "gratitude to the martyrs of Palestine." One month after the Hamas attack, the group hosted a panel in which participants rejected the idea that Palestinian "resistance" constitutes terrorism, calling it a "lie marketed by the United States and the occupation."

The foundation began disbursing that money shortly after Oct. 7, with Walker announcing an effort to bankroll "immediate humanitarian relief efforts" in Gaza. Walker's statement referred to "tragic events" that had occurred in Israel and Gaza but made no mention of who was behind them. Instead, Walker lamented the "anguish, pain, and suffering that countless families are experiencing in Gaza at this moment."

In addition to the foreign grants, the Ford Foundation has sent at least $1 million to TheHistoryMakers, a left-wing education nonprofit that once employed Capital Jewish Museum shooter Elias Rodriguez. Henry Ford, the foundations founder, was himself a notorious anti-Semite.
Teacher survey confirms huge rise in Jew-hate but union boss blames ‘far-right’
The acting leader of a teaching union has been accused of “shamefully letting down Jewish members” after a survey showed a horrific rise in antisemitic incidents in schools.

A survey conducted by the NASUWT union found 90% of Jewish teachers believed their employers need more training on recognising and challenging antisemitism.

Worryingly 51% of Jewish teachers have experienced antisemitism in the workplace over the past year – with 78% of these personally experiencing anti-Jewish abuse.

The figures for those working in non-faith schools showed 79% of respondents had experienced antisemitism, compared to 29% of respondents working in faith schools.

Asked about the nature of the antisemitic abuse 39% said they had been subjected to Nazi-related comments, with 44% saying they have seen swastika graffiti in their schools.

In the survey of 90% of Jewish teachers said their employers need more training on recognising and challenging antisemitism.

But responding to the survey Matt Wrack, acting general secretary of NASUWT, appeared to put the problem of rising Jew-hate down to the “dangerous rhetoric from far-right movements” in a statement published on the union website.

There was no reference at all in his statement of the need to tackle antisemitism arising from far-left or Islamist groups in the aftermath of the October 7th Hamas terror attack.


Wikipedia citing anti-Israel group ‘outrageous, not surprising,’ say nonprofits the site shuns
The widely used online encyclopedia Wikipedia deems the Anti-Defamation League and NGO Monitor to be “generally unreliable” sources to cite when discussing Israel and the Palestinians, but it maintains that an organization with a documented history of antisemitism, including lauding the Oct. 7 terror attacks, “can be cited as an opinion source” on Israel and the Palestinians.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor is “an advocacy organization on a controversial topic, and should be used with attribution for factual claims,” Wikipedia states on its list of “reliable” and “perennial” sources. The group appears “to gather and responsibly report claims and information gathered directly from primary sources, and is widely used with attribution by reliable news sources,” Wikipedia states.

The group, whose founder and chairman praised the Oct. 7 attacks and which has accused Israeli soldiers of harvesting Palestinian organs, has been cited 95 times on Wikipedia.

“This is exactly the problem with the absence of fairness and standards in websites like this,” Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS. (B’nai B’rith created the ADL in 1913, but the latter is now independent.)

“It leads to bias, and in these cases, worse—the perpetuation of misinformation, disinformation and blood libels,” Mariaschin said. “If you are the one writing and editing these entries, and you are a fellow traveler in the anti-Israel realm, you can be an ultimate arbiter of ‘truth.’”

“This egregious, malevolent distortion and double standard proves the point,” he added. “Trumpeting the big lie, where there is zero accountability, is more than just an editorial issue. It is downright dangerous.”

Gerald Steinberg is the president of NGO Monitor, whose profile of Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor notes its links to Hamas. “This is outrageous, but not surprising,” he told JNS, of Wikipedia trusting the group more than his nonprofit. (JNS sought comment from the Wikimedia Foundation and Euro-Med Monitor.)

“Wikipedia’s decision-making process, especially on highly disputed arenas like the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, amplifies prevailing ideological biases and agendas,” Steinberg told JNS. “Advocacy NGOs and their allies have invested years in attempts to silence NGO Monitor research. This is far from preservation of knowledge.”

Richard Falk, the chair of Euro-Med Monitor, is a “conspiracy theorist known for publicly supporting terrorist attacks on civilians and producing a ceaseless stream of false justifications for theocratic fascists and nihilistic killers—provided, of course, their bombs detonate in the general direction of Washington or Jerusalem,” according to Vladislav Khaykin, executive vice president of social impact and North American partnerships at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.


IDF foils arms-smuggling attempts on Egypt border
The Israel Defense Forces thwarted two weapons smuggling attempts along the southern border with Egypt over the past 24 hours, the military announced on Wednesday morning.

According to the IDF, surveillance units from the Paran Regional Brigade detected a drone crossing into Israel from Egyptian territory late on Tuesday night. Soldiers quickly located the drone and found it was carrying 10 firearms. The weapons were seized.

In a separate incident on Wednesday morning, IDF troops spotted a suspicious vehicle in the same region. After a brief chase, soldiers apprehended the driver and discovered 14 additional firearms inside the vehicle. The suspect and weapons were handed over to security forces for further investigation.

The IDF emphasized its continued vigilance in monitoring the border to prevent illegal smuggling activities and ensure Israeli security.


Hamas orders Gaza militia leader to surrender over alleged ties to Israel, treason
Gaza’s Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry said Wednesday it has given a local militia leader allegedly armed with Israeli weapons 10 days to turn himself in or face trial in absentia.

Yasser Abu Shabab, 32, from Rafah, is accused of treason, espionage for foreign entities, forming an armed cell and armed rebellion. Hamas warned the public announcement should be seen as “a message to anyone considering internal dissent within the resistance.”

Abu Shabab’s militia, known as the Popular Forces, denied the accusations and told Ynet that Hamas should be put on trial instead for its own alleged ties to Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood—groups it called hostile to the Palestinian people and their national interests. The militia accused Hamas of turning Gaza into a bargaining chip for outside regimes and no longer representing the will of the people.

Abu Shabab, a controversial figure in Gaza, was previously jailed by Hamas on drug and theft charges before escaping during an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas security facility. He later founded the Popular Forces, which he claimed was established to distribute aid and protect civilians.

However, Palestinian and international reports have described the group as a militia allegedly coordinating with Israeli forces, particularly in areas of Israeli military control east of Rafah near the Kerem Shalom crossing. Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, has accused Abu Shabab of leading a network of collaborators recruited by Israel to sow chaos in the enclave.

He has also been named in a leaked UN memo for allegedly looting humanitarian aid. In May, facing public pressure, his family in Gaza publicly disowned him, admitting his involvement in security activity benefiting Israel.


Argentina probes antisemitic incidents at soccer match
Argentine authorities and soccer officials have launched multiple investigations after a series of antisemitic incidents involving Club Atlético All Boys fans during a match against Atlanta on Sunday. Atlanta is a team known for its strong ties to Argentina’s Jewish community.

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) released a statement on Monday condemning the actions as “abhorrent” and emphasized, “This is not folklore. This is discrimination.” The AFA also confirmed that it has opened a formal inquiry into the events.

Buenos Aires police reported on Monday that they had issued infractions to individuals accused of inciting public disorder and related offenses. Additionally, Argentina’s security ministry announced on Tuesday that it had filed a criminal complaint, citing “demonstrations of violence, expressions of racial and religious hatred, and public intimidation.”

The DAIA, Argentina’s main Jewish umbrella organization, called for decisive action from both authorities and the soccer club.

The incidents occurred outside Buenos Aires’ Malvinas Argentinas stadium prior to the match, where All Boys fans were seen waving Palestinian and Iranian flags, parading a coffin draped with an Israeli flag, and distributing flyers with messages such as “Free Palestine” and “Israel and Atlanta are the same crap.”

During the match, which ended in a 0-0 draw, a drone carrying a Palestinian flag flew over the stadium, and some fans reportedly chanted anti-Israel slogans.


Liverpool theatre cancels comedian who says his pronouns are ‘He/Hamas’
A comedian who suggested Israel may have murdered the kidnapped Bibas brothers has had his upcoming performance at a theatre in Liverpool cancelled, following a report by Jewish News.

On Wednesday, The Unity Theatre confirmed Sundeep Bhardwaj, scheduled due to appear on 10 July, would no longer perform at the venue after a catalogue of social media posts about ‘rich’ Jews and labelling Israel a “bull**** experiment”. Bhardwaj declares his pronouns to be ‘He/Hamas’.

In an Instagram post about the cancellation, he said: “The wonderful people at the Unity theatre in Liverpool have just written to me saying that they are cancelling the venue hire. Where am I going to find another venue in such a big city? I already found another one, bitches. Unity theatre, you can suck my tickets.”

Bhardwaj’s Liverpool performance was part of his ‘Ceasefire’ for Palestine comedy tour to Glasgow, London’s iconic Comedy Store and parts of Europe including Sweden and Norway. He is also scheduled to perform in Dubai on August 29.

When originally contacted for comment, Bhardwaj responded by publishing a video revealing contact details of a Jewish News reporter to his 154,000 Instagram followers, leading to a series of abusive posts and emails.


How did a Polish spy infiltrate Auschwitz? | Unpacked
Witold Pilecki didn’t try to escape Auschwitz. He broke in. For two and a half years he starved, froze, and nearly died. But he never gave in.

Sent in as a spy, he built a secret resistance and smuggled out one of the first eyewitness reports of the Final Solution. When he escaped to tell the world, no one believed him. He continued to resist—only to be executed by the Polish Communists. His heroism was erased from history. Until now.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:47 Who was Witold Pilecki?
02:17 The Secret Polish Army
02:54 Going to Auschwitz
04:25 What Auschwitz was like
05:21 Pilecki's 3 goals at Auschwitz
06:43 Organizing the Polish underground at Auschwitz
08:37 Pilecki's reports to the Allies
10:03 Mass transports of Jews to Auschwitz
10:39 Pilecki's attempts to save the Jews
12:12 Pilecki's escape
13:13 Report W
15:19 Continuing the fight for Polish independence
15:49 Witold's Report
16:35 Capture, sentencing, and execution
17:12 Erased then revered
17:51 Publication of Pilecki's reports


Disturbing Footage Emerges of Hamas Terrorists Abducting 12-Year-Old Yagil Yaakov
Newly released video from Kan 11 exposes the harrowing abduction of 12-year-old Yagel Yaakov on October 7, 2023, showing him surrounded by dozens of Hamas terrorists. The footage captures Yagil, dressed only in underwear, being assaulted and paraded on a motorcycle.

Yosef Haddad condemned the act in a statement, describing Yagil as a brave survivor who endured 52 days in captivity before being freed on November 27, 2023, as part of a hostage deal with Hamas. He expressed hope that the perpetrators face justice. Yagil’s father, Yaakov Yaakov, was killed during the attack, and his body was recovered by the IDF on an unspecified date and returned to Israel. The footage is part of a Kan 11 documentary titled "52 Days," which details the family’s ordeal.


Freed US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander to meet Trump at White House Thursday
Former hostage Edan Alexander was expected to meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, almost two months after he was freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza in a US-brokered deal, the White House said.

”The President and First Lady have met with many released hostages from Gaza, and they greatly look forward to meeting Edan Alexander and his family in the Oval Office tomorrow,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, confirming a report by Channel 12 news.

According to the network, the president, along with First Lady Melania Trump, is scheduled to meet with the 21-year-old dual US-Israeli citizen at noon in the White House.

The meeting will come just days before Trump sits down with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for their third face-to-face meeting in Washington since Trump took office in January. Trump said this week that he will be “very firm” with Netanyahu about the need to end the war in Gaza.

Alexander, who was kidnapped from his IDF base near the Gaza border on October 7, 2023, was released by Hamas on May 12 this year after 584 days as a hostage. The former lone soldier, who grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, returned home to the US last month.

Alexander was freed outside of any ceasefire framework and without Israel releasing any Palestinian security prisoners in response. Hamas characterized the release as a goodwill gesture to Trump in the hope that he would coax Israel into agreeing to a deal to end the war.

On the day that Alexander was freed from captivity, there were reports that he could fly to Qatar to sit down with Trump there during the latter’s Middle East trip, but the newly released hostage’s family said his health condition upon being freed did not allow for such an immediate trip.

He instead spoke via phone with the US president from the hospital in Tel Aviv, alongside US special envoy Steve Witkoff. “I can’t wait to see you at the White House. The whole nation wants to see you,” Trump told the freed hostage at the time.

When he finally meets Trump in the White House, Alexander is expected to thank the US president for securing his release and to call for the return of the 50 remaining hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, reported Channel 12.




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